The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-08-24


returned Wednesday after a
long outing at Newport.
w. H. Goldson of Seattle ar
rived Monday and is the guest of
his cousin, Henry Workman.
Mrs. Thos. Jones, accompanied
by her little daughter, left the first
of the week tor Astoria to visit her
parents.
Miss Mabel Withycombe re.
turned Wednesday from a nine
weeks visit with her brother at
Union.
Mrs. Mabel Jones Cannon of
Salem arrived Thursday for a
days visit at the Withycombe
hon,e. She left today for Newport. !
Mrs. E. i. Pernot and child
rem arrived Wednesday from a two
months stay at the Newport cot
tage.
"A deer and a bear were the
trophies Of the John Kiger and
Walter Wells hunting party which
returned Wednesday evening from
Five Rivers.
Walter Watkins of Linn coun-
ty and Miss Tessa Orah Hale were
joined in wedlock Tue e-day by Rev.
A. J. Bartholomew at the residence
of Elmer Archard.
Real estate transfers have been
filed as follows: Melva McKennen
to Carrie G. French, lot 3 in block
4, Wilkins add, 81. Clarenda
Seifert and husband to Davis Riker
100 acres n .ar the Polk county line,
$500.
The Early Crawford peaches in
the John Kiger orchard this season
are as large and equally delicate in
flavor and co1oring as the Ashland
peaches. The Willamette river
bottom will yet be a big exporter
OF peaches.
| Willie Denny, aged nine, who
resides with his parents on the farm
recently purchased of al Bicknell
near Mountain View, has a broker
arm. He rode a horse bareback,
and was thrown off. The fracture
is at the elbow, and is badly com.
plicated. ,..,.,,.,r. "a.
Waiter Wells, 'o2, O.A.C. left
yesterday for Newport for a few
days sojourn. He has been fol
three years chief prescription clerk
at Loves drug store on the East
side, Portland. He is off for a two
weeks vacation He was recently
toffered position in Naus' store or
the Westside.
1t was a peculiar sccident thai
; befell Mrs. M. J. Wells the othe1
night, and which for the present
; keeps her confined at hone with
her injuries. She has long beer
slightly subject to somnambu
, lism, and Tuesday night, walked
in her sleep. 1t is seldom that &C
cidents befall somnambulists but or
this occasion Mrs Wells by mis-
!, step fell down the stairway, a dis.
,, tance Of nine feet. A severe gast
was cut in the forehead above th;
!, eye, and a considerable strain o
the neck was sustained, beside!
other bruises and minor injuries.
l Albany Democrat: A farmer
: near Salem has genuine diversi
z fed farm. He has seven acres o
walnuts. thirteen acres of hops, al
acre of grapes, over fifty stands O
bees, five acres OF Italian prunes, /:
.. quarter of an acre of Logan berries
! ten acres of potatoes, besides sew
raj acres of hay. He an1 his boys
are prosperiug.
t Mrs. c. L. Heckart returned
. this week from Newport. AS Tues
: day was her birthday, several O
E her friends planned surprise fo
$ her that evening. The party car
e ried with them many remembrance
: and dainty refreshments. The ev
:. ening was spent pleasantly in con
/. versation, and various member
of the company furnished music 70
the entertainment
t A lady carrying a little dos
S in a London omnibus wanted t
\ know at every turning whethe
b this was Park Lane.
h She began asking the questio
u soon after the bus started and re
:, peated it at intervals all along tn
It route, until at last she was told t
/ the intense relief of everybody i
e the omnibus that Park Lane wa
u really before her eyes.
S But they were not to see the las
u of her even then. Look" sh
r said in estate tones, holding th
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