Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-03-06
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

The commissioner court meets
Wednesday for auditing the usual
bills and attending to other matters
of more or less Importance.
The force of this office feels CRATE
full to James Bier for a liberal sup
ply of soda pop. The "6z" was
exhilerating-we've tried it and we
know.
Miss Bessie Shafer returned t.
Salem Sunday. She had been il
Corvallis for some weeks nursing
Student Tiffany who is recovering
from an operation for appendicitis
Owing to. q bilious. attack
Dick Smith did not appear at bis
post of duty last week. However,
he is much improved and may be
seen by any of the boys calling at
his place of business.
Grass, grain and everything else
is growing like fury nowadays. The
mild weatheris havingits effect upon
fruit and the indications are that
within thirty days we shall see
bloom in the orchards.
Among those who went to Wells
Saturday night to attend the lodge
meeting were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Arnold King, Mr.. and Mrs. Clum
Reed, Mrs. Scott King, Ralph,
Lane and Eva Starr, Ella and Joe
King, Will Reed, Mrs. Stewart and
others.
A few days ago Clarence Ireland
sold quite lot of hops that he bad
been holding for some time. He
disposed of them to Portland buy
ers and received 81 cents per pound =.
AS is indicated by the above figure,
hops are not so strong as we could
wish them to be.
DR.. E. E. Jackson, our veterinary,
entertained few of his friends last
Saturday evening, the occasion be-
ing the opening of his new Office in
the Vinegar & Snow livery barn.
Refreshments were served consist
ing of cheese sandwiches, pickles,
red-hots and-cider. The guests de-
parted at lat. nour declaring the
doctor capital host-and the horse
got we'll.
The Cooper grocery store on
Main street changed hands this
week. Geo. Conkey, head sales
man in the Messner store and Guy
Walker who has been clerk in the
grocery department of the same
firm are the purchasers. Both are
energetic young men trained in the
merchantile line and with an ambi-
ton to forge to the front will no
doubt be heard from. They will
take possession Monday. The
above is from the Independence
Enterprise. Guy Walker is well
known in this city, as he attended
OAC for several years.
The Corvallis horse show will be
held on Friday and Saturday June
1st and 2ud. 1t will be open to
the world. Premiums will range
from $1.O0 to $1,000. Entrance
fees will be $500 for stations and
double teams; 81. so for mares and
geldings four years old and over,
and $1.OO for colts of all ages. The
committee is in hopes to secure the
services of DR.. Withycombe as one
of the judges. A regular pamphlet
will be issued as soon as all ar
rangements are perfected. No ad-
mittance fee will be charged. Lieut..
Quinlan has kindly consented to
drill a company of cavalry for the
occasion.
Ina May Day, aged Is years,
died at $50 Friday evening at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Day, in this city, after a long
illness of typhoid fever. The
funeral occurred from the Christian
church at 200 p. m. Sunday, the
services being conducted by Rev.
Ella Humbert, of Eugene. Inter
ment was in Chrystal Lake ceme-
terry. Deceased was born near
Philomatb, and had spent her life
in Benton county. This death ia
particularly sad in that it is the
second to occur in the family
within week, Eva Day, aged 19,
having been buried a week ago
yesterday. A son in the family is
also very low with typhoid.
Mrs. May NJ. Moore of Benton
county, wife of R. V. Moore, was
arrested in Corvallis yesterday
morning on warrant from the city
recorders office and brought to this
city at noon on the charge Of adult