The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-07-24
LOCAL LORE.
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Merle Hammond went to the
bay Saturday for few days outing. |
Ed Hufford passed through
Corvallis Saturday enroute to New
port for a month.
Ray Goodrich. of Eugene, was
a passenger on Saturdays c. & E
train for Newport.
j. D. Irvine was over from
Brownsville on business trip the
first of the week.
For sale. All kinds household
goods. J. H. Price. corner Monroe
and 9th SITS. Phone 1888.
Frank Gray and Louis Hollen-
berg are to leave Saturday for Stir
ling, a town in Northern California,
where they have mining interests.
They are to be absent week.
w. F. Whitney has arrived
from Colorado, and is looking for
farm to purchase. He formerly
lived at Indianola, Nebraska, where
he was the neighbor of o. F. Gray.
-Thos. Whitehorn, Henry Ger
hard and William Broders left Mon
day by team for the Coos bay coun-
try. The party will be absent
about two months.
-Kline's base ball team defeated
a picked nine at Newport Sunday
by score of seven to eight. Bayne
and Cooper were the battery for the
local men. Their opponents in.
cluded four Siletz braves and frs
class players from Eugene, Fores'
Grove, Portland, Astoria and else
where.
"A Eugene man was in tow
the other day, looking for a location
and dwelling house. He lost I
son in the late typhoid fever cpl
demic at Eugene, and volunteered
the information to the owner of
Corvallis house which he inspected
that he wanted to get to plac
where there is a proper water SUI
ply.
Thomas Leese came out Snnda
night from Newport, where he ha
; recently established a new bankin
house, making a chain of thre
banks of which he is the head, on
at Corvallis, one at Toledo and th
new one at Newport. Mr. Lees
: has been kept at Newport for sex
eral weeks during the process {
getting the new establishment
running order, and his presene
will continue to be required thel
more or less during the presei
busy season. The business of th
establishment is opening up i
much greater volume than was o
iginally expected by its promoter
Mr.. Ogg, an Iowa lawyer VII
was out here three years ago,
y shortly to start from his Iowa hon
for Corvallis on hunting exped
ton. He will be accompanied b
his wife and two sons. On fo
mer visit he spent a month with {
J. Blackledge at Yachats, and tt
pleasure derived on that occasio
brings Mr.. Ogg west for repetitie
of it. Mr.. Blackledge has engage
rigs for the trip from Corvallis, ar
if details are carried out accordir
to schedule the expedition will sta
from here for Yachats about Augu
1st, which will be within a sho
time after Mr.. Ogg's arrival fro
Iowa.
The aisles and platforms of Il
coaches on Sundays excursion
Newport were crowded with pa
sengers, unable to find seat
Something like 400 people MAJ
the trip, and there were but 70,
coaches for their use. One hu
dred and thirty people went fro
Corvallis. many of them going {
season tickets. Six coaches we
on the train on the return trip, b
even then a few were compelled
stand. The c. & E. has on
= about one-half enough coaches
accommodate its summer bushes
7 It is traffic that is growing il
mensely, and the company will e1
IDENTIFY have to buy more rollil
stock in order to handle it.
Talk around town is to the
feet that another hose cart ought
be bought, and that one ought to
stationed in the northwest and Of
in the southwest part of town, wi
two at the city hall. There a
now three on hand. An addition
500 feet of hose and a new hose CO
with a nozzle would be all th
would have to be bough by the ci
II the total cost not exceeding 81!
1t is said that citizens have offer
to supply places for the carts to
kept if the city would provide su