Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-01-12
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

DIR. Lowe, the Well known OpLl-
clan is now at Hotel Corvallis tc
remain until this evening.
Miss Kate Gerhard returned hom,
from Albany, Monday, after visi
of two weeks with friends in tina
city.
Have DR.. Lowe cure your heae
and eyeache WITH a pair Of hi'
superior glasses. He leaves to-
night.
J. j Cady, of the firm of Hollen
berg & Cady, went over to Lincolr
county, Wednesday, on business
thatlwill detain him until tomor-
row.
Geo. w. Henkle departed We'd
nesday for San Jose, California, for
an extended visit with his son,
Raymond, who is in the drug busi-
ness in that city.
N S. Lily arrived home Tues
day evening from Douglas county,
Southern Oregon, where for some
time he was the guest of his son,
Lesley. The latter came home with
his father and will visit here for a
week or two.
The Home Mission society of the
M. e. church, South, held ad inter
esting meeting at the home # Mrs.
P. A. Moses, Tuesday They will
give a Valentine social at the resi-
dence of Mrs. McCausland, Febru-
ary ID. All are cordially invited
Elder c. E. McCausland, of the
M. E. church, South, arrived home
Monday from a trip to Seattle. H
reports business good in the north
ern city, but is amused at the
knowledge that Seattleites compare
their city with New York and Chi
cago.
A specimen Of the beggars fra
ternity struck Corvallis Tuesday
and proceeded to solicit aims from
every business man in town. He
was a well-dressed young man, and
claimed to have been burned in the
smelters and to have ''creeping
paralysis" He probably carried
away goodly number of dimes.
Mrs. Prudence Chapman arrived
home Sunday after an extended
visit in the East. While absent
she visited friends in Iowa, Illi-
nois, Minnesota and Michigan. and
in all these places she had a most
enjoyable time. On the way home
she stopped at The Dalles for visit
with the family of her son, Clar-
ence. She reports them all we'll
and doing nicely.
Recorder T. T. Vincent arrived
home Monday evening from Wash
ington county, whittier he had been
called by the death of his father.
Contrary to what was reported
heretofore, Mr.. Vincent's father did
hot die in Portland. At the time
of death the old gentleman, who
was in his 18th year, was in the
timber surveying. when he sudden
ly expired.
B. R. Thompson exhibited some |
green fruit at this Office a few days
ago that WINS certainly out of the
ordinary even for Oregon--land of
wonders, that she is. An apple
tree standing in Mr.. Thompson's
dooryard bloomed last fall and Mr..
Thompson has watched patiently to
see what the result would be. Lit
tie apples was the result and some
were showed to us. They have
attained the size of marbles. If
Mr.. Thompson or anybody else can
assure us fresh apples in March
the problem of apple dumplings for
spring is solved.
The executive board of the Pho
tographer's Association of the Pa
ciic Northwest, will have meet
ing in Portland tomorrow evening,
and w. G. Emery, secretary-treas-
urer of the association, will go down
from this city to be in attendance.
He will take down with him a
choice bit of art entitled, "a Study
in Cinnamon" This is photo
graph OF China pheasants from 8
negative by E. E. Wilson; printed
on tinted platinum and retouched
by Mr.. Emery. 1t is very ef-
fective bit of work.
The Monthly Review, a journal
devoted to Photographic art, con-
tains, the following note of w. G.
Emery: "The ever popular w. G.
Emery, of Corvallis, Oregon, who
made himself famous by his speech
before the recent convention in
Portland, although claiming to be
only country photographer, dem
onstrated to his brother profession
ais that location need not govern
the quality of the work. His dis
pIav showed q emark a hle versatility