The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-06-22

Miss Agnes Wilson and Mrs.
Mary Bryson spent Wednesday af |
ternoon 10 Albany.
Miss Alice Jones entertained a
few friends informally Tuesday
evening in honor OF Miss Bess
Yates of Vancouver.
Rev. and Mrs. Rexroad visited
at the McCausland home Thursday.
Rev. Rexroad is principal of the
Harrisburg schools.
The Kline baseball team is to
play a game on the fiat Sunday af-
ternoon with a picked team of old
veterans, who played star ball IN
the recent gone.by.
Caleb Davis and daughter,
Miss Bertha, have gone to the
farm three miles west of town where
they will spend the summer.
Miles Belden, who has been in
Corvallis for a day or two. leaves
today, in company with Arthur
Bouquet, for the Bohemia mines.
After few days visit with Cor
wallis friends Miss Edna Buster left
yesterday to spend the sumner with
her parents in Alsea. She was ac-
companied by Miss Mertie Harring-
ton.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Taylor
Porter gave Finch party in hon
or of her neice Miss Maud Banks of
Denver, Colorado. Her guests
numbered twenty.
On the way to Corvallis We'd
nesday, Walter Kiser lost a purse
containing $46. On the way home
the same evening. after leaving an
advertisement with the Times for
it, he found his purse with the mon
ey all safe.
Edwin Rose is visiting for a
day or two at home. He has been
absent from Corvallis seven months
partly in Eastern Oregon and partly
in Portland, having been engaged
most of the time as carpenter. He
is to leave in day or two for Carl
ton to work on a big Methodist
church building for the erection Of
which Newt Adams and G. H.
Carl of Corvallis have the contract.
Harold Strong received Wed.
nesday evening the notification that
he had been admitted to the prac-
tice of law by the Oregon supreme
court. With other applicants, he
took the examination at Salem or
the 18th inst. His knowledge ot
law was secured in a course al
Stanford, which institution he has
been attending for the past foul
years, and from which he will re-
ceive his degree of L. L. D. in Au
gust.
More than half the wool cliI
in Benton is said to have been sold
All of the big lots but three or fou
have passed into the hands of buy
ers. Among the lots unsold ART
those of T. w. B. Smith, Docl
McBee and Roy Rickard. Twent,
three cents is said to be the bes
price obtainable in Corvallis now
with CotsEoll one to three cent
below that. A 10000 pound poo
sold at McMinnvllle few days age
at 20 5 8. The pool is the larges
formed this year in the Willamette
Valley. Many OF the big lots wer
sold at rs with delivery to be mad
subsequent to the sale.
; The funeral of the late II. E
: Burns, who was killed in a railroa'
accident at Los Angeles last week
occurred from the home of E. W
Strong yesterday afternoon. Man
friends of the family were in atten
dance, and there were many gift
of flowers. The service was cor
, Quoted by Rev. Vincent and the in
terment was in Newton cemetery
The deceased was 46 years of age
and was a man of very high char
acter. The survivors are the wifi
! and son. Later accounts of th
= accident are to the effect that M,
, Burns was on his bicycle in the ste
ton yard. A growth Of eucalyptu
trees obscured from view trai
that was approaching swiftly fror
the direction that Mr.. Burns wa
. going. All unaware until it wa
4 too late, the whee1nan pursued hi
course until struck by the speedin
/. locomotive.
Live kicks, but all to no avai
|. are registered against the insuranc
: companies by those who insure
! The advance Of Is percent in th
; rates, on account of the San Frar
> cisco earthquake, to be applied
all new policies as they are write
!, is the occasion of the dissatisfaction
Those who have 1t to pay say Or
gon is not in the siesmic zone ar