Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-07-24

C. A. King Of Harris station was
in Corvallis on business the last cf
the week.
Mrs. William Schmidt arrived
home Sunday from aseyeral weeks
stay Mt Newport.
Prof. Raymond gave a dance in
Fishers hall Friday night, that was
very pleasant affair.
Miss Mary Sutherland left Fri
day for her home at Shedd, after
few days. visit with Corvallis
friends.
T. T Kemp and family moved
the last of the week from P,.ilc-
math to Corvallis, to take up their
residence.
Miss Maggie Kester returned to
her home in this city Saturday after
having taught nine-months' term
of school in Alsea.
| The quarterly conference of the
United Evangelical church meets
in this city August 9th. Presiding
Elder Ballantyne will be present to
conduct the services. and the MEM
bers are asked to be present.
Prof. Berchtold, E. F. Pernot,
G.. B. Ready and E. B. Horning
are planning to leave Thursday by
team for an outing in the Cascade
mountains. They will start up the
Santiam road and may make the
return trip via Belknap springs.
Charles Woodruff, salesman with
R. M. Wade and Co., has pur-
chased the G. G. Huff residence
property in this city and will oc-
cupy it with his family. Mr.. Huff
will remove to his ranch home
west of town. The consideration
was $l,4OO.
F. E. Edwards left Friday
morning for Mayville, Eastern
Oregon, to run a thresher engine
through harvest for his brother.
Ranchers in that locality are pay
ing 81 and SIS per day for hands to
work in the harvest field, and cannot
get help even at those prices.
Mrs. Otto F. L. Herse and chill
dren, who spent the summer in Mrs.
Herse's old houe in Nebraska, were
in Portland last week, enroute to
Eureka. California. A sister CT
Mrs. Herse, Miss Agnes Nevis,
who summered year ago in Cor
Wallis, was also a member Of the
party going to Eureka.
A deed filed at the recorders office
Saturday afternoon conveys the
handsome residence property of the
Har leys, in this city, from the
mother, Mrs. Lewis Hartley to
the daughter, Miss Sophia. A bill
of sale of the household effects is
also given the daughter, thus max
ing her sole possessor OF the premises.
w. H. Robinson and family who
left Corvallis a few weeks ago
Cor their old home in Lisbon,
North Dakota, write that they are
glad to be back at the former home
and that they are comfortably set
tied. Miss Mabel has secured a
school a couple of miles from Lisbon
at $47 per month and is we'll pleased
over the change of location.
The inventory of the estate of
the late c. Sullivan was yesterday
filed in the county clerks office.
The appraisement shows the estate
to be valued at $12,727.72, divided
into the following: Real estate,
81, 600; notes and accounts, 81, ,14O;
stock in corporations, $1,000; cash,
$685. 50; insurance, $2,OOO,--Al-
bany Herald.
| Saturday there arrived in this
city from large goat farm in
Texas thoroughbred billy goat
for w. J. Warfield of As-es. The
animal is from celebrated strain
of goats formerly imported to this
cHun'ry from South Africa. Mr..
Watfald came over Saturday and
departed with mis- prize the following
day. Many Alsea people are be-
coming well known for their herds
of fine goats.
joseph Yates OF this citv attend
ell the funeral al Tangent, Satur-
day, of Andrew J. Blevins. Mr..
Blevins was driving the horse on Z
hay fork, Thursday afternoon, at
his home five miles east of Corval-
lis, when the rigging broke and the
single tree struck Mr.. Blevins in
the abdomen, infiicting internal in
juries from which he died at an