Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-02-23

ed on the breeze in this city yester-
day.
Sunday, niece and nephew o
Chas. II. Miller arrived in Cor.
wallis from Cripple Greek, Colorado
for a short visit. They are making
tour of the coast.
The rains of the past few days
brought great deal of snow out Of
the mountains and as a result tine
Willamette river is at a good boat
ing stage.
The friends attending the Bap-
tist social on Wednesday evening
were delightfully."- entertained, and
the young people feel very grateful
for 80 much kind patronage and
hope to receive it again in the neal
future.
Next Monday evening Marion F.
Davis, of Pendleton Oregon, who is
grand chancellor of the Knights ol
Pythias lodge, will meet with the
boys in this city. The local knights
are preparing to have rousing
time on his arrival.
The social given at Simpson
chapel, Southern Benton, last Fri
day evening was delightful
success. Everything promised was
executed to the fullest. The pro-
ceeds amounted to $67 so, which
is a splendid showing and gives a
good idea of the attendance.
Only two more games of basket
ball are to be played this season.
One of these takes place tonight in
the Armory, and will be between
the State University and OAC
teams. The other will be with the
Dallas college men on Friday of
next week.
The County Convention of
Grange Delegates from the various
oranges of the county viii meet in
Supt. Denman's office on Saturday,
March 3, at / p. NJ, to elect dele
gates to the State Grange. Mr..
Denman is Deputy Master for the
county and the meeting is called
by him.
James G. Horning, Corvallis,
sends US a change for his ad in this
issue, but it came to late. He says
the demand for stock this year has
been something wonderful. He
says he believes he could sell at
least one hundred cockerels more if
he had them. This, by the way
is a common complaint of the ma
jority of advertisers in the North
west Poultry journal the past year.
More demand than they can sup
ply. This is not a boom year,
either, but the people are more and
more awakening to the value of
pure-bred fowls. Northwest Poul-
try Journal.
The explosion of dynamite men,
toned i'm our last issue caused
Harry Walker, an expert powder
man, the loss of hearing in his left
ear. His sight was also badly af-
fected and particles CT dirt blown
into his face, his clothing was rent
and he was badly used up in var
ious ways. At the present time he
is getting along as we'll as could be
The wonder is that he
was not blown to atoms as he was
not more than 81 feet from the
powder when it exploded. This
was the first accident that ever be-
fell Mr.. Walker in the many years
that he has handled powder. The
accident was the result of thawing
powder for blowing out stumps in
the Taylor hopyard.
This evening, the basket ball
men of the State University. will
come to Corvallis to undertake the
defeat of the OAC men. So far
this season, the university men
have won out in football over the
collegians aud it will be their eff
forts to secure victories both at
basket bail aud at track. The
OAC men have been making pre-
parations for long time for the
g 2me against their old rivals at
basket ball, and they will seek to-
night, as far as possible, to take re-
venge for last falPs defeat at foot
ball. A record breaking crowd
will probably witness the game.
The game will begin promptly at
light thirty. The game will be
preceded by band concert.
Some time ago the first steps
.eading to the formation of the Ore
yon State Optical Association were
aiken. The time for meeting was
set for last Monday evening and the
Marquam building was designated |