Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-11-16
LOCAL AND PERSONAL


Miss Thia Johnson has been visit,
ing il A bany this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Miller Of
King Valley, were Corvallis visit
ors Tuesday.
Harold Woodcock returned home
Tuesday evening from an extended
visit in Baker City.
Duncan Pittman and family
n.oved this week into the Sam
Kirg house near the saw mill.
Evangelist E. D Smith will
preach at the NJ. E. church Sun
day. Announcements for the week
will be given Sunday.
Eli Spencer left Wednesday for
his home in Chehalis. Wash hav-
ing been in Corvallis for sometime,
settling up business matters.
w. o. Heckart's are now living
in their handsome new residence on
East Eleventh stree. having moved
the latter part of last week.-Eu-
gene Register.
Mrs. James Pfouts was in Cor
Wallis Tuesday, en- route to her
home in Monr, after weeks visit
in Portland with her daughter, Mrs.
Dolph Limerick.
The mem bers of the Pierian lit
erafy society are to entertain the
Athanaeum members at the college
tamorrow evening, and a good time
is anticipated.
Ia spite of the rain, work on the
new post office is progressing rapid
ly aud the front of the building is
almost completed so far as the brick
work is concerned.
Mrs. J. H. Simpson, Mrs. Cecil
Cathey and the latter's little
daughter for treatment of whose
throat the ladies went to Potland,
arrived home this week from the
metropolis. Baby Margaret is re-
stored to health.
"An expert has Fl cured out that
there are $4,000 hens in Oregon,
that the egg output is 100000 an
nually and that the consumption
is 100000 eggs, Can't we have
an additional lG, 545 hens, to make
up tho deficiency required to supply
the home markets instead of ship,
ping in the stale hen fruit from
other parts of the country?-Ex.
While in town, Tuesday, Wi'b II
Starr of Be lefountain visited a bar
Der shop and had bis heavy beard
cut of. Immediately after he
went to the home of bis mother on
Ninth street and, pretending to be
a vegetable peddler, tried for some
time to drive bargain with her.
Not until he asked, "Why, mother, !
don't you know your own sonW
did she recognize him.
Wilbur Starr of Bellefountatn
was in Corvallis, Tuesday, having
brought to market eight pigs, eight
months of age, that weighed 1745
pounds. At six cents per pound,
the price received, the sum realized
from the sale was ample to convince
Mr.. Waltz that there is money in
farming-if you farm in the right |
way, which is on the diversified |
plan.
The 360-acre Spencer Brothers
farm three miles from Blodgett was
sold Tuesday to G. R. York of
Dundee, Oregon. TIE sale was
made by Robinson & Stevenson
and ths consideration was $4,000.
Mr.. York lately came to Dundee
from Alberta, Canada. His family
is to arrive in Corvallis Sunday and
immediate possession of the farm
will be taken.
Prof. Shaw and family, at one
time residents of this city whsre
Prof. Shaw held position in the
OAC, are now at Berkeley, Calf.
from which place a letter to Cor
Wallis friend was received, Wednes-
day. The writer is Miss Emily
Shaw, now a young lady, who
states that the family's health is
good and that Prof. Shaw holds
position in Berkeley University.
At the last regular meeting of
the Corvallis council a committee