The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-11-27

zaar from Dec. 5th to Dec. 18th.
The OAC second team played
a return game of football with the
State Normal at Monmouth Friday,
and won by a score of five to
naught. -s. -----..-
Percy Cupper, quarterback on
the 1903 football team at OAC, and
a popular graduate, was among
those who came from abroad to see
the football game Saturday.
ID D. Berman has purchased
the interest of Frank Gray in the
mercantile establishment of Welsh |
er & Gray, and the firm will here
after be Wellsher & Berman. Mr..
EGray accepted five acre tract of
land near town in the deal. The
work of invoicing is now in prog
ress and is expected to be complet-
ed this afternoon or tomorrow.
In the circuit court this morn
ling the case against Mrs, Higgins
for alleged illegal administering of
opium to inmates Of the poor house
was up for consideration aud was
thrown out OF. court. A demurrer
linterposed for the defense was sus-
tanned bv the court and the case
dismissed. 1t appeared from the
argument of counsel that if the
opium had been ministered by
druggist the case would have held
but as it was. by a third party
which was the guise in which Mrs.
Il Present weather conditions are
favorable to sewer construction in
the city, Work on the lateral ex-
tending southwark along the alley
from the Jefferson street main, to
a point in the ice factory block, is
now progressing satisfactorily and
by the middle of the week the ex-
cavating will be complete. On &C
\ count of rain this sewer has caved
4 extensively, necessitating large
\ amount of extra work. The Zier.
q off lateral from the VanBuren main
I northward. is to be the next work
h undertaken. Three latera1s are al
d ready under contract by J. R.
\ Smith & Co.. and arrangement:
3 are being perfected for number O
L others. ~s
I The family of the aged couple
/ Mr.. and Mrs. John earns, are as
4 semhling h re for a reunion OF
I Thanksgiving day. 6. A. Carn
. of California and Pc. G. Carns
4 Washington sons, have arrived
4 and Mrs. Hattie Taylor of Alban,
+ the only daughter is to be present
! Other ons of Lincoln county arr
\ exoected Wednesday. The childre
including those of Corvallis numbe
1 seven. The senior earns is g.
i years of age, and since the oppor
\ tunity Of another full reunion ma
not again occur. The family loo
/ foreward TO this event with rec
4 thanksgiving and a pleasure. whic
at the same time must be attends
! by sense of gravity.
N The general idea is that con
7 ditions in the Willamette valley al
= not suitable for the production Q
corn. This notion is prae tic lily
= not wholly erroeeous as has bee
demonstrated by the production i
various localities in the Willamett
valley, of really large crops of goo
corn. This season John Whitake
who resides ten miles south {
Corvallis raised a crop of cor
which goes far to dispel the prev
leut notion as regards the produ
ton of the staple here. Mr.. Whit;
ker planted fourteen acres O, zol
wh. at soil and from this he har,
d ested 800 bushels and eft-upon th
4 ground for hogs what he estiua
es to have been fully 200 bushel
Mr.. Whit ker has grown coin,
the East and he regards his crc
as good for any country, and l
wishes to takeths pains to convinc
nv any doubtful person of the truth
q bis statements as regares the GRO,
+ The new train schedule we,
i,to effect Sunday. BY it the Wes
side arriving time is fixed at ~
which IS the old schedule in efe
for many years. The departit
time conInaes at I:2o as befor
iue changes are more numer u
on the c. & E. The train for A
bany and from Yaquina leaves la
I an hour later, the departing IL
being 1890. The train that b
: been leaving at 1890 now goes
1910, and connects with the ovs,
: land for POI tland which leaves }
! 2:o5 and reaches Portland at e.
I O'Clock. The train which has &c
coming "A: 80 arrives now at 81
making close connections with Il
overland from the south at Alban
siOne of the best features of II