The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-09-11

Sam Hartsock left yesterday to
spend his vacation in Portland and
Salem.
Miss Carrie, Danneman was a
Newport visitor Saturday and Sun
day.
Mrs. Randall, Austin Lafferty
and wife left Saturday for Salem to
attend the State Fair.
Julian McFadden completed
yesterday the storing of 200 tons of
baled hay 10 the long shed north of
the S. P. depot.
City Man-Are you still keeping
summer boarders?
Si-Nope, but I'm keepin' a few
of their trunks!
-Twenty-one Cinnamon passed
through Corvallis Saturday enroute
to Alsea to work in the cannery at
that place.
Douglas McLagan, formerly of
Corvallis, ia now al Olinghouse, NJ
vada, where he is engaged in min
ing. ..
Arthur Bouquet, of the class of
'06, o. A. c.. arrived Saturday from
the Bohemia mining district where
he has been employed all summer.
Mrs. Helen E. Rorst and daugh.
Ter, Miss Gladys, of Centralia,
Washington, are expected to arrive
tonight. They will remain in Cor
wallis duriug the college year.
R w. Henton, of Monroe pre-.
cinct, has moved with his family
into Corvallis, and occupies The
house recently vacated by the Dan
nemans near the courthouse.
"A block of lots 10 Jobs addi-
tion was sold last Friday by W. A.
Wells to Mrs. Raleigh McLagan, of
Linn county. 1t is leased and will
not be occupied for the present by
the purchaser.
The management of the sta'e
fair has announced the following
special days: Monday, opening day; !;
Tuesday. Development League day;
Wednesday, Salem day; Thursday,
Portland day; Friday, Fraternal
day; Saturday, children's day.
The E ks excursion to NewIo ort
Sunday carried about 20O people.
The Brownsville Boys band furn-
ished the music. Evidently the
the crabs had heard of the affair and
took sneak for deep "atersior up.
oa the arrival OF the excur -ionists
thef5 was not a crab to be found.
The excursion was success minus
the feast.
He was foreigner 10 an
restaurant for the first
tine BaiDg unaccustomed to our
ways, he found difficulty in order.
ing. "Ah, um, what have you,"
be ssid to the pretty waitress. II
have brains, calves. pigs feet. frogs
legs" but bis face was turned
away in his EN- barrassment end he
interrupted to explain that he did
not want to know about her physie-
ii defects, but wanted something to
at.
JONES and Will Horning went
% Portland to purchase machinery
:or the axe and hard wood fac
;ory they are establishing near
ohilomath. They have acquired a
considerable body of oak timber.
md it is the plan to MANUFACTURED
Ike handles, pick handles and va
ious other forms of hardwood ap-
,liances. A boiler has already been
Installed but it is largely for kiln
Trying purposes. A similar indus
ry established at Newberg bad to|
Increase it's capacity several times
q order to meet the demand for its
product.
"A horse and buggy owned byl
Millard Long had spin on their
'wn account Saturday evening.
The horse took fright in town. and
reading for the west travelled some
1i-tance into the country. got into
fsld and ci-cled some time there
before he was finally captured. The
,uggy stayed with him, and strange
o say. went through the perform
.nce without injury. Whip, bsggy
.obe and other movable fixtures
we're, however, scattered over large
scope of territory and half dozen
mall boys were kept busy for a
couple Of hours in gathering them
:ogether.
Andrew Palmer, former Ben
ton county man. died at Ajax,
Eastern Oregon, Thursday evening,
after four weeks illness. He was
the father of Mrs. Cal Thrasher.
and three years ago visited in this
city. He came to Benton county
10 1880, and settled on a farm, now
owned by R. G. Kiger, on Kiger
TSlopd He was a former mariner