The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-11-09
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on December 5th. Watch for it.
Carlton, daughter. Grandpa
Linville carries his new honors
with dignity.
Mrs. ]. A. French has return |
ed to her home at Enterprise, after
a two week visit with her parents
in this city.
The pastors subject for Sun
day morning at the First Metho-
dist church is, "Spiked Guns and
IWet Powder at Aai." Evening
lsubject: "A bit of tongue more
powerful than dynamite.
| Rev, T. K. Hammond of Ore
lyon City will hold service morning
land evening at the Episcopel
ichurch Sunday.
| The first number Of the Ly-
|ceum Course will appear in this
city next Thursday, evening,
November 18th. The box office
will open for season ticket holders
Saturday morning at 8 o'clock.
One person will not be permitted to
buy more than five tickets.
The Coffee Club is preparing
to give a dancing party Saturday
evening of next week. 1t will par
take of Thanksgiving features. The
committee is Misses. Edna Osburn.
Lillian Ranney and Gertrude Nc.
Bee.
Il The Rev. A. W. Darby will
' ipreach at the Church of Cod three
blocks north Of Mechanical ball
every Sunday evening. Subject
\ for next Sunday evening &C The
\ second coming of Christ" j" Also
! Sunday school every Sunday atten.
Every body come.
An exchange pertinently re
almarks: IF your business is no
worth advertising, advertise it TO
sale, A merchant who is ~
W ling to exploit in print what h
has in the way of goods an
bargains and why he expects tn
public to call upon him, is logical
supposed to have little or no rea:
on to expect trade
1t was the Beach & Bower
minstrel performance at the ope1
house. 1t WAS the inning of II
end men. IF little boy shoul
eat a green apple. and die, and g
5 10 heaven, what would his telepho1
number be?" queried the coon. al
accompanying the question with
vast expansion of chest and impor
ance of manner. After season
hard thinking his colleague,
course, gave it up. g. Ate one tv
E green, pompously answered Il
i. propounder of the question, al
then the bones ratified, the tar
BOURNE sighed, the band play
and the audience laughed.
1 The opera house is heated
I furnace. The stoves that have
Z long done duty at the place ha
been laid aside for the more mo
ern arrangement. The public
mnch the gamer because the hs
I from the stoves never neuer pen
n 2 trated behind the scenes and
matter how warm the auditoriu
II the moment the curtain went up
stream of arctic current poured
upon the audience from behind
- the footlights. and comfort was il
possible The changed arranI
1nent will add mucn to the apleas1
# the audience at the old pl
house and incidentally add mu
to its popularity The fruua
was used for the first time i
1 week.
J Seventy three pounds is t
weight ola squash displayed in
real estate office of Amber & w
ad tiers. 1t is not SO much its size
the harmony Of its proportions II
makes it interesting. 1t was gro,
on the farm of John Beach ne
Corvallis. Two other squashes
the same shelf with the big one
also interesting to see. Both are
the acorn variety and in cru
/ way resemble the acorn in shar
One of them is remarkable for
} b aatiful coloring. In the cen
there is space of white, then th
comes broad ring of dark gre
and outside of it is a broader ri
of pale red.
Yesterday was skiddoo,
lemon ,be day, a Alban7 postofi
for during the day just 20 lett
were stampedani mi lied from
office to M ntgomery Ward &
5suggesting business that should
given to home merchants, saws t
Albany Democra at, and it is p