Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-07-19
Miss Ava Glass of Eugene, has
been the guest Of Mrs. W. G. Swami
fhn laaak Haak -.

Miss Ava Glass of Eugene, has
been the guest Of Mrs. w. G. Swami
the past week. -.s-----
o. J. Blackledge and family ex-
pectsd to leave yesterday for Fish
Lake on tEeir annual outing.
The Ralph Davisson lot on 8th
street has been sold 70 Noel Will
kinson for $3.50. The sale was
negotiated by Amber & Waters.
What is known as the Y. M. C.
A. lot on college hill, adjoining
Prof. Knisely's property, has been
sold by Amber & Waters TO Chas,
Heckart for $1,000.
Mrs. D. Brusha arrived. Tuesday
from PendIeton for a visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Irvine.
Her daughter, Mrs Gertrude, ar
rives the last of this week.
Mrs. Josie Hecker-Steele is lying
at the point of death at her home in
Twin Falls, Idaho. She is fo:m-
er Benton county girl and a sister
of Mrs. Arnold King of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Clark arrived
home from Newport, Tuesday, after
a ten days. Wis. They state that
the cheapest b. d they could OBJ
tain was $1.5O per day, each, and
that Newport is booming.
Amber & Walters have just sold
the Mrs. Ellen Mundy residence
near the G. & &. depot to R. L. Cas-
teel, the we'll known engineer on
the C. & E. railroad. The consid-
Grafton was 81 400.
The Union services will be held
in the Congregational church, Sun
day evening, July 2lst, providing
the weather will not premit of open
air service. Sermon by Rev. Gibbs
of the M. E. church, South. Every
body not only welcome but very
cordially invited.
The Oregon Experiment Station,
under the supervision ot Prof. G. L.
Lewis, is making an orcha- d survey
of come of the leading fruit-growing
districts of the state. This work
will be of mu. b value, as we lack
accurate data as to orchards IN this
Observation-Disclosures.
TIE steamer Vanguard has be en-
chartered by the Fir and Spruce
Lumber company to carry lumber
from their Toledo mill to San Frar-
cisco. She is very serviceable
craft for that trade. Her dimen-
sions are as follows: net tonnage,
22S; length, 1877 5; depth, 10.5. She
carries about sO0,UO0 feet of lumber.
|-Ex.
A Eugene ice cream dealer runs
the tollov ing "ad." in the Guard
''Lost: A small boy about the size
of a girl, was barefooted with tan
shoes on. He had an empty basket
on his erm containing three post
holes and railroad tunnel. When
last seen he.-was in a store shovel
ing smoke out of a gunpowder fac
tory and trying to borrow, ten cents
to get dish of Otto's delicious ice
cream"
Surveys for sewers have been or
dered on the following blocks: %
and 20, County addition; 10 and 1 I,
and l, 2 and 8, original town; block
6, ori7inal town; through the Mrs.
Sarah Elgin block and the two ad-
joining blocks on the north, bloc k l
IN Dixon's addition, and also be-
tween jefferson and Monroe streets,
between Second and Third. Prof.
Shelton and his assistants are busi-
ly engaged at the work this week,
as it is quite task.
Miss Nora Miller, who went to
Jamestown as guest of the Port
land Telegram, having won the sub
scription contest in this district, is
to start for Oregon, Monday. On
the return from jamestown the girls
were allowed a sixty day stop-over
on their tickets, and Miss Miller
availed herself of the opportunity
and has been visiting relatives at
Joliet and Chicago for several
weeks.
Hundreds of eels which are
thought to have entered the canal
Of the Willamette Valley company
at Lebanon from the Santiam river,
reached this city yesterday after
noon and were carried over the falls
into the Calapooia river. The eela
were discovered by large number
of boys who congregate1 at the foot
of the falls, and killed them by
hundreds with clubs. The specta-
Gle was watched from Bryant's is
land by many persons-Aibany