The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-07-02
LOCAL LORE.
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The w. c. T. U. will hold but
one meeting in July and that will
be on the third Thursday as the
Fourth falls on the first Thursday.
Mrs. S. L. Kline has returned
from the Department Convention
held last week at Newberg with
honors for her corps having been
elected delegate at large alternate to
the National convention, w: R. c.,
which meets in Saratoga, N. Y, in
September. She leaves soon for
her annual Eastern trip.
Judge Woodward says the
statements of Mr.. Prettyman in
which it is alleged that Fatrmount
precinct is Disseminated against by
the Benton county court, which
statements appeared in Friday s
TIMES. are not true. He says lum-
Der and other materials for public
uses in that precinct have been uni
formly supplied as required. With
reference to tiling that was not fur
nished. Judge Woodward says that
it is impossible to get tiling at any
price on account of the scarcity, but
that when supply is available
Fairmount precinct as well as all
other localities will be amply pro-
vided for. s ~
There is a Corvallis girl who is
happy. She is Miss Anna Maxfeld,
who has been employed for several
years in the home of Walter Taylor.
Out of her earnings she saved
enough to buy a handsome gold
watch, which she highly priced.
She rode on her wheel to, Kings
Valley and lost the watch. It was
restored 40 her Saturday, by ]. L.
Govier "a farmer living near Wells.
He1ead of the loss In a copy Of the
ETIMEs which he saw at Independ-
ence. He had found the watch,
and Saturday afternoon. he mounted
his horse and rode to Corvallis, and
delivered the trinket to the owner.
His only charge was one dollar, for
the trouble of the 90 mile ride he
made to deliver the watch.
The dispatches relate that a
cow ate a lot of dynamite, the other
day, and died from the poisonous
effects. Her owner didn't want to
lose her altogether, and fed her car
cass to the hogs. Fourteen of the
latter died. That reminded a local
citizen of another dynamite case,
and he told this one. A goat on
his fathers home came across a
stick of dynamite in the yard and
ate it, paper and all. Heretoforee
it had been in the habit of coming
on the family porch and always at
such times ''mother would drive the
geat off with a broom" But after
that she didn't do it any more, no
matter how many times the goat
anne on the porch. She realized
that the billy was loaded with dy.
Mantle, and did not strike him with
the broom for fear there would be
an explosion.
-Ballooning has become popu.
lar in town. Toy affairs six to ten
feet high are on sale and it has be-
come an interesting diversion in the
evening to load one " ith gas and
send it on journey into the sky.
One sent up Saturday night inter-
ested large crowd on Main street.
1t sailed gracefully upward until at
height of half a mile. perhaps, it
struck current of air and was di-
! verted swiftly to the northeast,
| where, as a star hardly visible to
the naked eye, it finally disappear
ed. One sent up few nights age
rose almost straight up to height
of what seemed to be about mile
and a half and disappeared. A
bunch of excelsior as big as bis
cult below the aperture at the bot
tom OF the balloon, furnishes the
Egas. It Is saturated with a chem
ical and when the excelsior is light
4 ed, the device is in complete work
3 ing order. When turned adrift i
does the rest.
/ The graduation exercises TO
the class Of 1907 for Northern Ben
ton, we've held last, FIiuay evening.
at the Palestine church. The ex
ercises were pronounced the bes
yet held in this part of the county
The church was unable to accom-
modate those attending. The churcl
had been beautifully decorated witt
flags and bunting by Sup't. Den
man, and the ladies of the churcl
served ice cream and cake befor
and Immediately after theexercises
The following is the program an
the members of the class: Saluta
tory, Lucy Allen; recitation, Cor
don Ryalls; class history, Alie
ThurstoD; recitation, Anna Peacock
music. Bertha Allen; recitation
Edma~d I.eihuer. recitation r rs