Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-07-23

Mrs. Sarah Stewart and two chill
dren went to Portland, Sunday, fol
q two weeks visit with friends AMI
relatives.
i Nash Taylor arrived the last o
the week from Portland, where b,
has been employed, and will remair
indefinitely.
| Mrs. Helen Borst and daughter,
Miss Gladys, expect to leave today
for Tacoma, WASH, where the lat
ter is to enter college.
/ Mrs. A. J. Metzger arrived home,
Friday, from a two weeks visit
with her parents. Mr.. ard Mrs, E.
J. Garrow, in Portland.
Miss Mildred Clemens of Port
land was in Corvallis the last of the
week, looking after the Portland
Journals educational contest work.
Colonel J. K. Phillips arrived in
Corvallis Friday, from two months
visit with his son, Ed, in Seattle.
He expects to spend the summer in
this city.
Mrs. Briggs, who was operated on
in Portland hospital last week, is
covering quite rapidly. She is
the mother OF Mre. Byron Hunter
of this city.
Mrs. Griffin and Miss Leona
Griffin of Eugene passed through
Corvallis the last of the week, en-
route to Newport for visit of two
or three weeks.
The little folks of the three infant
classes of the Methodist Sunday
School we're given picnic IN Avery'e
grove, Friday afternoon. A very
happy time was had by the youth
tul guests. Tbs teachers in charge
were Mrs. Minor Swick, Mrs. J. B.
Goodman and Miss Edna Groves.
Milton P. Morgan, of Corvallis,
and family, accompanied iby Mrs.
A. Thomas of Salem and Mrs. B.
Stevens of Portland are enjoying an
outing at the beach. They are en-
cemped near the Auditorium skat-
ing rink, and are enjoying a very
pleasant time.-Yaquina Bay News.
Warren Hinton, who was SO seri-
ously injured in fall in the Boone
vile warehouse several weeks ago,
appeared on the streets, Friday
morning, for the first time since the
accident. He is still wearing band
ages on his head and carries his
arm in cling, but he is thankful |
for his escape from death.
A Germantown woman was not |
long ago watching workman as
he put up new window fixtures in |
her house. Don't you think that
you have placed those fixtures too
high?" asked she, having reference
to the curtain rolls last put in
place. The workman, stolid Ger
man, made no reply, but continued
to adjust the fixtures. didn't you
hear my question:" demanded the
lady of the house. ''How dare you
be SO rude?" Whereupoa the Ger
man gulped CO vuIsively, then an-
swered in the gentlest of voices: II
haf my mouth full of schrews, u nd
I could not shpeak till 1 swallow
some" ."-Harper's.
Mr.. Carver, promoter and backer
of the Eugene and Siuslaw railroad,
would have Eugens people under
stand that his activity in putting
the Corvallis aud Alsea River rail-
road enterprise on foot is not to in
terfere with carrying out the project
here. Naturally, The Registers
publication of the Corvallis story,
which was later confirmed by the
published report from Corvallis, had
a tendency to make some of the Eu-
gene subscribers to stock in the
Siuslaw undertaking. wonder if all
the local effort had been in vain. 1t
is Mr.. Carver's assurance that he
will be here Tuesday to complete
to begin active rail-
road building that makes the Sius-
law hackers feel that the road is
certain to be built.-Friday's Eu-
gene Register.