Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-12-17
w. II. Deane of Bellefountain was
a Corvallis visitor, Friday.

| w. III. Deane of Beliefountain was
la Corvallis visitor, Friday.
4 s.. I. Pratt of Philomath was a
Corvallis visitor, Saturday.
| Mrs. FL. w. Kaupisch went to
1 Portland the last Of the week for q
visit with friends.
! Attorney w. e. Yates of Van
couver was an over Sunday visitor
with relatives in Corvallis.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Nose Kline and
daughter of Portland have been the
guests of relatives in Corvallis the
past few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. 81. Simpson of
Albany, former residents of Corval-
lis, were renewing old friends hips in
this city, Saturday.
Clair Young, late of Alaska, who
has been a guest at the A. J. john
son home in this city, left Saturday
for Tygh Valley for visit.
Much worx is being done by both
the Independent and Bell telephone
companies, in this city, and when
completed there is promise of better
service than has ever before been
afforded.
If reports are all correct, there is
a likelihood of no court being held
in Benton county until March, as a
result of the failure of Governor
Chamberlain to declare a week ago
last Friday and Saturday legal
holidays. Where court has beea
postponed by such holidays, the
law demands that it convene on the
first non-holiday. The Benton
court did not meet on Friday, q
week ago, which was not holiday,
and the term has therefore, it is pre-
sumed, gone by default, which
means no court until March, unless
special term should be called.
| Joseph Yates is being joked
good deal by his many friends in
regard 70 hitching his horse to
post down town and absent mind
edly going home without it a week
ago. The animal was taken up at
10 o'clock that night by the Chief of
Police and restored to the owner
! the following afternoon. Mr.. Yates
is sage in his way, and in reply to
the jokers who haye bothered him
about the affair he has requested
the Gazette to say that while some
people make mistakes and then tell
a lot of falsehoods to get out of the
tangle, he is an honest man and ad-
mits that the whole story is true
which should end the matter, in
Mr.. Yates opinion.
One of the big horses il the
Fischer mill team broke It's leg in l.
runaway accident Friday morning
near the c. & E. depot and as a
consequence had to be shot. The
wagon was crossing a newly filled
sewer ditch when the hind wheels
dropped into the mud, causing the
horses to jerk the front wheels from
under the wagon. The cover on
the rig struck the driver on the
read, stunning him somewhat, and
the team ran on with the front
wheels. At the c. & E. depot plat
form, according to the report to the
Gazette, the horses mixed up with
big freight truck and it was here
that the horse broke it's leg. This
is the second horse Mr.. Fischer has
lost as a result of runaway accidents
during the past year.
While the evening was exceeding
ly stormy, 8 good sized audience
greeted the Slayton Jubilee Singers
at the opera house, Thursday eve
ming and all who were present are
enthusiastic in their praise of the
performance. Sweeter melody is
seldom heard than that of this COM
pany of gifted vocalists each of
whom is an artist. "Black Patti
delighted the audience with her
beautiful voice, as did other sololsts
while the en- semble work of the
company was indescribably fine.
This was the second entertainment
in the regular Lyceum Course and
was up to the usual standard of ex-
cellence maintained in these courses.
Nothing but the warmest praise has