Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-11-26

| Ed Sullivan of Portland was q
Corvallis visitor, Friday and Satur-
day.
| Miss Ethel Hollister is to retur n
home today from an extended visit
in Portland.
Mrs. Bey Rickard and children
went to Suver the last OF the week
for few days visit with relatives.
o. V. Hurt and wife were in Cor
Wallis the latter part of the week,
on route to their home at Waldport
from a visit in Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Il. Elgin of Salem
and Mrs. Grace GeroW of Portland
returned home Friday, after brief
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Irvine.
A. P. johnson, the grocer, ae-
colnpanied the OAC football boys
to Los Angeles, Saturday night,
where he will visit brother whom
he has not seen for twelve years.
The Artisans had a jollifcation
at their lodge hall Thursday eve
ming. The mandolin club furnish
cd music, there was banquet and
general social time. A large
number attended and all report
very pleasant evening.
After spending four years at
Hood River and Rupert, Idaho, DR..
Rowley has returned tc Corvallis to
locate. He has established his Of
fee in rooms upstairs in the Benton
County National Bank building.
Later on, Mr.. Rowley's parents will
move to this city to reside.
The Alaska Brotherhood basket
ball team now being coached in
Seattle by Claude Swami, of Cor
wallis, is to play the Dawson, Alas
ka, team in Vancouver, B. O., next
Monday night. "Swannie" writes
the Gazette that he has recovered
his health and is 'getting fat"
Mr.. and Mrs. Dolph Norton of
Echo, Eastern Oregon, are guests of
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Toll Norton, in this city. Mr.. No.
ton is in the hardware business
with Hugh Smith, his brother-ia-
law, and the two are prospering.
Both are old time Corvallis boys.
Lewis Hartley came in from the
Bohemia mines last week and left
again Thursday for a point 40
miles from JacE sonville, where be
has leased two m es on the line
between Cslifornia and Oregon.
Out from Jacksonville the trip is
made by stage for 26 miles, burros
being used for the remainder of the
distance.
The Commercial restaurant has
been thoroughly over hauled and
put in first class condition and is
now op,n for business. Mr.. Wileon,
the new proprietor, has cha ID
the name of the place f. n the Com
mercisl restaurant to Wilson's
Cafe," and Is determined to please
his patrons by ss-ving first class
meals. His adds appear elsewhere
in these columns.
The ladies' Aid Society at Belle
fountain is preparing for a big
Thanksgiving social in { at neigh
borhood, to take place next Friday
night. There will be program of
much interest, in the church, fol-
lowed by splendid supper in the
Grange Hall. The ladies are plan
ming to enlarge the G. urch, and
they have already purchased new
carpet and. lamps for the building
now in use
r. J. CHM, for . time q Co-val-
lis resident, was in Corvallis the
last of the week, from Portland,
and bad luck seemed to follow him.
As he attempted to board the train
in Corvallis, he slipped, sprsining
his knee, and in lighting from the
train on his arrival in Portland he
slinped again, breaking bis leg. Mr..
CHM is quite a large, feshy man,
which perhaps accounts in part for
the accident. Many neighbors and
friends in Corvallis will be sorry to
learn of his misfortune,
Coach Norcross and his bunch of
husky football players departed
Saturday night for Los Angeles,
where on Thanksgiving day they
are to play the st. Vincent college
tsam. The OAC men will arrive at
Los Angeles today. The game
promises % be an interesting con-
test as neither cam has been de-
fcated this season, the Californians