Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-04-05
Additional Local.

1t is reported that a committee of citi-
zens interested in the municipal owner.
ship of Eugene's waterworks system has
a source of water supply in prospect,
sufficient to supply city OF 10000 in.
habitants. The location of this water
supply is not announced at this time,
but it is stated that the water comes di-
rect from the mountains, cold and clear.
and the water shed necessary to protest
the nead-works of the gravity system, is
no. large. and SO it is stated, can be co.
cured at very reasonable fgure.-Reg-
lister.
The condition of Mrs. Philip Phile,
who has been seriously ill for several
weeks. is not improved. Friday night
Mrs. Phile's brother, Carson Rodamock.
er who makes his home at the Phile
residence, was striker with paralysis and
speech are affected.
1t was April fool day and two young
ladies entered candy store in Eugene
and with the greatest suavity and COM
posure said to one of the proprietors. .
"Mr. -, we want two bits worth of
candy" Especially anxious to please,
the urbane proprietor filled up a sack Of
delicious chocolates and bon bons and
handed them over. One of the ladies'
tossed down two broken and useless
quarter inch bits that they had dug up
from carpenter shop and passed out
toward the door. The dumb founded
proprietor could not speak for chagrin
and as the girls passed out of the door,
they called back in sweetest voice-"April
tool! and the proprietor said never a
word but just thought.
Mrs. Austin, who has been i'll for the
past ten days, is not improved. She has
An attack of la grippe.
Mrs. Minor Swick received letter.
Tuesday, from her sister, Mrs. Mary
Black. now at E. Paso, Texas, in which
the writer says the weather is SO hot
there that people have to sit on their
porches until 10 or IL O'Clock at night, 1t
being impossible to sleep because of the
heat. Mrs. Blacks hcme is in Oregon
and she expects to return to Corvallis by
the last of May, where the climate is
more pleasant.
The F. M. S. of the M. E. church met
and was entert al ned at the home of Mrs.
S. W. Holmes, Wednesday afternoon,
and very pleasurable time is reported.
Two wagon loads of movers were in
town, Wednesday, bound for point I'D
the Columbia, W here the men stated thev
would go to work on the railroad that ia
being built in that section. The wagons
were supplied with stove and beds. and
several women and children were in the
party. Wht re they came from was not
learned.
Miss Blanche Rood, who made her
home for time in this city and who
went back to Lisbon, North Dakota,
about year ago, is now at Clear Lake,
Iowa, visiting relatives. Rumors of her
coming marriage are going the rounds
among Corvallis friends.
John G. Veatch and Francis v. Gal
loway have been chosen by the faculty
of the U. of o. to 60 to Sat Lake CITY to
debate against a Utah team on April
28tL.
Reports from the bedside of Mrs
Grant Elgin, who was operated Oh in
Portland hospital, Sunday, for appendi-
citis, are very encouraging. 1t is sal
she is getting along as we'll as could be
expected. and if she continued to improve
during the day yesterday it was believed
the danger point would be passed.
Reuben Kiger, who has been confined
to his home with illness since before
Christmas, is slowly improving, although
still unable to be out of the house. 4
Mrs. H. F. Fischer went to Portland,
yesterday to be at the bedside of her
daughter, Mrs. Grant Elgin, who is in
the hospital there.
Slevert Ramsdall, who had his foot
crushed by falling tree several weeks
ago at Kings Valley, was in Corvallie,
Wednesday. The injured foot is getting
along as we'll as could be expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kennedy, parents of R. |
II. Kennedy of Mt. View, have arrived
from the East and are guests at the home
of their son. /
Mrs. Mary Stewart, familiarly known
as "Grandma." has been quite ill this
week. The ailment is la grippe.