Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-03-29
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Mcmahon has been visiting
at Halsey and Harrisburg this week
Mrs. D. D. Berman, who has been
quite i'll, is slowly improving.
R. Fl. Huston has been confined
at home with illness several days
this week.
Mrs. E. F. Strouts Of Sunni
was a business visitor in Corvallis
Tuesday.
Jim Flett has gone to his Five
Rivers ranch to look after buslne- g
for a month.
Byron Hunter, government farm
inspector, is spending two weeks
with his family in this CITY, having
just toured the state of Washington
In his line of work.
Carl and Roy Clark of OAC re.
turned the first of this week from
the Davis home, west of town, where
they spent a weeks vacation. They
report b splendid time.
The annual state convention of
the Christian church takes place in
Eugene next Thursday and Friday,
and many members of the Corvallis
church are planning to attend.
The steam laundry building is
being reshingled this week, which
is certainly a good thing, as it les
sens the danger If sparks catching
on the roof and causing a fire.
Ed Wills aul son, of Portland,
came up the first of this week for
visit with Alex Campbell and
family. The latter remains for a
week or two but Mr. Wills returned
home Immediately.
The members of the Woodmen
and Circle lodges of this city are
planning for big time at their hall
next Thursday evening. 1t will be
a social for the mem bers of both
lodges and their families, and it is
proposed to make the event memoir
able.
Miss Eda Jacobs, Grand Trea sur
or of the Rebskahs, left the first of
this week for Harrisburg, Brow as
vile and T>ledo, where she will
hold district inventions. Miss
Jacobs, in IN liking this trip, fills the
place of the state president, who is
ill and unable to attend to such
work at pi esent.
A sunrise prayer meetin at $50
a. M, will open the services next
Sunday morninp at the Christian
church. At 10 o'clock The Sunday
School will hold appropriate Easter
exercises. The morning sermon
will be on "The Resurrection. I
the evening the pastor will preach,
on "Womanliness"- sermon to
girls and young women.
Several prominent ministers from
neiehboring towns have boea in
Corvallis this week assisting in the
special meetings at the Christian
chulch. Tuesday evening, Rev.
Evans of Albany gave an address;
Wednesday eve,ing, Rev. David
Erett Of Salem occupied the pulpit;
last night, R,v. Ellington of Cot
tage Grove IS ths speaker and to-
night Rev. Wigmore of Eugene will
be present.
"The King of Tramps" was the
attraction at the Corvallis opera
house, Tuesday evening, and it was
greeted by a large audience. The
production is of an entirely diffsre t
class than the attractions that have
heretofore appeared in Corvallis
this season, but, for the kind, was
very creditable and seemed to please
the audience. Some of the special
ties were very clever, and pretty
girls with fetching costumes were
features of the play.
One of the important develop
ments at the meeting of the Board of
Sheep Com 'nissioners held at PEN
dleton last Saturday is the fact that
Oregon is quarantined state, as
far as its relations and the sheep in
dustry are concerned, towards other
states, for the reason that there has
been so much neglect in the matter
of sheep inspection, resulting in the
spreading of the disease scah among
the sheep, which is infectious. The
Board decided to appoint competent
inspectors, who will begin the work
at once of inspecting the sheep
throughout the state, and a strin-
gent system will be adopted to
eliminate the disease from the
sheep. :.
1t has recsntlY developed at the
Northern Pacific has for weeks bad