Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-11-05

Coach Norcross was Salem visit
or, Saturday.
/ Mrs. Wilbur Starr of Bellefoun.
tain was q Corvallis visitor, Friday
! Miss Melvena Elgin returned the
last of the week from trip to Port.
lind.
/ Reuben Kiger, who has been
quite low the past wee6, is not inn
proving.
Mrs. Grover Headrick returned
home Saturday from visit with
friends at Glencoe and Portland.
| Joseph Yates arrived home Fri
ldaysevening from visit with bis
son. Attorney W. E. Yates, in Van
couver.
Webley Edwards is expected
h7me this week from his Eastern
Oregon ranch, where ne has been
for the past few months.
Richard Irwin of Southern Ben
ton was among the out-of-town visit
ore who witnessed 'The Cow Punch
er" at the opera house, Friday eve
ming.
Mrs. R. P. Hall and Mrs. Nose
Miner and little daughter of Buena
Vista were visitors in Corvallis, Sat-
urday. They spent Sunday at the
Mays home in Linn county.
Mrs. Eunice Nichols arrived the
last of the week from Connecticut
for visit with her brother, R. L.
Whitehead, and other relatives in
this city. she will spend the win
ter in Corvallis.
Parties from Polk county in Cor
wallis, Saturday, reportes! that the
Luckia E ute bridge was out, as a r.
suit of the high water, and they
were obliged to come circuitous
route in order to reacn this city.
John Kiger returned Saturday
from Alsea where he had been for a
couple of days, purchasing band
of sheep which he drove home
Dick Kiger drove $50 of his best
sheep to the Kiger ranch near Belle
fountain, Saturday, TO winter them.
Long we've waited for Novem ber,
when the winds are swift and chill,
when the frst-come SHOWS of winter
drift along the window-silI; when
the hunter finds pneumonia wait
ing for him at the lake, and the pies
we get resemble those that mother
used to make.-Ex.
Corvallis had peaceful and
reasonably quiet halloween and
little damage to property has been
reported. In few instances fences
and walks were torn away, but the
policemen were too numerous about
town to permit of many pranks be-
ing played by the youngsters.
"The Cow Puncher" was produce
ed at the Corvallis opera house,
Friday night, before a large audi
ence. While it is, as it's, name i'm
plies, a "blood and thunder" play,
those in the cast sustained their
parts in very creditable manner
and the production was pronounced
very good by those who witnessed
it.
Misses Mary and Alice Jones,
two ambitious Corvallis girls, who
are now in Los Angeles, California,
taking a normal course in order to
prepare themselves for teaching In
the Golden State, are making splen-
did progress in their work and will
be able to accept schools there by
spring. Both are OAC graduates
and many old friends wish them
success.
Over at the county clerks Office
articles Of Incorporation have been
filed by the Shale Lumber Com
pany with capital stock of $780,
100. The incorporators are J. B.
Shale of Missouri, J. E. Irwin, J. l..
Sprinkle and Stephen Carver. tits
stated that the directors are J. B.
Shale, J. L. Sprinkle, John Allen,
Stephen Carver and another party
from Missouri. The object of the
new company is to invest in timber
land along the new line of the Cor
Wallis & Alses River railroad now
being built.
The funeral of the late Solomon
H. Dalaba occurred Friday from
the residence of M. C. Miller ia
this city, Rev. D. H. Leech oficiat-
ling. Interment was in /. o. o. f.
cemetery. The survivors are two
daughters, Mrs. M. G. Miller and
Mrs Charley Young of Corvallis, a
bl other, DOC" Dalaba, of Elk City,
two other brothers in other states,
and two sisters, Mrs. Efie Rugg and
Mrs Rockwell, both of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Rugg has spent,the summer
in (oryal lie o,,6 1oovoo obo,,< tho