Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-11-19
Mrs. v. f. Woods was an Albany
visitor, Saturday.

fisiSOI3 6oSuAu0ys
DIR. and Mrs. Pernot returned Fri
day from a. business trip to Port
land.
/ Prof. Briedwell returned yester-
day from few days visit in Port
land.
! R,y Bell arrived from Portland
the last of the week and will remain
indefinitely.
| ]. N. McFaiden and George
Brown were business visitors in Eu-
gene the last of the week.
Rev. David Husband of Eugene
spent Saturday and Sunday in Cor
Wallis in the interest of the Chris
tian Standard.
The city is building a culvert at
the crossing between the M. L.
Adams and Sam Moore properties
in jobs addition.
DR.. W. J. Kerr delivered an ad-
dress at Shedd station, Thursday
evening, ON the Responsibility of
Good Citizenship"
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Jerman of
Brownsville were guests a few days
the latter part of the week of Mr..
and Mrs. Miles Starr, Jr.
Misses Ida and Florence Zierolf
have been visiting at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Finnegan in
Eugene the past few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jemes Flett are to
return the middle of this week to
their ranch home in the Five Rivers
cou try, after few days. visit in
Corvallis.
1t is reliably reported that Levi
Oren and family are to leave Cor
Wallis this week to make their nome
in New Mexico. 1t is said they 90
with view to taking up govern
ment land.
"Grandma" Stewart, one of Cor
vallis' most widely known and gen
orally beloved old ladies, went to
Portland the last of the week for
visit of indefinite length with rela-
tives. Her many friends hope she
lnay have a delightful visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zophar Tharp, who
were married in this city last week
and moved to Monmouth, returned
to this city on Thursday and are
visiting the formers parents, Mr..
and Mrs. T. J. Hays.-F,iday's
McMinnville Telephone Register.
T. H. Wellsher, the grocer, has
shown spirit of progresslvsness
this wees by enlarging his front
show windows. The additional
depth of two or three feet will give
room for much better display of
goods than ever before attempted at
this establishment.
At the Hodss grocery the past
few days several boxes of Benton
county apples have been on display
and have attracted much attention.
They are large, luscious looking
red-cheeked beauties, grown by
George Armstrong, and cannot be
beaten by Hood River nor any
other section.
Mrs. Miles Starr has in her yard
in this city a fig tree that has just
given up its third crop of ripe figs
for this season. A part of this third
crop reached the Gazette office and
the writer knows the fruit was ripe
and delicious in favor. A branch
of large. ripe blackberries was also
sent in by Mrs. Starr, another testi-
monial to the delightful climate and
remarkable productiveness Ct Ore
gon, "where flows the Willamette.
So large is the enrolment at the
Corvallis public schools that besides
Mrs. Du Moulin and Miss Edna
Groves, who were recently elected
to take charge of the new rooms
that have been added, making now
16 teachers, it is thought that two
more instructors will have to be
added to the force about Christmas
time. Never has Corvallis had |
such number of pupils enrolled as |
now. The fact is another unmis-
taxable sign of the steady growth of
the city.
The dramatic entertainment Civ
en- by Prof Orr of Pacific Univer- |
sity, assisted bv the talented young
violinist, Miss Cornelia Barker, of
Portland, at the college chapel, Fri
day evening, is said to have been
the highest class entertainment Civ
en- there in long time. The i'm
presentations by Prof. Orr were ex-
celient, while the playing of Miss
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