Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-06-14
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Mrs. Austin went to Bro o1nsville
Tuesday, for visit with relatives
Miss Deane Hollister is the guest
of friends at Philomath this week
Mr.. and Mrs. o. J. Blackledge
returned Tuesday from a business
trip 10 Portland.
Frank Grubbs If Portland has
been a Corvallis visitor this week
among relatives and old friends.
Renkle & Davis have added to
the appearance of their store by
putting up a slightly new awning.
Miss Claudia Anderson of Port
land came up to spend commence
ment and visit friends this week.
W. w. Bristow of Portland, form
erly an OAC professor, oame up the
of this week on a business trip.
CLYDE and Claire Starr of OAC
left this week for their home at
Bsilefountain to spend the GUNNER.
Roy and Mabel Becker returned
yesterday to their home in Albany,
after a visit with relatives in this
city.
Miss Nellie Pate, an old OAC
student, has been a commencement
guest of friends in Corvallis this
week.
Mrs. Sarah Goodchild and little
granddaughter were to leave yes
terday for Candy to spend the sum-
mer with relatives.
A new cement walk is being laid
this week in front of the Jack Mil
ne cigar store and Jesse Spencer's
> barber shop. The property belongs
to A. J. johnson.
The Grant Elein residence and
three of the six lots were sold Mon
day by Amber & Walters to J. M.
Pinkerton. The consideration was
$500, possession to be given in two
weeks.
Cool, cloudy weai her has been the
order in Corvallis this week, and
several heavy showers have fallen,
but more rain is still needed. The
showers will bs of great value to
the farmers.
Byron Taylor, who lrfs Corvalli
last week writes friends in thin city
that he is soon to b,gin work for
the Northern Pacific railroad COM
pany, Mr.. Taylor is telegraph
operator, and friends in Corvallis
wish him well.
James Kelly, one of ths seniors of
OAC, who was called to Gresham
the last of last week by the sudden
death of his sister, Mrs. Mary How
ct, returned Monday, accompanied
by his mother, sister, Mrs. Neblin,
and Miss Ryder of Portland, who
came to witness his graduation.
This delightful rain means more
hay, more grain, more hop, more
potatoes, more cabbage, more toma-
toes, and more of q thousand or
more articles of produce for which
the Willamette Valley is famous, to
say nothing of a more pleasant
spirit for the native Oregoniau.
c. H. Walker has segregated the
6465 name on tae U. of 0. reteren-
DUN petitions from the Is Oregon
counties as follows: Benton 353,
Clackamas 69l, Coos 40, Douglas,
81, Grant 115, Lane 100, Linn 2O01
Lincoln IL, Marion 1884, Multno-
NAH 387, Polk 258, Umatilla 1874,
Wasco l73, Washington so, Yam
hill 657.-Ex. .,..
There will be a big picnic at
,lefountain camp ground on June
10th. Hon. w. c. Hawley will be
the orator of the day and no effort
will be spared to make the event
successful and enjoyable. The Sth
and 9th grade graduating exercises
of Southern Benton take place at
10 a. m. and in the afternoon there
will be field spcrte. brass baud
music and other features to keep
the crowd enter tanned. Everybody
invited.
The steamer Francis H. Leggett
sailed few days ago, bound for San
Pedro, Cal, with n ca 60 of lum-
ber. This is the first cargo of Ore
gou product to pass throug b this
port since the fall of 1898, an d the
success of this trip of a vessal the
size of the Lsggett should forever
set at naught the bug-a-boo so fire.
quently and purposely raised in the
effort to be-little and injurs Yaquina
Bay as shipping point, in the in
terest of the Columbia river.-Ya-
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