The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-05-31

eX pectr q 10 arrive next week lor
visit with college friends.
--O.t- has dropped In the local
market FROM 40 to 50 cenls. /;
Determinations at the public
school begin Monday. R-citsUons
there en- for the year today
Congress Hawley is to deliver
the Grafton at the Corvallis ctlebra-
tion Of the Curious Fourth.
"A special meeting Of the East
eru ar occurs Tuesday evening in
Masonic Temple to confer d-greeF.
Will Abraham, well-kpown o.
a. C. gta1uate, called home recent
Iy from Schenectady by the illness
of his mother, arrived in town to-
day for visit.
Mrs. Jesse Spencer, whose con.
dition of health ia matter of con.
earn to her ,relatives and many
friends went to Portland yesterday
for medical treatment. She will
enter hospital, and may be com.
PEELED to resort to surgical opera
ration. She was accompanied by
her con, Victor Spencer.
The board of directors have
more than a score OF applications
for the principa!ship of the Co'val'
lis public schonls, made vacant by
the resignation of Principal
Holmes. Among them a'e many
well-known educators. A selection
is to be made about the middle of
next week.
The hiut is going the rounds
that four or five teachers in the Cor
wallis public schools will not be can
<dida,es for reelection to their pres.
ent positions. 1t might not be
wicked to add that cupid is up to
tis cspers again and that some peo.
pie declare the little god to have
haad intbe prospective designations.
The water commission has pur.
chased the necessary pipe and will
shortly begin extensions removicg g
the dead ends at the south ends of
the streets between Ninth and Fifth.
The pipe costs 20 cents a foot, IA
-3-4 cents baving bee, paid for toe
same sizs al the time the works was
8uilt.
While it ran in the pasture, a
5000 o-year-old colt on the j.
W. Hamlin farm across the Villa
mette was caught and wontonly mu
tillsted by unknown parties. 1t
~as so cut and c.rved that the
aotestines were exposed. The ami
snal died in great agony. There are
suspects.
Wheat is IS cents in tie local
market, though the boom 10 the
Chicago market is partly EXPLODED.
The reports of damage and shortage
of crops, however, are not dimin-
dshed. That the Oregon crop will
be short seems almost cert.in, beth
from lack of acreage and lack OF
Tsin. Buyers say the export de-
mand is not so stiff as it was, aud
10 The long run it will be the infu-
sence that will determine the price
'barrang the occasional excitement
kicked up by the wheat gamblers
'inGhicage aud New York. The
prices for Portland are, club. sc aud
f87; blue stem, 8S and 80; valley,
t86 andt87; red, IS.
"A hot My is unusual in Will
Iametle. Il is here this season,
however, in all Its glory. AS epeci-
Imeos of a heated term, yesterday
and Wednesday were stem.windere.
Ths thermometer yesterday rose in
*seEeral places to 80 in the shade, a
poiat more characteristic of mid
>suga mer than of May. Its effect on
sgrowing crops and gardens is be-
walled. With prevalent drouth
conditions it is an unhappy situa.
tion. The rain, however, will prob.
ably come directly, for it never fails
in Oregon.
Corvallis dealers quote three
cents as the price for chittim. A
trade paper says Of the price Of
5ark;; "Work in the gathering sec.
<ions has been commenced, but the
a>w level of prevailing prices ff1r.'s
little iocentive to labor. The trees
near the forwarding csnters have
been we'll stripped and with the ne.
eessity Of extending operations t
remote districts the expense O
moving supplies may reasonably
be expected to show an increase
The local market assumed a NOR,
active appearance late in the week
with inquiries pending for Car lo!s
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