Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-04-12
tUCAl AND Personal

Mss Vera Chambers has beer
visiting in Albany this week.
Ell WiIes of Albany paid visit
to Corvallis relatives this week.
Miss Winona Woodward left this
week for Phi.omath, where she will
enter college.
c. B. S,afr of Monroe was Cor
Wallis visitor several days this week,
returning home Wednesday.
Jim Harlan aud family moved
this week into their new residence,
just completed, near the Charles
Blakeslee home.
It lie reported that Monroe is to
b i've an ice and butter ard cold
storage pant established there in
the near future.
Bert Peters went to Eugene,
Wednes: ay, where he will be en-
gagged at carpenter work for w. o
H-ckart. He will be gone ind, f.
hit-ly.
The council has ordered side
walk along the north side of Hsrri-
snn street, between 9Gh and 18th,
and through what is commonly
known as the Applewhite orchard.
This ill be greatly appreciated by
She public, as it makes a much
shorter way to town fer many resi-
si-nts of the ives ern part of Cor
wallis.
Word h "a 'leen received here of
Ehe marriage st Friday OF Miss
Vara Turner, d lighter of Garrison
Turner and former well knowr
young woman OF Benton county, to
Leroy Miller Morris. The event
occurred at Modesto, California,
whare the y"upg couple will reside.
Tne bride is Niece OF Miles Starr If
this city.
P. A. M,sier. for some time past
sale man in the big store of J. NJ.
Nolan & S,:n, has resigned Els posi-
lion and will engage in the cigar
business in La Graude on his own
sponsibilitv. With his wife ne
lef. the first of the week for that
citv. Bo h Mr.. Mosier and his
charming wife made many friends
iii this city, who regret their change
of residence.
A railroad emp'oye in Corvallis,
Tuesday. talked of the cause of the
s, 2. train bejog late ever day in
seaching Corval is. According to
this gentlerua.s's statement, the
track was so damaged during the
Il 'od by heavy trains passing over
it that tie whole line w:tl have to
be repaired before the regular trains
can run on schedule ii ne. No
lost time can be made up, and this
party stated 1t as his opinion that
the trains will not be run on exact
time until some time in May.
Mike Bauer is one of the men
about town who complains con
stantly about the weather. Ac-
cording to his ideas there lever was
such late sprihg in Oregon os th-
present one, and he is iacined to
believe that it is going to be mudd
and rainv until next August. The
c4use of Mikes ippatience is easily
explained: he has just purchased
for himself and family one of the
SWEETEST surreys that has ever been
seep in Benton county, and he is
naturally eager for good roads to
come, 80 that the handsome turnout
Can be put to use.
Another of the vast timber belts
of the Oregon Coast is about to be
tapped for market, the Siietz Indian
Reservation, to which the Salem
Falls City & Western is headed.
A corps of engineers is in the field
aud decision will be reached in
about ten days as to whether the
terminus of the line will be in the
Slletz district or at Newport I'm
told quantities of timber are obtain
able in the Siletz neighborhood, but
transportation has been lacking.
Timber claim ACCOMPLISHMENTS have
been offered there at 5000 and un-
der, but with the beginning of con-
struction on the :, F. G. & W., j.
is anticipated values will take a
sudden rise.- Telegram.
Albany college will have no op-
position in Portland to impede its
progress. The belief that there
would be Presbyterian education
al institution esta abilshed here was
d fni'ely settled yesterday at a
lne ting vi the Presbyterian minis
t-rs when positive statement from
Mr.. w VI. L4dd was made to the !
eff ct that the L id estate had no
ineention of endowing an insti' ution
of this kind. President H. NJ. |
Crooks of the Albany college, was
present at the meetiog and made