The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1907-01-18
LOCAL LORE.

Miss Mary Nolan visited
"A Alba ny friends Wednesday.
The Barnacle dancing club
has reorganized for the season. The
1nitia party occurs tomorrow eve
ming at Raymond s Hall.
Tho Ladies Guild of the
Rpis copal church takes this means
Of th ranking the people who SC
kindl y assisted them in the mer.
chants Carnival.
The legislature is adjourned
0until Monday afternoon. waiting
for the state printer to catch up
The house has already more than
t2o bills on It's calendar and the
senate is almost equally we'll pro-
vided. Senator Johnson and
Repre- sentative Carter came uE
Wedu esday evening to spend the
vacation at their homes ..t
The third company under the
u1su agementof theWestern Lyceum
Bureau appeared at the Opera
House Wednesday evening. Miss
I<eonora Jackson, violinist, assisted
by F1oience Pace, soprano, Charles
Edwin Clark. baritone, and Ra'ph
Plumer. pianist form a quartet oi
artists, such as are seldom heard
III Corvallis. In spite of the bitter
cold evening the audience was very
zagge and appreciative. Those
music lovers who failed to attend
missed a feast.
Among those attending the
Short Course is Joseph H. Albert
Junior, of Salem. He is cashier
of the Capital Nationa! bank, and
IS taking the short course as a
means of perfecting his knowledge
OF agricultural and horticultural
matters both for use In advising the
banks customers in these lines and
10 apply on small fruit farm that
he conducts near the capital city
Among those attending the
Short Course lectures are Harold
-Rumbaugh, former OAC student
who is now Benton County fruit
grower. He has sixty acre ap-
pie orchard near Palestine church
not far from Wells. 1t is a young
orchard that is just coming into
bearing. He shipped two carloads
OF apples from it which sold at
more than So abox. He has six
varieties but expects to lessen the
number by grating. He is enthu-
siastIc for fruit Inspector for the
county. ~
Albany Democrat: Harry
Ernest, who is in the hospital, is
Improving. His case is peculia-
one He was in Corvallis Saturr
day on business for the electric
light company, for which he works
when he received shock, perha ps
a thousand volts, which did not
seem to affect him much at the
time. He returned to Albany, sang
in the Baptist church on Sunday
morning and retired at 10 o'clock
that night. It was thought the
next morning that he had gone
skating but as he did not appear
at noon his room was visited and
he was found on the floor where be
had been lying for some time. DR..
'Trimble was called and Mrs.
Blount and others gave him splen-
did care, and sent for his mother
at Corvallis who came over. Yes
terday it was thought best to take
him to the hospital, where he is
now, ana doing well.
The sudden return of Sol King
70 Benton cannot be explained by
the Times. 1t occurred last week
but a day after appearance of the
notice of his departure. In the
language of girls dormitory. that
was 'sgoing some" Mr.. King went
as far as Missouri, but he didn't
stay long, He was not run out ol
the state by fleas nor cold weather
because he did not encounter either
Though his ticket was good te
Lexington. he only went as far a:
Kansas City. After day spen1
there he concluded that Oregon
was good enough for him and tina
night in a westbound coach will
his face in the direction of Oregon
there was fair haired Benton Co
unity man, and as quickly as steam
could do it, he was set Oft at th'
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