Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-08-20

| ranch nea- Big Elk.
Miss Bessie Ireland came out
from Newport, Friday, where sne
has spent the past two weeks.
Miss Helen Steiwer arrived Fri
day from Jefferson for a visit with
MISS Mabel Withycombe and other
friends.
MIR. and Mrs. J. W. Shrader,
who have been visiting relatives in
and about Corvallis fer some weeks,
left Yesterday for their home at
Camas, Wash.i
A 16OO-hundred pound horse be-
longing to Jesse Wiley became en-
tangled in its stall in such a man
ner Friday morning that it's neck
was broken. The accident is de-
plorable, as good horses are worth
many a dollar these days. ..
1t was at Newport. The thin,
pale man in the large bathing suit,
standing kneedeep in the water,
sighed. Why" he was asked,
"are you so sad?' "Alas," he an
swered, "the sea is the grave of my
first wife" But you are married
again?" "Yes," said he, land my
second wife won't go near the
water"
A Portland woman in Corvallis
this week spoke in glowing terms of
Hotel Corvallis. 1t is an excel
lent hotel" she declared, with good
table fare and other sccommoda-
tions. and is far ahead of many of
he larger hotels which have wide
regulations for excellence of ser
vice." Corvallis has reason to be
proud of such comment, snd too
much praise cannot be given local
enterprises that keep strictly up
to-date.
One of the largest hop deals made
thus far this season occurred today,
when the Ireland-Wslls company
of Corvallis contracted to sell their
1907 hop crop amounting to 10000
pounds to Charles S. May & Co.,
of Albany, N. Y. The contract
price agreed upon is 10 cents per
pound. The hops contracted for
by Charles S. May & Co. are grown
in the Osburn hop YARD. consisting
of 80 acres a mile east of Corvallis,
in Linn county.-Thursday's Her
aid.
Hunters should take warning by
the terrible accident at Bells nap
Springs, Thursday afternoon, that
cost a life and will cause another
mans life long remorse. the Eu-
enc Guard tells the story briefly,
the following being the most i'm
portant paragraph: ED Oieson
was shot and killed at 4 o'clock,
yesterday afternoon, four miles from
Brlknap Springs, by Martin Ophus,
while hunting. Opbus mlstook
Oleson for a deer, and when his big
Savage rifle sent its leaden missile
into lis companion, and he dlscov-
cred his mistske, he was almost
crazed with remorse. ."
The worry of the general COM
mittee of the All-Benton school fair
is end:d, so far as securing Il merry
go-round is concerned. E. J. Ar
mold arrived from Portland the last
of he week and will put up an out
fit on tbs vacant lot north Of Hotel
Corvallis. Nj. Arnold claims to
have the best merry go-round in
this section. 1t has three horses
abreast, besides which he has his
own power aud an independen:
electric light plant. 1t is possible
that Mr.. Arnold will also secure a
balloonist for the fair, Is plans now
on foot materialiZe.
Mrs. L. w. Marcellus of Port
land was a Corvallis visitor, Friday,
leaving in the afternoon for Inde-
pendence for visit. She had been
at Newport aud was on the c. & E.
train that jumped the track this
side of Summit, Thursday. This
lady stated that had the train gone
only short distance further before
the accident the cars would un'
doubtedly have been turned over in
to the river below and bad wreck
resulted. Passengers became SO
hungry during the four hours de-
Law that man who was shipping
crabs to Seattle opened two boxes
and gave the contents TO the pas
sengers, who greatly enjoyed the
treat. Mrs. Magcellus has spent
seven years in travel, most of the
time alone. She has two nephews
named Clark who are to come from
Hood River this fail to enter OAC.
1t is declared by the well-inform-
ed that SAM Hartsock, the popular
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