Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-08-02
Mrs. Ed Handy who has been

Miss Lura Campbell of Albany
has been the guest this week OF
Miss Bessie Irvine.
Misses Georgia Lowell and Eta
Cooper returned Tuesday from a
visit at Sodaville.
Miss Thia johnson went to Al
bany, yesterday, for a few days
visit with friends.
Mrs. Margaret Sears of Philomath
has been the guest this week OF
Corvallis friends.
Isaac Jackson is having new
porch built onto his residence and
other Improvements made.
Miss Edna Allen returned the
first of the W < from an extended
visit with friends in Portland.
Joe King has returned from an
extended absence, during which he
was in the sta,e Of Washington.
Newton Adams Tent to Dallas,
Tuesday, where he will be employ
ed for some time on large ware
house that is being built.
DR., Olmstead and wife of Port
land were Corvallis visitors the first
of the week, en- route to Toledo,
where the former was to deliyer an
address.
Mrs. CynthiA Johnson expects to
leave next week for an extended
visit in the East. She will be ac-
companied by her daughter, who
resides in Albany.
News has just r ched Corvallis
Of the marriage in Aberdeen, Wash
ington, of Ed Hughes, a former
well known OAC student. Mr..
Hughes, while in Corvallis, was a
popular vocalist.
Miss Effie White, who has been
the guest of w. F. Gay and family,
left Tuesday for California on Wis
it. She will return to Corvallis in
a week and visit again before de-
parting for her home at Upton,
lowe.
Frank E. Edwards expects to de-
part today for California, where he
has q position in college. He will
be followed in September or October
by his family. Many friends in
Corvallis wish Major Edwards sue
cess in his new field.
There was an alarm of fire about
nine o'clock, Tuesday morning, that
called out the fire department and
created quite stir on the streets.
The blaze was at the homo of Mrs.
Oscar Healy but was soon extin-
guished with but slight damage be-
ing done. ~.
It is reported that an eagle at
tackled baby belonging to Mr..
and Mrs. John Goose, at the home
last SUNDAY. TIE bird was cap
tured and Monday was taken to Al
bany by a stepson of John Gort-
maker of this city. The eagle was
a young bird.
The regular meeting of the W.
G. T. w. occurred Yesterday at the
Reading Room. A movement is
on foot for making this resort more
by adding new books and
AT yest, l.y's meeting
were served from four
to nine o'clock, and music helped
to make the hours pass pleasantly.
Exposition clubs are being formed
in diffoHe eht parts of the country.
The members of he clubs are saving
one, two or three dollar each week
in order that by the time the Alas
ka-Yukon-Pacifc Exposition opens
at Seattle, June l, 1909, they will
have sufficient funds to pay for the
trip to the worlds fair. A treasur-
er is elected who collects and keeps
the money.
Rev. J. R. N. Bell, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Cor
wallis, passed THROUGH Albany this
noon on his way for few weeks
vacation trip to southern California
points, says Tuesdays Herald. Rev,
Bell will make his headquarters at
Long Beach. Speaking of the E'in
Of things" in general, Rev
Bell said that although he weighed
24O pounds and his wife but 80
pounds the railroad permitted him
to travel for half 1fwhat it G. st Mrs.
Bell. The re, erend gentleman said
that he believed this was unfair and
that the railroad Commission should
take some action to regulate this.
A man has tn train himself in
Alaska and V,,He- - Ill