Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1907-07-12

MISS hum6iiu oI 08t6m N8S Uo0u
visiting in this city she past few
days.
| Mis-. Mabel Withvcombe went to
Salem, Tuesday, for visit with
friends.
Miss Cleo johnson of Corvallis is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. J, H. Daniel
in Eugene.--Guard.
Miss Laura Waggoner goes to Al
bany, Monday, for visit Of indef-
mite length with friends.
George Kitchens, at one time
resident of Corvallis, died in Salem
this week, of tuberculosis. He was
43 years of a e.
"Dugan" Rooper of last seasons
OAC basketball team arrived Tues
day from Eastern Oregon, on busi-
ness. ''Dugan" is now a sheep in
spector in the employ of "Uncle
| Sam"
This afternoon the Christian
church of this city completed the
work of raising $4,000, which, with
other funds raised, insure the erec-
tion of a $4,000 building for the
Eugene Divinity School. The
building will be 6OxS0 feet, of stone
or brick and will be located on the
northwest corner of the Divinity
School block at the intersection Of
Eleventh. and Alder streets, says a
Eugene dispatch in Tuesdays Ore
gonian.
A letter from Miss Helen Yockey
to friend in this city states that
she Is pleased with Medford, where
she went from this city with her
mother to make her home. She is
now employed on the Southern
Oregonian," which is a prosperous
publication of Southern Oregon.
She celebrated the Fourth in Jack
sonville and heard Governor Cham
berlain's oration, but thinks Jack
sonville trifie old fashioned and
out of date. Miss Yockey was for
some time an employe of the Gaz-
cite Office.
While temporarily demented,
Mart Miller, a prominent pioneer
residing on a farm seven miles east
of Albany, Monday night attempted
to commit suicide by tying a rope
around his ankles and jumping
head-foremost into the we'll of water
used for drinking purposes. He
was found a few moments later by
his son, Ray Miller, who, with the
assistance of neighbors, hauled his
father out of the we'll. Miller was
resuscitated. He is go years old.
A letter from Mrs. Jessie Flint
says: "There is a treat in store for
all who come to New Era camp
meeting next Sunday, July 18th.
Wilson Fritch, of Boston, who is
powerful speaker, deep thinker,
and favorite, will be with us, Mrs.
Prior will also be present, and Mrs.
Cobb will be message bearer. This
is enough to bring longing to the
heart of every spiritualist, and we
wish that all our friends could be
here. Mr.. and Mrs. Cobb will be
in the camp during the entire ses :
son and are mos delightful people,
socially as we'll as in their work.
You will be pleased to learn that
DR.. Flint is we'll as usual"
Three hundred thousand feet of
logs for Jefferson mills are neld up
on Hamilton Creek near Albany by
a lien for $40 filed here by Mrs.
Cassie Woolsey against H. M. !
Scroggins, Lebanon banker. The
trouble arose over difference in
the count of the logs. Mrs. Wool
sey AYERS that S33 logs, scaling
34,SO0 feet, were cut n her land.
After the logs were dumped into
the creek Scroggins sold them to
W. H. Hobson, of Jefferson, whose
scalers counted 795 logs, scaling
$1,000 feet. Scroggins tried to pay
Mrs Woolsey on Hobson's count,
ana the small difference has held
up the whole float Herald.
A freight car loaded with 1000
feet of lumber and $1,000 shingles
broke away from Motorman F. A.
Crawford this morning and dashed
down Portland Heights hill from
Park street on Ford street to Six
teenth and Washington streets. The
Car turned upside down on the tri-
angle IF asphalt, where it did not
interrupt the traffic on either the
B Blrnside Or WashiEgton>street
lines. Ths only thing encountered
bv the runaway load WAS the de-