Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-02-21
New line dishes in plain aad
fancy designs, at Cooper & Waite
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Preaching at the Presbyterian church
Sunday morning by the pastor, Rev j
r. n. Bell. Topic, "Looking Backward
by Herbert Spencer and Solomon. Bi
ology. All made welcome. This sermon
deals with bros and plants and You. N.
| preaching in the evening. Union services
at the armory.
Fresh vegetables AMI fruits
always On hand In their season.
Cooper & Whitesides. 11tf
1t is said there is great activity at New
port, the popular coast resort, in the
way of building on beach property. Con-
tracts for IL cottages have been let. Con-
struction is in progress on the cottage of
President Langton, of the FIRST National
Bank of Albany. It will cost $500.
Building is encouraged by the lower
| prices for lumber now prevailing.
Poe's Raven will appear at the
opera house, Saturday evening,
Feb. 2oth, at 8 o'clock. I7tf
The new $500 publi. school building
which is being erected In Bel1sfountain,
five miles northwest of Monroe, is near
ing completion and the patrons are plan
ming genuine old fashioned all-day
house warming for the first day of March
or about that time. The structure is to
! be one OF the handsomest country school
houses in the county. 1t is quilt in the
bungalow style. three rooms and base
ment. the latter to be cement. A furnace
OF the latest pattern will supply heat for
all the rooms.
If you don't want to laugh, stay
away from the opera house when
"O,d Arkansas" plays there.
There was Especial election in juno
ton City, Tuesday evening" to vote bosds
to the amount of $6Uu0 for the building
of high school. The vote stood 70 for
bonds and two against It is the inten-
ton to builo an elght-room building.
Six years ago four rooms were enough to
accommodate the district, but with the
large increase of population from Eastern
people coming into that section, and the
cutting up the large tracts of land into
small farms, it was necessary to have
more school room.
Remeu ber the New England din
ner and WashIngtonian entertain
ment AZ the M. E. church a week
from tonight. l8
Local postal officials are preparing for
the annual convention OF rural carriers
for Linn and Benton counties which will
convene in this city next Saturday.
| About forty delegates representing the
different cities in the two counties beside
| mum Der of towns is other couutiss IN the
state are expected to attend the copven-
ton. Besides Corvallis, Albany, Mon
roe, Lebanon, Brownsville, Harrisburg,
Tangent and other Linn and Benton
towns which will be represented, delg.
gates from Salem, McMinnyille Lnde-
pendence and Woodburn are to be in
attendance
DR.. Lowe, the we'll known eye
specialist, will be at Hotel Cor.
Wallis, FEB. "a and IS. 17tf
We received very interesting letter,
Saturday from John A. Dawson, former.
ly of this place but now of Corvallis, Ore
gon. He is engaged in the meat business
with Mr.. Smith. Mr.. Dawson has lived
in that part of the country the past 13
years and likes the place very much.
Corvallis Is fine city with many schools
and colleges. Of the many advantages
that they have in that country, Mr..
Dawson mentions they have no chintz
bugs, no bed bugs, no grass hoppers;
tightening hardly ever strikes. and they
never have cyclones. 1t hardly ever
freezes more than z inch and in fact he
thinks it is heaven on earth.-The Lib
eral Missouri Enterprise.
Call on George and Martha, hear
the excellent music, dine on sumpt-
uous fare Where? M. E. chutc cn.
FEB. 29th. 1S
Wimmen are the other Half of the
truble Sketch. They etc more than
horse when it is ALA cart. They al o
talk to much. Many of them isn't OBJ
noxus enuf SO they chew gum. gents al
ways call them Ladies so the Rite kind
claims they are just wimmen. They are
as importent as men and some OF them
More so. but they orghtent to be. when
they are young they are mostly society
Bells or stennogerfers. Not all of them
are stennogerfers tho for heard pop tell
mother man he new One that was a
burd. didn't no they were ever like
That but pop reads thompson Seeten's
stories and he OF to Kno. Besides, Pop
hnr hod 70 ns