Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-03-10


Mrs. NJ. NJ. Long went to Mon
mouth, Saturday, for q weeks visit
with relatives.
Charles Blakeslee Of Oregon City
an old Corvallisite, was q business
visitor in Corvallis over Sunday.
Rudolph Schmidt, who attended d
OAC last year, has been visiting
old friends in this city the past few
days.
G. T. Hurd, general secretary of
the college Z. C. A., was q busi-
ness visitor in Portland the last of
the week.
George Fuller departed Sunday
for Prineville where he will visit for
a couple of weeks and incidentally
"take up" some land.
John Mitchell has been suffering
with an abscess which formed under
his arm and which has confined
him to his bed the past week.
Tom Vidito has purchased an in:
terest In the Stewart barber shop
and Clarence Vidito is holding down
a position in the shop as result of
the change.
Byron Hunter, government farm
inspector, left the last of the week
for Washington, D. c.. He will be
absent six weeks, looking after busi-
ness in his line.
Miss Leona Marvin entertained
Thursday evening in honor of Miss
Nina Wall of Medford. Cards were
the feature of entertainment and
delicious refreshments were served.
Those present were: Inez Colvig,
Nina Wall, Ethel Downer, Nellie
Marvin, Leona Marvin; Messrs.
Walter Waggoner, William Whit
ford, Roy Ferguson, Roy Cooper
and Chaunoey Harding.
Special attention is to be given to
scientific poultry raising this year
at OAC, Prof. JAMES Dryden being
at the head of this branch of the
work. Thirty-two poultry sheds
are to be built on the college farm,
south of Cauthorn Hall. There will
be an incubator house 2Ox3O, with
concrete floor, four housees 7x14,s
two houses 7x10 and rs houses 4
K 6. 1t has been proven by expert
ence that the small houses give bet
ter satisfaction and better results
than do the large houses and sheds.
Prof. Dryden is thoroughly posted
On all points in this work and the
new departure at OAC will be
with interest.
The Jobs add ton auxiliary of the
Fire Department made record run
of five blocks in three minutes, Sat-
urday noon. The blaze was at the
Dennis home and although there
were 20 fremen on the scene within
four minutes after the alarm sound
cd, ready to do or die in saving
property, the free use ofa small
garden hose cheated the FIRE boys Of
their coveted glory, as the fire was
extinguished before they arrived.
The incident proves the wisdom of
having fire apparatus located in
that section of the city, however,
for had the tr ouble been of any con-
sequence there were men enough
quickly at hand to have handled
the situation and taken care of the
Phillip s. Bates of Portland, pub
Usher of the "Pacific Northwest"
was in Corvallis, Friday. He is
planning to take another party of
% Oregon, Washington and Idaho
girls on a trip to Boston next Au-
gust for the purpose of advertising
Oregon and the Pacific Northwest,
and incidentally to add to the cir
,ulation of his publication. Mr..
Bates made two sucn trips East
last year. taking first a party of
Oregon girls and then a party of
Washington bellies, and this year
he will make a greater attempt than
The former in this line. Miss Aida
Metcalf was Benton oounty's repre-
in the Jamestown trip and |
Mr.. Bates wishes her to take up
;he work again for the trip to Bost-
IN. 1t is probable she will decide
% do so.
In what was probably the fastest
md best game OF basketball ever
played on the OAC floor the swift
i've of Muscatine, Iowa, now tour
ng the west, went down to defeat
before the swifter OAC FIVE in a
yame in this CITY, Thursday night. !