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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03
CONTEST NOTICE
United States Land Office


Roseburg, Ore, Oct 26, 1908
A sufficient contest affidavit having
been filed in this office by A ]. Latin,
contestant against Homestead Entry, No.
e592, made Oct. II. 1899, for n E a Sec. 6,
Township IA S, Range s w, Willamette
Meridian, by Roscoe Edwards. Contestee,
in which it is alleged that said Roscoe
Edwards has not established and main
tanned bona fde residence on the said
land; that he has neither improved or
cultivated the said land with the excep-
ton of the erection of small cabin and
shed; and that he has abandoned the
said land having been absent therefrom
for period of more than five years last
past without obtaining leave of absence;
and that said alleged absence was not due
to his employment in the Army or Navy
of the United States in the time of war !,
said parties are hereby notified to appe r,
respond, and offer evidence touching salu
allegation at 10 O'Clock a. m. on Nov. 28,
1908, before Victor P. Moses, County
Clerk of Benton County, Oregon, at his
hearing will be held at o'clock p. m.
on December II, 1908, before) the Regis
ter and Receiver at the United States
Land Office in Roseburg, Oregon.
The said contestant having, in proper
affidavit, filed October ID. 1908, set forth
facts which show that after due diligence
personal service of this notice can not be
made, it is hereby ordered and directed
that such notice be given by due and
proper publication.
BENJAMIN L, EDDY,
oo-S Register.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03
Notice OF Sheriff s Sale on Execurion

Notice is hereby given that by virtue of
an execution duly issued out of the Cir
cult Court of the State of Oregon for the
terber, 1908, on Judgment rendered in
said Court on the I7th day of March, 1908,
in favor of H. c. Mahon, plaintiff, and
against M. B. Rankin, defendant, for the
sum of $4247o.6o, and for the further sum
of $I34 SO costs and disbursements, with
interest on said Judgment from the I7th
day of March, 1908, at the rate of per
cent per annum, which judgment was en-.
rolled and docketed in the office of the
Clerk of said Court in said County on the
oath dayof March, 1908, and said execu-
ton to me directed and commanding me,
in the name of the State of Oregon, in
order to satisfy said Judgment costs aud
accruing costs, sell the following describ-
ed real property of the defendant, the
said real property having on the 25th day
of September, 1908, been duly levied up
on by me under and BY virtue of said exc
cution, towit:
South half and South half of North
half of section eleven (11) and the north
east quarter, and the southwest quarter of
section sixteen (Io), north half, and the
east half of southeast quarter, the north
west quarter of the southeast quarter, and
the northeast quarter of the southwest
quarter of section fifteen (I5) the north
half and southeast quarter of section four
teen (I4), east half and the east half of
the southwest quarter the east half of the
northwest quarter, the northwest quarter
of northwest quarter of section twenty
three (23), all OF section twenty five (251,
north half and southeast quarter of section
twenty-six (26), south half and northeast
quarter, and the north half of the north
west quarter section twenty-eight (28l;
southwest quarter section twenty-five (221;
all in township twelve (I2) South, Range
seven ~ West, Willamette Meridian.
Section twenty six (26), township thir-
teen EI3] South, Range seven [71 West,
Willamette Meridian All of the above
described land being situated in Benton
County, Greg n. - "a. .s..
Now therefore, in the name of the State
of Oregon, by virtue of and in compliance
with said execution, will on Saturday,
the 2Ist day of November, 1908. between
the hours of 9 O'Clock a. m. and q o'clock
D. nj. to-wis at one O'Clock D. M. of said
day at the East door of the. Court House
in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon. sell
at public auction subject to redemption,
to the highest bidder for cash in hand,
all of the right, title and interest of the
above named defendant M. B. Rankin,
in and to the above described real prop.
erty. . -i.- $50. =.
Dated this 18th day of October 1908.
w. A. GELLATLY,
Sheriff of Benton County, Oregon S6 e6'
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03

JOSEPH H. WILSON, ATTORNEY
et-law. Ofhce-Burnett Bldg. Prac-
rlce in all State and Federal courts.
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=. Il. BRYSON ATTORNEY ATLAW,
Office IN Post Uttice Building, Cosvsl-
lis, Oregon. ~
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03
ATTORNEYS

J. F. YATES, ATTORNEY-ATL LAW.
Office up stairs in Zierolf Building.
only set OF abstracts In Benton County
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03

will be inspired with better,
purer thoughts and you will feel
that you have done your duty
toward your neigh Dor and the
beautiful little city, in which
you 1ives Make your neighhor
ashamedsof himself by showing
him how clean and neat your
home looks.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03
OAC-U of O Football Game.

Portland, Nov. p, 1908. For
the above occasion the Corvallis
&. Eastern Railroad Company
will sell round trip tickets to
Portland for So good on special
train only, leaving Corvallis
about 6:45 a. M, Nov. 21st, and
returning leave Portland about
I p. m The sale Of tickets will
commence Novem ber 10th.
R. c. LINv1LLE, Agent.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
cLAss1r1ED .ADvERr1sEMxNrs: /:

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS:
Fifteen words or less, 25 cts for three
successive insertions. or 80 cts per
month; for all up to and including ten
additional woris, y cent word for each
insertion.
:. For all. advertisements over 25 words,
1 ct per word for the fFst insertion, and,
u ct per word for each additional inser-
aon. Nothing inserted for less than Is
tents.
Lodge, society and church notices,
,ther than strictly news matter, will be
charged tor.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03
While there may not now be

While there may not now be
heard the measured tread Of mar
shalled hosts, the deep booming
of heavy artillery nor the sharp
rattle of musketry, yet, upon the
issue, the fate of the country for
veal or woe hangs with no less
certainty than did the perpetuity
of-the Union ia the crisis that
marked the eve of Gettysburg
during the darkest days of the
late civil strife.
Bloodless though this conflict
may be it is equally as bitter in
feeling and even more moment
GUS in effect than any of the san
culinary struggles for supremacy
that startled the world while the
war of the sixties was being
fought.
Then it was that the very life
of the ma ion, the integrity of the
republic was at stake. Now it
is the maintenance cf the sacred
honor, the wonderful progress.
the unexampled prosperity and
the exalted credit of the greatest
country on earth that is being
fought for and, as in the past, so
at present, is the battle between
men who pride themselves upon
being Americans. Now their
one weapon of warfare is the bal
lot, that inalienable right and
priceless privilege of every true
citizen and, while silent. it is no
less irresistible and effective than
were the leaden messengers Of,
death in deciding the fate Of the
contending armies on many a
har ! fought field. ,,5..a.g
The battle today is between re-
|publicanism, which represents
all that is best in the history of
the nation, as against democracy,
which stands only for retrogres-
sion and reputation, for it is
generally accepted as a fact that
the guerilla bands of socialism
and kindred isms, which hover
on the outskirts Of the two great
armies of voters, cannot he reck-
oned as factors in the fight ex-
cept as they stand ready to prey
upon the luckless stragglers from
the ranks of either of the princi-
pal opposing forces.
Taft, as the commanding gen.
eral Of the republican hosts,
stands in the van of that great
army as its chosen standard bear
er and upon his banner is en-
blazoned every principle, every
policy that goes to make great
er America. Bryan, who has
repeatedly sought the privilege
of leading the democratic forces.
and who has as signally been de-
feated in two previous battles.
seeks to enthuse bis followers
with specious fallacies and i'm
practicable promises of national
reform. At'
The issue of the conflict, how
ever, cannot be greatly in doubt,
for the God of battles, who has
upon so many occasions in the
past given victory to the right
and made the greatness of this
nation possible, will assuredly in
this crucial struggle influence the
minds and direct the actions of a
vast majority of the American
electors to the end that justice
will prevail, national integrity be
preserved and continued prosper
ity assured to all the inhabitants
of this great country by making
certain the election to the presi-
dency today of William H. Taft.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-11-03
THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE

Published Tuesdays and Fridays
by the GAZETTE PUBLISHING
Co., for $500 per annum, or
% per cent discount if cash is
paid in advance.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
Ilsike For Moist Lands.

/ want to grow some hay. My
land. or the most of it, is low and in
clined TO be buckshot. Will alfalfa
OF red clover grow on such land?
Bermuda grows fine on my place.
There is no nay grown in this neigh
bornood. and l would like to start in
the nay business.-W. II. Harris.
Answer: At the best, only tempo
rary success could be had with alfalfa
or red clover on poorly drained land.
Since Bermuda is thriving on this
farm It had better be relied on for
one of the main hay plants. Of course
it IS wise 70 use clover o.. alfalfa in
stead OF grass for hay when condi
tions are favorable to gSod returns
from the clover Or alfElfa. since it
will help to improve the soil. There
is clover that can be used on wet
soil for hay or pasture-alsike clo-
yer. It will even stand submergence
for e. time, while it will also grow on
uplands. Till tests in the vicinity
show that alsike will thrive, however,
it is advisable to plant only limited
areas till results point to the future
policy. 1t will not make as large a
yield as red clover where red clover
is success, but the alsike is more
likely to thrive. Its habit is more re-
cumbent. and before cutting it will
not seem that there is as much hay
on the ground as there really is. AL
sike may be grown alone. but a mix
ture of hay plants will give a larger
yield.
On the moist land as described tine
following mixture can be tried with
strong hopes OF success: Four pounds
of alsiae clover, FIVE pounds OF tall
fescue (called also tall meadow fes-
cue, English blue grass, Randall grass
and by other nanes), four pounds OF
red top and i've pounds of orchard
grass seed. This mixture will give
good grazing as early as February, in
addition to the hay it will yield. By
having grass growing with the alsike
clover, the clover will not make erup.
tions on the skins of horses and mules
that Craze it, which would sometimes
happen II grass was not eaten with
the clover. Hay buyers in commu.
nifty may have decided preference
for the hay of some particular plant
and in seeding meadow it is best to
plant whatever will satisfy this pref.
erenee, however unreasonable it ma.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
ouick Returns on Investment.

For the small farmer, the hog is
the animal par excellence to grow, as
he natures in from ten to twelve
months, and has a ready cash value
on the market. Furthermore, hogs
can be raised cheaper than any other
class of stock, for under the modified
system of practice outlined below
hogs may be made to weigh 1S0 to
200 pounds in ten to twelve months
on a minimum ration Of grain, say
five to ten buhseis of corn. This
compared with the exclusive corn fat
tening generally practiced would rev.
olutionize the whole business from a
financial standpoint. The South does
not grow corn On anything like the
scale followed in the West, but it has
been clearly demonstrated that sub
stitutes of equal value to corn can be
utilized in the South at minimum OF
cost, so that the compensating infu-
ences of nature have placed the
Southern farmer OIL b plane where he
can compete successfully with the
Western hog raiser. - Southern
Planter. -
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
FARMERS YEAR BOOK.
Valuabls Publication Issued By Vir-
giria-Carolina Chemical Co.

The Virgiaia-Carolina Chemical
Company has issued handsome
Farmers Year Book that does i'm
mense credit to the enterprise of that
progressive corporation. The Year
Book contains vast fund of valu-
able information that will interest
and instruct every farmer. 1t is not
mass of advertisements of the pro-
ducts Of the company nor yet a lot
Of testimonials but it contains really
indispensable information. The out
put of the Virginia Carolina Com
pany, with heaquarters at Richmond,
Virginia, is too well and favorably
known throughout the country to
need much in the way of advertising,
so the annual is more in the nature
Of handbook of useful information,
and car be had free of charge by
addressing the Notwithstanding
Chemical Company, Richmond, Va.
Every live farmer should get copy
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
Pert Paragraphs.

Another form of tact lies in the
ability to arrive at conclusions with
out expressing them<-Puck.
You can generally fool lot of
people, but it is the man you dom It
fool who gets you, SO what's the
use?
The only properly brought up, fed
educated and trained children are
those who are born Of childless
woman.
Nothing takes the point out of a
joke so much as for somebody else
to get it off ahead Of you.-New York
Sun.
When a man shouts his virtues
from the housetops it's time for
people to sit up and take unfavorable
notice.-Chicago News.
The Texas Tax Assessors are not
as efficient as they ought to be
They discovered but 10000 lackasses
in the State and the election returns
show there are more than that, moi
counting zapata County.-Houstor
Post.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
Good Ones.

1t is generally best to keep on
good terms with yourself, even if yo'.
have to fall out with people you
don t like to do it.
A four-ton elephant was nearly
frightened to death by a pig in New
York. The only explanation that can
be advanced is that, being lady ele'
phant, the animal labored under the
misapprehcnsion that the pig YVES an
extra large mousc.-Louisville Cou-
rier-Journal.
Two Cleveland women fought over
which had the pretticr hat, and the
Police Judge unfeelingly placed q
fine on both that would have paid
for a prettier hat than either had
Atla,t' Georgian.
[ an relieved to sec in the World
/ that Big Bill's heroic act of invertlne
his wine glass at dinner does not
mean another ice water pitcher ad.
ministration at the White House, but
simply that the big fellow is scrupu'
lously banting with view to enter
ing the ring under 300 pounds.-NeW
York Telegraph.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
sacredness of Small Things.

We should realize the sacredness
OF small things which we ignore or
despise-the. deed that uplifts, al
though it is unheralded; the word
that inspires, although uttered SO
gently that rcur neighbors do not
hear it; the hand clasp which puts
your brother firmly on his ieet with
out public applause. Hence the small
things dare not be despised by those
of US who wish to rise to higher
things.
/ thank God for our religious priv1-
1eges. We all have equal rights un-
der the Stars and Stripes. The Prot
estant and Catholic, the Jew and
Gentle, the Mohammedan may build
his mosque, the Buddhist his temple.
We have no State church, no coercive
religious laws. We are responsible
to no human power for our religious
convictions, responsible only to God.
The church that makes the best mea
and women is the cest church.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
Odds and Ends.

Women don't have to swear to
show how mad they are. There are
other ways.
Some girls are so anxious to make
names for themselves they misspell
the front and then change the rear
one.
Often the man who has the price
of a good coat in his pocket doesn't
care how shabby the pocket may be
nor the coat it belongs to.
If the Standard Oil octopus were
conversationally inclined it would be
interesting to hear it discourse upon
"Some Statesmen 1 Have Met"
The hoy born with a silver spoon
in its mouth doen't cut its wisdom
teeth any earlier than the kids who
come without any baggage.
Some people are so proud of their
humility that they are constantly
committing indiscretions in order that
they may gracefully apologize for
them.
Some women are such slaves to
dress they are willing to work fol
their clothes.
Perhaps you can't help feeling en-
vious, but at least you can help show
ing it and so making yourself OBJ.
noyious.
1t is no direct evidence that you
arc going to have unlimited com,
pany because you, have only scraps
for dinner. Still, you would better
have your weather eye out.
You can't always tell how mucl
money woman spends by merely
knowing how much salary her hus.
band draws, but taking it by and
large it's a pretty safe guess.
If everybody knew when he wa:
well off, this would be better edu
Gated world.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
Cheat is Not Poisonous.

Some correspondents are asking
about cheat. One wants to know if 1t
is distinct species or hybrid; an
other asks if it is poisonous and adds
that sometimes oats sowed inithe fall
turn to cheat.
The plant commonly known as
cheat in the South is Bromus secali-
nus. 1t is certainly not poisonous,
but makes very fair hay when cut
young. There is in some sections an
other grass that is called cheat; i. is a
species of rye grass, Lolium temulen-
tum, or Darnel. This has long had
the reputation for being poisonous.
But it is easily distinguished from the
common cheat, as it has a stiff, erect
and prickly head, while the common
cheat has q branching, nodding head
like oats.
People get cheat in their oats rom
sowing foul seed, for the seed of the
cheat is very much like a small grain
OF oat, and people not acquainted
with the different plants would take
it for oats. Get Your land free from
cheat and then SOW clean oats and
you will never have any cheat. You
had as we'll try to grow pine tree
from an acorn as to grow cheat from
clean oat seed, though there are peo-
pie who imagine that the cheat is the
result of the oats turning to differ
ent plant. I have known college grad
uates to have this superstition. be-
cause they had never been taught the
life of plants. You say: "You know
that sometimes oats sown in the fall
turn tc cheat" / do not know any,
thing of the sort, but do know that if
you sow cheat seed with your oats
you will have cheat, even il the win
ter kills the oats; for the cheat is
hardy and one knowing nothing about
plant life, and seeing green leaves
there, imagines he has oats till they
head all cheat, and he then imagires
that the oats nave turned to cheat
when thev were cheat all the while
from the time til seed sprouted.
If you had sent SAMPLES of the ViT-
ginia oats you sowed last fall to tie
experiment station they could have
told you that there were cheat seed
in them. In Maryland week ago
saw a field of winter oats that were
half cheat. but the farmer who had
them was an intelligent student of mis-
profession. He did Dot Imagine that
the oats had turned to cheat. but he
knew that the scotsman in Baltimore
had sold him foul seed. whatsoever
man soweth that shall he also reap" :"
Il there are no cheat seed in your soil,
and you SOW none with your oats, you
will never see a cheat seed in tne
cToD.-W. T. Massey.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
Modern Farm Methods
As Applied in the South.
Notes OF Interest to Planter,
Frs1is Grower and StocAzlaalaa

be. If it can be done without sacrifc-
ing too much. Pearson is not far
from Jackson, Miss, and other places
that should be good markets for hay;
there is a good net income from, hay
growing. and the boil weevil is not a
great distance from this point. SO nay
raising seems to offer very good op-
portunity to any man who has wasted
enough money in trying to kill grass
that he is ready to look at the gain
that can be had by growing grass and
making it into hay. = Progressive
Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16

the yirility, all the manhood out Of
us, and another that Christianity had
sdeluged the nations with blood. Is
Christianity, he asks, "a religion Of
meekness and mildness, or of mur-
der and massacre? 1t may be one or
the other, but it cannot be both at
the same time.
You remember the humorous poem
by John Godfrey SAKE about the four
blind Hindus who went to see an
elephant. They could rot see the ele-
phant, but they said what they had
seen. One happened to lean against
the elephant and declared it was
much like wall. Another got hold
of his tail and described him as being
like rope. Another got his trunk
and said he was a serpent. and the
fourth ran against his tusk and said
he was shaped very much like spear.
The fact is that they had not seen the
elephant at all. That is all. And
that is my sermon. The cbjectors
have never seen Christianity at, all;
they have never understood Chris
tianity at all. They have seen mere
fragments-the tail or ear Of the
elephant-but they have not seen
Christianity and know not what it is.
The difficulties, of religion are
great, but the difficulties of unbelief
are infinitely greater. It is not true
that Christianity in it's fullness is a
simple thing that anybody can grasp
In two minutes. There are difficulties
and perpleyities, but the difficulties
and perplexities and problems in
which you involve yourself by the
rejection Of Christianity are far great
er than those involved in its accept
ance. could present half a dozen,
will present one: If unbelief has
stated the case truly to US, Jesus
Christ was only peasant boy, car
penter and a fanatic for religion, who
lived in an obscure part of the Ro-
man empire and died as criminal
after three years If agitation. That
is all. And yet Christianity, the most
tremendous and colossal fact in the
world, has all grown out of that!
Men and women, ignorant and wise,
In widely different circumstances, tell
you that they have been down and
have been raised. have had burdens
lifted from their shoulders, strength
came to them, enabling them to bear
their, loads, they have been conscious
OF sin and realized forgiveness, the
chains have dropped from their man
acled spirits and they have walked in
the freedom Of manhood and woman
hood, they tell you they have been
lost and were found. I myself have
at times seen through the vail that
hides the invisible from the visible
and have been sure of a God, anu
have risen from what I thought the
very gates of death and have walked
the hills of life again, and found that
my Saviour was by my, side. II you
want to know whether Christianity
is true, try it. The objections contra
dict each other, and are not true
Christianity stands and Christ makes
His appeal still to you tonight and
offers the invitation: Come unto
Me all We that labor and are heavy
laden. and I will give you rest"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1908-12-16
;Jesus Knows.

ghrist's message to the churches of
Asia all begin with the words, II
know thy tribulation," 'I know where
thou dwellest," II know thy poverty. F"
1t is as If He would lay the founda-
tion for His encouragement or His
warning in the assurance of His SYM
pathy. He always begins His mes
sage to His people thus: Il under
stand" We need not fear wrong
Judgment, we need least of all to fear
the Indifference that springs from ig-
norance. He understands, and there
fore can judge; Ee knows, and there
fore can help.-Pacific Baptist.