Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-01-28

i DR.. Kerr returned last hight from
trip to Portland.
Three hundred copies latest sacred
and popular songs just received at
Graham & Wells. 9tf
| C. T. Hurd lesves today for Portland
on . two days. business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Brattain of Peoria
spent Saturday and Sunday As guests at
the Wiegand home in this city.
rhe Christian Scientists will hold
services at the Woodman Hall, Sum-
day, II a. m. The public is coFdiai-
" invited. loft
President Crooks OF Albany College oc.
cupied the pulpit of the Prssby terian
church Sunday morning, and delivered a
fine address beforethe Y. NJ. y. A. at the
college in the afternoon.
| FOR SALE-City property rent,
ing for $5l per month. Viii trade
for city or country property in Ore
gon, farm property preferred. Write
Box 652, Goodlsnd, Kansas. SLIP
1 Milton S. Hammond. aged 81 years, of
| Philomath, was adjudgsd insane yester-
day forenoon in an examination he Id be-
fore County Judge Woodward and DR.. B.
A. Cathey. Mr.. Hammond was taken to
the asylum yesterday afternoon. The
wife and step daughter reside at Phllo-
math.
The interior of Mechanical Hall which
has been cut up into class rooms and Of
fees is now about completed. Professor
Skeletons department occupies the south
ead of the building, upstairs, and there
are various other class rooms. Paint and
varnish have been freely used and the in
| terror of the building presents an attrac-
tive appearance.
Il new bulletin on "The Po1ltry Ia
dustry in Oregon" has just been issued
by Prof. James Dryden of the department
of poultry husbandry at OAJ. Ten
thousand copies are to be distributed and
will prove of great interest to all who are
interested in the poultry industry, as
Prof. Dryden is thoroughly capable of
giving valuable advice and information
on this subject. Among the illustrations
an the bulletin are pictures of F. l.. Mil
ler's poultry farm located mile west of
Corvallis.
Situation waited as housekeeper
i'll the country by middle aged lady
for WidoWsr with few or go children.
Address, MRS. Laura Thompson
, Shedds, Oregon, care Jennie Wall
tsrs, Route /. *8-ll
In looking over an exchange recently
4 we saw the foil owing startling head
. "Grin You Idiot,' and Of course We
9 Krinned, but the article which followed
was worthy of considerable serious
thought. It WAS as tollows; 'Those
8 vertical wrinkles in your forehead are
putting the world wise to you. Tne
{ | world has no use for man in whose
{ face the wrinkles turn down at the eads
= Tney indicate failure. Owls and othel
|. solemn visaked Creatures are always
lonesome. Did you ever see flock o
owls? The whistling mechanic and th.
smiling salesman are the two things thai
employment bureaus never see. Job
are hunting them. they are never hunt
{ ing jobs."-Ex.
: f. T. Wilson, proprietor Of the
. Cafe, wishes t. state that hereafter
' he will tolerate no drinking in his
restaurant. This has been done te
/ some extent by parties VINO have
{ brought liquor into the Cafe for the
purpose, but no more Of it will oe
: allowed. ILL.,
;. Sunday and as a result is nursing two OIL
4 three MANNED fingers on his right hand
It was not an encounter with highway
men nora mix-up with any bold, bad
: man who had imbibed too freely, but 8
tussle with brindle calf that caused the
n damage. Chief Wells found the anima
(, strolling about the street and thinking il
= was gentle he approached and twisted 9
}. piece of telephone wire around its neck
= with which to lead it away. But aftel
e taking a turn in the wire with his hanc
the policeman turned seasick for he dis
! covered that the calf wasn't ''broke.'
For a time things moved so lively in tha
vicinity that it was hard to tell police
man from cali, and when the smoke o
d battle cleared away it was easily seer
d that the ''cop'' had come out second best
II DR.. w. T. Rowley states tha
= while be is prepared 20 treat dis