Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-01-14

Friday evening in college chapel, Geo.
E. Webster is to give lecture. where
Rolls the Oregon" with illustrations.
Summers" he said. "but was engaged
to you ONCE" s.Indeed?" the summer
girl replied coldly. s'you have quite a
memory for faces" "No," he replied.
slancing at her fair hand, ''but have
for the rings uy."-Ex..
Eugene, Oregon. Jan. II-OAC won an
exciting game OF basketball soaight, de-
feating Oregon by the score of 29 to 2I.
The score in the first half was II to II in
favor of Oregon but the Corvallis team
took braceand outplayei Oregon. Har-
vey Moore, forward, starl ed for Cor Wallis,
throwing eight baskets and missing few
fouls. The second Oregon team easily
defeated the company c team by the
score of 81 to 7. fhs Armory was crowd
ed. Smith and Heater were the officials.
John Loomis, of the firm of Loomis
Bros. of Newport. who is spending va
cstion at Los Angeles. has ordered two
carloads of Lincoln county apples ship
ped to him there. He fnds ready sale
for the Lincoln county product In COM
| petition with the best varieties in that
| market. says adispatcn in Sundays Jour-
| nal, The superior climatic conditions
| OF Lincoln county for the production Of
| apples Is beginning to be understood and
scarcely week passes but dozen or
more fruit growers are 10 be seen seeking
| for suitable locations for the planting Of
commercial orchards.
The Salem board of trade, one of the
capital city's most influential and ser
viceable boosting organizations, has or
dered the insertion in 1854 country
| newspapers, scattered throughout the
United States, mostly east OF the Rocky
mountains, of 0ne-inch one-column ad,
which is expected to bring almost won
derful results, when the circulation is
taken into consideration. The ADVERTISE
ment describes Salem as the Cherry City
and enumsrates many things calculated
to excite the interest of prospective home
seekers in this section OF Uncle Sam
broad d0main.-Ex. u
On Thursday afternoon they had a
costly fire at the court mouse. 1t was moi
dangerous one, however, although
about Sc, 400 went up in smoke, says the
Eugene Register. The fire was simply
the burning up Of the largest part OF the
Eugene clearing house certificates, which
have all been redeemed except abou
$500 or $6OU. The bank presidents, ane
, the trustee, E. U. Lee, and few othe
. interested PARTIES were spectators OF tn
FIRE and did nothing to prevent the con
, fiagration, in fact tney were in ma nne
incendiaries, as tney wilfully set thes
} relics of tre panickv days on fire an
: watched them slowly burn up. 1t was
: ms after of congratulate ion to all concerned
The Eugene Commercial Club at n
. cent NJ Getting passed resolutions whic
are to be copied and sent to The 5.
and Union Pacific railroad companies,
which attention is called to the fact thu
. these companies are continually dom
/, sssplendid, persistent and costly adVer
4 tising in the daily newspapers OF the b
eastern cities, urging people to 60 to "a
8 ifsrnia," ignoring the tact tnat Orego
q "has attractions as to mild winters an
a sublime scenery equal to and in man
It instances surpassing California" an
! respectfully urging these railroad CON
IS panies to give to Oregon at least shal
:. of the publicity which 10 now so lavish !
Q bestowed by them upon our sister sta
o exclusively. This action on the part I
/, the Eugene Club will certainly met
d with approval from every resident of tt
0 Beaver state.
J. R. Shepard went to Corvallis Ii
evening where today he will talk on tt
F" subject of cherry growing to the class
horticulture of the Oregon Agricultur'
college and on Monday he Il to be one I
a the speakers before the farmers sho
at course class at the same institution, say
fridays Salem Statesman. From thi
CITY he will 20 to Portland for the purpos
70 disappearing before the annual meeting
II II the Oregon State Horticultural society G
" Tuesday. Mr.. Shepard is one Of IL
busiest persons in the state at prese
l for besides doing such work az indicate
I'd in the foregoing he is corresponding ee
retary of the Willamette Valley Develol
re- ment League and is gathering statisti
q relative to successful farming in the WI
tfA lametts valley, these to be used in
pamphlet which will be issued by t
u league for general dist. .ibution in t
endsavor to secure more immigration
~ the state