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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1909)
RURAL CIVICS VALUE The numbers to follow La Follette iA the Lyceum' Course are: Lee Francis Lybarger, Dec. 16; Clare Vaughn Wales Company, Jan. 26; Laurant, March 9; the College Girls, Arpil 7. What It Means to the Individual .Creswell is proud of a $12,000 con and Whole Nation. crete block recently completed. SALVATION OF ALL TOWNS. IDEAL FOR WORKERS Every Movement Bringing Members of Rural Towns Together For Discussing Improvements Concerning the Com munity as a Whole Is a Step Forward. Beaulieu & Woodard REAL ESTATE • • Cottage Grove Lyceum Course * Sales - Promptly - Effected. Office corner Main and Second Sts., one block west of depot. ’Phone Main « « Benefit Woman's Club Library Fund Continued from first page. no35mchl9 The hard character of the wood makes it superior to red wood, cedar or fir as a finishing lumber, but the difficulty Within the words rural civics there with the manufacture of hemlock lum is embraced a movement which, car ber seems to be in getting rid of the ried to its fullest possibilities, may incidental “common.” well mean the transformation of a The Yellow Pine is a widely distrib nation. >We are prone ter" think of uted, variable and valuable tree. It civics and civic matters as having to grows to a large size, two to three hun do solely with town or city. People dred feet high, and five to fifteen feet living in such close proximity to one in diameter; heart wood light red, sap another that they are forever jostling wood white; close grained, compact, elbows are forced to consider the wel variable, heavy, hard, strong. Lum fare of the body politic as a whole. ber, railroad ties, mining timbers, fuel, Therefore it is natural that the first are some of its uses. impulse for civic betterment should There is a considerable amount of emanate from the city. good, millable cedar to.be found in this But the time has come when this county. The Pacific Red Cedar is a movement for civic betterment, the tall, graceful tree, one to two hundred / improvement of conditions for the feet high, eight to seventeen feet in mass rather than the individual, is diameter; heart wood reddish brown, recognized as one of the greatest fac PHONE MAIN 65. tors in the upbuilding of rural com sap wood nearly white, coarse grained, munities. There never was a time, compact, soft, light brittle easily work either in country or city, when the in ed, very durable. It is used for shing dividual was under such direct obliga les, fencing, cooperage,, interior flush tion to the mass of his fellow citizens. ing, canoes, siding, farm buildings, Within the last half century, by means posts, rails, sash, doors, telegraph and of Increased transportation facilities, telephone poles. the invention of the telephone and the Black Cotton-wood is a large tree, thousand and one inventions which fifty to two hundred feet high, and two make for closer communion and better to eight feet in diameter ; heart wood AND POLISHING. living, man has become even more closely bound to his neighbor, so that a’dull brown, sap wood dull white; the latter’s welfare has become his compact, soft, tough, durable. Veneer, Cottage Grove, Oregon own welfare. This is just as true of staves, woodenware, wood pulp,trunks, drums, barrels, and drawer bottoms the farmer as of any other .class.. In the growth of rural civics lies not are made of this wood, and the supply Inscriptions cut. Orders may be only the salvation of our rural com is plentiful, munities, but of the nation as a whole. The Showy Willow is a slender tree, left at King & Walker’s Furni Improve not only the individual farm, twénty to thirty feet high, two to four ture Store near the bridge. but the comtnunity as a whole—the town center, the highways radiating feet in diameter, with dark rough- in all directions, the social conditions, brown bark. It is used for baskets, the opportunities for mental relaxa veneering, charcoal and' fuel. There' is tion and development—and you exert a.plentiful supply. The Western Yellow Willbw is a an influence which extends straight up to the legislative halls ,of the na-( small tree fifteen to forty feet high tion. with yellow bark. There is a plentiful That Henry Jones allows his back supply, its use being principally for pasture to run'to thistles is apparent baskets. There are many other kinds ly nobody's business but his own. This General Repairing. may be true up to the point where the of willow growing along the streams of first puff of wind floats the thistle this county, most of which are excel- down over Into the pastures of his len for basket and woodenware work. All work guaranteed satisfactory. A -large tree fifty to a hundred feet neighbors. Right there Henry Jones Phone 114. has unintentionally taken a hand in high, and one to four feet in diameter, his' neighbors’ affairs, and his neigh is the Oregon Alder. Its bark is a bors have a right to demand of Henry dark brown blotched with white ; wood Jones that he do his share to relieve reddish, hard, durable. It is suitable the community of a pest. A puff of for furniture, buggy boxes, cabinet wind and a bit of thistledown have (W Time Auctioneer made of the free individual a respon work, for smoking meats and salmon. It furnishes the most satisfactory fuel sible unit in the mass. Every movement which -tends to known for either camp or household. Can sell anything, from a leather bring the members of the rural com The,supply is very plentiful. tea-kettle to a cast-iron munity together for discussion of Hazel is a small shrub or tree, six bull - dog. those things which concern the com 'to forty feet high, three to ten inches munity as a whole is a distinct step in diameter ; wood brownish, hard, re COTTAGE GROVE : OREGON forward. Every school house should ceives a high polish. It may be used be a civic center for the. district in for shoe pegs, baskets, barrel hoops. which it is situated. Every town house or county seat should be a.larger civic The supply is plentiful. TIME TABLE NO. 5. The Oregon White Oak is a tree fifty center wherein the leaders in the To Take Effect June 19, 1909. to one hundred and fifty feet high, two smaller centers may meet for the dis E. BOUND ; W. BOUND No. I. cussion of the work which they are to five feet in diameter ; heart wood doing and for the intelligent mapping light brown, sapwood nearly white, A. M. MS STATIONS out of future plans along which these compact, heavy strong, hard, tough 7-30 Lv. COTTAGE GROVI e A r smaller centers inay co-operate. .W alden 3..S and durable. Used' for furniture, wag 7-5° .C errc G ordo 7-59 6.7 The “town beautiful” of necessity on- work, ship-building, carriages, in 8.14 8.6 __ D oren a means the “home beautiful,” and the .STAR 8.40 12.5 . _ _ 8.50 13 5 . _ .W icks home beautiful means the retention of terior finishing, fuel,' veneer, barrel 905 ..R ed B ridge . 15-9 hoops. It is plentiful. The Oregon the boys and girls on the farm. Rural W ildwood 9 15 16,0 A r -—-D isston civics in its broadest sense means Oak is noted for thé growth of large,- 9-45 20 to change without notice. rural uplift, uplift along every line beautiful bunches of mistletoe, which Subject All outward freight shipped only at the joint which tends to make country life more grows among the limbs. risk oFshippers and consignee. Disston after jarrival of train on worth while, more attractive, more in Oregon Black Oak is a medium sized Stage leaves Wednesday and Friday for Orseco, re spiring. Rural civics has no place in tree, sixty to one hundred feet high und Monday, turning on Tuesdsy, Thursday and Saturday. will not be received at the O. & S. EC. party politics, save that it will produce, one to six feet in diameter, with rough R. Freight Depot after 5 p. m.. 're insure forwarding in each party the best men that can black bark ; wood dark and close grain on R. next train freight must be delivered in ample time to permit of its being billed. be put forward. The welfare of the A. B. WOOD. Manager. nation is dependent on the welfare of ed, hard, compact, receives a high the individual, and the individual alone polish. Its uses, are finishing lumber, is helpless and hopeless. Patriotism of furniture, wagon work. Oregon Maple is a magnificent tree, the highest type is the immediate and bqst product of the realization of com fifty to one hundred feet in height, munal responsibility. two to five feet in diameter ; wood red The lyceum in the schoolhouse and dish brown, sap wood whitish, close the public forum at the town or coun grained, compact, often curley, light, ty seat will come to' mean not only a more beautiful country, but a purging hard, strong, receives a high polish, of politics which shall.ultimately make and consequently is- suitable for furni our government what we are wont to ture, cabinet work, tool handles, turned claim that it is and what it should be and veneer work. It is also valuable if it is not—the ideal which Lincoln so as a shade tree and grows abundantly tersely set forth as “a government of ih the streets of Cottage Grove. The the people, by the people and for the supply is plentiful. people.”—New England Homestead. Oregon Ash is a tree, twénty to one hundred feet high, and one to four feet Trees to Hide Billboard. In one of the back streets of Brigh in diameter with wood grayish brown, ton, England, up which the tram cars hard, tough, firm, straight-grained, Your Name.________ ------------ _L—. ------------- pass to the Dyke road and the golf takes a high polish. Its uses are furni links, stand four little trees. The road ture, inside finishing, wagon work, Address---------------------- ----------------- ---------- —:--------------- is not an avenue, and one wonders how stair posts/ etc. There are many other these four little trees strayed there till kinds of wood in this county that the conductor explains that they were might be mentioned, but we have de placed by the municipality to hide an scribed the ones that are the most advertisement boarding put up by the plentiful, and of the highest commer railway line and which mars the view of a very pretty wooded cutting. As cial value. Cascara Sagrada, however, the company declined to remove it the might be mentioned incidentally as its town fathers promptly planted their bark is medicinal, and found here in a trees, and now in the summer the plentiful, supply. boarding is almost hidden from view. » THE ATTRACTIONS Senator Robert M* La Follette, K 2 NOV. BRUND Grocers to the People Earnestness born of a deep Conviction in the ever- lasting righteousness of the cause presented is the basis of Mr. LaFollette’s commanding position upon the platform. Subject will be- announced Later. Lee Francis Lybarger, “How to Be Happy,” not a sunshine lecture, but one on the Laws of happiness; Many regard this as Mr. Lybarger’s greatest production. It is filled with “worldly wisdom.” It is not a “sunshine” lecture, but a search after the philosophy of right living. It is one lecture that has the courage to face the facts, to see things as they are. It shows not only the right of happine'ss and the duty of happi ness, but the ways of happiness. _ DEC 16th G. A. ESS1CK, Monumental Cleaning Clare Vaughn Wales Comedy Co,, After the Seventh Season of unprecedented success at the head of her own company, Clare Vaughn Wales may be safely said to be one of the establish ed leading lyceum attractions of the country to-day. Miss Wales is an elocutionist of remarkable ability. Accompanying her are Florence Adele Benson, pi anist and soprano, and Harry T. Longstreet baritone. JAN. 26th HARNESS SHOP - Laurant, The Man of Many Mysteries The talented magician, Laurant, gives the most novel, artistic and marvelous attraction of its char acter now appearing before the American public. He enjoys an enviable reputation, only attained after years of hard work. Realizing the continual de mand of the lyceum public for something new, art istic and refined, we have secured this attraction,- and take pride in guaranteeing satisfaction. March 9 th W. T. KAYSER The College Singing Girls The College Singing Girls and Walter Eccles have proved to be one* of the greatest successes of the Lyceum. The eight young ladies of the Company -are unusually talented and versatile. They are professional singers, having good solo voices, which perfectly blend in the concert work. Special cos tumes are provided for each feature. Their great success has been due to their ability to properly ren der the best sacred and operatic numbers written for women’s voices. fl. & S. E. R. R. COMPANY. SEASON SEATS ON SALE AT THE WAVE iWMMmiiniimmi nr imrrii' iiwiwiiiimri At Even Money a Saving_ _ _ time, traveling expenses and fatigue can be made by using the shortest route • ast. There is but one short and direct route between the West and the East. The Southern Pacific (No. 211 ) r PORTLAND SEED CO OREGON^ I k_ _ _ _- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - J FASHION Uniform Street Tree Planting. Washington is rapidly becoming fa mous the world over for its fine trees, but one kind of tree being planted in each street. Some of the fine exam ples are: Pennsylvania avenue, pink oaks; Indiana avenue, oriental planes; Massächusetts avenue, American lin dens, and East Capitol street planted with American elms. Streets such as these, planted uniformly with . one species, And that a good species, will in tlme^ make any town famous for beautiful streets. Southern Pacific Railway Urne-Table STABLES POWELL & SHORTRIDGE, Props. NORTH BOUND. No. No. No. No. 16----------- 1:48 a. m 18----------------------- 4:50 p. m 14_______________ 4:43 a. m 2O._________ ____11:32 a, m Courteous Prompt. . and , Treatment Reasonable Rates to AIL SOUTH BOUND. No. 15------------------- - 1:26 a. m No. 17 ____ 10:15 p. m No. 13-------------------- 6:30 a- m No. .19 ______ ______ 2:57 p. m L. S. TAYLOR, Agent. TRAVELING COTTAGE GROVEL, MEN A ORECON SPECIALTY. AND O. R. & N. OREGON SHORT LINE. 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