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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1909)
motion of Mr. Atkison further time Twenty-one dollars and 50 cents was was granted. the price given by Special Prosecuting Mr. Lawson, who had been appointed Attorney J. R. Wyatt of Portland for to revise the charter arid get estimates the finest box of apples at the Albany" Municipal Council Will Receive on the cost of 150 books, including or Eugene Continually Gives Southern apple fair. Lane the Small Dnd. dinances, reported that the cost would Bids for Water Bonds. be $1.12 .per page, and the council In .tendering his resignation as authorized the .expenditure. county judge for Lane county G. R. Mr. Bartel served notice upon the Crisman, among other things recom MEETS IN REGULAR SESSION council that as soon as there was a mended that, provisions be made for full board present he would ask for a funds to improve the highway between reconsideration of the ordinance pro Eugene and "Springfield, persumably Money From Bond Issue to Be Ready viding for. the purchase of a rock for the benefit of tradesmen of the for Use by March First, Bids to Be crusher,. vetoed by Mayor Job. county town. In the matter of road I Opened January 3.—The Proceed Mr. Lawson, chairman of the light construction Eugene has been greatly ings of the Council. committee, introduced Mr. Shinn of favored, while other locations more Important matters in connection with the Cottage Grove Lighting Company, distant from the seat of justice have the construction of the proposed pipe who spoke on a lighting proposition, been forced to build highways through line from Layng creek, to connect after Recorder VanDenberg had read a private subscriptions or have none. with Cottage Grove’s present water contract proposed between the com This ,is true of the Southern part of system, were discussed'and acted Upon pany and the. city. The contract pro .Lane, county, of which Cottage Grove at Monday night’s session of the mu vides for arc and incandescent street is the. metropolis. Every merchant in nicipal council, the meeting being de lights for five years from January 1 this city has contributed year after ?» voted largely to this business. An next, at $80 per year for the former, year to the construction of rural high and $30 per year for 32-candle power ways in order to afford the agricultur ordinance providing for the sale of bonds was unanimously passed, and incandescents, and $18 for 16-candle ist an opportunity^ to come to town. lì* the engineering problem was practi power, not more than 30 arcs to. be- And at the same time they have been carried. It calls for an all-night ser taxed for road making almost wholly cally solved. The ordinance in ques gl tion not only makes provisions for the vice, deductions to be made for lights for the benefit of Eugene. Is there Kt sale of bonds in a sum not exceeding that may be out, the city to locate all any wonder that there is a desire on vit lights, which may be changed at the the part of the-people of this section $100,000 at 5 per cent, but for a com I nd petent engineer’s estimate on cost of city’s expense by giving ten days’ to sever their connection' with a crowd construction, this preliminary work to notice. The minimum charge for the that is continually handing them the ■ tí be performed without delay. There is service, according to the contract, can short end? something-like $5,000 now in the water not be less than $3,500 per year. Mr. « fit MR. HAWLEY TO VISIT US. fund, a sufficient amoûnt to more than Shinn said that under the contract he complete all preliminaries, thus mak purposed to furnish a new are that Congressman Coming on Invitation of 31 ing it unnecessary to call for money would give at least 33 per cent more- Mayor Job. from the bond issue until March 1. light than the present ones. It would s Bids, however, will be received on or require fully two months to provide for It is probable that Congressman the additional equipment. Mr. "Shinn Hawley will visit Cottage Grove be before January 3 next, at which date they will be publicly opened and con has checked the number of lights now fore going to Washington for the wih- sidered. The ordinance wisely pro used by the city "'and found there was' ter, Mayor Job having invited him to vides that the bonds shall bear interest $116 worth of illumination for which come hither and view the locality from from the date the money is delivered there had been no charge. With this whence our new water supply is to amount the cost for lighting-'at present come. The congressman left on Mon to the city treasurer. would be close to $2,900, day for Denver to attend a meeting of It is probable that Mr. Roberts, a Mr. Lawson favored additional fights, the board of head managers of the Among which you will fine consulting engineer of acknowledged and introduced an ordinance in accord Woodmen of the World, of which he is ability and whose record as an engi ance with the contract, which was chairman. The session will last about from the Plainest to the neer has been thoroughly investigated, given its first and second readings. One four days. Upon his ¡return Mr. Haw most Ornate. Solid Quarter will have charge of the improvement of the proposed new lights will be ley will visit Lane and other counties, from start to finish. The city recorder hung on Main street in Order to show and will leave for Washington late in Sawed Oak, Highly Polish- has been authorized to get his price what itfBari do. November. During the past two Saddle Seat. A Great Bar for this work. Communications were A petition to the county court, ask months Mr. Hawley has visited prac gain, an Oak Chair with read from The Dalles, Hood River, Lewiston, Idaho, and Colfax,. Washing ing the right to run water pipes along tically every county in his district. the county road in Row river valley, Mayor Job is in receipt of the follow Carver to match, Panelec ton, regarding Mr. Roberts’ work at was authorized. ing communication from Congressman Back, Leather Seat, Fit to those places, and all were highly com Hawley: “I am in receipt of your _ Attorney Young was instructed to plimentary, and some decidedly en Grace the most elaborately take the necessary steps to prevent letter in regard to obtaining land with thusiastic in his praise. the Forest Reserve as a source of in Finished Dining Room. any contamination of Layng creek, Mayor Job called the council to order from which our water supply is to water supply for your beautiful city. it 8 o’clock, Aidermen Atkison, Bar I will be glad to assist you in any way tel, Elledge, Kime and Lawson answer corrie. I can. I expect to art-ive at Cottage ing to roll call. Recorder VanDenberg The matter of flood water on Shepard Grove at 11:32 a. m. Tuesday, Novem street was referred'to the street com read the minutes of the preceding ber 16, and leave at 4:50 p. m. that meeting, which were approved with- mittee with power to act. day. During my stay I would like to Henry Lincoln . protested against the take the matter up and obtain infor out alternation, and signed by his city marshal empounding his dogs, mation and concert plans for the land. îonor. AND Under the caption of petitions and claiming that he resided ourside of the I consider this a very important mat ither communications, a protest against city, and consequently was out of the ter, as a pure water supply for a grow he grading and graveling of D street marshal’s jurisdiction. The matter ing city is an invaluable asset of the vas read. The- petitioners set forth was referred to the marshal. city.” ;he claim - that - the work had not been A profile of street and sidewalk “The Furniture Dealers” lerformed according to contract, inas grades oil Main street was accepted, ALFALFA GROWS HERE. much as the required six-inches of after which accounts were audited. Divide Rancher Has a Field Now Three jravsl did not appear, and demanded Years Old. hat additional gravel be spread or the HE’S THE WHOLE WORKS. David Alexander of Divide was in. leficiency deducted from the assess ment. Mr. Bartel moved that the re Of Great Importance is the Hired Man Cottage Grove on Saturday. He has thirteen acres in orchard-at that place, order notify the property owners that to the Average Farther. the work had been accepted, and that On a recent trip through the rural with seventy-five trees ‘ in bearing. f their assessment would draw interest district south of Cottage Grove The Mr. Alexander has an ideal location. There are four natural springs on the it thé rate of 6 per cent until paid. Sentinel came in contact with “the Mr. Lawson did not consider the hired man,” from whom much infor land, making it possible to irrigate if itreet improvement according to speci mation concerning the country was he so desires. But this seems to be fications, the gravel being much too obtained. From general indications unnecessary. He had a splendid crop arge in some particulars. He said he was the whole thing on the ranch, of alfalfa early in the season, and after We wish to call your at iome of it would not .go through à 5 or the light of the household and the joy cutting it turned his stock into the tention to our line of Staple i-inch screen. He thought it would .of the cowbarn. He knew the- name field. The stock, however, failed to >e unwise for the council to antagonize of every heifer on the place, and his keep' the alfalfa down, and he has a and Fancy Groceries. he property holders and get the mat responsibility was as large as his second crop seven inches high without irrigation. The alfalfa is three years er into the courts. Mr. Bartel thought pedal appendages. We carry all the leading old, and shows what may be accom here was no danger of getting into brands of Canned Goods The day has passed into the beautiful plished if the. tap root is given an op he courts, but withdrew his motion beyond forever when the agriculturist and Teas, Coffees, and cater portunity to become well seated. md supplemented it by one authoriz- to the best trade by keep ng the -return of the petition to the can hoist the hired man from the farm Coreless and Seedless Apples. igners, with a request for more defin- without starting something. Time ing our stock Coreless as well as seedless are the te information.regarding the protest. was when a hired man who mildly ob apples produced on a single tree of un Engineer Kurtz informed the alder- jected to pai ling nineteen cows at 3:00 known variety in an eight acre orchard Fresh and Up-to-Date. nen that the grades and ditches at' a. m. and bedding the shoats ¡at the at -Moran Prairie, five miles north of midnight, hour would be cordially in his point were the best Mr. Venske Spokane, owned by B. K. Short, a Summer Lunch Goods and ad done this season. He- had inspect- vited to chase himself into the next rancher. The largest of the fruit is township to the accompaniment of a Table Delicacies of all kinds d the work, measured the gravel and three inches in diameter, the coloring ad found it according to speeifica- string of rosy hued profanity. But being of a yellowish green, streaked will be found at this place. ions. There had been no change from nowadays this method would be about with red. The apples have deep pink as successful as applying a bust devel riginal plans. cheeks, and the flesh is firm and of Aiderman Atkison said he, too, had oper to a Shropshire ewe. excellent flavor. The tree is between neasured the gravel, finding only one When the midsummer zephyrs fan 12 and 15 years old and is growing in lace where a .deficiency existed. It his bronzed face the hired man strides, sub irrigated soil at an altitude of 2225 acked one and a half inches of gravel, through the dimpling dewdrops in a feet. Short does not claim credit for t ‘he ordinance called for six inches of hickory shirt and a cheery smile, and developing the cereless-seedless apple, ravel when completed, .and if the -his- bunions rattle in the meadow grass declaring it is a freak" of nature. s ngineer had found that amount when like unto a set of rubber teeth against Snow In Bohemia. lie road was completed that should be an overgrown gumboil. On the first Mr. Ely, of the Kelso Gold Mining day, as the peal of the church bell lflieieht. Mr. Bartel moved that the matter be chases a previous peal down the pic company, spent a week in Washington. iferred to the street committee for turesque valley, he squeezes a size His company is installing a stamp mill, ivestigation, which was carried, Al- eleven foot into a seven shoe, laces a which will be ready for operations in erman Atkison voting nay, because celluloid shirt-front to his, bulbous about two months. There is a consid bosom, dohs a handpairited necktie and erable quantity of paying ore on the le work had been accepted. A proposition (from a San Francisco sallies forth at the tailgate of a Cremo dump; sufficient, it is thought, to keep rm to sell a used rock-crusher at cigar, through a sylviar/ dell to the the mill running a year. When Mr. Ely came from the Bohemia district a bout half price was read. Mr! Law- meetin’ house. >n moved that the matter be referred The hired man has the rest of the week ago there was eight inches of MAIN STREET: > the committee appointed to buy a family holding pious hands heavenward show in the mountains, and some of ■usher. Mr. Bartel objected, saying nine-tenths of the time for fear - that the machinery was hauled part of the ie mayor had vetoed the ordinance he will change has base. He has be way from Disston on sleighs. roviding for the purchase, and conse- come as sensitive in spirit as an in Work, on the T,000 acre fruit tract, ECONOMY IS WEALTH uently there was no such committee, growing toenail. Breathe it to him located in the Lorane valley, twelve r. Lawson accepted the objection, gently that the rubber tired buggy is "miles west of Cottage Grove, has been nd the letter was placed on file. designed for the use of the family and commenced. Thiri tract is to be set out » 4&TOW/T Mr. Lawson, sole member «of a spec- he will vanish across the nearest eighty; in winter apples, and pears. Planting I^COMPAN* 1 committee appointed to solicit pri-- without waiting to gather up his lin this large area for the most part will ite subscriptions to a fundto dispose of gerie. Drop on your knees and sug not be undertaken until spring,- but a >od water east of the railway tracks, gest that he stripped the roan heifer large force of men and teams are em OF PORTLAND, OREGON. ported that he had procured $170. with too ' much haste and he will call ployed preparing, the soil. This tract be outlook was not encouraging, as , for his time check in a voice which can was purchased by. the Churchill-Mat ifyou die , it costs no more than or lout $500 would be necessary, and un- be heard down at thè Four Corners on thews company of Portland some time dinary Life. I f YOU LIVE, it is more ss the Southern Pacific company a windy night. Never sass the hired ago, extended mention of which has profitable than Endowment. Life insur ance is a great protection to our families. nie to the rescue it would be impos man unless you are going to move into heretofore been published in The Sen- TOM AWBREY has the most reason-1 ée to raise half of the amount". 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