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Œlw (Cntt¿w (Srtíw Simtûwl VOLUME IV COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. NOV. 26, 1909 NUMBER 9 social last Saturday evening, the ob Taurus in the concluding days of the ject of the entertainment being to cre month. It is still too distant to be de- ate a fund for the purchase of new fined by The Sentinel’s telescope. seats. The young ladies provided abun His Plan May be Feasible. dantly filled baskets, and these were Row River Lumber Co’s Plant Sold at auction blindly, it being incum As an unengaged maiden of Cottage woman should be made to wear it at all Dr. W. J. McGee, of the U. S. De- An interesting Service Held at bent upon, the purchaser of a basket to Grove will you permit me space in your times. It might be a white ribbon partment of Agriculture, during his Sawing to Capacity. share its contents with the lady who valuable paper to make a suggestion such as that used by the W. C. T. U. study of soil and forest conditions in Presbyterian Church. furnished it. The proceeds aggregated for the protection of some of us mar with the word “engaged” or “promis Western Washington the past summer, $55.50, the average price per basket riageable girls. Why would not it be ed” printed in letters of gold in order found many abandoned tracts of cut- being $2.22. Miss Mary Smitji of wise to have an engagement badge, that the young man who runs, or loit over land which had reverted to the SOMETHING OF ITS EQUIPMENT Springfield is teacher in this district, and let the city council adopt an ordin • ers, may read and know^the truth. It counties for non-payment of taxes. To MEETINGS IN ROW VALLEY and it was through her efforts that the ance enforcing its usage. our bachelor may be said that any maiden has a his solve the problem of the disposition of affair was arranged and successfully, aiderman, I believe, would introduce and toric right to keep ’her secret if she such land, Dr. McGee advocates their champion such a measure. My reasons chooses, and also that the unengaged disposal of the state, provided the state Established Only Since Last June Large carried out. ______ _____ for this are many. Lots of young men could, with, malicious intent, bear the is in position to administer them intel Messrs. Vernon Veatch and W< W. Shipments of Railway Materials INVESTIGATES PAVEMENTS. bestow +heir attentions mistakenly be badge also, even if she had to go to Re ligently, As an alternative to this so Oglesby Relate Reminiscences of Have Been Shipped—A Pros Primitive Life in Cottage Grove Bitulithie Finds Favor With Aiderman cause they do not know, and cannot corder VanDenberg with a convincing lution, he suggests that the counties perous Hamlet. and Near Neighborhood. co-operate with the state for the pro know without an expression from the tale to secure it. But truth crushed to of a Southern Town. young lady herself, that the solitaire earth will rise again, and when <nce tection or utilization of the cut-over A Grants Pass councilman recently diamond ho longer serves its historic this deception was discovered it would lands: first, in protecting them from A representative of The Sentinel re visited Portland for the purpose of in purpose. Most modern girls are lav place her in a class by herself in the fire, and next in utilizing them in some A unique service was held at the cently visited the sawmill of the Row vestigating pavements for streets, and ishly provided with diamonds and they commiinity. I hold that there are not economic manner, either in reforesting Presbyterian church Sunday morning River Lumber Company, twelve miles upon his return home gave a represen cannot keep the third finger of the left mone than enough young men to go or for agricultural purposes when bet in honor of the pioneers of that denom east of Cottage Grove on the line of the tative of The Courier of that city his hand immune to all but engagement. around, and when a young woman ter adapted to such purpose. ination. Aside from the regular church Oregon & Southeastern railway, and conclusions. Inasmuch as Cottage Grove And neither does the air and actions of mal es a catch, bethrothes herself she choir, and Pastor Adams, there were is about to undertake the improvement RIVER LEAVES ITS BANKS. found there an industry of considerable the engaged girl serve for detection, should be willing to let go of all others. seated on the platform Dr. W. W. proportions actively operating, having of its principal throughfare they may for although the capture of a man will If The Sentinel thinks favorable of Large Portion of City Submerged by Oglesby, the speaker of the day, Mr. be of interest to readers of The Senti forty-two employes on its payroll and cause a look of triumpth to be perman this' idea. I would be pleased to have H. Ç. Veatch, Mr. Sylvester Veatch, Continuous Rains. disbursing approximately $2,700 per nel. He said in the interview: “I had ently engraved upon the maiden’s face, the above published, and I should also Mrs. H. C. Veatch and Mrs. S. E. Mc an opportunty to see bitulithie, Has- High water the first of the week, month for labor. The mill is located such has been the influence of modern like to-hear from others, both engaged Farland. The four last named persons sam, asphalt and wood block pave one-half mile from Star postoffice, and independence that the girl who isn’t anc unengaged on the subject. It is coupled with - continuous storms, had a constituted the Pioneer Quartette, and is connected with the main line by a ments. I made a careful and critical ex engaged feels as fine about it as though one of vital importance to many of us demoralizing effect upon travel, and sang four numbers from the old fash spur track, known as Vaughn’s Spur, amination of all of these various pave she were. She does not miss anything. girls, and while this may be ridiculed consequently business generally. By ioned fifties. . Mr. H. C. Veatch, now reason of the river leaving its banks a eighty-two years old, was formerly the named after Syd. H. Vaughn, one of ments and am fully convinced in my With this view of the situation I sug it is no laughing matter. considerable portion of Cottage Grove singing teacher of this community. the pioneer settlers of that section, who own mind that the bitulithie is by far gest the badge. The fortunate young UNENGAGED GIRL. was submerged, and while some dam The singing was appreciated. Mr. H. could relate some thrilling experiences the most practical pavement. The age to property was done it is general C. Veatch was elected Elder of the of eariy days. The company, which is Hassam, which is used quite extensive WOULD VETO LIGHT BILL. ly conceeded that We got off easy. A Coast Fork Cumberland Presbyterian unincorporated, is comprised of Albert ly there, is nothing more than a con EARLY CLOSING OF STORES. torrent of water poured down Fourth church on the day of its organization Stocks, C. A. Harlow, Joseph Stocks, crete pavement, and like the concrete Ma tyor Job Thinks City Can Stand No street during Monday afternoon and all in July 1855. The church is know now T. B. Hankins and W. T. Hankins, the walks, the pavement will crack, giving Merchants of Cottage Grove Regard Further Burden at Present. Practice With1 Satisfaction. night, Carrying drift with" it; sidewalks first named being manager and the lat water a chance to work down through if the municipal council votes to ac were dislocated and set afloat, and ped as the First Presbyterian church of Cottage Grove merchants are abreast ter secretary and treasurer. In the site it and to disintegrate the cement, and Cottage Grove. occupied by the mill there are 120 and gravel, ancTthen the passing over with the times as regards the early cept the contract between the city of estrians traveled with much discom Dr. W. W. Oglesby, a gentlemen who acres, and here quite a hamlet has been of vehicles, such as heavily loaded wag closing of their places of business, Cottage Grove and the Lighting com fort. Several residences in the flooded builded for the accommodation of em ons, automobiles, etc., grind up the The 6:30 closing gives more than two pany, which is now on its third read district were filled with water, and has been intimately identified with Cot tage Grove since its infancy, gave an ployes. Besides a well-stocked com pavement, causing holes which become hundred people, including employer ing I it will have Mayor Job’s veto. The this also applies to a number of busi ques ness houses on the south side of Main interesting discourse on pioneer life, missary, there are a number of cot more worn with every passing team, and employe, an opportunity to spend chièf f executive’ s position on the ques- tages 16x24 feet, and in these twelve and_within a very short time it be- evenings in social intercourse with tion was thus defined at a gathering of street east of Fourth. No alarm was beginning with his crossing of the Mis comes'“necessary to apply a' patch, their fellowman, or otherwise, and business men at the Commercial club felt, however, as high water of this souri river in 1853, and following the families reside. history of thé church down to the pre The sawmill building, 'Which was which leaves a rough surface and is practically eliminates “all' work and parltrs Tuesday evening, and resulted character is not infrequent here. There sent day. He briefly outlined the trip very apt to soon break up again. in tl e adoption of a resolution request no play.” The public, however, seems is a disposition on the part of the citi erected early last spring, is 50x200 “So far as wood block pavement is to insist that the merchant remain be ing 1 be council to delay action for thirty zens, however, to remedy the evil in across the moufitainous country to the feet, and contains two 56-inch circular Willamette valley, and related tersely saws and the other necessary equip concerned, it soon becomes rough and hind his counter until a late hour Sat days from the date of its next meeting the near future, and we may hope that some of the hardships and privations uneven and is very slippery, and per for i. more thorough investigation of urday rfight to deal out shoe strings and the flooding of the town will soon be ment, which are driven by an 16x18 eiicountered by the early settlers, fol come a thing of the past forever. Ames engine. The planer is 12x24, and sonally I would not think it a good laces, sugars and teas, but the time is the : flatter. lowing with the settlement of this sec pavement at all for the - streets of Tl e proposed contract calls for an not far distant we hope, when we shall an engine 18x25 drives this machine, tion, in which the primitive state of MERCHANTS WILL BANQUET. Grants ’ Pass. The asphaltum, as is expt nditure of approximately $800 per have taken on metropolitan airs to a besides the conveyors, etc. There is Oregon at that, time was touched upon. in the institution 125 feet of live rolls. generally well known, is not suitable sufficient extent to also discontinue this annum more than the present contract, An Interesting Meeting of Protective He described the manner of raising the for streets where there is heavy traffic, whic 1 would mean an extra tax of practice. All stores should be closed The mill, as well as the yards, is cereals, and told how the grain was Association Held Tuesday Night. ighted by electricity, the company as in the summer it becomes very soft promptly at 8 o’clock on Saturdays. aboutone and a half mills on the city’s threshed on the ground by horses and At a regular meeting of the Mer and cuts up badly. assessed valuation, and the mayor holds Once the purchasing public comes to laving a plant of 125 light capacity. oxen treading upon it, and how the “ The bitulithie pavement, in my opin chants ’ Protective association, held that the city is financially incapable to understand that this condition will ob Logging operations are carried on by chaff was removed by the winds. The Tuesday evening, it was decided to hold ion, is far superior to any other in use. bear the additional burden. Reports tain throughout the city, arrangements the aid of a donkey engine, which is nearest flouring.mill at that time was commonly used throughout this district. In the first place, the street? in Port will be made accordingly and the mer from several cities of comparative size a banquet on Tuesday evening, Decem in Brownsville, Linn county, and hither ber 14. Messrs. Veatch, Tyson and land where the heaviest traffic is car in the valley showed that the price chant will not suffer finanical loss by The logs are put into a pond which has now paid by Cottage Grove is exces Wheeler is the committee in charge of the wheat was taken by ox teams for a capacity of about a half million feet, ried on are paved with this material. so doing. It does not cut up nor wear and is easy, sive, and also that the neW contract the affair, which is sufficient assurance grinding into flour, the round trip con It is quite permissible that all busi and thence to the saws. suming six days. so far as foothold is concerned for ness establishments handling holiday price is higher than paid by these cit that there’ll be something doing. This sawmill has a capacity of 40,- teams. This style of pavehient is the The Presbyterian church was organ It was also decided to request the city ies. At present the city has seven arc 000 feet per day of ten hours, and is process of one parent company and goods should keep open evenings a lights, for Which it pays $110 per year ; council to clean the streets and cross ized in 1855 by a small band of be reasonable length of time before Christ being operated to its capacity day in they allow only certain companies in sixty-five 32-candle-power incandes walks from the bridge to the depot at lievers, with William Oglesby, the and day out. The equipment is first- certain sections of the United States mas in order to give ample opportunity cents at $30 per year, and sixteen 16- intervals, the merchants declining to speaker’s father, Vernon Veatch and for shopping, and this the Cottage class in every particular, and conse to construct this pavement and they candle-power incandesents at $16 per give their services further in this di Dr. Bealieu as its first deacons. In the quently delays or shutdowns are scarce are under bond to lay it according to Grove merchants purpose doing. primitive forests on the banks of the year. The minimum called for by the rection. « ly known. The principal product is ear their specifications. If Grants Pass Kerr & Silsby, Walker & Kinter, picturesque Row river, among the contract isl$194.50 per month. AN UP-HILL JOB. builders’ material and bridge timbers, were to. use the bitulithie pavement it Under the terms of the new contract VariDenberg & Simeral and H. C. Cook maples and ash, a spot was cleared fpr for which Oregon fir is famous through would be done in exactly the same man Six Days Consumed in Hauling One the minimum charge per month would were admitted to membership. camp meeting grounds, and ’twas here, out the world. Over half a million ner, the same material would be used, under the canopy of heaven, the first be $291.62 or $3,500 per annum, and the Load Five Miles. feet of materials of this character has the same thickness and foundation as services were held. Seats were made NOW IN NEW QUARTERS. Mr. Ely, of the Kelso Mining Com contract if made effective would run thus far been shipped, and orders are on the heaviest traveled streets in large of split logs, and the pulpit was simi five years. Arc lights, the number of coming in freely. At present the stock cities. The secret of the success of pany, came down from camp on Mon which must not exceed thirty, is priced Star Theatre Is Now Located in the larly devised. Many ministers in those on hand is something less than 200,000 this pavement is that they use a bitum day and spent several days in Cottage at $80 per year, while the charge for Woodward Block on Mam Street. days walked to their appointments, feet. The company has twenty million inous product in their mixing which Grove on business. Mr. Ely has just incandescents remains unchanged. •The Star Theatre is enjoying an in there being no transportation facilities feet of timber, and more is available has a tendency to congeal and cement completed a somewhat difficult under The major stated that the city had creased business in the Woodward in the valley. They labored through taking for this season of the year, that when this is cut. the rock and gravel, thus making a per of taking heavy milling machinery into not been /extravagant in its expendi block, its location being more central. the six days and devoted the seventh to Messrs. Stocks and Harlow, who have fectly tight covering over their founda Several improvements have also been worship and to the instruction of small camp. Last week the entire six days tures for lights and to clinch the asser made for the better entertainment of congregations, receiving no com been connected with lumbering and tion, which is of concrete. tion said the increase had been $1,440 were spent in taking a load weighing mining in this section for upwards of patrons. The Star is giving the people pensation for their services in religious “I had an opportunity of seeing during the past four years. twenty years, purchased the 120 acres street, workers attempting to take up approximately four tons a distance of Mr. Bu •kholder, who presided over of Cottage Grove the very best obtain work. The Lord blessed the early set on which the sawmill is located from some bitulithie pavement on Washing five miles. At that time there was the delibe rations of the meeting, sug- able amusements for their money, the tlers with abundant crops every year Al. Anderson for a nominal sum. Mr. ton street in Portland. It was like at three feet of snow, and a sled was im gested that a vote of thanks be. tender films being of a high order. The Star and now those who are left are able to Anderson, had in years past, felled and tempting to take up the solid bed rock. provised to copvey the machinery to ed Mayor Job for presenting the ques is snug and cozy in all its appointments. worship in a good building, sit on com destroyed four million feet of timber In my opinion there is • no pavement the district from Disston. Four horses tion to citizens for discussion, saying The program is changed three times fortable seats and pay their ministers. in an attempt to clear the tract. He that will compare with this kind and 1 and a block and tackle were used, both Dr. Oglesby paid glowing tribute to that ,Jie was the first mayor Cottage each week—Monday, Wednesday and succeeded in clearing twelve acres. hope that it will be used in this city.”- up hill and down. Mr. Ely has taken Saturday. An advertisement for this pioneer mothers for their devotion to Grove ever had who had shown the 70,000 pounds of supplies into capip for Had Mr. Anderson allowed the timber business people that courtesy ; it was theatre appears elsewhere .in The Sen family, and thé training of their child the winter. to stand it w'ould now be worth a for URGE SALE OF TIMBER. the first time they had been requested tinel, to which your attention is direct ren. The child was taught honesty and tune. Mr. Anderson now resides in sobriety, and the character of the child BENSON’S CASE DISMISSED. to meet on matters of public policy. ed. Douglas county. Messrs. Stocks and Citizens Petition Forester to Proceed was moulded and fashioned largely by The voté of thanks was unanimously Farmer Gets Big,Results. With the Big Deal. Harlow are the pioneer lumbermen of the mother’s influence. An angel, said Perjury Charge No Longer Hangs Over extended. Ed Ziniker, a Lane county farmer, the speaker, was once sent from heaven the Row river, their first mill having * A petition to Mr. C. S. Chapman-, Local Druggist. narrates the Register, is one of the to earth for the most beautiful thing been operated by water power, on the district forester for all national forest THE MOON WILL HIDE. The perjury indictment which has men who does his work well and gets obtainable, and returned with an ex Pitcher place, at what is known as work in Oregon, Washington and Alas been pending in the Federal court for results accordingly. He is ahead $1100 quisite wreath of roses.. Again was Pitcher’s falls, and the manufactured ka, asking that the proposed sale of five years against James Benson, the Total Eclipse Is Booked for Tomorrow. this year on the income from four acres. commodity was hauled to Cottage Grove 173,000,000, feet of timber in the Ump the angel sent, and this time gathered Early, But Worth Seeing. druggist, has been disinissed on moton He has one acre in apple orchard which the smiles of the beautiful child, but by team. qua reserve be consummated, is in circu of Uj S. District Attorney McCourt. ! There will be a total eclipse of the brought him in $300. Twelve trees of These men were also the original in lation in Cottage Grove, and is meet Mr. Benson was charged with prejury moon tomorrow night, and if the sky is Waxens brought him in $100. He rais still its mission was not fulfilled. A corporators of the North Fairview Min ing with general approval. The peti in connection with the sale of timber clear it will be worth getting up för by ed an acre of onions and the crop sold third time the messenger went, and re ing Company, now operating claims in tion sites the vast benefit such a sale land which he had previously taken as a people who are interested in astron for $275. He also has two acres of turning presented a mother’s love for the Bohemia district, from which was would prove to this city from a finan claim. Thus comes. to a close one of omy and who have never witnessed the prunes, the fruit from which he gather her child. Thé roses had faded, the recently reported one of the richest cial standpoint. The document was the older of many similar cases. In phenomenon. It will take place be ed and dried himself and sold for $475. child’s smiles had changed to frowns, strikes in free milling ore ever discov unanimousy sanctioned by a largely at-, but the mother’s love for her child this particular instance there could tween 1:20 and 4:47 a. m., the totality ered in that camp, the strike having tended meeting of the Merchants’ Pro lived through all eternity. Flour Prices Still Soaring. have been no cause of action, otherwise lasting from 2:23 to 3:45. An eclipse >een made on one of the^claims of this tective association Tuesday night, and The speaker closed by reciting a Uncle Sam would have prosecuted it of the moon is awaited by astronomers _ The steady advance in wheat prices company. Mr. W. T. Hankins, .the is receiving the signatures of hundreds is lifting flour values and a general ad poem, which he had been taught in with characteristic vigor. { with less eagerness than an eclipse of ¡ecretary and treasurer, is a prac of citizens who have the best interests the sun, for it is not expected to unlock vance in local quotations will probably childhood, and one which has endured tical millman and gives careful atten of the community at heart. We Are Not Yet “Busted.” • new seorets, and telescopically, it is be announced within a day or two. The the lapse of time. It follows : tion to the business end of the opera By its statement The First National less spectacular. Nevertheless it is a advance will amount to 20 or 30 cents a My buried friends can I forget, Movement for Dike. tions. Those now having families re Bank of Cottage Grove shoifrs individ ■barrel and will affect all domestic Or should the grave eternal sever, There is a movement under way for ual deposits subject to chec|t of $236,- weird sight, the more impressive when grades remain as now quoted. The dding at the mill are Z. O. Earl, Frank They linger in my memory yet the fact is recalled that the first inti the construction of a dike at the point Hensley, Wm. Gillispie, Matt Gardiner, 199.36, and demand certificates of de flour trade is active in all quarters and And in my heart they live foréver. S. H. Vaughn, L. Gillispie, Thos. Sears, of overflow to prevent further flooding posit of $4,584.88, making the total de mation of the rotundity of the earth some of the millers are nuable to fill was derived from the circumstance that They loved me once with love sincere, of the city. Some plans will probably C. W. Hensley, Frank Johnson, Her posit of $240,758.51. When it is taken all their orders. And never did their love deceive me, nan Brees, F. A. Crites, Geo. Barlow, be laid and worked out with this end in in to consideration that this is but one the earth’s shadow, cast upon the moon, is always round. Long before the The Best in the State. An’ oftimes in my conflicts here H. Hainey, Frank Van Schoick and A. view in the very near future. of two financial institutions of the city, Christian era this was noted by the The Cottage Grove Sentinel is thé They rallied quickly to relieve me. E. Davis. Wm. Gillispie is sawyer, it shows that we are not as “ hard up ” Train Delayed by Slide. Greeks, and it shook the confidence of best weekly paper published in a town I heard them bid this world adieu, Matt Gardiner, millwright and Frank as we might be. some of them in the theory of their of the size in the state—Eugene Regis I saw them on the rolling billow, A mud-slide at Cerro Gordo point on McIntyre plainerman. Saturday morning delayed the Oregon geographers which assumed that the ter. Schools Have Vacation. Their far-off home appears in view School Entertainment. & Southeastern train about two hours. The public schools closed on Wednes earth was a plane. Thé proceeds of Tuesday’s perform While yet they pressed the dying pil- The Kelley district school, situated A force of men was gathered and the day, and will not resume until next Halley’s Comet, which is now. in the ance at The Arcade was given to the low. three miles from Dorena, gave a basket track cleared in remarkably short time. Monday. rprthern part of Orion, will pass into High school piano fund. Continued on Eigth Page. 'TIS LEADING INDUSTRY METHOD IN THIS MADNESS? TELL OF PIONEER DAYS