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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1909)
(£uíí¿w (5i‘niw Äettttal VOLUME IV GIVEN INTO NEW HANDS Commercial Club Selects Mr. Hazelton as Its President. IS NATIVE OF COTTAGE GROVE Annual Meeting of Promoting Organ ization Re-elects Mr. Rosenberg Secretary—The Other Offices Carefully Filled. The Commercial club held its annual election of officers on Monday night, resulting in the] followingjselections for the ensuing year : C. C. Hazelton, president; Marion Veatch, first vice- president ; John F. Spray, second vicer president; F. H. Rosenberg, secretary; George Hall, treasurer ; trustées, F. D. Wheeler, Andrew Brand, Dr. J. O. Van Winkle, J. B. Protzman, T. S. Tyson, Lew A. Cates. The retiring president, Mr. H. 0. Thompson, briefly reviewed the work of the club during the past year, stat ing that considerable good had been ac complished, and he regarded it as a successful year. Among other things mentioned was the movement for the creation of Nesmith county. The com mittee has completed its work; the pe tition had been signed by more than 11,000 persons, and would be filed at Salem',;’within a few days. A promo tion fund of $5,000 had been raised, and the work of this department had result ed in locating quite a number of peo ple. Many inquiries are coming in daily. The club had assisted in bring ing about the proposed water system, and now it was trying to secure adarge lumbering industry. Mr. ¡ Thompson said he had enjoyed being president of the representative body of citizens, and had some regrets fin leaving^the chair, but other duties were paramount. Af ter expressing the hope that his duties had been performed satisfactorly, he thanked the members for the support given his administration, and cautioned them to acÇwisely in selecting new of ficers. ■ Mr. Rosenberg in his official capacity as secretary, reported that during the year twenty-nine’regular and five spec ial meetings had been held, and 17 members added tofthe enrollment. He mentioned that a committee had been appointed for the propagation of trout in the streams near Cottage Grove, and brought out the information from Mr. A. B. Wood that a shipment - for this purpose would probably be receiv ed in February. . President Hazelton, upon taking the chair, thanked the clubJfor the honor given him, and expressed the hope that he could be of assistance in the ad vancement ofj Cottage Grove and the development of the resources adjacent thereto. Every citizen, he said, should have civic pride in all matters pertain ing to the welfare of the city. As every American is proud of his coun try, so every citizen should be proud of Cottage Grove. THE NEW PRESIDENT. Christopher C. Hazelton is a native of Cottage Grove, having first seen the light of day in an unpretentious cabin on what is now thé O. P. Adams place in 1858. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Royal H. Hazelton, had crossed the plains and mountains in search of a new home in this garden spot of the Pacific Northwest in 1853, coming hither from Missouri. Chris’ boyhood days were spent in Cottage Grove, and here he attended the public schools. In 1883 young Hazelton took a position with the Wells Fargo Express Company, and remained in the service in different ca pacities for seventeen years, first as a shotgun messenger, guarding the treas ure, in Montana, and later as express messenger and agent. When the O. R. & N. opened for business he was an ex press messenger between Umatilla and Pendleton, and afterwards was trans ferred to the Northern Pacific, running from Portland to Helena, at which lat ter place he later became cashier in the offices of the company. In 1889 Mr. Hazelton was sent to Hasting, Nebras ka, where he became agent, and from there he was again transferred to San Antonia, Texas, in 1890 ; Corpus Chris tie in 1895, and to Albuqurerque, New Mexico, in 1899, serving at these places in the capacity of agent. , Mr. Hazelton returned to his native heath in 1900, engaging in the general merchandising business at Creswell, Where he remained five years, when after a long absence he again took up the his residence in the home of his boyhood, being identified with the Wynne Hardware Company, which con solidated with the Spray Hardware Company last April, the two former concerns now being known as the COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. DEC. 3, 1909 Spray-Wynne Company, .of which Mr. •Hazelton is secretary. In 1885 Mr. Hazelton was united in marriage to Miss Dora Scott of Cres well, and to this union three children were' born, being Mrs. Dana Lawton, Miss Hazel Hazelton, a teacher in the public schools, and Miss Nieta Hazel ton, all of this city. Miss Nieta finish ed school last year. The new president has been promi nently associated with all matters tend ing to advance the material interests of Cottage Grove. During the past three years he has been a member of the Commercial club, and has served on the board of , trustees. He is also secretary of the Merchants’ Protective association, and holds a like position with the Fair Association. He is en thusiastic over the future of this city, and its surrounding country, and ex pects to see the day when the popula tion of Cottage Grove will be 10j000 souls,- and that of Nesmith county 25,- 000. He has, in his inaugural address^ promised to exert his best efforts to the furtherance of all matters pertain ing to the welfare of the community, and in this commendable endeavor The Sentinel bespeaks for him the hearty' support and co-operation of every citi zen. ______ ____ - BUNCOED BY A YOUTH. Brothers-in-Law Touched for a Trip to Frisco, Which Failed to Come Off. One day late in October Hugh Hamp ton of Eugene was in Cottage Grove, a guest of his brother-in-law, Mr. Tyson. While leisurely strolling down the prin cipal thoroughfare he was accosted by a youth, who with tears in his eyes re lated a pitiful <tale of woe and prayed for financial assistance to get to his home in San Francisco. Mr. Hamp ton’s heart was touched by the pathetic appeal, but he hesitated.. He sought counsel with Mr. Tyson, the lad accom panying his to-be benefactor. So'earn- estly did the youth plead, and promis ing to make good ' the amount imme- diatly upon his arrival at ’Frisco, that the brothers-in-law jointly created a sufficient fund to relieve the unfortu nate situation, and he was sent upon his way rejoicing. That’s only the first chapter of the story. The unsophisticated country lad arrested in Los Angeles for work ing a similar bunco deal is supposed, from the description given, to bp the same person who touched the Lane co.unty men. The lad had worked citi zens of Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, his story being practically the same in every place. ALEXANDER SELLS FARM. An Eighty-Acre Tract at Divide Sold to Washington Men for $3,750. David Alexander of Divide this week sold to Messrs. Harris and Schiebner of Washington, who came to Cottage Grove recently to look around, 80 acres, the consideration being $3750. This is conceded to be one of the best buys around here. The buildings are nearly all new, the soil is of a rich loam and well watered by several springs and living water—just the kind- of soil adapted for the raising of fruits and berries. Mr. Alexander has 175 bear ing trees, and last year put out a young orchard of 12 acres. He planted apples of the Spitzenberg and Newton Pippin varieties, and also the Franquette Wal nut. He experimented with alfalfa, and the result proved to be very satis factory. He had eggs the year around, rain or shine, as the chickens got to camping on the alfalfa ground several hours each day. It is the purpose of the new owners to > enlarge the orchard and raise chickens on a large scale. THAT AWFUL HILL AGAIN. INTEREST IS LACKING DESIRE TIMBER SOLD President Clark Arraigns Citi Petitions to District Forester zens of Oregon's Metropolis. Urge Closing of Deal. NEEDS OF THE BOHEMIA CAMP DOCUMENT LARGELY SIGNED R. H. Clark Says System of Treating Two Business Organizations and Hun Ores by Cyanide Process Would be dreds of Citizens Express Their Means of Developing Mining Faith in the Forest Department In This Camp. to Protect Water. Mr. R. H. Clark, president of the Petitions to the Hon, C. S. Chapman, Combination Mines Company of Bohe district forester, signed officially by mia, while in Portland a few days since the Commercial club, Merchants’ Pro- arraigned the citizens of Oregon’s me telctive Association and several hundred tropolis for their lack of interest in citizens, urging the sale of timber in the mining industry of the state. To a the forest reserve, have been forward newspaper repòrter he told the needs ed to tjie Forest Department. The pe of the district, tallying with views of tition is as follows: the situation heretofore expressed by Hon. C. S. Chapman, District Fores The Sentinel. He said: ter, Portland, Oregon—Dear Sir: The - ' “There is a general impression undersigned citizens of Cottage Grove, throughout the state,” he said, “that in Lane county, State of Oregon, would Oregon has no mines, while as a mat most .respectfully represent and show ter of fact there is a fine mining dis that it is the sense of the great major trict in Bohemia. We have good show ity of the citizens and inhabitants of ing, but Portland capital is not willing said city and vicinity that the proposed to invest there. What we need most is sale of Forest reserve timber on and in transportation, as at present 'our sul the vicinity of Layng creek, if consum phide ores in. Lower Bohemia have to mated would be for the best interests be carried by wagon for 12 miles, and of the community and the whole peo that is prohibitive. The nearest sriiel- . ple, and that if the said sale is not made ter is Tacoma. We really “need - a sys and carried out it will materially re tem of treating the ore on the ground tard the commercial welfare of the by the cyanide process. We have no whole county, and; Cottage Grove in such plant at present and as a result particular; that the action of the For even the free-milling ores lose all the estry Department in respect to the sale baser metals such as copper, lead and pf said timber has and will have our zinc, of which the ores carry an abun largest support And co-operation, and dance. jwe feel that the said department will, “The result is that we have little in its. wisdom, exercise a wise discre money for development in our mines. tion in the protection of any proposed We cannot get anything but ores and water appropriation that has or may no matter how good the ores may be hereafter be made, and we are willing we cannot obtain the values from them to entrust said matter to the determin unless they be free-milling ores, and ation of said department and its of those we, of Lower Bohemia, are not ficers. interested, in. Our ores are all sul We further desire to represent and phide. snow that the said proposed sale of said “That brings usto what we really timber and /the action of the depart need-?-capital for development. When ment in the premises has the good will the proposition is placed before Polît-, and support of practically the whole of land people they simply look at you, said city andJcommnnity, and will have talk courteodsly and say a farewell in any action that may be taken, and and do not invest. They have been we desire al this time to express our wildcatted so often that they cannot confidence Ind that of the community see a good propositión when it is put in the abili' y and integrity of the offi before them. Why, in Bohemia I have cials of sai 1 department and in their seep ores so good that they have been conduct an< management of its affairs, robbed of thousands by the miners, who arid particuarly with reference to the simply broke off pieces' of the ore of matter of he sale of said timber and great, value and left. Portland should feel if the ¡aid sale should be prevent b.e willing to develop one of its great ed that it v suld inflict a great calamity industries and I cannotprecall why suqh Upon the co imunity, and that we would little interest is taken.” have lost ■ ur opportunity to profit by the action i <f the department in placing ABANDONS THE PROJECT. said timbel idly T on’ ’ sale ' if ” we stood ' - by • and prevented irfx the same to be defeated Locating Engineer for Railroad to without protest. , Coast Quits Us Cold. Wherefbre we earnestly petition you Some weeks ago George C. Yale, a and your department to proceed with constructing engineer of Portland, was the sale a said timber as contemplated in Cottage Grove looking up the oppor and advertised. tunities pffered for building of a rail ---------- road from this city to the coast. The MILLIONS WILL VIEW US. proposition was looked upon with favor by the Promotion department of the Kiser Ectures to Visit All Larger Commençai club, and Mr. Yale was in Cities on the Continent. vited to give the matter further con The kiser hand painted views of Ore sideration, some finanical aid being gon, is which Cottage Grove is liberal assured, but up to date that gentleman ly represented, will give millions of has failed to respond. It is, therefore, peop e throughout the south and east probable that the project has been an < pportunity to gain some valuable abandoned by him. info: mation regarding this great un- deve oped state. The itinerÿ will oc- Will Incorporate Company. Mr. A. B. Wood, although’having re cupj an entire twelvemonth, during ceived no word-from the Forest Depart whi< 1 period every city of greatest im ment regarding finally consummating port nee on the Harriman lines, includ the negotiations for the timber, is en ing > an Francisco, Los Angeles, Hous- gaged in the organization of a company ton, New Orleans, El Paso, Washing- for the purpose of carrying no the pro ton, New York, Boston, Baltimore, posed lumbering operations in the na Phil idelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Al tional forest reserve. This is made ban; , Louisville, Cincinnati, Toledo, necessary by the fact that no transfer Colmbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. can be made of the purchase, either to Lou 3, Kansas City, Qmaha, St. Paul, corporations or individuals. The com Min eapolis, Denver, Salt Lake, Og pany, which will be composed in part of den, Boise, Spokane, Seattle and Ta- eastern capitalists, will be incorporat com/ will be visited. Notice of dates ed under the laws of the state of Ore will be given through the newspapers gon, and will probably have a large of e ch city. capitalization. Mr. Wood appears to AMONG THE FARMERS. be confident that the sale will be effect ed. _______________ Sevi ral Specimens of Fruits and Vege County Court Wants the Grade Re duced to Six Per Cent. The Shortridge hill will probably be permanently repaired next summer, and made passable at all times. The Sentinel understands that the county court has agreed to provide funds for graveling the hill when it is reduced to a 6 per cent grade. If this be true, and our authority seems to be good, it will be nècéssary to still reduce the grade 2 per cent, as jt now stands at 8. It appears to be the policy of the county court to reduce all hill grades to this minimum wherever possible, and when this requirement is met in the Short It Creates An Appetite. ridge hill district the highway at this Parker’s Bakery, recognized as the point will doubtless be heavily gravel foremost institution of its kind in Cot ed and made permanent. tage Grove, has an announcement in The Sentinel calling attention to thé Meets With Accident. W. J. Paris, who resides on the ranch fact that while flour prices have, sailed recently acquired by C. F. Walker south skyward the price of bread remains un of town, slipped and fell on the blade changed. A nickle, a half a dime,"buys of an axe on Saturday, cutting a gash a loaf of the regulation weight, which under existing conditions is considered in his left arm above the elbow. cheaper than the good housewife can Real Estate Transfers. produce it. Parker’s bread is said to G. F. King has transferred to W. B. create an appetite for more. Cooper lots 3 and 4 in block 2 of D. G. Literary Exercises. McFarland’s fifth addition. W. B. Cooper has transferred to B. K. Law- Literary exercises ate in progess at son and Marion Veatch lot 4 of block the high school as The Sentinel goes to press this Friday afternoon. 2, same addition. tables Brought to Club Rooms. Jasper Patten, who has 112 acres six milss east of Cottage Grove, made a re- maiKably good showing the past sea son.? There are fifty acres under culti vation, small fruits and berries. His oats ■ went 70 bushels to the acre, madnine measure; his yellow dent corn 34 bushels;.his wheat 24 bushels, and on 'half an acre of ground he raised 97 sacks of potatoes weighing 112 pounds to tne sack. John Trannell of South of town has brought to the Commercial club rooms for exhibit some handsome specimens of Baldwin apples, a cluster of Califor nia Mission grapes weighing three pounds, and a sweet potato squash. It NUMBER ' has been said that this vegetable could not be successfully grown in the Wil lamette valley, but Mr. Trannell has demonstrated differently. H. D. Parmenter, who resides four miles northwest of town, has brought Great Advancement Made Dur a handsome display of Bartlett pears, ing Past Half Century. Baldwin apples and potatoes, all rais ed at an elevation of 1800 feet. There has been no frosts in that neighborhood. Mr. Parmeriter raises tobacco and pea SCHOOL HAD NO WINDOWS nuts on the place. success. ■Twenty-five boxes of apples selected from orchards^ in various parts of the District Originally Comprised Territory state were forwarded yesterday to the Eight Miles by Six—This Country Oregon delegation for distribution Was Then Very Sparcely Set among the delegates to the Rivers and tled.—Schools of Today. Harbors Congress, which will convene in Washington December 8-10. With the shipment of apples, which Will be Those boys and girls who are today distributed for advertising purposes, enjoying the excellent educational ad 500 pamphlets dealing With the resour vantages offered by the city of Cottage ces of Oregon were also sent. Grove should read with interest the Brings Suit to Recover. following article from the Superlative, An action has been instituted in the the high school paper, which gives a circuit court for Lane county by the brief history of the schools here in an Disston Lumber Company against the early day: Chambers Lumber company to recover “Since the first school house near a balance of $253.29 alleged to be due Cottage Grove was built, a little over on a bill of lumber amounting to $815. fifty years ago, the advancement in the schools has been very great., In the THE LORANE VALLEY. early fifties the greater part of this valley formed one large district about Churchill-Matthews Have 200 Acres eight miles long and six miles wide. In Ploughed—Three New Settlers. 1853, near the present site of Woodard’s The Churchill-Matthews Company of mill, the first schoolhouse in this sec Portland, recent purchasers of 1000 tion of the country was built. K It was a acres of land in the Lorane valley, have one-room log building with a large fire about 200 acres ploughed and expect tq place in one end and with openings in complete 300 acres before the first otf the walls ’ which served as windows. the new year. They will set this tract This old log schoolhouse was also used to fruit trees in February and follow as a church, and many pioneer preach up the work as rapidly as possible. ers, who passed through this valley, Six teams and fifteen men are employ preached there. ed. The tract is being fenced. “This section of Oregon became riiore Wm. Lynch of Kansas has purchased thickly settled and it was not long be the Norris place of two hundred acres fore a larger schoolhouse was needed. in Lorane, paying $4000 therefore. He About the year 1860 a second and more will improve the place, and make it modern building was erected, and had blossom as a rose. glass windows. Then, as in many Mary Lybarger of California has country places, the school lasted but bought seven acres of land in the Lo three months of the year. rane valley Of Andrew Olive, and has “On account of the great distance taken up her residence on the tract. the majority; of the scholars had to go T. C. Humphreys of Goshen has also through rain and mud and, in'the thin purchased a tract of land in this valley. ly-settled country, many were unable M. B. Stone of Lorane is surveying to attend school only during the sum an irrigation ditch and will water be mer months. In the latter part of the tween forty and sixty • acres .of land. seventies the most enterprising settlers He will take the water from the Sius- succeeded in getting the one large dis law at a point below the tee bridge/ trict divided into three smaller ones. and carry it about one-half mile. For two or three years school, was held W. W. Jackson has a handsome exhib in the old Methodist church, which it of grains, fruits and vegetables ¿t some of us have seen, and later, about his store in Lorane, provided by the 1880, the first school house in Cottage farmers of the valley. Among other Grove proper was built. This school things shown are field corn, apples, house was near the old Locust street squash, carrots, sugar beets and po-. wagon bridge, on the west side of the tatoes. ______________ river, and although never a very solid building, was used as a schoolhouse for MAY RESUME WORK SOON. nearly ten years when, in 1890, the Rumor Afloat That Line From Drain back part of our present High school to Coos Bay Will Go. building was built. But so rapid was That “hope springs eternal in the the growth of the country that in a few human breast” is exemplified in the years it became necessary to enlarge revival of a rumor that the Southern the new building and the front of the Pacific will soon resume the building present building was added. Again of a line from Drain to Coos Bay. In more school room was needed and, in 1905 the Southern Pacific began build 1904, the West side building was com ing a banch line to Coos Bay. A large pleted and we think it will not be many amount of rails, cement and other build years before a new high school will be ing material were delivered at Drain necessary. “Up to 1890 the school was nothing and Scotsburg and hundreds of men were put to work grading. All at once more than an average, grammar school, the work was stopped and later on all but about that tiine two more grades of the material was removed, Since were added, thus including part of the then a committee was sent to Mr. Har high school course. Several years after riman asking that the branch line be the two remaining grades were added, built, but so far there has been no ac and Cottage Grove now has a high tivity, Now that it is reported repre school as well as a grammar school. sentatives of the Southern Pacific are Later, trouble arose as to whether Cot on Coos Bay with, a view of starting tage Grove High was a legal high actual work soon, there is a renewed school or not, but it was decided by interest in the project, which has for Judge Hamilton that it was a legal high some time past been regarded as a school, and since then it has grown very hopeless railway prospect. rapidly and is now on the accredited list of a number of universities and col INTERESTING READING. leges.” _______________ Complimentary Letters Regarding Com The Moon Hides Its Face. munity Booklet Are Received. The total eclipse of the moon Satur Mr. A. B. Wood has received a letter day night was plainly visible, the sky from C. B. Osgood of New York, secre being clear, and not a few witnessed tary and assistant treasurer of the the phenomenon. At about 11 o’clock West Coast Mines operating in the Bo the east side of the lunar orb became hemia camp, acknowledging receipt of, slightly flattened and then gradually a copy of the community booklet. He the curved line of shade covered the says: “I wish to thank you for the face at 12 o’clock. There was only a books descriptive of Cottage Grove, thin crescent of light left. The shadow which certainly make very interesting began to clear before 1:30 and had reading. They are very well gotten passed away entirely within an hour. up, and the illustrations are beautiful. Sawmill Makes Big Cut. The book published by the Commercial club is indeed a credit to that organiza The Booth-Kelly sawmill at Spring field Saturday made the biggest cut of tion.” Froin a Michigan capitalist Mr. Wood lumber in the history of the mill, cut has also received this letter : “I want ting 172,000 feet of lumber in one day’s to thank you for sending me the write shift of ten hours in a mill, .the capa up of Cottage Grove. It is a dandy, city of which is only rated at 125,000. and one that your Commercial club can The lumber is being shipped as fast as well be proud of. I think it is one of it is cut. The record before stood at the best, if not the best, I have ever something above 160,000. seen. This booklet, and the bad weath Farmer Dies Suddenly. er we are now having, makes us again Oscar Karlstrom, a farmer residing think of the old saying, ‘young man, west of Eugene, while on his way go west.’” ) home, was suddenly stricken with heart Chas. Braneau, who’ was injured in a trouble or some other ailment and died, Bohemia mine recenty, has been taken falling from his buggy into the road as to a hospital at Eugene. He is recov he was passing the F. L. Marshall ering. farm. EARLY DAY SCHOOLS
