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Cottage VOLUME IV___________ ■ ' COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY. DEC. 31/1909. imitoi 2 Sections NUMBER 13 ’V*" [ THE FUTURE OF COTTAGEGROVE LOOKS BRIGHT] In a general interview with the mer will be something doing. As indicated lots in McFarland’s addition, consider institutions, with deposits of 2 over chants and other business people of Cot above, residence property will probably ation $2000. $250,000. ; . tage Grove, The Sentinel gains the in be in greater demand than centrally sit D. C. Baughman to E. L. Howe five Cottage Grove has fifteen teachers in formation that the year 1909 has been uated business lots. With the number acres, $1222. its public schools. one of universal prosperity, the volume of business blocks erected the past sea J. Baker to Rowland Hull, tract of Cottage Grove has levied a school tax of business transacted during the son the supplyj’is adequate for the pre -land; $300. ' of 10 mills on an assessed valuation of twelvemonth being satisfactory in a sent. Suburban lots will probably find $575,995 for school purposes. majority of instances. In some cases, ready market. That realty in Cottage Upon the door I saw a sign; But what a guide for life was that— COTTAGE GROVE HN BRIEF. ‘ Cottage Grove has 658 children of as is natural to suppose, the increase has Grove will never be cheaper than now I cried, “A motto! And it’s mine!” Strong, philosophical and pat; pottage Grove was founded in 1867. school age, giving the city a population been~greater than in others, due in a no one familiar with obtaining condi A wiser thing I never saw— How safe a chart for you and me Every telephone or telegraph message, of 2916, a considerable increase over considerable measure to the energy and tions will doubt, and a full realization No Median or Persian law While cruising o’er life’s sea: every letter, every pound of freight 1908. get-thereitiveness of the individual be of this fact will prompt early purchases. Cottage Grove high school has 770 Push, always push, with good in view; and every passenger who travels north hind the gun. It is a significant fact, Considerable work along public im Should be more rigidly enforced» volumes in its library. and one which'The Sentinel cannot re provement lines is promised for the Than this, from verbiage divorced— Don’t knock—avoid the hammer crew, and south between the Cascade moun Cottage Grove has six churches, and tains and the Pacific ocean, whether by frain from incidentally mentioning, year, among which may be mentioned Its logic’s firm as any rock— This rule will save you many a shock; wagon or rail, passes through tljis city. five church edifices. Another is being that the institutions that used printer’s the construction of a gravity water sys “Push—don’t knock.” “Push—don’t Knock.” Cottage Grove will have another saw erected. ink unstintingly are the ones to report tem costing $100,000, and the paving of Cottage Grove has a beautiful public mill within its jurisdiction within a the greatest prosperity, proving beyond the city’s principal thoroughfare. “ The ’Twas simply meant to guide the hand When on that door I see the sign, park, centrally located. month. W. T. Hankins of Star and J. reasonable doubt the assertion fre financial condition of the municipality Of those who wished to sit or stand I say, “Great Motto! You are mine!” O. Dunn of Oregon City are the pro Cottage Grove has an electric light quently made in these cólumns that, is improving. While the treasury is Within the unassuming door „ No stronger sermon ever fell moters, and the industry will be at Bed and power plant, with 24-hour service. keeping everlastingly at it brings suc depleted, so far as the general fund is Cottage Grove is the gateway to the Rock, on the O. & S. E. From human lips; no sage could tell concerned, past indebtedness is being This weight of sermony that, bore, cess. Bohemia gold-mining camp. More Cottage Grove has five ^passenger Several of the most pretentious busi liquidated and within a reasonably short ‘Twas never meant to teach or preach, The hot-head youth more nearly how than $700,000 has been taken from the trains each way daily. ness establishments will soon be in the time there is hope that we shall be But just to place in easy reach To point always his vessel’s prow; Cottage Grove has the banner two- district in five years. midst of stock-taking, and until this an- again on Easy street. The ear of him who dealt it stock— There are no wiser words Tn stock; Cottage Grove’s creamery is making year-old apple orchard in the state. A careful summary of the situation - nual round-up is completed they will “Push—don’t knock.” Cottage Grove has a poultry associa 100 pounds of butter daily. “Push—don’t knock.” ■ not know definitely just where they are leads The Sentinel to the bold assertion Cottage Grove is the poultry-raising tion that holds annual exhibitions in at, so to speak. Yet these assert in un that Cdttage Grove is today one of the paradise of Oregon. mistakable terms that, all things con very best cities of its size in Oregon, timent for better streets, and it is prob TRANSFERS FOR FOUR MONTHS. January. Cottage Grove will raise $11,519 for Cottage Grove, while not large sidered, they have enjoyed a successful and with the push and energy it justly able that a larger number of residence Since October 1 last considerable city enough for a lodge, has forty-seven municipal purpose for 1910. year’s business, and that the ledger merits injected into it, will grow and streets will be improved in 1910. Main and rural property has changed owner Cottage Grove has $15,000 sewer will make a very satisfactory showing. prosper even in excess of the most fan street will undoubtedly be paved, over ship, and if this is an indication of the Elks. bonds outstanding. Cottage Grove will be the seat of 80 per cent of the property owners on Trade was somewhat slow in opening, ciful dreams of the sanguine. The year’s transactions the real estate busi justice of Nesmith county in 1910. Cottage Grove picks ripe strawberries but notwithstanding this fact season statements of our financial institutions that thoroughfare have endorsed the ness has prospered. We do not pretend Cottage Grove Oddfellows lodge has and raspberries in December and Janu able goods in all lines were fairly-well make a gratifying exhibit, and show movement by signing a petition asking to have the record complete, but gather ary. cleared, and merchants took on new in that money is not lacking in the com that the work be performed. Quite a the following deals in dirt from files of a membership of forty. Cottage Grove has an active Com Cottage Grove enjoys 286 nice days voices as the year advanced with con munity, which is a recommendation for large number of concrete sidewalks i'he Sentinel since it came under its mercial club, with a Promotion depart out of the 365. Summer weather is sel have been built during the year. fidence. The holiday trade as a whole any town. present management. dom above 80. ment. was exceptionally good, and compara And now, while the future appears Cottage Grove’s surrounding country SEWER SYSTEM. Cottage Grove will have one of the bright, is an appropriate time to bestir tively little stock goes over. S. V. Allison to Worth Harvey tract largest orchards in the state next year. raises to the acre 40 bushels of wheat, Since 1904 Cottage Grove has con ourselves' for even greater things. BUILDED SUBSTANTIALLY. of land; $1800. Churchill-Matthews are setting 1000 85 bushels of oats, machine measure, There is work to be accomplished if we structed 5,400 lineal feet of main sewer Sarah M. Morss to Booth-Kelly com arces west of town to trees. What the new year will bring forth 60 bushels of barley, 40 bushels of corn, and 19,327 lineal feet of laterals, or would advance *beyond our natural pany, 320 acres. remains to be seen, but expectations of 200 bushels of potatoes. Jersey cows feeders, making a total of 24,727 feet. Cottage Grove has 16,000,000,000 feet G. M. Dyer to a Mr. Freeman, resi of standing timber tributary to it, and to net from $80 to $120. Sheep and goats the citizenship of Cottage Grove are growth, and the drones, of which we Of this aggregate amount 3,780 feet have some, should be brushed aside by dence and three acres, $2600. most sanguine, the general opinion be no other shipping point. It is the lar are profitable. All grasses' yield abun were constructed during the past sea those willing, and anxious, to put a E. D. Handy to L. E. Slagle, two gest body of standing timber in the dantly. ing that it will eclipse its predecessor. shoulder to the wheel in behalf of pro son at an expense of $2,330.20. Over city lots; $1450. The prospects are that good will come world today. It costs $7.50 per thous 4,700 was built last year, 825 feet in Cottage Grove is the starting point gress. ________ Wm. Landess to Dora Waters, two and to manufacture, and this involves for big hunts. Cougar, wild vat, lynx, out of the agitation of home trading, 1907, 800 feet in' 1906, and 2,000 feet, in but this movement, here as elsewhere, BUILDINGS ERECTED. an. expenditure of $120,500,000. 1905. The west side of the river is said city lots; $275. deer, grouse, pheasants and" quail are Oliver Hart to Fingal Hinds, tract. i must be fostered by the merchants, who Five handsome and substanial busi to have the largest proportion of sew Cottage Grove’s assessed valuation found. Mountain trout abound in the JS. F. King to W. B. Cooper, two city I can do more toward consummating the ness buildings have been erected dur ers. streams. is $575,995. lots. faired result than a conbination of all ing- the past year at a cost of $42,000. Cottage Grove’s population is 95 per Cottage Grove has the best team of POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS. .... W. B. Cooper to B. K. Lawson and cent American. other interests. When the thousands The B. K. Lawson building, 50x95 feet, marksmen in the Oregon National At the present rate of increase in the Marion Veatch, city lot. of dollars that now annually go abroad two stories, with two storerooms, cost Cottage Grove 'has one sawmill and Guard. ’ are turned into the natural channels of $8,000; the Herman Venske two story postal receipts at the Cottage Grove —i—, Norris to Wm. Lynch, 200 acre two planing mills, and one sash and Cottage Grove postal receipts are in home commerce Cottage Grove will building, 50x95, cost $8,000.; the C. C. postoffice at the close of the fiscal year in Lorane; $4000. door factory within the corporate lim creasing at the rate of $1,500 for the next June there will have been a gain Andrew Oliver to Mary Lybarger, 7 its. Also a flouring mill. doubly prosper. This condition is, of Woodward block, 74x90, with four present fiscal year. course, looked forward to with hope and storerooms and office rooms on the sec of more than $1000 over the previous acres in Lorane. Cottage Grove is receiving about for Cottage Grove has four Star mail year. The total receipts for the last W. B. Cooper to Arthur Woodring, ty inquiries a day from contemplating routes. anxiety, but we are as a community ond floor, cost $14,000; the Oliver ! builded on a solid and enduring founda- Veatch and T. C. Wheeler double two- fiscal year—sale of stamps and box ■tract; $130. settlers. Cottage Grove has a Merchants’ Pro ■ tion and Cottage Grove will continue its story building, 46x95, cost $8,000, and rents Only—amounted to $5,937.40 while W. B. Cooper to August Labsch, Cottage Grove has thirty-one saw tective association, and ,a bunch of for the first three months of the pre tract; $120. march to the foremost rank of Oregon the A. J. Steward one-story building, mills tributary to it—and more coming. live wires belong to it. Wm. Lane to Helen Nowell, part of The monthly payroll exceeds $55,000. y Cottage Grove will have a handsome cities even though Shears & Sawbuck 30x95', cost $4,000. W. V. DeWald put sent year, ending Sept. 30, from the same source aggregate $1,315.50. Did city lot; $100. get some of the home dollars—its pro up a frame store building on Fourth Cottage Grove is the home of the fa new passenger station after its main Orson Willard to Albert Willard, two mous Calapooya mineral springs water. street is paved. gress can only be unnecessarily retard street at a cost of $1,500 in addition to the figures show receipts from all sources this amount-would be very ma city lots; $2000. ed. It is situated in the garden spot of the above. . Cottage Grove has some knockers terially augmented. S. C. Counts to Wm. Moore, 157 acres; but, thank the Lord, they are in the the great Willamette Valley ; the soil A comparatively large number of The Week of Prayer. $1200. surrounding it is incomparable and its dwellings have been erected the past minority. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Commencing Sunday evening Janu M. K. Hawley to W. A. Ward, half agricultural possibilities are utfsúrpass- year, but inasmuch as the present man Cottage GroVe this year raised eleven ary 2, and continuing until Sunday The Volunteer fire department, at of city lot; $300. ed; its natural resources are unrivaled, agement of The Sentinel has been in the head of which is Orvill Knapp, has Burbank potatoes, the aggregate length evening the 9th, the Presbyterian, Bap Edgar King to A. H. King, tract; of which was 240 inches. and with these, and other advantages it Cottage Grove only four months it is made only eight runs during the past tist, Christian and Methodist churches is well fortified against the enemy. impossible to compile a complete list. year; most of the responses have been $100.- Cottage Grove is the home of the ap will hold a series of meetings together. Phillip H. Jones to W. A. Hartung, ple, pear, prune, cherry and of all sma\ The person who possesses the average Following, however, are a few of the flue-fires. ' The heaviest loss of the The gatherings assemble at the usual foresight of mankind can see an ex late ones : O. M. Kem, dwelling, 30x season - was sustained by the Cottage three acres, $250. fruits and berries. hour, 7:30 p.m. Each service starts Oregon & California company to Jesse ceedingly rosy future for Cottage 42, $4000; J. F. Spray, dwelling, $1600; Grove Mercantile company early in Cottage Grove has quicksilver mines off with song, prayer and testimony, Grove. Aside from the twenty-one J. A. Elledge, dwelling, $2000 ; B. the year, in the Stewart & Porter build McKibben, 20 acres; .$280. eighteen miles distant. followed by a sermon. The Methodist sawmills now successfully operáting in Lurch, cottage, $1000 ; Oregon & South- ; ing fire, but the damages was princi J. M. Comer to A. T. Crandall, city Cottage Grove is a clean town, with church will be the convening place Sun and adjacent to the city, another indus eastern Railroad company, roundhouse, pally from water. The Grifiin-Veatch residence property. a good moral atmosphere. No saloons. day and Monday; the Christian church J. Baker to R. Hull, one and a half Cottage Grove will have an'electric try of similar character is being pro $1100; 'F. G. Stiller, dwelling, $1100; company also suffered some loss by this Tuesday and Wednesday; the Presby moted that will manufacture from our Albert Zinicker, dwelling, $800; Davé fire, as did also Dr. Ingram. The Burk acres; $800. line from Portland—sometime. terian church Thursday and Friday, and magnificent forests 173,000,000 feet of Scholl, dwelling, $1000; C. C. Wood holder-Woods company also suffered John Nokes to Frank Murray, two Cottage Grove is an ideal location for the Christian church the final service city lots, $250. standing timber into the merchantable ward, dwelling, $2000 ; Mrs. T. Allen, slight loss by fire during the year. The woodworking factories of various kinds. on Sunday evening. Every effort is to J. I. Jones to A. H. Morningstar, one Raw materials in abundance at low be made to make these gatherings sea commodity. The mining industry prom bungalow, $1350; W. B. Cooper, dwell aggregate loss is not available, as no ises new activity, several of the const , ing $1100; A. J. Stewart, bungalow, record is kept by the fire companies, as acre; $300. prices. sons of great blessing, and it is hoped John Nokes to Geo. Atkinson, two panies now operating in the Bohemia $1500; M. Miller, dwelling, $600; A. H. should be done. The Sentinel recom- Cottage Grove raised a fund of about .that the results shall more than com district preparing for greater things. Morningstar, dwelling, $5ÌM); George mends to Chief Knapp that a complete city lots, $250. $5,000 for promotion work this year. pensate preachers and people for the New home-builders are coming hither Bisby, dwelling; Joseph Sams, dwell record of every run, together with loss John Nokes to Dr. Praschall, city lot, Cottage Grove is destributing 20,000 extra efforts put forth. Next week the from the east with the westward tide ing; Dr. Paschall, dwelling^ $800; Bap and insurance, be acurately kept for $125. books descriptive of this immediate complete program of speakers and top John Norman to M. N, Lewis, forty section, at a cost of $2330, which figure ics will be given. ~ of immigration, and we may expect a tist society, church building, 48x48, 1910. greater influx during the approaching $3000; M. Caldwell, cottage; Thos. Al There are two companies, one each acres. also includes magazine advertising. Edgar King to Bank of Cottage Grove year. Our geographical position makes len, cottage ; W. Hubbell, warehouse. on the east and west sides, the former Buildings Are Safe. Cottage Grove has a Woman’s Club it possible to build here a city of no in Improvements—White, business build Company having a membership of 28 tract; $1000. that is famous for its progressive spir It having been intimated by a contrib Alfred D. Gordon to Joseph Brieher, it. It is an important factor in getting utor to The Sentinel that the heating, considerable proportions and impor ing; M. Miller, dwelling, $3000; M. P. and the latter 22. Geo. Broomfield, is tance, regardless of the few obstruc Garoutte, dwelling, $400 ; Ed. Laun, captain of the west side. The apparat ten acres, $2400. civic improvements. ventilating and sanitary conditions of tionists in the pathway of progress, of dwelling, $550; Alf. Powell; dwelling, us consists of a chemical engine, horse / D. G. Hubbard to Thos. Allen, 176 Cottage Grove will have a new saw the public school buildings were not which we have comparatively few. $500 ; W. C. Conner, dwelling, $150, carts, extension ladders, and other fire acres, $2400. mill early in 1910. It will saw 175,000,- what they should be, and that the lives Before another twelvemonth shall Presbyterian church', $200. fighting implements. Monthly meet Sherman Clark to Combination Mines 000 feet of standing pine into the mer of pupils' and teachers were endanger have rolled ’round Nesmith county will Co. Topekak Quartz Mining Claim. The Rural District—Star Lumber Co., ings are held by the companies. chantable product in five years. ed from fire, Superipténdent Barnes have been organized with Cottage Grove sawmill 50x150 near Wildwdod—incom Edwin Tuller to Geo. McQueen, two Cottage Grove will be advertised dur caused an examination of the buildings as the seat of justice, and this will plete; Will White, barn 60x80; Royal city lots. ing 1910 in, every town of importance to be made by Mr. A. Nelson, a heating FINES FOR THE YEAR. prove an important factor in our up school, addition 30x32, $500 ; Bud Por During the year 1909 City Recorder Geo. Berry to Fingal Hinds, half of in the east and middle west by lantern and ventilating engineer. Mr. Nelson building and material prosperity. The . ter, dwelling, $1200 ; Mr. Sanderson, VanDenberg, before whom come all city lot. slides. A ten-months tour will be says the sanitation is good, and that people of the great state of Oregon Lorane, residence, $2000; S. F. Jack- breaehers of the peace, collected in W. C. Monroe to J. T. Short, city made. there is no danger of fire from furnaces, have been appealed to to champion this son, Jerry Pipes, W. I. Coleman, G. W„ fines $272.50, drunks contributing all lot; $600. Cottage Grove’s mineral display at pipes or flues. He, however, says the worthy cause, and in November next Sanderson, W. C. Billings and M. Gil except a few dollars of the aggregate J. D. Matlock to J. W. Eddy, city the Seattle fair received honorable heat and ventilation of the east side will give the votes necessary for the lispie, all of Lorane, have built barns. amount. lot; $600. building is defective, and recommends, mention. success of the undertaking. David Alexander to Harris & Schieb- Cottage Grove has more telephone a remedy. If these are the conditions WATER SYSTEM. . ACTIVITY IS PROMISED. OUR LIGHTING SYSTEM. ner, 80 acres; $3750. Subscribers than any town of its size in which obtain, The Sentinel’s contribu The year 1910 promises no inconsider At present this city has an inade The local electric lighting/company R. H. Clark to Combination Mining Oregon—654. The company will ex tor must have rushed into print without quate water supply for all seasons of able activity alofig building lines, but ' has expended about $3000 in improve Co. Kokoms Mining Claim, Bohemia pend $20,000 on its plant here after being sure of his ground. outside of residences we cannot hope to the year, but $100,000 bonds have been ments during, the past year, and con-- Mining districtt. January 1. voted for a gravity system from a moun place the record of 1909 in the back Aged Partners Quarrel. template improvements aggregating R. H Glark to Combination Mining Cottage Grove is the trade center for ground, for present conditions do not tain stream eighteen miles distant, and about $10,000 for early in the new year, Co., Delpas Mining Claim, Bohemia a vast surrounding country. Mike Daly, an aged horsetrader, was will be Constructed forthwith. Bids warrant the erection of the samé num- this 1 provided a contract for six years at re Mining district. Cottage Grove is one of the import- shot by his partner, Ambrey Grace, al her of business blocks. However, un for construction work will be opened duced rates, now pending before the T. C. Wheeler to Mrs. Emma Best, ant towns on the Southern Pacific rail- so a man of age, at Eugene on Sunday, and awarded January 3. During the less plans now making miscarry, at 1 council, is entered into. The company iract of land; $900. road. with a shot gun, inflicting a serious least three pretentious business struc- six 1 months ending Sept. 30, the present now has something over 4000 incandes Geo. E. Quiggie to J. C. MeCougher. Cottage Grove can supply a greater wound in the left leg. The two had system netted the city $2,002. 'tares will be built, while certainly the 1 cent lights, and about 20 arcs, and has city'lot. railroad tonnage than any other equal been drinking all the day and night be residence districts will be expanded by STREET IMPROVEMENTS. refused to take on additional ones be Maggie A. Seals to J. S. Milne, tract area on the Pacific Coast. fore and became engaged i in a fight. the building of additional dwellings. During 1909 seven streets have been cause of the inadequacy of the plant. of land,- $150. Cottage Grove’s altitude is 671, be Grace brought out his shotgun and fired Real estate is firm, and while there graded ¡ and graveled under contract, Should the contract spoken of be ac- D. C. Baughman to R. M. Veatch yond the frost line, and out of the hot at Daly, the full charge entering the is comparatively little activity at pre- " the aggregate sum thus expended be cepied the capacity will be doubled 11 1-2 acres; $3000. belt. leg below the knee, severing an artery. sent, with the opening of spring there : ing $5,148.50. There is a general sen- without delay. * Marion Veatch to J. M. Harvey three Cottage Grove has two solid financial Grace was thrown into jail. PUSH—DON’T KNOCK