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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1910)
IT’S A ROBUST INFANT Fruit Industry in Lane County Is Growing. SOMETHING ABOUT SPRAYING for passage money. A few days ago, upon being refused again, young Prit chard went out into the field and shot one of his father’s cows. The boy locked himself in his room every night, and constantly clung to his rifle. It is thought his-mind has been deranged on account of worry for fear that he will be arrested as a deserter from the United States Army, he having desert ed two or three years ago, according to his own statement at the previous ex amination before the insanity commis sion. - __________ NEWS FROM BOHEMIA. Considerable Activity in the Gold Min ing District. Harry H. Parker came down from the Bohemia district on Saturday and returned Monday. During the fall and winter one mile of tunnel has been made on the Sarah Alien claim; and it is now just thirty feet to the expected shoot. Mr. Parker has been in the dis trict four years, and says' there has been less snow this winter than at ary time during that period, thirty inches being the greatest depth. Therens nothing doing at the North Fairview at present. At the Grizley cross-cutting is bejng prosecuted by President Klopfensten, Cochran and Johnson. A machine, the only one in the entire district, is in operation; J. S. Coffman is spending a fortnight in Cottage Grove. He has been drift ing on the ledge on H. H. Veatch’s claim, located on Elephant Mountain at the head of' Weaver creek. There is REALESTATE over 100 feet of tunnel. LOANS Mr. Lilly will commence on 100 feet !'"'JRANCE AND of tunnel at the Golden Slipper about COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON February 1, he ’ having been awarded a Improved and Unimproved Farms contract to perform the work. President of Fruit Growers’ Associa Care of the Dairy Cow. tion Gives Some Interesting Infor mation Along This Line m His Three important factors of consider Annual Address. ation in the care of dairy cattle are comfort, kindness and cleanliness. It is bad for the dairy cow to stand out President ,H. F. McCornack of the side in the rain during such cold weath Eugene Fruit Growers’ association, in er as we have had. Thousands of dol his annual address, among other things lars are lost to the farmers every year through neglect to provide comfortable said: Tae 1909 fruit crop of Lane county in1 quarters for their stock. No animal can do justice to itself common with the entire Northwest was light, but prices were fair and the de when forced to suffer cold and hunger mand good so that growers realized at the hands of fan unhuman owner. well on what they had. For example, Men who are so inhuman that they will strawberries sold at an average price not provide properly for their stock, of $2.65 per crate, while in 1908 the should be forced to do so. No matter average price was $1.48 per crate. how crude and homely the protection is, RAILROAD SEEKS BONUS. Peaches this year averaged 95 cents.-pw we respect the man who provides shel box and in 1908 63 cents. All small ter for the helpless brutes, which are fruits brought a good price. Apples powerless before the gale and are left Coos Bay and Boise Line Asks $150,- _ 000 Cash on Completion. and pears sold teadily at a good figure to the mercy of man to protect them. but there were hardly enough of the I have more respect for the farmer The promoters of the Coos Bay & best' grades to go around. Green or who, if forced to choose, which shall be Boise Railroad, which is being survey fresh prunes were shipped East in re improved first 'his house or barn select ed from Marshfield to Roseburg, are frigerator cars and arrived there in ed the latter. The man who does this asking for a bonus of $150,000, the good condition and sold at figures'very invariably governs the dumb brutes money not to be paid until thirty days satisfactory to the grower. . I believe about him with gentleness. The farm after the road is in operation. The , there is a great future for our fresh does not shelter an animal that. re people of Coos Bay will be approached Italian prunes in the Eastern market. sponds more quickly to kindness than with subscription papers and an effort Several years ago the brown rot was the cow. Her great, kind eyes are fill will be made to raise the necessary bad on Italian prunes and they did not ed with gentleness and patience. She bonus. hold up well when shipped East, but is almost human in her gratitude and The people of the East are paying too the better care, especially the spraying under the influence of kindly treatment, much for apples in comparison with with lime-sulphur solution which the she will guard the homes, help lift the the price received by the grower. trees have received for the past few burdensome mortgages, pay for the col Where the grower gets $2 per barrel years seems to have checked this trou lege education of children, cloth the for his fruit the consumer is forced to ble, and we hope that with better care family with serviceable garments, fill pay as high as $6. The jobber and re and more thorough spraying the brown the home with comforts and provide tailer get the lion’s share. rot like many of other pests will be the table with the most healthful arti cles of food. Kindness is a quality in come a thing of the past. Notice For Publication. And speaking of fruit pests we cer man which costs him nothing, but the exercise of self-control and when pro tainly have had some experience with U. S. Land Office at Roseburg, Ore them. One by one we met them and perly invested it pays astounding divi- gon, January 17, 1910.—Notice is here fought them with various degrees of dends. by given that Levi Wetmore, of Wild success with a great variety of insecti I will mention a few of the subjects wood, Oregon, who, on August 11, 1903, cides and fungicides, and when at last that should demand every dairyman’s made Homestead Application, 02626, we found the lime-sulphur solution we attention. First, the importance of No. 12977, for S 1-2 of NE 1-4, and SE fought them not one at a time but near and how to improve the dairy cow. 1-4 of NW 1-4, Section 32, Township 21 ly all at once and with Complete suc Second, the economy of feed ration, south, Rangel west, Willamette Merid cess. I think I may safely say that the not how to starve the cow, for that ian, has filed notice of intention to use of the lime-sulphur solution on practice has been tried too long and too make Final five year Proof, to establish fruit trees is the greatest discovery of often without success. How to produce claim to the land above described, be the age for horticulture, and our etern the most and best milk from a cow well fore the Register and Receiver of the U. al thanks are due to our little “friend feed, well housed, kindly cared for, and S. Land Office, at Roseburg, Oregon, the enemy”—the San Jose scale, for her thirst slacked with the purest of on the 21st day of February, 1910. this pest taught us the use of the lime- fresh water from live wells or flowing Claimant names as witnesses: Geo. sulphur spray while using it, for the springs. Third, the care of the milk Kerr, James Hunt, Loren Hunt, Arthur from cow to dairy or the cream deliver destruction of the scale we found that Van Schoiack, all of Wildwood, Oregon, it not only entirely exterminated the ed to the creamery, in order to produce Jasper Patten of Cottage Grove, Ore the best results. Fourth, the impor scale but it proved to be the best fungi gon. cide known. It stops anthraenose, that tance of often testing the milk of every BENJAMIN F. JONES, Register. most destructive disease in our old or cow in your herd, that you may know chards. It prevents apple and pear which is protfiable. Fifth, the too of scab, a disease which made it impossi ten careless care of the m'lk and cream ble to grow some of our best varieties. at home and 'in delivery of same to the Brown rot and shothole fungus have creamery. This neglect alone in my All kinds of Mill Repair disappeared where it has been thor opinion costs the dairyman of Oregon oughly used, and this destruction of annually thousands of dollars. Work and Blacksmiting DAN BLEUER, fungus and disease allows the trees to Manager of Cottage Grove Creamery. assume a rich healthy color. First class work at moderate prices The fruit industry in this county is Grocery Men to Meet. in its infancy, but is a very healthy, Grocers of the state will gather at robust, promising infant. This infant fruit industry went to the Salem cherry Eugene January 26 ad 27 for the annu fair with an apron full of cherries; she al convention of the Oregon Retail came back with a blue ribbon around Grocers’ Association. There is a splen her neck and a silver cup in her hand, did program of deep interest to the Suitable for inside walks, No. 1 representing the grand sweepstakes dealers in feedstuffs and the attendance county prize for the best exhibit of is expected to be the largest in the commop and better; dressed on cherries grown in the state. This in history of the state association. Prob four sides. While it lasts, $8.0D fant went to the , Albany apple fair lems coming up in the grocery business per thoueand feet. , with a pocket full of apples and return will be discussed and mutual help gain Brown Lumber Co. ed with another blue ribbon around her ed from the interchange of ideas of the neck and another silver cup in her various dealers. The Merchants’ Pro hand, numerous small blue and red rib tective association of this city has bons fluttering from her belt and a poc elected ten delegates to the conven ket full of silver, representing the tion, besides whom several others in grand sweepstakes county prizes for terested will attend. “Should retailers the best exhibit of apples grown in the pay cost of packing and cartage” will, state, and many individual prizes. be discussed by H. H. Veatch of Cot Again this infant went to Portland tage Grove. You want someone to with a big red apple in her hand and A Dairying fountry. do your returned crowned apple queen of the In a recent - address made before the Willamette valley, the original home Oregon State Dairy Association Mr. J. infant of the “big red apple.” I say a W. Bailey, State Dairy and Food Com very healthy, promising infant. missioner, said: “Oregon, especially occasionally,' and I want Now, gentlemen, we have proven the western part of it, is pre-eminently to do it for you. that we can and do grow prize-winning suited to dairying, fephaps no coun fruit, but iwe do not raise enough if it. try in the world is better suited. This Now, Mr. merchant, lawyer, It does not pay to produce common is not our boast alone, but is the ex doctor and real estate agent! fruit, and this is especially true of ap pressed opinion of all great dairy au Wouldn’t it suit you pretty: ples and pears. Almost every state in thorities who have examined conditions well if you could get a the union grows plenty of common ap here.” ples and pears. We can not produce Notice to Ticket Holders. this grade and pay freight on it, say to To Patrons of the Cottage Grove Ly New York, to come into competition ceum CourseThe Clara Vaughn Wales to keep your books posted up' with the apples grown there. If we Concert and Comedy Co. will begin to date twice a week, once a grew something better than they have their program at the Armory, J an. 26, week or at any time you wish: we find a good demand for it at very at 8 p. m. sharp. Be sure that your ed, and at less expense than remunerative prices. tickets have been altered according to you cduld do it yourself? I ARMY DESERTER IS INSANE. .the Armory seating. Any one appear will do this work for you and ing with unchanged tickets will exper at right prices. ' ' ------- / Young Pritchard Burns Buildings and ience some difficulty in securing proper How About Those Collections? seats. SELDEN C. ADAMS. Shoots Down Stock. Haven’t had time to make Ernest Pritchard, about twenty-three Card of Thanks. years of age, has been adjudged insane. I desire to return thanks to the Cal- them! Better hand them to me and see what I can do He resided on a farm northwest of Cot apoo’ya Mineral Springs company of. with them. tage Grove, and is charged with burn London and others for courtesies and ing houses and barns in the neighbor aid rendered during the illness and af hood, and with killing a farmer’s ter the death of my daughter Candace, horses. Young Pritchard was arrested who died on Sunday last. last fall on the charge of insanity, but MRS. BELLE KLADY. wis discharged. For some time the Office in old Union Mines & John A. Williams of Curtain Spur boy has wanted to go to Australia, and Developing office he has asked his father time and again was in the city on Monday. FINGAL HINDS Choice Acreage Adjoining Town Bus iness and Residence Property for Sale Reference: First National Bank or Any one in Cottage Grove. Good Bookkeeper N.F. WHITING There is but one short and direct route between the West and the East. The Southern Pacific AND 0. R. & N. OREGON SHORT LINE. UNION PACIFIC THERE IS unsurpassed through fast train service to Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, with di rect connections to all points East and South. J THERE IS an abundance of matchless scenery, and an opportunity to make a daylight stopover at Salt Lake City if it is desired. LET US tell you all about what can. be done, , be fore you purchase your ticket. L. S. TAYLOR. Agent Southern Pacific (5o., —or to— W_M. MCMURRAY Gen. Pass. Agent, Portland, Or. -A Price List, etc METCALF & BRUND Grocers to the People PHONE HAIN 65. WELL PAVED STREETS are of great value to a community and enhance the value of abutting property more than any other improvement CAN BE PAID FOR IN 10 ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS so that the cost per year is small. The increased valuation is demonstrated in the follow ing cities in the west where the Bitulithic . . Pavement has been laid: Walla Walla Eugene Ashland Vancouver Salem Albany Boise Medford Portland Nampa Roseburg Pendleton Baker City Lewiston Puyallup and many other cities It is a general proposition that two years after a street" has been paved .. THE PROPERTY CAN BE SOLD FOR DOUBLE the price at which it is offered before paving, and yet at that time only two of the ten payments have been made. Examine "THE BITULITHIC PAVEMENT in any of the above cities and see for yourself why BITULITHIC IS BEST BY EVERY TEST WARREN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Main Office 317 Beck Building PORTLAND, ORE AUBURN AUTOMOBILE SIDEWALK LUMBER $8.00 PER 1,000 Typewriting time, traveling expenses and fatigue can be made by using the shortest route ’ast. Send for Miller’s Machine Shop YES! At Even Money a Saving^*. 1910 MODEL ECONOMY IS WEALTH ôTiRW/if ÇQMPAN> OF PORTLAND, OREGON. if Y ou D ie , it costs, no more than or dinary Life. if Y ou L ive , it is more profitable than Endowment. Life insur ance is a great protection to our families. TOM AWBREY has the most reason able plan known. 40 horse power, 5 or 7 passengers, 116 in. wheel base, 37 in. wheels; ;3 speed and reverse transmissions, shaft drive, speed from 2 to 65 miles per hous. ■ This car is equipped with Magneto and batteries, top and glass front and sells for $2000 PROFESSIONAL CARDS The 24 horse power, fully equipped for J. C. JOHNSON Attorney-at-Law $1475 Practice in all Courts of State. Corpor ation, mining and Probate law a specialty Collection and Insurance. COTTAGE grove ; * OREGON * F. L. INGRAM Dentist AUBURN MOTOR CAR CO., PORTLAND Stewart-Porter Building WOODWARD BROS. AUTO CO. COTTAGE GROVE J. E. YOUNG eAttorney at Law Office on Main Street, West Side COTTAGE GROVE :: :: « OREGON J. O. VAN WINKLE, M. D. FARM, CITY AND TOWN LOANS Physician and Surgeon Special attention given to diseases of th eye atjd ear. Offices in Phillips Building P hones —Office, Main 193; Residence,631 E. C. M acy DENTIST FIRST CLASS WORK Office Over Bank of Cottage Grove PHONE 583 FIVE PER CENT interest, NINE years* time with privilege of paying any time. Return payments monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually, to suit borrower. DR. FOR PARTICULARS WRITE THE JACKSON LOAN AND TRUST CO. 3IO Century Bldg. Denver, Colorado,
