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Sljr CEiittanr Ökmir Battitoi VOLUME XXXIII COTTAOE GROVE, LANK COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1!)22 ANDREW BRUNO IS HEAD OF | CITIZENS’ TICKET Eakin for Treasurer, Galloway for Re corder, Swanson, Eads, Mack in and Bede for Councilman. Andrew Brand was nominated for mayor at the citizens' cuunis held Wednesday uight. While no one was seeking the office, there were four nominees, the others licing Charles Stevens, Dr. B. It. Job, and .1. Kem. Three ballots were necessary for a no uu nation. Herbert Kakin and Homer Gullowuy were uoininuted for treasurer and re corder by acclamation. There were contests in all wards for nldcrmnnic jxmitioiis. The selections made were as follows: First wurd, four years, A. W. Swanson, two years, K. K. Fads; ond ward, S. 1«. Mackin; third war«!, Fiber! Bode. Non«* of those selected were in any sense of the word enndi dates for the |H>sitions. S. V. ALLISON WILL ERECT ANOTHER BUILDING Another business block is to go up on Mam street. 8. V. Allison has bought from Fra ak Sly the prop city just west of the First National bank and next to a building erected by Mr. Allison two years ago. ill* win commence at once the erection o f a one-story tile building which will have a stucco front. The cast wall of the building In* now owns will be used in the construction of the new building. Mrs. Ivel larnrks, who has for sev cral years conducted a millinery shop in the building now standing on th. property, has purchased the Worn Harvey business property near the budge on the north side of Ada a st root. COTTAGE GROVE DEFEATED BY EUGENE HIGH With its defense weakened by in juries to players, Cottage Grove was defeated 6 to 0 in its gridiron contest Miti urdu y afternoon with Eugene upon th»- latter's grounds. The locals w ep within second* of making a touchdown wlirii time was called. Had the gallo gene those few seconds the locals would have tied the score and had they been successful in kicking u goal they would have won the game. It is said that Eugene has the fastest squad which has worn its colors in recent years, although the claim is made that the weight of the team is slightly les* than that of the Cottage Grove team. MRS ALSTOTT BEATS PAPERS IN LOCATING MISSING MAN SOUGHT BY A IL IN G DAUGHTER Mrs. F. J. Alstott feels that the Portland police should put her on their regular force and give her tu«' job of locating missing jieople. A short time ago she noted an item in a Portland paper which stated that Juiues Feeney was being sought cause of the* illness of his little daughter Eleanor hi Los Angeles. Mrs. Alstott did not know that Mr. Feeney was in Portland but she wrote a letter to the police depart meat, described Mr. Feeney and told where he most likely could be lo cuted. Within a few days her letter had accomplished what the news item had failed to accomplish. The Feeneys are former residents. Mrs. Feeney uud daughter are b\ ing hi Los Angeles, while Mr. Feeney has remained in Oregon. Their daughter is now reported as almost fully recovered. DEPUTY GAME W ARDEN KICKS IN WITH FIFTEEN BUCKS FOR V IO LA TIO N OF SPEED LAW’S E. H. Hawker, deputy game war den, ¡mid a fine ot $15 in justice court Monday upon a charge of speeding past tin- high school build tug in this city. The complaint was filed against him two weeks ugo but he fulled to upi»eur at the time set for trial. Officials here, fearing that some arrangement had been made for dismissal of the ease in justice court, filed a complaint in the reeo~der'» court. The deputy warden, however, appeared in jus lice court. The speed past school houses in cities is set at 12 miles an hour. Hawker claimed that lie was not greatly exceeding that speed, al though the complaint charged a speed of 25 miles. JONES A EATON STORE 18 ENTERED IN BROAD D A Y U O IIT BY W ASH J NOTON TOURIST CAB 1 A small car from Washington, passing through the city 8atur day afternoon, failed to make the sharp left turn at the corner of Mam and Fifth streets and smashed into the front o f the Jones & Eaton store on the corner. All the glass in the east show window was hrok en and the frumework was shoved into the store a foot or so. The li tourist ¡slid the expense of making the necessary repairs and was a! lowed to proceed. It is thought that the driver lost his head in the con i gestion of traffic. Mr. Moore, man ' nger of the store, says he wishes j prospective customers would make their entry less precipitate. — „1 EMMETT SHARPAPPEARS IN PROS AND FERNINSTS MIX HK w n nFm rcr t THEIR h p ir MEETING m f p t iw : HIS o OWN DEFENSE GOVERNOR BEN C AM PAIG N IN G AND LIES DOWN ON JOB OF FIN D IN G COTTAGE GROVE PUP i Governor OJcott has been so busy Tells Old Neighbors He Is Not Guilty Discussion of Compulsory Education | campaigning over the state that he of Any of the Things Recallers Amendment Resolves Itself Into has been compelled to neglect some Charge Against Him. of the duties of his office and has Religious Contention. failed woefully in his attempt to find for Mrs. H. Humphrey, of this city, the dog which she lost some An impassioned defense o f his con The meeting held in the high school two weeks or more ago, when it duct in office was made by County auditorium Sunday afternoon for the Commissioner Kuiiuett Sharp at u po discussion of the compulsory education was picked up by a tourist passing through the city. litieal meeting held Sunday afternoon amendment took in much more terri Those who have been with Gov in I hi» high school auditorium. The op tory, concluding with a discussion of |H»rtunity was given Mr. Sharp through the part the Catholics took in the sev ernor Hen upon his jaunt around the circle report that the governor has | the efforts of members of the Mothers’ oral wars in which this country has several times offended people who flu b , whom he feelingly thanked. were trying to get a chance to shake “ I want to thank the du b,“ Mr. Those favoring the proposed amend his hand by suddenly leaving a Sharp said, “ for the flowers they have ment hud a meeting scheduled for 2 east u|M)ii my grave before I am dead. o ’clock. Those teruiiiMt the bill lmd a group of interested voters to chese down some stray dog which he es 1 have never betrayed you and I never meeting scheduled for 3 o ’clock. The will. Those flowers you have put upon first meeting was late in getting start pied and which he undoubtedly me you will never regret. The only ed and ruii over into the time allotted thought might be the one for whose organization which has given me a for the second meeting. Sandwiched return the Cottage Grove owner so chance is the Mothers’ club of Cottage between the two was a defense by longingly desires. Grove. My enemies will stoop to any Emmett Sharp ot his actions as county Mrs. I’umphrcy quite evidently is thing. Members of the Eugene W. C. commissioner. His defensi is given po- not willing lo wait until the end of T. I . stated that they came to see mo sit ion elsew here. tin* campaign to give the governor and found me too drunk to be inter* an opportunity to devote all his As a result of the religious issue viewed. I can look you in the eye uud which has been injected into the dis- energies to the search for her canine }~uy I have never been drunk in uiy aiun of the compulsory education and she has written the Salem life. They are trying to run iue out amendment, and in view of the fact chamber of commerce asking the or oi Eugene because the gang doesn’t that both sides have had two meetings, gauizatiou to assist in the search. want me there and unless you elect further use ol the high school nudi Writing to the chamber she says: Nels Honey 1 ain going to go. “ Will you please send me the ter in in for this purpose has been de “ Nobody knows what it menus to nied. names of all companies in your com me to be condemned for things I have uiunity which employ large numbers 8. S. George, candidate for state never done. J have never insulted a superintendent of public schools, spoke of nieuf A man Inst week stole t girl in my life. 1 have helped them in favor of the amendment. He held valuable and very beautiful dog but l have never hurt them. But my the public school up as the tower o f from me and I haven’t been able to hands are crossed and tied with irons. independence in which every child fi 11 cl him. I'in hoping I 'll be nble My feet are shackled. When 1 arrived must be educated in order that he may to locate him through some com at Eugene I found 1 wasn't welcome attain the best ideals of American cit puny. ’ ’ and 1 was afraid to go into the court izenship. There is no infringement of Evidently the “ him'* to which house for fear they would iiihult me. parental right or the right to educate Mrs. 1 'umphrey refers is the dog. A husky young woman found me hesi the child in any creed which the par In her letter to the governor she tating and told me to go in with her cut may desire. We simply ask that failed to state whether the bow and they wouldn’t iusult me. She was for six hours a day for nine months of wow was a flapper"or otherwise. My husky looking that I went in with the year the child be put in the public her but I stay out as much us I can. school. During the remaining 18 hours 1 don’t go where 1 am not wanted. of the day and during 24 hours a day ‘ “ I kept my mouth shut about the ot three months of the year the parent Harlow recall. 1 hoped down in my may give the child such religious train- heart that he would be recalled but 1 ing as such parent desires. kept my mouth shut. “ Only u short time ago parental “ The statement that I tried to get rights were invaded, so vve are told, Favorite of Cottage Grove Fans Gets people to sue the county for larger when the state said that children sums than they were willing to settle should go to school instead ol laboring Two Fails, Both Tunes Using for is not true. in sweat shops. The same issue will the Deadly Toehold. “ 1 have nothing to say against the be raised against every progressive Catholics but it is not fair to criticize im for not getting St. M ary’s hospital Alike Thompson, of Eugene, evident Ralph Hand, favorite of the Cottage ou th tax rolls. The county court ly a naturalized citizen, said that he Grove wrestling fans, strengthened his liclple e The law says it is not tax- would never give up his Americanism, able. position as eon ten del lor the middi that he was the father of seven chil weight championship Tuesday night by “ They tried to bluff me into letting dren for whom he wished equal oppor winni» g from Bn-anta Siugii, the Hin market road money go into Facifii tunities with every other child by the (•no. Hand took the first tall in <‘»2 highway bridge.- My name is not education of all in the public schools. minutes. The Hindoo took the next signed to the order for the bridge at “ i have seen many foreigners stand lull in seven minutes and Hand «••- Laih.mi, where market road money was at attention when Old Glory passed by cured the next fall hi nine minutes. used, so that those who accuse me of and I have seen others curse our sol Hand used his deadly toehold, while working for the bridge in my own dis dier- and our flag. We can never sur Singh won his one fall with an arm trict and not for the bridge north of render the principles (for which that scissors. Collage Grove arc not treating me old flag stands. The contest was a keen one from 1 airly I got the right of way for Fa “ The opiMincnts of this measure say start to finish and the two meti eifit* highway out of Cottage Grove that the public schools are irreligious. tl.rushed around like u couple of wild free of charge and it was graded with For myself J would have the bible read cats to avoid being caught in souk * out expense to the city. (Mr. Sharp in our schools, but our schools are not deadly hold. referred to the south highway and to irreligious. A nation not a godly na The match was held in the Arcade efforts while m was supervisor of the tion never has been permitted to stand, theater and was refereed by John Latham road district.) but this nation, with its children edu B' rg, ot Eugene. A large audience t f “ The west coast is solid for me be cated in these schools of ours has been, fens w is present. cause 1 have gotten action on their in iny opinion, selected by God to guide toad from Eugene which had been held the world.“ up by the county court, not the rail W. G. Steel, Lane county chairman MRS NETTIE WEBBER road. The road is now being built. of the forces opposed to the compul WAS MUSICAL ARTIST “ 1 wanted to go before the grand sory education amendment, in intrudin' jury about some things which 1 think ing J. 1). Stevens, of Fort laud, spoke Mrs. Nettie Webber died Monday in should be brought to its utteutiou but briefly upon worshiping God accord a Eugene hospital following a brief by a vote of 4 to 3 by the grand jury ing to one’s own conscience. illness. On account of the necessity of men 1 was prevented from doing so. Mr. Stevens characterized the pro one brother returning to some patients A woman in the county jail showed me posed amendment as an attack upon whom he left in a dangerous condition, a chunk of bacon which had been the Catholics and devoted the greater the funeral was held here the day fol given the prisoners and asked me what part of his time to a defense of the lowing death from the Christian to do with it. 1 told her to take it lo Catholics as citizens, to a defense of church, of which Mrs. Webber had the health officer. I also saw the stale their parochial schools and to a de long been a faithful member. The bread that is being fed the prisoners. fense of their hospitals. He said that services were conducted by Rev. J. E. The food given prisoners who an? at two of his daughters had been educat Carlson and the members of Mrs. Web work for the county is insufficient and ed in Catholic schools and had been ber's piano class attended in a body unfit. 1 wanted to bring these things made better Methodists by such train and marched to the cemetery. ,l(g. to the attention o f the grand jury. Mis. Webber was born m Illinois He said no religious distinctions have “ Someone connected with the en August 17, lMHi, and had passed her forcement of the prohibition law in ever been made when soldiers were Glitli birthday anniversary at time of this county finds a way to “ plant“ wanted, that the state text books arc death. She was married at Portland booze in tin* ears of those they want used in the Catholic schools, that such it. 1888 to Harry 8. Webber, who died to catch. It is my opposition to such schools are supervised by the state, suddenly six months ago. Hot h Mr. methods that have caused some to say that they are conducted in accordance and Mrs. Webber were musical artists. that 1 do not favor enforcement of the with every law o f the state. They resided hi re about JO years. Colonel W. G. I). Mercer, o f Eugene, prohibition laws.“ Surviving relatives are the parents, Mr.. Sharp was very much affected spoke briefly in favor of the bill, tak Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Morse, of Fort ing issue with Mr. Stevens. land; two brothers, James K. Mors', by the fact that he was appearing be Mr. George again took tin* floor for Fort laud, and Dr. W. II. Morse Jr., fore those he had known for half a a few moments in an attempt to ex Wasco, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles century and who had heard the charge.' plode tin* statement that the tax rate Henry, of Spokane, and Mrs. A. L. that had been made against him. The would be greatly raised by th*» passage time originally allotted him was doub Adams, of San Diego. led in order that he might have a fair of the amendment. He said that no chance to defend himself and to ex school district in l^ine county would have its taxes raised, but that they FIRE DEPARTMENT IS (»lain the things that hud been said probably would be raised some in PRAISED BY ADJUSTER about him. Fortland and Marshfield, where the schools now are crowded. A high compliment was paid the Woodsman Hit by Sapling. Cottage Grove fire department by the Janies Ewing, employed in the woods engineer who came here with the in FOOT BRIDGE ACROSS surance adjuster to appraise the dam at the Walter Woodard mill, was COAST FORK IS ASKED brought to the city Tuesday afternoon ages to the boilers and machinery in for treatment for injuries sustained the ruins of the staud by plant of the A number of those living in the when he was struck by a sapling. A Mountain States Power company which north part of the city having children was destroyed by fire a few weeks log struck the sapling and passed over who attend the west side school have it. Mr. Ewing was caught by the ago. recoil and was unconscious for some circulated a petition asking the city “ They must have gotten water, and He was council to provide a foot bridge across lots of il, onto the flames very quick time after the accident. the river at a point near the Christian ly ,’ * he remarked. “ It was quite re severely injured about the head but church. It is claimed that this would the iujuries proved not dangerous. markable that the fire was not com save the children four blocks in get municated to the buildings and piles ting to the school. School authorities of lumber of the Western Lumber & House Robbed at Saginaw. probably will be interested in the Export company so close at hand.“ Saginaw, Oct. 25.— (Special to The statement made in the petition that Sentinel.)— When the Herbert Ma son the bridge also would la» for the con family returned to their home afte>* venience of parents wishing to visit Gasoline W on't Drop Here. The price of gasoline at Standard being absent for the summer the> school. Oil plants has drop|H*d a cent a gallon, found that thieves had don«» a good job but the probabilities are that the prie * of cleaning out everything of value. Richardson Leaves Clatskanie. to the Cottage Grove consumer will Considerable minor personal properly Earle Richardson, former employe of remain 28 cents. The reason for this also was taken. Mr. Masou worked on | The Sentinel and recently editor of is that tIn* retailers have been selling ¡the power line during the summer and The Chief at Clatskanie, has sold his it for some time ut three quarters of Ins family was with him. interest in that paper to his business a cent less profit than Eugene dealers. I art uer, Art Steele, and w ill remove The price here has been the same for to Elgin, in eastern Oregon, where he Sentinel Takes Own Medicine some time as that in Eugene, but the The Sentinel believes in taking its will continue in the news|»u|HT busi price there at retail has now dropped own medicine. It had a cash register ness. to 27 cents. which it wished to dispose of, so it j pursued the course which it always so Football Games Scheduled. North Lane to Be Im pro Ted persistently recommends to others and | Albany will be here Saturday of neit Mrs. F. W. Jacobs and Mrs. Charles look a wantad in its own columns. week for a gridiron contest with the Grubb have completed soliciting funds The sale o f the machine was concluded i local high school team. for the improvement o f north Lane at y o'clock of the forenoon of pubii I The second team of Springfield high street. The city recently agreed to cation. Other inquiries for the register j will conn* here Friday of next week to match equally funds raised by private have been received since the sale was! meet the second team o f the local high made. subscript iou for this improvement. school. participated. HANDHANDSHUSKYHINDOO SECOND TRIMMING move. * ’ NUMBER 7 |r___ R A LPH HAND OFFF.RED RANCH AND CASH TRIM M INGS FOR RETURN BOUT W ITH GUSTAVO MRS. BITTINGER ESCAPES IN NEAR FATAL ACCIDENT Ralph Hand has the opportunity Back of Prunes Falls From Wall Into to become a dirt farmer and wrestle Pan of Boiling Starch Which n living out o f 120 acres of eastern Oregon soil ¡f he prefers that to Woman Is Stirring. continuing with the mat game in whieh he already has made some Silk Creek, Oct. 25— (Hpecial to The thing of a reputation. Not only that but he will be given a substan Hentinel.)— Mrs. VV. O. Bittinger was the victim Saturday of a unique freak tial amount of rash with which to keep hunger from getting a body i accident in whieh she sustained severe scissors while he is waiting for the burns. While she was stirring corn first crop. starch which was boiling; oil the stove, n hundred pound suck of dried prunes The only string which seems to be attached to this promise of n life suspended from the wall fell from its of leisure and luxury is that he position, struck the pan of starch, de molished the pan and threw the boil must defeat Ad Gustavo, with whom he recently had a match at Gold ing liquid ovor Mrs. Bittinger. The Hill. At that time Hand got a de room was immediately so filled with srnoke from the burning of the stnreb cision over the man who now offers upon the hot stove that Mrs. Bitting r to present him with an eastern Ore gon ranch and cash trimmings when was nearly suffocated and it was with difficulty, on account of her burns and ever Hand again gets a decision over the owner of the ranch. the smoke, that she was able to clean Mr. Gustavo plainly is not satis the burning corn starch from the stove and from about the room. fied with the result of the mutch The sack of prunes in falling grazed in which he already has participated with Hand, the Cottage Grove fa Mrs. Bittinger’s nose and she feared vorite, and he is very much disap that had it struck her on the head she might have been fatally injured from pointed with the kind of publicity the impact or from ' being thrown given the event. He objects to the against the stove and burned. statement that Gustavo was too much done up to go to the end and states that Hand was the man in that condition. “ I was just ready to pin his shoulders to the mat,“ writes the owner of the eastern Oregon ranch, “ when by a lucky slip he fell into an arm scissors non thereby won a fluke fa ll.“ Mrs. Caroline Doolittle, pioneer of In addition to the nice little the Do re im country ami well known ranch which Gustavo offers to back turoughodt this section, died Saturd: y his argument with, he agrees to pre at the home of her daughter, Mrs l r sent Ralph with $100 in cash th? S. Bales, near Dorena. The funeral moment tin* latter steps onto the was held Sunday from the Dorena mat. This is contingent upon a sub church and interment v as in the Para stantial side bet being posted. ui.-e hill cemetery beside the husband, “ J have all the respect in the who died seven years ago. Rev. Danly, world for Hand,“ writes Gustavo, of Creswell, officiated. “ and believe he is a clean-cut, hon Airs. Doolittle was born in Michigan est fellow, but I am convinced he December 1, 1839, and lived in Kansas is overrated.“ Hand’s friends here and Colorado before coming to Dorena say that if Gustavo ever gets the 34 years ago. She was quite gifted in opportunity he seeks ho will find a literary way but gave up her efforts that Hand never accidentally falls in this direction when stricken nearly into one of his arm scissors holds. blind a year ago. Only four of a fam ily of 11 children survive. They are Mrs. U. S. Bales, Dorena; Mrs. VV. S. Hemenway, Glendale, Calif.; Elmer Doolittle, Boulder, Colo., and Hugh Doolittle, Dorena. MRS. CAROLINE DOOLITTLE WAS DORENA PIONEER 3605 PEOPLE SPEND NIGHT IN AUTO CAMP Tourists Who Accept Hospitality Leave Large Sum in Addition to Pay- iu Own Expenses. Although the number of tourists who this year made use of the tourist camp here was smaller than for the year before, yet the number reached 1 ISO cars for the period between May 5 and October 12. A number of cars used the camp before that time and five to ten ears use it each day now. In the 1180 cars were 3005 people. One car, a Buick, carried 10 people but the average number was between two and four. One of the families who used the park are now residents of the city. If the average expenses of a cur are $0 the day, which probably is low, the tourists who used the camp probably expended $10,000 in the city. The total tourist traffic, of course, expended a sum probably five times as great as this. Fees collected at the camp dur ing th*» period mentioned amounted to $205, and paid practically all the ex pense of maintaining the camp. Cars registered from 31 of the states of the union and four Canadian prov inces, as follows: Illinois, Nevada, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Alabama, Texas, Virginia, Missouri, Utah, South Dakota, Florida, Wisconsin, Washing ton, California, Kansas, Montana, Ida ho, Oklahoma, New York, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, Fennsylvania, Mis souri, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Wyoui ing, North Dakota, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. The larger number were from the coast. CHARLES M STEVENS TO DISCUSS EDUCATION BILL A discussion of the compulsory edu cation amendment will be held tonight in the armory. Charles M. Stevens, of Eugene, will be the speaker. Mr. Stevens is a keen analyst and will speak in favor of the passage of the amendment. The public generally is invited to attend. There will be no admission fee. Mr. Stevens uud those who have arranged for the meeting do not believe that any religious question is involved in the proposed amendment. Therefore there will be no religious contention of any kind and no mud slinging at those opposed to the mea sure. High Power Line Completed. The electric transmission lino of the CalifornioOregon Fewer company be tween the big plant at Prospect, Jack- son county, ami Springfield has finally been completed, according to announce ment of officials of the company. It is now only a matter of “ tying in ’ ’ at each end of the line before current is supplied to the Mountain States Power company from the Prospect plant. Rest Room Reception Tomorrow The rest room and Mothers’ club will hold a reception tomorrow after noon in the new quarters of the rest room at the bridge. The objects of the reception are a social afternoon, re ception of new members and payment of dues. Almost Amputates Finger With Ax. Mrs. Charles McGee almost severed th»» fore finger of the left hand Thurs day of last week when the ax which she was using became entangled in her apron, causing the wielder of the weapou to miss her aim. GOVERNOR WILL BE HERE NEXT THURSDAY Governor Ben VV. Olcott w ill be the principal speaker at a public meeting to be held here next Thursday. Whether tin* meeting will be in the afternoon or evening was not stated in the tele gram announcing that the governor was coming. He will be accompanied by Thos. Kay, former state treasurer and member of the legislature. These two have been covering a large part of the state in the interest of Mr. Olcott’s campaign for reno mi nation. Local republicans have charge of details of the meeting. D ILA P ID A T E D BUILDING, ONCE FAMOUS HOSTELRY, IS O NLY B U ILD ING VISITO R RECOGNIZES Probably few residents of Cottage Grove who have come here in the past 15 years know that Cottage Grove once had an Imperial hotel and that the building which one*“ housed this famous hostelry still stands on Main street, yet this was the only building recognized by a visitor here who left the city 20 years ago. The visitor was Mrs. William McLaughlin who, with her husband, is visiting in the states from Alaska. Her maiden name was Minnie Smith. In its glory the Im perial was a hotel every bit the equal, for those days, o f the modern hotel of which the city now is proud. The building is the dilapi dated two-story frame structure on the north side of Main street be tween Seventh aud Eighth streets. Mrs. McLaughlin’s sister, Mrs. Nel lie Childers, once conducted a res tan rant in the building. A second class hotel was conducted there up to about six years ago. ! j ! ; I BALM Y W EATH ER FOOLS TREE WHICH PROCEEDS TO TRADE FLA PPE R GARM ENTS FOR NEW The weather of the past few weeks has been so balmy aud sum mer like that some of the wild flow ers, which have lost track of time, have become imbued with the idea that spring is here aud ure start ing to put forth their blooms. A dogwood tree has been the most fooled and appears in full spring | regalia. O f course this could happen nowhere except within the famous, fertile, fruitful Willamette and per ; haps then only in the Cotage Grove j section o f that valley. G IA N T T U R N IP HAS A W AIST MEASUREMENT OF 30 INCHES AND T I P 9 SCALES A T 9l/2 LBS. Even iu the Cottage Grove eoun try a turnip with a waist measure ment of 30 inches aud a chest mea sûrement of 20Và inches is attract ing some attention. It was produced on the J. K. P. May place on the ( ’oast fork. The vegetables raised on that place this year have been of unusual site but this turnip is the giant of the bunch. It tips the scales at UVii pounds. L. F. Cren shaw brought the vegetable to the city to eat but is afraid he has bit ten o ff more than he can chew.