(Enttcuir (brnur ^rntüirl VOLUME XXXI11 ■Ô G. W. M’REYNOLBS, RESIDENT FOR 40 YEARS, DIES COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1923 IF ÍT SAM NEWCOMB, INVENTIVE GENIUS, DEVISES A POWER PLOW FROM A JUNK HEAP NUMBER 32 Ir—............................... . Gushers for Cottage Grove Pictured PITCHER BREAKS RECORD; OAR THIEF, ALLOWED TO GO TO HOTEL, MAKES ESCAPE Sometimes Deputy Sheriff The story of the one boss shay Rev. David Olsen Says He Has Spent Many Nights on Our Hills Locating Oil With Pitcher's judgment is not quite and of Darius Green and his his hunches. us infallible as Weird Machines Which Have Never Failed. He Makes Strangest of Promotion Addresses efforts to overcome gravity with Thursday of last week he re­ his primitive flying apparatus ceived word from Roseburg to are brought to mind by observa­ apprehend two young men with Cottage Grove can have aa oil believe that Mount David, just out­ county for a number of weeks. tion of u unique power plow a Cadillac car for driving with­ which Sum Newcomb has made well within a few months, a hun­ side the city limits, is the point There will be uo stock selling. George Washington McReynolds, for his own use in tearing up dred or more of them within a year where the first well is to be sunk. The plan outlined by Olsen is to out a license. When the car ar­ Civil war veteran and for mom than rived here he took the young “Cottage Grove eau have a sec­ sell certificates of ownership in the the dirt around his east Main and work on the first one will start 40 years a resident of the Cottage street property. men into custody but permitted within 30 days from the time the ond Signal Hill,’’ the speaker Baid, 3000 acres of oil lauds, upon which Grove country, died Monday night them to take a room at a hotel Saiu has an inventive and me­ people of Cottage Grove offer rea­ “and land now selling at not more leases already have been secured, at his home at Divide. Mr. McKoy while awaiting the arrival of the chanical turn of miud. Also he sonable cooperation. That was the than $400 the acre should in a few the money to be used in the devel nolds was iu the city Thursday of Douglas county officiate. The is as much adverse to heavy statement made at a mass meetiug years be worth what laud is at Sig­ opuieut of the properties. While last week aud said at that time is way u up in the „».v» .= F lu me few of the residents here fee’ aa marshal’s prescient hunch had work with a spading fork as Tuesday night by Rev. David Olsen, nal Hill, which that he was not feeling very well. other men. Combined with these of California, former pastor here, thousands of dollars.” He gave his certain as Olsen that the oil is alread, told him that the two It is believed that the overexertion young men did not own the car he had many spare hours during secretary of a national American- word as a follower of the lowly here, yet there are few who do not due to his visit to the city hastened the recent winter, which he ization movement and oil well pro- 1 Nazarene that there could be no believe that he is absolutely sincere und upon investigation he found his death. Several mouths ago he California license plates under arrauged _ failure and that those who joined and a large majority have expressed turned to good account by put motor. The meeting t was __ ______ expressed the wish thut he might one of the seats, while the car -*■—J no , chance to lose a a willingness to back the project to ting together the parts of ma­ by local citizens and was the oddest with him stood live to draw at least one of Uncle chinery which are now the power promotion meetiug ever held here., penny, whether oil should be found a reasonable extent. bore Oregon plates, evidently sum’s pay cheeks issued under the stolen in the southern part of The Reverend Mr. Olsen devoted I or not. He appealed to the pride of plow. Olsen gave as his reason that he recent increase in the pension to the state. The motive power is an old the opening of his address to a ser- the citizens to put the city on the and his associates did not go ahead Civil war veterans. His wish was motor car engine which he dug monette and during the progress of' map, to do as well as Eugene is alone with the project mid reap all The marshal inquired every fulfilled two months before his out of a junk heap. Someone else his talk digressed to speak upon i doing, where the sinking of a well the profits, that they already are few minutes at the hotel as to death. Mr. McReynolds was prom­ hud used it for a stationary en­ moral issues and to hold up his. already is assured. interested iu so many similar propo­ whether the young men were still inent in the affairs of this end of gine uud had put it on a plat­ adopted country as the greatest, j Olsen and his associates are inter­ sitions that they can not finance there, but before the arrival of the county, especially as a member form, to which Sam attached despite its many faults, of any1 ested in oil properties in several the project at ouce, also that they the Roseburg officers one of of Appomattox post, of which he some mower wheels. The fly in the world. The promotion meet­ states and are the owners of several wish the community to share in the them came down the street look­ was commander, which office he wheel is connected by a belt to ing was odd in another respect, that tl at are paying propositions. Mr. benefits to be derived from the de­ ing for the other, who had got­ had occupied several times. ten up and made his getaway gears which drive the wheels and Mr. Olsen and his associates of­ Olson professed to have a peculiar velopment of its natural resources. Funeral services were conducted an “idler” to tighten the belt fered to guarantee that oil in pay­ k-ve for Lane couuty, which was The qiiestiou has been several times while the second ono slept. The yesterday afternoon from the Mills takes the place of a clutch with young man who got away is be­ ing quantities would be found and for many years his home, and said asked why Olson mid his associates chapel by Bev. H. B. Iler and inter­ which to connect the motive in the event of failure the money he would like to spend several do not sell their oil-finding ma­ lieved to be the one who stole ment was iu the A. F. & A. M.-L O. power to the wheels or discon­ invested by local people would be months here bringing in wells. His chines at a fabulous price, but the the car. Tho other said he was O. F. cemetery. Members of Calvin nect the power. Tho flow of gas­ returned to them. Mr. Olsen had on own profits, he said, would be used question was not asked at tho meet­ merely a passeager, that he had Funk post, American Legion, acted oline is regulated by a wire that been picked up and had paid his the platform with him four weird for the support of the Americaniza­ ing aud he did not explain the rea­ as pallbearers, while cqinrades from way to Beattie by buying $5.05 runs along the frame to the machines of his own invention by tion movement, of which he is the son. Appomattox post acted as honorary worth of gasoline. He thought _ ‘ ‘ driver’s ’ ’ position between the the use of which he claimed to be head. It was through tho desire to It has been learned within tho pallbearers and conducted the ser­ plow handles at the rear of the able to detect the presente of oil provide for this movement that ho past few days that the belief that he had been short-changed, as he vice at tho grave. machine, from which position the within a distance of a mile and to beeume interested iu the promotion there is oil here is not a new be­ had gotten only 55 miles of the Mr. McReynolds was born iu In­ “idler” also is operated, trip, but he was not permitted to lief. Leases were being acquired ou measure with approximate accuracy of the oil business. diana April 18, 1843, and died April remove the gasoline for which Mr. Olsen said that for many lands for oil-drilling purposes as At a distance the machine the depth of each oil strata. He 16, 1923, two days prior to his ho had paid. when in operation has the ap­ said that many years of time and years he scouted the idea of oil much as a year ago. These leases The officers from Roseburg eightieth birthday anniversary. He pearance of some mammoth hundreds of thousands of dollars over being found in Oregon, as did have now been turned over to OlBea i served throughout the Civil war as arrived during the afternoon and beetle snorting from its efforts had been expended in their produc­ many geologists, just as they scout­ and his associates. a member of company C, 18th Iowa took the ear back with them. to lift itself from the ground. tion and that in thousands of trials ed oil ever being found in Texas, Olsen has been in Oregon 18 Infantry. On October 17, 1869, ho Pitcher thinks ho should enter in Montana, in Wyoming, at Signal months. This, he says, is the first Upon closer inspection it has they had never yet made an error. married Miss Anna Lynch, who sur­ more the appeu rance of a Ford- complaint against them for doing One, having somewhat the ap­ Hill and at many other pointB where prospective oil field ho has found so, as he had not given permis­ vives. In 1882 they came to Ore­ son tractor crossed with a flying pearance of a water witch, indicates the geological formations were said where development should provo sion for the ear to bo removed. gon and settled at Divide, which machine. the presence of oil underneath the to indicate that there was not the profitable. This is the first time that ever since has been the family home. The “toggled” up machine, spot over which the machine passes. slightest chance of oil being found. The Reverend Mr. Olsen was pas­ Pitcher has allowed a car thief Mr. McReynolds frequently stated made front pieces picked up here Another, having somewhat the ap­ Now, however, a number of geolo­ tor a number of years ago of the that his life had been lengthened or a stolen ear to get away from and there, has done the job so pearance of a gander’s neck, points gists and scientists corroborate ev­ Christian church in this city. When him nnd ho is very much peeved 25 years by the fact that ho eame well mid has saved Sam so much the direction of oil anywhere within erything which Mr Olson’s weird he came to Lane county he could to Oregon. at himself. work, that next winter he is go a mile. It was claimed that these machines have told him, as do also correctly speak but a few words of Surviving children are a son. Er­ ing to rig out a real machine. machines never make a mistake a number of the many engineers in English. Tuesday night he had uo Eva nest W., and a daughter, Mrs. “ even when used in an automo­ the employ of Olsen and hiB asso­ trouble in putting over a bunting Ellis. Surviving grandchildren are bile traveling at 40 miles an hour. ciates who have been in Lane message. Kenneth, Kathleen, George und Two other contrivances check on the Selling of certificates of owner­ Austin McReynolds and Wesley and first two. r, ship in the oil leases will start Ruby Ellis. All live nt Divide. Upon many days during the past SMALL COUGAR IS SIGHTED within a few days. Upon the man­ two months, while the residents of NEAR SLAUGHTER HOUSE, ner of response to the campaign de­ Mrs. Salton Buys Hodges Property. Co. t age Grove peacefully slept, Mr. MILE FROM CITY LIMITS pends whether oil operations shall Mrs. Stella Salton has bought the Olsen prowled around over our hills Change Will Eliminate Noise From start at once. W. 8. Hodges property on White- while his weird machines located A half-grown cougar was seen aker avenue and will move there. Cottage Grove-Lorane Road Will Be for him 100 spots within three miles Power Line; Many Families Mr. Olsen has not stated what Sunday within a mile of the city Mr. and Mrs. Fred Motter, who will be considered reasonable co­ Will Be Benefited. Macadamized; Coast Fork of the city where oil is to be found limits by Mr. and Mrs. G. R. operation. As the kind ol drilling have been living in the Hodges in paying quantities. He said that Bridge Under Way. Allen. The Allens, who own a that will be found is problematical, property, havo moved to the Atkin­ he had found it oozing from the small chicken ranch just north of son property on the west side. the amount of money required is Three telephone lines, Nos. 7, 23 ground in two places and that there the city, were walking near the Homer Galloway negotiated the Sni- indefiuite. It ¡ b understood that and 39, owned by the Coast Fork is no doubt that it is of a high Active preparation for macadam ­ slaughter house, on the plaee Mr. Olsen’s machines have told him Telephone company, are this week ton Hodges deal. izing the 5%-inilc stretch of the quality. He stated that oil discov­ owned by Mrs. W. W. McFar that at the spot selected fur initial being combined and put on one line Cottage Grove-Lorane road are un- ered this far north will be found to land, when they saw the anime! operations a good flow will be found of poles instead of three. The der way with the placing of ma- have been purified in being pulled slink through the brush and into at less than 3000 feet. The cost of change will eliminate the noise from chinery and 1 equipment on the towards the north pole. He said that ” , tho building. drilling a well of that depth is said the California Oregon power line ground by the Warren Construction the first derrick which he proposes Many poople find the walk in to be usually not over $80,000, some­ which has made hearing over the company, which has the contract to erect will be within a mile of the vicinity where the cougar times much less. Whether it is pro­ rural lines about Cottage Grove al­ the city and will be plainly visible for the work. was seen a pretty one and on the posed to organize a local company most impossible ever since the com­ The grade is in fair condition from every point in the city. He last few sunshiny Sundays a has not been stated. pletion of the power line last sunt A. W. Helliwell and George M. except at one place where a slide admitted that one of his machines, good many have sauntered past Olsen says he wants no gushers mer. A metallic system which will while in motion on the platform I^the place. Marksbury to Continue Business occurred during the winter, partially —that wells are much more depend­ make it possible to use tho lines blocking the roadway, damming Tuesday night, pointed to oil within as Helliwell A Marksbury. at any time will be used in the able. the drain and causing the water to a mile northwest of the city. Many wiring. Forty-eight families are overflow the grade and cut deep served by the three lines on which A. W. Helliwell and George M. ruts in it. This slide occurred about - tho changes will be made. Marksbury have purchased the in- two miles from the west end of the Since the decision of the patrons terest of Abruham F. Bangs in the new grade. The old road has been of the 7, 23 end 39 linos to string Helliwell, Bungs & Marksbury store used during the winter and spring their wires on the same line of at the corner of Seventh and Main and the new one has not been cut poles, patrons of the 17 line have streets, and will continue the busi­ up by traffic. Completion of the arranged to go in with them, and Series of Educational Lectures Being Delivered in Cottage Grove Schools is expected about the middle ness under the firm name of Helii- job patrons of the 16 line may do the well òc Marksbury. The deal was of the summer. same. Excavation for the piers for the concluded yesterday. drawn by the express company or all of his receipts can be entered n Mr. Helliwell and Mr. Marksbury steel bridge over the Coast fork on CEMETERY ASSOCIATION TO This ad .resa was delivered before by the postoffice, in favor of some have been in business in Cottage Pacific highway at the northern the high school by Worth Harvey, person or firin, the money order is and out of which all payments can HOLD MEET MONDAY NIGHT Grove since 1919. Five years ago entrance to the city has been com assistant cashier of the First Na­ not returned to Mr. Smith after it be made. He therefore adopts the they and Mr. Bangs formed the part­ pleted. Bedrock was reached at a tional bank, and is the second of has been cashed and cancelled, but course that most other business men The annual meeting of tho local of 15 feet. Monson and Trei- and women follow. He takes his nership which was dissolved yester­ depth weiler have the contract for this the series being given by the bank­ to the express company or to the $500 to the bank, where it is safely cemetery association will be held day, and established the present structure and E. E. Monson has ers of the city. postoffice that issued it. On the kept and can be drawn upon as Monday night at Hotel Bartoll. business. other hand, a cam elled check would needed. A financial report for the year THE BANK CHECK. Mr. Bangs has announced no charge of the work. will be read and officers will be Let us distinguish between the be returned to Mr. Smith, who could When Mr. Smith arrives at the definite plans for the future. two kinds of deposits in which a keep it as a receipt—as proof that bank h<* tells an officer that he elected. The association, which has HARRY LUNAU DIES AFTER THREE MONTHS’ ILLNESS bank deals: time deposits and de­ the bill for the goods had beon wishes to open a checking account. 100 members, is in good financial Closing Order Effective Soon. mand deposits. Time deposits is the paid. More than this, in order to Many banks, especially in tho larger coudition. A surplus of $100 remains The order of the game commis­ name given to deposits made in sav­ keep accurate records, Mr. Smith cities, require the new depositor to in the treasury with all bills paid Harry Lunau died Saturday morn ­ sion closing a number of the smaller ings accounts; demand deposits to wants to have one account in which be introduced by a person known to for the large amount of work done ing at 2 o ’ clock at his home in this streams of this section will not be­ city, following an illness of three deposits made in commercial-—that == m during the year and this will be X ---- -g the bank. A card is handed to Mr. used come effective until notices are months. Funeral service were con­ is, checking—accounts. Savings are f at once for the employment of Smith on which he is asked to sign J. H. CHAMBERS OBJECTS posted on the streams. The notices not subject to check. Whenever his name exactly as he desires tho a man to give the cemetery a gen­ ducted from the Adventist church TO FENCING HIS RIGHT OF are expected to arrive within a few at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon and you wish to withdraw money front eral cleaning up. Additional shrubs WAY FOR PASTURE LAND account to be carried on tho rec­ and bushes will be planted. days. ords of the bank, as, for example, interment was in the A. F. & A. M. your savings account, you must go The association has been in ex­ in person to the bank, where you “J. L. Smith” or “John L. Smith.” I. O. O. F. cemetery. J. H. Chambers thinks it hard This signature must be the same on istence just a year and during that Mr. Lunau was born in Menom write out a receipt and present it ly fair to be asked to fence in time the cemetery has been changed MRS. E A DORF PLUNGES ince, Mish., September 28, 1890. He to the bank, so that the money can the right of way of his railroad all cheeks in order to identify them from a hideous uml neglected thing 20 FEET INTO RIVER TO is survived by his wife, one daugh be paid direetiy to you and so that as genuiae. A deposit ticket is then to make it secure as a pasture to a thing of beauty. RESCUE FOUR YEAR OLD SON ter, Cleona; his parents, Mr. and the amount of the withdrawal may for the bovine* of the Row river filled out bearing his name exactly as written on the signature card, Mrs. A. Lunau, of this city; three be entered at ouce in your pass valley. WORTH HARVEY ELECTED Mother love and courage were sisters, Mrs. T. K. Johnson, Long book. Where money must be contin­ Residents along the railway and bating the currency, gold, sil­ THIRD WARD COUNCILMAN demonstrated Friday evening of Creek, Mrs. Henry Fischer, Eugene, ually withdrawn for the payment of ver and each check separately. The always have exorcised the privi ­ teller then enters this amount in a last week when Mrs. E. A. Dorf, and Mrs. Ixiuis Seitz, Curtin, and bills, a more convenient method is lege of turning livestock onto Worth Harvey, assistant cashier small pass book, which is a record although she cannot swim, two br< there, Walter and Donald, necessary. Hence it is that the bank eheck is used extensively in every­ the right of say. When the rail­ of the amounts deposited. The pass of tho First National bank, was plunged from the high walk that Cotinge Grove. way ’ s fence is in good repair it day business transactions and has book is issued iu Mr. Smith’s name, elected at the meeting of the city overhangs the river a< the rear become a very important commer­ makes an ideal place for pasture. and is handed to him, together with council Monday night to fill the of the City bakery, into the water TOOLS ARE STOLEN FROM When the fence gets out of re­ cial instrument. Only about 7 to unexpired term of Nelson Durham 20 feet below and rescued her THREE STAR AUTOMOBILES pair and cows get through it a supply of blank checks, which are as couucilinan from the third ward. 7H per cent of all our business the means used to withdraw money four-year-old son Lester from into forbidden pastures the own transactions is conducted with Mr. Durham tendered his resigna­ death in the water which is Sets of tools belonging to three era of the liveatoch petition the from a checking account. This is tion upon his removal to another seven feet deep nt that poiat. Star cars have been found, hidden money. Approximately 92 to 92 ft public service commission to all that is required in opening a ward. per cent is conducted with com- checking account. Mr. Smith is now The child had boen playing under piles of lumber, by workmen nave the fences repaired. T. K Mr. Harvey has been clerk of rhe ready to pay his bilte by check up on the porch and had climbed employed on the new Roy Short i mereial instruments. One of the Campbel), member of the com most important is the cheek. to a total of $500. This gives him school board for a number of years upon the railing, which broke, residence on south Fifth street. It is mission, was hero this weeh to Storekeepeper Smith 's customers has also served as u member of aud he fell into the river. His supposed that the tools were taken take up with Mr. Chambers a a complete record of the amount of and money deposited, of the amount the city budget committee. His term small sister saw the accident from the ears either Friday or Sat­ Cy him both in cash and by checks complaint of that kind. r the goods he sells to them. At office will continue until Jan­ and screamed for tho mother, urday night of last week while the The railway not only furnishes used in the payment of bills to of attending the the senior semor ,c"d„0/ *h® business gether with a receipt for each bill uary 1, 1925. who jumped from the porch, a owners were attending the pasture free of charge and build 1L uUH* little further down the stream class play in 1 the ‘ ' high’school ................ .. ¡“L BJ keeps up the fcnees but it has so paid, and of the amount remain «h.. street. . ........ V.. »«•«• have Motorist Smashes Road Sign. where the water is not quite so ing just set. « . the No „„s one lnc“ upon occasion paid owners for ing in the bank. amounted to $500. What use do«;* The bank will pay all checks pre­ There is an old saying that “all deep, without a thought of her has reported the loss of the tools. livestock killed by its trains. I he make of this money? He owes own p»*ril, and rescued her little Mr. Chambers has no objection sented to it bearing Mr. Smith’s signs fail in dry weather,” which __ ____ ¡most of it to busini-M concerns____ from son ns he was going down for iwhich to keeping up fences to keep signature as given on his signature may have had something to