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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1923 PAGE THREE TREASURER’S SEMI ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE than your’n, und I shan’t allow ’em SCHOOL DISTRICT WOULD Mailing Christmas Packages. PURCHASE ADDITIONAL LOT CITY OF COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON. FROM DECEMBER 31, As the time draws near for mail to associate with your’u. ” Once ad 1922, TO JUNE 30, 1923, INCLUSIVE. ing Christmas packages the post mit the idea of individual germs Fast Being Realized by Cottage Tho voters of the Cottage Grove office department calls attention to and in a short time we shall see Grove People. GENERAL FUND the necessity of wrapping packages tho little Jones germs passing school district are to be asked to securely, insuring some and placing haughtily by the little Smith germs purchase another parcel of land ad Balance December 31, 1922_________ _ $ 212.84 A little backache at first. Receipts: County treasurer, taxes__ _________ joining the present high school and saying with withering scorn, 4,195.83 special delivery stamps on others. Sacred Fires of Bible History Daily increasing till the back is City recorder, fines and licenses .... ................ property. Immediately following the “ Keep away from us; you ’ re not 421.75 Valuable packages and fragile ar Antedate Petroleum Wells of latne and weak. Disbursements: Warrants paid _ ............ _____ _ recent favorable action of tho vot in our set. ’ ’ — Larry Ho. ticles should bo securely wrapped $ 4,654.26 Modern Times. Urinary disorders may quickly Interest on warrants paid ........................ ........ ers upon the proposed purchase of 155.08 and insured and packages contain follow; three lots adjoining the high school Balance June 30, 1923______________________ 21.08 ing perishable goods should bear A New Alibi. Dropsy and often Bright's disease. property on the west, A. L. Wynne special delivery stamps to insure (Because of the interest here in “ Where were you last night! ’ ’ This frequently is the downward the development of oil, The 8eutinel their delivery earlier than by the $ 4,830.42 $ 4,830.42 demauded the wife of tho over offered to sell another piece that course of kidney ills. would fill out the property already WATER FUND ordinary method. will publish a series of articles 011 worked professor. Don’t take this course. Follow The school board consid Balance December 31, 1922...................... ......... 25.46 history and development of the “Didn’t I tell you I was out lec purchased. the advice of a Cottage Grove citi the ered tho offer so favorably that a Receipts: Rentals____ ____________________ 7,894.00 oil business, which will be written Card of Thanks. turing to a special class!’’ zen. 7,380.81 by J. J. Woodruff, head driller for We wish to express our sincere ‘ ‘ How about these poker chips Special meeting of the taxpayers has Disbursements. Warrants paid____________ Mrs. Alta Hart, 742 8. 1st 8t., the Interest on warrants ¡mid___________ ___ 115.15 Guaranty Oil company. There appreciation of the kindness shown which dropped from your pocket!’’ been called for the evening of De says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney will 18, when the proposal to Be lance June 30, 1923____________________ 423.50 be six or more articles in the us in our recent bereavement, espe “Why, 1 lectured ou blood. The cember Pills with benefit and am glad to series.) purchase will be put. The cially of the floral tributes. red chips represented the red cor make tho price recommend them. I had kidney is $500, to be paid $ 7,919.46 $ 7,919.46 1 Mrs. A. L. McAboy, puscles and the white ones the white purchase complaint. My back ached and within two years. SEWER FUND Early History of Oil Business. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Schaefer corpuscles. ’ ’ pained and I felt dull and run down Balance December 31, 1922. _______________ . 1,297.70 What is oilf Where may it bo and Family. n29p ‘ * But how about these blue and my kidneys didn’t act right. found! Receipts: County treasurer, taxes................... 806.71 PENNEY STORES ANNOUNCE How did it get there! These cues!’’ A friend recommended Doan’s Kid are questions Assessments paid _______ ....... ... .................. 52.54 THAT THEY ARE COMING asked. The “They represented the corpuscles The anti-drinking cup crusade is ney Pills so I used them. Doan’s true name of frequently Interest on liens paid...... ...... ........ 30.77 the substance com of the veinous blood. ’ ’ in reality the most thoroughly aud were just what I needed as they monly called oil is petroleum. The 376.36 Tho J. O. Penney company is pre Disbursements: Bond interest paid__ ......._ .... “After this,’’ snapped the wife, helped me, by relieving the back word petroleum comes from the unmitigatedly aristocratic idea ever Warrants paid _________________________ 16.80 paring to open one of its chain aches and other symptoms of kid Latin petra (rock) and oleum (oil). evolved. It simply means that I “cash in after your lectures.’’ City warrants purchased by treasurer___ .. 854.38 of department stores here just as stand off in superior seclusion and ney trouble. ’ ’ 940.18 as the store room which it has Balance Juno 30, 1923...... ......... ....... ..... ........... Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t Indeed in some countries this sub say to you: “My germs is better Sales books. The Seutinel. tf soon leased in the Earl Hill block, now simply ask for a kidney remedy— stance is called rock oil because it $ 2,187.72 $ 2,187.72 in course of construction, is roady get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same occurs in the earth in certain porous (In addition to above investment in city warrants, for oceupancy. that Mrs. Hart had. Foster-Milburn rocks or is found in pools or in general fund owes sewer fund $1850.00 and ac In a statement to The Sentinel Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. n23-30 strata of sand beneath impervious crued interest by warrants transfers.) the company announces that it is layers of rock. LIBRARY FUND Petroleum and natural gas were coming to Cottago Grove because it nil curly known. Petroleum was used believes that here is a progressive Balauce December 31, 1922.__ _________________ 397.09 by the Medes and Persians in re community with a bright futuro and Receipts: County treasurer, taxes..............„............... 397.09 ligious ceremonies in 1512. The sa that the decision to locate here was Disbursements: Warrants paid to library board__ nil cred fire issuing from fissures in made oqly after a careful study of Balance June 30, 1923_________________________ •• the earth before the Delphian ora the merits of the community. $ 397.09 $ 397.09 cle is now known to have been Simple glycerine, buckthorn bark, nothing more than an ignited flow BOND AND WARRANT INTEREST FUND Betty Stilwell Is Pledged. etc., as mixed in Adlerika, relieve» of natural gas. There are records of Balance Decomber 31, 1922 ................... ........................ 481.14 Oregon Agricultural College, Cor any case gas on the stomach in TEN petroleum having been used in Receipts: County treasurer, taxes......................... ........ .. 2,267.40 vallis, Nov. 26. — Betty Stillwell, of minutes. Most medicines act only lamps as early as in the second cen 1,366.93 Cottage Grove, is one of the seven Disbursements: Warrants paid............. -........................ on lower bowel but Adlerika acts on tury. The first record of petroleum Interest on warrants paid........................................ . 9.87 girls pledged to Phi Theta Kappa, BOTH upper and lower bowel and in the United States was found in a Ba la neo Juno 30, 1923_______________ ____ ______ - 1,371.74 women ’ s national honorary frater brings out all gasses and poisons. letter of a Franciscan friar who nity in commerce. J. A. Bexell, Brings out matter you never thought wrote in 1627 describing certain oil $ 2,748.54 $ 2,748.54 dean of commerce, welcomed the was in your system. Excellent for springs in Allegheny county, N. Y., PARK FUND new pledges at the commercial club obstinate constipation. Guards which produced an oil used by the 87.95 meeting Friday and urged under Balance Decomber 31, 1922.............................. against appendicitis. The White Indians for medicinal purposes. The 138.90 classmen to strive for honorary so Receipts: C> iinty treasurer, taxes................... Pharmacy. _____________ nov30 occurrence of oil along certain 226.85 cieties from the very beginning of Balance June 30, 1923______________ _____ streams in northwestern Pennsyl- their freshmen year. NOTICE OF FIN AL SETTLEMENT vnnia was noted by the early set $ 226.85 $ 226.85 Membership in Phi Theta Kapp» tlers. This oil was sometimes col EMERGENCY FUND is obtained by invitation only and Balance December 31, 1922. ........................ ............ In the matter of the estate of lected by diverting the scum on the 110.68 i.s bused on a high scholastic stand Fingal 8. Binds, deceased. 217.98 water with a board into trenches ing in courses pursued in college, on Receipts: County treasurer, tuxes.......................... 110.68 Disbursements: Warrants paid ................................ Notice is hereby given that the dug in the sand for oil collection. good moral character and an ex undersigned administrator with will The oil thus collected found some 217.98 pressed interest in commercial work Balance June 30, 1923............................................... annexed of the estate of Fingal 8. use as a medicine, both for internal and college activities. $ 328.66 $ 328.66 Hinds, deceased, has filed in the and external use, and in some cases Pledges of Phi Theta Kappa have County Court of lame County, Ore it was used in place of tallow and STREET FUND a reputation on thee ampus of doing 93.40 gon, his final account as adminis spermaceti oil in lamps. In boring things and membership does not Balance, street fund, December 31, 1922............ trator with will annexed of said wells in this region for salt brine, . 3,760.96 mean that they can stop being live Balance, sundry streets, Decomber 31, 1922___ estate and that Saturday, the 29th oil was frequently encountered as .. 4,706.79 wires in college activities. Miss Receipts: County treasurer, taxes........................ day of December, 1923, at the hour a hindrance. In 1814 a well bored Emergency fund transfer.................................... 110.68 Stillwell will .......................... ’ bo initiated later in of 10 o’clock a. m. of said day, has for brine issued oil nnd gas alone. . 13,725.83 Bond issue J, premium and accrued interest.. the term. been fixed by said Court as the This product "was sold for medicinal City recorder, miscellaneous.............................. . 3,204.71 time for hearing and passing upon purposes. Assessments on sundry streets paid................ 4,067.79 Off Divide Overhead. Car said final account, and objections Nearly 50 years passed before .. 1,335.58 Interest on assessments paid........................... . A car owned in Eugene went off thereto, if any, and for the final commercial advantage was taken of Disbursements: Warrants paid.... . ....................... 22,820.31 the north approach to tho Divide .settlement of the said estate. 767.81 these chance discoveries. In 1859 Interest on warrants paid.......... _..................... overhead early Monday evening. It The first publication of this no the first drilling for the specific 3,500.00 Bonds paid, Bancroft issue F.......... . ................ was said that it was not injured tice shall be on the 29th day of No purpose of obtaining oil was un 1,040.20 Bancroft bond interest paid.... -............... -...... until the driver attempted to get Balance, vember, 1923, and the last publica dertaken and the Drake well on 1,990.77 street fund, June 30, 1923.................... back onto tho highway, when it Balance, sundry tion on the 27th day of December, Oil creek, near Titusville, Pa., was 886.65 streets, Juno 30, 1923.... . .......... tipped over. The car was not so 1923. sunk. Oil was struck at a depth of badly damaged but that it could be GEORGE O. KNOWLES, 69 feet and the well flowed 25 $31,005.74 $31,005.74 driven, but the drivor changed his Administrator with will annexed. barrels a day. This was the be mind about continuing south and WARRANTS OUTSTANDING, REGISTERED AND NOT PAID H J. SHINN, ginning of the oil industry in the returned north. The driver, who was FOR WANT OF FUNDS Attorney. n29d27 United States. The total production General fund. alone, was not seriously injured. 415,211.86 in the year 1859 was about 2000 .. 11,100.46 Another wreck was reported the Street fund.... NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT barrels and this well is still pro . 11,648.16 following duy near Comstock. One Water fuud... ducing. 400.00 of the cars was left beside the road Park fund..... John D. Rockefeller is generally In the matter of the estate of C. but it was not learned hero whether spoken of as the father of the C. Lyon, deceased. anyone was injured. »38,360.48 Notice is hereby given that the American petroleum industry, but A rticle S ix age of 3,000,000 persons ill all the BONDS OUTSTANDING undersigned administratrix of the he did not start until 1862, when ADDING YEARS TO EVERY time. Forty-two per cent of this Water, issue 1905, 5%.... _ Joel Palmer Robbed by Friend. sickness is preventable. That is to estate of C. C. Lyon, deceased, has the business was well under way. Joel D. Palmer, son of Mr. and Water, issue 1910, 5%.......... ............. ................ ....... ONE’S LIFE Mr. Stewart, who was born July say, exery day in the year over a mil filed in the County Court of Lane Water, refunding issue 1921, 6%............................. One of the valuable by-prodvets lion people are shut in or are going Mrs. John I). Palmer of Mosby Hower, issue 1904, 5%.... ................. . ................ ....... County, Oregon, her final account 22, 1840, at Cherrytree, Pa., seven as administratrix of said estate and miles south of Titusville, the home of Life Insurance is its effect upon around ailing and suffering when creek, writing from Russell, Kan., to Funding, issue 1910, 6%.... . ............................ ........... that Saturday, the 29th day of De of the first oil well, was one of the the health and longevity of the whole they might be well and happy and renew his subscription, tells of some hard luck and the ingratitude of a cember, 1923, at the hour of 10 first oil promoters and Colonel E. people. Health of body and mind is attending to their business. Total. 4156,000.00 The life in -.trance companies, man whom he hud befriended. He o’clock a. m. of said day has been L. Drake, who drilled in the Drake an indispensable form of wealth. It hud taken the fellow home to board BONDS OUTSTANDING, ISSUED UNDER BANCRÏlFT ACT well August 27, 1859, was another. working with all other health agen also is a fundamental condition of fixed by said Court as the time for up II improvement.......................................... . ...................................$ 1,9 r > the hearing and passing upon said Oil at this time sold for $20 the progress both for the individual and cies, are changing this condition ma with him and a week later tho man went through their room while Joel “G,“ improvement_______________ ________ ________ 1___ ____ 3,0 for society. Since sickness is the terially. final account, and objections there barrel at the well. 6,0 In 1900, in the industries, there was absent, appropriated $20 which “H,“ improvement...................... There was an oil boom around enemy of everything worth having, to, if any, und for the final settle 8,0 Titusville and everybody was ex the progress of any community may was an average loss of thirteen days did not belong to him and loft for “I,” improvement................ ment of the said estate. “ J, ’ ’ parts unknown. Joel said that the improvement..... ................ ..„............................. 13,0 The first publication of this no cited about oil. Many who had been fairly be measured by its success in per worker through illness. In 1920 county authorities said it wouldn ’ t tice shall be on the 29th day of No struggling with small farms woke preventing or reducing disease and this had been reduced to seven days Total........................................................ . 432,978.78 vember, 1923, and the last publica up to the fact that they were rich, thus prolonging the average span of per wotker. From I960 to 1917 the be worth while to prosecute tho case general death rate in the United and adds, “I’ll bet thoy wouldn’t I, Herbert Eakin, treasurer of the city of Cottage Grove, Oregon, do tion on the 27th day of December, with liquid gold (oil) lying only a life. The growing participation of more States registration area dropped have told me that in old C. G.’’ hereby cortify lhat, to tho best of my knowledge nnd belief, the fore few feet below the surface of their 1923. going is a true and correct statement of the amounts received, paid out, land. From this time on the oil »nd more people in the blessings of from 17.6 to 12.9 per thousand. In ANNIE LYON, ten years industrial accidents have Bryan is keeping painfully still, good health is one of the things for and remaining on hand in tho treasury of Cottage Grove, Oregon, from Administratrix. industry spread over the east, which been reduced eighty per cent while which Life Insurance as an institu says an exchange. We always statement rendered December 31 1922, to June 30, 1923, inclusive, nnd of produces paraffin base oil only. H. J. SHINN, marked improvement has been made 1 bought it would hurt him to quit the bonded and warrant indebtedness of said city ns of June 30, 1923. Western oil of an asphalt base tion can justly claim credit. Attorney. n29d27 talking. V There is an old story about a man in working and living conditions. was found in seepnges in Pico, ^^^^>^^^HERBERT EAKINi^it2 TreaBU£££^, An example of the way that life canyon, in California, in 1850. Pico who got the idea that a Life Insur Merchants! Your salesbooks. canyon is only a few miles north of ance policy was a guarantee against insurance companies work to pro death. He was greatly disappointed long life is found in tbeir activities Place your order with The Sen what is now the city of Los An when he found that by paying the in the case of locomotive engineers geles. This asphalt was used on the he could not add forty or and miners. The companies discov tinel 60 days before you must roof of the old San Fernando mis premiums sion in 1850 by Anderascs Pico, the fifty years to his lifetime. But there ered that the average life of locomo have them. • man who discovered tho asphalt is a sense in which this gentleman tive engineers was five years less than the general average, while the cozing from an outcropping sand. was not so far wrong, in his general average of workers in underground Life insurance companies A Good 1 Ling • DON’T 1U < 4 IT. The first oil well in the west was idea. mines was nine years less. drilled by A. J. Salisbury in 1866 have fought so hard to do away with metal Send jour name and address plainlj in Seesaw canyon, in California, ad disease and unsafe conditions in in This information was given to the written together with & cents (and tbit joining Pico canyon. This well dustry that they have actually added railroads and mining companies, slip) to Chamberlain Medicine Co., D« flowed 400 barrels a day of the •everal years to the life of the av which at once adopted various de vices to improve conditions in order Moines, Iowa, and receive in return a heavy black asphalt base oil and erage American citizen. To begin with, a man cannot in to remove unnecessary hazards. trial pact age containing Ch.tnd»erlain’i from a depth of only 300 feet. This It needs no argument to show the Cough Rem?e.y fur coughs, colds, croup is the old Ojoi well and the discov aura his life in any of the insurance companies unless he be in good value of this work to the individual bronchial, ‘‘flu” and whooping ccnghi» ery well of the west. health at the time and be of healthy and to society. and tickling throat: Chamberlain’» Stem stock. He must have a reasonable ach and Liver Tablet» for etomacli trou-| A Gain of I'ivs Billions prospect of reaching an advanced old bles, indigestion, gm-sy pains that crowd ; SCHOOL TAX ESTIMATE IS Every year added to the life of tho INCREASED BY »36,562.96 age. The reason for this is ob the hcan, bi I io. me and con.-1 ¡nation vious. It would not be fair to the average man is worth, it has been Chamberlain’» Salve, needed in wverj five hundred dollars to the family for burn«, scabls, wi : ids, pile» The tax estimate for the schools rest of the forty millions of policy estimated, and skin affections; these ▼slued familj • of Lane county for 1924 shows an holders for a diseased person to be nation, if the lives of ten million medicine» for oalf 5 cents. Don’t miss it increase of more than $36,000 over admitted upon equal terms to their people were prolonged one year it would make a gain to the nation of the amount of the levy for the brotherhood. To make the thing a five billions of dollars, enough to schools this year, according to fig success, all must start on an equal run the Federal Government and to utes submitted to the county court looting. pay off a billion or so of national by E. J. Moore, county superin A School in Health fnlnsss debt. tendent. Since health and life add to Life But the money value of an extra The large increase is accounted Insurance resources, and disease and for by the fact that the school pop death take away from them, it is year added to a man's life is the ulation this year is considerably fundamental that the institution smallest part of it. It is its human greater than that of last year and should work unceasingly to improve value that makes life worth while; that the county as a whole will be health and prolong life. This is why Who can estimate what it means in taxed in 1924 for the union high Life Insurance has become a school happiness for a million fathers to be schools, whereas these schools have for instruction in healthful living. left five or ten years longer with their families be/ore the cold hand heretofore been supported by sepri | It carries on this work by scien rate district taxes. The estimates i tific and Impartial medical examina of death breaks up the home! A man has but one life. If he for 1923 and 1924 compared, are as tions, by distributing health litera follows: ture and ana by furnishing nurses who limps through the world crippled by 1923 Taxes Into the go into ____ homes of the insured and accident or weakened by disease, he County schools......... .......... »131,303.95 help nelp them in preventing and curing has missed his chance. He may County high schools______ 30,129.19 disease. se. This system of ed> education make good in spite of his handh Libraries_____________ 1.218.76 Bas resulted in a new awakening of cap, but how much better he could Deficiency ................. 5,200.00 ttercet In health conservation. And have done if someone had shown has actually lengthened the aver him how to avoid accident and to prevent disease. Total ______________ 4167,851.90 age span of life. When a man is healthy in mind 1924 Estimate. It has made a careful study of County schools...... ..... »135,697.75 diseases and accidents which injure and body and Is happy in his work, he not only is rich, but he has mat County high schools ....___ 67360.00 and kill large numbers of people. It Libraries 1.356.97 bas analyzed for public use the eco tered the secret of real living. nomic gain which results from a By making this possible not only Total — --------------- 4204,414.22 lengthened life, »nd it has added to for themselves but fbr counties» 167351.9« the happiness of cotmtless lives by others of their friends and neigh changing pain and weakness into bor*. the millions of people who com Increase ...... ...... ........ » 36J62.32 happmess and strength, through in stftut« the life Insurance companiea The amount of tax money raised struction In the laws of self preser- of America have accomplished a by the several union high school Hfissas is in this country an aver service of untold value not only to districts this year was $20,123.81 America hot to the world. This will be raised by general tax Aratela tf fl "A* UurtftffttM Pt&tc Sertoli ation for 1924. Downward Course History of the Oil Business From 1512 Down to Date Glycerine Mixture Surprises Cottage Grove People It Commands Attention WRIGLEYS F^Aft Business stationery printed by The Sentinel has that indefinable and uncommon tone which attractis favor able attention, commands respect and entitles you to put your message over. And the price is reasonable. Come in or phone. We shall be pleased to show you samples and talk over your individual needs. We have prepared many business forms for our patrons, if you are troubled in working out the kind of form to perform the purpose for which you wish it, we shall be pleased to give you the benefit of our experience. Cottage Grove Sentinel Quality Print Shop North Sixth Street