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ÖW CntîiujF (tane gwitüwl ' , ♦ NUMBER 18 COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1924 VOLUME XXXIV TO GO 39 MILES THAN TO TAKE 17-MILE ROUTE Lorane Men Travel First to Other Boys’ Basketball Aggregation Points of State to Get High School to Play at Several of Start for Here. Springfield. Residences Alone, Which Are Pretentious, Cost $86,400. Indications Are That During 1924 xse .» uoustrucuon Wul Total Even Higher Figure. Building improvements in Cottage Grove for 1923 went well over a hundred thousand dollars. The lar ger part of this was for residences. More of these were built than dur ing any preceding year and several of them are rather pretentious. An estimate places the total cost of 24 new residences at $86,400. One was in the $12,000 class, one in the $7500 class, four in the $6000 class, one in the $5000 class, one in the »3500 class, three in the $3000 class, eight in the $2500 class, two in the $2000 class, two in the $1000 class and one in the $500 class. Two business blocks, the Hill block and Allison block, were erect ed at an estimated cost of $45,000, three service stations, the Bunge, Woods and Harkleroad stations, were erected at a cost of $7500, two business blocks were remodeled at a cost of »5000, the Free Moth odist church building was erected at a cost of $3500, a machine shop was erected at a cost of $1500 and a foundry building at a cost of $2000. The cost of the oil derrick, buildings and equipment has been given as $40,000. Repair work on buildings will total more than $20,000. Four thousand five hun- dred feet of concrete walk was built at a cost of $4500. Deducting for the machinery from the amount given for the installa tion of the oil derrick, buildings and equipment leaves a total of nearly a hundred thousand dollars. Adding for improvements which have been overlooked in this compilation, there is no doubt that the total of building improvements was well over the hundred-thousaud-dollar mark. Building improvemeiift« at the sawmills alone would put tho total higher than that figure. Indications are that during the coming year tho improvements will be much greater than during 1923. There is moro than a possibility of the erection of a hotel building to cost as much as the total im provements for the past year. Improvements in the equipment of industrial plants during 1923 proba bly ran much higher than the total for building improvements. GUS SCHNIDO, OF MEDFORD, TO SUBSTITUTE FOR BYLUND Gus Schnido, of Medford, has been secured to substitute in the wrestling match at the armory to night for Bobby Bylund, Minne apolis grappler, who was billed to meet Ralph Hand, local favorite. Bylund was defeated in his match at Portland with Thye, light heavy weight champion, but Thye had con siderable difficulty in handling him. Bylund took the first fall in 29 minutes and Thye tho second in 10 minutes, putting Bylund to the mat with such force that after a rest of 15 minutes he was not in shape to go on again. His injuries caused him to cancel the match here for tonight, but it is likely that he will be able to come here at a later date. Local fans need not fear an in ferior show tonight, however, for Schnido is a top-notcher and has defeated Thye at catch weights. Although a heavyweight, he has agreed to make 175 pounds for the match, while Hand will be but little over 160. Another main event will be a four-round boxing match between Bill Toole, local lad, and Bud Riley, of North Dakota. There will also be good prelim inaries. PLUMBERS ARE KEPT BUSY; FLOWERS ARE LN HIDING Although it is 17 miles from the Scott Jackson place at Lorane to Eugeue and 22 miles from Eugene to Cottage Grove, while the dis tance direct from the Jackson place to Cottage Grove is only 17 miles, the longer route is the shorter. This statement does not show a lack of education in arithmetic but it does show, so Mr. Jackson states, a lack of education in road building upon the part of those who conceived the idea of building macadam roads by placing the crushed rock on the road bed and leaving it for the trucks to roll in. The road from Lorane to Eugene was built by tho old method of making a real road to start The road to Cottage Grove made by laying loose rock. Mr. Jackson hud to bring some hogs to Cottage Grove and he took the longer route to get here because the time consumed would be less. In fact, he doubted whether it would be possible to get here at all by the direct route. On the same day T. B. Mitchell and J. C. Skelton wished to get here from Lorane. They were afraid to try tho direct road, so they walked six miles out to Curtin and took the train from there. On their return rhey took tho train to Comstock and took a road across the hills from there. Mr. Skelton stated that be cause of the deplorable condition of the road ho came to Cottage Grove only two times during 1923 and Mr. Mitchell stated that for the same reason he came hero only three times during the year. WATER COLLECTIONS SHOW GAIN OF $429 DURING YEAR Water collections for 1923 showed a gain of $420.37 over 1922, ac cording to the annual report of Recorder Galloway. Receipts from fines, licenses and miscellaneous sources were $2810.40. Building per mits issued after July 1, when the building permit ordinance went into effect, numbered 42. ---------------------------------- -—-------- ■>$> i SENTINEL PUBLISHERS NO | LONGER HAVE ANY FEAR I OF DIREST THREATS MADE «>----------------------------------------------- Those who may have had visions of the dire things they would like to do to the publishers of The Cot tage Grove Sentinel probably will be considerably discouraged by the results of n recent accident in which Editor Elbert Bede escaped almost unscathed when serious and possibly fatal injuries seemed cer tain and Elbert Smith, the other of tho publishers, was equally fortu nate. Some heavy boxes of paper were being raised to a storage platform 10 feet above the main floor of the building. Mr. Bede was on tho plat form above and standing in front of tho hoisting apparatus, when the box of paper being raised caught in such a manner as to pull forward tho framework upon which the hoist was being used. He was bumped off the platform to the cement floor be low and tho heavy timbers (one of them a 16 foot 6x6) followed after. Having received an instant’s warn ing from an employe, Dale Hawk ins, who saw what was about to happen, Bede attempted to jump to a box of paper eight feet below. Whether he succeeded ho did not know but from the fact that impact with the cement floor did not break any bones be believed that he par tially succeeded. Timbers piled up about him before he could regain his feet, but evidently none struck him but a glancing blow. Mr. Smith was below the box and timbers as they started to ¡all, but succeeded in getting out of the way and the only injuries he received probably warded the timbers off of his partner lying on the floor. Neither lost a moment’s time on account of the accident, although Mr. Bede later found that he was covered with bruises and felt the effocts of being somewhat severely shaken up. The noise of the falling timbers was such as to attract many on the street who felt certain some serious accident had happened. It’s an ill wind that blows no body good. The plumbers profited by the cold snap that caused exposed water pipes to burst and they were kept on the jump when the pipes began to thaw out. Dealers in woolen underwear and other heavy clothing had no fault to find with the temporary . . reign _ of MAN TRAVELS THROUGH the storm king. STATE; EATS O. G. PRUNES; But we can no longer write sym WANTS ’EM IN QUANTITY posiums upon the beauties of our winter roses and other flowers. Even ♦---------------------------------------- ♦ The fame of the product of the the strawberries have refused to produce while the thermometer hov Cottage Grove cannery continues to spread and its quality is never for ers around the freezing point. gotten by those who have once tried it. Evidence supporting both these Buckeye Trio Pleases. statements has arrived here re The Buckeye Male Trio, the sec- cently. ond number of the winter lyceum One piece of evidence was a letter course, pleased a large audience from Andrew X. Schmitt, who is su when they appeared here Thursday perintendent for the Prudential In evening last. The young men proved surance company at Chicago. He themselves versatile artists, both ns wrote that while traveling through instrumentalists and vocalists and Oregon recently he was served with presented a program to suit the canned prunes bearing the Cottage tastes of all. Grove brand. He was so impressed The next number will be Dr. Mat with their fine flavor and luscious tison Wilbur Chase, lecturer, who I qualities that he wishes to know the will be hen- Jcnuaty 25. I price in quantities. The other piece of evidence is an Bounties Still Being Paid order for two ears of canned black Bounties on predatory animals are berries of the coming 1924 pack still being paid at the eounty from the T. Green Grocery company, clerk’s offiee as there is still a bal of Kansas City. This is the sixth ance of over $600 in this fund. The season that this company has placed eounty eourt eliminated the bounty an order with the local eaawry for item from the 1924 budget but Clerk this fruit. Bryson said that he would continue Salo« books for mereftants— The to pay bounties until directed not to Sentinel. xxx do so. Development of Our Own Resources Little of Amount Sold Was Cut, In- dicating Large Future Mill May Result in Holding For Strawberries and Gooseberries Operations. tune at Home. of Tho boys’ basketball team of the Cottage Grove high school will play their first game of this season to morrow evening with the Spring field high school team nt Spring field. This is the second game for the Springfield team. Last Thursday evening they won a game from tho Pleasant Hill high team by a score of 12 to 11. This is said to have been tho first game that Pleasant Hill has lost on her own floor. Springfield will have the advantage of the game being played on its own floor, so the local team is looking forward to a hard fought game. Those who are turn ing out to practice and from whom seven will be chosen to play to morrow evening are Dale Miller, Homer Dixon, Delmas Richmond, William Poole, John Hewitt, Dana McCnrgar, Edgar Scheufele, Ross Glass, John Wilson, Earl Ballew, John Bartels, George Hewitt nnd Marion Richmond. Governor Asks Attorney General to Proceed With Prosecution of Officials. Salem, Ore., Jan. 4.—Governor Pierce today sent a letter to the at torney general requesting that he take charge of the prosecution of members of the Lane county court on a chrge of employing its highway workers in excess of eight hours a day in violation of the Oregon stat utes. It was said that evidence in the case will be presented to the Lane county grand jury at its next Session. C. H. Gram, state labor commis sioner, said today that the case dates back nearly a year, when a large number of road workers in the employ of the Lane county court Here compelled to labor in excess of eight, hours a day, for which they received no extra compensation. Under the law, according to Mr. Gram, workers may be worked more than eight hours a day in event of emergency, but they must be paid for any overtime they remain on the job. 152 BIRTHS DURING 1923; 58 DEATHS LN SAME TIME There were 152 deaths during 1923 and 58 deaths, according to the annual report of Health Officer C. E. Frost. Of the births, 71 were males and 81 were females. Of the deaths, 38 were males and 20 were females. There were 20 cases of quarantine for contagious disease, 18 for measles and 2 for scarlet fever. The general health conditions of the city were found to be much bet ter. Some influenza was present but in a mild form. ARRESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS DURING YEAR 1923 TOTAL 29 Prohibition is far from a com plete success in Cottage Grove. There were 29 arrests for drunken ness during 1923 and the list of names of those who paid fines for overindulgence in moonshine during the year,'as reported by City Mar sbal Pitcher, makes somewhat inter esting and a little surprising read ing. It has been filed with the city recorder. The fines totaled $460. Fines for 68 traffic violations to taled $344 Hunting Accidents Numerous. Hunting accidents resulted in the death of five persons and injury of eight others in Oregon during the fall seasons On deer, small game and birds. This toll of life was re vealed in the summary of accident reports compiled by the Oregon state game commission. One death was in Lane county. The most common mistake of be lieving a man to be a deer caused the death of two hunters and in jury of two. The accidental dis charge of guns killed three and in jured two. Vesper Service Is Success. The Presbyterian church held its first vesper service last Bun- day at 5 o’clock. This is the first time that such a service has been tried here and it proved quite a success, due in part to the presence of a large choir. Musical talent from Eugene will be at the service next Sunday. Lombard Elected City Attorney. Herbert W. Lombard was elected city attorney at the regular meet ing of the council Monday night, succeeding J. E. Young, who had served as city attorney for so many years that there are few who re member when he first began to serve. Hold a regular position by having sn ad every week. Boy Burglar Is Paroled. Bteve Edwards, of Springfield, ac eused of participating in several burglaries for which seven youths of that city were arrested recently, was paroled by Judge Skipworth, of the circuit court, after he had been sen tenced to serve two years in the state prison. Charge Is Made That Roads Are Only Mud Holes Yet Cost More Than Real Roads of Past. Leaving Rock to Be Worked in by Traffic Cited as Crime in High way Construction. The following resolutions severely scoring alleged extravagant expendi ture and waste ot road monies by tho county commissioners have beeu adopted by tho Lorune grange and by the county grange: ‘ ‘ Whereas, tho Lane county com missioners havo not only shown poor business judgment but also have pursued a most flagrant course in the extravagant expenditure of pub lic qionies, it is not at all unreason able for taxpayers to expect and to demand that a careful and business like disbursement bo made of their funds, so with this end in view We make this pretest for tho betterment of the methods of road building in this county. “The Cottage Grove Lorane road is perhaps a striking example of the wasteful way in road building in which the present comissioners have demonstrated their incompetence. Here they have dumped crushed rock on the grades, expecting trucks and other traffic to do tho required rolling, with the very natural result that countless yards of rock have been pressed into the soft grades, doing very little good and wasting a very large per cent of this costly material. “Wo also maintain that by this method two ditches are formed in the subgrade by the wheels of tho rock trucks passing over it, thus much of the rock is lost to all use ful purposes. At the first rains these ditches or rutB form water courses to the detriment of the road and roads built in this manner are prac tically worn out by the contractor before they are turned over to the county, and “Whereas, tho Lane county com missioners havo not held contractors to the terms of their contracts, espe cially allowing extensions of time not consistent with good ■ business judgment, and iqnch to the incon venience of the traveling public, now, therefore, be it “Resolved that Lorane grangoNo. 54 goes on record in registering its protest against tho ' extravagant methods practiced by tho present county commissioners in road con struction and [>articularly in the case of tho Cottage Grove-Lorane road, which is especially atrocious in tho mountain section of that road; and, be it further “Resolved, that in tho matter of contracted roads we firmly believe that the commissioners should hold all contractors strictly to the terms of their contracts and compel all contractors to give good and suffi cient guarantee, not only for finish ing of their contract in time speci fied, in good workmaulike manner, but to repair all damages done to the road themselves after the time for completion of road expires, that at the end there may be no question as to tho finished road; that the county commissioners should use the greatest of care in so wording the contracts that no doubt could possi bly arise as to the kind of finished road they would accept; and be it further “Resolved, that we deplore the manner in which our present com missioners havo been constructing rock roads aud ask that they cease floundering around and construct good water bound macadam roads, such as wo were led to expect we would receive when the two million dollars of bonds were adopted by the voters of Lane county; and be it further “Resolved, that we are not in sympathy with the present county commissioners in tho discontinuance of the use of the road roller. Past experience has demonstrated to the general public und road builders at largo that the roller is the most im portant piece of machinery in the building of rock roads.” ♦---------- --- ------------------------- PLYMOUTH ROCK 8TARTS THE NEW YEAR RIGHT BY PRODUCING MONSTER EGG *---------------- -------- -----------------------4 Just to show that a little thing like zero weather can’t discourage the egg producing biddies of this section and probably realizing that her owner would need more food in order to withstand tho frigidity, a Plymouth Rock hen owned by Mrs. Joe Perkins Jr. produced an egg on New Year’s day that measured 7% inches by 6 inches. This was the coldest day Cottage Grove had dur- ing the recent cold spell and the coldest day of many years, The thermometer dropped to zero. And this was not a freak egg- It was built exactly like eggs of usual dimensions and had but one yolk. The same hen produced an egg of almost equal proportions a year ago and seems to have developed the habit of starting the new year right. Timber alued at $1,554,909 was sold in the Cascade national forest during the year 1923, according to the annual report of Nelson F. Mac duff, supervisor of tho forest, just finished. This included tho big sale on tho north fork of the Willam ette, in the Oakridge territory, to George H. Kelly and associates, of Portland, who are erecting a large mill there. Tho sales wherein the timber was actually cut amounted to $11,358, according to the report. Lane coun ty receives 25 per eent of ull monies received by tho government for this timber. The report of the supervisor states that there were ten sales of $100 or less and two over $5000. Small amounts of timber were sold at cost to settlers within the forest. Tho number of board feet of tini- ber sold during tho year amounted to 698,071,000 and the amount cut was 5,930,000. Permits were issued for free use of timber amounting to 105,000 feet and valued at $170. Tho report of tho forest super visor states that during the past year 1040 acres were planted to young trees in an experimental way and that 250 or more planted to the acre are still alive and growing. 1'lanting has boon fairly sutisfac- Gambling Games, Old Time Bar and 1 ory, said tho supervisor, but it has been carried on only as an expori Barroom Ball Are to Run ment. If. was discovered to a cor- Wide Open. Inin extent which places are suit able for planting and which are not. The American Legion will repeat its “Days of ’49” entertainment on KEY PAYS REPAIR BILL Saturday, January 26. Tho same en BUT SAYS NOT HIS FAULT tertainment, given a year ago, was a hugo success. A. C. Key, of Molalla, who paid Those who patronize the enter the repair bill for damage done to tainment will be made dizzy by tho the O. W. Hays car, mentioned size of the bets that will bo mado a week ago, was not satis at the gaming devices. The money fied with the story of the accident will be German marks and tho op printed in The Sentinel. Although erators will accept no bet of less he paid the bill, ho said that ho than fifty thousand of them. The really was not to blame, that his sportive ones are expected to pyra car was on tho right side of the mid this until the amount becomes road, that he was carrying a tail staggering. light which was jarred out when Experts in the operation of faro tho Hays car struck hint, that the banks and roulette wheels will see reason that the Hays cur struck him that the owners do not got the wus because Mr. Hays did not throw worst of it and those who lose their on his headlights after passing an money can easily get moro or drown other car, and more to tho same their sorrows at an old time bar, general effect. which will bo a feature of tho fur Bo long as Mr. Key felt disposed nishings. to pay tho doctor’s bill and tho re Hot dogs and other refreshments pair bill without arguinont, Mr. appropriate to the occasion will bo Hays is not inclined to enter into sold al n price to mako Wall street a controversy as to how tho acci financiers look like pikers. A bar dent happened. ■ oom dance will be in progress dur ing the evening. READER WANTS PAPER IN The proceeds of the affair are to be added to the community house | ORDER TO LEARN WHAT | ADVERTISERS ARE SAYING fund of tho American Legion. Tho entertainment will be held in ♦----------------------------------------♦ the room of the Hill block soon to “I take your paper principally to be occupied by the J. C. Penny got the local advertising.’’ company store. Tho admission will That was tho unusual statement bo 50 cents nnd 50,000 genuino Ger made recently by a subscriber in re man marks will go with each admis newing his subscription. That state sion. ment may have hurt the nowspa per’s pride a little. A newspaper 13,587 BOOKS ARE TAKEN likes to beliovo that it is the ed FROM LIBRARY DURING 1923 itorials, or something in the man ner of dishing up tho nows that, Tho annual report of Mrs. Win. attracts renders, but it is neverthe Baker, city librarian, shows that less a fact that many readers turn during 1923 Cottage Grovo people first to the wantads or to the ad took 13,587 books from the library. vertising of some mercantile firm During the year 324 new cards were which each week carries an interest ifsued, showing that the institution ing message. is being patronized liberally by the And this subscriber who wanted newcomers. Other items of interest to read the ads was a man, while in the report are: Books mended, usually the women are given credit 996; books purchased, 66; books do for biiug the advertising readers. nated, 80; books received from the When renders of the Cottage state library, 284; books worn out, Grove country take tho local paper 30; books lost, 13; fines collected, principally for tho advertising, the $99.76. mercantile establishment which does not carry an interesting ad each week is missing a golden opportu Cannery Pack Is Record One. Portland, Ore., Jan. 2.—Members nity to increase its patronage. of the Northwest Canncrs’ associa tion broke all records during the ♦ past season with u pack of 4,500,000 I OPTIMIST CRIPPLE HIKING ACROSS COUNTRY IS FINE cases of fruit and vegetables, ac EXAMPLE FOR EMULATION cording to information given out to day by C. D. Minton, secretary treasurer of tho association, in con Edwin N. Byers, who is a living nection with tho opening session of example of what a man with grit the tenth annual convention of the may go through and yet retain an organization here. active interest in the welfare of his There were 180 delegates in at fellow creatures, passed through hero tendance, representing 54 canneries Thursday on his way from Portland, in all sections of the northwest, of Oregon, to Portland, Maine, on n ap aggregate capital of *17,000,900. hiking trip in tho interest of the buddies’ bonus, as ho characterizes »90,000 Fire at Eugene. it. Ho will support himself during A »90,000 fire occurred at Eugene tho journey by operating a knife Saturday afternoon when tho Ivane grinder and sharpening machine County Auto company’s garage and which ho carries with him. tho Warnock building on Pearl Just how ho expects to create street were destroyed. The flames sufficient interest through his trip started from an explosion in the Io move congress to put over the shop of the garage and spread with bonmi bill he did not state, but ho such rapidity that no property was is a splendid example to set before saved and many occupants of apart e thers who while lolling in compara meats in ’ " Warnock building tive luxury deplore their fate. Crip the barely escaped with their lives, pled by tuberculosis and wounded in 50 More than automobiles were the service of his country, he start destroyed. Great difficulty was ex ed the cross-country hike among perienced in saving nearby build strangers without a penny in his ings. pockets. News stories in the New Year’s editions of the Portland dailies re corded the fact that a third of the incoming tonnage of the Port of Portland is petroleum products from California. A total of $30,000,000 was sent to California during 1923 for these prodnets, which were by far the largest of any single item of import. It is moro than probable that dur ing the coming few years a largo part of that money will be held in Oregon through the development of oil in our own state. It is not at all impossible that Lane county will in the near future produce more of petroleum products than it uses, al though it probably never will be able to sell to California tho amount of petroleum products that Califor nia has sold to us. An interesting feature of tho dai ly market reports is that there is a continued upward trend in tho oil stock market, indicating continued interest in the development of oil prospects. AMERICAN LEGION WILL REPEAT DAYS OF '49 SHOW If we haven't exactly what want—or eaa't produce it—if anything in the printing lim can get it for you. you -------------------------------------------------- TOTAL FIRE LOBS IN CITY it is FOR ENTIRE YEAR OF 1923 -we WA8 SMALL SUM OF »500 1X1 Wells Is Out of Jail. Jimmy Wells, who was arrested in Portland when the police there took into custody Tom Murray and Eddii Walker, Florence bank robbers, was released from the county jail Thurs day and left for Portland. Wells when arrested had in his possession some of the money stolen from the bank by Murray, Walker and the third bandit, according to Your wants may be few—provid- the police. No charges were riled ed you i use Sentinel wantada. tf against him here. Cottage Grove made a most re markable fire record during 1923. Tho fire department was called out to but one fire of consequence — - - within the city and Fire Chief Mackin estimates that the total loss during the year was not over ♦500. Fire insurance premiums paid dur ing tho year totaled probably not lew than $15,000. Watch the label on your paper. Should Be Added for Prof itable Operation. 0. E. Bales, M. M. Wheeler, Claud Schrack Are Reelected to Cannery Board. “The operation of the cannery could be made more profitable,” Superintendent Bales stated in ad dressing the annual meeting of the stockholders held Monday, “by lengthening tile season of operation. This could bo brought about by the production of such crops as straw berries and gooseberries. Manage* G. O. Knowles had explained that tho last year's operation had been successful and had recouped a por tion of tho loss of tho year before. Mr. Bales explained that there was now blit one producer of goose berries and but very few delivering strawberries. Ho said that there is ton times tho market for straw berries that thore is for blackber ries, now tho principal pack here. Mr. Bales explained that in the production of gooseberries the third limo sulphur spraying injures tho berries and the first two sprayings only should bo given. Mr. Bales also stated that to in sure the success of the annual bean pack it will bo necossary to install a retort, so that tho product may be heated to such a degree that the spores of flat sour may bo do st royod. Encouragement was given to blackberry pickers by tho statement that it probably will be possible to pay 5 cents tho pound this year. Article 10 of the constitution, lim iting tho amount of stock that may bo owned by one person, was re pealed. C. E. Balos M. M. Wheeler and Claud Schrack were reelected di rectors. The hold over directors are G. O. Knowles, N. E. Glass and G. W. McFarland DELEGATES TO HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE ARE CHOSEN Delegates from tho local high school to the conference of high school Btudent body officers and managers of school publications, to bo held in Eugeno Friday and Sat urday under the auspices of tho University of Oregon, have been named. They are Homer Dixon, president of tho student body; Don na Nichols, secretary of the stu dent body; Robert Galloway, editor of the Ceo Goo Mirror; John Bar tels, manager of tho Coe Gee Mir ror; Kathryn McQueen nnd Dolly Pitcher, members of tho Ceo Geo Mirror staff. Either Miss Elise Price or Miss Myrtle Kent will accompany tho representatives ns tho faculty mem ber. LOCAL MEN NOT IN AT ENDURANCE RUN FINI8H Only five of the 11 who started in tho motorcycle endurance run from Eugene to Seattle on New Year’s day completed the run. The run was mode during tho cold snap which hit the coast and the riders suffered severely. Neither of the Cottage Grove men to enter, L. G. Cornwall and Bill Patton, eoiaplet- ed the run. Cornwall dropped out at Salem on the start, when his ma chino went bud. Patton dropped out at Salem on the return trip. George Foster made tho trip with him. Nearly all of the drivers suffered with frosted toes or ears. LOCAL HARDING MEMORIAL COMMITTEE YET INACTIVE Cottage Grovo has not. as yet done anything towards tho Harding memorial. The local committee has not. as yet held a meeting, but it is thought that some action will bo taken within tho next week. Tho committee is J. F. Spray, C. H. Van Denburg, K. K. Mills, J. H. Cham bers and Elbert Bede. T. (!. Wheeler is county committeeman for this city. The purpose of the memorial is to purchase the Harding home to be nsed as an archive for his books and papers, to establish a chair in his honor in some university, to build a mausoleum for tho body of tho late president and a monument in his honor. Postoffice Business Increases. Business nt the Cottage Grove postoffico showed a healthy increase uuring 1923, when the sales reached »10,189.06, as compared with $9, 405.75 for 1922.