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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1924
itütiaqe (brine
Sentinel I tiou (puid indirectly to the Union i
emies were kind enough to table the
motion.
e“u‘Puuy upon the Spring
Sharp and Roney, both elected
flvld bridKe Bud lhe North Fofk
bridge;, although fur u few weeks
upon platforms of fault-finding with
the administration in power, were
.Publishers i only, should equal the annual sal
Bede & Smith....
___ Editor r paid to the bridge superinteude
Elbert Bude—......
made to feel that all their chickens
■ under the old regime, which was
had come home to roost.
A firct cla»» publication entered at Î one of the big things in the Roney
Nease Contract Damnable.
Cottage Grove as second class matter
’ campaign.
While there had been fireworks
It is a small thing that the county.
Business Office.......... 55 North Sixth k
throughout the day, they were a
■ commissioners should violate prae-1
puny display in comparison w’ith
BUBBCKIPT1ON BATES
ticully every section of the budget Charges of Extravagance, In - those that were fired when the
One year..... 42.25 I Throe mouths 65c • law and should overdraw practically
Nease timber cruising contract capie
8ix mouths- 1.15|biagle copy— 5c 5 every account over which they have
efficiency and Illegal
up for discussion as the last item
control. It was thought to be a big
Expenditures are
Member of
on the budget.
thing
when
the
budget
law
was
en
National Editorial Association
County Attorney Johnston showed
Not Denied.
Oregon State Editorial Association acted, to the observance of which
that under the contract which had
county officials were to be held
Oregon New9puper Conference
been signed by the two commis-
Lane County Publishers ’ Association i strictly accountable.
An economy
sioners 4 4 in a dark room” and
administration should make it a big
without his approval and against
thing to observe a law passed for
the protest of Judge Barnard,
the very purpose of briuging about
would cost the county probably
economy in public expenditures. It Nease Timber Company Cruise Con three times what a timber cruise
TRIVIAL MISTAKES OF THE
is quite probuble that the county
tract Smells to High Heaven,
COMMISSIONERS.
should cost. He explained the points
could avoid payment of warrants
District Attorney Says.
that had not been visible to the
The Eugene Register, in u recent illegally issued in payment of debts
commissioners and might be over
issue, characterized as trivial many illegally contracted. The holders of
looked by others. The contract had
(Continued from first page.)
of the charges hurled at Commis the warrante would not consider
been drawn bv Nease himself and
sioners Sharp aud Boney, those arch that a trivial thing.
tho commissioners had signed on the
It is a small thing that under the work. As the work was done dotted line. It wa^ insinuated thnt
apostles of extravagance and inef
ficiency, at the recent taxpayers’ an economy administration the cost the biffs were paid by the county. when the signing was done the room
Although the two commissioners
budget meeting. Although the editor of keeping the poor, like the cost
probably was so dark that it
everything else
under the had been elected upon a platform impossible to clearly read the
of Thu Sentinel was a party to the of
stating
that
they
would
cut
out
all
hurling of some of the charges re economy administration, has been
tents.
ferred to as trivial, it cun not help more than under any other admin road and bridge supervision, more
Crookedness Hinted.
than
the
salary
of
a
bridge
super
but ugruc with Thu Register tu a istration. It now costs $2.50 per
4 4 The whole thing smells to
intendent
for
a
year
was
paid
on
month per capita more to keep the
certain extent.
heaven,*’ the district attorney de
The charges were trivial, but only poor than it did under the admin this one job.
clared. 4 4 The commissioners have
The
bridge
company
paid
directly
istration
which
was
berated
by
speaking.
Charges
comparatively
made a mess of things and have
much weaker, made against Former Sharp and Boney as extravagant. over $1500 for supervision. The done their best to saddle a terrific
county
paid
for
supervision
10
per
Possibly
when
a
few
more
economy
Commissioner Harlow and Former
expense upon the county. Whether
Commissioner Spencer, were made administrations increase the cost of cent of the total cost and on top they did so crookedly or honestly
to uppeur so big that Sharp and the keep of the poor to a price of that paid $400 for good measure. I propose to find out by testing
Harlow rode into office upon the greater than the cost of living at Ten per cent of the total cost was the contract in coilrt. I will attack
about $600. That brings the total
noise they made about such charges. the highest-priced hotels, it wilP
cost for supervision on this one job its validity upon the grounds of
It is a small thing, of course, begin to seem to be a big thing.
having been illegally entered into
It is only a small thing that a alone to over $2500.
that the present economy commis
Commissioner Sharp, when a can and because of the unconscionable
sioners have not only neglected to county road roller worth $2200 was didate, characterized as reckless and outrageous price charged there
keep their solemn promisen to those sold for $1100; it is a small thing , <1expenditure tho paying of salaries in. I call upon the county court
voters whom they fooled into voting that the commissioners refuse to pay of $6 a day for foremen. The fore now to show their honesty by re
for them but have actually conduct a less price in Eugene fur automo man on this bridge job drew down scinding the contract and I will
ed the most extravagant, most inef bile tires than the same cost from $ 11 a day, it was stated at this stake my reputation upon the state
ficient administration in the history some Portland friend; it is a little meeting — and not denied — upon ment that all the damages Nease
of the county. This is a small thing, thing that the commissioners prefer which the county paid another 10 could collect through such action
not only because failure to keep to buy an electric compressor in per cent.
tho commissioners could stick
pre-election promises lias become a Portland at a greater price than
In tho construction of this bridge their eyes.
small thing, but because other the Eugenh price on the same arti the price paid for timbers was $35
Sharp Defends Contract.
charges which have been or are cle; it is a small thing that the cost the M, while one of the bidders on
Sharp
defended the contract and
going to be made against the com plus contracts on the Springfield the bridge had an offer of the tim
said that it had been signed because
luissioners are so large as to dwarf and North Fork bridges cost the bers at $27.50 the M.
the county wanted an honest cruise
trivial charges like extravagance, county $2500; it. is a small thing
Illegal Expenditures.
from, an honest cruiser. As to the
inefficiency and flagrant, violation that a car of iron culvert was
That, the county commissioners honesty of Nease, reference wai 18
bought in Portland, without pub
of pre-election promises.
The fact thnt a few days after licity, at a greater price than would have no regard for what the law made to the same kind of scandal in
Nels Roney went into office his have been bid by a Eugene firm; says about the conduct of the other places where he had operated.
bridge tools were, bought • by the it is a small thing that the com county’s business was brought out Nease has since admitted that he
has often had to stand suit upon
county is a small thing, but only missioners would pay for a cost emphatically.
It was shown that thousands of his contracts. Judge Barnard was
because other illegal things which keeping system $1900 more than the
the county commissioners have done taxpayers think necessary; it is a dollars was paid from the general called upon to read a letter which
small thing that tho commissioners emergency fund for road purposes, ho had received from Idaho. The
are so much larger.
It was a trivial thing for a com would pay $1000 for outside legal without a transfer of funds being letter referred to contained a quo
missioner elected upon an economy advice merely because tho district made, a flagrant violation of the tation from the Clearwater Repub to end her own life are more ob-
platform to attempt to collect salary attorney wouldn’t give them the budget law; that obligations are lican, of Clearwater county, Idaho, scu re.
i
the following are ex
for the time he was away on a va kind of legal advice they demanded; assumed, to be paid from future from which
The relation between too much
cation in California, but bad Com it is a small thing that the com tax levies, a flagrant violation of cerpts:
gnyety mid weariness with life,
Nease Scandal Elsewhere.
missioner Harlow done that just be missioners have adopted the motto: law; that contracts for thousandsj
however, is not too remote to be
fore tho attempt to recall him, it 44Spend tho dollars and you won’t of dollars are entered into without
44N. C. Ingram in an affidavit traced. Dancing every night, smok
any
publicity
whatever,
when
state
would have been made to appear have to » worry about the dimes;”
ing cigarettes and doing the various
but we find that a number of small law requires bids on all purchases says that he was employed by the tilings thnt go with such practices
to be a big thing.
Nease Timber company in 1913 and
exceeding
$500;
that
transactions
are not the normal life of a healthy
It is a small thing for tho county things put together show that
cruised in Clackamas county; that
to furnish automobiles to its coun through the inefficiency and extrav meaning thousands of dollars to the despite written instructions lie was girl. They lend inevitably to bore
county
are
consummated
in
verbal
dom, and boredom is another word
ty commissioners, but hud Commis agunce of the commissioners, Lane
verbally instructed that he must
sioners Harlow and Bpewcer supplied county has been mulcted out of conversations on the streets, or in cover 320 acres a day, that he went for weariness with living. Those
whatever
the
back
alleys,
or
in
who live in such a manner come in
themselves with automobiles we many thousands * of dollars,
dollars. Any
over thickly-timbered land only time to the blase belief that they
would have heard a great deal about legislator who would add to the place happens to be convenient.
once,
although
contract
called
for
Tho taxpayers decided that the
have seen everything, done every
how much they had taken from the salaries of the county commissioners
double cruise and an accurate cruise
county treasury in using them for the amount they have thoughtlessly, county commissioners, who had set could not be otherwise secured; thing and experienced everything.
carelessly and possibly maliciously aside $2500 for a cost accounting thnt in order to get his pay he had From that to the conclusion that life
private business.
It, is a small thing for the com squandered would find that he system, over the protest of Judge to make a false affidavit that he is not worth living is but a step.
Dissipation is a destructive, not
missioners to rush a bill through hadn’t done a small or trivial thing. Barnard, were too extravagant to had fol.owed the terms of the con-
a constructive, mode of existence.
These are only a few of the small the tune of $1900, which amount tract with Neaae.
the county court, us it did for the
It brings nrfhe of the thrills of
Fitrgerald twins who operated the things, any one of which would have was taken from that item and
4<W.
F.
McKinnon,
another
county hospital for several months, appeared big except for the fact placed under the item for retiring cruiser, makes the same sattements. honest accomplishment. It leaves in
the mouths of its votaries only the
when they must admit such ig that there aro other extravagances warrants.
"The Noase timber cruise is the ashy flavor of Dead sea fruit.
Resignations Asked.
norance ns would disqualify them and other irregularities thnt tower
most infamous piece of business a Analyzing it, one finds in it readily
for office did they not know that above them, such as tho damnable
During tho closing few moments political ring ever perpetrated on
their action would result in the de Nease timber cruise contract, the of the meeting a motion was made the taxpayers of a county of Idaho. enough the germs of si’lf-destruc
frauding of the creditors of the damnablo road building system and asking Sharp and Roney to resign. To pay out needless money for a tion.—Eugene Register.
twins.
Had a preceding county other damnable things which can Had tho motion been put imine-< necessary service is but another
The man who pats you ou the
court, done a thing like that, it not be even mentioned for the diately after made, there is no doubt imine for graft. The people are
back may be just picking out the
would have- been made a big thing present.
that it would have carried, due to skinned in either pose."
most vulnerable spot to stick a
Tho small things are only small the fact that at that late hour a
when an efficiency candidate for
At a recall election held August knife into you,
comnyssionor appeared.
comparatively speaking, that
‘ t is all. large number of Sharp’s friends 16, 1913, the county court of Clack
I
Of course it is a small thing that The Sentinel would
ould that th
they ap from the farming districts had left anuis county was recalled because SENTINEL IS APPRECIATED
some i suppliants for county aid pearod much bigger and that t other for home, leaving tho meeting ab of tho nature of their dealings with
AS ANNIVERSARY PRESENT
should be furnished with clothing things appeared much smaller.
solutely in control of those opposed N ease.
costing ' more than some of the tax
to the inefficiency and extravagance
Shady Work Is Known Here.
The Cottage Grove Sentinel makes
payers can afford; it is a small
It’» funny that wo often have which it win charged wore the out
thing that some suppliants for to accept favors from those from standing characteristics
It is not necessary to go away a more than appropriate birthday
of
the
county aid should bo given holiday whom it it distasteful while those present administration. Sharp’s en from homo to get competent testi gift, in the opinion of C. M. Parker,
dinners i costing
~ more than those who owo us fail to tumo across.
mony as to the character of a cruise who received such a present at a
luine county could expect under the surprise party given in his honor a
which some taxpayers can afford to
Nease contract, which was the sub fjM^^Jav^ago^JThe^estjmrtnf
buy; but tho taxpayers who see the
Old proverb revised: ‘ ‘ Where
ject of so much comment at the
beneficiaries of a liberal county there’s a will there 's usually
budget meoting.
court wearing costly glad raiment family discord.
II. H.¿Fleeter, of Cottage Grove,
and feeding upon the fat of tho
assisted in the cruising of the tim
land have a different perspective.
When the whale found out it hu<l
ber of Clatsop by this outfit. The
It is a small thing that salaries swallowed Jonah it felt ao bad it
orders given the cruisers were that
for superintending bridge construe blubbered.
they had to cover a certain number
of acres each day. Even if they
could give but a single cruise where
a double cruiso was called for, or
if they didn’t have time even to
step foot upon some of the land,
they had to make affidavit that tho
terms of tho contract had been ful
filled. A report was made on every
acre, whether or not it earned a
foot of timber, and the eontraet
price per acre collected.
Mr. Fleeter assisted the cruisers
but was not himself a cruiser.
A Weekly Newspaper With Plenty
of Backbone
S GRILL Al MEET OF
RONEY TOO SICK TO APPEAR
because cream is fat or oil,
and therefore lighter than the
rest of the milk, which is large
ly composed of water. Like
wise,
it CAN’T LEAK”
BECAUSE IT IS MOULDED
ENTIRELY IN ONE PIECE
GUARANTEED FOR TWO YEARS
but usually lasts much longer
This appliea also to Fountain Syringe« and all other
KANT LEEK good«
KEM’S for DRUGS
O J. Kem
Prop.
Oottage Grove
6th and Main
NOW IS THE TIME TO PLANT
YOUR EARLY GARDEN
BABY COMFORTS
Glycerin Suppositories. Infant
Zinc Stearate
Castor Oil
Sugar of Milk .
Boric Acid
have rapidly risen to the top
because they are the cream of
their kind. Hire and safe and
good for children, they are de
manded by millions of mother«
Five of 200 Purctest prepara
tions. Every item the beat that
skill and conscience can pro
duce.
Kern’s for Drugs
«
We have a fine line of garden seeds, flower seeds,
clover and grass seeds, both package and bulk.
Fertilizer and land plaster.
We carry everything that the baby chick needs—
chick feed, mash, grit, charcoal, feeders and water foun
tains.
BEIDLER’S GROCERY and FEED STORE
Rescinding Contract Asked
is the finest quality and best known
Hot Water Bag in America
KEM’S FOR DRUGS.
----
—
Rubber stamps. The Sentinel, tf
The very newness of these ginghams will de
light yon. A frock of these ginghams with
trimming touches of organdy makes just thA
right costume for inanv occasions.
K antlee K
«
worn dead rats. Three sizes. Prices. 35c. 65c. $1.25»
Sold and guaranteed by
Don’t stand on formalities. If
Opporiunity doesn't knock at your
door, go ami hammer on In is.
■
Silk Tissue Ginghams
cream rise
to the top?
Hot Water Bag
“I Got Real Mad when I Lost My
present)
Parker’s
opinion, is that he gets a present Setting Hen,” writes Mr». Hanna,
N. J.
every week during the year and
'‘When I went into our barn and found my best
that the present lasts until the next
■£ . J go! rMl mad-
Package of Rat.
anniversary, when the same present Snap killed six big rats. Poultry raisers should use
can be appropriately given again. Kat-bnap. Comes in cakes, no mixing. No smel)
A motion was put over without
a dissenting vote worded as fol
lows: "Thnt tho item for a timber
cruise remain in the budget; that
the county court is culled upon to
rescind the damnable Nease contract
and to enter into a new contract
with reputable cruisers, such con
tract to be approved by the district
attorney.’’
Taxpayers from Cottage Grove
took a prominent part in the meet-
ing.
THE FRUIT OF DISSIPATION
Margaret Eliot, daughter of the
governor of the federal reserve bank
of Itoston. shot herself with a re
voh«»r and died. Her father has
made public letters left for him bv
the dead girl. "I rouldn't stand
life any longer, ’’ was one of Miss
Eliot’s reasons for suieide. nnd her
father added that his daughter’s
act was due to "her love of social
life, dancing every night nnd smok
ing cigarettes.’’
At first thought, those are odd
reasons for suicide. Otic would think
thnt an attractive young woman,
living the life of the gnvest of the
gay. would want to go on living in
definitely. The suieide of a poor
drab little inhabitant of a hall
bedroom would be understandable,
but the reasons that led Miss Ebot
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PRICES PER YARD
55c
65c
70c
Swift’s Premium Ham
and Classic Soap Sale
To introduce the new larger bar of Classic soap
we are giving one bar free with five.
Swift’s Premium ham sandwiches and cof
fee served free all day Saturday, February 16.
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Burkholder