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PAGE FOUR £ottaqc (Grove Sentinel COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1924 missioner Sharp the reason. The facts related may explain why the names of both Finley Whipps and Boney Patton appear upon the recall petitions. Another incident in this same district: When Commissioner Sharp prom ised to build the Rawlings bridge, he indicated it to be his intention to close the east side Mosby creek road which serves a number of fam ilies. He inferred that with the bridge the road could be dispensed with. He did not even examine the road to learn whether or not it was needed. The road is still open and is being used but bo far none of the road money which has been spent with a lavish hand elsewhere has been designated for work on this road. At least one more road supervisor in this section of the county alone has resigned because Commissioner »Sharp won’t even come to look over the work being done—and yet he is running the wheels off that county car. The Sentinel would like to hear of a single road the con struction of which Sharp has at tempted to supervise. Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. same men that are large owners in THE END OF THE SMOKE this county. TRAIL. A Weekly Newspaper With Plenty Have been fairly successful In of Backbone ranching and if elected will try to The Sentinel is reliably informed, give the county the same service although there is as yet no record Publishers Bedo A Smith. 1 have given myself. to that effect, that in case the re ----- Editor Elbert Bede__ CLINTON HURD. call fails Campaign Manager Ben A first-class publication entered at Keeney is to be rewarded by being Cottage Grove as second-class matter provided with a county automobile. TURNER CONTINUES TO Such talk is current and generally DISPUTE RECORDS. Business Office_____ 55 North Mixt1 believed and seems reasonable. Cottage Grove, Ore., Muy 12.—(To Surely Beu should be rewarded in SUBSCRIPTION RATES Due year___ $2.25 I Three months 65c the Editor.)—Well, you sec that I some way. He can’t buy one him Six months- 1.15 | Single copy— 5c am back inside the ropes with my self, the salary isn’t large enough gloves on—ready to dispute your to provide one and one who has Member of such flights of fancy us Beu does record dope. National Editorial Association I just want to »ay that any rec- surely should have something to take Oregon tìtate Editorial Association Besides, Lane ords thut show that the viewers such flights in. Oregon Newspaper Conference testified at my : trial or thut they county is rich, uo one cares about Lane County Publishers ’ Association had anything to < do with fixing the taxes and we can make a great hit THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1924. damages for the i additional right of with prospective settlers by showing way are untrue, . The amount of them our great fleet of county- damages, and the offer, was made owned automobiles, operated at WHAT HAPPENED IN ONE COT by the attorney for the state, The county expense but not always ou TAGE GROVE ROAD DISTRICT. amount of damage—$600—that you county business. Prospective settlers claimed the viewers allowed is also will be at once attracted by our As the recall campaign nears its untrue. prodigality with public funds. end Tho Sentinel finds that it yet Some folks think the road money You say I have forgotten offer has information of value that has ing my place for sale. The word of is going to lasl forever. It may be not been used which would fill the mun who owns the place should interesting to some taxpayers to whole pages. In some cases it was be better authority than “common know’ that for the Lorane road not used because the right fellows talk ’ ’ for whether he has offered there now r remains the num of were not as accommodating in but to sell or wishes to sell his own $3,374.05. j It is the plan, when this ting in as was the friend for whom home. small amount has been expended, to Commissioner Kharp tried to get You also say that The Sentinel complete this road from market road $3000 of the county’s money. has at all times been quoting from funds, which are collected through a HURD DEFINES POLICIES. While the great bulk of unused the records. In your first reply direct tux upon the county as a information can not bo used at this Eugene, Ore., Muy 6.— (To the your records stated that I sued the whole. The taxpayers may just as late hour The »Sentinel wishes to ' Editor.)—As a candidate on the county and that Sharp testified the well commence to anticipate the cite a road district case in this sec republican ticket for county com amount of my damage was $4000. completition by direct taxation of tion which shows the school-kid missioner in the May primaries, I Now your records show that the the roads which have been bungled fashion in which Commissioners wish to take this means of making state sued me and Sharp testified by the mighty road builder, Comrnis- Roney and Sharp operate. the amount of damage was $3000. sioner Sharp, and his associate, the a statement to the public. When Sharp was a candidate he 1 have no promises of the impos Now what kind of records have I heroic Nels, promised 11. B. Rawlings, of the sible to make but will give my best you—records to suit the occasion or I The Sentinel would like to know Mosby creek district, that he would efforts to be one of a three-man record breakers! I how soon the county will have to put in a bridge at the Rawlings county court and to use economy You say that tho lawsuit between make an assessment to pay the ford, provided Rawlings would put so far as 1 can for the good of the tho statu and myself grew’ out of I claims of laborers in the amount of the material on the ground. Candi county in general. my refusing to accept the amount some $6000, claims which Commis- date Sharp did not so much as look I believe it is time we had three oifered me by the state fur a strip sioner Sharp urged the laborers to at tho site or pass upon its feasi inen who will work together. While of my farm. My farm doesn’t lie I present after a settlement had been bility, but after ho was elected he they maji not always agree, when under my barn. If it had been only made with them upon their own kept ¡Hitting Air. Rawlings off with any certain line of work is started farm land, it would have cost the terms by former commissioners, one excuse and another until Nels all three should get behind and state nothing for the additional I Many would like to know when Roney became a candidate. Then I those who sold that old road roller push. 1 believe that with the road amount of land. the promise to build tho bridge was Mr. Reader, I am not a smoke I to the county, taking nearly as equipment which Lane county has it renewed. With the heroic Nels, screen artist. I am not built thut I good a roller in exchange, and w ho should build its own roads. •nighty bridge builder, a member of All bridge and road projects now way. What I give you is straight I once rushed to the defense of the the county court and ready to take goods. Here is what three good, I commissioners, are going to answer started must necessarily be finished off his coat, spit on his hands and insofar ns there are funds to do so. truthful men testified at my trial— I the two or three pointed questions go to work, there would be no The qualifications of a county cm! men that the state attorney re-I asked them which gave them trouble in building the bridge. ploye will be his ability to do the ferred to as reliable men. These men the opportunity to defend the com- There was almost enough good ma work over which he has control; his testified my place was worth $6000 missioners, provided the questions terial in “My Platform” to build politics are his own. No precinct before the highway was built. Three could be properly answered. the bridge with. or locality will be penalized or state witnesses, who came up from I Commissioners Sharp and Roney, But despite the fact that the Eugene, testified my place was in their famous platforms, said that planks In “My Platform” have shown favors according to their worth $2500 after the highway was road and bridge work was costing vote. never been used for anything else, 1 shall insist upon a dollar’s built. No one disputed the word about twice what it should. That tho bridge at the Rawlings ford worth of labor or supplies for each of any of these men. Now, Mr. left them a wide margin to go on has never been built. That it hart Reader, you can see, according to in reducing expenses. If they have dollar expended. Do not believe in this testimony, that my place was increased by 50 and 100 per cent not been built is not because Mr. bonus or cost-plus system. All pur Rawlings has not often reminded damaged to the amount of $3500— I costs that were already double what the commissioners of their promise. chases of mat (‘rials or contracts of the difference in value before and | they should have been, are we to any sizeable amount should be by He even went eo far as to offer to value after the highway went understand that their own platforms pay $200 in cash in addition to competitive bid, bids to be passed through my pluce. Admitting, for prove that present costs are three upon by all members of court in furnishing the material. and four times what they should Shall patronize argument’s sake, that Sharp did bet The facts related may indicate regular session. testify $3000, he would still be $500 Lane county merchants and Lane why tho name of 11. R. Rawlings too low. The Sentinel presumes that county labor insofar as I can. Pppears upon the recall petition«. You say my memory is bad. 1 this lute date it may take it Should expect to be the servant Another instance in the same granted that the great many confess that I never remember any <•(' the people from all parts of the road district: thing that didn’t happen. The planations which it has asked county alike. 1 betievo that each Commissioner Shnrp told Finley worst fault 1 have is that I do not the commissioners can not be made Whipps, former road supervisor in of the remoter districts should have own a sawmill or timber and I have —and that by their silence the com a main road through its center, giv- that district, that his application to work on the railroad section or missioners and their official upolo- for reappointment would receive ing the pcople of thut locality some place elso for my cow and gizers admit the truth of the alle «■gross to nnd from their homes consideration provided ho had the gations made. The question nat chicken feed. support of the district. A petition both winter and summer. urally arises: ‘"If all these al FRANK TURNER. Am not promising that I will cut representing SO per cent of the legations are admitted to be truths residents of (lie district, was submit .your taxes down one half. This The Turner case has been given —by the lack of any denial—how promise has been made from timo ted to the county court but the pe attention out of all proportion to much of the same kind of business tition received no more considera immemorial without any notable its importance. The only points of was there that did not come to best that any county success. The tion than if it had not been sub interest in connection therewith lights!” mitted. Boney Patton was ap court cun do is in keeping expenses are that County Commissioner Em Where there was so much smoke pointed in his place. The Sentinel as low as possible without detri- mett Sharp testified for his former there must have been much fire. hasn’t a word to say against Mr. meat to tho county. neighbor that $3000 of county funds Have always been for good roads should bo paid for damage while Patton. It rather admires him for THE TIMBER CRUISE. damage the fact that when Commissioni’r and am still for good roads in tho viewers said the every part of this county. 1 believe amounted to only a fifth of that Sharp neglected to come and view The only defense offered in sup- tho work thut was being done in that tho bonds voted for each amount, while two witnesses from port of Commissioners Boney and project are enough to build a water this section who are familiar with Hhurp has been that they put over thut district, Rond Supervisor Pat ______ cruise. That was not a ton told Sharp what he thought bound macadam, which 1 would at- land values said tho damage was _ a timber tempt to do, and let the other only a fifth of that amount, and . I ____ great _____ feat. Ninety per cent of the about, tho way Sharp was keeping fellow do the experimenting. his ¡tintform pledges. the jurors allowed only a ^ifth of people of the county favor u cruise, Am ns much in favor of a timber that amount. / I The timber interests do not oppose If will bo remembered that “My cruise as any man of Lune county The Sentinel would not refer to I a cruise as a basis for taxation. The Platform” promised supervision on and believe I was onq of the first the matter except that Air. Turner I assessor has been offered for pur- the ¡»art of Commissioner Sharp of ever to •uiso at tax has written his weekly letter in poses of taxation the cruise of 50 every road in tho county. Road payers ’ this county, w hich he denies that the viewers I ycr cent of the timber of the county Supervisor Patton could not get. I came e white pine or Air. Sharp testified and in which I Upyn which such timber has been Sharp oven to come ami see the belt of isconsin arid he makes the statement that three I bought and sold. Owners of timber work that was being done. He re it was gone state witnesses testified to such an w|lo have no cruises will welcome a signed his position and told Com- L\y had lost outrageous damage as $3500. fair cruise on the part of the some of the The Sentinel would like to quote county to be used by them—at the in its entirety its certified copy of I expense of the county—as a basis (ho records froirt the official court | for future sale. re|>orter, but that would require too The anti-recallers are spending much space. The Sentinel will more money in advertising and in merely state the amount of other ways than the recullers—so damages to which each testified and that the largest financial contribu leave it to the curious ones to come tions are being made to tho anti . . « genuine I'yr.nlin and see the certified copy of the recall campaign. comb to match cuvh official records, which Mr. Turner Mr. Hurd and Mr. Crowe, the hoir brush. has not asked to see. recall candidates, have stated that Testifying for the state: A. I.. they favor a timber cruise. They Woodard, $500; AL H. Anderson have always favored such a cruise. $600; John Baird (viewer), $700: Mr. Callison, the candidate for as R. A. McCully (viewer), $650. sessor against Campaign Manager Where are the $3500 fellows to Keeney, says that he favors a whom Mr. Turner refers! cruise. Testifying for Turner: J. H. Haw The cruising of the timber of the ley, $2500; Emmett Sharp, $3000; county will go ahead regardless of Steve Tonoli, $4000; G. P. Miller, the outcome of the recall election. $3840; Nelson Lewis, $3000. What the taxpayers of Lane Mr. Turner testified that his place county object to is the manner in was worth $6000 before an acre and which the Nease contract was let, a half of it Was taken for the road without bids and at the highest and that without this acre nnd a price ever paid for a timber cruise half it was worth but $2000. The in Lane countv. Mr. Nease, who is entire strip wn» taken off the 40- no cruiser himself, simply hires the acre tract in Lane county. Imme diately after the strip was taken the assessor raised the assessment. He did not agree with Mr. Turner because sleep does not bring and Commissioner Sharp that the total unconsciousness. The place had been ruined. His opinion was that the value of the place had brain still tries to interpret 'been increased several hundred dol sensations and memories, and lars. its efforts are our dreams, This is the last word that can be 'fired, sluggish skin and mus said about this case. The last word should have been said long ago. and! < les wake up quickly when would have been but for the fact that Mr. Turner persisted in keep Star! a wt <>( America*., most l.'auti- ing before the public one of tho ful toiletware for sotne out- dear to most flagrant breeches of a public you. Sliv can mill to it w henever she brings them its bracing action, trust upM the part of a county wants to. for pieces alwaya match. After strenuous exercise, Pure- commissioner of which The Sentinel hoard. Graduation«, wrdiHn». tnnivrnm- test Rubbing Alcohol is an rn- has Mr. ever Sharp did testify. The certi rics nil demand gifts. None is more vigorating rub-down. In the fied rt'eords so state. The viewers appreciated than Pyraliu with its dressing room, a splendid de did testify. The certified records lifelong uscfuluess and exquisite so state. The jurors said that Com beauty. odorant and a ro.se-fra grant missioner Sharp put the damages at balm after shaving. Inenect our Iteautiful display this five times what they should have week, and Like advantage of this assessor decided that (hie of 200 I hi retest prepara been. The »{ ss ih I offer. There is a small < barge and Commissioner sharp did tions for health and hygiene Turner tor decor at km. d desired. not know what they were talking | Every item the beat that skill about and immediately raised the I and care can produce. assessment. Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. Given JJwat same cruisers that the timber own ers would hire were they seeking a cruise. The cruisers are getting about eight cents the acre for do ing the work and Mr. Nease pockets the remaining 14% cents. The county commissioners could have hired the cruisers just as well as Mr. Nease and could have saved the county the fabulous fee that is to be paid Mr. Nease for being shrewd enough to put over a con tract that guarantees him many thousands of easy money from the treasury of Lane county. The timber cruise is the only defense put up against the many charges made against Roney and Sharp. The manner in which the Nease contract was let and the price that is to be paid are in themselves added reasons for the recall of the commissioners. The principal of a timber cruise is not at issue. Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. WOODARD COMES AGAIN. Cottage Grove, Ore., May 10.— (To the Editor.)—Again in self defense 1 wish to make a few observations upon tlio Turner case. In regard to Mr. Turner, I have nothing against him personally and in regard to Mr. Sharp, I have never bothered to lay a straw in his way except in connection with his office. It is time that someone was saying something, and someone who is competent to do it. I am talking about the 40 acres of land in Lant county and not that part in Douglas county, for the road was ^ConcludkMl on jsi^e t!;j Important!. . This is the most important announcement we have made. We are very particular, and have been fortunate in securing the dealership for the Seiberling line of tires and tubes. This may mean a strange name to you who have been buying tires but with us who are back of it, it means something more than a name. We had our choice of many standard makes and chose the Seiberling; not because it. was the Seiberling but because of its won derful record. THEREFORE— when you want something better, let us equip your car with a set or a pair so you may be ablo to compare them with other good tires. 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Each sum gencies. mons for her cooperation is of equal To find the worth of this service urgency, for each helps to further would mean to look into nearly the progress of the community and every home and office, nearly every the nation. A X The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company BELL SYSTEM One Policy One System Universal Service do we START-A-SET sDrugs THE REX ALL STORE Come* »tyles always in wedding and social stationery nt the lie« wire print shop. xxx The State of Oregon Wants a Bridge at Harrisburg ' THE STATE HAS A THIRD OF THE MONEY READY. LINN COUNTY HAS A THIRD READY, AND NOW IT IS OUR DUTY TO PROVIDE THE OTHER THIRD When the bridge is built, the state will have one of the best highways in the world—solid paving from end to end. Lane county will share in the benefits equally with Linn county. It means a $300,000 improvement for only $70,000 to bo paid by this county. The state ‘ wants ...... this bridge now and ............................... bids will be advertised for even before we vote the two mill tax. The highway commission is sure the vote will carry, So do not stay at home on election day, May 16, but come out and vote for the tax— two mills, to ruu one year only—and keep Lane county in the lead of good road counties. Don't turn down Lane county. Don’t turn down Oregon. The bridgé will replace the ferry, which is costing $5000 a year to operate, to say nothing of the replacement. It costs twice this amount or more in waste of time to the public. It may cost ten times this much by a single ferry disaster. Even yet suits may be started because of accidents and deaths there. liane county has maintained a lead in good roads and bridges. It will vote to maintain it still. The paving is complete from Portland to the bridge. The grade and gravel is ready from Harrisburg to Junction City—a grade that has been tried by the highest flood in twenty years. This grade will be paved at once if you vote the two-mill tax. THE PAVING ALONE IS WORTH MORE THAN' THIS COUNTY’S SHARE OF THE BRIDGE. AND IT WILL NOT COST LANE COUNTY A CENT. Junction City Bridge Club THOMAS NELSON, SECRETARY A *>