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COTTAGE GROVE SEXT1XE1., THl'RSDAY, .HLY 10, 1924 Modern Methods. ng u young colored I into a drug .store ann prietor if he might use e. Permission being fouth entered the tele- and the druggist over lowing: e to speak to Mist’ Yrs suh; Mi t’ Jiflm- Mist’ Johnson i Say, D, Ah’ve been wonder feds u boy to cut yo’ in yo’ cah an’ he’p Hef * * Yo’ got a boy p ’ puffec *ly satisfied * Uh huh. All right, •n, goodby. ’ ’ boy left the booth, the hl to him. 5 looking for a job I ; one here,” he said, liged, boss,” said the Ah done got a job; h Mist’ Johnson. kin’ mahse’f up.’ PAGE THREE WHAT’S THE USE How Sweet of Violet F jular position by having week. AT THE SIGN OF THE RED WHITE AND BLUE PUMP. There are thousands of these pumps and Red Crown signs where your Standard Oil Scrip Book entitles you to reliable Red Crown gasoline, Zerolene and other petroleum supplies. One or two books ($5, $io and $io denominations) will last a season and save carrying cash. Con* venient! Economical! EANDARD QUALITY WARD OIL COMPANY (CALIFORNIA) law it first you saw it in The Sentinel Conserve Your Energy in Summer You can, literally, get “recreation”—be “madeover again, when your physical self is rested, your energy and your strength conserved by the use of this Ford Runabout. Simplicity and good taste are embodied in the lines and appointments of this popular car. Uninterrupted use is insured by nation-wide, “around-the-corner Ford service. Better get your order in now/ universal Pleasures, Joys, Discomforts, Tragedies, of Motoring Through California Desert Told by Former Resident San Diego, Calif., June 26.— ('To for us to enjoy the scenery and ob the Editor.) .............. — ~ In a recent issue of jects of interest. The Sentinel we note that you in- The scenery is varied, the close vite an occasional letter from for- ly settled districts of San Diego mer residents of Cottage Grove who changing to villages and wooded may be in sections that might have hills, valleys timbered with pine an interest to your readers. and live oak, rocky hills with green Being prompted by this I am en grass and flowering shrubs. A very closing a cony of a letter 1 wrote unusual sight in this region was the to some of our friends. Addie and snow that still lay along the road Ben who were with us are Mr. and side as we neared the high places. Mrs. B. B. Vansteenburg, of Spirit Houses and resorts are seen along Lake. Ia. Mrs. Vansteenburg is Mrs. the way where seekers after health Wood’s sister aid they visited us and recreation come, and the ubiqui tous gasoline and service station is several times in Cottage Grove. Lt was our serious intention to frequently passed. Possibly a good spend some portion of this summer ly number of air castles are located visiting Oregon and Washington, along the way among the valleys driving up from here, but the devel and moiftitains, for California air opment of the hoof and mouth dis is a wonderful atmosphere in which ease in California and the conse to build them. One may indulge his taste be- quent quarantine regulations along the public roads caused us to give tween quiet valleys or moiintain grandeur. The mountains were ar- the trip up, a matter of consider- „ able disappointment to us, as we ranged by Nature’s own forces at wanted to see our friends and also’times when Nature had a whim for have the pleasure of the cherries, piling *ocks in a rather disorderly and fruits of that region for Ore-! way. We were glad that we were gon and Washington cherries, ber- ! not there on a day when these ries, apples midyears are superior forces indulged in a “rough house,’’ to those grown here. We hope that i tossing rocks and hills and chasms our trip is only postponed to a | about, for it is evident she was not very methodical nbout it, nor more convenient season. I will add that it is not a mis troubled by nervous spectators. But she lingered to touch it all with fortune in a general way to find one’s self obliged to remain in so softened colors and shades and pleasant a place as San Diego, for forms, giving it a beauty and gran it is a pleasant place in which to dcur that can be very feebly de live. The past season has been lim scribed with pen or repsented on ited in rainfall but otherwise very canvas. At noon we ate our lunch in a enjoyable. We are both enjoying ourselves niche among some rocks by the road and are comfortably well and hop? side near Jacumba. Some previous that Cottage Grove continues to visitor had left an inscription on thrive and that our friends are the wall of the niche, “King Tut’s prospering so that occasionally some Tomb.’’ While here we climbed some crags of them may make a pilgrimage to from which we could look over Illi this section and call on us. perial valley the bed of which wtls A. B. WOOD. once an ancient sea. It is an im- Following i» the letter referred pressive view that subdues the boasting spirit in man. He may to above: A short time ago Anna. Addie, only indulge his desire to boast "by Ben and 1 statted on an automobile saying “We saw it.’’ However, trip from San Diego by way of Im man may rightfully be proud to pel ial valley to Riverside, returning some extent, for when we stood on to San Diego by way of the “In the crag near the line of Imperial land Route,’’ planning to take four county looking over what had for so long been a place of desolation and days for the trip. death and saw that narrow ribbon Our ride from San Diego through like road reaching straight into the Ln Mesa, El Canjon valley and the heart of that one-time desert far foot hills wns exceedingly pleasant. ther than our sight could follow, The road is paved a goodly part we realized that the ingenuity and of the way, and whore unpaved is persistence of man had wrought a nhuost^as.jtood^diud^tmuli^^no^ marvelous transformation. There is an inscription over the door of the Barbara Worth hotel at El Centro which reads: The Desert Waited Silent, Hot and Fierce in Its Desolation, Holding Its Treasures Under the Seal of Death Against the Coming of the Strong Ones. The contrast between those areas yet undeveloped and the green fields with their crops and herds gives evidence that human intelli gence and labor are two of the magic elements required to combine the separated forces of Nature and make them yield the necessities and comforts which wo deem essential. And now there are railroads, and towns, and school houses, and homes, and people from Europe, and Asia, and Africa, and the islands, as well as our own people. And combined with the saloons and gambling houses that exist just across the line in Mexico wo can find here all of the sights and prod ucts of civilization that can be seen wherever men and women gather together in the quest of “life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness.” Wo had a pleasant ride in the early evening about the paved Ml recta of El Centro. Later we dined on fresh vegetables, butter milk, ice cream, all of local pro duction. and an option of delicacies from other parts of the world brought to us in tin cans. We visited the chamber of com The Runabout inerce and gathered some of the figures showing the marvelous de- velopment and production of the valley. But figures put into a let F O. B. Detroit ter are apt to be too dry, so we Desaountsbis Riat« will pass them by. and Starter t85 extra After a good night’s rest we con tinued our journey towards River side. We visited a date farm and were much disappointed to find that an invisible atom of life, an en< my to the date palm, had threatened to establish itself and bad made it necessary to sacrifice the foliage of the palms and the chance for a crop this season to prevent its rav ages. However, there are luscious dates grown in the Imperia) valley, as we know. We made a short •top at Brawley to get some head lettuce for our lunch and some gasoline for our ear. Continuing on our way we followed that long, narrow ribbon of eminent road that stretches 105 miles from El Centro to Riverside. The ride I promised to he a pleasant exper- [ ienee—and it wan all of that if one merely omits the word “pleasant.” I Ona might delve into the lore of I the desert and find an even more I simple word or two to substitute. but us each person who has hud the experience of a desert sand j storm might have an expressive [ word of his own choice, I will not ’ offer mine. One can think of the persons who I in years past plodded wearily through the heat and saud for days over this same course', suffering weariness, hunger and thirst—es pecially that terror of the desert, thirst—while we,' by the use of a modern uutomobile, a few gallons of “gas” and that very essential thing, that narrow roadway of ce ment, were able to escape the greater discomforts and travel in an hour farther than they were able to travel in a long and wearisome day. In 1849, 75 years ago, the father of Anna and Addie with two compan ions, traveled across this region on foot, and would have perished if they had not happened to meet some Indians who sold them wild grapes. The story of his hardships in cross- I ing- the desert still thrills his chil dren. We left El Centro about 8 a. nt. and traveled pleasantly until we reached Westmoreland, where we encountered a rising wind which gathered force and sand until it became a veritable sand storm. However, instead of suffering the di^bomforts and fatigue undergone by the early travelers under such conditions we sat in a nearly en closed car and simply “stepped on the gas’’ in order to make our stay in the storm as brief as possible. While we did not have to struggle physically against the storm, as the early travelers did, still wo traveled with calamity close by our side, for if by chance a wheel should leave the cement roadway calamity was instant and serious, it was nec essary to travel close to the edge of the paved roadway lest we meot a 1 car, for the air was ho dense with flying sand that objects even as large as an autoombile were often invisible until very near. Wo passed a car that was on fire. Several persons were endeavoring to extin guish the flames. We would gladly have rendered any needed assistance but were too far past before real izing their trouble. At another point 1 we passed n ear that had evidently 1 gone over tho edge of the roadway resulting in a broken axle and an overturned car. Remnants of auto mobiles were scattered along tho I roadside in many places, showing that calamity lurked along at all times ready to tako toll. Sometimes the wind became so strong that wc j felt anxiety lest wc bo forced from i tho road. Several times tho air became so filled with driven sand that we were compelled to stop for safety. Wo wore enveloped in sand filled air. Wc breathed it. It got under the hood of the engine and into all the mtcrstices of tho car. It ground at the paint on the car. Wo passed without notice places which no doubt were the hope and salvation of the exhausted travelers and their animals in early days. These places aro labeled on the map as Kano Springs, Soda Springs, Fish Springs, Fig Tree John’s Springs, Aqua Duice, Indian Wells, etc. Times have changed. In those days water was the vital thing; now it is gas oline. In those days the drifting sand obliterated trails and roads; now the paved highway is always j easy to follow. True, at places the sand is apt to form drifts over the pavement. At such places men and j teams are kept busy keeping the ’ roadway clear. Thea the travelers were few and succor for the un fortunate doubtful. Now many cars | each day pass along the road, for i 60,000 people now live in Imperial | valley. We kept traveling. We passed ! the Halton sea, which is more than | 200 feet below sea level. In fact, I for 100 miles or more across this i desert we wero below the level of ■ the osean. After passing Coachella wo found a comparatively sheltered place by tho roadside and stopped I to eat our lunch. We began to pass orchards and houses along the . way, for wherever water is applied , to the soil it is very productive and people prosper. The land is high in value, though at times the wind comes along and gives one a real ' istic impression of a moving land scape. I once heard these large areas of ' unsettled country in the west de scribed is “ A wilderness of enipt i new.” That description would hardly apply to a desert during a ( sand storm. By uiidafternoon we were pausing i out of the desert and entering Hnn , Gorginio pass, where we were me’ by gusts of rain. The wind still blew. W<- passed March flying field and were soon in Riverside. We were tired and ehilled. We drove to a hotel in Riverside ami. being) somewhat experienced in the ways of hotels, asked the boy who came | to the rar to receive us as to their accommodations and rates. He said, ! “If you’re tourists the rate is ♦'! a day. If you ain’t tourists it’s ♦2.50 a day.” We do not know i just what extras they gave to tour into for we stopped at another hotel. The next morning we explored the streets of Riverside, then started for home by way of Corona. Elsi ■ore. Fallbrook. Oraaaaide end on down the coast, a beautiful drive through valleys, mountains and mesas and along the ocean shore. We arrived home safely, glad to be in Han Diego again. In memory it was a very entertaining ride and an interesting experience. We are glad to have seen mid experienced it all. Say it with printers’ ink. Watch the label on your paper. Reasonable Request. A mother once wrote a note to the teacher. It read: “Pardon mo for calling your attention to the fact, but you have been pulling Johnny’s right ear until it is longer than his left. Please pull his left ear for a while, and oblige.—His Mother.” Engraved work. The Sentinel. Enroll Now Don’t Wait A business training is one of the best assets that, any young person can have. He needs it, regardless of wheth er he works for himself or for someone else. We offer you your choice of four courses, namely: The Bookkeeping Course, the Stenographic Course, the Sec retarial Course, or a complete Business Course. 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