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4P (fnttaqr (ßrnur Sintfüu'l L voli mi : XXXV ONE LAKE SECTION Manufacturing Company Finds It Necessary to Increase Floor Space and Production. COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTS’, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1924 Interesting Events in the Lives of Those Who Laid Sturdy Foun dation for the Present Generation NUMBER 3 DERN AND YOKEL Gets Go at Yokel Through Injur As Banking and Business Concern Weapon Drops From His Hands; ing Dern and Loses Through Department Is One of Trigger Catches; Gun Explodes; Following is a continuation of Injuries to Himself. World’s Leaders. Drops Dead at Wife's Feet. Biographical Sketches of Civil War Vets Who Are Members of Appomattox Post, G. A. R. »0,000 AS STARTER Experiment to Be Tried in Reducing Weight of Timber and Strength ening It at Same Time. the reprint of biographical sketches Following is a continuation ot from Cot tag«1 Grove Lender of the biographical sketches of the An unusual method of providing January 7, 1899: Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 17.—Ira Tho United States postal service, W. W. Maxwell was killed in remaining twelve members of Ap An experiment in saving a fourth necessary additional floor space Dern, of Salt Lake City, won the with its 32b,000 employes, is the stantly Thursday evening when a iioma^tox post. G. A. R.: of the freight rate to the east, as Jerry Taylor. was adopted by the Cottage Grove Is a brother of J. P. Taylor, second match of the light heavy greatest human machine in the rifle fell frorti his hands and was Samuel K. Buick—Entered ser well as the production of a better Manufacturing company, which lias ns mentioned before, and came to weight wrestling tournument here world. In point of annual turn discharged, the bullet striking him timber has been started here by raised intact a 32x115 section Oregon with him. He also is an this afternoon when he threw Ralph over, amounting to three billions of and piercing his heart. Mr. Max vice at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, tho Standard Bridge company, of of roof on the east side of its Indian w’ar veteran, having joined Hand, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, dollars, the postal department is well and his wife were walking the July 4, 1861, in the 18th regiment Omaha, which will try out a new’ Par building. The job was accoin- Captain Buoy’s company of volun two falls out of three. The match one of the greatest business con flume from Walter Woodard’s camp Indiana volunteer infantry. ticipated in the “Paw Paw’’ fight, seasoning process, the principle of plished without mishap and with teers in the fall of 1855. He went was the second of four that will cerns in tho world. B about seven miles south of here Glasgow, Mo.; campaign and cap which is control of the humidity. little difficulty and the roof is A seasoning house 300x42 ha» This information was given by when the gun dropped, the hammer ture of Blackwater, Mo., under Gen to tho front in defense of his be held, and gave Dern the »ight to now in place at the same height country and was shot in the breast meet Mike Yokel, of Wyoming, to E. C. Clement, United Stutes postal catching on the tow board in such been started upon property two oral Hunter, and battles of Pea as that over the two-story portion by Indians from ambush on a scout morrow forenoon to determine which inspector for this district, in an a way as to cause the weapon to miles south of here lea'sed from Ridgo, Elk Horn nnd Lee Town, of the building. The second floor ing expedition at Cowr creek while one shall meet Ted Thye Friday address Thursday night before the discharge. Shortridge and Emmett Mr. Maxwell almost Ark. Assisted in tho recapture of Verno will be extended under the roof lying around the campfire. • always carried a gun with him the Peoria, III., battery of artillery, Sharp, The building will be divid- His forenoon in the concluding match. commercial club. which has been raised. This will collar bone was broken and ho car I Dern won the first fall iu 28 ed into 15 sections and will be “The annual sales include 14,000, when in or near timber where there give a total of 13,180 square feet ries the bullet securely lodged in minutes with a head scissors and 000,000 postage stamps, 2,750,000,- might be game. He was an em which had been captured from th«1 placed so that it can be extended ; Union troops at Pea Ridge. Spent to a total of 25 sections and two of floor space which has been ad his shoulder blado today. leg split. He forfeited the second 000 stamped envelopes and 1,250,- ploye at the Woodard camp. He is ! fall of 1862 in south and central ded during the expansion program 66 years old. to Hand in six minutes when the 000,000 postal cards. For the nianu-1 additional tiers of 25 sections ad Mr. Maxwell was 26 ymrs of which this company has been car Cottage Grove man got a body facture of the postal cards alone' age. Ho is survived by his widow Missouri in severe cninjvaigning. ded. The work which has been rying forward. The lower floor (Cottago Grove Leader. Jan. 7, 1899.) scissors on him and put pressure 6,500,000 pounds of paper are used. and his parents, two sisters and , Participated in flanking of Grand started calls for an outlay of Gulf, Miss., under General Carr $50,000. has been extended at the northeast against u cracked rib. T’ third The company will buy “Each year the parcel post pack I threo brothers residing at Marsh- Janies Short ridge. fall went to Dern in 8^ nutes. ages total 2,500,000,000, the mag ' ing, Ida. The body was taken to and in battle« of Port 1 Gibson, its timber from local mills and pre corner of the building. Tho subject of this sketch was where regiment captured a stand The former floor space was 25,850 born in nitudo of which can be better real I Caldwell. Ida., Saturday for inter- of color« from the enemy, Cham pare the timber for its own use in Tippecanoe Lafayette, feet and the total now is 39,030, an Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 18.—Ralph ized when it is known that the 1 ; ment. bridge construction work. county, Ind., July 18, 1831, and pion’s Hill, Big Black Biver increase of over 50 per cent. The I moved whilo a young man to Mill- Hand, who wrestled this forenoon express It is claimed that the seasoning companies handle but i Bridgo and Jackson, and siege and machinery of the plant will be re J ersville, Ill., from w’hich place in against Mike Yokel in the third 400,000,000. The 150,000,000 money Residents Are Near Tornado, capturo of Vicksburg, Miss. Reg process to be experimented with arranged for greater efficiency, the bout of the light-heavy-weight orders issued annually pay bills of Former March, 1851, with a team of four The recent tornado at Thorp, intent of which he was a member binds the fibers together, instead wrestling championship tournament, more than $1,500,000,000. power will be increased by 100 WlS., was dangerously close to was sent by boat to New’ Orleans of breaking them down, with the yoke of oxen, he « immigrated in horse power, additional men will be what was known as Miller’s train was injured in the second fall ho result that timber so prepared has “An interesting fact about the I employed and the production of the for the far west. badly he could not come back and postal department is that it is Stanley, where Mr. and Mrs. J. W. and participated in capture of a been found to have almost the Grant, former residents here, new fort on Mustang Island and the strength of steel. This is the first the match was forfeited to Yokel. also tho largest banking institution plant increased from 50 to 100 per On the 18th day of August fol Ira Dera, of Salt Lake, won the in tho world. The postal savings live. Relatives of Mr. and Mis. H. capture of Fort Espuranza. Tex. experiment on a large scale. Only cent. A. Miller, of this city, live at Stan Rvenlisted January 1, 1864, at In lowing, Mr. Shortridge arrived in match The increased production was Hantiain City, just below Jefferson, against Hand of Cottage bank, a branch of the department, ley and Thorp and the Meeks and a few men are necessary in the made necessary by the inability of Grove in their go yesterday after has over 500,000 depositors, a Stoneburg families have relatives dianola. T(»x., and started home on operation, so that the expense is in this valley. From there he left noon, furlough, but did not reach there. the coinnany to handle its greatly immediately for the new gold fields but had a pair of ribs larger number than any other bank living near there. not great. Tho saving in freight Was in battles of Baton Rouge by removal of moisture probably increased business. Since Septem just then discovered at Yreka, cracked and torn loose in doing it. ing institution boasts. La., and Opequon, Fisher ’ s Hill An examination this morning caused ber 1. 1919, under the present man will not be great enough to bring “One million four hundred thou <3>- Calif., where he w’orked in the and Cedar Creek, Va. Ordered to about a general adoption of the agement the annual turnover of mines until the starve out in 1852. his physician to forbid Dern to go sand letters are received every hour, sea in December, 1864. Was in on. That gave Hand tlic rijjht to process by lumber manufacturers this company has averaged $38,000. He then returned to his place and or 33,000,000 every day. There are battles and skirmishes along coast unless the quality of the lumber The annual payroll is approximate was married to Amelia S. Adams appear against Yokel. 43,000 rural carriers who daily lino during winter. Regiment or is improved. The first fall went to the Cot- servo more than 6,500,000 families. ly $13,000. A large part of the in the following month and in the Clarence G. Gray. dered to Savannah, Ga., January business is from outside points, next. April located and moved upon tago Grove flash in a i little less These carriers travel 1,170,000 miles Clarence G. Gray, son of Mr». 6, 1865. Built fortifications for Ho got a toe daily. The railway postal clerks Frances Gray, of this city, died although local business has been his donation land claim on which than six minutes, throo months. Was with regiment O. P. & E. RAILWAY CO. IS hold early and held it despite heavy. REPLACING CURRIN BRIDGE ho now’ resides. Mrs. Shortridge Yokel’s efforts to break operate daily over trackage suffi August. 9, 1924, at his home in which was the first to raise the L it. With the additional floor space has tho distinguished honor of be cient to encircle the earth 10 time«. Salem from an attack of influenza. stars and stripes on the old United Tho second session went 36 min a large stock of window frames, ing the first white woman ever in Work of rebuilding the Oregon “Supplies necessary for the oper Funeral services were held August cupboard doors and screen doors the upper Coast Fork valley now’ utes 15 seconds before Yokel got ation of the department include 11 fom a Salem chapel, the Chris States arsenal ut Augusta, Ga. Was Pacific, & Eastern’s Currin bridge mustered out August 28, lb’65, in his first and deciding fall. Hand will be carried. The Elks is well under way. A trestle has known as tho Hebron prairie. Mr. 800,000 miles of twine annually. tian minister officiating, L. C. Michner, recently bookkeep Shortridge has been among the worked his box-body scissors on This twine, if woven into a belt and the Cherrians had charge of southern Georgia and returned to been built for tho use of trains Indiana September 17. the old veteran to advantage sev er for Helliwell & Maikslwiry, lias most prominent pioneers and cit 32 strands in width, would encircle tho service. Interment was in a Born December 3, 1843, in Orange whilo the work in in i progress and become a member of this company. izen farmers in this section since eral times and it was while he the earth. Sixty-five million mail Salem cemetery. county, Ind. Married November 8, the old structure 1 has been dis- had one of those torture holds The other members are C. A. Stev its earliest settlement, having Mr. Gray was born February 27, mantled. This bridge was erected sacks and pouches are in constant ens, W. 1». Hatch and Mrs. Bar braved tho dangers of frontier life on Yokel that he was injured. use and to keep this supply in us 1876, in San Francisco. He came 1866, to Sarah Ann Chitty, who 15 years ago and has a lit) foot died May 22, 1905. He arrived in Yokel worked his body under Hand, rows. to Oregon with his parents in the span. The work is in charge of to settlo in the very edge of tho rose to his knees and elbows and able condition 6,000,000 yards of fall of the same year, residing first Oregon in July, 1892. Has be«1» a Joo Dann1 wood, who erected tho hostilo Rogue River Indian’s do then came up to a standing posture canvas are used annually. resident of Cottage Grove for 18 MUST OBEY TRAFFIC RULES main. Ho has wielded a good in “For the operation of the bus in Portland and then in Halsey. Was deputy sheriff, con former bridge. When this structure ON LANE COUNTY BRIDGES fluence in the building up of a and threw Hand backwards off tho iness of the department 180,000,000 Mr. Gray conducted a newspaper years. stable nnd justice of peace at dif has been completed a bridge will mat. bo built to take the place of the in Halsey at the age. of 14 years. frontier settlement. Ho has a fam Hand was dazed by the bump envelopes and over one billion He married Miss Ix>la Scovell, of feront times while a resident, in temporary trostlcwork where tho Motorists and others traveling on ily of 4 children living—Mrs. J. blank forms are used annually. Dallas county, Mo. Living childrim: Lane county bridges will have to W. Harris, of Eugene, Mrs. Alice and in h1«« than a minute Yokel “Errors made by the public are Salem, in tho fall of 1896 at Hal Mrs. Fannie Pierson, Fresno, Calif.; Walden bridge recently gave way. be more considerate of the invest Langdon, Mrs. Olive Lacy and F. lifted him from the mat, spun him expensive both to the public and sey. With his wife and daughter Naneio Thomason, Los Angeles; C. Tho Walden bridge had but a 90- around and dashed him to the mat meat in these bridges, or traffic Boone, a son, now in California. foot span nnd was built a year for a fall. Hand’s physician re to the department. Last year alone he came to Cottago Grove in 1901, O. Busick, Sacramento; Mrs. Ger later than the Currin bridge. officers will be stationed on them over 19,000,000 dead letters were remaining four years and then mov trade MoLin, of Dorena; Mrs. Ag fused to allow ’ him to compete to arrest those who exceed the (Cottage Grove Leader, Jan. 7,1899) received at headquarters. In these ing to Salem, which was afterwards nes Smith, of Star. further. speed limit of 12 miles an hour, Sylvester E. Veatch. letters was found $200,000 in dollar their home except for eight months TOBACCO MANUFACTURERS the load limit of eight tons and At the age of 22 years Mr. bills, besides checks, drafts, money in 1913, when they lived here. WARN U8ERS AGAINST FIRE those who break the rub1 that all Veatch left his home in Iowa for Mr. Gray was a printer and was orders and small coins. After every vehicles going in the same direction Oregon in what was known as the possible effort, had been made to employed for 16 years on the Salem A warning to the tobacco amok- must keep 50 feet apart while on Wm. Oglesby train. They struck return or deliver this money there Statesman and for two years before er or chcwer to be careful of forest the bridge. for the Willamette valley in Sep was $55,000 left. The stamps wast his death in the state printing of fires has been placed in all pack So says O. S. Callison, county tember, 1853. The next year ho ed on dead letters total $380,000 fice. During 1913 he was employed ages of a certain brand of smoking bridge inspector, who has painted located a donation on Mosby creek annually. for several months on The Sentinel. “I am convinced that then1 is and ehewing tobacco and a certain a sign to this effect on the Spring and was married to Elizabeth Knox Vandals so lost to shame that “Something of the magnitude of oil at the Cottage Grove and Eu kind of fine cut, officials of this field gridge and who expecte to in 1854. A few year« later this they haven’t even respect for the the business of this department is The Wife Calls. gene wells and indications are the company having stated that they post similar signs on the Coburg. property he sold and bought the dead have desecrated the pioneer shown by the fact that in New “ I’ih sorry to disturb you, hon- Haydon and Hendricks bridges place upon which he now resides, Shields cemetery on th«1 hill to York city alone there is more post ey, but Willie cut his finger and I best I have hcou in my lifo, ” said are heartily in sympathy with the shortly. tw’o miles west of Cottage Grove. the east of tho city, where nearly al business of all kinds in one day wondered if you thought there W W. Caviness, of the United move for the preservation of the States surveyor general’s office, forests. The forest service recently There is too much money invest- I Ho has a family of six children, every tombstone and heedstone has than in the entire ~ Dominion ‘ of would be danger of blood poison ........................ od in these structure? to allow four of whom are married, They been tipped over, many of them Canada for the same period of ing. He was playing in the sedan who was up from Port land on an took up with lending tobacco manu inspection of the wells at Cottage facturers the matter of warning abuse, he contends and in this he! arc I. H., Robert W., Maggie Mar being broken. In some cases even time.” and knocked the window out with Grove and Eugene. “It wouldn’t smokers against carelessness with is backed by members of the county tin, Lucetta Thomas, Curtis ami the base of the stone has been the hammer.” surpriNo me to pick up a paper any matches while in the timber and court. Dora. Mr. Veatch has always been tipped over. The discovery of the “I’m sorry to break in on v«J’ir recognized a« a prominent early desecration was made by H. F. Local Prize Winners at County Fair. work like this dear, but mother «lay and rend that one of tho big the cooperation of all lending to Tho official list of the prize gest wells on the Pacific coast had bacco manufacturers is anticipated. pioneer of this place, was born in Wynne, when ho went there a few Leonard Baby Dies. arrived this morning and I thought Roy Denn Leonard, 13 day-old 1831 in White county, Ill., and his days ago to look after the grave winners in the livestock division you’d liko to know it ho you could conic in at Cottage Grove or Eu son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leonard, head is now white with the frosts of his father, Dr. A. L. Wynne. of the Lane county fair held hist bring her some flowern when you gone,” continued Mr. Cavines«. “I VICE PRESIDENT MOUNTAIN have studied the geological struc pioneer physician. He found the week in Eugene contained the conic homo.” died Thursday last, The funeral of 68 winters. STATES POWER CO. DIES tures in thcMo localities nnd 1 am stone tipped over and broken into names of the following: Ray Potts, was held Friday afternoon at the “ I ’ m Horry to have to call you three pieces. Nineteen monuments all the prizes on white Wyandotte like this, but that stuff you fixed convinced that there is oil here. Ixxmard home, J. Sams officiating. REFUSES TO rIGHT FIRE chickens; Cad Ellis, first prize on I am not a stockholder in t I k 1 Interment was in the A. F. & A. AND IS PUT IN COUNTY JAIL and headstones had suffered and Jerseys and third prize on in the basement is running all company nnd am in no way inter the Mountain State« Power com Hol but four or five remained standing. M.-I. O. O. F. cemetery. The baby over the place and I thought you ’ d steins. Mr. Potts brought ested except as a government of pany, died Tuesday of last week home was ill only two days. A. Fosberg, workman on the Cen There is no clue to the vandal«. like to know’. You told me to tel! ficial, but I am looking for oil to at his home in Chicago from pneu seven ribbons. Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Fullerton tral Pacific railroad, got tired you w’hen it started to ferment.” He was ill only a few be produced in ¡niying quantities monia. nnd son Ralph, of Marshfield, par fighting the Diamond creek forest LINN LEGION POST BACKS “I’m sorry to bother you, dear, days. ents and brother of Mrs. Leonard, fire and quit. No amount of per LANE STAND ON DUKHOBORS E. M. Oberg Gives Lecture Here. but its such a pretty day I thought at any time.” Mr. Huey had been connected E. M. Oberg, of Walla Walla, I’d come downtown nnd have lunch were here for the funeral. Mrs. suasion on tho part of forest of with electrieul industries since 1885 vrn-nu., who who gives illustrated re with you nnd see if I could pick Lions Obseivo Constitution Day. Fullerton remained to be with her ficials and fellow workmen could The stand of the I¿ano county Wash., He had been vice president of tho i lectures I Constitution dny was observed by throughout the up something in the way of a daughter for a short time but Mr. persuade him to go back to work. American Legion post against the ligious II. M. Byllesby company Hincv itM the Lions club ut their Thursday states of Oregon, Washington, Ida Fullerton and Ralph have returned. C. E. Lee, former patrolman, colonization of the Willamette val organization in 1902. hat. Now’ just say so if it fcn *t noon .luncheon. An address on the Mrs. Leonard is getting along sat stepped into the scene and put the ley by Dukhobors has been taken ho and Montana, gave a lecture convenient. ’ ’—Life. constitution, characterized as the here Sunday evening in the Sev isfactorily. recalcitrant laborer under arrest and up by the Linn county post of the Buy Eugene Business Block. greatest of human documents, nnd ex-service men’s organization. The enth-day Adventist church. He vis took him to Eugene for trial. That’s What It Meant. yet only a framework, was given Eugene, Oregon, Sept, K Th.- After pleading guilty, the prison war veterans will wage a campaign ited over night at the home of his Contest in Latham Sunday School. “ Is your father at home, dear! ’ ’ by M. C. Bressler. ’ Others were sale of the Dunn block on Willam Two classes of the Latham Sun er was put under $500 bail. Failure to stir public sentiment to the sister-in-law. Mrs. R. S. Trask. Punch «ays a lady asked when the called upon for extemporaneous re ette street, one of the pioneer bus day school, the Sunshine nnd the Tri to post tho bond resulted in his point where all property owners doctor’s little daughter answered marks, H. J. Shinn making some iness structures here, to II. W. Corn Grows Family 8tyle. Mu, are engaged in a two months’ being put in the county jail where will refuse to sell land to the Duk the door bell. pertinent comment upon the defi White and C. A. Waller, of Eugene, hobors, a Russian religious cult. A Sweet corn has not adopted the contest, the winning class to be he will remain until his trial. “No. he isn’t,” answer« nition of a 100 per cent American. nnd M. II. Anderson, of Cottage colony of the Russians are at pres This is the first case for years prevailing style of small families. guests of the losing class at a child. “He’s out. giving an Grove, was announced today, The contest on record in the Cascade national ent on tho point of leaving Canada A large ear of com plucked a thetic. ” Hallowe’en party, purchnse price given started the first of this month and office of a man flatly refusing to and have secured an option on a few days ago from the H. O. Fuson “Oh. what a big w’ord! ” cried Walter Lunenti Is Painfully Injured. $75,000. will continue until shortly before fight fire when asked by a forest piece of land near Monroe. It has garden on north K street had a tho lady playfully. “Do you k now Walter Luneau, a carloader at been stated that the Canadian gov family of five smaller ear« at- whnt it moans!” Halloween. Points are given for official. the Walter A. Woodard dock, mum ernment is now sending the Dukho tached to it. number present, for number present “It means ten dollars,” replied tained painful injuries to his buck bors out of its domain bocanse having lesson on time, for Forest Fires Discouraged. Monday afternoon when a timber tho little girl. book in hand and for having lesson fell onto li-rn. If was thought Forest fires were discouraged by they have been found to be urnle- Opening W. L. & E. Mill Postponed. studied. All the boys and girls in the rains of the past week and most sirnblo citizens. Purely Pro Tem. that, he made a misstep and fell Repair« at th«* former W. L. & E. the I^atham district have been in of them were extinguished. There Lily—“So yo’ done mortgaged between the car and the dock, th«* mill have taken »o much more time Others come here for printing. than anticipated that operations our li’l home!” vited to take part. is yet considerable smoke, however, timber following. He was taken ____ _ ______ ________ r ______ n f You arc already here. Pa tru niae Mose—“Jen’ temp mrily, honey, immediately io a Eugene hospital, from slashing fires, several cf ( there can not be started by Ander Hold n regular position by havirg which have come dangerously near | Ibe live wire print shop for every son & Middleton before No vein till de mortgage am fo closed.’’ — where an X ray examination dis SEE WHAT’S COMING YOUR thing in printing. xxx The '.!ii"rir{|j| Legion Weekly. dosed no seriouR injuries. an ad every week. Obituary IS WAY. WHAT'S THE USE The End of the Vacation CANY YOU MjrfcD OUT OF NOW BS A NICE T hat «T uff ? ---- AMD D on ’ t SwtrgT B oy T hin 14 YOU DE GONMA AND STAND SULL DECOGATE ME *^'T h ----- MY A V POLO -ALL all T ho ^ e bundleg - TANNED S tt ? oh <3, UP, AMD and Mixn A campaign has been started to shift tho rural pedestrians from the traditional right side of tho road to tho left. This will enable him to sen approach ing traffic and avoid danger. It’s always wise to know’ what’s coming your way. Tho advertisements of Cottage Grove merchants bring good things your way—bargains that will save your money—new pro ducts that other people have do ▼doped for your personal com fort and convenience—informa tion about every articlo of hu man need, whether it is foo/l or clothing, an article of household utility, a necessity or a luxury. Do you heed tho advertise ments! Or do you blithely patter along your way letting them come up from behind and slip past un not iced! It is interesting, instructive, profitable to watch for tho good things The Sentinel advertise ments bring your way.