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COTTAGE^ISjVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1925
VOLUME XXXV
NUMBER 28
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London Man Injured Attractions Bring Back RUM GIRLS CAUGHT HERE
Man ~ .¿d at Walker R. L. Stewart is Head
FOOTPRINTS OF PIONEER DAÏS
IFhen Log Falls
on Right of Way
of Commercial Club
Former Resident
Interesting Events in the Lives
From
Car
By Train
for This Year
of Those Who Laid Sturdy Foun­
of City
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Officer Empties Bevolver Trying
dation for ths Present Generation
to Puncture Tires of
London, Ore., Jan. 19—(Special.)
Lane county officers have re­
That those who once lived in
R.
L.
Stewart,
lAcal
manager
of
Fast Car.
—Shirley Dresser was seriously this favored section of the famous,
ceived word from Monett, Mo. that the Mountain States Power com- EARLY EVENTS RECALLED
the man killed near Walker last pany, will head the commercial
BY “UNCLE BOB“ VEATCH injured Friday morning at the fertile, fruitful Willametto are
A midnight honeymoon trip along Thursday was J. L. Bland, a resi­ club during 1925, having been elect­
the Pacific highway with a big dent of that city who has a wife ed at the annual meeting Friday
Winton car loaded with moonshine and children there. The body is night. He had served a year us
landed Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perchin, being held in Eugene awaiting in­ secretary and is succeeded in that
of Portland, in the Lane county structions from the widow.
position by H. W. Lombard. R. S.
This man who was walk­ Trask was elected first vice presi­
jail last Friday. They were ar­
rested by Deputy Sheriffs Van ing on the railroad track between dent and
H. Daugherty second
Svarverud and Melvin Turnbull on Saginaw and Walker, wjs killed vice president. 8. 8. Lasswell was
the highway just south of the city instantly Thursday when he was elected treasurer and 8. V. Allison
after an exciting chase from Divide struck by the Southern Pacific and S. L. Godard were elected
in which Van Svarverud emptied passenger train number 14.
members of the board of directors.
The accident occurred about half­
hie revolver twice, shooting at the
The selection of a president took
rum running car’s tires while it way between Saginaw and Walker, an odd twist. C. A. Bartell and
was speeding north 65 miles an The man was dressed in rough A. W. Helliwell were nominated
working clothes as if he had been and- G. O. Knowles received a
hour.
A mes. 'ge from Medford was re- working in the woods and an identi­ majority of the votes. Mr. Knowles
ceived Thursday night by Sheriff fication mark on his clothing gave convinced the members that Ä
Taylor saying that the car loaded the name of J. II. Flynn and his w-ould be impossible for him to
with moonshine would arrive in place of residence as Sedalia, Mo. serve and following the selection
Eugene about 11 o’clock.
Van A car was going along the high­ of other officers his recognition
Svaverud and Turnbull drove to way about the time of the acci­ was accepted and Mr. Stewart was
Divide, and stationed themselves by dent and saw the man and tried to selected by acclamation.
,
the side of the road to await the attract his attention with the
suspected car. About 1:30 in the sound of tho car’s horn but to no I
morning a large car was seen ap- avail. W. W. Branstetter, Lane I
proaching the overhead crossing county coroner, was summoned and
where the officers had stationed his body was taken to Eugene.
themselves but it was extremely
difficult to read the number on the
license plate, After following for
Large Number of Employes in
some distance the officers made
Mills and Camps Are Cause
out that the number was the same
of a Crisis.
as that given in the message from
Medford and pulled up beside the
The serious shortage of houses
car ordering it to stop.
The 1925 basket-ball season and apartments was the principal
Instead of stopping the driver
speeded up and the woman threw opened here Friday night when subject of discussion at the annual
out two sneka containing a large | Cottage Grove Junior High Hehool meeting of the commercial club
quantity of moonshine in bottles team defeated Coburg by a score Friday night. A number who are
already here in connection with
and jugs.
The car was faster I of 41 to 7.
The freshmen of the high school sawmill operations have been un­
than the one the officers were in
and in order to make the driver i followed this victory with a much able to secure either houses or
stop Van Svarverud began shooting ■ closer and rougher game against apartments and the contemplated
at the tires, Several bullets pene- I Dorena High, in which the local increase in lumbering operations is
going to make imperative the early
trated the lower part of the body boys won 28 to 27.
In the first game the Coburg building of accommodations for
of the car before one of the rear
tires was punctured and the car boys were completely outclassed •several hundred people.
Deputy Sheriff as players, but as sportsmen there
The Anderson & Middleton inter­
forced to halt.
McFarland was waiting for the car are none better. Brockman and ests contemplate a considerable
Adams,
forwards
on
the
Cottage
increase in the number of employes,
to come along just outside of the
city but it was forced to stop Grove Grades ’ team form a com­ J. H. Chambers will have a large
and the occupants surrendered be­ bination that is hard to beat.
sawmilling operation going within
The Cottage Grove Grades’ team the year and Walter Woodard al­
fore the Cottage Grove man had
will meet the Eugene Junior High ready has practically doubled the
a chance to get in the chase.
The officers took from Perchin, here on Januaiiy 23, and in a re- number of his employes.
A niunTior nf mpíMnila rd
who gave the name of White, a I turn game at Eugene January 30.
list of names of Eugene men who t In a pre-season gAme the Eugene cing house construction were sag
are thought to be his customers. ' team defeated Coburg 25 to 5,' gested and the entire subject re-
Enough of the moonshine thrown j which would seem to augur a close ferred to a committee, which will
from the car was saved to serve ! game when Eugene and Cottage cooperate with a like committee
as evidence though most of ths Grove mix.
from the Lions club.
Apartment houses probably will
containers were broken.
Mr. and Mrs. Perchin stated that
prove the only feasible solution
they had been married only a few­
providing accommodations, at
days. A small boy, the son of Mrs.
price that mill employes can pay.
Perchin, was in the car with them.
Cottage Grove Teams
Win Two Games
of Basketball
Many events in the early history
of Cottage Grove are recalled by
“Uncle Bob” Veatch, old time
farmer, school teacher, and legis­
lator who has made his home i near
here for the past 62 years. Mr.
Veatch, who is now 82 years old,
was born in White county, Ill.,
and came to Oregon when he was
about 20 years old.
Billy Shields was one of the old
timers who took up donation land
claims in this vicinity. He set­
tled on the east side of the Coast
Fork and lived there many years.
James McFarland took up a claim
at a point a few miles below him.
Billy Currin lived a mile and a half
up the river and Robert Cochran
settled a mile or so below town.
Henry Small took up 60 acres
about a quarter of a mile above
here, Practically all the land on
which the city of Cottage Grove
is now located originally belonged
to Oscar Adams.
• • •
*“A store building was built
near the present site of the bridge
and a Masonic hall was included
in the upper story,” Mr. Veatch
said as he recalled one exciting
event. “About one o’clock one
afternoon we were gathered in
the hall for a meeting and I hap­
pened to be looking out of the
Woodard mill while working on a
logging ear. He was riding on the
rear bunk when a log on top of
the load rolled off while crossing
a trestle. The log struck him and
threw him to the ground some ten
feet below, breaking four ribs and
nearly tearing one ear off. A phy­
sician was summoned from Cottage
Grove and was at the camp almost
as soon as the injured man was
brought in. He administered first
aid then took the patient to a
hospital at Eugene.
window when the stage < came
along. The water in tho river • was
unusually high.
“A woman with two babies was
in the stage and the driver was
drunk.
I don’t remember the
woman’s name now, but her father
had lived in Canyonville and there
she had been married. Her father
later moved to a farm on the
McKenzie river and she pvas on
her way to visit him.
“The driver was in the habit
of driving down to tho water
where the ford was located, near
where the bridge now is, to water
bis horses so we didn’t think much !
about it when ho headed toward I
the river. But this iine he didn't
stop soon enough but kept on going
until the horses were in swimming
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Insurance Certificates
Here for Veterans
Local ex-service men are now re­
ceiving from the federal govern­
ment certificates of insurance auth­
orized under the recent Adjusted
Compensation bill, according to
Robert
L.
Stewart,
American
Sheriff Frank E. Taylor is ar­ Legion member who has charge of
ranging to sell three automobiles applications in this community.
seized during the past fvw months These certificates are in the form
in making arrests for the violation of twenty year endowment insur­
of the liquor laws. A fourth one ance policies and all persons who
was added to the list last week served honorably in the late war
when a rum runner was arrested by | are eligible to receive them, The
deputy sheriffs after a chase of amount is based upon length of
several miles and after the officers I service.
Some of the policies received
had punctured a rear tire with a
pistol bullet.
This one, a big here run around the $2000 mark.
seven-passenger machine, will be Efforts are being made by Mr.
Stewart and the local post of the
held for some time, however.
It is expected that the sale of Amercian Legion to secure as
the three cars will take place j soon as possible the applications
of Cottage Grove ex-service men
about the middle of February.
who have not yet applied.
Correct styles always in wedding
and social stationery at the live
Thermometer Beaches 7 Below.
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wire print shop.
The thermometer went down to
7 below zero during the month of
December, The maximum tempera-
ture was 54. The remainder of
----------------------------------
the weather report as kept by
Miss Nellie Stewart, local observer,
t «peer mou reader » tvmmk
is as follows: Mean maximum,
fv. AGIU BOBBED MMR.BUT t
39.6; mean minimum, 25.5; mean,
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32.55, total percipitation, 5.49 in­
WH6M TH* MCU STARTED S m AV i W
ches; total snowfall, 4.5 inches;
OFF TH£\O. 8CM8DS MEARS
clear days, 8; partly cloudy, 5,
AGO, I SA'P TVUM LOOKED
cloudy 18.
Sheriffs Office to Sell
Captured Machines
Seal Sales Were $93.
The final checking up of receipts
of the Red Cross Christmas seals
sale shows that $93 worth of
stamps were sold, $72 by the clubs
of the city and $21 by the schools.
The Tuesday Study club was in
charge of the sale. So far as the
records show, $75 worth wan the
largest amount ever sold here be-
fore.
Vital Statistics for December.
The vital statistics for Decem­
ber are as follows: Births, 11;
niales, 7; females, 4; deaths, 1
male.
For 35 cents a little wanted will
sometimes do the work of a $5-a-
day auctioneer.
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never entirely satisfied until they
return, has been again proved.
N. E. Compton, who nine years
ago sold his interest with C. H.
Burkholder and returned to Iowa,
is here again and has again gone
into business with Mr. Burkholder.
Mr. Burkholder, who is the oldest
pioneer merchant, also left here for
several years butr returned several
years ago.
Mrs Compton is with Mr. Comp­
ton, but their two (laughters are
now residents of Eugene, having
returned ahead of their parents.
This is the third time the Comp­
tons have come here from Iowa.
Mr. Compton made the statement,
when leaving nine years ago, that
when he returned again it would
be for good.
water and tho stage was washing
down the stream.
“Tho driver jumped from his
seat and the woman and the two
children were left in the coach
alone. The members of the lodge
hurried out and ran down below
the vehicle where a fir log ex­
tended part way across the stream,
Four or five of us got out on that
log and waited until the current
brought them down to us.
“That was tho bravest woman I
ever saw. She was sitting there
with water up above her waist and
holding the two babies up out of
I the whirling stream. Aa the coach
camo by the log we were able to
pull her and the babies out and
saved them from drowning, One
of the horses was drowned, Wo
were able to get the other threo
out and finally pullod the coach
ashore.
“I never found out what the
driver’s name was and I never
wanted to know. We told him to
i get out of town as fast as he
could or we would hung him, and
he lost no time in getting away.”
“When the railroad was first
built through here Ben Holiday
wanted $00,1)00 to build the depot.
Of course we were unable to pay
that amount so Mr. Holiday who
had charge of tho railroad work,
declared that he would ruin Cottage
Grove. This was the logical place
for the depot becauso here Row
river and Silk creek crossed the
Coast Fork, and was the moat
convenient place for the farmers
to bring their grain.
“Grain was much more import­
ant then thnn it is now and con­
stituted the main source of revenue
for the farinors. Mr. Holiday placed
the depot at Latham and was go­
ing to try to make that the site
of tho city, but this soon proved
to be impossible.
“Rather than haul their grain to
Latham the farmers would bring
it here, but the railroad refused
to load it unless they would build
a siding. This
’ was dono and a
warehouse was also constructed. In
this way the railroad was finally
compelled to establish a depot
here.’’
• • •
There were many fights and
brawls in the old days,
Mr.
Veatch recalled especially one af-
fray in which a knife and a
loadod whip played a prominent
part.
“George Hmall hud the only
place which was settled on Silk
creek
at
that
time.
Thore
was some kind of a meet-
ling at Hamilton’s point and the
result, as usual, was a drunken
i row. It the course of this row
| Hmall stabbed a fellow by the name
: of Marion Martin and also struck
him in the head with a loaded
whip. Small later went to Call-
fornia, and was never seen around
here again.”
Appreciate Hotel Life
and Are Put in Jail for
Safe Keeping.
The
runaway
adventure
of
Vivian Haag, 14, and Patsy
Fields, 13, runaway girls from
Portland, who were picked up on
the streets of Cottage Grove by
Deputy Sheriff Pitcher, will end
in the reform school at Salem in­
stead of in Los Angeles and Hol­
lywood, the land of movies and
romance. F. A. Fields, father of
Patsy, arrived here from Portland
last Thursday and took both girls
back with him stating that ho
would take steps to have them
sent to the state institution.
The girls were picked up Wed­
nesday afternoon and the deputy
sheriff had some difficulty in
looking after the two until the
arrival of Miss Field’s father. The
two adventuresses were placed in
a room in the Central hotel but
made a rope of the bed clothing
and escaped through a window. It
was later learned that this im-
provised rope broke as one of
them was lowering herself to the
ground and let her drop in the
mud. Before making their geta­
way the girls appropriated the
clothing of a girl who makes her
home at the hotel.
Deputy Pitcher secured the aid
of Deputy Sheriff McFarland, who
found the girls heading south on
sixth street drenched with rain.
They were then placed in the city
jail where they spent the night.
The girls were picked up in Dallas
the night before coming to Cottage
Grove and made their escape from
a hotel there the same way they
did here.
They told the officials they
were on their way to Los Angelos
and it is thought they had the
movies in mind. Miss Fields stated
that she had run away two or
three times before but this is
denied by her father who says
this is her first adventure of that
kind.
Lane Delegates Leave
for Legislature
The Lane county delegates to
tho legislature left for Salem Sun­
day to be on hand for the opening
of the session today.
Senators
Fred Fisk and J. 8. Magladry and
representatives E. O. Potter, 11. C.
Whooler and Emmet Howard com­
prise Lane’s delegation. Colonel W.
G. D. Mercer has his usual position
of sergeant-at-arms in the house,
and Elbert Bede is acting as read­
ing clerk.
Bookkeeping
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outfits.
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THAT FELLOW
FEELING
You are all wrapped up in the
merchandise that fills your store.
You enthuse over tho quality of
this article and that line. You
probably display the goods at­
tractively, too.
All you need now is to transmit
your enthisiasm to the buying
public of your community—and
your goods will move and prof­
its roll in. ADVERTISE. For
advertising makes tho customer
feel as you do about the goods
you have to sell. Every time
you talk to prospective buyors
through on Advertisement in
The Sentinel, you are increasing
tho fellow feeling that brings
business to your store.
An Advertisement Is An
Invitation
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