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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1925)
First With Cottage Grr ülw CutW Okiwr Pettitnrl L > First With Cottage Grove News TWICE-A WEEK COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1925. Farmers Receive First Car of Lime to Come Here County Superintendent Moore Makes This Suggestion at Insti tute Held Here.' The need of a union high sehool in Cottage Grove to ear« for this end of the county was stressed by Huperintendent E. J. Mooro in his address before the local teachers' institute held here Saturday. Members of the local school board see in the suggestion of Superintendent Moore a solution of the problem of providing for the constantly increasing attendance in the schools. With a union high school district established that would include much territory that can not be included in the district that supports the grade schools, a separate high school building could be provided and the present high school building could be used ex clusively for grades, Mr. Moore suggested this as the only solution of the problem of relieving the crowded condition of the high school. He held a conference with the directors of the Cottage Grove district and of surrounding districts and some move to carry out the county superintendent’s suggestion may be made before the opening of another school year. Dr. Rainey, of tho University of Oregon, spoke on "The Profes sional Improvement of Teachers.” He said that the reason many looked upon teaching as not being a profession is that too many take it as a stepping stone to something else and do not endeavor to give it a - professional consciousness. He thought that pupils with a special aptitude should be selected and trained to fill a definite place in order to obtain the desired results. Dr. Rainey called attention to the fact that big corporations have professional departments and said that this principle should be ap plied to the schools through super visors. Superintendent Moore spoke on "The True Objective of the Teacher.” He stressed character building as part of the teacher’s business and emphasized his con tention that it is no small part of the teacher’s duty to fit into com munity activities. Tho work put on by the girls of the physical education department under the direction of Miss Barger was well received and the playlet by the juniors of tho local high school proved highly entertaining. Misa Lay and her girls made a hit with the quality of their dinner and the manner in which it was served. Grade department discussions and the high school round table met with enthusiastic response from all. There was an attendance of 50, nearly every school in this end of the county being represented. OAKLAND ANNOUNCES ITS 4TH OF JULY PROGRAM The Oakland Gobblers, the boost er organization of our southern neighbor, must be working upon the theory that the early bird gets the worm, for they have already announced their Fourth of July program. The announcement says that there will be a complete racing and sporting program and that there will be an even greater attendance than that of next year, About the only thing neglected in the initial announcement is a list of those who are to be prize winners. That probably will come in the next piece of publicity. M1CKIE SAYS— Footprints of Pioneer Days What is said to be the first carload of agricultural lime ever to be received here is being dis- tributed to farmers of this section through a farmers’ union commit tee, of which W. T. Garoutte is chairman. The lime came from the state lime plnnt and was sold to tho farmers at cost, the order The being placed cooperatively, lime is being used for the sweet- ening of acid soil. our clover was soon dry. We packed it up and started back to the river. When we arrived there Warren Smith, 10-year-old eon of July 7—Started late, and left we found that we had all been Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smith, sustained the river again, and commenced fooled, for wo wore not within a fractured skull in an accident climbing a large hill. We nooned five days’ travel of the sink. Saturday afternoon, when the bi-j near the top. While there a man However, our clover did us good cycle upon which ho was riding in the next train to us killed an for grass was very scarce. We was struck by a car driven by Indian that was trying to steal some went on, and stopped at 3 o’clock Mrs. Bertha Meyer, of Everett, of his stock. There were three of and fed out some of our clover; Wash. The lad was picked up the Indians, and when the white then started and traveled until by Mrs. Meyer, after her car was man discovered them they camo after dark and fed out all our gotten out of the ditch, into which towards him as if to seize him. clover. she drove it in an effort to avoid He told them to keep off, but they July 12—Started very early, and the boy, and brought him to the did not mind him, so ho drew his went to find grass. Stopped at 7, office of Dr. Dyott. First »id pistol and shot tho foremost one, got our breakfast and off again was given and he was sent to a 1 and the other two ran away. They until three; when we found some Eugene hospital. were entirely naked, belonging to tolerably good grass and stopped The accident happened on Pacific Ì the Digger tribe, and lived on for the night. The road was very highway just north of the city. ! roots. We went to the river again, soft and not good traveling for According to Mrs. Meyer and eye but soon left it and struck out the stock. witnesses, the boy was zig-zagging over the high ground, There be July 13—Started late; here wo back and forth on the pavement ing no grass we did not camp left Jo Floy’s large white mare and at the time of the accident until after dark near a small mired and not able to get up. We ha<l crossed so far to the left side stream and some feed for the traveled over steep sand until that he did not leave room for stock. theree o ’clock before we could the car to pass. Both were travel July 8—Up early and off and find a particle of grass, and ing towanl the city. traveled until 8, then stopped and stopped all hungry as well as the Mrs. Meyer was on her way to cooked breakfast and rested the stock, Jerry walked and rode California for the benefit of the stock till 12 o’clock. Wt then some in the wagon, everybody was health of her husband, who wa« started and went on until 7 tired and mad, and I hail it Bet in the car with her. o’clock before we could find any down in my journal as an ex- The lad’s injuries are thought grass; drove from the road, over ceedingly bad day, anyhow. Our not to be fatal. a large salaratus bod, and cariped stock still miring and down every in a poor place, tho ground v-ry few minutes. July 14—We started again at damp, and smelt bad on account of the quantity of salaratus in it. six, without the stock having any Bony Jack did not como into thing to eat, and traveled until camp this night. We had to drive ten before wo could find grass, and our stock through the mud to got then had to swim the river our- any grass at all. Heard of plenty selves and cut it for them and Temperature Drops to Freezing; of stock being stolen all around us. haul it over tho river with ropes. Mpdford Gets Out Its July 9—Started late and traveled John Smith camo near getting over a barren, dusty, sandy coun drowned in swimming the river. Smudge Pots. try; and not a particle of grass We at last cut enough for them to have a taste, and started again to be had. At noon wo turned In the opinion of C. E. Stewart, off towards the river and went at 3 and went to another spot county fruit inspector, little damage some two miles to it, w’here we where we found more. Hero wo was done to fruit by the chilly found a little grass, We turned stopped and cut some to take with weather of tho past week. He Haid out our stock and Jerry concluded | us, so as to feed in case we found that he examined his own cherry to atop tho rest of the day as the none at night. Wo camped late and pear trees that had blossomed stock were very hungry, Jack and had very little for tho stock to eat. out and he failed to find a dead did not find ub yet. July 15—Up and off by daylight bud. He also examined a large July 10—Started early and went without breakfast or food for the pear orchard near Creswell and one to where we struck the river stock. Went on until we struck found the same conditions. again. There c e found Jack and tho river and there we found not Mr. Stewart Baid the temperature some two hundred teams encamped. any grass. The stock had to eat was as low as 27% degrees on his It wns reported that we were with sage brush and willows, We place, which is below freezing. in six miles of the sink of the breakfasted and started again at Cerro Gorda was hoary headed river. We could not think so, 10; went ten miles and struck the from a light fall of snow in the but every person was stopping and river again and stopped until high altitudes Friday night. going off from the road about 5 evoning; fed the stock on willows, miles to cut grass to cross tho got supper, and started again and Medford, Ore., March 26.—A bat- desert with, so we went with them arrived at Willow Springs at mid tery of approximately half a mil- and found some 50 acres of beau night and thero was no feed but lion smudge pots was fired in the tiful clover, and camped there. We willows. Rogue river valley last night and all went to cutting clover to cure (Continued next Monday.) early this morning to repel the firtt into hay to take with us. Here we serious offensive of the year by found plenty of wild currants and the forces of Jack Frost. The had a feast. Every kind of loose leaf people of Medford went to work ’ July 11—The sun being very hot, ledger sheets. The Sentinel. this morning in a fog of smudge which nearly eclipsed the sun oi a cloudless sky. According to County. Agent Cate, there is little likelihood of any serious damage, but the final out come of the battle will not be known until late today. Last night’s firing was the moat ex tensive in the history of southern Oregon, The minimum temperature in Medford was 28 above. < FO«. READtHd, IT OMJT »6 TEMPTING MORSELS Poison Is Being Set Out for De- struction of Fleet-Footed Crop Destroyers. The squirrels of Lane county should have a care this week what kind of morsels they pick up. They are likely to find such morsels temptingly placed for them, for this is squirrel-poisoning week and the bushy-taileil tree climbers are to be eliminated from this busy world by the thousands. Any dainty morsels which they find scattered about the woods are likely to contain deadly poison. Squirrel poisoning week is held at this time in an effort to kill the squirrels before they reproduce. Doing this naturally /implifics the work of doing away with the fleet- footed cfop destroyers. The cam paign is to continue for the en tire week and it is expected that farmers will follow it up by keep ing poison set for several weeks. The poison bait, which is being furnished at cost by the county through the county agent, can be secured from the county agent, or in this territory, from the Farm- eTS ’ Union store, Sterling Feed company, Cottage Grove; J. II Kirk, Dorena, or Cal Hileman, Lorane. No profit is being made by those handling the poison. They will collect 50 cents the sack and send the entire amount to the county agent. This is the first tquirrel poison ing campaign for several years, due to the fact that the county has not had an agent to organize the campaign. Junction City May Have JVoocien Railway to Timber Approximately $75,000 of the $100,000 sought has been subscribed for the Junction City-Lake creek "wooden railway,” according to reports from Junction City. The town is quite enthusiastic as a result and already there is talk of a new box factory and other manufacturing plants. Plans are to lay 8x8 stringers for rails on 8x8 ties. The railbed would be ballasted. Motive power would be furnished by a gasoline engine. It is expected that the road, if built as planned, will take care of a considerable amount of freight traffic and open up a big stand of fine timber. It will be 35 miles long. A patented, hard rubber flanged wheel is to be used on all rolling This stock, according to plans, would not injure the rails to any great extent, it is said. According to lumbermen, it will take approximately two million feet of lumber for the rails alone at a cost of about $36,000. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 27 LINEN MAKER PROBABLY WILL LOCATE IN OREGON Salem, Ore., March 28.—Strong possibility of a linen mill being es tablished in the Willamette valley by the Canadian interests was indi cated today by D. M. Hanson, head of a large Canadian linen com pany and of a linen mill located at Lockport, N. Y. “I have praetieally decided to place a plant in Oregon for the manufacture of linens,” said Sen- son, speaking before the Salem Rotary club at its luncheon this noon. Sanson has been inspecting the Wiliamette valley for the past 10 days with a view to building a mill somewhere in the valley. The quality of flax produced and the high protective tariff, were given as principal factors in leading him to the decision. Work on the J. H. Chambers log ging railway, which is being con structed from the eity to a tract of timber six miles west, a dis tance of 10 miles by railway, is progressing rapidly. The grade is being constructed with a steam shovel and a distance of over two miles has been covered. The shove] and crew are now at work on the Bahrcnfus place on the Gowdyville road. Of course, the building of the grade is but a start but the work is progressing satisfactorily and probably will be easily com pleted within the year set by Mr. Chamber* when he commenced op erations. Ties and rails will commence to go down on the temporary grade within a short time and the haul ing of ballast will assist in the settling of the grade. returning home f Pasadena, where «he had spent winter, was a guest Friday at home of he brother in-law, J. Hendricks. (Diary of Jeremiah Job Train.) (Contined from last Monday.) Automobile. If your business isn’t better this year, the reason probably is that you haven’t done a sufficient I amount of judicious advertising in The Sentinel. xxx QuSraG'niïïSfîa no aaaas as I I _ ' V HUB AN HQ DEQHQ __ BUBBU afflEOai QDfi ------- af W rab I □ I o M dû [LlA^mEiNXT □s aaaHB sobbù 1 Printing Plant Opens NEW SEWER MAINS READY Eves of Many FOR ACCEPTANCE Visitors Petitions for Many Sewer tricts Follow Building of Bicycle to Collision with — CHAMBERS MAKING HEAD ME*11N MARRIED COUPLES WAY WITH RAILWAY GAU START LIFE RIGHT BM SUBSCRIBING FWt THS PAPER » nV HAHDM 'ROUMO TH' house to wrap up th ' IAUUOR.M, PUT OU SHELVES, WHOLE FlR-Ef AU' PUT TVf DOftS SUPPER, OU* WHILE INTERESTING EVENTS IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO LAID STURDY FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESENT GENERATION Warren Smith, 10 Years Old, Rides NUMBER 50 PT Vertical. 1—rtrm, (Iaht s— Menati tai S—Diatrthata 4—Hosts as «—Watchful •—S«f»r Irma 7— iataaa la s ith (teatral Paelft« Dis Many eyes were opened during The Sentinel's open house Satur Trunk Lines. day as to the amount of machinery and equipment that is required in Work on the city’s three new the conduct of a newspaper and printing plant in a city of the trunk line sewers has been complet size and importance of Cottage ed and will be put into use as Grove. The intricacy of much of soon as accepted by the city the machinery was also an eye- council. The two of greater importance opener. In the nature of things it is are the ono serving the part of impossible to conduct an industrial the city east of the Houtllern plant of any kind open to visitors Pacific tracks and tho one serving at all times. For that reason it the south central portion of the is impossible that any great number city. The third is a short trunk should be familiar with the modern line on Chestnut avenue. The east sido main starts on printing plnnt that has grown up in Cottage Grove as the city has south Sixth street near tho south grown. A number who took city limits, runs down Sixth to advantage of The Sentinel’s open Quincy avenue, oast on Quincy house had never been inside a to Tenth street, south on Tenth printing plant of any kind and the to and across east Main street to visit, they declared, was an edu a point north of the plant of tho cation. "It’s really wonderful,” Cottage Grove Manufacturing com was one woman's way of referring pany’s building an<l then swings to the plant. None of the visitors northwest to Gibbs avenue and had before realized that the plant runs west on Gibbs to Eighth and contained seven power-driven pieces north a short distance on Eighth street, where it connects with a of machinery. Pupils of the high school visited previously existing main. The south central main starts on the plant Friday afternoon and it kept operatives busy answering I Second street nt the city limits, questions as to tho operation of j runs north on Second to Madison, the machinery and supplying name east on Madison to Third street, plates from the Ludlow typeeaster. north on Third to Adams nnd east j on Adams to Fifth, where it con nects with the previously-existing I sewer main at that point. Tho work on the new sower I mains was hardly woll under way before petitions wore being pre- sented to the city council for tho Farmers of This Section Are Coop creation of lateral sewer districts. Those already created are one for erating with County Agent the blocks between Main street and Washington avenue east of the in Experiments. Southern Pacific tracks, one for tho blocks between Washington ami A number of farmer» of thin sec Adams, also east of the Southern tion are cooperating with County Pacific Tracks, one in the south Agent Fletcher in carrying forward central portion of the city, taking experiments for the control of all the territory south of Adams wheat smut and for the production avenue and between Fifth street of alfalfa. nnd the river, one starting at the The copper carbonató dust treat south lino of the Standard Oil inent is being used for the control company’s property on Madison of smut and those who are con avenue and running south through ducting experiments with this are the alley to tho eity limits, one in ’' t- Petersen, Borona, « mí E. it. tho north-central portion of tho Crowe, Ralph Lynch and W. T. city, starting on Grover avenue Moore, Lorane. betwoen Tenth and Lane and run A. 8. Newton, of London, and Cal ning south through alley in Stouf Hileman, of Lorane, are conducting fer addition to Villard placo and the alfalfa demonstrations. Thoy south to connection with main are following the recommendations I sewer where it crosses Tenth street of the agricultural college through extended, and two lateral spurs tho county agont. The Eugene running north on G and H streets. creamery is furnishing the seed and lime for these demonstrations at half of actual cost. Each demon st rat ion is on approximately an acre of ground and 32 are in progress throughout the county. The agricultural college is furnish ing the material for inoculation for Lions Club Committee Is Arranging nodules on the roots. The nodules List of Prizes for the enable the plant to take oxygon Big Bvent. from the air, as woll as from tho soil, instead of from the soil alone, Tho annual Cottage Grove motor with tho result that the soil is built cycle hill climbing contest, always up instead of depleted. It has l>eon generally believed I participated in by amateurs and ex that alfalfa can not bo successfully perts from over the entire Btate, grown in the county and these will bo hold May 31. Tho oast experiments are for the purpose of slope of Mount David, just outside demonstrating that it can be. Tho tho city, has again been chosen two demonstrations in this end of for tho contest. It has an 80 per the county are on high ground, cent grade and lust year was tho which adds to the interest of the first time that a driver had been able to make tho top. experiment. Tho Lions club is backing the big event and a committee com NEW CITY HALL LIKELY posed of N. J. Nelson Jr. and TO BE A8KED William Thum is in communication with manufacturers of motorcycles, Citizens of Cottage Grove havo. tires, carburetors and other motor been inoculated with tho improve-1 cycle parts and accessories for the rnent hug for fair. Not content purpose of arranging a prize list. with the biggest home-building Tho program of events will not be campaign and tho greatest amount nenounced until after the list of of improvement of business build-1 prizes to be offered is complete. ings in the history of the eity, | The hill-climbing event attracts not content with the proposal for sevoral thousand spectators and a water storage reservoir, not con ; each year tho attendance has tent with the additional sewer grown. system, not content with tho pro posal for a new lighting system 7 for Main street, a number have asked for the preparation of a petition to put a proposal for a new eity hall upon tho ballot at the special election soon to be j held for the purpose of voting upon a bond issue for the water res I ervoir. —why is it Ths present city hail, it is eon- —tho fellow who so noisily ceded by all, makes a poor showing asserts that "Advertising for a eity of thin size and is Does Not Pay” not in keeping with tho progress —doesn’t try to run his that the citizens individually arc making in improving their build automobile without gasoline* ings. —or —buy a store without A petition has been received by windows or lights* the county court asking that the —or Row river road through Dorena —borrow money at the bank and in that locality be widened without paying interest* from 30 to 50 feet. As many —he's th« same fellow who of the houses in the village have woubln’t spend one nickel for been bnilt close to the road it an ad yet goes to New York would damage a great deal of City and lets a couple of property to a large extent if the "sharps” sell him the road were widened that much, Woolworth building. stated members of ths county court after receiving the petition. GROWING ARE PROJECTS