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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.
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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