The Cottage Grove sentinel., April 27, 1925, Image 1

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VOLUME XXXV
TWICE A WEEK
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 27. 1925.
Homes of Millers Only
Ones to Escape
Big Wind
NUMBER 58
DIES AT HER HOUSEWORK
Footprints of Pioneer Days
Her Sons and Sons-in-Laws Act as
the Pallbearers.
INTERESTING EVENTS IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO LAID
Mrs. William J. Cooley, aged 67,
Former Cottage Grove Educator
STURDY FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESENT »GENERATION
I dropped dead from heart trouble Bond Issue to Be Asked to En­
The devastation of the country
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Would Succeed Churchill, who
Friday forenoon while engaged in
OU Well Causes Thousands
able Municipality to Pay
and the suffering that followed the
I j housework at her home on Cherry
following
from
the
pen
of
Tho
I
Creswell
was
only
a
rural
settle-
Goes
to
Ashland.
recent cyclone in Illinois are almost
to Visit Dome.
Its Portion.
C. M. Hysktdl appeared in a recent j meat, mostly pioneer ranchers in I court. The funeral was held Sun­
indescribable, according to a letter
day. Pastor A. J. Adams, of the
the
Portland
of
Telegram
issue
tho
Pleasant
Hill
neighborhood.
which Mallie Miller has received
W. G. Beattie, head of the rural tinder the heading, “Old Oregon ”: Scarbrough practiced throughout a ! ' Christian chureh, officiated. In­ The demand for street improvo-
“We are just as certain of oil from relatives there. The Millers
now as we have ever been. There were fortunate. Of three homes t eac&ere divisions of Monmouth nor
wide and wild region, traveling by terment was in the A. F. & A. M.- meats has been so great this year
null and several years ago superin
never has been any doubt that we
Forces unseen, often unknown, horseback with saddlebags for I. O. O. F. cemetery. Mrs. Cooley that the city has run short of
left standing in the Trousdale tendent of the Cottage Grove
should get oil." That is the state­
had been ill for several months but funds with which to pay for the
school district, one is the home of schools, is an avowed candidate and but little reckoned with, move | thirty-six years.
ment of Dr. David E. Olson when I
men from place to place. Most of
Sometimes he got a little cash her condition was not thought to street intersections which are called
Paul
Miller,
brother
of
Mallie,
one
|
for state superintendent of schools the early pioneers westward had in pay and often took hogs or lie serious.
questioned this forenoon as to
for by improvement ordinances
is the home of William Miller, uncle
what news there is from the Fu­ of Mallie, and one is the home to succeed J. A. Churchill, who has no definite plan or outstanding other livestock for his fees, thus, Mrs. Cooley, whose maiden name already enacted and for that
gene well, where a flow of gas of Robert Miller, cousin of Mallie. been selected as head of the Ash need. They already were in a getting into sidelines of business. ■’ was Jennie Myers, was born at reason tho people will be asked
land normal, which position he will
j Benton City, Iowa, May 10, 1858.
came in a week ago am hurled
All nre the same relation to George assume shortly. The appointment domain of cheap land and pleasant Then he got into the prune busi She was married to Emery Heath, to give the council authority to
water way above tho derrick.
issue $3,000 ill bonds to provide
outlook in the middle west or lies*. He recognized the value of
Miller,
of
this
city.
The
amount
will be made by Governor Pierce. or south. But something impelled prunes early for their laxative and who died several years after the tho amount which the city is
Drilling in agai i in progress, the
of
destruction
can
be
estimated
by
E. F. Carleton, of the extension
marriage.
Tn 1883 she married
machinery and equipment making
the fact thnt 300 or 400«families division of the University of Ore­ them to move on toward the setting healthful qualities. Finally he quit Mr. Cooley, who survives. Two short of having enough in its bud-
it possible to shut off the gas
get to carry forward the improve-
sun.
Lemuel
D.
Scarbrough,
born
medicine
and
went
into
the
prune
live in the district and all were gon, formerly assistant to Mr.
and at the same time continue op­
74 years ago in Alabama, was . business extensively.
While the children, Joseph Heath, Renton, tnents.
left
homeless
except
those
men
­
Churchill,
is
also
a
candidate
for
erations having been installed. The
Tho proposed bond issue will be
reared there, studied medicine and , prune, especially the Oregoq prune, Wash., and Mrs. Allie Myers, Port
plug of sand at the bottom of the tioned. A 13-year-old son of Ralph the position Mr. Beattie seeks.
and graduated from Vanderbilt has a very high food value—per land, survive from tho first mar put on tho ballot at the special
Miller
was
killed
in
the
destruction
Mr. Beattie is recognized as a university at NiMhville. He prac­ haps greater than any other frui* ring«’. Surviving children from the election called for May 12 to voto
well has been removed several
times since operations were resumed, of the Trousdale school house, as successful educator and he has ticed a year in Alabama.
j —comparatively few peoplp compre ¡second marriage are Mrs. Freida upon a proposed issue of $25,000 in
has been told in Tho Sentinel, i been prominent in educational af-
but each time the gas drives the
. head it. At times the prune has I Corbin, Medford; Lloyd Cooley, water bonds.
He
was
dissatisfied
with
condi
­
sand back into the hole. * ‘ The gas One girl who was in the school fairs of tho state.
The amount of street work al­
tions of population and opportunity been a subject of levity, a shallow | Arlie, Orej Mrs. Altha Haley, Mrs.
house escaped without a scratch, j
is under control and we are about
in that stato hnd started west for levity at best, for many a high Ernestine Pound and Mrs. Addie ready contemplated will bo tho
AU tho others were injured more |
to go <lown to oil,” was the state­
Ho arrived in San class man has been called a poor i *b>tts, Portland, and Mrs. Jessie largest put through during any one
or less seriously, Tho big . wind | A. & M. MILL SHUT DOWN California.
riirlit i ! Chase, Seattle. A sister, Mrs. Ollie year in tho history of tho city and,
ment made this forenoon by Mr.
Francisco
with
a man named Stoets. prune. ’ ’ Yet the prune kept right
barely missed the three houses
Olson.
on
making
good.
The
fact
that
in | Shaffer, lives at Charleston, Wash in case the water bond issue is
j Cooperation in Curtailment Program They didn’t particularly cure where
that remained.
It became known Sunday that
they located and agreed to take forty years thousands of acres of I All the children were present authorized, tjie nuiount of public,
Is Given as Beason.
Those
in
the
Trousdale
district
drilling had been resumed and thou­
___
’
the first boat out, either to Los prune orchards have been pulled I at tho funeral and the sons and improvements will eclipse those of
sands gnthered at the dome where were greatly worried for a time as
sons-in-law were the pallbearers.
any year since the water system
Anderson & Middleton’s mijl B Angeles or Portland. On the fifth out by short sighted owners has
to
what
had
happened
to
relatives
•
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the operations are in progress but
was
built.
doubtless
contributed
a
good
deal
day
a
boat
sailed
for
Portland
two
shut down Saturday for an indefi-
none would be permitted upon the living in other nearby sections • nite time, probably 30 to 6i. days. hours before another left the dock in the long run to the prosperity MOONSHINER IS NAMED
hill itself, there being fear that of the state to which no word [ Simultaneously
of the Oregon prune.
Awards in Writing Made.
tho woods crew for Los Angeles.
the well might again perform as could be gotten. The suffering I working in the
When Salem nurserymen 35 years Mysterious Captive Gets Fine and
Progress pins in penmanship havo
Booth-Kelly
timber
and
sorrow
were
terrible,
the
letter
And
so
Dr.
Scarbrough
drifted
it did when it hurled water 200
Six Months in Jail.
been awarded to the following
at the Rujada upper camp were to the Oregon country. He prac­ ago were burning 2,000,000 young!
feet into the air. Tho report was states, and two days were required
students in the seventh A grade of
; laid off. The Culp crock camp ticed a short time io east Portland. prune trees Dr. Scarbrough dem- i
to
remove
the
injured
and
dead
circulated in Eugene that the well
E. T. Pickert is the name of the the west side school: Bertha Allon,
Some were will be operated, it is understood, That was 49 years ago, and he a onstrated his steady faith by buy
probably would come in at about from the debris.
until the area now being operated young man of but 25 yenrs. There ing 2800 two-year-old trees for tho [ man who was shot in the leg and Ethel Bennett, Kenneth Devore,
burned
under
tho
debris.
The
4 o’clock yesterday and many
upoa is cut out, when the crew there were well established physicians sum of $40 in cash. Again, 25 back by a deputy sheriff during a Lloyd DeYoung, Pearl Ferguson,
were there with cameras prepared country is completely ruined, the
will be taken to the upper Rujada here and |>ut few people residing years ago, he bought a 125-aero raid op a moonshine still on Finn Dorothy George, Irone Hawley, Eu
letter
states.
to take pictures of a gusher. There
camp and the Culp creek camp I on the east side. He moved on to prune orchard when prunes were creek a short distance above tho gene Hopper, Goldio llusteud, Law­
Mr.
and
Mrs.
_
Wayne
Land,
of
will be no gusher, however,
will
be idle until a resumption of I Lane county. Steets went to Idaho so little esteemed that the whole state fish hatchery on the McKen­ rence Kelly, Edith Leonard, Everett
Creswell,
had
arrived
at
Enfield
unless something goes wrong with
j and became a justice of the peace, orchard was taxed at only $41'. zie river a few weeks ago, it was McCoy, Jolly Manning, Elsio Milne,
operations at Mill B.
on
a
visit
at
the
time
the
letter
the equipment with which the gas
Today the taxes on that orchard, revealed when his case came up in Genevieve Mulvihill, Alice New­
Mills
over
the
country
are
cur
­
was
written.
“While chanco had a lot to do
(
is being kept under control.
comb, Geneva Perini, Russell Pons­
tailing operations, a number of the I with it, I had an idea of Lane which ho still owns, are $300. He the Eugene justice court
Drilling is being done only by
Pickert was sentenced to pay ford, Roy Sears, Eunice Smith,
big mills going to the four-day-a- | county, Oregon, from the start,” has prune, pear and filbert or­
daylight as handling a difficult
schedule, and it is understood says'Scarbrough. “Fifty years ago chards, threo prune dryer plants a fine of $1000 and to servo six Frederick Stover, Lloyd Swanson,
In week
situation would be doubly difficult Haight Succeeds
that
tho
shutting down of mill B a Presbyterian preacher, this Rev. and a processing plant. Ho says months in the counly jail, hilling Esther Thornton, Ethan Tonolo,
at night.
is
for
cooperation
in this movement, j Mr. Small, came to Alabama and the present market situation is pleaded guilty to tho charge of Kenneth Ward and Ira Wells.
Giving Buggy
Mill A will continue to operato as | lectured about Oregon. Ho was good, thnt Europe is^ pretty well operating a still. Another man was
cleanod up on prune stock and seen at the plant but ho has not
Hatless Women Again.
usual.
ASSESSES CITY PROPERTY
I from Lane county. I heard him
The buggy which C. H. Haight
Clippings continue to come horo
that this is to be a good year for been apprehended.
and felt interested in Oregon, He
Pickert gave tho name of Taylor to show that the woman of the
prune growers. But ho says the
Keeney Asks Tax From Eugene on recently offered to give to some
was a man of considerable ability stability of the prune growing in­ at tho hospital where he was taken Christian church did a good job
Pile Driver Goes to Woods.
deserving widow has been claimed
Income Real Estate.
A pile driver which is to.be and a great booster for Oregon. dustry would bo jeopardized by the after being shot ami refused to of advertising when they went to
by Mrs. Lillie .Tames, of Dorena,
He seemed to be doing it at* his
County Assessor Keeney is of the who read Mr. Haight’s offer in used in bridge construction work own expense, a sort of volunteer planting of much more prune acre­ state his true name until ho was church on Enstcr minus thoir hats.
on the railway which Anderson &
the
columns
of
Tho
Sentinel.
The
age at this time. Tho homo market brought in court. He said he was C. 8. Lowry has received a clipping
opinion that property owned by
Middleton are extending into the missionary. ’ ’
is being supplied ami Europe is a logger by occupation and last which shows that the item about
cities, school districts, churches, buggy Bas delivered Thursday.
At that time there were no com­ buying but is also raising more made his home at Albany.
Mr. Haight had no further use woods above Rujada was sent out
the hatless women appearod in tho
etc., but not Used in the conduct
mercial clubs or booster booklets
Tampa (Fla.) Daily Timos immedi­
of their own activities should be for the buggy. Ho did not care Saturday. Tho machine was built i about Pacific coast communities. prunes every year.
here
at
tho
company
’
s
mill
B.
placed on the tax rolls, He has asked to try to sell it and he thought
Dr. Scarbrough is now practically LORANE ROAD IS STARTED ately following Easter. It was an
Associated Press dispatch sent from
the sheriff to collect from the for a while that he might not find
out. of the practice of medicine
city of Eugene the tax for several anyone wishing it as a gift.
as a gainful profession. His tune Part of Work Awaits Decision on Cottage Grove.
years on a piece of property which
Conflicting Petitions.
is taken with banking and fruit
that city purchased for the pur­ ELECTION BOARDS NAMED
Filing cabinets. The Sentinel.
growing. In early days he was
pose of erecting thereon a city hall
Work on the clearing of tho
married to Emma Redford of Cot-
but which it is now renting.
*
Polls Open 9 to 12 and 1 to 5
tage Grovo and they had th ‘V Green Door section of tho Lorane
While the law probably exempts
sons. Of these one surviv.-i and road has been started and the
on Special Election Day.
THEY ALL ADVERTISE.
only such municipal property as
is a practicing physician in Ala­ preliminary work, including tho
is actually used for public pur­
bama, his father’s former home. setting of some of the necessary
Judges and clerks of election
A hen is not supposed to huvo
poses, it has been the custom not for the special election on May 12
The
other two sons, together with culverts will bo done at once. Work
Too seldom do we sit and dream
much common souse or tact,
on about three quarters of a mile
to assess any property standing in have been appointed as follows:
their mother, have passed on.
Of days forever gone;
Yet
every time she lays an
of
the name of a municipality unless First ward, Mrs. Francis Nichols,
tho
route
of
four
miles
to
Some 35 years ago Dr. Scar­
We miss the charm of evening.
"K
the municipality derives a profit Mrs. Anna Swanson and Mrs. Mar­
brough married Clara Cochran, of be improved will be held up until
She cackles forth tho fact.
Impatient for the dawn;
from its use.
garet Lebow; second ward, Mrs.
Cottage Grove, and they have had it is determined ns to where tho
A roosetr hasn’t got a lot
And when the morning is at hand
Blanche Short, Mrs. Nellie Pitcher
seven children, of whom six are survey will bo made, The 'county
Of intellect to show,
court
is
considering
the
conflicting
and Mrs. Linnie Sterling; third
We yearn for eventide;
living. He is a charter member
FOREST WEEK UNNOTED ward, Mrs. Della Richmond,
But, none the loss, most of
of the Creswell Odd Fellows lodge claims of two groups of residents
So many of the moment’s joys
’em have
Loretta Shortridge and Mrs.
and is also a Mason. Lane county in that district. Work started to
Our hearts are thus denied.
No Recognition Given Here to Proc­
Enough good sense to crow.
day on the Poodle creek road. This
Veatch.
pioneers
were
very
long
lived
and
God made each hour of every day
lamation by President.
*
Tho mulo, the most
Voting booths will be in
persistent, but their race is about will be an extension of about one
A time for happiness—
and one half miles on work that
despised of
armory for the first ward, in
run.
The week of April 27 to May 3 city hall for the second ward
The future offers pleasure but
was started last year.
beasts,
Gilfrey
lodge
No.
169,
I.
O.
O.
F.,
has been designated by President in the McKibben
The present holds no less.
Has a persistent
residence for
is
one
of
the
pioneer
lodges,
named
Coolidge as American Forest week third ward. The polls will be' open
way
for John T. Gilfrey, who i came BARTELL IS REMODELED
Although Cottage Grove is in the from 9 to 12 and
Of letting folks know he’s
from 1 to 5, those
A moment’s retrospection when
to Lane county in 1852. His son,
heart of the greatest timber belt of being the hours
about
provided in the
George L. Gilfrey, is now the > old Improvements at Hotel Reach the
The daily task is done,
the world, little cognizance seems
By his insistent bray.
charter for special elections.
Total of $20,000.
est
living
settler
in
Creswell.
A
brief
exchange
of
memories.
to have been taken hero of the
The busy little bees they
Recounting one by one
president’s proclamation. The pur
buzz,
The decorating at Hotel Bartell
pose of asking the observation of
Those
mutual
enjoyments
that
Art Exhibit to Be Held,
Swisshome Enjoys Boom./
Bulls bellow and cows moo,
has been completed and the appear-'
the week is to impress upon the
Were most important then—
art exhibit will be held anee of tho interior has been trans I
The little town -of Swisshome on
The watchdogs bark, the
citizenry generally the individual the Siuslaw is enjoying a tremen
Wednesday and Thursday after formed. The arrangement of the
Those sacred little incidents
ganders quack,
responsibility for care tfith fire doua boom during the early weeks
noons and evenings in the high rooms has been changed to give
And doves and pigeons coo.
That never come again—
in the woods and to foster a of the trout season. The hotels
school gymnasium. A program will a greater number of outside rooms, I
Tho peacock spreads his tail
Such season of reflection brings
healthy sentiment for forest re­ there were so crowded Saturday
be given at 8 o'clock Wednesday furniture has been renewed, a bal­
and squawks,
The keenest ecstasy;
newal.
evening by the west side school cony has been placed in the main
night that 3 delegation of Cottage
Pigs squeal and robins sing,
wealth of precious trea
Commercial organizations, church­ Grove city officials who “week-
and another will be given Thursday lobby and an elevator has been
And oven serponts know
es, schools and civic societies have ¡ended” there had to make the lest
The realms of memory.
evening by the east side grammar installed, the total cost being in
enough
been asked to cooperate in arra ng I of accommodations in the hotel lob
grades. The receipts from these tho neighborhood of $20,000. The
To hiss before they sting,
ing programs^
programs are to go for the pur elevator in not yet in operation ■
, by. The situation was" much wors?
Hut man, the greatest
chase of pictures for the schools.
until the recent completion of the
but will be within a few days.
master-piece
■ Good hotel, giving the place two
Many Come; More Coming.
A prize picture, which is now Outside improvements aro yet to
That nature could dovise,
Will often stop and hesitnte
Portland, Ore., April ~25.—More hotels. The new hotel has three
on display in Umpbrcy & Mackin’s be made.
than 700 new families, representing . rooms, and so has the other.
Before he’ll advertise.
window, will bo given to the school
i setting the greater
an investment in excess of $2,000,- ¡“Gool” is the name of the owner
First with Cottage Orove newi
tickets.
The Sentinel.
000, have been located in Oregon ' of the. hotel and not an adjective.
during the past year through the
efforts of the land settlement de­
partment of the Portland chamber
of commerce, according to a report
made by W. G. Ide, manager of
the department.
During the same period the num
bcr of agricultural inquiries re-
reived totaled more than 15,000
and 10$7 prospective settlers have
definitely announced their inten-
tion of' coining to Oregon this
year.
Resumption of Drilling of Eugene
WHAT’S THE USE
Public Carriers Fined.
Cited to appear in court for op­
erating public service vehicles out
side of the five-mile limit without
obtaining the public service-bond,
two car owners were fined $10
each in justice court at Junction
City Friday. This bond is required
of all public carriers that operate
beyond five miles from the city
where the cars are registered.
What About Feiix?