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Only Newspaper Publishing All the News of Cottage Grove and Vicinity. Only Newspaper Publishing All the News of Cottage Grove and Vicinity. COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1925. VOLUME XXXV Thornton Corners I Strawberries Are Ripening Received First Diploma to Be Given at O. A. C. Robert M. (Uncle Bob) Veatch, fermer state senator and the last of a family of 16 children, several of whom were pioneers of 1853, He died at 6:25 this forenoon, had been seriously ill for some time with an ailment which failed to yield to medical treatment. The faneral will be held at 2:30 Friday afternoon from the H. H. Veatch home, A. R. Hpearow officiating. The Masonic lodge will be in charge of the services at the grave. Mr. Veatch was born June 5, 1843, in White county, Ill., and was aged nearly 82 years. His father, Isaac Veatch, served in the war of 1812 under Andrew Jackson and his grandfather, Elias Veatch, in the Revolutionary war under Wash ington. He crossed the plains in 1864 and came to Lane county the following year, this ever after be ing his home. Mr. Veatch’s life after reaching Oregon was an active one. Although his education as a boy had been meager, he succeeded in entering Willamette college, Salem, and was a member of the first graduating class from Oregon Agricultural college in 1870, five years following his arrival in Ore- gon. He was the first of the class to receive a diploma and had planned to attend the approaching commencement exercises at the col lege. Mr. Veatch taught school in Eu gene, studied law there under J. J. Walton and was admitted to tho bar, although he never practiced. He was married March 14, 1872, to Miss Hurphina Currin, of Cottage Grove, who died February 28, 1885. In polities Mr. Veateh was a democrat and was elected to the Oregon assembly upon the ticket of that party in 1882 and was reelected in 1884. In 1886 he was advanced to the senate, being re elected in 1890. He was appointed by President Cleveland as the firgt receiver of the land office at Roseburg and in 1900 was a delegate to the democratic national convention in Kansas City. Surviving children are H. H. Veatch and Mrs. J. E. Young, of this city, and John C. Veateh, prominent Portland attorney. There are eight grandchildren, Raymond Veateh, Eugene; Margaret, Joseph, Muriel, Katheryn and Lillian Young, Cottage Grove and Lillian and John Veatch Jr., Portland, and scores of other relatives. Strawberries are beginning to ripen in this .favored section of the famous, fertile, fruitful Willamette. Mrs. Alfred T. Beidler pieked a few on April 29 and on May 5 had enough to serve. Mrs. James Plaster served strawberries yester day. Both live in the Thornton Corners neighborhood, from which i section the first berries usually are i reported. These berries will continue to bear until October or November. IED Had Disobeyed Orders in Being in Position to Be Pitched For ward to Death. Circus day was marred by the tragic death of one of the employes of the Al G. Barnes show. Wesley Alloway, 692 east Ash avenue, Port land, was killed instantly under the wheels of one of the cars of the show train. Alloway and a companion were watching the unloading of the show and were standing on top of a wagon which was about to be un loaded. They did not note that the signal had been given to move the train and when the locomotive moved the train the two men pitched forward onto a flatcar ahead of them. Alloway ’ b eom- panion slaved himself but Alloway rolled between the two cars and onto the rails and the wheels passed over his abdomen, cutting the body in two. Alloway was employed as a dish washer and was aged 16 years. A large number of the citizens of the city, who had gathered to watch the circus unload, were wit nesses of the tragedy. Alloway had been with the show company bnt a few days and Mr. Barnes stated that he had diso- beyed strict orders by being any- where on the train. The body was shipped to Port land where the funeral will be held tomorrow. Innovation in Church Services. An innovation in ehurch services will start a week from Sunday at the Presbyterian church. The fore noon service will be entirely edu cational and the entire time will be given over to the Bunday school, the hours for which will be 10 to 11:30. All devotional energies will be centered upon the evening ser R A. BOOTH HEADS DRIVE vice, the hour for which will re American Legion to Start Effort to main 7:30. Raise Endowment Fund. Five Answer Liquor Charges. As a result of a roundup of al Robert A. Booth, of Eugene, pioneer lumberman of Oregon, past leged bootleggers here circus night, district governor of Rotary clubs Henry LaBlue, of this eity, was and one of the best known citizens fined $300 in the Eugene jnstiee of the state, has accepted the chair court yesterday and was sentenced manship of the state committee to 60 days in the vounty jail. E. B. having in charge the American Dodd, V. 8. Damewood, Archie legion endowment fund campaign Oliver and Phillip Mosby, arrested for Oregon and the canvass for with LaBlue, pleaded not guilty subscriptions for the Doernbecher and their bail was fixed at $1000 each. hospital maintenance fund. With the chairmanship deter mined, the campaign which has Weather Report for April. for its object the raising of $50,000 The weather for April, as report as Oregon’s quota of the national ed by Miss Nellie Stewart, local endowment fund and the raising of observer, was as follows: Mean $60,000 for the support of the maximum, 60.87; mean minimum, Doernbecher hospital, will be «tart- 40.9; mean, 50.88; maximum, 80 on cd immediately. April 28; minimum, 32 on April 27; total precipitation, 6.12 inches, clear days, 13; partly cloudy, 9; State Fire Marshal Visits. State Fire Marshal Wolfe was cloudy, 8. here Tuesday giving instructions for the standardization of the fire Wantads Set the Pace. protection equipment at the Ander Sentinel wantads are fast workers. son A Middleton mills and inspect The Monday issuo was delivered ing the work which has been done at abont 5 o’clock. That evening by the eity in standardising its A. P. Gerrard had a visitor who equipment Standardised equipment had read a wanted in that day’s means that, in ease of a large con issue in which Gerrard advertised flagration, equipment sent here by a sewing machine for sale. Early some other eity could be used in the next forenoon the machine was conjunction with Cottage Grove’S sold. equipment, or equipment sent from here to some other eity could be Korean Missionary Coming. used in conjunction with the equip Miss Mary Elizabeth Young, a ment there. It also means that missionary to Korea from the Co all local equipment is interchange lumbia river branch of the women's able. foreign missionary society, will speak in the Methodist church at To Particípate In Pageant. 2:30 Monday afternoon. All those The Cottage Grove schools will interested in missionary work are enter a float in the pioneer pageant invited to attend. to be held Saturday in Eugene under the sponsorship of County I Baby Injured in Play. Superintendent Moore. The local London, May 5.—(Special.)— schools also will take space in the armory for the display of pioneer Little Jackie Newton, baby son of relies. It is anticipated that a Mr. and Mrs. Bert Newton, nearly hundred sehool children from here sustained a dislocated shoulder a win attend. A number of parents few days ago when the tot was lifted by the arms in play. The win accompany them. The Saginaw and Cedars schools ligaments were strained and have also signified their intention of participating in the pageant. Lithographing, engraving, steel dye work. Tho Sentinel's live wire Say It with printers' ink. zzz xxi print shop is tho place Sentinel Travels Far in Getting to St. Helens EDITORIAL ------------------------- A h W. Prominent Pioneer and Legislator B. Dennis Visits Quicksilver Mines and Talks Upon Leg islative Matters. The Oregon senate is to blame for the fact that an effort is being made to invoke the referendum upon the bus and truck tax law of the recent session, in the opinion of W. B. Dennis, of Carlton, highway legislative encyclopedia, who was a visitor thiB week at his Black Butte quicksilver mining property. Mr. Dennis was a member of the special roads and highways com mittee appointed by Governor Pieree which reported at the reeent session. Mr. Dennis was at the state eapitol during most of the session and took a prominent part in drafting the bus and truck tax- ing bill that originated in the house committee. According to Dennis, had the senate left rates provided in the house there would have been no effort to refer, but when the senate doubled the rates of the house bill the referendum was invited. Dennis is not, howover, upholding the at tempt to refer. Dennis is of the opinion that the governor ax-ted unwisely in vetoing the special election bill, thereby further inviting, the attempt to invoke the referendum. Dennis is encouraged by the up ward trend in the price of quick silver and expressed the opinion that a slight further advance would warrant the resumption of opera tions at the Black Butte mines. CREWS COMMENDS OIL OPERATIONS Stockholders Do Not Want to Get Their Money Bacg. An enthusiastic meeting of stock holders of the Guaranty Oil com pany was held last night in Eugene. A feature of the meeting was an address by Corporation Commission er Crews, %ho expressed entire satisfaction with the manner in which the affairs of the company have been handled and who eneour- aged stockholders to believe that they have made a safe investment. The two yoars time during which the oil company guaranteed to bring in a well or refund the price paid for stock having expired, it was announced at the meeting that any who wished could cash their stock and receive 8 per cent inter est upon their investment. No one at the meeting made a demand for a fulfillment of the guaranty. The stockholders voted to in crease the price of shares to non- atoekholders to 50 per cent above the price to stockholders. Officers of the company were authorized to invest $100,000 in tanks and other equipment, each equipment being necessary in caae oil is reached. Steen to Remodel Buildings. E. A. Steen has been granted a permit to remodel his buildings just north of north first alley oz Seventh street. The building be ing used for sample rooms will be moved to the sidewalk, glass fronts will be put into both buildings and fire proof roofs will bo put on both buildings. The council has also granted permits to Mrs. E. E. Ellsworth for tho eroetion of a dwelling on east Eleventh street and to Roy Leonard for tho erection of a dwelling on north Tenth street and to Hamloth & Rohde to remodel tho interior of their blacksmith shop. Local Bowlers Win. first string The Cottage _ Grove . _ bowlers started what they hope is to be a winning streak by tak ing a one-sided game from the Eugene shoemakers’ team on the lqcal alleys Monday evening.' The score was: Eugene, 1,035; Cottage Grove, 2,401. The locals put up one of the beat games that has been played in the inter-city tour nament that baa been in progress for some time. The local team was Saltzman, Cochran, Lindsey. Walker nnd Jones. Harvests 1»24 Potato Crop. London, May 5.—(Hpeeial.)— J. E. Banton has just completed harvesting his last year ’» potato crop. He did not let this work wait because of a disinclination towards work, but because the ground upon whieh the potatoes grew, being so low, became so wet by the time the potatoes had ma tured that it was impeasihle to get upon it to dig the tubers and the ground has only recently dried out. xxx STEPPING ON OUR CORNS. Even preachers are not exempt from the necessity of treading lightly or not at all upon the toes of those from whom the dollars come. That is a startling state ment that was made Sunday eve ning by A. Raiph Bpcarow, pole- vaulting Presbyterian pastor, whose resignation recently was accepted. The statement is startling, not so much because of expressing a new idea as because expressed by one who has been recognized as a successful preacher. Hpearow was not singling out his own church ns the object of hie remarks, nor the churches of Cottage Grove. Tho remarks were meant to apply to churches every where. If preachers find it necessary to omit to say things that they often would like to say, few of us are in a position to criticize. The criticism of preachers because they often do not dare to speak their own minds is equally true in every other walk of life. The business man keeps to him self things that he would like to "ay—things that he believes really should be said—because he doean’t care to offend a customer. Ho feels reasonably certain that should he speak his mind his competitor would take advantage of the ill will created, even though that com petitor might think the same thing but had the good judgment to keep his mouth shut. The public official who is also in business, and may be giving valuable time without coat to his community, suffers in a business way every time he exercises his judgment in a manner to offend someone; therefore he often lets his judgment as a public official be influenced, perhaps unwittingly, by what will be the results to his business. As a public official he must eome out in the open, while his cometitor keeps his month shut, although his opinion may be the same, and reaps the begefit of discretion. Incidentally that is the main reason why it is so hard to get business me« to accept public office—and why there is so much dissatisfaction with the things our public officials do. It is no an- eommon thing to hear some dis satisfied person say that some per son who has offended by his act as a public official will get no more of his business, while the person getting the business may get it merely by keeping his opinions to himself. And even preachers must think of the almighty dollar. They get so few of them that it would seem to be useless to worry about them. Anyway this is something that can not be charged to a new age. Thia condition always has existed. If anything we are a trifle more liberal, a trifle more charitable than we used to be. Nor should we greatly blame the preachers who are subject to Hpear- ow's criticism. They aie merely doing what we make it necessary for them to do in order that they may carry forward the great work in which they are engaged, in which they accomplish much de spite the many obstacles placed in their way. If any of us feel that we could do better, there are plenty of preaching jobs for us. A Virginia man has secured a wife through a poem he wrote. Writing poetry never did appeal to us as a manly form of exercise and, so far as we are concerned, the man who employes his time that way can take tho conse quences. All Are Kids IK hen Circus Comes There are no grown up folks when the circus comes to town. Schools in the eity and in the rural districts were dismissed Tues day afternoon in order that the pupils might attend the Al G. Barnes show, which was here that day. Mins Vera Kimball, teacher in the Cedars district, treated her 14 pupils to tickets. In the eity a friend of the kiddies, although he has none of bis own, furnished tickets for a number whom he thought might not otherwise be able to attend. The kiddies do not know the name of their benefactor. 1 The street* of the eity were I crowded throughout the day and j the mercantile establishments did n I large business. A number bad put on a special sale for the day. Many of the children between the ages of 6 and 60 were at the ; station to watch the unloading of the big show in the forenoon and to watch it reload after the eve ning’s performance. NUMBER Gl Street Improvements Walt Action of Voters Upon Proposed $3,000 Bond Issue. Next Tuesday is the day for the special election to vote upon an issue of $25,000 in bonds for the erection of a water storage reser voir and upon an issue of $3,000 in bonds for paving street intersection. The need of the water storage reservoir is apparent to all patrons of the water system, and it is an ticipated that there will be little opposition to the issue. It is pro posed to build a resorvoir that will store a million gallons. With such a reservoir the water that is now wasted during the hours that the water demand is low would be stored for the hours of peak use. The present reservoir is inadequate for the .dry seasons of the year. In ease the bonds are voted, con- atruction work will be rushed in an effort to get the reservoir ready for use this fall. The demand for street improve ments has been so great this yonr that the eitv is short of funds with which to pave the street intersec tions and somo street improvements will have to be carried over to next year unless the $3,000 bond Issue is authorized. The $25,000 issue will be a charge against tho water fund and will be paid from tho profits of the opera tion of tho water system. Tho $3,000 bond issue will be paid by future levies made for the general street fund. WATER USERS MUST PAY Tardy Ones Will Bo Disconnected From City System. Water users who do not promptly meet their rental payments will be disconnected from tho water system, according to orders which have been issued by tho water committee of the city council, A charge of 50 cents is to be made for cutting tho water on again, AU those wishing to use city water wiU be required to make application therefor, This applies to those now receiving water as well as to new patrons. A penalty is to bo provided for those who use water for othor purposes than those shown upon their applications for water. The irrigation rate has been set at $2.50 for the season, with irri gation hours from 6 to 7 a. m. and 5 to 9 p. in., these hours to bo shortened or lengthened ns the water supply may require or permit. DORBNA. (Special to The Sentinel.) May 5. —Mr. and Mrs. Grimes and family, of Star, wfre Bunday guests at the L. M. Hankins home. Mr. and Mrs. A. 8. Ward and sons, Eolo and Verlin, motored to Trent Bunday and spent tho day at the home of Mrs. Wad’s broth er, Willard Bohart. Ed Toiler and County Commis sioner Crowe were up from Eugeno Friday on business. Jeanetto Hpahr, of Htar, spent Saturday night with Miss Florence Land. Walter England went to Patter son mountain Thursday to accept a position with the forest service. Mrs. James Chapman and baby, of Eugeno, visited last week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bales. Mr. nnd Mrs. Carl Volgamore nnd children spent Saturday night at the home of Mrs. Volgamore's brother, John Teetors. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McKibben and son Glen, of tho Grove, visited Sunday at the Fred Kelly home. Glen Hcott returned Friday from a business trip to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. D. L. England and son Alvis : motored to Eugene Hun- day for a visit at the John Chap- man homo. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Combs and daughter, of Eugene, visited Hunday at the Charles Teeters homo. Opal Wagner and Patricia Men- I dell visited Hunday at the W. P. Van Sehoiack homo. SILK CREEK. May 5.—Mrs. Richard Cook and Misses Eva and Ruth Fowler were callers at the Burcham home last week. Mrs. Eloína Wheeler left Wednes- day morning for Butedale B. C. She plans to spend the summer with her daughter, Mrs. W W. Gilder sleeve. Oscar Wheeler, who accom- panied her as far as Portland, re- turned Friday. Mrs. Oscar Wheeler visited at the Ernest Darnell home last Thursday. The John Overholser family have moved into their new house whieh is eloser to the public road. Lane Affairs Being Conducted in (8t. Helens (Ore.) Mist.) Business-Like Manner Is From Cottage Grove, Oregon, to St. Helens is about 5000 miles, Claim Made. that is, via Chicago. The distance by highway, as many local autoists The county commissioners have know, is 180 miles, but the former answered the somewhat embarrass route is the one the Cottage Grove ing questions recently directed to Sentinel of March 23 chose, or | them by a Farmers’ union and eome postal employe chose, for j Pomona grange committee. The Mist received the paper Mon In substance the answers are that day and on the wrapper was the | the county debt has decreased notation, “Found in supposedly j steadily for the last four years, empty equipment, No. II, P. O. whieh gives credit to the preceding annex, Chicago, III.’’ When the j commissioners; mail was dumped from the sack at That the money budgeted for the the St. Helens postoffice, possibly j timber cruise and not expended be The Sentinel was at the bottom cause tho bill for same has and tho empty sack was returned | been allowed, has been used not in to Chicago with other empty sacks. : retiring warrant, as provided by But The Sentinel is too good a . law; paper to be at the bottom, therefore That the present commissioners it came to the top and started are sincere in their desire to con again for its destination and after tinue tho timber cruise and thought traveling 5000 miles arrived here that they had made provision for only 28 days late and even thon doing so; wo read a whole lot of what that That the commissioners were not good newspaperman, Elbert Bode, certain that the total of tho items had to say. of thoir budget was in excess of tho nmount that could be legally j levied under the 6 per cent limita tion; That tho commissioner;) have no I interests to serve except that of tho taxpayers generally; That the county owns five tour Electrical Time Savers to Be Dem ing cars; that no other cars are onstrated Tuesday at the maintained by the county or fur- nished gas by tho county; that the C. E. Frost Home e county has bought and exchanged four cars during the past year, pay Next week is better homes week, ing about $800 in exchange, the a national movement sponsored cars being somo confiscated as locally by tho Elmartes club. liquor carriers; that cars owned Prizes aro to be offered for the by tho county presumably aro nover best looking yards and for best used for pleasure riding or for essays upon “Value of Bettor privato purposes; Homes nnd How Better Homes That it was tho intention of the Week Will Improve tho Commu- court to have a bridge foreman nnd nity. ’ ’ a road foreman, tho salary for the The essay contest is for grade bridge foromnn being paid from and high school students. Tho tho bridge fund; that two road prizes for best essays submitted masters aro not employed to do the by grado girls will be: First, work of one. x choice of order for $2 worth of merchandise offered by Helliwoll & Marksbury or a $2 Brownie camera COMSTOCK GETS ROUTE offered by Kern’s for Drug.«. Sec Black Butte Delivery Is Extended ond, remaining first prize. Third, South on Highway. fruit stand offered by Burkholder & Compton. Two important changes are to The prizes for bost essays sub bo made in mail service to tho initted by grade boys will be: First, rural sections out from here. Be choice of baseball bat offered by ginning May 11 tho Black Butte Darby & Liston or baseball offered or Coast Fork routo will have by Ki nowles & Graber. Second, added to it sorvico south on Pacific remaining first prize. Third, jack highway to tho John Wntkins place knife offered by White’s pharmacy. half a milo south of Comstock. High school essay prizes are yet The currier will double baek to to be announced. Tho contest closes Latham, from which point ho will Friday. carry tho route as it now exists. The judges of the essay,i will be This addition will make thia route Mrs. Arch Proctor, F. L. Grannie 55 miles io length, 0. A. Kurre is and Elbert Bede. tho carrier. The coutcst for the bent looking Beginning May 16 tú» Walker yards will clone Saturday. ’ The nnd Lynx Hollow country ail! bo prizes will be: First, $4 worth of served by rural delivery from Cres of flower garden plants offered by well, the postoffice at Walker to bo Sunnyside greenhouses. Second, »2 discontinued. worth of flower plants offered by Sunnyside greenhouses. *Tho judges Hatless Women Renowned. will be H. K. Metcalf, D. J. Scholl Tho women of tho Christian and W. E. Lebow. church of Cottage Grovo, who wont On Tuesday an electrical day will hatloss to church on Easter, con be held at tho C. E. Frost home. tinue to be the talk of tho nation. Electrical time saving apparatus I Mrs. T. C. Hhnw writes from Granta will be shown in actiorf. -Demon Pass to send a clipping from the strations will include the making I Louisville (Ky.) Post in which of waffles, coffeo and toast. Vari- the stunt by the Christian church ous makes of waffle irons, toasters women is featured. Tho clipping and percolators will be used. was sent to Mre. Hhnw by a nephew I living in Indiana. Mrs. Hhaw ~ To Foreclose on Springs Property. adds: “Cottage Grovo's hatloss Heeking to foreclose o mortgage women aro getting more and more on the Calapooya Hprings company’s | renowned each day, it seems. This property at London, the Union i should give them a hunch for nomo Loan association other much needed reform in some Havings and of Portland has begun suit in of tho latest wearing apparel. » » circuit court. The sum alleged due on tho note given to secure the Goes Into Evangelistic Work. mortgage is $7755.50 and interest A recent issue of a Vancouver, at 10 por cent per annum from Wash., newspaper states that Miss March 31, 1925, besides $175.75 Elis« Price, of Hifton, Wash., teach taxes paid by the plaintiff and er for the past year of Spanish in $800 attorney foe. tho Vancouver high school, has resigned in ordor to prepare herself Clean-Up Day at Park. for an evangelistic singer. Miss The Keepers of the Den uro spon Price has been much in domand for soring a clean up day at the city solo work in churches and concerts. park, to be held next Thursday She is a graduate of the Vancouver afternoon. Men wishing to aid high school and Oregon Agricul in the work have been requested tural college and taught in Cottage to bo on hand as soon after 1 Grove high school for several years. o’clock an possible and to bring lakes, scythes and othor implements Moorre Confesses Murder. suitable for tho work. Tho women R. 8. Moore, sent np from this will arrive later in tho afternoon county for tho larceny of an and will prepare supper for the automobile, has confessed to a mur workers. der in California. Moore was brought back from Iowa for the Silk Creek Has Fire. theft of an automobile in Eugene Silk Creek, May 5^—(Hpeeial)— nnd while in Colorado on the Mrs. Ernest Darnell spent a busy way here attacked and nearly and exciting half hour Thursday killed one of the officers who was endeavoring to extinguish a roof guarding him. fire at her homo. Her efforts being in vain, she succeeded in at Coyotes Are Hunted. tracting the attention of one of London, May 5.—(Hpeeial.)—A th« truck drivers for the Ellsworth , number of the men of the commu mill and he quickly extinguished nity wore out hunting coyotes Fri the flames. No great damage was day but were unsuccessful. Many done. lambs have been killed this year , by the coyotes end sheep owners First with Cottage Grove news— are determined to get the depre- The Hentinel. : dators.