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(ßriw Only Newspaper Publishing All the News of Cottage Grove and Vicinity. TWICE A-WEEK > VOLUME XXXV Only Newspaper Publishing All the " News of Cottage Grove and Vicinity. COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1925. — NUMBER 65 1—----- J! uodson Sells Cars Storm Hits Othe '■ TELEPHONE COMPANÏ10 OUILO *l&ad Oak Tree Is Hornets Take Beidler OYSTER SHELLS ÄI 3000 FEET While on Run S Growing Again J ON NEW ROUTE NORTH \ Smokehouse COUNCIL FOUND Al EUGENE — o. E. Woodaon doesu’t discon- tinue his philanthropic businesa of selling Ford flivvers merely be cause he may be away from home looking after a big cattle ranch. He left here a week ago for Medical Springs, he and T. C. Wheeler making the trip in one of Woodson’s little stepbrothers to the Lincoln. Wheeler returned two days ago by train, reporting that Woodson had disposed of the fliv ver and had left him (WMeler) to shift for himself in the matter of transportation. Newspaper stories indicate that Thornton Corners, May 19.— Cc Thornton Corners, May 19.— Four New Toll Lines to Go in to Has Been Shut Out and Drill there have been severe storms to s jàpecial.) —Thei 're is a sequel to (Special.)—Mrs. A. T. Bcidler was . , layed to Give Property Owners the North and Six to Go in both the north and south of Cot severely stung about the eyes Sun Is Now Pounding Away story of the supposed death by tage Grove, but Cottage Grove, as Opportunity to Speak. to the South. frost of the big oak tree which day by yellow jackets when she Sandstone. usual, escaped anything approach stands -in front of the George opened the door of the smoke ing a demonstration of tho ele house and disturbed a swarm of Miller place. Evidently the recent Although the city council has The Pacific Telephone & Tele ments. There has boen no lack of The latest report from the oil moist warm weather has had a the jackets that had gained entry received what are considered splen moisture, but there has been no graph company has completed the beneficial effect, for a few leaves and were making a meal on some well at Eugene is that the gas did bids for the construction of damage by wind or lightning, the engineering work and the purchase are making their appearance, not of the meat. They evidently had pressure remains as strong as ever about two miles of paving, it is freaks that have visited sections of right-of-way for changing the however at the ends of the limbs decided that the smoke house would but that it has been shut out so having a heck of a time letting the route of its toll lines north from to the north and south. where growth normally starts in tho bo a good place for a permanent that it does not interfere with contract. The figures show that On the Lorane road out from here. The object is to get tho spring, but back on the limbs of abode. Mr. Beidler was successful drilling operations which are now concrete can be had at about the wires away from Pacific highway Eugene the home of G. W. Wallace last year’s growth. The ends of in routing tho intruders without down past tho point where the price that many had expected to was struck by lightning and Mr. and away from the high power the branches, which evidently suf injury to himself. gas was struck. Following the wires - -- pay for black top and at its meet of the California ■ Oregon Wallace was stunned but has fully striking of gas the drill has gone fered most from the frost, are drop ing last night, held for the purpose Mountain recovered. A tourist from the south Power company anil through soveral feet of blue shale ping off. The tree has stood since of awarding the contract, the mem drove into Cottage Grove with a States Power company, and a stratum of yellow kooteny early pioneer days and is a land bers of the council found them leads will leave the main Tho wrecked top that he said resulted which was rich in oil and is now mark. selves into a quandary as to the city on north Sixth street, crossing from a heavy wind. working in a bed of sandstone wishes of those who will pay the In Eugene the downpour Tuesday the river at the Christian church, which is full of oyster shells, prov- Mrs. Thackrah Dies. bills. A majority of the members was so heavy that it drove pedes will be strung along old Pacific ing that the bod of the ocean was Mrs. Martha Barneeutt Thackrah were ready to award the contract trians from tho streets. Street highway to the bend in the river once where the drill is now pound and through the W. B. Cooper, died Monday following a seeond for black top until petitions were drains became clogged at several ing away 3000 feet below the sur Her health presented from a number of prop The new eternal triangle, that of face. The finding of shells in this Miss Leita Finch, daughter of places about the jrity and sidewalks King and E. 0. Conner plnces nnd stroke of paralysis. erty owners asking for the higher Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Finch, sustained were temporarily flooded. then on a strnight line to Walker. had been failing for some time and three automobiles trying to be in sandstone is taken by the officers Thore being a piece of new con she suffered tho first stroke April the same place upon the highway of the company to indicate the priced pavement. In view of the a severed artery at the wrist of unusual situation, with the council the left arm yesterday noon when struction north from Walker, the 9. The funeral was held Wednes at the same time, caused a mixup close proximity of tho oil which is ready to award the contract for the arm camo in contact with the LEGION DRIVE TO START present wires will be used to a day forenoon from the chapel, A. R. a short distance north of the Divide being sought. point south of Creswell, when tho Spearow, pnstor of the Presbyterian overhead Wednesday ovening. one kind of paving and the possi ragged edge of glass in the door Drilling continues at the Cottage bility that a majority of property of the postoffice which had given Quota for City I* $760; Legion lino will swing off to the west church officiating. The body was A car owned and driven by Grove well, where there are fre Members to Give *260. and make a straight shoot over taken to Portland for cremation. owners might want the other, the away when she and a companion G. O Schultz, of California, in quent indications that a flow of the hills for Eugene. matter was put over until Friday ran against it in play trying to Mrs. Thackrah was born March which the gas supply had given out, gas may be struck at. almost any The American Legion driv^ for Four new leads will be strung 21, 1849, at Liskeard, Cornwall, was parked with all four wheels time. night to permit of a full expression beat each other into the building. from property owners on all the A stream of blood spurted from the national endowment ■ fund and north from here, mnking n total Eng. She was married June 6, 1876, on the highway. A car driven by Six new leads will be to W. W. Thackrah and they came W. E. Nickerson, of Roseburg, streets to be improved. There ib the wound for a distance of prob for a fund for one year’s main of 20. not likely to be any hard feelings, ably 15 feet and but for the prompt tenance of the Doernbecher chil strung south from hero, making a to Cottage Grove in October, 1891, approached from the south. A car S. P. Busring Much Timber Here. That the Southern Pacific com however, regardless of which pav a;d of L. C. Michener, who chanced dren’s hospital at Portland will total of 16. residing here until moving to Rose driven by H. R. Hylett, of Wash ing the council orders. Those tn witness the accident, the girl start Monday and continue through Tho present route south from burg in March, 1894. They re ington, approached from the north. pany is making heavy purchases who petitioned for the improvements might easily have bled to death. out the week. The quota for Cot here, out tho London road and over turned here in September, 1924, and The two were certain to meet at from the sawmills of this section left the choice to the council and He applied pressure to the wrist tage Grove is $750. It is anticipat the mountains to the Shoestring made their home on the London the point where tho Schultz car il indicated by the fact that it now has five inspectors employed are still willing to do so but the in such a mnnner ns to stop the ed that $250 of that amount will valloy, will be retained. road, Mrs. Thackrah was a mem was parked. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz Considerable new construction ber of the Presbytorinn church. were standing between their car hero. Four is the largest- number council wishes to know what their flow- of blood and retained the be contributed by members of the over before employed locally. Ninety dollars was work inside the city is contemplated The husband preferences are. To get the bid hold while the girl was taken to local post. nnd their trailer refilling the 1 survives. prices all the streets must be of the office of Dr. Frost. The gritty raised from 22 members present for next year, All new work in tank. The striking of the car at the Monday night meeting. the business section of the city one kind of paving. or the trailer by either of girl did not take an anesthetic Goes to Shriller Hospital. F. L. Grannis is chairman of tho will be put into the alleys, with The low bid on black top is that ■and did not flinch during the opera the npproaching cars would have Mrs. C. E. Powers went to Port post committee and he has appoint- the object of removing all poles of J. C. Compton, of McMinnville. tion of sewing up the wound. resulted in serious injuries to the ed a committee of 10. C. A. Bar from Main street. The poles of land Tuesday with her five-year- man and woman. To avoid an acci His total is $52,538.70. This is tell is chairman for the business in- the Mountain States Power have old son Donald, who will be ad dent of that kind Nickerson put for five-inch bitulithic, with the (Prize Winning Essay.) exception of east Main, where a SCHOOL TAXES LISTED terests of the city will appoint a been removed within the past few mitted today to the Shriners hos his car into tho ditch behind the pital thore. He has never recovered Schultz car but bo was not quick months. committee of assistants. two inch top coat would be laid Education Takes 60 Per Cent of from the effects of infantile pa enough to prevent being struck on top of the present macadam. By Delta Hopper. Public Revenues. ralysis with which he was stricken by the cnr approaching from the The low concrete bid is that of Rubber stamps. The Sentinel. X Car Upsets on Hill. Bettor homes, tho same as any when two years of age. Some re the Head Construction company, of north. The Hylett car also struck London, May 19.—(Special.)— thing else, must be made by tho The statement has been several Eugene. Their total is $57,325 While going down Boyd hill on his markable cures of crippled children tho Schultz trailer a glancing blow. ones who are particularly interested Logging vs. Hogs. times made by The Sentinel that have been effected at this hospital. and is for 6-inch concrete on all Deputy Sheriff Pitrher was called in them. 50 per cent or more of all tax Culp Creek, May 12.—(Special.) way to Cottage Grove Sunday streets. to the aceno and asked to fix tho It should not bo up to tho mother monies go for education in one —The great logging industry on afternoon, Thomas Brasher lost con- Included in both of these bids is blamo for tho accident. Nickerson to make the home. Other occu To Preach Memorial Sermon. form or another. A table compiled Row river is in a bad way to be trol of the car in which he and the macadamizing of Chestnut ave claimed damages upon the ground J. C. Orr, pastor of the Baptist pants, of tho home should help in by tho Oregon Voter shows that in eclipsed by the hog industry. In Mrs. Jack Hopman and three chil- nue. dren were passengers. The cnr church, will preach the Memorial that the Schultz car was illegally such a way that it will encourage Lane county the tax for high and fact the woods seem to be full To these prices is to be added skidded, one iHnrl crumpled and sermon at the regular forenoon parked upon the highway. Pitcher tho parents. of ’em. the expense to the city for engin grailo schools alone is 41.08 per was unable to bring the parties to The April issue of tho American This feature of industrial activi the car upset. Tho sedan top of service of the church to be held cent of the total tax. Wallowa eering and incidental expenses. It an agreement and none had been Magazine publishes an article some ty has just now become conspicu the car saved the occupants from at 11 o’clock Sunday forenoon, county has the highest percentage has been estimated that it may cost reached last night. serious injury. Mr. Brasher and May 24, in W. O. W. hall, There thing liko this: $750 to $900 more for inspection for these purposes with 47.05 per ous by reason of consignment of Mrs. Hopman were slightly injured. will be special music. No one was seriously injured. “Better American homos have in the first shipment from Rujada. cent, while Crook county is the on black top than on concrete. creased from 5 per cont to 100 The speaker for the Memorial It has been known for a long lowest with 18.61 per cent. The average prices per foot Bay it with printers’ ink. xxz day exercises has not beon selected. NURSES HOME TAXABLE per cent since 1922.” It has beon To the above cost for schools time that the Washington clam shown by the low bids are $4.09 for estimated that over 7000 homes diggers, who prevail in numerous the concrete and $3.74 for the there is yet to be added the sup Assessor Keeney Wins right With have been improved by Better and unnumbered quantities in the black top, a difference of 35 cent, port of the university and college, Homos week in 1924. Which goes Sisters of Mercy. top-o’-th-mountain camp, are wide the foot. With east Main elimin the expense of county school super to prove that Better Homes week awake and chuck-up on high fi intendents, the cost of the state ated the difference in price is 23 F“ The nursos’ homo of tho Mercy is not only essential to the immo I m £ cents, This variation is brought department of education, the ex nance; but not until now has it hospital and the land upon which diate home and family but to the dawned upon the common people pense of county agents and of other about by the decision that two it stands is subject to taxation, community as well. And proves inches of black top would be suf offices and departments whose du of Bow river that their energies according to th.- decinion by Judge beyond doubt that Better Homes have been divided between ties or functions are educational the ficient on this street if that type G. F. Skipworth of the circuit week is worth while. or cuiiuected with education, so task of getting out “gloms” and should be used. In 1922 it was estimated in the court in the case of the Bisters of that no doubt remains that the “gloms” of th “big sticks” and school that over half of the school Mercy against Lane county. cost of education takes more than flooding the marts of the world NEW BRIDGE COMPLETED half of our tax money without with razor-backs. This is a case wherein tho Bisters children including high schools were Borno of Mercy sought to enjoin the col defective in some way. giving consideration to the amount Salem has her cherry day, Port County Saves Over Thousand Dollars spent for the purpose by the na land has her rose day, Roseburg lection of taxes on this property were undernourished and others had by Doing Own Work. >n the ground that it is a part of tuberculosis and were in school tional government. has her strawberry day; but with the Mercy hospital, which has mixing with other children, taking The same compilation shows that out fear of successful contradiction Tho cost of the new Currin the school levy for Cottage Grove it can be said that Rujada has, at chances on breaking up other been declared exempt. bridge over Row river, built by the in 1923 produced $18.552, in 1924 it least had, her hog day. Assessor B. F. Keeney, who homes by this disease, This was county bridge crew, was more thaan 'produced $18,527, while $20,260 was fought tho case on his own initia perhaps largely due to unclean It is not definitely known that $1100 less than the lowest bid on levied for this year. These amounts other operations were entirely sus tive in tho interest of tho county, homo environment. the work, according to a report are approximately half the amounts pended In the gigantic effort to More diseases are spread and employing his own council, contend submitted to the county court by expended for the schools. cd that this property should be carried by unclean habits than round up the vast aggregation of the bridge superintendent. The taxed for the reason that it is not any other way and these habits There is a general increase over hogs, but it is certain that they lowest bid was $6200 and the total the state year by year for the were rounded up. loaded and routed neecssary for the operation of tho are acquired through homo training - cost as computed by the superin conduct of the schools. hospital nnd that it is in tho an mo or the lack of it. over the O. P. & E. to Culp Creek tendent was *4029.13. The estimate In August 1924, Professor Lan- class with parsonages of j^iurrhoM, under the master hand of Foreman of the cost made by the county due, Supervisor of tho Homo clean which are taxed. Hacket, who, in the full realization •i C. G. Boys in Military Drills. force« prior to the time of the ing establishment of Enfield, Ill., Oregon Agricultural College, Cor of the responsibility thrust upon bids were opened was $4264.86. took his club of 48 boys on their him, calmly manipulated the thict- SAGINAW. vallis, May 9. — Dorrell Rex Wheeler, The entire length of the bridge cleaning tour through tho state. tie on the big logging locomotive. anil approaches is 210 feet and its of Cottage Grove, is one of the Their work was to go from place to At Culp Creek, owing to somiw (Special to The Sentinel.) entrants in the machine gun contest width over all is 19 feet. It is a place nnd post homo cleaning bills, and Nerval Armes, also of Cottage slight misunderstanding in the mat May 19.—Mrs. Emily Robison standard Howe truss bridge with give speeches and do all within ter of train orders, a short delay closed a successful term of school Grove, is an entrant in the plantoon 105-foot span. their power to help each community Friday. Those taking the eighth drill, both to be features of the was occasioned; but not for long. to better its home conditions. Tho The hog business is of such gi- grade examinations were Mildred annual military tournament to be Walkloy, Gladys Kirkendall, Opal results were wonderful. CHERRIES TO YIELD BIG held here Decoration day, May 30. gnntic proportions that delay can “If Bettor Homos week Improves not be countenanced, therefore Adney and Verniol Koch. homes as much again in 1925 ns in Fruit Inspector Finds That Pollen- P. 0. Petition Beaches Washington. little old 4-spot was ordered to run Mrs. 0. C. Moody is visiting rela 1924 America will certainly bo special from Cottage Grove to atton I* Success. tives at Coquille. Application made by Postmaster nhoad; so far ahead in tho better Culp Creek, where she booked to Wm. Myers is on tho sick list. Elbert Smith for the advancement home line that you can’t see her.” After an inspection of the cherry of Cottage Grove postoffice from the hog train and biff-bang the Mrs. Harris Casscdy and her Hays Mr. McLoyal in his speoch trees of the county where pollena- the village delivery class to the aforesaid hogs were rushed on to three children left Sunday morning at Portland Mny 18. tion has been practiced County eity delivery class has been re thrust their several pigships into by motor for Medford, where her “And if American boys and Fruit Inspector Stewart is more ceived at Washington and the mem markets of the world. husband is v<-ry ill. girls take that much more Interest It has not been definitely an than ever convnieed of the success bers of congress from Oregon Mrs. Judson Allen has been in it, they certainly will be award of this method. “Some trees that are urging the postoffice depart nounced that Bwift A company nor seriously ill with the flu during ed with more than a gold medal; Armour 4 company contemplate I have inspected will bear the ment to grant the petition. tho past wook. going out of business on account ' largest crop ever recorded and this Elwin Benrton wont to Portland whieh will be a bettor home.” V of this attempted corner on the Every community needs better is due to expert cross pollination Saturday, returning Sunday. Local Men Are Officer«. 4s homes and now every community hog business, but it is confidently by the aid of bee«,” Stewart states. L. R. Long, of this eity, was expected that a pronounced drop ' is gradually getting them. Mr. Stewart also reports that ThUves MU A,V>. i elected third vice president and in pork will result. Essential and necessary* Yes, the loganberry crop of Lane will London, May 19.—(Special)— ‘ Ray Nelson, also of this city, was lie a record one this year. Thieves raided tho auto shod at exactly that and oven more. Beau- Solution of Puzzle No. 3*. ; elected a member of the board of Woodard ’« crimp A Friday evening tiful, attractive and healthful. | directors at a meeting of the re rind took equipment of all kinds Home things such as sickness are Spanish War Veterans to Organize cently-organized Pacific Northwest to the amount of *200. There is taken into consideration when A number of Spanish war vet Radio Trades association held Tues no clew. speaking of thia but if Boy Heouts erans met Monday evening in the day night in Engene. and Girl Heouts are organized in Homer Galloway office to form an 11 b u c a n GooscberrtA» BeWc z communities such things as these organization in Cottage Grove. Doren« Church Holds Revival. Saginaw, May 1».—(Special.)— can be taken care of. However There will be between 15 and 20 Dorena, May I».—(Special.)—Re What probably is the first goose much sickness can be avoided by charter mem tiers. vival meetings started Bunday night berry crop for this section 1* being keeping tho home clean and free at the Dorena church. Evangelist 0 LE picked by J. B. Taylor. The from damp, marshy places where Archer is the preacher and ir Store* tn Clone Memorial Day. crop 1* a heavy one of splendid files and mosquito are liable to E'N The stores of the eity have being assisted by Pastor Jim Htar quality. congregate. reached aa agreement to reinnin kie, of this piare, and Miles Pitch 3 r t After all, it la much better tn closed all day Memorial day. Hat er, of Star. Three thousand people read The go along singing “Home Hwoet SE 6 urday. May 30. They will remain Hentia*l each week. What have Homo” than to stand aside and Ö o r open the night before. Sales book*. you to tell thi* vast throng* zxz listen to someone else sing it. Awarding of Paving Contract Is De Three Cars Try to Be In Same Spot On Highway Girl's Arm Is Cut on Glass and Artery Is Severed I Better Homes and Their Value CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 40 "o ft wn L I «w'd/ * ' 8ÌÌ I I W^DQ ESOSO ! ] ¡