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Publishing All the
News of
Cottage Grove and
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COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925
VOLUME XXXV
Mayor Knowles Casts Deciding
Vote When Aldermen
Split 3 to 3.
Total Saving to City Over
Concrete Paving Will Be
$3700 to $3800.
Stewart Is Facetious
About Paving
A. J. ADAMS IS MEMORIAL
DAY SPEAKER
Robert L. Stewart was an inter
ested spectator at all of the meet
ings at which the city council con
sidered the bids for street paving
and has prepared the following to
be presented at the next meeting
of the city fathers:
‘‘I hereby serve notice that I
| shall protest the laying of any
I kind of paving in the city of Cot-
j tage Grove except that which I
i shall specify. The kind of paving
. which I want shall have a concrete
base, a wooA block center and a
black top surface, a combination
paving that should hold up until
long after the price paid for it
has been forgotten. By the use
of concrete, wood blocks and black
top we shall be able to eliminate
from the city everything except
bald heads and shall have no one
left willing to serve as a member
of the city council or as president
of the commercial club, all of
which should be highly desirable. ’ ’
Usual Exercises Will Be Held at
Cemetery; Afternoon Program
at Methodist Church.
The meeting of tho city council
Friday evening at which the con
tract for paving several of tho
' streots of the city with black top
was let to J. C. Compton, of Mc
Minnville, was pretty much a case
of letting George do it. Upon the
recommendation of the street com-
mittee that, in order to give prep
erty owners on the several street»
their choice of paving, all bids be
rejected and new bids be called
for, the vote was 3 to 3 and Mayor
George Knowles cast the deciding
vote that rejected the recommenda
tion. The position of the three
councilmen voting against the mo
tion and of Mayor Knowles was
Postmasters receive many odd re
that the property owners who de
sire the streets wanted immediate quests, but the overstuffed alpha
aetion and would prefer to forego bet for submitting the best one
their preferences in order to see goes to a resident of Falls City,
work start immediately and that who wrote to the postmaster here
to split the work between black asking him to post about the city
top and concrete probably would three handwritten posters which
were enclosed with the letter. "I
result in higher prices for both.
Upon the vote as to acceptance understand that your have a lively
of the low bid on black top and little town,” the letter says, ‘‘and
the low bid on concrete, the result that there is a market for the
was again 3 to 3 and Mayor George articles I have for sale.”
The writer did not ask for ac
had to cast the deciding vote. The
mayor did not, however, express the knowledgment of receipt of letter
anger for which a Eugene paper or affidavit of the posting of
notices.
gave him credit.
The council had before it vari
ous petitions expressing preference
or expressing satisfaction with
whatever paving the council might
select and there seemed to be no
preference so strong as to demand
that the council be guided thereby.
Further evidence that the river
With the exception of a very few nt one time flowed where the busi-
all property owners affected seem ness section of Eugene now stands
entirely satisfied.
was unearthed whilo workmen were
Compton’s bid for the macadam excavating for the elevator to be
izing of Chestnut avenue was re installed in the new two-story con
jected, as it was the high bid on crete building being erected by
this work. New bids will be called A. R. Gray on Seventh avenue east
on this work and bids will be called near Oak street.
for the paving of east Adams ave
At a depth of 17 feet the work
nue with either bitulithic or con men uncovered a piece of fir tree
crete. The latter is a mere neces sind one end of it had been charred
sary legal formality, however, as by fire. The wood was in a good
it is certain no contractor can meet state of preservation. It is pre
tho price Compton has made on sumed that the timber was in the
the other streets, which he has water when that part of the river
agreed to apply to the proposed filled up.
work on east Adams avenue, The
Tn excavating for the basement
specifications for this street were of the new building this spring a
not ready in time to permit bids bed of gravel and sand was found
being submitted with the bids on and much of the sand was used
the other streets.
in the concrete work on the build
The streets to be paved under ing. Gravel and sand have been
the contract to be entered into with found in numerous other places
Compton are east Main street, in the business district where ex
which is the main artery into the cavations have been made.
city from the east, south Rixth
street, Adams avenuo, east Wash
Lorane Farmers to Argue Claims.
ington avenue and First alley south
To interview the county court
between Seventh and Eighth streets.
with regard to the damages allowed
Because of the excellent condi by viewers on the Lorane road
tion of the base of cast Main street, work, a delegation from Lorane
but a two-inch top will be laid on has been appointed to meet the
this street, which was the method commissioners and county judge at
used in paving Main street through 10 o’cldck Tuesday.
tho business section 15 years ago.
It is understood that the property
Upon all the other streets five owners involv’d in the adjudication
inches will be laid. This is the are discontented with the amount
thickness which the state lays upon allowed by the viewers.
its highways. The concrete would
have been but five inches, or two
Water Bonds to Be Sold.
inches less than that which the
The city will proceed to at once
state highway commission requires. sell the $25,000 issue of water
The total saving between the bonds recently authorized and every
two contracts is between $3790 and effort will be made to expedite the
$3809. The exact abount can only work of constructing th” storage
be estimated. The city engineer reservoir for which the bonds were
estimated the total for this item voted.
for all the streets, excluding cant
were paved at tho same time.
Main, at $940.
The low bid» on black top and There was a feeling against black
concrete, segregated by streets, were top because it was feared that the
work might be the same as that
as follows:
Black top
Concrete of the streets that have not held
Alley —
..$ 628.75 $ 640.00 ■P-________________________________
6,520.00
E. Washington 6,278,25
14.180.00
Adams avenue 13.142.70
21,760.00
South Rizth..... 20,491.50
11,005.00
East Main___ 8,282.50
Postmaster Receives
Oddest Request
River Flowed Where
Eugene Stands
NUMBER 66
Footprints of Pioneer Days
INTERESTING EVENTS IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO LAID
STURDY FOUNDATION FOB THE PBESENT GENEBATION
Pioneer Day Wheat
May Produce
In 1925
Silver Trophy Cup and Bunch of
Blue, Bed and Yellow Rib
Wheat produced by some pioneer
(C. M. Hyskell in Portland
we were warned by tho captain of
bons Are Captured.
of
Cottage
Grove
70
years
or
more
Telegram.)
the soldier company that there was ago may produce a crop in the year
Between Cottage Grove and .Skin quicksand. He told us to hitch
A. J. Adams, pastor of the Chris-
1925. When George Edwards was
Tho track team of Cottage Grove
tian church, has been selected to ner’» Butte, now Eugene, the first ten yoke of oxen to a wagon and tearing down the old barn that has junior high brought back the silver
settler
was
Grandfather
Bristow,
a
keep
’
em
going.
Father
and
Mays
deliver the address at the Memorial
stood for three-quarters of a cen trophy cup, eight blue ribbons and
day program to be given in the Kentuckian, who came across the double-teamed and drove in, wading tury at a point northeast of where an assortment of red and yellow
plninB
with
ox
teams
to
California
and
guiding
the
oxen.
They
left
Methodist church at 2 o’clock upon
and drifted north, arriving hero in us on the bank. Is was an anxious the Anderson & Middleton Latham ribbons from the Lane county
the afternoon of Memorial day.
mill now stands, he found between track meet for junior high schools
He arrived on tho Coast hour. The water came up in the
The usual exercises at the ceme 1845.
the boards of the floor a half pint held Saturday in Eugone. They
fork
of
the
Willamette
in
the
same
wagon
boxes,
but
they
kept
mov
tery will be held in the forenoon.
or more of wheat kernels, many of had a lead of five points over
When ing as fast as possible, and none
Following the program at the church year that Skinner came.
them apparently ns firm and solid their nearest rival, Geary junior
he
started
from
McDonough
county,
j
got
caught
in
the
sand.
They
the usual ceremony of easting
as when they lodged between the high. There were four boys in
flowers upon the waters will be Ill., he put into the wagon some ' came back and got us all across boards. Of necessity they must the team.
conducted at the Main street bridge blacksmith tools, a bellows, a grind safely.
have been from the first wheat
Captain George Wilson was high
stone, feather bed and quilts, some
‘‘The worst road of tho entire
by members of the relief -orps.
ever stored in the barn and it is point man, winning three first
bacon,
beans
and
dried
apples.
The
I
trip
was
coming
over
the
Barlow
The American Legion has been
certain that tho barn was in use places and one second. Konneth
placed in complete dharge of the last thing ho put in was an empty ' trail. The morning before we got over 70 years ago. It was ar one Goff took first place in the broad
i
to
Foster
’
s
place,
out
on
Foster
Memorial day observation,
Busi- flour barrel, which he filled with
time a station on the old stage jump and third in the high jump.
ness houses of tho city will reniain parched horse corn. He said he . road, wo had eaten tho last thing line to California.
Kenneth Ward threw tho baseball
in
the
wagon
except
some
dried
‘
‘
allowed
to
have
something
to
closed throughout the day.
The stringers of the barn wore over the fence and was awarded
■
apples.
Foster
lived
in
a
big
house
chaw
en
route.
”
The relief corps has requested
of white fir, a lumber that will first place in that event, Ho also
His oldest living descendent hero i out east of Portland. Ho had some
The Sentinel to ask that flowers be
not stand up under moisture, but placed in tho 100-yard and 220 yard
flour
•
that
had
been
brought
left at the Methodist church Fri now is George L. Gilfry, 8+ year:-
those were yet in good condition. dashes. Glen Swanson ont<
;
around
the
horn.
day afternoon. Someone will be old, somewhat deaf, but still active
The boards of the floor, about two one event, the relay rac
enough to be janitor of the Cres
‘‘Our train wns six months to a
thoro to receive them.
inches in thickness and 18 inches Cottage Grovo won by
well
State
bank.
George
G.
was
;
day
on
the
trip
when
wo
got
to
The Memorial sermon was
in width, were sawed out by the margin.
11
years
old
when
he
crossed
the
!
grandpa
’
s
at
Pleasant
Hill,
ten
preached yesterday by J. C. Orr,
primitive methods of pioneer days
Wilson, who won the pole vault,
plains
and
was
able
to
remember
I
miles
from
Creswell.
When
pa
pastor of the Baptist church.
and
tho
timbers
wore
hewed.
A
cleared
the bar at 8 feet, I) inches
r
quite a lot of details. He said:
; drove up and unyoked his oxen
number of the timbers and some with about two feet to spare. His
I
under
a
tree
all
the
relatives
and
‘
‘
Grandpa
Bristow
came
first
to
Fined for Beckless Driving.
of the lumber will bo used in a nearest rival cleared 8 feet, 3
spy out the land. In 1848 Calvin friend» had gathered to welcome now barn
A fine of $10 for reckless
which John Dugan is inches.
C. Hale’s family camo and brought! us, and we had a jubilee. Pa took
having erected on the property,
driving, was paid in the court of
Grandma Bristow.
In 1852 my up a place of 360 acres near Grand
which was once owned by Squire
J. E. Young, justico of the peace,
Spearow Preaches Farewell.
father’s family crossed. Calvin Hale pa Bristow’», and I grew up here
Vaughn, pioneer miller and justico
Thursday by W. E. Nickerson, of
A. Ralph Spearow preached his
—
had returned east and he cams in the Cloverdale
district
We of tho peace.
Roseburg, who was tho driver of
farewell sermon nt the Presbyterian
along with us and knew all the sold out to Governor Bristow after
Edwards will plant the wheat church Sunday evening and again
one of the three cars which came
good places to camp. My father we had proved up, and pa started
together on the highway south of
and thinks it possible that some urged federation of the churches
was John T. Gilfry. There wore a store at Cloverdale. In 1871 I
here the day before.
It was
new variety may bo tho result.*
of the city. He predicted that
three of us boys. Henry was 8 hauled the first plank into Crea-
charged that it was the speed of
such federation is bound to come
and Billy was 3 years old. Henry I well. Ben Holladay had a lot sale
the Nickerson car that compelled
to all small cities of the country.
and I walked most of the way and father bought a lot. When
F. K. Hylett, of Washington, to
A special musical program was giv
bare-footed, and the prickly pears i Cole, tho railroad townsite agent,
put his ear into the ditch and the
en. Spearow was pastor of the
wero pretty bad sometimes, I re started to sell the lots, he said he
evidence showed that 1 Nickerson
church for four years, that period
member they stuck in our feet and was now going to name tho town
was on the wrong side of the high
covering the time of his attendance
before a lot was sold, and he
shins
and
hurt
some
when
we
inter
way when his car collided I with the
at the University of Oregon, Ho
fered.
There were twenty ■ one namod it Creswell, in honor of
Tho
cow
that
jumped
over
the
Hylett car as it was on i its way
wagons in our train, drawn by! A. ,T. Creswell, who was then post moon was doubtless an unusual ani is now actively engaged as ropre-
into the ditch.
oxen. We ferried the Mississippi ' master general of the United mal. But so was the friedly black aontative of an insurance compnny
Tho railroad had built and white cow which entered the and after August 1 will have his
river at Fort Madison. The peni States.
Springfield Defeats Locals.
tentiary was on the river bank and in that spring. Father became the delicatessen of Major M. B. Hunt- headquarters in Eugene.
The Cottage Grove city team was I saw a bunch of men held by ball first postmaster, station and express ley, 428 Main street, Springfield,
defeated in a baseball game played and chain brenking rock.
agent.”
HUI Climb Next Sunday.
Friday evening. The cow which had
yesterday at Springfield, tho score
Indications aro that there will be
‘‘Wo crossed Missouri river on
George Gilfry hnd yearned to be been tied to graze on a vacant lot
being 5 to 1. The battery for a flatbont that held a yoke of a miller, and when he was 19 years near the downtown district, got a rocord attendance at the annual
Cottage Grove was Langston and oxen and a wagon, and was pulled old his father bought tho Clover loose and wandered about tho city motorcycle hill climb to bo held
♦IcCargnr.
by heavy oars. Father was cap dale ranch and the grist mill and streots. Sho very sociably followed hore next Sunday and that thoro
tain of the train. When we had tot George ran it. Tho mill had been Dick Hhannnn to the delicatessen will bo a largo number <of partici
Engraved work. The Sentinel x cross the Platte, to get better grass,
(Continued on page 2.)
when he went in to get his eve pants in the attempt to climb tho
ning cup of coffee. She paused 80 per cent grade of Mt. David.
on tho threshold to look in and Five hundred dolinrs in merchan
then, probably intrigued by the dise prizes will bo offered. These
smell of coffee, decided to enter. have been contributed by motor
The Mikado to Be Presented by May Valentine Company.
She was driven out by Major cycle manufacturers and motorcycle
Huntley but started to follow him accessory dealers. The Lions club
in again, whereupon ho tied her to is sponsoring tho event.
a telephone pole.
Hor famous
Salos books. Tho Sentinel.
x
relative in the china shop was
probably in a less interesting place,
since it is to be noted that the
delicatessen is maintained in con
junction with the Swarts A Wash-
burn« meat market and there
WHEREAS, tho President of the
were sections of possible cousins
United States has endorsed ths of-
and aunts on the chopping block.
forts of the American Legion to
provide homes ami education for
Tax Money Turned Over.
tho thousands of dependent children
Sheriff Taylor turned over to of war veterans, the care and pro
County Treasurer Ward on Friday tection of wives and widows now
tho sum of $71,911.90 in tax money. dependent upon charity and tho
The sum wns segregated ns follows: care of incompetent and disabled
State and county ....
$41,786.20 veterans of the World Wnr, and
Cities___ ___ ______
WHEREAS, the Oivernor of the
.... 8,619.95
School districts _____ .... 15,752.86 State of Oregon, recognizing thia
Union high schools.... ......
937.30 great service to humanity, has
Road districts .................
2.740.28 called upon every educational eivic
Tort of Riuslaw ___ ___
1.696.28 and religious agency of this com-
Forest fire patrol ..........
379.03 monwealth to aid the American
The cities will get the following Legion in this work of brother love
sum»: Cottage Grovo, $1378.98; Eu- and good fellowship and has set
gonoj $5571.78; Springfield, $1216.75 aside tho week of May 24th to
Creswell, $27.23; Coburg, $23.62; May 30th to be devoted to tho
Junction City, $15.70; Florence, raising of funds for this program;
$185.98.
THEREFORE, I, Goo. O. Knowles,
Mayor of the City of Cottage
Grove, State of Oregon, hereby
Grand Jury Doosn't Act.
proclaim the week of May 24 to
The Mikado, favorite with many of all the Gilbert and Sullivan Cotnle Opera», has been »elected M a atar
Evidently the grnnd jury wasn’t May 30 American Legion Endowment
attraction for thia aeaaou'a Chautauqua
very strongly impressed with the Week and urgently recommend that
Under the able direction of May Valentine, on» of the moat able producers of the day, the opera will be
presented with full stag* equipment and elaborate settings by a cast carefully selected by Miss Valentine presentation made boforo it by the all citizens and organizations of
M to voice and histrionic ability The Mikado gives splendid opportunity for effective costuming and thia parent of a Cottage Grove school this city put forth every effort in
boy who objected to having her attaining this city’s quota of the
feature is prominently emphasised
The tstwr role of Nankl-Poo will be ably sun« by Mr. A. W Cannon whose Ions and successful career on son disciplined by the school nu $5,000,000 needed to carry on suc
rK* opera Stags has mads him a favorite with the general public. Miss Grace Bernhardt as Yum Yum, Is de thoritios, for no action was taken. cessfully the American Legion’s
lightfully fitted to the role Ln ^ppearanc« as well as In voice. Every voice in the cast Is said to be far above School officials were, however, put
national child welfare and rehabili
the ordinary In quality and beauty of tone, and their work Is exceptionally good. The ridiculously
funny story around which the oompoeers wrote their tuneful and “catchy" music never grows old, and to considerable trouble by having tation endeavors.
GEO. O. KNOWI.ES,
tho public never grows tired of ths Lord Itlah Executioner's predicament when he has to marry the unat to nppear before the investigating
body.
tractive Ratlsha to eacape
escape being
Mayor, City of Cottage Grovo.
Ing boiled in c£.
Springfield Bossy Disits
Restaurant
Sullivan’s Masterpiece for Chautauqua Patrons
^rodantalinn
Contagious
WHAT’S THE USE
$48,823.70 IM.105.00
Compton’s bid on the macadam-
izing of Chestnut avenue wns $3715
and that of the Head Construction
company was $3220. Under the latter
bid the one street could have been
awarded but the council felt that
such aetion would not be fair, as
the bidder had contemplated hav
ing other work to go with the
Chestnut avenue job.
Concrete gutters 20 inches in
width are provided with the black
top, whisk will give a street dif
ferent from any the city now has.
The work will be entirely different
from that portion of south Birth
street that was pared years ago
and different from the other streets
north and south of Mein street that
YES, MR FEATHEBHEAD
GOT SO MAC AT ME
T hat mis wife was
actually ashamed
WELL, MRS. KIPPER AS I -WAS
TkLLIflS 'EM-SCIENTISTS
SAT wf FILL OUR SYSTEMS
WITH PoiSON EVERY T he >
WE ALLOW OUR -
SELVES TO GET