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COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1925.
VOLUME XXXV
NUMBER 7«
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DeForest Radio Is
Entertainment for
Printers
FOOTPRINTS ÛF PIONEER DAYS
Interesting Events in the Lives
of Those Who Laid Sturdy Foun
dation for the Present Generation
It
Is No w j o h n
Farmer Spray
The “F” in J. F. Spray’s name
used to stand for ‘‘Filosofer, ” but
JI
pitality of Citizens of the
It was appropriate that a De For
recently it has stood for ‘‘Farmer.”
est radio should have been used
City of Medford.
THE GREAT BOHEMIA MINING although John has not entirely <lis-
to entertain the Franklin printers
continued his ‘ ‘ filosofying. ” For
CAMP.
of the Willamette valley who were
somo time he has been on the old
Government Should Help Farm eamped Saturday and Sunday in Tanned hv the excessive heat but
Madden place on Mosby creek and
From
special
mining
edition
of
the natioual forest above Red in joyful spirits and loud in their
er to Help Himself, Says
has been teaching the soil how to
Bohemia
Nugget,
1890.)
bridge. The machine was installed praise of the hospitality of the
Secretary Jardine.
J. W. Vaughn was born in Jef- produce. That he is succeeding is
by L. R. Long, of the firm of city of Medford, company D, 18(5th
indicated by the fact that he has
Long & Cruson, proprietors of the infantry, arrived home Friday af erson county, New York, November just cut a hay brop from 30 acres
j 10, 1882. He crossed the plains
ternoon
from
the
annual
eneamp-
Member of Cabinet Is Former Service garage, who was so cour ment, the special train carrying to Oregon in 1855 ami settled in that will go three tons to the acre,
teous that he made a special trip
with another crop coming on. The
Bronco Buster and
to the woods Friday night for that the soldiers having made an un Lane county. * His first visit to hay is a mixture of wheat, oats,
I
Bohemia
mining
was
in
district
purpose. The De Forest brought in eventful trip from Camp Jackson.
vetch an«l elover.
Breezy Westerner.
Medford citizens did everything June, 1864, in search of the | Of course John
a fine program Saturday night.
is growing corn,
He was olected !
precious metal.
within
their
power
to
make
the
For
courtesy
and
service,
the
«
potatoes ami the other things neees-
Cottag«*
Peace
of
Justice
of
the
visit
of
the
soldier
boys
a
pleasant
Long
&
Cruson
»Service
garag
•
By DREW PEARSON.
I sary in diversified farming.
Washington, D. C.—How can co boys certainly take the main prir.<* one, giving* social entertainments, Grove Precinct in 1863, and has
Hay has been a good crop gen
of
two
years
each,
served
16
terms
i
operative marketing help the farm- and it would be hard to convince taking them upon sight seeing
erally in this section this year.
making
in
all
32
years
of
actual
erf This is probably the biggest the Willamette valley Franklin trips and furnishing motor cars
question confronting the vast agri printers that there, is any better for every occasion. Two or three, service in that official capacity. «•nine to southern Lane county on
cultural regions of this country, radio than the De Forest, of which hundred ears went out to the eamp »Squire Vaughn is now 77 years old, a prospecting tour which resulted
and that is why I took it to the the Long & Cruson boys are selling every night for the purpose of but ho is still hale and L. urcy and in his location of n homestead
furnishing transportation for the his friends see him enter into th«* i on Row river. In that year ho
new secretary of agriculture, Wil- a number.
discharge of his duties each day
boys.
liam B. Jardine.
fitted out a pack train to be useil
Despite the excessive hent tho en- as regularly as of yore. Up to on the Bohemia trails nnd since
Mr. Jardine has been in office
campmont was a successful one and this year he has not missed visit that time he has devoted much
for three months.
He began
tho soldiers were put through many ing tho Bohemia district at least attention to the mining traffic.
his work during one of the stormy
military maneuvers, proving upon once during the year for 25 years He was the buihlor of the Oakland-
periods of congressional conflict
Bird Farrier, one of the district’s Douglas county trail in 1868 and in
every occasion that they were
when the middle western fnrm bloc
wanted to pass definite farm relief
Delegates to the American Legion worthy of the uniforms which they earliest pioneers ami known by 1870 packed the Knotts stamp mill,
everybody acquainted with the
legislation. President Coolidge had convention nt Prineville, who re- wore.
tho first taken into the district.
Tho Cottage Grove company had camp, was born in Pennsylvania in , H«' has boon a valuable assistant
opposed any form of government turned home yesterday, are loud
subsidy until the entire farm situa in their praise of the eastern Ore but two eases of sickness. Privates 1840. He came to Oregon with his in tho matter of building suKstantial
tion eould be thoroughly studied by gon city as a host. The city was Layng and Porter had to have people who settled on French roads and has given financial aid
practical farmers, but suggested literally turned over to the dele medical treatment for minor ail- Prairie, near »Salem, in 1845. Mr. anil labor when occasion demanded.
Farrier first visited Bohemia dis While Mr. Hawley has been active
that the farmer could be greatly gates. Meals and lodgings were mentfk
trict in 1805 in company with in the freighting business, ho lias
benefitted by organized coopera to bo had wherever the delegates
other prospectors, among them
Get Pretty Catch of Fish.
tive marketing. Mr. Hoover also chanced to be.
They took the
found time to clear up anil stock
George Matthews and H. w. Billy Sivens, Ike Barrett and Hugh a splondiil farm on Frank Brice
had strongly championed coopera meals but found little time to make
got
inori»
nut
nf
Hamilton.
Mr.
Farrier
is
stocked
Lombard
the
tive marketing, and a split between uso of the lodgings. There never
crock, 25 miles from Cottage Grove,
Hoover and the department of agri can again be such a convention, American Legion convention at with a supply of interesting inci anil his home has long been known
dents
of
the
early
day
and
can
Prineville
than
any
of
the
others.
culture was rumored on this much is the way the delegates express it.
ns a favorite stopping place for tho
mooted question.
Visitors from California had thoir They tried the fishing in East spin you a good yarn on mining weary traveler. Mr. Hawley is tho
Cooperative marketing seemed to eyes opened to what eastern Oregon Aake and as a result brought home any hour in the day.
father of 14 children, 13 of whom
W. W. Hawley, the well known arc living, seven boys and six
with them 49 pretty speci mines,
be the chief bone of cabinet con hospitality is like.
mostly eastern brook trout weigh freighter, was born in Now York in girls.
tention, and Mr. Jardine, apparent
ing from
to 2’Xi pounds. They 1837 and came to Oregon in the
A. C. Johnson, one of the
ly, was appointed to the agricultur
Marketing Problems Discussed.
tried to treat all their friends service of Uncle Sam, as a soldier, early pioneer prospectors of Boho-
al portfolio because he believed in
O. 8. Fletcher, county agricul but found they had more of snch in 1861. For a number of years
mia, was born in Kentucky, ami
it. After he had been in office tural agent, was here Friday eve
he followed mining. Tn 1879 he in his cnrly boyhood removed to
some weeks, therefore, and had ning in consultation with commit than ever before.
Kansas where ho enlisted in the
had time to adjust himself to his tees of Farmers union locals upon
Union army and served throughout
new job, I went down to Washing marketing problems. One of the
tho rebellion, At the close of the
ton to find out what progress the principal objects of the union is
war he drifted west into the
cooperative movement was making. to improve marketing conditions
southern mining country where
Mr. Jardine I found to be tho for the product of the farms.
fortune favored him.
Somo 20
breezy, abrupt and broad-shouldered
years ago Mr. Johnson eamo to
westerner that he is pictured. They lot, he can’t get the price that the
Cottage Grove whore ho engaged
say he once made a living on standard grades can command.
in merchandise business for a
the ranches of Toxas busting bron Moreover, if he ships partially
number of years. He then sold out
And spoiled potatoes, he gets nothing
chos at 25 cents a head,
and took to mining ngnin and has
judging from his handshake, I can for them at the other end, and yet
been a faithful and confident work
he has to pay the freight on tho
helicve it.
er in tho district ever since.
When Jardine became head of the spoiled potatoes. An efficient mar
State Agricultural college of Man keting organization helps him save
W. F. Briggs, ono of tho pioneer
hattan, Kan., it is said that he all this waste.
surveyors of Oregon nnd closely
severely rebuked someone who re
‘‘Another big benefit derived
identified with the early history
minded him that he was no longer from cooperative marketing is help
of Bohemia mining district, wns
‘‘Bill Jardine of tho western plains, in selling a crop at the right time.
born in Athens county, Ohio, Sep
but a «lignified ifbiversity prosi- For instance, perishable fruits muct
tember IS, 1840. He later removed
dent. Again when he took office be rushed to market in a hurry
to Towa with his pnronts and re
in Washington his adviser started and a cooperative can handle fruit
mained there until 11 years of
to instruct him upon certain for cars and trains better than tho
age, when the family left for Ore-
malities of office only to get the individual farmer who perhaps has
gon. They arrived via the ! southern
route in Rnptembor, 1851, and set-
abrupt reminder that he was ‘‘still less than a carload to market
Bill Jardine nnd no rubber-stamp
* ‘ On the other hand, somo crops
tl <1 upon a homestand in i Douglas
can command a higher price if the
c unty.
secretary.”
W. F. Briggs first visited the
Although I had not known the farmer does not sell until months
Bohemia district in 1869, although
now secretary previously, he ap after he harvests. But since most
not in tho capacity of surveyor,
peared still to be very much Bill farmers hnve no means of storing
and can yet point out many of the
Jardina an«l very much in love with a crop and also need the money
old lnnd marks of the early day
his new job. I askeil him to give immediately, the cooperative can
locations.
mo five minutes’ worth of ex step in an«l market at the most
Tn 1872 Mr. Briggs was elected
planation on how cooperative mark favorable times of the year. Also
surveyor of Douglas county on the
eting was to be started among the they can mnrket at the most favor
Republican ticket for a term of
farmers, and this is what he said: able prices. By studying the de
two years and was reelected for
(© by Western Newspaper Union.)
‘‘There is no mystery about start- mand foi* lemons, for instance, they
three succeeding terms. Tn 1880
They may discover that the Milwaukee
Horizontal.
ing farmers’ cooperatives.
Vert leak
1—After while
1—<ko>
ho wns appointed to fill the unex
are not now. Here is a list pre market is glutted but the Cleveland
3— One (Reotch)
8— Person having a little more In
pi red term of Colonel Britt., re
pared by our department which market is in need of lemons. The
telligence than an Idiot
8—Nlrknsmr rnsterm college
signed. In 1888 ho wns elected
shows that 10,000 of thorn have individual could never ifo this.”
r>—Chaehle
4— Hastened
1 A—Aperture
5— Army officer
county surveyor, which ho held
already been organized in this \ I know that a considerable num
13— Punch
6— Lon«, floHlnf Kirmeit
ber of cooperatives had failed, and 14
three terms in succession, retiring
country.
— Bor
8— Hideous
He was appointed Deputy
"It strikes me, however,” eon thnt in certain sections tho farmers 1<—-Mistake (slang)
k— Nine-headed serpent la Greek in 1894.
mythology
United States Mineral Surveyor
tinuod the secretary, “that we are were exceedingly wary about put 18—Those who rut wood
—Part of verb “to be”
11—Quality of being offensive
by Surveyor General I'engra in
more interested in helping these co ting their hard-earned dollars into 33
28— Right
13—Kind of flower
1872, nnd has received the appoint
operatives already in existence to any such organizations. Ro I asked 25— -Rodent
15— That which charges with gas
meat from each succeeding Survey
16— Disclosed
function effeciently than in hatch Mr. Jardine to name the chief re 26— Not you
or flencrn) up to date.
ing new ones. There is nothing quirements for cooperative success. 27— Short for a Routh American city 17— Right (sbbr.)
28— Note of musical aeale
13—Wood of the agslloch
In 1870 Mr. Briggs was appoint
‘‘First, honesty and efficient 2»
more contagious than success. And
—Relf
20— Von and I
cd Notary 1’ublie with authority
if we can help the associations al management,” he replied in his 81—Cash
21— Rock
24---- Metal
to
transact
official
business
ready organized to show profitable abrupt, punchy manner. ‘‘That’s 83—Eight brown color
38—Material rompoalag teeth
80— Frosen
throughout the state. Ho was n
balance sheets, we will have taken no revelation. The same essentials 87—Easy bee
81— Note of marieal scale
volunteer in the Indian war, 1855
a big step toward making the co must underlie any business success, 3b—Riga of aodlae
32— Linear menanre (abbr.)
34— Relating to
50 and participated in tho import
but to cooperatives it sometimes 40— Part of verb “to be“
operative movement permanent.
41— Pillage
M—Any wrongful net (legal)
ant battles, including the Hungry
‘‘That is why this department i seems as if these principles were 4 0 " The same
38—Dissolute person
Hill battle fought in August, 1855,
is doing everything in its power to even more important. Cooperatives 47— Bird's chirp
43- Consumed
43— Short for a beverage
being the second white soldier on
are founded on good faith, and 48— Kind of heron
help cooperatives. '’
44— flnmc as 43 vertical
the field, Ho was in command of
After reminding the secretary , when good faith is undermined the
4ft—One hundred pounds (abbr.)
the supply train from Elliffs place
that at one time there was 1 cooperati ve cru mbles. ’ ’
Rolntlom will appear la
laaoa.
to Fort Lenland. He served throe
(To be eonchMied.)
considerable objection to the co
operative marketing movement in
this country, I nsked him to out
line the chief benefits which the
farmer could derive from snch or
ganization.
(W) ILE OUT TALKING
‘‘One of the most widely recog
nized benefits is standardization.
FANNX A FELIX
That is, a farmer must market his
RUN ACROSS
crop according to standard just as
MATTHE* SPEYER
the manufacturer of steel rails sells
T he han * ho
HAS PROMISED
to suit certain standards of lize,
10 PUT
strength and design.
A MILLION
‘‘Take the cotton associations of
IN FELIX’S
the south for example. The south
ORANGE GROVF
ern farmer, just a comparatively
y I RY LUMP
INVENT«*!
short time ago, knew very little
about various grades of cotton. He
MR. SPEYER
mixed his bales so that his best
15 «FAUT
cotton sold for about the same
T m E MOTEL DETECTIVE,
as his poorest. The cotton associa
BUT FELIX
tions are helping to change all thin
DoesH'r
by grading cotfon.
KMOW
“Or take the case of potatoes. If
a farmer mixes his shipments,
putting big potatoes, small potatoes,
poor quality and good in the same
They Are Loud in Praise of Hos
Legion Delegates Get
No
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 49
WHAT’S THE USE
B nil di ng Is
Magnet for Cars
Ó’ tore
The Farmers’ Union store build
ing is peculiarly attractive to
tourists. They like the looks of
the building and th<‘ goods dis
played therein so well that they
can’t wait to go in by the door
bur attempt to drive through the
building. Two tourists have tried
the stunt during th«' past week
and several times before the build
ing has been struck by tourist cars
which failed to mako the turn in
the highway at that corner. One
car last year or year before forced
the front of th«* building back-
wardls for a foot or so.
So far the tourists who have
struck the building have offered
to make amends for damage done.
N.
Vinson Tunis to Profit
Products of Woods That
Go to Waste.
E.
Thirty-Flve Enjoy Annual
Picnic
With Its Beanhole Beans
and Barbecue Beef.
Franklin printers of tho Wiliam
otto valley to the number of 35,
who spent Saturday night and Sun
day forenoon at the Red bridge
camp grounds on Sharps creek,
were loud in their praise of tho
Cottage Grove section ns ideal
for picnic parties. Many expressed
the opinion that nowhero in tho
world is the scenery any prettier
than that out from here. So en
thusiastic were the printers thnt
the opinion was freely expressed
that the visit to tho Cottage Grove
country must bo made an annual
affair. This was the second visit
of tho printers.
Tho enjoyment of the occasion
was added to by tho quality of the
food, the main items of which wore
bean-hole beans and barbecued beef
prepared by the local committee.
A feature of tho session was
a talk by John Gill, of tho J. K.
Gill company, Portland, given at
tho Saturday
I
night campfire.
A number of these who wished
not to
I miss anything arrived Fri
day end
i
spent the night here. They
wore • loud in thoir praise of the
hotel I service.
There
probably arc few here
who know that a little industry
which makes use of products that
otherwise would go To waste dis
tributes from here to all parts of
the United States.
The industry is that of gathering
Kents Return Home.
ferns, moss ami evergreens which
The Elmer J. Kent family, of
was established several years ago
by N. E. Vinson. So far ho has Delight valley, returned Thursday
been unable to supply the demand ! from n three months’ motor trip to
and it is quite probable thnt girls Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Colo
and boys wishing to earn pin money rado, where they visited relatives
could do so by picking the ferns ami friends. They took the Lincoln
highway both ways. Mrs. Kent’s
and evergreens for Mr. Vinson.
lie supplies (id stores in various parents, Mr. ami Mrs. W. E. Nix-
I on, who have boon in Nebraska
parts of the country and last full
alone shipped out nt least a million for so m o time with a daughter,
and a half of ferns alone.
So j who wns ill but who is much im
far he has experienced no difficulty j proved now, have gone to Kansas
They
whatever in securing business. In: to visit other relatives.
fact, he has had so much thnt I:« (expect to return in August or
lias had to turn down carload or Soptombor.
ders. The only trouble he has is
City Has Plenty of Water.
to get the ferns, moss and ever
Wafer Commissioner Pitcher has
greens gathered. There lire quanti
ties of any one of tho products eompieted work at th<. city’s water
going to waste that could bo easily shed which insures a sufficient
quantity of water for the city for
sold eould they be gathered.
There will bo
Mr. Vinson recently returned reasonable use.
from a trip to California, during plenty for irrigation, provided irri
which he made arrangements for gation rules and regulations are
observed and waste avoided. There
further distribution.
was a shortage during the exces
sively warm days when the de
mand was the heaviest., but the
shortage was duo more to a waste
rri
•
rii
in the main line near tho intake
than to the use of tho wntor hero.
Boss' Bos sie Presents
/ wins I wice
E. M. Boss, of tho Disston route«
.says that C. A. Bartell’s doo, which
recently gave birth to twin fawns,
has nothing on a small Jersey cow
owned by. him, which has given
birth to twins for two years in
succession.
Last year the two
were heifers This year there was
one of each sex. All of the calve»
lived.
Cascadia Wins Game.
Cascadia won a closely contested
ball game played here Sunday, the
score being 5 to 1. The game
was almost errorless except in one
inning, when the visitors smashed
the sphere around the dinrnond and
the locals seemed unable to grab
it or hang onto it.
Tho local lineup was: Langston,
p; Cochran, c; Spray, lh; Smith,
First with Cottage G rovo news— Morelock, 2b; Heck, ss; Alstott, 3b;
The Sentinel.
Hubbell, rf; Cellers, Langston, cf;
McQueen, If.
months is voluntoer, three months
as packer a ml was a member of
Girls Give Clean Show.
tho party sent to bury the miners
The Golden Gate girls, who gave
killed in the Indian outbreak at a revue at tho Arcade Friday
Grave Creek, southern Oregon.
night, gave what was characterised
Mr. Briggs stands six feet, three as the cleanest girls’ show ever
inches in his stockings and is well given here by a traveling troup.
preserved and capable of doing The entire program wns wholesome
a hard day's work, climbing nnd tho girls put on pretty dancing
mountains over rocks and through and aerobatic numbers.
brush in .the dis<*h«rgp of his of-
ficial duties, not withsta nding 83
rammers, grown gray in sombroiis
autumn, have passed over the head
now silvered.
Mrs. J. W. Cook is a born Bo
hemian, so far as the term applies
to the great mining district the
daughter of W. W. Hawley, the
WERE ONCE LIT-
well known mid highly respected
TLE STORES All
pioneer packer and freighter, who
cast his lot in the rugged foothills
have grown through
of the Calapooya range years ago.
the use of NEWS
Three years ago she Is’camc the
PAPER advertising.
wife of J. W. Cook, who was then
superintendent and owner of the
Musick mine.
Big Stores
Felix Is Slightly Confused