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COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16. 1925.
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NUMBER 81
Hill Celebrate Her LAYING OF HOI STUFF IS 10 Feathered Flappers
99th Birthday
Show the JForld
START BY MONDAY
Feet in Height
Is Also Big Yield, While
Mrs. Melvina Willis doesn’t ex- Admis Avenue Is Ready for Hard
Cottage Grove’s feathered flap- President Olson States That Double
Cherries and Loganberries
I peet to have another ninety-ninth
Surface and Will Be First
pers are starting out to show the
Are Extremely Light.
to Be Treated.
birthday anniversary, therefore she
tbe Amount Subscribed Has
I world that the youngsters are doiug
will observe the one she is going
things these days. A mixed Orp-
Been Expended Here.
It’s a big year for the Willamette to have by presiding at a family
The laying of hot stuff on the 1 ington and Rhode aland Red pullet
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•
valley
wheat
crop.
The
1925
pro
­
new
streets
of
the
city
reunion
to
be
held
Sunday
in
the
will
he
{owned by Mrs. Nettie Baling pro­
Vast Timber Resources Are
duction will be one of the greatest Ì city park. It is anticipated that 75 under way within a day or two, duced her first egg nt the preco­
That nearly twice the amount
Awaiting Easy Way to
known in the valley for many lor more members of the five gen not later than Monday.
Adams cious age of four months, two weeks provided by Cottage Grove has been
years, according to reports from I orations of the family will be pres­ avenue (central) will be the first land has been an active producer put into oil drilling operations
Cottage Grove.
farming districts. Both quality Mid ent. Mrs. WUlis has many grout ■ street to be treated to a coat of ever since. She contemplates enter here and that it is now up to those
quantity are excellent this season. great grandchildren that she has hard surface. The rock work on ing the annual egg laying marathon. who want operations continued to
Total Cost Would Be $80,000 and
From Portland to Salem, to Albany never seen and there are no many this street is well under way and
A White Leghorn, also owned provide more funds, was the state­
and to Eugene and both east and of them that she can remember the curb has been completed and i by Mrs. Haling, started laying at ment made by David E. Olson,
Cheap Transportation on Wat­
west, Willamette valley wheat the names of but a part. This is i has set.
the age of exactly five months and president of the Guaranty Oil com­
er Grade Would Result.
fields are ready to give forth a despite nn activity of mind thnt
The bumps have been taken out was so proud of herself that she pany, at a public meeting held
is remarkable. The Declaration of of east Main i street, over which ' has been at it ever since. This hero Tuesday night.
really bumper production.
An auto rail railway up the
In many counties almost total Independence had been signed only the trucks will move in carrying I ba re kneed flapper is one of the
“Operations have been conducted
Coast fork of the Willamette from
replanting of grain was necessary 50 years previous to the birth of gravg] and hot stuff to the several first nest of chicks to he hatched day and night at the Eugene well
here to tap the vast timber re-
as a result of the wintei freeze. Mrs. Willis nnd John Quincy Adams I streets under construction.
Main [this season, having peeped her first because Eugene people have pro­
sources of that section is under
_
Most of the Willamette valley was the president of the United street will be the last to be paved. I peep
on
February
13,
which vided tho necessary funds,” Presi-
Rates
Reduced
for
Farmers.
The contract for the paving of [ éhanecd also to be a Friday.
consideration and already a consid­
States. Oregon was at that time
dnt Olson stated.
“If Cottage
wheat
crop
this
season
is
spring
Salem, Ore., July 14.—An order
erable amount of stock in such a
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Grove will now put up funds suf­
planting, but even this vies with only a blot on the map and the Washington avenue (central) ami |
of
the
public
service
commission
proposition has been subscribed by
ficient to make up the difference
the winter area for supremacy. Indians roamed at will where Cot- of east Madison avenue is to ;
those ^interested. The proposition reducing hay and grain rates in It’s the most unusual year that take Grove now stands.
come up at the Monday night meet ATHLETIC FIELD ASKED between what has been expended
Oregon,
amounting
to
15
per
cent
is being promoted by the Arnold
upon the well here anil what has
ing of the council. It is practically I
grain growers of the vnllev have
Auto Rail system, with headquar­ on grain, grain products, potatoes, experienced.
certain that this will go to the Grounds Now in Use Not Available been provided here, we will put
While there is a
Bank Repairing Roof.
onions and straw was sustained in
After This Year.
ters at Junction City, from which
drilling operations upon a full
The First National bank is mak­ J. C. Compton company at the same
; the Marion county circuit court shortage of rainfall as compared
point such a railway is now under
price per unit as that being paid
time basis and so continue until
with
the
normal,
still
the
precipi
­
ing.repairs
to
its
roof.
Water
leak
­
today when Circuit Judges L. H.
The
proposition
of
providing
an
I
construction and is in use.
wo reach oil.
The job
McMahan and Percy R. Kelly tation appears to have occurred at ing through the roof has discolored for east Main street.
Mr. Arnold, the inventor of the
the most opportune periods.
“While we were too enthusiastic
the white stone of the building and should be cheaper, however, ns the athletic field for the city was
dissolved the injunction against
presented
at
the
Tuesday
luncheon
system, Ed Bailey, Earl C. Miller,
curb can be retained and the mac­
in our original estimates of the
Hay crops are big this season. this is being cleaned.
the commission secured by the
of the chamber of commerce, time that it would take to tap
R. H. Billingsbey and R. A Annon,
adam is in first class condition.
Clover crop is a very liberal yield,
all of Junction City and members Oregon-Washington Railroad and as are timothy, oast and vetch.
n)
The hot stuff plant has been I Stouffer field, now used for nn tho oil, I can positively state that
of the company, were here Tuesday Nuvigntion company and other
erected at the O. P. & E. < i y ’ ’ athletic field, is to be cut up into Lane county is going to have an
The cherry and loganberry crops
carriers. The sweeping order of
going over the route of the pro-
are the lightest for many years.
nart beast of the city and the rock I city lots nnd will not be available oil well within a year. When a
posed railway and interviewing the commission involved rates on Considerable movement of Lamberts
is being crushed at a gravel bar ' after this season.
i well does come in those who will
Property owned by the city in | profit thereby will want to be able
They are great! How great? on Row­ river near the old ford
local capitalists and timber men, all carriers. Because of its im- to the east is reported from various
i
portance
the
case
is
scheduled
to
the southeastern part of the city [ to say that they had a part in
Very great, greater than most
a number of whom plan to go to
northeast of the city.
Marion, Lane and Linn county
go before the United States HU-
has been suggested as appropriate ’ making it possible for drilling op-
of us realize. Are they going
Junction City today to inspect the
points.
preme court.
j for the purpose and is well located. orations to continue. 1 >
to remain great? They will al­
railway in operation there.
This property was used for a ball
ways be great. You ask. ‘ ‘ What
A railway up the Coast fork
A financial statement was pre­
SAQTNAW
park years ago nnd can be secured sented at the meeting which showed
would have a waler grade. Prac­
are you talking about J" I am
upon
payment
of
taxes
due
upon
it.
tically no motive power would lie
talking about our state and our
: expenditures of $52,093 upon the
Secretary Mendenhall reported Cottage Grove operations, with re­
(Special to The Sentinel.)
city, about Oregon and Cottage
needed in transporting the lumber
upon his attendance at a meeting ceipts from this section of $27,009.
July 15.—Harry Benston and
Grove.
to Cottage Grove and a train of
probably 20 cars, each carrying Howard Keene left Tuesday for
Do you know that they are Expense Would Not Be Greater of chamber of commerce secretaries j No salaries to officers were in-
recently held in Eugene.
5000 feet of lumber, could be op- ! Laurel, Wash.
great?
What do you know
i eluded in the expenses.
Than at Present and Roads
Shortly after sunset during July
Mrs.
Lottie
Kirkendall
and the five brightest planets—Mer­ about them? Are you sufficient­
erated. The Black Butte Lumber
President Olson listed some 8U
Would Be Better.
Lane Hay Is Good Crop.
company, J. I. Jones & Sons, op- 'laughter Gertrude left Sunday cury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and
ly posted to tell our tourist
wells thnt have been started in
erators has promised to support afternoon for Roseburg to spend Saturn—will be above the horizon
Bumper hay crops for Lane Oregon, none of them with the
friends about them? Can you
Use of oil on Lane county roads
such a railway, both by a stock several days.
and do you tell ‘‘the folks back
at the same time for the greater
has been recommended by 1*. M. county were reported by Horace exception of one drilled beyond a
Mrs. C. C. Moody returned Sun part of the month.
oast” when you write to them
subscription and by supplying ton­
Morse, county engineer, following a Addis, writer for the Oregon Farm depth of 3.000, which is the depth
nage. Several mills with capacities day from Cottage Grove, where she
Ho stated
On the evening of July 10, Mer­ what we really have here? conference between the engineer er, who passed through Cottage at the Eugene well.
of about 15,000 are in operation j visited at the home of her son cury, Venus and Marx were so near
Many people right here do not nnd E. A. Collier, assistant engineer Grove yesterday on his way to i that both the holo here, which is
along what would be the route ; Terry.
appreciate our timber resources, of the state highway department. Grants Pass, where he will attend down over 2,000 feet, and the one
together that they might easily
The Lowell Benston family have
of such a railway and with cheap
our agricultural possibilities, our The state engineer will make nn the state editorial convention, Linn nt Eugene are perfect, holes and
have been taken for a triple star,
transportation of product assured moved into their new home.
fruit, our flowers, our scenery, estimate of the cost.
county likewise has a fine crop have been drilled under tho super
although in fact Mercury was about
Miss Flossie Mathes visited for 105,000,000 miles from the earth,
many mills would go into the bil-
our climate?
l vision of men who have had 27
“It is costing the county between this year.
lions of feet of timber that are j several days of last week in Port­ Venus 140,-300,000 miles and Mars
Nature has been wonderfully $150 anil $299 each year per mile
years of experience as drillers and
available.
It is estimated that j land at the home of her sister, 239,000,000 miles.
kind to western Oregon, but we of road for maintenance nnd after
i have never yet lost a hole. The
Public Invited to Playgrounds.
lumber could lie transported to Mrs. Marvel Randall.
will not reap the benefit from I a period of about five years an
difficulties which have been en-
Mars is increasing its distance
Friday afternoon will be visiting 'countered
drilling me
the holos
here
Mrs. Cline Walkley was operated from the i-yth and drawing in
these gifts of nature unless we entire new surface is necessary,” i
Cottage Grove from Black Butte,
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.
i
> i - oii ntereu in tinning
notes ncre
dav
at
tho
childrens
playgrounds
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a distance of 14 miles by the rail­ on at the Pacific Christian hospital toward the sun and it will be in­ advertise them, unless we fully the county engineer explnins.
i a general i invitation i has i been and
Eugene
and the . difficulty
nnd
.
..
■*
nr rinnnntiur tlm nnnzn (mnu mn>o.
in Eugene Tuesday morning.
way, for $2 the thousand.
appreciate them ourselves and
creasingly difficult to find it in
“It is estimated by the state en­ issued to all those of the city who of financing the operations wore
After a ten days’ reunion the the twilight. Mercury and Venus
described by Mr. Olson.
The great difficulty which opera­
toll others about them by word gineers thnt the cost of the crude
nre interested in the playgrounds
tors in the Const fork section have ! members of the Sharon family are are approaching the earth.
and letter. Our city can be oil process would be between $590
“I only ask you to stand by me
and what the little ones of the
departing
for
their
homes.
made greater by boosting it, by and $900 per mile per year. The city are doing there. At 3:15 there for another year,” Präsident Olson
had to overcome has been that of
Mercury will reach its greatest
A daughter was born July 12 to elongation on July 28 when it will
I said in closing his talk. ‘‘By that
trading at home, by patronizing total cost of the oil would be much
transportation. The Walter Woodard
will be a short program of singing
Lumber company put some $50,009 I Mr. and Mrs. Logan Bear.
lime w« shall have oil. If you
be more than 27 degrees east of our numerous and excellent stores
cheaper as it would not be neees- games and folk dancing.
8. H. Jarrett spent the Fourth
and factories. Ask for Cottage
into a flume that solved the diffi­
can’t subscribe for stock, at least
sary to entirely resurface the roads
the sun. This, the American Nature
culty for that company but the land the week following at Spring association points out, is within one
Grove made articles and food.
boost wherever you can.”
each five yenrs nnd in the mean
smaller operators have to depend field at the homes of his son O. H. degree of its greatest possible
Build up our city nnd it will
As the offices of the oil company
Truck Tries Electrocution.
time there would be a much better
upon expensive truck transports i Jarrett and daughter Mrs. Carl distance from the sun and great
lessen your taxes.
Boost for road in use with no dust or broken
London, July 15.—(Special.)—The are in Eugene, a committee to
Girard.
Cottage Grove, it will pny you. | places in the surface.
tion.
C. H. Wood freight truck came 'represent the eoinpuny locally was
enough to enable it to be picked up
It will pay you in dollars and
The auto rail railway uses wood­
near being electrocuted Friday appointed.
easily in the twilight after sunset.
cents and later it will pay you
en rails and the locomotives are
HEBRON.
when one of the electric wires
Sailor
Jack
to
Meet
Hand.
in the happy thought that you
equipped with rubber tire.l wheels.
became short-circuited, By quick Hardware Dealerz’ Officer« Confer.
Nebraska
Picnic
to
Be
Heid.
One
of
the
fastest
wrestling
“helped to do it.” Mr. Business
Gasoline provides motive power.
(Special to The Sentinel.)
President Lewis, of tho Oregon
A reunion of former residents of
matches ever held here is antici­ work Mr. Wood kept the truck
Man, if you are not now a
It is estimated that the roadbed
from catching fire but he had diffi­ | Retail Hardware Dealers’ SHHOCia-
July 15.—Mrs. George Kappauf Nebraska now living in Oregon is
pated
by
the
fans
when
Sailor
member, show yourself a booster
can be provided and the rails laid motored to Eugene Monday.
culty in replacing the ‘‘innards” i tion, and Secretary Lucas of the
to be held August 2 at Colo,ado
at a cost of not to exceed $5,000
by joining the Cottage Grove Jack Wood conies here Thursday, which he had hurriedly removed.
same organization, were here Mon
The John Kebelbeck family spent lake, three miles east of Corvallis,
July
23,
to
go
on
the
mat
with
Chamber of Commerce.
the mile, or a total cost of $80,000 Sunday at Lou Markham 'a.
day night consulting with George
where
it
was
held
last
year.
A
Ralph
Hand,
local
middleweight.
for such a railway from here to
The Chamber of Commerce The sailor is said to have a reper­
O. Knowles, vice president of the
Lester Gilcrist and Harvey Shipp program of music and short talks
LONDON.
Black Butte, which is about the returned Saturday from the Chris­
has published a booklet about toire of sailor knots that puzzle
same organization, regarding the
by former residents of Nebraska
price of an ordinary macadamized tian Endeavor convention in Port-
our city and xurrrounding coun­ t(je best of the bone crushers nnd
program for the approaching annual
~
will be loAd in the forenoon and
(Special to The Sentinel.)
I
highway.
The cost of motive Is nd
try Those nisv bo secured free
a basket ^ieliie will be livid at
muscle grinders, This will be ths
July 15.—Oliver Ferguson ar I aieellug of the association.
power and rolling stock is low.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles White spent noon. Coffee will be obtainable ! from F. E. Mendenhall, secretary.
first time that Wood and Hand rived from Portland Saturday ■ to
Sunday afternoon with the Shipp upon the grounds.
have met.
get his wife and children, t who Harrisburg Paving Is Completed.
family at Shadybrook inn.
Harrisburg, July 11.— paving of
Cougar Is Sociable.
were visiting Mrs. Ferguson’s fath­
The George Gilcrist family, of
I the stretch of Pacific highway west
London, July 15.—(Special.)—
er, A. S. Newton.
Vern Shortridge believes that the Dunsmuir, are visiting Mr. Gil­
The annual school budget meeting I of the river and between Harris
| burg nnd Junction City has been
cougars of this section are beconi- crist's mother. Mrs. Abner Gilerist
was held Saturday.
ing too sociable and he believes came with them and is visiting her
Mrs. Nitr.ki, son Clarence and completed up to the bridge np
The work of paving
that to be bad taste upon their mother, Mrs. Etta Hinshaw.
daughter Viola, of Santa Rosa, proneh.
The Farmers' union held an ice
part, Mr. Short ridge recently noted
Calif., were visitors at the J. E. through the city is now umler way.
some animal skulking along a fence cream party Saturday evening at
Banton home Friday evening.
near his homo and upon invostiga their hnij and cleared about $12.
W. H. Warthen went to Lakeside
Electric Storm Interests.
DeWitte
and
Claude
Huff
have
tion found the animal to be a
Friday to visit his son Archie.
Cottage Grove was treated to an
Mr. Shortridge rut his bought a new Star ear.
cougar,
J. N. Hogue left Tuesday for electrical storm Inte Saturday eve­
The C. C. Morgan family, of Eu­
investigation short nnd departed
Pekin, Ind., to visit relatives.
ning which was accompanied by a
hurriedly. When he returned with gene, attended church nt Hebron
Mrs. Edith Ferguson nnd chil­ brief downpour. As usual a storm
a gun the animal had departed, Sunday forenoon.
dren, of Portland, were guests of of this kind was very unusual. The
Lemar Piper returned to his
probably having been offended by
Mrs. Murry Newton last Thursday. full of rain was not sufficient to
Portland
Sunday,
after
home
in
the discourteous reception.
The J. T. Small, W. C. Short ridge do crops nny good.
SCENES
AT
METHODIST
OREGON
CONFERENCE
CAMP
GROUNDS.
spending three weeks with his
and W. T. Jones families picnicked
grandfather.
The fifth annual camp meeting secured. He will be assisted by ! at 7:30 a. ni., 10 a. m., 2:30 p. tn. on the river Hunday.
Defending a Principle.
Charles Powell May Lose Eye.
Hazel Huff spent a few days this of the Qrcgon Methodist conference Evangelist F. L. Miller, of Nash and $:39 p. m. Services for young
J. E. Banton wax a business vis
Bystander — ‘‘They're fightin*
London, July 15.—(Special.)— week with her grandmother in Lynx
will open in the conference taber­ villa, Tenn., and by Bishop William i people will be at intervals through itor in Creswell Monday.
’cause Bill said Alfa wife was
Charles Powell has returned from Hollow.
Fred | out each day.
.
nacle here next Thursday. Evan O. Hhepard, of Portland.
Mrs. C. W. Ewing entertained crosseyed.” •
a Eugene hospital, where he under­
geliat I. M. Hargett, of Kansas Canady, .East Liverpool, Ohio, re­
An attendance of 1500 is antici­ the needle club last Thuraday. The
‘‘But Alt’s a bachelor, ain’t het”
went another operation upon the
If you know what you want, use City, who proved a popular preach turns as song leader.
meeting will be
pated and the tabernacle can be
“You but the principle is wot
eye which was injured recently by
xxx er a year ago, has been again
Pruett July 23.
Services for adults will lie held I arranged to seat twice that number.
made Alf wild.'’ London Opinion.
flying rock. The physicians have a wanted to get it for you.
given up all hope of saving the
sight of the eye but are trying
to save the eyeball. The intense
pain was relieved by the recent
opration.
That this has been an unusually
good season for hay crops of all
kinds is illustrated by the fact
that volunteer timothy which se­
cured a precarious root hold in
blackberry bushes in front of the
Mrs. Nettie Haling place on south
Eighth street has grown to a
height of six feet and has heads
that are 13 inches in length and
are filled with perfect seeds.
Timothy has never been regarded
as a good crop here and the fact
that this grass grew so large with
no encouragement whatever and in
competition with blackberry bushes
shows what heavy rains will ac­
complish.
Hay
They Are Great!
Planets Are Plentiful
During July
WHAT’S THE USE
Oregon Fleece J Height
Is 9 Pounds
The average weight of the Ore­
gon fleeee is 9 pounds, more than
a pound better than the average
weight for the country, which was
reported as 7 to 8 pounds in 1922.
The national average has been
raised from 1.85 pounds in IMO
and in still improving with careful
selection of stock. It is significant
to note that many hands ia Oregon
average 10 pounds. Careful culling
of poor fleeee bearers is being
conducted with a view to raising
the average weight still more.
M»lfT SERVICE
tn mis hotel , So,
LIKE A
HOSPITABLE HOST,
HE ALSMTY«
SETtDS HIS
FfflEHDS' RMTS
Down 1b GET
V ieh
pressed
WWEHEVER
Twex
NEED IT.
ROADS FOR COUNTY
The Wrong Door