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COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1925
VOLUME XXXV
NUMBER 102
floods and finances were somewhat 1
another writhing leech-like thing
erippled for the time.
watched a minute and more to
A story told of the visit in
see him emerge on the farther
Springfield of officials of the
bank five yards away. Two min
Southern Pacific railroad, who
Interesting Events in the Lives
utes, and again I saw him strug
gling in the clump of weed.
of Those Who Laid 8turdy Foun secured options on a large tract of
land adjacent to that city. This Two Sided Camp to Be Operated Injured Man Is Taken to Hospital
Again he swam to my side, with Seaport City Proposes Way That
dation for the Present Generation
is the land upon which the recent
flapping and clasping about his
At Rujada; Resuiuptlou At
Where Physicians Hold Hope
Will Enable It to Get Good
controversy concerning S. P. car
head and neck.
Remarkable improv omen is have shops was centered.
Mill
B
Not
Certain.
Roads
at
Once.
For His Recovery.
This time he crawled out upon a
boon made in the past 35 years
After the company had secured
Few in Oregon are more familiar half-dried muddy space and a yard
in methods of transportation, com
The Anderson & Middleton com
with the fish and game of the or so from the water. Busy with
That the Reedsport section of munication and all things which a bond on the land, the story
Louis
R.
Booker
sustained
near
got
his
frantic
victim,
I
state than John Gill, of Portland.
Oregon is serious in wanting good have to do with making life easier states, there appeared a “full pany has doubled its woods crew wounds that may yet prove fatal
‘
corpse
’
of
Southern
Pacific
en
neck
at Rujada, at which point it will when he was shot last Thursday
He is familiar with them because enough to stamp upon his
roads is evidenced by statements am! more pleasant. Improvements
he loves Nature and the things that, and his jaw opened ami the crea- made by Joseph Lyons of Reedsport no less striking, but perhaps less gineers.” They ran lines in all operate a two-sided camp. It also night by his own revolver. Ho is
are Nature’s. The following story ture fell flopping and' wriggling in a recent interview in the Rose noticeable to the layman, have directions and told interested citi has a railway construction crew in a Eugene hospital, whero phy-
zens the company planned to erect there. Logging machinery has been I sicians still hold hope he may live.
of “The Fishing Adder,’’ or “The upon the mud. I paid no more | burg News-Review.
been made in the matter of hand
Gift of the Adder,” by Mr. Gill, attention then to the snake, but '
Mr. Lyons suggested that the ling and disseminating news. Aside largo car shops, a depot, hotel moved from Culp Creek to Rujada His intestines were punctured in
is an entertaining account of an tried to prevent the escape of. the | territory along the contemplated from its primary purpose the news and other adjuncts of a metro to be used in putting the second I 12 places by tho bullet. Reports
unusuul experience that is not like reptile or fish, which, bedaubed Umpqua scenic highway from Drain paper of today is vastly different politan railroad center. They in camp into operation.
from the hospital today stated no
formed their inquisitors that it
with mud, was unrecognizable. I to Reedsport be permitted to form
This company is now operating infection was present and his
ly to come to but few:
from the newspaper of 35 years was planned to construct a railroad
loathed to touch it, ami with a a road improvement district with
only one of its two mills, mill A chances were growing better each
ago.
west from Springfield to the coast at Latham. The doubling of the day.
Saxons, Angles or Frieslanders, stick pushed it farther from the power to levy a tax of 30 mills for
Illustration of this was afforded through the Siuslaw valley and
woods crew does not necessarily
they found in Britain a snake water among stones, dried and I three years. It was the proposal The Sentinel recently when it
The accident oceured on the road
familiar to them in their father- warmed by the sun, which I was [ of Mr. Lyons that the money tljus handed a copy of the Oregon east from Springfield over the mean putting mill B into operation, near Lorane nt about 10 o’clock
McKenzie
pass
to
Boise,
Ida.
They
us the company follows the policy ' at night.
land. How long they called it “ein | sure would soon finish his strug raised be used in meeting upon a State Journal, printed in Eugene i
Booker, who was ac
natter” I know not, but it has gles. Twenty minutes passed, how 30-40 basis the $80,000 offered for February 8, 1890. The paper was also said a line would run through of storing logs at mill A, where companied by' his wife and Mr.
for many centuries been corrupted ever, before I took him up and the scenic highway by the federal mailed to J. Weeks and has been the then newly discovered north the reserve supply has been de and Mrs. Dick Pyburnphad stepped
fork pass to connect with the pleted.
carefully wiped his slimy body government and also to meet half
out of tho car to investigate a
to an adder.
in possession of the fami lx the 35 Central Pacific at Winnemucca,
There are. now 125 or moro men tire and the gun, a 38 calibre,
of the $57,500 required from Doug
Thus we have decapitated a Span clean with grass.
years
since
its
publication.
Nev.
He was a rather pretty creature; las county for the completion of
in the company’s woods crews.
ish name for a Mediterranean fnlit,
was in his hand.
When Mrs.
The paper, which was a weekly,
The former generation had some
“una Naranja,” into an orange; at least beautifully marked in a Roosevelt highway through the
Pyburn handed him a flashlight
was
edited
by
H.
R.
Kincaid,
I
of tho same problems to consider
and yet another, which our fore regular pattern of brownish bars county.
MRS. L. S. PHILLIPS DIES he accidently dropped the gun,
An
Mr. Lyons stated that this was pioneer newspaper man of Lane that trouble people today.
fathers received as “unn prigoda,” or spots on a mauve background.
the hammer striking on tho run
FOLLOWING FALL
1 had thought when I saw them the first time a section of a county county, who bore the title of edi editorial made mention of the fact
ning bon rd of tho ear and firing
into an apricot.
that a son had asked to have his
The Asiatic and scriptural adder in the adder’s mouth they were had offered to assume a portion of [ tor, publisher and proprietor.
Former Resident of Cottage Grove the cartridge.
name
changed
because
his
father
young
salmon
or
trout,
for
the
In
those
days
the
publisher
was
the liability of a county.
was a viper.
Wycliffe wrote,
The bullet entered the left side
Born in EuglanJ. in 1836.
Four
Douglas has already had its share not greatly worried by delinquent ha<l disgraced it and suggested that
“The Eddre jiayde unto Eve,” etc. marks seemed parr-like.
and was removod by an operation
All the American snakes known inches long, and about half an inch of state money, so that there is ro j subscribers. The first page con if fathers of “fast young men of
Word wa% received here last tho same night in the hospital.
should
demand
names
After ho hud been shot Booker
as adders are harmless. The one wide (rather too broad for an eel), : hope of getting money from that tained the interesting information today”
week from Mrs. J. W. Buckley,
common in New England is called a small eel-like head, dorsal con source, and to wait until the coun that no papers would be discon changed for the same reason then* of Portland, that her mother, Mrs. was brought to Cottage Grove,
the striped snake—and we always tinuous, very little raised above ty has funds would mean to leave tinued. except at the option of the I might not be enough names to go Libbie H. Phillips, had died in where a physician examined his
made two syllables of “striped.” the body, interrupted at the tail, I the Reedsport section without ade- | publisher, until all arrearages were around.
lhat eitV September 19.
Death injuries and sent him to the hos-
Subscribers could not be
Ours of the Oregon meadows is which was also separated from the quate roads for many years. The i paid.
followed a fall S<q>t ember 4, in | pital. Ho did not lose conscious
close kin to the Yankee species and ' anal fin by a notch, the anal live wires in that section propose J forced into payment of subscrip
which Mrs. Phillips sustained a ness at any time and has been able
is frequently called garter snake. reaching one-third of the length to do something toward helping tions upon threat to discontinue i
broken hip. Both women are for to converse with those who have
Two rudimentary ven themselves.
the paper, under this plan.
visited him.
The skin of the snake that inspires forward.
mer residents of Cottage Grove.
The Umpqua scenic highway was
Marriage and death notices not
this story would have made a mar tral« and rounded pectorals, high
Mrsu Phillips was born in Eng
up,
close
to
the
gill
opening.
given impetus by a recent picnic, over five lines were inserted free.
velous necktie or hatband.
land August 14, 1836, and came to
I think nobody has seen this fish at Scottsburg in which Cottage Over that amount a charge of five
Evidently everybody has decided America w hen she was 10 years old.
I w'as fishing on the Tidegatc in our streams; certainly n<r men
Grove participated.
that ho wants to take a bath, and She was married in Wisconsin in
cents per line was made.
creek one morning in late July tion of it occurs in books; descrip
The makeup of the front page wants to take it now. The editor of 1863 to II. A. Phillips. Mrs. Buck
(1925), and had come to the one tions in the best, I know of not
is interesting. Three full columns The Sentinel has frequently read ley is the only surviving child.
Miller Heads Pioneers.
best bit of water. Many a day I noticing. From my examination of
of the six are devoted to adver in tho columns of his paper of tho
George
Melvin
Miller
was
re
Mrs. Buckley and Mrs. Phillips
have cast my flies fifty times it I regard it as certainly a blenny
wonderful results that may be moved awny from this city about Mrs. Wm. Earnshaw Burned When
upon that riffle—not more than —probably a lilliputian, for it elected president of the Lane tising, some local and some foreign.
County Pioneers association Wed News stories on the page carry scoured from the use of Sentinel three years ago. They were mem
thirty yards in total length
She Saves Child; House And
bears the tribal traits of adults
wantads, so when he found he hud bers of the Presbyterian church
without a rise, and then struck of that family, to which the wolf nesday at a meeting in Eugnee. eight point heads of such exciting
a
bathtub
and
sink
that
he
did
Contents Destroyed.
hero.
a fine Clark trout, • possibly an fish belongs. One trait of a Cali J. G. Stephenson was elected vice character as ** Scientific Miscel
not want, he tried one.
There
Funeral services wore held in
noyed by the ceasless flailing of fornia blenny, mentioned by Doctor president and W. L. Bristow was lany,” 4‘How Burr Killed Hamil
ton,” “Poor Humanity,” “Advice were 25 or more replies and th<‘ Portland and interment was in the
his hover. I stood in tall rank Jordan, convinces me of kindred— reelected secretary.
Dashng into her burning homo at
A total of 78 new members j to Mothers,” “Calvin’s Creed” artielos offered were sold almost Mount Scott cemetery.
grass, which in highest tides is the habit of remaining hidden
Wicks Spur Saturday Mrs. William
before tho newsboys had delivered
were
enrolled
at
the
meeting,
at
(not
Silent
Cal)
and
“
Arnica
often a foot or two under the salt among seaweed after the tide has
Earnshaw saved her two-month-old
the papers. The most interesting
which about 200 were present. I Salve.”
water. It is useless to fish this left the weed stranded.
I pre The association advocated the con- j On an inside pnge a story states thing in connection with the results EUGENE COTTAGE GROVE baby from death and sustained
little creek until low tide, when the served the creature—unharmed by
painful burns herself in her heroic
obtained is that tho articles were
GAME SET AHEAD
water from little brooks above the, mauling of the adder—in for «traction at the fair grounds of a that W. H. Abrams and T. G.
rescue of the baby.
The child
sold for a 50 per cent advance
permanent
building
for
use
of
its
Hendricks
have
withdrawn
a
pe-
/
winds down the meadow and brings maldehyde, and added it to the
over the price advertised.
Elevens to Meet Here October 16 was burned nlxmt the face, head
members.
tition
asking
for
a
new
county
a few trout down to feed upon collection of the Oregon game
and arms, but physicians nt a
On New Grldrlon.
court house. This action was taken
shrimp which have remained in commission.
Eugene hospital, where the mother
The
tonic
for
tho
business
world
because
a
number
of
county
bridges
Salesbooks for merchants—The
the pools.
and baby were taken after tho
The adder was a beauty, thirty
—
newspaper
advertising.
xx
Tho
Eugene
high
eleven
will
xx had been washed away by recent
From a low rocky point on the inches long; only an inch thick Sentinel.
moot the Cottage Grove high grid- fire, said the burns would not
south shore an adder swam leisurely midships. Very small head, like
prove serious.
sters here Friday, October 16, in
on the surface to the bank on . many a cameo; a pale yellow, nar
Mrs. Earnshaw wax hanging out
stead
of
October
17,
the
date
orig
my side of the stream. The cur- ■ row stripe following the line of the
washed clothes in tho yard when
inally
set
in
the
schedule
and
the
rent has cut the bank away there spine, and one on each side. Be
new' /Tenth street football field of she noticed flames coming from the
steeply, two or three feet, and i tween these and the dorsal stripe
house. The fire is thought to have
tho local school will bo dedicated
from this a narrow shelf of mud a ground color of ochreous red,
started when clothes hanging on
on
that
day.
A
delegation
com
and boulders extends a yard or I upon which regular dark brownish j
posed of O. W. Hays, Earl Hill a lino fell on the hot stove and
two into tho water. The snake inoculations about the size of
and
S. L. Mackin went to Eugene ignited.
crawled out upon this slope and beans, a bit irregular in shape,;
The house wax completely de
Thursday and after conferring with
evidently meant to climb up into making a gorgeous pattern. The
stroyed, with all its contents. Mr.
Eugene
school
officials
secured
the grass where I stood, but was lower body bluish green.
their consent to set the game ahead Earnshaw, who is employed at n
alarmed by the strange object
logging camp near Ntar, was not.
I never suspected the ndder of
one day.
which which wax not there when ■living habits. How did ho learn
at homo at. tho time. Ho wan called
The
local
stores
will
be
closed
he crossed before. I stood motion- ’ that his table is spread among
the .afternoon of the game. Mem later and went to Eugene after his
less, watching the snake ns care- i those fat, Lethean weeds?
bors of the Eugene team will be wife and baby had been taken to
fully as he watched me, his head
Two weeks later I fished the
excused from school Friday after I be hospital.
lifted and his vibrant forked Tidegate creek again.
I ap>
noon to make the trip.
tongue darting out impudently.
proached the riffle warily through
W. C. T. U. WILL CONVENE
I have read recently that snakes) the rank grass. From the very
HERE TOMORROW
hear by or with their tongues. spot where I had seen the garter
WOODEN RAILWAY TO GO
Stooping very slowly, my face •nake described nbove, another
TO BLACK BUTTE
District Attorney J. S. Medley And
within a yard of his, .i hissed, slipp’d into the stream and swnm
Sheriff Taylor to Speak.
whistled, shouted, but apparently on its surface to the far side. A
Official« of Company Propose To
he was “deaf as an adder,” for blenny was writhing about the
Spend $100,000 Here.
J. H. Medley, district attorney,
he heeded me not; but nt any head of the snake.
sudden slight movement he was
The wooden railway doc« not die. Frank E. Taylor, sheriff of Lane
There’s something defiant, on-
alert and rigid. When he tried to cnnnv in this incident.
Encouraged by favorable comment county, nnd W. C. Webb, superin
I had
climb into the grass I stamped and fished that very spot n hundred
in the lending newspapers and tendent of the childrens’ farm
in a moment he plunged into the times before and nothing of thi«
nmgHZinea of the country, the homo in Corvallis, will address the
stream and to its bottom, where sort ever oceured.
wooden railway people, of Junction annual Lane county convention of
And though ■
I lost sight of him for a minute. I hnve examined the sfonmehs of
City, have gone ahead raising rnpi the W. C. T. U.. to be held in the
Then I saw him enmeshed in a many trout caught in that riffle.
tai for the proposed building of Methodist church tomorrow. Dole
clump of thick weed which loves I found only small shrimp find
one of their unit« from here to gates from all tho larger cities of
Black Butte. Representatives of the the country will bo in attendance
the brackish water, a yard deep. land ’ insects.
The tront would
Arnold Auto Rail company, who nt the meeting. The program for
probably
relish
a
blenny,
but
not
1 supposed from his struggle that
proposed
to build the railway, who the day follows:
he was trying to extricate himself. seeking that prey in the matted
AND NOW WE MAY GET MOVIES RIGHT AT OUR FI RE3IDES—BY RADIO!
10 a. m. Devotional«, led by Mrs.
wore here during the past week,
It was fully a minute before he weed from which tho snake dragged
inventor—C. Francis Jenkins pic with modern broadcasting by oust reported th it they expected to Lee Roy Woods;
What next?
rose to the surface and swam it, evidently with long an<| strenu
Reading of minute«;
cm radio stations at the time.
spend $100,000 here and hnd their
out to the muddy shelf at my feet. ous effort.
A constantly surprised world tured at the left—gave a successful
Report« of unions;
Ho
folks
—
cheer
up.
Pretty
soon
plans
well
under
way.
He had some writhing eel-like
keeps asking that question. And demonstration of .the machine’s you ’ll not have to leave your warm,
Appointment of committees;
creature in his mouth, and the vic- j H. O. Seale Jr. Thursday was little wonder with the ever-inereas- possibilities by having pictures
Election of officers.
comfortable fireside« any more to
tim lashed about, coiling around the appointed receiver of the Cala ing number of new developments : transmitted from the Anacostin
12 m. Noontide prayer find lunch
Dead Town
journey to j; neighboring movie
snake’s head and neck, striving pooya Springs company to take
navy yard to his studio in Wash house. You’ll be able to get the
1:30 p. m.
Devotional«, led l»y
(Lebanon Pioneer)
in the field of science.
to break the hold of his captor. charge of the property at London.
If Chicago keeps up its murder Mr«. M. D. Mitchell;
Look what we have here. An ington, D. C. Not only did it work pictured thrillers right in your
I watched the snake swallow the Suit of the Union Ravings and
Address, “ Hoslth and Drugs,”
up to all expectations—but it did I home.
Bay—but won’t that be reeord it will soon be n dead
creature, anxious to make him re Loan association against the com aparatus that will successfully send >
Dr. Wheeler, Creswell.
tow n.
great
t
not,
in
the
least
way,
interfere
and
receive
movies
by
radio.
Its
lease it. but knowing that he would pany is pending.
_
be off into the stream at my first
By L F. Van Zelm
movement. I could see the lump
^W«M>en Newspaper LukdA
of the still living victim slowly
moving down the slender body of
WELL, I LIVE IN CHICAGO,
I SEE FATHER
WMLt
the snake.
AND THAT MR. MCKEOWN
an ' I' m telling you
VACATIONING AT IK
Of CHICAGO ARE
Ç"
Agnin he moved slowly toward
T here ape more M th
SHALLOW LAKE
ON FRIENDLY TFRHS )
ROOMS IN ONE CHICAGO
the grass, and as his head was
MOTEL.
HOTEL THAN IN TOUR WHOLE
hidden by a boulder I stooped to
FELIX FEATHERMEAD
pick up a stone. The head passed
HAS BEEN
the boulder and I “froze” until
CONTflUAUT
he had gone behind another. When
AT SWORDS POINTS
next he came where he could sec
WITH
me I was standing ready to crash
A. F. HFKEOWN,
the stone upon him. I meant to
A GUEST
kill the snake and open his belly
FROM CMKAGO,
to examine his prey. But at my
FOP W REASON
motion in throwing the stone he
flattened betweeen two small,
T hat
round stones and my misnte struck
W. MfREOWH
upon these without harming the
OCCUPTS
make, and in an instant he was
TUE KTO,
again deep in the water, lost to
BATH
1U8
sight.
IDO lch ®
Never before had I seen an adder
plunge into the depths. Always
2%
they swam upon the surface. 11
ANDERSON & MIDDLETON ADD LOUIS R. BOOKER IS WOUNDED
TO WOODS CREW
BY OWN REVOLVER
REEDSPORT WOULD ASSUME FOÖTPBNTSOFPIONEERflAYS
COUNTYJ.IABILITY.
Everybody Wants To
Buy Bathtub
MOTHER RESCUES BABY FRUM
HEATH INFLAMES
THE FEATHERHEADS
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