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COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925
VOLUME XXXVI.
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10 PlAY ALBANY
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HEBRON.
Team in Good Condition for Game
(Special to The Sentinel.)
Oct. 21.—8. T. White, Smith-
Hughes teacher at Cottage Grove,
Avenge Old Defeat.
gave his second lecture here Tues­
day night. The next lecture will
Spurred by their showing against i be given November 10, when a
the Eugene team here last Friday speaker from the Oregon Agricul­
and determined to avenge a defeat ! tural college will be here.
of two years ago by the Albany
Lincoln Taylor had a slight
team, Cottage Grove high football stroke of paralysis early Tuesday
team will go to Albany Saturday morning. He is slowly improving.
with the avowed intention of win­
Mrs. Flora Small of Cottage
ning the football game they play Grove visited over the week end
there that afternoon.
Albany I with her sister, Mrs. Lincoln Tay­
defeated the local team the last lor.
time they met, scoring a place kick ! The box social given by the
in the last 30 seconds of play and I
young people of the Christian En­
winning 9 to 7.
deavor last Friday evening was
Coach Grannis’ battlers are in well attended. Proceeds from the
good shape for the game, he said [ boxes were $26.00.
yesterday. None of them suffered
Clyde Langdon and family, who
greatly from the hard fight against had visited Mrs. Jessie Gilcrist for
the Eugene team. The lineup will three week?, left for Los Angeles
be practically the same as that of I Monday.
last Friday.
Mrs. Audrey Hayes and three
Efforts will be made to have small daughters, of Eugene, spent
at least 100 students and foot­ Sunday at Black Butte at the
ball fans there to root for Cottage Gilcrist home.
Grove.
E. J. Edwafds and small daugh­
ters, Lucy and Eunice, came up
Reservoir to Be Fenced.
from Grants Pass and visited Sun­
The city property on reservoir day and Monday with the Gilcrist
hill is to be fenced with wire. In and Grubb families. Mr. Edwards
addition an eight-foot fence is to spent Monday observing in the
encircle the new million gallon res­ Smith-Hughes department at high
ervoir, the second fence to be school. They returned home Tues­
inside the first one.
day.
One or more permanent ladders
The women’s auxiliary met with
are to be placed in this reservoir Anna Jepson Wednesday.
to enable anyone accidentally drop­
The county convention of the
ping into the reservoir to get out. farmers’ union will be held Satur­
It would be impossible for anyone day at Springfield.
unaided to climb out On the sloping
Miss Margaret Lajoie of Lynx
sides of the big pool.
Hollow visited over the week end
A proposition to raise by a foot with her sister, Mrs. L. D. Huff.
th e contemplated
water
level
has been referred to the
LONDON.
water committee. The extra foot
would add a hundred thousand
(Special to The Sentinel.)
gallons to the capacity of the res­
Oct. 21.—The pupils of the four
ervoir.
upper grades of the local school
have assessed themselves 20 cents
Street Assessments Made.
each to purchase a basketball.
Ordinances were passed by the
Mrs. Oliver Wills and daughters,
city council Monday night making
Mrs. Noth of Medford and Mrs.
the assessments for the recent im­
Lynch Currin of Cottage Grove, and
provement of First alley south,
Mrs. J. T. Small and Mrs. W. T.
between
Seventh
and
Eighth
Jones assisted Mrs. W. C. Short­
streets, and for Adams avenue from
ridge Friday in picking wool.
Second street to a point near the
Miss Jessie Pruitt of Cottage
east city limits. The assessment
on 'the alley was approximately Grove spent Sunday with Miss
$1.45 the front foot and on Adams Daisy Warwick.
Arthur Combs, who is teaching
avenue approximately $4.39 the
school at Gardinerville, Nev., came
front foot, exclusive of work
home Saturday for a short visit
chargeable to individual property
with
relatives and friends.
owners.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Roberts and
sons Dale and Keith, of Anlauf,
Scrutinizing Committee Appointed. were guests Sunday at the J. E.
A committee has been appointed Banton home.
by the chamber of commerce to
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Pruett of
give it approval or disapproval U> Cottage Grove visited Sunday with
all charitable propositions presented Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cox.
to the business men of the city.
Gerald and Glen Banton spent
This committee will simply decide Sunday in Eugene.
whether charitable enterprises arc
Mies Nola Banton went to Al­
legitimate and will in no way bany Saturday to attend a business
suggest contributions. It is the meeting and banquet of employes
intention that no contributions of the Mountain States Power
be made by business men to company.
any enterprise until it has first
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Tullar of
been scrutinized by this committee. Eugene spent Sunday with Mr.
Tullar’s daughter, Mrs. Joe Geer
and family.
Veterans May Get Loans.
The James Powell family re­
' Oregon world war veterans who
accepted the cash bonus from the turned Monday night from a trip
state have until Jnne 30, 1926, to to Washington.
return the money and make appli
BOOST! BOOST! BOOST!
cation for the state loan authorized
under the same act, according to Boost your city, boost your friend.
an opinion handed down by the Boost the lodge that you attend.
state attorney genera). This rul­ Boost the street on which you’re
ing will affect several local vet­
dwelling,
erans who accepted the cash bonus Boost the crowd that you’re selling,
and who now desire to convert it Boost the people ’round about you;
to a loan. June 1927 is the final Possibly they can do without you;
time for filing applications for But success will quicker find them
loans.
If they know that you’re behind
them.
Boost for every forward movement,
M1CK1E SAYS—
Boost for every new improvement;
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Boost the stranger and the neighbor,
Boost the man for whom you labor.
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Cease to be a chronic knocker,
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Cease to be a progress blocker;
And if you would have your home
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town better,
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Boost it, boost it te the final
ujaa OEvnua out AwrtsR
letter,
By joining the Commercial Club.
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London Boy Injured.
London, Oct. 21.—(Special.)—
Elvis Kelly was injured Friday
near Salem when the motorcycle
he was riding collided with an
automobile. The accident occurred
on a sharp curve and Kelly was
thrown against a post. He received
severe cuts on his leg and other
minor injuries. He was taken to
a Salem hospital and was brought
home Sunday. Hubert Ewing was
with Kelly when the accident hap­
pened.
Alfalfa Seems Success.
Planting of Grimm alfalfa In
Lane county probably will prove
successful, but the real tests will
come during the second winter.
O. 8. Fletcher, county agent, this
week is making inspection of tue
31 experimental plots where the
alfalfa was planted in the county
this year. He also reports from
70 Lane farmers who have experi­
mented with the alfalfa.
Church Plans Rally.
Hebron, Oct. 21.—(Special.)—
Sunday will be rally day at the
Hebron church. The Sunday school
program will begin at 10 o’clock
in the morning. Mr. Toogood of
the Eugene Bible university will
preach at 11 and again at 2.30.
A hasket dinner will be held at
noon.
Christian Endeavor will
meet at 4:30.
Regular services
will be held in the evening, with
either Mr. Morgan or Mr. Scarl
preaching.
Sewer Contract Let.
A contract was let at the Mon­
day night meeting of the council
to Hubbel, Jorgensen & Nichols for
the construction of a lateral sewer
on Eighth street from Quincy ave­
nue to Harrison avenue upon their
bid of $600.23. N. J. Langston
submitted a bid slightly higher.
The sewer in the Harms addition,
between Ninth and Tenth streets,
being constructed by the city by
force account, is nearing comple­
tion.
River at Low Mark.
Absence of fall rains, which
usually come at frequent intervals
this time of year, has brought the
Willamette river at Eugene to the
lowest point ever recorded there by
weather observers. The stage of
the river Tuesday was less than
.4 of a foot. Records of many
years past show the lowest level
before was .5 of a foot.
Schools to Observe Day.
Cottage Grove schools will ob­
serve Frances E. Willard day to­
morrow. Pastor John Linn will ad­
dress the high school students and
Pastor Duncan P. Cameron will
speak to junior high school students.
The day, which has been designated
by an act of the legislature, will
be generally observed in sehools
throughout the state.
Club Work to Begin.
Big Spike Does Not Enrollment in boys’ and girls’
clubs in Lane county will be start-
Split Air Cured
I ed within a few days, it has been
I announced by Arnold Collier, coun-
Timber
. ty club leader, who has been visit-
Teams to Play Again.
Cottage Grove junior high and
Springfield junior high will play a
return footbally game on Delbert |
Kelly field Saturday.
The two I
teams met in Springfield last Sat ,
urday, the local eleven coming,
home with the long end of a 14
to 6 score.
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JawrenceU^wL
And I find what every man is searching
for.
Then it is that home seems dearer,
Then content brings heaven nearer,
For the better things of life hold happy
sway;
Then it is that friendship blesses
And the glow of love caresses—
a Hearts of men grow kinder at the close
||k of day.
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TWO THOUGHTS WIT1 BUT A SINGLE FORD
Coming or going—can you figure
it outf Th« photagrapher couldn’t.
Ho instead of taking a front view
of the contraption, ho snapped a
side view and decided to leave it
to you readers to decipher it.
This Ford—called "the latest”
of its kind, is a novel rigup on the
part of an enterprising garage at
Clifford Lobow Loses Fingers Of
Left Hand in Resaw at Blue
Mountain Saw Mill.
Clifford Lebow, employed at- the
mill of the Blue Mountain Lumber
company, lost two fingers of his
left hand Tuesday when he slipped
while operating the resaw, catching
his hand in the whirling saw.
The,fingers were so badly lacerated
that amputation was necessary. A
local physician performed the op­
eration.
A. J. Harris, donkey fireman for
Anderson & Middleton at the Ru-
jada camp, sustained severe burns
to his hands and narrowly escaped
serious injuries Tuesday when a
gasoline tank he was filling ex­
ploded and the gas, igniting, set
fire to his clothing. Harris jumped
into the river nearby, extinguishing
the flames.
His injuries wero
treated by a local physician.
Gene Ryan, employed by the
W. A. Woodard Lumber company,
received painful injuries to hie
right leg Tuesday when he was
caught between a tree and a line.
The member was badly mashed
and ho will be unable to work for
two weeks or more.
Legion Ready for Feetlval.
American Legion members have
been busy this week making prep­
arations for the second annual
harvest festival to be hold in the
Armory Saturday night.
Grade
schools of south Lane and north
Douglas counties will enter ex­
hibits of work in competition for
prizes. Three country stores will
bo operated during the festival in
addition to many other games of
amusement and skill.
Auxiliary
SILK CREEK.
members will conduct a needlework
bazaar and dancing will be one of
(Special to The Sentinel.)
Oct. 21.—Mrs. James Rigby has the features of the entertainment.
gone to Colorado for a month’s
visit with relatives.
Forest Fire Is Reported.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gildersleevc
A forest fire was burning in
and Mr. and Mrs. James Lamping small second growth timber near
and small daughtor, of Battle .Scottsburg, in the Siuslaw national
Grand, Wash., visited friends here forest, according to word sent
recently.
from there to the forest supervisor
Mrs. E. M. Wheeler, who spent in Eugene Tuesday. The flames
■ the summer in British Columbia, had spread over about 100 acres
i returned last week.
of land and had destroyed consid­
Mrs. Jennie Walker arrived last erable timber. A small crew of
: week from Portland and is visiting men was at work fighting the fire
her daughtor, Mrs. E. M. Babcock, and officials planned to send in
Mr. Pierce, principal of the more men if the present crow was
church school, went to Junction unablo to bring the flames under
City to spend the week end with control.
his parents.
Miss Leota Estes was home
limiting Season Closes.
for a visit recently.
Deer hunting closed Tuesday
Oscar Wheeler and R. V. Darnell
wero homo over the week ond, re­ night aftor one of the lightest
turning the first of the week to seasons in several years in this
country. A number of local nim-
Noti, whore they are working.
Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Raymond rods brought in their quota of
Trask, of the Grove, were callers two bucks, but many reported fail­
at tht Babcock home Wednesday ure to bring in even ono. Indi­
cations at the opening of the
afternoon.
Mrs. John Clark of Washington season were that hunting would be
and her father, Mr. Morris, of unusually good as doer wero esti­
Walterville, visited over the week mated to be more numerous than
ever in this section.
end at the D. A. Estes home.
Blanche Peterson recently made
Hales books. The Sentinel.
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u two weeks’ visit at the homo of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Green.
The community has hud an epi-
domic of colds lately.
Mrs. W. G. Bittinger made Mrs.
Oscar Wheeler a visit last Fi 'riday.
R. V. Darnell and Byron, and
John Winslow came home from
Noti for the week end.
County Warrants Called.
Calls for county warrants total
ling $68,661.92, to be paid yester­
day, were issued the first of the
week by Grace Schiska, county
treasurer. The call was for all
warrants up to September 11. Call­
ing of warrants to within a month
or more of the current date indi­
cates county finances are in sound
condition, officials point out.
Cicero, Ill. It’s one car but has
two steering wheels and motors
to drive it in opposite directions.
There is no reverse, for none is
needed.
Your homo print shop is always
The men driving it are "Ike”
and “Mike”—a sobriquet they ready to help you in the prepara­
got through the claim that their tion of copy for intricate forms
of nny kind.
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Ford ' ‘ looks alike. ’ ’
L F. Van Zalm
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ACCIDENTS IN LUMBER CAMPS
INJURE THREE MEN
THORNTON CORNERS.
| ing sehools in western Lane. The
(Special tp The Sentinel.)
I new club year starts November 1.
The added strength that is put
Oct. 21.—Mr. and Mrs. Frank
During the [Mist year 85 clubs with
into timber by the air seasoning
a membership of more than 800 Chapman and family of Divide
process at the Standard Bridge
visited ono evening last week with
were organized in the county.
company’s plant south of the city,
Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Perini.
is illustrated by an exhibit at the
Carl Murphy of Roseburg and
Lads Fined for Speeding.
plant. A 60-penny spike has been
Harry Hart Jr. paid a fine of Mrs. Carl Murphy of Eugene were
driven into a two-inch plank an
$15 and Herbert Cochran a fine Sunday guests of Mrs. Murphy's
inch or so from the end of the
of $10 in police court Tuesday on parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hock­
plank and there is no sign of the
a charge of driving at an excessive ett.
timber being cracked by the ox-
Mrs. Rhode Davidson of the
speed on south Fifth street, it
périment.
was charged by Officer McFarland Grove visited Monday afternoon
with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and
On account of the added strength that the lads were racing.
Mrs. George Miller.
given the timber the company is
Mrs. Sadie Fleak, who had spent
able to use smaller timbers in its
Alley Is Vacated,
bridge construction work than it
A petition for the vaention of two weeks with her daughtor,
would have to use if the timber the alley between the H. A. Miller Mrs. H. C. Rose, left Friday for
were dried in the open air or by and W. J. Teal properties in block Portland to remain with another
dry kiln.
4, Wynne’s addition, was granted daughtor during the winter.
Mrs. Miller of Divide visited
The amount of moisture removed by the city council Monday night.
I last week with her daughter, Mrs.
is also remarkable. A record has
been kept on half a hundred cars
Burroughs bookkeeping form of I Pete Tonoli.
Mrs. Jess Craw-ford of Blue
which have been shipped and the many kinds.
Your home print
xx Mountain is visiting at the Win.
record shows that the weight per -hop.
Stroud home.
1000 feet was reduced from about
Mr. and Mrs. Del Seiforth and
3300 pounds to about 2000 pounds, freight rate to the east probably
a reduction in weight of about 40 pays the cost of processing the Kenneth Berry, of Portland, spent
' Thursday with Mrs. Olive Berrey
per cent. The reduction in the timber.
| at the 8. P. Shortridge home.
Mrs. George Foster accompanied
I Mrs. Charles Conner to Eugene
| one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Miller ac­
companied Mr. and Mrs. Lew Me-
■ Kibben of the Grove to Lorane
: Sunday afternoon, and on their
z.
| return visited at the George Teet-
| ers and Ralph Teeters homos on
I Silk creek.
When the busy day is ended
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Collera of the
And my labors are suspended—
I Grove visited Sunday at the 8. P.
Shortridgo home and in the after­
When the shadows creep around our
noon Mrs. Shortridge and Mrs.
humble door—
Olivo Berrey and children accom
Then there comes a fund of pleasure
panied them to Springfield to visit
That my spirit cannot measure,
Mr. Collera’ mother.
New Road Is Asked.
A petition presented this week
to the county court asks for con­
struction of a three mile road to
connect Lynx Hollow with the Cot­
tage Grove-Lorane highway. The
road would afford residents of the
upper Lynx Hollow country a much
shorter route to this city.
At
present the only route is to Walker
and over the Pacific highway here.
Officers to Get Training.
A 15-dav training course from
November 15 to 29 wil lire offered
United States army reserve officers
in Lane county, it has been an­
nounced. Officers taking the course
will be attached to the Seventh
infantry stationed at Vancouver,
Wash. This special course is for
officers who did not take active
training during the summer.
NUMBER 5
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