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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1925)
paper Big Business Uses Newspaper Advertising L TWICE-A-WEEK COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1925 rr Store Sells Goods It Excavation Reveals FOOTPRINTS OF PIONEER DAYS Didn't Know Here . "Oil Shale"- Interesting Events in the Lives Advertised Ellis Williams Is Shot Twice While Attempting To Avoid Arrest. Melvin Coyle and Bob Husted Taken After Fight On Mosby Creek Road. 8. L. Godard likes to have his little joke. He especially enjoys the joke if he can get it on the editor of The Sentinel. He is superintending the digging of a basement for the newspaper man and he hurried to the editorial office the other day with a sample of what he declared to be oil shale I which had been dug in making the excavation for the editorial home. He wanted to know whether the editor would prefer to have an oil derrick erected. The latter decided, however, that ■ Godard knows a whole lot less ! about oil shale than he does about digging basements and reservoirs and that the “shale” was really I nothing but doby. I ! Guns and fists played a promi nent part in the capture Friday afternoon on Row river about two 1 miles cast of the city of Melvin Coyle and bob Husted, alleged i bootleggers, Ellis Williams, coni- panions of Coyle and Husted temporarily escaped by wading the j river, after being twice wounded by bullets from the guns of the arresting officers. Williams later Cooperation of Business Men Con sought medical attention here and tributes to tile Upbuilding was sent to a Eugene hospital. Of Our Community. His wounds, in the wrist and hip, were thought not to be serious. The officers, Deputy Sheriff The ambition of every merchant McFarland, _ of this city, and in Cottage Grove is to make this two deputies from the sheriff’s city the best along the line. office, intercepted Coyle, Husted This may be a selfish object on and Williams at the Elks picnic his part, but the fact remains that grounds on Row river, about three he can prosper only if the city miles southeast of Cottage Grove. thrives, for it is obvious that little Search had been previously money will bo passed over his made at Coyle’s home on the Coast counters by people who have no fork, but no liquor was found. The money to spead. officers had learned the three men No Cottage Grove merchant, how- had gone into the Mosby creek ever, depends on mere wishing to country and had followed them bring prosperity to his city and to with fhe intention of heading them make it grow. When he argues for better schools and improved off. When the deputies drove their streets, it is not in the expectation car across the road to stop Coyle's that his share is to be mere words car tho three men started breaking while other property owners foot bottles in tho car, the officers the tax bills. stated. Deputy MeFariand succeed Every merchant in this city ed in getting a one-gallon jug of backs his confidence in its pros- moonshine from the car despite the perity and the prosperity of thoae resistance of the three men. tn in it and in its future as a rising ...._ „ a fight between the deputies nnd member of this splendid common Husted and Williams one of th- wealth by his hard-earned dollars. Eugene officers sustained a brok Before he can obtain a cent of en thumb. profit he must offer a big stock Williams ran for the river after of goods the public wants, attrac his two companions had been sub tively displayed in a convenient dued at the point of a gun and ly arranged store of adequate size, placed under arrest. Efforts of with all necessary equipment for the officers to find him were handling his goods, and with well futile and Deputy Green Pitcher paid, courteous salespeople whose later searched the brush along the purpose is to render service to river, but without success. His the trade. Not until this invest wounds were such, however, that ment has been made and his busi he had to seek medical aid and ness is set in all its completeness his arrest followed. before the people of the city can In addition to the gallon of he hope to get back even so much whiskey and broken bottles taken as one cent of profit. from~ the car, officers found a Once they locate, they become part of a deer which had not been I fixtures and nothing short of a tagged and part of the equipment considerable term of years suffices for a still. , | to win for them even a fair return Coyle appeared in court Saturday | for their money. To leave before forenoon and pleaded guilty to i their business, and the business of violations of the liquor laws. He | the city are squarely on their feet, was sentenced to serve one year would be poor business policy; to in prison and pay a fine of $500. leave after prosperity has come Coyle, who is known as “Blackie,” would be folly. was arrested here once before on Does not such a citizen deserve a similar charge and served a term your cooperation! in prison. Husted pleaded not No group of citizens are greater guilty and will come up for trial boosters than the merchants for the later. Deputy Pitcher went to the scene ■ schools that mean greater oppor- later and brought Coyle’s car to | tunities for the generation that this city. The rear tires had been I comes after them. They reap little punctured by bullets when Coyle : direct benefit, and they bear the made an effort to drive away dur greatest share of the tax burden, ing the melee. The car probably because of the larger valuation of their property. Every family bene will be confiscated. fits, its boys and girls being helped on the road to better citizenship. Get both the girl and the wed- In the same way do the business | ding invitations at home, The men contribute to libraries, church quality is better and usually the es, and other agencies, as well as cost more reasonable. xx take a leading part in patriotic celebrations and community activi- ties, lecture courses, concerts for BILL BOOSTER SAYS j ; the public and similar movements. This is the man on whose prog- OOO HUMOR 14 A GRAND ' ressivc leadership the future of the thing i A aao temper isdn community depends. To trade with LOTS OF PRIVATES IU THE ARMtt Cottage Grove business men means WHO PREMOUSLT HAO'UHGOVERG dollars for you. © ABLE TEMPERS* LEARNED TO REFRAIM FROSA BAWLING OUT OR ASSAULTING THEIR OFFICERS, NO XAATTER. WHAT THE PROVOCAr T\0Ml GO PUT’FOUR WHEEL BRAVES" ON HOUR TEMPER. BROTHER.» Burroughs bookkeeping form of many kinds. Your home print shop. xx NUMBER 6 Willys Knight, Overland and Hud son agencies, and the south half to W. A. O’Hara, of Eugene, who will have the Chevrolet agency. Mr. Nelson intends to retain his present showroom on Main street. Miss Hoskins to Be Owner; Nelson The work of construction proba Holdings Assessed for 1925 Taxes bly will be completed within six And W. A. O'Hara Have Valued $4,000,000 Higher weeks and the cost will be about Leased Entire Space. $20,000. Thau Last Year. of Those Who Laid Sturdy Foun dation for the Present Generation Smith & Short learned Saturday , .. ------ -<■ in an odd way that their ads are read. Patrons inquired by phone THE BATTLE OF WILLOW and otherwise for the specials SPRINGS. which they had advertised. Pro Work has been started upon a The total valuation of assessed The following from Oregon Maga prietors and clerks were nonplussed. property in Lane county this year zine will interest many because of They did not know that the articles building on north Ninth street a , is $37,064,620, compared with $32,- reference. to Dr. Oglesby, late resi I inquired for had beer placed on block off Main street that has special sale, but when a copy of been rented for automobile show - 916,070 in 1924, an increase of dent here: their ad was secured ii was found rooms and garages. Miss Naomi more than $4,000,000, according (By Donegan Wiggins.) Hoskins, of this city, will be tho that they had been. (Continued from last Monday) New peas and new potatoes are to the summary completed last The explanation waa as follows: principal owner of the structure, a novelty at this time of tlte. year week by Ben F. Keeney, county The rain of bullets on the band Advertising Manager Short had which will be 100x100, with con- oven in this favored section of the assessor. A large increase was ha rmless, of settlers w-as in no whit said he would have an ad, but left erete foundation and tile walls and famous, fertile, fruitful Willamette, made in the valuation of improve Lieutenant Lamar was killed at on a fishing trip without delivering roof of slow burning construction. but Mrs.* E. R. Lemley served them ments on town and city lots, which the entrance of the log house or the copy. It i« -ustoniarv for J'r. The floor will be tinted concrete. a few days ago to her family. was boosted nearly a million dol shed, and no attempt succeeded in Tho front will be plate jjlass and They were produced in her garden lars. Short, in a case like that, to leave 1 rescuing his remains for the ap the copy on his desk for tit hust stucco. For tho present it will on the home property at the corner Figures for 1925, compared with pearance of a man was the signal ling advertising solicitor to pick be but one star;.- in height. With of Adams avenue and Eleventh those of 1924, follow: for redoubled firing from the ridg- up. The solicitor found tho copy Miss Hoskins will be associated street. Acres deeded lands, 1,240,366; es on each side. In the same man all right and it was printed, Ho her father, C. F. Hoskins, and other Mrs. Lemley planted some of the 1924, 1,247,124. ner, the wounded suffered greatly members of the family and an ripened perns from her spring crop Value deeded land, $18,835,505; j from lack of water; Willow spring far so good. But when customers ownership corporation will be and they grew almost as well as 1924, $16,520,265. began inquiring for the pec-in Is I bubbled near the house, but no formed later. * Value improvements deeded land, those planted early in the year, man’s life was worth a great deal it was found that Mr. Short had The building will have two show The potatoes were volunteers, prob $1,503,595; 1924, $1,348,265. I who tried to reach it for water, forgotten to write an ad and that Value of lots, $6,467,340; 1924, while the supply in the house was the copy which the solititor found rooms ou Ninth street, which is ably growing from peelings thrown $6,188,960. soon exhausted by the wounded was some Short had written some part of Pacific highway through from the house, but were of good Value improvements on town lots, weeks before and had not used. the city, with garages in the rear size. I men. $5,504,760; 1924, $4,580,670. However, the store had the goods of the showrooms. The north half Several Indians were certainly advertised and they were sold at of Value improvements on land not slain that day, one in particular the prices quoted. deeded or patented, $148,540; 1924, to who was a fine marksman had $98,235. erected a pile of stones as a Telegraph and telephone lines, breastwork from behind which to railroad 143.8 miles. shoot; he had left a loophole for Value telegraph and telephone his rifle to protrude through, and L. McReynolds, of the Divide lines and railroad, $80,740. had a stone to close the hole while section, has added in the H. A. Value of rolling stock, $97,850; he was reloading between shots. A Galloway agricultural display a 1924, $133,040. volunteer named Eastland at last cow squash of mammoth girth Valuo steamboats, engines, mnnu- got a bead on him as he w-as open which tips the scales at 63 pounds. facturing machinery, etc. $«17,705; ing the hole for another shot at It would Inake a meal for several 1924, $711,430. the shed, and put a fifty caliber members of tho genus bovine. An : Value merchandise, fixtures, etc., bullet through the head of the red exhibit of equal interest is a Hub- i $1,782,100; 1924, $1,704,270. rifleman. Arms and legs threshed bard squash, also raised by Mr. Value farm machinery, wagons, wildly about the edges of the rock McReynolds, which weighs 351 etc., $533,975; 1924, $265,805. fortress for some minuter; the pounds. This is an unusual size Number tractors and autos, 462. rifle was silent, and at least one for this kind of squash. Value tractors and autos, $94,410. Indian had come under the cate Mr. McReynolds had two larger I Money, notes and accounts, $183,- gory of General Sherman’s “good squashes which von prizes at the 130; 1924, $194.295. ones. ’ ’ Lane county fair and were sent Vnluo shares of stock, $-124,310; Another Bannock was killed by by I.am- county to the big agri 1924, $469,740. a man named Perkins, who was a cultural exhibit in Omaha. Value horses and mules, $219,130; noted rifle shot, having been on the 1924, $231,095. celebrated Creedmore team in the Number of eattle, 21,756, value, eastern states. He noticed another $490,855; 1924, 19,194, $429,505. who was engaged in building a Value breast w-ork of loose rock from be $98.285. hind which to fire, and restraining Value goats, $18,990; 1924, $12,- the less deadly shots from firing at 955. That Sentinel wantads art- thor the man, with the possible chance Valuo swine, $19,450,- 1924, $19,- oughly reatl was proved last week 525. of a miss ami a more cautious re i through an orror. The name of newal of the attempt to entrench. Value N. E. Glass was unintentionally 1924, value dogs, $13,115. Perkins finally downed his mark, I omitted front an ad advertising “ IF I ONLY HADN ’ T DOWNED THAT LAST ICE CREAM SODA ” and thus ended the ’-nilding of Valuo poultry and bees, $38,455; rock fortresses by the red men. Page Mr. Volstead I “Chick” him. Appearances, however, are apples for sale. It cost The Senti - 1924, $23,085. Now night w-as coming on; the hero surely looks about as far gone deceiving. That 44down and out” ned more than the price of the air was cooling, the fire of the as too intimate an acquaintance look is just one of many laughable ad to answer the inquiries of those School Asked to Help. Indians died away, and as the with J. Barleycorn could have sent little tricks his master taught him. who wished to know what name Students of Cotage Grove high should have been attached. The wounded men, thirteen in all, were nd appears again in this issue, bill school were nuked Thursday to take suffered greatly, and in desperate the name of the advertiser has a pert in the nation wide ennipnign condition for lack of water, it was of the Elks lodge to secure $500,000 been added. decided by the officers to retreat to restore the famous old frigate to Pilot Rock and secure aid for Constitution. Htnte Senator J. 8. the injured. 8ome proposed to Escaped Prisoner Caught. Magladry was tho speaker, He abandon them, but this was fiercely Frank Pnrchen, who escaped from outlined tho purpose of the Elks rojected by the majority. So the the Lane county jail last April in the campaign and gave a brief command, severely wounded in a while serving sentence on a liquor history of the achievements of tho wagon which had held supplies, charge, was arrested in Portland most famous ship in American the lesser wounded and the able a few days ago and will serve a naval history, Students in all parts bodied men as flankers and front sentence of six months there be of the United States will be asked and rear guards, left the shod» fore being returned to Eugene to to contribute small sums to the and took the trail to Pilot Rock serve the remaining three months fund. George Mnrksbnry spoke in and safety in tho darkness, at of his term in this county. He tho grndo schools on the same about eight o’clock on the evening is also wanted in Lincoln county, subject. of tho sixth. where it is alleged he jumped Having reached a place a half bail while awaiting trial. Parehen Rubber stamps. The Sentinel mile from the scene of the fight was captured January 9 bv Cotta go of the afternoon they were am Grovo nnd Lane county officials bushed by the Indians, who h»d on the highway south of this city quietly lain by the side of the after a race in which several shots trail until the flankers had passed were fired at Pnrchen’s car. outside them, and the wagon was in their midst; a shot was firedfc Magladry Talks to Lions. and on the moment the trail, or State Senator J. S. Magladry was that part of it occupied by the principal speaker Thursday nt the retreating white men, was a blaze weekly luncheon of the Lions club. of shots, and a babel of outcries Senator Magladry spoke of the and war whoops. Foeman grap BE GOOD, CHILDREN, HALLOWEEN’S A COMIN’. attempt to secure an appropriation pled in the dark, rifle butt and Oh—to be young again! To turn bed. And how, once there, we from the Mate legislature for con barrel were used in the closeneas of the affray, some on the heads back life's pages—baek to the hap couldn't sleep because we heard st ruction of an armory here and of friends in the darkness where py days of our 'teens when the the hobgoblins a-walking on the expressed th • hope that the armory one man could not be distinguished coming of Halloween kept us on roof and the owls hootin’. B r r r — would bn granted at the next aeg- from another, The Indians being edge for days before—because we a chill ran up and down onr little sion. The club .will erect bleacher« on Delbert Kelly athletic field, clad in garments taken from plun equid hardly wait for that big spines! lumber has been hauled dering houses during the raid, made party. Ah— -those were the happy days, and construction work How we did enjoy those games it difficult to ascertain who was soon. Rpfddcnts who red; who white. One white man of “apple on. a string” and “duck A ad i now Halloween is coming again. Hay — but children don ’ t rd in the high school had his own brother’s rifle broken apple” and how we listened to those ghost stories father tol<l— know how lucky they are to He over his head in the melee. (Continued on page 3.) stories which sent us shivering to young? THE FEATHERHEADS New Peas and Po ta toes Are Served 63 Pounds Is IPeight Of Huge Squash J J an tad J! ithout Name Sells the Goods oy Calling Their Bluff
