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That When A*
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It Br
Magic' o.\>ults
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The Miracle of Advertising Is
That When Applied
In a Common Sense Way
It Brings
Magical Results
TWICE-^-WEEK
VOLUME xlxVI.
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1925
NUMBER 15
I,
Railroad Companies Santa Claus Is Çi^en Farmers Should Use
Large Order
Advertising Space
Facing Big Problem
AsRevenuesDecline At least one little girl in the College Press Agent Suggests
Εjanfcsgibing:
Œfje ffteasuiT of libing
Jlowers in Bloom; Mayor Parks Resigns
‘‘Berries Ripen
Office Under Fire
Frosts have not greatly discour
Cottage Grove country is not try
I aged berries and flowers in this Eugene Official Is Unable To
ing chances on being forgotten by
( favored section of the famous, fer
Way to Shorten Road
HANK8GIVING, if it have any vital meaning and
Withstand Recent Ad
Collapse of American System Santa Claus. She has addressed
tile, fruitful Willamette.
L. P.
4
place
in
our
lives,
is
something
more
than
an
incident
a missive to him, a copy of which
To Market.
j McCoy reports Everbearing straw-
verse Criticism.
Feared Unless Higher
■
1 in the year’s calendar, or a mood of ecstacy and ex-
has been handed to The Sentinel,
I berries still ripening on his First
pansiveness when all is going well. It becomes ulti
l
reading
as
follows:
street
property
and
this
luscious
Rates Are Granted.
Oregon Agricultural College, Nov.
mately the truest and deepest expression of life, and the test of
"Santa Clause I wont a pair of
Eugen»», Ore., Nov. 25.—Mayor
i berry was served on a number of
the worth of life itself. If we have nothing to be thankful for,
i beads and a ring and a little stove 24.—That the use of newspaper ad-
j Thanksgiving tables. Roses, ehrvs E. B. Parks at a special meeting of
□
vertising for the sale of agricul-
life itself is not worth while; so that the value of life for us □ : anthemutns, sweet pens ami other the city council yesterday after
Federal Control of Lines Is and a table and a pair of chairs tural
products is rapidly increasing
becomes measured in a very real way by the extent to which □ u ! flowors continue to bloom unpro noon tendered his resignation to
1 and a pino and a bed and a little
Seen by Officials Who
wc attain the vision, and express the spirit of thanksgiving.
1 box of station and a pair of little because it is one remedy for the
tected from tho weather. Heavy take effect immediately and it was
Much conventional thanksgiving is formal, thoughtless and selfish.
| shoes for a doll and a little Rock wasteful and unsatisfactory meth
| logs probably are responsible for accepted by the
Speak in Eugene.
present
distributing
ods of the
It may even be a spontaneous outburst of gratitude for pros
ing chair.”
. tho fact that late flowers have Simmons was elec
perity nnd good fortune, without having any social quality and
The little tot neglected to sign system, is the opinion of C. J. Mc-
I not been injured.
dency of the ooun
Intosh, agricultural press agent of
without being the expression of a philosophy of life and a re
Wild strawberries and Oregon matically advance to the mayor ’s
. ‘ ‘ If railway conditions continue her name, but Santa probably will the college.
ligious experience. It is only when there is such a deeper note
to go from bad to worse the Ameri find her and fill the rather large
i grope have been found in bloom on chair.
‘ * Benefits from advertising ac
of human solidarity, and a sense of tie unity of life in the
' a hill near the city. These usually
The resignation of tho mayor is
can railway system will collapse order.
crue largely from shortening the
presence of God, that relates us all to His universe, that Thanks-
: bloom only in the spring.
the outgrowth of the alleged mis-
and the government will be forced
road to market and reducing cost
giving becomes real. When A in his thankfulness for good be- u
handling of over $13,000 in city
to take over the roads, ’ ’ M. L.
of marketing such as transporta
gins to ask himself whether he could be thankful if, like B, he n
warrant«’ which i in some manner
Countryman,
vice president
and
tion, commissions and loss from
were facing experiences of sorrow, poverty, failure and disap □
were obtained by Georgi W. Read,
general counsel of the Great North-
□
damage in transportation,” said
pointment, his thanksgiving is at once put to the tost, If it be u
street contractor, before they were
ern Railway company, asserted last
Mr. McIntosh. "Farm commodi
u
genuine it is immediately deepened by new relationships of A to
duo him ami which had been as
week in an interview in Eugene, i
ties are handled as often as 16
his own Soul, to his neighbor B and his God. When personal
signed to the United States Na
Mr. Countryman, G. R. Martin,
times when water transportation
thanksgiving is dominated by social vision and the love of God,
tional bank.
vice-president of the Great Northern Experiment of Last Year To
is used.”
it is the way of creating for all men a consciousness of life and
Mayor Parks had been accused
and Charles D. Morris, assistant to I
Difficulty
Seems
to
Be
Result
Sometimes growers supply their
its value, that instinctively quickens the spirit of worship, Thus □ □
of giving these warrants to Read
Be Continued; Cost Is 16
the chairman of public relations
neighbors with their own surplus
Of Negligence in Issuing
but he emphatically denied it. As
the secret of thanksgiving is the secret of living itsolf. Whero u
of all railroads west of the Mis
u
production through long, devious
Cents Per Acre.
there is no sanctuary of thanksgiving there is no sense of the n
he says in a public statement which
sissippi, were in Eugene Frday to
and expensive channels. There are
Of City Bonds.
was read nt yesterday’s meeting
sacredness of life, and no reaching forth of the soul, in that □
attend a public meeting in Villard
n
legitimate charges for freight, ' stor-
and given to the press for publi
giving and gotting which under God’s power and blessing consti □
hall, at which railway problems
Albany, Ore., Nov. 24.—The as age and commissions which are
□
tute the true commerce of the spiritual world.—Contributed.
were discussed.
Eugeno, Ore., Nov. 24.—No city cation, liis resignation is on account
sessed valuation of Linn county borne by both producer and con
n
The discussion dealt with the may be increased $3,000,000 by the sumer.
warrants will be cashed or accepted of the great amount of adverse
The producer gets less
proposed five per cent increase timber cruise which has been made than the terminal price because of
for deposit by any bank of Eu criticism with regard to Read’s
action in taking the warrants and
in freight rates asked by rail a part of the regular county pro the cost of haul and storage, while
gene from this morning on.
lines west of the Mississippi river. gram, Judge Payne states. Judge the consumer pays the terminal ROAD DISTRICTS VOTE
DEFINITE LOAD LIMITS
Decision to stop all payments on in his subsequent, departure from
The request is still pending and is Payne based his statement on esti- price plus storage and rehaul. The
SPECIAL TAX LEVIES
SET BY COUNTY COURT warrants presented from tho city the city. The mayor declared that
under advisement by the interstate i mates of cruisers who have made newspaper is the ideal medium for
was reached at a meeting of the so far as his connection with tho
commerce commission.
surveys on privately owned timber cutting across lots from grower to Elections at Dorena and Shields Heavy Hauling Does Much Damage Eugene clearing house, nn organiza tho case is concerned he invites a
Railway companies are in a bad | in this county.
School Are Reported.
To Roads, Orders State.
tion composed of nil local banks, thorough investigation.
table.
The council in accepting the
way financially, the officials said,
hold yesterday afternoon.
The cruise this year was con-
a
"By putting a want ad in
mayor’s resignation unanimously ex
for a number of reasons beyond ducted as an experiment and only
Of
dis-
ten
Lane
county
road
Load
limits
on
a
number
of
Lane
"The
city
has
gone
too
fur
in
local paper the farmer may sell in
pressed its appreciation of his
their control. Decrease
~
in passen- $3,500 was appropriated for the
in tricts that turned in reports this county roads have been fixed by making improvements without bond services to tho city »luring tho past
ger traffic was blamed by Mr. work. The cruise was made by the local market to customer
town or farmer In vicinity who week on the special road tax levy I the county court and these orders ing under the Bancroft bonding act eleven years ami extended to him
Countryman for lowered income, Dennis Merrill, who made such an
Much and there has been no notion re
in need of such produce, elections held Saturday only two I take effect immediately.
Automobiles and bus lines are re- exhaustive study and submitted such may be
wore reported voting against the I damage has been done by heavy cently in taking up warrants is a vote of thanks and confidence.
is
not
a
sufficient
demand
If
there
Th»» alleged mishandling of th»»
sponsible to some extent, he said. complete reports on-80 sections that
community, the advertise- special tax. Two districts of south- ’ hauling, the order states. The niaxi- sued for some of these improve Road warrants was the subject of
Freight business has also decreased ( the county court decided on a in the
ern
Lane
voted
for
special
levies,
mum
limit
was
reduced
from
22,000
ments,
”
a
clearing
house
spokes
placed in a general farm
a secret executive session of th»'
oeeause of motor truck lines. In i larger appropriation next year to ment is
paper so that the farmer may be I District 14 at Dorena voted 32 to I pounds to 12,000 pounds and the man said.
ability of railroads to pay divi- I continue the work. It is estimated
Resolution of the clearing house council Monday night after the
able to sell direct to a more dis- 21 in favor of a levy of $1070.30 j weight limit set at 350 pounds per
regular sesion. Tho question was
dends was said to be due to the ■ $54,000 will be required to complete
nnd district 76 at the Shields j inch of tire per axle.
is in tho following language:
Tant consumer.
fact that the roads have to produce t’he’ cruise of "privately owned'tim'
school house authorized a levy of
Roads in southern Lane county
"That the Eugene clearing house threshed out pretty well, according
their service at such low margin ber in the eountv.
$2120,65 by a vote of 22 to 12.
affected by tho order are: Road 25, goes on record against accepting to members of the council. Yester
THORNTON CORNERS.
over production costs that they ' The cruise
... will -----------------
Districts 21 and 16 voted against between Creswell nnd forks of tho any city of Eugeno warrants drawn day’s session whs also hold behind
permit more
are unable to_ get credit.
tho tax. The vote in district 16 ' road, two tons; road 26, between on any fund until further action. closed doors and nt its end tho
equable assessment of timber lands,
(Special to The Sentinel.)
Mr. Morris cited the development ! court members state. Assessments
was
a surprise
____ „ to ______
county
, officials,
__
I Walker and forks of the road, ono This nction to bo effective on nnd statement of the mayor and the
__ ____
Nov. 25.—James Rentle of Cot as a petition signed by 64 residents and one half tons; road 27, be- after November 24, 1925.”
text of tho expression of confidence
of large sections by railroads and ! will be made on the basis of thou
stated the industry was the second sand board feet of timber instead tage Grove was a Sunday dinner of the section wns recently present- tween Cottage Grovo and Lorane,
This moans that unless efforts given him by the members of the
largest in the country. Passenger ' of by acres as is now the custom. guest of Mr. and Mrs. George ed to the county court agreeing two tons; road 28, between Latham arc made by the city council to council were handed to newspaper
service in the west is as good as Increase in valuation .will repay the Foster.
to vote a levy of $1799.59 if the and London, two tons; road 29, bo- relieve the situation, city employes I men.
in any section, he asserted, despite county in a few years.
Mrs. Olive Berrey spent Sunday county would allot funds
inds for road I j tween Rov
Row river road and county will not. be able to cash their pny
the fact that since 1920 the num
work. The county a| igrecd to the tool house, two tons; road 30, Cot- warrants at the banks, it was said M c K enzie road cleared
Mr. Merrill’s reports are con in Eugene.
ber of passengers carried had de tained in maps describing each
R. B. Dixon, who is employe^ plan and has completed work on tage Grove nnd Sharps creek road, last night.
creased 25 per cent.
township and taking each section, at Rujada, was at home over the the Gimple hill project in the dis- ■ two tons; road 31, between Row
Tho action taken by the clearing Snow Tractor Crosses Summit Of
An indication of the problems describing every forty acres of week end.
I river road and Saginaw, two tons; house does not affect warrants of
trict.
Cascadee on Highway.
facing the railroads was given in that section. Three maps and an
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ritchey of
I road 32, betwoen Creswell ft nd the water board, as that, is a sep
figures of the various companies. extensive diagram are used in the Myrtle Point visited last week
Pleasant Hill, two tons.
arate department and working on
Eugene, Oro., Nov. 23,—The snow
BE
I iix.y
Of 84 railroads west of the Mis description and comprise a valua with Mrs. Ritchey’s brother, J. W. COUNTY AGENT TO
Fiftr iiiaiis
roads are inciuneu
included in the a cash basis.
. w.
motor tractor operated by the Eu
sissippi, only 28 are able to pay ble record for the county. All Fisher.
HERE TUESDAY NIGHT ; order and limita range from one Mei 'inborn of the clearing house gone Bend stage lines was able to
dividends. Railroads are not owned | data on timbered areas may be
Mrs. Carl Murphy of Eugene
ton to three tons.
said that although the city 1ms cross the summit of tho Cascades
by capitalists but by common peo found by reference to the maps.
spent the week end at the home Will DI scusb Dairying and Make
been growing tho finances are in on the McKenzie pass, according to
Suggestions
for
Cooperation.
ple, it was stated.
Endowment
MOUNT VIEW.
The cost of the cruise is much of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Trask
poor condition and that operations word received from there today.
funds of colleges and universities, less than that first estimated. The Hockett.
were outstripping the budget. The Tho tractor was at first, out of
O. S. Fletcher, county agricul
and insurance companies are heavy original price asked was 35 cents
Mr. and Mrs. R. Johnson of the
(Special to The Sentinel.)
banks are holding warrants for adjustment nnd mechanics worked
tural
agent,
will
address
a
public
investors in railroad stock.
into
the
little
court ordered a Grove have moved
1 ----
per acre, but.
Nov. 25.—Mr. and Mrs. Ralph certain street work and other locnl on it for about n day, according
meeting
in
Phillips
hall
Tuesday
The visiting officials spoke of the trial survey, reserving the right cottage built this summer by M. P.
| Sears of Walker visited at the improvements and there has been to tho stage line operators.
evening. County and urban resi
possibility of returning the roads to select its own cruiser. The Garoutte.
' homo of Mrs. Amanda Sears one no attempt on the part of tho city
Tho tractor plow proved a big
to the government control. They work, including maps and reports,
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Tonoli and dents generally are invited to at I evening Inst week.
officials to take them up nr to success and climbed snowbanks
stated that private ownership of was completed for 16 cents per familly of Divide visited Sunday tend. Mr. Fletcher will discuss i Mr. and **
- B.
— Cooley
- •
Mrs. J.
and remedy the situation by bonding.
with easo, indicating that all-winter
roads was never more justifiable acre.
with Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Perini. dairying and other agricultural I Elizabeth Cooley were Bunday
stage service through the pa»« will
outline
suggested
problems
and
than now.
, Robert Mathews and Earl Weir
J I guests of Mr. and Mr«. .V. D.
be a reality, it was announced. Tho
between
methods
of
cooperation
of the Roseburg division of the
White,
of
Coast
fork.
tractor
was expected to make the
No.
1
License
Çoes
Lo
New
Store
to
Open.
California-Oregon Power company city and country.
Mr. Lister Improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bales were
trip over the summit again today
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lee of Reeds spent a few days at the home of
E. H. Lister, state traffic officer
Eugene business visitors Friday.
and will be met by a party from
port have leased from the American C. A. Dodge last week.
Lorane dftlan
Juniors Give Annual Play, i
who was severely injured a few
Miss Selma Miller spent Bunday
Bond on the other side.
Legion
the
building
on
Main
street
Canyon
the
high
The
junior
class
of
Miss Harriet Odlo of
ciass or tne nign ( in çottage Grove with Mi».i Dons
days ago in a collision with an
known
as
the
City
bakery
building
ville, Miss Mary Espey and Miss school gavo its
i
annual class play | MulvihiU.
automobile at West Springfield,
Salem, Ore., Nov. 23.—Tho annua)
Burglars Blow Wrong Safe.
is steadily improving at a Eugene and will open a second hand fur Mildred Stenett of the Grove were yesterday forenoon before the stu
Mr. and Mrs. Addison Heath of drawing for tho first automobile
niture store. ~ In connection with Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and dent body. The play presented
Burglars recently blew a safe
hospital, where he was taken after
Taft are visiting at the home of license plates- for 1926 was con-
this business Mrs. Lee will con- Mrs. T. C. Shaw. In the afternoon was "His Uncle John.” ~
Parts Mr. Heath’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
the accident. Mr. Lister sustained
ductod here Monday night by See in ono of tho warehouses operated
duct a studio in oil painting, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. John Coats and were taken as follows:
three fractured bones and multiple
■
W.
D.
Heath,
until
after
Thanks
rotary of State Kozcr, with the by Ben Groff at Bend, according
and Mrs. Lee were in the furniture children of Woodard’s mill were
Uncle John—Roy Haldeman, Jack giving.
to word from there,
However,
. cuts about the face and head and
following result:
business in Springfield several also guests.
Sanderson—Donald Metcalf, Mrs.
was in a critical condition for
Miss Laura Riloy and Mina Sarah
No. 1, to Frank Deed, Lorane; the safe that was blown was used
years
before
going
to
Reedsport.
Sanderson—Thelma Kem, Bert Al I Riley’ of Fairview spent Sunday No. 2, John Schifferer, Turner; No. for dead storage only. Tho money
several days. Hospital attendants
lison—Harold Bede, Miss Harring with their sister Violet at tho 3,
said he had shown marked improve
Jo« Taylor’s Condition Serious.
Charles R. Marshall, M ulino; —not much of it, Ben says—was
Coyote Club to Be Organized.
ment since Sunday.
Contrary to a report brought ton—Dorothy Kurrc, Mablins Good I home of Mrs. Lutheria Dosen»,
No. 4, Edwin J. Burke, Portland; in the safe in the other warehouse,
Aroused by the depredations of here the day following the motor win—Bert Shipp, Mrs. Blntters—
Mr. and
»aau *>■<■.
Mrs. W.
.. t D. • ulblu
Heath, , ***,.
Mr. No. 5, Harold H. Griffis. Portland; The only loss was the safe, which
Sentinel Bead 7,000 Miles Away, coyotes, residents of the Mount cycle accident in which Joe Taylor Millicent Burrows.
j and Mrs. Addison Heath and Lyle No. », R. M. Frain, Klamath Falls; was ruined by the explosion.
"Even a sailor enjoys reading View district will hold a meeting sustained severe injuries, the young
Scott spent Bunday with Mr. nnd No.
Morvan D. Murphy, Sweet
about his old home town,’’ writes a week from Sunday in the Mount man is yet in a serious condition
0. of 0. Frolics Some More,
, Mrs. J. C. Wright at Walker.
Homo; No. 8. D. J. Beals, Spring-
Bazaar Is Successful,
View
school
house
for
the
purpose
and may not be able to come home
C. E. Spray from San Pedro, Calif.
Entertainment provided for the
J. 11. Cooley is building a new field; No. 9, James B. Lawrence,
proximately $30, to bo applied
The injury near Thursday luncheon of the chamber house.
"I have read The Sentinel 7000 of organizing a coyote club. Two for some time.
Scotts Mills; No. 10, Henry U.
fund for constructing a play
miles from home.” Mr. Spray coyotes have been killed, but the the base of the skull is giving con of commerce consisted of the read
Myers, Lebanon; No. 13, Hye E.
for the Ln tha in school, was
depredations
continue.
A
sheep
siderable
trouble.
Taylor
is
con
Mm.
enclosed a copy of a paper pub
Barrel Is Water Collector.
ing of a partially illustrated poem
Snyder, Enterprise; No. 23, Minnie
■d Saturday night at tho ba
was
killed
recently
at
the
Ellsworth
scious
most
of
the
time
and
it
is
lished on the ship one a week
Mrs. L. L. Harrel has been ent M. Giles, Portland.
by Elbert Smith, chairman of the
conducted io the school by
when the ship is in port and daily Damewood place and another at believed, according to word from entertainment committee. The poem ployed as water collector for the
Approximately 34000 applications
Latham Community club. A
the hospital yesterday, that he will graphically depicted tragedies in city, to take the placo of Homer for licenses have been received.
when the ship is at sea. It is the Wes Chrisman place.
al program was given by
ultimately recover.
named "The Idaho Tarn” and is
the life of the monkey, the dog Galloway, who resigned a month Secretary Kozcr said motorists are
y and Harley Williams and
a neat and well-edited publication.
and Mr. and Mrs. Noah, former ago. Her salary will be $50 the unusually slow in applying this
If you know what you want, nse
was served. Moro than 100
month.
XX
famous owners of the ark.
year.
a wantad to get it for you.
ns attended.
Salesbooks. The Sentinel.
Applesauce. Maybe.
A politp little Cottage Grove girl
was visiting a friend. Whenever
the guest passed in front of her
little hostess she said "Beg yonr
pardon.” There were several oc-
earions for using the exp ressi an.
After the little guest had gone,
the little hostess asked her mother.
"What are these beg-you-pardonsf
Have we any around the house 1”
Linn Timber Cruise
Is Successful One
Eugene Banks Won’t
Cash City Warrants
THE FEATHERHEADS
And He Wears Hu J.7 B? >U
City Budget Up Tomorrow.
The annual meeting of taxpayers
for the consideration of the city
budget will be held tomorrow in
the city hall, As a rule not over
ons or two outside of member, of
the budget committee attend and
usually not all of the committee
are present, Following the budget
meeting the council probably will
paw an ordinance calling a special
annexation election.
Engraving work. The Sentinel x
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