The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current, July 11, 1929, Image 1

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

    ITT*
volumi : XXXVIII
COTTAGE OHOVE, LANE COQNTY
Huno Heats Lixxit
l'or I'./uluhiui<
Production Rngulation Suul to
Be Rmponnible for In
crease in Demand
(<*mw • I.uMtli I ii < f » i )
Thr geiHTul outlook has improve?
puit
lew
rvinnrknhly during th?
day». Just what depth
»ren
t«>nc will have n-malna
a* it is predicate«! pun«
th? pay«■ nologirnI effect <>r
I»»-« tivr Nhrinkagi
in th»*
which will result from th«- eaten
■ivo shutdown* t<> I»«’ taken «luring
the first half of July.
Badcally the northw«-«t lumber
market is not in l»n«l ■hap«-. Whil-
thr piutliirlion
regulation
which
took place between May 13 nn«i
June 13 wa* «preud out too thin
to bring anv sudden pre*«urr «• i
buying it di«l rcNtih hi a falling »!
ttpproximntely HHJMNIJMM) fret be
low what would have
hern
pr«»
durrd otherwise. It ha* to I m - cuii
cedetl that prices
lust
s
littl«
ground but not n great •leal, su>l
that
production
regulation
pre
vented whul would have otherwise
been a serious collapse iu thr mar
Met us a whul« is not questiom««l
l»y anyone.
One of thr surprising fratui«**
of th? situation l«”lav is th«- fad
that mill stocks air low and
fh<
average concern ha* s surprising
urp
Th e«»n
Iv well fill?«! order file
The
«lition uf stork* is «U’h that it
would tnke only a very small spurt
in buying to clean up the supply
to the point where th«« placing of
mixed cars woubl b? »lifficult Al
r?a«ly u few items of upper* have
become »carer enough *u that line« -
have strength« ne«l and n study of
storks shows that some of thr most
«ailed for Items of uppers are I m
be
mg carnrit
cnrrir«l m
in u
a footage greatly
g
1« hud OU
low that which the mill«
Lubd a year ago
Thrr« i« no way of knowing to
what ^xtrut th« retailer« have bc|<l
bach placement« during the
past
sis week« on account «»r the opinion
that «omr bud gotten that prirr*
win dun fur u derhne
Granting
that this ha* bad only a niiiimuin
iufluvn«e, *b««uld the retailer» be
tome »old on the idea that they
should get undrr rover even in n
limited way between now »nd Ju1«
13, u «erious <«hortagr will unqur*
tionnblv develop very quirkly.
lu sizing up the future it mu«t
l*e borne in unn«t that there has
been a freak condition injected m
to the market during the past »1«
week»
Ju«t why buying *houl<<
hav* »lowed down in May wbru
everyone expected it to
be
thr
heaviest ran be attributed only to
a late »p»«ng in most of the con
•utniug firhls, «-«perially
in
the
rural district*, which upsot wording
plan« and incidentally cunatruction
program«
The wrakn?*« of wheat
price« i« poeaibly unotbrr factor.
Two year* ago a similar situation
«aw a revival vtnrt the middle of
July, an unusual situation, and it
carried along well into th«- latte«
part of thr fall
Such a drvrloi
ment this year i« not impossible
although there i* no foundation up
«m which to definitely ha«r *urh
a hope
Then- are many unknown unan
lilies in th«* making and it i» there
for? out of thr question to rat;
mate far ahead iust what to ex
pert.
However, the immediate fu
ture it much brighter. Th«* *lump
has dcftuilrly br-rn
*top|M»«l and
there arc indications of a strength
rning
If thr mills g«-t the upper
hand, as it now appears they will,
thr extent to which they carry it
will drornd entirely upon thejudg
mrnt tnry exercise in further reg
utating production.
COUNTY AGENT REPORTS
ON WORK DURING JUNE
County Agricultural Agent Fletch
«r has made the following report
for the month of June:
Received 260 office call» and 3S
telephone calls in regard to agri
cultural problem».
Wrote 193 individual letter» ami
mailed 1266 copie» of four circular
Urtter».
Made 23 farm viatta.
Traveled IIMi nule* by autumo
bile.
n
Spoke at ail meeting* with
total attendance of 339
Gave four talk* over ru»iio stu
tion KOBE.
The uuinber of day» devoted to
different projects was u» follow»:
Crop improvement,
8.5;
dairying
and poultry, 3.5 each; »oil improve
meut, horticulture, rodent control
sud miscellaneous, 2
each,
and
marketing 1.5.
Fountain Pen ink. Sentinel.
EDDIE, THE AD MAN
OMEQON
H ig ( i II i n
Lane County Man Wan Chair
man of Public Service
Local Buttery Leaves
For Fort Casey, Wash.
Lane Has Spread Over
67,000 Gallons of Oil
have
Lane county road crew*
»¡»read 67,067 gallons of light on
ou about 45 miles of road in the
county since
oiling
work
was
art nd several weeks ag<$ accord
mg to a report made last week b)
Clinton Hur«!, county commission
er. All light oil coats in the roun
ty am now down and the »econ I
coat of heavy oil will be supplied
Noon.
Roads in the Cottage Grove sec
tion are to be the next
to
b«'
treated.
Requr«»- have been received by
the county court from property own­
er« willing to pay for oil to be
u»e<l on rond* ptissini
ng their prop-
arty. Commissioner 1 llurd Baia th*!
th«» county now ha* i oiling equip
ment and work will I be done for
any community that will pay for
th«- oil. The county can purchase
only the »mount of oil budgeted,
the commissioner »aid.
A camp fire is your
»ervaut.
Don’t let it become your master.
Teachers Pass Examinationi.
Lists of applicant« who passe I
the recent semi annual
teacher»’
examinations held in Laae county
were received Saturday at the of
fire of E. J. Moore, county school
superintendent.
Of the 57 who took the examina­
tions in June, only one failure was
reported. All grades were unusually
high, the superintendent reported.
Among those in this district who
paused the tests and will receive
certificates
are
Ross
Mathews,
Haael
Miller
Chapman,
Lucile
Gow dy, Ethel C. Scott and Mrs.
Ruth England.
Spanish Vets Name Delegate«.
Rev. I. G. Shaw, Horner Galloway
and Wilson N. Hubbell were mimed
nt a meeting Friday night of Bert
B. (’handler camp of Spanish Wat
Veterans a* delegates to the •tale
encampment to be held next week
in Roseburg.
The delegates
leave Monday.
THE FEATHERHEADS
Br O.born«
Is 75 Inches
In Length
ft Ide comment
i» of very rar
»ample of it
office of E.
tige (»rove.
75 inches ¡n
Communion
HA I.EM, Ore., July 6
Loiií» E.
Bean, chairman of the (fregón State
died
Public Service commission,
suddenly «»f heart failure
in hi*
apartment her«- shortly after JO
nnd o’clock tonight.
Mr Bean had but two week* ago
r«*turri«-d from a
strenuous
fix •
weeks in Washington, D
, nt I a
grain rate h«*aring, but was be
I
lieved tn lisv«* b«-«*ti in fair h«*nlth.
Only y«-»t»-rduv nft»*rnoon, while in
Portland on a public nervier eon«
mission hearing, h«* hn«l been ex
the umin«*d by hi« nephew. Dr. Hurohl
C Bran, and
s«,»-rnr<l
p*ysi«*ally
sound.
If»- visited with hi* broth
F?«l?ral Judge Bean, but
no roinplaint of discomfort
proximately
months ago he had
undergone an operation, but *«-«-rn»-»1
almost fully recovered.
Mr. B>-un rnadr hi* home in Eu
gen«-
During hi* long r<*«idrnrr
in l.unr county he wa» active m
politics, Nerving hi* counlv in th»-
state legislature, nnd in 1921 was
149th Artillery Only National speaker of the house of represent a
five*
In the gubrrnntroisl contest
Guard Unit in Navy and
that followed his term at speaker,
hr
was
a candidate for the re pub
Army Maneuvers.
liean nomination
By profession he wa* a law ver
Hixty offiears and mi-u of bat and wa* a member of thr Shrine
nD»l other Masonic !>odies.
ttry ”E,’’ 249th coast artillery,
Hi* widow an»!
and four
children,
left *>i» r« ut 6:30 Tuc»»lay even,up
three son* and a daughter, survive.
for Furl Casey, Wash., for a two
Louis E Benn was a native «on
He wni born in IM?
week cn«*ampni?nt fur field train of Oregon
on a farm in Lan? county, of pio
mg
Thr iMttlerv wa» scheduled
nrrr parents,
Hi* early life wn
to arrive m ramp ut II a. m. Wed spent as a cowboy on the rang»**
nesday
of eastern Oregon, a* a farmer and
Th«« unit will participate in joint •toekraiser
lie wa* educated in
army and navv maneuver» ut Pug«-! rural nnd Eugene school» and at
noud 'I
Th® local mru will be in tended thr University of Oregon.
camp from July
joint maneuvers
Funeral services for Mr. B«*an
take place from mi
were held Tueadav forenoon in Eu
bright
July
19
to mi« _
gene with a
Masonic
lodge ia
!>nltl«*hipa und * 12
charge.
the Pacific fleet
n «\ y.
L M Powell Car in Crash.
The Oregon coast artillery gun
Th«- delivery car of th? Ruwkigh
ners will have the distinction
of
Product*
company, operated by L.
l»eing the
only
national
guard
M. Powell, participated in n crash
troop«» to participate in th»* rnMn»*u
ver«, which are expected to I h - on Tuesday afternoon with a Califor
a much larger scale thun unythw g ma rar on Pacific highway in front
heretofore attempted on the Pa of th? Mot? service »tation south
Th«- California car,
cific coast. The 249th const artil of th»* city.
Irry goe» tu Puget soun«! at thr ci n Star roadster wa* traveling *outh
pre«« wish uf thr war department Powell, traveling north, turned we«-
to .cross th? highway ahead of th«-
ami the corp« area commander
The purpose of the joint maueu other car, which h»- »aid he did not
vers is to test th? coast defense« see. The other ear mi«*?<l getting
and th? fort« will try to prevent by by a fraction of a split second,
into it
the navy from guinmg entrance tu the Powell car crashing
the »ound, while the navy will try amld*hip*. Each car »wung around
to sDi-ak past the coast defeu*?». on the highway into the opposite
Thr Oregon gunners fre| confident direction from that in which it had
that they can sink the navy except hem traveling and the Star rar
in the event of fog, which would came near tipping over. The Pow­
give the navy an immen»? ad vau ell car lost a front wheel an«l wa*
Th-
tagr
A svstrm of searchlights and otherwise severely damaged,
....................
the «lamngc to the California rar was
heliographs
will I m « used in
The
joint maneuvers nu«l a direct hit a <l«*inoli*he<l running board,
driver of the latter rar was Einar
with thr light« will put either th
H«-ndrirk<*en and he had as |>a.<
whip* or thr forts out of thr bat
»eager» Elmer Skinner and Ralph
Kimball.
All were of Eureka, Cal.
Ntaff officer» of thr regular army
and of thr nutiunal
guard
wh«» D«puty Sheriff Pitcher, who wa*
witnessed th? arruracy «if thr Or? called to fix the blame for th«- ar
gun gunner* at Fort Stevens la*’ eident, decided that Powell was to
year are *m»l to have made thu blame.
statement that, IT »rlecird as ob
Daniel D rranklin Dies.
server*, they prefer nn assignment
Daniel David Franklin, resident
nt thr forts manned by thr gun
urr* rather than nt a post on the of the Gowdyville neighborhood for
a numl«er of years, «lied July 6 in
deck of a battleship.
Buttery “E” made n record hist a Eugene hospital following a brief
year of 67.98, th«« best »core ever illness. Funeral services were held
made at Fort Steven*. In 1927 the Tuesday afternoon from the chaml
battery made the highest record with Miles Pitcher officiating,
torment was in the A. F. A A.
for th«« annua! encampment.
Ammunition allowance* for the I. (). (>. F. cemetery.
Mr. Franklin was born Decern
big gun* ha\r been increase»! and
th«- «‘ntire allotment will hr U*VG her 1, 1887, in Tennessee and wa<
in a battle practice which will take aged 41 year», 7 months, 5 days.
widow ; five
the plac® of annual target practice. Surviving arc the
June camp at Fort Staven» for children, Florence, Charles, Finer
sou,
Delnier
and
Denney,
all at
thr cua*t artillery will I m * rr*um?«l
home; the parents, Mr and Mrs.
i n 1930.
J. C. Frnnklin,
Cottage
Grove;
two brothers, Fred Franklin, Cot
tag? Grove, and William Franklin.
Torrence, Cal.; and a sister,
Eliza Wakefield, Oklahoma
Okla.
JULY li, IV2»
crowded
War on Weed» ProgresMA
Lane county’* war on
no
weed« >• progr« -*ifig well, ac
ing to <). K. Flctehi-r, county
ricultural agent.
The
appor
inent of I him pound» of
*o<
rhlurat«* [MiiMoi and 750 pound
«’alriurn chlorat»* was announrr<
Mr. Fh’trkcr.
Twenty-five f
♦ tn have purchased the poison.
The weeds that hu\e
air
l>c»*n *prnyr<| with th»* poi*on
chid»* wilil morning glory, <’a
thistle and the evergr»*»*n L
Iwrry.
Telephone Company’s
Interesting Figures In
Crew Here for Summer
Report of School Clerk
The Pacific Telephone A Tel»*
graph company is expending a con
»iderabl»* »urn of money for new
eon»!rue.ti<»n in this vicinity this
season. A crew of 20 men is now
stationed here adding two crus»
arm* to th»- eompifly'i pole» both
north and south.
A wiring ere*
will follow nnd it is probable that
three months will be required t<
romple-le this work.
Added wires
from here to Yoncullti will !?a\«*
th» company’s main line «outb or
her»* and follow Pacific highway
to th»- Dough» county city.
*“
Th.*
mam line follows the old Hag •
road by wav of London.
A crew will also be employed in
the city fur several weeks remov­
ing th»- company’» pole* and wire»
from Mam street and placing them
io the alley* north and >»»uth
of
Maia street. This is in compliance
with a request made by the city
several years ago when a system
of Mandnrd light* for Main *rr??t-
was
first
conaidered.
Electrie
power lines have already been re
moved from .Main street.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
TO HAVE LADIES DAY
The community men’s bible tla»*
has invited wives, sweethearts and
women friends of member« to meet
with the class at
9:45
Sunday
morning in the Arcade theater. Th/
class has decided that three eia*»
«lays of the year will Iw “ladie**
diy” and Munday will be the first
of these three.
.Mi»»
Uldine
Gart
rtin.
in
popular
»oloiit and »ong evi angehst, Wjg
•ing for the men and I their gxiesf*
A picnic dinner will be served
by the men of the rias*
in the
grove on Deer creek on the Lon­
don road.
The picnic will in no
way interfere with attendance at
church services in the city, officers
of th»» class declare.
Thr annual report
of
Hchoo!
i’lrik Worth Harvey contains nurn
erous items of interest to taxpayer»
and patron* of thr district.
The report shows that there are
in th? district 8M9
children of
school ngr, that 14 teach»*™ ar»*
employed in th? high school and
17 in th«- grades, that then1 are no
children in th? district who are
blind, «leaf, crippled
or
feeble
minded to such an extent a« not
to I m * ub!»* to attend school, that
there ar? 2110 book» in the library,
that the amount of warrant indebt
rdnrss is $5,5<»<5.5 >, that th»* bondr«l
in*iebtedn?»» is $41,060; that th»*
valuation of groun»!», building* and
equipment i* $162,993.90; that the
amount of taxable property in th»
district is $1,314,868; that the rat*»
of taxation for school purposes is
23.4 mill»; that th? average anual
cost of hi gh school pupils is $102;
that the annual average co»t of
pupils in whole school i» $75; that
the budget for* the recent school
year wa» $54,750 and th? amount
actually expended wa» $54/40.96;
that receipts from other sou ree­
thän direct taxation were as fol
lows; State fund $1.584.13, elemen
tnry fund $5,046.50,
_____, _______
county high
-.B-
Nchool fund 13.072.48, Smith Hugh«*»
«ubridv $1,291.67,
oth»*r
source*
$1/71.88
15 BOY SCOUTS ARE
AT CAMP LUCKY BOY
Fifteen boy scout* of troop» No*
16 and 18 of thi* city ar«- enrolled
in th«- first period at Camp Lucky
Boy, county boy »rout ramp on
Blue river up th? McKenzie. The
following left her? Sunday for th-
camp wmirh opened Monday; El­
bert Smith, Paul Sand«*rs, Harohl
Mackin. Llewellyn Rex. Roger Bras­
well, Edison Lemley, Forrest Lem-
l«-v, Irvin Aubrey, i.awrenre Wiese,
Elmer Hubbell,
Howard
Taylor,
Fay Stewart, Alton Woodard, Al-
fre<l Allen and James Vasbinder.
Armand Rigg«, assistant »mutina..-
Buy» Interest Barber Shop
C. O. Murphy of Roseburg ha* ter of troop No. 16, will be handi-
purchased a half interest in thi craft instructor during the three
Imperial burlier »hop which
ha* camp peri oils.
born conduct«-«! for a number
Fountain Pen Ink. Sentinel.
y«*ar* bv I*. S. Bukowski.
NUMBE* «O
Goldfish H ds Patriarch
sind Family Pct
Prisoners Take Advantage of
Fact That There Is No
Night Jailer.
Eight
prisoners
including on
I maH awaiting trial whi»*h might
•?nd him to th? pen it «-nt iary for
| life a« mii habitual criminal rna<l<*
a sensAtionnl «•»»■ap«* from th*- Lan
»•»»untv jail betw«-?n midnight and
■ l.yl.lfht M on«lny morning.
They
harked th«*ir way out with *nw«.
I Only two of th«- eight hav? been r?-
eaut ur?«L
District Attorney Alta King wa*
the first ;M*r*«»n notifi«-»! of th»* e-
«•ap?, b»*ing aroused by a message
i from a ninth prisoner who claim»*«!
to hav»* Mtarted in th«* <*»eap« with
the rest, thought ¡»etter »if it an I
ma»l? bi* way iKtrk into the jad
iift«*r notifying Mr. King.
Then-
I in no night jailer nt th»* jail in a?
cordanr? with th«* policy of
vi ng
night jailer «alary.
Escape wa» effect?«! by Miwiag
through a r«m?r c**ll of th? bull
p«*n whi»-h bn» been use»! to hou* •
all th»- worst off»'n«l?rs, and then
•awing three bars of a window in
th«- rear or northwest corner of th**
jail.
Three of th« men, Bice. Gillen
an»l Dunham had been confine«! in
th? “bull pen/’ whereas the other
five, who had been convicted for
mor»* or le.«s minor offenses, were
in th«* corridor which completely
surrounds th»* bull pen.
The men then tie»! a rubber hose,
us»*«l ordinarily in washing out th?
cell* and which is kept in the cor
ridor of th«* jail, to on? of the win
«low bar«, threw on«* end out tn»-
wind»»w and used it to *Hde 13
f??t to the ground.
Th- window from which the men
mad? their escape is about 20 feet
from th? rorri«lor floor. Th? pris­
oners reached it by placing beaches
on end and placing a .«mall ladder
on top of the benches. This ladder
is us«-d by th? men who
occupy
bunk* above the cell fl<M»r in g«*t-
ting into bed.
The following men made their
getaway:
Harvey Bice, 43. awaiting trial
under the habitual criminal act.
William Gillen. 42. starting a ?»ix
months sentence for passing worth-
l?«s checks.
Cecil Dunharn, 26. who had two
months to serve on a forgery eon
viction.
Frank Anderson,
38.
awaiting
grand jury investigation.
Ed Miller, 40, negro, confined for
a statutory offense.
Steve Hemstreet, 20, who ha»t
only it few days to serve on a lar­
ceny charge.
Gustav Fick. 26, who woubl hav?
complete«! his sentence in six »lays,
imprisoned for burglary.
C. G. Moss, serving a 30-day sen­
tence for
sale
of
intoxicating
liquor.
Bice was
recaptured
Tu«*s»lay
near Brownsville after an exciting
chase of three miles through wood •
nnd fields.
It whs believed that
Bice planned th»* escape, but he
denied th»* allegation. Fick was ap-
pr»-h nded Wednesday in Portland
while attempting to enter a meat
market.
Mrs. Hanna Steele Dies
Funeral service* for Mrs. Hanna
Elizabeth Steele, wife of W. B.
Steele, former Multnomah county
commissioner and retired contractor
of Portland, whose death occurred
at the Hood River hospital Tues­
day night, will be hold at the An
der.son funeral home today at 3
p. in.
Rev.
Alexander
Ritchie,
Seventh day Adventist pastor, will
officiate and interment will follow
at Idlewilde cemetery.
Mrs. Steele. 70, was a native of
Cottage Grove.
She
resided in
Lane county for 63 years. The fol
lowing children survive:
E.
R.
Wilhelm and Mrs. Arzella Eaker
of Hood River, and Mrs. Etta Far
row of Portland.—Hood River Gia
rier, July 4.
Bobby Nelson Subject for Clinic.
Mr. and Mr*. N. J. Nelson and
son Bobbv went to Portland Tues­
day. Bobby, who has had some­
thing of a career in visiting spe­
cialists ever since his birth with
a cleft palate, will be a subject
for a clinic to be held in connec
tion with a meeting of noted phy­
sicians and surgeons of the United
States being hebl in Portland this
week. The Nelsons considered this
an unusual opportunity to get the
advice of the best surgeons of the
country as to their son’s condition.
A goldfish owned by Mr*. C.
Bart»-ll that we
triarrh in that
up his fins thi
found floating
her aquarium,
Usually
live» not over .
a vrar or
one was so well pl<>«M
surrounding*
time* th«- usual Hfr of such a
and during that time bernm»- »
thing of a pct and was said t
able to r»-rogniz*i r»*gular vis
at th? hotel that wa» if* horn»*.
Bartell declare* that it could
time with accuracy
and
x
neglected at m»-al time would
out of its bowl and make its
to the di
so much,
had to L
aquarium,
was hen-
much of ita t
apartment
of
comedian.
US ROUTE TB COAST
Report Excessive Cost Causes
Considération of Sélection
North Fork Rond.
Lan»* county was in u somewhat
; seething condition during the pa*t
week over whether or not a change
should be made in the
proposed
road to Florence. Consideration of
»-hanging the route was
___ r
_______ r
provoked
by report» that the cost of the riv­
er rout»- already adopted by county
and »tat«- would cost half again a«
much af expected, County t'ummis
•loner Crowe and County Engineer
Morse expressed themselves as fav­
orable to »eriou* consideration of
the North Fork route, one of thr»‘?
routes considered before the river
rout«» was »elected.
At a mn«s meeting called by the
county chamber of commerce ami
held Tuesday night
ia
Eug«*ne,
spirited sp»*erh<-a were
made on
both side* of the question and con­
siderable criticism was directed at
the
state
highway
commission.
George O. Knowles
of
Cottage
Three Parcels Are Purchased Grove, member of the road commit­
tee of th»- county chamber and
former resident of
the
Niuslaw
by Mill Men of Cottage
country, expreaee«l what later was
Grove Section.
voted a» the sense of the meeting
when he pointed out that $100,(PHI
voted by the electors of Lane coun­
ROKEBURG, Ore,, July 8.—OnA ty for the Siuslaw road was vote«!
of the largest sales of government for the river rout»- ami probably
timber to tie held in the United woul«l not be applicable on any
States kind office here for the year other route, that the cooperation of
was conducted to»lay under the di­ state and federal governments had
been secured for the river route
rection of Hamill A. Canady, reg
¡»ter.
and probably could not be secured
A total of $154,229.12 of timber for any other rout»* and that the
in four eountie« was sold almost Southern Pacific railway
already
without a contest in bid«. Only a ha»l completed plan» for realigning
few parcels advertised
for
sal«* its roadway wherever necessary to
were not taken.
Droyide space for th»- proposed road.
Most of the timber sold was in Resi<lents of Cushman and Maple­
Lane county, with Coos
ranking ton, wbo would be left off the pro
posed North Fork
road,
spoke
second in the number of acres in
vigorously for no change in rout
volved.
Following a spirited debate
The Coos Bay lumber company of mg.
Marshfield was the heaviest »ingle the meeting unanimously approved
buyer, purchasing two parcel* for the river route.
Cost of th<* river route has been
$♦18,925.68.
The W. A. Woodard Lumber com added to by the demand of th»*
pany. Cot tag«* Grove, purchased 80 state for a 200-foot right of way
and by the necessity to purchase
acute» for $8451.87.
Cottage valuable town and farm property
George
C.
Schneider,
Grove, purchased 80 acrti for $2. to provide such a right of way. Re­
ports were given at the ma»» meet­
254.25.
John Perini and J. R. Sowie», ing that there was no ground for
Cot t age Grove, purchased 42 acres the belief that the cost would go
over the original estimate of a mil­
O. k C. grant land for $1863.7 »>
lion dollars.
Financing the county’s »hare of
BOSLEY DIES IN the cost may be more difficult of
SAN FRANCISCO HOSPITAL solution than the selection of a
route. Th»* larger part of the $100,-
Dennis Charles Bolley, resident 000 voted by the people will I m *
here for many years, died July 7 consumed in purchase of right of
in the Southern Pacific hospitnhat way, which must be provided by
without
San Francisco, when* he had been th« county
cooperation
for several week*. It was thought from state or federal government.
..........
.........
______
2;
that he was .......
recovering
until th.- There will be no road___
funds
avail
familv here received
1
‘
* word July 4. able in sufficient amount for the
that )ie had taken a turn for th»* . eounty’s share. County Judge Bar'
worse,
Mrs. Bosley and son Fred aatd outlined at the mass meet:ng
left at once for the hospital an I " a plan to take $®»,000 a year from
brought the body here.
Funeral O. A C. money, and this was the
solution
offered.
services were ! held Wednesday af only workable
ternoon with Rev. W. J. Morrow County Commissioner Crowe pointed
of the Methodist church officiating. out that the county will be put to
Int«*rm«*nt was in the A. F. A A. such expense for thin road that
roa«l work elsewhere in the county
M. I. O. O. F. cemetery.
Mr. Bosley was bom May 26, will have to be neglected for sever
1867, at Stillwater,
Minn., an I al years. Despite the hight coat of
was aged 62 years, 1 month, 17 the Siuslaw road, and the need of
e!sewh»*r«*,
days.
For a number of years h * curtailing expenditure*
ha«l been with the bridge an«i build j those attending rhe mass meeting,
era department of the Sonthern Pa ’ as well as residents generally of
•u. county,
*-f aro
nearly soli«l for
:
cific railway and was stationed nt 1 the
Canary but maintained hi« horn- immediate
------ starting
......l.ig of construction
here.
Surviving relatives are the work on the road to
the
coast,
_
widow’, Mrs. H«*len Bosley and the Work is expected
to start just as
a* agreement* with the South
South-
son Fred, both of this city, and a ’ soon as
Pacific railway are deliver?«!
«laughter. Miss Hazel Virginia Bos ern T™*
ley, Palo Alto, Cal. There are sev to the county court.
eral brothers in the east, Mr. Bo»
ley was a member of the I. O. O.
F. an«l K. P. lodges.
Roseburg Land Office
Holds Big Timber Sale
o. c
Cameron Is Eugene Lions Speaker.
Rev. Duncan P. Cameron, stat*-1
chaplain of the American Legion,;
»poke before the Eugene Lions club
Wednesday noon of last week on
“ America, Freedom and Liberty/’I
a patriotic address.
The program
was in keeping with the Fourth of |
July.
C. A. Bartell of this city
was a guest of the club and urged |
support for the all-service club pic­
nic to be held July 14 at Cascade i
resort.
Royal Arcanum Team
Bests Visiting Elkton
The baseball team
of Cottage
Grove council of the Royal Area
num defeated an Elkton team 10
to 9 Fourth of July
on
Kelly
field in a hotly contested nine-
inning struggle * The locals got
off to a bad start and spotted Elk-
ton six runs in the first two in­
nings. After the fourth inning the
lodge men took hold of the situa­
tion ami held the visitors to three
scattered runs while chalking up
ten for themselves.
Roy Heck, local second baseman,
hit a home run with no
one on
bases.
The
Royal
Arcanum
lineup:
Glass, e; Morgan, lb p; G. M. -R-y
nolds, p-lb; Roy H?ck^2b; George
Rollins, SB
ss; Harold Wolfard, 3b;
E<1 Heck, If; Austin McReynolds,
ef; Bill Bartels, rf.
Oil Demonstration to Be Friday,
A free motor oil demonstration
will be __
given at 7:30 Friday night
_
in the Lawson building at 513 Main
street under the auspices of
the
Texas company, dealer in Texaco
products.
J. W. Austin
of
the [
Texas canipanv will give
an il­
lustrated lecture on golden motorj
oil and correct lubrication.
Fifty j
Furniture Store Sold.
The. R. F. Forward & Co. fur slides, part of which are colored,
Section McKenzie Highway Closed.
uiture store has been purchased will be shown.
The McKenzie highway between
by B. C. Davenport, a recent ar
the four corners a mile
east of
Mess Fund Provided.
rival in Oregon from Minnesota.
Mr. Davenport has arrived her«
The chief topic of consideration Springfield and the Thurston high
with his family and
has
taken at the Tuesday noon luncheon of school was closed to traffic Mon
charge of the business.
Mr. and the chamber of commerce was a day for a few days while a con­
Mrs. Forward, who
have
been mess fund for members of battery struction crew put in a new culvert.
prominently connected with Ameri­ “EM w'ho left that day for For: A gtod detour was provi'lrd by
The chamber was way of the High Banks road to the
can Legion and church work, ex­ Casey, Wash.
pect to leave shortly for a visit in unable to provide the funds from north. This road is in good condi­
east.
its treasury but $25 was contrib- tion and the distance »» not much
uted by tiiose who attended th»* greater than by the highway.
After
the
highway
is
again
Fountain Pen Ink. Sentinel.
luncheon.
I opened drivers of cars are advised
to use caution in traveling this nee-
tion as grading crews will bo at
wark tor some time. To avoid de­
lay drivers may tako the detour
even after the culvert is completed.
Mrs. William Stager Dies.
rs. William Htnger, » resident
of Cottage Grove a
number
of
years ago, die«] Thursday morning
last in Eugene at the home of a
nephew. Captain Lee Roy Wood*.
Sh«* had been a resident of Eugene
for 11 years ami was aged 83 years.
Mrs. Stager wa* a native of In»li-
ana and a member of th«- Pre*bv-
I terian church. Mrs. Jennie Woods,
| a sister, an«l the n«*phew, Captain
I Woods, are surviving relative*.
Funeral service* were held in Eu­
gene Saturday forenoon an«l inter-
ment was in the A. F. & A. MI.
O. F. cemetery here.
Henry Weldon, a dog collar n
’
er of ...........
Willenden,
Eng., wan fi
for allowing hi* dog to run
large without a collar.