C ottage G rove S entin
VOLUME X1.IV
COTTAGE GRO VE, LANK COUNTY. OREGON. TH U R SD A Y , JAN U A R Y
F o rm e r R esid en t l)or«*nn
D escrib es (T o p s
in K ansas
COATS DEAD.
lì
Dciul Man Leaves Wife in Del
iflate Condition and
Young Children
Six
Nelson Already Him Lout Leg;
Left Arm Will Go, Con
dition Critical
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('«mt»,
40,
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«rtd
l l a i t i r f N i’ laun , 2M, I a in n critical
c o n d itio n , hn» lout n h-g a n d lim y
lua«* n il a r m a*« th e re s u lt o f nn
In e x p lic a b le a r c Id » n t c u r ly F r id a y
m o r n in g o f lM»t w e e k th a t w n» In
d l r m t l y th e re s u lt o f th e h e a v y
»n o w » fo rm
T h e tw o w e re n ltn o s t
e le c tro c u te d w h ile w o r k in g w ith a
c re w a m ile a n d a h a lf x m t h o f
th e
c it y
r c jin ir t iiK
a
M o u n ta in
H ta le a fh iw e r c o in |» n n y lin e th a t
h a d c o m « d o w n in th e » to rm
C o a la , w ho»» h o m » w a» In A l
hao\
le a v
a w ife w h o • In a
t h i n a te «‘«»ndltlon a n d «lx c h ild r e n ,
th e o ld e s t o f w h o m I* 17 N e lm in
I» a m u i o f M r
a n d Mr» N J
N e lm in H r a n d lia d been w it h th e
re p a ir c re w o n ly d u r in g th e s to r m
H a d C oat» lived he w o u ld h a ve
lo a t a le g a n d b o th h a n d »
Cunta wu» apparently In good
«xindltlon up to th« night before
hl» death and wa» rational up to
flv» m inute» before hn died
It
wa» hoped that he had uvercom«*
any Internal burn» which he might
have suffered. He died at noon
W’ dneaday.
N elson wa« operated upon Wed
nrsday for the rem oval of the
right leg boJow the knee. >|» ral
lied oulckly and ha« hern taking
conalderaable
nourt«hrnent
Hln
left arm I» in a »erlou« condition.
( C o n c lu d e d o n ttage t w o )
STORMY WEATHER IS
Knforced Curtailment Result«
in Noticeable Stiffening of
Price Schedule
That those on farm» In thl»
favored »e«tlon of the fnmotia.
fertile, fruitful W illam ette have
m apy reason» for feelin g that
the world has been kind to
them a« com pured with condl
Ilona of other» «‘Isew here 1» etn
pha«lxed In a letter to J, K.
Bedford from F rank Ixijtee of
Cuba. K an», who returned to
K ansas a year ago a fter a res­
idence of a few m onth» In I><>-
rena.
W hen here he »aid that land
In K ansas pro«lured for more
proltflrally than land here, hut
the |>a»t sum m er wa» som ew hat
ununual, as they »ay In C alifor­
nia. and hero 1» Mr Ixajke*»
d escrip tion :
“The sum m er w as the hottest
and driest In the history of
K ansas
The tem perature wa»
over 100 for more than 40 days;
several days It ranged around
112 and reached the high mark
of 130 by governm ent thermotn
eter no g u ess work
(Thickens did not venture out
as the ground w as so hot It
burned their feet
W ater had
to l>e carried to them and many
and m any perished.
“ Fred of all kinds Is very
scarce. A lfalfa hay co sts |2A
5
prairie hay $30 The people had
to dl«|M>»e of m ost of their c a t­
tle. T he governm ent cam e In
and helped and bought all cat
tie the people w anted to sell
at a fixed price, but that was
a lot better than lettin g them
starve or »hooting them down
as som e farm er» did
**1 hav« «dght head o f stock
left, tw o horses, five cow s and
one ca lf
I will have a hard
tim e pulling them through as I
have to starve them along.
“Up to now we have had
pretty good w eather but we
need a lot m ore m oisture, and
must have m oisture In the
aprlng as what m oisture we
have 1» only op the su rface.’*
Sann- G ro u p M eets 1'hree
Times >S Y ears
\
« • ■ »»<>«' Saturday
night for hl» third quadrennial
■tag (»arty, held at his home
south of the city. The m id «* per-
aons are Invited each tim e and
all but tw o were present o f those
present for the first (»arty eight
The recent storm y w eather w as years sg o
Thnae ml »sing this
rm llv « blessing In disguise, ar year w ere A." A
R ichm ond o f
cording 1« C ro w s Lum ber D ig e s t jh .n U n d and the l ute
« i . . Dr
. . . C. E
The enforced
closin g dow n of op Elust T hose
present were Wro
•ra tio n s has
according to lhat M orelock. Wm Thum II W Titus,
trade publication, put the general A c s , „ i Kga, Elbert Sm ith. Geo
outlook, from the point o f view o f J a c o b se n . E lb ert B ede. It 8 T rask
.O,
I* 8 I. M ackln. H. W lo m b a rd and
dlt Ion th at It
hn» been for m any v T finndall
Mr Godard pre
pared the dinner, the piece de re-
► «»Ihiwing enforcem ent of un M|Nt«nce o f which wa» baked ban-
fair allocation schedules, fir m ills
l h ,cken. ,„ )r
„»<h guest
of his . .. . lion so. were « unable
Io . op
Th„ tim e to m
1Illl|
n,„ ht wa»
w .„ »pent
a .
’ Th»
ldnlght
erate bresuse they had to get log« , P„ 1I1>. R, u . l r «
rrm lnlsclng on
fron» tlie higher levrls. Isigs In (pe paat
(Kinds wer« froten or covered wltb
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l<*e and logs In timt condition , ,
...
,
«ou k l not b. p r o flta b ly s n w .d As l O s t o t l l C f t l l l S ln C T V I lS C
a resull mill atoeka sr e In ’« d
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R. E. CDNE
A Ì CCD CAMP 3 DAYS
0 unter Boys Run Short
Food Before Road*
Are Opened
of
To I*« snowbound In the wilds
of iMiuglas county for three days,
to tune a piano during the tim e
at u CCC cam p, to be well fed
and to attend a boxing card that
e«(ualled m any put on In c iv iliza ­
tion w as the recent unusual e x ­
perience of It U. (.Tone of this
city. A large CCC cam p was snow ­
bound at the name tim e.
Mi Cone w as called W ednes
day of last week to H unter CCC
cam p on Hnnth river
and
the
snow »tarted while he w as mak
Ing the trip to the cam p on an
arm y truck that bad d ifficu lty In
com pleting the trip. The snow con ­
tinued all night and trees, heavily
loaded with snow, fell In great
num ber over the road, com pletely
blocking It und putting the phone
line out of com m ission.
T w o days later an uttem pt was
m ade to reach the m ain highw ay.
W hile table service had rem ained
splendid, supplies were
running
low and there was a big crew of
men to be fed. Three arm y truck»,
tw o gravel trucks and large crew s
of m en were used In the effo rt to
break through tw o feet of snow
and iem ove fallen trees. By night
the crew s had gotten seven m iles
and had rem oved 63 trees. T rucks
had to be backed half a m ile be­
fore the return trip to cam p could
b,« started. K veryone wa» cheer­
ful
A cam p orchestra furnished
m ush and a boxing card
was
stage«!
The next «lay. Saturday, large
crew s worked from both ends and
caterpillar» and scrapers were put
Into service. By afternoon It w as
|M»«»lble for trucks from the CCC
cam p to craw l out to the m ain
highway.
CHAMPIONSHIP STARE
NEXT WEEK’S CONTEST
24.
1935
'Tabloid N e w sp a p er G ets
P u b licity fo r Its
H om e C ity
C ottage G rove’s hot»« newspa­
per Hlwnya has brought a lot of
publicity to the com m unity, all
without coat to the com m unity.
The recent chunter to ‘tabloid"
»Ur has reunited In a lot of
favorable com m ent In new»pa-
per« of the «late.
The O regon City D aily Enter
prise, published by new arrival«
from California, devote« a two-
colum n editorial to dlacuiwlon
of the change In C ottage G rove’»
hom e newapaper. The Enter-
prtae «aid In part:
"Not to he outdone by any
Portland O regonian, when It
com e« to change in type drew)
and m ake up, The Cottage
Grove Sentinel of w hich Elbert
Bede 1« editor blossom ed out
loat w eek In tabloid size. The
new paper la five colum n« wide,
about 17 Inch«*« deep and tn It«
lr»t how to the public constated
of eigh t page«. T hat changes
go beyond a m ere «tunt 1« clear­
ly Indicated by the editor In a
two-colum n
editorial
entitled
"The L ittle H om e N ew spaper.”
"W hatever the outcom e o f the
ch an ge In The C ottage Grove
Sentinel, the editor of The
E nterprise adm ires Mr. Bede's
■tralght-from -the-shoulder expla­
nation, his courage and his
clear cut sum m ation of the
problem s of sm all new spapers
everyw here.
"Perhaps the sm all tabloid
slxc w eek ly Is one o f the an­
sw ers. O ne o f the best exam ­
ple« we know of a su ccessfu l
tabloid w eekly 1s The Lindsay
G azette and Tuesday T im es at
Llndsvy, California. T his tabloid
Is one o f the m ost su ccessfu l
w eek lies In C alifornia and Is
edited by Ford C hatters, state
assem b lym an and form er presi­
dent of the C alifornia N ew sp a­
per P ublishers association. The
fact that som e of the m etropol­
itan tabs have failed has been
due. In our estim ation , not to
m ere size but to policy.
“A nyw ay, we wish Elbert Bede
well. He has a d e a n cut. wet!
edited new spaper with som e a t­
tractive features."
Crow, With No Loses in I 0 Snow B la n k e ts G r o u n d
F League, to Meet C
0 With One Lose
It seem s likely that the cham -
Pl,m »hlp
'h e ■ O O. F. basket-
J*“ 11 >«*ague *• * t Malta In a --------
gam e
«’>J * ’ ,P>«y«l here next T hursday
w ,,b 1 n ,w * which has a record o f
”l* ht "lr «*kht w ins
The locals
have
,<,ur ,ind
l,r'r Crow
,h ‘“ defeuted e v e n teunt in th e
b a g u e except Cottage Grove and
of the local team are de-
<«rmined
that
next
Thursday »
k«m. -hull be their first defeat.
which would put the tw o team s
0,1 Th
a " <Mlual ba«l«. .
■
* .L . is ‘
r .u
,h ' . ,oca,a
(« m e In a 33 32 gain«* at Spring-
..
.
* .’I,*' V’*“ .
of
sw ite
s
i
scoring
com
binations
In
' - ‘kue •„ Joe Bally and Orlo
E leven Inches
The recent »now blanketed the
ground In the lower levels to a
depth of 11 Inches, according to
C. E Stew art, cooperative weather
observer This was m easuring to
the bare ground, w here there was
no grass
W arm w eather o f the
past tw o days has caused It to
practically disappear.
Up Row river and over Lorane
m ountain a depth of 18 Inches was
reported.
while in
the higher
m ountains. Including the Bohem ia
district, there w as several feet
A large part o f the fall has
dis­
»„„eared
n»»( ___
appeared durtmr
during the
the past
several
but w m
a warm
l‘y that there
as oved
no f so
l . x gradu-
j dan-
g er
N o «"-rluus autom obile accidents
wer** r«‘Por’ *'d ‘U» « result of sUp-
pery w . pavem
ents and highw ay traf
m hardly i n t e r r u p t '
_ o
M BBB 1«
BAEEADEERS C O h u J
TD BE MUSICAE TREAT
Ail of Proceed.; Are to Go to
Keepers of the Den
Milk Fund
The m usical treat o f the season.
That is w hat the concert Sunday
afternoon by th e B allad eers la ex­
pected to be. It will be presented
at 3 o'clock In th high school g ym ­
nasium There w ill tie 30 voices.
The B allad eers are doing their
part to continue the reputation of
Cottage Grove as one o f the mu­
sical cen ters of the state.
N o profit w hatever w ill go to the
B alladeers from Sunday’s concert.
The entire net proceeds w ill g o to
the public schools m ilk fund spon­
sored by K eepers o f the Den.
Special num bers w ill be given by
the Treble Trio, com posed of MI rj
H elen O strander. M iss M yrtle Kem
and M iss E sth er W icks. Mrs. C
E. Caldwell w ill be accom panist.
M iss O strander w ill be accom pan­
ist for the Balladeers. Mrs. Edna
P earson is director.
The com plete program follow s:
Song of the Road iP rotheroe).
Sw eet G enevieve (T ucker).
Music All P ow erful (W alm lsley).
tx>. How a R ose E ’er Bloom ing
(P raetorius).
Solos- The
Old
Black
Mare
(Squire); Captain Mac (Sander­
son ); Shortnin’ B read (Jaqu esi
W olfe, Mr. England.
Goln' H o m e (D v o r a k ).
Q uartet - I f
You Can't
Sing
W histle (B ligh t) M essrs. S te w a r t
Webber. Nixon. Trask.
T rios By the Bend of the R iv­
er (Clara E dw ard s); W ill You R e­
m em ber (R om b erg); Go P retty
R ose (S p eak s); The P ip er’s Song
(R lsh er); The G ypsies (B rahm s).
I Love You T ruly (B ond).
Two Little M agpies (W ells) with
Alvin Hodgson.
Calm as the N igh t (B ohm ).
The B alladeers will join with the
Carolers (fem in in e voices) in giv­
ing a concert som e tim e In Febru­
ary.
THOR JENSEN COMING
FRIDAY MAT MATCH
Le«ton Sponsors First of Series
of Planned Monthly Ath
letic Contests.
H eadlining a w restlin g card for
tom orrow (F rid ay) night is Thor
Jensen, bad m an from E lkton, one
o f the m ost colorful rough and
tum ble bone cru shers in th e gam e
He will be pitted against Pug R y­
an of K ansas City, who gives
prom ise o f being all the E lkton
thunderbolt w ill be able to handle.
Of alm ost equal interest w ill be
the bout betw een Jo Jo H olland
o f H ollywood and Sam m y George
of Ogden. Jo Jo took on Thor Jen ­
sen two w eek s ago and won the
m atch, so It is a cinch th at the
Ogden lad is going to be kept
s h a |w , f l l l l n g m ix e d O rd e rs la c tlf
2 0 1 CT ( -e ilt
busy.
f lc u lt , « n .l t b ls c o n d itio n alw ays
B agley, high school coach. For the
J
H
Pud Sw anson of C ottage Grove
brlugs
stlffen ln g In
prlces
Illgs a a Stiffening
in prices.
T h u e was belter than a M pi r "«»■on Ibtlly has a record o f 58 « . . .
- p,
„
,
and Max Lake of Springfield, fast
I h e r e I . n o c e r t a i n l y that fay- r e n t in c r e a s e in b u s in e s s of the !»>»(» and llugley has garnered ( .» lU I lt «»I I t i r c s t
(.r a s h e s
ligh tw eigh ts, will m ix In a prelim ­
o ralil.
w ea th er
coodltluns.
now C ottage
Grove p osloffloa during 47> » ” “ v«rage far the tw o o f m ore
inary and a surprise curtain raiser
returning, will continue and
this n»3c „„ com pared with 1933
Re- u ,a n lu poin ts each to the gam e,
M osby C re ek H om e
Is being planned
fact also bits
a stiffe n in g affect
celp ts In 1934 were *12.882 32 an il ,l“ gley has put fire and pep Into
The Am erican Legion, sponsor­
U| kiii prices.
,n li)33
w ere JI0.768 50.
every gam e. The H olland broth-
Mosby Creek. Jan. 22 (Special.) ing the m atch, is planning sim ilar
The only weak spot m the mar-
The quarter ending D ecem ber "r" *‘r« ,h ,‘ big threat of the
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. R issur of cards once a m onth
he Is cutting business, which has S| showed a 13 per cent Increase
Mosby creek had rt narrow escape
been so scarce Hint (here has ,,yrr , hl. ,„ e ,.n ll,ig i,ui.r(er For
Malinger Nixon will start Shof- from death during the recent snow
been considerable price c u llin g In th.. last quarter receipts were *3. ■*,a11 rapidly regaining old form , storm , according to word which W in te r P ln y g ro u n d A re«
“ rTh
. ..
.
.
1,22,1 ""d for ,h r Preceding quar- <•' cen ter and Ragley and Cox has just reached here, w hen a fir
Ih e Digest believes ibe e„for. (pr w,.rn $3,310.18
y e a r s high school cen ter) at tree 30 inches In diam eter fell onto
Is Proposed
curtailm en t o f production mny
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forward positions. Rally, captain their house
*
i'
n firm fo u n d a tio n
under
lh<
1» • .
«•
» ”d form er U. of
O. star.
Is a The
lo e e o n .tr o e
A w inter playgrounds area on
srkel
,bat may rem ain
u n til S H O W B r i n g s \ IIC ¡11 I (>IIS su re s ta r te r a s
guard.
T he other
«Ion bulldins*
.n d It is Is
V l o e f v M
I h l7
the Brice creek road is an objec­
F <»r K i i h l i o v
kuard pttsitlon 1« a toss-up be- saved the couple front death. Hnd tive of the
Am erican
Legion
I or K ltU lllS
tw een Lloyd G riggs and
V irgil the house h w n o f fram e construc- F orestry officia ls are givin g co­
Horn (last year’s high school star), tlon the railing tree would hnve operation. It Is believed that such
L e g io n n u ire s R em ove
The snow brought hap piness to
O ther players certain to see lots crushed It and probably th e occu- an aren could be developed near
children In som e of the country o f action aro Thles. G off and pants. As It was. a few sh akes Lundpark, although not every year
lle n v y Snow
school districts, w here school w as W heeler
w ere broken and a sm all hole w as Is there su fficien t sn ow th a t' far
not held because o f w eath er con
down the m ountain.
torn In the roof.
1 he Am erleau Legion wns re- ,||t|o n s.
To E ntertain Over KOUE.
There would be an Ideal area
qxuiHHiie ror clearin g Mblewalks There w as no school al D..(»lon
M iss Myrtle Kem will give a f » E | ' r ; . . ,
C l : .1 I e
a t Glonwood on th e Sharps creek
un m ain c bleno* districts o f the f„ several d a y s ind none Friday vocal solo and Miss E sth er W ick s
I I lilt* o l c i g n I s S t ' C l l
road, hut It would be too lifflcult
»in !.»'* ..‘¿"L ,,f,.'’r .!.h8..
al ,,,u " Mountnln. London and a violin solo at 6:15 next Thurs-
it
. rs.
to keep a road open to the area.
fall of snow. A snow plow w as Lorane
day even in g over KORE, E ugene.
M
ere
r
i
r
s
t
I
inte
Little work would be required to
hastily constructed , a horse was
keep n road open Io Lundpark.
T hey will be accom panied by Mrs.
borrowed and L egionnaires wont
l i n e s A re Y ea r B eh in d .
C. E. Caldwell. The program Is
Probably for the first tim e In
,o work
Delinquent taxes due Lana coun- being sponsored by Mu Phi E psli- the history of tho city an old tim e
Band Gives Concert T o n ig h t.
ty total alm ost exactly one year’s on, honorary m usic sorority
sleigh w ith horse team and chim e
Ttie band will give a freo con­
Miss lim it Return« to Portland, levy. C ollection on 1934 taxes w ero
bells w as seen on the streets F ri­ cert tonight (T hursday) In the
M iss Audrey H unt, who hnd lid per cent of tho roll, or $1,208,-
Dr. V icto r M orris Nponka.
day. The ou tfit w as driven by arm ory. The Sentinel Is going to
•ipenl 1(1 days with her parents, 290.42 of a 2.010,11291 charge.
Dr. V ictor P Morris o f the U. Aimer Hunt o f D elight Valley. whL press shortly before the hour for
Mr. and Mrs. Aimer Hunt of De-
D elinquencies for tho 1933-34 roll o f O. econom ics departm ent «poke brought som e of h is neighbors to the concert, for w hich reason com ­
light Valley, w hile convalescing
were therefore $803.82249; on the nt a m eetin g o f the Grade Tench- «he city for
a ride. Tha novelty plete details cannot be given, but
from app en dicitis and tonsil nper- 1932 roll, $599,144 12 rem ains nn- e r s’ association M onday avonlng a t attracted
considerable
atten tion there seem s little doubt that there
allons, returned M onday to Pori paid; for 1931, $187,225.15; for 1930.
Kartell hotel. The business m oet- and brought back fond m em ories
w ill be a large audience and no
land, w h ere she Is an entertainer
$218,484.84, and for prior years, np- Ing wns preceded by n 8*30 din- to form er
residents o f eastern doubt as to a splendid program.
for a cafe and theater,
proxlm ately $78.000,
nar.
states.
John Stehn will direct.