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VOLUME XLVIIL (iottaac (Brou (Established June 15. 1889.) 1 Think and What Wr Th,nk t,f Ttonyt O/hrrt fhmk ~ COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON,THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1938 - f!brr( Ufdv * Betty Mae Whitlock First in Seal Contest City Substantially Cuts Indebtedness Things We Th ink I nil net LA Named New Head hamber Retires $18,500 in Bonds During 1937; Collections 109.5 of Amount Budgeted. I hiring the Yuletide festivities a Pittsburgh Justice moved his bed to n police station, so that he could get up and handle the cases ax the drunks came In. He return- ••d to lied between cases, probably not having heard that Justice Is not supixmed to slumlter. NUMBER 21 Dr. Orlando . Gives Interesting Tain at Annual Meet and Banquet The year which just ended was Harold Eakin, president of the one of the most successful in the First National bank, was unani : history of the city financially, ac- mously elected president of the l cording to preliminary figures re- Cottage Grove chamber of com | leased by city recorder L. w. After all the playing the admin merce at the annual meeting of j Coiner. istration boys have done with al that organization held Tuesday Bonded indebtedness wax phabetical organization, they seem re- evening. Mr. Eakin succeeds C. J. I duced to the extent of $18,500, not to have learned the ABCs of - . .by CHIEF G. B. PITCHER, Kern, whose administration closed the payment of $5,000 in city hall operating a government. Tuesday evening with one of the (The above picture of the Chief ’ ¡bonds, $1.000 in armory bonds, It wax a goose egg congress. largest attendances on record for $1,500 in general fund refunding And then* were no digits in front wax taken several years ago.) that organization, more than 75 txmdx, 1.500 in trunk line sewer of the goose eggs. members and guests attending the bonds, $6,500 in improvement1 banquet at the Palace cafe, pre Chicago editor walked right up bonilx and $3,000 in water bonds. ceding the annual meeting. to a bear and slapped it in the In addition the city purchased Other officers elected were L. C. face with an ax That editor's de $7.000 in water txmdx and $8,000 Schroeder, first vice president; linquent subscribers should be । in improvement bonds. The latter i C. I. Rynearson, second vice presi duly impressed. । two items were not retired, but dent; John Pennington and C. J. are held ax cash items, resulting Wonder If it is called a reces- Veteran Police Officer to Kem, members of the board of di in a considerable saving in inter- Ten-year-old Betty Mae Whit- skin because It Is causing so many Fnd rectors. Earl Ballew was reelected tu « 't*1- AiI Interest due has been paid. ,ock* whose picture appears above, to reticle y rnirty-turae Years and tbere are no outstanding war- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert secretary-treasurer. The slate sug gested by the nominating commit of Service Here January 20 rants. Whitlock, won the first fifth grade “DisrnMxHl Order In Sit-Down tee was elected without opposition In addition to a substantial re- i Prize in tha Christmas seal essay Sult" is a newspaper headline. We after Mr. Eakin’s request that his duction in indebtedness, the city I contests, sponsored by the, Lane lacking but a few weeks of hav-j purchased and paid cash for a County Health association. She thought only the pants were need nomination be withdrawn wax ed in one of these sit-down affairs. ing serv<*d 33 years as a Cottage new fire truck and took up war*; is a pupil in the fifth grade of the ruled out of order. Grove police officer, Chief of Po- rants and interest on warrants Cottage Grove Central school. Her Dr. Orlando J. Hollis, member FYank Jenkins, Klamath editor lice Green Pitcher will surrender outstanding January 1, 1937 to the father has been a patient in the of the faculty of the school of law and columnist hns been worried his star January 20 to Glen Mer- extent of $1.696. state tuberculosis hospital at Sa- „ at the University of Oregon, about some caves found over in lem for two years. Hemenway Will Be at City speaker of the evening, held th Thc hiKh, y ^able financial his section of country and has let lected to fill the post at the city report ot thc ci(y made pos-1 ’ Her prize-winning essay appears Hall Monday and Tuesday to whole-hearted attendance of the by wl£ was administra?fon his fancy run wild ax U> the pur council meeting Monday evening. siblc ^'7 r.»ny'. Worth o( Holth W°rk 8herts chamber members with his ad pose to which the caves may have dress on “How It Is Done in the cit y'« business, and a been put. He dug up a legend X irote S John Wells. bealthy revenue condition Tax I am a penny, that buys Christ- . . Europe.’’ Dr. Hollis compared con- •bout humans having been driven substitute night officer. vet- con^ons totaled per cent . The ... iviawu 109.5 iw.j per cent mas ------------ -- One - ^3 I * was «<« lying >yu>K in m w-A. Hemenway, ditions as — he ------- found on a re- seals. day - vice chairman -------------- - them w... w into the caves and the opening Z Z 7 T ma,n”“n1 of the amount budgeted, due to a P^rse ® Cottage Grove community cent tour of Europe, with those in purse and a little boy came and of °r th the sealed A careful examination of in the city halt a room in the fire tbe pa>7nPnt of due t took me to his schoolroom. He committee of the Lane County America, and left little doubt in him . the inner recesses might result In hall haviny bc^n said to his teacher. "I have a Agricultural Conservation associa- the minds of members of his audi- k« «tin ^.1 . u 77’ Other sources of revenue much in- discovery of the bones of the old- hi. work J dT^^r^ °Ver prCViOU* yea" Was penny for a Christmas seal." The tion’ meet farmfr» of the Cot- ence that they preferred the time republican majority. teacher said. “Thank you. you,” and tage Grove community at the Cot-1 American mode of life with that . * - ’ . 1 z * fines, licenses, power tax. etc. • • • constable, and the position of cus-; — The city’s business during the gave the boy a seal. She put me in tage Grove city hall from 9:30 a. to be found anywhere in Europe, The general public seems to be todian of the city hall, a new job past year has been in the hands a drawer. m. to 5 p. m. next Monday, and Only in Sweden, and in parts of UI! X do, u <!» w-imer tW «.«!h»n .nd _ ___ . _____________ That day I heard the teacher irom 1 P m. to 9:30 p. m. next Europe, did Mr. Hollis find power men_ A. A. W. W. Helliwell, Helliwell,_ Jesse Jesse Lans-| Lans- ,a lking K «> to ln the children about about what what Tuesday, to in «* filing n—is , . , ... ™ men ia,Kin e cniidren w assist them UHan m “«8 farm rarm machinery machinery in in use. use. In In R Russia Five million acres of western wrvL mXhL pub,ic ing Sr„ Joe Safley, Wilbur Work-1a httle penny could do. She said *ork not now in the speaker and other tourists' lands are to be given to Z Im tZe A W. Sbof.tall and Ralph that all the pennies from seals the agricultural conservation pro- were taken on a tour of a hospital dlans as a last frontier Thc red clowr knowledge Tf “rA. I- W. Coiner is city re- would 8° to help pay doctors’ and Kr^* accordingto O. S. Fletcher, and dental clinic, neither of which boys would better look out or thcv Cmva*. h. * ottage corder and Earl Ballew treasurer, nurses’ wages for caring for tu- rounty agent. The state commit- were screened, and where neither G. B. Pitcher Will Retire as Chief Farmers Should File Work Sheets Before January Fifteenth An auto thief took a revolver from the car of Captain Karl A. l*rrhn of the harbor patrol. The <*op didn’t happen to be in the car. xo be was saved. ^or x-rays and medicine as well as al date for filing work sheets to see anything unusual in the visit food and fest and other things cooperate in the 1938 agricultural of tourists to the “private” offices that tuberculosis patients needed. conservation program. where patients were being treat- The Cottage Grove agricultural, ed. There is an absolute lack of That evening she put me in an envelope and sent me to the Tu- conservation community is made privacy in the life of the average berculosis association. A nurse up of the following voting pre- Russian. Mr. Hollis stated took me to the grocery store and. ,he ^^7 along with many of my penny Sagtaai. Latham LndSTRow friends, she exchanged me for and Bnun- lis milk. As I lay in the cash register, Rh«. Culp I heard the grocer tell the clerk All neonle tarmina i. „ h ^ople poorly clad in cheap All people farming land on sarments but apparently that the nurse was taking the milk to a poor little boy who had tuber which work sheets were not filed plenty to eat. He cited the lack of culosis. He said that the milk refrigeration in London. would help him to get well and should^ile work sheets on one of VneVnr'"^^ °f strong. the days indicated. People who a11 I nudged my penny friends and operated in the 1936 or 1937 pro- ____ “ ^7»7 sery7e tO we danced a jig in the cash draw outstand;"g er because we were happy that gram do not need to file work the little Christmas seals that we sheets if they are operating the same land. However, if anyone thU f the United States, were exchanged for could be such who cooperated in the 1936 or C ' Kem. retiring president. Merry Christmas angels to so 1937 program will in 1938 farm ax Prossed appreciation for the many sick people. I land on which no work sheet has suPP°rt given his adminis- So far this season Cottage; been filed, he must file a work tfat'on by the 18 or 20 "faithful" chamber members who “never Grove has sent in only $105.06. sheet on this additional land. » K*va< mt- seal seH1 oi- Those who expect to file work missed a meeting” all year, and The need is great «uid and the of- fice requests that payments for sheets should take to the sign-up aPPca,ed for like support for the a statement of the uw>i- num- new president of the entire cham- seals be sent in promptly. The sale meeting 1-------- - --------------- — is lagging and it is feared that the ber of acres and the section, town- ber membership, returns will fall behind those of ship shiP and range in which the farm Professor ' Lewis, music ins true- last year. is located. They must also take tor in the local high school, pre- with them a list of crops and acres sented two of his pupils, Arthur devoted to each crop the rarm farm towards, Edwards, baritone, baritone, and and Patricia Patricia •rop on on tne . — w «"P^« wa -«a. ’ <uu.viu.vcw a. announced at water anditbe city cou^] meeting Monday street superintendent as K 7°naay “* well as ----- policeman For a number of years 7 ___________ Mr. Pitcher enjoyed the distinc-T ? au ? city engineer; D. J. Allen, water collector and lion of having arrested more auto- .. mobile thieve, than any other po- ? lice officer in the state p KTe> The Chief 1» reluctant to talk of|^ °f his experience as a police officer EL. q b these many years. There never1 hall custo- was "much doing" Mr. Pitcher1^ ’ ‘ SW*eP’ Iyea« he served to them. « Life insurance statistics show that the number of women who become mentally upset is three times as great as the men similar would have you believe, yet he ad- i ly afflicated. That’s a rather good mltted a few minutes later that of record for the women considering 33 prisoners kxlged in the county! the kind of life companions they get S' “ a «.-.— __ v “PPreiltlCe TCRCher ill Home Ec Department L°Cal High Sch001 Santa Claus was a week-end vis itor. but even Dave Hazen could years. Never had one used on me not get an interview with him as cither, aqd never used a night1 Because of the efficiency of the to business conditions. stick but twice in my life/ ’ local ' high school department of Home Economics and the high Some folks over here have been standing of Miss Marian Notvedt, Isrsr Volunteer Potatoes. talking about a landslide and a A. L. Woodard brought in a head of that department. Cottage mandate, but they should have basket full of volunteer potatoes. Grove was recently chosen to be seen the results of the recent One of them measured 15 inches or?c 7 two Oregon high schools in plebiscite. around one way and 11 inches । “7 an apprentice teacher is for experience and train- C. C. Colt has resigned as vice around the other way. They were P1”06® president and director of the First all large fine potatoes. He planted Ruth of „ Grants . . Mitchell A National bank. He has had his early In the year, harvested the D„ ** shoulder* against the collar for a first crop and re-plowed the!Pnss’ graduate student of Oregon ground in July. If the so-called S’?10 «^ ckc * began work here long time and needs rest. dust bowl farmers read this It is ,h,s wce,5 “ an apprentice assist- Five hundred was the traffic Quite probable that many more of ant n . K™110 Economics. No ex death toll for the Christmas week them "Hl locate In Oregon. Plant-; 77° in™rrcd by the school end, but no one talked about go- ing once and raising two crops of ‘ „ extra service, ________ OUS owners or operators or from mus,cal number on the program ing to war with anyone, and no good larKe potatoes isn’t done In M,ss Michell, an outstanding A total of 63.31 inches of rain ' --------------------- one wrote any curt diplomatic .every state of these United States ¡student in her field, is given the' fell at the Lang creek ranger sta- a that the opportunity of working here 121 notes asking somebody to apolo- —-—————— tion at Rujada during 1937, the ^5? ‘J ® ronservation Program' , weeks not only under the direct 1 Sentinel is advised. This total ex-1 ±7^^“ t n Wh° DeC0ratl0n PtlZeS gize. if, before the motor car. the supervision of Miss Notvedt, but railroads had killed that many in _ ¿° P'a"r CrOpS' also under the direction of Miss ceeds that of any previous year a week-end, we’d have all become during the past ten years by more nj . 1 a’ a7 Pcro*1' Florence E. Blazier, teacher train-, The Joe Smith, Ray Nelson, pedestrians or gone back to the than 10 inches. April wls the "7’»¿?WuUniter er of Oregon State college, who; Fred Blickle and Victor Chambers horse and buggy. ; Paul Plank, chairman of the will visit the school here from wettest month, with a total of ¿7'*' °r , homes were awarded the four MnMinc o __ cannery committee of the Lane tlm. to time during Mi» Mit-110.16 inches finches o< ruin teii prizes offered by local merchants would be like holding‘an cHon ¡J“ noti’ chell's term of service. ‘ in December and 9.44 inches in grants. Signing a work sheet does in the Lions club outdoor holiday to decide whether the police offi- .LA,,, 7,7? ^5 the C?n’ School officials believe that this i November, j not obligate the farmer to do any lighting contest. The past Christ cers should attempt to stop a man a PUb,1C extra service will be of mutual — particular thing to cooperate in mas season found Cottage Grove WEATHER REPORT klmng Wire Chn. SX benefit and are pleased with the. the program, but it does place him better decorated both in the busi recognition accorded the vocation- j C. E. Stewart, weather observer, ness and residential sections, than , . , The Pomona Grange has been, al department of the high school.! reports an excessive rain fall dur in line to cooperate and to obtain for many years, due to the acti any grants that he may earn. The ... . I working for some time to secure ing 1937 of 21,14 inches more than 1 county agent urges all Lane coun vity of both the Lions club and the Year and mav' th 3p.Py N<»W anoth(*r much needed cannery fori Bob Zahm Wed at Vancouver the average. chamber of commerce. ty farmers to file work sheets. i„t„ P°tm.nn 60 thls sect,on ot ^e state. Much! From Jan. 1. 1937. to Jan. 1. Bob Zahm, manager of the Safe- late with the Christmas bills. ---------- The Joe Smith home was award- has been accomplished and pros- way meat market, and Dorothy 1938, there were 62.36 inches of j Presbyterians Complete Kitchen j ed an electric clock donated by the pects seem bright for the secur- Ann Gray of Eugene, were wed rain fall, while the average is 41. The kitchen at the Presbyterian Mountain States Power company; Speaking of the courtesy of the ** «r -nu,,T 2 at va“1 32 inches. । church has been completed and is the Ray Nelson home a mens trav- The weather report for Decem one of the best church kitchens to ding set awarded by the J. C. The young couple will of the "Cynical" killing of Ameri- ber follows: Temperature: maxi be found in these parts. A grand Penney Co.; the Cottage Grove um a t . vo mat sumatTii iiui mum, 47.8; mean minimum 38.1; opening will be announced soon. Pharmacy posted a ladies dresser kiue<! just as dead that way ns and vegetables will be available. mean 42; maximum 62; minimum ------------------------ - set, which went to the Fred Bllck- any M n*. other *___ *. way, - , but . is that *— the - Farmers and all others who are Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spies, 30; precipitation 7.71; snow .6 in.; I Ted Scott is in the Eugene hos- le entry. Victor Chambers home polite term the Jap has for pie- Interested are urged to attend j Florence and Bill Spies were last clear days 1; partly cloudy 7, pital, suffering from a sinus in- i won the prize donated by Graber- meditated murder? thia meeting. week-end visitors at Marshfield. fection. | Gettys, 2 seal sac sets. cloudy 23. 1937 Wet Year at Layng Ranger Station««• Cannery Meeting to lie Mela January 11 r Four Homes Win
