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dotlw VOLUME XLV1II. (Established June 15. 1889 ) hin^s We Think Three Brothers in | Thmqíüthm Thir,k und What Wr Think of Thinqi OThm Think - Jail for Robbery flhd u. d, State Police Believe Six Six frog» have come to life af Store Robberies Solved by eSentinel COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1938 Sturges Boy Recovers Valuable Money Bag Harry Sturge*, youngest son of Dick Sturges, local garage man. eased the mind of a certain Pa cific Express truck driver, and of ficials of that company, when he recovered a valuable pouch con taining cash and receipts, lost in Cottage Grove Tuesday evening. The pouch was lost as the truck turned the Pacific highway comer at Ninth and Main. Apparently the driver, who had just left the truck depot at Short'« «tore a few minutes before, had dropped the bag on the running board upon entering the truck. The truck driver did not discover his lo«« un til he had reached Eugene, when he and Portland officials of the company phoned Night Officer Schaeffer, who began an investi gation, only to find that Harry had returned the pouch to Short's store a few minutes before. A hitch-hiker wax standing at the Eighth and Main comer when Harry recovered the bag, and but for the prompt action of the Cot tage Grove boy scout, this story might have had a different end ing- NUMBER 29 Four Local Churches ' in Observance Wo°.Vhy of Prayer Drain Boy Hurt in Fall From Train Youths Pay Dearly for Brief Holiday from Neighboring School; Bernarr Asker Hurt. The Servic ’ Be Held In ter being blasted from rock that wax formed age« ago. Perhap« Arrest of Five Men. the Baptist C it 2 p. b . there 1« hope for the republican« after all. "Playing hookey” from school Friday, March * ,arth. • • • State |x»lice believe they have and a "stolen" train ride, proved Co-ed* at Corvallis want boy« solved the mystery of «lx «tore a dangerous pastime for two boys to claim good-night kiMca in real robberlc«, including that of the from Drain, and one of them. Tomorrow, March 4, is the he-man fashion, a survey by the Culp Creek post office and Mc Bernarr Asker, 16, lie« in a Eu World Day of Prayer for 1938. Ob Cullum store with the arrest late Barometer, campus paper, reveal«. gene hospital, suffering from se servance of this day which began I fear they were born 30 years too Monday afternoon of Kenneth and vere leg injuries which he receiv in 1927, has become one of the Willard Randall, residents of the late. outstanding events of the world’« ed as he fell from a fr»ig >t train • • • Creswell vicinity who had been in Cottage Grove Tuesday after religious year. 'Phe biggext trouble with this employed in a Culp Creek mill. The day begins in New Zealand noon. pump priming Is that we «ecm to Two boy«, one a resident of and the Fiji Islands, and as the According to informa Jon frven get nothing back but the primer. Springfield, and the other former day progresses, new groups in Chief of Police Merrill, the boys • • • ly of Eugene wore arrested the city, town, countryside and ham skipped school at Drain fuesony same day and Rupert Randall, 18. Senator Barkley accuses Sena let, join in praise and prayer until afternoon and "hopped" a freight tor McNary of playing cheap poli young brother of Kenneth and after some 40 hours it ends at with the intention of visiting rel tics The Oregon voter seems to Willard, wax arrested Tuesday on Gambell on St. Lawrence Island atives in Cottage Grove, and at the same charge. like the McNary kind, whatever off the Alaskan coast 30 miles tending a «how here Tuesday eve Merchandise allegedly located ft I* JUDGE M. C SUMMERS, from the date line and the same ning. They had made arrange • • • at the Randall home nearly filled ment* to return home by car later of Le Vern, California, who will be distance from the Artic Circle. On If you feel tired continuously, the Eugene office of the state po in the evening. The boys had ex the principal speaker Saturday, this lonely island, which for some your life Is likely to be in danger, lice. who believe that this 1« part pected that the freight would stop March 5, at the Townsend club reason the radio does not reach of the loot from «lx different according to National Tuberculos in Cottage Grove, but the train mass meeting at the Christian and which remains in frozen iso is association. How doe* It explain ■tores. crew had other orders, and the church.________________________ lation from October to May, prep A state police officer and a the healthy condition of JAVA and aration is being made for the clos youths attempted to leave the deputy sheriff Wednesday recov WI’A boys* ing service. All these groups are train as it was passing through at • • • ered two cash registers stolen praying that the people of the an estimated speed of 15 miles an Some motorists seem to think from McCullum'« store last No- world may be one in their service hour. Ward Henderson, 17, jump that the highway «top signs mean vernber The registers were locat for Christ Jesus—that barriers of ed from the west side of the train ed In the brush at the side of a to stop thinking. race and class may be broken • • • Delight Valley road. Both were Lorane (Special.) — Lorane and landed safely, but Asker suf down- that they may truly learn A total of 149 down and operat fered his injuries while attempt The United States has 6 per ruined by the winter rains. A «afe grange met last week with all of to follow Him whose way is the ing mills in Washington and Ore cent of the world area and 7 per stolen in the same robbery was ficers present. Fifteen new mem ing to leave from the east side. way of life for all men. gon which reported to the West Apparently he had descended the bers were given the obligation by found east of Delight Valley sev cent of the population. It produce« Four Cottage Grove churches, Allen Wheeler, pomona master. ladder of a box car until his feet Coast Lumbermen’s association 70 per cent of the oil, 60 per cent eral weeks ago. the Christian, Methodist, Presby for the week ending February 19, and knees touched the ground and Both Kenneth and Willard Ran New mcmixTS are Mr. and Mrs. of wheat and cotton. 50 per cent terian and Baptist will unite in of copper and pig iron. 40 per cent dall have served time in the state L. N. Ashley, Mary Ashley, J. were badly bruised on the ties as produced 66,878,352 board feet of the observance of the Day at the lumber. At the rate of cutting at they were dragged along, before of lead and coal and 99 per cent penitentiary at Salem, police re Kempston, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond the reporting mills, the entire in Baptist church. port, and one of the boys arrested Woods, Mrs. C. M. Foster, Mr. and he fell. of the squirrel*. The topic is The Church, a • • • was on parole from a state insti Mrs. W 1. Seales. Mr. and Mrs. Doctors Axley and Kime were dustry produced 52.5 per cent of Claud* Ingalls, in Corvallis Ga tution The elder brothers will en J. M. Allender, Mr. and Mrs. summoned and after a brief In its average weekly cut during World Fellowship." The servic* will begin at 2 p. m. At the close zette-Time«. tells of the efficiency ter their pleas In circuit court to George Schneider and Mr. and vestigation the Mills ambulance 1926-29. The new business reported tak there will be a tea and a social was called and the injured boy of the modern laundry He didn't day. AU are charged with burglar- Mrs. Eldon Mackey. divulge the source of his informa ly not in a dwelling. Whether fed L. N. Ashley and J. M Allender was taken to a Eugene hospital. en last week by the 149 mills was hour. The Nazarene church will unite eral officials will lodge a charge were elected on the executive com "I never want to see a freight 86.704.789 board feet. Shipments tion. • • • against the men for the Culp mittee. Mrs. Tom Kerns resigned train again,” young Asker told were 66,928,575 feet. The unfilled with the Free Methodist church, Editor Clint Haight of Blue Creek post office robbery has not as pomona and Mary Ashley was Karl Mills as the ambulance pass order file at these mills stood at as will a Springfield church, in observance of the day, service* to ed the freight the boys had been 316,328,806. Mountain Eagle says the cigarets been Indicated. Willard Wickliffe, elected in her place. riding. he has smoked would make one 17. of California, formerly of Eu Production shown in this week’s begin at 10 a. m. The following committees were •pill" 10 miles long. If the words gene. and Dick WetzeW. 16, of appointed: report is at approximately the Agriculture, W. 1. be used in speeches while he wax Springfield, were the other« tak Seales. Eldon Mackey and Ralph same low volume as the average a member of the legislature were en into custody on the same Lynch; legislative, Joseph Kemp for the month of January. Orders laid end to end. they would reach charge. are gradually increasing as time ston. Mrs Foster, and Raymond Included in the loot recovered around the world three times and for . expected spring demand ap Woods; home economic», Mrs. i . there would be 7H inches left wax tnl>acco, beer, candy and Lottie Mitchell »nd Mrs. Nettie proaches, but are still far below a clothing. It has been partially over. Next week's chamber of com normal seasonal volume, and con • • • Identified as that taken in th* Moore; financial. Harry Farrar. merce meeting will be held Tues siderably less than a year ago. George Schneider, L. S. Dey; re The Philippines want their free robbery of the D. R. Henderson lief. Mrs. Edith Dunn, C. B. Mit day evening at the high school in California buying has been more store nt Veneta; of the Ben Mc dom. So do we. stead of Tuesday noon at the Pal active during the past two weeks, Many Bargains in Used Can • • • Cullum store at Culp Creek; P. J. chell. Mrs. C. B. Mitchell. Joe Do ace cafe, Harold Eakin, chamber with dealers building up stocks lan was appointed on a 4-H club To Be Offered Here During Each word spoken in the provin Downing. Lowell; F. R. Murphy, committee. A resolution from president, announced Wednesday. and wholesale buyers anticipating cial parliament of British Colum Dexter; S H. Letherline. Marcóla, Spencer Creek grange re defining Week of March 5-12. The dinner will be prepared and spring needs. bia costs 14 cents. .Some forget and T. J. Gengs. Shady Nook. Market outlook remains indefi the meaning of forest lands was served by members of the domes that the fewer words spoken the tic science department of the high nite being strongly influenced by endorsed. greater the cost per word. In the At least three Cottage Grow school, and entertainment will be buyer caution and uncertainty. Dorena drill team will give the Oregon legislature, even allowing motor car dealers are cooperating furnished by members of other first and second degrees to new for a few four-bit words, the with the National Used Car Ex members March 8. The program high school organizations. Mr. average cost per word Is almost change week March 5 to 12. The Eakin has requested that every consisted of group singing, a talk nothing. The expensive word is up-swing in the automobile busi Four-H clubs of the state are by George Buddington on Wash member of the chamber plan to the "aye” on appropriation bills. ness was credited with one of the attend this meeting if possible. going in with new enthusiasm for ington and Lincoln and a reading • • • major factors in getting out of ■ The dinner will be served at 6:30. beauty -and more than skin deep. by Mrs. Lottie Mitchell. Agriculture Instructor at The the last depression, and a national Silk Creek (Special)—On Fri camnaign. in which more than a Dalles is teaching his pupils about It 1« planting and landscaping their home grounds. They are day evening, February 25, several harness. Where is that used million dollars will be spent tn guided in the work by plana and families of this neighborhood met advertising, has been launched to around an automobile T outlines supplied by the State Ex • • • at the school house to hear Mr. get old. unsafe and uneconomical Brown, deputy state grange mas cars off the highway, get good There is a $1.000 bill for 450 tension Service and distributed by ter, explain the grange and the used cars into the hands of the persons in the United States. They county agents and local leaders. Over 150.000 boys and girls car Local police spent a busy eve work it is doing. are used mostly for paying month motorists who have been using ning here last Saturday, a glance After a very interesting talk by the "junkers” and thus make way ly salaries In corporation presi ried on such work last year, which Responsibility for safety on the at the police blotter reveals. Five Mr. Brown it was decided to or dents, governors and labor leaders. is expected to be Increased through for the sale of new cars. Incentives offered for the first highways rests in large measure men were arrested for being ganize a grange at Silk Creek. • • • “Modern” automobiles have time in the National 4-H Home with the younger drivers of the drunk, or for disorderly conduct. Meadow larks, ducks and pheas A pledge of membership was been built for several years, and Beautification contest. It provides nation, John Kerrick, speaker One man was sentenced in a Eu ants do not set mills on fire, nor taken. Seventeen names were se thousands of the used cars on di they throw bombs — Pendleton a gold medal for the club mem from the office of Secretary of gene justice court, another is serv cured. Several who were not pres dealers lots today are far safer, East Oregonian. Maybe it was ber making the best county re State Snell, told students of Cot ing five days in the local jail, and ent have expressed a willingness and far more satisfactory to oper port. and a $50 gold watch for the tage Grove high school at an as the three remaining men paid to join. There will be a meeting at goonbugs. ate than many of the new cars of best showing in the state. The sembly last Friday. • • • their fines. the school house Friday evening. a few years ago., New car sales The administration Is consider elubster rating highest in each Kerrick has already appeared In March 4 at 7:30 p. m. Member are in a period of stagnation at extension section receives a trip National Air Mail Week. ing the construction of a trans 104 high schools in eastern and ships and membership fees will be the present time, largely due to continental self-liquidating high to the forthcoming National Club northern Oregon, and along the It has been announced by the received at this meeting and the the fact that most dealers have • congress, and the best of the four way. If they are to be paved, coast, and before the school year U. S. Postoffice department that organization of the grange com there would be an outlet for those wins a $300 scholarship, which is is over will have spoken in nearly the week from May 15 to May 21 pleted. Everyone interested in the huge investment in good used car« that have been traded in. The on good intentions of which there is given with all other prizes by every one of Oregon’s 200 high will be celebrated as National Air grange is urged to be present. ly solution to the problem appears Mrs. Charles R. Walgreen of Chi schools. His current tour will in Mail week. It is the twentieth an serious overproduction. be the retirement of the unsafe cago. nationally known garden clude 43 high schools in southern niversary of the inauguration of • • • Cottage Grove v*. Springfield. cars, and getting the good used club enthusiast. We have heard a great deal regular air mall service. Postmas Cottage Grove high school de cars off the dealers floor, and tn No entry fee or other obligation Oregon. about planned economy. That ter-General James A. Farley will bate team is holding a forensic the hands of the motorist. Two short movies. "We Driv is incurred by club members tak seems to be the trouble, too much be honorary national chairman of ing part. The contest is supervised ers” and "Once Upon a Time” the committee which will arrange contest here today, Thursday, with In connection with this national planning and not enough doing. were shown by Kerrick a* part of the Springfield high school team. by state and federal extension • • • for fitting observation. Paul R. The local team, comprised ofDor- program the Cottage Grove Motor hi* program. company, Chevrolet dealer*; Mar No one would dispute the evolu agents. The speaker told the students Younts, postmaster at Charlotte, ismae Blalock and Evelyn Lamb, tin Motors. Pontiac dealers: and tion theory if the claim were that N. C., will be active chairman. will take the negative side of the Woodson Motors, Ford dealers, are that young people are mentally someone made a monkey out of An official cachet will be auth topic. "Resolved: That Oregon prepared to offer some of the best and physically equipped to be man. come excellent drivers, but that It orized, at Kitty Hawk, N. C., the Should Adopt a Unicameral Sys buys in used cars in yean during • • • is necessary for them to practice birthplace of aviation, to honor tem of Legislation.” the period of March 5 to 12. Personal liberty is a relative courtesy and caution in order to the Wright brothers. Every other Cottage Grove teams will not matter, after all. — Harris Ells Four Lane county gun clubs be excellent drivers. He expressed post office in the United States, participate in the district tourna worth In Roseburg News-Review. will enter the annual Oregonian the distinction by saying the cap of which there are over 45.000, ment to be held in Eugene this Oh, so your wife’s folks visit you, telegraphic trapshoot this year, able driver is one who can drive will be authorized to arrange for w’eek-end due to the nervous tool well while the good driver Is one Its own local cachet. strain of the contest, calling for • • • according to latest reports. I Thousands of privately licensed five debates in one day. who does drive well. 7710 Cottage Grove club and the A doctor reports that beer Kerrick also spoke at Lorane. pilots will be given the opportun averts seasickness. Drink enough Eugene Gun club, both entrants last year, will again compete. The Walker and Creswell high schools ity of becoming air mail polits for Notice to Unemployed Veterans. of it and the sensation will be a day to fly the mail from interior other two are the Upper Willam- last Friday. The state of Oregon netted an The director of the U. E. em about the same. offices to air mail stop points. etts and the Siuslaw Rod and Gun • • • ployment service desires that all increase of $568,405.03 in gasoline Unemployment Census Cost. A western nudist camp is to be clubs. unemployed veterans seeking em tax money in 1937, representing a Start of the shoot is tentatively established on n highway that will The cost of taking the recent Sallee Meet* With Scout Board. ployment register with the near gain of 5.4 per cent over the pre not be named. Nothing on It, scheduled for Sunday, March 6. unemployment census, under the H. B. Sallee, chief scout execu est office of the U. S. or state em vious year, according to the sec At the last shoot of the local method heretofore employed In tive of Wallamet Council, met ployment service during March retary of state’s figures released either, as It were. • • • club Harry Rentle made a straight taking a census, was estimated at Tuesday evening with the local 1938. Such registration carries no by the Oregon State Motor as Paperhanger Hitler is practic run of 55 without a miss. $5,!M0,000, according to Postmas Boy Scout board and Mr. Carlson, promise of a job but assures the sociation. For the entire year, motor ve ing on crepe. ter N. J. Nelson. Taken by the scoutmaster. Mr. Sallee’s talk was veteran of assistance in securing Drivers—the world at this time Postoffice Department the coat interesting. Instructive and con employment. If unemployed it will hicles used a total of 223.283,280 returning The sheriff of Kings county, of year is a beautiful place in was less than $500,000. structive. The members of the be to your advantage to register. gallons of gasoline, N. Y„ and 32 deputies have vol which to live, so why not keep on 1 Here in Cbttage Grove and all board left that meeting with a Your local post of any ex-service $11,164,164.12 to the state in taxes. untarily taken a 7 per cent pay living in it? deeper and better understanding organization will advise you of the Net amount of the fuel tax trans Spring may be just around the of the rural routes the total cen of boy nature and a keener sense location of the nearest public em ferred to the state highway fund cut. Budget balancers at Wash sus cost was only $22.75, accord was $9,753,494.78. ington might issue a call for vol corner, but don’t try to take the ployment office. of their responsibilities. ing to Mr. Nelson. corner too fast. unteers, starting with son Jimmy. 15 New Members Join Lorane Grange Lumber Production Average Still Low Chamber Members to Meet at High School Home Beautification Prizes for 4-Hers Local Car Dealers Join in Campaign Silk Creek Plans to Organize Grange Safety on Highways Subject of Kerrick’s Talk at High School Police Arrest Five Men Here Saturday Four Lane Gun Clubs To Enter Tournament State Gasoline Tax For The Past Year Is $11,164,164.12
