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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1938)
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 15TH. 1938 THE SENTINEL, COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON ATnttaar Okorr Established 1889 W. C. Martin Editor-Publisher Published Every Thursday at 25 North Sixth SUBSCRIPTION RATES f Cash in Advance) $1.50 One year 80 Six Months Three monti» .50 One month .... .25 Foreign rate 50c year additional Published Furniture liesien* Henry Copeland, an Eighteenth eentury cabinet maker and furni- ture designer, was probably the first to publish designs of furniture. His "A New Book of Ornaments" ap peared in 1746. Between 1752 and ¡769 he published several collections o* designs tn connection with Mat- t. i. > L ock Some of the original drawings are in the Victoria •nd Albert museum, London. Original spauish .Main fl Oregon Newspaper^PubiisRers National Editorial Association Oregon Newsiu^r Conference The name Spanish Mam was orig inally applied to the mainland from the mouth of the Orinoco river to Panama. It is frequently applied to the Caribbean, main also means sea. Picked Up On Main There is the story of a hus band's unsuccessful effort to in- his wife in bookkeeping in order that some sort of check could be kept on the family bud get. County Treasurer Grace Shiska announced Tuesday at Eugene that $16.ll>4.29 would be ready for mailing Lane county schools next week. This amount was the county school’s share of the $50. 397.19 paid by the Southern Pa Two weeks later he examined cific railroad company in the the book and read the entry: third quarterly tax payment. "Received from Bill. $100 ing it was this accounting: Spent Mapleton school district last it all.” The husband presented his wife with $100 and a small kxik. He told her to enter what she ceived on one page and what she spent on the page opposite. A reader of the Sentinel at Eugene corrects us on a story in The Sentinel last week with ref erence to the location of colleges and universities in Oregon. For example the Willamette Univer sity isn't located at Portland It is at Salem and the Linfield Cob lege Is not at Forest Grove, but McMinnville. Mistakes of this sort is what we get for being new and ignorant, but many of the older residents may have not don«* much better when it comes to naming the college and school towns. ON IRRIGATION Fanning sections in Oregon are coming more and mon* to irrigation, according to experts who have made a study of the possibiliti«« and who an* watching the progress of the various irrigation projects. Hen* the possibilities have never been taken very seriously because of the contour of the land and up to now it lias been mon* or less accepted that the amount of land which <*an lie profitably irrigated is verv limited. But we venture the -__________ ..... could be assertion that a surprising amount of farm ....... land brought under irrigation, even though in small patches when it is n membored that small patches fit in admirably on an inten sive farming program such as often undertaken in fruit or nut farming. Printers' terms are not always On account of the dry summers it appears as though irri understood. When the word ’ Pic” gation should certainly fit in the fanning program and under is used, just what happens usual the modern methods employed in most irrigated districts, only ly goes over the head of -.he aver the act of God can cause a crop failure. In this respect water age layman, but in reality pieing a form means scattering type ing crops when they are needed stabilizes the farm production from "Hell to Breakfast" to ex factor and enables those who are trying to get an estimate of express the meaning in rough lan any certain kind of crop production to get a better picture of guage. the situation. "We have everything on the Another surprising feature of irrigation is how it will menu today, sir.” the waitress spread once a system is adopted in any locality. Most all said. irrigation districts are farming more land than originally plan “So I see," the customer said. ned because the farmers under the projects have really learned! "How about a clean one*" how to farm. Two Negroes who had just Just how much the prospective fanning an a of this locali robbed a farmers henhouse were ty will benefit from the proposed conservation projects is a making a fast getaway across the question that time will answer, but here again experts predict fields. "Lawdy, Mose." gasped Sambo, that those who refuse to farm by irrigation will eventually be "why you s’pose dem flies follow replaced by those who do. us so close?” "Keep gallopin’, nigger,” said Mose. "Dem ain't flies — dem's ON TRADING AT HOME buckshot!” Volumes have been written on the subject of trade at home, Waiter (putting down a plate of but the attendant evils connected with the failure to show th«- soup): It looks like rain. sir. usual home own loyalty still exist, possibly not as much as Diner: You’re right! Take it formerly, but there is still a lack of the home town spirit, which away -1 ordered soup! will hinder the enlistment of the population of this trade area "There’s only one thing worse 100 percent. than trying to shave with a razor In this respect Cottage Grove is no worse than other com after the wife has sharpened a munities of like size anil possibly not as bad. From past ex pencil with it” perience we know* that a newspaper is supposed to play the "And what’s that?” "Trying to write with the pen same part in a civic movement of this sort as the minister plays in leading his church flock in the straight and narrow path. In cil.” reality a newspaper owes no greater obligation in this respect Mother: You were a very tidy than does any other public spirited citizen because after all. we boy not to throw your orange are all working for a better community. ________ peel on the floor of the bus. But some take the liberty they refuse others. Again refer- Johnny: In the pocket of the ring to the position of the local ministers by way of comparison. man next to me. There are certain things which are characterized as unchrist ian. The minister vi of course can not conscientiously do do these these "My poor fellow.” said the kind xur mmisier not conscientiously things and if he could his reputation would be besmirched, vet old lady, “it must be dreadful to ♦k« man ----- ...................................................... - . _ but he can be lame, but just think how much the who calls himself a Christian often does, not condone his spiritual leader. It comes down to a sort of a worse it would be if you were ” hypocritical attitude on the part of those who do things that blind. "You're right, lady,” agreed the are not exactly right, but who criticize freely those who dare beggar. "When I was blind do the same thing. I was always gettin’ counterfeit .The point is that this n»-wspaper is willing to assume lead money!” ership in matters involving civic betterment, but not alone and not without cooperation, which should be no sacrifice. n soliciting the public patronage the modern merchant doe« not tax your local patronism and loyalty by asking vou to buy something you do not want or can not use. He k.-ena a modern stock of merchandise and uses modem merchandising Requests for hot lunches in the method. If he does not have the item you want, he is glad to Lane county schools are being re get it for you provided the item can be obtained without U h . ceived at the WPA headquarters at Eugene, it was announced Sat much effort and expense. urday. All schools interested in n T’n LPer who “ under the im securing WPA aid to serve hot pression that he is doing the community a favor bv keeping his lunches are urged by County Su- perintendent Moffitt to apply to store open has largely passed from the picture the WPA office. Portland’s population has increased but her grade school Twelve educational experts will attendance has decreased by 2000. Apparently Portland people join the University of Oregon them Sat k " cruel to touring faculty this year, Donald M. Erb, president, announced at Eugene Saturday. The new educators are drawn from all sections of the I News Briefs OTHER THINGS COTTAGE GROVE NEEDS. Mrs. Fannie E. Goude writes an interesting letter on the need of a permanent home for the Moth- er s club and also a rest room for patrons from the adjoining communities who do their shop ping here. Many vicinities of about the size of Cottage Grove face the same need, especially ...... with reference to the estaousn- establish- — country. rest room for their out-of-town Representatives of the nation’s patrons. Why not get busy “Cot- tage Grove Boosters" and help mai°r railroads have fixed Octo- Mother's settled ber 1st as the date on which a the Mother ’s club get _ „ ------------ .. and . a rest room in ■ fifteen percent -------- * ------ —‘ will * be- “ wage cut Permanently, epnnection. Christ said: “As you “m® et ffective for 929,000 rail did it unto one of these my breth- workers, ren >ou did it unto me/ Wines can not be sold under FANNIE E. GOUDE. | names associated with hard liqu ors or with fortified wines, it was Cosl Known by Ancients announced Saturday at Portland k?°Wn lon« The by the state liquor control com- ment of a rest room. Mr. Goude’s “ornan* used it some. Cinders were letter follows: found to a ruined section of the to coal — is Editor Sentinel.—It seems just Roman ... , wall. . . Reference . ---------------- too bad that the Mother’s club the only charitable club in Cot- tage Grove, cannot have a perm- anent "abiding place.” They have had to move so often and only re- cently gotten nicely settled, after days of hard work, to be notified they would have to vacate. It is discouraging. This club Is doing a real service in the community and those who have clothing to contribute have been generous in giving. The club does not want upstairs rooms, as many mem bers are elderly, who wish to avoid “stair climbing.” Cottage Grove should have a Contrary to rumors that the aI round "tn documents of later price of new automobiles would times. coal ’ n: was ï known tlrner But p"‘ while -u:'----- ____ :: it be increased with the introduc- was uied but little until commercial ' tion of the 1939 models, word mining began in this country in came from the Plymouth division 1820, Th® results of its application of the Chrysler Motor Company " since then constitute one of the that the new models would be as much as $15 less than the new most amazing stories of all time. cars last year. Bans Alien Words Such word« as "hors d’oeuvre” •nd "consomme” must disappear from menus of German hotels and restaurants. The government has ordered proprietors to "purify hotel language of superfluous foreign words ’’ rolled toward what appeared to be a landslide victory tn Maryland in Monday’s hil*>ting Ijtte re turns Tuesday gave Tydings a vote of 126.330 to 86.834 for Rep. David J. I,ewix, his new deal op ponent. This vote was from 852 of the 1.288 polling place« Forty-two persons, Including one woman was admitted to prac- । tice law in Oregon Tuesday in a state bar examination at Salem. Fifty-two others who took the ex amination at Salem two months ago failed. Senator Millard E. Tydings week voted an $18.000 bond issue for a new school building. Applications of prospective stu dents for entrance into the state univerxiK .it Eugene arc tin i • i cent greater than last year, it whs reported Monday Collapse of Ford’s Theater Floors On June 9. 1893. Iha day that Ed win Booth was burled at Boston, th« three floors of Ford's theater col lapsed during the making of repairs. A hundred men. chairs, desks snd file cases were hurled Into the base ment. Twenty-two men were killed; sixty-eight were injured. Box Letter File«, Sentinel There have been time» In the his tory of mmt nation« when king« lo«t possession of their mint* and were obliged to Issue primitive type« of money. During attack« on town« and castles It often became neeea- «ary to cut th« royal plate into squares, diamond«, or Irregular shapes, and to «lamp on the pieces their respective values. Such rude coin« «re known ■■ «lege* piec««, •ays a Detroit Coin club authority, because of the talc« they tell of war. Invasion, treachery and harola resistance Preabvtrrisn rummage Hept. M * Oct. 1. The only portable Cocona stand* out in design...co<iatructM>n... per fori»» noe. The ali-complete portatile for aa little oa $1.00 a week. Come in and try it. THE SENTINEL Thr*» modal«: Hilani. »WO i>>< ... Standard. 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