Boy Scout Week To Be Observed Here
With exception of one day, a
full week of activities for local
Boy Seoutk has been arranged,
starting tislay In commemoration
of the hoy Scout Week February
8 to 15. The program ax announc
ed by A. W. W<»oley, local scout
master, and mentioned in previous
Issues ol The Sentinel is us fol
lows: Thursday, today
Scout*
will lie entertained by Odd Fel
lows at I.O.O.F. hall starting 8:00
p. m. Friday, February 9 Skat
ing Party at Midway rink. Satur
day, February 10 All-day hike
Into mountains. Sunday, February
11 S|M*eial services nt Presby-
i. i i hi i t-iiK li. s t a r t i n g at I I 00
a. m. Monday, February 12 Cov
ered dish dinner at armory at 6:30
In dining room, followed by regu
lar court of honor. February 13
No activity. Wednesday, Febru
ary 14 Theater party at one of
local theater*.
The high point of the week will
be a broadcast from the White
House this evening, when Presi
dent
R o o s e v e lt
w ill
ta lk
to
Ills
fellow scouters. Speaking on the
broadcast also will be Walter
Head, president of the Floy Scouts
of America The nation's 1.330.000
Cubs, Boy Scouts anil their lead
ers will take p a r t in th e o b s e r v
ance of the 30th anniversary In
scouting, starting today.
HI II.HING I'E ll M i l s AM»
REPAIRS
Building permits a n d permits
fur repairs Issued at the city of
fice for the month of January
were light, although this month
saw considerable painting and dec
orating ijcing done over town. Per
mit was issued for the repair of
the Free Methodist church parson
age moved to flth and Harrison. A
permit was issued to Ebner Mc-
Cullum for a new residence ut
1215 South 6th Street. A repuir
permit was issued to Capt. F. R.
Hrocksehlnk for repairs on dwell
in g
n t
1306 Sooth 4th street. A
dwelling repair permit was issued
to Norman Clasby for residence nt
1044 Birch street and a repair per
mit was Issued to Mrs. LaCasse at ference will be held in the office
of the public health nurse over the
500 Muin street.
corner of 5th and Main streets on
Thursday. Dr. E. L. Gardiner and
TUBERCULIN TEST
Miss Beatrice Turtle will be in
A tuberculin test will be given charge with Mrs. Donnell Allen
Tuesilay for those who had ques and Mrs. Verne Williams assist
tionable reaction from the last ing. The conference will be held
test. The test will be given in the between the hours of one and
morning at the central school ami three in the afternoon. Anyone
Dr. K. L. Gardner and Miss Bea wishing an apjxiintment may call
trice Turtle will be In charge. Mrs. Donnell Allen.
Helpers will be Mrs. W. A. Joms
and Mrs. Loren Schroeder. The 1
ROAD MONE»
to 1(N) dilution will la- given and
physicals will also be completed (Jregon will receive $3,766,974
for the- third grade children.
from the federal government this
year for' road building purposes,
< 1111,1» HEALTH CONFERENCE exclusive of the gasoline tax
money, it was announced at Port-
The monthly child health con- land yesterday.
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VOLUME L
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1940
N U M B E R 26
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S p e a k e r to D is c u s s
R E A
F r id a y E v e
A t D o re n a H a ll
Protest on Street
Several speakers, including rep-
resentatives from the Bonneville
project, will address farmers and
others interested in the establish-
ment of a rural electrification ad-
ministration project in the Dorena
section, Friday evening at the Do
rena Grange hall, Loren Hunt,
grange master, announced last
night. Mr. Hunt, who has been
circulating petitions in that sec-
tion seeking to establish a REA
said his efforts had met with
splendid success.
The meeting at the D o r e n a
grange hall starts promptly at
8:00 p. m. Friday. The public is
cordially invited.
Closing on Hiway
Three transactions nt genera, In-
terest considered by the Cty coun
cil in regular, smsion Monday eve
ning were: Acted on a request of
Alvis Wicks, that city council
take cognizance of the pro|>o*al
of the highway commission to
place imrklng strips In some of the
principal street intersections run
ning into the pn»|>osed m-w high
way running from North Ninth
stns-t to the Chambers mills. Ac
cording to present plans nl,emate
streets would bo closed to passage
and parking stri[is lx- built In the
center of the intersection along
the highway. Council instructed
city recorder to write the commis
sion protesting such proposal.
A petition bearing the slgna-
tun-s of fifty citizens was pre
sented the council asking that a
competent electrical engineer he
FFA to Hold Public
Speaking Contest at
Dorena February 15
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The annual public speaking con-
test of the Cottage Grove Chap-
ter of the FFA will be held at the
Dorena grange next Thursday
evening, February 15th, beginning
at 8:00 p. m. The purpose of tflb
contest is to select the best speak-
er to represent the chapter in the
Willamette Valley District con-
test. Five members of the local
FFA will compete and cash prizes
will be donated by the First Na-
tional Bank to the first three
speakers. The meeting to select
the speakers will be an open one
and the public is invited. Contest-
ants have not yet been selected.
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em ployed to d e te rm in e th e I s m *
iblllty of establishing a municipal
electrical system in the city limits
and If the engineer's report was
favorable, to provide means of es
tablishing such a system and use
electrical energy from the Bonne
ville project. Council accepted the
petition and deferred action In the
matter until the cost of the sur
vey could be determined.
The council also agreed to spon
sor a street marking system to
be Inaugurated by the NYA to
mark such streets as are needed
over town. Under the plan as pre
senter! by the NYA the project
would give employment to four to
.
Police report for the month of
January showed that 107 persons
were provided sleeping qunrters
during the month. Doors of busi
ness houses left open numbered 44
and gas pumps left unlocked were
12. Arrests during the month num-
Ix red four, all of which were for
drunkenness, with a total of $20
assessed In fines. Two of the four
were transients, who left the city
without paying their fines.
Rites for Howard
E. Phillips Held
Sunday Afternoon I
H o w
5
O ti M
T o J o i n _____
t
y H o n o r _____
I will do my best to do my duty
to God and my country, and to
obey the Scout Law . . . to help
other people at all times . . . to
keep myself physically strong,
mentally a w a k e , and morally
straight!
A Scout is trustworthy . . . he
will not lie or cheat and can be
trusted to perform any given task
exactly. Loyal . . . to his home,
parents, and country. Helpful . . .
he mast do at least one “good
turn" every day. Friendly . . . to
everyone, a brother to every
Scout. Courteous . . . polite to all,
women, children, and old people.
He must not take pay for “help
ing.” Kind . . . he will not hurt
any creature needlessly. Obedient
. . . to parents, and to those in
authority. Cheerful . . . n e v e r
shirks or grumbles at work. Thrif
ty . . . makes the best of his op
portunities. Brave . . . defeat does
not down his courage. Clean . . . he
keeps himself clean in body and
thought. Reverent . . . faithful in
his religious duties.
To join the Boy Scouts of Ameri
ca, a boy must be at least 12 years
of age. Under this age, he can be
come a member of a CUB PACK.
(This is a group of younger boys
who are preparing themselves to
become Scouts; their training, of
course, Is of a more elementary
nature). Send him to the nearest
Scout official of whom you know.
This scouter will be able to help
him find a troop.
Where there Is no nearby troop,
one may be organized by a
church, school, club, lodge, union,
grange, or any other similar insti
tution. If a boy is practically
alone, he may register as a "Lone
Scout” by writing to the nearest
council or A. W. Wooley, scout
master, or National Council, Boy
Scouts of America, in New York
City.
Or . . . The Sentinel will be
pleased to give further informa
tion you need upon receipt of such
requests.
Rites were held here Sunday af
ternoon for Howard Robert Phil
lips, aged 49, killed In a mine ac
cident at French Gulch, Califor
nia, January 31st. The Rev. E. L.
Kechley, Christian minister, offi
ciated at the services held at 2:30
Sunday afternoon at the Mills
chapel and interment was made in
the Bemis cemetery.
Mr. Phillips, employed In a gold
mine at French Gulch, met In
stant death when he drilled into a ______________________
loaded hole. He was born here
.
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,
« Chamber °f Commerce
Hebron Grange to
educated. He was a veteran of the Members Discuss
...
K “ ^„4ypro^ i „ r rM°A
£ «old Meetings in the
World war and served overseas.
Qfvoof IVTarVino-
guests
of
the
chamber
and
pre-
H e o r O l l SCH O O l H O U S e
On May 26, 1934, he was m nrri-,
JHarKlIlg
sent the bradcasted program.
ed to Josie E. Bemis, who survives
'
in addition to his parents,
Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Phillips, pioneer resi-
dents of (he London community,
and a sister, Mrs. Carl King of
Cottage Grove.
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The South Lane County Softball
league have initiated plans to
open the season promptly this
year and to secure a lighted field,
so that night ball may be inaugu-
rated here. Managers of the
various teams last season met at
the Farmers’ Union grocery Fri
day evening and discussed the
coming season and agreed to send
a delegate to the state softball di
rectors meeting in Salem Sunday.
Last year's team managers will
again convene Monday, February
Cottage Grove Sentinel
Council Hears
six unem ployed youths
Softball League Team Managers to
Hold Second M eeting*nday Feb.12
a report of the dele-
12th
nake further plans
gate ai <3.
The meeting next
for the t,
vill start promt-
Monday e ”
d all interested
ly at 7:30 p
•¡ng a team to
in softball or
year are in-
enter the leag
vited to attend,
According to
.tard McFar-
land, the team managers will dis
cuss the possibilities of lighting
Kelly field. Some discussion has
been had on the possibility of
lighting the new high school ath
letic field and using the lighting
system to light both the softball
diamond and the high school foot
ball field, but this project has
been dropped temporarily because
of the remote location of the new
high school field.
It is expected that at least the
same number of teams will enter
the league as was entered last
season, which numbered eight.
The number of league teams may
be enlarged and new teams en
tered. Teams playing last season
Workers Union, Culp Creek. Do
rr na, Post Office, Bohemian Club,
Knickerbocker's, Quality Market,
Lots of Rain But
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No complaint on the lack of
rainfall in February thus far and
everybody is happy: that is the
native Oregonians. Up to 3:00 p.
m. Tuesday afternoon the Febru-
ary rainfall had amounted to an
even three inches, almost as much
88 fell here during the entire
month of January, according to
the records of C. E. Stewart. The
rise in the Coast Fork up to that
time amounted to about three
feet. Row river was reported run
ning bank full Tuesday noon.
Rainfall was fairly steady for the
first three days of the week.
In the weather report for Janu-
ary, the lowest thermometer read-
jps
the winter season occurred,
The low reading was 23 above zero
V’d while it was only twenty-
thrp? here. Florida and Southern
California were experiencing snow
an2 ice-
_
Records of Mr. Stewart, weath
er observer, show the mean m aa-
mum for . Januai> .wa? « .7 ; the
n?ean minimum 32.4; the mean 40;
J,‘’e maximum 58; the minimum
precipitation 3.7; cloudy days
Part cloudy days 9, clear days
.
’th a^ this warm rain we ye
been having, if we had had the
usual amount of snow in the hills,
it would just have been too bad
Veterans to Hear Rev. i ’J X
Meade Talk Subject ¡X ',
"Communism” Sunday
Veterans of all wars as well as
many other citizens are expected
to turn out en masse Sunday af-
ternoon to hear the Rev. A. L.
Meade. Toronto evangelist, discuss
“Communism” at the Methodist
church. Members of the American
Legion in a regular meeting Mon-
day evening voted to accept the
invitation of the Rev. Meade to
attend. Legion members a l s o
started plans for the annual stag
feed, which will be given about
March 1st. The exact date to be
announced later.
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Rites for Silas M.
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A i t 01* l l f l f i n
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•
.Sdas_
Hart, aged
W1!
d Saturday attcr-
at
r?>' froT
W1? b the.
p Rcch-
^y. C^nstian minister officiating,
Burial will be in the Sears ceme-
tery.
Mr. U art died at his home about
R e m o d e l i n g S& 16 o f
five miles east of town on Febru-
M
,
ary 6th at 6:25 a. m. after an ill-
b t l i e W c i y S t a r t s F r i d a y ucss of three days. Since coming
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to this section from Roseburg
t «
*
seven years ago he had been en-
Safeway store is staging a rented-
eling sale, starting Friday and
ending Monday afternoon. Added
convenience
be found
only
.n the new will
fixtures,
new not
product
facilities, new checking station.
new streamlined meat market dis-
nlav case but in w id er aisles
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o,
, ‘ .
Special attractions Saturday is
a Bisquick demonstration, lasting
all day and two Lane county en-
tertainers, who will sing and play
your favorite songs. This enter-
tainment will be Saturday after-
noon and evening only. A loud
speaker will be used by the enter
tainers.
D
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16 190g at chandler. O klahom ^
Surviving are his widow and the
" ;hfWren
all J v irn
A m
GrovT * Cari
C H ar
nn T
L ^ K H aS q i~ l H»w
t vman Hart RiAhli-d
Uyman Hart, Richard L. Hart and
Mmes. Bernice Brentlinger and
Orphiie F. Miller and Miss Violet
Hare
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L ilO n S C .lU D W i l l A g a i n
n
.
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bpOnSOr Raster Hunt
At the Gold Course
Chamber of Commerce mem-
Permission has been granted the
hers heard a discussion of the pro < IVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Hebron grange to hold meetings
The .Cottage Grove Lions club
TO HOLD EXAM INATION
jn (he Hebron
school
it was I_
posed street marking project to be
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.
. j house,
™
.will again sponsor an Easter eee
inaugurated soon by the NYA and The Unffod S.» .ra CivU S e n d e
fOF Highway 99 hunt.
The hunt, a feature of the
after a round table discussion n
Easter “ season,
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“ “ h was staged under
motion was made and carried that conuniMion has announced open ,o meet since th e ‘burning of the p r n h q H lv M r m H n x r
the direction of the Lions club for
(he
city
sponsor
and
finance
this
competitive
examinations
for
the
grange
hall
several
months
ago
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a
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WINTER WEATHER
a number of years, but was dis
project.
positions of radio inspector. $2,600 pians have been made to hold a
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PROMISED
continued for a period during the
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I If and when ***£ PN»*«4 is un- a year, in the Federal Communl- basket social at the Morton home Carl Rvnearson manager of the early thirties
b e l i e v e groundhogs ^ rta k e n a b o u ^ ^ w o tr f e n signs cations Commission, and assistant >n , ^ aroh.,_pe_H .E.C ^dub_ wU_l Oregon pacific phghway associa- At the regular meeting of the
know their weather, we are in for ®ro
'Jill' hl8 mnim»nd rfldio inspector, $2,000 a year, in {j010 a basket social at the Morton tion announced Tuesday noon at club last Thursday W. L. Work-
six weeks more of winter weather. " f
»„d ¿ d l l ^ T iii tte various Government departments. ¡L°nte also’ March l s t to tie a »he Chamber of Commerce lunch- man, president, appointed to the
The groundhog saw his shadow
« « 4 P^s’ of $75 00 according Applications must be on file in the Ü \
v
ieon that Plans wou,d be made here following committee to arrange
last Friday if he emerged late neighborhood of $75.W according IP
■ .
on tile in the
Friday thc grange met at the Friday for the association mem- the hunt to be given at the golf
enough, as the sun shone for three
V
th Commisslon s office at Washing- home of Mr, and Mrs. Charles bership drive to be staged here course: Dr. H. E. Shuey, S. Carl-
or four hours.
vnamnei
tjornmirce.
ton, D c not jater (han March Führer. Mrs. Fred Harris report- probably Monday. Mr. Rynearson son and Roy Sunderland
Up to groundhog day, spring L. C. Schroeder, president, an- 4 jf
from states east of ed on thp raising of flax in the said a group of business men Of interest also is the fact that
lik<> weather prevailed here the nounced that an interesting pro-
Willamette valley.
would meet with G. R. Merritt of Easter this spring will fall on
latter part of January and the gram had been prepared for the J ,o' aH«- """ n,u iaTPr Tnan
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Eugene, membership supervisor of March 24th. According to the
«lays
put m many
folks in the ¡next three meetings nt the Qiam- March 7, *940, if received from
Archie McGowan of Burns vis-¡the association, and discuss plans calendar makers this won’t hap-
i balmy
ir iiiu y
u
a y o
a s i,
i ber of Commerce. Next week the Colorado and states westward.
ited briefly here today.
notion of gardening.
pen again until 1948.
.of the coming drive.