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hff » The B—tiwL Cottage Grove. Oregon TRura. Aug 8, IMS Publishixi Every Thursday at Q|d Schnnl M u I m Picnic August 3 AlrfUilt Cottage Grove. Oregon By Belle Burkholder WSWMS traumi Established August 15. 1889 t5 Star Reporter» W. C, MARTIN ».......... Editor. Publisher Subscription ratea, cash in advance. No subscription for less than 3- °n Au^st «Trd in the Cottage months. 3 Mos. Gnne 107 old school lYr. 6 Mos. mates met again to renew memo- In Lane-Doughs Counties___ 230 150 1.00 rica of old time school days, from Outside This District ________ .3.00 175 J» “ _-'V MOSBY CREEK The two Mosby Creek clubs had their picnic Sunday at the 4-H club grounds and a large crowd attended. The day was spent in visiting and the men had a horsc- shoe pitching game Everyone had all the ice cream they could eat. Mr, and Mrs, Wes Russian of Kansas are visiting at the Sam Russum home nt Waldon and the families went to the coast Sunday. Dec Anderson has gone to Cor vallis to attend the 4-H three day stock anil crop touh Elsie and Doris Black and Bev erly Munsell went to the coast for a week's vacation. Mrs. Norma Daily of Revds|x>rt was a caller Saturday night at the Le.* .Dugan home at Walden NMOK. By Clarence W. Ogle, Register 'GREYHOUND REDUCER FARE« schedules In many inafwacta calf for the operation of mw* buses TO CALIFORNIA l*OI NTH tie added New low bus fares between The Greyhound agent lie»« I» Oregon cities and California were Euri Guinea. He <'«n give full in- announced Saturday by M C. formatton on farea und depurtuivu »alley, general traffic manager of Pacific Greyhound Lines. Never, with Hu* Bible in our Reduced tures ami more fre-. --------- quent service between cities In hands, can we deny rights to xn- this territory I« a iwirt of Grey . other, which, under Hic same hound's program of continuai Im- cumatanevs, wc would claim tor Spring. provement, Mr. Frailcy said. New ourselves Gardiner 1 Dial. Land Office, Lakeview, Ore. I have lived in Oregon 37 years, have been register of the District Land Office at Lakeview, Oregon, twelve years. I have seen very few homesteaders make a Himw of their undertaking. The biggest ( portion of the good land, agrlcul- turai in Character, outside of rc- DECEPTION AND HEALTH clama t ion districts has been taken up years past, even before my Many people me taken in by deception liny me unable to time. 1 dixtinguiNh between the true mid the I'nlxe I hey go by nppem The Act of June 28, 1934. known as the Taylor grazing act, elimin mues only and do not investigate the ttilth of a propamtion ated the stock-raising homestead, they must suffer the conxvi(\ivncex. ' The philosopher Itecon tells ux: “A lb hM no legs mid cglv w hich was for 640 acres of graz - ing land These same lands outside not xtmid; but it hna wingx. mid can ily itr ui>d wide. of grazing districts may be leased Truth ix commonplace mid few people Mcem ititeiexled in .11 N'CTION CITY TIMEN SOLO The Junction City Times, a under Section 15 for grazing pur ix promotion. Fnlxchood mid scmidid, however, like I iiiiih , seem poses. to cutch on to every pnraing thing mid are carried by nearly I w6‘kly newspaper has been sold to There will be land opened up in C. I.. McKinley, former business everyone thux rexulting in much harm. manager of the McMinnville Tele almost every state, under its re Epidemics are as much n product of fear propngmidu nx they phone Register by Vard Nelson, clamation for soldier's preference are of the dixense itself Mote people arc made ill, mid pcthapa it was announced. The Times has right; but we don't know when, ax many die from fear of dixeaxe ax ure actually killed by it. been edited by Mr. and Mrs. and the only drawback is. there Taking something to ease pain ix the worst tot in ol dveep. Thomas Nelson for the past twen will be so few homesteads for the J lion from the xtmidpoint of health. It cures nothing and often ty -seven years, who on June 24th thousands of boys who want them. sold the newspaper to their son The law is so strict as to farming i imikex one uimwure of the encroachment ot discoac. like putting experience and money,, that very « hi a blindfold while your house burns, until such damage is Vard Nelson. few boys will have a chance. When ' *ione. , a portion of land is opened up. Taking Homething to induce sleep ix likcwixe a deception there will be so many filings on the that docx not correct the condition, but rather creates an added same piece of land, that each one will have to draw. The person who evil to cufm * you for your folly. Drug addicts are tumidly produced ax n result of deception has the most farming experience in an effort to gain temporary relief. The cost is dear. The price as an irrigated fanner, or money, and equipment, equivalent to mon- 'you pay is too much for the limited satisfaction you gain ey, will be the winner. through this health deception Health is a very simple thing It is nothing more or less I am not trying to discourage you, I am only telling you my ex than the normal expression of function in the body which re perience. I have not used my sults from .setting free nature's forces in the glands and organs homestead right, although I was through the medium of the nervous system raised on a farm and have always The thing that simplifies tin health proposition is the faet liked the farm life. I bought a 320- that all trunk nerves are distributed from the spinal column, acre ranch 26 years ago and still These nerves make exit through gro«nes lie!wren tin- vertebrae. live on and operate the same. This makes the spine the key to health ami of vital importance. My advice to you is. if you are not eligible for n reclamation A slight displacement in the spine b marly sure to block the । homestead and you can buy a nerve channels and interrupt the passage of sensation and the farm in the right kxmtion for Its transmission of energy over the nervea. purpose, do so. You will be better Chiropractor« maintain that falls and aceideiitx very often off. From Agriculture Bulletin, displace a vertebra sufficiently to pinch nenes This lowers March 19-16. published by Oregon resistance ami eventually result« in disease with Its various State Department of Agriculture. symptoms. The name of the disease dw* not mutter o» much. Thr cause that produces it is important and must be corrected if NAVY RECRUITER ANNOUNC health is to return h> its fullest imnxure. ES ENLISTMENT CEREMONY Chiropractors are skilled in locating and adjusting this To save time for men signing up for the Navy's V-6 inactive re spinal cause of disease .There in no deception about it. They set serve, ceremonies will be held in free the forces within and nature logins at mire to normallz* Eugene at some future date, at the tissues, hi dm- time health returns. which time an officer will be here Consult your local chiropractor about your health problem. from Portland to swear tn all men Let him explain the cause hack of most dixesse and bdl you how who have enlisted up to that time, this cause can readily be corrected by spinal adjustments which "The Mx ones are biting on Coot Ray," and thera fish hear out announces I^eonard Reinholtz. clear the nerve channels and establish normal function. the |M>blk-ity. Held by John Todd and Jane Irvine, lh<-<w •Stripers” Chief Turret Captain in charge of ILalth ix yours for the asking when you conform with the are entries in thr annual Coos Bay Striped Bass Derby, running the Eugene Navy recruiting sta laws that govern health. now and com hiding during the Coon Bay Pirate regatta, Aug. B. llion 150 1880 to 1901'. The first school house was located on the bank of the Coast Fork of the WiRainette in Latham. Oregon where the main NATIONAL EDITORIAL- «settlement existed before the pres ent town of Cottage Grove. Many FEI ASSOCIATION present at this gathering had at tended this first school. The meet- Il ITU I mg began at 10:30 a. m. and at 1 p. m. a bountiful picnic dinner A STATEMENT OF POLICY was served on the tables beneath Recently we have been asked the question as to why we did the tall firs. After dinner a pro- not run the police court news or rather why we discontinued it. gram was held, opening with the The explanation is rather a lengthy one. If you consider traffic song, “Dear Old School Days" ac fines, fines for drunkenness. the divorce records and perhaps companied by a cornet duet, played Ollier news bordering on scandal, news, then we would have to by G. E. i Ed । Finnerty and Al Griffin. Ed Finnerty acting as plead guilty of the omission. In the event we decided thi'se items master of ceremonies escorted should be published, then we would have to try to segregate the Mrs. Hattie L. Best, of Portland, iten^ of local interest anil this in a county of 75.000 to 80.000 Oregon before the assembly and people would be quite a task in itself. If we tried to follow- crowned her “Queen for a Day." all of the court proceedings through we would have to follow She has missed scarcely a meeting these proceedings through in a half dozen courts. If we tried to since the association was formed in make a county wide affair of it. at least 75 per cent could have 1939 at the home of Mrs. Anna E. no possible interest to our readers and furthermore we have Adams, in Cottage Grove. A busi neither the newsprint nor the inclination to go after an under ness meeting followed to read min utes of the previous gathering and taking of this sort. the financial report, and to elect Rome years ago when the local police were particularly ac officers. The foltowing tive in trying to put over what they termed a traffic educational were elected: Armand Wvnne, eamjjaign, we published the police blotter verbatim, feeling that president. Dr M. C. Harris of Eu in a thing of this sort, the whole story should be told or not at gene. vice president; Mabel Wynne all. fh doing so we made some of the high potentates angry with Merriman, secretary and treasur us. When the so called traffic campaign ended, there was not er; Belle Burkholder, in charge of muclj left of the police blotter, so we discontinued it and have publicity. Mrs. C. Vance Shields of Pasa never seen fit to take it up again. tVherever juveniles have gotten into a jam. we have re- dena. California, a house guest of Miss Belle Burkholder, was pres fraii»d from mentioning names under the theory that publicity ent and was asked to speak She might turn them into criminal paths. The longer we stay in the read from the autobiographv of newspaper game the more we are inclined to the high standanl her husband. C. Vance Shields, of journalistic ethics that a newspaper should print all that’s fit reminiscences of early days in Cot to pput and no more. Even then we occasionally step on some-' tage Grove. May of those present recalled these incidents and in one’s foes. We have held to the theory that if one attempts to run 'a many cases had taken part in country newspaper, the publisher ought to give the common them, Mr. Shields' grandfather, mania break and we mean by this that everybody’s name should Wm. Shields settled here in 1854 be in print more than three times during their brief sojourn on " — P th»™ No. 56 which comprised a goodly eartf, namely when they are bom, when they marry and when i portion of the present city of Cot they.die. In this ambition the only time we slip is that we don’t tage Grove south of Mam street to alwqgs hear about, what you do; somebody has to give us a tip | the river. His son Zachariah was for if are not mind readers. (born here and his son, C. Vance Shields was born at Creswell but brought to Cottage Grove at an THE SUPER STATE |)uring the war. we aceepte«! an enormous extension of the early date ami lived his young life powers of government into every phase of our national life, here in the small house just west on the grounds that it was essential to the achievement of maxi- of the oM Joe Perkins home on East Main street. The Perkins muna war effort. fiow. with the war over by a year, we seem to still accept home is owned by his daughter. Mrs. Worth Harvey of Eugene. supef-government, despite the obvious fact that, in principle, Vance lived in this little house un super-government was the main thing we were fighting the til shortly after his father s death war »gainst. on Dec. 10. 1893 when his mother 10 and II. Other events of the regatta include the northwest Mt- Inder the fascist system, government owns or absolutely took the children to Washington boand and sailing championshipe, air circus, carnival, dances, a contfols all the main productive resources of the country. Anil state. Wm. Shields the grandfath queen and court and a host of other attractions. More than S3ooo here in the United States, government is moving toward that er did not die until 1895. Both in prizes will tn- awarded participants and spectator*. this funeral and that of his son •here can be no such thing as limiting government domina Zachanah were held from the tion to one or a few industries. If the trend Is permitted to con Christian church in Cottage Grove lac-> Gcude, Wenonah Doolittle Dr M. C. ami Edna M Harris, 841 tinue. it must inevitably end only when all industry is the and the children were all baptized Bales, Anna Beagle, Vancouver, Jefferson St.. Eugene, C. D. Gar- ______ cburch. Wm.. Zachariah. creature of government. The super-state is the ultimate'in mon- m Wash, Lillian Doolittle. Lila outte, Coquille; Mr. and -Mrs. E °P01L»^C,UTt^Xi8t “Te ‘^uigh dictation.’it ran n^ve'/bt^K Shill^ Veatch. Jessie Kelly, Fiank Kel Purvance. also of Coquille, Mr, and eompetition. And. sooner or later, it abolishes the right of dissent , which was donated to the citv t v ly, Cora Teeters. Chas. Teeters. Mrs, L. J. McLiughlin, Horace and —precisely as was done in Germany. Italy and Japan. William Shields. Many descend- Mardeene Peterson. Mollie Lou Daisy Cochran. Disston Route. E. ne must make the decision. We will have either free gov- ^ts and related families and old Peterson. Teetcis and Petersons L. and Ida McReynolds. Effie Le emment or dictatorial government. And no halfway measures ’ **me residents are also laid to from Little Dorena. Disston route. bow, Bertha McQueen. Sadie Wil are possible. ’ , rest here The city park was once W. W. Chrisman, W A. Hemen- lets. Almira Merrell 'Lovelace*, Part of the old Shields Donation way. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hart. Sadie Seely Withington, 640 Eddy- S. W. 55th Ave., Portland, St., Apt. 227, San Francisco, Cali Land Claim, later sold to J. C. THE SIMPLE ISSUE The seeds of another worldwide armament race among the Long who donated it to the city G. E i Ed) Finnerty. Anna ET Ad- fornia; Dora Veatch Martin, Cres- well; Holderman. Lettie great powers are being planted now—less than a year after the for a park The South Side of Main a ms. Claribel Hebeisen. 304 Jef- Veatch Good. Creswell; Elsie A. street is in the Shields Addition ferson Ave., La Porte, Ind. also a end of the most destructive war in history. house guest of Miss Belle Burk Lea. Mertie Lea Conner, Fred Alhof the major nations are carrying on extensive experi to Cottage Grove. No one of the holder, Mrs. C. Vance Shields. 1601 Beidler, O. A Merrell, Cad Wal ments with ‘bigger and better” tools of slaughter. Pilotless air Shields name now lives within the Huntington Drive. So. Pasadena. lace, Florence A. McClanahan. planes—rockets which are an “improvement” on the horribly citv limits but Dr. W. E Lebow California, Mrs. Ona Markley Grants Pass; and Minnie B. Hock « a descendant and James Lebow destructive German V-2 type—guns which fire streams of molten also related. The Linebaughs. and Munyon. 6454» L’o. Harvard Blvd. ett. mwead of bullets—electrically guided bombs of unimag-in- Porters are also members of the Los Angeles, 4, Calif.. Belle Burk •ole fo^ce—these are but a few of the hideous weapons now in clan. The family played a large holder, C. H. McKibben, Mearl the laboratories or the proving grounds. part m the development of early McKibben, Bob Harrington, 3111 THOUGHTLETS Topping them all. of course, is the atom bomb. According Coriage Grove, and Mrs. C. Vance S. E. 62nd Ave., Portland, Ore., the By Carl B. Balch to authorities, the bombs so far exploded have developed only Shields seated she felt she had al following all from same address in Thelma Harrington. a microscopic percentage of their potential destructive force most lived in Cottage Grove and Portland; Kayl Harrington. Ferrly Harring Compared to the bombs of tomorrow, they are like a firecracker knew ns people from talking with ton. John Alien, Emma Allen. 6203 It becomes more evident every »i . busband, whose young bov's । beside a stick of TNT. And no scientist believe» uuu , aumne 92nd Ave.. Portland; Hugh Trun- day that moral decay is the after- es that atomie heart hoior.»^! B ? m_s„ .i ______ _ । ■ . 1 Belonged to this community nell. Addie McDole, Miriam Baker. math of war. bomb construction and development can long remain the secret of one country. No nation has a monopoly on scientific know which he always regarded as his Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Sears. 249 N. Some people in the public eye home; whose body was returned । ledge and intelligence. Church St.. Salem, Oregon. Thcna live a different public life than for burial here in the family plot Miller. U. S Bales, Dorena. Diss- they do a private one. a of aI1 arguments for international un- * cl For m a n V years Mr. < Not nearly all the rottenness international tolerance, fair international give Shields was an attorney in Indiana ; ton Rt.. Minnie Plaster, How-ard and Lydia Beagle, Mr. and Mrs. this country is political rottenness. •nd take m the interest of a permanent peace. So long as mis and at the time of his death, was ] Knowlton. 2741 S E. Wood- In spite of the corruption and trust runs rampant through the world, all the great powers will judge of LaPorte Circuit Court Luke « ward Street, Portland. Mr. and greed that is being unearthed by seek new and even more terrible weapons. And every arms race LaPorV County. Indiana. I 1 Mrs. Almond Hemenway. and Mar the Meade committee of the sen in history has ended in war. After Mrs. Shields spoke, in garet Hemenway, C. G. Diss ton ate, it is evident, that there is formal talks were given by Mrs. The' issue m a simple one—we will have life or we will have route. Miss Hazel Hemenway, Lo some semblance of a national con w -ii l "1 ’‘“’M a **ttcr world or we will destroy it utterly Fanny Wallace Goude. whose fath- rane route. Lydia Van Buren, Oliv science, or these things would nev ww wut I m tween nations W,lhw was an ear,y ia W. Eakin, Mary Hambric, Mil We will aave have peace peace between nations or or we we will will have hav. no nation« dLR er have been heard of. lie Gross. Avondale 17, Conal I is; ra,nkin<1 "" ............. Most people pride themselves Hart of Portland, both of these ladira relating amusing incidents JOE BEAVER Formula for a sure accident : — two parts of alcohol one of old time days in Cottage Grove part of gasoline and one-hand driving. Those who registered, but not all those present were: (Addresses One summer complaint to make us mutter is corn-on-thc-cob Cottage Grove or vicinity unless otherwise designated) Albert Grif- —with apple butter. * fm, Marjorie Griffin, Fannie Wal- Foreign Rates on Application. Entered at Cottage Grove. Oregon, as second class matter. So You Want a Homestead? Reinholtz explained that here tofore each man has had to go to Portland to be sworn in. and the new arrangement is for greater convience. lie stated that any man who has had previous service in the regular Navy or the Naval Reserve may enlist in the Inactive reserve in the rate they held at discharge regardless of time they have been out of the service. Any man who has had previous service in the Army, Marines, or Coast Guard may enlist in the- reserve with the rating of Seaman First | Class. Reinholtz said that enlistment in V-6 gives men an opportunity to hold a rating, to gain longevity and improve their rating on being broadminded. There is such a thing as being like a stream so wide that it is shal low. J The truly broadminded person is one like the noble river, both wide and deep. Some of us need to get away from thinking of people in general and think of people in particular To show that the people of Athens. Tennessee wished to have decent government, after the re cent election riot, a local minister was appointed temporary town clerk. Perhaps out of this upheaval both racial and political in the south, government will become better. 'Çhe first telegraph line in the United States was completed in May, 1844 California has the largest a- mount of developed water power of any state of the Union. DR H A HAGEN huarant«d UUW GLASSES Craftsman-Mad« Factory to You NOTHING DOWN MODERN OPTICAL OFFICES THROUGHOUT THE WEST 820 Willamette - Eugene Dr. Harold S. Rockatein, RegiiUred Optometriit in Ohargf Zenith Hearing Aid—>40—$6 Down—$5 a Month GOSPEL MEETING London Church of Christ NEW STAINLESS STEEL Beginning Monday, August 11 8 P. M. DAILY Wa have just received an assortment of stainless steel, beautiful, easily cleaned and healthful. THREE SERVICES -11 A. M., 3 P. M., 7:30 P. M. Basket Lunch at the Building WOODROW Green’s Hardware & Supply Creswell, Oregon HUGHES the new minister at Cottage drove, will do the preaching ForMt Strrior, V. S. Department of Asrkultta* M And for the murder of these little hardwoods, I sentence you to confinement in your pasture for the rest of your lite!’’ EVERYBODY WELCOME 52-1 Ip
