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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
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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
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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 ________
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_-'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-
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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
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_ । ■ . 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
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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
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