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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1952)
Blue Mt. Typical Section Two 16 Pages Cottage Grove Sentinel » COTTAGE GROVE, LANE (oLNIY, OR EGON II 11 11 DA Y .11 '. I l'< l‘G2 State Tourist Business May Have Top Year The Country School Grows Up SALEM The state's third larg est Industry, the visitor and travel business, from all Indications promises another record year pos sibly even larger than last year's record of >121 ,000,000, the Travel Information division. Oregon State Highway dc|Mrtment, has an nounced. 325.000.000 In I leginning 19.35. the travel business in Ore gon lias consistently Increased each year through the coojwiatlon of the people of Oregon, chamtiers of commerce, highway associations and the Travel Information di vision Tlie division distributed over 900,000 pieces of literature last year to jM-rxons wanting Oregon information on everything from climate to dude ranches. Iirot «lue Ml. School In early IUOO » »how All Benefit NUMBER 45 Needn’t Ä (The following »tory was made ( possible through the effort» of our Mosby Creek correspondent, Mrs. Harry Castle, who gathered the material) The old ano me new, from Ore gon'* early days to now, are told , in the story of how one rural j school grew up. Blut Mt school on route 1 was recently honored for its "modern ization" ste|m in the I Jine County Electric Co-op news, and a teach- er there in 1905, who read this article, has replied with Iter ex- IwHencex then. She U Mrs Vay Hampton Robertson, now of Eu- gene. According to the article, Blue I Ml. lx "tpyical of many small rural ; schools." The school is located cast of Cottage Grove in a "setting which no 'Hollywood scenarist , could improve. Majestic Blue I Mountain . . . looks down on the small white school with ils adjoin- 1 ing kitchen and lunchroom, rest room facilities and enclosed gym nasium.” The story goes on that often the "whine of the sow” from the area's | logging activities can ta- heard in the classroom. (And now the new- । ly completed tracks extending the . . . OP&E railroad run j»ast the rough construction, 1» . , " 'school.) The division hnx found Huit the fumlUar one room building. Mrs. Harry < asile, Mosby Creek corre»- visitor industry 1« one In which pondont, with tin- help of neighbors and friends, has succeeded in everyone In Oregon slwrox and । w,.ntHy|n|c oi ,hl. |M.o|,|r thr picture ! every dollar that come» to Ongon (HU|ld(1||{t „„ rl|thl M,rt|e MtlW>|p. NH|le Fallen from out-of Mate I m above and I m * * • . yond the normal Instate income Minnie lumber, tether; Frank Lee; Ivy Allison (dece^ The restaurant man shares by rd); Edith Brumbaugh In white blouse (now Mr». Harry Mitchell ot sidling more meulx, the fanner Brumbaugh); Bob Wlwsnon, Arthur Patten and Delbert Hubble. The girl In while seated on the steps Is Dale Urosea; her brother, ■hare* by selling more food to res taurants. the automobile owner 1^/1 Is on her left; leaning against the step» Is Millie Brumbaugh; shares by obtaining ludter high- I girl white pinafore Minnie Brumbaii*»; next boy Is Ernest I.e ways through visitors' gas tax and | girl In while, (.bulls I . and situili boy next to the end Tom Patten, everyone else shares ax the tourist now < ottave <■ role. Other small children are not Identified. dollar rolls around the state Through the continued coopera tion of Oregon's visitor hosts the people themselves the state's third largest Industry promises even larger returns In the future vol 111 < A NIP KIKI < FORM KEqt ENT U ILDLH E COI'RME Mother»' < bib The article also mentions the Mol hers' club and says it is di- rectiy responsible for much of the school's modernization." The group this past school year was headed by Mrs. Philip Ekelund, president; Mrs. George Woodworth, secretary and Mrs Mildred Roby, treasurer and school clerk. The school Itoard was headed by George Woodworth, chairman; Verlin Ward and James Bostick. Active participation of the school in 4-H work also was men tioned. A total of 28 children were enrolled this last school year. Mrs. Mona Moore taught upper grades and Mrs. Ix>uise Wickendoll was principal and taught the lower grades. John Waite of Idaho will be new princijial next fall and will teach the upper grades in place of Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Berta McGuire serves as the school's able cook in its lunch program. The two classrooms are “airy, cheerful and modem,” according to the article. Youth summer camp directors for !*' < iregon camps, including | Boy Scout. Girl Scout. YMCA, Campfire Girl. 4-H Future Farm- era' of America, and denomination al camps, have requested the two- day wildlife seasons to bo offered this summer by the game com- ■ mission information-education de Early Rough Building partment. This is in comparison with the Initiated In 1950. the wildlife school of the early 1900's when seasons have expanded from an , Mrs. Robertson taught there. She original 24 camps to nearly all I writes that "the old school house youth summer camps in the state | was built out of rough lumber and The classes and field trips, con single construction." (The present ducted by game commission jwr- building was built in 1913, with the sonncl. are designed to acquaint new gym having been built in re young campers with Oregon wild Blue Nit. school as It looks today with It» clean coat of white. cent years. Newest innovation are life in a natural setting. Snt seen In picture are lunchroom and gym. Entrance part of school new drinking fountains, with looks like old oar-room achoolhouac, might have been part of original water coming from the creek.) MORE DATTN THAN HATA Mrs. Robertson continues, "I re Schools urge students to acquire building. A total of ';M student» | h > sc with their teachers and cook. Mrs. more facts, t»ut at this time of Berta McGuire, (standing, far left) cook; Mona Moore, next to Mrs. call that I could sweep the dirt year they seem more interested McGuire, upper grade» teacher, and Nirs. Louise Mlekendoll (fur right, thru one inch cracks in the floor. I did my own sweeping and built stundlng) principal and lower grade teacher. In dates than data. the fires, except when some of the youngsters did it for me. Grove area and the degree they "We got our drinking water out earned included: Robert Raymond of a creek just north of the school, Wicks. Dorena, bachelor of and I recall taking a walk one day you can have science in education. He was also and discovering a dead cow a few an honor graduate. To be eligible yards above where we were get On-gon State College (Special) a student must have at least a ting our water. point grade average on the AUTO Six students from I he Cottage 3.5 "I boarded with a Mrs. Anna Grove area were among the 1176 basis of an A equaling I joints. Lyons, who lived one mile further Charles David Woods. Cottage LIFE seniors and graduate students re south of the school. She had three degrees at flic 83rd annu Grove, bachelor of science in en bachelor brothers, and a widowed FIRE ceiving al commencement exercises at gineering. sister, and we had quite lively dis Marjory Jane Bcidlcr and Ruth cussions on politics, etc. Oregon State college June 9. Thirty-four doctor's degrees, a McCall Blackburn, both of Cottage Boy Shoots Self number, were granted this Grove, bachelor of science in the through your STATE FARM re<x>rd "There was a boy named Homar department of nursing education. year. Of the total of 1176 gradu Jeannette Irene Workman. Cot Pattan who brought a .22 revolver ates, 961 won bachelor degrees insurance agent... and 212 earned advanced degrees. tage Grove, bachelor of science to school the first day. He wanted to impress the boys on the way Dr. A. I- Strand. OSC’s presi in home economics. home and pressed the gun to his Surah Elizabeth Jenkins, Cot- dent. conferred the degrees. Can BOB BAUDER head and said, 'Watch me shoot in tage Grove, bachelor of science didates represented 27 states, 17 myself!' Phon«* 100 < 7(H) Main fon-ign countries and possession*, pharmacy. "He hadn't known there was one and 35 of Oregon's 36 counties* bullet, and he did shoot himself. Subscribe to The Sentinel Students from the Cottage Fortunately it didn't kill him. But I in those days there were no tele phones up that way, and it was very muddy, and it was several hours before a doctor arrived. I have often thought of my first day at school. I also taught one rural school 22 miles from Baker, and one day a band of 5,000 sheep passed under the schoolhouse." Mrs. Robertson went to Eugene to teach in 1913 and has wwked there for 39 years as teacher and principal. "Times and conditions have surely changed,” she said in her letter. Six Local Students Get Degrees from OSC On June 9th LOOK! PARDON OUR MESS! WE'RE HAVING SOME FACE LIFTING DONE THIS WEEK, BUT WE WILL BE OPEN EVERY DAY FOR YOUR SHOPPING CONVENIENCE, THANK YOU. OLEO COFFEE Finest Durkee’s Wolfard’s A Fine Coffee 1^<ZS3ZE32SS CANTALOUPE 15c Lb. ORANGES 2Doz.29c CABBAGE 25c PINEAPPLE PORK & BEANS Oregon GREEN BEANS for Trail 29c LUNCH MEAT 39c ASPARAGUS 39c HEINZ KETCHUP APPLE SAUCE H-D 4G oz. GRAPEFRUIT FRUIT COCKTAIL H-H 46 oz BLENDED JUICE MD TOILET TISSUE HEI' AEROSOL BUG BOMBS Reg. 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Pkg KELLY'S MARKET BISKIT au wiMtt FLOUR FRESH DRESSED FRYERS THE BEST IN MEATS ASSORTED LUNCH MEATS FRANKFURTERS GROUND BEEF LINK SAUSAGE SLICED BACON LARGE FRESH 59c lb. 39c lb. 59c lb. 65c lb 65clb FRESH AND TASTY BLUE BIRD BRAND TOP QUALITY = ■'W0LFARD SI SMITH ELECTRIC 500 Main NUBORA LITTLE PIG SAVE AS MUCH AS $40.00!! YOUR TRI ENOL Y TOOT) STOKE Phone 15 Pat’s Saw Shop 117 N. bane Ph. 14« U - I« !(««« THREE Continuing Our BANTAM 637 MAIN ST.' - COTTAGE GROVE - PHONE 53
