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i * » (Sow She AND POTTAGE J VOLUME XXIX RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE OPENS MONDAY GROVE LEADER__________________________________________________________________________ COTTAGE (¡ROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 191R VEGETABLES GROW SO BIG IT S DIFFICULT TO DIG THEM i FATAL FLU IS CONTRACTED SHALL OR SHALL NOT THE BAN GO ON OUTSIDE OF CITY i MONSTER SQUASHES ARE “BOMB PUNKINS ’ NUMBER 12 C. G. HIGH SCHOOL COST LOW PER PUPIL G. L. Alleman, of Divide, has the prize vegetable story for this year. He puked I* squashes from one vine and Mr«. U A. Bartell anti Ilomer Currin Health Officer Says It Should to Pre their combined weight was 242 pounds. Figures Show That Expenses Here Are Attempt Will Bn Mail« to Enroll Every veut Improved Conditions From Way Below Those of Other Succumb to Malady That The vine was a volunteer and wandered Mun, Woinau aud Child of the Getting Worse. School* of County. Afflict* the World ' all over a garden whieh contains about Cottage Grovo Section. three square rials. The garden is a part of the Me Reynolds ranch and was irri- Shall the ban be kghiri put on *11 pub gated. Th« directory recently iasned from here or ahull things be lie uHsembluges Mr. Alleman thinks the Hope Fiester the state superintendent's office gives allowed to run with nil possible ante sugar ' beet, which ’ ’ ’ weighed 24 pounds. some interesting data concerning the ex guardr to prevent the spread of the in must have grown on some part of the pense of the conduct of high schools in fluenrii epidemic, if there is such an same ranch Lane county for 1918-1919 and shows epidemic f That is the main question that, despite the fact that Cottage that is agitating the public mind. Grove has been paying a large school Unquestionably there are numerous tax yet the cost per pupil is low com cases hen- of what ia supposed to be the pared with the cost in other school dis Mrs. Mildred Ethel Bartell, wife of influenza, some of them serious, but trict*. The figures are as follows: t he (,*. A. Bartell, died at 3 o'clock Wed there aeem* no doubt that the epidemic School Dial Cost per Pupd nesdny morning of pneumonia, whieh ia abating. Thia ia proven by the con Elmira .... — ______ 4103.61 followed mi attack of influence, which tinuai increase in achool attendance. It Many Wish to Keep Up City's Military Waiterville _____ _ ___ —— 00.50 was contracted during a visit in Port ia also true that there have been two 81.33 Crow ”♦............ ......................... ... Reputation Until the Fighting bind. Iler condition hail been serious deaths from influenza duriug the past Creswell __ _________________ «9.25 « Boys Come Home. for several duys but hud rftightly im week, whereas there had la-fore been Walker __ ___ _______________ «8.10 proved tho day In-fore und there were but one during the entire epidemic, but Dorena...... _...... . ..... .......... ...... 67.00 hopes that she might recover. The fu neither of the cases that resulted in Santa Clara.......... .. ...................... M.60 The organization here of a platoon or Coburg __________ ______ _____ neral will lie held today from the chap death this week were contracted here. «2.50 Health Officer Oglesby is, neverthe company of the new National Guard is Irving _______ ____________ _ el. Mrs. Bartell had been a resident of 62.30 thin city for eight years, being assoi-i less, of the opinion that the ban should quite likely. A meeting of tae old Thurston ................ .......... ........ .. 61.3« uti-d with her husbuud in the conduct be put on und action one way or an home guard company was held Friday- Florence____________ _ ______ 61.20 Definite Location of Highway Will lie of the Hotel Oregon. She was born Other is expected to be taken today. Dr. night at which the first step* towards Mapleton____________ ___ ___ 55 00 Great Relief to the People in ut Lyons, Kann., and was 33 yearn of Oglesby is of the opinion that the great the organization were taken and a num Ixirane ____ __ _____________ 63.21 age October 26. Surviving relatives ure ent danger ia from the disease being tier signed up. Major J. Francis Drake, Eugene __ ___________________ This End of County. 52.15 the husbuud, the mother, Mrs. Emma B brought in from the country districts, of the adjutant general’s office, wan Springfield__________ __ ___ 43.50 Porter, who made her home with her where it is now more serious that it here a few days before conferring with Junction City_______________ 43.00 a few of those most interested in pro- Cottage Grove_______________ daughter; a sinter, Mr*. A. It. Clough, ever ba* been here. Surveyors in the employ of the 42.00 I. Action requiring the quarantine of muting the organization. of Moron, 111., aiul u brother, Ward 11 highway i-iiiiimission commem ed M areola ________ _ __________ 40 62 Cottage Grove always has had a mili- Pleasant Hili................ ............... Crantz, mechanician with the 2nd air all canes of influenza was taken yester 34.28 cruft buttulion ut Port Wright, New day und it in thought that this measure tary organization of some kind and Cottage Grove employs twice as many of precaution, together with the coop those who couldn’t go across want to instructors in the high school as does York. erution of all citizens, will do much in keep up the reputation of the city ID Junction C5ty, where the expens-’. per pu that respect until the boys get back. pil ia the same. Homer Felix Currin died at midnight stamping out the epidemic. The expression by the health officer Wednesday from an attack of influenza, Grange Elects. which hi* had contracted while eui that the bun should go on has been the PETRIE AND ISHMAEL ployed ut la-ona. lie cauie here to be cause of much comment pro and eon on Pottage Grove grange has elected the CARS ARE IN SMASHUP the part of citizens. following officers: M. M. Wheeler, lit the home of his mother, Mrs. Rosa master; W. E. Dorward, overseer; Mrs. Currin. The funeral will I m - held at 10 The Dr. Petrie and Earl Ishmael ears B. O. Crowe, lecturer; J. R. Cooley, sec were badly damaged Sunday evening, a. m. Saturday from the chapel and in HEALTH OFFICER SAYS retary; G. W. McFarland, treasurer; F. ferment will be in the Nears cemetery, CRITICISM UNJUSTIFIED J. Helliwell, chaplain; W. A. Heinen when the Ishmael ear was struek from lie was a member of the Moose lodge. the rear by the Petrie ear. The Petrie Mr. Currin was born in Cottnge Grove Health Officer Oglesby refuses to way, steward; S. K. Lewis, assistant ear was approaching Woodson 'a garage steward; Mrs. H. K. Lewis, lady assist September 3, 1*94, and wu* 24 years of make a statement this week as to the from the west, when a ear swinging onto age Inst September. Besides the mother, condition of th« influeuza epidemic, say. ant steward; Mrs. W. E. Dorward, Main avenue from Ninth street blinded surviving relatives are two brothers anil ing that it is impossible for him to Ceres; Mrs. Mary Ishmael, Flora; Mrs. Mr. Petrie so that he did not see the n sister, George, of I .eon a; Lynch, of make a report because but one physi M. M. Wheeler, Pomona;JB. G. Crowe, Ishmael car parked in front of Robin this city, and Mrs.Osie Fields, of Rose cian of the city has complied with the gatekeeper. son’s restaurant. The Ishmael car was bwtf. law in reporting cases under his care. driven ahead for at least 20 feet, both As far us (he official records show there BUY ALL 8UGAR YOU NEED. cars coming to a standstill when the SAYB YOUR UNCLE SAMUEL head ear hit the gasoline standpipe, has been no influenza here to amount DEATHS ARE NORMAL: anything, although as a matter of whieh was not seriously damaged. Th» ONUT TWO FROM FLU to PROCLAMATION “Tell the people of Eugene and Laae Ishmael car had no taillight and the car fact nearly every home has been visited, The report of Health Officer Oglesby a large number of cases being severe, al county that they may now buy all the whieh swung in from Ninth street took for November shows that the deaths ' though to date there have been but two sugar they need,’’ said F M. Wilkins, so much of the street that the Petrin were not above normal, there being five, deaths from within the city and but a county food administrator, “for the lid car was forced over against th* curb. of which two were females and three total of five in this end of the county. is off and everybody is free to pur Mr. Petrie applied the brakes when Referring to criticism of the city, chase as much as they did before the within a few feet of the Ishmael ear males. There were but eight cases of but on account of the slippery condition influenza officially reported to the county and state health officers far not war. ’ ’ Mr. Wilkins has received official no of the pavement they failed to hold. health office. Only two of the deaths ■gain putting on the baa. City Health t during the month were front influenza. Officer Oglesby makes the statement tification from the national food ad Had the Petrie car been closer to the There were eight births, of which ■11 thi*^ the sevrrai health departments are ministration, through the state food ad Ninth street intersection, the car swing not to blame, for there is no official ministration that the ban has been lift ing in from Ninth street probably would were tunics and two females. r record that there is an epidemic here, ed, but at the same time the people pre have rammed into it head on. i- on due to failure on the part of physician* urged not to engage in sugar orgies, as Mrs. Petrie, who was seated beside of SALE OF STAMPS TO in to make proper reports. Without the the supply is not yet as large as de her husband, was thrown against the tai DATE REACHES $61,000 ...... rd there is no reason for action. Dr. sired, and if too much is used it is pos windshield with such force as to break on Oglesby states, and even had the reports sible that restrictions may have to be the glass. A slight gash across the nose OWNERS ARE REOUESTED in , been made, the health officers are not placed on its purchase again. was inflicted by the broken glass. The TO HOLD W S STAMPF All food restrictions are lifted, says wound bled freely but proved to be upheld by law in closing public assem binges on account of influenza and can Mr. Wilkins, except in the cases of all nothing serious. only do so by taking the law into their eating houses, where those on bread, A rear fender of the Ishmael ear and butter and cheese must still be observed. a front fender of the Petrie ear were own hands. Only two ounces of bread to a person, badly smashed and one light on the Other Cities Enforcing Flu Regulations. one-half ounce of butter and one-half Petrie car was badly bent and smashed Other cities in Oregon are putting in ounce of cheese to a person at each meal and one axle slightly bent. to effect regulations for the stamping is permissible. v COTTAGE GROVE BOYS out of the influenza epidemic and it is CLUB IS TO START ARE TO COM EHOME likely that quarantine will lie enforced MARVIN L. SMITH IS DRIVE FOR MEMBERS over the entire state. ON CASUALTY LIST The 65th regiment, of which the larger The quarantine is being enforced ir The commercial club has made plans part of the boys of the old Sixth com The name of Marvin L. Smith, of Cot for a membership campaign which will pauy are membefti, has been designated Eugene. Public meetings have not been for return to the states. The exact date prohibited there, but public dances have, tage Grove, appeared in Wednesday's start with the new year. Each of the that the regiment will sail is not known, that being rm-ognized as one of the most casualty list as severely wounded. His five members of the regular member it merely having been designated for certain methods of communicating the parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Smith, had ship committee has been made chairman received a letter from him dated No of one of five teams of five each. It is early return. It is probable that all disease through the breath. vember 8 in which he said he had been hoped to double the membership during those regiments previously designated wounded, was in a hospital and expected the campaign. for early return will sail ahead of the FLOWERS. FOOLED BY to be there a month and they also re The club is now in excellent condition, «5th. WEATHER. BUDDING OUT eeived official notice from the war de the old debt which hung over it having partment of the wound. been cleaned up during the past year. Many Fatalities in Aviation 8cho il.s. The spring weather is extending so Smith is a member of company L, It is probable that some of 'the receipts Joe Brant, a former Cottage Grove far into the Winter that spring flowers 361st artillery, 91st division. from the membership campaign will be boy recently discharged from the avia are beginning to put out buds. The beau used for making improvements in the tion service, visited this week with his tiful white lilac in the McCargar yard li club rooms. Mrs. Wm. Lackey Dies. brother. l.ester Brant. He said that he no* fully budded out. as is also a horse f Mrs. Wm. H. Lackey died here at a liked the air service but that it was chestnut tree. Others report similar oc ir. m. Tuesday, the cause of death being HAMBLE IS FIRST OF pretty dangerous. Only half of a class currences. L. L. L. L. to Stand. stomach trouble and complications from Tho I.oynl l.eginn of Loggers mid of 30 with which he started,, survived 65TH TO GET HOME which she long had been a sufferer, al I.umbernicn, whieh wns organized bv the training. Mr. Brant enlisted from War Exhibit Not Likely. though she did not at any time take to Captain Bolton Hamble, who has been thè govermnent for thè period of the Washington. J E. Young, who recently wrote-Sen her bed and was about the house the in France with the 65th artillery, C. A. wnr, and whieh proved such an effi ator Chamberlain regarding the possi day before her death. The funeral was C., returned to Eugene Friday morning, cient organica! ion in dui ng away wit> $4 Clock Works 56 Years. bility of getting a permanent wjir ex thè I. W. W. iiik I other trouble milkers A. Kirk waa in from Dorena Nntur hilut for Cottage Grove, has received s held Thursday afternoon from the chap and is the first member of that regiment in thè luniber and nuli business, will Ite day. His principal business in coming reply from tho Smithsonian Institution, el. Mrs. Lackey’s maiden name was to reach home. He spent the entire day continomi by thè m<n theinaelvea. This to th,* city was to have repairs made to to whom his letter was referred. The Ella Almeda McCoy and she was born calling upon mothers uf boys in the com NO MORE RUBBER IN '■e Almeda county, California, Aug. 9. pany from Eugene to deliver little per NECKS OF C. G. PEOPLE wns thè decisimi nrrived ut bytrepre* a clock which has been keeping good letter states that the institution hopes in sentatives freni over thè northwest nt a time for him for 50 years. The time to build up a great collection of war 1874, being 44 years of age. She had sonal messages. Captain Hamble was ordered home the y piece cost but $4 when new and Mr. reli.-s, but expresses a doubt as to spent almost her entire life in this vh There is no mure rubber in the necks meeting lield ut l’ortlnnd Inst Fruliiy. Kirk says he hopes to ^et his money's whether or not there will be sufficient cinity. Surviving relatives are the hus day before the armistice was signed, be of the resident* of this vicinity. The band; one son. Chas. F. Lackey, with ing selected by the war department as worth out of it. supply was cum plot cly exhausted during duplicates to permit of making up col the t’>5th regiment in France, and one one of a number of Americans who were Rice Hastings Is Dead. the past week in watching for the nrmy lections for other places, a number of daughter, Mrs. Grace Richey, of this to relieve the French officers located at Word has renehisi here of the death nirplnne, which arrived nt i.ugene Nntur nt Ashland of R. W. Hastings, who was requests had already been re city. W. T. McCoy, of Hebron, is a the training camps in the United States which request* Snow Falls in Hills. day and wns to resume i’s juurniy to in the burlier business iiere for a irimlier All the high hills of the surrounding ceiv ed. brother; Mrs. Cora Quimby, a sister, as instructors. the south Sunday. The eager watchers of years before moving to Ashland. The country were covered with snow Nun lives at Modesto, Calif., ami another sis He stated that although the 65th had here got no sight of the machine Nun cause of death is not given but he wns day night during a rain storm that pre Dentist Locates Here. ter lives at Boise, Ida. been in five battles up to the time he day, ns l.icutenmit Hogland confined his siek only a few days. Me leaves u wife vailed here and which turned into flakes Dr. H. W. Titus, of Eugene, __ , has left, none of the boys had been killed flying that day to performing feats for and the following children: Gene, who on even the lower levels for a short opened a dental parlor in the „ rooms in the people of Eugene. Monday the peu is in the navy; Elmer, who is in the time. Old Cerro Gordo looms up from the First National bank building for Oct your girl—and then get your an or even seriously wounded. Several had pie here watched the ascent uf the mil aviation corps; Verne, of Astoria; Mrs. the city ia hoary headed regal splendor. merly occupied by Dr. Hendry. He w nouncements from The Sentinel. ••• received slight injuries and many had been gassed. Some of the battles in chine mill its futile effo»t to line) a George Sherwood, of Portland, and have a thoroughly equipped and modern which he was engaged were fierce. Most strong wind, after which it returned to Gladys, who lives nt home. offi. e. He has been a member of the na Royal Arch Elects. of these were in the vicinity of Verdun. Eugene. The people were rewarded The Royal Arch chapter has elected tional army since April 2 but was not Captain Hamble has no idea when the I uesday for their vigilance bv getting —you don’t think that you need the following officers: O. O. Vcatch, called to active duty. Since the signing boys will be home, nor what they- ar« Injured in Motor Car Accident. a good view of the log plane ns it passed to advertise. doing now, as he has been traveling Mrs. N. E. McKinney hits received high priest; Worth Harvey, King; M. of the armistice he has been tendered a Over the city sevoriii thousmid feet in ever since the day before the signing of word thnt two of her grandsons, Roy F. II. Anderson, scribe; John Bader, treas preliminary discharge which permits of the air. — you think that everybody knows tho armistice. t'lnrk mid Frank VanWinkle, of Port urer; Gottfried Graber, secretary; J. N. his entering business. you. knows where your store is Nilsby, captain of the hosts. land, mid sons of Mrs. Elin Clark, Mrs. and what you have to sell. Hogland Alights at Roseburg. Surpris« Willet* on Anniversary. Sues for Divorce. Lieutoigint A. F. Hogland, U. N nrmy McKinney's daughter, were injured in Spencer Now Commands Squadron. mi automobile accident recently. The Melvin L. Roberts yesterday began Dorena, Ore., Dec. 8.— (Special to — possibly you are correct, but if bv inter, who passed her,. Tuesday fore Lieutenant Carlton E. Spencer, of the suit against his wife, Mvra L. Roberts, The Sentinel.)—-Just as the J. Q. Willits you are correct, how do you ex noon on the second lap of his return trip motor car, which wns being driven hv aviation corps, is now commanding of for a divdree. They were married in Eu - Huy t'lmk, wns struck by n street vi I. family were preparing to sit down to plain the fact that every big store to Sacramento, encountered a heavier ficer of field squadron A, l.nngley field, their Sunday dinner, James Redford is one that has been a consistent wind anyth of hero than was blowiag nt The other occupants of the ear, »11 *if Hampton, Va. He was keenly disap gene June 29. 1916, *ays the complaint Cruel and inhuman treatment is alleged and family and Mias Annie Lindsay, as and persistent advertiser? the time he left Eugene mid he alighted whom were thrown out onto the pive pointed in not getting to go across. sistant teacher in the high school, as the ground for s legal separation. nt Roseburg. If took him four hours to meiit, were Murtha Nailer mid Hallie walked into the house. The Willets fam The husband alleges that his wife was 1 —have yon ever noticed two make the distance. Roseburg is 75 mile* Bmgelt. The injured were taken to a cross and fault-finding, that she accused ily were somewhat puazled as to how Must Reflle Exemption Claims. storee of about the same sise and from Eugene by railroad Imt several hospital and are recovering from their injuries. they were going to prepare for so much Those who wish exemption from their him of intimacy with other women and then wondered why one enlarged miles eloser on an air line. company on such short notice but the assessment work for 1919 must again that she left him in Eugene September a little every year while the other The aviator arrived over Roseburg at embarrassment was shortly relieved by file their claims with the proper au 8, 1918. Howard M. Brownell is attor remained the same size’ Explosive Regulations Changed. L IO, at.... rdiiig to information received ney for the plaintiff.-—Eugene Register. the callers, who took possession of the Local deniers in explosives have re thorities, according to word from Wash here. He circled over the city for a few —hasn’t it Always been the case house and prepared to serve the dinner minute* then struck out for tho south ceived word from the bureau of mines ington. that the store that grew was one whieh they had brought with them. The Mrs? W. E. Fulmer and Mrs. Harry thnt they mnv hereafter sill saltpeter but returned and found n Innding place. occasion was the 31st anniversary of which advertised while the other Fulmer went to Portland Sunday, hav (shsrles Burkholder, who eame here Hail weather conditions been right the and other ingredients of explosives, but Mr. and Mrs. Willits and the day wan one that remained the same site li'Utennnt planned on ranching Sacra which are not intended for use in the from Corvallis for the Thanksgiving vi ing been summoned there by the illness ■seed. The surprise was a non-advertiser? of the former ’ s son and the latter's cation, was taken down with the “ flu" nmnto six or seven hours after depart manufacture of explosives, without li Willits was complete. ing from Eugene. cense but that the license requirements and he and his mother, Mrs. Clara Burk husband. Both were taken ill with « — think it over. for the sale of dynamite and blasting holder, were obliged to extend their vis “flu’’ shortly after their arrival but Clnwy job printing. The Sentinel. •• it home. Charlea is able to be out again. all are now recovering. powder still arc in effect, WATCH YOUR LABEL. COMPANY IS LIKELY STATE SURVEYOR AT WORK ON PERMANENT SURVEY <