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he Sentinel \ W**kly N*w*pap«r With Plenty o f Baekbon* . t Bede and Elbert Smith Publiihen Ibert Bede______________________Editor turer and he has just sold his factories, so the news story says, at a profit of thousand per cent. Concerning the overall and denim movement, ho is reported to have said: “ The overalls campaign in America is the biggest publicity stuut ever pulled o ff. It originated in the brain o f a New York reporter who, seeing the possibilities o f the ‘ story,’ weut to the biggest overalls firm in the eouu try and put the scheme in operation. He got $10,000 for the idea ami was given a job at the head o f the firm's publicity department. The stock of my company bounded from 43 to 000 in a few days after tho idea was sprung ou the public. At the psychological moment 1 sold out and grabbed the first boat to Franco to get a cock ta il.” Sometimes it pays to be a little alow. Odttage Grove people can con gratulate themselves that they were not taki n in by the out* publicity stunt put over by the overalls maim fmature rs. ! H1NGS WE THINK First T im e in H istory Things 0th»« Thlsk ssd Whsl W* Th.sk #f tfc* Th.sgs Othsrs Thlsk A conceited man seldom thiuks so. • • • V ftrat-elaas pablieation entered at Cot The best advice is not to give any. a«e Grove, Ore., as (prom tda** matter • • • tuai neat Offiee.. _412 East Main The hy|K>erite is Hutan’u right bower. • • • Thin slums how you «’« it SUBSCRIPTION BATES A woman’s look and looks are whnt >ne year_____ $1.00.Three montha...50e rcml tho fine«! print or **>«> get the men. >ut months___1.00 ( Single copy-------5« • • • To subscription listed for lea* than 60c distant objects with a pair The knocker doesn’t know what he of Member of is driving at. National Editorial Association • • • Oregon State Editorial Association We ure glad people are not always Oregon Newspaper Conference what they seem. Lane County Publishers' Association X V G L A S S E S I V • • • TM K IN V IS IB L E B IF O C A L S Marriage is a serious thing usually FR ID A Y, M A Y 21, 1920. lightly undertaken. • • • No sciiiiiN nor liumpa whore W E TOED YOU SO. A man seldom iwua out to the expec tho two parts join. tation o f his bride. • • • Sometimes Cottage Grove citizen* are HOOVER BACKS S E N TIN E L. ritieized a* being too alow. A new dress is a thing o f henuty It hus oltou beeu mini that uiauv op The Sentinel has made the statement while it is in style. • • * •ort unities have not beeu grasped be that the prroent high price of sugar auae the prehensile appendage onto Some folks are able to see that they is due to bad business administration ■vhich to grasp had withdrawn from on the part of the present national ad are blind to opportunity. EyMtght Specialist and Optician • • • .■each before they had gut arouud to ministration in refusing to take the Factory on Premises Phone 362 io the grasping. A lot o f henpecked nu-u are the kiud advice of its own sugar board that the 881 Willamette St., Eugene, Oregon O f course, this is not always true who lay around the houes. entire Cuban crop be bought at the • • • ind probably is as often as true of tuuo it was ready for the market. We •ther communities as of this one. Tho “ also rau“ gels mure votes thnu are pleased to note that we are harked And once in awhile the citisens of try. in this statement by do less a person the man who doesn't • • • lottage Grove are to be congratulated /AVAVAVAVAVAVAVAVS than Herbert Hoover, who hr.» other or being suspicious of a prehensile Some o f the prettiest seutimeuts are claims to distinction almost as great .ppendage bandied in front o f them as the one o f having been born ill Ore expressed in homely phrnaes. * • • o be grasped. gon. In a recent statement he said: • • • A certain amount o f trouble ia good " T h e present sugar situation is due Only a short time ago news stories for man—all should get married. • • • .old o f the forming of overalls and simply to bnd business administration. List September the administration denim clubs in cities all over the Some girls who give themselves to a country. Cottage Grove people did not could have bought the Cuban sugar mnu areu t taking very big chance*. • • • oecorae excited over the freak idea. crop at 6 (* cents a pound for row They went quietly along their way sugar. This would have given 12-eent It's a shame that some people have doing the best they could with the rai sugar to our consumers and together no mouey—and a shame that others with our domestic production would have. .neut they had or were able to buy. • • • Within the space of a few brief have furnished supplies in excess of veeks we hear little of the overalls our demands. As the result of the fail There is always room fur otie more, .nd denim clubs which sprung into ure to act in this matter we are par suid the woman who took on her tenth STAS EMEU) O tt CUMNLNY wing overnight like mushrooms, the ticii«iting in the world shortage^ of husband. • • • production o f which in uuused cellars sugar due to decreased European pro T. O. 8U DTELL. S PE C IA L AG ENT aid garden plots has been advertised duction and we are subject to unparal It is still claimed that kissing is STA N D A RD O IL CO.. Cottags Grove jy enterprising people as the original leled speculation and profiteering.” daugerous, but no one has said it isn't Mr. Hoover points out that the addi worth the chance. ..nd only get-rich-quick scheme. • • • The overall! and denim move was to tional tax thus levied upon American households amounts to about $50 the ¿ut the heart out o f clothing prices. A man has had a funeral over his The Sentinel predicted at the time year for each family. amputated leg. H e's not the only one .hat it might prove one of the most It is refreshing to note that the who is partly dead. • • • .11-considercd moves ever devised for national administration is endeavoring .hat purpose. to mix bitter and sweet by going after Some men like to imagine that their By patronising a Home Industry, It is, therefore, with interest that the alleged sugar profiteers, a number wives abuse them— and others don't you are helping to build up your we read a news story that Johnny Hor- o f whom have been arrested on the have to imagine it. own community. By building rip -nson, o f New York, has just left for charge o f levying a profit o f 100 to your community, you are benefiting Europe to spend some of his quickly 200 per rent, which is thought really A few puffs help a woman s appear yourself. We are confident you a.'O .nd easily-made fortuue. larger than necessary to insure mater ance, but not the kiud that come from benefiting yourself in using Johnny was an overalls manufac ial and necessary comforts of life to a lighted cigarette. “ S T E R L IN G '' COMPOUNDED the members o f their families. FEEDS A woman secretly hopes her husband AEPOBT OF TH E CO ND ITIO N OF will succeed in doing things she tries ARE PRICES OOING DOWN? TH E B A N K OF COTTAGE GROVE It is an undisputed fact that hon- to keep him from doing. eetly and accurately compounded • • • A t Cottage Grove, in the State of Are high prices to take a tumble? feeds give better results than ai y The trick is to get at the bottom o f Jregon, at the close o f business May The action o f department store* o f straight grain feed. When we start «, 14120: Chicago is taken a* proof that such the high cost o f living— i t ’s no use ed in this business we were thor trying to get to the top. RESOURCES is the case. oughly convinced that the puhl.e • • • »a n s and discounts.--------- .$106,M8.68 One store reduced its price* 20 per cares ss much for quality as for There are some places that eves cent. Other stores followed with re Overdrafts, secured and un price. Believing this, our motto hr* money can not get a man into— one of secured __________________ 847.39 ductions o f as much as 3U per cent been “ A Higher Feed Value for -kinds and warrants________ 38,255.79 and the shoppers of that city have them is the poor house. Lees Money.” And because ne •'urniture and fixtures........ 2,800.00 started a buying carnival. have constantly kept this in mind, It is nice to have a cultured woman In Portland several stores have nd Due from banks (not re “ S terling” Compounded Feeds are for a wife, but it is more satisfactory serve b a n k s)_____________ 969.08 vertised material reductions. recognized as being all the name Due from approved reserve One store has even gone so fur as to have one who can cook. implies. • • • b a n k s ___________________ 10,275.53 to agree to return 20 per cent on all Our specislties are horse feed, Every year we hear much o f abolish Checks and other cash items 1,028.90 purchases made from it during the hog feed, and dairy feed, for which ing football for humane reasons— but 'ash on hand_______________ 14,668.12 month of May before the 20 per cent we make the claim “ There are none how about the Christmas rush? Expenses____________ 278.38 reduction was announced. better.” • • • As far as The Sentinel is concerned, Call and see us, and by comparing The real busy man usually keeps hi* _________________4176,171.88 no reductions have been offered it in Total.. our pricea with those or other com the prices i t has to pay. It has just work far enough ahead so that he can L IA B IL IT IE S pounded feeds, you will find oppor 'apital stock paid in_______ $ 25,000.00 bought print paper at 11(4 cents the entertain a friend for a few minuten. tunities and bargains here that you • • • Surplus fund________________ 4,500.00 pound that cost 3 cents the pound be ean’t find anywhere else. I f wB could have everything wo dn fore the war, being an advance of 4 Jndivided profits, less ex penses and taxes paid..... 1,785.67 cents the pouhd over the highest price sire, life would be insipid and flat. It is the struggle that gives life a zest. it bad previously paid. ndividual deposits subject to • • • c h e c k ____________________ 109,462.42 Merchants of the city who have been Often a woman ’» complexion in as .astuer checks outstanding.. * 25.15 interviewed state that quotations to Certified checks.____________ 15.07 them do not yet indicate any redue valuable an her reputation—and she W E S T M A I N A V E ,ime and savings deposits— 35,383.57 tions in wholesale prices and are of can whiten that up any time she de sires. the opinion that the action of Chicago • * • Total______________________$176,171.88 and Portland merchants is merely the Did you ever see a grandmother who State o f Oregon, Conuty of Lane, ss. result o f their belief that a reduction , N. E. Glass, eashier of the above- must come and they are backing their would let her daughter treat her chit .aintd bunk, do solemnly swear that judgment that the time is ripe for a dren the same way her mother used to he above statement is true to the best reduction by unloading before the ae treat herf • • • tual reductions come, when all will be if my knowledge and belief. I f there is anything more laughable scrambling to unload on a falling mar N. E. GLASS, Cashier. than to see a young man try to act Subscribed and sworn to before me kot. That reductions in prices are on the old, it is to see an old woman try to his 12th day of May, 1920. Geo. H. Brainard, Notary Public. way is, then, only a matter o f judg look young. • • • 'M y commission expires My espiri Sept. 28, 1923) ment and we shall soon see who is the best guesser. The pulmotor is a machine to put the jo B R E C T — ATTEST: I f the reductions are on the way breath o f life back into the body. It GEO. M. H A L L , here, it will be interesting to note is a worthy invention, but think how BOY E. SHORT, Directors. I f you own an ore-hard you whether people insist that goods lie it might be abused. must have b m as they • • • sold on the basis o f what was paid for arei the only dependable them or on the basis o f the market A physician propones a sterilization pollenizing atfonta. process whereby all danger is removed value. from kissing. The ideal A man ex You can keep bei s, onywhrre that Hu y Home New York society women have pect* to take some chances when he rsn forage within a mile they require but taken to wearing snakes around their kisses a girl. • • • little attention and will <>ft -n render you u necks. Now i f they would wear some thing around the rest o f 'em, th ey’d A Kansas pastor has resigned his job ^jfcndid profi'. We can st.-irt you right and not be so severely criticized. and will make a tour o f the world eawa you un: rcessa.-y work and expense Folks are suspicious o f a preacher who Our lic e Supply Catalog An agricultural college professor says saves enough out of bis salary to in kata «.»ecytb'ng n<. reentry for the that when hens had teeth they laid dulge such a luxury. • • • successful pa •lurtinii o f honey; eggs of such proportions that at pre tmih hnte la c a t fa t and handle heft vailing prices on hen fruit they would Too many folk* do things a certain have been worth from $250 to $1000 way because someone else does them Ask for C atalog No. 023 each. Even these figures do not indi that way. This is the day when there cate that they were much larger than is a premium on men and women with ideas of their own. The b ig gest, lirai and only show of ita kind an far tilia or any year — . i .i . i. >1 bright lights. The Only Qrout Comedian of Whom the American Stage Ever Bonxta— T T RAYMOND TJT H it c h c o c K VpVPTOK and his personally picked company of 100 girls, singers, dancers and specialists will present Ike new version of Broadway's “ H IT 0 H Y K 0 0 ” A N D HI8 19 REVUE the national neceaaity with ita chorua of ’ ’ FORTY UND ER T W E N T Y " Sherm an W. Moody EUGENE THEATRE, WE’NSDAY, MAY 26 Lower floor, $3; balcony $2,50, $2, $1.50; gallery $1, plu* tax Mail orders inns! be accompanied by cheek and a stamped self addressed envelope to insure reservations Public Sale PEARL OIL (KEROSENE) 0 & r O IL C00KSTQVES Cattle, Horses, Feed and Machinery Curtin, Ore., Sat., May 29 Commencing at 9:30 o ’clock. Twelve mile* south of Gottnge Grove, one-«|uarter mile north of Curtin on Pacific Highway. 6 cow* with calve* by Hide; I cow to freshen, (all tulM-rcular tested). 3 horse* I saddle mare, 1 work hor«e and 1 unbroken filly. L IV E STOCK M A C H IN E R Y — 2 gasoline engines, one is 1 ¡¡-horsepower and one H-horaepower; 2 saw miller mandrels, shafting, Inar- ings, pop valve, steam gauge; 2 reversible sulky plows, hay baler, mower, old binder, I Hudson live-passenger ear, 1 steam wood bucknr, 2 cream s< paratora, 1 log wagon, I ai l of wagon wheel«. F E E D — t tons of loo««' hay. H OUSEH OLD OOODS— and other things too numerous to mention. Everybody Welcome— Free Lunch al Noon Term« All huuim under $25 cash, above thi« amount «tx month* time on bankable note bearing N per rent in threat. STERLING FEED CO KEEP BEES! Hero’s the golden opportunity to spend an evening as it should be spent on New Y ork’s avenu« of W a lt e r S k id m o re , Owner 00L. J. J. H AR BAUQH , Auct. O LIV E R VEATCH, Clerk Evory patron of The Sentinel is helping to girr Pottage Grove a newspaper which eminent au thority lias stated to be one of the best country newspapers published anywhere.______________ if (r Dick Hickson STATIONERY MAGAZINES AND LATEST MUSIC Seventh and Main P R E S C R IP T IO N S --------------------------- H IGH EST Q U A L IT Y ---------------------------- PURE DRUGS A N D CHEM ICALS experienced pharmacists, care and m i capable honesty in compounding and checking to ' prevent errors. Every prescription filled by us carries exactly the desired medication. THE REX ALL STORE A iF *l Saf e P r e s c r i p t i o n S t o r e T h e M o d e m P h a rm a c y Cottage Grove e ___N Oregon Woodsons Fordson Service Service i* the most abuacd word in the English tongue to«lay. W ATCH YOUR LABEL. LADIES, ATTENTION! House cleaning time iit here and you will have an accumu lation of old rags and paper and magazines that are worth money to you. If you will call up Cottage Grove Junk Go., phone 5, we will call. Buyer of Wool, Hiden, Pelta, Hags, Newspapers, Magazine« tied in bundle«, and Ghittem Bark. We buy and «ell every thing. Cottage G rove Junk Company 2-4 Pacific Highway Phone 5 Proclaimed glibly by thousand* without thought or obli gation, tho real meaning of Service is little known by many and the actual rendering of Service find« «till fewer disciples. With the Fordson Tractor, real Service i* offered in the tractor field of the highest order. A* the Ford automobile ha* built it* monument on t h e cornerstone of Service, n o the tractor, a new product of the genius oi Mr. Ford, i* building — not for a few day* or year* but for all time. The tractor itself i* made as durable, dependable, efficient and economical as the heat engineering skill, the finest ma terial« and workmatiHhip can make it. That i« the Paetorv SERVICE. Wherever a Fordson tractor i« «old, there you will find [»art« and mechanical aid a« quickly and a« ea«ily available a« the kerosene you put into your tank. That i« the Dealer’« SERVICE. To own n Fordson is to own a tractor that will SER VE you every working «lay in the year. W O O D S O N ’S, THE LO C A L FORDSON AOENTS, H A V E B U ILT TH EIR BUSINESS ON TH E ID E A OF SER VICE W H E N YO U T H IN K OF SERVICE, Y O U N A T U R A L L Y T H IN K OF W O O D S O N ’S A N D TH E FORDSON.