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.
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V ftrat-elaas pablieation entered at Cot
The best advice is not to give any.
a«e Grove, Ore., as (prom tda** matter
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tuai neat Offiee..
_412 East Main
The hy|K>erite is Hutan’u right bower.
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Thin slums how you «’« it
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distant objects with a pair
The knocker doesn’t know what he
of
Member of
is driving at.
National Editorial Association
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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•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
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.■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
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ind probably is as often as true of tuuo it was ready for the market. We
•ther communities as of this one.
Tho
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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
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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.
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o be grasped.
gon. In a recent statement he said:
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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.
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.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*.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.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
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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
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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
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»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.
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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'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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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P r e s c r i p t i o n
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T h e M o d e m P h a rm a c y
Cottage Grove
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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.