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The Sentinel the people of the community and after they hnve seen the kiud ol a spot wo have to offer as u permanent site. The Methodist church of the city has under» niton the expenses of the camp meeting for this year. The mem bers of the church are doiug the most of the work that will aid in milking a favorable impressiou upou those who are to decide whether or uot this is to be the poruinueut location of the mectiug. We are a little tardy In acting, but there is yet ample time to joiu i u making this a community project. \Vc waut the camp meeting as a permanent mstitutiou. Upon this we seem to be decided, whether Metho dials, or members of some other church, or members o f uo c hurch. Ir that is what we waut, the way to get it is to do our part. There is yet much to do iu which all may help. not be a darned fool, provided he buys goods at home at us reasonable a pries ns he can away from home. That Is encouraging, for we were afraid ww or With l ’ louly A Wimkly were going to be put in the durnc* one. fool class without a hearing, iiut if it be true that goods cost more at Elbvrt Bede and Elbert Smith Publisher* home thau iu other cites, then The Elbert Bede.... - __ _____________ Editor Sentiuel will have to be classed with the durued fools for the correspondent A first class publication entered at Cot is iu error iu stating that a difference tage Grove, Ore.,'as second class matter o f 8, or 9, or 18 per cent would drive us to another city for vvliiil vve had to ....412 East Mam Business Office... buy. SUBSCRIPTION RATES We know nothing about the price ef wire fencing. If the quantity to be One year____$2.25 | Three months.....65c bought was large euough, cireura Six months.... 1.15 | Single copy....— 5c stances might be such that it would No subscription listed for leas thau 65c be good odgiueut to buy elsewhere A reduction of 25c for paying a fuT at 9 cents a rod cheaper than at home. year in adrauce It must be taken into consideration, Member of however, that a trip to Eugeue costs National Editorial Association the driver of a motor car something Oregon State Editorial Association like $:t or $4. Alqiost a day's time Oregon Newspaper Conference CHEAPER AW AY FROM HOME (?). would be spoiled by the trip. A man Lane County Publishers’ Association with intelligence enough to ho n good farmer is worth more than $5 a day The queatiou of when it is justifl FRIDAY, JULY 2», 1»21. able to trade away from home Is There is an expense of at least $8 brought up by a communication re The farmer would have to buy 89 rods GO AFTER IT ceivod from a reader of The Sentinel, of wire before he could breaii even. We do not know that the farmer who also brings up some (Hunts worthy The way to get anything yon want of considérât iou on the part of Cot bought his wire at 9 cent« cheaper is to go after it. thau he could have bought it at home, tage Grove business interests. It is admitted that Cottage Grove The follow mg recently appeared In hut if it be true that he did, it may be that the loenl dealer doe* not sell would like to make the Oregou confer The Sentinel: ence camp meeting a permanent insti “ How would you like to have to enough to ciiahlo him to buy in ear tution for Cottage Grove. send to Chicago when you wanted a load lots. It may be that with the freight added from Eugene to t'ottngc This is primarily a Methodist affair, repair of some kiud in a hurry t but the benefits from making this a “ How- proud would you feel of your Grove he was selling at as close a mar permanent affair here accrue to the home city if you had guests drop in uu giu ns he could. It may be that had city as a whole. For this reason it expectedly and had to make excuses the farmer stated that he wanted a i should not be considered a denomina for your meal that you had no grocery quantity aud had the cash to |mv foi I it he could have secured a better price tional affair. stores Î at home. It may be that the farmers 1 The benefits are both peeuuiary and • How would you like to make intellectual. trip to a city 2U or 50 miles away to going to Eugene for win* are making Hundreds of people, perhaps a thou get a prescription filled while a "sick it possible fur Eugene dealers to sell sand, coming here for a stay of 10 one at home might need the preserlp ill such quantities that they can under j sell local dealers. Any of these things days or more means a great deal in tion to preserve the s|>ark of lifef the business life of the community. •The way to have »11 o f these may be possible and again it may be Having the greatest preachers of the things at your door is to trade at possible that the local denier was ask Methodist church come here for 10 home, to read the ads iu your home mg too groat a profit. Our correspondent asks us to answer days or more every year means a great newspaper, aud buy from wideawake several questions but does uot give us thing in the intellectual life o f the home merchants. ” • • • the figure* upon which to base all iu community, taking on the nature o f a Chautauqua. The above inspired the reader to tolligout answer. If he will give u* ! the price asked in Cottage Grove, the Eventually it would become known write as follows: as the Cottage Grove camp meeting “ I believe a man is a durued find price (mid iu Eugene and tell us and Cottage Grove would be in the to work for a living aud theu trade whether or uot the wire »a s of the mouths of Methodists of the entire where he has to pay from X to 9 p*w same quality, also the bulk amount of state and even into other states. cent more for his goods than he would money saved by the transaction, we will be pleased to carry the discussion 1 The camp meeting is. therefore, more iu a neighboring city. of a community affair than a de “ I was iu Eugene a few days ago. further. Our Correspondent states that there nominational affair. Among some things which I brought It behooves us, then, to make the home for a friend was four rolls oT is not a store in Cottage Grove whicti reception of our guests as pleasant as feneing which he got 9 cents the rod has as much invested u* the average j possible. It behooves us to make the cheaper thau the Cottage Grove price. fanner or takes as great a risk. This grounds upon which the meeting is to Do you uot think he was wise iu go is obviously an error. We hnve nn be held as pretty and attractive ns iug to Eugene for it Y I am going to doubt that several business houses here , possible, for the business session to build a lot of fence this fall aud if have investments running as high as The average decide upon the permanent location of there is that mueh difference I will $ .10,900 and $40.000. the ramp meeting will be held after go to the neighboring city for it, ami farmer who has invested a* much as those who are to make the decision so would you. that out of his enrnings is not in a j arrive here, after thev are received bv “ A Eugeue merchant told me that position to do much kicking about the goods he bought in carload lots be wages. The Neutinel is of the opinion could sell at the Portland price. Why that it has an investment as great a* can't Cottage Grove sell as cheap ns that o f the average farmer and It dives not come near the amount invest Eugene f ‘ ' It seems as if nea rly everyone ed in several of the larger business wants to kick the farmer. A farmer houses of the city. It would be iuter works harder and louger than anyone stmg, for eompnrison, to know what else for what he gets, which is the amount the average farmer has in , smallest wage going. Is that rightT vested. As to the risk, there should | There is uot a »ton- in Cottage Grove be no question that fire, robbery, d*- | which has as much invested :i\ the preeiation, mismanagement and loss of average farmer or takes half the rish business risks are far greater for the merchant than for the farmer. that the farmer does. • « • “ Please give this one hour's thought We have known of a number coming every evening for a week.’ ’ * • • here from Eugene to buy large o rd e rs Two pairs of glasses The Sentinel finds it impossible to of giMvds because they could get them unnecessary—use follow the admonition to give to the cheaper here. bifocals for comfort. We have known of many going to ideas expressed iu the above commun! cation the one hour's consideration outside cities for goods and coming each evening for a week that the back to buy at home, because they could get them cheaper here. writer requests. Like the farmer, We have known of folks buying In have to put in too much time earning a living and in taking part in civic other eities, only to find later that S a t W IL LA M E T T E ST EU GEN E OWE affairs to be able to spare that much they could have Isiught cheaper right here at home. time. We have heard that once the wife Our correspondent intimates that a person can work for a living and still of a merchant bought an article from a canvasser, only to have her husband laugh at her beeause she could have bought the same article iu his store at half the price. Ho there are many incidents to offset the incidents where an article % was bought cheaper away from home. SfiertnanWM oodu r 1 At any rate our farmer correspon dent seems to wish to deal at home. He seems to be one who is going to give the home merchant the first chance. He seems to be one who wishes Cottage Grove merchants to get the trade which geographical location en titles them to. Uudoubtedly there arc many others who would like to buy here who buy elsewhere occasionally because they actually do, or think they do, get a better deal away from home. When such is the case, it shows that much might be accomplished in build ing up a city by a whole hearted co operation between the agricultural and other business interests. Much coopera tion might prove that supposed bene fits in trailing away from home were only imaginary, or they might prove that a smaller profit on each sale would result in larger total profits for the merchant through iarger total sales. The Heiitim-I has not the facts to enable it to diagnose the case but It is willing and ready to do its p^rt In curing the error, if such there be. ■J K O D A K Dont’ talk impudently to a dentist, He's liable to throw it back in your teeth. W hen years intervene and the springboard takes the place of the sandy beach, turn the pages of your Kodak album. A man 98 years of age dropped his pipe on bis bed clothing and was burned to death. Home folks never get old enough to learn. There she is— the curly headed mite who found a tin pail and spat tered feet quite exciting enough. How ofd was she then ? “ Long Beach 6 / 18 / 2 1 ” — the autographic record that you wrote on the film at the time holds the answer. Tlitre is advantage in inspecting our complete stock— every Kodak made is ready for you to look at here. A French doctor says that you are likely to bring on inaanity unless you lie in bed fifteen or twenty minutes after yon wake. Very little asylum space needed around here. • • • • • It keeps most of us bumping to keep alongside of our running expenses. • T he cTWodern Pharm acy • • • A child that ¡an’t aide to remember a thing that transpired in school that day, readily absorbs conversation it is not supposed to hear and is often found repeating it word for word a week or two after it took place. • • • Those who work for the wages of sin always have back pay coming. A man can't serve two masters, so woman is it. • * • I t ’s funny how quickly the obliga tions of a thousand favors are wip$l out by a single supposed injury. 1 lt is uot thè principio* tlitit you he Wo often pardon in ourselves the An improvement 011 trial marriages would bo to try to be happy even if a frinii 10s uf life that w o eiinileiiiii Iu ! lieve 111 thnt imi ho* you whut you are lt is Ilio policlcs timi you f ni fi II. mistake has booti mudo. others. • • • lt is qui te «finn siiid thnt thè more No conversion is particularly helpful If you aro careful ami economical aud not too particular about alt details that is forced upon a person, ('hastily of a soli of a gnu u lumi Is (Ile tweeter you cun build a $2500 bouse itt not maintained through fear uiu mit bel the wife he gets and yet we don't « pearly ihink any man will deny that Ins is more than a thousand dollars over the I accept I 11« a passport at I the sweetest wotiiuil III the world ir Proper Encouragement Needed If the proper encouragement is given to the Electric Light and Power industry, the in dustry will develop much faster in the next decade than in the past, service will be im proved and cost reduced. The earnings of the Cottage Grove Electric company are spent in Cottage Grove, we pay tax and water rent in Cottage Grove, we give you service without financial liability to you. Your patronage is solicited. COTTAGE GROVE ELECTRIC COMPANY CLOSING OUT SALE Full Stock Feeds and Poultry Supplies Not Going Out of Business but Making Radical Change in Method of Business Everything to Be Sold for Cash at Carload Prices A Few B a rg a in s Sale Price White Mountain hard wheat flour $2.30 IVide of Washington hard wheat flour $1.80 (Made at Dayton, Wash.) Wheat, per bushel $1.10 Oats, per bushel .... .70 Whole corn $2.35 Feed corn meal............................. $2.45 Cracked com. $2.45 Mill run, 80-pound Hack .................. $1.35 Mill run, 75-pound sack .......................... $1.25 Middlings, 90-pound naek ........ $2.00 Fconoiuy dairy feed, 80-1Kmnd suek ..... $1.25 Molas-o-meal dairy feed.. ............................. $2.10 Scratch feed * $2.80 Egg maker $2.80 Chick feed $3.00 Oil meal ........................ $2.80 Eastern oyster shell ......... $2.00 Western oyster shell...................................... $1.75 Charcoal, 50-poond sack .... $2.20 Ground bone $3.50 ,<ish meal $5.50 Meat scraps $5.75 <inl $1.75 Retail Price $2.40 $2.00 $1.25 .80 $2.50 $2.60 $2.G0 $1.45 $1.35 $2.25 $1.40 $2.25 $3.00 $3.00 $3.50 $3.00 $2.25 $2.00 $2.50 $3.75 $6.00 $6.50 $2.00 Sale Begins 10 a. m„ Sat., July 30 J. F. S P R A Y Sixth at Washington One Block South of Ba n if ä