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Ài "¿ t (tfntiag? (èrmi? jJwtitol Volume V I C O TTAG E GROVE, OREGON, T H U R SD A Y, FEBRUARY 29, 1912 STUDENTS TAK E FIR ST BANQUET IS GROVE PART IN CLUB PLAY BIG SUCCESS BO AR D OF TRAD E FIRST DOES ITSELF PROUD BOYS CATCH SQUIRRELS DESTROYING TREES Number 23 M ANY RAILROAD RUMORS REHEARSALS HAVE ALREADY THINK THEY HAVE SOLVED RE COMMENCED. CENT MYSTERY. IN SU RVEYO R S ENTERTAINMENT Toasts on Important Subjects Are Answered in Piquant Manner • * Tin* fm-m-MN ami poiiiliMhiua« with which tuHnta wen* anawereij wnh the feature of the Hoard of Trade banquet Tueaduy night, hut nil rcninrkn were made ill the help-one another spirit, were mnde with the moat brotherly feeling and from the point o f helpful- neaa In a huameaa way the alfair waa freely pronouneeil the moat aucceaaful that hna ever been held in the city. Thu bani|iietera, to the number of about fill, all luumbera of the Hoard of 'trade anil their ludiea, with the excep tion o f two who were on the program, gathered in the Commercial club par lora and marched to the Hotel Oregon in a body. A program of toaata fol lowed what waa pronounced a well pre pared and well arranged fcant. The tirat tonal wan, ‘ 'The I’reaa and tin Mian ion," anawered by Klhcrt Hede. Ken l urch, preaident of the Hoard of Trade, followed with an interesting and amualiiK account o f the "Early lliatory ol Cottage (»rove." C, M. Shinn apolie of "Cottay« (•rove and Itn Future" and freely pre dicted that the ilevelopmenta of the next IH montha would l>e surprising. Mra. N. K. Compton in a talk on "Woman an a Huameaa Factor" gave aotne very forcible illualrationa of what women have already done in buaineaa circle* and may be expected to do in the future. A mire w Hrund made ii few general BRINGING SETTLERS TO LORANE J cksc Darling Will Be Here la March From Milwaukee Jenae Darling, of the IlnrliiiK Land St Timber Co., operating i" the Lorane valley, will lie here (he latter part of March with a parly of homeaeeker*. A. Auld o f Milwaukee hna already rented a cottage at l.orane and will arrive here in a few day* to lake poe- aeaaion. lie ia the former chief engi neer of the Milwaukee water worka ayatem and la a type of the claim of men that are living interested in thia rich valley. MAKING NEW RECORD THIS YEAR WONDERFUL PRECOCITY OF COT TAGE GROVE SOIL. Rye and Barley Heading Out First of February Ia Novelty Not Often Seen in Famous, Fertile, Three Cottage Grove atudenta at the llniveraity of Oregon were aucceaaful eonteatanta for parta in the apring play to he put on hy the Univeraity Dramatie club. They are Morn Allie I’hitlipa, Hugh Currin and Erneat L. Anderaon. The play that will he put on ia "C anada," hy Bernard .Shaw, und rehearaala have already commenced. Mem lie ra of the club were choaen from the atudenta at a public tryout. At the recent regular meeting o f the club it waa voted to donate one-half of the proceed« of the annual apring play to the interacholaatic track meet, which will take place on the IJniver- aity trnek May Uth, and In which all the high achoola o f the atate are in vited to take part. Athb-tca representing the various high achoola are to lie given compli mentary ticket« to the play. The liramatic club of the llniveraity hua been a student organization fur about three years. The lirat authentic information that j can he aaid to in any mariner cant a . ray of light onto the rnyatery of what animal ia after the timber on Moaby creek, waa brought in this week by Homer and Lynch Currin, sons o f Felix Currin, who were hunting Saturday in I timber in the vicinity of the Storey- Braeher tract. They report that there can be no question but that gray squirrels are I doing the work. They say they caught \ the ai.irnala at work, killed two of them and found them filled with the barky pulp. In the tract o f timber in which the boys caught the sqiurrels at work they say there may lie a hundred trees, I ranging in size up to two feet in di I ameter, I hat have been attacked and the hark skinned off in the same man ner aa on the trees on the Storey- Bracher tract, the trees being practi cally bare from the middle o f the trunk to the top of the tree. There are very few who will believe Things Getting Exciting at Drain. that squirrels could possibly do so A jack rabbit cauaed a commotion in much damage, but the Currin boys are the lielda at the eml of Commercial positive their solution o f the mystery atreet thia city laal Tueaday. He made is correct. Squirrels have never be a hig tight for hia life, but two men fore been known to attack trees in und two doga were too much for him. such quantities in this section, but it may be that the early spring weather Dram Nonpareil. CluH»y job printing The Sentinel. (Continued on page 7.) Fruitful Willamette Valley. „ i„r|ie quantity of r>c on tux Walnut Avenue farm that is Geo. M. Hawley Out for County headed out. John Trunnell, who was Commissioner. ! in the city a few days ago, «aid he bn« Cottage Grove ha« got a candldat ! lived here a long time and that this 1 « for county office Strange aa that may I the lirat year that he haa seen liarley seem. It la a fact. ^headed out the first of February, hut Gao. M Hawley ia the man, and he that phenomenon occurred on l.is place ia a candidate for county commissioner three miles south of here His initiative petition, have bean eir i Thpri. hl(I) no harmful frost «.( Ciliated during the past week. any kind an far and fruit grower« are He declares for g'««l road« and beginning to feel that the early hlns- economy lie has made hia platform aormi may pull through without any abort, saying that it is not what a man injury from thia source. promise*, hut what he docs. Thi* makes about live candidates for the office. With the vote badly split up Cottage Grove mav have some kind o f a abow, GROVERS RAISE BIG HEN FRUIT Have Good Reason to Cackle About Size of Eggs Pro duced by Faithful Biddies. Two eggs weighing clnso to four ounces each ami produced by Cottage Grove biddies are on exhibition at The Commission House. There are several other large eggs in the collection, but these two are distinct because of their abnormal size. One o f the egga weighs three and aeven-eightha ounces and four grains. It waa laid by one o f Jamea Lemon'« Plymouth Hooka. The other egg weighs three and three-fourtha ounces and 25 grains and waa laid by one o f Bert Richmond's Black Minoreaa. There is nn more promising upjior- tunity for the development o f a lucra tive business than the raising o f poul try in thia aertion, and there ia no reason why anyone who ia willing to work intelligently may not make a (Continued un page 7.) Electric Belt Seems To Be MEN’S ENTERTAINMENT SOON Will Be an All-Star Performance and Mirth Provoker. The much-advertised entertainment to be given hy the men o f the Metho dist church will occur March 8th. The feature will be a mock trial, which is a mirth-provoker from start to finish. All parts are taken by men, even to the female characters. There will also be a funny monologue that iB a side-splitter and some excel lent musical numbers. Artistic job printing—The Sentinel. CHILDREN SHOULD DO SOMETHING THERE IS SOMETHING FOR THEM TO DO. State Superintendent Alderman Gives Address Tending to Stir Up Dormant Ambitions of Oregon School Children. GENE CITIZENS. Subject of Discussion Denies Inten tion of Entering Race, Saying that Vote Is Too Unequally Di vided to Make It Worth While. MARSHAL FRANK SNODGRASS SHE’S H U M D I N G E R HE SAYS Stranger Says Single Copy of Sentinel Will Immediately Start at Least One Dissatisfied Easterner for the Cottage Grove Country W O R K IN G IN LORANE Line to Lorane Valley Activities W est of Cottage Grove SNODGRASS TALKED FOR SHRIEVALTY COTTAGE GROVE'S SUCCESSFUL MAN-GETTER Prominently Mentioned an ('andidate for Sheriff NOW Corroborated by Recent CANDIDACY IS URGED BY EU Lack o f practice by the local team PRESIDENT IS FAVORITE OF caused the loss o f the basket ball BUSINESS MEN. game Saturday night to Dallas by the score o f 2d to 17. The game was n live, hotly-contested one from start to Roosevelt Has Many Ardent Sup finish, the first half resulting in a tic, porters, Especially Among Those and the visitors won because of supe Who Have Leaning Away From rior playing. Thia is the last game tu tie played hy the home team and the the Republican Party. second one Inal this season, the oilier one being tu Kusehurg. Taft is the favorite among the busi ness men of the city, especially among Mill Will Start Soon. those o f pronounced utfiliatiuns. Roos The Orchsrd Land St Timber Co. ha« evelt, however, bus many ardent sup a crew of shout 30 men at work com porters, especially among those who do pleting preparations to atari up the not pretend to adhere to strict party Divide mill the lirat of March. organization. This information was secured through a straw vote of the business men taken by a Sentinel representative. Roosevelt's announcement that he would accept the nomination if tend ered him haa tended to crystallize sentiment on one aide or the other. TWO FOUR-OUNCE EGGS ARE Sup|Hirters o f Roosevelt give as their EXHIBITED. renson for surh support that they want some one that will do things, claiming Cottage Grove Breeders of Fancy that Taft's administration haa been » dead one. Poultry OF (Continued on page 7.) THE TAFT-ROOSEVELT SENTIMENT Dallas Defeats Cottage Grove. Talk of BE "There is something for the children to do, the schools o f Oregon will en deavor to show them what that some thing is and inducements will be made that will tend to get the children started doing the things that they can d o.” This was the substance o f State Su perintendent Alderman's address last Thursday night at the Commercial club and he also spoke along the same lines to the school pupils of the city the next day. The state fair will give a large num ber o f prizes this year to school chil dren for the best exhibits o f products of the soil rsised by themselves and The Cottage Grove country is innk- ! mg a m-w record tins yenr for precocity I of (hr soil. Gaina which seeded lliem- (( ontmued on page 7. t | «elves from ls«t year's crop are h e g n - T A T T ir C I'DnUL UAC n t i n i l U TL ' ""'K lo beati out. Felix ( urrin report« LUI lAbt bKUft HA5 LAnUlUAIt UlMl Uirft. TO VICINITY Mias Allie Phillips, Hugh Currin Fluffy Tailed Nut-Eaters Are Killed und Erneat L. Anderson, All of by Currin Lads and Bark Pulp Members of New Booster Organization Hold Get-Together Recent Cottage Grove, Are in the Cabt. Found in the Entrails. Affair. SAID A Cottage Grove man, Marnhal , Frank Snodgrass, is being urged to come out after the shrievalty nomina tion for Lane county, and the peculiar part of it is that the strongest request has come from eleven prominent Eu gene citizens, although friends from every section of the county are writing urgent letters telling him that this is his golden opportunity to get into the race. Mr. Snodgrass has a reputation as a go-get-'er that can not be equalled by any man in the county, and he is known to be absolutely fearless in the performance o f hia duty, as many transgressors o f the law have good reason to know. During the time that Snodgrass has been marshal o f Cottage Grove he has captured eleven men that have been sent to the pen, and five o f these were gotten at the point o f a gun. So far he has never failed to capture his man if he could get any trace whatever o f him. Mr. Snodgrass, when interviewed by a Sentinel representative, denied that he is a candidate, saying that he felt that the Eugene vote was so strong that it waa no use for him to make the fight. However, his friends believe that with the encouragement that he has already received from the county seat, he can, by the right kind o f solici tation, be induced to enter the field. If he should so decide, his friends pre dict that he will again demonstrate that he is a go-get-’er from way back, and that his opponents will be aware from the very start that there is a fight on. Opposition to Roosevelt centralizes on the claim that he stultifies himself by his declaration o f willingness to accept the nomination after his posi tive 1908 statement, and that it ia hardly consistent for such an ardent W A N TS TO K N O W IF REST OF COTTAGE GROVE advocate o f the "square deal" ns j KEEPS PACE W IT H SENTINEL Rooaevelt claims to be to stick a knife into hia former protege. The third E u g e n e , O r e g o n , February 19, 1912. term bugbear was hardly referred to. 1 . Supporters of Taft |H>int to u record D e a r S e n t i n e l M a n : Yesterday I saw a late Sentinel at the of legislation secured that Roosevelt office o f our own Guard, and it was withal so refreshing and so did not equal during his former admin- ; istration and could not hojie to equal absolutely entertaining that I immediately coveted four or five In h new administration. They |a>int copies o f the issue of February 15th to send back to the benighted to a record o f service well and quietly east. Should I be permitted to send ’em. I am satisfied that each done that entitles him to the custom copy sent will cause at least one dissatisfied easterner to start im ary recognition o f a second term. mediately for Cottage Grove, and if they succeed in getting hy the One warm friend of Roosevelt says seventy-odd real estate boomers of old Eugene, it would mean just he doesn't want him hack again until after Taft haa served four more years. that many permanently located desirable citizens added to your Both friends and enemies o f Roose present population. Say does the rest of Cottage Grove keep pace velt agree that hia failure to land the with the Sentinel ? Your eastern friends would like to nomination will he his political death If the devil can spare me the aforementioned copies, send 'em up know something about the country you knell. Some o f hia enemies grasp at and just charge them to Spray. Yours truly, are living in. Send them a copy of the thia aa a providential opjiortuiiity to Sentinel, 6c. .. CHAS. S. BEER. kill him otT once and for all. That plans are being developed for the proposed belt line from Cottage Grove to the I-orane valley is evi denced by the activities of surveyors reported to be working west of the .city and who keep perfectly quiet about their mission, whatever it may i l>e. That surveyors have been working , in that vicinity thia week seems to be absolutely certain from reports brought into the city. The Sentinel haa received a letter from one of the men most interested in the promotion o f such a road, which leaves little doubt that plans for the road will be perfected at the earliest poesibile moment. The Sentinel is in correspondence with parties that have the edge on the news on this subject, and when there is anything that can be given out for publication, it will be given through the columns o f The Sentinel. Glad to Get Back. "There is no place like Cottage G rove," says Mrs. Martha J. Kayser, who returned Tueaday from a five months’ trip in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Old Mexi co and Cailfornia. She was in Mexico when hostilities broke out. She says that everything in the south is very dry and that great damage will result to crops and stock unless relief comes soon in the form o f rain. MANY HONOR FORMER RESIDENT Funeral Largely Attended.—Floral Offerings Numerous. A large concourse o f friends and former acquaintances attended the funeral o f Mrs. Jennie Selbrede held from the M. E. church Sunday, Rev. ' Robt. Sutcliffe officiating. The fioral offerings were beautiful, many beimr sent by Montana friends. The body was laid to rest in the I. O. O. F. cemetery. Many were present from the Eastern Star and I. 0 . O. F. lodges, o f which deceased was a mem ber. Jennie Stouffer was born in Mande- ville, Mo., Sept. 23, 1867. She came to Cottage Grove with her parents in 1878 and resided here until 1885, when she married Dr. W. C. Selbrede and moved to Montana. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Selbrede, one dy ing at the age o f two years. A son Clarence is living. Deceased was an active worker in the Congregational church. She died at Redlands, C alif., Feb. 16th, following an operation for appendicitis. P. 0. Candidates on Qui Vive. Candidates for the local postoffice appointment anticipate announcement of the new appointment almoat daily, and as the prospective appointment draws nearer, each candidate is get ting more anxious to know whether or not he will be the lucky one that will ; pick the coveted plum. WHEELER-THOMPSON CO. IS SOLD POWELL-COOPER ARE THE NEW OWNERS. Popular Clothing House Changed Hands Friday.— Was Established Five Years Ago.— Business Has Been Successsful. The clothing firm o f Wheeler-Thomp- son Co. changed hands last week, the new owners being W. B. Cooper and A. S. Powell. This is the business deal which The Sentinel referred to last week as pending. The business will be conducted in the present stand until the completion o f the new Cooper building, when it may be moved there. The Wheeler-Thompaon Co. waa es tablished five years ago by F. D. Wheeler, H. O. Thompson and Lee Roy Woods. Three years ago Mr. Woods sold hia interest to J. W. Wilson. All are prominent citiaena o f the city, as well as are the new owners. The former members o f the company have not yet announced their future plana. _____ ___________ "T he Shop" where good printing ia done—The Sentinel.