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Volume VI C O TTAG E GROVE, OREGON, TH U R SD AY, M A Y 23, 1912 PUT NESMITH COUNTY WOMAN'S CLUB ANNUAL ELECTION SENTINEL ON BALLOTT Mrs. I'.dith Sil hi) y , President; Limit of Membership Raised. The Woman's flu b hold its unnual election of olticers at the Saturday afternoon meeting, the following be ing selected to serve for the ensuing year: Mrs. Hdith Silsliy, president; Mrs. Marguerite Johnson, vice-president; Mrs. Maude Shinn, secretary; Mrs. Grace Cruiun, corresponding secretary ; Mrs. Minnie Miller, treasurer. The dull voted to take off ttie limit of membership, which had been 25. Plans were laid for the annual club picnic, particulars o f which will be made public later. A vote of thanks was tendered the Mayor and Council, business men, newspaper men and general public for the hearty co-operation and help given the dull in its efforts towards securing u public city library. VOTING CONTEST STRIKES POPULAR CHORD REFUSE TO SPRINKLE MAIN ST. Council Receives Petitions for P av ing and Awards One Contract. Num ber 35 SUTCLIFFE SCORES CARNIVALS An ordinance for the sprinkling of Main Street at the experiae o f the city SAYS TH E Y ARE DEGRADING FRID AY EVENING. ------------ ----- — — — was voted down at a special meeting AND DEMORALIZING. o f the Council Monday night. Mcm- INTEREST G R O W S IN RACE FOR PRIZE TRIPS TO i bera o f the Council seemed to be o f the Committee Decides That Time Is Would Rather Have Circus Fifty- opinion that the precedent once formed W O R LD FA M O U S ROSE FESTIVAL Propitlons for Action and Two Sundays in the Year Than could not be stopped with the one street. Will Put It Up to a Carnival Three Days People. Popular Theme Wherever Town Topic» Are Discussed; Petitions were received for the pav- of the Year. j ing of part o f Douglas Street and , All Have Equal Opportunity to Win Valuable Trips Cherry Court and a contract awarded “ Put Nesmith County on the b allot," “ I would rather have a circus o f the for the paving o f I Street with ma-1 is tiie derision arrived at by the com and Visit Oregon’s Metropolis While She Is in Her cadam. character of the Sells-Floto Shows in mittee recently n|>|>ointed to decide up A request o f the Arnold Carnival Co. i Cottage Grove every Sunday in the Glory at the Expense of Contest Management. on the advisability o f making another for the use o f the streets was refused. | year than to have a carnival such as try for Nesmith County, and to formu we have just had three days of the late for carrying on the llaht. Never in the history o f Oregon has finish. Now it is up to the young Toot! Toot! Toot! year,” waa the statement made Sunday A mass meeting of citizens of Cot any Popular Voting (Contest been ladies who have been so fortunate as to The Sentinel’s ad. o f the Miller Car-' night by Rev. Robert Sutcliffe, in his tage Grave and vicinity lias been called launched that has met with the ap be nominated in this good riatured tug- nival ia being uaed as a sample for sermon in the M. E. Church. His re for Friday night, at which time the proval and hearty support o f the pub- of war to do their heat and thus merit other papers to copy after. Secretary marks were not personal, but he deliv comrniltee will report its plans for ap l ;c as tin- one now being conducted by the support of those who are helping ! Davenport informed The Sentinel that ered a warm excoriation o f carnivals in proval or rejection. I f they are up The Sentinel. In the hotel lobbies, them by showing them they are worthy 1 it is the best looking ad. he ever had general and of those who promote proved a whirlwind cumpaign will be I on the street corners and «verywhere o f the support by winning first place and he carries it around with him as them, branding their general ten necessary to get the petitions out in i town topics are discussed, the Grand in their diatricts. copy for other papers to pattern after. dency as degrading and demoralizing, time to gel the proposition on the bal Voting Contest is the real subject o f jg,, one likes to play a sure loser and he made the statement that one lot. The meeting will he held in the | conversation. Who will the winners >rKj by keeping her name well up on o f the young boys hired to take tickets Commercial Club rooms, and an urgent be? That is the all-absorbing ques the list the-candidate will he inform at the Miller Carnival aaked his mother Invitation is extended to everyone to tion. ’I he Contest Manager is being ing her friends that she is out to win not to attend one o f the shows, the be present. deluged with such inquiries as: Who arid that her chances are as good as speaker using this statement to bear The committee, which is cnni|mscd do you think the winners will be? Do those of another candidate. When a out his claim that a carnival was not of <). M. Kcm, .Mayor W. II. Abrams, you think Miss So and So will win in person has two more friends in the a fit thing for respectable people to at C. W. Wallace, Geo. t). Knowles, FT District No. 1? I am helping Misa So race they w :ll wisely poll their votes SO SAYS HONORABLE MAYOR OF tend. The speaker also said that a berl Mede, It. K. I.uwsoll and G F. ami So. Do you think ahe has a in favor of the one whom they think number o f men had complained o f the COTTAGE GROVE. King, does not think that much work ! chance? llow about M is s ------- ? Do haa the better chance in competition character o f the Miller Carnival. He can be done this time beyond getting you think she is trying. I intend to with a candidate wko may be a made the statement that he was sur Accused of Making Malicious and the hill on the ballot and sending out give my votes to her if she is making ! stranger to them. prised that any Christian had at a circular letter to the voters. The 1 an effort to win, otherw ise I am going Untruthful Statement Regard tended the carnival and aaid that those The Sentinel guarantees everyone a pro|sised county was so well adver to give them to Misa — . who formed a part of the crowd outside square deal, and the (boniest Manage ing Famous Sells-Floto tised at the last light that it is thought did just as much to support the carni To all auch queries the Contest Man ment request-- all candidates to remem Sunday Circus. that this amount of work will be ! val as those who went inside. Fully ager can only reply; I don't know, ber to have all subscriptions turned in sufficient. half the people in the audience had their chances are equal, the ones who checked by both the Contest Manage The plun formulated by the com- Cottage Grove, Ore., May 22. — Ed. attendeJ the carnival, and one of the put forth the elfort and devote their ment and The Sentinel Management. nutter will include a recommendation Sentinel: Will you kindly allow me members o f the Library Board, under spare time to vote-getting are the ones Candidates are advised to get their to change the former lines of Nesmith who will head the lint the cloning friends to save vote coupons given by space in your valued paper to reply to - whose auspices the carnival was pot County to those suggested as satisfac night of the Content, June 8th. Nu the following stores on all cash pur a very prominent article in The Lead (Continued on page 2.) tory to Kugrue by a F.ugcne committee, er of laBt week written by the ex-edi- , merous inquiries are received at The chases : I K i N ) . F R A N K lit k K K it la to be ex|>reted that such artiun Sentinel office each day before the Cooper & Powell. They carry every tor in regard to " T h e Salem Way and 1 Woman of 90 Does Shopping Before W ho W ill H jim k 11 ere Hutiflay on the will placate Eugene ami that she will The very l.ttjuor • voteB are counted from friends o f the thing in the gents’ furnishing line, to the Cottage Grove W a y .” Breakfast. not be inclined to tight the pro|sisilion contestants wanting to know which gether with a complete stock of shoes plain inference and intention o f the ar In fact, assurance has been received Memorial Services. Drain Nonpareil: We met in the ones are in the lead, which shows that for women and children. The most ticle is that Sells-Floto circus applied from substantial Eugene citizens that Next Sunday being the day act apart each and every one of the candidates fastidiuus dresser will find everything to the Salem Council for a license to early morning on last Tuesday Mrs. that city is in favor of Nesmith County. fur Memor.al Sunday, appropriate ser have friends interested in their cam show on Memorial Sunday, May 26th, J Lucetta Meat-ham, who is going on her A t the meeting o f the committee vices will be held by the churches of paign who will stay by them to the and was turned down. The facts are 89th year, returning from a visit in (Continued on page 7.) Tuesday evening, O. M. Kcm was the city. that the circus did not apply for a li town with several bundles in her arms. elected president, W, ||. Abrams vice- cense on Memorial Sunday, the 26th, She complained o f the stores not being ’ Appomattox Post No 34, Department president, C W Wullace secretary and of Oregon and the'Woman's Relief but did apply for a license on Decora- i open, and said " I f the storekeepers T C Wbeeb-r tr> usurer. W . H. Corps will meet at the hall at 10:3i' tion Day, May 30th, and was very ■ would get up when the dew is on the Abrams and Geo. tl. Knowles were a. m. and march to the Presbyterian When Tunnel House Burns at Ve- Score Was 2 to 1 When Junction properly turned down, as they would ; grass and the sun sparkles on it with elected members to fill two vacancies. Church where the Rev. A. S. Mason have been by the Cottage Grove Coun glorious light, they would sell more suviua Property at Bohemia. Hiked for Train. cil for a license to show on the same i goods and have better health.” will deliver the Memorial sermon. In a good game as far as it went. date. May 30th, regardless o f the ma- ' Several miners, the exact number of Confederate Veterans, Indian W a r Veterans, members of militia and the whom has not been learned, had a nar Junction City got the best o f the Cot licious and untruthful statement by the Respectfully, general public is invited to join in this row excape from smothering when the tage Grove team Sunday 2 to 1. The ex-editor. TH E MAYOR. service. Teachers and pupils o f the tunnel house on the Vesuvius property Junction City team quit in the seventh arhiads will tukc part in the services, in the liohemiH District burned a few i inning in order to catch the train. It The city water is being secured from days ago. The smoke was driven up seems that there was no arrangement l.ihrury Day Inst Snturday did not both at the church and cemetery and the West Side reservoir while the Lang ‘ for this mode of procedure, and quite the tunnel and there was no outlet for Following ia the program arranged net the Woman's Club nearly as large are requested to bring llowers. either the smoke or the miners except a rag-chewing match resulted, the lo- Creek dam ia out of order. for Memorial Day by Appomattox a sum ns had hern expected, and with — Loses 20 Pounds in 20 Days. by the entrance at the tunnel house. i cal team claiming that the game was Post : the fizzle made by the Carnival the li Statement Objected To. A ft e r losing 2t) pounds in weight in The particulars of their escape have forfeited to them. The Post and Relief Corps will meet brary fund is not nearly ns large as about as many days. Miss Winnie Several property owners on South not been learned. The hiss o f proper at the hall at 9 a. m. to be in readiness those interested wished it to be to en Landeaa has returned from Kulania, Sixth Street have objected to the Road Nearly Completed. ty probably amounted to $2,000. The to march tor be conveyed) to the ceme able them to make a purchase o f twoks. Wash., where she was employed in a aerial tramway line was somewhat- in The improvement on the public road statement in last week's Sentinel that tery at 9 :45, where the ritualistic ser Less than $200 was received from L i newspaper ollice. Fire ill the home at owners of property for a distance of near Leona, which has been going on jured. vices o f the G. A. R., with short pro brary Day and the net proceeds o f the which she boarded, destroying her for some time, is about finished. This 1,000 feet, between where Sixth Street j gram, assisted by the schools, and the Carnival were $20..'t0 entire wardrobe caused her unexpected will remove a very objectionable fea will be paved and where the County Plat of Addition Filed. decorating o f the graves o f the noble will commence its work, object to im return. ture o f the road between Drain and Fat Girl Formerly Lived Here. The plat of Elmhurst, an addition to the Grove, and is a portion of the Pa proving that part o f the street. Own-1 dead will take place. “ 1 he Shop" Where Good Printing is Viola, the Fat Girl, who accompanies Order o f march ; 1st.— Martial Band. Cottage Grove, was tiled with the cific Highway. ers o f property who signify their w il l - j the Miller Csrnival that waa here last Done The Sentinel. 2td.—Escort, militia company. county clerk a few days ago. The ingness to go ahead with the improve-1 week, is a former resident o f this v i 3rd.— Appomattox Post, with all owners and proprietors arc Daisy I>. I f it's a rush job o f printing, the ment are A. F. Howard, John Nokes, Patriotism at Low Ebb. cinity, and her huahand livea at Disa- Veterans who will join in the march. i and G. H. Hemenway. The property Robt. Cooley, Virgil Sentinel will get it out for you on Ira Randall, Practical patriotism i n Cottage ton, where the fat girl formerly lived 4th.—Woman Relief Corps. White. I time. (>rovc, at least as far as school alfairs ! consists of 8J acres east of the park. herself. __________________ 5th.— School children in the order are concerned, is at a low ebb, was the that the principals and teachers place Nine Pat* Exams. decision reached at the meeting o f the them. O f the 27 who took the recent eighth Patron-Tcachcra Association Friday 6th.—Civic societies may take their grade examinations, nine have passed, afternoon, at which there was a dis places in the order o f their arrival. seven were Conditioned in one subject, cussion on "P a trio tis m ,” led by Mrs. 7th.—The general public. seven conditioned in two subjects, and H. K. Job. 8th.—Automobiles and private con four failed. The annual election o f officers was veyances. postponed until the opening o f next Looks Over Lorane. Afternoon service at M. E. Church school term, to which time the aasocia- Dr. Wm. A. Shearer o f Portland hHa at 2:30: Address by Rev. Robert Sut tion adjourned. been here this week looking over the cliffe, followed by short program. Lorane country with n view of invest Closing service by the W. R. C. at the was unable to control the machine, ing in Willamette Valley's fertile soil. bridge in casting dowers upon the which kept rushing towards the ve waters in memory of those who gave hicle. With but h moment to think, Children's Night at 0. E. S. their lives in the navy. Tomorrow evening the Hasten) Star and the automobile hut four feet away, Those who will furnish convey will hold its annual Children’s Night. Phillips decided thut safety lay in ances to cemetery and return for any The evening will be given over to the turning around and force his horse o f the members o f the G. A. R. or W. entertainment o f children of moinliors down the side o f thn hill if necessary. R. C., are requested to notify W. J. Fully expecting that the buggy would o f the order. Gardner. go to pieces at the first jump o f the These people, who found their awak Swazce, Iml.— The hand that rocks to the exhibit car resulted. The men horse, he hit him a sharp clip with the whip. The horse jumped, hut the the rural cradle in this section is go folk were skeptical about the car of ening in the marvelous products which buggy remained intact and the wheels ing to be h big factor in packing “ im prixlucts, it transpired, so the women Louis Hill, president o f the Great on thu upper side unexpectedly caught migrant movables” for Montana and “ hitched up” and drove to town any Northern Railway, is exhibiting broad and held on the edge o f a log, placed Oregon points ere long, if the unusual way, giving curiosity as an excuse. cast through this part o f the country, there to keep the dirt from washing i attendance o f women visitors to the The glowing accounts they carried for the most part, represent the large home with them did the rest and to away. Horse, rig, occupants and all Great Northern Railway’s Oregon- Presence of Mind in Danger population o f land renters who are Berry Pickers Find Lots of day. after these farmers had spent Montana exhibit car is any criterion. made the road again in safety and * Comes to Aid of F. B. Phillips The wives o f fifty farmers drove two hours in Ihe exhibit car they paying as high as $9.00 per acre rental. Ripe Fruit on Hills Near City. without the least injury after the ma They are tired o f the struggle for little chine had passed by. It was necessary from a radius o f 14 miles to visit the frankly confessed that they never had Unexpected good fortune and rare to go to the foot o f the hill to turn "exposition on wheels” in Swazce any idea Montana and Oregon could more than a living. Nearly all, by The luscious, sweet and juicy wild presence of mind in an emergency around, Phillips not caring to report yesterday. The interest o f this fem i raise such a variety of banner products dint of frugality, have saved a nest strawberry ia ripening rapidly on the egg after ten or more years o f tilling on land that does not cost one-fifth of nine delegation was productive of saved E'. It. Phillipa and brother-in- his previous experiment in that line. the other fellow's tract, with the land sunny hillside near the city and the law, Mr. Arne, from possible serious The automobile party was as badly promising results, for today their hus- what Indiana land is held at. They all pickers are meeting with good luck. injury Sunday. acured hs the occupants o f the buggy. bands came in from the countryside to "allow ed” there was something in the lord getting the lion’s share. They One girl who was out Sunday reports now realize they might have owned argument their discontented wives had make further inquiries and view the Mr. Phillips was ascending Newcomb the picking o f aix gallons by the party. their own land had they gone west products of these states which made been agitating as the result o f those hill with a one-horse rig and had neared Glad to Get Back. With a little cream added, they are years ago. the ascent when an automobile ap- Mr. and Mrs. Joe Porter returned such a favorable impression upon the letters from the Northwest written by The comparatively cheap lands of reported to have anything else in the poured on the creHt of hill, having had Saturday from spending the winter in women folk. No fe w er than twenty- the erstwhile Roosters telling of vast Montana and Oregon appeal strongly eating line backed off the boards. on full speed to make the incline. The 1 California. They report having apent five families went to Montana and Ore improvement in their conditions since Tame .strawberries are showing a to these folks. They are all diversi road at this point is too narrow for a pleasant aeaaon, hut express them gon from round about Swazee last year moving into the newer country where tendency to take on the crimson hue passing anil Mr. Phillips cramped hia selves as more than pleased to be back and their letters written to the farm the prices o f agricultural land is not fied farmers and the products shown in and new potatoes were eaten by Cot the Great Northern’s exhibit car was buggy, expecting the machine to come in old Oregon again where irrigation ers “ back home” roused so much in prohibitory as it is in the more densely tage Grove people ten days ago. a revelation to them. terest that the organized pilgrimage settled middle west. to a standstill. Somehow! the driver isn’ t necessary. MASS MEETING CALLED FOR LEADER’S EX-EDITOR UNTRUTHFUL J MINERS HAVE NARROW ESCAPE BALL CAME CALLED IN 7TH INNING LIBRARY DAY NETS QUITE A SUM DECORATION DAY EXERCISES Hand That Rocks (he Cradle Is Large Factor in Immigration ESCAPE UNHARMED IN PECULIAR WAY LUSCIOUS BERRIES ARE GETTING RIPE