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(Eotfcme droite Sentinel t Volume VI Four Hundred Goats Eat Up Irish Maid’s Garden Animali With Caat Iron Stom achi Deviatale Kinch. Mlse Lucy Burgess 1 « having juat a te rrib le tim e a t her Knee Hrier ranch, and, although a ho doee not say a», It la more than likely th a t ahu would like to hold a Kood old faahioned wake over the bodlea of aome of the goat* which invaded her premiaee during her ab- eence a t C ottage Grove while teaching school and ate everything edible to be found around the plaoe, not excepting a valuable package of love lettera, rcllra of tender ycara of long ago when ahe waa foollah enough to believe th at man waa ilm oat a neceaalty in the life of a lively Irlah maid. The devaatation which Mias Burgess found u|K>n reaching her haven of re fuge from the cruel, cruel world waa enough to make most anyone juat burat out a crying. The orchard and garden were entirely gone. Nothing waa left but the cabin and p art of the anil. Hut thla g ritty little maid d id n 't ait down and ahedjthe lachrym al fluid. Nut h er I She ju at hiked rig h t off and bor rowed enough money to buy out a neighbor, and now haa a fine garden, 60 turkeya and HO more chickena. She aaya the proverbial Iriah luck does not aeem to deaert her entirely. Now th ere'a a g irl for a man to cap ture. ____________ Stage Breaks Down. The C ottage drove-Bohem ia atage broke down on its incoming trip S atu r day, p recipitating the paaaengers un- crremonioualy into the road. No one waa hurt. Another conveyance waa ae- cured a t lla rd 'a ranch and the trip con tinued. _________ DECISIVE D EFEA T FOR ROSEBURG TEAM GROVE PUTS UP FAST ARTICLE OF BALL Four In n in g s Without a T ally.— Final Score Stands 5 to 1 in Favor of the Local Ball Tossers. In the beet gam e of the aeaaon played on the local gounda, the crack Koae- burg team went down to d efeat Sun day before the local team by a »core o f 6 to I. The gam e wan a faat and w ell played one from s ta rt to tiniah. C ottage Grove made two arorea in the second inning, 1 in the third and added 2 more in the eighth. Koeeburg made ita lonely aingle tally in the ninth, the re su lt of clean h ittin g . The pitching o f Rankin# for the Grove waa the fea tu re of the gam e, he having 14 acalpa to hia credit and lettin g hia opponents down w ith five dingy hits. In the 3d, 4th, 6th and 6th innings not a »core waa made on eith er aide. M arksbury made a grandstand play in th e 7th Inning when he dragged in a long fly w ith one hand. The lineup: <lottage Grove Roneburg— B a k e r................. 3b J o n e s..................sa R oberta............. M I). H argraves, ,3b M edley............. rf B ridges............. lb W ag n er............. 2b J . H arg rav es. ..2b G la ss.................. M iller.................If R ankins............. S ta le y ................ cf Dame wood........ .l b B. H a rg ra v e s.. rf M arshall........... P e r r y .................... c Brum baugh . . . ..If M atthew s............p Umpir M cFarland and Owcna. MANY O R IS WOULD BE GODDESS Good Natured Rivalry for Coveted Honor on Fourth of July. The contest among aeveral young women of the city for the honor of ac t ing aa Goddeaa of L iberty ia develop ing considerable good-natured rivalry, although tlcketa are not going aa rap idly aa would be expected from look ing over the names of the candidates. Any one of them eould win the cov eted honor by a little e x tra effort on th e p a rt of herself and friends. I t haa been practically decided that the girl w ith the second higheat num ber of votes ahall act aa Columbia. T ickets are being sold at a penny apiece a t The W ave, Bon Ton and Eagle C igar Store. The candidatea are G race Lily, Vera Crowe, Fern Hol com b, Jennie Sm ith, Hazel Hazelton. C. S. Frank Gets $5,400. A decrees of foreclosure waa given Monday in the case of C. S. Frank va. th e Saginaw Orchard and Tim ber com pany for tho unpaid purchase price am ounting to 96400, a tto rn ey s’ fee and coats. COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1912 IS ARRESTED FOR JUMPING n ew m em ber r e e s - w a llace co . W. F. Elliott of Chicago Buys In BOARD BILL terest In Local Store. ELECTRIC STORM BREAKS RECORD Web Foots Never Saw Anything Like It Before. Number 40 CHILD IS KILLED BEFORE $54.45 from Quarter MOTHER’S EYES W. C. Bingham Gets Into Clutches Little Tot Struck by Piece of Wood W. F. E lliott, a traveling represen The Oregon web foots aay they never of Law; but Agrees to Make Thrown 450 Feet by Charge tativ e of ('arson, I’irie, Scott & Co., before saw anything like the electric Good and Is Released. of Dynamite. W. C. Bingham, who bad been doing soliciting for different buaineaa houses of the city for aeveral months, but who left the c :ly w ithout leaving word aa to hia w hereabouts, waa arrested at Drain Monday on a w arrant sworn out by Mra. l.ucy Holland, to whom he owed a board bill. On being brought befure Ju stice King, he stated th a t he had no intention of leaving the coun try, but had gone to secure work in o r der to pay up his accounts. He waa sentenced to 10 days in jail, but the sentence waa rem itted when he prom ised to turn half of hit wages over to the plaintiff. It waa learned th a t he had a position on the (train paper. Several other business houses of the city are worrying alw ut accounts ag ainst the same party. of Chicago, has purchased an in terest in the Kees-Wallace Co. He will con tinue hia connection with the Chicago firm for another year, a fte r which he will locate here. The new quarters of the company In the Cooper building are rapidly near- i ing completion. Mr. Wallace aaya they will have the finest appointed general merchandise atore in the city. F. P. Phillips and H. C. Woolfe drove over from Tillamook Saturday with F. B. I’billipa' auto, leaving it here and returning home hy train. SOUTHERN PACIFIC EXPLANATION | Telia Why $25 Ground Rental Is Charged Leases. The following letter, w ritten to !-o- cal A gent G. F. King of the Southern i’aciflc, is aelf-ex p lan ato ry : Portland, Oregon, June 20, 1912. Mr. G. F. King, A gent, Cottage Grove, Ore. —Dear S ir: 1 notice an article in the C ottage Grove ' ‘S e n tin e l'’ o f June 13th, headed “ Kicking on Kaiao of R e n ta l,'’ to the effect th a t leanes of railroad right-of-w ay feel abused ow ing to recent advances in our rental charges. I'ieaac explain Jlo the “ S entinel’’ representative, and others inuA-estcd, th a t this change in our present prac tice was brought about through a rul ing of the In te rsta te Commerce Com mission to the effect th at leases of railroad property a t a nominal rental to shippers is regarded as undue pref erence and discrim ination against other dealers not so situated. To avoid charge of leasing ground at rates th a t may lie constructed as an undue preference, our people have adopted the practice of charging 6 per cent of a fair valuation of the prop erty , w ith minimum of $26.00 per year. Conditions may arise, of course, th at will require exceptions to this rule, which we are desirous of fully consid ering on th eir m enta. Yours truly, atorm of Sunday night, when the heavens were seared and team ed with chain lightening. The pyrotechnic dis play continued from about 11 o'clock to 3 30. accompanied by thunder and rain. Tho atrom seems to have been general through the Valley. The local electric light plant waa put out of business a t tha outset, but was furnishing juice again in the morning. cTWore Steam • The Pacific I Vinter, of San Francisco, the rec<Hj7iized l\unfic Coast authority f/n tyjjo- graphy, makes the Jollmuing criticism, oj The Sentinel in the May issue: Elbert Bede, one of the publisher» of the Cottage Grove (Ore.) Sentinel, an unusually well edited and up-to-date small town weekly, has submitted sample pages of a re cent issue of his paper to this publication for criticism. A glance at the accompanying reproductions of the first and fourth paxes will show that the paper is exceptionally neat and attractive in makeup and is altogether a highly creditable publication. - Criticism from the viewpoint of fixed newspaper technique is difficult, as newspaper standards must of necessity be variable, but there are a few well established principles which may generally be applied, and it is with these in mind that criticism will be made. The most striking feature of the first page, is of course, the perfect balance noticeable-in the arrangement of the heads. * • • The perfectly, or, approximately, bal anced page is an almost invariable stage in the emergency of a paper from the chaotic state in which type is pitched haphazard into the forms, to the stage in which makeup is carefully and efficiently supervised, but not followed to the subordination of news values * • * The heads are so vastly better than those usually seen in small town weeklies that one hesitates to criticise. • • * Details of copy reading and general editing are highly commend able. • • • The foregoing critcisms are made with a realization that a small paper has not the resources of a big city publication, and they are offered with a thorough appreciation of the newsy, well edited and workmanlike sheet which Mr. Bede and Mr. Grant have turned out. T o o t ! T oot ! ! T o o t ! ! ! H. E. LOUNSBURY, General F reig h t A gent. Celebrate 50th Anniversary; Verdict for $2,800. laham B urnett has received a ver dict for $2,H00 in his suit against L. G. Geruih. The auit waa the resu lt of an agreem ent betw een the two parties whereby Mr. Gerum waa to take care of Mr. B urnett for the rest of hia life in exchange for the farm of the latter. Gerum told the property to the Storey- B arker Lumber Co., while neglecting to carry out his p a rt of the agreem ent, so the plaintiff claimed. The suit was originally brought to set aside the tran sfer. The case was taken to the suprem e court. J. S. Medley was an attorney for plaintiff. JUVENILE CASE IS ATTRACTION Many Witnesses Called to Prove Contentions of Court. The case of Alma C arter, 14-year-old (laughter of Susie C arter, whom the probation officer, W alter H. Jones, and the deputy d istrict attorney E. U. 1m- mel, are trying to make a ward of the juvenile court, is a ttra c tin g much a t tention and will cost the county some thing before they g et through w ith it. The partiea are from this city and the case has been exploited to some extent t-efore. There are about 40 witnesses subpeonaed, about half of them being from C ottage Grove and the other half distributed between Marcóla, I«ebanon, Albany and Eugene. The county court waa too small to conduct it and Judge Thompson ia using the circuit court room and there the room is more thsn half full. The case only got fairly started yesterday and if all the w it nesses are used it will take all day to day to finish it. It is claimed by the prosecution th a t th e child’s environ m ent is not for good and th a t she should be made a ward of the court. In any outcome of the case the costs all fall upon the county. A ttorneys J. S. Medley and J . C. Johnson are de fending the case. Still Hale and Hearty Pair Dr. and Mrs. D. L. Woods Entertain in Honor of Notable Event in Their Lives; Grandchildren Present Acre of Strawberries R. Hull, Aged 74, Finds Berry Raising Profitable. A peculiar and trag ie accident oc curred a t Coburg Sunday, resulting in the death of the 16-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C hester W alker. iiow the accident could have occur red in the way it did is hard to fathom . Employes of the Booth-Kelly Lum ber Co. had put in a "dow n-shot” to dyna m ite a d rift in the McKenzie River. A heavy chunk of wood w ith a knot in it flew directly tow ard the W alker residence 450 feet away and »truck the baby boy on the head, killing him instantly. The m other s a t in the door way only a few feet away and w it nessed the horrible accident. In her grief she gathered the p ro strate form of her darling to her and fran tically tried to bring back life. The accident could hardly be called carelessness, aa no one eould have Imagined th a t a piece of wood could have been thrown th at distance and strik e so small an object. _______ __________ S traw berries prove a profitable crop to R. Hull, who has a q u a rte r of an acre into th e luscious fruit on his ranch on N orth Pacific Avenue. From Decoration Day, May 30th, to June 22d, Mr. H ull m arketed 840 boxes a t $64.45. In one day he picked and m arketed 102 boxes. The average price was 64 cents a box. The berry vines are two years of age. Mr. Hull is 74 years of age and does all his own work. His a ctiv ity has kept him hale and h earty a t his ad vanced years. The W illam ette Valley is the ideal berry country. In some sections her riea are picked before May 1st, and the ev«,i re a rin g varieties produce from May to O ctober. The yield runs, ac cording to variety, from 2,000 lbs. to 10,000 lbs per acre. Profits of $150 to $250 an acre are common and $350 not unusual. All cane or brier berries, including the block and red raspberry, logan Sad Death of Little Tot Occurs at berry, gooseberry, cu rran t, e tc ., grow in profusion alm ost w ithout effort. EATS HEADS OF MATCHES AND DIES Drain Past Week. From eatin g the heads off of a quan tity of m atches, little Mias Lillian Lucile T raylor 18-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A lbert T raylor, died at Drain a few days ago. Death fol lowed tw elve hours a fte r the babe ate the poison and was accompanied with much agony. The funeral was con ducted a t the home of J . W. Craig, Rev. E. M. Smith officiating. In te r ment waa made in the city cem etery. The parents are heartbroken. Exciting Runaway. One of H arrin g to n ’s team s caused considerable excitem ent on Main S tre e t Friday afternoon when it tore down the whole length of the s tre e t a t break neck speed. F ortunately no one was hurt and little dam age done. The runaw ay started from the ra il road tracka, where the wagon collided with the “ Look O ut for the C ars” pole th a t waa put out of commission a couple weeks previously by another runaway. Paaaing by K err & Silaby’s atore, one wheel caught a wagon owned by Mr. Taplin of Saginaw . The reach waa broken but no o th er dam age was done. The team was stopped on the other side of the bridge, having tired itaelf | out. Mrs. Jas. M. Burnett Is Dead. Grandma B urnett, wife of Ja s. B ur nett, an old citizen of Drain, died a t the residence of her son-in-law, An drew H aragan, 7 miles below Elkton, last week and was buried a t Drain S a t urday. Mrs. B urnett was about 90 years of age, had been quite feeble for some tim e and w ent to the home of her daughter several months ago. The funeral was held a t the M. E. Church in D rain Saturday at 2:30. Building Nearing Completion. The new Cooper building is rapidly nearing completion. Work is being rushed on the store room on the corner of Main and E ighth, which will be oc cupied by the Rees-W allace Co. WILL PUT 2 0 0 GOATS ON RANCH J. F. Spray Believes in Practicing What He Preaches. J . F. Spray will put 200 goats and sheep on the M cKibben ranch 24 miles southeast of the city, which he recently purchased and fenced. Spray says he believes in practicing w hat he preaches. The land is logged off and R A T H K R I N r . A T F I F T I K T I I W R D D I N C A N N 1 V K K S A R Y OK OR. AN I» MRS . D. L W O O D S he says 10 per cent in te re st can be Dr. and Mrs. D. L. Woods celebrated Mrs. Woods was Miss Sarah R. Renick made on the anim als, not reckoning on their 60th wedding anniversary a t their and was born July 19, 1852, in Mis the work of clearing th a t the anim als do. _________________ home here Saturday afternoon, all souri. their children and grandchildren being The couple were m arried in Jackson Houses All Numbered. present. Mr. Woods’ com rades of the County, Missouri, June 22, 1862. Be Work of num bering the houses of Civil W ar were the only specially in fore coming to C ottage Grove 8 years vited guests, although many of their ago, they lived in the sta te s of Illinois C ottage Grove was com pleted Tuesday by E rnest Purvance. The stre e t signs friends took advantage of the occasion and Kansas. T here are a to call and wish the couple many more The children are Lee Roy Woods and were put last week. num ber of residents who do not seem years of wedded bliss. Both Mr. and E lizabeth L. Woods, of this c ilv ; Mrs. Mrs. Woods are in ex cellent health, Roy Welch of Kelso, W ash.; Lutellus to understand the system of house the resu lt of active lives. A t th eir L. Woods of Salem, all of whom were num bering. In explanation, each ten ideal riverside home they have one of present a t the celebration. Mrs. feet is allotted a num ber and 100 num the larg est straw b erry patches in the Welch was born on the river while the bers are allotted to each block. The city and an extensive garden, which family was fleeing from the bush first block from sta rtin g point numbers they attend to themselvea. whackers. The fath er w»s home on a up from 1, the second blocks s ta rts w ith 101, etc. furlough a t the time. Mr. and Mra. Woods are seated at the le ft in the picture. Miss Jennie For the first tim e in its history the Stores to Close Fourth. Woods, seated a t the rig h t, ia the only The storea of the city have agreed famous b attlesh ip Oregon is to visit person living who was a guest a t the to close up a t 10 o ’clock on the Fourth its own sta te . During the Elks reun wedding of the couple a half century and rem ain closed all day. ion, in Ju ly , the historic old fighting ago. ship will be brought to Portland h ar Excuraions to Newport. Sells Interest in Livery. Mr. Woods was born in Pennsylvania bor, where it will be much admired by Sunday excuraions are now in effect March 23, 1839. He served In the T. E. Abeene has sold his in terest in all loyal Oregonians. N aval officials to N ew port over the S. P. and C. & E. Civil W ar as assistan t surgeon of the the W est Side Livery to C. F. Counts, have a t last given th eir consent to th e The round trip fare from C ottag 138th Indiana, 163d Indiana and first who took possession yesterday. Mr. request th a t the Oregon be brought Grove is $3.26. Indiana heavy artillery , respectively. Abeene will move to Springfield. here* B. S. Swengel has let the contract for a bouse to be erected on W est Adams Avenue a t the riv e r bank. J . B. Pbelps has the contract. Socialist Buys Co-Operative Bovine. G. F. King was in Comstock Monday to secure possession of a Socialist co operative member of the genus bovine which he recently secured by the ex change of some of Uncle Sam ’s prom is sory notes, guaranteed by a solid Re publican governm ent. W ILL BE A GENUINE RIPSNORTER EAGLE WILL SCREAM FROM DAYLIGHT TILL DARK Fourth of July Celebration in Charge of Sixth Company, C. A. C., Who Promise a Big, Big Time. Preparations are p ractically com pleted for the big F o u rth of Ju ly Cele bration. She’ll be a hum dinger, a rip- ‘ snorter, one continual round of fun and frolic from the shooting of 100 guns a t sunrise until the last rock et is shot off in the pyrotechnic display a t night. There will be a grand p ageant of floats, fratern a l oodies and calitiium - pians a t 10 o ’clock. T here will be races and gam es of skill and stren g th for young and old, from th e three- legged race to the race for unm arried maids of over 90, the largest prize be ing for the la tte r. And also some patriotic oratory will be spilled. The big featu re will be the b a ttle royal for the suprem acy of the world betw een the local team and the crack Oakland team . Ty Cobb has been asked to um pire the gam e. A t nig h t there« will be the big pyrotechnic d is play, and all day long ice cream and pink lemonade will be found most everyw here. Everybody invited. All sports free. Cottage Grove Advertised. C ottage Grove was well advertised in the Sunday papers. The Oregon Journal contained pictures and sto ry about nine C ottage Grove a rtis ts and 1 The Oregonian contained a picture of the g raduatin g class sent in by The S e n tin e l.________ ________ UNIVERSITY WINS IN REFERENDUM Judge Galloway Rules Petitions Are Fraudulent. The U niversity has again won out in Judge G allow ay’s court in the famous referendum cases, but they will be ap pealed to the suprem e court again. I t is probable th a t no action will be ta k en there, however, as Governor W est has asked th a t the cases be held up pending action on the m illage tax bill to be presented to the voters a t the com ing electiqp. " I hold th a t the am ount of the a p propriations, w hlie needed by the uni v ersity, is of slig h t im portance to the principle involved in connection w ith the in itia tiv e and referendum in th is s ta te ,” said Ju d g e Galloway. "T h e question of w hether this class of c ir culators can forge several thousand nam es to a petition, no m a tte r how many good ones are secured, is one for the suprem e court to pass upon.”