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COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1912
Volume VI
22 TONS OF TIMOTHY
ON SEVEN ACRES
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Number 46
Road to Coast for Cottage Grove
my £
Before Opening of Panama Canal
Ita Superiority Over the World
in Producing Proven
der for Live Stock
'Iwenty-two ton, six hundred end 10
It»«, o f timothy hay on »even acre« o f
land la the record made by Archie
Thonqtaon, ami he think» it will be
hard to beat. Timothy doea not uau-
ally run aa heavy an clover varletiea,
but Mr. Thompsondoea not think much
alfalfa will be found runniiiK much
heavier than hia timothy.
There ia a record o f a yield of a ton
o f clover from a <|uarter acre and 3ti
tona from 12 acrea. The latter, how
ever, ia not aa large aa Mr. Thornp-
aon’a timothy yield.
Alfalfa haa the ail vantage, however,
in the fact that It often yield« three
cro|»a a year.
rrounds
HAS STOOD NEAR THE KELLY
BUMPER CROP OK HAY
Cottage Grove Country Again Prove»
e ™
BRIDGE FOR MONTH
ADD STORY TO PLANT
Cottage Grove Manufacturing Com
pany Making 40x110 Ad
dition to Building.
The Cottage Grove Manufacturing
Co. hua commenced work adding an ex
tra atory to ita entire building. Thu
company haa been cramped for room
for aoma time and will he able to u«e a
large part o f the addition with the
machinery ¿Iruady in use. Some new
machinery will lie installed thla win
ter.
The aixe of the building ia 40x110
feet.
—
O r e g o n ^ Southeastern Railway of This City and Jesse
Darling Milwaukee Interests Are Most Promi
nent in Promoting the Project
FIRST LINK WILL BE ROAD TO LORANE TO BE
BUILT DURING NEXT SUMMER
A good sign o f Cottage
$18 a Day From Acre
and Quarter of Berries
J. I WHEELER DEAD
AT 71 YEARS
Mrs. Joseph Liggett Drowns in
Waters of Coast Fork
M aVO T
B a ilg S
POSt
With Machine
EVERGREEN CORN ON THE MARKET
At Least a Dozen Residences Are
Under Course of Construc
tion in this Vicinity.
Grove’s
Tidewater To Be Reached by 1915. Region Rich in Timber and growth is the fact that at least a dozen
Agricultural Possibilities Will Be Tapped.— Work to
residences are at present under course
o f construction, either within the city
Start Early in the Spring of 1913.
Cottnge Grove ia to have a railroad ; Sentinel repre«eritative, admitted that
from here to the coast. There ia no tha road wa« contemplated and that he
longer any doubt o f it. The Sentinel ; leaves for the Ea«t in a few daya on
some lime ago said that it had the business connected with financing the
edge on the new» concerning a pro- i project.
posed electric road from here to Lo- ■ It is understood that the new road
For a rla«ay piece of job printing, ranc and that in due time it would j will be operated by steam, instead of
try Tlie Sentinel Typographic Studio. publish full particulars. That news is* by electricity, ar at first contemplated.
now ripe. The road will be built.
and that the first link, from here to
Just who are the people behind the Lorane will be built during the bum
new venture can not lie learned posi mer o f 1913, the balance to be con
tively, hut it is certain that the Ore structed aa conditions warrant, the ob
"T he Shop" where good printing ■a
gon & Southeastern Railway of this ject being to get to Winchester Bay
■ione The Sentinel.
city and Jeaae Darling and hi« Mil by the time the Panama canal is
waukee associates are the prime mov opened.
ers. All rumor as to Hill or Harriman
Some Large Vegetables.
The new road will open up tremen
Raising of Strawberries Proves
, having any interest in the promotion dous tracts o f timber and thousand« of
Goo. Salton, who haa t>ecn in the
Profitable to J. A. Prophet.
work ia fiction. They have had their acre« of agricultural land and will be
Cottage Grove country only a roupie
j opportunity and did not accept it. The one of the biggest thing« that has hap
yrara ami ronaidera himaelf an amateur
at gardening, la proud of the vegeta-
Receipts o f |I5 to S18 a day from an capital will come from other sources. pened in the history o f Cottage Grove.
blra he ralaed thla year.
He had acre and a quarter o f strawberries Some o f it may be raised locally, but
In an address a few months ago at
beeta, rulahagaa ami lurni|* that were seems like a pretty big thing, and it the greater part will certainly come the Board o f Trade banquet, C. M.
f>t inchea In diameter ami rarrota 17 ia, hut that is what J. A. Prophet Is through the O. & S. E. and Darling in- Shinn predicted big things for Cottage
inehea long. All were solid aa rock« getting out o f his berries at the pres terests. It is probable that the prop Grove within a twelve month and 5,000
and delicious in Davor.
ent time. This ia Home indication o f erty o f the t). A S. E. will be sold to a populaton within five years. His pre
what the future holds for the Cottage new company ami the stockholders in diction is coming trun already, and
the present road take stock for the there are still other surprises for Cot
Grove country in the berry industry.
Mr. Prophet ships his berries daily purchase price in the new road. This tage Grove people within the year to
come.
to the Portland market, receiving (2.7 6 can not be verified at present.
Manager Wood, of the O. A S. E..
A year from now will probably see
to (3.00 a crate. __ During the berry
season he picked aa high aa 20 crates when approached on the subject by a the Oregon Electric.
a day.
HALE AND HEARTY UNTIL TIME
The secret o f Mr. Prophet's excep
tional success is the fset that he is
OF LAST SICKNESS
under the Spray irrigation ditch and
the luscious berries get plenty o f mois
Knew That End Was Near and ture.
Mr. Prophet is farming a 12-acre
Made Own Arrangements for
piece o f the Spray tract which he
Funeral. -Came to Cottage
bought a year or so ago, and says he
tiroye in Year 1900.
haa all the land he needa.
An Hour After Sending for Physician Her Body Is
Berry culture plays a most import
Discovered Floating in Cold Waters of River.—
J. K. Wheeler, a resident o f Cottage ant part in the development o f this
The
Grove since 1900, died Monday at 9 :30 favored fruit-growing section.
Life Extinct When Help Arrives.
a. m. at the home o f hia only son, F. man who plants an orchard is usually
I). Wheeler.
Cause o f death was anxious to secure some return from h s
dropsy and the sufferer knew the end investment while waiting for the time CHILD WHO GOES FOR DOCTOR FINDS PARENT
was near, making hia own arrange when hia trees shall come into hearing.
MISSING ON HER RETURN.
ments for the funeral. He had re Strawtarries have been found to aolve
turned from a visit in Illinois a few this problem moat satisfactorily when
Thought To Be Case of Suicide.—Dead Woman Had Haunted
daya before his death and knew upon planted between the rows o f fruit
Banks of River For Days.—111 Health Thought
hia arrival that the end was near. The trees, aa its maxiumm crop is produced
To Have Been the Cause.
funeral was held Tuenday afternoon at the age of one year. Fruitgrowers
from the M. E. church, Rev. Kobt. who make a s o c ia lly of strawberry
Shortly after sending her 14-year-old from the water until the arrival of
Sutcliffe officiating.
Interment was culture find in it a large profit. The
yield ia always heavy in this section daughter for a physician, the body of Marshal Snodgrass, nearly an hour af
made in the Maaonic cemetery.
J. E. Wheeler was born in Jefferson and prices are good in the local market. Mrs. Joseph Liggett was found float ter its diaeovery. It is thought that
ing in the icy waters o f the Coast Fork the body had been in the water but a
County, N. Y., in 1H40 and spent hi«
o f the Willamette just above the Cur- few minutes when first discovered and
boyhood days in that stale and Illinois.
Says Grove Is All Right.
He waa married in 1H62 to Ellen Hen-
Mr. Black, one o f Ro«eburg’s pros- rin bridge a few minutes after 9 that immediate assistance might have
dryx o f Canton, 111. Three children l>erou8 business men, atop|>ed off here o'clock yesterday morning. When the restored life.
Mr. Liggitt, husband o f the dead
were born to them, only F. D. Wheeler S a day this week. He says the Grove body was recovered from the waters
o f this city surviving. Mrs. Wheeler and surrounding country is one o f the almost an hour after, life waa extinct. woman, was killed about a year ago by
died in 1894. Mr. Wheeler was a Ma fineat places in the west.
Mrs. Liggitt had been ailing for sev an S. P. train as he was walking the
son and Oddfellow and a member of
eral months and had haunted the banks track near the tie plant. Since then
the M. E. Church for 60 year«, being
I j C C Roy Woods Delieves he has pro o f the river for several days. It is j the family has been in destitute cir
quite active in church work in hia duced the tullest potato vine.
It believed that mental depression, caused cumstances, which may have aided in
younger daya. He waa in the grocery measures one inch over 7 feet. It ia a by worrying over her sickness, caused causing a temporary mental derange
business in Cottage Grove for several volunteer and was found climbing up her to wade into the water and end it ment.
Mrs. Liggitt leaves three married
years, selling out live year« ago.
the grape arbor.
all. No one'saw her enter the water,
although one man claims to have seen daughters, Mrs. A. L. Phillips o f Port
her sitting with her feet in the water land; Mrs. S. D. Pulford o f Myrtle
and holding her head in her hands a Point; Mrs. Marie Cribbins of Marsh
short time before found dead, but the field; also a brother, Cecil Carter of
fact that she was found in the river so Myrtle Point. These have been noti
soon sfter sending for medical aid, i fied and no funeral arrangements will
lends credence to the suicide theory. be made until they are heard from.
It is also learned that Mrs. Liggitt
Injured Man Convalescent.
asked for pencil and paper shortly a f
Gus Donley, who was injured by be
ter
breakfast yesterday morning.
SETS FIRE TO HOUSE PLAYING
When asked by her daughter whom she ing hit with a flying chip at the Divide
W ITH MATCHES
„
, .
was goirg to write to, she sent the mill a couple weeks ago and puzzled
physicians by remaining in a semi-con
child down town.
scious state for several days, is now
When
the
dsughte'r
returned
from
Three-Year-Old Daughter and Tiny
Mayor W H. Abrams has learned the city she found her mother missing convalescing and will be back at the
Son Rescued in Nick of
that it is not profitable to hit a post and took her 5-year-old brother and mill this week.
with an automobile, the information went to the river in search of her.
Time by Mother Who
Som« Elegant Apples.
coming as a result o f personal exper
Nothing had been written on the pa
Hears Cries.
J. A. Kile,who lives five miles east of
ience. He did not hit the post very
per during the child’ s absence, al
the city, was in Wednesday exhibiting
hard, however, and the damage to the
though it is probable the mother in
A 3-year-old child ami a match came machine waa merely a broken lamp.
some Yellow Transparent apples that
tended to leave some word for rela
near causing the death o f herself
are certainly "b e a u tie s." They are
tives after she was gone.
and tiny baby brother Friday morn
solid and luscious and not a flaw in any
When the girl heard that a body had of them. They would bring the top
ing at the home o f Henry Sanders,
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been diarovered, thought to be that of notch price in any market.
living st Disston. The little girl and
Mrs. Archie Thompson Brings First
a girl, she at once said she thought it
a baby less than a year old were at
Batch to the City.
was her mother. When the truth of
play in one o f the bedrooms when the
Baby Show at Grange Fair.
the girl’ s surmise was proven only
mother who waa in an adjoining room,
There will be a baby show in connec
Homegrown Evergreen sweet corn too true, kind neighbors took the chil
heard their criea and ran in to find the
tion with the local grange fair this
ia
now on the market. Mrs. Archie dren away from the scene and are car
room in tlamca. It waa with difficulty
fall, in which babies will be judged by
that ahe pulled the children from the Thompaon brought in 14 doxen ears ing for them until claimed by rela a standard o f weights and measures
burning room, as clothing on hooka on Saturday and was in with 2ft doxen a tives.
adopted for the purpose.
the wall waa all on fire. Other than few daya before. Her corn has the
The body was first discovered by
distinction
o
f
being
the
first
on
the
being acorched about the face the
Mrs. Mattie Little while crossing the
Poisoned by Blackberries.
children were unhurt.
But for the market Bnd went at two bits a doxen bridge. The woman was in the water
l»ee Roy Woods is a trifle more cor
ears.
timely arrival of the mother both chil
in a kneeling position as if she had pulent than usual this week, the re
dren would have been burned alive.
J. L. Beatty has opened a real estate gone into the water with a prayer to sult o f being poisoned by blackberries.
With the aaaiatanne o f neighbors the office in the Philli|>s building, where he her creator.
The head was out of It ia a new experience for Lee Roy
fire waa quenched after all the con will handle the sale o f the Harding water. Mrs. Little alarmed the neigh and he says he ia croeaer than a bear
tents o f the room were destroyed.
tract and other properties.
bors, but no one removed the body with a sore head.
3-YEAR-OLD TOT NEARLY
CREMATES SELF AND BABE
MANY NEW HOMES
limits or in the near vicinity.
Those in the city are those for O. H.
Willard, H. S. Swengel, Dan Cooper,
Chas. Caldwell, A. L. Woodard, W. L.
Hubbell, A. L. Zacharias, E. C. Spray,
Chas. McKibben. Those in the nearby
vicinity are J. W. Skaggs, W. S. A.
Edlefson, W. F. Lynch.
In addition, quite a number have
just been completed.
What Mother Has the
Most Perfect Child?
Beliefs of Residents of Vicinity That
It Is Stolen Machine Deserted
by Thieves When 'It
Went Dead.
Mystery surrounds a deserted auto
mobile which has been left near the
Kelly bridge on the Row River. The
machine has been standing in the same
place without owner or claimant for a
month or more.
It is the opinion o f those living in
the neighborhood that it is a stolen
machine deserted by the thieves. It
is thought that the machine became
mired or the engine refused to work,
and those running it did not dare to
get repairs or go for assistance for
fear o f being apprehended, so left the
i machine and made their escape. The
j car is a 3-passenger runabout, appar
ently a recent model in good condition.
Three More Families.
The Cottage Grove country is to
have three more new farm homes in
| the near future and three new families
1 have been added to the population to
Many Valuable Prizes Offered
| occupy them.
at Salem State Fair This Fall
The parties are the S. C. Swaggerty,
J. E. Swaggerty and H. M. Morris
Who has the most perfect baby in families, who have been farming a 500-
tbe State of Oregon7 That is the ques acre dairy ranch in the Yoncalla coun
tion. There are some nice prizes to be try.
The three together have pur-
given to the children who can show j chased 43 acres of the Spray tract.
their superiority.
A Children's Welfare Exhibit will be
held in connection with the State Fair,
(500 having been appropriated for the
purchase of prizes.
Of course every mother knows that
her baby is the most perfect, and some
of the dads probably would resent any HAMPTON 4 CO. HAVE PLEAS
imputation that the mothers did not
ING EXPERIENCE
speak the truth. But "p e r fe c t” in
this instance doea not refer to the
baby's temperament (which if good Customers Pass Right by Window
would be like its mother, and if tbe
Display to Purchase Goods
oppposite like its father's) but to the
They Read About in
physical condition. In other words it
is an Exposition o f Eugenics.
The Sentinel.
Certain medical standards o f weights
and measurements will be used and
Hampton & Co. had a pleasing ex
every child compared with these stand perience with advertising the past
ards. Approach to perfection will be week. Their ad last week qu >ted some
figured on a percentage basis. \ corps exceptionally good values on clothing
of welT known women physicians will —and a lot o f folks read about them,
make the test, at the same time point as was demonstrated Saturday when
ing out to the mother the strong and the store had its banner day for cloth
weak points in the child’s makeup.
ing sales.
All the approved methods o f handling
The store bad a display o f clothing
babies, their food, clothing and other that had not been advertised, but folks
features will be demonstrated daily by walked right in and asked for the
trained nurses.
goods they had seen advertised. Not
Four years is the age limit. The a suit on display in the window was
champion boy and girl will each get a sold, but the others went like hot
(50 cup and there are (400 in other cakes.
prizes.
Folks will read the ads.—in The Sen
Cottage Grove has some o f the finesl tinel.
and healthiest specimens o f babyhood
on the face o f the earth, and, if en
Graduates Will Teach.
tered, some o f the prizes will un
The seven high school graduates who
doubtedly come here.
were members of the teachers training
An attempt is being made to have class this year have been engaged to
the grange hold a local exhibit preced teach in the following districts: Miss
ing the state exhibit.
Maude Skidmore. Curtin; Miss Maude
Full particulars can be secured by Lamson, Lynx H ollow; Miss Myrtle
writing O. M. Plummer, superintend DeSpain, Walden; Miss Hester Bemis,
ent Exposition o f Eugenics, Salem.
! Elk Head; Miss Audrey Langdon,
'Santa Clara, near Eugene; Miss Lena
Proof o f Annual Labor blanks for Burcham, Silk Creek; Miss Jennie
sale at the Sentinel office.
Smith, Saginaw.
ADVERTISING SELLS
THE GOODS
PRESENCE OF MIND SAVES
MAN FROM HORRIBLE FATE
Postal Deposits Are!J0E ST0CKS MEETS SERI0USIN-
.
r A
JURY AT ROW RIVER
Growing Apace
Deposits in Cottage Grove's postal As Right Hand Feeds Into Rolls of
savings bank are growing apace, the
the Resaw, Injured Man Grabs
total now being (900. The deposits
With Left and Forces
have been coming slowly but surely
Rolls to Disgorge.
and are now higher here than at many
larger cities.
Barely escaping by rare presence of
mind from being drawn bodily onto
the rolls o f the resaw at the Row
Fruit, Vegetables and Excelsior River Lumber C o.’s mill and having
the life crushed out o f him, Joe Stocks
Cause Congestion.
met with injuries to his right hand
Water Commissioner Pitcher had Friday afternoon that necessitated the
quite a time o f it Monday cleaning out amputation o f the thumb at the second
the sewer in the alley between Main joint.
When Stocks noticed his right hand
and Washingtion at a point between
Fourth and Fifth.
It had become feeding into the rolls, he grabbed his
clogged with vegetables, excelsior, wrist with the left hand ami forcibly
etc., and a fire hose was necessary to pulled the other hand from between
the rolls. The flesh was torn from the
force the obstruction out.
Mr. Pitcher believes someone must thumb, leaving it bare to the bone and
have dumped the stuff into a manhole, the first and second fingers were man
aa it would have been almost impossi gled. But for his presence o f mind in
ble for such large refuse to get in pulling his hand out, he would have
undoubtedly met a horrible death.
otherwise.
HAVE TIME CLEANING OUT SEWER