tities; in the next
place
it is not
free education to com pel
pupils t»>
XShe Cottage Grove Sentinel
b u y their ow n books,
A
be furnished by the
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Publt*h*r.
E L B E R T BEDE. Editor
thev
should
state;
in
the
Things W e Think
Thing* **ih*i* think, and what «o'
think of Ut* thing* other* think
n ext place the United States govern
meut should print the school luniks,
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This rule is imperative.
for that is the o n ly
wav
they can
be secured
at
a fair price.
The
governm ent
printin g office could
Marriage Is a si lerloua thing usually
lightly undertaken.
The trick is to get nt the boltum of
the high eost o f living i t ’s no use j
trying to got to tho top.
A D V E R T IS IN G R A TE S
If we could have everything we do
Display 25 cents per inch, 16% discount on contracts; reading notice ads., iug its school luniks.
In a recent
10 cents per line; legal notices, 6 cents per line; surrounded ads . 35 cents per
sire, life would he insipid and flat. U
investigation
in
Minnesota
it
was
Cards of Thanks and
inch, classified ads.. 6 cents per line each insertion.
is the struggle that gives life « zest.
shown that a hook produced for ■>
Resolutions, 6 cents per line.
Too tunny folks Hre like the hell who
I hat
F i f t h
B u s i n e s s
O f f i c e : 23 S o u t h
t r > T . cents was sold for .1.5 cents.
not only is satisfied to have what she
isn’ t extortion, it is h ig h w a y ro b
produces taken away from her, hut ad
A first-class publication entered at Cottage Grove as second class mail matter.
bery.
It is
time
for
action. vertises the fact that H is there to be
T H U R S D A Y , J A N U A R Y 2. 1913
Patience ceases to be a virtue. taken.
save the country m illion s by print
Marriage Niid a eolil are easily con
ANOTHER STARTLER
A n o th e r
OUT OF STYLE
startler
in
the
dynam ite conspiracy, and
great
the last
the
No one has more kind words than
lndiaua|»olis
you. (live them with a lavish hand.
You will never miss them.
one, is the co nviction o f .IS o f
NEW YORK PRESS
accused men by
jury.
the
It had hardlv seemed jmssi-
ble that the stories o f
M c.d a u ig a l
and the M c N a m a r a s could bepossi
!
j r f v" N O W they do uot spank no more,
5 __1. So all the papers say;
They say that spankin’ little boys
A n ’ girls has died away.
They say it’s just gone out o f style:
O f course it had to wait
T ill I was growed too big to spank
’ Fore it went out o f date.
c iv iliz e d age.
Neither did it seem
possible that
the
conspirators
would
be
found g u ilty bv an A m e r ic a n jurv.
Hut it has
all
happened
and
the
futility o f v io len ce in la bo r troubles
has again been demonstrated.
Union labor may be injured
somewhat for a short time, but it
has been amply demonstrated that
the rank and file of the ironworkers’
union knew nothing of the machina
tions of their leaders and were in
no way parties thereto. The reve
lations of this momentous trial are
more than likely to result in a
closer watch by labor unionists
upon their leaders, with resultant
good to union labor as a whole.
’ Twas right in style when 1 was small,
A dozen times a day;
Guess l was spanked so much that I
Was almost spanked away.
Ma took a hand, then pa a turn,
A n ’ ’ twixt ’em both I got
A ll that was cornin’ round to me
Right on my tender spot.
Some people seem to like to spank
Their children e v ’ ry day;
They get a kind of exercise
They get no other way.
A n ’ then they say how much it hurts
Themselves to spank us so;
I guess it only hurts their hauds,
They spank so hard, you know.
ble in a supposedly
AS o f
POST vs. EXPRESS
The parcel post will enlighten
the people somewhat as to the
amount o f money o f which they
have been mulcted bv the express
companies.
With healthy pros
Now spankin’ has gone out of style,
pects of a greatly decreased busi
I ’ m sorry as can be;
ness. the express companies are
Becuz I lose a golden chance
preparing to make lower rates on
That others had you see.
that which will be left. A rejiort
I was jes’ lookin’ for the time
from Washington states that al
When I ’d have children, too;
ready one rate has been cut to less
Then I could spank ’ em good an’ hard
than one-third the former price.
Like father used to do.
The express companies have also
commenced advertising an un
heard of thing before. Several im
provements in service at this time
are also of some significance.
If the parcel post proves the
M IL L IO N S
barn after the horse was stolen.
success that it gives promise of,
The announcement that the lum W e allow weak-minded and degen
the government may try its hand
ber interests o f this city intend erate men and women to come into
with other public utilities.
spending a million and a half dol the world, surround them with
lars a year for labor for years to conditions that breed crime, then
A number of readers have e x
come was the most appreciated after they have sinned, hold up
pressed dissatisfaction because The
Christmas present Cottage Grove our hands in holy horror and start
Sentinel does not think just as they
ever received. A fter that it was about saving them. Some good is
do. W e wouldn’ t be satisfied to
unnecessary to wish it a prosperous no doubt accomplished for the iu-
think the same as all our readers.
N ew Year.
| dividual himself, but reforming the
Besides, everyone who wishes is
A million and a half a year is a man who has committed a crime
given the opportunity to express
lot of money, but there are people does not particularly help those
his views.
here who have waited years for who have been injured by his action
such announcements as this, feel- and does little to prevent others
The way to get a Commercial
ing, knowing that they were bound from committing the same crime Club to do what you want it to, is
to come sooner or later. It now N o doubt some little good results to have the privilege of the floor.
appears that their patience is about from reforming convicts, providing That requires you to become a
to be rewarded. The new year they stay reformed, but no great member._________________
gives promise of starting an era of impression will be made upon law-
The greatest reason why things
industrial activity that will ful- lessness until efforts to cure critni-
don’t
get done is because so many
fill the predictions o f the most nals begin with those who have
ardent booster of years gone by. not yet sinned.
Even then the wait for someone else to start ’em.
Are you one o f the waiters?
Before the announcement of the process will be slow enough.
!
big timber deal, residents were sat
SCHOOL BOOKS
isfied with the proposed railroad to
One o f the most serious prolr
the coast and thought that a big
enough thing for one year. Now | lems of the Oregon school system
that things have started they will >s that o f school books. One of
be contented with nothing, and be- the wealthiest and most pernicious
fore the year is completed it is | trusts today is the school book trust,
more than probable that several i it knows every scheme by which a
other big things will be announced few more dollars may be mulcted
and taken as a matter o f course. from the users of school books, and
it not only knows these tricks but
WASTED SENTIM ENT
uses them. A recent investigation
There is too much sentiment, in Washington showed wholesale
much of it o f a maudlin nature, in bribery. An investigation in Cali
the discussion of the treatment of fornia is bringing to light, like
criminals, and in the treatment it conditions in that state.
self. Too much thought is given
Oregon’ s school book system,
to the man who has sinned and where little has been done toward
not enough to the things that have standardization,
where moving
caused him to sin. Much effort is from one school district to another
wasted on those who have commit may require the purchase of a new
ted crimes that would achieve re set o f books and where they are
sults if turned to those who are purchased in small driblets by
about to become entangled in the individual pupils, must be the
meshes of the law. Energy wasted school book trust’ s dream of Para
in pleading for the lives o f mur dise.
derers would better be spent in plan
T o begin with, the same books
ning for the preservation of society should be used for like studies in
itself.
every district in the state. In the
W e go about saving sinners too .next place thev should be pur
much like the man who locked the 1 chased by the state in large quan-
tracted.
A strong-minded person doesn't al
ways have the healthiest intellret.
Nothing pays like a payroll
Don’ t talk impudently to a dentist.
H e ’s apt to throw it back in your teeth.
All men are not created equal
are boin n wspapernien.
some
I t ’ s hard to have a hot time without
cold eash.
Give the children something to do.
It will be better for all concerned.
The best kind o f whiskey is Unit
whieh is so rotten no one will drink it.
Women have the right
young as long mm you can.
AhsoiuteirPure
The Woman Makes (he Hon*
She makes it best who, looking after
culinary department, turns her back rom u i
ly upon unhealthful, or even suspicious,
accessories.
She is economical; she kn
that true economy docs not consist in the
o f inferior meat, Hour, or buking ixtwder. She
is an earnest advocate o f home made, hoo*
baked food, and has proved the truth of t)*
statements o f the experts thut the l*-st cook,
ing in the world today is done with
Baking Powder.
Koyi|
idea—slay
The middleman is not the one who
gets squeezed. Strange to sMy, it is
the o:ie at the end of the line.
When you're tired and fagged out or
got the blues, a good hearty laugh will
do wonders. Try it.
Some people never get anywhere ex-
eept into trouble.
YONCALLA BESPEAKS
CANNERY
turned into money hi t„ t*
rot.
This community n«*di •
factory. This ' “ inmunitj
canning factory. The »»,
to get together nnd go tm
Fruit Going to Rot and Waste Could
move n«e<hi a lender.
Wko
leader?
This matter him been it,};
fruit grower who has
going to waste every ytula
a murket.
There ar« ot
need a market. You cm tin
ket. Get i t ' Just push •
it's yours.
Be Sold at Fair Profit,
’Tis Said.
Silence is golden, but one of the
richest persons in the world is n wo
Yoncalla Times : Some o f the neigh
man.
boring towns are to have canning fac
Join the sunshine club. It's great.
tories. They get them by going after
Love will do moat anything. Have
them. There should he enough push
you been done?
in any town that is worthy to he on
They tell us that when people get the map. Yonralla will probably have
R e a l Fatate Triad*
hack to the land living will be cheaper. a creamery this spring without going
Adoniram J. Stewart Is
When we return to dust we won't care after it. It will come hecauae there ia
Stewurl, pnrt o f lot» 3 and
much what the cost o f living is.
profit for it here. It will alto be pro James II. McFarland's adéË
Sarcasm seldom gets a person any fitable for the cream producer.
tage Grove, $1«.
where.
There will also be profit for the man
Ailontrnm J. Stewart L
Work never yet fagged anyone out
as much as worry.
A person with sunshine in his face
never has a sour disposition.
I f everyone was satisfied with what
he is entitled to, others would not be
dissatisfied because of not having their
share.
Everything comes to her who waits.
A New York maiden has become the
fourth w ife o f her girlhood's sweet
heart.
We know some folks who haven't
sense enough to ever get brain fever.
There are a lot of things we want to
know that w e ’ re better off for not
knowing.
A woman feels old at 25 hut thinks
she is young at 50.
The mean things you say are gradual
ly forgotten, but the mean things you
write may spring up to taunt you at
any time.
A physician, now aged 81, says that
when he gets to be 100 he will marry.
I f everybody went about getting mar
ried as gradually and with as much
foresight as that, there would he very
few unhappy marriages.
R o y al
C lu b
ITS
Coff
GREAT
The M ETS A N
SH
who pula in u cunning factory, but it Stewart, lami» In township»!
is not at all likely that any man will SR. :iw„ $!<).
Lew W. Sandys to Lucy A.;
come along looking for a location when
so many locations ure looking for the ami* in township 17 SK. t$..
Adoniram J. Stewart I»
man.
Jennie !.. Kidd, tract in
Things of this kind make the town. SR 3 W . $10.
They not only
make
the
town
C, Alateiol et ilx to .l»mf*
hut they make the land around the lami Joainh Porter 99.97 :
town far more desirable for factories 2« SK. 8 W.. $UXXI.
John T. Allen et ux to Jime
of any kind and rnakcdcmHiid for produce.
A canning factory, especially, will Joaiah Porter -18.33 aert» #
make demand for produce. Not only Tp. 2« SR 3 W ,. $10.
ItcMzen G. Elliott et ui L
will it make demand for produce hut
it will make a demand for many things <’. Billings, southeast i «1
that now go to waste. Any producer i o f aection 18, tow nsh ip
knows what they are. Among them range 2 west, $3 imni .
are cull apples anil good apples, pears,
F. It. Sherman t o Georg* L
[•caches, beans, |ieas and many other
Lot t, bik. 3, Currin’s H É
things that might just as well be to Gottage Grove, $1«.
It takes a fast young man to he a
good chauffeur.
I f a w ife wants to keep a hubby
traveling in the straight and narrow
path, all she needs to do is to make
him believe that he talks in his sleep.
A lot o f people who claim to be in
partnership with God act as if they
owned the entire business.
It is better to exaggerate the truth
than scandal.
The cheaper grades o f whiskey are
being used in motor engines in place
o f gasoline. The motor engines seem
bound to keep going from bad to worse.
An eg g 40« years old hss been pre
sented to the New York museum. We
had heretofore believed that a museum
Cougar is Slain With 22 Rifle.
was a place for exhibiting curiosities
The skin o f a cougar, which was
and things a person does not ordinarily
killed with a 22 caliber rifle, was
see very frequently.
brought to the county clerk’s office at
I f the people who think they can run
Albany a few days ago by H. L.
Schanckenburg, o f Lyons, and the state a newspaper had never been born, the
bounty of $10 collected. Not only is march o f civilization would not yet
it most unusual to kill a cougar with a have crossed Long Island sound.
weapon o f this caliber, but the gun in
this oase was an additional handicap
in that the ejector would not work
properly and it was necessary to pull
out the cartridges with a knife after
firing the gun.
Despite the risk of trying to kill a
cougar with such a weapon, Schnacken-
berg risked his life and attacked the
animal in order to save a valuable
shepherd dog which the cougar had at
tacked. He ran almost to the spot
where the animal was fighting with the
dog and fired. The first bullet struck
the cougar in the side o f the head, and,
reloading as quickly as possible,
Shnackenberg fired Hgain. This shot
[•enetrated the cougar's brain and
killed it instantly. The cougar mea
sured six feet seven inches in length.
The place where the cougar was
killed is almost on the edge o f the
town o f Lyons.
Royal
D ak in gP ow det
A woman who wears a hunch o f rats
and false hair can’ t deny that she hHS
a aoft place on her head.
The worst part o f this muck-raking
is that it just stirs things up without
clearing away the rubbage and refuse.
I’atience is the heaviest-taxed com
modity there ia.
Mrs. Francis Shaw says fieople would
live to be 160 years old i f they never
wore underwear. Mr. Francis Shaw
ought to tell us whether the Mrs. ia
trying to attain that age.
There is 86 millions more money in
circulation now than a year ago accord
ing to a report of the treasury de
partment.
The arteries o f business
ought to be in pretty good shape.
A Man
in need of a pair of good work or dress shoes will
well to try a pair of Star Brand Shoe*. They
always been
Found
to give entire satisfaction. You will not be
Dead
when night comes if you walk all d ay in a !>a‘r
good, soft, flexible Star Shoes.
In
a pair of shoes bought at our store, tht2re is coiflk
as well as service.
A Pairof Cheap, Shoddy Sh.
will not fit you and you would never be
while wearing them.
Buy your shoes where you can fit you r feet.
Star Brand Shoes Are Better
100 Pounds Best Cane Sugar $5.85 C
A western crank who argued that all
puniahment for sins is meted out in
this world, was burned to death in a
hotel fire the next night.
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satisfi