Cottage Grove sentinel., January 14, 1914, Image 4

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Baseball fans are no good to keep you
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I cool—although they stir up quite a
Wednesday. January 14, 1914
breece.
Among the women who hav« boon
THE FIRST WOMAN.
most
fortunate in low affairs may be
By WARREN E. COMSTOCK
mentioned
some who have uo prospect*
WASHTR1, THE VULCAN of Hindoo mythology, created the of being married.
world, but when he wished to create a woman, he found that
sometime* wise to give in early
he had employed all his material in the creation of man. There to It au is argument—to
avoid being eon
did not remain one solid clement. Then Twashtri, perplexed, fell viuced.
into a profound meditation. He aroused himself as follows:
Ladies, don't envy your neighbor who
He took the roundness of the moon;
wears silk stockings. Her hubby may
The hot and quiv’ring air of noon;
be wearing cotton socks with hole* iu
The chill of Boreas’ icy breath;
’em.
Divine devotion unto death;
bridge construction, 10.081* mill«, rant
Inconstancy of wayward wind;
The
man
who
eats
aa
if
he
had
ing $399,334.96.
Timidity of gentle hind;
suction valve in hi* «esophagus is I
County apportionment of atate tax,
The lion’s courage when at bay;
gentleman.
4.7H
mill«, raiaing $169,407.83.
Immortal hopes of dawniug day ;
County
high arhool purposes, 6'Jfl of
Forebodings of the dreary night;
What is the quality in human nature a mill, raising
The poise of eagle in its flight;
that makes us revel in the mistake* of County arhool $20,906.14.
purposes, 2.423 mills,
Sweet flavor of the honey bee;
others.
rniaing
$95.905.30.
The fury of the surging sea;
The automobile ia making a lot of County school library purposes, CO
The mellow moonbeams calm repose;
hump
barked people. Probably the ¡of a mill, taiaing $1,187.44.
The clinging of the climbing rose;
Armory, .032 of a mill, raising $25,
monthly
paymeuts are too heavy.
Relentlessness of open grave;
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The gracefulness of curling wave;
The plagiarist doesn't think what he School district maintenance fund
The love-light form the eyes of fawn;
says.
.021 of a mill, raising $H3I.20.
The tear drops from the mist of dawn;
HAKTKI-S A KKNKST. Props.
Total amount of money to lie raised
The gladsome joy of bright sun ray;
No one can blame a rheumatic fur $712,401.99.
The vanity of peacock gay;
kicking.
In addition to the county levy, and
The velvet flush of rose leaf tints;
Every |>ntron of The Sentinel is liel|ii»g to give Cottage
A man may be like a dock and still the many municipnl, school district nnd
The modesty the violet hints;
road
district
and
port
levies,
alretidy
be behind time.
Grove what eminent authority hus stated to lit* the heat
t,
The passion of the tiger’s might;
published, the county court declares the
The purity of lily, white;
The white woman who marries a levies estimated aa necessary by County country weekly on tin* coast.
The chatter of the noisy jay ;
negro
will always have a color line to School Superintendent Moore in order
The dove’s love notes at the close of day.
hang her washings on
to provide the legal school allowance
for each district of the county. Karh
Rich rainbow rays flashed from the rest;
No one gets past redemption. The school
must have at least $300
Composite of Creation’s best!
tiuest broilers are born from eggs that for the district
y
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a
r'*
school, and the court ia
I no one would eat.
He crowned her with a Faith Divine;
empowered
to
make
a levy sufficient to
Showed her to Man, and said: “ She’s Thine.”
raise
this
amount,
unless,
a few raaea,
The commencement orator often finds the district lacks sufficient in property
plaudits scarce when he tries to orate raise the amount w th a five mill levy to
BEWARE OF A FRENZY.
the boas into believing that he is just Any sum in addition to the five mill
There seems no longer to be a difference of opinion concerning I the
man the firm ha* been anxiously levy, required to provide the $300,
the necessity of reforming the initiative and referendum. Indeed looking
for.
come* from the general funds of the
the demand seems to be nearly as great as was the original demand
for these advanced methods of enacting or defeating legislation. In The sweet girl graduate ia no longer county. The following are the dis
the ahort time they have been in operation their glaring defects have the randy kid. She is just beginning tricts in which additional levies have
been forced upon the voter.
learn the lesaons of life— the first been made by the county court:
The danger now is that in a frenzy to reform the initiative and of to which
Levied
Levied From Oeu
ia that fame is a transient joy District
by Dist. by Court Fund
No
referendum they will be put into worse form than at present
that fades in a day.
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Our own dear Jonathan Bourne, who is still not adverse to get
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ting a little advance advertising for his senatorial candidacy, pro­ It is easy to be a gentleman and hard 42
I he value of a paper to a community can be accurately measiiml
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poses that paid petition hawking be prohibited, meeting objections on others for you not to be.
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hy
what
outsiilcrs think of it. The Sentinel in willing to be imss
to his scheme by the argument that if the theory is right it will event­
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ually work out right. Why, Jonathan, the theory of our present H alf the people you envy are unsatis 63 . . .
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initiative and referendum is all right. The only trouble is that it fled with their position in life.
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doesn’t work. By his own argument Jonathan should leave it alone, You will never lose a job if yon are 73
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and like little Bo Peep’s sheep, it would come home all right in due on it all the time.
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time.
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But Brother J. B.’s scheme wouldn’t work. With paid haw-
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ker8 prohibited those with a large number of employes could lend talk Try about
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you
they
will
have
a
good
them for the good of the cause. Who would have such employes to subject to talk about.
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That is only one method that might be used in circumventing An eccentric millionaire has left five 102
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Jonathan’s theory.
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The Lane County Pomona Orange also has in mind a measure $5,000 bunches to each male descendant ,118 . . .
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similar in some respects to the Bourne bill with the added feature of born after the date of his death. Sort 119 . . .
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compelling that petitions be signed in fifty per cent or more of the of an heir-loom.
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counties of the state. But even if that would help eradicate the evil
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of petition hawking it does not go far enough, and besides with sev-l 11 •»»« been learned that a wealthy 129
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eral measures on the ballot having the same end in view there is going lows farmer has been giving his sweet 131 . . .
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to be endless confusion and unsatisfactory results. The good in each heart a 40 acre tract every time she 143 . . .
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measure cannot be picked out and only one dealing with the same I Visaed him. That ought to help to make 147 . . .
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point may become a law.
I the back to the noil movement popular. 154 . . .
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Careful study is necessary in order that a satisfactory result be I The germ* that are sometime* tran* 150
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D IS T A N C E O F T H E
obtained, and The Sentinel believes that consideration before a body fitte d with kisses are very modest and 105
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of men who can sort the good from the bad and the bad from the retiring creature* and never come out 10« . . .
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good, is the only method that will secure a result in any way satis-1 unles« squeezed out.
factory. Such being the case the proper method is to either empower
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or instruct the legislature to act or to arrange for the appointment Why is it that highwaymen make a 1«7
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of a commission to propose a measure embodying the necessary big haul whenever they hold up 109 . . . . . .
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changes. This might be done by an amendment to the initiative and gambling joint and the police never 171 . . .
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referendum having in mind the correction of other defects as find anything? The police might get a 172 . . .
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With Fingal Hinds
Oregon Hotel Building
Satisfactory results can not be secured by hurried, superficial | farmer
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and frenzied action upon two or more measures of a similar character,
▲ ftrst-class publ.cation entered at Cot tag« O rov« aa second das* Bail matter.
Men’s Suits . Half Price Boys’ Suits . . Half Price
| Every Article in the Store Is Reduced
X Special Prices on Dress Goods, Ginghams and Calicos
We are also closing out a fine line of House Dresses
If you don’t believe
our steak is good
Buy a piece and bite it
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Come and See Our Bargains. Prices Talk
City Meat Market
HARDW ARE
F U R N IT U R E
KN 0 WLE 5 & GRÄBER I
Choice Lots
; and Acreage
Cottage Grove Homesites Co.
prepared apparently for advertising purposes I
a t least one of them
OSWALD WEST A CO., ADVERTISING SPECIALISTS.
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Poor Venus!
I Two street ear men, a motorman and
the conductor, paused in front of the
window of an art store on the way to
i their work and gazed at the statuary
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the phrase, “ Judicious Advertising Pays.
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of Venus bore the sign
_ one-
Oswald West of Oregon, reigning power at Salem,
the
State1 JA third statue
off,“
Now
Venus,
as
the con­
Capital, is an advertising specialist. No lengthy argument is neces­ noisseur knows, nearly lost her
tunie
sary in substantiation of this statement. It is accepted by friend and when she lost her arms and only saved
foe alike. The only question on the subject is: “ Is he a judicious herself by leaning against a post. The
advertiser!”
conductor looked at the tunie then at |
Every newspaper of any size in the United States gave good the
“ It looks to me like it was
position to the recent capture of Copperfield by Miss Fen. Hobbs and more sign.
than
one-third
a detachment of the State Militia. If Miss Hobbs had done the job —Eugene Onard. off, Ja c k ,” h e • said.
alone, the advertising might have been judicious, but the following
editorial from the New York World may give us some idea of what a
wild and woolly country we appear to the East:
When the governor of Oregon sends his private secre­
tary and a detachment of coast artillery to close Copper-
field ’s two saloons the unprogressive East must wonder what
has become of the initiative and referendum and the recall in
COURT EXERCI8E8 DUTY OF PRO
that far-away community. Are those get-good-quick
VIDINO $300 MINIMUM FOR
, remedies that were to redeem mankind already played out!
EVERY SCHOOL
Governor West may be a righteous man with a stern sense
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of social justice and convinced that everybody in Oregon can
be made equally righteous at the point of a bayonet, but why
Lane county’s tax levy for 1914 was
declare martial law in order to close two saloons! W’hat
officially and definitely set at 18 mills
is martial law! With all due regard for Oregon’s passionate
by an order made last week by the
love for hasty reforms, does not its governor know when he
I»ane county court, following the tax­
orders the state troops to burn the saloons that the man who
payers’ meeting of Wednesday at which
plies the torch may be sent to Btate prison for arson!
the many items of the county budget
The East admires Oregon immensely and is eager to learn
were discussed and finally approved in
all it can from the Oregon school of advanced idealists. But
their entirety. Following ia the levy,
it ia puzzled sometimes by their lack of common sense and
as segregated for the different purposes
their infallible instinct for trying to do good in the wrong
for whieh funds are to be raised:
way.
General fund, including road and
LANE COUNTY TAX LEVY IS I
PLACED AT 18 MILLS
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