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INCO RPORATED » V ululila Nu. XXV ■ i. W IT H Htiluri OOTTAOE UROVK DEADER AUGUST 1, 1012 ------- ;---------------- :---------------- ;------------- ---------------------------- - ------- - C O T T A G E G R O V E , O R E G O N , W E D N E S D A Y . A P R IL 1, 1914 ar : UÊLJ ■ ■ ■■ Number 28 BRIGHT LAD ANXIOUS Brings Potatoes to MANY NOMINATIONS MADE Wants Live Paper LIGHTING COMPANY Prove Stories as Exchange FOR REFORM SCORED IN CITY’S IN SENTINEL PRIZE CONTEST SCHOOL^ COMPLAINT Katzenjammer Kid Cut« U p More Dido« OLAIMH TO H A V E BEEN C A P T A IN Ho thut there might not Im nny doubt whatever o f the truth o f the wonderful stories he told o f the size of the |io tallies h*< grew ln»t year, W. It Hawley J left II bo* of them at The Hentinel of flee this week. It fbok about a dozen to fill the bos. If Your Favorite’s Name Is Not Included in the List, Nominate Her It Costs Nothing to Enter This C o n test- All Have an Equal Chance Get in on the Ground Floor r Grange W ill Celebrate Arbor Day. O r ORG ANIZED GANG BUT A program chiefly devoted to Arbor SUPPOSED L IE U T E N A N T « Day, to whirh the puldir 1» invited, will D E N Y BTORY. be gi veil at the grnuge lecture hour, I to 2, Hatiirduy afternoon, April 4. Hev Wilfred Nyinoml», tin* incorrigible bid eral o f the junior grangers will present who hit» mini«* lift- lively for hi» Cottngi- a comic dialogue entitled, " M ik e Get» Grove |i»ri'iit», the county probation of a J o b ." licer, city iioliro officer» uml other», in about lo have hi» »mtiltlon to |(o to tin' in<lu»t rtul »rhool »Mtl»lli‘tl. I .it «t Wed in'»iluy iifti'rioMin hi* wn» ri’turni'il from here to tin* fitrin nt Koaeburg u|mn which hi* w »» |.I hii ' i I liy tin* probation officer, »ml it I» li'iirurli thut from thi-ri* hi* m to I h * »l'ut to Ibi* »tnti* »rhool iii'ar The Hentinel voting contest is now full sway. Over seventy bright and energetic candidates have already entered to compete for the valuable prizes offered. I f your favorite's name is not included in this list, send it in at once, as delays are often hitndienppera. hi j There is a great deal to be gained in a contest o f this kind, both in plenaure and experience, nnd those who enter at the start huve the beat chance o f win ning. Get your friends to help you and you will be surprised to see how the votes count up. Get busy today collect' ing the vote coupons which appear in each issue of the paper, each and every one hus a value. Several Noted Speaker« to Friends o f the many candidates wfio wish to help their fuvorite ran do so Address Meeting by simply clipping the vote coupon P R O M IN E N T C IT IZ E N S OF C ITY whirh uppears in this issue o f the paper. It is little to do, but your friend* will A R E A P P O IN T E D ON LO appreciate it. Do not hold the coupons C A L O R G A N IZ A TIO N back, but vote them before the date on COM MITTEE. them expires. When you pay your sub srription to The Hentinei lie sure you 1 A conference o f physician», edurn receive the vote» to which you are en A Tip on How to Win. tors, busine»» men ami other» on q'les titled. Vote* are issued on nil sub Ncturnlly, after having read all nbout tiona o f social and moral hygiene will senptions according to the amount paid. The Hentinel voting contest, you desire be held Hunday afternoon at .1 o ’clock All thoae wiahing to try for prize» to enter the contest ami win. The first at The Arrude Theater. The local pro auch aa were never before offered by thing to do is to enter your name as a motion committee o f the Oregon Horinl nny puper in Cottage Grove, should candidate, then either call or write the Hygiene Hociety, composed o f C. H. enter tK»' contest at once, and in so do nontext manager at the office o f The Burkholder, I’rof. J. >1. Dunton, Dr. A. mg a prospective contestant will not lie Hentincl for a receipt book, with which W Kune, Alta King, J. I. Jones, C. M. • impelled to overcome a large lend by to secure subscriptions. Next let your Mhinn and l.ee Roy Woods, has arranged one who entered the content at the out friends know you are in the contest and a program in which representative (oral . (Continued on page *) set. speaker», together with members o f the Executive Committee from Portland and Kosebiirg, are to participate. The social diseases, commonly known j a» " T h e Great Red P la gu e," will lie the j problem for consideration. It has only been within recent year» that the at trillion o f thinking people has been sailed by »killed medical authority to the fart that thousand» o f fine, red blooded young men and older boys of > Twenty-five F e e t Between Local Team Recognized as the country are becoming inferted with Him and Explosive One of Strongest these diseases, and are afterwards mar rving into the beat families, often to CARELESS W O R K M A N 'S MATCH TH IS C IT Y JOINS LEAGUE AND pa»« the dread infection to their inno DROPPED IN TO POW DER BOX W IL L P L A Y FIRST GAME OF cent wives nnd children. 18 C A U S E OF The conference is a call for sane nnd SEASON ON SUNDAY. constructive nrtion to every mnn in the ACCIDENT. A P R IL 12. city who is earnestly interested in the welfare o f the home aiid the protection The first o f the games between clubs A narrow escape from being blown to of boys and girls. kingdom come by an explosion o f dynu of the recently organized t'pper Wiliam The results o f sexual vice, causes of, mito, is related by J. H. Henron, who ette Valley league will be played April and remedies for, t' e evil will be dis returned last week from visiting hi» 12, when it is probable that the Cres • ussed anil especial attention given to orchard ranch in the W olf Creek well aggregation will play Cottage the need for parents to properly equip rountry. Grove on the loeal grounds. Manage! their children with farts regarding the He und his nsiriatant were "e x tra c t Bartels has asked that the next to the true nnture o f sex rather than to allow i n g " stumps with the explosive. His strongest team of the league be sent them to get their information from un assistant was sitting on the ground be here on thnt date for a cleaning similar trustworthy and pernicious sources. side the box o f dynamite and in light to that whieh it is to be administered The Oregon Hoeinl Hygiene Hociety, ing his pipe carelessly threw the match all comers. with whose cooperation the movement Cottage Grove is admitted to have into the dynamite box. His attention is being organized here, ia regarded as one o f the strongest organizations ia was attracted by wlint sounded like j the lending society o f it» kind in the sputtering fuse, but he did not rem: 'ii the league, and the same is true o f Cres country. for thorough and close investigation. well. For thut reason rae two teams The inerting in for men only nnd will When the explosion came he had put mey be matched for the opening game be presided over by Mayor Chambers. about twenty feet between himself ami Games will be seheduled for every The program follow »! the dangerous explosive. Mr. Benson Hunday o f the season, which closes the " T h e Prevalence and General Serious was working twenty five feet nway, hut last Hunday in Aug 1 st. Manager Ba? in'»» o f Venereal Diseases and Their E f did not know o f the danger until after tels has already made place at the club feet Upon the Individual and the the explosion nearly split his ear-drums. headquarters for the pennant which will H om e." Dr. Geo. K. Houck o f Rose Beyond a deep scratch on the face of come here at the end o f the season. burg, member of executive committee his assistant both men escaped without At the meeting o f loenl fans Wednes nnd official orator. injury. In telling o f the incident Mr. day evening Fred Bartels was elected "P re sen t Conditions Among Boys nnd Benson smiled nt his starting to run manager of the loenl team and Ben G irls ." Prof. J. E. Dunton. after hearing the explosion. Only the Groff secretnry-treasurer. " T h e Four Hex L ie s ." J. Allen Gil fact thnt there were but four sticks of bert, executive committeeman and head dynamite in the box saved the lives ot Mining Location Notices for sale at o f the advisory department o f The Ore the men. Sentinel office. gon Horinl Hygiene Hociety, Portland. " My Opinion ns to the Cnbse and the Rem edy." Loe Roy Woods, R. Mr Cnrgar, Rev. H. N. Aldrich. " W h n t We Cnn Do For Cottage G ro v e ." C. II. Burkholder. MEN W ILL DISCUSS • SEX HYGIENE PROBLEM h Thi* Imi, who i» known to Cottage (Irovi* »■ thi' "originili Kntzonjiiiiiinor Kill,” unnouni'i*il to Deputy Hhenff tiri'i'ii I'ltcher In-fori* leaving timi hi' "wunti'il to go to thi* ri'form »rhool 'ruu»i* tbut it im where thi*y made »oldier* »ml hi* wn» going to Im » »oldier unii n good one ’ ’ Thi* Imi bn» koiii * through nmny ilur iUK uml t'lritinK experience» o f luti', not thi* lr*»l o f whirh wn» hi» nttempt on hi» la»l vlait to HonrliurK to » m l tin* Houthi'rn I'urillr train ni<nr Dillitril by |ilnriiiK tli*» urro»* thi* trurk. A numlmr of »torii*» uri* nfloat u» to thi* boy '* Ion in k un organized gang with hi'ui|i|uarti*r» in u dim nnd ili»tnnt rati*, barricaded for the »i*runty of it* in muti*». Thi* »u|)|Mi»i’i| compatriota of thr youthful Nick Carter, however„drny hut in k had any part in thi* ratr lift- and it i* thought thut thr lad, who i* unuaually bright and rlrvrr, admit ad dirtrd to »urh hrror« hi Nirk Cartrr and »urh i|im»tinnublr practice* u* train wrrrking, mrri'ly madi* up thr »torte» for thr fun of fooling thr nrwapaprra or with the nini |h»t hr might thu» make a grratrr brro of hiioaelf. Ili» porrata bavr no objrrtion to hi» rommitmrnt to tbr rrform »rhool a* hr ha» provrn himiolf Imvonil their con trol. lie exceptionally bright in hi» »indir» at »rhool, nrrording to thr itatumnt of Nupi'rint**ndrnt Dunton, »nil I» i|uitr attractive prrnonally. Vardirt for Spray. A verdict favorable to John Hpray. in thr auit brought by him in the cir cult court aaking for an accounting of the alfair» of thr Hpray Wynne ('« . and to rerover money, waa returned Innt week. Thi» nuit wa* brought uguin»t <V lln/ellon and the judgment wn* in the »urn o f $H00. Small Want A d Nearly Sells All Stock on Hull Farm " H e llo ! 1» thi* The H en tin elf" (Dulcet female voire) "Y e n , * i r . " " T h i * i» John Hull. Hay, for goodnMa »nkr» tnkr out that ml. o f mine nhout pig» for »ale. Folk» are ju»t pe»tering me to death ." A few tluy* after thi» telephone con vernation Mr. Hull culled to li<|uidnte for the ad. and explained that one in »ertion o f a two line nd. would have »old all the pig» he had on the plnre if he hndn't quit »riling. Mr. Hull ha» had the »time experience before when ndvcrti»ing in The Hentincl and be give» nil the credit to the want ud., but there are other reasons. They are that when Mr. Hull advertises any thing for aale, he tell» ju*t what it ia nnd where it can be found. He doean't leave thnt for the render to hunt around nnd And out. Another in thnt thoae who know Mr. Hull know when they buy anything from him,they are going to get exactly whnt he tell» them he ia »riling them. Tho»e for whom advertiairtg hnan't paid probably overlooked one or more o f thrae points. The mornl la: Firat, i f you have aomething yon wiah to sell, advertise it. Then make your advertising criap nnd to the point, nnd word it ao thnt the render won’t hnvr to nak a question to find the property. I.aat, but by no menna least, give the customer esartly what you advertise, and thereby estab liah a business reputation thnt will sell your goods over nnd over nguin to the snme parties, nnd induce these parties to apeak to their neighbors about you. By observing these point» well anyone can make ndvertiaing pay just ns well ns Mr. Hull nnd a lot of other Hentinel advertisers do. This npplies to mer «hunts ns well ns farmers. » Can n idatea who have entered thi» race to compete for these valuable pri**< should at once call upon their friends nnd let them know they have started in the contest and are going in with the determination o f winning. Get them busy clipping the vote coupon» which appear in each i»»ue of The Hen tlnel. I f they are not already »ul> scribers to The Heiitinel, get them to anbw-ribe at once ami give the votes to you. Any of your friends, just aa soon a» they learn that you are in the con test, will l»e only too glad to give you a y e a r’s subscription just for the asking See them today ami get their promise oefore some one else does. Take your re eeipt book and »tart out today. Decide to be a winner. Everybody is willing to help a hustler. All o f these prizes are going to the ones who rightly deserve them. To in sure every candidate a square deal, the last week o f the contest the bullot box will be sealed and the key turned o .ei to th- judge». DYNAMITE EXPLOSION GROVE PLAYERS P U N NEARLY FATAL TO TO CARRY OFF J. S, BENSON PENNANT APOPLECTIC STROKE TAKES MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR M. R. WILSON MRS. BOOKER Htricken by a sudden and wholly un Seniors Lose Frst Ball Gama of Season. expected stroke o f apoplexy about A fter having challenged the remain midnight Hatunlny, Matthew Riley W il der o f the school to a series o f three l s « died about two houra later without base hall games, the seniors met defeat Mr. Wilseu in the llrst trial o f strength Wednesday regaining consciousness. had been in his usual health and t' e afternoon by a score o f 10 to 7. It was n hnrd fought game nnd full o f apectnc family was in the process o f moving ulnr plays. The seniors donated a into a new home which they recently pitcher to their opponents in the per purchased Th West Cottage Grove. Be son o f Bob Karl, nnd the Smith -Earl sides his widow, two daughters. Mrs. battery whirh worked so ndinirnhly in Ora O. Wnrnrr nnd Mrs. C. A. Lvneh of the games last summer was a source of this city nnd adopted daughter, Mrs. II. great strength to the tri-clnss oppoai L. Veits o f Hnskatchewan, Canada, aur Funeral services were held tion. The second game will be played viva him. at the Mills chapel yesterdnv afternoon this afternoon. The players were: Tri-class Seniors nnd interment was made In the I. O. O. Earl ......... P it c h e r ............. Atkinson F. cemetery, Rev. 11. N. Aldrich officiat S m ith .............C a tc h e r............ Sears ing. Mr. Wilson was a member o f the Conner........... 1 b a s e ............. McCnrgar A. O. U. W. nnd had long been a mem Powell ............. 2 base ............. Hoad her o f the Methodist church although Fullmer ......... 3 base ......... Martin he had not had bis letter transferred to M e d le y ................. s s ..................Counts this church since coming here in I9 K Harms ............ If Berg He was born March Id, ISIS, in Edgar H. Edwards ........... c f ........... I .chow County, III., and lived in thnt state and Woods ........... r f ........... Brumbaugh in Nebraska until coming to Oregon. Memorial services in honor o f Mrs. Edith H ill Booker, late Htate President o f the W. C. T. U. and national evange list, will be held by the members o f all the churches o f the city at (he Metho dist church Hunday evening at 7:30. Mrs. Booker's deuth occurred Saturday afternoon at Ht. Vineintu hospital in Portland from cerebral hemorrhage fo l lowing a nervous breakdown. She was well known in this city where she con ducted a series o f meetings in the inter est o f temperance. The meeting Sun day evening will take the form chiefly of a brief song and prayer service nnd the congregational singing will be from the books which Mrs. Booker used in her meetings here. There will also be a short speech o f eulogy and a few solos. Mrs. Booker was one o f the strongest workers in the field for temperance and was a speaker o f unnsunl power. She was popular in Chnutauqua circles in the East where her lectures were in great demand. " I wish wou would put me on the • «change list. I ’d like to get a real live rountry weekly. I »aw yonr paper way down the valley and I made up my mind that when I got here, I would try President Kem Says Investi und get the paper on my exchange gation Is Welcomed ta b le ," Thu* spoke T. Elmore Lucey, lyeeum entertainer and editor o f The IN E F F IC IE N C Y A N D D I8 C R IM IN A Missouri Mule, who appeared at The TIO N CHARGED IN 8U IT Arcade last Wednesday. Mr. Lucey is BROUGHT BY C IT Y it pleasant arid entertaining gentleman and was very much disappointed that COUNCIL through some misunderstanding and a consequent luck o f newspaper publicity Inefficiency o f service and discrimina no one had been informed o f his appear- tory and unjust rates are the chief unce here. charges aguiast the Cottage Grove Elec- trie Co. in a complaint filed laxt week before the railroad commission by the City o f Cottage Grove. The complaint was the result o f several weeks’ investi gation and deliberation on the part of the city council, acting upon the find ing» o f the light committee, composed SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR STOCK DUB o f Aldermen Clifford Hayes, K. E. Walker and A. W. Kisae. Thete are IN O W E E K A R E SOMEW HAT six specific charges named in the com D IS A PPO IN TIN G . plaint, ns follows: That the rates The cannery is a little closer this charged the people o f the municipality week than it was a week ago, but Mas are higher than the rates charged in ter McFarland is disappointed in not other municipalities similar in size and being able to reoprt the entire amount similarly located ia the Htate o f tire necessary subscribed. Only a little gon; that the meter rate charge is high over a hundred dollars was added to the er than the flat rate charge for the lists during the week as far as reports same service; that the flat rate charge have come in. Thi* leaves about «4UC is not the same to different patron» for yet to be subscribed. Mr. McFarland the same service; that the lights fur has been contemplating calling a meet nished to the municipality and the peo ing o f those that have already sub ple thereof are not up to the standard scribed^ and either making up the bal represented by the defendant and ance from those already on the lists or agreed to be furnished; that the incan taking other action that will bring the descent lights furnished upon the business to un immediate head. It is streets are old and dirty and are not necessary that growers know at once replaced when too old to give efficient whether or not they are to have a caV service; and that the wires from the nery, und it is almost certain that a final plant to its distributing centers and meeting will be called within the next transformers are too »mall to carry the necessary current. week. — — The light committee reported that Upper Valley Forms League. frequently as high as forty street lights The Upper Willamette Valley Base are out during the month, but iavestiga Ball League was organized at Eugene Sunday and a schedule of weekly games tion o f the contract held by the city arranged, to begin Hunday, April 12. and shows that the light company is not re continue until the last Sunday in An sponsible for these lights and suffers no deduction ih payment unless the fact gust. Three delegates were present from of their being out is reported to the company »nd it then fails to replace ench o f the following towns: CreswelL them. Cottage Grove, Coburg, Marcóla and The lighting company has not yet Eugene. Plans for the league were completed its answer being allowed ten quickly decided and the opinion pre vails that a league o f this nature will days from the time o f notification *n prove entirely successful. The follow which to file a reply, but the spirit of the answer is probably embodied in the ing officers were electedt Harold C. words o f O. M. Kem. president o f the Dye o f Eugene, president; F. W. Titns company, who when interviewed said: o f .uareola, vice-president; William " A l l we care to say to the publie at Clubb o f Eugene, secretary-treasurer. present is that we have known for some tima that snch an investigation would undoubtedly come sooner or Inter, und we welcome it for the reason thut we believe that it will settle some points that could not very well be settled in any other w ay.” Just when the matter will be taken U. 8. LOGGING CO. RECEIVES up by the railroad commission for PO W E R F U L E N G IN E FOR USE arbitration in problematical as the com IN RESERVE. mission is very busy at present with in vestigations o f similar nature through A Shay logging engine, which w ill be out the state. used by the V. H. Logging Co. in climb ing the mountains in the forest reserve, where the company is carrying on ex tensive logging operations, arrived last week and was taken up to the hills Monday. It made a trial trip yester day up .the moun’ ain side on the newly constructed railroad and demonstrated its practicability for the work for One o f the oldest and best known whieh it is to be used. landmarks of the Cottage Grove coun The engine weighs nbout sixty tons, try, a gigantic oak tree whieh grew on is built very low, is very powerful and the Thompson Royal Oak farm in the equipped with six sets o f geared driv Silk Creek country and from which the ing wheels. farm took the name, is no more. The When in the city the engine attracted tree was growing there long before the considerable attention, as it ia the first oldest o f the oldest settlers took up o f the kind to be used here. It was their donation claims and was without purchased by President Chambers of question several centuries o f age. The the company upon his recent trip to tree was the finest oak ever known here Utah. — ----------------------- and was familiar to every old resident Prise IU». nnd most o f the new ones who had oc The comic opera, " P r is c illa ," is an casion to visit the Silk Creek country. opera based on Longfellow's familiar A peculiar thing in connection with the work, " T h e Courtship o f Miles Stan tree is that no other oaks ever grew d isti." The music in this opera is nearby and it stood alone in a large bright, stirring and thrilling with field, a gigantic, gnarled and lonely catchy melodies. The libretto is clever sentry. and full o f wit and humor. The tree seemed to withstand the Daily rehearsals are being held under heavy wind o f several weeks ago, hut the leadership o f Esther Hilsbv, musical a couple days afterwards its gigantic director, and Rev. Horace N. Aldrich, proportions were found lying on the dramatic director. The costumes for ground, and the almost entire absence entire cast will be strictly in keeping of roots makes it seem peculiar that it with the Puritanie age and furnished withstood the elements for centuries. by Goldstein A Co., Han Francisco. It has now been reduced to common This opera will be produced at The Arcade Theater Tuesday night, April stove wood, making about 35 tier. 14. Heats on sale at the Bon Ton be L i f t Saving Station for Sluslaw. ginning Saturday morning, April 4. ale Possibilities for securing a life saving station at the mouth o f the Hiuslaw Mrs. F. R. Wilson o f Dorena ia one River are now very favorable, accord butterroaker who has no fault to find ing to the atatement o f Representative with the ruling o f the dairy and food W. C. Hawley, who says that Chairman commissioner that butter wrappers Adamson of the Committee on Inter must be printed. She says that the state and Foreign commerce has as kind printed by The Sentinel are a sured him that the matter will be taken great aid to her in selling her butter, care o f in the firat bill reported by his some o f which even goes to Eugene. committee. ONLY $400 NEEDED FOR CANNERY MOUNTAIN' CUMBER ARRIVES HERE Landmark Centuries Old Is Reduced to 35 Tier of Wood
