COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 3, 2015
Cottage Grove
Retrospective
CLIP N' CARRY
GARAGE SALES
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Fri-Sat 9am-2pm
Furniture, baby, organizers, household,
more!
A look back at Sentinel stories from
40 and 80 years ago
2 FAMILY GARAGE SALE
349 S. 6th St.
Fri- Sat 8am-3pm
Tools, dressers, lots of misc.
June 5, 1975
Bike path to open Saturday
ESTATE SALE
25 yr. accumulation
Fri 10a-6p; Sat 9a-4p
208 N. River Rd., CG
The opening of the Weyerhaeuser Cottage Grove logging road as
a summer bike path is scheduled for Saturday. This is the third year
the 15-mile road has been a bike path on weekends.
Bohemia Mining Days is sponsoring for the second year a fund-
raising bicycle poker hand ride and chicken dinner on June 21. The
bicycle ride follows a six-mile course over the bike path.
Poker hands consist of fi ve cards picked up at stations along the
bike route. The best hands will win prizes.
The Bohemia Mining Days is requesting that participants register
for the bike ride and dinner. Registration can be made through Dena
Twite or KNND Radio. Ticket prices, which include the ride and
dinner, are adults, 18 and over, $2.75; students, 12-17, $2; children,
7-11 $1.50. Rides cost 75 cents, and children under 6 will pay 75
cents for dinner only.
Participants will gather at Lincoln Junior High School Saturday,
June 21 between 9 and 10 a.m. for the bicycle ride. Transportation
to and from the course will be supplied to reduce the amount of
automobile traffi c. A chicken dinner picnic at the junior high will
follow the bike ride.
Safety will be handled by Lane County Sheriff’s deputies and
a 10-man citizens’ band radio crew will provide water for contes-
tants.
HUMANE SOCIETY OF CG PLANT &
COLLECTIBLES SALE
American Legion Hall, 826 Main St.
Fri 10a-5p; Sat 10a-4p
ESTATE SALE
77316 Hwy. 99 S.
Fri-Sat-Sun 9am-4pm
Automotive, many antiques and collectibles,
furniture, Corvette tires and wheels, plasma
cutter, wagon wheel furniture and much
more!
YARD SALE
1038 Ash Ave.
Sat. only 9am-5pm
GARAGE SALE
560-590 Spruce Ct., CRESWELL
Sat-Sun 9am-5pm
LOTS of furniture and misc.
At right: June 6, 1935: The High School Graduating
Class
POLICE BLOTTER
May 25
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
ing himself. Police took the sub-
ject to the emergency room, but
he would not go voluntarily for
an evaluation.
Shoplift, Dollar Tree
The caller reported that sus-
pects left the store with a full
hand basket of merchandise
without paying. The suspects
were driving in a black or blue
Chevrolet Camero that was
missing its front-quarter panel.
An area check for the suspects
and vehicle was negative.
May 26
May 27
The caller said that $3,000
worth of tools were stolen out
of his vehicle sometime on
May 23. The tools are marked
“WW.”
The reporting person said that
two women on bicycles were
interfering with vehicular and
pedestrian traffi c by refusing to
allow anyone to pass.
The caller said that a very
unkempt male was walking
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May 29
Traffi c hazard, Village Dr.
Mental, Chamberlain Ave.
The caller said that the subject
was walking around outside of
the business yelling and punch-
on 16th St., yelling at himself,
waving his arms and blocking
traffi c. Police determined that
the subject, who was moving
on, was having mental issues.
Unlawful entry into a motor
vehicle, Chamberlain Ave.
May 28
Mental, Short Stop
5A
Theft, Safeway
The complainant said that her
wallet, which contained the vic-
tim’s check book, ID and $245
in cash, was stolen out of her
purse at the location.
Suicidal subject, Cherry Ct.
Theft, Victoriana
Theft, Harvey Rd.
The caller said his girlfriend
was armed with a knife and
threatening to commit suicide.
Offi cers contacted the subject
and transported her to the emer-
gency room for an evaluation.
The complainant requested
an offi cer to investigate the
theft of a diamond ring valued
at $1,200. There is no suspect
info at this time.
The reporting person said that
a bike and trailer were taken
from the yard at the location
sometime during the night. The
property was valued at $225.
Ambulance, S. 4th St.
Information, Main St.
A 19-year-old male was trans-
ported to Riverbend Hospital to
be treated for an overdose.
The caller reported that there
was fl ooding in the street and
no water pressure in the neigh-
borhood due to a water-main
break.
Motor vehicle accident
— non-injury, S. 6th St.
The caller said he was just in-
volved in a two-vehicle accident
at the location. The other ve-
hicle was parked in front of the
old City Hall apartments. Offi -
cers on the scene assisted with
the exchange of information.
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May 31
Ambulance, Wildwood Falls
The reporting person said that
a subject dove into the water
Greenhorn City’s revival
Continued from page 4A
It was “blossom” ore, the
richest any of the drinkers had
seen. The greenhorns staked
their claim, and the old-timers
christened it “The Greenhorn
Mine.”
It’s a pretty legend, but prob-
ably completely made-up. For-
mer Greenhorn Mayor Miles F.
Potter — the man who brought
the town back to life, reactivated
the city charter and restored its
rotting water system in 1971 —
says it was named after a nearby
promontory called “The Green
Horn.”
Potter and several other prop-
erty owners revived the town
to get protection from land
speculators, who were show-
ing some interest in turning the
picturesque and fairly acces-
sible ghost town into a tourist
attraction ‘with gaudy doughnut
shops and hamburger stands.’
At that time, the town had
been dead since the early 1920s.
Like so many gold-mining
boomtowns, it fl ourished when
the mines did — peaking at a
seasonal population of 500 or so
in the mid-1910s, and providing
mail service to another 1,500
weather forecast
FRIDAY June 5
and did not resurface.
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THURSDAY June 4
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in mining camps nearby — but
as they petered out, so did the
town. The post offi ce closed in
1919.
Today, Greenhorn is a sea-
sonal getaway spot for folks
who like to spend summers in a
semi-primitive wilderness com-
munity, hunting and fi shing, re-
laxing and reading. There is no
electrical or sewer service, but
there is cell phone service and
even a fi ber-optic telecom line.
During the summer, the popula-
tion of the little city — with its
two remaining habitable build-
ings — never gets much above a
dozen and a half. Its mayor and
city offi cials all live elsewhere
most of each year.
As for the stolen jail, when it
was found parked at the court-
house in Canyon City, it was
promptly hauled to the Grant
County Historical Museum,
where it today serves as an ex-
hibit. This sticks in the craw of
some Greenhorn people, par-
ticularly because Greenhorn is
not even in Grant County. Sev-
eral years ago, a group of them
sued to get the building back.
Nothing came of this, however,
and the jail remains today on the
grounds of the museum — along
with the cabin formerly occu-
pied by Joaquin Miller during
his residence in Canyon City.
(Sources: Potter, Miles F. Or-
egon’s Golden Years. Caldwell,
Idaho: Caxton, 1976; Flo-
rin, Lambert. Oregon’s Ghost
Towns. Seattle: Superior, 1970;
Cockle, Richard. “Oregon’s
smallest city a mile-high gold-
rush town,” Portland Oregonian,
6-15-2008; Gilmand, Helen.
“Old Oregon town stirs again,”
Portland Oregonian, 5-02-
1974)
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