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8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 4, 2016 Dozens run for ice cream Offbeat Oregon History Event aims to raise awareness of Child Abuse Prevention Month A total of 114 community members and Lincoln Middle School track athletes toed the line and earned an ice cream sundae by completing a one-mile, two-mile or three-mile course in the sec- ond annual “Great Ice Cream Bowl” held Friday, April 29. The event was planned to help spread awareness during the April “Child Abuse Prevention Month” effort associated with the local “90 by 30” effort, Run CG and Peggy’s Primary Connection. Prior to the start, participants were asked to be aware and help prevent child abuse and to take information fl yers with helpful contact numbers after the run. The sym- bolism of receiving a blue ice cream bowl they could keep was to remind them of the beauty of the clean blue sky and joy and freedom children should feel in a world free of child abuse. Participants included: Alex Pacheco, Ali- na McMilin, Allen Bates, Alvaro Miranda, Austin Rusco, Avery Hutchins, Belle Pen- nington, Blakely Herbert, Breanna Bechtel, Briahna Guevara, Carter Bascue, Clara Reindel, Daisy Passenger, Derrick Bloom- strom, Dylan Higdon, Emma Burleson, Emma Gilbert-Spires, Gavin Ostrander, Gracie Arnold, Isabel Thompson, Jaiden Simons, Jason Travis, Jaxson Cooper, Jay- da Epperson, Jayden Bartram, Jesus Torral- ba, Jordan Thielke, Katie Geisler, Kennedy Royse, Kiaya Wright, Lauren Myler, Lexy Cummings, Liam King, Loren James, Mad- die Geisler, Madison Goins, Mariah Ludik- er, Marissa Tull, Matelynn Ladd, Mathew Burns, Miguel Lopez, Mikayla Carr, Na- than Cristofaro-Anderson, Nicholas Naro, Owen Dragt, Rebecca Mcreynolds, Skylar May, Teanna Child, Thane Parsons, Tristin Duwell, Valeta Oliver, William Cooper, Zane Schnee, Darlo Razoto, Judy Razoto, Hilda Razoto, Emmy Bickford, Camila Soto Cruz, Annabelle Stinnett, Marni De- courtesy photo Garlais, Carli DeGarlais, Halle DeGar- Participants line up at the start of lais, Rogelio Soto Cruz, Journey Meyer, the Great Ice Cream Bowl at the Nanci Strickland, Debbie Taie, Delaney Chambers Railroad Bridge Friday. McLaughlin, Nathaniel Deyoung, Tay- lor Christie, Seth Lebow, Ryan Williams, cis, Kalob Keeler, Kopachik Korbyn, Lo- Summer Lebow, Sophia Raade, Payton gan Lowrey, McKenzie Baker, Nadia Witt, Bickford, Shyla Gordon, Sativa Gordon, Noah Hughes, Shambay Gabriel Trapp, Ely Jeffers, Audrey Hartgenbush, Shynelle Shaquall Holloway, Zen Wemple, Mitch- Holmes, Denyell Cowan, Benjamin Genth- ell Johnson, Kenzie Parsons, Sara Meyer, ner, Brayden Denny, Caiden Lane, Chance Eli Williams, Cyrese Lee, Cindy Sustaire, Hemenway, Connor Bailey, Cory Butts, April Sexton, Rio Lopez, Jace Meyer and Elias Garza, Ethan Petersen, Grace Myler, Jean Harris. Helen Leal-Colonel, Isis Becerra-Aguilar, Jaden Owens, Jayden Walter, Justin Fran- COMMUNITY BRIEFS Cemetery meeting The annual Silk Creek com- munity Cemetery meeting will be held Tuesday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Silk Creek Chapel, located by the Cemetery 4 1/2 miles west of Cottage Grove. Everyone is welcome to at- tend. Speakers, movie highlight Mental Health Awareness Month Corporate speaker and lead- ership coach Robert Elliott will offer his ‘Everyday Intuition’ program in the fi rst of four Thursday evening events taking place through May in Cottage Grove to mark Mental Health Awareness Month. Elliot’s interactive presenta- tion will be Thursday, May 5 from 6:30-8 p.m. at First Pres- byterian Church, 216 S. Third St., in Cottage Grove. Refresh- ments will be provided and ad- mission is free. Subsequent Thursday eve- ning get-togethers, to take place at the same time and place, in- clude ‘Creating Healthy Rela- tionships From the Very Begin- ning,’ presented by South Lane Mental Health’s Early Child- hood Specialist Helen Reilly on May 12, and, on May 19, Ed Feil, a Senior Research Scientist from Oregon Research Institute in Eugene. will present ‘Using Congratulations! Employee to our Resident of the Month of the Month Penny Dorr MaryLou Teel for the Month of April, 2016 Magnolia Gardens 541-942-0054 1425 Daugherty Ave. • Cottage Grove Mobile Technology to Support Parents of Young Children.’ On May 26, South Lane Men- tal Health will present “Happy,” an Academy Award nominated documentary that explores hu- man happiness throughout the world. The 2016 events are orga- nized by South Lane Mental Health, with sponsorship sup- port from Northwest Health Foundation and the Cottage Grove Sentinel. For more information or to request a sign language inter- preter or other accommoda- tions, call South Lane Mental Health at (541) 942-3939 or visit www.slmh.org. South Lane Mental Health is a nonprofi t comprehensive mental health services provider based in Cottage Grove. morial Trust, Northwest Health Foundation, Providence Health & Services and A-dec. Oregon has one of the nation’s highest rates of childhood den- tal disease. As Cottage Grove dentist Park McClung, DDS, says in an Oregon Community Foundation video: “I’ve told the team I used to work with in Haiti as a volunteer dentist that I need to stay here and take care of the children in my own backyard. The need here is just as great as anything I’ve seen in the developing countries where I’ve provided volunteer den- tistry.” The other Lane County grant recipient is White Bird Dental Clinic in Eugene, which is pro- viding dental services to Bethel School District elementary school students. Dental Clinic grant WOE work South Lane Children’s Den- tal Clinic is in the second year of a grant provided by a consor- tium whose goal is to increase school-based dental programs statewide. This year, the grant provides $25,700 for children’s dental services in the Cottage Grove area. The grant is provided by Kaiser Permanente, Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, Meyer Me- On Tuesday, May 10 at 6 p.m., the WOE Heritage Fair volunteers meet at the Fair- grounds. Those interested are invited to help plan the upcom- ing WOE Heritage Fair and are asked to bring ideas and their enthusiasm. Frontier Oregon swindlers: The traveling medicine shows BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel T he four decades following the Civil War were some- thing like a golden age of char- latanry in the West, and Oregon was no exception. From swin- dling tourists at a gambling par- lor, to fl eecing miners in a tent- city saloon, to peddling stock in nonexistent gold mines, the opportunities for a morally fl ex- ible fellow to make a stack of ill-gotten greenbacks was prob- ably never higher in the Beaver State than it was back then. One of the most popular ways for a con man to steal a buck or two back then was with a medi- cal-miracle scam. An enterpris- ing con would mix up a concoc- tion containing a few substances with dramatic effects – red pep- per, alcohol and laudanum, say – and mix in a couple different fl avoring agents to give it the proper medicinal taste: eucalyp- tus oil, for example. Then, into a bottle it would go, and the con, calling himself “Doc,” would roll from town to town selling it as a secret-recipe folk remedy for whatever seemed most likely to sell. This basic scheme was dem- onstrated in one of the more famous episodes of The Lone Ranger radio show, from 1938 – in which “Doc Stubbs” rolls into town selling a product called “Snake Oil Tonic,” which does nothing but put the residents to sleep so that his accomplice can pick their pockets. Unfortunately, there aren’t many stories of specifi c medi- co-cons in the historical record. Touring the country under false names and often a skip or two ahead of the law, they did their best to stay out of the history books as long as possible. But the legitimate physicians in the towns they visited have left us some pretty colorful ac- counts of their general business methods. “Do you see that open ba- rouche coming down the street with a torch on either side … and two California sharpers sitting just back of the driver?” wrote Dr. William L. Adams, an eclec- tic physician working in Port- land in the 1870s. “They wear stovepipe hats and are neatly dressed in broadcloth with high standing collars, and wear mas- sive watch chains washed with oroids and glistening in the light of their torches. … They stop on the corner of First and Alder streets. By this time, attracted by the torches and the music of a fi ddle, there has gathered around them a crowd. The ora- tor stands up in the barouche. He takes in the character of the crowd and begins his oration: He has a medicine for sale that will cure catarrh, asthma, epizo- otic, and all other diseases. “He is a ventriloquist. Here he lifts up his ‘Punch and Judy’ and makes her sing a song about Henry Ward Beecher, which amuses the crowd. He then makes her say something about the value of his medicine in cur- ing all diseases. … “He makes an eloquent speech with loud intonations and violent gestures. ‘This med- icine is a sure cure for asthma, consumption, catarrh, or any- thing else you happen to have. Anyone who buys it and is not satisfi ed will have his money re- funded. We sold 5,000 packages here in Portland last year at a dollar a package and if there is a man here who was not satisfi ed, let him walk up and return it and we will refund the money.’ “Of course nobody does. This satisfi es the crowd that the medicine is a good thing, and one poor laboring man walks up and hands over a dollar and receives an ounce bottle of mag- nesia, table salt and red pepper, nicely mixed. ‘Now take a pinch of that,’ shouts the doctor, ‘and see if it doesn’t clean out your nose.’ The victim obeys and sniffs, sneezes, snorts until the tears run down his cheeks and then laughs. He proudly shoves the package into his breeches pocket, with an expression on his face that shines out through dirt and tobacco juice, which the crowd reads as saying, ‘By golly, I think that medicine ain’t no humbug.’ “Now the sharper shouts out: “Gentlemen, if you are skeptical of this medicine, I don’t blame you. You have been humbugged and robbed by your doctors until you have no faith in medicines.’ “Here he snatches up a pack- age of his stuff and, extending it to the crowd, proceeds: ‘Gentle- men, we humbug nobody. We believe in dealing on the square. 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