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Devoted to tlie Mining, Lumbering and Farming Interests of this Community.
VOL. IX
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1907.
NO. 37
UP
YOUR TOWN
By Patronizing Your Home
Merchants and Industries
How Mall Order Houses Retard the
Growth of Small Towns, and are
Assisted in Many Casus by the
Merchants as Well as Consumers.
Two important mailers arc imi
tating the mind of tin business mini
toduy, and hh it always the case,
somo see no harm can come from
them, while oUicm think thy hoc
bankruptcy for them as a icsult.
These bugal-oos are the Paicels
Post find th Mail Oidor houses.
The newspapers are also divided
on the question of the udvistddity
of adopting n Paicels Poet system
other than that which i-. in force at
present, but in the matter ot the
Mail Order business, we have yet
to neo thn fust one to speak in favor
of them, not but what they realio
they are b legitimate business pio
position, but I eeauce they are loy
al to the town in which they ate
printed, although in many cases
thoy are. treated by their homo mer
chants as u kind of a charitable in
stitution to bo supported.
No city or town will grow as it
should unless every citizen is loyal
to that town. The newspapers
have preached early and late against
the upending of money in noma oili
er or rival town, and yet, all cannot
bo blamed who do ho, they have
reasons for so doing perhaps. Put
it all helps the the other place.
Wo havo nil heard of the man
who paid a dollar to hi- neigh'" ot,
and ho in turn paid it to another,
aud finally the dollar was paid back
to the original. Thus the. dollar
laid obligations aggregating many
dollars. Had the dollar been paid
tdsewhero it would have gono no
further in that particular town. A
dollar in time kept about home
will pay dobts ultimately amounting
to a large Hum; but when it in spent
out of town it uot only gives the
other town tliu benefit of a one dol
lar trado, but it adds that dollar to
its capital, and then continues the
work a dollar has to do. There
fore keep the dollar at home.
If you cannot get what you
ought to have at home, purchase it
elsewhere; but. one's natural pride
in hi -i or her city should prompt
them to get along with such as tho
city could supply, and thus encour
ago the merchant to carry a nt ill
better slock. A merchant abovo nil
lias no right to expect business,
while he himself purchases his own
small wants elaewhero.
There are mail order houses and
the like constantly sapping the fin
, mcial life-blood from tho small
t,, "wiic. Local people got up clubs
to purchase goods elsewhere; agents
tak 8 orders for custom-made cloth
ing made in Chicugo; other goods
are L 'ought of agents when no op
portu oity is given to hco what tho
goods ar until they have been pur
chased, and thoro is no redress lor
tho dis. appointed purchaser. We
do not k now that it does any good
for a pap f r to keep pounding away
on Huh bu Jject, because the mer
chants thcnnselves do not seem to
appreciate it. They too, pre remiss
in their duly to tie town in which
thev live. Hometimes. Thoy somo-
- - - 1
times send out of town lor their
needs, which could be had just as
good at home, at a blight increase
ol rout perhaps, which would not
in uiont cases cover the express
they pav on the package of work
ordered elsewhere. We have hud
bills presented to us made out on
.stationery beating a l'otthuid im
print, but should wc send to a mail
order house for goods quoted a few
cents lower than tlmy can bo pur
.based for here, we should bo con-
ociiiiioii, ana jusny too.
Thero are a number of firms do
ing business in this city who do
not tidvertise at all, aud Home who
only do ho spasmodically. Tlicy are
liieudly towards tho newspapers in
a way, but do not seem willing to
help to Htippoit thorn, yet they ex
pect, and believe it to be the duty
of thn papers to boost tho town ear
ly and often, and to use their col
umns without fear or favor, for the
benefit at all. Tom Kiehardsoti
secretary of, the Portland Commer
cial Club pays the following tribute
to the country newspaper:
' Mvcty year every local paper
gives liom .1 ,000 to oO.OOO free
lines for the benefit of the commun
ity mi which it is located. At fair
adv-eilining tates 10 cents a line
this means $500 to $1,000. No
other agency can or will do this.
The editor, in proportion to his
mcaiiH, docs more for his home
town than any other maj. lie
ought to bo supported, not because
you happen to like him or admire
his writing, but because 11 local pa
per is tho best investment a com
munity can ninko. It may not be
crowded with great thoughts, but
financially it is ot more benefit than
both teacher and preacher. To
day editors do more for loss pay
than any men on eurth. Patronize
your home paper, not as a charity
but as an invcHtmeu,." and do your
trading with your home merchants,
and we will have a thriving town.
A Crimimal Attack
on nil Inoffensive citizen is (rcitucntly
1 1 1 .-1 1 in that apparently uhcIcss little
tulie culled tiie 'appendix." It I
H'cnci nlly I he result ot protracted con
stipatiou, following liver torpor. Dr.
Kind's New Life i'ills regulate the
liver, prevent appendicitis, and estab
lish regular hahits of tho liowels.
al bensoii's l'haiiniicy.
BALKED BY TIIE RAILROADS
Rates to the East From the South
Raised Despite Injunction.
Injunction or no injunction, lum
ber shippers who thought they
might ship their material through
ports of f,os Angeles from Oregon
and Washington ports becauso of
the shortage of cars in the north,
will havo to pay the advanced rate
of 10 cents per hundred pounds on
all lumber shipmouts from Pacific
coast points to tho cast after No
vember 1 .
While the controversy was on in
Hie notth it became evident that
the northern roads could not handle
tho traffic, and the lumbermen be
gan to arrango shipments to San
Pedro and Hedondo. They were
willing to pay temporarily tho ex
tra 13 cents per hundred charged
for the water haul, but they did
not figure that the rail rates from
Southern California would be in
creased in common with thoso up
north. Many thousauds of feet of
lumber has been shipped to those
ports in tho meantime. Now the
northorn shippers find themselves
handicapped as badly as they were
in tho north as the advanco in
lroight rates from the southern port
now stares them in the face.
Officials of the railroads in Los
Angeles declare the new advanced
rates will go into effect November
i, from Los Angeles regardless of
the injunction issued in Portland.
The silly presidential prediction
season has opened early.
STATE SHOOT
CONTEST
Company E Will Contest for
T ( A ,
Colonel Yoran. and Lieutenant Houck.
Who is the Chief Range Officer. Will
be Here The Boys Doing Good
Work at Practice.
On Wednesday. October 2:ird,
Col. Yoran and Lieut. Houck ol
Ilaseburg, Chief Range officers will
lc here, to take the standing of the
raiigo Hhoolin;,' of Co. K., compet
ing for the stub; trophies, of which
there are two, one lor individual
shooting and one for highest record
of tho team in the Male. The con
test for each team tales place on
the company's own ittngo ami the
ceores m'le are witnessed by the
officers above named aud the tro
phies awarded to tho team and in
dividual doing tho best work. From
the work done by Co. lv. in their
practice, there will have to be some
good shooting done to beat them.
Out of Sight
"Out of Hinlit. out of mind," is an
old hii.vIiik which applies with special
force to 11 sore, hum or wound flint's
been t rented with Hueklen's Arnica
Salve. U'm our of Hit-'lit, out of mind
iitnl out of existence. Files too and
chilblains rtisnpporir tinder it heal
Inn influence. Guaranteed liv lien
son's Pharmacy, -2." cents,
Silk Creek Items.
Mr. Wcrth's folks were out imIIIiiji
Sunday.
Mr. V.. A. Wheeler and wife, also A.
I). Owens and wife and three children
returned Thursday from several
weeks vbit in th Kant.
Mix Kllen Kux of Talent, Oregon
U now stopping at the home of I'ur
tis Veatch. Wc are sorry to learn
that Mr. Watch's folks have sickness
In their family.
Air. and Mrs. Dcerdoof of lioKcbiil''
arrived at Mr. I'. A. Wheeler's un-
lilllV. Mins lleel'douf comes to attend
school at Koynl Academy.
Mr. I'rescolt Wheeler came home
from Votiealhi Friday. Mr. Wheeler
expects to teach iiookkeepiu at the
Academy t his w inter.
Mr. S. r.iirehaiu ami family were
out. for a drive Sunday afternoon
We learn that Mr. A. 1. Owens U
quite wick at this writ inn-.
Mrs. F. K. Miller of I'oitlanl Is
visiting her hiiiditcr Mrs. Minnie
Ashler.
Mrs. Kendall is at home atfiiin.
Mrs. Iteiilah Kstcs entertained com
pany the first oT the week.
Oscar Wheeler went to t'ottaire
Grove Sal urday.
M. V, ltabcock and toiiH were help
ing to load a car in Cottage Grove
Monday.
His Dear Old Mother.
"My dear old mother, who is now
elghty-threo years old, thrives on
Kleotrle Kilters," writes W. J. ltruii
H011, of lMililin, tin.' "She lias taken
them for iihout. two years and enjoys
an excellent appetite, feels strong
and sleeps well." That's the way
Kleetrl.: Hitters affect the ugod, ami
i ho same happy results follow in all
cases of female weakness and general
debility. Weak, puny children too.
urn A'reatly streiiK'thened by them.
Guaranteed also for stomach, liver
and kidney troubles, by ltensoi:'s
Pharmacy. fiOe.
A man who died at the age of
117 years juit drinking whiskey at
the age of 70. If he had kept on
drinking it there is no telling how
long he would have lived.
Goat raising is becoming increas
ingly profitable in Josephine coun
ty. There are '2000 Angora goats
in that couuty. and 150010 Jackson.
DECISION
REVERSED
The Supreme Court Renders
lis Opinion.
The Referendum Petition Cases Taken
on Appeal From Decision of Judge
Calloway Declared by Supreme
Court to be in Legal Form.
The fiic inU 'if simple, straight
forward ju-tice in administration
ol tho Msiemof direct legislation
in voguo in Oregon have reason to
rejoice ai the outcome of the refer
endum easHs, recently tried before
the State Supremo Court. These
cases w 10 brought up on appeal
from the decree of Judge William
Galloway of tho circuit court for
Marion county who had held all
the referendum petitions recently j
filed to be inadequate and infliiffici-j
cut on account of small technicali
ties in tho form of the petitions.
The measures in which members
of the Grange wore particulwrly in
terested were, The Freeman Cum
pulsory Pass Hdl and the $100,000
Armory Appropriation Hill upon
both of which the State Grange had
been instrumental in invoking the
referendum and the $125,000 an
nual appropriation for tho State
University upon which the Ivinn
County Council had called the ref
erendum. The case involving the
care of the Multnomah County
pi isoners was on exactly the same
footing as the two cases in which
the State Grange was interested;
they were turned clown by Judge
Galloway on account of the "warn
ing clause" from the petitions.
The University ease was held up
tor the same canse, but in addition
to this the Secretary of State had,
up in advice from the Attorney
General, refused to file the petition
on account of a slight error in giv
ing, on the petition, the title of the
bill which was sought to be re
ferred. The Stale Supieme Court in its
decision by which degree of
Judge Galloway was reversed, held
in substance; "The purpose of a
petition for the referendum is to
identify a particular enactment of
the legislature which the petitioners
desire to have referred to tho people
a question of identity not of leg
islation. The initiative and lefcrendum
amendment to the constitution, :
which reserves to the people the
p(Mcf ij iJiwjHjrtu inw auu iiinciio-
mouta to the constitution, is self-ox-ecuting
and needs no legislation to
define the right.- ot citizenship."
The Supremo Court therefore up
held tho contention that tho Stale
Orange had put forth all ulong,
that the legislature in undertaking
to hedge about the operation of the
initiative and relerendum with as
many quibbling technicalities, had
overstepped its authority. More
over the opinion further plainly
states that, "The statute has not in
terms enacted that thero shall bo a
warning clause upon the petition,
but only in giviug the form of the
petition included a warning therein
This part of the statuto, is only
a provision of a form to aid in car
rying out a right already existing,
independent of the statute and ex
... .. 1 1
pressly states that it is not man da-1
tory."
So all the measures upon which
the referendum was invoked will be
brought to a vote of the people at
the next general election and in or
der that evi ry voter may be pre
pared to express an intelligent opin
ion in regard to the various meas
ores he shall loe no opportunity
to inform himself in regard to them.
f)uile a full review of the argu
ment in regard to Compulsory Pas
and the Armory Jiill will bo found
in the annual address of the Master
in the printed proceedings of the
last .State Grangn. Grange Bulle
tin. Hard Times in Kansas.
The old days of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten in the
proHperous Kansas of today : alt hough
a citizen ol C'odell, Ivul KhumbiirR.
has not yet forgotten a hard time he
encountered. HeHuys; "I was worn
out and discouraged by coughing
iilvrht aii ld.lv, aim could II nd no re
lief till I tried Dr. Kind's New Dis
covery It took less than one bottle
to completely completely cure me."
The safest aud most reliable cough
ami cold remedy and lung and throat
healer ever discovered. Guaranteed
by Hciikou'h Pharmacy, ."( cents and
$1.00. Trial bottle free.
OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS
State Superintendent J. H. Ackerman
Issues Instructions.
Superintendent of Public In
struction J. H. Ackerman has com
pleted the outline of a course of
normal instruction for use in high
schools of tho state. The course
will be put in fo.ee this year. This
course may be adopted :n any dis
trict of the first class and the. work
may be tiken up by pupils in auy
yoar of the high school course. De
tailed descriptions of the course
are given explaining tho work, of
which the following"' is a brief out
line: 1. White's Art of Teaching, 12
weeks.
2. The State Cou-se of Studv, 4
weeks.
3. Observation aid teaching.
It weeks; (a) Observing small
groups of children taught bv their
teacher or by training class teacher;
(b) observation of regular school;'
(c) pupil liachiughis own class,
class observing ; (d) pupil teaching
a selected gioup, class observing;
(e) pupil teaching a legular school,
class observing.
4. Practical Problems to Be
Solved. 2 weeks; (a) Securing a po
sition; (b) what to learn of the
school before the first day; (c) what
to do the lirst day.
NKW b ooVKKNINii EXAMINATION
Ot AI'II.ICANTS fOI! STATU l'AI'KRS
County School Superintendent
W. H. Dillard has received the fol
lowiug circular letter from J. II.
Ackermau, superintendent ot pub
lic instruction, calling attention to
the new law governing examination
'of applicants for state certificates.
The circular follows:
Will vou kindlv see that all wer-
sous under your supervision who
expect to become applicants for
state certificates or diplomas fully
understand the following :
1. State certificates Applicant
must take examinations on the 10
subjects specified in subdivision G,
section G, laws of Oregon, one of
which is English literature.
2. State diplomas Applioant
must pass an examination 011 bot
any, plane geometry and general
history, which may bo taken ut any
one examination during the life of
his state certificate. This is on the
assumption that tho applicaut takes
out a state certificate before he
takes out his state diploma. If the
applicant wishes to take out the
state diploma at once he must com
plete the 22 subjects iu three suc
cessive examinations.
;j. All of the foregoing tikes ef
fect in February, 11)08.
Au Albany young lady has begun
teaching school in the country with
11 times as many boys as girls in
the school.
iA TERRIBLE
ACCUSATION
A Mother Charged With At
tempt to Rain Her Child.
It is Alleged that the Woman Con
nived With a Young Man Named
Hastings to Cause Her Downfall
Were Taken to Eugene.
A woman giving the name of Mr8.
Lynch, and a man named Clyde
Hastings, were arrested by Marshal
SnodgrBs on Sunday, and are
charged with attempting to commit
one of the most atrocious crimes
to be conceived. It is charged that
Mrs. Lynch, and a young girl otl2
yeara of age, who the w oman claims
as her daughter, and the man Hast
ings, came to th city and took a
room at the old Imperial hotel, and
that a guest occupying a room ad-
joiuiug, overhear ! the man and wo
man endeavoring to persuade the
young yirl to submit to indignities.
Tlie guest got up aud summoned
Marshal Snodgrass, who broke in
the door, and the situation of the
trio bearing out the statement of
the guest, the marshal placed them
under arrest. It being a state case,
on Mouday they were taken to Eu
gene, where in default of l,0l)0
bail, they were locked up in the -county
jail pending examination.
W. C. T U." CONVENTION
Convene in Annual Session in Eugene
This Week.
The State Couventiou of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Uuioa convened in Eugene on Mou
day, the session being held in the
First Christian Church of that city.
Following is an outline of the pro
gram of the order of business. On
Tuesday tLe official board met,
which was followed by a full execu
tive meetiug, and in the evening a
general reception of the delegateB
was had, and the convention opened
for general business this morning,
with Mrs Lucian F. Additon as
presidiug officer.
Kvery morning at 8 o'clock the
convention will open with devotion
al half hour, followiug which de
partment conferences and business
sessions will be the order of the
day.
Many distinguished speakers will
be iu attendance, including Miss
Lucy Proad, an interesting mission
ary, who received her training in
foreign missionary at home and has
traveled 54,000 miles in four years.
Miss Hose A, Davidson, the gifted
natioual Y. M. C. A. lecturer and
reader, will give readings from
"Black Rock."
All preparations are made to give
the delegates to the convention a
royal welcome. The Loyal Tem
perance Legion of Cottage Grove
will have a class of graduates of
special study course aud all will re
ceive diplomas.
A gold medal contest will be held
in which coutestants are entered
from Umatilla, Multnomah, Polk,
Lane and Douglas, Altogether one
ot the best programs ever present,
ed by the organization has beeu ar
ranged this year.
Important to Cruisers.
I waut every reputable cruiser In
Southern Oregon toend me Ills name
und address, upon receipt of which I
will send him information of vital in
terest to himself aud Ills business. Ad
dress 11. U. Wolf, Itoseburg, Or.
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