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Devoted tothe Mining, Numbering and farming Interests of this Community.
VOL. IX
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1907.
NO. 44
FARMERS
Institutes Held Under Hie
Auspices of 0. A. C.
One Held Merc Last Wednesday Was
Well Attended at all Three Sessions
and Much Interest Manifested In
foresting Addresses.
Tim Fanners Institute wis well
attended and proved ho valisfac.tnrv
ill lit hotli rosidenl attendants and
visitors became enthusiastic (ivci
till' suci csu of tlio meeting.
Tim co.nmittee from the Comnier
rial Clul that had the m i -incuts
in charge had left nothing iiik1 h;.
Tlui entire pmgnm went i'ii with
out a hitch Tin1 d;iiry "nv, tin
draft ll'Mse, poultl.V imd fiuit w'T"
t lie subjects handled liy those who
hud picpat'ed addresses, mid 1 1
Iossoiih taught give new thought to
tho farmer "Im had not, si u I it I
theso snhji'cts and the. whole all'iir
will tend to inako better fanners.
More careful breeding of Htock and
systematic cultivation ol the noil
will piodueo morn profitable pro
ducts as well us raise the value ol
the land.
These institutes arc awakening
nn interest which will make of the
Willamette valley 11 garden Hpot of
fruit and (lowers and the home ol
fino stock owned by prosperous
men. The following is the pro
grain as rendered :
MoliMMl SI.SslON 10. ."ill 11. 111.
Cull to unli t'.. President l'intfiil Hinds
Adilrr: h of welcome I'. 15. Phillips
Kcxpoiisn Mr. .lames Wll li.ycoinlie
The Dairy Herd Wm. Ncliulinei i. li
Discussion.
a I 'ii' i; oos si skion l..",l) 1 1. in.
I '.am I
Solo .1. M. Isliam
l'rult urowiiipr I'rof. I'. I. Lewis
Dismission
Fruit Culinro nl Cottage drove
S. W. ISoyd
I llHIi.HNloll
SoiiH' Blair Sisters
( ll'gnniailoii C. (ireiHeii
I liseiiHsion
i:vi;iNi: si:sso 7..'t0p. in.
Hand
Solo Dr. Van Winkle
The Draft horse Hon. K. T. .ludd
Discussion
Poultry II. Iioseliheri''
Disc irslon
I ..adics iiiarlel to
Mcreopl Icon Illustrated Ijeelllre
Dr. .laineH Withycoinlii
WOODMEN OFFICERS.
1 The Woodmen ot tho Woild hehl
their icgular meeting last evening
and Iho following oflleeis w re
elected for tlio coming term:
Consul CoinmaiHler, A. Brewer;
Adviser Lieutenant, Dr. l. . Nan
Winkle; Clerk, C. H. VanDenbcig;
Banker, D. Ji. Chamberlain: Fsvort,
John Venleh, Watchman. J. Huff;
.Sentry, L Taylor; Trustee, I!. Mc
Kibhiii; Physician, Dr. Van Winkle;
'J'he social session hold after bus
iness was over was enjoyed, especi
ally tho refieshmenl'l which con
sisted of wedding cuke ami the
Woodman's nly beverage, pure
water. It's no uso to ask any of
them where, they got the wedding
cake or who was married, 'cause
they won't tell.
The regular monthly meeting ol
the Calapooia Poultry Association
will bo held Tuesday evening, De
cern btr 10, at the office of tho pres
ident, J1'. H. RoHtinVig. Superin
tendent II. C. Schollhoiis will be
present und tell some interesting
things about chickens.
A Kind's Dyspepsia talilet atlcr emii
meal overcomes indigestion, dyspep
sia nnd other stomach ills, Two
days' trial free. Ask our dealer. Buhl
nt P.enson'n Pharmacy,
TlilOTONIi LECTURE
IAI 1 hff : 1 V ii I in . .1 . - f 1 n
1 . rv menu cciisui vvniiuei nil no-
yress Made 111 Development ol
Bell Phono.
W. K. Men ill, of the Pacific Tel
ephone .V. Telegraph Co., gave an
illustrated lectuie at the Armory
l- 1 1 1 1 f"i I 'I 1 1 i.l'i.iiiiiir .ill Itin ..1,.ti
i ... i ... j v 'vii, ii, "i mi. iii.vi.iU'-
incnl of the telephone since its in
vention hy Alexander Graham Dell,
thirly years ago. Tho lecturer said
in pui t :
"It is a special plensuie to meet
yon thi i evening and talk with you
about the telephouo becnuNe Cot
t:l;;e drove is one of the progres
sive telephone communities of Ore
gon. When I say progressive tele
phone communities I mean that
here the telephone company has
tome! in a largo measure that en
coniiigenii nt which comes not alone
with having a great number of sub
sciibeis, hut with having subsciib--i
i who show ly the uso they make
o this most familiar an .1 perhaps
lea-it understood of our public util
ities, that they see its possibilities
and its value. The best asset of
any public service corpiialion is in
telligent patronage not tho patron
age that means only dollais and
c uts, lint patronage Hint menus
gein ial understanding of what the
il 'Mai a and cents w ill buy.
"From the nature of the case the
telephone user does not learn as
much about tho telephouo system
ho employes as the traveler lenrns
about the railways over which he
makes his journey.
'The i xehange is the nerve cen
ter of the telephone system. When
people begun to see tho possibilities
ol Alexander Graham Boll's inven
tion, it was simply as a menus of
communication between two points
a telephone here, a telephone
tin re, and a wire connecting thorn.
Uf com ' e it was not long beforo iu
genius man turned his mind to de
vising a way of joining the wire
that connected Mr. Smith's tele
phone with Mi. Hlaek's to that con
necting Mr. Ihown's telephone, with
Mr. White's and in 1877 about a
year niter Dr. liell hnd shown his
"interesting toy," as it ws then
called, at the Centennial Inhibition,
Thomas P Dooliltlo constructed
the first crude switchboard at
I'.rhlgepoi t, Connecticut. In this
switchboard were brought together
twenty Much. It would bo just
about big enough to accomodate tho
tidephouo patrons on a farmers' line
as we understand this today.
Hut it contained tho idea which,
in the intervening years, has been
developed into perhaps the most re
markable piece of mechanism any
twentieth century Industry employs.
Ah time went on and the number
of people who used the telephone
increased, it became necessary to
find a moans ol connecting any
line in an exchange with any of a
very huge number of other lines,
and of doiug it ii:stai tly. One op
erator could answer the calls and
attend to tho needs of only a few
subscribers, but sho must be able
to put thote low in communication
with nil the rest. So tho multiple
switchboard came into being the
switchboard of today, which in
sumo of tho big cities, contains as
many as 10,000 linos and roquires
200 operators.
It takes mouths of the timo of
hundreds of skilled mechanics to
build a big, modern switchboard.
Altogether there arc soveral million
parts iu I ho apparatus. One of the
10, 000. line boards, contains POOO
miles of wire enough, il stretched
in one line to reach from your beau
tiful city to Now York City and still
have some to spare. In it are more
(Continued on page 2.)
11
MEETS
And Elects Officers for the
C(
oming Year
F. B. Phillips Chosen President and C.
Paul Jones. Jr., Secretary Club is
in Prosperous Condition and Will
Start Year Favorably.
The Commercial Club of this
city held its regular meeting Mon
day evening anil elected oflicers for
tho coming year as follows :
Presidenf, F. P. Phillips; First
Vico pies!. lent, leo. Coiner; Second
V ice president, I. D. Wheeler; Sec
retary, C Paul Jones ; Treasurer C.
ItosH King; Assistant secretary, Oli
ver Veatch; Trustees. 15. Lurch, I',
II. Rosenberg, H. ). Thompson,
V. C Londou, J. 15. Protman, C.
C. Ilaleton nnd Andrew Hrniid.
The new oIlieeiH are all substan
tial business men of Hie city ami
tho club is certainly in good hand
for the uext year. It has done
much for the advancement und bet
terment of Cottage drove au 1 all
Western Oiegon during the years
past and is known all over the state
as one of the best organized com
mercial bodies iu the northwest.
At tli meeting Monday night,
the club, instructed tho secretary
to draft resolutions asking our sen
ators anil representatives in con
gress to use their influence towards
the passage of an act exempting
mino owners from doiug assessment
work this year on account of the
scarcity of money at tho present
timo. Tho secretary was nlso in
structed to write Senator Fulton
asking him to join with our repre
sentatives iu their efforts to secure
the passago of Senator Lafollette's
amendment to the Hepburn biif, in
which the Interstate Commerce
Committee shall pass on all railroad
freight rates before they are put
into effect. The passage of this
amendment, which will bo intro
duced at the present sessiou of con
gress is of great importance to tho
people of the wholo state and all
pressure should bo brought to bear
upon Senator pultou to cause hiui
to work with his colleagues in the
matter.
A Real Wonderland.
South Dakota, with its rich silver
mines, bonanza fnrniH, wide ranges
and Htiiinne natural formations, is a
veritable wonderland, At Mound
City, in the home of Mrs. L. D. "lnpp,
n wonderful case o( healing Ims lately
occurred. Her son seemed near
death with lung and throat trouble.
"KxliAusting coughing; spells occurred
every live minute!," writes Mrs. Clnpp
'when I bewail giving Dr. King's New
Discovery, the great medicine, that
saved his life and completely cured
him." (iuaranteed for coughs nnd
colds, throat and Iiiiik troubles, by
lleiiHou's Pharmacy, SO cents and if I.
Trill 1 bottle free.
Jim Woods eamo from tho Vesu
vius mino Thursday, where he has
been working several mouths, and
left on Saturday for tho south. Mr
Woods regretted leaving Bohemia
as he had hoped it would not be
necessary for him to go south for
some time yet, lie said that the
cross cut where he had been work
ing at tho Vesuvius gave every ovi
donce of tho approaching vein, also
that the ore in tho main tuunel was
holding its own in splendid shape.
If you want to buy or sell any kind
of property, either real or personal,
list it with F. Ib Phillips.
POULTRY 1
NEXT WEEK
Three Days Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday
Large Exhibit Assured of Utility and
Fancy Breeds-Judge Collier of Ta
coma Will Score Birds - Baby Show
Saturday Afternoon.
Indications now seem to forecast
that the lin t annual poultry show
to be held iirnb r the directions of
the Cnhtpooia Poultry Association
of this city, iu the armory hall,
Thursday, 1'iiday and Saturday of
next week, will be the greatest
of the kind ever held in tho Willam
ette Valley south of Salem. This
is diH), iu part, to that fact that
Cottage drove is centrally located
in n groat poultry raising territory,
the poultry plants of the Umpqua
and Rogue river valley being to the
south of us while some of the larg
est and best known fanciers of the
Willamette valley nre located to
tho noilh, so that the fanciers of
these two sections of Oregon can
conveniently come together and
compare their respective breeds at
Cottage Grove, which together with
tho larpe number of exhibits prom
ised froiM ttio various precincts u'l
jacent to Cottage drove insures an
exhibit of turkeys, ducks, geese,
chickens, pheasants, guinea fowls,
and pit dock, rarely witnesses in
Wesura Oiegon o itside of the
st ile fair or Portland idiows.
Thi-;) how is open to everybody
and the amateur as well as the ex
pert breeder is to be awarded with
valuable prizes for their efforts in
producing high class poultry.
There is no better schooling for
the amateur poultry raiser than to
enter a few of his best birds and
eaiefnlly study the points given1
them or taken away from them by
the poultry judge. They can thus
gain more practical kuowlodge
about poultry raising by becoming
an exhibitor and going throguh
one good show than they can by
home experience and poultry jour
nal reading in many years.
JI'DOK AND Slii'lUNTI-NOKN'r
The association has provided a
hngo u umber of beautiful display
coops which will be furnished to
exhibitors free of charge providing
they have none of their own and
M-1. 11. C. Schellhous, an experi
enced poultryinau ol Portland who
superintended the state fair poultry
exhibit, has been engaged to super
intend our show, which is a guarP.il
tce that the birds on exhibition will
receive tho best of care.
For Judge, the services of Mr.
II II, Collier of Tacoina, have been
secured, this gentleman being one
ot the best and most impartial
judges of the Pacific Northwest and
licensed by the American Poultry
Association in this work. This
fact should bo an inducement to
eVery poultry breeder hereabouts
to get his stock into this show, that
he may improve his breed and have
a higher standard to strive for. Let
every poultry fancier who can con
veniently, get into this show as the
charge is very reasonable, -5 cents
for each bird. An admission fee of
only 10 cents will be charged visi
tois at the door.
noi r von liAiw snow chanced.
It has been widely advortised
i that tho poultry show would con
clude Saturday evening with a
baby show, soveral valuable prizes
OFF FOR WASHINGTON
As Witnesses in the Freight Rate
Case.
The witnesses who left for Port
laud yesterday morning, December
3, for Washington to appear before
the Interstate Commerce commis
sion in behalf of the lumbermen in
relation to the proposed advanced
rate on lumber and forest products
from the Pacific coast points to all
points east of Denver, are:
Phillip Buehner, President of the
Oregon and Washington Lumber
Manufacturers association.
A. C. Dixon, chairman of Trans
portation committee.
George M. Cornwall, in charge
of the Publicity bureau.
Hon. R. A.- Booth and the fol
lowing members of tbe special ad
vance rate committee:
I C. Knapp of tho Peninsula
Lumber company, Portland.
T. K. Campbell, chairman of the
Oregon State Railway commission.
E. D. Kingsley, manager Bridal
Veil Lumber company.
F. C. Miles, of Sp9uldincr Log
ging company.
J. H. Chambers of the Chambers
Lumber company, Cottage Grove.
The attorney representing the
Oregon lumbermen, Mr. J. N. Teal,
ii already in Washington, together
with Mr. Anderson, rate clerk for
the lumber manufacturers.
Badly Mixed Up.
Abraham IJrown, of Winterton, N
he eaos : "Doctors got badly mixed
up over me; one snid heart disease:
two called it kidney trouble; the
fourth, blood poison, and the fifth
stomach and liver trouble: but none
of them helped me; so my wife ad
vised trying Kleetric Bitters, which
nre restoring me to perfect health.
One bottle did me more good than all
the five doctor prescribed." Guar
anteed for blood poison, weakness
nnd nil stomach, liver and kidney
complaints, by Benson's Pharmacy.
"i0 cents.
COMPANY E S GRAND BALL.
The Thanksgiving ball given at
the Armory Thursday evening by
Company F,, O. N. O. was no sur
prise consideiing the manner the
party given a short time ago was
handled. The armory was filled
with ladies and gentlemen, the
afternoon and evening trains
bringing a good number from Eu
gene and other places. Some of
the Ivngene men who brought their
ladies were Corporal Branstetter, I.
M. Foust, Corporal Biley, J. C. Mc
Filroy, D. J. Hudson, Austin Hamp
ion, Ilo Smith, Hickey, Cotteral
and others.
At 11 o'clock a supper was served
by the wives and other fair oaes,
that are iu close touch with the
members of the Military Club.
The Kugene Lumber Company
closed down Monday night, aud it
is somewhat indefinite when they
will start to running again. Mr.
Hopkins hopes to get started again
next Monday if he can get the con
tract which they have to finish up.
A number of shipping orders have
been cancelled lately on account of
tho high freight rate east.
to be awarded the babes in the va
rious classes, but from the fact that
many mothers object to take the
little ones out at night and in order
to giye the couutry babes au equal
show, it has been decided to hold
the baby show Saturday afternoon
at 'i o'clock, Dec. l-Uh, instead in
I the eveninir of this day. Now let
the mothers brtng out the prettiest
babies, the fattest babies aud the
smartest babies and enter this con
j test.
FOUR PEOPLE
MURDERED
Near Macleay, Marion Coun
ty, Sunday Night
Mrs. Casteel. Her Son and Daughter
and the Foreman of the Farm Killed
by Tramps New Arrivals in Mari
on County and Quite Wealthy.
Salem, Or., Dec 2. Four per
sons were murdered lost night at
the Hurst farm, near Macleay.
Mrs. Casteel, her daughter, her
son and the foreman of the farm,
Mr. Montgomery, were killed by
an unknown person or persons.
After tbe murders were committed,
tho farm house was set on fire in
the hope that evidence of the awful
crime might be obliterated or that
tne deaths could nave beeu con
strued to have beeu caused by be
ing caught in the flames.
A bloodstained hatchet was found
uear the scene of the murders, also
a loaded shotgun. Sheriff Culver
and Deputy Sheriff Minto have
gone to the scene of the murder.
The Casteel family came here re
cently from Myrtle Creek and were
said to have had considerable
money.
airs. CasTeerwas a woman about
(0 years of age. Her son was
aged li aud the daughter 24, and
the foreman on tlio place, who
came wiiu them Jrotn iJouglas
county, was a man about 50 years
old. Their nearest neighbor is a
farmer named Wilson. They had
been there such a short time and
met so few people there is little
known of them, The bodies are
almost completely burned up. The
residence was as line a one as any
in that part of the county.
One theory is that tramps who
have been infesting thi country
attacked the farm, and when the
boy and foremau resisted, shot them
and then killed the women. Posses
are out looking for clues. The en
tire country is aroused.
HOW THE OTHER HALF GIVES.
"That sentiments of tender char
ity are innate among the poor can
be seen from a case which presented
itself among a group of little chil
dren at a school where ve visited."
writes Mrs. John Van Vorst in her
Christmas article iu the Wounu's
Home Companion. "They wero of
the most destitute, this little class,
but as regular as soldiers in at
tendance. After an unusual ab
sence of two days, one of tho small
pupils, Mary by name, was, closely
questioned by the teacher on her
return. Very reluctantly he re
sponded that they had been without
food at home and that she was
ashamed to come hungry to school.
"No comment was made before
the other children. Nothiug fur
ther was said.
"The following morning a small
procession tiled before the teacher's
desk, a processiou of little people,
tiny, po r, ignorant. Yet not oue
of them came empty handed. One
brought an apple, oue a piece of
cheese, oue a roll, one a slice of
meat. And each, as she put her
meager offering down, whispered
totheteachej; 'It's for Mary.' "
King's Little Liver Pills wake up
lazy livers, cleau the system and clem
the skin. Try them for billiousness
nnd sick headache. Price '2 cents,
Sold by New Era drug store,