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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1906)
Otti«» 'V u , ni COTTAGE GROVE LEADER COTTAGE GROVE, O R E G O N . SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 d. V O L. X V I II Happy New Christmas Time Cele brated in Great Style. Christmas day was celebrated in royal manner in Cottage Grove. The stores were open until ten o’clock and big crowds were on the streets in spite of the heavy rain. Every train was met by a huge del egation to welcome friends and to see the sights. The merchants all state that their sales were unusu ally large and that they all have reason to be thankful for their Lus- iness of the year. The churches all had Christmas trees for their Sunday .School scholars Monday uight, and fine programs were prepared. A t the Methodist Church a Christmas cantata entitled "Christ mas Fairies” was given by a large number of tho young folks and lit tle tots of the Sunday School, and was well rendered. Too much praise canuot be given to the in structors for their work in prepar ing it. The church was finely dec orated with two large trees on either side of the pulpit, hung full with things for everybody. Santa Claus in this instance had a fine tenor voice, a thiDg he is not usu ally credited with possessing, and enlivened the occasion with an ex cellent solo. Silk Creek School Report. 1906 . Third month ending December 2 i. Total no. days present 387 Total no. days absent 2I No. cases tardiness 8 No. enrolled 23 No. neither absent or tardy i 4 Names of those neither tardy or absent: Lena and Otto Burcham, Clinton Medley, Pearl, Ruby, Edna and Hazel Ashby, Carl, Ruby and Sheri il Slagle. Frank, Cauton and Katie Willis, Neal McCoy. L a n c e l o t t k D. F ritz , Teacher. NO. 37 at his home aud talked him into buying the ticket, and then "scooted” back to the big city. Now the proposition is. If a rail road will send an agent 300 miles to sell a $ 3 oo ticket, would it not be wise to see that large shippers of mail-matter stud out a goodly bulk during the weighing period, the average of that weight to continue to the next weigh-in? Ile Was Raised. baugh atone in the battle which Gathered For The Leader A year ago a manufacturer hired was quickly ended by the death of by Our Special Cor C O L O R S » TR O O PS W I N . a boy. For months there was noth bruin, caused by several upper and ing noticeable about him except lower cuts over his head rapidly The agitation over ths discharge respondent. that he never took his eyes off the applied by Mr. Brumbaugh with a for the good of the service of three machine he was running. A lew walking stick he had which proved companies of the Twenty-Fifth In a faithful friend iu time of need. weeks ago the manufacturer looked Vesuvius. .Washington, D. C. Dec. 17, I 9 O 6 . fantry has lesulted in a backdown up lrom his work to see the boy The stick was hard wood and sea Ou account of the holidays, work Has the general activity of the from the position that the innocent soned, the end that did the deadly standing beside his desk. on the Vesuvius trestle is delayed country reached Washington? Tbjs must suffer with the guilty, and it work was worn into shreds and is “ What do you want?” he asked, is apparently the case, for never be is expected that soon the major kept iu its blood stained condition several days. “ Want my pay raised.” fore has congress tackled so many portion of the men will agaiu be The high beats are all in place as a souvenir bv Mr. Brumbaugh “ What are you getting?” aud but little is left to connect details of general’ administration at under the colors. The accustomary who also has the hide of the bear. ‘ ‘Three dollars a week,’’ wilh the tunnel, then it will be a the beginning of a short session, boast of the bravery and good con “ Well, how much do you think short job to finish and get into j It was freely prophesied that but duct of colored soldiers is appar Eugene Wins you are worth?” running shape; the stormy weather | little would be accomplished be ently having more effect than the “ Four dollars,” The basket ball team ot Co. C ol has made the work of raising and yond passing the appropriation distorted account of one single af ! Eugene and tbe older team of Cot bracing the tall bents difficult. bills this winter, and probably this fair, especially when it is claimed “ You think so, do you?” “ Yes, sir, an’ I’ve been thinkin’ tage Grove boys met iu battle The crew will return to camp in a will prove true, yet questions are that some of the whites in Browns so fcr three weeks, but I’ve been so Chtislmas uight iu the Opera few days and make short work of coming up daily for discussion that ville are alleged to have boasted The Eugene team had that that is yet te be done. blame busy, I haven’t had time to House will have a momentous bearing on that they would get rid of the col speak to you about i t ” — Army and something of a walkover winning future policies. Iu fact, members ored troops. It is understood that j by a score of 23 to 9, which is Navy Life. A good delegation of Cottage of congress are “ doing business,” protests had been made to the war largely accounted for by the fact Grave people attended the minstrel instead ol splitting hairs as usual. department regarding the station that the Cottage Grove team had show at Eugene Wednesday even The influence of the big stick is ing of colored troops at that point, Dan Brumbaugh Kills a Bear. little or no practice, while the other ing. shown pretty conclusively, and the but with the usual official disregard More fun and more business in a team is in regular trim, despite tho concensus of opinion is that while of government officials tor the Eugene is asking Congress to few minutes than ever before in his difference in the teams, the game some mattersjhave been brought to wishes of the people ot a commu increase the appropriation for their life is what Dan Brumbaugh savs was interesting for the onlookers, Ap Post Office building from fifty thou the fore that might have been rele nity, they had been iguored he had on his trip out from Bo who well filled the house. gated to future generatieus, yet in parently the only way to wake up sand to one Lundred thousand dol hemia last week, when near Adams the main the effect has been to re a government department is to lars. mountain a bear was sheltered in a L e w Celtoy is in the Grove trom j generate the entire government ser widely advertise certain actions, hollow tree leaving just a little of Portland. Many of the large corporations vice. aud when public clamor reaches a his head in sight. Mr. Brum Eugene voted to increase their j throughout the country have shown The ship subsidy deal is meeting point of ‘‘annoyance” action is baugh's companion too¿ several school tax to that they are not always as hard with hard sleddiDg, regardless of taken. mills. shots with a small revolver, the only and stingy as reportod, by having Will our “ LTncle Joe" Cannon J. I. Jones made a quick trip to ; given great sums to their employes. the plans laid for the enrichment of weapon they had, which only served the steamship linos. Representa consents to have the pay of gov Eugene and return Thursday. In some instances an additional tives Fordney of Michigan, Bird- ernment employes raised after the to anger the bear. It came quickly out from his shelter and prepared Miss Stella Cochlin is herefrom; mouth’s salary, others 10 per cent sell of Iowa, Hinshaw of Nebraska, handsome increase in bis own sal for a fight. The man and the re Creswell spending Christmas week j of their years earnings, down to and Wilson of Illinois have declared ary? A newspaper man remarked volver retreated, leaving Mr. Brum- at the home of Miss Knowlton. lesser sums. that they will not stand for the in the lobby the other day that a measure, and the list xif “ inland” resolution would have to be passed insurgents is growing daily There giving the vice-president and the appears to be an impression that as speaker authority to raise the sal the great majority of the American ary of members of congress, be people never saw the ocean, and cause they are too modest to con are not affected by shipping inter sent to raising their own pay. ests. there is no use in catering to Why should not a legislator receive a special class of business men who good pay? And why should not have everything to gain and noth the members raise their own com ing to lose. It would sound grand pensation? The increase can be. for the postal authorities to say made operative beginning with the that they could send a lett*r to Bra next congress, and it would per zil in ‘steen hours less tune than haps be better to spend the public formerly, but when cables are funds in payment of salaries than available letters are not Ibe im in dredging alleged rivers where it portant factor they formerly were. is necessary to drive artesian wells It is certain that a movement for to get sufficient water to lloat a a child-labor law will receive an canoe during tho dry season. impetus this winter that will result government SALARIES. in a more or less effective federal Thete has always been a belief regulation of the subject. The la bor unions of the country have for throughout the country that gov years been "hammering’’ on the ernment employees are highly matter, but as usual the politicians paid, and to a certain extent that are now taking tbe subject under lias been true in tho past, but the consideration and treating it as if a experiences of a resident of the great discovery had been made. capital city the past few years has Out in Nebraska a student at the been far from pleasant. Resigna Nebraska university worked out tions are assuming alarming pro the ground plan of our present in portions, aud as is always the case, terstate commerce law. Confid the government is losing some of ingly he took the data to the mem its brightest and most efficient Hardly a government ber of the state legislature fro.11 his workers. county. That gentleman brought employee is stationed iu Washing it to Washington as a discovery of ton but has been ruet with the an his own, but he did not succeed iu swer "You are in office arc you not, getting e'en newspaper mention at you ®an afford to pay good prices,” the tirno. Since that time there when a protest has been made to have been hundreds of claimants excessive charges for the necessi for the honor of having originated ties of life. The scale of salaries the plan, and even at this late day today is practically tho same as there is on inclination to use the paid during the cheap-price period subject for personal laudation of ’85-’95, with ordinary living ex penses roised from 20 to 150 per rather than results. Representative Victor Murdock cent. According to high government of Kansas has revived the periodi cal mail-weight scandal, but it will officials, Uncle Sam is satisfied with die a-borning. The railway-mail the progress made in the work of employees tell the story thus-wise. reclamation of the arid sections of , The periods for weighing the mail the west. It is claimed that the are known in advance. If hun work is progressing more rapidly dreds of sacks of franked mail than similar improvements or pro leave the capitol city during that jects by private corporations and period, of course it is a coincidence. railways. There has Ireen a seri- The government aends out thous- ous scarcity of labor and blockage ands of tons of books which have j on transportation lines, vet a de been sacked and ready for delivery cided start has been made, and for some time. If a member of within a few years the country will congress sends to his district sev realize that the benefits are greater eral tons of these books during the than the wildest dream of an en weighing-in period, of course that | thusiast ou the subject is coincidence, too. Mtories are DESERTIONS EROM T1IR NAVA, rife of large publishing houses who One irritation has been n ir. ved “happen” to have large shipments re of books in siDgle wrappers at that from tho naval service by tl time for delivery through the mails vival of the custom of allowing en instead of sending thorn by express. listed men to purchase their dis Mere coincidence! A friend of tbe charge by giving the governiti ut , 1 writer living over threo hundred two months’ pay and thi miles from New York City sent a of their equipment. It ha' ul \ j j , postal card to one of tho general appeared to be an incongruity to passenger agents at that city inquir forcibly keep a man in the navy in ing about rates for a round trip to times of peace when he wanted to California. To his surprise, a rep get out. Peace of mind and per- resentative of the company called (Continued to second