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COTTAGE GROVE LEr. CH Soc CU? « • » COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNK 1, 1907. VOL. X I\ REPORTS ADVERSELY Eugene Canal Proposition too Expensive. R DOUGLAS AND COOS ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. The Electric Road is Assured. And Articles of Incorporation Have Been Filed. SCHOOL YEAR ENDED OFFICERS SELECTED NO. 7. TAKES HER OWN LIFE Mrs J. C. Christy at Drain tnds Her Invalid s Woes With a Bullet. STATE AND COUNTY Commencement Exercises For the Fourth of July Drain, Or., May 28.— Mrs. J. C. News of Interest in j Christy wife of the well known Celebration. at Christian Church. Condensed Form tesideut engineer o f the Southern There is no longer any doubt about the Electric road. Indeed, AN ELECTRIC ROAD RECOMMENDED j if any one bad so little faith in GREAT PROFUSION OF FLOWERS. Roaeburg and her people as to be lieve the project would be allowed to drag and fall through, they cer Committee Advises That the Project be tainly did not understand the tem Three Young Ladies Graduate from High School and Nineteen Pass per of the men who have utldertak Abandoned— Electric Road Built eu this great work. The commit From Eighth Grade. for Less Than Half tee of five sent to Coos Ray only last Wednesday have accomplished the work intrusted to them and are Immense audiences attended the At a meeting held in Eugene on home this evening happy in having Saturday, the following report was performed the trust given into Annual Commencement exercises of Cottage Grove Public schools presented by K. M. \\ ilkitis, chair their hands. Mr. Frank EL Alley, a member ' at the Christian Church, Thursday man o f the committee appointed to investigate the feasibility o f build of the committee, called up the and Friday evenings of this week The church was beautifully dec ing the proposed Kugene-Corvallis News at 2 p . 111 . today trom Looking Glass, where they took dinner on orated for the occasion, the ros canal: “ W e have carefully investigated their way home, and gave a brief trum being a perfect bower of roses the scheme as a commercial enter statement of the condition of affairs and flowers o f every description, prise also the cost of digging such in relation to the work accomplish with the class flowera and class co l ors in profusion. a waterway with locks necessary to ed. The high school graduating class, Organization wae accomplished best serve the purpose for hauling and temporary officers elected as Misses Ethel Moore, May Sprouse the products of the country. and Ethel Storms, held their exer- follows: “ W e have looked up the history President— L- J. Stimpson o| ! cises Thursday evening, eacli nutn- of about fifty canals built in the j ber being well rendered and greatly Marshfield. United States. Vice-PresideBt- H on . A .C . M ars- ! enjoyed by the large audience Sixteen of them are less than “25 ! present. ters, ot Rosebnrg miles in length, and have cost near Strange, Principal, Secretary— L. H. Hazard, o f Co- ! Professor ly two million dollars, each, and I ••• the young ladies with ■ presented quille. are a constant source of expense. Treasurer -James Flannigau of j their diplomas, aud they were the “ About twenty canals are water North Bend recipients of many baudsome floral I pieces. ways which have been built in the The following is the pro A committee of six, one commit West, uot for h ailing the products gram as rendered: teeman from each o f the original o f the country so much as for irri committees, was appointed to ar- 1 Invocation Instrumental duet— “ On the Knee gation and mining purpos-s. ranee further detail» o f organiza l'ourse” ..............................................Rlake “ The average length of these tion. Vernie Itrown and Mabel Rosenberg canals is 39 miles, the average Selected The name of Douglas & Coos Vocal solo....... Mr. lshain width 43 feet and the average depth Electric Railway Co., was decided Instrumental solo- “ (iranil Vais# being six feet- Now these last men upon, and articles of incorporation Brilliante” . P. Chopin, Op In tioned approach more nearly wh t have been forwarded to the Secre Mabel Veatch this proposed canal would be, so we tary of State. Addrt ss ................................. ......................... take them as a basis of figures as Dr. H. D. Sheldon, U . of O. Mr. Alley, Mr. Marsters and Mr to cost, etc. In order to get a Cobb have arrived home, while Presentation of Diplomas................... Principal C L. Strange clearer and better understanding of Messrs. Fisher and Booth were de _ r , j On Friday evening the Eighth the cost we will take one mile of tained tamed at the Bay for a d day 01 ^ (.¡r(lde c|ass. composed of nineteen canal, representing 5280 feet in on private business.— Umpqua Val splendid young ladies and gentle length and an average of 36 feet in ley News. men held their exercises. The width and six feet deep and we class regretted very much the ab- ¡have a total o f 42,240 cubic yards senee of one of their number, Miss to move. Get a Small Farm. Dorothy Funk, who was compelled This engineers figure at 35 c a What farmers can do on small to return to her home in the East a yard as the cost of moving, but tracts of good, well tilled and pro few days only before the close owing to conditions which are favor perly utilized land is a subject that of the school. Those on the able we figure as a cost for moving, ought to interest multitudes of peo program acquitted themselves cred of 30 cenis per yard, which gives ple, and iu the course of a year a itably and with honor to their in $12,672 per mile for the excavation. great number o f these very inter structors. Never before in the his This does not include the first mile esting little stories are told in the tory of the school has a better class after leaving the river, as that Journal and in its exchanges passed from the Eighth Grade into would cost four times as much, or throughout the state. One old sow the High school, and Professor Har about $50,000 owing to the depth produced $203 worth of pigs iu a vey, (heir principal, is justly proud and the loose gravel underlying the year. A man with 1,500 hens made, o f them, and it is to he hoped that soil. In order to prevent this grav $ 3,000 clear last year. Two men the class will live up to the class el from caving in a concrete wall iu Freewater, one day last week, sentiment, “ Finished, to Begin would have to be built which would says the Pendleton Tribune, picked Again,” and at the opening of the be very expensive. About eight $100 worth of strawberries each school year in .September enter the locks would be necessary which if from two acres o f ground. This High School with the same deter built of wood and stone would cost was one day’ s product ami straw mination aud earnestness as has about $4000 each or a total of $32,- I erries ripen every day while the characterized it in the past, never 000 . Figuring on a basis of 35 season lasts. Hood River straw forgetting that miles we would have a total cost of berry growers expect to sell 75,000 “ The heights by great men reached .$525,520. crates, at from $3 to $5 per crate. and kept, “ Now these figures are below en Many orchards yield from $100 au Were not attained by sudden Might, gineer’ s estimates and do not con acre a year up; occasionally one as But they, while their companions slept template anything but level ground high as $500 or $600 an acre. A and the waterway being dry under garden of vegetables carefully and Were toiling upward in the night,” The following is the program, the most favorable circumstances, scientifically cultivated anywhere -no Humes and no rocks to be blasted around Portland will yield from each number of which was well ren out. One engineer claims that 'lie $100 to $300 an acre clear o f ex dered : channel would have to he twice the penses. On good alfalfa land from In v ocation .................Rev. .1. L. Beatty Address of W elcom e. .Guy Whitlock depth wherever locks were built. If lour to seven tons au acre can be I juration .......................... “ inventions” so then this estimated cost would raised, worth from $7 to $12 a ton, Marvin Jordan be increased one-thiid or more if fed to stock, besides af Instrumental so lo ,..........“ Meditation” Allie Phillips “ In connection with these figures fording months of good parturage Essay................... “ Louisiana Purchase” we have investigated the question These instances might be indefi Kittle Itriinihaugh of an electric railway to Corvallis, nitely extended. W hat’ s the mat- O ration..............“ The Oregon Country” and find it could be built for a little Elsie Brewer ■ ler with people, that they don’ t get C h oru s.......... “ N ym phs of the Ocean” more than one-half what the canal small tracts of land, cultivate them Misses Brewer, Dorward, Branton, would cost and are of the opinion right, and get rich— or at least be Hogate, Brumbaugh,. Perkins and this woujri be a more practical solu come comfortably well oft? From Osmnn tion of tiie transportation problem. 20 acres of right land, rightly used, Essay.............................. “ Panam a Canal” “ We have tried to get compara William <iaroutte a man in ten years can make suffi live cost o f transportation by rail and cient to ride up to the bank ir bis Instrumental solo *!Wedding o f the W in ds” ...................................................... canal, hut get nothing definite. It own automobile to make his depos Thomas Campbell seems from the facts gathered that its. A box of strawberries cost 20 Essay “ The Awakening in the Orient” the railways have the best of it in Melvin .Ionian cents. A good chicken costs from cheapness, quick and satisfactory $1 to $1.50. A sow is a good start oration, f ....“ Fifty-ninth Congress" Luther King service. er for a fortune. It takes from $5 Clou I I S ............... “ In the Starlight" “ In conclusion we have made no to $10 apiece to buy ewes. A good Brewer, Branton, Brumbaugh, expense so tar— we were instructed , span ot mules the other day sold D Miss-- orw ard. Ilognte, Osinnn Perkins. to have surveys made, but finding it for $700 Class M omen toes.........Jean Dorward ’ Valedictory......... Blanche Branton would be quite a heavy expense and I Get a little (arm, and then nurse \ddre-* to class.......................... not feeling warranted in raising the amount o f funds necessary to do it, love it, tend it carefully, get all Pres. \ L. Briggs, of Drain Normal Tims ends one of the most suc- this work, we now' submit our re 1 possible out of it without abusing! port and leave the matter with this it; and be one o f the most indepen- cessful years in the history of our . dent m«u on earth.— Portland Jour- schools, and Cottage Grove has meeting- every reason to feel proud for the i nal. L. L. W hitson , Mr. Stewart, of this city, owns excellent work accomplished, and F. M. W il k in s , . and cultivates four acres near the the school board should be com J. B ryan , edge of town, from which he mar mended upon retaining the same W . C- W a s h b i rne . Bv motion the report of the com keted last year $500 worth of pro- efficient corps of teachers under the mittee was adopted and later they I duce. This year he expects to sell j principalship of Professor Strange were continued in office to investi 1 at least $250 worth of Logan ber- and his worthy assistant Prof. Har gate the matter of transportation 1 ries, besides other produce, and vey. nd report at a meeting to be held there are plenty o f other four-acre ne mouth later at the same place. tracts around Cottage Grove which Latest style in visiting cards at can be made to produce equally as 75 cts. per 100 at The Leader office. The Leader leads— never follows. well. a Pacific on the Oregon Western branch, being built toward the coast, fatally’ shot heiself in a fit of ROUSING CELEBRATION PROMISED despondency at the family home AS TAKEN FROM OUR EXCHANGES. here at 10 o’ clock this morning. J She had been in very’ feeble health Kesume of the Week s Local Hap Committee of Ladies Appointed to Ar for many months past and there i was no hope for her recovery. This ! penings of the State and County range for Libeaty Car and Select 1 was no doubt the cause lor her tragic ending Briefly Told. Goddess of Liberty. She leaves a husband and one | I little son. The family moved to ! Drain one year ago from Texas. Salem has raised the salaries of The committee having iu charge --------- — -------------- its school teachers. the Fourth ot July celebration, met Mrs. McKinley Buried on Tuesday night and selected all Cauton Ohio, May 29 With Bert Knox, a ten-year old hoy tue officers lor the occasion except- sjmpje antj — ,— ----- impressive ceremonies near Condon has not been absent mg the Reader and Orator who tLe body of the late widow ot Pres- from school or tardy once in three will be chosen at n meeting of the ident Wi,H»m McKinley was lain at yeats. That boy is likely to amount committees next Tuesday rest in the family vault in this city’ i to something: Everything ,s progressing nicely tLls tnorniuB. No Hermon was The Wholesale Liu »or Dealerr’ The committees are hard at work , , R 1 , () , 1 . noiesaie Liquor ueaiere and the celebration nromises to be Preay ' oa’ ,v . , 11x1011 ton- | association of Astoria has gone on one of the most successful ever held duol,nK a •s *i ° 11 ntualistic service I record in unequivocal terms osop - m thU c i v 8UCCe8Hfl11 ever held and pronouncing .he benediction ; po8e, t0 , he presence o f dance halls 11 luis ry. before the casket was passed into ¡„ that citv Following is the list of officers ! tj)e tQmb | iu iu»i m y . appointed and the ladies committee w h ite and red carnations were A Tillamook man • was attacked appointed to arrange the Liberty |1)e prin,,jpal decorations placed by.a vicious mill in his barn, aud Car, and select the ‘ " Goddess .............. of I.ib " upon the casket at the family home before he could get away from the erty : When the late president's favorite I inf," ialed «"'mftl he had four libs President— Dr. D. L. Woods. hymn, “ Lea-1 K in dly,” had been ''.ok. n, his bead badly cut and was Chaplain— Rev. J. L. Beatty. sung o v c the body ot bis widow, luaH'let* UP 'P'lte a bit. Marshal— Ed. Tullar. the funeral procession was tormed A I,tnn county farmer had au Vice-Presidents— Geo. W. Me- the relatives following the casket, auction, 134 articles being sold aud Reynolds, Divide; Mites Miles ritener, Pitcher, after lhe(u r;dlUK p reM(|ent ROOSe- 500 people being present. The Keynoias, Though Starr; Scott , ac son, I,orane, e'> | velt, Vice-President Fairbanks, Sec- ! six months' credit was offered, cash Geer, London; U din Walker, retary Root and Private Secretary was paid for every article, ti not a 1 1 o IL-or C t o t u x n ■ A 1 1 At i It l r l r Ilo . . _ Walker Station; Allen Kirk Do -1 I ]<ofil( Imnjediatel |„||()Wn,g 111 . note 1 being given, showing how the rena; J D. 1 aimer, Moshy Creek; national officers were the secret ser farm, r has money under the new Castle, Sagana, J. F. Hunt, j yj^e guards. system of doing business, with Wildwood. Soldiers who stood guard over dairying and poultry around. Ladies Committee— Mrs. Dr. Job, the tomb were among the saddest Albany is to have a condensed Mrs. J. T. DeSpain, Mrs. W . F. mourners, for each man had been a Hart, Mrs. F. D. Wheeler, Mrs. F. great favorite with Mrs. McKinley. milk factory providing her citizens will give a bonus of $ 10 , 000 . B. Phillips, Mrs. L. H. Roseberg, Mrs. C. H. Vandenberg, Mrs. J. C. Forestry Commission The school hoard o f Portland will Johnson, Mrs. Dr. Kime and Mrs Salem, Or., May 29. In accord save the district $¡ 10,000 next year Herbert Eakin. ance with the provisions of tit • act * ''Y buying slab wood for the city The name of Thomas Jenkins of the last legislature, Governor schools. was added to the Sport Committee. Chamberlain this morning announc The senior class of the O. A. C. ed his appointees to compose the j this >ear ¡ h the largest in the his Oregon Forestry commission, with tory. Graduates Irotn all depart himself and the liieotor of forestry ment numbering 6 6 . of the Agricultural collego, who \V B. Scott, formerly a merchant Progressive Oregonians W ill Gather designated as members iu the act and postmaster at Jaspar, this as follows: in Convention at Portland. county has bought the general mer Upou the recommendation of the chandise store of C. E. Drake at Lumber Manufacture!« Vssocudiotl The Oregon Development League Leuburg. of Oregon, Leonidas S. Hill, of convention is to be held in Port Congressman Hawley will deliver Eugene; upon recommendation ol land June 21-22. There will be a the Oregon Forestry Associtiion, the Fourth of July oration at Cor meeting of the presidents and sec E. P. Sheldon of Portland and upon vallis. retaries of the seventy commercial recommendation of the ./United Albany Herald:— Confirming the an I industrial Irodies composing the States Superintendonl >f Forestry announcement first made in the League the evening of the 20. The ol Oregon at Portland. Herald some two weeks ago that railroads have united on a one fare Governor Chamberlain lias fixed tile Curtiss Lumber company in- rate for the round trip from Pen June 5, in bis office at Salem, as tended to put a .-.team schooner be dleton and all points east, and from lli« " , .late Roseburg aud all points south. " « c for 1 organization „ the commission to meet j tween Yaquina bay and San Fran- - , , and|'“ and ' effect iHco to transport the lumber output a rate of one aurt one third tares “ _______ from near by points. Get exact The New Brick Mach me m Operation of tii« Mill Ciiy mills to the south ern port, the steamer Leggett ar particulars from your local agent. rived in Yaquina Bay Wednesday A visit to the tie'v brick vaid ol Portland to show her appreciation of the Oregon Development League Mr. Gleason’ s yesterday morning evening and is now tied up at the has organized the Portland Rose found the new machinery in lull up- wharf at Yaquina preparatory to Show and Fiesta during the session eration. Mr. Glees 11 has quite a j loading lumber. Tbe Curtis, cotnpan, are ,dleady of the Convention, aud it promises sum ...vested in the plant but feels ln , , , irl(„„is to the c a s t to be one of the best attractions yet reasonably assure«! that the demand , for tax bis 1 present and . expect „ , to , . , given in the State. . the brick wi have the steamer abilities to the utmost. 1 1 « grim , ... .. , , . , “‘ loaded m about two weeks at the At a recent meeting of the Marsh er is the celebrated (Jinkcr City field Chamber of Commerce, ad machine made iu .Wellington, Ohio, least. The Leggett lias a capacity dressed by Governor Chamberlain and is one of. the. standard makes, of 1,500,000 leet of lumber and is on« ol I be largest lumber carriers and Tom Richardson, $6,000 wa« and will turn out from J .i.oo > to engaged in the coastwise trade. A c raised for advertising purposes, and 000 brick a day .when they g«t cording to report tbe Curtiss com Marshfield will he heard from everything to run smooth At North Bend has a great Commer present he is employing live rm n, pany intends to add another lum cial Club, and among Hie members but expects to have to double that ber carrier to the Yaquina run if the present facilities are found in- of that Club, $300 was raised in number in .a short-time The first 300 seconds to present u set of kiln of about 2 oo,ooo it all gov- adequate in handling the output ol North Bend furniture made from well will be ready to burn about. the mills which have recently been Oregon timber, to Governor Cham July 1, and from tben on during enlarged to a capacity of 125 ,000 berlain, and none of the subscribers the season he will burn about the feet per day. were allowed to pay more than $5. same number every month.— Nlig Subscribe fur the Leader. The Portland country Club and gett. Live Stock Association was organ ized at the Commercial Club Thurs- j day and among its incorporators are many ol the leading financiers and business men o f the metropolis The purpose is to give a great an j nual live stock show which will have for its object the thorough and complete development of the live stock industry ot Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Capital ! stock $150,000. Next Saturday, June 1, the tour j ist rates from all points in the Unit ed States to all points in Oregon j will be in effect. Tickets will be on , sale for a little more Ilian one fare for the round trip. Inform your self through your local agent ami write to your friends and insist on their coming to visit you and see the advantages your community presents. MAKI: A GREATER OREGON ! Hinds will sell you any kind ol a ranch trom 10 to 2000 acres. Call and see his list, tf P E A R C E BROS. IkawtUMiuJUiutuiuiuuuutiiiaiuuuuiuiUiUiuiUMMF
