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Consolidated January 9. 1908
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRID AY, JAN U AR Y 24, 1908
story brick building on East Ninth
street was beguu this week and
at the same time the work of de­
livering material for the construc­
tion o f Mrs. Pattersoa’e one story
brick across the street was begun.
Ntw cottages and palatial homes
are springing up in various parts o f
the city and nearly every lot along
the new car line beyond the Masonic
Paved Streets, Trolly Line, cemetery has been purchased.
Ties were being delivered and
Divinity School.
surveyors were at work on the ex­
tension of the electric car line from
Eugene to Springfield. A Welch,
MANY NEW HOMES BUILDING general manager of the Portland,
Eugene and Eastern railway was in
the city looking alter the affaire of
the
company and said be had noth­
An Air ot Progress. Prosperity and
ing
more to say oilier than that the
Enterprise in Evidence on
company expected to get started to
Every Hand.
building on their line by the firet of
the month. The building will be
continued right on to Springfield
A representative of the Leader and will not stop at the railroad
visited Eugene this week, the first crossing, Mr. Welch went on to
time in more than » veir, and was say:
surprised to note (tie great improve­
" I have not seen Mr. Roney
ments and advancement being made about the building of the bridge at
in the “ Queen City” of the Upper Springfield. I understand he is
Willamette. Tw o of the finest im­ sick, but lie is under contract to
provements and greatest evidences have our bridge built by a certain
o f enterprise on the part of the time uext summer and he is repre­
citizens of the county seat town, is sented to me as a contractor who
the pavement on Willamette street usually gets his work done on con­
and the new electric street ear lines. tract time. We expect to get our
It was stated that many who first line built to the bridge by the time
opposed the pavement of Eugene's that structure is completed so that
main street are now active advocates we will not be delayed in miming
of like improvements, after noting i over traius to the city of mills. In
the many advantages derived from the iiiedutime we hope to be build­
such permaqent improvements and ing our line up the McKenzie and
the jump that they invariably make get the work started on'tbe power
in property values.
plant on the McKenzie and get the
The new street car line seemed! Power as soon as we can.” ..
“ We are distributing ties at A l­
to he doing a good business and the
writer enjoyed a ride with C onduct-! bany and Salem and expect to do
or L. R. Baker, formerly of Cot­ much work at these places this
tage Grove, out to the end of the summer. The connecting linea be­
line iu the vicinity o f Hendrick's tween Eugene and on to Salem will
park, » distance of nearly two and be taken up as soon as we can get
one half miles from the depot. to it.”
This ride takes one through a beau­
tiful residence district, modern COTTAGE GROVE B LU ES
homes and nicely kept lawns being
DEFEAT JUNCTION CITY
in evidence on every hand. The
site of the new Divinity school, the
That was a lively, but decidedly
foundation and stone walls for one-sided game oi basket ball
which are well under way, is also played at the armory Saturday even­
passed on this line. At the south­ ing between the Junction City high
east corner of the state university school team and the Cottage Grove
campus the .electric line forks, one Blues, the visitiug team being en­
branch continuing east through tirely outclassed. At the close ot
Fairmount, the other extending the game the score stood 22 to 4 in
south by the Masonic cemetery and favor ot the home team, the visitors
out to Hendrick’s park. From the making practically all their poiote
cemetery hill a grand view of Ku. on fouls while the borne team made
gene is nfforded as well as of the most o f its points from the field.
new hospital, which is now being
The visiting team was made up
furnished and will be ready for pa­ of a very gentlemanly company o f
tients within a. few days. A good boys as follows: Ralph, Leon and
road is being built from the foot of Burt Jackson, Willie Perman aud
Vern W hiting. The members of
the hill to the building so there will
the home team were Elmer Hast­
be no trouble reaching the hospital ings, Fay Allison, Ernest Lincoln,
with teams.
Robt. Sherwood, Allen Baker aud
Excavation for the Huliu two- Chester Baker.
IN QUEEN CITY
WHEELER THOMPSON CO.
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H A V E IT FO R L E S S
OUR FIRST ADVICE FOR THE YEAR 1908:
BUY YOUR SUIT OF US
and get honest value in style
and quality.
BUY YOUR SHOES OF US
for the same reason.
BUY YOUR H AT OF US
and get the same value in
quality, style and service, for
less money than you can do
elsewhere.
If you follow this advice you will have money
to burn.
WHEELER THOMPSON CO.
ADVANCEMENT PORTER TALKS
High
School
Privileges Substantially
for Country Pupils.
COURT
TO
PAY
Refutes
Charges Against Him.
THE LEADER.
That is W hat Brings
Business and gives
a Paper Elfe.
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VOL. XIX.
1906; that on the evening of April
I 2d, 190C, the common council met
, ami canvassed the vote for city ot-
j ficers, that J. C. Porter was de-
| dared elected councilman in the
first ward of said city and that on
Haid evening he was duly sworn by
R. M. Yeatcb, mayor of said ciiy
and duly signed and subscribed to
the oath of office before said City
Recorder on said evening.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 23d dsy of January, 1908.
F in g a l H inds ,
Notary Public.
NO. 41
NEWSPAPER
MEN ORGANIZE
The Lane County Press
J. E. Y o u n g .
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AUXILIARY TO STATE PRESS
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Only One Mill Levy Required tor This Brands Charges of a Local Paper
Purpose.
f*lan to be Submitted
a ‘‘Pipe Dream."
Conclusive.
to Voters.
There has been some discussion
in the newspapers during the last
few months in regard to the estab­
lishment of a county high school.
The subject was brought up at a
special meeting ot the voters of
district No. 4 at Eugene, and a
committee was appointed to investi­
gate the matter and take such
action as they thought best. After
carefully considering all phases of
the question, they have decided.to
report adversely to the establish­
ment of a county high school aud
also to the erection of a county
high school building. However,
the law provides that the county
court may pay the tuition o f all
high school pupils in any school in
the county and it is thought by the
committee that such a plan would
be the most just plan for provid­
ing high school priyileges for all
pupils in the county, that can be
secured under the law.
The matter can be brought to a
vote at the coming electiou by a
petition signed by one hundred
legal votere and if the majority of
the votes cast at the June election
are in favor of it then the court
must pay the tuition of all pupils
that attend high schools in the
county. By this plan any student
in the county can attend high
schools in any district in the coun­
ty that maintains or hereafter may
maintain, a high school, and the
tuition^will be paid by the county.
Districts will provide a building,
equipment, teachers, etc., for their
high schools and it is estimated tnat
a one mill levy upon the valuation
of the county will bring sufficient
revenue to pay the tuition of all
Btudents attending high schools
throughout the county.
A s the general levy for school
purposes is increased, the less will
be the amount required from special
levys and a good deal more money
can be raised by one mill general
levy than could be raised if every
district in the county would make a
special levy of one mill as there is
in Lane county about one million
dollars worth o f property that in
not in any school district and cau
not be reached by special levies
The problem of collecting tuition
from outside pupils is a very
troublesome one, but by this plan
all difficulties o f tuition will be
overcome and the desire of parents
to have their children enumerated
where they do not reside, so us to
escape paying tuition will be elimi­
nated.
The valuation of the property of
the Cottage Grove school district is
$583,175 and a conservative esti­
mate of the cost of maintaining a
high school in this district for next
year would be $1,800. This requires
a three mill levy while under the
proposed plan a one mill levy would
be sufficient; thus saving this dis­
trict a two mill levy or nearly $ 1 ,-
200. The Cottage Grove school
board on Monday took this matter
up and discussed it tbo.-ongbly,
finally deciding in favor of the plan
which decision was reported to the
special committee at Eugene com
poeed of the following well known
gentlemen : E. O. Potter, Darwin
Bristow, D. E. Yoran. W. G. Gil-
strap and C. H. Fisher. If the
above mentioned plan has not been
made plain any further information
will ht gladly furnished by the
committee named.
as
B X -M A V O R S ’
Evidence
AND
C O U N C IL M B N ’ S
Elect Officers and a Legislative Com­
mittee.
A F F ID A V IT .
County Press Well
Represented.
State o f Oregou j
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County of Lane J
W e, R. M. Veatch, H. VensUe,
Geo. W. McQueen and B. R. Job
being first duly sworn, each for
himself says, that on the evening
of the election. 190(1, after the com­
mon council o f the city o f Cottage
Grove had canvassed the election
returns, aud after J. C. Porter bad
been declared elected to the office of
councilman for the first ward in
said city of Cottage Grove, said
James C. Porter, was present and
among other officers of the city was
duly sworn and took the oath of
office as councilman before R. M.
Veatch retiring Mayor of said city.
That said J. C. Porter at said meet­
ing or after the adjournment there­
of, subscribed to said oath of office
in writing and swore to the same
before J. E. Young, Recorder of
said city.
The .Leader has been taking no
There has been effected through­
pait in the controversy involving
out the country the organization of
councilman Jas. Porter, nor any of
almost every class of business as
the other numerous street agita­
well as local industries for the mut­
tions or locnl controversies common
ual benefit of the operators or man­
to all growing communities, but
agers ot these enterprises, yet the
since some of these questions have
newspaper men have continued to
become more than curb-stone gossip
plod along in the same old way,
aud have found their way into
every man for himself and every
print, we feel that it is imperative
one of them a target for all kinds
that the Leader be heard on some
of ruinous business impositipns
of these questions, at least, since
that can be devised aud fostered
most of them are discussed in such
upou an unorganized business
a decidedly one-sided manuer.
body. However, the state associa­
A locnl paper and a few of our
tion at its late meeting in Portland,
citizens seem to be taking a delight
aroused the fraternity to the neces­
in “ shying bricks,” as it were, at
sity ot local organization in the in­
Councilman Jas. Porter, and the
terests of both the press and the
manner in which he is bting held
public, and acting upon the recom­
up for public censure and ridicule,
mendation of the state organiza­
could only be justified by some seri­
tion, sew n of the eight Lane coun­
ous offense or iuexcuseable delin­
ty editors met iu the commercial
R . M. V eatch ,
quency on his part.
club rooms at Eugene Tuesday af­
B eniah R. J ob ,
Upon investigation we find one
ternoon tor the purpose o f forming
G e o . \V. M c Q uebk ,
of the most “ serious” charges pre­
a local newspaper association. The
H . V knskr .
ferred against Mr. Porter to be the
Subscribed and sworn to before meeting was iu response to call by
allegation that he refused to sub­ me this 22nd day of Jatiuary, 1908. W. G . Gilstrap, named by the State
scribe to the usual oath of office
Press association as press commit­
J. E. Y ouno , Notary Public.
when he was installed as council­
teeman for Lane.
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man from the first ward. Mr.
The meetiug was vailed to order
Porter declares this to be false, that
at 3 ;30 p. m. and after thorough
he did subscribe to the oath of of­ A KICK AGAINST LANE
discussion it was unanimously
fice in the same manner required of
agreed to organize the I.ane County
COUNTY COYOTE HUNTERS
his colleagues in the council
Press association and organization
chamber and if this oath nr affida­
Monroe, Or., Jan. 20.—There are was perfected by election of the
vit is missing from the Recorder’s
following officers:
several sore spots in this vicinity
office, as it is alleged, it is no fault
President, W- G. Gilstrap, Morn­
of his The minutes of th e' meet­ on account of the way the coyote ing Register, vice-president, D. M.
ing recordiug the proceedings of hunters of Lane county are operat­ C. Gault, Western Oregon, o f Cot­
the newly iustalled council, bear I ing.
tage Grove; secretary, L. M. Beebe,
The varmints are started in that
Mr. Porter out in his statement and
News, Springfield; treasurer, C. H.
county, chased across Houck mount­
several responsible citizens, who
Fisher, Eugene Evening Guaid.
ain into Benton county, and fre­
were present at the meeting in ques­
A legislative committee was ap­
quently the trail is lost on this side
tion, also bear Mr. Porter out in his
pointed consisting o f S. L. Moore-
of the hill, ro that the sheep killer
claim.
head, Times, Juqction; W. C. Con­
is left to ply his trade among the
We have personally attended
ner, Leader, Cottage Grove; W. H.
bands owned here. Since there
many council meetings and while
are no dogs to chase these animals, Weatberson, West, Florence.
Mr. Porter may be rnther cautious
The association then adjourned
it works a haidship on the Benton
and conservative, is no reason why
ranchers. Hence steps are being to meet at the same place on Satur­
he should be held up to ridicule
taken for a donation of a fund suf­ day, February 11, at 3 p. m „ to
and condemnation, for he invariably |
ficient to secure the destruction of complete plans for effective work
displays an honesty of purpose and !
coyoles in this part of the country. along newspaper lines.
the same jiersonal interest in city
affairs that he manifests iu his priv­
ate business transactions. He hast
demonstrated beyond question, that
he is a good citizen, an euterprising
and public spirited gentlemen and
You can do it by buying your
that within that grizzly covered old
cranium ot his, is a whole lot of j
Staple and Fancy- Groceries
good, sound horse sense.
Begin the New Year Right
and Farm Produce
MR.
p o r t e r ’ s s t a t e m e n t
where the prices are always
Editor Leader:
Since the Western Oregon has
seen fit to announce through its
columns that I have never been
qualified as an officer o f the city
of Cottage Grove, I beg to hand
you herewith several affidavits
which 1 hope you will publish in
refutation o f such a charge so that
the public can discover who is en­
titled to its confidence. Now, I
sincerely hope that this will end
the Western Oregon’s "pipe dream.”
Very truly,
J . C. P o r te r .
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right.
Stock
fresh
and
as
good as money can buy.
Lumbermen and Miners
Will find just the kind of Heavy
Serviceable Gloves, Shirts, and
*
Overalls, Suspenders, Socks
and other
Work Clothes at
our place that they have long
been looking for.
c o r d e r ’ s a f f id a v it
FINE HAND-MADE LOGGING SHOES
State of Oregon )
S3
F roni $ 4 to $ 7 .
County o f Lane )
I, J. E Young, being first duly
«worn, say that I was Recorder o|
the city of Cottage Grove, April 2d,
PEARCE BROS.
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