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Cottage Grove Leader. SUPPLEMENT. VOL. XIX. COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, APRIL 3, 1908. Saginaw Items. G. N. Castle made a trip to Drain one day last week. Henry Myers has been putting in grain on Mr. Harris place. E. C. Conner has been giving Mr. Mattock a boost with his spring farm work. Our school closed Friday for this year. It is too bad we cannot afford more than six months school. Leston Lewis and wife o f Eu gene spent several days here last week visiting with Mrs. Lewis’ brother, S. A . LaRaut. Bert Bryan is again a resident of Saginaw after about three years stay in California. Bert says there is no place like Saginaw. There arrived in our little village one day recently 23 emigrants from North Carolina, there being three families, one family having bought G. N. Castle’s farm. Henry Seifert is home again. He has been trapping in the moun tains this winter near the Kitson Springs. Henry tells some pretty big yarns since he came back. Silk Creek Items. Mr. W ill McCoy was on the sick list the first of the week. Mr. Phillip Casebeer left for his home the first of the week. Mr. Alfred Wheeler is having quite a time with a sore hand. Mr. S. F. Wheeler visited with W . N. Wheeler and family Sun day. Miss Ruth Miller visited her parents at Divide over Saturday and Sunday. HUME'S LIBERAL INDUCEMENT TO BOOST CURRY COUNTY Hon. R. D. Hume, one of the wealthiest citizens o f Curry County and known also as the ” King of Rogue river,” publishes in the Radium a verv liberal offer to the citizens of the United States having no lands or homes o f their own and who have been thrown out o f em ployment by the recent financial stringency. Mr. Hume states that he will furnish to twenty families twenty acres of land each free of charge for five years, and for fifteen years additional upon payment o f taxes and a yearly rental of $2 00 per acre. He will also furnish a cow, a pig, and a dozen chickens to each family, to be paid for when the family shall have an income that is more than necessary for their maintenance. He will furnish pasturage for each cow for five years. The use o f saw mill and standing timber, the mill to be operated by those who accept this proposition, to manafacture lumber from which to build their homes. Also he will buy any cord- wood manufactured In clearing the land mentioned. Mr. Hnme has amassed a fortune for himself and now evidently intends to use a porton o f it in helping those who, on account of untoward cir cumstances or some other cause, have not succeeded in accumu lating enough worldly goods to make themselves or their children comfortable. Lynx Hollow Items. Mrs. Crow of Lorane has been Mr. M. F. Babcock o f Silk visiting her father Mr. Stephen Creek was a caller at the Dresser Harris lately. home Tuesday afternoon and even Prof. L. G. Paap and Clyde ing. Babcock made a trip to Cottage Mrs. Gertie Smith came up from Grove Wednesday afternoon. Eugene Monday to visit her sister Miss Jennie Collins has been Mrs. Sheridan who is still on the helping to care for her grand sick list. mother, Mrs. John Damewood. Mr. Henry and Laurence Fisher M. F. Babcock went to Lynx were in iagin aw Thursday after Hollow Tuesday for a visit with noon visiting their friends the Mr. I. N. Dresser and his family. | Angel boys. Mrs. John Damewood has been The children of our school here quite sick with “ grip” for several have been utilizing there play time days, is a little better at this writ- j by planting flowers and otherwise ing. improving the play grounds. Mrs. Crow o f Lorane and Mrs. Sunday school was reorganized Tompkins of Glenwood Heights Sunday with every prospect o f a took dinner with Mrs. Burcham good attendance and lively interest. Sunday. Mr. S. B. Jackson will act as La grippe has been visiting superintendent. many of the homes in our little Mr. W m. McCord, who is in valley lately. People do not seem the employ of the Portland cream to make it very welcome but do all company was in the ''H o llo w ” they can to get rid of the .visitor Monday interviewing our dairy as quickly as possible. men. NO. 51 Women Working lor Their Town. The following from the St: Clair County, Missouri, Republican, is deemed good enough for reproduc tion in the Leader: The women’s club of Boonville is working for the town beautiful and is having these resolutions printed in the papers and read in the schools: “ For the honor and glory o f Boonville. Let us not kill or injure any bird or destroy any bird’s nest or the young. Let us not throw or sweep into the street, alleys or parks, any paper, fruit skin or rubbish of any kind; or throw any o f these things upon the floor of any school or other public buildings. Let us not spit upon the sidewalks, street crossing or upon the floor of the school or any other public building. Let us not cut or mark in any way, fences, poles, sidewalks or build ings of any kind. Let us always / keep our backyards clean and beautiful as we keep our front lawns. Let us at all times respect the property of others as we would our own. Thus shall we become good and useful citizens, making our city beautiful and worthy of our love and devotion.” THE WORLD D0 M0VE— TIME MANY CHANGES BRING A subscriber sends in a sale bill taken from the Marine Telegraph (a newspaper) o f Wellsville, Mo., printed in 1850. It gives an idea o f the great change which has taken place in the past fifty-eight years. The sale bill is printed herewith. Public Sale— State of Missouri, County of Pike. T o whom it may concern: The undersigned will sell on Tuesday, September 29th, A . D. 1849, at public out cry for cash on premises, where Coon Creek crosses the old Mis sion road, the following chattels, to wit: 6 yoke of oxen with yokes and chains, wagons with beds, 3 nigger wenches, 4 buck niggers, 3 nigger boys, 2 prairie plows, 23 steel traps, 1 barrel • pickled cabbage, 1 hogshead to bacco, 1 lot nigger hoes, 1 spin ning wheel, 1 loom, fox hounds, lot o f coon, mink and skunk skins and a lot o f other articles. Am gwine to California. R. Jones, Cryer. John Smith. Free headcheese, apples and hard cider on the ground. Best Cold and Grip Remedy. Give Cole’s Consumption Cure a trial. It cures when all others fail. It will positively cure lung trouble in the first stages. For sale at leading drug stores o f the country or o f the manufacturer, Geo. E. Cole, Myrtle Creek, Or. On sale at the New Era drug store. 49.4t* Mr. Mackie has been so unfor A large shipment o f choice Those home made marshmellows candies and nuts just received at tunate as to lose one o f his horses. the W ave. At the familiar stand Coming as it does with the spring are immense, as is all of the can work it is quite a loss to him. dies at the “ K ozy Korner.” the Wave.
