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TEN DAYS ONLY G R E A T SLAUGHTER SALE. TEN D AYS O N LY FOR 10 D A Y S A T A C T U A L C O S T — N O T H IN G RESERVED. W e must raise money and to do it we will sell our high class merchandise for 10 days A T C O ST . Our Sale begins Saturday. |une 20. Men’s and Boys’ Clothing, Ladies’, Men’s and Children’s Shoes, Hosiery, Underwear, Skirts and W a is ts all A T COST. All our goods are of standard m akes of lines that h a v ea national reputation. It costs you nothing to investigate WHEELER-THOMPSON CO. C A L L A N D BE C O N V IN C E D OREGON'S ELECTIONS COME HIGH. COTTAGE GROVE LEADER CALL A N D BE C O N V IN C E D Professional Cards. Some o f the eastern railroads I threaten to appeal the lumber rate | fUHI.ISHKP KYKKY KKIDAY BY When the people o f the state fig case to the supreme court. The THK I.KAKKK PUBI.ISHINI1 CO (III.-.) i f \JT A K IO N VKATOI1 Í ure up election expenses for April Southern Pacific railroad is not A IV I filone 66 Ite», filon e Malli Ilf, V editors and June they may couclud that Cn.NNKK A Ur Bui ll.l.E, . FUNERAL DIRECTOR anil LICENSED f named in the list o f roads propos (Continued from page on e.) * EMBALMER t the initiative and referendum ing to contest the late decision of IN THE LINE OF f fai tors at Veateh a Lawsou'a. Ì KnierM »I the Cottage llrore postnlBre a» ««• should only lie used iu extremely the Interstate Commerce Commis directly interested iu the decisions ond-clAM matter. by the Commission, but business important cases. It has cost Lane sion. - « - ' A ♦A 4 conditions generally throughout county $10,(XX> for the two elec S IIK S C ItllT lO N HATES * K. YOUNG the state are certain eventually to One Y e a r ............................................ I ’ M tions. Here iu Eugene it required Portland profits greatly by the * Six Months • Three Months - - -50 32 hours to complete the returns in “ wet” mail order business, thous feel the effects iu the way o f a re * ATTORNEY AT L A W It paid iu advance uut It not so |>ahl a There prevails a J uniform rate ot ti.oo per year will he rliarned. each o f the four precincts, at a cost ands of dollars are teing poured vived industry. Office: Young Building, Mum Street, 4 Atlverttslnic rates made known on application £ West Side. J of $72 for each precinct for judges into that city daily through this general feeling among business in AT source. Is it any wonder Portland terests that the railroads and the and clerks alone. These are mat FRIDAY, JI NK 26, 1908 calls herself an exception to the w+snf+'n.'+!K < ters that should vitally concern the “ dry” rule and that the Oregonian lumbermen, having taken their | A W. KIMK. M .t, | case to the forum provided by law taxpayers. Time will demonstrate is opposed to prohibition? EQUAL TO EMERGENCIES. P H Y S I C I A N an il H IIU .K O N for the arbitration of such disputes, 9 that the new system of state gov Office In McFarlaud Building ^ Everything new and uo-to-date. Best brands and grades ot ernment is going to be decidedly The Brownsville Times has en will submit to the findings o f that 9 Over Cochran’s Furniture Store The hearty support ami unani £ Office Plione, 341 Residence Phone, 531 Fresh Groceries. Country Produce bought and sold. Call and body and will join hands towards tered upon its twentieth volume. It expensive unless i '■ve what a dollar will buy at W . C. J O H N S O N ’5 . mous approval by the citizens of is one of the best country weeklies re-establishing an important in Eugene Register. 4 -O '. 4 Cottage Grove in mass meeting a s -. coming to our exchange table. dustry that has teen throttled and A. FOSTER, I». C. sembletl Wednesday evening, o f! has suffered incalcuable injury Just now the platform adopted y Spinal and Vibrating the proposition to call a special The voice o f the people is fre through the disastrous effects of a é Treatments. 4 municipal election for the purpose by the republicans in their Chicago quently the voice of the boss and prolonged legal battle over the £ office Hours, 1030 a. m. 2 to 5 p. in. -J 7 to 9 by appointment, offiec over Oar 7. of voting to amend the city charter convention, is the subject for much sometimes speaks with a strong C* man, Hemenway Co. • question o f rates. to enable the city council to make (discussion. The platform is of foreign accent. The original effect of the arbi an annual tax levy adequate to little imixirtauce. The history of trary action of the railroads was A woman mav not be able to pay off the city’s interest l>eariiig parties and the attitude of parties ? J S . MEDLEY, I win a battle iu war, but some absolutely to close down many of ’ ATTORN EY AT LAW indebtedness and to provide rev in relation to current affairs, as woman has spanked the man who the mills throughout the interior of 4 Special Attention (liven to Minin» and 4 incus, Princess, Silks, Voiles, Sicilians, Suitings, enue to meet the city’s annual e x conceived iu the general mind, is does so. the state and particularly through Corporation Law. penses, was most gratifying and an the actual platform, no matter O f f i c e , S u i t e 3, B a n k B v ii ld in j t A out the Willamette valley. Many Î ■* Kiinona Cloths, Waisting Silks, and a very full v.-rrw.'*) v. m > irrefutable demonstration of the what the convention may say or According to the Oregonian, of the mill men could not take the declare. It must be said that the prohibition is a good thing for all line ol Summer Lawns, India Linons, Dimities, loyalty to home interests, public risk o f continuing their shipments spirit and business sense of the cit outcome of the contention over the o f the Oregon counties— except into the Missouri river territory ? T C . JOHNSON, Ì Swiss Mercerized anti Plain Ginghams. New Lac Multnomah. izeus of Cottage Grove. Since the injunction or court procedure plank ATTORN EY AT LAW and depend on winning out in es and Embroideries. saloons were put out o f busi is disproportionate to the trouble Instates Administered, Minin» Patents their fight against the advanced Procured. Minin» ami Corporation Law These goods bought right? Yes, for cash from ness two years ago and the license taken in pressing it upon the con a specialty. office over Griffin, Veatcli rates. Consequently, they closed Hardware. revenue to the city thereby cut off, vention. ( )ther additions or omis the largest dry goods house in the world. down their mills and withdrew Office Phone, Main 113. Residence, S5. there has been an auuual deficit in sions would cut little figure with temporarily their trade relations Mr. Taft should he be elected, as the city’s current expenses. No Charles Gates Joined the Sunset Mag with that district. The result has provision to meet this deficit and his principles and policies have Architect. teen that the manufacturers of azine Party at Portland Last the city’s interest beariug indebt teen pretty well established and white and yellow pine lumber in Free Thomas. Eugene, Ore., Sketches Wednesday. edness had teen made prior to this defined and would be put into exe and plans drawn, blue prints and spec the southern states and Minnesota cution as far as possible whether ifications. General supervision over week and the matter was therefore rushed their product into the terri buildings in course of construction. If Charles Gates, a member of the assuming a serious aspect, when they are included in the “ plat thinking of building, large or small, tory from which the Oregon pro form” or not. How many of Pres high school class which graduated see me. Terms reasonable. Room 7, the city council and the business ducers were shut out. During the Chrisman block. 51 -2m* ident Roosevelt’s reform measures recently, was proffered and accept men of the city decided to co-oper six months that the rate fight has and principles were embodied in ed a position recently with the Sun H. C. M A D S E N , ate in a plan to meet this emergen teen on the manufacturers of pine the “ platform” adopted at the set Magazine party, which is tour cy and there was but one way to lumber have intrenched themselves W atchm aker . time o f his nomination four years ing the Northwest in the interests do it— vote an adequate annual Repairing at reasonable cnarges. iu the territory that rightfully be All work guaranteed tlrst-ciass. tax. Every fair minded citizen of ago? It made little difference to o f that splendid magazine. Mr. longs to Oregon and it will be Watches, Clocks and Jewelry at Lowest Price him what the platiorm contained. Gates joined the party at Portland FARM MACHINERY the town after a little figuring dis SAW MILL SUPPLIES some time tefore the mamufacturera COTTAGE GROVE, ORE. covered to his surprise that all re He had a mission to fulfill, Wednesday, which is- traveling iu o f lumber in this state will suc STEAM AND GASOLINE ENGINES. quired to accomplish this result principles to sustain and reforms a special car and after covering ceed in restoring their trade in that to inaugurate and he proceeded to Washington state the party will go PACKING. HOSE AND BELTING would be a tax only a few mills in district to a normal basis. carry out fearlessly the provisions as far east as Chicago, thence Horseshoeing a specialty. excess of what he had formally The immediate effect o f the Wagon and carriage re- o f his own and the peoples plat south to New Orleans and to Ing. All work guaranteed been paying, owing to the fact that findings o f the Commission, how Have your horsesteeth ex form of principles, whether they Texas and old Mexico, returning amined Mid repaired. Shoe the county levy is being constantly ever, will be the steadying o f the at rear o f Hemenway & were in accord with the principles home in about three months via Burkholder’s Store :: :: reduced, the result of the county market in this state and the resto T . IHC . B A K E j S being free of indebtedness, and the and planks of the party platform Los Angeles and San F'rancisco. ration o f confidence among lum or not. Platforms are made to Oti this trip the Cottage Grove new county high school plan also ber manufacturers. The m ove catch votes not to stand on. boy will traverse nearly one-half reducing the levy for school pur F R U IT T R E E S ment of timber lauds, which has o f the United States and much of Wholesale and Retail pose several mills. Therefore there been stagnant ever since the con Grown Right Here in Cottage old Mexico, and will come home is manifested a disposition on the C. C. Case, who has terminated troversy began, will be resumed. Grove. with a broader knowledge o f the part of tax payers o f the town to a sentence in the county jail on It is confidently expected that the I will be prepared to supply country and a store o f valuable go down into their pockets and charge o f illegally selling liquors planters with all kinds of fruit decision in the Willamette valley information. His principal duty trees ami other nursery stork-; meet the city’s expenses and pro in Cottage Grove, resents the ref case will result in the immediate the coming (all My priors will will be that o f canvassing for the vide for its upbuilding. When they erence to his jail life, which ap ho right and my trees clean and resumption of «iterations in the Sunset Magazine and securing ad healthy, and by patronizing a voted out the saloons and at the peared in the Leader last week, it mills throughout Western Oregon. home Industry you will help to vertising for it. He was fortunate same time voted away the saloon teing the statement o f a Cottage build up n nursery that has long The advance o f 30 cents a ton, BRASS GOODS AND TINWARE in securing the position which was lieen needed here, and keep the revenue they done so with the Grove citizen who had been in at amounting to 1% cents a 100 STOVES AND RANGES money at home. solicited for him by the Leader knowledge that a small increased tendance at Circuit court last week With .'HI years experience with pounds on lumber shipments, will management. fruit trees nnd terries in this ell. taxation would be required to meet and the story was related just as MITCHELL WAGONS WINDMILLS. PUMPS not be sufficient materially to af mate, I can save the intending this loss to the city’s revenue and | Mr. Case related it to the Cottage planter much time and trouble In fect the trade and the lumbermen selecting the test varieties, as the voters have now demonstrated Grove mail, which was considered will not allow themselves to be well as money on first cost of trees. that they prefer a few mills in only a bit of humor on Mr. Case’s shut out of the business b y that Decide early what you want to creased taxatiou to the saloons. ! part and was not understood to be slight handicap. plant, and write or phone to me ----------- - j Our citizens have come forward a criticism of Sheriff Fisk and the for price and other Information. I-ouis Taussig and Company Co. E. Attention. in this emergency just as they did story was only accepted and pub S. B. M O R .S S , 3134-31)S6 Sixteenth Street, when the call was made by Mayor lished as one of Mr. Case's latest San Francisco, Cal., June 19, ’OH. Phono Cott&ge Grove, Cottage Grove, Or., June 25, 1908. 471 Oregon, Job during his former administra jokes, esjiecially that part relating Mr. Frank Eby, General Order No. 2. tion, when funds were needed with to naming a successor to Sheriff 1. All members o f Co. “ E ” Cottage Grove, Oregon. A ll Kinds of which to aid the earthquake strick Fisk, it being generally known Hear Sir:— Just a line to say to will assemble at the com pany en citizens o f San Francisco. At that Harry Bown, sheriff-elect, was you that I never had faith iu armory on the m orning o f July 4th at the hour o f V o ’clock for And ell Kinds of that time Cottage Grove came for to succeed Sheriff Fisk July 1. welded springs, but it is quite evi the purpose of taking part in the ward with nearly $1200 iu cash Mr. Case's remark that he had dent that until I met you I had parade and ceremonies in in; nory and in supplies, and when the co l selected quarters iu the county jail not met a real mechanic. It is and honor o f our National tide- lections were all made an $86.38 for those of his Cottage Grove due to you, and a pleasure for me pendence. 2. The parade will be iu dress Leave orders at Cunningham's Con surplus was found which was friends who might persist iu vio to advise you that the springs you fectionery Phone 73 or phone turned over by Mayor Job to the lating the local option law was welded have stood some horrible uniform with arms . residence 406 8. All members o f the com San Francisco school construction considered as timely warning tests between Comstock, Oregon, pany desiring to take part in the fund and is a matter of public more than a joke, but was accept and Seattle, Washington, and I rifle contest o f that day will make record. Thus it will be seen that ed iu the spirit of both. A s far as feel quite certain they will serve application to Lt. Petrie. By or C H A S . M A T T H E W S . Proprietor. Cottage Grove citizens have more the Leader advocating the "cruel my purpose for some time to come. der o f Capt. J. C . J o h n s o n , than once proven themselved equal and inhuman treatment o f prison Commanding th e Company. If autos tackle Douglas county, to arising emergencies, even though ers,” or insinuating that Sheriff Oregon, there will be broken L. P. B k n n k tt , 1st Sergt. it touches the pocket book. A F’isk should accord his prisoners springs. If there are broken town backed up with such a citizen Church Announcement. ship can but build up, prosper and inhuman treatment, there is noth springs, Frank Eby o f Cottage ing to it. It's a pipe dream! become a city of importance. Grove is the mechanic who can Communion at the Presbyterian COTTAGE GltOVK weld them. Yours very truly, church next Sabbath at 11 a. m. The Standard High Grade Fence o f the IIu o o A. T au ssig . Reception of members and bap World. There is over 400 miles o f this tism of children will be admin famous wire fence in Douglas county, Oregon. All the latest treatments. istered. This is High Carbon Spring Wire which will This is the Fund that protects our depositors Rev. II. N. Mount o f Eugene keep its shape when properly stretched. Will Electrical from loss, coupled with years of successful will preach the preparation sermon carry a full stock of wire at all times. PLAIN and M E D ICA TE ) BATHS | business experience. This Bank has a on FTiday evening at 8 o ’ clock . The first order for a car load of Inquire of The pastor and elders will meet Capital of - $25,000.00 X -R A Y LABORATORY } lumber since the report o f the In DAVID GRIGGS, or STEARNS & CHEN0WITH. Agents after the Friday night Service and Surplus Fund of - 5,000.00 terstate Commerce Commission Cottage Grove, Ore. Oakland, Ore. tefore the Sabbath m orning meet Undivided Profit of 10.000.00 F or further particulars address was made public was received by ing to examine candidates for Stockholders Liability of 25,000.00 ? D r . II. C. S U H L KEF. the McKibben Brother's mill early memtershio. A Total of $65,000.00 this week from California and was H en ry l . N a v e , Pastor. This means that we must lose $65.000 00 tefore our filled promptly. A number o f or Edison, Colombia depo depositors could lose one cent. This protection is for The finest line in cut gEss and ders for lumber from California Victor Work ha* contmencvd on River YOU. When you think BANK think o f the clocks ever shown in Cottage points are said to tie coming iti to street which will t e graded and GRAPH0PH0NES I .rove at Madsens. 11 -At local mill men already. This will graveled front the rivwr bridge to Records l let the Kozv Koruer prices for help some and will soon put the the corner of | |\ Curriu s rest o f c o t t a g i : g r o v e , o r k o o x ice cream by the gallon delivered Notions, Novelties mills into operation again. I deuce property. anywhere in town. WILL REVIVE BIG MILL INDUSTRY E iactlj H a t Ton Want Family Groceries, New Dry Goods Fine Laces and Embroideries Ladies' and Gents Shoes J. JOHNSON’S STORE 5 H. OUR SPRING AND SUMMER DRESS GOODS HAVE ARRIVED i Î 1 j J. LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL BOY OFF ON A BIG TOUR Goods w ill be Priced Right from the First so we w ill not h ave to Cut the Price in the Middle to sell them afterw ards C. H. BURKHOLDER.. General Blacksm¡thing Wynne Hardware Company Hardware and Machinery HIGH COMPLIMENT TO BLACKSMITH EBY COTTAGE GROVE DRAYINQ HAULING FLOUR MILLS Mill Feed G rain and Hay Kaolins Done Promptly at Reasonable Charge W . A. H0GATE SE C U R IT Y TH E PAGE WOVEN W IR E FENCE. ORDERS FOR LUMBER ARE NOW COMING IN -----------------1 -----I -------------- FIRST NHTI0NÄL BHNK li j
