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C O T T A G E GR OVE. OREGON l.ocatc«! on tlic upper W illam ette River 144 mile* * m u o f Portland on Southeru Pa- citic aud nrt'Kou & South K.astern Railroad«. Population 25(10; two hank«, public and high school*, live churches, water, light uud sew er system*; creamery ; Hour mill; two brick yard*; saw mills, wood work l a » t<>i) m u. factor> ; steam laundry and the L w ^ d e r . E r o t ic k IN D U STR IES AND RESOURCES. Great forests o f liml>er tributary to Cottage * » rove tificeli saw mills; three shingle milla, within a radius miles. Head«mule for Bohemia gol iuea and Itlack Butte quicksilver mill«, alleys apd foot-hills w ell adapted to fr rowing, iarmiug and dairying. For in nation regarding this great country sul “ lor the Leader. -w W E E K L Y AND S E M I-W E E K LY C O T T A G E G R O V E , O R E G O N , F R ID A Y , S E P T E M B E R B O H E M IA NUGGETL C A D I:,, (C o . M lU . U d J.rvu.rT 9. 1908 ii , 1908 V O L . XX. N O . 22 General V iew of COTTAGE GROVE Looking South From McFarland Butte, the Site of One of the City’s Big W a te r Reservoirs. A E Valdemar Poulsen’s New Telegraphone PEER OF GRAPHOPHONE Will Record and Reproduce a Speech. Sermon or Opera Complete. Tones are Perfect. Cottage drove citizens had an opportunity to examine and listen to demonstrations produced by the wonderful new machine known as Poulsen’s Telegraphone, a great invention which is due to the un tiring labors of Valdemar Poulsen, the Edison of Copenhagen, Den mark. You talk, sing or play an instrument into this machine and the same is reproduced in perfect tones, free from the grating noise familiar to the graphophone. The sound is recorded on a small mag netized wire which passes from one spool to another and is reproduced by reversing the spools. The wire has the wonderful advantage over the graphophone record in length and indestructibility, it being very practical to record a complete political speech, a sermon, or an entire evening's theatrical perform ance, or opera, on this machine. It is also very practical for a busi ness man's office, in which the professional or business man can dictate his correspondence in a short time which will keep his stenographer busy all day in pre paring. It can also be connected with the telephone and messages made in two types, the wire spool style described above aud the steel disc type, and instead of the sound being scratched into the disc as with a phonograph record, it is magnetized, "frozen in " as it were and so there is no “ scratching" or harshness when the sound comes out again. It makes no more physical impression in the steel than a reflection does in a mirror. Since there is no indentation, no special voice-tricks must be learned to "make a record." And the steel talks back at the pressure of a button, once or forty thousand times, a minute later or a life-time later. Neither rub nor rust affects it. You can step on it or throw it out of the window and still it will talk back perfectly. It’s indestructible, but can be re moved by drawing a special pre pared magnet across it, when the same disc in ay be used over and over again and sent through the mail for 2 cents postage. The first machine mentioned cannot be purchased but can be rented at $5 per month. The latter machine sells at from $45 to $150. The machine was on display in the office of Hotel Oregon this week and its wonderful possibilities set forth by the demonstrator, H. T. O ’ Rilly, state representative, with offices at Portland. TENNESSEE STREET AFTER NEW BRIDGE ROSEBURG RIFLE TEAM REPORT OF BIG SHOOT ON EVERY HAND Carpenters, Painters and Brick Masons Busy BUILDING UP THE TOWN New Paint. New Additions. New Resi dences. Five New Bricks and Big Fruit Drier this Season. Bricklaying on the new Burk- holder-VVoods Co., building com menced the middle of the week. The Spray & Co. brick commis sion house, is now ready for the roof aud is the largest brick in the city, being 100x120 feet. I.eroy Woods, the merchant, lias had the painters getting busy about his premises, with the result that his home now looks "neat as a pin.” Jas. Plaster recently completed a wide, colonial style porch on the north and east side of his resi dence, which adds materially to its appearance. The steam laundry had its big steam boiler inclosed in a sheet iron building this week to protect it and the fireman from the fall rains which will be due in another month. Owing to the fact that property owners have encroached upon the Main street river crossing making it impossible to build a 50-foot steel bridge without extra cost ami Welcome Hubble is putting fhe trouble to the city, tile couucilmeu material on the ground for a neat, are considering the proposition of modern cottage to be built on the locatiug the new steel bridge on lot which he recently acquired the first street crossing south of back of the M. Ii. church on Main which would lie on Tennes Webber and Tennessee streets. see street. Rather than build a narrow, contracted bridge like the j 'Pile Phillips two story brick present one, the council should with concrete block front is near recorded from a distance and re adopt the Tennessee street crossing ing completion aud is one of the handsomest appearing business produced at will. The machine is for the new bridge. houses in the town. It has two store rooms on the ground floor and a spacious lodge room with anti-rooms etc-, aud three suits of office rooms on the second floor. School Will Begin Monday, Sept. 14. Wheeler-Thompson Co. will make a special reduced price on all Boys School Suits Beginning SATURDAY, SEPT. 5th to 12th. Call And See Our Line W heele r ,T hornpson Co. ___ L _ While talking about improve ments we must not overlook Cot tage Grove’s fine new three story fruit evaporator which is now com pleted and ready to commence its I first season’s run on prunes and is advertising for fruit. This is said j by fruit growers to be one of the Itesl equipped aud finest fruit driers [ in the Willamette valley. Major 1*. B. Hamlin, coach of the Oregon rifle team, and Capt. Geo. E. Houck, a member of the team, returned from Camp Perry, Ohio, Tuesday forenoon. Lieu tenant Stewart and his bride went to visit the Lieutenant’s relatives in Michigan. Sergeant Johnson also stopped off to visit his parents. Shields and Kergusou are home ward bound, coming over the Canadian route. T h e Oregon team did excellent shooting in the match, coining out thirteenth, fifty-one teams comiietiug. Among those finishing ahead of Oregon were the regular army, infantry, navy, cavalry and marine corps, aud the states of Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illi nois, Iowa and Washington, and the District of Columbia. The Roseburg boys, as was the case last year, held four of the first six places on the team, finishing as follows: Shields, first; Romaine, Portland, second; Abrams, of Salem, third: Ferguson, fourth: Stewart, fifth, and Houck, sixth. On the team shoot Abrams and Shields were paired together aud distinguished themselves by mak ing the phenomenal score of 48 and 5o, out of a possible 50, at S I X ) yards; and Shields, at the rest range. 1 ( X X ) yards, made 4 V out of a possible 50. The members of the team were also very successful in the individual events, nearly every one of them succeeding in winning one or more medals or prizes.— News. PORTO RICANS WANT COTTAGE GROVE LEADER San Juan, P. R., Aug. 24, 1908. The Leader, Cottage Grove, ( )r. « Gents:— Please send tne a copy of your valuable paper. 1 am looking for information aliout your city. 1 may be out in the spring to take a look at that coun try. Thanking you in advance, I am very respectfully, I,. C. H essi .KR. LARGEST CHERRY TREE IN THE WHOLE WORLD Probably the biggest cherry tree ill the state is a Royal Ann on the farm o f -J. H. Edwards neir liell- fountain. Its circumference meas urement at the ground or three feet above the ground, is 11 feet and 1 Inch. It has a spread of 63 feet. It has on occasions pro Contractor Dan Thomas, with a ; duced 25 measured bushels of force of men, commenced remodel- j cherries iu a season. It was ing the two story McGilvray resi planted iu 1848 by Mr. Reeves on dence on Wall street Monday, | what was then his donation laud which was recently purchased by j claim. Its producing power, as a ’ G. I.. Kees of the local merchan-| result of its three score years of ' dise firm of Rees, Wallace Co. I t ; age. is not as great as formerly, will be one o, the finest finished | but it is still able to yield enough , homes in the city when completed cherries to “ skin” all comers. 1 and will be heated throughout by j Mr. Edwards is now taking advice ! a furnace from the basement.! from O. A . C. orchard experts in | which Mr. Rees recently had ex- the hope of restoring this cherry ! cavated under the main part of giant to its original fruitage ca pacity.— Corvallis Times. the building. hound, ladies purse containing j The hop pickers got a shower small amount of money. Inquire bath the first of the week. They i at Leader office. are accustomed to it. HARRIMAN ON STATE RAILROAD BUILDING VISITS EUGENE Chief Water Wagon Driver Makes Able Speech PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Church and School Institutions and not Constitution Form Basis of the Government. While at Eugene last Saturday : Mr. E. 1!. Harrimau said regard ing railroad building in Oregon: " A ll work originally outlined I for Oregon, which was checked or j discontinued last fall on account | of the financial depression, will be carried to completion at once. The Central Oregon line will bel built as quickly as the materials! and money can be gotten together. That branch is now out of m y ! hands and iu charge of the local! traffic managers. It w i l l bel started immediately. Wants to be Shown— Four per Cent "T h e Oregon and Washington on $5.000.000 Investment. road, which includes the peninsula Looks Like a Scheme tunnel, the Tillamook extension, the Klamath-Natrou line, the re moval of the tracks on Eourtli street in Portland, iu fa ct'a ll the! " I t will cost $5,uon,oo<j to build work projected when we were com ; and equip a railroad from Drain to pelled to withdraw from the field : Coos bay. If the people of Coos last fall, will be finished without j bay can show me how 4 per cent loss of time. on that amount can be earned for “ With tile exception of theCeu ten consecutive years, I will recom tral I )regon road, these other pro mend to my board of directors that Little Prospects for Its Early Completion IS FROM MISSOURI AND Eugene Chafiu, prohibition can didate for president, addressed a good-sized audience at tile Metho dist church iu Eugene on Sunday morning. He was introduced by the pastor. Rev. 1). II. Trimble. Mr. Chafiu began by saying that he did not know whether the city jects will take more time audi t the road be pushed to completion.” of Eugene was named for him or will be some months before we can Speeding northward on his special get started on them, but all will be train of five cars, euroute to Port- that lie was named for Eugene. The speaker took the history of carried to completion. It is not land. Edward 11. Harrimau Satur- the nation and pointed out that the our intention to abondon any of day made the above statement to a delegation of citizens, comprised real basis of the common wealth is the projected work in Oregon. founded not so much upon its con w ' of I.. Wimberly, editor of the stitution as upon its institutions, Roseburg Review; I. 1). Zurcher, chief of which are the churches, assistant secretary of the Rose the schools and the press. It was burg Commercial club and Dr. F. the Puritans and not the constitu E. Mingus, J. E. Oren aud A. II. tion that gave us this great nation. Powers of Coos bay. Mr. Harri- " I have been asked whether I Miss Lvlith Moore, dramatic man also told his interviewers that am in favor of local option on this i reader, a pupil of Marion Lowell he would send a special represen question and my answer is, No. : of New York City, will give one tative to Coos bay at an early date Why, these people who are advo of her charming recitals consisting to look over the situation and pre- cating local option on this moral of humorous monologues and iui pare statistics and data for his in- questiou will be asking local option | personations, pathetic and dra 1 spection. Judging from the above on the ten commandments next, matic readings under the auspices statement the commencement of And if they were submitted to pop of the Lady Maccabees at the ar the Drain-Coos bay railroad by ular vote in the city of Chicago j mory hall Saturday evening, Sep Harrimau, was a bluff pure and they would be defeated. 1 deny tember 12. Admission 25 and 45 simple, a scheme merely to keep the right of a majority to legalize cents. The writer is personally <mt competitors. Roseburg and the sale of intoxicating liquors, for acquainted with Miss Moore and Coos bay commercial bodies should the reason that the sale of iutox caM asMllc lE,e people of Cottage proceed at once to interest capital , , Grove a most enjoyable evening if ■........ , , r lectric road from the ■eating liquors .s wrong and no they altelld her recIlal TkkKets »> “ » electric action of a majority can legalize a j 0n sale at the New lira drug store, Umpqua valley to Coos bay. moral wrong. j “ They tried to pass a local op- j tion law in Illinois a few years ago, and we had three prohibition members in that legislature. They! asked our men if they would sup port a local option bill and the prohibition inenbers told them that they would support a law voting the saloon out, provided the law did not permit them to use it to vote the saloons iu And they got that kind of a law. And at the next election we carried against the as- loonsinl(»52 townships, and while there were many we failed to carry, everything we gained was net gain and can not be lost.” He told how in an early day in his state the liquor license was $8 a year. The people got a little more relig ion and they raised it $UXl a year, with a genuine revival t h e churches allowed liquor to be sold Best $4.00 Shoes now $3.00. under a $5< ki license; then they be came sanctified and made the cost Best $3.00 Shoes now $2.25. of partnership in the business Best $2.00 Shoes now $1.50. $l(xxi a year. His motto is for the people to wipe out the whole business, root and branch from the national capital down. MISS MOORE COMING TO COTTAGE GROVE GREAT REDUCTION SUM M ERlHOES 25 per cent off. All lines of Ladies and Gents Oxfords Also fine stock of Children’s Shoes going at the same reduction. PEARCE BROTHERS. Phone Main 643 - Our own Delivery. T ry the feemi W eekly Leader,