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R E E S -W A L L A C E C O M P A N Y , Inc.
September sees an active resumption o f trade which
was somewhat dull the two previous months
O u r G R O C E R Y D E P A R T M E N T is complete.
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER.
The state fair closed Saturday
evenin'}; and was certainly a
Published Weekly and Semi-Weekly. record breaker, from the point of
attendance, quality and size of ex-
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! hiliits, both stock, and products of
1Killtors | the orchard and farm, as well as
C O N N K R A D u B h I.'IM.B,
i the display in all other lines.
Entered at the Cottage G rove posto met* a* sec
I The daily speed program on the
ond-class matter.
~ z~r~r ! race course was also far above the
HUBBCKimON K A T E S
! average, some of the fastest and
W eekly, one year, $1.50; six months .75 cents
l>est horses on the coast being
RKMI W EEKLY.
• «.’.DÜ I entered in the races to comi>ete for
One Year
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i the very liberal purses offered,
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Aside from the fair attractions
1908
T U E S D A Y , SEPTEMBER
there was an amusement street
known as the “ Corrall” including
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
everything from the snake charm
er and Indian fortune teller to the
REPUBLICANS.
Miller.......................... ......Albany glass blowers and high dive artist.
Baker City
. Butler................
A couple ot Filipino midgets
. Marsters......................
smaller than the famous Tom
DEMOCRATIC.
Thumb and wife, attracted con
W hite.............. ........... . Baker City siderable attention. .Altogether it
S. McAllister...............
Bernant Daly........................... Portland was a fair of which Oregon or any
O. I’. Coshow........................ Koselmrg other state might well feel proud.
anA Fridays.
OUR TOWN.
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See our special bargains in cool weather goods,
Shoes for School children which w ear and look w ell
Stock fresh, select and will please the most fastidious.
lion. Theodore A. Itell of Cali WHY WILLIAM IS THE MAN
fornia, chairman of the democratic
national convention at Denver, Reasons Why One Should Vote for
will address the voters of Lane
TaR. Also lor Bryan
county at the opera house ill Eu
gene this Tuesday evening.
Exchange makes a neat sum
mary of the reasons lieiug advance
Whatever the result in Novem
to convince us independents why
ber, some of the candidates will
we should vote for Taft and why
always remember the pleasure they
we should vote for Hryau.
derived from the official notifica
FOR TAFT
tion of their nomination.
t l ) He will pursue the Koos-
When a man nearly breaks his velt policies;
(2 ) He will uot pursue the
neck getting out of the way of a
lightning bug, supposing it to lie Roosevelt policies;
(3 ) He is sound on the tariff,
a locomotive, it’s time for him to
(a ) the stand-patters are for him,
swear off.
(b ) the revisionists are for him;
There ain’t no credit for keep
(4 ) He believes in the suffi
ing iu the right road, when there's ciency of the courts;
barbed wire fences on both sides.
(5 ) He holds that modifications
in judicial procedure might be de
I f all of the devils were cast out
sirable;
of some people, they would look
(6 ) Bryan is a radical;
like walking skeletons.
(7 ) Taft is not a reactionary;
(8 ) He is a man of judicial
Man is made of dust ; along
comes the watering cart of fate temper and experience;
(9 ) His temper aud experience
and his name is mud.
will uot tie employed to check
A man's body may be an earthly popular enthusiasm for progressive
tenement but he objects to being measures;
called a flat.
(10) He is a friend of labor;
(1 1 ) He is a friend of capital;
When a tramp asks for bread,
(12) He stood by the president
don't give him a stone, set the dog
iu
the Brownsville matter.
011 him.
(1 3 ) He had nothing to do
A man who attends strictly to with the Brownsville matter;
his own business has a good steady
(1 4 ) He triumphed over the
job.
allies;
(15) The allies are all his sup-
The man who wants the earth
porters
invariably gets it— wheu he dies.
(16) He is all for Hughes;
I f some men were to lose their
(17) He will not interfere t il
reputation, they would be lucky.
local politics;
the protege of
(18) He
BLIND ORATOR OF
Roosevelt;
OKLAHOMA COMING (1 9 ) He is standing aloue;
(20) His electiou will insure
United States Senator T. P. prosperity;
A ll those who did not register
for the last general election, and
Here is some sound and sensible those who have moved from any
advice from an exchange:
precinct, since the last election
‘ ‘Our town" is just what we must register at this time if they
make it. Other people consider it expect to vote. Although there
to be just what we tell them it is. i are twenty days in which to reg
Whenever you go to a place and ¡ster) ¡t is better to look after the
find the people talking about the matter promptly so that no mis
beauties of “our town," and tell-1 take ¡3 made. Vour good friends
ing you what a splendid place it is Bryan and Taft will hardly appre
and how everything is prosperous. j ciate it if you are careless and lose
and everybody happy, you drop : tbrxt vote
into a friendly state of mind to- \
ward that town and realize that it j
* ^le Sunday closing law is to be
is a pretty good town.
¡rigidly enforced in Portland, iu-
If you happen to visit a towu ! eluding cigar stores.
While
where the people are bitter in their j was no' ,u-' Intention originally to
denunciations, where evervlxxly) eu t°rc* 'l'*-* Sunday-closing law
you meet tells you how much j against anything but the pool and
better place it use to be, or hear a billiard parlors, since Chief ( .ritz-
lot of backbiting and harping and macher sees fit to construe the law
knocking, you want just as little literally, I am willing to abide by
as possible of that town. The it,” said District Attorney Catner
Gore will arrive in Cottage Grove,
first time anybody asks you about on last night.
Saturday morning and will address
it, you are going to hand out the
The presidential campaign is
same line of talk, as the boys say, warming up in Oregon. Theodore the citizens of Cottage Grove at
that you heard in the towu when A. Hell, a democratic heavy gun the armory theater, Saturday after
noon Sept. 26, at 1 o ’clock sharp.
you were there.
will open in < )rcgou this week and
Senator Gore is one of the
Towns are built up or destroyed will be heard in Kugeue this even
through talk, however much people ing. Senator Beveridge of Indi county’s most able and eloquent
may ridicule talk. There are ana, will soon be in the state to orators and will discuss the issues
of the presidential campaign from
prosperous cities in this country speak for Taft,
but dates and
that have been built up by talk, places have noFbeen announced. a democratic standpoint. It will
be worth the while of every citizen
but it had to lie. the right kind. It
of
the town and community to
had to be optimistic, encouraging
The Hood R i ver Applegrowers
talk, and not the whining pessi Association have just closed a con hear him. A special invitation is
mism of the disgruntled mossback. tract for 80,000 boxes of the grow extended to the ladies to attend.
(21) There will lie prosperity
anyway.
FOR BRYAN
(1 ) His electiou will lie a re
buke to Rooseveltism;
(2 ) He w i l l
out-Roosevelt
Roosevelt;
(3 ) He has grown conservative;
(4 ) He hasn’t;
(5 ) He is the free choice of the
Democratic party;
(6 ) The party has got to swal
low him:
(7 ) He represents Democratic
principles:
(8 ) The principles will lie able
to survive his incumbency;
(9 ) After two defeats he de
serves an election:
(10) To elect him is the only
way to get rid of him;
(11) He wants the people to
rule;
( 12 ) The people need Bryan
rule;
(13) He is against the bosses:
(14) He is a bully lioss;
(15) If elected,
he will be
powerless without Congress;
(16) If elected, he will throw
Congress;
(17) Taft will not carry out
the Roosevelt policies;
(1 8 ) Bryan will carry out the
Roosevelt policies;
(19) Taft will:
(20) Bryan won’t;
Doubt need linger no longer in
any intelligent mind. Obviously
W illiam is the man.
Phone your wants.
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Ladies' and Gents Shoes
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Everything new and no-to-date. Best brands and grades ot
Fresh Groceries. Country Produce bought and sold. Call and
see what a dollar will buy at W. C. JO H N S O N ’S.
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Procured. M ining and Corporation Law
a specialty, office over (Iriffin, Veatch
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New Stewart Building
C o r n e r S econ d and M ain Streets
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and would Le pleased to show our customers and
friends out*
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Phone 1451
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Hours 8.30 to 12, 1 to 5 ^
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New Fall Stock
H . C. M A D S E N ,
W
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Now Arriving Daily
R epairing at reasonable m arges.
A ll work guaranteed tirst-ciass.
Watches, Clocks and J ew elry at Lowest Price
Gingham and Percales, entirely new patterns
Bordered Prints, something new at 7c per yard
Complete line of Val I.aces and Insertions, ex
tra fine.
New Dress Goods, latest weaves.
Kimona Cloth, all colors, and other articles of
interest to the buvers
.
COTTAGE G RO VE, ORE.
General Blacksmith ing
Horseshoeing a specialty.
Wagon and carriage re-
Ing. A ll work guaranteed
Have yonr horsesteetb ex
amined and repaired. Shoe
at rear o f Llcmonway 4
Burkholder’s Store :: ::
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PRUNES
FARM MACHINERY
Parties having ripe Italian
French or Silver Prunes, in
large or small quantities—a j
pail full or a w agon load— j
are requested to bring them i
to the Cottage Grove Fruit)
Company, where they will
BE PAID CASH
SAW MILL SUPPLIES
STEAM AND G ASOLINE ENGINES,
PACKING. HOSE AND B E L T I'G
Wynne Hardware Company
Wholesale and Retail
for them according to grade j
Hardware and Machinery
Not that |>eoplc should lie satis ing crop, and now have under dis
delivered. We w ill also dry I
Military Dance.
fied with any sort of an old town cussion the sale of 150,000 addi-
fruit for cash or on shares.
and strive to make people l>elieve tional boxes. This will be good
The military club of Cottage
For particulars enquire at j
that a place is a good place when news to all the fruit-growing sec-
Grove will open the season of
the Dryer.
it is not. It is not that habit which tions of the Northwest.
1908-9 with a dance Thursday
people should eucourage. Dissat
BRASS GOODS AND TINW ARE
evening.
Music by the Cottage
The “ Alaska wheat” bubble
isfaction with the things that are
STOVES AND RANGES
has been pricked, but the chances Grove orchestra. A splendid time
not right is of course well
If
is
anticipated
and
all
lovers
of
are the originators of the fake
M ITC H ELL WAGONS
WINDMILLS, PUMPS
things are not running to suit you,
made a good thing selling the seed dancing are cordially invited to
try to have them remedied, and do
before the government inquiry de attend.
not become puffed up with the idea
And tvll Kinds of
veloped the fact that it doesn't
that because they exist in "our
Notice to Delinquent Taxpayers.
make over twenty-five bushels to
town” they are all right. The
! the acre.
man who is satisfied never pro-
Delinquent taxpayers will take
Leave orders at Cunningham s Con
gresses. Hut a man can be dissat- j When you get into a tight place notice that delinquent taxes will
fectionery Phone 73 or phone
isfietl without condemning every i aiul everything goes against you not lie advertised as heretofore:
under a law passed by the last leg
residence 4 0 6
thing and everybody. He can set until it seems you cannot hold on islature of this state taxes that are
about cleaning up our town" a minute longer, never give up delinquent after the expiration of
A l l K i n d s of
Hauling Done Promptly at
without swearing to every fellow j then, for that is just the place and six months from the first date of
such
delinquency
may
lie
paid
by
who steps off of the tram that this: time that the tide will turn,
Reasonable Charge
any one demanding to pay same
is the ‘ durudcst hole on earth."
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and a certificate of delinquency
Hopefulness, prayerfuluess, help
F-diso" sa> s » irshiP« will 1*
will be issued to such party.
A. HÒ G ATE
fulness will make "our town” the cr« * ' “ K ,he Atlantic successfully
Section .17 of said law. in part,
best place in the world to live and 'ns' de ° f s’ x years,
reads:
“ Any day after the expiration
where a man has to live, there will
It is predicted that wheat will
COTTAGE G R O V E
it pay to help make it the liest reach the fl.J.S mark before New of six months after taxes charged
against real property are delin
place to live. “ Our town" ought Years.
quent the tax collector shall have
to be the liest place in the world,
the right, and it shall tie his duty
because "w e ” live here; that is!
It was thought to l>e too near upon demand aud payment of the
C H A S . M A T T H E W S . Proprietor.
All the latest treatments.
taxes, penalty and interest, to
the way to feel about it: that is the l>eer by the Eugene city council.
Electrical
make out and issue a certificate or
way to talk about it.
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There is some talk of starting a certificates of delinquency against
BATHS
such property, ’ ' and section AS in
in no part of earth is there a ! l>enloc™tic paper in Salem.
Have you ordered Fruit
part reads: “ Certificates of de
more delightful fall that iu Ore-
X -K A Y LABORATORY
A crank is a man who has a dif linquency shall bear interest from Trees for the ensuing season
gon.
ferent hobby than your own.
the date of issuance until redeemed planting? If not, you lietter
For further particular* addre**
at the rate of 15 pei cent per an hurry up! Prices will go tip.
num.
l>r. H. C. 8CHLEEF.
Some are asking i!8 cents I
The Standard High Grade Fence of the
Delinquent taxpayers are there for Cornice Pears.
I sell at
World.
There is over 4-00 miles of tiiis
fore advised that if they have not
20 cents, but can’t hold the
famous wire fence in Douglas county, Oregon.
paid at least one-liaif of their
This is High Carbon Spring Wire which will
taxes on or liefore the first Mon prices down much longer.
This is the Fund that protects our depositors
day in April that the same are de
keep its shape when projicrlv stretched. Will
from loss, coupled with years of successful
linquent and have been delinquent
carry a full stock of wire at all times.
business experience. This Bank has a
since said first Monday in April,
and those who have paid one-half S. B. M O R S S , Ph on e 471
Capital of
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$25,000.00
Inquiro of
of their taxes as above the remain
Surplus Fund of
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5,000.00
DAVID
GRIGGS,
or
STEARNS
& CHENOW ITH. Agents
ing! one half will become delin
All kinds of machine and repair
Undivided Profit of
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10,000.00
Cottage
Grove,
Ore.
Oakland, Ore.
quent after the first Monday in
work done promptly and at reason
Stockholders Liability of
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25,000.00
October and six months from such j
able prices.
dates a certificate of delinquency ]
A Total of
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$65.000.00
Carpets and Rugs
hearing fifteen per cent interest
OLD LEADER BUILDING
I his means that we must lose $65.000.00 liefore our
per annum may lie issued against
Ma«lc to onter und Satis
Thin! Street.
faction in>ohtntf«<l both
¿SEw" ors 001,1,1 lo^ 0,10 <•«»»■ This protection is for
yonr property.
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a* to workmanship and
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When
you
think
BANK minie
think oa
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GROVE, OREGON
prices. Apply to
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and interest you are earnestly
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quested to settle the same at once, j J . M , C o m e r
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at the Bazaar.
C. H DENSMORE, Prop
DRAYING
HAULING ^
COTTAGE GROVE
FLOUR
MILLS
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Mill Feed
G r a in
and Hay
FRUIT TREES ARE
GETTING SCARCE
PLAIN and MEDICATED
THE PAGE WOVEN W IRE FENCE.
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Cedar Springs Nursery M I L L E R ’S
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