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COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON IN D U S TR IES AJTB RESOURCES. Locate«! o n tb e u p p e r W illa m e tte K iv er 141 tuilt-s s o u th o f I 'o i t lu u d o il S o u th e r n Ha c itic a n d O re g o n & S o u th K a s te ru K u ilio a d s . p o p u la tio n ¿500; tw o b u n k s , p u b lic au«l h ig h s c h o o ls , h v e c h u r c h e s , w a te r, l ig h t a n d s e w e r a> s te m s , c re a m e r y . H our m ill; tw o b r ic k y a r d s ; s a w m ills ; w o o d w o r k f a c to ry , m a tc h f a c to ry ; s te a m la u n d r y a n d t h e L « f e d e r . ( •r e a t fo re s ts o f l im b e r t r i b u ta r y t o C o tta g e <>rove; fifte e n s a w m ills th re e s h in g le m ills, w ith iu a r a d iu s o f 15 m ile s. H e a d q u a r te r s fo r B o h e m ia g o ld m in e s a n d B la c k B utte q u ic k s ilv e r m in e s , v a lle y s a n d fo o t h ills w ell a d a p te d to f ru it g ro w in g , f a r m in g a n d d a ir y in g . F o r i n fo r m a tio n r e g a r d in g th is g r e a t c o u n tr y s u b s c r ib e fo r th e W E E K L Y AND SE M I-W E E K L Y BO h L md E m & E J * * * * * ! C O T T A G E G R O V E, O R E G O N , FR ID A Y , O C T O B E R 16 , 1908 . J ^ - r , 9. .90» IN ENTERPRISING AND l Lane County Peculiarly Adapted to F ru it Growing--Dr. L. D. Scarbrough’s Success. M uch h as been w ritten and said own, from which o rch ard s he has about the w onderful fruit producing a first class dried prune product, qualities of the lands of the Hogue aggregating 10 carloads of 25 ton river valley, the U m pque valley cars, his three driers tu rn in g out and Hood river valley, aslo of from 10 to 12 toils p e rd a y during the well k ept and productive or the season. T he doctor has sold ch ard s of those fruit producing the greater part of his p rune crop, centers, but may it lie truthfully we understand, to the G ile Broth said right here, th a t neither of the ers, of Salem, which has netted aljove m entioned fruit section o f |h i m a c a s h profit of several thou- < Iregon have a single a d v a n ta g e , sand dollars. Besides his well over the upper W illam ette valley, ! kept prune orchards th e doctor and Lane county in particular, in i also has a fine, equally as well the production of fiuit of quality j cared for 20 acre apple orchard in and size. W hile the people o f , th e suburbs of Creswell, including Lane county have not engaged in I principally such well know n com- the fruit business as extensively as inercial varieties as SlMtze.ilxjrgS, the people of other parts of O re N ortliern Spys and Baldwins, an d gon, those who p lanted out or his trees are fairly g roaning under ch ard a few years ago and c u lti their great burden of fruit this vated them intelligently are m eet season, most all of w hich, ow ing ing w ith as great success as those to persistent spraying is of the growers of the so-called fam ous finest qu ality . A ccordingly the doctor will also reap a rich h a r fruit sections of the state. A s an exam ple of w hat the in vest from his apple orchard. M any people having noted the telligent an d system m atic cu ltiv a tion of m arketable fruit will re- great success attained by Dr. Scar- w ard the thrifty orchardist of o u r'h ro u g h by his practical cultivation own section of Lane county, w e jo f fruit, are engag in g in the busi- have only to call attention to the ness on an extensive scale about splendid orchards of I)r. L. D Creswell and between th a t pros Scarbrough, of Creswell, whose perous little town an d Cottage fruit farm s were recently visited by Grove, a distance of 10 miles, all a num ber of representatives of the of w hich lauds are adm irably E ugene Com mercial Club, who adapted to fruit growing. A few hundred acres of w inter were surprised to find such mag- nificient fruit and such vigorous, apples, pears, cherries, w alnuts well kept orchards rig h t here at an d other orchards are being set out around C ottage Grove, by or- home. Dr. S carbrough is just finishing chardists formerly of Jackson up his season’s run in his prune county, who h av in g sold their driers in Creswell and a short d is orchard tracts at fabulous (»rices, ta n ce south of th a t town, he h av cam e here and invested in our e x ing controlled som ething over 2(H) cellent, b u t cheap fruit lands, acres of m ature prune orchards w hile a good m any of the old this season, 150 acres being his tim ers are p attin g out th eir grain GREAT REDUCTION SUMMER SHOES All lines of Ladies and Gents Oxfords Also fine stocK of Children's Shoes going at the same reduction. Best $4.00 Shoes now $3.00. Best $3.00 Shoes now $2.25. Best $2.00 Shoes now $1.50. Phone Main 643— Our own Delivery. Á CLEAN. BRIGHT LIGHT C h e a p er th a n O il! E LE C TR IC LIG H TS C bc © e st ant* o n lç I llu m in a n t S a fe a n d C o n v e n ie n t! QA Show Window brilliantly lighted w ith Electric Lights make many a sale “ the night before.” No exploding lamps, homes in ruins nor burned children, when y o u h a v e electric lights installed. Cottage «ro ve * electric « Co. and hill tracts to fruit, it having been repeatedly dem onstrated, though on a sm all scale, th a t no better fruit can be grown an y where th an here. T h e building of a fine, large, modern fruit drier and fruit (lack ing house in Cottage Grove this season h as had the effect to g rea t ly stim ulate the fruit business hereabouts, as well as the splendid success attain ed in the business by Dr. Scarbrough, of Creswell, the pioneer orchardist of this section of the county. H e has fully dem onstrated the fact th at south L ane is a par-excellent fruit growing district and th at there is big money in fruit grow ing when handled in an intelligent, practical and sys- tem m atic m anner. T h e statem ent m ade in our paper last T uesday regarding the prune drying operations of I'red W right on the T ate farm an d in nearby orchards should have been credited to Dr. L. I). Scarbrough instead of Mr. W right. T he latter has purchased the T ate farm hut had nothing to do with the fruit product on the place this year, nor in the other orchards of th at com m unity. TWO BIG DRIVES BOOTH-KELLY CO. T he rise in the W illam ette and M cKenzie rivers caused the Booth- Kelly C o.’s loggers to get busy. T he M cKenzie raised thirty-six inches an d sqnt the ten million feet of logs between Seavey’s ferry and the Coburg boom shooting into th e boom an d the logging crews were worked n ig h t and day with the result th a t no logs were lost. T heir W illam ette drive of eight million feet lying between the m outh of Fall ereek an d Spring- field are m oving into the boom. T h is will furnish logs sufficient to keep the C oburg a n d Spring- field mills ru u u in g until spring. As soon as the C alifornia freight rate was settled the Booth-Kelly com pauy started up their Saginaw mill and are ru u u iu g a fun day crew at each of their three mills. T H E LO G G IN G R O A D . T he new logging road which e x tends five and a h alf miles up into the tim ber from W endling is all com pleted. T heir new logging engine is here an d in operation. Mr. D unbar, the expert who came out with the engine from Baldwin works in Philadelphia, returned home yesterday. T h e Booth-Kelly Co., have an S. P. engine hired, and the two are now busy b allast ing the road. T H E W E N D I.IN G Mil,!,. T h e W endling mill is being thoroughly overhauled and m any new im provem ents are being put in. George H . Kelly tells the Register th a t if T a ft is elected and business continues to improve they expect to start the W endling mill again. W ith all four m ills in operation it will again be like old times in L ane county in the lu m ber business.— Register. 2 5 per cent off. PEARCE BROTHERS. o tf ™ ,l0 t SUNDAY CLOSING LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL WOLVES KILL RANGE CATTLE A A l A T © A iS O Arrested for Selling Booze. Sid Pitm an of Springfield was arrested M onday evening by ¡Sheriff Bown for alleged violation I of the local optiou law bv selling intoxicating liquors and it is said there is some evidence to show H iT 1 * that *lc ' l a l ^ sou,e,hiug to do with i V l c l K l I l g selling liquor to Indians at a local | hopyard. H e pleaded guilty to the charge an d his trial was set for Friday at 1 o ’clock before Jus- iice Bryson- Meanwhile he la n guished in jail, not having found bail. Ravages On Deer. VOL. XX. NO. 27 LADIES’ CLUB W ill PURCHASE A PARK FOR COTTAGE GROVE A Long Felt W ant to be Supplied by the Most Enterprising Organization in Town. T he Eugene G uard says: ‘‘Dr. T he Leader understands the W. W. Oglesby, of Cottage Grove, POULTRY ASSOCIATION Ladies Civic Improvement com m it Was in the city T uesday on busi AIDS HARVEST FAIR tee of the Ladies Club, has u nder ness and was a pleasant caller at taken a m ost com m endable and the G uard office, lie stated th at worthy object, one w hich will not At a meeting of the Calapooia the people in th a t vicinity report only add to the city ’s beauty and th at the tim ber wolves in the Poultry Association in the Leader attractiveness, but which will m ountains east of there are becom office T h u rsd ay evening it was m ake the (»lace more inviting to ing very num erous and are rapidly voted to m ake a $25 cash donation home seekers and strangers, and exterm inating the deer. He said to the forthcoming harvest fair and | more congenial to our home people. that W. A. Kelly made a trip to to g ran t the fair association the j T he movement in au g u rated by the the head of L and creek, a trib u free use of the exhibition coops be- j ladies is th a t of securing and tary to Row river, east of Cottage longing to the poultry association, j nicely p lattin g a city park, a five Grove, and founcPthat wolves had in which to exhibit fancy poultry i acre tract covered by a beautiful killed three head of his cattle d u rin g the fair. evergreen an d oak grove, known which he w as pasturing there, WILL BUY f e e d a t w h o l e s a l e . as th e Long & I.audess grove in President F. H. Rosenberg was east Cottage Grove being under their carcases being found. Eight head are m issing, and it is thought instructed by the poultry men to consideration. J. W . Gowdy has they, too, fiaye been killed by the secure wholesale prices from vari equally as attractive a grove in wolves. H unters going toward ous sources on wheat, bran and »vest Cottage 'Grove, hut not as the sum m it of the m ountains are corn an d contract for a q u an tity of large an acreage. However, the unable to find any-deer at all, they feed to be distributed am ong the site of the proposed city park will having been run out by the members of the poultry association be chosen by the ladies, paid for wolves, b ut in the foothills and at .actual cost. by them from m otley’s secured n ear the settlem ents they are re from a series of entertainm ents ported m uch more numerous. In PRESBYTERY SESSION and sim ilar m eans, aud when se the course of tim e it is thought the cured the (»lot will be dedicated to CLOSED AT CRESWELL the city of Cottage Grove. wolves will come down the m oun tain s at(d prey upon tne settler’s T his enterprise and public spirit stock- If som ething is not done Presbytery of W illam ette met in manifested on the p art of the ladies to exterm inate them It is argued Creswell church Tuesday evening, is enough to bring a blush of th a t if a large bounty were placed Oct. 1.3th. Rev. \V. T. W ordle of sham e to the cheek of every mem on these wolves instead of paying Lebanon, preached the opening ber of the Com mercial Club and gam e w ardens high salaries, more sermon on “ T he H ands of J e s u s ." succeeding city councils, who deer would be saved by one m an Sabbath observance and tem per have, for lo, these m any years than could be saved by all the ance were the topics which excited listened heedlessly to appeals for w ardeus in the state. If a good most discussion. The Home Mis such an attraction in this city, bounty were paid for the scalps of sion Board at New York was asked the most short-sighted, m ossback wolves m any people would m ake it j to sustain a pastor evangelist feature of w hich is the fact that a point to h u n t them all the year whose business it will be to visit these tracts have steadily increased around. At present Lane county and hold sj>ecial m eetings in in value from the tim e the ag ita pays a bounty of $2,50 on each the w eaker churches within our tion first commenced, from $50 to wolf scalp, but this is not enough bounds. Dr. H. L. N ave was $300 per acre. to pay auy one to devote much made chairm an of the committee It m ust therefore go down in time to k illin g th em .” on education and a member of the history th a t the Cottage Grove committee on Home Missions. The ladies are more enterprising and Ladies Aid of Creswell church a s public spirited th an the men aud BOY FOUND DEAD AT sisted by Pastor McGee served all our present an d future citizenship, OAKLAND, UNIDENTIFIED meals at a central point an d the view ing th e beautiful park im- viands were so toothsome th a t all At the coroner’s inquest held at voted Creswell a fine meeting O akland Monday over the body of place, The spring meeting will be the young boy picked up under held in Central church of Eugene the railroad trestle north of th at n e x t April. town, S unday morning, the iden tity of the boy was not ascertained. ITENERARY OF THE T he coroner’s jury found that the DEMOCRATIC SPEAKERS boy was either thrown or fell from a ru n n in g tram and no res(x>nsi- Following is the itenerary of the billty was fixed. Since the trag e dem ocratic speakers in South Lane dy an d the description of the boy has been given publicity in the county: Creswell— Hon. R M. V eatch P ortland press Coroner Jew ett has and J. S. Medley S aturday, Oct. received three different inquiries from parents of runaw ay boys in 17th 7:.to i>. m. S aginaw —lio n . R. M. Veatch th at city. In neither instance, an d J. S. Medley, W ednesday, however, did the description given tally w ith th a t of the dead hoy. Oct. 21, 7:50 ]». m. Lorane— Attorney J. S. Medlev A fourth inquiry bears a descrip and A. II. King, Saturday, Oct. tion th at tallies in some resjiects. and it m ay be that this will lead to | 24, at 7:30 p. m. W ildwood— Hon. R. M. Veatch the b o y ’s identification. T he body and J. S. Medley, W ednesday Oct. was given burial near O akland. Jackson and Murray, the youthful j 2 H, 7 :30 p. in. hobos” who were with the dead , W alker— H on. R. M. Veatch boy but a few hours l>efore the ¡and A. 11. King, T uesday 27, at tragedy, an d who were the p rin ci 1 7:30 (». m. Cottage Grove — Hon. Lark pal witnesses at the inquest, are Bilyeu and Ja c k Rodman O ct. 30, now in the custody of County Ju d g e W onacott in Roseburg. 7:30 p. m. Portland, O r., O ct. 12.—T h at i the S unday closing law as provid ed by the state legislature is u n constitutional was the decisiou of Judge G antenbein in the circuit court at P ortland last Monday. Each of th e boys is 16 years of Judge G antenbein held th at the ¡age. T hey give Butte, Mont., as Back From the Mines. S unday closing law was uncon their home and explain th at the Billie Edw ards returned to this stitutional because the legislature poverty of their parents induced had no rig h t under the suprem e them to h it" the road and look I citV Tuesday from Bohemia where law of the lan d to discrim inate b e for woTk Being non residents of lle h** l’een P 'd l i n g in a m onth’s tween occupations, and based th at the state, they cannot l»e commit development work on the Peek-a- decision on the constitutional law ted to the Oregon reform school 1,00 an d N evada mines in which w hich allows freedom in religion. and Ju d g e W onacott does not like he is interested and which give to wire th e impoverished parents Pro,nise of becoming valuable for their transportation back home properties. All of the boys from Jury List Drawn. As a solution to the problem , j tbe cam P th a t " there win Judge W onacott will trv to fi„d > somethnig doing next y e a r," as T he following-named citizens of some light work for the lads. a res,'H of ,he Krea< am ount of , , , develo|»ment accom plished South L ane county have been P draw n to serve on the grand jury Alf Walker has I »ought the i I tWs season |( at the November term of Circuit George Yarnel farm on the Mo- M court which convenes on the haw k for $70(»>. It consists of Mrs. Benhain—As the story goes Rip Van W inkle slept twenty second day of the m onth: S. B. 472 acres of fine la u d .—Guard. years. Benliam— I wonder if his Jackson, S aginaw ; J , P . Currin, All the latest styles in side and breakfast was ready when h e woke C ottage Grove: C. A, Harlow, back com bs at the Bazaar. Row r iv e T . up. i 1 I ■ provemeuts of a greater Cottage Grove, will certainly honor and revere the nam es of the public spirited W om an's Club, which will have been instrum ental in pro viding such an attraction for our city; an attraction which all en terprising towns like Eugene and Medford point to with pride. Mr. Hendricks, an enterprising citizen of Eugene, very graciously donat ed a beautiful elevated sitely tract to the city of Eugene for park pur poses a year or so ago. Here at Cottage G rove enterprising citizens agree to donate suitable suburban park land to the city at from $100 to $200 per acre more than ad jacent lauds are selling at, but then Cottage Grove by its favor able location and great n atu ra l re sources is bound to m ake a city in spite of a few troublesome ob stacles. O ne of the first of a series of entertainm ents from which to secure a city park fund, is being held by the Ladies Club this afternoon aud evening at the Commercial Club rooms. W H A T E U G E N E L A D IE S A R E D O IN G F O R T H E C O U N TV SE A T O ctober’s num ber of N obody’s M agazine h ad the following regard ing the Good work of E ugene’s W om ans Club: One of the greatest aids to E u gene’s Promotion work is the Ladies' A uxiliary of the Eugene Commercial Club. T his auxiliary was organized prim arily to call upon newcomer» and introduce them to our people. W hen a family locates in E u gene, the m an quickly becomes acquainted, but ‘wifey’ stays in her hotel or room and being sev eral thousand miles from home, in ( co n clu d ed on second page W H A T 'S T H E U S E of buying cheap Suit or pair of Shoes for t h e boy to wear to school ? T h e y look well for a week or two but the rainy season soon shows what they are made of. We handle the ever famous ‘‘Hercules Brand” of Bov’s C loth ing w hich is guaranteed a 11 wool and shower proof. ‘•Disri't 76 Shoes’’ “ N uf se d .” D o n ’t S a y B A N K , S a y F IR S T N H T I 0 N H L B H N K OR COTTAGE MUOVE. AND CAPITAL S l R P L l ’S PR O FIT S $ 45 , 060.00 G R O W IN G LARGER You p ro te c t y o u r Imrue from (In- b y Inm irlug It—T H A T ’S W iS E . W hy d o n ’t y o u p ro te c t y o u r Deed», Note», a n d MortKiiRCM, Con tract». T a x Receipt», a n d O th e r V aluable Pai*>rs, K eepsake J e w e lry , E tc ., fro m F IR E and B P R O L A R S by re n tin g o n e of onr SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS— T hai’s Wise. Too. Jnat Installed. Come and See Them. T h e First N a t i o n a l B a n k T he O ld Reliable. )
