Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915, October 20, 1908, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextA S P L E N D ID A U TU M N A L S H O W IN G OF SEASONABLE GOODS -------------------------------- AT THE NEW STORE OF----------------------- ---- -— REES-WALLACE COMPANY, Inc. O ctober secs an active resumption o f trade which See our special bargains in cool weather goods, was somewhat dull the two previous months || Shoes for School children which wear and look well Our G R O C E R Y D E P A R T M E N T is complete. Stock fresh, select and will please the most fastidious. Phone your wants. Main 2 5 COTTAGE GROVE LEADER. spirit justified any course which ensured party success. To win by Published Weekly and Semi-Weekly. trickery, bribery or even fraud wa» held if not exactly commendable, T II K I.IA D K K lM B I.lN H IN i; M l ( U K ) at least excusable on the ground C onnkr * liu B ain i.i.K . - E d ito r* that the eudof justified the means. ( ifficers owed duty, not to the ta x Kot*r«<i a t U i* C ottage ( ¡r o r e laMtomes aa *«c- payer who furnished the money oml-class matter. for their salaries, but to the party HUI1S4'1(1 F T IO N K A T K S which placed them; and part of W eekly, one year. $1.30; six m on th s .73 cen ts the money and much of the time SKMIWEKKLV. OM Y e a r .......................................fc -J paid for by the public must be de Six Mouths • * l -"® Three Months . . . . . 7> voted to keeping the party in power. 1 T F S D A Y . O C T O B E R 20, 11H)8 Powerful interests which con tributed heavily to party funds PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. were considered in equity entitled i to have legislation shaped in their KRPUBUCAN& p. J. Miller....................................... Albany behalf, regardless of the welfare R. K. Butler............................. Baker City J. A. I.ee..........................................Portland of the mass of the people who, A . 2 . M a r s t e r s ..........................R o e e b u rg having made no such contribution, DEMOCRATIC. | were thought to tie entitled to no Sam White.................................Baker City ; consideration. The liquor interest, K. J. S. McAllister........................ Portland Bernard l)aly.................................. Portland the railroad iuterest, the manufact O. 1*. Coshow................................Kosehurg uring interest, paid money into the party treasury and the interests were, accordingly, entitled to con GOOD OLD POLITIC AL DAYS. siderate treatment. Kven the How amazingly rapid has been j gambling and vice interests came our progress in decent politics if i in for their share of favors. Last we look back twenty or thirty but not least, thieves and pick- years. In those days there were I [Kickets have had their champions in most states no laws for the reg in our state legislatures. istration of voters and rowdies Demagogy has been at a high with no possible right went from j premium in both parties for several polling place to polling place, j years past, but at the same time claiming a right to vote and break 1 progress of an amazing kind has ing the heads of opposing parti taken place with public sentiment sans who disputed that right. In in regard to purity in public and New York Tammany politicians, business life. It is no longer rich with the spoils of a plundered j “smart” to will elections by lying, city marshaled their voters in line 1 forgery and direct and indirect with their ballots in their hands bribery. Low, course abuse, such and these they were made to hold as was leveled against candidates above their heads as they marched a few years ago is now recognized to the polls in order that the bribe as damaging, not to the candidate giver might not be cheated by the at whom it is aimed but at the op substitution of another ballot. In ponent who permits it. The old, 1880 every Federal officeholder re ■ bad politics of those days will ceived a demand for two per cent l trouble us but a little longer. of his salary, to be paid into the That "public office is a publi^ campaign fund of the party in trust” is no more a vote-gettiug power. The candidate for presi phrase, but a solid and everlasting dent wrote to the chief collector to truth has slowly been borne in inquire “ how the departments are upon the conscience of the Ameri doing.” The money, in some can people, at last it has ar cases collected in the department rived; and officeholders may as buildings themselves, was taken well understand and remember it. to the treasury and exchanged for “crisp, two-dollar bills.” After The ( ictober number of “ Ladies the election the successful Vice- Home Journal” gave a full page l’residential candidate elicited of pictures representing hunters cheers at a banquet when he re slaughtering water fowl and other ferred to the party agent who had birds of bright feathers from which "carried Indiana by means of they sever wings and tails with soap.” In 1888 the national treas which to decorate ladies hats. urer wrote instructions to his The pathetic part of the pictures workers in the same state to “ di were snap shots taken of the nests vide floaters into blocks of five of the mother birds with their little and put them in charge of a ones anxiously awaiting t h e trusted man supplied with the mother’s return, thousands of necessary funds who will see that which, unable to leave the nest, all of them vote our ticket and starves to death. It is a painful that noue of them get away.” reflection, but then the greed of Such a letter to-day would be pityless fashion must be satisfied. unthinkable, however much still may lie lacking in political purity. If we can’s paveour Main street, Now we have laws providing for why not build a solid concrete the prohibition of taking of cam sidewalk from the depot to the paign funds from corporations, for bridge on one or both sides of soliciting them from public em Main street, a few blocks of which has already been laid? This ployees and for, in some states, would *g>ve our city a solid ap publicity of receipts and expendi pearance and more favorably im tures of candidates and political press strangers who come here agents. A few years ago party seeking an investment or a home. Tuesi^ys Bin! Fridays. WHAT’S THE USE 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 Boy’s Cloth ing which is guaranteed a 11 wool and shower proof. ••District 76 Shoes * "N u f i n i ." « L a b o re r C an Professional Cards. A ffo rd Increase in Freight Rates. V J ? K. YOU NU Exactly fiat Yon fail J B y H . I. M IL L E R . P re s id e n t C h icag o a n d E a s te rn lllin o # R ailroad. HE r L R 0 A D 3 H A V E G O T T O H A V E M O R j f c ^ 'O N E Y U N T I L E 'J C H T I M E AS T H E T O N N A G E Wl!>‘. BE L A R G E E N O U G H T O M E E T T H E I R E X P E N D I T U R E 1! I B ELIEV E T H E Y S H O U LD G E T I T BY IN C R EA SIN G F R I G H T RATES. BECAUSE THAT M ETHOD OF EN LA R G IN W ' T H E R EV E N U E 8 W I L L C A U 8 E T H E L E A S T D I S T U R B A N C E IN T H E B U S I NESS WORLD. C Z A TTO RN EY AT LA W 5 ¿ * onice: Young Building, Mum Street, West Side. 1 T IN T H E L I N E O F tv . * A * A * - A * A * ‘A ¿ fL t £ 9 a W KIMK. M. I». A. rilVSM lAN and NOKOKON Olüce lu McFarland Building t Over Cochran s Furniture Store ¡£ onice riinne, 34» ilesidenco Phone, 531 1 * 4 -P £ I Ì 4 According to the information 1 have, T II E AD VA N CE IN H A TES P R O P O SE D W OULD IN C R E A SE T II E COST O F A tV .-#> V .# >V .^ V r#> V .# rv \ * V. » 1 P A IR O F SH O ES AND O F A S U IT O F C LO TH ES L E SS TH AN O N E C EN T IN EA C H C A SE. Surely the laborer can J S. M KDLKY, afford that additional expense as an insurance of a continuance of tho 9 ATTORNEY AT LAW high wage lio now receives. T H A T IS A L L T H E ADVANCE IN £ S ia c ia l A ttention (liven to M in in g and 4 9 Cori»oratiou I.aw . P ^ O f f i c e . S u i t e 3 . B a n k B v / lld in g . 4 R A T E S PR O P O SE D W IL L M EAN TO T H E CONSUMER. T H E P R O S P E R IT Y O F T II E C O U N T R Y G E N E R A L L Y D EPE N D S V E R Y L A R G E L Y ON T H E P R O S P E R IT Y OF ?. TH E R A IL R O A D S. Everything that a railroad uses in the way of ‘ J . C‘ JOHNSON, A T T O R N E Y AT LA W labor and material— everything for which tho railroad spends the lísta le s A dm inistered. M ining Patents monev it receives from the people— lias steadily advanced in cost. In Procure«!. M ining and Cori>oration Law specialty, office over G riffin, Vcatch 4 addition to tho direct item of labor and ordinary supplies, the burdens H ardw are. o ffic e Phone, Main ll.L R esid ence, 85. ja- placed on tho railroads in increased taxation and by the expenditures $V^Vr*>V^V^V.-^V.*Vr#YVr*>Vr*5 made necessary for their terminals in towns and cities through which f M a f e i W 4 they pass have been very heavy. i ‘ I Royal School Items Telephone put in. Number 999, call us up. We are indeed glad to note the increased attendance at the school during the past few days. Six having entered within the past week. Jay R. DeSpam, the violinist, has arrived and entered upon his work. r O T t . CIVIC IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE SOCIAL The civic improvement commit tee of the Woman’s club gave two interesting musical and literary programs at the Commercial Club rooms Friday afternoon and even ing, which were well patronized, an admission of 10 cents being charged, the receipts from which There are five students in the goes into the civic improvement home and more expected soon. fund. Following each program a We have one student in the social hour was. spent and fruit home that talks so much that some punch was served free. One of of the rest of us can’t hardly get the principal features of the mu chance to talk at all. Her sical program was the piano nutn- ‘Sav little and think motto* is; j liers played on a piano player, much.*’; kindly furnished by the Eiler We y hope the picture will do | Piano Co. of« Portland. The justice to the faces of the thirty- i piano music was in charge of three students of our school. Prof. Bennett, a noted plaver Mr. Gildersleeve’s two daugh- j pianist of the same city. ters and son started to school last week. . Miss Emerson, primary teacher The general average of rainfall of the Royal school received her being about evened up, some more piano last Friday. fair weather is scheduled. Vocal music is taught in con nection with the regular classes and every student is expected to do his best. The advanced music students at the school got together on the evening of the 7th and organized what is known as the “ Royal which arc made at the Chorus Club.” The officers are as follows; Prof. G. E. Johnson, G rove allery leader; Miss G. M. Iimmerson, assistant leader and treasurer: New Management Prescott Wheeler, President: Alice New Equipment. Wheeler, secretary. The object Come and see ns. We being study and practice of vocal will do our utm ost to music. jilease you. The students taking the steno graphic course have entered upon A . J . A r m s t r o n g . their work and are doing nicely. Sorry that Archie Wilson has Notice o: Sherift's Sale cn Exccubon, lieen obliged to leave school for Noi ice is hetvby glven flint by the time being on account of his virine of an escctiIloti issiteli o u to f eyes. We hope to have him with tlic Circuit cou rt of thè s ta le of Ore gon, (or tho county nf Lime, on thè us again soon. 24l.li ilny of Sopti mlier. r.Mls, mi u jiulgnieiit rendenti in thè C o ttag e Messrs Johnson and Estes felled Greve .1 indice coin t un (he 28tli <lny the big tree standing near the of O ctober 11X17. in fnvor of 0 . E. S to n ilit. p .limiti, miniimt .1 .8 . dormitory. It fell on the school I Milite, d ife n d a li!, nini f<*r thè se n i of ground aud will be used by the l tlilrty (Inibire w illi in terest tF ereon | nt th è ru te of 10 i>er c e n t p - r n munì school for wood. ¡frinii th è 25th ilay o f Novemliei- lixi.“,. M e ssrs |MI*I th è further euni n f tw o ¡i et !*)- During the past week i ,, I . i <1 i 100 (F 'iln r*. costa; u lto $10.00 a t to r - Mtllei and Haudv bave drilied a noy's fees: also making transcript $1; well for the school dormitory. T h e I and a lso I he cos Is of and upon Mils . , , , , w rit, which | 0 <lgnte «1 wan eur dlel i L. IN C,KAM Stew art Porter Bu ilding ^ H ours 8.30 to IJ, 1 lo 5 ^ 9 , .. . .. , l»e there too some of these d ay s. ■ — ■ . s _ _ Cara Of Thanks. ______ I desire to exten d my h eartfelt th a n k s to the kind neigh bors and J . .V , friends and to the M \\ A. lodge, all o f whom rendered us com fo rt , ■ , : costs anil ncruhig cost«. Being nil- able to tin*! |s*rsonal property with which to satisfy -aid judgm ent, cost* and accruing cos I m . I did nil the 241 h dny id Heptrinlior. 1 !XN, levy upon 1 the following rent property lielong- Jin K to sa h lile li nd.ini on the Hint day of Nnv,,,ft(H.r pm7 ,,r suh*e.|«w«tly, to-w lt: The SEX ol the sK U ,,f Section |:t, ; Township 21. s . It W est, W. M,,| con tain in g 4n acres, more o r less, In and assistan ce during the la te ill- ness and death of mv son, (iu s - Now, ihcn-tore, in the ............. the ^ O k w h i ami in « n lf r to sa t- I i-fy said jml^iuunt. c o s ts jtml accrn- ( tave. Inic cu*ts, I will on Monday, theIHh ! K u r d ( t . L f e r k e . j dny of N oycih I m ’ i . hrtw«*ii the __________________ tm uiftof J» o'clock 1 in. and I o ’clock , p. in..t«vw it: \t 1 ovl<*k p. in. ‘»n, T h e A m erican battlesh ip fleet wiM day nt the wait hw« t it«H>r nf the sjeam ed into J a p a n ’s p r i n c i p a l 2 “ ! port Su nd ay and is lieing accord ed j <wh, mii»)n t to re K tnpfimt. all of i „ i __ i . «•/• tin* al**\e named dffeinliint’s, «1. S. j a grand recep tio n , but vastly d if M lln,M ight, title «...1 Interest. In and ferent from the kind w hich w as to the nls.ve ih -ctllietl r. al property, "T predicted when the fleet left H am ,. ton Road* on its long cruise. Everything new and uo-to-date. Best brands and grades ot F’resh Groceries. Country Produce bought and sold. Call and see what a dollar will buy at fV. C . J O H N S O N ’S . FA RM M A C H IN E R Y SA W M IL L S U P P L I E S S T E A M AND G A S O L I N E E N G IN E S . P A C K IN G . H O S E AND B E L T I N G Wynne Hardware Company Wholesale and Retail W atch m a ker . Repairing at reasonable charges. All work guaranteed tlrst-ciass. W atches, Clocks and Jew elry a t Lowest Price Hardware and Machinery COT TAG K G R O V E , O R E . General Blacksm¡thing B R A S S G O O D S AND T I N W A R E S T O V E S AND R A N G E S Horseshoeing a specialty. Wagon and carriage re- Ing. All work guaranteed Have your horsesteeth ex amined and repaired. Shop at rear of Hamenway A Bnrkholder’s Store A I C E i S n _______ — — ■ . PRUNES Parties having rijte Italian French or Silver Prunes, in large or small quantities—a pail full or a wagon load— are requested to bring them to the Cottage Grove Fruit Company, where they will /T) ich ires r i * piense BE PAID CASH school now h as an abun d an t sup-1 ,ul<t .locketod In the ofllco of the ply o f good w ater. clerk of the circuit cou rt on the 1st day ol NovemI**r t;*>7. by which 'I here is a lot of room in e ¡w r it I w as commanded in th the! writ wa* <■< immani loti that out nut of ! school yet. A ll who wish to com e t lie pernottai properly belonging to j said defendant o r if sufficient, could are invited. I not Is* found then out of the rent ,, , , property belonging to said defendant ■ C ottage (.ro v e is the only to w u l,,,, or ih. ,„ld 1st day of N*o on the m ap, but Roval school will ! vemher tni'7. I satisfy said judgment, JOHNSON’S STORE H . C. M A D S E N , a G AT j DENTIST Phone 1151 Family Groceries, New Dry Goods Fine Laces and Embroideries Ladies’ and Gents Shoes for them according to grade delivered. We will also dry fruit for cash or on shares. F o r jtarticulars enquire a t the Dr 3 *er. M IT C H E L L WAGONS W IN D M IL L S . P U M P S COTTAGE GROVE FLOUR MILLS A l l K i n d s of Mill F e e d G r öuin and Hay C H A S . M A T T H E W S . Prop rietor. i V". C. M. DENSMORE, Prop DRAYINQ Fashion Stables A nd a l l K inds of HAULING Leave orders at Cunningham's Con fectionery Phone 73 or phone residence 406 Hauling Done Promptly at first Class Livery, Sale and Feed Barn in Connection Reasonably Charge P o w e ll & T | llI a r i P rop# W. A. HOGATE VV'NÄv'N'V-VV'V-b’VV-’ VV*VV COTTAGE ? G HOVE Cochran & Cooley HOUSE FURNISHERS All the Utest treatm ents. Electrical PLAIN ami MEDICATED BATHS Linoleum, Matting, Rags and Picture Frames. X -U A Y LA B O R A TO R Y For further particular* address l>r. II. C. SC IIM IK P. NNNWN. W W V Furniture, Paints, Oil, filass, Wall Paper, Carpets, w V* M IL L E R ’S Machine Shop All kinds of machine and repair work done promptly and at reason able prices. OLD LBADER BULDING Third Street. THE PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE. The Standard High Grade Fence of the World There is over 4 0 0 miles of this famous wire fence in Douglas county, Oregon. This is High Carbon Spring Wire which will kecj> its shape when properly stretched. Will carry* a full stock of wire a t all times. In q u ir e of DAVID QRI0QS, or STEARNS & CHEN 0 WITM, Agents Cottage Grove, Ore. Oakland, Ore. COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON " ,N " ,h U B o w x ! * ^ ! Xew post cards and local views X 4 I Sheriff of I.*n<* county, Oregon at the Bazaar. The Leader Leads!