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WHAT OTHER TOWNS ARE DOING. COL BLAIR RECEIVES TREES FOR PLANTING Childrens Literature Day Eiactlj lat Yon Wait Saturday d as ' designated as Corvallis will soon build a $20,- j childrens literature day by the 000 church and pave its main street. Yesterday Col. and Mrs. W. H. I Women’s Club aud the club hour IN T H E L IN E O F Blair of Hotel Oregon, received ; was given up entirely Saturday at Besides raising $15,000 for boosting purposes Kugene has their first consignment of fruit [the Comnyjrcial club rooms, to dis- Family Groceries, New Dry Goods raised $51,000 for a Y. M. C. A. trees for their orchard tract which cussious of subjects bearing on A I.itie of Samples from Marshall-Fields & Co. buildiug. T h at’s the spirit that they inirchased from Jobu Spray childrens books and other readiug. Fine Laces and Embroideries makes Hugene a town worth w hile., last summer. This shipment cotn- Dr. Nave discussed the so-called Consisting of Even Albany citizens have gone! Prisis «‘»»ugh Cornice pear trees to | funny papers’ and .lid not took Ladies' and Gents Shoes down in their jeans aud raised ! 1'>““ ‘ five acres and Spitzenl»erg 1 »|»n them as worthy of a place iu Silk and Ice W ool Head Scarfs. >10,000 to $2i>,000, this to secure a apple trees to set out another five the home qi having a tendency to Wool Shoulder and Head Scarfs and Shawls. $50,000 endowment for Albany | acres. They also received a num form the best early moral im ber of grape vines aud Bing, I.am- pressions ui>ou the child ntind. college. Bearskin and Crushed Plush Caps for Children. The mothers present also expressed What other towns no larger have bert aud Koyal Ann cherry trees, themselves as opposed to the to add to their fruit orchards. Sweaters from 1 to 16 Y ear Sizes. Everything new and uo-to-date. Best brnnds and grades ot done, Cottage Drove ought to l>e They have a 60 acre tract ad ‘ ‘funny paper” on the grounds Fresh Groceries. Country Produce bought awl sold Call and able to do eventually. Ouray, that they did uot impress the child mirably situated for fruit aud when Nightdresses. Outing Flannel, Hemstitched and Em see what a dollar will buy at IF . C . J O H N S O N S . Colorado, with less than 5,000 the trees now on hand are set out morally as might lie desired. It broidered yokes, all sizes, Prices ranging from population, h is an Klk buildiug I they will have 15 acres planted. was also the sense of the meeting 3 0 cents to $1.40. Ready made cheaper that cost $60,000 and a hotel that The trees are being set out 24 feet that clean, wholesome pictures than you can buy material. cost $100,000. Nampa. Idaho, apart each way and will lie kept should lie substituted for the im had a $100,000 hotel when it had SA W M IL L S U P P L I E S Over One Hundred and Highly Samples to Select FA R M M A C H IN E R Y modest, gaudy ones now so well cultivated and pruned. less than 2,000 inhabitants. T o NO TWO AI.IK K. common. The trees were purchased by day, with 5,500 inhabitants, the S T E A M AND G A S O L I N E E N G IN E S . Prof. Barnes spoke on reading Col. and Mrs. Blair front J. D. P A C K IN G , H O S E AND B E L T I N G hotel has been enlarged $50,000 Cochran, agent for the Woodburu and what constitutes a book worth worth. John Dewey, the owner, readiug. nurseries. says his hotel has paid good iu -; Miss Marvin, state librarian, de terest on the mouey since the j livered a very instructive address How to Plant Walnuts. second year. on books, exhibiting over 100 vol Cottage Grove has no paved Since it has been proven beyond umes of the best books for child streets, little concrete sidewalk and a question of a doubt that the ren. caunot get up public spirit enough These books are on display at growing of walnut orchards is to Wholesale and Retail COTTAGE GROVE LEADER. The present Oregon campaign to buy a city park which nature become one Bepson’s Pharmacy where they of the most profitable T u e s d a y s a n d F r id a y s . j for good roads manifests the has already beautified, at a cost of will rgmaiu for inspection, but not ; spirit of our forefathers 100 years only $5,000 for five acres right in industries of tfiis part of the state, for sale until Thursday and parents T H K I . B A D K K I ’ l I B I . I S I I I N U C O ( I n i ’.) it may interest a good many to ago. Acting upon the recomtneu- town. Wake up! kuow how to g o about it to propo- and children should call and E d ito r s C O N N K B & D u B r I IL L K , I datum of President Jeffersou Con gate their own trees and thereby examine them carefully. gress appropriated $14,000,000 for K o t e r e d a t t h e C o t t a g e G r o v e p o s U if h c e M *«*c- Sotne day, and that time is not The club ladies had invited a om l c la s s m a tte r. *"*- Ul IUC KlC.il 111K11- as far distant as some Oregonians save much expense iu planting out number of friends out to Satur wav from Virginia to the Missouri think, the fine fruit lands in Lane an orchard. 3’he following method day’s meeting and the club rooms s u B -s c K ir r io N k a t k m B R A S S G O O D S AND T I N W A R E river. Had it not been for that county will be producing fine fruit. has been adopted with great sue W e e k l y , o n e y e a r . * 1 . * ) : » ¡ x m o n t h « ,7A c e n t s were wfcll filled and a most enjoy S T O V E S AND R A N G E S SP.MI W R K K L Y . road, the development of our great Land as good as the best in famed cess by Felix Currin, one of the able and instructive afternoon was • »Ml# O ne Y ear - largest and first of our fruit 1 .tiO western country would have been apple sections sells here now for .S i x M o n t h s W I N D M IL L S , P U M P S the verdict of all. .7 5 M IT C H E L L WAGONS T h r e e M o n th s delayed a quarter of a century, from $55 to $75 per acre. That growers to plant out large walnut orchards in this vicinity. j Government aid will never again land set to fruit trees and these T U E S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 1, 1 9 0 8 . Mr. Currin fir.-t picks out some Ire extended for roadbuildiug, properly tended, will be worth Obituary and Biography. ! however, until the people take the from $500 to $1200 per acre. of the largest and best nuts of the Imports impoverish, exports en I initiative, as they are liegiuuiiig to Local people now putting out varieties which thrive the liest Lydia Farr Comer was born at rich. Cottage Grove should be | do now. The Federal government apple and pear orchards will never here. He theu takes a nail keg or come an exporter. some other keg which will uot Willistoti, Crittenden county, Ver j has expended $500,000,000 for the regret their investment if they but hold water, and places therein at mont, Aug. 10, 1817, and died at Another pleasant holiday reflec j improvement of harbors and water- give their orchards intelligent this season of the year, a layer of the liome of her son, William, in tion: Campaign cigars for which ways; 196,000,000 acres of public care. fine sand or good soil and then a Cottage Grove, Nov. 21, 1908. A ll K in d s of there was no demand will make i have been given for the con- structiou of railroads, but only The American-Japanese agree layer of walnuts. This process is SK e remained in Vermont until fine presents for father. 5,200,001! acres of laud have been ment just perfected through the repeated until the keg is filled, SOie was 18 years old when she Alm ost 7.000,000 votes were c a s t1 I alloted for the buildiug of wagon great diplomacy of President when he places a screen or old went with her parents to Warsaw, for W. J . Bryan in the last elec roads. Our roads at this day are Roosevelt is considered by the na sack over the top and sets it on Illinois where after a 28 vears resi tion. Four years ago Judge Bark worse in proportion than what they tions as a brilliant culmination of the south or sunny side of t.he dence the ’ family moved to the er received about 5,000,000. house or other building where if Minnesota frontier near Carthage, were iu the times of Jefferson-, the retiring administration. j will be exposed to the winter Taints near ivlvich place deceased was Madison and Monroe and it ifc It is to be hoped that none of There is more buildiug on a which passes down through tb e married to Mr; Comer, a native of high time that the government wafe the. enthusiastic gunners in the commencing to aid the people in large scale in prospect for next layers of soil 4jkd nuts and "by Ohio, .who died April 14, 1874, in marshes this month will mistake year iu Cottage Grove than ever planting time in the. spring, the Minnesota at the age of 72 years. improving their highways. C H A S . M A T T H E W S . P ro p rieto r. any hunting companions for Five, children were born to them, before in the history of the town. nuts are well sprouted and by- re clucks. moving them.. carefully front Jhe two having died in Illinois One The business man who wants to In fact building bids fair to con keg and planting them they gre w remaining son resides in Minne We may now look forward to boost can not do much better than tinue all winter here. very rapidly and the great loss sota and the other two sons, J . M. the Christmas shopping campaign; to make his show window’s attract from gfophers and mice otherwise and Williafn reside in Cottage and— Providence make us thank ive. The average stranger in the The first day of the last month ful for what we are about to city and the traveling salesmen of 1908 and the bill collector is experienced i ft ovevcome. M t. Grove. There is 19 living grand Currin’s method of pla-nting is to\ children and two dead, while 52 who come and go, seldom get off abroad in the land. prepare his ground thoroughly and great grandchildren are living. Main street, hence they get their ;A St. Louis woman is huutiug then take a crow-br.r am] make a A it older sister of deceased Polly her husband so she can sue him impressions there. That impres Real Estate. hole two or thr^e feet deep, into Farr Hobart died at Carthage, for divorce. He would probably sion is likely to be a good one if which he places the loug center Minn. Aug. IT, 1907, at the age of the windows of the business cdme forward at once if he knew For bargains in fruit, stock and root of the wa’,uUt tree and holds 9,8 years’ and '5 months, her eldest houses show that they have lieen wfiat she wants of hint. farm lauds see Scarbrough & it firmly whi’,e he sticks the crow child being 80 years old at the given careful aud intelligent con Cochran, Creswell, Oregon, or bar down *jy the side of the hole time her mother died. Grandma Frank II. Hitchcock, chair sideration. Even the smaller win Chas. Cochran, Cottage Grove, Or. aud genMy presses the dirt about Comer also had another sister aged man of the national republican dows can be dressed nicely if the the yof.nj, root. He says by this 95 years'at' the time of her death committee and manager of Mr. business man or his clerks will but George Nichols of the Yoncalla method the crown root will go demonstrating the fact that they T a ft’s campaign, will be given a occupy a portion of their spare Courier, was looking after business dow n to moisture the first year aud come of a family of strong vitality c a b i n e t position— postmaster time. matters for his paper in this city lb e growth of the tree, if protected and great longivity. Grandma general. The public can well afford to in Monday. The Courier is now a r*rom grass and vegetation will be Comer was a kind, gentle and P o w e ll & T u lla r , P r o p . An Ivnglishmaii, witnessing his vestigate the home merchant’s 12-paged four column newspaper [very rapid. saintly old lady who was honored find baseball game, was struck by wares aud prices before mouey is and loved by all who knew her. a hot one off the bat. On coming sent to a big city for goods that She was a desoendent of Henry to, he asked faintly: “ What was have not been seen. The mer Duiister, first , president of liar- it?” “ A foul,” they told him, chants iu towns the size of Cottage yard college and was a kind, in only a foul!” ‘‘My word!” he ex Grove do not pay the enormous dulgent mother, a faithful wife claimed, ” 1 thought it was a rents nor the high salaried clerk lid a good neighbor. She had that city merchants must employ, mule.” mly resided in Oregon a few aud as a rule are satisfied with a Tears. Half-cultivated large farms, sub more reasonable profit. As a con B y B E N J A M IN P. Y O A K U M . C h .lrm .n of , h . Executive Com m ltteceof the divided aud sold in small plots at sequence they can, will and do Rock Island System. / The Standard High Grade Fence of the a reasonable price should Ire the offer you much 1 letter bargains iu O E five years attention has been called, and very /wisely an.l World. There is over 400 miles of this rule in this section for some time most instances than the big city very properly, to the duty of n trustee. In some rjas«3 trustees famous wire fence in Douglas county, Oregon. to come. This county needs houses. prove false to their trusts. Corrective laws, o n a ct^ l and cn- This is High Carbon Spring Wire which will people; it needs farmers used to forced within the last few years, have been avisei and l ave Governor Stuart of Pennsyl keep its shape when properly stretched. Will making a living on from 20 to 40 T he 'H ood River (Oregon) vania is to ask its next legislature made for honest business methods and have a tr o n g fjW d t the confi- Apple'Grow ers Union made carry a full stock of wire a t all times. • acres. / to appropriate $6,000,000 for the detu’o of the world in us and in our enterprises. th issale'on O ctober 11, 1908 Approximately 165,000 apple construction of a state highway W e have gone forth to the world giving notio* e v e ^ z h e re that D E L IC IO U S S 2 . 5 0 p er b o x and pear trees wilt lje planted in from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. Ben D a v ir i 1 -im T R t V t F f T i ITP ’° #re ch" ge<1 " l t h ' hc 1,,rgr4 responsibilities of the Kogue river valley in the Baldwin IS O » » ^ ' m oorPor*6nns must do their^luty in the$* manage- Horticulturists will lie interested vicinity of Medford during the Akin . 1 50 ” ” Jonathan ^1.50 “ “ coming winter, according to the in the state meeting at Portland With all the publicity given to the m L.^unagenient oA c0rpora. Dec. 2, 5 aud 4. Prizes are of This Delicious h; the famous Stark estimate of County Fruit Inspector fered for Willamette valley apples Dons, it .s true that not ONE IN A HT/NDKKD of th e j corpora Inquire of Delicious, without* which no or- G. W. Taylor. This means about and pears. tions of this country has gono W RO N G ./ . ^ , DAVID (iRIOGS, or STEARNS & CHENOWITH, Agents 8000 acres additional orchard, chnrdist is prepared to meet the de Cottage Grove, Ore. Oakland, Ore. making a total of 41,000 acres of When public sentiment demands Underneath all this business there > a solid substratum c f com mands o f present-day buyers. fruit orchard in the vallev. it, the liquor law can lie enforced. mercial integrity. The business of *hia country is, with v r t v rare 1,250,000 ia the number o f tree* of D elie- ious we have grown this year to meet the exceptions, conducted upon H O N E S T L IN E S. The,men wbo\ are in demand — still wc b elieve we arc ahorl charge of large enterprises are, aVn rule, honest and faithful. \ NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. H a v e you tasted this royal fru it? J 0 HN 5 0 N ’ 5 STORE Wynne Hardware Company Hardware and Machinery COTTAGE GROVE FLOUR MILLS M ill Feed G r a in a n d H ay F a s h io n S ta b le s First Class Livery, Sale and Feed Barn in Connection THE PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE. Well Meaning Corporations^, Should,Île Treated ^ W ith Fairness) f A ids N ature T tw I rest «ucceai ot D r. Pierce'« Golden Med.Vel D i .- corery in earing weak «tonech«. watted bodie», week lung«, and obstinate end lingering cough«, ie heeed on the recognition ot the fundamental truth (hat "G olde n Medical D iecovery" «uppliea Nature with body-huild- mg, Im ue-repairing, muecle-making material«, in con- denaed and concentrated form. W ith thi. help Nature •uppliea the neeeaaary «trength to the «tomach to digeat food, build up the body and thereby throw oft lingering obetinate cough«. Th e "D ia e n v e ry " re-eatahliehea the digeative and nutritive organa in aound health, purifle« and enrichee the blood, and nouriahet the nervea — in abort oatahliahea aound vigoroua health, n I’M » ’ rfen/ep oW ere m o m r t h l i rg " / n e t a a f o o d '• M fe p r o p m b lr P o r t e r F O R H i m - - I t p e ra b e t to r . *■ * rmm mr* e f th e r a r e n o t tlte p ro fit, e a t t a r a ' a e e f k f e g “ /aa# a a < « e g " t o r torn. S a y a a . i (cine d« Simplified s T Kdité en/». m l , n newly puin revised R°‘ ii,h: up-to-date Intel page«, over a 700 illuafration«, 21 one-cent stamp«, to cover coat at mailing ( 4 otti-bound, 31 «rampa Addreaa D r. R . V . Pierce, Hufelo, N . Y . SHOULD SHOULD .Delicious again D tc'ps the market BE F A IR , °F ™ “ B U T SU C rt A N Y F A V O R IT IS M OR IN J U S T IC E IN O S W I T H T H E P U B L IC . A« BY W IL L » V T H E Q O V EK N M k T N T E F F E C T I V E L Y p $ tC V t N T R A IL R O A D S in T H E IF ti OEA L - I zVny attempt on the part of railroad s,p loyees or investor B to u n dertake to create unfair conditions through legislation or o therwise J ,hC, rBl r'f,j9 tho PM ic wonl<l be a SI OUOUS “ d wo,,1J rpc*,v* RESENTMENT A N u i CON DEMNATION of the public, and properly no. J ut I ta V TH E A M E R IC A N PEOPLE. W H EN TH EY c o ««w COM E TO S T A N D T H E T R U E S IT U A T IO N , T H E REAL CAUSE O F TV B L E B N O W P A C IN O T H E R A IL R O A D S A N D R E T A R D I N G V E L 0 P M E N T O F T H E C O U N TR Y . W IL L L E N D T H E IR SU T H E E N D T H A T F A IR T R E A T M E N T BE ACCO R DED T H f lvv4rv thing in the furniture line! new line of ban at Cochran Ac Cooley. 54tf 'Cochran & Cooley. > If not, wc will »end a box of 3 «pccimcn» on receipt of 25 cent* to pay partial e x press charges. (N o charge is made for the fru it). T h e 25 cents wc will refund fo you on the first order of trees sent us. Send for the fruit today and asU for our New D elicious Booklet. I t ’s free. Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Company L o u is ia n a M is s o u ri U . S. A . UNDER- TR O U - DE IT TO • We Are King-' That great and very laughable comedy “ W e are K ing,” will lie gooAs at presented at the armory theater Friday. J4tf DRAYING And n il Kinds o f HAULING D epartm ent o f the In terio r, V. 8 . L a n d Office a t R o se ln irg, Ore. July 2 7 . 1008 . N o tice i« hereby Riven th a t ( II A R I.E S E. C L A R K ' ot C om atoek. D o u g la s co u n ty, O regon, 1 w h o . on M ay 1 2 th , 19 0 3 . m ade hmne- j stead e n try Vo. 1 2 74 3 , S R, O.'dO for the Leave orders at Cunningham s Con j N orth W est q u a r te r of th e N o rth W eat q u a r te r S ection 2 8 , T o w n sh ip fectionery Phone 73 or phone | 2 1 B o o th . R an g e 1 , W eat of the W il residence 406 la m e tte M eridan, hna filed n o tice o f Intention t o m ake (Inal five yen ra t o eabihltah claim t o the f iroof and n 1 ) 0 vo deaerlhcd. before Regis, to r And Reeeiver a t Roaebunz. <>re- i iron on th e 2 3 rd day o f J a n u a ry . 19 0 9 . c la im a n t n am es a s w itn esses I C. C , W a tk in s , O , T . O leson, J o h n W atkin s. M. A. C la r k , n il o i C om sto ck , O regon. g l -38 B r iu a n ix L . E d d t . R e giste r Hauling Done Promptly at Reasonable Charge W . A. HOG A TE