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