K IN G MISS MEETING
HELD THURSDAY
All’s Weil for 1909
QThe truth of this ¿fatement is borne out
not only by the present condition, but by
indications which positively cannot be
ignored. QWe have no complaint to
make with the year 1908. for certainly
our business has prospered. The out
look for 1909 is very favorable; confidence
is returning with lightning speed and we
know of no reason why the coming year
should not prove to be a banner year for
business.
QWe wish you a Happy and Prosperous
New Year.
To Consider County
A most enthusiastic aud largely J. F . Spray, Chas. Burkholder,
atteuded mass meeting was held in Isaac Jones ami many others,
formation
of
a
new
couuty from north Douglas aud
IN TH E LINK OF
J-
all Some Things we Learn From History
For fools rush in where angles
It was stated that $.S,000 could fear to tread.— Pope.
Fine Laces and Embroideries
Ladies' and Gents Shoes
AT
JOHNSON’S STORE
E verything new and uo-to-tfate. Best brands and grades ot
Fresh Groceries. Country Produce I »ought and sold. Call and
see what a dollar will buy at W . C . J O H N S O N ’S .
county
divisiou, aptioint
com have been secured at this meeting
Whatsoever a mau sowetlt. that
mittees to work ott the project aud to put through the initiative petit shall he also reap.— Paul.
draft a bill
V
WHERE IGNORANCE IS B L IS S .
T h e Albauy Democrat mau e x
poses his iguorauce on the Lane
couuty divisiou proposition in a
late issue o f his paper when he
says:
“ Cottage G rove people are plan
ning to have a uew couuty with
Cottage Grove as the county seat,
which suggests the reason for the
chauge. Lane is a loug couuty.
I f there shall be any division the
proper thing will be to divide the
couuty from north to south. Meat
of these county divisions are for
the purpose of securing the ad
vantages offered a couuty seat
W hen that is the only reason they
should always be opposed. That
is uot what couuty scats are for
aud there should be higher motives
than th is."
The Democrat matt then admits
that he "know s nothing about
this proposition,'' which is evident
from his nonsensical argument. It
is the Bohemia miniug district, the
Coast Fork and Pass Creek caityou
timber and lumber interests which
are cut in twain by the Lane and
Douglas bouudary line,
which
"suggests the reason” for this
plausible movement aud uot atty
particular ambitiou ou the part o f
Cottage ( ‘. rove to become a county
seat. The citizens o f South Lane
county have tried to secure ICgis
latiou repeatedly providing for
chauge o f the county bounddry
line so as to iuclude these mining
and timl>er iuterests all iu Lane
county in order to avoid a world
of legal tcchuecalities, inconveni
ence aud extra expense iu devel
opment proceedings, but have met
with failure, so uow, it is proposed
to form this section into a new
county.
I f you cannot write intelligently
south Laue, but they admit that if
the proposition is carried to an
initiative vote the measure will
probably carry, so those Eugene
aud Roseburg citizens who have
beeu playing the “ dog in the
manger” act for these years— re
fusing to develop the resources of
north Douglas and south Lane or
provide assistence for others to do
so, will have to take their med
icine, agree upou au amicable
divisiou of the com paratively
small territory asked for by the
promoters o f the new county, or
the measure will certainly be
submitted to au initiative vote
at the next regular election and
the boundary line will be fixed to
our own liking. Gentlemen, its up
to you! Meet the Cottage Grove
Commercial Club representatives
with a glad hand, listen to their
reasonable
aud just demauds,
amicably agree upou the proposed
bouudary lines aud we will have a
more progressive and I tetter im
proved country all around, our
dormant resources will Ite de
veloped more homes will Ite pro
vided for incoming home seekers,
and as Cottage Grove, Drain, Cres
well aud the new county advances
aud developes, Roseburg, Eugene
aud the two remaining old counties
w ill boom iu lik e proportion.
I.et the new county Itoundary
line on the south follow the present
line from the southeast corner of
the county taking in the Bohemia
mining district and ruuniug west
to aud along the fifth standard
parallel, between Drain and You-
ralla to the Pacific ocean, this 0,1 * snt)iec‘ ltro,her Nutting,
parallel being the north boundary better let it alone.
line o f Coos county, which would
THE NEW YEAR.
relieve Douglas county only o f
that narrow neck of undeveloped
It was only o f those hitherto
coast country aud camel hump in
the Bohemia district. For the yesterdays that we stood on the
north boundary, follow the fourth threshold and extended the right
standard parallel from the ocean hand o f welcome to 1908, with
east to the W illam ette meridian, fraternity and good w ill, and
thence drop south on the W iliam wishes o f prosperity and happiness
ette
meridian
two
townships, to each other. Now we turn our
thence due east to the present faces toward '09 with antfeipa-
The Fountain Head o f Life
Is The Stomachi
A m a who haa a waak and impair'd »tomaak and wka
properly difaat kia load will im i fod that kia Stood koa
wank and impoveriakad, aad I Sol Su «k o la body
U is A r il- T 'r nonna tied.
ftp . W Ï M F I G O L D E N M E D I O N L
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afpaad <■ S a d r, a e tfro la
Tina • Diaeovary " ia a para, gtyaarip ai t i — I a< Amana— modtaot r— m.
absolutely tree from alcohol aad all iopaato— . knkt%4armmd t n p
AH —
iadredimita ara priatad — ita wrappers
II koa ne - ■ -
, v fcg
nostrums. Ite every ingredient ie ende reed by On tendera in alt Iba i
medicine
Don’ t accept e acere« nostrum — a cubatitele h r A
remedy or «s o w * comp — m on. A a t tous npw aaou. Tbny
many carea made by it during past 4« ydare. right ta rear a w « ,
W orld’s Diapeneary M edical Aaeoemtsoa. Dr. H .V .
to present
to
an ware
the ions aud
Everyone can master a grief,
other legal ’ documents
uecessary to submit this proposition but he that hath it.— Select.
O how full o f briers is this
T h e meeting was atteuded by to a vote o f the people at the next
working-day
world!— Shakespeare.
Coast fork, Row river and Silk general election, should the pro
N
o
more:
where ignorance is
creek taw m ill men aud farmers, position be turned down in the
bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.— G ray
legislature
this
winter.
It
is
evi
Bohemia miners and about every
dent that south Lane people are Thiuk bow Bacon shined,
busiuess mau in the towu.
thoroughly aroused on the question The wisest, brightest, meanest of
II. O. Thompson, president of
aud aieati business.
maukind.—-Pope.
the Commercial Club presided, aud
A prophet is without houor,
C O M M IT T E R ON
D R A F T IN G
B IL L
enthusiastic speeches were made
Hou. R. M. Veatch, C. E. Stew save in his own country, and in
by Mr. Russell proprietor o f the
art,
G . L. Rees, C. If. Burkholder, his own house.— Matthew.
Ooreua Lumber Co., J. B. Rouse
The scriptures were literally iu
J.
F.
Spray.
o f the Coast Fork Lumber Co., A
terpreted, and old Testament was
F IN A N C E C O M M IT T E R
L- Woodard of the Latham Lum
Ben Lurch, Welcom e Hubble read' every morning even if the
ber Co., Hou. R. M. Y'eatch, F.
ladies faiuted.— Bill N ye.
II. Rosenberg, Attorney Medley, aud F. D. Wheeler.
’ Tis with our judgments as our
watches; none
tious o f blessings to come. As
Believing that far closer rela
Go just alike, yet each believes his
T in y T im expressed it, “ G od bless tions can be established with the
own.— Pope.
us, everyon e."
towns along
the Umpqua and Sweet are the uses o f adversity,
Rush work is uow over aud the
Suislaw, Portland merchants are Which, like the toad, ugly and
business mau has more time for
veuomous,
study and reflection. W ith the taking steps to iuduce the owners
merchant the time is here for o f the steamer A rago which re Wears yet a precious jewel in his
heiid.— Shakespeare.
"ta k in g stock” and many have cently began to ply between Port
Legislature.
COUNTY DIVISION PLAN
proposed
“ You say that local option has
beeu o f great benefit to this section
o f the country?”
"Y e s ,
sir,”
answered the Colonel. “ As soon
as a lot o f us citizens realized how
far anybody would have to go for
a drink we organized a good roads
movement. ’ '— Star.
the Commercial Club rooms last being a unit for county divisiou.
bouudary line near Black
__
Tvi*»4o.v»
Friday*.
| butte peak, this would bring the
TH K I.KAHKK PUBLISHING CO (I* * .) I north boundary line a few miles
north of Creswell and south o f
C oXX KR iV h c ttK I II.I.K,
-
E d ito r s
Goshen and leave practically all o f
Kntered at the (Cottage Grove postonica as **«- the middle fork country in l.aue
orni-class matter.
county. This is asking for but
comparatively small concessions
SDHSCK1PI ION KA1KS
front either o f the old counties,
W eekly, one year. SI.SO.
months
SEMI W EE K LY.
which should be readily and cheer
I.\u0
One Year
.
.
.
.
l.uO fully granted, as it practically
Six Months
.79
Three Months
does uot alter or require the alter
ing o f the remaining bouudary
TUESDAY, JANUAKY 1, 1909.
lines o f the old counties, includ
ing Coos.
people of that city will fight the j
Mining
Men Present— Unit For New County.
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER . ' eastern
Roseburg dispatch says the
Division-Prom inent
uight, the object being to discuss
E m tlY Wliat T od Waul
Family Groceries. New Dry Goods
Men, Saw Mill Men, Farmers and Business
Burkholder—Woods Co.
A
LOCAL OPTION'S
GOOD EFFECTS
already entered upou the arduous
'task in this city, to see where they
stand. How much has the year's
business cost us and how much
have we to show for it? It is a
good time for us all, business man,
farmer, m ill man or miner, to
study improved methods. Isn’t
there a way to make progress at
less cost? C a n it Ite done by the
use o f more machinery or by ar
ranging for economy iu labor?
Can we lop off some unessential
expense? Can our market methods
aud liviug methods be improved?
Look about you-aud see what your
neighbors have dotie in all of
these matters- Consider well, at
this the beginning o f the uew
year aud hold' fast only to that
which is good policy. In couclus-
ion the lea d er wishes its readers,
every one, a joyous, prosperous
N ew Year.
to drop into 'The best laid schemes o ’ mice an’
men
the former coast ports on botn the
Gattg aft a-gley;
up and down trips. Under the
A n ’ lea’ us naught but grief and
present' arrangements it is said that
pain
practically all of the commerce
For promised joy.— Burns.
land and Tillam ook,
from
that
section
goes to San
T h e custom yet noticed some
steam times in country churches and
ship service to Portland it is the festive gatherings o f placing the
males aud females on opposite
consensus o f opiuion that this con
sides o f the room was originated
dition would be reversed.
not so much as a punishment to
both, but as to give the men an
Corvallis, a to w n ' very little opportunity to act together when
larger than Cbtjage Grove supports the red brother felt ill at ease. I
three semi-weekiy newspapers and am glad the red brother does not
molest us now-a-davs and make us
each carries three times as much
sit apart that way. Keep away,
advertising as the Leader, some of
red brother, remain ou your own
merchants earring regularly full reservation, please, so that the
page and half page ads. W e note pale face may sit by his loved one
that our former townsman, C. and hold her little soft hand dur
Ross King, carries a quarter page ling the sermon.— Bill Nye.
Francisco.
W ith regular
Carving Sets, Silver
and
Records,
Knives,
Forks
and Spoons, Ornamental Candle Sticks
and many other useful and appropriate
Holiday Gifts
:
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:
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:
Hcaücsrters (or Karin are
: ! 5>
COTTAGE GROVE
FLOUR
MILLS
AU Kinds of
Mill Feed
G rain
and Hay
C H A S . M A T T H E W S . Proprietor.
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Fashion Stables
ad.
JUST TO O BLIGE YOU!
Y et people wonder why the
Leader is not a still better paper When ‘•America-'
Edison Graphophones
and Cottage Grove not more wide
was Sung for the
First Time.
The Eugene Register challenges ly known as an enterprising town.
the
lead er
to
produce
a single
before election extract from that
W ater can’t rise above its level.
paper favorable to the formation of N or can a community rise above
the new county o f Hood river last the level o f its citizenship. I f the
June.
Here you are brother Gil- citizens are lukewarm,
lim p and
strap, and it must have had a good lazy,the town will be wishy washy,
ring
to the
Hood
river people.
and weak.
G ive the “ fa m e" o f our mines and
Let one o f those N ew Y ea r reso
lutions read that you w ill become
position a similar boost, please:
au enthusiastic booster for Cottage
It is very apparent at this writ Grove during 1909.
ing that after June 1st Oregon will
have .14 counties instead o f .1,1 as
heretofore. On election day the
A be Reuf has beeu sentenced to
people o f the state vote on whether 14 years imprisonment, the m a x i
or not Hood river county shall lie
mum penalty for his offense. He
formed out o f a portion o f Wasco
county. The fame o f the Hood will appeal.
timber aud our new county pro
river section has liecome so well
and favorably known throughout
This is part o f the “ hard w inter”
the state for its hustling qualities
we were to have.
Its more lik e
and fine fruit that so modest a re
early spring.
quest as to lie formed into a coun
ty o f its own will readily lie ac
quiesced in by the people general
ly .— Eugene Register
The U . S. Pom ologist
May 29, 1908.
C o l. G . B. B ra c k e tt says
im *'*d
glad lo
to know
know Y*“
you » are
making an
The average man’s ideal way to " I 1 ,m
re making
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. i eitra effort to diueminale Delicioul npple.
live would be It. a cozy l i t t l e COt I have ilw.y, told you I coni.der i, thebeit
tage A w a y off in the country— ! of all varietiea you have introduced”
with a cigar store, drug store Do you know Stack Delicious?
theater and club within four m in -! It ia the apple that made the We—tehee
Utes walk.
Valley famoua horticnhurally; the apple
that was Bold by Oscar Vanderbilt, Hood
Followers o f * '«Messiah T eed ,” River» Ore., last year far $6.00 per box;
kept
watch
. lately deceased,
.
.
, on his
body, expectiiiR he would come to
life again as he said he would. He
did uot “ come up to their expects
tion s." He is still dead.
The statement that there are at
least a million pounds o f butter in
cold storage in Chicago indicates
i
that butter will
enough to force itself on the
ket, and the prices down.
£ *1
tT m
•h" we-
lot
WJ per box more then Riv"
aay rtktr
titty and the apple that nlwtiyt topi the
market! everywhere.
Prof. H . E . Van Demrn
y
E m U. S. PbmrUfist, tayi :
"> w
«owe (lortom . n * . i . „
W ir t l- w ii
p . C.. wirkei recently, and smon| them wgM De-
Kcion.. bnMifti lb* ki*hesi prfen of all."
A reminiscence c f Dr. Edward
Everett H ale's Boyhood.
“ On one Fourth o f July in Bos
ton ,” writes Dr. H ale in his " R e
miniscences” in W om an’s Home
Companion for January, " I had
spent all my allowance for July
and all my ‘lection m oney’ on the
Common— possibly for a sight in
the camera obscura, though I
doubt if I had money enough for
that— certainly for raw oysters,
three for a cent if small, two for a
cent i f large: probably half a glass
o f sp.'Tice lieer, one cent, and two
or thretf eheckerberry medals— die
now lost —and make what allow
ance you please for tamarinds,
cocoanuts, sugar cane and other
foreign delicacies. I was return
ing iienuiless and had to pass
Park Street M eeting House, when
alt eveut o f historical importance
took place. Long columns of
boys and girls were going into
meeting. The spectacle of a pro
cession o f children going to meet
ing on any day hut Sunday was
as wonderful to me as a volcanic
éruption from the Blue hills would
have been. O f course 1 joined
the throng. So ia it that I am one
o f the little company who heard
the national hymn sung for the
first time:
“ *My country ’tis o f thee.
Sweet land o f liberty.’
“ I hope I did not join in the
ingin g, Jor at that time do waafto
ne even as re and mi, and I am
afraid 1 should not have improver!
on tire harmonies o f the occasion.'’
H are you lasted this royal fruit?
I* no', w r » 'l l «end a box of 3 apacime—
Henrv W . Poor is the latest big
°n receipt o f 25 eenM to pay partial
expreaa charge«. (N o charge'ia made lot W a ll street broker to go broke:
the Intit). The 25 rent, we will refund to but then he was a Poor broker,
you on the tint order of lie— you rend —. anyw ay.
Send lor the fruit today and aak for out
T k e weather clerk is.surely do
New Delicioua Booklet. It ia free.
Portland has retained Tom Rich
ing his level best to make the holi
day week o f 1908 a record break S tark B ro's N u rs e rie s ardson asj booster for still auother
er, Climatic conditions are just A O rch ards (C o m p a n y year, and w ifi increase its promo
about aa favorable as they well Louisiana ** Missouri U . 8. A . tion fu qd for a great b ig boost in
could be.
1909.
’
First Class Livery, Sale and Feed Barn in Connection
P o w e ll & T u lla r , P r o p .
THE PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE.
The Standard High Grade Fence o f the
World.
There is over 400 miles of this
famous wire fence in Douglas county, Oregon.
This is High Carbon Spring Wire which will
keep its shape when -properly stretched. Will
carry a full stock of wire at all times.
In q u ire of
DAVID 0RI0QS,
or STF.ARNS & CHEN0WITH, Agents
Cottage Grove, Ore.
Oakland, Ore.
DRAYING
And &II K ind« o f
H AULING
NOTICE FOR P U B L IC A T IO N .
Department o f tire Interior,
li. H. Land Office at Itoselmrg, Ore.
July 27, IflttN.
Notice is hereby
given tin
C H A R I , K M K. C L A R K
t of Comstock, Douglas county. Orego
who, on Mny 12th. I ! « l made horn
stead entry No. 127Ft. S It, OT»10 for tl
Leave orders at Cunningham t Con 'North West quarter of the Nori
fectionery Phone 73 or phone
West quarter Seetion 2S, Townsli
21 South. Rang.’ I. West of the Wi
residence 4 06
lamette Merhlan. has filed notice
\ intention to make final five yea
X>f to establish claim to tl
d nt>ove described, before Itegi
! tér and Receiver nt Roseburg. Or
i K°n on the ilrd day of January Iun
! Claimant names as witnesses,
i c. C. Watkins, O. T. Olcson. Job
Watkins, M. A. Clark, all of Cor
stock, Oregon.
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B f . njamis L. Kt»nv. Register
Hailing Done Promptly at C
Reasonable Charge
W . A . H O G A TE