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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1909)
yj u m V A ¿¿Z m A l BIG CASH CLEARANCE SALE FOR JANUARY ! 1 ! ■ ■ 10 ' ' TO OFF u i 1 . % $ S A V (ti O n all our $12,000 stock of Furniture, Carpets, Matting, Linoleum, L ace Cur tains, Blankets, Paints and W a ll Paper. Everything Cut Down. V e a tc h mmmm of orejtidiciug the jteople of - iakes*nt Leona ia ;\n< (1 the Douglas county against the very Bohemia lnfues, thus wiping out reasonable request for the com THIS I.EADKU PUBI.IHIIINO CO the serpentine' boundary between paratively small territory in north I'MItolH Douglas and l.aneiu the east end. ClI.NNKH A D u B b I II.I.K , Douglas required in the creation of Kntered at the Cottage (»rove postoBlee as s«c- The new county would be long t Nesmith county, a large area of oml-claMs matter, and narrow and make I.aue of ! I winen which lies ties in the Cascade Forest like shape, but it has many points t reserve< Roseburg immediately an- s i l u s e n t p t io n k a t k s wxut.|loreco,nu,e,,d il- Douglas seems J nounced that Cottage Grove pro- W eekly, one year. $1.50, mont lis SK.MI WEEKLY. | inclined to oppose the proposed", p0-,ec] to run the south boundary One Year f.'.oO 1 .oO division. I he advantage of the ]j,le 0f jj,e new COUnty as far Six Months Three Months .7» new county would be to unite the south as Rice H ill, including Bohemia mining district and the Yoiicalla, Drain and all of the C O T T A G E GROVE. OREGON b'gging and lumbering interests in Douglas coast county in the pro- Located ou the upper W illam ette River 144 miles south o f 1‘ortlnud on Southern Pa the same section. j posetj new county. The people of cific and Oregon & South Eastern Railroads. rn T T A C C la c o m ic T u e s la y . l« n m s o u t h li n e Frld&rs. J Population 2500; tw o hanks; public and high schools, five churches; water, light and sew er systems;creamery; flour m ill: two brick yards; saw mills; wood work factory; match factory; steam laundry and the L e a d e r . Come and See for Yourself L a w s o n W Jd íá t v l' / kü JÍl / t= z been cut off from the original, tobacco and pipes- O lino, broth Wasco county and in each and er Shutt, we are not that desperate. every case just as dirty a fight was While we would not object to the I put up against the movement by removal of the normal from your! the Wasco county seat as Rose beautiful little city to Cottage' burg is putting up against the j Grove, excuse us when it conies to creation of Nesmith county, hut smoking “ home twist” in a stale without effect, as the little county Missouri “ meershain." We may' seat rings are invariably unable to have to resort to some pretty des block the march of progress iu perate means and methods to bring i this rapidly growing and develop Nesmith county to the front, but J ing state, and Roseburg, like the we are not going to endanger our others will have to lake her health, aye, lives in the manner! medicine, and give up some of her you suggest, in the effort. immense undeveloped territory A business letter to the Leader that it may be more speedily de veloped and improved by being from Stewart & Del.aunay, the enterprising wholesale lumbermen | created into new counties. The opposition, what little has of Curtin, Douglas county, con developed at Eugene, has been of cludes as follows: “ Do not put a very fair and reasonable charac Douglas county on any of our print ter, much in contrast with the ing. Wishing Nesmith success, we campaign of misrepresentation be- are, yours for the new county.“ Roseburg will please take notice. iug conducted at Roseburg. This is the way the people of north Since Cottage Grove has taken Douglas are opposed to the “ Cottaeg up the matter of providing a pub Grove grab game,” as the Rose lic park for this progressive, grow burg Review terms the jteoples e f ing municipality, Albany and forts to create Nesmith county. those localities not being tributary to Cottage Grove and not knowing the real facts, became excited at IN D U STR IES AND RESOURCES. The last issue o f the Deader once, called mass meetings and ( ‘•real forests o f tiinlter tributary to Cottage gave Kditor Wimberly, o f the ('.rove; fifteen saw mills; three shingle mills, entered protests, only to find later within a radius o f 15 miles. Headquarters Roseburg Review, a dark brown for bohemia gold mines and black butte that they had been deceived by quicksilver mines; valleys and foot-hills taste and put him in a very well adapted to fruit growing, farming and the Roseburg papers and politicians dairying. For information regarding this !>eevish mood, lie says, “ Iu ac great country suhscril*e for the L e a d e r . I and that no intention had been eu- cordance with bis old-time habit, j tertained on the part o f Cottage Editor Conner fills his sheet with TUESDAY, JAN l)A II Y 12, 1909. (Grove people lo include their contemptible (lings at Douglas territory in the proposed new coun county officials and other' citizens ty. After Douglas county citizens who do not see fit to favor the were finally correctly informed re Cottage Grove grab game.” garding the small Douglas territory If there can be anything more really included in the proposed many other enterprising Oregon The Myrtle Point, Coos county unfair and “ contemptible” than I.ast January the Eugene Com new county, Roseburg then pro towns, observing the necessity for Enterprise says, iu favor of the the misrepresentations and dirty- ceeded to cause another great hue such a movement before real es mercial Club made a hit with a creation of Nesmith county: fliugs which the Review and Doug picture series showing a young and cry, by publishing the false tate increases more in value, as it The people of Cottage Grove las countv judge have been throw man “ shoveling snow in Ohio” ; report that $5,000,000 worth of is sure to do throughout the W il are working enthusiastically for a ing at the jteople of north Doug the next was “ boarding a train taxable property would lie lost to lamette valley, are devising ways new county of which that town las and south I.aue counties who for Oregon” and the last one “ ar Douglas if the new county of and means to purchase city l irks, shall be the county seat and they favor the creation of the new rival in Eugene” amid the flowers Nesmith was created. Cottage and like Cottage Grove, final / re are receiving the support of the county of Nesmith, we would like and berries, all scenes taken in people of other towns in the pro to have some one point it out. Grove therefore sent a competent solve that the most just and January. The Register came out committee to Roseburg who spent equable way is to levy a small posed new county. The plans con Roseburg lias shown no disposition a whole day examining the records special city tax to provide a fund with this famous cut Saturday template the taking of a portion to be reasonable and fair in this with the humorous heading, “ This and by the assistance o f the as for this purpose. Cottage Grove of Douglas and of I.aue, the north matter, but to resort to nothing picture for sale— 10 inches of snow sessor and other officials found citizens will be called upon to vote boundary of the new county to be but misrepresentation since the on the level." only $1,485,569 worth of taxable on such a question at a special the fourth standard parallel from plan of creating the new county property included within the election Wednesday Jan. 20th and a point 30 miles from the ocean to was first announced. With a view IT we failed to have one of Douglas county territory located ( it is to be hoped that civic pride, I these freak winters every ten years within the boundary lines of the j loyalty to home interest, public or so, we Oregonians might be new proposed county, so that ¡spirit and interest in the town's elcome ords to omen come altogether too chesty over Roseburg has been magnifying | future "wellfare and progress will Women who .life r with di. order. peculiar to their our climate. •ex vhnuld write lo Dr. Pierce end receive Iree the and exaggerating this matter prompt every legal voter in this edv.ee o l e phy.icien of over 40 yearn" experience nearly $3,000,000. enterprising municipality to vote —• (killed end Micces.ful epeciali.t in the d i s c » « Now you know how your East- ol women. Every letter of thie .ort he. the most O f course. Cottage Grove and in favor o f the measure. Oppor ern cousins feel as they sit shiver careful cons,deration .„ d i. re«erded « .acrrdly the people within the borders of tunities to secure such a beautiful, confident ku . Many sensitively modest women write ing around the fire. But it won t i the new proposed county, did not natural park as is now afforded, ™ r *° D ' .P,* rc* "h a t they would shrink from last long in the Willamette valley. tellinfi to their local physician. The local physician anticipate anything but selfish and like dame fortune, knocks but " , p m iy *ure to My that he cannot do anythin« without an examination.’ * D r. Pierce holds that | vigorous opposition from Rose- once’ at our door. Let us not be Portland says it was the coldest these distasteful exammetiona are generally need , burg, but such unscrupulous and unmindful. less, and that no woman, except in rare weather for j l years, but the oldest ahonld .ubmit lo t unfair methods were not entertained, D r . P ie r c e * . tre a tm en t w ill o r . t o . riflht in i h . p r i v . c y o f inhabitant can remember a few your ow n k » . . . H i. •• F . y o r i . e P , . « r i p . i o „ " hn, c j r e j j It was general expressed that pro Editor Shutt of the Drain “ Six worse ones. k o n d red . . ( lh o u ..«d ., w„ „ , bably some opposition would de- Point,” says the Leader has It i it i the n ly Hie o onlymedieine of ita kind that i. the product ol a nflularly flraduated | velop at the county seats of the phytician. turned its solid battery against ivaieian. The only one flood enough that it. maker, dare to print it. every The biennial raid on Oregon's flred.ent on it. — oufx.de There’, ■ " no n e rre y . it I, will w.ll hear eyamma- e x .m in 7 ingredient -*— 7 wrapper. 7 7 7 * « »eerrey. , two old counties, but the Roseburg poor little Drain.” that we treasury was precipitated Monday' tlon. N o alcohol and no hahit-forminfl drufl. a n found in i«. Soma unaernn- brand of opposition was not threaten to confiscate their normal ! —— ■lout medicine dealer, may offer you a •uh.titute. Don't l ike it. Don't trifle with your health. anticipated. ” 2 * * »',° W - D>«P*n.ary M e d ic i \ -Ontario., Dr. R. school and would even throw their | Did that little snow storm strike V . Pierce, Preeident. Buffalo N . Y . , — take the advice received end he well. Four prosperous counties have citizens down and take their, Mr. Hartog dumb? UNFAIR TREATMENT WOULD UNITE MINING AND LUMBER INTERESTS W W O b ík v.vl/ > .^ Eiactlf K ill Ton la it IN T H E L IN E O F Family Groceries, New Dry Goods Fine Laces and Embroideries Ladies' and Gents Shoes AT JOHNSON’S STORE tfa r a n r a — i Everything new and uo-to-date. Best brands and grades ot Fresh Groceries. Country Produce bought and sold. Call and see what a dollar will buy at W. C. JO H N S O N ’S. Edison Graphophoncs Carving Sets, Silver and Records, Knives, Forks and Spoons, Ornamental Candle Sticks and many other useful and appropriate Holiday Gifts : : ; Heaidiiarters lor Hardware W ,hrm CUTta - N COTTAGE GROVE FLOUR MILLS All K in d s of Mill Feed Grocin and Hay CHAS. M ATTH EW S. Proprietor.
