f
10*
On all our $12,000 stock of Furniture,
Carpets, Matting, Linoleum, Lace Cur
tains, Blankets, Paints and Wall Paper.
O F F
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Everything; Cut Down.
Come and See for Yourself
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1UST A COMMON BLACKGUARD
The Portland Journal’s Salem
Members
of the
legislature
should have a care about tinkering correspondent seems to have been
The speech o f Representative
with the initiative and referendum. subsidized by the Eugene and
I Willett of New York, assailing the
It may prove a veritable buzz-saw. Roseburg county seat knockers
against the creation o f Nesmith j president, lost all its force by the
Prof. Starr of Chicago says the county from the fact that his “ Sa ■ nature of the arraignment. The
Fillipinos are not lazy. A ll the lem specials” are most erroneous I speaker simply established that he
same they seem ready to accept and flagrantly unfair. For in : is a natural blackguard of the
almost any office that is offered stance he says, Nesmith county I vilest order of police-court billings-
them.
would comprise a long, narrow : gate vendor. T he house should
strip from the ocean to the Cas have stopped sooner than it did,
“ Greater Oregon” can never lie- cades, while in fact Nesmith’s should have stopped him as it
come a reality unless many o f her western border is the summit of would had he been deformed phys
great counties are cut up into the coast range 30 miles from the ically and had insisted upon dis
many energetic, progressive new
ocean, and the new county is as robing to show to congress and
counties. The sooner the lietter.
well proportioned as any < )regou the world how hideous was his
nakedness, only that a deformed
This is the last week o f January, county. It also leaves I.aue and
soul is a more fearful thing to con
Douglas
with
ail
average
width
as
and the legislature will he about
template than a deformed l>ody,
half over when February comes. great as at the present time from
says
Goodw in’s. Whatever he
( )ur solons should create Nesmith the fact that it takes only that
said will not much affect the pres-
great
southeastern
“
I.”
from
I.ane
county, take care o f the good
i ident, but it showed that the
roads bill, pass a few appropriation aud only a little more than that
great cam el’s hump in the Bo I speaker has no conception of his
bills and go home.
hemia mining district from Doug - 1 1 duty as a representative and it was
' a disgrace to the constituency that
Those who violate the law las.
elected him their representative,
against the use o f offensive lan
for above all things, the house of
After
paying
thousands
o
f
dol
guage in the hearing of women
representatives should Ire made up
lars
annually
into
the
Lane
county
and children ought to lie clubbed
o f gentlemen, and the speech of
while in the act, put to work upon coffers and naturally expecting the
Willett makes clear that he has
return
o
f
a
small
|>er
cent
of
this
a rock pile for thirty days and
not the slightest conception o f the
money
in
road
and
bridge
improve
then tarred and feathered and
ments we are met with the very constituent attributes of a gentle
drummed out o f town.
liberal (? ) proposition from the man.
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER.
T uM days a n d
F r id a y s .
THK LKADRK PUBL1HH1NU CO. (In#.)
G o n n k r & D u B r u
iix
*,
Editor*
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Entered at the Cottage Orove postofflce a n sec
ond-class matter.
su H tS C K irn oN k a t k s
Weekly, one year, SI.50,
months .75 cents
RRMIWEEKLY.
One Year
.
.
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.
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$:.n0
»lx Months
1 .«0
Three Months
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.75
C O T T A G E G R O V E . OREGON
Located on the upper Willamette River
144 miles south of Portland on Southern Ba
ilie :m«i i uciioii & So«tk Barter* Railroads,
‘opulation 2500; two hanks; public and high
'hools. five churches; water, light and sew
* systems;creamery; flour mill; two brick
/ards; saw mills; wood work factory; match
factory; steam laundry and the L o a d e r .
I 0U STR 1E S
AND RESOUNC19.
Great forests of timl>er tributary to Cottage
C'.rove; fifteen saw mills; three shingle mills,
withiu a radius of 15 miles. Headquarters
for Bohemia gold mines and Black Butte
quicksilver mines: valleys and foot-hills
well adapted to fruit growing, farming and
dairying. For information regarding this
great country suhscrilre for the L aadar.
TrHBD AY,
JANUARY
2(.,
HtO-i.
That electric railroad from Eu
gene to the Siuslaw is again under
discussion.
Far more good road building
will be done in < iregoti this year
than in any previous year.
A four million dollar appropria
tion bill may be required to satisfy
the needs of the state during the
ensuing two years.
Railroads make a big parade o f
expenses and arouse sympathy for
their poverty. Farmers' expenses
are concealed and they are envied
for their wealth!
The proposed amendment to the
initiative and referendum provid
ing for the settlement of county
division matters by the county in
terested only, will not receive pop
ular favor from the fact that it
curtails the sacred privilege o f an
appeal to a higher tribunal to
settle local dissentions. Just as
well attempt to legislate away the
privilege of an appeal from the
lower to the higher courts.
Despair and Despenden
a-11
-1 .L - . rr
• woman can tell
iha »lory ol
(he auferint , ,„«•
deapair, and the deapoodancy endured by women who carry
• «•“ Y burden o f ill-health and pern because of disorder« and
derangements of the delicate and important organs that are
distinctly feminine. The torture« so bravely endured com
pletely upset the nerve« if long continued.
D r. Pie roe’s Favorite Prescription is a positive cure for
weakness and disease of the feminine organism.
O one kilt « «mm««
IT MAKES W EAK WOHEN STRONO,
SICK WOMEN W ELL.
It allaya ialam m ation. heal, ulceration and noothea pain.
It l o a n and bniIda up the nervea. It i t . tor wifahood
and motherhood. IIowe.t medicine dealer, aell it, and
hayo nothin* to urge upon yoa aa • 'i*at aa g o od .”
„
_
alcoholic and haa a record ot forty year, o f e a r n .
A as Y o u * NlMHtaoaa. Thay probably know ot tom e of ila many c o m .
I f yon waist i book that tells all about woman's diseases, and how to cure
them at hom e, eood 21 one-cent stamps to Dr. Pierce to pay cost of mailing
be will send you e frtr copy of kit great thousand-page illustrated
C o aim on Sanaa M ed »eel A dvisor—re viand, up-to date edition, in paper cov er«.
In kaad.am a atott, hm d.ag, 31 ataaipa
Addreaa Dr. R .V . Piaece, Bufala. N .Y .
county court: Let your district
put up $500 for the road improve
TO FILL A LONG FELT WANT.
ment ueeded ami the court will
The Yonealla Courier iti i; ; last
duplicate that sum .” Therefore,
after payiug our full pro-rata tax issue announces that ou March 12,
we are required to again go down it will move its office and business
into our pockets before we can get to Cottage Grove, where the paper
auv assistance from the county will thereafter be published, lust
court for needed road improve- j what "lo n g felt w ant” the Courier
ments. Is it any wonder south expects to fill here is not an
Lane would create a county o f its j nounced, there already being two
own?
good, live semi-weeklies published
in this city. The business men
"I'u fa ir and unnecessarily ag-i
have announced many times that
gressive”
against south
Lane j
they considered the limited local
county’s division proposition, is!
newspaper field decidedly well
the way many citizens o f south
covered already, in fact, that one
Lane county brauds the liugene
good live local semi weekly, would
Register’s campaign against us.
meet all o f the present needs and
The Register is an enemy o f south
requirements o f the town and com
Lane county.
munity, so just from what source a
Springfield is playing into the third paper expects to derive its
hands o f the county seat ring. support, deponent sayeth not. G.
About the time that electric road A . Nichols of the Courier has
is completed and Springfield d ol worked in the local offices in this
lars begin to pour into liugene cof- city at different times. He is a
; f*rs, Springfield may have less re- j printer, but has had little experi
ence in editing a newspaper, as
gsrd for the county seat hog.
his work at Yonealla has dem on
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Man is made o f dust. Dust strated, and as to his brother. A.
»titles. Are you a man?”
H. vr "G im let” with whom he is
associated, he may be a pretty
good mixer of high balls and co ck
tails, but as a writer of heavy edi
torials, society items or local brev
ities. his experience is limited. He
is however, well known here where
he held the positiou of bartender
in Newt Jones saloon on the west
side for a few years. In casting
over the local horizon it would ap
pear that Voncalla, Drain, Cres-
well or even Goshen, offers better
inducements for a local newspaper
than is afforded at Cottage Grove
for a third pajier— unless the
Nichols boys have received the
tip that Nesmith county is a sure
thing and that Cottage Grove is
“ it" in its county seat aspirations.
Kven then the field would be
crowded for some years to come.
Those poor dupes in the Spring |
field Commercial club who are
playing in the hands of the Eu
gene ringsters, recently “ resolved I
and whereased” that the formation j
o f Nesmith county would leave:
I.aue more ill shaped, just as if
this were possible, with the county
at present about 50 miles wide for
its west half and about 150 for
its east half, and Douglas county’s
great camel hump running up in
to our Bohemia milling district.
The creation of Nesmith county
would greatly improve the shape!
o f Lane county and only take
away from Lane that remote
south-eastern district not in the j
least tributary to Eugene. Spring |
field’s Commercial club should
take a primary course in geogra !
phy.
If we remember rightly, tax-1
ation
without
representation, j
caused a little unpleasantness in !
this country some years ago and it j
is this self same condition which is,
causing much dissatisfaction ju s t'
n ow in south Lane county. We
have been submitting quietly to j
the Lane county tax levy, have I
paid our taxes without a murmur
for aye, these years, but when we
ask so little as representation at 1
the county seat in the way o f a
county judge, county commission
er, coroner or road viewer, the j
county seat ring says, nay, n a y ,1
brother’ \Ve will take care of the
county pie, just pass up the filling,
please. And we pass it up.
Eiacllf What I n Wait
IN T H E L I N E O F
Family Groceries, New Dry Goods
Fine Laces and Embroideries
Ladies’ and Gents Shoes
AT
JOHNSON’S STORE
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. J O H N S O N ’S.
Watch for our announce
ment later. In the mean
time remember we are
Headparteis forHardware
COTTAGE GROVE
FLOUR
MILLS
A ll K in d s of
Mill Feed
G ra in
and Hay
C H A S . M A T T H E W S . P ro p rietor.
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