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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1909)
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER. Several prominent citizens have called on the Leader lately and pledged from $1 to $5 on our re ward offer for evidence which will lead to conviction of violators of the local option law in this city. | We hope to lie able to increase this reward from $25 to $50 iu a short time. iug them to greater efforts aud achievements in the upbuilding of Cottage Grove and community. T H K UCADKK PU BLISH IN G CU (In e.) At the close of the address a com O o n n k k . v K u H k i i i . i . f . • E d ito r» mittee of five was appointed to Kut crest at the Cottage (tro v e posto«?«* an neo meet today, Friday, aud plan an oud olann matter. advertising campaign aud provide I for funds therefor. The committee HA I KS SDHSCKIPTION m o n th n j. c o t.1 consists of J. F. Spray, C. B. Stew- Weekly, o te year. Sl.au. IRMI W R U L V . art, Joe I’orter, Fingal lliuds and One Year Blx Mouthn 1 I .\. H. Wood. Mr. Richardson was Three Monthn then tendered a reception in the commercial club rooms by the bus. C O T T A G E G R O V E . O REGO N ¡ness men of the town and he de1 Located on the upper W illa m e t t e R iv e r 144 miles south oi Portlaud o u S o u t h e r n l‘a dared these quarters the most ele cihe and Oregon & S o u th Haste in Railroads. Population JVM), two !>anks paldic and high gant, commodious aud up-to-date, 'bools, five churches, water, light aud sew- 4 , *> stems.creamery Hour m ill; two Wrick maintained by any town in the state sard s. saw mills, wood w ork factory, m a tc h factory; steam lauadry an d the L a a d s r . l iu Cottage (Tvfeve’s class. T um A ^ v « «k.r\á F i l d a y a . I 6 V S T B I I S AMD I I M 0 I C 1 S . i .real forests of timlwr triWutai > t o C o tta g e C.rove, fifteen saw m ills three shingle m ills within a radius o f 15 rnilea. I le a .lu u a r t e m f o r Bohemia gold mines and Black B u tte quicksilver mines, valleys a n d fo o t -h ills , w ell a d a p te d to fr u it grow in g, fa r m in g au d dairying. F o r in f o r m a t io n t e g a td in it th is great c o u n t r y subscribe fo r t h e L e a d e r . | | F R ID A Y . A B R IL 9, 1909. ENDORSEMENT OF THE LEADER'S COURSE we still have quite a nice as sortment ot the Marshall, Field Co. sample line of Under muslins and Lingerie. Quite a number have taken advantage of this rare chance to supply themselves with el egant undergarments, night robes, etc., at really less than wholesale cost if bought regu lar. Come quickly. It’s going fast Michigan went dry iu Monday’s election and LOGO saloons and 10 j breweries are put out of business l in consequence. Ou the same day I the Alabama supreme court ren- | dered a decision declaring the j local option law of that state con stitutional and iu full force. Sell what land you do not desire ! lor farming use, or, iu other words j if you have more than you can farm, dispose of it aud assist iu populat- | ing your immediate locality, but do not imagine for a moment that the tune is not ri|ie to do so, says an exchange. The great timber and lum ber interests and the Bohemia and Blackbutte mining inter ests of south Lane and north Douglas are the chief factors back of the new Nesmith county movement. WOULD DISCREDIT THE INITIATIVE. L A D I E S S on g of the Resurrection M o rn The Leader has no kick against the taxpaying voter and only criti cises the voting of a floating, non tax-paying element whether miner, logger, farmer, poultryman, or whatever his profession may be. Ivditors Leader— l think you Those |ieaiiut politicians who have taken the projier stand on en (A fter Richard L e Gallienne.) are boosting the nefarious Drain forcing the local option law. It is believed by many good citizens scheme to initiate the new county A W A K E , fond heart, and sing an Easter seng! The legalized theives are falling that the local option law is a fail of Cmpqua to be formed out of T o the sweet anthem of returning bird o u t"—says the Portland Journal. ure. I do not think so. I believe north Douglas and south Lane ter A nd swelling bud and pale ascending blade What’s the matter? Ain’t the the law is all right, but the failure ritory overlapping the proposed A dd the last word. new county of Nesmith in hope of license system alright? We sup is on the part of officals in not try posed there were no such troubles Drear was the winter and the waiting long. ing to enforce the law. 1 believe confusing aud defeating this meas outside of a “dry” town. that if officials were to treat those ure, do not seem to know that the H eart, there were hours, indeed, thou wert afraid, who steal, murder and violate the proposition receiving the most S o long the spring delayed. Mayor Lane will not lie a candi laws of virtue in a manner as indif votes will be given precedence over date for re-election as mayor of ferent as they do the violators of the other. And since the creation Portland. Joe Simon will be the W A K E , fond heart, and go thou forth and sing! of Nesmith county is the original the local option law, there would he republican candidate for the no safety to life, property or virtue j and only legitimate movement in ^ U nite thy voice to all this music sweet mayoralty. Where have we heard in Cottage Grove. You cannot tliis direction, we are willing to O f opening leaf and busy, building wing that name before? make a bad man good by law, but take our chances against the Eu A nd falling showers; you can make a bad man a good gene and Drain bushwhackers, The Cottage Grove incorporate T h e murmur soft of little lives newborn, citizen by making him fear the who do not hesitate to announce limits should be extended so as to that the creation of l'tn|>qun coun T h e armies of the grass, the myriad feet law. include the Bohemia mines and the tv is only a rotten, contemptible, C . 11. W a u - a c k . logging camps east of town. O f marching flowers. dog-in-the-manger scheme to de It is better to regard the soil and TOM RICHARDSONS ABLE TALK feat the Nesmith county movement its condition tlinii the almanac as C H U T in the winter’s alabaster tomb, and to also discredit the initiative to the proper time to plant. and referendum principle, so dear ^ S o white and still the sleeping summer lay Portland’s, or rather, Oregon’s to the hearts of the masses of the T h a t dead she seemed, There are not enough small tracts great booster, Tom Richardson, people. If tins dirty scheme on for the new coiners. Keep on di A nd none might know how in her magic side visited Cottage Grove Thursday, a the part of Drain don't prove a viding up the large farms. guest of the local commercial club. Slept the young spring and moved and smiled boomerraug to that town and its He visited the high school and ad Be ever proud of your home city, and dreamed. people the Leader will be greatly dressed the teachers aud students it averages far ahead of all others. surprised. Behold, she wakes again and, open eyed, in the afternoon aud addressed a Gazes, in wonder, r^und the leafy room Creswell News, large audience at the Christian Twenty-five saw mills, the church Thursday evening. He i A t the young flowers. Upon this Easter day mines and told the people how to get their Bohemia gold Mr. lid Moore has goue to Port A w aken, too, my heart, open thine eyes, share of the immigration which is Blackbutte quicksilver mines land ott business. A nd from thy seeming death thou, too, arise. pouring into Oregon, which iu a of south Lane epunty demand Henry Parsons has gone to Port nutshell was, advertise judiciously the creation of Nesmith Coun land on business. O W softly blows the resurrection horn and constantly keep Cottage Grove ty from this territory Mrs. Maddocks of Saginaw was before the public. ‘ You have A cross the meadows, over the far hills 1 a Creswell visitor last week. wonderful aud immensely rich re In the soul's garden a new sweetness stirs, Miss Maggie Veatch of Cottage WOULD LICENSE NEAR BEER sources in the way of timber and Grove, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A nd the heart fills, mines about Cottage Grove and John Martin. There is a proposition to be pre A nd in and out the mind flow the soft airs. you should constantly keep this sented to'the city council by a cer Mrs. Henry Melton and Mrs. fact before the people of Oregon A w ake, fond heart, and sing this Easter m om ! Eugene Howe spent Thursday in and the new investment seekers," tain councilman, it is said, provid in the year’s resurrection do thy part. Springfield. he said. He referred at some ing for the licensing of near beer A w ake, fond h e a rt! joints. If grauted this would af The revival services at the Pres length to the plan of creating the byterian church will be continued new county of Nesmith from this ford a blind for selling all kinds of IS THE FIGHT ENDED? all this week. territory and said that the time booze under the brand of "near ELECTION AFTERMATH had come when the great counties beer" and every resort of the kind A merry crowd of young people We are told that the fight is over went on a hayrack ride Friday of Oregon must l>e divided and cut would be nothing more nor less Of all the high handed proceed up into smaller counties in order than a licensed or legalized blind ings yet imposed on the people of for another year, referring to the evening, as the guests of Mr. to advance aud hasten the state's pig. We do not believe the citi Cottage Grove by the anti-local op- municipal election. So far as the Frank Schmidt. growth and development. How zens of Cottage Grove want this tionists, was the altering, duplicat Leader is concerned, it has only Mr. Rip Scott met with a pain ever, he laid great stress on con kind of a thing and if it should be ing or counterfeiting of the "Citi just begun, unless there is a de ful accident while riding horseback ducting a fair, open and meritori granted by the council an initia zens" ticket in the la te ' municipal cided change in the administrative last week. lie was thrown from affairs iu this city. Whenever ous campaign for Nesmith, never tive vote should lie demanded on election. his horse aud injured his ankle. resorting to the abuse of opponents the question at an election called The ticket designated as "C iti anyone thinks the people are going The Creswell district Sunday or condemnation of rival cotnmuni- for this purpose. Of course this zens ticket" was an official ticket, to tolerate a repetition of the open school convention meets Saturday ties, and he especially urged the might put some Bohemia miners to nominated by the citizens of Cot violation of the ordinances and aud Sunday at Pleasant Hill. A the trouble of suspending work for perpetuation of the former good tage Grove iu a called and adver laws, characteristic of the past number of Creswell people expect a day or two as well as some of year, they are going to get badly feeling between Cottage Grove and tised convention, and if the T.eader to attend. Eugeue, saying each place could the loggers in the various camps of mistakes not, its alteration or coun fooled. The Leader will persist The ladies who went to Spring- South Lane in order that they he of much assistance to the other. terfeiting is no less titan a serious ently insist upon the enforcement field appreciate the kiuduess of the might again come to town to take of the ordinances aud laws of the He said that after the first fast violation of the city election laws and furious rouud between Hood part iu directing the affairs of our and should be thoroughly investi land in Cottage Grove during the Schmidt brothers who furnished River aud The Dalles that those city, but an initiative vote will gated. A small fund could 1st ensuing year regardless of th? cost, the W. C. T. T . with a carriage. The proceedings of the institution certainly be called on this question two waring communities buried the easily raised to get good reliable as well as the fulfillment of the ob hatchet and The Dalles business if it is granted by the council. legal advice on this question and ligations embodied in the oath of were very interesting and inspiring. men finally passed resolutions The people" don’t want it. if the proceedings were as illegal office taken by the city officials, a j favoring the creation of Hood Riv as they were unscrupulous, the par failure of which on their p a itw illj er County, and this was the secret More Kentucky counties are ties guilty of that crooked piece of certainly constitute grounds for in-1 of the success of the movement. dry. Boyd county voted "d ry " political work should lie made to yoking the recall law in each and W T. K A Y SER Mr. Richardson admonished the Wednesday by a majority of 107. pay the penalty. A few examples every ¡case. This thing of an ir I’R O I ’R I F T O R people to stand by their local pa In Ashland, the center of the iron made of this class of ward heelers, responsible, non-property holding, All Kinds of Hauling and pers, by their Commercial Club and industry, church bells were ring might tend to make Cottage Grove nontax-paying floating element controlling the Cottage Grove mun Heavy Dray W ork Womans Auxiliary, and boost for ing hourly during the election. municipal politics a little more re- Cottage Grove first, last and all of The victory of the "d ry s" means spectible. The result of the trick icipal elections and directing the the time. His remarks were time that nh of the 1 JO counties iu the perpetrated was the election of ixiiicy of the city’s administrative Moving Pianos a Specialty ly and had the effect of opening state are wholly "d ry " under the John Bartels as councilman in affairs, has about reached the With Special Equipment the eyes of our people and inspir- county unit law. the Second Ward over G. L. limit and the Leader, for one, does Rees, the regular nominee, the not propose to collapse into an O F F IC E a tj. V. Thornton's Confectionery. trick not being perpetrated in the over awed, brow-beaten or intimi W elcome W 6 rds to W omen other wards. Right here however, dated silence, as have many of our PI ION R W o n » »h o .utter with disorder, peculisr to their R e s ilie n c e , .VM the Leader wants it distinctly un citizens, and witness without pro O ffice, 14 >6 ees should writs to Dr. Pierce . „ d receive free the physician o f over 40 years’ experience derstood that it entertains no ill test all manners of official delin skilled eod successful specislist in the di.rs.es will toward Mr. Bartels, but on the quency and disobedience to the re Hvsry letter of this sort hs. the m ».t siderstion sod is recorded ss sscrcdly other hand holds him in the same quirements of the ordinances and ... 7 *euy s e n s it iv e !y odist » o n e . writs esteem as it does the other mem the laws of the county and state, R eo. M itchell and Stod- fW y to Dr. Pierse what they would shrink (rom *•""*< to theta local physician. The local physician bers of the city council. We are during the ensuing year. a rd -D ay lo n c a r s A Burkholdcr-W oods Co. REAL ESTATE •i room house, bath and pantry, 1 acre, 7 room house, good well, city water, electiic lights, barn, fruit and outbuildings, fine soil, chicken house, some fruit and $1600. berries, fine location. $050. Fart Fine river bottom land, 5 and 10 down, balance on time, if de~ acre tracts, from $80 to '$125 per sired, large lot 100x212. acre. 2 lots east of railroad 5 room house, Some acreage in eity $250 [ier acre. good well, $050. An extra good business investment for the right party. 4 room cottage, 2 large lots, city water, $f>5Q. - One of the finest residence proper 7 room house, good well, lot HOx ties in the city, close in, modern 1H0, $1200. throughout, 5 rooms, 2 pantries, 2 closets, hath room, hot aud 4 acres, fine location, 34 fruit trees, cold water, electric lights. Base- 5 room house, closet and pantry, meut and concrete foundation. good water, outbuildings. Terms $2000. Fart cash balance ou /* cash, balance on time if de time if desired. sired, $1500. Lot 5.5*100 feet, 5 room house, close in, eity water, $700. 50x100 feet on Fourth street, 6 room house, bath and pantry, AUTOMOBILES ? ..P rettT .‘ ar* *° “ T '*>•• lw cannot do anythin* without so eiam in ation." Dr. Pierce holds that distasteful elim ination, era generally need- •seept In should subw it to , _ - _ r*dh* *ho prisse y o f Favorita Pcs se raps ion** has cured o f them the w orst o f eases, fc is the nnl^medistne n f its kind that is the Prodimi of • regularly graduated ggfrS Us^eiS J 00é ' n0T j hr a ' no kt secrecy *" *» hear e «S cvcîr g edient on its outside 7 wrapper. There It will sien ne - a.Nld u n ? lff T* ■” •“ •‘¿ '» rm in g drags are found i„ it Som. »„.crup- W .T v ô !; h " l . t ^ W..T* T. ° wr T " J W t tske it. D e tti trig . V P i « l p A .id .e . J - -** ^ T rv * ,>' T ““ rT Medical / ..locu tion, Dr R. ~ * rtesee, President, Badato N . Y ., tske the advice received end he well. only condemning the unfair and $ 5 5 0 to $ 4 .0 0 0 questionable methods adopted in Wheat reached the high water F R A N K BF.NNF.TT. Eugene, O r. bringing ahout his election, for mark in Chicago Wednesday be f2 and P earl sfa. P h o n e R e d 4)51 which, it is understood, Mr. Bartels ing quoted four cents higher than was not responsible. during the famous Gates corner in l'M>3. The quotations went up to Since battleships are now used $ 1.25' i . It is retailing at $1.25 for show purposes only it seems in Cottage Grove, which gives the j F ir* » C l* « * W o rk , o v e r R a n k o f C o t t a r ? C '.rovf, C o t t a r c (Trove, O re t o n foolish to build such large and cost poultry fanciers that scowl that f won't wear off. ly ones. King & King At the Bridge 1200 . $ H Cottage Grave Dray Co. SEE COTTAGE GROVE FLOUR MILLS A l l K in d » of Mill Feed G r a in an d Hay C H A S . M A T T H E W S . P rop rietor. IT Spring Season q Our Spring Season has opened moif satisfactorily. New orders are coming in and we are filling them in a manner satisfactory to our trade. Q W e intend keeping our stock complete throughout the Season, and will endeavor to carry lines adapted to the the trade. SEND US YO U R . O R D E R S F O R G O O D S IN O U R L I N E A N D W E D O T H E R E S T JOHNSON & MATLOCK G E N E R A L M E R C H A N D ISE Notice of Final Account. In the matter of the Assignment the Wheeler-Thonipson Co., of Cotta) Drove, Oregon. Notice is hereby given that W. I Abrams, Assignee has filed liis accom for final settlement of said estate wi th * clerk of the court and that Honda April 12, 1900, at I o’clock p. m„ oi sa day has been set for hearing the same. W. H . A b r a m s . Assignee. G e o r g e B. D o r r i s , Attorney. Edison, Colombia Victor GRAPH0 PH0 NES Records Notions, Novelties
