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COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1909.
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VOL. XXI. NO. 19
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To R educe StocK
To Make Room for N ew Goods Daily Arriving,
We Quote the Following Prices:
Men’s C loth in g
$18.00 S u its.........................
15.00
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14.00
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13.00
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12.50
"
10.00
"
$13.00
11.00
10.00
0.00
8.50
7.50
B o y’s S u its
$7.00 S u its.................................................
6.00
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5.00
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4.(X)
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2.50
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$4.85
3.85
2.85
2.50
1.50
Ladie’s
$2.50 Indio
2.25
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2.00
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1.75
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1 .5 0
1 .2 5
I.iuen W aists........................................................... $1.25
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1.15
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75
05
Wash Skirts
$2.50 W ash S k irts............................................................................. $1.25
2.00
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1.75 “
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90
1.50 “
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75
Dress Goods
\2 % c G in g h am ........................... .....;......... , ......................................10c
35c L aw n............................................. ............................ , , , ...............13
30
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10
18
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9
15
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14
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7
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No Coupons Given With Goods Sold at Reduction
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Hev, Hoyles, form erly of the
esbyterian church of this city,
rites friends here that his daugh-
: had just underw ent two opera-
diis at a P ortland hospital for
berculosis and seems to be great-
relieved of her trouble. Rev.
>yles now resides at Monument-
is Miss Hessje who is ill,
L. W . Haker, of Eugene, for­
merly of this city, is now engaged
in the real estate businesss and was
in C ottage G rove W ednesday sell­
ing Florence lots,
he being
agent
for a new addition to
th a t
flourishing
little
Lane
county seaport tow n.
H e sold
mqre than a score of these lots to
C ottage Grove people.
It costs you no more
to get the best grade of
3AVID M. PFAELZER
& GO'S
A GOLD BRICK
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than you pay for
ordinary products
T h ese Illustratio n s dem onstrate the snap, dash and
Irreproachable style o f this make.
W« c arry a com plete line of “ W eerb ctter” Y ounf Men’« end C hildren's
S uite end O v e r e o ttt
Inepeet our otoek of thorn. T h eir attrectlvenoee will Influence you to buy.
Wheeler-Thompson Co.
We Have It For Less
FAIR IS C A L L E D 0 FF|
• hviug to the fact th a t the Com-
! uiercial Club and business men of
; this city are so actively engaged in
! wrestling with a big city water
1 propositon, a street paving prob­
Product of the West lem and the creation of the new
county of Nesm ith, and the further
Coast M ines-A Big
fact th a t this seems to be some
what of an off year in this section
Spring Cleanup
of the state so far as fruit, vege
table and other farm products are
concerned, it has been decided to
'The stam ps at the m ines of the postpone the Cottage G rove dis
W est Coast M ining Com pany in trict fair until Septem ber of next
the Hohemia M ining district keep year, when the required enlarge
dropping right along and o|>era ment of the fair buildings and
tions are progressing w ithout any grounds can lie bought about and
publicity, or bluster being m ade plans perfected for the biggest and
about it, as a result of which oi>er- best fair ever held in southwestern
ations, a gold brick is brought to Oregon. T he fair last fall was a
this city at frequent intervals an d very creditable and successful one
is sent to the m int at Sau F ra n ­ regardless of the crowded condi­
cisco. T h e most recent shipm ent tion of the grouuds and buildings,
of th is k ind was m ade from this and by suspending the fair for this
m ine T uesday when Su|>eriutend- season, am ple time will be provided
eut Ryan brought out a 22-pound to raise funds and m ake the neces­
gold brick an d expressed it to sary im provem ents for a grand
the m int. T he spring clean-up in district fair in September 1910.
the W est Coast Mines am ounted to
over $4,500 we were inform ed. MRS. D A V E N P O R T IS
W ho says Hohemia is not a reg u ­
S E E K IN G A DIVORCE
lar producer? T here will be oilier
m ines in this cam p shipping gold
bricks to the m int inside of a year
T he trouble between Davenport
or |wo.
and his wife has been brew ing for
three years, according to Portland
friends of the cartoonist. D aven­
COTTAGE GROVE L E A R N S
port insists in w orking in his own
P O S S IB ILIT IE S O F F R U IT way, w hich m eaus that he refuses
to allow Mrs. D avenport in his
On the fruit farm of l)r. L. D. ludio.
Tw o years ago
Mrs.
Scarborough and sou, nine miles lavenport laid dowu the u ltim a­
from Cottage Grove and one mile tum th at Homer should not lock
from Creswell, the late Crawford his studio against her. T o th is he
peach trees are propped up to hold finally agreed, but shortly after in ­
their enorm ous crop of peaches. sisted ag ain th at his w orking hours
From one-third of an acre of Royal be undisturbed.
Mrs. John B.
A nne and liu g lish M anila cherry Rewshaw, D avenport’s sister, was
trees Ur. S carborough au d sou then asked by the cartoonist to
reap a net profit of about $100 a n ­ tak e charge of his household.
nually. Last year 125 acres in Friends of the family say th a t in
Italian pruues harvested 13,000 checking up the household ac­
bushels, and
brought $12,0(X). counts, Mrs. Reushaw found th at
T his farm has 171 acres in differ­ both Homer and his wife were
ent varieties of fruit, and last spending thousands a year that
y ear’s crop netted about $17,000, they co u ld n ’t afford aud that,
b ut th is y ea r’s crop will not be so ow iug to their quarrel over his
heavy, as the frost injured most of locking his studio, there was little
the fruit in the open couutry.
Dr. hope of a perm anent adjustm ent.
Scarborough and son have dem on­
D avenport's friends assert th at
strated the possibilities of the u p ­ his wife is wholly unreasonable in
per W illam ette valley. T housands her dem ands on her artist husbaud
of fruit trees of different varieties and th at her urgency and interfer­
are being set out in the vicinity of ence h as seriously interfered with
Cottage Grove, the soil being sub­ his career.
irrigated and well adapted for fruit.
No allegations of a scandalous
Felix Currin, four miles from this n atu re are m ade by either side, but
place, has about 3000 English it seems agreed that a separation
w alnut trees set out around his has become inevitable.
farm, on w hich he expects to string
Mrs. D avenport is a beautiful
wires au d use as fence posts as woman who h as become noted for
soon as the size will perm it. I11 a her taste in dress and luxurious
few years the incom e from these appointm ents.
trees will pay for his work, aud
they will serve as everlasting posts,
G R EA T E N T E R T A IN E R
says a correspondent.
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Important Land Deal.
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COTTAGE GR OVE’S
NEWS SOUGHT AND SORTED
FOR LEADER'S BUSY READERS
Interesting News in Brief of the City, County and
State—W. S. Sanford Badly In ju re d -
Baptists Will Build Church
Farm er near Salem sold 3(XX)
A E ugene cannery is shipping
bushels of oats at 45 cents a bushel ca r loads of pickled cherries to
net, this week.
New York.
T he fellow who would com plain
John Barker sold a fine billiard
about this sum m er w eather must tab le to Bud Gillespy, of Youcalla,
be h ard to please.
W ednesday.
M erchant Hen Lurch is ta k iu g a
Medford has one mile of paved
few days rest at Newport an d is streets and is paving two miles
try in g to figure out w hat the wild more th is season.
waves are saying.
Not a lecture, hut a continuous
Don’t fail to get your ticket for round of m irth— W. E. V aughan
the V aughan eutertaium eut to lie at the A rm ory, T hursday, August
given
on T h u rsd ay
evening, 26th.
A ugust 26th, at the Arm ory under
Only two threshing m achines
the auspices of the league.
have been blown up by sm ut in
T he Beidler boys finished th resh ­
U m atilla county th is year— less
ing T hursday m orning, their crop
th a n usual.
falling a little short of 5000 b u sh ­
T he Y ukon valley about D aw ­
els of w heat au d oats. They had
previously estim ated the crop at son City is found to lie peculiarly
adapted to potato growing and
4,500 bushels.
tons of spuds are grown there now
Dr. L. D. Scarborough, the
every year. They are w orth locally
well-known Creswell physician aud
6 cents per pound.
fruit grower was a Cottage G rove
T he b ig tu g boat “ D aniel K ern”
visitor W ednesday, he will have a
good crop of prunes, apples au d was ram m ed and sunk in 65 feet
of w ater in the Columbia river be­
peaches again th is year.
C ontractor W ill H art au d his tween Portland au d A storia by the
force of men com pleted A1 El- steam er “ George W. E ld er” T ues­
ledge’s modern cottage on W all day night. No lives were lost.
street T uesday au d now have work
well under way on Dave Scholl’s
fine bungalow on west W all street.
Ira Conner went to Shedds
W ednesday to assist W. B. Davis
in getting his fiue herd of A. J . C.
C. Jersey cattle and O. I. C. swine
ready for the S tate F air. He will
also assist Mr. D avis in carin g for
his stock during the fair week at
the Salem State F’air grounds.
W hile high up in a fir tree saw ­
ing off the top recently near th is
city, the severed part kicked back
aud knocked W alter S. Sanford to
the ground. F allin g outo some
slashings, his thigh was broken
aud a huge sliver pierced his side,
and a deep gash was cu t in his
forehead. Sanford was trim m ing
the trees to permit the stringing of
telephone wires.
It is said the new cyanide plant
recently installed on the Mayflower
group of m ines in the Bohemia
cam p is not as great a success as
it w as an ticipated it would be. It
will be replaced with a m odem
stam p mill, we are informed.
T he elders of the Baptist church
have purchased two lots in the
Long addition to C ottage Grove,
near the city park, and by next
S unday will have a tem porary
building erected which will serve
as a church until arrangem ents
can lie m ade to build a church.
Recognition services are to be held
the first of Septemlier. T he Bap­
tist state m issionary, Rev. M.
Parker, pastors from Roseburg,
O akland, Pleasant Hill, Fmgene
and other places will be here to
p articipate in th e services.
H. C. COOK
Successor to Pierce
Shepardson
COM ING TO GROVE
Thos. W heeler h as bought fif­
W. K. V aughn, the Southern
teen acres of fine bottom lan d of H um orist, at the Armory T h u rs­
Jobn H arm s in the north suburbs day evening A ugust 26th. T he
of this city to which Mr. W heeler Kpworth League ought to he com ­
will set to fruit. A djoining this m ended for their efforts in procur­
tract on the north J . F . Spray has ing this high-class impersonator
bought a five acre trac t of Chas. aud entertainer, who is pronounced
Cochran, for w hich he paid $200 one of th e best on the platform.
per acre. Mr. Spray has also p u r­ H e is sent out by the T hom as Ly­
chased another larger tract adjoin­ ceum Bureau and is guaranteed to
ing th is one on the north know n as give thorough satisfaction.
Mr.
the H orace C ochran place, the V aughn is a “ big h it” wherever
most of w hich he will set to fruit he goes. H e is a whole circus in
and probably later p ut into small him self. H is every sentence is a
hom e tracts, hirst street, if possi­ lau g h . H is frowns will smooth
ble will be extended through these your brow. He has a clear lyric
properties to m ake them easy of tenor voice and his songs will
access from this city. Hoth gentle­ please you.
T his entertainm ent
men have good investm ents in | will lie a rare treat. Don’t fail to
these tracts, even at the big price secure your tickets.
Admission
paid.
| 15, 25 an d 35 cents.
V / ’OU will find very attractive
prices at my store.
I offer
Mason F'ruit Ja rs as follows:
Pints,
50c, q u arts 70c and h alf gallon 90c
per dozen.
shoes.
Also great b argains in
For the
present
eighteen
pounds best su g ar for $1.00 with an
order for five dollars worth of goods
from th is store.
Farm Produce Wanted