mud lilce a Yollowstoue geyser.
Senator Jonathan Bourne was
They refern-d to the Leader as the pouuding his desk aud waving his
"Cottage Giove I.iar,
aud em arms iu an impassioned appeal to
ployed o t h e r choice epithets the Seuate. "W hat do you think
equally as arsjumentlv* aud con of him?” whispered Senator Keau
vincing. 1 • > this dirty set of pea of New Jersey to the impassive
nut politi. :: ns and campaign Senator Knox of Pennsylvania.
tricksters the I.eader will say that "Oh, he can’t help it,” auswered
it has lettei in black and white | Knox, “ it ’s a birthmark." “ A
from several of its Eastern Oregon j what?’
" A birthmark,” repeated
subscribers aud friends saying, ' Knox, “ llis mother was scared
that Williams county placards by a windmill.”
were much in evidence over there,
The story is told that a niem-
evidently coming from Eugene aud
Cottage
ber
of
au eminent
urging us to seud them similar
printed matter for our Nesmith Orove law firm went to Eu-
county to offset the effect of those gene to cousult a client. Wheu
placards or posters. In this con he arrived he found that he had
nection we much prefer to accept unaccountably forgotten the cli
the statement of our friends and ent’s name. He telegraphed his
subscribers than the assertions of associate, "W h at is our client’s
the Eugene bunch, whose litera name?” The answer read, “ Hrown,
ture throughout the entire Nesmith Walter E. Yours is Counter, W il
county campaign hasbeeu charac liam C.”
This is the
chief
requisite
for making
Perfect
Bake D ay
Foods.
terized by its false and malicious
statements and shameful misrepre
sentations, such as “ Nesmith
county takes the very heart of rich
territory of both I.aue and Doug
las” and “ the Nesmith county line
comes within 4 miles of Eugene,”
and “ only a handful of Cottage
(■rove office Seekers want Nesmith
county,” and hundreds of similar
statements just as devoid of truth
and knowingly and wilfully set
forth as falsehood for the purpose
of deceiving and misleading the
people.
In fact, the Anninias
club would spurn to receive to
membership a single member of
the “ Lane county anti-Nesmith
committee,” and old Satan himself
would no doubt, deny them admis
sion to his infernal realm.
Royal Intermediate School Items
Wbat Is Tree Insurance
Although election day was very I
wet our community turned out to a
man to assist iu votiug Oregon dry. I
Your Life May Be Insured So That
Last Sunday night the Royal |
orchestra and male quartet went to j
Loraue to attend a temperance
meeting.
You Are Worth More Dead
Than Alive.
But how about those trees you
planted last season, or those you
expect to plant next season?
Could anything make them worth
more dead than alive to you?
Now we have a system of tree
insurance that is worthy the care
ful consideration of the planter—
past or prospective. Supi>ose you
planted 1000 trees last spring and
lost 50 or 100 of them as so many
planters did; and suppose the chap
who sold them to you agrees to re
place them next season, will that
make-good?
The youth who was smoking a
cigaret near the monkey’s cage
took another one from his pocket.
“ Would it do any harm," he
asked, “ if I should offer him one
of these?” “ Not a bit,” responded
the attendant. “ He would not
touch it. A monkey isn't half as
big a fool as he looks.”
Receutly the time of the Acada-
mv literary was given to a temper
ance rally. Rev. Sutcliffe of Cot
tage Grove made a very interesting
address.
Elders I1
'. S. Bunch aud VV. S.
Black, Fres. and Vice I’res. of the
Southern Oregon S. D. A . Confer
ence were with us recently to con
sider matters of interest to the
Academy, and while here attended
the rally at Loraue and made ad
dresses,
Dr. Catherine Schleff accompan
ied by Miss Fraucis Trunk drove
over to the Loraue meeting and
while returning, when near Royal,
the team stepped out of the road
aud the buggy was overturned.
The team at once stopped and for
tunately no one was hurt. The
party however, remained overnight
with I’rof. Johnson.
W on’ t those 50 or 100 trees l>e
just a year behind the main orchard
and a year later coming into bear
ing? That isn’t tree insurance by
any means.
Or suppose he, as some are do
ing, charges you half price for re
placing trees that die. That is
adding robliery to injury. He has
Talk about freak voting aud had the use of your money for a
mixed ballots, the vice president year and then wants 50 % for re
of the Home Rule Association for turning it to you. Tluit isn’ t tree
Cottage G»ove voted the prohibi insurance either.
Or suppose you are dealing with
tion ticket straight, accorditig to
one of those fellows who have to
Ms own electiou day statement.
be sued to bring them to the point
The Douglas county section of of making good? That costs money
the Bohemia mining district cast and >-ou can’ t afford to go to law
Absolutely Pure j
each of its eleven votes for ^Nes- over 10, 25,^50 or even 1< m ) trees.
uiith.
I.orane 26 for and 16 They know that and some of them
only Baking
against Nesmith.
simply refuse to make good.
Or suppose you get a good stand
Dates for convention of the Ore
THE 'CRESW ELL CHRONIC.’ ’
of trees and when they come to
gon Development I.eague has been
bearing age find you have some
• fixed on November 2.S, 29 and .40.
It s an old adage that the truth ¡.The meeting will be held at Salem, thing entirely different from what
you were led tx> expect from the On view here. Admire their hand
hurts” aud judging from the yelp- f
'
ing set up in the Creswell Chronic i Occasionally a man is affable label? You go hack to your man some and splendidly finished cases
office last week, something from j w^ ° 'sn I running for office and (if you can find h im ) and he calm that make them such a beautiful
ly tells you that Vie cannot be held article of furniture.
the I.eader office must have hit a ^asn I anything to sell.
canine in those quarters.
1 he j
Nesmith or no Nesmith, we’ ve responsible for more than the pur
same issue of the Creswell Chronic ! „ ot jj,e j)esj tOWI, an(j <^intry in chase price of tlie trees? What
aliout five or six wears lost time?
in which its editor denied being in the state of Oregon anyway.
Five or six years .right out of the However for their greatest quality.
any way remunerated or having re
middle of the best years of your
Its richness and voluiug prove that
ceived pay for the rot against N es-
lifetime?
TEMPERANCE RALLY
rnith county, published in that
I know all about it for I have our pianos are the equal of any,
paper, was a column and a half of
A T DORENA SUNDAY been buying and selling trees for the superior of many. And you
30 years and I have got more bad can purchase one without feeling
stereotyped anti-Nesmith matter
trees than good ones Ln that time. the cost. Ask how.
sent out from Eugene and which
Regardless of the heavy rain, More trees that were not true to
the Leader has evidence to prove
name than those that were genuine.
has been paid for in other news over one hundred temperance I never got a dead tree replaced
papers of the state, and i f it was workers of Cottage (.'.rove joined nor a bogus one paid for. I am
not paid for iu t h e Creswell the excursion to the saw milling something of a “ grafter” myself
Chronic it was from the fact that community of Dorena Sunday as all nurserymen are, but when I
get ready to rob people I will get a
the anti-Nesmith committee did noon on the O. & S. E. railroad gun and take to the road like any
where
a
rousing
temperance
rally
not consider space in that sheet
other highwayman.
worth anything.
Space iu the was held in the afternoon. The
Now let me tell you my plan of
Leader, on the other hand is valua visitors were accorded a royal re tree insurance: First, my trees
ble, too valuable to devote to an ception by the good citizens of Do glow . They have a record of 1%
loss. T h e worst case for the past
H b c C o tta o c © r o v e X c a b c r
swering a lot of ranting» aiul gib rena and made to feel that they season was a loss of tw o out of
were welcome. The meeting was
berish
set
forth
as
argument
iu
the
five hundred, and that because
PUBLISHED K V a R V TUESDAY
largely attended and the following somebody bungled and allowed
Creswell Chronic.
interesting program was carried them to be exposed for two days
W. C. CONNER, - Editor and Manager
out:
unprotected after they left my
Entered at the Cottage Grove postoffice
hands.
About ten miles of the Panama
Singing, America.
as second class mail matter
In one lot of nearly 8000 set late
Canal are now open. Five miles
Prayer by Rev. Rlkius.
and hurried! v, the loss will be CKSS
.$1.50
One year
at
the
Pacific
entrance
are
now
Chorus, ‘ .Oregon going Dry.”
_ .75
Six months.
THAN ONK PI 5R THOUSAND. More
open and are used by vessels of all
Opening remarks by Chairman over, we can y over each year trees
T U E S D A Y, NOV. S, V)U)
kinds. Fiv,e and a half miles of L . A . Ralston,
of same gra de as we sell, trans Produce good results.
If you
planted and \ veil cared for, so that send your physician’s prescriptions
the Atlantic entrance were opened
A few facts concerning the Pro-
u August for the use of construe- j hibition Movement, by Miss Rob we can replat * out of trees of samp ; to us they will be most carefully
THE ANTI NESMITH COMMITTEE
aok a n d vie; or . so that there will compounded and only the purest
tion barges. Work on the Gatuu inson.
be no breaks in orchards planted and freshest of Drugs will be used.
with trees fro m the Cedar Springs W e always carry a large supply of
That bunch of self-important dam and the great locks is pro
Song by the Morss Trio.
and self-assumed pious, sancti gressing so satisfactorily that it is
“ Home Rule Espoused” by E Nursery, loca ted at Cottage Grove,
Oregon.
monious and reliable gentlemen confidently predicted that the plan Purvance.
And furthe rinore, I cut scions
composing the “ bane county anti- to run ships through its whole
Chorus.
from trees tl lat I know. Trees
length
before
the
close
of
1815
will
Nesmith committee” lost their
Does Prohibition Prohibit, by that are not o n ly true to name, but
sanctity and Christian fortitude last be carried out.
clean and healt.hy. No buying that we can highly .recommend.
Miss Royer.
week when the I.eader exposed
Duette by the Misses Veatch scions from Tom , Dick and Harry In all cases our prices are worthy
through advertise tnents.
When of your notice.
their rotten schemes and set them
A reputation as a fighter might and Richmond.
we do find it neces sary to secure
up as pious frauds, which caused be a good thing if you could get it
Constitutional Amendments, Alta scions of scarce va rieties from a
King.
them to rave and rant and throw without fighting.
distance, they nuast come from a |
reputable person. Someone who
Song by the Morss Trio.
A Home Rule Advertisement, by is well-known as, a trustworthy!
C ottage Grove, Oregon
person.
Miss Hefty.
Still furthermore.and ¡.finally, wej
Song, Male quartet.
don’t grow eve rythiug- Only a |
Notice to Horse Owners
Home Rule by Ben King.
■connner- \
few varieties of the best ¿»miner-
Chorus.
cial kinds and a rerv few fc.'r home !
We can show you the goods and they are a great saving
The Destiny of Oregon, O. S. orchards,
Owing t i the constant advance
Three or fou r different . 1 i’ >ples
upon your knees, patience and nurse when you clean house.
Speare.
two or three of pe ars and clier ries in the cost of materials and the
Song, Morss Trio.
and also of peachess and plums arc heavy freight rates the price of
The excursionists returned home enough for any home orchard, j horse shoeing in Cottage Grove
in the evening on the six o ’clock while for the com mercial planter i w jll be advanced to tlie scale of
fv t .A
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i, i ■ - -
r t . , / v li
r
two kinds
of C any
cl ass
are enough
train after a well-spent day.
prices charged at Eugene, regard-
By concentrating work on fewer
kinds of stocks, s ;e can furnish less of the fact that freight is high
Bargain in Heater.
er from Porttand to Cottage Grove.
I>etter trees and at 1 css price and
The new scale of prices will lie:
Heating stove, 24 inch, airtight,
Numbers,!), 1, 2 and 3, S I.75*.
good condition. Inquire at Lead
! Numbers 4 and*5, $2.00. Sixes
er office.
,#2.25 and sevens $2.50.
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