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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1911)
1 f •cui 8 o f l | , | y ! ------------------- 1 The Arcade Theater The Arcade Theater The H irth-C lasii M otion P ic tu re « V p -to-D ate V a u d e v ille E astern C o m e d y A ll T h is W e ek Change Program Every Night ChaiiKc Program Every Night V.______________/ A L O C A L P A P E R P I T F O R ANY H O M E -* P R O G R E S S IV E . N E W S Y . IN D E P E N D E N T Bohem ia tiold M ininji D istrict and T h irty Saw M illing Enterprises T rib u ta ry to Cottage Drove. D airying, F r u it (irow ing, F arm in g are Profitable C O T T A G E G K O V E L E A D E R ' C o n » o ll(U l» d j t n u u r I . I 9 0 S . BO HEM IA NUGGET t A BOIIII10 How Black Spot May be Eradicated in All Apple Varities After m uch expel a u d itin g with different sprays it has been fouihl th a t black spot” or ' ‘Baldwin spot' in apples cannot be over come by spraying, from th e fact th a t it is caused from a condition of the soil and not from any pest or fungus condition in the tree. A Hood River orchardist who has been m ak in g a study of black spot ill apples, especially Baldwins, has discovered that a certain fertilizer scattered on the ground around the tree will not only eradicate the black spot but also increase the production of fruit. Regarding this remedy, K. S. M organ, of Hood River, says: “I deeided to try this fertilizer as sixm as 1 heard of it and wrote to the San F ran cisco m anufacturers about it and they a t'o n c e wrote me and asked for an analysis of the soil about these diseased trees. T his 1 made a t once and sent them, and in a few weeks they ship|ied m e 200 pounds of fertilizer with in stru c tions to apply it to ten trees, tw enty pounds to a tree, and asked me to let them know the next summer, or fall, the result. T his fertilizer w as applied, as directed, in N ovem ber of 1909, and in the sp rin g every oue of the ten trees took oil new life and vigor. T h e leaves were of a much darker green, they all blossomed, and last fall 1 picked a good crop of perfect apples from every one of the trees. Not a single apple on any of these trees had a trace of Baldwin S p o t.” T he other trees in the orchard had, as usual, large q u antities of apples badly affected. W hile this seemed almost too good to he true, it was a sufficient dem onstration for me and I at once ordered a sufficient quantity of the fertilizer to cover the entire old orchard, an d this was applied last Novem ber. I feel sure th a t next fall I will not only have no ‘‘Bald win Spot” hut I will have a larger an d better crop of apples than f h av e ever had. f wrote the agricultural college of my success, and they seem con vinced th a t 1 have found th e rem edy. T hey have already given th is inform ation to several fruit m en, and a num ber of them have w ritten me for the nam e of the com pany m anufacturing this fer tilizer. Requests have come to me from farm papers for articles upon the subject, and, while I do n o t con sider m yself bv any m eans an au thority upon an y subject p ertain in g to the fruit industry, I am pleased to give the result of my experim ents if by so doing it would assist my nciglilior or brother or ch ardist in solving some of the sam e perplexing problems th a t I h av e had to com bat. T he nam e of the firm from whom I pure la st'd this fertilizer is th e Pacific G uano & Fertilizer Co., 3 1 0 S ansom e street, San Francisco, .C alifo rn ia, and any com m unica tions addressed to them upon this subject will receive prom pt and most courteous attention. Do Your Own Grafting. T he season is draw ing near for grafting of fruit trees and therefore th e Leader gives its readers the follow ing excellent w ax form ula: T he com ponent parts of grafting w ax are resin, tallow and beeswax. Sometimes linseed oil is used. M utton tallow is to lie preferred to beef tallow, because it is softer. T h e pro]x>rtions are as follows: R esin..................................... 4 pounds B eesw ax.................................1 pound Tallow ................................... ] pound F irst' melt the resin, then add th e other ingredients. Melt and m ix thoroughly. T his m akes a soft, pliable w ax, which will keep for years. If the w eather is cold when it is tak en into the orchard Co. C O T T A G E G R O V E , O R E G O N , T U E S D A Y , F E B R U A R Y a i, i g n for use keep it in a dish of warm or hot water. O r it m ay be kept iu a small dish with a lam p u n d er neath. If it is desired to have the w ax a little softer add a trifle more of beesw ax or a little less resin. For harder w ax, reverse the pro cess, using more resin. If more convenient, linseed oil m ay be used instead of tallow , but th e pro portions would be a little different. It is easy to melt and test, addiug ingredients as you w ant the w ax softer k or harder. T he above will be found about right to spread easily over the w ounds, and yet firm enough to stay w ithout m elt ing and running off when the sun gets hot. Steam Plow for Creswell. Schm itt Brothers’ new catap illar engine is expected the first of next week. T his will be another one of the m any up-to-the-m inute pieces of equipm ent which Schm itt Bros, are constantly adding. W hile the engine will be used for the most part for scientific roadbuildiug, it will do powerful work in plowing. T he engine is m ade by the Holt M anufacturing Com pany, of Stock- ton, Calif. It will plow 35 acres a day, carries eight 14-inch plows and can go anyw here. T he cata- pillar is the one engine which c a n ’t get stuck in the mud, they say. It lays its own track as it goes, vet it can travel at the rate of five miles an hour. Schm itt Brothers have a contract with the A. C. Bohrnsteilt O rchard Com pany to put in improved roads between all orchard tracts. It is said th a t this com pany is spending more money on the construction of w ell-drained roads than any other orchard com pany in the United States Many of these broad avenues have been laid out. W hen th e engine arrives Schm itt Brothers say that the com pletion of this big contract will be an easy m a tte r.—Chronicle. For a Fruit Dryer. I’ercival Rust of F.ugene, ap peared before the Com mercial club M onday evening and renewed his proposition to build and equip a first class fruit dryer and pack in g house here providing the ground was donated. T he com m ittee on securing a site reported th a t two or three excellent locations were available but asked for a little more time in which to com plete their negotiations. So the new dryer is practically assured and Mr. Rust'inform s the Leader th at lie will commence work on the dryer and storage warehouse as soon as a site is selected. T he legislature provided for the establishm ent of a state trout hatchery on the M cKenzie river, this county. 10 ENJOIN COUNTY COURT AND HOLD UP U. 0. GRAFT Taxpayers in Mass Convention Denounce Legislative Extravagance and Devise Ways and Means to Throw off $503.000 Burden V O L . X X I I. passed by the recent L egislature. COM M ITTEE ON IN V O K IN G E N D l’ M. NO. 44 LOCAT AND R E FER H . O. Thom pson. A. B. Wood, J. F . S pray, C. J . S tew art, C. 11. B urkholder, R. M. V eatch an d L. A. Cates. COM M ITTEE ON RAISING Industries. FU N D S. A. Bruud, T . C. W heeler, J . S. S pray, G eo. O. K now les an d B. K. Law son. O ne m an cam e for w ard with $50 an d several $5 and $10 co n tributions were m ade to th is referendum fu n d a t th e close of the m eeting. i Ciarence Phipps Mistak en for a Deer and Shot by Friend NOTES OF T H E CONVENTION A rousing meeting of the ta x payers of South Lane an d N orth Douglas county was held in the Com mercial club rooms Monday evening and much enthusiasm was m anifested. President F. I). W heeler called the m eeting to order and stated its object was to discuss the m atter of enjoining the county court of Lane county from illegally appropriating money from the co u n ty ’s general fund to use iu road construction and im provements, and also to discuss and tak e action in the m atter of invoking th e referendum on the $503,000 U niversity of Oregon ap propriation. TO EN JO IN T H E C O l'R T . T h e com mittee appointed to in vestigate th e action of the county court iu appropriating moneys from the general fund for road purposes, consisting of attorneys j . K. Medley, J . C. Johnson and W . C. Counter, reported th a t they had thoroughly investigated the m atter and in speeches on this subject, both Mr. Johnson an d Mr. «Medlev ex plained that in 1905 the Cottage l Irove and F.ugene city charters were am ended by the leg islature providing th a t these mun icipalities be set apart as separate road districts and entitled to the fund for roads purposed provided from the usual road ta x levy. Now to beat these m unicipalities out of their just proportion of road tax money the county court has discontinued levying the road tax assessment but has m ade the gen eral levy h igh enough th a t appro priations m ay lie m ade from the general fund for county road p u r poses and th e ta x paid by Cottage G rove which should come back in the m unicipal road improvement fund now goes into the general county fund and is used in road im provem ents throughout the county, thereby depriving Cottage Grove of from $2,500 to $3,000 an n u a lly of money which should be used upon the roads leading into Cottage Grove. It is alleged th at the court is not only evading the law, b ut actu ally violating the law in liotjlevyitig the usual road tax and in appropriating money from the general fund for road purposes. A resolution was u n animously passed by the m eeting, instructing the city council to com mence injunction proceedings against the Lane county court at its option and discretion. It was Fugeue which took sim ilar action against the couuty court a few years ago and won its case in the circuit court, which decision was upheld in the suprem e court. C . OF O A PPRO PR IA TIO N . T h at the appropriation of $503,- 000 provided for the University of Oregon by the late lam ented legis lature is ex trav ag an t, burdensom e to the taxpayers and th a t no e x i gency or em ergencies justifies such an ex trav ag an t appropriation, am ounting to about $10,000 each for every student in th at ed u ca tional institution for two years, was the general concensus of opin ion of this tax p ay ers m eeting. Able speeches on this question were m ade by O. M. Kern, atto r ney ]. S. Medley, Geo.O. Knowles, C. II. Burkholder, Capt. J . C. Johnson, M artin A nderson and others. Many expressed the o pin ion that no more perm anent im provements should be m ade on the U. of O. cam pus until F'ugene could guarantee an adequate su p ply of pure, wholesome w ater w hich at this tim e is not iu sight. It was shown that the total appro priations of the late lam ented leg islature would am ount to about $75 each for every tax p ay er of the state and that it is time for the taxpayers to call a halt is evi dent to every th in k in g citizen. T he U niversity faculty contended two years ago that if an appropria tion of $250,000 was granted by the state this would be adequate for all purposes for m auy years to come, but already they dem and and are granted $503,000. Money was subscribed and com mittees appointed to secure the necessary signatures to the refer endum petitions after the meeting liad*expressed, through unanim ous vote, in favor of invoking the ref erendum iiixiii the appropriations for the institution at Eugeue. Resolutions fram ed declared the appropriations ex trav ag an t and needless at this p articular tim e. S tirring speeches were made de nouncing several other measures President F'rauk W heeler ably um pired th e gam e. Remember sweet pea p lan tin g Chas. Burkholder headed the day tomorrow— W ednesday. conservatives. \V. (). Cook says rock costs the O. M. Kem was th e Cicero of county $2 per y ard at the county the convention. crushers. C apt. Johnson w as there w ith I larold H um bert went to C ottage the legal advice. G rove S atu rd ay to sing at the Lew C ates got w arm ed up an d C hristian ch u rc h .— Register. delivered au oration. ( i . L. Nichols, city engineer, F ran k K in g surprised his friends will plat the 5(H)-acre tra c t at Lo- by keeping out of the m ixup. M artin A nderson m ade some rniie recently purchased by the very pertiueut an d wise suggestions. M ilw aukee O rchard com pany. Geo. O. Knowles and fam ily Ju d g e Medley supplied the wit, hum or, p athos and sarcasm —the h av e moved into tlieir newly a c fun. I quired residence property near th e Jim Ilem euw ay alleged L in n ' west side public school building. county an d all of the G rangers are Mrs. F ran k Snodgrass arrived with us. in the city on the noon train F ri G . O. Know les related some in day from C ottage G rove to visit side facts concerning th e greed of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Y. the U. of O. Abbot t . —G u a rd . M ayor Kim e and A lderm an B. T h e > 10,000 bonds liave arrived Lawson delivered the goads on b e here, been executed by the m ayor h alf of the m unicipality. and recorder an d hasteued back to Thom pson an d Spray were not New York. It is expected th a t able to be preseut. Reason, rh e u the money will be available this m atism in the knees from bowing w eek. down to legislators iu interest of A. I). Owens who was so se co uuty bill. verely injured in his saw m ill last T he joke is oil Assessor Keeney week lias returned hom e from the of E ugene, who cam e to attend a ; Eugene hospital an d is able to be “ ta x p a y e rs” m eeting b ut found about again. He was severely cut him self a deliberator iu au anti-U . j an d bruised about the face an d O. graft an d an ti-E u g en e m eeting. 1 head. Brings Suit for Personal Injury Mrs. Martin D orw ard an d son, W . Dorward, of M ilwaukee, W is consin, arrived iu C ottage G rove last week to visit in the fam ily of tlieir relative, George A. Dorwood, who resides im m ediately west of the ciiy. Ralph E- Love has com menced suit against the C ham bers Lum ber com pany of C ottage G rove for per sonal injuries received by him w hile w orking forsaid com pany as Doretia is now possessed of ad e result of w hich he says he is quate protection ag ain st loss by wholly in cap acitated for m an u al fire, having connection with the labor. lie w an ts $7500 for said Cottage Grove pipe line from L an g injury w hich he alleges was re creek. T he city receives $5 per ceived from d efen d an ts’ neglect. m onth for the service. W ater Seitz & Seitz, of Portland, are Com missioner G reen Pitcher tapped p lain tiff’s atto rn ey s.— Register. i the line last week. A piece of flan n el ilan q x 'n ed w ith C h a m b e rla in '» L in im e n t am t Ixmml on to th e affected p a rts is su p e rio r to any p laster. W h en tro u b le d w itli lam e track o r p a in s in th e sid e o r ch est g iv e it a tria l an d yon are c e rta in to lx- m ore th an p leased w itli th e p ro m p t relief w h ich it affords. Sold b y H enson’s P h arm acy . This Cut Is An Exact Copy of The Manner In W hich Our Coat Fronts Are Made They are hand tailored fronts, hand tailored collars, hand made button holes, buttons sewed on by hand. What more could you ask in a Suit fo r '$18.00 to $27,50. Oh! A French hair-cloth non-breakable front? W ell, w e have that too. . ’ W H EELER-TH O M PSO N CO. T h e sam e old story— m istaken for a deer—is th e cause of the trag- | ic death of C larence Phipps, aged ! ’. ~ years, in the hills 4 miles east ! of Coburg S unday afternoon. He was shot an d 'k illed by Mr. H arry S utherland, a com panion alxiut the | sam e age. M. I). Sheburne of K ansas lias bought the Alice Canfield place of ten acres, oue miles west of Cot tage Grove, the consideration b e ing $2100. Mr. Sheburne also b ought for his son the Nelson D ex ter ran ch of 46 acres, three miles south of town, the consideration being $15no. M rs. Marie H artu u g lias filed | divorce proceedings against her | h usband, W. A Ilartttu g , nml asks for the care and custody of I tlieir youngest child, E va M«v, 1 1 a g e ' S years. T he couple was m arried in South D akota 24 years ! ago and he w as formerly engaged : iii the flour m illing business in this I city. Assessor B. F . Keeney w as in- ! vited to appear before the Cottage I ! G rove Com m ercial club Monday i evening and ex p lain his side of ’ i th e ta x controversy. He accepted i 1 the invitation an d m ade an ernest, eloquent address and a most favor able impression upon his m any ¡hearers. He quickly and very ; satisfactorily answ ered every ques- i tioti put to him by one of his op ponents, Mr. H olland of Pleasant i H ill who was here endeavoring to ! have recall petitions signed up i ag ain st Mr. Keeney. T he genial , | assessor showed conclusively it 1 was the ta x law s and not the ¡(assessor which is at fatil*. lie (w as accorded a most courteous h earin g and a cordial reception. C ottage Grove will never lie a p arty to any recall proceedings ag ain st B. F. Keeney 1
