A L O C A L P A P E R FIT FOR ANY H O M E -P R O G R E S S I V E , N E W S Y , IN D E PE N D E N T
Bohemia <lold Mining District and Thirty Saw Milling Enterprises Tributary to Cottage Grove. Dairying, Fruit Growing, Farming are Profitable
b S hem I a
|con»o.u...d j.nu.r, 9 . .908.
N VG GETL E A ‘ ,e:K
OUR G R E A T E S T A N D
TROUT FRY FOR
LASTING RESOURCE
BY
G R O V E , O R EG O N , T U E S D A Y , N O V M E B E R
COTTAGE
ARCADE THEATRE
THANKSGIVING
MOSBY CREEK
PROCLAMATION
U. W A R N HR.
Governor West issued the follow-
Twenty-one large cans of trout
al fry were received by Joe I’ alm w ing 'J’ haiiksgiug proclamation:
most everything matt needs, and yesterday direct from the lritcliery
“ W hereas, in accordance with
“ hack to the soil” is the soil}; we and will be planted in Mosbv creek. time honored custom handed down
hear every day, for our of the There is a move on foot to restock to us by the pilgram forefathers of
products we live. At one door we some of the stream- of :h i.......etimi out nation, tlie president of the
< tut of mother earth,
comes
are favored by one of the greatest
with game fish,
'this is a move 1'nited States, lias by his proclama
the in the riget direction, as we have tion set aside Thursday, November
world; favored with water, timber, many ideal streams which were doth,
as Thanksgiving Day and
ami national gateways to it, and filled with fine fish in early days, has dedicated it as a day for the
yet it is practically lying dormant, but all have been caught out. serious and thankful consideration
for want of
transportation and W ith the proper restocking and of tlie manifold blessings shower
precious
metals
camps
in
treatment,* and men of experience protection, wc may again lie able j ed upon
us through the benef
which nowdays to ^omix-le must be to enjoy angling and at the same icence of Almighty G od; and
technically trained and then some time getting results.
“ Whereas, it is mete and fitting
m on ey, (an d there is plenty when
W e have heard -ince our arrival that all the people of this state
it can be assured of a .square deal > here that the river is full o f chub
book back one year, and you or bullheads, which, we are in
were given a little history of past formed, destroy other fish, and are
years in this cam p. Just one year not fit for table use.
If Ibis be
CHANGES HANDS
were the
only
ones
left, and yet ore said to he worth
$.10 per t m as fine milling ore as
one could wish, is now
the
scene
o f high life and an electric engine
is
daily
carrying
metal to the mill.
this precious
Yet
as exixiss-
cd to me once regarding
business (it is run
a certain
by wire from
W a ll St and it m ay <|iiit in fifteen
m inutes.) Our good lioiies is this
wotl't quit so quick, for if the e x
perience and knowledge in other
cam ps is useful, the signs are good
OF D OLLARS
own sorrow as
m oney.
to
lost
time
-
and ley. Lewi« A . and two sisters, Mrs.
Sarah Ann [ones and Mrs. A m an
“ 1 invested in land .4 miles south
of Peoria,
Lynn
left school,
and
county,
1
alter
I
consider that
I made enough money onjtliat deal
through having learned
land, to many times
to know
pay for
the
time and money spent at Corvallis
while attending college.
ing bee
culture to
Th is is well.
I
am
your
course.
interested in
1st
gan dropping about (let.
1st, and
the state, shall contain not less litographed in ten colors and gold, students, and tlie short course will
than eight ounces, sixteen ounces and you, too, as giver of the sub j doubtless draw a largi number.
iness.
is full of life, getting the ore to go or thirty-two ounces, and each scription, will receive a copy of the
Th e Mayflower is active getting
down over the aerial tramway lo square or roll to be plainly marked Calendar.
Th e timber trust attorneys (s a l
out ore preparatory to starting the
the mill when the values are o b with the number of ounces it con
The Y ou th ’s Companion, aires not published l have succeed-
mill as soon as water enough to
tained.
tains. T h is is to apply to all but
144 Berkeley St. Boston Mass. ! ed in securing a valuation by the
force the wheels into motion, and
A t the Arrastra claim at the foot ter, both country and creamery,
; assessor in Coos County to two dol
then the yellow stuff will he in
of the mountain they have cross whether made in or outside of the
J. I,. Senter, our creamery man, lars an acre on logged-off land
evidence again.
cut over .40 feet of low grade ore, state.
If you are selling butter
had business which called him to Such land when tleared and fann
Down on the Syndicate group
that if it had a cyanide plant upon you should post yourself on the
Portland on Saturday.
H e was ed is assessed at from two to fifty
there is a cross cut 40 feet, that
it won hi set more than one hundred law and avoid possible trouble.
County
accompanied as far as Creswell by times this sum. Coos
shows s feet of basic ore on the
men at work, that one year ago
Mrs. Senter who went for a visit farmers need some larger install
foot wall, and on the hanging wall
Scholl
lias
jewelry
and
prices
to
only assessment work was being
ments of single la x .
with friends.
anothei lense of free milling ore
suit everybody.
performed.
that was not known one year ago.
In the Dewev down
the east end of the Vesuvius claim
in thé Can
enough in
m en’ s hands
mining
WHEELER-THOMPSON CO.
good
to lie doing business every
the year
if
AUGHT
day in
transportation
and
treatment was within reach.
Over in the
C o ,,
Red
Rock
GOO
the cam p, that gives good values
in copper, lead, zinc, gold and sil
A fine trail lias been made
the length of t heir property with a
good house at one end and hun
ALSO
THE
OUR LOSS,
while near the middle of the prop
vein in this tunnel
showing
that i
out o f sight many times these val - 1
At the Sweepstakes they
have
opsued up a lense of free ore ’ over
100 feet wide:
also another vein
OUT SALE
YOUR GAIN
George
was
married
to
Miss
Sarah Ann W allace September 18,
1870.
T o ibis union came
children; Julia Ann
three
(w ho died in
infancy ), Laura Etta, the first wife
of Sherman S.
Morss,
who died
May 16th, 1898, and George Ralph
who
lives
on the
ranch
near
W alker, Oregon.
George has lived
59 years in
Oregon and all the time in this
partof Lane C o. He is well known;
respected and honered for his fidel
ity and
industry.
George
was a
good neighbor, a true friend and
faithful husband and good father.
If any one passed their
home
hungry it was their own fault. The
latch string
always
hung on the
outside and Aunt Ann was a good
cook and Uncle George provided
well.
He lived on the ranch till
two years ago when he moved to
Creswell, where he built a beauti
ful home and furnished it well.
George was not a member of the
church.
Yet he took great
inter
est in the little church at W alker,
helping most liberally when it was
built. Some 15 years ago he made
a public confession p f liis faith in
Christ and ever afterwards support
with
his influence
He was buried
in
the
church
yard o f the church lie took
interest in, at W alker.
most
He was buried November
18th
191 U
The F’ uueral Services were
conducted by Rev. W . V . McGee,
Presbyterian Church
He leaves a widow and
son. to-
gathcr with a host o f relatives and
friends to mourn
with them.
N.
S.
Olson,
and sympathize
of
Brownsville,
was in Cottage Gnove a couple of
days last
week
looking after the
business of the Equitable Savings
and Loan Association, one of Port
lan d’ s leading
financial
institu
Yours Anxious to Please
has been looking about this section
tive.
Mr. Olson has many friends
along t ï “ valley
who are always
pleased to meet him
ou his
trips.
A . A . W ild s, of Lam ed, Kansas,
be
shipping ore.
The mother died 22
years ago, and father died 11 years
tions, o f which he is a representa
indications and assays are a guide
will
69 years age.
Our goods and prices prove our advertised intentions are true and that we
can and will make for you a great saving in each and every purchase.
Take advantage of the opportunity. M eet us face to face.
uable viens lie hidden.
Fine orej
and water of Oregon's liest, and if I
within another year they
PRICES BEFITTING A CLOSING
Had w e expected to close out and quit business at this time, w e would
not have made the extensive purchases w e did. Our actions make our
losses greater and requires more time to reduce our stock to where w e
can dispose of it in a lump.
erty thev are driving a tunnel to
backs. It has encountered another
young
est, Am anda Jane G angeie, is 52.
A n infant sister died in Arkansas
of Creswell.
dreds of feet of tunnel and drifting !
the vein that will give 200 feet of
Th e oldest of the children, James
A ., is 72 years old and die
pastor o f the
claims thev have made open
of the strong, well-defined leads in
ver.
wi™ the
Mining
cuts, sneek shafts and prospected
on the surlace over .4000 feet in one
Eastern
and means.
ed it}) a vein of sulphide ore uçarly
values
Gauger live in
O regon.
ed the Church
on 2 0 0 0 feet deep they have open
4 feet wide that lias
da Jane
ago.
“ I understand that you are add
It is elastic in that line and wisli to get posted,
Th e LBAntfR will give 100
the year that ts past, a fraterntil year as the first.
its
adaptability,
too;
for it does and m ay he there next winter
000 votes on ltruud ,Y C o., .■ charity in thought and act to those
j | » P Piano
i
Contest, with every i whose paths are shadowed by Sor not matter whether the present is course. I think tiiat I will be able
$1 .00 worth o f job work, ad- 1 row. seikness or tribulation, a uni for a boy or a girl, young married to take up work with the experi
_j| vertisiug, new subscriptions , versal prayer to tlie omnipotent people, sedate couple«, grandpar ment station next spring, and will
be glad to follow out any line of
j J or renewals ordered on
Creator o f us all for tile continued ents— there never was one yet who
experiment work that you wish me
did
not
set
store
by
The
Y
o
u
th
’
s
peace, prosperity and advancement
jj S A T U R D A Y, NOV. 25th
to d o .”
Companion.
You
raunot
m
ake
a
of our magnificent state and belov
s H '-T7 n r~ -V -I- -I --T--
-T--T-
mistake if you give The Com pan
A recent gift to the department
ed n ation .' ’
ion—'*wdd ir is only $1.75 a year of agriculture from the Portland
Miss Anna Oglesby went to
State Dairy and Food Commis- now. On January 1. 1012, the Seed C o., has added largely to the
Hugene Sunday .
ioner Baily has issued an order to ptice will be advanced to $2.00. equipment of the laboratory and
more life to come.
At the Vesu the effect that the law requiring
Th e one to whom you give the strenghtened the course as to dem
vius mill after two and o n e-h alf that every square of butter kept subscription will receive free The
onstrations.
In the regular course
years of idleness those stamps b e or expressed, or offered for sale in Com panion’ s Calendar for 1012, there were enrolled thi« fall thirty
for many years life of useful bus
G EO R G E T. SEARS
should pause in their labors and given. The many friends o f thh tablish a home, that he m ay know ters.
He being the second child.
return thanks to the Great Giver of boys will join us in wishing them just what
All
the
r at are living. James A .
he must
do to get
all good and perfect gifts, for H is every success in their enterprise.
the liest result. Otherwise it would David W ., John II. and Charles
tnaiiv acts of mercy, for the pros
take him years to learn it. to his W . still live in the W illam ette Val"
Saturday’ s Special
and his wife
PASSING AWAY O F
• Mr. George T . Sears was born
Oregon
Agricultural
College,
Corvallis, Ore., N ov. lo .— “ I con September 10th. 1S44, in W a sh in g
j d i a s . Hall and Clips. Beals, well-
sider inyself several hundred dol ton, Co. Arkansas near Fayette
I known young men of this city, the
lars better off in cash today from ville.
C ox Bros, who have conducted
H e died November 15th, 1911, at
having learned how to select land
the popular play house for months,
his
home in Creswell, O re .; hence,
of value and what to do with it
retiring.
after I got possession, than 1 would his sojourn, ou earth was 67 years
Th e new firm is m aking prepara
have been if I had neglected the 2 months and 5 days.
tions to give the best entertainment
His parents catue to ( Iregou in
short course,” say P. A . Pehrsson
possible for the money, and the
“ Crossing the Plains with
o f Junction City in a recent letter 1S52.
patrons of the Arcade will contin
to Dean A . B. Cordley of the Ore ox team s,” and settled ou a dona
ue to find a pleasant place to sjieud
gon Agriculrural College, discus tion claim, three miles north-east
a wlnle of an evening.
sing the course which lie took last of Cottage Grove. ( Rather where
Th e company will use the Trust
^
winter.
“ The course is practical Cottage Grove is n ow ,)
films and assure the public that and sound: it is just what every
There George grew up with a
the best service possible will be man needs who comes here to es family of six brothers and two sis
to find left true, would it not lie a good plan perity, health and happiness with
A Gilt With a Thought In It.
had been to devise some means to destroy which He lias encompassed us.
W hat other Christinas present
passed in the game, an ore shoot them?
“ N ow ,
therefore,
I, Oswald
costs
so little and means so much
that had to the world been lost,
IVe would lie glad if someone West, governor, hv virture of the
yielding ore that returned over who is posted on fishology to come authority in me vested as governor as a subscription to Th e Y o u th ’ s
$1000 per ton. and new men to the forth with a series of articles for of the state of Oregon, and in con Companion— $2 weeks for $1.75?
helm to guide: Twenty little ham the LtCArtKR along this line and a - formity with tlie proclamation of It is a gift which benefits not only
mers, have been sounding the val sist us in doing some good work the president and the custom o f the one who receives it, but every
ues of that wonderful shoot, atul it in tile interest of fishing in the oiu nation, do by these presents member of the same household.
W ith many Christmas presents
is so dear to those in command. f u lyre.
Iiir,claim and set apart Thursday,
No news is allowed to go out, and
November .40, as a public holiday, the sense of novelty wears off by
the week’ s end, but Th e Y o u th ’ s
thev decline to give any to help t - r *
■¥ bespeaking in its observance by all
fhe citizens o f this state, a sober Companion is as new and sought
the camp, vet we hear those ham
mers clatter day after day.
retrospection over the bounties of after the fifty-second week of the
a man
NO. 31
The Arcade moving picture the-
]
I ater has gone into the hands of
bubbles
liver in tlie Music camp
1911._____________________ VO L. X X III.
WORTH H U N D R E D S
ago, we were surprised
after one of the
Industries.
A Money
Saving Event
WHEELER-THOMPSON CO,
COTTAGE GROVE, OREGON
for a few days and
his
visit
till
will continue
about
Christmas.
T h is is not his first trip to this
place, and he may
continue his
trip to the coast.
on top coated the plates many days}
Get your thanksgiving apples at
HelltW ells, Baldwins, Spitz. and
in the stamp
Johnathans, $1 20 to $1.5(1 box.
lo feet away parallel to
mill
is
this that
evidence o f j
I