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LEADER’S GREAT BUSINESS GETTING CONTEST F R E E V O T IN G C O U P O N GOOD TIMES ARE SORE TO COME Not all the Grouches In the Conntry I hereby vote fo r ......... ......... ................................................... Can Stop the Coining ot Better Con ditions to the People ot Oregon. Address___________________________________________ \ First National Bank FIREMEN TAKE IN SEVEN NEW MEN S % Muxical Mmhnndiac Edison I'honngr.ipli* Victor Victrolaa Singer Sewing Machines Milla Ä Roach ITuak house First Nat'l Bank Bldg. N O TAR Y PUBLIC * A . W . * Ï I M E, A(. Î). P L iy s ic iq q q i;d S q v g e o rj £ DEPOSITORY £ City o f Cottage Grove Blacksmithing Correct Method of Horseshoeing Capital and Surplus $50,000.00 W a g o n Making H. LAKIN, President. T. C. W H E E L E R , Cottage Grove, Ore Phone No. 43 DEPOSITORY Lane County Officii in McFarland Building, Upstair*. Office Phone 34. F U Cashier. Office Phone 5 ATTORNEY AT LAW Transfer Company L. L. HARREL, l^ IÎJ It Prop. Practncal Painting, Paper Hanging and Decorating. t\. A|IItIcS Sueccssor to Marion Veatch FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Fire P roof Feed and Storage Barn. J. C. S M O O T Residence Phone 121L Special Attention Given to Mining and Corporation Law. Office, Woodward Building. Cottage Grove and up The latest patterns. Let figure on your work. \XI, « l( » JT. S. ^ ( o d l c y S p riggs B ro s. 12 cents a roll r; î)c i| {is t General Repair W ork South of First National Bank Sixth Street WALL PAPER Residence Phone I LIU I . . I > 'i', And S W ORTH H A R V E Y , Asst Cash’r £ A L L KIN D S OF H AU LING AN D H E AV Y DRAY WORK LAI)Y Phone 132 Y ATTENDANT Cottage (irove, Oregon The Metsan Shop Piano M Phone, ovin g a Specialty B L A C K S M IT H Office 72 ^ \ High grade Family Groceries] of the Best Brands, pure, fresh Auto Dray Quit K Delivery and wholesome. Cranberries, nuts anil fruits. THE TW ICE-A-W EEK Something Different Joe Baker =— lo ir frise« 1915 ? The Twice-A-Week Cottage Grove Leader IS O FF E R IN G THREE FREE TRIPS TO THE “ ^ “ <v Exposition and Four Oregon Business College scholarships Nominate Your Favorite Now It is not too late to get in the race. You can win if you are a hustler. W rite to the L E A D E R C O N TEST M A N A G E R for full particulars, and do it T O D A Y GUS C. MOSER REPUBLICAN Stands for Economy and Effi ciency and Dignified Law En forcement. He voted and worked against the new tax law in the Senate, and favors paying taxes semi-annually without penalty. = sü FT paid adv) Make Cottage Grove Bigger, Busier and Better. -tU The place to get your horses shod and good Repair Work. LE AD E R FOR $1.50 J Ö C une. Pianos A TTO R N E Y AT LAW DEPOSITORY United States Postal Savings THE ARCADE THEATRE CHANGES PROPRIETORS English Schoolboy Blunders. "k ir Usually has no weight, hut when p lii-d In a barometer a square Inch of II Is found to weigh about (1 fteen pounds." “The 'flannelette peril' means petti coat government." "Milton is called the father of Eng llsli poetry Ixvause he was blind aud his daughters did the writing for him." "James |. claimed the throne of Eng land through his graudmother, as be had no father.” "In the Ilrltlsh empire the sou al ways seta." J. G. J 0 1 I> TSOjV 1 --------------------- i Woodward Building Practices in all Courts Cottage, Grove, Ore. i In spite of the fact that there Signed..............................................- ......... are small communities where in This coupon is good for F IF T Y (50) VOTES when filled out, dustrial and business conditions pi jperly signed and mailed or given to Leader Contest Manager are not improved and may not be there is a general upward tend NOT GOOD AFTER M AY 23, 1914 ency all over this state and na tion. Business men who have THINGS DOING AT DISSTON. studied conditions, declare that Oregon is going to be a specially Grandpa Whitcomb of Saginaw favored spot. is visiting his son Fred and fam Eastern Oregon wool is moving ily this week. off at about 19 cents per pound, Mrs. A. C. Cox spent one day while the wheat area is the larg A t the meeting of the Cottage at the Ben Pitcher home last est ever sown in the state and Grove Volunteer Fire Depart week. the condition is away above the ment Monday night, seven new Little Bertha Hatfield, who average. members were taken in to the A big automobile factory in the has been very sick, is much im organization. state will keep many thousands These were Curtis Parker, proved at this writing. Homer Currin, W. M. Edwards, Mrs. H. Barnhart and daught of dollars from going east. Many Chas. O. Green, West Side. ers, Thelma aud Olive, spent be new manufacturing plants are Gerald K. Woods, Joe F. Smith tween trains Saturday at the being built and old ones startec up. and John Garoutte, Central. Ben Pitcher home. Here are a few of the encour Exemption papers were grant Cleve Jones visited Cottage aging news items of the week: ed to Joe McKibben, who had Grove Saturday afternoon. “ The export lumber trade of served the city well and faith E. S. Holderman of the ranger the last month has been unusual fully for seven years in the fire lodge, was looking after forestry ly heavy.” department. matters at Cottage Grove a few “ One company in Portlanc H. F. Oakes, James Atkinson days last week. now has under construction over and Chet Churchill were ap Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Compton thirty buildings.” pointed a committee to arrange of Cottage Grove, were in Ruja- with the representative of the “ Hy Eilers of Portland, just da and Disston on business Thurs returned from a month’s tour of Follow Amusement Company for the east says: ‘The season o f bu the giving of a carnival here day. Mrs. Alex Lundberg and Miss siness depression, which has early in June. Hattie Smith spent the week end been universal, has touched the in Cottage Grove. extreme low mark and the pen School Supervisor C. R. Stahl- dulum is on the steady and sure man visited our school one day swing upward.” last week. Mr.-Eiler says that everything points to a wonderful influx of Mr. Story of Dorena, visited Herbert Harrington is no longer his daughter, Mrs. Grace Rainey European immigrants to the Pac proprietor of the Arcade Thea the latter part o f the week. ific Coast with the opening of tre, having sold the place Satur Mrs. E. Bisby came up Satur the Panama canal. day to E. J. Kent, late of Kan day from Cottage Grove to visit There will be no more general sas. at the ranger lodge with Mr. and closing down of industrial plants Mr. Kent took charge of the Mrs. E. S. Holderman, returning The tremenduous crops which Theatre immediately and will home Sunday afternoon with her the Middle West will almost sure be assisted in its operation by his husband on his motorcycle. ly harvest, will create the largest brother-in-law, Rav Nixon, who demand for Pacific Coast timber Bert Trask and Warren Ed has had considerable experience products that we have known wards came up from the Grove in the moving picture business. for years, as the failure o f the on their motorcycles Sunday on Mr. Kent will keep the Arcade last year and the short crop of a fishing trip. up to the high standard set by the year previous has left but LaVeta Pitcher spent Sunday former owners, and it will con skeletons o f lumber yards thru afternoon with Misses Mildred tinue to be a very popular place out a big scope of country for spending our evenings and and Francis Dugan. that will call upon us this fall for Misses Mary and Hester Chali- millions on millions o f feet of our dimes. fou were Itujada visitors Sunday building material. Streams Lure Anglers afternoon. The Portland architects are * Many local disciples of Izaak Ben Pitcher spent Sunday giving a tremenduous boost to Walton are already beginning to afternoon at Wildwood. Oregon lumber in their recom make week-end trips and Sun-j Len Gray and family moved to mendations that it be used for day excursions to the various building materials in many places the Star saw mill Sunday. near-by streams. Although Lanel where eastern structural steel R eporter . county has always been noted has been largely used heretofore. for its good fishing places, yet j THE SEVEN PIUZES GIVEN Can’ t you see the evidences of early reports coming in, tell of good times coming for our state? the finding of new “ fishing holes” j Three first prizes Seven «lays I f you can’t sell out to some of and unusually big catches. trip to the Panama Pacific expo- those enthusiastic fellows who The mountains and streams sion in 1915, with all expenses have seen the signs of the times are rich in timber and water, paid. from afar and are coming out and the person ambitious enough Fourth prize A $10. 00 scholar from the East and Middle West to take a day off and hike to the ship in one of Oregons best Com to take a part in the glorious woods is a jK)or angler if he does mercial schools Contestant to good times that are coming to not catch a good “ mess” of the ! select this whole Pacific Coast country. speckled beauties. Fifth prize A $.10.00 scholar- . „ . . _ „ . „ ship in one of Oregon’s best com- A < a.aloKn«- Buyer Go. Stung m orcial Our selection. FOR GOVERNOR A story is told o f a woman liv- Sixth p rize A ?20.00 scholar- intf not far from ( ottage Grove, ship in one of Oregon's best com- who wanted to buy a gravestone, mercial schools Contestant to and after getting prices of a select. Lane county dealer, she found Seventh prize - A $20.00 sehol- one beautifully pictured and arship in one of the l>est Com- glowingly described in a mail or- morcial 8choo,s in Oregon, der catalogue, and ordered it. -------------------- The stone came to hand in due Triumph of Mind. time and so did the freight bill. Victim of l »elusion Doctor, I'm n r The stone was all she expected full} iifrniil I'm going to have brain and the freight was a great deal fever. Doctor—Pooh, pooh, my door more than she expected. friend! That is all an illusion of the The way the railroads charged senses. There Is no sueh thing as for shipping in that pretty piece fever. You have no fever. You have of marble was absolutely dis no hr h'in no material substance graceful. It cost the poor dupe ii|<on which such a wholly imaginary of^the catalogue house more to and supposititious thing ns a fever ship the stone than she paid for could tlnd any base of operation. Vic it in the first place, and that was tim oil. doctor, what a load you have almost as much as the home taken from my—from my- I have n mind, haven't I, doctor!—Chicago Trib dealer had asked her. PROFESSIONAL CARDS The Contest Ends June 30, 1914, at 6:00 o’Clock P. M. The Leader leads, others follow i i \