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COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1914
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WHY THIS COONTRY
] A THIS IS THE CENTENNIAL YEAR OF
tV>Mbrory
PLANTED ORCHARDS
UKATIFYING SUCCESS
“ THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER”
Unde Bern Veatch Remembers Well People of Cottage Grove Well Pleased
When First Orchards Were Planted and Will Support Fall Week’s Pro­
Tells How Interest Was Aronsed.
gram Next Season
Uncle Bern Veatch has m his Cottage Grove’s first Chautau­
yard at Eighth and Gibbs streets, qua is now only record in the
a Royal Ann cherry tree fourteen progress of our development.
inches in diameter, 25 feet nigh, It is the common consensus of
and with a spread of more than opinion that the Chautauqua is
forty feet, which, when he bought the most popular institution that
the proporty 20 years ago, was has ever been brought to us.
The only regret we hear is;
not higher than his head.
that
it should have lasted longer.
It was while discussing the
Next
year we must have a full
wonderful fruit on that tree this
week
Chautauqua.
season, that Uncle Bern dropped
into a reminiscent mood and told For once in our history it
of the planting of the first fruit seemed that all differences of
opinion had vanished, and all
trees in this locality.
California wanted apples and listened to each lecture or enter­
was willing to pay a big price for tainment with the same attentive
them, and it was believed the ears.
California climate was not suita­ The first program, on Thursday
ble for the production of such afternoon, by Miss Estelle Gray
fruit. California offered the gold and her company, put every one
and settlers here planted their first who heard her, in the Chautau­
apple trees with a view to supply­ qua spirit.
ing that market, but when their Dr. Herbert on Thursday even
trees began to bear, California ing and Friday afterribon led his
also had bearing orchards, and audiences to a clearer view of re­
the market was lost, but the or­ ligious and economic conditions,
chards, many of them, are still and made each one to feel that
he was at least in part responsi­
with us.
Many changes have been made, ble for the conditions of society.
however, in the varieties of fruit We heard it remarked by some
produced in this country, and who heard him that the one lec­
even the first varieties of apples ture was worth $1.50 to any one
planted have been found not who heard it.
the best for this locality, and A crowded house greeted Ash
many of them have been dis­ Davis on Friday evening. Mr.
the Conetellation; lower, the original "Star Spangled Banner,” whiok
carded. Instead of the Roman- Davis is an artist, entertaining flow Upper,
at Fort McHenry (now in the National museum, Washington).
ite, Gloria Munda, Rambo, Red old and young alike.
H IS year sees the centennial celebration of the w riting of “T he Star
Spangled D anner,'’ the nntionnl song, by Francis Scott Key. The
Astrachan, and some others, the On Saturday afternoon Count
anthem was inspired by the bom bardm ent of F ort M cHenry, near
Northern Spy, Gr a v e n s t e i n , Alexander M. Lochwitzky held
Baltimore, in Septem ber, 1814. Vnrious celebrations, official and un
King, and Grimes Golden are the lis audience spellbound for near­ official, have
planned, and the occasion will be rem em bered on the Fourth
ly two hours in the narration so of July of this been
year. The governm ent decided to repair and restore the historic
coming favorites.
Constellation at a cost of $50,000, so that the vessel m ight be taken to
vividly portraying the events of frigate
It was not until about 1861 that his
B
altim
ore
exhibition in Septeiu!>or during "The Star Spangled Banner"
the settlers began to plant prunes, own life, as well as the social, centennial for
a t Fort M cHenry and afterw ard stationed perm anently In the
Potom ac river, near the W ashington m onum ent and the Lincoln momortaL
plums and cherries. McFarland political and economic conditions The
frigate has been stationed at the naval training station a t Newport, R. L,
and Cooley were the first to plant of his mother land — Russia. and
is
the oldest vessel In the Am erican navy.
cherry orchards, and some of Such lectures make us take a
those old trees are now said to greater pride in our own country,
measure two feet in diameter. and realize the joy of living in COTTAGE GROVE WINS ] LUMBERMAN SAYS EAST
free America under the stars and
From the very first, fruit was stripes.
FROM UNBEATEN TEAM
W ILL BUY PRODUCT
found to be an easy crop to grow, The High school assembly room
and it was many years before was filled on Saturday evening to
there were any insects to bother,
Roseburg Ball Team That Played at Orders and Inquiries Give Business a
as a result of which many grow­ hear Mr. Buckner and his Jubilee Cottage drove Last Friday Had Not Big Boost—Railroads Already Taxed
ers became careless about the singers. No one was disappoint­ Lost a Previous Game This Season To Handle Increasing Traffic
care of their trees, and it is hard ed.
for some men today to get away We all realize, now it is over, The Cottage Grove ball team Some weeks ago, when this
from the idea that a fruit tree that Cottage Grove’s first Chau­ ran up against the toughest prop­ paper suggested that, the big
ought to produce a crop without tauqua was a marked success. osition, in the Roseburg boys, crops in the interior of the coun­
any more attention than is re­
would stimulate the lumber
The city of Cottage Grove is that they have faced this season, try
quired to give it a start.
trade
of the Pacific Coast, be­
but for the fact that the
more than it can ever and
In spite of the fact that fruit indepted
cause
the
interior lumber yards
team was playing in prime
has been raised here for consid­ repay to Prof. J. E. Dun ton, for home
were
mere
skeletons, the suggest­
form, there would have been a
erably more than a half century, inaugurating the Chautauqua in different
ion
was
disputed
bji a lumber
story to tell.
town, and for the successful The Roseburg
the fruit industry, from the this
man
in
this
vicinity.
Now comes
team had not
standpoint of scientific culture, is manner in which it was *S. carried lost a game this season,
the
word
of
a
Washington
lumber
and held
just beginning, and will be one through.
man
as
follows:
our boys down to one score, but
of the mainstays of the Upper
they failed to get one to match it. Country yards in the East for
Ball
Tram
Loses
Rotten
Ganw
Willamette Valley.
was a real professional game the past four years have been
The Cottage Grove ball team— all It through.
postponing the day for “stocking
that is, a part of the team—went
Looking After Campaign
up,” the hope arising within the
to Harrisbunf- to ploy boll last
Alta King, democratic candi­ Sunday,
past 90 days that the Panama
lost the game in a BROWN LUMBER CO.
date ror election as state repre­ score of 7 and
Canal would give them the water
to 11.
sentative, of Cottage Grove, was
and orders from
ENLARGING MILL POND all rate. over Inquiries
in the city yesterday. Mr. King This is the first time this year
the
Middle
West are
is basing his campaign upon the that the Cottage Grove team has
pouring
in.
Wholesalers
are as­
claim of the southern end of the “beefed,” but they console them­ The Brown Lumber Company sured of a profitable business on
with the assurance that has a force of men at work en­ the present market level.
county that it is entitled to one selves
there
is
member of the legislative delega­ coming. another day and game larging the pond in which they All along the lumber line the
tion from Lane county. He is the
is one of optimism, back­
sports should be clean, receive their logs, in anticipation outlook
only nominee residing in that ter­ and Amateur
ed
by
many
orders, more inquir­
we hope our boys will never of doing a bigger business than ies and a consequent
ritory.—Guard.
cheerfulness
before.
stoop to retaliating for the repre­ ever
for
the
immediate
future that
When completed the pond will
hensible work of another team. have
Shipping Lota of Loganberries
the
trade
has
not
known
since
a capacity of about thirty
For the first time, since logan­ Peoples Meat Market Chaoges Haads cars of logs, fully twice what it 1912.
berry culture has become a fixed
will accommodate at the present
Mar]«rte Scare«
industry in the Willamette Val­ David Gover, who has been time.
ley, the fruit is being shipped to conducting the Peoples Meat
Mother— Marjorie, stop Inter­
If They Lived Today
the East in large quantities. Market for the last three or four
rupting. Have you forgotten
During the season at least 25 car­ months, sold the property to Cul­ “Socrates was a street loafer what I told you about being seen
loads will be shipped to Chicago, ver Brothers, of Reedville, last and would today be pulled in as a and not heard? Marjorie—You
S t Louis, Lincoln, Neb., Kansas week, and they will take posses­ vagrant,” says a Boston law must fink I’s a moving picture,
City and Denver. These ship­ sion the first of July.
professor.
’stead of a little girl.
ments will consist of fresh fruit The new proprietors will take And we presume Diogenes,
and will not include the great charge of the business in all de­ snooping about in the day time Make Cottage Grove Bigger,
shipments of dried berries which partments, and will conduct the with a lantern, would be hustled Busier and Better.
market in metropolitan style.
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MOTORCYCLE RACE IS
COTTAGE GROVE HAS
BAND TO BE PROUD OF DECLARED TO BE A TIE
Talk about hiding one’s light
under a bushel!
There are people who have
lived in Cottage Grove a year or
more who never knew until last
week that the town has a first
class comet band—one that need
not be ashamed in any company.
The Leader is not informed
just why this aggregation of mu­
sicians is so modest, but the town
ought to insist on the band ma­
king its presence known on more
occasions than the Fourth of July,
and then, the town ought to go
down in its pocket and make it
possible for the band members to
do this without too much of a
sacrifice.
A good band, like a good ball
team, helps to advertise a town,
and the people of the town ought
to bear the expense.
There were three entries in the
motorcycle race run last Friday
evening, the course being the
“loup,” out Pacific Highway and
back on the Sixth street road.
The distance is about five miles,
time being a fraction over nine
minutes.
The judges declared a tie be­
tween Bert Trask and Warren
Edwards. Geo. Matthews, the
other contestant, had trouble
with his machine and came in a
slow third.
LUMBER BUSINESS IMPROVING
From Seattle comes the cheer­
ing news that, “ With orders and
inquiries piling up, lumber has
advanced 50 cents per thousand
within the past week and shingles
are up $1.50 for stars. Some of
the rail lines are taxed for cars
in
which to haul the lumber and
Optimistic
shingles that are now moving,
The business revival has begun. and the business is enjoying a
—Oregonian.
brisk movement that it has not
We are the first country to known in months.”
emerge from the period of busi­
ness stagnation.—Secretary of Wholesalers and manufacturers
Commerce Redfield.
are predicting that, with the big
We are due to have the great­ increase in business that will
est business boom in the history come immediately, the railroads
of the country.—President Wil­ will be unable to furnish cars to
meet the requirements.
son.