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COTTAGE GROVE LEADER was bowling along at great speed The paper that live* you what you want to read Published Wednesdays anil Saturdays One year____ _____________$1.50 Six months,______________ .75 Advertising rates on Application J. D. QUILLEN, Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter January 25, 1913, at the post office at Cottage Grove, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. S atu rday , A ugust 1, 191 <t Notice to the Public All notices of entertainm entslw here adm ission is charged or where there is a money consider ation; all cards of th itn k s and resolutions of condolence will 1 e charged for at the regular advertising rate—5 cents i»cr line. in a high power machine? Who is more responsible for this auto murder than is society itself and its officers of the law whose laxity has been such that greenhorns take the chance of Easy and Pleasant and Costs but Little to Try It. driving machines through crowd ed streets ? How about the green horns in Portland? A GOOD WAY TO CHEAT DEATH. Men who operate stationary en gines have to be licensed. Why The Prescription Is to Mix Open Air should a greenhorn without a li and a Hobby, 8hake Well and Take at cense be permitted to operate a Many Houra a Day or Night aa Pos powerful machine, a veritable in sible—The Cure In Real Life. strument of death, on the public Old age can be cured. Tbe prescrip highway, when only experienced tion Is a simple one. Mix open air aDd a hobby, shake well and take as many and licensed men are allowed to hours a day ag possible. No one be operate the engines o f industry gins to age until he is bored, and the where peril to life is far less? first gray hair comes when a man sud denly thinks to himself, “ What's the —Portland Journal. CURE FCR OLD AGE Sizing Up a Town By Its Newspaper This number of the Leader is the first effort of the ladies of any Cottage Grove society to edit a newspaper, and already the ladies o f the Christian church are convinced that it isn’ t a job that “ anybody can do.” It has at last been forced home to the most hide-bound opponent of government subsidies, that this country must have a mer chant marine, whatever the cost. Although Lane county will har vest a record crop of beans this year, dry weather and a mysteri ous bug are cutting the yield al most in half, according to J. O. Holt, manager o f the Eugene Fruit Growers’ association. Ac cording to the statement of farm ers who are praying for rain for all crops, this is the dryest sum mer experienced in Lane county for years. Water in the wells is said to be lower than ever before and scores of wells are going dry. —Guard. The value o f newspaper adver tising was effectually demonstra ted in Hillsboro’s celebration of the Fourth this year says the Independent. In the past it has been the custom to supplement newspaper publicity with expen sive posters, but this year it was decided to adopt a different plan. No posters were printed and the money saved, as well as expense of posting, which usually was double that o f printing, was used in display advertising in the vari ous county papers. The crowd that thronged the celebration grounds was the result, and it must be remembered that the sole means o f announcing the event was through the newspa pers. When this fact sinks in perhaps a light will dawn on some business men who assert that people do not read newspaper advertising.- Newberg Graphic. Every now and then some one comes into the newspaper office and asks for a copy of the paper in order to look it over and “ see what you have here.” More than the average business man imagines the home paper is taken as the measure of the town. If the paper is prosperous and snappy and up-to-date, the town is ac counted prosperous; if the paper lacks patronage, the town is ac counted a dead one. Not only do the casual visitors look to the local paper for a chance to size up the town, but, far more important, the outsider who has never seen the town, must depend entirely upon the paper for impressions. It is im portant to the merchants and pro fessional men generally, then, to keep themselves before the local public. Not only do the adver tisements prove the immediate means of extending the mer chants’ trade among his home people, but it assists in spreading abroad the prosperity of his town, and makes it attractive to the prospective settler, who is a po tential patron. It is good busi ness for the business to advertise, both for its own immediate profit, and for the benefit of the com munity.—Springfield News. Our D augh ters. "I sav, dud. I’ve Just accepted Char lie Brown. He’s In the drawing room, and If you’ ve a minute to spare you might pop In and aee him and talk It over, but please be quick; we’ve got to rush out and see about the bonus.” — London Opinion. Blow Little Softened. “ We won’t discharge you. Mr. Per kins,” said the manager. "W e shall al low you to tender your resignation.” “Tendering It won't make It one bit the less tough,” gloomily returned the man who was laid off.—Boston Tran script No Joking Matter. “ How much does lmpecune owe you 7” “ A cool thousand." “ Ah! Cool, but not collected, eh7"— Boston Transcript Doing nothing Is a lesson I d doing 111. —German Proverb. This Paper An Old Friend Of the Family By MOSS. T il 1 S newspa per is an OLD FRIEND of the FAMILY. It Is TRUSTED a n d RESPECT ED. It Is a famtllar GUIDE a nd GREENHORN CHAUFFEURS In Brooklyn the other day a street was full of playing chil dren. Without warning, a high- power automobile swept down upon a group o f four, killing a three-year-old girl, the others mi raculously escaping with cuts and bruises. The chauffeur knew he had done a criminal thing, for he dis missed his companion, tore the numbers from his machine, front and rear, and drove away, fifty or sixty miles an hour. He was caught afoot, carrying the license plates. He protested that he had only driven the car four times be fore the killing, that he did not understand the machine’s mech anism very well. This chauffeur has been ar raigned for manslaughter in the first degree. But what o f society? What of the authorities whose laxity was such that a greenhorn who had only driven a machine four times COUNSELOR. Its coming Is looked for EA GERLY. Is It any wonder, then, that the business men of this commu nity find It a SPLENDID ME DIUM for introduction into a WIDE and PROFITABLE ac quaints ncesblpT The reputation of this newspa per as a friend of the family circle la one of its most VALUA BLE ASSETS to the advertiser Without this HIGH STAND ING this paper could not secure the FINK PATINO RESULTS It does from the BUYING PUB- UC. Undesirable advertisements are not admitted to our columns. We keep the paper CLEAN and BRIGHT and NEWSY, both in Its ADVERTISING and NEWS columns. We believe these FACTS speak for themselves. use?” Then Is the time when a hobby makes life Interesting again. There was an oliicial on one of our great railroads who was retired at sev enty. “ He'll die now,” said his friends kindly. But he didn’t. Instead, be be came Interested in the wild flowers, and now be is too busy in looking for the ram's head orchid and trying to find a new station for the hart's tongue fern and tramping around In the woods and fields in nil kinds of weather even to think o f dying. Anyway, he would not have time until he’s finished his monograph on the willows of the Unit ed States. There is a woman in Baltimore, sev enty-two years old, who years ago sought to forget a great sorrow by learning the butterflies. Her city home has become a rendezvous for entomolo gists all over the world and houses a famous collection. While her contem pornrlea are dozing their lives away in caps and easy chairs she spends her summers lu the mountains and her winters in Florida with a butterfly net. Twenty-one now species to Identify are her contribution to the lepldoptera. and she plans to live until the last goal of an entomologist is reached— the using o f her single Initial species An octet of men in Philadelphia, all well past their threescore years, some In business nnd som e-foot loose, be long to the same ornithological socle ty They nre afield every day o f the year, rain or shine, to watch the ever changing bird life. In the spring each prepares migrant sheets showing the arrivals o f the hundred odd migrants that pass through every place every year. There Is great rivalry as to who shall score the most warblers or iden tlfy the largest number o f birds In one day At present writing the oldest of tbe eight holds a record o f seventy five different kinds o f birds seen or heard In one day between dawn and dark—one for each year of bis age and one to grow on. A tnan In North Cnrolinn by the sud den death o f two of his family was left alone with hut little motley, no friends and the cheering dictum from his doctor that he had only a year to live. To while away the few months still left to him as well ns to help out Ills household expenses he took up the study o f edible mushrooms. At the end o f n year In the open he notified Ills Indignant physician that he had become too much Interested In his hobby to confirm his diagnosis. In ten years he has discovered, classified nnd tested 170 kinds o f edible mushrooms and has published a book which Is one of the standard authorities for mush room eaters o f the world Another septuagenarian attributes his long life to the stars. Confined to business during the day. be sought the open air at night nnd began to study the changing constellations nnd the per plextng plnuets. Then he found that with an opera glass he could detect their colors nnd reveled in the blue light of Vega, the green glare of Sirius, the rose red o f Aldeharan, the flame color o f Hetelgucse and the strange shades of other gleaming sky kings Finally he bought a small telescope. Now. at seventy, he has published a monograph on the double stars, besides a quaint little star guide that has In terested thousands In Ids hobby. None o f the nature stuilies requires much money or time. A cheap lllns trated guidebook, an opera glass nnd. If ixisstble. some walks nnd talks with an ex|K‘ rt. nnd you will learn almost linmedhitely to Identify a score or more of flowers, or birds, or constellations, or mushrooms, and you will have fouud a hobby on which yon may ride away from Death. Try It. young men. lest you grow old. Try It. old men. before you grow tired. Escape Into the open from these nar row Indoor days and learn the way to where the wild folk dwell. In their land you will find the help o f the hills and hope wide a* the world, and strength, ami youth, nnd happiness. Try IL— Samuel Seovllle, J r, In Lippln eott’s. Across the Atlantic. The narrowest part o f the Atlantic Is between Brazil and Guinea, where the ocean- Is only about 1,800 miles wide. From Newfoundland to Ireland, the | narrowest breadth north o f the equa- I tor. Is uearty twice as far. From New York to the nearest point of France la nearly three times as far. The Lesser Evil. “It’s Mr. Borelelgh. I think Til send him word I’m out.” “Wont tbe still, small voice reproach yooT” “Oh. yes, but I’d rather listen to the still, small voice than to Ur Bore- lelgh’s."— Boston Transcript WOMANS’ CHRISTIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS A •i < . • A a • . a' • a • 4 . » a •i “Purity First” I The Christian Womans Board In b u y in g p rov ision s o f an y kind, and of Missions of Oregon was organ- especially fresh m eats, the first th in g l ized in 1888 at Portland, Oregon. a the d iscrim in atin g cu stom er dem ands is The first officers were Mrs. Laura P u rity— this conies ahead o f price. a R. Osborne, President; Eugenie - O ur sh op has been th o r o u g h ly o v e r j Gillingham, Secretary-Treasurer; j a hauled and cleaned up, and w e w a n t a Belle P. Walker, Temporary Sec ou r p a tron s to inspect ou r m eth od s of a retary at organization; N. B. h an dlin g w h a t they are t o eat. k Alley, First Field worker. a W e handle the Best in All Lines, Give Full Weight and The most important business • ■ a do not hold you up on prices. transacted was the taking over V a of the First Christian Church of L# Portland, as a Mission Section, by 1 a the national board. The board PEOPLES MEAT M A R K E T offered help with the pastor’s salary and David E. Wetzell was Pure Homemade Lard Our Specialty sent to take charge. V * V a VA V k W .tr .4 V 4 U * W ik S i’k t S i t 'i k 'ïk W A tV i The C. W. B. M. held its first convention at Turner in June, 1888, in connection with the gen The L ittle Place W ith eral state convention of the Chris tian churches of Oregon. From a membership of 55 this society has increased to 1600 in 1912. Money raised in 1889 for Our G ood s Suit all purposes during the year was the People $25.00. In 1912, $3,824.69 was T h a t Is the Reason raised for state work. The special work of this soci ety has been the support of the Chinese Mission of Portland, Ore gon, which was opened in Janu All Others ary, 1891, by the First Church of Portland, Oregon. In November, 1892, Jeu Hawk, a native China E very G rocery in T o w n man and a graduate of Drake T h a t Sells Bread, Sells University, was selected by the Our Bread board and placed in charge of the Missions, remaining until 1900, when he returned to his native land. At this time Louie Hugh and his wife, also Christian Chi A cross F rom the M . E. Church nese, were placed in charge. Mrs. Hugh passed away in Aug ust, 1906. In 1909 Louie Hugh went to China, where he now holds a very important gov ernment educational position. He was succeeded by Lee Tong, a graduate o f the Eugene Bible' University. Every department of the work is now making rapid | progress. Night and Sunday j school, street preaching and j house-to-house visitation are reg ularly carried on. Several have returned to their native land as j ministers of the Word of God. Since the organization more than 100 have become Christians. Lee Tong has opened a work in East Portland among the women and | children. Mrs. Kellogg has been a great help to this mission and much is owed to her untiring d e -1 votion to this work. Mrs. Ellen Hunter is at present State Field Worker. a J 1 t S J ? 3 3 • - c • CULVER BROTHERS 3 ? 5 1 A ? J Big Business Pennant Bread is Leading CITY BAKERY | Cottage Grove 8 j Electric Co. j s Light and Power l | Get Our Rates on 8 8 B | Current jj CALL FOR BIDS For Lighting the Streets of Cottage I * • Grove n ! k k Notice is hereby given that sealed hills will l>e received by the Common Coun i cil of the City of Cottage Gtoveon the 3rd k day of August, 1914. at the hour of 8:00 o’ clock p. in. of said day for lighting the h streets of the City for a term of either three or five years, to begin on the last day of January. 1915. Bide will be re ceived for the following lights: 1 A minimum of 30 600-candle-power Series arc lights or their eqtiii aient in .* lighting power in cluster lights or other forms of light to be approved by the ÌVVH' Council, also for a minimum of 60 incan sâM descent lights of 48 candle power or their equivalent, with a price on 80-can dle power incandescent lights to Ire sub S stituted in place of one or more 48-candle 1 ♦! WE will give you coupons on our dishes, for your produce. A power lights. All of said lights to burn • J k ASK FOR THEM from sunset to sunrise and be installed and maintained at the expense of the We give a handsome cook book with each sack o f Fishers contractor. No bid will be considered unless ac companied by a certified check or cash j 3 Flour. We are going to give Six Sacks o f Fishers’ Blend iers check on a reliable Irank in tbe sum of ♦ 1000, payable to I he City of CottageGrove k Flour as prizes at Grange Fair. Come in and get particulars. to be forfeited to said City unless said bid der enters into a Contract satisfactory to the City, if same is awarded, and fur nishes a gixid and sufficient bond to fur i * 9 nish said lights fry January 1st, 1915. I he Common Council reserves the i ’.s * .s \ 4 ’.4 ’.< % sv a ’.s v a w jr .v .a w ; a , A ,^ .'« v a v iiV a ,^ v > i,w«VJi*.4 right to reject any and all bids. J. E. YOUNG, City Recorder. Mr. Farmer, we want Ì i YOUR j BUTTER I 3 1 I A Wonderful Gorge. Yosemlte valley. In the southern part of the Ytrsemite National park, is a great gorge about seven miles long nnd three-fourths o f a mile wide, with a level park like meadow In Its center. The great cliffs which form the wnll o f the valley rise almost vertically to a height of about 3.000 feet, and In many places are beautiful waterfalls which have a vertical drop of from 000 to 900 feet & COM PANY HAMPTON’S i Clearance Sale Is On Tbat’s Different Mrs. Eie (complalnlngly>—Sneh serr ante as we cet nowadays! Mrs. Wye • — -W e ll. otte caa't expeet all thè virtnea for 34 a week. you know Mrs. Eie— But I pay S-V - Boston Transertpt The moat deadly foe to success In tbs future is tbe Inertia which springs In the battle of life we cannot hire from self satisfaction la the so cogas of a substitute__Marnili n e ll Wright este*- _________________________ BRUND W e are m aking Special Bargain Prices on Law ns, Gingham s, Ratines, C ham oisette Gloves, Children's Stockings, W hite W aists, M en’s Sum m er Underwear and S tra w H a ts and many other items. ■— F‘lT*TTTilf?ig~agTfWYl<TigYlf i li~iMR<agl|EgiyMBIM' Advertisements in the Leader Bring Results~Try One 1
