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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
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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.
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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
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Belle P. Walker, Temporary Sec
ou r p a tron s to inspect ou r m eth od s of
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retary at organization; N. B.
h an dlin g w h a t they are t o eat.
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Alley, First Field worker.
a W e handle the Best in All Lines, Give Full Weight and
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do not hold you up on prices.
transacted was the taking over V
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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.
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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
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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.
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CALL FOR BIDS
For Lighting the Streets of Cottage I * •
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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:
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A minimum of 30 600-candle-power
Series arc lights or their eqtiii aient in
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lighting power in cluster lights or other
forms of light to be approved by the
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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.
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power lights. All of said lights to burn •
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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