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COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
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J. i>. Q U IL L E N , E ditor 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.
ROADS OF DIRT
NEED OFFARMERS
Must Remove Mud From Earth
Highways.
THE PROBLEM IN MISSOURL
S a t u r d a y , A u g u s t 29, 1914
Home in her glory budded great high
ways which lusted througb ages, writes
W. G. Hutton In the Farm Progress.
Notice to the Public
Augustus adding to the great Applnu
All notices of entertainmcntslwlicre admission
is charged or » here there is a money consider way until no leas than twenty-nine
ation; all cards o f thatnks and resolutions of surpassing highways radiated from the
condolence w ill 1 e chanced for at the regular
seat o f government Cheops, the Egyp
advertising rate—5 cents i»er line.
tian king, held 100,000 men in road
Bervlce ten years. Nations o f old and
nutions modern have constructed sya
Items o f highways which have been
I strands of communication across their
length and breudth for big purposes,
but the men o f tbe farm who are not
so fortunate as to abut these arteries
of trade have loug wallowed In the
mud and the mire a considerable num
ber o f tbe tw elve mouths o f tbe year.
Missouri purposes lifting these men
of tbe hinterlands out o f the mire or.
more properly, the people o f Missouri,
who ure the state, purpose lifting
themselves out of tbe bub deep sltua
tlon. And they are going to do this
In the only practical way possible—by
Road Work In California.
alienating tbe mud o f the highways
Surveys o f rouds to be Improved In and byways, by proselyting, as It were:
Riverside county. Cal., by the $1,123,- by a miracle, by turning mud Into
000 county bond issue recently voted dirt
are now being made by three corps
The citizens o f Missouri. In common
o f engineers. One corps under Engi with all the deep soiled states o f tbe
neer Pullmor Is surveying at the San agricultural west and south and north
Diego county line ueur Temculu, an
other is under Engineer trucks, nnd
the third division, which Is under Engi
neer Warren, is working from the
Orange county line to Corona. Accord
ing to a statement by Commissioner
Campbell. It will take between two nnd
three years to complete the proposed
hlgbwuy system.
Better Than Macadam.
The abandonment of macadam as a
road pavement Is recommended by W il
liam Elbrtng. highway engineer of 8t.
Louts county, Mo. Mr. Klhrlng stntes
that rapidly Increasing traffic has made
valions forms o f macadam road con
st rii'-t n luiidciiunte nnd urgt>s the
col- miction o f iwrmaneut pavements
of brick nr sonerete costing from $15.-
000 to $20,000 per ralle. The report
shows that $372.1111 was expended on
maintenance during the past yenr, an
increase o f nearly $12,000 over the pre
vious year.
Ths Worst Quartor of London.
What Is the most disreputable bit of
London?
A writer in the London
Sketch asked this question o f a police
man the other dny. He said, “ The
quarter round about the Ilnrrow rond.”
it appears that there are byways in
that regiou in which no policeman
dare venture uulcss accompanied by a
brotbor officer.
Bermondsey, too. Is
pretty bad. But Wapplng, once the
hHiint of hoollgnns, has become com
paratively respectable o f late.
Pigeons’ Eggs.
The two eggs laid by a pigeon al
most Invariably produce malo and fe
male. Some curious experiments as
to which o f the eggs produces the
male and which the female have re
sulted in showing that the first egg
laid Is the femule nnd the second tbe
mule.
Our First Cant.
The first American cent was struck
off nnd put lu circulation In 1783. Pre
vious to that date pattern pieces hud
been made, but they were experiments
only and were never put tn circulation.
The so called Washington cents, which
existed previous to the dnto above giv
en. were not Issued by the government
and were, therefore, only mednls. The
cent o f 1793 was very similar to the
large copper cents o f later date, with
the exception that the fuce o f Liberty
was turned to the right und the legend
"One Cent” was Inclosed In a chain o f
thirteen links.
At this meeting was organized the
Missouri Better Rouds federation, an
organization which will have for one
o f Its chief duties tbe bettering o f all
the roads o f tbe state, from back town
ship to city gate. The organization Is
not dedicated to any special highway
or road project, but ta largely for the
purpose o f educating the people o f the
state In the possibilities o f tbe earth
roads o f tbe commonwealth.
One o f the chief notea on which the
sustaining |>edal o f the federation's or
ganization will be kept at work will be
(he possibilities of the eurth roads of
tbe state. Governor Elliott W. Major,
who addressed the meeting, asserted
his firm belief as to the destiny o f
the dirt road In the future o f better
highways.
“ Dirt roada." declared the executive,
“ are the real roads o f the people. Bad
dirt roads are a liability; good roads
an asset.”
In every community In the state
where effective work has been done on
the dirt roads the local commercial
club seems to have had an active band
In the enterprise, and It is through
these organizations that the greatest
progress o f the future Is ixpected
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n Fifty-Third Annual
Oregon State Fair
Salem September 28-October 3
$ 2 0 ,0 0 0 .0 0 offered in Premiums
for Agricultural, Livestock, Poul
try, Textile, and Other Exhibits.
Safety First 1
Yes, First, Last
And All the Time.
Horse Races, Shooting Tournaments, Band Con
certs, Boys’ Camp, Moving Pictures, Children’s
Play Ground, Bee Demonstrations, Animal
Circus, and other Free Attractions.
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A F E T V
first!”
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T h a t ’ s a
S P L E N D ID slo
gan o f tbe day.
Let's apply it
to our D A IL Y
NEEDS.
S a f e t y first
means don’t rush in where W ISE
F O LK S
FEAR
to T R E A D .
Don’t buy PROM ISCUOUSLY.
I f you were going to buy. a
bouse you’d want to know all
about the properties In towti for
sale nnd all about the man you
were dealing througb.
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I f you wanted to buy a ring
or u piano or a washtub or a
new dining room table or a box
o f soap or any o f a thousand
things you would like to be ful
ly posted on Where you could
buy it tbe best and cheapest
It’s a N A T U R A L feeling—
S A F E T Y F IR S T :
Be sure you A P P L Y It
Aud what better way than
Cottage, Grove, Ore.
through the ads In this T H O R
O U G H LY R E L IA B L E paper?
Our business men have been
DEPOSITORY
using It for years to keep tbe
United States Postal
public posted against SXJ PSHOD
Savings
M ETH O D S o f BUYING-. -All
things considered. It Is S A F E T Y
DEPOSITORY
F IR S T to trade with the mer-
Lane County
ehant w-ho C O N S IS T E N T L Y and
H O N E S TLY AD VERTISES.
YOU
ARE
IN V IT E D
F R E E CAM P G R O U N D S
Send tor Premium List and Entry Blanks.
Reduced rates on all railroads
For partiulars address Frank Meredith, Secre
tary, Salem, Oregon.
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First National Bank 1
GOOD K X A ltP n a OP A D IR T ROAD.
and eaaL have been straining and
struggling througb excellent roudmak-
Ing material ever since they had the
strength to struggle agulnst anything.
And now Missouri men have banded
themselves together to bring about a
reversal o f masterhood. What has so
long held the up|>er hand is to lie sub
diii'il and made to serve. Mud Is to be
transformed Into dirt—nnd, be It
known, dirt makes good roads.
Mud. so fur as Its service on the
highways Is concerned. Is to he ban
Ished. transformed. W e change trees
Into furniture, and they are known
among men us trees no longer; traus
form snnd Into glnss with no ear
marks of Its ancestry; nigs Into paper
which hears no bint o f the beggar, so
why not mud Into good roads?
But this transition Is not to be the
work of a moment nor In response to
the passing o f a wand over impassu
hie highways. It Is to come ns a re
suit o f work, and largely community
work at that
I was present at a gathering o f het
erogeneous Interests at the Missouri
state capital tbe other day at which
furmer and factory owner, merchant
and mechanic, hunker and barrister,
engineer and editor, automohlllst and
alderman, teacher and prencher frat
cruized; a meeting at which country,
community, city and commonwealth
Interests were discovered to he Identi
cal. It was a meeting o f widely d iffer
ent callings, tradì«, professions and
Interests In a common cause for a com
mon good
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Capital and Surplus
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SIDE GROCERY will adopt the Cash S ellin g
Plan, and expects to pay spot cash for goods
and produce, ns we have done in the past.
We expect to inaugurate a new profit sharing
plan in the near future.
A Poorly Fed Horse
The W est Side Grocery
Comer 7th and Wash-
mgton streets.
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O f f ic e , Over First National Bank
“ PURITY FIRST’’
reflects discredit on its owner, but the
owner gets the worst o f the deal be
cause economy in feeding
the
horse
affects its workiug capacity as well as
its appearance.
I f your horaes kicks on
his feed you can correct it by buying
your feed
here,
as you get the liest
quality for the least outlay. Fanners,
contractors and horse owners generally
know that our Feed is always up to the
standard.
KINTER
BROS.
S U LT C A S E S
O T R U N K S O
A N D B A (i S
Th e House Fu rn ish ers
PHONE 6
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L. L H A R R E L
In buying provisions o f any kind, and
especially fresh meats, the first thing
the discriminating customer demands is
Purity—this comes ahead o f price.
Our shop has been thoroughly over
hauled and cleaned up, and we want
our patrons to inspect our methods of
handling what they are to eat.
We handle the Best in All Lines, Give Full Weight and
do not hold you up on prices.
CULVER BROTH ERS
Transfer Company
PEOPLES
Prop.
Fire Proof'Feed
and Storage B arn .
MEAT
MARKET
Pure Homemade Lard Our Specialty
A L L KINDS OF H AU LING
AN D H E AVY DRAY WORK
Piano M oving a Specialty
Phone, Office 7 2
Auto D ray Quit k Delivery
Blacksmi thing
Correct M ethod of
Horseshoeing
Thanking all those have extended us such a
liberal patronage in the past, anti soliciting a
continuance of their valued patronage, we are
yours for a “ live and let live" policy, prompt
service and highest quality goods and the lowest
possible cash prices.
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ohort s1urocery,
D ENTIST
Cottage Grove
Beginning September 1, 1914, the WEST
W ood for sale.
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To the Trade
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DR. A. J. H ENDRY
Sterling Feed Co.
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That Sells as Good Goods as
Cheap as Short’s Grocery
Cash paid for eggs.
Cashier
W O R T H H A R V E Y , A ss’ t Cash’ r
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There are stores that sell just as good goods. There are
other places that sell cheaper goods, but there is no other
And there is no other store where everything is so new,
so fresh and up-to-date, and none giving better service.
President
T. C. W H E E L E R ,
in town just like Short’s Grocery
«J. S. IlfcUley
A T T O R N E Y A T LAW
Special Attention G iven to Mining and
Corporation Law.
Office, Woodward Building.
R. M. McCARGAR, D. D. S.
DENTIST
Successor to Dr. F. L. Ingram
W a g o n Making
Light and Heavy Harness, Whips
(»loves. Robes. Harness and Shoe
Repairing. Prices that please.
414 M ain Street
Cottage Grove, Or.
And
General Repair Work
South of First National Bank
Sixth Street
Spriggs
Bros.
Office Phone 6
Residence on Pacific Highway
Beals’ Harness Shop
The Leader leads, others follow
W h en Buying Rem em ber the
Merchant W h o Advertises