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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1914)
WISE AND OTHERWISE. The Cottage Grove Leader A live country weekly that gives you what you 'V want to read. AN EDITORIAL Published Every W ed n esd a y a t 406 M ain S tre e t Subscription price:—$ 1 .5 0 per year. Six months 75 cents. Display advertising, 15 cents an inch; locals 5 cts. a line. WILLIAM C. CONNER, Editor and Manager. Bp OSWALD WEST ¡filtered as Second-class mail matter in the post office at Cottage Grove, Oregon, under the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1879. PROSPECTS FOR Governor of Oregon OREGON DRY. The Oregon W C. T. U. reports that they alone have registered 5 1 ,0 0 0 dry voters, which is going some. On October 15, there were 1 ,4 4 4 women registered in Port land alone. The wet and dry proposition appears to be arousing the women. J. E. Wheeler, chairman of the Committee of One Hundred, is confident now that if the voters of Oregon vote in any way like the number they have registered the Oregon dry fight is already won. He said: “ Up to date, the saloon forces seem to have spent about $200, 000 on their campaign in Oregon. “ Despite this, sentiment in favor of a dry state has been steadily growing. This is mainly because voters have learned that business is invariably better and taxes | lower in a dry town. “ Merchants in all Oregon dry towns are almost i unanimous in favor of Oregon dry.” It would appear that all of the large schools of the state are bunched in the northwestern corner of the state, and this does not seem exactly equitable or fair to south ern and south-wertern Oregon. For this reason and many other good ones the Leader is favorable to the measure providing for the re-establishment of the Ashland normal school and we urge the voters to cast their ballot in favor of this measure, which we consider a meritorious one from every view point and if carried will add little expense to the taxpayers. To the man assessed at $4,- 000 the annual maintenence of this school means the price oi one cigar a year. Vote 312 X Ves. It is observed that the wholesale liquor dealers never have and never will come out in a fair and open fight to perpetuate their doomed business interests. Four years ago they masqueraded under the title “ Home Rule Asso ciation,” but very appropriately styled by their oppon ents, “ The Home Ruin Association.” This year they are out, masquerading as usual, under the name of the “ Hop Growers and Dealers Association of Oregon.” This meth od ofxampaigning is enough to condemn and defeat the whole outfit, regardless of the fact that there is absolute ly no economic, moral or industrial argument possible to sustain their side of the question. There are tw o men on the county ticket in whose success Cottage Grove and south Lane county should be particularlviinterested. They are both home men and in every w ay worthy of your support. We refer to Alta King, candidate for representative, and Marion Veatch, candidate for coroner. We like Mr. King’s platform. If you have not read it call for one of his cards.- Leader readers, especially the legal voters, might do well to read the ad on another page entitled, “ Vote to Save Industrial Oregon,” which has reference to the W a t er Front” hills, and this seems to be an important m at ter upon which we should vote right. It state, or national prohibition never comes until it is brought about by the support and vote of Senator Geo. H. Chamberlain, it is a long w ay oflf. This much was fully proven by his Cottage Grove speech. OSW I I I I I KEGON should go dry be 1 ' cause there does not exist a single reason on earth why it should stay wet. The war news from Europe strikes us with horror; yet this great war, with all its carnage, past, present and future, will not prove a drop in the bucket compared with the ravages which nre being made through out the land- hy booze. W e boast we are the greatest nation upon earth, and in our efforts to preserve this position we boast we must strive con stantly to raise, or nt least main tain, the standard of our citizen ship, and to accomplish this end we must unceasingly fight or ganized greed and graft, stamp out poverty, vice and crime, protect the home and make life more pleasant for those who have been less fortunate than ALD W EST others. It is idle, however, to talk o f progress along those lines so long as King Alcohol occupies the throne. Who grabs the pay check from the honest work man on Saturday night and makes his wife and little ones go hungry? Mr. Booze. Who sows the seeds of poverty and distress everywhere? Mr. Booze. Who loads upon us most of our tax burdens? Mr. Booze. I I I I I I I The Wets protest against our voting the state dry because it will close Paul W essinger’s brewery and be equivalent to the confiscation o f his prop erty, but they do not tell you how the brewery was built through the ruination o f homes and the confiscation of pay checks. They do not tell you that every brick in the building represents a broken heart and the color of the building is em blematical of the blood which has dripped ther> from. Whenever I think o f the devil I think o f booze, and whenever I think o f booze I think of the devil, for the devil is booze and booze is hell. Old Booze is an outlaw who has been long pur sued but never subdued. ' t no time and under no circumstances should ht e given quarter, and it is the duty o f every good citizen to stand ready to sand-bag him whenever he sticks his head in sight. All Oregon will have a chance to sand-bag him on November 3, and for the L ord’s sake let us make a good job o f it. IF YOU BELIEVE WITH GOVERNOR WEST, V O T E - Family pride has been the ruination o f many a young man. What was well enough for yes terday is poor enough today—do it better. Letting well enough alone nev er raised a salery or declared an extra dividend. German army leaders report that the attractions o f Paris have been greatly overrated. It is easier for the average man to fall in love with a woman than it is for him to stay there. A business is seldom bigger than the man behind it. What are you doing to prove yourself a giant? Many a woman after removing a smoky stove or a smoky lamp, has to put up with a smoking husband. After a girl gets to be about so old she makes a bonfire o f the baby pictures o f herself taken in a washbowl. It is sad to be forgotten, but the grief is greatly assuaged when the man who forgets you is a creditor. If we are successful in giving our readers a little knowledge, a little pleasure, we have accom plished our purpose. No young man is proof against a gum-drop when she holds it between her teeth and invites him to take a bite. When you “ thank the Lord that you are not like other men” always remember that the other fellows are returning thanks,too. A capital fellow is a capital fel low till his capital runs out, and when that is gone he begins to realize why flies have no use for the sugar barrel after the sugar is gone. Early to bed and early to rise, mind your business and tell no lies; don’t get drunk and deceive your wives, pay your debts and advertise, buy from men o f en terprise, is the best advice under the skies. Little beams o f moonshine Little hugs and kisses, Make a little maiden Change her name to Mrs. STORE AND SHOP TALK Subscribe for the Leader. The Eagle cigar store is being nicely remodeled and enlarged. Wood taken on snbscription at the Leader office or w e“ wood” take cash. The West Side Grocery is giv ing away some beautiful framed oil paintings to its patrons. Read ad on another page. Paid adrertisoment by the Committee of One Hundred, 748 Morgan Building. Portland, Oregon. Spriggs Bros, the village black smiths, have had a new concrete sidewalk built along the south side o f their shop on Washington street. We would like to see about a TEN CENTS’ WORTH OF LAND. dozen mere good, enterprising Land is cheap. For easy figuring let us say it is worth $160 an Cottage Grove merchants repre acre. A square rod, then is worth only 51, and 10 cents worth will sented in the Leader advertising be a little more than 26 square feet, or a little more than five feet columns. on a side. How often a boy will waste a dime and think nothing There are still a few people in o f it. For a dime he can buy land enough to hold a flower bed, Cottage Grove who have not sub four hills o f clover or a peach tree! The boy who can save a dime scribed for the Leader. Get can become rich. Make a dime look like a tiny farm. The boy your name on our list and make who learns to save a dime and to know values will some day come it unanimous. into his own. That old suit will look like new, if you will take it to Mrs. Hen The B ooth-K elly Lumber C o., has paid out more derson’s clothes cleaning, press ing and mending parlors next money in Lane county in good wages since it began oper door to the express office. 10-7-tf OREGON DRY, 332 X YES Stacey Russell, candidate for re-election as county clerk has made a good, obliging official. He is a prince ations than all of the other industries of the county com of good fellows, and is worthy of re-election. Vote for bined. This company has paid over $ 3 0 4 ,0 0 0 in taxes Stacy Russell. 9 Furniture and Office Flxtnres Sale into the Treasury of Lane county. Robt. Booth is entit led to the vote of all those in sympathy with the lab Household furniture and office Some claim that war is now raging because war is oring man. fixtures, all practically new, for cheaper, even at fifty millions a day, than armed peace. sale, call at the corner o f 5th and One conclusion leads to the other. Lower tax levies and sane laws good business conditions. will help restore |BROWN LUMBER CO. WINS SUIT The jury in the suit o f L. B. Hud9on against the Brown Lum- ber company o f Cottage Grove, which occupied the circuit court for the greater part o f last week, returned a verdict shortly after Speaking about taxes, the state tax rates o f certain states is as 8 o ’clock Tuesday night in favor follow s: Kansas. 10 mills; Oregon, 24 mills; California, 30 mills; o f the defendant, denying the W ashington, 36 mills. License has not kept the taxes down in any injured man any damages what- o f these license states. ever. The man is in a bad phy- While this country has declared its strict neutrality in relation to the European war, it is evident from careful observation o f the tone o f the newspaper headings and the expression o f the people generally, that this country, as far as sentiment is concerned, is not neutral. Washington streets. D r . F. W. R obbins . Bargains In Photos. | sical condition, but it is contend- ed that other factors than the ac- My wife having been called to cident in the mill otfer the cause, Nebraska to attend her mother Hudson charged that a large slab who is seriously ill, incurring o f lumber struck him, causing a considerable expense to me, and rupture and other injuries which in order to meet which I will for resulted in a general breaking for a short time make my $5 cab inets for only $3.50 per dozen. down o f the nervous system, Now is the time to get your holi- J. S. Medley was principal coun- , day pictures. A. L. M onroe . sel for the lumber company, L At the Bridge,
