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CONVENTION
City Officials From
NO. 6
COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1914
VOL. 3
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Bottom of Ticket Re-Nom
inated by Acclamation
The annual city nominating
convention was held in the ar
mory Monday evening. Mayor
J. H. Chambers was chosen as
chairman and Recorder J. E.
Young as secretary. The chair
man announced the purpose of
the meeting and stated that nom
inations for mayor were in or
der. M. P. Garoutte placed the
name of J. H. Chambers before
the convention for mayor and
there being no other nominations
Mr. Chambers was declared the
unanimous choice of the conven
tion for the nomination.
For treasurer, Herbert Eakin’s
name was presented by Geo. Mc
Queen, and he was declared the
nominee by acclamation.
For recorder, J. E. Young was
placed in nomination by Frank
Garoutte, and his nomination was
declared unanimous.
Candidates for councilmen in
the three wards were nominated
by citizen voters of the respect
ive wards as follows.
Ward 1, T. C. Wheeler
Ward 2, Ewen Walker
Ward 3, C. B. Hayes.
These three gentlemen are the
present incumbents whose terms
expired.at the close of the year,
each of whom however, was no
minated to succeed himself, as
was also Mayor Chambers, Trea
sure Eakin, and Recorder Young.
This was indeed, a high com
pliment to these worthy and pub
lic spirited gentlemen and was a
gratifying endorsement o f their
administration o f the affairs of
the city, Mayor Chambers hav
ing already served two terms
and some other members of the
board having served much longer.
They have been conservative,
economical, yet have made as
many public improvments as the
means at their command would
justify. It is gratifying indeed
to note that all factionalism and
partyism has been relegated to
the scrap heap in this city and
that our citizens all work in per
fect harmony in a common cause
—the upbuilding and advance
ment o f Cottage Grove and com
munity.
Pays to A dvertise.
Rufus “ Rattlesnake” Edwards,
who formerly prospected in the
Bohemia mines, was married at
Medford Sunday to a Miss Mary
Wenzicker of Evansville, Ind.,
which engagement was brought
about throught an advertisement
and correspondence. They will
reside at Medford. Edwards is
well known in Cottage Grove.
Carload o f Mantle Brick.
Unless farmers co - operate
quickly with the county and state
authorities, the epidemic of hog
cholera in the county may gain a
firm foothold, is the belief of the
county agriculturalist, R. B. Cog-
Ion,
who with Dr. V. W.
Knowles, a veterinarian from the
department of agriculture, is con
ducting a campaign against the
spread o f the disease. He urges
the ranchers to report all cases
of sick hogs to him at once. He
also suggests that all hogs which
die should be burned at once for
the germs may be carried far and
wide by birds, dogs or by hu
man beings.—Guard.
THANKSGIVING DAY
IN COTTAGE GROVE
Thanksgiving day was ideal
and our people made the best of
it
As usual family reunions
and sumptuous dinners were the
features o f the day, secret or
ders, churches and generously
inclined citizens seeing to it that
those with a scanty larder were
all well provided for on this day
in Cottage Grove.
The football game between the
Cottage Grove High School and
Drain for which the local band
furnished music, enlivened the
afternoon, the game resulting in
favor of the visitors, who had
the advantage of weight, by a
score of 13 to 3.
A number o f the churches held
appropriate and interesting ser
vices in the evening, and the "1.
O. O. F. and Encampment mem
bers with their families enjoyed
a pleasant social at their hall,
where a program and banquet
were features o f the evening,
followed with dancing and a gen
eral good time.
The military ball at the Arm
ory was well patronized in the
evening, the music was good and
the management succeeded in
providing"a good time for all
those who attended.
The business houses were all
closed from 10 to 5 o ’clock.
DO YOU ENJOY A
GOOD HAND CONCERT
Those who enjoy a good band
concert and believe that a live
band is a good advertisement for
a town should vote for the band
maintenance measure at the city
election December 7. It will cost
you but $1.00 on a valuation o f
$1,000. It will cost the average
voter about 50 cents a year.
H*w The Money W ill be Spent
In the event that the band
maintenance measure carries, the
fund provided will be used as
follows:
Salary o f director, per month
.............................. . $ 60.00
Hall rent, per year_______ 100.00
Music and lights, per year. 100.00
The first two months salary tor
a director may be used in the
purchase of uniforms, which are
badly needed.
The Cottage Grove Manufac
turing Co. has just received a
carload o f fine mantel and fire
place brick in assorted colors
which will be a great conveni
Band P roposition to City.
ence to contractors and builders
If the band maintenance is
here who have been unable to voted the band proposes to give
get such supplies at home here a free concert once a week dur
tofore. -
ing fair weather and for any non-
profitable rally or celebration for
At T V B oyal
the benefit of the city the band
will play free upon request of the
“ Kathlyn,” a fine serial com city council or commercial club.
plete in each number and one of If you can’t boost, don’t knock'
the best ever produced at the Ladies votes appreciated.
Band Committee.
Royal theater, next Friday and
Saturday. You will be pleased
with it Usual prices.
Some snow in sight on the hills
the first of the week but none in
Flavel offers free factory sites. the valley.
HUFF JURY
DISAGREES
Unable to Reach a Verdict are
Discharged and Case is
Closed Against Defendant
The case o f the state against
William D. Huff was tried Fri
day in the circuit court. He was
charged with the display o f a
gun during a controversy over
some furniture. It seems that
some furniture was being remov
ed from his house upon which
payments had not been complet
ed, and there was some question
as to which should tie taken. He
contends that he fired the gun in
the air to attract the attention
of the officer whom he believed
nearby and not to threaten or
shoot any one. The case went to
the jury late Friday. After sev
eral hours deliberation the jury
failed to agree upon a verdict
and was discharged, Mr. Huff
returning home to this city.
DRIEF STATE AND
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Roseburg will build a munici
pal feed bam.
The North Bend Manufactur
ing company has orders for doors
from England.
Seven vessels loaded at St. He
lens last week taking 6,000,000
feet of lumber.
Governor-Elect Withycomb says
there will be no fancy trimmings
during his term.
Baltimore has received an or
der for 3,000,000 pair of heavy
shoes from Russia.
Owens Bros, of Eau Claire,
Wis. are planning to build a saw
mill on Bear Creek.
The EBtabrook company of
North Bend and Bandon is getting
out 70,000 ties per month.
The cost of school books is to be
investigated and an effort made
to reduce cost to the people fifty
percent.
Coos Bay sent nearly six mil
lion feet o f lumber to the San-
Francisco market the last two
weeks of October.
Marketing eggs direct from
producer to consumer by means
of parcels post shipments will
soon be undertaken by a number
of Oregon poultrymen.
The most expensive lumber
produced in the United states is
boxwood which sells at $1,300
per 1000 feet. It is the favorite
material for wood engraving.
Governments at war in Europe
have ordered thirteen
me
chanical grave diggers for use
upon the battlefields. Chicago
machine shops will fill this order.
WILL OPERATE FIVE
STAMP MILL SOON
A five-stamp mill, to be oper
ated by a 12-horsepower gaso
line engine, will soon be in oper
ation in the Gold Leaf mines in
the Bohemia mining district, if
the weather does not become too
inclement to take the new engine
in to the mines from the railroad
at Red Bridge at this time.
Everything is in readiness for
starting up the mill as soon as
the engine is installed and a fine
lot of ore Is in sight The own
ers of the property are John and
Fred Bartels and Messrs Miner
and Fowler of this city.
1200 MEN WILL
WORK ALL WINTER
Friday’s Guard said work
on the Eugene and Coos Bay rail
road to Gardner will be continu
ed with a force o f more than 1200
men, all through the winter, in or
der to lie ready to lay rails early
next year from the Siuslaw to
Coos Bay, according to W. W.
Fountaine, who with H. P. Hoey,
both assistant engineers, return
ed last night from a trip of in
spection over the new railroad
between Eugene and Marshfield.
Mr. Hoey left immediately for
San Francisco.
Grading is already more than
85 per cent completed over the
whole distance o f the road along
the coast between the three
rivers, and within four or five
months the entire grade will be
completed, according to the en
gineers.
RED HOT SCHOOL
MEETING AT EUGENE
The abolition of the office of
city superintendent * of public
schools and the elimination of
his salary of $2700 a year from
the pay roll, the combining o f
the positions o f clerk o f the dis
trict and stenographer at a sala
ry of $100 a year, the abandon
ment o f domestic science and
manuel training departments as
furbelows and fads and the nulli
fication of the sliding scale which
automatically increases teachers’
salaries, were steps of retrench
ment advocated at a meeting of
the taxpayers of the city o f Eu
gene last week at which a levy
o f 8.5 mills as asked by the board
of education was cut and estab
lished at seven mills, o f which
1.9 mills will be necessary for
sinking fund and interest purpos
es.
The meeting was fraught with
feeling and some of the speakers
injected personalities into the
discussions, Joseph Tuttle declar
ing: “ I am not in sympathy with
the contemptible practical polities
which has been controlling our
school board."
Former County Superintendent
of Schools, J. S. Stevenson op
posed the cutting of teachers’
salaries. He favored the aboli
tion of domestic science and man
uel training in the schools and
said these were things which
John Spray has had all the boys and girls might acquire at
damage to his brick caused from home.
the recent fire, repaired and will
soon establish a general commis
sion business therein. He will
buy poultry, eggs, grain, hay,
F. M. Scott was up from Sag
wool, etc. and handle both new inaw Monday and favored the
and second hand farm machinery. Leader with a business call. He
He will also sell live stock for says the carpenters have the big
the farmers on the commission Saginaw bridge, which had set
plan. Page woven wire fence tled down at the west end, about
in place again and that the old
will be one o f his side lines. piers will be replaced with
There is a good opening for such ones.
a business here and Spray is the
The Leader 6 months 75 oents.
right man for the job.
WILL OPEN A NEW
COMMISSION HOUSE
A BOLD DASH
FOR LIBERTY
Eugene Jailer Bound, Gagged
and Locked in Cell and
Desperate Men Escape
With the jailer bound and lock
ed in the innermost cell, four
prisoners carefully locked up
the County jail at Eugene and
escaped Monday evening.
Scores of people saw them
leave the jail and walk quietly
through the business section.
Fifteen minutes later the Sheriff
passed and found everything in
normal order. Five minutes lat
er the cries of the prisoned guard
gave the first alarm.
The men are Forest Daugherty
and James Clergy, to have been
sentenced Tuesday for burglary,
and Joe Thomas and Jas. Allen,
hardened criminals, whom Mar
shal Jas. Brown, of Cottage
Grove, captured in the railroad
yards here a few weeks ago with
stolen goods. Every road out of
the county is watched and gun
play is expected before capture
is effected.
| The same men sawed into with
a bread knife a bar on the win
dow o f the jail less than two
weeks ago, and were being kept
in steel cages as a precaution.
Their escape was cleverly exe
cuted. The steel cage in the jail
is divided into cells.' These cells
are unlocked from a central con
trol in a steel box outside of the
cages. One man was allowed
outside of the cage to prepare
supper, and this man had pried
open the steel box, broken the
padlock holding the central con
trol, allowing one confederate to
come outside. The other two re
mained in their cells to give a
normal appearance, but the cells
were left unlocked.
The steel box was then closed,
and when George Croner, Depu
ty Sheriff, opened the jail every
thing appeared normal. As he
reached up to unlock the control
box the confederate jumped on
him from behind a door, the oth
er men stepped from their cells
and the four men attacked him.
The struggle lasted for 12 min
utes and was a terrific fight for
the possession o f the officer’s gun.
“ I got my hand on my gun
and was slowly drawing it into
position,” said Croner.” ” 1 was
within one inch of shooting pos
ition when another threw his
hand over the hammer, seized
the revolver and got away.”
They also took the jailer’s hat
and keys with them.
OM L u d Mark RcaM vcd.
The large fir tree standing
near the sidewalk in the city
rk and the big oak nearby
th fell victims to the wood
man’s ax Friday, at the order of
the city council.
The dense
shade of these big trees resulted
in a wet and muddy spot on
East Main street the greater part
of the year, hence the order issu
ed by the city» council. The or
der also includes the clearing of
a strip 40 feet wide the full
width of the park facing East
Main street, in order that the
sunshine may penetrate to the
street and thereby keep it dry
and more sanitary. This order
will not injure the park in any
wise.
K
Superintendent B. K. Lawson
of the state penitentiary, accom-
anied by his wife and B. K.
unior, spent Friday night with
friends at this place. They at
tended the dedication o f the new
Roseburg armory Thanksgiving
day,
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