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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1915)
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER T he paper that jiv e s you what you want to read j P U B L IS H E D EVERY W ED N ESD A Y One yea r,__________________ $1.50 Six months,_________ _____ _ . /5 Advertising rates on Application W . C . C O N N E R , E d it o r an d M a n a g e r E n tere d as second-class m atter Ja n u ary 25, 1913, at the post office at Cottage G ro ve, O regon, under the A ct of M arch 3, 1879. What is a Kilowatt Now let us enlighten you as to what a kilowat is. A kilowat is a measure or a weight or a cer tain term by which we can find out how much gasoline it takes to run an engine, to generate a certain amount o f electricity, to load an amount o f wire with a certain amount o f energy suffi cient to produce a certain amount o f heat that when forced through a certain kind o f platinum wire that is suspended in a certain shaped glass bottle will illumi nate a certain amount o f space in certain buildings asiin such case made and provided, says an ex change. You find out by certain figures in simple proportion. You multiply the gas by the con science o f the proprietor o f the electric light plant, divide this by the meter on the wall, and add whatever you cannot multi ply. The answer will come in dollars and cents. Just divide these by the price you pay per kilowat and multiply again and find out what a kilowat is. It is something you can’t see, that you pay for according to what someone tells you who don’t know what he is talking about and proves by a meter that runs by guess and by gad and is at tached to the wall by a hired man with machine grease on his nose. You know just how many kilowatsyou have had, just what they cost apiece, but you don’t know how big they are, what they look like, who made them, what shape they are, i f all are o f the same size or how old they are before they are ripe. Who Wipes The Dishes! The Bible is a mighty handy book when you are in an argu ment— you can find a text to fit most any contention. A married suffragist the other day used it with stunning effect on an old fashioned husband. She wanted him to wipe the dishes. He demurred. Then she quoted scripture— this verse from second Kings: " I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ” Being a pious chap, what could he do? O f course he gave in. THE EUROPEAN W AR! "A n d I saw, and behold, a pale horse; and he that sat upon it, his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And there was given unto them au thority over the fourth part o f the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, and by the wild beasts o f the ea rth ."— Revelations VI. The subscription payments o f the farmers are about all that enables some newspapers to ex ist this winter. The farmer is not only the backbone o f the country, but o f the towns as well. Missionary -Learn to be a Christian I No, no! Chinese ne ver learn to shoot good ‘nough to be Christian.— Life. Self denying isn’t a bad habit Try it ’ W OM EN " B O B B IE S ” $108,399 IS CUT FROM W AR INNOVATION COUNTY’S TAX BUDGET London’s Auxiliary Fo rce W iil The Lane county court Saturday cut $108,399 or an equivalent o f 2.5 mills from the Lane county tax budget and made its final order on this modified budget. Lane count3r’s 1915 tax levy for county and state purposes wiil be 15.5 mills except in Eugene, Junction, Springfield and Cottage Grove and the incorporated towns where the levy will be 13.5 mills. This represents a reduction of 4.5 mills in the cities and 2.5 mills in the country from the 1914 levy. The county court in revising its budget, followed the recommendations o f the tax committee in the main. It cut the general road levy from 3 to 2 mills, cutting out a total of $49,000 for roads. It cut out the office of Sealer o f Weights and Measures. It did not, however, eliminate the juvenile officer, as requested, but it cut his salary from $1,700 to $1,500. It also reduced the assessor’s estimate for census taking expenses from $3,000 to $2,000 and cut out the salary of one draftsman. It also cut the treasurer’s budget $590, but refused to cut the circuit court budget. Judge L. T. Harris packed his law books which for 10 years have rested on the shelves in the circuit judge’s office in the court house at Eugene, Saturday, signed his last entry in the circuit court journal, and on Sunday left Eugene for Salem, where on Monday he took the oath of office and became a Justice of the state supreme court. Judge Harris was accompanied to Salem by G. F. Skip- worth, who on Monday was sworn in as circuit judge to succeed Judge Harris at Eugene, upon the appointment to this office at the hands o f Governor West. F a m ily tradition sa y s th at my uncla « aa killed and buried at G ettysburg, n 1863, but g ives no fu rth e r p a rticu lars. C a n hia grave be identified? W hen the battlefield cem etery at G ettysb u rg w as dedicated four months a fte r the buttle there w ere <KHI duly m arked g ra v es and 582 m arked ” Un known U nited S tate s So ld ie r ” W rite to the sup erin ten d en t N ational cem e tery, G ettsb urg . I’a. Please tell me the difference between the w ords guardian and trustee. I a a v e looked in the d ictio nary, but the sxplanation is not satisfa cto ry. It de|H-nds as to w hat sort of a guardian you m ean, lu law a guardian is a person w ho legally h a s the care of a |H-rson or pro|«-rty or both of aiioth er lneoni|N*tent to act for him self, es l>eclally of an in fan t. A trustee Is an y one w ho holds prop erty In tru st, e sp e cia lly , lu popular usage, one of a body of men. often elective, who hold the property and m anage the a ffairs of a ch u rch or pub 'lc In stitu tio n or In d ivid u al for some reason or other. W hat w as the trouble oalled “ Shays' rebellion f” D aniel S h a y s broke up the suprem e ourt at W orcester M a s s . Deo 25. 1787 T ills w a s the cu lm inatio n of S h ays' reb ellio n .” S h a y s w a s an Am er lean soldier In the w a r o f the Itevolu- tlon T h e In su rrectio n ists, who arose iu 1780. revolted on account of high taxes, the exto rtio n s o f la w y e rs, etc. Please state the num ber and c h a r acter ot the b attlesh ip s now being budt by the variou s co un tries at w ar w ith one another. A u stria has now under course of construction six battleship s and three sm all c ru ise rs; F r a n c e has under way ten b attlesh ip s; G e rm a n y has seven n attleshlps. four c ru is e rs of the line and eight protected c r u is e rs ; G re a t Itritaiu has fourteen b attlesh ip s, one Imttle cru ise r and tw en ty eight cru ise rs, and Kussta seven b attlesh ip s, four battle c ru ise rs and eight sm a ll cru ise rs. ; u London.—Conditions incidental to the w a r In this c ity have resulted lu the form ation o f a new police auxiliary force o f wom en, known us the wo- men's police volunteers, w ho w ill soon beeorne fa m ilia r sights In the streets here. Dressed In neat blue uniforms, they have already begun th eir duties, which are at present concerned m ostly w ith the w e lfa re o f women anil children. T h e headquarters o f the force Is In Cannon row , near the w e ll know n Scotland Yard. T h e form ation o f a wom an's squad in the Iamdon police fo rc e Is being follow ed by the organization In Eng- lauil o f a wom en's volunteer reserve fo r such m ilita ry duties as signaling. dispatch riding, telegraphing, motor- ing and camp cooking, thus replacing men w ho could be more usefully em- ployed on the firing line. It is proposed to arm these wom en “ fo r (h eir ow n defense In the last ex- trem ity.” Man, Se v e n ty-fo u r, Keeps A fte r a Deer For a W eek A fter Accident. H ellefonte. P a .—Isaac M iller, seventy- four years old. a member o f a Belle- fonte bunting party out on the Alleghe- nles a fte r deer, fel. oft a box In the hunters' tent and dislocated Ills le ft shoulder. So eager was he to g et a shot at a deer that he refused to listen to the insistence o f his frien ds that he com e home, but strapped the upper part o f his arm to his body and hunted all week. H e walked six m iles to the nearest settlem ent and was brought home, a distance o f fo rty miles, by an- tomobile. T h e arm was reset, and he Is little worse fo r the experience. O ffe R Si Kt — O ff ------- Spec — Pract Pho • •s % 3 i ! 1 j* 2 i 3 s * J »? s 5 i -, j A* CURFEW FOR “CARD FIENDS.” C as It S trik e s at M idnight In Muncie, W hen C ig a r Stores Close. Muncie, ln d .—Because o f the com- plaint by w ives and mothers that hus- bands and sons w ere being kept out loo late at night by the fascination o f p layin g rhum and other card gam es In ciga r stores the police have Issued or- ders that all ciga r stores in (his city must close th eir doors at m id n igh t T h e ow ners o f these places have com plied w illin gly, most o f them say- in g that they w elcom e the opportunity to get a w a y from their places o f busi- ness at a reasonable hour instead o f having to spend the night entertain ing "card fiends.” A Cen so r Opened P rin ce's M ail. London.—W hen the Prince o f W ales sent tw o long letters to his mother de- scribing his experiences at (h e fron t they w ere opened by the censor in the same m anner as those o f ordinary sol- diers. - . P l \ Care M o s tly Fo r Children. ARM BROKEN, HE HUNTS ON. JUDGE HARRIS GOES TO SALEM. PI h the hol * f!»i Tor clu tor: in g tra the w il a Lx — G T i HAD EIGHT SETS OF TWINS. They W ere Consecutive In B irth and Boy and G irl In E ach . W ill you kindly ad vise me whether Coswell. N C.—Squire Uoliert l. the present Count Zeppelin, inventor ot tho Germ an Zeppelin airsh ip , ever j Mitchell, w h o visited his old home served as an officer in the northern near IM dgeville recently, brought back arm y during the civ il w a r? a bit o f rare news. T h e w ife o f W est Co u nt Zcppedu accom panied the Graves, a N egro o f that section, has northern uriny d urin g our c iv il w ar as just presented her husband with the m ilita ry observer tor G erm a n y . eighth consecutive set o f twins. T h e young couple have tieen mar- W ill you k in d ly publish the Monroe ried about thirteen years, the knot d octrine? I having been tied by Squire M itchell Aa stated by .»Tesideut Monroe In his | when he was a Justice o f the peace. A an n ual m essage of 1823; "W e ow e It rem arkable circum stance th ereof Is to candor and to the am icab le relations the fact that in each set o f tw ins was e xistlu g between the United States a 1 h >. v and a girl. T here are eight chll Hud those iEu ro p e an ) pow ers to de dren living, one o f each set having clare that w e should consider an y at died. j tempt on tbelr part to extend th eir ays tern to auy |iortion of this hem isphere MAN’S LEG FOUND IN SHARK. as dangerous to o or peace and safety Pensacola, r i a . - A man's leg w as W ith the existing colonies ot dependen d en ot any E u ro p e an |n>wer we have found iu the stom ach o f a shark caught in the ocean near here and brought to not Interfered and shall not Interfere Rut w ith the g overnm ents who have land by the Austrian steam er Lucia. A ll the ttesh had been dlgi-sted, leavin g declared their lude|H>iidence and main rained It and w hose Independence we the bones o f the thigh and c a lf bare. have on great consid eration and on w ith the knee Joint still intact, except Just p rincip les ackno w led g ed We could on the foot, w hich was covered by a new shot>. not view nnv lnter|xru tln n for the pur T h is shoe was exam ined by a dealer l>ose of oppressing them or controlling In an y other m a n n e r their destiny by and Identified as one o f a p air he sold any European pow er In any other light a short tim e ago to Captain Risneck o f the fishing smack Algom a. who was than as the m anifestatio n ot an tin drow ned about tw o weeks before. frien d ly .lts|>osltton tow ard the United T lie skipper nnd a m em ber o f his States." c rew w ere in a small boat tryin g to W h at la the olct**t flowsr of w hich m ake a landing near the navy yard a fte r th eir smack had been anchored J there is any accou n t? W aa W ashington city alw aya g ov erned by congreee ae it la now ? O rig in a lly G eorgetow n aud W a sh ington w ere liu-ori*>ruted «a separate cities. G eorgetow n In 1780 and W ash ington In 1802. F o r a long tim e W ash Ington had a m ayor. ap|H>liited by the president, and a co uncil elected by the |ieople In 1871 congress re|<esled the ch a rte rs of tiotb citie s and adopted the territo rial form of governm ent Under Itila syste m tw o governors serv cd appointed by the p resid e n t- via.. T h e rose Is the oldest flowet of w hich ¡ f o r th e n ig h t, w h en th e b oa t w a s o v e r- C a p ta in Blsneck w a s n e v e r H enry D Cooke, a brother of J a j We have any record So great Is the tu rn ed . Cooke, the banker, and A lexand er R I an tiq u ity ot the rose th st a ll account seen again, although the tugs and Shepherd, who Iss-am e know n as Ross j of Ita origin lia s been hist, and It Is p ilo ts on d u ty a t th e en tra n ce s o f th e h a rb o r k ep t a close lo o k o u t f o r his Shepherd. In 1874 congress abolished not know n iu w hat co u n try It ortgtnat T h e shark in w hich the leg the te rrito rial governm ent and suh stl sd. In Eg yp t the rose la pictured on body. rated governm ent by regents or com UKjuuments believed to date from 3.000 w as found was tw e lv e and one-half fe e t long. . . . . . km tsslouers appointed by the president. | to*0UU B, u i i P i ■e Au 4 à i 1 1 4 refi OW1 eau aff* yoi quf cot kn« .'ta 1 se ,sic fir
