The Cottage Grove Leader
A live country weekly that gives you what you want
to
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
W e feel sorry for a deaf mute
read. when he steps on a tta c k in the
dark.
RESUME OF WORK OF
STATE LEGISLATURE
Published Every W ednesday at 406 Main S treet
Passenger— “ Oh, Steward, Pm
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Subscription price:—$1.50 per year. Six months 7;> cents. getting so seasick I don’t know Bills bo Far Introduced indi-
Display advertising, 15 cents an inch; locals 5 cts. a line. what to do!” Steward— “ Don’t
cate That Strict Economy
W ILLIA M C. CONNER, Editor and Manager.
worry, Madam, you’ ll do it.”
Since the vacuum cleaner dis
placed the broom a man can’t
find a blamed thing but his w ife’s
hairpins to clean his pipe with.
Women are more resourceful
than men. A man has to get his
clothes made to fit his shape, but
a woman can get her shape made
to fit her clothes.
Young Arthur was studying
anatomy at school. One evening
he asked his mother, in grave
perplexity, “ mother, I know
where my liver is, but where is
my bacon?”
Before you get her she can say
things with her eyes that make
you feel funny all over. And
after you get her she can say
things with her mouth that make
you feel like taking to bootleg
booze.
“ Mary, “ said the indulgent
father to his wife, “ I have just
called Jimmy four times and he
didnt get up, so I went and turn
ed down the covers on his bed
and gave him a good spanking.”
Oh, John how could you,” that
means I ’ ll have to get a new
cook!”
“ How’s that, wife?”
“ Well Jimmy stayed all night at
Smith’s and the hired girl slept
in his bed last night.”
Plan Will be Followed.
GENERAL VON BISS1NG
A C H year this bank publishes
in the local papers
— Five sworn statements called by the Comptroller of
the currency, submits to two examinations by Nat
ional Bank Examiners.
$ . » v
It Also Has-
—A Board of Directors that directs and it is a member
Salem.— When the legislature began
the third week of the session all the
of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Important measures of general inter
est, such as prohibition legislation,
taxation amendments, the appropria
tion bills, consolidation of boards and
C ap ital,.................................................................................... . $25,000
commissions,
highway
legislation,
lndustries.--M in ing
COTTAGE GROVE,
Surplus and Undivided Profits,........... .......................
$00,000
changes in election laws, still remain
Lum bering
An Ideal
ed to be passed upon.
Farming, Fruit Growing
HOME TOWN
The senate gave evidence-of a de
sire for economy when it voted to
abolish the state decennial census, re
pealed the law carrying an appropri
Game laws are made, not for the farmer, rancher or
ation for the naval militia and to abol
stockman, but for the convenience of the city sportesmen.
ish the state accountancy board.
The house also passed a census re
Speaker Selling declares he does not need a clerk or
peal bill and it is expected that the
The Leader editor observes
two houses will concur on one meas
State Forester is advertising
stenographer, and can write his own letters.
He is out
ure and withdraw the other.
that the new
quail or the largest body of timber which
for economy.
A measure abolishing the state im
General Von Biasing, who was re partridge is inclined to vacate has yet been put on sale in Ore
migration commission, which has been ccntly appointed governor of the Bel
the jungles and take up its quart gon. It embraces 382 million
We observe that several newspaper men have sold
costing $25,000 a year, passed both ■^jian territory controlled by Germany
ers along the streams and ra- feet of timber, most of which is
houses.
out and bought farms. Agriculture needs all the great
venes in the outskirts of the city yellow pine of good quality. It
What is also regarded as in line
men it can get.
ËRIEF WAR NEWS
—in fact it is almost domestic in lies in two blocks, one near the
with the economy policy was the ac
tion of the house in passing the Schue-
its habits, the writer finding a shores of Pelican Bay on Klamath
Th ; '•sssation of Russia’s advance
Cottage Grove has no stock exchange, but it has a
bel bill providing that all but an ex
on Budapest and a renewed Austrian band of five of them in his poul Lake, and the other just east of
cepted few of the state funds be placed
bench exchange where the great political, financial and
offensive In Bukovina combine to pro try yards a few days ago. We the Crater National Park, and
in the general fund. Advocates of this
vide the most important war news of are informed that some of the both within the Crater National
w ar cpiestions are settled every day.
measure claim it will result in a < an-
the wqjsk. The capture of Kirlibaba town boys are shooting at these
Forest.
slderable annual saving to the state.
pass, leading from southern Bukovina
newly
introduced
game
birds,
for
A further manifestation of the in
England is so friendly to this country that she uses
A printed illustrated prospect
into Transylvania, and presenting the
tentions to save money was displayed
the
killing
of
which
there
is
a
us
has just been issued by the
the kindest and most cordial language in expressing her
choice of two routes to Budapest, pre
in a comparatively small way when
sumably was accomplished at the cost heavy penalty and it is to be District Forester, at Portland,
determination to have her own way.
BANQUET GIVEN TO LOCAL PRESS. the house passed the Weeks bill pro of leaving other passes insufficiently
hoped that the game wardens regarding this timber, and gives
viding amendments to the registra
defended.
will make an example of the first detailed information in regard to
tion laws that will obviate the neces
J. C. Cooper o f McMinnville, was awarded the prize
The Austrians have taken advantage
The banquet tendered to the sity of mailing election pamphlets to
youth or man found guilty of kill location, amount o f timber, log
for the best slogan suggested for the 1915 Portland Rose city press by the ladies o f the more than one voter in the same fam of this condition, and are now back ing these pretty little game birds.
ging conditions, investment nec
the crownland from which they
Carnival. It was, “ The Whole World Knows the Port Christian church in the church ily. This, it is expected, will save one in
essary, terms of sale, and in
were driven a fortnight ago. The ef
dining hall Saturday evaning third the expense of printing and mail fect of Austria’s sudden success has
land Rose.”
cludes
a copy of the agreement
Grove
Girls
Win.
ing election pamphlets every two
undoubtedly exerted mugh influence
was well attended and a most
which
will
be entered into with
years.
The more laws and commissions the politicians cre pleasant occasion. The Leader The prohibition question doubtless on Roumania during the week. Spe
the
purchaser
of the timber. This
Basket
ball
enthusiasts
were
cial Austro-German emissaries arrived
ate for the “ benefit of the people,” the larger grows the and Sentinel were everywhere in will demand much attention from the at Bucharest to persuade the Rouman out in full force to see the game prospectus is being distributed
this week. The committee on ian statesmen that it is against their
last Friday evening between the among those who are interested
army of office holders and the higher the taxes climb to evidence —as decorations on the house
wall and tables, and the young alcoholic traffic will be ready to re material interests to enter the war. Oakland High School girls and in the purchase of National For
support them, and the “ benefitted people” pay the bill ladies who served wore neat caps port out the Committee of One Hun Russian troops, however, on Transyl
the Cottage Grove High School est stum page.
dred's bill aimed to make effective the
and continue to wait for the “ benefit.”
and aprons with the Leader and prohibition amendment to the const! vanian soil were demonstrating the girls teams at the Armory. The
The minimum price at which
Sentinel title heads prominently tution adopted by the people last fall. possibility that unless Iloumania join preliminary was between the bids will be accepted is $3.25 per
the conflict quickly, she would be
Why is a merchant who does not advertise like a displayed. A t the entrance to The .report will be favorable to the ed
too late to conquer Transylvania, with boys Sophomore team and the M on one block and $3.00 per M
young man throwing n kiss in the dark, toward his best the dining hall was a well exe bill.
its Roumanian population, for herself. men of the school faculty and re on the other block for the yellow
A standard for boxes or baskets for
girl’s home? Because, while he knows what he is doing, cuted cartoon placed on a black strawberries, blackberries, loganber Probably at no time has Roumania sulted in favor of the Profs. It pine, sugar pine, lodgepole pine
been so near joining the allies as she
was a lively and interestinggame. and western white pine, and $.50
the girl does not. A merchant knows what he has in his board by Mrs. McDonald, wife ries, raspberries and other berries is was this week.
of the pastor, bearing the in prescribed in a bill introduced by Sen
The
girls game looked pretty dis per M for the species of second
While matters were developing so
store, hut the buying public does not.
scription, “ Who instructs the ator Day. It also prescribes a stand precariously in Bukovina and Tran couraging for the home team at ary importance.
public? Answer, The Newspa ard hop measure.
sylvania, the Russians began during the close o f the first half, but a
Senator Bingham, o f Lane, is entitled to hearty con per. Advertise.— Bi telefone or Representative Lewis, of Multno the week a new offensive toward
Jayhawkers Annual meeting
change o f baskets and familiari
gratulations upon his aggressive and fearless stand for telegraf, tell a woman or tell an mah county introduced a bill in the Thorn. Instead of concentrating on ty with the visitors tactics enabl
house, providing for the pensioning of one objective. Petrograd returned to
economy and reduction of taxes by eliminating a lot of editor,” The place cards were p«ace officers. In brief the bill pro the policy of a divided forward move ed the home team to overcome
The local Kansas Association
useless boards and commissions and otherwise cutting Myrtle leaves on which witty vides that peace officers shall pay in ment. The result at least, produces a the score piled up against them will hold its annual meeting in
newspaper clippings were pasted to a fund to be kept by the state treas very peculiar strategic situation in in the first half and closed the the Woodman
hall Thursday
down county and state expenses. He is accomplishing a
As souvenirs of the occasion, the urer 1 per cent of their salaries, and Poland. With the Vistula between game with a score of 8 to 5 in evening Feb. 4, at which time
good work in the Oregon senate.
Leader presented a small busi that if any officer is disabled he shall thorn, the Russians and Germans are their favor although they found the usual excellent supper will
draw $30 a month while incapacitated, moving along parallel lines In opposite
ness card representing “ printers
if killed, his widow shall draw a directions, separated only by the half the Oakland girls worthy oppon be served which will he followed
A member of the legislature was making a speech on pi” compliments of the Leader and
It was a fast and exciting with a social session and general
pension of $30 a month during her mile width of the river, which neither ents.
some momentous question and exclaimed “ In the words being set up in a great mixture life; and if he does not leave a wife, is able to cross. Toward the west, on game. The visitors were tender good time. All former Kansans
of Daniel Webster, who wrote the dictionary, ‘Give me o f type faces. The Sentinel’s but leaves children, they shall draw the north hank of the river, the Rus ed a very pleasant informal re are invited.
this sum until they reach the age of sian advance post is 35 miles from the
ception in the high school assem
liberty or give me death!” His collegue pulled at his coat souvenir was “ The First Sup 16 years.
German entrenched frontier camp at
per,” and date, cast in a metal
Beer Poured into Sewer
Senator Farrell’s hill for the rutting Thorn; while on the Vistula's south bly room at the close of the game.
and said, Daniel Webster didn’t write the dictionary, it
slug from its machine.
The high school boys’ team
of salaries of various state and county hank, to the east, the Germans are 35
was Noah.” Noah nothing,” replied the speaker, “ Noah
employes is before the senate. It pro miles from Warsaw.
went to Yoncalla Saturday even
Fifty barrels of beer, the re
built the ark.”
vides:
The German air raid on England ing where they trimmed the Drain
Kindly inform me whether the term
mainder of the stock on hand of
"On and after July 1, 1915, and ex was the most conspicuous occurrence
team to the tune of 15 to 13.
Cossack is the name of a race in Rus tending for a period of two years, the
of the week in the western war area.
the Roseburg Brewery Co., was
Things are coining to a pretty pass when the stock- sia or if it is just the name of a branch salaries
of all officials and employes No military results of any importance
of the Russian army.
drained into the sewer Saturday
raiser cannot go out ami kill a sheep destroying coyote,
A Young Poultry man.
file CutuuivltH are a mixed race ot who are at present receiving salary of were produced by the raid. A number
under the personal supervision
cougar, or w olf without taking chances on being arrest Russian, Tartar, 1'nltsb autl other ele $3000 or more shall be reduced uni of civilians were killed and injured,
of
Deputy Revenue Collector C.
formly 20 per cent, and the secretary aud the lives of non-combatants were
incuts, who are distinguished from oth
A schoolteacher recited “ The A. Rouff, o f Portland.
ed and fined on a charge of violating the game laws bv er Russians tiy their unsettled mode of of state and the county clerks of the again demonstrated to be as much a
his dogs accidentally going in pursuit of a deer. The living ruther than by a fundamental several counties shall draw warrants hazard under modern warfare as those en din g of the Pilgrims” to her
difference tu blood. They inhabit prlu
pupils, then asked them to draw
fact is wolves and cougars destroy ten times inorb deer clpally the stepiH-s o f the l»ou and ol in accordance with this act in the pay of soldiers i i the field.
Typewriter Bargains.
ment of salaries."
In Alsace some territory was gained a picture of Plymouth Rock.
than do the stockmens hounds. Deer should be protected C'tscaucasla They are arciistnmed to
Representative Anderson, of Wasco hy the French toward Mulhausen dur One little fellow hesitated and
live In the saddle, and it Is this which
The Portland agent of the L.
during the closed season, but not at the sacrifice o f the lias given them their great reputation county, has introduced a bill in the ing the week, but the Germans effec then raised his hand.
C. Smith Typewriter Co. left one
house providing for repeal of the law tively checked the enemy's movement
ns Irregular cavalrymen.
stockmens herds and dogs.
“ Well, Willie, what is it?” ask- of their latest No. 5, 1915 model
requiring a medical certificate "as toward the Rhine. The entire valley
typewriters on display at the
Would you plaasa print a list of ths additional requisite to issuance of a of the river is retained by the imper ed the teacher.
Leader office. There is a bar
ial troops, while the French army is
“ Pease, teacher, do you want gain in it for some one, either
marriage license.”
Now if the bakers will only start baking the in thirtsen original atatsaf
Delaware. IVnnsyIvaula. New Jersey.
Legislative lobbyists were put on the compelled to move in a northern di
expensive potato bread recommended by the Kaiser, we Georgia. Connecticut. Massachusetts. run by the house. The Schuebel anti rection instead ot planting Itself at us to draw a hen or a rooster?” fdr cash or installments.
may I k * able to worry along through the Winter on a Maryland. South Carolina. New Hamp lobbying bill was passed, after a warm any point along the coveted waterway.
shire. Virginia. New York. North Caro
Although official descriptions of
discussion, by a vote of 48 to 12.
chicken diet. The raise in the cost o f wheat has caused a Una and Rhode Island.
It lias just been shown conclusively that the building
Members of the legislature from fighting on the western front continue
corresponding slump in the price of chickens. The mar
of the new Willamette bridge at Eugene was a great graft
eastern Oregon are going to insist on to be brief there is evidence that it is
kets have had an unprecedented offering of chickens for
a liberal appropriation for bounties on growing fiercer at many points. The on the part o f the builders.
Germans are showing renewed activi-
coyotes.
this time o f the year. Many of them are of good, blood
Special Cash Bargains
Representative Stanfield of Morrow | ty in the neighborhood of Ypres and
ed stock. Their owners can’t afford to feed them the
county has introduced in the house a heavy bombardments of the left wing
wheat that is necessary to make them lay. Chickens are
Desl^rzes Bro. offer the fol bill exempting banks from liability to of the allies are almost Incessant,
because of the refusal to
it is from the center eastward, how
now selling for about 10 cents on the hoof. This is low lowing special cash bargains for a pay depositor
a check through mistake, unless ever, that the battles are most bitter.
er than they have been for years. At this time live chick Thursday, Friday and Saturday. the depositor shall prove himself dam In the Argonne around Verdun and in
Stylish rain coats *4.49 and $6.49. aged.
Alsace, heavy engagements are in
Although thj: Packing Houses have
ens usually sell for at least 15 cents a pound..
Fine granulated sugar 17 lba.
Simplicity marked the entry of Ore progress, aoparently without any de
increased their prices, and th ere has
gon’s first woman state senator to the clslon having been reached.
W
Why don’t some enterprising, enthusiastic game war for *1., comb honey only 10 cts.. state
been
a general rise in prices all a lo n g
Along the Belgian coast every move
capitol, Neatly, but not elabor
cheese 20 cents per lb., delicious
the line, we have not raised th e prices
den file a complaint against the state for violation of the
ately dressed, with a black veil shad of the Germans is the signal for a
coffee only 19 cts. per lb., 5 Ing a pleasant but firm face, Mtss renewed bombardment by the British
to
our customers.
lo ti can buv m eat
game laws every time a cougar or a w olf of this common spools thread 21 cts., 5 rolls toilet
Kathryn Clark, of Glendale, Douglas ships, while the aviators ot both forces
here just as cheap as before the ta lk of
wealth chases or slaughters a deer.? If the deer Itelong paper 19., 6 boxes matches only county, passed Into the building at are continually dropping bombs be
\\ ar Prices began.
Rememilter th a t.
the front entrance and found her way hind the hostile lines.
to the state anti are to l>e protected by the state, certain 19 cts.
IVonkirk has been singled out for
Many other articles reduced to Into the senate chamber.
ly all other native wild animals ol Oregon Iteloug to the
By a vote of 14 to 12 the senate de Gerthan air attack, doubtless because
state. Hundreds o f deer are slain every year in this state minimum price. ^ We art' head- clined to memorialise congress to call ii is believed It is being used by the
or at any time on order
£
by wolves and cougars, but if a valuable b ear dog or quarters for good things to e at a constitutional convention to amend British as a base of supplies from
W e have elegant sweet onions the constitution so that the United England. white Ostend. Bruges and
stag hound should iierchauee chase a deer his owner is and the best spuds in town, and States should have entire control of Zeebrugge are receiving attention
promptly fined and the dog confiscated or killed. The can supply you with Hour and the suppression of polygamy. Sena from the allies for a similar reason.
tors voting against the proposal de There Is no confirmation from official
game law as it now stands will have the effect o f pro F.EED at the lowest possible pri clared
that it was a gratuitous insult sources of the reported visit of the
tecting the deer’s worst enemies—the cougar and the ces. See us before you buy. to a state that had discarded the prae- allies’ airmen to Kssen and Dusaal-
Just west Thompson Hotel.
Pare Homemade Lard Oar Specalty
x-
dorf early la the week.
Uce of UortBoniant.
wolfi
Entered as Second-class mail matter in the post office
at Cottage Grove, Oregon, under the provisions of the
Act of March 3, 1879.
The First National Bank
“SAFETY FIRST“’
SHOULD PROTECT OUR NATIONAL FOREST
NEW GAME BIRRS
TIMBER FOR SALE
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No War Prices Here I
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