fO GREATEST PROBLEM IlCOTTAGE G ROVE buy Glasses for Y OU 10 can cents or $10 and get the same amount of materi­ al in each pair. It takes pat­ ience, skill and time to de­ termine the proper Lens for vour eyes. Do not make the mistake of getting glasses without first having your eyes carefully examined. I am equipped with mod­ ern Instruments for examin­ ing your eyes and studying the glasses to meet your in­ dividual requirements and I guarantee satisfaction. D. j. Scholl Optometrist and Jeweler P ERSO N AL » P IC K U P S K Come one, come all, to Band Concert and Ball A t Armory Hall, (Monday evening, Feb. 22,) Sure to please you all. Let us spray! Soon be time to make early garden. Farmers have commenced their spring plowing. Don’t overlook the big new ad of the “ Sample Store” today. The Cottage Hotel was opened to the public by Morgan & Co. today. The Boldon-McQueen company have a liberal trading stampoffer. See ad on last page. Will furnish feed and good care for gentle single driving horse in return for its use. In­ quire at this office. One yearling 3-4 Holstein bull, also one gentle pony for sale, or trade for calves or sheep. Ap­ ply to S. C. Veateh, or phone 2F13. Who will draw the mammoth candy heart at Cooley’s Confec­ tionery and restaurant? One ticket given with every 5 cent purchase. Fine Poultry For Sale—Six French Houdan pullets and a fine cockerel (Dr. Taylor, Hope, In­ diana, Strain) only $1.00 each. Inquire at the Leader office. People living at a distance and wishing Dental work done, can save time by calling up phone 131-J. Office one block south of the postoffice. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Curtis Veateh and P. A. Ma- Gee were transacting business in Eugene last week and looking over some of the advertised bar­ gains in teams in which Mr. Ma- Gee was particularly interested. Miss Nancy Whitsett is a guest of Eugene relatives. I. B. Huckins and family have moved to Drain to reside. Culver Bros have a new ad in the Leader today. Read it. W. P. Lockwood of Seattle, spent Sunday with relatives here. Hamilton Veateh is able to be about again after a severe ill­ ness. Big team, harness and wagon for sale. Inquire at the Flour mill. For sale - Milk cow and yearl­ ing heifer calf. Inquire at City Bakery. Judge H. J. Shinn was tran­ sacting business for some of his clients at Eugene Monday. * Mrs. J. P. Craham visited Junction City and Eugene friends a few days last week. Mrs. 0. C. Johnson came up from Portland and spent Sunday on her ranch west o f this city. k Mrs. Clara Roney of Goshen, has been a guest o f her sister, Mrs. C. M. Parker of this city. % Mrs. Lucinda Ward was strick­ en with paralysis in this city to­ day, her left side being effected. , Phone 128-R when you want your I Not questioning your hon- * esty or good intentions in I the least, but we will, be- f ginning Feb. 15, sell for— * j CASH O N L Y J clothes cleaned, pressed or mended and they will be called fo r and deliver­ ed prom ptly. Mrs. Henderson. Mrs. J. W. Matlock o f Home- roy, Washington was a guest of Mrs. J. D. Stewart of this city ast week. James Hemenway went to Salem Tuesday to look in upon the legislator’s at the state house a few days. Martin Anderson was transact­ ing business at the Metropolis the first of the week. He came home afflicted with the 8-cylinder auto­ mobile fever. H. H. Fiester o f the firm of W. C. Johnson & Co. went to Coburg Friday and remained a guest at the home o f his son-in- law, H. E. Allison over Sunday. J. P. Graham arrived at this place from Wanna Sunday to join Mrs. Graham who has been here for several days. They contem­ plate moving out upon the Cates ranch soon. Dave Baker was down from Dorena Saturday transacting business and favored the Leader with a year’s subscription. He thinks the license system for keeping dogs would be the wisest plan, then a rancher who really has U9e for a dog would take out license and keep a good dog, while the cheap worthless canine woulden’t be considered worth the license fee. Washington’* Birthday Monday Evening Feb. 22, *15 BAND Concert $ Dance and will adhere strictly to this policy. Lowest Cash prices consistent with qual­ ity goods. Free delivery and prompt and courteous treatment will be accord­ . ed . to . all. 1 i « Geo. Nolta is clearing up land for Mr. Whipple. Robt. and Victor Thomas re­ turned from the 0. A. C. last WE ARE LONG ON PRODUCTION, Saturday. SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION., H. J. Ritchey visited his par­ ents at the Grove Friday, return­ ing Monday. By Peter Radford le c t u r e r National F a rm e r»’ Un'on. Mr. Montieth, of Pheasant Creek, has bought a farm on Row The economic distribution of farm products I b today the world's greatest River and moved over Sunday. and the war, while It has Mr. Skidmore and son, and problem brought Its hardships, has clearly em Bert Delaunay hauled out a boil­ phasized the importance of dtstribu - er from the old Ritchey shingle tlon as a factor in American agricul­ mill, last Saturday. ture and promises to give the farm­ Mrs. Ed .Addison, of Lorane, ers the co-operation of the govern­ spent Monday at Anlauf, going ment and the business men the on to Roseburg that evening to solution of their marketing problem. This result will, in a measure, com­ visit her mother. pensate us for o .r war losses, for the Mrs. B. N. Perini came down business Interests and government from Cottage Grove Saturday for have been in the main assisting al­ a visit with her husband at the most exclusively on the production ranch. And returned Tuesday. side of agriculture While the depart ment of agriculture has been dumping Miss Burnett returned Satur­ tons of literature on the farmer lellln:\ day to her home at Cottage him how to produce, the farmer hat Grove, after closing her meetings been dumping tons of products in ths Friday. She will hold services nation's garbage can for want of « market. * once each month hereafter. " sample The World Will Never Starve. Additional Local. Mrs. Dora Fields has returned home from Prosser, Wash. Three fine Black Minorca cock­ erels for sale. See Thos. Allen. W. P. Tucker was down from Dorena “ shopping” Saturday. Miss Dessie Harms is in Port­ land this week attending the spring millinery openings. White Indian Runner ducks for sale. Chas. L. Williams, Sagi­ naw, Oregon. Jess Darling of the Lorane Orchard Company, was transact­ ing business in this city Friday and Saturday. The three story Cooper brick near the depot is being finished up for a new hotel, the proprie­ tor’s name not being announced. Mr. Harold Hopper of this city, has exchanged his barber shop interests here with Fred Miller of Yoncalla, and these gentlemen have exchanged locations. L. S. Hill has been elected president of the Brown Lumber Co., W. W. Brown, treasure. The date for resuming operations at the mill has not yet .been an­ nounced. Otto Michaels returned to this city from Colorada Saturday to look after business matters here. He says 3 below was the coldest weather experienced in his Colo­ rado home this winter. ! J West Side Grocery J Miss Marguerite Johnson at­ tended the Metcalf-Lilly wedding at Salem last Wednesday. Quite natural that Mr. Metcalf should choose a Lilly for a wife - he is a florest. There is a big paint mine in Lynx Hollow 4 miles north of Cottage Grove and 6 miles south of Creswell. Why should the paint factory be located at Cres- well? Jap. Ostrander returned home last week from over a month’s federal grand jury service at Portland. Of course the boys at the shop rendered a good account of themselves upon the return of the boss. Our esteemed friend, Jack Grant of the Sentinel, has been ill and confined to his home this week, necessitating Mr. Bede’s return home from Salem, where he has been holding a clerkship in the legislature. William Ostrander, a Cottage Grove school boy has entered a plan with a Portland company, whereby he has purchased on time a registered and innoculat- ed-against-cholera hog, and ex­ pects to pay for the animal after he raises one crop of pigs. “ Business is picxing up all over the Willamette valley and everything is looking better,” said W. H. Jenkins, traveling passenger agent for the South­ ern Pacific who visited Cottage Grove recently. “ We are carry­ ing more people on our trains” he continued, “ and I expect to see the San Francisco fair traffic commence shortly. The lower rates will go into effect next week on February 15, and the easier rates will go into effect on March 1.” Yoncalla vs Cottage Grove The basket ball games between the boys and girls high school teams of Yoncalla and Cottage Grove last Friday were hotely contested at this place, consider­ able dissatisfaction arising over some decisions in the girls game, which resulted 8 to 10 in favor of Yoncalla. The boys game was too one sided to be interesting the score being 81 to 10 in favor of Cottage Grove. An interest­ ing game is promised with Oak­ land this Friday evening in the Armory with a girls preliminary game. Grand Jury Called for Feb. 15. The February term o f circuit court which will have several criminal cases before it at Eu­ gene will meet Feb. 23, but the grand jury has been called to meet Feb. 15. Those members drawn from south Lane are: Ben Pitcher, Disston; A. I^and, Do­ rena; Walter Garoutte, Coast Fork; L. F. Orpurd, Almond Hemenway, Cottage Grove and Fletcher England, Walker. BORN. F . — A t Eugene, Feb. 6, 1915, to the wife of Rev. How­ ard M. Fagan, an 8 pound daughter. Rev. Fagan invites his Cottage Grove friends to “ call and see a real baby.” agan DIED. Gilbert Glen, the little 11 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clark, at the family home on Chestnut street, Mon­ day Feb. 8, 1915, of pneumonia complications. Funeral services were conducted this Wednesday from the Mills Chapel by Rev. H. N. Aldrich, interment in the Masonic cemetery. At no time since Adam and Evn ^7 | store --------------------------------------------------- W I L L O P E N F O R B U S IN E S S ¡Friday, February 12th, IN T H E N E W V E A T C H BRICK V E R Y thing in our store for Less Money. Com­ parison is all we ask. This is one, of a Chain of 19 Busy Stores, operating in Idaho, Washing­ ton and Oregon. Buying for cash and selling for cash in our 19 Stores enables us to make low prices. Not “a special,” not a sale, net a higher price tomorrow, but L O W PR IC E S to the people of Lane County 365 days in the year. Come, come, come and save money. E were driven from the Garden o f Eden have the inhabitants of this world suffered from lack of production, but some people have gone hungry from the day of creation to this good hour for the li*ck of proper distribution. Slight variations in production have forced a change in diet and one local­ ity has felt the pinch of want, while another surfeited, but the world as a whole has ever been a land of plenty. W e now have less than one-tenth of the tillable land of the earth's surface S o c ie ty ' JVoJes under cultivation, and we not only have this surplus area to draw on but It is safe to estimate that in case of A quiet and unostentatious dire necessity one-half the earth’s wedding was solemnized at the population could at the present time knock their living out of the trees home of Col. and Mrs. B. K. of the forest, gather It from wild Lawson at Salem, last Wednes­ vines and draw It from streams. No day morning, Feb. 3, 1915, when one should become alarmed; the world will never starve. Capt. Harry K. Metcalf of Cot­ The consumer has always feared tage Grove led to the bridal alter that the producer would not supply him and his fright has found expres­ Miss Grace Lilly, sister of Mrs. Elkins, sion on the statute books of our statea Lawson, Rev. W. A. and nations and the farmer has been Chaplain of the Coast Artillery urged to produce recklessly and with­ out reference to a market, and regard- | Corps, officiating, only a few in­ less o f the demands of the consumer. timate friends of the families be­ BREIER & PETERSEN V, Back to the Soil. The city people have been urging each other to move back to the farm, but very few o f them have moved. We welcome our city cousins back to the soil and this earth's surface con­ tains 16,092,160,000 Idle acres of till­ able land where they can make a living by tickling the earth with a forked stick, but we do not need them so far as increasing production Is con­ cerned; we now have all the producers we can use. The city man has very erroneous ideas of agricultural condi­ tions. The commonly accepted theory that we are short on production Is all wrong. Our annual Increase In pro­ duction far exceeds that o f our In­ crease In population. The World as a Farm. Taking the world as one big farm, we find two billion acres of land In cultivation. Of this amount there Is approximately 750,000,00ft acres on the western and 1,260,000.000 acres on the eastern hemisphere. In cultivation. This estimate, of course, does not In­ clude grazing lands, forests, etc., where large quantities o f meat are produced. The world's annual crop approxi­ mates fifteen billion bushels of ce­ reals, thirteen billion pounds of fibre and sixty-five million tons o f meat. The average annual world crop for the past five years, compared with the previous tlve years, is as follows: A. W, SWANSON, ing present. A fter a dainty wedding breakfast was served at the Lawson home Mr. and Mrs. Metcalf took an electric car for Portland to spend a few days. They returned to their Cottage Grove home Tuesday, on the evening o f which day Sixth Co. of which Mr. Metcalf was form­ erly captain, marched out to the Metcalf home and fired a salute in honor o f the bride and groom. Capt Metcalf has long been prominent in Cottage Grove bus­ iness and military circles, being still interested in the grocery business here and the Sunnyside Greenhouses. The bride former­ ly resided here and is a highly esteemed and accompl i s h e d young lady. The leader joins with many friends in extending congratulations and best wishes. The Euterpian club was royally entertained at the home of Mrs. Chas. Adams last Friday evening and the following entertaining program was rendered: Piano trio_________ Alpine Bells Mrs. Kerr, Misses Holderman Past H alf Prevtoua Half and Silsby. Crops— Decade. Decade. The Goddess of Music Corn (Bu.) 3.934.174.000 3.403 655.000 Reading Mrs. Nichols. W heat(Bu.) 3.522.769.000 3,257..',26.000 Oats (Bu.) 4,120.017,000 3,508 715 000 Inst Solo... .Woodland Fancies Cotton(Bales) 19.863,800 17.541.200 Miss Ruth Stewart. The world shows an average In­ Vocal Solo ____ Dearest I Bring You Daffodils _____________ crease In cereal production of 13 per Miss Veta Holderman. cent during the past decade, compared with the previous five years, while the Impromptu...................... Lache world's population shows an Increase ' Mrs. R. E. Greswold. of only three per cent. Music and M entality.__________ The gain In production far exceeds Rev. MacLeod.. that o f our Increase In population, and Comet and Trombone D u e t___ It Is safe to estimate that the farmer Messrs. Scovell and Veateh. can easily Increase production 25 per A fter the program dainty re­ cent if a remunerative market can be found for the products. In textile freshments were served. fibres the world shows an Increase during the past half decade In produc lion o f 15 per cent against a popula­ tion Increase of three per cent. The people o f this nation should address themselves to the subject of Improved facilities for distribution. Over production and crop mortgage force the farmers Into ruinous eoro petition with each other. The remedy Ilea In organization and In eo-opera- Uon In marketing Miss Laura Smith entertained her Sunday School class of the M. E. church at the home o f Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Purvance last Friday evening. Games were played and dainty refreshments were served. The guests were: Bessie Simeral, Hildred Hall. Ed­ I na Johnson, Marie Jones, Rita 1 Ridings, Tracy Lizar, Hazel Spray, Ruth Stewart, Anna Sharp, Nellie Boeeman. M a n a g e r . The Woman's Missionery soci­ Gl]qif the celeb rated Freder­ ick YV. Root, of ( hit .«go, will ac­ cept a limited mtml>er of pupils for sprcial work in vocal At tidies and voice placement Terms rea­ sonable. KfMidence phone 123L Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening at 7:30. Young Peoples Missionary Vol­ unteer Society, Friday evening at 7:30. Sabbath School each Sabbath at 1:30 p. m. Services following. Cottage Grove, Oregon