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About Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1905-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 31, 1915)
ü* ot °. Library - . irotoc Ceafter Rex Theater Best of Photo Plays. All Set, Let’s Go! A Local P a ie r Fit For Any Home m e r e n A Y PREfllCTS 50- cent U I U u n L L u U rt I w heat BEFOKE LONG n | 7 T H I Wichita Falls, Texas Frank Q k \ ■ ® I Big Public Auction Sale next year- “ The price of wheat will de pend altogether on the progress of the war,’ ’ he said. “ The key On Saturday April 17, will be to the situation is the Dardan held the first big public sale ever elles. I f the waterway outlet is conducted in this city. John F. opened up it will enable Russia Spray, the farm implement and to Hood the markets of the world produce dealer, is the originator j with a 300,000,000 bushels of of this new innovation for this wheat that are now bottled up in community, but other Oregon that country. The wheat acre communities have profited by age in Russia this season is only these big public sales for some about two million acres below yrars past. These sales enable what it was last year. Ihe de- the farmers and others to con- j crease of acreage in France and vert into cash many articles Germany is not as great as one about the farm and home as well might naturally expect. With as poultry and livestock, for another big crop of the grain in whiph, under ordinary conditions Russia and a fair yield in France no buyers or markets can be and Germany, together with a found. One farmer may be sore- cr°9 EEie United States, ly in need of just the thing an- EEie price will tall tremendously other farmer is ready to discard '*E peace is declared before the and these sales are conducted. bcxE cr°P *s harvested. The for the purpose o f bringing such wheat acreage in lexas at this persons together. A long list of Ume is about 500,000 more than useful articles farm implements i 'asE year> an*l a normal yield household goods, poultry and live- is obtained the state’s crop this stock has already been listed year should be about 25,000,000 with Mr. Spray and within the bushels.” next week he will complete his list and advertise it through the local papers and by posters. On this big sales day two good auc tioneers will be employed and it is expected that prospective buy- i ers will be on hand from every 1 George Hawley, county corn- community in South Lane and missioner returned Thursday North Douglas county and many from Cottage Grove where he bargains will be found. The spent several days looking after whole community is sure to pro- road matters. He visited Supervi- fit from such a sale, which sor A. J. Young on Row River, should be conducted two or three ar)d states that he is pleased with times a year for the benefit of the work that this supervisor is the farmers and others, which doing. A t present he is laying sales are sure to result in profit three-quarters of a mile of what to both the seller and the buyer. he calls macadam on the Row river road at the rocky point be- A t Albany a big “ Sales Day was pulled off Monday and the l° w Ked Bridge. Mr. Hawley is city was crowded with farmers enthusiastic over the work done and other buyers from far and along this road, claiming that a near and the crowd was address- motar car can drive over it with- ed by Governor Withycombe just out getting into the mud. Mr. before the auction sales began. Young lays his rock almost by It was a big day for Albany and hand, and it is said that he pro- the tributary farming communi- duces some of the finest road in ty. Every citizen is asked to the county fo r a fraction of that cooperate in this movement t o , usually paid for similar work, the end that the Sales Day may Guard, become a permanent institution Whitbecks Go To Halsey in Cottage Grove as it has in _______ many places in Ihe East and in; E Whitheck, who recently this state, where it is a big sue- ;purchased the Carmichael place, cess. j consisting of 140 acres, near ' town, returned to this locality With wheat worth $1.50 per the last of the week. Mr. and bushel, the farmer would make Mrs. Whitbeck formerly lived $11.10 an acre more by drilling near Halsey, but moved to Cot it than broadcasting it, accord tage Grove a year or so ago. They ing to experimental data from will be warmly welcomed by a the North Platte, Nebraska, sub- large number of friends here.— Halsey Enterprise. station. LOCAL ROAD ROSS BUILDS MORE MACADAM Beginning April 19 NO. 23 31. 1915 AN AB IN THE LEABEH BRINGS QUICK RETURNS FOUR SCORE ANB FOUR | Kell, one of the largest grain | dealers in Texas, recently mede j the interesting statement that he .. . . _ . .. .. would not be surprised to see Birthday Anniversary of Hon Much Interest Being Manifest- w heat selling for as low as 50 ored Pioneer W h o Has ed in Cottage Grove’s first cents per bushel by this time At the Rex Theater Pro; resslve, Newsy, Independent. COTTAGE GROVE, L A N E COUNTY, OREGON, W ED NESD AY, MARCH VOL. 3 Runaway June IN TROUBLE Through the columns of the Leader recently a real estate transfer was consummated in --------- | twentyfour hours after the paper , was mailed. The deal involved Steal a Bicycle at Eugene and a fapm in Wasco county near Incidents of Trip from Port and to Cottage Grove While A re Captured by Marshal Dufur, and Cottage Grove resi- Tie Siiles I GIRL HIRERS RELATE STORY Enroute to San Francisco Pitcher at Cottage Grove ,lence Property. A short time ago Jasper Huff inserted a little ---------- ; notice in the Leadei to the effect that he had a 160-acre farm in 1 wo boys, aged 12 and 13 years j Wasco county for sale or ex- Last Saturday, March 27, 1915, Miss Faye Shea, the 20 year-old respectively, and giving their change for Cottage Grove proper- the 84th, birthday anniversary | Portland graduate of Washington names as Woody Pool and Hy- ty. Soon after the Leader came high school, who with her sister, of Sylvester E. Vcateh was cele man Wiviott. were taken into 0ut, Mrs. DeSpain read the no June Shea, and Kitty Bebertz, is Will prevent growth of brated at the farm home of his custody by city Marshal Green tice and called Mr. Huff up by walking from Portland to San Moss and double the son, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Veatch, Pitcher last Friday and held un telephone resulting in Mr. Huff Francisco, arrived in Cottage life of the shingles. Let upon which the elder Veatch has til Juvenile officer DesLarzes of accepting in exchange for his Grove Tuesday afternoon. i s show you samples on resided for half a century. To Portland arrived in this city Sun farm, the DeSpain home in this wood. add to the interest of the < cca- They registered at Hotel Ore- day and took charge of them. city and .a small acreage tract gon and after the dinner sion, the many guests came at hour The boys left their homes in south o f this town. Chas. Whit granted the Leader man a tired in old fashioned .and hard brief Portland Monday o f last week lock, a son-in-law of Mr. and interview. By the Misses time costumes, prizes being giv Shea and upon arriving in Eugene Mrs. DeSpain, will go to Wasco we were informed that en for the best make-up and a their stole a bicycle and rode it to Cot this week to take charge of the mother was with them most of general good social time was re tage Grove, where they remained newly acquired farm and his the time on the trip as far as reported. A cracker eating con over night at Thompson hotel wife will follow a little later. Salem where they were permit test afforded much amusement Thursday night. Friday Marshal Mr. and Mrs. DeSpain may move ted to call upon Governor and and many games were introduc i Pitcher received a message from upon their farm within a year or ed. Excellent refreshments were Mrs. Withycombe, who received Portland requesting him to look two after Mr. Whitlock has am them very courteously. “ Moth served and Uncle Ves was v\ish- out for the boys, but they had ple time to secure a home of his er will join us again at Roseburg ed many more happy returns of got out of town. He then tele own in Wasco or some adjoining and accompany us on the rest of the day. Mr. Veatch is a native phoned south to Anlauf and th e j county, the trip,” said Miss June Shea. of White county, 11!. where he boys were captured there with ~ — “ O f course she will not walk with was born March 27, 1831, a son the Presbyterian church, a the stolen wheel and brought to . We notice that the First Nat- us all of the Cm ■, but will be of Isaac and Oilie( Miller) Veatch, ,, „ ,, „ , . • l mnal Bank ot Gardner atter do- granger and a republican in poli Cottage Grove on the tidin. , jnjf business for about two with us in all of the towns and who were married in Tennessee. tics. He has always been genial Marshal I ¡tcher says they were months has resources amounting cities in which we stop. ” These Mr. Veatch grew to young man and courteous in manners and pretty touxh cases for boys of to a little over $95,000, and de- plucky hikers are attractive, well hood in Illinois and Iowa. In has many friends to comfort him their tender age. They had posits amounting to over $64,000, 1853 he left Iowa for Oregon educated and refined young lad in his declining years. some money and were much Not so had for an infant. ies. Regarding the Corvallis first settling in Linn county. At Those present at the anniver disappointed upon the prospects incident they said it should be the end of a year he came to Cot sary Saturday were: M. M. of being taken back home. Offi forgotten, but ad mitt*, d they tage Grove and filed on 320 acres Wheeler and wife, Ed Ashby and cer DesLarzes left the Pool boy of land which he afterwards sold were somewhat discourteously wife, C. O. Willis and wife, W. at the reform school at Salem treated there, regarding which and went to Cloverdale and Cres - 1 A. Hemenway and wife, P. A. on his way back to Portland and they say: well and engaged in farming un-: McGee and wife, G. W. McFar the Wiviott boy after a hearing “ We arranged to have our til October 1866 when he return-j William Moore, a well known land, wife and little daughter, in the juvenile court at Portland ed to Cottage Grove and bought and highly esteemed citizen of party dresses shipped to us from Frank McFarland and wife. Will a little more than a half section Dorward, wife and children. will probably be sent to that in Lane county, who formerly re-: Portland so we could attend the stitution. of land upon which he and his Mrs. sided at Lorane and Cottage O. A . C. dance, and the boys Otto Dobberstein an d son and family still reside. On daughter, Mrs. C. A. McFarland Grove, died at his Eugene home made arrangements so that we Will Run Small Log Drive Perry Jan. 21, 1855, Mr. Veatch marri and son, Miss Camp, Thursday March 25, 1915, aged could go. At 4 o’clock we were ed Miss Maria Elizabeth Knox, j Ritchey and Mr. Lawson. about 64 years. Besides a wid dressed, but the dean of women with whom and her parents he N. Griffin has taken a small ow he leaves four sons and three refused to meet us and said she LEADER TRIAL SOUSCRIPTION. crossed the plains from Illinois, j contract to run 300,000 feet of daughters to mourn their loss. did not want ‘those girls’ to he To Mr. and Mrs. Veatch were I logs down the Willamette to the The family owns and formerly there. She said just because we In order that many comparatively ,, „ . . born seven children; Matilda strangers . . . . , T , , 1 Eugene lumber company at its resided on a good farm at Ixirane were not attended by chaperones, «h o have located in t.ils 1 , Ann, deceased; Isaac; H. ; Mar community during the past year may P'ant north ot Skinners butte. and own another at Pleasant Hill and because we were not proper garet .Jane Martin; Robert W , familiarize themselves with the Leader | The mill is preparing to resume and also have real estate in Linn ly dressed that we were not to Harriet Lucetta Thomas; Curtis as a local news medium, until furtiier operations ill May or June, county. Funeral services were; associate with college girls. and Dora B. Martin. Mrs. notice we will send the Leader to any (J^ard conducted at Eugene Sunday un- j “ And my sister and I were address for six months for 50 cents. ____________________ Veatch passed away Oct. 28, Tills proposition is good to everyone. der the direction of the W. O. W. both graduates of Washington 1902. of which deceased was an honor - 1 high school and stood well there. Mohair and wool wanted. See Give the Leader a six months trial. me before you sell. J. F. Spray. ed member several Cottage Grove She said we were immodestly S. E. Veatch is a member of Tell your neighbors about it. Woodmen attending. Amon g dressed, but they tell me that others attending the funeral from those O. A. C. girls go with the iftVMfcl Cottage Grove were Mr. and Mrs. hoys every spring to climb Mary’s Wm. Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. peak, and Pm told that they Hawley and Eb. Spray. wear bloomers and not too full at that, with silk stockings and low J. I. Jones spent the week end shoes. I f we’ re any more ex- in Portland, looking after busi Continued on East rutre. ness matters. Lived Here Half Centvry On your house can be made look very beauti- ful with a coat of good Shingle Stain Cottage Grove MIg. COMPANY PASSING BF A WELL KNOWN CITIZEN Special For The W eek Duchess Trousers Look for Warranty! WARRANTY Cut to Fit Made lo Stay Shrunk to Shape You may buy a pair o f Dutches« Tr< users from $2 to $6 and wear them two months. For every suspender but ton that comes off we will pay you TE N CENTS. I f they rip in the seat or <pewhere we will pay you ONE DOL L A R or (JIVE YOU A NEW PAIR . A QUIET GAME OF CARDS. W ear and Resist W ear Dutchess Manafurlurin,-; Co. && Girls Dresses Ix»t No. 1, 3 to 6 years. Regular $1.25 to $2.25 Your Choice 49 cents. Ix)t No. 2, 12 to 17 years. Regular $2.25 to $4.00, Your Choice 88 cents. iti W e take Eggs in Ex change for Goods jrCampton ’s A. W . W A M P O L E , Mgr. Specials: Hope Muslin 9 cts. I/msdale “ 11 " Hampton’s Special $1.50-$2, your choice yard yard Hats $1.05 75c Ratine going at 40 cts. All o f the latest shades. 't4 '.4 ‘.4 '.4 ‘.4'.4*,4'ól*Ó IV4'.4‘ .4*Ol Photo by A m ori'an Press Association. German priaouera taken in Franc« hare an ear.jr I if*. i WHERE CASH BEATS CREDIT HMM Th« Girl Hikers.—Kitty Bebertr, June ai i Faye Shea,