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Ü‘ ¡# o. Ubriry Zirm Rex Theater tûtot Best of F’hoto Plays. All Set, Let’s Go! A Local Paper Fit For Any Home y. VOL. 3 DISTRICT CONVENTION OF EPWORTH LEAGUE Runaway June COTTAGE GROVE, At Rex Monday Afternoon Every Monday Eve Prof ressive, Newsy, Independent. LA N E COUNTY. OREGON, W EDNESDAY. MAY PROGRAM FOR MEMORIAL DAY BIG BAUBLE HEABER BASEBALL GAME ___________ NO. 29 IS. 1915 LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SINKING OF LUSITANIA Memorial services will be held Thursday afternoon May 13, at Cottage Grove on Sunday May two baseball games will be play*! 30th as follows. The Memorial ed at the Stauffer park between sermon will be preached at the “ Brund’s Beavers” vs. “ Baker’s Presbyterian church at 11 a. m. About 1500 Lives A re Lost Including Sev Bears,” and “ Smith’s Braves” ! To Be Held in Cottage Grove Friday, Sat vs. “ Mackin’s Badgers.” The by Rev. D. A. McLeod, its pas eral Noted Americans — Coroner tor. The procession to the ceme first game will be called at 2:30 urday and Sunday—Many Dele tery will be formed at the bank p. m. Mayor Chambers will Jury Charges Murder corner. Main and Sixth streets at pitch the first ball and start the gates Will be in Attendance 2 p. m., proceed to the ceme season’s games. The band will tery where the monument will play and all stores will be closed j President Wilson will deliver his note to Germany in be unveiled and the oration de for the afternoon. There will be The twelveth annual convention of the Eugene District Ep- a day or tw o on the sinking ot the Lusitania and will livered by Rev. H. N. Aldrich, an admission fee o f 10 cents for worth League of the M. E. church will be held in Cottage Grove take the position that w arning of attacks does not make after which the usual ritualistic men and 5 cents for ladies, not Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There will be about 1(M) delegates them justifiable. A full explanation for the destruction Memorial Day services will be holding season tickets. from all over the district, bright young men and women, and Cot of the Fahihn, Cushing, Gulfight and Lusitania and their observed. On the return the Brund’s Beavers Baker’» Bears tage Grove should and will extend them a cordial and hearty wel passegers will he demahded. ceremony of casting flowers on S herwin -W illiams McFarland come and make their three days visit here both pleasant and profit Brumfield the waters in memory of the Marks bury Nixon P aint , Vanderbilt Dies a Hero. London, May 8 The latest esti able. The program follows: sailors and marines will be per It w ill prove most economical Wood Bill Bartels mate of lives lost as a result o f the London, May 9.—Thomas Sli PROGRAM because it w ill put otf the need of formed at the Main street bridge Michels Slagle torpedoing of the Cunard liner dell, of New York, said today he repainting for the longest possible FRIDAY, MAY 14 by the ladies of the Relief Corps. time; most satisfactory because it Veatch Berg Lusitania by a German submarine saw Alfred G. Vanderbilt on the Evening, 8:00 A Cantata—“ The Crowning of Love.” w ill give the best results in appli The schools, all societies, the C. A. Bartels Phelps off Irish coast Saturday is 1500. deck of the Lusitania as the ves cation, appearance and wear. Welcome to the Convention military company, Spanish war Roberts Willis W e would like to have the sel was going down. It is believed that almost all, if Response. opportunity of figuring on your veterans and everybody is invit Morss Mills not all, the survivors have been Mr. Vanderbilt, who could not paint requirements when you are Social good time under the direction of Miss Lola Wilson, Dis ed to participate with the Veter Tibbies Thompson ready. A full line of colors in brought ashore and there is no swim, was equipped with a life trict Fourth Vice-President. S .W . P to select from. ans of the Grand Army in pay Hayes hope of recovering any other belt, but he gallantly took it off, SATURDAY, MAY 15 ing homage to the memory of passengers alive. Smith’s Braves Mackin’s Badgers Mr. Slidell said, and placed it Morning, 8:00 Praise Service conducted by_________Rev. Sutcliffe our dead comrades. All having Austin Berg around the body of a young wo Glen Smith Of the dead many are women. 9:00 The Epworth League Route a good one C. E. Williamson autos who conveniently can do The stories from Queenstown de Short Trask man. Then he went off to seek 9:30 The devotional side_________________ _______ Harry Bowers so will confer a favor on the G. scribe the bringing in of bodies Dame wood Kinter another life belt The ship sank 10:00 The work of the 3rd Vice-Pres.____________Miss Sutcliffe A. R. by conveying as many of Kime a few seconds later. Woods of a great number of women, 10:30 The Social Department______________________ Miss Wilson the Veterans and members of many of them still unidentified. King Germans Celebrate and Rejoice. 11:00 Why 1 have the Epworth League Institute on my heart. McQueen the Relief Corps to the cemetery The Queenstown docks are the Beidler Van Boskirk Geneva, via Paris, May 9.—A ............................................. Rev. J. C. Spencer of Salem as possible. Griffin temporary resting places also of dispatch from Munich, Bavaria, Geddens AFTERNOON 1). L. W o o d s , Cooper The Eugene District Minister Com. Appomattox Post G. A. It. the bodies o f several children. received at Basel, says that the 1:30 The Junion League Hour. Under the direction of Mrs. E. Umphrey Scott One dead mother still is clasping German submarine U-39 sank the Hawxins ial Association of the Methodist O. Browning, District Junior League Superintendent. Rede in her rigid arms the body of her Lusitania. Allison Episcopal church, will be held at Big Cherry and Pear Yield. Missionary Hour. Under the direction of Walter Koenig, 2nd three months’ old baby. Creswell, this week on May 12, There was great rejoicing dur Vice-Pres. of the District. Prominent Americans Lost. 13 and 14. An elaborate pro Cottage Grove 12—Yoncalla O. ing the day in southern Germany, Hood River, Or.— Cherry and Business Session gram has been arranged upon pear orchards will produce a Among the Americans whose according to advices. Towns What have you done? The baseball game Sunday be which appears the names of all greater yield this year than ever bodies have not been recovered were beflagged, especially along Reports of the District Officers. tween Cottage Grove and Yon w p II nlnvpd i of the Methodist ministers of before in the history of this val and who consequently are believ the Rhine, and the children had Roll call and written reports of Chapters. calla, was a clean, we played ( this district ley. The apple crop will not be ed to have perished are Alfred a half holiday in honor o f the Plans for the future. game, but the Yoncalla boys, v in excess of last year’s crop, Gwynne Vanderbilt, Charles event. EVENING were entirely outclassed by the j Ford Rebate Assured. The rejoicing are said to have which was approximately 1000 Klein, the playwright, Justus M. See America First (Stereopticon Lecture) Dr. Rollins of Corvallis. locals, the score resulting 12 to 0 spread even to Vienna and Bud Forman and Filbert Hubbard and SUNDAY, MAY 16 in favor of Cottage Grove. The The Eugene Ford Garage re carloads. apest. It is said that the gener his wife. Morning 9:45 Sunday School % visitors were big, husky fellows ceived a shipment of 24 new Lumber Mill Reopens. al feeling in Germany and Aus The bodie of Charles F’ rohman, 11:00 Sermon____________ ___________ ______ Rev. H. N. Aldrich and played pretty good ball, but autos last week out o f which 23 tria is that the Americans on of New York, the theatrical pro Evening 6:30 Devotional Meeting_____ Leader, Miss Laura Smith just couldn’t get around to the j were sold in advance. We are Grants Pass, Or.— Moon-Will board the steamer had been ducer, already has been recover 8:00 Evening Service—A d d re s s ____ Rev. W. P. White,Albany home plate. informed by Messrs Woodson and Installation of Officers, and consecration service— Rev. Aldrich They found Medley and Smith Lynch o f the Cottage Grove iams Lumber Company started ed and brought ashore at Queens warned previously of their dan ger and therefore they undertook LIST OF OFFICERS a hard combination to go up Garage that the announcement | operation May 10. This is the town. second mill to resume operation It is estimated that there were the trip at their own risk. C. E. Williamson, President, Albany; Harry Bowers, 1st Vice against. The game was fairly of Mr. Ford has been made re- this summer. Business condi Oregon Girl Saved. about 190 Americans on board President, Halsey; Walter Koenig, 2nd Vice-President, Corvallis; well attended, regardless of the i lating to the rebate on Ford cars tions in this section are improv the Cunard liner. So far as Medford, Or., May 9.— Miss Armorel M. Sutcliffe, 3rd Vice-President, Lebanon; Lola Wilson, occasional light showers, Music which amounts to $50. This could be ascertained at this time | Dorothy Conner, daughter o f Mr. 4th. vice-pres., Cottage Grove; Edna Cowles, Secretary-Treasurer, was furnished by the local band. brings the price of the touring ing considerably. fewer than 70 Americans were and Mrs. Charles Conner, o f Albany; Mrs. E. O. Browning, Junior League Superintendent, car down to $515. It is said the G. W. McFarland and wife saved. Consequently the death Medford, who was among the Springfield. Ford factory is 50,000 cars be went to Portland Saturday from The l>accalaureate sermon for list of Americans is 120. passengers saved from the steam which place they, went to Tilla the Twelfth grade of the Dorena hind on its orders. er Lusitania when the liner was Two Submarines Reported. mook Monday as delegates to the school was delivered Sunday sunk off the Irish coast by a Ger This is the last week of school meeting of the state grange from evening at Dorena by Rev. Mac Flither two or three torpedoes at Dorena. Cottage Grove. man submarine last FYiday, will Leod o f Cottage Grove. struck the Lusitania. • continue on to Belgium to engage W. G. FT. Meyers, o f Stratford, in Red Cross work, according to Ont., who was on his way to join announcement by her parents The Cooper three-story brick Cottage Grove’s first big pub- the British navy as a cadet, said: here. Only a brief cable mes hotel building with its 52 rooms, |jc saie attracted a large crowd “ I had just gone to the upper sage has been received concern besides lobby, dining room, Tuesday and many sales were ing her safety and plans, but this deck after lunch to play a game is satisfactory to her parents and kitchen, bath rooms and broad made including, live stock, farm o f quoits with two other men. host of friends here, who were hallways will be one o f the best; implements and household goods. One of them, looking over the alarmed for her safety. Miss arranged and most commodious The sale was conducted in the LADIES' WHITE CREPE DRESSES side, saw a white streak in the Conner is a graduate of Welles hostelries to be found in any city Spray brick commission house C U R TA IN SCRIM.— Special R egu la r $10.00 to $12.50 values, water and shouted: “ There’s a ley and her chief ambition is to o f Cottage Grove’s class in west near the depot and the band fur be of use to humanity in the pre Offer on Regular 2f> cent you r ch o ice _____ __ _____ . $3.28 torpedo, coming straight at us.’ sent old-world crisis. ern Oregon. Every room will nished music at the opening of We watched it until it struck us, be supplied with hot and cold the sale in the forenoon and also Coroner Charges Murder. Values at 15 cents. DRESS GOODS 75 Ct. RATINIE with an awful explosion. Then water, call bells and electric after dinner. Cols. J. J. Har- we rushed to the boat deck. Just1 K 'nsa'e* Ireland, May 10.—The ......... ........................ 40 Cts. lights. All of the rooms have baugh of Eugene and E. R. Spen ' ‘ verdict rendered by the Coroner’s as we got there a huge quantity jury which investigated the been plastered and beautifully cer o f Cottage Grove were the 36-inch RLUE SERGE 49 Cts. LACE CURTAINS $2.50 values at $2.10 o f wood splinters and great'deaths resulting from the tor- tinted and inside of 30 days the auctioneers, and it is quite prob $2.00 values a t___ . $1.98 masses of water flew all around ; pedoing of the Lusitania follows: 60-inch WHITE SERG E skylights and big plate glass able that these big sales will be $1.08 $1.50 values at. “ We find (hat the deceased us. Fine $1 25 g r a d e ________ 75 Cts. windows will be put in and the conducted hereafter at regular met death from prolonged, cold .98 $1.20 values at ____ Woman Frenzied With Fear. building, which also has one stated intervals as they are a immersion and exhaustion in the :K!-incli PLAID 49 Cts. “ A second torpedo struck us sea eight miles southwest o f Old large merchandise store room, good thing for the community aFiout four minutes after the Head, off Kinsale, F'riday, May HOPE Ml'SLIN 9 Cts. will be completed. It will be a and afford the best means for LADIES’ DRESS SKIRTS -Blue, Blark first. I went lielow to get a life 7, 1915, owing to the sinking of credit to Cottage Grove and will getting the buyer and seller to and Brown Serges. LONSDALE MUSLIN 11 Cts. belt and met a woman who was the Lousitania by torpedoes fired give this city ample hotel accom gether. by a German submarine. $7.00 values at . .. $4.10 modations for some years to frenzied with fear I tried to ENGLISH LINEN SUITINGS - $3.98 Kaiser Accused of Murder. $5.75 values at come. We take off our hat to ) calm her and helped her into a l a t e s t shades __________ 19 Cts. Charged With Fraud. “ We find that this appalling W. B. Cooper. boat. Then I saw a lioat which I crime was committed contrary to Men’s Straw Hats, regular #1.50 was nearly swamped, I got in- j international law and the conven W. H. Allen was taken from Predicts Big Lumber Year. RAT1NIE All Wool skirt regular and $2.00, your choice $1.00. to it. and with other men bailed tions of all civilized nations. $14.00 values a t . . . . . $6.00 Cottage Grove to Eugene Friday- Mens’ leather Gloves only 98cts. “ We also charge the officers of it out. Bellingham, Wash. —J. H. Blo- night by Deputy Sheriff Green None o f the survivors had any said submarine and the Emperor Levi Strauss Overalls, only 85ets. dell, of the Blodel I-Donovan Pitcher, and placed in jail charg complaint to make regarding the and government of Germany, Mens’ heavy ribbed cotton under Lumber Company, has just re action of the crew. All agree under whose orders they acted, LADIES’ TAILORED SUITS - Regular wear great value at 48 cents. ed with obtaining money under that everything possible was done with the crime of wholesale mur turned from the East and reports $25.00 values a t . . . . $13.00 der before the tribunal o f the Work shirts fine quality only 47c, under the circumstances. false pretenses. He is accused that the opening of the Panama civilized world. Draw America Into War. Canal means that 300.000,000 of buying a cow, placing a mort “ We desire to express sincere London, May 8. “ I think the condolences and sympathy with feet o f Douglas fir will be ship gage on the cow and then selling WHERE CASH A. W. WAMPOLE, Lusitania has l>een torpedoed de- the relatives of the deceased, the ped annually from now on. Tile the animal. He is also accused liberately for the purjtose o f mak- Cunard Company and the United Manager BEATS CREDIT big sawmills in this section are of selling potatoes that did not ing the United States declare States, many of whose citizens all resuming operations and a belong to him. He was examin- war.” said Lord Charles Beres- perished in this murderous at- splendid year is predicted. ed late Saturday aftern -on. 1 ford today. tack on an unarmed liner,” Have the painter do your work with the paint that will prove most economical and satisfactory. prepared Cottage Grove Mfg. Co. MINISTERIAL MEETING HELD AT CRESWELL > FINE HOTEL FOR THE BIG AUCTION COTTAGE GROVE SALE A SUCCESS MAY OFFERINGS MM I