SPONDENTS Interesting Letters From our Country Correspondents Detailing the Neighborhood News. CRISP AND BREEZY LETTERS T t t iu k le r s F r o m S ta r, Carl Pitcher went to Eugene this woek, Mack Stewart is quite sick with the Uimales this week. Ijeslie Vicks made a flying trip to the (¡rove, Monday. C. A. Harlow w u l called to the Grove on business this week. from March 21, will be held on Friday night in the Scarbrough warehouse. F o u n d B r o t h e r In PoorlioUM*. lit jjjou IXHant Something 1H|( B ak £& C ity , Ore., March 21-—J» F. Denny of Eureka, Cal., today met A. B. Page has returned from his brother. Thomas Denny, in this Portland, where he went to have city for the first time in thirty tears. an operation performed on his little The latter is now an inmate of the son for appendicitis, we are glad to county poorhouse, but as a result of hear that the lad is getting on his brother’s visit will be taken out nicely. Mis mother is with him. j and cared for. Thirty years ago J. F. Denny grub-staked hie brother W a lk e r Item s. in California to come to Oregon and i prospect for gold. The latter has Miss Florence Huff made Sagi- been following the life of a prospect- naw a call, Friday. ■ or ever since, sometimes finding a Miss Bertha Tait returned to ' little gold and always hoping to Albany this week. strike it rich. One year ago be be- Miss Forence Huff visited the came incapacitated and was coui- | mitted to the poorhouse. His brother Grove, Wednesday. 1 was communicated with recently R. Sears went to the Grove and came to his rescue. The old Saturday on business. man will be sent to another brother Luny Smith made a trip to Fall in Idaho. Ask to see the ^ v IP e c L a l i s S h o f KTO W ----- ith the ^ |-£ m Sljoe Lace Pocket, It is a Classic Shoe, Artistic and comfort! McKays, Turns and W elts, at----- 12.75 anAm LEW IS & V E A TC Joo Vicks and daugher spent, A t t e n t io n , W o o d m a n . Friday and Saturday in the Grove. Creek the first of this week. Mr Merriman from Illinois has | The Pitober boys are busy load­ All members of Bohemia Camp, No. ing cars for Long A Bingham's saw­ moved into the Walker house. . h I 2'AJ, are requested to be present at the mill. M. C. Smith went to Eugene | regular session on Saturday evening March 28th, as business of importunée M iss Lulu Harlow spent laat week Sunday and returned Monday. is to be truusucted. By order o f C. C. C. H. V an D enbubo , wisiting with Mrs Albert Stocks at Miss Pearl Smith and Mrs M. A. Cottage Grove. Horn have the grippe this week. The new Myrtle Creek council The Dumewooil brothers are at R. E. W alker and Bruce made a has put liquor license in that work making cattle guards for the flying trip to the Grove Saturday. , town at 11500. This was a sur- It K. this week. Tom Roche came up from Eu­ . prise as the election went “wet.” The O. A S. E. train comes to the gene on Saturday’s 3 o’clock train. ; It is charged that the mayor has | arranged to buy the principal hotel end of the line every day loaded G. O. Walker made , ? tn P l" • and run the only bar in town with passengers and freight Analauff this week, returning bun- _____ 1_________ Sun- Mr. 15rnnd and daughter and a day, The referendum will be invoked number of others passed through Mrs. F. C. Coffman and family in Oregon in three cases: The here Monday on their way to Bohe­ are visiting friends in Walker, this Lewis and Clark exposition, the mia. portage railroad $105,000 graft, and week. the corporation license law. . The Miss Mary Vaughn entertained a Mrs. Merriman from Illinois initiative will be called for in three few of her fneuds at her homo Thursday evening. All report hav­ came in Sunday on the three cases: For a corporation law, flat o ’clock train. salary law and a direct nomination ing spent a very pleasent evening. Mrs. Tait and Arthur and eastern law. Miss London, daughter of con­ ductor o f the O, A S. E. road, and friends went to the Grove on busi­ If you want to see something nice ask to see the Pedalis .Shoe, with , Col. Blair’s little girls came to the ness Saturday. end of road on Tuesday's train. Harry Millet and family of They were just out enjoying our Saginaw, will move into the Buoy beautiful weather, and Oregon house the first o f the week. mountain scenery. Mrs. Cha6. Wright, who lias been Mrs Miles Pitcher purchased in Cottage Grove for the past two • fine Needham organ this week of weeks under treatment by Dr T. K. Richardson at the Grove. Anderson, returned Sunday, great­ Sunday evening the young people ly improved. o f Star gave the Pitcher’s a musical Sheep on R eserves. with the help of the new organ, which was enjoyed very much. S cmptkk , Ore, March 23.— The C hild o r T ub F orkht . department of the Interior has issu­ ed a proclamation permitting sheep W ild w o o d Item s. to graze on the forest reserves of Mr Brown, the timber inspector Grant, Crook and Umatilla counties. who has been here for some time, This news will please the sheepmeD, left for his home at Tacoma, Sunday. as notices were posted last year warning them to keep their sheep ’William and Ralph Mawley, who off the reserves. A large nnmber era attending school in the Grovo are driven here every summer from ■pent, Saturday and Sundry at home Morrow and other countesi to graze returning Sunday evening. on the luxurant grass of the Blue A couple of Cottage Groveites Mountain ranges. •pent last week in our neighbor Stayer o f a Teacher. bood, with dogs and guns, but we aotico they took, nothing home B aker C i t y , Ore., March 21.— with them put a disappointed look. Counsel for 1’ les Armstrong, murder­ Mrs J. S. Burnett is very ill at er of Minnie Ensminger, have ap­ her home. Dr Andersen was called plied for a change of venue to ¿Sunday and pronounced it a bad Umatilla county on the ground that «•so of scarlet fever, there are quite sentiment is so strong against Arm­ at number in this vaciuity that are strong here that he would not be snek with the same disease, among accorded fair trial. An attempt was thorn are George, Frank, and made to lynch Aarmstrong two Mrs. Vanschoiack, and Mack Stew- weeks ago, but the Sheriff was atrt. warm»], and placing his prisoner on There is a panther in this vacinity, n train took him to Portland for which has been making himself ((into safety. A masked mob went familiar with Mr. J .T Hunt’s band through the jail a few hours after o f sheep. Bake Stewart and Bird Armstrong had been taken away. Farrier put in the day Monday, The prisoner, who is of Spanish with dogs and guns in search for extraction, shot Miss Minnie En­ hie {mothership, but they caused sminger in the baok at a county him no unoasiness. He is still free dance last Christmas eve and killed i s the forest. her. His act was due to jealousy. With bright warm sunshine to She was a school teacher. induce them, many men are going A Portland liveryman has just to the bills this woek, some to work returned from a trip aB far south as on then claims, some to work (or Koeeburg. He was out looking for Ike Oregon Secureties Co. While good driving horses, but roturned •there are going to work on the without making any purchases, and proposed, wagon road from the reporta that the farmers and other« Warehouse to tho Champion mine. are not giving as much attention to This will certainly be the best season the breeding of this class of stock llohemia and vacinity, has ever as formerly. known. CKKKW KLL NKWS patent shoe lace pocket. A classie shoo, artistic and comfortable. Mc­ Kay’s turns and welts at $2.75 and $3.00 at Lewis & Veatch’s. c o v r i vi $ 1 1 .0 0 PER BOOTH-KELLY Paints. Oils and Varnishes Our line of Books. Stationery. W all Paper and Notions are not surpassed in Quality or Quantity in the city. P rices are rieht, M CITY M ARKE MILLS Saginaw, Ore. ooooooow oooooooooooooooc Wall Paper United States Land Office. New We have no stand-in with the dentists on tough mi Give us a call and we will treat you right :: :: 5 Stock J u s t Received Bartels & Veatc Latest Styles a n d ( nest selection ever; brought t o Cottage Grove ................ P I P E R a n l| V anD enbur® Fine New Rockers Come and see Them M a r t in M IS S B IN G H A M . Shelf and Heav)®8“ G ow dy X HARDW ARE Furniture-Undertakers ; vr O S i Ö O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O OOQ Here is a new picture o f Miss Amelia Bingham, showing that stately and statuesque actress in one o f the becom­ ing costumes which she wears as the frisky Mrs. Johnson in her new play of that name. Miss Bingham was recently much dis­ pleased with the New York critics be- We arc like house plants: We need a change of soil now and then Henry Wiehelm went to Cottage to be replanted. New scenes, new Grave on Friday. experience«, new surroundings— a Clias. Stanton went to Eugene on change of climate, dry air instead j business this week. of moisture, sunshine in place of I M isc Anna Howe has accepted cloud. This is sometimes essential j to health. There is conditions near I the school at Lowell. at hand that are better than Europe I Robert Hayes came up from Eu­ | can offer. Take a month or two in I gene on the train on Tuesday oven- I California. Plant yourself for a time *ng. I where there are no irritations, where Mr. IJot'kles the Bear Creek saw the hotel is beyond criticism, the i m ill inau, was in Creswell, Satur­ landscape pleasing, and where warm sunny weather invites to walks and ! day. drive«. Pure and dry air. and the Uncle Jim my Smith has so far increased electric influences of sun- j MIW AMFLIA BINGHAM. recovered from his illness as to be shine are vastly helpful. up and around. CM U »e they «aid that the frisky Mrs. You can make this trip at very | I II Ventch and family, went to little expense, and enjoy a ride over I Johnson did not frisk. She contended i that the author never meant her to i ^Cottage Grovi Friday to attend | the scenic Siskiyou and Shasta frlak. but that the critics had wholly the funeral o f Doc Veatch. mountains, which, at this time of failed to understand the character—that Miss Mearl Scott arrive»! home I the year with their show covered | of a widow who under a light exterior HtfhJay from an ex tended visill peaks, are unsurpassed for their nwHks a sonnd and loyal heart. grandeur. to relatives in Eastern Oregon. Aa O th e r » See Ta. For complete information regard­ Myer—Ton may make some i*H»t>lr S. A Oorreil o f Drain has bivn ing rates, points of interest, and de­ made agent for the S. P. Co, viiM) lightful hotels in California, address bollere that story, but l*m not such a , fool as I look. R. K. Ornisby, transferred to Com- J W E C om as . G P A. G y « —Well, why don’t you stop tra?- j •lock- 8 P Co, Lines in Oregon, fling around in disguise then?—CbUafp i Portland, Ote. News. T he Basket social postponed Choicest Moats. Hams, Bacon and Lard always on hand. In fact everything usually kept in a first class market : : Fish In Season JOHN H. BARTELS contestant, against homestead entry No. 9139, it2f--- made August 24 lass, . lor ... }■:i . —............. SK1 N e ;». section 2s, township 20 south, range 4 west, by ISAAC R. McCOBMICK, contestée, In which it is alleged that said entry- man has never established his residence on the said land, nor cultivated or improved the same and that he lias aliahdoneil the said laud, having been absent without leave tor more than six months lust (cist, and that said alleged absence from the said land was not due to his em­ ployment in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps or the Cnited States as a private soldier, officer, seaman or marine during the war with Spam nr during any other war in which the United states may lie engaged; said parties are hereby nottlled to apiieur. respond and offer evidence toui-niiig said allegation at 10 o'eloek a. m. on I April 2 ». 1903, before K. O. Potter, Notary Pub­ lic at Eugene, Oregon, aud that final nearing will lie held at ten o'eloek a. m. on Mav 2 , 1903 , before the Register and Receiver at the United States Land Office in Koseburg, Oregon. Tiie said contestant having, in a proper affi­ davit, filed February 3, 1903, set forth facts which show that after due diligence personal ' service of this notice can not be made, It is here­ by ordered aud directed that such notice be given by due and proper publication. J. H. BOOTH. Receiver. W h y Sh e S c o ld » th e N e w Y o r k C r it ­ ic » o f H e r N ffv I*Iay. J. P. CU R R IN , Proprietor, Prescriptions carefully compounded and we always keep on band the Purest Drugs. L U M B E R ItosEiiiTRu, Oregon, March 21, lOOJ. A sufficient contest affidavit bavins Iteen tiled in this office by STATELY THE OLD RELIABLE DRUG STO Common Rough N O T IC E . The Benefit of Change. WOTKM. N OTH ’ K OF F IN A L S E T T L IU K X T . Notice is hereby given that J. P. Currin and Catherine A. Perkins, administrator and ad­ ministratrix of the estate of J. H. Perkins, de- ceasciL have tiled in the County Court of bane county, Oregon, their Anal account ot the ad­ ministration of said estate, that the County Court of Lane county, Oregou. »us set W ednes­ day the -Nth .lay of April, 1903, at 2 o ehn-k p. m. of said day ami at tin Court house in Eugene oregon. as the time and place for the hnal ex­ amination of said final account and the final settlement of said estate. . , „ . .» All persons interested in said final account ami estate are hereby notified to present anv objections m writing they may have to tlie al­ lowance of said final account and final settle­ ment of said estate on or before said day. J. P. Cl’ HKlN. C. A. PEEK INS. Administrator and administratrix of said estate. Cottage Grove. Oregon. March 25, 1903, 1 Fish Bros Wasons and til ¿H kinds of Farm Implemento ail » Miniti" Supplies. » ■ u n u i 'w ; OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0-00 0 0 0 000-0000000000•! s anti b u ild e r s w ill fimi nurlw^Bg '■'""'Is th e n e w e st in d esign. tb e l^ H | a d a p tab le an ti im prov ed , and of U iel^ ^ P ' 't standard of merit in quality»™*" ability ; . ; : : Car Load of : : : I Stodetaker Wagons J u s t K e c c I ye