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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1903)
Supplement to VOI,. XV. Œbc Hane County Xcafccr C O T T A G E U K O VE , O R E ., J U N E 19, 1903 Let’er No. 9 Itoom . Tell us not in mournful numbers That this town is full of gloom, For the men’s a crunk who slumbers In these bursting days of boom. Life is real, life is earnest, Ami the grave is not its goal; Every dollar that thou turnest Helps to make the old town roll. But enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; If you have no money borrow— Buy a corner lot each day. Lives of great tnen all reminds us We can win immotial fame; Let us leave the chumps behind us. And we’ll get there just the same. In this world's broad field o f buttle— I I I the bivouac of life. Let us make the dry bones rattle— Buy a corner lot for wife! Let us then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving still pursuing. Booming early, booming late. —Polk County Observer. Showing tents o f the big Carnival Co. to be in Cottage Grove June 24th to 27th Inclusive. W ill E n force H om estead Law. The following remarks of nn official high in the laud office deputment are not calculated to ease the minds of uuiuerous claim holders in the county ami city: “ The homestead law provides that a settler shall uot bo absent from bis laud longer than six months at any one time. By some people this has been construed to lueau that a man may take a sandwich and a blanket and spend one night on bis claim every six months and at the end ot the prescribed peiiod make proof and acquire title to bis land. It has been common in this st te for leading business men iu a town to have homestead claims 30 and eveu 100 miles from their places of residence and to make final proof that was accepted by the laud office. Such practices are travesties on the home-stead law. Land offices of this part of the Uuited .States have been as sclio >ls of perjurers. ’ An examination and general shake up is at hand so it is atiuounced. j All A v era ciou s P ublisher. H. II. Brookes, the overly euter- j prising editor of the Plaiudealer, evidently believes the people of Douglas couuty and the officials > f the land office department are easily gulled. As near as can be ascer tained Mr. Brook < has formulated a gigantic scheme i s object being to coutrol the greater portion of the government laud printing of this aud Josephine counties by issuing from the Plaindealer office four small papers purported to be pub lished at Biddle, Lelaud, Bohemia and Youcalla. Iu doing this he is supposed to cut auy other paper off from the laud printing in the locali ties mentioned by getting between MIST.1 KE OF AN EDITOR. Horace Mann, the editor of the En quirer of Medford who is well known in Cottage Grove has got himself Into hot water by his remarks concert ing President Roosevelt and is the subject I of a great deal of indignant comment [ bv the press of the state, irrespective of parly and has been memorialized j in condemnatory resolutions by a number of organizations in Jackson c unity. In a recent issue he disclaims any intention of serious offense, ex plaining that the objectionable re marks were "jocular.” The paragraph that drew tic thunders upon his head read as follows: "Roosevelt does not Hatter the pictures "Ue sees of him and looks for the world like some of these tough bullet-headed Dutch bartenders one sees in many eastern cities, and when you get a good look at him you don’t wonder that he boasts of shooting a Spaniard in the back, or loves the company of a lawless band oi cow boys” The editor declares that he really intends to say that the president is a bet'er man than he looks. Iu the meanwhile, he is is getting a great de d of advertising though not o f the most desirable kind. the papers now being published aud tention to the fate of the newspaper the laud to be. published. Mr. j which was started up in Eastern Brooks may make this scheme work, j Oregon near The Dalles last fall for but should he uot, he has simply to . land printing only aud which was discontinue the publication of the not only refused the land printing little sheets and he is but very little j bv the government officials, but had out. Even should he spend good to auswer for fraud.— Drain Non money as the balance of us haveipariel. and go into town for the towu’s j -------------------- good and to help to build up the The first report of the annual locality, taking his investment for drowuiug while bathing comes from better or for worse; even then he Salem this season Morris Walker would have to swear that bis publi- [ aged fourteen, was drowned in the cation was genuine with a bona fide Willamette Monday while in swim- circulation of a certain stipulated | ming with chums. It is supposed number of actual subscribers and the cold water caused him to cramp. that the said paper is published ] ------------------------ nearest the land advertised. With Thirteen hundred slot machines all due respect to Mr. Brookes and ( were confiscated and publicly burned his enterprise, we would call his at- [in Philadelphia last week. Bargains in Millinery Goods In order to close out certain lines o f m y stock I am making such reduc tions in prices that it will be decidedly to your interest to come and see me. In fact some o f the goods are marked down to actual cost, and others at c»n> old figure to make them move. The line consists of many articles ot every day necessity, and if you will save money, you 11 hunt up my place . . . Millinery Trimmings and reud.v-to wear garments for ladies at greatly reduced prices. BOLI GOODS Trimmed hats and trimmings at prices much lower than usual. in summer patterns A select Hue of wrappers, skirts and un dergarments at prices never before so low in Cottage Grove. BOYS WASH SUITS Special reductions in the cost to you on ribbons, laces and embroideries. Not a very large stock to select from, but the mens and bojB clothing will be sold at prices regardless of cost. In mens, ladies and misses shoes you can do not so well anywhere in town. A good line of umbrellas for ladies and gentlemen. Handsome and serviceable at the right kind of prices. All through the stock you can pick up bargains that will save you money. M rs. N. E. E L S E A , W est Side Cottage Grove