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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1904)
UNE COUNTY OREGON COTTAGE GROVE rU B L IS IlK l) Grove visited her aunt Mrs. M. F. "•* •«"*' Li«M* Babcock last week. F o u r n e w street lights have been Grandma Babcock is visiting her installed by the Cottage Grove daughter Mrs. VV. N. Wheeler Electric Co. for the city, this week. They are located, one on Main " * ' street at Mill street, one at Main LEADER ROW R IV E R HAS A B R EA K W A TE R KVKICV SATURDAY A . C LIFFOIU ) UAUB, Editor and Fit b Us her Entered at the Cottage d rov e giogtofBee as see- oud-i lass matter. HUB8CRIPTION KATES . . . . - $1.50 Bix Months - -75 Three« Months . . . - .50 If paid in advanee but if not so paid a lalform rate of $ 2.00 j>er year «rill be charged. Ad ver Using rates made known on application One Year CLUBBING LIST Will Deflect Current and Stop Washout on Banks. FINE CROP OF W ALNUTS ^ £ Tennessee avenue. 0. & S. E. Railroad and County Commissioners Continued from 1st Page The handsome new cottage now Provide a Valuable Improvement 1 being built for Jas. S. Benson has Near Cottage Grove. orchard of guarled fruit trees, gi- been wired tbis week. gantic as fruit trees grow— some M r„ elegant new dwell -1 During the past few years Itow thirty and forty feet in height. The 1 iug on Third street has also been 1 The Lauo County L i . adeh for one river has been gradually eating year, and any of the following publi away the soil on its banks at a cation for one year, for the price set point along the Oregon & South opposite: eastern railroad two and one-half New York Tribune Farmer $1 75 Toledo Weekly Blade.......... ............ } <■» miles from Cottage Grove. The Portland Weekly O regonian........... 2 ao 2 00 Portland Weekly Journal. wagon road lies between the river 2 25 Portland Hemt-Weekly Journal 2 50 Ban Francisco Call............... and the railroad and in places runs •2 50 Ban Francisco Exainim-r 2 (HI Sunset Maga/ine. San Francis« o perilously near the brink of the 2 50 Out West, Los Angeles ---- stream. It is related that in years past the road ran where is now the SATURDAY ..... OCTOBER 8, JU0L center of the channel. Successive winter torrents have washed away A WORD T O F A R M E R S . the banks until Row river at this Thirty thousand dollars annually point is no less thanj 500 feet wide. Tu stop the eucroachmonts of the sent out of Cottage Grove lot wheat by Messrs Hartuug A Hausou of the stream the O. A S. E. people have Cottage Grove Fleur Mills does not united with tlio County Commis speak volumes for the wheat sioners in defraying expense of growing industry of the many building a substantial breakwater farmers about Cottage Grove. to direct the flow of the river away W heat has been selling for from 80 from the soft soil and loose gravel to 85 cents per bushel this season. of the bank. The breakwater extends 100 feet This year alone more than $30,000 has so been expended bv the above into the river aud is composed of named lirm. This sum might have heavy hewn limbers and is filled been distributed among Cottage with stones of various sizes. At Grove people if thrift and industry the outer end a buttress runs at an down stream. Average had ruled. Many of the Oregon angle farmers are content to make a living height is 11 feet. At the shore end feet A dike runs from and do not aspiro to gain wealth. it is This must be a fact, else the thous the tracks of the O. A S. E. rail ands of acres available for cultiva road to tho edge of the river to pre tion which are now covered with vent attack on the land end of the timber or given to pasture would breakwater. Willows have been set be producing good crops of grain along the bank upstream to prevent further crumbling of the soil. for milling purposes. Assistant Engineer C. P. Jones of Why not koop this money at home instead of premitting it to go out the O. A S . E. had the work in side? hand and was assisted by Road- This seems a question that all Master Kelley. A large force of farmers should consider seriously. men and teams wore employed and Are you raising enough grain? Is the entire work was completed in your land producing what it should less than one week. Manager A. produce? The experience of the 11. Wood of the O. A S. E. has had past year has «linwn many that tall this work in prospect all summer, sowing is the proper thing. Accord for lmd it not been attended to be ingly many are preparing their soil fore the rainy season tho roadbed in advance of the rainy season along the line at that poiut would There may bo localities where tali have been emlnugered. sowing is rendered impossible by It is thought the present work surface conditions, but one lirm in will turn the current and prevent fJflttaMfl ( i rum.boa apkli.ii the luist fpr.U}W,4jdMMWHM ern disc plows, all of which are water may bo necessary on the up now in use by farmers who are stream side. sowing nr will sow fall grnin However, tho work just finished Fall-sown grain was a good in provides a greatly needed improve vestment last year, why not this ment. year? Moro grain sown means more Almost a Century. money for the farmer and more business for Cottngo Grove. At the age of !)3 years, “ Gran d- h o s i e r y A AT s a l e O ffe rin g " G ra n d LU RO H ’S STOCKINGS 19c fruit is small and often afflicted wJred for eiectric lights, with blight or insect pests. The home of Postmaster C. J. ) But across the road a quarter of n owarj ^ been remodeled aud a mile away Mr. Currin has an or- olectrio lights have been installed, chard, mostly apples, that is five Marjon Veateb, the funiture years old. T he trees are beautiful dealer bas had his house wired for in form, a splendid growth and electric lights. DAIRYING IN OREGON. good producers. Mr.(Currin, how Iucaudescents have been installed ever, docs not as yet believe in at the home of A. C. Gage. cutting back the tops of his apple Mrs. Joe Miller has had her dwell What 1» Costs to Establish a Creamery and Cheese Fastory. M an u factu rer* o f Flour trees. ing wired for this inexpensive and F eed , Graliiun, Whole E. L. Smith o f Hood River, who very convenient method of lighting dairying will probably be a lead- W h e a t Flour, Geriu Me»| is President o f the Oregon Develop wliich does away with coal oil ¡n(justry ¡n Oregon as long as ment League, said in the Marquam lamps and the consequent task of | ^ ja|Mj endures, as the natural ExtensiveI Improvements are being m*i, Grand Theater on August and, filling and cleaning. to »nr million machinery. We âiT,,, ; meadows, the magnificent ranges keep oar «ou r proof agallisi outsidet™. that to grow good apples the trees The Cottage Grove Electric Com and the perennial streams to be Petitors. Being a Cotta*« drove Inni billon, we respectfully ask you to nnw should be topped to within 14 to 16 pany has been steadily increasing the home product when buylnir n™, found everywhere in the greater w e hayo lu st installed a uiaetnw Ji feet o f the ground. ! its service owing to the reasonable part of the state, make ideal con large capacity for rollili* oats aud lui! ley. Hrlnu your oats and have 11 rnürt Mr. Smith is an expert ou fruit rates they make for placing the In-fore leedlo* 1 1 will *0 much furth,, ditions for the unlimited product Feed and hay promptly delivered a culture and comes from a section fixtures and furnishing the lights. any part o f the elly. ;; ion o f butter and cheese. At present where they grow prize apples. the supply is not much iti excess Therefore he should know what is of the demand for home consumpt A Quick Recovery. best in apple-growing. His reasons ion, but when dairymen have been Twelve years ago on Wednesday were that the tree was more sturdy, able to obtain all the cows they growth was stronger, limbs were A .J . Armstrong suffered the loss need, the industry is bound to as not so liable to break, the fruit o f his left hand in a mill at Inde sume mammoth proportions. 1 he was easily gathered and (most im pendence, Oregon. Since amputa condensed milk and evaporated portant) trees so grown can be tion the arm has been painful to cream business already is receiving thoroughly and readily sprayed to him. On Wednesday Sept. 2 1 , an impetus that will add another destroy insect pests. The argu Dr. A . Corpron and Dr. A. W . import to the number that is mak ment o f President Smith was so Kime performed an operation to ing the name of Oregon famous conclusive that all growers present relieve the constant pain experi You can save money by buying kitchen and throughout the world. Natural (and there were many) were con enced. T w o weeks have elapsed household furnishings at Miller’s New and forage plants grow luxuriantly, vinced. Questions were fired at since the 19 stitches were taken Second-hand Store. Everything for the and nowhere in the world has and the arm is almost entirely Mr. Smith by growers from all household, and at prices lower than you nature been more lavish in sowing parts o f Oregon. He was prompt healed. In seven days the band ettn get them anywhere else. This you can red and white clover, timothy, and and unassailable in his replies and ages were removed entirely and other succulent grasses that cattle prove by calling on as he remarked was not punctured. Mr. Armstrong is confident the H ood River is to have a fruit member will cause him no more ove. When the land is under cultivation the yield is remarkable, fair one week hence and it would trouble. and it is quite common to harvest be a valuable experience for two crops in a season, while al growers o f this section if they DIVIDE ITEM S. falfa affords a crop for almost every could be in attendance at that Burt Lee and family returned month. Oregon’s greatest advau- W e come to your time. from the coast Friday. rage is her frequent gentle rains, rescue, in case o f If Mr. Currin could talk for a Mrs. James Yomans of Leona which keep the atmosphere pure few moments with Mr. E. L. Smith or some other successful spent a day or two with her and clean and the meadows and grower, lie might liecome as en daughter Mrs. CfeKlie Hedrick ranges green nearly the whole year. — Sunset Magazine thusiastic a fruit man as is the ven last w Cck. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McReynolds erable yet energetic presiding o f Cost o f m f ’ lieese F a c t o r y . returned from Jacksonville, Satur Insure in an Old Line ficer of the O. D. L. Metcalf & Rrund The cost of establishing a chees e day and report a good time. Fire Insurance Company t y # Y « rsinSi * AA O lll) pro*« ■lames iviucuey uas greauy im Successors to know your loss will be care and attention to detail in the proved the appearance of his dwell with the location, but the following paid in full. may be accepted as an average cultivation o f their farms and or ing by a new coat of paint and Metcalf & Morse estimate. Building, about eight chards means largely increased re fancy tnimmings. hundred dollars, and the same turns. A ny farmer may increase Mrs. Roy Coffin expects to join Phillips & Wheeler his wealth and the value o f his her husband at Everett, Washing amount for equipment. Twenty- Kind of Goods one hundred dollars will build and BANK BUILDINQ holdings by devoting time and ton, in a few days. Prom pt Delivery : ORE. equip a creamery capable o f hand COTTAGE OROVE. Courteous Attention thought to raising the standard of ling the milk from between three his products. It is so easy to Get Ready. hundred and four hundred cows. make a living in this great state of ina” Oliver foldod her hands aud Oregon that farmers are not active In some localities owners estimate B right’ s D isea .se a.nd The band will play Tho past week has been a busy passed to her long rest ou Monday in a competitive sense. the income per cow as averaging D iabetes. In a concert soon one ul the railroad depot. Tons morning nftcr a long nnd useful fifty dollars a year. The prices of And this is the name I f walnuts and chestnuts will P a r k e r 's B r e a d N Phone M aud tons of freight have gone both Christaiu life. Tho vonernble woman grow here, why are there not more land range from twenty-five to one We desire to place In tile hands o f those at O f their new tune:— flu ted with Brights Disease and Diabetes ¡1 :io- ways and tbe .Southern Pacific died at tho homo of hor daughter, ¡acres cleared to make room fvr hundred dollars an acre, according pa*e pamphlet that is suviu* human lives. It ” Alamagoozalum.’ s 11.,1 UN ordinary pamphlet, sueli as Is emiimon- people liavo left the handling of Mrs. L. M. Thompson of Cottage such crops? Or why is not the to location and condition.—Emma ly used to advertise medlemes but Is princi pally made up of reports o f scientifically con- And another piece roost of it to the local transfer com Grove. Seckle Marshall in sunset Magazine tliu fed tests In a large variety o f eases, showing i present cleared acreage planted? T hey’ll also play *7 per emit o f recoveries In these hitherto In- Mrs. Olivor was born July, 20, pany. More help is needed at the for October. curable disease». JefF M yersof Portland, who is I 11 their concert The specifics employed lu these tests are local depot. In fact there nro only 1811, inCuyhoga county, New York. arranging for exhibits o f produce known as the Kultou l oo 11 „uttids aud the re A t and early day: — sults ohiained prove conclusively that these Three children are left, eleven at the Lewis & Clark Exposition, the station agent and baggage man A Card of Thanks. ' i '/JSSTI »? lo“ K taut (the deaths from "M rs. Ip p i." Brights] Disease alone are appaiimu, over Itai.- at the depot to handle tho remark graiulcliildieu and many great will receive exhibits from all year, start ing as kidney trouble»! have at T o the friends who so kindly m ast a yielded to medical science. The pamphlet « ar ably largo volumo of business. The grandchildren. Sbo was tho mother counties— from any who may send, tree. Write to the John J. Fulton Co., 4m. assisted us in our last bereavment Is Washington street, San Francisco. Cal. M aps Free. agent in his shirt-sleeves, handling of Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Julia .Smith Felix Currin will send walnuts, and in the loss of our beloved mother When to suspect Bright's Diseaaet-Pufly ankles or hands; weakness without apparent oil tanks aud huge iron castings, of Ogden, aud D. P. Burton, for states that in size they will aver- A ll who wish a map o f Cottage^ we extend our most kidney trouble after third month; fre- heartfelt cause; urinal ton, (may show sediment or cloudy with no one in the ofiice is Imrdly many yenrs Assessor of Lane county, age well with the market. Grove may now get one at the thanks. In kind remembrance we ■luent on standing); falling vision; day drow siness— one or more of these. fit business system for so important “Grandma” Oliver w*a a devoted Cottage Grove ought to have Leader office, free. T he streets will remember you always. a corporation as the Southern ( liristnin women, loved by all, and specimens lor display next year, are all shown and the map is a J u l ia A . S m ith NOTICE KOK PUBLICATION. Pacific Railroad Company with lines in the fulness of hor years revered hut the fruit season is nearly gone! valuable business directory as well. L o u isa M . T hompson United States Land Office, in Oregon. Patrons of the road by a large family who will greatly | fruit, vegetables aud cereals are There are only a limited cumber w , tlosehurg, Oregon, Sept. 29 U.KH. E ll e n E. A D. P. B urton " • « » i leyeby given that In com pliant* are inconvenienced by tho system miss her. Sho was a member of passing aud before another harvest for general circulation. with tha provl.tone of tha act ol C o m m a m S O F T a n d FLUFFY BLANKETS l o n e ' IsiV entitled "An act f « .h i* iU J it at present in voguo. Tho Leader tho Christian Church. Services of the Lewis A- Clark Fair will be a Are tho delight of all good iciiwDcpas M m iu Aawra ‘i * S,a,Mo1 Calltogjfc.O rago« -A «a Ordinary laiinrierlng falls t“ i-r—y A Bad Fire. mJt " V i ln,*ton T e r r i t o r y . a t . o d - would like to nsk Knowles A Geliys that denomination were held Tues- [ thing o f the past, this desired result. 7 he blankets sl»o 1 *h* * ub11* 1,n<s ,u t ** *>F act at August he sent to the Card of Tnanks. May destroy your homes at any t . , ( of Bohemia if their freight wan day, Rev. J. II. Sharp officiating.. . .. UUOKNK h . WILCOX time; have Tom Awbrey write you f Portland, county of Multnomah, State o f Ore- COTTAGE . OROVE . STEAM L»imor transferred promptly during th e' W e desire to express sincere up a po'iey in either tbe JUna In- o gon, class J has tins day «led In Oils office Ills sworn ------------ - T * Drain Normal Notes. penalty. It receives the attei auentem»' statement No. MM for the purchase o f the K ', . a iiotiiva to IU those lUU5C WU past week to tho O. A S. H Indi thanks who, by tBeir sym- sura Co; or the Oregon Fire Re S t f J S r V " " N." ' “ , l" Township No. 20 , south those skilled in achieving SILK C R E E K . 1 he fourth week of school opened p!, thy and by kind results. Pure water and pure *'»P ik i1 . K*‘ .4 'V ’“ ' aml W(U ° " e r proof to show vidual merchants of Cottago Grove, lie. Association of McMinnville Ore i!m the cleansing agents used. All B“1™ > L ’ . 'V" ■'‘ “ I“ ' " D more valuable I n its work Is well done at the :: •• ' “ J o ° [ , si!lVe Jf1* 11 ,l,r agricultural purposes in a hurry for their deliveries, have O. D. I). Wheeler brought from Monday morning w.th very pleasing to bear the Jo*. 0f our est*emed and (015) Saturday and JWcmday COTTflGE GROVE FLOUR MILLS H A R T U N G a n d HANSEN Going to Housekeeping? C . J« M I L L E R , M a i n S t . , n e a r Bridge N ew Firm F I R E Metcalf $ Brand J had to go to the depot and haul over the freight in tho way car. Every day during the week some thing has been m the freight for the Lender— paper, stock, niachin ery, new type. Wo nro conveni ently located, near tho depot freight was not so serious n question for us. It was lugged over by main strength. Itut the .Southern Pacific railroad must certainly have inclination to plojse its customers. If it hns there should be a freight man at the depot. The time schedule ie one of few trnins, it is true, nnd nil importance lies about their arrival and departure, hut the agent baa net lime aside from his office duties to do the husky in tho shed to save the corporation a few dollars at the expense of the merchants of Cottage Grove aud tha emolument of a local draying monopoly. Give u* a freight handier. Eugene his household goods one ex era sesu , general assembly. This wi be made one of the best per.od, day last week. ' e 1 100 1 e' Dr. Katherine Schleef and Mrs. ° The enrollment of the school now Valentine ol Cottage Grove atten exceeds 200 in all departments, a ded church services here Sunday. very good showing for this time o f Mr. Clow was taken suddenly ill year. Friday aftei noon and fell from the liv e new students entered the b )U iw on which he was riding Normal Monday, among them striking on his head. He is repor Miss Edith Smith of Gardner. ted better. T h e Y . M. C A . and Y. W . C. A. aged father, Samuel P . Garontte. T o a„ the friends who , lssUted and G ood F o r C h ild ren . T h e pleasant to take and harmless consoled us we offer heartfelt ac‘ | uiiro pi'vosTn""ant knowledgment. relief in nil cases of Cough, Cronp and LaOrippe because it docs not L . B. G ä r o v t t e . pass immediately into the stomach, but takes effect right at tho seat of L- A . G ar ou ttm . afinn11 heals h e- I U and soothes ? Ut thf> M rs . A j . icb P rick . m matlon, and *«•*«!»- cures permanently by enabling the lungs to conUibuto pure life-giving and lift. L. Morse and wife are visiting at & nlnfioidXy^ * Modern ^ Phnr- by " the Wendling, the guest o f their son (macy. W. N. V h e c lc made a business are taking an active part in the Fred Russell. Souvenir Spoons trip to Lorauc Monday. social life o f the school-each hav- A nice line of souvenir spoons R. W . W elch went to Eugene o n .jo s t ^ i v T n t H C Madsen’, Mrs. 1 resser and daughter, in* a 8 ° ° l1 membership ! ewelry „ tore MadMn 9 Varien o f Lynx Hollow were visit 1 The Literary Society was reor busmess yesterday. ganized last Friday evening. The ing friends here Sunday. - ‘ 1 > s «’ed wheat for sale at the INII I'legsiirc. Geo. Mi Jer has moved hisshingfc 1 faculty will assist the students in Cottage Grove Flour Mills. If you ever took DeWSftV Little I mill and family over near the making the literary work o f the Risers for hilionsoesM r«r coo-1 j school strengthen the work of the Wheeler a Owens saw mill. 1 i Sares r i T S ' kn? w wl," ‘ Ul" plea- I society by proper supervision and is rhewe famous ||ta|e nt||s There are twenty-two pupils en j credits. 'i >ifnl! f n i ! T bile n h ° wiihout ! ! r r nn'1 r W t h <* urn,lea C o ll a g e Drove. rolled at the district school. Dref®n prodweing Plans are lieing perfected for ant effect*. They .1» not urn*. Mrs. Henry Damcwood was a Headquarters tor conimer- j school room anil yard decoration. I. kon ,.r weaken, but pleasantly- ¿rivi visitor at the school Tuesday morn- tone and strength to the tlepses and cial and mining men. Among the possible features being "f the stomach. iHver nnd mg- an art exhibit. kvwok s.>id by the Mndenr Pharm American and European Plan Mr. Grey is once more living on Miss White, one o f the critic Have you seen those beautiful his ranch. Special rates to families. teachers, visited friends in Cottage ' Seed fo r sala at th e , O a tts g c diamonds at Madsen's? One block from S.P. Depot Mi Nettie Burdick o f Cottage . Grove Saturday and Sunday. t G rov e F lo u r Mills. 1 R F . A 8 O N A U L K K A T E I and to estahhs his claim to said land before 1 8 Commissioner,at his omce at Eugene. Oregon, on Thursday, the i.vth day of 0 uLeo.V ,,WH * ' * » » " ' « as Witnesses; ttfoliu Fnu^A ' t H ? V°th. of :<<>ttage Drove, t ,a county, r * * • Oregon, Devereaiix, both o f fcugene, all of Lane aimvl adversely the iadm .rn . 7 u « 1* " '1* « « i « l » t e d to ale their ,m °r b" nre ,ai<i iRh daT ®f J. T. B r id g e s , Register. Cottage Grove Steam Laundry Phone Main 34 :: Wagon Will f*» FEED AND MILLSTOFFS A g e n c y fo r Ju n ction Ulti U0#, J . K . BBO W -N River Street Near the Bridge Geo. F. Comer H ARN ESS M AK ER i r llcpa'ring nf ,he Reliable Kl id. w m im-nd your haroes» whil« you do your »lionping. Carriage Trimming an«l Repairing. ;• ;; y hip». Huddle*, Harms», Collar* rraee«. Bridle*. Bit*.’ ( ¡ ¡ ¡ S t haln*, and all kind* of »upplip*. o MtH***" n B E D ST E A D S . From $6.00 Do Everything sivts st .. two noons west of isio o e COTTAGE GROVE in Furniture MARION V6ATCH Imperial Hotel MOUSE F U S S '* * * " COTTAUK GKOVK General B la c k s m ith in g ^ s _ F o r S a l e a t M o d e m I'harm *.* " » « la it y . Graduate of the American VeWS^J m*. All College of New Toc» City VETERINARY DENTIST T B A . 3C E ZDTZ. J . J . fUUBNSED) '! * ’ <■ yourhorsesteeth ex amined andr. pah ",1 »hop tear o f Hemenway X Burkholder’, store * VETERINARY I* SUR6E0N .e n KUUENE, ORHC*)* «fficec K. 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