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THL EIGKXK WEEKLY Gl ERD. THVRÄDAY. SEITEMBER 21. l»o* IUSLAW valley AND ITS RESOURCES Country embraces •■stern Lane County, . consisting of 25 townships. F n, of beach front on the ocean and 26 miles of nav- ib.treams or 52 miles of water- ’ accessible to water transporta- that the si n’ able to th As thest crease in num from year to 1 up and down the co parat'vely free froi it would seem that provided in the sea tecting the fruit cri as well as others from destruction by these pests thereby relieved the owner of expense and labor of spraying trees « a Most of the orchards here been planted on bottom land. I I NEW BUSINESS BLOCKS Fir! JUNCTION CITY on the farm itll-feed fee trlct during th will produce yields of milk and butter, some of these cattle having produced 17 00 worth of butter fat per head during the month of April, which month the price of butter fat is usually the low est of any month during the year This is practically all profit as there are no grain bills to pay. There are about 600 cows being milked this season tn the Sluslaw- Valley, while two years ag<>_ there was not one- third as many and in a few years more when dairymen in the East learn of the many advantages that BEAR STORY FROM RUSH ISLAND A sale of real estate was made this •ek that means two more business houses for Junction. A. L. Swartz and G. 8. Keck have purchased * (Special Correspondence. I thrlty-three feet on the Avenue op Lowell. Sept. 17—Rushisland, five posite the bang lroiu the Odd Fel lows. consideration, 31.000 This I miles above here, has a real bear „ h„ 80 mH?8 or more of lake leaves the Odd Fellows a frontage of story, the facts being as follows: J embracing the finest fresh Thomas Blakeley, during the night forty feet. lakes 1“ general the surface I of the 14th inst, heard a commotion This deal has been hanging fl ’ e for T*. country is somewhat hilly, some time but was finally closed. among hls hogs and on investigating numerous agricultural valleys The Odd Fellows wll put up a two the cause found that two bears- bench lands of great fertility. story brick or concrete bulging on mother and cub.— had attacked and ‘Lihibly there is no other place In the corner, the first story will be for killed on hog and were making their ^arld where the death rate is Mr. 11 and his business purposes and the second supper on the same than In this Sluslaw River re- will be a home for the Odd Fellows I boys and dogs made chase and the I cub soon took refuge In a nearby cllmate is remarkably uni- tree and was brought to the ground The difference between the by well-directed shots from the Win P winter and summer temper- chester rifles, but the mother bear is onlv about 15 degrees, and made her escape. She was sought pie wear the same weight of cloth- for the next <lav, however, but was not found. The second night after , »11 year . Tie thermometer seldom goes she returned for her meal and cub 1 go degrees above zero in sum- and Mr. B phoned to Clarence Mc ,or belew 30 above in winter. Bee to bring his bear dogs and help Tiere are no severe storms, bUz In the chase, so all wore on lhe us cyclone«- or earthquakes. ground early the morning of the 16th. and after a short run the bear Qarly all kinds of vegetables are took a tree, was wounded and fled wo In this region in abundance from the tree, only to be pushed »d of superior quality. closely by the dogs until it took to Tie average yield of potatoes per tree No. 2, when several shots re ia about 300 bushels. As high brought her down. Mr. B. says the 500 bushels to the acre have been bear has made several attacks on hls ,own. demonstrating the great fer- hogs before, but this Is the first jjty of the soil. time he has been able to get a shot All kinds of berries grow here in at them. reit abundance. Thousands of Mr. Stiers, the mail carrier to llaz- mhels of the finest blackberries go el Dell, is having all hls stage can waste every year. A fruit catt do in the way of passengers and bag- ery is greatly needed. guge. He talks some of adding an other rig to hls route. FKVIT RAISING. Mac Crow has returned from Soda ville somewhat improved In health, but Is still under the care of hls W H. Weatherson, Editor of physician. "The West” at Florence. Grant Hyland and family are home I from an outing to the lakes and are off to Eugene on business for a few (September Nobody’s). days. Thomas Blakely lost a valuable One nt the occupations to which horse a few- days ago on accuuilt of he Sluslaw country is well adapted lung trbuble. d which Is certain to become a Hunters are still passing and If rofitable industry is that of fruit IXIAIHMi AT FIXUIEXI'E. (NotxHly's Mnicnzine.) they all get a good haul there will rowing The early settlers of this not be much game left for seed next Iley as soon as they had a sntal' year. iece" of ground cleared, made prep- ii should not be intrefered that this this country affords, there will be ’ which will be fitted up exclusively The Rev. Mr. Kelley Of IxMlis rations »0 -alse fruit to supply their is the only kind of soil in this sec many times as many cows kept as 1 for their use. Creek preached at Rushlsland the Messrs. Swartz and Keck will also ; second'Sunday of the month and will wn needs, and planted trees and tion that is suitable for fruit raising. there are at present, and the Sluslaw rushes of the ’ srlous kinds whi’h In fact, enough trees have been country will be settled with prosper I put up a two story building at th« I continue hls services every second same time and the middle wall will | Sunday hereafter. bev thought suited to the country , planted on bench land to prove that ous and contented dairy-farmers. ' be built jointly. Their < n»is ‘n this direction were the soil there is better adapted to I Mr. Kelsay has hls new house Swartz and .Keck expect to occupy nearly ready to move Into. »11 rewarded and they soon had fruit growing than are the bottoms. their own bulding The trees on the low lands grow while the odd lenty of fine fruit for themsel.es SHARP. ' Fellows will have no difficulty In se nd theft neighbors who arrived l.it- more rapidly and bear sooner than curing a long ease as they have ap rsnd hid not jet had time to raise ' those on the high land, hut it is plications on file since they first found that on the higher ground and rrep f their ( wn. talked of putting up a building. The rich river bottom lands along benches- the trees are more healthy I In this connection we may as well he river, creeks and smaller streams and their fruit is of finer flavro than Born—To Mr. and Mrs. E. B Min state that two more brick blocks ield abundant crops of strawberries, that grown on the bottoms. er. September 10, 1908, a ten pound will be erected here soon, hardly this pberries, gooseberries, logan ber- boy. fall but_early*in the spring. F A Bal ies and blackberries with compara A A Taft Club is being organized in lard and" Wm. Schroder expect to bly little cultivation. Blackber- Cottage Grove. Only preliminary i erect a doube building on Front T. W. Carter, a capitalist of Dav ies especially grow In profusion, arrangements have as yet been made, nd may almost bo said to be a nat- By Eugene R. McCornack of North and no regular meetings have been street on the site of the buildings re enport, Iowa, who has been in Eu Fork. cently burned. We are not Informed gene for a few days, left today for ral product, as wherever the seed held, but a large number of republi as to what use Mr. Ballard will home expecting to return in January (September Nobody's) s dropped, vines spring up and in a cans have signified their intention of make of his new building, but Mr. with others to locate here. Mr. Car The Sinslaw Valley is bo situated joining and the first meeting will be »»r or two is bearing a fine quality Schroder expects to occupy his him ter came here to look over the city that It Is possessed of unusual dairy announced next week. 1 fruit. self and again start up his bakery and county with a view of locating Plums, prunes and pears bear well advantages. Among the most favor The Steal ceilings are now being and may add another line at the and he was so well pleased with cli nd the fruit is of good size and fine able of these are soil, climate and wa placed in position in the lower stor uallty Some peachee are grown on ter. The soil is of different variet- ies of the new Phillips brick block same time. Junction has the pros matic conditions and everything else he upper river, but the climate is ies; from the rich creek and river and the outside steel cornice and pect of more building next year than that it did not take him long to de cide that this Is the best place In the ot the most favorable for this crop. bottom to the low and exceedingly decorative work has already been 1 It has enjoyed /or SOIM tlBM The threshing machine known as state to locate, lie came out here in These marsh completed. The building when fin few cherries have been planted in rich marsh lands, ffferent places and yield fairly well. lands are especially adapted to the ished will make a fine showing on the Junction City thresher which Is the Interest of quite a number of owned by a number of farmers, families in and around Davenport Some of the inhabitants have dairy industry, having the favorable Main strati. . west and he claims to have made the best run for who desire to come lanted grape vines, and from those qualities of the low lands of Holland, Married—In Arkansas last week, 1 day’s run this season In this sec thinks he will be able to Induce ev hlrh stand In sheltered places, so well adapted to the Holstein cow Mr. Will Garrett, of Albany, Oregon, This land, when recaimed by diking, and Miss Maude Bently of the same tion. The thresher has only a 28- ery one of them to come to Eugen*. Uber fair crops of good fruit. But it is of apples that we wish to grows immense crops of grass and - place. The Bently’s formerly re inch cylinder, but in 11 hours run 2679 pea more particularly, for In this forage, a yled of three to four tons - sided In Cottage Grove where they with two moves, threshed If any other machine ne the quality of the Sluslaw pro- of hay per acre makes an average | are well known, the old gentleman, bushels net rivals that of Hood River, the crop. The writer has pastured such! ••Dummy” having conducted a shoe around here can beat this record, we Salem, Or., Sept. 17. About 30,- will be glad to hear of It. land during ten months of the year - shop here. i"«» famous district in Oregon. David Beattie died at the Soldiers 000 people attended the State Fair The difficulty of getting fruit to and then kept the stock off for two . Attorney Lark Bilyeu of Eu 10, today, Portland day, thus breaking mrket from this region has pro months and then cut a crop of three I gene. will address the citizens of Cot Home In Roseburg, September The crush at Mr. Beattie all previous records wled the setting out of any very tons of hay per acre. The climate is ; tage Grove on the national Issues of 1908, agsd 76 years. was a pioneer of this nlace and con the grandstand this afternoon ex- so mild that there is pasturage for f '■re orchards in this valley, but not- snv from a democratic standpoint ducted one of the first blacksmith ceeded that of yesterday, and not on I’hstanding this a great many more cattle the year round and stock-cattle at the Masonic Hall Saturday even shops. i>e was a veteran of the In ly was the grandstand packed by generally pasture all winter. The PPles are raised here than are re ing. At the conclusion of the ad dian war and received the usual pen about 6500 people. but the race tired to supply the local demand, more progressive dairymen provide dress a Bryan Club will be organized. sion lor services rendered. track on both the outside and Inside nd every year thousands of bushels shelter for the cows and young stock Conditions in the Industrial cir Mr. and Mrs. Haven Belknap was bordered with a dense mass of during two or three months in the oto waste or are fed to the stock. cles of Cottage Grove are better than have returned to Junction and have people for a distance of over a quar In quality and flavor the apples rainv season. Barns or sheds need they were in 1907 or for some years rented Miss Nellie Folsom’s new cot ter of a mile. And with this Im town in this section are pronounced not be expensive, as freezing weather before. Note a concrete Illustration. tage. Mr. Belknap will put up pre mense throng at the track, all other Is almost unknown. During the sum J Food judges to be as good as Last year the Cottage Grove Manu scriptions for Johnson A Cooley. parts of the grounds were crowded nose grown anywhere in the coun mer the weather is delightfully cool facturing Company was doing a little | Born—September 14, 1908. to Mr. at the same time. ty Those that have been shipped and this is a great advantage to the business with one employe. Man land Mrs. O. C. Gould, a daughter.— Early this morning all the main ’ay here have found ready sale and keeping qualities of dairy products. ager Jones was rustling about mak !—Times. roads leading into Salem assumed Cream can be delivered six days old ing a hand part of the time, for »’’ steadily gain favor in the mar- the appearance of a line of march *t in competition with fruit from to the creamery and yet be sweet there was not enough to keep him for a farmer’s procession. The vlsl- and bring the highest price paid for In the office. Now he is kept busy her places. tors came by team as far away as in the drafting room, employs a fore One great advantage which this butter-fat. McMinnville. Independence, Dallas. The largest dairy farms are all lo man in the shop and ten men to op alley have over places farther In- Silverton and St ayton, and by the Two1 u>d In raising fruit, and especially cated along the lower end of the ri erate the various machines. time each city, village and hamlet PPlew is the fact that the trees ver and their transportation Is most years ago, the factory was idle part had sent its quota, the total made te nlmost entirely free from pests ly by water. Many dairymen own of the time.—Leader and Western j up an almost continuous stream of School districts cannot be held li vehicles coming Into Salem ■ all kinds Codlln, moth, woolv. their own gasoline launches and can Oregon. able for damages for the negligence Phis, »nd other Insects which do so deliver their produce to market at In the first race, the 3-year-old of their directors. This is the sub pace. E 8. Train's Ray o’ Light re O -A- fit *X* O TY I A. . meh damage in the orchards in a very low cost. Such X2a<18 are al‘ ways good, regardless of the season. stance of a decision given by Judge '“r parts of the state, can hardly duced the Oregon record for 3-year- B«*n th* Gantenbein in the circuit court this olds from 2 16% to 2:09 Li. In the ‘ found here. It is thought by The dairymen in this district, are. as morning in sustaining a demurrer to 2:16 pace Josephine won In three •V people that this is on account a whole.'a progressive lot. and most i- • - •- i: - I the complaint In the cose ot the In straight heats, but in the third had h* broxlml’v to the own. sort of them »r- man-Poulsen Lumber company a lead of about a nose over Tom against school district No. 1. Murphy, who made a terrific spur The case arose out of the con In the last 200 yards. struction of a building by District The summary of today's events No. 12 near Lents, which has since follows: been absorbed by No. 1. The school Three-year-old pace, 3500 Ray o’ directors failed to exact a bond from Light, first, Mortrix and Cora, sec the contractors. Clark A Simpson, as ond and third, Pete Palestine, third; they were suppos'd to do, and In tint« man-Poulsen brought suit to colled on material worth 331 Tom possible to place a 11 time 2 building. Judge Ga 9 - 14 that such a suit cai Bertha Mack second. Nogi third; tained against time 2 10*4. of not wlthsanding Running three fourths mile. 3100 the directors.— —Forrest Rose first, Halves second, Ransack third, time, 1:14%. — and ha* been made tinder hi* per- Banal supervision since it* infancy, ' Allow no one to deceive you in thia. All Counterfeits, Imitations and “Just-as-good” are but Experiments that tritie with and e.’,-*-...gcr the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Pastoria is a harmlcM substitute for Cantor Oil, Pan - iroric. Prop* and Soothing- Syrups. It fa* I’leawant. Il contain* neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narootio imbalance. It* age la it* guarantee. It destroys Worm* and iillo's Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic, it relieve* Teething Trouble*, cures Constipation slid Flatulency. It assiinilat**« the Food, regulate* the SlortMu-h and Howels, giving healthy ami naturul sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friund. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. COTTAGE GROVE NEWS FAMILES TO EUGENE DISTRICT NOT LIABLE FOR BEBT PHEASANT SEASON OPENS OCT. I MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS BY USING THE SKiDOO HORSE AND CATTLE TABLETS ♦ ♦ ♦ DfED ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Crush and mix in feed or salt. Proper dose in tablet» MAKES YOLK STOCK LOOK LIKE THE TOP PKICK r Coetam no SawdnC. A th«,. Chop Feed or Bran. TaMtla. Worn. Kidnrv. Chs-See Cbolara. SHater. Haave. Fever, Hof Cbotara tableta. Lowae Powdea Soavin Cor, Barb Wire Liniment. Pink Eye. Piatamper. Colic or Bona Stiffener Tableta. TAKE THE BLUE BELL L1NETOHEALTH O A. »T O TIT . I I.M Yw Nía Lmri Bctí-t B h ’I '. m LfUtUV THEY MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A BLACKSMITH A,k for and try oar« BLUE BELL Congh Syrup. Pile Remedy. Man'* Pain Liniment, or BLUE BELL* Stomach Tar- eta. I. -arrboea, Croup, Nrrve. C ---»h. flay Fever and Catarrh. 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