THE
VOL.
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FLORENCE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1914'
O’
portion of
' road which the
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cov. lty hr. large of is in terrible
ents and their parents on the
shape, hue those portions which
topic, “improved Livestock. ” He
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' ra>l" ' company rebuilt and
appealed directly to the farmers
T i n r i l Z A T T D wilichit maintains are in good
to heed the new slogan of “Dairy
easi,y Raveled. They
cows, the best; and plenty of I
are kept in condition .all thfttim^. Monday.— af t ernoon , a t..
— -4*-—rtw— < ^ n — ■ of the th?m’W a 'Ptlkl’' he''said, that is!
but it seems that the county does 0 fluck the tug L Roscoe started Rockies’’
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was staged Saturday quickly w°rkingout in this County A1 Miner is having a lot cleared
.The the Willamette-Pacific Rail
nothing in the way of improve- over
the
bar
with
the
schooner
night
at
ir„„v ,,
7 ......... •-••— ■v« , nielli at the Rita by the Hie-h and one fr°m which results a re and leveled and will build a resi
way company is laying track7’as ment.’’
th S 1 School
Sch0°* Drama'tic”
Dramatic Cl
C lu V i s K i “’^ y being reaped. Briefly t T I dence this spring.
«ugh Hogan, when entering the
fast as possible and that ever1'-
Mr. station
Wise said
he new'
thought
the break the lumber schooner began ! by other local bib.nt tl k
thing i, being rushed to get to | next
on the
the
raitra*d
>xt station
on
new railro
ad 10
w«« filled
. L the house speaker outlined the need of care . Ed Maher’s new house is pro
t ' t t0 I next
railroad
to shear toward the
the south,
south, was
early
in
the evening, ,in buy‘nKsuch stock, to secure Kressin<T iikely.
... r r tjcr wnD X -lta X m l SJ n/ r vir ,would **“Joe {owler’splace, tjareeh A strong north west . wjnd
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....... taking part kept t^e i-ouly the best breeds.— ------- - t Wm.-Passy i r planning fe put
1 K. Wise or-^Vk^vm T
W‘ rnfles. t* ,°w thickahominy, a n d |which came up suddenly struck
the Blachiey school is a modern a boat on the river to run to
rived in the < tv 1. t * W-b° &r" that >t was the intention of the tJ>em after they passed the jetties audience interested from the time
the curtain arose to the finish. one-room structure, with an en- j South Slough. He will give a
Mr Wise own’
railway company to extend the and in sP>te of the efforts of the Ihe cast was well trained to rollment of 20 pupils und. r the I Passenger and freight service
14 miles below th8
7 f! rrn train servic* as rapidly as the itu* the schooner was
forced on
min? r i t
oh pre8ent ter- rails are laid. He says that the the “ «th beaeh.
- their particular parts and kept supervision of Mrs. M. E. Norton. (Bill will put on a boat that travel
Witnesses to
Register.
, when the time comes.
the action well sustained during
^
’S
t o
it hate
would have
entire performance.
In n r 11 ln u
Work on the tramway is being
handled the The
, .. . ,
“»"uivu
m e Florence
f lorence Male Quartet was i " K t ALARM
extended
rapidly and rads are
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the situation better than it was I enthn<iinat;„oii
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1
by Capt. Robert Jones, who they X a ?
When
now' put over a mile.
AT M ill PLANT
commanded the tug.
Frank Smith’
woen acts; Mr. 1
Ih e hox-Miner buildtog on
1 rrank Smith s comic song also' The roof of the main
street to
is having
Capt. Jones had made a trip I nroved on ....
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w.v i.toiri ouiiaing'
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navmg the
tne front
building' 1 water
J!*®*
. t ( hlckahom,ny »re | about 8:30 or 9 o’clock in the over the bar with the tug shortly The man
1 7?*’? number- of the mill plant caught fire put in and W»H soon be ready for
before taking the s c h L e r in | Sherrato and
MeSSrS- about 12:30 Wednesday. One of
occupants.
fire
snrinUo»«
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n
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the
sprinklers
broke
and
tow, and fourteen feet ofw ater ¡heartily applauded
Machinery is being installed
an
alarm
was
turned
in.
It
was
was found. All conditions look-
fuesdav aft
' .u •
in the shingle mill, and the
* SURF BATHING
now below the half-way house at
ed favorable to getting ou t people teft on tl u ”
¿ ° Unfir only a short time until two owners expect to have it ip oper
. K ifk’s, a mile and a half from
Plenty of water oh the bar and ton u e ? 1 M ae M apte * j streams of w ater’wefe poring ation next month".
PLEASANT PASTIME good
•Chickahominy, and that a pile-
weather.
to % '
they Staffed the
onto the blaze and it was soon Rice-Knowles-Rice have secur
dnver is busy driving piles for a Some day the long stretches of
Monday afternoon she Tiy p a X ^ a J i d “th ,7 h ’’" “ 'n
extinguished.
The
incident ed the lease on the lower floor o f
bridge below Fowler’s place, beach to the south and north of about 800 feet to the soutlr of
d **“ pIay we"
proved the value of the mill fire the Fox-Miner building and will
threemiles below Kirk’s. Cement! Florence will be appreciated to
protection system.
south jetty and nearly 600 In offarto„ tu-
a
.
put in a branch store. C. H .
.8 now being hauled from the'their full value fo7 bathing the
feet seaward, where it appeared Hitrh Srh i^n h*8 productlon the
Young will be manager and as
Fugene end of the line for the beaches.
th
that it was impossible to g . t . h ’
° r* " " üc Olub b»ve
NORTHFORK
soon as arrangements can be made
bridge abutments, instead of The entire distance from the Hugh Hogan off. Capt Jones { £ £
”
enter'
expects to move his fam ily to
from the Siuslaw end, as has mouth of the Siuslaw to the
ELECT EMPRESS Glensda.
«■ought the tug in and immedi- Thev have, h
been the case for the past year. Umpqua river is one continuous ately
began preparations to save r e p i t the
reque8? d to
The North Fork Grange will
This ,8 much easier haul, with sand beach, while to the north t w , r t The iife saving crew " X t e T t e S “" “
W
assist Florence and its provinces
Miss McHardy has just placed
o n to ? ? 1
T nS operatlng and for fourteen miles is another came down from Uaquina and
Fiet,,
j n
n making the coming Rhododen a new display of photographs in
the
Umpqua
rivera
The
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t ? y?m eWumi * to g6 by wa*on- Stretch of ideal beach.
dron Festival, to be held in Flor
R ® ? fficultpaS8a*eofTiltonand ! Quite a number of people who went outside and lay h , the I tto young ^ i p k .
m'ttee by ence on May 21 and 22, one of the front of her studio. 1 |The collec
to th H " ’i u 18 nOt nece88ary “ Iive here’ if« to the beach during
tion is of studies in babies snd
schooner Tuesday night
greatest ever.
from t h T ? i br,n8?.ngtheCement the 8ummer months and oc-
young
people
and are very
The
cast
was
as
follows:
By Wednesday evening the
A basket social and dance will artistic.
from the other end.
cassionally enjoy the salt w a t?
Jim
Gordon—Russel
Gilmore.
be given on Saturday evening
th ^th n? Cte CamP 18 3t W°rk at
Mond«y Russel Gilmore and schooner had been driven by the
D. E. Severy closed the regis
Julian G ray-Lloyd Saubert.
May
2 at the Grange hall.
the third crossing of the Siuslaw Martin Scharrard tried the surf ^tide and breakers toward the
tration
books Tuesday evening.
Seth
Thompson—
Homer
This affair will be in charge of Total number , of registrations
and another crew 13 working on and report the temperature of river channel, until it was direct Severy.
ly opposite the end of the south
jthe concrete piers of the bridge the water mild and pleasant
Jake Dalton—Latham Cham the North Fork Carnival com were 136.
The" County clerk
jetty,
about 400 feet seaward.
mittee and an Empress of the will close the registration "books
at San Antone. A rock-crushing
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berlain.
From the position-it was in late
North Fork Province will be for the primary election at 5 p.
b X i t o ° rkattheLak(;Creek • ™ ph * Hunt, of Eugene, is
Hank Williams—Ceil Buch elected.
Wednesday
afternoon, predictions
o n a g t site.
,n Florence. Mr Hunt .g *
anan.
m- Friday May 1st
“The watron -nark. „
r
jorence. Mr. Hunt is a civil were made that the vessel would
Ned Davis Howard Barrett.
than ever ’’ said Mr W it? “T l?! engine<’r and located the first rail work into the river and be saved.
—
’ 8ld Mr W,8e- That road *urvey to the Siuslaw.
Those on board had a disagr?
Dennis
Mulcahy— Martin
able experience but at no time Sherrard. ’
was in serious danger. Tuesday i Bud Arthur Bushman.
morning all were taken
taken of the I ^ hip Gordon—Eleanor Saubert
schooner. Capt. Hill and seven u , nnetta Wells—Doane Cham-
irnr and
men returning
and were again berlain.
Bedelia
O’Rafferty—Goldie
taken of Wednesday night
Levage.
RUSHING W. P.
RAILS TOWARD
11UE H A IEK Shai* Snd
— HOGAN
HIGHSCHOOL
GOES ON BEACH PLAY SUCCESS
WHAT’S DOING
IN GLEN AD A
r
Special Sale
On
Sarsaparilla
The Great Spring Tonic
ERECTING BUILDINGS
GOOD ROADS DAY
AT WESTLAKE
AT MERCER LAKE
will buy you an All Wool
Suit well made
We
showing a värity of Patterns and Models
We also show in better grades from
$18 TO $25 SUITS
WIR e " s CHLO® BR0SH m CF0RM.1CK'
'fJZ a, | ehard? u ° fityouran
f"»" 500
samples and have a suit to your measure
vv e are pleased to show you at any time
w o r n MILL STORE
Douglas Shoes
Florence. Oregon
H. C. Morris and W. M.
Saturday, April 25, being
Whiteaker. who came down to Good Roads Day the people of
Florence several weeks ago and Mercer Lake united early in the
went to Westlake the new sum morning to help putting the new
mer resort townsite on Tsitlcoos road through. The men labored
lake, have now erected two cot- vigorously amid logs and brush,
i-tages and have moved their rocks and dynamite blasts while
household goods, which arrived the women were busy preparing
recently on the Patsy to West-1 I a picnic dinner which the tired,
lake.
hungry men heartily appreciated,
Mr. Whiteaker has 15000 feet i „The table was spread beneath
of lumber in the hotel site and the apple blossoms, while the
will get more material as soon as wngs of birds and humming of
the mill can furnish it. It is bees filled the ajr. After dinner
expected that by the middle of the men went back to their work
1 May construction work will com- and worked diligently until late
mence on the hotel
in the evening. The people at
Capt. H. G. Campbel and Mr, Mercer and vicinity are
very
Forbes will also build homes at anxious to have the road
com-
Westlake.
pleted as soon as possible.
The launch Charm will be taken
Some of the residents having
to X^Hfcoos lake on the tramway lived here for twenty
as soon as it is finished. Capt without a road they will surely
Cambell is clearing the outlet of know how to appreciate it.
Tsitlcoos lake so he can run his
The county court has been
boat to the beach this summer. very kind in helping these people
He expects a good patronage in for which they feel very grate
passenger and freight service.
ful.
Mr. C.*~ H. Young went to! BLACHLEY SCHOOL
Mapleton last Saturday to meet
STANDARDIZED
j; Mr. I. Veldhuyzen Van Zantin of
H£ IIS?,d’ ? h° Ca? e to
him At BIa<*ley fitting exercises
about k>cating a large colony of have been held for the stan-
ollenders on the Pacific Coast, dardization of the school in dis-
I and
t°t . Fl0renCC Sunday> ^ c t No. 90. the only school out
th
looking over maps and of five in that vicinity to receive
I other data on the cultivable land such an honor this year
I S i r X 'T
rVa" Zanten
A “tandardization pennant was
I , . 1 for Washington D, C, and to presented to the pupils by Super
his native country. He
H p win
p . u< ? “Per-
will re visor C. H. Aylesworth.
Profes-
turn to America after he makes ¿>or E. F. Fitz, of the Oregon
his report to the promoters of Agricultural College, delivered
the project
an address to the assembled stud-
$ 1 :0 0 B o t t l e s
at 75c
Store
Siuslaw Building Material Co.
DY ER & BALDW IN
Our Stock Of
Doors, Windows, Moldings, Roofing Paper Etc.
i t th®- "I08* comPIete in the valley. We will receive additinn
the stock we now h a y on hand on every boat that comes in!
SEE US FOR
CEMENT LIME, SEWER PIPE, DRAIN LINE,
LIME FERTALIZER
used on you garden now will double your yield
We will have a full stock of
P A IN TS
as soon as we can get a store room to move into
R-K-R Warehouse
Five Votes
For Queen
Given with each $1 Purchase
W e makea speciality of made to order clothing.
Cleaning and Preaaing. Buttone made to order.