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S E M I- W E E K L Y
FLORENCE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1915
‘ informal
tended' the mother, says that
both babies are in fine condition
and will live. The smallest baby
cannot be fed in the natural way
and the doctor and nurse have
been having a strenuous time
feeding her with a medicine
dropper.
These are the first
children bom to Mr. and Mrs.
An informal meeting of the Susperrek, who have vbeen mar
Port Commissioners was held at ried 16 years. —Oregonian.
Acme Saturday morning to
arrange for the sale of port boq^s.
While nothing official was
»nsacted it was agreedjthat the
try advertise in the Port
la n d papers for bids on $100,000
>rt bonds. The bids to be open-
1 on February 20, 1915. It is
Corvallis, Jan. 14.— President
iderstood the reason given for
Kerr of Oregon Agricultural Col-
setting.the date at that time was
loge has been elected vice-presi
to give -Eastern firms an op
dent of the Land Grant Engin
portunity to bid.
eering Association, an organiza
tion of the representatives of the
land grant colleges, giving work
in various branches of engineer
ing. There are 65 such institu
tions, and the election of Dr.
__ o
Kerr is considered a recognition
There is to be a meeting at of the high standing of A. O. C.
jleton, Friday. January 22, among institutions devoted to
rthe purpose o f organizing a technical instruction.
stron teachers association. All
A. B. Cordley. dean of the
is of any school are eligible school of agriculture and director
embership and are earnestly of the experiment station, has
ited to be present as there been notified of his election to
'will be matters brought up that membership in the Society for
are of importance to all those the Promotion of Agricultural
iterested in school work.
Science. This society was formed
20 years ago.
PORT MEETING
SATURDAY
0. A. C. HEAD
ISJPNORED
PATRON TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION
AT MAPLETON
TINIEST TW INJAB1ES BORN
The high water assisted by the,
Two little baby girls, so tin y ' wind tore out about 100 yards of
that they are just a handful, were the dike along the ranch of
born January 11 to Mr. and Mrs. Hazen Johnson on the North
3ehn W. Susperrek, 768 York Fork through the water poured
street
The babies are girls, and completely inundated h ii
Annie and Olga. One weighs ranch. It will cause him con
oneaad a quarter pounds, the siderable trouble and no small
other two and a quarter pounds. expense to replace the dike in as
Dr. Jennie Matelsky, who
good condition as it was before.
A Complete
Line of
Dress,
isers
SHOES
OOLEN MILL STORE,
FLORENCE, OREGON.
State Engineer H. L. Bowlby in his annual report
says Lane county paid $13,991 too much for the steel
used in a bridge across the Willamette river at Eugene.
Several things indicate that... poor methods were used
in the letting of the contract for the building o f this
bridge. According to aift;*ggtigation of the methods
of constructing thia
. „\SN(BPby the state engineer,
the old structure t. as condemned by an engineer paid
by the company which finally secured the contract. It
is stated in the report, this same company, the Coast
Bridge company, prepared the plans and gave an esti
mate of the reasonable cost. The bridge contract was
then let, without giving any publicity to the fact that
the county intended to build a bridge. It is also stated
that the county clerk’s records show that every claim
for the payment for this bridge was assigned by the
contractor to one of the county commissioners.
Good roads and godd bridges are good to have, but at
this price to the taxpayers they will come high. If the
steel cost $14000 too much, it is reasonable to assume
that everything else was also excessive.
Western Lane county has been putting up its share
each year for extensive, expensive improvements in the
eastern portion of the county, and receiving'in exchange
extensive, expensive neglect
1
A good one—“Honor thy father and mother, but not
stranger’s cheques. ”
west to the township line be
tween ranges 8 and 9, thence
north to the northeast comer of
Sec. 13, tp. 19S„ R. 9 W., W. M.,
thence west on section line to
the northwest comer of Sec. 9,
tp. 19 S., R. 10 W, W.M.,south3
miles to the northeast corner of
Sec. 29. Tp. 19 S„ R. 10 W., W.
M., thence west 1 mile to the
northwest corner of said Sec. 29
south, 2 miles to the southeast
corner of Sec. 31,' Tp. 19 S., R.
10 W., W. M., west 1 mile to the
southwest comer of tp. 19 S.. R.
10 W., W. M., south i mile to
the east quarter section corner
of Sec. 1, Tp. 20 S.. R. 11 W.,
thence west on the half section
line to the east coast of the Pa
cific ocean.—Eugene Guard.
NORTH BEND
BANK ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS
At a meeting of the stockhold
ers of the First National Bank of
North Bend Tuesday evening,
nearly all the directors were
present and a large number o f
stockholders.
Little business
was transacted except the elec
tion of officers.
Henry Kern was elected presi
dent:
C. 8. Winsor, former
president of the Bank of Oregon
was elected vice-president; J. H.
Grave, cashier and H. L. Berg
man. assistant cashier.
The directors were elected by
the stockholders and are as
follows: L. J. Simpson, C. 8.
Winsor. Jno. H. Graves, Fred
Hollister, H. L. Bergman, C< M.
Byler, J. A. Allen, Robert Banks
and H. G. Kern.—Harbor.
The Morning Register'of Jan
uary 17 has the following con
cerning the proposed boundary
change: The proposition to make
slight changes in the boundary
line between Lane and Douglas
counties so as to includs all of
the Bohemia mining district
within Lane county, may not be
made to the legislature. The
courts of the two counties agreed
The regular meeting of the city
upon certain changes but yester
day a proposition came up to in council was held Monday even
clude all of the Siuslaw river ing, to which all were present ex-K
The
within Lane county, so that this cept A. O. Knowles.
county would have full jurisdic regular routine of business was
tion over the stream in case an transacted. C. J. Mahoney re
'attempt' should ever be made to signed as city .attorney and Dr.
improve it for logging purposes. M. V. Forrest was appointed
Assessor Keeney laid yesterday health officer without pay.
that this may have th e e ffsc to f
Two of the life saving craw
preventing the introduction of
from
the Umpqua were visiting
the bill making the changes. As
friends
in Florence for a few days
compensation for that portion of
.
the mining district proposed to last week,,
be annexed to Lane county,
The Patsy cams in Sunday and
Douglas county was to receive discharged her freight for river
other territory along the Siuslaw points. She has been bar bound
and south of Cottage Grove. In for several days
fixing the line along the Siuslaw She left south Monday
certain interests wanted the I and will make the Umpqua I
ie.
' re tu rn in g te Portland.
river entirely in
...
TIMBER SALES WANT TO .
ON NATIONAL
CHANGE THE
FORRESTS
COUNTY LINE
Secretary of Agriculture Hous
ton, in his annual report, out
lines, in a general way, the policy
of the department regarding
timber sales in the national
forests:
While almost all the grazing
areas on the forests are in de-
By the change Lane will gain
some four townships south of Bo
hemia, but it will give up a little
more than one township at the
extreme southeast of the county.
It -will also give up a strip, that
the line may follow the section
line for a distance of eighteen
and the department is confronted and Latham. The strip would
with a situation radically dif average less than a mile and a
ferent
Development work in half in width.
these sections means handling
From that point west theie are
the timber so that it will assist minor exchanges, including the
in opening up the country. giving o f a small amoufit o f ter
Whenever general business and ritory south and east of Alma,
market conditions make it possi or , southwest of the Lorane
ble to sell large fbodies o f now country. No changes are made
inaccessible timber, the aim is to after the present line reaches
offer the timber on terms which the Siuslaw «river, which serves
will tend to increase transpor as a definite line, and from the
tados facilities, promote settle point where the line again leaves
m ent and build up permanent the Siuslaw river at township 18,
communities. Where timber can range eight west to the west
be sold the benefits of Govern coast of the county.
ment management of the forests
“I favor it because we have
as public resources are apparent no definite line at present In
now. Where, however the tim some instances we have assumed
ber is not in demand at present a a lin e ,’’ said Mr. Keeney. “It
difficult
situation
sometime will be a great aid in the record
exists. Lowering the price of ing of deeds, for it will fix a
stumpage has been urged for in definite line.
At present the
creasing sales, but if such course county faces the expense of hav
had any effect at all, it would be ing a permanent survey o f the
unfavorable to public interest southern boundary, and this
Upon the greater part of the tim change will eliminate the need
ber it would have fio effect be for this.”
cause no manufacturer could,
The following is the proposed
under presents conditions, afford southern boundary as agreed
to cut the timber at any price. upon by the taro ass sneers, and
In these sections, as a rule, the which will probably go into a bill
possibility o f marketing it de to the present legislature:
pends upon a< greater activity in
Beginning at the northeast cor
the lumber trade. At present ner o f tp. 24 8. R. 5 E. of the W.
the lumbermen are forced by M., thence west 90 miles to the
general market conditions to cur Willamette meridian, north 6
tail output, and the department miles to the northeast corner of
can not expect to make many tp. 24 S. R. 1 W.. W. M., west
large sales. Still, large bodies of to the northeast comer of tp. 24
timber are being offered on terras S . R. 4 W., W. M., north to the
which may attract purchasers, northeast corner of tp. 21 8. R.
and at thesam e time the develop-. 4 W., W. II., west to the north
ment of small sales for the sup east comer of tp. 21 8., R. 6 W.,
ply o f local needs, should not be W. m., north 2 miles, west 6
overlooked, since these provide a miles to the township line; thence
fairly steady market even when north to the northeast corner of
the general market is depressed. tp. 20 8.. R. 7 W„ W. M., west
In a word, the timber sale policy to the northwest corner of said
aims to make the resources township 20 8., R. 7 W., W. M..
serviceable to the public now, north to the northeast comer of
as well as in the future, in the Sec. 25, tp. 19S., R. 8 W.. W. M„ I
fullest degree which scientific west 1 mile, north 3 miles to the
production and utilization can northeast comer of Sec. 11, tp.*
m ake possible.
1 9 « . R. 8 W„ W. M., ther.32
city coora. meets
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and a fine selection o f Records
Come in hear them
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Collar Bags, Fancy Stationery
Japanese Napkins, Tissue Paper, Tableta and
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