S E M I - W EE K L Y
FLORENCE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH III l i ~
number
loi
(John M. Oak ¡son in Oregon Journi
A few weeks ago I received a letter from
busmess man who says he mads my little ai
interest He could not be qpre interested in
mg, however, than I was in his letter
He told me that he had found out a y e a r«
middle aged widow, who was the sole7 supj
•- There has been considerable
discussion regarding the appor
tionment of the Rivera and Har
bors Bill, snd some of the tele-1
p ram s have been indefinite re-
h s rd in g several Oregon harbors,
'among them the Siuslaw.
The
Evening Record, of Marshfield,
under date of March 3, published
a special that "The Siuslaw, Ne
halem Bay, Coquille and Yaquina
had been slashed.”
I
Friday the Record telegrapbkd Lincoln
to Washington in regard to the
matter and received the follow
ing reply:
Washington. March 6.—The
rivers and harbors appropriations
was a lump sum. No specifici
amount per project appeared. The
expenditures will bp at the army
board’s discretion.
No decision
has yot been reached as to items.
aged mother, that she had saved $1000, whic
™ t ,nri.Ln
in her home- He poinUd ou«
rreat risk she was running and induced her
the money in a savings bank.
•n ‘ P h“ b«*n >n the bank a year now,” be w
■he is perfectly satisfied with the 3 per cen
not knowing she could get 6 per cent by buyii
i h S T i to " 2 ? ’ hame 40 WMte * • ext « 8
which she could put to gooduse, yet I hesitafc
607 “ b° nd U“ le“ X know jt to be exc
œOHaUHOŒEDWCS
He asked my advim. and I urged him tc
matter up to the manager of the bond denai
one of tiie big Chicago banks, with the ex^to
had made to me. He did. and I have a letter
bank acknowledging the matter.
uild two •p a n , to handle the
“ SSj1 Bn<* Poc^ ^rom til# duarry.
n e ,grading will be eonun«w-
Jd within two w « k a aeeordinar
the «11-
iB “ S * h~ rt* in«
incident
, A yea
>1000 was absolutely unproductive,
a source
of
its owner, a continual temptation to thieve«
intervention of this friend th« money has beei
40 *
pI*® * " d i t t o of income I
earned. During the nextyear the money will
“ f*
the widow’s income will amount to «
I don t know what this «Oman does to «
CASH MEAT MARKET CLOSES
B Oregonian
News
Bureau,
Washington, March 8.-D u r in g
|»he dosing hours of Congress a
oil! was passed providing that all
Pending homestead entries made
in good faith prior to January 1,
1914, upder the enlarged horoe-
•tsad set by persons who before
oeiow, ana the railroad as may be neeM«*p»wni k .
’S h * t h i aV o r k i,i "tif interf#re ’ ^ A m e r i c a n Government to
xu
work n *b# flu rry , obtain the desired wsoteeMm
with the mutual provtoion that
The n o t e Z t h ?
Wneri WiI1 b**® **■ m o,t ®mphatic
»».jj
g u jrd fo rth e movement of the has been sent by the W a s h i n g
The Cash Meat market that
bee been operated by Wilbur.
Cook and Horn in Florence for
the pest winter will dose its busi-1
neee as a market but will con
tinue to buy and adl beef cattle
and to deliver meat to the rail
road working crews.
. ¿ike A Look
iS n ^ K 2 i
of a fc h , and new, to
crrace grade, and may do the n g n n ■ m i « b
work from the same camp.
It
will take all of two weeks, the
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engineers state, to do the neces-
The Rev. H. L.
,
■ary surveying and make other | o f the Evangelical d to n h e f
preliminary preparations to begin Florence was taken aeriomlj ill
L Prom one to two’ months! la»t Friday and I t haa devdouod
♦I- b#/ * C* * 8ary
com?lete into P ^dyM a and he t o l j b j r
REV. H. L PRATT VERT SKK
a
»be has increased heryeg^s Income by
she has, in effect added four peeks to her year
ed at m another way, her m o 4 r to buying hei
weeks. vacation during the yedr. •
Is there any excuse in the ««rid for one fc
money in a community where banks are doing I
under the regutotion of .tote C
f X n l a iti
this grade and get the rails lgid. dangerously ill st the partm ads
x
work which « " b®
« Mr. Pratt siw giving ‘
started will include the erection him every
attention
buJ,din* of cribe with the hope th at he will mate
oU’BB- T h to b s able to mtegto amen» n a / M '
work has not been started up to this time he is unable to
and where Investments are solebv reliabu
WAY, IS A U
SETTLEDNOW
Worn Out, Aren’t They?
"«• «»«”
Arthur^Perks company has a affect, demands an earlv
J>rce of menAt work on the Point
" - r l y chaage.
Wn>ri*
AT YOUR OLD SHOES ,
year ago, Cananaa to -
that the United Statea haa view
ed with
in« o o m p S n ^ T S i g ” '
g e n « ! ? X t o e t h to tfa ta to
Mrs. M. S. Currier
leads of miUenery go
Monday night and she i
them on exibitioi as a
suitable elore mom to
She haa made anaagem
W. J. Clark who has been run
The last piece of right-of-way
ning the Bay View Hotel for the
necessary
to oomplete the Will-
Peat winter has sold his interest
jamette Pacific, that through the
in the business to Hunt ft Baker,
I Johnson-Anderson rock quarry
of the Hub Cafe and they have I
I was obtained by the railroad late
taken possession and will run i t 1
in connection with the cafe. Mr. yesterday. The failure to obtain !
the right-of-way has blocked the
Clark has not decided just what
progress
of the rails below Maple
he will do in the future, but ex
ton, it has delayed the Siuslaw
pects to engage in some business and Ufiipqua bridges and has
in Lane county.*
been the one point upon which
the completion of the railroad to
Marshfield during 1910 has hung,
Announcement was made from Watch the S p u e fo r Th em .____________
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the Willamette Pacific engineer-
Saturday being the last day for ‘"r ° fflce in Eu< en« today that
filing petitions for mhmbera of
b« resumed ba
the City council to be voted on at ’”ed,ate,F’ Grade will bo built
the annuaf election in April, five
^ ^ - w a y , and
took advantage of the new chart-
being built prepara-
• r and complied with the re-
"¡J* proh« M r be made to
oyirsmenta. Fred Meyera, O. C. ¿ 2 *
gon! tra! y B <* ‘be
Stanwood, D. W. iinomaAi of the " 2 * *
* 0 ffiuolaw river
oM Council, and C. & Moraan
Acm«- ®F the Brno the rails
BARGAINS
. every bate
Surface Drug Sto
NOMMATWCPETmONS
FILED LATE SATURDAY
th e lead
We- have just received
A BIG SHIPMENT OF
and Dr. Edwards each filed their
♦be grade
petition for member of the City 2 2 L
Point T«rn * « « W .
council. C. B. Morgan waa the
“ * » " * b agot to expected
only candidate making a state- to * * “ "P lsted . When the rails
ment as to hie qualifications and
they are perfectly clear. This is
what he says, " I wifl grant
apeeial favors to none, and ex-
pact to go out o f office without
a friend in town.”
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W T IA I M R T n m
M TU A L m t W B
Bought before any advance
and we are offering them at
the same old prices : : • :
‘ Mr. & N Tarlov
J “ T V *
J “ W d < * ’ ««»"b“» to
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taia* w« * win
¡ T i * “ 7 * * ln * 2 *
Work
J?e
• topted.
,
, ««htM>f-way controversy
involved in the rock quarry has
* " ® ped • P«riod of several yean.
11 « tone aIonf in • <*"<lloek
until thia spring when an injunc-
Wlit
sm - m
«ueetoClenada8atuiday «vw,.
fl,ed by therailroad.
.
ig w ill preach at the Pneby- e t V h L h * ^ ?
>riM ch»r e h t o H « M X Z I h ,
Florence, Oregon
to M M iw
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