SIUSLAW
PII Z
NUMBER 9
FLORENCE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1915
I00L
ICEMENT
EXERCISES
smencement exercises
lorence High school
|n th e Princess Theater
ning May 14.
The
well filled w ith the
f and friends of the
f class who had brought
hoquets of beautiflul
rhich were banked on
i when the class entered
tied up the aisles to the
’¡thout fu rth er cere-
i exercises began with a
> by Iona Sutton, follow-
-violin solo by N eva
of. F. S. Dunn o f the
o f Oregon then gave
(address “ Thé Moral of
Proverb.”
Eleanor
| gave a mandolin solo,
i the chairman o f the
I presented the class
■ diplomas. The High
gave a song
| “ Speed O n,” a fte r which
hds of the class gathered
to offer their con-
ins.
S. RICE
IEN MAYOR
¡ity council held a regular
tin the office of the re-
(ondav evening. Mem-
present
Councilman
vas elected as chairman.
Rice was elected Mayor
embers o f the council to
unexpired term o fC ..D .-
resigned. The recorder
Acted to notify the Ma-
sonic lodge to build the sidewalk
on Main street along their lo t
A resolution was passed to order
the owners of property from the
Staup property to Madison Btreet
on Front street to repair their
sidewalk.
Ordinance 107 was
read the third time and now be
comes effective. Ordinance 108
was read the first time. On mo­
tion the petition for the recall of
the recorder was ordered filed
w ith the recorder.
PORT BONDS
ARESKNED
I, B. Cushman, president of
the port commission, and T . J.
Neely, secretary, arrived home
Tuesday from Portland where
they have been on business in con­
nection w ith the P o rt of Siuslaw.
Friday the bonds were signed
by the Officers of the Port and
forwarded to the buyers, Sweet,
Causey and Foster, o f Denver,
and the money is expected to ar­
rive in a short time.
W hile in Portland, Messrs
Cushman and Neeley made ar­
rangements w ith the United
States National Bank, of th at
place, by which the funds w ill be
deposited to the credit o f the
Government engineers, and the
Port receive in terest on the un­
used money on deposit
As soon as the money is avail­
able to the Government engin­
eers, bids will be advertised for,
on je tty construction work fo r
the Siuslaw.
The household goods o f M r.
E. J. East were shipped to Acme
Monday morning. M r. East is
employed in the building of the
bridge across the river, and will
make Acme his home for a time.
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GETTING READY FOR
ANNUAL PLAY-DAY
The Carnival committee have
been a busy bunch the last few
days in an effort to have every­
thing in readiness fo r the big
crowd th a t is coming to attend
this annual play-day on the Sius­
law.*
The whole town has been
canvassed for over-night accom­
modations for visitors, and the
committee reports special efforts
to take care of the bumper-
crowd.
The excursionists w ill be met
a t Mapleton, and provision has
been made for transportation to
Florence and the beach.
F rid ay. M ay 21st, a big field-
meet o f the schools o f Western
Lane county w ill be held and a
very interesting list of contests
have been arranged.
The pro­
gram begins m the morning with
a parade through the business
streets to the carnival pavalhon
where a program w ill be given
by the pupils until noon.
Thousands o f clams are being
dug
and
hundreds of crabs
caught to satisfy the appetites of
those attending.
Large tanks
have been made in which to boil
and steam them.
Two big Carnival Dances are
scheduled on Friday and Satur­
day nights, with a floor space of
over 6000 square fe e t The finest
music obtainable will be provid­
ed, and Master Prentis Gross
and Miss Matie Gross w ill give
an
exhibition
in the dance
pavalkm each evening of the
latest and most fashionable dance
of the New York Smart S e t
On Saturday Auto races, mo­
tor cycle races. Radiators parade,
swimming, diving and log rolling
contests, fast motor boat races
and other sporting events w ill be
held, with a thrilling naval en­
gagement in the evening.
The details of caring fo r and
amusing the crowd are about
completed and they promise to
surpass anything ever undertak­
en before on the Siuslaw in the
lines of exciting and entertain­
ing features.
and the soil conditions are alike.
The only thing the Siuslaw lacks
is people—but with the railroad |
Clothing
Men’s
RHODODENDRON CARNIVAL PROGRAM
F IR S T D A Y -F O R E N O O N
School parade, by school children o f Western
Lane. Line o f march starts from school
house and proceeds through business streets
to Carnival Pavalion, where a program will
be rendered.
AFTERNOON
Field-Meet iff-which the schools of Western
Lane county w ill take p a rt
A t 3:30, Base ball game.
Carnival Ball in the evening, grand march at
8:30 o'clock.
Furnishing
Goods
ats ai
Caps
WOOLEN MILL STORE
F lo r e n c e ,
O regon
Excursion will arrive a t Mapleton at 9:00 a. m.,
and leave immediately by boat for Flor­
ence, where a big parade led by band and
Radiators will take place.
A t noon everybody invited to a big free lunch,
“ A la Shingle” crabs, clams, salmon, etc.
A t 12:30, Excursion will continue to beach where
motor cycle races, auto races, clam digging
contests, and other sports w ill be held. _
Excursion returns to Florence at 4:30 p. m.
where a program of sports will be had con­
sisting of log-rolling, swimming, diving
contests, and fast motor boat races.
A t 8:30 a naval battle, with fierce fighting be­
tween warships will occur, representing
the bombardment of the Dardanelles.
Grand Carnival Ball in the evening.
Grand
March at 9:00 o’clock.
LINE OF MARCEFOR SCHOOL
The school children and all
others who are to parade with the
schools w ill form at the school
house in Florence at 10 o’clock
Friday May 21, and under the
direction of Miss G. F . Dicken,
will proceed south one block,
turn west and cross the street,
turn south to south side Front
street, turn west to east side
Washington street, angle to north
side Front street on plank street
and continue to Jefferson street,
counter march on Front street to
east side Washington, turn north
on sidewalk to grand stand where
the program will be rendered.
A t 1:30 the field sports will
take place in the street near the
grand stand. Miss G. F . Dicken
is chairman of the committee and
has|charge of the program, parade
and events for girls; W alter
Moore, field events fo r boys; C.
L. Weaver track events for boys.
FIRE THREATENS
HOTELSHJSLAW
Saturday morning about 1:45
fire was discovered in one o f the
rooms of the upper story o f the
Hotel Siuslaw a t Mapleton. The
alarm was given and it was not
long before
there was two
streams of w ater pouring on the
flames and in g short tim e the
fire was under control, b at not
until nearly the whole upper
floor h ad u been burned. The
smoke and w ater destroyed moat
o f the bedding in the house, but
M r. Jensen has the two lower
stories in condition to accommo­
date the public. I t w ill be some
time before the repairs can ba
made and the upper story ready
I t was a close call, and was saved
only by the hearty response to
the alarm.
BARGAINS...
every Saturday at
Surface Drug Store
Watch the Space for Them.
Morris ®> Son
Joe. Morris Jr., Norman G. Morris.
MILLION DOUAR
BERRY PATCH
According to J. O. Holt, mana­
ger of the E ugene F ru it Growers’
Association, a new possibility for
the Siuslaw and^the Oregon coast
region has been discovered by
him.
M r. H olt is recognized
throughout the Northwest as a
fru it authority.
The Siuslaw
will produce >1,000,000 worth of
berries, including raspberries,
blackberries,
loganberries and
huckleberries, provided the in­
dustry is properly developed.
His prediction is the result o f a
tour o f inspection from which
he but recently returned.
M r. H olt saya h e finds con­
ditions on the Siuslaw similar to
those a t Puyallup, Wash., where
15 years ago it was doing a little
d a ir v in ir and raising a few hogs.
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completed that ought to be a great
berry-raising country.
“ I t already has acres of huckle­
berries and wild blackberries
going to waste each year. I went
down there for the purpose of
The Hotel Florence has been
investigating fru it possibilities,
and I predict that within a very thoroughly renovated, painted,
few years th a t will be a great papered and remodeled to con­
form to the requirements and
berry producing center.
comfort
o f the guests of this up
“ I am in hopes that some one
to
date
hostelry.
The proprietors
w ill tame the wild huckleberry
have
endeavored
to make the
th at grows on that rolling, sandy
most
out
of
the
mateiral
they had
soil—if some young fellow will
at
hand,
and
by
the
changing
of
select the finest wild specimens,
he could breed up a money-mak­ the ladies waiting room into the
ing type o f berry.
There is a general waiting room, using the
great sale fo r huckleberries and old waiting room for the ladies
blueberriss.
Tons o f them are room, installing a new front and
canned in the north, and th eJ enterance in the corner, convert­
supply in the east is running ing the wash room and writeing
short Nowhere in Oregon are room into bed rooms, and adding
these berriesfrut up commercially. linoleum carpets to both rooms
“ The Eugene cannery w ill test makes the w aiting rooms much
out in a small way the possibility more pleasant and comfortable
of handling these. Several have and is appreciated by the guests.
The dining room is supplied
promised to send out a quantity
with
the best the season affords
o f berries and to get the costs on
and
is
up to date in every par*
picking, shipping and packing.
For we might ju st as well use ticular. Their increasing trade
is evidence o f the popularity o f
th at which we have already.”
the house.
SECOND D A Y — FO R EN O O N
re Invite Your Inspection
J of the
New Spring Goods
THE HOTEL
FLORENCE H
REMODELED
and now is producing nearly a
million dollars worth o f berries
annually.
The possibility of
growing the huckleberry com­
mercially on the coast also caught
M r. H o lt’s fancy, and he has
arranged for the shipment to this
city o f a quantity of the wild
huckleberries and experiments
on canning them will be made
from a standpoint of cost
Although he did not find things
yet ripe fo r a cannery on the Sius­
law, he believes that the railroad
can be used for shipping fru it to
the cannery when one is b u ilt
Mere is the way he sizes up the
situation as be found it upon his
trip:
“ T h at is a beautiful little
country.
Those little bits of
valleys, very pretty and vei
rich, are very similar to those
around Puyallup, and I believe
that they can develop as exten­
sive a berry industry as in Puy­
allup. The altitude, the climate
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