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FORELNCE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29.
KILLED
MEETING
TS.P.BRIDGE FAVORS ROAD
SUNDAYNIGHT
TO COAST
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■A recommendation that one-1
a the pile driver a t toe bridge h a lf mill be included in the gen­
i the Siuslaw river at Cush- eral tax levy at the time o f the I
Charles H . M cKee a laborer
■an was accidentally killed about adoption of the next annual j
B o’clock Sunday night Septem­ budget for the construction and i
ber 26.
PILOT
1915
^NUM BER 2 ¿
WORK ON
SIBSUW
; OCEAN
BABY SCORES
COST $6753*1
100PERCENT
NORTH FORK HIGHWAY -
VITAL TO CITY’S ADVANCE
Next Wednesday, October 6th, the resident tax­
payers of Florence will vote on the question of
issuing |6000 bonds to pay a part of the cost of
building a highway to the city limits east, con­
necting with the proposed North Fork county
road and to be a part Of the road to Cushman.
The total cost o f the county
Two perfect children were
road work done under Superin­
found among the entrants at the
tendent M cKy on the highway
Lane county fa ir eugenics show
between Florence and the Lincoln
which came to a dose yaatewtey
county line was $676.39, accord­
afternoon. On Thursday Paul
ing to a report submitted to the
Henderson, aged 26 months, re­
county court
ceived a rating o f 100 par cent,
One or two automobile have
and Welda Elisabeth, aged 36
traveled over the road since the
months, daughter o f M r. and
work was completed by Superin­
M ia. O. L. Zentner, o f Acme,
tendent Mcky and his force of
former residents o f Eugene, re­
road builders.
The work too
ceived a similar rating. D r.
nearly a month and has put the
Marion Obar, who had charge o f
road in fa ir shape fo r ordinary
the eugenics exhibition, aaid
wagon travel.
I t is expected
that the little girl really mads a
that next year addition work wil
batter showing than the boy did
greatly improvs thia highway
on the previous day.
which in a few y e a n ought to
Dr. Obar aaid a fte r toe sto w
become famous fo r its scenic at­
dosed th at this has bean the
tractions.
most successful show ainaa the
fa ir board inaugurated it tw o
yearn ago. Thia year 78 were
examined aa against 86 last year
and 178 tbs first year. Bettor
reaulto
w e n obtained in toe
Attorney M. Vernon Parsons
examination
thia year on aeeaunt
and fam ily le ft Sunday for their
o f the smaller number
home a t Eugene.
M r. Parsons
thus giving the pyhsidans more
has combined piassura and busi­
time fo r each child. The child-
ness on thia trip. ¿During his
stay o f |a week in Roronoa ha ran ratea nigner tins year tu rn
has taken toe opportunity to troll ever before, because m aaw ef « a »
entrants ware i ....
for salmon and caught fifteen i
before and thair
mors some o f which he salted
otter care o f
down and took home for his own
O f tbs 86 children w in had
table use.
registered with D r. Obar fo r
I t seems th at the piling maintenance of a road from Eu-
are driven into the ground as to the coast was made, today, at I
tar as possible and then the ends a meeting of the county gofid
It seems that it is unnecessary to point out the
are aawed off dose down to t M roads committee, which consists
und, a chain hooked around o f representatives of the Pomona
importance of this project, yet we feel that we
the sawed off end and pulled up
twenty
subordinate
must urge support for the construction of this
out of the way. The testimony granges and the various com­
portion of the North F^rk Highway.
ought out at the inquest shows mercial organizations o f the
y
at after the pile had been sawed county, held in the Commercial
In
their
action
the
city'council
have recognized
eff McKee hooked the chain club.
The recommendation is
around it and gave the signal to broad and it was left open to toe
and submitted a proposition that is vital to the
hoist away which was done. In court to select the route. A levy
developement
of our ¡city and that will be a
aome way the pile slipped through o f one-half mill, three years in
large factor in its advjuficment.
the chain and in fallin g struck succession, it is estimated, will
him in the back.
His fd lo w raise sufficient fonda to make a
workers started for.'Glenada with highway which can be traveled
him immeadiately but he died winter and summer by motor,
before reaching there.
cars. The present rood termi-
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Cent Srsde.
i n « , m g road.
For a distance
An inquest was held at toe nates a t Pm-fem.
distance ol
of
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undertaking parlors in Glenada, is not open to tajrvel during rainy is a groat drawback to th at
leke, it w ill be »—»Marry to haul
September 27, with J. K . Lowe, W“ ther'
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tion of the county, and all money
gravel,
but thia could ba obtained
0 . Dowell J r., L. W . Derrin. W.
The recommendation adopted expended on such an improve-
at
several
points, and below the
M. Wohlande**, Frank Turner and by the good roads committee is ment would be returned to the
lake
tnere
is plenty o f gravel
W. J. M cKinney as jurrors, who
“ adopUd by « w n ty many fold, through an in-
tome
to
the
road and but little
after hearing
the
evidence the North Fork grange several crease in the value of property
hauling
w
ill
be necessary, he
ht m a verdict as follows:
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a£ °'
becoming available fo r taxation.
said?
“ We the undersigned coroners
nans m . Peterson, a represent- A t present it costs abont $20 to
Blachley objected to the adop­
ary respectfully state we find stive of the N orth Fork grange, scow a four-horse outfit from
tion
of the recommendation, as
: Charles H . McKee came to addressed the committee this Mapleton down the river and
til death accidently by being morning. H e stated th at he back again, he told the com- originally introduced, providing
th at the entire amount to ba
truck w ith a butt end o f a pile had mad« trips over three routes mittee.
raised by the one-half m ill levy
that ., was __
being
hoisted
out
o
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EL J« Adams spoke of the claim te
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pile kn+t
butt slipp- «.:i—
miles to the coast, and that none
Those* . people
. . have taxed
I t was estimated that the one-
[ out o f toe chain while being would be expensive. Two o f the themselves to the extent o f
A cannery meeting w ill be
h
alf
mill levy would raise be­
in the air above him. This hap- routes, he said, would be on s
held
Saturday morning at 11
several hundred thousand dollars tween $17.600 and $20,000.
Frank Da Poszi, of
aoout 12 p. m. September water grade, and the other, the
o’clock,
October 2nd. in the representing
to open up a harbor to make tbs
the
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Peterson
said
that
it
would
« A 1916.”
present government trail would bar passable, ” he said.
"They not take anything like that Knowles cement building in Glen­ ’•eking Co, o f
are opening up the way to a great amount to build the road from ada. Every person interested in Y . was in Florence
development in Lane county and Portage to the coast He did not the cannery invited to be present talking to the mereban
when they come here asking us favor a specific recommendation, and stockholders urged to attend. the famous Beech-Nut
to make this improvement, in but believed the matter o f the
which we are also interested, expenditure of the fund should
they are entitled to considera­ be left to the court as well as the
tion.”
selection of the route.
W alter Blachley, who rep­
The recommendation was made
resented the territory along that more general in its terms and
J o e . M o r r i s J r . , N o r m a n G . Morris.
pert o f the proposed road to the was unanimously adopted.
coast from Eugene through the
Thejnext meeting of.the county
Long Tom district, past Triangle good roads committee will be
lake and below, stated th at he held
October
26.—Engene
had made a tn p over the exist- Guard.
CAUGHT SALMON AND
SALTEDTHEI DOWN
CANNOT NEETDK ID
KH O pSATO D AT
We Invite
Your
Inspection
of the new
FALL
GOODS
in Clothing
Men’s Furnishings
Hats and Shoes
W00LENM1LL
STORE
, Florence, Oregon
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the leaders
HASBOVGHT
BIKING T O
FORD AUTO! TOTAEGOAST
C a p t wfm. Safley while in Eu­
Last Tuesday S ep t
7th,
gene last week bought a Ford crowd of eleven persons took
automobile and drove it to Maple­ hiking trip to tbs coast
They
ton Friday. Mrs. Safley accom­ took five horses and one mule
panied him.
which they packed heavy with
H e invited Capt. John Tanner bedding and provisions.
The
and w ife to ride down, but it crowd left M r. W. A . Meads
seem C a p t Tanner just has to place Tuesday morning took the
have a propetor on his wagon, or government trail and a fte r gett­
he don’t enjoy the ride.
in g on top o f the mountain took
I t is said that before C ap t the Ten M ile, tra il and made it
"B ill” got h alf way to Mapleton through in one day. A diatanca
be had figured out just where to of about twenty miles, This is
put a stern post, a dozen life the first time thia hike was aver
preservers, flag staff, deck rail­ made in one day by women.
ing and bow line.
The crowd consisted o f M r.
The auto was landed a t the Mra. George Hawley, M r. Mc-
Washington street dock, with Fearaon, M r. W. A . Mead and
C apt Safley at the wheel, and as throe daughters, Minnie, Nellie
be went up th e ' slip and down and Effie, Steaphen Mead, Archie j
Front street to his borne, he toot­ Jeans, Burrel Hoffman
and'
ed the horn, one or two blasts, Irvin g Petrie. A defightful time
for port or starboard passing.
waa reported by all.
One thing can be aaid, that it
didn’t take C apt Safley long to
G. W. Luce, gênerai freight
learn how to handle the machine agent o f the Southern Pacific
and he has all the appearance of syatem, and H. A. Hinehaw,
a veteran autoist nyw.
general freig h t agent of the
Southern Pacific lines in Oregon,
Postmaster Buchanan moved passed through Florence Wed­
his household goods to his new nesday on their way from Coos
boms oa Adams street Monday. Bay to Eugene.
The “World's W ork" Shoe is
fcr you,
T is made of Trout Break Last
"Tis rightly Planned an
Tanned,
W h ic h makes it stand
weather.
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By
Morris & Son
Our Grocery Prices are Ri
and the Goods the