SIUSLAW
PILO
NUM BER 27
FORELNCË, ORÉGON, W EDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1915
gn.
Riley M ills set out a lot
F iweet potato plants on the 27th
'lsitM sy. Over a month ago
„ first meal o f sweet potatos
* taken from these vines and
g week they dug the rest get-
ig about a bushel.
This was an experiment and
e plants were set out m the
ody soil on th eir place between
Orence and the beach.
No
ie was given the plants.
Much has been written and finding tne corners oi
wv-
Mrs. Mills is investigating
rthods and expects to set out
L . nt
on. that can be verri-
out a thousand plants next stead land on Big creek. I t
been the hobby o f certain indi- fled by any competent person
Some of the potatoes measure vidusls to insist on the - whole who care to take the trouble,
dghteen inches long; and have country being thrown open to th a t there is not one single acre
furnished many a fine meal for settlement, regardless of its of bottom land, now unapprop-
Mrs. Mills table.
This experi­ ■ b v u c u f b u »,
«
riated, in the whole township;
ment has proven th a t sweet K ltp u b illty
,o r
« r . not t n
of
Ibw oK tend, low or high, un-
potatoes can grow and mature
stan tsim of certain
| appropriated, in any one piece
in this vicinity.
Mrs. M ills says “ W e have
t U t » w iu b le fo r ogrioaltornl
5*
- i . ■ X i ™ * “ ' There U not enough
demonstrated w ith our garden
grass growing on un-
beyond a doubt th a t celery, graphy, the timber and many 1 . ^
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sweet potatoes and straw berries other things that would induce)
prospective settlers to come to
"™ri
ean be depended upon to grow
anchor a ll the way. Some tide
and give good «fops results in the that place where they would find n i l IQ I f i l U
to buck, wan’t it Dave?
M
sandy soil, on our ranch, which a land flowing with milk and Q i U ij JL a VV
Num ber four—I f you happen P'
is located w ithin three hundred
yards of the Ocean beach, and
to he out Ashing and a prominent «
difleroot kinds of produce he
* * > “ O1V1U1AJ young professional man o f Flor- d
we had strawberry short cake
raises on bis ranch and the price
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eno., the only one in Florence, ®l
die 17th o f A p ril X)f this year,
he
gets
for
it;
how
fa
r
a
deer
ginc#
Chinook ol asha how many you have caught, P
and since could have picked
ean be seen on the hills, »nd in I
pounds was caugh don’t stop, he just wants to •
strawberries every day sufficent
the
same
article
tells
th
at
the
near
Florence by Mrs
for table use, the vines are load­
borrow aflsh.
°
timothy grass grows six feet Enun#nB of A tlanta City Nev
ed With fru it now and I expect to
H e would j j erBey> several stories about bii
H ere’s Another O ne-Tueaday c
have short cake for our Thanks­ high over t h . hills.
giving dinner, as we did last have you believe there wer® 1 fl^ have been circulating. On while 1. A. Smith was enjoying t
xftfaftern o o n tro llin g he had an 1
unuaal experience. He and Tom S
W olf were out in Irw in ’s motor t
boat and had landed three salmon
when Irw in felt a strike and be- t
J. L. Houghton of the Portage
fore he could give any line the 1
had a very peculiar experience
fish which must have been a ■
moster took hook, line, pole, reel, «
and the entite Ashing takle. ,
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way,
The bonds carried by a vote of
over three to one, and resulted
86 votes being cast For bonds
67; against bonds 19.
The judges of the election were
H . D. Chamberlain, lira . Isabel
Severv and Mrs. M ary Young.
nsii STORIES
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irs
whole coat o f planking the road
from the last name point in an
easterly direction to the city
limits, which street and road is
known as the North Fork H igh­
1ASPKWARIXPERIENCE
We Invite
Your
Inspection
of the new
FALL
GOODS
in Clothing.
Men’s Furnishings
Hats and Shoes
Florence, Oregon
M orns ® > 5
Irw in says he woulden’t care so
i much, but that the reel, which
was s very fine one, belonged to <
Mrs. Smith. He is now making
' inquiry among the fishermen in
hopes the lost fish may get
' caught in a n e t
Joe. M orris Jr., Normen O . M orris.
THE LEADERS
■ HON. W. t HAWLEY
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;
VISITS THE SHJSLAf
1
R epN M ntative W . C. Hawley
' while on his way to look over the
J interests of the south coast por-
’ tion of the state arrived in Flor-
* ence about noon.
*
H e was met at Cushman by a
committee of Florence business
, men and escorted down the river
“ to Florence, a fte r lunch Rep-
resentative Hawley was taken to
“ the mouth of the river where he
0 looked over the jetties and pro-
posed site for a life saving
* station.
■
In the evening M r. Hawley
l# address the citisens of the Sius-
'* law at the Commercial Club
* rooms.
His talk was confined
y mostly to the W aterway im-
* provement and other national
7
questions.
.
He le ft Thursday morning on
J his J»*y to Coos Bay and other
south coast points.
The traffic on Whoahink and
Tsiltcooe lakes is shout finished
for ’ and hereafter the materiel will
and be hauled by the train direct to
i at the lakes and distributed from
heir the car. There have been quite
, of a number of boats and engineers
and employed in this lake traffic but
lery most of the men have bean laid
hey off and soon there w ill be nothing
levy for the boats to do.
CGOTZUMttt.
Morris &
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