SIUSLAW
PILOT
FORELNCE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 1915
Thanksgiving Proclamation
r fte city council held a meeting
Several petitions have circu
Kgday evening and proposed to lated the past few days, the ob
L th e lot of M r. M iller, north ject of which is to secure action
[die Presbyterian church for toward the improvement of the
(25.00, that being the price inner harbor, and read as fol
lows:
peed upon by him.
W. H. O’K elly offered to clear To the Honorable Port Commis
sioners. Port of Siuslaw—
be brush from the street leading
^hs. eoast from 12th to 20th
W e the undersigned respect
jtet, eight blocks for 91-00. fu lly petition your honorable
it bid was accepted. A ll other body to requst and urge Senators
ds for the clearing the rig h t of Chamberlain and Lane, and
sy to the coast was rejected, Congressman Hawley to arrange
id the clerk was ordered to re- fo r a survey and estimate of a
Ivertise for new bids on the project for the dredging o f the
inner harbor.
I The engineer reported th at the
Htate Board o f Health has ap
proved of the proposed plans for
a water system.
The council
ordered the engineer to make an
The following books have been
estimate of the cost of construct
recently added to the Florence
ing the w ater tank on the Milter
Public Library.
„ Ruskin, John—Sesame and
LiHes.
Doyle, A. C .—Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes.
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Page, T. N .— Red Rock.
I M. B. M clrw in , foreman of the
Wells, H. G.—The First Men
I pile driver a t the je tty left test
week fo r Hammond, Oregon, and in the Moon.
Russel, W. a —The Two Cap
I Sunday a t 2 o’clock was united
in mirriage to Miss Bertha Han tains.
Hugo, Victor—-His Miserables,
sen, a t the home o f the bride’s
Smother, Mrs. Rudolph Pagemen. Vol. I and VoL IL
Hugo, V ic to r-N in e ty Three.
A cottage has beea constructed
Hugo
V ic t o r The Laughing
> SO the hiU above the receiving
lie
n
.
wharf o f the north je tty and the
Hugh, Victor—Notre Dame.
young people w i|l make their
Ryan.
M . G .—That G irl Montana.
home there.
c-Q ; y eternali— en** fam ily
» have been living in Florence
past few years, have
ed to Woodlawn, Washing-
to make their home.
* W. A«. Johnsen,-and wife, who
have been visiting at the home
of Morris Johnson, left for their
home in Greely County, Nebraska
Tuesday morning.
W e Invite
Your
Inspection
of the new
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in Clothing
Men’s Furnishings
Hats and Shoes
Florence, Oregon
Washington, O ct 21.—President Wilson today, in a
proclamation designating Thursday, November 25, as
Thanksgiving day, called attention to the fact that the
United States has been at peace while most of Europe
has been at war, and to the abundant crops, ample
financial resources and prosperity.
The proclamation
says:
" I t has long been the honored custom of our people
to turn in the fruitful Autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for his many blessings
and mercies to us as a Nation.
The year that is now
drawing to a close since we lis t observed our day of
National thanksgiving has been, while a yssr of dis
cipline because of the mighty forces of w ar and of
changes which have disturbed the world, also a year of
special blessing for us.
"Another year of peace has been vouchsafed us:
another year in which not only to take thought of our
duty to ourselves and to mankind, but also to adjust
ourselves to the many responsibilities thrust upon us by
a war which has involved almost the whole o f Europe.
"W e have been able to assert our rights and the rights
of mankind without breach of friendship with the great
nations with whom we had to deal, and while we have
asserted rights, we have beea able also to perform duties
and exercise privileges of succor and helpfulness which
should serve to demonstrate our desire to make the
offices of friendship the means of truly disinterested
and unselfish service.
"O u r ability to serve all who could avail themselves
o f ogr servicesin the midst of a crisis, has been increas
ed by a gracious Providence, by more and more abun
dant crops; our ample financial resources have enabled
us to steady the markets o f the world and facilitate
necessary movement of commerce which the war might
otherwise have rendered impossible; and our people
have come more and more to a sober realisation o f the
part they have been called upon to play in a time when
all the world is shaken by unparalleled distresses and
disasters.
"The extraordinary circumstances o f such a time have
done much to quicken our National consciousness and
deepen and confirm our confidence in the principles of
peace and freedom by which’we have always sought to
tegufcted.
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"Out o f darkness and perplexities nave cone firmer
counsels of policy and clearer perceptions of the essen
tial welfare of the Nation. We bave prospered white
other people were a t war, but our prosperity has been
vouchsafed us, we believe only that we might the better
perform the functions which war rendered it impossible
for them to perform.
"Now, therefore, L Woodrow Wilson, President of
the United States of America, do hereby designate
Thursday, the twenty-fifth of November next, as a day
of Thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people
throughout the land to cease from their wonted
occupations and in their several homes and places of
worship render thanks to Almighty God."
The first gun in the campaign the ram«
for hard-surfaced roads in Lane county, n
county waa fitud a t a banquet trip to E
given at the Hotel Osburn test purpose <
sight by Frank L. Chambers, pitslityol
A fte r an enthusiastic session of discuss rt
speech-making in whieh s large man the
majority of the speakers favored favored,
this class o f road construction in how to ra
the future, a motion unanimously tkeps. R
carried to the effect that it be the speakers
sense o f the meeting that the bonding u
county court proceed upon lines are in dot
that o f later to be formulated to era at te
get a hard-surface road construe- their opi
tion basis, and that it be the are not i
sense o f thé meeting th at steps propositi«
be taken to bond the county for
M r. Chi
I a hard surface road from th e , from nesi
I northern boundary of the county He desire
to the southern boundary.
Mr. as fa r i
Chambers, who acted as chair- "average
■un of the meeting. was em- is not rad
powered to estes« a committee the other
from the citisenry of the county seif after
at large to formulate plans for nneed m
the carrying out e f this project ; small tea
For throe hours the citizens man of a
present. men from all parts of ! propositi«
Lane county,
discussed the highway
proposition of paved
roads, } In his
There were men present from Chamber
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and road users it is up to us to that the people o f Eugene moved
ask the county court tor what in a six-foot circle and could not
we w a n t I t is for th at purpose see much beyond that boundary,
that we are here tonight
We and while he was reluctant to
w ill n ever-g et anything unless oppose any good-roads proposi
we ask for i t W ith our soil and tion it was hia belief that the
the rock we have we cannot suc Western' part of Lane counjy
cessfully build a macadam road. would not look w ith favor upon
I t wears out in a year or two and the proposition under present
has to be reb u ilt W e must have condition, especially when a com
some hard surface road to be up parison o f development of high
ways as present was made.
to the needs of the days.
The Register says that figures
In a stretch of territory 10
miles wide, with the Pacific high were shown that the tax rate to
way extending through the cen take care of the interest upon
ter, is one-half of the property this sum (9800,000) would be 18
valuation o f the county, hence I cents upon every thousand dollars
believe th at the first hard-surface worth o f property in the county
road should be on the highway for IS years, or a person would
from one end of the county to the per 91.00 a year upon every 910,-
000. M r. McCornack informed
other through this b elt
M r. Norton, ofk the Siuslaw, us th at thia is as he understood
M r. Davis, of Mohawk, and R. the statement, and asked for its
B. Coglon did not think the verification th at evening and was
people in the western end of the told it was correct
We cannot understand just how
county would be willing to bond
the figures were used to prove
themselves for the road.
The assessor announces
I Figures were given by M r. thia.
Chambers and others regarding th at the total assessed valuation
the probable cost o f a hard-sur as completed by Ms office shows
face highway through the county. 985,868,840, and allowing public
The estimate o f the cost was utilities to taring this up to 940,-
9600,000. Figures were shown 000,000|n>ouad figures, ninetesn
that the tax rate to take care o f
the interest upon this sum would
be 19 cents upon every thousand
dollars worth o f property in the
county. I f a man pays taxes
upon 91000 worth « property he
would pay 18 cents a year fo r 16
years, or i f he pays on 910,000, it
would post him 9L90 a year.
motion carried unanimously, that
it be the sense o f the m as ting
th at the county court be asked
to include in its tax budget one-
half of one mill for the construc
tion of a road to the eoast.—
Those attending from the lower
Siuslaw were E. R. McCornack,
and W. H. Weatherson.
M r. McCornack expressed him
self at the meeting as believeing
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Joe. Morris Jr., Noranu» G . M orris.
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