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FLORENCE. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 29 1915
SHIPPING
MACHINERY
TO SIUSLAW
NUMBER 39
registration clerks are appointed.
month, or for six weeks if not in
Under the new law the card sys
great demand.
tem is used and the voter will sign
Each box contains twelve |
his name only once instead of
, specimens of common rock-mak
two or three times as under pre
ing minerals, three iron ore
vious laws.
minerals, two copper ore minerals
On one side of the card are
two lead silver ore minerals, one
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blanks for the following: Male
Christmas Eve. the Evangel According to figures complied
zinc ore mineral, one aluminum
T n D
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xx-
v ¡°r female; party affiliation; sur-
ical Sunday school held a Cnrist- I by County School Superintend-
ore
mineral
and
three
miscellan
L C. ReynoldsI. setting h -
given
preclnc, J In order that high school pupils
mas tree and program at th e , ont E. J. .Moore the total 1915
machinery and equipment ready po.toffice.ddre«; r„ idnnCe (sec and teachers can better under eous specimens.
church.
Y oung and old thor- school census for Lane county
for removal to Siuslaw, where he tion, township and ,.ang, „
oughly
enjoyed
the evening.
shows a decrease from the 1911
stand
minerals
and
ores
the
ex
-Hl -Pen up a shingle plant the country, 8treet a|ld house
FIRST HAIL OF THE SEASON At the Princess Theater the enrollment. Last year’s census
tension
division
of
the
University
w,th n the near future
Thu ' number or room if in the city);
gasoline schooner Relief is ex- parenta
namc
> is sending to high school geology
The first hail this season fell Sunday school of the Presbyteri- totaled 12,044 school children in
an ceurch gave a cantata, “ The the county. This year’s census
pected in as soon as the bar con native born), elector born where. t<iache™
teachers who make the request a , at
),lace Tuesday afternoon ’ apture of Santa Clause” and shows there are 11,888, o ra de-
ditions will permit to take out If the elector is foreign born box
Fox containing
twenty-five a.ni* l0' ered the sidewalks so
the balance of the material, one there are blanks to show when different specimens of rock-mak- u V W.eiT. nearly whlte- It the evening proved to be a real crease of 156 pupils,
treat to all present.
Eugene leads the entire county
load having been sent out some
and
where
he
was
naturalized
jng
minerals
and
ores
These
i
’
T
J
1
C
atr"08Phere
very
Sunday
morning
Rev.
T.
J.
with
an enrollment of 3051 chil-
time ago. Mr. Reynolds has and second and final papers must i
. ,
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decidedly and on luesday night Hedges delivered a Christmas dren, who are of the school age.
been operating a mill in the be exhibited
w>xes may be borrowed for a ; it frostedfronie.
sermon, giving a message of in- Cottage Grove is second with 720
South Slough district, but has
On the opposite side of the
spiration
and strength to his au- pupils, and Springfield third with
considerable timber land near card is registration blank "A ”
diene*.
»549 pupils.
Florence which he expects to for use before election boards
Sunday evening the choir took
The number of children en-
work.
only in case the elector has not
charge of the service at the Pres- tolled in some of the other
Construction on the new plant1 5 #en registered. Registration
byteiian church under the direc- school districts in the county, as
will be commenced as soon as a blank "B” is also provided in
tion
of Mrs. Martha Goodwin, shown by the 1915 school census,
location can be selected, two case of reregistering.
presented
a cantata, “The Her- follows: Junction City, 353; Mar-
being under consideration at the
aid
of
Peace.
’' The church was cola 252; Creswell, 202; Coburg,
present time, one at an old mill
PRELIMINARY
WORK
FOR
crowded
to
its
limit by an appre- 160; Wendling, 152; Florence, 143
site within a mile of Florence
The meeting of taxpayers at
A
good
share
of
the
time
was
ciative
audience
who were great- Elmira, 117; West Springfield,
and the other at Cushman on the
LIFE SAVING STATION Eugene last Thursday, to con-, used up in discussing the assess- ly pleased with the
presentation 104; Trent, 102; Goshen, 89;
line of the new railroad. The
sider the annual budget was ing of cities and the change of of this appropriate cantata.
Mapleton, 88; Walterville, 84;
Captain
Andrew
Foshay,
of
plant will cost approximately
largely attended and many of the system of writing the tax
the
Life
Saving
Service
at
San
Vida,
82; Dorena, 77; Harrisburg,
$10,000.—Tide.
the items caused heated argu rolls.
74;
Irving.
71; and Dexter, 60. -
Francisco was in Florence several
REVIVAL SRVICES AT
Guard.
days last week to make final ments and discussions. The fina1 When the subject of the levy
to ^commena
recommend to
to the
the for the Coast road was brought
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
arrangements for the location of result was ™
the buildings about to be con-
up E. J. Adams addressed the
con coun collrt
Revival services will begin at RALPH POTTERF
That an alphabetical system of meeting as follows:
structed on the site selected for
the
Evangelical church next
Mr. Adams then
TAKEN TO EUGENE
Life Saving station at the mouth writing tax rolls be adopted by
He
made
the
county
assessor
rather
than
statement
that
since
ai7attem
nt
evenin8
and
continue
of 1 the
Siuslaw river,
river. ne maaQ
viio oiuaiaw
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Ralph Potterf, young son of
¡soundings-for the slip to x be built Present
present geographical
geographical svstem.
system.
was being made to have the ^rough the week, except Satur
day night. Rev. Neff will con- Frank Potterf, of Mapleton, who
Registrations for the 1916 elec-rand other preparatory work.
That real property be assessed county court disregard the law
, , ,
duct the service. There will be was injured in the head some
tion will open January 4, 1916,'
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but once every two or four years. and , that . xt
the lawful course was | special music prepared for th(> few weeks ago. and who has
at the office of Stacy M. Russell, NEW POTATOES CHRISTMAS That a general purchasing clear, the difference between the service. All are welcome and been in Florence for treatment,
county clerk.
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agent be appointed who shall majority report and tne minority especially invited to come.
was taken to Eugene Tuesday
under the ne\& registration law
It is seldom that you see new purchase all county supplies,
report was mythical and urged
for treatment.
a voter is required to register j potatoes for Christmas taken out A reduction of $10,000 in re that all should get together for
but once unless he changes his i of the ground on that day. The, tiring warrant fund. making an good roads. He said the Siuslaw RACKLEFF’S GROCERY
RENTS WAREHOUSE WATCif , . S ! ,f A.T
precinct or fails to vote within Severy boys had some for their item of $40,000 rather than $50,- people were taxing themselves
two years after registering.
Christmas dinner, gr-rnished OX) as proposed.
heavily for good roads and that
EVANGELICAL CHURCH
In
must with
beautiful uuquei
boquet ui
of ruses,
roses,
That
... county
. ----... seats voters ...uov
n,u. a UV.UU1UI
in a t county treasurer make a rather than hold out for the
Last week Ed Rackleff made
register with the county clerk, all grown in their garden here in pool of all countv funds and that entire amount of $17,500 for a arrangements to take the Nadeau
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There
will .......................
be a watch meeting
while in outside precincts special, Florence.
an individual bookkeeping system road to the coast they had con- warehouse for his store room for at the Evangelical church Friday
be inaugurated of the various s‘dered the request and needs of surplus stock
31. A suitable
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_____ _ and n«HTht. . December
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[5P budget lands as a matter of the upper Willamette road people ! feed. It is located on the water Program has been arranged for
record.
and had consented to cutting front and will be handy and con- entertainment until midnight,
That two school supervisors be down their own item to $12,500, venient for the unloading of when those present will ring out
| the old year and ring in the new.
employed for ten months of the allowing $5000 for the other, freight from the schooner».
year, rather than for eleven Be spoke of a nine-mill levy in
months, as‘is now done.
Florence for harbor improve-
The sub-committee of the tax- m«nts which would benefit all of
payers’ league that has had this Lane county and warmly defend-
phase of the budget investigation ed several remarks against hi»
in hand were divided and a interests in the meeting,
majority and minority report
Mr. Adams then moved the
THE LEADERS
were brought in. The majority amendment to the first motion be
report signed by T. H. Garrett, accepted in substituting the
E E. Kepner and Welby Stevens minority report for the majority,
and the minority report by C. R.
It earned by a vote of 100 to I
Seitz and G. W. Griffin.
37. Mr. Hurd moved the adop-
The majority report proposed tion of the first motion which
a slash of about $20,000 in the carried.
road expenditu-es as proposed by
Mr. Bean had made cn amend-
the budget, while the minority ment that the coast road item be
report favored the budget ap- raised back to $17,500 but with-
proximntely as submitted. The drew it when informed of the
real bone of contention, however, ¡agreement o f the Siuslaw people
lay in the method of making the with the Willamette people on a
levy-
division.
The majority report proposed
While it was at first proposed
that the cities of Eugene, Spring- to make a levy of one half a mill
field and Cottage Grove, which or $17,500, after a consideration
are independent road districts, | of the conditions the representa
be relieved from the payment ef tive» of the grange and western
two mills of the road levy, pay Lane county agreed to 5000 of
ing only seven-eights of a mill this to be used on the Willamette
for road purposes this on th* road over the Cascade mountains«
theory that since they take care
Those present at the meeting
of their own streets they should to represent the western part of
not be compelled to contribute as the county were: Wm. Kyle,
heavily as the outside territory Wm. Brynd, W. H, O ’Kelly, J,
to the general road building pro- W. Bergman, W. J. Kyle, and
gram. The minority report, on W. H. Weatherson of Florence;
the contrary, endo’sed the plan Walter Blatchlqy, of Blatchley,
of levying the road tax as a part and Hans Peterson, of Minerva,
of the general fund, so that these
The movement to have the'
three cities will contribute in the county court make a levy of one-
same proportion as the rest of half mill for a coast road was
the county.
first proposed by the North Fork
W.tb the exception of the Grange, and they urged every
111 turning down uf the recom- grange Wi the county to give
Il mendation made by the mis- support to it. The success of
j. cellaneous committee that ihe securing an appropriation for
||j fruit inspertor s budget sum be this purpose is largely due to the
' r.duced from $2.000* to $1,000, support and efforts of the
and leaving it at $2,000, the re- grange representatives who rv -
port of the minortf was accepted. mained loyal to the proposition.
WILL LEND
MINERAL
SPECIMENS
CHRISTMAS
11,888 PUPILS
IN FLORENCE
IN LANE CO.
COAST ROAD IS
ALLOWED $12,500
REGISTRATION
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MORRIS & SON
We desire to
Thank
you
for the
Patronage
of the
Past Year
and
wish you
A Happy and
Prosperous
New Year
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