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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1897)
j jVolums V. lUliECTORY. MM0l,N('0l!M'V. Joint senator luint Uuprese'itntive, i:nntit.' Jn'lyo ilerk hariff Treasurer - M'ool Superintendent surveyor Assessor Coroner Commissioners J Tol. Carter K. R. Lake J. O, Stearns R. F. Junes (Jeorge Lnndis .1. 1.. Hyde 8. G. Irvin Z. M. Derrick Hurley I,utz T. M. Coombs Chas. Williams F. A. Godwin County Commissioners Court meets on Wed nesday alter the lirst Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December. CIRCUIT COU RT. (ion. J. C. Fullerton Judge VV.i. Yates 1'ros. Attorney Otitirt convenes on 4111 Monday in July and famfrih Mnnniiv in January of each vear. j CITY OF TOLEDO. I!, f. .lone Mayor J. F. Stt-wart Recorder 1:. A. Arnold Marshal a. Crosno, ('. t. Howell,.. C. I. Tiliotsou I.. II. .Stun,... Aldermen Lestur Wauirh . T. Peterson, J &iincil meets on the first Monday evening In oaoi mouth. TOLEDO PRECINCT. lee of the Peace J. A. Hall Constable J. C.Altree NEWPORT. Justice of the Peace Geo. F. Sylvester CoS tuble, W. H. Crutchfield I YAQUJNA. Justice of the Peace, J. 8. Booth Constable W. L. Watkins j ELK CITY. Justice of the Peace A. B. Clark constable, Alex Uurkhalter if LITTLE ELK. Justice of the Peace Chas. Henderson Constable z. 8. Derrick NASHVILLE. Justice ot the Peace I. S. Huntington Constable N. F. Edwards i HK.WER CREEK. .luitice of the Peace Sam'l Hill Constable Joseph Gourley I TIDEWATER. luitice of the Peace N. .1. Goodman Constable W. A. Vidito i LOBSTER. Justice of the Peace L. A. Feek constable.. W. PTaylor i LOWER ALSEA and YACHATS. Justice of the Peace W in. Wakefield Constable John Early f SALMON RIVER. Justice ot the Peace , Chas. Read Constable M. Berton ! ROSS. Justice of the Peace W. H. Cook Constable Geo. E. Croxford IUKCIIES AND SOCIETIES. rKTIIOlHST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services ''Vat Toledo on the first and second Sabbath of ench month, morning and evening; services at gilmzon third and fourth Sabbath of each month. Rev. W. H. MYERS, Pastor. Ct. JOHN-8 CHURCH Protestant Episcopal. 'J Invine service the third Sunday of every month, at 11 a. in. All are invited to attend. Hot. chas. Booth, Missionary. Residence, Kctory," Newport, Or. 4 IX O. O. P. Toledo Lodge, No. 108, Meet feverv Saturday avaViIiii nt tholi hull In tliio ton. m Ji R. TURNIDGE, N. ii. EWINO, Seu'v. b. O. F.-Bay Lodge No. 110, of Yaqnina City, )rl viiccis mn ueuuetuiay evening, visiting men are aiwayB welcome. J. BURROWS, Secretary. T p. O. F. Newport Lodge No. 89, meets everv f Patnrdayevening. visltfngbrothersarecof nlnlly invited to attend, L. 0. OLSSON, N. G. J. IV. OLIVER, Secretary. T.t). It, O. F. Elk T.ndirA Kn Saturday evening In itB hall l!t4, meets every ull mt Wlr Villi t Visiting brothers always welcome. . Mays, Secy. 4,'F. & A. M. Newport Lodge No. 85, regular convocation on Saturday on or before each ... uiuu,i. visaing nrotners are cordially ""S.'?.6?;. A' H- HAMPTON, M. W. JJOIIN BUCKLEY, Secy "Viiqulna Bay Council No. 745 National Union, T? nicts on second and fourth Friday nlghtaof tne month. Traveling friends are welcome. . li. I'fcAIRS, See. B. F. JONES. Pres. jo GOOD LODGE No. 70, ReTiekah Degree, i. . o. r., meets in the Odd Fellows hall in s city on Tuesday evening of each week. A I ll'W W A IT2U M n ANNETTE KROGSTAD. Secretary. ' ' ' 4 a A. R. Abe Lincoln Post No. 68, meets In h Good Templars Hall on the first and third Saturdays of each month. H. K. HTURDEVANT, Post Com. P. FISH, Adjutant. O. U. W. Western Star Lodge No. 73, meetS In the Olid T0llnur' ball Vmiiln. llrst and thlr,l Hati,n1.v a.AlnJc 1 K ninth. Visiting brothers are alwavs welcome. r -...... H.K. LUGGER, M.W. L. TRAVIS, Recorder. 0ODMF.N OF THE WORLD.-Pocahontns t amn v nnn i"-1 i .l u : c x a"'"o, iregon, meem im ?i I.1"1 ,hir, Thursdays in each month in rnuiwr nan. visiting neighbors are ay w-icomo. A. AKNOLIi, c.EO. BETHER8, Consul. tlerk. pa (jrove. Woodmen circle, meets on the 1 and 4th Thursdays of each month at x icli v H. "-i Mrs.JKN.sm Arnold, V. G. inna akin, Clerk. XV n.C.-ABEUNi 'J Corps, So. 4(1 R ''tson the 2nd and NCOI.N WOMAN'S RELIEF auxiliary to the G. A. R. tl fl ami i,h AiiNfla.. U ...... K '"nt.i in the 1. o. o. F. hall, at J o clock p. in. Mrs. Ei.ua Ewino, President. . v nt.ni9 i-kairs, eecy. Ml A- . . janiea-An idea i Who can thine , of some slmpl thing to patent? t Va w?.1?.!f K"UERUt7RN ft CO., Patent Attor- it UjiTj L - of "ir ii.hd prise odor l3n.ciope3n.cierxt in Toledo, Lincoln id mil mis mi We announce the O'BRIEN'S, assortment of goods by the next steam er, consisting of Men's, Youth's & Boy's Clothing, HATS, CAPS, SHOES aad BOOTS, LA DIES' DRESS GOODS, UNDER WEAR, and HOSIERY. ALSO A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED LINE OF LADIES' SHIRT WAISTS, Latest Styles All of these goods were carefully selected from the best houses in San Francisco. We purchased a Wash Goods, Percales, Dress Ging hams, Sateens. We are going to make a specialty of LADIES' SHOES, in the latest styles and trie lowest prices. ONE PRICE O'BRIEN'S all tliirugg, 3STe County, Oregon, Thursday, April i, 1897. m inn arrival of a large and Patterns. large assortment of CASH STORE. - u.tro,l i:n. ISTottLing. Advertise the County. All through the eastern and mid dle states there will be a great exodus for the Pacific coast during the next two years. The people who are getting ready to leave that country are nearly all men of some means, that is, they have enough to buy and improve a home. These people will all come to the principal cities of the Pacific states and then will branch and sitt out to different locali ties. Oiic of liie piiucipal agencies to induce immigration in Oregon, and to direct and care for it after it arrives, is the State Board of Immigration, at Portland. We visited the rooms of this board a few days ago and was considerably impressed with the display they keep continually on exhibition of the state's products, and with the systematic and intelligent plan of disseminating information which they have adopted. They have much literature concerning Oregon and the Pacific Northwest in general but we noticed a great dearth of local literature. This is bad. Every county in the state should have a readable, reliable and con densed write-up of its advantages and location. Not boom articles as was published by the train loads in days of yore, but good plain matter setting forth the location of the county, resources, industries and advantages. A large amount of this matter should be kept on the tables of'the State Board of Immi gration for local distribution to new comers who visit those rooms, and also for mailing east to inquirers. It behoves Lincoln county, especi ally, to take an interest in this matter. We want new settlers and new capital. We are not exactly isolated, but we are off to one side and the only way for us to attract attention to our advantages is by blowing our own horn. We should keep a pile of literature at the rooms of the State Board of Immi gration in Portland, and also at the Oregon City and Roseburg land offices. A man coming to Oregon from the east with no well defined idea as to where he desires to locate, wouia oe easily induced in our tavor by a readable pamphlet setting forth our advantages and induce ments. This matter is an import one, and one if neglected will work to our hurt. One of the lank injustices of our present system of running our courts was illustrated a few months ago in this county. One man sued another for damages, bringing his suit in the county court. He de- pusited his fees to the amount of eight dollars and the machinery of the law was set in motion. It cost the county the time of the sheriff one day in serving papers, the time of the clerk one day in attendance of the trial, and perhaps the greater part of another in doing the clerical work, the time of the Judge one day in hearing the trial, and nine dollars for a jury, costing the county all told about $25. The county received $8, and the taxpayers stood losers to the amount of about $17. All this was in a purely private suit, in which the taxpayers out side of the parties interested had not the slightest interest. Salem is indeed a city of holdups. Even the school directors whose duty it is there to elect a clerk, have got into a dead-lock. They have been balloting for about four 1 weeks at odd spells on clerk and 'have failed to make a selection. Number 3. The cyclone crop in the east and south seems to have ripened earlier than usual this year. The papers report several already, the last one being a very destructive one in Oklahoma. The Albany Herald has started up the annual springtime extension of the O. C. & E. over the moun tains. This report is a very familiar one, and the papers of the state would be very lonesome without it at this tin:c cf the year. The Philomath Journal has given up the ghost, and one more l'ead stone may now be placed in the Benton county newspaper grave yard. The reason assigned for the discontinuance of the paper was lack of patronage. The subscrip tion list was turned over to the Corvallis Gazette. Under the new tariff law the people of the United States can buy their voncou, their vocoa, their balm of gilead, their beauxite, their unmanufactured dried blood, the family cocculus indicus, their divi divi, munjeet and zaffer all free of taxation. There is no duty upon any of these household articles so necessary in the family life of the poor. The exemption of these things should, and douotless will be duly appreciated by the people. Baltimore Sun. Samuel J. Tilden's idea of the functions of a democratic govern ment were embodied in the follow ing brief sentence- Nothing should be done by the federal government and nothing by any governmental power which individuals can do for themselves." The tendency of form of govern ment would be to make people more aelf-reliant and self-supporting, and the higher they are devel oped along this line the need for government would become less and the government itself less burden some. Americans are the most inventive people on earth. To them have been issued nearly 600,000 patenU, or more than one-third of all the patents issued in the world. No' discovery of modern years has been of greater benefit to mankind than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, or has done more to relieve pain and suffering. J. W. Vaughn, of Oakton, Ky., says: "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy in ray family for several years, and find it to bo the best medicine I ever used for cramps in the stomach and bowels." For sale by O. O. Krogstad, druggist. According to law the tax roll will be closed next Monday and the unpaid taxes turned in as delin quent. There has been but a very small percentage of the taxes paid as yet, and the greater portion of the roll will go delinquent. At this time of the year it is all the people can do to live, to say nothing of paying taxes. People have every thing to buy at this time of the year, and nothing to sell. The oounty court will no doubt extend the time for collection before the penalty is added. To do otherwise would impose a hardship and would be of little use. Collection of taxes cannot be forced now. By the middle of summer, when the people have something to sell, then the taxes can he crowded.