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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1908)
Volume XVI. Toledo, Lincoln County, Oregon, Friday, Juie 19. 1908. Number 17 Winmln Q$0 ; Taft for President. Word came over the wire last evening that the Republican Na tional convention in session at Chi cago had nominated William H. Taft for President. The Vice Pres ident had not been named. Baseball Sunday Elk City and Siletz baseball teams will play ball on the Toledo diamond next Sunday afternoon . This prom ises to be the best game of the year. Don't miss it. C. & E. Excursion Sunday The Corvallis & Eastern railroad will run their first Sunday excursion from Albany next Sunday, June 21. Train leaves Albany 7:35 a. m., arriving at Yaquina at 11 :40. Re turning boat will leave Newport at 5:15. A Few Clams. C. E. Vanderpool, the clam king of Mill 4, received this week an or der from the Dallas Meat company of Dallas for two hundred bushels of clams, to be delivered about July 1st. The clams are to be used in a big clam-bake near Portland. Waldport Items. The Condor arrived Monday evening and will take a load of lum ber to Portland. The Condor crossed the bar shortly after low water but had no trouble. The forest service in this locality is soon to be provided with a steam launch to facilitate the work on roads and trails. Considerable material will have to be hauled up the river. - Basket ball is a new sport to. Waldport people. An out door field has been arranged t and prac tice is participated in by many. Shortly a couple of teams will line up for a real tussel. Appropriate services for Child-, ren's day were held Sunday. Les lie Evens was Master of Ceremonies and pleased his many friends by his manner of conducting the ser vice. The vocal quartette was a special feature. A phonograph concert was given by Capt. Tyler of the Condor, Tues day evening. A large audience was ! present and enjoyed the occasion. Dancing to music by the band was indulged in after the phonograph was tired. The annual school election was held Monday. The report of the clerk Bhowed expenditures of near ly three thousand dollars during the past year. J. H. Conrad was elec ted elerk and W. M. Brooks was elected director for three years. Mr. Brooks has served continuously as school director in various dis tricts for the past twelve years. TO BE GIVEN AWA7. An Edison Home Phonograph With 30 inch Brass Horn With 18 Inch Bell. This grand talking machine will be given away, absolutely free. If you are interested ask GEORGE HALL . at the Bonboniere Pool and Billiard . Parlors. For Sale. 15J4 acre ranch quarter of a mile , Irom town. Enquire, John Carlson, Toledo. E. E. Daring returned Tuesday evening from Coquille City. Chas. Goyne of Siletz was in To ledo last week. Toledo schools closed for the term Tuesday afternoon. J. J. Gatens of Ona was in Toledo the first of the week. R. H. Plank of Siletz was a To ledo visitor Saturday. F. C. Hoffman was down from Elk City Wednesday. W. D. Brundridge of Waldport was in the city Tuesday. Frank McCormick waa a Toledo visitor Monday evening. Miss Lola Irvin of Newport is attending teachers' institute. Miss Addie Harrison of Waldport is visiting in Toledo this week. Mrs. Chandler and son of Siletz have been Toledo visitors this week. Wm. Smith r C. Chntterton were up from Newport Wednesday. Harry Lutey returned Monday evening from a trip to California. Joe Kosydar of Siletz was doing business at the county hub Wednes day. Irene Knapp of Winant is attend ing Teachers Institute here this week. B. F. Hahn of Yaquina was do ing business at the county seat Saturday. Miss Lillie Miller of Pioneer is the guest of Miss Bertha Hoeflein this. week. L. C. Smith was up from New port Monday doing business at the county seat. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Newton left Monday morning for a few days trip to Portland. C. E. Hawkins returned from a short business trip to Portland last Saturday evening. Mrs. Wm. Conibear who has been sick is improving. Her daughter Lottie has the grip. Walter Derrick came in from Firher, where he is teaching school, to attend the institute. George Chamlers who has been. in a Portland hospital the past two weeks, returned home last evening. Will Buoy, formerly of this place, has sold his interest in the sawmill at Corvallis and returned to Port land. School Superintendent-elect and Mrs. R. P. Goin of Waldport are attending the teachers' institute here this week. Mrs. C. E. Hawkins, Grand Manager Woman of Woodcraft, re turned home from a trip to Port land Monday. Mrs. G. E. Davis and children of Eureka, California, arrived Friday evening for a visit with Mrs. Davis' mother, Mrs. C. G. Copeland, at Siletz. Mrs. E. J. Avery and children left this morning for a visit with relatives and friends near Portland. They expect to be gone for a couple of weeks. Collins & Kimmel who are put ting in a sawmill plant at Siletz were in the city yesterday. The mill is to have a capacity of 25,000 feet and they expect to have it run niug some time in Augnst. The launch, Abagial H., owned by Conductor Wm. Hoeflein of Ya quina was hauled upon the ways at Altree's sawmill yesterday. She will be overhauled and a new 20 horsepower engine installed . R . A . Arnold is doing the work. , School Entertainment. Toledo Public Schools gave an entertainment at Woodman Hall Tuesday evening. The house was, as usual when the children enter tain, packed. The entertainment consisted of recitations, songs, drills, pantomines and tableaux, and in every instance well rendered. The manner in which each number on the program was presented spoke well of the untiring effort and abil ity of the teachers and pupils. The proceeds amounted to $22 which will be used in purchasing books for the school library. Stewart Rooney Acquitted. The case of the United States vs. Stewart Rooney was tried in U. S. Commissioner C. H. Gardner's court at the Courthouse Wednesday evening. Kooney was charged with stabbing Newt Sutton and Ira Strong at Siletz on May 20. Several wit nesses were examined, but Com missioner Gardner decided defend ant was not guilty as charged. Tom Hollis, charged with having whiskey on the Reservation, was also discharged. Mrs. A. T. Peterson and Bon Johnny returned home Monday evening. Mrs. Peterson has been visitirg in California the past six weeks and Johnny has been at Cor vallis. The meeting of the Ladies Aid Society has been postponed, on ac count of the encampment at New port, until the first Tuesday in June when they will meet at the home of Mrs. A. MV Gildersleeve. Teachers from all over the county are in attendance at the Institute being held here this week, and great interest is being manifested. The Institute elopes this evening. We will give a full account of the proceedings next week. A large delegation from Newport, consisting of the school board, mem bers of the Newport Commercial Club and other prominent citizens, were in attendance at the special session of Commissioners hurt last Friday, when the high school ques tion was before the Court. The ac tion of the Court will be found in the Court proceedings on another page in this issue. At the regular annual school meeting for this district last Mon day afternoon J. J. Gaither was re elected director to succeed himself. G. B. McCluskey was ' re-elected Clerk. The meeting approved, the action of the board of directors in their agreement with the County Commissioners' Court in regard to the County High School. The re port of the clerk was read and ap proved. George McBride was over from his homestead Saturday and told the following yarn which sounds somewhac fishy but is the solemn truth and nothing but the truth. About two weeks ago Frank Gattrell and George had occasion to stay at Siletz sleeping in the same room. Next morning Gattrell'e purse con taining $110 was found to be miss ing and in spite of their hunting its disapearance remained a mys tery and they gave up the search as a bad job. About two weeks later as McBride was going through the woods he got some dirt in his shoe, taking off his shoe to empty out the dirt, what should also fall out but the missing purse. i C. D. Bain was up from Newport Wednesday. August Holm of Pioneer was in the city Tuesday. Ena Stoute of Yaquina is here attending Institute. G. S. Wright of Yaquina is a To ledo visitor this week. C. L. Knapp of Elk City is at tending Institute here. Dr. Burgess has been laid up this week with a sprained ankle May A. Yoder of Glen is attend ing Institute here this week. Tomas Pavey of Mill 4 was in Toledo on business Tuesday. George Hodges of Salado was do ing business at Toledo Tuesday. . John Kentta the Siletz Merchant had business in Toledo Saturday. Ned Evans of Upper Farm had business at the county seat Wednes day. Miss Maggie Hampton of Rocco is attending teachers' institute this week. Prof. F. G. Buchanan of New port is attending the Teachers' in stitute. Viola Flomsbee of Elk City is in attendance at the Institute here this week. Claude Wamsley of Medford has been visiting friends in Toledo the past week. Owen Graves was ud from New - port Tuesday doing business at the county seat. Fred Chambers and Esther Cope- land visited this week with their mother at Siletz. Walter Hall of the firm of Hall Bro hers at Siletz was a passenger for the Rose City Tuesday TT T il 1 i ncurjr ixMYiB, uw mercmuii, pur-' chased a good horse of Charles Mc- Donald for use on his delivery Wagon. . H. E. Collins who has been at Ashland the past winter on account of his health, returned home Satur- day evening. Jack Vincent arrived Tuesday evening for a month's visit among old scenes and . acquaintances. He is the guest of his cousin, Frank Wade. I Mrs. C. G. Copeland returned Monday evening from Portland I where she had lieen for two week 1 She went on over to Siletz the same evening. Starting Sunday the launch Ore gon will run an excursion every Sunday between Toledo and New- port leaving the city float at Toledo at 8 o'clock a. m, Lawrence Prescott, who has been attending the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis, arrived Wednes- day evening and will make his home here with his parents Gus Harding returned Friday from a business trip, to Newport, where he is having a summer cot-1 tago built at Seal Rocks for his ; family to occupy the coming season. Corvallis Gazette. Maude Howen and Kathrin San son were over from their homesteads on the Siletz Saturday. Miss How en made final proof on her home stead before County Clerk Ira Wade. Mrs. B. F. Swope and children returned Saturday evening from a several weeks' visit with her parents at Mt. Angel. Mr. Swope joined them here going on to their new home at Newport . Fourth of July Celebration. Toledo is busy preparing for the grandest celebration of the Fourth of July ever held in Lincoln county. The committees are all working hard and are meeting with the hearty support of every citizen. The following is the program of the day: Salute of One Hundred Guns at Sunrise - Grand Procession of Military and Civic bodies, headed by theToleo Band, will form at corner of Second and Hill streets at the hour of 10 a. m., marching through the principal streets to the Grove at Mrs. Espy's corner Music by the Band Song "America" by Choir and Aud ience Reading of Declaration of Indepen dence, by Otto 0. Krogstad. Music by the band Oration of the Day, by Judge Swope Song "Star Spangled Banner", by the Choir and Audience Adjournment fur Lunch Sports for the day will commence at 2 o'clock p. m. on the baseball grounds, and aquatic sports at the water front. ' Two Hundred Dollars will e I given as prizes to winnine contes- tanta in the sports. A game of Baseball will be played ln the afternoon. ! Grand display of pyrotechnics at 9 'clock in the evcninB- A Grand Ball at Woodmen Hall will conclude the festivities. Notice. Owing to the dry season now be ing at hand and the consequent danger from thJ CUy Councjl orders that no paper or other waste nmter iV lu. thrown on the T.lnnkW nP nnv nt t.h Btr..et nf tv0 nit That if BUch wnate materinl humeri within the nitv limitu if must be done under careful suner- vision before the hour of 10 o'clock forenoon, while things are still damn from the nicht dew and less danger from the wind, and to see that such fire is entirely extinguished before left to itself. Dated at Toledo, Or., June 15, 1908. Otto O. Krogstad. City Recorder. IIave vou town Property, dairy or fruit farm for Balc? See or write- UEOROE JJethers, Toledo, Oregon. A rather remarkable wager has just been paid. A couple of Albany men wagered $130 on the result of local option, the temperance man at the time making the statement that if he won, the money would le turned over to the Good Citizens' .League for the prosecution of blind pigs. This has been done arid the money is said to be in the hands of !the officcra of the League. When the wa8er was made another wagsr WftS offered by the liquor man that the local option man had made a mistake and $5 more was put up. This money was to go for icecream. It has been placed in the hands of i the Elite, and Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock voters have been in vited, wet and dry, to call at the Elite and have some ice cream. Lebanon Criterion. The launch owned by the Ander son boys which has been on drydock having a new engine installed, was again put in the water last evening and is now ready for business.' i !l wet.
