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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1908)
0 vQyrV-; VolumeXVl. Toledo, Lincoln County, Oregon, Friday, July 10. 190$. Number 20 Qtttttp Mmltv. City Council. The Common Council of the city of Toledo met in regular session last Monday night. Present Mayor Arnold, Council men Crosno, Carson, Rosebrook, Peterson, Schenck and Recorder Krogstad; absent Councilman Ed Avery. ' Minutes of last session read and approved. Committe on Claims, to whom was referred claims of Fir & Spruce Lumber Co. and E. C. Paine, re ported favorably on same, and on motion report adopted. Following claims presented and ordered paid : Fir & Spruce Lumber Co., lum ber, $7. Ed Paine, labor, $9.25. Special Police Fred Horning, $2.50; M.N. Anderson, 2.50; Dave Ross, 2.50; E. D. Prescott, 2.50. F. J. McElwain, marshal, $20. Toledo 'Water Co, water rent, $90. Frank Parker, fixing crossing, $2. Otto O. Krogstad, recorder, $3. Oregon Fire Relief Association, assessment on insurance, $3.35. On motion the Marshal, was or dered to place a water guage on the water tank of Toledo Water Co. On motion proposition of Fair banks, Morse Co. to sell city a gaso line engine and dynamo for lighting purposes laid on table. The resignation of E. J. Avery as member of Council. taken up and on motion accepted. On motion George Hoeflein chos en Councilman to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Mr. Avery. F. J. McElwain tendered his res ignation as marshal, and the same on motion accepted. Recorder exhibited Treasurer's re ceipt in the sum of $46.42 collected during past month from fines, liens and licenses. Council on motion adjourned. Otto O. Krogstad, Recorder. Have you town property, dairy or fruit farm for sale? See or write, George Betheks, Toledo, Oregon. We will sell ever-ready batteries at 30 cents each until July 15. Newton & Nye. For Sale or Trade. General mearchandis store, well -.stocked, good location, near Port land; also 7-room house, .rustic, i acre of ground in Eastern Oregon grain district, in town; also hotel of about 20 rooms and property close1 to railroad depot. What have you? Address R. Tassell, Boring, Oregon. Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing be tween C. B. Crosno and C. E. Hawkins, under the name of the Lincoln County Abstract Company, is this day disolved by mutual con sent, Mr. Hawkins retiring from the Company., Dated, Toledo, Or., May 29, 1908, C. B. Crosno, O. E. Hawkins. Launch for Sale. See George Hall, Toledo, Oregon. Prof. E. E.' Darring returned from a trip to the Valley Wednes day evening. Walter Derrick who has been teaching school at Fisher, finished last week and returned to his home at Eddyville Wednesday. Dr, Carter was up from Newport Monday. F. S. Townsend was over from Siletz yesterday. Rich Chatterton was up from Newport Sunday. Joe Kosydar was over from the Siletz Wednesday. R. E. Wood of Chitwood was in the city Wednesday. N. W. Nash of Nashville was a Toledo visitor Wednesday. Mrs. T. H. Horning returned Tuesday from Otter Rock. Andrew York of Newport was a county seat visitor yesterday, Jim Derrick went to Pioneer Mon day on a surveying expedition. Mrs.' Frank Carson went to New port, on the noon train yesterday. E. T. Raddant of the Upper Siletz visited the cdunty seat Mon day. Con Christiansen came over from Corvallis on the noon train Satur day. Warren Hall and family of Siletz spent the Fourth with relatives in Toledo. Elsie Allen returned Friday even ing from a week's visit at her home near Nortons. P. S. Price of Kings Valley was doing business before the probate court here Monday. John Adams of Chitwood had business before the Commissioners' Court here Wednesday. Henry Tronson and Howard Gamier of Siletz had business in the county seat Tuesday. John Kentta came over from Siletz Wednesday and took his seat as County Commissioner. Commissioner Fogarty came up from New port Wednesday morning to be in attendance at court. Miss Winona Hooker after a few days' visit at home returned Tuesday evening to Newport. Bessie Hufford of Portland came down Friday evening for a visit with friends and relatives here. O. Middlekauff returned from a business trip at Portland to his home at Yaquina Friday evening. Mrs. Walter Reed returned Tues day evening from California, and will visit here wi th her sister, Mrs. Lee Bartholomew. Mrs. E. J. Avery and children returned Wednesday evening from Portland where they have been visiting the past two weeks; C. A. Babcock and Solomon Wigle of the Upper Siletz country were in Toledo Wednesday making proof on their homesteads before County Clerk Ira Wade. Frank Thompson came down from Salado Tuesday evening to finish up his term as Commissioner and to install Mr. Kentta in his place. Mr. Thompson has made a very good Commissioner. At the baseball meeting held at the City Hall last Tuesday evening 'Squire Matthew Norm Anderson was elected manager; G. B. Mc Cluskey president ; Chauncey Haw kins secretary, and Arthur Nye treasurer. Mra. Sada Davis and children came over from Siletz, where they have been visiting Mrs. Davis' mother, Mrs. C. G. Copeland, for the past two weeks, and departed Wednesday morning for their home at Eureka, California. Officials Take Oath. The Sheriff, County Clerk, Treas urer and Commissioner this week took the oath of office. The three first mentioned filed their bonds which were approved by the Court. Commissioner Kentta is the only new man sworn in the others are hold-overs being re-elected at the recent June election. Baseball Sunday. Elk City and Siletz ball teams will play again on the Toledo dia mond next Sunday afternoon. F: G. Thompson went to his homestead down at Roots Wednes day afternoon. W. S. Bones and Claude H. Mur phy came up from Kernville yester day on LubineBo. Mrs. J. L. Hyde went to Eddy ville Monday returning home Wednesday noon. D. J. Lagen of the Oregon Jour nal was in Toledo Wednesday sell ing the Anniversary number of that paper. Peter Dewson of Siletz made proof on his homestead before Clerk Ira Wade last week. He spent the Fourth in Toledo. Mrs. Fogarty and her son Jack passed through on the noon train Monday enroute for Illinois where they will visit this summer. Jack has a position as engineer on one of the Great Lake steamers. W. P. Ford and family of the Cape Foul weather lighthousa spent the Fourth in Toledo and are still visiting with friends. Billy with his horn and clarionet lent valuable assistance to the band ar.d orches tra during the celebration. Mrs. Mongers went to Eddyville Monday afternoon, and will make her home with her son. She took with her L. D. Cusack's baby, Helen, under whose care the baby has been since its mother's death. Lem King of Coeur d Alenc, Idaho, and Mrs. Bessie Wells of Corvallis, arrived Saturday evening for a short visit . with their sister, Mrs. C. B. Crosno. Mr. King is just returning from New Mexico where he has extensive mining in terests. Little Mary started to school, slate and pencil in hand. By-and-byshe Btopped the use of the slate and the ' ' tablet ' ' was substituted . She also dropped the r" and "May" was her new name. College days were crowded full and the little notes reached home signed "Mae." Col lege days have parsed and gone and in a home of her own they call her "Ma." Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Buford of Seattle and son Jay of Portland ar rived Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Buford will spend a vacation of six weeks on the Bay, and Jay will take charge of the Buford farm on the Toledo-Newport road. This is Mr. Buford's first visit here since August, 1901, when he retired as Indian Agent at Siletz. Mr. Bu ford Bince leaving the Bay seven years ago has made four trips at different seasons of the year from Canada to the Mexican line, and he says in all the Coast country Ya quina Bay has any other locality beat for a good climate. They went out to the farm Wednesday morning to begin preparations for rebuilding and otherwise putting the farm in Bhape. Frank Gattrell was a Newport visitor last Friday. Sheriff Ross had business at New port last Saturday. Postmaster Frank Lane came up from Newport this morning. W. F. Enos and family were down from Elk City to celebrate. Anton Jacobson and family of Elk City celebrated the Fourth in Toledo. Fred Chambers was down from Salado long enough to spend the Fourth. Miss Winona Hooker came up from Newport to spend the Fourth at home. Miss Blanche Jeffercys returned last evening from a short visit to Portland. Miss Ruth Rulfson of Salem spent the Fourth with Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Stanton. J. Q. Adams of Chitwood is in attendance at tjie Commissioners' Court this week. S. J. Robb of Mill 4 was called to Portland Tuesday by the Berious illness of his sister. T. L. Bohannon and Nate Wat kins of Drift Creek had business in Toledo Monday. Ben Jones passed through enroute from Independence to his summer home at Otter Rock, Monday even ing. Miss Rena Bradeson of Newport visited relatives here yesterday afternoon, returning on the evening train. J. J. Waggoner, after a few days' visit with old acquaintances in Toledo, returned Sunday evening to Medford. The gasoline launch Rose, recent ly brought to this bay from Portland brought a crowd of people from Newport the Fourth. The big fleet of battleships left San Francisco Tuesday to continue the cruise around the world. They will arrive at Honolulu July 16th. Mrs. Bernard of Spokane, Wash ington, after a three weeks' visit with her sister, Mrs. C. B. Crosno, departed Wednesday afternoon for her home. Misses Ethel and Verne Ross and Miss Cook came up from their homesteads in the Lower Siletz country Friday, to spend the Fourth at home. Miss Dora Jorgcnson came down from Portland Saturday evening for a day's visit with her many Toledo friends. She was the guest of the Misses KrogBtad. J. Hurley Lutz of Portland, Salem, Eugene, San Francisco and a few other places, arrived on the excursion Sunday for a few days' among old time friends. J. Margson was up from Winant Monday, with a crew of men, after a carload of household furniture, tools, etc. Mr. Margson recently purchased the Tom Ferr farm at Winant and is preparing to make his home there. T. C. Jackson and family of Siletz returned yesterday evening from the North Yakima country in Washington. Tom says ' he is mighty glad to get back home as the heat in Yakima is intense. He also Bays the Indians there are un civilized and it isn't safe for an educated Indian to be there. The only civilized Indian he found there was an old schoolmate. The Fourth at Toledo. A large crowd from all the nearby towns and from nearly every locality in the county helped Toledo cele brate the Fourth. It was one of the best celebrations ever held in the county, the rougher ( element usually so conspicuous on this oc casion was not here, everybody was here for a good time and from all appearances they had it. The program as arranged was carried out to the letter. The fore noon was devoted to exercises at the grove in the east end of town. Judge B. F. Swopc delivered the address and as usual held his reputation us an eloquent, patriotic speaker. Ott O. Krogstad read the Declaration of Independence, and songs and music composed the exercises. The iulcliimm hub ill,' Voted to sports, beginning with a ball game between Elk City and Siletz teams. It was a hard game, Elk City win ning in a score of 4 to 1. Next came the races of all sorts. A good display of fireworks on the hill near the City Hall and a dance in Woodmen Hall at night concluded the celebration. Special mention is due the Toledo band who furnished excellent mu sic during the day. The loys were assisted by Billy Ford and other musicians from neighboring towns. Elk City 3; Corvallis 4. Corvallis baseball team came over to Elk City last Sunday and in a hard contested game defeated the Elk City lxys by a Bcore of 4 to 3. The launch Grace took a large crowd of fans to witness the game. We are dealers in Farms and Land. If you want to sell your farm send us full description, terms etc., and we can do it. T. B. Ackers & Co. Washington Block, Portland, Or. Miss Swanby closes a successful term of school at Mill 4 today. R. A. Abbey and family of Elk City spent the Fourth here. George Gaby and family of Elk City were among those who celebrar ted in Toledo the Fourth. J. W. Flowers has been Warded the contract for building Newport's City Hall. The contract price is $525. The building will lxj two stories. 20x36x18 feet. Do Toledo people want mail on the noon train? Newport is now getting Unit service and it seems that Toledo can have the same for tho asking. It's up to us. The noon service would be a through mail transferred to the C. & E trains from the Southern Pacific. It would be a convenience to our people to get our outside mail sev eral hours sooner. Sam Center night watchman at the Altree Sawmill, became ill Sunday morning early and started to walk home. After walking but a snort distance ho became faint and sat down beside the track and fell to sleep. By his failing to reacli home for breakfast his son Newt started for the mill to ascer tain the cause, and on finding his fattier lying near tho track sunnns,l he was dead. A few moments afterward Mr. Center awoke and was assisted home. ' Mr. Center is afflicted with stomach trouble and those sudden sick spells arc riot un common, although not usually w ... severe. 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