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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1909)
YOURVACATION NOW at our expense 1 LOOK! LOOK!! A CHOICE OF FOUR FREE TRIP IS OFFERED YOU CCA TTI TT iuR'NG Alaska- 1 Lid YUKON EXPOSITION YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, YOSEMITE VALLEY LAKE TAHOE ALL YOUR EXPENSES PAID If you have friends in the East who want to visit the Pacific Coast we can arrange it This is your Opportunity For complete information address SUNSET TRAVEL CLUB AXON I A INCANDESCENT KEROSENE OIL LAMP BURNER IT'S COMING Gives a steady, white Light of 80 to 85 candle pow- er 15 hours on ONE QUART of oil. No smoke. No smell. Abso lutely safe. The wonder of the ( 20th Century. 'liiy I 5.U I The SAXONIA is built on Merit and is fully guar anteed. Beware of cheap, flimsy imitations with their clogging wicks or over sized mantles. Remember the name SAXONIA THIS IS IT I will be in Toledo soon and IF YOU ARE FROM MISSOURI I will show you :A;M.C0LLINS Sole Distributor for Lincoln, Benton, Polk, Marion and Linn Counties, Oregon The time is getting short. If you wish to have a chance on the sewing machine to he given away by Newton & Nye on June 1st you will have to hurry. The drawing will take place in front of ; their store at 7 (clock p. m. June 1st. They want every body there to see who is the lucky one. 5f& Waldport Items. Six new members have joined the Commercial Club since last meeting. Considerable fencing is being done on the Keady place west of town. Dr. Linton is building a scow seven by twenty for the purpose of hauling supplies for his store. M. S. Durbin, local forest ranger, returned from a business trip to Portland Thursday. Mrs. Mary A. Gault visited Mrs. Holgate at Lutjens several days last week. Miss Sharman, who is to teach school in the south end of the county, arrived on the 14th. J. I Wolfe came down from the Yachats Monday with his brother who has been visiting there. B. Stoward was in town on the 14th. This was his first trip for some time owing to ill health . Telt Burnett and John Hyde ar rived Saturday and went on to the Yachats country to look after some timber. Frank Day has bargained for the Anderson place one-half mile south of -town on the county road.- J. R. Hays came in with his family on the 15th. He came by team down the Alsea valley. Mrs. Jenkins arrived on the 14th with a fine line of new spring hats, and has been doing a good business in disposing of them. 01 iiueianu io a siase maraea A-i,set on Dan examiner at the Waldport school of slongh designated In U. S. Govt. surveys as nno wol Final ovominafmna Cheteo 8loui?h, but now locally known at for the term are now over. Mrs. Harry Hoy, formerly Miss Bobell, came up from Marshfield last Saturday to visit relatives and friends in Waldport. Mrs. Mollie Early returned Mon day from a week's visit at Corvallis and other Valley points. ' She re ports a pleasant trip, but like all Alsea residents, was glad to get home. PETITION FOR CREATION OF A DIK1SO DISTRICT. Ill the County Court of the f-tate of Oregon, for the county of Lincoln. To the Honorable Court: We the undersigned, your petitioners, allege and show to the Court: That the lands here inafter described ar. tidu and overflowed lands, subject to overflow by the tides at all seasons of the year, and by freshet nnd tides during the wider; that in their prexent con dition Ihey are not susceptible of cultivation to any appreciable extent, and can only b. ued in a limited way for pasture, during the times the tides are not over them ; thnt by the reclamation of said lauds, the taxable value thereof will he increased more than the cost of the reclamation, and that It will be for the general good, as well as greatly to the profit and advantage of the owners of said lauds that they be reclaimed by diking; that we art the owners of more than one-half of the w hole acres ge of fid lands, and more than one-half of the Individual owners thereof; that we represent mure than one-half of the area of the lands embraced therein: that it Is de-ired to forma diking district for the purpose of improving by diking or damming the landa contained therein. Th.i.iore, we respectfully petition the Honorable Court to create a dik ing district, as by Statute made and provided, embracing a portion of the following described lands, towit: The nej and neJi of sw.'i of sec. 26, the ei of swJ4 and ti of sec. 23, and the ni; and al of section 24, all in township 11 south, range 11 west of Willamette Meridian In Lincoln county. State of Oregon. The dike and right of way therefor to run substantially aa follows, to-wit: Beginning at slake marked X-l at a point In the tte'4 of (he neJi of sec. 26 on the north bank of " Booties Slough" (or sometimes known hs Mill 4 slough) about 10 rods west of the section line between sections 25 and 26, vhere the tldelaml joins the highland, running thence westerly and northwesterly along ill. north bank of said slough, through the sj of the ne4 and the neli of bc 26, thance through th ne comer of the ne'i of the swJi of section 26 to the section line between sections 26 and 23: thence In a northerly and northeasterly direction along the east bank of said slough through the south half and sw of nej of section 2:1 to a stake marked X 2, set at point of hilt where lldelnnd Joins the higher ground; thence In easterly direction to a stake marked X-3 placed at a point In th. ne of section 23, where tide land joins the hill land; thence in easterly direction around the bus. of the hill and edge Notice. A man or several men can have work on Margson's place. Wages 82.00 per day cf ten hours and free house. Man with family prif erred. A good chance for the man who wants steady work for one year or more. See J. Margson, Winaut, Oregon. . Hoes, rakes and scythes Just re ceived at Newton A JSjt'8., . A jar of nice; fresh 1 Cold Cream for 25c at Toledo Drug Co, Derby's slongh, In nwjof tee. 24; thence In a southerly and easterly direction around the west and south bank of said sl.ugb to th. mouth of "Pavey's Slough" in the seJi of the se4 of section 24, thence In a northwesterly and westerly direction along the north bank of said Pavey'sKlough to a stake marked X-5, set on the north bank of said slough in the ne'yi of v4 of section 24; thence in a souther ly direction to a stake marked X-6, set at th. edg. of tldelandand foot of the hill; thenc. In a westerly and southerly direction along edge of tldeland and foot of hill through tha sw!4 of section 24, se of section 23, and n)i j of section 26, to place of beginning, the lands above described being In Township lis, Rang. 11 w of Willamette Meridian and in Llncola eoni.ty, Oregon, and we, your petitioners, will ever pray. M. M. Davis, O. A. Huddleton, Emma J. Lees., Thoi. Leese, Oast Olson. M. E. Church Sunday Services. Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Preaching at 11 a. m. Class meeting at close of mornlng aerrioe. J nnlor League at 3 p. m. . Preaching at 7 :30 p. m. All are cordially invited to woral.JV with as. W. E. R4XKBS, Pastor. Fresh' garden Drug Co, seeds at ToledV