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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1909)
mcoin fry Tender. VOLUME 17 TOLEDO, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1909. NUMBER 4) COUNTY NEWS News of each Community Gathered each week by Our Rustling Associate. Editors Waldport. Rus9 Kent ' and family are ex pected to return from Coos bay this week. ' The Waldport Band has some new recruits and these rainy even ings are being spent to good ad vantage. Although our school is already crowded there are a number of new J pupils soon to l)e enrolled. There is plenty of hardwood on the beach at present owing to the , proved attractive to one of your neighbors who has 6pent money in finding out just what you might want to know. Kernville The high water took 100,000 feet of logs, the boom and bridge be longing to G. S. Parmele & Sons to the ocean. Estimated loss, 81,000. Bert Moreson had to move out of his house to higher ground during the high water. Mr. Kobelski lost some cattle by high water on the upper river. Ash drowning. and maple trees have been washed down. Mr. Hemstreet's launch was sunk and damaged so it could not be C. J. Smith captured a big cedar i used until he could gel repairs. log Monday and will use it in tins construction of a boat house to re- The mail carrier from Siletz to Kernville got capsized and lost his place the one the freshet carried jmaii glick. He swam out and out to sea. ' School was closed Thursday and walked over a mountain striking the river again six miles below. Friday of last week on account of j After waiting about an hour he 6aw Thanksgiving. Some of the pupils 1 the mail sack floating down. lie who live out of town had to travel picked it up and came on down, but in a bad storm in order to eat '.the mail was well soaked. turkey at home. Charles Stouder went up the A telephone meeting was called but there was only two present so river last week and brought down a . nothing was done. I guess the boat load of apples to be made into settlers think we do not need a cider. phone. Both roads leading south . from Mrs. Mabel Stone has been sick Waldport are now blockaded. Sev-1 for two weeks and is not much im eral big trees have fallen across the ' proved in health yet. Coon Hollow road and Supervisor! j, w. Bones informs us he is out Hays is having trouble to find help, o hny and wants to gell gome cowg as nobody wants to get out in the Ona II. II. Cook has bis sawmill on Elkhorn running now. He will certainly have plenty of water power if the rain continues as it has for the past month. Walter Dodge and John Hanlon took a load of potatoes to Yaquina last Wednesday. Miss Gertrude Phelps came down from Newport to spend Thanks giving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Phelps. Miss May Weber and brother, Herman, returned to Portland Mon day. 'Miss Hester Hill spent Thanks giving with her parents. A numljer of our young people attended the dance at Mr. Shirmer's on Pool Slough Friday night. Lloyd Commons returned, home from Yaquina Saturday. Otis. storm to do road work. II. L. Sterling was down from Tidewater last Monday. He says the water wus not as high as pre viously reported. J. T. Mustoe came down from Canal Creek Sunday. He made the trip on foot and reports the roads in very bad condition. A number of culvert have, been washed cut. A plaj' is being prepared by the school children and will be presented about Christmas. This kind of entertainment is always well patronized. Tip Holand and family came down the river from Siletz in a scow during the high water. : William Dick bought the govern ( ment team and now he intends to j plow and plant lots of oats. ! Fine dried fish for sale at Jesse Stone and Dick Anderson's. Don't think the cheese factory has fallen through with, for it has j j not. All get ready to send milk as soon as possible in the Spring. iNeiis Andersen will call at your : door for the milk anil deliver it at I the cheese factory. He will run his The past storm was the worst of the Benson. Bert Oviatt and family have gone to Sheridan to spend a few days with Bert's parents. Ebby Jackson killed a large black bear last week 'which dressed over 300 pounds. He also killed a large wild cat today. ' Knott C. Egbert passed through our part this week going home from Grand Iiunde, where he had been on business with the Indians, lie also fixed some papers for some of them here. Mrs. Fred Butterfiekl has been very sick but is getting U-tter hope to see her up and around soon. A. JI. Royse has gone to Willa mina after a load of supplies and a new stove, for our school house. Dickens & Oviatt have their sal mon smoked and have irone home. Tr,WnrpmWtn,V.b t.l I,,! J teacher, who can attend, present launch for twentv miles un the Berry Bray came up from Ten gildz to tho mouth ((f th(J B tQ gather the milk. Mrs. Esther Stephens is visiting Mrs. Walter Bones this week. Mrs. Fred Buttcrfield was very siek last week, but is some better at this writing. Jakie Johnson's house is almost enclosed and ready for the windows. Edgar Parmele was laid up with Mik; creek Saturday. He reports a, very wet trip and says it is no fun going around the cape during a 6torm. Dr. Linton was called to the Ya chats Saturday to attend Mrs. Howell, and as he could not secure a riding horse the trip had to be made on foot. Trappers have not had much Bay View Mary McMillis returned home Saturday from Washington, where she has been visiting her father and friends the past two months. Bennie Twombly came home Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving, returning to Toledo Friday. Sherlie Barnes of Beavcrton is visiting his father and friends. Hester Hill went home Wednes day evening, returning to her school Sunday night. George Rowin and Burt Twombly went up Drift Creek Saturday on business. Walter Kent and Frank Catena passed through on their way to Waldport Thursday morning. Anton Martinson has been a visitor the last few days up Drift Creek and at Bay View. Mr. and Mrs. Strake and daughter left for their home in the Valley Tuesday. Frank Briggs and Walter Kent started for Hoquiam, Washington, where they will work in the logging woods. i John Ludemann and wife moved down from Drift creek Tuesday. L. Daley left for Portland Tues day. Conard is visiting friends at Bay View for a few days. Teachers' Local Institute. Saturday, .December 11, there will be a local institute at Eddy ville. It will be held in connec tion with a Special School. Meeting. We 'The school meeting will be fur the purpose of levying a special tax and attend to some other business con cerning their school, but the Insti tute will be for all, teachers, pupils, parents, and friends of the public school . We nope to see every Another Aged Indian Gone. The death of Charles Fairehild occured at Siletz Sunday, November the 21st. Mr. Fairehild was one of the old Indians of the reservation, being somewhere in the neighbor hood of a hundred years old. His son, Baldwin Fairehild, is over seventy years old. The funeral was held the follow ing Tuesday. Rev. Pearce conduct ing the ceremony. Interrmcnt was made in the Siletz cemetery. New Train Servise on the Cor- valliy& Eastern. On Nov. 1st a straight passenger train was established on the Cor vallis & Eastern between Albany and Yaquina, leaving Albany at 12:85 p.m. and ariving in Yaquina 5:15 p.m. Returning leave Yaquina at 7:15 a.m. arriving in Albany at 11:15 p.m., making direct connec tions at Corvallis and Albany with Southern Pacific train to and from Portland and other S.P. points north and south. Look! Here! I have registered Cotswokl ranm for sale, all ages. Also, two year ling, registered Hereford bulls and two registered bull calves. Call or address A. J. Wahnik'K, Nortons, Oregon. 4 Homestead Relinquishment for sale( 1(50 acres in the Siletz reservation, 25 acres bottom and bench, -100,000 ft. fir, 2 acres cleared, wagon road to place, cabin. Price 8250. Apply owner. B. M. Johnson, Siletz, Or. Hides Wanted. Caf.li paid for hides at the-Toledo Tannery. We pay as much as any body in town. Toledo Tannkuy. ! 1 1 1 l.-Pi.! 1 1 success iii this vicinity so far this a wick irom mung too nam j.. j on some logs tnoy were trying to keep from going out to the ocean. G. S. Parmele's two sisters came from Illinois to visit him. He had not seen them for twenty years. The meeting was a happy one. The nierchai.ts have received the bills for goods that were loaded on the Oshkosh for this place but no boat conies. One half of tho people are out of flour. Parmele boys brought in a load but it is only a drop in the bucket. Mrs. Fielding's mother and brother came to see her. They we, re brought down the river during the high water. They had to wait two days before they could find room in the Siletz river for the Ixmt, there was so much drift running down. Jesse Farrin informs us he will move into the city of Ocean View Park. He will occupy the dwelling house built by L. C. Parmele until he gets his -house built a store season. A few mink skins are ing sent out. On Big Creek where trapping has been good heretofore practically nothing has been caught. The primary physiology class in the Waldport school is very inter esting. Your correspondent visited the school last week when this class was reciting and learned several things. On being asked "What -is in your head?" one pupil promptly answered "Lungs." Another was asked what effect cigarettes had on the system and the answer was "They carry food to all parts of the body." The Waldport Journal for No vember contains a very nicely writ ten account of a trip to Arizona by Charles Stouder. Personal exper iences ' of this kind ' are always eagerly read, by those' who have stayed at homo and in some instan ces it may result in a saving of money for there is little use in look ing over a country which has not or something. this winter as a business. There is good money in smoking salmon. Dickens is onto the job alright, we have tried some of. his fish. Some land buyers are here but they seem to want to set the price on our land, and put it pretty cheap. William Dick and son Fred have come home from the Agency, where they have been spending a week or so. Several of the Grand Ronders are here visiting with old friends on Salmon river. Archie Thompson left 00 geese on th.o rancli and Fred Butterfiekl, who is now on the ranch wants to get rid of tliem as they have eaten up everything on the ranch except one cow and tho children. They are good ones, being a cross between a blue crane and a bald eagle. They are good layers and Fred says if someone don't move them in two weeks they will lay all over the ranch. They arc for sale cheap. A good shot gun and a bottle of pois- oifed wheat thrown in. 'Anyone wanting a bargain must call early in the morning for after Fred mon keys with them a while be has fits. Mrs. Henry Curl and family visited with Will Dickens Sunday. Mrs. Dickens was a caller at Mrs. Butterfield's this week. Our school is doing fine. "Prof. Lowe is learning the kids fast. The weather is so bad some of our sri'iall children can not go steady. Hope weather will break away. For Sale. Pure bred Fox Terrior pups, ljcst kind for catching rats squirrels. Enquire Fuank Falcon, Toledo, Or. The and The morning session will be for the teachers and the school meeting part in the afternoon. There will ' rr Sale be a basket dinner at the noon Registered red Durham bull, No hour. The program will bo made'j 2:16238, four years old. Best bull out later. Remember the date !" the county for 8 10. Nash. Bros., December 11. ' R. P. Coin, Superintendent of Schools. Last Game of the Season. Thanksgiving day the Toledo High School team played their last game for the season with Newport on the Newport grounds. The score was 0 to 0. The Toledo boys Nashville Oregon. - Boys, the marble season is on. We have bushels of them. Toledo Drug Co. Ever Beady batteries fresh from the factory every few days at New tort & Nye's. Just arrived my large assortment their" usti-il sivirmv i 01 lm to ouur snoes or an Kinus. .... L. ( T. P. Fish. did not nlav game. 'They fumbled often an,l : Call and see them. showed but littte enthusiasm, but! Dry goods, groceries, hardware, in spite of this Newport failed to ! flour and feed, a larger assortment score. Toledo made a good record this year, having beaten Siletz and New port and not having lost a game, hand painted plate played with a Lincoln county team, Co. than ever at II. L. Veit's, Eddyville. Decorated china cups and saucers, sugar and creamers, cake plates, Toledo Drug although they were outweighed by far in each game. Elegant Booms. A few elegant rooms to rent. Enquire, Mrs. E. Ofstedahl. Call on or send your orders for Columbia records to H. L. Veit, for! last a life time Shoes of very size, pattern and quality at Fish's store. See this line before buying those school shoes. Columbia Indestructible Records (new ones each month) will fit any cylinder machine, only 35c and will a good assortment of peiecs, only 15c each while the present stock lasts. Tree, Apple Trees. . 1000 Baldwins and 500 of other Varieties; 2 year old stock.. For sale at reduced prices. Geo. T. Smith, Chitwood, Or. The famous Swcedisli buck saws now at Newton & Nye's. Get the Habit and . go to Al'.s Smoke House cafe. Meals at all hours day and night. Red hot Chicken Tamales a specialty. Wanted Reliable party to trap a few Quail for breeding purposes, permission from game warden ob tained. Address Simpson's Pheasant Faum, Corvallis, Oregon.