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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1910)
I -J 6 mmm VOLUME 18 TOLEDO, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, M AY 20, 1910. NUMBER 14 COUNTY NEWS News of cadi Community Gathered eacli week by Our Hustling Associate Editors Waldp ort. The Wilhelmina arrived Friday and left for Florence Sunday even ing. W. II. Canady the Toledo photo- grapher has been taking some views in this vicinity. The Damascus Creamery is doing a big business the last few weeks. The Condor is again in com mission after being on the "dry dock" about a week. B. W. Hays, supervisor of Ih is district, is doing considerable work on the county road near the Brooks property. We notice with pleasure that our neighbors on the YacLnto ixro ouuJ- in;j in a few itenn. Several prominent men of the south end are being spoken of as possible candidates for the office of County Commissioner. Basket ball is being revived by the young ladies of Waldport who practise every Saturday. Isaac Banta is putting up a house in Waldport so as to be near school this Fall. Our good school is cer tainly an attractive feature. E. R. Bukeris no longer a sailor. He says when the Captain takes him out on the bar and wrecks the boat it is time to quit. In last weeks News-Reporter "Querist" registers a kick about the port. It is quite probable the best way to 6pell the vord is "Queerist." If necessary we can vote over again and make the ma jority a little bigger. , Fishing without a license is un profitaole in these parts. It cost one of the boys 825 last week and Judge Goin didn't half try. Miss Eva Umplireys has been en. gaged to teach another term at the Bay View school. Parties who have occasion to visit the Ona district are unanimous in their praise of the road work be ing done under the direction of R. R. Gwynn. Howard Gwynn was in Waldport last week and is now visiting at the old place south of Cape Perpetua. Yachats Miss Wolf, is living at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson while school is in session. Henry Bobell has the finest quar ter section on the North fork and has considerable land under culti vation. Fishing is splendid on the Yachats this season and a number of visitors are enjoying the sport. : Wedding bells are ringing. We will tell you more about this in next week's Leader. George Murphy is home again after spending a few years on a Washington homestead. The shell roads on the Yachats have 6tood the test. More will , be constructed. Walter Hosforu and family epent Sunday at Waldport. Miss Mary Murphy accompanied them. Messrs. Osburn and May? paid Waldport a visit last Saturday and attended the dance. . Miss Florence Hays has returned from Waldport and expects to Bpend the summer with her parents on the Yachats; It is rumored that Claus-I.ude-mann intends to repair the old mill on the Yachats and again supply us with lumber. We surely hope this will be done. Frank Johnson is putting in a water wheel to operate his cream separator and other light machinery. There should be a road from North Yachats to the Crocker ranch which would shorten the distance to Waldport by ten miles. Eddyville We all like to see the rain. L The prospect for a good hay crop was never better than this year. The farmers are all about through planting garden in this vicinity. Mr. Reynolds of Wolf Creek is working for Grant Standard this week. Irvin Magee was quite sick last week but is all 0. K. at this writing. ' Mr. Jennings of New York was looking at land in this valley last week with the intention of liK'ating. Roy Willoughby'of Philomath is visiting old neighbors and friends of Little Elk. Ben Guyer and family of upper Little Elk, and Cnssie Hunt of Eddyville, : were nsiting ut the home at the home of S. T. Loudon last Sunday. Thelma Ilamer of Nortons was visiting the home of her grand parents Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield last week. Miss Irene Magee was down with the measles, - but is improving at present. Mr. Robison of Harlan has been in this vicinity taking pictures. Mr. Robison is a very good artist. Mr. T. N. Armstrong died at his home at Corvallis May 5, 1910. Mr. Armstrong was formerly of Little Elk. Mrs Armstrong has the sympathy of her many friends in this vicinity. Our senior base ball team re ogranized last Sunday and after a few weeks of practice they are going out after fame. Our road Supervisor A. B. Hunt started to work the roads last Moiv day and expects to have some better roads in the near future. W. F. Wakefield went to Nortons Tuesday after some dairy cows that he bought of Fred Wagner. Willie is the leading dairyman of this vicinity. - . County Surveyor Derrick is re ducing grades and establishing new roads for road district No. 11 this week. Mr. S. T. Loudon is down with the grippe this week and is no better at this writing. alive. lie says he would have stayed over another day if they would have let him vote for the' port. I Charlie Lillard got the contract ' to build the new road up the Big Elk mountain. We all look for a! good road and think we will have ( it. j Clum Reed is visiting at Mr. j Grant's. J The Grant boys trapped a large bear this week that had been play-1 ing havoc with the sheep and goats ! for some time. They have run ' short on dogs so they have lesorted I to traps until they can build up j their pack again. They found whpro iho had kild a sheep, and setting the traps caught him j the second night. It was a very large black bear. The road supervisor is working the roads. We hope he will im prove them aome for tfiey have been awful. I think he will if the money and poll tax holds but. We have our Sunday school run ning nicely with Mr3. James Adam son as superintendent. Gardening is the hurry now. Who is going to raise the big squash and various other things for the: Fair this Fall? "I am" let every- j one say. Don't all speak at once, j but get busy and dig, for you don't i kiiow wnat win grow in tins aire until you try. Don't wait until you get to the Fair this fall and then say Why, I have better than ;thai ! at home. " Raise it and then bring it right along with you. See? That's what makes a success of a Fair. Grain is looking fine. Fruit is fairly good, can tell better a little later. The kid and lamb crop is good this year, and with the extermi nation of the bear, coyotes and wildcats, we are all happy. Cattle are all getting fat, so the steak won' hurt our false teeth so bad. lowlands. The prospects for fruit were never better. Messrs. Allen and Johnson from Clackamas County are farming the Clark Copeland place for MrMont gomery, of the Fir & Spruce Lum ber Company. They have a fine crop in, of potatoes, some imported from Portland, on the "Wilhel mina" also oats, stock roots, and all kinds of garden truck. Three Jersey cows have lecn brought to the ranch, which furnish milk for the logging camp boarding house. Miss May Allen arrived the lattr part of last month and will keep house for her father this summer on the Copeland ranch . She is a young Miss about 1C y6. of ago and uiii no doubt brighten up the batehelor quarters considerable. Mr. Irwin from Chitwood was over buying milch cows, a few weeks since. He secured one from Henry Schreyer also one from John Long. Fred Rowe and wife drove up to Mr. Schreyers the fore part of. the week and purchased a fine cow from him. Alexander Thompson has gone to work for Win. Johnson, who runs the dairy on the Reeves ranch. Mrs. Fred Rowe visited with Mrs. Anderson last Friday. Several new pupils have been added to our school recently. Mr. Earnest Rowe and family have moved to Toledo, lie is work ing on the' road. " " ' " Harlan Mr. Barber has returned from his journey. He says he left his mother improving. He also says he went through all kinds of weather from a Dakota blizzard to the balmy clime of good, old Oregon. Mr. McClellan has also returned and gives the same account of his experience with the weathor. Mrs. Bernice Godley and sister-in-law, Miss Anna, is moving back on their ranch on Big Elk. Mr. God ley is going to work a while longer at Falls City, where he haa been working for the past year. Several of our Big Elk fans went to Elk City to see the ball game Sunday. .. B. F. Grant got back from Toledo Little Elk Everything extremely green on the Little Elk. We have failed to observe in the Leader report of the spelling de partment of our Literary Society that Miss Cassie Hunt has thrice at tained the championship and has now won the honor of leading speller of our community. George Murphy from Eastern Washington was visiting his old friends here last week. Eddyville and the Little Elk are getting their share of homeseckers, and many are well pleased with its appearances. Mr. Herring is building a lot of nice wire fencing this Spring. W. F. Wakefield has just finished putting in a fine lot of new fence-160 rods woven wire and barbed wire and 190 rods of rails and wire. The baseball game Sunday was well attended. The Little Elk Kids playing the big Elkers. The score being 27 to 6 in favor of Little Elk Kids. Upper Farm. From present indications our district school will open Monday with Miss Murray of Nebraska in charge. The juvenile ball players of Si letz and Upper Farm displayed great enthusiani through out the game played here Sunday. The same closed with the score 23 to 23. The school rank is missing Ruth Evans, who is assisting at home during the illness of her sister, Dolly. The census enumerator was with us this week. His tardiness will have to be overlooked and at the same time we may recall the adage, "It is better to be late than never.' Miss Emily Wasely and Mrs. E. Wasley were down from their home steads, Tuesday. BayVi . Olalla Many fine gardens have been planted all along the creek. . The j hill gardens too, comb in for their share of credit, being in less danger from' frost, 'and in some locations curlier tl an gardens planted in the iew Mr. and Mrs Oakland and Mr. and Mrs. Ilendrickson were visitors at J. Olson's Sunday. Miss Umphrcys has just finished a two months school and began on a new term of six months. Dan Oakland is home from the government trail. He says he pro fers the logging woods to trail work. Andrew Simonson returned homo Sunday from a few weeks visit in Seattle. C. R. Evans was in Bay View Sunday repairing telephone lines. Frank Johnson was in Bay View list Thursday dehorning cattle for Messrs. Oakland and Kirkland. Henry Ilendrickson took the cream to Yaquina last Friday. Freda Kirkland ?pent Thursday and Friday with her mother, re turning to Newport Saturday. Mrs. McVilifl returned home aitc;' a few days visit with her daughter, Mrs. McKenliy. There has been quite a number of homeseckers in our vicinity late- ly. ' Mrs. J. Olson was in Bay View Monday. Lights Are Out Last Tuesday night at alniut 11 o'clock the pulley on the governor on the engine at the electric light plant became loose and let the en gine run away. The sudden ' high spued threw the l)eltofT the dynamo, but not until that machine had been greatly damaged. Parts of the dynamo was thrown through the roof of the building and several hundred feet into the air. The cenient foundation on which the engine rests was shaken and several pieces broken loose. All this happened in an instant before Electrician Goldman could run to the engine and shut the steam off, which required only a second's time. Fortunately nobody was hurt by the flying belts and parts of machinery. It will be probably a week or ten days before the repairs to the dyna mo can be made and lights turned on again. The damage to the plant will probably amount to $500 or $G0O. Elk Retains Championship. A big bunch of Toledo people went to Newport last Sunday to witness the base ball game lx:tveen Elk City and Newp rt. They were treated to a real game , of baseball . At the end of a hard fought game the score stood 4 to 2 in, favor of Elk City. A return game will probably lie pulled off at an early date. At this rate Elk City will hold the championship of the county to the end of the season. The Chicora of this place took tho Elk City team and fans and the Steamer Truant carried tho Toledo crowd. Married At Commercial Hotel, in this city, Monday evening, May 16, 1910, Mr. Will Paris and Miss Annie Young, both of Lincoln county, Rev. G. R. Ellsworth offiiciatfng. Girl Wanted A girl for telephone operator wanted. Apply at tho Bell Tele phone office in Toledo. Gentleman Morgan The registered Morgan horse, Gentleman Morgan, No. 5546, A. M. R., the grandly bred son of Lambert Chief and grandson of Daniel Lambert, and the prechanco the grandest living decendant of Justin Morgan and tho Black Hawk Morgan, will bo in stud at Toledo and at Newport and Siletz from the middle of May, 1910, till July 15th. Will make headquarters at North's barn at Toledo. Will publish dates and terms in next week's issue of this paper, giving poster notices, etc. II. S. Harvey, Owner and Keeper C. M. Collins is taking orders for the Mt. Tabor Nurseries in tho eastern end of the county this week. Ho will return by Siletz. House s are getting so scarce in this town that many late comers are compelled to put up tents to live in. Again wo suggest that it may be a good investment for Bome of our moneyed men to build several cottages to rent.