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:mvf 7 Jk..1"1 C?0 7 f- " - c - . Wittier. VOLUME 18 TOLEDO, LINCOLN. COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 27,1010. . NUMBER 15 COUNTY NEWS News of each Community Gathered each week by Our Rustling Associate Editors Waldport. Sheriff Ross was in town last week serving warrants for Judge Goin. John Olson and wife, of Linville, paid Waldport a visit on the li't'i. Messrs. Merrill and Wall of the telephone company have leen look ing after the lines up the river. J. II. Glines, school clerk of this district is trying to arrange for a local institue during August. The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hoover last week and left a nine pound girl. While working on the road last week George Nerton, Jr. cut his foot with an ax. Although very pain ful the wound was not serious. Mrs. James Cauthorn, of Port land, arrived the 17th to attend the wedding of her son Paul and Miss Esther Will'amson, of Ynchats. We are told that the .Oshkosh is loading freight for Alsea Bay. If this proves to be true we can look fr some cheap freight this summer for with two boats on the run there is sure to be some lively cutt'n; in rates. W. F. Keady assumed charge of the postoflice on the 21st and will at orce begin the erection of a suit able building on the lot adjoining the Linton Pharmacy just across the street from the present site. At the annual election of officers for the commercial club W. F. Keady was elected president, Leslie II. Evans, vice-president and W. II. Daughtery Secretary-treasurer. While putting the lids on some glass jars A. B. Hoover cut his hand quite badly. A jar broke and several of the sharp points pene trated the flesh nearly to the bone. Waldport will celebrate the fourth of July. This was determined at a mass meeting held last Wednesday. Dr. Linton was elected chairman of the celebration committee and W. H. Daughtery was chosen as secre tary. The committee consists of twelve members. The celebration will last two days and a water carnival will be a part of the pro gram. All the committee are working bard on their part of the work. A team belonging to I. R. Ever eon ran away while in Waldport Saturday. The team was hitched to a telephone pole but became frightened when some boys came running along the sidewalk rolling hoops. Hie team was stopped a few blocks away and very little . damage was done. Lower Farm. Everybody making garden. Mr. and Mrs. Brasfield and daughters took dinner with Mrs. Geo. Miller last Tuesday. Mr. Miller is helping build a house near Yukia Mountain for Ira Wade. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford were at Siletz last Sunday. They took up a fine lot of butter and, garden plants. There is to be a Echool meeting May 25th to make arrangements for building a new school house. Miss Ruth Hart of Corvallis is visiting her sister Mrs. Geo. Miller. Mrs. Brown returned from the Willamette Valley last week. Mr. Kosydar is preparing to build a large residence near the canoe landing. Then he can enter tain travelers going down the river. Ivan Kyniston has been appointed Johnnie Bones came home last mail agent and stage driver between week. He brought bis sisier, Laura, oiietz Agency anu loieuo ior me ana a young man iy the name of next four years. Miss Maggie Miller entertained Crook. The doctor that is camping at the teacher and pupils at dinner, at the m Kith of tin b ly h n S3v.;ral her home last Friday in honor of her fifth birthday, Yachats patients, Mr. and .Mrs. Joe Sijota are am mg the number. Work will begin this week on the road that goes over the mountain Supervisor Williamson and others from the V. E. Ball place to the are working on the road' near the Siletz river. . Anion Bones is over Hays place, jse'er. He lias a crew of six or more We understand that Waldport men, will celebrate the fourth, and also' Mrs. Nelsc Anderson will run the hold a regatta. j boarding house for the road crew. There is considerable speculation Mrs. Myrtle P. Lock wood re ins to who sends in these items, ! turned hist. wwlt. Slip imports a several of us have been "accused", fine time at the last day's exercises J. P. Wolf made a trip to Wall-'at the Laurel woort Acadamy. Lobsters Arrived By the courtesy of the Harriman railroads, which hauled them free of charge to Oregon, 2052 colonists were added to the population of the state yesterday afternoon. For convenience in transport they tra veled in one car. The new settlers were a promi sing batch of young lobsters des tined to Yaquina Bay, in an effort Judge Gardner returned Monday . morning from Portland, where he had been looking after county inter ests, in company with Commission ers Kcntta and Forgarty. While in the city they attended a meeting of the Lincoln-Benton Forest Fire Association, held in the oflke of Mann & Montgomery, This association will work in conjunction with the Oregon Forest Fire to establish lobsters on the Pacific j Association, whose objects are to Coast. They traveled with the superintendent of the Booth by Bay, preserve the forests of Oregon by lost of fire and to further any other pur- Maine, hatchery, E. E. Halm, in ;pose of mutual interest. The ofti port last week by team. Jesse Farrin made a trip down Gardens are looking fine all along ! the beach last week, going as far as the crek and all the ranchers are Waldport. He thinks that a fine bus There is some talk of organizing! place. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Butterfield a grange on the Yachats. If a rep- are visiting Mr. ana jure, stone, resentative was sent in an organi- Mrs. and Mrs. Mesncar are in zation might be effected. from Grand Ronde spending a few Our friend" Silas Howell has been dll8 .on tlie bcach appointed a member of the county! Mr. Jacobson and Mr. Adams ! fair eoinn i tee and is expected to re working f r the sawmill corn- look after our interests there. ;Pniy. They are occupying the Yachats was represented at the' house niade vaeant l,v Dick Ander last fair by one lemon. : Let 'd have 801K a wagon load of exhibits this year L.D.Wood went up the river i and carry off a ribbon. We can do lust week with a scow load of 40 ( it. goats. Mr. Hemstreet towel with: The Proctor boys are doing a lot the launch HIewild. The goats towards clearing up their ranch this were driven in f ro-r. the Valley over the Salmon river road. charge In addition to the lobsters there were 2,000,000 lobster eggs, which weie unloaded at Yaquina and placed in the care of the superin tendent of the Clackamas hatchery, who will devote his time to the hatching. Of the lobsters 1200 were females without eggs, 152 had eggs attached to their tails in large quantities, and 700 were males. At Yaquina they will be taken out to sea in a tender and unloaded about the Bay. It takes six years' for a lobster to obtain a marketable ago from the egg condition. The greatest difficulty in bring out, the lobsters was to keep the car nt a temperature of 40 degrees. This was done by ' packed ice, but owing to the extremely warm weath er when the car left 1 he Atlantic Cast, three days previously, the cojs of the Lincoln-Benton Associa tion nr:: Lewis Montgomery, presi dent; Judge C. II. Gardner, vice president: D. L. Carpenter, secre tary and treasurer; the directors are, Mr. Montgomery, Judge Gardner, Carl S. Davis, C. Griswold and It. E. L. Sewall. The middle of last week the house of George Chambers on the ranch near Nortons was burned to the ground with all its contents. The residence was occupied by Ralph Kirkland and family, who barely escaped with their lives. Mr. Kirkland ai.d one child was very badly burned, and nothing was saved, even the clothes were nearly all burred. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp in it chicken brooder in a vacant room. As soon as it became known in To ledo that the father had been burned tirmlil i-wiri.u!.v1i I... .1... lobsters were at a tcmpeiature ot 50 , , . , , , -1 from work for perha ns several weeks. Spring. As promised last week we can re- jport the wedding of Miss Esther j Williamson, of Yachats to Paul j Cauthorn of Waldport. . Both are popular young people of this com munity and we understand Mr. , Cauthorn has built a home in aid-! rented bv .Toe Bryant of Norton. port. js being fenced, by Ernest Bryant Although we have just reported and Henry Tinner of Nortons. one wedding the bells are still chini-j Geo. Cox and daughter were in ing and in another week you will ' our valley Saturday and Monday, hear from us again. This is to be: a v Mr, i,n W.. xvovL-inc Upper Farm C. M. Collins of the Mt. Tabor nursery transacted business here last week. The Blackcter hay field which was one of the young men of Yachats, j but Kit made us promise not to jie,irtj 0f tell to soon so we won't. in our vicinity since we were last Rock Creek The remains of Dolly, the young est daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. Ned Evans were laid in their last. Deace- Our school teacher, B. M.Howell, jul regting plaCo sunjiiyt The is attending the institute at Toledo sympathy of this community is ex- this week. tended to the bereaved parents, William Southwell and family ; brothers and sisters who are left to have moved from Falls City and are mourn the loss. ( comfortably established on their j Dr. ciausius and Scott Lane : new farm recently purchased from calci at ti,e Government school cnas. rsiijeu. I Monday, leaving supplies for fumi- S. Wigle and three sons are doing ! gation. a good job of slashing for themselves. N(jUccs were am by the John Hamar has sold his farm to. the Doctor, warning those who Ed Wright; consideration $7500. ' Were subject to the wjiooping cough Road supervisor II. S. Porter, of to remain at home to prevent its Nortons, deserves commendation spread. for the manner in which he has Parents should heed this warning improved the road between here and Reep their children at home, and Nortons. This road is in better Rudo h Ruptrecllt of Norton8 is ujnu.uu,! u,v .u uaB at the RaJJ.int Ranch t,lia wcdc before. It we hart more supervis ors lik) Mr. Poiter we wcu'd have better roads all over the County. Jim Wright and family have moved back here from Falls City. George Wigle made a trip to Nor tons last Saturday. degrees till the cnrTfrrHnto a blizz- !the jwople of the town very quickly responded to a subscription list and the unfortunate man was supplied with some fifty dollars whic.i will materially assist him until he be comes able to work. The High School paper will make its appearanco before the public to night at the commencement cxei cises. It is a well written and edi ted paper and shows much ability of the editors ami contributors. It will compare favorably with any high school pajer published in tho state. Get one tonight. Dick Christiansen arrived home on last Monday's excursion train, to attend the funeral of his brother, Arthur, who died suddenly last urd in Wyoming. At Portland the right temperature was maintained. Tho car was iced at Buffalo, Chicago, Omaha, Pocatello, Hunt ington and Green River. Mr. llahn had to visit the car several times a day and sprinkle sea water over the crustaceans, which were packed in layers, four deep betweew rock sea weed. The car was entrusted to the American Express Company, and has been emecially carert for tlje whole distance, traveling on express schedule. It went to Albany Mon day night by the local, and a special was made up to carry it on to Ya quina Bay, so that the little fry may be returned to their native element, although 3000 miles from home, at' Thursday night. Dick has been in the earliest possible moment. Ore- t,ie Lifc Saving Service at Coos Bay g0nj.mt .for the past several months. He The lobsters arrived on the pas-' "ill probably remain at home dur st nger train Tuesday evening and XUS t-lo Summer. Kernville Mrs. Bessie Farrin will accompany Miss Lena Ball home. They will go next Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jakie Johnson have been-visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Morris. For Sale Cord wood, perfectly dry, already piled on the bank easy co load. Call J. Margson, Winant, Or. Girl Wanted A girl for telephone operator wanted. Apply at the Bell Tele phone office in Toledo. M. S. Herring of Eddyville was a Toledo visitor the first of Ihe week. Grant King of Siletz came in from up the road on Tuesday evening's train. were planted in the Bay between Yaquina and Newport. Bobby Green of Eugene has been visiting relatives in Toledo the past week . Peter Sehiriner of Pools slough was in tho city Monday with a load of stra wberries. C. F. Gillette returned Tuesday evening from a visit with his daugh- Aniong the teachers in attendance at the institute is Rev. Rorick, formerly pastor of the M. E. church here. Mr. Rorick just began a five months' term of school in the Ona district. W. C. Fischer of Siletz is in town this week attending the teachers' institute. At the close of the in stitute Mr. Fischer will go to Port land for a few days' visit. The Leaokh office has lecn head ter at Corvallis. George McCatilou was over from ovcr huul in cxtra printing this his Siletz farm Sunday. He reports crops in a flourishing condition in his locality. A basket picnic will lie held at week. If the paper appears badly shot to pieces, please excuse us, as we iiead the money, The attendance at the teachers' Harlan Sundav. June 5. Rev. Row- nwuime nem nero tins weeK is gooa land Z. Brown will nreaeh in tho i """V educators from different grove at 2 p. m. All are cordially invited. Elmer Helms and family arrived last week from Waldport, and will sections of the state are in atten dance. Hon. Wallis- Nash of Nashville came down last evening to attend mako their future home in Toledo, j the meeting of the Executive Com At present they are occupying rooms in the rear of the Ofstedahl building. Mrs. Helms is the daughter,, of MrV mittce of the coming County Fair. Joseph Swearingen is preparing, to build a fine residence in the south. and Mrs. A. 0. Hooker of this city.' part of town.