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gincoln 1 Ml mam VOLUME 19 TOLEDO, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 91, 1911 NUMBER 9 COUNTY NEWS Waldport. D. Wenner has bought a place tn the Yachats from Elmer Helms. School liegan Monday at Tide water and a'so in the district above. The Condor ca:re in the loth over a very smooth bar. M. C. Kellow is clearing up an acre for a garden spot near ths school house. Judge Gardner has been visiting the south end of the county in the interest of good roads. He went to the Lane County line. O V TTnrt ia ftini netivp in the real estate business and predicts lively market this fall. Some much needed work is being imc on the Coon Hollow road which leads south from Waldport. Cliarles Webb has bought out the Evens store at Waldport. Siletz. Saturday evening, April 15th, Mrs. Walter Hall gave an Easter party. Progressive whist was played. Dr. Clausius secured first honors while our frier.d R ibert Do Poe won the booby pr.ize. A jolly, pleasant time was had. An elegant luncheon was served. Monday evening, the 17, the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Btnscll surprised them, the occasion ! heing in honor of their wooden wed ding. Wooden presents of all kinds vrere in evidence. The guests came early and stayed late. Our road machinery commitiee, Messrs. John Kentta, Walter Hall and Phil Elting, are in Portland this week looking up our portable r. -k crusher outfit. Ralph Hamar, G. A. Olin, Joi n Wainia and some of the rest of the hoys are buying more cows, getting ready for the cheese factory. Elk City and Siletz ball teams are scheduled to play a game at Toledo Iui.day, April 39th. from Newport for a week, expecting to return with his family the 24th to open the bakery at Nye Creek. Grover Doty and Mr. Hubble were fishing off Seal Rocks Sunday. Miss Gertrude Phelps gave a jolly excursion down Beayer Creek to the beach and Seal Rocks Easter Sun day, where they enjoyed a picnic lunch and baked clams. Those who were in the party were, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wolfersperger, Miss Elizabeth Wallace, Miss Clati De Say, Miss Gertrude Phelps, Arthur Holmgreen, Dexter and Guy Trem bly, Fred Commons and Clifford fhelps. Mr. Ycrix, Jr., and Harold Hew itt were at Seal Rocks Sunday. Bay View. Oscar Oakland has gone up Drift creek to do some plowing for Mr. Hanson. H. L. McKenney and wife of Beaver creek was over Monday. Mr. McKenney hauls the cream to the Waldport creamery again this Summer. Mr. Troxcl of Waldport passed through Bay View Monday. Dan Hendrickson has gone to the logging woods to work. H. Yorkb of Drift Creek was a Bay View visitor Tuesday. Mr. Hanson of Linviile was in tins vicinity one day (hi week. Henry Hendrickson is working for Mr. Sagondorf this week. Burt Trombly had the misfortune to cut his hand quite badly while sawing a log last Tuesday. G. 13. Ryan was a Bay View vis itor last Friday. News of each Community ' Gathered each week by Uur Hustling Associate Editors sampled. It was weighed and found wanting, then replaced in the depot. Next a. m. it had disap peared entirely keg and contents. The question is, how and why? Taft. Jakie Johnson is clearing out the camp grounds at Siletz bay. Keep the good work going, Jakie. It is reported that Jesse Fanin is going to start a barber shop at Taft this Summer. A general line of groceries at the Taft Co-operative company's store alwavs on hand. I Af T1 J l . , m. inniNin uiis sei one anu a half miles of pole on the new tele phone lines running to Salmon river. , J. G. Fanin and wife have re turned to their Summer home near Taft. Mr. Kentta, will you please let go of that powder? We need i t to blow out the stumps from the road down here. C. F. Robertson and J. P. Bones are clearing a fine piece of bottom lan I cn Schooner creek this Spring. Tbomas Kerr is back in the coun try on a short business visit. Walter Bones left here for his home in Dallas, after a short visit with his parents on Drift river. lie has been in poor health for the past few months. J. H. Ross was a business visitor in this vicinity a lew days ago. G. S. Parme'e & Sons have been running their sawmill of late, get ting out lumber for the new school houses on Siletz river. Miss Anna D. Wood of Mon mouth commenced school Monday, April 10th with a full attendance of pupils and some rain. We hope the weather will improve, also the pupils. J. C. Ludeinan and wife of Wald port visited with S. Sagendorf at Linviile Sunday. We also noticed the genial countenance of Cliarles Doffins, superintendent of the El more cannery, headed that way. The fishing season is open now and we have plenty to spare. Help yourself, Charley. Estrayed From somewhere east oi tne cascade mountains, a snow storm. When last seen it was wan dering around over Lincoln county looking for a place to locate. So far as known no damage was done, I ' but we would rather have settlers with strong arms and Roosevelt families. Elk City. Ona We are having March weather in April on Beaver Creek. Rev- and Mrs. Gwvnn haw? re turned to their home at Waldpoit. ! from TiUarnook the first of the week C. C. Woodford returned from a business trip to Newport the first of the week. Charles Van Orden has rented the Hotel Elk and it is now open for business. Col. Parker returned to the ranch Monday to remain for a time. DrCarter passed through on his way to Glen the first of the week. Aldcn Davis and brother airived Otis. Mrs. Gwynn having spent a week xnth her son, R. R.-Gwynn, and family, while the.Reverend attended tlie Presbytery at Brownsville. Joe Blower carried the mail Sat urday from Toledo to Linviile and returned Monday. Miss Hattie Van Hoosen of Cor T3.!lis liogan school in distriet No. 9 April 10th. Harold Hewitt is home from Port land, where he has been the past winter. Miss Elizalieth Wallace of Eugene ts teaching in what is known as the Ryan district. Arbor Day was observed1 by Ona school. Miss De Say and pupils rendered a splendid program. Mr. Troxel of Waldport was in the neighborhood Monday and spent the night at the Commons ranch. Mark Jones spent the week end at Hunters Lodge. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hewitt spent Sunday at the A. H. Phelps home. The Waldport cream wagon, driven by H. McKinney, is on the xuutc again for the Summer. Joseph Wolfersperger came down Alden is quite popular with the fans in this burg. John Goodell came up from Tole do Tuesday morning. He will as sist the Elk City Lumber Company and probably take a membership in the E. C. A. C. Ball season opened up Sunday on Elk City field. And. next Sunday we will meet Newport fo'- the first game of the season on Elk City field. This will be an interesting game as Newport has a first class team and Elk City is up to standard. One of Dick Abbey's cows fell down a bluff and dislocated her neck. Chickens have been in demand in the vicinity of Beaver Creek of late. Col. Parker and C. W. Young have been supplying the demand. While one of the commission men enter tained the household the partners were boxing chickens. Several thousand feet of saw logs were put into the lumber company's boom the past week. The Grant boys have about two hundred thou sand to put down if they get water. One of our neighbors had a 5-gal-lon keg of Kentucky Dewdrop ship ped to his address. It arrived 0. K. but gave evidence of having been J Tidk alxmt a" ideal country, we surely have it here. Put our gar dens in in March and do our sleigl riding in April. Mrs. M. Lee of Boyer came home this week to her Salmon River ranch. She has been spending the winter at Los Angeles with her mother. Ote McMillan is working a crtw of men opening the new road from Harding's place down Salmon River. We hear there is going to be a sawmill at the mouth ot Devils Lake Messrs. McDonald and Wheatin traded horses last week and hot! claim they got the worst of it. flounders are thick in Salmon River now and they bite fine. John Dickens made a trip to Slier man this week. He reports the roads drying up fine but this last storm will make them sloppy agaii Chauncy Gilmore has his wire feuce up. Chauncy is making some good improvements. Tne Upper Salmon River cheese factory is ready to run now. i t . . . y Abe Lincoln School. Here we come again. Have been too busy to write lately on account of Spring work. 0. E. Lyndon departed li.st week for California, where he will take charge of one of his father's exten sive fruit rar.ches. Ole Olsen was delivering potatoes to Wald port 8atu rday . These pota toes were planted about the first of June and did not get rain or irriga tion and then made 150 sacks to the acre of salable potatoes. Can the Willamette valley beat that? Ofstedahl Nye. One of the most brilliant weddings to take place in Toledo for many months was held last Monday morn ing when Miss Ruth Ofstedahl be came the wife of Mr. Arthur Nye. The guests, thirty in number, be gan to arrive at the bride's homo at 5: SO in the morning, and promptly as the clock struck the hour of six Miss Esther Copeland at the piano began playing the wedding inarch, and the bride and groom to be marched into the room to the mar riage altar in a corner of the room. The bride was dressed in a pure white tailored suit, large white hat trimmed with a long willow plume, and she carried a shower bouquet of lillies of the valley. Just before leaving for the train the bride threw the bridal buoquet to her girl friends, and it was caught by Misses Sara Crahen and Nora Krogstad. Rev. Jones secured the ring in the cake. The marriage ceremony was per formed by Rev. F. 0. Jones of the Episcopal church . Immediately after the ceremony the guests were ushered into the banquet room where an elegant wedding feast was served. The party then went to the depot to bid God speed to the newly wedded couple, wno are now spend ing their honeymoon in Portland. The bride is the only daughter of Mrs. Elese Ofstedahl, and one of the most popular young ladies of the city. She has been a resident of Toledo since eai'lv girlhood. During the past year she was Dep uty Clerk of this county. The groom is a member of the hardware firm oi Newton A Nye in this city. He is one of the social favorites and is a most worthy young man. He is a son 01 MX. antl Airs. J. J. Nye, and has spent his entire! life here. The happy couple was the recip ients of many beautiful presents from their many friends. On the return from their honey moon they will be at home to their friends at the Chambers cottage on Second street. Congratulations and best wishes are extended by their many friends. young lady, she having made her home here at Toledo the past two years, during which time she has made many friends. The groom is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. George Walker, and is an honest, industrious young man, and is well liked by everyone. Ho is employed at present on the dredger Chetco. The house was decorated for the occasion with carnations and ferns making a very pleasing effect. The bride was dressed in light blue Mes- salin silk and carried a bouquet of wmte roses. Ihe groom wearing the conventional black. Fourteen invited friends and guests were pres ent to witness the ceremony and to do justice to the sumptuous wedding ii nner which was served immediate ly after the ceremony. Reverend R. J. Devenportof the Methodist church officiated at the wedding. The bride and groom left Monday morning on a honeymoon trip to Portland, after which they will re turn to Toledo, making their home on the dredger Chetco where the groom is employed. The Leadeu joins with their many friends in wishing them all kinds of good luck. Bachmann -- Walker. A very pretty wedding occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. (ieorge C. Walker in this city Sun day afternoon, April 1G, 15)11, when Miss Ruth Bachmann became the bride of their son Roy. Miss Bachmann is the only daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bachmann of lEddyville, and is a most estimable 1 of the Bay will no doubt be there John Ebhe, the road man, went to Dallas Wednesday morning to start work on a large road contract he hujr in Polk county. Miss Nora Krogstad returned to her home at Portland Wednesday morning, after a visit of several weeks with relatives ami friends in this city. Lee Bartholomew, the barber, has just had the interior of his ton sorial parlors decorated with paint and paper. It was a line job. Allen Gill, the papcrhanger, did the work. We arc now prepared to dispense soda water and ice cream to the sat isfaction of all who may come to our store. Everything first class and up to date. At the Palace of Sweets. A I, Wai;gh, Proprietor. W. II. Andross will have a pub lic sale Friday April 28th, 1911, at which he will disposo of his house hold goods. The sale will be held at tlie Uty b loat here in Toledo. J. H. Ross has been engaged as auc tioneer. John Scott Mills, special writer for the Oregon-Washington Rail road & Navigation Company. South ern Pacific lines in Oregon, arrived in our city last evening, and is se curing the necessary data for the ex ploitation of our town and country, in the advertising enterprise re cently undertaken by our Develop ment League. Different members of the League and citizens of our town are showing Mr. Mills around and assisting him in every way pos sible to get a correct and compre hensive write-up. He will bo taken up and down the bay and be driven out through the farming sections. Mr. Mills requests that the farmers, when in town, call on him and tell him what they are doing, as it w the actual accomplishments that interest tho homoseeker, and it is these suc cesses wbloh he wishes to incorpor ate in his writing. . Baseball. The Newport and Elk City base ball teams will play their first game of the season at Elk City next Sun day, the 23d. Fans from all uarts