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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1911)
incoln (faint Jtl J, 6 y Tender. VOLUME 19 TOLEDO, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY -26, 1011 NUMBER 14 COUNTY NEWS News of each Community Gathered each week by Our Rustling Associate Editors WaHport. Ira Bray made a business tiip to :Portland last wee. Waldport will probably celebrate the Fourth of July. Committees liave been appointed to make ar rangements. Harvey Linton spent a few days with us last week visiting his brother, Doctor C. E. Linton. Mrs. Martha M. Cautborn has gone to Portland for a few months. Paul Finch is now located on his homestead near the Bulidey ranch. Ihc ctcr!; fsited w" and Mm mn V. Colvin . few days ago at Lut ens. The bar buoy at the entrance of Alsea Bay broke loose during the recent storm. It was caught by George and Archie Rowin inside the bay and towed to a safe place. Land is being cleared for the r.ew high school. No bids have yet been received for the construction of the building. Beaver Creak came over again Sunday and succeeded in beating the home team by a score of eleven to twelve. The game was very in teresting from start to finish. Man ager Roy McMillin of the home team was struck in the mouth by a hatted ball and suffered considerable for several days. As Roy is the only Lass player in Waldport the band is also out of commission for the present. B. E. Oviatt is about laid up with sore eyes so he could not attend the teachers' institute. James Miline is on the sick list. We are glad to know some of our neighbors me getting patents to their land. , V. Gardner and sons have .gone to Toledo to spend a few days. We heard Charley Harding is going to Texas to look for oil wells. Bay View. Mi. Hanson of Drift Creek and E. S. Oakland went to Newport the I An Invitation. The general public is invited to be present at the opening of the new Abbey House at Newport to morrow evening, May 27th. Din ner will be served from 7 to 9 o' clock, at $2.60 per plate. , P. M. Abbey & Co. Perfect Attendance. The following pupils of school district No. 11, were perfect in at tendance, and excellent in deport ment during the month ending May 19, 1911: Clay Sugg, Julia Brown, and Walter Brown. ledo Sunday to work in the logging I County Permits. woods, after a few days visit with I Ali county permits will expire his parents. in Jane." This is what the Attor- O. C. McWillis is building anew ney neral says, and we will have Edition onto his barn. obey- A1 unty Permit' or lemporary Certificates will expire at Mrs. George Stephens came home Saturday after spending several weeks with friends in Portland. Herb Twombly is doing some plowing for John Hall on Beaver Creek. Oacar Oakland and Carl Hen drickson went to Yaquina Sunday and returned home Monday. Ona Otis. We are sorry to announce the death of Andrew Baxter, May 13th. He was buried in the Indian bury ing grounds Ou H. Curl's place, the 16th. John Dickens is doing some good road work on the Baxter botton. The rains have stopped work at present. W. Gardner has bought Mr. Wheaton's place and stock on Sal mon river. Mr. Wheaton will start for the Alberta country soon. George Wood of Kernville has a fine dog he wants to trade for a Hol stein calf. Nothing but registered stock wanted. The Drift River cheese factory is a sure go now. Mr. Parmele has contracte 1 with Mr. Jesse Bosler to build the factory and make the cheese. Jesse is a rustler and we hope him success. We understand Dr. Fillops has a, license to swim horses at the mouth of Siletz. We are sorry to hear Mr. and Mrs. George Wood are going to leave Kernville. They go to Asto ria where Mr. Wood will be em plooed by the Elmore company. Someone wrecked one of Mr. Dodson'e new boats at Taft last veek. Smashed in one side and cut it loose so that it would go to sea, but it did not go. This is bad work and will be worse if the party is caught in the act. Mr. Dodson keeps a free boat there so as to set people across the bay, and it is a jjreat accommodation to tbe public. The stormy weather is getting the roads to Sheridan very bad. But we can live just the same. Mr. Will Dodson keeps a well stocked store at Taft and sells at prices that would not pay one to haul in stuff from the outside even if we had a plank road. L. M. Commons took a load of 55 gallons of cream to Yaquina Mon day for himself, Coovert, Phelps and Denny. It goes to Independ ence. Miss Hester Hill returned from her school near Toledo Sunday . Beaver Creek and Waldport had another game of ball last Sunday. The score was 11 to 12 in favor of Beaver Creek. Waldport lead until the 8th, which was a tit. Miss Phelps and Miss DeLay re-! turned Saturday from Waldport. Jesse Gwynn visited his parents for a few days last week, returning Saturday to Toledo. Lloyd Commons was a visitor at the Commons ranch last week, hav ing to lay off on account of a badly mashed ringer. Master Walter Wolferspergcr is down from Newport to visit his Grandpa (. ommons for a week. Floyd Day is working for Sam Hill. Carl and Selmer Tellefson of Ya quina are visitors at Holmgroen's. Mr. and Mrs. Commons and son, Fred, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Phelps. Arthur Holmgreen left a sack of fine razor clams at the Commons ranch Sunday. General Lyons of Yaquina passed through Ona last Friday with a fine cow and calf. R. N. Warnock was a Toledo vis- stor yesterday. Ed Wright of Nortons was a To ledo visitor last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Guy C. Griffin of Peak were in the city Tuesday. Alonzo Hull of Coronado, Califor nia, was hero the first of the week. James Wolf of the south end of the county was in Toledo last Satur day. F. H. Pearse of Portland was in the city over Sunday on a business mission. George Hodges of Salado was a county seat visitor the first of the week, looiing after road matters in his district. Baseball Sunday. Newport and Toledo will cross bats on Toledo grounds next Sun day, game starting at 2 o'clock. These teams are evenly matcned and will put up a good game. This office is this week getting out the second annual edition of the "Blue and Gold,'1 the High Sehool paper. This edition will be much larger than last year's and will have j thftt if their difficg could Kt City to Purchase Present Waterworks. At the Adjourned session of Council last Friday evening a deal was put through whereby the city will take over the holdings of the present water company. Attorney Bryson of Corvallis represented tho water company and met with tho Council and explained where the company stood in the matter and illustrations. It is a nicely written paper and reflects much credit to tied amicably they would much I rather settle it that wnv and nvnid its youthful editors. Everyone ; expensive ligitation. He said the should secure a copy at the G m- company had expended $8300 in menoement exercises next Wednes-! k;m; k ?w on,i thi. day evening. money "VM alf spent in good faith, Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Gaskill have j and they thought k no more than rented the lower floor of the Mrs. j right, in view of the city construct Ofstedahl residence. Mr. Gaskill i lag a system of its own, that the is the new superintendent of the I city should purchase the company's r irana npruce sawmill here. They , Dlant at a fair one. the June examination. Teachers who are now teaching on permit will have to take the examination, unless their permit was granted on a certificate, from some other coun ty, that does not expire till August or later. 1 will grant a permit, aft ii. v 391 . er me June examination, to per sons holding certificates, valid in other counties. Such permits will be to the Decern ber examination. It was hoped that the Attorney General would not make such a rul ing, for it will work a hardship on all teachers who are teaching on per mits, they received by taking an ex amination. R. P. Goin, School Superintendent. M. E. Church Notes. On next Sabbath morning will be held the annual G. A. R. Memo rial Service. Special music and memorial sermon. The pastor will preach at Elk City in the evening. R. J. Df.venport, Pastor. fH- Service next Sunday at St. John's Church at 11:00 a. m. and at Ya quina at 15:30 p. m. Everybody welcome." Rev. F. O. .JONES, Rector. arrived last week from Oklohoma, where Mr. Gaskill ha lieen in charge of a lumber yard for the past several years. The commencement exercises of tbe Toledo High School will be held at Woodmen Hall next Wednesday evening, May 31st, at 8 o'clock. The graduating class consisting of Misses Annie Hawkins and Elma Waugh. A good program has been arranged. The public is cordially invited. The Council made the company an offer oi $6000 for its entire sys tem, pipelines, reservoir, leases etc., which offer was accepted by the water company. This money will be paid by voting a second issue of bonds, which bonds will be taken by the company in payment for their Avatcr system. A special elec tion will be called which will prob ably be hekl nlxmt the first of Au gust and at this election the ques tion of voting these bonds will come Always striving to please the pub-1 up Thc wil1 tako possession M. S. Collins, the Siletz sawmill man, was in this city Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Reisinger returned Monday evening from a trip to the Valley. Mrs. J. F. Stewart returned Monday evening from a week's visit at Portland. M. A. Nye who has been laid up for thc past two weeks is able to be around once more. John Matthews of tho Newport News returned Monday evening fiom a visit to thc metropolis. At the Racket, mens womens and childrens hosiery. No 1. work shirts, suspenders, ties and bachelor buttons. L. F. Pepin of Chitwood had business in this city last Friday night, returning home the follow ing morning. Judge J. F. Stewart and Z. M. Derrick returned home from the Oddfellows Grand Lodge at Port land last Friday evening. Thc pupils of the Toledo Public. School will give a' program Saturday evening, June 3, at eight ocloek, at the Woodman hall. An admission fee of 15c will be charged. Johnny Peterson, telegraph oper ator of Albany, came over Sunday on the excursion train and spent the days with his folks. lie R. S. Van Cleve has just re ceived one of the celebrated McCray refrigerators and coolers. So you will always find the best butter and the best provisions solid and palata ble at Van Clove's store. E. C. Cooper, state insurance com missioner of California, has been in this city this week visiting his sister, Mrs. J. H. Ross, and family. He returned to bis home this morning. John Olson, chief engineer on the Condor, was visiting old Toledo j score it was a pretty good game in friends yesterday. His vessel being j spots, the only trouble was that of. the watei system about tho first of next month and will immediately begin repairs to put tho system iu better condition lor the Summer. It is thought we will be able to turn the water from the Mill creek pipe line into the mains about the first of August. . Sixteen to One. Tho above is a mistake as the score was sixteen to two, as anyone can tell you, still for .'ill of tbe big bar bound in thc lower bay. their wasn't spots enough. Tho Chief Engineer Maurice Anderson ! vme opened with Elk City at tho of thc Gerald C, which was bar bound in this bay, was visiting his friends here yesterday. Rev. R. J. Devenport will preach the memorial sermon at the M. B. church in this city Sunday morning. All arc cordially inv'tod. Miss Viola Gannon of this city is one of the two who will graduate from the Newport High School next Monday evening. The graduating exercises of the Toledo High School will be given Wednesday evening, May 31, at the Woodman hall. Miss Houser after a visit with her sister, Mrs. Robert DePoe at Siletz, returned this morning to her home in Oklahoma. President Montgomery of the Fir and Spruce Lumber company ar rived from Portland Wednesday evening. Henry Dohse, the caterer of clams and crabs, went to Newport Wed nesday evening to work at tho Ab bey. K. M. Borgan returned Tuesday morning to his homo at Lafayette, after a visit with his daugnters here. Born To Mr. and' Mvs. W. A. Kyniston, near this city, Saturday, May 20, 1911, a daughter. Bar bound at thc mouth of tho bay were tho Anvil, Wilhelmina, Condor and Gerald C. John Rattey returned Inst even ing from a short visit to thc Valley. oat, anu it looked for a while as though they were always going tu stay at bat, but after they haii gal loped around the block seven times, Toledo then shut them out for three innings when they let them run in another score, in the sixth inning they got four more n o i around the sacks, in the seventh another goose egg, in the eighth four morn tallies, and in the ninth another egg. Toledo made its scores one in the fifth and one in the eighth innings. Frank Newton umpired the game. The steamer Truant took a crowd of people to Newport last Sunday. Mrs. Mike Shermcr of Winant visited with her mother, Mrs. Bailey, here last Sunday. Carl Burton returned last evening from a visit with relatives in tho Valley. Miss Blanche Jeffries went to Portland Wednesday morning, her mother being sick. Mrs. Grant Hart went to Chit wood Tuesday morning for a week's visit with her sister. Mr. and Mrs. Will Hoerloin re turned last evering from their hon eymoon trip to Portland. Mrs. Will Hoeflein last week pur chased tho Hawkins cottage on Third street, occupied for the past t vo years by H. L. Collins and family. Mr. Collins has rented tho T. H. Gildersleeve residence in the south end of town.