Lincoln County Leader lFFiCIAL COUNTY PAPKR COI.UNS A UAYDES, Publishers SUHSCKIPTION RATES ne Year. - - - (1 60 six Moii ili - "5 rlne Montln - 60 HatareA at the ioitofflce allolado, Oregon, eeoud-olan n-ail matter. ADVERTOINU RaTISS Pliplty, 10 cmt per Inch par lull, ocnl and Hearting Nollcci, 8e per line. Sotlce-Kor Bale, Wanted, Etc., five llneior nnflar He par taaaa; Me par month. Bomettead Notlcei, IS: Timber Nollcet, $10, BUSINESS FINE IN DRY TOWNS Arrests Fewer. Bank De posits Greater SALOONS ARE OCCUPIED KEUC HANTS ALL ENTHUSIASTIC BUILDING PERMITS FAB GREATER STOET OF DRY TOWNS TOLD. BY OrlTON E. GOODWIN. Publicity Department. Cammlttee of One Hundred. There is only one fair way to find out what Oregon dry will do for Oregon. That is by investi gating what Oregon dry has douo for those parts of Oregon now dry. So far as can be learned in Salem, Oregon City, Roseburg, Albuuy, Eugene and other Ore gon dry towns, business has been better in all lines, save that of the saloon, in every dry town. Why, even In Pendleton, which ofed wet after being dry. but which will probably vote dry, ninny mere h;i nts are now in favor of a dry town and declare collections were better, business better and bad debts fewer when the town was dry. .'' Bulldlnf Now Better. In Salem, building has been Stater since the town went dry. if re are but few vacant houses, and those vacant are described as "shacks." Practically every saloon has been re-tenanted by other lines ef business, and one of the princi pal saloon sites has been replaced hj a fine new building block. Since Salem went dry a 120,004 trfck building hat been erected and f40,000 bvtineit block It going up. Doesn't look as If dry Salem hurt that town, docs it? Better Buildlc Eesults. Salem went dry January 1, 1914. The building permits fr the first Icht monC.s of 191?.. when the town wus wet, total $388,925. Kor the first eitdit months or 1914 they were (422,385, an increase of 133,400. Another instance of a dry town helping business! Absence of the saloon always means better busi ness, for the money that once went to the Million goes Into trade, decks cashed once in saloons arc cashed in stores unci part of litem are spent there, in place of in the saloons. There were 2.r4 arrests for the first seven months of 1!II3 in Salem for drunkenness; in 1914 the ar rests totaled only 47 for the s:imc cause. Stores Eularjo Premises. The three l:tru;-sl stores have had to iv'iio.U'l 1 tit-i i- premises because of increased business, when other towns wet at that have been com plaining. In Orenon City arrests have de creased 110 per rent. Violations of the slate liquor laws (bootlcKKing and so forth), are now leas than one-hnlf. You see the saloon turn never used to obey the law in a dry Jown they have to obey it. - Buk Doro'l'.i Increase. Deposits in the banks have In creased. There is more building. Bad debts are being cleared up. Collections are easier. Not one mill check bus hern cashed in a saloon. All buiincss men say trudc is bel ter. M'ii'f h enswrrt Hie quetlion at lo why l!r era hut come from all ovel Orcyun fur u dry town. U Adams, one of the leading Ore gon City merchants, said: "Since Oregon City went drv, basincr.s has much improved. Col lection ure easier. 1 have fewer bad bills on my books than I hail a year ago. People now have a ten dency to buy their goods nt home. 1 used to rash 15 checks on mill pay Bights. Now I rash 50. The aboli tion of the saloon lias turned a vast aum of money daily into the chan nels of trade in Oregon City." All of which answers the ques tion of whether a town Is better wet or dry. Paid adrertlMmetil r the CoaaiittM ef One Maaaraa, 711 Merfaa BoU41n. rerUud, Or Contest Starts September 21, and ends Feb. 21 Winner named on that last date Contestant getting the most Votes during the Third Week gets Special Prize, A Nickel Coffee Perculator. Contestant getting the most Vo tes 4th Week gets A Silver Ear then Casserole. Contestant getting the most Votes during the 5th Week gets A Set. Solid Silver Orange Spoons. Prizes on Exhibit at our Store BALLOT BOARD The following disinterested gentlemen have been named aB a board of counters who will meet at our store every Thurs day evening and count the ballots: Prof. Blough, M. Mackey; and Harry Rice. With these men in charge of counting the votes we are sure of a correct count. 7 PRIZES TO BE .GIVEN AWAY 7 ; and SEVERAL WEEKLY PRIZES 1st Piano Free to the one receiving .the highest Vote, 2d Prize, a Gold Bond for $90, this. Bond with $90 In cash will entitle' the second highest to a Piano. 3d Prize, a $95 Bond. . 'jxi 4th Prize, a $100 Bond. ' . ' . m -r 6th Prize, a $105 Bond. 6th Prize, a $116 Bond. 7th Prize, a $25 Bond. These Bonds are good for one year, from date of certificate. . Toledo Racket fflmmm Our Motto: Quick Sales and Small Profits. Water Front Meat Market J. L. Demitt, Prop. AY. Fresh and Cured Meats. Toledo Creamery Butter. I buy all my Beef, Mutton and Pork from the the local rancher, ami I pay the highest market price delivered at my shop. I pay the highest market price for hides and pelts. WATER FRONT, TOLEDO, OR. L INCOLN VOUNTY (INCORPtMATED) Toledo, Oregon B ANK ' i . v Does a Genoral Banking Business I DtREOTORt C. B. HAWKINS Wh. 8CARTII C. O. HAWKINS Interest on Time Deposits fXXMHWWa fXHMHMMW (MMMMVWWI WeVWWWOO WOftrVMHW ratyx Dr. W. M. BERRY THE TOLEDO DENTIST Will be in hia office in the Ofstedahl Building THURSDAY AND FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK Inventor of the Berry System Crown and Bridge Work. Late Principal Berry-Post-Graduate School, St. Louis, Missouri. Crown, Bridee and Plate Work, and the care of Children'i teeth a Specialty. Gardner & Peterson Dealers In Builders' Hardware, Sporting Go:d3, ' Tin and Granite Waro Aluminum (Guaranteed for 15 years) Plumbers' Supplies Cook Stoves, Heating Stoves, Steel Ranges Plows, Harrows, Wagons. Bleeding K Still Bleeds! A steady stream of money the life-blood of a state pours from "model prohibition" Kansas into License states! The Topeka State Journal, a supporter of Prohibition, on July 8, 1913, published the statement that approximately 1,500,000 QUARTS OF LIQUOR were legally shipped into the state of Kansas each year. Kansas got no revenue other states got the money! Should we place Oregon near the bottom with Kansas? Prohibitionists like to talk about Kansas. They say It has been dry for 34 year aod lias made a record. Bat It? Kama Prohibition U what tent Carrie Nation on tht warpath with her hatchet. It mat in Topeka, Kantat. that Jure. Nation opened her home for the wivee of men who got drunk on Kantat Prohibition liquor. Yet Prohibitionists tell us that as the capital city of dry Kansas. Topeka Is a model. Rev. Robert Gordon, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Topeka, who has been a Prohibitionist all his life, said from bis pulpit: "There are UOJoint in Topeka when intoxicating liquor is told." To prove It, he went out and bought a keg of beer, two cases of bot tled beer, a suitcase full of whis key, and all the gin and wine ho could carry. That it what the Prohibitionist themtelvet till us about Kantat. Dry Kansas ranks 32nd in per capita bank mount. Dry Kansas ranks 43rd in per capita savings bank deposits. Dry Kansas has more inmates in her prisons in proportion to population than 24 other states. Dry Kansas has a greater pro portion of juvenile delinquents than 26 other states. Dry Kansas has a greater pro portion of feeble-minded than 31 other states. Dry Kansas has a greater pro portion of homicides annually than 22 other states. (Fiiurea from U. S. Oniut, Federal or other Official IU-ioru Government ttatUtlc thow that Drg Kantat has the lowest church enrollment of the North Central States. Only 28.4 per tent of her population Is en rolled as church membership. Wisconsin, a wet slate In the North Central group, has a church roll of 44.3 per cent. Dry Kansas buys treat quantities of Bitters and Home Remedies. Government reports show these nostrums contain an average of 35 to 40 per cent alcohoL Analytlt of a favorite "nerve tonic" thowed two grain of opium and 75 per cent of grain alcohol to each fluid ounce. Patent medicines are always popu lar lo dry states; above Is the reason. . Do you. a a loyal Ortgonian. want to tee your ttate held up like this to the nation' tcornf Records of County Clerks, Express Companies and Railroads in Kansas show that Kansas consumes just as much liquor under Prohibition as it did when it had legally licensed saloons. The state now gets no public revenue from this liquor. The "blind-pig" and the "boot-legger" have taken the place of the regulated saloon and ply their illicit trade us aueys ana unaer cover oi darkness. Defeat of Prthibitkm will not change the present Home Bole or Local Option law LPTE 333 It NO Pal4 AdraftlmoU-Taxaarta 4 Wan BanW Uim, rortbad. OratoaJ F. R. Stout has accepted a po sition as clerk at the Racket store. Mrs. J. A. Silver of Elk Cltv. , was a county seat visitor Wed- nesaay. The schooner Ahwaneda came In from Portland at 6 o'clock this mornlg. Tho yacht Eola crossed out over the bar this mornlng.bound for Tillamook and Portland Mens' and Boys' Clothing see W. P. MeGEE Bank Building; COW WANTED I want to buy a good family cow, on monthly payments. Enquire at this oillce. HORSES I am going to sell at prices that will BurprlHc you, 4 heavy, 1 middle welcht. and Rpvornl ; light buggy and saddle? hornet!. come early and avoid the rumi. John Rattey Toledo Livery Stables. BIG AUCTION One o'clock third day of Fair, September 21, at Fair Orounds. Will sell one, two and three-seated rigs, buck boards, farm wagons, saddles, harness, horses, cows, etc. For cash or terms as announced at time of sale. Exhibitors and others who wish to Bell stock make ar rangements with auctioneer TOLEDO LIVEIIY STAULE. J. II. ROSS, Auctioneer. L. M. Smith was over from Silezt Wednesday and called In and subscribed for the Leader. A. M. Wheelock, Fair Director of Linvillc, is in this city this week, working at the Fair Grounds. Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Schenck returned Wednesday from a couple of months' Bojourn at their Eastern Oregon ranch. WORK WANTED I want work of any kind, farm work preferred, at reasonable wages. Enquire at this ofllce. TO TRADE An equity in house and four lots In outskirts of Portland, to trade for land or house and lot In Toledo. Enquire at this office. TO TRADE An equity in a house and four lots In the outskirts of Port land to trado for land or house and lot In Toledo. Enquire at this oflice. Must Be Sold at Once One Dean loom, fly shuttle, practically new;weaves all kinds of rugs and carpets. Work on hand. Will teach purchaser. For particulars see Mrs. S. P. Clark, Merchants' Hotel. FOR SALE Fine Hamlltonian, sorrel marc. This Is an elegant ani mal, sound and true. Also two colts. Will Hell one or all. SILVER RANCH, Elk City, Oregon. The White Corner St ore Has a larger supply of Tablets, Ink, Paperties, Toys, Ribbon and other Notions, Besides tho usual Stock of the best Groceries. R. S. VAN CLEVE "'TTTnaaTlaaWTTMJMaMMeB Don't Make a Monkey of Yourself or let others make a monkey of you In the matter of your Clear buylnfl. The actual difference In price between qualities Is sa small tiiat it always pays to get the bcot grade. We have some of the Best Cigars ever rolled, made of the purest leaf tobacco, and made up In mild, medium and atrong flavors Our line of Cigarettes and To baccos are also selected with the great est care, and we are headquarters for every kind of smokers' articles. Al's Smokehouse AL WALCH, Prop. OREGON "FIRE RELIEF Coniervative in Writing Risks. Lilcal in Adjusting Lose.. Resources. f25D.747.5H t. B. Met, LI ik LY, Iccnl agent. Toledo. Wrile or Call, on Mutual Ihcue