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
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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.
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INCOLN VOUNTY
(INCORPtMATED)
Toledo, Oregon
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Does a Genoral Banking Business I
DtREOTORt
C. B. HAWKINS
Wh. 8CARTII
C. O. HAWKINS
Interest
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Time Deposits
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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
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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