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J 1 y ! incoln VOLuME 25 r TOLEDO, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6th, 1917. NUMBER 7 wonntv NEWPORT (Newport) (Special) Mr.. William Allen died suddenly, j Wednesday evening at her home here while eating supper. Mrs. Allen form erly lived at Toledo and was a sister of the late J. F. Steele. Lyle Collver. ntnteen; William King, .ueen; .na uonaia James, eigmeen ReT Qe0 T Pratt now tne went to Portland to enlist in the Navy. 'and wth the efflcI(,nt nelp of hl. w,fe Francis Ferr went from Yaqulna at be,eve tho church wm contwue the same time for the same purpose. t0 grow and ,t hag m Berle King of the Coast Quardlpagt Station has been transferred to Point 1 Keys, California, station ' and pro-1 0 noted to No. I, at that. Berle Is now j pnnvuii c In line for promotion as keeper when . tDDYVILLE a vacancy occur. I A farewell party was given Hans Q. A. Shumacher has sold out his : Albertson and family last Friday, business here to Walt Smith and he About twenty-one being present In and Mrs. S left Monday morning ', "Pte of Tery atonuy weather. Cards forSan Francisco Where they expect to and dancing were enjoyed until a late make their future borne. A large num- nour Refreshments of punch and cake ber of friends gathered on the wharf being served after which they were to bid them goodbye and wish them a Presented with a fine willow rocker bon voyage, especially the young men ,as a remembrance from this com who were going to enlist in the navy in unity and Little Elk. defense of their Country. Mrs. Irene Hodges is the proud At a meetlnr of th tr,.t. f .'h. mother of a baby boy. public school at the high school Mon-1 day afternoon for the purpose of elect- tne teachers for tl.a n.nln r , following resolution was unanimously ! Dassed bv the Board BaroWbH- Th.t the present corps of teachers be re- talned with the prlviledge of com-'w,th blnlng the crades if it could h Hn without Imoarlnr th irlrl.n.v f th. school. The Board adjourned to meeti1-8, AIbert80" wa requested to cut. again In ten days. This was done o ' Tne Sundav School is preparing a give the teachers who might desire to Pr0Kram ,or Ea8ter Sunday. retire from the school a chance to do : Frank wllluEhby and Roy Mauch o and that would give the Board of went oul Frlday moln aer the trustees a chance to till the vacancy. "ght 8now tM t0 look for coyotes in The school year has been the moat,"18 dlrectlon of Harlan- efficient and .urrMfuii . i, i Alfred1 Weaver bought a fine Iron Newport. Prof. Artman will be re tained at the head of the school. The Banquet given at the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Church W Frirt.. - . ...... cess. Over a Wred were set. S. 0. 1 Irvln gave a Tery carefully prepared written history of the Church from Its roganlzation at Newport to the present time. The Church wa. first organized at Toledo, September 22nd. 1878 by . Rev. J. A. Hanna, home missionary. It was the first Church organized in the Yaqulna Bay country and was 1 11 m ttr Ilia I , D,a.ltU,a,lAn Ptill.nn cf Yaqulna Bay. The charter member, were Isaac A. Dick, James H. Blair, A. J. Rader and wife and Miss Sarah Ann Craham. AH of these including tin' mlnUter T,1r f. nn In tt,i, ward except Mr. Blair was present at the banquet, hale and hearty at tin " . , . lamny, are advanced age of 81 years. Mr. Blah ,eX?cU? ln 11,18 week- was the guest of honor at the meeting.', y' T t0 haVlng 00u After a lapse of seven year, during Iuck flsh'S these days. whin), tim. ih. rWM, Hn ' Mr- anA Mr- Cart Baker of Eugene, Toledo and reorganized by Rev. E. T iniP Ji.n ?7th msc t v.,,in. City and the following elder, were 1rt.H- H. nMwln O W.ltln, .n m r-.n,iv 97 hT, '.nrniw. 'rv. e. t. iniM. .n. iwi ,,ii Th. mmi,,. .,i.j r.hh h.,iHin. .t v.nnin. At th.i. time It was thought Yaqulna would be the great city on the Bay. About 600 people lived there then. Preaching wa. held alternately between Yaqulna and Newport. In Newport the preach ing and Sunday School were held ln Phelps' Hall now owned by Dr. Carter and used as a rooming house. In July, 1887, Rev. Ceorge Gelllsspy wa. Installed as minister. ,The elder, now were Oormley, Walling and S. O. Irvln. Trustees, Dr. Bayley, Oeorge Landls, Will Webber and Fordlce and Capt. Robinson. The next place chosen to "hold Church wa. In the Butch Ham- munu null uirr m saiuuui J uu inr queni ring oi glasses, me rougn snouts and laughter of the overjoyous, the click of the blllard ball and the rough exclamations or profanity were not a very pieasani accompanymeni 10 me vnurcn mrfi.. m urucr w away from this place, Mr.. Dr. Bayley proposea W 101 me tnurcn nave a nay- ion over '""v " Church would nx it up. The Laoies Aid society won me proposmon up and clothed and papered a hall 20 by)tended Bg E,k QranKe Saturday. Re- 40 feet, putting in winaows. seais ana lights, making It a very nice and com- fortable place to hold service, with the exception when the wind blew the building would rock and a. though It would fall down. The blacksmith be low wa. Frank Delong and wa. not much given to Sabbath observance so lie worked the blacksmith stunt to tho (rent annoyance and discomfort of the congregation. The rain from the roof for It leaked and the smoke from the forge made It exceedingly dis agreeable for the worshipper.. This state of affair, started an agitation for a new Church building. So.Dr. Bayley j and Samuel Case offered two lots and the boom was on to erect a new church bundlng to cost $3,000. The Ladles Aid as usual lit In the work and soon the alter post of the present elegant Church building was complet ed. We are now at the last chapter of the 39 years when the Church was first AatohllahAH nn t Vi a hav Tlia Brown Wakefleld Setting along n,cely w,th hls laUTei ,oot whlcn had t0 be tiched in several places. Last Saturday the Grange gave a ,,ttle extra feed honor of the Al bert8on's as 't wa" their last day U8 before leavlng for thelr new "ou, ,n Jeuerson. Mrs. u L. Mc Br,de made a beautiful cake which gray saddle horse of Mike Knauff last week. Word was received here that one of the Coolie boys from up Little Elk wa8 ,nJured ln a sawmill last week. M8S Knau d scholars of the gTan,mar "ch0 ar eggs for 80me v ."I a"ter fea8t- The haVf ben oy "g warra lunche9 a w?,It?r thflr "ktchen" department whJc "V f"8ta"ei1 ,aBt year' , iiauiciiiiD UUUKUUU Ol Olg ,K expects to enter our high school for the spring term. Mrs. Arthur Pepin returned Thura- day enlng with ,a fine new boy. They are living in Mrs. Eddv's nld hnma this Winter. , P . . 10 La"' w ner neaiin. i Our new neighbors on the Albert- whllave bee "vlng here on their rancn slnce tnelr marriage a few ,mo"lh8 ag0 returned nome ' Mr8' Ue0- WlllOUghby I. quite 111. Dr- Neutn wa caed in yesterday. I Doc- Doynton and wife were down .frora Llltle E'k Saturday. Mls8 Andrews the Little Elk teacher Tinuuu Hi vvaKeneia s r rmay and Sat urday. FIEGLES CREEK Isaac Bole, who has been spending a few days here returned to Corvallls Thursday. Gale Shane made a trip to Toledo last week. Harry Brlgg. and sons', Huron and Edward, called Sunday, Tommy Tom- ason accompanied them. Gale Shane furnUhed violin music for the Grant Aunta last g,inni.. night. T. j. Buford reportB Bnow about one ! foot de0D nlft nnt mo I tionlng the drifts. Mr. Buford Is mak- ,ng preparations to farm Morty Lakes plac6i whch he nag rented Geo. Tubbs cam ovr frnra 1,1. I pIace Frdav and a,80 roporU r(?ht gmart 0f snow Ti,e rain ha. been falling In tor- renU but affectg the gnow but tt,e Franlt MuIv.ntf j. A. Kui t. :portg every th)ng proBperoUB( fln8 Bnd ;dandy Forly jour menilberg,sn.t that gong gomeT , for one adv,Bfl each ! farmlng dBtr,ct t0 g0 and do kewlga for ,t ,oad believe me. Trv it. It t. living water.. Gale Shane and Chas. Llndley go to Spauldlng camp, tomorrow, the 19th, Z. A. Kessl I. converting quite a bit of new land to the plow. Frank Mulvany Is still working for Frank Davis of Harlan. In spite of the storms, stock Is look (Continued on last pafte) WAR DECLARED ON GERMANY Word came over the wire as we were going to press that the President had of ficially declared war on Ger many. The declaration was made at 1:30 P. M. today, Friday. WHAT ABOUT PIONEER ASSOCIATION Newport, Oregon, Apr. 2d., 1917. Editor Toledo Leader: I was In hopes that ome one would take up suggestion that Mr. Pepin made In your paper a few weeks ago, concerning the formation of a pioneer association. I am sure it could be a profitable and a very plesant thing to do. Let us have an expression of the pioneers on this matter. 8. Q. Irvln "1880H. NO SCHOOL APPOR TIONMENT IN APRIL In years past there has always been an apportionment of the county school fund some time during the month of April, but as the conditions are, this year, it will be necessary for the county court to transfer money from the current expense portion of the general fund to the county school fund before there will be any school money to be apportioned, and as the county court will not meet until May 2, there will be no apportionment before that time. The warrants will be written about the 7th of Mfty. R. P. Goin, Co. School Supt. CELEBRATES 90th BIRTHDAY H. W. Vincent of this city celebrated hi. 90th birthday last Sunday, at the home of his daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wade. Mf. Vincent was born In Hudson City, N. Y., April 1, 1827. When a boy he rode on the first railroad train ever operated in the United States, between New York City and Albany. Later he went West with the gold rush to Pike's Peak, and saw Den ver when it consisted of a half-dozen canvas tents. In 1859 he moved to Red Bluff, Cal., and at the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1861, Joined a company which started for Wiscon sin to enlist In the Union army. Fall ing to pass the examination, he was appointed recruiting officer. Mr. Vincent Is hale and hearty and bids fair to round out a century. He was out to the dance last Friday evening and played first violin for some of the old fashioned dances. NEW RESIDENT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY Jefferson, Ore., March 30, 1917. Editor Lincoln County Leader, Toledo, Oregon. Dear Sir: Will you please change the address on my paper from Jefferson, Ore., to Eddyvtlle, Ore., and please take my add. out of the paper a. I have no more bean, for -sale and have got 40 letters from people wanting to trade ranches with me. I have already trad ed my place here for 80 acre. 1 miles East of Eddyvlllo. Respectfully, L. A. Whited. OPPORTUNITY Are we t sit still and allow Portland and the Columbia River Country to dominate us or are we on May 1st. next going to the poll, and emancipate ourselves? Effort ha. been made for years to secure Government aid to finish the Jetty at the mouth of Yaqulna Bay, but until at the present time without success. With the establishing of the New. port and Toledo Port District., the fflrBt step wa. taken, that spelled SUC CESS, the Yaqulna Bar Improvement put up to the Government and Lincoln County ha. been recognized. It 1. for u. to enlarge our port dis trict, and co-operate with the Govern ment In the fulfillment of this most Important business movo, the largest and most far reaching that has ever confronted tho destinies of Lincoln County. With the advent of the Jetty Im provement. a large force of men will be needed, at least four hundred, this mean, work for our home people; next in line will be large sales of timber an farm ,ands, building of Baw mills a imuruau 10 ine umoer, logging camps,' an excessive demand for our j farm produce, an enormous increase of all our realty values and an era of general prosperity and plenty for all of Lincoln County. This move we must make ourselves, the outside world has no mercy on us, they would like to retard this pro- gresslve "Bow, as with the advent of ships In our Yanilna Harbor, large shipments of grain from the Wlllam ette Valley will be handled on Yaqulna bay, this was done years ago and wan !a small percentage of what Yaqulna Bay business wRl amount to with .the movement of our timber. You need not howl about the In. crease In taxes, that will be a self regulating proposition, the Increased valuation of property and the addition of thousands of acres of Indian lands, (made possible by sale through the demand that will be created for additional ranches), to the tax rolls, will more than equalize the additional tax. Help yourself, your family, your lietghbors and all of Lincoln County by Voting YES, May 1st, 1917. FIRE PATRpL ASSOCIATION i ELECTS OFFICERS The Lincoln County Fire Patrol As sociation held its annual meeting at the Courthouse Wednesday of this week. Among other business coming ; before the meeting was the election of officers, the following being elected for the ensuing year: W. E. Ball, ; President, W. R. Hall, Vice President, Ira Wade. Secretary-Treasurer, Lee, Wade, Supervising Warden; Board of Directors, W. E. Ball, A. B. Weather ford, W. V. Fuller, W. R. Hall, A. T. Peterson. The Association Is doing much good work in this county, in keeping the trails open and preventing tires. HOME GUARD WILL BE FORMED A meeting Is called for Sunday after-1 noon at two o'clock for tho purpose of organizing a home guard. The meet- Ing will be held at the court house in the circuit court room. We have sev- eral here who have done military duty and they will be called upon to act as instructor.. Remember the time and the place and come out and Join. GIVEN 'ENTHUSIASTIC SEN D OFF Frank Nye who departed Friday morning for Vancouver to Join his regiment, the Third Oregon, was given an enthusiastic send-off at the train that morning. About 100 persons were at the depot with flags, and gavo Frank three cheer, and a tiger, and sang "Dont Bite the Hand Feeding You." That's Frank', father, John Nye, Sr., was a veteran of the Civil war, and now Frank has listened to the call of his country and gone to defend If. honor against Germany. STAND BY YOUR TOWN If you think your town', the best, Tell 'tm sol If you'd have It lead the rest, Help It grow. When there', anything to do You'll feel bully when It', through, Don't you know. If you're used to giving knocks, Change your style: Throw bouquets Instead of rocks, For awhile; Let the other perron roaBt, Shun htm a. you would a ghost, Meet hi. hammer with a boast And .mile. When a stranger from afar Come, atong, Tell him who and what we are Make It strong. Needn't flatter, never bluff, Tell the truth, for that', enough; Join the boosters they's the .tuff. We belong. Ed Blocker and son came up from Newport this morning. V. E. Bachman went up to hi. ranch on Big Elk this morning, Deputy Sheriff Ted McElwain had business on the Lower Bay the first of the week. An entertainment will be given at the Dime Theatre this evening by the Sllets Musical Club, Admission 15c. and 25c. QUESTIONS RELATING TO YAQUINA BAR IMPROVE MENT & PORT EXTENSION Question WUiat would be the Immediate bene- It of the proposed Port extension? Answer Immediately upon the extending of the Port boundrles as now proposed, our ability to meet the U. S. Govern- ment in Financing this Yaqulna Bar Improvement Is assured, The Engln- eers would proceed with the arrange- ments, and the assembling of the equipmeut. As the Government is now Irrevocably committed to this pro- Ject, the only postible chance of fall- jure Is for the voters themselves on May first to defeat it. Should the decision of the People be favorablb, the expending of $800,000. for labor and material Is assured, this will place Lincoln County on the map for future progress, and improvement. Question What will be the future benefit de- rived from the proposed Harbor Im- provement? Answer Through the Increase in population, and prestage and our progressive poli cy which this improvement will estab lish, reaching as It will every nook and corner of Lncoln County, furnish ing to its Citizens better transporta tion, better roads, better standards of living, and last but not least, a home market, the magnitude of which Is hard at this time to understand. Question Should this debt be created what would the principle amount to, and what would the Interest charge be pei lyear, on 11,000 assessed value of ' property? Answer On the present (1916) assessed val uation, this proposed debt would be a Hen of $46.45 on every 1,000 of at sensed value and the Interest charge would be $2.30 per year. Question Does the present, and future pros pective commerce Justify the expen diture of this amount of public money, and of what does It consist? Answer While the present active commerce Is small, the Immediate prospective commerce is very large, we may state this In stronger terms by saying that this Immediate prospective commerce has two of the great factors, supply and demand, and only lacks what this Improvement improvement will fur- nlsh, transportation facilities, to make j it present and active commerce. Trans 0 portatlon is the key to the whole ! situation, and can only be supplied by Improvement of our liar. The ; great Immediate prospective commerce is our timber. Question What Is the volume of the present, Immed lute, prospective, and future commerce? Annwcr We have In Lincoln County 18 Bll- ; Hon feet, board measure, of ripe and over ripe merchantable timber, which means a commerce of not less than 300 Million Tons, this will require 9 i Million cars, of 40,000 capacity each. 'or 18 Thousand Ships with one mil- Hon feet carrying rapacity to market our timber requiring not less than 50 years of heavy truffle. Vast as this may be the future prospective com merce is greater, and covers the whole field of modern and future bust ness. With this great undeveloped County, capable of supporting one mil lion people, future commerce will ue gathered from and distributed to the fnrms and cities of the present and future. With our excellent building Stone the value of which having long been established, and the manufact uring possibilities of the future, can the statement be doubted, that as the Immediate prospective commerce Is reduced In volume, other comodltles of commerce will Increase, so that the commerce of the future will Increase both In Importance and volume Question Is there danger that this vast tim ber commerce will be mniketed to the detriment of farming and other resi dent properties In the payment of these Improvement bonds? Answer The very fact that tills Improvement will be made, placing this lnrge amount of money Into circulation In the county, and the mills, logging roads and equipment, with the activity nec essary for Its accomplishment, will not only greatly Inrrease the actual value of the property, and the population, but will bring new property and Im provements, sufficient perhaps, to take care of, and actunlly pay the Interest, and pay the bonds when due. For In- stance the total amount collectable on the 1916 assessment rolls, for all gen eral and special purpose In Lincoln County, Is $204,677.42 on the assessed valuation of $9,896,749.00. Suppose all of the conditions enumerated above would increase the property of the district two million dollars, and the same mills levy was made as the year 1916, ihls would raise In round num bers $248,000.00 or an Increase of $44,000.00 which alone would take care of the interest charge and create a sinking fund large enough to pa off the principle when due. Question How would the property owner, be benefited by Increasing property val ues by two million dollars, or any amount at this time and under pres ent condition.? Answer It would be a mistake to increase the property values of the district un. !der the present conditions, even to maintain them a. they are under th present general conditions of busi ness would be a doubtful policy. Question Then how can we expect an In crease ln general property of the dis trict? Answer The expenditure of this large amount of money will have considera ble effect on actual conditions and values, and the purposes for which It Is spent wlTl certainly Influence future values, together they ought to warrant the maintaining of the present assess ed valuation, nnd tho four years of Bar Improvement work will bring to us new conditions and actual new prop erty, to the value of not less than two million dollars, and If this ho true tht re-payment of this money would cost the present property nothing, and If this would not he true, then the devel opment of the country Is a failure. Question What assurance. If any do we have that the work of marketing this timber will commence Immediately when the Hurbor Is Improved? Answer This timber Is ripe, some of It Is over ripe and deteoratlng, the owner, are fully Informed on this point, and are anxious to manufacture it. Then we have the public and private statement of the owners of a large portion of this timber, pledging them selves to the U. 8. Engineers and to the people that mills and logging roads will be bullded nnd that the work of marketing this timber will begin at once. Question What would be the assessed val uation of tho two Port districts when the boundaries are extended as pro posed? Answer As shown by the hist assessment roll (19I6 the assessed value of the two dlt:trlot8 would be SS.71 1,0.17. which amount will pay the Improvement bonds, for the improvement of the bar. Rut for all other purposes this value will be equally divided between tht districts. TOLEDO GRANGE FAVORS HARBOR IMPROVEMENT Whereas, Lincoln County has vast resources of timber, building stone, granite and coal and its fertile agri cultural lands; and Whereas, these resources are re maining undeveloped for the want of the necessary menns of transportation and our lands are depreciating In value and many of our people are forced to go to other localities In order to find renumerative employment, and under present conditions, the burden of taxa tion Is becoming unbearable; and Whereas, the government propose, to improve the Yaqulna bur so that there will be a depth ' of wator of twenty eight feet at the average high tide at an estimated cost of eight hun dred thousand dollars, and the sys tem adopted by the government re quires the localities to contribute on. half of the funds for such Improve ments; and Whereas, by slid improvement of securing deep water transportation I. the only hope of securing the develop ment of all of these resources, and thus securing a home market for all of the products of our farms nnd giving renumerative employment to all of our people and thus make Lincoln County one of the most prosperous counties of the state of Oregon; therefore, be It Resolved, by Toledo Grange No. 426, P. of 11. in regular session, on this twenty-fourth day of March. 1917, that we favor said Improvement and ask all citizens of Lincoln County to Join with us In bringing about this result. Adopted by unanimous vote. (Seal) I. F. Hlser, Master, Attest: J. W, Parrl.h, Secretary,