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TOLEDO, LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6th, 1917.
NUMBER 7
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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,