Jimoln '(ottntj) Jender.
VOLUME 28
TOLEDO. LINCOLN COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 7th, 1921.
NUMBER 45
SILETZ
The Holidays are past and the peo. keeps the men of South Beach pretty
"pie will take up their work where they busy to keep the road In a condition
left off a week ago but with a resolve to travel with the mall auto,
to do more for the community, more A large seallon washed ashore a few
for themselves and more for the good days ago having been shot. It was
of the world at large. The New Year quite a curiosity to those who had
was ushered In with a storm which never Been one and there were several
still continues with unabated fury, went to see It among the rest your
The wind blew a perfect gale all day correspondent. The seallon measured
Tuesday but so far no serious" dam- nine feet in length,
age has been reported. Fred Dozier who has been visiting
Siletz river is up but not out of It's his father. Win. Dozier, left for Port
banks. This Is due to the lack of land lajt Sunday to take up his stud
snow in the mountains. When we ies again on Monday. Fred is one of
have a big fall of snow and it goes off the young men who is fast gaining
with a warm rain we have high water, prominence by his upright, courteous
In the river. At one time under these and gentlemanly conduct. Some day
conditions the Siletz river rose to the he will- hold a very prominent and
nelghth of 28 feet above low water -high position.
mark. This riBe took out the Govern-; o '
xnent bridge across the SUetz river WAI PlPriDT
Borne 35 or 40 years ago. At another : VinLUrUK I
time a big snow fell In the mountains' The , of b d ,
-some places In the canyons near the monle9 announced the arrlval of tne
summit of the moun a ins the snow newl born 1321 b , floeB
was some 15 to 20 feet deep It went t0 be weak , r t fc
off with a warm rain and the Siletz bo;8teroUg lhaa the old 20 ag ,t hag
river rose to be a roarmg cataract. stomed a te u slnce fl
where the Gorge is now on the Upper hour
Farm a great slide of big trees, dirt Qn the , w f h M & , ,
a! ft ZmL 'Ct Jh'f ZTr d bR8kfct ba m th Albany hlh
SO or 30 fee deep. When the dam hlc ,ud , ' 0f thirty-
broke loose the water wont through' t0 elghteen ln taTor of Alban
lurco U1UI II nuuueu wu
whole country along the river. At
the Agency the river was said to be
33 feet above low water, mark. This
rise took out the Government bridge
that been replaced after the former
flood. That winter throe men from the
Luckamute were camped ln the
mountains near the head of Siletz
river hunting. When the big snow
came they started out hunting and got
flnn rW H trr nm tl HapoH i (trill rtA
J"Z,L " " , "'T ,:
for several days and finally went to
the Valley nearly perished for lack outs)de f w , dow f
of food and the long exposure. The fenceg and had ,t blown dawn gome
other two men wandered down the ,d on u , ht ha beneflted
Siletz river sleeping out In the cold ,n tne d
under !o;s, or wherever thpy could get . 0
to keep from freoIng. They occas-j uaoi m
ionally killed a bird or caught a fish, HARLAN
and ln this way kept alive until they , ,,, ...
came within two miles from the Up- . Everyone is sympathizing with N.
per Farm when they gavt up, crawled ,L-f Gl?l wi, ln ,th!,loss ,0ff tbelr
Snder a log and laid dowi to die. nfant daughter. Maggie May. It was a
While in this plight, some Indians, terrible shock to all She fell and
who were out hunting found them struck her temple on the stairs break-
nearly perished; gave them some- ln a,b'd YeB8e'' supposed this
thinto eat but gave i. only ln small rsulftfLd 'n ber death- . fehe J""
quantities, knowing If they gave them fbo,ut 7:3f Monday morning and died
?oo much h would kill them. The DK , ! octoc. Sh '".h UF'
Indians put their own coats on them, by two "" two brother,
took them to their houses, fed and h"1parn'9' S,he, T!' beautul
warmed them up and then took them ' and the pet of the entire com-
to the Agency where they were taken y" ... ,
care of rtJhon.e of Frank Stanton B. F- fra nt is improving now
who was then la.-mer at the Agency.." de"B"'eu 'o ay.
These poor fellows could not have harles Godhey of Newport attended
fallen in better hands. Mrs. Stanton theUD"al f NL- G5ants f-
i j i ik. k.i o a Miss Dorotliy Owenby returned from
c.00.k.1d. 'iT'. Portland Dec. 24.
and was burled on the hill in the
"UB uu ' c" tMtZ h :
Indian cemetery. I don think his
Ku- I thmk tovg
z reer
trouble of keeping them. This was
Tgood Samaritan act. John Ponze,
Med Evans and Mose Lane were the
party who found these men. i
The teachers are all back again '
from the Holidays festivities and took
up school Tuesday morning, all rested
an refreshed for th. work of the
raining few months of the ool
A 'lively basket ball game was play-
ed in the plav house Friday evening
between the Hot Shots-High School
-and the All Stars-trom the Grades,
The score stood 32 to 22 in favor of
the Hot Shots. The teams had their
nice. It is the purpose of the school "ye tor dinner Ne-Year's day
to train a team at Siletz that will be , W. W. Grant and wife were in Toledo
worth while ,a8t Monday. Mr. Grant went down
J. L. Goodell and Ed Case gave a to prove up on his homestead.
New Years dance at the Reception Miss Dorothy Owenby LeU U
Friday night. It was well attended .Gera Calltina. als0 vlsited Toledo
by the young people and all report a la8t Monday.
good time. Lunch was served at the , 0
Banquet Hall. The music was excel-j SILETZ SCHOOLS
lent. !
Mrs. Grant King and her two daugh- . Several of the teachers arrived late
ters, Helen and Lavelle have returneu Monday evening, returning from va
home from their visit to the Dalles cations spent in the Willamette Val
wlth her sister, Mlrs. Ole Sondlin. ley. Two of them, at least, were as
M-. Kin? speck cf her nico visit, of flir as Portland where thoy attended
the beautiful scenery and high moun- the State Teachers' Association, last
tains about The Dalles, and the dry week.
climate but was glad to gf)t back to the on Tuesday morning school opened
moisture and gentle rains of the SI- again but with somewhat less than
letz Valley whore everything is green average attendance owing to the very
and fresh, except the people. ; severe rain and wind storm. Thru
o the day the buildings were rocked
cm ITU RFirU ; and the south end of the gymnasium
UUUin DfcMun 'nearly became a victim of the high
The hard wind and rain is doing wind velocity. In the evening the
-considerable damage in the way of up truck taking pupils to the Lower
setting out buildings and flooding the Farm was unable to make the trip
Eurden spots. The wind has also up- owing to lallen trees in the road. The
rooted several trees and loosened the school at Lower Farm, having one
prepared roofing roofs of a few build- pupil present had been dismissed for
lngs causing leakage. the day. .
Our school teacher, went to Port- The High School basket ball team Is
land as Miss Haley and returned on planning to play a game with the team
New Year's Day as Mrs. F. L. Moore of the Newport High School on Frl
while Frank, went away on Friday a day evening and all are looking for
batch and returned a benadict. Con- ward with considerable Interest to
gratulations are in order and we all this game.
I - THE ONLY THIN I LIKE ABOUT SCHOOL. II 5o MXIWE OOWAld WKKeNSva WEU, PonaldI IcoRtvJHEN Ooll GET II THE PBtMTl J3n III
T i(fo,s PROMerrioMTlMe nTTI C6VcHt'Tc 1 GET T ' rtATA B ? H. ' 5'TTlNG MERE FOR ! 1
HOlVE
wish them a very happy New Year.
' Thn rnntlnnal c 1 1 rl th. - 1 A
TU nau, nlfloo u.ara ln.allo. In
the I. O. O. F. lodge- last Saturday
night, after which a good repast was
served to the members end many
(rend
School opened again Monday except
ing the high Bchool, the teacher did
not return so we are without any high
school at present. .
January third was one of the worst
ever Been Tnere wajJ
. .
"a wind " T blowing down many
trees. There was but little damage
More high water and everybody is
driving logs as a result.
Mf anJ R Qi
Grant and daugh-
K- - Gr,nt ana Hoy
ear s aay wun a. . Moore ana wire.
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be fhtater
ov?r rr 'nls ytlter- .
V ,fng' thy Owenby and
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Franci8 W I n ,
tors st week0 6
nlt
a k,Mr'hah.. i.m .
,vMr8- May c- Grant nas b?ea. 1.ald UP
;n8 pa8t vweek g b"d, fi n
horseback. Her horse stepped into a
"u' ouu.lu'' ""T" '',,,:r ' .'.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allison enter
tained a number of friends and rela-
A POINT OVERLOOKED
C- '"T" ' j ,
T, r 7 THANK
fcJgSSV .sfc Aoodness m
BIG TIMBER TRACT SOLD
Negotatlons hut han ina4 ,...
by the Pacific Spruce company takes
over a lumber mill site and buildings
at Toledo, 24 miles of railroad and
i..ouu acres or timber land formerly
the DrODSrtv of thn TTnltaH c,
Spruce Production corporation. The
jhuh was given out as iz,uuo,000.
The mill which was 0 per cent
completed when nnflrntinna War. Hta
continued is located on the headwa
ters oi iaiuina but- and when finish
ed will have an estimated capacity of
250,000 feet an eight-hour shift. With
it is Included the Alaea Southern rail
road running 23 miles south from Ya
quina bay. The timber land included
In the purchase wos known as the
Blodgett tract and lies north of the
Yachats river and south of the Alsea
river.
Fentriss Hill of San Francisco, and
his associates are incorporators of
the Pacific Spruce company and they
announced that they plan to begin
logging and mill operations early in
the spring. Oregonlan.
WIND AND RAIN STORMS
BREAK ALL RECORDS
The wind and rain storms of the
past few months haVA hrnlrpn all re
cords according to old residents of
this section. They say that they have
seen Just as hard storms but for dura
tion of time, the present spell of
Weather t&kes thA nri?o and .van ,V.A
old Webfooters are praying that it
win cease. More water fell on New
Year's day this year than fell during
the entire months, nf .Innnarv anA Pah
ruary last year. According to the old
saving, - una exception follows anoth
er," and it seems to Iia nrnvino- im.
as last winter was Axcnntlnnailv nW
and this Is one of the wettest ever
Known.
Many predict an early spring and
we certainlv hnnA that , ih.
what they are talking about, as enough
is enough.
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LEGION PLANNING CALICO
DANCE FOR JAN. 22.
The entertainment rnmmlttaa nf ih.
local Legion Post is making prepara
tions tor a "calico ' dance to be given
the night of January -22nd, 1921
those entering into the spirit of the
evenings entertainment will wear ap
parel consisting chiefly of calico both
men and women, so far as they can.
Supper will be served; and home mus
ic will furnish joy for the occassion.
Details are to be announced with pos
ters later.
Calico, Club House, Toledo, Jan. 22,
supper, music, we go!
ROGERS-HARDING
The wedding of Charles Rogers and
Miss Clara Harding was solemnized at
Orlando, Florada, on Sunday, Decem
ber 19th, 1920.
Mr. Rogers ls a resident of Orlando,
Florada, and the wedding Is the cul
mination of a romance which began
two years ago when Mr. Rogers was
stationed here at Toledo as a soldier
ln the Spruce Division.
Miss Harding, known by all her
'friends as "Teen," is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Harding of this
city, and was a very popular young
lady. 'After finishing school she took
up nursing and has been serving as
a trained nurse ln Portland the past
couple of years. -- . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers will make their
home ln Florida.
NELS W. MILLER, JR.,
SCALDED TO DEATH
The little two vpar nM rhlM nf tut
and Mrs. Nels W. Miller of Pioneer
died Wednesday of burns received Sun
day wnen n puned a boiler of hot
water over on Itself.
It seems, as nenr ar wa ran loam
that Mrs. Miller carried a boiler con
taining some hot water out and set it
on the porch. She then placed tubs
In front of it to keep the baby from
l?tL!nE at Itund Want ArrYiK:4 ihu n..t..h
to a faucet for some cold water. The
oaoy nowever managed to get past the
tubs and DUlIprt thA hniW nf lint
over upon Itself. The little one, lived
until' Wednesday, though terribly
burned. Funeral nprvlroa will ha h.M
at Chitwood tomorrow.
J. D. MICKLE TO TALK
- TO LOCAL DAIRYMEN
J. Mickle, ex-food and dairy com
missioner. will.b8 In Toledo Monday.
January 10th, and will address the
dairy farmers on the vital questions
of the Industry. Ilia mnny years of
experience as a public official In con
stant touch with tho dairy interests
of the state made him one of the best
posted men in the county on tills sub
ject.
As the stock holders of the local
creamery meet at 10:30 It has been
decided to serve a free lunch at noon
so that all may be present during the
afternoon. All are Invited to par
take. Any person Interested In dairy
ing will find it time well spent to
come In and hear what Mr. Mickle
has to say.
Mr. Mickle will address the Siletz
dairymen at Siletz In the evening.
I. 0. 0. F. INSTALLATION
Toledo Lodge No. 108 and Do Good
Rebekah Lodge No. 70, I. O. O. F
will hold Joint Installation at the Odd
Fellows Hall on Saturday Evening,
January 8th, 1921. Supper at 7 p. m.,
and Installation following.
All members of both orders cor
dially invited.
Committee,
CHRISTMAS DINNER PARTY
A fine dinner was served on Christ
mas day, at the Blue Bird cottage,
home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Sexton,
recently of Fort Myers, Fla., and who
now reside on their ranch on Eck
mann Creek, 3 miles south-east of
Waldport. The "home was profusely
decorated with ChrlstmaB greenery,
Including ferns, cedar, hemlock, salnl,
huckleberry, fir, Oregon Grape and
holly; also naper bells and chains.
1 The table was loaded with good
things beautifully arranged. Roast
chicken with prune dressing, devilled
eggs, peas and carrots, cream cheese,
cottage cheese decorated with rasin
turtles, beet pickles, bean pickles, cu
cumbers, baked beans, pimento salad
and fruit and nut salad were supple
mented with mint jelly, apple Jelly,
jelly tartB, honey, broad and butter.
Dessert consisted of pumpkin pie and
mince pie, fruit cake, silver cake, gold
cake, Yorkshire pudding, homo made
cnniiv and cookies. Drinks were cof
fee and milk. They have forgotten to
mention the creamed potatoes, chick
en gravy. And blue bird napkins and
blu9 bird cards at each plate with
Christmas greetings.
The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. F.
L. Buker of Waldport; Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Welst and family, Avis, Cora
and Vera and Miss Arnold, teacher of
the Alder Grove school.
MASQUERADE SUCCESSFUL
The masquerade given by the Amer -
lean Legion at the Club House New
Years Eve proved highly successful,
a large crowd being in attendance,
most of whom were masked. The
prizes for the best sustained charac-
ters were awarded to Mrs. Lola Cruson
as "Mrs. Jlggs," and to Wallace Wilkin.
son as "the hobo." Many others were
exceedingly good and It was hard for
the Judges to make the selection.
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HAKUINU- I AYLUK
Mr. Thomas W. Harding of this city
and Miss Jessie Taylor -of Elk City
were united ln marriage Tuesday at
merfllal Hotel, the Bev. C. R. Ellsworth
officiating.
Mr. Harding ls the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Harding of this city and
la nrnmant ln .Mal,.a onrt la an an.
jergetic young man. Miss Taylor is the
,uu., ..mu xu,-r u.o aduplon lrom tne fauJ0Ua novel Dy
? L r,? i 3 M ?:2n?n, "a" Calna. featuring Katherlce Mac
of Klk City and is also a student of ,-..,,., , .,.....n.,
the Toledo High School and ls a beau
tiful and popular young lady.
Mr. and Mrs. Harding have rented
appartmenta in the Gwynn residence
on the hill, where they will make their
home.
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NEWPORT DOCK COLLAPSES
Last week, during the storm and
high tide the Newport Lumber Co's.
dock collapsed dumping the entire
stock of lumber and the engine, planer,
trimming machine, etc., into the bay.
The dock was owned by 0. F. Jacobson
and John Fogarty, and the lumber and
machinery by Mr. Daugherty.
WHAT NEXT
A carload ot cedar poles was re
ceived here the first of the week by the
Pacific Telephone Co. for use on their
lines here. This Is good and perfectly
all right, and we are glad to see the
improvement But, the poles were
brought from Escanaba, Michigan,
clear across the continent, to Oregon,
where poles grow so thick that they
can be almost had for the cutting.
TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL
A 1920 Hleh School romance ended
Tuesday when Thomas Harding and i Toledo. They certainly exceeded the
Jessie Taylor were united In marriage. , speed limits, but did but little damage.
The bride, a Freshman of T. H. 8., Isi 0
a charming and accomplished young; ELECTRIC COMPANY
lady who resided at the Horning res-, iiMDrrr Mpu MANAGEMENT
idence while she attended school. uut-K New mmwmuc.ivic.im i
"Tom," the bridegroom, wbb a Soph-1 January 1st saw a change In the
more and also held the position of management of the Yaquina Electric
manager of T. H. S. athletics. An ex- Co., same having been taken over by
cited group of students riced the happy, the Yaquina Harbor Lumber Co., and
couple at the depot, Tuesday noon be-1 will be operated by them as a side
fore they left for their future home in ' Issue to their sawmill project here. O.
Elk City. i W. Ford who is ln charge of the Ys
Among the many New Year's reso-'qnina Harbor Co's. interests here, has
lutlons that were made In T. H. S., the ' plnced C. F. Altree In charge of the
one concerning punctuality to classes j plant. J. J. Bellany will run tho even
seems the hardest to observe. Two Ing shift and L. R. Altree the morning
bells are sounded at the beginning shift. G. A. Perrln will look aftpr the
and ending of each class. This plan . lines anil collect for service at Now
will save much time. j port. Miss Helen Smith, of 'Roseburg
Santa Claus was very kind to the ' will be bookkeeper, and will collect for
H. S. pupils, Xmas, sensing our needs , the Toledo service at the mill office,
he presented us with a pretty framed The Bervice at present will be from
mirror that now hangs In the main hall i 6 to 8 in the morning and from 3:30
to advanlaee of those who wish to ad-1 in the afternoon until midnight. Ex-
just pompadours, tlx stray locks and
powder noses.
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FROM PROTLAND JOURNAL
'V. v. l?-,t"rson. well known timber;
man of Toledo end president of the
. ' d,. cuMi-teivlai ij. s in Pon
land as a delegate to the State Cham-
in r (, i mm, "-.; , .i. i . Mr. Pat
terson formerly lived at
Cleveland
and was a utiKlibor and tilllcum ot
Newton D. Baker, now secretary ot
war. During the war Captain Patter-
auu uuu t-itaifio wt m. .
the million dollar spruce production
mill at Toledo. He and Bert Geer,
former sheriff of Lincoln oounty and
son of Bl Geor, one .time school land
clerk, are together In the lumber busl -
ness In Lincoln county.
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BUYS BLOODED CATTLE
Fred Romtvedt this week received
a flnn rn!r!ntrirfl lieiirnsev mm ana
heifer from the famous Looney herd
at Jefferson. The animals came In
Monday evening by express. Mr. Loon
ey captured first prize at the Btate fair
thi year with his herd.
TREES ACROSS ROAD
The high wind of Tuesday blew sev
eral trees across the Siletz road, und
tho heavy rain washed in several
elides, which made it very hard for
Graham's stage to get thru with the
mail.
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WIND DESTROYS
VALUABLE PROPERTY
We are informed that tho high wind
of Tuesday blew over Maurice Ander
sen's hen house, at Siletz. breaking
six eggs.
JONES-BALL
1 Mr- Vernon B. Jones of Newport and
i Miss Essie Ball of this city were
united ln marriage Monday afternoon
! at 2 o'clock, at the home of the bride's
j parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ball, the
Rer- H. E. Bush officiating,
I The groom is the youngest son ot
M- rml Mrs B F. .Tones of Nr-wpon
nd has lived ln this county nearly
811 hiB llle- H ls an luaustnuua
I yung mun and at present ls employed
i as engineer on a tug boat at Portland.
'Miss Ball Is the daughter of Mr. and
i Mrs w. E. Ball of this city and is a
I6 PPular ad highly esteemea
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Mr. and Mrs. Jones left yesterday
for Portland where they will make
nome-
AT THE MOVIES
V"" " yvw
"The Woman Thou Gaveri Me." aa
uuuaiu nit.it nituitfc DUiput tiuti t.Dw
Also a comedy. 3Dc. and 15c.
Sunday Change of Program.
NO TRAIN WEDNESDAY
OWING TO BIG SLIDES
1 The continued heavy rains of the
Da8t weo't reaulted In several big slide
on the railroad yesterday, which made
It Impossible for the train to get thru,
Oue big slide occured near Elk City,
and another neur Summit. The slid
near Elk City was removed so that
: the train got thru yesterday and a.
, transfer was made around the slide at
Summit. It will take several days to
remove this latter slide.
BASKET BALL GAME
TOMORROW NIGHT
A game of basket ball has been
scheduled for tomorrow evening be
tween the Toledo and Siletz town
; tenuis, at thu Full- buiiuiiib'. Game
i starts nt eight. Admission 25c. and
36c. Come out and see a good game,
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TEAM RUNS AWAY
Claus Christiansen's team ran
away Wednesday afternoon while left
standing on Hill street and were not
I stopped until they had readied West
i ceptions to this will bo made on Mon-
days and Wednesdays wnen tne ngnts
will be kept on as follows: Mondays
until lo o'clock and Wednesdays until
11 o'clock A. M.
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HIGH WATER IN RIVER
CAUSES BIG LOG JAM
Thn Ynmllna Itlver was out of Its
bnnk at Elk Cltv Wednesday and the
, gawi0gs and drift coming down the
Yaquina and Dig Elk rivers formed a
big jam just above the wagon bridge
al turn piuce Hliu it iuoivcu iur a um
, ng tliouch the bridge would bo washed
' ollti it 9 nstlmated that there are
two thousand sawlogs in the Jam. The
rVer ia falling rapidly at present and
1 t a thought all danger is past. It
wm require the assistance of a donkey
engine to pull. out the logs and un-
jtangle tne jam.
damv WIMAI I
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THREE GAMES
Albany College, which played a tie.
game with Toledo Thursday evening,
and later won out when they played off
the tie, also won at Waldport by the
score of 31 to 18, and at Newport by
the score of 32 to 17. The boys return
ed to Albany Sunday. Coach Starr of
the Albany team Btated Sunday that
his team had not been beaten this year
and the game here at Toledo was the
hardest one they had played this year,
out of more tliun a dozen games.
BOYS WIN; GIRLS LOSE
In the double header basket ball
game at the Fair building last Friday
evening between the Toledo and New.
port boys and girls basket ball teams
tho Toledo boys won out by the score
of 10 to 6, wliile the Toledo girls lost
I by the score of 8 to 22.
virW -rue pRestnr tm
SATINS MERE FOR !