Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-02

Mrs. G. G. Copeland came over from
Siletz on business Thursday.
]. H. Penn, the U. S. mail agent,
spent the day in Toledo on business last
Wednesday.
Mrs. Burns and family left this week
for Idaho, where they go to join Mr..
Burns on their farm up there.
The item about Charley Crosno in last
weeks issue should have had the last
part credited to the Salem Independent.
This commission was an oversight.
The country is almost deserted, the in
habitants having gone to the hop fields.
The picking season will last about a
month.
A marriage license was issued by Coun-
ty clerk Lutz yesterday to j. A. Peterson
and Nellie Gault. They are residents of
Tidewater precinct.
B. w. Wilson, of Corvallis, whose
name is household work in Benton
and Lincoln counties, is in very poor
health. His many friends hope, how
ever, that he will improve and be spared
for many years yet.
A. D. Hale, of Hoskins Benton county
has bought the Press, of Albany, and
will engage in4he newspaper business.
Mr.. Hale has been prosperous farmer
and we hope that he will be prosper
Gus newspaper man.
A postal inspector has been over TO ST.
letz during the past week looking after
the proposed mail route from Siletz
down the river to Kernville. On his
way over to Siletz from Toledo he meas
ured the route and found it to be 8.9S
miles, or near enough to be called nine
miles.
There was a heavy fall of Snow at To-
ledo last Monday, although the weather
was very warm and pleasant. 1t was a
fall of six feet of Bill Snow from a scat
fold on the new Snow building where he
was at work. He brought the scaffold
down with him and banged up things
generally.
The apple crop in Lincoln county this
year is simply grand. The trees are al
most universally loaded down with fruit
and it is of frst-class quality in every
particular. In fact it is hard to beat a
Lincoln county apple at any time, but
this year it is thing of beauty and joy
forever.
A dancing professor was in Toledo
yesterday trying to start dancing class.
We don't know how he succeeded but
we fear that he did not strike the right
persons here. We can get him up a
class in fifteen minutes. There's Char
ley Crosno, Jack Allphin, Uncle John
Hyde, Sam Owens, Bill Alexander, Coll
Van Cleve and ourself and in a pinch
we could send over to Siletz after Chas.
Ruhl.
B. F. Irvine, the editor of the Corval-
lis Times, has returned from San Fran
cisco where he went to have his eyes
doctored. The doctors refused to per-
form an operation upon his eyes, as the
chance for a benefit therefrom was too
remote. We are very sorry to hear of
this. Mr.. Irvine is one of the brightest
country newspaper men in Oregon. He
is strong writer and is vigorous in
every way. We sincerely hope that his
sight will fail no more.
Oliver Altree is over from Drift creek
today, and informs us that he now has
his saw mill at that place in operation
and ready to saw lumber. Is has had
a hard job OF it getting his mill in shape
and has met with many serious setbacks
and disappointments. He thinks now,
however, that his troubles are about
over, and tnat he will be in shape to
run right along. His mill will cut from
five to eight thousand feet per day and
he has fine body of cedar timber tc
work up.
While on our trip last week we met
Henry Burns, Milt Stewart, Hamilton
Arnold and Millard Robertson, over al
Harrison, Idaho. Mr.. Burns has got q
farm on the banks of Couer ID Alene
lake about two miles from the town o.
Harrison and is busy at work clearing
land and logging. NIilt Stewart and
Hamilton Arnold are working in Grants
sawmill at Harrison. They get 50 pei
day and work full time, and consider
able extra time. Millard Robertson is
an engineer on the lake steamer Geor
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