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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15
Chief Clancy Back on job.

manifestations A. Clancy,
whose dismissal as chief Of the local
fire department was recently quzsh-
ed by court decision, has resumed
his position.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15
An Idle Dream.

How would you like to have the
walls of your den papered, Scraps
ley?"
With $1,000 bills
"Jehosaphatl What for?"
$50 / could take my pocket knife
every morning and scrape off bill
for the days expenses"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15
Jobless. Man Kills Self.

Racine.-Despondent because he
had lost his job, August Cook, aged
As, former expressman, shot him
self in the head three times before
his family
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15
Provide New Courthouse.

Chilton.-The board Of supervis-
ors of Calumet county las appro-
priated $75,0 900 for new courthouse
to be erected here this spring Plans
and specifications have been accept
ed
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15

Dances Eight Hours, Though o.
Valley City, n. D.-Dancing for al
most eight consecutive hours at a
party in honor Of his sixty-ninth birth
day is the record of H. A. Tooley here.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15

Italy Denies Rombardina Smyrna.
Rome.-The Italian government hae
caused to be published denial of tn
report that italian war vessels hav
hombarded Smyrna.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15
WILL CONVENE LEGISLATURE.

Wisconsin Body to Consider Relief
for Black River Falls.
Madison, Wis - That there will
be a special session of the legis-
lature to consider the situation at
Black River Falls arising out of the
food disaster last fail and to take uD
other subjects which Governor Mccoy
ern believes are pressing for solution,
is now stated as a fact The date of
the session has not been decided.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15
MANAGEMENT eeqins at Homo

WdH-gcTreht bc9IffS DIT FfOme-
"Digsfocth is always trying to think
I'D some way to manage the trusts"
"Pshaw. Dingsforth can't even
manage his wife"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-15
Minneapolis, March 13, 1912.

Minneapolis, March TO, 1917.
Wheat-No. l, hard, 1.0SA; No
1, northern, 1881; No 2, northern,
1867 Il; Corn-No. 8, yellow, &C.
Oats-No. 3, white, soc. Rye-No.
2, 8715c.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
Riverside V

R. L. Calkins and wife and baby
returned from Portland Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Fuller are in on
a visit.
The Riverside ball team will or
ganize next Sunday. We will chal-
lenge any ball team then.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Grant was
visiting home folks Sunday. Mr..
Grant killed the largest bear that
has been shot for some time.
Mr.. Folmsbee was up the river on
business Saturday.
Well, the primary election is over
and nobody killed although one fel-
low has a broken heart.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10

The sidewalks throughout the
city are in bad state of repair
and should be fixed at once before
someone is injured.
Everett Cook of the firm of Dod-
son & Cook of Taft, arrived yester-
day on the schooner Nenamosha for
visit with his parents and old time
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Hesseltine
OF Ashland were in this city the
past two weeks looking for home.
Wednesday they visited Newport
and got their first glimpse of the
ocean. Yesterday morning they
went to Roseburg to attend the
Southern Oregon Conference of the
Seventh Day Adventist church.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
Bay View.

Forest Rangers Durbin and Ca
hoon went up Drift creek Tuesday.
George Prescott went up Drift
creek Monday and returned home
Tuesday evening.
Herb Twombly visited his broth
er, Burt this week.
Milt BEEN delivered scow load
of lumber from his own mill for
Mr.. Ryan here at Bayview Friday.
The swallows are with us once
more and Spring is Fastening on.
Mrs. J. R. Walker visited friends
at Lutjens one day last week,
Miss Johanna Hanson came home
from Portland this week.
Lillian Strake spent the week
with friends in Bay View.
The dance at Mr.. Dyers Saturday
night was well attended. There
were several from Beaver Creek,
also from Drift creek.
School began Monday with Miss
Wilson IS teacher.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10

Mrs. Sam Hill spent Friday after
noon with Mrs. S. A. Holmgreen.
Mr.. Roberts passed through Ona
on Friday, taking orders for the
Oregon Nursery Company.
The friends of Mrs. A. H. Phelps
surprised her at her home on Satur-
day evening. the occasion being her
birthday. She was remembered bv
way of kitchen shower. The
evening was passed pleasantly with
music and dancing.
Mrs. Walter Weber spent Sunday
at the R R. Gwynn home.
A. H. Phelps and son, Clifford,
made the trip to Yaquina Tuesday.
Mrs. L. M. Commons and Mrs. A..
H. Phelps spent Tuesday afternoon
at the s. A. Holmgreen home.
The steam wood saw, belonging
to j. H. Wolfersperger was heard
merrily buzzing away at the Com
mons ranch Saturday.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
BIDS WANTED.
Eddyvllle, Or, May 9, 1912.

Eddyvllle, Or, May 9, 1912.
Sealed bids are asked for the con-
struction work of bridge over the
Yaquina at Eddyville, in accord
ance with plans and specifications
on file in the County Clerks office.
All materials to be delivered on cars
at Eddyville. All bids to be filed
with County Clerk on or before May
81. 1912. W. F. Wakefield,
Road Supervisor Dist. II.
The schools all over the county
have been preparing for the Fair
this coming August, and their show
ing at this and the State Fair will
be something worth while. We ex-
pect some of the big prizes offered
at the state fair to be carried off by
Lincoln county boys and girls,
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
BIDS WANTED.

The clerk of school district No.
81 in Lincoln county, Oregon, will
receive bids up till o'clock D. m.
June II, 1912, for a new school,
house. to be built in said district.
The building is to be 20 feet wide
by 30 feet long. with twelve foot
caves. A partition to be six feet
from the front end. to form a cloak
room. One door to enter the cloak
room from the out side and two
doors to enter the main room from
the cloak room. All doors to be
1t. 8 in. by 6 it. 8 in. There is to
be nine windows, two'in the front
two in the back and five on the left
side. Each window to have two
sashes with four lights to the sash.
Each pane to be 12xl4. Three sills
running lengthwise and one across
each end. The sills are TO be at
least 6x6, A porch in front to be
feet wide and eight feet long. A
flue to be built of brick in the back
end Of the building. 1t is to ex-
tend at least a ft. below the ceiling.
The house is to be covered with
cedar shingles laid inches to the
weather. The building is to be
painted.
The school board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
Jos. Sijota, District Clerk,
Kernville. Oregon.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
WaIdport.

Myron Brooks has contract to
cut forty ricks of wood for the
school district.
Miss Mary Murphy. who has had
charge of the primary grades of
the Waldport grammar school for
the past year. has been engaged to
teach in the Corvallis schools next
term.
Chas. Thompson is visiting this
week at the home of Mr.. Wheelock
on Drift creek.
T' g copy for the High School book
has been sert to the Leader office and
will be ready in short time. Wald-
port business men have been liberal
with their patronage in the adver-
tisi 9 section.
- discharge fire arms in front of
esidence after dark may be con-
sldered good joke bv the simple
minded but it is in violation of our
state laws and is anything but
joke to the women and children
within.
County Commissioner Charles N.
Thompson has resigned his office.
Owing to i'll health Mr.. Thompson
feels that he is unable to give the
proper attention to the work. 1t
is very much regretted that Mr..
Thompson has taken this step for
the voters of this end of the county
feel that he has always had their
interests at heart.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
COMMISSION Err LUDEMANN.

Commissioner Charles N. Thomp-
son OF Waldport has resigned his
office as county commissioner. and
yesterday the Commissioners Court
appointed Claus LuGemann of Wald-
port as his successor.
Commissioner Thompson gave as
his reasons for retiring that of fail
ing health. The people of the
county will learn of his retiring
with regret as Mr.. Thompson has
made capable. conscientious Of
fetal, being liberal and justnEswith
every section of the county :.,alike.
They will all unite in hoping the
illness is only temporary and that
his health wilso on return.
Mr.. Ludemann is one Of Lincoln
county's oldest pioneers and most
able men. He is a successful busi
ness man and being thoroughly
familiar with the entire county
knuws the requirements of every
locality. Mr.. Ludemann will make
our county good commissioner.
and our County Commissioners
Court is to be congratulated on it's
choice OF a successor to our former
commissioner, c. N. Thompson.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.

The regular Sunday excursion
train service will be inaugurated
on the C. & E. railroad Sunday,
May 10th. and will run every Sun
day thereafter on the following
schedule: Leave Albany. 1880 a.
M, arriving at Toledo, 1913; va
quina, II: AS; boat arriving at
Newport, 1915. Returning. leaves
Newport, $3.50; Toledo, 6:27. Ar
irving at Albany. 1920.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
APPRECIATED.

| wish to publically thank the
members of the Toledo Port Com
mission, individually and collec-
lively, for the courteous and bust
ness-like manner they accorded me
during my business relations with
them while building the Ports
wharf in this city. A more cour-
teous, painstaking and thorough
bulsness-llke set Of men have
never dealt with.
Theodore Knudson.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
CARD OF THANKS.

/. | wish to thank the many friends
for their kindness and assistance
during the sickness of my wife, and
for the many beautiful floral offer
ings and many other expressions of
their sympathy at her death and
burial. /, |. Sincerely.
Louis Hamar.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
Elk City,.

Apples of all kind seem to pros
pect well for a crop.
George Hodges made business
trip to Seattle the past week.
Mrs. Abbey is visiting in the
Rose City.
The Mutual Telephone company
has the short line completed from
Elk City to Toledo.
James Bell and Gene Powers
were down from Pioneer Monday.
Lon Sharp was visitor from
Mill creek Sunday.
Several pleasures seekers are
among the trout the past week.
V. B. Knott and wife of Sioux
City. Iowa, are enjoying the calm
weather of the coast at Hotel Elk
the past week.
Mrs. K. D. Woodford of Newport
visited Mrs. W. E. Simpson the past
week. Mrs. Simpson returned to
Newport with her.
Mrs. Chas. Allen is visiting with
friends in Eastern Oregon for
month.
Big Elk ranchers are commencing
to turn in cream for shipment to
Valley creameries. Yaquina Valley
should support creamery tssE,k
City.
c. L. Morrison is manager and
walking boss on the Mutual Tele-
phone line these days.
DR. Burgess made flying call on
Sunday with his new launch
"Ferro H." Some saw it and others
said it was tldalwave, while others
knew it was an airship. Come
again, Doc, but blow the whistle SO
we can all see.
The late rain filled the Elk CITY
Lumber company's boom full of
logs and made others smile.
No special road tax for this year
will make those interested be more
careful in conducting meetings. If
all were interested the tax would be
paid without question. But as
it is we find corporations and some
individuals are opposed to good
roads.
The dates for the coming Lincoln
County Fair seems to be satisfactory
to most everyone. 1t is too early
for late apples but will come in
time for several varieties of har-
vest apples that will be prime, and
vegetables will be near enough to
make good showing. As it has
been we were between the late and
early products.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
COUNTY NEWS.
News of each Community Gathered each
week by Our Rustling Associate Editors

DR.. Carter was Toledo visitor
yesterday.
Mrs. Bowling of Winant was
visiting in this city last Monday.
C. C. Mcbride of Eddyville was
in this city Tuesday and Wednesday.
The schooner Nenamosha returned
yesterday morning from the ST.
letz bay.
Fred Wagner of Nortons was
here this week, having business
with the Court.
Joe Sijota was up from Kernville
the first of the week transating
business in this city.
A. B. Hunt of Eddyville was
transacting bushes; with the Com
missioners' Court here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stienfeldt of
Dallas are visiting their daughter,
Mrs John Ebbe, and family in this
city.
Commissioner Kentta came over
from Siletz Wednesday to be in at
tendance at the Commissioners
Court.
W. F. Wakefield, our recently
nominated County Commissioner,
was down from Eddyville Tuesday
and Wednesday.
John Gwyn Of Eddyville had
business with the Commissioners
Court here this week, returning
home yesterday morning.
Oliver Altree has lately been re-
ceiving fine lot of logs at his saw
mill. He now has logs on hand to
keep the mill running for long
time.
Several dozen milk cans arrived
at this place for the Siletz cheese
factory. Looks Ike something will
be doing in the cheese business over
there soon.
Anton Jacobson has remodeled the
little house he recently purchased
from Ross McElwain and has1 made
a nice little bungalow. Charles
Bradeson and family are now oc-
cupying same.
There was large crowd at the
dance at Oddfllows Hall in this city
last evening. The boats brought
quite crowd from Newport. The
restaurants served good supper,
and everybody apparently enjoyed
themselves.
Mrs. Armstrong, who has been
visiting this Winter with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. E. Ball, and family,
departed Wednesday morning for
her home near Dodge City, Kansas.
Mrs. Ball accompanied her as far
as Oregon City.
The local Woodmen of the World
at their meeting last Friday evening
initiated eighteen candidates into
the mysteries of the order. After
the initiation a feed" was had.
At their meeting next Friday even
ing they will initiate some fifteen
or twenty more.
President Carl Davis of the Lin
coin County Fair and Festival says
arrangements for the coming Fair
are going along nicely. A meeting
of the general committee will soon
be held when other committees will
be appointed and all arrangements
made for the biggest Fair ever held
in the county.
The boxing and wrestling matches
were pulled off in Woodmen Hall
Monday evening according to
schedule. The boxing matches
both resulted in draw. The |
match was won by Dick
son who threw Davis twice in about
fifteen or twenty minutes. There
are rumors of other matches being
pulled off in the rear future.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10

Captain R. A. Bensell of New
port is in the city today.
Judge Gardner returned Friday
evening from Portland.
Capt. Henry Nice of Lutjens was
transacting business in the city
yesterday.
Miss Parker of Tidewater is visit
ing her grandmother. Mrs. Gault,
in this city.
George Record returned Wednes-
day evening from his farm over on
Rock creek.
l.. Z. Mowery of Lower Siletz
was county seat visitor several
days this week.
|. }. Pepin of Chitwood was
transacting business at the court
house Wednesday.
Frank Thompson of Harlan was
doing business before the Commits
sioner Court this week.
John Fomsbee of Elk City was
transacting business in the county
seat the first of the week.
Mrs. A. S. Casteel and Mrs. S. A.
Pruett and son of Yaquina were
visitors in this city last Tuesday.
United States Marshal Grifi h
passed through on the train yester
day morning enroute for the Valley.
K. Ruprecht, Chris Weidmer and
Karl Gerber were county seat
visitors from Nortons Wednesday
evening.
Miss Maybelle Keith arrived from
her home atssSummit and will spend
her vacation here. She has been
teaching school the past Winter.
The Leader Job office is this week
getting out the first number of the
"Alsea Breeze" the WaIdport High
School annual. This paper is GER
talnly a credit to the school and the
citizens of Waldport. The school
was literally supported by the busi-
ness men of Waldport, who all
carry advertising in the publication.
The paper is cleverly gotten up, is
well illustrated, and in point of size
eclipses all other publications of
like nature ever gotten out in the
county.
At the meeting of the CITY
Council Monday evening a petition
was presented to the Council, signed
by number of persons owning
on Hill street, asking the
Council to lay hard surface pave
ment instead of planking on Hill
street. No action was taken in the
matter by the Council but the same
was laid over until next Tuesday
evening when the Council will meet
in adjourned session for the pur-
pose of deciding the matter. The
Council wishes to do what is wanted
by majority of the property own
ers 1t seems to US that it would
be the proper thing if the property
owners, concerned. would meet with
the Council Tuesday evening and
express their sentiments in the
matter, instead of leaving it for'the
Council to decide alone.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
HELP WANTED.

We have positions for four good
women or girls. One place on a
ranch in family of two; would not
object to woman with child. Call
on or address C. W. Day & Co.
Real Estate and Employment.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
FOR SALE.
DIED.

At the family home near Siletz,
on May /, 1912, Mrs. Lettice Fair
child, aged about as years.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1912-05-10
NOTICE.
Denartment of the Interior,
U. S. Landoffice, Portland Or,

Denar tment of the Interior,
U. S. Landoffice, Portland Or,
April 10, 1912.
Notice is hereby given that the
following described lands have been
surveyed, viz: The west half of
Township 7 south, range 8 west of
the Willamette Meridian, Oregon,
said survey covering Sections a. 5,
6. Z, 8, 8, 16. II, 1S, 10, 20, 2l,
2S, 20, 80, 81, 32 and 33 of that
township. The approved plat of
said survey will be filed in this office
at 8 o'clock a. m. on the 2lst day
of May, 1912; that on and after
such date all persons claiming any
OF said lands will be permitted to
file their applications for same in
this office.
All of the above stated lands
were included within the Tillamook
Forest Reserve by Presidents proc
clamatlon dated Mach 2, 1907.
H. F. Highly, Register.
j. { Ardrey, Receiver.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-11-07
High Ball.

Knight the Gms prefer call him rather than worker
from cab the little red behind don't confess having been
General Manager his equal if do than thought
deed the addition The Mirror Gene I'll have
compished
would you like rambler of the
(none your aeghts night manifest hitting
hou quite
would then suppose
weknown bard
making head the
aforementioned sixty (6O) mile an hour train?
Yes would going some
had thought
the resde surely would wish yourself the
bunch long take before
the locomotives coascutte the pusang of the
All, ye Knight of the Gm's life round of soak
cnde and wind hurricane speed nothing of
ladders and buckng poset fagman
the the department and departments the Con-
high ball" signal from division end division end All
along the line when running siding
let No uthbound mail other equally by and
the coolest night npped
mood for those of the knights the Gm which
informed shortly be forthcoming the versatile of
Gene"
conclusion; old hogback"
and of few scattering Brooks Compounds But we'd love
os before here little old 5xS
hear the familiar ensemble of sounds
things when Gene
Via r. r.
by any the sucker always
the bunch And speaking
less than founder himself such in like
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-11-07

diary Els talents
ta We on The Mirror staff
I do not mind SO much with knife,
But bear I'd surely like to take his e
You may pickles with but me from the noisy soo
That drinking when eating corn upon the COD
What has the odhoned woman who used to run
and spend the afternoon Stanley In GRAND
And the old man who Nav and the girl who to
wasn't supper dishes?
He ardeny pressed his suit read exchange 1t could
been Minnesota for they never have suit to
There has come booklet entitled The
Magazine Maker gen. journal information for writer's
of the Of publications
stuff" The following bit of light stuff explains
Once story unique,
Then buyer
Then n Isa MAGAZINE ass H2 sa sasTsr
Found a market inside Of wique.-Harvey Peake.
up your Tyre Poetry"
that has for its object the be
The heard
without the limitations mposted All
will be for, poems
submitted during the Harriet Monroe editor The
will monthly If be asked opinion of
would 1t is long felt and will be successful
or elin' dreamn,
To visions an play a seemin'
Shoe, 20 long wild pesern, don't belong
With pesmisc visage an your reality.
don't for long have got today
An aim to keep jogging long the OF howery way
Go else who wants with OF grey hairs
Long you keep distance, there isn't who
Bout your elln that we'll be and grey;
Why let 'er rain tomorrow it's raining today
An today is all Pm loving an love FER mighty well,
So OF age keep moving-go Beau Esprta's cell.
Says.
A little bit O kindness a little gvm,
A helping hand to moras who smiles,
An this world tn gandest an life worth tn
For tn glory you feeling hepn lame dogs
bit sunshine tn folks whose paths deary
Will be carried in their bosom for light tn dark miles,
o. it's feel maxim heart CHEEKY
An tn world lot hepn famed dogs stiles
Our is
May Stanley the Rapids
Review; Phuey of the Wmar Tribune the Editor
Falls Transcript If could Quntns
IIo, would overflow
Doy October Maker
paid by He claims
stuff" the best and that should paid be
He cites this n
Generally speaking woman Professor Brown bmd at his class
thought him odfashioned and laughed him. each
pretty
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probably dollar, no
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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-11-07
a Little Dope on the Side


Pub. H1onthlv ~ Second Spasm
The only way we can get this
stuff thru is by threading the editor.
We told him if he did not print it,
we would write sonnet to his girl.
So you see we have forced him to
put 'er thru.
Young Abner Jones Of Partridge Greek
Was stuck on Parla Hyde
For Parla she the beauty was
Of all the country side.
One night when church was over. and
Young Abner saw her home.
He told her that he loved her and
From her he ne'er would roam.
She said, Il fear your trolley's off
On that I'll bet cent
And Abner he is wondering yet
Just what Miss Parliment.-Nate Collier in
Duluth News Tribune.
Hezakiah fell in love one day
With Miss 10 Sweet;
They happened by swell cafe.
And Hez he ses let's eat"
The maiden ordered lobsters rare,
Of bird she had her fill
The way she spread that bill of fare
Made Hezakiah ill.
She finished up with slabs of pie.
Dill pickles and choice wine,
And then Hez ses no more with I
Will that Miss Iodine-Me
Good morning, did your wife elope?
If so, you're fit to read this dope.
There aim no use in lookin'
Glum old chap,
It's best to smile an do
Your little Bit"
If the Board" says you're not
Fit for Minneap'.
Why you're not fit, that's all on it.