Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1916-03-31

travel them at as early a date as
possible. People want to come
to the sea shore and the roads
should be built so they can come
with their automobiles.
Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, ma
t'onal lecturer for the w. G. T.
u, is now at Newport and has
delivered several lectures on pro-
hibition. On Friday evening,
the oath she spoke at the Bap-
tist Church. The weather was
bad and the audience was small.
BY invitation from the speaker
several of the county candidates
were invited to be present. Bert
Geer, j. II. II. Andersen, candi-
dates for sheriff, were present.
c. E. Hawkins, w. E. Gwynn and
Edw. Clark, candidates for dis
trict attorney, were also pres
ent. These gentlemen were in
vited to appear on the stage and
make a little speech and define
their position. Well, finer
looking set of boys you never
saw. Each one had on billed"
shirt and a white collar with
their hair parted in the middle.
They looked fine; for youth and
beauty they were Joe Dandies.
The ladies said, for seal beauty
Bert Geer took the cake. They
all promised to enforce the law
If elected. One gentleman said
he would be careful about the
evidence and il it was not suf"
ficient he would not bring the
case, as he would not put the
taxpayers to needless expense.
One candidate defined a stool
pigeon as a person of low moral
nature, one who would induce 4
person to commit a crime In or
der to punish him. This is The
kind we had in the county re-
Gently. AS one attorney said n
Toledo they were low and nj "
enough to make a buzzard puke.
A real detective is a man who
ferrets out crime in order to pro-
tect society. He does not try
to get people to commit crime,
but to prevent it.. ] think every
officer when elected is sworn to
do his duty. without any pledges.
The constitution provides for
this.
DR.. Francis Gallager died at
his home in Newport last Satur-
DAY at $3.50 a. m. aged II years.
He was born in New Haven,
Connecticut, March 18th, 1S45.
He graduated from John Hop
kins University in 1860 and from
Yale College in 1864. He served
as physician and surgeon in the
Union Army during the Civil
War and afterwards was sur
geon general of the state of Con-
necticut and was a member of
the state board of pharmacy.
He was also chief surgeon in the
N. Y, n. III. e. Fl. railroad COM
pany. He was always promi-
nent in the medical profession.
He came to Oregon in 1896 and
retired from active practice. He
lived for a time in Portland. In
1890 he was married to Myra
Graves and to them two daugh-
ters were born, Frances and
Geneva, the latter died some
years ago. The other is the
wife of Bush F. Davis. The
funeral was held in the Catholic
Church conducted by Father
Forget and the interrment took
place in the Eureka Cemetery.
The floral offerings of friends
were large and beautiful, attest
ing the love and respect they
nau IOr the deceased.
Ira Clark Hampton died at the
home Of his parents in Newport
Sunday morning, March Goth, at
10 O'Clock, aged AZ years. He
was born in Nebraska April 26,
1874. Came to Forest Grove
with his parents when a small
boy and from there the family
moved to Newport about thirty
years ago, where he grew to
manhood. About a month ago
he went to Portland for an op-
Grafton. When the operation
was performed the surgeons
found a more serious condition
of things existed and he was sent
home to recruit, but he gradually
grew worse and in his weak
ened condition typhoid fever set
in and It was soon apparent he
could not live. Ira was well
known in Newport, where he has
a host of friends. Here he was
united in marriage to Miss Olive
Logan, and to this union one