Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1917-06-01

LuHlDer 20. SHIPS flrSt cargo OF lum-
Der for 1917, amounting to 400 900 It.
Milton-Plans new garage building.
Pendleton-Pacific Light & Power
Co. authorizing investment of $500 !
in improvements here.
Forest Grove-Contract let for con.
struction of first 10-mile unit of Gales
Creek and Wilson River Railroad.
with bouyancy that is unparalleled
and alarming said R. ]. Clancy as
sistant to Gen. Mgr. of the S. p. Co.,
prices of railway equipment. material
and supplies are soaring upward until
the railroads cost of living is Of grav.
est concern and is endangering rail-
road credit"
Lebanon-Lebanon division Of
Crown-Willamette Paper Co. increases
wages 37.5 cents per day, increasing
monthly payroll about $1,000.
Coquille-$20O, 900, improvements for
Port of Umpqua under way.
If ever the necessity of legislation
encouraging to power development was
apparant, it is now. Electricity is
needed in all lines of war preparations,
to haul our trains and heat our homes
and yet millions Of horsepower are
running merrily to waste simply be.
cause arbitrary regulation prevents de-
velopment.
Bandon-Prosper Mill Co. raise
wages 10 per cent. Work to be started
on Airplane stock.
Benton county farmers keep tractor
plows going day and night and Sun.
day. e'..
Salem-Wholesale manufacture high
price shirtwaists succeeding here.
Pendleton will expend $4,000 Oh
water supply intake.
| Astoria--Machinery for paper mill
on Youngs Bay arriving.
Reo-Father E. V. O'Hara has re-
signed rs head OF State Welfare Com.
mission.
Coos county industries suffer from I.
w. w. invasion and sabotage.
Portland Columbia Engineering
Works launches ITO foot auxiliary
schooner.
Eugene-Local planning mill to make
100000 wooden pins for shipbuilding.
st. Helens Shipbuiiding Co. launch.
es third 5 masted auxiliary schooner.
Contract taken for another lumber
carrier 300 feet long with capacity of
100000 feet.
Astoria-Port Commission buys $S5,.
600 dredge to be used for deepening
channels Of lower Columbia.
Ashland-California men buy box
factory and sawmill miles from here
which has been closed for a year. and
will operate.
Eugene-Movemen started here TO
repeal Sunday blue law, as unfair 10
working classes, and open places OF
amusement on Sundays.
Astoria-McEahern Ship Co. launch.
es another big auxiliary schooner.
How industries build up communi
ties has again been demonstrated
Bend now has a population of 5000. ac
cording to a recent directory compila
tion. The increase for the past three
months has been about 12OO.-Rose
burg Review.
Oregon City-One of the best grave
rlants In the state starts operation
mere.
MISUNDERSTANDING work OF
establishment of big ship Ouildil,
and equipping plant here continues.
Lebanon-Paper mill here Increase.
wages so cents a day.
Some people are found arguing
against the s6,OOO,OOO Oregon ROAD
. Bond issue on the ground that th,
money should not be spent at thi.
time of involved conditions. There 1.
{ about as much sense In such an ar
gument as to urge all merchants tr
stop placing future orders and to clos,
their stores when present stocks are
gone.
Brookings-Oregon.Calirornia Lum
Der Co. sending cut first cargo.
klamath Falls may get sugar fac
tory. Utah.Idaho Sugar Co. asks farm
ers to subscribe sufficient acreage TO,
, $4,000 tons.
Western-o..W. II. & n. Co. starts
work on Dry Creek fill, cost $4,000
Bean cleaning plants to be erected
in Eugene and Salem to cost between
$4,000 and $4,000 each.
Astoria-Port Commission lets con
tract for 100000 bushel concrete bin,
at cost OF $4,000.
, Salem-New business block S2H
, feet square planned here by J. II. Far
rar.
Philomath Is to be manufacturinp
town. Handle and furniture factor,
added to sawmill industries.
Corvallis-Contract let for half OF
$4,000 apartment house.
! Eugene-Garage warehouse to be
built here.