Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1919-12-05
SiL-ETZ

Inc SlletZ High school PIE yed The
Newport High School backet ball teanf
here last Friday night and were de-
feated Is to s. The Siletz team played
off form and could not seem to get
going The close guarding Of the New
port team was a feature. They played
with much skill showing fine training
The Siletz team lest in the first half
but came back strong in the second
and outplayed the Newport boys, but
could not overcome the handicap of
the first half. After the game the
High School students and teachers
entertained the visiting team at the
home of Prof. j. NJ. Miller's with a
feed" and then games were played
till the wee small hours. The feed"
as well as the games were full Of in
terest and pleasure. The Newport
team came to Siletz in a hack drawn
by horses on one of our stormiest days
getting thoroughly drenched with rain
and shattered with mud The took
rooms at the Crawford and were soon
dried out and after partaking of a
warm, appe izing supper, WAS ready
for the fray. A team that came thru
such a storm a distance of fifteen
miles ought to go home with their
colors flying at the masthead. Several
games will yet have to be played be
fore the championship of the county
is won.
Thanksgiving Day was duly observ
ed by the people Of Siletz. The store.
were closed and everybody attended
the big chicken dinner given at the M
e. church. One hundred and fift,
people were fed and It was a day o
sociability and pleasure as we'll as !
day o! gratitude for the nlnny bless
ings we have received during the yea1
chief among them the closing Of tn
great world war and the unseatirg @
most of the crowned heads of Europe
In the evening song service wa
had and a patriotic and eloquent Sc
mon by Rev. Walter Ross, pastor If tn
church.
For the first time in many moon
the sawmill whistled to-day MONDAY
and as 1t echoed and re-echoed aroun
the hills of Siletz Valley, we were r
minded that the much needed lumbt
for home use as well as foreign C
sumption was commencing to be say
ed. Mr.. Lee Wade has charge of ii
mill and logging camps.
James Franks sold ten acre piec
of land to parties from Corvallis Il
$17O0. This land lies west Of The pu
lie school building and is part I
the old government farm. This san
party bought a five acre piece Of Mau
ice Andersen for $3.50. Land value
are increasing right along. SiletZ hi
thousands of acres Of fine bottom lar
as we'll as vast bodies of hill lend CO
cred with billions of feet of fir, spruc
hemlock and cedar timber that
worth millions of dollars. This mak,
Siletz rich country.
Mrs. William Miller has spent
week visiting her son, Prof. J.
Miller, who has charge OF the publ
school at Siletz.
Mrs. Lester Waugh has gone to h
home in Toledo to spend the winte
This leaves Lester to keep bachelo
hall on the farm. But he need not
this very long for we have among o
Indian women some of the best XII
of housekeepers that would like to 6
the job.
MIR. F. S. Townsend who is an attac
of the Bureau Of Labor, came ov
Sunday to get copy Of the pi,ocet
ings of the Coroner's inquest held ov
the persons who lost their lives
the explosion of boiler in a sawn
near Taft. MIR. Townsend with Mr.. G
ham, one of the inspectors of bodle
and machinery, had been to Taft
see and investigate the condition
things at the mill that was blown
pieces by the explosion
Siletz is very favored place.
Thompson who came from Cana
with his family last fall to make
home here has bought enc Of the fin
lots in town, paying $3.50 for IT g
will build a new bungalow on the
next spring.
Born, November 25th, 1919, to
and Mrs. r. E. Chandler, an ele'
pound daughter. Mother and bi
doing we'll.