Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1920-08-06
SILETZ

Rev. Walter, Ross has returned from
attending school at Salem for the ben
eft OF rural pastors. This school was
Instituted to help ministers to get out
of the old ruts and to keep up with
the development and progress of the
present age. The world is so consti--
tuted that you must either go forward
or drift backward There Is 70 such
thing as standing still. 1t is like row.
ing boat against the current. Ycu
must keep pulling or you will drift
down stream and this applies to the
ology as well cs to anything else. The
car OF progress moves right along and
If you wish to succeed you must get
aboard while it is passing or be left.
Mrs. Ross and her little son, George,
have also returned from a two months
visit to see her mother who lives in
Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother was
very sick but had got somewhat better
SO Mrs. Ross returned home and she
had not been here but a short time
till the sad news came that her mother
had died just twelve days after Mrs.
Ross had bidden her goodbye. Her
death was caused by second stroke
of apoplexy.
The weather is fine and everyfarm-
er is putting up his hay. The crop is
good this year and the oat crop is also
going to be exceedingly fine this sea-
son. Notw thstanding the war prices
are kept up but Siletz is going to fare
pretty we'll so far as the farm pro-
ductions are concerned. We will have
plenty.
Williams and Kearn have cultivated
their logan, berry field till it is in
splendid condition. The yearling
plants that were set out are doing iile
but the tips did not do 80 we'll. The
ground was very foul being covered
with noxious weeds, but by using the
disc pretty thoroughly the weeds have
been subdued and If this system of
thorough cultivation is kept up the
weeds will not return. These gentle
men own another ten acres that they
have planted to corn and potatoes; /;
they also have planted potatoes be-
tween the rows of logan berries. Al
together they have eight acres of po-
tatoes planted and the crop looks fine
and II the price of potatoes keep up
this crop will go pretty far towards
paying for the land Mr.. Williams is
pleased with the work and has in
creased in weight and good looks and
says he would not exchange his pros
poets here for the best business in
Newport. The market for this logan
berry juice is universal and jell is
world wide and is increasing right
along. This damp humid coast climate
Nd ;aI1 h. u<,lI
is the home Of the loganberry as well
as the evergreen black berry. Messrs
Williams and Kearn are going to dem.
onstrate what can be done here with
this berry and we believe this is the
starting of an industry that will ulti-
mately establish cannery here and
bring a big payroll to Siletz Valley
1t is said "a person that can make
two blades of grass grow where one
formerly grew is benefactor," If this
is true and these gentlemen succeed
in their undertaking they will surely
be benefactors.
Judge Wintermeier and family of
Eugene, Dean and Mrs. Straut and B.
+. Goodpasture and family all of Eu-
gene motored to Siletz Sunday, took
dinner at the Olin picnic grounds and
spent several hours fishing in the ST.
letz river with good success. DR..
Strout is dean Of the State University.
Miss Wintermeier is president of the
Red Cross organization of the State.
This party had never visited Siletz be-
fore and were delighted with the cool
air, pure water and beautiful scenery.
The auto travel to Siletz is increas-
ing notwithstanding the gasoline
shortage that is growing more serious
all the time. The above mentioned
auto party got a small supply to help
them to get home.
Mrs. Alfred Bales of Corvallis is
on a visit at the home of A. l.. Craw.
ford Mrs. Bales was a neighbor OF
the Crawfords in Nebraska and nursed
and took care of Mr. Crawford while
in his pinafores.
Mrs. Warren Cobb and her two chill
dren have gone to Newport on a weeks
visit
Sunday evening the Siletz and the
Upper Farm baseball teams played q
very interesting game on the public
school square. The odds were against
the Upper Farm team from the start
The score stood II to- in favor OF
,Siletz.