Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1920-02-06
VOLUME 27
SiLETZ
Sfletz has been favored this week
with entertainments.

Sfletz has been favored this week
with entertainments.
tuesday morning we lid with us
County Agent j. E. Cocter and Prof.
Theodore Schifper of U. S. Biologist
Survey. These gentlemen were
brought to Siletz by Grant King with
his auto while the Depoe bridge is
being built. Some difficulty is now
encountered in going back and forth
from Toledo to Siletz. Mr. Schipper
gave a lecture at the public school on
moles and other rodents A good
audience was present. The farmers
were we'll represented and the pupils
and teachers of the school were out
in a body. Siletz Valley has about
ten thousand nloles, more or less. The
Professor was introduced by Mr..
Cooter who also made some interest
ing remarks on the subject. The
speaker explained the nature of the
mole and his work. He has two run
ways, one near the surface of the
ground where he goes along and push
es up the dirt with his nose and fore
feet. This trail is easily traced. He
is hunting something to eat. His
main diet is the angle worm but he
will eat peas and other seed the farm
er puts in the ground. But the moles
real runway is about seven inches
under the ground. Here he spends
most of his life building tunnels. He
is an engineer and knows how to build
a tunnel. He goes along some times
in straight line and pushes the dirt
before him, commencing at the air
hole he has made, to the top Of the
ground. He then pushes the dirt out
on top OF the ground which forms the
mound. These mounds are in the
shape of a pyramid, and are all over
The mounds are great nuisances when
you want to mows the grass, often
breaking your machine. The mole
also does much damage by honey
combing the ground with his runways
sn tlat 1t dries out and the grass don't
do so well These runways are used
by the mice and other rodents who get
the worms and grass roots, and these
mice and rats are kind of communist
or socialist who make their living off
the industry OF others. The speaker
had some traps and showed how these
moles can be caught He explained
how to set the trap and how to take
the skin off the animal, and prepare
the pelt for market. Said boys AMI
girls could make good money trapping
for these animals, but you must catch
them when the fur is good, in February
and March. The hardest part will be
to keep the boys and girls on the job.
Mr.. Cooter and Mr. Schipper held
meetings at the Lower and Upper
Farms and discussed the same subject
with these schools.
Frank S. Regan gave his celebrated
illustrated chalk lecture, "The Fool
Taxpayer at the Government school
building Tuesday evening to a very
interested and attentive audience. Mr..
Regan is certainly good speaker and
a fine cartoonist. He showed with
figures how our big corporations, con-
Germs and capitalists fail to pay their
just proportion of the taxes, showing
how big concerns were exempt from
taxes and how the assessors and
boards of equalizations failed to get
valuations of these rich folks, making
the burden of taxes fall on the small
taxpayer and the plain people who
are the least prepared to bear the
burden. Mr.. Regan said if the tax
dodger was compelled to pay his part
of the taxes according to his wealth
we would not have to bond the county
and state to build roads. If we could
get the taxes out of these big concerns
we could build roads without bonding.
The bonding business is playing into
the hands of the idle rich, who have
the money to buy the bonds, and these
bonds are exempt from taxation. This
tax business should be investigated by
the people. The speaker said bond
is mortgage on every farm and parcel
of land in the county or state. Mr..
Regan is a man of wide experience in
these matters and he advised against
bonding for any purpose. Mr. Regan
came from Toledo to the logging camp
on the spseder and said he had a
splendid ride but he could not bring
his trunk that contained his nice suit
of clothes and he had TO deliver his
lecture in his old suit, which was
little embarrassing to him. But he
made the best of it and he looked quite
we'll. Mr.. Regan was delighted with
our big timber, green forest and the
ceaseless sounding of the ocean as its
waves beat upon the shore.
The course OF lectures during the
winter are coming out alright. We
may have some money left after the
course is finished. We have more
lectures yet. This course of lectures
have been very interesting and bene-
fetal to the people. 1t was the desire
OF the management to furnish high
class entertainment for the benefit of
the young people as well as the old,
and it has been very successful.