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THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910 llii 1 ..n-tt-nti-t2'-tt-t:'-!-!!-t!-tl-.tt.-i!..ii- .J2-R-M-" ----- ro -.8-K' r W JPl lM A? &? ,rtffiPv S E5. X SB lS$ f U &i JTl f (gfflV ffl S roofing that always makes good. Ko matter how big or l inli M.ilthold fits every condition and tenders a root ser- HHle ttlB J0U ....... i..n,..l,1a If unli wnnt tlin rnnflnit Hint I' (k,f Ic nbSOIUieiJ' linuiuimiaun,, . v. .uu....n v.cv I htdeniand Malthoid. Made by the original makers of ready CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED. , with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as H they cannot reach thn seat of the dls l I ease Catarrh is a bio )'l rr coustltu y 'tional disease, and in Wr to cure it :j you must take internal remedies. Hall s Catarrh Cure is t.ilcon ir.irn ally, and acts dliectly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hair-i Caiarih I Ptirn ! nnf n nilnnlf Trmrllit.in Tf i I was prescribed by one of the best ini.i siiuuis m mis cuuiury iur juari and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood puri fiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is hat produces such wonderful results in curing Ca tarrh. Send for testimonials free. P J.CHENEY & CO., Props. Toledo.O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Tako Hall's Family Pills for consti The Paraffine Paint Co. California C, E. NICHOLSON, Local Distributor STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE first Trust and Savings Bank $3.50 RECIPE CUKES WEAK Kll). KEYS, FREE. OF COOS BAY, MARSHFIELD, ORE. March 29, 1910. m. RESOURCES. d discounts.... ,$ 80.47j.ij JS securities.' .'.' 25.603:90 ,nn? house, furnituro !nd fixtures 66.811.10 hsnd and due I OS Itroa banks 59,798.50 Total LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in. . .$100,000.00 Surplus fund . . . Undivided profits 500.00 1.962.4S Deposits 126,430.10 $228,898.58 Total J228.898.68 .. .1 A U ...An nnn.llftnn nf Mltr Yvnnlr QQ We Invite your auenuuu iu "uj bhuus "u'u" i " "'"' " it. l...n otntamnnt tn-wlf! loir 17 inB "uu,u ol.-- .- . - Cash reserve ' ijer Lt-Ul ul ei'"Bll!" Reserve required by law . 15 per cent of deposits. Reserve in excess of legal requirements. . .32 per cent of deposits. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS )HN S. COKE, President. JOHN F. HALL, BUY SEN'GSTACKEN, STEPHEN C. ROGERS, OESEY KREITZER, Cashier. W. S. CHANDLER, ULIAM GRIMES, DR. C. W. TOWJSK. M. C. HORTON, Vice President ana Manager. DOES A GENERAL RANKING AN 1) TRUST BUSINESS. YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COOS BAY STRICTLY A COMMERCIAL BANK Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, San Francisco, Cal. rri.A fT..i,wi ctintAn Vnftnn.i Rnnlr. TVirtland. Ors. "fa,rs ) Hie National Park Bank, New York, N. Y. Drafts Tli(. Corn Exchange National Bank, Chicago, 111. OH The Rank of Scotlnnd, London, England. The Credit Lyonnnls, Paris, France. In addition we draw drafts on all principal banking centors in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, North, Central and Bouth America. Personal and commercial accounts kept subject to check. Certificates of Deposit isr jed. Safe Deposit Boxes for rent. Relieves Urinnry nnd Kidney Troubles, Backache, Straining, Swelling, Etc., Stops Pain In tho Bladder, Kidneys nnd Back. Wouldn't It be nice within a week or so to begin to say goodbye for ever to the scalding, dribbling, strain ing, or too frequent passage of urine; tho forehead and the back-of- the head aches; the stitches and pains in the back; the growing mus cle weakness; spots before the eyes; yellow skin; sluggish bowels; swol len eyelids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural short breath; sleepless ness and tho despondency? I have a recipe for these troubles that you can depend on, and if you want to make a quick recovery, you ought to write and get a copy of it. Many a doctor would charge you $3.50 ju3t for writing this prescrip tion, but I have it and will be glad to send if to you entirely free. Just drop me a line like this: Dr. A. E. Robinson, K1491 Luck Building, De troit, Mich., and I will send It by re turn mall In a plain envelope. As you will see when you get it, this re cipe contains only pure, harmless remedies, but it has great healing and pain-conquering power. It will quickly show its power once you use it, so I think you had better see what it Is without delay. I will send you a copy free you can use It and cure yourself at home. TiiF SCHOOL SUPERENTENDENCY (Continued from page 3.) teachers and pupils had to rustle I have had only the merest form oC around and buy It themselves. This ' authority in shaping the policies and FLANAGAN &. BENNETT ANK MARSHFIELD, OREGON. Oldest Bank in Coos County, Established iu 1880. Paid up Capital and Surplus, $80,000.00. Assets Over Half Million Dollars. Does a general banking business and draws drafts on the Bank ol California, San Francisco, Cal.; Hanover National Bank, N. ., First National Bank, Portland, Ore.; First National Bank, Rose burg, Ore.; The London Joint Stock Bank, Ltd., London, England. Also sells exchange on all of the principal cities of Europe. Individual and corporation accounts kept subject to check. Bare deposit lock boxes for rent. OFFICERS: W, BENNETT, President. I. F. WILUAMfl, Cosldcr. . n. FLANAGAN, V.-Prcs. GEO. E. WINCHESTER. Asst. Cash. nTEHEST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. Coos Bay Rapid Transit Cos s BOATS DON'T GET SCARED You may be taking chances and may be scared of the COMET. BUT when when you send your laundry to us you have no need to be scared ana neither are you taking any cnanrca because we know our business and we know when a piece of Laundry is fit to be sent home, and it will not be sent back to you in any other shape but first class. MARSHFIELD II. & S. LAUNDRY Phone 2295. "Our wagon goes any old place." Mnnzey Bros., Props. WILL LEAVE THEIR Market, Street Dock Marshfield via Plat B. on their rcgulnr schedule from 7: 13 n. in. ""Hi 3:15 p. m. njid leave. city dock, North Bend from 7:45 a. to 5:15 p. ni. FARE 5 CENTS Overland Carriages Fare - 5 Cents w'lleapStutesman's office on Broadway opposite Times office, ""hfleld, making regular trips from O a. m. until 0 p. m. and tate North Bend News Co. office, North Bend from 0:30 a. in., ,0 0 p. in. O. S. TORREY. Supt. toe nEiGnT of cigar QUALITY IS ACHIEVED IN A I DERBY WE ARE CLEARING OUT OUR Fixtures and Glassware at reduueed prices. Special on all fixtures and appliances. Investigate. Coos Bay Wiring Co. EXPERT ELECTRICIANS. Respectfully ask your patronage. PHONE 237-J. oiiT supplies Tho Coos Bay Oil and Supply Company under the management of j. W. Flanagan will continue to han- Htn the Union Oil Company's gaso line, distillate, benilno and coal oil at their oil house across the Bay to which place they havo moved their office. Phone 302. .5aSZ5asa52SSSZ5E5HS SE525ZS25a5H5E5HKSBSH5HSE5aH5H5?! STEAMER M. F. PLANT Sails for San f rancisco every eight days. IICKCTS RESERVED UP TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP, ESKm.YTIONS WILL BE CANCELLED AT THAT TIME l.V H I L'Cfi . " TICKET IS BOUGHT. U p. S. Dow, Agent. Marehf ield, Ore. g CURED HAY FEVER AND SUaOIER COLD " A. S. Nusbaum, Batesvllle, In diana, writes: "Last year I suffered or three months with a summer cold so distressing that it interfered with ray business, I bad many oi cue ; symptoms of hay fever, and a doc tor's prescription did not reach my lease, and I took several medicines 'which seemed only to aggravate It. Fortunately I insisted upon naviue Foley's Honey and Tar. It quickly cured me. My wife has since used Foley's Honey and Tar with the same success." RED CROSS Phar nacy, (John Preusa, Prop.) system I am referring to, and tho "legality" of the method they adopt. The board's legal eyes should have been as seaiching In this matter as in that of the superlntendency. They find authority for violating the law in this as easily as they did for Imagining a violation of the other, where no violation existed. The school law of Oregon Is strict in re quiring that every teacher in the state who has anything to do with the management, control, or super vision of a school, shall have a legal teacher's certificate. There Is a special law permitting graduates of Normal Schools and Colleges of cer tain standard to teach in the high schools, but only to tench, not to exercise any authority In their man agement. Again referring to Super intendent Ackerman's decision quot ed from the letter before referred to, we find the following: "An opinion has been rendered to the effect that subdivision 2G5, p. 10S, Oregon School Laws, 1909 edition, qualifies a teacher to teach In the high schools only and does not qualify or author ize the teacher to act as principal or to teach in a grammar school, and does not qualify or authorize such teacher to be employed in any posi tion that virtually makes him (or her) administrator of the general af fairs of the school." The teacher who under this new arrangement adopted by the board will virtually become the head of the school is teaching under permission of this special law dnly, and is therefore prohibited by law from acting on such "Board of Control." If the school board should pay out any of the district's funds under such an agreement, they can be held person ally liable to the district for repay ment of the same. These facts demonstrate very clearly the spirit that has actuated the board in the course it has adopted, and show equally clearly that the "public wel fare" has not been the object in view. It was proclaimed by the board in denying the petition of the Alumni Association of the high school that they were actuated solely by a desire "to conserve the Interests of the tax payers" by reducing the expenses of the schools. Here again is more sophistry to delude the public. Let us examine the facts and see how they are "conserving the interests of the tax payers": For the present year the monthly teachers' pay roll has totalled $1445. 2C, including a special teacher of drawing and one of elocution and physical exercise. For next year the salaries of the teachers already elected amount to J10G8.33. This does not include any special teachers, and leaves six vacan cies to be filled. Estimating the sal aries of the unelected teachers, all of them, at the lowest rates now paid, counting one special teacher (music and drawing) at a salary alieaay agreed upon, and adding a science teacher for the high school at tne lowest rate at which it will be possi ble to secure even a beginner, and we must add $545.00 to the above amount, making a total of $1613.33 per month, or an increase of $1512. 6C per annum over the presnt cost. This, of course, provides one new high school teacher and one new grade teacher, but deducting the sal aries of these two now teachers, we still find an Increase over the present pay roll of 353.33 a year. It must be remembered, too, that this esti mate does not Include a teacher of elocution and physical culture, as has been the case this year, and this ex pense if counted would Increase the amount by another $450.00. I strongly favor paying good teach ers good salaries, but I believe that all should be treated alike. The board are offering to new teachers In the grades, teachers of "experience," $G3.00 a month, but of whoso "ex perience nnd high qualifications" they know nothing more than that they are highly recommended. There are teachers in our schools today, gradu ates of normal schools, who have proved themselves to be among tho best fn the state, who, after working for several years in our own schooU at salaries as low as $50.00 a month, are employed for tho next year at only $00.00. The board has placed a lady prac tically at the head of the schools, whoso experience has been confined to teaching a single department In a small Eastern high school, where sal aries range only from $70.00 to $9 0.00 a month. No question is raised as t this lady's teaching abili ties, but are tho schools to bo "im proved" by being supervised by one who Is shown not only to be not legal ly qualified for this work, but who is also without supervisory or adminis trative experience? In the old days, when we wanted a piano for the then new year, the high school principal want ed a piano in the study room, and the board bought two, one for tho general assembly hall and another for the high school study room up stairs, made to special order at a cost of $900.00, all of which the board owes today except $159.25, which was paid by the present super intendent from a fund raised by the pupils nnd teachers of tho old school. In reverting to this matter, I am not wishing to appear as being opposed to providing liberally for the wants of the schools, but I do believe that in providing theso wants the neces sary should come before tho unneces sary. At this very moment, our high school needs' $2,000 for laboratory and other equipment to make its work efficient and up to date; the board can't afford it! Right now ar rangements should be in progress for expending $1,200.00 to Introduce manual training, architectural and mechanical drawing, bench and lathe work, and other forms of the "new education;" the board can't af ford it! Last year, a telephone was put Into the Janitor's room of the new high school building for her special use, and paid for by the dis trict a very unusual thing else where. This Janitor waswi protegee of a member of the board, and even a sitting room stove and kitchen range, together with fuel to feed them, were provided at the expense of tho district, notwithstanding the janitor was paid a liberal salary. Once, when the superintendent's wife found it urgently necessary to communicate with him, she asked Central to call him up from the office to the janitor's phone, but was Informed that strict orders had been given not to permit such calls. I asked for a telephone in the school office to 'nnble me to communicate with the other school and with patrons of the school when necessary as is done in nearly all communities where telephone service Is available; tho board couldn't af ford It. But it is unnecessary to pur sue this topic further. Enough has already been shown to demonstrate how the public Interests are being "conserved," and to reduce to.nn ab surdity tho claim that all this is be ing done for "tho public good." It is almost amusing to read the board's encouraging announcement that they are going "to make the school one of the best in the state." The amusing feature of this state ment is that those who are familiar with the past and present conditions, and are in a position to judge, can already discern a downward tend- . i !- l.rt ency. rne present, uiiuiriuuu ui mo board knows, as do all others who have lived hero long enough to havo become identified with tho interests of Coos Bay, that Marshfleld's school has for years maintained an enviable reputation, and that that reputation was for the excellence of its work, the high standing of its graduates, not for its expensive new building and showey equipment. Marshfleld was long known to outsiders as "that ,town where they have such a fine school." It is a matter of record that strangers visiting here from sec tions where tho best schools that money could supply were maintained expressed themselves as amazed at the standard they found here. With the improved facilities now provided by our liberal public, and a continu ance of the loyal support given tho principal by past boards, there Is no question that this high stanuaru would not only have been continued but would havo been ralBed to an even higher plane. On tho contrary, tho present board has left nothing in their power undone that could even in tho slightest degree weaken my power of maintaining this old stand ard. Every effort possible has been made to minimize my influence with the pupils. Nothing too riuicuious could bo trumped up to din into tlus ears of new citizens, if it could in any way succeed in belittling me In their eyes. Too many instances of this have reached me to allow the possibility of a doubt that this has ben done whenever it was thought possible to do so, without reacting In the opposite direction. As to tho effect on tho schools of this nullification of my influence, let the facts speak for themselves. I tfmply ask those not familiar yith conditions existing up to two years ago and who wish to know tho facts, to carefully examine tno worn pre nnrort for the Lewis and Clark and the A-Y-P Expositions, and critically compare this with some of the wo.-k now submitted. Let tho thousand or two old citizens who re member tho former conditions visit iha snhnnl entertainments and tho high school rhetorlcals, and decide fnr tbemselves whether there Is any contest. Lot all who aro Interested compare tho attendance statistics and the discipline, especially tho statis tics pertaining to regularity and punctuality, and they will soon dis cover that there is a vast difference somewhere and from administration of tho schools. Thnt the sentiment of the com munity is strongly opposed to tho ac tion taken by the board has been evinced not by words alone but by action. The high school Alumni As sociation, with the largest attend ance that ever was known at a busi ness meeting, met and adopted ring ing resolutions approving my work in the schools, denouncing the action o the board, and requesting that such action be rescinded. Tho people sent in a hastily collected petition to tho same effect. It is sheer nonsense for the board to pretend that this peti tion did not appeal to them as repre senting the will of the majority. It was known that at the time the peti tions were in circulation the board were trying to forestall the effect ot the petition by announcing their ac tion before the petition could be pre sented. It really transpires that at the very moment tho petitions were In circulation the board were in se cret session in the private office ot the First Trust and Savings Bank, where they could deliberate without fear of being disturbed; that no clerk of the board was present during these deliberations because the clerk was supposed to be friendly to me, and his presence might embarrass their plans; that after they had decided on the course they would pursue tho clerk was telephoned for to come nnd record what they had done. Many people strongly in favor of the peti tion failed to sign It because, as was said, "It's too late. The board has everything cut and dried." Many de clined to sign because they had no idea ot the board's attitude toward me, and when approached with the petition thought it was something de signed to Injure me. The high school pupils sent in another petition stat ing in unmistakable language their attitude in the matter, and unequivo cally demanding my retention. Lead ing citizens have individually remon strated with members of the board; everything that reasonably minded men could expect has been done to show the wishes of the public, but all to no purpose. The servants of the people assume to know b.etter than, the people they serve what tho pub lic desire. Perhaps when it comes to voting the taxes to support the schools their authority may not he so arbitrary. As to the position in the schools, I do not care a snap of tho finger. There aro other and more remunera tive fields where my services and ex perience will be in demand. All that hurts is that I have built a home here, where I had expected to live till tho end; and after the long and earnest service rendered it seems bit terly unjust that my connection with the schools should end in this way. It Is unreasonable that, contrary to tho wishes of pupils, parents and a. large majority of the community at large, one or two new-comers could so manipulate matters that they could accomplish this end by availing themselves of th&opportunlty afford ed by petty grudge and spite. I have no quarrel to pick with tho members of the board, nor do I wish to wrong them in any particular. An. attempt has been made to assail my reputation as a teacher and super visor, and I feel it my duty to defend myself, showing tho motives and the animus of the attack only where necessary. To tho many who have personally approached me with expressions of friendship, and feelings of lndignar tlon at the injustico of the board, I wish to return my thanks. To tho Alumni Association of the high school and the students In particular, I wish to show my gratitude for their loyal support. F. A. GOLDEN. SETTLE WAGE STRIFE. Erie Railroad nnd Employes Adjust Differences. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, May 20. It Is offi cially announced that the wage diff erences botween tho Erie Railroad and tho conductors and trainmen, have been settled and the details aro being worked out. THE WTIEAT MARICET. (By Associated Press.! PORTLAND, May 20. Wheat un changed. CHICAGO, May 20. Wheat closed May $1.11; July $1.02; Septem ber $1.00. TACOMA, May 20. Wheat un changed. - CHICAGO, May 18. Wheat closed as follows: May $1.12; July U$1.02; September $1.00. PORTLAND, May iv. iuvui"". wheat unchanged. somo cause. Let it also bo distinctly remembered ,et' building, that during tho time For indigestion and all stomach trouble take Foley's Orino Laxative as it stimulates the stomach and iver and regulates the bowels and will positively cure habitual con stinatlon. RED CROSS PHAIt- of these changes MACY, (John Preuss, Prop.) i i-E5?S325clSHS2a ESZSaSHLSSSESeBa &i5HS&SSiS&25& MmH-UlL, ...