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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1912)
THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1912 EVENING EDITION. 5 L Tw Dollars for O n Js not an unreasonable expectation from a well plnccd real estate investment now on Coos Bay. Find, if you can, a man of means who does not own real estate. Isn't that significant? Make a selection from some of our good, selected offerings. Make the development of Coos Bav earn money for YOU. It WILL. 45 acres best land on navigable water. Good water front; 11 acres bottom, 4 acres now in cultivation. Bottom cleared; 200 chickens, horse, cow, good house and barn, all imple ments, house furnished, plenty of water, first pn, money making place. Crops of garden mid 'terries in; 100 3-ycar-old fruit trees. . .$ 5,750 120 acre cultivated ranch,; I0 acres bottom, new house and good stock and improvements. $2000 will handle; balance very easy pay ment plan $12,000 300 x 300 corner plot; close to business; 25 per cent under the market. A sure thing. . . 3,000 Two lots on Enstsidc; fine commanding view of Marshficld and the Bay; high and level. ili Positively the best vacant inside lo.t in the central business section 8,500. . Inside business lot; has building which pays rout enough to carry taxes and expenses. . . . 7,750 ANYTHING YOU WANT IN THE REAL ES TATE LINE. LET US WHITE YOUIt FIRE INSURANCE. LS. Kanafmaini 1 77 Promt St & Co 15th Special Saturday Sale AT "THE BUSY CORNER" We will offer tomorrow sotno of the Biggest Bargains over offored lu Fine Perfumes in Fancy Packages Wo am desirous of closing out this lino and tlioso prices should do It In short order li.Vccut Hotllo of Perfume, In fancy box IDo fiO-cont Uoltlo In fancy boxes lit only :0c 7.1-ceut Boxes for 80c $1.00 Boxes for 70c Then wo have a fow Import ed samplo bottles of tho high est grndo porfumo In tho world that wo are sacrificing at less than cost. 81.00 Beautiful pnekugo for only 92.00 $5.00 Cut Glass IJottlo of per- fuino for $:'-00 $8.00 Ilottlo Imported Per fume for $i.HO SEE oVll WINDOW Lockhart-Parsons Drug Co. PHONE MAIN 298 US BigDance at Sumner Saturday May 25 Keyser's four-Piece Orchestra WiJUfDl8h mu8lc- Steamer Wah-ta Whi. worin Bend at 7 nna CJ&AL,I!SP MUIicoina Dayton Bicyelcs Marshfield Cyclery BICYCLES FOR RENT ' WANT ADS. LOST Fountain pen top; 8llver mounting. Finder pleaso return to Tho Times office. LOST Canvass covered note boon partly filled with names and col lections. Finder please return to The Times office. FOR RENT Furnished, moderately improved flat. No children desir ed. No. 648 Eleventh St. off Flana gan avenue. WANTED Four or five room house and lot, not too far, out from $2000 to J3000; make substantial COOS RAY TIDES. Dol w Is glvon tho tlmo and height of high and low water at Marshflold. Th tides aro placod In tho order of occurrence, with thoir times on tho first lino and heights on tho sec ond lino of each day; a comparison of consecutive heights will indlcato whether It Is high or low water. For high wator on bar, subtract 2 hours 34 minutes. Dato. May. 2C Hrs. .3.G9 10.20 3.D9 10.54 Feet .1.9 4.0 1.2 5.9 20 Hrs. .5.11 11.29 4.59 11.33 Fcot .1.2 4.7 1.0 C.2 nnnual crulso must notify tho local omcors by Juno 1. Hero Years Ago S. B. Cathcart of linker Post, G. A. It., is today ar ranging to havo tho graves of tho voternns In tho local comctory decor ated for Memorial Day. Mr. Cath cart recalled that President Campboll of Oregon Unlvorslty who is to deliv er tho Momorial Day address hero tills year delivered tho Fourth of July address nt n colobratlon In Em plro thlrty-threo years ngo. THE WEATHER (Dy Associated Press.) OUEaO.V Showers this aft ernoon, tonight nnd Sunday; southerly winds. LOCAL in:. THMl'mtATUHE PORT. For twenty-four hours ending nt 1:43 n. m., May 25, by DcnJ. Ostllnd, special govornmont me teorological obsorvor; Maximum C4 Minimum 49 At 4:13 tt. m 54 Precipitation 48 Wind southwest; rainy. Totnl precipitation slnco Sept. 1. lull r.r,.s4 V IiOHX. JOHNSON To Mr. nnd Mrs. J. D. Johnson at their homo In North llond Friday, May 24, nn olovcn- pound daughter. Quiet on Sulslmv. Eugeno Crosth wnlt returned yesterday from n busi ness trip to tho SlUBlnw. Ho says that It now looks as though tho Coos liny lino would not touch Floronco nnd Qlcnndn, turning down tho const at Acmo, two nnd n half miles up tho river. Most of tho mills on tho lowor Sulslnw nro running Just enough to supply tho local trade Thoro wns n big crowd In Florenco for tho Rhododendon festival. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE PERSONAL NOTES DAVE WALLACE of Catching Inlet wns In Marshllold todny. CIIAS. MAHAFFY of Coos lllvor wns n Marshllold visitor today. MltS. FUEI) HANSON of Sumnor Is n Marshllold shopper today. MRS. E. L. nOHEUTS of Catching Inlot wns In Marsh Hold todny. MRS. H. E. BESSEY of Coos River was u Marshllold shoppor today. DAN MATTSON of Catching Inlot Is In Marshllold today on business. MAIITIN RUSSELL of Wlllanch In lot wns In Mnrshflcld todny on business. W s I AVE. OPENED Closing of Mill Slough Hinges on Opening Street to the Waterfront. "Should it bo found desirable as you suggested over tho telophono, to extend tho sowor In Anderson nvonuo through to tho liny, I shall bo pleased to permit such nn extension through our property, between Urond wny nnd to tho Day, providing this can bo done without any cost or seri ous lnconvcnlenco to us. This is, of course, with tho undorstnndlng that not only tho Mill Slough will bo closed to tho hnrbar lino, but bulk bended nnd filled, tho wliolo dlstnncu from tho liny to nt least Sovonth street It practical, nnd I would favor that It wnB bo filled clear through to Ninth street. This Mill Slough has appeared nn eyo-soro to mo over slnco I bnvo been coming In horo At n mooting nt tho Marshllold' Chumbor of Commerco Inst ovcnlnc. It wns decided that It would bo Jin-1 as I know It has to a ureat mnnv nth posslblo to soeuro tho closing of Mill for pcoplo, nnd 1 feel thnt tho tlmo Slough unless urrnngumeutB could ' has como when this work should bo mndo for tho oponlng of Curtis done. It can never bo dono any nvonuo through to tho water front. This decision wns readied nftor n rnthor lengthy discussion of tho mnttor. President McCormno was request' cheaper, nnd tho qulckor it Is dono, tlio better for tho city. "I nm sntlBflod It will monn an In creased valuation of tho proporty for blocks on either Bide; In fact, outsldo Flno New House. Contractor P. M. Tally Is rushing tho work on tho flno now homo of F. A. Haines on South Fifth street. It is 30 x 37 foot, two stories high with a sovon-foot concrcto basemcilt. Go To Rnndon D. L. Footo loft this attornoon in his auto for Dnndon with a party of local prlzo fight fanB who will tako In tho Day-Duarto match thoro this ovonlng. Only n fow wont ovor from tho Day for tho bout. o To DundoiT-Soc. W. N. Ekblad of tho Marshllold Qun Club-announc ed today that tho Marshllold club will go to Dnndon Decoration Day for n big shoot thoro with tho Dnndon nnd Coqulllo clubs. Tho trip will bo mndo by nuto. JOE COACH and Joo Hnddon, of Dnndon nro spending n fow days In Mnrshflcld. W. F. HODSON of Coos Itlvor was looking nftor business Interests In Marshllold today. JAS AIKEN returned todny from San Francisco whoro ho has boon attondlng school. Organize Muoic. C. I. Rofgnrd will leave today for Dnndon whoro MOndny night ho wil institute- n Mooso lodgo. Ho has been given au thority to do this by tho grand lodf,t of tho ordor to straighten out n mix up that Organlzor Mooro got thorn Into. It scoius that Mooro colloctod tho Initiation foes but novor In stalled tho lodgo. Mr. Itolgard will be assisted by I. S. Smith and O. O. Lund in instituting tho now lodgo. IIiiIIiIh Itont House Capt. Edgar Simpson has agroed to build a bont Iiouho for tho two boata which woro recontly sont horo for th(j local divis ions of tho Nnval Mllltlu. Tho houso will bo largo enough to nccomodato both nnd n section will bo provldod for othor equlpmont. It will bo built nt North Dond nnd brought horo. Llout, Dlomborg loft today for homo, having got things In fairly- good shapo. All who wish to go on tho payment down nnd good monthly payment. Addross 55, euro Times. LOST 3 plocos manuscript music. Finder ploaso return to Times of-flco. FOR SALE. Furniture fo fflro rooms, all now,- choap. Call at room 214, Coko building, or tolo phono 20C-J. FOR RENT Ono largo nowly fur ulshod room with heat. 342 South Broadway. C. II. MARSH and daughter, Miss Uma, returned yesterday from a trip to Oardlnor nnd vicinity. VERNON SMITH, son of O. A. Smith, loft on tho Nnnn Smith this morn ing for San Francisco whoro ho will spend a fow weeks. JOHN D. OOSS, Rubs Tower, R. IC Uooth, nnd Clnudo Nnsburg loft last night for tho uppor Coqulllo whoro thoy will enjoy a fow day's llshlng. AMONG THE SICK Mrs. Ellen Slglln who has been qulto III Is roportod somewhat im proved today. F. A. Sacchl who has boon 111 at his homo In South Mnrthflold for the last fow days Ib roportod In a rather critical condition todny, Willis Varnoy who has charge oC tho ptlo-drlvlng work (or tho Smith Powors company is ablo to bo around again nftor bolng conllnod at Morcy hospital for a fow days as a rosult of an Injury to his foot. MARSHAL CARTER loft todny for Portlnnd whoro ho will again bo n 'witness In tho Duttz whlto slnvo case. Walter Richardson will bo acting mnrshnrdurlng his nbsonco. ERNEST FREDERICKSON of Dun kor Hill loft today for Mlnnonpolls whoro ho will Join a party who will spend tho summer nt his old homo In Swodon. This Is his first trip back In tlvo yoars. FOR SALE Vermont Gold Coin seed potatoes. O. N. Wilson, Sumner. Phono 3106. WANTED Clean cotton rags at Tho Times office. FOR SALE Rurbnnk seed potatoes, valloy raised and guaranteed ripe. Call 170 So. Broadway or phono 270X. WILIi TRADE for a milch cow or soil n No. 1 brood sow wolghlng 200 lbs. with C. fine pigs C weeks old. Inquire Times office. GILBERT GILDBRTSON nnd fnmlly arrived horo yestordny from Glen dalo nnd will spend tho summer on tho Day, Mr. Gllbortson having mndo arrnugoments to dovolop his in I no near Cooston and Improvo IiIh othor property lu this vicinity, CAPT. KNOWLAND, prosldont of tho Oardlnor Mill compnny, arrived horo today on tho Rodondo on routo to Oardlnor to Inspect tliu proporty thoro. Cnpt. Knowland, nlthough ho is now about 79 yoars old, Is halo and hearty. Tho com pnny Is figuring on oxtonslvo Im provements when tho now railway Is completed. Capt. Knowland wont from horo to Oardlnor on tho tug Gleaner. His son Is Unltod States ropresontatlvo from Calif ornia. Supplies .for architects tid engi neers Wnlkor Studio. No. 63 Kk"a"H FOR SALE A No. 1 milk cow, 6 years old. Inquire at Tlmos of fice. WANTED Mohair, wool and cas cara bark. Apply to Henry Seng stneken, at office of Titlo Guar autoe & Abstract Co. FOR RENT Flno sunny house-keeping apartment. Sacchl Dldg. En quire Nasburg Grocery. FOR ALL KINDS OF HAVLrNG Clifford Doane. Phone 331-R. FOR SALE 80-acro ranch on river; crops In; $1200 cash handles It. See owner, C. M. Doutt, Allegany. nARGAIN SALE? 40 horsepower auto for $500; first-class condi tion; fully equipped; cost uew 13000; will sell tor ouu on easy terms. John L. Kooniz Aiacnine shop.' North Front' street. Phone 180-J. ciiarus Doom Niuch ItilUd.lpJiU NtlonU FUi twkuiitlf IU StaliUiff auk Otl IUJI SPALDING Cork Center "Official National League" Bill, the Official Ball of the World Series. $1.25 each. Spalding World Series Oaie Ball Uniforms worn by tho Championi. All the big league teams play with the Cork Center Ball and wear Spalding Base Ball Uniforms. Send (or Sampla Book of mttetUl (or BlM lUll Uniform U on icqunt. W outfit all lit N-tionU rnencan Le-u loams. i. nl TSnAldintf .i.iMti. meni oa rcquMt to any mUicm. ft? A. G. SPALDING & BROS. 156 Geary Street, San Francisco We Carry a Complete line of Spalding Athletic Goods THE GUNNERY Front Street Marshfield, Ore. "Cinderella" at TEe Royal TONIGHT Don't miss scolng this wondorful production of tho most popuar fairy talo. McCORMlCK nnd DULCE Present an ontlro change of vaude ville act. "Logging In tho Northwest" Anoth er photo featuro, "Jolly Rill and tho RoUicklng R" Comedy. ALL FOR 10 CENTS. Cinderella will be shown at North Bend tomorrw at tneSTAR Theater. Capt. Jnmos Carroll who was mas tor of tho stoamor Pollcan on the Coos Day-San Francisco run about .thirty flvo yonrs ago and who In well known to tho oldor rosldonts of the Day, dlod n fow days ngo In Soattlo, ngod 78. ' ALONG THE WATERFRONT. ; Tho Rustler nrrlvod In today and will sail Mondny for RoguoRlvor and Port Orford. , Tho Omogn nrrlvod last ovonlng from Snn Podro nnd Is nt the Porter mill taking on a enrgo. Tho Graco Dollar sallod last ovon lng with a cargo of lumber from the Smith mill far Snn Francisco. ed to tnko tho mnttor un with G. A. of tho. deepening of tho harbor, I Smith nnd seo If Mr. Smith would not ,t,",nk tl,la B tno mo8t important pub ronaont to donnto tho rlcht of way."0 worK l0tin for oponlng Curtis nvonuo lu vlow of tho fnct thnt tho closing of Mill Slough would ndd considerably to tho proporty of tho Smith company nbut ting ouMill Slough. This will bo dono by wlro becnuso It Is desired to havo tho mnttor llnnlly sottlod boforo Andorsou Avenuo Is lmprovod nn tho closing of Mill Slough, according to prcsont plans, would moan tho con struction of n big concroto sowpr down Anderson nvonuo. Mr. Smith Is nvorso to oponlng Curtis nvonuo through to tho water .front becnuso It will reduco tho longth of tho long dock or wharf along tho company's waterfront pro porty. Ho maintains thnt tho Im proving of tho harbor will moan tho coming of largo vosscls horo which aro too long to dock at any of tho prcsont wharves. Ho Is also figuring on vacating tho present rotall yards of tho compnny ob soon us shipping wnrntn it nnd converting It Into a groat dock and wnrohouso, oloctrlo cranes bolng put In to handle tho freight. Mr. Smith, howovor, has boon an xious to havo Donnott nvonuo opened up na n through east and west thor oughfare and hns offored to donnto tho right of way If tho others would do likewise Participating In Inst evening's dis cussion of tho rnnttor woro Dr. Mc Cormno, Hugh McLnln, J. Albort Mntson, C. F. McKnlght, A. T. Haln es, John D. (loss, Dr. Losllo and oth ers. Dr. Leslie Htntoif that thoy had socurod nbout eighty signatures of proporty ownors In tho vicinity of Mill Slough nsklng tho Wnr Depart ment's consent to closing tho wator way. Relative to tho cost of tho concroto sowor, Hugh McLnln said that recent ly bids had boon socurod In another town on ono a mllo long nnd tho estlmnto was $71,000, Sotno thought It would bo necessary to put n piling foundation in for tho sowor. Mr. McLnln thought thnt If Donnott nvo nuo was opened, It would bo hotter to havo tho sowor built along It. C. A. Hnilth'H Vlow C. A. Smith's position rolntlvo to tho closing of Mill Slough was out lined In n lettor to Dr. Lesllo which Is as follows: "Referring to tho conversation with your commltteoa couplo of days ago, regarding tho closing of Mill Slough, nnd the chnugos In strcots nnd alloys, etc,, wish to stato. "I nm cortnlnly very much plonsed that the Chnmbor of Commerco has taken up tho eradication of this mon aco to health, nn eyo-soro to tho pub lic, and ns assured you, I shall bo pleased to assist In this undertaking lu nccordnnco with your suggestions to tho following oxtont: "1 shall bo willing to pormlt tho vacation of Sixth ntreot, botwoon An dorsou nnd Control avenues, tho widening of Second streets, botwoon Curtis and Andorson nvonuo, to tho snmo width as Second stroot has south of Curtis nvonuo; also to tho wldonlng of Fourth street, botwoon Curtis nnd Andorson nvonuo, to tho width of this street at Curtis nvonu,, providing Third street South and Second court South nro nnrrowed to 20 foot, 10 fcot to bo addod to tho blocks on each sldo, Tho wldonlng of Second stroot South to bo mado by taking 10 foot from tho block on each side, and tho widening of Fourth Btroet to bo taken entirely from block eight. Tho Tlllnmook nnd Anvil from Portlnnd nnd tho Flftold from Ban Frnnclsco woro roportod Id at Dan don todny . Tho tug Gloanor which came In from Gnrdlnor yestordny roturnod to day, taking out n cargo of gonoral morchnndlso. GARDINER TO CELEBRATE Miinh Mooting Derides to Huvo An Old Fashioned Fourth There. (Special to The Time.) GARDINER, Ore, Mny 25. At a mnss meeting of cltlzons this wook it wns docldod to hold, a colobratlon In Oardlnor on tho Fourth of July. In view of tho fnct that tho prcsont nthlotlc field Is somowhnt Inadoquato, owing to a rough surface, It was doomed advisable to oxpend consid erable nionoy In making tho tioccs sary Improvements. As the field sports and bnsobnll domand a firm nnd lovol fjold, tho Improvements to bo mndo will glvp tho contestants a chance to show their ability without hi n (Iran co. Tho following woro appointed as a commlttoo on gonoral arrangements: A. F. Smith, Albort Jnnelle, C. A. Porklns, Loster Myrlck, and Goorge Stownrt. Frod Assenholmor was ap pointed to suporviue tho Improve ments to bo mado on tho athlotlo field. Judging from tho Intorost and en thusiasm already evtncod tho "Noisy Day" s bound to bo a groat success,, with attractions novor boforo Introduced. WILL USE AUTOS. t To make tho old Coos Bay wagon road from Marshflold to Rosoburg ovor which tho mall Is carried ault ablo for automobllo travol, Is tho pur pose of tho Coos county -commissioners. Tho Coos county Judge has been mnklng a tour of tho roads to ItiBpoct und ascertain what Is needod. On different soctlons of tho Rosoburg roads many Improvements havo been mado, and this summer tho county will plank tho gaps connecting the improved soctlons. C. P, Darnard, who carries tho mall and oporates tho stago, will put on autos betweon Rosoburg and Marshflold this sum mer. Last year tho machlnos could only bo used part of tho way, but this summor thoy can covor tho on tlro route, and it Is expocted that ninny auto tourists will visit Coos Bay via. Rosoburg during tho sum mer months. Rosoburg Reylow. SEE THE SENIOR rLAfc' "A Rose of Plymouth Town," at tho MASONIC, Saturday, May 2S. Reserved seats, 60c. Busy Corner, A isS&ttSr-v- ''rsrr,