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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1912)
Ws3ts5E i THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD. OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1912. EVENING EDITION. COOS BAY TIMES M. O. MALON'KY Editor and 1'uli. DAN K. MALONEV News KdUor suhscription hates. DAIIjY. One year $6.00 Per month HO WEEKLY. Ono yoar $1.50 When paid strictly In ndvanco the ubscrlption prlco of tho Coos Bay Times la $5.00 per year or $2.50 for Ix months. An Independent Republican new paper published every evening oxcopt Bundny, and Weekly by Tlio Coos Hny Times Publishing Co. Official Pnpcr of Coos County. Dcdlcatod to thn Rnrvlrn nf thn 7! nnn..1 Itlnl . n Mr.1 .. . . !. I lam .. --3k ImS ' mmS Mvmv m I uuiiu, Hint 11U BUUU CUUBO snail IUCK a champion, and that ovll shall uo. thrlvo unopposed. Address all communications to COOS HAY DAILY TIMES. Mnrsliflcld :; ;; :; ; Qrcgo a Entered at tho postofflco at Marsh flold, Oregon, for transmission through tho malls as second claaj mall matter. I'AHUOH IMPROVEMENTS. WHILE tho government roport .vhlch Is inndo public today In 'lcntea that tho engineering do partmont docs not favor an lmmodl nto now survey and Improvomont of tho Jotty, and while this condition of uuiiirs is quito disappointing to tho pooplo of Coos Day, tho fact should not bo overlooked that tho local en gineer In chnrgo of tho district ro commondod tho work as Is shown In tho roport. Whllo Coos Uay did not gain Just what It wanted at this par ticular tlmo, It Is at least gratify ing to know that tho local onglncor, a innn whoso technical knowledge- and two years' work hero places him In a position to Judgo, co-oporatcs with tho community by rocommondlng tho Improvonomts desired. Such coopor- .....uii io uy no means n small mattor In ovontunlly securing what Is want ed. It should nlso bo romomborod in n tlmo when tho community might bo disappointed, that thoro has nl roady been done a largo amount of oxcollont work on tho Insldo chnnnol which has greatly helped tho local conditions. I t:::::::::rajfy 'Q&ityyB i aL VOTE FPU GOOD UOADS. A MONO tho numerous road moa Hiiros submitted to tho pooplo "lion tho bnllot for action at io mivomoor oioctlon, Is tho ono nubmlttcd by tho pooplo of South ern Oregon, known as tho County Homo Ituio bill. ThlH moasuro, as Us namo Implies, gives to counties tho right to build highways, If de nlroij, upon tho consent of n ma jority of tho votors If obtnlnod nt n gonornl or spoclal oioctlon. Tho hill doeH not differ mntorlul y from tho constitutional nmend Jnont submitted and carried two yearn ago, oxcopt that It Is solf enacting and rocmlroH no enabling net and no legal entanglements or vv'iMuiiiuiiiiH iy mu courts to hamper notion. No llinltntlon is placed upon tho indebtedness, as such limitation Is TieodlosH, for the taxpayers will not voto Tor too largo Indebtedness in id ir thoy did, tho bonds could not bo Bold. Tho llinltntlon of two per cent placed In the so-cullod Har mony bills, will bo fatal to many counties ns tnxpnyors will refuse- !. ,vot0.. for nn llobtodness un.oss It lionofltH by good roads, nil parts Of tho rmmtv wlil,.1, ..... ---.,..w, .. ...v.. KllllllJt I1U jiono with a small nniount. Under V'1" onsuro. tl10 amount of In debtedness is left to tho taxpay ers to decldo. The measure provides that the rounty court, in Its order of elec tion shall "provldo every dotall concrnluK tho form nnd innnnor of (llsposlng r tho securities Is sued mid ro Insure tho success of tho election, (ho roads to bo con ntriicted, tho mntorlals to bo used, will also huvo to bo set forth. The simplicity of tho nieasuro Is Its strong point, nnd It has tho endorsement of nil of tho leading good roads ndvocntes, Including Sam Hill, tho president of tho na tional good roads association. Its number upon tho bnllot is 3C0. Voto YES upon this moasuro. ltASKIIAIJ. HAS ANALOGIES With LIKE. We Want to Place a COLUMBIA GRAPH0N0LA in Every House in Coos Coui and we want you to take advantage of this SPECIAL OFFER FOR JO DAYS ONLY, we will sell a $50.00 COLUMBIA GRAPHONOLA and 20 Double disc records, (each retails for 65 cents), your own selection, for only $59.00. You command all the music of all the world the first day you possess a COLUMBIA GRAPHONOLA. We have this Message for you: "Hearing is believeing Call at 'The Busy Corner' and let us play for you records of any class of music you are fond of." i 'ir. busy corner. L0CKHART-PARS0 N S DRUG CO. t& rexall stop nn vigorously than courteously, to dis charge him. Hut McQraw saw tho Intent possibilities of swcot lemon ado whon tho lomon should havo ripened, nnd hold tight to tho sour fruit. Hut ono day McOraw patted Mar quard on tho shoulder nnd snld: "Go to it, Kubo; you can win In a walk." And Hubo went to It with n vengonnco nnd won ills gnmo tho only ono of four dccldod con tests won by his team. 4 McQraw won bocnuso ho had fnltlf in and loyalty to Marqtiard. .Marquard won bocauso ho had ft mid McOraw to bo tho host frlond In. Iiii.l nvni lin.l Afnnv "Intnntm" of real life might become horoeo .11 tlin trinnli nf n frlnnil'a linml 011 their shouldor at snmo critical time of opportunity nnd responsi bility. t WITH THE : t toastandtea: NO OAME was ovor dovlsod nnd developed that contains moro of tho factors constituting human nnruro than baseball; none thnt olTors closor parnllols to tho course of human llfo. Tho com mon characteristics manifest thorn pelves, especially In a contest 00 tweeu tho champions of lenguos ror tho chnmplonshlp of tho world. Tho contest of llfo and that on tho Hold develop heroes. Not sol dom theso doveloped from men from whom little was anticipated, Thoro occur exigencies In llfo nnd omorgoncies in ball, tho formor called crises and the latter pinches, thnt rovenl tho udoquncv or com petency of tho man. Ho who then shows thnt he can bring homo tho winning run or supply tho sagacity to solve n puzzling situation In im portant nffalrs is tho man who re nin! tho npplauso of tho spectators celves rownrds for trustworthiness nnseball Is not one of tho ser ious mntters of llfo, hut It has sorlous olomonts Mint sometimes al most reach tragic quality. ited. leaping blood goes to winning of success In each: stalwart slnows. strong minds nnd truo oyos; minut ing courage that hopes against hope nnd fights n seomlngly lost battle through to victory. Consider tho pluck nnd faith of McOraw and Marquard. Tho lat ter Is u pltchor who cost tho mag nnto $11,000. Tho first season ho was a "lomon," tho sourest of, fall-ir-os. Ho lost game nftor game, and tho mastor was urgod, moro OOOII EVENING I Since then nor Phrvclnn mar- bio nor tho uso of purplo moro dnzzllng thnn tho sun, nor tho Fnlortan vino, nor tho Persian unrd rninnnnn n Irnnlilixl inlml wliy should I sot about n lofty odiiiio wuu columns uiai excito envy, and In tho modern taste? Why should 1 oxchnngo my Sa- I blue valo for wealth, which Is j lattended with morn trouble? - I I Ilornro (Smart, tr.) CONTENTMENT. I had my dreams nnd so I lived con tent; A dronm beneath tho wide, kind skies of old; Out In tho orchard whon tho soft winds bent Tho swaying branches and strango stories told Of llfo within tho far-off town of mon Mad music on tho highways and tho gleam Of glory on llfo's firing lino and then I lived content becauso of such a droam. called to mind n quotation from Oootho'a Wilhclm Mclstor, of which tho following is n freo translation: "How dcsolnto this globo would appear If wo saw In It only oceans, rivers and mountains. Hut to know soino frlond horo nnd Micro who takes an Interest In us nnd our work, makes, this world a beautiful garden." E. HANDEL. It doesn't nnv to do favors for a man. who hns a poor memory. A lmll tnnm can't win In n wnlk: it must havo at lease ono run. A woman's social rating mny bo ba3cd on her washday clothesline. There Is a man In Marsh field so stingy thnt ho will not tell a Joko at his own oxponso. Whon n girl begins to call a young man by his first imnio sho probably has designs on his last. Tf a man can't blumo nnyono olso for his troubles, ho can nt least drivo hlmsolf to drink. Tho mnn who shoots at random never hits tho tnrgot. It's tough luck when n tailor has to ontor a suit In ordor to got his monoy for ono ho hns mndo. THE EDITOH'S PH.WEK. I would freo from tho city's rulo nnd law from Its fashions nnd forms c t looso nnd go whero tho strnw borry grows on Us straw, and tho goosoborry grows on Its gooso; whoro tho cntnip treo Is climbed by tho cat ns sho clutches for her prey tho guileless and unsuspecting rat, on tho rattan bush at nlav. I will wntoii at oaso tho saffron cow and tho cow- lot In tholr gleo, ns thoy peal In Joy from bough to bough on top of a cow- Slil) trCO! nnd list While Mm nnrtrfi!irn drums his drum, nnd tho woodchuck enuens ins woou, nnd tho dog dovours tho dOKWOOd lllllm in Mm nrlmltlvn solltudo. O, let mo drink from tho moss grown pump thnt was hewn from n pumpkin treo! Eat mush and milk from n rural slnmn fmm form nnd fashion freo new garnered mush from tho mushroom vino and milk from tho milkweed sweet with luscious pineapples from tho pine! SllCll fOOd ns tho coda mlcrht nntf And then to tho white-washed dairy n turn, wnero mo dairy maid haston- Ing hies her ruddy and goldened but- tor to churn from tho milk of her 1 butterflies; and I'll rise nt morn with I havo my droam and so 'I llvo con- tont A dream within tho gray walls of tho town, Of old-time orchard lanes, tho fra- crant urnnt Of mlgonotto nnd roses fields of tho nnriiost liir.i i. t . , - -" ., IU illU llillillll, brown (farmyard pass, and watch whllo tho And golden harvest tho remember- farmer turns his hord of grnsshop- cd glow pers out to grass. uuu o iiiov ouiiouiuu nuiuitic lu fSTREETSl tho cleam Of star-lit dusk, bnck homo again, nnd so WILT, 1IEM POHTLANI). WMimt II. rt cA..i. v--,. . , ., -- x , 1,, ""vu mo ouuuiuiu i-acincs new 1 live i'uuieiu oecnuso or sucn a uno to uoos nay Is extended to 'Irenra. connect with tho Northwestern Pa- Grantland Rico, clflc nt Eureka, Oregon may turn " jo tnbles on California. Hitherto Whon n Coos Ray man gets full tho CoaBt c0"Mes of Southorn Oro- ho uses a lot of empty words. I B,on, linvo bp..n nnnexed commer- . clally to California, but tho now Some finns tw m m u .. !"oad wUl n0A 0y reclaim, but :'"',,' '"-- mb? suzs23L. CM,m- w . U UW, I . rW.'.'.y do 'ou !AY MOIIE for "'"m ana fkku than vou OAV GET IT AT HAINES Km? 8EK the AIRSHIP next Saturdny and Sunday. ' , No brldo cn soo herself as her husband's mother sees her. To my anonymous friend: Your lines in yesterday's paper "Oloomy wcathor puts mo on tho blink," remarked a Front streoc business man this Tho rirst morning as ho gnzod Itulny Day. out nt gray skies nnd dripping atmos phere, "i would rnthor swelter In HiuiBliIno thnn bo comfortnblo In gloom," ho continued. "It seems to nffect everyone. It lins n ttn. dency to chill tho most buoyant nun cueoriui disposition. rcoplo wh'o nro accustomed to carrying around a smllo como In with a long fnco nnd net as If tholr cred itors arc after thorn. This talk that every cloud has n golden lin ing, or somothlng llko that, Is all right to read, but I want to toll you It takes sunshine to dry up tho mud so thnt nn nuto enn mnko tho trip from Coos Hay to tho rail way In ono day. It take3 a smllo to drivo nway n frown. It takes a cheerful word to melt down tho blues. And It requires n radiant nnturo to put pooplo In a radiant frajno ot mind so thnt wo will got tllO Sllllles and thn clinnrv (nil.- I don't menu thnt ovoryono I 'soo wo iiuiurai iaco on n cloudy day, but thoro Is n innir nt ,!.. cerlty in tho smiles nnd In tho Joy tnlk you get on n gloomy day. It looks artificial. Thoro Is an at. mosphoro of molnncholy to It, a mental llonresslnn Hint .oi, think of tubo rosos, floral harps and othor funornl trappings. Ulvo IHn Slinslllno ami T flnn't -..- ...i.. nnyono says." " """' ''"H HAT VERSUS THE PEN (Tim ited snv w; ''';.. fOr Wlnnlllir thn iunpl.ln .! week's work, about ?4000 each!) Goldsmith got ton bones, thoy sny, --. .. iiuuu ijio ueseriou VHl Doc Homor had to beg his way . .v. was " reo lunch to nlllnirn. Hurns wns a vory seldom feeder nm, umy ainoa won now nna T,,.,s 5!h,?s t0.lt- eontlo render, ..u i ls migntier than tho Pen. NoAiiinofinyron,s 8t0ck ws Par. Old Danto crabbed and ho had reasons, Ho nevor owned a touring car Although ho led tho league for seasons. Shelby was broko and Keats, tho leader Of finished verso, often borrow ed "Ten," There's nothln to It. gentle reader. The Hat is mightier than tho Pen, All of us know Shakespeare's vorse How fast he was; how keen and shifty, hLi-m? the larBCSt P"rSe That . Wi'l1,,.am 8PUt waa shy eight-fifty. Why, oven I, though a dally breeder Of high-brow dope, oft beg a yen TnbA II ... ' .w ft. iruiu me oquovo me reaaer The Bat Is mightier than tho Fon, Grantland Rice. WILL BIG SEA BOM I BOY HOI NAMED 01 P. G. Jordan Wires That He Has His Son Who Ran Away. P. G. Jordan of Tea Mile, who went to Eureka, Cnl. nftor his son, wires thnt ho got tho boy nnd will return homo on tho steamer Alli ance. Tho boy ran nwny from homo lu company with a woman who was Intro for n tlmo. A mnn who pnsscd as tho woman's litis- bnild nlso wont an Mm nxmn linnK Mr. Jordan whon ho loft Intonded to prosocuto tho mnn nnd woman on a chnrgo of kidnapping. Ho does not stnto In tho tologrnra as to what ho did in tho way of pros ecution. Tho messngQ received by Mnrshnl Carter wns nn fnllnwti? .Euroka, California, Oct. 20, 1912. jacK carter, Mnrshllold, Oregon. I got my hoy nnd coming on Alliance. P. G. JORDAN. Tho woman wns known horo ns Mrs. Humphrey. Sho enmo from Rnkor City, Oregon, whore sho was known ns Mrs. Hnlo. Sho nlso used that namo part of tho tlmo sho was hero. WILL MEET AT LE ART Goor Roads Association to Hold Gathering There Tuesday Night. Another mooting of tho good roads association will bo hold at Myrtle Point Tuesday night. Re presentatives from different parts of tho county will attend and tho good roads matter will bo present ed to tho peoplo of that locality. Another meeting will bo hold Friday night at Uandon and tho following Tuesday at North Bond. Theso meotlngs will glvo nn oppor tunity to present the good roads plan In the various communities or the county nnd Just before elec tion n big meotlng will bo held at either Marshfleld or Coqulllo. The membership of tho associa tion lS Olio (Inllnf mill nn.1 i.n.l is being made to secure one thous- uiiu inpiniiAra tiia v..ns.. ,!... raised will bo used in sending out llteraturo to boost for tho adop o?i? of,.,tne homo rule bill, No. J 00, which If passed will allow this county to bond for any sum desired to build roads. GREAT AIRSHIP EXHIBITION Snturtlay nnd Sundnv. nrrrnnTn on and 27. If you hay anyta... to Mil, trait, or rnt, or wast aolp, try ft Waat Ad Try Tha Tlmw' Want A.. Tim Antnrlftn rnnhtlni tl lllL' addltlonnl Intertstlrl of nn event pubilihrtl Times last Friday: I "Thoro wns a happr imRsniiL'ors nn thn JlflEI land when sho docked it lender nlcr In tills Dort m. yesterday nnd CaptJ nnd his olllcors and ntn much behind them in Inc. Min starv at the tholr Inllv concern bell 10 o'clock on Wcdnesdij wh In nit 1'nrt flrford. On or const of Oregon, the ntimn tn nil linndg that 3 was nbout to assert Itwll and tho vessel was Insta' Into that port In order I slclnn s attention mum for tho young niotner. i word wns nont to the of tho emergencv una hastened down to the whoro from tho Clin lirnnplipa lillOV. he W1J n diiin'a imnt awaiting rA.un.l ntt in thn N'Orthli IIM1VH VI. w -.' . tho heavy Pacific ml boforo ho got on me w mnn wns so overcome ' mor thnt It wns amior whether ho would t l enro of tho case, out m ho rallied manfully to slonnl oxlgcncy ana n henrty baby-uoy nw t, tlm Inflnltn delight Mrs. Daniel Iloone Con nossee. ci routo to Or Mr. Connover,wno Intends to go into u nnnn nu It was knOV bnbo nnd mother ne body broke loose D tho spirit of thanWuta tulatlon was sun y tim r)iI n came Into nnd Mrs. Hoone Conn nnmod the baby anei and port where ne light, Orford Nortblal and by way or rewi Steward nrny starteoi an initial banK llttlo stranger ana i ...in. n imnk account nmr, uTr Pnnnover prec'latlon of the gi tlon showed w " self In every way tn,rnthor there M and happiness over mn nnii no : wore all carefully 1 Oregon nnd as sucni tho good win uj -1 shall read 01 " i i tv, state, ac his coming will re tho Northlands i and begin to launch t .. nf her VOjaj steamer left up tor o'clock last eveui-b was aboard i'" his mother were ff mousiy, with the en pany acting as nurs, gers and geun . , Uen and jjlog H to oe ui ": -hi luck stay with oil years!" l i