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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1916)
UrnrlriiTmfflB o'Ut-TdV'?!! iMtofcjifofliw in'yrr-'MM",riiHtwftwxMywiM"i'"("f j'fiiynn-fwwyn "VHH Wr-tf-gKWftfcMW" ROUR ur , THE COOS BAY TIMES. MARSHFIELD. OREGON. MONDAY, JANUAjyj46-g(EJJG EDITION UtLi. -CSji iiiMiHMH I .' ' 1 n t 1 1 -m f i ; ! j Monday At The In order to give the out-of-town shoppers an opportunity to participate in our wonderful bargains we have provided the following SPECIALS for Monday and Tuesday only LADIES COATS AND DRESS SKIRTS Regular price $8, $12, $15, $20, $22.50 Your M QC choice P -' Also all Children's Coats at this price CUSTOMERS WHO ATTEND THIS SALE ARE OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT Hub Clothing & Shoe Co. PIT DREDGE BILL POUT RECEIVES $U,(!0 FROM HIMI'SON LUMRER COM PA XV devolution Passed Thanking It. 3. ' Simpson for Promising Pny ' incut of Remaining $'-, IUO A.' 10 days sight draft for $3, COO was prosantcd to tho Port Commis sioners this morning by Edgar Simp son, In bohnlf of tho A. M. Simpson Lumbor company, In part payment for tho drodgo fill. Tho remaining f2.41G.G5 will bo paid by b. J. Simp son on a 12 month's nolo. A reso lution was pasFcd thanking hint fj? making this porsonal paymont. Tho ntilt of tho Port against Jumcfl Haines for tho collodion or ?557 for a fill will In nil probability io settled. C. It. Pock roportod that Unities would bo willing to sottlo, minus tho Interest and tho costs. Tho Port Instructed him to mako this sottlomcnt. An offort will ho mado to ralso $5,000 on tho notes hold (by tho Port to pay halt of a $10,000 nolo duo tho Paget Sound Rrldgo ana Dredging company. This Is not duo lu full until next May. Many Dnningo Claims On behalf of F. W. Itohflold, J. If. Joohnk put In a claim for $125, claimed to bo duo becauso of tho flooding or Mr. Rohfold'a basement. Ifonry Songstuckon and A. O. Rog ors will Invostlgato tho claim. S. D. Cnthcart also asked that something ho douo In connection with Ills claim for $G00 damages. Ho Bald ho would sottlo for $500. Tho Port attorneys nnd Donald Cluirlo son will Investigate tho claim. Tho cash balanco of tho Port horo nftor will bo divided s ovonly s liosslblo among tho four banks of Coos Hay. Ono thousand copies of tho Port memorial to tho U. S. Englnoors will lio printed for distribution and 500 copies of tho blounlal report, which Will bo ready next month, will ulso bo printed. Tho Southern Paclflo has paid tho Port In full $1,500 covering Its bill ifor railroad uddltlon. Negotiations for tho purchuso of tho rlvor bout Coqulllo hnvo boon under way for sovcral days, though iiuuuug uuiiuiio is Known yet, uc- ncording to Captain James Shaves, of tho Shaver Transportation Com- puny, of Portland. Capt. Shavor and wlfo left for hono on tho stago tills morning, aftor a visit hero of eovoral days at tho J. A. English .homo. Capt. Shavor Is head of tho com pany that does considerable towing on tho Columbia Itivor, especially botwoen Portland and Astoria." His concern handles many of tho lurso log rafts, and with this business in creasing lie finds another boat is necessary. Tho steaiuor Coqulllo bolongs to tho Myrtle PoliU Transportation Co., tho concern which lntoly has acquir ed tho ownership of most of tho larger boats on tho Coqulllo Rlvor. all of which uro not noeded in tho business between tho county sent and Dandon. Providing thu sloamor Is purchas ed, a tug boat would bo sont down to tow the steamer to Portland dur ing a spell of good weather. DR. II, 13. KELTY, Dontlbt, 20 J Coko Illdjr. Phono 112-J, 1 Tl and Tuesday only Lando MEN'S $3.00 HATS 95c EACH Purchasers MILS. .7. 8. WILIjKV ASKED TO QUIT KKNTUCIC IXLET HOARD Regular Meeting To Volo On Recall of A. .7. Stcphun Not Held Gathering 1h Informal Tlioro was no regular school moot ing held on Kontuelc Inlet, Saturday nftcrnoon. Somo of tho pntrons gn thorcd informally nnd tho outcomo was a potltlon, slgnod by 21 persons, asking tho resignation of Mrs. J. S. "Wllloy from tho school bonrd. Tills potltlon wns lator presented to her as she was not present nt tho meet lug. Mrs. Wllloy stated that tho notices of tho recall election to secure tho 'volcb of tho pooplo toward tho oust ing of A. J. Stophnn from tho board, Lea lied tho meeting January 10 which was Sunday and a legal holiday, lor this reason n notice wns posted on tho school houso door stating there would bo no meeting. Deputy Not Xeoded Deputy Sheriff W. C. Lnlrd had boon summoned to ho prcsont and ho appeared. Tliero was absolutoly no disturbance nt tho Informal meet ing, stated somo of tho visitors to day. Over tho tolophono Mrs. Wllloy said that tho petition asking her to resign stntcs that alio had proved 'herself "uttorly Incompotont" to hold tho offlco of school director and that she "has kopt tho district in u turmoil for tho past six months." Shu claims that lit all times suo has tried to keep pouco nnd ovon boforo 'Mrs. Flora Foromnn accepted tho po sition ub teacher, wroto to hor, ask ing that she not nccopt tho plnco as sho foared trouble On tho other hand, tho othor two niombprs of tho Bchool bonrd claim that they have acted entlroly within tl-clr rights and hnvo trlod to bo fair nil tho way through. fflOID IS FATAL HEXRV IIALVEHSEX, POWERS LOGGER, IHKS AT HOSPITAL Had liven HI l-'or About n Week Rorensed Well Known Hero, Hav ing Lled for Yearn In Coos Co. Honry Hnlvorson, a logger at Pow ers, died yesterday morning nt Mer cy Hospital, after suffering for a wook from typhoid fovor. Tho de ceased was 3!) years of ago and had lived for several years In Coos Coun ty. Tho funeral arrangements nro hold up until word has boon re ceived from tho father, K. Hnlver- son, who lives lu Sllvorton. About a week ago Halverson wns taken to Morcy Hospital and tlioro ho gradually became worso until ho died yosterdny morning, no leaves, besides his father, a sister, Mrs. Ida Chuso, or Powors; nuothor slstor, Mrs. Nottlo Houndtreo, of Milwaukee, Oregon; and a brother, Oscar Hulvurson, of llond, Oregon. ; Tho deceased was well known lu this! vlqlnlty. Ho worked at Camp 7 nt Powors. Ho leaves an estato consisting of a houso and sovorul lots lu Coqulllo. HOSEHUHG INVITES (j. A. H. ROSEHURO, Oro., Jan. 10. At a joint meeting of tho Grand Army and Women's Relief Corps hold horo today, a formal Invitation was ox tomlod to tho Stato Dopnrtmont to hold next y oar's annual encampmont of tho Grand Army lu this city. SI Sale CRETONNES, SILK0- LINES and DRESS GINGHAMS ' that sold from 121 -2c to 20c 7c the yard ' WILL MOVE LIGHT STATION' AT SOUTH HANROX GOES HI 1)10 RIVER TO Plant Will Ho 0MnitMl y Electric ity Instead of Oil, tho Sup erintendent Kays Regarding tho moving of tho Dan don light houso from tho north to tho south sldo of tho rlvor mouth, tho Unudon Westom World saysi " According to Milb Hoadlcy, sup erintendent of tho 17th llghthouBO district, who was horo last wcok, practically tho only change mado In removing tho local plant to tho south sldo of tho rlvor Is from oil to electricity. An electric light will ro place tho prcsont gas lamp and tho fog horn will ho operated by electric ity. Julco will bo obtnlncd from tho local power company, but n small In dividual plant for generating elec tricity will bo maintained for emer gency. Tho gnsollno engines now usod In tho llghthouso will bo kopt to produco tho power for tho auxili ary equtpmont. Mr. Hondloy nlso said that ho bolloved It would bo Im possible for ono mnn to handlo tho plant on thin side, therefore In all piobablltty tho present forco will ro main tho snmo. GUI DICS TOIt MERCHANTS COVER PURCHASERS OK COUNTY HiiNlnohS Men's Association To Put Out Copies For Knch Member Contain I'M Pages Rating books covering tho ontlro county nnd containing tho ratings on 8,000 porsons aro now bolug mado up In tho offlco of Earl Powell, sec rotary of tho Coos County lluslucss Mon's Association. Tho books will contain 125 pages and about 150 co- pies will bo run off. Theso ratings nro up to da'to and will bo tho first ones sont out In book form to ovory monibor of tho Association. In Soptombor four such books woro mndo up, ono for each city of tho county outsldo of Marshflold. Four years nso tho Merchant's Morehantllo agency, of Portland, got out rating books which woro loaned to tho subscribing merchants at tho rato of $20 for 20 months. It Is this firm that a Bhor.tlmo ago sent lot tcrs to tho snbscrlbors, demanding payment of botweon $2G and $30, claimed to bo duo ns "rout" on tho books. Tho innttor thon wns tnkon up by Secretary Powell. Tho contracts woro examined and it wns declarod the. morchnntB, In paying tho $20 each, hud fulflliod their part 'of tho contract and. should pay no more money. TJio books, now four yearn old, tho business men said woro en tirely out of dnto and valueless. Tho Portland company was told that thoro could bo "nothing doing" nnd sovornl of tho merchants signed un agreement to stand together, pro viding r suit should bo brought against any of thoin. Of lato not a thing has beon heard from tho north ern firm nnd It Is believed tho niati tor has beon dropped. SUIUU.YTK IMJACK NOT AVANTH1) LONDON, Jan. 1 0. Gormany mndo overtures to Japan and Russia for a soparato pcaco, but woro re. Jectod. so Premier Okumn told his Interviewers, nccoidlng to n Toklo correspondent. A1S 10 F AT END OK THX DAYS POUCH 1IAVK HUT OXE ARREST Is Clonncst Record for 'Any Ten Days in Years Lono Drunk Lets His Feet Slip Yesterday At tho end of ten days drought Marshflold has 'had ono nrrcst ort a charge of drunkenness. This Is a clean record that has not beon equal ed In years. Most weeks have at least brought In one drunk a day, or on that average. Henry Elvert son allowed his foot to slip yester day, though ho protested ho had saved tho liquor from last year. Reports from various parts of tho stato seem to lndlcato that tho ar rests V3ii charges of drunkenness hnvo been greatly reduced of late. In Portland this has been particular ly notlcoabluo. During tho first week In 1915 n total of 285 peoplo woro arrested. Tho first week In 191G showed but 85 nnd many of theso wcro men who had "holdovers" from tho year boforo. Judgo Stevenson, of tho municipal court, surprised himself Bovernl times lately by fin ishing his work In court by 10 a. m., whoro previously It took him a good sharo of a laborious day. Whether or not tho rest of tho weeks of tho year will bo as clean as this last ono has been remains to bo soon. It wns claimed boforo tho stato bocamo dry that thero would bo continual bootlogglng cases to cluttor tho pollco court docket, but ns yet tlioro has, beon not a ono and tho pollco say they nro skoptlcal about thoro being vory many. Tho punlshmonts allowed undor tho law for bootloggorB aro partic ularly sovcro, providing not only good sized fines, but jail sentences as well. FIE Lip IN lOUMKIt GLKXADA SALOOX KKKPKItS FINKI) 91150 KACII Private Detectives Got Kvldcnco of Snlo of Hoo.o to Minors Wcro Formerly nt Springfield UUaENID, Jan. 10. Four hun dred and fifty dollars wis paid In tho justlco court, when thrco saloo.i kcopors of Qlonada appeared before Justice Jesso Wolls and plcaaua guilty to a chargo of selling liquor to minors. T. C. Luckoy, Pearl Courtwrlght and Charles Hadloy were tho names ot tho thrco offenders. Aftor en tering u plea of guilty, Justlco Wolls fined each ot thom $150 nnd costs. Tho minimum fluo for this offense is $60. All of tho men paid tholr tines and woro released. Charles Hadloy, T, C. Luckoy and Pearl Courtwrlght, owners of tho sa loon at Qlonada that had boon In op. ration during tho past year, wero arrested by tho shorlff on a chargo ot soiling liquor, to Churles Harwood a minor, George W. Porklns and M. M. Peory, of Sprlngflold, gnvo $500 ball for each man. Qlonada was tho only "wot" town In Lnuo county during 1914 and tho saloon was operated by tho thrco do fondants. Kvldcnco concerning tho ulleged salo to minors, Is said to havo been obtained by n prlvato dotectlvo. Luckoy nnd Courtwrlght formerly conducted saloons In Sprlngflold. IS Manager (Jeorgo Sheridan Says War Orders Aro Itoo.stlng l'rlco of Product by Juiups Prices of canned milk aro still soaring skyward, according to Geo. Sheridan, mnuagor ot tho Coos Day Condensing company who has Just returned from San Francisco. Tho Jcbbois In tho south aro swamped with orders and tho condousnrles of tho coast uro finding tholr product snapped up weeks ahead ot tlttio. Tho Coos Hay Condensary Is now bolug repaired mid put In sliapo for tho spring rush. Mr. Sheridan stated that tho com pany has plenty of orders nhead and, ao soon as tho repairs nnd overhaul ing lias been completed, tho plant will bo pushed to capacity,, Tho plant will turn out about 1400 cases of canned milk a wook, ho said. War orders aro tho reasons of tho buying up of tho market. Practi cally everything- available in the can ned milk lino has been snapped up. Tho condousarles sell to tho Jobbing houses and those In turn supply tho bigger orders. Tho prices on enses of tinned milk havo been advancing in Jumps of 2D uud 10 cents at a clip, all of which vilj havo Its offect on tho local mar- kot nnd Mr. Sheridan said tlioro Is a chaneo that tho prlco of milk will go l.lghor on this account. It Is bocauso of tho war orders that tho Jobbors uro finding them selves swamped In many lines and unable to get hold of enough sup plies to fill the donmnds which are oxcesslvo and above tho normal de mand of consumers in this country. BROUGHT El! ora M I NORTH. HENI) MILLS CLOSK1) RY ACCIREXT8 This morning, tho North Bend Mill nnd Lumber com pany's mill wns forced to close down by a broken sprocket wheel. This afternoon, the Porter Mill wns forced to closo on nccount of a similar acci dent. Tho Porter mill will ! bo closed throo days. ! FRUIT GROWERS OF CdQUlLLF. - VALLEY KLECT OFFICERS Myrtlo Point Local nnd County Itody of Fanner's Union of America Also Moot N Tho Coqulllo Valloy Fruit Grow ers' Association rc-oloctod tho old board of directors for tho ensuing year. . The Myrtlo Point Entorprlso roports tho following officers chos en: Prcsldont II. B. Stownrd. Vlco-Prosldont A. T. Train. Sccrctnry-Trensuror G. G. Swan. Director W. W. Whlttington. Director E. Arncson. It was undor tho lnbol ot this as sociation that tho Gravonstcln up ,pIoB woro sent to tho Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, whoro tho apples of W. E. Hartley, a South Fork Coqulllo orchnrdlst, won first prlzo In competition with tho California GravciiBteliiH. Transportation facilities in tho past hnvo hampered tho shipping of ppplcs or other fruits from this sec tion, but with tho completion of tho Wlllametto Pacific Railroad tho com ing sumnior, noxt fall should boo sov cral car loads of fruit going out by way of Coos Day and Eugene. Vory fow orchards hnvo beon kopt In sliapo In anticipation of this latest outlet to market so tho shipments for tho noxt two or throo years will bt- comparatively small. Myrtlo Point Local Tho Myrtlo Point Local of tho Fnrmors' Educational and Co-opor-atlvo Union of America, ono of tho strongest locals In tho Stato, hold their first mooting of tho now year. Tho prluclplo business for tho locnl was tho Installation of offlcors and tho following officials for tho en suing year woro Installed: Prcsldont A. J. Radabaugh. Vlco-Prosldont Mrs. It. O. Qrcon. Secretary and Trensuror It. O. Green. ' Chaplain Mrs. Cal Ray. Conductor G. W. Houso. Tho County Union This was Myrtlo Point's turn ut entertaining the County Union, nnd tho first mooting of tho year for tho county organization being for tho election of officers for 19 1G which lesulted ns follows: Prcsldont Mrs. Nolllo nay. Vlco-Prosldont Geo. Ilenulgor. ' Secretary-Treasurer J. FInloy Schrocdcr. Conductor W. Leo Rny. Doorkeeper Edd Moyors. DENIES EASTSIDE TO UNITE WITH MAHSHFIELD City Recorder C. 1', Keating Says Tlmt .Nothing Has lleeu Done uud Tlioro In Xo .Sentiment For It City Rocordor C. P. Keating of Kastsldo strongly denies tho roports that thoro Is a movomont In Kastsldo to consolidate that municipality with Marshflold. Ho says that no meet ing has been callod to consldor such a movo, that tlioro Is no Intention of dropping tho Eastsldo charter and that for tho present thero Is no son tlmont In favor of tho movo. Ho 'soys that later on, possibly, such a movo may meet tholr sanction. 1TAIA' RKCKIVK1) lIO PRICK RERUN, Jnn. 10. Tho ZurlMior Koltung assorts that Italy recolod $-100,000,000 from the Allies for an agreement not to concludo n sep arate peace. ' li '& ," 13 . I V I I . HUH 1 Big Shipment Buster Brown Shoes Reduction in Price These Shoes are cheaper than they have been for a number of seasons You canft buy better or more stylish shoes for your children. All have the best Oak Tanned Welt Soles The Golden Rule FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG MARSHFIELD ALWAYS BUSY. DANGER OF SALES WHERE FIRMG DO NOT Many wnrnlugs havo been mndo to tho buying public in various parti of tho country ns to tho danger of putroulzhig sales wlirro the firms or pnrtlcs conducting thorn uro not permanent lu a town. Tho purchaser of goods at a sale often buys sizes that aro not what they need, tho r tlclo uinv, not bo Just what they oxp ccted to get, either Id quality or color oi somo Important particular and uu less tho firm 1b responsible, a fix ture In tho community, there 1b no recourse, tho goods cannot bo ex chnnged, nnd dofects cannot bo mndo good and tho purchaser suffers, llona fldo sales whoro tho storo.n or parties conducting thom aro per munentlyjocntod tlioro nro regularly held In nil towns nnd bettor Ur gains uro given nt theso sales than by thu others, despite tho glittering promises. Thu firm or busluesa man Hint Is pormuuontly located knovs that ho must mnko good nnd ho cannot afford to mnku Misrepresenta tions or got rid of goods under fnlso roprcsontatlonsr bccaimo his future business deponds Just ns much on tho gooda ho soils ut u snlo as the goods ho soils in tho regular course II. (5. 1)1 KltR PRKSHNTS RKPORT OX IMPORTS AXI) KXPORTS I'JgiircH Show Fulling Off In ,Hhl- plug In 1 1)1. "5 Though They Are Xow Increasing Again Figures showing tho oxporlB nnd Imports' of Coos Uny In 1915 havo beon compllod by II. O. Dlors, of North Rend, nnd presontcd to tho Port of Coob Ray Commissioners. Tho number of tons Imported am ounted to DC. 5I1C tons with a vnluo of ?3, 290, 120 against an exportation of 418,572 toiiB valued nt $3,171,- 052, leaving a balanco or $125,005 of tho Imports over tho vnluo of tho exports. This, says Mr. Dlors, Is duo to tho Importation of railroad steel. Tho following figures show tho amounts, In tounngo, that exports havo fallon off this last year Rox factory 20,910 Coal ' 23,324 Compo .board 0,712 Pulp mi Lumber 8,000 Total C8,453 LA GRAXARH STORM-SWKPT LA GRANDD, Jan, 10. Ore, Jan. 10. A terrific wind storm swopt ov er La Grande. County rouda aro practlrally Impassable from snow drifts. - " STATISTICS GINiLK WITH II ffl "Oiitside Wire Service; 111.'. ' "ONC-l-rf-N. J'U -A J- x-wo LLX CL1 . Aftor being KNTIRHLY cut off from TKLIOPROXK and TELEGRAPH 'communication since Thursday night, service was restored to Coos and Curry Counties yla Gardlnqr and Eugene Saturday, afternoon. Bluco,tlienr , - -. sorWce has been maintained over this emergency route fExVllentiorkF i t Is being douo by our Gardiner operators mid reinforcement woro" sont thero from Marshflold this morning. Tho Hues of the connecting com pany to Rosoburg aro badly wrecked, but every offprt will bo mado to maintain continuous service via Gardiner for TELKPHOXE and TFLF GRAPH until normal conditions aro restored. Service 'betweenipolnts on lines of this company has been UXIXTKRRUPTKR, Coos and Curry Telephone Company REMAIN III I II 'of business. HOT, SPIOV HKVKRAfli: HliTTKIt TIIAX WIIIKKIiV, IS ASSKUTIO.V Oregon Dairymen Tnlco I'll! 8tc To Develop Now Market lu King; Ruin's Domain CORVALMS, Oro., Jan. 10. The tlpplor hns como into his own again and no longer need ho abstain from his morning nppotlzor. A drink with a "kick" la nt his command, a hot, spicy lactold bovorago that Is declar ed n hotter stimulant than whiskey Itsolf. , Tho Oregon Dairymen's Associa tion, In Bosslon horo, on Friday ad opted resolutions to tho effect that tho passing of tho saloon affords an iinusunl opportunity for tho cxlen slvo salo of milk, hot or cold, and flavored to suit tho palato of tho most exacting lu King Rum's fonnor do main. Tho morits of such a drink la re llof of exhaustion or chill aro un oqualcd, declare the dairymen. AGKXT IS IIKL1) ROSEDURO. Orb., Jan. 10. W. F. Plamnn, who was yesterday held to appear boforo tho grand Jury on a chargo of arson, has beon unabte to furnish ball and will remain In Jail until tho February torm of the Circuit Court. Plamnn Is a sewlqg liiachlno agent and formerly Hd at Eugono, ' ' ! mi' (l..,r. S"Fk1 H HdU. BJ5?IBffSHEEi3