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THE BANDON RECORDER
Bandon By-the-Sea has the Prettiest Beach on the Coast
BANDON, OREGON, JULY 13, 1915
VOLUME XXXI
NUMBER 27
ORGANIZE FOR AN
ANNUAL PAGEANT
New Features Proposed. For Next Years
Event And Additional Time Used
A small company met in Drcamlnnd
pavillion last Friday night and or
ganized for the Annual Klakahma
The purpose of the meet and organ
ation is well put in a resolution offer
ed by G. T. Trendgold and regularly
adopted. Following is the resolution:
Resolved that the purpose of Kla
kahma is to perpetuate and investi
gate local Indian legends, history and
language, to dramatize and present
the same; to use any proceeds for the
purpose of a public library fund in
Oandon.
The following officers were elected:
Mrs. J. L. Kronenberg, president;
Miss Pearl Wnlker and Mrs. E. Lew
in, vice presidents; It. B. Swenson,
secretary, S. E. Hines, treasurer; and
in addition to the foregoing a council
of chieftains to act in an executive
capacity: G. T. Trcadgold, J. Shields,
Mrs. Averill, Prof. Richards, Mrs.
Mary Walker, Mrs. Hines, Mrs. Guy
Dipple, Karl Scheel, Prof. Richards,
Ernest Wntkins.
Of the scope of this undertaking
and what form it shall take, many
changes may take place between and
the time of the grand pow wow at the
time of the elk moon next year when
the Injuns foregather again.
It has been suggested that the meet
next year be three days in duration
with perhaps a potlach, a tourney of
contests, racing, wrestling, weaving,
etc., n grand ball in Indian costumes
n :d the presentation of Klakahma.
These are merely suggestions but
they and many other things may be
acted on to make a season as an annu
al which will in time come to be asso
ciated with the name of Bandon.
Large Sum For Road Work
Concurrent with theeffort which is
I eing made for good roads by the
different branches of the Coos county
Lusinoss men's assocition, the Bandon
membership took action at their meet
ing in tho cityhnll last Thursday even
ing. The Bandon association passed
resolutions favoring the circulation of
petitions to be presented to the county
court when that body meets for Aug
ust asking for an election to bond the
county in the interest of good roads.
Two percent of tho taxable property
is the amount they will ask for and
tho total amount is in the neighbor
hood of $110,000. As soon as these
resolutions are ndopted at Marshfleld
North Bend nnd Myrtle Point and
Coqulilc, some of whom have already
acted, the petitions will be put in cir
culation and made ready for presen
tation to the court.
The business men realize that it
will take good roads to bring the
country up to tho highest stage of de
velopment. At the meeting of the Bandon as
sociation Thursday night considera
ble time was spent on the question of
how much restriction should be plac
on the wholesaler's agent in selling
his wares to the trade.
John Cox of Bear Crook wa a vis
itor in Bandon Monday. Ho reports
that the farmers of that vicinity are
experiencing some difficulty in getting
their hay crop up beouuso of wet
weather. This is somewhat unusual
for them hut although the rain is hard
on tho hay makers it is good for grow
ing stuff and is welcomed by tho land
owners. Mr. Cox raises considerable
produce but finds hi bout market In
the stock that consumes it. Tim buy
feeds rows ami tint cows feed pigs.
Mr. Cox raises enough corn to give
tho pigs their flnul luyer of fat,
W, C T. l. Mining
Tliu Women' ChiUtlun 'iViiipernncii
Union will meet at tint lioim of Mr.
A MiNuIr, TonKduy, July WiU ut XillO
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Tii"iiiu Wlill). Jr. of Muii'lmi U
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Building Rapidly Going Up
Work on the Buckingham-Biggs
building which began last Tuesday
noon under personal charge of Con
tractor Payne of Marshfield, has made
rapid progress and workmen began
pouring concrete Monday forenoon.
Mr. Payne expects to have the struc
ture up and the roof on in thirty days
and the building ready for occupancy
in ninety days. He is using all local
labor in the work. Besides himself
only one man on the job is from Mnrsh
field, a helper from the office of the
of the architect.
It was interesting to see the way in
which the twisted iron rods were laid
for the reenforcing, bend for the corn
ers and wired together. In the bot
tom trench 1 inch rods were used.
The rods nre smnllcr"as the building
grows higher, from one inch to three
fourth inch and three eights inch.
One Hired & Two Fired
Mayor Announces Appointments at Meet
ing of Council Wednesday Night
Two fired and or.o hired is the way
the city fathers dealt with the night
watchman proposition for the coming
year. When the 11 ayor announced dis
decision in this matter there was some
opposition on the part of various nl-
dermnn.but upon due consider:! t.'oi it
seemed a proper course to follow and
tho action was taken.
The official family circle is once
more rearranged anu complete for an
other year. At the council mooting
Wednesday night the mayor anno.uni:
ed his appointments for the coming
year and the same were confirmed by
t.l.c council.
The officcers are about the same as
last year: G. . Troadr.olis, city at
torney; J. S. Sawder, city engineer;
F. A. Holman, chief of police; night
watchman, Chas. Cessna; water bail
iff, Fred LorenUcn.
The change in the night police force
was the only change in the salarj
drawing part of the forcy and that
much was ncomplished in the way o!
economy.
There were also changes in tho
council committee accounted for by
the fact that a brand new eouusilmnp
has a seat at the desk in the city hall.
This is S. C. Johnson who was chosen
as a successor to Stephen Galllier.
Following are the committees:
Streets, S. C. Johnson and J. W. Mast
Lighting, Nels Rassmussen and C. F
Pape; city librarian, Miss Amelia
Henry; library board, Mrs. C. F. Pape,
Mrs. S. J. Mann, N. J. Crnin, Mrs. E.
Lewin, J. W. Mast, J. Ira Sidwoll,
Mrs. J. L. Kronenberg, honorary
member.
Witnessed Fatal Accident
Train Scares Horse ami (!iri Driver
Thrown and Killed
Charley Barrows, whoso published
letters in tho Recorder have enter
tained many of our readers returned
from his visit in northern Oregon
Wednesday evening. He came overland
by way of Roseburg and Myrtle Point.
One of his experiences of the home
trip was the witnessing of a fatal ac
cident by the side of the railroad ov
er which he rode. This happened the
other side of Eugene. A young girl
daughter of a farmer was driving n
hayrake in a field beside the track.
The horse became scared at the loco
motive, bolted nnd tho girl was un
able to withstrain it. Sho got her foot
caught In tho machinery, lost her bal
ance, and fell sideways, her head lodg
ing In tho Npokes of tho wheel, The
engineer imw the accident, htopped
the train and with tho flivnmn de
scended finm the cub und ran to the
glil'n iiMitUtuhi'ii. Tim engineer linil to
take nir the wheel In order to free
lliu gill. Klio wit put iilwmrd a hd Hid
run In Hugt'iio wiim ininln In few
iiilnutdn, 4mi llm gill wuh iIkui) when
limy arrived ut Km unlvinidly town.
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Wild Flowers Of Oregon In Water CoIors;Coasl Guard For Port Orford
Exhibition at Public library Well
Lovers of Nature will find some
thing of special interest to them in
the library this week. This is a sot of
over n hundred original studies of
Oregon wild flowers in water colors.
Those paintings arc exceptionally well
done nnd true to nature and are all
labeled and will enable the student
to identify the specimens he may run
acroll in casuul strolls in the woods.
Tho paintings were made by Miss
Harriet Eddy, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Eddy who have n home
stead 10 miles south east of Langloin.
The homestead is well up among the
hills and protected from the colder
ocean winds and is in a location whore
wild flowers abound. There are quite
a few specimens of oak on this home
stead, growing on the south side of
tho hills. The oak is similar to that
found in northern California but
grows only in favored sections in this
part of Oregon.
Mr. Eddy who has been several
years a resident of this section was
formerly a Unitarian minister in the
East. Ho had charges in Neenah, Wis.,
in Maine and at Salt Lake City, Utah.
Among the subjects of the studies
nre snap-dragon, blue eyed grass, ox
alis, dog wood, sweet briar, wild rose,
bee balm, dandelion, larkspur, talli
ma, huckleberry' bloading heart, yel
low violet, Oregon grape, orchis, red
buckle berry, wild strawberry, laurel,
ox-eyed daisy, pink garlic, wild cu
cumber, thimble berry, white vetch,
salal berry, field chickweed, lupine,
stone crop, buttercup, iris, yellow
monkey flower, greasewood, wild cur
rants, lark spur, wild gooseberry.
Just before starting on her vaca
tion, Miss Henry, libiarian, was busy
Had One Bad Inning
12 to C in favor of Powers is the
sum of the story and the most sig
nificant chapter was the third inning
when the local ball tossers went to
pieces, booted the ball, threw it over
o yj another's heads and presented
the visitors with eight runs. Pre
vious to that they had made n good
showing, fielding nnd batting well,
but the third Oh, my.
Powers had n man from Riverton
and ho did very well although with a
little more confidence the locals could
have beaten him. Hull for the locals
showed up well in left field nnd Webb
made a good pick up at second base.
With Their Hands Crossed On An Open Bible
Port Orford Merchant Weds Daugh
ter of Bandon Racket Store Propri
etor. Friends Decorate Their State
Room as They Start for Fair
Bandon lost one more to Port Or
ford this past week when Miss Eunice
Carpenter one of our popular young
women was married to Percey Howell
Poolo, 'formerly of this city out now
of the Agate town. The wedding took
place at the homo of tho bride's par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, of the
Carpenter store on Second street Sun
day evening, July 11th.
The bride was prettily and taste
fully dressed in brocaded satin. Only
members of tho family witnessed tho
ceremony which was performed by the
bride's father, ho being an elder in the
Ijitter Day Saints church.
During t h o ceremony t h o
bride and bride groom crossed hands
on an open biblo and thus crossed the
threshold into married life, Tho bible,
lined was the same as tho bride's fath
er und mother hud crowied hand over
when they were married.
An el a I in m In mipper wiim nerved uf
ur tht' reieniony.
"Tliougli fnnl Hpiiin Hymen1 genlle
power,
We who InijiroVM Kf'itt ( lloilM,
My Bund wwmti know
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Worth Seeing. New Books Received.
cataloging and placing on the shelves
of the library a consignment of new
books received last week from the J.
K. Gill Co. of Portland, the same be
ing books purchased with the net pro
ceeds from the entertainment recently
given by the Ladies' Glee Club. Fol
lowing is a list of the new books:
Bridge of the Gods Balch,
Llittlc Black Sambo, Bannerman,
Mary Cary, Bosher,
Miss Gibbie Gault, Bosher
Chip of the Flying U. Bower
Rackety, Packety House Burnett
The Crossing Churchill
John Hallifax, Gentleman Craig
Daniel Boone Forbes-Lindsay
To Have and To Hold Johnston
Helen's Babies Habbcrtou
The Jungle Book Kipling
Second Jungle Book Kipling
Kim Kipling
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery
At the Foot of the Rainbow Porter
Peter Rabbit Porter
Legends of Red Children Pratt
Spinner in tho Sun Reed.
Indifference of Juliet Richmond
Animal Fables Stafford
Child's Garden of Verse Stevenson
Wide, Wide World Warner
Just Patty Webster
When Patty Went to College W'bst'r
The Riverman White
Mother Carey's Chickens Wiggin
New Chronicles of Rebecca Wiggin
First Reader Coe & Christie.
Second Reader Coe & C.
With Juliet in England Richmond
Andersen's Fairy Tales
World Almanac, Grimm's Fairy Tales
Arizona Nights, Stewart Ed. White
Round. Corner in Gay St Richmond
Soldiejrs.of Fortune, Sunset Trail
Another Big Fish
Twa big fish two days in succession
is the record of fishermen in this vi
cinity last week. On Thursday, Lloyd
Minot while fishing with a hand line
off the south jetty hooked a large hal
ibut which almost pulled him into the
water before he got a brace for the
struggle ahead. It took about an
hour to wear out the fish but finally
ho was pulled from the water, triced
to a stick and thus came to town on
the shoulders of two men. They had to
tie the fish's tail up to keep it from
dragging on tho ground. The fish
was weighed in at Trowbridge's and
tipped the scales at 82 pounds.
The happy couple expect to leave
on the Elizabeth on a honeymoon trip
to San Francisco.
For several years tho bride has as
sisted her father in his store und is
favorably and widely known in Ban
don. Mr. Poolo is manager nnd partner
inthe firm of McKenzic & Poolo con
ducting a general merchandise bus
iness at Port Orford. Ho moved to
Port Orford from Bandon a short time
ago. Here he took an active interest
in the commercial club and in public
enterprises nnd has promptly allied
himself with the public spirited cit
izens of Port Orford.
Later: Tho newly weds wore a
greenbly surprised when they went on
hoard the steamship Elizabeth last
night to find their state room taste
fully decorated and appropriately
adorned with flowers, pictures, pen
nants and streamers advei lining tho
great nnnual event, "Tho Port Orford
Agnto Carnival, Aug. ID, 20 21, 10 IB"
Tlmy laughed and said) "Wo will ho
ut homo by (lint time und welcome
our many llumlon und Port Orford
friends.
All contemplating attending the
great event may imnilrn all the re
iinlied liifonimtlon by Inquiring of
Mr. J'rwilf Tlnlienor who uiiierluii'U
VJ thing iiihI ilerniMlliiK. lie uho
fUitf Mly uiu fclup htttwi'tuj, Itoiv
iia iun) iUut QjtuJ mjjJ I
Governor Withycombe, United
States Senators Chamberlain and
Lane and Congressman W. C. Haw
ley will be at Port Orford at the time
of the Agate Carnival. With this an
nouncement is coupled the news that
after years of endeavor Port Orford
is to have a lifesaving station. The
captain of the Bandon life saving
station has probably more lesponsibil
ity to shoulder than any other similar
officer. His patrol to the south is from
Bandon to Trinidad and at times his
crew is expected to go sixty or more
miles in order to render service. That
in a boat without a stateroom..
At present the nearest life saving
station to the south is at Eureka. It
is said that the government is nil
ready to make this improvement and
only awaits the visit of the senators
and congressman to make their visit
of inspection.
Pythians Install Officers
Knights and Sisters Hold Joint Installa
tion and Have a Big Banquet
A joint installation was held last
mgnt by tlie Kmgnis of 1'ytnias anu
rytnian Sisters. iVor the Kuignts Cap
vvnite acted as installing ollicer wun
Hi. Lowin as Grand Prelate and C. 1'
I'apo as Grand Vice Chancellor. They
placed the officers as follows: Retiring
Chancellor Commander J. W. Mast,
Chancellor Commander Victor Breu-
or; Vice Chancellor Commander,
Ralph Dipple; Prelate Wilbur Hoover;
Master of Work, Ray McNair; Mas
ter ut Arms,Zeno Gatchel; Inner
Guard, J. H .Jones; Outer Guard J. H.
Howe.
The installing officer of the Pythian
Sisters was Mrs. Hoover, assisted by
Mrs Ray and Mrs. Papa, and the ofi-
cers they installed were: P. C, Julia
G. Pape; M. E. C, Betty Mitchell;
E. F., Anna Barrows; E. J. J. Cora
Nygren; N. of R. and C. Alma John
son; M., Maude Tucker; P. Helen Bod-
in; G., Corn Panter.
At tho conclusion of the installation
there was a grand banquet and an in
terest program: a piano selection by
Ralph Moore; solo by Mrs. Arthur
Sweet; solo by Mrs. Bodinjrecitation
by Mrs. Roy Corson; reading by Mrs,
Pape. Mrs. Fay, a visitor here from
Coquille was present and she gave an
excellent reading.
The evening was very pleasantly
spent about eighty being present.
W. A. Prewitt of Bill's Creek
brought to town yesterday a specimen
of alfalfa grown on his ranch. The
growth of alfalfa has not made tho
advance in this section or been devel
oped as in some parts of the country
but the speciman produced by Mr.
Prewitt shows what can be done with
this popular forage here. The specimen
may be seen in the window of Dipple
& Wolverton.
A Dandy Car
The One Sold By M. I). Sherrard to
J. L. Kronenberg
M. D. Sheirard went over to the
Bay Saturday and brought to Bandon
tho now automobile by which J. L.
Kronenberg und fumily will make
their trip to their new homo at Sausa
lito, Cal. Mr. Sherard has shown the
car around town some since its arrival
and all who have seen it are united
in their pralso of It as a specimen of
mechanical urt. The cur has a OB horse
power engine, 0 cylinder und is equip
ped with nil the latest appliances. It
is a B passenger cur und its cost was
f IB!!B delivered In Bandon.
This cur wus mudu by El wood
lluynes of Kokoiuo, Ind, who hits the
ilUtinction of having made the flr.t
uulonioblle In the United Ktultm,
The oilginul rur I mi exhibition ut
I he exioltlon ut Kun JVuiii'Ihio und
IU mlnuliiif in mi tliu iww nnd up Ui
ilulu mit now being pul nut by llm
ni!uijy.
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BEACH FOUND FISH
REMAINS A MYSTERY
Local Naturalists Puzzled To Identify 85
Pound Fish Caught Among Rocks
What is it? with a big question
mark, is the intorogation that agitat
es the cumpers nnd others who throng
Bundon's famous beach these waim
days. The it, is a big fish, cornel ed
and beheaded by a man named Morgan
in a pool in the vicinity of the lookou(
last week Friday afternoon.
Morgan was out after clams but
when he saw the big body wriggling
in the waters of a sequestered pool a
mong tho rocks he changed his occu
pation and went out nftcr fish. The
fisli saw Morgan and trouble at tho
same time and made a dash for tho
deep, blue sea. But Morgan, jumping
into water up to his waist, dodged and
thrust and hacked until ho had driven
the fish on the beach and cut olf its
head with a clamming shovel.
Ed. Gallier happened along and
brought the fish up to the hotel whore
it had more viewers then a corpse nt
a colored funeral. Then the question
arose what is it? The body floated
in tho water perpendicularly like a
river fish and not horizontally like
the halibut. It had no teeth, so it
could not be a shark. It had the tail
of the whale but its .body did not cur
ry out tho resomblance to this mam
mal Its fins were spineless and it , hud
no scales. It had whiskers like cat
fish but than was as far as its resom
blance went to that fish. It hud a
tough hide and practically no bones
which inclimed some to the opinion
that it might be some strange speci
men of an sel. Some thought tho
strange visitor was a porpoise, but
porpoises are common in this latitude
and people familiar with the specias
denied this. Then it was suggested
this visitor to the waters of our
beach was a tuna strayed from its
haunts in the south, and although
there are many to dispute this tho
idea has many adherents.
The Hawaiian singers who happen
ed to be at the hotel claimed to have
seen the fish before and asked to have
some of it served up to them. But
how to cook it was the question.
When baked the flesh had the color
and tcxturo of loppored milk and ap
parently was more suited for use in
whitewashing a fence than in holding
a conspicuous position in the center
of a white man's dinner table. It
looked like fish and tasted like fish
but there is something woefully ex
perimental in the idea of eating fish
with a spoon like n custard. When
the fish was put on the stove with
olive oil it became more palatable, but
still there was plenty for everybody.
The fish weighed 85 lbs.
Having caught a halibut and a tuna
in succession, the beach people are ex
pecting that a sea serpent will bo the
next and aro preparing for some un
usual sport when that attraction is
sighted.
The Elizabeth Waits
The Elizabeth has been held over
two days now. The first day's delay
was duo to tho fact that tho tug
Klihyam had to have her boilers in
spected und could not be used dur
ing inspection. Tho second day al
though tho weather was fair croas
winds worked up u rough bar and it
was not deemed safe to pass over.
The Phoenix is hero for a cargo.
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