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4 Historic Society city aU THE BANDON RECORDE R Bandon By-the-Sea has the Prettiest Beach on the Coast VOLUME XXXI BANDON, OREGON. JULY 20, 1915 NUMBER 28 COUNTY JUDGE TIES THE KNOT Presides At Wedding Of LMr. And Mrs. L. I. Wheeler. Lodges Install Officers Tho wedding of Louis 1. Wheeler ana Mrs. Margaret Ugren came as a climax to the installation of officers at a joint installation held by the local lodges of Kebekahs and Udd Fellows lust Wednesday night. The wedding party entered the hall promptly at ll o'clock to the music of a wedding inarch, with Mrs. A. Garfield at tho piano. The party came in two sections, the groom at tended by L. IS. I .owe coming from the candidnte'tJ door at the left and the bride and her attendants through the main entrance at the right. The brides party was headed by her daughter, Anna Ogren, carrying the ring on a silken cushion, the bride came next on the arm of her father, J. E. Fox, and Miss Elizabeth Fox, the bride's sister brought up the rear. The bride was attired in battleship gray silk poplin and carried a shower boquet of pink rosebuds. The brides maid was in pink and carried a similar boquet of sweet peas. In front of the noble grand's chair the two parties met under a bell of sweet peas, white roses and green vines, and Judge James Watson who had come down from Coquille for the purpose and who occupied the chair, stepped down and i nfront of the bridal party and pronounced the words of wedlock. Concluding he remarked that all Robckahs were supposed to kiss the g oom which they promptly proceed-! cJ to do. 'After the preliminary congratula tions, I. L. Scofiold, vice grand, .ntep? ped forward and in a brief speach pre i jnted the happy couple with two packages artistically wrapped. The i room immediately proceeded to undo 1he packages, starting with the large itii.e This displayed, amid much ,iaper filling a neat little match safe, ,osigned in crockery. Although this 1. early floored the groom ho still had ouragc to unwrap tho second pack age and found a fine set of silver Knives, forks and spoons with initials engraved. These were the gifts of the Odd Fellows and Kebekahs. Other appropriate gifts were also received by the couple. The presents being duly inspected the unmarried young women were grouped together and the bride tossed her boquet among them. This was caught by Miss Alpha Mnuzey of Marshfield. The felicitations being over, eats were announced in the banquet room and headed by the bride and groom the party marched in to tho tables. The Odd Fellows colors ,red, white and green were in evidence here as in the lodge room and a pink sweet pea blos som was beside each plato as a favor. When tho appetites of all had been assuaged under tiro direction of the corps of waiters, the bride busied her self with the cutting of the wedding cake. This was a large one, a tripple decker, baked under the artistic eye and skilled hand of Paul Stcphan of tho Sea Side Bakery. There was a slice for everybody and still some left. In most instances these portions were wrapped up in napkins and taken home to dream over. After tho banquet there was some skirmishing and strategy brought in to play. Sheriff Johnson was pre sent as well as Judge Watson and a plan was concocted to have a mock arrest and trial butt the bridal party nutwited them and got away in an automobile safely, bound for Marsh field. With tho party went Mr. and Mrs, Knhcrt Fox and Miss Alpha Muuzey. From Murslificld they go on a wedding trip to Ten Mile, Re turning tliey will settle down to limine Keeping In it limine belonging to the groom on Oregon Avi. Mr Wlii'iOur, tin groom U HiuidonV lending ilintogruihir ami in a nutlvv of Iowa wlitwn in Hit nlimlliw In' liinl itqiuliillim un it blffli' uiror. Tin hnli m Mipuur in IIiiihIhh uud Mil Imtf 4 liol if (limli io wtili llwin u prosperous trip on the sea of inatri money. m tne installation ol ollieers for the Oud i'eilows, A. Knopf acted us installing olllcer and Chris Boetcher as mai'Hliull. They installed the fol lowing olllcers: L. 1. Wheeler, N. 15.; I. L. Scolield, V; G.; Ceo. 11. Smith, secy.; O. A. Trowbridge, treas.; Man uel Wilson, I. C; Leroy Cornell, chap A; Knopf, It S N C; N. Kildulf, L S N C; W. W. Frost, warden; J. A. Hem inger, con.; Will Lundquist, R S S; John Nielson, L S S; H. A. Macey, R S V G; Karl Koseburg, L S V G. With the Kebekahs the installing officer was Mrs. Ada. Still; Deputy Grand Marshall, Minerva Lewin; Dep uty Grand Warden, Lena t)avidson; Deputy Grand Treasurer, Utile Macey; They installed the following olllcers Mariam Wilson, N G; Lena Boyrie, V G; Mary C. Harrows, secy.; A Knopf, treasurer; Mrs. I. L. Scoficld, chaplin, Margaret Wheeler, warden; Elizabeth Fox, conductor; Irene Smith, P N G; Bertha Wyant, I G; 0. Heminger, O G; Miss V. Mott, L S V G; Lena Davidson, K S V G. The Odd Fellows did their work in an orderly manner and without any hitches, but it is no injustice to say that the Rebekahs beat them in the work of instalation. Road Workers Object Petitions to Reduce County Officers' Salaries 2.") Per Cent. Truck Owner Protests Charges Against Them E. E. Doyle is one of the people who are highly incensed at the order of the county road authorities in reducing the wages of road workers. He pro poses to get up a petition to the leg islature asking that body to reduce wage3 of all county olllcers twenty live percent. While he does not expect to get any immediate action through this pctiton Mr. Doyle thinks it will be of inllu ence in demonstrating what the peo ple of this section and county think of the road ruling. It is claimed that the only result of this action is the changing of the per sonal of the road force. The cheaper wages call out cheaper men, the old and the young and that the amount accomplished for a given dollar is tho same if not less than accomplished under the old scale. There appears to be much dissatis faction with the cutting of wages and many people aro interesting them selves in it. The proposals of the board in re gard to the auto truck is also coming in for disapproval. It is pointed out that the trucks are hauling where it would be unprofitable to haul by team and they are enabling sections rc moto from the port to market their product when the work could not be done by any other means. They ask if a road is not to serve a country it taps, what is it for? And if the pres ent roads will not stand the strain of the heavy trucks, why not build roads that will stand the strain. Mr. Kruse, owner of the Bandon truck complained of, says he will con tinue to operate it until compelled not to and will fight any effort to force the machine into idleness. Arranging lliilklu-ad District Of the committee C. F. Pape was the only one to meet the port at its last meeting and confer upon the question of a bulk head for the Ore gon avenue till. The port pioved to be entirely agreeable in the matter and it was agreed that the bulkhead line should be the north line of First street and eabl to tho cast line of the El lingson building, the proviso being that this shall be approved by Col, Morrow when that gentleman ap peal Otlio L. llopxon, formerly of Hun don, Multifield, Portland and every where, well imilitlllhiiind UN the wlln iug ktook Niili'unian, wiin Nome Hum ago Indli'tml by the federal fit and Jury lit Poithin.l fur llliig lork mntriiry o law, w JunI been loeutul uiul nr itM h I'kltuM ml will b re I win wl lo ItojUuiuL far trial. County Elks To Be Filmed On Bandon Beach hover hi the history of Coos coun ty has there been tne enthusiasm on tap lor a like event as that which now prevails throughout the entire county towards making Elk Day Sunday, Ju ly Uoth a banner day. It will not only be an Elk day but it will be a Coos Curry picnic day; a day when every one will join hands, forget their tioub les and feel that life is really worth living. No cooking will be done at home on that day as the Elks will serve a free lunch to everybody on the beach. The Moose band from Mnrshfield will be there and the trains and boats from that town have been chartered and expect to arrive with over a thousand people from the bay. After the sports dinner will be served to all on the beach. Then we will journey to the ball park where more sports will be seen. A first class ball game will be play ed between the Marshfield and Ban don Elk teams, Bandon has sent out for two professional players who are said to be in the black sand mines south of Coos county. Another novel feature wil be a backward race for nutmobiles, open to any cars in Coos or Curry county. Resides having a free lunch you will also have your picture taken free and placed on exhibition through the Un ited States. This is the real object of the cele bration. 2,000 feet of moving film showing the Beautiful Bandon beach, Winners Of Sweet Pea Contest Some Fine Specimens on Exhibit at Annual Show of Thimble Club. Unuer the lavorahle auspicies of the Ladies 'X'liimblc Club the second an nual sweet pea carnival wad held in .uunuoii last Saturday at the rear of ..Aoi'iU's store. There wereover thir ty entries, and, somo of the entries consisted of many separate boqucts, e.icli of a different variety, and such .i profusion. Many reinaiked that taey did know there were so many biveet peas in Handon, each entry was numbered, and the judges coulo only take into consideration the quality of the individual flower, the quality, and the evident care and cultivation that had been given to the flowers. The winuingboquct was of Hie large slight ly varigated pink colored Spencer, and was entered by Mrs. L. J. Radley. Ihe second prize was awarded to Miss Maud Young, and the third to Mrs. H. N. Harrington. Also two prizes were awarded to entries by children, Master Joe Myers being the winner among the boys and little Miss Alice Fish being the winner among the girls The Judges were Mrs. W. S. Smith, Mrs. F. D. Webb, and C. R. Wade. Refreshments were served at the same time by the Ladies of the Thimble Club for the benefit of the Handon Library. The Ladies aro to be com mended for their efforts, and will no Proposed Roads Should Be Plank Roads The question of, good roads is again before the people of Coos County. The movement seems to be spontaneous from the nature of a proposal to bond thu county for $110,000. It seems to be the purpsoo of those behind the movement to outline the character of improvements with gene ral specifications, and apportion the fund to the different portions of the county. Tho plans, while not yet com pleted aro apparently meeting with general approval. The endorsement of each section will depend on the kind of road proposed to be built and an eqiiible distribution of the funds rais ed. Handon and vicinity will cant Hourly twnnty five Mir cent of tho vote of tin county, and anticipating that iiutliwoNtiiril Coon will receive a fair ami ttqultable proportion of the fund, will uukt u fair majority then far. OtJiiirwle UiU Ntwtlon of tlm iWMiy aoukJ mi wguid dft ir up. in all of its splcnuor wiUi Hundreds oi people making merry. Tho excursion down the Coquille river, a lumber laden schoooner crossing the bar, sun set on the bar, life savers exhibition in the surf boats, saw null and tim ber scenes, scenes from Coos Hay and many other attractions. This picture will cost about $500 and will be paid for by the Elk lodge and the Bandon and Marshtield com niercini ciuos. anu win be UiKen care of and placed in the moving picture houses by the Elk's lodges through out the United States. Wo need advertising, we want the people to know the splendor and re sources of this wonderful country and no more legitimate and attractive ad vertising can be sent out than a pic ture of this kind. So we ask every lodge, club, and citizen in the county to co-operate with us and make this day a grand success and we will in turn help you. If you have a good idea or sugges tion along this line, tell the committee for we want your help. The following ure the local com mittees: Sports and Reception: Sullivan, Wells, McDairmid, Sorensen. Hase Hall Lafaw, Dipple. Auto Races Leep, Whitsett, Lafaw Refreshments Fasbendor, L. Gal lier, Trowbridge. Advertising McDairmid, Sorensen, Special committee Topping, Soll mer, Nels Rasmussen. doub be even more year. successful next A Former Resident Honored Edgar F. Averill of Pendleton was rceeiHly -appointed assistant in the United States biological survey and put in charge of the work of stamping out the rabies which had been spread ing among the coyotes and doing much damage in stock countries. His ter ritory comprises the entire state and he is now in southern Oregon. Mr. Averill for the last four years was district game warden for eastern Oregon, but his head was lopped off when a new game commission was named. He won tho reputation of being one of the most offcient game ofliccrs in the state and his present position was tendered him without any solicitation, the forest supervisors of eastern Ore gon joining in recommending him be cause of his past work for the state. Mr. Averill has lived in Pendleton since his graduation from Williamette university and was in tho newspaper business before receiving the appoint ment in the game service. Mr. Averill when a boy lived in Handon, and is a brother of Mrs El bert Dyer, and of Moss Averill, now of Gold Beach. It was Mr. Averill's father who first laid out the original site of Bandon as a town, and it still appears as the town of Averill on the county records to this time. tire plan. The expenditure of that sum over 200 miles of trunk road, would give approximately $2,200 per mile for im provement purposes with which sum much good roads could bo built with plank, but if expended for hard sur face would not bo even a start. The building of plank road would proba bly require better than thirty million feet of lumber. It would furnish n small market for somo standing tim ber, slightly increase logging opera tions, give additional work to some Coos county mills and probably cause Home mills, now Idlu to run for u uliort time, would furnish hauling and labor for toaniH and men, now idle. The work could be done cheaper now than at any other tlnut, practically ..II .1 .m.I.I ....i.ii.ln in I'aiii " l"v '"""" " ' ' wiunty. Tlu' Html would bo jmwuljk wtiitw niwl wjininnr uiu with u miiul) BJii&unt of rtjjmlr, iiJ ilfll Im uiriouut -i cost could he Kept in good condition ...ii luriiisu u nisi elasa roan lor ai .c-ubL six anu more iiheiy leu yoars it uas been stated by piomincia ami leputablo citizens oi mo county mat o are each year expending for road voik, temporal y won;, over a hund red tnousand dollars. A plank road of me nature planned would during its nle time save to the county in an piohabinty more than its cost. The ellect of such a road in devel oping the agricultural districts would uo inestimable. In addition to giving us a road, it would in the long run be a saving of money to the county over our present system and present meth od of doing business. Six, eight or ten years from now, when such a road has served its purpose and needs to be re placed, we will then be in a position to talk of more expensive roads, and be able to build a hard surfaced road way, section by section. The citizens of Bandon are in a fa vorable and receptive frame of mind, for the further plans of the good roads movement and if withholding support it is only to be assured of tho nature of the ultimate plan to be sub mitted and of the distribution of tho fund to the dilfcrent part of tho coun ty. Johnston House Burned While Owners are At Beach Picnic House is Destroyed. Insurance $1700 While J. Howard Johnston and fam ily were preparing a picnic diner on the beach last Wednesday lire broke out in their home on Jackson avenue which soon reduced it to ashes. The nro started in the house Kitchen and was first noticed by neighbors who gave the alarm. There was a gen eral response to this. It was noon and many wore .returning to their hornet from work. The hose wagon was hur ried to the scene but all were too late to render effective service. Some one nroke into the house and passed out i bed and mattress and a few other things. Before the mattress had been taken far it took fire and burned. The family, being out for a penir had on only their every day clothing and the remainder of their wardrobes were destroyed. There had been a fire in tho kitchen stove in the morning but only a very few coals at most could have been in the stove at the time of the accident. It is likely that the fire had smolder- in the chimney until conditions were right and then been faucd ito flame. The house was insured for $1,000 the furniture for $500 and the piano for $200 and the loss is easily twice that. Among the property destroyed by the fire was $75 worth of equipment belonging to the Woodlawn tennis club which had been stored in the house. There was not the least chance for the family to save any cherished pos session from the house. Recently Mr. Johnston made a tour of the world and he took a great deal of pride in many curious picked up in Colon, Chi na and Japan and which were lost. The house was not built by Mr Johnston but since it came into his possession he had added on to it three times. He Would be a Pirate, Bold i Last Friday morning as M. G. Pohl was sitting in the Norma along the water front meditating on various things the boat went adrift. Mr. Pohl's first thought was that somo one was trying to abduct him and and take him to some fastness in the interior and hold him for a ransom. James Mars who was, at tho wliarf and saw tho incident however insisted I that the old gentleman was about to turn pirate and run away with the boat. One of the helpers on the Norma saw the accident, got In a boat ; and hoon caught up with tho runaway "'"I 1'ioiight it buck to lt mooring I'1'"10" J. P. IIIkuImw ii ruiitliiitliiK iiuiwii to ,M)J, J(i) AngHlni with liU i fumtly imd ixpii to UmUu llv for mujjy IJvwl lu Mmm COX SAW MILL RAZED BY FIRE Small Mill Owned By Cox And Destroyed Friday Night. Loss Over $2000 Without Insurance The light of another fire liguted up the souiiibastern suy Friuay login and the pyrotecnics were f ui uishen iy i.ne Cox milh on the Bear crec. road winch was totally destroyed. l lie ourning of the null, operated by 'loin Gritllth will mean the throwing out of work of a small force of men. The null, situated alongside a gulcn near the highway about two miles out lias been operated continuously and lias been one of Bandon's sources ol sup ply during the shut down of the larg er mills. Just how the lire started is not nown but may have originated in and around the boiler or from the slab pile where the refuse is burned. The lire was discovered at about 10::!0 Fri day night by the help who live in the icinity of the mill. A lire of this kind is what every mill man dreads but is constantly ex pecting and Mnnager Griffith, awak ing from his first sleep in his home on 0th St. and seeing the blaze, knew at once what to expect. Hastily dressing 'ie drove to the scene and found tl mill beyond saving and the men at hand doing what they could to save lumber that was exposed. While il lasted the building made rich fuel for .the flames and the glare thereof could be seen for miles. The fire burned it self out speedily although the slab pile in the gulch smouldered for sev eral days. Tho plant belonged to Geo. Cox and Tom Griffiths with the latter as man ager and the loss is between $2,000 and $2,500. The loss is total as there can be no insurance on a risk of this kind. There were six saws in the mill and much belting, pulleys and shaft ing that were destroyed. The boiler is practically uninjured and the engine and some of the other machinery can probably be put in shape to run again with some expense. At the time of the fire the mill was engaged in sawing plank for the Ore gon avenue paving. The mill worked steadily and it was the custom of tho managers to move it every couple years to a new stand of timber and stay, in the new location until tho available timber was' used up. Just what will be done in the way of starl ing il up again is uncertain, the man agement not having fully decided. OfT For the Fair Captain Robert Johnson and fami ly left for San Francisco and the fair in their Dodge auto this morning, tho captain having received his leave of absence during the past week. He had thought his chances for obtaining the leave was doubtful inasmuch as the government has just sent out a new set of regulations, which adds to the duties and responsibilities of the coast guard men materially but ne glects all mention of vacation. Capt. Johnson and family expect to be gone about a month spending the time at the fair and visiting with relatives in the neighborhood of the bay where they formerly resided. D. M. Averill and Schmidt Hansen are members of a party of Moose de parting for tho fair at San Franciso during the past week. They plan ti be on hand Moose day July 25th. V STANDING OF THE CON 0 THSTANTS 0 0 ' i (!) li) !) 0 0 0 0 0 0 Blanche Cuthhcrt 5082 Mrs F. II. FiiHhcndcr, . 1:1055 Leona Fullerton 85075 Dorothy I-anglols -1080 Ottillo Uwin 1005 Alda Mars 01158 Minnie McCiirdy 500 Violet Monro BOO En la Moore 580 titnllu HI.IU, mn Amy Wlmlior fits Mv Wait MW V) 'i) (t) ' ') '