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CITIZEN ON
THE FRANCHISE
Gives Views Regarding Sey
mour H. Bell's Request of
Marshfield.
Editor Times,
It Is nearly time for Seymour H.
Bell to make another application to
tho city council of Marshfield for a
franchise for his electric line. As
tho proposition presents itself at this
time It seems to be his plan to tun
nel under Sherman avenue in North
Bend so that a line may extend from
the waterfront in North Bend over
to Poney Slough and it is thought
that the same line will be extended
to Empire and then to Sunset Bay.
From the waterfront, south to Por
ter and continue on the water level
across Plat B to a strip embracing
the property of the Stave mill, Hall
nnd others to the Marshfield bound
ary. The county court has condemn
ed a portion of the strip not included
4n North Bend and Marshfield cor
porations for a county road, but has
provided that the expense o.f the road
shall be borne oy the parties Inter
ested. Bo everything is ready for tho
street railroad to the south line of
Plat B, and no real serious opposi
tion will be offered to the construc
tion ot it to the Marshiie d bout"'
ary. Should It be extended through
Marshfield It would prouauiy be pi in
jected on the Front street elevated
roadway to Cedar street, along Cedar
street as recently graded, and south
to and along Broadway to South
.Marshfield.
Why should there be any opposi
tion to the gran' It;; of Mr. Bell's
franchise in Marshfield? The prop
osition includes th vpendlture of
from $300,000 to $500,000 and the
employment of many men. The ac
tivity of the city during the year
1908 has been encouraging and if
the building of a street railway will
continue the scene fpr another year
It will add many thousands to con
structed values on Coos Bay. The
people of Marshfield want this rail
road. They want the service it will
elve and they believe it will pay the
promoters. It is stated on pretty
good authority that the traffic by
boat between North Bend and Marsh
thing is to make any franchise
jed subject to the regulations
the council may require and keep
tho road open for the use of any
railroad company whose lines enter '
the city on payment of resonable ,
switching rates.
A CONTRAST IN
CMC
BEAUTY
discarded machinery, ties and the like.
Tho original beauty of the country Is
preserved.
The same nice bcusc of public obllga
Hon is displayed even more emphatical
ly by the Blackwells, father and son,
when their road gets Into town. Ono
can read in their engineering and con
The people of Marshfield ought to Experience Of Idaho TOWfl With 8tructIon performances the very char
2 to it that the obstructions to pro- H ncter of tho men. The right of way in
i,wo nanroaas.
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gress in this respect arc removed.
A CITIZEN.
ONE DEEMED AN EYESORE.
Young Folks
A FLYING MACHINE.
Directions For Making a Pretty and
Amusing Toy.
A fenther flying machine Is a very
simple thing to make, but It will only
fly up, as there are no wings to sup
port It when flying horizontally. The
motive power Is furnished by a whale
bone bow, which causes the aerial
screws to revolve as it unbends.
For this model you will need eight
feathers. They should be carefully se
lected of the same size nnd shape. The
best are good stiff wing feathers. From
them form two screws by sticking
them In corks, as In the Illustration.
One must Io arranged to revole to the
right, the other to the left, because the
bowstring ttirns the upper In one direc
tion, while the reaction tends to turn
the lower in the opposite waj. and If
both screw? were right handed or left
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The Other Considerate of the People's
Rights and the Municipality's Wel
fare and Appearance Striking Dif
ference Between Their Depots.
From one end of llathdrum, Ida., to
the other, nlmost running parallel east
and west, two railroad Hues tare im
portant adjuncts Of the village. The
physical character of one disfigures
and mars the surroundings: the other
has been constructed with a view to
giving an additional beauty to con
tiguous points.
The Northern Pacific at this point Is
a positive eyesore to all the Inhabit
ants of the village, and uo less so to
the traveling public, says Bartlott Sin
clair in the Spokaue Spokesman-Review.
In the construction, subsequent
"Improvements" and maintenance of
tills great commercial highway (he.v
at least) nothing seems to h.ive been
omitted to Impress the eye with IN
ropulslveness.
It enters the town from the east
through a beautiful grove of native
pines. Without apparent i'.o.....ud fo.'
the net the old right of way v.u bun
some ten feet through that IjvjI.v rpot.
destroying hundreds of the i.:ot state
ly trees, and as If more dist uctly to
indicate the ravage the stun.pa ot tin'
monarchs. the huge limbs an.', trunks
lie promiscuously on the bajks of the
depression. There may sthl be been
dlsgu&tiug evidences of the old camps
of the army of vandals.
As the road gets-into the keait of
the town the grade lnci eases la eleva
tion until at several points It divides
tho town by an embankment of Ce to
fifteen leet. The sides of tills embank
ment, stietchiug like n hue. black
serpent through the town, uro covered
with lilthy cans, useless scraps ol i ail
road Iron, fragments of old cars, con
demned and raggeu ties, all set In a
bed of black and gray ushes.
No description of offensive refuse
In
this valley Is a veritable park. Said
the elder Blnckweli recently when
thanked for the splendid depot at this
point. "Wo build our road to stay and
our depots for comfort and beauty."
In striking contrast with the North
ern Pacific's possessions in llathdrum,
the Ulackwell depot 13 Indeed a beau
tiful creation. It Is built In the cen
ter of an entire block bought n-nd
cleared of expensive dwellings In or
der that a park might be made around
It II Is modern In ail its appoint
ments nnd la a permanent and valua
ble adjunct to the village of which ev
ery citizen Is Justly proud.
Its existence has stimulated an am
bition on the part of tho people to Im
prove and beautify their homes. It nf
fords dally intense satisfaction to the
eye. and inctead of giving forth tho
Idea of cold commercialism there Is
involved the sense of altruistic consid
erations. The Blackwells fully understand tho
rights belonging to the public and have
a very much nobler form of worship
than that of the dollar. All this you
may see In the comforts, safety and
embellishment of this road and Its
equipment.
The Blackwells have proved that the
presence of a railroad Is not neces
sarily a pathological or scenic nui
sance. In taking latp account the
needs nnd wishes of the villager
through which their ronl runs thev
have done much to mdifv prevailing
hostility Justifiable ho'Milty to accu
undated railroad wrl'h, T'-ey ivwe
given additional val-'e to vested Inter
ests and augmented lmme'iely the
comforts of all having dealings with
tho road
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HINT TO HOME MERCHANTS. -------------
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May Use Local Newspaper to Flflht
Mail Order Evil.
Much has been wiltteu about the
subtle influence of the big four pound
catalogues bent broadcast oer the land
by the houses located lu the big cities
which, strauge to say, refuse to sell
goods to the residents of tlid cities In ,
which they are located.
There is uo mysterious clement In
these bulky paper books, writes D. M.
Carr in the Dwlght (III.) Herald. From
L'eover to cover they are filled with pic
turcs and with prices and descriptions
of goods. The power of printer's Ink
Is the only magnet, and this magnet
can be used by merchants everywhere.
The publishers of these great cata
logues do business running well up
toward the fifty millions yearly. All
their success has been In the Ink they
use and the way they use It
Because these concerns receive pat
ronage that should go to the homo
merchant it Is the home merchant's
fault. Mr. Carr argues. Tho homo
merchant neglects to do Just what tho
houses which publish tho big cata
logues do. no may not have the
money to get out such a great list
neither the means of carrying great
stocks of goods. Yet he possesses all
the means necessary to gain the trade
that goes to these great concerns. lie
can buy goods Just as low, has less ex
pense, and, while the big catalogue
goes to a customer only once In n year
or two. through the medium of the
local newspaper the merchant can go
to all the people of the community
once a week and at the lowest expense.
I Marshfield
' Grows
with the
Double
hift
BAY PARK is in the
trough of the wave made a
by the Double Shift at the ?
Smith Mill, V
BAY PARK grows and yet ?
is within reach of the
? Rich and Poor alike, You
can buy a Lot now on
i. terms of $10 down and
r $5 per month,
For quick results, put an nd in i
Tho Poos Bav Time Want Column
own
"TOWN COW" CIVIC PRCSLEM.
MACHINE COMPLETE
handed they would work agalust each
other and produce little or no effect.
The upper screw is fastened to the
ophidic while the lower is attached to
tho bow. The spindle turns In a hole i
bored through the bow and luto the J out ul!lJ be Beeu or smel.ed on the
cork. It moves freely because It slm- rlSut of wa' within the town limits,
ply rests in the hole and Is not fas- For twenty years u tpaces covering a
tened to the lower screw. The bow- margin of two blocks has boea uied
string 'Is tied to the spindle near the,,nsu dumping ground for the ills aracij
ashes from the eug luts,
top.
When finished, hold tho lower screw
In one hand and turn the upper with
the other until the string Is wound ou
the spindle. Now let go the upper
sciew nnd toss it gently Into the air.
field passenger and freight prod- when It will fly until the bow straight
uces a gross income of $22,000 a ns. Philadelphia Ledger.
year and a net Income of $16,000 to
those engaged in it. The three-mile
road between North Bend and Marsh
fleld will cost about $150,000 in
cluding equipment so that, if the
Empire and Sunset extensions were
not built the Marshfield and North
Bend 'proposition would more than
pay operating expenses and some In
come on the investment. If the road
does not pay, It Is because of the ex
tension to Sunset or Empire.
But Marshfield is not concerned
In tho question of profits. It is con
cerned only In gettlng'the line. Now
that Mr. Bell appears to have the
money ready and means business, is
there any good excuse for not giving
him a franchise? What Is the real
objection to it? Nobody claims that
It would bo sold. The cit.' could
not Bell such a franchise. It ought
to ha ready to give it to the cause
of progress. If the street railroad
is built it will bring North Bend and
Marshfield closo together and make
them one city. It will reduce the
time of transit from thirty-five to
ten minutes between tho two cities.
Jt will enable the people of tho two
cities to patronize one another and
add to tho business of both. If Mr.
Doll will submit such franchise to
tho city as tho city can grant there
should bo no hesitancy. The main
A GRAIN OF MUSK.
Perfume Diffuses Odor For Years
Without Losing Weight.
Wonderful stories are told of tho
ni'mber of years that some of the old
Egyptian perfumes last, but we need
not go to Egypt to find a thing llkt
tint. We have It here In the coihmon
perfume, musk, says Chicago News
It Is said that a grain of It will diffuse
nn oder through n room for twenty
years, and you know, perhaps, that all
perfumes give off their odor by send
ing their particles through the air
that Is to say, by glvlug off all the
time little parts of their own sub
stance. How small, then, must these
particles of musk be when .after a
continuous diffusion of them for twen
ty years the original grain has suffered
uo diminution of weight.
Put you can find an Illustration of
this wonderful divisibility of nritter
nearer home. Ask a scientist about a
drop of blood that fnlls'from jour cut
finger, and he will tell you that It l
a drop of liquid In which are floititv-'
a million red globules and that these
give It It" color And thcec- million
flo'"lis in iv be dhlilod In'o smaller
plo'-i.w still. Fl-ully. take the famll
lar IM"-twitlnn of the threil spun b
the fjl ler It Is so line Mi't '-'."P0
miles of It would wcl'Th omIv olg'i
oun'e. iim ' et It N made up of v
thousand fllnmcHis i
ratlpi- inilrt thli minor ro :i frfon
That
Thanks
Will taste better
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Also remember that we can fimilsli you with a complete assort
ment of (iiiinlte Pots, Kettles and Suoy Roasters.
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This accumu
lation at times readies a height of ten
or tweh d feet and u width of twenty
feet and protiudes for a disunite of
COO feet along the right of v,av within
the town 11 lilts. Sometimes this un
sightly pile 13 higher nnd wider, but at
all times it is there. The commercial
club and the village trustees have ap
pealed time and again for relief, but rl!
to no purpose. The rallnad authoil
ties are Impervious.
Tho horrible mass Is coextensive for
several blocks with the soutu wall: of
the re ently I lid out vlllare park. Its
uncanny appearance Is Inteurlfied bv
the natural beauty across tht' street
The prospect from the park In the di
rection of the road destroys all sense
of the natural grandeur of fie beauti
ful brook, the shrubs the 1 iwtis and
magnificent old trees. The exlsten e
of that foul embankment Is submis
sively endured. The peo-ile think they
have no recourse.
But that Is not all. Th. eld t'e;K't
bulldlugs and platform are a positive
disgrace, not say menace to safety.
The railings are down, and one of the
depots is without steps, necessitating
an acrobatic or mouhey feat to get
within. This great corpora Ion, with
millions at Its commard. maintains the
dirtiest yaul and surroundings In the
town. The poorest and most parsi
monious person of the village supports
nicer and more aesthetic surroundings.
So 16-ng as this ulcer Is maintained
in Its present condition our village,
beautifully situated, must stand in bad
repute. And so must many another.
These unkempt railroad grounds are
the first and last sight of all people
who visit us. The nauseating odors fill
the atmosphere, and the rough slo' es
of the roadbed, strewn with ashes am
dirty debris from many and miscel
laneous sources, Bhock one's sense of
the beautiful.
There are so many towns In the
same suffering, helpless clacs with
nathdrum between tho coast and St.
Paul that the situation becomes one of
general Interest nnd concern. Some
thing ought to bo done.
The other railroad which intersects
the village is the Idaho and Washing'
Women of a Tennessee Muriclpality
Active For Improvement.
What can be done In the way of
civic Improvement in the smaller mu
nicipalities has been demonstrated by
the Civic Improvement club of nuut
lugtou. Tenn. Organized In Augurt, '
1900. with thirty members, the club
now numbers fifty. Inasmuch as the
club's membership is limited to wom
en, that part of the work for a meve '
beautiful city which requires the serv- !
Ices of the men Is left to the Hunting-
ton Commercial club, and in many ,
things the two organizations co-oper- I
nte to ud'wuitage. I
Into! eft lu the work for which the
Improvement club was for-iioJ was
great lrom tho beginning. Some of the i
rjuartloaa to be coa'-.uored were ll:u
I.Ing t'ao range of "the town cow," re
palrlag the streets and ridewalks, tho
suppiecrlou of vceda along the el-Ie-jynlks
a::d tho rumo al of v, arte paper
and r- e pi."; f r n tl-e rtreeta.
By tbv cattle q .arau'.Pie the town
cow soon was kept l:i pivpar bounds.
Coun.dr w-HV ne.l by public teutl
ment to ie;nlr unsightly sidewalks
nnd cut i'ow.i t-11 weeds. The club
boug'it u do-en gtrbage cons and dlr
trlbuted them In vatlous parts of the
town ro I' at Khopkeepers and house-hol-Iera
co-:!d put their waste paper
and trarh lu them.
Through the efforts of the club the
barren so.uare at the railroad station
was tiv.nM'orme.i into a park. The
railroad company fenced the park, sot
out the trees and furnished the gravel
for sidewalks. The Commercial club
paid for the work of gradinjr. graveling
tho walks and a supply of grass seed.
The women's oigaulzatlon planned the
walks and flower beds and superin
tended the planting. Much of that
work was done by members.
Two flower parks woio placed iu tho
town square under the sole caie of the
Civic Improvement club. These for
merly were vacant lots, adorned only
with hitching posts, weeds und n sun
dry collection of tin cans. All the
plants, tlower seeds and shrubbery
wovo supplied by fi loads of the club.
In addition the club was active in
getting seventy-five trees planted in
the hlghwa s and now Is urging the
planting of r.00 mote. For the benefit
of the boys nnd girls of the town the
club is planning for the establishment
of a public library.
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agazme
CHRISTMAS NUMBER.
You should read "Tho Wo
man's Invasion"; it's powerful
and disturbing, but It's your
business, and bound to come
home to you man or woman.
And you should see "The
Child's Christmas Tree,"
sparkling color and verse, al
most a complete little gift
book in itself.
There's the makings of a
sermon, a speech, a laugh, or
a debate in every number of
"Everybody's."
Get a Copy at
NORTON and HANSON'S
BOOK STORE.
You can own your
home,
You can save that Rent
Account,
k You can live comfortable
and at the same time
T take advantage of the
sure rise in prices,
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k you can duplicate it on
I Coos Bay, But do not
I wait until the best is all
i taken,
5 REMEMBER First to
a come will be first served,
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What tho Frcss Can Do.
One of the most powerful influences
In the upbuilding or Improvement of
city or town Is the public press. Many
Instanoes are on record where highly
effective work has been accomplished
In a very short time. It Is but re
cently that a Seattle editor, who had
long and persistently advocated a mu
nicipal cleanup, docl'ed to take more
drastic action. So he stnt forth his
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FORKS AN'I) SPOONS.
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between Spokaue and Newport and Is
the work of the Blackwells. A lot go
part of the road has been completed,
and the extension Into the Metallue
section Is going forth at a rapid rate.
The Blackwells In the construction of
the road have given a valuable Illus
tration of the truth that n railroad line
through a village or city need not bo
a disfigurement and may be so built
dumps close to residences of prominent
people, of filthy corner.? and byplaces
Close in and of the deplorable condi
tion of n tiny brook which runs
through the city. These and scores of
other unkempt spots were photgraphed,
and each day two or throe were shown
In tho puper, with the result that a
general rush was made to cleau up
bofo.re tho photographs showed too
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j. to tho landseapo and to municipalities, diCTnnt remonstrances were mode, but
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pursued by these contractor and true BOthcr t0 blamo? Tho controversy was
artists of cleaning up behind them as too ono sMcii, nnd a much cleaner Seat
tho rails were laid. No unsightly ref- tie resulted in a vorv simrr tt
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one of these handsome handbags or purses here and then
get the money from hubby to put Into them. We have been
'""VIng over our stock and find we have too many of these
leather goods and to make a quick reduction we have decided to
make a big reduction in prices. Look at these prices and then
come in and see these purses and handbags, they are the finest
made and everyone guaranteed. Anyone of them would make a
fine Christmas present. Come in and look them over whether you
want to buy or not we will be pleased to see you.
Former Price. Reduced Price.
Ladies' Handbag or Purse
Ijldies' Handbag or Pmse
Ladles' Handbag or Purse
ladles' Handbag or Purse
Ladles' Handbag or Purse
Ladies' Handbag or Purse
Ladies' Handbag or Purse. ......
Ladles' Handbag or Purse 3.30
Ladles' Handbag or Purse 3.00
Ladles' Handbag or Purse 10.25
Indies' Handbag or Purse 5.00
Ladies' Handbag or Purse 2.50
Tndles' Handbag or Purse 4.00
t sulfcs' Handbag or Purse 0.00
- ..(Pes' Handbag or Purse 3.50
Tndles' Handbag or Purse 0.50
Tallies' Handbag or Purse 11.00
Ladles' Handbag or "ipso 7.00
Ladles' Handbag 01 "" - o.75
Tnd'es' Handbag or Pitvse 4,00
T mill's' Handbag or Purse 3,50
Ladies' Handbag or Purse 3,25
Ladles' Handbag or Purse 4.75
ladies' Handbag or Purse 5,00
ladies' Handbag or Purse 8.50
Ladles' Handbag or Purse 2.50
Ladies' Handbag or Parse 2.50
I allies' Handbag or Purse 75
Ladles' Handbag or Purse 50
Ladles' Handbag or Purse 3.50
Don't miss this opportunity to get a fine handbag or purse at
a very small price.
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LOOCHART & PARSONS
DRUG COMPANY
The Busy Corner"
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