THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910
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, with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as
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:j you must take internal remedies.
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and is a regular prescription. It is
composed of the best tonics known,
combined with the best blood puri
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surfaces. The perfect combination of
the two ingredients is hat produces
such wonderful results in curing Ca
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Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
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C, E. NICHOLSON, Local Distributor
STATEMENT OF CONDITION OF THE
first Trust and Savings Bank
$3.50 RECIPE CUKES WEAK Kll).
KEYS, FREE.
OF
COOS BAY, MARSHFIELD, ORE. March 29, 1910. m.
RESOURCES.
d discounts.... ,$ 80.47j.ij
JS securities.' .'.' 25.603:90
,nn? house, furnituro
!nd fixtures 66.811.10
hsnd and due
I OS
Itroa
banks 59,798.50
Total
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in. . .$100,000.00
Surplus fund . . .
Undivided profits
500.00
1.962.4S
Deposits 126,430.10
$228,898.58 Total J228.898.68
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We Invite your auenuuu iu "uj bhuus "u'u" i " "'"' "
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Cash reserve ' ijer Lt-Ul ul ei'"Bll!"
Reserve required by law . 15 per cent of deposits.
Reserve in excess of legal requirements. . .32 per cent of deposits.
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
)HN S. COKE, President. JOHN F. HALL,
BUY SEN'GSTACKEN, STEPHEN C. ROGERS,
OESEY KREITZER, Cashier. W. S. CHANDLER,
ULIAM GRIMES, DR. C. W. TOWJSK.
M. C. HORTON, Vice President ana Manager.
DOES A GENERAL RANKING AN 1) TRUST BUSINESS.
YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF COOS BAY
STRICTLY A COMMERCIAL BANK
Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank, San Francisco, Cal.
rri.A fT..i,wi ctintAn Vnftnn.i Rnnlr. TVirtland. Ors.
"fa,rs ) Hie National Park Bank, New York, N. Y.
Drafts Tli(. Corn Exchange National Bank, Chicago, 111.
OH The Rank of Scotlnnd, London, England.
The Credit Lyonnnls, Paris, France.
In addition we draw drafts on all principal banking centors in
Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, China, Japan, North, Central and
Bouth America.
Personal and commercial accounts kept subject to check.
Certificates of Deposit isr jed. Safe Deposit Boxes for rent.
Relieves Urinnry nnd Kidney
Troubles, Backache, Straining,
Swelling, Etc., Stops Pain In tho
Bladder, Kidneys nnd Back.
Wouldn't It be nice within a week
or so to begin to say goodbye for
ever to the scalding, dribbling, strain
ing, or too frequent passage of
urine; tho forehead and the back-of-
the head aches; the stitches and
pains in the back; the growing mus
cle weakness; spots before the eyes;
yellow skin; sluggish bowels; swol
len eyelids or ankles; leg cramps;
unnatural short breath; sleepless
ness and tho despondency?
I have a recipe for these troubles
that you can depend on, and if you
want to make a quick recovery, you
ought to write and get a copy of it.
Many a doctor would charge you
$3.50 ju3t for writing this prescrip
tion, but I have it and will be glad
to send if to you entirely free. Just
drop me a line like this: Dr. A. E.
Robinson, K1491 Luck Building, De
troit, Mich., and I will send It by re
turn mall In a plain envelope. As
you will see when you get it, this re
cipe contains only pure, harmless
remedies, but it has great healing
and pain-conquering power.
It will quickly show its power once
you use it, so I think you had better
see what it Is without delay. I will
send you a copy free you can use
It and cure yourself at home.
TiiF SCHOOL
SUPERENTENDENCY
(Continued from page 3.)
teachers and pupils had to rustle I have had only the merest form oC
around and buy It themselves. This ' authority in shaping the policies and
FLANAGAN &. BENNETT ANK
MARSHFIELD, OREGON.
Oldest Bank in Coos County, Established iu 1880.
Paid up Capital and Surplus, $80,000.00.
Assets Over Half Million Dollars.
Does a general banking business and draws drafts on the Bank
ol California, San Francisco, Cal.; Hanover National Bank, N. .,
First National Bank, Portland, Ore.; First National Bank, Rose
burg, Ore.; The London Joint Stock Bank, Ltd., London, England.
Also sells exchange on all of the principal cities of Europe.
Individual and corporation accounts kept subject to check. Bare
deposit lock boxes for rent.
OFFICERS:
W, BENNETT, President. I. F. WILUAMfl, Cosldcr.
. n. FLANAGAN, V.-Prcs. GEO. E. WINCHESTER. Asst. Cash.
nTEHEST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS.
Coos Bay Rapid Transit Cos
s BOATS
DON'T GET SCARED
You may be taking chances and may
be scared of the COMET. BUT when
when you send your laundry to us
you have no need to be scared ana
neither are you taking any cnanrca
because we know our business and
we know when a piece of Laundry
is fit to be sent home, and it will not
be sent back to you in any other
shape but first class.
MARSHFIELD II. & S. LAUNDRY
Phone 2295.
"Our wagon goes any old place."
Mnnzey Bros., Props.
WILL LEAVE THEIR
Market, Street Dock
Marshfield via Plat B. on their rcgulnr schedule from 7: 13 n. in.
""Hi 3:15 p. m. njid leave. city dock, North Bend from 7:45 a.
to 5:15 p. ni.
FARE
5 CENTS
Overland Carriages
Fare - 5 Cents
w'lleapStutesman's office on Broadway opposite Times office,
""hfleld, making regular trips from O a. m. until 0 p. m. and
tate North Bend News Co. office, North Bend from 0:30 a. in.,
,0 0 p. in. O. S. TORREY. Supt.
toe nEiGnT of cigar
QUALITY IS ACHIEVED IN A I
DERBY
WE ARE CLEARING OUT OUR
Fixtures
and Glassware
at reduueed prices.
Special on all fixtures and appliances.
Investigate.
Coos Bay Wiring Co.
EXPERT ELECTRICIANS.
Respectfully ask your patronage.
PHONE 237-J.
oiiT
supplies
Tho Coos Bay Oil and Supply
Company under the management of
j. W. Flanagan will continue to han-
Htn the Union Oil Company's gaso
line, distillate, benilno and coal oil
at their oil house across the Bay to
which place they havo moved their
office. Phone 302.
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STEAMER M. F. PLANT
Sails for San f rancisco every eight days.
IICKCTS RESERVED UP TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP,
ESKm.YTIONS WILL BE CANCELLED AT THAT TIME l.V
H I L'Cfi .
" TICKET IS BOUGHT. U
p. S. Dow, Agent. Marehf ield, Ore. g
CURED HAY FEVER
AND SUaOIER COLD
" A. S. Nusbaum, Batesvllle, In
diana, writes: "Last year I suffered
or three months with a summer
cold so distressing that it interfered
with ray business, I bad many oi cue
; symptoms of hay fever, and a doc
tor's prescription did not reach my
lease, and I took several medicines
'which seemed only to aggravate It.
Fortunately I insisted upon naviue
Foley's Honey and Tar. It quickly
cured me. My wife has since used
Foley's Honey and Tar with the
same success." RED CROSS Phar
nacy, (John Preusa, Prop.)
system I am referring to, and tho
"legality" of the method they adopt.
The board's legal eyes should have
been as seaiching In this matter as
in that of the superlntendency. They
find authority for violating the law
in this as easily as they did for
Imagining a violation of the other,
where no violation existed. The
school law of Oregon Is strict in re
quiring that every teacher in the
state who has anything to do with
the management, control, or super
vision of a school, shall have a legal
teacher's certificate. There Is a
special law permitting graduates of
Normal Schools and Colleges of cer
tain standard to teach in the high
schools, but only to tench, not to
exercise any authority In their man
agement. Again referring to Super
intendent Ackerman's decision quot
ed from the letter before referred to,
we find the following: "An opinion
has been rendered to the effect that
subdivision 2G5, p. 10S, Oregon
School Laws, 1909 edition, qualifies
a teacher to teach In the high schools
only and does not qualify or author
ize the teacher to act as principal or
to teach in a grammar school, and
does not qualify or authorize such
teacher to be employed in any posi
tion that virtually makes him (or
her) administrator of the general af
fairs of the school." The teacher
who under this new arrangement
adopted by the board will virtually
become the head of the school is
teaching under permission of this
special law dnly, and is therefore
prohibited by law from acting on
such "Board of Control." If the
school board should pay out any of
the district's funds under such an
agreement, they can be held person
ally liable to the district for repay
ment of the same. These facts
demonstrate very clearly the spirit
that has actuated the board in the
course it has adopted, and show
equally clearly that the "public wel
fare" has not been the object in view.
It was proclaimed by the board in
denying the petition of the Alumni
Association of the high school that
they were actuated solely by a desire
"to conserve the Interests of the tax
payers" by reducing the expenses of
the schools. Here again is more
sophistry to delude the public. Let
us examine the facts and see how
they are "conserving the interests of
the tax payers": For the present
year the monthly teachers' pay roll
has totalled $1445. 2C, including a
special teacher of drawing and one
of elocution and physical exercise.
For next year the salaries of the
teachers already elected amount to
J10G8.33. This does not include any
special teachers, and leaves six vacan
cies to be filled. Estimating the sal
aries of the unelected teachers, all
of them, at the lowest rates now paid,
counting one special teacher (music
and drawing) at a salary alieaay
agreed upon, and adding a science
teacher for the high school at tne
lowest rate at which it will be possi
ble to secure even a beginner, and
we must add $545.00 to the above
amount, making a total of $1613.33
per month, or an increase of
$1512. 6C per annum over the presnt
cost. This, of course, provides one
new high school teacher and one new
grade teacher, but deducting the sal
aries of these two now teachers, we
still find an Increase over the present
pay roll of 353.33 a year. It must
be remembered, too, that this esti
mate does not Include a teacher of
elocution and physical culture, as has
been the case this year, and this ex
pense if counted would Increase the
amount by another $450.00.
I strongly favor paying good teach
ers good salaries, but I believe that
all should be treated alike. The
board are offering to new teachers In
the grades, teachers of "experience,"
$G3.00 a month, but of whoso "ex
perience nnd high qualifications" they
know nothing more than that they
are highly recommended. There are
teachers in our schools today, gradu
ates of normal schools, who have
proved themselves to be among tho
best fn the state, who, after working
for several years in our own schooU
at salaries as low as $50.00 a month,
are employed for tho next year at
only $00.00.
The board has placed a lady prac
tically at the head of the schools,
whoso experience has been confined
to teaching a single department In a
small Eastern high school, where sal
aries range only from $70.00 to
$9 0.00 a month. No question is
raised as t this lady's teaching abili
ties, but are tho schools to bo "im
proved" by being supervised by one
who Is shown not only to be not legal
ly qualified for this work, but who is
also without supervisory or adminis
trative experience?
In the old days, when we wanted a
piano for the then new
year, the high school principal want
ed a piano in the study room, and
the board bought two, one for tho
general assembly hall and another
for the high school study room up
stairs, made to special order at a
cost of $900.00, all of which the
board owes today except $159.25,
which was paid by the present super
intendent from a fund raised by the
pupils nnd teachers of tho old school.
In reverting to this matter, I am not
wishing to appear as being opposed
to providing liberally for the wants
of the schools, but I do believe that
in providing theso wants the neces
sary should come before tho unneces
sary. At this very moment, our high
school needs' $2,000 for laboratory
and other equipment to make its
work efficient and up to date; the
board can't afford it! Right now ar
rangements should be in progress for
expending $1,200.00 to Introduce
manual training, architectural and
mechanical drawing, bench and
lathe work, and other forms of the
"new education;" the board can't af
ford it! Last year, a telephone was
put Into the Janitor's room of the
new high school building for her
special use, and paid for by the dis
trict a very unusual thing else
where. This Janitor waswi protegee
of a member of the board, and even a
sitting room stove and kitchen range,
together with fuel to feed them,
were provided at the expense of tho
district, notwithstanding the janitor
was paid a liberal salary. Once,
when the superintendent's wife found
it urgently necessary to communicate
with him, she asked Central to call
him up from the office to the janitor's
phone, but was Informed that strict
orders had been given not to permit
such calls. I asked for a telephone
in the school office to 'nnble me to
communicate with the other school
and with patrons of the school when
necessary as is done in nearly all
communities where telephone service
Is available; tho board couldn't af
ford It. But it is unnecessary to pur
sue this topic further. Enough has
already been shown to demonstrate
how the public Interests are being
"conserved," and to reduce to.nn ab
surdity tho claim that all this is be
ing done for "tho public good."
It is almost amusing to read the
board's encouraging announcement
that they are going "to make the
school one of the best in the state."
The amusing feature of this state
ment is that those who are familiar
with the past and present conditions,
and are in a position to judge, can
already discern a downward tend-
. i !- l.rt
ency. rne present, uiiuiriuuu ui mo
board knows, as do all others who
have lived hero long enough to havo
become identified with tho interests
of Coos Bay, that Marshfleld's school
has for years maintained an enviable
reputation, and that that reputation
was for the excellence of its work,
the high standing of its graduates,
not for its expensive new building
and showey equipment. Marshfleld
was long known to outsiders as "that
,town where they have such a fine
school." It is a matter of record
that strangers visiting here from sec
tions where tho best schools that
money could supply were maintained
expressed themselves as amazed at
the standard they found here. With
the improved facilities now provided
by our liberal public, and a continu
ance of the loyal support given tho
principal by past boards, there Is no
question that this high stanuaru
would not only have been continued
but would havo been ralBed to an
even higher plane. On tho contrary,
tho present board has left nothing in
their power undone that could even
in tho slightest degree weaken my
power of maintaining this old stand
ard. Every effort possible has been
made to minimize my influence with
the pupils. Nothing too riuicuious
could bo trumped up to din into tlus
ears of new citizens, if it could in
any way succeed in belittling me In
their eyes. Too many instances of
this have reached me to allow the
possibility of a doubt that this has
ben done whenever it was thought
possible to do so, without reacting In
the opposite direction.
As to tho effect on tho schools of
this nullification of my influence, let
the facts speak for themselves. I
tfmply ask those not familiar yith
conditions existing up to two years
ago and who wish to know tho facts,
to carefully examine tno worn pre
nnrort for the Lewis and Clark and
the A-Y-P Expositions, and critically
compare this with some of the wo.-k
now submitted. Let tho thousand or
two old citizens who re
member tho former conditions visit
iha snhnnl entertainments and tho
high school rhetorlcals, and decide
fnr tbemselves whether there Is any
contest. Lot all who aro Interested
compare tho attendance statistics and
the discipline, especially tho statis
tics pertaining to regularity and
punctuality, and they will soon dis
cover that there is a vast difference
somewhere and from
administration of tho schools.
Thnt the sentiment of the com
munity is strongly opposed to tho ac
tion taken by the board has been
evinced not by words alone but by
action. The high school Alumni As
sociation, with the largest attend
ance that ever was known at a busi
ness meeting, met and adopted ring
ing resolutions approving my work in
the schools, denouncing the action o
the board, and requesting that such
action be rescinded. Tho people sent
in a hastily collected petition to tho
same effect. It is sheer nonsense for
the board to pretend that this peti
tion did not appeal to them as repre
senting the will of the majority. It
was known that at the time the peti
tions were in circulation the board
were trying to forestall the effect ot
the petition by announcing their ac
tion before the petition could be pre
sented. It really transpires that at
the very moment tho petitions were
In circulation the board were in se
cret session in the private office ot
the First Trust and Savings Bank,
where they could deliberate without
fear of being disturbed; that no clerk
of the board was present during these
deliberations because the clerk was
supposed to be friendly to me, and
his presence might embarrass their
plans; that after they had decided
on the course they would pursue tho
clerk was telephoned for to come nnd
record what they had done. Many
people strongly in favor of the peti
tion failed to sign It because, as was
said, "It's too late. The board has
everything cut and dried." Many de
clined to sign because they had no
idea ot the board's attitude toward
me, and when approached with the
petition thought it was something de
signed to Injure me. The high school
pupils sent in another petition stat
ing in unmistakable language their
attitude in the matter, and unequivo
cally demanding my retention. Lead
ing citizens have individually remon
strated with members of the board;
everything that reasonably minded
men could expect has been done to
show the wishes of the public, but all
to no purpose. The servants of the
people assume to know b.etter than,
the people they serve what tho pub
lic desire. Perhaps when it comes to
voting the taxes to support the
schools their authority may not he so
arbitrary.
As to the position in the schools, I
do not care a snap of tho finger.
There aro other and more remunera
tive fields where my services and ex
perience will be in demand. All that
hurts is that I have built a home
here, where I had expected to live
till tho end; and after the long and
earnest service rendered it seems bit
terly unjust that my connection with
the schools should end in this way.
It Is unreasonable that, contrary to
tho wishes of pupils, parents and a.
large majority of the community at
large, one or two new-comers could
so manipulate matters that they
could accomplish this end by availing
themselves of th&opportunlty afford
ed by petty grudge and spite.
I have no quarrel to pick with tho
members of the board, nor do I wish
to wrong them in any particular. An.
attempt has been made to assail my
reputation as a teacher and super
visor, and I feel it my duty to defend
myself, showing tho motives and the
animus of the attack only where
necessary.
To tho many who have personally
approached me with expressions of
friendship, and feelings of lndignar
tlon at the injustico of the board, I
wish to return my thanks. To tho
Alumni Association of the high
school and the students In particular,
I wish to show my gratitude for their
loyal support.
F. A. GOLDEN.
SETTLE WAGE STRIFE.
Erie Railroad nnd Employes Adjust
Differences.
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, May 20. It Is offi
cially announced that the wage diff
erences botween tho Erie Railroad
and tho conductors and trainmen,
have been settled and the details aro
being worked out.
THE WTIEAT MARICET.
(By Associated Press.!
PORTLAND, May 20. Wheat un
changed. CHICAGO, May 20. Wheat closed
May $1.11; July $1.02; Septem
ber $1.00.
TACOMA, May 20. Wheat un
changed. -
CHICAGO, May 18. Wheat closed
as follows: May $1.12; July
U$1.02; September $1.00.
PORTLAND, May iv. iuvui"".
wheat unchanged.
somo cause.
Let it also bo distinctly remembered ,et'
building, that during tho time
For indigestion and all stomach
trouble take Foley's Orino Laxative
as it stimulates the stomach and
iver and regulates the bowels and
will positively cure habitual con
stinatlon. RED CROSS PHAIt-
of these changes MACY, (John Preuss, Prop.)
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