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CENTRAL AVENUB,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 11)J0
No. 00
vot. i
Remington Typtwtitct Company
L. W. JACOUS, District Saloa Agent
District Sales Agent Monroe Calculator
rrVl'l'XViUTKIW OV ALL MAKES FOR HALE flit RENT
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SiippHos ; ,,W ss :! I'M'ert Repairing
OFFICE :f, J-J 73 Central Avenue
Buy Your Canned Goods Now
Accoulhig newspaper accounts tlio prlco of council goods
vlll lie materially advanced beforo the now eiops aro available.
Xlio rush orders from tlio European war nro mild to lo respon
sible. Wo anticipated a big dcimuid for canned goods and laid
In a big supply. 'cxt eck, .' will luivo a special on mimed
goods tlmt will avo yon money. Wntch oiip window for exhibit
and prices.
The Yellow stono 1h brlniflin; us a fluo supply of Fret.li Fruit h
and Vegetable.
During tlio past few iiHmths.wo luivo enjoyed a good trade
but we want it to Brow. Wojiro jendenvorlng to give our pa
troiiH tlio licst goods, "and service ffiat a good grocery can pro
ivldo and our regular customers tell us wo aio succeeding. Wo
would llko and jipprcclnto your business anil aio certain you will
find It to j our advantage to trade with us. If you nro In doubt
auk your neighbor, who Ih probably trading with us, or give us
a tw trial orders and let un convince you.
Sanitary Food Store
SERVICE FIRST
, (Formerly Nnsburg's Grocery.)
phone 21:1 si:coxd AX!) central
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If your watch Isn't keeping good tlmo, bring It In and wo will
clean It, rogulato It, or mako whatovor ropnlra aro necessary. Our
charges aro most rcasonalilo and wo gunrautoo our work.
If you lmvo a precious "atone that you want mounted or tlio
mounting changed, wo can do It. And If you need now Jowclory
for any purposo, wo aro pro-pared to aorvo you.
Wilson's Jewelry Store
Wo guarantee our repair woik.
08 Central Avenue. OTIS 11. WILSON, Prop.
Table and Kitchen Ware
Taut glauco at our window and notice the fine attractive China
at tlio low prices, either by sets or separate pieces.
Wo hate some flno aluminum cooking utensils that suvo
work and money for tlio housewife.
Como In and let us allow you the merits of our Kitchen ranges
Marshtield Hardware Co.
Tlio best in tho Hnrdwaro lino,
llrondway and Central Avenue. Phono 111
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OUIl PLATFORM.
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UUK JIKMQION.
To Do Good.
our politics, i
Moro Business.
A CURIOUS MANUSCRIPT
LV.ST Monday morning thoro wob
flound under tho door of tho
Hoostor offlco a mysterious
looking ilcco of wrapping paper, up
on wlelch was acrlbbled In poncll a
ntimbtn of vcraea, with notos. No
cluo whs given as to tho author, but
ho wnrf ovldontly an Englishman,
alnco tho ghosts to whom ho ascribes
his vonlo woro thoso of British pocta
of fame. Ho soonis also to be ono
more or less ncqualntcd about town,
and Is not exactly a prohibitionist.
Tho writing was hardly legible, but
tho copy provod, upon examination,
sufficiently Interesting to warrant
tho effort of deciphering It. Wo give
It spaco In tho Booster as a curious
My. "On Now Year's Evo. I to mv
couch, early, having in divers plnccs
rcrreshod myolf to tho honor of tho
passing of tho old year. There ly
ing asleep how long I know not, pro
Eontly ramo In array boforo mo num
erous strango shapes, among whom
nevertheless ono now nud then ap
peared whereor I know vnguoly.
Straining In effort to discern clearly
ono among them, mescomoth to per
ceive tho poot Clough, who, never
theless, did yet benr rcsomblanco to
Dr. Toyo, ao utrnngo wna tho vision.
Whereupon, In ghostly trance, It de
livered Itsolf thus
Away, haunt thou not mo, i
Thou bar-room Jollity f
Llttlo haat thou bestead,
Savo to perplex tho head,
And lcavo tho spirit dead.
Unto thy broken cisterns whoro-
foro roam,
When from tho accrot .treasure
dopthn at homo
In mlno own privato atoro,
Laid In, In prospect of a acnaon
dry,
Spirits and mnlt galoro '
May yet bo conjured forth, unsoon,
incessantly?
Why follow ploasuro through tho
awlnglng door,
Whon tho rod wlno la glowing,
And tho Wurzburgor flowing,
At homo, nud I know Where
thoro's moro?
Amazed, I lookod yot again, and
lo, tho form changed, nnd appeared
like tho ghost of tho poot Byron, ana
yot not altogether, becauao of a cor
taln almllltudo to mlno host Harry
McKoown, and as I looked, It apako:
Thoro waa a Bound of dovlltry by
night,
And Coos Bay's capital had gathor'd
then
Her proud, absorbent chivalry, and
bright 4
Tho lights and flowing wlno lit up
bravo mon.
A thousand hearts beat happily; and
whon
Music nroso, with Its lugubrious
awoll,
Volcea, with fragrant algha, callod
back again
Tho Dear Old Oaken Bucket in tho
Well. ,
But hush hark a doop sound
atrlkca like a rising knoll.
Did yo not hear It? No; 'twas but
tho wind,
Or Carter's heavy footfall on tho
street;
On with tho prance, let Joy bo un
refined; No sleep till morn, when thirst and
highballs meet
To chase tho flying hours with all
four feet
But hark that heavy sound breaka
In once more,
As It tho clouds lta echoes would re
SCRIPT poat;
And noaror, clearer, deadlier 'than
beforo
Cheese it it Is it is tho Now
Year's opening roar.
Ah then and there was hurrying to
, and fro;
Mad final gulps, and murmurings of
distress;
Noses all pale, which but an hour
ago i
Qlow'd from the festive cocktail, or
Swlss-S.
And thoro wero sudden partings,
such as press
Joy from convivial souls, and liquid
sighs
Which ne'er might ba repeated; who
could guess
K o'er should bo renewed thoso old,
fond tics,
Slnco upon night so swcot such aw
ful morn could rise?
Yot again stood out froni tho
ghoBtly throng ono In form nnd vis-
ngo Ilko the poot Browning, yet not
Bv much llko him neither, as It by
magic took otlior form of Colby Por-
ry, yot withal ono tomporato and
not given to blbulousncss. Sighing
It droned: . i-i glibf
Oregon's dry;
Best to forgot.
Pickled wo fret;
Sober, wo sigh.
Lnwyor, so free,
Chuck thy opinion
Drys havo dominion,
Thirst, ovor thco.
Thirst if you will.
Day nf tor day, . .
Ilankor away, ' '"
Abstinent still.
Soul, art thou sore?
Silence, thou grumbler;
Nary a tumblor,
High-balls no moro.
Bunk I No audi thing
What lies below?
Treasure wo know;
Last iiB till flprlug.
Bottles hid, whoro?
Collar nnd attic;
Secret ecstatic
Dry? Wo Bhould care.
Soro puzzled, I desired within mo
to bo rid of such blnck magic, but as
over tho moving shapes crowded bo
foro mo did I espy tho form of tho
bard IColcridgd, which changed to
tho apparition of (Icorgo Cook, nnd
back ngaln, and so on, and yot could
T not rcconctlo tho words ho unearth
ly uttered with what I know of tho
man, and perceived that I dreamed,
yot still caught tho words:
Oh wlno it a a gentlo thing,
Bolovod from polej to polo.
To California pralso bo duo
She'll ship tho stuff In futuro
through
That stills my craning soul.
Tho sparkling glasses on tho bar,
That had last night remained,
I dreamt that they wore fllfbd anew
And when I woko, It pained.
My lips woro dry ,1 my throat was hot,
My garments till woio dank;
Sure I had drunken In my dreams,
And still my'lmdy drank.
1 moved, nnd could not feel my
limbs;
I wns so light almost
I thought that I had died In sloop,
And wakoncd as a ghost.
How long In that aamo fit I lay,
I havo not to dcclaro;
But ero my living Ilfo returned,
I heard and in myaoul dlscoruod
Two voices In tho nlr.
" 'TIs ho," quoth ono, "this Is tho
nmn;
I run him In; ho's broke"
I hnrkod again and know It well;
It wn8 Jack Cartor spoke.
Tho other was Judgo Butler's voice.
An thon I vaguely know.
Quoto ho: ."sonic- pduanco hath ho
dono,
And ton days moro will do."
Anon glides into viow tho gentlo
Wordsworth, nnd yot r could not
vouch to mlno oyes that It was not
Richard Jennings, who spnko aftor
that rcasonnblo manner which Is his
wont:
Another year anothor deadly
blow
Another mighty omplro over
thrown And wo nro loft, or shall bo loft,
alono;
Tho last that daro to find in thirst a
foe
TIs well from this day forward wo
shall know
That In oursolves our Bafety must bo
sought
That month by month our vlntago
must bo bought;
Tlmt wo must keep supplied, or olso
run low.
O dastard, whom such foretasto doth
not cheer
Wo shall oxult, If they who rulo tho
land
Bo men who'll leave remaining
blessings hero,
Sane, reasonable, not a carping
Jealous of what la loft to us most
dear, '
Condemning Joys thoy do not un
derstand Still striving to como out of my
dream, another wlerd figure beckon
ed me to harkeri unto him. His
countenance btrovo to find a mean
between tho features of Sir Walter
Scott and thoso of Dr. DIx, or to be
ono or other; 'twas passing strange.
Mildly ho Intoned:
Mlno host at Harry's festlvo board
Provided cheer to please a lord,
And, tenderly took up tho word:
"My friends. It Is a thing forlorn
That hatm should 'ban' John nnrloy-
corr,, ,?
Ho la a man of mirthful speech,
Can many a twist and caper teach;
Nono can a lustlcr carol bawl
Or sweeter memories 'ccdll
When tlmo liangs heavy on us nil.
And though ho calls to us no more
To luro us through the- swinging
door,
Yet still, by homo lit fires, at least,
An honored guest from South or
EaBt, i, 'H
Ho may lend lustro to our feast."
Again striving to bo through with
Hitch ghastly company, I was yot hold
In Bpoll by a fiery ghost, who boro
no.Bomblanco to any old tlmo bard,
but wns as llko ns llfo to Tho Poet
of tho Pacific. And though I did
think It must bo Shakespeare who
would so discourse, notwithstanding
that mighty genius could not havo
dono it bolter, yot tho lines wero
strango:
Sweet aro tho uses of adversity,
Which, llko tho toad, ugly and veno
mous. Wears yet a precious Jowol In his
, head.
And years, so dry to public vlow,
may find
Bourbon In trunks, Old Crow in
trav'lors' grips,
Cocktails In canes, nnd beer hid ov-
orywhoro.
I do romembor an apothecary,
And hereabouts ho dwells, which lato
I noted
'Caching' of simples. Meager woro
, his looks.
Sunrp mlBory had worn him to tho
bono.
Noting this penury, to mysolf I said;
'An' If a man did need a highball
now,
Whoso aalo would Jug a man In Oro-
gon,
Hero lives a caitiff wretch would
soil it him.
Horo a quick spirit with tho form
of Frank Cohan appoarcd, as It
would protest, with frowning looks,
nd tho poot's speech foil Into con
fusion, so that part of tho vorao was
Jost. Then thus:
Gut tomporanco, as It novor will bo
moved,
Though wlno should court It in a
Bhnpo of Heaven, ,
So thirst, tho' but a rndicnt angel
wopt,
Would sate itsolf on Dago Red,
and
Horo tho speech dissolved Itsolf in
muttorings, tho Poot's figure gos
tlculntlng wildly toward California,
an it It would oscapo thithorward.
And with a mighty effort, I nwoko,
nnd bohold, It was nil a droam, aa I
had aforotlmo divined. And anon
tho Now Year dawned.
SMILE-A-WHILE
OENTItAXi AVEXUE SAYINGS
Regan Right. Carl Albrcaht, tho
now Btroot commissioner, started out
right anyway, in beginning his du
ties on Central Avonuo. to got it In
ehapo for tho 1916 rush.
Misunderstood Tlio Question.
Nowcomor, Juat Introduced to Mayor
Copplo: "How many mills havo
you In Marahflold now?" Mayor
Copplo (abaont mlndedly): "Why,
twenty, Just at prcaont, but wo hopo
to cut that down considerably next
year.
Going Too Far. With this nrohl-
bltlon law tightening oven down on
tho Inoffenalvo maraschino cherry
wo can't toll whm will got out of it
next. Probacy thoy will find It 111
ogal for Gorat & King to run tholr
"Alco" car, on tho ground that each
trip constitutes an Alco-haul.
Moro Honors. Central Avonuo
pulled down tho city tronBurerahlp
also. Looks good at first glance,
but we shall await tho annual re
port of tho city's finances for 1915
beforo deciding that Central Avo.
hasn't merely acqulrod anothor over
draft. STATIONERY
of
QUALITY
l Wo carry only tho prod
ucts ofKatou, Crane
Tike, specializing on their
famous Highland Linen
the kind you luoo seen
advertised.
Seo us for monogram
ed stationery and en
graved cards.
"The Owl"
The Central Avenue Drug
Store
Anothor Loss. Jay Ddylo has
moved his "Plnco" from Central
Avo. to Commercial. Wo hnto to
loso Jay, but he says ho can clean
up anything that's brought to him
just as well on Commercial as on
Central. Wo intended to nBk him If
he could clean up our collections for
us, but forgot It.
' A. Lnpso of Attention. Wo noto
with rogrot that Frank Cohan, with
tho other Mnrshflold druggists,
closed his store at 2 p. in. last Sat
urday. Wo can't help suggesting In
a frlondly way that nowadays its on
ly tho young man who attends close
ly to hlo business that can hopo for
success.
Why Not? Thoso very alluring
ads of tho bankB about opening a
savings account for $1.00 aro bound
to havo tholr wholcsomo effect. Sluco
wo soil goods to tho English and
lend them tho money to pay for
tho goods, It appears that It
would bo Just as practicable for tho
bnnks to issue savings account books
for $1.00, and lend tho depositor tho
dollar. Tho Booster will agrco to
bo tho first depositor under this
plan.
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Atlas Ins. Co.
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Avoid possible Iois of money, mtxiips over receipts ami other trou
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SEE US AT ONCE.
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Consolidation of Wlloy 1. Allen and W. R. Haines Music Stocks
' 03 Central Avenue. ''
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