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About Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 188?-1910 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1907)
Bandon Woolen Mill* The Bandon Woolen Mills was in corporated in May, 1904, and the officers of the company are: Elbert Dyer, President, W. D. Marshall, Vice-President, Geo. P. Topping, Secretary, and C. Y. Lowe, Treas urer. E. Dyer, W. D. Marshall. R. H. Rosa, A. McNair, and R. E. L. Bedillion are the present directors of the company, and R. E. L. Bedillion is the general manager. This plant is a fine addition to our many indus tries, and is owned entirely by the business men of the little city-by-the- sea. Too much credit cannot be given those who promoted the plant. velopment in other lines. During the present year the school authori ties have been kept busy providing additional school room for the rap idly increasing attendance. Already two extra teachers have been added since the schools ojrened in Septem- t>er, and the indications are that one or two more will be needed before the close of the school term. In ad dition to the main building three outside rooms have l»een fitted up to accommodate the increased attend ance. More school room is needed and steps are being taken to pros ide it in the near future. /X fine site, well located for the purpose, Ins been purchased, and in the near future a commodious twelve or four teen room building will Ire erected thereon, giving the school the be--t of housing ami equipment. authorities to assure to all who make their home here the best of school privileges. This spirit maintained will insure for Bandon better schools from year to year. The school officers for the district are Gurley Boak, Geo. P. Topping and Charles Kime. Clerk, Mrs. Laura Logan. Miss Bertha Wilkins, First Grade. Miss Minnie Yeo, Second Grade. Miss Effie Collier. Third Grade. Miss Clara Davies, Fourth Grade. Mrs. Myrtle Myers, Fifth Grade. Miss Margaret Murphy, Sixth Grade. Miss Carrie Rodine, Seventh and Eighth Grades. Mrs. H. G. Ostien, High School Assistant. H. G. Ostien, Principal of High School, and Superintendent. A. McNAIR The Hardware Man Hardware of All Kinds. Tin Shop in Connection Sporting Goods, Agricultural Imple ments, Plumbing, Stoves and Ranges. Paints, Oils and Varnishes Bandon, Oregon. and who also helped very much tn the construction of the same. This plant is not only one of Bandon’s leading industries at the present time, hut is also operated success fully, and is the means of distributing about two thousand dollars monthly in the different families about town. The plant employs many young women who would be unable to get work in other industries. This plant has been in operation about two years, and is making an excellent grade of goods, which is all shipped to Eastern markets, thereby bring ing to Bandon about seven thousand dollars per month. This plant is not confined to one class of goods, but in addition to manufacturing all kinds of flannels and carriage lin ings, they have a complete plant for the making of all kinds of Gent’s clothing and the finest of cassimeres. The mill has a beautiful location, fronting on the Coquille River, with a large wharf in front, where deep water vessels can land and discharge cargoes; by being so lo cated, this company is saver! the charges of wharfage and drayage on goods going to or from the plant. The Bandon Woolen Mi'ls is no longer of an experimental nature, but the success of same is now an assured fact. The school enrollment numbered over three hundred the first month of the year, and new pupils are en tering nearly every day. Nine months’ school will be maintained the present year. The eight years of woMc as provided by the state course of study is carried on, and the full four years’ of high school work is offered in the high school. The school board, teachers, and patrons are all working together with a new and increased interest this year to build up a school that will l>e first- class in every particular, and second to none. Monthly Teachers’ and Patrons' meetings are being held, where topics of general school inter est are discussed. These meetings will bring all school interests in closer touch, and will greatly increase the efficiency of the schools. The finances of the district are in good condition, and the funds ample to meet the cost of an efficient school; and it is the purpose of the school Strawberries in Coos. Can you imagine a berry that would not go to the bottom of an ordinary teacup, but remains suspended against the sides? Coos Bay has produced such a berry. Fourteen berries to a heaping quart box is what is shown in that measurement. A cxse of 24 boxes runn ing from 14 to 18 berries in the box, when you come to the wholesale depart ment. A single vine with 160 matured and maturing berries were seen and the count taken by the writer, after many berries had already been gathered from it, ami this was of the ordinary run of the patch selected at random. As for profit: take your pencil and figure it out —160 berries the way they run, counting 20 berries to the quart, should make at least two gallons of fruit; at 50 cents a gallon that vine is worth a dollar for a season But cutting it down a few, call it worth but 25 cents; in the patch shown of al»out a quarter acre, were 1000 plants, meaning at a very low estimate that it would produce in money $250 a year. Can any crop or any country beat that? Bandon Woolen Mills. The Speedy Passenger Steamship Elizabeth, New and Modernly Fitted, CAPT. J. OLSON, Master. Carries Freight and Passengers Be tween Coquille River Points and San Francisco. Special Accommodation for Passengers. Built Especially for Coquille River Traffic. J. E. WALSTROM, Bandon Public Schools Central Warehouse, Agent, Bandon. The growth of the public.schools is keeping pace with the rapid de- *•' ' 1 E. T. KRUSE, Managing Agent, San Franciaco.
