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BANDON, Volume XXV. NEW SCHOOL BUILD- 6RANDARMYT0 HOLD SERVICES FIRE DESTROYS ING NEAR COMPLETION Mother’s Work of Finishing is Being OREGON, Day, School Pro- ✓ gram and Decoration Day Services to be Held Freight THURSDAY, MAY 6. 1909. Number 17. 3AND0N CONCERT BAND TO CELEBRATE SPECIAL ELECTION ON JUNE FIRST Arrangements Already Un Will Vote on the Incorpora der Way for Big Time tion of Outside Platted on July Fourth Additions All Removed and Congressman Hawley Work- Loss Confined to Build- Following is a part of Gen. : The Bandon Concert Band has At the regular meeting of the city ing With Chief of Army Order No. 6 by General Henry M decided to celebrate the Fourth of council Friday night, among other ing Only Nevins Ccmmander in Chief of the Contractors Engineers on Project July in this city and arrangements important business transacted, an Grand Army of the Republic: are already under way for the big 1 ordinance was unai imously passed; Through the instrumentality of event. That it will be a success designating Tues lay June 1 st as a Miss Anna Gasvis, of Philadelphia, goes without s >ying as there is great special election day to vote on the A OECIDEDLY INPOSING STRUCTURE last year the second Sunday ORIGIN OF FIRE IS NOT enthusiasm over the event, and J proposition of incorporating the in May ..as observed or set apart as Bandon has the finest park in Coos outside platted additions adjacent to Mothei’s Dty and services were cou.ity. Bandon. held in many churches, and between The large warehouse occupied by We are unable to give out the In conversation with a number of The following telegram was The new $30,000 school building five millions of people the A. F. Estabrook Co. was de the outside residents, a represent program at this time a that part ceived Irotn Congressman w. is now nearing completion and the stroyed by fire at an early hour ative of the R ecorder was in has not been fully iecided upon as I lawbv. bv Orvil Dodge, contractors are putting on the fiinish- Sunday morning. The fire was formed that most of the voters were 1 yet, however we can say that the to a letter 1 recently written ing touches as rapidly as possible. discovered about 3:30 o’clock and in favor of coming in, as they see program will ’ e one, fitting to the Dodge to Mr. Hawley. The building is an exceedingly im at this time had gained considerable the advantages that would naturally great day and that nothing wili be egram reads: Washington, posing structure and will be a source headway, having leaped to the hay come to them by being residents of May 1, 1909' Hon. Orvil left undone that will insure the suc of pride to Bandon citizens. in the upper story and was also the city, and the extra taxes 'would Myrtle Point, cess of the project. Ore. “Hat 1 The contractors have done their 1 burning the roof. The citizens of Bandon should and be exceedingly small. engineers to use Dredge Oregon in work well, and every part of the The origin of the fire is not kn 01 n To enumerate the many advan < pening Coquille river. Engineers , will take hold of the p oposition and building shows substantial con but it evidently started in the west tages that would come to the pro from here leave for West Monday, help boost it to a successful culmina struction. The architect even going '•nd of the building, either on the posed district such as the extension and will look into the matter, think tion, and ^Bandon will retain her so far as so say th it they were too second floor or leaping to that place of the electric light system, the city we can get use of dredge if engineers reputation of being the most hospi honest to ever make much money in very short order. water, the lire protection, building be shown that needs of commerce table anil best entertainer of any out of the business, as the work is Fortunately the fire was discover of sidewalks, building and grading r< quire it ' Signed W C. Hawley. jcitv in Coos county. all well done and nothing slighted. ed in time so that all of the freight of streets etc. would take a long It would seem from this that it Like all other public buildings -------- OOO------- was removed excepting abou* ten time, but suffice to say that it will be wil’ be an easy matter to get the the structure has cost more money Gets New tons of hay which was destroyed. much better for both the city and dredge if the proper effort is put Hume Estate than the first es'imate, but it is The Building was badlv damaged the proposed district that the vote Boat forth and now is the time to get worth every dollar that was put in throughout the United States cel but it was not a very substantia) at- be favorable to annexation. busy. Some one should be sent to to it and the school board have fair and the loss will not be exceed ebrated the event. June ist The election is called on Eureka, Calif., May 3-The pow Portland to meet the engineers shown good judgement in carrying The Second Sunday in May this ingly heavy. so as to give the newly incorporated er boat Katata, recently purchased when they irrive, and as Mr. Dodge out the plans. It will not cost as The fire boys did excellent work, district an opportunity to vote for year which is next Sunday May 9th by the R. D. Hume Company to has been gathering data and inform much to finish it all up no v, while will be universally observed through and the pressure at the hydrants city officers at the regular city elec ation showing the commerce and be operated between this city and the work is being done, as to wait out the land and will be a universal was good so that there was plenty tion which will be the fourth Mon wonderful products of this river and the Klamath in the place of the until later, and it is much better to fete day for filial worship. The of water at all times. The fire en day in June or the 28 day thereof. valley, as well as the capital in Dawn, which was wrecked a year have it all completed. All people illite carnation has been selected to gine did good work after they suc The proposition should, and no s vested, be would probably be as ago, was taken off the Foundry who have inspected the building, ceeded in getting up steam but the doubt will carry by a good majority. good a man to send as could be following an overhauling made be worn in memory of mother. even those who voted against the Comrades, there is no class of general opinion is that it was the found. Something should be done 1 necessary by damages sustained in a bonds, are highly pleased with the men living whose mothers were as city water that saved the day. at once, now that the government rough trip up the coast from San new structure and it is the concensus There was no wind and con County Bali Meeting Soon shows a disposition to help us, we ' Francisco. patriotic, loyal and heroic as your of opinion that it was the proper mothers from ’61 to ’65. No sequently it was much easier to hold It ¡3 expected that the Katata will liould immediately do something to thing to do. Bandon never does mothers ever made such sacrifices as the fire under control than it would make her first voyage from this help ourselves. anything by halves and the new At a meeting of the Marshfield your mothers did and the Command have been, had the nor’wester been port to the Klamath, soon. She Now is the time to work for the school building is another evidence er in Chief requests you, and all coming in at 25 or 30 miles an hour, baseball Ians at the Blanco last l’oit of Coquille River with a di will take on part of her cargo from of our progressive spirit. patriotic citizen > of America on the however, the affair was bad enough evening, it was decided to call a con ligence th.it spells success . If the ’ the wharf of the Pacific Fuel Com- second Sunday in May to wear in the and all breathed a sigh of relief ference of representatives of the dredge can be secured and the Port , pany. lapel of your coat, a white carna when it was seen that the blaze was various towns in the county with a Commission is organized, the future The Mystery Explained view’ of reorganizing the Coos tion or some other white flower to completely under control. of the Coquille river as a great sea- The fact that we will have fires no County Baseball League for the honor the memory of your own Lumber Trade Has Inning port is assured. Considerable excitement was mother, if deceased, and in rever matter how careful people may be is coming season, A. E. Buri- hart The question that now confronts lately caused in Myrtle Point, and ence for her if living. a reminder that every preparation being elected manager of the us is whether we will sit idly by and ! in fact throughout the county gen All of the sclio Is, public and possible should be made for the Marshfield team and the represent- allow our opportunities to slip or I Wahshtngton, D. C. May 3-The lumber schedule and the income tax erally, by the appearance at Myrtle private at Bandon and in the vicinity successful fighting of the terrible ative of this city to the conference. whether we will take advantage of amendment to the tariff bill received It is likely that the conference will Point, quantities of quartz gold, thereof, are by request of Gen. fiend. them and thereby greatly enrich special attention from the Senate to- which was supposed to have come Nevins, Commander in Chief of the The new hose recently purchased be held within a week ot so. Chas. ourselves. The tax to keep up the I day. Senator Piles replied to Sen from the Enchanted Prairie C. A. R. cordially invited to hold came in good play and the wisdom Baxter oi Coquille, has given port, which would not be over thr e ator umber’s appeal for free district. The Enterprise stated that Patriotic exercises in their several cf the council in buying it was assurance that Coquille will be in mills at the outside would not be a 1 lumber and represented the views 01 sure and Fred Johnson has an many believed that the mother schools and grades on the af much in evidence. nounced that North Bend will be drop ii; the bucket as compared to the timber states of the Northwest lode, so long sought in that section, ternoon of Friday May 28th-—ren ------ OOO----- ready. There is some question as the wonderful growth and develop 1 and the Pacific coast. Senator had at last been discovered, and dering patriotic exercises of songs to whether Bandon will be in again ment of the valley, an I the money Borah will maintain the constitu- everybody was hoping that it would recitations etc as the principals and Mr. Scott’s Declination paiil out for taxes would be re 11tonality of .An income tax in a speech this season, R. E. I. Bedillion not i prove true. Nothing was definitely teachets may arrange, with the as stored to the property owners ten later. ilesiring to assume the manage- known regarding the supposed sistance of the local G. A. R. Mem Washington, April 30—The fol tnent again and no one there being fold in ten years. I11 fact it would( “find,” it was all conjecture; never bers and members of the Womans’ an investment that ¡ Myrtle shuplv be theless the gold, which had evi Relief Corps one memb. r of which lowing letter was obtained for able to take his place. insure 100 per cent on the would Car/ed Long Ways publication today: Point is talking of organizing but evidently been pounded out of the will assist each school or grade. and then double that up two outlay “Office of the Associated Press, of course nothing definite can be rocks by he use of a mortar, was in This being Friday preceeding or three times. evidence, but its mysterious source Memorial Day and a part of Memorial 195, Broadway, New York, April done until the county session is About fourteen lm-n carried Cleve — ooo was a problem. We are sorry to exercises, it is hoped that it will be 23. 1909—To the President: Since held. Cox from Sixes on a stretcher Fri you did me the honor several North Bend so far has assembled learn from a reliable source that universally observed. Should Have Fruit Cannery day, it being impossible to move him weeks ago, to offer me the Em a better home talent team than any the bright hopes of the mother Memorial Divine Services at Ban otherwise owing to he condition of lode having been found are doomed don will be held at the Presby bassy of the United States to of the towns, unless it is Coquille. the roads. Cleve stood the trip The quartz terian Church on Sunday May 30th Mexico-the appointment to be StAer.il of last year's players are Among the other rapidly growing “like a man” and now being near to diappointment, gold referred to was brought to .it 11 o’clock a. m. 5 emorial ser made some months hence-I have still in Coquille and Harry Gardi industries of Bandon we should medic >1 assistance we hope he will Marshfield a few years ago by a mon will be preached by A. Hali- carefully considered the matter and I ner, Coquille’s star pitcher of a have a fruit cannery as this is one (soon be wed.-Langlois Items in Bay man who procured the speci- erly, Rev Geo, H. Roach expecting have reached the conclusion that I year ago, is expected back t here <>f the greatest fruit countries on the Port Orford Tribune. .. I l.«z% — _ our z-v ■ ••• < informant i z-v < * a a * a a .a a a must decline the honor. soon. mens in California face ot the earth, just as much to be absent, All other churches ______ “It is solely the state of my own thinks Siskiyou county was the and their pastors and the public are Sunday, North Bend had its team money can be tna' C here as in Hood Notice to Trespassers place. He moved some time ago cordially invited to unite with us business that induces me to this out for practice. Burkhart expected River, valley, Yakima valley or conclusion: for I assure you that I southern California, ii the proper to the Upper Coquille country, and and make this a union memorial to have the Marshfield candidates am deeply sensible of the hon x as out up there but owing to a misun attention is paid to the «Oik, and a lately sent to Marshfieid for the service occasion. Not’ce is hereby g’ven that all specimens, which were in keeping In memcry of and reverence for well as of the complimentary man derstanding only four of them market for the product i> furnished. persons found trespassing on the showed up. However, those tout < »wing to the limited means of . premises know n as Queen Ann Cot of a relative here. They were the oldiers, sailors and mariners ner in which the offer was made. “ It has seemed proper and even were recruited and a practise game transportation it would be almost tage will be prosecuted to the full promptly forwarded, and as the who gave their • lives for their specimens in their original state were country and their flag, and for us necessary that 1 should make an played. McFarland who was im impossible to compete with these extent of the law. of no value to him, he extracted the who survive them, and tor those early declaration of my decision, in ported as a pitcher for North Bend oilier places on account of their ex ¡5-4t Rasmussen Bros. order that my name, so kindly sug- the latter part of last season is still cellent transportation facilities, but gold and realized in the neigh who come after them. borhood of $100 from it.—Coos Bay By special invitation the choir gested by yourself for this highly a resident there and is ready to with the addition of a cannery the Presbyterian Church problem would be easy. It would News. of the Presbyterian church will honorable distinction, might not pitch again. Times. Services will be held at the be thousands of dollars in the render music for the occasion, as stand as an obstruction to such fu- ----- ouo----- ture action in the premises as the pockets of th" fruit growers and a 1 Presbyterian Church, the first, sec- Ladies’ and babies and chillis’ sisted by the choirs of all the other President may desire to take. Very City Transfer of each great dividend payer for the capital! ond and third Sundays furnishings, post cards and stationery churches tn Bandon, who are here respectfully. month at ¡i a. tn. and All kinds of draying and trail -k»i - invested. 8 p. m ’mong other things. Tnv sundries ■ by cordially invited to meet at the Sunday School ring FOR SALE -mill wood and Christian “HARVEY W. SCOTT." i Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p. in. •000---- nctions and dishes galore may dc on May 12, 19 and 26, respectively Endeavor at their usdal hours, ATI I rom Cody’s mill $2.00 per load. had cheap for cash at the Racket o, practice. • C. ~ B. Z eek , Seed grain at the Bandon Cash are welcome. Cod sold and delivered at lowes *C< -------- mmander Store. 17-21 i- Bandon Post G A. R , Subscribe ior T he R ecorder . 1 prices. J. Jenkins, Prop. Store. G. II. R oach , Pastor. Rapidly Pushed by the it I V « • • 9 9 » •*
