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
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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
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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
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“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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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