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I GOOD GYPSUM ROAD i Successful Experiment* With th* Min eral Made by Kansas Expert*. W. 8. Gearhart, state highway en gineer of Kansas, who recently re turned from an inspection tour through the aoutbwestern part of that state, •ays the county commissioners in that part of the stale believe in perma nent roads and permanent bridges. Mr. Gearhart is well pleased with the results of the experiment in road build ing through the sand hills near Garden City. "A little more than a year ago,” be said, “the commercial club and the county commissioners requested the office of public roads to send a man out to investigate possibilities of iiih proving this road. Mr. Spoon, the saud clay expert, made them a visit and found that there were large deposits of gypsum all along the road. Tests were made on the gypsum, showing that it would make a good binder for the sand. The people decided to con struct 700 feet of road under the di rection of Mr. Spoon, and It was so satisfactory that they have now ■fin ished six miles of road at a total cost of $3.500. The 700 feet constructed first is smoother now than the remain der because the sand and gypsum were thoroughly mixed by plowing, disking and harrowing, The remainder was constructed by placing six inches of gypsum on the xand for a width of twelve feet and then a few Inches of sand were placed on top of this and left for the traffic to do the mixing. “It requires about two years to get a road in tirxt class condition when con structed in this manner, but it Is much cheaper than the other construction. Hot, dry weather is the worst enemy of this type of road, but despite the drought It is now in excellent condi tion and compares very favorably with the best macadam roads. The surface is hard and smooth and shows no signs of wear. “The only complaint any one has to make is that the road is so smooth that locks must be placed on the wagons so that they can tie safely taken down the bills. Some still refuse to get a lock and in going down drive with one wheel out In the xand and the other on the hard road. One year ago the sand on the road was so bad that peo ple living ten miles south of Garden City. Just beyond the hills, hauled their grain forty miles south to a railroad station, while at present grain and produce are being hauled twenty-eight miles north to Garden City. “It Is a place to go to be ‘shown’ if one has any doubt In bis mind about the possibility of successfully con structing a sand, gypsum or clay road.” ROAD REPAIRER ENJOINED. Physician Who Triad to Improv* High way Served With Injunction. Widespread interest has been created in good roads circles in the case of Dr. Donald McCaskey of Witmer. Pa., who I has been restrained from making fur ther improvements to the Witmer road, a much traveled thoroughfare of East Lampeter township. The physician, after falling to get the road supervisors of his local township I i to fix a dangerous and unkept half mile of yellow clay roadway, in des peration and at bis own expense be gan to make repairs to the road him self. The doctor built King road drags and hired horses from farmers through out the community who would rent them, and. not being able to Induce anybody to repair the road for him. the physician drove the team and rode the drag himself. Occasionally a small boy was taken along to stand on the drag for ballast. After fifteen hours of strenuous la bor distributed over a period of sts to eight weeks after each rain the neg lected byroad was transformed into a substantial highway. All that was used was the simple wooden iustrii- meut termed the split log drag, which can be made by any farv er cut of a log or a few boards. The physician’s efforts vr >r' nl such a transformation in the mi':.is of the incredulous inhabitants oi hi: coni- munity that the road drag met with popular favor, and the road officials began to be critically censured for their alleged indisposition to fulfill the duties of their official office. They promptly secured an Injunction restraining the physician from doing any more work of the kind, alleging that he had done this work "to the Injury of the road at times and to the Inconvenience of the traveling public.” The case is still before the courts. • u< It Mutt Be All Around Merit, No* trio Halfway Sort. W. W. Mitchell, one of the men of means at Cadillac, Mich., has offered a bonus, said to be ax much as $300. for each mile of good road constructed in Wexford county in the next three years. Presumably one of the princi pal highways leading into the county seat will be known as the Mitchell road. Whether it is or not, the aid given in the creation of a county sys tem of Improved highways will cause Mr. Mitchell to be held in grateful re membrance by future users of the roads. Stat* Support* Good Road Cau**. The state of Rhode Island has taken tn about $43.000 no far this year for automobile registrations. The money goes Into the fund for repair and main tenance of roads. Good Highway* In Cuba. I Chullo livor Co.’« Sckodolo Great Combination Offer ’TT’HE San furnish Germany’s Novel Movement. Germany has started a unique move ment for tiie improvement of towus and small cities by constructing a number of garden cities, one Berlin society having acquired a large plot of land on the uortheru outskirts of the city for the construction under the name of Frahau of the first real gar den city of the capital. This city will be built in a pictur esque hilly part of the state forest, will have its own railway station aDd will be laid out regardless of cost as regards external adornment. Judging from reports from all sections of Ger many. the idea has taken a firm bold on the iieople, the feature most insist ed upon being the abandonment of the flat bouse and the substitution of the small bouse and villa on the English model. In Bavaria, where there is al ways a shortage of houses, the gov ernment will transfer for garden pur poses part of the state forests in the vicinity of large towns. At Magdeburg houses with large gardens for single families will soon be rentable for about $60 a year Americau money, it is to be hoped that this country will soon undertake the same kind of de velopment. A Good and Laating Memorial. ugly, and few worthy of preaervatton. ' Indeed are •• news cf t e 1.50 per year The Bandon Recorder, $4.50 Total, Both papers through this office if paid in advance, per year N tei* in Beer on Draught j $3.00 per year The Daily San Francisco Bulletin, $2.75 COURTEOUS TREATMENT THE COQUILLE RIVER LIN E GROSS BROS Sirs. Fifield & Bandon Twin Screw, New and Fast 1st Class Passage, Up Freight, - Alvin Munck, Prop BANDON, OREGON $7.50 3.00 - - - Our interests are your interests. Fair rates and good service our motto A. F. Estabrook Co., 245 Cal. St, San Francisco INQUIRE AT OFFICE OF The following prominent and sue- cessful Oregon men have been se The BANDON STEAM LAUNDRY cured to talk during Farmers If you with a bottle cold— Week at the Agricultural College: Call at the Eagle, L. T. Reynolds, Salem, C. E. If you love the good, that’» old-- Whisler, Medford; Austin T. Bux Call at the Eagle. ton, Forest Grove; H. M. William Taint no me to »it and blink son, Portland; Walter M. Pierce, If you really need a drink. La. Grande; D. O. Lively, Port Just make a sign or ring a bell. land; W. K. Newell, Gaston; A. T. And you bet they’ll treat you right Down at the Eagle Mason, Hood River; A. H. Lea, Portland, Ferd Groner, Hillsboro. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Anna May Wilcox by an order of the county court of Coos county Oregon, has been appoi t- ed as administratrix of the estate cf Henry G. Wilcox, deceased All persons having claims against such estate are required to present them within six months from the date of this notice, with the proper vouch ers. to the undersigned at the of fice of G. T. Treadgold, in Bandon, Coos county, Oregon. Dated this 15th day of February 1910. A nna M ay W ilcox , Administratrix. G. T, Treadgold. Attorney for Estate. 6-51 the the Recorder at a marvelous ton ¡.-. ¡ce ROOMS and LODGING Administrator’s Notice ail all the news of Bandon ai d vcinity u. OREGON The Oregon Agricultural Col BANDON l£ge Winter Short Courses which close this week with the regular “Farmers Meet” have been the most successful from every point of view of any of the college short course work. The work offered has been more extensive and more thorough and the class of students Newly fnrnisbed large light rooms Telephone Eleotric Lights has been more mature, and more progressive than those that attended Rented by single night, week or month in former years. The R ecoroer $1.50 per year. them country in a metropolitan daily ana Wines, Liquors & Cigars iliary of the North Side Commercial association of that place took the pledge recently to volunteer as car cleaners. Each of the sixty members will carry a whisk broom and dust cloth and before sitting down in the car will brush the seat with the broom and clean tiie window with her dust cloth. The wife of a prominent tnanufac- turer leads the tnovement and borrow- ed a whisk broom and dusting cloth when going home from a recent meet ing. She dusted the seat and cleaned the window, to the amazement of the spectators and the discomfiture of the conductor. Numerous petitions have flooded the offices of the United railways demand ing improvements on their lines, but without avail. whereby a gigantic combination cE . 1\ The Opera Hume estate, has been on the ways at the Kruse & Banks ship yards Woman Will Dust St. Louie Street undergoing a thorough overhauling. Car* Before Riding. She is now most ready for launching As a protest against the cobwebbed good as new.—Harbor. and dusty conditions on a street car line in St. Louis, the women’s aux First class job work a specialty. Francisco Bulletin r can give subscribers the i v? > Rasmussen Bros., Props FOR A SPOTLESS TOWN RECORDER managen.an. . 1 made arrangements vjth 1 The El Dorado I pressibly I Charle« Neal M Brought Back Not long ago we took occasion to re Leaves Arri «es Sheriff W. W. Gage arrived in mark that taerit waa always reward B.itiduu Coquille ed. A grocer friend Lias takeu issue last evening via Dtain with “Coon ! 8:30 a cd Coqmlle, / 64M) * Qj with ua—not on bis own account, how j i .00 p m skin Charley ’ ’ who was recently re 3;00 p tu ever, for be has both merit and suc 7.-00 a m 10:00 a ru cess, but because he has fulled to trace captured at Pocatello, Ida. T dav Di-patch, the connection between the two. His Sheriff Gage 4 -Off p tn stopped over in F hvorite. 1:30 p in argument consisted of example, and Leave« Ai l ises he pointed out an Instance which be Marshfield to serve some papers Coquille Baridou believed practically upheld bls conten and ‘ Coonskin Charley” was a Favorite, a tu i030 a m tion. guest at Hotel < ,'arter. '.) - ‘ Xi a tu He knew of a fellow merchant This 11.30 a m “Coonskin Charley," w hose Coquille, * 4.00 p tu man is competent, honest and reliable. 5.30 p tu name is Neal. will Dispatch, i.OO'p tu He lias met with hard fortune at sev real 5.00 p tu eral turns of the road of life, and be I have to answer an indictment The Coq utile connects will) the has been forced into a sad and irre trievable failure. lie handled goods charging the passing of forged traias at Co xmille for Marsliheld mi »<$ that were good, and he worked hard checks, He may also have to an Myrtle Point. and with some intelligence, but price swer a charge of The up river passengers can cou- flimfla riming cutters and catalogue houses descend to Bandon on the Favorite and hive Watson with the ed upon him. and what they left for County Clerk three hours here in which to do tiieir him wasn't sufficient to support him, scalps of varmints killed outside of rading and other business. so be dropped out of the race. Coos county, but which he swore The -merchant referred to had merit as a man no doubt, but be was not n were killed in this county in order good merchant. After some persistent o secure the larger bounty. —Times. questioning we learned the secret. He had some of' the elements, but not enough of them. He was u good buy er. but a poor seller, and his place was Hoosier Submits New Fish as an employee and not an employer. He was honest, but he was uot far Story sighted, and both are necessary to suc cess. lie was reliable, but be was not courageous, and courage must back up Bloomington, Ind , Feb 9— Dr. the man who wins in the hard battle of independent merchandising. He John Haztnan, on an exploring trip carried good goods, with quality be hind them, but lie did not advertise in South America for the Carnegie institute or Pittsburg, has discovered them. There it is. He did not possess the the missing link in animal life be- WINE5, LIQUoR.5 AND qualities of merit as a merchant or ween the salamander and the fish success would have been his reward He had some, but not all. of the con according to a dispatch received by CIGARJ stituents. He knew something, but Dr. Earl Eigeman. head of the In not enough; he did something, but not Oregon all. Merit in a store is no halfway diana university zoological depart Bandon article. It goes the whole length of ment. the course. At the junction of the Rio Negro I It may seem harab and unfeeling to assert that he did uot deserve to suc and the Amazon rivers near Manos, ceed. but we believe that be did not. Brazil, the explorer says he recently for merit Is always followed by suc found a fish with rudimentary legs. cess and reward. The trouble with our HAS A SELECT STOCK OF critic is that he does uot compreheud what merit means. Merit in merchan dising includes ail that good merchan The well known tow boat, Katy dising Is.—West Coast Trade. Cook belonging to the R. D. In 1880 a man who had watched with great interest the development of Cornell university, at Ithaca, N. Y.. intimated bls desire to present to it some memorial to express his love and interest for the institution. He had not great wealth, through which oth ers had been enabled to present fine buildings, but he appreciated the beau ty and value of trees, and so he con ceived the idea of planting East ave nue with elms. Long yeurs ago the donor passed away, but his beautiful avenue remains as a living witness to his generosity, and nt either end may be seen a »tone bearing the inscription: “Ostranjer Elms. 1880.” In no better way cau man erect for himself an un dying monument to his public spirited ness and In no other way may he leave behind a more graceful or fitting tribute to his love of nature. Not only may man leave bls own monu ment behind, but loving bands could plant a' fitting memorial to many of our best and moot public spirited cit izens To the writer all of our atone monuments and statues are moit inex Good Roads as Memorials. General Carlo* Garcia-Velez. minister from Cuba to the United State*, says that Culm has 1.3(X) mile» of the most excellent macadam roada constructed of crushed coral. MERIT WILL Wil TRAM. J. H. JOHNSTON, Agent, Bendon, Oregon Home Bakery 1st Class,Bread,Cakes, Piesand Pastry f Of all Kinds. You can get my goods at Rosa Co.’s store, at J. M. Baker’s store and at Cornforth’s restaurant. Satisfaction guar anteed. A trial will convince you I CHAS. HI&RZIG, PR Clarence Y. Lcrwe FStmr. Willxelr^:? — O regon Druggist and .Apothecary V* bandon Is ;ast in receipt of a new stock of Drugs and Chemicals, PatoL. and Proprietary Preparation«. Toilet tides. Drngg t Sundries. Perfutue^ Brusbes, Sponges. Soap, Nit's and Candies, Cigars, Tobaccos acd Cig arettes, Paints, Oils, Glass and Painter's Supplies. If your Piano it worth anything it is worth I * I ; N. WAGNER, Comaiabchr.fa,. Coos Bay anti ¿¿niton twice a w u- Conneeting *vith Steam Ship Alliance at information of r>hti< I J. E. WALSTROxM, Agent. L,... L W A E STATIONERY AND E Toys, Notions, Dishes, LauLj’ u. J J-re.is Fu. .0.1- ings, Men's Shirts acd Overalls AT THE Expert Tuning Any other kind will ruin it Administrator’s Notice AU my work guaranteed Drop a postal card and 1*11 call Notice ts hereby given thi»t fhe undersigned A. J. Counts, bv an order of the County Court of Coos Bandon. Oregon county, Oregon, has been apjrointed as Administrator of the estate of Linnie P. Counts, deceased. All SOOTS . AND - SHOES persons having claims against such You can’t expert to get $2 worth estate are required to present them for $1. but you can get your within “ *■ * six “ ------ months from the money's worth at date of this notice, ’ with the proper vouchers, to the under- signed at the office of G. I*. Tread- Dealer la Beets aad Shoes. gold, tn Bandon, Coos county, Ore gon. Dated this 15th day of February R epairing neatly and promp tly done at lowest liv 1910. A. C ounts . ing prices Administrator. G. T. T readgold , Attorney for Advertise in the R ecorder a ud 6-5L Estate. you will get results. m i — E. B. Kausrud M. R A C K ET S T () R E . SHIELDS eV KENNE t BLACKMH1TH8 AND Wagon* of All Kindi Made to Order ' wag ox’n t Âi-’.r.N Horseshoeing a Specialty Job Work »«ended to promptly and all work guarante<d to give latidaction. reasonable. Shop on Atwater Street, Bandon, Oregon. f theimproved BREUER’S OVERALLS Price* A Splendid Overall for every use. Cut generous ly full. Two hip pockets. Felled seams. Continuous fly. hrlatdWn MURPHY. GRANT 1 CO. Manufacturer« (abfra 4
