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About Semi-weekly herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1904-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1904)
SEMI-WEEKLY V ol . 22: No. 22 HERALD. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1904. $2.00 P er Y ear W O O D M E N OF T H E W O R LD T o H ave B ig R ally. Grand Fraternal Event to be Held in this City, O ct. 8, 1 9 0 4 . Have More Tuan 150 CandidaTes. 200 C a n d U ff t e s t o p , t 5 r > rO r ^ o n s ö r C ^ - Initia.ted.1 BY T H t W OODM EN OP THK WORLD. Ü Woodmen Coming From Far and Near—W ill be Given the Free dom of the City by Mayor. This city will be fortunate enough to be honored with the greatest fraternal demonstration ever c.-.rried out iu the southern part of the state, and it is none too early for the citizens to commence to make arrangements to take care parts of the state. Reports from the different camps in Coos and Curry are being received daily, ami it is now estimated that there will l)e over 200 candidates present on the 8th of October, and this num ber will undoubtedly be increased materially during the next two weeks, ns all candidates must be j examined by that time if they wish to be one of the 200. Coquille to be Dressed in The Colors of The W . O. W . On Saturday, October 8, Coquille will be gorgeous with red, white and black bunting, the Woodmen of the World colors, as this city is to be the scene of the festivities. The Woodmen of the local camp waut all the merchants of the town to decorate their stores, and resi dents of (be city are asked to dec orate their homes, and everybody is requested to wear the woodmen Colors on that day. A committee GEN. F. A. FALKENBURG, of Woodmen will visit the various hotel» and lodging bouses through Peerless Organizer, Head of the Order. out the city and contract for all of the available rooms, and everything ' '____________ L. ■■ of the multitude which will be here possible is being done to arrange for the proper accommodation of on that day. They will bo here from as far of the visitors. south as Checto. The choppers from Gold Bench, Port Orford, Dairyville W o rld ’s Greatest Initiations by the W O. W . and Bandon will furnish a boat lo rd of candidates, and tl.eir friends who In the great series of big initia will be with us will make up an tions on the Pacific coast all records other boat load. The Mvrtle Point were broken, when at Fernbroolr Annen and their friends will be I’m k, in Niles Canyon, California, here in goodly numbers, aud with where over 1,400 were obligated in them will be thirty candidates. the immense pavilion during an all Marshfield will break all records night session. Oregon holds sec in point of numbers, and will furn ond place when it comes to big in ish fifty candidates, while North itiations. Over 1,100 were initiated Bend will furnish a new cnmp with on Mt. Tabor near Portland in one a membership of fifty. The local night. camp has sixty candidates at this There hns been many big initia time and. will have near Iv 100 on tions by the Woodmen of the World the night of the big initiation. The in the uine Western states, the fol Cracker-Jack degree team from lowing are some of the big initia Coos Bay camp will be here in their tions in the three Pacific coast brand-new uniforms. Prominent states. woodmen will be present from all CALIFORNIA. San Jose................................ 332 Fresno...................................... 642 Stockton .................................. 320 Sacramento.............................. 541 San Bernardino...................... 406 Oakland.................................... 497 San Francisco.......................... 718 Vallejo .................................... 100 Los Angeles........................... 665 San Diego............................... 150 World's Greatest, ' Fernbrook Park................... 1,427 OREGON. FRANK B. TICHENOR, . General Organizer fo r the State of Oregon. | Mt. TRbor...................... 1,129 Pendleton ............................... 227 Ashland.................................... 65 Oakland................................... 101 Eugene.................................... 177 Newburg.................................. 43 Dallas ...................................... 102 Elgin........................................ 127 McMinnville........................... 83 iT C O Q U lU U l Oc* \<àOA- WASHINGTON. Walla Walla........................... 302 Hoquiam................................. 102 Tacoma.................................... 407 Seattle...................................... 1,114 Spokane................................... 608 Besides a host of lesser class in itiations, »nil in the great scries of big initiations of the Woodmen of the World, Coos nnd Curry counties now take their turn. The truly marvelous progress which this order is making hns (»used some one to speak of it as the "W onder of the World” and the above figures would indeed seem to indicate that in the fraternal world it is something of a marvel. mean least, however, for with nearly 400,000 members, it is the third largest fraternal beneficiary order in America,— reserve collecting or der. The plans of the oid^rare unique and originated in the futile brain of Gen. F. A. Falkenburg, one of the founders of the society. A fenture peculiar of this order is the provision for placing a mouu- raent over the grave of each mem ber deceased. This is claimed to be the most beautiful feature in fraternnlism. It is certainly a beautiful tribute to the departed “ neighbors.” charge. Eighty thousand dolinra were paid on soldier Woodmen claims that otherwise would not have been paid, for being away from their homes they would very largely have became “ outs of stand ing” had it not been for this noble and patriotic action. 560 and will have 700 by the first of utive officers elected by the mem the year. bership, until the next Herd Camp THE ONLY ORDER IN CURRY COUNTY meets. ----------------» «» > «---------------- Curry county has four camps of Woodmen, and two lodges of the North Bend now has a Camp of the W . O. W . Women of Woodcraft. With a voting population of 600, the W ood Organizer Jos. Coyan instituted men of the World has a membership a camp of the order at North Bend of 160. Monday evening with 21 charter The camps arc located at Harbor, members and 20 applications in the Gold Beach, Port Orford and Dairy hands of the Head Physician. ville, BIO RESERVE. The reserve of the order now amounts to over 13,000,000 and is rapidly increasing Fourteen mill ions of dollars have been paid in death claims and for the erictior. of monuments. Iu a word, Perfected Woodcraft can be called a great O r e g o n ’ s G r e a t M e m b e r s h ip . financial, social aud patriotic fra There are but four societies that ternity, embracing within its plans have a membership in Oregon in nnd ideals all that could be wished excess of 5,000, aud that Perfected or along those lines and with a Woodcraft, with its 17,000 mem platform strong euough and broad bers larger than the next most suc enough that the whole world may cessful order in Oregon. The meet and fraternize with it. Woodmen of the World has the This then is the history, briefly H0N. I. I. BOAK, largest membership in all the nine and inadequately told, of the great Head Clerk IA/. 0. IA/. western states. PATRIOTIC ORDER. organization that will initiate 200 ------ --------- WONDER OF THE WORLD, The patriotio feature of the order The Largest Order in Coos candidates in this city in the near fut Chitum camp (tho name given the ure. Now is the time to place your The Woodmen of the World was is well known. The flag ia placed County. camp at their last meeting) will application with the camp in your founded in Omaha, Neb., on the 6th behind the presiding officer’s chair have a membership of 50 by the 8th Woodmen of the World has by city, it matters not where you live, day of June, in the year 1890, and and no man can sit in a camp of the of October, and will be nt the big is therefore just fourteen years old order without first paying a tribute far the greatest membership of any there vou will find a camp of the " ...... .V. , ........ ’ rally on the above date. Out of a W. O. W. Marshfield will have a J and is by a number of years the to the colors. When the war broke order in Coes county. youngest of the great American cut the order kept all their soldiers voting population of 2800 the membership of over 250 on the 8th Bandon to the Front. benefit orders. Youngest does not in good standing entirely without Woodmen have a membership of of October, Coquille 200, Myrtle Point 100, and if you live in the Sea Side camp of Bandon will prosperous town of North Bend be with us in goodly numbers, aud you w ill have a chance to join tlie j will with them the city band, nnv ciiiup, which will start off with | The steamer Dispatch will run an fifty charter members. Bandon, Laugloi", Port Orford, Gold Beach j and Harbor each have a big, j t ” flourishing ramp of the order. ■ The executive committee will meet iu a few weeks and arrange j the piogram for the day’s sport, anil the same will lie publu-life I tin first week in October. Following is the executive com- | milter wli > lias charge of Coos and Curry counties’ greatest initiation: President, W. W. Douglas, Marsh- j field; First Vice-President, H. Wil HON. C. V. COOPER. son, Langlois; Second Vice-Presi- Head Banker. deut, R. Bullard, Bandon; Treas urer, Will Lundy, Myrtle Point; excursion from Bandon to Coquille, Secretary, George Moulton, Co leaving Baudcn at 8:30, morning of quille. j the 8th, returning Sunday morning j of the 9th, fare for the round trip E x e c u tiv e O fficers ot the W O. W ----------------| 50 cents. Parkersburg and all Head Consul F. A. Falkenburg, stops nbove, 25 cents. The Bandon he is vice president of the national j band will furnish tho music on the Fiaternal Congress, and is called trip. The steamer Dispatch will Foremost American Fraternalist;’’ stop for all passengers on tho way Head Clerk I. I. Boak, whose daily up, landing them on tho return mail is the largest of any maa on trip Sunday morning. 1 the coast: Head Auditor Frank P. -------- — -------------------------------------- Bertschy, who keeps an individ ual account of every member’s finan tV. 0. W. Degree Team. cial standing, and Head Physician T. A. Hughes who rigidly scans the examinations made by local physi- | cians and whose "O. K.” must he 1 alii veil before any certificate o f ; ! membership is issued. The head I banker (treasurer) is the Hon. C. V. Cooper, a prominent business man of Portland, Oregon, Ho is bond- I ed for $300,000 in bond companies. The head managers are Prof. W. C. Hawley, chairman, president of Willamette University, Salem, Ore- ! gon. Hon. A. D. Stillman, a prom, inent Pendleton, Oregon, attorney and ex-speaker of the Oregon legis lature. C. V. Benson, bank cashier, | Loveland, Colorado. J. C. Lat- ORGANIZER JOS. COYAN. Euerg lA/oodman will haue an axe but there w ill not be a single one to grind, The chaw, school director, Pueblo, Col Who is making the chips fly keen edged blades will be the emblems of good fellowship and strong fraternal bonds. orado. A. Koepfli, county clerk, in Cogs County. Seattle, Wash. Thee« are the exec- I