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bidding of the Coquille Valley particularly
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Church Directory.
C u a is T U N
C h d b c r . - - PieachinB every
Kiindar at 11 a. to. and 7:30 p. m. Hnoday
scliool at 10 a. ni. Christian Kndeavor at
f -33 p. m. Praver meetine every Widn v -
d»y evening at 7:*>. All cordially iovited.
Kpiacopal Choroh.— E p i e c o p a l services
will be held at St. James chnrch, Coqoille
City the t h i r d Sondav in each month.
Sunday school at 10 a. m. each S u n d a y .
Wm. Horaefall, Pastor.
M E.Choroh. 8onth: Preachinp each
and every Sundays at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p.
■u Snnday-achool every Sooday at 10
a clock. Senior Epworth League at 0:30, p.
to. Junior Leagne at 3:30,p. m. Prayermeet-
inp Thorsday evenine at 7:80.
H. at. Branham, pastor.
Methodist Episcopal choroh.—8ervioe
the first and third Sunday in each month
I’reachinp at 11 o’clock a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Son lay sobool at 10 o’clock a. m.
Ep-
worih League at 0:30 p. m.
J. L. BK*rrr, Paator.
PresBTTBBiAit C hcbch .—Preaching eer-
yices 2nd and 4th Scndays, mot-nine ard
• vet ins. Sonday School eyery Sunday at
10a. m. Christian Endeavor service* every
ho lay at 6:30 r. m.. Mias Winnie Hall,
president. Ladies’ Aid and Miaalonary
So-- etv meets eyery two weeke on Thnrs-
davs st 2 p. m. A cordial welcome ia er-
tended to the poblio to attend all onr ser-
ii i c e s .
A d o l f o H a b i i . l t , Pastor
Russians A re Fslling Back.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 24— A dis
patch from Huan Shan states that
the forward movement of the
■Japanese south of Mukden con.
tinues. The Russian outpost are
ailing back. General Kuropatkin
reports he has received word that
20 Japanese torpedo boats and n ir-
ships have sighted oil Vladivostok.
It is beliovod that the presence of
these boats resages the opening of
the bombardment of Vladivostok.
Disp itches from the front sid e
that the Russians have turned all
the villages ou the right tlank iuto
fortified places and redoubts sur
rounded by wire entanglements.
Both sides are preparing for an
early conflict.
Tokio, Ft- ■ 24— Marshal Oyama
reports the .helling of points in the
vicinity of the Shahke river. The
collisions of s c o u t i D g parties con
tinue.
Ou Feb. 23 the Russian
battery of heavy guns began shell
ing Lapati and vicinity.
Russian prisoners taken by the
Japanese number 44,400, of which
616 are officers.
The French mint turned out
137,136 medals for last year. Wait
until the Carnegie hero fund com
mittee gets down to work and we’ ll
break even France’s record for
I lie W. C. T. U. meets every 1st and 3rd
r -iday at 2 d . m. at the Christian ohorch. medals.
.< « t o o t h D a y A d t k k t i s t C h ttb c h — Sab-
path i seventh day) services; Sabbath
shool 10 a. m„ Bible atody 11 a. m.,
prayer meeting Tuesday evening 8 p.m.,
yeitng peopie’a meeting Friday, 8 p. ra.
til are invited to attend these meetings.
C. H. BUNCH.
Elder.
Death ol F. X. Hofer.
The Missouri legislature has
passed a bill phohihiting the dock
ing of horses’ tails. The legislature
has yet to pass on the shearing of
horses in winter before ite humane
work will be completed.
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Frm for Sal.
A fine dairy farm containing 70
acres of bottom land 23 acres of bill
land, and adjosning the town of
Myrtle Point, Coos county, Oregon,
and | mile from creamery. Forty-
five acres of bottom land improved
and in good state of cultivation; 5
acr< s slashed, burned and newly
seeded; hill lund is all good for pas
ture; 3 acres of orchard in good
eari hngcondition and different var
ieties of fruit. House, barn and
other buildings. While we have a
number of other dairy farms for
sah, yet this is one of the best bar.
gai I-, as the location is all that
cou 1 be desired, being near town
s<’L >1 and creamery. This is cer
tain >• a bargain for some progres
sive dairyman. Price 87,500.
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odests
At
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arter
News reached here yesterday of
the death of F. X. Hofer, which
took place in Salem, Friday morn
ing. The deceased was well and
favorably known here on the bay,
having been connected with the
Mail until about a year ago, when
he became interested in the ill-fated
Evening Post, of North Bend, ns
Facin.itors, shawls, m i's e s ' cap«, m b
business manager, in the fulfill
it* r* anfi nnbrel la* at J. S. Kane natx’s.
ment of which duties lie uveiwirk-
ed luu,sell an I lift f<r California on
Hicks’ 1905 Almanac
the verge of nervous prostration,
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac
from which it is thought he never
for 1905 is now ready, being the
fully recovered.
This
For the past three months he was finest edition ever issued.
employed as city eilitor on the Sa splendid and costly book of 200
lem Journal, which position he was pages is a complete study of astro
nomy and storm and weather for
holding at the time of his death.
1905. It is too well known to need
Frank X. Hofer was a kind and
comment. See it and you will so
loving husband, an affectionate,
decide. The price, postpaid to any
and indulgent father. He was pos
address, is 30 cents per copy.
sessed with a kindly disposition,
The Rev. Irl It. Hicks’ scientific,
one of those rare natures easily in
religious and family journal. Word
fluenced by kindness, but adaman.
and Works, now abreast with the
tine in the face of danger or coer
best magazines, is 75 cents a year.
cion. His circle of acquaintances
Both Word and Works and the Al
was by no means a small one either
manac $1.00 per year. No better
here on Coos Bay or m Salem,
| investment possible tor any person
where he lived several years before
j or family. Try it and see. Send to
coming here.
Th gentlemen of Coquille and sur
rounding country are specially invited
in to see W T Kerr & Co's fine line oi
Overcoats as the winter approaches. I
Prices are always right at Kerr’s.
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C. Rivenhark, Jr., of Norfolk, Va.,
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Also heals nil wounds nnd sores.
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AMATEUR
Myrtle Point Oregon.
At the time o f his death he was
I 2201 Locust St.
St. Louis, Mo.
at his brother A. Hofer’s home
He hud liceu ill for about a week,
Wood tor Sale
but was not thought to be danger
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The Pacific Tree and Vine
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ing her to his bedside. She left at Z. C. Strang or H C. Moore, the P a r k H o t e l B l d g . , S a n dose, C a l i f .
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T he safe and reliable tiw n -
reached this place saying be was
screw
R -I.P -A -N -S Tubules
dead. Of this Mrs. Hofer will be
Doctors find
The New and Speedy,,
ignorant until reachig Drain this
A good prescription
For
mankind.
evening, where the Masonic lodge
lodge of Marshfield, of which Mr.
The r»-cent packet is enough for usual oc
C. P. Jensen, Master.
Hofer was a member, and which was casions. The family hot tie (00 cents i con
tains a supply for h year. All druggists
immediately notified of his death, sell them.
Will make regular trips between
wired to Salem requesting some
C o q u il l e R i v e r a n d S a n
one to meet her and break the sad
F ra n c isc o .
news of the death of her husband,
N o Stop-over at W a y Ports.
with whom Bhe has shared life’s
joys and sorrows for the past twenty
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FRANK WILSON, Prop.
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