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About Semi-weekly herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1904-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1905)
/ SEMI - WEEKLY V o l . 22: No. 69 COQUILLE, COOS CO U NTY, OREGON, MARCH 10, 1905. Entered as second-class matter July 8, 1004, at the |>ostolfice at Coquille, Ore gon. under act of Congress ol March 3, 1879. Walter Culin, M. D. PlI Y8I('I AN AND SURGBON C o q u ii . i . k C i t y , O kb . Kronenborg Blclj Next Door to F % Telephone 3. Stanley & Burns, Attorneys-at- Law, Real Estate, Collections. Specialties—Criminal and U. 8. Land Cases, Notaries Pablio. C oqu ili . k , - O regon . Geo. Russell, M. D., P hysician and S ubokon , Office in RUSSELL PHARMACY. Calls promptly answered day or night, Phono, main 136. Oregon. Coquille, A. J. Sherwood, A tto b n k v a t - L aw , N otaby P ublic . Coquille, : : Oregon T Walter Sinclair, Vr r I > ¡I S' K Y - A T -1 J a w , N otaby P u b lic , Coquille, : HERALD. Oregon. A Home Letter From Jamaica Kingston, Feb. 15, 1905 Dear Oregon Friends: We have spent three weoks on the beautiful “ Isle o f Springs,” two weeks in hot and dusty Kingston, j one at cool and beautiful Oberlin At Oberlin is the American home of Bro. G. D. Purdy. I fay American for everything here that is not Ja maican is English, except tbe cap ital that is developing the island, that is American. Into an Ameri can home with a cook stove, an American bed, American furniture, American hospitality, we went. (The coolness was due solely to the elevation.) A cook stove is a rarity here, an open fire, an oil stove and a Dutch oven being a liberal furnish ing for a Jamaican borne, while the first nnmed article is the essential. You have read of Jamaica roads. 1 traveled one. The country roads are continually up aud down and the government roads are very good,- but the parochial roads are about equal to cow paths. Bro. P. and I went horseback to Providence, where he superintends the erection of a chapel. Two miles on each kind of road brought us there through a scene of indescribable beauty, as we passed by banana aud cocoanut walks (fields,) while coffee, chocolate, breadfruit, grapefruit, yams, oranges, cassavas and other trees and plants ire about us. MY FIRST SERMON. My first sermon in Jamaica was not one I preached or heard, I saw /. Hacher, it. I saw it in sand and stones at A bstrac ter of T it l e s . Providence. The members of the C o q u il l e C it y , O re church had carried the stone and sand upon their heads for the whole building, not merely the foundation. Hall & Hall, The sand they had carried two miles. Men, women and children A t tobneys - at -L a w , gave one day a week to this, through Dealei in K kal E stath o f all kinds. the necessary six months or a year, Marshfield, Oregon. and twice, at corner stone laying _L___ and at dedication, they gave largely of their means as weH. The ma Ellsworth B. Hall, sons were at work at Oberlin, sup Attorney-at-Law, posedly following good American plans, hut they had contrived to CoquiM.K, : : : O regon . get the foundation a fool smaller Collections and Insurance. than contract size. They aider- stood perfectly hmv to make certain ! angles, hut after Bro. P. had ex J. Curtis Snooh, D. D. S. plained matters to them for an hour I decided that their density aud his D hntist , patience were like the above men llioe two doors sonth Odd Follow's Hall tioned beauty of the scene, inde fill ranks Bandon a profeasional visit scribable. While he .wrestled with the first Monday in each quarter. them, I excavated for the founda Coquille, Oregon. tion nnd one woman and two girls carried the dirt away. The hod of I one of them was a box that had held E. D. Sperry. W . C. Chase. American cough medicine. “ If the Lord will bless you for any SPERRY & CHASE, thing, He will bless you for build ing His house,” said old Father Attorney s- at-La w. D., a pillar in the Oberlin church, Office in Robinson Building, to me. Coquille, - - - Oregon. On our return to Oberlin, Bro. Purdy took up his pastoral work. A man comes to sell a horse, but it is too ripe. Tne teacher from one E. G. 0. Holden, of his three schools sends a request L aw yer , for payment on salary. A girl City Recorder, U. 8. Commissioner, Gen comes to tell one more chapter in eral Inaurano*' Acent, and Notary the history of Jamaica’s national Publio. Oflioe in Robin sin. Two litigants are prevailed son RuildiDg. upon to settle their dispute over a Coquille, Oregon. matter involving two shillings. A tramp, a former pen keeper (farmer) 1 A ____ furnishes an illustration of the evils of drink. “ The time is too stiff” A. F. Kirshman, explains a young man when pressed D e n tist . for his reasons for absence from Office at Residence, one block east of church. Times are too hard to buy Tuttle Hotel. suitable Bclothes, be means. The Coquille . - . Oregon. minister must he a man of versatil ity. COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO. S tr. D I S P A T C H Tom W hite, Master, Leaves I Arrives B a n d o n ........ 7 a - m . ! C oquille____ 10 a m . C o q u ille ......... 1 p - m . | B a n d on ____ 4 P-M. Connects at Coquille with train for Marshfield and steamer E jh o for M yrtle Point. S tr . F A V O R I T E J . C. Minimaw. Master, Leaves | Arrives (Vxinille........ 7 a - m . j B andon..10:45 a - m . Bandon.......... 1 P-M. | C oquille. 4:45 P-M. S t r .~ R E T A Alva l,ee. Master, Leaves Arrives Coquille . . . . 1 P-M. Bandon . . . 5 p - m . Bandon . . .. 7 a - m . C oqu ille... .11 A-M. Carrying passengers and mail. S tr . E C H O H E. James. Master, I.eaves I Arrives M y r t l.P o in t . .7 a a. | .quille C 'y 9 .10 a - m . nqnflls C ity 1 p - m . I Myrtle P't. .4 00 p-M. Pally eY.eptJSnnday. sail as in other parts of the world. Butter Demand Keeps Up. $ 2 .0 0 P er Y e a h NOTE AND COMMENT ON THE HOAD. The demand for California butter Oil has been used effectively to A drive along the country road from outside of her borders keeps calm troubled waters, hut it has brought an ever-changing view. lending encouragement to the dairy produced tempestuous conditions We were rarely out of sight of the interest of the state. O regon,! on the field of Kansas. market women carrying produce ou tneir heads to market. Sixtv miles , have drawn so heavily upon the I Those who think that President a week, up and down hill, is no un-1 mtrket ,or butter that those hrok- R °°«>velt's fight with the trusts usual trip. The men are at home, erg who bave beeD trying to get up will he indecisive do not realize supposedly looking after the chil- car ,ots for tbe Ea(jt have had a what a strenuous man hacked by Iren, but really loafing. The haj.d proposition. The East wants the countrJ ma>’ ba acoom* women travel^ day « 4 nighty and j Calitornia buttpP| but doeB not want hsh in four years when tired, sleep by the roadside, to pay over 27 cents, which includes In that greatest of all subter no matter what weather. Now a the cost of repacking, while the company of children go sauntering North is willing to pay this and ranean bores tbe Sitnplon tunnel by to school. Instead of pockets more. At the present writing it the way has been shown to turn the Chargres river out of the Panama bulging with apples, there may be looks as though this demand from canal ditch and to make a lockless about six feet of sugar cane bal the North might hold on for ten sea level water was possible. anced nicely on tbe head. We pass dnys or two weeks more when they | one of the numerous saloons and will he supplied by the local pro- j x be Baltimore doctor who has proprietor and patrons bow urbane duct and then, the East will prob- ( stirred up the country by saying ly to the “ Minister” and the “ Mis-1 ably come in for attention should it | that meu are impotent for good sis”. Now we see women sitting by | be as ahort in ito butter after for,.y years the roads.de crush,ng rock for pply # (| the the market as quoted h„s failedt0 take the lethal medi- f o r t the h e ! I « Unnlv as roads. A strap ou the harness there indicate. Everything at the ; eine recommended bv himself for breaks and a banana string takes its present Ume indicateB a heavy but. j m£m Qver that place. “ You must., t do it. Can t ^ production for Cali/ornia this ---- --------- nowlton’s Drug Store ! K I Besides a complete stock ol Drugs and D ruggist’s Sun- | dries carries K odaks and Sup- |j plies, Phyrography outfits and || Clearence Sale OF WINTER GOODS be in the ih u ivh if jo u do, " luns | stagou and for this reason thebe- Metkuseleh Von Moltke and Biother Purdj to one who wants to j ba| prevails that as soon as the de- Depew are I’efutatlons of Doctor open a saloon. This day is on* of , mand outsi*le of the coast markets i Osier’s forty year limit for man’s the erreftt days for the corner stone , . , . H J lets up low values are sure to come activity, is to be laid at Grateful Hill for the , Qur butter Jt ig urged thttt| ---------------- Wesleyan chapel, and tbe people, in j Bpeculators will not pay the priceg It is said that Dr. Harper of the I will sell my stock of Fall and Winter the gayest of colors and daintiest of j ^ storing purposes they did the j Chicago University is going to try attire, are going along. Iho old | urill help bolt, tn ble malady. i post few years, „.g.vt, which will to ! j will will power power on on his his tem temble Goods consisting of Gents’ Furnishing Goods, chapel is filling with a large depress the markets of this state. He has for his recovery the collec ence of young people who listen re Against this, however, other de tive will power of half the world if Ladies’, Gents’ and Children’s Sweaters, spectfully to the addresses of the mands must be considered before there maybe anything in that. ministers, who gather from many concluding that a low market is in- j Gents’ Underwear, Gloves, Shawls, Corsets, lirections for tho occasion. One evitable. Among them is the Alas- WheB th° riuhe8t of a11 oountrie8 minister warnB them that there must ka trade. Although it has been Srows to be richer stl11 il wil1 Pre' Chinaware, Etc. .be no debt, and “ no debt, no debt, stated that tho “ bottom” is out jof haps he able to pay- its president as hear, hear” came from all over the the Alaska boom, it must he remem- much as Canada, which has about house. “ A church debt is or „ j bered that the territory has a popu- the population and wealth of Penn pays her Governor thing a cyclone can’t blow away, ,atjon of ftbout, 150,000 which will sylvania, pursues the speaker. Their min- . , General. butter * r this year draw most of its ister reminds them that some have from California, and their year’s We proudly call ours a progres not brought the stone and sand they supply will come largely out of the Goods Sold at Cost and for Cash only, sive age and country and yet the have promised, and that it must he April surplus. For the last few Princeton University faculty ex there soon. Then the stone is laid, years the East has supplied the bulk MRS. M. N0SLER, COQUILLE, OREGON. pelled three strong foot ball athletes and they go home rejoicing after of butter to Alaska, hut this year because their education, and effec having given fifty-five younds sterl California shout*! get the bulk of tiveness was strictly muscular. ing to the building of the Lord’s this trade. The early decline here j A S p e c ia lty o f P e i fumea N ig h t c a ll b y pressing the bu tto n house. will also attract export orders. So and T o n ic P rep aration s. at tb e righ t of the d o o r . If the thousand of visitors to BACK IN KINGSTON. by taking the Alaska and export de- Washington this week could see Kingston ¡ h hot uud d usty even I mand out of the April and latter the capital at a better seaBOn tbey in winter aud the newly arrived I pan OI .uaren surplus, our uuuer ! won|d realize why congressmen, American missionaries are busy look-1 will not he altogether dependent j tbt,ir wjves and their ’ daughters ing f o r a cooler location for the upon what the speculator wants to | Beek election and re-election, summer. The church is well or-1 pay nnd, the extremely low market! * ganized, represents all the shades of that some predict may not material- M a i n S t. C o q u ille . 150 Years is not too Long to color, is revereut iu worship, hearty ize after all.— Dairy and Produce Live. in singing, generous in otferings,! Review, and it demands the minister’s deep- Chicago, March 0,— Man may live est and best thoughts expressed in The Grnud Duchess Elizabeth happily and usefully for 150 years, Proprietor . Pharmacist the simplest language. The C. E., will, in memory of her husband according to Dr. Lyman B. Sperry, Junior C. E., Sunday School and Grand Duke Sergius, provide din- of Oberlin, Ohio, who has expressed R. E. SHINE, Vice Pres. L H. HAZARD. Ctehler A. J. SHERWOOD, Prea. auxiliary are all at work and a girl’s ners for forty days for the poor of this belief in an address delivered club from which we hope much ns a Moscow who number 45,000. If the I before the Y, M. C. A. of Chicago, means of solviug a very difficult result is anything like the slaughter “ After a third of a century of problem, is just getting in good run- that occurred when the present Czar Bcientific Btudy such is my conclu- ning order. A savings hank is not fed the poor in honor of his corona- j BjOD » sajd j)j. Sperry. “ The de- OP CO Q U IliL iE , O R E G O N . the least of the church’s enterprises, tion the result will be worse than a BtrUc tive forceB „hick bring about In some thiDgs, Jamaica churches battle with the Japanese. the present low average of longevity T r a n s a c t « a G e n e r a l B a n k i n g B u s i n e s s have a message for the American ' — t are manifold, but I believe it is churches. Board of Directors. Correspondents. How unspeakably corrupt must j possible to enjoy good health and Commencing Feb. 25th. All Goods new and up-to-date. No Shoddy Goods. The Russell Pharmacy Rex 1. Russell, Dr. Geo. Russell, FIR ST N A T IO N A L B A N K JAMAICA FEOPLE. be the police force of New York j activity up to a century and a half R. O. Dement, The people are principally de- when tbo officer best Tualified to 1 by a proper understanding of the scendants of African slaves, mixed know says there is not a place in human possibilities and the exemse with English, East Indian and other Indian blood. blood. They They were were West Indian subjected to such degrading influ ences by their “ civilized” owners that they sank to a very low state, tho city where stroet ‘>ar8 run tbat o f thls knowledge.” tbe Plck l,ockets are not working Dr. Sperry s topic was the “ Sci- under distinct contract with the ence of Living,” his main object, ap- central office men and that the parently being to point out the in “ whack up” was made on a basis of fluences which retard loug life, with stre«s on tho theory that im- Even after the government gave a ba^ *or eacb s‘de- j mortality has a strong hearing on them freedom, it did oothing for being. their moral improvement. A Ja- A woman has invented a scientific . the . physical . macian historian credits the mission- whipping machine. It will delivér j Climatic conditions, according to I • aries with being the sole civilizing blows of equal force thus eleminat- 1 Dr' s Perry> bave beon reduced to - c iin iio lw in n M jir m / Y 1 *r* «f/ A Y l, 1 el ing the passion or pity that might statistics, proving beyond doubt force for years. that both torrid aud frigid atmos Among our own missionaries there influence a human whipper. Now phere tend to shorten existence. is a profound conviction based on all we need is a law establishing a The longevity worth mentioning, it maDy years of actual experience, whipping post as punishment for was claimed, existed in the temperate that only as we adopt the use of persistent petty criminals. zone. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. orphanages and industrial schools In relation to the destructive lilc n s « t l i t m n a n Ow e* III* III- The C. E. was conducting the can we do the work we should. We e A r < llu n fo « I ih iii I k rla.il'** 4' o iir I i force of evil habits, Dr. Sperry week of prayer, and the leader, that do this in Cuba, India and Porto K em eilJ. spoke at length, and his scathing evening, a black man, said: “ If we Rico. The Catholics have a big in ‘‘I can heartlyand conscientiously treatment of drink, tobacco and try to win our friends to Christ, we stitution ^-overshadowing 70 Duke recommend Chamberlain’s Cough opium was said to be derived from The Friends and Episco shall find many difficulties. This street. Remedy for affections of the throat personal association with victims. will send us to the Word and prayer, palians have a similar work in the and lungs,” says Hon. John ____ nnd so we will become stronger.” country. Their work pays them in Shenick, 220 So. Peoria St„ Chica S t r i k e « lfl< l«lcii I t o c i .s The singing was hearty, the partici many ways and it is not expensive, go. “ Two years ago during a politi- When your ship of health strikes cal campaign, I caught cold after pation prompt. One young man as the government grants aid. In being overheated, which irritated the hidden rocks of Consumption, made a long speech, the meaning such institutions, the dignity of | my throat and I was finally com Pneumonia, etc., you are lost, if you of which I could not fathom. “ A labor, purity of moral ideas, a re pelled to stop, as I could not speak don’t get help from Dr. King’s New royal fellow,” explained Bro. Purdy generated home life—all vital ele aloud. In my extremity a friend Discovery for Consumption. J. W. McKinnon,' of Talladega Springs, later, ‘ he wants to do so much, but ments in the saving of Jamaica— advised me to use Chamberlain’s .Cough Remedy. I took two doses Ala., writes: “ I had been very ill could be taught no o d g understands him when he that afternoon and could not belive with Pneumonia, under the care of speaks or prays. But this same boy As we come to know these grown my senses when I found the next two doctors, but was getting no bet- endured for a whole day the jibes up children, we wonder what we morning the inflammation had ter when I began to take King’s New and taunts of tbe people when he ' can do to help supply their Deeds. largely subsided. I took several Discovery. The first dose gave re- stood in tbe road in front of a danc- j There is no occasion for discJurn'J- dosses that day. kept right on ta lk -! ¡¡ef, and one bottle cured me.” . " ¡ng through the campaign, and I Sure cure for sore throat, bronchitis ing booth trying to keep some of ment, for our sufficiency (and tbank tbjg me<]icine that I won my i cougs and colds. Guaranteed at R. our young people from going in.” yours) is of the Lord and we are seat ¡n the Council.” This remedy 8. Knowlton’s drugstore, price 50c C. E, graces flourish on Jamaican * his, J ohn J. H andsaker . I is tor sale by R. S. Knowlton. 1 and I t. 00, Trial bottle free. a L. Harlocker, Isaiah Hacker, A. J. Sherwood, L. H. Hazard, R. E. Shine. National Bank of Commerce, New York City Crocker Woolworth N’l Bank, San Francisco First Nat’l Bank of Portland, Portland, Or. Claude F ox, GENERAL DRAYING. COQUILLE, OREGON. Meets all Boats and Trains. ‘Goods Handled with Care and Dispatch. WOOD FOR SALE- Leavo orders at T. J. Little's Livery Stable C o q u il l e Steam Laundry PHONE 146 NOSLER & LYONS P R O P R IE T O R S Experienced Help Best of Work Reasonable Rates Special Kates to Families and Hotels We make our own soap and know its ingredients. No injurion» chemicals used. Our baskets will tie left at all the principal points on the river. (iooils called for aud delivered in Coquille City,