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At the Fair Store Still Continues
This stock.
thousands of dollars’ Worth of First Class Merchan
dise has been greatly reduced.
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TUQ AÇROSS ATLANTIC
THE FAIR. STORE
Martín Block, Front Street
Items From the B if.
(From the Coos Bey News.)
W. J. Wilaey has written to parties
on tho Bey from Chicago stating that
his Coes Bay proposition Is being un­
derwritten.
J. W. Bald, representing tbe Dutton
Lumber Go., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
arrived here last week to contract for
aeroplano spraco. A num
dors were filled here previously for
tho company.
Trains commenced bringing in logs
from the Siualaw lest week for tho C.
A. Smith mill. Moot of tho log» era
old growth end have evidently bean
in the water far • long time, as barna­
cle» ere much in evidence.
F. E. Skinner, of Coquill*, has pur­
chased Newman Moon’s learn of the
Blanco hotel, end took charge Satur­
day. Mr. Moon, who is e member of
tha firm of Moon A Gidlsy, contrac­
tors, will remain in Marshfield.
News was foist e d here Thuredey
that Roy J. Rhoades had been nomi­
nated for postmaster at Powers, to. fill
tho vacancy censed by the death of G.
A. Brown. It is said that the office
pays about $100 par month.
Thar# is an increasing demand far
ship knees, end tfie pries is going up.
California shipbuilders have been pur­
chasing knees here since early days,
but recently inquiries ere coming
from Seattle end ether northern
points.
News wee resolved here Monday
that the gee schooner Rustler, which
left Coos Bey on Saturday for Curry
county porta,' wee ashore about a
quarter of a mile north of tho month
of Rogue river. She wee high end
dry at low tide end tho cargo was be­
Cattle buyers are »till buoy among
the ranchers In this section, and aro
offering tempting prices for almost
any kind of stock. It te different from
what it used to bo same years ago,
when ranchers had to soil their cattle
for whet was offered, end were mighty
glad to got even that.
The Southern Pacific bridge serosa
Davis slough, a tributary off Isthmus
slough, te being remodeled so as to
permit of a 40-foot way f a tho pass­
age of boats. The railroad company
intends replacing tho present wooden
structure with a stool structure later
on. Tho War Department ordered
that a 40-foot way t e boats bo pro­
vided.
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official notice S a tu rd a y te T te ^ w a r
Coquille, Oregon
es of ell employes will b# advanced,
effective March 1st It is said that
the increase also effects the empolyet
of tho Smith-Powers Co. Tho Smith
mills employ about 660 men, and the
logging camps between 600 and 700.
The notice reads that in addition ‘o
tho advance in wages, a bonus sys­
tem, based on production, will be in
effect, in which every man connected
with the sewing arid handling of lum­
ber can participate.
Fawns Easily Caught
Doc Barker, of Fairview, was in
town one day lest week. He relates
quits a story, which will no doubt
interest our local sportsmen. While
driving dawn the Sumner mountain, a
deer was seen trotting down the road
in/front of the machine. Doc at once
gave chase end soon overhauled the.
animal. It proved tu b s a last year’s
fawn end was almost starved to death
which no doubt was due to the snow
which has covered the ground for
some time pest, making it herd
ings for the little fallow. Doc says
the deer eats candy, breed end but­
ter end most any kind of food it is
offered, and has become very tame.
The stage driver on tho Sumner line
caught the deer’s mete the next day
after Doc made his catch. A permit
has been applied for to keep the deer.
—Herald
Might Try It Here.
The coal shortage, which in recent
weeks has threatened to bring about
very serious conditions in many parts
of the country, has stimulated agita­
tion for municipal coal mines that
would supply the schools end tbe de-
pdrtmenU of the local governments
with fuel, end, in some cases, would
aril to individuals os well. According
to tbs March Popular Mechanics Meg­
asine, this proposal has already been
adopted in Terre Haute, Indiana, and
a mine four miles from the city has
been leased from which coal is sold
for $2.76 -per ton. An aldermen in
Detroit has advocated that that city
buy or loose a mine, contending that
by so doing tho city could save $6 per
ton on its fuel. . A similar plan has
bean proposed in Cleveland. The un­
dertaking is regarded as most feasible
for municipalities in or near coal­
beering regions.---------~
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Did Naim Smith Sink?
According to a report brought bore
by members Of tho crow of tho Ade­
line Smith, says the Coos Bey Times,
the Nenn Smth which was sold lest
summer to a Swedish firm, was re­
cently sunk in the English channel.
She was torpedoed by a German sub­
marine.
No particulars are available nor has
the report beeen definitely confirm­
It is herd to chock op on the
Many Deer Killed in Snow. ed.
Nenn as no on« hors knows definitely
While walking the eleven miles be­ tho now name that was given her by
tween Whiskey Run Camp end his
ranch, Ed. Hamlin, a couple of days
ago counted ova 7$ door struggling
tea f a tho oast coast end Wtea there
throe foot deep. In several instances to load f a Eurqpe. Whether »ha wee
coyotes or woteg had pulled down bound to England with n war cargo
one of tho animal* end after making *r bound f a Germany la not known.
a meal had left a part of the carcase.
Notice at Call t e BMa.
Bids for cream end milk healing on
the lower riv a from April 1, 1017 te
April 1, 1918, will be opened March
10, 1917, St the Coquille Valley the arrival of a little boy Fob. 26.
Creamery. Also bids will be opened Quito a number of farmers from
at the same time end, f a the same Fishtrmp and Araffo attended the Nor­
period f a the buttermilk output of way Creamery meeting Tuesday and
tho Creamery. The directors res err«
tha right to ra te t any and all bids.
Coquille Valley Creamery.
Louisa.—On» of the meet extreordl-
oary voyages ever made ecroea the At­
lantic baa Joat bean completed by the
Vigilant, e little American tag belong­
ing to Now York end bound from S t
John's, N. R, for Cardiff. Two day»
oat from S t John’s the Vigilant expe­
rienced terrific weather, end on the
fifth day the sent B O S calle, the cap­
tain feering afae would founder. The
HoUand-American liner Ryndam pick­
ed up tbe signals and proceeded to her
Tbs captain and twelve of the tug’s
crow were taken off by tbe Ryndam,
which wee bound for Rotterdam, but
thro# men refused to leave, They were
the second mate. Robert Ferguson, a
Scot; tho M M engineer, Thomas
Walsh, an Irishmen, end an American.
John Smith, e firemen.
Taking control of the tug, these throe
end actually succeeded In bringing bar
within sight of the Irish coast where
they wars picked op by a British pa­
trol vessel. Ferguson was locked la
tbe wheel bouse end the other two la
the efigtne room. Tbe terrible weather
prevented them moving, end they re­
mained at their poets for fifty hours
without fbod, water or sleep. Several
part» iff-the tug were smashed la the
gale, including tbe shaft of tha dyaaaro
In the engine room. This earned the
bug to ho in total darkness by night
and eddsd to the horrors of the attua-
The Sting Ray.
Of the many danger» which boost
navigators of tbs tropical riven ot
Sooth America perhaps tbs natives
t e r tbs sttng ray most. It is poteon-
one and Is to be te n d In very large
number» when the river 6« low. That
le the time when boatmen here to gel
In the water to push their cenosa ever
tbs shallow». They ere often stung by
the tall of the ray end usually die un-
tees medical assistane* la promptly
Sten. The my cannot bo men, as M
te of tbe eanM color as the send on
which it cotta Itself. Tbe stab of Ms
Sharp knifelike tall te tbe nnwuy nev-
The cowboy» of the seme district,
The fishermen of the riven of Oregon,
The dairymen in the valleys waat of tha Cascade mountains,
The mothers and fathers, and the school ehildma e t every school district
in tha stats.
I went to remind you wheat man end you cow man, dairymen and heme
builders of the unprecedented prosperity that has bean yours dntfe« the
pest two years, end to paint out that it is possible for yon to enjoy the gaed
things of life because (and far no other reason) of the most awful war
in the history of the world.
In the pathway of tluft contest stood a little country which was
unfortunate enoegh to oppose the advance of the Invading army—
it was Belgium.
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Today the little chldren of Belgium over a million of them eta pay­
ing the price. Innocent the children of any wrong doing, bat neverthdfees
they pay.
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A million Belgian children ere hungry today. A large percentage sf
them ere starving, end will die regardless of the haste with which money
is raised and inched to thorn to Any food.
But e larger percentage of them can be saved.
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Will you try to gat this picture in your mindsT Imagine a long
broad lino; every child in it is hungry; soma of thorn are starvng, and then»
is not enough food for elL An officer comes down the lino. Ho sviiahtae
tech child end he separatee the hungry from the starring, and the “hungry”
are pulled out of the line, screaming and kicking.
Get that again. The “hungry” ere separated from the “starving.”
That is g true picture, end it is*\hs basis of this appeal to ell Of*-
gonians who have received Mg pay for their products sent to the wwr sons.
We ask you to pay back a little earn of money to send to these
.children, so that all may have sufficient food to hoop them alive until tho
war is over. Ws apeal for any sum you wiah to give, bo» send it quickly.
All remittances hsould be erode to S. L. Eddy, cere of tho Ladd A Tiitoa
bank, Portland, Oregon. It will roach the committee la charge at tho
Belgian Children’s Food Fuad, and will bo promptly forwarded.
The committee can keep a Belgian child klivs at a coat at $1.00 par
month, or a little over throe cents a-day. One hundred dollars w tt te d
100 children one month; $1,000 will te d 1,000 children on# month. The
chldren will only have throe slices of broad ttwead with grsaaa and a
bowl of vegetable soup, but it will sustain Ufa.
I want to ask some big-hearted fellow in every town Where my appeal
is printed to rood thia epsel end to then get right oat end pees the hot
for contributor»*. Don’t wait for some other fellow to do it; do K yourself.
I went to ask every school in Oregon to undertake tho enppsrt ad
as many Belgian ehfldrsn as the pupils think they can can fee l A fuad a t
$6.00 a month te rn every school in Oregon would be earing dor severed
thousand hungry kiddies.
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Sunday, March A has boon designated as Belgian Children’s Baited
Fuad Day. I urge every minister end every priest to speak of the con­
ditions ta Belgium, and to take up a collection to bay food for tho little ones.
I urge every mayor, ovary county school srpsrlntm lsnt, every com­
mercial organisation to help In this work.' OaB mssGngs and organise
to save these innocent Hves. Each community should go a t tho work la
Its own way, but all rsmittanris should bo seat to Mr. Eddy. Ifcoy wfll
bo acknowledged, and full audit w in ha given cash town and city t a r
what It docs.