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B O V * MUCH IS A MILLION?
the New York Sun
Although we often speak 'o f mil
lions ad dollars and millions in popu­
lation, few realise what a million o f
anything looks like.
An idea o f the impressiveness o f a
million can be gained by looking at
the stars visible, yet as a matter of
fa ct there are never more than eight
hundred vieible to the naked eye at
one time.
The simplest way to conceive o f a
million is te think o f it in terms o f
time. For instance, there hav* not
been a million days since the found­
ing o f the Rome, long before the birth
o^Christ. A million days ago would
fake us back to the year 817 B. C,
A million hours are 114 years, 29
days and four hours. This was al­
most as far back as the battle o f
Trafalgar and was before the inven­
tion o l the steamboat or the printing
any o f the
unlawful, or
or aids another in doing
o f the things above declared un­
lawful, shall be guilty o f a misde­
meanor and punished upon conviction
by duo process o f la y by a fine o f not
under $100 nor over $10,000 for each
offense and by imprisonment for-not
over six months, in th4> discretion- of
the court.
7. And any corporation that does,
r aids in doing, those forbidden
things shall, upon conviction, be fined
not less than $1000 nor more than
$100,000 for each offence, and / upon
conviction a second time for a like
offense shall forfeit its charter and
franchise and be enjoined from op­
erating in interstate commerce; pro
vided, however, that emergency in­
stances o f clarity and nccesisty are
not included nor punishable under
the provisions o f this act.
i t Coquule, in tin Stnta o f Oregon, at
the doee o f bqsineqa April 28th, 1921.
RESOURCES
Loom and discounts ......... $114,433.78
Overdrafts, secured and un­
secured ........................
23.66
Bonds and warrants I......... 36,925.77
Banking House......... 12,500,00
Furniture and fixtures . . .
5,500.00
n__
/ ___ __________1
Due from
approved _
re­
serve banks
16,192.53
Checks and .other cash
items ............ ...'...........
420.43
Exchanges
for
clearing
house .............. ........
319.28
Cash on hand ....................
14,636.19
Other resources ................. 21,601.61
Total .7 ....................... $222,352.24
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in........ $ 25,000.00
at the Coquille Postoffice as
Second Cinse ■ lüidl Matter.
Surplus fund ....................
5,000.00
Undivided profits, leas ex­
The weather bureau at Washington
penses and taxes paid
691.01
is etili promising j u “ local »bowers”
Iq^ividual deposits subject
A fter reading this, the question
and making good, though we should
to check ................ .
138,856.41
that arises is “ Was Sunday made for Demand certificates o f de­
appreciate more o f a breathing spell
man or man made for Sunday?”
bet when them.
posit ......................
7,158.06
Time and Savings Deposits 46,(136.77
, The Cuiry county court has called
TO STOP GROWING A. D. 2100
Other liabilities ............
11.00
an election in connection with the
Do nations get their growth and
stats'election on June 7 to vote on a
■top increasing in numbers the senn­
j Total .......................... $222,352.24
proposed county bond issue of $166,
as individuals attain their full height State o f Oregon,
000, to be spent on a north and south
and stop growing? The question at
County o f Coos,
as
road through the county, one half o f
first thought appears to be an un­
I, Jno. E. Ross, Cashier o f the
that amount to be used north o f Gold
The writer’s nearest idea o f a mil­ reasonable one; and yet Prof. Pearl above-named bank, .do solemnly swear
Beach and one half south o f that lion came when he looked down from o f the department o f Biology and Vi­
that the above statement is true to
place.
the height of the Eiffel tower on the tal Statistics at John Hopkins Uni­ the best o f my knowledge and belief.
versity in this month’ s Harpers Mag
Jno. E. Ross, Cashier.
Mrs. Lucy E. Daugherty, o f Staten Chicago Day crowd at the World’s
Columbia Exposition one October day axine makes out s strong e v e for
Subscribed
and
sworn to before me
Island, brought action against the
that theory.
/
this 9th day o f May, 1921.
Eckstein Browing Company fo r rent in 1893. There Were fully a million
O f course, there are plenty o f na­ (Seal)
gs}d Em issions at the gates on that
/Lomax L. Turner,
o f a closed saloon in her building. In
tions in Europe that don’t produce
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Notary Publicr
due time the c o m reached the appel­ -lay besides all the season tickets and
enough food to support their popula (M y commission expires Apr. 27,1924)
passes
represented.
Still
we
got
our
late division which now holds that
tions; that is notably the case with Correct— A ttest:
while a lease like any contract is bind fullest realization o f the size o f that
Great Britain, which is far from self
crowd
fourteen
miles
away
from
the
\
J. E. Norton,
ing so long, as performance is possi­
supporting. And during the war stop­
- C. J. Fuhrman,
ble and lawful the Volstead Act Wr.rld’s Fair grounds when-we triad
page o f her rations from oversea!;
Lomax L. Turnci
brings the Richmond Terraco saloon to get on to one o f the Illinois Csn-
by the submarines was the means by
tral
trains-
that
were
running
out
• Directors
“ within the. rule o f law which ab­
solves citisens from their engage there on the four tracks o f that lh»o. which Germany expected to bring the
world’s greatest empire to her knees
Reduced Prices
meats when they are prevented from Seeing every outgoing train not only
I wish to announce to the public
performing them by an art o f God or crowded, but Jvith people hanging on and compel her to sue for peace. But
by their eyelids almost, on the plat­ Germany reckoned without tha Unit­ that beginning next Monday, May 9,
the public enemy.”
Now a question arises in the minds forms at each end, and realizing the ed States, the lusty scion o f Great the following reduced prices will be
barged fo r shoe repairing:
o f the thirsty,
was Prohibition impossibility o f trying to stick on Britain.
But according to the article refer­
Men’s half soles and heels, $2.00.
brought about by “ an act o f the pub­ the outside o f such a bunch o f human
Ladies’ half soles and heels, $1.50.
lic enemy or an act o f God."— Amer­ beings we decidjfi to preempt a seat red to Uncle Sam himself is within
by getting on to one of- the trains sight o f the time he will have all
Robber heels per pair, $ .50.
ican Issue, ,y*
coming in from the fair on the way he can do to produce food for hit
Coquill«- Electric Shoe Shop,
Divorcee have lately been growing o the terminal station n few blocks growing family. We passed the point 16t2*
L. Myrberg.
in number very rapidly in the coun­ away. But we weren’t thg first to o f greatest growth in population V.
try. The leading reason given for hare such a thought and we had to 1914, and now the curve has reversed
itself and we shall cease to grow in
this is the “ slacker marriages’* dur­ let one train after another pass
ing the war. If you don’t get that in that early morning hour before one the same ratio as we formerly grew
expression at once, just think of the came along which furnished breathing One indication that this is true is
men who got married to evade going ■pace. That day gave us our most the approach o f the enactment of a |
to Karope and imagine what sort of intense relaxation o f the overwhelm­ law that will greatly curtail immigra­
man they were when at home with ingness o f humanity. It was like a tion. This country used to be lauded as I
themselves, and how little respect swarm o f bees multiplied say a thou an “ asylum for the oppressed o f all
nations,” and even after the civil
they eould have had fo r themselves; ■and times.
It seemed a wonderful change, too, war the slogan “ Uncle Sam is rich
and then how little respect the
lough to give us all q farm ” wrfb |
men who married these men must after being jammed in that crowd o f
have had for them, and again how a million the day long to find room one to conjure with among the south­
little respect they b b u t have had for enough to Ho down and go to sleep ern negroes. Now We are compelled
women who would marry such men as on a Pullman ear on the Baltimore to* conserve our resources fo r oar
they knew themselves to be. By the 4 Ohio that day ticketed for Wash own population.
Indeed, it is estimated that within
time you have thought this through ington, D. C.
What we saw and heard there dur­ 15 years, our country will need all the
you will no longer wonder that an
undue percentages o f such marriages ing the great debate on the repeal of food it produces to support its own
have merely proved stations on the the silver purchasing clause o f the population, and we shall cease to ex
Sherntan act— days of - endless talk port bread and become an importer.
way to the divorce eourta.
there—made us glad that a mil­ It is further argued that as our
J* ’-pH O U SA N D S of dairy-
lion people weren’t .trying to talk country grew from about 26 millions
From the Census bureau we
I men everywhere are us­
at
the
same
time,
and
furnished
us
o
f
people
to
about
100
millions
in
the
just in receipt o f a bulletin on the
ing Em pire M ilking Ma­
chines to cut dairy costs.
population %f Oregon * i om whicu we page story fo r our newspaper. That past 76 years, so in the next 76 it will
Many write u* they would
learn, that eight o f O egon’s 36 coun­ was the big fight o f the last Cleve­ ■low down until we have within 25
have to go out of the dairy
ties decreased in population between land’ administration, and the gold millions o f the 'extreme limsVlSf the
business if it were not for
number that can be fed here. That
their
1910 and 1#B0. Those -/unties were men won.
will be in 1980 and we shall be slow­
Josephine, Jackson, Wasco, Sherman
ed down to a final cessation of
PROPOSED BLUE LAW
Grant, Baker, Lake and Harney. Sev­
en countie# increased from 25 to 50
The following is the text o f the growth in the year 2100.
O f course, no one now on earth
per cent. They were Clatsop, Colum proposed national Sunday Blue Law,
bia, Tillamook, Clackamas, Benton, which it is proposed to get congress is going to have any interest in
Klamat...
Jefferson,
Deschutes, to adopt and President Handing to crowded conditions hi this county 180
years hence; but we are oftsn told
Crook, Morrow, Umatilla and Mai sign:
And it’s true, too. You have
how many millions o f years it will
s o idea what a saving In time
heur. The counties that increased
and inarease in milk produc­
more than 16 per cent and less
1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful be before “ the stars are old and the
tion result from the use of
than * 25 per
cent
were
Coos, for any person in the employment o f sun grows cold-” to an extent that life
such a highly perfected and
Washington, Multnomah, Marion and the United States to work or carry on must become extinct on this planet.
universally successful milker
as the Empire.
Wallowa.
Nations have, however, grown old
his ordinary vocation on Sunday.
Coos, however,’ if one o f the 13
And now, with Its Snper-Slmple
2. It shall be unlawful for any per­ and died in the past because they
Pnlsathr- the pulsator without a
counties that decreased in rural .pop­ son or corporation to operate on Sun­ couldn’t feed themselves without
Pt-t.-n— the Empire I* placed Im-
m eewrebly ahead ot a n ; other
ulation; but the decrease here was day any freight or passenger train, or drawing on others. And dedpite all
mint*- on the market. Bur Do
milker
until you eee the Empire.
only two-tenths o f one per cent,
mail train, or any other train or part the talk about the war to end all war,
W ell Eladly show It to you at ear
a total o f 24 people. A t the sa
unless
some
other
plan
is
adopted
to
o f a train, In the carrying on o f in­
time, either at your ferae or here
time this county’s total population terstate commerce, trade or traffic (heck increase in population the peo­
at oer pleoe. Phone or call on w .
increased 4,298, or from 17,959 in 1910 o f any kind.
ple o f them ggM are going to fight
to 22,257 in 1920. The county aver­
8. It shall be unlawful fo r any ViorJ desperately in the future than
aged nearly 14 people to the square postoffice to be open on Sunday ow to they ever have in the past to control
And such fighting
deliver mail on Sunday; it shall be food supplies.
unlawful for any mail to be carried might very speedily reduce popula­
Oregon stands next to Nevada in or delivered on Sunday by any em­ tion so that there would be bread
the ratio o f divorces to marriages. In ploye of the United States, whether enough fbr all the people.
the sage brash state, lying between in city or country.
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Another thought is that our great
Utah and California, the ratio is one
4. It shall be unlawful fo r any anti-race-suicide apostle, Theodore
to 114 i little better than two di- newspaper or other paper or publica­
Roosevelt, hadn’t foresight enough
voces to every three marriages—or tion published or purporting» to be
to realize that there must" be brakes
two thirds o f all married couples sub­ published on Sunday to be received,
on population growth or wars wyre
sequent divorced. In Oregon it is carried or delivered at mail to any
bound to furnish a-very dA stic rem­
Wc are the sgerAs for Empire Milk­
1 to 2.62, or about two divorcesto ev­ agency o f the United States, in any
edy fo r overcrowding.
er
machine with the improved head
ery five marriages or two-fifths of postoffice or over any route under
” V - ------c— *
with piston type, you can make ex­
the marriages fail to be permanent. the jurisdiction o f the United States.
To Build Another Section
The Portland newspapers don’t like | 5. It shall be unlawful for any per­
change for new style if you wish. We
Another
section of the railroad yet
the unenviable notoriety o f being so son or corporation «»gaged in inter
carry all parts in stock and take care
high up, or rather so low down, in stale commerce % r carrying on any to be built along the coast from Ore­
of your wants at once.
gon
into
California
will
be
construct­
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this list. But they blame it on the business or vocation under the lawB
fact that Vancouver, Washington, o f, or with the permission o r license ed in the neighborhood of Brookings
We install all machines free and
does so much o f the Oregon marry- I fro m the United Stateg or M y o f jtg as a logging road for the C. 4 0 . guarantee you satisfaction. We now
ing and- none at all o f its divorcing. agencies, to do or carry on any or­ Lumber Co. of that place. This will
have 38 EMPIRB milkers workiag in
North Carolina has the best record dinary vocation or business on Sun­ generally follow the line o f a South­
ern
Pacific
lurvey
and
will
no
doubt
our
territory.
o f all the states, only one divorce to day. the purpose o f this act being to
39 marriages, though South Carolina express our national determination eventually become part o f that sys­
doesn’ t come into the reckoning be- to honor the Sabbath day and keep tem, as has been the case with the
cause she allows no divorces, while it holy, as God c o m m it s , ^hereby road from Myrtle Point to Powers In
Marshfield, Oregas
this county.
Taylor Sta
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r ;
(bowk
The money a W ife has banked has many a time
saved her husband from BUSINESS F A IL U R E .
That’s ail this time.
W e invite YOUR Banking Business.
Farmers & Merchants Bank
of Coquille, Oregon
PLY
Keep them M oving.
'T 'H E next best thing to “ swatting the
i e rln x r J n fip f i l m
n tiM x r
T V »# » C u / e p n -
fly” is
driving him away.
The sweep­
ing breeze o f an electric Fan will kefcp flies
from sleeping infants (or adults) and from
exposed food on dining table or in kitchen.
A G -E fan costs but a trifle to operate
and insures cooling breezes and protection
from flies. We have sizes and types to suit
every requirement.
Cut Dairy
Costs
Schroeder & Hildenbrand
u
Mountain^ States Power Co.
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You'll Alw ays Find
says the Good Judge
«
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T h at'you get m ore
genuine satisfaction
at less cost when
you uae this class o f
tobacco.
A small chew lasts
so much longer than
..
a b i g chew o f the ,
ordinary kind. A n d the full, rich real
tobacco taste gives a long lasting chewing
satisfaction.
A n y man w ho uses the R eal T o b a cco C hew
wjjl tell you that.
v
PM up it two stylet
W -B C U T ts a long fine-cut tobacco
•
R I G H T C U T is a short-cut tob a cco