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hi« tosun took down a load o f apoda
and seiU brine back from Coquille a
load o f stih igw s fo r the school boose.
This is his first trip away from home
fo r about six months. R e kills two
birds with one stone, fo e s a visiting
and makes soase money at the same
AN OREGON PRODUCT
N O D IR T
NO S O O T
NO ASH
Use It and Save Money
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Delivered to A ll Parts
of the City
Beaver Hill Lump
$9.50 per ton
Beaver Hill Nut
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Delivered in ton lots where it
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Office open till 5:30 p. m.
Wednesdays
LEO J. CARY
First National Bank Bldg
Gxape Crap 978,000,000
PACIFIC FARM
JERSEYS
TRILBY IT . M AW RT LAO
YOUNG BULLS FOR SALE
.L NORDSTROM,
Taste it a matter of
tobacco quality
belief that the tobeccos qm 4
ia Chesterfield sie o f finer
quality (sad hence o f beam
tsste) then in sny other
cigarette st the price.
Liggtn Of H jtrt r d s o i Cs.
Time to
Clean House
'i Your opportunity to get your busi
ness in good shape was never better
than now. The wise merchant w ill take
advantage ..of present conditions and
give his business a good “ going over,”
eliminate leaks and w asteful methods.
A N IN TEN SE H E A T
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The value o f California’s gi
crop, inclusive o f raisins, fo r the ySSr
1921 has bean estimated at 978,90,-
000. During the harvest season o f
last yea r 28,689 carloads o f fresh
grapes were moved from the vine
yards, ths m ajority to Eastern mar
kets. The total raisin crop o f tha
stats, including a ll varieties except
dried black grapes. Is around 200,000
tons, with ths grosser getting ten And
eleven cents a pound fo r his product,
say* a w riter o f special articles fo r
Coming to the Liberty Theatre
tha Country Osntismau. who thinks 'next Tuesday and W ednesday “THE
the grow ing o f “ Juice grapes” in Cal LOVE FLOW ER.”
W ords o f the
ifornia ia likely to ha overdone, t-
moot superlative degree have not
The vinyardist who last Oct ober been found to expreoa in adequate
sold his Emperors on the New Y ork
market fo r aa high as 9190 a ton waa
lucky not many years ago to take
one-tenth o f that pries. A t on# time
during the last selliiur «—sen freak
Plea far the One Roam School ;
I f we can help you work out your
“ Resolved: That we believe fa the
pians toward building up your business
Rural schools located within reason
and' conserving that which you already
able walking distance o f the rural
have wé will take pleasure in serving
home, and strongly oppose any effort
to deprive the rural inhabitant« o f
you.
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their school* as located;
“ And be it further resolved: That
we are opposed to such centralisation
o f power aa would place the control
o f education o f our children in the
hands oi a select few and that any
effort to centralise power, which is
in offset the power to consolidate,
■hall at all Unies be opposed by our
rural comm unities.”
The above are two resolu tion the
Pulaski, N. Y . Grange passed March
7, 1922,. published in 'Rural New
Yorker” A pril 1.
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whose only asset ia the teaching tins write W alter 8. Buchanan, Past Na
“That w o are opposed to such cen is looking wise.
tional Aid-de-Camp, Arm y and Navy
tralisation o f power as would place I Dell C sthesrt, when you were sur U n iof, Route 2, Louisa, Virginia.
the control o f the education o f our veying and camping nights with .the Prompt action is desirable, as a pen
children in the hands o f a select few .” Coos county ranchers, who “ saped sion if allowed begins from the fil
W hat the Grange opposed is that their eows,” they g ot the sap didn’t ing o f the claim .
which Germ any did, and cursed not they? You camp with the ranchers,
Mr. Buchanan, him self s Spanish
only herself but tbs world.,
the chance* are you will got separat W ar Veteran, desires to assist his
• If the one-room country school ed milk fo r the reason the rancher comrades ih every possible way to
has been and is such a failure haa been “ saped” by the «duestor secure any pensions to which they
throughout the United States, why is and near educator, who gathered the may be entitled under this law. W rite
it that those who know the conditions cream and fa t through the dairy him fo r advice giving him your ser
in Mexico add other backward coun men'« league ami whoa« stock in vice record, and enclosing stamp fo r
tries are agreed tkat the “ hula red trade is the kings o f their Jaw bone. reply. '
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aehoolkouse” is their one great need.
I repeat with all the energy and
In the same copy o f R. N. Y. is an emphasis that I poesefs that when
M ckinley notes
article on “ Maintain the
Rural the one room country school ia con
Easter came end it rained. There
School” b y a Michigan woman. She solidated out o f existence then the 1* mn old »eying that it will rain fo r
attended the district school, attended devil ha* th« innings. Ths one room »even more Sundays if it rabis that
college, married e college professor, country school is the landmark o f day. That w ill not be so bad if it is
and she stands with both feet fo r the this nation from its beginnings. May nice during the week daya.
su e room country school. She says: those Who would deetroy that land
A . L. Brown brought his new Olds
“ The mere poseesston o f tools does mark be anathoaaa.
m obile truck home. He haa some
R. A . I set on
not giro skill in their use, beet re
k to build a body fitted to haul
sult« are not obtained by an examin
the passengers and freight which he
ation study o f many subjects, and
will need to beeide the mall.
real 'training in few or none.”
Mra. W . H. Bunch v isited . Mra.
Another woman w riting in the R. tbs follow ing notes o f a foregather A lva Brown fo r a few days this w vek.
N .. Y . a few weeks earlier made it ing o f form er Cooe county people
A . M. Shepherd came home Satur
plain that bar little children shall down in that section, says:
day. Ha had boon working at Powers
not go to a consolidated school. She
r soase time.
This was not an officially announc
had reasons.
ed picnic but a reunion o f old friends,
L. A. La whom ate Eaater dinner
R. R. Peterson fat Harbor o f Pah. relatives and neighbors o f form er with his children at La whom camp.
17 w rites a squib on the waste o f a days in Oregon.
The place was
Hugh La whom haa bean helping at
child’s time in the one room country
Maat’a loggin g camp fo r a fow daya.
school. Is there so waste o f s child’s
hn#r R ing’s fam ily spent Easter
time outside the one room school T
with home folks.
Something like three y ea n ago I
Karl Holmetrom waa home over
ate a dinner in a hotel in this county.
Sunday. He returned Sunday oven-
A t the table was s man I have known
r
off and on sines ha was a hey, also
Lyman King, who has been work-
a man whom I had aeon once before
Jhg fo r Mast’s, has not boon able to
k fo r a weak, ow ing t o several
school. They were talking about
boils on bis hand.
schools, high schools, and ths teacher
'M ike Summerlin spant Kastor at
said, “there arq 90 in the high school
and only SO o f them a n working.”
Any waste o f tim e there T It U pos
sible that high school was not an ex
ception but I have nevyr known n
one room district school with as high
n percentage o f culls as that.
Mrs. W . A. Moo maw and children,
A fter I was 90 y ea n old I had ona M n . O. L Nosier, D. H. Johnson,
year In the Sandy HiH. N. Y , (now Mrs. Gertruds Luedka, Mr. and Mrs.
Hudson Falla) Union school and C. A . Moo maw and Maxine, M n . and
Aeadsmy. The great maJoAty were Mrs. L A. Moomaw and Dorothy,
on the Job fo r what was in it, but Mr. and M rs. M. H. Dament and Sunday at La w hom ’« camp.
there were a few tim e-killers. Mias children, Mr. and M n . J. T. Dunlap,
Mra*. Ollie McDonald was horns last
Tefft, who was the vice principal and Mrs. Fannie Dixon and Max, Mr. and waek visiting her parents. She re
was known aa one o f ths bast teach Mrs. Tom Dixon, Jack Millar, Mias turned to her work Monday. .
ers and mathamaticlans In ths state Ray Lenhsrr, Mr. and Mrs. & E.
W hat m ight have been a serious ac
became later the superintendent Nosier and children, Miss Marie E *r- cident but fortunately was not, whan
o f the Hudson F alk schools with 28 land, fcorm an Dodge, Weak Bullard, a ear «hrhrar by Wm. Mast was turn-
teachers and 1,000 children, gave fif- Mim W ilma Lett, Mr. and Mrs. M. bd entirely upside down. It happen
R . Carl and children, Mr. W ilson.
ed Just below Grandpa Maiden’s
pises. Ths car light* w a n bad and
A n You E lig ib le ?
in a sharp turn the ear turned out o f
I f yds served ninety day« or more the road, which resulted In the car
in the Spanish-Amerioan W ar, the overturning and breaking tha wind
China R elief Expedition, er in the shield and the top. Hugh La whom
Philippines prior to July 4, 1902, you and Phil Johnson were with him in
w ill be interested to Know Congres» ’the car but none o f the three wpre
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has passed a Pension Lew o f vital hurt.
interest to y ou .'
David Maiden, brother o f A lbert
This law contains tw o provisions: Malden, is here visiting fo r a time.
1st, it allows pensions to all ex-sol
diers, sailor* and marina» witS the'
Farmers & Merchants Bank
of CoquHIo, Oregon
General Hauling
aHd Delivery •
to all parts o f the dty
Meet all Trains and Boats
a jubilant note in that “ Bo did I.”
F or it is considered aa honor to hqve
been to sehoel to Mias Tefft, fo r she
ffid not tsa eh sh m er fashion but de
manded o f herself and o f her pupils
individual responsibility. Her opin
ion o f ths one room country school
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Delivery Co.
Phone 101J
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