■m..
Ma ii af a cir i nr
company has ceased operations and
will liquidate. Practically all of the
machinery has been purchased by the
Coos Veneer A Box company of
Marshfield and will be moved to the
plant owned by the purchasers in that
city.
The Bandon factory was located in
the old woolen mill on the waterfront
of that city. The company made good
but on account of ths fire hazard
would have had to move to a new
building to continue operations, so
closed business.
■
The factory had quite a large pay
roll. Those interested in the plant
were J. H. Dalen, the manager, and
O. L. Zentner, F. S. Perry and Jack
Kronenberg. Mr. Dalen will engage
in the sawmill business at Coquille or
Myrtle Point. Messrs. Perry and
Zentner will take one of the veneer
machines * to the Perry veneer plant,
which they operate and the rest of the
machinery will go to Marshfield.
To Arrive
Monday, March 24
Heavy Horses ?
Suitable for logging and farming, weighing from
1400 to 1900 lbs. Entire satisfaction guaranteed
or trial allowed. This stock has been shipped
from Grande Ronde Valley, Eastern Oregon.
Mr. Roger’s Barn
Coquille, Oregon
G. K. HOWITT - - (
Larson’s Report on Highway
St. Patrick’s Day Party
"St. Patrick’s Day in »he Morning”
was celebrated Monday evening at the
Fred Belloni home on South Coulter
street, Mis« Emma Jo Stewart and
Miss Ruth Nissen being hostesses to
the G. ’n G. club. Pussies, turtle races,
and
conundrums entertained the
guests and created much rivalry and
hilarity. Mrs. Bertha J. Simth, Mias
Agnes Whetstone, Miss LaVerne
Lamb and Miss Maymie DeLong were
among the prise winners, green snakes
and other appropriate awards being
given. The refreshments also carried
out the spirit of the day, being in
green and white.
The following guests were present:
Mrs. Bertha J. Smith, Misses ■'
Wn^tltone, *TiljrtJe anikteymie De-
”
Long, Bess Maury, Vina Cronk, Anne
Henrickson,
Emma
Rasmussen,
Thora Pederson, Marian Young, EUa
Horn, Mabel Eisamen, Edna Asplund,
La Verne Lamb and her mother, Mrs.
9W,
STANDARD
STAND ARD OIL COMPANY
(CAtirOKNlA)
General Hauling
and Delivery
to all parts of the city
Meet all Trains and Boats
, Agents tor
JOHNSON'S MILL WOOD
SHINGLES for SALE
Mansell Drayage &
Delivery Co.
Phones
101 J
OIL
First American Money
Made of Clam Shell»
The proprietor of "a ranch on'Cape
Cod’* has found traces of a trading
station established at Bourne, or
Manement, In the year of the Pilgrims,
1627. At this trading post American
money was first invented as a device
for making trade more convenient This
poet was established for trade be
tween the Pilgrims on one side and the
Indians and the Dutch New Yorkers
on the other.
In the course of time they Invented
wampum, which was to have a stable,
fixed value at all times. Wampum was
a piece of qnahog (clam) shell cut
Into a certain shape and well polished.
One piece of quahog shell represented
’■a certain fixed value.—Detroit News.
Dairymaids Are Scientist«.
The modern dairymaid, the girl stu
dent from the agricultural college or
domestic science school.' Is verily a
«dentist She 1« a bacteriologist and
a specialist In the art of bottling milk
and churning butter. With her scien
tific knowledge a« to why churned
eream make« butter, what tempera
tures are best and vffien to dash the
churn Inside with cold water or brine
she can literally • give her old-fash
ioned country sister “cards and spades”
when tt cornea to taking full charge of
a dairy.
N. H. Larson, of Port Orford pass
ed through Coquille Monday on his
way home from "Portland. Mr. Lar
son attended the special meeting of
the state highway commission as a
representative of the Coos-Curry-Del
Norte Good Roads association.
The commission advertised for bids
for two pieces of the Roosevelt high
way. One stretch is of about a mile
from the Windchuck bridge and a
short distance on the north side of the
bridge. The other stretch is fer
about 2.5 miles at Myers Creek which
will eliminate a bad hill.
Mr. Larson says that two surveys
have been made from the old ceme
tery to Rogue river.
One goes
through the gap above Wedderburn
and the other skirts the ocean to Wed
derburn.
Corn Popper
TIRES VULCANIZED
We make them give you service
What’s the use of throwing away your tires when you
have many more miles of service in them? Did you ever
stop to consider the money saving you can make by hav
ing them repaired?
We have been fortunate in securing a vulcanizer who is
thorough and capable in his work and if you have any
tires you have discarded, bring them in, we will tell you
how much it will cost to repair them and whether they
will give you mileage.
All work guaranteed
at a reasonable price
Coquille Service Station •
•
GOODYEAR TIRES
On the Highway
Phone 133
What is a Teaspoonful?
Democratic Endorcements
About twenty-five democrats held a
meeting in the Coquille Hotel here
Monday to consider plans for the
coming campaign. The following is
the list of those who were endorsed by
MSdfflWage—rFar-Gaunty Clerk, A.
B. Collier; for County Commissioner
—Chas. -Mahaffey, of Coos River: for
County Surveyor, E. L. Vinton.—
W. W. Gage, of Coquille, and Wal
ter Richardson, of Marshfield, have
both announced themselves as candi
dates for sheriff, but no endôrsement
was made for that office by the demo
Teachers’ Institute Today
crats, which included representatives
The Coquille schools are closed to from Myrtle Point, Bandon, Coquille,
day while the teachers are attending Marshfield and North Bend.
the institute at Marshfield. Local
Coos county problems are aH that will
Appointments to West Point
come up for disquasion, although the
The following appointments have
superintendent of schools at Ashland been made to fill two vacancies in the
will deliver an address.
United States Military Academy at
Mrs. Alice B. Maloney, president of West Point from the First Congres
the State Business Women’s Clubs, sional District of Oregon:
is also to address the institute. That
Principals: Ronald S. Haines, Sa
organisation is doing a most worth lem, Oregon.
while work in making a survey of
Richard Middlebrooks, Beaverton,
high school and grade students with Oregon.
the idea of learning what their ob
First Alternates: John F. Wadman,
jective is after their school days are Powers, Oregon; Lowell L. Hall, Eu
over. They are also making a cam gene, Oregon.
paign along the line of getting all
Second Alternates: James H. Mills,
students to taka the high school course Jr., North Bend, Oregon; George W.
»efore entering business life, and the Moses, Jr., Corvallis, Oregon.
organisation is preparing to help
Students, who could not otherwise fin
Death of Henry Oxenrider
ish high school.
Henry Oxenrider, 72 years old,
Tomorrow another institute will be North Coos river rancher, died at the
held at Bandon.
home of his son, Charles E. Oxenrider,
at 287 Commercial Ave., Marshfield,
Wednesday morning at 4:30.
His
death came as a result of a severe
attack of heart trouble sustained last
Thursday at his home on Coos river.
James Harding, trained nurse, who
has been attending the old man, be-,
lives that a stroke of paralysis came,
Which brought instant death.
He
leaves a widow, two sons and six
grandchildren, says the Coos Bay
Times.
Lumber Cargo Attached
The cargo of lumber on the «ail
ing vessel W. H. Talbott now in port
at Coo« Bay was attached by Deputy
Sheriff Sam Malehorn Monday. The
attachment ia in connection with a
suit in Portland for $2116.81. The
suit was started by the Oregon Ex
port Import Lumber company against
the Canadian Trading company. The
suit does not affect the vessel bat
simply the cargo which the vessel had
loaded for the defendant ia the suit.
CALUMET
eoohomy
bajkuv G POWDER
Level spoonfuls are all that are neo
essary when you use CALUMET—it
makes more bakings which means a real
saving on bake day.
Oscar Wilde Was Stagy
Door Johnny Yea: s Z;
At the time when Mrs Lauxirj
i
at the zenith of her fame and ben in;
Oscar Wilde, Just out of Oxford mu
versfty, came to London, poor bit
proud.
He fell iflZove with the Jersey 141/
as all men did. bought one exq’ilrib
blossom every evening at Cevent Gar
den market, marched acres« ' U>nd<>i
holding It In front of him with tie
amazing unself-consciousnesw that b<
afterward parodied so well, waited ut
the curbstone outside the theater t<
open the door of tier carriage and thet
handed hie tribute of adoration In s’
lent ecstasy.
For a time there was somethin;
rather touching In the gallantry <>i
this knightly deed, and Mrs. lataetrt
accepted the inevitable gift from th-
sallow, large-eyed, long-haired, inai
ticulate youth with pleasure.
But the deadly monotony of the»
evening presentations, and rhe regv
lar sight of his worshipping tlgur>
looming In the shadows as site left th
theater, got eventually on her tiervet
and Wilde was begged to go awn.v
Shocked and wounded, be continued
however, to hang about night aftc
night tn the deepest melancholy glom ,
until at last, taking pity on Ids par
elonate plight, Mrs Langtry sent-ou
word that he might renew bls word
leas attentions and once more alhnvi-.
herself to be handed out of her cat
rlage by the man who originated th
now so popular method of saying b
with flowers.—Cosmo Hamilton. In th<
Saturday Evening Port.
Practice of Touching
Wood Ancient Cuttom
Many people, after they have boast
ed of their good luck, proceed to
"touch wood.” So did our remote an
cestors. the tree worshipers.
An authority on such matters wrote:
"The remarkable similarity In cus
toms all over Europe points to the
conclusion that tree worship was an
Important element tn the early re
ligion of mankind, especially of the
Aryan stock, and the singularly uni
formity of rites and ceremonies which
can easily be shown to exist in widely
separated countries warrants us in be
lieving that they cannot have changed
much from very remote ages; and that
the practices continued down to a
very recent period—some even among
ourselves—were substantially Identical
with the rites and ceremonies ob
served by Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks
and Romans.”
The primitive belief was that spirits
resided in trees. Without this basic
Idea being entirely lost tber« came
the period of the sacred groves and
the Druids* oaks, snd then the dedica
tion of certain sorts of trees to the
earliest and simplest form Of the su
perstition.
We touch wood to call the attention
of the tree spirit to the fact that we
recognize bls Influence In the good
luck of "which we boast and in order
that he may not feel slighted and
change our good fortune Into bad; at
least, that Is why our ancestors touched
wood.—London Tit-Bits.