THE COQUILLE VALLEY/^NTINEL, COQUILLE, OREGON
PAGE FOURTEEN
THE COQUILLE HARDWARE CO
THE WINCHESTER STORE
One of the most attractive business
places and one of the most substan
tial firms of the valley is the store
conducted under the name of the
Coquille Hardware Company, Inc., at
■ 456 Taylor, and its officers: J. W.
Miller, president; Arthur Ellingsen,
vice president; and R. F. Miller, sec
retary-treasurer. E'ach of these gen
tlemen .are leaders in the business
and social life of the valley. No ef
fort is every undertaken for the good
of this neighborhood and its people
ried will rank most favorably with
any store of its kind, even in towns
of larger size than Coquille. It has
always been the effort of this store
and the men connected with it to be
prepared with a stock that will meet
every demand of the people of this
community as that need or demand
arises.
The stock carried at this store is
well displayed in the fine daylight
store room, in floor and wall display
cases, permitting the customer an op-
the new goods as fast as they come
on the market. They are never be
hind the big city store in receiving
and displaying the newest goods, Thè
volume of trade that is handled by
this store is a very large one; is, in
fact, such size that it permits buy-
ing goods in large quantities which
makes the lowest prices at which
goods can be bought, and this fact,
together with the low overhead- cost
of running this store, is reflected in
the low prices at which high class
TAYLOR-DITTO BATTERY STATTON—ONE OF COQUILLE’S POPULAR SERVICE STATIONS
TAYLOR-DITTO BATTERY STATION
AUTOMOBILE IGNITION EXPERTS
INTERIOR VIEW OF COQUILLE HARDWARE CO., WHICH VISITORS SAY IS THE BEST APPEARING
AND MOST COMPLETE HARDWARE STORE IN SOUTHERN OREGON.
that does not receive the hearty sup
port, .both in time and money, of
these live business men and Coquille
boosters.
This is one of the oldest business
establishments in the city, having
been established in 1891 by Mr. El-
lingsen, who Was since been contin
uously interested in the store’s own
ership and management. The active
ZaSSSgSfrMffli-Off the stpre is at pres
ent personally attended to by J. W.
Miller and R. F. Miller.
This store is one that in appearance
and in the complete stock that is car-
portunity to inspect samples of the
big stock in such a way as to make
a satisfactory selection in the most
easy manner.
The Stock Covers a
complete line of light and heavy
hardware, builders’ hardware, me
chanics’ and farm hand tools, and a
full line of electrical goods. This
store is the Winchester store for this
district, carrying a complete stock of
Winchester goods.
This establishment is in close touch
with the manufacturers and jobbers
in the various lines of goods carried.
This puts them in touch with all of
Radio-Electric Hardware Co
Carries A Complete Stock
goods are offered the customer here.
It affords us pleasure to give rec
ognition to such an establishment as
the Coquille Hardware Company and
to such men as those in charge of the
company’s business in this Anniver
sary Number, believing that such
men are deserving of full jrpogni-
tino for their unselfish effort and
the accomplishments through^ heir
efforts of the privileges. whighgj^r/
the citizens of the city anSB^.^wid;,
are, now enjoying.
I
The wants of the people of this
district along the lines pf automotive
electrical work are well.■taken care of
by the establishment of’.the Taylor-
Ditto Battery Station located at the
corner of Second and Taylor Streets.
This is one of the largest estab
lishments of its kind and as complete
as any in the district. In this shop
all kinds of automotive electrical
work is taken care of, such as the in
stalling and overhauing of ignition,
lighting systems, starters and the
general handling of battery Work.
The battery service here is a service
that covers both examination and
work on all makes of batteries.
The equipment of this shop is in
every way a modern one for the re
charging and rebuilding of batteries.
It is a recognized fact with people of
this district who have availed them
selves of the service offered by this
establishment that old worn out bat
teries are so worked over here that
the old battery is given an extension
on life that makes its satisfactory
service extend over a period fre-
quently longer than the new battery
gave.
In addition to the battery service
maintained by this establishment, | and the Taylor-Ditto shop stands
Messrs. Taylor and Ditto are in posi high in the esteem of auto owners
tion to do all kinds of automotive who have had business dealings with
electrical work and are both experts them, and each satisfied customer has
in the care and installation of this been the means of bringing new cus
line of work. They are always pleas tomers.
ed to inspect your automotive elec This shop is in every way one of
trical equipment, test your battery, the modern establishments to which
and advise owners in such a way as prominent reference must be made
to give them better service with less in this Anniversary Number. The
trouble.
owners of the shop, George Taylor
All work done at this shop is under and Glenn A. Ditto, are numbered
the personal supervision of. one of among the most wideawake and pro
the owners, and only experienced and gressive of our business men, Who
thoroughly competent mechanics are are always ready with their efforts
employed. The men in charge and and financial support in the commun
their workmen also are'always cour ity.
We believe a personal inspection of
teous to their customers and take a
personal interest in seeing that the this shop 'and its work will be worth
proper work is done to every oar that the while of every owner of an auto
mobile or truck who lives in this
is brought to them.
A large stock of tires and auto ac community, and to the visitors We
cessories is also carried. This es recommend a trial of this institution.
It affords us pleasure in concluding
tablishment specializes in Samson,
Miller and McClarin tires and tubes, this reference to the Taylor-Ditto
all of which Messrs. Taylor and Dit Battery 'Station to recommend it as
to recommend as carrying the great an establishment well worth while
and showing the progressive spirit
est value at their selling prices.
The treatment given a customer in of Coquille. We can recommend this
an establishment of this kind is one shop and its owners as trustworthy,
of the best advertisements obtainable, substantial assets to Coquille.
L. Myrberg, Repair
Shop & Shoe Store
THE TITLE CO., INC.,
RELIABLE ABSTRACTERS
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One of the modern and up to date
establishments of Coquille is the shoe
' repair shop and shoe store conducted
by L. Myrberg on Front Street.
Mr. IMyrberg has installed all of
the latest shoe repair machinery that
is intended to facilitate the repair
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ing of shoes. He is an expert work
man, who possesses the ability of
struction when the state engaged in taking a big interest in his work, and
its first big road .building enterprise. it is a pride to him to turn out the
Up the river valley from this city best appearing job possible where
except for a mile or two at Myrtle the best best materials and good
Point now being graded, for a cross workmanship are used. And every
ing of the North Fork, the gravelled job will give the maximum of wear
road has been finished all the way to possible.
a connection with the paved Pacific
Mr. Myrberg established in busi-
highway just before reaching Rose ness -in 'Coquille November first, 1915.
burg in the great central valley of This shop is today the oldest estab-
Oregon.
wished shoe repair shop in the com-
The completion of such a highway munity. April first, 1923, he pur
through the narrow canyon of the chased the building his business is
Middle fork required months and now located in, one of the most com
years of labor; but the result is ä manding business locations in the
wide gravelled highway that will last city.
for all time. On each side it is lined
In the years that he has been in
by the forests primeval of the coast business in Coquille, Mr. Myrberg
range. Between Coquille and Bridge has succeeded in building up a trade
the wide stretch of the valley has far in excess of his anticipations
been mostly cleared, and the encir when he located here. Tis is largely
cling hills, crowned with forests of due to the satisfaction of his cus
fadeless verdure, form royal setting tomers in the appearance, comfort
for the endless pictures that delight and wear of the shoes he has repair
the eye. And the nearer Coquille ed, and to the quick service he is able
one comes the more in evidence is the to give because of his modern equip
beautiful myrtle, with its broad, ment.
;
brightly gleaming leaves, which adds
Mr. Myrberg’s experience in new
a beauty all its own to the evergreen shoe manufacture and in .repair Work
forests of our valleys. Nature was has fitted him to develop his standing
certainly in a iriost lavish mood when as one of the leaders in. his chosen
she added that finishing touch , of line of work. In giving service Mr.
gleaming emerald to the wealth of Myrberg has always in mind two
our southwestern Oregon forests. . ideals—to give the customer the best
While the road down the Coquille work and material possible, and to
valley forks at Coquille, the continu fix a most reasonable price for the
ation of the Roosevelt highway to work.
Bandon, Port Orford and the Rogue
Mr. Myrberg also carries a good
river section brings it back again to line of new shoes and is confident
what is, after all, the greatest at that a purchaser of these shoes will
traction of the Roosevelt highway, as receive full satisfaction in comfort,
it winds around great promentaries style and wear.
and from heighths, hundreds of feet
Mr. Myrberg’s efforts on behalf of
above the shore, presents the ever his customers is appreciated by the
shifting panorama of the Pacific. Here people of the city and surrounding
we have that combination of forest, territory, which statement will be
mountain and sea, whose beauty and readily realized by the visitor at his
grandeur are excelled no Where in our shop in seeing the amount of work
state, if indeed they can be in all our being handled there.
borders, not even by the truly wonder
It is a pleasure to join with the
ful highway up the Columbia high host of Mr. Myrberg’s griends in
way.
wishing for him and his business a
Added to this our climate—never continued prosperity such as he has
too warm and seldom cold enough for enjoyed in the past.
frost—is an added attraction to the
It rains in Coos county, but it keeps
tourist, and" invites him to linger
amid enchanting scenes and enjoy the grass green the year round, to
Watch Coquille in 1925.
The Radio-Electric Hardware Com In describing the variety of goods
pany store located on West First carried, we feel we can best cover
Street is one of the most completely that by saying it includes every
stocked and centrally located Stores hardware or electrical want ‘ that
in the city.
might come up. Any hardware want
The store is one that in its appear can be immediately supplied from the
ance is most attractive and adds to stock. The stock- as carried in this
the attractiveness of the business establishment is a well balanced one.
district of the city. This store will They have not specialized in a par
not give space for the carrying of any ticular line of goods, but rather spec
go'od’s that do not represent full value, ialize in making all of their lines the
at their selling price and no goods best that experience, judgment and
are handled because they can be sold good buying facilities make possible.
at low figures unless they represent We do feel, however, that mention
should be made particularly of the
worth while quality.
hardware
line, paints,
This store is owned and operated builders’
by the seven Oerding Brothers, ‘who stains and varnishes, as well as a
are all leading business men of this complete line of sash and doors which
community who have devoted an un are made in Coquille at the company’s
usual amount of their times and ef waterfront plant. This company of*
fort in advancing the. interests of Co fers the free service of estimating
quille Valley both in a ‘business and cost on any special work.
A complete radio department is
social way. In selecting the goods
that are offered at their store the maintained under the supervision of
Oerding Brothers inspect every item Charles H. Oerding, who is a radio
that is offered in their stock and expert. A large stock of the best
carry only such goods as they person known and most reliable radio receiv
ally are willing to stand behind as ing sets is carried, ranging from the
practical, and such goods as are most lowest in price to the most elaborate
liable to give the customer complete s'ets. This department takes pleasure
satisfaction, both in service and wear. in demonstrating the various sets
They are
This store carries a full and com recommended by them.
plete line of electrical fixtures and a always pleased to give customers
representative line of the most ap help and advice. It is the plan of
proved electrical appliances, and are this department to extend to every
prepared to serve the people of this customer maintenance service that
district in the sale and installation of will help to give every patron com
appliances of all descriptions. They plete satisfaction. They are the ex-
do a general electrical contracting clusixe agents for the Stromberg-
business, and are fitted by expedience Carlson radio sets and the Day-Fans
as well as with equipment to proper sets and also handle in addition to
ly handle every kind of electrical in these many other of the best/known
stallation work, as well as repairing and most satisfactory sets.
The business of the Radio Electric
electrical appliances.
They also are preparing to handle Hardware Company has been built
in wholesale as well as in a retail way, on the advantages the store is able
roofing, composition shingles, and all to give its customers, and the pros
kinds of buiding material. They are perity of this store is reflected in the
also installing a complete stock which confidence and investments shown in
will be handled both wholesale and the city of Coquille by its owners.
retail covering a full line of mill sup-
The Coquille Chamber of Commerce
pieS, such as belting, saws, babbit,
and in fact, every item that makes is one of the live wire organizations
in the county, which is planning on a
up a general line of mill supplies.
The 'Oerding Brothers will not cum larger campaign this year than any
ber their store with goods which ever undertaken here before. Per-
they do not personally know to be | sons contemplating a change of loca-
proper in their construction and I tion would do well to get in touch
adapted to satisfactorily fill their use, * with the local chamber,
them without alloy
to the dairyman’« benefit.
chased and conducted by I. Hacker;
afterwards by A. S. Hammond, and
has been under the management of
the present owners since 1917, en
larging with the growth of the Coun
ty until today it is one of the largest
and best equipped abstract plants out
side of Portland.
The Title Company, Inc. is com
posed of J. S. Barton, President, and
F. A. Barton, Secretary-Treasurer,
with offices at 422 West First-Street.
Mr. Barton has had over twenty
seven years’ experience in the ab
stract business, over eighteen years
of which have been in Coos County;
his long years of experience and fam
iliarity with the County Records is,
in itself, a most valuable asset in com
piling your title and is so recognized
by those who desire the best service
possible.
Parties buying or selling real es
tate will do well to have The Title
Company, Inc. prepare an abstract of
their tite. If there are any defects
in their title they will be brought to
light and may be remedied. It is
well for those owning property to
have an abstract made even where
there is no thought of selling. Should
any defect be found in the title it
may be remedied while all parties are
living and can be found, and thus
avoid the expense of going into
court, and if the property is sold in
future years, there will be no trouble
in making good title.
This company is able to give their
customers
an unsurpassed service in
J. S. BARTON, MGR.
furnishing abstracts and you can
Title Company was first started in make no mistake when having am-
Coos County by W. L. Levique in the stracts made by The Title Company,
early seventies; was afterwards purl
One of the first things to be con
sidered when about to purchase a
piece of property, whether a town
lot or a farm, is the title. There is
but one way. to know absolutely
whether the title is good or bad, and
that is to obtain from a reliable ab
stract company a history of the title
back to the time when the land was
first patented by the United States.
This hisory is called an abstract; and
its chief claim to value is in its com
pleteness, its correctness and the re
liability bf its makers.
The plant and equipment of The
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