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•Cimarron” to Bo Seen
on Ten Coos Co. Farms
at Liberty Next Week
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Here’s another bargain. Those popular yellow slickers that
originally sold for $2.50 and 12.75—all sizes in stock if you
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MEN’S
WEAR
FIXTURES
For Sale
Show cases, window fixtures, clothing cab
inets, tables and shelving for sale. Inquire
at the store.
Rapid headway is now being made
on the plant building under construc
tion in thi. city for Natural Gas Cor
poration of Oregon, and it Should be
completed sometime this week.
Work i. also started on the uncrat
ing and checking of vaporisation ma
chinery and equipment bo be installed
| at the plant under the direction of S
J. Dickson, who states everything pos
sible will be done to speed this work
up for an early service of gas in this
community.
Foundations have been completed
for the huge storage tanks for both li
quid and finished gas, and these tanks
are also going into place this week.
Alt residents win be invited to par
ticipate in opening ceremonies to take
place at the plant at the time work is
completed and the first gas aervice is
inaugurated. These ceremonies will
be attended by both city and company
officials, and will include an inspection
of the plant properties by Ml those in
terested.
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Monday and Tuesday,
APRIL 13 and 14
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Edna Ferber’s Greatest Story
CIMARRON
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Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Es
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and Wm. Collier, Jr.
Dwarfing in Titanic Majesty
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Screen Giants of All the Ages
The Oklahoma land rush April 22nd,
1889, the staggering Pageant of love
and heroic action spread against the
sweep of the West.
TWO SHOWS AT NIGHT
7:00 and 9:20
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Good Dry Lumber
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and lots of it at the
Right Price
Ceiling
Flooring
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Framing
Boards
Timbers
Finish
Everything on hand for every purpose
R. A. Wemich, Trustee
West Coast Lumber Co.
Coquille, Ore.
A PREMIUM GASOLINE AT NO INCREASE IN PRICE
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"H ello , L ondon ...
HELLO, MAMA”. The world is
truly yours, by telephone. Year after
year improvements is communica
tion and transportation—refinemen to
you perhaps haven’t considered even
possible—continue.
C. E. Convention, April 23
The forty-first State Christian En
deavor convention will be held in Med
fort. April 28-26, 1M1, and will be
attended by young people from all
over the state, according to present
indications.
the session, will bo held in the
First Presbyterian Church of Med
ford, beginning with the evening ses
sion, Thursday, April 28 and conclud
ing Sunday evening, April 26. James
C. Henderson, of Portland, state pres
ident, ■will preside.
Practical conferences on the work
of Christian Endeavor, banquet,
sight seeing tours, parade, mimiomry
playlet contest and other novel fea
tures will make it one of the meet at
tractive conventions held in the his
tory of the movement to the stats.
Special care will be put on a regular
train, stopping at many places in the
Willamette Valley to take on delega
tions of Endeavor, bound for the con
vention.
Callin» carts 100 for 1140.
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Liberty Theatre
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Good Progress on Gas Plant
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The pruiil per acre should bo ma-: Brought to the theatregoing public
terially increased on ten 'Tams in by Radiv Pictures, Edna Ferber’s epic
Coo* and Curry counties where drain- “Cimarron," ab the Liberty theatre
! ssre ditches were blasted by A. J. j next week, is svon more powerful than
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' J------- great story, read by million, in
lieAdemu,
agricultural ‘ lopreaentative
| of the Du Pont Company, at demon America.
“Cimarron,” the picture, to all that
stration. arranged through the county
is gripping m “Cimarron,” the story.
agent’s office during the past week.
Richart Diz as Yancey Cravat
There are thousand» of acre, of wot
swampy land in thia section which seems to have walked right out of ths
could be made more productive by page, of the book. Lon Yount is will
proper drainage.
The individual never bo really slain until you see
farmer has little control over the Dix do it, in ths moat poignant scene
price he receive, for hi. commodity of talking picture history, the Onego
but if he can reduce the co.t of pro- gambling tent sermon episode.
I during the commodity by increasing
And those stupendous elaabes of
production per acre, it amount, to wills between Yancey and Sabra, so
the name thing as increased price, and portrayed by Dix and Irene Dunne,
it is with bhie thought in mind that should make the original story more
than an epic. It becomes an immortal
drainage work is being sponsored.
When the system started at a dem record of those deep psychological
onstration is completed, approximate differences between American men
ly eleven hundred acre, of bottom and women, out of which has arisen
land will be drained by Gue Peterson the fundamental character of our na
of Hauser on a tract which ho rents tion.
Spectacular scones abound in this
from Herbert Armabron*, local man
ager for the Southern Oregon Com production, but they are a new kind.
pany of North Bend. On this farm, Through the wizardry of Wesley
ditches three feet deep and six feet Ruggles, director, they transcend
wide were blown with dynamite mere spectacle and become inspiring
through area, of .tump, and fallen flashes which punctuate and make the
log. which were buried in the swamp production as realistic a. early Olka-
and where ditchery would be very homa itself.
The stupendous land rush scenes,
difficult for any other method. The
cost of material used was approxi in which thousands of vehicle, ani
mals and players appear is presented
mately ten cents per yard of ditch.
Drainage systems were started and in such an ingenious fashion that the
old ditches cleaned out on the Lester spectator is apt to feel himself a part
'Bogard farm at Randolph; Miller of this spectacular opfoode
Standing clear and unfettered above
Bros, farm at Coquille; Charles Ma-
haffy Jr. farm on Coos River; Elmer al! the artistic accomplishment, of
Shull farm at Coquille; and on the this production, however, is one great
New Lake Dairy for Hillis Perkins, fact For once, a motion picture pro
south of Bandon. In each farm good ducer has taken not a single dramat
ditches were blown at costs varying ic license. “Oimnrron" of the talking
from ten to eighteen cents for each screen, is Edna Ferber’s “Cimarron,"
complete, truthful in every detail.
yard of diteh. ,
Dix, hero of a .core of notable
' More than one hundred farmers
witnessed one of four demontration. screen role», ha* never been eeen to
One feel, that
held in Curry county on the W. J. better advantage.
Walker farm on Pistol Rivbr; T. Tam- Edna Ferber wrote her great novel
ba farm at Harbor; Ray Nowlin farm with Dix in mind aa Yancey Cravat
at Ophir; and the Macleay farm at Irene Dunne step, to the foremoM
ranks of the screen’, dramatic actrere-
Wedderburn.
Under certain conditions ditching es in “Cimarron.”
It will appear at the Liberty next
can be done better and more economi
cal by hand or with machinery than Monday and Tuesday, April 18-14.
with dynamite.
This was demon
strated by Chas. McCulloch on hit His Pastor Paya a Tribute
farm on Haynes Inlet where he hired
to John Snodgrass
several hundred feet of ditch dug bj
hand, savin* nearly one hundre<L4ol-
lare on the job. This method has tb
advantage of providing labor for some
, of those who may be in the need oi
I work and can often be used whefe th.
1 land to not full of stumps and fallen
logs or too wet to shovel to an arf*
vantage.
Tentative plans have been made to
clean out old ditches on Jaa. Lan-
drith’s farm on Coo. River, and on
Harry Hull’s farm at Riverton, but
the work had to be postponed because
of high water until later during the
summer when another group of field
meeting® will be held for this purpose
Interested persons who have a drain
age problem may secure help by ap
plying at the County Agent’s office.
“Standard’’Gasoline it meh in im
prove merit - in every way a new
and finer motor fuel—with all the
skill and capacity that 55 yean of
Standard Oil Company refining ex
perience represento. On sale every
where.
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Ms Sartor face to
Sale on Radios and Electrical Appliances
PRICES GREATLY REDUCED
We alno carry new and used sewing machines.
Expert machine repairing.
Electric Wiring A Supplies
COQUILLE ELECTRIC
in Christ
Niw 0<H retavi Bld«.
Hnt St, Coqillle
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Nice fat fryers nt Mike’s Feed
mm Store, from Leeper's Poultry Ranch,
7tf on Saturdays.
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