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A one day Corn Show was dooidad
upon at the Commercial Club last F ri­
day evening, which will be held either
Nov. 10 or 17. W ith the repetition
Coquille has earned for providing the
people of this section a fine entertain­
ment a t this annual affair, it was ¿«It
th at the event should not bo passed
up altogether.
County Agent J . L. Smith has de­
cided to hold but one oorn conteet in
. the county this year and th at boro in
Coquille.
His plan is to offer cash
uprises instead of merchandise prism
for ovary item in the contact this year.
There will bo no silage contest, ns it,
it too Into now to make arrangements
fo r it and the work of getting the
exhibits for the State F air collected
and prepared in lei fared With th at flse-
ture earlier in the season. But there
will bo a Contest for mature corn for
«ho boot 10 oars, «00 oars and single
p JÎIV
October 17
Speakers: Hon. & B. HUSTON, of
Portland and Honj. B. L. E D D Y ,
of Roseburg
of dead waéght W hat rendere a view
of this Caterpillar moro intoresting
now io tho fa st th at it was this aeri of
eagine th at «uggootod tho pian of tho
Britiah war “tanks" as they aroterm -
ed, whish bave proved such effectivs
engisse of war, stopptng neithor for
tram , fenees aor essali buildings, but
smeskiwg th sir own path as they go.
These f uraish ah alter eovered with ar-
mor piato from which tbose inside aro
a bis to poar a ¿estrud iv e machine
gun Aro in eli dimettono. ^
Our tractor io fi rat to to put ia am
paUing tho stampo wharo a clearing ia
being mede on thè couaty farm . Then
it will be taken out on tho M yrtls
Point road to aid ia gradiag work.
But ito big test for road work will
TMa Season's Lyceum Canran.
U m first number of Coquille’s Lyce­
um course will be held on the evening
of Nev. 6. The attraction will be the
Berkeley sextette, composed of n x
Coquille is on the ragged edge now, musical ladies.
The program will
so fa r aa her water supply is con­ consist of orchestra numbers, read­
cerned.
The extreme end lodg con­ ings, songs, instrumental solos end
tinued dry weather has got ia its work
on tho hood waters of Rink, W alker
and Dutch John creeks to sock ea ex­
tent that the reservoir'on the kill is
getting very low. L ast Monday Wa­
ter Superintendent Kpparaoa gave our
p e o p le the high siga by getting out
kills forbidding further irrigation aad
Getting Short of Water.
The new high potency power line o f
the Oregon Power company from
Marshfield to Coquills was cut in a t
Henryville the first of the whek and
will be in full operation tomorrow giv­
ing this city and the surrounding
country the sasse ample supply of cur­
rent as the Bay cities have been get­
ting. Manager McKenna informs us
that work will immediately begin on
the construction of a new high, potency
line between this city and Myrtle
Point of the same character as Urn Una
ust finished from this city to Henry­
ville giving us through connection
with the power plant e f the company
Tbs only difference will bo that tho
Myrtle Point lino wtfl bo equipped
with two heavy copper w in s where
the Marshfield line carries throe. Tho
poles for the Myrtle Point lino are
already on hand.
paies between hora and M yrtle P
running to various fan as and rune
will bo transferred to the palm of
now lino and, it is expected to do 1
o# Liberty L m
POUR-MINUTE '
MOVIE TALKS
GOOS COUNTY
GETS A "TANK”
boot to eliminate this part of tho show
which has boon a vary expensive one
in thh past.
Corn is a t p much better stage of
development this year than usual, and
with the entire county to draw from
for the one show there ought to be a
magnifleient display of rad, white and
yellow oars in Coquille this year.
The potato feature is a new one but
that crop is unusually largo this year
and it will add much to the exhibit.
Announcement'of what is to bo of­
fered will be mage later in greater da-
fail as plane are matured.
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Everybody come out and hear them
Mr. Smith inends as osual to have a
repräsentative ia from O. A. C. to
judge H m com and to^deliver ad-
dresseo on appropriate subosto.
Plana fe r CoquiUe’s participation
a n beginning to form ulate. Lato ef
music will be oae feature and tf pos-
sible two male qaartoto will be ob
band to vie with oaeh other in ghriag
tho best entertainment. Tho band ia
mpecially strong now and pertM pe-
tkm will be n decided factor ia show-
tie house by the officers.
A t noon it is planned to servo coffee
and sandwiches, provided by tho Com­
mercial Club, in still a t&lrd building.
Whether the corn exhibits will bo
shown in third building or in tho Ma­
sonic Hall has not boon determined.
Tho booth displays by local mer­
chants will also bo cut out this your.
The principal reason for this is the
Privada and fellow citisene, «tin t
dees tkia mean for Coquille? It means
a «25,000 subscription in this city and
ita trade territory. We can do this
and we most do i t
That will be
doable what we subscribed to the first
loan in May, bat we weren't awake
to tbs necessity than; we are begin­
ning to realise new what this war
■anas to all of os and we are net
eg to be slacken. Every dollar of
t «26,000 most be subscribed and
Will be subscribed here. We are not
going to fa il in our duty a t this most
critical hour of the nation’s life.
’ L et ue all meet a t the City Hall,
reading to a comic section, it was
thought th at four minute talks by
leading citi sens a t moving picture
houses two or throe times n week
would got the desired information to
him.
This plan was inaugurated last sum-
reney, for, while they are safe as
the Government’s money, they bear in­
terest nt the seme time.
I’ve got three sons e f my own In the
NfVy of the United States, and when
l -think of those many boye in uni­
form, eons of gallant i others And
fathers of Portland, what ia there I
wouldn’t do to save the life of even
one of those boys if it were hi my
power to do so 7 Let us not stop y>
count the cost.
Business itself, life
itself, freedom itself, ere gone in this
country unless we defeat autocracy,
for no American could live hare under
• foreign despotism.
“W * are in danger. Don’t let us
minimise that. But resent die pa tehee
from the western front are heartening
and the outlook is most favorable to
the first 60 K. W. H. will be sharped
for a t tho maximum rate of 5 tt cents.
So will the first 100 K . W. H. on a 2-
horse power motor; tho first 160 on
a throe horse power; tho first 260 on
a five horse power; tho first »76 on a
seven and a half hone power motor
and tho first 600 on n ton hone power.
Above th at on current consumed by
such motors the rote will bo 1H cents
per K. W. H.. To illustrate this wa
will toko tho ease of a 6-horse power
motor operating 10 hours per day for
20 days ia the month on an nveraga
load (th at is not pulling 6-bourse pow­
er every m inute), which would eoa-
sume about 500 K. W. H. per month.
At the old rate the biU for the
month would figure up thus:
F irst 100 K. W. H. # fie.............««.00
Second 100 K. W. H. @> 7 f c c . . . . 7J0
Third 100 K. W. H.
7 e . . . . . . 7.00
Fourth 100 K. W. H. £ 6 1 4 . . . . «AO
F ifth 100 K. W. H. <g> 6 c . . . . . . . 6.00
Total............... ................. *.. 136.00
The same motor under the new rate
would get the following bill:
F ia t 280 K. W. H. # 614c
»12.76
*.76
Port Meeting at Bandoli.
i . K. Norton attended the meei
Total...................................... »17.60
It will thumbs essa that for thorn
using a 5-horse power motor right
along the rate has been split 60-60,
the consumer getting a rate only half
as great as ha has besa paying.
The new yate is exactly the same
as prevails a t North Bead and Marsh­
field, and is aa low as is enoyed at any
piase ia Oregon. Indeed, Mr. McKen­
na says it ia so low that it ia the
What it will atoan to the industries
e f Coquille and M yrtle Point aad the
surrounding sections of this valley to
bo supplied with power os cheaply no
the now rato randan pomibto wo eon
hardly imagine a t this time. B at that