Coquille lícM fo.
V o l . 24: No. 19.
Entered a* second-class m atter M ay
8, 1905, at the poetofflce at Coquille,
Oreuon, under act of Congruas of March
3 , 1879.
DR. RICHMOND
1’ HYöICiAN AND 8URQKON.
Office
at Slocum ’ s
Store.
Drug
C oquille , O kboon ,
G.
IN.
REA.
Attorney and Oonneellor at Law.
OBloe opposite Mm. Wiokhsm’ s.
C. R. BARROW.
Attorney and Connsellor at Law
Firat-elau References
itteen Years' Eiperienoa
C oquille C it y , O b
J. J. STANLEY
la w ye r
Martin Building,
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Front Street
CoqUILLH, O bboon
A. J. Sherwood,
A ttobmby - i t -L aw ,
N o tasi P ublic ,
C o q u ille,
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Oregon
Walter Sinclair,
A tiosh st - at -L aw ,
N otabt P ublic ,
Coquille,
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Oregon.
Hall & Hall,
A ttobnbys - ât -L a w ,
aler in R ba l E at at « of a ll k in d s.
M arshfield, Oregon.
C. A. Sehlbrede,
Attorney-at-Law,
r Public.
Phone 761.
M a iis h y ib l d , O r e g o n .
y t . C . C h ase.
E . D . Sperry.
SPERRY & CHASE,
Attorney s-at-L aw .
Office in Robinson Building,
C oquille,
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E. Q. D. Holden,
L awtbr ,
J UPTICK or THR P b AOB
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9 Commissioner, General
Insurance
Agent, and Notary Pnblis.
Office
in Robinson Bnilding.
Coquille
regon.
A. F. Kirshman,
D entist .
Office two doors South of Post offloe.
Coquille
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Oregon.
COQUILLE RIVER STEAMBOAT CO
S tr. D I S P A T C H
T«m White, Master
Leave«
I Arrive*
Bandon........ 7 a - m . | C oq a ille.. . .10 a - m .
Concilie........ 1 r-M. | Bandon
4 r-M.
Connect* at Coquille with train for Marshfield
and steamer E.-ho for Myrtle Point.
S tr. F A V O R I T E
J. C. Moomaw, Master,
ayes
I Arrives
C oqu ille........ 7 A M. | Bandon.. 10:46 a - m ,
Bandon ......... I r-M. | Coquille . 4:45 r-M.
S tr. E C H O
H . Jams. Master.
Leaves
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Arrives
Myrtle Point. ..7 A-M. | oqnille C’y 9 90 a - m .
Coquille C ity .. .1 r-M . | Myitie P’t .4 00 r-M .
Daily except Sunday.
Æ^TThe safe and reliable tiw n -^ R ^
•crew
£ 0 T T h e New and 8peedy,^B 9
Str. Elizabeth
C. P. Jenson, M a ste r
Will make regular tripe between
Coquille River and San
Francisco.
Mo S topover at W ay Ports.
Electric Light*. Everything in Pi ret
Claae Style.
FOR SALE.
One horie 6 years old, weight
•bout 1300 pound«, also oce mero
3 years old.
Enquire o f Henry
Grady, Norway, Oregon.
C O Q U IL L E , C O O S
Our Common Schools,
CO U N TY, OREGON, W E D N E S D A Y , JA N U A R Y
fled, nnj pupils learned to call long
words by sight as readily as short
E d ito r H e r a l d : I bay« wondered ones or single letters.
I have no
that some of the teachers and others doubt a child can learn the words
interested in public schools were not Wable Bug by sight sooner than
induced or provoked to follow my by letters of which it is composed.
friend Barrow’s recent articles on
I well remember my first primer
"Our Common Schools ’
illustrated with a boy and girl on a
As many of his views which he sea-saw.
expresses in such positive terms
‘‘I go up, up, up,
might class him with the old fogies
Y ou go down, down, down.
and as I am no spring chicken, we
You go up, up, up,
naturally Lold some ideas- in com
I go down, down, down.
mon.
I presume the author had the
I do not hesitate to say that the sight word method in view or he
course in the public schools of New would not have bad so many ups
Englaud in my day and generation and downs.”
was better than what is adopted in
Sight word reading is not a new
Oregon. Not that the pupils learned fad and I believe teachers of gump
more, but they learned fewer things tion will not allow it to discontinue,
better.
While it was considered
From my early schooldays down
well to know when the cackle of to since I hav e been a director at
geese saved Rome and when the Coquill e I have seen teachers allow
Dutch took Holland, it was better the pupil to miscall, mispronounce
to be well grounded lu the essential spell words aloud, hesitate and go
branches for a foundation to schol back in a monotonous voice with
arship, what my friend calls "the out expression without prompting
real bone and sinew o f the oommon and the other pupils were allowed
branches." consequently reading, to correct errors which consisted in
spelling, penmanship, mathematics miscalling a word, up went all the
grammar, rhetoric and language hands and soon the whole olass was
work continued during the whole in the attitude o f a flock of kangaroos
common school course reading was rampant and pawing the air in a
not polished off at the sixth grade most frantic way. and these later
with a very ordinary work on civil teachers were not educated in the
government, nor grammar when the backwoods but in what is claimed
pupil had barely learned the parts to be the best school in Oregon,
of speech,, and many o f the text and further had received a good
books, especially the reading books drill in vocal music.
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were greatly superior to those used
I do not see why a teacher can
in this Btate, and my friend dots not not use the sight word method in
give them a lick amiss; but in some reading and also teach the alphabet
of his views it is possible that be the sounds of the letters, and vocal
may not be entirely sound. My spelling on the same day at the
erudite friend is a good reader, and same recitation.
he tellB us what it takes to make a
I do not know the whole history
good reader. He should not lose of our present systems of penman
gigbt of the fact that the public ship, and evidently my frieud does
school course is provided for com nut.
mon mortals under ordinary condi
The first printed writing books
tions and not for freaks and won introduced into the schools of Maine
ders under special advantages.
were thePayson series, later Payson
Only a limited time can be given to & Dnnton’s and now published as
any one branch, and in reading the Payson and Scribner’s.
tiaohir should drill the pupil how
Their system is perfection. There
to read, and the old discolored is nothing left for Spencer or any
books were complied with that ob one to hash up, and neither of
ject in view. Our present books these could have been the inventors
seem to be prepared not for the for the same principles were taught
purpose of drilling but to get long before any writing books were
through in the shortest time, and published,
then to take supplementary work of
If the waves had obliterated all
the same character. The old read S pencer’s works the world would
ing books were compiled by emin have been the gainer
Here is a
ent insl ructors. And all the text sample:
The upward stroke, a
book were made by teachers of heavier line naturally, of the capi
roputation in their respective bran tal S and the downward stroke, a
ches, nor the publisher o f text shaded line, naturally two distinct
books keeps a hired man, Jack of characters, are both called the right
all trades.
curve and the same principle and
I remember whe# Webstere Spell there are several other characters
ing Book was used for beginners, classed under the same principle.
and after learning the alphabet in
I have little objection to the cop
regular order then came a b ab e b ies and style of the Spencerian ser
eo, i b ib, o b ob, u b ub, and b a ies. They aDd the Payson, Danton
ba, b e be, b i bi b o bo, b u bu, and Scribner’s are nearly the same,
and so on through all the changes, except that the latter used two
and when I heard the older pupils styles, one without shading. The
spell “ words of lerned length and publishers of both have issued ver
thundering sound” like in in c o m tical series, and they are models in
com incom p r e pre incompre h e n my opinion.
hen incomprehen s i si incomprehen-
I am informed that the school
si b i 1 bil incomprehensibil i i in- book trust provides against inform
comprehensibili t y ty incomprehen ed that the school book trust pro
sibility as fast as they could rattlj vides sgainst infringement o f terri
them off, I wondered what use it all tory and this may account for the
was unless to one fitting for an auc public not getting the best. There
tioneer, a faker of pinch.beck jew is probably more of that way of fix
elry* or shaker medicines, or for ing things that by “ tickling the
acrobatic stunt in elocution.
palms,” and if any one should inti-
Before the use of typewriters, mate that the adoption of the books
writing was the only w «y in which now used in Oregon was secured by
spelling was used, and writing the the ticklings process. I would say
spelling lessons seems to me the that he is talking through his. hat.
natural and practical thing.
The first Payson copies were of
I do not aee any thing to condemn round or oval style. Maoy of my
the practice of spelling from the school fellows become experts, and
reading books, only words of com one to them started the Vertical
mon use would be learned. I have style which became a fad in the
never known the practice to prevail school. I have seen writing by
enough to be called a fad.
some of our recent teachers and
I recently read.—in the p-eface some other* of about the same style.
of the Hyawatha Primer perhapa,
Which to my taste is perfection,
__I don’t remember where or how they probably learnek with Spen
aigbt word reading was discovered cerian copies and changed to verti
but I recall that in my achool days cal after the introduction of the fad.
after the old Webster Spelling book
I do not fancy the stiff awkward
was diaoovered, but I recall that in style of the books in use but I
my school days, after the old Web- notice some of the beet pupils in
ater spelling book was discarded, writing have shown individuality
there were successful teachers of and have acquired a Vertical style
reading who did not learn their that is every way desirable.
pupils to »pell stammer, repeat or
My line of work has been such
long hesitate, hot prompted them that I think I have a right to ex
in a natural tone which the pupil press an opinion in the matter of
was inclined to imitate, and required penmanship, and I can back up my
¡ them to read the paragraph or sen. opinion with sound reason.
tence oyer, drilled them .uoiil aatia.
I saiah H acker .
$1.50 P e r Y e a r
30, 1907
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R F Shanon “
26 00
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A Johnson labor
10 00
Under New Management.
Continued from last week,
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Frank Blackerhy
8 00
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Court house expenses, etc.
8 E Osborn
8 75
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E J Slocum, oalsomine....... 2 00 John Gerber
5 00
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G G Brown, list for assor... 25 00 F M Wandling
7 00
E M Peterson, coal............... 23 00 Thomas Coats, supvsr labor
Coquille Riv Steamboat Co,
r d No. 19 ........................
7 00
S t r ic t l y
freight ............................... * 25 R H Rosa, lumber rd No 19 41 51
F ir s t - C l a s s .
Coquille Transfer Co., frt. 9 75 W Lundquist, labor r d No.
P. E. Drane, sundries,$8.85
19.......................................
9 00
allowed
® 33 Thomas Coats, Supvsr r d
No 19................................. 30 00
T J Thrift, postage assor Ofce 2 45
Opposite I. O. O. F. Hall.
Successor to J. T. Little
R F Shannon, labor self and
Coquille Electrio Co., lights
team rd No 19................... 12 00
July to Deo......................... 47 00
E B Henry, labor self and
Coquille water works, water
team rd N o 19...................
6 00
to Jan 31............................ 9 00
Coquille Wood and Coal yard
A McNair, hardware etc., rd
No 19................................. 26 65
fuel....................................... 73
Shields A Kennedy, Smith
Coquille Transfer Co., fuel
ing rd No 19.....................
3 00
and freight.......................... 37 65
W Lundquist, labor r d No
City of Coquille, 9M ft lum
19.......................................
4 00
ber ...................................... H 7 00
Lard,
R S Knowlton, sundries etc. 31 05 Wm Kay, Supvsr rd No. 21 46 19
Hams,
A Davis,
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labor rd
James Watson, freight, post
No 24.......
23 50
age etc,, Clerk’s Offioe. . . . 60 95
We Carry
Bacon,
J F Alumbaugh, labor rd
\V W Gage Post Cards, Post-
24........................................ 19 00
age, Typewriter, sheriff’s
Sausage,
o ffice ..........................................216 91 B H Burns, Supysr rd No 16 147 60
Fresh and Salt Meats.
R E Buck, Supvsr rd No 16 18 00
Coquille Mill & Mercantile
Co., lumber Assor Office..
45 L S Anderson, labor and
We are headquarters for everything in the meat line. Your
team rd No 16 per W ood.
J G Fish, book truck , draft
wants always receives prompt attention.
ward...............................
20
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ing b o a rd ,.. . .‘........................
3 3®
R 8 Tyrrell, labor team rd
Phiebe Whetstone, washing
No 1 6 ................................. 53 35
for prisoners, ................... 20 05
L R Woodward, labor team
W Culin, prescriptions for
prisoners.................................... 6 00 r d 16............................... 13 65
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P C Schroeder, labor team
W W Gage board for prison
r d 16...............................
5 50 *
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ers ........................................1 « oo
Win Lind support of s e lf.... 7 50 Coquille Transfer Co, haul
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ing lumber rd 16.......
1 50 *
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St Vincent’s Hospital, care of
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Koski Children......................... 62 00 S H McAdams, labor team
T. H. MEHL, Proprietor.
rd ffe...................................
4 00 *
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C M Skeels, supplies for Jos
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A J Mayes, labor in R D 17 41 75 G E Mickey, labor team
Billiard
Card rooms
rd 16 per Jess...................
8 00 *
Frank Harnish, labor R D
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1 7 ............................................... 34 12 Nelson Smith, labor team
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and
and
r d 16............................... 57 35 *
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L C Folsom labor in R D 12 19 00
L L Bunch, labor team rd 16 47 00
L S Minard labor in R D
Pool Tables
Soft Drinks
1 00
............................................. 13 75 R Nichols, laboi team rd 16
£
Fred Minard, labor R D 12 23 25 Peter Jacobson, labor team
Fruits, Nuts, Candies, Cigars and Tobacco
rd 16...................................
8 00
L 8 Minard___ “ .....................13 50
City News Stand.
2 00
J T Nosier, labor team rd 16
E P S Abernethy, lumber R
8 00 *
D 1 2 ........................................... 24 00 H H Hastings labor rd 16...
L W Giegory,
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10 00
E N Harry, Supervisor and
16
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Harry
Flanders,
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team............................................ U 7 ™
7 50
John Tozier,
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John Bastendorff bal. due
4 50
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Supvsr R D 13......................... 127 55 Frank Zumwalt,
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5 00
Gus Johnson labor R D 13 33 00 C S Zumwall,
4 50
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Aug Beck...........“ ...... ” ---------- ” 33 OO John Belloni,
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20 00
Hiram B e c k . ., .“ ...... “ ............. " 33 00 D Morgan,
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56 00 «
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Jobu Suim-rvill,“ ...... *'............. “ 31 00 Chris Ferris,
52 25
E A Howey,
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Simpson Lumber Co., Lum
36 00
Nelson Smith,
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ber, nails rent of scow R D
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
.............................................. 270 42 W A Custer, labor rd 16
per Alva,.......................... 13 00 <51
Alex Evans labor R D 13... 22 00
Front Street,
Mariao Custer, labor rd 16.
7 00
Glenn Roselle, labor on ferry
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8 00
slip....................................... ® ^ Peter Jacobson,
COQUILLE, OREGON.
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... 20 50
Aug Beck labor R D 13....... 8 00 A Flarders,
12 16
C V Smith labor R D 13....... 18 00 Frauk Snow, labor team "
A l L w o r k g u a r a n t e e d .
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24 00
Herman Beck “ “
“ ....... 16 00 R S Tyrrell,
9 95
Gus Johnson «• “
“ ....... 1* 00 J A Lamb A Co, hardware..
Johnson Lumber Co, lum
John Summerville, labor R
ber for rd 16................... 26 65
D ........................................ 14 00
W H Smith Supvsr R D 7 76 85 Ed Jobnsou, lumber for rd
W T B r a d y ....“ . . . . R G 17 21 23
16, per Ray Inlanders.......
6 50
Wm Culbertson labor R D 17 .4 00 J W Catching, supervisor
rd 10.................................. 27 50
T J Weekly ...........“ R D 17
9 00
7 49
J D Bright............. “ R D 17 15 00 W C Harris, lumber rd 10..
J H Harbison........ “ R D "
8 00 Cbas Heller, supervsr rd 30 13 30
B. FENTON
E P S Abernathy, lumber
Geo. Griffin labor with team
Prop
for rd 30........................... 15 00
R D 17............................... 14 00
A McNair, spikes rd 24.....
3 75
W M Weekly labor with team
Saddle Horses o f best quality always on hand. Good Rigs in redi
In re rook quarry expense*.
R D 17............................... 12 00
ness for special trips. In fact, a general Stage and Livery business.
Hans Hansen, labor..........
3 00
W A Bright labor with team
Accommodations for Tavetiug men a specialty
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3 50 Leave Coqaille at 6 a. m„ arriving at Roseburg at 10 p. m. Fare $5.50
R D 10 and Smithing..
16 25 Kenneth Devaul,
Lester Harrison, ••
33 37
Albert Barklow labor with
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7 00
team K D 17 ....................... 30 00 A I Rose,
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84 37
Fred Moser nails K D 17.....
95 Walter Johnson,
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5 50
K H Hansen “ ...................... 1 25 Herman Prey,
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2 00
J H Harbiton, repairing
1 50 Lloyd Jarvis,
Frite Schneider,
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12 50
W T Brady Supervisor R D
MRS, M. C. BOYRIE, Proprietress.
17 ............ # ................... . 38 05 Gaither Harrison, “ . . . .
33 87
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39 00
C H Crouch labor R D 2 ... 22 75 Clarence Barklow,
Fa ncy and S taple
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20 87
S Peterson,
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R D 2 ... 4 50 Harrison Hampton, *
W M Hamilton
... 24 87
Simpson Lumber Co. lumber
Groceries.
H ...
10 00
spikes etc. R D 2..............140 35 Percy Schroeder,
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4 00
Algie Hansen, labor R D 2 28 00 Dan Raid,
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4 00
E R P eterson ... ." ...R D 2 15 00 G eo Rackleff
Nuts, Candies, To
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10 75
P Peterson towag« R D 2 . . . 6 00 J W Bell,
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45 00
Pere Peteraon. labor R D 2... 13 00 B B Sanders,
bacco and Cigars,
Walter Johneon,
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25 12
J P Degarren, drill« and
Isom
Clinton,
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38
75
Lock hammers R D 19..... 10 00
John West,
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... 87 50
Geo W Cox labor self and
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... 63 50
team R D 19....................... 1« 00 Wm Keller,
Ben Keller,
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17 00
S E Osborne labor self A
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13 87
team...................................... 35 00 Jason Randleman,
J Fmley 8chroeder, “
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84 17
Thomas Coates Supvar R D
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19......................................... 31 70 O R Spires,
G S Davis, hauling lumbar..
2 60
W Lundquist, labor self and
1 80
team R D 19....................... 25 00 Jaiqe* Stinson, water pipe...
R F Shannon 1 ibor R D 19... 34 00 Myrtle Point Hardware Co,
hardware...........................
5 30
R Beverlo
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24 (X)
A Sons,
C B Taylor “
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H 00 Huling, Lundy
CARRIAGE WORK
hardware...........................
4 70
LOGGING WORK
Thomas Coat is, Supvsr R D
4 00
19 .......................................... 33 26 Ckaa Adame, smithing......
For Bargains in Buggies and Carriages come and examine our line we
W Lnndquist labor R D 19.. 23 00 Myrtle Point Mill Go, lum-
have tha liest that money can buy at tha lowest prices.
Continued o« sacoad page.
8 E Oaborn labor It D 1 9 .. 28 75
C on n ty S ou rt P roceed in g s
W. H. Mansell, 5?*
Livery
Best of Turnouts
Feed and Sale
S table
Hay, Grain, Feed.
piONEER MEAT MAIftET
COQUILLE VALLEY PACKING
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North Coquille S to re
North End
. ;ienry Street Bridge.
S . H. M cA D A M S
Blacksmithing
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Horseshoeing