•JThe Herald, the old estab
lished reliable newspaper of
the Coquille Valley in which
an “ad" always brings results.
V O L . 30,
T he C oquille H erald
N O . 47
OLD PIONEER
SHOT BY BOY
JONATHAN QUICK IS VICTIM
While Enjoying Camp Life at Bandon Beach
Old .and Highly Esteemed Coquille
Citizen Instantly Killed
C O Q U IL L E , C O O S C O U N T Y , O R E G O N , T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 8, 1912
ity. At the age of 23 he started
west, b u t while on the plains took
the fever and returuA l to Missouri
He was afterwards married in Miss
ouri to Ja n e M. C hambers May 8 ,
1861, From this union there were
nine ehildreu born of whom the fol
lowing are living—rJohu E. Quick
and Mrs. Charles Levine of Coquille,
Flora Quick and Mrs. Mary liarvey
of Pendloton and Mrb. S. S. Wheeler
of Portland.
Soon after his m arriage he e n te r
ed the Union Army and served till
the d o s e of the Civil War. He then
moved to Kansas where he resided
until 1871 when, with bis family, he
oame to O regon making his home
on his farm on Latnpu creek, Coos
county, Oregon. After the d i a t h of
his wife, October 13, 1836, he made
his home in Coquille. l i e became
a Christian and joined the Baptist
church ot the age of 18, and has
been a faithful worker for his Master
ever siuce. F o r years he has been
an honored member of General
Lytle Post Q. A R.
Jo n a th a n Quick, an old and h ig h
ly respected citizen of this place
was shot and instantly killed at
Bandon Monday m orning by Lite
P errin e, a hoy eleven years of age,
non of E B. Perrine of K osehurg.
The tr agedy occurred near the
camp of the Perrine family and there
were no eye witnesses, the only p a r
ticulars known being gleaned from
the boy.
Mr. Quick was cam ping at Ban-
don with part of his family, and was
'breaking camp to retu rn home. H e
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started for the P errin e camp for the
Demented Man Suicides
purpose of selling some «firewood
th a t he had left over. Tne boy was
Early Inst F riday m orning the
left to g u ard the camp in the a b body of Elias H. Hamble was d is
sence of the older people who wero covered on the railroad track about
down on the beach. The boy’s story a mile east of town, with every in
is substantially as follows:
dication of suicide, which was the
When Mr. Quick arrived the boy verdict of the jury called bv C oro n
was u p a tree. H e descended and er Wilson, who was in town. The
the old g entlem an usked for the man had shot himself betw een the
men folks. The boy replied, "T hey eyes with a 38 calibre revolver,
are over there a ways." Quick then which was found lying ou his breast.
" p e e k e d ” into the tent and the boy The cause of the deed was u n d o u b t
asked him what was wanted. He edly mental derangem eu t which had
replied th at he w anted to see about been evident to acquaintances here.
some wood. The old man went look
T h e deceased was a b o u t forty
ing around the wagon and the boy years of age. He bad been in Co
went into the tent, g o t a Marlin quille about three months. A small
rifle of 32 calibre, and threw the le amount of money was found on his
v er loading it. C jm in g o u t he o r person, also papeis showing him to
d ered Quick to go away as he did have been a mem ber in good s t a n d
n o t want him pro w ling around ing of N ewport L odge No. 180, I n
there. The old man replied tLat d ep en d en t O rder of Odd Fellows,
he did n ot have to, b u t started away, of Newport, W’ashington, where a
the boy following. W hen the boy sister resided. A b ro th e r in St.
would stop the old man would stop, Croix, Wisconsin, was com m unicat
a n d the boy would then advance ed with who requested th at the
an d drive him farth er away. In this body be buried. The funeral was
m an ner thev had gone about a h u n accordingly held S unday being con
d re d yards and o u t of sig h t of ducted by Coquille L o d g e No. 23,
camp. Quick th en made an a t I. O. O. F.
tem p t to seize the g u n and th e boy
Death Claims Infant Son
s h o t him.
The bullet entered the body about
F r e d Linscott Morse, the infant
6 even inches below the arm pit on son of Mr. and Mrs. F ra n k Morse,
th e left side, passed back of the died Saturday morning, after a brief
h eart ran g in g dow nward and pass illness. The funeral services were
in g th ro u g h the Bpinal column and held at th e family residence Mon
lo d ging in the back near the right day afternoon at 2 p, m. conducted
side. Death m u st have been prac by Rev. C. H. Cleaves and Rev.
Evan R. Evans. B orn Ja n u a ry 26,
tically instantaneous.
The boy th en went out to the 1912, fhe little life of F re d Linscott
main road, where he met Tom A n was soon ended and the bereaved
derson to whom he said, " I have parents are accorded th e heartfelt
killed a m an." H e gave Anderson sympathy of their townspeople in
the g un and they went back to this sorrow th at has entered their
lives.
where the body lay.
The co ro ner’s jury, which was con
Christian Church Rally
vened Tuesday morning, b ro u g h t
in a verdict to the effect th a t the
Thursday evening, A ugust 15, we
boy should not be held responsible will have a rally at the Christian
fo r bis deed, on account o f his Church. There will be with us at
y o u th and the extenuating circurn- that time three of O re g o n ’s live
sta nces.
wires in the m inistry—C. F. Swander
I t seems th at the boy had been of P o rtlan d , G. E. Williams, state
w arned agaiust tr am ps and, being evangelist and Z O. Doward of
in a strange place and lacking the Marshfleld, late of G ran d Island,
experience and ju d g m e n t of an Nebraska. You will miss a rare
older person, and being u n d o u b t treat if you fail to hear these men.
edly somewha frightened at being Come.
aloue, he mistook the white-bearded
Colportage Boat under Construction
old gentleman for one of th e d a n
gerous characters with which his
Rev. G. L. Hall, colporter, was in
im agination had peopled the wilder the city Tuesday and exhibited
ness. On realizing the frightful plans of the Chapel Colportage
deed be had committed, the boy Cruiser, the bull for which is now
was overcome with h o rror and re being built
Voluntary c o n tr ib u
morse. The general feeling is that tions of needed articles from the
th e boy is not b o much to blame as whistle to the ru d d e r have been
th e p arents who had failed to incul made and also about $1,700 d o n a t
cate sounder ideas in bis young ed. The boat will be of sufficient
mind.
size to afford every convenience d e
At one o ’clock Wednesday after sired. We shall see the Chapel
noon y ou ng P errin e was b ro u g h t C ruiser in Coquille waters in the
before J u d g e H all, sitting in J u v e n near future. I t is the intention to
ile Court. After h earin g the b o y’s have the boat completed in ab ou t
story and some o th er evidence, two months. The name chosen for
J u d g e Hall gave the boy into the the cruiser is “ Life Line.”
custody of his parents, inflicting no
penalty.
Allah Temple, 'A n c i e n t A rabic
T h e body was b ro u g h t to this O rder Nobles of the Mystic S hrin e,
city Tuesday m orniug, and the fu of A shland, will un dertak e a pil-
n eral was held this afternoon from g tim ag e to Marshfield by au tom o
the Ellingsen u n d ertak in g chapel. biles in the near future to conduct
Rev. G. Le Roy Hall officiating, In- a class of fifty Bay candidates over
te rm e n t in Masonic cemetery.
the hot sands o l mystery.
The Discovery of the Schoolhouse
Frederic C. Hoover in The Saturday Evening Post—Copyrighted
P E R Y E A R $1.50
opportunities for pleasure th at would
yield dividends in artists, dram atists
aud m usicians—even aside from the
happiness it would give.
A C O M P R E H E N S IV E C L U B H O U S E
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D W A R D J. W A R D discovered
" T h a t is w hat I wished to bring prohibition; but if you visit what
tlie schoolhouse.
H e discov out. T he same condition obtains was formerly an old beer garden
ered it up in Rochester four years almost everywhere. It is what the and go up to the bar and put your
ago
H e invited some of his n eig h p.-ople have got to break up.”
foot ou the rail and call for some
bors into the school one evening to
thing, you will receive a volume
T 11K I D E A t N WISCONSIN
talk th in gs over. So much interest
Iron: the public library iustead of a
It was the discovery of the school
was aroused th at they came again.
glass of beer. Milw aukee used to
house to be used by the people to
At the first meeting there were three
be filled with beer gardens. Now
free politics from the boss and m a
hu n d red and fourteeu people pres
the people go to their own parks,
chine rule th a t bro ught a d is tin
ent. T h e y had music, recitations,
listen to their own music from their
guished g ro u p of men and women
dances. T h e y found their neigh
own bands. T h e schoolhouse has
together at Madison. T hey came
bors were very pleasant people.
undeveloped possibilities as a su b
from the east, the so u th —eveu from
Soon the building would not hold ,
stitute for the saloon.
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the far-away west
The idea of the
all who came. It was amazing how | ,
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In T ex as, where solitude is very
school as a perm anent town meet-
h u n g rily the people took to t h e , .
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solitary, the raising of corn, cotton
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rug bro u g h t out Governor Wilson,
idea. I hey had not th o u g h t of the
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schoolhouse as their pro perty; the
of its dreariness by Colonel F rank
Stubbs, of K an sas; and G overnor
th o u g h t it belonged to the Board ot
P. H olland. He got to thinking
Fraucis C. McG overn, of Wiscon
E d ucation.
Soon other buildings
about the cow punchers and ranch
sin as well as United States S e n a
were opened. F inally th e schools
ers much a> Jane A d d a m s thought
tors Clapp and Pomerene. T here
were federated into a city-wide or
of the children of the tenements ol
were several university presidents,
ganization representing more than
Chicago. H e employed a drum mer
a score of editors and two hun dred
tiiiy thousand ctiizeus.
to w ake up the state of T e x a s to the
reformers,
educators,
architects
school idea. He also founded libra
As soon as th e people came to
and
soldiers
of the common
ries—not like those of the Laird of
gether they saw the waste jn the use
good, w ho
had made a trip
Skibo, but little bunches oi fifty
of schools. T h e y induced the Board
half way across the continent
books that are sent by express to
of E ducation to appropriate five
to give testimony to the value
the farmhouses and villages. After
thousand dollars to keep them open
of the discovery. They th ought
H o lla n d ’s schoolhouse d ru m m e r bad
fourteen hours a day instead ofi
the Rochester idea oug ht to be
aw akened the curiosity of T e x a s he
seven. T h ey converted the kinder
. kn o w n all over the country, and
garten into a library and clubroom. : th e y bad come
Madison because called a convention of farmers, with
their wives, to take possession of the
T h e v opened the gy m n asiu m five
the State University had called FTd-
nigh ts a week for athletic sports ward J. W a rd to Wisconsin to pro schoolhouse. Delegates came from
all over the state. T h e y launched
and one night a week for e n tertain
mote the Rochester school-center j
the school center as a farm ers’ club,
ments. F athers and sons began to
idea in th at state. For democratic
and now scores of cou ntry schools
spend their evenings together ou
Wisconsin, so unlike boss riddeu
are being used in this way to the
the rings, bars and tum b ling mats.
Rochester, had passed a law in vit
southwest.
T h e y had b o x in g and wrestling
ing the people of the state into the
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matches and basket-ball games.
governm ent.
T h e women formed a gym n asium
T h e town-m eeting idea is another
In Wisconsin, the people of any
class.
c om m un ity can use the schoolhouse evidence that we are beginning to
O thers borrowed a traveling li in that state bv merely dem an d in g I’ave more faith in all the people
brary from the capital at A lbany, it from the school authorities.
: *han we ever had before. T h a t faith
subscribed for periodicals and also
T h e conference discovered that *s
ex planation of direct prima-
b o u g h t a stereoptican and d in i n g other people had stumbled ou the ries> ,he initiative and reterendum
room appoiutm ents, so th a t they
idea th at the schoolhouse o u g h t to a °d recaH-
m ight give lectures and dinners.
be used more widely. O zer one
Some saw the seboolhouse as a
THE n e ig h b o r h o o d
" gang ”
D IS A P P E A R S
A short time after the school
opened a m erchant stopped the d i
rector on the street and said :
“ T h e school center has done what
I th o u g h t was impossible. I have
been here nine years an d d u rin g
th at time there has alw ays been a
g a n g of to ugh s aro u n d this corner-
T h is winter the g a n g has d is a p
peared .”
“ T h e y a r e n ’t a g a n g any m o re;”
the director replied; " t h e y are a de
bating c lu b .”
T h e women organized clubs. T h ey
became interested in child labor, in
city problems. T h e yo un g people
bad debates, a banquet an d a m i n
strel show
T h e schoolhouse be
came a family club.
T h e men began to talk about
Rochester. T h a t was the clubs'
un doing; bu t they could not avoid
it. T h e y called in the m ayor, their
alderm en, the healih and school of
ficials. T h e y even had G overnor
H u g h e s down from A lbany. T h ey
kicked about the gas com pany and
the street railroad service. T h e y
w anted transfers. Some one took
a fall out of the local boss. U p to
th at time the boss had held R o ch
ester in the hollow ot his“hand. He
decided to run for Congress, alw ays
a dan g ero u s th in g for a boss to do.
But Rochester now had a forum
for discussion. T h e people picked
out a candidate of their own for
Congress, a man who would repre
sent Rochester, an d to the surprise
of everybody they elected him.
Professor G eorge M. Forbes, pres
ident o f the Board of Education,
was telling a gro up of people out at
Madison,Wisconsin,about the school
center an d w hat it had done for
Rochester. Gov. Woodrow Wilson,
who was there, in terru pted to ask
w hether be m ig h t put a question
to the speaker.
Receiving assent he said:
” Is it not true, Professor Forbes,
that because of yo ur p a rt in this
work you were, after twelve years’
service on the Rochester school
board, refused a renom ination by
the boss controlled convention?"
" I th in k that bad som ething to
do with it .”
“ Is it not also ttu e th at the con
J o o atb an Quick was boro io Ohio , 1 Love is the greatest thing in the structive boss system of Rochester
G uernsey county, A ugust 28, 1836, ^ world, b u t no one objects to a little is bipartisan?"
and grew to manhood in th a t vicin - 1 money for a change.
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hundred communities have opened lifelong university, where men and
wide the schools for some purpose women could continue studies they
or other. T h e city ot New York never had a chance to pursue. It
spends two hundred and twenty- would be a democratic university in
eig ht th ousand dollars a year for which all k in d s of educational work
school lectures and neighborhood could be carried on.
gatherings.
Forty-eight schools T H E R E A L H U N G E R OF T H E POOR
are open every night in the week.
W isconsin has started such a uni
A school official visited one of these versity in the public schools. It has
schools last fall and found three nearly five th o u san d pupils enrolled
h u u d re d y o u n g people dan cin g u n and employs eighty-seven profess
der wholesome surroundings. Across ors and instructors. Professors from
the street a dance hall th a t had pre the university are sent into every
viously done a flourishing business county to condnct serious universi
was nearly empty. Mr. Clarence ty w ork. Correspondence classes
A . Perry, engaged by the Russell are offered, in which students get
Sage F oundation of New Y ork to uuiversity credits
There are shop
m ake a study of school centers, classes in the factories iu mechanics,
says, after an investigation ot con electricity and engineering, as well
ditions in large cities: “ T h e girl as agricultural courses for farmers
w ithout a social center is the mother Some d a y we shall be able to go to
of the woman on the stre e t.’’ H e college all our lives— atrd without
goes farther a n d says: " I f a city leaving out own ward or county.
has to choose between the schools
T h e re were farmers at the c o h e r
and the play centers it could, I be ence who saw great possibilities in
lieve, give up the schools more safe the school center. I t would relieve
ly th an it could go without the play the loneliness of the farm and check
cente rs.’
the stream of boys and girls to the
C hicago leads the world in this city. In stead of the old fashioned
democratic idea. Over eleven mil spelling bee there would be lectures,
Hon dollars has been spent on rec- ! singing classes, dances and debates.
reation centers, on playgrounds and Fairs and festivals could be held.
people's clubhouses, open all the Iu the ‘ enlarged schoolhouse the
year rouud. T h ere are tw enty-eight G ov ernm ent could maintain stations
of them in the crowded parts of the for testing seeds, soil and milk.
city. T h ey contain gym nasium s, Here the cooperative store could be
baths, libraries and assembly rooms. located. T here is no reason why
A bout the clubs are parks from two tbe cou n try school should not be a
to s ix ty acres. There are wading town hall, a people's club, an agri
pools and sandpits for the children cultural experim ent station and a
as well as sffady place for the m o th branch ot the state university all
ers to sit an d watch the children at under one roof.
A n d why should we not use the
play. T h e re is a restaurant oper
ated at cost. T h e exhibition of what schoolhouses as people’s theaters?
C hicago has done at the T ow n- W h y not develop the undiscovered
P lan ning Exposition, in Berlin, a talent now lost to the society by the
few years ago astonished all Europe. organizaticn of neighborhood d ra
T h e playgroun d is oue of the th ing s matic societies, with orchestras and
we do better than any cities iu the singing and musical clubs? Some
day we shall provide such oppo rtu
world.
T h e arrests for juvenile offenses nities as a part of well-ordered com
fell off seventeen per cent abo ut the m u n ity life. T h e countries of E u
neig hborhood centers in C hicago rope subsidize the theater; the cities
d u rin g the years 1904 to 19 06 ,while m aintain orchestras and military
they increased twelve per cent for bands. In G erm any, F rance and
the city as a whole. A b o u t the Italy the dram a and music are sup
stockyards district they increased ported by tbe city, ju s t as are the
forty-four per cent. T h e play cen police and fire departments. We
ter is the best sort of a policeman. spend tens of millions on the theater
It is also a good investm ent, for it and m uch ot its influence is bad.
costs one h u n d re d and thirty-five N e x t to the school and the press the
dollars to care for a boy in the re- d ram a is our greatest educational
form school.
j influence. A nd ju s t a little added
Milwaukee is not likely to adopt to the school budget would open u p '
fljob Printing—New presses
new material and experienced
workmen. A guarantee that
Herald printing will please
School experts say th a t out ot
every thousand children at least
two are probably geniuses, while
fifty have talents that would enrich
the world. T h e geuius of the poor
is mostly lost to us because the
schools press all children in to the
same mold; but when we open up
the seboolhouse, as we now open up
the back lots to the b u d d in g base
ball professionals, we shall begin tu
produce talent aud g tn iu s as never
before.
T b e schoolhouse can readily be
made the most alluring club in tbe
city. T h e saloon aud the theater
will have difficulty in com)>etiug
with it. W h en tile school-center
idea is fully developed then the
school will be dem ocracy’s center,
the people’s fo rum —the place where
we go ou all k in d s of occasions,
T h e schoolhouse should be a kiud
of city hall— a big club: it should
be built for m a n y activities now
scattered under m any roofs or not
boused at all.
It is tbe natural
place for tbe b ranch library and
reading room.
T h e voter will come to the school-
house to cast his ballot—iustead of
1 be saloon, tbe batber shop and tbe
stable. T h e school is the natural
place for the ballot box,
T H E AC RO PO L IS O P DEMOCRACY
THE FARMERS
WILL FEAST
FIRST OF AM ANNUAL EVENT
Farmers Union to Inaugurate Harvest Festival
Which Will Ultimately Indade All
Coos County Unio
T b e Coquille Fatm ers U nion at
its last meeting decided to hold a
harvest festival in the W . O. W.
hall, this city, S atu rd ay n e x t, A u
gust 10
T h is is the forerunner of what is
hoped to be au ann u al event that all
unions in the county will hereafter
participate. A t this meeting mem
bers Horn Myrtle Point, Fishtrap,
Lee and other localities will be pres
ent.
T w e n ty new members will unite
with the union on th at day to work
for the rig h t, against wrong, oppres
sion and h u m a n suffering. H a r
m ony and good feeling will prevail
and the cement of affection will
bind all as one happy family to re
gard the sweat ot honest labor and
tbe virtue of a happy home as the
brightest jewels to adorn life'3 p ath
way.
T h is is the regular meeting of
the union aud, aside from the in
itiatory ceremonies, other matters
of im portance wilt be transacted
T h e meeting will be called to order
at 10 :3 0 in tbe forenoon and, after
the transaction of business p ertain
ing to the union, the feast of good
th ings will follow.
It is the design of the farmers'
festival to serve as a “fo u n d - u p ” to
meet old time friends and to e x
tend cordial greetings an d good
fellowship to the new.
Plan to attend tbe meeting and
aid in contributing to the h ap pi
ness of others that will doubly re
dound to your own joy.
T h e architects also had dreams.
T h ey saw the schoolhouse as a
means ot ex pressing the new spirit
of democracy. T h e y saw the spirit
ol America tak in g form in brick aud
stone, ju s t as the religious fervor ot
the Middle Ages erected gothic ca
thedrals
T h e schoolhouse, they
said, was the proper temple for the
expression of A merican ideas. A nd
thev described these people’s tem
ples as located in parks, with pro
vision lor recreation, for play, for
rest. T here would be auditorium s
for political gatherings, for lectures,
concerts, tbe dram a. Seats would
be movable, so th a t the assembly
ball could be used for receptions,
banquets and dances. T h e re would
be a stage for orchestral, choral and
T h e State F air board has voted
dram atic performances. T here also
$500 to be used as prizes for tbe
would be gymnasium s, sw im m ing
pools, branch libraries an d reading Eugenics F-xposition p lann ed for
Wednesday, September 4 . T h is is
rooms
a feature of the State Fair this year
T h e basement would be given
for the first time an d it is expected
over to bowling, billiards a n d other
it will attract a great deal of a tten
play. T here would be a restaurant
tion. I t is to be really a scientific
where the children could get their
baby show, children u p to three
noonday meal and where neig h b o r
years old being eligible for prizes.
hood dinners conld be given. All
A $ 50 silver cup will be offered for
these th ings would be provided
the best boy and best girl in the
w ithout in any way interfering with
show and six cups for tbe best boy
the use of the building for school
and girl in three divisions, the ages
purposes— rath er beauty an d h a r
ru n n in g from six m ouths to three
mony would increase the effective
years.
ness of education. T h e cheerless
Medical experts will j u d g e tbe
schoolroom would be sweetened with
children entered from the standpoint
a hom e atm osphere. Barren walls
of physical perfection, much as live
would be covered with pictures and
stock is ju d g e d . O. M. P lu m m er
d reary hallways would be converted
has been made superintendent of
into restful corridors.
the eugenics show and is hopeful of
T h e re is nothing fantastic about
having 200 children entered at S a
these dreams.
We are building
lem, H e hopes commercial bodies,
private schools with m any of these
and other organizations will hold
comforts. T h e Y. M. C. A. build
local shows in each county, sending
ings are becoming secular in their
tbe t e r t boy and girl to the state
activities as they are in their archi
competition.
tecture. So are the social settle
ments.
T h e schoolhouse is waiting for
democracy—for the democracy that
is fast finding its voice all over
America
It will be the new town
Dwelling houses were built in
hall— the town ball th a t bred the
spirit of Revolution prior to the bat P ortland, d u rin g tbe twelve rnontbs
tle of L exington. In the «chool- or fiscal year end ing Ju n e 30, at an
house we shall breed the orators, average rate of 12 4-5 for every
statesmen and politicians of the fu- working day, or one completed
ure. From them will issue the house for every 37$ minutes of the
Estimates
musician and the artist. O ut of it eight h o u r work Jay.
obtained from tbe moat reliable
a new dram a will spring.
T h e schoolhouse will make cul sources point to tbe city's having
ture. education and companionship gained 20,000 in population during
lifelong th ing s. In the revivified that period.
Statistic« of tbe building inspec
old red schoolhouse democracy has
to
r's
office show that perm its were
possibilities th a t no one has fully
dream ed of. It will be democracy’s issued from and including July 1,
Acropolis ! A bout it th e life ol the 1911, to J u n e 30, 1912, for 4,000
com m unity will center as it centered dwellings of all classes, apartment
abont the F o ru m in ancient Rome. 1 bouses n o t iucluded.
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Vacant tracts of acreage in and
about the city are being transform
Flies! Flies! Flies!
G et your screen d o o r s and win- ; ed into m odern residence districts so
dows made.
Meat safes, bread 1 rapidly th a t the people of Portland
boards, ironing b o a r d s and sleeve as a rule fail to comprehend the ra
boards made to O l d e r at Quick A . pidity with which the work is being
done. P o rtla n d Journal.
C u r r y ’s.
EUGENICS EXPOSITION
AT OREGON STATE FAIR
REMARKABLE RESIDENCE
BUILDING IN PORTLAND