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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1912)
^JThe Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille Valley in which an “ ad’ always brings results. VOL. 31, T he C oquille H erald NO. 2 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912 SHIPPING AT VAST VOLUME OF BUSINESS M. E CHURCH SOUTH, BANDON Shipments Over the Coquille Rev. S. R. Steele Extends His River Bar for Eight Months Thanks Through the Her of the Year Ending on the ald for Aid Given Toward 31st of August, 1912 Building Parsonage Au enterprising citizen ot the hustling city-by-the-sea kindly fur nished us the following data con cerning the shipments over the Coquille river bar, Inward and out ward for the eight months of 1912, ending August 31. The names of steamers, schooners and gasoline coasters plyiug be tween Bandon and various ports— twenty-lour in number— are also given. It will be a great surprise to many readers of the Herald to learn of the vast amount of skipping business transacted at our sister city, and is an evidence of push and enterprise the effect of which will redound to the prosperity of all thronghout the entire length and breadth of the productive and beautiful Coquille Valley. Bandon is the logical, geographi cal shipping point for this section and with the excellent craft now available business is bound to in crease. Following are the quantities of the freight commodities and the number of passengers carried for the period above named : O u tw a r d B ound Cedar piling, pieces.................. 1,217 Shingles ...................................... 5,274,000 L u m b e r.......................................47,950,000 Cedar railroad ties ................ 132,741 (Equal lumber ft. 4,247,712) Splints, bundles......................... 18,400 Matchwood, cords .....^ ......... 715 Produce, tons 1,747 Passengers................................. 925 I n w a r d B ound Freight, tons............................. Passengers................................. The PARSONAGE 1,098 10,407 Steamers for San Francisco, San Pedro, San D iego—Speedwell, Fifield, Elizabeth, Bandon, Brooklyn. Schooners for various ports—Ruby, Advance, Oregon, Sausalite, Oakland, Bertie Minor, Esther Buhne, Mary Dodge, Hugh Hogan. Steamers for Portland—Anvil, Patsy, Tillamook. Gasoline Coasters—Ranger, Rustler, Tramp, Osprey, Enterprise, Randolph, Newark. Facts Facetious Some two months ago I erected a small suite of rooms for my living quarters which became the property of the Bandon Methodist Church South. In acknowledging the gen erosity of the citizens, not only of Bandon but of Coquille and others along the river, I beg to publish the names of those contributing and the amounts, and I wish to express my cordial appreciation in behalf of the church I represent for these contri butions. COQUILLE $35.00— E. E. Johnson. $5.00—J. J. Lamb, A. T. Morrison, R. S. Knowlton, Coquille M.E.C.S $3.50— Dr. Walter Culin. $2.50—M. H. Hersey, J. S. Lawrence, O. R. Willard, W. W. Gage. $2.00—G. H. Williams. $1.75—Peter Johnson. $1.50—L. H. Hazard, W. G. Ackerman, C. E. Watson. $1.00— F. E. Hull, W. H. Smith, S. Ed wards, Capt. H. W . Dunham. BANDON $10.00—R. H. Rosa Co., Moore Lumber Company. $8.00—Gallier Hotel. $5.35—A . McNair. $5.00—First National Bank, Bank of Bandon, Sabro Bros., Bandon Furniture Co., Mrs. M. E. Led- gerwood, Mrs. Minnie Chandler Charles Chandler, Mrs. C. E. Langlois, Dr. H. M. Brown, S. R. Steele. $3.50— Public contributions. $3.00— W. C. Sellmer. $2.50—O. A. Trowbridge, A. J. Hart man, Ira Sidwell. $2.00—Dr. Smith, J. Mann, Dr. H. L. Houston, Dr. S. C, Endieott. Dr. R. V . Leep. $1.75—C. W. Hill. $1.50—W . L. Beach, J . E. Walstrom, J. W. Mast. F. V. Catterlin. $1.00—Mr. Charleson, Fundy Medlock, L. Mynatt, J. Engleman, C. E. Klepfer, S. L. Shumate, T. T. Hill, Blundell Bros., Fox, the hatter, Sam Goff, J. T. Sulli. . van, Mills & Straubaul, A. F. Deringer, N. J. Crain, S. J. Fahy, M. Breur. $25.00—Conference Missionary Fund. Eight dollars were given byfriends who did not care to have their names mentioned. A total of $235.- 85 was secured and the building with furnishings and some repairs on the church cost ¡¡>300, so if there are those who wish to aid in mak ing np this deficit, I shall be very glad to receive what may be given and acknowledge same in connec tion with the above. At the recent session of the Col umbia conference preliminary steps were taken toward projecting a plan to build a parsonage at Bandon in cluding the present structure, and to build a church edifice. S. R. S tkki .E, Pastor. B a r b a r is m o f P o litic s MONG certain barbarous and class attributed to him every virtue tlie attack is usually upou their savage tribes, when one man in tilt calendar, the other every vice positions, their principles or their Cleveland was the last is in another’s wav and they want ! and crime It is highly amusing to record the same thing, it is not unusual read contemporary accounts ol An candidate lor the presidency whose for one to put the other out ol his drew Jackson. He was a saint and personal character and private life were viciously assailed. During way with a dagger, a spear or a a monster. One has but to look into the his campaign in 1884 and during bludgeon. Success is the oue prime consideration, and to achieve it any newspapers of 186065 to see what his first term bis private life was the means may be used. Homicides no was said of Lincoln. He was ridi target for the vilest calumny. The less brutal and unjustifiable are not culed, reviled and slandered in the mistake and failure of that policy uncommon among ourselves in these foulest and most atrocious terms. was perceived by his enemies and enlightened days. Let a man offer Grant was subjected to the like they have never resorted to it since. himself lor some public office, not treatment, aud so was Cleveland. In fact, it has almost never happen necessarily an important one, and Nobody now believes the degrading ed that a man of shady character see how promptly the effort is made stories that were rehearsed in hun and debauched life has been made to butcher him. His neighbors will dreds of newspapers and by hun the candidate of his party. His be told things about him that they dreds of speakers about these men. personal character and his private never dreamed of before and that he Other public men whp^vere promi life must be inspection-proof, bomb never dreamed of himself. Other nent, but who never reached the proof And it always is so. men want the place he aspires to, highest place, were handled in the But the decline of mudslinging is and their first thought is to get him same way. All this was brutal, due to other causes. The average out of the way; how to discredit, barbarous and utterly indefensible.- intelligence of the American people disable or in some way kill him off. It was simply the tactics of the sav is probably higher than it formerly And the candidate who is in the age aud the jungle. And this very was. Then the means of informa lead will suffer the most abuse. His thing has kept out of public life tion are immensely enlarged. When rivals with their several gangs ot great numbers of men of pre eminent the attempt is made to put a man backers will combine against him fitness and to the great loss of the down by lies and calumny it is in the common effort to pull him public. Men of character, of high quickly exposed, and this brings a down, maim him or by some means spirit and seusibility have lefused reaction In his favor. Just men will put him out of the runuiug No to subject themselves, their families not stand supinely by and permit a accusation is too baseless, no charge and their friends to a fusilade of man to be reviled and slandered to death unjustly. They will take up too shameful, no slander too villain calumny. Of course, when a man steps out for him It is said that Grant used ous to be used if it gives promise of as a candidate for office and asks to chuckle over the extravagant hurting him. This has been the shame of our the suffrage of his fellow citizens, abuse of him in the newspapers. He political contests from the begin the people have a right to know thought it helped him. When Gen ning. No other political campaigns what manner of man he is. They eral Ben Butler was running for on earth are so disgraced by vitu have a right to sit in judgment governor of Massachusetts, a per peration, villification and brazen upon his qualifications, to know fect flood of slime was poured out and brutal lying as are the cam whether he is capable and honest upon him. Suddenly it stopped. paigns in this land. There is a com and worthy of confidence and sup He sent word around to the worst mon impression that men like Wash port. His character, bis principles, of these newspapers asking them to ington, Jefferson, Madison and oth his habits and his record may be keep it up, and offering to pay ers were not subjected to this treat scrutinized aud canvassed. He can them something if they would. ment but were universally honored not object to this nor shrink from There was a grim humor in that, as in their time. But it one will turn it. If his adversaries can bring well as a streak of seuse. Then over the files of old journals and any damaging accusa ions against the newspapers have been much pamphlets of iheir day he will see him w hich are liue an« which affect tamed in recent years. Reputable that they were abused like pick his fitness for the place he seeks, it newspapers now, however, strongly pockets and berated like pirates. is their right even their duty to partisan, have given up mere vitu Andrew Jackson was the fireist and do it. Only he is entitled to fair peration. There are yellow jour most domineering man we ever had and just treatment. His foes have nals, sensational, unscrupulous, ve in the presidency. While ha was no right to lie about him or to cov nal, muckraking journals which in public life he was a veritable er him with vituperation and sen »till follow the practice, but sensible storm-center, and the whole land sational abuse. That ought to re men care but little for their opin was swept with tempests. Probably act in his favor, as it usually does. ions on any subject. They carry It is evident that there is far less no weight with the public judgment no other man in our history was the object of so much unreasoning ad abuse of men who seek high office of men or measures. There will be miration on the one hand and of so especially the presidency, now than plenty of fiery writing and speaking much inveterate and malignant hate there used to be. Candidates for in the coming campaign, but we on the other. And both his friends the hightest places are not vilified look for no vituperation or mere and foes deeply and passionately now as they were formerly. They abuse. The Herald advocates a believed they were right. The one are fiercely attacked, of course, but clean campaign. A AND THE GENERAL SAID: “CHARGE." The lollowitig from the pen of a brilliant Iowa editor is a good thing for some fathers and mothers to read: “ The mother who allows a six teen year old daughter to float around the township in a top buggy with a counterfeit sport of a weak jaw and weaker morals merely opens the door to grief and disgrace. If you don’t know what company your girl keeps or what time of the night she turns in, your roar when the gossips get busy will sound as A Weighty Cake pathetic as a wheeze of a jewsharp. The girl who insists on spooning One of the largest cakes ever with everybody in the corporate limits ought to b: backed into a baked in the city of Philadelphia, woodshed and relieved of her over and one of the most extraordinary flow of affection with a No. 11 slip wedding gifts ever presented, was per laid carelessly across her hiplets. given to Miss Mattie Morgenstein We would rather see a girl kiss a by her lather who is a baker in blind shoat (brought a barbed wire that city. The cake is said to weigh 300 fence than to have her change part ners six nights a week in a front pounds, among the ingredients parlor with the lights turned low. being 100 pounds of raisins, 100 It is harder to marry off" a girl who pounds of currents, 39 dozen eggs has been pawed over by every yap 75 pounds of sugar and 20 pounds in the community, than it it to fat of butter. It stands six feet high and is ten a sheep on a pineapple ice cream. You cannot gold brick a sharp-eyed artistically decorated. Morgenstein • T hs Monopolistic Risdon Family. suitor with second hand goods any and his sons spent two weeks mak- Oue o f the prettiest midsummer cus ing the big ccnfection. They say more than you can fit a bathrobe on toms In England Is observed at the de a goat. There are lots of weak i it will last without crumbling or lightful Devon vlllnge o f Ilolsworthy. By the will of a former vicar the sum minded parents who are going up melting for twenty five years. o f £2 10s. Is provided annually, which against the judgment day with the churchwardens mnst "openly give T. L. l’ arks, Murrayville, (ia.. Route to the young single woman resident In about as much show as a cross-eyed 1, is in his 73rd year, and was recently j the parish who Is generally esteemed girl at a beauty show, and their c u r d nf a bad kidney and bladder tTOU> ; by the young men as the most hand ble. He fays him self: “ I have suffered some and most noted for her quietness children will rise up and call them with my kidneys My back ached and 1 blessed with the enthusiasm of a I was annoyed with bladder irreynlari- Slid attendance at church.” The prize, ties. I can truthfully say, one 50c liottle which Is [publicly [presented In the one legged man at a club dance.” church porch, has been won during re Solitude is sadly disagreeable to the girl with a new eolitaire. of Foley Kidney Bills oured me entire ly .” They contain no habit forming cent successive years by four good drugs. Sold at Fuh rm an’s Pharmacy looking and good living young damsels who belong to a family named Utsdon. Have you paid the printer? l —London Chronicle. PER YEAR $1.50 OREGON NEWS NEWS NOTES BRIEFLY TOLD TOPICS WISE AND OTHERWISE EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK Interesting Happenings and Transpiring in Oregon Boiled Doings of Nearby Neigh Down to Least Number of bors from Correspondents Lines and Yet Make the and Exchanges Subject Understood MYRTLE POINT POINTERS Miss Jennie Roberts from near Eugene is here on a visit. Miss Dora Williams was in town Wednesday en route to her school at Lakeport. Mrs. Verna Howard of Humbolt couutry, Califoruia, is the guest of Mrs. G. Lowe of the North Fork. Mr I T. Weekly and family will soon move to Coquille, while his daughter and Iter husband, Mr. and Mrs. James Brockman, will run the ranch on the East Fork. Owing to the fact that the con tractors cannot procure the rock fast enough, the paving on Spruce street is progressing very slowly. We all hope the rain will keep off until it is finished. Mr and Mrs. Thos. Barklow re turned the first of the week from a three week’s trip to Ashland, Ore., where he spent his vacation. His son Wilber and family also enjoyed a visit at the same time and place. Mrs. Messenger, Mrs. Chester Lee’s mother, returned to her home at Carlton, this’ state, on Thursday, via Roseburg having spent the summer with her daughter, who a tew days before, entertained a num ber ot friends at an afternoon tea in honor ol her mother. BANDON BREEZES Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Catterlin of Salem are.visiting with their son F. V, Catterlin. At the opening day of the Bandon public schools 494 pupils were en rolled and several have been added to the books since that time. Bishop Scadding has sold two lots on Spruce street to W. J. Sweet who is now making preparations to build a modern bungalow thereon. The board ot directors of the Ban- don public schools have established musical instruction in all the grades and in the high school. Commer cial, shorthand and typewriting will also be taught. A study in book keeping will be inaugurated the first of the year Experienced teachers have been secured in the various branches CURRY COUNTY CULLINGS T h e Moving Roadway. Tho New York public service com mission has authorized the construc tion o f n moving sidewalk subway In Thirty-fourth street from Third ave nue to Ninth nvoiiue. a distance o f about a mile. The expectation is that the work can he completed In about twenty months. The plans contem plate three platforms, the first moving slowly, the second at double and the third at treble speed. A sidewalk such as tills was flr-t exhibited and operated at the World's fair in Chica go in 1893 ♦ — - - Perhaps Lut’s wife was turned to bait because she was too peppery. ijjo b Printing— N ew presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee that Herald printing will please A much needed road is being built up the Sixes river. Huckelberries are very abundant throughout Curry county. Miss Kathryn I.enheir of Myrtle Point is teaching school at Gold ' Beach. The sheriff sold the old court bouse at Gold Beach last Saturday | to Alt Gauntlett lor $200. George Sutton of Port Orlord is a student in the Oregon Agricul tural College at Corvallis. The Wedderburn Trading com pany’s mill is now sawing lumber to enclose The mill. In another week Curry county cau boast ol one of the best sawmills on the coast. Carl Groves and Sarah Crowley, both natives of Curry county, united their energies recently with a view 1 of starling little Groves. Rev. R. Ç o / z y B i 9r g h t / S / 2 O R T o r i g. G O O D * , * C. Young of Port Orford performed the ceremony. 1 W. II. Meredith, democratic can The Last of Berlin’s “ Cabbies.” Berlin police authorities hove issued didate for joint representative of an edict bniifshfuK horse drawn cabs Coos and Cuiry counties, is a highly from the si room o f the city. The ve hicles in question, says the Autocar, popular man in the community are so utterly obsolete as to be un where he resides. Mr. Meredith is worthy o f such an up to date place as an attorney ai law at Port Oiford Berlin. To each o f the sixty licensed The socialists of Port Orford have drivers affected by tlie new regulation $ir$0 is to be paid by way of compen purchased two columns of space in sation. wTille applications from any of them for permission to drive motor ve the Tribune aud have well written hicles are to be favoably considered. articles therein relative to their The edict goes into force on April 1 cause. They will make their influ next ence felt at the polls in November • «•» • If u freak garment shock, a wo- through the medium of printers’ [ink as in no other way. mnn .he’ll wear it sooner or Uter. Mrs. Lavina E. W rig h t, an Ore gon pioneer of 1843, d ied at Port land at th e age oi 83 years. A cannery to preserve the hun dreds of thousands ot gallons of wild berries growing near Wald- port is contemplated. William Stockman, Forest Grove, has a pear tree in his orchard that has borne three crops this year, says the Washington News-Times. Seven potatoes raised on the ranch of J. W. Inman, near Dallas, weighed a fraction less than four teen pounds. One tipped the scale at four and one-half pounds. The annual report ot the Presby- rerian church, just issued, gives the following statistics oi the Oregon Synod: Presbyteries, 5; ministers, 153; churches, 149; communicants, ' 3 > 9 8 5 ; Sunday school memtiers, 16,023 Miss Edna C. McKnigbt of A l bany has been appointed assistant instructor in history at the State University. Miss McKnight is a graduate of Albany College, ’07, and of the University, ’ 12. She had previously taught in the high school at Jefferson. Altogether children took part in 88 fairs held in various parts of the state. The value of the prize list amounted to about $20,000, It is estimated that about 75,000 children prepared exhibits for county, dis- tiict or state fairs. The monster new smokestack of the Smith mill at Marshfield towers 232 feet iu the air, is 16 feet across at the bottom, and is leet across at the top It is claimed by those who know that the smoke stack is the tallest in Oregon. To make dryness doubly dry, the faculty of the State University have passed a drastic rule under which drinking in any saloon makes a student subject to dismissal. In Eugene the anti-liquor law has been enforced for six years. Mrs. Anna Ohlendorf of Lents, while digging in her garden un earthed a potato which weighed two pounds, and resembled a miniature aeroplane, consisting of a body and two horizontal planes. When dis covered its position was that of an aeroplane ready for flight. The onion crop of western Ore gon this season will be 389 cars compared with 370 cars a year ago. This is an increase of 19 cars over the crop of 1911. Eastern Oregon also has a bigger crop of onions this season but the figures are in definite as yet. The quality of the western crop is perhaps 75 per cent No. 1 and 25 per cent No. 2. Minnesota capitalists have pur chased the Broadmad farm, Yamhill and Polk counties, and will subdi vide and plant logant>erries. The highly profitable result ot the lo ganberry crop this year has thor oughly demonstrated the commerci al possibilities of this prolific fruit. The loganberry reaches its greatest perfection in the moist bottom lands at the Willamette valley. Coos county cannot be excelled in the production of this berry. Plant and profit thereby. A fire of but thirty minutes dura tion caused a property loss of I30,- 000 at Cottage Grove last Thursday. The Commercial Stables, Burkhol der-Woods’ warehouse, Knowles It Graber's warehouse, S. R. Pipper residence, and several smaller build ings were reduced to ruins. The fire started in the Burkholder-Wood warehouse in a room filled with matches, probably from spontaneous combustion and the building was a roaring furnace almost before an alarm could be turned in.