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•J The Herald, the old estab lished reliable newspaper of the Coquille V alley in which an “ ad" always brings results. VOL. 32, T he C oquille H erald PER YEAR $1.50 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1913. NO. 14 FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ^ “ r jO R E G O N e s BRIEFLY TOLD E e v e n ts o f In terst R e p o r t e d f o r T h e H e r a ld A A. M.—Regular meeting of A K. . Chadwick Lodge N . 08 A. F. A A. o M.. at Masonic Hail, every Haiurday niglit in each month on or hefore tin- full moon. C. W . E nuicott , W . M. K. H. M ast , Secretary. (By J. E. Jones) TIMOTHY IS WINNER EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK (¡J ob Printing— N ew presses new material and experienced workmen. A guarantee tha Herald printing will please SYNOPSIS OF MANY EVENTS THE NEWS IN TABLOID FORM In these days when anything transpires connected with the de E. S. —Regular meeting of Heulaii • Chapter No. U, eecontl amt fonrtli velopment of the cattle industry Condensed for the Quick A s Finlay evenings of eacli month, in Ma T r a n s p ir in g in O r e g o n B o ile d similation of Busy Men and and thereby ca.. :>ig a lowering ol sonic Hall. E va B arkow , W . M. D o w n to L east N u m b er o f the prices, it it watched with inter W om en— General Round- J obki ' uink G . P eoples , Sec. est. The Department of Agricul L in e s a n d Y e t M a k e th e Jp of a W id e cope T O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge N o.53,1. O. ture deserves much credit for its S u b je c t U n d e r s t o o d . 1 . O. K., meeta every Saturday niglit efforts on behalf ot the nation as a n Odd Fellows Hall. Seattle was visited by a slight C. H . C leaves , N. G. whole. Its branches reach out aud earthquake shock on Christmas Astoria will sell $20,000 of school J . H. L awrence , Sec. embrace everythiug that will lead morning. bonds at borne. a m i f . r e b e k a h l o d g e . N o . 20 a to the betterment of the farmer’s I. O. (J. F .f meets t. very aecond and President Wilsou is taking bis The Florence West is boosting tor How He Came to Attend the fourth Wodneaday nights in Odd Fellows life in his continual struggle, not vacation at Pass Christian, on the a lifesaving station at the Siuslaw. Hall. E mily H eksev , N. G, ouly for existence, but for the bet Growl Folks’ Party. • A nnik L awbbnck , Sec. Gulf cf Mexico. W. D. Baker, an old mining man 1CKY sprawled ungracefully on KW Y'EAR'S was a long time terment ot his surroundings. With p O O U lI .I .E ENCAMPMENT, No. 25 of Baket county, committed suicide Marines in serv'ce at Panama tlie floor, und at times be be In settling upon Jan. 1 as the this end in view the Department v -' I. O. O. F., meets the first and tiiird WATCHED the old year fade. stowed a sly and naughty kick proper time for Its celebration. are being instructed in the running last week. Thursday nigiits in Odd Fellows Hall. And with Ita dying light upon the unresisting legs o f a J. S. B arton , C. P. Even now, In Greece und Rus has taken up the question of the of locomotives. The gloom, at ilrut a shade, Several of the Portland theaters J . S .L awkknck , Sec. grazing lands chair that stood neur him. His first sia, where the Julian calendar is In depleted western Turned Into darkest night. And then 1 said: “ ’Tis gone Mrs. Ella Flagg Young has been impulse was to feel sorry for doing force, New Year's does not arrive until with their greatly reduced areas give a midnight matinee, Dec. 31 nights of pythias .—Lycurgus The old year Is no more. tills, his second to look around and see twelve days after the year Is well on reinstated in the superintendency of Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights the proceeds going to charity. And memories now alone iny one had noticed this little out Its way in the rest of the civilized consequent to their being thrown Linger along the shore." ot the Chicago public schools. in \V. 0 . W. Hall. open for settlement. To discover burst o f temper. world. R . R. W atson , K R. S. The University of Oregon glee I watched the old year die. It may be that the Christmas festivi The ancient Egyptians and Persians what is the best vegetation for graz O. A . M intonyr , C. C. J. C- Root, sovereigu commauder And w-lth Its fading day club has started on 1200 miles tour ties of a few days before had been begun the new year at the autumnal There came the thought that by and founder of the Woodmen of it g purposes, extensive experiments P Y T H I A N SIST E R S-Justus Temple of eastern Oregon and Idaho. too much for him; but, whatever it was, equinox, Sept. 22, and the Greeks of Its death a brighter way 1 No. 35, meets first ami Third Mon- Opes up. and, all things bright, Dicky was certainly cross and inclined Solon's time at the winter solstice, have been carried on in these states the World, is dead at Omaha. We'll have surcease at last day nights iu W. O. W. Hall. Rev. J. E. Branam, a Woodhurn Dec. 21. but in (he time of Pericles the from Canada to the Mexican border to weep easily. The streams of Columbis county, Mss. G korub D a v is , M. E. C. From specters dark as night. However, neither his mother nor his date was changed to the summer sol miuister. committed suicide last They'll live, but In the past. M rs . F hkd L inkuar , K. o f R . Aunt Gertrude noticed how he kicked stice, June 21. The Romans began the As a result of these experiments Washington, will be stocked with week while mentally deranged. ED M E N -C oau ille Tribe No. 46, L the chair nor the way he scowled upon year from the - winter solstice until timothy is shown to be the best over half a million young trout. O. R. M., meets every Friday niglit the world in general from under his Caesar changed It to Jan. 1.. With the adapted as well as the cheapest of Over a thousand hungry men The first snow of the season tied tawny curls. They were absorbed in Jews the new year begun In September in W. O. W . Hall. were given a Christman dinner by J. S. B arton , Sachem. their preparations for entertaining the In civil affairs, but lu their ecclesiasti the twenty-two varieties tested un up the telegraph and power lines in A. P. M illkr , C. of R. the O.-W. R. & N. Co. at Portland. guests o f that evening, and for once cal reckoning the beginning o f the der this great divergence ot climat northern California last Tuesday. Dicky was forgotten. year dates from the vernal equinox, ic conditions. Only lorty-two per W. A.— Regular meetings of Bea- Governor West’s militia threats The New York postoffice sold If I was going to have a party and March 22. And. as this Is astronomi . ver Camp No. 10,550 in M. W . A. invite all the people in the world I’d cally the beginning o f spring, the date cent of the alfalfa, and fifteen per $178,069 worth of postage stamps Hall, Front street, first and third Sat last week were directed against invite my own little boy, Dicky, too. Is a logical one, und that o f the 25tb o f cent of the alsike clover, respective urdays in each month. Baker county and its peace officers on Dec 23rd, breaking all records. M. O. H awkins . Consul. wouldn’ t leave him out,” quoth Dicky March (25 being a more fully rouuded ly, gave partly or wholly satisfact R. B. R oukrs , V . C. High water and big waves did out o f the silence. number) was accepted generally' by Governor West has announced N ed 0 . K klley , Clerk. What’s that?” asked his mother Christian nations In medieval times as oty returns, No species yet tried much damage last week at the re that he is not a candidate for a can be economically introduced in carelessly, absorbed in her own New Year’s. S . A .— Regular meeting o l Laurel sorts along the coast of southern thoughts, ‘‘ No, no, Dicky; this is a par . Camp No. 2972 at M. W . A . Hall, place on the Interstate Commerce In England Dec. 25 was New Year's the hot dry foothills of California ty for mother’s and father’s friends. until the time of William the Conquer Front street, second and fourth Tues Commission Calitornia. Arizona and New Mexico where day nights in each month. You wouldn’t enjoy I t ” or. His coronation happened to fall M ary K ern , O racle. More than four hundred National Two more pumps have been ad Oh, but I do want to come,” persist on Jan. 1, and accordingly the year the land is distinctly arid. E dna K elley , R ec. banks bad applied for membership ed Dicky. " I ’ve heard you all talking was ordered to commence on that day. ded to the bar dredge Chinook, GOOD ROADS BILLS about it, and I want to see the new But the English gradually fell Into O. W .—Myrtle Camp No. 197, working at the Columbia river, in the new Federal system on year come In the window.” • meets every Wednesday at 7:30 union with the rest o f Christendom Congressman Farris of Oklahoma Thursday. doubling her capacity. What Is the child talking about?" p. m . at W . O. W . Hall. and began the year on March 25. When is the author of a bill to establish Lee Currie, C. C. asked his aunt The new Currency law, having Paul T. Homan, son of President In 1582 the Gregorian calendar wus J ohn L knkvk , Sec. ’The new year. It’s coming In the promulgated and definitely located legal holiday to be known as “ good passed both houses of congress, was Homan of the Willamette Univer window, and I heard mother tell how New Year's on Jan. 1 most Catholic roads day,” and Representatives CIRCLE No. 214, v e n in g t id e signed by the President at 6 o'clock you were all going to open it to wel countries adopted It at once, but Eng sity, has won the Rhodes scholar fourth Monday — I -------- meets second ami Byroes and Stephens have measures come it tn," replied Dicky, somewhat land did not acquiesce until 1752. last Tuesday. ship at Oxford University, England. t) gilts in W. O. W. Hall. Impatient at his aunt for not under culling for federal and state coopera O ha X . M aury , G . N. In ancient Rome New Year’s day Dr. Anna Howard Shaw resists The mail carrier between New M a r y A . P ierce , Clerk. standing so obvious a meaning. was given up to feasting and frolick tions iu road building. The open Nothing will come In at the win ing. Sacrificial fires burned continual payment of the income tax on the ARMERS UNION.— Regular meet- port and Waldport was caught by a ing of this question aud the intro dow, dear,” said his mother gently. ly on the altnrs of the twelve gods. All and fourth lourtli Saturdays in breaker on the beach last week and ground that taxatio'n without rep ings aomnil second and It's Just a pretty custom. There will litigation and strife were suspended. duction o. a number of bills upon e . li month in W. O. W . Hall resentation is tyranny. not be anything for you to see. and lost a horse and a couple of mail- F rank B urkholder Pres. the subject immediately following THE OLD YEAR’S FLIGHT. you will be much happier upstairs lu 0 . A. M intonyk , Sec. sacks. The New York Central railroad the convening of the regular session 1 watched the old year’s flight your nice warm bed.” And then said, with a smile, is having built for its terminal elec Portland is now enjoying compe Dicky wept a little at the time, and indicates that the governors who r a t e r n a l a i d n o . 398, meet» the •'Ah, now the new year bright when the hour came for bed under tbo second and fourth Thursdays each tition in light and power, the North Will bide with us awhile!” “ worked on the road” created a tric service six electric locomotives stern eye o f Ills father be rebelllously But ere my hopeful dreams month at W. O. W . Hall. western Electric Company having worthy sentiment, inasmuch as the of 2000 horsepower each. Have realized one day M hs . Cu ts. E vland , Pres. consented to be tucked In by his nurse, Is dead and passed; It seems inaugurated its service on the east although not without further remon- M rs . L ora H arrington , Sec Leather is looking up. The Cen Ferris measure is a sort of sugges It starts but to decay. strnuces. Finding them o f no avail, be side. tion that shoveling dirt may become tral Leather Co., of New York, has Thus all along the way sobbed Ills woes Into his pillow, while Educational Organizations and CluLs Gravestones must mark the miles, a social event. The other bills seek declared its first dividend in twelve The Northwestern National Bank his father and mother went below to An epitaph each day, O Q U I L L E E D U C A T I O N A L of Portland, had in its application receive their guests. to secure substantial financial assis years on its common stock. A tomb of tears and smiles. LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the By making a brave resistance to the Bo we begin the new tance from the federal government, A false alarm of fire caused the High School Building during the school lor membership in the new Federal (’Tls old ere we've begun) drowsiness that was stealing upon him year for the purpose ot discussing edu banking system before the bill was To find It's aging, too, to be used in cooperating with the loss of 73 lives at the distribution Dicky managed to keep awake until With the first setting sun. cational topics. the party had assembled In the parlor states and local aulhoities in this ot Christmas gifts to the children of signed. R ena A nderson , Pies, But ’twill not always be. below. Then he crept out o f bed and E dna M inaro , Sec. great work. Grave differences ex the strikers at Calumet, Mich. There’ll come a living day, Miss Caroline B. Myers has been hung over the banisters, eagerly trying And all things new. and we ist between government agencies O K E E L KLUB—A business men’ s chosen as manager of the Portland to entch sight o f the brilliant people In The yacht Reliance, which suc Shall live in endless May. social organization. Hall in Laird’ s the gathering. A man passed along No gravestones then will mark and the advocates of highways in cessfully defended the America cup Remedial Loan Association, recent The tombs where dead hopes lie. building, Second street. the hall. Dicky thought It might be A. J. S h e r w o o d . Pies. tended almost entirely for automo against Lipton’s Shamrock i n ten No nights of sorrow dark ly organized to put the loau skarks his father and scampered back to bed F red S laolk , Sec. Creep o’er our changeless sky bile tourists. Representative Shack years ago, is to be dismantled. again as fast as his little bare feet out ot business. —James Daniel Cleaton. would carry him. And then without OMMERCIAL CLUB J. E . N orton leford, Chairman ot the House Mrs. S. M. Galbreath and Mrs. Only one in four of the women President; J. C. S avag e , Secretary +♦++++++++*++++++-;•++•:•++++ y more ado he soon fell asleep, "the Roads Committee, has taken a pro world forgetting, hy the world fo rg o t’1 S. A. Andersou, of Calipooia,Doug who have graduated from the Uni NEW Y E A R ’S DAY. nounced stand in favor of good Downstairs the hours passed merrily, Transportation facilities las county, were severely injured versity of Kansas are married, ac and the old year -drew to a happy dirt roads that will connect up - p R A I N S — Leave, south bound 9:00 a, last week by being thrown irom a 4 - HE dawn Is gray and chilly cording to the alumni catalogue. close. First there were only fifteen with the frost. L m. and 3:00 p. m. North bound farming communities with towns, minutes o f it left; then there were only buggy in a runaway. The old year’s pulse now An aerial cableway 75 miles loug il):40 a. m. and 4:40 p. m. ___ aDd be wants lots of them rather flutters, now Is still. ten. Finally the old year had but five J. Thorburn Ross, the Portland And all our twelvemonth's deeds, is to be built across the mountain short periods, counting sixty seconds OATS—Six boats plying on the Co tbau routes that stretch out across for good or ill. quille river afford ample accommo banker and high financier who was each, to live. The men and women barrier between the famous Vale of Pass into shadow, silent, one by great distances. dation lor carrying freight and paseen gathered together showed nothing of one. Kashmir and the plains of Punjab. gers to Bandon and way points. Boats convicted of misappropriation of While from the night wherein we the solemnity that underlies the mer THE RULE OF REASON NATIONS I eave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9 :20 and 9 :50 a. m. state funds, has been granted a full wander, lost, riment of all such gatherings. Four A pair of twins born at Paris and The new year rises with the rising and at 1:00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. m. Representative Henry of Texas pardon by Governor West. minutes, three minutes, tw o minutes— connected by a strip of flesh an sun. ah! The} turned from the windows reconciliations took place. New Year’s who comes lrom a country where TAGE—J. L. Laird, proprietor. De Clakamas county Good Roads inch thick between their stomachs A new year? Nay; 'tls but the parts 5 :3 0 p. m. for Kogeburg via In surprise to see Dicky standing In calls were made and New Year's gifts things usually have names; has in same old year. Myrtle P o i n t , carrving the United Slates boosters have applied to the state bestowed. There also originated the will be separated by a surgical op the doorway. The same remorseless round of mail and pasengers. He was not dressed for the party New Year's resolution, for every Ro troduced a bill to define what trusts Highway Commission to have a sun and rain. eration. Of seasons In their order. Joy and and his little nightgown afforded scant man resolved on New Yenr's day to so are as well as the policy of the “ rule OSTOFFICE.—A. F. Linegar, post part of the highway fuud expended pain- protection against the drafts o f the regulate his conduct that every word The Great Western Railway Co. master. The mails close as follows: of reason” established by the Su Tho old emotions playing upon lower room. He was not expected at and net should be a happy augury for Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m. on the Pacific highway in that has put into service two fireproof strings preme Court. the party, either, and the expression all the days o f the ensuing year. Marshfield 10:15 a. m. and 4:15 p. in. county. That wax a little older, drawing trains, each consisting of four cars, Bandon and way points, Norway and On account o f the orgies which mark on his father’s face suggested that he near s e a m a n ’ s b il l i n h o u s e mail 4:45 The final end of all remembered The Cardiganshire of 5993 tons Arago 12:45 p. in. Eastern was not even welcome there. These ed the New Year's arrival not only built of steel and lighted with elec The House Committee on Mer things a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: a. m. considerations might have disturbed among the Romans, bat among the net register, now on the way from tricity. an adult guest, but they mattered little Teutonic races, the early Christians chants and Marines has arranged Earth ages. and the very moun- London to Puget Sound and Port C ity and County Officers tains nod Official reports of the U. S. con looked with scant favor upon the for hearings on the La Follette sea to Dicky. who crawl With years, and we land, will be the largest ship to He did not look or speak to any one. whole season. By the fifth century, suls iu Europe discredit the reports Mayor. .................. A. T. Morrison upon their breast man’s bill, and the interests for and Ordinarily bis father's sternness would however. Dec. 25 became the fixed fes R ecorder............ J. S. Lawrence have ever entered the Columbia Pass at the sliding sands' benign have sent him with a headlong rush to tival o f the Nativity, whereupon Jan. 1 against the measure will thrash out of a great flood of immigrants to Treasurer ...j............................ IR. H. Mast behest river. Hate rades. greed rails, lust crum City Attorney..................... L. A. Liljeqvist the protection o f bis mother’s arms. assumed n special sacred character as their objections. The measure pro the Pacific coast on the openiug of bles Into clay. Engineer....................... P. M. Hall-Lewis Turning neither to the right nor to the the octave of Christmas day. A Portland man spent three dol And there are left but love and faith mises to be contested even more bit the Panama canal. Marshal................................C. A. Evernden The giving o f gifts on New Year’s left, he went to the window, and. al and God. Night Marshal ................John Hurley lars' worth of gasoline and five The Scientific American medal To whom a thousand years are as though his eyes were closed, bis little day has been superseded largely In An terly in the House than it was in Water Superintendent ..S. V. Epperson hours of hard work getting a Christ X a day bands unlocked the catch that fastened glo-Saxon countries by the giving o f the Senate, for efficient and dependable devices Fire Chiet......................... Walter Oerding 4 — Reginald Wright KaulTman It and opened the great casements Christmas gifts, but the custom still Is Councilmen—D. D. Pierce, C. T. Skeels mas tree, and on his way home for saving life at sea was awarded ERRATIC MARKET CONDITIONS retained In France. This custom was without a mistake or hesitation. W. C. Laird, G. O. Leach, W . H. Ly bought two better ones of a larmer M M M I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I M i A study of primary cotton mar to the Welin Marine Equipment His mother, choking back a cry, took one of the most ancient and universal ons, Leo J. Cary. Regular meetings A New Year Proposal. first and third Mondays each month. for 75 cents. R furred wrap and went to cover him. ly observed o f New Year’s day. ket conditions in Oklahoma by the Co , of Long Island City, N. Y. "W hat resolutions have 1 vowed to keep His father looked, half In fright, at his The druids distributed branches of In the case of Labor Commission the coming year? Five million dollars’ worth ot the sacred mistletoe. The Roman em Department of Agriculture has in Justice of the P ea ce......... .1. J. Stanley Come, sit beside me. maiden fair, and brother, who was standing near. "Be careful not to wake him sudden perors exacted glfta, nnd ao did tha spired the statement that ” 1' new coins of 1913 were distributed Constable...........................Ned C. Kelley er Hoff against Lee Steiner, super straightway you shall hear. intendent of the insane asylum, the I've pledged myself to choose one girl ly,” said Dr. Tom. "H e's walking In English rulers down to the time o f not a single important step or pro to the banks of the country by the from out the throng so gay Cromwell. County Judge ........ ...........John T. Hall supreme court has decided that all And love her with an honest love forever his sleep T' cess in the entire cotton handling Treasury department in anticipa He raised the child gently tn his arms The world over on New Year's It Is Commissioners—W. T. Dement, Geo. J. and for aye. employes of state institutions come and marketing scheme which owes tion of the demand for them as and held him in the full blaze o f the ' a custom to drink to the health o f Armstrong Clerk ................... James Watson under the purview of the eight hour "I'll work for her with brain nnd brawn, great chandelier, but Dlcky'a closed one's friends. its origin to a special consideration Christmas presents. Outs went with all my might and main. Sheriff.......................... W . W. Gsge eyelids never quivered as the light The custom o f making New Year of the producers interests.’ ’ The Treasurer..................._...T. M. Dimmick law, so the state in this case will Until I’ve won her everything that hon struck against them. astray. resolutions and "turning over a new esty can gain. Assessor......... ....... ..................T. J. Thrift have to obey its own law. I’ ll flit her life with all that's good till life When he opened his eyes be was leaf” Is universal and, like political investigations cover the entire pro The general counsel for the Wills- School Supt. ......... Raymond E. Baker Itself Is done. amazed to find himself at the party platforms. Is as milch honored lu the cess of growing, selling and grad Asabel Bush, head of the Ladd & And while wo train our minds and hearts Surveyor ....................... A. N. Gould Fargo Express Company in Mexico after all, surrounded by men nnd w o breach us In the observance. But the ing, and disclosed that the cotton Coroner ............................. F. E. Wilson Bush bank at Salem, died last Tues we’ll not neglect the fun. says that “ among the better class of men. who all said cheerfully. “ A hap temptation which surrounds frail hu Health Officer..............Dr. Walter Culin day after a short illness,at the age of "Now. tell me, won’t you, maiden fair. py New Year to you, Dicky, dear!" man beings In this wicked world are trade in Oklahoma recognized no Mexicans excepting Huerta’s per what you have vowed to do? He was too drowsy to be frightened, many and insidious grade above common middling, sonal friends, President Wilson's 89. He came to Oregon in 1850 and F o r I've laid bare my Inmoat soul to no but ns his father carried him bock to What s menace to our comfort. . . but to you." although many thousand bales of policy toward Mexico is meeting Societies will get the very best was the first territorial printer. He I "I'v e - . made What reproof to him that boasts. no pledges,” sha replied In so bed the child heard the great bplta o f with hearty and sincere endorse- Those habits that, discarded. higher grade are produced. It demure a tone. founded the Salem Statesman in the city calling out to him: PRINTING Haunt our prsasnea still like shostsl "But If you don't object I'll try to help I ment.” “ A happy New Year. Dicky, dear, (Continued on last page) ; 1851. and he has always been a you keep your own." —Kansas City Star. at the office of Coquille Herald and many uf them!” —Wallace Dunbar Vincent prominent figure in the capital city. 1 O M K The Old Year And the New I Dicky s New Year qb ^ ] rac|( 0f ^ New Year D N' R M R W H F K C T B S P -t