T he C oquille H erald VOL. 33, -NO. 8 COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1914. the poor distributers CITY DIRECTORY FROM TH t NATIONAL CAPITAL ! in ment New against York was never withdrawn, PER YEAR $1.50 figures show that the per centage of illiteracy in tbe rural districts of Fraternal and Benevolent Orders Oregon is three times aa large as though these jieople would perhaps Events of Interest Reported have been delighted to have their that in the citiea and villages of tbe Compiled by State Bureau of t'. A A. M.—Regular meeting of Private Letter Gives Interesting Insight into the W a y . Chadwick Lodge No. 88 A. F. & A. For The Herald Industrie* and Statistics State. Oregon has 10,504 illiter friends know that they ought not M.. at Masonic Hall, every Saturday English People are Living Under W a r Conditions ates and 7,133 of them live on tbe to go to jail. night in each month on or before the Amity is plaoning to build wat- full tnoou. 1>. D. P isbce , W. M. (By J. E. Jones) farmB. There are 5,042 boys and The meat packers among those R. H. M art , Secretary. The Herald is permitted to make erworkf. retailing the pattern at; and so it man and 2,091 girls aud women on “ also accused” of boosting prices at T H E D I R E C T I O N OK T H E F I N G E R K. 8.—Kegtiiar meeting of Heulalt the following extracts from a letter goes on with other goods. The Portland recall fell flat. The tbe farms of this State that can nei Now there either has been price the outbrear of the war, and Wash . Chapter No. 8, second and fourth We have some of the wounded ther read nor write. people voted no. Friday evenings of each month, in Ma fixing and boosting, or there has ington threatened to send these just received by Wm Candlin from * * ---- a relative in England, which gives soldiers in our tewn, and this even sonic Hall. Nov. 5, Portland opened the new not. In any events the ‘ finger of people to jail. The investigation M ahv A. P ibkce , W. M. an interesting insight into the way ing when at Guildford a long train Coquille Beats the Record National theatre. disclosed conditions favorable to the A nna L awrence Sec., scorn” has been kept pointed in Ibe packers in this instance, but as the war is privately regarded iu was at the station with a lot of Hood River is erecting an apple O. O. F.—Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. O. direction of the beet sugar produc Any one who is incliued to cry . O. F., meets every Saturday night ers. It may be all right to invoke these people have been threatened that country. After some purely wounded. Some were taken to the evaporating plant. about business conditions in Co personal matters, tbe writer says: n Oild Fellows Hall. county hospital, others taken on the threat of the law against the with the lookup so often, they C. H. C leaves , N. G. Olf. Johnson has opened the Pen I don’t know whether you can to Richmond. One poor fellow was quille is invited to consider this sig J. 8. L awrence , Sec. lawbreakers, but it is equally an doubtless have gotten rather used dleton Creamery. nificant fact: Manager McKenna of to the prospect of standing trial for altogether understand bow we feel very badly wounded in the back, a m i e r e b e k a H l o d g e . No. 20 injustice to brand people as such, Cargoes of lumber leave Newport tbe Oregon Rower Co., informs tbe here in England— The war is up- j It is atvful to read of the sufferings; I. O. 0 . F., meets every second and and threaten to jaj[ them when the their liberty. Pedro. setting all more or 1 less, but things ytt our ''insignificant little army” Herald that on tbe list of Novem regularly t* for S%n fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows Yt . v 1 , , investigations all disclose that the W H ERE T H E R A IL R O A D S STAND Hall. E mily H ehsey , N. G, might be worse than they are at has been very plucky aud has done ber they had not one delinquent Tbe new hotel at Sutherland has A nnie L awrence , Sec. The news that criminal indict charge was unwarranted in the be present. Business is about normal remarkably well We are to have account on their book here Every been opened to the public. / MKJUILLE ENCAMPMENT, No. 25 ginning. In private life such an ments are returned against twenty with most of us— if anything I have some of the Belgian refugees here dollar that had been thus far charg Lumber industry output at all V -/1 I. O. O. F „ meets the iirstand third accuser apoligizes; in public affairs officers of the New York, New done better since if began. One rea tomorrow and Monday— Some la ed up on Ibe books bad been paid, Oregon Seaports Is increasing. Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall. the people are expected to remem Haven and Hartford Railroad is .1. 8. B arton , 0 . 1*. son I think is the reduced train ser- dies have taken a house and fur- excepting one little item of about Porter Bros, are planning to J. S.L awrence , Sec. ber only the sensational threat and looked upon in Washington as sus vice and some ol the cheap trains nished it, and are going to provide two dollars which proved to have build a saw mill near Gardiner. As taining the position of the govern n i g h t s o f p y t h i a s .—Lycurgus forget the fiasco that follows. Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights though the beet sugar people had ment in its ateempt to regulate the taken off, consequently people have for them. They are building huts been an error and was rebated. An $18,000 Apartment building in W. O. W. Hall. not been going to London so much, for soldiers about five miles from This is a record unequaled by any not suffered enough, they were ac railroad systems The local court is going up on the Sandy Road. R. R. W atson , K R. S. but shop locally. Yet it is a very : here. There is to be a camp there other town on tbe coast, as tbe man O. A. M intonye . C. C. cused of tnflating sugar prices iu and federal officials throughout A $40,000 bridge is to be built great worry to carry on business, lor 15,000 or more. Tons of limber ager is informed from the Chicago YTHIAN SISTERS—Justus Temple August when they had no sugar to the country have falleu into line we have been so dependant upon etc. pass here day and night. The office of the H. M. Bylleaby Co., across Nehalem river at Wheeler. No. 35, meets first and Third Mon speak of ou the market. The Cali behind the policy of the federal Ashland will spend $20,000 en day nights in W. O. W. Hall. the nations now at war, especially men are working night and day. It where tbe showing is considered re Mss. G eorge D avis , M. E. C. fornia beet crop came into the mar government which is undertaking larging her water and light plant. markable and is given the highest Germany and Austria, for so many is to be ready in six weeks— three M bs . F red L i . nkgar , K. of R ket about September ist and almost to tell holders of railroad property commendation. It speaks well not things which the English cannot A new bridge across Thorn Hol weeks have gone by already. Now ED MEN—Coquille Tribe No, 46, 1. immediately the prices of sugar be and finance what they may and O. R. M., meets every Friday night produce. Now that so many have the weather has turned wet, we are only for tbe financial conditions low, Umatilla county, is to cost gan to drop The hour of the re may not do with impunity. in W. 0 . W. Hall. gone to the front, and enlisted in expecting to have soldiers billeted here and the business promptness $16,000. J. 8. B arton , Sachem. finers monopoly was over, and su w e ’ r e s o m e p e o p l e A. P. M illeb , C. of R. the Territorials, there are not the in our town; all residents are to of our people, but also for the man Eugene woolen mills have large gar prices began falling off by the Last year 68 per cent of the corn people left at home that are able to have some— we may have to pro agement of the power company's contracts tor fabrics for the Europ W. A. —Regular meetings of Bea- quarter and half cent a pound. But raised in the world was on United manufacture tbe goods required. It vide for two The pay is 2:6 per office and the general satisfaction ean war. . ver Camp No. 10.550 in M. W . A. Hall, Front street, first and third Sat the investigations at Washington States soil, and 20 per cent of the is one thing to give an order, quite day— It does not pay, still we all that tbe service is giving. The James Hays, a Eugene hop buy which emphasized the sugar situa wheat was grown in this country. urdays in each month. another to get it executed. Of course have to make sacrifice? now. The prophecy made by tbe Herald over er will build a fine residence at C. D. H udson , Consul. tion above all other food products L l H . I rvine , Clerk. The United States has 15 pet cent there is a lot of talk about captur men are deserving of all the help a year ago, that tbe people would Eugene. disclosed at almost the outset that of the world’s cattle, and we pro ing the German trade. This may and kindness we are able to give. be pleased with the Oregon Power N. A.— Regular meeting of Laurel with the European supply shut off Geo. Melvin Miller of Eugene duce 61 per cent of the cotton. So be done in some cases but I If any come here we will do our Co. has been amply fulfilled, and it . Camp No. 2972 at M. W. A . Hall, begins work on a $15,000 hotel at Front street, second and fourth Tues Great Britian rushed its orders to it goes all down the line ol products much doubt whether it will succeed best to make them comfortable and may dow be aaid that the OregoD day niglits in each month. Cuba, to New York, and every and the figures tell how well pro Florence. M ary K ern , Oracle. in all; England must wake up if it happy. Some of our relations at Power Co. ia equally pleased with where that sugar could be found, vided the Uuited States is against E dna K elley , Rec. By the last statement, the City the people here. Under those con is to be done; but the British work Reading had six billitted on . them W .—Myrtle Camp No. 197, until she had 'bulled the market.” distress from a shortage of food man is 00 fond of pleasure and self- —Tuat's a bit rough. About 500 ditions, it would seem that tbe peo of Portland bad $1,834,780 funds vA7 V V . °- meets every Wednesday at 7 :30 Naturally there arose a question as stuffs. indulgence or he might succeed and or more have enlisted here. Charles ple and the company are getting on baud. f. m. at W . O. W. Hall. to the supply for the United States, Lee Currie, C. C. A significant fact of the recent is one of our civic guards to take aloDg very nicely together. win. NOT L IK E OLDEN DAYS J ohn L eneve , Sec. and under such pressure there was elections was the promincuce of turns to guard some of our water When some ot my stock is sold I The Republican Congressional VENINGTIDE CIRCLE No. 214, a natural rise in prices. The big industries. Rural Telephones cannot obtain more until the war is works, and he is also a special con Committee went through its cam meets second and fourth Monday seaboard refiners who handle im The telephone is one ot the most An excursion celebrated the ended and trade is in working or stable liable to be called up at any nights in W. O. W. Hall. ported sugar and who had large paign and spent about $ 24 ,ooo. It O ra X . M aury , G . N. profitable business agencies that tbe opening of the Willamette Pacific, lime, and he is also a member of der. The French fireproof china; snpplies ou band bought at low is the leanest year in the history of M ary A. P ierce , Clerk. the Red Cross Society and liable to farm can employ. It affords him November 10. prices from foreign growers were the party organization. It used to there is a great demand for this be called up to help at 24 hours no facilities for keeping in constant article; I was wanting some 4 or 5 The state election decided the fate P ings second and fourth Saturdays in the only ones in a position to make to cost several hundred thousand tice to assist to nurse and help the communication with the markets, of several new Courthouses and weeks ago and could not get it dollars to carry on a Congressional each month in W. O. W. Hall. large profits out of the situation. F rank B urkholder , Pres. provides a sitting room for the com Normal Schools. The firm in France that supplied it wounded here if necessary, Prices remained high until the beet election, but this year the Republi 0 . A. M intonye , Sec. munity where the families can as I suppose you feel the effects of employed 2,000 hands; 900 of these can organization bad great difficul Alvadore in one year has built r a t e r n a l a i d no . 398, meet» the sugar raised iu the United States semble and discuss the events of the war. A friend wrote me from had gone to the war, works closed. ty in securing a mere $25,000, al 41 houses, a $6,000 school,a Cream second and fourth Thursdays each brought the marken back to normal. New Zealand recently; he said it the day without the inconvenience ery and cannery. month at W. O. W. Hall. Aud still the Washington govern though eleven persons gave $1000 The English article is heavy and M rs . C has . E vland , Pres. had killed trade there; orders were of travel or loss of time, and in coarse compared with it, and does M rs . L ora H arrington , Sec. ment overlooked the operations of each. Under the direction of a govern beiug held back. I hope it will soon sickness and emergencies, it renders not meet with great demand. Again DO Y O U K N O W I T ? the refiners and intimated that the ment expert, candy is being made a divine service. Educational Organisations and Clubs I have a moulded tumbler, I gener finish and that our own country domestic producers were to blame. One of the suffrage speakers who from apple syrup. OQUILLE EDUCATIONAL ally sell about 200 doz during the will not be invaded and treated as There is more than a suspicion The middleman is nothing more appears dally on Pennsylvania A ve Roseburg housed 200 unemployed LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the Belgium— Louvain aud other cities. High School Building during the school among observers here that politics nue in Washington has been mak year; this comes from Belgium or tbaD a farm baud but ne is able to and the S. P. Co. hauled them Every precaution is being taken; year for the purpose oi discussing edu bad something to do with this ing a regular offer of $1 00 to any Germany. I have been trying Eng fix his own wages and to collect away on its trains. cational topics. lish firms for the pattern, or similar all possible help is being given to R kna A kderson , Pies. course of action. them and to multiply his transac man iu the audience who could re G. M. Grimes will erect a busi — cannot get anything quite like it the suffering ones; there is no pan E dna M inakd , Sec. cite the preamble to theconstitution. tions as he pleases. T H E T H R E A T OE T H E LAW ness block at Seaside. E. Kiltea- — nearest will cost me about the ic— thunks to the excellent way our t O K EEL KLUB—A business men’ s Prosecuting attorneys have a bad For weeks no one took away tbe price, or more, than I have been government ha* managed things. Tbe farmer cao neither help him ther will also erect an apartment. k social organisation. Hall in l-aird’ s building, Seaond street. habit of making announcements dollar, but hnally an American cit self nor be helped by others until A. J. S herwood . Pies. The new concrete apartment ahead of their investigations, and izen answered the challenge and he organizes. F red S lagle , Sec. Making up Meat Shortage building to be erected by C. C. Som e Oregon Statistics carried away a paper bill. i OMMERCIAI, _______ CLUB LALH azard this applies to them all. from the Hitchcock at Seaside will cost $10,• U p in the Wild» o f M aine President; O. A. H o w a r d , Secretary county attorney to the Department L O T S O F M O N E Y F O R E V E R Y B O D Y Hog cholera alone takes enough There are 305,164 persons in Or 000. of Justice of the United States. If The banks will have $600,000,000 egon that work for a living and 88,- meat from the visible supply to (W ritten for the Correspondence News) Transportation fa cilities G. O. Richardson of Adams is - the At orncy Generals of the past additional money to put into circu 114 of them are employed upon the make up the present deficiency, is Oh, the moving pictures have come to manufacturing 200 dozen brooms North 'himmi dozen years had all , he people in lation when the new curreucy goes stay, farm, according to a report which the surprising conclusion of Dr. from a crop of five acres of broom Up in the wilds o f Maine. i0:40 a. m. and 4:40 p. m. ja il th ey threatened to put there, into operation on November 16. has just been issued by tbe United Virgil Knowles, Federal and O A. The young and old, the grave and gay corn. Up in the wilds of Maine OATS—Six boats plying on the Oo- then the ja ils w ou ld need to be a Perhaps now tbe newspapet man States census bureau. Of tbe per C. specialist now working on the Forget their sorrows and flit away quille river afford ample accoramo- great deal larger that they are n ow , will be able to get a loan from his The Stanley-Smith lumber Co., hog cholera problem in Oregon. By the light o f the moon or the light o f sons engaged in agricultural pur dation lor carrying freight and passen has 25 men at work in the new gers to Bandon and way points. Boats a,'d there w ou ld be a surplus o f of- national bank, since Ibis great re day. suits tbe bulk of them are farm op “Indeed it does even more than To see the “ stars” in the “ movies” leave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9:20 and 9 :S0 a. fice rooms in many of our principal serve which has heretofore been ! mill at Green Poiut, Hood River erators and farm laborers. Tbe that,” continued Dr Knowles. “The play and at 1:00, 3 :30 anil 4 :45 p. nr.. cities. Every time auy extraordin beld for the protection of the depos-' county. Up in the wild« o f Maine. farmer biinging his drove of hogH farm operators number 38 , 581 , and ary condition of business affects itors is to be free (or circulation. farm er hurries up his chores S parts 5:30 p. m. for Rjseburg via The Oregon City paper M ill cut 37,292 are men and 1,289 are wom right up to the marketing stage, The Up in the wilds o f Maine. Myrtle Point,carrying the United Slates some phase of trade the Washington putting his entire grain crop into W ife dons her bonnet and locks the their time to five days per week en. There ara 27,136 farm labor ‘ ‘ S E T T L E T H A T R O W ” mail and paaengers. headlines startle the country with doors but shortened shifts to employ 60 President Wilson has sugested ers in tbe state and 26,269 are them with the expectation that they Up in the wilds o f Maine. OSTOFFICE.— A. F. Linegar, post the news that '‘some one is going will bring in a badly needed money more hands. Then they harness up the horse so slow, males and 867 females. master. The mails close as follows: the title of a uew song; it is “ Settle Myrtls Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. m. to ja il.” After that the investiga There are 1403 dairy farmers in supply and then seeing them die on And off to the moving pictures go, As yet a successful t The first of the two Hill steam And agree together it is some snow, Marshfield 10:15 a. in. and 4:15 p. m. tion is started, and in the long run that Row.” the state and they employ 589 la bis bands, has loBt more than bis Up in the wilds o f Maine. Bandon and way points.7 a m. Norway production under this title has not 1 ers to ply between Astoria and Fris the matter usually dies out. Im and Aragol2:45 p.m. Eastern mail 4:15 borers and eleven foremen. There hogs— ho has lost confidence in the The merchant hurries home from work Opportunities co is to make a trial spin tbe last of a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: p. m. mediately upon the breaking out of been forthcoming. Up in the wilds o f Maine •re also 2,244 persons in tbe state swine industry. It lakes more pluck ln a o t the V io “ "classy” p la C u u " 1 to become famous as a song writer dry goods this month. And □ so n r does the European war it was announced whose principal source of income is and presistancy than the average clerk C ity and County Officers that the United States government are still open to any one who has from stock raising. Tbe number of man possesses to turn around after The F. E- Wray farm near Silver- Up in the wilds o f Maine The humble “ stenog“ and the haughty ton has just completed a Silo 16 Mayor............................... A. T. Morrison would send a lot of people to jail the ambition to tackle the job. cowboys and sheep herders in this such an experience and take up tbe dame R ecorder..........................J. 8. Lawrence lor boosting food prices. After this T A L K IN G CANDID ATES and unknown in the halls leet in diameter and 34 feet high Treasurer............................................ R. H. Mast state is 3,020 task of raising antther drove of Both o known f fame, City Attorney..................L. A. Liljeqvist sensation bad been worked to the and it will hold 140 tons of feed. Since the election the Republi hogs. He will probably lack even What do we care? It ia all the same. Engineer....................... P. M. Hall-Lewis ---- ■ »-»«S» ------------- Up in the wilds o f Maine. Marshal ................................. A. P. Miller limit to satisfy the public clamor cans have been taking heart and the capital for producing a new W h en Lil. Shot a Gull Buys a Town Night Marshal................Oscar Wickham against increased prices, investiga are suggesting who should be the The moving pictures know no caste herd, and if not he will not be very Water Superintendent 8. V. Epperson Up in the wilds o f Maine. tions were undertaken by the De standard bearer at the head of the Fire Chiei............................. W. C. Cltase In the adsence ot any fresh Dews entbugiaslic about doing so But No good material goes to waste A. K. Detwieler, a banker of To Councilmen —B. I). Pierce. C. T. SkeeU parlm enl ot Justice, and aside from national ticket in 1916 Up in the wilds o f Maine. Among to lay Justice C. L Pennock told most of the losses from hog cholera C. I. Kime, G. O. Leach, W. H. Ly- • c t The millionaire and the man on the ledo, Ohio, has purchased an en ~ a lew remote cases ot price-fixings tbe names are those of Elihu Root. the new spaper man a story about are preventable, and there is no ona, O. C. Hanford. Regular meetings town tire town for $45,000. The town tirsi and third Mondays each month. in local communities, the most Mr. Justice Hughes.Senator Lodge, District Attorney Liljeqvist when be more promising wav of making up Side bv side they sit them down. is Grand D. lies, jnst across the Col Socially hobnob, smile and frown notable being among a few mer Samuel W. McCall, James H. Mann, fitat came from Wisconsin to Coos the meat shortage than by banish Up in the wilds o f Maine. Justice of the Peace ...... J. J. Htanley chants in the Capital itself, no former Vice-President Fairbanks, Bty with grass sticking from every ing the disease from the state and Oh. yea, we know the "Mutual Girl,” umbia river from The Dalles, Or. Constable........ ................ Ned C. Kelley It comprises 300 acres, a wster grou n d has been fou n d u pon which Senator Burton, former Governor Up in the wilda o f Maine. seam of his clothing. He came up tbe country. We hope with the aid plant and a few buildings. Deweil- smile has set our heads awhirl Count]! Judge.......................John T. H a ll1 to base prosecu tion s, and th ou gh Hadley, and Sanator Borah o f{ to the justice shop one morning and of farmera and newspaper men to Her Up in the wilds o f Maine. * er says be intends to build up a Commissioners W. T. Dement, Geo. J. three m on th s have elapsed , n o one Idaho. There is not one of the j said be wanted to plead guilty to banish it from Oregon and to keep Francis Ford and Lucilc Love. Armstrong The Trey o f Hearts, and that treasure manufacturing town with people ......... James Watson has been sued, arrested, or restrain names that have elicited the slight shooting a seagull and asked to be Clerk it out.” trove .............W . W. Gage ed in any way. Sheriff .............. from Ohio and California, who pre _ . «■ * -------- The Million Dollar Mystery we can est amount of enthusiasm, and fined. He esid he had shot one af ......T. M. Dimmick Treasurer......... fer northern climate. Grand Dalles solve, .............. T. J. Thrift W H E N T H E C O F F E E T R U S T W A S Washington, which is usually prac ter somebody told him it wss a sea Assessor ......... Up in the wilds o f Maine. Illiteracy in Oregon Raymond E. Baker School 8upt. ... was originally laid off for a manu T H R E A T E N E D tical about such things, will likely pigeon and said he did not know We know them all and we love them ......... A. N. Gould Surveyor facturing city and large buildings F. E. Wilson all. Coroner About two years ago coffee prices find the way of suggesting another there was aDy law against it. He Up in the wilds o f Maine. Dr. Walter Culin Health Officer were put up for shoe factories, tan Washington, D. C.— Tbs need of were inflated, and the government gentleman, or several ol them. The movie actors both great and small pleaded guilty, however, after an neries and other industries. Excur ‘ more and better rural schools in ----- — ■—— - «■ «a»» » ------- — Up in the wilda o f Maine. threatened to put a lot of New York interview with a game warden some- Some make us laugh and some make us sion trains were run from the East brokers in jail. Investigation dis The problem of marketing ie tbe b dy had sent around to bother I Oregon is made manifest by condi- cry Societies will get the very beet They both do ua good, the smile and and many lots sold on tbe highly- i tions revealed in a recent census re closed the lact that a condition en- | biggest business proposition of any him.— The Record. colored statements of a Baptist min PR IN TIN port showing the per centage of ¡Il So God sigh, gineered by the government of age or nation and one that will re bless them all as I say good-by, ister and promotor of the early Up in the wilds o f Maine. Brazil was to blame for forcing the 1 quire the combined efforts of all at the office o f Coquille Herald The problem of marketing con literates among the native white 1 'Seventies. I a o a r\t U n a H ta ( a T h X X Augusta, Maine. B. R. WlNO. price, but the threat of the govern the agencies of civilization to aolve. ditions. War Conditions in England A O I M K P R M R E F F C B P a STATE INDUSTRIAL REVIEW