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T he C oquille H erald VOL. 33, C O Q U ILLE , COOS C O U N TY , OREGON, TU E S D A Y , JU N E 29, 1915. NO. 41 CITY DIRECTORY FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Fraternal and Benevolent Order A A. M .— Regular meeting of Lodge No, 08 A. F. & A. A M.. at F. • Cliadwiok Masonic Hall, every S&'urday Events of Interest Reported For The Herald night in each month on or before th*» full moon. L. A. L imjsqviht , W . M. R. H. M ast , Secretary. (By J E. Jones ) TRADING STAMPS S.— Rcgmar meeting of Beulah One ol O • K. Chapter No. 0, second and fourth problems ihe important economic that the Federal Trade Friday evenings of each month, in M h - ponie Mall. Commission has inherited from the E mma L il ii * mvist , W . M. Bureau of Corporations, is the use A nna L awkbnce bee., of trading stamps in the mercantile T O. O. F .— Coquille Lodge No. 53,1. O. I . U. F., meets every Saturday night business throughout t h e United n Odd Fellows Hall. S'ates. It has been openly charged H. B. Moons. N. G. J . s . I. A WHENCE, b e e . ihnt the principal opposition to U a T r B B B B k T S LODGE, N o . SO tiadiug stamps comes from th e 1. O. O. F., meets every second and uevvspapets, ou Ihe grounds that fourth Wednesday nights in (hid Fellows this is simply a method of advertis Hall. K lda A nuehson , N v G, A nnik L a w b . sc « , SeC. ¡tig, and that tbe money spent for / »OQCJILLK K M ' A M 1’ V ENT, No. 25 trading stamps indirectly comes out I. O. O. F„ meats ih « tint and tliir.l of the pockets ol American publish Diursday in Odd Fellers Hull. ers. A few years ago tbe publishers J. 8. B abton , 0 . ?. J. 8. L a whence , Sec. waged a similar war against the [ r SIG H T S OK P Y T H I A**.— Lycurgus bill board advertising. It was lound L<«li;e No. 72, meets Tuesday night- that bill boards did not, as a matter i n \Y. o. W. Hall. H. R. W atson , K R. 8. of fact, cause anv mateiial reduction O. A. M intonyk , C. 0. in the amount spent in newspaper r jY T H lA N SISTER S— Justus Tempie advertising. It will likely be found l No. 35, meets tirst and Third Mon that the same results will follow tbe day nights in W. O. W . Half. Mss. G ejkuk D a v is , M. E. C. general use of trading stamps. These M bs . K kkh L ineg ab , K. of R innovations, whether or not they ED M E N —Coauille Tribe No. 4«, 1. have merit on their own account, O. R. M., meets every Friday night serve to emphasize the value of ad i n VV O. W . Hall. J. 8. B arton , 8achem. vertising, with the result that the A. P. M i u . ee , C. of R. columns of newspapers, which are the best proven methods of valuable Hall, Front street, first and third Sat legitimate publicity, cantiot be over urdays in each month. looked by tbe institution or mer H. B. T o /.IRR. Consul. F. C . T kce , Olerk. chant who must of necessity reach N. A .— Regular meeting of Laurel tbe public in order to sell his goods- • amp No. 2972 at M. W . A . flail, It has been determintd lime and Front, street, second and fourth Tues again that methods like bill boards day n gilts in each month. M ary K ern , Oracle. L auka B randon , Rec. and tradiug s'amps a*e simply aux iliaries to newspapers, and that there O. W .— Myrtle Camp No. 197, . meets every Wednesday at 7 :30 is no real substitute for newspaper p. ui. at W. 0. W . Hall. adveitising. The institutions that Lee Currie, C. C. try something else are bound to be J ohn L enevb , Sec. | - VKN IN< 1TI d I CIRCLE N o . 211, come, in the end, tbe best patrons meets second and fourth Monday ol newspaper advertising, whether nights in W . O. W . Hall. A nnie B urkhoi . dek , G .N . they discontinue the former method or not. Theretore, it is reasonable M ary A. P ikkce , Clerk. F A R M E R S U N IO N .— Regular meet- to suppose that all the different i ings second and fourth Saturdays in methods that may be used in adver each month in W . O. W . Hall. F rank B urkholder , Pres. tising will eventually result in a O. A. M intonye , Sec. more liberal use of newspaper sp ce. M R R W V? RATERN A I. A ID No. 398, meets the second and fourth Thursdays each month at W. O. W . Hall. Jr POLITICIANS AND THKIR BOOKS A sort ol three cotneted contro versy is being waged between the present Governor of New York, his Educational Organizations and Clubs immediate predecessor, and Comp O M A N ’S Study Club.— Meets 2:30 troller Predergast, as to whether p. m. at city library every second the last state administration left a and fourth Monday. deficit of several million dollars, or H arriet A. L ongston , Pres. F rances E. E pperson , Sec. a surplus of a few millions. This OQUILLE E D U C A T I O N A L reminds one of the claims of ihe for L E A G U E — Meets monthly at the mer Postmaster General Hitchcock High School Building during the school year for the purpose 01 discussing edu- that he had achieved a surplus in cational topics. the Post Office Department, a claim B irdie S kkels , PteB. which his successor flatly denied. E dna H arlocker , Sec. And now when Mr. Burleson claims O K E E L K L U B — A business men’B social organization. Hall in Laird’s the same thiug for ihe present Ad building, Second street. ministration he is met with tbe un L J. C ary , Pres. \V. C. E ndicott , Sec. feeling invitation to ‘get off vour The same methods of unsat o m m e r c i a l c l u b — L eo j . C ary foot.” President; L. II. H azard ,Secretary isfactory bookkeeping are followed in nearly all state capitols. The Transportation fa cilities politicians cannot, or possibly will 'R A I N S —Leave, south bound 8:10 a. The fed m. and 2:40 p. in. North bound not, keep accurate books. 9 :26 a. m. and 4 ;26 p. tn. eral and stale governments insist OATS— Six boats plying on the Co fiat the big corporations sh»U pro quille river afford ample accommo vide the most accurate accountings, dation lor carrying freight and p«ssen gers to Bandon and way points. Boats but in their own household there is eave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9 :20 and 9:30 a. m. a lamentable condition. Some one and at 1:00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. nr.. suggests that it may not be a fa ncy TAGE— J. L. Laird, proprietor. De sounding reform, but it would be a parts 5; 30 p. m. for It isoburg via Myrtle Point,carrving the United States most useful one, to compel accurate mail and pasengers. accounting in public book keeping M rs . C has . E vi . and , Pres. M hs . L ora H arrington , Sec. W C K C I B S A. F. Linegar, post P OSTOFFICE.— master. The mails cloBe as follows: Mvrtle Point 7:40 a.m. 5:20, 2:35 p.in. Marshfield 9:0« a. m. and 4:15 p. m. Bandon, way points, 8 :45 a m. Norway and AragolJ :55 p.m. Eastern mail 5 :2d p. m. Eastern mail arrives 7:30 a. ui. City and Countv Officers Mayor............................A. T. Morrison Recorder....................... J. 8. Lawrence Treasurer ................. R. H. Mast Engineer.................... P. M. Hall-Lewis Marshal ...........................A. P. Miller Night Marshal............ Oscar WicKham Water Superintendent .8. V. Epperson Fire Cliiei........................ W. C. Chase Councilmen—Jesse Byers. C. T. Skeels C. I. Kime, Ned C.Kelley, W . II. Ly ons, O. C. Sanford. Regular meetings first and third Mondays each month. Justice of the Peace ...... J. J. Stanley Constable....................... Ned C. Kelley County Judge James Watson Commissioners— W . T. Dement, Geo. J. Armstrong Clerk............................... Robt. Watson Sheriff ................... Alfred Johnson. Jr. Treasurer ..................... T. M. Dlmmick Assessor..............................T. J. Thrift School Supt. .........Raymond E. Baker Surveyor C. F. McCnllock Coroner F. E. Wilson Health Officer ..........Dr. Walter Culin Societies will get the very best PR I N T I N G at the office of Coquille Herald view the course of the Ship of State is stiaight ahead, and the shallows and danger points have been plainly chatted But there is a year "1916” comiug. No one longer expects that Colonel Bryan will support President Wilson for renomination, as he is positively on record oppos iug a second term, and the reasons why he might muzzle his convic tions on that score have passed. A good many Washingtonians assert that what he has lost because of bis advocacy of prohibition, he has gained by his support of the things that are so dear to a large part of the country; namely aibitration and peace. In any event, Bryan, as a Secretary of Slate, and a reported failure, is no longer mentioned, and in a single jump he has regained his old place as the Democratic lead er. The politicians assert confidently that he has the future of the party in his keeping. Even those who profess to doubt this statement are anxiously wondering what is going to happen when the struggle is staged between the Wilson and Bryan forces respective declarations and appeals, as announced in the constitutions and programmes of Peace organiza Compiled by State Bureau of International Conference of Women Workers Will Meet tions started by women since the Industries and Statistics war. At San Francisco July 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the Interest ♦ « * » — STATE INDUSTRIAL REVIEW To Promote Permanent Peace O f Permanent International Peace The preparations for the Inter-j end to war, not to the war now national Conference of W o m a n \ raging but to war itself as a recog- Workers to Promote Permanent nized agent of organized torce. Peace are being m de by a commit-1 Not only in tbe United States, tee, whose chairman bolds a com- but in Norway,in Denmark,in Swit- mission from tbe Honorable Charles zerland and in the Netherlands, C Moore, which authorizes her to meetings called by women have bad select her associates in the execu- i large and spontaneous response;new tion of plans approved by tbe Direc- organizations for peace have been torate of the Panama-Pacific Expo- formed which are, to a Urge degree, s i t i o n and by the Bureau of officered by women whose names Conventions and societies, when have not, hitherto, been familiar to first submitted in April of 1914. tbe readers of peace journals— and Tbe orignal Commission, issued each ol these groups has issued a on June 24th. 1914, and received in proclamation of purpose summoning Rome, Italy, was rendered practic- the women of the whole world to ally inoperative by the paralyzing give sympathy and support to their effect of the Great War, which sud- various sincere, simple and practical deuly engrossing the public mind, initiatives. caused the work to be postponed for Opening ou the Fourth of July almost five months, and it was not 1915, which falls on Sunday, tbe until December 22nd, 1914, that the service of the first session will indi- Chairman issued the first announce- cate the new conception of the sigui- FIX ING EXPRKSS RATES meut of her plans modified and en- ficance of that honored date, Since the express companies weie larged by the war, to the fourteen With features universal to a forcibly made to "earn an honest living,” they have been complain T R U E SON S OF T H E N A V Y . ing that the rates prescribed for them have made it impossible for them to make their transportation enterprises pay. The Interstate Commerce Commission has given caretul consideration to the express company grievances, and It a v e recommended new rates that will furnish about two and a hall million dollars revenue, which the commis sion thi nks should be quite enough. Now the express companies want to revise the Commission, so as to make bigger charges for termiual handling, but lowering the rates for tbe haul. Partisans for the express companies point out that the gov ernment has never been able ’to es tablish practical rates for the parcel post or for letter mail, and the argu ment is that this proves that the federal aitihorities are likely to be wrong regarding »heir methods in regulating the express companies. However, a good many people who are informed on the subject, profess to believe that the express compan ies are seeking in tbe main to place tbe parcel post at a disadvantage, and by a sleek juggling of both ex press and parcel post rates, secure every advantage that will enable them to collect more toll from tbe American public. The express com panies have been the shvlocks of interstate commerce, and the Inter state Commerce Commission knows this so well that it is not likely to Photo copyright by American Press Association. permit the old octopus to regain his Jonathan and Frank Daniels, sons ot the secretary of the navy, who dedi cated Maine memorial mast at Arlington cemetery Mny 31. Here they ara strangle hold on transportation. PASSENGER PIGEON EXTINCT PE R Y E A R $1.50 seen astride one of the guns taken from the wrecked battleship. In denying the reported reward to women whom she had chosen to act any person finding a passenger or with her, on tbe committee of or "wood” pigeon uest containing two ganization. eggs, the Department of Agriculture The first printed announcement has takeu occassion to state that of this Conlerence distinctly declares this species of fowl is entirely ex that it is "not its primary purpose tinct In former times the passen to attempt to stop the present war.” ger pigeon was found in perhaps Grateful and happy as its organiz greater number than any American ing committee would be to be able bird. The Government officials to assist in putting an immediate state that the mourning dove has end to tbe horrible tragedy of often beeu mistaken for the passen slaughter and devastation that has ger pigeon, but adds that this bird been in progress for tbe last ten is quite distinct, and is shorter and GORGAS GOES TOO months, it remains the conviction Colonel Gorgas has resigned his has different color markings. o. the Chairman that this war can position with tbe Government. The not be stopped, until the desire or Youngster is Sent Away man who cleaned up Havana, Cuba, •t least the willingness to have It Clyde La whom,age twelve years, and drove the mosquitoes out of stopped is felt by the leaders on Panama, and made the building of must spend the next six years in both sides of tbe struggle tbe Canal possible, has linked hts the reformatory at Salem, Oregon, Tne original primary purpose to future with the Rockefeller Founda was the decision ol Judge Watson make this the last war has been tion. It is the same old story in last Tuesday. Clyde, who is a son strengthened by every experience which tbe Government shows its of Thomas Lawhorn of Allegany, since it was first announced. The conviction that this purpose willingness to pay enormous salaries has been named in several escapades to its politicians who are favored in recently and his father states that can be accomplished only b. an ed he is unable to control bim. He high offices, but for real service bad been sent to an orphans’ home ucation of public opinion, which such as is performed by men like in Portland some time ago, but will compel such a re-organization Gorgas and Dr. Wiley, there lies made bis escape from that place of human society as will make war His father among n itions as remote from na been no hope of substantial financial and returned home reward; tbe result being that with succeeded in getting him paroled, tional inieiition and purpose, as but has since bad more or less murder is remote from the intention the arrival of grey-frosted temples trouble with him or a less springy step, these men H. W Dunham started with the and purpose of the average individ have been obliged, in self-defense, Lawhorn boy for Salem Thursday, ual, has been strengthened by the to accept positions outside the Gov being taken to Rosehurg by Thos history of tbe conflict now waging ernment service. Gorgas will doubt Walker. He also took the two in Europe; by the comments of tbe Stonelake children, who were sent less be able to do good work with here from Tenmile, who were con daily press upon this history; by the Rockefeller Foundation, but it I signed to the care of the Boys and tbe activities of organized peace- seems a little rough to force one j Girls Aid Society at Portland This associations in different countries; after another of these men out, be-; made quite a reduction in the num by the public utterances of distin cause Uncle Sam is too close fisted ' ber of Mr Dunham’s boarders, guished peace-advocates, and.ibove though he still has charge of Paul to pay them what they are worth ine Stillwell, who is held here as a all, by tbe general uprising of wom BRYAN AND THE FUTURE witness until the next meeting of. en in the neutral coun.ries, with tbe avowed iatention of putting an From tbe White House point ofi the grand jury. Dad— Here’s to You We happened in a home t e other night and over tbe parlor door saw the legeud worked in red yarn on a porous plaster background, “ What Is Home without a Mother?” Across the room was another brief “ God Bless Our Home.” Now, what’s the matter with ‘‘God Bless Our Dad?” He gets up early, lights the fire, bods an egg and gives tbe lawn a close shave while mother is still dreaming of how she is going to trim Mrs Gotthe Stuff at bridge that afternoon. He rustles the weekly hand-out for the butcher, the grocer, the milk man, the baker, along with sever 1 ete’s and before he is home an hour on pay day bis weekly stipend has shrunk to just the size of car fare and six sittings in the broad arm chair at the jitney dairy lunch pal ace. If there is a strange noise in the bouse at night, Dad is kicked in the back and sent down stairs to find the burglar and kill him— or get put to sleep by a rap on the bean. Mother darns tbe socks, but Dad put up for the socks in the first place, then the yarn and the nredles, and patiently stands for the callouses on his feet which tne darned socks make. Mother puts up the fruit against Dad putting up the price of the fruit, the sugar and the jars. Dad buys the chicken for the Sun day dinner, carves ihem for tbe family, and, after the tush, draws from the ruins tbe neck, or the other extremity. “ What is home without a moth er?” Yes, that’s all right, but, “ What is borne without a lather?” Ten to one it’ s a boarding bouse, father is under the slab and mother is tbe landlady! Dad, here’s to you! You’ve got your faults— you may have lots ol ’em— but you’ie all right, and we’ ll miss you when you're gone.— Brock Haffner Press. W ater Pipe Arrives About a third of tbe redwood pipe ordered by the council for the improvement of the water system arrived last week and the work of laying it has commenced. It is be ing used in a line which will extend up Rink creek 18,600 feet above the pumping station, and the water will enter the pipes at this point instead ot at tbe pump, as is now the case. The ditch has already been complet ed and the work ot laying tbe line will progress as rapidly as the arriv al of the pipe will allow. Fifteen or twenty men will be employed at this work. The Pacific Pipe & Tank Co. is furnishing the pipe which is of three sizes; six inch, eight inch and ten inch. The intake will be of the six inch and tbe pipe will increase in size as it nears the pumping plant. Tbe locating of the intake farther up the stream will materially in crease the amount of water available during tbe summer month,as it will lessen the loss by seepage. It also lessens tbe chance of contamination from foreign substances finding their way into the water. Fourth of July service there will be included, besides welcomes by the State of California, the City of San Francisco, the Boards of the Pana ma-Pacific International Exposition and tbe Bureau ot Coventions and Societies, a religious service in which representatives of various re ligious faiths, as well as of different sections of the Christian church will unite, and an oration sympathetic with the purposes of the Conference will be delivered. It is intended that this service shall lift July 4th into the short cat egory ol International Festivals. On each of the following days, July 5th, 6th, and 7th, there will be two public sessions, the proceed -------- --------♦ i » » * ------------------- ings of which will present a sum mary of woman’s service in some Changes in Telephone Office specific line of human progress and The extensive improvements in will show how each department ot interior ol Ihe Farmers Telephone this service is fostered by Peace and office, that have been in progress destroyed by War. for the past two weeks are about At the first public session of July completed. A new 150 line switch 5th, there will be presented a sum board has been installed and the mary of the attempts of women to interior of the office entirely re secure international co-cperation in modeled, making the iDner office divers lines of humane, reformatory much larger and increasing its con and cultural effort, during the last venience. A change is also contem quai ter ot a century followed by an plated in the operating farce, to open discussion of the actual causes take effect the first of the month which have impeded the attainment when Miss Ruby Lamray will fill of tbe desired tftgree of such inter the vacancy made by the resigna national co-operation. tion of Miss Ruth Woodford who The last public session will be de leaves the company’s employ at voted to the discussion of proposi-J that time. lions upon which women of differ-^ ent nations have indicated ’ heir sub Portland Semi-Weekly Journal stantial if unconscious agreement, anl Coquille Herald, both for 12 00 by the harmony that exists in their * a 1 ear in advance. Weston — Marshall hotel to be re modelled. Rainier— Union street improve ment to cost $2454 Bandon to pull down hills and bulkhead water front. Glendale— Reuben sawmill to be operated with 25 men Eugene-State University will put in printing plant. Eugene— Sigma Chi house to be remodelled, cost $2000. Newberg handle factory idle for years is in full operation. Coos Bay lumber shipments lead ing all Pacific Coast ports. Bids opened July 12 for $200,000 expenditure on Siuslaw jetty. Albany has built bard surface pavement to Masonic cemetery. Eugene factories committee to investigate potato starch industry. Freewater contracts let for two new school bouses, $8306 and $8033. Marion county will lay 20,000 yards bard surface roads this year. Albany-L inn county cuts out all but one county school supervis or. Yamhill and Tillamook counties, will expend $20,000 on Sour Grass road. Portland— May buildiug permits •915. $452.065- For May 1914, $643,880. Milwaukie— Portland G a s & Coke Co. granted franchise at $1.25 per 1000 feet North Bend tries to get water supply in competition with Coos Bay Water Co. Portland —-Federation w om an’s clubs advocates free homes for rural school teachers. Pendletou has selected Johnson & Mayer, Portland architects for new city library. S. P. Co. has put on the fast E x position special, leaving Portland daily at 12:30, noon. Vale— Potassium nitrate found in caves near here and $1,500,000 capital to work them. Astoria— Dredge Chinook re moved 130,000 tons sand from bar at mouth of Columbia last week. Astoria— Hill steamer Northern Pacific lands 484 passengers and 350 tons freight largest load since started. , The law collecting a five per cent tax on trading stamps is driving that form of advertising and busi ness bribe out of Oregon. Contracts have been signed up for hard surfacing 66 miles high way, 10 miles concrete and brick, 56 miles Warrenite bitulithic. Astotia— Pacific Power & Light Co. will expend $50,000 to cut out a dangerous trestle and serve more people, if the city gives permission. Corvallis— Out of 249 graduates, 128 took degrees in agriculture, and 86 in borne economics, domestic scieuce and industrial arts. Rest took engineering and pharmacy. Two railroads announce new work to be started at once, that will mean an expenditure of several millions of dollars. Tbe Oregon- Washington Railroad and Naviga tion company will build a 30 mile extension to its line recently com pleted from Riverside, westward to Crane Creek Gap The Southern Pacific announces it will electrify its line between Whiteson and Cor vallis, a distance of forty-three miles, is an extension of tbe exist ing electric unit between Portland and Whiteson. That Boy Again The boy stood on thr burning deck, whence all but him had fled. The smudge-pot filled the air with smoke, the red-fire glowed real red The thunder roared, the light ning flashed, and still he would not go. “ For if I did I’d spoil,” quoth he, "the moving-picture sbow.” The camera clicked, the film rolled on, the boy was burning money. That picture made him a repute, and brought him bread and honey.