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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1916)
beaid, Archil’ Phillip*, H. W S n ford, J. W. Catching an l Jumes Stock. All of these hive tine dairy PUBLISHER EVERY TUESDAY farms here. Chss Selauder has a beautiful Entert* I as second class m atter May j 8 , 1905. at the post oilice at Coquille, , country place just north of the post Oran JO, u mlcr act o. Congress of M trch office, where he and his family arc 8. 1870. surrounded with all modern com forts. He also has a son engaged —add in the d iiry business, whom we did P. C. LEVAR, Lessee and Editor. deal to the entire not have the'pleaauie of meeting. LANS LENEVE, City Editor. meal. K eep them In a winter like tbi«, when earth on th e ta b le from soup has been constantly mantled in to ch e e s e . Devoted to the materia, and social Your dealer has them white in rnopt places, it is a real upbuilding of the ' ’oquille Valley par- ( ticularly and :f Coos County generally. I PACIFIC C O A S T BISCUIT (rest to drop into an oasis like this Subscription, $1.50 per year in advance CO M P A N Y wliere the grass is as green in Portland. Oregon January as you find it in most places PL' ue Main 3 K 1 . in May Tne secret of the wondrous resource of Coos ns s dairy county becomes apparent when you heUold SHALL THE PORT OWN THE TUG? with what perennial splendor the The Bandon Recorder reports that the tug Clihyam is giass abounds. The Coquille Herald Snow f l a k e Sodas a great to be sold and that the owners have an offer from San Francisco parties of $30,000; but that they would much prefer to see her stay on the river and that they have offered to sell her to local parties for $26,000. The main owners are J. L. Kronenberg and the C. P. Doe es tate, of San Francisco. The tug was built six years ago on the lower river and is said to have cost $30,000 for the hull and $28,000 for the machinery. She has cedar frames and is a staunch and seaworthy craft, well fitted for the work at the mouth o f the river. The Recorder says that an effort is being made to induce the Port of Bandon to purchase the tug, and that the commissioners are individ ually in favor of the purchase but are doubtful of the ap proval of the people farther up the river. This is one of those questions on which those in authority should take the larger view. There is no possible question but a tug is needed at the entrance to the river. It is an aid to navigation that can hardly be dispensed with. If sailing vessels are to ply in the Coquille trade a tug is an abso lute necessity. If it is not the duty o f the port commis sion to see that such a necessity is supplied, then what is the port commission for? As long as private parties can be found to keep the tug in commission here it is perhaps not to be wondered at if the port commission keep clear of the prejudice that might run counter to the ownership of a tug by the port. But if the time has arrived when it is a question of losing the tug or having the port invest the requisite money in her ownership, then the commis sion should not hesitate to buy her. No doubt there would be a howl from some of the inland property owners whose ideas never rise above the tax roll; but the move that is everlastingly right is the move to make, and the people as a whole can be depended on to endorse it. If the port of Bandon or the lovely valley of the Coquille (south of Myrtle Point) is ever to go ahead as a port or as a comniunity the little small local jealousies must be elim inated. Perhaps a tug would do Bandon more good than it would do Coquille. Next month a project may come up that would do Coquille more good than it would do Ban- don. If Coquille is to knock the former and Bandon the latter, world without end, then we need a long and im posing array of first-clast funerals before this section will ever amount to much. Ravings A community without u favorable trade balance is like a man without an income Each must live on their capital. A community's capital is its natur al r* S' ui ces. All H inge natural— and unn it- ural | r nmnlili. must come to an end. The I"w water mark of capital is 1 hided 15 R O K E. The individual live 8 on his capi t d; the c inmuni'V livis on it* re so in ci ; s'ont r or later both find tl cuise'ves hid ling a tearful good bye to their 1 ist jitney. The F rmei says the Home Mer chant dl l it ul ; The H. M. returns the compli ment with interest; The Laboring Man curses the system The Farmer patronizes the mail order house; The H. M has imported produce he might have obtained from the Farmer. Each has failed to acquaint the oilier with his commodity. Suuch an introduction is called advertising. The time-worn fallacy “ Advertising doesn’t pay,” was all they had ever learned about it ) The L. M. has scorned the savings hank Each of the three, the moment be had $7 G 9 ahead, with 23 cents for parcel post and a gallon of gas, has ordered a Ford. Perha ps. Accusation, like charity and va rious other habits, should begin at home — Correspondent. OUR PUBLIC FORUM II — L. E. Johnson On T w o -C e n t Passenger Ratea The farmers of both the State and the Railway Com this nation are pany testified that the claims of the vitally Interested railroad were sustained by the facts. In railroad rates Two cents did not pay the cost of and equity be carrying a passenger a mile. The tween passenger State, however, contended that the and freight rates railroad was earning enough surplus Is especially Im on Its state freight business to give a portant to the fair return upon the capital used In man who follows Its paseonger as well as Its freight the plow for the business. For the purposes of the farmer travels case, the railroad did not deny this, very little but he but held to Its contention that the Is a heavy con State could not segregate Its pas tributor to the senger business for rate fixing with freight revenues. out allowing a rate that would be S o m e o f t h e sufficient to pay the cost of doing states have a two cent passenger rate business and enough to give some and whatever loss is incurred is recov return upon the capital Invested In ered through freight revenue. The Jus doing tho business regulated. This tice of such a procedure was recently was the Issue presented to the Su passed upon by the Supreme Court preme Court. Us decision responds of West Virginia and the decision is to the Judgment of the fair-minded so far-reaching that we have asked sentiment of the country. The Su L. E. Johnson, president of the Nor preme Court says that, even though folk and Western Railway whose road a railroad earns a surplus ou a par contested the case to briefly review ticular commodity by charging rea sonable rates, that affords no reason the suit. Mr. Johnson said In part: “ Some ten years ago, passenger for compelling It to haul another's fares were fixed by the legislatures person or property for less than coat. of a large number of states at two The surplus from a reasonable rate cents a mile. As a basis for such properly belongs to the railway com economic legislation, no examination pany. If the surplus Is earned from was made of the cost of doing the an unreasonable rate then that rate business so regulated, nor was any should be reduced. The State may attention given to the fact whether not even up by requiring the railroad such a rate would yield to the rail to carry other traffic for nothing or way companies an adequate or any for less than cost. The decision Is a wholesome one net return upon the capital Invested azid demonstrates that the ordinary In conducting this class of business. rules of fair dealing apply to railway “ Such a law was passed In West companies. The fact that one makes Virginia in 1907. The Norfolk and a surplus on his wheat crop would Western Railway Company put the never be urged as a reason for com rate Into effect and maintained it for pelling him to sell his cotton at less two years. Its accounting during than cost. It would not satisfy the 'these two years showed that two man who wanted bread to be told cents a mile per passenger barely that Its high price enabled the cotton paid the out-of-pocket cost and noth manufacturer to get his raw product for less than cost. In this case the ing was left to pay any return on court reaffirmed the homely maxtrm capital Invested. It sought relief from that each tub must stand upon M the courts. Expert accountants for own bottom.” vested as to call for special precau- on drying racks made by driving tions. A high moisture content [ wire finishing nails about 4 inches makes seed corn particularly sus- apart on four sides of a stick A ceptible to damage from freezing or number is placed over t.ic mil and heating. Farmers in the sections the butts of the ears are put on ihe where corn failed to ripen normally nails. If wire fencing or other seed who do not test their seed early racks are used, the ears can be enough to be able to replace their numbered in other'ways. own bed seed with good seed se In single ear testing, two kernel* cured from other sources will be from opposite side» of the ear on taking an unnecessary risk. It is top, two from the middle, and two also especially important for holders from the butt are put in numbered of seed in such districts to take un squares or por’ions of germinating usual care during the remainder ot boxes or othei testers. Tile kernels the winter to protect it from freez are kept moist at a room tempera ing. ture not above 90 degrees F. nor While complete testing lor ger below 50 degrees F. After six or mination should take place shortly seven days the seed should begin to before the seed is planted, the spec sprout. Only those ears from which ialists of the department beiieve all the kernels give strong sprout* that it will be simple forehanded should be reserved for planting ness for farmers who have any rea Under ordinary circumstances, F son to be doubtful about the via may not be absolutely necessary t» bility of their seed to make a pre test every individual ear. If a liminary germinating test with a large number of typical ears show Coquille Defeats Bandon. lew typical ears taken at random ¡germinating tests as high as 97 per from the rack. If th te prelimi cent, the seed in general may be Friday nigbt at this place, ¡ d one nary tests show that the seed is considered good. Under the un mukii g the “donkeys” snort when Random Rambles ¡of the fastest games ever played on good, the owner can then continue usual conditions prevailing this we were there. the local floor, Coquille High school his precautions to guard it from year, especially in neighborhood* (By a Rambler.) Q B Stadden is one of the en basketball team defeated the Ban- weather damage. If, however, this where the corn did not mature nor The Humbler is still on deck and terprising mi ll of this little coin- | don High school team by the BCore test with a few ears indicate that mally, it should well repay a corn since we escaped the waste basket mm.i.i and wo had the pleasure of ; of 27 to 19 . The game was a hot the seed is of low vitality, the farm grower to test every ear that he in imeting him. ll.s son, C. G Stad- last time, we will try it again. j one from start to finish and at the er should at once make further tends to use for seed. If he has This time it was Sumner we vis den, has a line dairy farm here with end of the first half Coquille was tests to satisfy himself as to wheth any reason to doubt the quality o( « large barn, silo and many modern ited, that quiet little valley nestling ^ only one point to the good. But er his seed corn generally is good his individual stock, the ear by eat at tide water. Before we go fur improvements. He tills bis silo with in the second half their superior or bad. testing is simply a form of labor ther we wiali to i-pi-Hk a word of corn which iv.m -uning out us green playing and team work soon began II a farmer finds his seed is bad and crop insurance and btiglit as when put in He is praise and commeudutiou for lbs to tell and they gradually worked he should take steps at once to Before testing germination, the mad work done l ist season between very painstaking and sanitary in his themselves out of the danger zone meet the difficulty. The purchase farmer should examine each ear and Sumner and Fairview. We do not method of dairying. and at the call of time in the last of seed should uot be delayed until ' throw out all the ears which do not know who engineered the work, but \V H Norton if one of the old half they held the lead by seven spriun, especially when so much ¡look right or which have several here is work that auyonc might well residents who has spent many years I points. corn in various sections has been ! withered or damaged kernels. He be proud of. The old beavv grades in this section. The tarmer should se- This is the first defeat Bandon damaged ¡should strive to make up his seed have been cut down and the roa 1 Next we met Anderson Wright lias suffered from any High school enre his seed irom well known in size end appear- built on an caav grade with nicely who c aims to be S 2 years old. He team this rear. At the beginniug soutces buy it upon a germinating ■ from ears which . . , , , . ance seem to be normal for his va- rounded curves (Jonsi lering the earic to Oregon in 1 S 47 and roamed basts, and get his seed or , , „ . . ,. . of the season the Oerdiug brothers guaranty . , 6 . riety ol corn. heed corn should be rough nature of the country it tra about for a number of years. He won from them on their own floor ty pical samples early enoug 1 to | shelled il possible by hand to avoid verses we think it is an exception fought in praetivally all of the In- make his own germinating tests It . . . . . . , , , in a match game 1 the risk of damage by mechanical ally good piece of road. From ap diau wars and saw much of the pio- The Bandon boys came to this is probable this year that many shelling. Belore shelling the own- pearance we infer it is the intention neei life of tin- -I il<> and California place with the intention of getting farmers who have not followed the er should pick out peculiar looking bo vom1 last W. ,'ti-l 1 h was N 2 veard old. to change the road We of selecting enough 1. , , . . Coquille's goat and it was a sad, wise . practice r , | kernels and seperate the seed into season's work, p lg it on an l>cq p a r d o n -he in 82 years young. dejected looking crowd that left at special seed trom good crops to last I . . _ . . . . . . . . r “ r sizes so as to make certain that the easier grade and ing a much Few men of his agi» cnn get about 11:30 p. m on the Dispatch for them in an emergency for two °* \ coto drin wi„ plant regularly.— better roa I of it a* sprightly a* he. three years will have to buy seed Baudon. Weekly News Letter, U- S. Depart Next we met Mrs. B K. Beyers, 0 Sumner it The Bandon second team and the In buying seed, tanners should try I ment of Agriculture. am! tl.1« first mother of Jesse Beyers ol this place. Riverton All-Stars played the pre to secure corn of varieties known to She has a In auti u! home here ml was tho liminary game and Bandon suffered prosper in their sei ticn. The safest Woman’s Study Club regaling of the “ inner naan.” Ac- A 'laughter, Mrs. 8 in ford, lives defeat at their hands also. So no seed would be that carefully select- j or the Mills near her. Yesterday afternooD tbe domestic wonder the home going crowd was ed from good corn grown in the found it all H. IS Masters is one of the sub immediate neighborhood, but at gc»jelJ{.0 department ol tbe Woman’s shrouded in gloom we could desire Mrs Mill-< and stinted fm mere wil l live in this The local boys all showed up to any ate efiort should be made 1 ° Study Club held their meeting at her able assistants are 1 expelrts in section. He has a fine1 dairy farm fine advantage and each one played obtain seed grown in districts where the boms of the leader Mrs H W the culinary art and they on tiie Marshfield road uud keeps a a brilliant game Their team work I climate, soil, and farming condi Y'oung The lesson was tbe latter meals in real old logge r faehi. in. It lot of lairjr cows. was prettv to see and showed the tions in general ar similar to those half of the chapter on “ Root« and made us think of the d IV* IV 111 *ti we Abe Matson is one of the ol.l at home effect ol diligent practice. Tubi-rs.” At the close Mrs Perkins were among the lumbe r jacks. tinier- He worked in the ship If tbe tanner happens to have a gave a reading on “ Household The itefest was a hard pill for I ng wooden tabli - sad I.,* ! . C11 f ‘ H yard • aud al v irioua pi aces for some Bin Ion to swallow. They came to 1 stock of seed left ov-r from the 1914 Economies ” fairly groaning with g< M'd 1 hinp\ to 11 r saving up his m. >ney. Then this place ae “Tigers” and left it as .crop and doubts the seed saved The next lesson will be tbe chap eat To one who has UI'VI-I r wit* 1 ■ b ight a farm of 597 acres on from his 1915 crop, he would do shorn lambs ter on “Green Vegetables and Hissed it the amount > f good tin a r m of the slough sind estahlish- ------------» > # ------- well to test the older seed also and Fruits,'' commencing on page 145 . forty logger« can store away i in th< ed himself ami family on a dairy then use whichever shows t b e Test Seed Corn space of ten minutes is alnio1 The very pie isant afternoon end Basie TI ipi e ar« a nutnBer of boys, greater vitality S d corn if prop K1W A V *« all B. believable. But lb* e ed with Ihe serving of dainty re in inly fellow *, a ml one girl. Testing seed corn for germina erly cared tor "ill • ain its vitality freshment* by Mrs Yoimg and her plenty left when the 1« ist one an»»« 1 lev are very soeiable people and tion always a profitable farm prac for several years. Many farmers from the table with them hospitality >« a cardinal tice - is an absolute necessity this knowing this always select an extra daughter, Miss Mariau Young. a lirar virtue. Those present besides Mrs and year in many sections. In a ntim amount of seed from an unusually There are a inimln r of others her of districts the last corn crop good hat vest. uni #*fnploT? Miss Young were Mesdsmes Long- about forty men Tin BV liAsl here l ut space forbid* their names from which seed for the coming The following method of testing ston. Springer, Anderson, Barrow, laid off on account the wcather Among the farmers i ear Sumner planting will he taken was late in seed corn is taken from Farmers’ Rogers, Knowlton, Perkins and Ep- k *u>i were might Be mentioned J. D. Uiiukin- maturing or so moist when har- Bnlletin 704. The corn is placed person. a re .dy registered ihe re wid he wsgee tor him. James Beuham and William Cul bertson each made a trip to town for supplies last week. Win. Culbertson caught a big wild cat last week. The Bbepbeids have caught two wild cuts this winter. Will tue editor of the Herald plea*e publish the jury law? Mr Gearhart said that 46 years ib the age limit for a man to he put on the jury list. Maybe there ib a fool law of that kind, maybe uot. R. A. E aston Machon if Active C. A Machou lisa b a r g a i n e d «Mill Charles Thom, of Ninth Ben i, fur the purchase of the buildiiig nu First street formerly occupied as a saloon b y E A. Ibckit", and the d al will be closed as s o o n as travel conditions permit Mr Machon to go over tc the Bay Ju-t what be will do with the l o w e r fl o o r lie ha* not fully decided, hut th e upper st ry will be occupied lij the Mo se lodge, and H. E Shelley baa taken the oontract to fit it up for their o c cupancy. Mr, Msobon has also made all arrangements to go into the bu«i- Liss of manufacturing cigars. He l as eugaged the services of Oene McLaiu, an ex) ert cigar maker who formerly worked on the Bay and who is coming from San Francieco. i A stock of tobacco is slso due, and the miking of smokes locally will be under way at the B street billiard parlors this week. Both a »-cent and a 10 cent cigar will be made, end Mr, Machon expects tu do some j ibbing when tbe time comes. .......................................................... — Danger in Falling Logs List week a gang of seven men were sent down from Powers to lo cate logs which had fallen off the logging trains. The party found a great number of them and they were later loaded on tbe logging train. All the way from Powers to tbe Bay trains are constantly losing I ogs, especially on sharp curvrs, j which proves that it is dangerous [ business to stop near the track when a loaded train is going by. -♦ • A Runaway Some excitement was caused od Thursday w h e n Pete Johnson’* learn got the bits between tbeii 'eetb and started toward home mi nus a driver. They ran west down 'he street from Lyons A Jones’ and turned the corner by tbe Masonic Hall and made all the curves be tween there and tbe T bridg e. They were headed toward home and evi dently got there safely, as nothing more has been heard of them. 8o m *i A u t h o r s and T h e ir N i m e i There aro authors who make tbe most of their names, and there are others who don’t When W. W. Ja cobs was commencing his literary ca reer and hoping to "make a name” why did be not make the best of tbe one be got at the font? AVbat a splash he could have made with William Wy- mark Jacobs! It Is almost as bad as Gilbert’s neg lected name, which was Schwenck. But perhaps that was too near "swank" for a modest man. Ruther ford Crockett would have served the author of “The Stlcklt Minister" well, but he was content with 8. R. Sir Arthur Pinero’s second name Is AYlng, Silas Hooking’s Is Ivltto, Jerome K. Jerome's Is Klapka, and Gilbert Ches terton's “ K " stands for Keith. Charles Dickens was christened Charles John Huffham. It Is a remarkable fact that nearly all the greater novelists are simply styled—Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Walter Scott. Charles Reade, George Meredith, Thomas Hardy. William Makepeace Thackeray Ignored his sec ond name.—S t James’ Gazette. What Become« of That Cent? A farmer comes to town with thirty apples, which he sells three for a cent, getting, of course, 10 cents for them. Another farmer, also with thirty ap ples, sells them two for a cent, getting 15 cents for his. They get 25 cents In all. The next time they come tn, with thirty apples apiece, they meet at »he edge of town and put their apples to gether, making sixty apples. One man l aving sold two for a cent, the other three for a cent, they decide to sell them five for 2 cents. They do so and when they’re through find out they have received but 24 cents. The problem Is, Why did they not get as much for their apples selling them five for 2 cents as they did when they sold them separately, or, what be comes of the cent?—Columbus Dis patch. FROM THt NATIONAL CAPITAL (Continued from Page One bugles, and delicious thrills ambled up and down your spinal column as you listened and looked. An in stant and then a triumphant burst of the “ Star Spangled Banner” from tbe full Marine Baud with its seventy inspired musicians. There came a clanking of side arms and tbe gleam ol brilliant mil itary accoutrements, and the Presi dent’s fourteen military and naval aides stepped down the stairs two by two, like the animals in tbe ark, leading the royal procession. Look! Here comes tbe bride, turn turn •ee turn! She walked beside her grey haired husband in obvious palpitation The supreme hour ol her life had struck. Edith Bolling Wilson has 1 face ot infinite sweetness and appeal with a childlike sweetness about it. Whilejust as pretty and attractive is she needs be, she is not technic ally beautiful. She Inherits from her handsome mother, Mrs. Bolling whom she exactly resembles, an overmassiveness ot the lower part ol tbe face and a mouth unduly generous. The dark eyes are a trifle closely set. The small nose is clear cut and perfect. The daik hair is simply dressed over a sweet, low brow. Mrs. Wilson’s costume for her presentation to the nation was a sumptuous affair ol white satin heavily brocaded in silver with white tulle and jewels about the bodice. Mrs. Wilson warmed up to the great occasion and greeted her four thousand grests with untiring grace and sweet necs. Many of the Bolling family, the President’ s new ‘ ‘in laws” were notable in the special room 5 ol state. When an unfamiliar person would appear in the places of the mighty, the rubbering mob would often say amongst themselves, ‘ ‘ Is that a Bolling?” and the reply sometimes would wearily come hack: " I don’t know, hut it walks like a Bolling.’’ The Presidential family were all in the best 01 spirits. Tbe marriage is evidently o. k ’d. Miss Margaret Wilson looked her liest at her stepmother’s debut party. Mrs. Wilson, surrounded by Latin-American guests, laughingly confessed that she was a failure in speaking Spanish. ‘ ‘ In lact,” she *miled, ‘ ‘the only language I can speak beside my own, is German, and that because I learned it in the nursery. I understand French but I do not speak it very well ” F ire and the Lodgepole Pine. Fire, the arch enemy of the forest. Is the very life of the lodgepole pine, for cessation of fires would In time practically eliminate the species from the forest. Following a sweeping fire It Is found that the lodgepole pine Is the first tree at work to make good Its loss. On the blackened limbs of the fire killed tree are scores of cones stuck closely to the branches. With in these cones Ue fertile seeds wait ing for nature to set them free. The fiery whirlwind sweeps by. and In a few hours the brown bits of tlssne- like seeds silently climb out of their sheltering homes and mnke a flight to the earth. Being exceedingly light, 'housands are sometimes blown for miles. An earth cleaned for their re ception Is found by the germs o f new woods life. East Fork Items New Home Users Are Quality Choosers For Sale By COQUILLE FURNITURE CO. Coquille, Oregon Rain and snow, scow and rain for two weeks. Mr. Gearhart is arouDd register ing voters. It saves people making J r. trip to the county clerk's office and if most of the people have not > * T he New Home S e w i n g Machine Company San F ranctsco California