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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1916)
C o m m u n icatio n Remember nv* ’''» .« ■ M B .." « n That every road in Coos County will be improved sooner if the bond issue is carried than it otherwise could be; That the use of the good roads sooner will mean dollars in your pocket for every cent paid for interest on the bonds; That this applies to the roads in your district, no matter where you live. A d v a n ta g es of B o nding C o u n ty fo r G ood R o ad s The w riter in following hid avocation having traveled the county roads ard conversed w ith many of its people, subm its the following, believing it to be of public in te rest: Will first say th a t the ignorance of conditions and m isunderstanding among ; people separated by a day's journey is astonishing. As a rule neither the northern nor southern sections of the i county have any conception of the pop ulation and resources of its neighbor, and it is the sam e with communities separated by a few miles. Local pride and lack of inform ation impels the ranchers to think th a t their own local ity is the best and m erits more con sideration than it receives from the county court, and they are sure th a t other localities are developed a t the e x pense of their own. The dissatisfaction and discord, m ost ly due to isolation, finding expression in recall petitions and agitation for county division is a menace to the best in te re st of the county. A p art from the convenience of travel the w riter has nothing to gain from public im provem ent and is sta tin g oirly w hat through personal observation ap peals to him as being of interest to the farm er. If the farm er knew the facts; if be traveled about and saw conditions as others see them , instead of the cities organizing the good roads m ovement which he reg ard s with more or less suspicion, he would himself take the | lead in a m a tte r so vital to his own in terest. ! All who have traveled about the county will agree th a t the im perative need is a highway extending across the county, giving the people of the differ ent sections opportunity to m eet to g e th e r and g e t acquainted. Such a road would reduce the size of the coun ty one half and elim inate the friction and discord. This alone would be ! w orth the cost of construction. D ifferent sections ot the county have a ttrac tio n s and advantages peculiar to their own locality and their interests i do not conflict. On the contrary the increased facilities for intercourse and ; business would redound to the ad v an t age of all sections. Many ranchers in the northern part of the county who take no in te rest in the annual fair a t Myrtle Point would willingly p articip ate in and contribute to the success o f the same if they had convenient m eans of communication. It would be the sam e with all fa rm e rs’ gatherings. W here now they, are few and sparsely attended, they would be come frequent and representative of the whole county. It is up to th e fa rm e r. L et us hope they will not be so short-sighted as to com bat their own interest. T R A V ELIN G SALESM AN. □ £Tr & E ELECTRICITY ii Will Make Your Home So Cheerful Every household task may be performed better electrically F ifteen T w o-R eel Chapters P r o duced by th e V itagrap h Co. w ith an A ll-Star Cast and F eaturing By removing all drudgery, unpleasant tasks and disagreeable w ork Electric Service brings perpetual sunshine into the hom e. And now comes the big opportunity to have Electric Service in YOUR home. “ W ire Your Hom e” Month, March 15th to A pril 15th will bring you this com fort, if you will take advantage of O u r S pecial In d u c em en ts fo r W irin g Earle Williams--Anita Stewart f Phone us today for full particulars. Don’t delay until the rush has started. The Ideal Handsome Lover and the Ideal Beautiful Sweetheart. OREGON POWER CO. rj/jO E Coquille, Ore. E E l^ O E Sfa') A n n ou n cem en t The Goddess The M ost D elightful L ove S tory ever film ed in a serial p ictu re Not only will the b rig ht glow of Electric L ights oil or off at the twitch of a switch add so much,to the cheer of your home, but the m any other conveniences Electric Service brings will make the whole family h ippy Phone 71 » Not a jumble of stunts and thrills and hair-breadth escapes, but a picture story that will delight you all. Every F rid ay (Continued from P a g e l) to pay our taxes with. Our trails a t present are actually dangerous to ascend in day tim e, not alone a t night, and th a t is when we must travel or e ith e r camp upon the road. No, we are not fifty miles back in the m ountains. We are only fifteen miles from N orth Bend, but these fif teen miles a t present are equivalent to sixty miles of good roads. If we ha 1 any roads a t all we could purchase an automobile, or a t least a Ford, and go to town very easily in less than an hour On Sunday instead of staying at home we could go to church, tak e in a show, go visiting, or a t least tak e a joy ride and then g et home before dark. As it is, when we wish to spend a Sunday in town we m ust leave home a t 4:30 Saturday morning, packing a lantern or flashlight and then we do not g e t home before dark Monday night. I suppose you are saying, “ You m ust be some hom esteader who has taken up a hom estead back in the mountains, w hat can you expect?” We are not hom esteaders and we have been paying taxes back here for th irty years for your roads, and then you tell us th at we don’t need a road! As to living back in the m ountains, we a re in as p re tty a locality as there is in the county. If you doubt this statem ent, ju st have a talk with some one who has spent a few days back in the “ Tenmile c o u n try ,” back on old Tenmile lake, w here it is never *too cold and w here the cool lake bret zes always m ake the sum m er days pleas ant. Back w here the hills are covered with grass and the valleys with grain, but still we can ’t sell tw enty acres of land, simply because there is no way of g e ttin g out of here. People say, “ I t ’s a lovely place, but there are no roads. ” You who are in town or in other p arts of the county think perhaps th a t we w ant the county bonded for our special benefit. This, however, is not the case for as soon as we g e t some roads in the country, one and all will be benefited inasm uch as the canneries, conden sers, cheese factories, saw mills, etc , can s ta r t running. The farm ers will be able to g e t th eir products to town, and think how it will increase the value of the land, giving those who have more than they can now tend, an op portunity to dispose of a t least a few acres of land in re tu rn for which they will receive a few dollars, which they can use in im proving their homes. We will then have some neighbors and the country will begin to look like it is se t tled. Then when a prospective buyer comes he won’t say, “ Oh, you have a p re tty little place, and the price is reasonable, but 1 w ant to g e t some place w here I can have a machine and go to town w henever I w ish.” If we can only get some roads, it will be the m aking of Coos county, as everyone acknowledges th a t they are all we lack. Even the doctors say th at a person living seven miles from town has tim e to die tw enty tim es before they can g e t to him, and as it is, it costs us who are only fifteen miles from town forty dollars to g e t a doctor out here. By the time he g ets here we are dead and then we don’t even g e t a decent burial as the condition of the roads makes it impossible to g e t over them , so we are hauled away like mules or horses. These roads will benefit farm ers, m erchants, doctors and every inhabi tan t of Coos county. We can g et our mail w ithout having to stay a t home with only a mail order catalogue to look a t and we can take our products to town and there purchase our necessi ties and thus keep the money in Coos county, m aking one and all prosperous. Do You K n o w T h a t ■a Special Rates from Coquille to Principal Eastern Cities VIA CALIFORNIA On Sale daily: June 1st to Sept. 30th, 1916 Stopovers allowed R eturn lim it: 90 days from date of sale not to exceed Oct. 31, 1916 “To start right is to end right’* T H E SH ASTA ROUTE is the right w ay to start enroute Attractions SEE Mt. S hasta — Shasta Springs — Mt. Lassen San Francisco — Los Angeles — Yosem ite Valley Southern California Beaches — P anam a C alifornia Exposition L IM IT E D T R A I N S on a?l Southern P a c ific rou tes R o u t e — ‘The route o f Lim iteds. ’ S u n s e t R o u t e — ’Through Storyland. ’ E l P aso R o u t e - ‘The route o f the lowest O g den a ltitu d e s.’ Call on local ag en t for fu rth e r inform ation or w rite J O H N M. S C O T T , G e n e r a l P a s s e n g e r A g e n t, P o r tla n d , O re g o n SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES THE PARTICULAR MAN Is j u s t th e o n e f o r w h o m we like to d o p rin tin g . IVe lik e to m ee t thn m an w h o w a n ts w h a t he w a n ts w h e n h e w a n ts it a n d w h o in s is ts on h a v in g it. ■ s lie w ill. W e a r e e q u ip p e d f o r s e r v in g h im , le t h im be as e x a c tin g C o m e a n d see us a b o u t t h a t jo b th a t m u st he d o n e “ ju s t so.” an m e e t y o u r w ishes. H o r se s fo r S a le Any one wanting a good pair of work horses with harness, well broken and hardened to service, at right price— fourteen teams to select from, call on, write or phone to J. L. LAIRD, Myrtle Point The Shortest Distance Between Two Points is ‘ Long Distance” Coos and Curry Telephone Co. R. E. SHINE, V.-Prei 0. C. SANFORD, Assi. Cashier FIRST N A T IO N A L B A N K O P C O Q U I L â L iB , O R E G O N . T r a n s a c t » o G e n e r a l B a n k i n g Bussine*-*- Sotrd of Difetterà. C e r r e . p e . e e , le It. C. D em ent, A. J . Sherwood, N ational Bank of Com m erce,New York C itj L. H arlocker. L. H. H azard, ; C rocker W oolworth NT Bank, San Francisco .saiah H acker. R. E Shine. F irs t N atioi.all Bank of Portland, P o rtlan d badly? LIKE Bullets may kill th ousands — flies tens of thousands? Obesity menaces longevity? A SOLID ROCK a bank account Washington—B J. E. Jones Coming about June I IJA V IN Ci bought the plant of the Co- quille Mill and Mercantile Com pany, the undersigned is now prepared to fill all orders for any kind of LUMBER Especial attention will be paid to the local demand, and every effort will be made to supply anything needed at the shortest possible notice. Your orders are solicited. t t Trie Iron Gaw ff W ith P earl W h ite In th e S ei ial She C alls H er B e st BILLIE BURKE % E. E. JOHNSON Friday cash resources are a t all tim es. MOUNT VERNON, THE IN “ 1 ? E O O V ” ness difficulties. It enables him to know exactly w hat his S U S . P re s s A s so c ia tio n , B o n d B u ild in , W a s h in g to n D C P A R K E R ’S H A IR B A L S A M A to i le t p r e p a r a tio n of m erit. H e lp s to e r a d i c a te d a n d r ra a ff, ff n fa ri à « F o r R e s to rin g C o lo r and and I P o a u t y to G r a y o r F a d e 4 d Hair H a ir. J .I 1 KA'- an d |LOO >1.H’ a H t P~* l ’n i -—•-*- e sista . 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T aka , J o n ty o f tim e to te ll us w h a t y o u w a n t, a n d le t us show y o u t h a t w* J. SHERWOOD, PRES. L. H.lHAZARD, Casi... L ig ht promotes cle nliuess? A eleao mouth is essential to good health? Physical training in ch ildhood is the foundation of adult health? T h e U. S Public H ealth Ser vice issue* publications on hygiene and sanitation for tree distribution? Isolation is the most efficient means ol controlling leprosj? H eadache is N a tu r e ’s warning t b a ’ the h u m an machine is run ning * It puts him in a position where % * -M ffc T r®yi vs ’ '.«V* V , he can ask a loan to m eet an em ergency, .Call here and learn some o ther advantages. > Farmers I and Merchants Bank HOTEL BAXTER U n d e r N ew M a n a g e m e n t Having leased this well-equipped hotel, I propose to conduct it in such a manner as to merit pat ronage and give satisfaction to the traveling public. CHARLES BAXTER, Proprietor