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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1916)
Special Announcement E have made arrangements with the General Electric Co., one o f the largest electrical manufacturers in the world, to have their electric cooking device specialists in Co quiiie for two days o f this week, namely, on W F R ID A Y A N D S A T U R D A Y - ------ of this week. They will call at the home o f each o f our customers and demonstrate the latest electrical household devices. During these two days a special discount from the reg ular price will be allowed on any electrical devices which you may wish to order. OREGON POWER COMPANY At the home o f John Yoakam we met Jap Yoakam, manager o f the Powers farm, near the poor farm. He is a young man o f up-to-date ideas and is P U B L IS H E D E V E R Y T U E S D A Y making good there in his capacity as foreman. 1905, at the post office at Entered as second-class matter M ay 8, One o f the things that impressed us Coquiiie, Oregon, under act of Congrees of March 3, 1879. by the way was the narrow road and short curves and the large number o f P. C. L E V A R , L E S S E E A N D E D I T O R autos now passing over the road. It is L A N S L EN EV E, C IT Y E D IT O R a wonder that more accidents do not Devoted to the material and social upbuilding of the Coquiiie Valley take place as one frequently comes within a few feet o f you in rounding a particularly and of Coos County generally. turn before you can see it. THE COQUILLE HERALD Subscription, $1.50 per year, in advance. Phone Main 381 gestion for you. If you do not find time to write ail the letters you would like and this letter is satisfactory, bring your letter heads to the Chamber o f Commerce next week and the enclosed letter will be printed upon your own letter heads. The Chamber o f Commerce has an abundance o f literature telling o f our country more fully than you may have time to write. These booklets are for your use. Get a bunch o f them and send them out. Keep a supply o f the inclosed folders on hand and put one in | every letter you write, not only this Road work near Delmar is now in week but all summer. Mail copies o f full progress and a large crew is at the local newspapers to your acquaint- work. E. G. Perham is in charge o f | ances. There Is no better advertising ior us. I f you want to send 50 or more the upper camp and the work is crowd j letters o f your own, bring the copy for ed along as fast as is consistent with the letter to the Chamber o f Commerce conditions there. A pile driver is used and your own letters will be run off on to span the sloughs and dump ears are I your letter beads from our mimeograph. Now don’ t put this off. Start the also being installed to make the heavy : list this minute o f persons to whom you fills. | will write. Tell your family to anwer Talk The old road camp is also at work all their letters before the 17th. about it to everybody you see and keep with a crew finishing up the last year’s *usy. contract. Very likely the end o f the This Letter Writing Week should re season will witness a big change in the sult in bringing more visitors to the Coos Bay Country this Summer than road between this place and Marshfield. has ever come before. This is some At Millington the mill is running thing you can do to gain the gratitude steadily employing thirty men. It is o f your friends and assist in the work under the management o f Mr. Samuels o f the Chamber o f Commerce. Yours very truly. and Mr. Boje. Both o f these men are Publicity Committee. o f the enterprising kind and believe in keeping things on the movs. They Marriage Licenses were hindered some by the strike in getting their shipments out promptly. Arthur B. Chase and C. Gunhil The men for most part stay with them Lund. and refuse to be led off by outsiders. $100 Reward, $100 made a jump at him and almost T hd readers o f this paper will be caught him under the wheels, but pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been he managed to scramble aboard able to cure In all Its stases. ant\ that Is Catarrh. H all’s C atarrh Cure Is the only Then, instead of seizing the steering ositive cu re now know n to the m edical f raternity. Catarrh being a constitutional wheel to put her on her course, he disease, r e q u in s a constitutional treat H all’ s Catarrh Cure is taken in attempted to shu> off the gasoline. ment. ternally, actin g d irectly upon the blood and m ucous su rfa ces o f the system , there But lie inadvertently got the button by destroying the foun dation o f the dis and giv in g the patient strength by that opens the cut-out instead, and ease. building up the constitution and assisting nature in d oing its work. T he proprietors with a good imitation ol a battery j have so m uch faith in its cu rative pow that they offer One H undred Dollars of rapid fire artillery the machine! ers fo r any case that it falls to cure. Send r list o f t e s t im o n ia ls .__ , crashed into the railing of the | fo Address F J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, 7Be. bridge Fortunately, one of ’ he) Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. projecting springs caught on a part of the btidge and stopped the ma chine on the verge of toppling over \ to the ground below and with little damage beyond a sprung axle. Have you paid the Printer? Str. Elizabeth R e g u la r a s th e C lo c k San F rancisco a n d Bandon r ii -t c.Hho lare oi... Ui» freight, per ton Í 10.-.0 M.00 E. & E. T. Kruse BUT FAIRBANKS! 24 California Street, San Francisco When the editor of the Herald swore in his vote for For Reservations bonds at the May primaries he named his politics as “ In Grange and F. U. Celebrate J. E. NORTON dependent Republican.” If there is an independent Re A gent, C oquille, O regon publican in this neck of the woods who is satisfied with The Grange and Farmers Union will the news from Chicago we would like to see the color of hold their annual celebration reunion and general good time at the Norway his hair. Of Hughes we have no criticism to make. He grove Thursday, June 22, commencing is more or less of an unknown quantity. His exact posi The Celebrated at 10:30 a. m. Grand Master Spence o f the State Grange is expected to be tion on any of the questions now confronting us seems to present; also J. D. Brown, State Presi be unknown to the public. Yet his record is such that the dent o f the Farmers Union, and these people are inclined to think that he is all right. That he gentlemen will talk to the assemblage. Everybody is invited to come and bring A w arded G old M edal would not be the choice of the old stand-pat element is good things to eat, and those who are well understood. They have taken him as the choice of P. P . I. E. San Francisco, 1915 familiar with the way the farmers do j things will not need to be assured that two evils, to save something worse for them. But Fair they will have a good time. Users banks! It used to be said that the Democrats could al The strongest and nearest water- proof Are Shoes made for Loggers, Cruisers, ways be depended upon to do the wrong thing at the right The large Smith mill was running at Lloyd L- Rosa and Nora Salve. East Fork Items Miners, Sportsmen and Workers. Andrew Clifford Kern and Edna time and thus insure Republican success. They seem to full capacity and there is quite a dinner Docia Ray. The people o f Brewster Valley and have learned a better system during their long banishment. pail brigade streaming down the streets some o f McKinley have decided to have o f Marshfield in the morning. Other Now the Republicans pick up their discarded mantle and wise things were quiat and there is not Mrs. Downs Returns a fourth o f July celebration at Hance Men’s Comfort Dress Shoes creek about one half mile east o f Dora. dun it with easy grace. The Republicans had. perhaps, a much external evidence o f the pros Mrs. T. H. Downs, who was I f those who have the matter o f secur perity so long heralded. But unmistak For Sale By fighting chance for the next presidency. If the party ably there is an improvement and the called to Corimh, Canada, last win ing a speaker (that is if there is to be Strong Shoes for Boys could have united on lines that would have made the peo employment o f large numbers o f men ter by the death of her father, an address) get a man who can do Manufactured by ple believe that the old, discredited stand-pat element had must make for better conditions finan James Clark, returned Wednesday, something more than flail the air and cially so soon as the coin begins to fiow accompanied bv her mother, who pump wind, the writer is o f the opin Coquille, Oregon taken a back seat the progressive wing might have been I into depleted family treasuries. will make an extended visit at the ion that people would dig up to pay the Theodore Bergmann counted on again in the party. But Fairbanks! IJad the Marshfield is destined to hold its posi parsonage. On the way home they expenses o f a man who would give an Shoe Manufacturing Co. visited with relatives in different address with thought in it, and to buy party leaders wished to notify the people that the stand tion as the first city o f Coos, it seems parts of the country and stopped at free lemonade for the children and The New Home S e w i n g ! to us, but it will find a hustling rivul in 621 Thurman St Portland, O regon patters were still in control, nothing more convincing could Coquiiie, if indeed it is not left in the Corvallis for the graduation exercis grownups. Judge Hamilton, o f Rose Machine Company es of Tuesday evening, burg, Judge Harris, o f Eugene, Chief have been done than to nominate the congealed essence of ultimate race. The coming o f the rail San Francisco California Ask for the Bergmann W aterproof Frank Moore, o f Salem, would deliver shoe Oil. stand-patism for vice-president. “ And they done it.” way, together with better roads, will Ed Dyer Seriously Injured goods to be carried away. Sherwood, be better understood in the future j o f Coquiiie, would be in the class with Those old-line Republicans who believe in voting her years. To us the outlook is optimistic (j,e the Judges and he could come out on Ed Dyer, while working on straight are to be envied. They can go serenely on their to say the least and we have no desire to look further for the land o f the new road grade near Isthmus Slough his own tires and oil way, undisturbed by doubts and calling the coming defeat heart’ s delight. It is reported that M. J. Krantz has was struck on the head by the pile Roseburg-Myrtle Point Auto Stage Line driver hammer last week and it is i sold his place and has until October to of the Republican party a mysterious dispensation of Prov j feared fatally injured. He was get away. Also E. N. Harry has rent Leave idence. For those who have had hopes that G. 0. P. Letter Writing Urged taken to the hospital at Marshfield. ed his place to Tom and Ernest Krew- Myrtle Point Mr. Dyer is well known in this city sen. might be brought to its senses and might take its place as 7:40 a. m. the real exponent of the aspirations of the people, the sit The following letters have been sent having built the Farmers and Mer The editor o f the Herald has no rea Roseburg by Secretary John W. Moltey to the chants Bank building. son to feel sore with himself. The 6. a. m. uation is discouraging. entire membership o f the Marshfield election went his way for bonds, school Bergmann Shoe N ew H o m e Quality Choosers COQUILLE FURNITURE CO. * It is to be hoped that there will be no three-cornered tight to the confusion of the issue. It seems that this is not yet decided. Colonel Roosevelt declined the nomina tion provisionally, stating that if Mr. Hughes’ position on public questions proved satisfactory to the people he would not run. This is very characteristic of Teddy; he says what he means. He is willing to take a back seat for the present if Mr. Hughes will give assurance that he repre sents the principles that the Colonel and his followers have been struggling for; otherwise he is ready to jump into the ring. The Herald man is in hopes that Teddy will stay out of it and let Mr. Hughes and Mr. Fairbanks and their reactionary backers go up against the works. Then they would not have Teddy to blame, and they might learn something about the temper of the people. It seems to be about the hardest thing in the world for an old line poli tician to realize that times have changed in the last gen eration. They want to play the game exactly as it was played when they learned it, and no hammer is heavy enough to maul into their heads a realization that it won’t work; that the people have waked up and are no longer to be considered politically as mere dumb, driven cattle. Perhaps they can lead the voters up to the Hughes-Fair- banks cake of ice; but they can’ t make ’em drink it. Let them find it out. Random Rambles ------------- Democratic Caucus Chamber o f Commerce, and are self- superintendent and district attorney. explanatory. Letter Writing Week --------- The majority vote was not cast for may bring results to all o f us if fully T h e D em ocra tic ca u cu s w as held road bonds but for a road job. carried out in every com m unity: this toren oon at the city hall. F re d i Teachers with brains may continue H ollister w as ch o se n ch a iim a n o f] to teach in Coos county. Dear Member: Central Next week, June 12th to 17th, has the C ou n ty D em ocra tic The “ Native Son” speil did not work been set aside as LETTER WRITING Committee, and W J. Rust secre when it came to a show down for the PoStmrster Hugn McLain. office o f Secretary o f State. People WEEK for Southwestern Oregon, and tary. your cooperation is urged to bring the Alex Hall and Iphri Hall qf Marsh don’ t have to guess on Secretary o f attention o f the outside world to the field and Fied Hollister, of North j State Olcott. Information received Coos Bay country. It is a little thing Bend, were all present from his office shows that $1820.21 was tor you to write a few letters to your turned over to the county treasurer o f business and social acquaintances over Roseburg Auto Line Running Coos county in 1915 for the benefit o f the State telling them o f vacation op the county road fund; $2,272 was from portunities in our vicinity. J. I, Laird, w h o w as in tow n j moter vehicle and chauffeur registra- We only want you to give your spare Saturday. inform ed the H era ld that | tions received; $451.79 cost o f license time. You will be surprised how much he was again i tinning his auto stage plates,chauffeur badges, postage, print- can be accomplished in the lost moments from M yrtle P oin t to R o se b u rg , ing o f blanks, stationery, clerk hire, o f this one week if you will give them h av in g started u p T h u rsd a y T h e etc. Total returns to counties was to spreading broadcast the good things auto m ik e s co n n e ctio n s with the *87,230.08 or .801 per cent. T h e co stin you know about this country. C oq u iiie auto lines at M yrtle P oin t, | clerical work was .066 per cent; plates, You have been putting off a lot of leaving there on the arrival of the , badges, postage, printing supplies, .133 your personal correspondence. Many train Ironi Powers, due at 7:40, and percent. The administration expense unanswered letters are about your desk. reaches M yrtle Point in time for is decreased as compared with previous Clean it up during LETTER WRITING dinuer. This effects a saving of years. These figures show where the WEEK. Don't forget to tell them the time and fares for those going south money went. Olcott delivers the goods. things they want to know about Coos by the S P main line or coming in Scout Master Hamilton, o f Roseburg Bay and the things that will make them from California. with a troop o f Roseburg Boy Scouts, want to visit Coos Bay. camped a few days at the road camp Tell about the railroad: say that auto Learning the Machine on their way to Bandon. Mr. Hamilton mobile roads via Roseburg and Cresent is onto his job and the boys are a fine City are now open and in better shape Frank Tennison is mastering the lot. A teacher said o f Boy Scouta, than ever before; describe the fishing mysteries of the automobile, having “ They are a fine lot, if they are not is the rivers and lakes; talk o f the fun when they go in they get to b e ." camping at the beaches; mention the recently purchased one. Yesterday A hard frost the morning o f the 9th. j Railroad Celebration on Coos Bay the he got a hunch that it is well to see Fourth o f July is in the air. last o f August. Put it up so they will that the clutch is out before one t Grace Krantz expects to attend Sum want to come over to see Coos Bay and cranks the machine. He neglected mer Normal. the surrounding country and see you. visited the section from this city to Marshfield. No appeal will be stronger than your (B y a Rambler ) J. K McAdams is busy building a own letter. The enclosed letter nas been prepared The rsmhler misstd fire last; week fine large barn on his farm three miles by the Publicity Committee as a sug but is on deck «gum. Recently we from town. _ i this precaution yesterday when Bliiie II must have had a new dream, ready to start up, out on the T | as he has given his hyphens orders to bridge near his residence. When be gnod boys. R. A. EASTON. the engine started the machine * 6 hours Running Time Connecting with Coquiiie Auto Lines J L. Laird Myrtle Point ROUND TR IP Week End Fares between COQUILLE, ORE., and other Southern Pacific Stations in the Coos Bay Country Fishing is good at many points. So is bathing in the lakes. A week end trip will benefit you. On Sale— Saturday and Sunday Return Limit—Monday following Use these low round trip tickets on your next outing or fishing trip in Coo» coun ty. Or you might spend a week end at Ashland, “ Oregon’s Famous S pa.’ ’ Your local agent will be pleased to give you more complete information or write John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent Portland, Ore. Southern Pacific