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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1916)
T he C oquille H erald VOL. 34, NO. 48 DR. CHUN DIES OF APOPLEXY Goes to Bed as Usual and Passes Away in His Sleep Early in the Night WAS A DISTINCT SHOCK TO ALL Death Came Without the Slightest Warning A distinct shock w ent over this com m unity Thursday morning, when the news was flashed, by telephone and by word of mouth, from one citizen to an other: “ Dr. Gulin died last n ig h t.“ No one had the least hint of the im pending calam ity, and it does not ap pear th a t the doctor him self had any suspicion th a t when he w ent to sleep W ednesday night it would be for the last tim e. He had been about town as usual W ednesday, and in the evening spent some tim e a t the Knowlton drug store, giving Owen Knowlton instruc tions for ordering some goods th a t he w anted. He had been suffering some w hat from bloodpoisoning infection sta rtin g from a bruise on his le ft hand and working up his arm, and it is pos sible th a t this had som ethjpg to do with the apopleexy th a t was given as the cause of his death. Mrs. Culin and Miss E rm a made a call on a friend in the evening, and re turned about 10 o ’clock, when the doc tor and the two boys had retired. Finding th a t the doctor was apparently asleep, Mrs. Culin w ent to bed w ithout waking him. About 1 o’clock she awoke and happening to touch his foot, found it cold, and she a t once discover ed the fa ct of his death. Dr. Rich mond was summoned and announced th a t the doctor had been dead for sev eral hours and th a t the cause was apoplexy. Dr. E. M ingus was called up a t Marshfield and came over a t once in an automobile, accompanied by Dr. L. G. Johnson, coming to render w hat assist ance they could, as friends. The doctor’s family consists of the widow and two sons and two daughters. Miss Alice is a student nurse a t Lane hospital in San Francisco. Miss Erm a is a t home. The two boys, W alter, aged 10, and N em bhart, aged 8, are also here. The doctor’s m other, Mrs. Myra B. Culin, aged 85 years, lives a t P jsad en a, Calif., living with his two sisters, Misses H a rrie tt and Myra. Four brothers also survive him: Rob e rt, of New York; H arry, of New J e r sey; John, of Form osa, Ja p a n ; Frank, of Tuscon, Ariz. The funeral took place Saturday afternoon and was very largely a t tended, both by the people of this city and many from other points in the county. The religious services were conducted by the Rt. Rev. William H orsfall a t the Episcopal church, and the burial services of the Masonic or der were conducted a t the grave. The rem ains were followed to the cem etery by a large num ber of people, and the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges were in line. Dr. Culin was one of the leading physicians of the county, having been in practice in Ccquille since his arrival 22 years ago. He stood high in his profession, and his personal character commanded universal respect. He had a strong personality and an individual ity all his own. For the opinions of others he cared but little, and he some tim es appeared to take delight in being on the “ otf side.” At the sam e time, those who were acquainted with him and understood w hat lay beneath the uncomprom ising surface held him in the highest esteem and affection. This was shown when th e news of his death was spread Thursday m orning, when people over the entire valley were call ing up over the phone for verification and particulars, and giving unm istak- eable evidence of their deep feeling. He was born in Philadelphia, June 26, 1866. It is stated th a t he graduated in 1888 from the Philadelphia College of Pharm acy. Three years late r he took his degree from the Medical Col lege of the U niversity of Pennsylvania, E v e re tt Mingus being one of his class m ates. Coming to this coast in 1891, he spent th ree years in practice in W ashington and California, coming to Coquille in 1894, in am w er to a call sent out by R. S. Knowlton, the town then being w ithout a resident physician. In the same y**ar he was m arried to M i;s Edith. J. Taylor, who survives him. S ettling here he soon took his place as one of the county’s leading physicians. He was for a long time president of the Coos County Medical Association, and he was a prominent m em ber of the Masonic and Odd Fel lows orders, as well as th a t of the W. O. W. Before anyone else thought of Coos county roads as practicable thor oughfares for automobiles. Dr. C ulin sent for a small gasoline buckboard which he used for years in visiting his patients. He also owned the first gaso- COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1916. Constitutional Amendment* Among the Oregon constitutional am endm ents being cohsidered this year are four which have a oirect bearing on taxation. Three, if adopted, will m ort gage the tax p ay er more heavily than he is today; the fourth will lim it such taxation as is not imposed by the peo ple them selves by vote. R ural Credits Am endment This is a combination of constiiutioi al perm is sion and sta tu to ry law n one proposed am endm ent. It is proposed to amend the bonding provisions in a roundabout way, by “ repealing all portions of the conetitution in conflict h e rew ith ,” so th a t $18,000,000 may be borrowed by the S ta te and loaned to farm ers on the security of their land. The lnw p a rt of the proposal provides for the adminis tration of the fund. People’s Land and Loan L aw —Like the foregoing, this too is a combination of constitutional am endm ent and s ta tu tory law. I t enacts single tax, pro vides for loaning small sums without security, and works o u t the system in every detail, w here it will be p a rt of the constitution and beyond the correc tive reach of the legislature. Irrigation and D rainage—T h e s e am endm ents are purely constitutional, p erm itting the S ta te to bond itself up to $18,000,000 for the purchase of irri gation and drainage ulstrict bonds w here the in terest on sam e is g uaran teed by the county in which the district is situated, and p erm itting the county to guarantee tne in terest. Adminis trativ e details are left to th e legisla ture. Tax Lim itation—This am endm ent is purely constitutional, and lim its thg authority of all the taxing bodies to levies not in excess of the am ount lev ied by the sam e body the previous year. L arg er levies for big projects or for any purpose in excess of the 6 per cent perm itted increase m ay be authorized by the people a t an election. I t is left to the legislature to provide the lav.', If any is needed, for the operation of the am endm ent. The Meanest Man (Marshfield Record.) W ithout m entioning names, t h e m eanest man in Coos or Curry county is one identified w ith the hardw are business, and according to the tales brought back from P o rt Orford, where the g athering ol dealers and salesmen was held recently, his deceit has no bounds. R. D. Hume made Curry county fa mous in a poem, “ The J u g Behind the D oor,’’ but it was le ft to the man in mind to go him one b etter. Curry county has for years been prohibition w ith a big P, but a case of ptom aine poisoning will bring the m ost liberal supplies of whiskey out of hiding. The ladies of P o rt Orford gave the hardw are men a most appetizing chick- en_i>anquet, y e t for the Mean Man som ething was lacking. He acquired a very severe a tta ck of ptomaine poison ing, and confided to one of the ladies th a t he believed th a t he would die w ith in a very short time. Alarmed, the lady with a m otherly feeling hied him away and produced an antidote—about th ree -q u arte rs of a q u a rt of whiskey. The Mean Man grew worse from drink to drink, until the whiskey was gone. When the an tidote was exhausted he commenced to recuperate, and was soon well and able to sit. up and tak e notice. The m ean ness was not confined to his deceiving the Indy, so some of the hardw are men said, but the fa c t th a t he kept knowl edge of the cache all to him self was considered the g re a te s t offense of all. Mature Apples Injured By the Codling Moth Two applications of spray are not sufficient for the control of the codling m oth. In recent years, particularly, the late sum m er injury or "S eptem ber stin g ” occasions the most serious losses to apple and pear. T hat this condition will be especially tru e this year seems evident from present indications. Our extended period of cool w eather has re sulted in a prolongation of the gtn era- tions of the codling moth. As a conse quence the m oths will be present and the worms active in the orchard during the entite sum m er and fall. The in structions given to the grow ers in some fru it d istricts are, “ Keep the fru it covered with spray. ” This advice is appli-able to every apple and pear sec tion in Oregon this year. Two sum m er sprays, a late July or early A ugust ap plication and one in late A ugust or early Septem ber, will prevent the late injury by the worms. W here these sprays are om itted 17 to 30 per cent loss is not uncomm on.— A. L. Lovett, O. A. C., Corvallis Oregon. line launch on the river. To say th a t D r Culin will be g reatly missed in this comm unity is only s ta t ing the fact. T h at he should pass away so quietly a n d unexpectedly would probably have been in accordance with his wish, had he been consulted. It is expected th a t his business affairs may be found in some confusion as to his accounts but there is no fe a r hut ample resources will be found in his e state, although his reticence about his affairs was consistently m aintained. COUNTY COURT EXPERIMENTS Clackamas County B uilds Roads Minus Contractor and Without Graft COUNTY OWNS PAVING PLANT Buys Machinery and Operates It to Advantage By A. H. H arris in E vening Telegram . Oregon City, O re.—The men and women of Oregon who are interested in good roads, will find a lot of illum inat ing inform ation in the results of an ex perim ent successfully tried betw een Oregon city and the Clacksm as river. Here the county of Clackam as has con structed the first mile of hard surface highway under direct supervision of the county court, w ithout the intervention of a contractor and w ithout any of th expense of royalties and g ra ft. Strange S3 it may seem the construc tion of highw ays by the people direct is not a killing job. It was found nec essary to employ a highway engineer who understands paving and under stands it well. Then it was found nec essary to employ a superintendent of construction, a man who knows how actually to lay pavem ent so as to g e t the best possible w earing surface, with proper curves, with proper drainage, and with the least possible d anger to horses frorfi slipping when the pave m ent is wet. It was not found neces sary to employ foreigners to lay the pavem ent; it was not found necessary to cut w ages; it was not found neces- sary to bludgeon new spapers nor to bribe officials. M ATERIALS BOUGHT ON OPEN M ARKET. Crushed rock, gravel, sand, cem ent, silica and asphalt w ere the m aterials used in the construction of nearly two miles of paving, only p a rt of which was laid in a stra ig h ta w ay on the country roads. Four pieces of patching had to be done, and the same m aterials and the sam e men w ere used on all the jobs, it being necessary to spend a bit of e x tra money in m aking the shifts necessary and in fussing w ith details of careful patching of old paving. Y et the work was done a t a cost th a t should furnish in terestin g m aterial for calcu lations in highway construction in every county of the state. Sand and gravel w ere bought in the open m arket a t 45 cents a cubic yard: screened sand was bought a t 60 cents a cubic yard. C em ent was bought a t $2.40 a barrel, w ith refund for sacks returned. Silica was bought a t $11 a ton, and asphalt was bought laid down for $13.85 a ton. Even a roller had to be rented a t $5 per day, as the county had no m achinery suited to the purpose. Clackam as county had no organiza tion fitted to the purpose of laying hard surface. N either had the county a p lant fitted for the preparation and m ixing of the m aterials. So the county court bought a paving plant, the one used in laying the city stre e ts here, and moved it to a site handy to tra n s p o rta tion and to the location of the work to be done. This was early last spring, the first work being done in April. Clackam as county has done millions of dollars w orth of road work. Y ear a fte r year road patching has been done; year a fte r y e ar men appeared and told ju s t how roads should be built and how they should be patched. B ut none of these men had been trained in the trick of laying hard surface. Y et aa soon as the p lant had been purchased a crew of men was gotten to g eth er and work was begun. The resu lt has effectually ans wered the question so often asked, if paving can be laid properly w ithout the supervision of a contractor who has al ways charged big prices for his “ know how .” The plant now owned by Clackam as county is well fitted to the purpose and is large enough to m eet all dem ands which may be made upon it. As a m a tte r of fa c t it is in much b e t te r shape and of larg e r size than it was when it served in the construction of the hard surface s tre e ts o f Oregon City. Yet, including a traction engine, which was bought new a t a cost of $1.300, the plant re p ie se n ts an invest m ent approxim ately of $3000. This figure is low, it is true, because the plant itself w as sold a t sheriff’s sale, was bought in by the Columhia D igger company, of Portland, and by this com pany sold for cash to Clackam as county. The hauling the m aterials was done with two m otor trucks, distances ra n g ing betw een half a mile and tw o miles. W here the w ork is now being prose cuted it is necessary to operate an ad ditional truck in order to keep busy the proper sized crew of men. In road patching in the county, w here immense quantities of rock have been hauled, the work has been done m ost cheaply by toe use o f trucks, and they, n a tu r ally, w ere tran sferre d to th e paying service. The resu lts of the work done since April show U rge savings in costs and the possibility of highway construction a t figures th a t can he paid by the aver age county. In detail these facts are clearly shown: T otal am ount expended in plant, la bor and m aterials, $13,306. The total am ount expended in labor, $6,102. This labor coat is high, fo r the very good reason th a t the plant had to be over hauled and the crew had to be picked up among men who had never done a ta p on paving job». The crews had to he shifted a num ber of times in order to do the sm all jobs, with consequent loss o f tim e. So fa r in the highway work it has not been possible to segre- the experim ent to d a te are correct, and in the end the show ing must be made on the project in ita larger phases. As the highway work prograsses coats to the square yard of surface and other details will be worked out to the penny. The Parkplace road, which has been trea te d with hard surface improvement lies north of the city and extends to the Clackam as liv e r. Approximately one and a half m iles of paving, 16 fe et wide has been laid. The surface is ideal, w ith every indication of being a p e rfe c t roadw ay, equal to the best paved city s tre e t. The base is five inches thick, w ith a standard m ixture of m aterials approved by some of the b est highway engineers in the country. The crown ia low, m ade so in an effort to p revent the slipping of hoiaes’ fe e t during the rainy season. This highw ay will stand the severest investigation. Holes cut through the surface a t any point will show uniform foundation and uniform mixture of the m aterials. The supervision of the work was rigid, w ith no reason on the p a rt of any man, connected with the work to “ sk in ” the job, to be dishonest, to g ra ft. This highway work should be the beginning of an educational cam paign in road building in Oregon, or I have form ed a w rong idea of ita im portance to the people of the state. Clackam as county needs highways, and it is appropriate th a t the first test of the direct method e f constructing hard surface roada in the state be made here. The county levieB a direct road tax of 8 mills, and in a number of road d istricts an additional road tax of 10 mills is and has been levied. The county has w asted millions in work which has been done one year only to disappear before additional work could be done to m ake the highways avail able to the farm ers who m ust of neces sity use them all the y e ar round. An effort was made to bond the county for $600,000 for the purpose of p u ttin g through a big job o f highway construction, b u t the bond issue was defeated. A t the tim e it was an nounced th a t road construction would coat $15,000 to $25,000 a mile, and the •xpense seemed beyond the ability of the people to pay taxes. The experi m ent in road building carried on by the county seem s to indicate th a t the work can be done by the people them selves for about one-half of the estim ated coat under the contract system . The ex p erim ent in highway construc tion is being carried on under the d irect supervision of H. S. Anderson, county judge, who ii draw ing a salary of $1200 per annum. * * ------------------ “Awl Aboard” D istrict A ttorney L iljequist and Gov ernor W ithycombe last night w ere puz zled by a rum ored evasion of the Ore gon dry law planned by some C alifor nians for the Coos Bay Hail Road Ju b i lee. According to the rep o rt reaching the D istrict A tto rn ey ’s office a Califor nia boat laden with liquor is coming to the Bay and will then run excursions to sea and beyond the three mile lim it and liquors of all kinds and q u antities will be dispensed. This is beyond O regon’s jurisdiction. Governor W ithycombe said th a t he doubted if th e Oregon law covered such a possibility. However, D istrict A tto r ney L iljeqvist has a card up his sleeve th a t may m eet the em ergency if the rum ored “ Booze Ship’’ shows up.— Coos Bay Times. ---- ■ ♦ » ---- Goes to War Zone » — The following from the Coos Bay Times re fe rs to a form er Coquille boy: Frederick L. Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds of N orth Bend, w rites from Cambridge, Mass., th a t he will soon leave for the E uropean war zone. He has been attending H arvard and plana to go to the fro n t w ith a Boston new spaper man and w rite a series of articles for new spapers and m agazines. He is a brother of Marion Reynolds whose successful c are er has been closely followed by m eny friends on the Bay. Plenty of Fords S ecretary of S tate Olcott eatim ates, from the sale of automobile licenses, th a t this s ta te has one autom obile for every 28 people. Curry county has the few est cars per capita, and U m atilla the most. The form er sports one to every 16 inhabitants, while the la tte r g ets along for the present with a car to every 56. Coos county occupies a middle ground with a car to every 42. O f the cars in the stste , 33 per cent are Forda. EDITORS WRITE THEIR OPINION PER YEAR $1.50 Urge Use of State Funds A delegation composed of H. W. Thompson, M. H. Hurlow, Ray Good rich, C. W. Griffin, E. J . Adams and Frank Jenkins w ent to Salem yesterday to urge upon the sta te highway com mission the use of federal and sta te road funds in building a highway from On Impending Strike That Florence to K lam ath Falls by way of the old m ilitary road over the W illa Now Seems in Course m ette Bass. The funds from which an of a Settlement appropriation for this purpose was sought will come from the appropria tion made by the Shackelford good roads bill, which is now available. O re gon’s apportionm ent from this bill am ounts to approxim ately $78,0(10, which m ust be m atched by an equal Think Demands of Employes sum from the state. The Eugene delegation appeared be Are Not Justified fore the sta te highway commission and the advisory hoard yesterday afternoon. The proposed highway was urged on Chicago.—The proposed strike by all th e grounds of commercial developm ent railway train service employees in or of the territo ry traversed, and it was der to secure a wage increase of $100. j pointed out that- both the coast coun 000,000 a year is condemned by news try and the K lam ath country are se paper editors throughout the country. • riously in need o f an outlet to the Wil They declare such u strike would be a public calam ity and th at it m ust be lam ette valley. The Eugene men took the position averted. Almost unanimously the editors In th a t the money appropriated by the dorse the proposals made by the com governm ent and sta te for road con m itten of railway m anagers to the struction should be used for building leaders of the brotherhoods—th at the roads in sections whose assessed valua wage question be settled by the inter tion is not large and in which road de sta te commerce commission or by a r velopm ent will therefore of necessity bitration under the Newlands law. be slow. They expressed the opinion The following extracts from news paper editorials fairly reflect public th a t main lines like the Pacific High sentim ent on this most im portant Is way and the Columbia Highway can be taken care of anyway in the regular sue: The interstate commerce commis course of road construction, but th a t sion should be empowered to prevent roads such as the one proposed can this threatened railroad strike. W rite only be built by sta te or governm ent to your congressm an about it.—Chicago aid. Tribune. The highway commission listened to The great public lias more a t stake I he argum ents, and asked many ques than either the railw ay stockholders or the railw ay employees.—Davenport t s ns. No decision was arrived a t but S ta te Engineer Lewis promised to go (Ia.) Times. The interstate commerce commis over the route of the proposed road sion represents the great public. It som etim e during the sum m er and in- was created for the purpose of holding V fstigate i t s possibilities.—Eugene even the scales.—Rocky Mountain K gisler. News. Denver. The trainm en should take prudent th o u g h t A rbitration is their wise pol Women Make Good Workers ley.—Detroit Free Press. P ort Orford Tribune; The public will support any finding the interstate commerce commission At Gold Beach several years ago a may m ake.—D allas (Tex.I News. Curry County Development League Public opinion ought to have re-en war organized th a t flourished for a time forced the position of the railroads ar.d then subsided. Some two years long before now.—Galveston News 8£0 a Ladies’ Commercial club was or The regulation of wages presents no more difficulties than the regulation of i ganized in th a t town th a t has gone a!.rad steadily and done good and con rates.—Holyoke (Mass.) Trans, rlpt. The in terstate commerce commission I sistent work. would certainly be responsible If it ! Five or six years ago a Commercial perm itted a strike to come.—Minneap chib was organized at Port Orford. It oils Journal. bus accomplished some good things, but The train crew unions have no case its work and support have both been which they are willing to try in u spasmodic, with long intervals of quiet court of arbitration or in the groat court of public opinion.—New York between. Two years ago the ladies of the town formed a Ladies Aid which, Commercial. The controversy is not between the since its inception, has been m eeting railw ays and their employees, but be once a week with clockwork regularity, tween the public and the railway em and its work has been of unquestioned ployees.—New York Globe. benefit to the town. The men now seem to show rather a Since they have the franchise, wo consciousness of the weakness of their men have an equal in te rest with the position than reliance upon its merits men in civic as well as m oral questions —New York Times. The interstate commerce commission in this state. We say sham e on the man who will cannot avoid regulating wages so long as it regulates rates.—New York Trib not join a commercial organization be cause it adm its women to its m em ber une. The railroad brotherhoods are mis ship. In taking such a stand he boasts taken. There IS som ething to arbi a superiority over the fa ir sex th a t he trate.—New York World. dues not possess a superiority, which The railw ay employees are plainly in in the light of events in C urry county, the wrong and should sense their mis take before they m ake a worse blun seems to lie on the other side of the house. der.—Oshkosh (Wis.) Northwestern. N either side could afford to take the Your Real Boss position of dem anding more than the Interstate commerce commission would The superintendent of a big d ep art approve.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The railroad employees are not suf m ent store in Boston conducts a school fering such Intolerable wrongs that of salesm anship in his establishm ent, they cannot aw ait the result of nrbl and one of the first questions he puts tratio n .—Portland Oregonian to his class of beginners is: “ Who ia The greatness of the power for which the labor leaders are seeking Is the the boss?” A fter salesm en pupils have guessed very strongest argum ent why they should not have it.—Railway Age Ga every official about the establishm ent, the superintendent explains. “ No, no, zette. T he public is as vitally interested in no; he is not the boss. The real boss the situation as the railw ays or the ill this 8tcre is the custom er. I t ’s the employees.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. custom er you and I are here to plea re E ither the railroads are wrong or I t ’s the custom er who pays your wages their employees are. Any Just cause and mine. Now, if you are sittin g be will stand investigation. — Jackson hind your counter, doing nothing, and (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger. This is the tim e when every Ameri you see me coming, don’t jum p up; but can who loves his country should sat if you see the custom er the b o s s - aside his own schemes of aggrandize coming, jump! T h at always makes a deep im pression.” m ent.—K ansas City Journal. -- - ---- • « » ► » • The U nited States governm ent can not i»ermlt any strike that would tie Climbs Summit by Walking up nil the railroads of the country.— Backward Leslie’s Weekly. It is Just as tru e th a t organized labor Milton Beagle on Sunday climbed may oppress the piiTdlc intolerably as th a t organized capital m ay do i t — Mount Ashland, walking backwards all the way from the Ashland poatoffice to Lowell (Mass.) Citizen. Those who would suffer m ost from the summit. The distance is about 14 a tying up of the nation’s traffic would miles and the time consumed was a lit get no vote on the question of a strike tle over six hours. His two brothers —Lincoln (Neb.) Star. accompanied him, but walked in the One thing 1« certain, the railroads, usual manner. L a s t year Beagle the railroad employees and the Amort pushed a bicycle to the sum m it and can people cannot afford such a strike rode down the precipitous trail in less -M em phis Appeal. We think the brotherhoods are m ak than two hours. He ia an all-around ing a m istake In refusing arbitration. athlete and won honors in long-distance Capital m ust get Its living wage as well running while in school.—Telegram . *s labor.—M ilwaukee Free Press Business can hobblq. along under high Secures Bail freight rates. D eath would follow a general railroad strike.—Baton Rouge Thelma Golden, who was arrested rLa.) Times. some tim e ago on a charge of conduct T he American people do not believe ing a disorderly house at Lakeside, and there Is any difference between the roads and the employees th a t cannot be of selling liquor, and who was bound adjusted peaceably.—Bloomington (111.) over to appear before the grand jury, yesterday secured the am ount of bail Pa nta graph. The railroads have accepted the per required and was se t a t liberty. Her fectly reasonable and natural sugges bail was set a t $100 and this am ount tion th a t the wage question be settled was made up among her friends at Lakeside and on the Bay. by a rb itra tio n .-B o sto n Journal. ALL FAVOR SIDE OF RAILROADS DAKER MAKES ANNEAL REPORT Record of Schools of Coos County for Year Prepared by Superintendent O TH ER ITEM S OF INTEREST Teachers’ Contracts Let and Improvements Being Made Raymond E Baker lias just com pleted his aunusl report of the sebo Is of Coos county. 199 eighth grade diplomas were issued last year, according to the report, and 582 pupils were enrolled in the various high schools of ihe county. The average number of school days in all the schools in Coos was 140, m seven months. Among the teachers who will open winter terms in various rural schools within the next lew. weeks are: Miss Mae Lund at Norway, Miss Klma M. Roberts at Fairview, Miss Wanda Harry at McKinley. Miss Clara Moser at Gravel Ford and Claude Nosier at district No. 73 Vernon Ratcliff recently began a term at Ihe Bald Hill school in dis trict No. 33 At Beaver Hill this year Mrs. Rosa Preuss, who was assist rut there last year, will Ere pitnc'pal and will have Miss Esther Cox as an assistant- Grace Summerlin is finishing a term at the Halls creek school. The principal at Bridge for the coming year will be J. F. Croft. Miss Leila Smith will nave the in termediate grades and Miss Olson the primary. The Johnzons Mill school will soon open a nine months’ term with Miss Marie H. Chapman. The controversy m the Two Mile district, according to Mr. Baker, is lar from being settled Actual con struction on the new building has begun on ihe new site and the par ty which was opposed to the new site has now made application to the district boundary board for a division of the district. This board meets on the first Monday in Sep tember. In the mean time an effort is being made to stop the construc tion work Eighth grade examinations will be held throughout the county on August 31 and September 1 to give the pupils who were conditioned in the June examinations an oppor tunity to remove the conditions and enter high school this tall Prof. M. S. Pittman, ol the Ore gon Normal school at Monmouth, is here to spend a month studying rural conditions. Mr. PitUnan is much interested in the problem ot the consolidation of tural schools, and as Coos has done a great deal more along this line than any other county in the state he wishes to see how it is working out. At present he is at Lee with his wife and child. The Hermann district, which is a consolidation ol the old Hermann district and the Broadbent district, is, in the near future, to vote upon the acceptance of plans lor a two- room school building The plans which were drawn up by T. E. Dixon, of Myrtle Point, have been accepted as satisfactory by the school board and Ihe county super intendent, and need only the au thority of the patrons to start con struction work. The directors of this district are E . Schroeder, chair man; Leonard Hartley, J M. W ag ner and Mary L Luttrull, clerk. The teachers in the new district this year will be F.. R Jones, prin cipal, and Miss Mina Magness, as sistant. Mr Baker speaks very highly of the people of Broadbent and their enterprise along educa tional as well as other lines He says it is their plan to make Btoad- bent a model community and that they are likely to succeed. Value of Postal Savings Bank R ecent reports of the Post Office De p artm ent show th a t there are 596,000 depositors in the U nited States, with approxim ately $80,000,000 standing to their credit. Th» principal grow th of the governm ent banking institution is in the larger cities, where there is not so much confidence in the bankers, as exists in small communities, where the officials are more intim ately observed by those who place th eir funds in their care. “ The w ets say the lum berjacks and cowboys won’t work in Oregon if they can’t g e t more booze. The lum ber jacks, the cowboys and the longshore men voted dry before, and refused to sign the beer petitions this tim e. They don’t intend to spend $20 of th eir own money to pay 10 re n ts of somebody ‘ else’s taxes. Billy Sunday-