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♦ T he C oquille H erald VOL. 35, NO. 6 SYNOPSIS OF MANY EVENTS News of County, State and National Interest Told in Brief Concise Form SEIZE BOOZE FROM KILBURN Wilsey is Talking Railroad at Rosehurg Contract has been let for construc tion o f jetties at Gardiner. Sutherlin Valley will ship about 150 carloads o f HUgar beets this season and have hopes o f a factory in the suture. Capt. C. H. Fuller’s quick launching life Float davits has passed government test and $200,000 has been offered for his patent. Oregon will spend $160,000 in im provements and additions to the state insane asylum, feeble-minded institu tion and girls industrial school. One hundred thousand bushels of wheat, valued at $125,000 will be trans ported to South America from Portland this month, this being the largest con signment, it is said, ever going from the Columbia river to the west coast o f South America. “ Resolved, that Oregon should adopt a health insurance law embodying the essential features o f the Standard bill o f the American Association o f I.a- bor Legislation,” has been chosen as the subject for the Oregon High School Debating League. During the past week the Marshfield power company secured contracts for 315 horsepower in motors from various local industries. Plans are being made to open a new shingle mill and lumber mill and several small coal mines in the vicinity are getting ready to use elec trical power. The classification o f the O. & C. land grants holdings in Coos county is ex pected to begin in about sixty days, the exact date depending somewhat upon the county court removing the lands from the assessment rolls this year. This is now under consideration. A t a meeting o f the Chamber of Commerce held Wednesday night, seven men passed on the proposed plan of changing the name o f North Bend to Coos Bay. Some enthusiastic member would have the public believe that the entire membership o f this organization was against the plan, when in fact only two or three o f the seven present, expressed themselves as opposed at this time, but favored its coming up at some future date.—Coos Hay Harbor. J. T. Summerville, special U. S. In ternal Revenue officer, o f Portland, met the steamer Kilburn when she docked at Marshfield Wednesday and seized two large trunks filled with whiskey, gin and other liquors. The trunks were shipped at Portland by a man named J. Brown, who bought a ticket and checked them; but did not take passage. No one has appeared to claim the trunks and no arrests have been made. The booze was brought here and locked in a cell o f the city jail. W. J. Wilsey, American representa tive o f a wealthy English syndicate, and the man who is entitled to the credit for the construction o f the Wil lamette-Pacific railroad between Eu gene and Marshfield, arrived in Rose- burg last night, says the Roseburg Re view. When interviewed this after noon, Mr. Wilsey said that he tielieved that the time was opportune for the building of a railroad from this city tn tidewater. “ I did not come to Rose burg to ask the people for money or Fronds,” said Mr. Wilsev; "a ll that 1 want is encouragement.” Hard T ask for Portland The Portland business men visiting Coos Bay have learned that that sec tion is pretty solidly hooked up with San Francisco, and that it will take more than a friendly visit to change this order o f things. B c fc 'e the build ing of the Eugene-Coos Bay railroad, the whole southern coast o f the state was isolated from the balance o f it. and was nearer San Francisco, in every way, than Portland. The cities on Coos Bay are linked with San Francisco from the earlier days. It has been San Francisco capital that has helped upbuild them and it is San Francisco that furnished the market for the larger part o f their products. When Portland backs that section with its money and furnishes a market for its products it will secure a portion o f its trade but not until then. As Portland ships most o f the things that the Coos country does, it offers a poor market for the products o f that section. A Flout the only thing Portland can offer a market for is coal, and under present conditions the outlook for Coos Bay coal fields for a market there is slim. Factories the*e days are run by elec tricity, and this, hers in Oregon, can COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1916. be made much more cheaply from wa ter power than from coal. So far as fuel ia concerned for household pur poses, the city government o f Portland is running its own wood pile and sup plying that demand—or some o f it. On the other hand the Coos cities are bound to divert some o f the trade from southern Oregon that now goes to Portland and turn it toward San Fran cisco. Portland will lose more than it gains from Coos Bay.—Salem Capital Journal. A drummer from the north remarked to a Marshfield business man, the other day, that he intended to visit this sec tion regularly, now that the railroad was in operation, and that he expected to do quite a business with the mer chants here. A San Francisco drum mer who heard the remark, butted in and saia: “ What about us fellows who have been coming in here for years be fore there was a railroad? We came in by stage and steamer in all kinds of weather—winter a n d summer. We hoofed it over muddy so-called roads when stages broke down, and we were held up for days at a time when steam ers were bar bound during stormy weather. Now that it is easy to get in and out o f this territory, you fellows show up and seem to think that you are entitled to the trade.” The drummer from the north didn’ t have time to argue the question, as it suddenly dawned on him that he had urgent business with a merchant farther up the street.—Coos Bay News. SENTINEL STORY WITHOUT FACES Gold Beach Reporter Comes Forw^ d With Interesting Information as Result 821 FEET AGAINST AN OPINION Reporter Says Line Will Go to Upper Rogue River The following article appears in the Gold Beach Reporter of recent date, following a reprint o f an article in our local contemporary which repeated the uninformed theory that the Powers line is intended to eventually be part o f the through coast road o f the South ern Pacific between Portland and San Francisco. When you place the un alterable opinion o f even an editor up against the equally unalterable 821 feet o f elevation over the Eckley pass which would have to be gained in a few miles from Powers, the opinion is liable to become somewhat disfigured, though it may still be in the ring. The article, however, rather corroborates the opin ion expressed by the Herald that the Powers line may eventually become Friend is Honored part o f a line to the upper Rogue river valley, furnishing an outlet from that The Sunday Oregonian says; section *o the great distributing point Miss Anne Mathison has been en which will be established on Coos Bay. gaged as contralto in the quartet o f the A fter quoting the Sentinel article the First Methodist Episcopal church. Miss Reporter continues: Mathison has a pure .contralto voice of While we do not like to disturb the good range and excellent quality. She dreams o f our Coos county enthusiast, has studied with Frank A. Douglas, nor destroy the idols he has set up to formerly o f New York City. worship, we would suggest to the edit The new quartet at the First Metho or o f the Sentinel that he could get a dist Episcopal church, consisting of more accurate line on the purposes of Miss Goldie Peterson, soprano; Miss that Smith-Powers railroad if he would Anne Mathison, contralto; Norman A. do a little investigation outside o f his Hoose, tenor; Hartridge G. Whipp, editorial room. Let him take a ride baritone and director, and Miss Gladys over the wagon road from Myrtle Point B. Morgan, organist, is notable for its to Eckley and he will discover that that well balanced work this season. portion o f Coos county and the north ern portion o f Curry county possesses Miss Anne Mathison will be remem an exceptionally fine body o f timber; bered by many as having visited here and a reference to the assessment rolls in company with Miss Louise Royer will show that it is mainly owned by last summer, Miss Elvira Frizeen en the Smith interests. The cruise o f that tertaining in their honor at the J. C. timber, on file in the assessor’ s office, Slagle home. will show an amount o f timber that Norman Hoose and Hartridge Whipp will hardly be touched after many are two o f the members o f the Port years o f heavy logging to supply the land Ad club quartette which came demand of even such a big enterprise down for the Jubilee and which is one as the Smith mills, on Coos bay. Then o f the best organizations o f its kind in let him take U. S. Geological contour the Northwest. maps of that section and he will notice --- —-------- » « » » « -------------- that while Powers is situated 195 feet Budget Approved above sea level, the divide between Salmon creek and the Sixes, a few The state board o f control has ap miles southeast o f Eckley, show # an proved budgets o f ten state institutions elevation o f 821 feet to be gained in a in its charge which call for $1,862,009.- few miles o f railroad. 04 for 1917-18, an increase o f $224,401.- Now, transcontinental and through 13 over the legislative appropriations lines o f railroad are not built in detours o f 1915-16. on heavy grades, when shorter, easier An item o f $800 for a reservoir at constructed and lower grades are more the feeble-minded institution will prob available. The Salmon creek exten ably tie allowed also, bringing the to sion o f the Smith-Powers railroad is tal up to $1,870,009.04, an increase of headed directly into the vast body o f $232,461.13 over the last legislative ap timber holdings o f the Smith company, propriation. The budgets were re and will be fully occupied for at least a duced about $200,000 from the figures full generation o f inhabitants in Curry given by superintendents. for that one object alone. A t present The following are the budgets as ap it is a fact, noted in the columns o f the proved by the board, compared with Sentinel and other Coos county papers, appropriations two years ago: that the facilities of the Smith-Powers Eastern Oregon hospital for the in camps and railroad are not sufficient to sane, $242,110; current biennium, $308,- supply the mill, which has to shut down 159. $5. a portion o f each week for lack o f logs Prison, $243,560; current biennium, and is even going to the expedient o f $203,294.83. Western Oregon hospital for insane, buying logs from the Dollar interests $715,180; current biennium, $705,334.76. to keep their mill going until they can Boy’ s training school, $92,221.50; get their railroad well into their large current biennium, $65,275. Tuberculosis institution, $107,741.50; timber bodies. current biennium, $56,277.82. It is true that when that railroad Feeble-minded institution, $227,950; was first surveyed a line was run far current biennium, $144,961. up the Coquille, to look up a possible Soldiers home, $73,460; current bien crossing into Rogue river at Mule nium. $33,077.75. Industrial school for girls, $66,295; creek. This was found not possible, current biennium f33.300. however, and another route was sur Deaf school, $56,450; current bien veyed crossing through the divide and nium, $55,354. Blind school, $35,441.04; current bi into Billings creek coming to Rogue river at Big Bend, thence up Rogue ennium, $28,213. «■ — • » • river, not only to Grants Pass, but on After the Brother Jonathan up to Eagle Point, far above Grants Pass, and well on towards the head Martin Lund and Herbert Lund, his waters o f Rogue river. son, leave in a few days for Honolulu There is on the Coquille, south o f harbor. Capt. Lund expects to remain Powers, a fine body o f timber. There in the south seas until next June when is also, to the south and east o f Powers he will return to Crescent City and what is probably the largest body o f continue his efforts to reclaim t h e coal in the state o f Oregon, in quality sunken treasure o f the "B rother Jona far ahead o f the lignite above Coos bay than,” supposed to be under 40 feet o f and the lower Coquille. Much o f this water on St. George reef. To a Cou coal is a good cooking quality, as we rier reporter, Capt. Lund stated that determined over 20 years ago, when in his opinion it would be but a matter samples from the Curry portion o f the o f a few weeks in good weather to lo-1 deposit were sent to Portland by us cate the mine o f wealth stink in the ^ and tested, showing, in some instances, seas when the gtfod ship "B rother 60 per cent carbon and a fine quality of Jonathan” was wrecked in a storm in coke. July, 1865. Lund is confident that he T! us we have, contiguous to the haa located the wreck, and as evidence Sm¡'.h-Powers road, immense Fmdies of has brought up from the ocean depths fine timber and large areas o f coal pieces o f railroad iron and other ma lands resources, that in themselves terial that was supposed to be a part of justify and call for a railroad, and that the cargo o f the ship. This is the third will make it a paying enterprise o f a year that Capt. Lund has m.’ He an at permanent nature. And the railroad is tempt to find this world famous sunken being constructed as a permanent line, treasure, and in June o f next year he with a view to heavy and permanent will resume operations with more con traffic. fidence than ever in the ultimate suc As to the mineral possibilities o f the cess o f his endeavor.—Crescent City land adjacent to the proposed road, Courier. they are negligablc, from a railroad standpoint, as they are not o f such a character as to furnish any appreciable traffic for a railroad. There is a well defined mineral belt west o f the Co quille, from Salmon mountain south to the Rogue river divide. This section has been mined and prospected for the past fifty years or more, and has | yielded large quantities o f gold, almost entirely from diluvial deposits. The placers o f Johnson, Poverty and Sucker were famous and made numerous per sons rich, as people now resident of Marshfield can testify. But the lode claims are not there in permanency. There are stringers an(J pockets o f gold bearing ore and almost every character j o f mineral bearing rock, but no per manent leads; and the only quartz mill ever put in the district is still there, a J relic o f blasted hopes. There are large I deposits o f iron bearing ores. Some | tarry considerable copper, and some chromes and these may yet be develop ed and operated at a profit; but they are in a section not reached by, and hardly tributary to, the railroad now tiuilding. As to work on the through extension o f the railroad south, the S. P. officials are probably right in saying it is not in contemplation at present. But work is being done on units o f this line, which will before long result in a through line being completed. It was only a few weeks ago that a prominent S. P. rep resentative passed through here, on a leisure trip to various sections of the coast where local railroad prospects are in contemplation. And on his visit he stopped some time at Brookings, where surveys for several different jines have been made, including one over the old Cooper survey o f the S. P. south from the Chetco. As stated by Engineer Hood several months ago, work will be done on local units where business de velopments warrant it, and ultimately the lines will be connected up into a through line, but the building o f the entire line through is held in abeyance at present. Water Permit* Granted State Engineer John H. Lewis issued 144 permits tor the appropriation of water, including nine for the construc tion o f reservoirs, during the quarter ending September 30, 1916. According to these permits it is proposed to irri gate 8,354 acres o f land, store 4,129 acre feet o f water and develop 702 horsepower. The following permits were issued in Coos county: Wm. Lusk o f Myrtle Point, for do mestic supply, diverting water from Keasler Creek inSec. 11 T 29 S R 12 W. City o f Bandon, for municipal sup ply, diverting water from Giger Creek in Sec. 4 T 29 S R 14 W. Odd Fellows Cemetery Corporation o f Marshfield, for irrigation purposes, diverting water from an unnamed stream in Sec. 2 T 26 S R 13 W. A Bettys and Z. C. Strang o f Co quille, for the irrigation o f 200 acres, diverting water from Evans Creek in Sec. 14 T 27 S R 12 W. E. F. Davenport and F. C. Warren o f Coquille, for domestic supply divert ing water from Davenport springs in Sec 35 T 27 S R 13 W . KILLS ATTORNEY; SHOOTS HIMSELF Joseph Coach Ends Lite After Shooting G. T. Treadgold - Old Feud Is Cause COACH LIVED UNTIL MONDAY Wife’s Suit for Divorce was Also a Factor G. T. Treadgold, the Bandon attor ney, was shot and instantly killed last Thursday evening a few minutes after 6, by Joseph Coach, also of Bandon, who then turned the gun on his own head and inflicted a wound from which he died yesterday evening. The shooting was not immediately preceded by any trouble between the two men, but was evidently done by Coach in ac cordance with a cherished determina tion. A. A. Pauli, proprietor o f the garage, and F. N. Pei kins were witnesses to the shooting, and there are no discrep ancies in the story told by the two men. Treadgold had come to the garage for his car which had been left there before supper for some slight repairs, and was waiting while Mr. Pauli replenished the gasoline tank. He was accompanied by Mr. Perkins, who was to return to Bandon with him. Coach came in a few minutes after the two men and stood talking to Mr Pauli, who was busy filling the tank. Coach betrayed no signs o f excitement, but was mak ing inquiries as to another car which was under repairs, asking how much the repairs would cost and the probable price at which the owner would sell it. The garage was in semi-darkness, and no one noticed any unusual movement on the part o f Coach until he fired the first shot at Treadgold, who stood only a few feet away. A thirty-two caliber automatic was used and two shots were fired in quick succession. One passed through Treadgold’ s heart, the othai (truck his body lower down, the second being fired before his body had sunk to the floor. Coach then pointed the gun at Perkins, who threw up his handi and screamed a protest. Coach then walked a few steps toward the door, placed the pistol to his left temple and fired, fall ing just inside the door. Dr. V. L. Hamilton was among the first on the scene. He found Treadgold already dead, and had Coach removed to a room at the Baxter. Coroner Fred WIlBon was notified and came over from Marshfield bv auto and made an inves tigation o f the facts, about which there seemed to be no conflict. Coach and Treadgold had talked to gether for a few minutes on the plat form at the Baxter hotel just before supper, but were not observed to en gage in any controversy. The opinion o f those who knew the circumstances Open Letter to Hughes se e n » to be that Coach had long cher ished the determination to kill Tread Dear Mr. Hughes: gold, and that the filing o f a divorce Y ou'll please excuse suit by Mrs. Coach the day before the My dullness if I seem obtuse. tregedy brought this determination to Or fail to properly enthuse. the point o f action. While he had When you break loose. been drinking before his crime, it does The papers give me all the news not appear that he was drunk. And more advice than I can use; In spite o f the fact that a bullet had But when I try to get your views plowed its way through his brain, On public questions, then I lose Coach lived until about 5:30 yesterday My patience, and I sigh and say afternoon, never recovering complete “ Oh what’s the u s e !” consciousness, although there was at I give the devil all his dues: no tune any reasonable hope o f his re I rather liked you, Mr. Hughes, covery. His funeral was held this af When you were judge. But when you ternoon in this city. Treadgold was choose buried at Bandon on Saturday. To be a knocker and abuse On Friday, Arthur Coach, brother of Our President, I must refuse Joe, came up from Bandnn. He made To read your “ ooze.” some threats on the boat, and shortly The Democrats you still accuse; after his arrival he was locked up in Your lamentations I peruse. the city jail as a measure o f precau These may alarm—they can’ t amuse, tion. He is still held awaiting the ac And thinking men they w on’ t confuse; tion of the grand jury. But altogether, Brother Hughes, The history of the events leading up You’ re too profuse. to the killing runs back several years One final word before adieus: and haa already received too much I f you would stand in W ilson’s shoes newspaper publicity. The people o f Y ou’ ll have to try some other ruse — Coos county, and the taxpayers who For, by the gods, you’ re going to lose! have footed the bills for the court pro The Republican party will get its dues; ceedings growing out o f the Bandon You're up a g a i n s t it, Mr mess are well acquainted with it. On Hughes. the death o f their father three or four LU TH ER H. RICE. years ago the “ Coach Floys’ ’ came into Columbia, Mo., September, 1916. a comfortable fortune. This they pro Coosonians to Dance ceeded to dissipate in Bandon. They went into the saloon business and made The Coquille Coosonians, the new Bandon notorious as the hottest town marching organization which has been on the coast. The better element o f practicing for the past month with a the Bandon people at last reFielled. Mr. view to furnishing part o f the enter Treadgold. who had come to Bandon tainment for the Corn Show, will give about ten years ago, was made city at a dance at Heazelet hall Saturday torney, and he proceeded to clean up night, the proceeds o f which will be the town. The Coaches were put out In the meantime they turned over to the newly re-organized o f business. band to help defray the expense in had gone through with a large part o f They patronized their curred in the purchase o f new instru the fortune. ments. The music will be furnished by own bars too freely and were an easy In Daniels’ orchestra which has made a mark for every kind o f grafter. reputation for itself in the few months practically all o f the litigation and pro that it haa been in existence. Tickets secution* in which the Coaches were will be sold during the remainder o f the involved Treadgold was on the other week and it is expected that a large side. A Coach-Treadgold feud grew Joe Coach number will turn out to participate in and became very bitter. the first social function under the aus undoubtedly blamed Treadgold for much o f the trouble that was only the result pices o f the marching club. PER YEAR $1.50 o f his own action. G. T. Treadgold was about 31 years o f age and had lived in Bandon for ten | years. He leaves a w ife and two children to mourn his loss. He was a man o f energy and considerable ability; ; had taken a leading part in Bandon’s | affairs, and was prot'ably the most prominent citizen o f the coast town. It is to be hoped that the tragedy, which ia the direct outcome o f the con ditions that have obtained in Bandon for a number of years, will result in the clearing o f much o f the shadow over the atmosphere o f the town. “ Mother Dear” The following incident happened at The Dalles last week during the Con vention o f the Oregon Mothers’ Con gress: It was at the noon hour. Four automobiles drove up within a half hour o f each other, each one o f them con taining farmers’ families—the number o f children ranging from four to six. The young people were bright-eyed and purposeful, well dressed and full o f vim. The father was a prosperous looking individual in each case, and showing plenty o f contact with his fel- lowman. The automobiles were all high class and up to date. The wife and mother— “ Mother Dear,” if you please—in each !nstance was a tired faced, plainly dressed woman whose very life seemed to have been given to the end that there might be bright faced boys, contented husbands and high-power automobiles. Their faces indicated that their entire life had been one o f resigned sacrifice. That they had lived to see their scrub stock im proved year after year by the use of the pure-bred sires until at the present time it is standard; that they had seen their barns equipped with all the latest labor saving devices to the end that the livestock might be used in the most approved manner. The latest type o f machinery had been introduced. Dur ing all this period o f time the home, or rather the hou e in which the mother held sway, hr remained the same as it was when sh went into it a bride. She had not tho' ;ht it possible to have hot and cold w cr piped all o ie r the house, with a roo.ny bath. The men folks’ needs must take that money for the more necessary Bheep-dipping vat. She is still using the same old kerosene lamps—it would be an expense to run a wire in from the nearest power plant and have electricity in the house;futher really needed that money to build a silo. The children are coming pretty fast in the first stages o f married life. She would have liked some help and perhaps might have had a girl were it not for the fact that they had recently acquired another 160 acre tract and must pay for that and have more hands in the field. Of course no money had been spent for pictures te put on the walls because she had not time to look at them. In the meantime, the young people are growing up, getting their education, many o f them going to the University and Oregon Agricultural college, coming back to their homes full o f purpose. To these selfsame boys and girls I would like to give this advice: Soon you will be married and out from under the home roof, but for the two or three or five or six years that you are going to be at home try to make “ Mother Dear’ s ” life more pleas ant; try to make up to her for the twenty years o f sacrifice which has made possible your present situation. See that “ Mother Dear” has some “ glad clothes” such as you wear your self. You think she is an old lady, when as a matter o f fact her heart may be just as young as your own. A fter you get married and leave home, your own families will come and your inter est will be centered in them. Make the last years of your life at home a blessed memory to “ Mother Dear.” Incidentally to the young husband and father: Pure-bred livestock and splen did farms, up to date machinery and added land is a wonderful thing; it spells prosperity, but it may spell pros perity at “ Mother Dear’s " expense. Whenever we think o f an investment out on the farm lot let ui match it by a similar investment which shall make "M other Dear’ » ” lot a more cheerful one. Our colleges are reaching out in a wonderful way to encourage the de velopment of more and better livestock and alao to encourage better home con ditions, but the amount of money which ia spent for extension work having to do with our farm conditions is tenfold that which is spent for the Home Econ omic Department. May the time come when an equal amount o f stress is laid on each department. I would like to have the newspapers of the Northwest join me in a toast to “ Mother D ear.” May her life be a more full and a more happy one aa the years roll by.—Port land Live Stock Reporter. Republicans Appeal To the Fanner Vote The Chicago Tribune, “ The W orld'» Greatest Newspaper,” and Hughes' greatest supporter, in criticising the Wilson administration in handling the troops on the Mexican border, says: "E ven the horses supplied often did not fit the harness.” This is the Republican idea o f the fitness o f things. KORN KARNIVAL PUNS MATURE County Agent Smith Working with Farmers in Effort to Better Exhibits MANY FEATURES ARE PUNNED Coosonians Will Appear for First Time The preparations for the Korn Kar- nival to be held next month are well under way and the affair shows promise o f being the same splendid success that it was last year. County Agricultural Agent J. L. Smith is spending most of his time at present visiting the farmers o f the valley and urging them to make exhibits at the show. In many cases he is going out into the field and giving them actual assistance in the matter of selecting specimens. A fine premium list haa been arranged, as shown by the copy o f it which appeared in last week’s Herald and the farmers are generally showing a great deal o f interest. The program o f events has been de cided upon in a general way and in cludes many interesting features. For instance, Prof. Larson, of 0 . A. C. will deliver a lecture each day dealing with corn growing and corn selecting. On Saturday, the last day of the show, the corn exhibits will be judged by Prof. Larson and assistant. Another feature o f the show will be an old-fashioned husking bee which will be held Saturday night and will be fol lowed by a barn dance. The local tal ent play, "P eleg and P eter,” which was put on here last week will be re peated at the Korn Karnival and the admission will be free. The Coquille brass band and the Co quille Coosonians will also be in evi dence, the one to furnish music and the other to put on an exhibition of ornate marching. This will be the first ap pearance o f the Coosonians, although they have been drilling for some time. An entirely new program o f street sports is promised by the sports com mittee, who are keeping the details in the dark, and the Koos Kounty Knights o f the Grip will also be on hand with a special feature. A big basket dinner has been an nounced for Saturday and it is given out that the Klub will furnish coffee, sugar and cream, and everyone, both farmers and citizens o f Coquille who participate are requested to bring bas kets. Institute Big Success The Teachers’ Institute held Wednes day, Thursday and Friday o f last week, in Marshfield, is reported by those in attendance to have been by far the best ever held in the county. Two hundred and five Coos county teachers were present and there were many vis itors. With the exception o f Miss An derson, who was excused on uccount of illness, Coquille's entire teaching force was there. The list o f instructors included H. D. Sheldon, U. o f O .; Joseph K. Hart, Reed College; James T. Matthews, Wil lamette University; M. S. Pittman, Oregon Normal School; E. F. Carleton State Department of Education; Ava B. Milam, O. A. C .; Minetta Magers, Director o f Music in the Salem Schools. Morning and afternoon sessions opened with assembly singing, conducted by Miss Magers and musical selections by Marshfield talent. This was followed by an assembly lecture, at the close o f which the work was divided into de partments. A lunch was served each day at the school by the Marshfield High school domestic science class. A reception for the visiting teachers was held Wednesday afternoon in the gym nasium, where cake and pun<-h were served and the guests entertained by music and a folk dance executed by a number o f Marsefield school girls. A moving picture lecture on “ Birds of Oregon,” given in the Noble theatre on Wednesday evening and a lecture on "T h in k in g" by Prof. Matthews in the High school auditorium on Thursday evening were largely attended and very much enjoyed. A straw vote for president o f the United States was taken Friday after noon, and in spite o f the efforts o f the Republican contingent the result was given out. The count showed the pedy- gogues to be lined up as follows: Supt. R. E. Baker, 1, Hanley, 2, Benson, 4, Hughes, 47, Wilson, 109. The Institute closed Friday afternoon with a short business meeting. County Superintendent Baker and Miss Muriel Watkina o f Myrtle Point were elected delegates to the meeting o f the State Teacher»' Association to be held at Portland during the holidays and the following resolutions prepared by a committee consisting o f C. A Howard, Florence Jennings and Basil E. Kals- (Continued on page 2) Í * I lì