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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1916)
to the Herald as though the voters who want an efficient, energetic and able prosecuting attorney who has the nerve to do his duty and who will endeavor to enforce the laws PU B LISH ED E V E R Y T U E SD A Y as they stand, without regard to how many people are st office at thereby offended, would do well to support Mr. Liljeqvist. Entered as second-class matter May 8, 1905, at the Coquille, Oregon, under act of Congrees of Marc! 3. 1879. Of his opponent no adverse criticism is to be made. He is one of the best men in the county. But we can’t put ~~P. C. L E V A R , LESSEE A N D E D IT O R all our good men in offiice. In this case, the right man is R O Y M. A V E R Y . BUSINESS M A N A G E R already there. THE COQUILLE HERALD I r Devoted to the material and social upbuilding of the Coquille Valley particularly and of Coos County generally. Subscription, $1.50 per year, in advance. Phone Main 381 THE KORN KARNIVAL One week from next Friday marks the opening date of the second annual Ko-Keel Korn Karnival. On the surface this appears to be merely an annual celebration in which the spirit of sport predominates; an occasion for merriment only. In reality it has a much deeper purpose; a purpose decidedly more worthy of the occasion. It is to broaden the influence of th a t most worthy friend of the dairyman—corn, and to promote a spirit of coopera tion between th at dairyman and another of his friends the business man. With the first object in view it has been designated a Korn Karnival and this grain predomi nates in all the festivities. To accomplish the second ob ject it is held in Coquille and the farm er has been made the guest of honor. More worthy motives than those which prompted the people who conceived the Korn Karnival and who are working unreservedly to perpetuate it could not be found. All too often is the spirit of co-operation lacking between the small town and the surrounding country from which it draws its trade. The farmers in a great many com munities feel, and sometimes rightly th at the merchants with whom they trade are little interested in the many problems which confront the man who tills the soil. It is safe to say th at this particular part of the Coquille valley is not one of those communities. A spirit of real cooper ation was strongly apparent at the first annual Korn show, and as the corn of the Coquille valley matures and ripens, year after year, and the farmer and the merchant meet again and again to discuss their common problems; (for the difficulties of one is the concern of the other) as they come to know each other more intimately, and to realize how completely they are bound together, the bonds of this cooperation will grow and strengthen as only long service to each other on the part of those concerned can make them .—Rory O’Moore. The Herald has no desire to act as any kind of a Moses, to lead the voters through the labyrinth of the official bal lot. The advice it would give, if asked, would be to dis card all political partisanship. The salvation of this gov ernment, if it have any salvation coming, lies with the in dependent voter who can not be led or bought or bam boozled with the old partisan claptrap; who can not be depended upon for a minute to “ vote her straight.” Rot ten politics is only possible when the rotten politicians are backed by careless or ignorant or discouraged voters. We haven’t a large proportion of those here in the West, and it is noted that all progress toward better government is being made west of the Mississippi. In county politics there is no great chance for irreparable mistake, as we havq excellent men lined up against each other. This is one result of the independence th at has been shown here tofore, as well as of the direct primary nomination which tends to bring out only men who are well known to be worthy of consideration. Of the many measures present ed on the ballot the voters should form their own conclu sions, after some earnest study. The best results from direct legislation will be shown when the voters take in terest enough to find out what they are voting on. Then no fears need be felt as to the result. Study the pam phlet. It is suggested for the consideration of the Corn Carnival committees th a t some arrangem ents for the opening of the livery barn during the carnival would be in line with the desire to attra ct and accommodate the farmers. Many of the farm ers who drive to Coquille on business make complaint about the lack of hitching places for their teams. The m atter has been discussed for the past several years, but the fact remains th a t the town is lamentably shy on hitching posts. During the Carnival we expect the farmers to drive in and stay all day. They would undoubtedly appreciate it if the feed barn were thrown open to them, as a place to put up their horses and feed them, either with their own feed or th at which could be provided for sale. I W e Are Addin j to Our Stock Continually Just Airived T ry our Alta and Champion I Brands Coffee I Prices right and Quality guaranteed to give complete satisfaction. Busy Corner Grocery Coquille, Ore. gave him a close second. For corn Gearhart is said to have an extra good piece. Pearly Crowley dug about 200 bushels of spuds from an acre. School Dist. No. 32 voted to raise a two mill tax which gives close to $1500. The estimate post ed called for $565 88 to be raised by special tax Eight tenths of a mill would more than give it. To vole $1500 is going some with other peo ple’s money. The Herald’s expression of the opinion that Mr. It may be th a t W. C. Hawley will receive strong sup Hughes stands as much chance of election as a rabbit port from Coos county voters; but if he do it will be no seems to have stirred up considerable comment, favorable great evidence of their intelligent appreciation of their Miss Zella Summerlin, teacher, and the pupils of Dist. No. 32 gave and otherwise. Today, with only half as many days be own interests, a good entertainment and basket fore election we wish to reiterate our conviction th a t Mr. | of Chas. Shepherd who, with bis social Friday night. Thirty or] Wilson will succeed himself. We believe that he has it boys, is working on the roads in more baskets sold, receipts around] coming. The campaign against him has failed to bring $40 or more. this and neighboring settlements. The Herald’s Special Coos County out any good reason for a change. On the other hand, it Sure, we forgot something—that Fred Baker rides in a Buick these News Service is that the home of R. A. Easton days. has brought out the fact that he has an almighty bum lies between that of the Culbertsons bunch of old stand-by politicians against him in the larger Had been wondering why the! R andom Ram bles and Shepherds. Mr. Easton is the Herald man didn’t say something j field. The campaign of fault-finding and criticism has Sage of the East Fork. There is a been tiresome, and Mr. Hughes has failed to place himself Je r a ld ’s Special C. C. News Service) considerable area on the top of his about the delinquent taxes of the] Kinney property, Frank Waite and (By a Rambler) in an enviable light. The pitiable weakness of many of As we stated in cmr last letter we cranium that is conspicuous by the his little old mortgage. Isn’ t the the “ arguments” used has been very noticeable, and the visited another thriving section the lack of any perceptible growth of Mr. Hammond who wrote that spiel attem pt to work the old bugaboos has been ridiculous. past week. We will pay attention hair. We did not inquire as to the in behalf of this long suffering The prophecies made of the dire calamities th at will over to the Brewster Valley country cause, though we chatted with him county (of course he did not write take us after the European war is over unless we erect mainly, but in passing we want to for a tew minutes and incidentally, it in the interest of Frank Waite), sampled some ol his fine apples, a tariff a mile high is about the sickest proposition that note an item or two of interest in but, if we were to guess, we should the same Hammond who was the lawver for a man by the name of upper McKinley ever came down the pike. Those who like th a t sort of Our first night was spent at the say that this was caused by too Conro, who sued Kinney for $100,- gruel are welcome to absorb it, but if the American peo home of Chas. Heller. Mt. Heller long-continued and deep thinking, 000 or more, and the suit went ple in general have not done too much thinking about the and his eldest son have been out thus ovetheating the head and fluey and there was $20 costs? He tariff, we miss our guess. Against the fact th at Mr. Wil with a threshing outfit this fall and, scorching the roots of the hair. must have taken that suit on a Continued on Page 3 spec. Did he write the letter for son has actually kept us out of war there are marshalled having finished with this, they took Waite on a spec? I f Waite thinks the engine and ensilage cutter and R iverton Briefs —what? More comedy. Against the fact that he has that property is such poor stuff went out to fill silos They were refused to be drawn into the Mexican situation to the ex still engaged in this on our visit (Herald’s Special C. C. News Service) now, he must have different dreams tent of an intervention that would add untold millions to there. Just lately arrived a ten pound than he had when he was unload the bank rolls of certain American high-rollers, we are The next place we visited was hoy at the home of Isaac NVatson. ing Plat B. Not Kinney but Waite told about the “ American lives” that have been lost in the home of Louie Heller He has The mother and child are doing got some of our money. We are still paying taxes and waiting for Mexico. We are apparently expected to forget th a t it a sawmill on the Frank Snow place well. Have you seen Else Paterson the rise. Funny, isn’t it, that pro and was busy with it. We had j would cost any “ American lives” to go in and pacify lately? He is all smiles. Cause— perty would be of no value to the Mexico. But it is too late to argue the issues of the cam read some weeks ago ol the sad ac- i arrival of Else Juuior, on Oct. 18. county but so valuable to the man cident that befell Mrs. Heller, who j paign. The people have made up their minds how they was thrown by a horse she w a s1 S. C Sherrill, prin. and Miss E l who holds the mortgage. are going to vote; and a week from tonight it will be gen holding and had her hip dislocated sie Philpot, prituaty teachor, a t Why should Eastern Oregon not tended the county Institute held j erally known that the “ unterrified” will have another and the bone broken. We found last week at Marshfield They re have a normal school? My vote her still in bed, but looking bright port a well attended and interesting goes for the Pendleton norma], and four-years’ lease on the post offices. Coos County If L. A. Liljeqvist is defeated next Tuesday, it will be very poor encouragement for future prosecuting attorneys to get in and prosecute. The careful listener will find th a t the objection to Mr. Liljeqvist really is that, as pros ecuting attorney, he has prosecuted. The argum ent that he has not prosecuted every case th at could possibly be drummed up is not sincere. It is the old dodge of finding something to hang an objection on in the case of prosecu tions that have actually been made. “ Why did he arrest these women now, when he did not arrest them a year ago?" Or, if we take the Agitator, why did he arrest them at all? Why did he send the only man he could convict to the pen for the Myrtle Point bank robbery, when others were concerned in the crime and he couldn’t catch them? Why, when he has a booze case to prosecute, does he use witnesses of the kind th at are likely to know something about it? Why does he try to convict when he has a case to prosecute, instead of acting also as attorney for the defense? Why isn’t he always “ fair” and cour teous to witnesses on the stand when he has good reason to think th a t they are lying? Why, in fact, does he not act a namby-pamby, milk and water part? It rather looks I W e have just received the largest shipment of Canned Fruit ever made to the Coquille Valley. The greater part of this shipment has been sold and is now being delivered to our customers. W e may have a few cases left at Bargain Prices. If you haven’t bought, come and see us and we will take care of you if we can. and cheerful and able to sit up a session. with it a prayer, if that school is Mr. McGee, superintendent of established, thrt its record will not little. Her many friends hope tor the crew working in the coal mine, make the shadow of a corkscrew a speedy return to health. says that the demand for coal is so Next we visited the home of H. | great that a double crew is working, look like a straight line. Bunch and touud them all torn up to try to meet the demand. R . A. EASTO N ready to move to Gravel Ford , , . Mr. Shanks, who is the black- B ridge Briefs where they intend to spend the stnit(j for dle Crane logging camp, winter to give the children a chance ] in a short time wdl move to Ban- to go to school. dou where be will have charge of a (Herald's Special C. C. News Service) Wending our devious way over cabinet plant, Mrs Allan McCready and little the hills, amid the autumn colored Isaac Watson donated a plane son Fay LeRoy hnve been visiting forests, we next came to the home an^ bit to the manual training He also for a few days with Mrs. McCready’s ot Ed win Marcy. The Marcys are °_f,,he <ch° o1 mother, Mrs. Mary H. Wadman. i loaned a level. located in the upper part of the James Wadman was also at home Mr. Floyd, our genial carpenter, Dora section on the main Coos Bay who helped to lomplete Coquille for a day or two. road. They have a nice farm here creamery. Is at lit tie again. Mrs. W J Longston, of Coquille, and Mrs. Marcy devotes much of The Riverton hotel is undergoing addressed a number of the voters her time to the open, looking after repairs. It is rum 'red that a board- here Thursday night at the church stock and poultry. Mr. M,.rcy ] mg house is to be opened in the in regard to the constitutional made a trip to town to secure the building. NK PLUS U l t r a . amendments. new $120 heating outfit that is be East Fork Item s Mrs F. C. Rookard visited sev ing installed in their seboolhouse. 1 On again through more woods .. _ “ . _ . . eral days last week with Mrs. Lucy . 1 .1 1 ¡(Heralds Special C. C. News Service) Culver and autumn grandeur to the lower J Brewster Valley. Here we met M.| Llo>'d Leatherman says John Paul Wilcntt is clerking io the C. Miller and family, also the W. Near has the best piece of silo corn Farmers’ store this week while A. 1 T. Culbertsons. Next is the home on the East Fork. E K. Marcy Ford is gone on « hunting trip. MAXIMUM Household Rubber Goods Are Guarinteed for TWO YEARS (J They are the Maximum quality—the very best Para rubber possible to obtain •I Maximum wo-kmanship—the highest degree of technical and mechanical shill in every process of manufacture. CJ Maximum utilr.y— reinforcements where needed extra thick ness where neede 1, extra sizes where needed. •I Maximum good looks—perfection of outline and finish that stamps every piec - a work of art, a thing of beauty. FUHRMAN’S PHARMACY The Rexall Store % D ry Shiplap, Finish, Flooring and Rustic W ISCO N SIN S ILO S Several Lots of Lumber at S p e c ia l P r ic e s E. E. JO H N SO N Why Should Oregon Vote Pendleton $125,000 and one-twenty-fifth of a mill for a normal school only 21 miles from where the state owns a good pla it at Weston which requires but one- fortieth of a mill annual maintenance to put it in successful operation? Read page 28 of the voters’ pamphlet; and if you want to avoid need less taxation, vote 309 X No Paid Advertisement-S. A. Barnes, Weston, Oregon