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i tions a cooperative foreign selling agency. He states that there is some doubt about the legality of such an organi zation, and says that while such is the case it is impossible P U B L IS H E D E V E R Y T U E S D A Y to secure action on the part of the lumbermen. Entered as second-class matter M ay 8, 1905, at the post office at Among all the discussion and difference of opinion Coquille, Oregon, under act of Congrees of M arch 3, 1879. with regard to trade conditions after the war, one fact stands out upon which nearly everyone who ventures an P. C. L E V A R , LESSEE A N D E D IT O R opinion appears to agree. • is is that there will be the R O Y M . A V E R Y . B U SIN E SS M A N A G E R stiffest competition in world trade that has ever been Devoted to the material and social upbuilding of the Coquille Valley known. Lumbermen realize this, and while the demand particularly and of C oos County generally. now is great they do not care to venture into the field of Gallon Fruits No. 2 1-2 Size Subscription, $ 1 .5 0 per year, in advance. Phone Main 381 European markets only to lose them when fhe war is over. Pie Peaches per can______ 35c Crimson King Brand Peaches 2 can 25c For many years most of the world powers have en Table Peaches Water Pack 40c Crimson King Brand Apricots per can 15c couraged cooperative selling—especially in foreign trade. ROAD MATTERS Table Peaches good Syrup 50c Silver Flower Peaches good syrup per can 20c During these years the United States have always assumed There is probably no man or woman who h as lived in a shocked expression at the mention o f anything that Pie Apricots_____________ 40c Silver Flower Cherries per can 25c this county long enough to take any i nterest in the sub looked like a combination in the constraint of trade, either Red Letter Extra Fancy Peaches per can 25c ject who will not wax eloquent on the subject of the mon domestic or foreign. But even the United States can Canned V e g e ta b le s Red Letter Extra Fancy Pears per can 25c ey that has been wasted on Coos county roads. The sub grasp a progressive idea if it is pressed upon them with Park or Lion Corn per can 10c Red Letter Extra Fancy Apricots per can 25c ject is as wide as any road that we now have, and as deep sufficient force, and the present war is hammering home Silver Thistle Corn 2 cans 25c Red Letter Extra Fancy Cherries per can 35c as the mud in any that we formerly had. Enough money with irresistible force the fact that, if we want what is Special Prices in Case Lots for a Short Time Wellman or Paris Corn has been spent on roads in Coos county to—but you all coming to us we have got to go out and get it. per can___ 15c Hillsdale Sliced Pineapple 2 Cans 25c know the rest. When Congress meets again in December the Webb Eagle Brand Peas 1 c a n .._ 10c Park Sliced Pineapple 1 can ___________ 15c It is lamentably true that money has been misspent, bill will doubtless come up for consideration again. It Park Brand Peas 2 cans 25c Wellman Sliced Pineapple N o.l size 1 can 15c misappropriated, grafted and otherwise wasted from the has passed the House and there seems to be no good rea Silver Thistle Peas 1 can 15c Wellman Sliced Pineapple No.2 size 1 can 20c earliest dawn of the era o f road-making in this county. son why it should not pass the Senate and receive the Wellman Petit Pois 1 can..15c Wellman Sliced Pineapple No.2 1-2 1 can 25c Probably the same thing is true of every Western county President’s signature. Then, with the field open before on the map and perhaps o f some not in the West. The them, it will be up to the lumbermen to grasp the oppor community that will learn anything from the experience tunity offered and meet the competition that is bound to of any other courr.munity in the matter of road building come when the people, who are now devoting every ener has yet to be discovered. Each has to go through the gy to butchering their kind, again seek the markets they same distressing process of learning by dearly-bought ex have lost through neglect. perience. That a large part of this process has been sur This is only one phase of the foreign trade problem; vived by the people of this county is quite gratifying and but the same argument holds good in the others and lum gives hope for better things in the future. But that fu ber is what affects us most directly here in the Northwest. ture is still some way in advance, and there are still too —R. M. A. many people who have not yet seen that modern ideas Phone 691 and 541 Coquille, Ore. Front and C Streets may profitably be employed in road building in Coos as The attention of Coquille merchants is called to a live • well as in any other county. There are still many who illustration having a bearing on the great problem of why consider the employment of a skilled road builder as a use people send away for goods, or buy them elsewhere than less extravagance. They consider the money paid for sys in their home town. A live Marshfield merchant is plac Contracts Are Let tematizing the work as a waste. The inauguration of a ing his announcement before the people of Coquille system of book accounts that make a record available to through the Herald. That he is getting results is evident The contracts for the metal desks, show not only the actual cost o f a piece of road but exact from the fact that he continues to advertise through this counters, cases, files and other furni ture and fittings for the sheriff’s and ly what each dollar of the money was expended for is paper. Isn’t this worth the attention of the home mer county clerk’s offices in the court house looked upon as a simple piece of graft, to give somebody a chants—those who have well-stocked stores, but who de ! annex now nearing completion, have soft job. A record to show just how many yards of earth pend on the exploded theory that “ everybody knows they been let by the county court to Bushong & Co., o f Portland. were actually moved on each section of road is not are here” and therefore advertising is not necessary? Mr. The first contract covered light and thought to be worth the expense of getting and keeping Bromberger wants trade from Coquille; he has a good heavy steel cases, cornices and bases for the same, heavy and light letter it. The employment of a competent and reliable man to stock and knows that he can please the customers who and hook cases, plain shelves and shelf UPPOSE that tomorrow you see a chance see that a contractor does the work he is paid for is not come to him from over here. He treats them right, and cases for book stalls, and in fact all the where by investing $500 or $1,000 in a busi ness venture you can double your money. worth while. In fact, to argue that the county should every satisfied customer is a good ad sent out among the stationery fittings and furnishings re quired for the offices. The amount o f Are you ready for that opportunity ? If conduct its road affairs on business principles and with neighbors. He is only taking trade that could be secured this contract was $5,016.20. you are not, the man with the ready check 1 • book is. He always carries a goodly balance some sort of rational system is to find many antagonists. by the Coquille merchants if they had the snap and ginger Another contract with the same firm provi ed for a typewriter desk, two in bank waiting for the opportunities which This article is not intended as in any sense a defense or a to go after it and were not afraid of spending a little of flat t o p desks, a vault table, a vault daily present themselves in the business world. two roller shelf desks and a boost for the present road-master. He may be perfectly their spare time in studying the very important advertis cup This is an age of quick action. Ileal estate and busi • lhe sheriff’ s office; also a ness deals are consummated within the hour. Your competent and he may not. We are under the impression ing end of their business. Whatever goes to him is his by at 1 • ‘ ,a poll book case, a credit in the community may be excellent. You may that he is, but we don’t know. But on the general propo right of conquest, and it is certainly better chat the trade ization case for the be able, if gi cn a little time, to borrow enough money ( ce, all for $1,352.75. to put through a deal. But the man with the ready sition of doing our road building on business principles, which our own merchants let slip through their fingers (or the jail furnishing cash, the man with the check book, will get the prefer rather than by the old slipshod methods, we do not believe should go to Marshfield than to Chicago or New York. was I H. J. Blaesing, o f Port ence. that there is any chance for intelligent controversy. land. for ’ 0. This contract includes B E R E A D Y WITH A C HECK BOOK TO GRASP not only been “ on the pumpkin” the removal from the basement o f the The writer has lived in Coos county since before there AN OPPORTUNITY. house to the third story o f the was a wagon road out of Marshfield in any direction; be Coos County but inside of it. VV. B. Mater says court annex o f the court house, o f the double this cold snap pinches him, as much entrance doors, two cells for women’ s Farmers and Merchants Bank fore there was a wagon road connecting this valley with The Herald’ s Special Coos County tristntf as 15 below zero in Wyoming. department, two cells for the juvenile News Service the interior o f the state; before a Marshfield-Coquille Bud Ingraham and family are department and one padded cell for the “ City” road was thought of. He has done road work on insane. This work is to be done as living in the house Clark Bunch soon after January 1 as the new build East Fork Items the old “ Randolph trail,” a thoroughfare that will be re ■% built on his homestead. ing is ready. The new jail equipment membered by only the older settlers. He has “ worked (Herald’s Special C. C. News Service) to be furnished under this contract con Wm. Bettys is visiting his broth sists o f three steel cells, each cell hav out his road tax” under the old system; he has hired oth Ivan I.aird and Alva Harry havej er-in-law J . D. Laird. ing two folding bunks on each side, 7 ers as cultus as himself to do it for him. He has seen the returned. They made a trip from John Culbertson, a cousin of the feet, ten inches long and 2J feet wide. road tax collected in the Marshfield district “ expended” their home in a Ford that had been East Fork Culbertsons, and family Another contract is for three vault in keeping open a part of the four mile footpath then lead stripped lor action ol all unneces- , are living on the old John Miller doors for $-109.50.—Times. ..* • ■ ing to Empire City. He has seen road tax collected in a dis sary deck Inrniture, via Rosebutg place on Elk Creek. R . A. E A S T O N . Married thence through Southern Oregon, trict in which existed not even a trail on which to expend over the Siskiyous, down the Sac it. He has seen a road supervisor sit on the sidewalk in ramento valley, then to Stockton | ENDICOTT I.AIRL)—In Brewster val Riverton Briefs ley, November 19, 1916, Irving Endi- Sumner for half a day superintending the work of one by the upper or lower Stockton cott and Miss Eva Laird, Rev. Baker man the net result being about what would be accomplish road, thence up the San Joaquin (Herald’s Special C. C. News Service) officiating. ed by one husky boy in an hour. He has seen the work valley, and over the mountains into The weather has been cold The wedding took place at the resi dence o f the bride’s parents, Mr. and ings of the old system, under which the “ viewers” met Southern California which they enough during the recent cold snap Mrs. Jas. Laird, and was attended by took in all the way to the Mexican to Ireeze water pipes and cause and did as much in a day as a competent engineer would a large number o f the relatives and line of Lower California. The them to burst. friends o f the young peopel. The resi now require a week for—that is, they would “ lay out” Ford jumped the line and landed dence was full to overflowing, and the miles of road over hills and through thick timber, which them in a town that commences t There have been great improve guests were in the same condition after ments made lately at the mine. A the wedding supper had been served, There they met with an made it impossible for them to select the best route with with T new and well constructed shed has o f a quality and in such abundance as accident that almost proved serious out much exploration, a fact that never bothered them been built over the tracks and boil is seldom seen even among the hospit Several Lots of Lumber at much so long as the grades were not over 45 degrees and A runaway rail car caught the hind ers and machinery. A steel track j able people o f the country. Those who end of the Ford just as they got off is being laid down into the mine, j were present are enthusiastic in their they got home in time for supper. He has seen the work the track. Ivan was thrown out description o f the “ good time” enjoyed done by one supervisor abandoned or all done over by his and just missed having an arm cut A bath is being constructed so the by all. The groom is driving the auto successor the following year. He has seen road su p e ri off by the runaway, and was run boys on coming out of the miuej truck which runs from McKinley to may wash aud take a shower bath. 1 Sumner carrying the mail, and the ors appointed, not with any regard to their fitness for the over by their own car, but there ] There is to be a basket social and [ young couple will make their residence work, but “ because they needed it.” He has seen gross was not enough weight to that to program given by the Riverton at Sumner. ly defective work done by a contractor and then accepted hurt. They made the return trip school just before the holiday vaca- j New Cases Filed up the coast to San Francisco and by the county court against the protest of all the people shipped from there to Bandt.n. tion. Special announcement will interested. He has seen our road affairs in entire control They left Brewster Valley Oct. 8; i be made later. The following cases were filed with Next Friday afternoon a debate the county clerk during the past week: of a county court knowing as much about road building as saw country and sights galore, and Edna Maud Ladd vs. Aimer W. Ladd. will be had by the Seventh and a hog does about hasheesh. He has seen the county grad were back in Coos Nov. 4. Chas. W. Dye vs. Christian Moller. Levina Elizabeth Baird vs. Walter Ford is the man who popularized Eighth grades ol the school. A ually working toward better things. He considers that short program will be given. The H. Baird. Under New Management one of the wisest steps ever taken by the county court was automobiling, and made automobile exercises are to begin at 2:30 p, m. Wm. O. Deubner vs. B. F. W yatt et touring popular. There is some Having leased this well-equipped hotel, I propose the employment of a road master, notwithstanding the al. thing funny about that man Ford The question for debate is: " R e Euphemia McCulloch vs. Ira Chap to conduct it in such a manner as to merit pat poor judgment used in selecting the road master first ap When you think ol Ford you solved, That the Indiin has more man. ronage and give satisfaction to the traveling pointed. He believes that a reasonable amount of money never hi"' of his dollars, you right to complain of the illt real - National Cash Register Co. vs. A. H. public. spent in the “ overhead” department o f our road activities think u e man The same way ment of the white mao than the Lewis. THE COQUILLE HERALD ■ I Canned Goods! Canned Goods! i I Fresh supply o f Fruits and Vegetables to arrive Thursday e Busy Corner Grocery I j Dry Shipfap, Finish, Flooring and Rustic WISCO/NSI/N SILOS Special Prices % R. E. JOHNSON HOTEL is not a waste but a wise economy. He believes that with Edison. When you think of negro.” many of those who are kicking would be boosting instead Edison you never think whether he has a dollar in his pocket, or clothes if they knew what they were talking about. N e P lus U l t r a Mrs. Rose on his back, you think ol the brains III., has had that are in his head. But when ment o f this CO-OPERATIVE SELLING you think of Rockefeller or Carne my children \. On another page of this issue is a Tacoma dispatch gie, yon think dollars. There is a croup freque Remedy alwa giving the views of C. S. Keith regarding the lumber in mighty big difference in the think immediately the , u hous. . : in ilia u u st. 1 .1 ^ dustry after the war is over; in which connection he men- For the past week the frost has { for coughs and colds with good resi Maggie Campbell vs. Iver Johnson, etc. David McLochlan vs. Mary McLoch- lan. The W a y o f It. "Smith has been having contrary kinds o f trouble." " flo w so?" “ Ills salary was very much cut down. and he was In consequence very much cut up.” —Baltimore American. BAXTER CH ARLES B A X T F R , Proprietor PARKERS A L ----- H A I “ R B BA SAM 1 CHICHESTER S Pit « i n \ n i r t u Iv It \ \ A to ile t p rep aration o f m erit. Helps to e ra d ic a te d and ru ff. 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