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
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I
Canned Goods!
Canned
Goods!
i
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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.
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