T he C oquille H erald
VOL. 35,
NO. 12
SYNOPSIS OF
MANY EVENTS
News of County, State and
N ational Interest Told in
Brief Concise Form
BR0CCÜL11SIMPOHTAM t,R0P
P ortland Consum ers Boycott
Excessive Prices
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1916.
Estim ate Too High
Touching the probable cost of the
proposed bridge at this place, consider­
able estimating of a very liberal char­
acter seems to have been done at some
time, and the people here have an im­
pression that the expense would be
considerable in excess of $20,000. Our
esteemed contemporary states that the
cost of a bridge here over one at Cedar
Point "might mean the expenditure of
as much as $15,000.” In this connec­
tion considerable interest attaches to a
newspaper clipping which W. L. Kist-
ner has preset ved and which was shown
the Herald man by A. J. Sherwood. It
gives a view of the bridge recently
completed, across the Cowlitz river at
Kelso, Wash. By the figures given
the bridge is 900 feet long; towers 90
feet in height; draw 100 feet; suspen­
sion span 300 feet -and cost $17,000.
The half tone view of the bridge indi­
cates that the situation is very much
like that of the proposed bridge at this
place, and there seems no good reason
why the one here should cost any more.
With the effort of the Sentinel to in­
duce our people to take active steps to
insure that the bridge will be built at
Coquille, however, the Herald is heart­
ily in sympathy.
James L. Coke of Hawaii was ap­
pointed third judge of the Circuit Court
of the First Circuit of Hawaii by Presi­
dent Wilson.
Football claimed fifteen lives this
year, according to figures compiled by
the Associated Press. Last year six­
teen were killed. In 1915, only one col­
lege player was killed.
The funeral of William Kinnicutt
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who was injured in a runaway at Med­
ford Nov. 22 and who died last Monday County Roads R em ade
at his home in that city, was held at
and Scenery C hanged
2:30 Thursday at Myrtle Point.
shortly after three o’clock Friday af­ F o r H isto ric a l R aid o f K u K lux K la n in
ternoon a sneak thief entered the
“ T h e B irth o f a N a tio n ”
Southern Pacific freight depot in North
Bend and tapped the till for its entire
When David W. Griffith started the
contents, about $15. No clue to the outdoor staging of the Civil War and
identity of the thief has been found.
Reconstruction scenes in "The Birth of
The State Industrial Accident Com­ Nation,” which will be shown at the
mission have awarded compensation to Scenic Friday afternoon and evening,
dependents of two miners who were he was confronted with seemingly in­
victims of the recent explosion at Bea­ superable difficulties. An area of pri­
ver Hill. These were the families of vate war was required about as large
Martin L. Bomar and Cyrus Ferreri.
as the corner of Belgium occupied by
Exclusive of the valuations of the the Anglo-French forces. Thousands
public service corporations the total of cavalrymen had to be shown, in an
valuation of the taxable property in historic raid of the North Carolina
the state this year is $761.035,127, ac­ clans. Their run was to be many,
cording to reports received hy the state many miles of typical Southern sandy
tax commission. This is $51,481,512 roads. Though an acknowledged wi­
less than last year.
zard of the films, Mr. Griffith is not a
Secretary Daniels has awarded con­ “ war lord" with power to commandeer.
In this emergency, the county au­
tracts for more than $65,000,01*0 worth
of new fighting ships for the navy, in­ thorities of "The Birth of a Nation”
cluding four battleships at $11,000,000 producing local were applied to. They
each, two fleet submarines at about finally consented to mark off an area of
$1,190,000 each, and twenty-seven coast ten square miles for the use of the
submarines at from $094,000 to $098,000 horsemen. Along all the roads within
this area, the county commissioners
each.
An echo of the holocaust at Bunker pasted notices forbidding all traffic on
Hill a year ago last February, was "the day of days.” Pedestrians were
found last week in a $10,000 damage also warned off. lfut the roads them­
case filed by Geo W. Craig against the selves did not look southern. David
C. A. Smith Co. Craig is suing for the Griffith handled this difficulty with the
loss of his son who was one of the authorities’ permission—by remaking
seven victims of the boarding house such of the highways as would come
within the camera’s eye. Many tons
fire.
Enough steel to lay 10,000 feet of of sand and gravel were spread by
tracks has arrived in the yards of the gangs of his workmen. Landscape en­
Southern Pacific company at Eugene, gineering changed the look of the land­
and the work of laying the freight sid­ scape to the rounded hills, piny woods
ings on either side of the main line of and deep gullies of old North State.
the Coos Bay branch is well under way, The -ace of the northern clansmen to
says the Register. The work of erect­ rescue their South Carolina brethren
ing the roundhouse is expected to start took place on the appointed day, with­
soon. Work is progressing on the foun­ out an accident or a Paw. After it
was over, M**. Griffith’s men scraped
dation of the new water tank.
the sand off the macadam roads, took
Five hundred Portland men and wom­ down the signs, and life in the sleepy
en in a mass meeting Saturday night countryside resumed its normal course.
voted a two weeks’ boycott on eggs, j It cost about $25,0t)0 to do the trick—
They are asking all housewives to join j the producer thinks it was worth all it
them. They also authorized the ap­ cost, particularly after hearing the en­
pointment of a committee to investigate thusiastic comments of "The Birth of a
the public market with the idea of as­
Nation” patrons on his work.
certaining why the farmers boost the
prices of their products every time the
Big Tim ber Deal
grocer boosts his.
Following is a classification of the li- j
quor affidavits signed in Coos during
One of the biggest timber deals in
the month of October
Coos county in years, and one which
Quarts may prove of far-reaching significance,
No. Permits
Kind
.1538 is now being completed, says the Coos
.769 ......
Whiskey
3321
139
Beer
...... 65 Bay Times.
.... 33 .....
Alcohol
The C. A. Smith Company is ex­
21
13
Wine
14 changing its timE>er holdings in the up­
.... 7 ......
Gin, etc.
4959 per Coos River section and east of there
961
Total
to the Fdlsbury and allied timber inter­
The force of men employed on the ests for their holdings in the vicinity of
jetty at the mouth of the Umpqua be­ Powers. Considerably over a billion
gan driving piling for the receiving feet of timber is involved in each tract.
dock. Fred Earl, who was employed
The deal is said to be practically com­
by the railroad company for over two pleted, but none of the officials of the
years as engineer on their piledriver in companies involved are now on the Bay,
building bridges across the Umpqua so no information could be obtained
River and Coos Bay, has the position of about it.
engineer on the jetty driver. The The exchange of the timber itself is
work is beginning to take shape, the part of the plan that was announced by
past days of fine weather helping con­ Mr. Chaney in The Times a few months
siderably, enabling the contractors to ago when he gave out the details of se­
get the living houses and accommoda­ gregating the Smith holdings and sell­
tions for the men who are to work on ing off timber and lands not essential
the jetty in good condition.—Gardiner to the Coos Bay mills and industries of
Courier.
the oompany.
Two carloads of crate materials for
He said then that an effort would be
shipping broccoli were ordered at the made to concentrate the logging opera­
meeting of the South Umpqua Associa­ tions in the vicinity of Powers and it is
tion at Riddle last week, and in addi­ understood that the deal gives the
tion enough more have been ordered to Smith Company practically solid hold­
make a total of more than 15,000 crates, ings in that district, thereby facilitat­
which will hold not less than 30 carlbads ing and reducing the expense of log­
of crated product. The broccoli in this ging operations.
part of the country on the whole is
making a very satisfactory showing at
R em em ber th e M atinee
this time. The season for this crop has
not been so propitious as last year on
All who wish to s r r " T h e Birth
account of the long drought during the
early fall, and the exceptionally cold ot a N a tio n ” at the Scenic Friday,
weather that has been experienced at who can attend in the afternoon,
this season, but present conditions are should do so. N ot only will they
very good for the successful growth of s a v e hall of their money, bu t they
broccoli. The shipments from Riddle
this winter will bring in the neighbor­ will leave mo»e room for these who
T h e p e r­
hood of $18,000 to $20,000 into this sec- come in the ev en ing
formance will be exactly the same
STORM FATAL
TO SAILOR
O scar Johnson, Sailor on S.S.
Newberg, W ashed O ver­
board in Blow
MANY TELEPHONE LINES DOWN
Plate Glass W indow s Broken
In B andon
The storm that visited this part of
the country Saturday night is said to
be one of the hardest ever experienced
here. From the various reports that
have come in the blow seems to have
been general on the Washington and
Oregon coast and is said to have shifted
south on Sunday.
One death, that of Oscar Johnson, a
sailor on the steam schooner Newburg,
which put into Coos Bay Sunday, is re­
ported as a result of the storm.
The Newburg was from San Fran­
cisco and coming north In ballast. The
storm sprung up about 11:30 Saturday
night, while the vessel was off Coos
Bay, and it was in trying to save the
lifeboats from the storm that Johnson
was lost. No one saw the accident.
Considerable damage was done to the
boat and she came into the bay for re­
pairs.
The Coos and Curry Telephone com­
pany were the heaviest sufferers as far
as the destruction of property was con­
cerned. Every line connecting Coquille
with other towns went down during
Saturday night and until r early noon
Sunday Coquille was isolated, and had
no communication with county or out­
side towns. Reports from the Bay in­
dicate that the damage to the telephone
lines there was as bad or worse than
here.
At Bandon the show windows of the
business houses seemed to get the
worst of it, three large ones being
broken by the terrific wind. At Myrtle
Point it is reported that some houses
that were in the course of construction
were blown down.
Coquille suffered no damage as far as
is known although the wind here Sun-
d *y morning was blowing a gale.
The story of the storm at sea as re­
lated by Captain Masten of the New­
burg, is given by the Coos Bay Times
as follows:
A stiff breeze had prevailed through­
out Saturday afternoon and evening,
but nothing worse than is to be expect­
ed off the coast at this time of the
year. However, a rapidly falling glass
caused some anxiety and after dark­
ness set in, the breeze freshened con­
siderably, until by 9 p. m. it had reach­
ed the proportions of a gale. But the
worst was yet to come, and at 10
o’clock Captain Masten realized he was
in for a storm which would tax his skill
as a navigator to the utmost. The
gale was from the southeast, and he
estimates that its speed was nearly 90
miles an hour between 10 p. m. and
midnight. All hands were ordered on
deck and each was allotted his task in
an effort to make everything fast be­
fore the course of the Newburg was
changed when the big seas would be
abeam.
Among several seamen ordered to
secure the bouts and other gear was
Oscar Johnson, aged thirty, a Finn,
who was shipped on llie Newburg at
fsan Francisco for this trip to Coos Hay,
where the vessel was to load lumber at
the Smith mill. Owing to the heavy
wind and the great volume of spray
which continually swept the vessel,
every man had to look out for himself,
and consequently had very little oppor­
tunity to ascertain how it went with
his neighbor. Several big green seas
struck the vessel and one of the boats
was badly damaged, while another was
stove in.
As the Newburg was practically in
ballast she made heavier going of the
storm than might have been the case
if she had carried cargo, and when a
big sea struck her amidships, one of
her guards was badly sprung, while the
deck was continually awash as one
wave followed another theentire length
of the vessel.
M odern W a r Cost G reat
war approximate f.lu.ulO.OOO.OOO. The
difference of $12,OKI,000,000 between
these borrowings and the war’s cost
consists partly in additional taxes, but
chiefly in inflation of currency and in
temporary advances.
England, as
hanker for the entente, has borrowed
more than the war has cost it, but a
goodly share of its borrowing has
financed Russia and several of the small
nations. It defrays a larger part of
Us expense for war from taxes than
any other country does.
Germany appears to have u deficit of
more than $2,000,000,000, but the loans
and circulation of its national bank
have increased nearly twice that
amount, suggesting one source from
which the deficit may be retrieved.
Austria-Hungary apparently is $2,400,-
000,000 in debt permanently for the
war, but very little is known about Us
provisional system of finance. Russia
lags furthest behind in permanent pro­
vision for its costs of war, the reported
loans and the estimated expenditures
for war diverging by $3,000,000,000.
The war’s daily cost reached a max­
imum months ago and has since re­
mained stationary, except that Italy re­
ports a considerable decrease. It ap­
proximates $104,600,000 daily and costs
the entente about twice as much as it
costs the Teutonic powers and their
allies. The national debts of the bel­
ligerents have grown from $27,000,000,-
000 to $77,500,000,000. Can they ever
be paid?—Spokesman-Review.
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Lim ited Derailed
The Coos Bay Limited, south bound,
was derailed between here and Myrtle
Point Wednesday night when it ran on­
to a cow sleeping on the track. The ac­
cident occurred near the rock quarry.
The engine and the baggage car were
derailed and the engine turned nearly
crosswise on the track.
The accident did not cause any
injury to the passengers who for
an instant were somewhat fright­
ened at the terrific squeaking of
the brakes and the sudden jerky stop
that was made. W. Taylor Jones, the
superintendent at Marshfield immedi­
ately dispatched a work train with a
number of men to clear the track. He
also ordered automobiles from Myrtle
Point to take the passengers on to that
city, which was done with very little
delay or discomfort.
The crew worked all night getting
the train back on the track, and repair­
ing the small amrunt of damage done
to the equipment.
This delayed the train about three
hours on its north bound trip.
This is the first accident that has
happened, even during the operation
when the road was under construction,
traffiic was kept going without acci­
dent.
H ere, Too
S. Taylor Jones, superintendent of
the local Southern Pacific line, was at
the local station a few minutes Mon­
day, says the Myrtle Point Enterprise.
In response to the statement from
the editor that the people of Myrtle
Point and the Myrtle Point Section
would like very much to see the com­
pany arrange their schedule so that
No. 502 would arrive at thii place at
5:30 instead of 7:40 as is the case at
present, Mr. Jones stated that there is
now a move on looking toward having
the train lervt Portland earlier in the
morning, as well as to extend the run
to Powers, but how soon the change
will be affected he was not in a posi­
tion to say at this time
Mr. Jones
states that he will be pleased when a
new depot is constructed at this sta­
tion. Here, too, Pete.
R eserved S eat Sale
In compliance with the demand which
seems to exist, reserved seats for the
evening performance of “The Birth of
a Nation” have been placed on sale.
There will be no reserved seats for the
matinee in the afternoon, but seats for
the evening performance may be se­
cured at the Herald office until 6 p. m.
Friday without extra charge. The
the four front rows of seats down
stairs have been placed at 75 cents for
adults. All others will be $1.00. Chil­
dren under 13 occupying seats will pay
full price for the $1.00 seats, and 25
cents for the front rows. Matinee pri­
ces will be 25c for children, 50c for
adults.
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Collier
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M anw aring
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James Collier, formerly of Coquille,
The war's cost to the belligerents and who now lives at Marshfield, and
confounds human capacities for com­ Miss Hazel Manwaring, of Langlois,
prehension. The imagination reaches were married at the M. E. Church
out in efforts to apprehend the statisti­ South parsonage Thursday by Rev. H.
cians’ figures of $62,000,000,000, but the M. Law. Mr. and Mrs. Collier left
understanding has no terms of com­ Saturday for Marshfield where they ex­
parison in which to state and realize pect to reside in the future.
these stupendous and almost unthink­
Mr. Collier, who lived in Coquille for
able figures. To say that 28 months of many years, is at present employed by
this war have cost nearly ten times as the Southern Pacific on construction
much as 22 years of Napoleon’s wars work.
helps but little. The sums and compu­
Miss Manwaring has frequently vis-
tations mean about as much—and little 1 ¡ted Coquille and is well known here.
—as the light years used by the as­
j She came here Wednesday from San
tronomers to expreos the distance of
Franciico where she had been visiting.
the uttermost stars and the time their
light takes to reach us.
Two cases of infantile paralysis have
The Wall Street Journal reports that been discovered n e a r Roseburg b y
national loans directly owing to the i Health Officer A. N. Roberg.
RURAL SCHOOLS
PROGRESSIVE
PER YEAR $1.50
Coosonian D ance a Success
u ff
en g in eer “
The second Coosonian dance which
was held Than sgiving night at the
Heazlet hall was a success in every way.
About fifty couples were on the floor
and a great proportion of them stayed
until the dance broke up at one o’clock.
Music was furnished by the Gage or­
Provide Funds M ore G en er­ chestra. $40.75 was the total receipts S. E. H enderson Resign Posi­
from the dance.
ously th an Ever B efore
tion to Take up Mining
One notable feature of the dance was
for School Purposes
in Joplin, Missouri
that while the dance was given by the
Coosonians, a very small percentage of
the total number of the members of
that order were present.
TO CO EAST
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
CITY BUYS 500 FEET OF HOSE
Will Not Sue Coach E state
County S u p erin ten d en t Tells
R outine W ork Disposed of
“There’s absolutely no truth to it,”
of School Activities
Last Night
said At*y. Claude H. Giles, when ask­
The reports of special tax levies by
the different school districts of the
county which have just been received
by County Superintendent Raymond E.
Baker show, according to him, that the
districts are providing more liberally
than ever before for their schools.
School districts that have heretofore
been backward to a marked degree are
now going forward with special levies
and those that have been voting them
before are increasing them.
Mr. Baker slates that about two-
thirds of the census reports of the coun­
ty have been received by him and that
the indications are that there will be a
slight increase in the number of child­
ren of school age over last year. Co­
quille was the first city in the county
to get its report in. The superintend­
ent has thirty days in which to check
over the reports and as yet no definite
figures on the county as a whole are
available.
The Coos River consolidated district
will hold the dedication exercises for
their new building, December 16. State
Superintendent Churchill has been ask­
ed to give an address at that time.
The district asked Mr. Baker to act in
this capacity, but the latter recom­
mended Mr. Churchill. Boats will run
from Marshfield for the convenience of
any visitors who may wish to attend
the exercises.
Two more schools—East Side and Ro­
land Prairie have inauguiated the Lot
lunch system. The Norway school had
this system last year and were so well
pleased with the results that they are
continuing it again this year. MisB
May Lund, teacher at the Norway
school, was in town Saturday purchas­
ing supplies to be used by the students
in the preparation of the mid-day meal.
The work of preparing the food is all
done by the teacher and the older pu­
pils. However, it is not allowed to in­
terfere with their school work.
E. L. Strader, chairman, and J. L.
Stittt, clerk of district No. 86 located
on upper Two Mile, were in town Sat­
urday signing the bonds and coupons of
the $1800 bond issue voted by the peo­
ple of that district last fall. It is ex­
pected that work will start at once on
the one room building for which the
bonds were voted.
Last year 116 country boys and girls
of Coos county attended standard high
schools in the various towns, according
to Mr. Baker. The indications are that
there will be about 160 pupils this year
who will go out of their own district to
have the advantage of the standard
schools. There were also seven pupils
from Curry and Douglas counties who
attended school in Coos last year, while
none from her« attended school in these
counties.
Teachers’ examinations will be held
at the W. O. W. hall December 20 to
28 and eighth grade examinations will
be held throughout the county January
18 and 19.
ed concerning the a^eged report that
Mrs. G. T. Treadgold was contemplat­
ing suit against the Coach estate for
damages as a result of the death of her
husband, the late attorney, at the
hands of Joe Coach. “The report is
evidently the child of an over-produc­
tive imagination,” he concluded. Mrs.
Treadgold affirmed the statement of
her attorney.
Blind S tudent Invents
Psychology “Lab.” Device
Blindness is a fearful affliction, but
that it need not cut off entirely the
usefulness of the victim has been dem­
onstrated by Thomas Cutsforth, of
Riddle, Or., who has completed an ap­
paratus for testing the comparative
ability of the blind to learn. Mr. Cuts­
forth is one of two blind students at
the State University.
By using Mr. Cutforth’s device, an
instructor may determine what method
of presenting study material is best
suited to the individual blind student.
The apparatus is a box four inches
wide, eight inches long and four inches
deep. Under the movable top, a belt
of canvas run, under two rollers, one
at each end. By turning a handle on
the outside of the box, the canvas can
e made to revolve. Around the rollers
and on top of the canvas, is fastened a
strip of paper on which are words in
the dots of the alphabet for the blind.
In the top of the box is an opening one
by two and one-half inches, with slant­
ing edges. Through this opening a
section of the paper is exposed. In
feeling the print through the aperture
as th« handle is turned, the fingers of
the student rest on a crosspiece thet
gives the paper a solid background.
Words can thus be presented at vary­
ing speeds. Tests are given to deter­
mine how quickly the subject can ac­
quire a lesson from the sense of touch
only; then a test to see if the speed is
increased when the instructor speaks
the words while the student is feeling
the impression on the paper; then a
combination of paper, instructor's
prompting, and repetition by the stu­
dent after the instructor.
"The box makes possible experiments
to show the idiosyncrasies of any blind
learner,” said Dr. R. H. Wheeler, in­
structor in psychology. “This is not
the only contribution of Mr. Cutsforth.
He has discovered illusions of the blind
and has done research work in dreams
of the blind, ilia is, indeed, some of
the best work that has been done in
this phase of psychology.”
Leslie Blades, of San Dimas, Cal.,
the other blind student, has submitted
a thesis on the problem of the best ways
to present study material to the blind.
The work of the two men in this de­
partment is ultimately to be published.
Saw the Big P icture
S. E. Henderson, city engineer, ten­
dered his resignation to the city coun­
cil at its regular meeting last night.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson intend to
leave tomorrow or next day for Joplin,
Missouri, where he is interested in zinc
mining. It is understood that the peo­
ple he is associated with there have
extensive holdings in zinc properties.
A great deal of street improvement
has been done under the supervision of
Mr. Henderson here during the last
year and without exception the work
has been performed in a satisfactory
manner as was shown by the action of
the council last night. Councilman M.
O. Hawkins was appointed a committee
of one to draft a resolution, in behalf
of the council, expressing their regret
at the departure of Mr. Henderson and
setting forth the satisfactory manner
in which be has always performed his
duties as city engineer, and the confi­
dence and trust which the council re­
posed in him.
The council authorized the Fire Com­
mittee to order 500 feet of three-inch
fire hose from the American Rubber
Manufacturing company, of California,
at a contract price of one dollar per
foot. The fire department at present
has on hand 900 feet of hose that is
suitable for use in case of fire and this
was deemed insufficient. The new hose
will increase the total to 1400 feet.
A motion to pay Moon & Gidley in­
terest money on a warrant held by
them but which had not been presented
to the recorder for his signature of
“ Not paid for lack of funds,” failed to
carry.
The recorder was instructed to pro­
ceed with the collection of delinquent
assessments due for the improvement
of Third and Henry streets upon the
property assessed to Rosa Ashton.
The Finance committee reported the
finding of the monthly reports of the
recorder and treasurer correct. The
regular monthly bills were ordered paid.
The entire council was present at
last night’s meeting, us well as the re­
corder, city engineer, city attorney and
marshal.
Price R em arkably Low
If any one in Coquille is under the
impression that the prices for “The
Birth of a Nation” are high, he is earn­
estly exhorted to “come out of it.”
The fact is that prices asked on this
tour of Coos county are really surpris­
ingly low, considering the small field
and the expense of bringing the attrac­
tion here. Some of our people have
seen the picture elsewhere and we have
heard of no one who has seen it for less
than 75 cents, at a matinee. One per­
son mentions paying $1.00 for a spat in
the fifth gallery of a Los Angeles thea­
ter. The Scenic manager gets so small
a [«rcentage of the receipts that it is
no object for him to deceive his pa­
trons. But he is presenting absolutely
the greatest production ever attempted
in the line of dramatic, spectacular,
historical and educational entertain­
ment; he wants every person to under­
stand what an opportunity is presented,
that no one may fail to grasp it and
then to feel regret when it is too late.
Mrs. H. O. Anderson, while away last
summer, saw “The Birth of a Nation”
at Medford, She traveled twelve miles
School C hildren Aid
to see it, and was amply repaid for the
expense and trouble. She says that the
The children of 1400 rural Oregon audience was completely carried away
schools have been using lessons on the by the superb drama. At times the
fight against tuberculosis as texts in people rose to their feet to applaud;
their class work during the past year. they shouted; they laughed and cried;
The lessons were furnished free by the they could find no way of adequately
Oregon Association for the Prevention expressing the emotions aroused. Mrs.
Port Com m issioner Resigns
of Tuberculosis as a part of it* work.
Anderson paid $1.00 for a seat (not re­
Now they are organizing to help the served) at the matinee. Reserved seats
At the regular monthly meeting of
Red Cross Heal sale of the Association in the evening were $2.50.
the commission of the Port of Bandon,
so that this method of disseminating
information may be continued and the R estaurant Changes H ands here Saturday, Archie McNair tendered
his resignation. While no definite ac­
association be strengthened in its cam­
tion was taken in the matter it is un­
paign to exterminate the dread disease
The Skineer Restaurant, on Front derstood that the position will be offer­
in this state.
Street, has bc.m sold by Mr. Skinner ed to O. A. Troubridge, of Bandon.
Acting under the formal approval
to Mrs. C. Hunt, the deal being com­ This was the last meeting of the old
and permission of the Board of School
pleted last Tuesday and the change be­ commission and next month when they
Directors, the children of 52 Portland
ing made at once. Mrs. Hunt, whose meet in Bandon the newly elected com­
schools will also join in the big move­
husband is employed at Cedar Point, has missioners will take their office. The
ment.
been waiting table at the restaurant only change that will be made in the
Last year the children secured $775.-
for some time past. Mr. and Mrs. personnel, however, will be that Wm.
71 from the sale of Red Cross Seals. It
Hunt came here from Bandon some Lyons, of this place, will succeed E. E.
is expected that more than $1000 will
Johnson, whose term expires. The
result from their enthusiastic work this months ago.
Mr. Skinner left the last of the week other members of the commission
.
Their effort will be made prin­
for Coburg, near Eugene, where he ex­ whose time was up were reelected.
cipally during "Tuberculosis Week.”
pect« to go to work in the mill.
The other members are: T. P. Han­
This comes December 3 to 10, reach­
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ley, A. H. Rosa, and J. E. Norton.
ing a climax with “Tuberculosis Sun­
The steam shovel crew of the South-
day,” December 10, when every pulpit ! ern Pacific Company at Natron, where
in the state is asked to join the cam j it has been at work for the past sever*
paign by recounting progress and re­ al months getting out gravel for bal-
A N A T I O N ’S H I S T O R Y .
peating the warnings against the dis­ { last on the Coos Bay branch, will be
| moved at once to Wendson, between
ease.
T h e re ie n o th in g th e t eolidifiee
The Association has sent a letter di­ Mspleton and Cushman, where a large
end s tre n g th e n « e nation liko
! rect to the children of each school. It quantity of rock will ba taken out of
ro ad ing the n a tio n ’« o w n h ietory,
the quarries for the purpose of rip rsp-
tells them how to proceed. It tells iing the track extending along the
w h o th o r th a t h ie to ry )a recorded
them why the work is so much worth akes between the Siuslaw and Coos
in booke o r om bodiod in cue-
\ Bay.
Within a few weeks, most of
tom e, in s titu tio n s end m o n u ­
while.
the Southern Pacific construction of­
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m ents.— Josep h A nd erso n.
ficials will leave the work, their job
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