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About Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1905-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1917)
TM. NEW COMPANY. but the meaning is the same. There many true friends in helping to recov- was no g[ory for slackers who were er the bodies of our dear loved ones and the magnificent floral offerings Announces Policy in Dealing With drafted into war. Published Every Tuesday. Dairymen. Now wt are to have conscription anl many other manifestations of “ As you already know, we have for this war, yet no odium attaches sympathy and help, regardless of per J. C. Savage sonal sacrifice and expense, which has ; urchased the Coquille Valley Cream- Editor and Business Manager. to it, and, again, you know why. We are, remember, fra.ernul broth been and is a great help to us to bear i ry company with all its rights, busi ness and good will. We are now tak Entered as second-class matter ers, having equal say in government- cur sad loss, ing over the active management of May 8, 1905, at the post office at Co al affairs. D. W. Carpenter, the plant and field and desire to an quille, Oregon, under act of Congress Lida E. Carpenter, We are not to be conscripted by r. nounce ‘ a all our patrons, past, pres Chauncey Carpenter, of March 8, 1879. despot. We are to be conscripted by ent and prospective, that in purchas Asa I.. Carpenter, ourselves. It is our own doing. We ; Devoted to the material and social are a sovereign people, and it is our ing and taking over this business we Raymond Carpenter. upbuilding of the Coquille Valley, sovereign will that we employ con have in mind the possibilities of the particularly and of Coos County gen scription for this war. great Coquille valley, and a real de- Marriage Licenses. siro to become a factor in its devel But it was a Hummer while it lasted. W ere you among the for erally. Furthermore, we are not to emplo / j ---------- tunate who got in in time? W e hope you were. If not we want conscription as a LAST resort, but as May 10— R. W. Veatch and Flor- opment. Subscription $1.50 per year, in ad “ We realize that our success de a FIRST resort. We, the freemen, do , ence Rhodes. 4o call your attention to the advantage to you in watching vance. Phone Main 381. not propose to use conscription to j May 11—T. Guy Devault and Leah pends upon your success, and it shall be our constant aim to emulate the drag unwilling slackers into the war I E. Schriefer. There has been considerable talk That thought makes, and ought t o ) May 12— B. F. Blosier and Myrtle same good business principles of fair here recently about starting a ship and honest dealing heretofore prac- make, a big difference in the Araeri- E. Leeper, both of Marshfield. yard in Coquille. Several local peo Keep your eye on it--and if you see something that interests you May 12— Leonard 11. Wallace and civeed by the Coquille Valley Cream can mind. ple have expressed themselves as in fa ery. We are to have selective conscrip Emma E. Wallace, of Marshfield. vor of a project of this kind, provided “ We will endeavor at all times to May 14— Edward Biescke and Ga- tion. And yet again you know why. it is feasible. But one drawback at -ay you the highest prices good busi Some of us might fight. Some of us gerd Cottor, of Prosper. present confronts the promoters— that May 14— Ira Tripp and Roxie E. ness will justify and you will always might nurse. Some of us must work Don't wait or it may be too late. W e have three main line phones of sufficient water in which to float the ind us ready to pay you cash for in munition plants. Some of us must I Hatcher, of Marshfield. in this store. If one line is busy tell Contra! to give you another. vessels to the sea. This obstacle can be your products. With the strong fi overcome by only taking for construc produce food. Here they are: 691 - 541 - 331 nancial backing we have and possess THE BOND ISSUE. Selective conscription will put ! tion those vessels of light draught ind the life-time experience of some r» fighters in the trenches, nurses in the which the government is contracting hospitals, skilled workers in the fac What Oregon Editors Think of tin >t our members in this line of busi for, and it is hoped that the project Measure. ness, we believe we are in a position tories, and farmers on the soil.That's can be successfully launched in the farmer lo command good prices for our prod efficiency. Thus we will win the war. We cannot conceive how near future. Those of us who want to “ do our can oppose the present good roads ucts; to operate and buy our manu i/it" will not object to conscription. movement when it means so much to facturing supplies at the minimum PAY AS WE GO. And we will have the satisfying him to have good roads to take his cost, and to avoid losses which are In With the United States engaged in knowledge that, whether willingly or products to the market. The State of volved in an extended credit business. a war which may last several years otherwise, the slackers, too, are doing Oregon is endeavoring to bring about With our superior facilities for doing and one that will be the most expen their shore. a comprehensive system of road build business, we expect to make a legiti sive this country has ever been en ing, which it should have done years mate profit and yet pay you the high gaged in, the problem of finances has ago, but, strange to relate, objection est prevailing prices for your prod In C lass b y itself been before the government officials is raised by farmers, who will he the ucts. Custom has it that not till a man is most benefitted by a system of hard “ In entering your field we contem- for some time. With the idea of fi nancing the war as the game is play dead shall his greatest deeds for the surfaced trunk roads. Take Tilla olate doing everything which good When present stock is gone will have no more at these prices. ed rather than to burden successive public good be heralded, but one case mook county for an illustration with a business will permit a financial insti generations with the payment, the exists in this city which I believe hard surfaced highway through the tution of our kind to do for the up plan of taxation for revenue has been should be called more pertinently to county. The farmers would use it 12 building of the community. And just formulated along the following lines, the attention of the public than those months of the year.— Tillamook Head is soon as we find the milk supply •vill warrant, we intend to erect a con- and the bills which will make these of a more ordinary nature. With the light. lensary somewhere in the Coquille taxes a part of our laws is now before i prices of fodstuffs advancing by leaps ^ Phone 691 and 541 Front and C Streets Coquille, Ore Congress and will perhaps be law be- i ;ind bounds overnight and the general The thing which puzzles the Argus alley and believe that by so doing fore this is read: The new war trix j cost of living increasing with gigan- more than any other phase of the agi .vc will be able to pay you even eor- bill proposes what is doubtless the j dc strides, one of our local merchants tation against the road bond bill is espondingly higher prices for your U CESESS■BOHBORESSSESE? greatest line of taxation v»hich the h“ s set a mark which I do not believe the opposition of the voters who do ni Ik. We shall work to the end that Ayrshire 3.4 61.5 American people have ever been call- ^ ke reached by many during the rot own automobiles, for if there ever this condition be brought about as B. Bartlett Jersey 4.8 60.3 »>*• Martin Schmidt ed upon to face. It is intended to present decade. This is the case of was a measure drawn specifically pro oon as possible. Jersey 5.3 58.5 “ We are in a position to assist ev- Herman Peterson raise by means of this measure a bil the Coquille Valley Mercantile Com viding that one class o f property and Jersey 5.2 57.6 Chus. Butler lion and eight hundred thousand dol pany, selling through the retail house that alone would pay the cost of an ry deserving farmer to improve or Jersey 4.2 56.3 lars annually, and to accomplish this of the Busy Corner Grocery, which is improvement the road bill is that nlarge his present farm; to erect Martin Schmidt Herman Peterson Jersey 5.8 56.0 more or better buildings; to build silos immense problem normal income tax owned by them. measure. Why the rancher whose Ayrshire 4.3 55.5 B. Bartlett In more than a dozen instances nd otherwise improve his milk sup- es have been doubled, exemptions land would be improved by the con Ayrshire 3.3 54.9 have been lowered to $1,000 for un (yes, perhaps an hundred) this com struction of a good road for which, if ly; to purchase more and better cat- B. Bartlett Herman Peterson Jersey 5.6 54.1 pany has protected its customers by married men and $2,000 net fo r mar he did not own a machine, he would lie and thus increase his profits. You Herman Peterson Jersey 4.1 54.1 ried men, the tariff free list has been making of each lot of merchandise a not have to contribute a cent, opposes ■vill ever find us ready and anxious Jersey 5.7 52.5 abolished, internal revenue taxes in separate sale and closing out each lot the bill is quite beyond us.—Ontario to do everything we can to assist you Chas. Butler Jersey 4.1 51.8 j WHY WAS1E GREEN FEED AND BUY HAY? and your community in its upward B. Bartlett creased, the tax on liquor and tobac at the regular advance on the cost Argus. Jersey 4.2 51.7 I and onward step of progress and prof Herman Peterson co has been doubled, and stamps or price, without consideration of ad Herman Peterson Jersey 4.5 51.3 other means of taxation will be levied vances which may have taken place in Those who argue against obtaining perity.” Herman Peterson Jersey 4.5 50.9 Darifood Products Company. on life insurance policies, pipe lines, that commodity after their purchase outside money through the six million Jersey 6.5 50.7 Herman Peterson electric light plants, telephone and and before that lot was disposed of. bond issue are working against the Jersey 4.4 50.6 The foregoing circular sent out by Herman Peterson telegraph messages, theatres, club A pertinent case was that of the flour improvement of the by-road or later Holstein 3.1 50.6 dues, manufacturers of automobiles, which was advertised in this paper als which they claim to champion.— tho Darifood Products Company, B. Bartlett Jersey 4.7 50.5 which has just purchased the local" W. C. Cutler last week. This lot of flour was sold musical instruments, jewelry, moving Pendleton East Oregonian. Jersey 3.8 50.5 reamery, to its former patrons and Martin Schmidt picture films, gum, pleasure boats. at $10 a barrel when all other flour in Jersey 6.2 50.2 the ranches of the valley, is in the J. C. Strong The bill also provides for raising of the county was selling at from $12 to The state pamphlet on the six mil 1 nature of an advertisement for that C. H. Bryant, This firm could letter postage from two to three cents $13.50 per barrel. lion bonding measure will soon be in Official Tester. company, but we gladly give it space have raised the price on this ship an ounce, and postal cards from one tho hands of the voters. Do not to two cents. Newspaper rates will ment to that of other stocks, but it throw it away without a careful without charge because of its opti TRAPPERS— If you have Furs for be governed by the zone system. One had been purchased some time before study. This seems like an opportuni mistic tone and further because we el ¡eve the entrance of that company sale let me make you a price before Yet the draft of the bill proposed to impose and delayed in shipment. ty for improved roads that we are not a five per cent tax on all newspaper regular advance only was made in likely to get again if now turned mto this field means much every way you ship. Geo. T. Moulton. m the further de\elopment of our ag- price. Mr. Norton, president of the advertising receipts, but the measure down.— Hermiston Herald. icultural industries and also in the as finally prepared for the house does company, said in speaking of the mat NOTICE. supply of needed capital to increase not apply to newspapers or periodi ter, that the firm from which this J flour was purchased had gone to the In arriving at a sensible conclusion ihe efficiency of the dairies already P. C. Levar, having given up the cals. | extreme of wiring him asking what as regards the road bond issue it is established and encourage the estab lease of The Herald, with the end of the month of April, all subscription | his price was to release them from not unwise nor untimely to reckon lishment of otheis. Conscription. accounts are payable to the new man | the sale. But he demanded delivery along the line of a twentieth century Democracy is purest fraternpy agement of the paper. All accounts of the goods and yet sold them at the resident. Do not harken back to the Curry County News. days when our grandfathers crossed We Americans are fraternal broth- 'regular price, due up to the end of April for adver- (From the Port Orford Tribune.) eis, having equal say in affairs of This meant to the company a “ pa- the plains in a prairie schooner drawn John Mackensie returned Saturday tising and job work are due and pay sta*e' per loss," which was also an actual by a yoke of oxen, but just remember with an auto truck from Portland, able to P. C. Levar only, who will set To be conscripted by a despot would j loss, of several hundred dollars, and that this is an age of rubber tires. which he will run during the summer tle all debts incurred by the paper R oseb u rg-M yrtle P oin t A u to S tage Line be humiliating; but there is no despot j the question “ what other man or firm Permit a few present day arguments aetween this place and Bandon. 'H e under his management up to that in these United States. ¡n this county would have acted in a to confront you, then look them •xperlenced hardships getting the time. Any one having such an ac- i Leave In past wars in which Americans j like manner?” has as yet received no squarely in the face. That is the only truck here that he will not fo|get count will confer a favor by present- : engaged an odium attached to con j answer. Can any of our readers giv e way to settle the matter honestly. loon. Myrtle Point Shortly south of Eugene he ing it at once. scription, and you know why. First la satisfactory answer to the query? That being the case we are certain gave up trying to follow the Pacific P. C. Levar, 7:40 a. m. that every voter who has not already came calls for volunteers. Then, when , ________________ J. C. Savage. Roseburg Highway, in which he says h* found become convinced that Oregon should all had volunteered who would. th<' Card of Thanks, 6. a. m. places that he stuck a stick over five slackers were conscripted, “ drafted" We feel heartfelt thanks for the no- be pulled out of the mud will resolve feet long out of sight, and turned off Best Remedy for Whooping Cough. 6 hours Running Time to do his bit by easting his vote for was the word used in the Civil war, hie and persevering efforts of our “ Last winter when my little boy over the mountains to the coast. A r the first real sensible measure ever had the whooping cough I gave him Connecting with Coquille Auto Lines riving at the mouth of the Umpqua placed before the people which was he found that the truck would not Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy,"writes intended to do a real good and not J. L. L aird M y rtle P oin t negotiate the beach' sands, and he Mrs. J. B. Roberts, East St. Louis, make a few grafters rich.—Coos Bay 1 11 . “ It kept his cough loose and re (lad to have it towed up the river to Harbor. Mapleton on a scow and shipped on lieved him of those dreadful cough the train to Coquille. Coming down ing spells. It is the only cough med Eighty per cent of the automobile.- from Bandon Friday some o f ttit icine I keep ip the house because I If there are reaHons which prevent you from taking the moat ac in Oregon are owned by persons liv parts worked loose and he had a have the most confidence in it.” This tive part in the support of our country in the crisis we are now facing, ing in the cities, and not one cent of breakdown near Sixes, and it was remedy is also good for colds and One side of your Pass Bobk will show all the money you have you can still do “ your hit*’ in some valuable capacity. ! t he proposed proposed $11,000,000 Sunday evening before the truck fin croup. received. The other side will show all you have paid out, and the cancelled checks are your receipts. I bond issue is to he used on roftds in ally arrived at Port Orford. The enlistment of thousands of men in the fighting corps will This fine arrangement is yours if you will open your check ac cities. All the money goes on county and has necessarily created a tremendous demand for clerical help Deputy Fire Warden, B. W. Dean, count here. ronds, and as only 20 per cent of the with Harry Pearse and Geo. Quiggley of every kind. The Civil Service is calling for help. Examinations Your account will be given careful and considerate attention. auto license will be paid by those liv as assistants, has been opening the are being made daily and will continue for months to come. The ing in the country, that means that Government is urgently in need of both MEN and WOMEN in cleri old Bald Mountain trail from the Mid i the auto owners living in incorporated cal capacities. Business men throughout the Nation are inconven dle Elk letter box to Salal Springs. | C A P IT A L and SURPLUS $60,000.00 cities will pay $4,800,000 o f the $6.- ienced for lack of trained help. This trail has been quite a conven 000,000 bond issue.—Tillamook Head r ' v pPr0S!;len,t L H HAZARD, Cashier ience to Fire and Game wardens in R . E. SHINE, Vice President O. C. SANFORD, Asst. Cashier A few months in this school will qualify you for these duties and light. their [wtrol duties, and will also make will prove a most valuable asset during your entire life. can get rid of the hard Considering the activities of State it easiyr for hunters to get into the j Master Spence on the one hand and mountains. est and most disagree The Celebrated Think it over. Enroll today. the number of favorable resolution« C. 1 . Pearse was in town from his able part of the week’s passed by individual granges on the All Commercial Branches. Day & Night Sessions home on Middle Elk the first of the other, so far as the grange is con w o r k b y sending the week, and made application to join cerned on the bond proposition it ap Regular as the Clock the mechanical luancti or Uncle Sam’s ANDERSONS’ PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Awarded Gold Medal wash to us. pears a case of whether the dog shall army. Mr. Pearse has been a First Coquille, Oregon 1 wag the tail or the tail wag the dog.— P. P. I. E. San Francisco, (915 Lieutenant in the Oregon militia, and Hillsboro Independent. The School that is here to help you. is subject for call to duty until 60 TL strongest and nearest water-proof years of age. He is a first class me ShodB made for Loggers, Cruisers, Proper Food for Weak Stomachs. chanic, with a natural gife for hand Miners, Sportsmen and \Vorkers. Kirst-dass fare or.. ♦io.ro ling men, and would be a valuable U p freight, per ton . M0 Men's Comfort Dress Shoes TTie proper food for one man may man in tho engineering department be all wrong for another. Every one of our army. should adopt a diet suited to his age ------------ _ _ _ _ _ —— If it can be washed we Strong Shoes for Boys E. & E. T. Kruse and occupation. Those who have Honor Roll for Cows can do it. Manufactured by 24 California Street, San Francisco weak stomachs need to be especially The following table gives the names Buy direct from the factory. Theodore Bergmann careful and should eat slowly and of the owners and the records of the Hive complete, knockdown, $1.90. mnsticate their food thoroughly. It cows in the Coquille-Myrtle Point For Réservations Shoe Manufacturing Co. is also important that they keep their Cow Testing Ass «iation which have Crate o f five, knockdown, $9.25 J. E. NORTON 6 2 ' Thurman St Portland, O regon bowels regular. nen they become produced more than 50 pounds o f but- P A R K E R 'S Empty Hives, knockdown, $1.20. H AIR B A LS A M .*sk for the Bergmann Waterproof A gent, C oquille, O regon constipated or wl :i they feel dull or terfat .luring the period of 30 days A toilet preparation o f m erit. sh* e Oil. Help« to eradicate dandruff, s stupid after eating, they shoull take ending April 30, 1917: For Restoring C olor and Peautjr to G ray or F a d ed H air. Chair.oerlain’s Tablets to strengthen Owner Breed <*Fat lbs Mr. and tl-OOBt Drugglsta the stomach and move the bowels g p Phone main Ï74. Factory opposite S. P. Depot. ERCORNS r Removes Corns, CaJ- Coquille. Ore. Mop« %ll pain, ensure* comfort to U m They are easy to take and pleasant in F. L. Lundy & Son Gr. Hoi. 4.6 70.9 .'S walk*ngea.*y. IM. by mall or at D m » •oos Chemical Works. PatcbocMs M. f . effect- S. S. Reed Jersey 5.6 65.9 f* *11 U U 1 he Coquille rtcrftlu SOLD OUT Not the Store— Just Nox-all Flour That’s A ll This Space. W e occupy it every week. Act quickly Can you use peaches in gallon cans? Try this one. White Mountain Brand per can . . 45c Have you tried that fancy Pickled Pork at 25c lb? It's a bargain today. Wheat Eats at the old price, 20c per package Mothers’ Wheat Hearts at the old price, 20c per pckg. fhe Busy Corner Grocery t f. > ■ ".--zzami mm ¿. E. JOHNSON Lumber—Si1 os— S h i n g l es B U IL D A ¡riLO j 1 W isconsin or Stave Any size from 8x20 ft., 15 tom» to J6x36 ft., 155 tons Prices on lumber ami any informa tion on lumber and silos cheerfully given. ■dp J Do “Your Bit” INCOME and OUTLAY The Busy Housewife FIRST NATIONAL E'ergmann Shoe Satisfaction Guaranteed B E E BANK Str. Elizabeth San Francisco a n d Bandon H I V E S CilQUILLE LAUNDRY & ICE CO I J. H. OERDING & SONS j Get the Want Ad Habit