■ V TO GUIDE AVIATORS Pian to Direct Airmen as Ocean Mariners Are Aided. AN AEROLOGICAL SURVEY. D r . W a l c o t t of S m it h s o n i a n In sti tu tio n Ca lls A tt e n ti o n to the Fa ct T h a t N o t h i n g Is K n o w n of Fluid In W h i c h M il li on s of Doll ar s and h u n d r e d s of L iv e s A r e Invested. CLEW TO BURIED COIN. Wirl S h o w s W h e r e It W a s Burisd and Offers H a lf to F in d s r . Centralis, Wash. ‘This is a will of my own construction, uud us a man of good health and sound mind do I, W. F. ISryun, colored, give aud bequeath to the finder of this will one-ha If of a gal lon glass jugful of gold coins which Ue buried live feet deep and thirty feet east of the sectlou corner of my old homesteai “The finder must publish this before any work begins on its recovery, but the finder must get another party to dig Jor it, and the digger gets one-half. I do this to keep my lazy kinfolk from getting it. If they make any fuss about it after it is found, give them $1 each. There is ulso another Jugful buried n few rods west of the old dwelling house. I can’t locate it, however, ns the murk is lost. Dated tills second day of October, 1888. “W. F. BRYAN." Bryan, who Is well remembered by the old residents of Centralla, died in the early nineties. Allan Miller, a pres ent resident of Centralla, was a nephew' of Mrs. Bryan, who died about six weeks ago. Wushingtou.—One of the most im portuut steps In uviatiou preparedness undertaken Is the effort of the National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics to establish an aerological survey de- ■igned to serve uviatiou much the suiue as the hydrographic office of the coast and geodetic survey advises on ocean navigation. During the past twelve months the committee has been exercising every means possible to advise and assist the ucrial arms of the government, both GIRL SIX FEET T A L L for land ami sc 1 operation. This com- mil tee has been able to assist in stand ardizing aeroplane construction to a 8hs Is O n l y T w e l v e Y e a r . Old . bu t H a . G r o w n Pha no me na lly. certain extent, has met with manufac turers of aeropiunes and aeroplane mo Iialtlmore, Mil.—A girl who bus been tors in an effort to expedite the deliv j growing for the last three years at g ery machines to the government and phenomenal rato and Is uow over six has been of great assistance In the so feet tall, although only twelve years lution of many other problems. ; old, Is being given the expert attention Now it proposes the serious consider I of medical men of the Johns Hopkins ation of the vital necessity of recording hospital, who expect to sco her becomo a prodigy, a veritable giantess, with out loss of mental power». For the last three years her growth has-been phenomenal, surpassing all records at the hospital. Until she was nine years old she was simply a largo girl, but not likely to attract attention. Occasional pains accompanied her sud den growth, hut her health remained unimpaired. She weighs 117',-j pounds. Developing a fondness for hooks, she has read many more than an ordinary child of her nge, and the severe teat of her Intellect made by the experts In that line at tlie hospital gave this ver dict: “She Is ubove the average In in tellect" * i j ¥ DOG RESCUED IN NET. \ DR. CHARLES D. WALCOTT. and charting the Irregularities of the atmosphere so that our aviators In peace and war may have the beuellt of exact information both for their own safety and as an expedient to efficient operation of aerial messenger, recon- noissance and fighting service. The committee believes the time ha i come when aerological stations should bo established and maintained, espe cially in conjunction with military sta tions maintained for the instruction of aviators. In u telegram read by President Al an It. Hawley at the Aero Club of America banquet In New York Dr. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian institution und chairman of the executive committee of the Na tional Advisory Committee For Aero uuutics, advised its members to urge most strongly the establishment and maintenance of the aerological surveys over North America und adjoining wa ters. “At present,” said Dr. Walcott in his telegram, “practically nothing is known of tlie movements of the Uuid In which shortly thousands of aircraft, repre senting millions of dollars in invest ment, will lie floating, and, what is far m-*ro Important, they r ill be operated by thousands of our finest, specially trained young men.” HALF A TOWN IN ARMY. 8end s M a n y of the Y o u n g Men Into the Ranks. Wilmington, Del. One-lmlf of Vida has gone to war. and two-thirds of the remainder ure preparing to enlist. Vida is a peaceful little town near Mont gomery. A recruiting officer of the regular army arrived aiul found thir teen young men of military age. Six joined and went to Montgomery with the recruiting officer, leaving behind four others who promised to Join them when their private uffnirs could be ar ranged. % Those who enlisted are C. F. Wright, N B Wright. II B. Hedgepeth. B M. Durden. B. I), nedgepeth und John C. Adams. They were accepted by tlie Montgomery recruiting office The post master at Vida will be given $30. $5 for each man, under the rule of the government allowing a postmaster $5 for every person he persuades to Join Fell Into a Wel l In an House. Ab an do ne d Greenfiek!, Iml.-Fussing u vacant house In this city some time ago Sam uel Bulkin heard a dog burking, and a week later, passing the place again, he heard a sound us of a dog In distress. He and others went on a search of the premises and found the animal in an abandoned well eighteen feet under the Hour of the house. Boards had been placed at that depth to hold the pump stock in place, and the dog was on these boards a few feet ubove the water. The men low ered a basket into the well, but this failed, and they finally contrived a net that brought the animal to the surface. After expressing his thankfulness to b4s rescuers In n dog's way he ran with all strength remaining to the north part of the city and to a two-year-old baby In the home of parents tlint had been advertising und looking for the playmate of their children. PUPILS OUTSPELL PARENTS. Scholars Defeat T h e i r Eld ers School Contest. In a Tacoma. Wash.—Members of the eighth grade of the Jefferson school defeated their parents in a geograph ical or “railroad” spelling match held in the school. Mrs. Clarence Bituey, who had stood alone on her side for thirty minutes, retired when she could not think of a geographical name beginning with “0 “ after her daughter Ruth, on the oppo site side, had finished spelling “Dar ling/’ one of the largest rivers In Aus tralia. When the match was over three of the eighth grade pupils were still standing. These were Johanna Mad seu. Rene Lecbner and Ruth Bltney LONG TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC. Gales Stri pp ed Sh ip W c st ga te of C a n vas, but Shu G ot Hore. Mr*. M i l l a r H a , a Racipa F o r A tt a i n i n g O ld Ag a. iJ WANT COLUMN BEAR INVADES FARMS. K ills Sheep end Pige and Eecapee Into a S w am p. Sheliiyvllle. Del. A large cinnamon bear Is terrorizing the iidinbttants of Costen Station In several Instances In the past few weeks the boar has made its appearance at farmhouses, frightening the women mid chasing away the men. The weather evidently lias cut off Its food supplies, und It Is killing sheep and pigs on ninny farms It has been bunted several times, hut Its trail In variably lends to a swamp which Is practically impervious to man. It Is supposed that the bear is one that es caped from a circus about seven years ago near Princess Alice. opening a bank account for your wife. Give Wu a cheek book anil teacli her the use of it. PM the butcher, the grocer, the baker, with n Sheck. Then at the end of tlie month you’ll find out just how much it co-ts you to run the Itanie. When payment by check is made there never is any doubt as to whether or not a bill is paid. The cheek is a receipt. Besides, a checking account will give your wife a business education. The number of ordinarily bright women who know absolutely nothing of banking i* sur prising. If you are a husband, father, brother, you cannot tell when death mav overtake you, and it is well that vour wife, daughter and sister know some thing of banking. Chronic Constipation. It is by no means an easy matter to cure this disease, but it can be done in most instances by taking Chamber lain’s Tablets and complying with the piain printed directions that accom pany each package. State of Ohio. City of Toledo. Luc&a County, as. F r a n k J. C h e n e y m a k e s o a t h t h a t h e i s s e n io r p a r t n e r o f t h e fir m o f F . J. C h e n e y & C o ., d o i n g b u s i n e s s in t h e C it y o f T o le d o , C o u n t y a n d S t a t e a f o r e s a id , a n d t h a t s a id fir m w ill p a y t h e e u in o f O N E H U N D R E D D O L L A R S fo r e a c h an d e v e r y c a s e o f C a ta rrh t h a t c a n n o t be c u r e d b y t h e u s e o f H A L L ’S C A T A R R H M E D IC IN E . F R A N K J. C H E N E Y . S w o r n t o b e f o r e m e a n d s u b s c r ib e d 1« m y p r e s e n c e , t h i s 6 th d a y o f D e c e m b e r , A . D . 1886. A. W . G L E A SO N . ( S e a l) N o t a r y P u b lic . H a l l s C a t a r r h M e d ic in e Is t a k e n i n t e r n a l l y a n d a c t s t h r o u g h t h e B lo o d o n th e M u co u s S u r fa c e s o f th e S y s te m . S en d fo r t e s t im o n ia l, free. F . J . C H E N E Y & C O ., T o le d o . O. S o ld b y a ll d r u g g i s t s . 75c. H a ll 's F a m il y P i ll s fo r C o n s tip a tio n . Tlie Oregon Agricultural College F O R E ST R Y , in c lu d in g L ogging E n g in eer in g: % HOM E ECONOM ICS, with 4 major d epart in cut a, in clu d in g tra iu in g in the P r actice H ou se; M IN IN G , w ith th ree departm ent», luclud Ing C h em ical E n g in eerin g ; PH A R M A C Y . T H E S C H O O L OF M U SIC . o i f . r . in .t n ie - lio n in the prin cip al departm ent» of vocal and in itrn n irn tiil m usic T H E M IL IT A R Y D E P A R T M E N T , enrolled lOfti cadet» in 191ft 17. und won recom m en dation for O. A. C. from the W estern D epart- raont of the U. R W ar D epartm ent n» one of th e fifte e n " d m tin g u ish r d in- *il itio n s " of h igh er learn in g. All c a d e ts will be fu rnished com p lete uniform s by the U. S. G overnm ent and the junior aud se n io r cadets, en rolled in the R. O. T. C., w ill be given com m utation for su b siste n c e , as w ell us all tran sp ortation and s u b s iste n c e at th e six w eek »’ Sum m er cam p. R E G IST R A T IO N B E G IN S O CTO BER 8. 1917. In form ation on request. A d dress, R eg istr a r , O regon A g ricu ltu ra l C ollege, C orvallis, O regon. The Celebrated Bergmann Shoe Awarded Gold Medal P. P. I. E. San Francisco, 1915 The strongest and nearest waterproof Shoes made for Loggers, Cruisers, Miners, Sportsmen and Workers. The Bergmann Farmuse Shoe To Keep Your Feet Dry Use The Bergmann Water-l’roof Shoe Oil. Theodore Bergm an Shoe M anufacturing Co. 621 Thurman St. Portland, Oregon E. E. JOHNSON L u m b e r - S i1 os—Shingles WHY WASTE GREEN FEED AND BUY HAY? B U ILD A FILO Wisconsin or Stave Any size from 8x2(1 ft., 15 tons to 16x36 ft., 155 tons Prices on lumber and any informa tion on lumber and silos cheerfully given. INCOME aud OUTLAY One side of your Pass Book will show all the money you have received. The other side will show all you have paid out, and ihe cancelled checks are your receipts. This fine arrangement is yours if you will open your check ac count here. Your accourt will be given careful and considerate attention. F I R S T N A T IO N A L . B A N K CAPITAL and SURPLUS $60,000.00 A. J. SHERWOOD, President- L. H. HAZARD, Cashier R. E. SHINE, Vice President O. C. SANFORD, Asst. Cashier REDUCED EXCURSION FARES W EEK E N D F A R E S on sale Saturdays and Sundays between all station s Cushm an to Pow ers and liandon inclusive. Return lim it follow ing Monday. i in i.nncnstor. O.-"Eat plenty of saner, krmit anil (jot lots of sleep " Tliat’s tlie rei ipe for a long llfe*>f Mrs Anna Mil ler. who celebrated her one buiulredtb birthday anniversary by dancing a mUtuet with a great-g reat-grin id child. Mrs Miller teas born In Germany and came here In 1830 She lias lived on a farm near here for eighty seven years. She has five children, twenty- six grandchildren, twenty-one great grandchildren and two groat great grandchildren Walter Laird, of the Sitkum section, District Attorney Hall is over on was in town Wednesday. lusinesK for the county today. G A very long complaint was tiled here Tuesday in the Circuit court in the case brought by Goss, Kendall and Murphy, of Marshfield, against Fred Hollister, of North Bend, and F. K. Shores, of this city, by Mrs. Alice Coach, as administrtaor of the es tate of Joseph W. Coach, deceased, and also in her own name. She alleges that a couple of years or so ago when Coach was deeply in- ! volved in litigation and believed ef forts were being made to ruin him financally and send him to the peni tentiary and when the late J. L. Kronenburg hud just secured a judg ment of $4,500 against him and a cou ple of detectives were sueing him for alleged services, he gave a deed of trust to Hollister in the sum of $15,- 000 covering all his property except SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL PRO his mineral rights. She goes on to PERTY ON FORECLOSURE. charge that Hollister took $1500 of NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this money as a bonus and $1500 more That under and by virtue of an Exe cution and Order of Sale issued out as advance interest for a year. Then, as her story goes, Coach got of the Circuit Court of the State of only a small sum though Hollister Oregon for the County of Coos on the 18th day of July, 1917, in a certain paid a plenty for commissions to par cause in said Court pending wherein ties who had been instrumental in C. T. Skeels is plaintiff, and J. v\. making the loan. Rutledge, in person, and J. W. Rut When the Portland detectives got ledge us Aministrator of the estate a $2620 judgment against Coach, she of Clara E. Rutledge, deceased, are defendants being case No. 4”S4 ot says that to stay execution and se the said Court and commanding me cure an appeal to the Supreme court, to sell the hereinafter decribed real Coach gave Hollister a deed to the property to satisfy the sum of $270.00 property that was already covered by with interest at 6% from 25th day the former $15,000 first deed, to make of June, 1917, anil taxes $2.58 and fee of $50.00 and costs and the latter safe on going surety in the attorney disbursements $16.00, together with appeal case. accruing costs. I WILL ON SATUR When Coach’s sister, Mary E. Cary, DAY, THE 1st DAY OF September, was about to get a judgment against 1917, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon of saiil day at the County Coach for $525, it is averred, he got Court House in the City of Coquille, scared and executed a conveyance of Coos County, Oregon, offer for sale all the rest of hi3 property to F. R. and sell at public auction to the high Shores. This property consisted of est and best bidder for cash in hand the right, title and interest of the “mineral rights” and Shores was rep all said Defendant in and to the follow resented as loaning to Coach $9,000 ing described real property, to-wit Beginning at a post marked “C. S. to clear up all that was due to Hollis ter by the latter under his first deed. on the quarter section line 5.94 chains east of the quarter section corner on And in this connection it is alleged the west boundary of section 31, i u that Hollister and Shores have been township 27 South of range 12 we t working under an agreement to make of the Willamette Meridian in Ore an even division of all they got out gon; and running thence east 5.C! chains along the said quarter section of the Coach properties. line; thence north 9.72 chains to tb 1 Mrs. Coach here charges that she south boundary of a roadway 45 linl s had threatened to leave Coach and wide; thence west 5.02 chains alor that her husband was conspiring with the south boundary line of said roa - way; thence south 9.72 chains, moi j Hollister and Shores to defraud her or less, to the place of beginnin . out of her dower rights in their pro containing five acres of land, more 1 1 perty. less, all in Coos County, Oregon. Said sale being made subject to re On the 23rd of August a year ago she says Shores executed to Coach an demption in the manner provided ly law. option under whose terms Coach could W. W. Gage, within one year re-purehase all the Sheriff of Coos County, Orego . Dated July 24th, 1917. property he had conveyed to Hollister and Shores by paying them $25,600; SUMMONS. but that the property was worth much In the Circuit Court of the State of more than that. Oregon in and for the County She also alleges that at the time of Coos. Coach executed these instruments he Vesta Lewis, Plaintiff, was of unsound mind and all the vs. while under the influence of liquor James B. Lewis, Defendant. and drugs. To James B. Lewis, the above nam Mrs. Coach asks that all the in struments executed by Coach be de ed defendant: In the Name of the State of Orego clared void and usurious, and that af- you are hereby notified that you aie Quick carries the Wisconsin vegeta required to appear and answer tl e ble and meat cooker, the best on the complaint filed against you in the market. Will take 14 half gallon jars above entitled suit within six weel-s or 21 quart jars at a filling and cooks from the date of the first publication meats in two and one-half hours—a of this -immons, towit: within six saving of over an hour on each filling. weeks from tne 17th day of July, 191”, and if you fail so to appear and an swer on or before the 28th day of Au gust, 1917, the same being the date of the last publication of this summons, Rates:—One cent a word, each in for want thereof the plaintiff will ap ply to the court for the relief demand sertion. No charge less than 15 cents. ed in her said complaint, a succinct WANTED—Second hand furniture. statement of which is as follows: That Highest prices paid. Coquille Fur the bonds of matrimony heretofore ex isting between the plaintiff and de niture Company. fendant be annulled, set aside and held DAIRY RANCH FOR RENT, stock for naught; that plaintiff be awarded for sale. Enquire of F. B. Phillips the care ar.d custody of the two minor at the Ladies Bazaar, Coquille. children, Asa Lewis and Kathryn Fruit jars in stock at Quick’s—Easy Lewis; and for such other and further Seal, Mason, Economy, Schram and j relief in the premises as to the court Knowlton. Both new and second hand. may seem meet and equitable. New York.—After a passage of 110 days from London, the British full rigged ship Westgnte arrived here re ceutly. She was loaded with «balk and sailed Dec. 11. Encountering gales» almost nil her sails were blown away, and she drifted about tlie Atlantic, finally managing to make Barbados There she was fitted with new canvas, with which she put to sea again. She was off Barncgnt March 24 and she tried day after day to get here, but failed. Captain Steele finally decided ft V f t t l t f l t i l V t i t t m III ■ she was tired out. and he bailed the ■ tug Marlon Lee, which towed him here One of the crew was taken off ut qwar , kw YSTEMATIZE your household expenses by antlne suffering from fever. the army. SAUERKRAUT AND SLEEP. [H A M S FKAUO Service of this summons is made upon you by publication thereof in the Coquille Herald, r newspaper publish ed in Coquille, Coos County, Oregon, for a period of tux weeks beginning with the 17th day of July 1917, by or der of the Honorable James Watson, County Judge of Coos County, Oregon, dated the 17th dav of July, 1917. Summer Complaint. , J. J. STANLEY, Attorney for Plaintiff. During the hot weather of the sum Addres. : Coquille, Oregon. mer months some member of almot. 44-50 every family is likely to be trouble I with an unnatural looseness of the bowels, anil it is of the greatest im portance that this be treated prompi- Iy, which can only he done when^ the medicine is kept at hand. Mrs. F. 1 . Scott, Scottsville, N. Y., states, “1 W hore train ed s p e c ia lis ts w ith m odern lab first used Chamberlain’s Colic and Di o ratories and adequate equipm ent c iv e in- arrhoea Remedy as much as five year , ■truction lead in g to c o lle g ia te degree» in the ago. At that time 1 had a severe at w in g sch o o ls: tack of summer complaint und w n; fo llo A G R IC U L T U R E , w ith 15 departm ent»; suffering intense pain. One dose ri COMMERCE, with 4 d epartm ents; lieved me. Others members of my E N G IN E E R IN G , w ith 6 departm ent», in family have since used it with like »lu d in g C ivil. K le c tilea l. H ighw ay. In d u alrial results.” Art», Irrigation , and M echanical E n gin eerin g; iter the defendants have shown ex lactly how much they advanced t Coach and what the interest on would be, the money due by the e s tate be turned over to the state o ’ Oregon and the rest of the property returned to her as administratrix o’ the estate. SPEC IAL SUN D A Y FA R E S. Round Trip T ickets, at very low fares, will be sold on Sundays only, between all sta tio n s M arsh field to Pow ers inclusive, lim ited to date o f sale. Ask your local agent for tick ets and further infor- . . m ation. JOHN M. SCOTT, General P assenger A gen t, Portland. MAKE UP YOUR MIND TODAY TO GIVE Y 'UR WIFE A CHECK BOOK. ■ a ttu titi Farmers and Merchants Bank S O U T H E R N P A C IF IC L IN E S