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MILL wood
By M- QUAD
In the whole count., of Broome there
was not a more utioaHUmiug i.ian than
Peter Huy. He was an old hat h -or
and worked in a grist mill hi the vil
lage of Coburu. lie was not an edit-
A Strong Preference.
ruled Ullin, and he had no anibltioUM.
“She Is literary. ¡«lit she?''
In the same village lived Mis Anna
“Yes, indeed; slic'd rather read thaa
Green, old maid. She had the ou.'.v
millinery store in the place She was Jo huunewurk auy day.” Ex bunge.
also unassuming and uneducated. Nei
ther had site any ambitions. She just
wanted to be a milliner and dre 3-
maker. How It came about that Pe
ter Day and Anna Given be -¡line ac
i
quainted and engaged to be married
was a mutter tliat many people could
not understand, but it was known tliat
they Intended to get married some
time.
One day two important letters reach
ed Hie postotliee at Coburn. One wa s
for Miss Green. It was from a law
I
yer I11 Indiana, who stated that her
maiden sister, who had been living in
Cn-j.and and Tobacco.
The 1 sojde of Great 1 it;iin < (»listiaie
that state, was dead and that she bad
left her all to Anna. That sister had less tobacco per head than auy other
not been beard from in ten years, The civilized people of the world.
other letter was for Peter Day. It
was also from a lawyer An uncle of
A Peek Into His Pocket
his in Vermont had died and left him
shew the box of Buekl in s
ids all. Tile receipt of those two let
i Salve that E. S. Loper, a
ters wns to make a sudden and great
change in two lives.
iter, oï Manila, N. Y. al wats
Peter Day had not had a holiday in
thirteen years. He had been as steady
as an old clock. He had scarcely read wound, bruise or sore, it would not
that letter, however, when he went io soon heal,’’ he writes. Greatest
his boss Io say:
“You can take your old mill and go healer of burns, roils, scalds, chap
to grass with It. I’m not going to be ped hand., and lips, lever-sores,
anybody's slave after this.”
skin-ci options, eczema, corns and
And Peter almost paralyzed lhe town
by dressing up and loafing around and piles. 25c at all druggists.
actually entering a saloon and calling
I
Alaska’s Glaciers.
for a beer.
All
tlie
sl.K
-lers
ill
tile
Alps
put
to
Miss Green had always been very
gether would not equal one of the lar
humble to her customers. She li :d
gest in the territory of Alaska.
felt it her duty to abase herself. She
would no more have dared Io dun one
of them for a bill a year old than to
have put her hand in a lioi
is effective Icr coughs and colds in
And now what a change!
either children or gto.w.i persons.
hours after receiving that
was saying to Mrs Adams:
No opiates, no harmful drugs. In
"If you don't like that hat you
the
yellow • package. Retuse sub
needn’t take it. and you'd bet ter be
For sal■ by Bandon Drug
paying something on flint old bill or stitutes.
quit coining here.”
Co.
When Peter Day went sparking his
habit was to slip into Hie house as if
Fault of the Fork.
lie expected to lie kicked out again,
“Won’t you have a fork?”
lie didn’t stand up or sit down or
‘‘No, (hanks.
I never use forks.
cross Ids feet or drop his hat with
so bad they ain’t no use.”
out asking to lie excused for the H me. They leak -----------------
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Those two letters had reached town
Parson
’
s
Poem
a
Gem-
even-
of a Monday morning. Sunday
Ing came before Peter <-alJed on Anna.
Front Rev. II. Stubenvoll, Alli
He had been thinking, and so luid son, la., in | raise of Dr. King’s
she. tliat there should lie no slipping or
sliding, but a bold gait and a bold New Life Piils.
front
He sat down without being “ They're such a health necessity,
asked to, and he belli Iris position like In every home these pills should be.
a mail in possession. Instead of saying
tliat the long drought was killing the 11 other kinds you’ve tried in vain,
corn he opened with:
Use Dr. King’s and be well again.
“See here. Anna, there’s a cast in
Only
25c at all Druggists.
your left eye!”
“What—what on earth do you mean.
Queer Head.
sir!”
He—My stock in trade is brains.
“And you’ve a liutnp to the middle of
She—You’ve got a funny looking sain
your nose!”
ole case.—Varsity Life.
“Peter -Mr. Day!”
Phone John F. Be e at Geo. W. Koon?
Lbr. Co.’s office, or 6 )i residence, for all
kinds of mill wood. Quick delivery and
satisfaction guaranteed.
T mi nions ir<i/.
“Then you set the day, and we’ll be
married within two weeks."
rout Addition
BA Xnox
BOARD OF
Its popularity in
creases every day.
DIREC Í ORS:
J. L. Ki -¡ enl-ei -, President. J. Denholm,
President; F. J. Fahy, Cashier; Frank F lam, I.P.i lanly.
Vice
A p,eneral banking business traL-îacted and customers given every accommodation con
sistent with safe and conscrvaliv.- banking
CORRESPONDENTS: rhe American National Bank, of San Franci&o, Calif;
Merchants National Bank, Portland Orq < n; The C hase National Bank, of New York.
Five out
of every six builders
Are You Going to Build?
aie using it.
If so. you will want Building Hardware. You can f*
yet it here and on better terms than anywhere else in ;;
Coos County.
Are you going Io make your new home
modern? If so. let us fgure on your plumbing,
can give you satisfaction.
Free Delivery After August 1st
GEO. W. MOORE LUMBER CO
A. McNAIR, The Hardware Man
Bandon Light & Power Co
’ ' ■
THE RECORDER OFFICE has recently
Furnished on
All Kinds of Electrical Supplies. Estime^
Wiring and Electric Lighting. Office in ; New Oakes Bldg.
added a lot of new type of the latest
faces, especially for Fine Job Printing,
and we are now prepared to print all
kinds of Fancy Invitations, Announce
ments, Calling Cards, Letter Heads
and in fact all kinds of modern printing
done in a Modern Office.
Æ. £5. ELLIOTT, LÆfa.na,ger
Gatchell Bros? Tran«srer Line
GATCHELL BROS., Prop«.
kinds of heavy and light draying.
Phone orders given
prompt attention. Barn Timmons' Old Cannery.
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Fancy Wedding- invitations a Specialty
l ast and Commodious
S. S. BREAKWATER
RECORDER PUBLISHING CO
Bandon, Oregon
Never leave home on a journet
without a bottle of Chamberlain’:
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rein
edy. It is almost cert >in to l e
needed and cannot tie obtained when
on board the cars or steamships,
sale bv C. Y. Lowe.
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Leaves C ooí Bay July 2, 7, 12, 17, 22. 27.
Confirm Sailings Through C, M. SPENCER, Agent Bandon
THE COQUILLE RIVER LIN E
■jtrs. Bilichi & Bandon
¿.z
A;/ of:: crcar-'i
A-"’’ rator is,
• alter ' ail, a
m
4 its bkimming power.
Four lots and three houses
on Columbia Ave., near At
water Street. An excellent in
vestment. $2,C OO will handle it
Two nice litte home places
$050 each. Cash.
We also have many others
equally as good and will be
glad to sho w property at any
time.
L. S. Separator» hold
the World’s Record for
closest skimming. Won
the only Grand Prize,
Seattle, 1909.
Come in and we
will show you why.^g
For Sale bv
JM W. YOUNG-
Bandon Creamery
EIRE INSURANCE.--Wc represent a number of the
best Eire Insurance Companies in the country and can
insure your properly against loss.
BANDON
STEAM
LAUNDRY
Where \ ours Ought to be
Prop,
Twin Screw, New and Fast
1st Class Passage,
Up Freight.
$10.00 & $7.50
3.00
Our interests arc your interests. Fair rates and
good service 01 r motto
A. F. Estabrook Co., 245 Cal. St., San
f
Francisco
BANDON WAREHOUSE C • L, A»;ents, Bandon, On-gon
¿Ti»;. ■
S S. ELIZABETH
LargeTwo Berth Outside State Rooms with Running Water
CLOTHES ARE AT THE
A. F. DERINGFR
I
Is the most inexpensive siding in the
local market.
oiuìlon
Capital Stock $50,000
Rus
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MY
E. E. OAKES
BANDON INVICSTM ICNT <'(>1 I ! ’i > 1? AT! < ” \
Sprains require careful treatment.
Keep quiet anil apply Chamberlain’s
Liniment freely. It will remove the
soreness and quickly restore the part -
to a healthy condition For sale by
C. Y. Lowe.
Í,
Ten Acre Tracts close to Bandon. Stump land $30
and $40 per acre, as good fruit and berry land as
there is in the county.
A few choice lots in Waterman’s Park Addition, two
blocks west of school house, cleared and ready to
build on.
House and two lots in Woodland Addition. Fine view
and in good condition. This is a snap, if taken
quick, $1000.
House and large lot in West Bandon. $1250. Look
this up if you are loo- ing for a nice home.
i have property listed i ■ al! parts of j<indon, besides
some fine farm, fruit ; nd stock raising land; see m<
before inves inf. in Coos County land of any kind.
Always < tar to show what 1 hav for sale and will
treat you light.
lie zr/ZZ sell you a lo in Timmons' Waterfront Ao'-
dittbn. now being tilled by the C.wi rnment Dredge. Oregon,
at prices so low as to astonish you. You can have terms
■ if you want them on any Id in the addition. We give an
abstract with each lot, snowing a title that has hwn pro i
nounced by one of the ablest attorneys in Oregon to be pei-
fect. Warranty deeds only. Lots in this additi wit
its present prospects are the best investment to be had i.;
Coos county to-day.
FOLEY’S MNEY ANO TAR COMPOUND
“And I don't like the color of your
hair!”
.
“Sir! Sir!”
“And you don’t know nuthln’ about
grammar, and you can’t sing for
shucks. I’m here to say our engage
ment is off!”
“I've been left a legacy.” he explain
ed “I'm goin' to take my place up at
tlie head.”
"You got a legacy! And I want you
to understand that I’ve got one too! I
was waiting for you to call that 1
might tell you a few things. Peter Day,
you are as ignorant as an ox. You can
scarcely write your own name!”
“Miss Green, don’t talk to me that
way!”
“You are humpbacked, bowlegged
and deaf in one ear.”
"Miss Green"—
“You haven’t enough ambition about
you to throtv a stone at a gander.
Grammar! Why. you never even saw
one. You can't speak five words with
out a blunder. I can’t sing, eb? Well,
what does it sound like when you try
it? Ami the color of my hair don't
please you. What's the color of tliat
on your own head? And I’ve got u
east in my eye? Yes. I know, and I’ve
got that eye on you. Why. I wouldn’t
marry you if you wns the last man
critter on the face of ¡lie earth.”
"I don’t ask you to."
“I'll marry a man as far above you
aa tlie eagle Is above tin1 crow. I’ll be
riding in my auto while you are slop
ping through tlie mud. Get out of my
sight, sir!"
in each case the lawyers bad liven
instructed to settle up things and ren
der an account. It didn't take them
long. Three weeks did the business.
The ’nil" that bad tieen left them
amounted in the one case to $17.45
aud In the other to $32.18. Queerly
enough, those two letters also arrived
on tlie same day. Peter Day sat on
tlie tavern steps as he rend Ills. lie
read ft three times over and then went
down to the millinery store, where be
found n weeping woman. He walked
right up to her and said:
“Anna, I'm an Idiot."
“So’m I, Peter."
“I didn't mean what I said that
evening.”
“Nor I."
“nang legacies and lawyers!"
“I’m willing."
investments
B. W. Charlesworth
o D
Opposite Grand Theatre
Eight Day Service Between the Coquille River »r.d
San Francisco
First C ass Passenger Fat e,
-
$7.50
Freight Rates,
-
$3 on Up Fre.cht
■!. E, (VALSI ROM. Agent. Bamlott. Oregon.
E. A E. I. Kfliw, owner, and n-anagert, 24 <-al forma St., San Irancisco.
Reaarvatirn
I 'irm.'.i’a Pharmacy, Coquille; Perkin«’ Pharmacy, Mjrtle
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