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BANDON, OREGON FRIDAY. MARCH 2«. 1913
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Commercial Club
Has Busy Session
NUMBER 26
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Better Fire Protection Needed
Port CoUllîlissiOil !s
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a Growing Necessity
As I have been asked for my
I have looked carefully over the
opinion as a citizen and a true live lay of our country ann I find that
booster of our beautiful city her« by Bandon need not be second to any
the sea. I am only glad that I can city in the way of water and pres
not justly say any thing but good sure if needed I can give proper
my heart and my interest are witn weight per gallon of water per inch,
Bandon and her people and I would per foot and proper connections of
give my last dollar for the proper water mains to obtain the most
steps, if taken for what I deem our pressure per inch,
The Commercial Club met at the road as the same is done against the
Bandon and the lower Coquille ter port to keep pace with ihe rapid
most needed protection. I have
I dare to say here in that I do
club hall, March 27th, 1913, Presi best interest of the City of Bandon,
River
need a port commission. development of the county and to
served for six years in a paid fire not think there is a business man or
and it is further
dent Fish in the chair.
Every
citizen
interested in the de help develop the countrv
department and my past experience anyone who lives here in our beau
Resolved,
that
a
copy
of
this
A port will enhance il value of
Several interesting communictions
prompts me to say we will find some tiful city by the sea, but what would velopment of the country aqd wel
were read. Among these a legal resolution be spread upon the min one of these days nothing left of our give and give freely for Bandon to fare of the people cannot help but all property in the watershed; it will
opinion from Attorney General utes of this club and a copy bu pub business section but the black and own her water and her lighting admit. We need a poit commis help the farmer, it a .. help the
sion more at present than at any merchant, and m >st
<11 it will
Crawford to the effect that a minor lished in the Bandon Recorder.
charred ruins of what was once the systems.
Proposed by E. E. Oakes, sec
time
in
the
previous
history
of
this
help
the
laboter.
It
ity of the people in a water shed
will
be the
very pride of all Coos county.
Now Mr. Booster you may think
section
of
the
county.
means
of
getting
more
money
from
could form a port in a certain dis onded by H. K. Flom that the
If we linger on as we now are this a pipe dream but please re
sign,
“
Visitors
Welcome,
”
be
Commerce is increasing here all the government for local develop
trict and could not be compelled to
until the fire devil comes, no mor I member this for some day we will
the time, and will continue to in ment and will bring more work and
take territory outside their port into placed upon the club door.
tal man will stop him with what you come to grief unless we see a change
crease. The railroads will soon be better pay to all of us.
The question of fire protection
the proposed port.
have get for us to fight with. and then you will see whether it
Truly no man can be a real boost
here and we need a better harbor to
Proposed by E. E. Oakes second was brought up by Mr. Oakes. M.
was
you
or
I
who
was
dreaming.
er
and oppose a port commission,
You can’t tell me your fire fight
take care of the traffic that the rail in fact the man who opposes a port
D. Sherrard made a brief talk on
ed by O. A. Trowbridge that,
What
sane
man
is
there
among
you
ing fixtures are all O. K. and you
road brings, and we need it to reg commission for the lower Coquille
Whereas, it has come to the no the fire fighting system of Oxnard, have
no
water
pressure who will invest his last dollar un ulate freight rates for the railroad, River is standing in his own light,
California.
Describing
the
diffi
tice of this club that an injunction
to speak of, as for hose well it may protected. S. E. Woodruff,
so we will not be held up by that no matter what his occupation or
has been served on the Sheriff of culties that were met and the ex do for watering some low land gar
Mr. Woodruff has certificate corporation. In fact we need a bet- station in life may be.
Coos County, restraining said Sheiff pensive mistakes that were made den that is about all, you must not showing 7 years service in Rose
from collecting a to mill levy, levied before a practical and efficient sys blame your firemen if they cannot burg fire dept, and has three certifi
Entertain at Five Hundred
by the legal voters and property tem was obtained. Mr. Sherrard stop a fire, they can and will fight cates of merit for distinguished ser
vice in fighting fire.
owners of this road district, of which had charge of the fire fightipg system like mad demons wherever it is up
of
Oxnard
and
his
remarks
displayed
Bandon, Oregon is a part, for the
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Craine en
to them, just give them a chance
Messrs Stear and Stephens have
purpose of improving and opening an exact knowledge of the intricate please. I helped all I could in
tunneled twelve feet to gold bearing tertained a large party of friends at
up of the To.vnship line road be details of a fire system.
every step taken for our betterment ledge matter conservatively esti a Five Hundred party at their
It was proposed by P. H. Poole
tween Bandon, Oregon, and Four-
as a city ever since I came here mated to run $25 per ton in free spacious home, corner of Spruce
Capt. O. R. Willard informs ms
and
seconded by E. E. Oakes that
mile and,
milling gold. They are not through and 4th Streets, Tuesday evening. that the machinery for his new boat
just a year and four months ago-
Whereas, the said opening up of Mr. Sherrard be requested to pre
Public libraries are fine we truly the ledge yet but have gone far
The house was beautifully decor Gbar tn, arrived on «the Speedwell
enough to establish the fact Agness
said Township line road would re pare a paper on a fire fighting sys
need them and we need to protect is to be on the map as the biggest ated Tor the occassion and the eve and the work of building the boat
duce the distance to the Curry tem for Bandon, carried.
them as well as everything else gold camp in Oregon.—Gold Beach ning was one of the most enjoj able at Hermann Bros’ shipyard at
County line nearly two miles, and,
The president made some perti when we get them.
Globe.
Prosper, is moving along very
events of the season.
Whereas, it is a fact that the nent remarks on the advisability of
The first prize for ladies a beau rapidly. The boat will be ready
opening up of said Township line thrashing the matter out, studying
tiful cut glass dish was won by Mrs. for the run sometime between the
-road and the improving of said road various details, weighing pros and
S. C. Endicott, while Morrill Jame First and Fifteenth of May.
will be of more benefit to the City cons and then arrive at a conviction
son won the first prize for gentle
The Charm will be a fine boat
of Bandon, than any other road im based upon knowledge. A few men
men a beautiful picture in an artistic and will be a big addition to the
provement that could be made, and hanging together who knew what
frame. Mrs. E. B. Kausrud cap Coquille river fleet.
they were talking about, and had
it is hereby
tured the ladies consolation prize
Resolved, that this Commercial the conviction that they were right,
In a folder recently issued by the The cheese output is something less and C, R. Wade succeeded pulling
Worth Your While.
Club is opposed to, and condemns could influence enough people to Coquille Commercial club, the fol than a half a million pounes.
down the “booby'’ for gentlemen.
the action taken by certain parlies their view to put through some lowing repott of the dairying indus
Blitter fat prices paid by one
Elegant refreshments were served
in blocking and obstructing the im measure that will give to Bandon a try in the Coquille Valley should be creamery in the Coquille valley
To see that big three-reel feature
and a most delightful evening was
provement of the said Township line fire system that will be a protection of interest to many:
during 1911. which is probably
film
entitled, “The Shiughran.’’
enjoyed by all present.
The Coquille Valley is a paradise about the average, was as follows:
Those invited were Mesdames and This splendid film portrayal of Dion
for the dairyman and the cow. January 40c; February 35)4; March
Orpheum
Boucicault's best novel was made
Grass is green the year ’round, and 32c; April 27c May 24c; June 23c; Messrs J. L. Kronenberg, N. J by the famous Kalem Company in
Special
Announcement,
The cows are fed, if at all, only six weeks July 26c; August 27: September 30c; Crain, L P. Sorensen, F. J. Feeny, Ireland.
musical event of the season, A big to to months the whole season. October 32c; November 35c; De S. C. Endicott, C. Me Johnson,
Gene Gauntier the noted Kalt ni
attraction is in store for the patrons Dairying is one of the principle in cember 36c. Average lor the year Robert Johnson, E. E. Reynolds.
actress takes the lead.
of the Orpheum theatre, Saturday dustries, and thousonds of dollars 3O^c. Prices for 1912 averaged R. E. Buck, A. S. Elliot, H. K.
Its a story full of action, dash and
Flom, J. T Sullivan, E. B. Kausrud,
The Coquille valley is the big and Sunday, March. 29th and 30th, are annually paid to ranchers by considerably higher, but even at
G.
T.Treadgold,
O.
A.
Trowbridge,
t
hrilling
climaxes.
agricultural district of southwestern when the team of Hickok and Otis, creameries and cheese factories, and the figures quoted dairying is pro C. E. Kopf, Chris Rasmussen, Nels
Shown at the Grand, Sunday,
Vaudeville’s sweetest singers will the demand always exceeds the fitable, the cost of production in this
Oregon, it offers opportunities to
Rasmussen,
Pat
Hanrahan,
Thos
March
30. Admission 15c and 10c.
appear in a repertoire of songs and supply. There are approximately valley being reduced to tne minimum
settlers. Being away from ocean comedy sketches.
White,
L.
J.
Cody,
R.
W.
Boyle,
300 dairy farms in Coos county, ful owing to the abundance of green
Best of music. Steam heat.
breezes conditions are ideal. Prices
This act has been one of the best ly two-thirds of which are in the feed, For low rates of sustenance S, J. Mann, H. L. Houston, S. G.
of land vary according t» location attractions on the big circuits and Coquille valley. These supply 18 of dairy stock computed upon the Whitsett, C. R. Wade, Mesdames
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Wilson, Russell, of Beaver Hill;
and conditions of development Val were on their way back to Chicago, crepmeries and cheese factories, 10 head basis; in productivity ol soil,
Smith of Prosper last night a nine
housing on account of climatic con- Costello, C. Timmons, H. F Mor
ley bottom lands uncultivated from when a representative of the Coos of which are in the Coquille terri
pound baby boy. A very interes
rison,
Misses
Ritchie,
Cooper,
Solve
Bay Vaudeville Circuit induced tory. The annual output of butter ditioes, the Coquille valley is un
ting feature of this is the fact that
,70 to $100 |>er acre. Valley bot
them to play a four week’s engage is about 1,250,000 pounds, which questionably the banner country of Reynolds, Kate Rosa, Dorothv and
Nora Gibson, Miss Sperry of Co the grandmother Mrs Webb is only
tom lands improved $100 to $200. ment in Coos county at a very large brings top prices in ready markets. the world.
quille,
Mesdames Leneve, and Ger 33 veare old and is the mother of
Bench, or low hill lands, unimproved salary.
aldine Morris of Coquille and Messrs ten children.
from $8 up. Bench lands improved
Miss Hickok is the neice of Ex
Death
of
Miss
Hodge.
Killed
in
Auto
Wreck.
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F, J. Fahy, Geo. P. Laird, Tom ■■ J" ■■
from $20 up.
President Taft, and well known as
Nielson, Ray McNair, Jimmie
The bottom lands, of which there the youngest Prima Donna on the
Dollar, Alf Johnson, Clarence Hur
are many thousands of acres, are American stage. This is the young
Died—At the home of Mr. and
L. K. Ballenger, who kept books
ley,
Geo. W. Moore, C. R. Moore,
level and composed of rich, sedi lady that New York critics termed for the Dredge Oregon when she Mrs. W. A. Custer, in this city,
M.
J.
McKenna, Lloyd Rosa, Nor
mentary soil from 5 to 15 feet deep. “The Child Melba.”
was here in the government work, March 18, Miss Myrtle May Hodge,
man Jameson, Morrill Jameson,
It is decidedly fertile and produces
Don't fail to hear this real singer and was well known in Bandon, was aged twenty-three years.
Herb. Morton, and E, H. Boyle.
enormous crops.
It is an indis while you have a chance.
killed last night in an automobile
The
deceased
was
the
only
While the refreshments were being
putable fact that the bottom land*
Remember the dates, Saturday wreck, between Marshfield and
and the waj to ■-
daughter of J. M . Hodge, of Fish served the people were highly enter
along the river Nile and the Missis- and Sunday, March 29th and 30th. North Bend.
cure
it is to devel
trap,
and
the
remains
were
laid
to
tained with violin music, played by ;
ippi in our (iwn country, are the Admission 10c and 20c.
op
your
resources.
rest
in
the
cemetery
there
on
Thurs
We have not been able to get any
Mr. Herb Morton of Coquille, but
richest in the world. The forma
Every dollar you
day. She was well known and pop present manager of the Orpheum
of the particulars of the accident.
tions adjacent to the Coquille river
lay up in this
ular
here,
having
attended
the
Young People’s League.
are very similar, and in point of
orchestra, and Miss Sperry of Co - j
strong
hank in
Coquille
public
schools.
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Coquille
fertility are a close second. A large
quille, who presided at the piano.
creases your finan
Herald.
Along the Waterfront
The Young People’s League,
portion of these bottom lands ire as
cial strength, and
Miss Hodge is well kno.vn in Ban
yet unimproved. The soils of the which was organized by Dr. B. K,
helps you develop
don having taught in our public
low bench lands are of a reddish Leach, on Sunday, March 16th,
Gift to Library.
The
Speedwell
arrivedjjin
port
a borrowin ti pow
brown color, and occasionally black. with forty-three members, held its yesterday with 70 tons of freight schools last year.
er.
Every suc
second
meeting
at
Bandon
Opera
These lands are prolific producers
OOP -
and
the thirty passengers.
cessful
person has
The Library Board through the
of hay, grains and vegetables and House last Sunday. Seventeen new
The
Elizabeth
arrived
yesterday
occasion
to bor
The music at the Methodist efforts of Mrs. J. L. Kronenberg is
are generally considered the best for members were admitted, thus swell
row at some time.
ing the total membership to sixty. with 180 tons of freight and the fol Episcopal church last Sunday was I in receipt of two gifts for Library.
otchards and small fruit.
lowing
passengers:
C.
E.
Broad
Has your rating
[ Another meeting will be held at the
very good, especially the solo by One of $30.00 and the other of $5.00
bent,
J.
Machado,
L.
W.
Deyoe
been
established.
Opera House next Sunday, at which
Mr. E. B. Webb in the morning, both from friends of Mrs. Kronen
Work on the new residence of H. all young j>eople of Bandon are and wife, W E. Field, wife and and that ol Mrs. Lomas in the eve berg in San Francisco.
C. Dippie is moving along very welcome.
child, A F. Cook, T. Pulor, E. L. ning. There is quite a large chorus
The friends of the Library and in
Flood, B. Ramberg.
rapidly and when completed it will
choir at this church which is doing I fact the city of Bandon appreciate Open during Noon Hour and Satur
be one of the most spacious and
A baby girl was bora to Mr. and
day Evening*.
The Elizabeth will sail tomorrow goo 1 work, and they rendered an .this unusual and kindly interest
beautiful homes in the city.
Mrs. Lewis Choate March 24'h.
I morning at 4:30o'clock.
I manifested in us by outside friends. |
Easter anthem with spirit.
Better Fire Protection Discussed.—Con
demn Action of Those Who Would
Stop Road Improvement.
Creation of a Commission Will Benefit
Everyone.—The Future Prosperity
of Bandon at Stake.
Dairying Is An Important
Industry In Coquille Valley
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LAND PRICES IN THE
COQUILLE VALLEY
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