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SEMI-WEEKLY
Bandon Recorder
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PLEASE 'PRESENT DEFINITE
PLANS
At the coming city election will bo
submitted to the voters of Bandon, the
question of whether or not we shall
incur bonded indebtedness to to ex
tent of $80,000 to make additions to
tho present water system. The first
logical question is what shall we get
for the $80,000. Huve the plans been
made on which the $80,000 is to be ex
pended and will they be presented to
the voters? We presume they will and
whether or not the proposition will
pass depends largely on how it is put
to tho voters.
If the expenditure of that sum will
give to the city an inexhuustible sup
ply of large proportions for all time to
come there would scarcely be a vote
against it.
We assume that it is the plan to
tuke the water from Fairy or some
neighboring creek. To such a propo
sition there will be reasonable votes
cast for and ugainst, but the ultimate
result will depend upon the plan pre
sented to the voters.
We recall a recent proposition sub
mitted to vote $10,000 for fire pro
tection, which, us a mater of fact, ev
erybody wanted. But no definite plan
was submitted. Some Bandonians fa
vored an auto-truck fire engine; oth
ers wanted a main and stationary
pump; still others wanted something
elso and as a result no definite plnn of
action was submitted to tho voters.
Tho proposition was to raise $10,000
to spend for an indefinite something
for fire protection, and naturally the
people voted it down. This in the face
of the fact that everybody in town
wanted fire protection. The indispo
sition of tho people at that time to
jump in the dark still exists and not
many votes will be cast for the ex
penditure of $80,000 for a water sys
tem unless it is known what the plans
are; how much water there will bo,
how much pressure, etc.
These facts and details will be nec
.essary in order to eiiublc the voter to
make a fair and just verdict at the
polls.
THE MIDDLEMAN
One of tho greatest menaces to in
dustrial welfare" and the one greatest
element contributing to tho high cost
of living is the wholesale commission
business of the large cities. Tho
function in the business world is to
augment the existing 'disUmco be
tween tho producer and consumer, to
stiflo tho means and facility for doing
business except through their approv
ed channels. Their profits frequently
exceed the cost of production and muut
bo added to that price, and the worst
feature of it is that too frequently
among their numbers are found
scoundrels, who give belated returns
on short weights and long charges and
otherwise unfair accountings. To fur
ther their business opportunity they
eo-opornto in a general way to make
plans not to the best interest of either
tho producer or consumer and some
times use tho boycott to further .pro
mote their enterprise. Full many a
small enterprise has been submerged
in tho intervening distance between
producer anil consumer, and which
may not be overcome until tho further
perfection of tho parcels post system.
Wo know of many concrete illustra
tions. For instance an Eastern Ore
gon man shipped a carload of apples
to Missouri river points and was later
presented with a bill from his com
mission merchant asking for a small
remittance to supplement tho pro
ceeds of the apple shipment on tho
pretended excuse that not enough was
realized from the sale of the applet.
to pay thu expenses that they only
sold for about sixty cents a box, lit)
went lit person to investigate and
found that the apples sold for !W pur
box mill his Investigating trip null!
him a satisfactory num.
Unfortunately every person eiuinot
attend In portion to (he supervision or
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thlp to tho mininilwiim Iioikini at Nil.
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nmUnvnr tn servo as a freo employ
ment bureau is n much needed en
largement of tho government work.
Labor is often idle in one section of
tho country when crops are wasting
for lack of harvest help in another.
No other agency can so well lerrect
this and similar situations as can the
federal government.
Bulletins on conditions appertain
ing to employers, employes and the
general industrial affairs in the var
ious sections of the United States
will be frequently furnished to the
press by this new department. Tho
Recorder will publish those of more
especial interest to this section.
COOS COUNTY IN THE BIBLE
And now comes tho pessimist and
says that it does not pay to adver
tise. Why, ho says Coos county has
Leen advertised in tho bible for lo
these many centuries in fact it i.i the
only town in tho United States, so
mentioned and see how few people
have read about it. If you don"t be
lieve it, do as we did and look it up.
Acts "21-1 reads us follows:
"And it came to pass that after
they wore gotten from them, and
had launched, we came in a strait
course unto Coos, nnd the day fol
lowing unto Rrodcs, and fron
thence unto Patera."
Aside from demonstrating that
Coos was a land of launches then as
now, we wish to add that it was some
launch to go from Coos to Rhodes m
one day.
GIVE THE "KIDS" A CHANCE.
Up to a few years ago, it never oc
cured to older people that Young
America needs a place to play in.
It is commonly supposed that a live
boy would find plenty of amusement
in selling newspapers, running er
rands, or having tho back yard garden
if he must have his game of ball once
in a while, there was the street or
borne one's vacant lot.
As a mater of fact it often happens
even in tho country town, that there
was no place where a set of boys could
play a game of ball without being
ordered to quit.
Most American towns were laid out
with no provisions for the children.
There was ample foresight for any
thing in which money could be made.
Railroads and factories never lacked
opportunities. Land was often given
to attract them. Hut the cases where
land was given where young people
Could play their games freely, and
work off superflous and threatening
energy, were rarely seen.
In the larger cities the modem
playground with a tangle of yelling
kidlets, is a sight to do a wholesome
hearted person good. The boy who
is chasing a baseball is not robbing
fruit nor loafing on the street corners.
A playground entertaining a largo
crowd of children does not fully servo
its mission unless carefully supervised
by some competent person. The ave
rage boy gets altogether too much fun
from tormenting somebody under his
size. Also the average crowd of 12-year-olds
is very far from ready for
self-government.
But even if a neighborhood or a
village can merely open up a vacant
lot nnd turn the youngsters loose tho
results are worth while.
HORSE-PLAY AT WEDDINGS.
The village cut-up is in for more
or less of a squelching in the "con
tiguous ultimately", as Bill Nye might
liavo said.
Good taste overriding horseplay at
weddings and tho idiot humorist ,who
is lying awake nights trying to think
of new ways to embarass the 1015
crop of newlyweds may as well turn
over and go to sleep.
From present indications his ser
vices will not bo needed.
There is a strong sentiment against
him and his tribe.
Nearly all of the womans' papers
are beginning to publish articles of
interest to the June brides and all
unite in advising against horse-play
after the ceremony. '
It is admitted that the bride, and
groom ought to expect a little rice
throwing-ought in fact to enjoy it for
the spirit it manifests.
But the decoration of luggage with
white favors and ridiculous placards,
tho tying of cowbells to the rejir axle
of the cab or auto, the rilling, stealing
or substitution of articles in the lug
gage and all the other fool stunts of
thu professional wedding humorists
are reglogatod to the limbo of'nld
stuff".
I ) IX'H EAHI NG It UV EN I IKS
Nine state from which the federal
gnvoriiiiieiit duilviw ii total iovunin of
over f,00f),()00 u your mi liquor will
ho "dry" mix! your. TIimd hltiliw mid
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and it is said the situation is reaching
a point where the govornment may
have to devise a new system of tax
ation to overcome diminishing re
ceipts from liquor sources. Tho Jour
nal. A bulletin from the Oregoa Agri
cultural College shows the decided ab
vance made in popularizing our
schools and educational advantages.
Not only has the range of the schools
extended from the youth of the better
families to all the nations young, but
to the old folks, too. And the range
of studies has broadened from classics
to home economics. Thus we approach
tho ideal schools to fill tho need of
al the people instead of only one class.
In the course of study in home econ
omics prescribed by the Corvalis
school are such subjects as follows:
Evolution of the house, location of tho
house, suitable water supply, Home
administration, simplicity of furnish
ing and modern conveniences; divis
ion of time and co-operation in house
hold duties, step savers, home busi
ness management, cost of living, di
vision of income, suitable clothing,
food, cooking, faults of frying, what
constitutes food, history and use of
potatoes and all cereals, study of use
ind food values of fats, meats, stor
ing and cooking of vegetables, use of
fruit and its preservation, manufac
ture of sugar, how to prepare a lunch,
duties of ideal hostess and guest, care
of children, the well nourished child,
habits of infancy, rights of the child,
respect, responsibility, education dic
iplin, play.
"There are a great many poaple
not so many that they give me any
particular concern but nevertheless
a great many people, who in the lang
uage of the day are trying hard to
'rock tho boat'. The boat is too big
for them to rock." President Wilson.
Belief of better financial and Indus
trial conditions in the United States
is growing. This hopefulness rests in
part on the following influences.
First a return of currency from
the interior.
Second Continued gold imports.
Third Tho lessened requirements
of business.
Fourth The great expansion of
lending power among the banks re
sulting from the new federal reserve
system.
The exports for the month of Feb
ruary amounted to $298,000,000 which
was $10p,000,000 above any previous
February while the imports were only
about $125,000,000 the smallest of
any February in five years.
AN ORTHOGRAPHICAL QUERY
Now is raised the question of
whether to spell it Coquille or Co
quelle and then there a multiplicity of
ways of pronouncing it. The late Pro
fessor Thomas Condon of the Univer
sity of Oregon spelled it Coquille.
Senator Harry Lane says it is an In
dian name pronounced as if it were
spelled Ko-kul, with the accent on the
first syllable. Say, County Seat, (we
don't know what elso to call you) how
do you spell yourselves and what do
you call it?
It is difficult to comprehent the size
of tho amounts of money now being
spent for war in Europe. Enough is
spent in eight days to build the Pan
ama canal. In three weeks Europe
spends more for war than is spent for
education in this land of free sehools.
A year and a half of this war would
pay for all our live stock, the products
of tho farms, the products of tho
mines nnd still leave enough to take
up tho capitalized valuation of tho
railroads.
The Coos Bay Times in its issue of
April 7th gave an exhibition of one
way to write up an account of an ac
tual happening. After detailing a
wild account of the accident to the
Speedwell, not one statement of which
was wholely accurate, it finished up
the story with an interview with Dr.
Wethorbee, relating the facts as they
occurred.
Pishing Time
Tho way thu small boys line tho
Bandon wharfs catching diminutive
shiners reminds ono of Eugeuo Field
and his rhymed remarks about "the
biggest fish".
"When, in the halcyon days of eld,
I was a little tyke,
I used to fish in pickerel ponds
For minnows and thu like;
And Oh, tho bitter sadness
With which my soul was fraught,
When I rumbled home at nightfall
With lliu puny string I'd ciwghti
And, Oh, Hie indignation
And Dm vulor, I'd dltpluy
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WALL PAPER CLEAN
UP DAY
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now ready and awaiting your disposal.
The latest patterns in plain and figured papers,
cut out and hand painted borders. This year's
patterns are destinctive, giving an individual
tone to each and. every room.
Plain Papers 5 cts single roll-and up
Tapestries 12 1-2 cts single roll and up
Velvets 12 1-2 cts single roll and up
Ingrains- - -17 1-2 cts single roll and up
Pulps - 20 cts single roll and up
Oatmeal, plain 37 1-2 cts single roll and up
Oatmeal, figured 40 cts single roll and up
Samples will be gladly mailed on request and
your valued order solicited.
Building Paper, House Lining, Tacks,
Varnish Stains, Floor Paints.
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HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
George Chatburn and Mary Donald
son the contostents in oratory and de
bate who will represent Bandon at
North Bend this yer will go over Fri
day accompanied by Miss Rodgers.
The judges are represented by a
member of the faculty of each school,
who decide in favor of somo contest
ant other than their own.
Practico on the track bcgHn last
week. Coach Quigloy is trying all
the men out in different events to
to see what material he has.
lxRt Friday night a beach party
was held in the woods. A good many
turned out and all had a nice time.
Bandon for the first time was vis
ited by the state inspector from tho
office of Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Mr. Wells, who visited
the public schools last week. He duty
is to report on the condition of the
departments and suggest improve
ments to the Board of Education. He
found our school up to tho stnndard
in regard to the qualifications of
instructors, but devicient in laboratory
and libcrary equipment.
Saturday the Juniors and Faculty
had a party at Bradley's Lake.
Swimming, rowing nnd nil sorts of
school fun were indulged in. The
party came homo about C:H0 p. m.
soaking wet.
"Deserves a liyal Support"
Tho Bandon Recorder announces
that it is now published by a corpor
tion whoso stock is widely distributed
in tho county ami most of whoso
members aro of the democratic faith.
Alw) thul It will contli.uo in that
household of faith and advocitii the
policies of that jmrty. As u local
newspaper nd that I Umt count
principally the Rmonlur mis Im
proved wonderfully iIuiIiik the punt
few nioiillm nnd deserve u loyal sup
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TWENTY ACRES AND PLENTY
R. L. Gimlin Relates His Experiences
ns Rancher and Dairyman Here
in Past Dozen Years
R. L. Gimlin vho has been running
a dairy .ranch 12 miles below Bandon
has recently leased for one year the
ItO acre ranch of Aiva Warren Pi
miles this side of Coquille. After
leasing the ranch lie was so well
pleased with it thai he purchased the
21 acres lying on one side of the rail
road, Including the building, while
Frank Warren, a brother of Alva, pur
chased the 0 acres on the other side
of the track. Gimlin will run tho
whole ranch this year as per terms of
tho lease. All of the ranch lias been
slashed for a number of years. The
grain is now knee high and there is
25 acres of clover. Mr. Gimlin is a
modern dairyman and will cut thu clo
ver and feed it instead of allowing the
cattle to tramp it. He will Uiku out
tho stumps und plow up -I more acres
this summer and will fence the place.
He has a fine herd of 11 Jerseys, in
eluding a registered Jersey bull as
good as any in the country.
He hns six pure bred heifers includ
ing one registered for which he paid
$75 when a calf.
Mr. Gimlin hns lived near Bandon
for 12 years and has made u success
of dairying and is well satisfied over
his recent purchase. He says that 21
acres is as much land as he cares for
if it is properly taken careof and it
will produce a good living for him. He
says the main trouble in this section
is that people have too much land anil
do not attend to it enough.
Gimlin is of tho class of citizens
which this country needs, and also the
kind tho country will give tho largest
return to. Tho towns of Oregon are
too full now. The opportunities lie in
tho lino of farming and dairying.
One of our local citizens endeavor
ed to drive his ear out of thu garage
thu other day, and got under full head
of speed liiNtattiiieoiiHly, He endeav
ored In tulie a piece of (ho door ns ho
went. The iinhjII was (hut lie inovwl
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Phoebe Whetstone, an old resident
of Coquille died April 2nd and was
buried in the Masonic cemetery in that
city, April 1th. She was in her 71st
year, had lived in Oregon 110 year')
and in Coquillo 21 years. She is sur
vived by 5 children, 7 grandchildren
and II great grand children.
POEMS THAT SURVIVE
Jim llludsoe
Well, no, I don't know whore he lives,
Because ho don't live, you seo,
Leastways he's got out of the habit
Of living like you and me;
Why, where have you been tho past
two years
That you haven't heard folks tell
How Jiminie Bludsoe passed in his
checks,
That night on the "Prairie Belle".
He was no saint, them engineers
Is all pretty much alike,
One wifo at Natchez, under-the-hill
And another ono here in Pike:
But if over the Prairie Bello took firo
A thousand times he swore,
He'd hold her nozzle again the bank
'Till tho last soul got ashore.
And so came tearing along that night
The oldest craft on the line,
With a nigger squat on her safety
valve,
And her furnace crumbed rozin and
pine.
A fire bust out as she cleared tho bar,
And huxnt a hole in the night,
When, quick as a flash she turned nnd
made
For tho willow bank on tho right
There was running anil cursing but
Jim yelled out
Over all the infernal roar
"I'll hold her nozzle again the bank
'Till the last galoot's ashore."
They all had faith in -his cussedue'i ,
And knew he would keep his word,
And, sure as you live they all got off
Before the Niimkiwtnek fell
And Bluilwie's ghost went up lone
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