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About The Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1915-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1915)
'1 Bandon Recorder Published weeHy on Tuesdays by The Itccorder Publishing' Co., Inc. Entored at the Pout Oineo at Han don, Oregon, as mail matter of the second clnss. , .also all checks payable and address all communications to the company. Hutwcrtption price, $1.G0 per year, m advance. CITY ELECTION On June 10th the voters of Uandon will be called on to vote on six meas ure, which, as a class can he charac terized as either giving the council more power, or increasing the taxing power of that body, or pertaining to a bond issue. The second measure, which will be numbered U02 and ilO.t on the ticket, is the only exception to the rule and appears, in addition to embodying some of the provisions of the state law already in effect to afford some little relief from red tape, and may pass. The remainder of the propositions submitted, will most likely, at least the greater part of them, be defeated. An exception may be the water bond issue. That measure provides that the council be given power to provide for a sinking fund to redeem the bonds, by voting a tax therefor, IN ADDI TION TO OTIIEK TAXES LEVIED, and is apparently without limit as to the tax that may be levied for that purpose. It is unfortunate that such a pro vision should have been made so in definite. We need more good water. The health of our community depends upon it, not to say the security which more water would afford against lire, In fact a near emergency exists and it is with much indifference and half heart that we can advocate the pas sage of such measure, witli omnibus provisions which it contains. The purchase of the lire engine will bo timely AFTER the installation of the said water system; hardly so now. Tlie increase of the council's power to levy a tax from ten mills to fifteen mills is co n t r ar y to the theory of initiative and referen dum government by the people and tho effectiveness of such a measure will be hampered, if not rendered en tlroly nugatory by a now law passed along these lines by the last state leg islature. And then we are asked to vote $10,000 worth of bonds to take up outstanding warrants which now bear six percent interest. Our municipal paper is discredited and needs bolstering up: no question about that. Hut consider this fact: in 11)08 the retiring city council left in the town treasury over $2,000 in cash, and without a single dollai indebted ness. Seven short years ago! Since that time the city has received in cash and expensed close to fifty thousand dollars as general fund account. That money has come and gone and we have run the city into debt in addition thereto, to the tune of fortyUJiousand dollars. At this timo it devolves upon the voters of tho city to say whether they will legalize unlimited undebtcdnogs from time to time, under the nauie and form of HON!) ISSUE or whoth thoy will call a halt, take inventory and aflor rollection profit in the fu ture by the extravagances of tho past. DOCTOUED STATISTICS l'h Coos Hay papers continue to nd vortiso tho amount of lumber pur ported to bo all the amounts of lumber shipped from the various harbors of tho Pacific coast from time to timo, find thon giving the number of feet of fir, spruce mid redwood, showing Han don credited with having shipped 20:i, 000 feet for the past half month as BRainst Coos Hay's eight and throe quartor million foot. Hut they don't mention cedar. If they wish to mini mise the output of this harbor, they hould include in tho list the amount of pine, oak, hickory, and mahogany ihipptHl from this point, but if they vvill liwlinle tho cedar, Port Orford wMO cedar- audi n doeen't grow iu)rUi of tho Coquille vulby, bnwwI awl utuwwi'd tlii'ii that In our po cUlty attd microer") are not needed the quantity. A I'OIUJOITKN I W In M4 lew ii ! iv)iiniiir tew reeiiffit if - " y uf ejUMM veei, i i ik fete MSVitfelDtir im itin lM , MT P mti tt'ilh'ii tin lew ie fk '" ii'i'UH pert, " " If.) .. . ... . nrA lieu copy oi such " . . i.n i no -.urn Any person who '" -Kent without first having obtained the license prescribed shall fonc t and pay to the state of Oregon $100 to be recovered as other lines and penal- The Coos county records fail to show a single resident agent in Coos county and the existence of such a law was apparently unknown in that office. Most likely the next few weeks will reveal to that office a new source of revenue, judging by one of our citizens who has declared legal warfare by .eason of such law. This law is so old that gas boats ....i ..... ,..in.n it. was passed and there is a question whether it ap plies to any other than steam boats. And our friends, the Republicans, have ilways contended, too, that Hry nn was president, and was running tMiij'- at Washington. ONE VEAlt A(SO One June 11th, 101 1, oc-urrcd Han iu .,,. ,...il;iniitous fire, involving a MU1I O IIV- iOSS of nearly a quarter of a million , f dollars to Handon's eilisons. That . ventt witli local appli:ation was co incident with many other evetit.i, aamely the closing of the lunber mills tributary to Uandon, the closing r the woolen mill, together with the general unfavorable conditions exist ing throughout the nation. The ac , umulation of these advc cities have : c4: been pleasant to contemplate and ,'.ia effects upon our city have not only n f..lt. luit are visibly apparent in our business section, water front and , pulation. Yet the year, accompan ied with the most adverse features in ;l history of Uandon is not without n.s progress. First street has been paved as far as i':m ground and cluster street lamps i. stalled and the remaining portion of the street lias been completely renew al with plank and piling. The Elling- on concrete building, the First Na tional bank building, while started more than one year ago may properly e added to the improvements of the ,. car. And, immediately, as a direct result of the fire, follows the Johnson fire and also the assurance that the Huckiiighain-Higgs fire-proof 'iiiilding will soon be hunt, an siowiy ,it, of a permanent nature, and with . lulisputable certainty. Tho government in just beginning .Me expenditure of $70,000 on our har ' or, leaving more money and a better arbor. The Port commission is ex pending approximately $20,000 on the incr harbor. Two years of county oiul lew and litiiration have now rip . tied into the work of improving tho township line road, and expenuing SJ0.000 therefor: and with the re- : uinption of operations of any one of ur now idle nulls, business would do practically normal. Tim kevnoto of the nast year has 1 een curtailment of unnecessary ex pense and a permanency in building hat insures stability in the future. A Hit AND NEW 1915 LAW Oregon has a new law which pro vides in substance that each and every Ki-hool house within the state is estab lished as a civic center where citizens of the respective districts may engage in supervised recreational activities, mid where they may meet and discuss from time to time as desired, any and all subjects and questions which in their judgement may appertain to the educational, political, economic, artis tic and moral interests of the citizens of the respective communities in which they reside. Light, heat and janitor service shall be provided for out of tho school fund, anil the use of the building, property and grounds shall bo free, except in cases where entertainments are given and an ad mission fee is charged. Tho manage ment, direction and control of such civic center is vested in the board of directors of such school district. Marshlicld is going to colebrate on tlib third and fifth of July under the nispices of the Murshfield chamber of f'-Miunorco. I 'OR THE GOOD OF THE PORT Concerning tho Port of Uandon and newspHper discussion between tho Co quile Vnlloy Sentinel and the Record er; tho Recorder propose to be em phatically undoratood R iloHiring tlml O10 Port' money b oxpmled wlwro it ,vill intuit good to the diitrluL oin brui'ml within the territoriul Iteundii of the Port. We are net prollclrnt in fiiKltteerinfeT Urlim etui ero willnv 10 ithiiJe the dei'ieiun of oomptunt imifin . -r uk ( where the eKfieiuiitui-ti of thf I'.iii'n MHitu y will nrt hri rkull. If 1 kIhioM uim-ui Hull H' i.-ii'ix I. i llu- il.lli.l nullil Iw I'lVltl lS tti fiiiui n Ote uihi rivt'i, llivn, tui4 II. f pMttlUlll) ( Of K I ' Klfudfl lintliitfl i m hl . ,1. it 1. 1 1 1 ... 1 I. II . I If 1 1. II. fill ! that project "-' Between the Sentinel and uie uo i .lifT-onm. .is to corner tuuiu -w ...- i) is the objects to be attained, namely the 0000(?00 best interest of the whole port, even ii ( we should differ as to the methods toj (From the nccorjor) junc 15, 1905) be pursued. j Wo have heretofore mid do now ven- j Six persons joined the Methodist turo an unskilled guess or opinion church at a recent meeting, that the cngir.acrs and the commis- j Jamcg w Mnstf book kcel,er for lho sioners of the port as a unit will rec-, prosper mju hlllj Rone to Portland to ommend the heaviest work to bo done see tho uxpogition on the lower river first, but do not ad- vnnce the theory for more than a mere ; Among the visitors to Uandon dur opinion as a means to an end. " the week were Sheriff S. Gall.or of Uut above nil things we desire aiii'i1""" ! ,;dits of the district to be fairly rep resented witli tho single reservation V.1 the best interests of tho port shall be first Ecrved. Wc believe that the Sentinel and the Recorder are harmonious on this point and the discussion should end here. Anpnt our Uandon contemporary, who unbidden and impertinently butts WHO UllUKllieil llllll liuiiui uuninj ...H.V., in seeking to monopolize the sltunJpovimniy orvd tion, all we have to say is: How like :i little, barking dog? f I , tons of wool, a ton and a half of Flit MOUNT FACTS Bhittjin bark !llui otllcr f,0iKht. .9 I W' I;llulon waa defeated at base hall j by Coquille, score 10 to 7. Hughes and Carl Mathews is building n chicken McKune pitched for Handon and Os mansion nearly as large as some of ' will caught. The four teams of the the houses for people. lie eventually ! league wcie tied in their 'standing, intends chicken business in tho future. 1 each having won two and lost two. A dance was given by Mrs. A. D. I (Krom the Recorder June 14, 1895) Hack to a few neighbors and friends : .1 I...I ...ill, nvimsnn J.'.mCS Mast WHS doWll flOIll tllO 1IIL- IUIJIII IV. in utiumitu . v.. and white roses and also with ferns. A dance was iriven by Mrs. C. Math .,.0 i. 'ilmiit lliirtv fivn iniist Satur-' t ... . , day night. A dainty lunch was served r.t midnight and dancing resumed un-j til the "wee sma" hours of Sunday.- morning. Mrs. Lee Nceley is busy picking strawberries. Mrs. L. Pullen's little boy Ora has been quite sick with the croup. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hall and Mr and Mrs. Forest Strong tried to spend a day on the beach recently and came 1 ack to the woods about half frozen. Tom Ruckle has gone up the river in the hopes of finding a better place to get work. Tlie Fir Mount Study club met at Mrs. Forest Strong's with 'only six members present as the ladies are far loo busy in their gardens to care for South America just now. Mrs. F. Strong gave a birthday din ner recently to her sister Mrs. Ray I Hall. All parties said "a good time." Walter Hack is busy cutting his hay .Top. Ray Hall and John Pesterfield s.'i. logging otr the Pesterfield place near the Smith mill. Airs. Yarber and four sons have moved from south of Uandon to the Thncker place. Prosper mill did not get its pay day on time this month on account of tho indisposition of its manager. The irfant daughter of R. A. Felter has been quite sick hut is re ported us improving. Mrs. T. Ruckle paid a isit to a Uandon dentist Wednesday afternoon. Frank Harding has peas higher than be can reach. Who says this hill land is no good The Ladies Aid Socio' y met at Mrs. Ace Cornwall's. A cooking club has Waited at Pros per. Each member take? something good to eat and the one voted the best cook gets a prize. On Friday the Prosper reading club mot at the church with a small at tendance. Mrs. Tom Ruckle called on Mrs. Leo Neeloy one day this week. If Such There He, (Jo Mark Him Well Hreathes thero a man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said: 'PI...I ..!:,,... .. lww.il livi IllIlL I'liuui u.in limn- it iiuiiii. ... glad I take his paper. He got a raft of yift and sand, ho print the news of all the laud, he boosts the town to beat the band and that's the proper caper. He soaks the grafter in tlie neck, ho saves the ship of state from wreck, he' Johnnie on the ipot, by I lock, tvhun thing are in a jumble. He writm tho add that bring the iluiitfli, he clinwN nil our gloom and woo, ho tll ii ull wo want to know niul yt h is qniU luiinblB. IU iiovnr nt a bit tti4U'k-M, he'n wirkw nlatt llwUir wai a uiin Ut Mint hi daily liitt mix! -iip niul litv a littl ovw. I know wn - I. un many iiiumV. wbl u hUkum i i i hi lu i tkunk ami fumMt kim wiOi If M rfcuitk Mwu-with Ui lit in Mi' luii I ui, ..r N. i t iii lIIV u( i ,i. ) ilin. S) ..,,. vrn MANY YLAKS AGO. r? Hcnd. The steamer Chico had a large con signment of railroad iron with which to build a railroad for the Cody com pany on Latnpa creek. Indian Charley was a visitor to town and he was likened to the moon inas much as he got full whenever the op- The Elizabetli took out a miscel laneous cargo consisting of lumber, mnt elm-nod and shinirlos. a lot of broom handles, ten tons of butter, five North Fork for a visit in town. The Good Templars met every Tues day night in Swift's hall. .......! r r.,.l.. wueuns uiihv.u u. .i..i...- ...... scheduled for Uandon shortly. Methodist Eniscopal church was to be built in Uandon during the sum mer. D. J. Lowe of Parkcrsburg was panning to build a large barn on his farm. The Hon. Hinger Herman was to deliver the Fourth of July oration at Myrtle Point. landlord Thomas had made some improvements to the Tupper house by 'emoving partitions. Clarence Lowe was preparing to 'mild a drug store building on the lot between Dyer's store and Y'ager's. The library committee hoped to add o the library two or three of the new books which had the widest popular ity. A strawberry festival was schedul ed in the school house on Hear Creek. Free transportation was offered to pa trons by the steamer Dispatch. A letter from W. II. Avcrill at Wat sonville, Cal. stated that himself and family were about to move back to Uandon. The Handorillc broke her shaft in coming over tlie bar and was planning to return to San Francisco by sail 111 order to make the necessary repaiis. Coquille defeated Uandon at baso ball by the extraordinary score of .Z to 18. Smcer and Mehl and Einmit and Williams officiated at the points for Uandon. The stage between Roseburg and Mvrtle Point had suffered a hold up. One drummer was relieved of $:!0 and another saved $100 by hiding hit. mon ey under the seat. The life saving crew were out for .1! ...:1. Ii... II .... ......inn rim! itmil. prUCl-ICU Willi lliu III V i.-HH'. ...... ..v... ( onstrated how speedily they could get 11 hose on top of the Tupper house with ladders nnd get the water to playing. "Passe Partout" writing of a recent trip to Roseburg gave the following description. "I got aboard a four horse wagon, sometimes called a stage, at about 5 o'clock, a. 111., June nth. When the empty mail sacks were securely lashed down we started. The road through Myrtle Point was fairly good but became n trail as the Douglas county line was reached. Crossing 1 - - .... 111... 1! 11 .1 . 1. ..i.w I 111 n 11 f-fl. ie imu "" """ "i mil. As the buckboard was fashioned in the shape of an Indian canoo wo go', along swimmingly. I hopo the Dougla county court wil pardon the pun us I feel as if the sua wtiro quite rough on that trip and u tho ihoro nro qultB rocky we canin naar ahlp vmck, buck-board wreck I inonii, until until finally we reach! tho Cnnw Vklley mid ouie miiiibluneu of a roriili t about 'I, p. m. Wn biimpMl thn dUtanctt fiwm III. ti tr (rin 41. .1 (ijiiiir pi V H S, D, Barrows , . Mi-.( i tvi ' "f there to Olnlla whore we arrived at C o'clock and exchanged our canoo for a Concord coach and rocked the remain der of the distance, 17 miles, to Roo burg at 9, p. m. I tried to pull my self together Sunday morning but found that my movements would be slow for sonic time. 1 don't sit down much after that ride. My step has lost its elasticity and I don't feel lim ber at all, some way or other." The county court at its recent ses sion let W. E. Stoinoff of Uandon, the contract for grading the new road around the hill to give an outlet to ward Myrtle Point without going over the present, narrow and crooked rond The contract price was $l,n00. This project has been hanging fire for many moons and it seems that it will be de layed for still a few more, as a writ of review was filed today on behalf of the Mehl heirs, who are not satisfied with tlie compensation allowed them of $505, and claim that they were not given the right notice pending action. Coquille Herald. The Smoke and the Scenery The Portland Chamber of Coin-1 meree must be a brilliant aggreffn tion of scintillating intellects. It is reported that 5,000 members of that body have "enthusiastically joined in a movement which is intended to keep Oregon's atmosphere clear of smoke during the season of 1915." It is stated that "last year thousands of tourists were disappointed. They came to Or egon expecting to see the splendid scenery so widely advertised and on their arrival found the brush heaps on firo from the Cascades to the Coast i-j.iii'i. tho ntniosiihere resemblinir a S'lti Francisco fog. These tourists left in disgust." Now wasn't that a darned shame? what an inconsiderate lot of farmers and ranchers and pioneer set tlers they must have over there in the Willamette valley that they would in J Order Your Freight Sent I Large Two-Berth Outside mug 'I Eight Day Service Between the Coquille River and ; , ? San Francisco. j? FIRST CLASS PASSENGER FARE, $7.50 'k vukw.ut RATES. S3 ON UP FREIGHT t. ? Reservations: J. E. Norton, Coquille; Perkins, i Myrtle Point; E. B. Thrift, Langlois. :; S .1. E. WALSTROM, Agenl, Randon .j. 1 ...m..mM..M. Hi. vSTJNO PK1 THIS HAUNUSS MAIST n W. 1 Complete stock of har ness, shopping bags, - trunks, suit cases, valises M II and traveling Gas store Convenience mlh Kerosene Mot lilie Cook - A i;oo(l oi' stove concentrates all its heat at tho'rooki-'; point. That avoids an over-h.-.Ufd kltfhen and that means comfort for the cook even on hot, sweltering summer ujys. New Perfection Oil Cook-Stove Vur lieil H0ult Ut Ptarl Oil Ai) ftii fcUvt llw ii'iiwiiinir of gM 0 llOfNtw WMiftlt ga K' ' li-4vy ln I Ui CMtf. N 4tfi 14 wV Ami l l nj-ik. ulliiHg Ug mrJ t wunl Movi i'-- 1 1 it iUmu, i4Mv$dmit, tim No l"r Uf im Ik Umi AlF w 4mU Km IiiM, ul MliifH terfere with Portland's tourist indu . try by obscuring the see 0 y w smoke merely fort he sake 01 ch up their land and getting more of under cultivation. Portland otig it 1 have the legislature pass a law in 1 ing it a crime or at least a niisdeme i or, for a farmer to burn his brush i the summer when passengers on II railroad want to look at the s-'eiie Let them burn their brush in the wn tr when the rain wil keep the sinol.i from rising. Of course here in I 00s 1 doesn't make so much difl "i cc fi we have fe,w tourist? and souk of u even like the smell of the; smoke fro 1 the brush piles, Hint indicates thai more of our fertile acres are coming into use, more happy nnd contented cows giving cream and more h. pi and contented farmers coming ar spending money with our mci ' I and newspaper men. In fsct tin l k county chamber of comniern th 1 would try to keep the farmer Loi burning Inush at the only tune i f t year when it will burn would be 10. s;dered well you can supply the term for yourself. Coquille Herald. Pleasant Picnic Party Mr. nnd Mrs. Hull. Mr. and Mi W II. Yock and family, and a sislu. Mrs. Hrown from Hellingham, Wa .1 And Mrs. Glen and son, formed 1 p nic party Saturday. They went at 1 o'clock in tho morning on the May 1 the river to Sunnyside where the camped for the day. They enjoyed the scenery and picked berries until 1100 when a camp fire was started an 1 coffee made and a picnic dinm 1 em 1 under the trees. They started honin i.t " nVlnr-k iii the nfternooii and ai I rhed in Uandon without anyone fall ing overboard. Rev. W. S. Smith preached in the Presbyterian church at Coquille la ' Sunday morning. by the Old Reliable j State Rooms With Rim water. bags. liwimiiiii JLiLjLJkD.EJ till e ..in) .11 'I yil 1 ' 4 l I M.. I... . . .i uked eiiif tlti 1 lit, .. 11 .1 1... n . .1 .1 .i-Im . . 1 1 ui leetw 4m .1.1.....' 1 i'f ' 'I .1. .1 ii li.wi.H. ii .U11 ill Uui 11.. I 1. U .1 ) I v 1 I WVIU I' ll. I I, tfll. I .. I... I. I. i.iin i.