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About The Bandon recorder. (Bandon, Or.) 1915-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1915)
-v- A Feature Supreme WILLIAM FOX presents Betty Nansen, the Royal Actress stul Edward Jose "A Woman's Resurrection" I Adapted from Tolstoy's Resurrection BETrY NANSEN Hundreds of people in the cast. Majjnificicnt Stage Settings. Sec Russian Convicts on way to Siberia. Terrible ourages committed in Russian Prisons. 15c & 5c Grand Theater, Friday, December 24th Coming-Next Sunday-Marguerite Clark in "The Pretty Sister of Jose" 9 Hero's to the Itandon debaters! The list has been selected and the or utors are going Into training. Hero's wishing them success. Now that the Oregon avenue in junction lias been made permanent , instead of spending money to carry the case higher up, why not U'.ko the sum this would cost and apply it to incidentals in running the street down the old trail? Christmas in the trenches. Somehow the prhaso docs not have a very at tractive sound. It would 1)0 n considerably moro I tractive thine; to Ilandonians if pay . g the tax would insure their being 0. "cuplod in their occupation, i Parcels post and Christmas paeka lies but no, wo won't say anythitiK 1. 'jout it. Lets forget it. About as lino a specimen of scenery i T we have seen for a loan tinio was i io new rock work and the sand dunes i tho other side of the river serving i a back ground yesterday morning i j the Grace Dollar comlngjn on hor ( wn power. And judging from ex- rcssious dropped a great ninny peo. lo in UmuIoii nro willing to agree. . I noss for war, preparedness for pros- "Wormwood" by Marie Corclli as perity appears to liavo neon overiooK- prescniou ni ine viranu msi riu.ij ed. Three of the hip; railroad com- night was a tragedy with a capital T. litanies have already placed an embar-ISix persons who wore the main char- go on freight because of the impossi-1 acters therein, shuuied oil the ilis bility of getting cars' to carry it. I tasteful coil of an irksome existance " during n short interval of time and It really looks as if the Rood times t)10 story halted as if perforce it could prcvnlent elsewhere were -about to I j,0 no longer, the cast of characters dawn in Handon. Now in the glowj mvjK i,cun exhausted. All, save pos of approaching Iiht would be a good sji,iy onC( ,iiL,,i abnormlil deaths. Two time to resolve to give the tin horn ' committed suicide, one was murdered a vacation, cork up the excess of hot1.,,,,! another died in a frenzied delir- air and braggndocia, prick the bubble ;um i,L.iK haunted by a leopard of a few inflated speculative values and build Handon as some of her lat est buildings have been built of hon est material, on solid foundations. o What better time than this glad Christmas time to express our con gratulations to the gentleman in the White house and extend our felicita tions to the new first lady of the land. Charity is a beautiful thing for the donnor on Christmas day or any other day and not a few Itandon dinners will taste better to the attendants around the board in tho knowledge that de serving hungry were fed the day be fore. Hut, somehow or other, the idea of Christmas is not associated with cha rity. It is the honoring of those whom we love and respect. It is pret ty largely a homo circle affair where the tics of fellowship are strongest. gnawing at a bone, that dogged his footsteps. The most curious part of it was that the spectator saw the sum mary and drastic disposition of the of the people of the story with resig nation, if not to say with relief. It was as if any end that might be de vised for the quietus of the moving spirits of the plot other than the one employed would have lacked appro priateness. It made one positively blood thirsty to look upon them. The spectator could get somo inkling of the attitude of audiences to the glad itorial sport of ancient Rome and had the test been applied to Miss Corelli's master piece the reply would have been "thumbs down" every time. An absinth fiiend as presented by Miss Corclli is certainly about as re nulsive as a human being can bo. A supposed panther has for some time had its lair near Cox's mill and The very idea of the birth of Christ last week Cash Coonso and Bess does not harmonize with charity. It! Wilcox succeeded in bagging the an- is recognized as the sacrifice of a imal. It was not a panther but the Father to his children. There is a : people who caught glimpses of it in generous overflow of the Christmas ! tho woods wore justified in thinking spirit that reaches out to tho wretched i so. When the animal was displayed In the general hustle for prepared- and unfortunate but the fountain head of Chrismaa is in the home The Sanito Grocery H. E. HORNUNG To introduce our line of HI ELASS GROCERIES we are giving away Ten Big Prizes 1st prize, $5.00 worth of Groceries. 9 other prizes, including Casserole, Percolater, etc. One Chance with every 50 cent Purchase Phone 57 We deliver on First street last Wednesday night a large crawd gathered around it and a heated argument was hold in regard to the spcies. Somo claimed it was n very largo bob cat while others called it a lynx. We only know that it was a good specimen, one or the other. The animal, from tho head to foot was about five foot long. It had large feet, a large mouth and while it had short cars, the hair on the cars stuck up like small plumes. Joe Coach has purchased $2,C00 stock in n. L. Tracy & Co, Hrick and Tilo plant at Arago which will oper ate on a larger scale. The Recorder s Forum Where our leader.'. nu talk on topics 0f tiiwti.il ami uencral interest. Mail Orders and Taxes Topic of Timely Talk ...... NliW TKLKIMIONU DIRECTORY Tho January issue of the Telephone directory will go to 'iress December 3 1st. Subscribers desiring changes in list ings or advertising space should make necessary arrango nents as early as possible. If you aro planning lo Imvo a telephone InnUtllod, Do it now ami gut your name In "moat uawl ami uioful book" in i " ('tiny nm Wmuim nufUui counlUm. I5vl ra and J 'May IMfnp two vltesiivt ndmUtUk. ' coos m) cwmv mjwiiQS&CQ&mts? MK. EDITOR I noticed in the Christmas number of tho Western World in the editorial page an articlo ontitled "Itandon's Loss" to which I will have to tako Mime exceptions, and must state that I am a good deal like the stingy preacher mentioned excepting that I ordinarily don't patronize tho destruc tive mail order business; but I can't nee where it makes much, if any, dif faruncu whether the people send their money to mail order Iioiuoh or the inrchunt Funds hit money out to buy hiii morchnmliko from tho wholesaler u fur i keeping the money in the twwH it eoiworned. If l) nupJe do mil uul tholr immy iut te buy thir nmwMilitit, tht MMtrdumt will ami iliws. Tlw umiwy fffcNi ml )nU llttt miho whutliof It i Uu (M tluUUlill or nailuir. miuu. tiUrttH? m Irt m where M miut y 4dfm at Air u Uuuu Hut Western World if ho Is going to pa tronize homo industry if he can save from 25 per cent to 50 per cent by purchasing elsewhere? Ho will evid . try trade where he can get what 1m eeds the cheapest, and believe that is wHat the majority of the people are doing that have tho cash or where with to do it. As to the merchants in Itandon (and it is applicable to many other places) I have this much to say that they charge the cash customer as much for cash a3 where credit is extended, and it would seem that in order to encour age cauh being paid, ? they would make a distinction botveen the cash customer and the credit customer by allowing a discount for cash, thuy would stimulate the cash business and consequently encourage cash being paid as it would mean cheaper prices, but from observation would judge from prices asked, they expect a cash customer to help pay for those that do not pay their bills. It is evident that if a merchant encourages credit instead of cash, it is only a question of time that failures will ensue and the merchant that persists in such me thods of doing business, has only him self to' blame. If he believes that he is going to make the public pay his losses, he will evidently find that the public, (c.ish customers) will be like him and buy where the merchandise or necessities can be bought the cheap est. I do not bame them, do you? If one establishes business methods that in time will mean failure, can any one else be blamed but the merchant himself? I have heard so much, about, the merchants howling against the mail order houses and keep your money nt home and patronize home industry. Are the merchants doing this? When a farmer comes to town with his pro duce, do the merchants patronize home industry? One would not think so by noticing the farm products that come in on the steamers from San Francisco,. It would not be so bad if this was done out of season; but such is not the case. The home mer chant ordinarily sets the price on what he will pay you providing he buys your farm produce, and also set the price he is going to charge you. The result is that he compels the custom er to send where he can get nierchan dise the cheapest. Any proposition that will not work both ways is a poor one indeed. The public is willing to stand for a business to make a reasonable profit but does not want to be held up under the excuse of legittmnto business. Universal and indiscrimate credit will put any business on thjo rocks, and if a merchant does not think so, just porsist long enough and he will soon find out. If the merchants want to keep the ti ado at home and get the cash in stead of the mail order houses getting it, the sooner they put their business o:i a cash basis and cheaper prices, the aooner they will realize this fact. Do not charge the customer that pays his '.fills for a sum large enough to cover losses as the merchant makes the los ses thru poor judgment and not the customer, consequently it should not be charged up to him. The mail order houses get the cash and trke no chanc es, and why should any other business iirm. The U. S. government will credit no oao and if it did, it is evident that it would soon go bankrupt I want to say something about the money stringency which my editor friend lias evidently overlooked. The sending away of our money for actual necessities will continue whether we have good or bad times and conditions The fault lies in the fact that we do not have enough produce of one kind or another shipped to bring back money. If there were more industries operating such as sawmills and others that would get back money for lumber or other produce shipped out, then we would get if not as much nione"y com ing back to offset the money that is continually being sent out. As we are buying more than we ship conse quently we create a money stringency. As for an ideal plae for newcomers wish to state that if Oregon's taxes keep up at the rate they have the past few years, I am afraid we will have to catch them on the run as they will look where living conditions are cheap" er. I read an article recently that Oregon is rated as the fourth highest statu in taxation, and for every house hold of goods being hauled into the state, seven are leaving. THIS MEANS SOMETHING and it is about time to find out what is wrong and stop whitewashing. We might make ourselves believe that everything is all right but when you dig into an empty pocket ird find it empty, it is no delusion but a fact. As to the occupation icx, wish to state I am hit with my proportion the same as well as all the others, and in order to maintain and keep up the town's credit, probably should not kick, but as I am a resident of the town and considered in the same po sition as a stockholder in a corporation havo a right to offer my opinions. As to the tax, I will' gladly pa same with others but I would like tq know where it is going to end. We voted, I believe, bonds to tr.ke up $ 10 000 outstanding warrants on the gene ral fund, and now the city is busy, writing more warrants, and later oi will evidently ask at some future dato to vote bonds to take up these, and in time, unless something is done, the city will bo so fnr in debt that it can not pay and never will be able to pay and it might be well to see how Ore gon City had to handle this matter. Your city charter does not allow a tax over a certain millage and yoit think '.ict you have a great protection but dear property owners and tax payers you failed to put a limit on the amount of wnrrants that can be issu ed on vhe gone-al fund. You forgot to plug up the big hole but you will probably know it soon when you have to hell) foot bills for expenditures and mismanagement providing, of course, you haven't seen it before this. You must not forget that every time a bond is given that your property and mine are mortgaged to pay it at some future time. Do we want any more mortgages put on it than what is ab solutely necessary? I for one certain ly do not want any more mortgages than I can help. We want expenses curtailed but is this being done? When times and conditions get stringent, taxes invari ably go up. Is not this ordinarily the case? What is the city doing to wards cutting down expenses? Ordinarily a business concern runs its business in accordar.ee with con ditions and I would think that a muni cipality would or nt least should do likewise. This is all that I will say at this time and later on expect to say some more for the reason at this time, be lieve my articles is about as long as the editor will stand, and hope that somo of the good tax payers will only get their eyes open. At the last caucus that I attended of the East Ward, there were only about 8 or 10 persons present which showed how much interest is taken in your city affairs which concern you as much as your own private affairs, and as you have to help pay the expenses, should at least, concern yourself in seeing what is being done, ns any concern whether a corporation, firm or individual is no better than the in terest shown. Respectfully submitted JOHN NIELSON CLOSING OUT! Everything goes by January 1, therefore b e g 1 n n 1 n g Saturday, December 18th We will sell all oui Wines and Liquors at ONE-FOURTH OFF Beer $2.00 per Dozen Bottles RASMUSSEN BROTHERS & TUTTLE "No More" after January 1, Bandon, Ore,