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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1915)
That Official ‘Turndown’ SAMOOM The dlstrict engineers at Port land baie leporteil uiifavorahly <>n thè proiisioii in thè rivers ami barbera law autlmrlzing a survey <>f thè t'oipiille riier freni «'<»- ipiille lo thè sea. GRESS that «ill probably take years to surmount. The CiMjulll«* river Ml ST HAI E A NEW PROJECT of improve- ment within the next few years. It should have it now. So it is Nip to the people to prevent this M-ri- oits delay if potssibl«*. Hie Western World Owned and published by FELSHEIM Ac HOWE Accorsling to Engineer Williams' It means that after the present uork at the mouth of the river will I m * NO MORE FEDERAL APPROPRIA- TIOXS I OR XEW WORK for Is tinished. there L. D. Felsheim, Editor. Entered as second-class matter at the (M»st office at Bandon, Oregon, January 2d, 1913, under Art of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: $1.5(1 per Year Six Months, 75c; Three Months 10c. liM-ul people have a right to appeal. Tlu* Port Cum- ruission is already preiaiing its repoit Hie Y«* h , perliajm f< r a h>ng time to come. Millie lime to «-<1111«*. It iK-mis that the people of this -<>ti<>n who want to see the l«M-al P«ft iiiq «'<iv«'<l mid made «»ne of appeal mid will make a vigorous effort to have the provKion for a survey inaintaine<l. In order to make the appeal as strong as possible, to lM*ar all tlie «-eight that cun possibly lie made to bcur on the officials at Wash- ington, the Port Commission siig- MUNICIPAL gests that EVERY LETTTERS FROM THE PEOPLE CHATBURN & GARDNER ATTORNEYS AT I.AW W e Practice in All Courts. Suite 3, First National Bank Bldg., Lodge Directory BANDON LODGE No. 130 A. F. & A. M. Wedderburn Man Suggge-ts Goats Oregon Wedderburn, Ore., Nov. 4, 1915. Bandon, Stated communication Saturday after Editor of the Western World. Dear the full moon of each month. Sojourn Sir; 1 note in your issue of October Master Masons cordially invited. 28th an article in which ail readers FINE PORTRAITS WALTER SABIN. W. M. are requested to of or your paper Amateur Finishing C. E. BOWMAN, Secretary. fer suggestions fer the most lucra- tive investment of $15,0011 dollars in East of Hotel Gallier First st. L. O. O. M. this district. H I had $15,000 I would get me Loyal Order of Moose meets IRA C. ZEH a herd of some 2000 goats ami real- Every Thursday Evening in Moose Contractor and Builder ize some of this wonderfully good Home. Transient Moose cordially and peculiarly well adapted range Estimates Cheerfully Furnish invited. Something doing every fur that animal. Surely no better Thursday. ed. 1 am goat country was ever seen, W. A. I.e GORE, Dictator. Oregon speaking of Curry county, in general, Bandon, C. W. BOWMAN, Sec y. and also Coos has much hill country that would do well for goats. OCEAN VIEW ENCAMP I have in mind a range sufficient to feed 5000 goats on brush brows MENT, No 72 I. O. O. F. DAILY • ... . ... ...... . ing, and acorns, in fall and winter. Meets Second and Fourth Saturdays Splendid grass, too; rough mountain of Each Month in 1. O. O. F. Hall. ridges: plenty of water, This is in Visiting Patriarchs Welcome. forest and tho Siskiyou national A. KNOPP, C. P. could easily be obtained for a goat I. L. SCOFIELD, Scribe S. G. WHITSETT, Prop. ranch by payment of the stipulation By homesteading 160 for grazing. Cars leave Bandon dally at 7 a. acres which is easily available, and Seaside Camp No. 212, W. O. in. for Port Orford. the grazing permit from the forest W. Meets first and Third Tuesdays ry, a man could easily handle the t ars leave Port Orford daily in each month at S I*. M.; Knights of Whatever question of 2<i00 goats, ut I p. ni. for Bandon. Pythias hall. Visitors are assured a the amount of goals a man could hearty welcome. handle this certainly appeals to me FARE: J. N. HOSKIN«;, C. C. as the natural industry for the hills To Langlois, $1.50 F. H. (X)IAjiROVE. Clerk. of Curry county. To Port Orford, $3.00 1 am only a trapper now but I ex KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS pect to run goats nere in the near We always have time to ac Delphi Lodge No. <11, Knights of future. commodate traveling salesmen Pythias. .Meets every Monday even Yours truly, A. II. CARROLL. stopping off at intermediate . « • • ing at Knights hall. \ Kiting Knights stations. I Editor of tlu* Western World: invited to attend. Special trips made through would suggest that the party with J. W. MAST, C. C. to Gold Beach for parties of $15,000 to invest, visit Bandon and B. N. HARRINGTON. K. of R. S. two or more. investigate the sporting possibilities on some of the beautiful lakes in the vicinity of Bandon. Yours truly, J. L. F. * * • * DR. R. V. LEEP Jiin lias Troubles of His Own Physician and Surgeon No. 1. Watch for more MURDER, _ _ — Office in Ellingson Bldg. On Thursday evening about nine- Phone 301. thirty tho unmistakable sounds of a BANDON. OREGON bloody and ghastly murder could be distinctly heard coming over the bos G. T. TREADGOLD om of the river between Bandon and Stand at Central Warehouse Attorney and Counselor at Law Prosper, and there was no doubt in the mind of the hearer but what Notary Public Phone 1054 some« ne was being greatly abused. Rooms 1 and 2, First Nat’l Bank Bldg. A posse was called together as soon BANDON OREGON Bandon, Oregon as possible and on nearing the scene of the supposed tragedy they discov DR. S. C. ENDICOTT ered Jim Walstrom bending over the engine of his motorboat which had Dentist refused to work. Seeing the mood Office 1'211 —Phones— Res. Hill which Mr. Walstrom was in they did Office in Ellingson Bldg. not think it safe to approach nearer, so they turned their boat toward BANDON. OREGON town. Signed I. I'. EVERYTHING. Bandon-Port Orford Auto Stage the iiiipcrtant ports of the Pacific LOCAL ADV Ell I ISING coast, as it should h«*. MUST GET AND Pl BI.IC BODY IX IIAXDOX 7 here was a limo when folks BUSY. 1(191 II.I.E AND INTERVENING blushed if caught reading an adver ll-iement. It wan considered so tn e- POINTS PASS HTRONG RESOLU W itimut a government survey w hat of a breach of Intelligence and I k .in Coquille to the sea, outlin TION'S setting forth tlu* necessity tho Indiscreet individual so appre of a survey an«l appealing to the ing a m-iv project such as was bended really felt humiliated and contemplated when the Port vot engineers to reconsider the prop ashamed. It Is different today, The growth of industry, science and in ed $250,1*00 to go halves with the osition. vention has relegated that idea to the gole'nm< nt, it will I m * impossible The matter is urgent and should rear and has reversed its principle. to scemi* any Federal amount in by all means be taken up at once, Toduy It is a mark of ignorance not excess of «lull is absolutely neces- as it is of grave importance. All to read advertisements. sary for maintaining the present tho information necessary can I m * Whine call be found a greater store of current knowledge perti condition of the harlMir, secured from Port Attorney G. T. nent to one's everyday life than in It means the further establish- Trea<lg<d«l and tlu* Western World the advertising pages of a local news ment in the minds of the engineers is ready to assist in any way pos paper? In what manner can the sible. commercial interests of a community at Washington of the idea that It is up to the various public- come in closer contact with the peo we don't need any better port, ple of that community to inform consequently It will RAISE 1 BAR spirited bodies to take action. them of the art|cl«*s that ar«* manu BIER IX HIE PATH OF PRO- LET’S GET BUSY. factured, bought or Hold for their convenience, or services offered for their accommodation ? live expenses is the great problem. The local newspaper as an adver In considering this problem, it EPIOR.l.MAI.lTIC.l L tising iimdlum is of untold value to 1 must not be forgotten that saving “God made woman,” says Jim the general public and those who ad- money Is of fully uh much as im for man. dertise In It are public benefactors. portant as raising more money, and Mast, "as companion It I h not only (lie wisdom but Hie duty there Is no better way to save roa<l Man told her she was a superior of people to read the advertisements funds than by instituting a system product, and ever since then sb«’ and keep posted; also to patronize of maintenance that will take care has spent the greater portion of her those enterprizing and accommodat of the small, everyday faults before time trying to enlarge the Illusion." ing enough to buy the space for their they become large and expensive ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ benefit. ones. Let 11s take as an example ♦ PHILOSOPHICAL CHORDS ♦ the mor A larger percentage of .111 averago stretch of hill road that ♦ (By a Railsplitter) ♦ chants of every community ii re news has been Improved during the sum ♦ ♦ ♦ « paper advertisers. They are the wide- mer. At <• nsiderable expense a awake, up-to-date business men who graile has been built and drainage The forces of Nature and lier law - realize the value of their informa ditches at the side have been pro are fixed, but through the process of lion to the public; they are the ouch vided so that as long us everything evolution higher orders are devil who make newspapers possible, for goes as It should the water will drain 1 oped under the law. without their aid subscribers would away and tio damage will be done. • • • receive but a small portion of the real Hut the minute a ditch on the upper A feast in the Jungles of savagery Isn't That Just Too Bad REAL ESTAIT: new.« and other pure reading mutter, I side of th«* road becomes clogged the At Murfresborough, 111., October Marshfield Record: The Coos Bay which they do receive, for the small 1 water Is diverted into the wheel ' 16 three thousand people assembled side of Coos county is being almost Insurance Conveyancing sum of $1.50 a year; and, they are traeks, and if nothing Is done it to witness a public hanging. entirely ignored by the county court. usually the ones w ho take the keen j .«»< n washes out a gulley that ruins Abstracts est Interest In the welfare of the , tho road. A resolution by the Woman’s community. In brief, they are the This is only one instance of dam Single Tax club of the District of and Notary Public ones who make a community pro age because of lack of proper nialn- Columbia is as the voice of one cry grass. t< nance. There are hundreds of ing tn the wilderness against the On th«» other hand there are liter ot hers. Tho point is that in every murderous spirit of militarism In Opposite Bank of Bandon Didn't Bother the Mail chants who do not advertise. Either case of damage that might have ternationalism, they say, rather than It is said there were about 100 they do not realist) th«* value of It been prevented or wear tliut might Bandon, Oregon patriotism, is tho basis of perman sacks of parcels post on the Santa or they are too selflsh to meet tho have been checked before it grew ent peace. Clara which were not removed by buyers half way. They deiMtul on to large proportions th«* money ori • * • the ship’s crew during the first two reaping the benefit of th«* other fel ginally spent on the road was wast Many English families today are days. Some of this came ashore and low’s efforts. They are of no vnlue ed. Thus the amount that must be proud to trace back their land titles was picked tip by the pirates, but in to a newspaper anil invariably they rahed in 1 rder to keep tip the roads to the Norman conquest proud that the main lias been turned over to the tight shy of any public-spirited move !-i Increased. The purpose of tin* their private property In land was pri per authorities: the pirates be ment, where they might be expected patrol system is to clu*ck this need acquired through murder, and that ing extremely tareful in their actions to give a dollar or even un i ffort to less waste, mid thus make available their titles, as also the first titles to in tampering witli government goods wards the welfare of a community, mor«* m uiey for new and better all land was written iti blood. and it is said it Is not likely that any Tlies«* follows ar«* the lirones; the const ruction. considerable amount of the parcels dead ones, and no matter how law post has been taken from the beach. STATE TAX PROBABLY SAME abiding they might be, they are a V. on 1‘ltlCEH liability to th«* community as a Oregon’s tax levy for state pur I Ive i merchant- everywhere ar«* Almost In tlu* Wreck whole. beginning to reulizM the value of poses for 1916 will be approximate Mr. and I Mrs. J. Thomas M Every citizen who has the w oliar constant ly * advertising tlu*ir wares ly the same as this year, when it narrowly escaped of Bandon and coin inanity nt heart with tjiclr prices. The mail order averaged 3.34 mills on a valuation of of North Bond l Santa Clara wreck, should take these facts homo und business of tlu* country Is Increasing $932,412,000, It was announced by being In the c< nsldor them carefully , They mi* amazingly and the local merchant. members of th«* state tax commission They had made application for re- nervations at Portland, but the re- aimed to create an huiv-t lnt«'ii st in no matter wlu*r«> lit* Ilves is bound t > tho other day. In view of th«* Increase In appro nervations were all taken so they tho advertisers who m.* the lochi nolle* tlu* effects of it in decreased They paper. sales unless lit* advertises Ids goods. priations by th«» last legislature, came home via Roseburg, Commissioner Galloway were shocked at their close call when only Is used to make the People are more than willing to buy however. said there was a possibility that the told of the disaster as they took the flour which g«M*s into «»tir ut home if price-; asked are rea-ioti XI ED ROAD TO III it II breatl. An«l tlu* very best able, but with th«* ever-increi •asi n g amount required for state purposes stage at the latter place. Mr. Thom The difficulty of the Const Guard iiic II kh I s only are etiiploy«**! volume uf mailorder llteruture flood- would be slightly lower. After the as is deputy game warden for tills crew In reaching tho scene of the to priMliiee I mi H i tlie flour Ing tho country eluinilng in ti se legislative session of 1913 th«* tax section. wreck of tho Santa Clara with their and the bread, You'll like ducive way that this cannot be dotte, levy for last year totaled $4,165,- equipment, | h an Ulus ration of wh it the l«M»ks when you see It. Is It any wonder tin* army of people 000. In 1913 the tax levy was but N««rlli Jetty Xeeded might happen In Bandon, should a When the commission You'll like its tante Mill who Imy more and mor«* uwuy from $1.122,000. There seems to be no question that steamer be wrecked along this const better when you try it. their home town merchants is grow fixed tlu* 1913 levy It was not able the steam steering gear of the Santa Il omphasD.i-s the nece sity of an to anticipate what th« legi lature Clara was the cause of the wreck of ing? auto road In the beach. Coos liny “Tlie Peoples’ Bake Shop.” The live merchant realizes thia of that year would appropriate and. the vessel, says the Record, Captain needs one: so does Bandon. While and apportions his advertising appro therefore. In 1914 the levy had to be ladstedt says there is no question wrecks are few and far b«<tw«*»*ii at priation accordingly. And he puts increased to provide for tho approp that had the north jetty to Coos till' port, the unexpected might liai prices In his ads for he finds that riations made. This year tlu* levy Bay been built up as tlu* people here OOO< I cii nt any time At rate there for years have been clamoring it pays to advertise and to adv«*rtise w as for $3.1 12.000. it i.hould be a rend from top i f the At th«» 1913 session, however, tlu* should be. there would have been no along tin* general lines practiced by bstik to the beach for benefit of legislature passed a measure when* wreck. Us out of town competition. beach vlslturs. If the per repfe- l-y tlu* lax commission is enabled to Ô situations are made ha;»a the O County lt<ndmn-der P. M. Hall anticipate the legislative appropria U inclunati a Her«» government cun bo In Lewis' resignation Is gialefully re lions, and thus the state levy is now Robert Shearer. winchman <>n thè fur the benefit of th Professional the Santa Clara, was In thè tirsi llfe- cvlvod, but for the benefit of ihe mor«* equally distributed bet Ç service ÿ taxpajers It *diou|<| have been re- the two years intervening from one boat when It capsized, He siezed two Teacher of Piano •tue ted about two years ago. When legislature to another children and brought ttieni to short*. 0 I III WAN lo S It E tlu* count) has a definite program Then he w* nt out after n woman and Nlake Rich Go|«| Strike The following editorial comment for permanent rond building mnpped the last seen of him the woman had Rich gold or«» has been found in a doath grip around his neck. Both from tlie Eugen«* Register Is of in out mid has tlu* money with which to carry It on, th«» employment of a th«* old Gold Bluff or livens ledge w«*re lost, The hero's body has not tereat .' The good reads question inevitably competent roadmaster may be nee mln«» st Canyonville In Ikiuglas coun been found Committing of Solos W. W O'Connor cessary, but for the present that of- ty. made the resolves itself into a question of •trike a K|>ecialty The property Is owned by < aptain Saves on«* «>f Crew nioney. It It were not for the cost fl> ** should be kept vacant. Messrs. Sessions and J. C. and E. A. Trachee of All tirades Charley I’urst of tlu* steward’s de all of our roads would be paved, That Coos Bay citizen. who after parttuent. whll«* engaged in releasing no on«* opposes good roads On the three trials was waiting for the tide Ri Herts of Portlidul Studio liver a lite b« at from the davits, was contrary everyone favors them until to rise so he could drown himself, J. A. Bryne'a Store We are sole agents for Riverton washed overboard Capt. Lofstedt It conies to raising the inotu-y How ought to l>e an enthusiastic booster Coal at Bandon Dippel A- Wolver with true aim threw him a line and to get good roads without prolilbi- for n deeper harbor II INDON ton o:itf. pulled hint back ou tlu* boat again * O w. o. wT Professional Cards R. DAVIDSON General Transferring Î Jght and Heavy Draying Wolverton GEO. P. TOPPING Attorney at Law Practices in all Courts. Office Over Bank of Bandon. DR. H. L. HOUSTON Physician and Surgeon Notes on the Wreck Office Over Drug Store. Hours 9 to 12 a. m.; 1:30 to 4 p. m.; 7 to 8 in the evening. Night calls answered from office. BANDON, OREGON DR. L. P. SORENSEN Dentist Office In First National Bank Itldg. Plmnes; Office 1222; res. 152 BANDON, OREGON C. R. BARROW, Attorney and Counselor at Law Notary Public THE VERY BEST WHEAT Seaside Bakery Prof. A. RICHARDS oooo<xxx>ooooooooc>' Farmers’ Phone: Office No. 481 Resilience No. 143 Office over Skeel’s Store, Coquille, Oregon JOHN NIELSON Notary Public, Insurance, Real Estate and Book-keeping Bandon, Oregon SMITH J. MANN Physician and Surgeon Office in Ellingson Bldg. Office Hours 9 to 12 1 to 5 Phones: office 302; res. 211. BANDON. OREGON DR. ARTHUR GALE Physician and Surgeon Phones: Office 351; r<*s. 352. Otli«-e In Ellingson llldg. BANIX1N, OREGON I. L. SCOFIELD Dentist Office I ally A Morrison building next to Emergency hospital Phone 11 II Bandon, Oregon Methodist Cliurcli Notice Our regular services are as fot- Iowa: Public worship eacn Sunday I at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; Sunday school at 10 o'clock; Epworth league at 7 p. m.; prayer services at private homes on We<in«*s«!ay evenings; a cor*» dial Invitation la extended to all.— Rev C. Mayne Knight. Pastor.