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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1915)
HIRAM S THANKSGIVING DREAM The Western World Owned and published by FELSHEIM « HOWE !.. D. Felsheim, Editor. Entered >is second-class matter at the post office at Bandon, Oregon, January 2d, 1913, under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: *1.50 per Year Six Months, 75c; Three Months 40c. Telephone 1MH Wearily I leaned over our unfaith ful Remington, placing into English the tale of a past night’s meeting. The ribbon was wornout and balky, the hour was late and the heavy hand of slumber was gripping my eyelids. Slower anil slower grew my touch upon the keys, and with a scarcely audible sigh my head fell forward upon my breast. Again was 1 among my people Thanksgivings of the past passed in review. Those wonderful dinners, looked forward to with zest by us youngsters and the topic of our con- weeks afterwards, vernations for My mother's smiling face seemed to beckon; "Ed", “Buster”, and the neighbors of old would again be real there with their spirit of Thanksgiving With a start I roused frbm my rev erie and hammered a few more lines, but it was no use. In a moment my head was again lowered. The scene shifted. My fancy dealt with the present. From a distance I wandered to the westward to the land of t'topia. I was in a beautiful city by the sea. On its north ran a swift flowing river, flanked by the business section and shipping of the town, on the east stretched a large manufacturing section, filled with numerous mills from which 'rose the myriad sounds of busy labor. En- J CHATBURN & GARDNER Mouth Comfort ATTORNEYS at LAW We Practice in All Courts. Suite 3, First National Bank Bldg., Oregon terlng the harbor were several large Best Insured by Using Rexall OMua-iiners. its people appeared Tooth Paste - Guaranteed happy and contented They had beau tiful homes, wide aud well-paved to Please. streets, and everywhere a profusion of flowers. Rexall Tooth Paste is meant to ! INE PORTRAITS 1 was one of their number please you. Every care is exer WORLD had changed as only I 1 j Amateur Finishing conscientious work and fair de g cised in selecting the purest in East of Hotel Gallier could have made it. It was a Wo- gredients and blending them into First st. luminous sheet, Gone was tis <f!it- I the dainty, antiseptic, delightful mer-; of town advertising for the IRA C. ZEH finished product. That is why chants had recognized the value of Contractor and Builder its columns and now patronized it is the favorite among all our tooth preparations, selling faster Estimates Cheerfully Furnish the paper liberally, Its news items had changed, too. No longer were J than any other three of them. ed. the subscribers tolerant of off color Our people have learned that Oregon happening or tales of misfortune. using Rexall's T<K)th Paste is a Bandon, for no longer did such occur. Sei pleasant experience, and that it fishness and malice had disappeared: no longer the story of another man's is also good for their teeth and weakness or misfortune, gone were gums. It destroys the germs of DAILY tiie thoughts of incompetence or iecay, helps whiten and preserve kindred subjects. the teeth, makes the gums red My heart warmed as I thought o'er and rosy, and leaves the breath the list of subscribers. Gone were “ Vagrant and s w e e t. If it the names of those whose ambition S. G. WHITSETT, Prop. doesn't was to fail to pay their subscrip doesn’t do all this, if it tion; those who take a paper for please you your money back. Cars leave Bandon daily at 7 a. years and then tell the editor they Price 25 cents. Sold in this com hi . for I'ort Orford. had never subscribed. No longer munity only at our store. The Cars leave Port Orford daily were there delinquents. The list at 1 p. hi . for Bandon. showed all paid in advance. I felt Rexall Store. C. Y. L owe . the spirit of real thanksgiving. And then—“Wake up! What did you do? Sleep here all night?” AN <>< < l PATION TAX? Now that an occupation tax is be ing seriously considered to meet the coming deficit in city expenses. It will be no more than fair to the com- mlttoo, the mayor, council und other city officials that the business men and others upon whom the burden of such tax will fall, should discuss with thorn the question, the I advisability of suc h a measure, which consider established and undisputed. EPIGRAMM HITCH L businesses and occupations should be We have never the right to consider taxed and the proportions each should i hem reeponsible for their ignorance Jack Sullivan says these are cer bear. The committee, if It thinks or to show them disdain.*' tainly meloncholy days for the gen such advisable, will probably arrange tleman who can’t decide whether his That’s what we’re all a public meeting. In such event VOl BE BIGHT, OI.D MAN* everyono interested should attend The Editor of the Oregonian must last fall's overcoat is sufficiently re doing these days. But and take part in the discussion. have been a Country Editor himself spectable for another season. don’t get the mistaken It Is unfortunate the measure al at one time. He says: ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦< lowing an Increase in taxes of five The country editor Is entitled to idea you can live on I’HIIAISOI’HICAL CHORDS ♦ mills did not pasH at the last city his hire and something should be less by eliminating the (By a Railsplitter) ♦ election. The present administration done to raise the rates of pay. He ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ « meat. has made a strenuous efTort to cut does not get enough now, and he city expenses to a minimum and still eurns more than he ever sees. If af- Let wealth be the means and tife You can’t, meat is run the city's affairs on a business fairs could be so arranged that many the end. the cheapest substan Ilka basis. was people would make a practice of pay That minimum t t t reached before the election and the ing him money on Monday, his heart tial food you can buy, Love does not permit intelligent proposed tax Increasing measure WUH would be filled with Joy and his purse choice—the fates ordain. if you buy right, which only submitted after thorough dis- with gold, for then wealth would t t t means at the cusslon. In comparison with those flow in all the week. This does not The only destiny that some people of other cities of its size In Oregon border on superstition; every one of have to fill appears to be their sto- and the rest of the western country, him can attest its truth. When he mach. Bandon’s municipal taxes are low, breaks Ids mall Monday morning and t t t I hone 131 and should they have been Increased finds a bunch of land notices, there Thus, in a sea of folly toss'd, to 15 mills they would still have is ginger and "pep” about the shop My choicest hours of life are lost. Ix-en low In comparison with many all the week and the paper fairly Swift. communities. scintillates, The trouble is that pat- The sentiment which causes na “But look at the *4 0,000 out- rons do not rcalize this, hence the tlons to prepare for war inevitably standing warrants,” say some, "und trouble. hurls them into It. still they want to add more to the Take the hint, folks, start things STOVE, FIRE PLACE t t t burden.” Do these same people re out right on Monday mornings. The first, last, and hardest thing OR CORD member when 5 mills was a popular for a public servant to learn is that levy for years and nothing particular A FACT PROVED he is a servant. was thought or said about the ever- Merchants who do not advertise fl t t t increasing number of warrants put Die home newspaper gradually lose History records one base theft out to meet the deficit? The city a certain amount of prestige in the that from Westminster of the shin is now in the position of any one. community. People who are accus Ing silver head of the statute of who living on credit for years, has tomed to see the advertisements of King Henry. Phone 653 finally reached the point where he all live merchants in the local paper t t t Order your wood for the must pay or suffer the consequences are bound to wonder what is the mat Most crimes are as old as history, winter now, while the and one of the principles upon ter wltli the busineeH man or estab For instance, "every man has his which the business transactions of to lishment whose name never appears. price," was almost proved by Sir roads are good, you’ll get day rest, Is that a person, firm or They have been educated to know Ilobert Walpole. better service and better corporation will not long exist un that a fair and progressive merchant prices. Orders taken for t t t less they meet their obligations. recognizes Die value of the local pa To assume that all have equal op- future delivery. Few realize to what proportions per and gives It his support, There- ' portunities would be the greatest the city's business has grown At fore, they naturally haven't a full blunder, for together with legal bar a time when the total expenditures measure of confidence In the man or I riers there Is the destiny of envlron- were only a few dollars per month firm whoso business Is not repre-■ ment. und the demands or needs smull, seated In its columns, The home pa t t t the demands upon the councilmen, per Is worth while to tite home mer- Among all the despicable Oregon. and other officials' time were In chant in more ways than one. es, cunning hypocrites, and murder proportion. Within the Inst year ers. whose names befoul and disgrace the various street Improvements, ' Patronize home institutions,” the history of man. were the kings bond Issues, etc . have made the posi cries the country editor from week of Europe. C. M. SPENCER tion of councilman to week. “That Is right,” says the t t t REAL ESTATE thing but a i merchant, “give It to those who send Henry IV. was proclaimed king of are spending I INSURANCE away to buy goods ” Then with Ills England and France while yet In the work every ii for heart filled with klnduess to the cradle, nnd when he grew up was OVER BANK which they ii ask loyal editor he send his job work to only half-witted When left to it, OF BANDON compensation, ap- Portland or utilizes a piece of wrap how reckless Is providence in select predated. ping paper to write ar, order on for ing the rulers of men' got ds or t end a statement to a cus- f t t THINK BEK IRE Hll KNOCK turner. Funny, isn't It? Thr motive behind present agita II. Addington Bruce, a popular tion for an enlargment of the army MODILt OF PERFECTION. writer hits propounded the following Western World lias just turned and navy will be uncovered In the bit of logic: down a liberal order for advertising discussion on government ownership PERFECTLY The next time you are tempted received from n California liquor of the munitions of war factories. to critldie or condemn anybody, stop house As long as the people don’t SIMPLE t t t a moment and auk yourself whether want liquor sold in a legitimate way, Many of our army regulations SIMPLY you would not have had Ideas simi this paper doesn't believe in encour were taken front the old English law. lar to theirs, and have acted in a aging the importation of It tor boot The one which says that court mar PERFECT. similar manner, if you had been sub legging purposes. tlals shall not remain In session aft Needles, Oil, Belts nn.l -ill kinds of Sewing Jetted to similar Influences of en er three o'clock of any day. Is based Machine supplies, Kepainug a s;a-cialty. vironment and training According to the Agitator, Bas- on the theory that no gentleman re- When you have accepted this fun tendorf beach must have It all over malned sober after that time damental truth that every man la Bsndon as a pleasure resort t t t what he Is largely because of Influ- So far as the morals of our bi encca external to himself, you will Oregon avenue might be likened ped beast Is concerned there hasn't be in position to escape from the unto the European war neither been much change. When Lady blighting bondage of intolerance, side will give an inch Mary Montague attempted the Intr, and make yourself a great power for duction into England of innoculation good. With the aid of Greece. Germany as a remedy for small pox the clergy Intolerance, unfortunate1?, bur could easily slide over to Turkey by condemned It as an invention from dens and limits the lives of moat of Thanksgiving day. the devil; the medical profession had us In the words of that eminently a better reason for turning it down, clear minded thinker, Paul Dubois: Folks out Franklin avenue w ay but the undertakers and gravedigge.i * We constantly forget that the expect some new sidewalks. I. e. they had the best reason for uniting their For Sale By persons talking to us think with the expect them. forces against It. heads that are upon their own BANDON HARDWARE CO shoulders, and not with our own All good Democrats take notice. Cured Boy of Croup heads, that they view things from the postoffice Job la still open Nothing frightens a mother more Bandon, Oregon another angle, in other colors than the loud, hoarse cough of croup ”We forget that we should think Labored breathing, strangling, chok A new Indoor pastime in Bandon: I ing and gasping for breath demand as they do If we had the same tem- Knocking your neighbor. Instant action Mrs T Neureitr. Eau poranienta, If we had experienced Claire. Wls . says “Foley's Honey the same educational, physical. In Those national defense figures1 and Tar cured my boy of croup aft tellectual and moral Influences er other remedies failed.” Recom make one's head dixty The New I lome Sewing mended for coughs and colds Orange "We may be astonished and pain Pharmacy Machine Company ed to find them so far from us, to Pebbleford was the only^ pebble on see them reject opinions that we the beach. l*o your Christmas shopping early San Francisco, California A - « • -* Stated communication Saturday after the full moon of each month. Sojourn Master Masons cordially invited. WALTER SABIN, W. M. C. E. BOWMAN, Secretary. L. O. O. M. Loyal Order of Moose meets Exery Thursday Evening in Moose Home. Transient Moose cordially invited. Something doing every Thursday. W. A. le GORE, Dictator. C. W. BOWMAN, Sec'y. Bandon-Port Orford OCEAN VIEW ENCAMP. MENT, No 72 I. O. O. F. Auto Stage of Each Month in 1. O. O. F. Hall. Living on Meets Second and Fourth Saturdays Visiting Patriarchs Welcome. A. KNOPP, C. P. I. L. SCOFIELD, Scribe w.”oTw“ Seaside Camp No, 212, W. O. W. Meets first and Third Tuesdays in each month at 8 I*. M.; Knights of Pythias Imll. Visitors are assured a hearty welcome. J. N. HOSKING, C. C. F. II. COIAJROVFI, Clerk. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS We always have time to ac commodate traveling salesmen stopping off at intermediate stations. Special trips made through to Gold Beach for parties of two or more. Less Delphi Lodge No. <11, Knights of Pythias. Meets every Monday even ing at Knights hall. Visiting Knights invited to attend. J. W. MAST, <’. C. II. N. HARRINGTON, Ii. of R. 8. R. DAVIDSON General Transferring Light and Heavy Draying Stand at Central Warehouse Professional Cards DR. R. V. LEEP Physician and Surgeon Office in Ellingson Bldg. Phone 391. BANDON. OREGON G. T. TREADGOLD Attorney and Counselor at Law Notary Public Phone 1054 Bandon Market Rooms 1 and 2, First Nat'l Bank Bldg. BANDON OREGON Bandon. Oregon DR. S. C. ENDICOTT Dentist When You Want office 1241 —Phones— Res. 11 HI Office in Ellingson Bldg. BANDON. OREGON Wolverton Wood GEO. P. TOPPING Attorney at Law REAL ESTATE Insurance 1 Practices in all Courts. Office Over Bank of Bandon. Conveyancing Abstracts and Notary Public DR. H. L. HOUSTON Physician and Surgeon Opposite Bank of Bandon Office Over Drug Store. Hours 9 to 12 a. m.; 1:30 to 4 p. m.; 7 to I in the evening. Night calls answered from office. BANDON, OREGON Bandon, Oregon E. F. HOWES DR. L. P. SORENSEN Dentist Office in First National Bank Bhlg. I'hones: Office 1222; res. 152 BANDON. OREGON C. R. BARROW, Attorney and Counselor at Law Notary Public Farmers’ Phone: Office No. 481 Residence No. 143 Office over Skeel’s Store, Coquille, Oregon THE VERY BEST WHEA JOHN NIELSON Notary Public, Insurance, Real Estate and Book-keeping Bandon, Oregon only is used to make the flour which goes into our bread. li^l the very lie*t methods only are employed to produce ls>tl> the flour and the bread, You'll like the looks when you see it. You'll like its toste r till lad ter when you try it. SMITH J. MANN Physician and Surgeon Office in Ellingson Bhlg. Office Hours 9 to 12 •■The NEW HOME USERS • 1 to 5 I’hones: <titice 892; res. 211. ________ BANDON. OREGON________ DR. ARTHUR GALE Physician and Surgeon Prof. A. are Quality Choosers i I’hones: Office 351; res. 352. Office in Ellingson Bldg. RICHARDS • • • • • • • BANDON LODGE No. 130 A. F. & A. M. Professional Teacher of Piano 0 Q 0 0 0 ________ BANDON. OREGON A I. L. SCOFIELD Dentist Office Fahy A Morrison building next to Emergency hospital I'hone 1141 Bandon. Oregon t'oinniltting of Solos a Specialty Teacher of All Grades Studio Over J. A. Brjne'i Store liANDo* OREGON Methodist Church Notice Our regular service» are as fol low»: Public worship each Sunday at 11 a. ni. and 8 p. m ; Sunday school at 10 o'clock; Epworth league at 7 p. m . prayer services at private homes on Wednesday evenings, a cor dial Invitation 1» extended to all.— Rev. C. Mayne Knight, Pastor.