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Coos Bay To Fete
Increasing Interest
Willamette Valley
In the County Roads
Elaborate Preparations Made for Officeis of Good Roads Association
Business Men’s Excursion at
Meet State Engineer and Itoad-
Opeuing of Railroad.
■■uuiter Sat ui (lav.
A recent issue of the Oregonian
contained the following
The preparations of the Chamber
of Commerce to run one of the lar
gest business men's excursions in the
state's history to Marshtield when the
new railroad line out of Eugene to
the Coos Bay district ie completed,
has aroused intense interest in that
1 district. Many men from Marshtield
1 and other cities who have been in
| Portland in the past few days have
visited the Chamber of Commerce to
inquire Into the details and to make
predictions of the «gal recaption
1 that will be given the excursionists
"1 understand that the plans for
the excursion now contemplate n
i week to be devoted to visits to the
i principal cities in the Coos Bay di:»-
i trict,’’ said one man who called at
i (he office of the publicity and con
ven'd ns bureau yesterday, "and 1
can tell you that your business men
are going to need all of that week to
show and to enjoy the entertain nent
that we will prepare.”
Tom. T Bennett, chairman of the
entertainment and conventions com
I mlttee of the Marshtield Chamber,
wrote to the Portland Chamber an
nouncing the plan to set aside a ape-
I cial Portland day.
Until the engineers in charge of
the construction of the Willamette
Pacific railway to Coos Bay can give
exact information as to the date v hen
i the line will be open to traffic, the
late of the trip will be undecided
The Portland Chamber plans to or-
! ganize a party of at leu st 500 of the
representative business men of the
city for the trip in the best equipped
■ special that lias ever gone out on a
i .state excursion. W. D. B. Dodson
i secretary of the bureau ot trade and
| commerce, who is in charge of the
Portland end of the plans, has sent
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FOUR
Four Cylinder Models
Touring Car, 7-Passenger • • $845
Roadster, 3-passenger
... 82a
Landau-Roadster, 3-passenger - 1145
Six Cylinder Models
rouring Car, 7-pa»«enger • - ICE'A
Roadster, 3-pa»«enger
... 1025
Landau-Roadster, 3-passenger - 1350
Coupe, 4-passenger
.... 1600
Sedan, 7-passenger
• • • -1675
Limousine, 7-passenger • - • 2500
F. O. B. Detroit
STUDEBAKER
Detroit, Mich.
South Bend, Ind.
Walkerrillo, Ont.
Officers of the Coos Cutiuty Good
Roads association met at Coquille,
Saturday, with Deputy Stale Highway
Engineer E. I. Cantine and Read
master R. B. Murdock. The purpose
of the meeting was to hear the report
of Mr. ("antine, who has made a
thorough reconnaissance survey of
the county during th” past two weeks.
His report was similar to tliut given
at the local meeting last week, the
most Important feature being the out
line of what he will recommend as
a part of the state coast highway.
This extends from the Douglas coun
ty line on the north to North lb u 1,
thence to Marshtield, to a short dis
tance down the river from Coquille,
to Bandon and on to the Curry coun
ty line.
The proposed county bond issue
was not discussed but will be tak
en up at another meeting to be held
■ his week, at which time the C irry
and Coos county courts are expect
ed to be present.
The officers of the county reads
organization present Saturday were:
Chas. Hall, president. A. A. Balter,
Bridge; C. E Hilling, Myrtle Point;
G. T. Treadgold, Bandin; Chas. St.
Dennis, Lakeside; A. T. Morrison,
Coquille.
Cannot I “raise Them Enough
Many sick and tired women, with
aches and pains, sore muscles and
stiff joints do not know that their
kidneys are out of order Mrs A G.
Wells, Box 90, Route 5, Rocky Mt.,
N. C., writes: "I am taking Foley
Kidney Pills and cannot praise them
enough for the wonderful benefit I
derive In such short while." Orange
Pharmacy.
Have you paid your subscription?
a letter to Marshtield asking that the
exact time for the celebration be an
nounced as soon as possible.
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Attractions at Grand Theatre
40 horse power
7passenger
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COOS AND CURRY COUNTIES
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-, the barber business which is a whole
lot. has hung a number of fine post
card views up in Glen's shop window,
showing the various stages of the Fi- Pacific Coast Men to Meet Federal
field wreck, sea gulls, etc. Ye Scrlbus
Trade Com mission.
happened to be looking them over
mwwwawimwwww M
this week, as was also a rather pre
Washington, D. C„ March 6—The
Geo. E. Wilson, the only Ban- Morris’ goat, or as "R. M. P.” says, possessing young lady and her escort, Federal Trade Commission announc
donian who can truthfully lay claim "his chicken.” Then Truman went and the alert ear was stung with the ed that it would gran' • hearing this
week to owners it t
n million
to the distinction of being able to to 'Frisco and rounded up some real following dialogue:
"Is that really waves splashing acres of Pacific sor
’»li.tier land,
turn hand-springs with a Ford, is "transportation.” in fact it was so
Oh, look at who wish to
er i L. t side be
getting his flivver car in shape for fast it all but took $300 away from over the boat, dear?
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the coming summer jaunts. “Bob” him. Coming back to Bandon, and the birds, are they real gulls?” As fore the cop
, ares
it*
forthcoming repor*
is an ardent fisherman and has the winter cutting out activity on she pointed to the photos.
/timber in
Oh no, of course not. it's nothing dustry of the Unite ' ' •c»»s. Man u-
taken the writer on several trips he land, he then went into water traf-
will long remember with pleasu re. fic, constructing a little funny shaped but fish pasture and Jay birds!
factoring interests already have been
heard.
hence this gentle zephyr.
boat that the boys nicknamed "Tru
I air Gets IfMMMI
Lumber interests sought the In
man's Coffin", which somebody said
t t t
At a meeting of the County Court vestigation of their industry soon aft
"the devil, himself wouldn't ride in
Having read about J. Ira Sidwell’s because he would surely drown.”
last week it was voted to appropri er the organization of the commis
roof garden, George Laird has con-
ate $600 towards the Coos-Curry faJr sion. They declared their business
t t t
ceived of what he considers a better
to be held at Myrtle Point this fall. was not as profitable as it might be,
It is supposed every one has read The directors of the fair association and asked the commission to permit
plan. George is agent for the new
Buckingham-Biggs building and has Clem's Four Mile Smokeless, but if asked for $750. The money is to be them to combine to obtain foreign
been worrying for some time about they have'nt it will do them good to used for an agricultural exhibit.
trade.
all that nice level space on the roof start in now. Clem is one of those
Ix-t THIS paper be YOUR paper.
Western World -the Quick Print.
But no fellows, you know, who is continu
which is going to waste.
longer for it is rumored he is con ally pulling off some dry bit of hu
templating turning it into a truck mor that in its line may be consid
farm as soon as the early spring ered classic. But what the writer
winds have covered it to a suffi was going to say. is that he hands out
cient depth with nice clean sand from two neat ones in the Smokeless tliis
Win. Candlin, the genial represen I tivity in ail lines of business and the
the north side of the river. If he week. One is where he extends the
tative of the Pacific Paper company, merchants are just now buying
works it right George ought to raise sympathy of the community to Ira
returned Friday from Gold Beach heavily of supplies for their a! pres
garden truck enough to supply Ban Anderson, the milk-hauler, and the
and other Curry county towns, where ent, somewhat depleted stocks of mer-
other
is
the
unique
way
in
which
he
don, the sand on the north side be
he had been spending a week on his I chandlse. He says considerable in-
pulls off the ending paragraph.
ing extremely fertile.
semi-annual visit to the newspaper | terest is being evidenced in the po-
t t t
t t t
men ot that section. Mr. Candlin re 1 litical field and that most of the com
They are telling one on Edmund ports a successful, but rather dis ing candidates are already In the
Rufus Truman again comes into
the limelight this week, owing to the Gallier. now with the Pony Trans- agreeable trip as it rained most of i field ami are actively working for the
fact he has purchased the Indian mo fer company. It seems Gallier had the week he was there and in travel i various nominations.
He found the people of that see
torcycle formerly used in exceeding an order to take a load of wood out ing about he got rather damp several
tion much interested in the railroad
Bandon's speed limit by the Sabro in the south part of town the other times.
Although the past winter has been I building rumors which have been
Brothers. And Truman say he is day when the rain was the heaviest
sure going to "go some” this summer, and the mud the deepest. He got In an exceptionally bad one and live floating about for tlie past few
mostly along the main traveled high to a particularly bad spot and the stock has suffered considerably, the months. The people recognize Cur-
way between Bandon and Conlogue's wagon stuck. Ed. hopped off and people of Curry county, Mr. Candlin ry county's great need for a railroad
camp. But buying a motorcycle in went in clear up to his arm pits. You says, are going ahead with a natural ¡and the majority are of the opinion
Feed has that a great period of <leveloprn“nt
the writers estimation Is not a sur ask him about the rest of it—deli born spirit of optimism.
been scarce during the winter, but re is due should the Boothern Pacific
prising thing on Rufus' part. It is cacy forbids further converse
cent warm weather has started the build an extension of the railroad
sort of expected for when it comes to
t t t
grass on the hills and cattle and sheep from Coos Bay to Eureka.
Gold
advanced transportation Truman Is
Louie Reeve«, who takes right are beginning to fatten up again. Beach would be one of th«* large cities
there
Last summer he was owner
knows Everyone down there feels the com of the county and Port Orford would
of the "Red Devil”, that little red good kodak pictures and
hued auto that is now getting J. J- as much about cameras as lie does ing summer will bring unusual ac- witness nj inconsiderable growtla.
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Tales of the Town
Curry County Folks Optimistic
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Scene from Aylesworth's Hunting Big
Game in (’annua
At the Grand, Sunday. March 12th.
and
Alaska
—ALEHWORTHH—
teeming with excitement, interest ami
"HUNTING BIG GAME in the ( AN (’ducation.
ADIAN ROCKIES and in
"HIE WONDERFUL ADVENTI RE”
ALASKA.”
(William Fox production)
Dorothy Green, who appears as
At the Grand Theatre, Sunday,
Maz.ora, the mystic, in "The Wond
March 12th.
Mr. Arthur J. Alesworth, the well erful Adventure", has a $2,000 Per
Inown American sportsman, natural sian blue cat. William Farnuni, as
1st, and big game hunter, spent near John Demarset, owns a a collie from
ly two years on a gigantic expedition tile Morgan kennels. The two ani
into tlie uninhabited
waste« and mals are supposed to take a peace
mountainous regions of far North ful part in the play—but they re
ern Canada and Alaska, covexing semble the tribulation* of the Ford
some three thousand miles of travel, peace party. A picture that will ap
over unknown trails with pack horse, peal to you. Better *ee it. Grand,
canoe and dog team, braving death Friday. March 10th.
from wild beasts and suffering un
"VIA WIRELESS”
told hardships from exposure in ord
(Five part Gold Rooster play l
er that tills wonderful entertainment
Marsh, a daugli tsman in the gun
might be given to the world. On this
expedition Mr. Aylesworth was suc factory of John Durant, is swindled
cessful in securing exceptional pic by Edward I'lnkney, Durant'* gener
ture« of practically every specie« of al mannger, out of the huge royalty
North American big game In their to be paid should a gun of Marsh's
native haunts, showing the methods Invention prove a success. I'lnkney
loves Maisie, hut is outrivaled 1»>
of hunting same, their habits, etc.
The picture* are resplendent with I,lent. Homers, U. H N. Homers also
nrost wonderful and beautiful out invented a gun which lie gives to lie
door scenery, and abound in startling last to tlie Durant Iron Works, and
and sensational incident* through which, if successful will do Pinkney
out, tran»|»ortlng one In rapid fire out of his expected graft on tlie
Pinkney taki«
■ucc<«Mlon from the highest snow cap Marsh invention.
ped peaks of the Canadian Rockies, cure that tlie Homers gun is "killed''
through dense forests and over rag in making. He then misrepresents
Ing rivers to the desolate barren Homers to Malsie and tier father,
grounds of the sub-Arctlc prairies and though she loves the lleuioi-
Unquestionably they are the most ant, she feels she must give him up.
marvelous motion pictures of wild Accompanied by her mother and
animal life ever photographed, and Pinkney, she goes on the Durant
show tremendous skill and patience yacht for a crui*e. Tlie boat hit* a
on the part of the camera men who mine, and in tlie rush to leave, Malsie
accompanied the expedition. In the la trapped in the wireless room. She
presentation of this unique picture sends out the 8. O. 8. The lieuten
a little more than 5000 feet of film ant, aboard a U. 8 cruiser, arrive*
la shown upon the screen, depicting hr the doomed ship is about to sink.
At the Grand Theatre. Monday,
a wonderous tale of the lure and
fascination of big game
hunting, March 13tli.