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VOL. V
LUMBERING, MINING, DAIRYING, STOCK RAISING
BANDON, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 31,1917
NO. 28
Much Non-Producing
Land in Coos County
Bandon Pays Fitting Tribute Old Blanco Mine Is
Soon to be Revived
To Soldiers of the Rebellion
Survey of Farm Wealth 'lade by
County Agent Smith Brings
Forth interesting Facts.
L. II. Newby slid Associate« off New
4 ork Take Over Property—
I luprov eineiii« I 'lanncl.
While the total stu of all farms
in Cooe county amounts to 103,971
acres, there are only 18,4 64 acres
producing crops, according to figure«
shown by the summary of the Coos
county farm survey taken by County
Agent J. L. Smith.
It is estimated
that in 1918, 20,157 acres will be
producing crops.
A total of 610 farmers reported.
Acreage planted to various crops this
year is as follows:
Fall wheat. 87; spring wheat. 97;
oats. 2,414; barley, 893; corn. 2.-
127;'potatoes,
1,130; hay, 7,825;
beans. 335. There is quite a large
acreage in beets, turnips and other
root croi>s but there was no place
on the blanks for this class of crons
and farmers filed no report on them
Live Stock of the County
The list of live stock in the county
according to the survey follows i be
ing based on number on hand May
1st): Dairy cows,
8,184;
dairy
calves. 3,027; beef breeding stock,
2.605;
other beef cattle, 2,073,
brood sows. 502; feeding hogs. 2,-
850; breeding ewes. 1,617;
other
sheep.
1,521; brood mares.
389;
other horses, 1,360; poultry. 26,884;
goats. 476.
The total
number
of
farmers
needing seed is 57.
The kind and
amount of seed needed is as follows:
Corn,
550
pounds;
beans,
600
pounds; potatoes,
12,000
pounds;
barley, 16,000
pounds;
oats. 8,-
pounds; clover 675
pounds;
and
grass, 500 pounds. There are 19
farmers having seed for sale, but the
aggregate is not enough to meet the
county demand.
Of the total. 73 farmers need la
bor. The immediate need is for 46
workers and It is estimated 98 men
will be needed in harvest time.
A
total of 65 farmers need machinery.
The total number of farmers need
ing capital in order to increase their
production this year is 72 and the to
tal amount of capital needed is $65,-
690.
"The earning capacity of a man.
from his shoulders down is $50 a
month and less; from his shoulders
tip $100 a month to $1,000,000 a
year.” This was the keynote of the
commencement address delivered st
the Orpheum theatre Monday evening
by Prof. John Straub of the Univer
sity of Oregon.
That the demand
for
physical
labor is growing gradually less while
that of mental labor is ever increas
ing. composed the substance of his
main argument for education
In
support of this he called attention
to the many inventions of the past
generations wherein machines sup
plant physical labor in the industries.
By various other convincing argu
ments he made plain the fact that the
joung men and women of today must
be better prepared mentally to meet
the present and future competition in
life than those before them.
Going back to the time of the cre
ator, the speaker reviewed the vari
ous talents that God gave to the ani
mals—the horse its strength; the
bird its power to fly; the fish, to live
beneath the surface of the water,
etc.—while to man,
he said.
God
gave an upright body and a power to
reason, wherein lies the
potential
possibility of attaining every faculty
enjoyed by ever}’ animal on earth.
We have already attained many of
these in far greater capacity than is
possessed by the animals we imi
tate and as time passes many more
will be developed. For example, we
have the engine to give strength;
the airplane wherein man travels in
the skies; the submarine to take us
beneath the water's surface; we have
grasped the lightning bolt and har
nessed it to serve us with electricity;
we tap the ether waves in the air
and transmit messages across conti
nents; in many other ways we have
exceeded all natural abilities
con
veyed at the beginning. And all this FOOD PREPAREDNESS
through the development of reason,
CAMPAIGN LOCALIZED
in other words through education.
That lack of finance should lie no
Committee Selected to Miike Garden
bar to’the young >.ien and women of
Survey anil Work in Co-opera
Oregon who wish to secure a college
tion with the <>. A. C.
education, was emphasized by Prof.
Straub in statistics showing that ful
Bandon is to take an active part in
ly 60 per cent of the students at the
statewide
food
preparedness
University of Oregon the i*ast year the
were either partially or wholly work campaign, inaugurated by the Oregon
Agricultural College at the request
ing their wav
It is possible for any
student with determination and will, ct the United States department of
to secure a higher education in this Agriculture.
J. Percy Wells of tl e college, dis
way, and those who ate doing it are
looked upon with honor and respect. trict leader, wan here Saturday and
met with a number of Interested lo
In fact, the poor boy has a better
cal
citizens at the Orange Pharmacy
chance than the rich one for
he
knows that he must n>r.' e the best of for the purpose of selecting a local
his opportunities, while the other in committee which is to make a garden
many instances relies too much on survey of the community and see to
the distribution of such literature
the wealth of his parents.
the
Prof. Straub's lecture was replete and information furnished by
college.
The committee chosen
Is
with logic and good advice.
It ap- |
comi>oee<i of L. W. Turnhull leader,
pealed to students and parents in a
C. M. Spencer. Mrs. A. D. Morse, Mrs.
manner that is bound to stimulate
Chris
Rasmussen. It. C. McKinnis and
the deeire for greater learn.ng. While
it pointed out the advantages of edu C. F. Pape. The committee intends
to have an early meeting and organ
cation it in no way reflected on
those who have not had the appor- ize for the work.
tunity. In fact it was purely demo
any one of the six Oregon conference
cratic, and front that point of view
colleges, to Mary Haberly; and a $10
was accepted in great favor.
cash fund appropriated by the B. H.
The program
was opened
with
S. Class of '14, given *o the one hav
prayer by Rev. A. Haberly.
The
ing tlie highest average during the
high school
boys' quartet
gave a
Senior year, to Alice Galller. whose
pleasing selection
and
Mrs. J. T.
percentage was 9 4 3-8.
I.illard rendered a delightful vocal
The valedictorian of the class was
solo entitled "A May Morning”. Both
Deien Fish and
the Balutatorlan.
responded to encores. John Nielson,
Florence Fish. These honors go to
chairman of the board of education,
• be ones having respectively first and
presented the diplomas, following
second highest averages for the four
which Superintendent Turnbull pre
years of high school work.
sented the three scholarships offered
Rev. W. 8. Smith concluded the
to students of the local school. They
program with benediction
were received as follows:
A tuition
The class receiving diplomas in
scholarship In Willamette University,
cluded the following
Mary Thorn
cased on scholarship and student ac
ton, Alta Hansen,
Ruth
Barrows.
tivities during the four years,
by
Mary Haberly,
Glad’s Canterbury.
lielen Fish; a tuition sciiolarahl-t in
Alice Galller.
Helen Fish,
Mabel
Meinhardt, Fxlith Sumner, Florence
Fish, Mildred Langley. June Hesse.
May Kinley.
Dora
Anderson-Leh-
ntann, James Bell, John Moore, Eu
gene Scofield, Raymond Webb, Er
George Scott.
Daisy
♦
\
ide ♦ I roid McNair,
♦ for
biggest local I
• >-r ♦ j Shields-Windsor.
The exercteee were largely attend-
♦ celebrated in Han lon
It will ♦
♦ ba mb ! ihir'-'Li'. faaa TH. ♦ j **d and the graduates » ere the recip
beautiful
presents.
♦ wl.iti everybody will torr, out $• ♦ ients of many
♦ build a road to the loach and ♦ I Die place wu« artistically decorated
flowers,
♦ -bar the balance
'• ♦ land bouquets of beautiful
♦
’k
The stores will close at • ¡brought for the honored students.
♦
oq and work beg.
♦ ■ banked several large tables in front
♦ at 1 o'clock p m
Big free <••>:•. ♦ of the stage.
The baccalaureate «ertuon was de
♦ ’. mi ’ v dinner M • • -n I at. ! ♦
♦ 7 in the evening after the job ♦ livered at the Presbyterian churcii
♦ Is done. The cotut-. H'• e Ma4i ♦ by Rev. W. 8. Smith Sunday eve
It also was largely attended
♦ arearal BMvatMMM, if you have • i i;in*
♦ one for that aft«
H ♦ I The class exercises. the last of the
♦ ,t MeDermid at the Poetoffice ♦ I class activities, are being held at the
♦ ♦«♦«♦♦♦•♦♦A*** High school auditorium this evening
ITS ON NEXT THURSDAY
WORLD
BANDO*
Memorial Day was fittingly ob
served in Bandon yesterday. At 10
o'clock In the morning a lerge parade
formed at the G. A. T
hall and
marched to the G. A. It. cemetery.
It was led by the band, with the
school chldren bearing
flags
and
flowers next in line
Then came
school and G A. R. officals. followed
by the firing squad, the G. A. II.
members, W. R. c. members, and
other patriotic citizens.
Exercises w-ere conducted at
the
Old Soldiers' monument by the of
ficers of both veteran organizations.
Hie band rendered patriotic airs and
the school children decked the foot
| >f the monument with flowers.
At
he close the firing squad discharg
’d. three volleys and Municlan G. P.
Topping sounded “taps." The squad
was composed of the following:
H.
E. Boak, Guy Dippel. Archie Rosa.
8. C. Endicott, Ed. Galller.
L. E
Osborn, Harry McNair. IL E. Horn
ung and L. D. Felsheim.
In the afternoon a splendid pro
gram of patriotic music and other
fast urea was given at the theatre.
G. A. R , W. II. C., school children
and others participated and the main
memorial address of the dny was de
livered by Attorney C. I. Relgard of
Marshfield.
Is Bandon and Commun
ity Going to Do Its Part
in Winning the War?
We are lagging behind other communities of
the state in subscribing to the LIBERTY LOAN
BONDS and unless we get busy at once our ap
athy will cause dishonorable reflection.
We cannot all go into battle against our enem
ies, but we can support those who do go with
all the necessities of warfare. It is OUR DUTY
to protect them as much as we can.
DON’T DELAY LONGER, ACT NOW!
Uphold the patriotic reputation of southern
Coos and Curry counties before the eyes of the
world. If you cannot afford to subscribe for a
$1,000 bond, take one for $100 or for $50, but
for the sake of those who sacrifice their lives
for YOUR liberty IM) SOMETHING. Sub
scribe within your means and you will uphold
your honor as an American citizen. It is your
patriotic duty.
These bonds are on sale at the BANK OE
BANDON and the FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of BANDON in large and small denominations,
payable on the installment plan. The banks are
giving their services free to the government in
placing these bonds; they are also subscribing
heavily.
It is IMPERATIVE that you do yeur part.
DO IT NOW!
Subscriptions close June 15th.
FRED I INCH BUCCI MBH
BIG I’RKT: FOR BUTTERFAT
l.ocel Young M ho Die* After Illn—>s ' licere l-artoriea l’alt! li-l cents
of .More Than a 5 • ar.
'loro In April than tear Ago.
The death of Frederic1’ N. Finch
occurred at his home here last night,
following an illnetm of more than a
year, during which he suffered from
an aneurism
fie wsi Loin Decem
ber 25, 1880 at Parkersburg, Iowa,
therefore was 36 years, 5 months and
5 days of age at the time of death, i
He had been a real-lent of Bandon,
for the past four years and is sur
vived by his wife and his mother
The funeral services will be con
ducted at the Catholic church Satur
day morning at 10 o’clock, and burial
will be in the Catholic cemetery.
Father Keveney officiating
Fifty-eight cents a pound was ap-
.■arcntly the prevailing pries paid for
butterfat by cheese factories In this
fommunity during the
month
of
April. At least such was the quota
tion of the Parker vburg Cheese com
pany and the Langlois Dairy Pro
ducts Co., both of which are produs-
ers of cheese In largo quantities. The
price paid in April a year ago, was
35 cents
The Parkersburg plant Is
now receiving between
6500
and
7000 pounds of milk per day
A new
mining enterprise
wax
launched here during the past week
by New York interests, represented
by L. B Newby. The latter, in com
pany with John Hays, Jr., of Phlla
delphla. arrived the latter part of
last week and Immeriately closed a
deal whereby they take charge of
the Blanco mine, also I nown as the
Madden property.
The Blanco mine Is located on the
east side of the county road near ths
Coos-Curry line, and has been ope
rated by old established methods of
placer milling for n number of years
at various time« In the pa»t.
According to Mr. Newby a concen
tratlon plant will he insiallcd capable
of handling 500 tons of dirt a dav
and this may be Increased later Mr
Hays is to have charge mid the lat
ter states that eight or ten men will
be employed soon In getting tlie eamp
started.
Mr. Newby It, said to be an expert
meed mining man »ho formerly ope
iated In Mexico and Colorado
He
left again Monday and expects to re
turn about the first of July.
PROMINENT SII1PPI II
HERE FROM I Rist o
•los. Fyfe of Fyfe-Wilson Lumber
Company Inspects Installation
of New Loading Device.
Joseph Fyfe. Jr . of San Franclaco.
head of the Fyfe-Wilson Lumber Co ,
spent a week looking after the com
pany's tie and pole Interest» in this
section
In company
with
Local
Manager W E. Best he also visited
l*brt Orford where lie I:, especially
Interested In the Installation of a big
table by means of which the loading
of vessels with piling, poles »nd tlei
will be facilitated
At present «bout
35,000 ties and 2500 piling arc at
Port Orford awaiting shipment and
the problem of loading has been salv
ed in a novel way. A cable approxi
mately 1000 feet long Is anchored on
shore and off shore connecting with
two buoys between th« shore mid
the anchor at hob .
Between flies*
two buoys the ships will be anchored
during loading and lumber Is to lie
transferred on the big inch mid n
ouarter steel cable which was used
by the Milwaukee In attempting to
pull the submarine II I off the sand
at Eureka
By tliiH means the expense of a
wharf la eliminated and It Is believed
that loading will he possible In fairly
rough weather when loading at n
pier would be difficult. There will
be about 20 feet of water at a low-
tide at the place where vessels load
The loading cable will probably be
completed In 4 0 day». Mi Fyfe state«,
and a business of at least 1000,000
ties will Ire handled out of Bort Or
ford this year.
One of the three
vessels—Acme, Phoenix, or Bandon
— which are now- on the Bandon run
for the Moore mill, will ship from
Port Orford as soon as the new de
vice Is completed A railroad of about
1200 feet will be constructed, in ad
dltion to warehouses costing approxi
mately $12,000.
Business In lumber 1» in the very
test condition Mr. Fyfe states. An
other jump of $5 per thousand in the
price of lumber in the next 90 days
is a possibility. He lias Just return
ed from an extensive trip through the
East, and talks Interestingly of times
on the outside.
County Bankers Organize
E. D. Webb of the First National
Bank and L K Galller of the Bank
of Bandon were at Coquille Tues
day attending a meeting
at which
the organization of the Coos County
Rankers association was perfected
Remembei *he women furnish the The object of the organization 1» to
Improve conditions of banking gen
,<ats on Reach Road Day
orally
Officers wore elected as fol
low»
L H Hazard, Coquille, pros'
«ent. Henry Kern. North Bend, vice
president;
E D Webb,
Bandon
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secretary and treasurer
Act
authorizing
Liberty
Loan dollar, no premium and no discount.
New Oakland Nix Here
Bonds of 1917 was passed April 24, They are to be sold by th< treasurer
S G Whitsett this week received
1917
It provides for the issuance of the United States and by all Feder
if $5.000.000,000 of 3 1 2 |>er cent al Itewerve banks.
lint all banks. two new Oakland Hix car • and 1» now
Londe, the interest payable semi an National and state, postofflees, and the most popular man In town. He
nually on December 15 »nd June 15 express companies have been desig is taking everybody out to demon
ct each year The principal is repay nateti as agents of the government strate th* superiority of his ma
for
these chine, which by ths wav, 1» a beauty
able on or after the 15th day of June. to receive applications
it is almost as easy to pur
1932, at the option of the govern-, bonds,
Other Hoy* Join Navy
inent, and if this option Li not exer 'base one of these bonds as It la to
Relying upon a Portland report,
It I»
cised the bonds will rjn
full
10 get a postoffice money order
years and become due June 15, 1917 not necessary to pay c.u>h in full for a Weatern World In Issue of May 24th,
Merle and
One can |>ay down 2 per cent did not credit Messrs.
The bonds are exempt both as to bond
I rincipal and interest from all taxa of the purchase price on application Lynn Woodcock, of Port Orford, wild
that Is, II for a $50 bond, $2 for having succeosfully passed the exam
tion. national, state, county, or mu
It
nicipal, except inheritance tax, which a $100 bond, etc.,-—18 i»er cent on inations, and joining the Navy.
and
Is really not a tax on the property. | July 25. 1917; 20 per cent July 30. appear* there was a mistake,
but on the transfer of property by 1917. 30 per cent August 16. 1*17; that these two gentlemen are now
will or inheritance.
Tne bonds are and the balance, 30 p*r ernt. August serving their country at the Mare
to be sold at par, that is, dollar for' 11 • I
,
, Island navy yard tn California.
Terms of Liberty Loan Bonds
NEXT TUESDAY
IS LEGAL HOLI
DAY-REGISTER
(Official)
War Census day Is Tuesday. June
5. It will be a legal holiday. Every
male resident between the ages of
21 and 30 years,
inclusive,
must
register.
This includes aliens, as
well as men who are »lek or crippled.
Exemptions
from military
servtee
will be determined later
Register in your bom« voting pre-
<fnct.
Booths at
regular voting
places will be open from 7 n m. to
9 p. m. Absentees must register be
fore War Census dav at the office
of the County Clerk of the county
ti wnich they happen to he.
Men of military age who «re »lek
must send a competent person to the
>ffico of the county clerk to arrange
for their registration
The penalty
for failing to register, or for giving
false, misleading or incorrect an
swera. Is imprisonment without op
tion of fine
Registering \h«entee«
The procedure for registering ab-
'«nteei is quite simple and should
■ause no confusion
The absentee,
>r prospective absentee, must apply
it the office of the county clerk of
the county in which he may happen
• o be at the tli ’e. whether tn Oreri n
or elsewhere.
The clerk will fill
ut Ills registration card
In cities
•f .10.000 or more, apply to th« city
rlcrk, who In Port laud Is the city
andito!
The clerk or hts deputy
will gli« the applicant this
card.
» hli'h he must mall u the registrar
"f hl« home precinct, tn care of the
’.lierttf of hl» home county, In time
to reach the registrar by War Census
lav. June 51h
If. as frequently I h
the case, he cannot remember the
number of Ills home
precinct, he
iliould address tlie card to the sheriff
f Ills home county, and write and fill
n on the envelope so addressed the
following
'’Registration card of
; Street and number
;
post office or R. F. D.
.”
Again let it be einpbaalzed that if
you expect to be armeni from your
home precinct on War Cenane day,
go at once to thn county clerk of the
county In elicli you happen to be,
whether your home county or anoth
er one, and register. Do It now.
Bl 4
PGHT 01(4(11(1» NTOKF
II sik I oii Men Take Over Htock of P.
II. Po*>l<* Who Mill J'tin trill*
An important bimlneea change took
place In Port Orford laat week when
Percy 11 Poole sold Ills general mer-
i haadiae buslneas to E. W. Schetter
mil J. Ira Hldwell of Bandon, say»
th.- Port Orford
Tribune
It
is
understood that the naw owner» will
enlarge the stock and ketgi a full
line of everything usually found In a
dry goods store with the exception of
bolt goods. In the dry goods depar'
inent.
They will conduct a cash
buslneea and Mr« lohn McKenzie I.*
waiting on the want» of their euatn-
tners.
Mr Poole Is retiring from
the bualnesa with the good will and
confidence of the people of this rem
munity.
Although past the
draff*
limit age, yet as noon as he can ar
mnge his bu.’ilnesa affair» he expects
to make application foi enlistment in
the U, 8 army.
liaised a German Flag
Borneone. either woefully lacking
In discretion as to what constitutes «
Joke, or willfully disrespectful to an
eld aoldler. In the «srly morning on
Memorial Day placed a German flag
bearing the iron croaa on the flag
staff at th* home of C II Zeek, one
of Bandon's respected
Civil
War
veteran*.
After riilaln™ the enemy
ensign the culprit rut the lanyard
n«nr the top of the pole eo 1» could
not be taken down without much
trouble
Th* flag was made
of
a flouraaek.
If th* guilty party Is
apprehended it 1» probable that ta
«III be properly taken to account for
the Insult.
Gov Wlthycomhe has
appointed
('has L. McNary of Salem, senator
to succeed the late Henakr Lane
«
WORLD HONOR ROLL
♦
Those who favored ua during the
past week are:
C. T. W Blumonrother. Langlois
J C. Allen. Bandon.
Lena Bellonl. Grafton, Cal
Levi Goff. Flat Roca, III.
H. A. Carlton. Portland
W. 8 Evennton. Oakland. Cal.
Wtu. Connor», Bandon.