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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1918)
WESTERN WHERE PRODUCTIVE SOIL AND TIDE WATER MEET VOL. VI PUBLIC HEARING TUESDAY, FEB. 26 PERMANENT HARBOR LINE IS TO BE ESTABLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT. WORLD LUMBERING, MINING, DAIRYING, STOCK RAISING BANDON, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918 L. J. Simpson Comes Out for Governor NO. 14 AIRPLANE ROUTE TO GOVERNMENT MAY Marshfield Wins in GERMAN ARMIES Hard Fought Game EUROPE PREDICTED RUN DOLLAR MILL OVERRUN RUSSIA Coos County's Energetic Citizen Is Tigers Will Play Coquille on Febril- In the Race to Win—Has ary 22. and Mapleton High TRANSiNIRTATION CONGESTION r. S. OFFICIAL HERE FIRST SECOND DRAI T DITE H VS NOT Strong Support. on February 2Sth. ACUTE IND SHIPS TIED I P OF WEEK INVESTIGATING NET ItEEN SET—NV I L L BY LACK OF FUEL. SPRUCE PRODUCTION. CA Ll. oOO.OOO. L. J. Simpson of North Bend this Considerable Change in Harbor Line week made formal statement of his Mrs. D. P. Jenkins Returns From a Dollar Company Miil May Be Force«! Between Central Warehouse Dock candidacy for governor of the state \ isit to Her Old Home in South, to Operate or Government May and tlie Moore Mill—Citizens and a Tour of the East and North Take It Over—Tluiber May Be Having Suggestions Should Pre —Foodstuffs Higli Priced ami tlie Commandeered—Rumored Influ sent Them to U. S. Official. Rigors of War Are Celt. ent ial Mill Men Hostile to Rivliig. Establishment of a permanent pierhead and bulkhead harbor lines in the local harbor will be made by the United States government short ly. To that end an official will be in Bandon next Tuesday to meet with citizens of the community and discuss the line as now proposed. Un less objections are made which point to the advantage of a change in the proposed harbor line at this meet ing, the line as now surveyed will be adopted. Under this survey the har bor line on the south side of the riv er follows substantially the present accepted line from the bar to about the Central Warehouse dock. From there the line gradually extends out into the river, adding approximately L. J. Simpson,. 90 feet to the frontage in the vicin ity of the Condensery, Standard Oil Company, and Perry Veneer Co. docks, and thence on up the river to the Moore Mill Co. dock. The no of Oregon on the Republican ticket at the primary election May 17. In tlce of hearing follows: speaking of his platform Mr. Simpson Notice of Hearing says: “Sir: Notice is hereby given, that “I am a Republican and believe a public hearing will be held at the Moose Hall, in Bandon, Oregon, at in the principles of that party, and 2:30 p. m., on the 26th day of Feb- above everything I am an American ruary, 1918, for the purpose of con- and believe in the principles of my sidering the establishment of per- country. I am not a member of, nor manent pierheads and bulkhead har- affiliated with any particular faction bor lines in front of the town of of the party; nor am I pledged to Bandon. It is proposed to establish support any of the candidates for the harbor lines as indicated in red cfficc at the coming primary elec I pledge the people of Ore on a blue print which can be seen in ion. the office of the Port of Bandon gon, that, in conducting my cam- Commissioners or at the Bandon U. taign I will not support any particu- S. Engineer Office, All those inter lar candidate; that 1 will not promise ested are invited to be present and appointment to office or political express their views, All important patronage -to anyone; that if nom- facts and arguments should be sub- inated and elected I shall enter office mitted in writing for submission to with neither promise nor pledge to the Department, for accuracy of rec redeem, except those whicli I give to ord. Oral evidence, however, will be tho people themselves. heard. “GEO. A. ZINN. "Colonel, Corps of Engineers.” Marshfield High's quintet Invaded [peaceful Bandon last Friday night 1 and under a heavy rain barrage slip : ped thru the Tigers’ front line trenches, grabbed the biggest piece of bacon and took it hottie with them In other words, the heavy team rep resenting the Coos Bay high school fought their way to a 9 to 11 victory over the light team doing battle foi the local high school. Only a small crowd witnessed the game, tho' it was a thriller and hard fought front whistle to whistle. Marshfield start ed the scoring when Chapman caged one from the field after five minutes of strenuous play. She was soon tied and passed however when Had- sell scored two points from the field and converted two fouls. Chapman then converted a foul which ended the scoring for the first period. Score at end of first half: Marshfield 3, Bandon 4. Both teams came back strong in the second period, Bandon drew first blood and was leading four minutes before the final whistle. when Marshfield took a spurt and field goals by Gregg and Chapman turned the tide in her favor. Final score: Marshfield 11, Bandon 9. Coach Grannis has a strong de- fensive team with fast, clean passing. Their grent offensive team work, woakness is their shooting, Chap- man and Gregg did all of Marsh- field's scoring. Captain H ad soll scored seven of Bandon's nine points, with the other two credited to Bud Fish. Paul Breuer of Myrtle Point refereed the game and Harry Me Nair was umpire. After the game a local club of young people entertained the visit Ing team with a dancing party. Punch was served and two hours of good fellow-ship enjoyed. Coquille will be played on the lo cal floor on February 22, the last of the regular interscholastic games to be played in Bandon. Coquille has a fast team and a battle royal is al ways assured when the two old rivals meet. A boat load of enthusiastic fane are expected to follow the team to Bandon. On February 25, Mapleton High school will be seen in action on the local floor. Season tickets ate good for this game. Mapleton is touring the Coos county high school circuit and expect* to take home a scalp from each stopping place. Mrs. D. P. Jenkins returned Satur- The government may either force day from a tour of the South and the Dollar Company to operate the East, which included a journey via Johnson mill, or perhaps take over California and the southern route to the plant and operate it for the dur her old home in Alabama, thru Geor ation of the war, is the impression gia, the Carolinas and Virginia to current locally following the investi Washington, D. C., thence to New gation of the plant by an official of York City and back via Buffalo and the Spruce Production department Niagara Falls, thru Springfield and of the IT. S. Signal corps, this week, Cincinnatti. Ohio, and the states of tithough the official was reticent as Kentucky and Tennessee to Alabama, to his report concerning the big plant and thence home via the Union Pa lying idle at Prosper, It was gathered cific thru Missouri. Kansas, Col that the government does not ap orado, Utah and Idaho. prove of equipment so vital in pro Leaving Bandon, Mrs. Jenkins duction of airplane spruce standing contemplated but a trip to her old idle in tlie midst of one of the larg home at Birmingham, Alabama, for est spruce and white cedar areas of a visit with her mother, Mrs. J. H. tue country. There is much spruce Evans, her sister, Miss Helen Evans, and cedar that could be sawed into and with other relatives. However, rough timbers at the Dollar plant she was persuaded to make the trip tributary to this vicinity, which can to New York City in company with not be turned to the government's her mother and sister for a visit with use because local plants now in ope a brother, Paul E. Evans, a prom ration are working to capacity and inent broker of the big metropolis. cannot handle this timber. The gov While there she was a guest of the ernment has under consideration the Woman's Press Club at the Waldorf- commandeering of all tracts of spruce Astoria. This club is made up of timber on the coast that are suitable women writer for newspapers and for airplane timbers, where the own magazines, At the banquet she ers are unwilling to sell the timbers listened to a very interesting speech to the government at the price offer by Editor G. Douglas Wardrop of ed, it is reported on good authority. the Aerial Age. who spoke on the In that event, commandeering saw subject of "Victory by the American mills to cut the logs into rough Air Route.” Among other things timbers which would be shipped to he predicted before the end of the the Columbia river to be resawed in present year the U. S. would see to smaller pieces, is the logical se 100,000 airplanes, each carrying 20 quence. Should the mill be operated, the men and cargo of freight crossing the Atlantic in 24 hours. He stated civilian labor would be augmented by the Atlantic would have been crossed use of troops from Camp Lewis or by airplare before this time had not Vancouver barracks, to insure maxi tlie war monopolized the airplane. mum production. Companies Hostile to Riving? Another interesting talk was by Mrs. Rumors from various parts of the D. C. Seitz on "Patriotism” in which she pointed out various ways in coast as well as locally. Indicate that which the rich could aid their colin- rived spruce and cedar is held in dis repute by some selfish mill owners try during the war and superintendents, who according Mrs. Jenkins, who is i to rumors, never fail to take advan server and entertaining tage of an opportunity to discourage Friendship Originating U bile Princi tionalist, gives numerous BOAT UNE FROM PORTLAND it. Such unpatriotic action at a time insights into conditions pals were at Parkersburg, Cul when the government's need is such Soutli and East. Truout minates in Romance. that it can afford to suffer even a Bring Flour and Feeds to Coos and during the past three or considerable waste In order to get Return Loaded With Coal. in particular the bollwevil lias be airplane spruce and cedar, is almost At a quiet wedding at the E H. come a scourge to the cotton plan Kinley home. Thursday of last week, ters. The wevil attacks the cotton in a class “with lending aid and Port Commissioner J. E. Norton, RAI Miss Elsie Kinley became the wife bolls or pods just before they are comfort to the enemy.” and prominent Coquille wholesaler, of Lieut. Jas. B. Beddingfield, now- mature, eating the seuds and fibers. was in Bandon Monday transacting COl NCIL HOLDS SESSION stationed at Camp Lewis. Washing- Hundreds of plantation owners—in business matters. First Man to Volunteer from Here was performed ton. The ceremony the Birmingham vicinity — as a result Mr. Norton recently received a let Is Making Good in Army ami of the Presby- by Rev. W. S. Smith Carnegie Library Pro|>osiUon Refer of the lessening of the cotton yields ter from the Columbia Navigation Likes tlie Life. terian church. red to Library Boar«!. have moved to the industrial centers Co., at Portland, stating that they eldest where they are working in the mills. is the Mrs. Beddingfield were Investigating possibilities with E H. However, the past year lias witnessed Ray Langlois, local man, who was City Council held a short session a view to placing a vessel on the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. gradú widespread planting of peanuts thru last evening, with Councilmen Mc first from this section to enter tIn Kinley of Bandon. She is a Portland-Coquille River run: and when indications asking that he furnish them with 'ate of Bandon High school, and also out the South and farming is again Nair, Perry. Wade, Rasmussen and American army data relative to cargo to and from of the Oregon State Normal school at taking on new activity. Tlie peanuts Chatburn; and Recorder Mast, and pointed to the entrance of this But little country into the great conflict, is sta this section. Flour and feeds, and Monmouth. For the past two years are treated for the oil contents which other officials: present. miscellaneous freight would be ths she had been employed as instructor is med in making cooking fats, etc P< sitive actb n was taken. The Car tioned in the Philippine Islands, while the residue is refined into pea- negie. library proposition was dis where his company wbh sent from cargo to this section, while coal from in the school at Parkersburg. Lieut. Beddingfield's home is nut flour, butter, or hauled back to cussed and tlie matter referred to the Presidio at San Francisco about the Riverton mines would be car the Library Board for future ac- two years ago. Ray is making good ried north. If the company puts on near Springfield. Missouri, he having the farms and fed to livestock. Petition of E. H. Fish to In the army and likes the work fine, Hogs arc scarce in the Birming tion. a boat they will maintain an eight come to this section about two or although at times ...... he ......... sort ................ of wishes —................ day schedule, and may perhaps three years ago to accept principal ham section, the markets in that city store a few ties temporarily on the ___ make Coquille, as well as Bandon, a ship of the Parkersburg school. charging as high as 20c per pound street at Chicago avenue near the 1 he could see old Bandon and his rela port of call, depending upon condi At the close of school last spring for hog ears and noses, which are city dock was heard. Action will be tivee and friends. It Is a question as taken today after all councilmen to whether the boys stationed In tlie tions of the river. They have two he entered a government training eagerly bought by the poor. have had oppoitunity to investigate Islands will see service in Europe boats in commission and are build- camp from which he was graduated Everyone is using war bread, and as second lieutenant. He is now during the conflict, as transports to tlie matter. ing a third. in many sections persons are allow stationed at Camp [> Lewis, near Ta carry them to France are not avall- ed to purchase only 1 pound of sug coma. at which place the new- able, and it is also necessary to main ar at a time. At New York City she will make their home tempo- tain a largo white garrison In the Far LEI 1 OVER lyweds observed that eggs were retailing at ■ rarily. East. Ray a few days ago received 85 cents per dflUfen; fresh salmon at The > wedding is the culmination of the Christmas box sent to hitn from 50 cents per pound; salt mackerel at ' nrot* which began when Enlisting Decoders Mast an<l Har Bandon, and immediately wrote a Improvement a pretty romance 28 cents; mllR at 17 cents per pint; Neucleus of Park both were instructors in tlie Park few words of ajqireciatlon: per Report Considerable Inter I potatoes at 15 cents per quart < about Fund Is Created by I .adíes of est Is Manifest. ersburg school. The young people “Fort Mills, P. L, Jan. 15, 1918. two pounds); butter about the same Ex-Commercial Club. have a host of friends in this section To the People of the City of Bandon: price as here. Coal was scarce, the who wish them success and hap “I wish In some way to show my daily requirement of about 100,000 Considerable interest Is being dem appreciation to the people of the Neucleus of a fund which may in a piness along the pathway of life. tons, being contracted to fit the sup onstrated in the U. 8. Public Service City for the Xmas box which was re An amusing incident in which Mr. few years from various accreations ply of about 20,000 ton per day. and Shipbuilders reserve. Re celved with some surpri.qe, as there become a power of good in the beau Beddingfield and bride participated, On account of the surplus food on the corders J. W. Mast of Bandon and wasn't a one of the other boys In the is told by the Marshfield Times the tification of City Park, was formed East coast being sent to Europe, and 8. D. Harper of the Prosper district last week by a donation from mem day following the stop in that city the tie up in transportation, there is state that they expect an Increased company who received any remem “ Last night when brance box or Xmas gift from their bers of the now defunct Ladies' Com enroute north: some talk of issuing food cards. e: llstment tomorrow and Saturday home city. young couple arrived here from the mercial Club. It is explained in the “It is certainly nice to know you the south, Lieut. Beddingfield, fall I Transportation congestion was ap v hlch is the last day. following communication parent on every hand along the Vt- The following is the list of those are remembered by the people when ' The ladies of the Woman's Com ing iate) his bachelor habits, wrote lantfc seaboard The freight yards who liaxe enrolled with Recorder J. mercial Club met at the residence of his name boldly on the register at at all the smaller towns along the V.'. Mast as members of the U. 8. you are so far away from home I Chandler, and remembering his want to thank you one and all in the Mrs. C. T. Timmons as per announce- and way. as well as the Immense yards of Public Service Reserve up to noon behalf of my company mates with ment in Western World, The books bride, returned and added recently a the larger cities, were filled with today: Thos Edward Thorn. D. P. whom I shared the gift, and myself having been misplaced there were no wife'—a bridegroom so to sign freight cars loaded with supplies for PI. male, John W. Felter, Arthur 8. for your kindness. The company bridegroom that he forgot minutes of previous meetings, the our Allie* and for our army In Elliott, Frank Rupert Harding of praised the city for tta thoughtful for his wife. ” which was held in the last one of France One hundred and thirty Pr sper, Curtis Ellis Klepfer, Wra. ness In remembering their boys at the Summer of 1916. The amount in Act. State Adjutant John Ilf Wil- seven ships were lying Idle in N«w B Strowbridge, John P. DeGesen, Front. the treasury was sixteen dollars and •‘Sincerely yours, Ray Langlois, Hams praises very highly Coos coun York harbor alone, unable to sail Ed in B Fish. After discussion as to fifty cents, because they could not obtain suffi T he names of those enrolling with 11th Co. C A C., Fort Mills, ty's patriotism in the way of sup what should be done with this money cient coal The congestion was les it- rder 8 D Harper of the Proe- Philippine Islands.” it was decided to buy War Stamps to porting the Home Guard. There are sening, however, about the time Mrs. i>< district will be published next five companies in this county. He be held in trust by the Bank of Ban Jenkins left, and many of the ships w< k. Officials of the Knights of Pyth state that Oregon has approximately don till maturity In 1923 and then had received fuel sufficient to permit las and Pythian Sisters lodges are go for the improvement of the City 2.000 Home Guarders outside of them to rush for Franco with their Everyone quit work during that preparing for a social time to be held PaTk. No further business bein4 Portland, in which city is also a priceless cargoes. tint and persons caught violating the Monday night In celebration of the large unit known as the .Multnomah brought forward meeting »as ad Mrs. Jenkins was In New York regulations were arrested as pro 54th anniversary of the organization journed Indefinitely. Mrs. C. Tim Guard, an organization built along Germans. of th« Kuights. Ciy during the heatiess week the lines of the Home Guard. mons, secretary pro tem.” I New Development on East Front May Permit Germain to Obtain Food Supplies Front Ru- -la—Nupteme Strnggle in West Expected to Bé gin in a few Weeks. With the'r army partly demobiliz ed and the German forces ed' anclng into Russia daily over a 400 mile front exte li: g from the Gulf of Riga to Lutsk, the Bolshevlki gov- ernnu nt of Russia has decided to ac cept the ridi peace terms dictated from Be in These terms Includa tho surr. n<' -r of Poland, Luthania, Riga and Moon island, and payment of a tribute of $4,000,000,000. Ger man und Austrian newspapers are said to express alarm ovor the re- newal of hostilities with Russia, tip» war being apparently unpopular with the rank and file, especially in Aus tria. Under terms of peace between tho Central Powers and the government of the new Ukraine government, the way is opened for obtaining food supplios in amounts greater, It is reported than, the Central Powers can transport, The Ukraine Is the great wheat raising section of Eu- rope. To ('all 100,000 Per Month According to Secretary of War Baker, date of a second draft has not yet been determined, and such will not bo made until after Congress has passed bills covering proposed changes In the draft law. When made, the war department proposes to call the increments of the sec ond draft in lOO.OoO lots, until the total call is completed. Legislation is under consideration to exempt railroad men as a class. Supreme Effort Expected Soon On the Western front tho Allied and German forc<>s are facing each other, crouched for the much-herald ed Spring Engagement. The Ger- mans have boasted that they would break tlie Allied lino on a second drive for Baris tietween now an d April 1 : while possibilities of a con- certed Allied advance toward Ber- lin are equally Imminent. All Indl- cations point to the decisive battle of the wa/r commending within a few days or weeks, largely dependent upon weather conditions. Soldiers Working in Mills Soldiers have arrived at ('cos Bay to work In the sawmills at North Bend. One hundred enlisted men are employed now and more may be add ed. Rumorc of a double shift at the mills are rife. Several hundred en listed men are working In tho woods at Powers now. ('amp Lewis Hpy Interned Helmut'i Sergt. -Major Thomas Ritter, whom local people will re- call was recently arrested at Camp Lewis, charged with being an agent of the German kaiser, has been ord ered interned at the alien enemy stockade at Fort Douglas, Utah. C. ('. Inman returned today front a trip to New York City and Boston, Mass., where . e was summoned to con fer with the directors of the Na- tional Underwriters Syndicate, own- ers of the Sixes mines. Mr. Inman was appointed superintendent and manager of the company's Interests In Oregon. German Mar Bread Rad German war bread smells so bad, tastes so bad and makes so many persons sick that the government hat sent a cornu littee o' cie'itlsts -on d to see what can be done about g . ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ « ♦ ♦ Leila Wheeler, Prescott, Wash Emilia Lee, San Francisco. T J. Thrift, Coquille. T H. Shaw, Bandon. N W Young. Twin Falls, Idaho W. H Donald, Bridge, Ore. Ford Englke, Mosier, Oregon B. N Harrfrgton, Pcrtland. D. H Kinley, Cathlamet, Wash. S Javits, Bandon. Oregonian. Portland. R. Bugge, Marshfield. W. H. Wlgant, Langlois. R W. Windsor, Bandon. Mrs Lydia Carpenter, California. Ira Anderson. Bandon. M. M Stillwell, Portland. H. Maskey, Bandon. Rev. W S Smith. Bandon. E H. Divelbias, Bandon 8. V Manley, Monroe, Mich. Rosa Bingaman, Bandon. C. I. Starr, Marshfield.