WESTERN
WORLD
WHERE PRODUCTIVE SOIL AND TIDE WATER MEET
VOL. VI.
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:’i L.k jF33CES
CHANGES IN RULES
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Households, Eating Houses and
Bakers Must Decrease
Use of Wheat.
BANDON, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1918
ikmenian
RELIEF QUOTA
,sPA88ED,x
WILL OUR TOWN WIN AN HONOR FLAG?
COMMUNITY' 81.NG WILL
BE HEU) SUNDAY NIGHT
Prosper Reporta 8K3.5O Which With
Presbyterian Fund Brings To
tal to More Than Quota
Vocal Program to Stimulate Interest
in Patriotism Scheduled at
Presbyterian Church
Chairman 8. C. Endicott of the Ar
menian and Syrian Relief Fund com
mittee reports today that the local
community has again gone over the
the top. This time for a purely hu
manitarian cause.
Prosper in its usual liberal manner
has come across loyally. Chairman E.
E. Foss i having sent a check for a
total of ' $83.50, the amount raised
at that place. This, added to the
sum of $45.00 recently raised and
sent in by the Presbyterian Sunday
the grand total up to
School, brings
I
$1040.40, as $889.15 had been sent
in by Chairman Endicott since the
opening of the drive.
Having reached the community’s
quota, the committee, composed ot
3. C. Endicott, C. R. Wade. H. J.
McDermald, J. I. Sidwell, W. S. Smith
and L. D. Felsheim, has decided to
close the campaign and has adopted
i resolution thanking the generous-
hearted people of this community for
'.heir loyal support. Special appreci
ation is expressed to the many who
spent time and effort in the soliciting
and other work necessary for the
success of the undertaking.
Additional contributors are: M
Randleman, C. E. Klepfer and Ernest
Wyant.
Bandon la to have its first Com
munity Sing. It will be held next
Sunday evening at the First Presby
terian church, beginning at 8 o'clock.
Events of thia kind are being held
in churches everywhere periodically
throughout the country. They are
primarily for the purpose of stimu
lating patriotism and creating new
interest in National songs and na
tional pride. It is non-sectarian In
its scope, everyone being invited, in
fact urged, to attend. There will be
no sermon, instead the entire even
ing will be devoted to music. The
program, composed of patriotic songs
and hymns, is as follows:
Hymn 302; Hymn 210; Scripture
Lesson and Prayer. Rev. Smith;
Hymn 301; Solo, “My Own United
States"; Recitation. “Old Glory"
Lois Smith; Cornet Solo, Mr. Top
ping; Hymn 303-A; “Keep the Home
Fires Burning", High School Girls;
"The Red. White and Blue," Chorus;
Recitation, "The Flag", Adolph Hab-
erly; Solo, "From the North, South,
East and West”; "Tenting Tonight,”
Chorus; "Marseillaise,” Chorus; An
nouncements; Hymn 299. A large
chorus will lead in the singing.
Urgent military necessities of the
United States and the Allies has
forced a more drastic restriction In
the wheat conservation program.
Coupled with an earnest appeal to all
Individuals, households, public eating
places and bakers of bread and pas
tries for their co-operation and sup
port, Herbert C. Hoover has Issued a
new set of rules designed to further
reduce wheat consumption In this
country until the next harvest.
These rules and Mr. Hoover’s per
sonal appeal are given out through
Mr. W. B. Ayer, Federal Food Admin
istrator for Oregon, in the following
message:
"if we are to furnish the Allies with
the necessary proportion of wheat to
maintain their war bread from now
until the next harvest (and this is a
military necessity) we must reduce
our monthly consumption to twenty
one million bushels a month as against
our normal consumption of about
forty-two million bushels or fifty per
cent of our normal consumption, re
serving a margin for distribution to
the army and for special cases, leav
Ing for general consumption approxi
mately one and one-half pounds of SWEET GETS HERD OF
wheat products weekly per person.
HIGH GRADE JERSEYS
Many of our consumers are dependent
upon baker's bread. Such bread must Lamp» Creek and Parkersburg Fann
be durable and therefore requires a
ers Are Going Into the Busi
larger proportion of wheat products
ness Scientifically.
than cereal breads baked in the home
“The well-to-do in our population
A. P. Sweet of Lampa recently
can make greater sacrifices in the bought seventeen head of registered
consumption of wheat products than lersey cattle near Monmouth. Ore-
can the poor. In addition our popu Ton. to stock his fine dairy ranch
lation in the agricultural districts, ip the river. Tills is said to have
where the substitute cereals are abun been the largest individual herd of
dant, are more skilled in the prepara registered cattle ever brought to
tlon of breads from these other cereals Coos county at one time, and means
than the crowded city and industrial 'hat Mr. Sweet, and his neighbors
populations. With Improved transpor ■ip the river are going into the dairy
tation conditions we now have avail business on lines advocated and
able a surplus of potatoes. We also found most practical by all the lead
have in the spring months a surplus ing dairymen of the United States.
of milk and we have ample corn and
Ten cows, now giving milk, have
oats for humau consumption. The records which speak for themselves.
drain on rye and barley as substitutes Seven head were under official teat
has already greatly exhausted the sup and the following records were
ply of these grains.
made: One eight year old, 446.31
“To effect the needed saviug of pounds butterfat; one seven year old.
wheat we are wholly dependent upon 725.53 pounds butterfat: one three
the voluntary assistance of the Amer year old. 509.23 pounds butterfat;
lean people and we ask that the fol one four year old. 401 pounds; one
lowing rules shall be observed:
one year and eleven months old,
First—Householders to use not to 602.95 pounds; ono one year and
exceed a total of one and one half nine months old, 361.10 pounds; one
pounds per week of wheat products two year old, 451.95 pounds of but-
per person. This means not more terfat. An imported herd bull, three
than one and three fourths pounds of years old. was secured with the cows.
victory bread containing the required
Neal & Lux. and T. P. Hanly, near
percentage of substitutes and about
by neighbors, have each also pur
one half pound of cooking flour, mac
chased registered Jersey bulls, and
aronl. crackers, pastry, pies cakes,
the dairymen feel that they will be
wheat breakfast cereals jail combined
able to greatly increase the milk pro
»
Second—Public eating places and
clubs to observe two wheatless days duction of their community almost
per week. Monday and Wednesday, as from the start.
at present, and In addition thereto not
Mill Report Not Sule>tantlale<l
¡to serve in the aggregate a total of
It was reported in a Coos Bay pa
more breadstuffs, macaroni, crackers,
per that (leo. Stephenson of North
pastry, pies, cakes, and wheat break
Bend had returned from Portland
fast cereals containing a total of more
with
the word that the North Bend
than two ounces of wheat flour to any
one guest at any one meal
NO Mill & Lumber Co. and the Sitka
WHEAT PRODUCTS TO RE SERV Spruce Co. on the Coquille river are
ED UNLESS SPECIALLY ORDERED to cut all the airplane spruce stock
Public eating establishments not to from Coos county. M. J. McKenna
buy more than six pounds of wheat of the Moore Mill & Lumber Co.
products per month per guest, thus stated today that the local company-
conforming with limitations requested had received no such information
from Col. Disque. although they had
of the householders.
Third —Retailers to sell not more occasion to communicate with hfs de
than one-eighth of a barrel of flour partment a number of times since
to any town consumer at any one time the report was published. The lo
and not more than one quarter of a cal mill has an 18-months' contract
barrel to any country customer at with the government for spruce and
any one time and in no case to sell Mr. Moore is now out negotiating
wheat products without 'is. sale of an with the officials for better transpor
tation service.
equal weight of other cereals
Fourth—We ask the bakers and
Roads Again Passable
grocers to reduce the volume of vic
The county roads are again pasa-
tory bread—sold by delivery of a
three quartet* pound loaf where one able to automobiles, Previous to the
pound was sold before and correspond last rain, autos were plying regularly
Ing proportions in other weights We between Bandon and Curry county
also ask bakers not to increase the , points, between this city and Co
amount of their wheat flour pur qullle, and over the Seven Devils to
Geo M. I.affaw drove
chases beyond seventy per cent of the , Coos Bay.
average monthly amount purchased in a Velie six over from the Bay, with
the four months prior to March first out getting it the least bit muddy.
Fifth—Manufacturers using wheat F. L. Greenough also brought a new
f
products for non food purposes should car over.
cease such use entirely.
Sixth—There is no limit upon the progiamme no that we may provide
use of other cereal flours and meals, the necessary marginal supplies for
auch as corn, barley, buckwheat, po those parts of the community less able
tato flour, et cetera Many thousands to adapt themselves to so large a pro
of families throughout the land are portion of aubatltutea and In order
now using no wheat products what that we shall be able to make the
wheat exporta that are absolutely de
ever except a very small M
cooking purposes, and are doing so manded of ua to maintain the civil
In perfect health and satisfaction population and soldiers of the Allies
There la no reason why all of the and our own army.
With the arrival of the new harvest
American people who are able to cook
In their own households cannot sub we should be able to relax such re
alst perfectly well with the use of I SOS strictions, but until then we ask for
wheat products than the one and one- the necessary patience, sacrifice, and
half pounds a week allowed Vte ape co-operation of the distribution trades
dally ask the wall to-do households and public.“
4a the country to foLow UJ gdd.tAPSto
LUMBERING, MINING, DAIRYING, STOCK RAISING
In order to stimulate individual subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan,
create community activity and to mobilize, systemize and unify the
initiative and energy of citizens and districts in the accomplishment of a
national purpose, an honor flag and honor roll system has been adopted by
the Treasury Department for the Third Liberty Loan.
This system is outlined by the Department as follows:
1. A specially designed honor flag, officially adopted as the Third Liberty
Loan flag, will be awarded to all communities upon their attainment of their
assigned quota.
2. A small individual poster, containing a reproduction of the honor flag
and a blank for the name of the subscriber, will be awarded to each subscriber
for display in his home.
3. A large honor roll, containing at the top a reproduction of the honor
flag and the slogan, “Help Our Town Win the Right to Ely This nag." and
below space for the names of all subscribers, will bo posted in a conspicuous
place in the community.
4. A large honor flag will be awarded to each state upon the attainment
of its quota, the state flag to contain the names of those subordinate groups
which have attained their quota».
5. A national honor flag will be unfurled at Washington on which will
be presented the returns from all the states.
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Bandon is just $11,000 short of
reaching its quota in the Third Lib-
erty Loan campaign, whlch opened
Saturday. The local quota Is $30,-
000, of which up to hank closing
time tonight $19,000 has been sub-
scribed.
It is hoped to raise the
quota within the present week, so
that Bandon may have its name well
to the top in the list of those who
■each their allotted amounts
The
Bandon district for the present cam
paign does not Include Curry county
as it did heretofore. Curry having
been put into a district by itself.
For this reason the local quota Is
less in proportion Than before.
The quotas for the other towns
Marshfield. $150,000;
North
are:
Bend. $68,000; Coquille, $40,000.
Myrtle Point, $33.000; Powers. $22 -
000; Empire, $5,000.
The local organization for H ip
campaign is as follows:
Executive committee R. H. Rusa.
The sale of thrift stamps and
war savings certificates by the school
children received a decided impetus
this week when the flag was present
ed to the room whose pupils had sold
the greatest amount of stamps dur
ing the first month.
Miss Hilde's
pupils, in the Sixth A and Seventh B
grades, sold more stamps during the
first month of the canvass than any
other room, so hold the flag for a
month. The flag is an exceptional
ly beautiful one of heavy silk, five
by three feet In size
Pupils and
teachers are equally eager to secure
the flag, and the contest for next
month promises to be very close. Ad
ditional stimulus to the stamp can
vass was given by the announcement
of the Individual prizes to the best
salesman among the pupils
Fol
lowing the plan in other towns of
the county, the committee has solicit
ed funds to be used to provide prizes,
etc ., to further the stamp campaign
The Bank of Bandon and the First
National Bank have agreed to pro
vide a war savings stamp as a first
prize each month to the boy or girl
selling the largest amount of stamps,
and second and thrld prizes of $2 50
and $1 50 worth of thrift stamps will
These prizes
be provided for also
will be awarded each month, begfn-
ning with April's sales
A number of war savings societies
are being formed among the pupils
of the various rooms as an aid to
systematic saving These are similar
Young Mother Very Hl
A nine-pound daughter was born
at the Emergency hospital today to
chairman. C. R Wade, secretary; I. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Philip. Mrs
N. Miller. H. J. McDermald, L. D. Philip Is reported to be dangerously
111.
Her husband is enroute here
Felsheim.
from the north.
Captains of soliciting teams—W.
J. Sweet, E. D. Webb. Mrs. W. S.
Junior Red Cross Daisre
Wells; Prosper, S.
8. D. Harper; Bul
There will be a big dance at the
lards, C. D. Jarman; Lampa, A P. Dreamland pavilion. Saturday even
Sweet; Parkersburg, J. T. Jenkins; Ing, April 20th, for the benefit of
along the river,” Geo. P. Laird; the Junior Red Cross which was re
Craine's camp, W. E. Cralne, Two cently organized in Bandon. The ad
Mile, R. H. Rosa. Four Mile. H. A mission price will be $1.00 and n flue
DeLong
Each of these will appoint time Is promised by the committee
their own committees, calling on in charge. In order to secure the lo
anyone they choose to assist them.
cal Junior Red Cross organization it
Prospective subscribers are urged was necessary to pledge an amount of
to act at once. There Is considerable dues equivalent to 25c for each pu
honor and pride in reaching our pil in the local schools. This was
done but to date only $60 has been
quota tarly, therefore those who In-
raised to meet the pledge It is still
tend to invest, may as well do It to-
necessary to raise about $90 and the
day as a week or two later
All proceeds of the dance will go toward
that is necessary is to sign up and
this cause.
The Junior Red Cross
make a 5 per cent payment. Let's
organization Is a very effective one
go “over the top” in a hurry. A
and Is doing a great deal of relief
complete list of subscribers w-111 be
work for the little children of the
published next week.
war devastated countries.
PRIZES <>1 I ERED ADD
to the local Two-bit Club”, but it Is
ZEST TO CAMPAIGN nbt necessary for the members to
Beautiful Hag to Banner Room anil
Casti to Best Salesmen of
Stamps Provided,
Reported Boats Are Hold
A report in a recent issue of the
Oregon Journal states that the Steam
ers Acme, Phoenix and Bandon have
been Bold by the Fyfe-Wilson Lum
ber Co. to the Parr-McCormick com
pany at San Francisco. The article
speculated as to whether the sale
would mean better service betweeen
Portland and San Francisco between
which points the Parr-McCormick
company is maintaining a line of ves
sels
It was intimated that the lo
cal vessels might be put on that run.
however nothing to that effect has
been learned here
AUTO H1TH WHEEL CHAIR
ave as much. The members pledge Nani Harrow» Ha« Narrow Escape
themselves to buy either one thrift
From Being Run Over.
stamp a week, or one every two
A Ford auto, driven by Geo. Haga
weeks. Officers are elected to keep ran into Sam Barrows' wheel chair
records of the meetings, amounts Saturday morning, throwing Mr Bar
purchased by the members, and oth rows to the pavement and badly de
er business transactions. The move molishing his chair.
ment to establish these societies has
It appears Mr. Barrows was going
proved very popular thruout
the east along First street, following
county.
State Superintendent of near the curb on the left hand side
Schools Churchill has urged the fer- He decided to stop at McNair Hard
mation of one in every room, as one ware store, and Mr. Haga, who was
of the best possible methods of com going down the street in the same di
bining work in developing thrift and rection, was of a similar notion
patriotism
He aimed to put on the breaks and
Nearly all the rooms are increas come to a stop a few feet behind
However, his foot hit
ing their standing on the thermom Mr Barrows
eters in the main hall which show the wrong pedal and the machine
the percentage of thrift stamp hold shot ahead at high speed, straight
ers i>er room. This week Miss Hic onto the chair car and occupant.
key's room leads with 91 per cent,
Aside from a few bruises. Mr. Bar
closely followed by Miss Godshall's rows was uninjured. His car was
and Mrs Rea's rooms, each of which completely wrecked.
have an average of 89 per cent Sev
eral rooms expect to *'go over the stamps
Dorothy Bean of Bandon
sold
top” next week with 100 per cent,
$459 40 worth of war savings stamps
The Simpson prizes for the month and certiflotee, holding the high
of March have been awarded
In
record for thia vicinity.
city schools, first prize to Mabel
Gruell, 4th grade, Coquille, who sold
Ws must have ships. We must
war savings securities In the amount have plenty pf ships And we must
of $ 1664 75; second prize to Al- have them tn time
deane Smith. Powers, who sold $1,-
097.10.
To to five room schools, first prize
WORLD HONOR ROLL
♦
to Louise Maas, Riverton, who sold ♦
$471.29; second prize Louise Shun-
Hotel Gallier, Bandon
MBkM Hill. I4M 81
One room schools, first prize, pon-
M Breuer. Bandon
ald Mills, Sumner, $271 93 sesond
Thad Shinn, Prosper
prlez to Ozllva Kielland, Kentuck In
Chas McCulloch, Bandon.
let. $251 25.
Otis Dawes. Bandon.
Mrs. G. O. Lowe. Bandon.
The first prize to each of the abova
winners is a baby bond ($5). The
R E. McKee, Bandon.
second prize consists of ten thrift | C. B. Zeek, Bandon.
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NO. 21
I OREGON MUST SEND
I 923 MEN APRIL 26
EVERY COUNTY IN THE STATE
TO SEND ITS MEN—
OF FIRST DRAFT QUOTA
C oon County Must Send Thirty of 1U
Claas One Meu l uder Tills Call—
Curry County to Send Four—All
Must Be At Camp Within 5 Day»
After April 2<l—for Artillery.
Portlaud. Ore, April 8—Nine
hundred and twenty-three more Ore
gon men are to be called to the col
ors immediately for the National
Army. They will be Inducted into
the military service from class one,
in the sequence of their order num
bers. Orders have been received
from the war department by the ad
jutant general of Oregon that all
these men must be entrained for
Camp Lewis, Wash., in the five day
period beginning April 26.
This quota of 923 meu is tn addi
tion to the draft quota of 369 meu
who were called into service from
Oregon on March 29. The 923 com
prise 12.5 per cent of Oregon's gross
quota in the first draft. No county
n the state will be exempted from
furnishing Its proportionate quota of
uien to meet this call. At the same
time it Is announced by the war de
partment that each county will re
ceive full credit on the next net draft
quota for the men sent now. Tho'
men from class one are to be induct
ed into service in the sequence of
their order numbers, the calling of
men actively, completely and assid
uously engaged in the planting and
cultivation of farm crops, by direc
tion of the president, will be defer
red until the end of the new quota.
Under this call Coos county must
furnish 30 men.
These, together
with the twelve who entrained March
29th, makes forty-two men called
from the county in two months. This
last call is a proportionate fraction
jt the national call for 150,000 men
under the second draft.
Curry county send four men under
his call The city of Portland sends
279. and the balance are from the
ither counties of the state
Die men in Coos county who are
probably subject under the latest call
are;
Herman G Prey, Cary L Jensen.
Halbert R Segur, Chas. Epp, Niles
H Galusha. Tom Bradas. Lester
itose. Geo F Cox, Harry H Holver-
stott, Lars T Lindberg. Chas Matt-
lor. Ellgis Borgis. Wm. T. Neil. Thos.
' Macy, Orvll A. Knight, Andrew R.
Dcheitree. Geo. M Carr, Geo. E.
Hammack, James R. Weidner, John
M Demoia, Tona Bobbio, Thos. T.
Bennett, Lester O Norton. James K.
Cowan, Leon N. Smith,
David C.
Avery, G. Eckblad. Edward Hughes
Harris, Seth E Selander. J. Ross
Thomas, Thos H Benham, A l.ane-
gan, James A Davis, Sylvester H.
Neidelgh, John Harris, Arthur F.
< olenian
Sweeping < henges Proposed
Washington. D. C.. April 5- —Dras
tic modification of the draft classi
fication lists which would affec: In
one way or another the statua of
every one of tho millions of register
ed men Is proposed in a plan sub
mitted to President Wilson today by
tffieials of -tie Fro vest Marsh J •
General's office and the department
of labor. While the primary purpose
of the new program Is the "purifica
tion" of the second, third and fourth
classes of registrants who are not
engaged in any productive Industry,
attention also would be given to low
er sections of class one.
The effect, its framers believe,
would be to solve the nation's labor
problem and largely Increase ths out
put of the neceesitles of life.
The proposal would utilize the
draft for
putting
industrial
slackers to work It purposes to make
a most careful survey of the lower
section of class one and other classes
to Identify those men »ho are idlers
or who are gaining their living thru
undesirable or harmful
pursuits.
Under the latter head, officials sug
gest, might be listed gamblers, book
makers for races, poolroom touts
and others.
Formal notice Is provided, which
would be served on the men that
unless within a specified time they
obtained employment In some useful
Industry they would have their status
changed so as to induct them into
military service immediately.
Bazaar la Popular
The Catholic Bazaar that Is being
held st the Fahy Morrison building
this w*ek Is Attracting msny people,
especially the women
The place is
well filled with beautiful »nd useful
articles that are being sold at very
reasonable prices. Luncheon Is al
so served each afteraoun.