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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1918)
Lodge Directory I a X’DON LODGE No. 130 h A. F. & A. M. communication Friday after th 11 muon of each month, bojourn Her Masons cordially invited. L W. SCHETJER. Secretary. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS $100 Reward, $100 The readers of this paper will b« Pleased to learn that tture is at ¡east one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Catarrh beinK greatly influenced by constitutional conditions Kn . constnuuonal treatment, f^tarrh Cur.- is taken internally and acta thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System thereby de stroying the found lion < < the disease, nyLii Ly building up the constitution and assisting na ture in doing its work. The proprie tors have so much faith in the curative powers of Hall’s Catarrh Cure that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Addrees F J CHENEY A CO.. Tolsdo. Obkx Hold bv all l>ru’ni«’«. 7fee. CHICHESTER SPILLS diamond BRANO GO»*' LADIES f Art ¿‘T .*’'■**»*•* for cm HIV« TFX « MAMOND BRAND PILLS 1« K ko .nd G old metallic boxes. sealed with Blue •ibboa T ax « no otxm H ut of Drua.ut .„4 a,k fur fui.cmn.ifm _ • IX Most» B ll A X i> rn IS, for twenty-flw year, regarded a, Best.Safest, Always Rrliabl*. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE pelphi Lodge No. 64, Knights of .Meete every .Monday even- ’’»t Knights hall. Vbitlng KnlghO ,,ue<J to attend. CHAS. F. PAPE, C. C. L BREl’ER, K. of R. & s. L n 'DON LODGE No. 133 I. O. O. F. I every Wednesday night at I'I o. O. F. hall. Visiting Odd KMs always welcome. W. A. PANTER, N. G. PHIL PEARSON, Sec’y Phone 191 your orders for all kinds o[ the CHOICEST MEATS and SAUSAGES Our Bicycle Delivery will take care of youi orders promptly. • • • iCEAN REBEKAH LODGE No. 126 I Meets on the second and fourth ■•jesdays of each month at the Odd Bjllaws hall. Visiting Rebekahs al- Ljvj welcome. LENORE HUNT, N. G. LEL1A FISH, Secretary. City Meat Market GEO. ERDMAN, Proprietor J Professional Cards DR. R. V. LEEP Physician and Surgeon Office in Ellingson Bldg. Phone 394. BANDON. OREGON F. J. CHATBURN ATTOR N E Y-AT-1. A W I Practice in all courts. Office ■in Racket Store building on Second [blieet. Bandon, Oregon. I. N. MILLER Attorney and Counselor at Law Notary Public ¡Rooms 1 and 2, First N'at’l Bank Bldg. Bandon, Oregon DR. FRED COVELL CHIROPRACTOR I Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 5 p. in. Opp. Hotel Gallier Office in Bandon Sanitarium, Bandon, Oregon DR. F. A. VOGE DENTIST PYORRHEA SPECIALIST Telephone 1222 Ellingson Bldg. Bandon, Ore DR. S. C. ENDICOTT Dentist Office 1241 —Phonei office in Ellingson Bldg. BANDON. OREGON GEO. P. TOPPING Attorney at Law Practices in all Courts. Office Over Bank of Bandon. 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 JOHN NIELSON Notary Public, Insurance, Real Estate and Book-keeping Bandon, Oregon DR. ARTHUR GALE Physician and Surgeon Filone«: Office »51; res. »52. Office in Ellingson Bldg. BANDON, OREGON MISS E. McKENZlE I RAINED NURSE district Nursing: Short calls. Emergency work Emergency Hospital, Oakes Bldg. An EASTMAN will please You C. Y. Lowe Bandon, Or. REXALL DRUGGIST Headquarters for KODAKS ■ SUPPLIES There is no better place on earth for Kodaking than right here. Ban don Beach offers uneq ualled opportunity for beautiful pictures. Let us show you our line of Eastman Kodaks. SAVED BY MIRAGE GENERAL KINSHIP WITH SEA How British Army Escaped De feat in Mesopotamia. Fondness for Salt Water Seems to Be a Characteristic of ths Whole Human Race. A kind of kinship with the sea Is In every one of us, says Boys' I.Ife. the Bey Scouts' iiiagazlue. Nuah built Turkish Commander Saw What He B» the ark as a matter of religious duty, we are told, But If old Noah could lieved Were Re-enforcements Com have written I a few lines to go with ing to Aid Enemy and Or i the half dozei •n paragraphs of the Bible dered Retreat narratlvi not for religious effect but a« a man to man, to let us know Just We went on toward nowhere, intend j Ing to iuiik«4 a wide detour and come bow he felt about the Job—what a story It w ould have been! Into old Basra city by the Zobelr gat« I A landsman, getting ready for his in the south wall, Eleanor F. Egan writes in the Saturday Evening Post.1 first voyage! Big and important re sponsibilities to curry, but back of all There was no dust out there; only the study, all the labor, and the “kW- hard-packed sand, out of which the ding” of his friends, that ecstasy of fierce hammering sun struck a myriad anticipation that gripe your throat and glinting, eye-searing sparks. But it makes you want to yell for joy. was beautiful beyond words to de Noah was a “regular fellow.” You scribe. We spun along at fifty miles can tell that by the way he "carried an hour with a cool, clean breeze in on.” You bet the fact that he was our faces Then Just over a slight rise performing a religious duty didn’t I in the sparkling plain I saw my first make him feel like some folks look In mirage. It was Impossible to believe prayer meeting. You bet that when It was a mirage and not really the he put aboard the ark one pair of beautiful lake that It seemed—a lake worms, per order, he put In an extra dotted with wooded islands and few for bait. You bet he had that fringed in places with deep green for same hankering for the sea that you ests. | and I have. I have seen mirages In other deserts It's In the very blood of every man. in other lands, but I have never seen Remember how. when you were a kid, anything like the Mesopotaniian mi you put your finger In your mouth aft rage, We drove straight on and it er cutting it with your first Jack came so close that I was sure I could knife? Didn't the blood taste salty? i see a ripple on Its surface. Then aud Ask any doctor what they put into a denly it went away off, and where it man’s veins to fill them when he has had been our skidproof tires were hum lost a lot of blood. He will tell you ming on the hard-packed sand and I "salt water." Doesn't that prove our saw that the wooded Islands had been kinship to the sea? created out of nothing but patches of Did you ever know even a grown-up camel thorn and that the trees of the to pass a gang in swimming, or a kid forests were tufts of dry gruss not with a string of fish, or even a picture more than six Inches high. of a ship, without stopping a minute Off on the far horizon a camel car- to look? It can’t be done. We all avan was swinging slowly along and love the water. the camels looked like some mammoth prehistoric beasts, while in another Germany’s Labor Army. direction what we took to be camels “Our growing labor army” is the de turned out to be a string of diminutive scription applied by the Huns to their donkeys under pack saddles laden with prisoners of war. According to a com bales of the desert grass roots that the munique In the latest Berlin papers, Arabs use for fuel. Germany and her vnssals between The mirage has played an interest them now hold 3,575,000 prisoners. For ing part In the Mesopotamian cam the first time the German military au paigns. In some places it Is practi thorities lay stress on the supreme cally continuous the year round, and it value of their prisoners as man power adds greatly to the difficulties of an for industry and agriculture. They are army in action. It is seldom mistaken so numerous. It Is asserted, that they for anything but what it is. of course, go far toward compensating Germany but it does curious things to distance for the men she has had to withdraw and to objects both animate and Inani from peaceful pursuits for active mil mate. Incidentally It renders the ac itary service. “The longer the war curate adjustment of gun ranges al lasts,” the communique adds, "the most altogether Impossible. more adaptable these prisoners be I i One of the most curious Incidents of come to the wo. x assigned them, and the whole war happened in connection the more useful to u«." with a mirage and on the very spot Huns have a majestic awe of big over which I drove that first day out figures. Thus it Is explained for their In the desert. edification that the “labor army" In The battle of Shaiba was one of the prisoner camps is numerically greater hardest-fought battles in the whole than the whole male working-class Mespot campaign and victory for a population of Denmark. Norway and while was anybody's, It was going Sweden combined, "and la equivalent very badly for the British, their losses to one-fifth the total number of work being heavier than they could stand ing men in Germany before the war, for long. And though the Turks were In overwhelmingly superior iaimbers Cherries From Russia, It was going very badly for them as That the cherry world has Its bol well. This the British officer com shevlkf ls explained by Frank A. manding did not realize and he was Waugh In the Country Gentleman. lust on the point of giving an order for Speaking of the supremacy of cer retirement—which would have been tain American varieties, particularly fatal to the British In Mesopotamia— the Morello, Montmorency and Early when to his astonishment he discov Richmond, he writes: ered that the Turks were In full re "Their supremacy has been often treat 1 What a moment! challenged. Other varieties have been The desert was full of mirage and offered by dozens and almost by hun the Turkish commander—who really dreds. night to have been more familiar with "The greatest competition arose local phenomena — saw approaching through the Introduction of the so- from the southeast what looked to him called Russian cherries. These came like heavy re-enforcements. It was along with the other Russian fruits, nothing but a supply and ambulance mainly In the Importations of 1870 and ’rain magnified and multiplied by the 1883. and were exploited mainly In the ieceptlve desert atmosphere! When Northwest states. he ordered an Immediate retreat his “Prof. J. L. Budd propagated sev already unnerved troops stampeded eral of these sort« and recommended and his demoralized rear guard was them highly. In tills company were hounded and harassed by great bands Included Vladimir, Lotovkn. Sklnnka. of nomad Arabs all the way to Kha- Osthelm, George Glass. Double Natte, mlsseyeh, nearly nlpety miles away. Llthauer, Brusseler, Braune, Bessa He learned the truth a few days later rabian. Bunte Amerelle and Spaete Ama relie. There were some others and committed suicide! •Iso, bearing the same flavor of north east Germany and southwest Russia.” Oliver Goldsmith Memorial. At Auburn. County Athlone, Ire- Pure Water for Men In Trenches. land, the poet's birthplace, a memorial Filtered and sterilized water for the Is being erected to Oliver Goldsmith. It will tnke the form of the restoration men In the trenches at all times 1s of the church where the poet’s father being provided by water trains, the ministered so many years. Oliver war department announced. Under the direction of the surgeon Goldsmith was born In 1728 nt Bally- mahon, County Longford, and two general's office sections held by the years later his father, Charles Gold American forces where permanent wa smith, became rector of Kilkenny terworks have not been established West and settled in Llssoy. which Is will be fully supplied by these trains, now known as Auburn. It Is a village which are In reality miniature water on the road between Athlone and Bal- works that chemically treat, filter and lymnhon. Auburn of Goldsmiths De sterilize nil water used for drinking serted Village” In some degrees repre purposes. Each unit carries an expert sents Llssoy, and the story of an old chemist, bacteriologist and pumpman, vlrtlon by General Caplet was prob •nd the water.tnnks are mounted on ably in Goldsmith’s mind when he motortrucks equipped with powerful wrote the poem, although it is Intended lights so that the work can be carried to apply to England. oa at night. Died at Post of Duty. Women for British Pulpits. During the storms the early part >f the year, which marines say were •he severest known on the coast, the United States navy suffered the loss of the big ocean-going tug Cherokee. This vessel was manned entirely by ■»»embers of the naval reserve. Caught •n a terrific sea the tug founder»-’ nd was lost. It was at this time . n Imfsirtant duty for the Washington nniy yard to get guns to an Atlantic fort. Among the men who met a heroic death nt tl^s time was a lieu tenant (Junior grade). E. D. Newell, U. 8 N. R. F.. commanding officer. Woman preachers for Great Britain are a jsiasibfllty if the government's drafting of men between forty five and fifty causes a much further shortage In the crop sf clergymen. Already three clergymen have en listed rather than be put In a noncom* batant corps. That women will make good preach ers la the opinion of many of the Brit ish clergy. “Women can deal with many ques- tlons that I cannot deal with," says the Rev. Nev n of the City Temple. Saving Wool Rage. •'otatoex are nourishing, palata- hlp and well liked by all of us. The re wo eat the more wheat we can * H' to the boys at the front and ! • famishing people of the Allies. ■'a\o a i(,af of bread a week. Help the war. Grand Army of Ministers. Over flO.OOO ministers of the Gospel of various denominations are with the allies In France. About 20.000 are with the Red Cross; the rest are In the ranks.— People’s Home Journal. « That Tout Weather. There are places in the world where the weather has been better the last few weeks than in the Amerlcau sec tor northwest of Toul, but the pre vailing dampness never even tarinshes the American sense of humor. The colonel of a regiment, muklng a night tour of the trenches, was chal lenged by a sentry who had been stand ing at his post for two hours m a driving rain. “Who's there?” said the sentry. “Friend !” replied his colonel. “Welcome to our mist.” said the sen try. And the most serious thins the colonel did was to laugh.—From Stars and Stripes, France. Who Ever Saw? The log that people sleep like. The chickens that the farmer's kids have to go to bed with. The deer that a small boy can run like. The horse that everybody thinks he works like. The dog that the pirates used to die like. The house and home that one Is eaten out of. Some One Else Got Her. Cholly—I thought I'd try an Innova tion. Molly—And did you? “Surely. I decided to propose mar riage to a certain party by telephone." “How did It work out?" “1 was told the line was busy.” It Wn Correct. This teacher was having some trou ble with a certain pupil In grammar. “Now, little girl, would it be proper to say, ‘You can't learn me nothing?' ” “Yes'm, it would,” replied the girl. “Oh ! Perhaps you’ll tell me why I” 'Cause you can't 1” DEDUCTION. “There ure 14,000 oysters of full size ! b a ton.” "Then a boarding house atew must be one-fourteen-thousandth part of a ton." Biblical Lore. Samflon was a tall, tall man, And so waa old Gollar. But Ananias, so they say, Was the tallest liar. Its Effect “Mayme said If she had a soldier lover she would make him carry her picture In bls pocket and It might stop a bullet aimed at his heart.” “It would be n life-saver all right. Iler picture Is enough to give a bullet shell shock.” A Believer. “Do you believe in socialism?” "Yes.” “What do you understand by the term?" “I merely believe there Is snch a word. I don’t pretend to understand It” In the War Garden. Wlfle (musingly, after digging up a potato by accident)—Well, well, ami here we have been looking our eyes out for the things. Won't Harry be surprised when I tell hltn he planted those potato seeds upside down? No Wonder. “That man is very exacting In ills attachments.” “One of the wearying kind of friends. Is he?” “Ob, no ; be a a sheriff's officer.' ■ xerciae. “Ro yon think the dancing crate was beneficial.” “Yra,” answered Mr. Rufnek. “It strengthened a large number of ankie« for sewing machine work." The answer to the question, “Why Concentrated Attention. should we save wool?” Is that a fully “Does motoring help you to forget equipped soldier uses 13 times as much your troubles?" wool hs does a civilian. Also tbnt "Tea,” ans wared Mr. Chuggins. there are not enough sheep raised to “When a tire blows out I cau't tliiok meet the needed wool supply. uf ale«."
