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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1918)
i WESTERN WHERE PRODUCTIVE SOIL AND TIDE WATER MEET VOL. VII. WRITES FROM ( LUMBERING, MINING, DAIRYING, STOCK RAISING BANDON, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1918 ON DECEMBER 30 State Health Officer En Route to Curry Puts "Hu" Ban Buck on 13 sal Schools. 4 WORLD “All You Need Is a Heart and a Dollar” NO. ONE DAY SERVICE f)n I A POfO GOES INTO EFFECT ULLLH UUL Better Mail ami Paaaenger Service Between Bandon and Portland After Next Tuesalay. nr it- RAYNER GEISENDORFER WAS IX THICKEST OF BIG ITAI.1AX Through the action of Dr G. H A change in the Southern Pacific DRIVE IX OCTOBER. Douglas, who is acting as assistant be no public sale of Christmas seals time schedule affecting the local surgeon of the public health service this year. Instead every Red Cross passenger and mail service, goas into of the U. S. government and health WIIEREAS: Woodrow Wilson, member will be given 10 of the seals. effect Tuesday, December 17th. The Bandon Young .Man With \nierican ______officer for the state of Oregon, the Pres dent of the United States and ” Nile $2.500.000 will he given by ths change is in compliance with the re Left <’ oon Bay Saturila) and l’> . ' i I Ambulance Corps Semis Motiier • I city schools were placed under In- President of the American Red Cross, American Red Cross for the 1919 quest of business interests in Coos Heavy Storm En Route hi Helmet for Birthday Presem—¡fluenza ban Friday noon. Saturday Beach—Crew Almost (. o>, lias summoned every citizen of tills tuberculosis work of the National county. It will give Bandon and Describes Historic Places \Vliere|t.e school board met and decided Country to the comradeship of Drop|>ed Anchor at Port O: I Tuberculosis association, this being lower Coquille section one-day service Struggle Rages!. | to set the date of reopening as De UNIVERSAL MEMBERSHIP IN THE about the total of the sale of to Portland. But Calile Did Xot Hold. tl will likewise give cember 30. RED CROSS.— Christmas seals last year. This money Curry county much better service. High school students will send in The Coos Bay train leaves Eugene AND WHEREAS: Membership in will be spent towards the eradication The Port Orford Tribune of yester At the Front, With tlie Italian their week's work Friday, December the American Red Cross is an evi of tuberculosis. at 7:15 a. ro., connecting with train 13, and will be supplied with out- Army. President Wilson has sounded ths No. 53 which will carry a standard day lias the following dence of loyalty,— lines of work to be handed in the The little gasoline suhoor ”, Dearest Mother and Father, I'm at AND WHEREAS: The American keynote of the campaign with his "I sleeper to Eugene, arriving at North following Friday, No work will be l»ella, went ashore at 5 o'clock ' sui.l non you to the comradeship" Bend at 12:55 p. in.; Marshfield. the front at the place where for the assigned for the week of December Red Cross is on the eve of the great message. 1:10; [i. m.; Coquille. 3:20 p. tn.; day morning in ti e Port '\-L I last 4 '-s years the eyes of the world , ,22nd as that is part of the regular est year's work in its history, supply- The campaign slogan is the single Myrtle Point, 3:25 p. m.; Powers, harbor, and lies on tlie i have been turned, The front may |Christmas vacation. ng aid and material encouragement tween Battle Rock and th»' o v word: "Join." 4:45 p. m. mean any part of the many ones in I)r. Douglas has closed all the o American soldiers on duty In in almost the exact spot w leaves Returning Powers 7:00 a Europe, but that same phrase "the schools in the county. In Curry France. Russia, Siberia and in this Bandon will conduct the Rea m.; Myrtle Point. I "o a. m.; Co steamer Bandon ca>iie ashore a front," means only one thing—where county he administered serum to a ■ountry; taking care of the depen- Cross membership drive during the qtlllle, 8:32 a. m.; Marshfield. 9:45 ago last spring. men fight and die for an ideal. 1- nt.s of soldiers in this country oy large number of people, a request The Della came out of Coo- B.i coming week. Have your dollar a. m.; Eugene 3:45 p. m.; Portland, While writing I see cannons flash-1 for serum having been mdae because means of Home Service; aiding in Saturday loaded wit i 19 tons of ready Monday morning. It is aimed 9:15 p. m. reconstruction of Europe by ing, star-shells bursting, and shrapnel I of the danger there due to the lack .he 'o have every name in the community The southbound train will be held freight for the Peoples Compn y at assisting returned soldiers to posi casting its death on those below and I of physicians, 4. subscribed to the honor roll by Wed at Marshfield from 1:10 to 2:15 p. Gold Beach. I ! »sides Cil. tions; providing help and encourage do I hear any noise? It is one in nesday evening of next week. Should ni. The local train service between Woodworth and Engineer D:>.ve Col ment to wounded soldiers, and in cessant boom, boom, boom. A “305" snyone be missed by the committee Marshfield and Powers remains as at vin. Ed i’rince and Vi tor Ande’- on other 'ways assisting the World to went off then. It is most wonder were on board. When off Cane I. jjiir she can enroll at the Morrison present. recover from the results of the ful—most terrible and yet do you Blanco that evening a southerly Nillinery parlor. The Steamer Charm will« leave War,— know it seems the most natural thing . * As in previous drives the district Bandon at 5:30 a. in., connecting storm was met. The wind Increased in the world to be here. Last night Alexander Oslsirn. Who Died Here AND WHEREAS: It is desired has been subdivided into precincts with the train for Portland. It will until the little boat was wallow in : the bombardment was simply awful hat every adult citizen • become a and .Monday Was Survivor of the citnniittees named for each also carry the mail. The Charm will In the trough of the sea. She could -—but enough. nember of the American Red Cross precinct. The plan is as follows, the Whitman Massacre in 1817. meet the incoming train at Coquille not be held either before the gale or I’m going back several weeks that all may feel they have a living names given being chairmen of com and bring passengers and (mail down Into it, and four pumps, two run by when I wrote my last letter. I know liart in the work of the Society,— mittees: on the same evening, arriving here the engine and two by hand, had to you’ll forgive me for not writing. Wei The death of Alexander R. Osborn NOW THEREFORE: I GEO. P. Craine's Camp Mrs. W. E. Craine. about 6 o’clock, The traveling be kept going constantly to keep her left our pretty camp on the Med-Occurred here Monday of this week TOPPING. MAYOR OF THE CITY I .am pa Mrs Dennis Henry. public Is requested to purchase rall- from foundering. The seas were iterranean and started, everyone had at the age of 73 7 " years. Born in OF BANDON STATE OF OREGON, Prosper S. D. Harper road tickets at the Bandon office on sweeping her deck and the crew were to drive something, to where we were Utah on August 5. 1848, ... while his do hereby proclaim that the week Bullards—C D. Jarman. the evening before leaving in order soakiui to the skin. Several tons of going. ’ 1 drove ’ a big gasoline tank, | parents were en route from Illinois >f December 16-23 be devoted to the Two Mlle- Mrs. F Lockwood. to eliminate all delays in the freight In the after hold weir thrown had no trouble whatever and you to Oregon, lie arrived in the territory purpose of securing membership in overboard to relieve tlie struggling Four Mile Miss Minnie Perdue. morning. know it was' my first three hundred while in his infancy. He spent all lie American Red Cross and do urge craft. This condition lasted about New Lake Mrs Maud McAdams. mile trip over 'mountain roads, Oh. | his life here; 12 hours, the wind dying down neni was married and every citizen to join the Red Cross Bandon Ellzabeh J Rodgers. what gorgeous scenery! And the ice reared noon Sunday, and Capt. Woodwor: i The Bandon precinct has been ______ a large ____ family of boys and and to assist in promoting universal cold streams. *e_went over ruads j jjr|8 ue was a survivor of the Whit membership in that organization. said that had it continued to blow subdivided into ten districts. Out- that Caesar built. The farther north I man massacre in 1847. a few hours longer he and his men GIVEN UNDER MY HAND this Lies and chairmen are as follows: He joined we got the more war was in evidence. I the Baptist church in early life and 7th day of December, 1918. would have been too worn out to No. 1— Business section from Those who could afford them wore iqnained a faithful member through have continued the fight and would GEO. P. TOPPING Alabama avenue west to Edison wooden shoes— how funny they life. not have been here to tell the story, Mayor of the City of Bandon avenue hill, everything below hill. sounded clattering over the cobble anil as It Is he compliments those Miss Blanche Radley. The deceased is survived by three ATTEST J. W. MAST stones. Old women scarcely able to sons and four daughters: five sisters, City Recorder. No. 2 Business section from Ala Ijtck of Fuel Because Mills Will Xot with him very highly for coolness stand were working in the fields, and two of whom, Mrs. M. O. Stenert and Re Running (liven as Cause— and tenacity in sticking to their jobs. bama east to Filmorev everything made my heart ache to see these Mrs. M. O. Stopple, of Cottage Grove. Relives old Question. The wind subsided when they we. ■ Every adult citizen in Oregon is on First and Second streets and old creatures toiling under loads and Ore., were with hini and cared tor to be asked to join the Red Cross Waterfront. L. W. Turnbull. off Bandon, but the bar was too burdens that would have made me him during the last few days of his ir to renew his membership during rough to cross, so she headed liable No. 3 Front Second street and quail. But they only smile and wave life. There will be no electric day aer- for Port Orford arriving here at the Christmas Roll Call, which will Filmore, all below hill to the north to you "C'est la Guen'e" is their beginning Monday of the 10 o’clock Sunday night. It was to i ■e held the week before Christmas and along Riverside drive, including vice The deceased only answer. We passed on and during the war of the Rebellion, hav Dec. 16-23. coming week and lasting until after dark to find a harbor buoy, so h r Moore mill. R. T. Moore. stopped in a town, one day, the na^ne ing been a member of Company F, Membership to the Red Cross costs No. 4 Bandon Heights Mrs. Elsie the first of the year, recording to anchor was dropped, The crew of which has its namesake in an First Oregon Infantry, ile had been 11 a year Jack Kronenberg, manager of the tired out and went to sleep. i Beddingfield. opera, and also a composer's name. a member of the G. A. R. for many There will be no receipts given Frifci intersection of Bandon Power Co. The reason for ing the night tlie wind came The river Po flowed by. Some river! years and was chaplain for the local his year, the proof of membership Second street and Filmore avenue the shut down is that the mills will again, and Monday morning At this spot Caesar crossed against Post at the time of his death. being the signing of the Red Coss everything to south and east. Miss not be in operation during that time broke her cable and came onto the Guals and Napoleon on his Cam and there will be insufficient fuel beach. Engineer Colvin heard the The burial was conducted yester Roll and the wearing of the 1919 Berdinah Hiokey. paign. As I could not very well sleep day in charge of the G. A. R„ the button. No. 6—Everything east and west supply to operate the lighting plant cable break and had gone in tlie in my tank of gasoline I was put in following comrades acting as pall every between Filmore and Oregon ave- both day and night. The day power engine room and had started the Red Cross leaders wish an Italian Armory, the second I've bearers: J. W. Felter, R. F. Shan vearer of a Red Cross 1919 button nnes: north and south i between was off for similar reasons nearly engine Just as she struck the beu< li. slept in in Italy. Finally we reached non, W. A. Greek, J. W. Faulds. C. to ask every non-wearer: "Where’s Second and Eleventh i streets. She now lies well up on the sand, Miss all of last week. - ■ the U. S. A. A. S. base. It is in an B. Zeek. Antle Henry, W. F. Kennedy your button?" freight having | Hattie Holmsley. The [lower situation is a serious her macinery and old town surrounded by a moat, one and C. M. Trtrtnbull. Interment was There are over 2 4 8,000 Red Cross No. 7—Everything east and west one, as its uncertainty is causing been removed, and the hull will be of the most famous in Europe. Our in the G. A. R. cemetery. Everyone, it between Oregon and Franklin ave- much inconvenience and financial repaired and launched. nembers in Oregon. The boat was loaded mostly w 'h boys slept in a castle with 1500 rooms s expected, will renew membership, nues and north and south from top loss to those who are equipped to in it. In it and around it were layed vhile it is hoped to add 100.000 now of hill to Eleventh street. Miss Wil operate their machinery by electric gasoline, grain and flour, with a s> all the scenes from Rigoletto. One nembers. helmina Loftus power, Tlie general public was tering of miscellaneous tmerchiind room contained a celling with a hole But there will be no quotas issued No. 8 From Franklin avenue ah under the impression that the day The gasoline has been save, . ti in it made by Napoleon when the The aim is to enroll every adult. west from the ti n of hill to Eleventh ¡rower difficulty was settled last grain Is mostly lost and t <acks of flour are considerably palace would not surrender. Paint That means that the aim in view for street on south. Mrs Ella M. Rea. Spring when, after a hearing before I- ings on all the walls—masterpieces ’very city and tow n is at least one 1 No. 9—From Eleventh street and the State Public Service Commission, aged A lot of canned goods lias I "1 >ut of every three men, women and Oregon avenue all south and west a 25 per cent increase in both i day saved, while there has In en quite i Saw the room where prisoners were loss In dried fruit, tobacco, • tc. It is executed. Saw rooms where thou- •hildren in the community. including Azalea park. J. L. Gary. and night power and lighting rates I sands of skulls were placed on the Wilbur E. Coman is state chalr- No. 10- From Oregon avenue and was granted in order that day impossible to estimate at t - t’ - a walls. At this ¡dace I received 65 The d°ath of Dale Barker, aged nan for Oregon for the Red Cross Eleventh street, south to city limits service might be continued it what the loss will lie, but It w II ru . I. '’i letters, the accumulation of two and 3 4 years, occurred at Mercy Hospital Roll call and Hermon E. Witham, and east to Fi'fnore avenue. Miss was argued by the company that into several thousand dob.. a hai.’ months, also rolls upon rolls North Bend, at 2:00 A. M. Tuesday. state manager. Miss (Jetta Wasser- Belle Chatburn. the day power revenue was by far the boat and the cargo belong to tl Peoples Company and were not being Executive Secretary. of papers and magazines and the boys December 10. The body was brought man During the latter part of the week less than the cost of the service. just simply dtvoured them. » • » » to Bandon and buried the following Portland is introducing a novelty in district lines will be broken down ano Representatives of the Company sured. C. II. Buffington aril C. I. he campaign by having an exclusive , anyone not wearing a button will be declare that they have been unable Marks came up frifm Gold Ben h We feel prrtly blue to-night one of day. our bojs, mechanic, "went west." I Mr. Barker had been employed for ill-woman oganization fom the lead-1approached wherever found by metn to secure sufficient fuel to put In a yesterday and are looking out for tiers of the committee. Be sure to reserve; that as soon as they re the Interests of the company feel it esp.x'ially as since my trans- 'the past three months as fireman on =>rs down to the last worker. (’apt. Woodworth says they were Because of the campaign there will get a button and wear It. fer fr-m "600" to this detachment the tug Klihyam. Last week he ac ceived the raise in rate the price ir f r fou.- and a half months he and I companied the tug to Coos Bay to of wood at the Moore tuill raised fortunate in having an open I ai 'f shared the same tent. A fine fellow. bring over some barges for the Moore xo XEW CASES HAVE from 75c to $1.25 a cord; that the like Port Orford to run to. ev< they did slip their anchor as oth r A' midnight last night Austrian and M 11 A Li >.io-r Co. It was nect DEVEIXIPED HERE Iti RXM transportation costs from the mill to German bombing planes came over to- remain there several days await I the plant had increased; that the wise he and his crew would probably her to visit us • • * * * ing favorable weather. While there Went to Town to (let Bacon for the company is suffering financial loss have been In Davy Jones locker at October 28th 1918. Mr. Barker became 111. He was taken Pot When House Catches Etre under present conditions and can this time. Since writing we again moved up to the hospital immediately but con not comply with the conditions of Which llestroys Everything the line My these wonderful Italian tinued to become worse until the i ! the recent hearing Alps—-magnificent. The Appenlnes time of his death. It-is thought that A five room house, recently pur- The problem will likely again be The [>ast week was a clean one Health Oflicer Dr. R. V. I.e«q> an are part of the Swiss Alps, and seems pneumonia was the immediate for Bandon as far as contagion is chased by J. C, Page, located west put up to the State Public Service as though the entire horizon was cause of death although the deceased '■oncerned, not a single new case de- of Jackson avenue, near the ball Commission Manager Kronenberg nounced that he has received «oppi. covered with peak upon peak all clad i tii • ban raffaring veloping. It is now more than two park, burned down Saturday, shortly states that the company may ask to of Spanish Influenza serum from the in snow reaching unto heaven—-• • • from heart weakness. weeks since the diphtheria cases were afternoon. An overheated stove was go back to the old rates and dlscon- State that will la- furnished fr<-e to We ran of course without lights, Deceased was born in Philomath. first quarantined and no new cases thought to have been the cause. The tlnue the day power, It is quite cer- (hose who desire It. but the air is so clear and rarified a Benton county. Oregon, and cams have developed; the one chicken pox [dace was being used as bachelor tain that such a move will be fought small flash—(and we saw hundreds to Bandon with bis mother when case is still the only one and the quarters by Ed Blescke and Alton by the users of day power and those I.lttle Billie Sellmer underwent e.n of them up above us i signalling doi three years of age. He lived here 'flu” seems to have missed this McCue. The former had built up a who have the best interests of the operation today to have tons Is and and dash stood out like glistening until about 9 years ago when bs [dace for the time being at least. The fire in the kitchen range shortly be community In general at heart. ! adenoids removed He is getting diilnonds I know now where these went to Bend, Oregon, where he en- only^new case reported in this vlcinitv fore noon and put a pot of beans on along nicely. million of miles of barb-wire male gaged in the automobile business durihg the week Is that of Miss Anna to boil He went to town after some Married at Coquille in the States are going Talk about About a year ago he returned to Hughes, who was brought to Emer bacon to |>ut in the beans but stayed Mr. and Mrs W. S Wells arrived your barb-wire entanglements' The ¡Bandon and for a time was interested gency hospital yesterday from her b tiger than he intended. In the Rai |ih Thom and Miss Stella 1 in Bandon today from Corvallis. Mr devil himself could not get through In the machine shop at Garoutte's home at Sixes in Curry county She meantime tlie house caught fire. It Shield were Inarried at Coquille the I Wells has not yet decided what he them. In case of retreat which thank garage. had just arrived home from Port had such a start by the time anyone forepart of the week. The bride is a will do In tlie future. God is a remote possibility, the most He leaves a wife, who before land when she took sick Today h°r discovered it that nothing was daug£it»r of Mr and Mrs. B. F awful devil prepared devices could be marriage was Mabel Giles, daughter condition is reported very favorable saved. Shields of Bancroft. She recently re WORM» HONOR ROM. thrown across the roads in a minute of John Giles, and one son. John. The house was valued at about turned from Portland where she had ♦ and camouflage' I’ve seen ships, six years old. Iteceased was a step * (ttcnil Grand Iswlgo $1200 and was Insured for 1750. The been employed for several months J W Mast and Mrs Chas F Pape, occupants lost all their belongings. The groom Is a civil engineer, who for trains, cars. etc . but crltiouflsg d son of Sam Barrows. Mrs C. It Anderson, Oakland Cal tr«es and roads was a new- one One Burial services were conducted ai left the latter pact of last week for including their clothing and bedding, the [>ast year or more has been em R. B. Tout,*. Baudot.. t ter, by the Knights of Portland to attend the grand lodge night we stopped in an old house, ——— Arthur Ellingson. Coquille ployed with the county roailmaster a four floors big court in back—every Pythias, deceas'd being a member of sewstc n« i f the Knights of Pythias Mrs. Louia Sponcil of Craine’s ere». Both have been reariid in this Mrs. J. Bowers, Bandon. thing marble steps, stairs, walls, but that order. Rev. W. 8 Smith and Pythian Sisters, r« -pectively. . (’amp, has* been dangerously ill of comhiunity and have a wide circle of H. O Nettleton. Bandon. (pneumonia. officiating. (Continued on third page! They represent the local lodges. Dav* Morgau, Bandon. friends and acquaintances. A Day Service to be Off for Two Weeks Influenza Serum Free I ♦ • >• • »