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About Western world. (Bandon, Coos County, Or.) 1912-1983 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1918)
Lodge Directory BANDON LODGE No. 130 A. F. & A. M. Wear a 1919 Red Cross Button CELEBRAIINGDEC.25 Yuletide Festival Once Marked Return of Sun God. Stated communication Friday aftei the lull niuun of each month. Sojourn taster Mkauns cordially invited. E. W. SCHET<TER, Secretary. Observance of Day la Habit of More Than Twenty Centuries* Standing— "Yule” Means Sun—Commu nity Christmas Tree. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Delplü bodge Ao. 64, Kuighu» 01 1‘ythias. ..Meet* every Monday even ing at Knights hall. Visiting KnigbU invited to attend. CHAS. F. PAl’E, C. C. VIC. BREUER, K. of R. & S. BANDON LODGE No. 133 I. O. O. F. Meets every Wednesday night ai the i. O. O. F. hall. Visiting Odu fellows always welcome. W. A. PANTER, N. G. PHIL PEARSON, Sec’y OCEAN REBEKAH LODGE No. 126 Meets on the second and four. Tuesdays of each mouth at the Odu' hellows hall. Visiting Rebekahs al ways welcome. LENORE HUNT, N. G. LEL1A FISH, Secretary. Professional Cards DR. R. V. LEEP Physician and Surgeon Oilne in Ellingson Bldg. Phone 804. BANDON, OREGON DR. H. L. HOUSTON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office at Bandon Hospital in Fahy-Morrison Bldg. Hospital 4 92 Bandon, Ore- Uilico phone 431 4-1-13 1. N. MILLER Attorney and Counselor at Law Notary Public Rooms 1 and 2, First Nat'l Bank Bldg Bandon, Oregon DR. FRED COVELL CHIROPRACTOR Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. m.; 2 u 5 p. m. Opp. Hotel Gallier Office tn Bandon Sanitarium, Bandon, Oregon The Farmer Receives More Than Five Thousand Dollars a Minute From Swift & Company This amount is paid to the farmer for live stock, by Swift & Company alone, during the trading hours of every business day. All this money is paid to the farmer through the open market in competition with large and small packers, shippers, speculators and dealers. The farmer, feeder, or shipper receives every cent of this money ($300,000 an hour, nearly $2,000,000 a day, $11,500,000 a week) in cash, on the spot, as soon as the stock he has just sold is weighed up. Some of the money paid to the farmer dur ing a single day comes beck to the company in a month from sale of products; much does not come back for sixty or ninety days or more. But the next day Swift & Company, to meet the demands made by its Customers, must pay out another $2,000,000 or so, and at the present high price levels keeps over $250,00(3,000 continuously tied up in goods on the way to market and in bills owed to the company. This gives an idea of the volume of the Swift & Company business and the requirements of financing it. Only by doing a large business can this company turn live stock into meat and by-products at the lowest possible cost, prevent waste, operate refrigerator cars, distribute to retailers in all parts of the country — and be recompensed with a profit of only a fraction of a cent a pound—a profit too small to have any noticeable effect on the pi ice of meat or live stock. DR. F. A. VOGE DENTIST PYORRHEA SPECIALIST Telephone 1222 Ellingson Bldg. Bandon, Ore. DR. S. C. ENDICOTT Dentist Office 1841 —Phones— Res. ll«l Office in Ellingson Bldg. BANDON, OREGON F. J. CHATBURN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Practice in all courts. Office in Racket Store building on Second Street, Bandon, Oregon. GEO. P. TOPPING Attorney at Law practices in all Courts. Otlict Over Bank of Bandon. C. R. BARROW ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Farmers’ Phone; Office No. 4SI Residence Phone 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 Phones: Office 881; res. 888. Office in Ellingson Bldg. BANDON. OREGON Celebrating the 23th of December ts habit of more than twenty centuries’ Blanding. It Is a remnant of that good irnture of our early ancestors, which Ims disappeared to a great extent with the irritating problems of civilization. All the rest of the year, writes Fred eric J. Haskin, we fight and grab things away from each other and wear i-ut nerves to a frazzle, but at Christ mas we close our commercial ex changes, eat tremendous quantities of food and send presents and postal cards to our friends and relatives bearing our good wishes. At least this Is what we are supposed to do. Many people do a great deal more in the way of community Christmas trees, visits to the hospitals and baskets for the poor, and still others regard the whole thing as absurd and consider ab stinence from Christmas gifts a sign of strength of character. Long before the birth of Christ our ancestors In northwestern Europe cele brated the 25th of December, which marked the passing of the winter sol stice or the return of the sun In the heavens after conquering the powers of darkness. That was the day of the sun worshipers. The problem of the universe was just beginning to puzzle and our ancestors figured It out In a straightforward manner that was not half bad for supposed savages. All plant life, it was observed, depended on the sun for its existence, and all animal life depended on plant life, so that the power of the sun was greatly respected and It was personified In the person of the god Thor. Thor was watched with considerable Interest, since there was always some doubt as to whether he would survive the win ter solstice. Hence the feasting and merrymaking when he continued to shine clear and strong in the heavens. h Swift & Company, U. S. A. FARM NOTES (From Coos Co. Ag. Bulletin) J L. Smith, Co. Agt. Editor I Nordstrom, of Four Mile, south of Bandon, has just bought from Ed. Cary. Carleton, Ore., another registered Jersey heifer, whose dam is St. Mawee Rose, one of Cary’s famous cows. Mr. Nordstrom now has a good foundation herd of six head of high class stuff. Roy Shull, of Coquille. Felix Hull & Son. of Riverton, and Roberts & Rackleff, at Parkersburg, have each recently purchased a Cleveland cat- terplllar tractor and will now feed fewer horses and more cows. That's the system. Miller Bros . 1 tulle north of Co quille. harvested this fall 525 sacks (2 bushels to the sack), of potato«* on exactly 2.8 acres of creek bottom land. If you can beat this just send us the facts and figures please. Jim Jenkins, of Parkersburg, who has won the pumpkin race for the last two Corn Shows, says he is going to win it again. Will you let him do it? Thrift! The Christ Babe. Some years ago when I was working for a civil engineer the resident en gineer requested the draftsmen In the London office always to send linen tracings, and as large as possible. On visiting the work 1 discovered the reason. When the tracings were done with his wife boiled them down and made shirts for her little boys.—E. Arden Minty. F. II. 1. B. A., In Lon- d n Mall, --------- j We give the Christ-babe Ids cradle tn our hearts, and nfterwards he sets up his cross In our hearts, and In our hearts he plants Ms throne. A Real Good Fellow. A real good fellow la a man who keeps something of the Christmas spir it all the year round. Harmful Loss of Temper. Cleveland Tractor ; 1 • llave Just secured tlie ageney tliis machine. The CLEl ELAND Truek l.aving Tractor and tita beat adapted for thls Metió* of country. < ► < • < > < » for i* a oos Iba Write or telephone for literatura aud Information. < • F. L GREENOUGH Phone 1272 BANDON, OREGON Proven Entirely Satisfactory Only perfect satisfaction can ac count for the use of ZEROLENE by the majority of automobile own ers. Community Christmas Tree. Among the finest Christmas Institu tions today Is the community Christ inas tree, which originated In Madison square. New York, five years ago and since then has spread to communities nil over the United States. The ccm- r.unity "Tne of Light” Is ususlly planted in a central location In the city, trimmed with balls and orna ments and lighted with electricity. Citizens are organized Into committees to collect donations for the tree and employ bands of musicians to play <'hristrniis carols and hymns. In Bal timore last year groups of men and Iioys carrying holly-trimmed lanterns walked through the streets singing and greeting each pedestrian with "Merry Christmas 1” While every year there Is an Increas ing number of persona who decide to "be sensible” and send cards In the place of Christmas presents, the aver age person lacks the courage to fare his family empty-handed on Christmas morning. But Christmas Is a spirit, which you either have or haven't. If you haven't It, the holidays are only a bore; on the other hand. If you allow yourself to become enthusiastic there Is really a lot of fun to be derived from It, even though you’re lonely and away from home. Last year a travel ing man who was compelled to spend Christmas away from hla family In a strange city gathered a number of little tenement waifs together, took them Into n large restaurant and treat ed them all to a f'hrlatmas dinner. "I never had so much fun In my life," declared the traveling man. For Inflamation and Pain in case of "Flu,” pneumonia or ;rippe, PUROLA Medicated Plaster is just the thing. “Draws like a mag net,’’ no blistering. Ask your drug- gi st. Cans 35c and 65c. ltc. Although unbridled rage Is helpful in fight among the lower animals, need less to sny It ts the reverse of service ORDER LIME STONE able In the deliberate flghtlng of num We have at last got enough orders against man, as In boxlug and fencing, together for a car load of ground for here anger Interferes with those lime rock from the State Lime plant cautious methods of attack and de for certain farmers on Coos Hay and fense which are essential to success. another about ready for some Co To lose one’s temper In fighting of this quille Valley farmers. kind may be to lose the fight. With The price of the ltme Including this reservation It Is curious to note freight and war tax by carload to the close kinship between the com Marshfield Is $4.27 per ton; to Co batant Instinct of man ami of the low quille $4.38 per ton aud to Myrtle er animals. The untamed man. when enraged, assumes In very truth the as Point, $4 48 per ton. The lime is in the form of gound pect of the tiger; he puts himself In lime rock unburned. It comes in a threatening attitude, frowns, glares, bulk unsacked. After ground is rolls tils eyes, grinds his teeth, snarls, plowed apply the lime broadcast ot growls, even roars—thus Instinctively with grain drill over the plowed sur seeking to strike terror Into his op face soil in the fall or early spring ponent. at about two or four tons per acre. All orders for lime must be paid Thibet Practically Free. in advance. Thibet Is controlled virtually by the Dead Diggers Double Dollars natives, who are a branch of the Mon Investigations show that each dig gol race, the Chinese government look ger squirrel destroys one dollar's ing after foreign relations and main worth of crops in a year. You can taining small garrisons of Chinese figure out about how many dollars troops. you saved by estimating the numbei Meaning of the Word "Yule." Besides Thor there were nnmerotts gods who lived In the branches of trees. Therefore the people gathered mistletoe boughs Hnd holly branches and put them in conspicuous positions in their houses, where they might easily be seen from the outside. In the hope that some wandering god would take a fancy to them and take up his residence among the red berries. In Germany the early Huns chopped down the evergreens and brought them Indoors for the same purpose. The burning of the yule log and the term vuletlde are survivals of these early December festivals whose Influence is still to be seen today In ou? own Christmas celebrations. "Yule” means sun. With the dawn of Christianity and the conversion of the sun worshipers, the birth of Christ was substituted as the cause for celebration and the fes tivities became religious demonstra tions. The people still gormandized, trimmed their houses with holly branches and gave presents, but the 25th of December usually saw them comfortably seated In church. So Christmas has come down to us with all these traditions. The German Santa Claus legend has Improved It considerably for the children, and It Is now known almost entirely as the chil dren’s season. of diggers you killed this year with the poisoned barley furnished you from the County Agent’» office. We distributed 515 quart» to 78 farmers this year. I quart will kill at least 50 diggers, but to be conser vative divide that number by two and multiply It by 515 quarts and you have 12.875 dead diggers; now cut that just half In two If you want to and you still have 6,437 dead ones, which means $6,437 saved If you still think that’s too big a He, cut it in two again and you have 3.218 diggers and dollars Did it pay to plzen 'em? This, the “L’-He.d t of automobile engine, like ell internal combuafion onjmaa, requires an oil that holds its lubricating qualities at cylinder heat, burns clean in the com bustien chambers and goes out with exhaust. ZEROLENE fills these requirements perfectly, bacauaa it ia corract/y ra- finad from aal^ctad Cali fornia aaphaJt-baaa cruda. Leading coast distributors also testify that it ia “a most satisfactory motor otL” They know from the records of their service department»—and we know from sahav stive tests — that ZEROLENE, correctly refined from selected California asphaltbase crude, aives perfect lubrication with least carbon deposit Get our lubrication chart showing toe correct consistency for your car. At dutltri avoryarhara and Standard Oil Strvtca St at ton a. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Caltfarnia) ZEROLENE The Standard Oilfor Motor Grs H. H. NELSON, Hpccial Agent Standard Oil Company Bandon. Orw. 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