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Or. Chronological home OCT 23 - NOV 27, 1903 1902 | previous 1903 | next 1903 | to newspaper menu Coq B 563-9 October 23, 1903 [Occasional brief references to Chauncey Depew in these papers. ] / The Kaiser does not seem to be worried over the persistent talk of our inevitable conflict with Germany. + [cp] War correspondents are still undecided whether to go to Corea or Balkans. MPE death of Harvey Lewellen, old and esteemed resident, [obit given]. MPE the grand fair at Myrtle Point, owing to heavy storm exhibits not as large as anticipated, but good. Produce, Japanese Persimmons, grapes and peaches; furniture, needlework, some silk crazy patchwork quilts, one with a great many pieces. [More]. Articles incorporation for Myrtle Point Lbr Co. W E Pike, P L Phelan, Fred McClean. [print] / Governor Chamberlain on roads, b. / Big fire Aberdeen Washington, b. / More on R D Hume suits. Coast Mail. Last trip of E A Abbott as purser, Alliance; successor L W Shaw. Alliance got in after lying outside in fog. Arrived by Alliance October 20. John Herron, W B Farley, Thos Langlois, John Willard, Mrs. R. Bedellion, H. Willard, [others]. Coast Mail. Mr. Burke, proprietor of the Crescent mine has opened up his coal yard in Marshfield to supply the local demnd for the product of that mine. + [cp] (Sun). Ben Schuyler, formerly this city, store at Gold Beach, backed by R D Hume. [m. 2004. Meaning?] / Atty J M Upton, law office, b. (Sun). Judge Harlocker, as county health officer, has ordered Dr. Mingus to proceed to Sumner, where a small epidemic of scarlet fever is raging and quarantine all patients that he finds afflicted with the malady. Dr. Mingus left today to fulfill his mission. + [cp] (Sun). The people of Yaquina bay are jubilant over the tug Roscoe being put on the run from that place to Coos Bay and the Columbia. This is the first communication by sea that the Yaquina people have had since the palmy days of "Scantling Bill" and the steamer Farallon. + (CB News). Superintendent Hennessy is having a tunnel cut around a fault at the Newport mine, which will give him access to quite a deposit of coal. + [cp] [ 1 full column on ] our new water system. Sandbox," Rink Creek; reservoir on hill back Geo Collier’s place, 210 ft above the platform on the front of Hotel Coquille.] [2 ½ columns on observations of a Coquille boy, from Oregon to the Argentine.] [Signed only, Fred]. [ Kerrigan.] Y M Lowe, Bandon, t. Otto Schettler, Marshfield, t. Aason’s log camp, b. Arthur Ellingsen’s furniture store, b. / Mrs. Lottie Davis, b. Fraze Tupper, b. Hon Sol McCloskey, jovial Norway merchant, t. / Mrs. Jas Walstrom, Parkersburg, t. / J A Lamb, store, sidewalk, b. / Herbert Lockhart, Marshfield. Bert Gould, Odd Fellows, b. / Jas Mast, bookkeeper Prosper Mill Co, t. Arthur Ellingsen, Julius Jacobson, outing, b. James Flanagan, Marshfield capitalist and banker, t. / Fred Linegar, obliging postmaster, b. Ladies’ silk and wool shirtwaists at Strang’s. + / Melton, Zibeline and Heather suitings, Strange. Huckaback toweling and plain scrim, Strang’s. Mrs. Lucy A Welch, b. / W F Disher, b. / Epworth League entertainment, b. / Egnace Bargeron mayor of Coaledo, t. [<cp] / J P Beyers, health, teeth, t. = Coq B 570 Supplement, prob. October 23, 1903 Steamer South Portland, sailing from Portland to San Francisco, struck on Cape Blanco reef last Monday eve, went down in half hour, 40 fathoms water. 24 men crew, 14 passengers, 19 persons known to survive; one of the most awful tragedies in history of sea travel on this coast. Wrecked 3 years ago San Francisco bay, cargo of lime catching fire and burning out her hold. Last year ice bound in Alaskan waters 40 days, given up for lost, afterwards safely to port. Iron-screw steamer, particularly strong and seaworthy. Build by Dobson & Charles, Grangemouth, England, valued at $75,000 beside cargo which consisted of 8400 sacks of wheat, 2700 sacks oats, 3500 sacks barley. Nq [cp] October 23, 1903 B570 W M Miller, died; Sylvester Miller [WM Miller didn’t die locally, but well known in this area]. Rev Horsfall, at the Episcopal church in this place yesterday morning at ten o’clock, united in marriage Fritz C. Getty, of Beaver Hill, and Miss Mabel Cootey, of San Francisco. Mr. Otto Schetter acted as best man and Miss Fannie Gettie [as typed] as bridesmaid. The couple left immediately after the ceremony for their home at Beaver Hill where Mr. Getty has a position in the company’s store. Mr. Getty is a very popular young man with all who bear his acquaintance. We have not had the pleasure of the bride’s acquaintance, but the fact that she has been chosen by Fritz as a life companion is enough to assure us that she is in every respect worthy. The Bulletin extends congratulations. + [cp] Elbert Dyer, home from business visit San Francisco, will start broomhandle mill in few days. Sailed on Steamer Chico, San Francisco; [among others], E B Thrift (Dairyville), W M VanDecar, E E Danielson. [M, these are Bandon items.] = Coq B 571-4 October 30, 1903 Coquille; water pipe being laid Front street; streets swept by merchants; rains soon here; road to rr depot condition; poss fire company, needed: sewer; Why doesn’t some enterprising person put up a brick kiln? + [rr depot should be cp] The planking between the rails of the railroad track on Front street are [print] in very bad condition and should be replaced. If our city dads would call the attention of the railroad company to this matter, it might cause them to act. + [cp] [Lengthy article from Coast Mail,] [ head]: To Change Mail Route. Coos Bay Chamber endorses bringing mail over Middle Fork instead of over Coos Bay wagon road. It is said the C.B.R. & R.R. is willing to put on an extra train to carry the mail between Marshfield and Myrtle Point, and that B. Fenton, mail contractor on the Middle Fork route, will guarantee to put the mail through between Myrtle Point and Roseburg in 14 hours in the Winter and several hours less in Sumner. ...Est. would save 11 hours and 15 minutes to Portland and 24 hours to San Francisco. ...It is stated that Hon. Binger Hermann has expressed the opinion that government aid could be obtained for the improvement of the Middle Fork road, if the county would unite in asking for it, and the Chamber is ready to push the project not only for a better mail service, but a better overland route for travel. + [part cp] Adam Pershbaker, t. G W Wimer, Arago, t. Bert Dully, b. M/M T W Clark, b. / F E Hicks, photographer, t. M/M B F Tupper, b. Married: J H Perry to Mary E Hoffman. / J M Hobbs, revenue collector for Uncle Sam, b. Miss Effie Collier, completed term school Parkersburg. / Elegant display mechanical toys and holiday goods, Rose’s window. Is Lando, Marshfield, b. / S L Curry, house, b. / J C Roberts, MPE, t. / Burton McDuffee, Parkersburg, t. / V N Perry and J H Cecil, b. F E Hicks, here several years as photographer, to locate with us again. Early closing seems to have met with success in Marshfield; all stores are to close at 6 PM except Saturdays on and after November 1st. + John Clinton, carpenter, spent boyhood here, b. / Mrs. C M Skeels, Mrs. Chas Lorenz, health, b. Judge Cecil, b. / Former Johnson meat market being fitted up Garten’s restaurant, b. E M Kay, Riverton, t, b. / Edwin Ellinson, father master schnr Onward, b. / Fred Slagle, Kroneberg bi./ Mrs. Sarah J. Parker; daughter is Mrs. A Dahuff. Umbrellas, all styles and prices, Lorenz. / Fine line corduroy waistlings, Strang’s. / J P Messer, M O Hawkins, purchased land in California, b. H T Schweers, b. / Geo, "Jack" Goodman, b. / . / Lou Hazard, family, b Women of Woodcraft entertainment and supper. / W T Burton, store, b. Dr. Culin was called to Marshfield at 3 o’clock Thursday morning in consultation with other physicians of that place over Dr. Mingus, who is quite low, and it was thought an operation would be necessary to relieve him. + [cp] P F & L settled nearly all claims, chief being Aasen bros, co soon in op. Payroll of mill an important factor to our town. nq. Lena Logan, completed school Clausen district; [more on school] / Mrs. Nosler. / J H Cecil house, b. M/M Chas Baxter have rented Joe Bledsoe house at N. end of Moulton street bridge and having neatly fitted for residence; Mrs. Baxter returned last wk fm extended visit to relatives SF. Justice Cecil pruned his whiskers and donned an official cap last Wednesday and people on the streets were addressing him as Capt. McIntyre. + ME church S services. / J Fred Schroeder, 6 lb potato. / W T Kerr has purchased store business of P F & L; has been general manager there; also bi. = Coq B 575 Oct 30, 1903 The White is King of Sewing Machines. Sold on easy payments. The New White Vibrator, the New White Rotary. [500 Post Street, corner Stockton, near San Francisco] S K Sykes, Roseburg, agent for Coos and Douglas co. nq. Roseburg -Myrtle Point Stage Line 1v daily Myrtle Point 6 am Roseburg 6 am arr daily Roseburg 8 PM Myrtle Point 8 PM. B Fenton, Prop. Roseburg Main 246; Myrtle Point, Main 27. Myrtle Point Hotel, John Curren, Prop. The only First-Class Hotel in the city. Best Table Service in Coos County. Commercial Men’s Head-quarters. Myrtle Point, Oregon. + (Sun) Born. –In Marshfield, October 20, 1903, to the wife of Hugh McLain, a daughter. / John B. Herron back from Eureka, b. / PL Phelan, manager Myrtle Point Lumber Co., business b. (Sun) Dr. Mingus reports that the cases of scarlet fever at Sumner are under strict quarantine. No new cases have been reported and everything is favorable to stamp out the disease. + (Coast Mail). W S Denning, sold lots in rr addition. to Yaquina as asst lighthouse keeper. (Bandon Recorder). M/M T W Panter, a boy; M/M Frank Barrows, twins. The misunderstanding small boy, natl filler [would be good for quote in story, etc lengthy.] [lengthy on] Good Roads convention. State. MPE. Grandma Anna Bender party for birthday, Grandma Guerin, Morris, Prey, Bennett, and Border present. [more.] i. [Lengthy on] Geo Brown, stage driver, tangle with Sheridan Croy, sheep ranch, i. [dog at ranch frightened horses, altercation over.] Commentary on trouble of band in getting money for instruments. Comparison to medicine fake on street corner getting lots of money, but home boys nothing; Coquille boomer and other. Lengthy nq at all. (CB News). Work is progressing as rapidly as possible at the Crescent mine, and it is the intention to be ready for shipping coal by the end of December. + [cp] (CB News). The motors in the Beaver Hill mine will be in working order within a few weeks, and then there will be no further use for horses and mules in the gangways. + [cp] (CB News). It is stated that J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co. contemplate building a wharf at Eureka, which leads some good people to believe that this means a good passenger boat on the run from San Francisco to the bay, calling at Humboldt. + [cp] (CB News). Alliance detained Portland because more freight than could carry. / Wild ducks more numerous on bay this year than for years, b. / RR Surveyors on the Umpqua have completed work to Winchester bay, now surveying down coast; looks as if planning beach route to CB. [<cp] / M/M F A Crain, Junction City, res. Marshfield in early ‘70's; pioneer jeweler-watchmaker when it was then a small village nq at all. (Coast Mail). Chas Mulkey bought out H F Chase confectionery in Home Bakery Building. / M/M George Robinson, M/M Lewin, b. / WDLF Smith, R B Herron, b. / Jack Farley, near-drowning, save Cape Arago Live Saving. b.i. Water turned into tank Old North Bend through Marshfield Water Co pipe yesterday afternoon; old and new town North Bend supplied with water. (Coast Mail). Died -- At Beaver Hill, Or., October 26, Mat Stonelake, aged 31 years. Deceased was a native of Wass, Finland. He leaves a wife and four children. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. Funeral will be held from the Lutheran church at 11 A.M. today (Wednesday). + [cp] = Coq B 576 Oct 30, 1903 Judge L Harlocker, Co Health Officer, reports 15 births, 6 males, including 1 set twins; 3 deaths, 2 are male; all birth and death white, for month of October. [Bandon and Myrtle Point no report.] Bandon Recorder: Long’s Hall, Kime-McCulloch Orchestra; W H Logan, on north jetty; Oloff Reed, Norway, pioneer boatman of Coquille, b. C. Timmons, cans by steamer Chico; catch salmon Friday 2000. Feed and Sale Stable Hall Street, Leep & Mulkey. W M Burgess, lower river, t. JP Tupper, b. W J Butler, Marshfield, b. M/M S W Upton, Mrs. J P Goodman, b. John Golden, Marshfield capitalist, t, b. V R Wilson store: novelty clock tt runs 400 days with one winding. Bert Wells has resigned his position as night watchman and William Benham has been appointed in his place. + Mrs. J H Cecil, Mrs. Crum, outing. / C H Nosler, principal Myrtle Point public schools, t . M/M J W Fields, Myrtle Point, outing. / Mrs. Geo P. Topping, Bandon, b. A M Jones, Pacific Paper Co, Portland, t on business. / Mrs. Lucy Welch, Bandon, t. / Wm Dungan, Marshfield, b. R E shine, secy SO and vp 1st Natl Bank, t Alex Nicholson, genial tailor working for Fred Slagle 2 months, left for San Francisco for winter. M/M Jack Tawse, Riverton, b. / M/M C W Martin b. / A H Nichols, butter and cheese maker at the Ice & Cold Storage plant, bought property via R D Sanford. Union Thanksgiving Service; Presbyterian. Rev J J Handsaker, Prof Anderson, Choral union. M/M V R Wilson home from bridal tour, b. / W T Kerr & Co new store bi. / Captain O R Willard withdrawn from Coquille River Transportation Co, Walter Panter has his interest. b. M/M J M Walker. / Mrs. J W Felter and daughter, bi. Dr. Russell, by order county judge, to Fairview, quarantined Mr. Cotton’s family; scarlet fever; "scaling" stage; people had taken great precautions. Probably no spread of disease. Johnson’s mill cutting about 50,000 feet per day, white cedar, Jessie Miner and Fannie Adele, ships, b Degree work, Chadwick Lodge A F & A M L H Hazard, J S Lawrence, Fred Slagle, Cal Slagle, N C Medley, W H Lyons, Frank Morse, Jack Tawse. Miss Icy March, teacher 4th grade, diphtheria, people quarantined; no one expected to take. i. Stage from Marshfield on mail route to Roseburg accident. L F Jones, Crescent mine, stunned by fall. Driver Bert Peterson, passengers D F Carnes and Miss Emily Wall, unhurt. [More]. [cp] City council, bills, salary, etc. Mrs Grant Harry dead, at Drain; well known here; brother Thos Krewson, father J W Krewson. Obit. Officers D of H of lodge Grace Skeels, W H Mansell, J T Nosler, Guy Hungate, Henry Smith, Ed Jacobson. India Linens, Mrs. Nosler’s / countess and venus girdles, Mrs. Balch. = Coq B b577-80 October 30, 1903 C M Skeels, W S Holcomb, land trade, b i. / Geo Hall, t, gold mining, b. Smallpox in town last Friday, stranger giving name as Jones, precautions taken; mild case; patient not confined to bed, cooks own meals and good appetite. nq. Mrs. Wickham’s boarding house, new, framing; A G Balch, carpenter. Geo Leach res, Matt Goodman in charge. Allen Collier builds new cupboards Masonic Hall. ...Verily, the sound of the saw and hammer is heard in the land. [ Last sent + cp] Married, John Anderson Lamb and Miss Virginia Woodford, very lengthy description character, wedding, other; M/M Will Lyons, Fred Slagle, Edna Lorenz, J J Lamb mentioned. California & Oregon Coast Steamship Co, steam schnr Navarro will run regularly between Coos Bay and San Francisco; statistics; schnr Dispatch, same company, to make at least one trip; Alliance is snowed under with freight. [cp] [Exchange: Lengthy poem on In the Country Print Shop.] War in any part of the world is profitable to the German powder manufacturer and the American mule raiser. + [cp] Continuation of Oregon to the Argentine, [letter] by Fred Kerrigan to his father. [Lengthy commentary on Anderson Lamb-Woodford wedding and other. State of Oregon a Miner’s Dream. [Full column, poetic on gold mining of the lone prospectors.] "Oregon sends out her invitation to the world and says for all to come, nestle under her lofty pines and till her beautiful valleys, dig her golden treasures in her mountains, and thank the day they came to the Pacific Coast." [Quotes in print.] + Local Comments; Halloween jokes denounced; schools crowded, but still room for truants; fire protection talked; weather, some rains; new mail service comment. nq. The time of year when lodge suppers and "big eats" are ripe is approaching and the season gives promise of an abundant harvest. Also the screech of the football fiend is heard cleaving the circumambient humidity. These are promising signs for the doctor. + Portland Telegram. At Medford a young man named Lamb was married a few days ago and the report states that he looked sheepish. + Resolutions of condolence to families of Captain Jorgenson, Chas L Moon. Names, briefs. Mrs. Lawhorn, Mr. Westnott, living under Henry Street bridge. Benefit for Geo Martin at Lee. Married R M Holman and Lena Paterson. Mrs. Cal Slagle, Mrs. J W Leneve, afternoon tea for Mrs. J A Lamb. Miss Annie Cottell, S H McAdams Mrs. Bruce, b her parents MM H W Dunham. Mrs. C M Skeels, Mrs. Chas Lorenz, Charlie. Mrs. J J Handsaker. Waterworks system completed, water in pipes Thursday; to be using system next week. / Band serenade of town general, then M/M J A Lamb, Halloween night. / Rough weather on Coast, delayed shipping. Mrs. Kronenberg, Bandon, b report on WOW entertainment. / Initiated at Rebekah: Mehl, Bean, Boyrie, Gould, Laird, Brown, Kerrigan, Tuttle, Davenport. / Mrs. John Kronenberg, Mrs. Ida Owens, b [More]. Coquille Academy notes. No diphtheria or smallpox, as had been reported. 50 pupils by Christmas or before. Various classes, elocution, vocal music, pedagogy, organ in chapel; description of physical plant, oratorical contest, lectures, other. = NOV 6 - DEC 25, 1903 Coq B 581 Nov 6, 1903 The stage from Marshfield on the mail route to Roseburg was disabled Sunday morning by the breaking of a neckyoke [print] while going down a hill two miles north of Fairview. On the breaking of the yoke the pole caught in the ground, and the speed was great enough to snap it. The wagon upset; the horses went over a bank; the passengers were spilled out, and L. F. Jones, of the Crescent mine, was stunned by the fall. The driver, Bert Peterson, of Sumner, and two other passengers, D. Carnes and Miss Emily Wall, escaped unhurt. The stage management at Roseburg was notified of the disaster and telephonic [print] instructions were sent to Fairview to secure any needed assistance. The passengers fared well at Fairview, and the driver secured another outfit and went on. + Mrs. Grant Harry dead. Her brother, Thomas Krewson, lives on the McLeod place below town. [more] [this was at her home in Drain.] Coq B b581. November 13, 1903 [National filler.] (From Medical Talk) Lettuce is an absolute preventive of smallpox. No one is in the least particle of danger of catching smallpox who eats a little lettuce each day. Smallpox belongs to the scorbutic class of diseases. Sailors at sea , deprived of fresh vegetables, get scurvy. Scurvy is a typical scorbutic disease. Smallpox is another. Smallpox always rages in the winter season, when the poor people are deprived of fresh vegetable food. Celery and onions are good for this purpose, but there is such a long interval between their being gathered and eaten that they lose most of their anti-scorbutic properties. Lettuce is served shortly after it is picked, and hence contains the valuable properties which will prevent smallpox. We say without the least hesitation or reserve, that lettuce will prevent smallpox. It has no liabilities, like vaccination, to produce other diseases. We are willing to stake our professional reputation on the broad statement that anyone who eats lettuce daily will not catch smallpox, whether he is vaccinated or not. + [cp] = Coq B 582-6 Nov 13, 1903 (CB News). Barbers trying to agree to close their shops at 7:00 every day except Saturday. / W. Schetter supt of Burke coal yard, Marshfield. bi. [<cp] / President Rosenberg, Coos Bay Mill & Labor co, bi; stave mill. / Infant son of David Holden saved from drowning when seaweed clump buoyed him up. bi. Bandon Recorder. Gurly Boak, been Alaska during summer, home yesterday. / Several cases mumps, all getting along well. / Cannery season over 8850 cases canned. / Steamer Chico, freight, new boiler for E B Price mill, Riverton. Elbert Dyer, comment on Bandon Oil Co, Dairyville. bi. Port Orford: O Leneve, b. Geo Woodruff, to school GravelFord b. A Adolphsen to LA for meeting directors of P F & L Co. [<cp] Arcata, shipping problems. MPE. Steamer J Warren will be placed on Myrtle Point-GravelFord run again this winter. / Prof F W Wright and family, Arago, to leave for Berkely [as typed]. / [James Perry married Mary Hoffman, b. / MP boomer,b. [2 column on Middle Fork Road mail route.] Council proceedings. November 11. Object of meeting to consider threatened invasion smallpox; Dances prohibited, Coquille is quarantined against anyone living at Johnson mill vicinity. bills E O’Connell 10 gal coal tar $2.50. J T Nosler, team and sundries for hauling councilmen to head of water works $3. Lone smallpox patient fumigated and turned out. Miss Icy March, diphtheria, almost recovered. More wharfage needed for city; river traffic. Other improvements needed, water works news. Planking on Front Street, Coquille boomer, public park, etc. Geo Adams, committed suicide; he was barber in Marshfield, but also known in Myrtle Point [more]. E G Murray, Camas Valley, t; Hotel Coquille. / Clerk’s office, new clock. Albert Johnson bought property of Bert Seal end Moulton street bridge. bi. E L Corman, agency Coos for King ball bearing separator and aerator, dairy farm, separate milk from cream. bi. Coquille Academy Notes, Prof Anderson, terms, students, other. CB News. Captain Rackleff, Myrtle Point, b. Kenneth McIntosh, D. McIntosh, b. Nominations for Mayor. Judge Schroeder t. C A Metlin, Marshfield, t. Geo (Fat) Laingor, Myrtle Point, t. M O Hooten, Bridge, t. Z T Johnson, Myrtle Point, t. Henry Johnson, logger, Randolph, t. S B Hollenbeck, Fairview, b. Services St James Episcopal Sunday morning, eve, Horsfall. Schnr Advance, b. / Coos School supt W H bunch, t, b. Supt Carmon, S O Co mill near Prosper, t. / Shad Hudson, mines, b. / Jack Shields, he and father opening blacksmith shop Bandon, t. / J L Hicking, manager Prosper mill. Edmund Gallier, b. / M/M J P Goodman, b. Mrs. Ruth G Sweet, b. Smallpox, Randolph, Douglas Tiller. W W Hayes, Bandon, b W H Schroeder, b, t. N C Medley, ill, b. Randolph boom was not ready to receive big lot of logs tt came down Wednesday and many went over bar. David Mathers, Riverton, t. A J Wilson, b. / J P Goodman. / Jason Randleman, b; fishing. Preaching at Little Church, A H Mulkey. Sammy Johnson, Carl Bro’s creamery Norway, b. / Prosper sawmill, mach. Rev E L Fitch preaching ME this week. / E E LaBrie, Roseburg, b; cattle. M/M F T Sanderson, b; property. / August Eickworth, Cambridge Mass, position on the Boot and Shoe Recorder, nickname "Ikey", b. W F Disher, Bandon; Captain Jorgenson house b. / Beale & LaBrie ranch. [Curry]. = Coq B 587 November 13, 1903 Mrs. Sugg, Bledsoe res, Moulton Street b. / Rev Reagan and Mulkey, b. W B Jones, smallpox, released from quarantine. / N C Medley, smallpox, b. Mrs. R C Dement, Myrtle Point, Mrs. J E Haynes, Eckley, b./ M/M W Gage son Fred, to Coos River, b. [<cp] Waterworks, b. / J Neil Hasking, Bandon, t; chief engineer woolen mills , to North Bend, b. / Geo Winchester, genial asst cashier Flanagan & Bennett bank, Marshfield, sister Mrs. Walstrom. James boys resigned positions steamer Welcome and OR Willard wheel; Alex Snyder. H T Schweers, b. / [More on smallpox.] J W Maxwell, Tacoma, National Bank Examiner, says 1st national bank Coquille good shape nq. C E Bryan, P E Drane’s market, Wm Leghorn. b. / Shipping problems because of inadequate ships to Portland. / Roy Conger, mail carrier between Coquille and King’s Landing, accident. Board Directors Coquille Creamery, Geo Moulton business manager to fill vacancy W H Erdice, business will continue. Chris Danielson, b. / R.B. Ray (merchant) bi / Bert Wells purchased Bob [?] Dean’s delivery business and outfit. Bert Tuttle, Marshfield, t. / W E Craine, Riverton Logger, t b. Special meeting city council; advisability of having quarantine lifted from Johnson mill. / J M Quick, Marshfield, t, patent, can holder for 5 gal coal oil can [M not necessarily his own]. / Coquille Ice & Storage to enlarge next year to double capacity. [more]. J H Mason will buy steelheads on Coquille River coming season; Captain Panter to receive fish on Liberty. CoqB b587 November 13, 1903 Recent rains raised waters S Fork, many thousand logs. b. / DES reception for M/M Anderson Lamb. b. / Waterworks [comment]. W H Erdice, Coquille Creamery, killed by descending elevator (freight) [lengthy on accident; mentions] Nosler, Dr. Russell. More commentary on the Argentine [from Buenos Ayres Herald]. Green soap for woman who would preserve luster and richness of her hair. nq. = Coq B 588 Nov 20, 1903 Died, Thos Hirst, Marshfield. [Obit, description.] (Coast Mail) Templeton mail carrier, "climate" b. Emil Peterson, Alfred Johnson [mentioned]. Other mail problems, storm, flooding Brewster valley. / But tel still working, and Manager Robertson smiling. (Coast Mail). (Sun). Four new flat cars with air brake equipments, were received on the Czarina for the railroad company. Six more cars will be brought up later. + [cp] MPE E N Smith bought Sanderson brick building, Myrtle Point. Wm Holland, plans for new gas launch. / Hotel McClallen, Roseburg, new host, [description]. / Elbert Dyer, Bandon, b. [Another lengthy item on tt mail route.] / Fred Wilson, Sumner, steers for Noble Bros; “round up story”. bi. CB News. Woolen mills North Bend soon ready to run; 1st consignment wool this week. / CB News Mrs. Gustafsin [as typed], Hiram Wright, Z T Siglin [<cp], b. North Bend Citizen. [paper] Captain A M Simpson, b. Body found, probably from steamer S Portland. [cp] / Storm damage, Dr Eaton house, North Bend. / Geo Baxter, Bulletin staff, fall during storm; Dr. Fish b. For Sale, Coquille Ice and Cold Storage, Portable boiler, upright steam engine, oil engine, DeLaval cream separator. Resolution Condolence for W H Erdice. Jack Marsden, Marshfield, t. J M Quick, Marshfield, t. Mrs. Dr. Snook, b. The boys at Johnson’s mill have retaliated by quarantine against this place. + A W Kelley residence. / Football on Thanksgiving, Coquille-Marshfield. Mr. Peddler, S O Lumber Co, Prosper. / A J Barre, Bandon, t. / Is Lando and Atty C F McKnight, Marshfield, t. Miss Bertha Wells, niece Bert Wells, smallpox, quarantined. / W T Dement family visiting Ben Figgs. / Clinton boys, logs Middle Creek; all safely boomed, 7000. S W Upton, Geo Goodman, b. / John Buckingham, Bandon, b. / W F Keller, Arago, t. Earl Steele, works Bulletin, bindery dept to help in rush. / A J Sherwood, Sam Sherwood, Tom Mehl, Allen Collier, Dr. Snook, hunting. = Coq B 589 Nov 27, 1903 C A Jamison and Mary Fitzhugh married at Sixes River. / A Adolphsen returned from board of directors of P F & L Co. [Port Orford Tribune]. (Sun). Chas H Dungan, moving; E Heuckendorf shipyard, b. [< 2 item or 1?] / J J Clinkenbeard, Coos River, t. / H Lockhart now sole prop. Sengstacken store. Coast Mail. H Sengstacken expects stock, up to date drug store, Golden Building. (Roseburg Review) Rev C A Hyatt, b. Gravel Ford Academy, classes, students, expectations, other. Bandon Recorder. Steamer Chico barbound 10 days, to sea. / Wm Gallier, J W Felter, L C Gibson, store. / Mumps holding sway. / "Climate" wind , storm. Bulletin heretofore has taken neutral stand on political questions. Hereafter, stand with party soundest and most reasonable political doctrine -- Jeffersonian Democracy. [Lengthy article about Bulletin. Marks beginning of 10th year.] Death of Donald McIntosh, [character chiefly, lengthy article.] (Coast Mail). Steamer Navarro, bay Sun. Bay City mill shut down, lack orders. Schnr San Buena Ventura b. M/M A O Westgate, moving b. Alliance sailed, b. (Coast Mail). Supt North Bend Woolen Mills, work to begin soon, bi. = Coq B 590 November 27, 1903 Cable across bay connecting Coos River telephone lines with Marshfield system, broken, some vessel tangled. New cable, Mr. Robertson. Captain V N Perry, last Saturday, celebrated his sixty-third birthday and also the 45th anniversary of his first visit to Coos Bay. With his parents, he arrived at Norway, six miles above this place on the Coquille River, on the 15th day of November, 1858, coming in over the Coos Bay wagon road and down the North Fork to Norway. Being out of flour, and there being none on the river, Mr. Perry, in company with Robert McLeary, went to Coos bay on the 21st of November, that being Mr. Perry’s 18th birthday. They took a small boat down this river and up Beaver Slough and walked across the isthmus to the head of Isthmus Slough. At the summit they found a canoe which someone had dragged to the top but apparently could get no further. They took this canoe back down to the Slough and with it went on down to the bay. They stayed all night at Eastport with Samuel Archer in a little cabin about 14 X 16 in which 22 persons were that night sheltered from the storm. There was no flour on Coos Bay, nor anywhere else in the county, and the settlers had to live on shorts for several months. Captain Perry says that while the physical appearance of the country has been greatly changed since that time by the hand of man, yet the weather remains very much the same. Last Saturday’s rain, the freshest in the river and the general temperature were all as nearly like the same day 45 years previously as it is possible for one day to be like another. Captain Perry is well known throughout the county and is the first skipper with whom the writer took passage on the placid waters of the Coquille. All the old settlers know Mr. Perry and will, no doubt, remember the flour famine of ‘58. + Tuesday evening at about 4:20 James Kelley was found dead in his chute at the Beaver Hill mines. It seems that he was working a run on a wager that he would put his place through to another level within a certain time. He ate his lunch with the rest of the miners but ate hurriedly and hastened back to resume work while he was still eating a large piece of meat. The meat was found lodged in the top of his windpipe. Mr. Kelly was well known on the bay having been raised at Libby. He was a very hard working young man an a man of good moral character. He was a member of the Sunset Lodge, I.O.O.F. There was talk of holding an inquest but as we go to press we have not learned the result, if any was held, nor the time or place of the funeral. + [cp] Governor Chamberlain call for special session Oregon Legislature, to convene December 21, to remedy the defective tax law. nq. Anderson Lamb, grip. / T W Drane, near Parkersburg, t. Dolls, Skeels. / Japanese Art Goods; Holiday Goods; Finest Haviland China and novelties, Wilson Jewelry Co. J M Whetstone, b. Jas Laird, Sr, Sitkum, t. R O Hoberg, Norway, t. / Late rains, raise river. Wm Hite, Bandon, t, business interests. / Judge Harlocker son, cold. / Hi Wright, t. / Al Devaul Norway, t. / C Bunnell, house, b. C. M. Wickham, a foreman at the Beaver Hill mines, was in town between trains Wednesday. + [cp] C W Martin, open shoe store and repairing. / Coast Mail will get out 32 p holiday edition. / Geo Leach, grip, b. V N Barker, North Fork, t, logs, freshet. / Mrs. Tuttle winner beautiful clock at P E Drane’s. Dr. J W Strange, Myrtle Point, t, b. / Odd Fellows smoker honor Captain Vale Perry’s birthday, b. = Coq B 591-2 November 27, 1903 J N Summerlin, t b, school. / Mrs. Peter Wise, Myrtle Point, died. b. Schnr Ocean Spray ashore on North Spit Siuslaw, total loss. Oscar Nosler, Earl Elliott, Chas Mansell, Thos Lane, looking for work in new Proper sawmill. / V N Perry, L H Hazard, Stephen Gallier, others, b. N W Leadbetter, Corvallis, International Correspondence School, Scranton, Pa, came in via Coos Bay on Navarro, soliciting scholarships along the river last week. Bon Ami, Strangs. / Geo Hite, b. / Dyer & Fredericks, Bandon, burglars. / Mark Morras, Riverton, b. Road across Cunningham bottom being planked, b. / Football game advertised for Thanksgiving put off week or 2. Marshall Goodman, men work water system to new system. b. [more]. / Albert Johnson, lodge; also A W Varney. Death of W H Walker, old and highly respected citizen Myrtle Point. The rains loosened the ground around an electric light pole that was standing near the railroad track between this place and Myrtle Point so that the pole leaned over the track and Tuesday as the Overland Limited was passing, the pole struck the stove pipe of the first passenger coach ahead of the Pullman sleepers and knocked the pipe off. The pipe inside the car was also knocked off the stove, falling over and striking one of the passengers, ( a Mrs. Fowler) in the face, inflicting slight injuries. + [M note, why pullman sleepers on strictly local CBR?] [cp] Accident with horse, Chas. Self; brother in law, Will Darby. / Try the new hair tonic. Vegederma, at McDonalds.+ / New line of dress goods and velvets, Mrs. Nosler’s. / Elegant broadcloth, Pierce’s. / P E Drane will have a lot of fine turkeys for Thanksgiving. + / Oil coats and pants, Skeels. / Aluminum novelties for the holidays, Wilson’s Jewelry. / New line shirt-waist sets in many pretty designs; latest in combs and hair retainers. Mrs. Nosler’s. [M. even though transfer complete to North Bend, ad still says wanted girls for Bandon Woolen Mills; don’t know whether this was an old ad.] = home 1902 | previous 1903 | next 1903 | 1904 | to newspaper menu |