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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1917)
COQUILLE, Ufr Heatons Given fo r Its Southern Pacific W ipes Co- Judge Adoption B y the L eg- — quille V alley off o f th e' Rafin’frafi Map. men school system o f the state. Ia orffpr to be able to. Judge the m erits o f the peppoood system intelligently • b rief discussion o f its advantages in com parison with those o f tho pres en t district system , m ay b o in order. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE A new tim e table is to ’g o into effect Sunday, Jan. 81 on the S. P. line through here which w ill disconnect the service in this valley from the m at o f the line as com pletely ss i f the aale o f tho line from Overland to Vjjrrtlo Point which we forecast last week had already gone luto effect. The Ceos Bay Limited wfa’eh has been running over hem end to M yrtle Point and bringing in our outside am i, and goin g out early in tho m om - iag, is to Stop at Ifam hfisld, and wa w ill have only the service o f the two trains, on# passenger and the other m ixed, which ran over the Coos Bey, Hoaeburg A Eastern before we got connection with the m et o f the rail road world. It i* about as raw a deal fo r tho Coquille valley as could w ell be im agined. The train from tho outside w ill g et into M arshfield, as it has barn doing, about six o’clock in the evening —end A sm our m ail and express and have to w ait abodt fourteen hours untO they have an opportunity to get a teste fo r C equilH W on't that make a picnic fo r the Jitney* as soon as the highway is to shape to travel! In the m orning it w ill bo tho same thing again. Our mail will g o out at 8:87 te tho afternoon (d o sin g about 8 ) and passengem from hem will leave at the same tim e. G etting ov er to Marshfield a little before five them teilt be nothing to do but visit W atson Takes Probate and Juvenile L -— Cases There. Judgo James W atson wns over at the Bay W ednesday and Thursday at tending to Probate and Juvenile court m atters. S The first ease before him was that e f Brace L. P iggott, to be examined as to his sanity. Dr. Mingus assist ing the Judge. P iggott is a hobo and an I. W . W . but fo r a long time he talked rationally enough and there was apparently nothing w rong with M as until tho subject o f capital and labor was broached. Then the lid was off and ho went right up in the air. He was ordered comm itted to tho asylum at Salem. On Thursday a session o f tho ju - venils court was hold at North Bond and tho ease o f the h a lf doson child ren o f John Thom as, Who is nearly a fu ll blood Indian, w as taken up. Thomas from all the testim ony had dene his best te bring up hie fam ily well sines the death o f his w ife when the youngest was an infant and ho was •commended by tho court, but advised to send the oldest girls to the Chemawa Indian school. It was di rected that the children should be fu r ther looked a fter by M m. Lena Thom as, their sunt, who is a graduate o f that school and highly recommended by all who know her. Mr. Thomas owns a ranch worth $4,000 and is watching to aaa if any sym ptom s o f tuberculosis develop in his children; and if thorn do, ho proposes to soil The next c m # was that o f a little girl six yoerS old, whose perente, Geo. W . end Louise Granger am “ no good,” an adopted brother by the name o f Huddle, who mas In ja il hem ast summer fo r stealing green corn, being one o f tee fam ily. The court thought th e parents worn unfit to cam for the little g irl, but mads an order o f probation, placing the child under the superintendence o f F eteer Me- Davitt, o f the Catholic church, who will report to the court regularly aa to conditions te the fam ily. this te e district system not only falls to give but absolutely prevents. few illustrations m ay be given to show the weakness fcf tee district system . Ths B ridge School, No. Coos County, Oregon, levies from fif teen to tw enty m ills special tax each y e f hire* t e n s expert teachers about sixty pupils, and gives not only th s common school but thru* yearn o f A 71, t, Cotancil Discussed That and - M any O ther Subjects Monday N ig h t President— Misa M. W atkins, o f M yrtle Point. ■ ’ ¿ • ■ Vico president—John L . Gary, o f Coquille. Secretary— Fmd Barker, o f John son’s M ill. t The city’s water business, which has occasioned m ors discussion the past few months than any other mat This m orning, President Norton, o f ter, was introduced by C. M. U pton's our Com m ercial Club, sent out tele requesting action on the petition pre gram s to J. M. Scott, General Passen sented some weeks ago fo r an axtaa- ger A gent o f tho Sonthom Pacific at Portland, the State Public Service Commission at Salem and S. P. Di vision Superintendent L. K. Burkhalt- or et Portland, protesting against the new S. P . railroad schedule that makes our travelling and mail ser vice as dilatory as when w s had to depend upon wagons over the hills. P rotest N ew Schedule. CLUB W ELL ATTENDED ' Nearly ovary chair te the city hall On m otion by Sanford the water was occupied at the Commercial Club meeting W ednesday evening when A, rent fo r the cream ery was fixed at J, Sherwood explained the details o f $10 per month from tho date they tho Foderai Farm Loan A c t Ho started te business last September until the first o f February. A t that about thè m eeting, on* wanted to time the w ater superintendent is to know i f the Commercial Club charged be instructed to install a m eter on admission. His reply was that S pre their line. It wgs the sens* o f the mium was usually given to those in council that all out o f town water consumers should he inquired to pay farm ers living near Coquille present. fo r city water a t m eter rates, and al Mr. Sherwood went into the details so that all ou t o f town custom ers o f tea new act quite thoroughly and should pnrehass tho m eter which te* made d e a r the operations by which city installs Mr. Epperson was m - ths loans am secured by farm ers. It rtrueted to place a m eter on the Una i« a la rg ir subject than'w * have space running to th e W atson ranch north o f fo r tele wash, an article on the sass* subject covering sev eri! pages o f the Saturday Evening P oet la st year. The m atter is to be discussed at Commercial Club m eetings until a National Farm Loan A ssociation is organised te this section. It w ill ro- quir* applications fo r $20,000 o f loans to effect this organisation. Follow ing M r. Sherwood, County Superintendent Baker mad* a talk te favor the county unit plan o f con ducting tho -public schools. His re marks am elsewhere published under te a t head. ^ ‘ C. A . Howard moved the adoption o f tee follow in g m eolution which ia to b* sont to the Coos county mem c at tar would arrive a t Portland tho same day. O f courts the train crews would tov* to w ork earlier and later but they would be required to put te no this section during Farm - This W inter the B e st Councilman M ansell says the dray- ing business hem this winter has bean better than over before end that since he gut hie new auto truck into com m ission he has had ali the work it could do besides enough to keep his wagons and team s all busy. This cer tainly looks like an improvement in general business conditions here. And so fa r as ths Sentinél is concerned year has been much better than fo r months previous. Everything still indicates that 1917 ia goin g to be s year o f prosperity fo r the Coquille valley—the beet it has over seen. A s it ia now, that train w ill leave Marshfield at 1:80 p. m. and teV t al m ost exactly tw o hour* to traverse the 17 m iles to Coquille, reaching here at 8:27, M yrtle Point nine m iles fa r ther on at 4:27— exactly another hour end Power* at 6:80, fou r hours from Mhmhfleld. Coming back to the m orning this train w ill leave Power* at 6:80, reach in g M yrtle Point et 7:66, Coquill* at 2 and Marshfield at 10:80— again fea r hours fo r the 44 mile« The other train w ill leave M aph- field at 8 a. m. and reach Coquill* at 9 about ths as heretofore. It w ill be due s t M yrtl* Point s t 9.38 and s t Powers at 10:80. Returning it w ill lsav* Powern at 2.00 p. m , M yrtle Pont at 2:66 and Coquille at 8:27,-gatttag over to ths Bay a t 4:30. E ast and w est tratas w ill thus mset hem at 9 a. m. and agate at 8:27 p. m. Evidently thè S. P. wanta to dis- courage trovai fron» this section as much as posaibls. Reorganizing to take looking tow ards a m ore satia- M an illustration o f tho way tea sys tem would w ork in Cosa county. Ths total valuation fo r the county fo r last yearV was $21,109,670. Ths County eenrt levied a general f u f f tax o f $64,940. The six districts hav- •Ad program s very interesting, es pecially Um addr sasm by Dr. C. A . Phipps on SntewUy sa d Sunday. For the com ing year the follow ing Associations. County A gent J. L. Smith is now actively engaged in the reorganisa tion o f tee cow testin g associations o f Coos county fo r 1917. Contracts and circular letters are being n u lled ont to the dairyman, which w ill bp tup- ticipated. One o f thee* magazines is Todays, and it has boon consolidated with “ The H ousew ife,” another monthly, and w ill hence forth be The known m Today’s H ousew ife. price o f this m agazine alone to sto gie subscribers is expected te be 75 cents or $1 a year a fter A pril 1. Still you can get it and tea three other m agazines fo r only tw o bits a year te connection with the Sentinel. It is ju st liks picking up m oney ia the road to get $2 w orth o f literature fo r 26 “ Resolved, That it is the sense e f the Coquille Commercial Club te st s County U nit system o f school taxa tion should bo adopted by the state legislatura fo r jOregun.” H The club voted te fa v or o f the res- o lu te » and w ill urge the enactment o f e law along this line. whom tho line now crosses private property. One custom er over them has expressed the fear that they am paying fo r m om water than they use ow ing to s possible leak whom the pipe Una crosses the river, the meter fo r tho line being on Oils side. A request from Logan Kay was mad asking fo r a tw o years’ leas* on a tract o f water fron t property, 60x 100 feet, ju st east o f F orty street. A s this would extend from the river to tho railroad and tie up all access to tho m et o f tho city water fron t them, the request was laid on the ta- . Fefl Twenty F e e t M ayor Johnson said, regarding this property, that a Southern Pacific en gineer had approached him to know what the city’s attitude would be tow ard leasing or selling it to the railroad company, which they would us* by erecting a loading pen for stock. Mr. Johnson told him that ha thought the city would want at least interest an the investm ent. A s the Mark Shelley g ot a serious fa ll out at Lee about 8 o’clock yooterday a f ternoon. Ho was w orking on ths R. R . M ast barn team and had what ha says was ths haaviest bundle o f shin- glee he ever lifted. A fter gettin g up on the scaffold, about 20 feet from the ground, it gave way and m ost «if the load fe ll on him. Ha w m badly bruis ed all over, although no bones worn broken. The injury to his shoulder blade, D r. Richmond says, ia worn* than a break. He waa unconscious fo r 15 or 20 m inutes. - * Sentenced and Paroled. ‘ Fm d # > Nowmann, e f Powers, was Interesting Talk by Sm ith. •/ ;4 ' - .^ 5 / w On* o f the m eet interesting stories iboot benefits e f cow testing aseocta-