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,
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Cotancil Discussed That and
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M any O ther Subjects
Monday N ig h t
President— Misa M. W atkins, o f
M yrtle Point.
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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.
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Sentenced and Paroled.
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Nowmann, e f Powers, was
Interesting
Talk by Sm ith.
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On* o f the m eet interesting stories
iboot benefits e f cow testing aseocta-