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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1917)
The Sentinel MVKE, mm 09 If B A rticles tot o f the by the building (ra d *, and the work to approved bp o f the Com B ay line o f the the State Highway Commission they company also to “ shall im mediately pave” the section pared. The publicity to ■o prepared. W ork has so ta r pro gressed on the Parham contract north o f Overland that It to practically as SHEET sured It w ill ha completed this year. The rem aining six and a h a lf miles between Overland and Cedar Point to expected to bo advertised and let in A pril. The plans fo r tbs section from Coquills to M yrtle Point are so fa r perfected and that road itself to ae near line and grade already that both these projects ought to ho nearing com pletion a year from now. Very few other projects in the State bid fa ir to bo com pleted aa soon as then«, so that if tbs bonds carry wo look to soo tbs road from Marshfield to Myk- tie Point among the first to bo hard surfaced from the proceeds o f the six m illion bond issue. The amount o f money the State will have to expend fo r that purpose at $10,000 per m ile w ill be $290,000. Monday. They ought to know what When it to considered that this coun the loyal cittoens o f the United States ty contains only tw o per cent o f the who have boon standing back o f Pres wealth o f the State and if the six ident W ilson over sines ho has bean m illions were divided according to as insisting on Am erican rights on the sessed value we should got only $190,- high seas, think o f them by this time. 000 o f the proceeds o f that bond Issue, Their bad break m ay in tim e be fo r it certainly looks as i f we g ot into the given, i f they break forth fru its meet road im provem ent game Just at the fo r repeats ace, but it w U never be righ t tim e and if It rains porridge our bow ls w ill bo right side up to catch forgotten. i t Furtherm ore it behooves the vot The talk o f raising an arm y o f a ers o f C oer county, if they are awake m illion man te protect our country to their own interests, to line up sol suggests the query bow many would idly fo r the bonds. bo expected from Coquills to make her p(x> rata in case the president SH ALL W B MOVE FORW ARD? made a call. It*s very easily figured. Oregon to going to decide this sum- W ith a hundred m illion population mer whether te g o ahead or stick In in the United States, a m illion men the m od. A comprehensive road pro- would bo hundred pee- gram has been mapped ou t; and It people; and Coquille would stand f« r has been fixed so that the Joy riders not m on than 20. In this connection who use the roads m ost will pay tbs tA to worth noting that during the big end o f the bills. The six m illion dollars wont furnish all the highways gone into active m ilitary service— in contem plation, o f course not. But Stanley B artlett, Paul Gary, Earl it w ill give us a start that w ill make N osier and J. C. M lllor, o f the 0 . N. travelling at all seasons possible and G., Claire M lntonye in a Canadian pleasanter over hundreds o f m iles o f regim ent. Rev. T . H. Downs’ tw o sons Oregon highways sad give ns a chanoo to say how much m ore o f the same kind we w a n t - ' i .. AU this talk about this being m W arren Construction com pany pav- ing scheme to hold us fo r high prices on Mtultthie patented staff that w ill expire a couple o f years benee to the To bring down the U gh cost o f liv vevtoat moonshine. W e have a com - ing, to produco more o f the necessi p isa ion who w ill not stand fo r any ties o f Ufe, we must encourage fam * * * * £ • “ “ *• * * f Jun™ **on' ilies to make homes on the land. ably high, they are pledged to reject To accom plish this result and de them all, erect their own plants and velop the State indutsrially, specula , ®pe* ^ tive prices o f land must bo eliminated. W hat good roods contribute to the T o got colonies o f fivo or ten or unbuilding o f a country, the eeonomi- twenty fam ilies to locata on land cal marketing o f products and thr near towns, the land must be pro enjoym ent o f travel, those o f us who ductive and the price must not bo have recently visited C alifornia a n prohibitive and torma assy. well aware. And while the Winter Real «stato speculations fat toad at rains o f Oregon w ill perhaps prevent tero-hundmd to five-hundred dollars as many tourists being attracted here aa aero with big commissions and at that season as to our neighbor on the south, It to oar opinion that oar eventually draw more summer visit- o n than California can boast— when wo havo roads that trill com pare w ith hers. '■ A ll these argum ents w ill apply to the State at large. la Coos em a ty there to the additional on* that we can probably got $900,000 worth o f pav in g done by the State right away without increasing our taxes at all. Commercial clubs should try to find Come in. the water to fine. openings fo r colonisation o f lands in tracts o f from 50 to 1,000 acres and BELGIAN RELIEF 8UPPLIES. lot them bo filled with fam ilies o f la- Many people have expressed the In place o f each egg omitted. reporter evidently mto- M r. Hutton, as a U nited IS BAKING POWDER N ot Bogi es to Fear. ^ „ „ a r s ’ wages. And yet that tokens 0f the excuses he gives his constKu- tents fo r helping make a split when «11 the members should have lined up shoulder to shoulder behind the presi- dent That would not only have boon the noble and patriotic thing to do, t o t would have done m ore to prevent war than anything also possible. n i . ■— .......... NEED M ILITAR Y COART ROAD, County CemmtoMtoner A rm strong u ik in c « b ^ t proposed Pacific C o««t H ighway says that wagon „eds wouM j* much mor, „lia b le *k— reilroads i n ____ o f w ar Brlfim- m « u * ndlnm ds are easily U m up w ^ out * eoauaiM ion b y ae- ddenU but im proved autom obile „ a d s can hardly be damaged so as to — y ft im posibl« tu use them, A nd in no other way could a largo fo w , bo concentrated at any print on this coast to restot invasion so quicU y as by the use o f autos and mator trucks. I f Unqto Sam had ih e- lined what was com ing three y e a n ar> ^ m ight have had a pretty fair* „ a d along the Pacific coast by this . ........ .................... Free Beard fo r Soldier fltadm ls. students who enroll fo r fou r y e a n cf m ilitary training in the c o o n s to b« established in the U niversity o f Oregon next year w ill g ot their board from the government. If a nUn States which have already adapted them selves to prohibition can sm ile at the argum ents advanced by its opponsnts fat N sw Y ork, fo r they have already boon exploded. The lost revenue to already made op by other form s o f taxation without hardship or com plaint, especially as the effect o f prohibition to already becom ing apparent in a dim inution o f crim e and insanity and consequently o f pub lic burdens. Breweries are applied to other uses than m aking boor and oth er retail business has occupied va cant saloons. Form er em ployees o f breweries and saloons have found oth er occupations, fo r there are prac tically no unemployed in Oregon who wish to w ork. States and cities have learned that they can g e t along with out liquor revenue, capital has learn ed that it caa find profitable use fo r property which waa form erly applied have quickly d osed the gaps which H le f t — Portland Oregonian. M illion Dollars’ W orth o f Beans. F our solid trainloads o f boons from the O rien t valued at over a millon dollars and constituting the largest single movement o f this commodity over com ing to the United States have arrived in San Francisco to be trans-shipped by the W estern Import com pany to Eastern markets. The Southern Pacific has already, started one train o f tw enty-nine cars over its Ogden route to Now Y ork. Three others w ill bo required fo r the total shipm ent which amounts to 66,000 bags. - They were brought over from Japan on the steam ship Kotsu Maru. The benas are o f all varieties end their apeafance to one o f the new de velopm ents that the European W ar baa brought about in this country. T h e material for your W isconsin darn in field tactics and map making is to be organised by Dr. W arren D. Smith, professor o f geology, who has had m ilitary instruction. fear that if they contribute to the Belgian Childrens’ Fund the supplies bought with their money w ill be sent to the bottom o f the sea by German UNCEASING M ISERY. submarines. Mr. Herbert C. Hoover, who has bean so lon g chairman o f the R elief commissibn, says d m out o f Some Coqallle Kidney S affsrs G et Little Rest ev C ea fort. 600 ships that have sailed from this There to little sleep, little n o t, little country loaded with supplies fo r the peace fo r many a sufferer from kid Belgians, only IS have been lost and ney trouble. L ife to one continual round o f pain. You ca n t rest at night when them’s kidney backache. Yon suffer tw inges and ‘‘stabs’’ o f palm. It to seldom we see anything wo can b id on o to the M g bunch o f staff Cotono! H ofer sends ns from hto “ In dustrial Nowa Bureau“ at Salem. So we are glad to gir# place to the above frem that s o m e end heartily indorse every word e f I t W e have their very fives open the arrival o f them cargoes before m id-A pril.. He also assures us that “ every one o f them ships that leaves a North A t lantic or G ulf port carries with her a safe conduct from the Swim Mlnto^er, acting upon authority from the Ger Thousands havo tesüfisi m erit Coquille readers w vincing p roof or m erit in tl testimony: D. C. Hubbard, retired Sixth S t, C ottage Grove, “ I have need Doan’s Kidney Pills off and on fo r the past ton years. W hen flag, and their routes are accepted by ever I noticed that m y kidneys w e n the German Government aa sa fe from not acting properly , I have need noon's Kidney Pills and they soon German attack.“ i