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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1917)
erieneed boy* ta »17.60 pc 1 fo r axpefctoacad U p $TT, ip |o M k ifk H thè term o U p m deserve, ip lo yo n atao w ffl b oro t proper care o f the boys bo m ay ploy» stipu latin g the amount ho pay fo r w ages, and must b ars n mendations to en title him to the t lit o f this d rafted help. o f A gricu ltu re since w ar w ith G er m any was declared, and the agricu l tu ral colleges and extension aorvtao — m ust awake to tho v ita l necessity o f every state in the union aro pro o f strain in g th eir capacity fo r pro paring to carry oa t Urn plans effec- duction to tho lim it. It is a m agnifi cent plan o f preparation, w ith the whole United States agricu ltu ral pop In this state a conference between ulation in volved, and it m eet be mot W . J. K err, president o f O. A . (L , and w ith cheerfu l co-operation and accord. head o f tho O regon unit, held a con- iwg ¿¿JJ'ii-i-' . i . Yesterday Pleading Eamestly With the County Court for Improvements. POWERS PROTESTS AWINSI A H OTHER BRINES. ' ■' ’ • i W ■ --------.................................. ~ ' Arago People Hare to Poll Down Fences and Drive Through the Fields.—Dairymen Losing $4.50 a Month on Each Cow on Account of Bad Roads. rera w ere I fores and to demand rt an te a l and th eir to M y rtte THE TICKET AT CAUCUS com pliance w ith tho plans they have outlined, i f a ll producers do not v o l u ntarily , com ply, m ore strenuous measures w ill ha taken. T o help arran ge these m eetin g! County A gen t Sm ith is appointing a County Council o f Defense, fb i mem bers to have charge o f tho m ootings M ay I t in th eir respective districts. I t is intended to hold s m eeting in every school house in tho county at which every man, w ho produces food or agricu ltu ral products o f any Mad, to expected to bo present. Census blanks w ill be on hand, to bo filled out by th e' fir m e r « show ing what th ey can produce this year, tho acro- y w voted y w^ 4 in- to i si sire and o f the i, antedi *• ds leadtaR» a at on e« outh Fork, il tho riv e r r W T . Do- ^ t nked r a S tho consumer against speculators. Tho Foderal Farm Survey Blanks to be filled out at tho m ootings on M ay 12 w ill cover every point e f a g ricu ltu ral a ctivity, and every prodoc- Tho labor problem ta one o f the b ig gest the departm ent has to consider. Aa previously stated the county agen t’s offices are to bo clearin g houses ta connection w ith tho lahoi problem . A t theca offices boye cap able A f work on the farm s, but too young to en list fo r figh tin g, «rill en lis t fo r agricu ltu ral duty and «rill bo considered as doin g th eir b it ta the w ar ju st aa effectively aa those ««ho g o to the fron t. I f voluntary enlistm ents are not sufficient ta number tho d ra ft w ill bo applied fo r this service. Th ey w ill be enrolled ta the U nited States B o y* W orking R eserve (O regon Branch), and w h ile some fan n ers m ay not ap preciate the o ffe r o f boya’ help a t firs t th ey w ill be m igh ty glad to get H later. The boys en rollin g «rill ho Iverson, Bov. J. F . Vernon, J. D. Bon- nett, Samuel M iller and G. W . Round, The Pow ers deM gates w ere not ao numerous hut th ey made up in earn- aatnase stea l they lacked in numbers, W hat th ey wanted waa bridges, one over the South Fork between N orth Pow ers and another acroos tho river below N orte Pow ers. N o doubt about their w anting thorn; they w ere even ready to protest against any other bridge being built in te e county until their wants had been supplied. They also reminded the court that & o y wore long on votes up there, and ta ■taunted te a t i f th eir requests w ere not heeded they would rem em ber it the next election. They called at- tention to the fa ct that the amount on which Pow ers waa payin g taxaa in was »1850 end in 1914 only ■ r iv e / t e ^ Th e attendance was not as U rg e as has boon present a t tea caucuses o f the post throe years hut the interest and enthusiasm o f past years was Just as evident a t this tim e. J. E . N orton was aside chairman o f o f the m ooting and H . A . Young sec reto ry. A fte r reading the official no t ie « callin g the caucus, the chair called fo r nom inations fo r council man and the names o f M. O. Hawkins, C. R. Barrow , A . N . Gould and J. W. ? w W k ta 1#1#’ th elr valuation waa »152,160 as compared w ith »0,000 / befdre the railroad came. travelled They presented a series o f resol u- tle Point. t i° n* signed by hundreds o f ritisone presented ther* - In this they stated that it w a ind H all’s im possible to 'g e t across the river be- r O w fri ana iNorvn row ers ny vehicle without trespassing on pri- 7 . veto propert y and ford in g the stream ■’ a -is . which could bo done only six months an in t A in tho year. In this w ay g re a t and ire on usual hardship was inflicted on the l variou s r ,* 1<ient property owners and m er- . . . . chants. And then they went on: “ W o Jesse Clinton told o f tw o stretch es on the M yrtle P oin t-A rego road which w ere separated b y a piece that waa bottom less Claud G iles, being asked how the county court could appropriate foods fo r the im provem ents said he didn’t know. ra te a t which U -boats are sending ships to the bottom requires th at the w hole agricu ltu ral life e f the nation must be speeded up to the highest point. The governm ent is planning to re g ulate the prices o f com m odities, no only fixin g a maximum but a m ini mum price so th at tho farm ers and producers w ill know that an over production w ill not result ta the bo; torn dropping out o f prices. Like- >..= , Utidcr Sherman u d Sheridan. B. H. Haskta was down town yes terday fo r tho second tim e since he came home from Yakim a a month ago, aad rested aw hile ta the Sentinel office, w hile he detailed some o f hie arm y experiences ta the c ivil w ar. A ad by the w ay he ta 79 years o f ago Instead o f 7 « as listed ta the Sentinel some weeks ago. When bo was 2 » y e a n old ho enlisted in the Thirteenth regulars o f which W . T . Sherman was then colonel and waa ta the company o f which P h il Sheridan was captain. Ho was a t the stage o f Vicksburg and w hile there waa run over by a loaded ammunition w agon, su fferin g serious injuries from which he n ever fu lly in- covered. Whan Sherman started on hie m arch to tho sea young Hsshfa was expecting to g o w ith him, but when tho general shook hands w ith him on bidding him goodbye he told him to look a fte r tho horses ta the barn he had charge o f, aad as ha stayed behind. R eplyin g to the M yrtle P oin t boos ters, Judge W atson says th at ta the southeast road d istrict o f tho county — No. 4— tho valuations had alw ays been so low that it waa hard to keep the reads up w ith the funds a t the disposal o f the co u rt There ta, how ever, »M 0 0 to bo spent this year ta g ra vellin g the road from M prtle P oin t to tho neighbor hood o f tho Cooper B ridge on tho read to G ravel Ford, which w ill fix a little over tw o m iles at the eigh t m iles asked for. A s to the A ra g o aad H a ll’s creek section the court w ill do a ll that ta posible w ith the fnuda at He com mand and hopes to fix the w o n t places, and the m atter waa laid over fo r fu tu re consideration. A m ong the six ty preoent from M yr tle Point and tho surrounding country Honed, «so note the fo llo w in g nam es: C. E. H olin g, W . M. W eekly, W illiam Stauff, J. D. C arl, L . S trong, O. H. Aasen, D avid M cN air, J. L. Crosby, R. A . Annin, H. A . Schroodor, L M. W eekly, J. D. Clinton, T . G. Summer lin, E. C. Roberta, E. C. Guerin, B. A. Dodge, J. H. Schroodor, B. M . Parrish, hereby protest against the apparent indifference and disregard o f your Honorable Body tow ard this urgent need o f our community, a id respect fu lly request im m ediate action.“ In the concluding resolution they em phatically protested against any expenditure o f county roads or bridge funds at any other place or proposed location and especially on the Coes C ity bridge until they w ere given some adequate re lie f. One point w orth noting boro is that John C. Kendall, tho M arshfield at torney o f tho Sm ite-Pow ers people, who are figh tin g against the Coos C ity bridge costing only »4,000, in order to g e t a h a lf m illion dollar bridge a t th eir m ill a t M arshfield, was the spokesman fo r tho Pow ers’ Commercial Club in this m atter. H ere are the stenographer’s notes o f tho proc eedin gs a t this Juncture: Mr. K endall: W e, a t this tim e wish to enter, before this body, a protest against the expenditures fo r the con struction o f bridges in any other lo cation in the county, p articu larly tho Isthmus Slough project, and ere ask you to enter this protest o f these gen- NEW ROAD WORK HERE Superintendent o f Schools J. A . Churchill waa la attendance a t the Com m ercial Club W ednesday evening fo r a short tim e and a fte r commend in g the efficient corps o f teechore here, said he «a n te d to te ll Coquille people what th ey already knew, that our school buildings are not what the y should be. la other respects our schools are up to the average but in the m atter o f modern structures w e are below par. H o expressed tho bops that ha aright have the pleasure o f dedicating a now high school build in g hors a t a not g rea tly distant date. A fte r M r. Churchill’« dspartvre, F . B. Ph illips, am ong other things, «a id he thought it was tim e the people o f Coquille went earnestly to w ork to have a now high school building, and that hie experience a t C ottage G rove proved th at to accomplish such a re sult it was necessary to choose fo r directors men who would make that the one im portant object o f th eir term on the board. In tho sense con nection F . E. McKenna suggested that W . H . Lyons as the man fo r tho Club F o r the Memoria l D ay exercise the W . R. C. has asked the Com m ercial club to select t t o speaker and Pres. M erton spointed F . B. P h illips, A . V. M orrison and H . A . You ng aa a com m ittee to secure one. Another th in g the R e lie f Corps is goin g to r i quest is that a y places o f business clone D ecoration-day out o f p atriotic mo tives, and the Club bm peeks fo r team a cordial com pliance when th e p eti tions are circulated fo r th at purpose. R . H . M ast, chairm an o f tho bridge com m ittee, stated that thev had m - cured an option from J. A . C ollier an te e term s mentioned in the Sentinel last week, fo r the land necesary fo r b rid ge hpproach and rig h t e f w ay. Th e only disagreem ent w ith last w eak's figures M la tee «meant ad im- prevIMsat faxsa tb be aashmed by the city , the tota l aatount fo r which the c ity would obligato ito a lf being »M 00. The com m ittee was continued the road a coating o f gra vel. A ll the as it is not the intention o f tho C U > little bridges between the Lon g bridge to lot up on tho bridge m atter until and the W atson barn w ill bo to rn 1 out •w o rth in g is settled and the bridge and the d ra in filled up. Tho same A . T . M orrison reported that there w ill bo done w ith the lon g trestle over the Cunningham bottom . Tho only w ere apout 600 people present nt the bridges to bo rebu ilt and rem ain w ill Good Ronds meetin g in Portland last be the one a t the W atson bars aad Saturday, practically an o f whom fa one where the rood crosses Cunning vored the bond issue. But there was ham creek, though there w ill be a few a lack o f organisation ovidont and it waa to rem edy this defect end make a O nly those very fa m ilia r w ith the stron g cam paign that the m oating road can realise how m any thousands was held. He said that H ighw ay o f yards o f earth w ill have to bo Cim m issioner Adam s made an w en m oved to fill a ll tho separate gulches better presentation o f tho bond sup beginning w ith the one ju st this side p o rt»’ side o f tho Issue than when the o f C. R. Barrow ’s residence and end U tte r was in Coos county a m onte in g w ith nearly a h a lf a m ile ta cross ago and put to rout a ll thorn who arc ing the w ide creek bottom . Than the figh tin g the issue w ith his irrefu tab le gra vellin g w ill take m ore thousands logic and common sense argum ents. T h e reports from varlons sections o f yards, ao that soon a fte r tho le t tin g at the contract on the 19th o f o f tho state indicate th at when tho M ay, only tw o weeks from tom orrow, whole p rop ortion is mad# clear and w e shall expect to see w ork goin g on »p la in e d the opponents o f the »6,- there fo r m ost o f the rest o f the ram - 000,000 issue loee th eir follo w in g md R to believed th at the vote on tho sh ifts, and permanent construction to measure w ill bo favorable, j. Tho d a b voted a contribution to tho last fo r a ll tim e on thto main a rtery o f travel, on which a plank road rune Coo# county good roads cam paign and out through F airview and M cK inley than adjourned. to D ora and B rew ster valley. Court Keeping Busy. The other contracts advertised to bo lot on tho same date by tho county The County court has gone up to court are the road from Em pire to M yrtle Paint this afternoon to in South Slough and tho one running spect the tra ct o f land needed fo r the from the north tid e Of Coos Bay, east side approach to tho bow bridge which is one o f the projects fo r which there, ly in g between the railroad aad tho b ig bond issue was voted a year the river fo r which E. N . Sm ith sake
