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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1917)
Wi: as PAGE FOUR The Sentinel I» A BY H. W. YOUNG. on* ys J. tt ::^?...:.......$ ij * Six Months........................... Three Months W i aabesripu ^__ . for to advance. This rule to tive. Army, SOU LED that to buy wrings my heart, but 1 lava It to my hone and my -76 that for L believe H to be tha duty e f a American eitisen to land his m to the Government in Udir crisis." Display, U K MVKZ, NOVTI EK1 W I SHEET beyond the limits of the eofinty. Just how little that would mean to moot of the publishers of weakly newspaper* really la hardly worth tha tailing. - Than there is tha increase o f a east on "Tetter postage—a return to the thro# cent rat# wa w on hiving forty or fifty years ago. And still to the man who only amila a hundred letters The Yamhill county court offered a. bounty of 10 cents each for mole and a mouth, or my an average of four gopher scalps on Juno 1, and in the « day, that only moans $12 « year. Even with the Income tax minimum first thirty days' the county dark cut down to hit tha $1*00 Income of there paid out $200 for 2000 scalps. It is estimated that this will mean « a singlo man er the 12000 of a mar earing of flQ,000do YamhtU farmer*. ried msft, it mama to\ia as if it would b* worth a good deal more than K Tha Sentinel is to receipt of a. lat would cost to have an ineoma in en ter of thanks from GqKomer Withy- cees of the latter amount. For in combe and Adjutant General George that case 2 per sent ea the extra $60(1 A. White for Be assistance to of a $2500 tocóme would moan only - the War Censas Which they say $ 10 , StiO those of us who foal that none could hardy b *;,, bm , accomplished co-operation of the press. of these taxes will amount to as much as ws would be glad to pay for the privilege of helping win the war ara There appeared to be no observation of tort Sunday as -Food not debarred flam doing our bit for Saving Day” in this sectioa. Still the Red Croaa, the Y .M . C. A , hnd there is no question that a great other war charities; and nona of us many of us can help the nation in ara rafusing to help in the way of this crista S good deal more effec such free advertising as the govern tively by preventing waste of food ment has been requesting very fre quently of late.. I f we all Imva a than to any other way. mind to work, aa the Jews did in No. Marshfield boasts that she has col hemiah’s time, there will to no trouble lected more fines from bootlegger* so in finding we y» in which we can help. far this year than all the rest of tha THE TAX IN ITS DETAILS. county. 8he might also brag more bootleggers have got by there The way the senate finance commit without gutting their deserts than to tee has fixed up tha war tax bill, all the rest of teh county. Also that it la expected to bring $LfiTO,OMJMO boose has bean paddled there. of new revenue a year, about three- fourth* of which, or $1,277,000,000, The federal law prohibiting tha will come from the following sources: shipment of liquor into any state or From Income taxis (incomes as low portion of a state in which its eels m $1000 far stogie parsons and $2000 is forbidden, went into effect last for msrrisd era hit), $712,700,000. , Saturday at midnight. This law From axeoM profits, $622,000,000. makes 29 states entirely bque-dry— From distilled and rectified spirits, almost half of thorn. Tha provision* $ 111 , 000 , 000 . of this tow will be enforced by United From fermented liquor* and winaa, Stetes officials and getting boos* $44,500,000. across tha California line or into Ore From soft drink* $10,000,000. gon by boats to going to be a good From tobeMaa products, excepting deal more difficult hereafter. tha poor man’s stogie, $60,000,000. work* of the way in to hit $1-26 w l. aad etili Si-gallon bar- to says rar* spirit tax of $1.10 gallon an tha in fortifying Syrups drinks and sodas will • I far these selling fee no mss« than $1 a gallon te 12 canta a gallon for those Ding above $4 a gallon. Probably the urna to Ora A tax of 1 cent a gallon on all un ron ia a wealthy farmer who served juice, ginger ale, pop notice upon Bad Cresa committee kindred thirst-quenchers to im- workers that each time ha was asked for à donation ha would cot off $6 from tha amount ha originally intend ed to giro. He finally gare 98 tnm his princely income from mortgages, stocks sad land holdings. This avaricious ieâridua! had a done rival in Portland, in the person of a wealthy property owner who has a finad income from leasee aggregat WORSE TH AN A GERMAN 8PT. ing many thousands a year and who A patriotic and wall-informed Co- indulgas himself in ovary luxury. The quille lady who was sat of tha Bend on excursionists on tha Fourth tails us of hearing h young draman of that city brSsenly advocating tha Garsean aide In the praaant war and taking tha position that tha United States is 'all wrong and tha Kaiser and his pirates era all right. And tha most incredible thing about this display of treason la that the woman who waa guilty of it holds a position in the public schools of that city. While we have heard o f German apologists and their tablea, and probably a faw mour am ¡»series in other poeitkms of trust ners will go to their funerala, but they live lonesome Uvea, sharing not to tha our own county any of thorn wore em euperb joy of giving which during ployed where they eould instill into Bod Croat weak waa the superlative tha unfolding minds of our boys and happiness of the real people of Ore girls feeling* of reaped and admira gon. tion for our enemies and of hatred and contempt for their own country R s Vegetóle Shorteni - A Pote Vegetable Compound ARMOUR’S Stockíngnette H First National Bank Building Of All the Books kaowa to man, the sarings Koofc book is the one that will the perfidy, tha depravity and the savagery uf tha German propaganda loa d o f all in what should bo oar naraarias of patriotism where devo tion to our flag and all it stands for ought to bo ineplcated first of all. FACTS FOR THE KAI8BB. “ Dorn Germany know how the thir teen colonies fought England to a standstill, despite their lack of credit and despite the fact that they had to deport 100,000 Torim t Does Germany knew how the Al amo was paid for at San Jacinto? Does Germany know how Dewey sailed into Manila Bay? “ Does Germany know with what ease Cervera’s fleet was wiped out at Santiago? “ Does Germany know that wa can count dollars just as long m she can count marks? “ Does Germany knew that wa can cast cannons faster than she can, and shoot thorn straigbterf “ Does Germany know that right now our Navy matches here ship for ship and gun for gun. While practise and tradition make it superior in-ev ery other quality? "Dorn Germany know that we have bean hardened to horror by rn~Tir tomadoes, California earthquake*, and Galveston storms ? “ This Liberty Loan is but a marker. We have only bogws to fight.”—Hoos- tin Chronicla. Thoae who doctor* that CoquOla entirety on tha well-to-do but every will never be any bigger nor better «torn wtfi be fffectod by other provi sions of the bill—from the man who will*hav* to pay a 1 par cant tax for owning an automobile to thooo who will have to pay 6 cents'on every tele phone or totograph message costing eoma ta deys of troubla. The government to no longer sink ing requisitions on our spart—such as wa hare always been glad to honor— for matter about the war cansos, the Liberty Loan bond issue or tha Red Cross driva; but from doaene of sourc es we are getting matter enough on food prsparednese to keep our col umns full for months. No doubt there to much that would be readable and interesting in it, too, but the nows has the first call now until Uncle Sam asks for something more. killing sheep, when we won’t allow the negroes to havo arms and then ga oat and slaughter them. It ought to Get ona of account with thls bank. It dosant take much to start aa aceount and it w ill grow amaylngiy if yve qive it at tention. FARM ERS I M IS MIR Conmcafiml and Saving Deposita One day recently the sealion craw brought in a pup lion from the rocks. Some of the boys gave the little fel low milk, and for about a weak be was a dally visitor on front street It re fused to stay on the beach but would com* into town and would follow the boys around that fad it Hka a faithful dog.—Port Orford Tribune. RECORD OF THE PAST. enfortiag words to the following atemont: W. A. Trafren, 7*1 Highland Are., rants Fees, Ora., s a y : Ml suffer- a . — V — ■< COQUILLE OREGON W isconsin Silo THE DAIRYMAN’S FRIEND ' for aale hflfr E. E. JOHNSON Aleo a complete line of Lumber, Dry Finish Rustic, Mouldings, Boxes and Crates ■d --------------------------------- .L . .... OLD PF/TON GRAVELY MA0C THE FIRST PLUG O r TOBACCO THAT EVER rr prom billy poster HO BILLBOARDS ARE ' SPREADING THE GOOD NEWS i take put a prohibitiva tax its and prevent their in theaa books by opening an . we read In « New York Tribune dis patch, - measured by the étendard of total subscribers, the Liberty Lean ■tende in e class by iteetf as a as- tion’s first war-offering.” The New York World comments: “ This great number, parties torly of small sub scribers for from $60 to $1,000, to highly important in Its wpr-aspeeto. Its meeage to Berlin to that the Am erican people are practically to a man behind this war to destroy the menace of a Prussian military domination. Its meaning at home to that millions of ci tisane hardly known to tha In Sugar H cent per pound; saccha vestment market* heretofore are be rine, $2.60 per pound; glucose, % cent coming enlisted for the war oa Re fin per pound; grape sugar, molasses and ancial side.” cane syrup, from % to 2 cents a gal- handiest