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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1917)
m ilitary duty has bean com pleted next in order w ill be the callin g up fa* physical exam ination by their local exem ption boards o f those who m ost respond on the first d r a ft “ Hera le t it be emphasised that no man from the city o f Portland or from Multnomah, Benton, Coos Crook, Douglas, Hood R iver, Jackson, Jose phine, Lane, Linn, M arion, Polk, T ill amook and Yam hill counties w ill be called on the first d r a ft . “ They are exem pt because the coun ties have already furnished, by v o l untary enlistm ents in the regular A rm y and N ational Guard e ll the men required to fill th eir quotas on the first d r a ft “ In succeeding d rafts men from the city o f Portland and the fourteen counties named w ill be called in the exact order in w hich th eir serial num bers w ere drawn. There w ill be no more drawings.“ a ge bought the garage, are the prin cipal defendants. The leasees o f the plant, Prank Sebow, Geo. N . B attey and Burt D oyle are alee made 'defen dants in the e a s t jk couple o f years ago Gardner A I.srssn bought the garage from Khne A Von P egert fo r 96-600 o f which IM 0 0 consisted q f rea l estate and 98,200 eras fa r the m achinery, stock.an hand and good w ill. O f this 92,000 was paid in cash, »1,500 in m ortgage on Gardner’s res idence property in Marshfield, 92,000 on securitise put up as collateral. The rem aining 9 M M was cover ed by assessed fo r real estate, fo r th eir 1917 taxes. This year’s taxes are not col lectable until next spring— one h alf before A p ril and the other h a lf be fore October— but i t is often the case that movables are taken out o f the county a fte r assessment w ithin the year before collection, so that the law requires the assessor to got busy quick in th eir case. The law was changed by the last legislatu re, how ever, so that instead o f 80 days a fter notice is sent out, only tea days is given, a fte r which the account is turned over to the 8 h erlff fo r collec- A fe w weeks ago Larsen sold his interest in the garage to Gardner tak in g a second m ortgage fo r 92990 in exchange fo r hie Interest. In chambers on Tuesday Judge Coke St M arshfield granted the appli cation fo r the appointm ent e f a re ceiver fo r the garage and G eorge T . Moulton was named fo r th at position. H e declined to eccept it, however, and M . H . H orsey was subsequently TO BE MADE IN STOCKADE The follow in g from the Portland Journal is o f interest as showing how im portant a part Coos county pro ducts are goin g to play in the groat w ar: “ It seems to be up to Oregon, the volunteer* state, to jd n the war. “ M ore definitely it m ay be that Coos county, Oregon, w ill w in the Eugcmc Fast Paying Oat. Nobody la to be perm itted to enter or leave this stockade during the year. The work wQl be the construction o f sense devise to be need by the gov ernment during the w ar— ’w hose in vention is not stated but that it is tubereulin test, however, th e quarters in which they have been kept must be disinfected before any indem nity can be obtained. The state and county to gether pay the owner o f an infected anim al that is over tw o years old 926 w h en 'it is killed i f it U a grade, and FAREWELL FOB Í Í SOLDIER BOYS 2T C um County to Win the War. “ Because the experts te ll us that the w ar w ill be won in the air, and that to win the United States must •quip the allies w ith a preponderating fleet o f w ar airplanes. “ The finest grade o f spruce is needed to make airplanes and the supply is lim ited, in Am erica the supply being la rgely confined to Ore gon and W ashington, and Coop coun ty has a considerable part o f Ore- County A gen t Sm ith has been g o in g over the county w ith Dr. C. M. Gardner, assistant state veterinarian, during the past tw o weeks, and they have in that tim e tested 27 herds o f cattle fo r tuberculosis, ten in the Co- quille section, eigh t on the low er Co- quills and nine in the Coos B ay sec tion. O nly one anim al out o f 1S4 in the la tter section was found to be in fected. On this side o f the county, however, the returns w ere not so sat isfyin g. O f the 641 cattle examined, 61, or nearly ten per cent, w ere found to bo affected, and in one bard on the low er river there w ore 21 out o f 29. In another there wore 29 and in a third ten. O f the affected anim als about fo rty w ere in the ea ri^ stages o f the die- ease which had only attacked some glands,and the meat could be need fo r canning, it is thought, w ithout dan ger. The disease jn ay m anifest it s e lf fir s t in the glands, the Joints or the lungs. A cough is no criterion, as sound anim als w ill b ften cough w hile some th at are seriously affected The city o f Eugene has paid a ll but 918,790 o f 9160,000, the purchase price o f the Oregon Pow er Company’s distributing system under a contract entered into February 1, 1916, which gave the city a municipal ligh tin g monopoly. A paym ent o f 931-250 was made recently. The contract pro vided that the city should pay a t the rate e f e t least 91260 a month, which would have carried the payments ever a period o f six to seven years. The purchase price has alm ost en tirely been paid within a period o f I f Britt Scat To hftnury- start fo r Portland to Join the colors, was a d eligh tfu l social, event, though tinged w ith the sadnspo o f partin g fo r a future o f unknown duration. The guests o f honor wore J. P . M i chels, Carl Larson, Claude K insey and H arry Ocrding. The ladies in attendance wore Mes- dames V . L. Ham ilton, H arry Shark ey, and Bonnie W alker; Misses Cecils Hoffm an, A llis Phillips, M ary Pike, Esther Asplund, M adge Yoakam and Bonnie Smith. The other gentlem en wore Arthur K irct, Paul R yaaing, A rch ie W alker, V. L . Ham ilton, R. B. Murdock, H arry Sharkey and W a lter D—dh n - When the dance was over about 1:90 the company was invited to a banquet tendered them by Dr. and Mrs. Ham ilton at their residence. A fte r fu ll justice had been done to this delicious repast the rest o f the waning night was spent in a sort o f farew ell visit, during which many ko dak pictures were taken, and a t 6 o’clock they n il w ent down to the train together fo r a final farew ell. It was a night lon g to be reasem- bered by tboee who participated in the festivities and which the boys who volunteered at their country’s call w ill recall in the train in g campo, on the ro llin g ocean and in the fields o f Prance. Heaven bless and guard many dairym an who w ere not w illin g to have their herds tested now because this is the height o f the producing season and b u tterfat commands an ab norm ally high price at this tim e. O f course this is a very short sighted view to ' take when the disease spread« so rapidly once it Is introduced in a herd. I t is lik e lettin g a little fire It is said that the w in ter la the worst season fo r the spread o f this h eave, because then the cows being dry are not kept la ee good condition, and w ith low ered v ita lity and storm y weather they are much m ore suscep tible to it. B ritt Henderson, o f North Bend, hose name has frequ ently appeared the newspapers during the past tw o Gravai Ford Wodnosday te put in a claim fo r a borse killed w hile w orking on thè highw ay near thè Cooper bridge, a eouple o f weeks ago. He had hitched his team to a amali cui- v e rt to m ove it sligh tly when ona o f Nobody having bean drafted in Coos alm ost instantly. Th e claim against county the shipment o f about ninety the county is fo r 9200, though it is rather a nice question whether -the county is liable.'