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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1921)
th a n la real danger th at if the Unit ed States and G n a t Britain sta rt out to rival each other la building battle fleets, tim two countries may drift into w ar for the third time. The Idea is ae Insane aa to seem almost un- the appeal « u President Hard inf. On the vary morning after hia election ha turned from the delate of telegrams I and the imperative clamor of tele phone calla and beaiefinf viaitora to I consider with Mrs. H ardint in the privacy of their own room thia heart- aearehin# appeal of suffering child hood, and then he diepatehed to aa hia wonderful telecram, challenging Americana everywhere to giro their moat generoua aupport, and tending hia own peraonal check to give life «nd comfort to two hundred and fifty | children. During the four montha aince then, a great flood of life-earing gifts ha a been pouring in from all parts of the Nation. Many and many a “widow’s mite,” g n a t in the spirit of love and real sacrifice which prompted it, has dropped from the heavy mail-bags to gether with the checks for thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars from persona of large meant. Some checks have been given even in the millions, as well as one for five mil lion dollars from that great American relief organisation of which we all J tfy iU U lir and raise hia nputstion, For neighbors eye a fanner's stock to fix hia social station. So if a scrub bull heads the herd apd they And out It’s hia'n They wonder why the fish-eyed bird has not been put in prison. On scrub bulls and their osmers, too, the State should place a bounty And men should organise a crew and chase them from the £ounty. Or they could be arras ted, tried, and turned out on probation > And if they blackalid—then provide for swift elimination. Discussing this thing flue and full tha Press has pullad a boner. Too much is writtin of the bull—-too little of the owner. If policy were hid aside and methods substituted To get clear through hia measly hide, we’d all be better suited. Then may be be would see th a light, hia hard sire thin and bony, ( Would go where people tre a t them right and turn out good bologna. { —Dow Valley. And now a new version greets the eyes of Americans. Three and a half THE PALL OP PRICES Wo don't know anything th at bettor million of p a in of little arms are illustrates how irregularly and dis- stretched out to us across the sea, not I jointed]/ prices have fallen since they in piteous pleading, but in the pas I wore a t their peak a year ago than a sionate gratitude of childhood. Three I table published by the Bache Review. apd a half million p a in of eyes are reaching our souls, not with the I MORB EXEMPTIONS E. E. Brodie, a f tha Oragoa City It gives the pries of almost verything haunting gaze of suffering and death, The Oregonian tells the tale of Mi« Enterprise, has roachsd tbs highest I that en to n into the cost of living on but brimming over with joy and love lucky man stalled on his income tax piaos la tlw National Editarla] asso February I for tha present year and and thanksgiving. Three and half report b a t week. He was expecting ciation, having ju s t been elected presi for the past six yean. million childish voices are coming to A basic is found by taking the aver- a new arrival in the family and in tha dent a t the Florida meeting this I ago of ovary article mentioned, for us on the winds from the East, and midst of his work the telephone rang, tha flue y u an prior to 1916 and call they are not piercing our ears with it was tha doctor. “Boy or g irl? ” ing that 100. By so much then as tha bitter cries of pain and want, but are asked the near-frantic one. price of any staple exceeds 100 it la sweet with alughter and th e . happy “Triplets, my dear sir,1* earn* back above the average and by as much shouts of little ones whose suffering the voice from the other end of tha I aa it falls below 100 it is below that has been soothed sway and whose sor wire. row has been turned into jay. And av en g s. “Hurrah 1 three little exemptions." Haro is how prices stood the fln t of I yet more. In three and a half million young hearts has been planted a love last month as thus compared: f Tha story b told of a boy in school, I Cotton, 106; wheat, 146; corn, 106; of the American Flag and an under * who when the teacher asked, “What oats, 100; rye, 187; barley, 89; hogs, standing of what it m eans'that shall b the shape of the earth,” eagerly live through the years and grow into 181; cattle, 168; lambs, 136; pork, raised his hand. On being signaled by 116; laid, 136; sugar, 147; coffee, 63; n strong bond of fellowship and peace. the teacher to put on steam, ho an The vast sum of money has been silver, 103; copper, 89; tin, 8 l; iron, swered, “I heard my daddy say the 214; steal, 183; spelter, 86; lead, 113; given with unfeiagned Joy and eager other day th at It b in a h—1 of a ness. Thousands hgve written to us petroleum, 198; cottonseed-oil, 121; shape now.” rubber, 18; hides, 62; tea, 101; riee, with real gratitude for the opportuni ty and privilege of buying for them 114; wool, 137; sflk, 171; coal, bitum inous, 336; brick, 364; cement, 317; selves th at precious and priceless thing, the life of a little child. And I lumber, 232. I t will Db noted th at building ma many letters and telegrams from or terials are higher than anything olse ganisations and State and city com in this table, and Indeed, cement and mittees hare testified th at the effort lumbar a n listed higher than a year expended in carrying out this cam* I ago. Coal, too, la a t the peak, mak paign has been a blessing to Ameri ing manufacturing costs extremely I cans themselves, aa they have yield high la aumy lines. Iron and steel, ed to the warm glow of loving service though lower than last year, are still and tender solicitude for God’s own abnormally high. Only seven o il little children. At this time, there the thirty-two > articles listed fore, we may lift united voices—those are below the pre-war average and the who have received and those who have greatest drop Is la rubber, which has given—in singing with reverent glad not been above tha average in the past ness, "Praise God From Whom All Sevan years and now stands a t 18, loss Blessings Flow!” than one-fifth of the pre-war price. THREE TIMES AS MUCH MONET A Portland banker in reviewing the “GLAD TIDINGS OP GEEAT JOT” Under the head of “Glad Tidings of Oregon financial situation says: “On the basis of 700,000 popubtion G n a t Joy,” the Literary Digest thus h o u s a n d s oí dairy in 1911 the savings of the people of men every» heio a n urn fittingly chronicles the completion of log E m pire M ilking Ma the g n a t undertaking of raising in Oregon ss shown by their bank de chines to cut dairy ooets. posits were $34,80 per inhabitant. In this county tha thirty-three million« Many write us they would have to go out of too dairy of dollan neefled to save from starva 1920 they were $107.66 per inhabitant. business U It won not lor' tion three and a half millions of child It will thus be seen th at the per capi their ren in eastern Europe during the past ta savings in Oregon arevnow three times what they were q ^ je w years winter: ago. When our people save money ¿ike this there b no reason f o r anyone to be pessimistic.’’ L K IN G MACHINE'S BOOZE NOT WHAT IT WAS And It’s true, too. You have Marshfield News no Idea what s saving in time Saturday night a young man of and increase in milk produc th b city imbibed a quantity of moon tion result from the use of such a highly perfected and shine and in the end became deathly universally successful milker ill from He effects. His case was,so Ws have often n a d cf fighting as the Empire. alarming that the friends who had froat with smudge pots in the bloom And now. with Its SapCT-Stnpte been assisting in the ceremonies, hur tag orchards of th b and other States; P V IsM o r-e » palsstor without s pintón— th® K m p tr* I , p laced l a - ried for medical aid. It was said the bot this spring ov«r in th e Rogue River nwuarsbtr mb» ad of sut etbsr effect was to cause symptoms of epi valley they will do tt a t U nd« Sam’s expense, Senator McNary having aa- lepsy- eured the inaertien of an item af $ 9 ,- 000 in the agricultural approprbtloa Chief of Police J. W. Carter a r biU for that purpoee. rested a man named McCormick S a t urday evening, as he first thought, for being intoxicated, but later be lieved, was verging on dementia. He was held in jail for several hours and then released with an admoni tion to drink milkshakes or soda wa ter in the fu tu n . The partial bottle of vanilla extract which the man had. the chief thinks would give a man the blind staggers. He said the pris oner was more nutty than drunk. T The Port of Coos Bay has sold th« last 877,000 of Ha recent issue of bonds and work will now go ahead on the terminal dock and dredge, with Major T. P. McGinnis as chief engin eer, a t a salary of $200 a month. y p ju a m i . n& ojp Planting your money ia oar bonk In sowing the needs of CONTENT, SUCCESS nad INDEPENDENCE. Cultivate the haahiug habit; It will help you to grow in your own esteem; it will gain tor you the CON FIDENCE of those for whom or with whom you work. r * • . Confidence means CREDIT and n good credit in n help and often a necessity. Ws invite YOUR Banking Bmdacaa. Farmers & Merchants Bank •f CoqaiUe, Oregon DAINTY LINGERIE W ashed W ithout W ear The Electric Washer Makes Clothes Last Five Times as Long Dainty lingerie and sheerest silks nan be entrusted to the gentle washing action of the Electric . Washer without fear of harm. Careful tests have proved that clothes last five times as long when washed in an Electric Washer. Thus, merely as an investment in prolonging the life of your wearables, the Electric Washer will soon pay for itself. ASK YOUR DEALER ' M . J . H a rtso n - G ould & G ould Mountain States Power Coquille ys the Good Judge You get more genuine chew* m* ing satisfaction from the Real Tobacco Chew than you ever got from the ordinary kind. T ha good tobacco taste lasts so long—a small chew of this class o f tobacco lasts v much longer than a big chew of the old kind. T hat'i why I 1» A tfc? I • A ny man who has used both kinds will tell you that. Pot Rfl ta two ttyUt W-B C U T is • long fine-cut tobacco R IG H T CXJT is n short-cut tobacco JOHNSON Hall & Ireland $3.00 per load Leave orders a t tha mill or with me. SckrsMer & fliMesknta P . E. DRANE Coitncters i IsiUers