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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1921)
& jtà, Am m 'fíte iy y O PAPER TO COUNTAS CAST Two Election Boards Will Work A t the 24 Nato L ast Sunday Dr. L L Marshfield dentist, waa driving on the highway with his family « Lauri Erickson, of Beaver HiU, in nwr ^ 1 of h i» , struck Mm t wheel of his cur and swerved H into th* ditch, throwing his ear on Hs Mrs. Schofield and thair slsven-year old daughter w a n painfully bruised, Schofield himself was cut by the broken windshield. Both Mr. and Mr*. Schofield and the seven months baby rjring were thrown out of th* front •eat. The baby has been in a critical condition ever since and yesterday still had a very high temperature. Erickson was arrested by Sheriff Elllngeen but Ids examination boon postponed from time to tim e to aw ait the raraH of tk i baby’s in juries. Dr. R. W. Morrow, of Marshfield, appeared before Justice Joshnk on th* charge of not using his dimmer Wednesday evening. He said th a t he did uA H in most cases but on* car passed them before he realised it. Justice Joehnk fined him $2 and costs. Was. Horeafell Jr. was up on the same charge and paid a $2 fine. J . Emery, of Marshfield, waa cited before Justice Joehnk Thursday morning on the charge of transfer ing the license teg from his old Hud eon to n new on« He promised te g rt Wednesday Ervin Campbell, of this city, was arrested and charges were filed against him by Officer William« for breaking the speed 11»H. Yes terday he appeared before Justice Stanley, pleaded guHty and was fined 910 and costs. Coquille Lfifififi Again The Marshfield Gun Club was over here again last Sunday to moot the local club on their range a t the Miller ranch. There were eight men In their team and twelve hi the Coquille team, and figuring percentages the visitor* won the »hoot, scoring I t per cent to to th* locale’ 71. Figuring the score* at Coquille’« eight highest, however, •g ain st Marshfield’s eight, th* bon ers would root with Coquille. S ch o o l S u p e rv is o r R e sig n * M in Genevieve Thompson has re signad her position as county school supervisor to take effect Juae 16. She is going to attend th* summer school a t th* Monmouth Normal pre paratory to spedai work in the DECORATION DAY PROGRAM *«'*** od Roads r£ r x c ^ î t . nlliL IU DU k j UR > Fight the bora resolving In flavor of the bonds. - —---- - Wo M a t nil hove trunk line highways T h re e o f t h e G . l a G . G irla **■!>» our doors; but if McKinley will | t »_ R U _ ^ ... Bonds or Vork fo r Them? be 9**t patient h is in a fair way to get a “ AU A McKinley Corre Fighting—The & Can Do More I Working 1 This change ought to result iu aa early completion of the count in moot cases, especially when them are so few numbers on the ballot as the m s s a t the coming June election. The law farther provides th at to di vulge the count aa it is prograasss a t any tim e before the dosing at the polls shall subject the offending elec tion officer to a fine of from 1100 to ’ A LETTER Ï'ROM HOME Trafik Officer W SUaas on tke Co- quille-Marshfield highway asks us to call the attention at driv en to previsions a t the motor vehicle law. The first is the one requiring all motor tracks to bo equipped with mirrors, so th a t their driv en will be able to observe cars approaching from the rear. The sesea d is tho ono requiring that all motor vehicles used to carry irs for hire must bo equip ped wftk speedometers, or other reg istering devices to show the speed which they are travelling. It will certainly ba in the Interest of to heve the speedometers as without them they will be liable to fines for T h e L e t t e r W e P r i â t la a U t « violation of tho speed las vel o f B efflgereacjr, H ittl they lot bar ont. G u ts N in e ty D a y s Goo. F. McAdams began serving a jail te n s here Tuesday, whan Judge Coke gave him a 90-day sentence for com tem pt of court in failing to pay |2 0 a mbnth for the rapport of hie two children, as ordered in the decree of divorce. He had paid nothing for 21 months. Whan he puts up the |420 or furnishes approved security for K he will bo released. His ex cuse for his neglect was th a t his wife had remarried and ho didn’t wank to pay her any money under such cir cumstances. - W market rood to connect with a trunk . tondent Believes in tinel Thinks You j r Yourselves by ith - Others. I ( i y C u rio sity , a s W ell a s a M ar- K ia h t a a d L e ft, L ik e a a Deer Mister Editor: I’m a goin U We publish the communication in sneer yer comments on our G ranri 8 the preceding column for two reasons. Resulution ef its the last thing 1 | The first is th at ws see no ground for ever do for my cun try ; but before 1 | refusing that dare; and wo want to start in onto it, I wish to say ”1 told | give both sidM a hearing on this road em so.” I had a (linger in tbs pH | matter. (In passing we win add th at when the resulution wus drawd up an j having fairly won th at dollar our they ail wus of the opinyun that fi 1 critic sonde, we are going to use it in would bo host to bo mejum on jest gid I toying his subscription for the next a plain statement of face—face yf {six months.) The second is th at ws none of ye cud disprove en what da I wish to d e a r our skirts of a charge we git t e tryin to git a little of outf lo f misrepresentation, either of our- side a the question before the public^ | self or of the McKinley Grange. When you feilere got up yer resulto I Of courts, it must be evident, even tion to keep trucks offen yer dura oft ! to “The McKinley Goto,” th at we highway ye giv it a front pago spiel | can’t print all the m atter in the Sen- en when we wanted to have a littM I tinel on the first page, so some one notice of our sido o’ the m atter ye I has to decide what shall go th e n ; and stuck it way off in the back page eg we prefer to make our own selections, giv yerseJf nearly a column on th i ss a rule, rather than have any one frunt pago to misorpruomt yer self else do it for us. er us I should say. i As to misrepresentation because in > F irst thing—yo all know ovar dura that Hem in the McKinley notes Inst ono of ya thot that Loo road has bosk week the "as” was before the impassable far the last nine month* "through” in ono place and afto{ H in on when Fred Mast broke a rodil the other. Here is the way that item thru on any got stuck twiet an writ was sent in: the first to tackle it with even a Ford, "Fred Mast had business in Co-1 ye try to make out weVe lyiag by quille. Hs mads his first trip home by claimin wo ain’t got paaraMo (roads. the Norway and Los Mad the road I got it rito in frmnt of mg owa craw is a t work up as far as the Loo eyes whuts in my copy at yar pa sad the road ie in fairly good on ns par about thorn good rodas hi the I far through McKinley.” ] McKinley items en h ses, "the road O n T h e ir O w a ony event the way to promote It w usnt the whole Hiking Club roada ia our own locality ie not I (the G. in G. girls) who started out fht against thorn in other local)-Ion a recent Sunday m orning,to walk It is as w t Mid, if wo want to to Bandon, but just three of them — elpod we m ^ t help others. I t M in I n . Maury, of the F irst Na- »law of life. But a wheel is nev-1 tional Bank farce, Mise Ada Witte- «ilt by beginning with the fel-lm an, of the sheriTe office, and Mise or the epokee. McKinley aeems A. HiU, of the Dairymen’s League »ve tried th at plan once, hut it office. They must have been very t get them anywhere. In the na- ambitious, or thought they were sad- of things the hub comee first in I ly in need of outdoor exercise, to at- sg a wheel. v * I tempt a walk of nearly 26 miles be- .. I twmn d*yll* ht ,n d They arose Began This MertUrif 1st 4 with the early dawn and three W. Gregg began this morning 19u*rt«r» of an hour Inter were on ng concrete writs for th e new I th#ir W*F- And it may well bo bo ro ho is building for the Coquille I li,vs<1 *k«y found it "a long rend to to Station and expect* to fin- Tipperary." Indeed, though the writ- hat p art of A* Job within a I er “•*‘1 40 do a'good deal of hiking I until very recant years, he doesn't ' tlising th at eon crate buildings I remember to have done each a stunt oing to bo more and se e n used I w‘thin a quarter of a century. Kjuille aa a protection against I ®f course, the ferry w asn't running Ir . Gragg has purchased a new I '***•■ these girls hit the trail; and so •to mixer which will enable I went down to Eugene Robinson’s » take cars of this demand on all I •* Cunningham wye, having pro- on. I viously engaged him to row them i ■ i I across the river. They had a long r v / \ t |T S T o n I r0*d before thorn and didn’t intend to L /U W «pu^ I break down short of their destination, Y 1ND ________ PICK UP $5 I that they received from the drivers of t »on, if given t h . opportunity ^ " * T * ’ •“ « * , « • down three dollars sd d p ick up to do it on th rir own. rould hustle to raise the three Th" i , , , , u gloomy one with n y didn“^ r . it to lh e ir j * Z thick Or*«on m oral.«, just the o p p o l Z i t i L l T Z but wh“ «*• ,un C o m county, multiplied by a I -hrougl1 the clouds sway beyond •d thousand. If we don’t raise J j J * a Z L " ™ ree we lose the five and it is . T” y **y’ b” t 4 J? ** the county will be ubUred to j i* a» iB*- * * " <*•«» tired they were some t Z . no £ 2 t i m k whwi « - y ernne to trrad the «roots sly will wn have t o u t e d the .°^ B*?dan by th* " • ** * “j ; z now. So H n Ari only a cara of Id? ¡ng down P to pick np $6; but of hav a t this "Good in Going” «Mb, ns w* will rail them, though th* nans* those initials designate ie, like the Eleusen- ian mysteries, unknown to the pro fane who haven’t taken th* thirty third degree as hiker*, once essayed a Sunday tram p to Marshfield, aad the same three got there, the rest fall ing out by the wayside. But th at was only about three-fourths the distance to Bandon. What these star pedestrians will essay next is not yet known, perhaps, even to themselves; but we want to know what other small town in Ora- gem has any amateur walkers among its young Indies, who have any «rich u to their credits ns the three who lately made fifty thousand tracks each between her* aad Ban don in a little ovar eleven hours. Since th* above waa written wo are informed by on* of th* trio th at their next stunt will be a hike to Loo election day. This is only fourteen miles distant, but the girls say they expect to have to walk half way back, are only hoping to catch the train or a ear St Norway. i it when ho arwvo a t here. its resolution; but merely to show than to do H after two or three other E f ye’d a dared, I hot ye wuddent I how H looked to a man up n tree to roads have been huMt to connect the . a noticed our resulution a tall, jeet hear such n howl about the bad con- Paciflic highway with the Roosevelt like the Marshfield Times en the Myr dition of th* McKinloy road a t a time highway in other counties. Now ia tle Point Aateriken. But ye got two wham work for Hs betterment was in the goldm opportunity to put Coos big n subscription to take a chanst at progress and state and county market county right a t th* front on a F e r r y S to p p ed ignorin’ us entirely, road funds were being mad* avails- through line from San Francisco to There was trouble a t the ferry s Ye kno well’s I do thet we spoke I bl* for its improvement. Indeed, It Portland th at will be usable «very bora this wuok when a government | tar the rural rodes of the hull dura looked to us exactly like a slap in the day in the year, and will nevqy be inspector ordered th* scow to stop country, not ourselves alone. We’re face to those who are trying to help blocked by snow. running until K was provided with tryin’ to taka yer advice before yer them out of the mud. I t looks ju st as I ................... 12 new life preserves, a whistle loud giv it en "do for others as well as enough to hear half a mil* away, a it would if the American Legion and Q tpt. McCloskey Defid „ them do tar us" as ya advised us to do World veterans should be pin to rail I v bell a t least eight inches in diameter in yer comments. We kno it’s the ony at t h . voters and th . n e u t e r , rad ^ ™ ***? and a name painted on each side at way to git any whams, specially when Isay every mean thing about th e m |w ,nt “P * Norway Wednesday af- th* ferry. All this as if H w e n navi yer stuck in mud up to yer eyes. We they could lay their tongues to, while ternoon where the local lodge had gating th* river instead of being r a ta l git to town without he]pin each asking the people to vote for lqgiala- J|b*r*e °* **** fraw nl of W. T. Mo hauled back and forth by cable; as! uther. We was intendin’ to help each tion in their behalf. Ju st as if . C*osk*y. wall as th* certainity th at H will go other when wa asked far a square hungry man should aim a tremendous Capt. McCloskey was aa old time out of commission in leas than a ysar deal but you big bugs in town won’t [ kick a t the plat* of food th at the | rasident of Coos county, although in when th* new bridge is finished. But giv us a hearin en throw dirt in our housewife was bringing him. some on* had to promise th at th* re eyes by misreprusentin every thing Gridley, Calif. He waa visiting in quirements would bo complied with we try to ray or do. ! We want to help the McKinley com the Coquille Valley at th* time of in order to release th* embargo on Ye cud set every doctor en lire war munity and every other community in the Highway celebration and waa in the ferry her* and the ceunty court H aa P assed Its P eak den en truck driver en business man I the county th at 1* suffering from a Coquille on th a t occasion. The day not being ia session and county sur whut ever tryed to gH over the rural mud embargo, but the sort of spirit after his return home he dropped Inquiry a t the sheriff’s office brings veyor McCulloch being out 'a t town, rodes of the country en ef they net manifested in the article we publish dead, a victim of heart trouble. the welcome news th at there are in his deputy, Mrs. M. A. Pierce, gave their eonshuns en cud tel it from a I in the adjoining column isn’t one to For years Mr. McCloskey was a dications all over tho county th at tho billy gote’s song when H did answer I promote good fooling where good captain on Coqnilla river steamboats moonshine business has passed Hs they’d all tel ye the same thing. | feeliag is much to be desired. Better and was wall and favorably known peak and is now waning. Thoae en R e n ts 460 A c re s H er* Ye kno if the rank en file of the I ske th at chip off yoqr shoulder and gaged in that business are getting H. E. Hess, a prominent stock man country voted accordin’ to their con-1 throw it where you will never sot H by old timers. Hs was a brother of afraid to tarry long in one place and J. H. McCloskey, at Norway and Co of Humboldt county, California, a r shus the Bond Issue wouldn’t last any again. a re adopting the tactics of the Irish Again as to misrepresentation. quille, and at Mrs. P. W. Laird, of man’s flea, which when you put your rived her* this week to begin the longer a snow ball in h------ Myrtle Point. Besides thee* he stocking at th* large ranch he has We ain’t alone in our demand* ter I The “McKinley Goto" i* evidently leaves a wife and on* son and an finger on him isn’t there. Conditions teased from th* Russ Investment Co. justice neethur. Th*. State Master of I other sister, Mrs. Geo. Lester. F u r are said to be woes* in Coqufll* than Th* tract comprise* between 400 and the Grange, C. E. Spence, sed its I ther notice of hie death is Contained eiaewhsie in th* county, though here 600 acres and lies south and west time we wus a puttin’ a little money in th* Myrtle Point notes in this is- most of tho drinking ia done after from th* Cormick ranch, across the on th* rodes lead in to the highways I midnight. A t Bandon Judge Wads river from th* Coquille Lumber Mills. stead of taxin ourselves to death mak- reports conditions vary greatly im The 100 foot strip offered by Mr. in highways fer the other feller to I proved. A t th* Bay H is thought th at Ruse aa a right of way for th* Ban- speed up en down on en we coddent tho bettor conditions so fa r this year don highway, runs through this tract» even git to em eept in Jury ’n Augurt. I are to some extent duo to tho fact Mr. Hoes intends to devote his atten Plucky lotta good it ’H do us to hav* I that tho mills have boon shut down tion to raising beef stock and na soon turista come to th* cuntry. How they I until recently, and there has been Ss he can secure them will have 200 a goin to kno what we got out in the I far less money in circulation. head on the ranch. The company will by ways at they eain’t gH offen the I W in* l a F i r s t Botuad erect a hoops for him on th* tract, highways, er ef tl*ey did they hav to I but if he era secure a house ia town be hauled back am. In the 919,000 case of Oswald Woat he will bring his wife and child up It’s morn likely ye will hamper us I against Coot county Judge Coke ea before that is finished. Tuesday denied th* mrtion of th* de sn put this last steal acroat but let I Mr. Hess is an enthusiastic good met tel ye therms a Day o’ Jedgement for the illiterate vote. • with th* Coquille Chib for th* pur- fendant asking th at Gov. Woat bo re roads booster and («grata th at he will a cornin’. The scriptures sen even a I As to th* argument against good ehase of the furniture, quired to elect whether to stead on an not have been h«£e long enough to warm ef it’s trampled on Muff 11 turn I roads in the article sent us, ws can’t Ju st what the Coquille Club will do express or implied contract. vote for the road bonds next month. en rend y*. Ole King George in col-1 m * it. It is the rather an argument cannot bo stated a t this time as no B a c c a la u re a te S t r a w ony times tried to hog rid* the ’m er-1 1 for good roods, and ia surely a good meeting has been held to consider th* The High School Commonramoat ¡can people, en whut did he g ttt 11 on*. The mistake th* w riter makes matter, but is likely th at if the wus brot up on th* Declaration with I Is in thinking the people who are Knights wish to purchase the equip- week will begin with s Baccalaureate mi to tho gratuating class by my mammy’s milk an I kno a few 1 shut 1 in by bad road* can get good meat they can do so, aad th a t the quicker by fighting against Club will pose out of existence. Thor* Bov. W. E. Cooper a t tho Methodis t things H ran bout people’s rites. One 1 roads 1 good roods—trunk lines—in other is ne other suitable location in town church Sunday evening, Juno 19, a t o’clock.