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: T '- ’ . . • ~m r 4r - HK PAPER THAT-a LIKE A LETTER FBOM HOME XVIII- NO. 39. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1921. ^ HOME A6AIN s. [ THE YEAR. S. Bergen Arrived Sunday The steamship Bergen, which is to ! 2 BADLY BURNED J. M. SCOTT BUCK Commercial Club Doesn’ t Meet The Commercial Club did' hot meet I Z Z ° v 8 " e lg h t d* y 8chedule betw een ! last Wednesday evening and there is 'ft* K T 0 “ nd Co^ ’ crossed, (very little new to report as to the Cora W anderers Return from the bar in last Srnday morning at I O ' I ...... — " »— four o clock and at nine-thirty tied up Severe Explosion at Beaver H ill! General Passenger Agent o f S. Show this year. County A gent Farr Their 8000-Mile 3-M onths’ at the city dock here. She came up lias been informed that ten lecturers O- A . C. W ill Provide Ten for Mine—Two Badly Bunted P. Is Home From a Visit from O. A. 'Q. will be sent here the - Trip the river without hitting bottom once Our Annual Corn Week ending Nov. 19, so the dates an Lapt. Robt. Jones is in command. May Die to Europe Show nounced laat week— November 18 and She came up light, having only a Yg«, it's good to get back, as we 19— are the ones on Which the carnival About ten o’clock this morning there told so many o f our inquiring little stuff for the mine at Riverton, On th » train doten from Portland will be held. • r| Arrangements have befh perfected since our return day before but she went back loaded. Her ca was an explosion at the Southern Pa Tuesday night the Sentinel man had The flnaince committee has been to have ton instructors for « three pacity is 260 tons (measurement.) cific mine at Beaver Hill and a little ay and we now report to the a pleasant chat with J. M. Scott, gen A considerable part of the day here afterward a hurry up telephone call eral passenger agent o f the S. P. at meeting with gratifying success in so days’ Farnfers and Home Maker« Sentinel fam ily. ‘ During, the liciting funds and there seems to be Week, Nov. 16th to 19th, at Coquille even years w e have been in the Sunday was spent in load ip g potatoes for physicians was rLceived He was going down to ^question but jtfi at over $?00 wi in coimcctton with the-'annual Gera from the Campbell and Norton ranch Doctors Hamilton and Low left at land to meet President William er business we never before h be raisod from thi* iource, which with Show. across the river, one thousand sacks once for the scene o f the Accident. a vacation o f more than Sproule, o f that system, having juat Nov. 16 is Dairy Day and H c n e Im- the $360 gu arantee by th^Com m er- being taken on here. Repeated calls by phone at the com returns^ from a four months’ vaca days; and the past three This is the first ocean going vessel pany’s-store at Preuss failed to d iet tion trip, three months o f which were c iil Club will en ftle the committees provenant Day, anil Dr. B. T. Sima, of i among fam iliar scenes and old to keep the promise to make tins year’s the Veterinary department; N. C. Jam- Iftkads will never be forgotten while to come up to Coquille since the Ah- any ihformation except that bodies spent on a ; trip to Scotland, from celebration the beet yet held. son, extension specialist; and C. L; 1 ' lasts. “ W e,” this time using waneda was here two or three times were being brought up, but whether which he returned Sept. 6 and the Hawley, State Dairy and Food Com ■4- there were any fatalities we could not last month in Canada. W e swapped t word in something mpre than the vuan w e ye« 8 R* ° ’ Rnd H k t0 be h °Ped missioner, will appear on the progr|m.. — Hand Badly Hurt 1 8U® clent tonnaSe can be secured learn. The mine is helf a milh from vacation stories with him and learned |iiWrial sense, I, have vastly enjoyed Motion picture^ will be used to aisiet v fo r the ti ips up from the city to mako town and an hour or two after the first that this was his first visit to his Efr satire trip and com e back recuper- Arthur Ellingsen met With a very in the lectures. ^ > the venture a permanent business. 'message calling for the doctors, noth birthplace at Inverness since he cross Lfed and strengthened fo r the work sesious accident laat Satusday in Miss Grace Johnson and Misa ^ e* Y The loading here Sunday furnished ing could be learned as to conditions ed the Atlantic to make his home in coming days. But i f any one imag- which he nearly lost several fingers o f Faul, o f the Agricultural College, will_ employment for three longshoremen. there. the New World thirty-five years f t o r that we have during our thou- his right hand. He has a “ sticker,” hold demonstrations on interior decor The Hillstrom Transportation Co., At 1:30 this afternoon a special He found things greatly changed i of miles’ travel and many visits a form o f / planing and joining ma ations, modern labor saving devices, whose office is in the Coquille Valley carrying six o f the most severely in not only » » would be expected irom chine, which he operates with a gas etc« fo r the home woman. [w the Atlantic coast and in the cen- Mercantile Co. warehouse, are local jured men arrived at the S. P. station the lapse o f time, but also very great engine. A t this time he was run, west > seen any place for Nov. 17, Thursday, is Poultry Day. agents for the Bergen. here, accompanied by Drs. Low 'end ly by the world war. There w ere/few ning a board through the machine Men and women will be given valu ! * * * t / c would exchange our home on Hamilton. The morning shift o f 16 families there who had not lost j one when the engine began to slow down. i Oregon coast, such a one will need.. able lectures on feeding for eggs, and men were in the mine at the time of member in the great struggle, and in He glanced at it and at the same time how t6 tell layine hens from Her hens Do It Yourself ) think again. O f course every reader remembers the explosion, anf^all o f them were some cases four brothers who went tried to take the board from the stick by Prof. H. E. Crosby. > Mr. V . L. Astumn is usually considered one the story of the old father who en more or less injured, but the physi over had failed to return. What it er. In some way his hand «Upped Upjon Will explain how to m-irkot d th* most delightful seasons o f the forced l:is advice to his sons to stand cians say that all but two who were cost to prevent German domination o f down into tbe-works, and when the good eggs and what Ihe Pacific Co ■ and it was in mid autumn that very badly burned will likely recover. the .""rid is realised far more widely doctor examined it, one finger was operative Poult’-y Association is do j n finished the last detour o f our trip together by showing ] ow easy it was The other ten are being taken to the if not more deeply there than broken in fo u r places, another in two ing. to break a single small stick and how |at midnight last Saturday, on the hospital at North Bend this afternoon Economic conditions also are far nnd another in one and the whole There will be a judging contest open impossible it was to break a, bundle of *m bank o f the Missouri and All of them were Italians. more upset there than here. All kil hand badly bruised and mashed. It for all. straightaway fo r the Sunset them together. Remember that when Just what caused the explosion is of food are still very high. Eggs stopped the engine or he would proba Nov. 18, Friday, will be Field Crope » hfcsd that we now realized more fully you are asked to join the Farm Bu not known, except that it was coal selling for 800 cents a dozen in Day and Clothing Day. bly have lost the whole hand. reau. ; than ever before was home, with not gas. summer and dairy products were Prof. Geo. llyslop, o f O. A . C., wiH- Ipty all that the word usually implies, Six trucks were at the depot and as ported from Holland, milk being very give a practical rotation system Tor T ||st at the aame time the moat de 'Soon as one cot was loaded it w\s scarce and almost impossible to ob the dairymen to supply green'feed the place on earth. rushed to the'Coquille Hospital with tain. •ntire year. We came fast as well as fa r on the 'its cargo o f bruised and burned hu- The nearest relatives Mr. Scott ' Prof. Maclcay will give a demon leg o f our journey, covering ,manity. found still living were two aunts, one stration on potato disease« showing i 2,000 miles from Omaha to Port- aged 89 and the other 92. J. B. R. Shelton, of Riverton, died motion pictures on the different di Mrs. E. L« Totier, who died . at in 66 hours— two days and less Port o f Bandon Meeting The ¿voyage acroas in June and back at Springfield, Oregon, last Saturday seases, how they spread and how to Springfield, Orego •, last Monday i three nights, W e have to recall the first o f September were both very morning at 4:30 a. m., the cause o f his control them. Prof. Mackay is a di morning at seven o’clock, was buried t The Port of Bandon commissioners [ the drat crossing o f the continent by pleasant, the ocean being almost as sease specialist on potatoes. met in the city hall here Tuesday and death being heart trouble. It in the Masonic cemetery here Wed and Clarke in 1806 to realize quiet as a millpond, though the ice probably due indirectly to the fill, Miss Esther B. Cooley will hold a nesday afternoon, the funeral services prepared the port’s budget fo r next ¡¡¡vhat Watts and Stephenson’s inven- bergs that ware still coming out. o f which he had two years ago and from clothing school on the repair and re year. They were assisted in this by being meld in the undertaking parlors. and their utilization by the .he far north mad» the air pretty the effects o f which he never entirely modeling o f garments. Rev. A . B. Pendleton conducted the .be budget committee, L. L. Turner, an people in the development .hilly even on the return trip. Plans are under way fo r a commer Henry Lorenz and John Miller, o f Co recovered. He and Mrs. Shelton had services. A fter reaching Quebec Mr. and Mrs. gone out there a month ago for a vis cial poultry «how . Everyone who baa the western United States have quille, Herman Hongel, o f Prosper, Mrs. Tozier had been in failing to lengthen Hie b y annihilating The ocott made quite a tour o f Canada, it. Their eon, George Shelton went birds to enter this «how should pre health for the past ¿ g o jtears, and a and L. J. Radley, o f Bandon. oudget will be published In a few reversing the trip the Sentinel peo out Saturday ¡p o p in g end brought his pare P»™ to ™ enter f sfat birds fo r a laying year ago last September went to ple made, and going aa fa r north as mother and the body home on Monday. |CTntest to start Wednesday 19th and ¡^Jiabraaka, as we saw it that Sun- Springfield to live with her daughter, days. nton, one hundred and eighty Alva, who is attending O. A. C. at end Nov. 19th. r morning, was a dun monochrome Mrs. L. P. Smith. The cause o f her The commissioners decided to go Birds will be judged on a Utllity ’ dost and ripened crops and Jierb- death was probably cancer, although ahead with the proposition they have .nilit beyond Calgary. Remembering Corvallis, came in at the same time. Commercial score card. now much interest a number o f Cooe The leaves .were yelliwing and the doctor therfe said that her body nad under consideration for a couple The funeral was held at 8 p. m. ng and after * day or tw o on the became worn out before that trouble if months o f building ways for the county people took in that Canadian Tuesday at the undertaking parlors, Loggers Must Be Careful tug, Klihyam, at Prospar. Thay have city early this year we asked about Rev. W. S. Smith conducting the ser they were crisp as Saratoga lad run its course. conditions there, and teamed that the vices, while the Knights o f Pythiea included $6,000 in the budget fomthis Loggers, who operate in any man dessicated by the almost torrid Lubina Belknap was born in Benton i of the afternoon suns, no matter county, Oregon, Feb. 18, 1866, being purpose, jm d intend to purchase the business outlook was fair. Since the had charge o f tha services at tha cem ner near the county roads or who load on conveyances which are used ’ chilly the night breeze might be. 66 years, 7 months and 22 4fly* of ards at Prosper, fo r which John finding of vast deposits o f oil on the etery. 1 . lower Mackenzie river, much nearer John Bennett Royal Shelton wise on the roads, must be more careful 1 there had been no general frost age at the time of her death. In 1878 lielson is agent, and build new ways ¿he Arctic ocean, high hopes are en- bom in Fairfax county, Virginia, Nov about leaving obstructions. This ia i the central wept, although one had she was married to Edwin I* Tozier, soon. The last time the tug was taken to .ertained at Edmonton that the drill 12, 1849, and he wea 71 years, 10 the decree o f the county court and as fa r south »a Shreveport, and to them were born six children: ing now in progress the.’ * will also months and 26 days o f age at the time Roadmaater McCulloch. ana, which was certainly a cur Mrs. E. F. Hall, who died in Corval 3an Francisco, which has to be done disclose plenty o f petroleum. o f his death. While a boy moved with - The following notioe has been is every two years, it coat the port [isos climatic freak. lis a year ago last March. We also asked Mr. Scott when he his parents to Missouri, just after the sued end i# being posted up by the |3,000, ao in the long run this $6.000 The generous grassy plot at the Mrs. L. P. Smith, o f Springfield, expenditure will effect a considerable expected to see the 80-mile gap be close o f the Civil War, and later went roadmaater mt vgrtous points in the yenne station' had evidently been Oregon. tween the Powers and Trinidad ter county: f \ ' ily irrigated and . was a bright MnT A. P. Taylor, o f Boise, Idaho. saving, although fo r the next five minals of the Oregon and California to Iowa where we waa united in mar “ No log* or log landing or any riage Aug. 29, 1879, to Miss Elisa f , years it would probably be a stand-off dd oasis in vast area o f hrown- E. H. Tozier, o f Bandon. material which will affect the free whether the ways were built here jjr S.jUihero Pacific lines completed, to Williams. i reaching out in every direction to M, C. Tozier, o f Coquille« To this union were born five child and ready passage o f vehicles,. will she was taken couth fo r the overhaul make a through route down this coast blue mountains in the dim d b - H. B. Tozier, o f Montague, Calif. from Portland to San Francisco. His ren, the eldest boy, Elmer, dying in be permitted within 16 feet o f the .J - - ''' Besides her children she leaves ing. « . For an boor or after leaving reply was that owing to present finan infancy. The fou r living are Mra. center of the county roads, and all The last time the tug went south it capital city o f W yom ing we «at three brothers and one sister living cial and labor conditions railroad Laura Ann Perkins, now living in isuch obstructions already placed must cost $600 for a tug to take her place I ® th« observation platform a t the in Washington and nine grandchild building in this country was at a Fresno county, Calif., Geoge H., who bp removed immediately. In, case but it would be necessary next time to ' of the ten car train that two en- ren. standstill, though he said nothing to has been operating the farm, R. Fred, this order is not complied with, patrol get one from the Celutabte river Mrs. A. P. Taylor had juat visited were gaily hautftfg up onto the .ndicate that the project spoken o f who h fs been down with his sister in men are instrusted to remove same at which would increase toe expense » o f of the world. A t Cheyenne the her mother at Springfield, leaving a would not be among the first to be un California, a,nd Alva B., who cam« ao owner’s expense. to much more than the $500. ation above sea level was 6060 couple of weeks ago for home. Harry dertaken by his line when we get a near losing his life during the war. “ By Order o f County Court, More than that there will be an in 1 and in the next thirty-one miles arrived In Springfield a couple of days littlA nearer the promised “ normalcy.” “ C. S. McCulloch, Roadmastar.” Iff 1881 Mr. Shelton moved to Cooe come fr o * the larger river boeta rose so gradually to the 8018 at before her death and says she was Mr. McCulloch says that this step county and settled above Coquille and which will have to use the waye for an which la the highest point up and around every day until the ev May U m it fo r Corn Show has lived In or near Coquille continu ia for the protection of those trav overhauling purposas every year or ening before she died. i the line. eling on the highways. Some o f the so, and it would seem to be good busi The new 66x100 brick building, ously since, having been on a farm In 1877 the family moved ‘ o Wash The hill« billowing in every diere- loggers have been earless about leav near Riverton fo r the past 27 years. ness on the port’s part to have these wh<ch J. D. Graham k Sons are build- ition were gently rounded and the con- ington where they lived 20 years ways available at all times. He was a life member o f the Pres ing trucks and logs and having their ’ing, by whiph they double the floor landing too near to the road where l tinental divide here, as on the Cana- Coming back to Benton county they space o f their garage, is nearing com byterian church, having Joined that autos could not paaa without turning t ®«n Pacific where we had crossed on lived there seven year« and then came denomination when seven years of Changes in Coquille pletion. The walls are finished, the out. Such obstructions are dangerous | » r eastern journey in July, were as to Coquille where they had since made concrete floor has been poured and __i. He was also a member of the To one returning to Coquille after their home. Mr. Tozier died here two and it will be instated that landings ! . «alike aa possible to one’s preconceived Odd Fellows and Knight* of Pythias a quarter year’s absence the most con- the lath placed on the ceiling. Mr. and loga and equipment must be kept Mea of what a .mountain pass should years ago last Marah. lodges. Graham ia waiting now to put in tha Mrs. Tozier joined the Methodist conspicuous improvement is the com hack from the .road sufficiently to - __ - ✓ * and it heemed an almost an Incred- church in early girlhood and had been pletion of the paving o f tha Marsh partition* until he 1« notified by the avoid pny collisions. . The measure is tale that we had g ot a mile and Corn 8how Committee whether the D oyle Came Back faithful member all her life. She field road through No Man’s Land to s precautionary qna to ovoid Accidents skyward since leaving the east, Three mmthe building will be desired as an exhibit E. E. Doyle, who was sentenced to fi*ad stranger still that nearly all the was highly respected by all and was a the Sentinel corner. hence the river bridge will be easily hall on the 18th and 19th o f Novem- six months in the county iail last Fri '•k* had been in little more than half friend on whom her friends could Tractor Into the River - first in bettertnente. Both are in th e count in time o f trouble. Although day for moonshinlng, slipped away ; » day and the last h alf mile in a cou- About six o’clock Tuesday evening not unexpected her death comes as a •line of road work, and while tt’r a lo n g fiom the gang with whom he wa* of hours. blow to her many friends In Coquille road to Tipperary, wa are on our way. Health Aas’n. to Meet Monday working on the road last Monday J: E, • Ford drove his International looking back over the fou r parallel tractor and ensilage cutter trailer in In fact, road work—that is the com who loved her. The Public Health Association o f morning and did not return until mid has of steel unrolling behind ua they to the river at th£ ferry on the oppos pletion o f a complete road system— — — — — — ■» ----- Cooe County will hold a meeting at night. He explained l»is absence by aed so nearly level that w e won- ite side front town. He had been ua- / has hardly begun anywhere in thr saying that he had private business t# Setaspell” on Monday, October 17 at League Cases N ot Decided >A*ed how we could have got so neat' tag the tractor to dig spuds for Camp country. « » st ®r w a ,t> * nd the ffre*t 2 p. m., tp which all who are interested attend to and knew <hat the sheriff bell k Norton and was taking it back ¡[houdland by such easy grades. A t the session o f the Circuit Court Lincoln highway from coast to coast would npt permit him to go, so he took in the public health work are invited. fce wondered too at the evident way here Tuesday Judge Coke overruled •is finished only to Ohio. Moat cities Mre. A „ Y. Myers, chairman o f the French leave. He didn’t say wont th to the ranch near Cedar Point. The ferry scow was taking an auto over i which the first Union Pacific track the demurrer filed by John D. Goss as have A pretty complete system of pav nurse committee, from Marshfield, will private business wa* but his ret- and to give room fo r it to paas he over the pass in the sixt ea had attorney for the defendant dairymen. ed streets, but one doesn’t have to go be present. Mias Elizabeth Campbell, waa voluntary. drove to one side and in some way junked and how .vast an expense He stated that the evidence was being far into the country in moat directions pubHe health nurse, will report on the lost control. Those machines cannot ■ haVe been incurred In smoothing transcribed and that he wanted to go to hit the dirt roads. Cooe cormty )* work that has been done in the laat Have 1 0 ,0 0 0 Sacks o f S p u d s be reversed while in motion and on f the curves and reducing the grades over it thoroughly before making a far from 'th e rear in providing hard two and a half months. Campbell k Norton, who have dug that incline the brake« wouldn’t hold, the present double trick line that decision on the League’s application surface roads. Indeed, we believe .he 4,000 sacks o f potatoes from lea* than so he jumped jur.t aa it went Off the the journey so smooth and easy for a temporary injunction, stands well up in the first half with New Heating Plant Installed half, the 76 acre* they planted laat slip Into fourteen feet o f water with r — ost noiseless— across the ra- nearly twenty miles o f concrete road spring, are anticipating that they will the cutter on top o f it. The derrick sometimea dodging the higher connecting her iw o principal sections. The heating plant which W illey k Nearly H alf Million Paid In harvest 10,000 aaeka this fall. The used b y the bridge builders was moved, ations, sometimes straight as the Son have juat Installed for the Liber S. S, Bergen took out 1,000 sacks Sun •over and cable* attached and it waa. The sheriff’s reporta receipts o f flies, fo r nearly a^m ile. We Do you want a Portland daily. I f ty Theatre insures a comfortable at day and will take another cargo next not a very long job to pull it baek to » 475 , ' OOp in taxes during the month ht m ote o f Harriman than we you subscribe fo r it in connection with mosphere this winter in «that popular week. Mr. Campbell exepeto to go d r / tend. It apparently is none tha did before when w e came to see ending Oct. 5, the largest amount eve- the Sentinel H will be money on your show house, no matter how cold the down at that time to investigate mar worse fo r Ua bath. weather may be. The furnace ia much monument to Ha -genius, which collected here in one month. About p o ck e ty ket condition» and make arrangement* ninety per cent o f the 1921 tnxaa are i in tha tw irfug when we rode over larger than the old o m and the radia Jaod the SaatiaaltoaastarA friends. for too disposal of tbahr entire yteM. already paid, and only about $100,000 PASSING OF O LDSETTLER DEATH OF MRS. TOZIER (Continued on third paga.) remains to be wB«tod. faBlng Cards, 180 tor ILM. tion la pwrtiaany toitolei I Mm