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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1921)
- -v'- u «sì ■ f i V- • «. *■ * m jk - «S K if/i )U XVIII- N o. « . ' \ T gE P A P E R T H A T 'S L IK E COQUiLLB, COOS COUNTY. OREGON. A L E T T E R FR O M H OM E # FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1 M 1 U .N THE YEAR. ts in F ir« Room nt Sitka But Is Founght to a Finish IE IS ON FIRE BISHOP SUMNER So Says Walter H. Bunch o f Mc Kinley \Vho Had Been In vestigating for Himself Replies to Criticism o f His W ork by Budg The Residence at the W atson Preeched en Limitations to a Ranch Also Had a Close Crowded House Here Last et Committee and Tells H o w that Body Might Have Lowered 1922 Taxes Call Last N ight Sunday N ight ' pir, , which started from a dust ex- • v ’ T-' • __ Wmlter H. Bunch, of McKinley, „ re- -• . - ■ . jogion in the fire room at the Co- turned Tuesday from a ten days’ vis A second alarm o f fire at ten min , Limitation is a populsr word since 'gHÜle Lumber M ils at two o ’clock it to Portland during which he got utes o f twelve last night did not bring the conference for the limitation o f ^S itfr,)aV afternoon, damaged the >some first hand information in re out the crowd that the afternoon fire armaments has been in session and Dear Editor:— There has appeared; to the Coos county’s first Budget Com- I p)Mt to the extent o f a t least $6,000 gard to the Oregon Dairymen’s Co-op did. The call came from the Watson “ limitation” waa one of tho words oa m some o f the newspapers o f tile j mittee which, when emerging from ; «lid probably more. The adjusters of erative Leagfre, which satisfied him ranch on Cunningham, where Roy J *the insurance companies are expected that the league is a solvent, going con county lately news items quoting our several days very strenuous labor, Watson lives, but it was extinguished which Bishop Sumner’s sermon at the most worthy County Commissionar, hfjprg tomorrow to make settlement cern and that with a little time Man they unfurled their banner to the tax before the arrival o f the chemical, Episcopal church hero last Sunday John Yoakam, as criticising the as payers o f Coos county, that they grab without much damage bring done. night hinged. The Bishop made Des br the loss. , I ager Eldridge will be able to put it cartes’ four rules o f life his theme. sessed valuation placed on certain Gus Peterson, who has charge bed at an elephane and caught a gnat. Before retiring they had built up a Among the rulee, which that distin on its feet and solve its problems properties in the county to the effect Had cut out the County Agriculturist, „t h e Are room, had just stepped out good fire in the fireplace and when guished French philosopher formu without any need of liquidation. that it was taking the full rental value Demonstration Agent and almost father#, and was talking to W ill Oerd Roy awoke the smoke was thick in the lated when he was a young man the In fact at the very time that the jb*. when he heard a “ puff” inside directors were voting to liquidate Mr. for taxes. This is sure no news to drowned the County Health nurse. kitchen where a good blase had start second was: j 5Üd instantly the entire interior Eldridge was preparing a statement the taxpayers for they must surely "That if the people wanted her the ed. He began to move things out, “ To seek happiness by the limita realize it, if they have ever compar- civic body would have to hold her but when Fred Nosier and his sons 'Memed to be ablaze. Closing the to show that the league was all right tion rather than the gratification o f head out o f the Water. Also that they arrived they went to fighting the fire to stop any draft they turned and could soon be placed on the high ¡ed their income with their taxes. desire.” , This socialistic principal o f taking had cut the salaries o f all county em and soon had it under control. u the alarm and all hands at the mill road to success. Indeed as it is still How worth-while a rule this is the the full rental value for taxes was ployeea. This action maj[ very seri itirted in fighting with two lines * making all the payments to outside Young “ Butch” Briner, who only speaker proceeded to show; and th • voted dowa at the last election but ously impair the efficiency o f the •till hose and with buckets. stopped to put on shirt and trousers, more we heerd end thought about this parties called for by its contracts, the fortunately the wind -Was blowing anly way by which it can be thrown nevertheless it has fastened its fangs work o f some o f the county officers, before getting Nosier’s delivery ear rule the more fully .we were convinced upon us. I can show Mr. Yoakam which is not economy. to haul the chemical out, nearly froze that Descartes had condensed much sway from the fnain*part o f the mill, nto bankruptcy is by the voluntary not only two, but several thousand as They also announced to you, Mr. hia feet in the nipping and eager air bst the whole plant would have gone action o f its own members. sessment 8 in the county where the in Taxpayer, through their published hs he eat at the wheel, with b a n feet o f the wisdom of the ages into a dozen •^withstanding,, had it not been for It still owes its members one-fourth come does not pay the taxes or any Budget, that your county tax will not on the chilly pedals, and drove the words. [ 'the fire wall, made o f 2x6 timbers laid of the price of the milk they furnish For no matter how much happiness part o f them; furthermore it is g it be one penny leas than last year. Their mile out to the ranch. It took nerve | 1st, which protected the east side ot ed for the six months fmm May to one may think he is enjoying through necessary for me to get off o f my intentions were good on the start to to go through with a stunt o f that „ 4 M main building, being the west wall November inclusive and for the whole the gratification o f a desire for door-step. I am personally interested relieve you o f some o f the oppres 'kind last night. the boiler room. of the November and December pools. in a frog pond ranch on Ross Inlet, and wealth, for fame, for luxurious living, sive tax burden but when they reached A fter the fire was til supposed to f o r si dal preeminence, or any othor Pi The flames, however, were shooting If the league continues to function the most rent we ever received the road budget their ax must have be out but C. E. McCurdy, Alfred Mill [ ¡ ¡ I above this wall, through the roof and 70 per cent o f its members stay $100.000 per year. This year the gotten dull, (trying to cut a porter er-and Fred Noaler and his two sons object that men seek with endltM and beginning to lick under the eaves with it, Mr. Bunch is satisfied they toil, gratification either brings satiety taxes on this property are $217.00. house steak out o f a humming bird) were still at the scene, some one look [ _af the high ro o f on the larger build ,--an close all the pools in sixty days, or grows by whst it feeds upon and As a matter of fact, I did not like it; they threw it away, and instead o f ed down into the box made by three ing when the crowd from town began advancing three-fourths in one month becomes so overwhelming that noth thought it was too high. I f John giving you the benefit o f what they plank, on whieh the kitchen chimney to arrive. This was extinguished and and the other one-fourth the next ing can ever satisfy it.- Yoakam had made the assessment 1 had already cut off, they left the road was built at the back o f the fireplace a large part o f the blaze in the fire- month and pay out all it owes on the The rule is practically the same aa would most certainly have given him budget large enough to absorb* it all, and saw plenty of red hot coals an^ nnr .„ » „In«___ ___ ,i— mom had been killed before the line properties purchased in three years. -a _ l ~Z one i n n u ijpira m r a ir n r o n a cussing, but aa L had mad« ft, and and more besides. — ■ ’ ' a'fine start towards another fire, but temperance in all things, but it varies _____ hose, which h«d been strung Otherwise, if liquidation tek~es“ pTace did not want to be caught talking to There will be raised by taxes ap the garden hose soon put a quietus on from that in expression by making all thé way from the hydrant east of it is unavoidable that the members myself, I paid the tax and said, “ taka proximately $381,000.00 for'», roads, it. The Are originally started con the limitation o f desire a source o f the creamery, was finally coupled up will lose all they have in the various your medicine, you are assessed bridges and ferries. I f they had a siderably higher, about the top o f those happiness. And contentment «an aad this larger stream turned into the unclosed pools. same aa others.” This particular desire to reduce taxM why did they planks and ran directly up to the ceil only come with the limitation o f de boiler room. In all the resolutions that the m« pice o f property is assessed at $4110.- not cut out some df the new road and ing. sire to that which ia attainable by : !> By this time the saw dust bin to ters o f the League have been passing 00 , is sold under contract for $6,000.- bridge projects and thus lower the such moderate effort as makes for a the south and opening off the boiler n various sections perfect confidence 00. The purchaser has not paid any Budget a few thousand which'would ID W ill Never Come Back well-ordered and well-poised Ufa. Ml was biasing inside and through has been expressed in Manager Eld thing on the principal, any interest or reduce taxes. Everyone wants a The happiest people are certainly When it comes to questioning the i walls but the volunteer flre-fight- ridge. He has been in charge of the taxes for four years, still, through hard-surfaced road in front o f their policy o f spending as much money as, the contented people, and we den\ j ’ Worked their way up into this League affairs since early in August the generosity of our hearts we ara door, so why blame them. let us say, Coos county is, for improv know any better rule than the Des I - bin and in an hour had the fire check- One of his first acts was to remove the letting him carry on. The only .way taxes can be reduced ed roads, our mind inevitably reverts cartes one ef “ limiting"’ desire to se ad there and out everywhere else. general offices o f the League from the I have been lynig awake nights, ■s to raise lees money. to what Highway Commissioner Booth cure contentment. * Receiver R. A . W em ich, tells us Corbett building where they were lately, wondering if Mr. Yoakam’s Pardon me for again referring to In the course of his discourse the this morning that he hasn’t been paying $260 a month rent and secure purchasers, to whom he sold his flue Commissioner Yoakam. The tax roll said here last April at the time we Bishop told whet a remarks ^ i^ ig g celebrated the completion o f the Co- able to form an estimate o f the dam- quarters in the Terminal Ioe and Cold $40,000.00 ranch (on the paved high of Coos county shows that prior to As he he considered it when he lMrned that | agi done, but he doubte that $6,000 ¿torage Company's building near the way) will be able to make their pay the year 1920 there was assessed on quille-Marshfleld highway. expressed it, good roads didn’t eori o f the Coquille high school graduating ’d cover it. The boilers d o hot Jnion depot at $60 a month. ments if the valuations on farm lands Mr. Yoakam’s 440 acre farm .which the people who benefttted by them class here 100 per cent entered eel- ar to have been injured, although He also cut the »alary o f the su Are not reduced. he sold for $40,000.00, 12 seres of anything; they always paid for them leges to continue their studies. This ! is not certain until they are fired perintendent of the Clatsop county 'There has also been published in tillable land. In the spring o f 1920, selves. And he seemed to come pret fact he had told to large audieneM i today. The ro o f on the fire-room :on£ at Astoria, who had been getting the county papers a copy o f a resolu when making'Vis assessment for that both in Chicago and New York. That , „Jy staid in place because it was cor- 36 OO a month. Hence the threatened tion adopted by the Budget Committee year he turned in to me, .personally, ty near proving it, too. Btil. 1 , if they waa certainly worth while boosting. have to be financed by taxpayers who J ngated iron, m ost o f thé rafters being lecesison there. Altogether Manager wherein a meeting will be held with 24 acres o f tillable land. This same are already groaning under a back Hs also gave a bit o f unusual ad | tamed through, and the walls were Eldridge cut expenses $1100 a month said Budget Committee, County year in the fall his farm was survey vice when hs advised his hearers to badly charred. There was no he first, rattle out o f the box when Court, Board o f Equalization, and last ed and classified and found to contain breaking load, they may be put out of see as many sunsets aa you can.” business and lose all interest in the ge to any o f the machinery out- ie took charge and has gone on sav tut not least, thé Assessor, also, > 58% acres o f tillable land. Some o f the other churches can roads before they make them any re ng that amount over last year’s ex far as practicable with a few of the __i the fire-room. The history o f the North Bank road celled their evening appointments to turns. The walls o f the fire-room are penses. His only worry now in that different owners (not the same own- would also make interesting reading. There is a point beyond which it give an opportunity to hear Bishop shed down twice a day to prevent ine is the cost o f the referendum rs) o f the several classifications of Yours for lower taxes and a square becomes a case o f the last straw Sumner, who always has something ( such explosions as happened yes- dection which amounts to $1600 each property throughout the county. The leal fo r everybody, So the ehurtsh brMking the camel’s back, and a worth while to eay. me a vote o f the members is call • ipJiy, when the cedar dust got too primary object o f said meeting is for J. P. Beyers, AasMior. good many pMple hare in Coos county was crowded; and it was found neces I tat and a spark probably set it off. ’ he purpose o f instructing said ‘ As for. . ■: H. k- are o f the opinion that we have about sary to brlrfg over several benches The league attorneys say the league sessor how he shall assess all or cer r it was very efficient fire fighting, from the Presbyterian church next Asked to Retain Agents reached that point. solvent and will continue so as sot only on the part o f the mill em- tain classes o f property fo r the com- door. • Along the aame line o f boosting E. H. Hamden appeared at tha iloyee«, ut by volunteer firemen gen going poncern. It should be remem ng year. The Bishop announced in a very Commercial Club mooting Wedneaday is the declaration made by eome of erally, who were quick to attack the bered, too, that as a going* concern it Before the Board o f Equalization evening, aa a representative o f the the strikers fo r tho Portland fair in felicitous manner the promotion of 8 » at evry vital peint;. And great was paying 23% cents V pound for adjourned on October 11th Judge Farm Tlurtau, asking tha club to taka 1926, that to vote $ 8 , 000,000 in state Rev. W. E. Couper, who has been for tredit is due everyone who had a hand >utterfat in milk, while the Mutual Wade proposed that a meeting be s stand in favor o f retaining the Coun taxes for that show ’ won’t cost the several years vicar of this church to held before the valuatyma are de ty Agricultural Agent and the County taxpayers anything. The way ws are ¡the rectorship o f the Marshfield saving the entire plant from des- Creamery was paying only 22. Mr. Bunch does not believe the termined for next year to discuss the Demo nitration Agent in C om county, ■opposed to gat out from under the Episcopal church. r action. Another feature o f the evening’s One of the three large smokestacks league ought to die or that it is go advisability o f reducing the valuation it was unanimously voted by tha club buden o f that debt is to paai it over J‘“ ie the boilers w as getting quite ing to die, and feels sure that at the of tillable land. I suggested that the to go on record as favoring the. re to our eastern visitors and make them service was the confirmation o f Ran bly before the fire in the roof was referendum on the 2 Tth, the proposi- owners o f all classes o f property be tention o f those two ageriU,'and re pay it in gasoline taxes four years dolph Lorenz as a member of St. .uished; and it looked fo r s ion to kill it will fafl o f the required invited to attend ao that their side questing the county court to recon henct. - Meantime we suppose they James. As we shook hands with the Biehop could be heard, which waa agreed to sider their action in not including ap are going to borrow the money to as though the large reservoir two-thirds vote. It gives the Sentinel a good deal of by all o f the members o f said Board. : above the sawdust bin was due propriations for tboM offices in the pay that fair tax, and there is nothing in the vestibule after the service h# I svish to say that if such a meeting tentative budget adopted the first o f said about who will pay the interest remarked: ~ i downward aa the flames were pleasure to present these views “ I eaw you In the back sM t; you on It until eastern visitors put up — j i g through the eaves o f the bin Mr. Bunch, for it has always believed is held and in which I participate, it the month, gave such good attention, it helper. will be under the auspices o f tha that co-operation could be made a sue- the $ 8 , 000,000 in additional gasoline : its base, but the men who forced Some pMple might think that an taxes in the future. r woy up into the smoke in the bin ess in the dairy business, as well as Board o f Equalization and not the The U . o f O . Glee Chib other lines of production on the Budget Committee or County Court. It isn’t claimed either, that the tax indication that Bishop Sumner had threw s stream f rom the city The Women’s Glee Club o f the Uni- The members o f these august bodies payers, who put up the three million* kissed the blarney stone; but the — j around the walls, savsd the tank, farm. , * versKy o f Oregon will appear in con will have the same right to express will ever got it back— not at all— only writasr has done enough public notwithstanding the efficient work cert December 20, in Coquille. their views as any individual citizn. that gasoline is * going to flow like speaking to rMlise how much a good the only reason the plant is Death o f J. Mf Hodge The tpur this year includes concerts but not as an organization fo r whch water when our eastern friends come listener helps. And then we knew that ing today ia that solid w a ll o f Harold K. Hodge received the sad n North Bend, Myrtle Point, Bandon, out to Oregon to see the show, and some speakers make It a ru U .to ad planks through which thé flames news this morning o f the death o f his they are not intended, by law, to Coquille and Reed»port also that tha surplus amount they will pay dress some listener in the back of the function. ----- ——I----- ;— ------- 1 not nierem ' _______ father, J. M. Hodge, which occurred at Previous tHpa «T th e Glee Club to fo r gas while in the state will go audience so as to be sure none will be I have at all times consulted wi‘ hospital in Eugene yesterday after Coos county have been unusually suc back into tha treasury to make up for out o f range. kg to the Fire F ig h t e r s noon.) The message did not state the the other members o f the Board of cessful both from the standpoint o f the money tha taxpayers put up mean Equalization before making any ma finances as well aa enjoyment. The - I wish to express m y thanks fo r the cause o f his death, but he had been a while. terial changes and determining valu Belloni Still Making Butter county has become famous with the apt and efficient manner in which sufferer from dropsy. The body will ■„ *r~ I f by any miracle, though tha $ 8 ,- ations. Have also held meetings with gills fo r its marked hospitality and arrive in Coquille tomorrow afternoon Henry Belloni, who was requested i fire department, the company em- the Commercial organizations and cit 000,000 should get back into the entertaining facilities. by some o f the dairymen in th# terri and other citizens o f Coquille *nd the funeral will be held at Fish- treasury, one can imagine how many izens o f North Bend, Marshfield and trap cemetery Sunday, at what hour tory contiguous to Coquille to taka Bed the firs at our plant yeater- plans there would bo fee spending it, Bandon to diacuaa asaemments and charge o f the creamery her# and oper F r it ’ s Record Had it not been for"your prompt Mr Hodge was not certain this morn- and what sort o f a Job R would be taxation. The meetings bava general ate it until It is determined what is to unselfish action, the place would tog, but probably soon after noon. Be County Agent Farr has had a cir n to attempt to pay the money ly resulted In some good, but no real came of the illness o f his wife who » be don# with leagu e property, re been destroyed. Bo m any kind cular printed showing bow $84,261 has abek to the taxpayers from whom it solution o f the problem» was pre ports that he is making just butter I energetic friends were on the Job down with scarlet fever, Harold could sented, aa the matters discussed were been saved to the ranchers o f Coos was received. enough to sappy the local demand, - th is impossfeW fo r m a te M * each not go out to Eugene. comity through his activities this year. moat easM personal eosnplainta The deceased was 66 years o f age although ha could make a good deal Wu individually, ao please accept We received a copy too lata to make which I hear 866 days in the year. W eter W orks a t Bay more and dispose of it In the Coquille and had lived on his ranch at Fishtrsp 1 ®ote as an expression o f my per- extended quotations aa wa would have I srill have prepared, and present valley If the cream was brought In. for many year, until a year or more The Marshfield council, now that ! appreciation. at this meeting, statistics showing the liked to. That is just the kind o f mat He is making about four thousand the franchise o f the water company ago when he moved up to -B . A . W em ich. • •ctual cash value o f all property ter to present to the county court aad pounds a month, and is the only man there has expired, have asked its More recently he had transferred from March 1st, 1221, to the people who think a county agent at work thare. He says that by tha Eugene where he died. Three s e n to state the price at which isn’t worth white. ¿ZZ Pageant o f th e Months” will dm, all grown, are left to mourn his March 1 * . 1W2, taken from the deed they will sail It to the city. There 2 fHh of the month he will be able to by the pupils o f the Grade records o f Coos eouuty, which the taw ie eon s talk, too, e f form ing a water settle with the rancher« who tartag -- E LONE W OLF’ S DAUGH- Friday afternoon, Dec. 2S, at loss. provides is the fundamental principal district in whieh Ncrth Bend and par ..ja m to the plant, for Novstabte. o f determining value# fo r assessment TSR,” a story ambra ting the wall 1 P- ® . with an1atteaetive program and the 60 eeate the plant will pay Is es other suburbs will be included. T-nniae Joseph Vance’s world known e f "The !-"*»+ W eK " 1 will be eaJoyoa b y all who attend. purposes aad is ungi b y the State Tax five to eight eente higher than any ♦ iT “ THE LONE WOLF’S Commission in determining the as aad “ Falsa Faces” will be at the L * - other cream ary operating fas this een- Quick’s fo r Christmas DAUGHTER," wffl be at t h « l ^ « * r sessed valuation o f Public Utilities. erty next Wédaeeday. f e e the peo- u t i * robberies be- next Wednesday. 8 m tha program o - mistletoe, 10 and M sento bua*. ; all «rer the eoon- I would also like to pags th m . Go to your per I m