The Coquille Valley sentinel., December 23, 1921, Image 1

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PA PE R
T H A T ’S
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A 1U B R T E R
FRO M
HOM E
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, ORBCKJN. FRIDAY, DECEMBER IS, IM1.
Merry
Christmas
to All
The Sentinel a} this
«•••»! holiday
Muuujiy season
vishes all
all its
>♦* readers
------ a Merry Christ­
wishes
mas and a Happy New Year. And it
iff Arrested Z . G . H arsh- w ants to add that the only sure recipe
for a happy year and a happy life is
■an Caught Running S till'
to so live as to make others happy.
at the B ay
Unselfishness is the
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the lea«»'"
lesson o f * this
Christmas season, when we celebrate
l G. Harshman was brought here the birthday o f the. Prince o f Peace.
One o f the greatest causes for re­
■ Wednesday night and placed in jail to
fgrt a sentence,of six months in jail joicing we have now is the outlook for
p i a $500 fine imposed in Justice world peace that has been given in
gsybee’s court, follow in g a raid on the work already accomplished by the
o f armament
conference,
Ua place between North Bend and limitation
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*- e 'h
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Empire, and the capture o f tw o stills ■ , ,ch We h°Pe will
mark
the year .
IE SCHOOL GLEE GLOB HERE
A Fire That W asn’t
BONDS fOh SALE
An alarm o f ^re was turned in from
the Grade school building about 10:15
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this morning, but no damage was done
Record Salaries Bring Record They Give a Fine Concert at the except to a , couple o f electric light
Budget and the People
wires which were cut. Immediately City Council Offers a Job Lot of
Theatre Tuesday N igh t-
in
front o f the furnace in the base­
Vote Against It
Them at This
Three Coos Girls
ment a light wire had become dam­
aged, some o f the strands being brok­
Time
The Sentinel is. in receipt, under data ^ The University o f Oregon Girls en, and when they became hot the
o f Wednesday, o f the following letter ( Glee Club, which appeared at
Mayor Hamilton waa the only, ab­
the Lib- rubber casing began to burn. 'Ray
from a taxpayer in the Bridge district. * erty Theatre here Tuesday evening, Lfeart, the janitor, cut the Wire in two sentee at the regular session o f th e’
He says it is not for publication, b u t ' delighted the two hundred
or more before the joists had had an opportun­ council last Monday evehlng. Not a
as he doesn’t hesitate to sign it, and who turned
__- - w tiu u n out to hear their concert. ity to blase. '
great deal «of business developed and
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Rotten rope on one o f the hose carte adjournment was taken toon after
tod ether paraphernalia o f the craft. I°f a"‘ entirely new eta in this srinnin* asks us to base an editorial on it, w e ! The fact that three Coos county girls,
deem it best to give the facte
as he ‘ Miss Marvel E. Skeels, o f Coquille, delayed the department in arriving as nine o ’clock until this (Friday) ev- ’ ■
The following from the Coos Bay I Wor,d o f our..
th,S w« - " o r n states them: •
Miss L. Belle Chatburn, o f Bandon, quickly as possible, but very fortun­ ening when the mayor is expected to
Times indicates the sort o f si criminal
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ana
and Miss
Miss Margaret E. Powers, o f ately fire-fighting equipment was not be back from Portland with a report
Cunningham Camp
^ Harshman ia credited with, and
The school budget o f School D ll- 1 Marshfield, are members o f the club needed. The children gave the de on the proposed chorlination plant.
the desirability o f putting him under
I t is said that Smith-Powers intend trict No. 77 was voted down on th e ' auded to the interest.
partment the ha-ha for arriving af^er
For some time the pipe and water
lock and key as lon g as possible. In- opening their camp on Cunningham 17th, which shows hnw
how the people o ^
f j
(he danger waa past.
System
supplies have been scattered
The
performance
waa
a
very
«redi-
it would look as i f clem ency had in a month or six weeks, if the lum- the district
take
“ record”
salaries. I
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vu to iciiuru
salaries.
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around over town and in the city hall
elesys been misplaced in his case:
The budget if passed would have re- W
“ S ***. ‘f i r l s * mve ^ dica-
Iber market picks up a little in that
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Another Booze Victim
where anyone had access to them, so
time. If the camp is opened the pres- quired a levy o f 48.7 mills. Superin- ' tention to instruction. It is consider-
at the meeting Monday evening the
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veuuoii
io
instruction.
It
ia
consider
Deputy
Sheriff
Malehorn,
Chief
tendent
Mulkey
says
that
the
district
. made by Ellingsen .W* loKKinf? road from the S. P. wye
Mulkey says that the district
by many to have been the beat
chairman o f the water committee was
fht raid was ma
up Cunningham a8 far as the Watson
pay the
the teachers,
teachers, but
but what
what .concert the U. o f O. grls have ever Carter and Constable Goodman picked
will
have
to
pay
authorized to have an inexpensive
galehorn, accompe*"“ "
(ranch will be used and the remainder
up
Antone
Jensen
at
Bunker
Hill
yes-
about Article 1.1 ¿section 11 o f the con- ' given in Coquille.
-cerday for having a gallon and a half building erected in which to keep
Goodman an
’0f the line taken up and moved up
stitution, which positively forbids the ( • The club as a whole rendered seven
o f liquor and three or four quarts o f such supplies. >
_ of North Ben .
Bud creek, which flows into Cunning-
board to issue warrants is excess o f numbers and responded to insistent
It will be located on the small piece
wine in his possession. It is thought
Three barrels o f
.
.
ham from the north. «.This will be
the last tax levy, plus 6 per ce n t! We ^ encores. Each runmer waa good and
o f property formerly belonging to A.
oy
the
officers
that
he
was
both
moon­
, The mash w o
welcome news to Coquille, for it .will
are now squarely up against this prop- ' the audience gave due evidence o f ap-
shiner and bootlegger. He was sen­ J. Sherwood east o f the road at the
for stills Friday,
probably mean an additional monthly osition. Can school boards and teach- | predation o f each.
kinds o f moonshine
payroll o f $10>000 or $12(000.
tenced in justice court ts> pay $260 and south end o f the Hall street bridge.
Bade, one from figs, one lr o “
ers enter into contracts that the peo- l John B. Siefert, o f the university
The city engineer reported the im­
serve
30 days in jail, the latter time
another from prunes
pie will not stand for, force the dis- ' department o f music, sang several to begin January 3rd or 4th.
provements on Knowtton avenue and
Bsishman’s place waa well hid-
trict to pay, and nullify
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0los, which captivated the
- the
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in the north end o f town completed
tioft ? If you want it I will send you ! bouse.
It is on the old Empire road
according to plans and specifications.
He
was
very
prominent
one o f the budgets so you can see ju s t '
gg in the brush, about t* •> miles
Both jobs were performed by Teart
what they were trying to put over. musical circles in the east before
Bangor.
There are *.„few |
Bros.,
the Anal cost on Knowlton av­
You might interview Mr. Mulkey and coming west, and has appeared in
residents o f the vicinty, one
enue being $1137.80, and for the north
'¡grand
opera
and
concert
work
in
most
get something interesting for next
Mag A. Horton, from whom Harsh-
end work, $7592.81, for the planking,
Editor Sentinel: In the last issue
1 o f the large A stern cities.
week’s paper.. I will give you the
curbing, etc.
ms noted the place.
H*® Sentinel I read in an article special school tax millage since 1915:
There were numerous solos, duets
The first victim o f typhoid fever in
This makes the^entire cost o f the
b addition to the excluded loca- written by Mr. Beyers, “the history
and quartette, which were most pleas this city during the winter was Mrs.
1916— 20 mills.
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north end improvement $19,740.32 to
tea, Harshman had taken the pre- 0f the North Bank road would make
ing
to
all
the
music
lovers,
and
be­
1917— 15.3 mills.
Audrey M. Cowan, who passed away
which is added 5 per Cant ja r sngin- ~ -
•Ktion of ferreting out an under- interesting reading."__ As | took a
.1918 J mills-------- -------—----- ----- - sides a Summer Fantasy, written by at 11:25 Wednesday night. She had eerihg7 superintendence and advertis­
system' for'B IS Operation. A very active part IiT trying to get this
'one
o
f
the
club,
Miss
Kessi,
o
f
Cor­
been ill for just four weeks and com­ ing, $987.02, making the entire cost
1919— 11.6 mills.
basement had been dug under- road established by getting up a pe-
vallis, which was keenly enjoyed. Miss plications had developod.
1920— 28.4 milk.
to the property owners, $20,7^7.88.
|sstk the house and here waa locat- tition, circulating same and having
Skeels took a prominent part in this,
Proposed 1921— 48.7 mills.
The funeral services will take p l a c e ___
... ordinance
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uimer
An
• the apparatus. From the base- «bout 75 legal signers on it, posting
representing
“
Pan,”
the
ancient
god
Do you blame the voters for rebel­
at the Ellingsen undertaking parlors the provisions o f which the council
jms a tunnel fo r a considerable notices, etc., taking an active part in
ling?
We have reached the place o f the shepherds, who played sweetly at 2:80 ]i. m. Saturday and will be will build the Moulton street bridge
furnishing
underground holding a special road meeting for 2 where we have to choose betwen ex on the pipe. In this fa n ta sy Pan
conducted by Rev. T. B. McDonald, o f under force account by day labor. E.
for the operations.
years and helping levy about a 10 mill travagance, “ record” salaries and bank­ woke to life the columbine with the Myrtle Point, her former pastor.
W. Gregg was appointed to auperin-
¡.fhs two stills were o f the latest tax each year and being a tax payer ruptcy on one side, or economy and sweetness o f her music and won her
The interment will be in the Ma- tend its construction, his compensa-
and were o f eopper, coils and for over 40 years in Coos and never reasonable salaries on the other.
love. A harlequin and a dow n added sonic cemetery.
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tion being fixed at $7.60 per day.
having the benefit of a road, I can’t
This is not for publication, but ju«t rest and amusement to this feature,
Audrey M. Staninger was born in
Four ordinances were passed offer-
Qanhman ia known as a partnor see why my neighborhood as well as to give you some idea* on the high tax which was called on the program, Michigan twenty years ago, in 1901, |ng city improvement bonds for aal*
The program and came to Oregon with her parents, in the following amounts: Holly and
J . S. Stevens, who ia now doing myself are not entitled to a road. question that a ll o f us are up against, “ An original stunt.”
was completed by the singing o f a Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Staninger three Bush streets, $539.98; Third and Hall
is the county jail fo r moonshine This North Bank road or Hanly road
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dumber o f U. o f O. college songs.
r *“ ®ns.
and I have heard it called Yoakam
years later.
They first settled Jn streets, $6419.18; Henry Street, 91.«
As to the constitutional point raised,
Following the c o n c e r ts dance was Roseburg but in 1911 msde their home 623.92; Beech street, $818.40. These
Horton protested innocence o f the road— is not a little community road
may be a question o f conflicting
given in the K. P. hall imhonor o f the in Coquille, where they have since re- were the amounts on each street that
CDS, although his own house [ but is a road, which when opened will
laws. Mr. Mulkey says that there can
within six feet o f the one Harsh- have! about as much travel on it as be no question about the power o f the Glee Club by the High School stu­ sided. She married Frank P. Cowan the property owners did not pay the
occupied. Horton carried a gun any road in Coos county outside o f the directors to make contracts with teach dents.
Dec. 27, 1920, just about a year ago.
improvement assessment in cash.
1 this was taken by Sheriff Elling- Highway. It will shorten the dis­ ers before the budget is adopted. Else
Besides her husband and her par­
W on’t Allow Reduction
ents, Mrs. Cowan leaves a brother,
aithough Horton had taken it tance from my neighborhood to Coos no teacher could afford to make con
Jack Hoover Jailed
the holster and hidden it,
Bay about 10 miles. If we want to tracts until after the budget had been , The interstate commerce commis­ Kenneth, and three sisters, Cora, Mil­
Jack Hoover, o f North Bend, was
Marshal Carter saya both Stev- go to Goquille the distance will be voted and schools woudl not begin un sion refused permission to Henry Ford dred and Margaret, to mourn their ir­
brought over here yesterday after­
reparable loss.
and Harshman have bad records, about the same, only by the North til after that date.
Otherwise our to cut coal rates twenty per cent along
The Sentinel unites with the many noon to serve a suspended ja il sen­
right Harshman said he was 61 Bank road to Coquille we will he on correspondent is right.
the .line o f his railroad, the Detroit,
friends
of this splendid young woman, tence o f sixty days for having liquor
old.
the Highway for over five miles be­
Toledo A Ironton, on the ground that
who has been called hence in life’s in his possession. The sentence also
ing to Marshal Carter’s rec- fore we get to Coquille and every­
it would discriminate against other
Hoover had
Great Journalist Passes
morning,
in deep sympathy for the be­ Included a $300 fine.
Harshman and Stevens were ar- body knows what we have to travel
mining territory, the coal product o f
promised
to
go
to
work
and
earn mon-
The death o f Henry Watterson yes­
reaved husband, parents, brother and
at Eastside February 14, 1915, the last five miles on the South Bank
which is sold in cities along the Ford
'ey to pay his fine, but failed to keep
sisters.
terday
ends
the
earthly
career
o
f
an
the charge o f counterfeiting. A just before we get to Coquille. If
railroad, says a Washington press dis
his promise. Added to this, it is al<
editor whq for many year* stood at
:iler full o f bogus quarters, ¡.he County Court has not had any
patch dated yesterday.
leged that Hoover has been living with
the head of the profession in this
Mill Men To Bo Paid
‘'dollars, dollars and five-dollar 0f our money on a 50-60, like they
While we know nothing more than
z
woman who is not his wife.
It’S
country, and who will stand at least
In the circuit court here thia week about time to quit suspending jail
pieces was seized at their place, have on some other roads, we do not
is here stated about the merits
second in our-entire history down to
says. They were taken to know anything about it, but we all
this particular case, it has been true Judge Coke ordered that the employes | Sentences In order to have fines” paid.
the present day.
Few' men in the
by Secret Service Operative think we are entitled to some help
ever since prices began to fall last of the Coquille Lumber Mill*, who There’s nothing like Imprisonment to
democratic party have had.more influ­
year that the government has been have been employed by the receiver, cure bootlegging. Often there’s man-
and convicted, Harshman be- .from the county to get this road open
ence than he exerted for half a cen­
trying to make the drop easier. In be paid immediately out o f any funds 'ey enough in it to make paying fines
sentenced to seven years a Me- ¡ed. If Mr. Beyers knows o f anything
tury in the Louisville Courier Journal;
the case o f the farmers’ products that on hand and that if necessary the re­ *io trick at all.
s Island and Stevens to six years, that is not straight fn trying to get
and even those who did not agree
was impossible. So while coal and ceiver fell a $6,000 note of the Crown-
were evidently freed on good ¿his road established and opened
Vers Williams, the woman with
with him recognized his genius and
freight and many o f the necessities Willamette Paper Co. in order to pay whom Hoover had been living, was
r as both have been back here wish he would let os know and in
his sincerity.
It is reported that the brought over from Empire by Sheriff
o f life are being kept above normal the men.
war a year. Stevens was picked his history of the North Benk road ex
He used to be a familiar feature in
amount*
due
for
wages ia $3,000
by
government
action,
the
fanner
is
Ellingsen st the same time and lodged
time ago and convicted o f plain, why the people want thq road
Democratic national conventions, in
It was also ordered that the receiver n jail on a charge o f unlawful cohab­
everywhere the goat.
-ing.
in d why Coquille has always opposed
several o f which the writer sa w and
proceed to collect all accounts dus the itation.
,
il Carter says that according .this road.—T. P. Hanly.
heard him. The first time w a s at St.
mill and if same are not paid on re­
He evidence at the bearing on
Save It To Taxpayers
Louis in 1876, when he made the
quest that suit be instituted to enforce
. Tried to Rob Three
«wnterfeiting charge, Harshman
About 1922 Licenses
striking ruling that “ no point o f order
A t Salem this week there was talk their collection.
time in Washington pre-
,
Tuesday
night attempts were made
is in order while a lady has the floor," o f finding plenty o f ways to save
for counterfeiting and later
Traffic Officer Williams is in receipt
to break into three business houses at
and permitted Phoebe Cozzent to million dollars a year in taxes where­
Clyruit Court Notes
tW Salem penitentiary oa the ofra letter from the Secretary of State
Marshfield, the Toggery, the Variety
make a woman suffrage talk to that withal to finance the 1925 fair at
In Ihe circuit court here Tuesday Store and Pete’s Cafe. The unsettle­
of holding up a train. In the informing him of the rules regarding
convention. This was certainly the Portland. Cutting the millage for the
thih U
,\>’ ^ ar8km* n waa wounded
Lie use of license plates. Applicants irst talk o f the kind ever heard in state educational institutions for the Martin Kilgore pleaded not guilty, ment due to the world war is pri­
when arraigned, to the six indictments marily responsible for the wave of
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and carr*es a silver plate for a 1922 license prior to Dec. 31,
convention o f that p«rty.
three year period was one o f the
returned against him by the grand crime now sweeping ovar the country,
u > is said.
¿921, are issued a receipt and should
methods suggested.
I f a trifle o f
jury.
a Salem, Harshman and the plate fail to arrive until after Jan-
Secondarily the responsibility rests
three millions can be cut from the
University Students H one
Wallace Grouch also pleaded not with the United States senate for re­
,W ° ’ accord in g to Carter’s uary 1, the car owner may use his
state taxes in the next three years by
guilty to the indictment charging him jecting the Versailles treaty and the
The afternoon train last Saturday
¿u ,
J a fifteen-year sentence ¡1921 tag, provided he has his 1922 re-
g simple turn o f the wrist, why not
with assault with intent t* kill.
league o f nations and prolonging the
efts near Klamath Falls, ceipt to show that he has made appli- afternoon was full o f students return­
do i t anyway and give the tax-payer*
These cases will probably not come reign o f hell on earth for years.
7 1 1Acquainted and cam e to Coos cation for a license. But such receipts ing from the University o f Oregon at a breathing spell, rather than hold
We are oar brothers’ keepers and
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ex Governor W est had par- issued after Jan. 1922, do not entitle Eugene. A dozen or fifteen went on them np fo r an exposition that doesn’t to trial until the February term of
eourt
drivers to ran their cars with a 1921 down the river to Bandon. Among
we can’t dodge the responsibility.
or paroled Harshman.
particularly interest them. It eeei
license plate after Dec. 31, and they those who live here were Marvel
to the Sentinel that Oregon tax-pay-'
P rof. Bunn T a fts to School
lay themselves liable to arrest if they Skeels, Camilla Lorenz, Marjorie
Better Boll the W ater
Fined fo r Speeding
ers have earned a holiday o f that sort.
Hazard,
Fred
Lorenz,
and
Gertrude
Prof. H. S. Dunn, head o f the Latin
|«do so.
The latest analysis o f our city water
Carter, a driver f o r the Coast
The use o f 1922 plates before Janu- Butler, o f Prosper. .
department o f U. o f O , dropped intoj shows 100 bacteria and 8 colon bsc-
Concrete Foundations
Un«s, and F. H. Rehfleld, were
Those coming home from O. A. C.
¡ary 1 is not permissible.
1 Coquille unexpectedly Wednesday af- teria per cubic centimeter at the in-
in Marshfield last Tuesday
Ensele A Ebrood have got the con
last week were Fred Wimer, Fred
ternoon and made a very fine and in- take o f the reservoir; and 80 bacteria
i»g. Carter was driving 36
crete
foundations for the new Spur­
Harlocker,
Arthur
Hooton,
and
Dor­
) Coke A pp roves Sale
•tractive talks to the High School pu- and 10 colon bacteria in the reservoir,
•a hour on the highw ay add'was
othy Bean and Lester Bogard, o f Siv- geon street bridge in place and as pils on Christaaa*— its origin, ancient This is said to be U tter than some
Judge Coke Tuesday approved Ret­
HO by Justice Joehnk. Rehfleld
soon as the cement has cured suffi­
erfon.
customs and observation. The oppor- previous reports, but physicians say
ciently will begin getting the bents
hied $20 for speeding in the city iree ft. H. Crcager’s sale o f lot 2 in
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tunity to hear the professor was indicates that we should boil our
and timbers in place. The new bridge
' field. Traffic Officer Williams block 19 of Elliott’s addition, the
Nesbitt Re-arrested
greatly appreciated by the faculty and drinking water,
is to be just north o f the old struc­
vb complaints, although Car- Leneve place across the street east
students.
Wm. H. Nesbitt waa arrested at
o f the city hall, in the case o f Iieneve
ture so that it can he used until the
> caught by Sheriff Ellingsen.
Charles Chaplin worked one whole
vs. Ecland. E. D. Howe was the pur­ MarshAeld Wednesday evening at the new one is opened.
Hugh Johnson came down here last year to make 6 reels o f Joy, “ THE
request
o
f
Sheriff
Stickel,
o
f
Eugene^
chaser, and $1200 was the considera-
Fined $100
night from the Rock Creek country be- KID,” which will b« at the Liberty
where he is wanted fo r passing half
Efts Free Show -....
yottnd Bridge. It 1» only possible to «ext Tuesday and Wednesday,
dozen worthless checks fo r one and
Yslantme, w h o ran- into th e tion
the free show to be giv­ get through now on horseback and the program on page three,
two dollars each. He had just been
Service Station pump ■
* weeks ago Sunday morning
The Knights of Pythias are going released from the county jsil here on en by the Elks at the Liberty Theatre the trip 18 miles up the valley from
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1100 in Justice Stanley’s to give another o f their popular dances
Don’t forget our Oregon Fn
Tuesday, having served his sentence Christmas at I p. m. fo r children un­ Myrtle Point takes 18 hours. In on*
Msterday and given until 10 at the former Coquille Club R oom *»« imposed fo r obtaining money under der IS. It is a Mary Plekf onl picture place where a U gh bridge has been combination in renewing for the
b o r r o w to pay h a lf o f ft. He the Laird building Christmas Eve. The false pretenses. He ia not sa especial­ and thare will be a good comedy be- replaced by a fill the a n d is now four tinel. You get a good dial for
-* e d e one payment toward the music will be furnished by the
| feet deep.
» « M y there.
ly strong minded young man.
« the pump.
waiian orchestra.
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HANLY FOR
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FIRST DEATH
NORTH BANK
OF TYPHOID
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