B u e Ball
That Number of Offenw
Against Which Answers
Will Have to be Made
sault with a dangerous weapon; Al­
fred Lea too for non-rapport; F. E
Clausen twice for obtaining money
by fa k e pretenses; Lloyd Zachary on
four forgery chargee; R. E. Conley,
Joe Vanganer and Melvin Manning
for criminal syndicalism.
Sam Gordon, of Powers, was in-
dieted twice, once for groas fraud
a t common tew end on another charge
Dr. G. E. Low, president of the Co-
cjuille B o m Bali Club, roquaaU the
Sentinel to state that all those in­
to reated in seeing this eity repwsent-
ad in the Cooe County League next
year, ahould tarn out Sunday at the
ball park and help In the w ort of
grading the grounds. A few turned
out last Sunday, but two or three
can't be expected to do it all. The di­
amond is being levelled off. taking out
the hump there was between secand
third base, and the whole field is to be
put in better shape.
It’s a little early yet to talk baee-
ball, but unless the preliminary work,
and especially the financial end is at­
tended to this spring, the local club
will be starting the season not fully
prepared.
Coquille is a good baMball town
and Carl King has bean getting a
line on seme goed men, who will be
willing to come in for the summer,
w ort during the week, and play ball
on Sunday, at so much a game.
Neither Coquille nor Bandor. can
afford to pay a monthly salary to
young follows to lie around six days
and play four games a month, and
Mr. King is trying to line up a bunch
of players who can play ball and still
not require all the gate receipts for
salaries. .
NOT SO BAD
AS AT FIRST
and took occasion to file a demurrer
to the charge that he was grabbing
county tax money for Marshfield. The
bill paeeed by the legislature was one
prepared by Senator Eddy, of Doug­
las. Mr. Brand said ha didn’t know
what had happened to his bill but that
it bad not boon introduced. However,
bis bill provied for a more equitable
division a t road funds—forty per sent
to the district and sixty to the-county.
In this same connection Judge Mast
Warrants to Be Endorsed 18406380
Forty-two Mes and Women of CoqniDe Have
Subscribed Stock to the Amount of
$25,000 and Put the Project
Ofer the Top
C. J . K uhrm an
A. O. Walker
H. N. U re a s
8. M. Nosier
Gee. A. Robinson
Coquille Hardware Co.
City Bakery
J. D. Graham
G. Earl Lew
H. B. Shelley * Sen
J. W. Laird
T. A. Walker
Kenneth Kistaer
Mrs. K. E. Johnses
E. W. Gragg
Coast Ante I lass
C. W. Gardner
M. J. Harteea
A. Ellin «son
W. H. Mansell
R. A. Jeub
O. T. Nelson
Mrs. J. E. Panteen
H. W. Young
J. H. McCloskey
C. A. Gage
Mrs. & J . Smith
L. C. Newman
GeuM A Gould
Ì . L. Aasen
Gem N. Batte?
Wat. Richardsau
A. L. Sitepson
Rebt. Trala
Ray Lang
C. L. Willey
M I I M I I I A I I I I 6 I
excellent amendment Is one protect­
ing the market roads, funds for that
purpose bring deducted before any di­
vision la mads.
J-
Aad still further, the original 60-60
division has been restored so that tha
counties will he in much butter shape
than they would have been had not
the leeal Commercial Club and Judge
Mast started the agitation they did.
8enator Hall informed Judge Mast
that them was such a sentiment far a
(«ad fund division in practically all
the cities of the state th at it would
be Impossible to kill tha bill alto­
gether.
Aa finally passed yesterday the bill
is much more equitable.
The senator also stated that there
is a law new on tha statute books
which permits a town or city to spend
its share of road funds or roads out­
side the city limits, should the city's
authorities deem it the best place to
Special Order Next Week
of $12,000.
As several members of ths Com­
mercial Club «mated to gat away
early, only a abort session ama held
Wednesday evening. President Les­
lie stated that he wanted to make a
special enter of business for next
Wednesday evening and urged a large
attendance. His idea was that evary-
That the people of Coquille have to
so considerable an extant decided to
w ort together in n true community
spirit to build a modern hotel on the
Baxter Hotel site augurs wall for tha
future of our city. For the past tee
years a t least, since the w riter has
been a resident of Coquille, and with­
out doubt considerably longer, tha
bus in me men a t this city have been
impressed with the need of a first-
class hotel and have been talking
about the possibility a t getting some
one to come here and taka the heavy
end of the job of financinig it.
But all the talking waa a reminder
of the “term er and tha lark” story in
our Third readers one or two genera­
tions ago. The grain was ripening
in the farmer's field, and tha lark ov­
erheard tha farmer tell hie boys the
grain was nearly ripe enough to cut,
and said ha would look about for seme
Coos county warrants on the gener­
al fund will no longer be made out
“to bearer’' so that they can bo pass­
ed from hand to hand as readily as
green-backs or national bank notes. Will Improve Road to Grove
The county court has, we think, acted
—New Pool Hall
wisely In having the new issee made
Prohibitions
payable to the person to whom H has
a debt t<i pxy-“or order, ■ t o that they
A t the regular saaaion of the coun­
will be just like any bank check and
must be indorsed by the payee before cil Monday evening, at which Mayor
they are paid a t transferred. This Nosier and all councilman were pres­
is more business like and much better ent, the petition for the improvement
tor the careless payee, ha they will be at Fourth street from the Henry
worth nothing to the finder if they street bridge five blocks oast to Divi­
are mislaid or teat by the person sion and north on Division to Patter-
named. When another series of road son Grove, was presentad, and after
warrants sre provided, the same checking It up to ascertain that it
contained the required signatures of
change will be made in them.
owners of two-thirds of the property
The $26,000 stock needed to finance
the construction of the proposed hotel
on the site of idle former Baxter, hav­
ing been all subscribed—$60 shares
by the mea and woman named above,
$100 a share—a meeting of the stock­
holders was called at the city hall
Tuesday evening to perfect an organi­ Health Association Meets
At the regular meeting of the Pub­
sation; and of the whole number of
shares all but tan were represented at lic Health Association on Tuesday ev­
that meeting. Mayor 8. M. Nosier ening an excellent address waa given
was elected chairman of this meeting by Dr. Mingus on the subject of Diet.
Some new scientific facts were dis­
and Bay A. Jeub, secretary.
The work already done in securing cussed and valiiabte information given
these subecriptions and the organisa­ about foods essential to the building
tion and objects of the Coquille In­ up of the human body and keeping It
vestment company, whose incorpora­ in Ka best condition, bringing out es­
tion was the first step taken in furth­ pecially the nead of vitamines found
erance of the hotel project, waa very lif' butter (not substitutes) and un
fully detailed by J, E. Norton; and cooked vegetables.
The next meeting will be held on
though the information ha had to
five waa not in the form of a con­ March 18th.
tinuous narrative, but was interspers­
ed with questions end expressions of
opinion by other stockholders in re­
gard to the propoeed structure and its
site, this being a community under­
taking it will perhaps ha fully aa sat­
Judge R. H. Mast and Commission-
isfactory to the reader« to give the
history of the enterprise straight era H. G. Kern and W. W. Gage were
away than to go back and forth over down over the North Bank road Tues­
the same ground, as waa done when day, trying to get some idea of what
one point of view after another of the it would taka to make it ready to uae
matters under consideration waa as a detour road when work starts on
brought o u t
the Roosevelt Highway.
They formed no estimate of what
After the burning of the Baxter Mr.
Norton purchased the lota com poetng it would cost to get the grading done
its site, two fronting on Front street, for a connection between the North
each 26 xlOO feet in sise and three Bank road and a ferry at Lamps, but
fronting on F irst street, each at the know that it will taka a1! they can
otlten. With C. T.
Skeels, C. J.
They are going to try, however, to get
A. O. Walker as the other incorpora- it in shape for a summer road this
tora, the Coquille Investment com­ year. They say they cannot possi­
pany was then organised and ar- bly do any gravel Hag on it in 1928.
They also went over the Myrtle
rangamoata made to hold this site as
long aa might prove necessary for the Point-Lamps market road in the
construction of the hotel. The Idea ArCgo and Flsbtrap section and found
of making any profit out of the pur­ some of it almost impassable for a
chase did not enter into the minds of team. Had there not been a shortage
tbess gentlemen, though it seems to ir. the market road fond of $28,000
havm entered into the suspicions of left by the last codrt, they could prob­
those who were not fully informed ns ably have gravelled the most urgent
portions of th a t road, but having cut
to the transaction.
Mr. Skeels referred to the thought down $13,000 in market road appro­
involved in these suspicions as bair.g priations this year, they cannot see
>ing from for
termed the “Joker” in this deck and where any
positively sMored the stockholders any gravelling. The balance of $10,-
that there was nothing of the sort 000 will have to came out of next
in the deal, so that Idea no longer year's expenditures in sons districts.
fogged any braina.
Mr. Norton’s offer to the hotel
stockholders waa squally definite and L ots on the Coquille River
dean cut. The holding company would
A public hearing will be held by
sail so much of the old hotel site as Captain George Mayo, U. 8. District
waa needed for the propoeed first Engineer, F irst District, Portland,
McLain Resigns Office
unit, 60x126 feet in area, on the basis Oregon, in Coquille, Oregon, in the
His many friends in this section
of the average cost per square foot council chamber of the City Hall, at
of the entire tract a t ju st what they 1:80 p. m., on Monday, March 6, 1928, will be a Kttte surprised to learn that
paid for it plus the $76 paid the a t­ to consider agreement upon satisfac­ Hugh McLain has resigned the posi­
torney who examined the abstract and tory rates and regulations for float­ tion of postmaster a t Marshfield to
six par cent interest on the money ing logs or sack rafts of logs, and take effect tomorrow. Ho would have
from the time they bought it until it safeguarding navigation for commer­ completed over 8 y e a n ’ service if
is taken over by the new hotel com­ cial steamboats, aa the baste of a rec­ be' had continued to tha end of his
pany.
For the site of the second ommendation to tha Secretary of second fear years’ term in August.
unit, on which it te not propoeed to War for the regulation of all naviga­ The reason Mr. McLain givas for re­
signing is that he wishes to engage
build now, them were two more ele­ tion on Coquille River.
in the contracting business. He built
menta to enter into the price—the
All parties interested, especially
unpaid F irst street
lento for those engaged in logging, milling and some of the first concrete work *n
paring and the taxes that might have transportation, a r t invited to be pres­ this county, including that on tha
tr be naid before this tract waa tak­ ent er to be represented nt the hear­ basement of the old court house hero
en ova- by the present organization, ing, to sxpress their views orally or 26 y ean ago.
if it later desired to go on and build submit them in writing.
that second unit a t the hotel, or for a
Electric Bell i t Bridge
r«w organisation that might be call­
An electric alarm bell waa received
ed the hotel annex company to build
a t the local Southern Pacific depot
that second unit.
test Friday for installation a t the
If rack a second company was form­
bridge crossing on Ferry street. W ort
ed, it would be the privilege of all the
was started yesterday, but it will taka
sharehokteri in the present company
a weak to get it connected up. The
to take stock or not, just aa they
alarm will begin sounding when an
wished.
approaching train is a half mile dis­
For the Coquille Investment com­
tant and continue until it has passed
pany, or holding company, Mr. Nor­
the crossing.
ton not only agreed that they would
sell the site for the second unit on the
terms outlined above when it was
wanted, lyet th at they would keep the
property for three y ean before dis­
posing of K in any way.
In relation to this ho expressed the
conviction that when the first unit of
the hotel, with 42 rooms sms built,
the vent ure would prove so su ccess ful Christian Science Lecture
A free lecture on Christian Science
that before another year had pasted
it would be necessary to build the sec­ by John C. Lath rep, C. 8. B., of Brook­
ond unit on the ramaindeT of the site. line; Maas., member of the Board *of
He added th at srith the new highways Lectureship of the Mother Church,
John C. Lathrop, * of Brookline,
reaching tide city from ths north,
Massachuset ts, te to deliver a free tee
south and east, if tha hotel business
turc m Christian Science a t Urn Lib­
erty Theatre tonight a t S o’clock.
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