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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1923)
la . ***’ ,v Only Thirty ; ■ i a j j #. The S ec tin el senior can well re member the time when it wee e mat ter o f months to get e letter from New York to San Francisco or Port land. In feet Portland waa a very small settlement bat little more than a year old in 1847, when'-we were barn; and San Francisco wasn’t yot on the map, the scattered settlement there being known as “ Yerba Buena,” until the gold discovery in 1848 e year end a half later. Indead, the railroad across the isthmus o f Pana ma wasn't began until 1860 nor fin ished until five years later whan we were seven years o f age. So we can readily remember the time when it took from one to two months end 86 cento postage to iwnd a latter from the Atlantic coeat to boy when the railroad across the Is thmus o f Panose* was finished to 1866. A few yearn after that a pony express was inaugurated whkh pick ed up latter at the Missouri river, at Kansas City or Omaha and deliversd them in Sen Francisco s week later, or inside o f two weeks .after they were mailed at New York City. The first traneacontinentel railroad was completed in 1M4 or 1866 when the writer was nearly grown. But notwithstanding the shorten ing o f time o f passage and m ails across the continent, whkh was g • otter o f several months when we were borp, the meet remarkable re duction bee occurred during the pr*e- J. M. Horton and w ife, the form er a coatta o f Judge B. H. Meet, drove in Tuesday «venta* in in OldemoMle. His home le ia the northern, part o f North Caroline, which he left laat April, and he hoe been travelling moot o f the time «tace. H i. exper iences have been many. He atarted with a M200 Cadillac a n d . traded cars fou r times before reaching here, bat his moat interesting experifoce was his marriage to a Nebraska young lady ea route. He Is a veteran o f the War with Germany, saw evsr- 80, which w ill be fo r the benefit of the ,1928 baseball chib. The »«00 shortage an this season must be met is some way end it b fo r this pur pose the dance b to be given. The Jay Tower Orchestra will fu m bh the musk, which insures the best to that line. Everyone in the county b in vited to eome and enjoy himself. Tickets will be three fu r:86c. NEXT FRIDAY NATAL DAY J t might bo supposed that one at least o f the BCy ‘ papers would have a reporter who would know that the precipice mi the valley side o f the remi at Norway was not a hundred ceding—-Sept. 7. He will be them ell day to register students. The follow ing b the corps o f te n d o n contracted with for the coming year, and Mr. Parr and the board o f directors feel that it is a vary e®- cient one; Primary Grades Mrs. Ines Chase, Oequille. Miss Anna Hendrickson, Astoria! Miss Vina L. Crook, Looking Gloss. Mrs. Bertha Harpole-Ditto, Sprin- flald last year, but now o f CoquiUe. Intermediate Grades M bs Maymie DeLong, Coquilln Miss Leans# Miller, Bridge. Miss Anne Lewis, Broekway. Mrs. Boss E. Glossop, principal of Grads Building, Marshfield. Upper Grade* Miss La Verne Lamb, Blackly. Ore. Mrs. Mary Harvey, Coquille. Miss Emma Rasmussen. High School L. A. Parr, Superintendent. R. E. McCormack, principal, Rossi Judge R. H. Mast left today fo r Portland to attend the meeting o f tha State Highway Conuniasksi tom or row. There is not a greet deal com ing up at this session but Judge Mast is goin g to try and have the com m it lion allow that $80,000 additional credit on tha Cooe Bay North high way, whkh the county is entitled to and whkh waa held back a couple of ■sontha ago, when 8198JW8 credit was Sllowodr . He says that it will be neeeasary also fo r the state to carry about $80,- 000 o f the county's share on tha Coos Bay-Roeeburg highway until next yaar, whan it can ha budgeted. The county locks tkat amount o f having the fund« to pay fo r the work. C. W. Parker, o f M ankfiald, will also attend the session tom orrow with Judge Mast. championship last Sunday by defeat ing Marshfield fo r the second game o f the poet season series. 8 to 8. Carl Gilbert, o f CoquiUe, was in the box fo r Marshfield and pitehod a good gam# tort tha hard-hitting Bandon ions came from behind, one run at a K. W. Greeg ha# rebuilt two barns for H. E. Hem this summer, one on his homo piece aad the other oa the Chase piece near Cedar Point, on toe highway. Both* barm have been raised end enlarged .aad concrete cap for the past two years and should It win H again th b yaar, would be come its permanent possessor. Need less to say an effort will bo mode to hove every member o f Beulah chap ter in attendance next Friday even- point near the eM stone quarry years ago, and perhaps the road needs a guard rail there Just as badly as if the precipice was 10« feet high in stead o f being lose than a third that height. That b where L. W. Sprague, o f Marshfield, whose Nash J-oadster went off the grade and dawn to the level o f the railroad track at that time, suffered a lacerated liver, which resulted in his death Tuesday morn- - Mayor Nosier and four councilman — C. T. Skeels, C. JL Fuhrman, C. L. A t this time the ebben e’ committee to act with the council ta preparing, the budget for 1884 was ñamad by the mayor. They ero K. A . W imer, L. H. Hasard; J. E. Bom, Arthur El*- lingson, Geo. T. Moulton end C. W. Gardner. This committee will meet with the council some time next month after the finanoa committee o f Frank Bellroee, o f North Bond, was the council and city treasurer have driving the car at the thus, though prepared a tentative budget Marshal Jack L o a d reported on evidently unfit ta de so, and he was various city mattem «et the eeuncU’s consideration. One e f them was the complainte he had recabad o f vault toilets in the vicinity o f the M. K. Church South. Boms time ego the council request ed that d e residents o f the south east section o f the city petition fo r a new sewer eystem, and although am READY TO NUMBER C ity Engineer Vinton reported to the council Monday evening that he had the map and data fo r the num bering o f bornas in Coquille all pm- pared end that anyone desiring to know thel» nutnber. canid secare it from him at the city hall whan ha was there. Both the hardware stores— CoquiUe Hardware Co. and J. A. Lamb— havs 'agreed to carry a stock Bertha, McCormack, Rose- burg. M bs Marvel Skoals, CoquiUe. M bs Hutk Nissan, Marshfield. ? Miss Emms Jo 8 tews ft, Portland. M bs Sara Huntington, Yoncalla. M bs Janet W est, Portland. A s athbtic coach the directors have practically com puted arrangements with Keith Leslie to have charge e f the football and bosket bell squads IB I t * tinent—a distance o f 3,000 mtfos— in e night and two days; but it has been dose and the trip from the A t lantic to the Pacific that required from two to foar months time when ffn began to beer about the gold seek ers going to California, we now Me begun after sunrise one day and fin ished before sunset the next day. And little seems to be thought about the wonder o f it all. It was different when after eeverel unsuccessful attempts about 1866, e eabmsrine telegraph line was put in operation between Europe and the Western hemisphere, in wonder and ewe at being able to communicate in stantaneously under three thousands miles e f eeeen, the first message rev erently ran "W hat bath God w rought." knew whet ceases the discrepancies In the reports on tests o f water tak en from the city system. A ll tem ples have been sent to the state board o f health hat the reports fo r the pest three months have been greatly at variance. The samples sent in June «hewed 76 B. C oll per e. a.; ia Jnly, 8 ; and the report fo r August, received last Saturday, read 100 B. Coll par B v - The samples taken this month w an sent by the nurses, Mrs. Deitrich end Mias White, one being from the fau- eet at Goo. Davis’ residence and the ether from the big reservoir on Rink Greek, ff ■■ Jfc. The bacteria test showed 1000 per eubic centimeter at the dam, end 600 from the faucet, which may be ac counted fo r by the feet that the chlorinating system; is ia constant Smm Baildiag \ The COquffle Hardware eompmfy moved their hardware stock to their new location in the Elingeen building on Taylor street last Sunday, but they find it slow work getting settled. They have more commodious quar ters now, and ere net so cramped. ry will run dp to 800. ' - j With fifty numbers to seeb block there will bo, to e 800 foot block, a number fo r every six feet, whkh in sures that there will never be any paad far fractional numbeen. . It k expected that all bouses and b u ild in gs,» town will have the num erals displayed oil their fronts and that It will be done soon. The Coos County Natal Day As sociation ia composed of the chapters at Myrtle Point, Bpndon, CoquiUe, Marshfield and North Bend. The newly organised Powers chapter will probably be admitted at this year's meeting. Twn Autos in Collision The colliding o f a Ford bug and a Dodge Wednesday evening at the city hell center cost Clarence De adman $8.80 da Recorder Lawrence’s court. The hog was going west on Second and the Dodge south on Hall. An other car earning from the west add ed to the congestion so that the bag oeald net turn eat. It struck the Dodge* with each fores as to break all tha spokes oat o f one front wheel. A rt Graham waa driving tha Dodge and the collision ripped a tire off hie ear. The Judge suspended sentence until the Dodge was repaired but M. Graham eaM it waa entirely ac cidental and be would repair his tire him self; so the recorder let Dead- man off with the minimum fine. v Two to Go to Asylum Two man have been committed to the asylum at Salem this week. One o f them wee George Bobet, who waa injured when the Ford in whkh he wee riding struck R. E. McCormack’s ca r'lo st week. A blew at the baas o f the skull seems to kavt destroyed his memory so that he baa no recol lection o f the accident nor o f the op eration on bk bead. John McNeill, who form erly eon- ducted a second hand (tore on Front street here, to the ether patient He k not viol ant but when he began to fire bullets through his qabin oa Whiskey Ron, complaint was made to the sheriff’s office end Deputy 8. A. Male born went down end brought him up here. An attendant from Salem ia ex pected in today to take both men ou t ting off e f the corners on bath sides o f the highway witl be the only sat isfactory solution e f this trefik dan ger. Dr. G. Earl Low was appointed city health officer to enccood Dr. H. W. Ir win, who baa removed from the city. Considerable talk regarding the water situation urea indulged in end in an effort to localise the contam ination It was agreed that the outlet from the big dam oa Rink creek should bo dosed end ell city water be draws from the amali dam farther up oa Rink, and from W alker creek. This will probably run the city e h m o f water in a abort time and irriga tion restrictions may be Imposed. 1» feet Mayor Notier reported that sev eral who were now on meter had earn- Under Cover Next Week J. M. Hackart, superintendent to charge o f construction o f the new hotel, says this morning that by the first off. the month he will have the building under cover as toe «raw is making rapid headway now ia get Folsom penitentiary o f that state. ting the roof on. The concrete fo r the w ells o f toe Maitland got away wKh about $800 o f worthless paper to North Bead after remaining there six months. With this dope on him Mr. Malehorn thinks h will be but a short time before he to located. by e six o’clock luncheon to the ban quet room e f the Maeonte Temple, end ell members e f the order, whether o f Beulah chapter or net, ore invited to put irrigation restrictions oa water k going to waate would no and o f eritieiam. Contractor E. W . Greag expects to start the construction o f e commun ity building at Arago next week, to be «0x75 feet in s I m . The bqjldtag ill cost complete end furnished w win about $8|000. A i Arugo can do this why can’t Coquille spend $16,000 for a community building o f tha sisa "ü