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THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A. LETTER FROM HOME
XX.
COQUILLE, 0008 COUNTY.
VO L. 86.
F R ID A Y ,
U , 1988.
1923 FOOTBALL
A Big School
District Acroaa the River Ia Go-
lag After Improved
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The Sentind was m isinform ed last
weak in stating that the rotors hi
Road D istrict No. *0— across toe river
and extending from Lam ps to Fish-
trap— w ere goin g to rota $6,000 spec
ial tax this fa ll to im prove their tw o
roads, > 0 0 from the bridge hare to
Fiahtrap and the other around the
footh ills from the old F tg g place to
the H athaway place oa the Rooeevelt
Highway.
K. H. Hamden inform s os that
what was agreed upon by the tax
payers at the m eeting at Roy school
house Tuesday o f last week, was a
fou r m ill tax which w ill raise about
»*,600.
They also hare preeented the m at
ter to the county court asking that
the footh ill route be ssade a m arket
road and they m ay aak the same des
ignation fo r the road up the river to
Intense interest was m anifested by
the taxpayers o f School D istrict No. 8
Monday evening, when tha adoption
o f too bndgot waa up fa r considera
tion aad tha levyin g o f the tax for
school purposes
The m eeting was entirely ha m o a
ns, not a V ote being cast against
the adoption at the budget, and the
entire tim e ooneomod in doing it was
about five mlnutaa.
It le very g ra tify in g to find usto
aa interest shown by too people whan
the spending at their money ia up fo r
consideration, but the unanimous vote
indicated too confidence tha patrons
repose in their officials.
Four men ware present, all o f them
connected officially with toe schools,
and the vote cast was tores fo r aad
none against. One o f those present
was not s legal voter in the m atter s f
levyin g texts.
COUNTY COURT
THIS WEEK
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I I
Besides figu rin g on the budget fo r
19*4 the county court has attended
-to a fe w other m atters this week.
Jno. H. Groves and R. C. Dement
being unable to serve on the budget
unable to serve; so Horny A . Sehroed-
er, o f M yrtle Point, was appointed.
1 Wednesday evening
C equille eitisens as
Lloyd Krantx Injured
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Lloyd Krante, 22-year-old son o f
D. C. Krante, o f this d ty , was injurad
in a loggin g camp sigh t m iles this
slds at Pow ers, when s teg roll
over him. He was tending hook a
when he saw the lo g was broken ke
yelled to U s partner, but toe seco
he hesitated white doing tola eaui
too lo g to catch him. He was brought
to th e Pem berton hospital at M yrtle
Fatato Ha was bruised severely ab«
tha toast and U ps, but no broken
bonos apparently reunited, si though
ha cannot help him self in any way,
sad it is not certain whether U s hack
was seriously injured e r only brute
R. K. McCormack Now Secretary
The only businees transacted a t tha
Com m ercial Club m eeting Wednesday
evening wae tha election o f R. E. Mc
Cormick aa secretary to sac seed L.
C. Newman, who is rem oving from
Coquille. Mr. McCormick was pr
ont sad accepted the office fo r which
he wee unanimously chosen.
President F . G. Leslie spoke vi
highly o f th# work dono by the re tir
in g secretory, and expressed the
d a b ’s regret a t his departure.
The tria l o f W . G. Brandon fo r hav
The story o f the robbery o f the
Pirat National Bank o f Baadoo ia ing liquor in hia possession * M held
thus told in a Marshfield dispatch in here Tuesday afternoon, Justice Stan
yesterday’s Oregonian datad Tues ley holding court in the city hall. ■
The Jury, compoeed o f W . J. Fer-
day:
brache, Leslie Kbno, R. H j * Creamer,
' A bank shortage o f »14,000 was ad C. B. McCurdy and Chaa. Webb, found
him gu ilty, but recommended leniency.
m itted 10 days ago by Roy B. Cornua,
fo r six years cashier fo r the F irst n a The Judge thereupon lined him »600,
tional Bank o f Bandon, and Mr. Ger- and his attorney, O. Russell M organ,
son’s resignation last week was «n - gave noties o f appeal to the Circuit
ptained today in a statem ent made by
the directors o f the bank, who said
that the shortage was made gdad
prom ptly upon discorerey o f the de
falcations bx the federal bank la-
spec tor, who was here at the tim e the
shortage was suspected.
A fte r resigning his position in toe
bank, Corson went to Sixes riv e t fo r
a short vacation and w ill
appaar
tom orrow at M yrtle Point, before E.
A. Dodge, federal commissioner, and
enter a plea o f gu ilty. John 8. Coke,
o f Portland, federal district attorney,
who is here on vacation, w ill be pres
ent aad receive the pies o f gu tty,
which Corson had agreed w ith the
directors o f the bank to enter.
'T h e peculations had been hidden
cleverly, b y , Cashier Corson ovee a
period o f several years, it was said,
and w ere so w ell ooncealed that they
escaped the scrutiny o f the bank ex
aminers. The directors o f the bank
who made good the shortage to pro
tect the credit o f the bank, and Its
depositors, were Dr. H. L. Houston,
president; Ira J. Sidw ell, W alter R.
Donald, E lbert D yer and L . A . Don
ald, Bandon, and
Chaa. 8. H all,
Marshfield.
The fa c t o f the bank
holding a »6,000 surety bond fo r Cor
son’s conduct at the bank, mads toe
In UHtosg with the Jurymen n ext
day we learned that they did not be
lieve M r. Brandon had bom gu ilty o f
m aking or selling liquor, but he was
convicted on the presumption o f con
scious possession. That is he did not
own any interest in the 1*0 gallons
found during the raid ea the upper
finer o f his building last week, but
the Jury was convinced that he knew
what Tom Makis, a Greek, had been
doing up there.
About the middle o f 'J u ly , Makis
rented the upper floor o f Mr. Bran
don’s building, paying ia advance.
Three differen t dates ia the lease ex
hibited during the tria l ssade it d tt-
eult to determ ine when the lease was
signed, bat Mr. Brandon testified
that It was toe m iddle o f July when
he paid the re n t He also said that
he had been to the top o f both stairs
to g et chairs that Makis had set out
fo r him but that he had not been in
side, and swore that he did not know
what the Greek wae doing.
J. G. Callis, the Oregon bakery
He gave one Illustration o f how the
fu ll tim e health plan works. A man
afille ted w ith a contagious disease
went from Kansas C ity to a snudi
town in Oklahoma,' where they had
only part tim e health work and an
epidemic o f S* canee resulted, of
whom 14 died. One o f these cases
want down to Alabam a where fu ll
ton a health work is carried oa aad
only one ease resulted there and no
deaths. Prom pt quarantine aad pre
vention methods prevented an epi
demic in Nthe Alabam a town where
oarelessneee and neglect caused a se-
Teneher’a Institute Oct. 18-20
S u pt C. E. M ulkey has naatod
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct.
1 8 ,1», and 10, as the days fo r holding
the Coos County Institute this g a r .
It w ill bo held at Bandea.
NEW HEALTH
OFFICIALS HERE
it ligh ter than it would
Horn,
meet nest Monday w ith R O. Haw
kins. Ben R. Chandler and H enry A .
8 threader In ¿tendance, beside the
member s o f the court.
The court appropriated »*6 0 from
the 60-60 road fund to .b e used by
the eitisens o f Brew ster. V a lley in
building a road up Brummett creek.
The petition requesting the appropri
ation was presented by J. R. Bonham.
On deposit o f a bond fo r »100 the
court granted A . Sm alley a perm it to
haul logs on the H all’s creek road
to A rage landing.
On account o f the fa c t that so many
children are compelled to use the
bridge between North and South
Powers, the court has ordered that
16 miles shaO be the maximum speed
The fo llo w ig in relation to this case
fo r autos on that bridge and the road
is from yesterday’ s aBndon W orld:
patrolman pas instruct to poet notices
Mr. Corson has bean a resident of
to that offset aad enforee toe order.
this community fo r some 18 years.
He practically grew to manhood here.
In an these years ha has borne a
splendid reputation. He is a man of
good habits aad he has always bean
a tirel ess worker fo r the uplipt and
upbuilding o f the community. None
was more public spirited than he.
W hile his present trouble cannot
be excused his friends readily under
stand that it was due to his generous
disposition aad goodfallow s hip rather
than to any desire to p rofit a t the
'expense o f others. He has worked
hard fo r years and has been instru
mental in building up the bank and
doing much fo r the community, yet
Coquille Baaks Show Galas
he is penniless today.
A tty . Arthur X. P ick o f Marshfield
The reports ssade by the tw o Co
and the other h alf a t Coos Bay in
appeared
before Commissioner Dodge
quille banks this week, In response to
the evening.
the call made by the com ptroller o f on behalf at Mr. Corson sad the ten
Mr. Smith 'says toby had a very
the currency show total deposits o f
eqpspleto lo t o f exhibits to display
»776,766.84, as against »660,614.08 in
and we know from past experience
th eir report o f June SO. The Farm ers
that Mr. Smith w ill g e t ea t o f those
and Merchants shows an increase o f
exhibits aQ the reeults humanely pos-
888^66.44— from »329,089.70 to $268,-
066.14; w hile the F irst N ational has
increased from 8481,624.88 to »6 0 «,
708.50— a gain at »77479.17.
O ver
O ver 200 Coquille residente have
three-quarters o f m illion deposits la
applied to C ity Engineer Vinton fo r
our tw o financial institutions ia pro
the correct street number to place on
bably the largest ever reported.
their rw id sn u or pines e f business.
This must be m ore thaa a quarter o f
all the buildings— residence and busi-
aees ta Coquille sad white th ey have
n o« all placed th eir numbers yet, a
Next Friday
A reception fo r the teachers la the
Coquille schools w ill he heU next
Friday evening. S ep t 21, under the
suspires o f too Woman’s Chsb. AB
friends and patrons o f too school
Invited to attend. Jast where
reception w ill be held w ill not be
known until the first ef next week.
NKfitg
done public health work at Cleveland,
aad school and health work at Con-
neaut, Ohio. She served as Red Cross
nurse fo r nine months in Camp Grant,
Rockford, Indiana, and ton months ev-
The superintendents, principals aad
athletic coaches e f the Bandon, M yr
tle Point, Coquille, N orth Bead aad
Marshfield high schools mot hero last
Saturday to arrange
the football
schedule fo r this fe ll’s inter-scholas
tic games.
The
follow in g is too
schedule adopted a fte r a long' session
in which an effo rt .waa made to give
two o f the schools e ll they asked fo r
ia the w ay of-advantage demanded;
O c t 6— M arshfield e t Coquille aad
N orth Bend at M yrtle Potato
Oct. 4 *— C oquille at N orth Bend,
and M yrtle Point at Bandon.
Oct. 20— North Bead at M arshfield,
id Bandon a t CoquiBa.
Oct. 27— Coquills at M yrtle Point,
and M arshfield at Bandon.
N ov. 8— M yrtle Point at Coquilla,
and Bandon a t N orth Bond.
N ov. 10— M arshfield a t N orth Band,
and Bandon at M yrtle P o in t
N ov. 16— N orth Bond a t Coquille,
and M yrtle Point at M arshfield.
N ov. 24— Coquille at
M arshfield,
and N erth Bead at Bandon.
It w ill be noted from the above
that CoquiBa has fou r game# at home,
three away, Bandon being tha
only team which the local eleven does
A m eet twice.
The gam e oa Novem ber 1* is set
fo r Friday, bocanas the follow in g day
la tha date tar the b ig O regon gam e
o f-th e year— U . e f O. vs. O. A . C. at
Oa m otion o f Charley Howard, at
M arshfield, the m eeting adopted a
rulo that no coaching ha perm itted
•xeept by too duly elected athletic
Instructor o f each high school. This
ras directed
at
Coquilla, where
Brick” Leslie kas been elected b y the
board es coach. The supporters s f
Howard’s motion won
M yr Point « n j Tlornlun
know that "B rick ” has
tten to to teach sthistles by State
Superintendent Churchill, and that ha
*> signed contract w ith tha Oe-
quUls district board, the — ■ as any
her teacher In to o schools.
It also w ill apply la N orth Band
where "R o d " Rupert has boon assist
ing in the coaching at th eir squad
without any compensation whatever.
The idea that that smacks o f com
m ercialism in am stanr athletics hi
rather far-fetched.
Supt. Taylor, o f N orth Band, has
kon a stand which shews that ha
w ill do the square thing. Hocsuai
H arry Korn, tola year's footb all cap
tain played ten minutes oa tha high
school team in h it eighth grade year,
Mr. T a ylor has ruled that ho is not
eligib le to play on this year’s eleven.
It is a mere technicality fo r H arry
haa only played three years w ith
North Bond H igh, bat that ten min
utes w ill coant as a year’ s playing
and bar him from participation this
r. H arry is one o f North Band’s
bast men, too.
wore county chairman, Mrs. A . T .
M eyers, o f M arshfield;
community
chairmen, Mrs. C. J. Fukrman, Co
qu ille; Mrs. Brom berger, M arshfield;
Short Council Meeting
Mrs. W ho Id, North Bend.
The Coquille división asks that any
M ayor N osier and four
ease needing the attention o f the doc — Skeels, Leach, Fuhrmaa and G ragg
tor or a nurse should be reported — ware present fo r toa rega la r ses
without delay, either d irectly to the sion o f the council M onday evening.
health office or to Mrs. C. J. Fuhrmae,
T. F. Tennison waa present to make
chairman at the Coquitte community.
the d ty an offer fo r five lota on the
west aids at the Marshfield highw ay,
Dm. Hamiltoa Start Hospital which the city had had to bid in fo r
A copy o f The Dallee Chronicle e f delinquent ■ treat im provem ent as
Sept. 14, statee that the new H am il sessments. Hs has recently built a
ton Hoapttal nt The Dalles w ill be house at the intersection at F ifth
started there Im m ediately. The unit streat with the highw ay, aad ha e f-
to be erocted now w ill be three Stor fered th# d ty 111* fo r the five lota to
ies in W igh t and w ill eost »26,000. th# north o f it, all fron tin g on the
The specifications are fo r concrete highw ay."' This waa within 98 o f what
and steel construction, m aking it a V a s do# on thorn fo r taxes, penalty
fireproof building, ùr. R. R. H am il and interest, to the council accepted
ton, at Portland, is goin g to also the offer and ha paid fo r thorn.
M ike Broad and Hom er Hohrorstott
move to The Dallee and become as
wore
ordered paid 8*00, the amount
sociated with his brothers, Dr. V .
o f their contract, fo r building the
L. and Dr. Chas. Ham ilton.
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fence around the Rink croak reservoir.
C. C. F arr waa appointed bp M ayor
Lyceum Number T o n ig h t
N osier to succeed A . O. W alker on
Don’t fo rg e t that Em ory Parnell, all council com m ittees, which ineludas
the one-man band, w ill appear at the the chairmanship o f tha Ananas com
Lib erty Theatre this evening, fo r the m ittee.
first number e f the H igh School L y
ceum Course. Season tickets fo r the