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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1923)
* « , MV '*.¡1 ' w! *i !•' - ' ' fflw h L 't n f r I?* - I K , % # ' 1 ••••« * The Coquille lì V -jf c îJ E p a p e r t h a t « COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, l i e IS NEEDED W h y th e C o u n ty S h o u ld V o t e n 9 2 5 0 ,0 0 « B o a d b a n e Éet F o r th The budget com m ittee fo r Coos county concluded their labors yester day afternoon and th eir figures «e r e turned over to Accountant W. H. W enn to put in proper shape. I t « i l l he soots days before they are com piled and ready fo r pu blication.. Probably no budget com m ittee has ever before had so much trouble ia m aking the budget come within the six par cant lim itation. And thsra ia n vary good reason why they could not. D elegation a fter delegation 'w aited on the com m ittee to secure an appro priation fo r the particular m atter they «a r e interested in— a ll o f them needed, too, but the com m ittee had to turn a d ea f ear to them. .. The fixed charges, prescribed by statute, and the adm inistration of county affairs takes so great a per centage o f the money that can be raised by taxes that there is little le ft fo r new construction work, bridges, county agent, county library, etc., etc. In the flret pines the sinking fund fo r retirin g the tw o road bond issues and to pay the boad interest has to be m et every year, and this is n o « run ning over $100,000 n year, and con siderably over $200,000 has been paid on these bonds in tw o years. P r o fr e a s o n H o te l The plasterer* began today th* work o f covering the tauter w alls and ceilings at $fte n s » hotel. The ro o f has been completed gad yesterday the last room in the basement was given its concrete 8 soring. Contractor M etzger has s e re # o f finishers en gaged who w ill rush that part o f th * job to com pletion as rapidly as pas sible, but it w ill be some months yet before the building is ready fo r occu pancy. N o lease fo r the hotel has yet been m ad« with anyone, but the store room * have all bean rented. Ralph N osier w ill have the barber shop alongside the hotel entrance, C. J. Fuhrman w il occupy the corner room at Front and T a ylo r street w ith h i* pharmacy, and the Coast Auto Lin er Ready Early ia November N ever before have the people o f Co- quille been so worked up over the failu re o f the Mountain State Pow er Co. to furnish uninterrupted electri cal service as they have bean this week. Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday evenings the ligh ts w a n like Finnegan with h it report <m a street ear accident— '“ o ff again, an again, gone again.” ■■-*>, ,< m The people o f Coquille and the whole o f Coos county have has* very patient w ith this public service cor poration but patience' has cassad to bo a virtue. Tim e a fte r tim e oO- ciala o f tho company ksvs premised that when an improvement was in stalled tho service would he better, but they never seem to have caught up with the demand fo r ju ice with their equipment, and it ia doubtful i f the 4000 kilow att machine now being W ork hue been at a standstill on the new hrick building being built by A . N. Gould on F irst street, fo r n weak or so. The building is ready fo r plastering, but the workmen have not yet got around to I t . Gould A Gould expect to m ove into H some tim e be satire Smith m ill is operated electri tween the first and middle o f Novem - cally. Local m anagers o f tho company have secured the installation o f elec , tric ranges, power m achinery, and other juice consuming devices on the prom ise that better service wsa to bo given, and now whan, hers in Oe- quille alone, the lack e f power moans The Sentinel is in receipt o f tele hundreds o f dollars lost business a gram s from J. L . Smith announcing day to consumers, the service' is as that Coos county won the first prise poor as it has ever been. ia the coast diviatea at the State W ith m illions o f horsepower going F a ir at Salem this week, with 29 to waste in Coos county, the power company continues the attem pt to conduct their business w ith tho jutes COOS WINS FIRST PRIZE Moat o f the local, student* «h o w ill attend the U niversity o f O rego* this year want oat to Eugene last «o o k . The lift included the I f m m * Cam illa Lorena, M a rio li* aad Ardlann* Has- ird , Helen end D elie Sherwood. M iei M yrtle M ast, o f Lee, started Monday ■tornine and Mias Gertrude Butler Tuesday morning. Am ong those goin g to Core allia to attend the agricultural college «e r a Fred W liner and Lorin Schroeder, «h o le ft yesterday m orning, Fred H arioeker, «h o le ft yesterday m orn in g and W illiam Oerding, «h o leaves today. Chea. H arioeker, o f M yrtle Point, drove out with his brother yes terday, and they expected to piek up Ralph H arry at Roeeburg. e f 4.000 kilow atts which should pre vent any fu rth er breakdowns such ta we have had to contend with. "T h e shortage o f water supply fo r tho steam plant occasioned by the continued d ry weather h a s .g re a tly oor activities, in addi Boa to this, the seepage o f sett wa ter into our hollar feed Has, on W ed nesday and the burning out o f n U rge m otor on one o f ear w ater pumps forced an interruption o f between throe aad fou r hours, which, by the wap is the w orst mishap wo have had #0 fa r as «U prising our customers e f their session yesterday unanimously took a stand in fa vo r o f the county unit system o f levyin g taxes fo r tho support ad schools in this county and doing sw ay with tho wide disparity in taxes ia tho various school districts o f Coos county. The reasons fa r tho adoption o f this method o f levyin g taxes fo r schools in this county are so d ea rly m anifest and so fu lly ha accord with enlightened public sentim ent that « 0 fe d like congratulating the court and the budget com m ittee on th eir unani mous approval o f a method so eaefaa- en tly fa ir. The m atter eahnot o f course t in e up fo r a vote until the 1P24 election; ALL WANT A MARKET ROAD concensus o f opinion waa that the reads from the bridge here to Flsh- “ Our now «,000 kilow att generator is ready to ha turned on, and in or der to expedite this additional pleat fa cility, wa ordered the new two-ton oil switch sont os from Portland by W e are glad to note th at M r. Smith ■tiD retains his habit o f bringing home the bacon when he lots him self looqp. Nor should we fo rg o t hie as $ 18,000 sociate, E. R. Peterson, who used to be oor county club leader and is now associated w ith Mr. SmAbl in the work ia which they have secured new laurels fo r our county. south o f M yrtle Point Eaststdo bridge . . . . . . . vice from 7 a. m. until m idnight, which would mean an annual operat in g expanse o f $10,000. Both fe rry boat and slips are old and w ill have to bo replaced shortly ft the fe rry ia continued, snd the increasing traffic from Coos river aad Catching Slough w ill fu rther congest it at * Eastside. T V court believes that a bridge is the only solution and that the coat o f fe r ry operation would, in a fe w years, pay -fo r the bridge. O f course, there w ill be some objec tion to a $260,000 bond imue, but should one bo voted now it would be o ff on previous issues during th * past tw o years, snd it would enahj^ th* county to con B are its road program and have some o f the necessities which the «ou rt now has to turn down. It would sim ply amount to spreading ont fo r a fe w years the retirem ent o f the bonds voted in 191« and 1921. Lyceum Cowsf Pays Cost The H igh School ia assured o f a p rofit on the three-number Lyceum course they have brought to Coquille thia fa ll, fo r they have about enough The Salem Capital Journal says o f the Coos county display: "Probably m ore comments have been heard concerning the Coos coun ty booth than any other. A huge slap o f mjrrtlewood alm ost com plete ly fills the w all space, surrounded by a solid mass o f cedar boughs, snd tw o ta ll pillars, which are h alf sections o f cedar trees. Cedar bark furnishes the ssatorial fo r the hand rail o f tho enclosure w ail, which ia constructed o f red and w h ite fir and cedar, hem lock aad spruce boards. A fu ll dis play o f m yrtle wood novelties is to be seen, as w ell as the various vegetables and horticultural products o f the county. P. L. Smith and E. R. Peter - First Football Game Sixth The first footb all game o f the sea son w ill be played here a week from tom orrow, Oct. 8, when the Marshfield and Coquille H igh elevens w ill meet. The coaches o f both teams te ll o f the dilfiealty o f whipping their teams in to shape, and it is a w ell known fact that fo r years Coquille has had about the ligh test team in the county. But the entire squad o f 26 is enthusiastic and fu ll o f pap and are w orking hard five afternoons o f the week to perfect their playing and g et goin g as a w ell- oiled machane. W ith the coaching they are gettin g they should givs a good account o f themselves. Death at Mrs. Stela Danielson Mrs. Stein Danielson, o f Parkors- barg, died at N orth Bend at th* acme e f her granddaughter, M rs. Store shout 2 o’clock Thursday m erning. Th* funeral service* w ill be held st th* Undertaking parlor* here tom or row (S atu rd ay) afternoon at 2 o’clock p. m. conducted by Rev. H. V. Moore. Mrs. Danielson's home wa* near The W eraich house three or four blocks north o f the Sentinel office on the highw ay has th ii week been purchased by Rev. A . W . B all, rector o f the Episcopal church here, who w ill make Me home there, rem oving from Ms 8purgoon H ill residence. , Bonn- o f the state. The follow in g ia a resolution adopt ed by the Coquille Commercial Chib regarding the service rendered by the Mountain Stetaa Pow er' Co.: "A fte r putting up with m ore or less indifferent service a t the hands o f the Mountain States Pow er Co. ia the m atter o f electric power and ligh ts fo r the past ten years, and fo r the past month p articu larly being subjected to great annoyance and considerable lose in business due to the erratic service rendered, which has been interm ittent beyond all rea son and exasperating beyond endur ance, and in view o f the fa ct that re posted prom isee made by th e said M oo tain States Pow er Co. ia regard to new equipment and betterm ent o f the service have only resulted in the service becoming continually worse, we, the members o f the Coquille Com m ercial Club hereby protest against the very rotten service being given in the C ity o f Coquille, and request that the Coquille C ity Council rescind the said Mountain States Pow er Com pany’s franchise, which calls fo r con tinuous service, and take any other actloa th at m ay seem Necessary to remedy tho present intolerable condi- Frank Bellrose, th* man who was d rivin g the car when it waqt over the embankment near N orw ay and killed C. W . Sprague a month or six weeks ago, was taken before Justice 8tanl*y on Tuesday. Thar* were tw o charges against him. One was fo r d rivin g a car while intoxicated to which he pleaded not gu ilty, and his tria l was set fo r n ext Tuesday, O c t 2. The second charge was fo r in vol untary manslaughter. Ha waived ex amination on this charge and was bouad over to the grand ju ry, hail be in g set st 12600, which he .has not been able to furnish. Wednesday afternoon Judge Meat and M r. Chandler drove over the pro posed m arket roads from the bridge byre, aad it Is reported that Mr. Chandler said ho would recomasend a fo rty fo o t righ t o f w ay through the bottoms from the bridge to the Do- ment place. From there on along the hillside a «0 . or a 100 fo o t righ t o f Dr. C ofo I. Round Orcr The above ertic i* was received yes terday. This m orning the power was o ff here ia Coquill* from fi o’clock when we began work at th* 8 *atin *l o®ce until about 9:80, aad meantime the m etal In our pot had got cold and it did not boat up so that we could use It until a fter ten. An Interm it tent power U fo r this reason th * same as no power at a ll a t the Sentinel e f- Owing to th * frequent steppage o f the current here thia week, we have bean vary much o f th* tim e without say power at all. And th* power was off all o f W ednesday m orning and much o f th* Base stale*. The effect o f this sort o f power on our a b ility to got out week or s news paper on tim e can rbadily he under stood. A ad tt is a a eri o f damage fo r The prelim inary hearing o f Dr. Fred C ovell, charged w ith the murder o f his w ife below Ban don, was bald a t Bandon yesterday before Justice L. J. Radley. He era* bound over to the grand ju ry on a second degree murder charge and bail, fixed at $10,- 000, which ha expects to bo ablo to furnish. , N ow that the prelim inary has bean bald, it can be stated that Luka 8. M ay, the most noted crim inologist in the northwest, has bean w orking oa the case fo r over two weeks, he hav ing bean contracted with by the coun ty to unearth a ll possible evidence on which a prosecution eould be asked, a fter the county official« had been b af fled in their attem pt* and had secured ealy the most circum stantial o f evi- unty M rs. Price Robison, o f N orw ay, died a t Em er gency Hospital a t Bandon last Mon day evening s t eigh t o’clock. The cause at her death was apoplexy. The funeral services w o n held at the Brethren church in M yrtle Point yesterday afternoon, baing conducted by Rev. Thoo. Barktow and Bov. T . B. McDonald. The church waa filled with relatives and friends e f the de ceased and many were not able to gain admission. Th* interm ent took pleas at the N orw ay cem etery, th* services there being conduced by Beulah Chapter No- 6, O. E. 8-, o f which chapter aha was a member, Laura H oover was th* daughter e f Mr. aad M rs. A aroa Hoover, both e f whom died early hi this century. She w s i born in Hennepin county JCino- sota, on October tt, 1884, baiag 68 years, 10 months and 27 years o f age a t the tins* o f her death. Ska earns w ith bar parents to Oregen in th* fa ll o f 1871, snd in th* fa ll o f 1882 ires m arried to Price Robison, who survive*. T o this union tea children war* born, a ll o f wheat are livin g, and nil but one o f whom w ore p res ent at the funeral, Mrs. Ball being confined to her home by si rim ms Tho ten arat Caleb Robison aad Mrs. C lareae* Schroeder, o f A re g o ; W alter Eobleea. o f R oc heater, Wash., Mrs. R ay Lew is, o f G aylord; Roy aad Clone Robison, o f N orw ay; M rs. L a d a s Rail, o f Broadboat; M rs. Bonaire L illie , o f A reg o ; M rs. Bernice Gulotrore, o f N orw ay; aad Mrs. Joe E l Ha, a f M yr tle Point. She also leapao twsaty-uine livin g grandchildren, tw o h o vta « prsre li* her to tho hotter Mad. - . AH o f her m arried life was spent at N orw ay «c re p t fo r IS years, from 1882 to 189«, whoa tho fa m ily lived at Fiektrap. Besides being a msmksr I the I om I Grange. £». of the