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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1924)
■m.. Ma ii af a cir i nr company has ceased operations and will liquidate. Practically all of the machinery has been purchased by the Coos Veneer A Box company of Marshfield and will be moved to the plant owned by the purchasers in that city. The Bandon factory was located in the old woolen mill on the waterfront of that city. The company made good but on account of ths fire hazard would have had to move to a new building to continue operations, so closed business. ■ The factory had quite a large pay roll. Those interested in the plant were J. H. Dalen, the manager, and O. L. Zentner, F. S. Perry and Jack Kronenberg. Mr. Dalen will engage in the sawmill business at Coquille or Myrtle Point. Messrs. Perry and Zentner will take one of the veneer machines * to the Perry veneer plant, which they operate and the rest of the machinery will go to Marshfield. To Arrive Monday, March 24 Heavy Horses ? Suitable for logging and farming, weighing from 1400 to 1900 lbs. Entire satisfaction guaranteed or trial allowed. This stock has been shipped from Grande Ronde Valley, Eastern Oregon. Mr. Roger’s Barn Coquille, Oregon G. K. HOWITT - - ( Larson’s Report on Highway St. Patrick’s Day Party "St. Patrick’s Day in »he Morning” was celebrated Monday evening at the Fred Belloni home on South Coulter street, Mis« Emma Jo Stewart and Miss Ruth Nissen being hostesses to the G. ’n G. club. Pussies, turtle races, and conundrums entertained the guests and created much rivalry and hilarity. Mrs. Bertha J. Simth, Mias Agnes Whetstone, Miss LaVerne Lamb and Miss Maymie DeLong were among the prise winners, green snakes and other appropriate awards being given. The refreshments also carried out the spirit of the day, being in green and white. The following guests were present: Mrs. Bertha J. Smith, Misses ■' Wn^tltone, *TiljrtJe anikteymie De- ” Long, Bess Maury, Vina Cronk, Anne Henrickson, Emma Rasmussen, Thora Pederson, Marian Young, EUa Horn, Mabel Eisamen, Edna Asplund, La Verne Lamb and her mother, Mrs. 9W, STANDARD STAND ARD OIL COMPANY (CAtirOKNlA) General Hauling and Delivery to all parts of the city Meet all Trains and Boats , Agents tor JOHNSON'S MILL WOOD SHINGLES for SALE Mansell Drayage & Delivery Co. Phones 101 J OIL First American Money Made of Clam Shell» The proprietor of "a ranch on'Cape Cod’* has found traces of a trading station established at Bourne, or Manement, In the year of the Pilgrims, 1627. At this trading post American money was first invented as a device for making trade more convenient This poet was established for trade be tween the Pilgrims on one side and the Indians and the Dutch New Yorkers on the other. In the course of time they Invented wampum, which was to have a stable, fixed value at all times. Wampum was a piece of qnahog (clam) shell cut Into a certain shape and well polished. One piece of quahog shell represented ’■a certain fixed value.—Detroit News. Dairymaids Are Scientist«. The modern dairymaid, the girl stu dent from the agricultural college or domestic science school.' Is verily a «dentist She 1« a bacteriologist and a specialist In the art of bottling milk and churning butter. With her scien tific knowledge a« to why churned eream make« butter, what tempera tures are best and vffien to dash the churn Inside with cold water or brine she can literally • give her old-fash ioned country sister “cards and spades” when tt cornea to taking full charge of a dairy. N. H. Larson, of Port Orford pass ed through Coquille Monday on his way home from "Portland. Mr. Lar son attended the special meeting of the state highway commission as a representative of the Coos-Curry-Del Norte Good Roads association. The commission advertised for bids for two pieces of the Roosevelt high way. One stretch is of about a mile from the Windchuck bridge and a short distance on the north side of the bridge. The other stretch is fer about 2.5 miles at Myers Creek which will eliminate a bad hill. Mr. Larson says that two surveys have been made from the old ceme tery to Rogue river. One goes through the gap above Wedderburn and the other skirts the ocean to Wed derburn. Corn Popper TIRES VULCANIZED We make them give you service What’s the use of throwing away your tires when you have many more miles of service in them? Did you ever stop to consider the money saving you can make by hav ing them repaired? We have been fortunate in securing a vulcanizer who is thorough and capable in his work and if you have any tires you have discarded, bring them in, we will tell you how much it will cost to repair them and whether they will give you mileage. All work guaranteed at a reasonable price Coquille Service Station • • GOODYEAR TIRES On the Highway Phone 133 What is a Teaspoonful? Democratic Endorcements About twenty-five democrats held a meeting in the Coquille Hotel here Monday to consider plans for the coming campaign. The following is the list of those who were endorsed by MSdfflWage—rFar-Gaunty Clerk, A. B. Collier; for County Commissioner —Chas. -Mahaffey, of Coos River: for County Surveyor, E. L. Vinton.— W. W. Gage, of Coquille, and Wal ter Richardson, of Marshfield, have both announced themselves as candi dates for sheriff, but no endôrsement was made for that office by the demo Teachers’ Institute Today crats, which included representatives The Coquille schools are closed to from Myrtle Point, Bandon, Coquille, day while the teachers are attending Marshfield and North Bend. the institute at Marshfield. Local Coos county problems are aH that will Appointments to West Point come up for disquasion, although the The following appointments have superintendent of schools at Ashland been made to fill two vacancies in the will deliver an address. United States Military Academy at Mrs. Alice B. Maloney, president of West Point from the First Congres the State Business Women’s Clubs, sional District of Oregon: is also to address the institute. That Principals: Ronald S. Haines, Sa organisation is doing a most worth lem, Oregon. while work in making a survey of Richard Middlebrooks, Beaverton, high school and grade students with Oregon. the idea of learning what their ob First Alternates: John F. Wadman, jective is after their school days are Powers, Oregon; Lowell L. Hall, Eu over. They are also making a cam gene, Oregon. paign along the line of getting all Second Alternates: James H. Mills, students to taka the high school course Jr., North Bend, Oregon; George W. »efore entering business life, and the Moses, Jr., Corvallis, Oregon. organisation is preparing to help Students, who could not otherwise fin Death of Henry Oxenrider ish high school. Henry Oxenrider, 72 years old, Tomorrow another institute will be North Coos river rancher, died at the held at Bandon. home of his son, Charles E. Oxenrider, at 287 Commercial Ave., Marshfield, Wednesday morning at 4:30. His death came as a result of a severe attack of heart trouble sustained last Thursday at his home on Coos river. James Harding, trained nurse, who has been attending the old man, be-, lives that a stroke of paralysis came, Which brought instant death. He leaves a widow, two sons and six grandchildren, says the Coos Bay Times. Lumber Cargo Attached The cargo of lumber on the «ail ing vessel W. H. Talbott now in port at Coo« Bay was attached by Deputy Sheriff Sam Malehorn Monday. The attachment ia in connection with a suit in Portland for $2116.81. The suit was started by the Oregon Ex port Import Lumber company against the Canadian Trading company. The suit does not affect the vessel bat simply the cargo which the vessel had loaded for the defendant ia the suit. CALUMET eoohomy bajkuv G POWDER Level spoonfuls are all that are neo essary when you use CALUMET—it makes more bakings which means a real saving on bake day. Oscar Wilde Was Stagy Door Johnny Yea: s Z; At the time when Mrs Lauxirj i at the zenith of her fame and ben in; Oscar Wilde, Just out of Oxford mu versfty, came to London, poor bit proud. He fell iflZove with the Jersey 141/ as all men did. bought one exq’ilrib blossom every evening at Cevent Gar den market, marched acres« ' U>nd<>i holding It In front of him with tie amazing unself-consciousnesw that b< afterward parodied so well, waited ut the curbstone outside the theater t< open the door of tier carriage and thet handed hie tribute of adoration In s’ lent ecstasy. For a time there was somethin; rather touching In the gallantry <>i this knightly deed, and Mrs. lataetrt accepted the inevitable gift from th- sallow, large-eyed, long-haired, inai ticulate youth with pleasure. But the deadly monotony of the» evening presentations, and rhe regv lar sight of his worshipping tlgur> looming In the shadows as site left th theater, got eventually on her tiervet and Wilde was begged to go awn.v Shocked and wounded, be continued however, to hang about night aftc night tn the deepest melancholy glom , until at last, taking pity on Ids par elonate plight, Mrs Langtry sent-ou word that he might renew bls word leas attentions and once more alhnvi-. herself to be handed out of her cat rlage by the man who originated th now so popular method of saying b with flowers.—Cosmo Hamilton. In th< Saturday Evening Port. Practice of Touching Wood Ancient Cuttom Many people, after they have boast ed of their good luck, proceed to "touch wood.” So did our remote an cestors. the tree worshipers. An authority on such matters wrote: "The remarkable similarity In cus toms all over Europe points to the conclusion that tree worship was an Important element tn the early re ligion of mankind, especially of the Aryan stock, and the singularly uni formity of rites and ceremonies which can easily be shown to exist in widely separated countries warrants us in be lieving that they cannot have changed much from very remote ages; and that the practices continued down to a very recent period—some even among ourselves—were substantially Identical with the rites and ceremonies ob served by Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.” The primitive belief was that spirits resided in trees. Without this basic Idea being entirely lost tber« came the period of the sacred groves and the Druids* oaks, snd then the dedica tion of certain sorts of trees to the earliest and simplest form Of the su perstition. We touch wood to call the attention of the tree spirit to the fact that we recognize bls Influence In the good luck of "which we boast and in order that he may not feel slighted and change our good fortune Into bad; at least, that Is why our ancestors touched wood.—London Tit-Bits.
