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THE COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11. 1117. PAGB FOUI The Sentinel A GOOD VASES IN A GOOD TOWN H. W. YOUNG, Publisher H. ALLEN YOUNG, Local Editor and Manager Subscription Rates One Year............................. ».......... *2.00 Six Months ............ 1-00 Three Months...................... -0° ■ No subscription taken unless paid iol ill auviuiee. Tula iulv.1* uupwXa- tive. ■ i ..• . ■ .J- ■1 Advertising Rates Display advertising, 25 cents per inch; less than 5 inches, 30 cents per inch. No advertisement inserted for less than 50 cents. . Reading notices IB cents per line. No reading notice, or advertisement of any kind, insert ed for nan 25 .«anta. , — -iT“r7—j I Huff. Then the amount expended for I CEE- insurance is estimated at over *300,- 000,000 greater "than six*, or seven years ago. Now For The We frequently receive notices for gratuitous publication from O. A. C., the state university and other insti tutions which convey to us the thought that they think they shall be heard through their much speaking. Those who write for free publication ought to know that the fact is ex actly the reverse. The fewer the words in which their message can be expressed, the more likely it will be to find a place in our columns. And the same thought needs to be im pressed on all who try to write for (he public: The less padding the mpre publicity. Entered at the Coquille Postqffice aa Second Class. Mail Matter “Our challenge is not to lower ex isting standards of education and Office Çerner W. First and WillardSt. recreative facilities but to raise the level of labor saving and equipment,” . ut Hay« Mra. John D. Sherman, preal- Easter.comea nota > y “ ' dent of the general Federation of It will be celebrated on April 17. - You Have Been Waiting For CSÄ * A, » I» The rainfall of over three inches, federation has great resources at its in the 3t> hours ending Wednesday eommapd to do this work, since it is • ■ 1 now the largest group of organized noon is «aid to ba » reepyd breaker. women in the world, with clubs in For the flrst time in thirty-five nearly two-thirds of all the countries years the number of pensioners on the in the United States and in more than Government rolls declined below the half of all the incorporated communi 500,000 mark during the month of ties.”" October. When we read that the McPher son jjisapeparance case . èoit 'Los Angeles eounty *150,000, iwe wonder whether anybody dowrt there' thinks ths county got its money’s ^vorth in advertising. ____ -______ With a new special fare of *15 from Portland to San Francisco on the Southern Pacific, it looks as if the time might be coming when it would ♦ be cheaper to travel than to stay at home. OREGON MOTOR LAW UPHELD Oregon’s state law forbidding driv er* of vehicles to go "at a rate that will endanger the property of another or the life or limb of any person,” was upheld by the United States su preme court this week. The case was brought to the court on appeal of Frederick L. Miller, Portland, Oregon, merchant, con victed- of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 months in the penitentiary as the result of the death of Alma Hall, a pedestrian, on a public highway with a legal 30 mile speed limit It certainly looked like "sending coal to Newcastle,” but the first ice AUSTRALIA TO AMERICA cream shipment received within,.the The Outlook, New York Arctic Circle sold for *1.75 a quart Stanley M. Bruce, the Prime Min at Circle, Alaska, although the ther ister of Australia, has shown himself mometer registered^40below zero. a useful interpreter of Europe t . ’ «The ne^ Coos ftdfitr diWMoey jtftt native À ................... "' IMUS"™ U™r ar veteran, and a pro estimates Coquille’s present popula- gressive leader in the political life . ........ ’tion at 2500.. Thia_city is etyoying a of his country, he is an interesting steady, though, not a sensational figure. growth and has been during the' past j STARTING FRIDAY, JAN. 21, 1927 I am carrying too much winter merchandise—I need room for my Spring stock and I need money to buy it with. Below are listed a few of the Money Saving Prices *17.50 19.50 26.50 30.00 35.00 40.00 *3.15 * .50 1.00 1.50 2.50 OVERCOATS Sale Price 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 BLAZERS Special Sale Price will H *4.15 *5.15 NECKTIES Sale Price LUGGAGE *1X85 14.6* 19.M 22.45 26^5 31.65 *6.05 OVERALLS Suitcases, Bags, Ladies Hat Boxes • and Overnight Cases Less 20 % *5.66 7.50 10.00 12.50 15.00 20.00 Sale Price • *3.85 5.85 7.85 9.85 11.85 15.85 Including Blue & Gray Chambray and Hickory 50c 75c *1.00 Sale Price *1.15 1.25 1.25 ALL WORK SHIRTS 75c • SWEATERS 20% Off * .35 .*5 Waist Bib Jacket HEAVY WOOL SOX Sale Price 99 99 35c 50c 65c 99 99 ■*» PANTS DRESS SHIRTS All Drew Pasto 20% Off 2 for 35c 65c & 75c fancy *1.00 fancy & BATH ROBES A few Ladies Umbrellas at » Everything falls, into the lap of the , I British hosts by pleading the cause 2.50 1.85 , I of the United States in its policy 99 successful. Because George Young yt Price 1-3 Off 3.00 2.25 ?■ . 99 haa just won *25,000 by swimimng ’ toward Europe since the War. " He 3.50 2.65 [ I said that Australians, separated from *30.00 99 *20.00 from the mainland to Catalina Island 4.00 345 HATS 25.00 16.65 the Canadian. Pacific railroad will give Europe and .independent of European I interests, could easily understand the 14.00 - 9.55 *5.00 Sale Price him a free ride across the continent *3.85 FLANNEL SHIRTS 99 99 I wish of Americans not to become en 7.50 5.00 6.00 to his home in Toronto; 4.65 *3.00 Sale *2.15 tangled in European alliances and 7.50 . 5.85 3.85 * 2.65 The Siberian winter has been quite feuds. Lately, visiting the United Winter and Summer Weight Under Some of my new Spring Hats are * 3.65 5.00 different from the sort we have been States on his way home, he has ar wear, Night Shirts and Pajamas, AH here and will be included in sale Some heavy weight stag Shirts *4.65 enjoying here in Coquille. In the gued the case of American interest in Volga valley on the transcontinental I aiding the rehabilitation of Europe. 20% Off Lew 10% railroad from Russia to the Pacific I in this relation, he suggested that it SCARFS Rain Clothes less 10% ocean, 98 people have been frozen to I will be important to arrange some *2.00 Sale *1J5 LEATHER COATS reconsideration of the whole problem death this winter in stalled trains. 2.50 1.45 I or war damage and debt payments. BOYS ’ LONG PANTS / 1-3 Off 3.00 1.15 Mr. Bruce blamed Europe for re Snowfall was reported general in 3.50 2.35 Ret. *4.00 half price *2.00 All Novelties Reduced 25% Oregon Wednesday, except in this garding hersilf as “the whole world” favored southwestern section where and failing to understand the motives we haven't seen a flake this year, and and point of view of America or to scarcely any during the winter. We give the United States credit for its felt the chilling breeze that usually assistance during and since the war. follows snow, however, yesterday He blamed the United States for fail- when the rest of the state turned I ing equally to realise the political white. complexities of Europe and the dif ficulties and hardships of the people The Sentinel has received from a of Europe in these reconstruction state association at Portland the news years. It may be that we are more that ft will have a representative in aware of these European troubles an adjoining county some time next than Mr. Bruce thinks. But it is month, but this information is so .salutary for ue to be reminded—in jealously guarded that we are not so friendly a manner—both of them permitted to state who or whbre It and of the harsh opinion that most refers to until next week. This looks Europeans now hold of us. to us like running the “release" Questioning how mlich can be ac business into the ground. complished at present by internation al action to prevent war, Mr. Bruce Governor Miriam Ferguson, MMML *f nevertheless voiced his strong faith Texas, is cooly philosophic about giv that something can be done by co- ing up her office. She says “while | operation in all the ways that prove my term of office has been shortened, praticable. And as a first step he its oppossition to proposed legislation my life has been lengthened.” The inevitably urged closer relatione be now pending before the federal con lution it may be recalled that Con senior Sentinel editor feels much- the tween the British Empire and the gress known as the Swing-Johnson gressmap E. O. Leatherwood of Utah, same way about his work. If he had United States. Departing for home, bill, because a member of the committee on irriga continued to work as hard as he did he should carry with him the assur “While the measure is represented tion and reclamation, recently stated the first few months in Coquille, he ance that the United States would as primarily for flood control and re in his minority report on the Swing- is very sure he wouldn’t have lived welcome sny opportunity of interna clamation on the Colorado rivet, yet Johnson bill that ho found the meas five years of the thirteen he has tional co-operation which commands it is -in fact a proposal to have the ure one which gould seek to bestow - already spent here. its confidence. Further, he must have I gvernment enter into tbs electric special advantages on one state at learned more of the cordial esteem | power bdsiness, involving the govern the expense of her sister states and Last Sunday George Young, of ment ownership and operation of a the public at large. He furthermore Canada, 17 years old, won *25,000 by with which Americans regard him large power plant stated that ho found it backed by and his countrymen. swimming across the channel to The Milk “The bill departs from the already clever propaganda and personal ap Catalina island, a distance of 23 For Your Daily Fare Oppose Government Project established national policy contained peal masquerading under false colors, miles, in 15 hours and 45 minutes. in the federal Water Power Act for and a concealed attempt to thrust the Opposition to what they term an THE FARMER 90Y SAYS: IT SE Cow Bell Dairy’s milk Of 103 who entered the Contest* he the handling of power questions by government into business on a large in your cooking and as “There is nothing like pure, was the the only one who got across. effort to enter the United States gov the federal power commission, by seals and that the proposition of flood a beverage. It’s satisfying. Ho won *25,000 by the exploit, and ernment in the electric power busi sweet milk to sweeten up granting licenses to private enter control and reclamation can all your daily life.” plans to use it building a home for ness was expressed by the Invest prise for the use of water for power covered at much less expense. ment Banker Association of America his mother; and is offered a position purposes under the federal water with a movie troupe. His long ex at a meeting of the Board of Govern power act. To Increase Capitalization Drink More Milk posure to the waves and the cold, ors, held in Chicago today in a reso “ The full and adequate flood pro lution condemning the S wing-Johnson The Oregon Telephone company left him sufferin^J’romconvulsions. bill now pending in congress, which tection and water supply can bo pro which Senator Charles Hall is presi Where the money that used to be proposes the construction by the gov vided by construction costing much dent and Eerl W. Gates vice presi spent for boose in this country now ernment of a high dam on the Colora less than will bo required to build dent and general manager, Mondhy goes hi indicated in part by the mil do river at Bolder Canyon, Colo., un the proposed high dam at Bolder announced an increase in capitaliza Canyon. lions of automobiles now moving over der the guise of flood protection: tion from *800,000 to *900,000. No our highways and in part by the in “Resolved by the Board of Govern . “And further resolved, that a copy tice of increase was filed with the creased sums now spent for ice ors of the Investment Bankers Asso of thria resolution be sent to the state corporation commissioner at ment of the company’s telephone pro cream, candy, movie admissions and ciation of America at a meeting held rules committee of the house of re Salem Saturday. perties will be handled from the of P;°P*rty >" Oregon. This company il'’’«*** °nly r*centlr formed, radios. The money still spent for li at Chicago, Illinois, on the 19th day presentatives now considering the The home office of the Oregon Tel fice there. quors, too, is not inconsiderable now, of Jan., 1927, that the Investment question of a special rule for said ephone company is in Marshfield and Newberg, The increase in capitalisation will Hillaboror, Forest Grove, though most of it goes for poisonous Bankers Assn* of - America re-afllrm MIL’ the supervision and general manage- result in the acquisition of additional There are so many items that it is .impossible to mention each one but that does not mean they are not on sale as Every item in my stock is reduced for this sale I. A. ELROD Front Street r MEN’S WEAR Coquille COW BELL DAIRY 9