The Coquille Valley sentinel., August 08, 1930, Image 1

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VOL.X1VL NO.
COQUILLE, COM
, OREGON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, UN.
' To Resume Drilling Tonight
SAVING OF
Operations at the oil well have been
continued this wsek and it is expected
to resume drilling tonight, and that
by tomorrow the drill will be below
Very
Visit C om .County Farms and the chamber which haa caused so VWt to Laird A Garrett’« Oper­
fur City
i much trouble.
Ranches — Many Pro­
ations on Big Creek-
To shut out the water and muck
Council
ject« Viewed
30 Per Cent Grades
i which haa continually filled the bot­
tom of th« 14«0 foot bore, and shut
James Watson, of this city, memJer A tour of farms in the Coquille off the pressure, the chamber was this
The moat intereating trip thio writer
of the republican state central com­ Valley was made on Wednesday, Au­ week filled with concrete, 100 sacks of has made in a long time was when
mittee which nominated Phil MeC- gust 4,hy members of the Coos Coun­ gravel and cement being poured into in company with Jas. W. Laird and
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wW wind up baseball fer thia yew.
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publicity in Coos County Agricultural Council. figures that this concrete will be set vitation of Pink Laird to go up to
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So far the Loggers have won 13 the daily press to which he is certain­ CaNs were made at thirten farms by this evening and tha boring of a; the headwaters of Sandy and Big
as ow as he | and joft
y»m ss this season for a ly not entitled. He has been accused where a drainage system, weed con­ hole through it will be started to- ereehs, where six and one-half million
[petition re-
of
a winning record of signing a petition for a convention trol with chemicals, poultry raising, night. This is a frequent practice in
belonging to Laird A
., . . _ i to be proud of. And every player on to nominate an independent candidate bent grass production, dairy farming, oil countries where the gas pressure, Garrett ie being loaded and brought
“ ?***.*** i the team is a resident of either Co­ for governor, but he says ho is not turkey raising, irrigation, 4-H club prevents the forcing of casing to the
the Middle Fork at Remote.
te from dam ;quHU QT
that kind of a double-crosaer, and that work, and the production of alfalfa, bottom.
On the way up we noted the repairs
he neither signed such a paper nor ladino clover, alsac clover, purple
now going on to the splash dam at
authorized anyone else to sign it for vetch, Austrian Winter field peaa,
Gardner Buildinc Warehouse Sugarloaf. This dam cost 114,000 to
him.
corn, and root crops were studied.
construct a few years ago, and when
A 30x40 warehouse ii being built
The first stop in the morning was
The republican county central com­
the under side of it went out recently,
mittee, which is meeting here this af- j made at a drainage system installed by H. A. Harris for Chai. W. Gard­ it was decided to spend 37,000 more
ternoon to nominate a candidate for < on
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Russ
“ ’ Investment
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*----- ner on the lot juat oast of Richard- putting in a concrete bottom, which
county treasurer, will bo presented where S. H. Stockhoff, manager of son's Garage. It will bo used princi­ a crew is now doing. The stream is
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with
a signed statement from Mr. the farm, explained the purpose of pally for storage, but the two by four very smsfll now and a pump keeps the
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Watson, and the Sentinel la permitted the tide-gates and the drainage sys- floor, laid on edge, indicate« that water moving around the dam site eo
to publish the following extract frees teen. At this time the gates are kept pretty heavy machinery will bo kept as not to interfere with building oper­
w sayz&u
VIW water
WUWI there. It is to be a frame building, ations.
it prior to its prssentation to the com- dosed to
hoM uwvn
back ovsisy
some vt
of the
mittee;
eo
so that sub-irrigation might be poo-
pos­ with a gravelled approach from the
The Sandy creek road is a county
street.
sible.
road for nearly half the 13 miles, and
The control of Canada thistles with
“In fairness to the county central
gravelled, but beyond that it is dirt.
committee which 1 represented at the ehemrcals was studied at the J. N.
There are a few ranches above the
Different plots of
convention of the Republican State Jacobsen farm.
county road and on one there are four
D. D. Hall, manager of the Coquille Central Committeemen in Portland, -thistles had been «prayed both with
gates fer which the owners demanded
Lumber Co., said yesterday that if called for the purpose of organizati lion taicium chlorate and with «odium
3100 apiece for permission to keep
the power company completed hook­ and the nomination of a can&date for chlorate in varying amounts in solu­
open every day. It is necessary to
J Cal F. Herman, of Prosper, was keep them open, for with a fleet of It
ing up the mill equipment yesterday, Governor; I hereby state that since or tion and as a dust.
The Leeper poultry farm was the flnetl 350 by Justice J. J. Stanley this trucks, making seven or eight round
so that the motors and machinery before such convention *as held, I
The group week, on a careless driving charge, trips a day, and a season of only 42
could be tried out. the mill would did not sign nor authorize my name •ext stop on the tour.
to be vse^ in a call or calls for a meet­ was met by Mr. Leeper and conducted and had his driver’s license suspended days in which to move the logs to
start operations Monday. - X
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Their first work win be cutting ing or convention for the election or over the farm Where the methods fbr 10 days.
water, speed of operation is the great­
Th-- accident occurred a little while est essential.
lumber and timbers for repairing selection of an independent candidate used by Mr. Leeper in his poultry
for Governor of Oregon, or any other farming were explained. Mr. Leeper before dusk Sunday evening, near the
the dock.
It is unusual though for more than
is an
and ... in Joe Collier piece, where the highway eight or nine of the trucks to be in
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A groat deal of fire hasard has independent candidate whatsoever; I• L-
been removed by taking up old plank­ further state that I have not promised husinro« on a commercial scale. A « 20 or 25 feet above the adjoining daily operation, for the steep grades
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ing on the north and south sides of my vote nor support to any avowed fine field of bent grass was visited on field.
and overloading to which the truck is
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Camplan, of subjected, keep an average of four
the main body of the yards. This will independent candidate for the ofllce of the W. A. Tway A Sons farm.
other puoiic ofiiee r From there the caravan travelled Portland, were driving to Bandon in in the shop all the time.
afford storage fer 100,000 or more Governor nor
Two me-
‘ - down the north bank highway to see their sedan, when Mr. Herman, with ehanics are also kept busy all the
feet of tomber, when the grading «en­ JSTpT^L, - - -
•Mee, should I see fit to sap- •" irrigation plant in operation on his family attempted to pass, at least Mme.
tracte have been completed.
Here a 300 feet from the Sharp curve. By the
Twenty mon, beside the graders, port an ii independent candidate for aayfthe tSmith A Kay farm.
Laird and Garrett had spent thou­
Bee, this committee will be liowMneh Parma pomp was being ime Herman had drawn alongside sands of dollars preparing to bring
wore at work this week, and as many state oflBee,
more will be needed when operations first notified, sod I will then tender {operated by a tractor and a fine 'ySmplan, a car came round the bend their logs out Big creek, who«? bend­
my resignation and will withdraw as stream of water being pumped from ind Camplan drew clear to the edge waters are Just acroes a divide from
11 ofltoo is being repainted a t alas»sr Of the State Central Cam- ‘ a slough onto ladino clover pasture. of the bank and into the loons gravel. those of Sandy, but objections and
GMg on down the north bank road Then as the thro* «ere aaiM uhreush
mittee.”
ready for occupancy.
the* next poftit of tnteres* v.-a« the the Herman car nicked the Camplan company to truck aerbss the divide
Guy Summers, formerly bookkeeper
| for the Shell Oil Co. at Myrtle Point, Complete Gravelling Next Week Jo9- Naif turkey farm where some ear on the frbet fehd-r and it went into the Sandy basin. That divide
heading straight reaches an elevation of 2103 foot and
three hundred and fifty turkeys are iver the grade,
I has been named as bookkeeper. M.
It Is expected that the gravelling
for ™
the
mar- down.
0. Hawkins, who was first offered the contract of F J Kernan on the hiwh- being produced
on the Sandy side of the mountain the
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e holiday
no“>l*v "iar-
position, was unable to accept be- ... i.-.—_
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! k,,t- Mn Nulf is enthusiastic over this - Mrs. Camplan wee thrown through road in a couple of places, for a quar­
way between Riverton and Bandon, i
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f-rming and ste ed 1 that the window on her husband's side of ter of a mile each, reaches a grade of
, cause of the position he holds in the will t-o finished by Tuesday of next I P,h
,
"r luswsy or next i ' B
j,nn» fifty per cent of hi.
for both tin* department of the Bank
of
about
his gro»s re­ the car, but was not seriously hurt. 30 per cent. Of course, the trucks go
wnsk and that the state oiling crew,
Italy, with headquarters at Orland,
turns from turkeys last year was net. He was not injured.
up that grade empty, but it is a tick­
which is now in Bandon, will be able
e council
Mr. Herman did not know, until lish job bringing a truck down that
Alfalfa being grown on river bank
to begin at once giving the highway
soil sms seen on th* Paris Warfi farm told by one of his daughters, that the mountain side, loaded with 14 to 13
its first oil coating between Lampa
and on bench land on the R. H. Chris­ ear had left the grade. He imme­ tone of cedar, making a right angled
and Bandon.
tensen farm.
The benefits derived diately turned around and went back turn and moving at a snail’s pace.
With the gravelling finished before
from irrigation was outstanding on to render assistance.
Piles of three, four or. five logs in
the middle of August, it is quite pos­
On Monday he paid Mr. Camplan a place showed where truck drivers
sible that the last oiling of the high­ the lattet farm. Being behind sched­
ule at this point it was necessary to the full price the latter had paid for had failed to get through with their
there without the ends being joined; ¡»Ration. ^Tbe city haa been appre- way can be completed before the fall
omit stops it the Orval Barrows farm his car, 3325, Mrs. Cam plan’s hospital loads, but so far no fatalities have
and he and his partner, C. D. Walker i P^bnf »11 the flow from both Rink rains begin.
where qua<k grass had been sprayed expenses and Mr. Camplan remarked occurred.
offered the city a deed te the romr-
Waik*1’
and
The re-gravelling has been accom­
with calcium chlorate and also at the that he knew there was at least one
The visitors rode up that steep hill
plished with a minimum of incon-
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C. C. Randall poultry farm in order to white man in Coos county.
on
an empty truck, but preferred to
to the reservoir from Grand View
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*“ venience to tourists and aut?i«ts, al­
have lunch with the Bandon Chamber
walk back the mile to their car, rather
Terr.ce without charge.
Th. offer
wir* dY1“8 by
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though fast driving by the reckless
Mrs. J. W. Carrie Passes at Bay than ride a loaded one.
«a«
from the creek» has muddied hundred« of cars whose of Commerce at noon.
wa« accepted.
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| water disappeared
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After enjoying luncheon in Bandon
An idea of the location of that
Mrs. J. W. Currie, mother of Mr«.
drivers were taking the loose and
Frank Vail, who recently returned
those touring, journeyed to Arago by Fred Kunz who made their home in camp, where the cedar was fallen last
from the Veterans’ hospital at Port-
“■** ws.promptly.djusted wet gravel more carefully.
way of the Fishtrap road to the G. Coquille until three months age, winter, is made known by the fact
land, was employed temporarily an
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m’t™cted W,t*r
Another improvement on that road
F. Vetter farm where a fine truck passed away at the Kunz home in that it is just two and one-half miles
water meter reader, succeeding E. F. Superintendent Epperson not to di- is the cutting off of the point at the
Marshfield. Wednesday evening. Mrs. south of the J. D. Laird ranch in
iiri/Ur w K a •Mm«»«.
™ Walker ereek stream to the sharpest turn on the highway, on the
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to take . vacation’before the opening reservoir but to let it take its natural
Travelling south
Currie had been over at tbs Bay for Brewster valley.
Domenighini place, about a quarter
three weeks, but their hourehold goods from Coquille a distance of 20 miles
of school
course and empty into Rink creek of. a mile this side of the Bear Creek J. B. Pointer Family AU Here
to Bridge, one would hardly expect
were not moved until last week.
The offer of Bert Feteees to deed a n'* *** «*Urf«ctoy to the dafry- service station.
Mrs. J. A. CampMUwho has been
Pneumonia was the eause of her to find himself, at 28 mites distant,
60-foot lot to the city east of the ball m*n and ranch*r» •"<* ,rin «“PPlf them
here visiting her parents, Mr. and
back in the neighborhood of Brewster.
park, for a stroet, provided th. city
"u«cient w*Ur ,or tb*ir n*d’
Not • California Infringement Mrs. Brooks Painter, for the past 1eath, although she had not been well
Saded th. tot «nd "mad. it .Xbte
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It is a magnificent view from the
fnr some time. She was 79 yean of
People in the vicinity of the Farm­ three week«, left today for her home *ge.
top of the mountain, with hills SO,
for street purposes, was accepted.
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ers and Merchants Bank, the hotel, in Vancouver, B. C. Mrs. Pointer,
Funeral services are being held this 40 sod 50 miles distant in sight.
Application of Jack Beaty, who
^m 'eno^h for ^th™
and all along Front street, thought who has been quite ill for the past sfternoon at the Campbell Funeral
Mr. Laird expects all of the 18,000
comes hare from Powers, for a license
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there was an earthquake yesterday two weeks, is improving now and as Home in Marshfield at 3 o’clock. In­
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to conduct the H. D. Jone, pool room,
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morning between 10 and 11 o’clock. soon as she is able to travel Mrs. terment is to be in Sunset cemetery.
was laid over till the next meeting. now
thr~ fe<t
the ,pU1’
Wm. Hull, in the hotel, says the floor Campt-ell will return and take her
Besides her husband and Mn. Kunz,
Mr. Boatv sosured th?- councilman **F*
shook so much that he thought the to Vancouver for a visit
she is survived by one son, John, of
Marshall Pointer, who has been in Belmont, Mont, and another daugh­
boiler in the basement had blown up.
I. A. Elrod rushed out to see if the Petersburg, Alaska, for the past 12 ter, Mn. Grace Phelan, of North Da­
wall of the new Odd Fellows building or 13 years, and had not been home kota, who arrived just before her
had collapsed, and Henry Lorens for eight years, arrived last Friday mother’s death.
noted an agitation of the river’s night, after hearing of Ms mother’s
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placid surface from the rear door of serious illness.
Cequille Still in the Lead
his store.
This summer was thel first time in
Archie Walker learned yesterday
But we are not in California’s class eight year* that all the children had
from Goodyear headquarters at Port­
yet, and truth compels the statement been home at the name time.
land that the Coquille Service Station
that an explosion, where a stump was
still leads in the Zeppelin race
blown out, on the Coquille Lumber
Derr’s Peculiar Drowning
against such city competition as
Co. property, back of the City Clean­
w «ruvii C.
V/. A.
z*. Hear-
iirai" Lnneview. The Dalles, Corvallis and
Deputy vjuriic
Game Warden
ers, was the cause of the quake.
I ing last Monday presented the county Medford. There are three weeks left
|farm inhabitants with venison from a | before the windup, and the local sta-
DMtroyiar Old Thrift Hone
that Dnintention.iiy
lifted * , tion personnel is hoping that through
-J .de
it wa* a furkad horn buck
help »nd <-o-»peratiofl of their
ing'down the old Thrift house near that jumped'*'into
the river at *^-
the) friends Coquille
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will
lead
the week for Grants Pass, intending to re­
'ter and Second Bradford ranger station, near the! second class at the finish. The first turn to hia former position with the
he will constrict county lino up the Middle Fork. W en 1 class division is composed of two U. 8. National Bank at Portland, and
a shake-covered __________
_______________ ,___ _ stations ‘n Portland, one in Vaneouv- continue his law course.
room«, similar to its horns wJie on the opposite «»de ef er and Salem.
the one Mr. Wilson recently built for a boom stick from ths rest of its body,
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himself on Myrtle street
The county court this wook called
and not knowing enough to lower its
bead and pull back under the stick, it for hid«, to be opened Aug. 18, for
Many bargains in Used Goods— kicked around in the water until «z- the construction of 535 lineal feet of
Stoves, Ranges. Tables, Beds, etc, at hausted and was drowned. The ranger , approaches to Cooper bridge, a few
Hart’s Rouse of Service.
who witnessed the performance called miles out from Myrtle Point on the
Mr. Hearing to come get the deer and Sitkum road.
Safety Firstly Urn Cow Bell described it» death.
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MILL READY TO
START MONDAY
CAR WRECKED,
TWO ESCAPE
Dairy’s Pasteurised Mik and protect
NW health.
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