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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1931)
fry- . ... "-V :A' .< C / fr Í I Drainage Ditches Blasted •Cimarron” to Bo Seen on Ten Coos Co. Farms at Liberty Next Week f CK MUST BE SOLD NOW 9:00 A. M § nlv I ock of cases, pledge g my ive. K Ü I T S 3 Í a wide Save pair of $32.50. 1.85 ! iber of 6 with call in tl girls Slicker Raincoats for K little. Bat I must with that Here’s another bargain. Those popular yellow slickers that originally sold for $2.50 and 12.75—all sizes in stock if you are here the first day. . - la now ackets $r89 Wool Sox 39c ere originally priced up to for 5 SEE OUR BARGAIN TABLE OF DRESS SOX r MEN’S WEAR FIXTURES For Sale Show cases, window fixtures, clothing cab inets, tables and shelving for sale. Inquire at the store. Rapid headway is now being made on the plant building under construc tion in thi. city for Natural Gas Cor poration of Oregon, and it Should be completed sometime this week. Work i. also started on the uncrat ing and checking of vaporisation ma chinery and equipment bo be installed | at the plant under the direction of S J. Dickson, who states everything pos sible will be done to speed this work up for an early service of gas in this community. Foundations have been completed for the huge storage tanks for both li quid and finished gas, and these tanks are also going into place this week. Alt residents win be invited to par ticipate in opening ceremonies to take place at the plant at the time work is completed and the first gas aervice is inaugurated. These ceremonies will be attended by both city and company officials, and will include an inspection of the plant properties by Ml those in terested. 1 L___ r *• COQUILLE r Monday and Tuesday, APRIL 13 and 14 Ji Edna Ferber’s Greatest Story CIMARRON 99 <- '; V. ■■ , • "• », I I Climaxes t Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Es telle Taylor, Edna May Oliver and Wm. Collier, Jr. Dwarfing in Titanic Majesty V Screen Giants of All the Ages The Oklahoma land rush April 22nd, 1889, the staggering Pageant of love and heroic action spread against the sweep of the West. TWO SHOWS AT NIGHT 7:00 and 9:20 I Good Dry Lumber !? fl and lots of it at the Right Price Ceiling Flooring Rustic V- Framing Boards Timbers Finish Everything on hand for every purpose R. A. Wemich, Trustee West Coast Lumber Co. Coquille, Ore. A PREMIUM GASOLINE AT NO INCREASE IN PRICE * -, ■< "H ello , L ondon ... HELLO, MAMA”. The world is truly yours, by telephone. Year after year improvements is communica tion and transportation—refinemen to you perhaps haven’t considered even possible—continue. C. E. Convention, April 23 The forty-first State Christian En deavor convention will be held in Med fort. April 28-26, 1M1, and will be attended by young people from all over the state, according to present indications. the session, will bo held in the First Presbyterian Church of Med ford, beginning with the evening ses sion, Thursday, April 28 and conclud ing Sunday evening, April 26. James C. Henderson, of Portland, state pres ident, ■will preside. Practical conferences on the work of Christian Endeavor, banquet, sight seeing tours, parade, mimiomry playlet contest and other novel fea tures will make it one of the meet at tractive conventions held in the his tory of the movement to the stats. Special care will be put on a regular train, stopping at many places in the Willamette Valley to take on delega tions of Endeavor, bound for the con vention. Callin» carts 100 for 1140. ! Liberty Theatre I f Good Progress on Gas Plant $2-98 wn The pruiil per acre should bo ma-: Brought to the theatregoing public terially increased on ten 'Tams in by Radiv Pictures, Edna Ferber’s epic Coo* and Curry counties where drain- “Cimarron," ab the Liberty theatre ! ssre ditches were blasted by A. J. j next week, is svon more powerful than *" ‘ ‘ ' J------- great story, read by million, in lieAdemu, agricultural ‘ lopreaentative | of the Du Pont Company, at demon America. “Cimarron,” the picture, to all that stration. arranged through the county is gripping m “Cimarron,” the story. agent’s office during the past week. Richart Diz as Yancey Cravat There are thousand» of acre, of wot swampy land in thia section which seems to have walked right out of ths could be made more productive by page, of the book. Lon Yount is will proper drainage. The individual never bo really slain until you see farmer has little control over the Dix do it, in ths moat poignant scene price he receive, for hi. commodity of talking picture history, the Onego but if he can reduce the co.t of pro- gambling tent sermon episode. I during the commodity by increasing And those stupendous elaabes of production per acre, it amount, to wills between Yancey and Sabra, so the name thing as increased price, and portrayed by Dix and Irene Dunne, it is with bhie thought in mind that should make the original story more than an epic. It becomes an immortal drainage work is being sponsored. When the system started at a dem record of those deep psychological onstration is completed, approximate differences between American men ly eleven hundred acre, of bottom and women, out of which has arisen land will be drained by Gue Peterson the fundamental character of our na of Hauser on a tract which ho rents tion. Spectacular scones abound in this from Herbert Armabron*, local man ager for the Southern Oregon Com production, but they are a new kind. pany of North Bend. On this farm, Through the wizardry of Wesley ditches three feet deep and six feet Ruggles, director, they transcend wide were blown with dynamite mere spectacle and become inspiring through area, of .tump, and fallen flashes which punctuate and make the log. which were buried in the swamp production as realistic a. early Olka- and where ditchery would be very homa itself. The stupendous land rush scenes, difficult for any other method. The cost of material used was approxi in which thousands of vehicle, ani mals and players appear is presented mately ten cents per yard of ditch. Drainage systems were started and in such an ingenious fashion that the old ditches cleaned out on the Lester spectator is apt to feel himself a part 'Bogard farm at Randolph; Miller of this spectacular opfoode Standing clear and unfettered above Bros, farm at Coquille; Charles Ma- haffy Jr. farm on Coos River; Elmer al! the artistic accomplishment, of Shull farm at Coquille; and on the this production, however, is one great New Lake Dairy for Hillis Perkins, fact For once, a motion picture pro south of Bandon. In each farm good ducer has taken not a single dramat ditches were blown at costs varying ic license. “Oimnrron" of the talking from ten to eighteen cents for each screen, is Edna Ferber’s “Cimarron," complete, truthful in every detail. yard of diteh. , Dix, hero of a .core of notable ' More than one hundred farmers witnessed one of four demontration. screen role», ha* never been eeen to One feel, that held in Curry county on the W. J. better advantage. Walker farm on Pistol Rivbr; T. Tam- Edna Ferber wrote her great novel ba farm at Harbor; Ray Nowlin farm with Dix in mind aa Yancey Cravat at Ophir; and the Macleay farm at Irene Dunne step, to the foremoM ranks of the screen’, dramatic actrere- Wedderburn. Under certain conditions ditching es in “Cimarron.” It will appear at the Liberty next can be done better and more economi cal by hand or with machinery than Monday and Tuesday, April 18-14. with dynamite. This was demon strated by Chas. McCulloch on hit His Pastor Paya a Tribute farm on Haynes Inlet where he hired to John Snodgrass several hundred feet of ditch dug bj hand, savin* nearly one hundre<L4ol- lare on the job. This method has tb advantage of providing labor for some , of those who may be in the need oi I work and can often be used whefe th. 1 land to not full of stumps and fallen logs or too wet to shovel to an arf* vantage. Tentative plans have been made to clean out old ditches on Jaa. Lan- drith’s farm on Coo. River, and on Harry Hull’s farm at Riverton, but the work had to be postponed because of high water until later during the summer when another group of field meeting® will be held for this purpose Interested persons who have a drain age problem may secure help by ap plying at the County Agent’s office. “Standard’’Gasoline it meh in im prove merit - in every way a new and finer motor fuel—with all the skill and capacity that 55 yean of Standard Oil Company refining ex perience represento. On sale every where. » Ms Sartor face to Sale on Radios and Electrical Appliances PRICES GREATLY REDUCED We alno carry new and used sewing machines. Expert machine repairing. Electric Wiring A Supplies COQUILLE ELECTRIC in Christ Niw 0<H retavi Bld«. Hnt St, Coqillle eall Nice fat fryers nt Mike’s Feed mm Store, from Leeper's Poultry Ranch, 7tf on Saturdays. r I
