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Sentinel VOL. XXVII. i NO. 47. N. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4. IMI. COQUILLE. COM COUNTY, is u a hi ■ J. E. Roas Retires as President of Farmers A Merchants Bank —Lyman Carrier Succeeds The first change in management of a Coquille financial institution in the past twelve years, or since John E. Ross and his associate, L. L. Turner, bought the Farmers A Merchants Bank here, will take place tomorrow afternoon when Lyman Carrier suc ceeds Mr. Roes as president of that institution, and Goo. R. Dickinson, vice president of the Bank of Myrtle Point for the past four years, becomes executive viee-proeideflt. He will have active management of the busi- Welcome News from Salem Morrison Car Wrecked Coos county taxpayers will benefit to the extent of about >50,000 in re duction of the state tax next year, for the 1981. This means a two per cent drop in the rate. Assessor J. P. Bey ers says he hM not yet received tbs figure of the state levy from the state fax commission. Ia a statement given out in Salem by Gov. Meier the first of the week the reduction of the state tax was made possible by the intangibles, per sonal income, excise and corporation tax receipts, the repeal of the 1 mill market road tax law, the waiver of the one-half mill tax for world veter ans, and other saving* effected in the conduct of state business. • The A. T. Morrison ear was quite badly wrecked Tuesday morning on the dike end of the approach to the river bridge hero when it was hit by a state highway trucks, which was coming down the frosty planking sideways, and then hit the railing of the bridge for further damage. Miss Lola Morrison was driving ths Chevrolet and with her was her father and Alva Nosier Jr. The lat ter received the only personal injury, suffering a bad cut on . one of hie hands and wrist The driver of the truck, in trying to slow down as he came to the curve, caused the truck to skid, but Mbs Morrison did not attempt to apply her brakes, nor was she driving fast Ths Cbev suffered a sprung frame, broken glass, all four finders wore crumpled, and other damages made it a pretty sick-lookiag car. ■ jj ■ 11 Rain Follows Freezing Weather Whether to L. P. Maury, one of Hi re« ideate of Coquille, passed away at hia home on Beach street last eeun ing, at six o’clock. His passing had been anticipated for several days for he had been steadily failing for the pMt week and no hope wm held by hi» physician for any improvement- While he had not been ia good health for the past year, it wm less than a month ago that the kidney trouble which caused the end, began to as sume alarming symptoms. All relatives were notified of hia condition and were present when the •nd came. — Continue The financial troubles of the Co- quills Lumber Co. wore presented be fore Judge Brand in Circuit court last Monday afternoon when the question of whether the receivership should be continued or the mill ordered sold was considered by the judge. Final de cision was postponed until next Mon day, and in the meantime, the judge suggested, the stockholders, the cred itors, those receiving steam from the central heating plant, and the signers of the >5000 notes, should get together and see if any plan could be worked out whereby the mill could hr oper ated sufficiently to provide fuel for the Bishop to Be heating plant. Bishop Sumner, of Portland, will The-report of Receiver M. O. Haw kins showed that the lumber being cut conduct services in St James Episco was enough to pay running expenses pal Church Sunday, Dee. 6, at 7:90 p. if the lumber was all sold, but he had not been able to sell much more than a third of it. Judge Brand expressed the opinion that it was a “deaperate situation,” and further that ho was un willing for an officer of bis court, as the receiver is, to incur indebtedness with no prospect of liquidating. The affairs of the mill were worse fort that’tbZ .’¿Z WM orwr BOu The thermometer touched the low- Mt point yet reached this winter, Sun While disposing of a portion of hia day morning, when it road 20 degrees stock in the bank to Mr. Carrier, who above sero. Last Saturday and Mon thus becomes the largest single share day it got down to 91. Tuesday night The funeral services will be held at holder of bank stock, and to Mr. Dick the rain started and the drag on coal the chapel here at two o'clock Satur inson, Mr. Roes retains a large block bias and wood piles wm perceptibly day afternoon, conducted by Turner B. and will be the next largest stock lessened. Rainfall since the first of MacDonald, former minister of the I September totals 19 inches. holder. Christian church hero. Mr. Carrier has been connected Lawrence Pike Maury wm born in with the Farmers A Merchants Bank Jacksonville, Oro., Oct. 4, 1887, being for the past five years, has been one two months past 74 years of ago. Be of its directors for four years and wm the son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben haa amply demonstrated in that time Fry Maury. his interest in and ability to cope with On April 28, 1882, he wm united ta Activity at the So-Zo-Zone Amalga all financial matters that come up. He marriage to Ora X. March and the haa been one of Coquille’s leading citi- mation plant this week has beeri very following year they camo to Coquille sens in all civic affairs since coming limited, due to the fact that very lit where they have since mode tbeiri here seven years ago; ho is the bead tle in the way of concentrates has home. ers about 45 days before the receiver af the Cocooa Sood Co., and his been brought in, with practically none “Pike,” m he wm known to every wm appointed, thus eliminating the done more to develop the bent grass of the sand concentrated to the re seed industry in Coos county than any quirements established by the man one, was a millwright, and except for revenue from the heating system as a short time spent in a lumber camp, a mesas of helping pay the running .-V other individual, and la at the present agement. It is reported in one county paper wm employed at the mill here, first expenses of the mill. time serving his fourth year as di This action wm taken by the diroc- rector of school district No. 8. Ho that there are a thousand men work known as the Lyons mill and later M has largo interests in Coquille and ing along the beaches of Coos and the E. £. Johnson mill. He retired tors in September to protect the twen- ths valley, and ia in all ways an ideal Curry counties, but such a figure is from active duty when the Johnson ty men who signed the two >5,000 ownership csaasd. notes. They did thia to secure funds selection for the head of a financial not verified. We hear reports of lack of values Besides his widow, Mr. Maury ia to clear up indebtedness on the mill institution. Mr. Dickinson has made a splendid recovered from the sands by three old survived by Mrs. Maury’s daughter, ia hopes that such relief would tide it reputation for himself since coming men who had put in six weeks secur Mrs. W. E. Bartholomew, of Everett, over the winter, or until the lumber to the Bank of Myrtle Point four ing a ton and a half ot concentrates, Wash., who arrived here yeeterday; market improved. But the creditors years ago, and will be a decided ac and which are no doubt true, but the hie son, P. Vane Maury, of San Fran would not wait, and a receivership ro- quisition to the business life of Co- mill here will not extract gold from cisco, who came Monday evening ac quRle. He has been prominent in sand which has no value, and the companied by his wife; and two W» pro s ni l from the eteam plant civic affairs at Myrtle Point, has tak- Sentinel is still convinced that the daughters, Mrs. Emma Pierro and Mme been for two months applied to en an active Interest in the County amalgamation plant process is all that Mi»» Bees Maury, of Coquille. payments on the notes, and interest, Chamber of Commerce, and is active is claimed for it—when gold-bearing and it wm the agreement that the A brother, Gillis M. Maury, ia church and lodge work, being a sand is concentrated. steam line should be turned baik to Crescent City, arrived Monday, Edward H. Crow, who has been in other brother and sister, H. C. member of the Presbyterian church the mill company when the notes had southern California for several weeks, Miss Mary P. Maury, came in from been paid. and of the L O. O. F. It ia with regret, however, that will return next week with his family, Medford But if the mill does not operate last Sunday, and an the passing of Mr. Rocs from active according to the statement of David other sister, Mrs. J. E. Cow there will be no fuel to fire the boil- management of the Farmers A Mer Gustaveson yesterday, who also said gill, of San Carlos, Calif., arrived on, those who are now using steam chants Bank ia chronicled. For so that Mr. Crow is shipping machinery Monday evening with Vane. He is for heat will be out what they spent many years hia pleasant smile and for two or three large operations and also survived by five grandchildren. for installation, with expense of in cheery word of encouragement to .11 that they were going to give the Mr. Maury had been a member of stalling another heating system, and patrons and others doing business black sands a thorough test. the W. O. W. and still retained mem the note signers will be required to Miss Fischbach, of the So-Zo-Zone bership in the Neighbors of Wood pay off the notes they signed simply with the bank have made so firm a place for him in the every day life company, yesterday handed the Sen craft to keep industry of the town in a of Coquille that it will take time to tinel the following concerning the jig going condition. Pike Maury was a good man, a sym realise he has passed the reins to ger box they are putting on the mar It is truly a sad state of affairs pathetic friend, a fine neighbor, one others. ket: which will require a genius to figure whose word was as good as his bond Before taking the stop which elim out a satisfactory plan fo^ continuing and whose daily custom was to do un The individual miner now has a inates him from the beak’s manage- operations. to others as he would they would do ment, he made sure that the policy of real chance to make concentrates and Fred McClellan, mill superintendent, to him. honest, straight-forward and sound get in lino to do big things in a small says the plant has been rehabilitated The people of Coquille mourn the banking, would bo carried on and that way. Doc FitzGerald has fulfilled an to the point where it is more efficient the Farmers A Merchants Bank of other promise to assist the miner who loss of an honorable, upright eitisen, than ever before. Coquille would continue to be one of has to live down by the ocean and up but their sorrow is mingled with If some plan, satisfactory to the the soundest, although not the iarg- in the hills. The small box will be thanksgiving that hi« days of torture creditors, could be worked out, where est, financial institution in Oregon. | called the prospector’s jigger box. It and acute suffering are over. by the creditor« would forego their Mr. Ross has not yet announced can be used by two or three men. claims for a while, the receivership what his retirement means from the The prospector’s jigger box is now discontinued and the plant turned Red Crow Roll Call personal standpoint, but he has an doing its stuff on the platform of the back to the stockholder*, it is general Mrs. Ida K. Owen, local Red Cross opportunity to affiliate himself with a j 8o-Zo-Zone Amalgamation plant plat- ly believed that with M. 0. Hawkins banking institution, elsewhere, which form. It was especially designed and chairman, furnishes the Sentinel the placed in absolute charge, the tangle be deemed too attractive to ignore, built for the small miner and will following list of those who answered could be unravelled and the mill even For the preoent, however, he will re-' handle from ten to fifteen yards of the roll eall this year, between Armis tually pay out asain in Coquille. Wherever he may' sand a day. It all depends on the tice and Thanksgiving days. She also go, or whatever he may do, the best amount of black »and contained in wishes to express thus publicly her 1500 Fire Sunday Night thanks to Mrs. J. R. Bunch and Miss wi»hea of hia hundreds of friends in the natural sands. Jean Young, who did the soliciting Coos county will go with him. | The box is built of wood, is wall A Are ot unknown origon in th« C. J. Fuhrman, who has been vice made and is a fine likeness of tbs steel this year. The total amount turned in attic of the Carl Enaele home. The concentrating sur- was »11057. Seventh street, at 9:40 Sunday even president of the Farmers A Merchants jigger box. I NEW JIGGER BOX IS READY Bsnk here for several years, is one of Coquille’s most substantial citizens. He ia the oldest stockholders, in point of connection with the bank, and is one of three who have been longest in continuous business in Coquille. Mr. Dickinson was elected a vice- president of the bank at a directors meeting held Tuesday evening and Mr. Roes’ resignation as president and director was presented at the same time, to become effective at the close of banking hours tomorrow noon. At the directors’ session tomorrow Mr. Carrier will be chosen as presi dent, and Mrs. Dickinson will be named as director to succeed Mr. R om . There will be no other change in the personnel of the bank, Mr. Carrier and C. J. Fuhrman remaining on the board, W. 8. Bickels continuing as cashier, and Miss Edna Robison as assistant cashier. Alva Nosier Jr. arrived here Sunday from San Diego, Calif., to visit rela tives in Coquills and expects to re main for the winter. ( Continuad on eighth page.) Supplying Milk for Pupils There are a goodly number of youngsters in the schools whose par ents are not able to buy milk at home or furnish money for them to buy milk at school. A plan has been form ulated whereby some people are do nating 15c a week to buy milk for one pupil and a number more donations of this nature are badly needed. Duck Hunting Hours There is a variation of nine minutes in the rising of the sun between to morrow morning and the closing of the season on Doc. 15. Tomorrow the sun rises officially at 7:83, making the legal hour for hunting ducks 7:08. Sunset la at 4:43 p. m. for the eleven days, except on Dec. 9, when it is 4:49. Noting that the Kennet Lawrence family was enrolled 100 per cent, Mrs. Owen asked him what his reason was for contributing four times as much as the usual subscriber does. His re ply was worthy the consideration of all, and especially those who have frowned on Red Cross activitey and support. Briefly it was that the Red Cross was so efficient and helpful in the trying times of the great war, the help it rendered the soldiers in France, and its succor in every time of stress or need since the conflict that be wanted to aid the society as much as he could. The Adventist Church donated »2.57. Mrs. Mildred Hartley also donated one dollar as well as taking a dollar membership. The following each gave the dollar required far membership: Mildred Hartley, E. Purvance, J. 8. Detlefs, F. A. Book, G. W. Taylor, Coquille Service Station, Ned C. Kelley, Niles Motor Co., Edith Pomsroy, C. T. Sol big, Title Guarantee A Abstract Co., V. R. Wilson, F.G. Leslie, E. B. Miller, ing, was responded to promptly by the department and the blase extin guished by use of the chemical before it had spread below the attic floor. The roof was burned from the peak down toward the eaves over a space covered by twelve rafters and As sistant Fire Chief Schram estimates the damage at about 9500. Charity Ball Saturday Night The Moose Charity Ball, to be given in Graham’s Hall tomorrow evening, promises to be one of the most en joyable dances held in Coquille this winter. A seven piece orchestra will furnish the music, and ticket holders will also have an opportunity to se cure some of the prises the Moose will distribute over the United States this month. »ix WILL DISCOUNT CO. WARRANTS A program including band music, violin solos, stunts of various kinds, readings, piano duets and plays, will entertain Grangers from all parts of Coos and Curry counties when they gather at Coquille tomorrow, Decem ber 5th, for the annual Grangers’ Jubilee which will be held in the Com- munity Building, starting at ten o'clock, according to Mrs. H. H. Han sen, of Langlois, who is Pomona Grange Lecturer and in charge of thia program. The “Kitchen Klangers” band con ducted by the women of the North Bay Bide Grange, ia one at the fea tures which is attracting a groat deal of attention and those who have heard the musical selections rendered by thio band feel sure that no Granger in the county will want to miss thia treat. A country school play under the direction of J. L. Smith of the Coquille Grange, will also proride worth while entertainment Other features of the program in clude a stunt song by the Fairview Grange entitled, “Three Old Maida of Loe,” readings, solos snd locally com posed songs by the Bridge Grange, piano duets and magical stunts by the Most Western Grange, readings by members of the Parkersburg Grange, a stunt by members of the Catching Inlet Grange and violin solos from the Myrtle Grange. The Parkersburg Juvenile Grange whose membership is made up of young people in that community, as well an all other Granges of Coos and Curry counties, have been invited to provide entertainment Community singing and games will be featured and Mre. Clarence Schroeder, chair man of the Home Economics commit tee, has asked each Grange to supply cake, sandwiches and eream. Coffee and sugar will be provided by the committee. This gathering will be the first of its kind to to bold in Coos and Curry counties and it is proposed to make the Jubilee an annual affair during future yeans. The object, according to Mrs. Hansen, is to provide a gen eral get-together and good time for all Grange people and it is hoped that a large representation from each Grange will be present. sen ted, it wm decided that county warrants, Mme of which may run for throe years before being redeemed, will come under the head of frozen assets, where they ars bold by beaks. For this reason the decision was accepted that all general fund wqr- rente will bo diseouated 10 per coat when accepted by any of the banks in the county, and general road fund warrants, 5 per cent. If the county could pay warrant interest annually it would make a difference in the way these long-time county obligations are regarded by the banks, but as that cannot be done the banks have adapted the only policy left for them. More than that the banks are not obligated to handle county paper, but will continue to do so up to a limited amount. County warrants at a discount will have two serious results. It will work a hardship on every one who performs any service for the county for which he receives warrants, and will also cause the county to pay a somewhat higher price for what it purchases in all lines, except in cases where tbe rate is established by law. Chet Killed Hia First Duck It is a vicious circle. Warrants are There must always be a first time at a discount because taxes are not ‘for anything. With Chet Farr the paid. Taxes will necessary rise be first duck he had killed was Wednes cause warrants are discounted, and day morning, and he didn’t pick on a people cannot or do not pay taxes teal or one of the smaller ducks, but because they are so high. Follow it brought down a canvas back. Chet around and you some back to th* wouldn’t admit, though, that it was starting point. the first time he had shot at one. A 10-pound goose, killed over on Honor Roll at C. H. S. the gun club grounds Tuesday morn The honor roll in Coquille high ing, was Stanley Stevens’ contribution school for the second six-weolu peri- to the first time club. od of this term contained the names of sixteen boys and twenty-two 15 Reward Offered girls. Of these, three boys and four There seems to bo a penchant girls were seniors, two boys and six among sneak thieves hereabouts to girls juniors, one boy and eight girls collect electric light bulbs. Sol e sophomores, ten boys and three girls time ago the three service stations, freshmen, and one girl a post grad Coquille, Taylor’s and Roosevelt, each uate. lost a number of lamps the same The following had highest honors, night. And some time Tuesday night all ones for the six weeks: Donald the globe and bulb from the men’s Farr, Fred Fuhrman, Jim Robinson, toilet in the Tourist Hotel were Edythe Farr, Gail Hufford. stolen. Mr. Machon says ho will give Those winning honors, no grade be »5 for information as to who did it low a two, were Howard Bonn ¡keen, Avery Combo, Frank Goodwin, Cecil Clothing Needed for Pupih Laws, Delos Shinn, Donald Smith, The teachers of the Coquille Schools George Ulett, Anne Barton, Bertha Clinton, Kathleen Collier, Betty Glais- hare organised to handle and distri ysr, Jessie Lawhorns, Rose Matney, bute clothes to children whose par Faye McCue, Helen Robinson, Esta ents are not working. Clothing may bo left at the office of Supt. Ferguson Stewart, Beryl Unsoeld. In the honorable mention division, or at either grade school building or those with an average of two and they may be left with Wm. Zosel at Things most needed are ho grade below a three, wore his store. Norman Berry, , Archie Hansen, shoes, galoshes, raincoats and either Harry Helmken, Keith Holverstott, sweeter» or blazers. Leonard Lawhome, Powell Yar Club to Meet Dec. 8 brough, Arlie Aasen, Audrey Aasen, Betty Brady, Florence Cary, Bernice Tuesday, Dec. 8, at two p. m. the Eggleston, Rose George, Priscilla Coquille Women’s Club will meet at Hickam, Madeline McKeown, Robello the Guild Hall for their regular Oderkirk, Harriet Webb. monthly business meeting. On the program will be Mrs. Raymond Jeub Board Meets Tomorrow Night who will talk on "National Event«;” ' A meeting of the Coquille school solo by Mrs. H. W. Cevalt; a reading board will be held in the city hall to by Mre. George Bemgos, of Marsh morrow, Saturday evening, at six field; and also Christmas carols. The o’clock, to open bids submitted for public is invited. transporting pupils from the Coaledo The Martin Nagel family, who hare district. The service from there is scheduled to start Monday. The cur been living on the Belloni ranch be rent month’s bills will also be passed low Riverton, moved last Tuesday to the Norway section. on by the board. •
