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The Coquille Valley Sentinel THE PAPER THAT8 UKE A LETTER FROM HOME VOL. XXVIII. NO. 82. COQUILLE, CÖOS COUNTY. OMGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1938. CAUCUS SEPT. 26 125 TONS OF PEAS RESUMEDfilLLIHfi Men Candidates for Mayor, Recorder Shipped to Date and Peak Not and 4 Councilman to Be Yet Reached—Average Ton and Half to Acre Named Then Interested The arrival in Coquille on Wednes day of Hooper C. Dunbar, president of the Belleview Oil Syndicate of Los Angeles, and Edward Payette, of Glendale, Calif., field man for that company, has stimulated hope in Co quille that oil and gas development in this valley is to be on an even larger scale than had previously been con sidered. The oil company which these men represent is one of the wealthiest in dependent oil concerns in the south ern California field and their arrival here can only mean that they are in terested and impressed with the pos sibilities of developing an oil and gas field in southwest Oregon. It is known that the Belleview com pany is connected with the operations of the Coast Oil Co. now drilling the well, over beyond Fat Elk, although how extensive their connection is not known. Drilling was resumed at the well at noon yesterday. The 2000 feet water line has been completed, the tanks are filled with water, and all the prelimin aries to actual drilling have been com pleted. The sik-inch casing, the control valve and drilling equipment was landed at Coos Bay last Sunday and the work of moving it to the camp was begun the same day. It ia now all on hand and aa soon aa the con crete plug of 80 or lees feet at the bottom of the hole ia drilled through the easing wiH be lowered into the bore and actual drilling of new hole will be started. Dr. J. Ellia Loreman’s prediction that it will not be necessary to go down more than one hundred feet more to strike the liquid black gold, which he made more then a month ago, ia about to bs put to the tert, but he is aa confident as ever that he ia not mistaken. AH ef Ceos county ia waiting with interest for the announcement of what the visit of these southern Cali fornia operators portends, as well as the announcement that the covering of the oil reservoir has been pierced. Cora Show Again Approved Another enthusiastic Corn Show meeting was hold in the city hall Wednesday evening, the only objec tion expressed being that the presen tation of Coquille’s annual fail festi val might interfere with the relief work which is going to be greater thia winter than last. It was pointed out, however, that there is no thought of raining or spending much money in holding the Corn Show this fell. It can probably be held at a cost of under *300, and provide funds for the Relief Associa tion canning operations as well. Those who spoke during the session were Meadames Geo. Bryant, Bertha J. Smith, Jas. Richmond, and Messrs. J. A. Berg, Leslie Schroeder, Lisle Goodwin, J. E. Norton, Geo. A. Ulett, J. P. Beyers, C. A. Macron, M. F. Pettit and H. A. Young. Chairman J L. Smith railed for a rising vote on the question of holding the Com Show this year, and nearly all present rose to their feet. He then announced that he would call a meet ing of the seven directors, soon, to decide on a date and name the com mittees for handling the details. State Librarian Here Tomorrow The annual meeting of the Coos County Library Association will be held in Coquille tomorrow, at which time Mias Harriet Long, state librari an, will be the principal speaker at the session which will be held in Guild Hall. In the morning Miss Long will visit the local public and high school li braries and at noon win be the guest of honor at a no-hostess luncheon to be held in the Coffee Shop at noon. Every orye interested and any one wishing to meet Miss Long will be welcome at the luncheon. In the afternoon there will be re ports from the several public libraries in the county. While Miss Long is here. Mrs. J. E. Norton, will confer with her on the Coos county historical research work which was started by the Coquille Woman’s Club a few years ago. The city caucus, to nominate candi dates for mayor, recorder, three three councihnen for four years and one 'for two years, wiH be held on the evening of Monday, 8ept. 2«, in the Community Building, at 7:80 o’clock. At its session Monday evening the council passed a resolution to this ef fect, and from now on city politics will warm up. So far as heard on the streets four men and one lady are being talked of as a candidate for mayor. Mrs. Geo. W. Bryant is the lady and the male Dr. Daniel Poling, intesnationaHy considerations are Mayor J. Arthur known speaker, will be in Coquille Berg, A. O. Walker, Dr. Jas. Rich next Friday, Sept. 16, in the afternoon mond and W. H. Manse». and will address a mass meeting in Three of the five have expressed the Community Building at 3 p. m. themselves as not wanting the office, Dr. Poling’s subject will be prohi and it may be that all five feel the bition. It is non-political and will same way. But it ia an important present sound argument« against the position «rhich some one must fill. repeal of the state dry law, and in op Mayor Berg says that after serving position to the messure which «rill ap two terms in that capacity he has pear on the ballot in November. done his duty and wishes to retire Dr. Poling is leader of the world from public office. There is, however, wide youth movement and appeared a «trong sentiment around town that at Geneva in the interest of interna- Coquille needs him at the holm of the tional disarmament this year. I »hip of state for another two yeans, Arrangements for the meeting were ( snd if he can be persuaded to allow made last Friday afternoon by David the use of his name, his hosts of Norcross, and Rev. G. A. Gray. Dr. friends all over town will get into the Jas. Richmond will preside at the game and work for him. meeting. Wm. Mansell snd Archie Welker have had experience in city affairs, having served on the council for many years. M m . Bryant and Dr. Rich mond have the ability to make a most successful head for the elty govern ment. But whoever may be nominated, it’s Aa had been hoped, Geo. H. Chaney a safe prediction that there will ba an brought to the Sentinel thia week the independent candidate in the field, account of the Marquerite’s trip on and that there «rill be a contest for the last leg of its journey from the the office on Nov. 8. Coquille river to San Pedro, that por The four councilmen vrhose terms tion south from San Francisco, which expire are R. A. Jeub, R. L. Medley, was encompassed from Aug. 16th to Henry Belloni, who have served four the list. He writes: year«, and C. W. Gans, appointed Inst month to serve until the finst of the Yacht Marguerite San Francisco to year. They are not seeking re-elec San Pedro August 16 to 21. tion but if Mr. Berg is renominated Encouraged by the editorial preface all of them will consent to make the to my last yachting notes and the race. laudatory comment of several friends Frank Leslie has made so efficient I continue herewith the log of the and accommodating an official in the Marguerite on its nine-hundred mile office of recorder and police judge that voyage to Sen Pedro. One critic com there should be no question of his plains that I have been too terse and renomination and re-election. the narrative would stand enlarging along the lines of heart interest. I Announces Her Engagement admit that my model has been more on the lines of “Caesar’s Gallic News of interest to many Coquille Wars,” in which one hundred thousand people is the betrothal announcement barbarians were conquered and butch of MiM Helen Lyons, daughter of ered in a single sentence, than Joseph Mrs. Marvin Lyons, of Marshfield, Conrad’s tales of which someone said to Prescott Branstetter, son of Mr. they could have been written in one and Mrs. L. P. Branstetter, of Cape quarter the space. Conrad replied town, Calif. It was made known at that the bare essence of any story is. a lovely bridge party Wednesday ev One is bom, suffers and dies. We ening at the home of Mrs. Lyons at suffered but escaped the dying part 666 South 12th Court, Marshfield. One of my sailors and the most ex Miss Lyons attended the University perienced seaman in the party was of Oregon, also the State Normal O. D. Juergens. His father was the School at Ashland, Oregon, and for captain of a Danish revenue cutter the past few years has been an in until the Pussians took Sleswig-Hol- structor in one of the Marshfield stein from Denmark in 1864, and schools. Mr. Branstetter attended thereafter a fisherman along the Columbia University of Portland, North Sea coast Juergens sailed later finished at Heald’s Business Col with his father from the time he lege at Sacraments, Csltf., and has could walk and from the age of twelve for a number of years been affiliated when one is considered a man in Sles- in the stock business with his father at Capetown. Both young people form (Continued on seventh page.) erly lived in Coquille and have many friends who are happy over the com Parking on Curve Dangerous ing event, which will take place some There is a custom, among thought time early in November at the home less automobile drivers, which proba of the bride-elect’s uncle, J. A. Lamb, bly would be stopped if the fault was in thia city. MARGUERITE AT SAN PEDRO ever called to their attention. We re fer to the practice of stopping on a Possibly Lower Freight Rates curve. Geo. A. Ulett represented the. Co The fault was called forcibly to our quille Chamber of Commerce at a attention Sunday, about five miles hearing conducted by A. F. Harvey south of Port Orford. A young fel for the State Public Service Com low had stopped his ear right on the mission, at Marshfield, Wednesday noint of a sharp curve where he and Thursday thia week. The hear- -ould not be seen 100 feet in either I ing was on the application of the direction and he and his wife were j Southern Pacific to reduce its freight out looking at the scenery. 1 rlrte fro’n Port,*n<1 t« Reedsport, Coos us quite a start, although our ~ rate “ Bsy, Coquille and Myrtle Point, from was only 30 miles an hour, to find i 10 to 20 cents "per hundred and to 'his car not more than 60 feet ahead j even meet a lower rate if steamship and directly in our path. But a little ■ lines msde it necessary. further on was a Ford coupe, nosed The steamship lines were repre- !nto the bank. The driver of the Ford i ranted by attorneys protesting was an elderly lady of about 70. When I against the railroad company’s she had attempted to go around the quest. parked car, her car had skidded, per Decision by the commissioner Will haps she had become confused, and she be announced later. hit the mountain side quite a blow. Had she skidded the other way the Costa Coos 12870 in 8 Months Ford would have rolled 160 to 200 feet It is costing Coos county a goodly down the hillside, with probably fatal results. Aa it was the Ford suffered sum to take care of patients at the no more serious injury than a broken insane asylum whose relatives are bumper. But it made one shudder to unable to pay the expense. This week think bow easfly the accident could * warrant for 82,870.«« was mailed have been serious. Both were Cali to the Oregon State Board of Control from the county clerk’s oAoe. fornia cum. Something over a dozen Coquille business men made a trip out to the pea fields yesterday morning and those who had not previously been there were amazed at the sho«ring. Including last evening's shipment of 18 tons to Hillsboro, there have gone to the Ray-Mnling Co. more than 126 tons of Aiderman and Stratagem peas, snd Mr. Henderson, manager of the Hillsboro plant, in a conversation with Mr. Hanson, repre sentative here who is supervising the picking, stated that the shipments re ceived were in good condition, and of excellent quality. To date the 62 acres of the J. E. Ford ranch and 26 acres on the Tway ranch have averaged a ton and a half f to the acre and the prospect is that the average will go better than three tons per acre. Those on the Russ ranch were a little later than the others and have not yet reached the ton and a half average. Geo. Hampton, at Arago, will finish picking in the next few days, but he has not reported what hie average is. The tide gates were opened below town one evening thia week and the water which reached both the Ford and Tway ranches put new life into the vines, causing them to continue to shoot upward and renew blossoming. The wetting did retard slightly the maturing of the peas in the pod, but not sufficiently to alow up the har vesting, for shipments have averaged gbout 14 tone per evening this week. Mr. Harrison says that from the showing the vines are making they will be producing until Christmas. But that doesn't mean they «rill be shipped out after the 26th of this month. The Ray-Maling contract is for three tons per acre of the Aiderman peas. The success which has attended >his year’s effort to raise peas for the September market, is the beginning of a new era in Coos county market gardening, and insures an increased acreage next summer. South America Visitor Here H. E. Shelley, Stricken Lent Week, Passed Away Fri day Afternoon meats. Another purchase authorized was of a top sealer for the Nos. 2 and 2H cans. The finance committee is soon to complete its solicitation work for funds and monthly donations and the same committee will attend to the collections. The canning of fruits and vege tables, now in almost daily progress, necessitates that a committee make frequent calls on those who have a surplus in their gardens. Mayor Berg, general chairman of the committee, Stated this morning that there was urgent need for shoes and clothing for school children and anyone who has anything suitable for children can leave it at the relief de pot or notify some member of the committee. • The Sentinel, in connection with the relief fund campaign, «rants to suggest again that the 3200 and over, remaining from the 1930 Corn Show fund, should be turned over to the Relief Association at once, for the purchase of cans and supplies for the needy. The business men of the city will provide all the funds needed for thia year’s Corn Show, and that means less than 8300. H. S. ENROLL MENT IS 243 H. E. Shelley, a resident of Coquille for the peat quarter of a century, passed a «ray in the Shelley Apart ments, at the rear of the Safeway store, last Friday afternoon at two o’clock. Ho had suffered a paralytic stroke a few days before and did not recover consciousness before his desth. Funeral services were conducted at the chape], Monday at 2 p. m., by Rev. G. A. Gray. Interment was in the new Odd Fellow« cemetery where the Coquille I. O. O. F. lodge conduct ed burial services. Henry Eugene Shelley was born Jan. 18, 1869, at Woodstock, Illinois, and would have been 74 yearn of age next January. He was the eldest ef four sons born to James B. and Ma tilda Shelley. Two of the four, E. H. Shelley, of Aberdeen, Wash., and G. W. Shelley, of Marshfield, survive him. He was married to Hattie Abia Torrey in Union City, Mich., on Sept. 18, 1888. To this union three children were born, Mrs. Ella Louella Ensele, of Montague, Calif., Mare H. and Kirk Shelley, of Coquille. He is also sur vived by eight grandchildren. After their marriage, and looking to the future, Mr. and Mrs. Shelley spent five yesra in Illinois and Kan sas, and then became impressed with the possibilities of the west. In 1888 they located in Aberdeen, Wash., where they lived for twenty years, Mr. Shelley being engaged in the building, grocery, lumber and logging businesses, until the fire of 1904 caused the lass of a large part of his fortune. He also suffered a partial loss of hearing at that time. Seeking an opportunity to retrieve his fortunes, he came to Coquille in 1908, determined to make new friends by his life-long rule of harmony and honesty. And he succeeded wrt). There is no one in Coquille who ever questioned the honesty of H. E. Shelley and there are innumerable friends who will mins the friendly spirit which always actuated him. Mr. Shelley had been a member of the Odd Fellow» lodge for 60 years and was always active in lodge affairs until his hearing became affected. He was a good man and one whose in fluence will be missed. It is only possible in this issue to make a brief and general report of the first week in school registration. Up to Wednesday evening, September 7th, the following report was made: Washington Building registered ap proximately 200 students. Lincoln Building reported 230. The High School registration was 143. Total of students approximately, «73. For the purpose of comparison we quote from the record at the end of the first week of school, September, 1M1. Total for Washington and Lincoln, 464. Total for High School, 222. You will note that our grand total at the end of the second day this year is 13 under the grand total at the end of the Ant week last year. And you City Indebtedness Reduced will also notice that the total for the High School is 21 over the first week City Treasurer Bickers* report to of last year. the council Monday evening showed According to reports there are a that the oldest general fund war number of students yet to register in rants outstanding were dated May 1, both grades and high school. The 1981, and that «rater fund warrants classes in the high school are running are paid up to November 1 of last quite large. Next week we expect to year. The water fund would be on a give a report on the enrollment by cash basis had not the general fund grades and classes. Mrs. Marie Stew had to borrow from the water fund to art is now a part time teacher in the pay interest on improvement bond«. high school. This was made neees- , Default uerauu in Interest interest payment on these tneav .ary by the extremely large classes .bonds would have impaired the city’s which had to be divided into two sec- ewdit ,nd when improvement na tion*- sessmente are delinquent, as they are The administration is highly pleas- Bow th. city muBt use wfcat fund, it ed with the attitude of both teachers bas u meet ¡u obligations. The and students and heartily commend. wstor Apartment to more than pay- both for their splendid co-operation. ¡n(f The teachers made a very fine start j „port also showed Mrs. Madeline Middleton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Cotton, arrived here Tuesday from Caracas, Venezu ela. Mrs. Middleton has not been here for three years, and does not know that she will return to South America at all soon. She and Mr. Middleton have beeiq Conducting a hotel there, but Venezuela has been hit by the same depression as the rest of the world, and aa they have an opportunity to dispose of their hold ings, she expects her husband to come back to the States soon. With the exchange rate between the countries requiring one hundred and sixty cents to purchase a dollar in United States money, things are quite high down there. Bacon costs about *1.10 a pound and other things in proportion. One thing that Mrs. M idle ton com ments on is that you can’t buy a par ticular cut of meat in the Venezuela country. If you want a steak you buy a chunk of beef and if you get in early enough to make your selection you by holding the students all day Tues- |4hat city., warrant indebtedness are able to buy a chunk from which day and the students are buckling incrmle<l Bince the first of the you can cut your own steak. down to hard work with a minimum , ye„ u 1( by 82551.77. But amount of confusion and interruption. arajnlt this, outstanding bonds have McNair Gets Three Years We are making an effort to have all been reduced by 87,141.04, making a Last Saturday Fred McNair enter adjustments and interruptions taken n,t reduction rf 84,689.27 since Jan. ed his plea of guilty to the charge of care of thia first week. 1 1. Another item in Mr. Bickels* re- holding up and robbing Warren Her To the Freshmen and any student . port is that he has paid off an addi zog a couple of weeks ago, of 836.60. having grade books: tional 81,612.37 of city warrants He was sentenced by Judge Brand to Mr. Arstill, principal of Lincoln re which he is holding as cash items, so three years in the penitentiary. ports that he needs the following that the total debt reduction of the Rex Bellmore, who robbed the books: city’s debt for the first eight months Gilbert Borgard home of 8«5 • few 24 Goody’s History of the United of the year ia 36,201.64. weeks ago and was arrested in Van States. And this good showing would be couver, Wash., recently, also pleaded 4 English Books—7-8 grades. still better were street and sewer as guilty and was given a year in the 40 Arithmetic Books for 7 and 8 sessments paid by the property o«m- pen. grades. ers when they become due. Sheriff Hess took the two boys out If you have any books you used last to Sslem, Wednesday, returning year please get in touch with Mr. Mrs. Oberteuffer to Germany home last night. Arstill. We need those books. Another plea of guilty was entered Mrs. Marvel Oberteuffer, who left last Saturday, H. L. Spencer admit Coquille four weeks ago after spend Club Resumes Monthly Semions ting that he obtained money under ing the summer here with her mother, false pretenses. He was given a year The Coquille Woman’s Club «rill Mrs. Birdie Skeels, sailed last Friday in the county jail and is to be paroled again resume its activities with an on the S. S. Minnetonka for Germany after 30 days, during good behavior. opening meeting which «rill be held in J where she wHl spend the next year ““ «-« j u.u — j — Sept. a—. 13th. learning the German language and the Guild Hall » Tuesday, National V. F. W. Chaplain Here All interested in club work are cor studying voice. The vessel is due to Rev. Claude Ireland, IkMtorof the dially invited to attend. The 1932-38 reach Antwerp, Belgium, from New Mrs. Oberteuffer M. E. church at Fort Snelling, Minn., year books will be on hand and ready York, on Sunday. came in yesterday for a few days’ vis for members. Mr. C. L. Ward, super will spend some time st Chemnitz, it with hie brother, W. A. Ireland, and intendent of the Coquills Schools, will Germany, with a friend she knew in family, here. Mr. Ireland, who is be the main speaker on the program. Eugene, the daughter of her music in national ohaplain of the Veterans of Mrs. J. E. Notron, president of the structor there, and «riH later go to Foreign Wars organisation, is on his club, will give a short talk on the one of the largo centers for study way home from San Francisco, where state convention of Federated Wom under a master in voice training. Her hundreds of friends in Coquille he attended the national convention an’s Clubs, which met last May in The Emanon Trio of and Coos county are hoping Mrs. of the V. F. W. He will preach at the Portland. Pioneer Church here Sunday, both Marshfield wifi give several eejec- Oberteuffer will be beck here again the latter part of next year. 1 r* 1
