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danger of contracting poison oak may years la|er they were back to their
bo entirely eliminated. The gentle normal number. S ites that time this
man from Texas swears by this meth bird has gons up and down again a
od and says that it has never been number cf times. ' There appears to be
a natural and so far aarttnown, uncon-
known to fail.
You simply take
lead bullet (a 22 caliber bullet will do), trollable enemy that causes this flue-
turn it endways and hammer it flat. tuation in their ranks. But their come-
Thia makes it round. Then punch a back, after a disappearance in most
bole in the center large enough for a states, shows a diminishing in their
string to go through and wear it a- - ranks.
A very misleading statement has
round your neck. If very subject to i,
poison oak wear one around each I been published in a county newspaper.
wrist while in the woods. Get a new ’ The article states that the season on
lead every once in awhile because if ’ migratory birds opens on October 1 of
you wear the same one too long it be - this year. Thia is liable to get a lot
comes charged. The gentleman failed I of hunter» in bud. The opening of
to state with just what the bullet be - the season is October 16 at 12 o'clock
came charged; whether with electric noon, ft behooves every sportsman to
ity, germs, or poison oak, but be that ; remember that noon opening and not
as it may, he swears it to a very ef - start out by the dawn’s early light.
ficient way of warding off potoon oak. . ? A local nimrod tells of stalking one
There is no expense attached to trying ! of the Chinese pheasants that were lib-
the method out and I would like to - era ted by the state game commission
see how it works out on some of you i not long ago and of actually catching
people that are subject to the poison. . it with hto hands. I do not doubt his
Like to bear from some of you hat story in the least. The birds liberated
Jry it But don’t become confused and are all hand fed, pen raised birds and
swallow the bullet instead of wearing ' have no fear of man. It is really a
it. Ono reader of this column several crime for them to bo liberated within
weeks ago read the little article that - only a few short weeks of hunting
Epsom Salto applied to potoon oak season. It to a safe bet that over
would often effect a cure.
Upon ninety per cent of them fall beneath
meeting me not long ago ho informed the guns of the hunters. Birds such
me that the remedy was no good; that as these should be liberated after the
he had taken at least a quart of salts season closes. Taking into considera
and the poison oak was still bothering tion that they are facing a coming
him. So get this business straight. winter they never the loss stand a far
In their flights across the desert better chance of surviving the very
from Arabta-Felix toward Euphrates, hardest winter than they stand of
or from Egypt toward the southern getting by the guns of the hundreds
part of the Red Sea, it to not at times of hunters who pursue them. It has
unusual for pigeons to alight hi an ex really been piUfuI to see the poor
hausted condition, positively unable to little helpless “chinks” that have had
go any further. Their flight to with to face the guns in years past. Some
the wind, and night or morning light of them being so young that it was
finds them piled together in helpless hard to distinguish between mtale and
bunches at the mercy of any enemy of female.
When they rise from the
their kind. At such times bands of grass at this age they do not take
Arabs make a great harvest of their to the air with a whirr of wings like
tender meat, spreading them open on a matured bird. Their flight to not
the warm sand for the sun to dry them a third as fast and they present an
into a abate of preservation for future easy target for the rankest novice.
use. That is one Way of securing An old rooster goes up with a roar
plenty of game without wasting am that startles many q veteran gow
munition. It appears that pigeons are and throws many a shooter off bal
numerous in msny other parts of the ance and it takes a mighty^pst shot
world beside North America. In this to throw many shots his way before
district there used to bo arhat appear
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warred upon constantly because of
theig destructive habits. Thousands
of them were poisoned and thousands
of them fell beneath the guns of hunt
ers. In years past, grain fields would
be covered with these birds, resembl
ing a great blue wave as they walked
and flew about feeding on the grain.
There are still a large number of pig
eons left but nothing like in the past-
They are as destructive as ever. They
are forever taking the fanner’s grain
and raiding orchards of young fruits
and.even invading strawberry patches.
There is a strange thing about our
ruffled gkouee. As far as I know, nat
uralists are still pondering the ques
tion. Different conclusions have been
drawn, different theories advanced,
but as far as I know no one has ever
produced any positive proof as to
what really happened to these birds.
Sixty yearn ago, from the abundance
of that period they practically disap
peared within two years time. Throe
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ends and a letterman half, while
another veteran, Morris Btonocypher,
expected to see much duty, has just
turned oat, after an illness with poi-
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son oak.
his experimenting. Hartley has
shifted many players frosn their ladt
year’s positions. Linus Seeley has
boon moved from half to end where he
played hto Freshman and Sophomore
years. Russell Martindale to now a
tackle after playing a guard post.
Craig Perrott, a full-back in 1921, is
playing quarter, while Alvin Shaver
has taken over Psrrott’s old duties,
moving from the «rings. Helmkin is
a half after playing tackle before. The
veterans not moving.are Cooper, end;
Ireland and Martindale, guards; and
Plaep, center.
Burch, half, and
Greenough, tackle, are the'newcomers.
Coquille should be strong in reserve
strength, with these players liable to
replace a regular at the slightest let
doom. Hartley, however, likes play
ers who can stand the full hour of
football competition, but he is not
backward at replacing a player who
to not working up to expectations.
The prospects are promising, but
only actual competition will bring
out the good and the bad.
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At expected, the high school and
the Corn Show coi littee have agreed
for part of the
on a football -gal
celebration.
To bring this about it
was necessary for the high school to
change the Bandon games, bringing
the latter school here on October 29,
and Coquille playing there on October
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The plans are for a.division of'the
profits derived from the game, the
half which the Corn Show receives
going in with the relief fund.
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In viewing the football games this
year don’t forget the new rules. It
to now necessary for five players on
the receiving team to line Up within
fifteen yards of the ball, while flying
tackles and blocks have been definitely
eiiminarted. They were several yearn
ago, but the rule was never strictly
enforced. Or if you tt e a ball carrier
stopped without being tackled, don’t
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sealed.
Is it possible to train a domestic
cat so that it will not catch birds?
“Yea,” says Nevy Hatcher, “we own
such a cat.” I was very much inter
ested to learn how the feat was ac
complished and Nevy explained to me
that from the time the cat eras a
small kitten that both he and his wife
boxed its ears every time it so much
as looked at a bird. Nevy claims
that cats .are broken not to catch
chickens, to why can’t they be trained
not to molest birds. There is a lot
of logic in that all right Any way
the Hatcheiw have a cat that will not
catch birds.
It will feed within a
few feet of them but pays no atten
tion to them whatever. Thia to in
deed a rare sight. A good eat is
worth a lot about a farm and about
a house that is infested with rats.
It to natural for them to catch birds
and that to why many bird lovers will
not own a eat But if they can be
broken of the habit as easily as the
Hatchers broke their cat the bird
catching habit may be eliminated.
It is hard to realise that the chief
financial worry of a high school to
how the officials are going to be paid.
The boys are always willing to play
in any ty|ft of uniform, ’ ragged or
natty, while if necessary they would
walk to a neighboring town to parti
cipate 4n a game. Those matters are
secondary. When it cornea to paying
the officials a snag is struck.
Last
year Coquille, for instance, played
two or throe games before crowds not
lsrge enough to look at. -Perhaps fif
teen cents was taken in, but the of-
fiicials had to be paid anywhere from
five to twelve dollars, and three' of
them at that.
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Why can't the school men get to
gether long enough to arrange for a
aatisfadtory way of hiring officials
without breaking a student body?
One coach ought to be willing to co
operate with another coach, while the
men teachers and principals could
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easily do the work gratis. Of course,
By Mark Seeley
Changes must be made in a ma traveling expenses would be paid.
chine when it is not working proper
ly, and if the machinist has the ma
As They Descend Trees
terial to work with be usually can
The opossum. Ilka the bear, rac
perform these alterations in handy coon and moat tree* limbing animals
form. This to somewhat the same except squirrels, comes down a tree
problem that has been facing Coach tall Bra( by preference, although be
Hartley of the Coquille High foot may reverse the method when la a
ball team in hto preparation for the hurry. Tha coati, a relative of the
raccoon found la Central and South
coming gridiron season.
America, to the only tree-cllmblng ani
In all these years the local high mal of any else which regularly comes
school has taken but one county cham down a tree bead tlret.
pionship, this in 1924 when “Brick”
Leslie coached his squad of huskies to
the leading place in the standing.
Various teams have done fairly well
at times, but not with the success that
the fans really want. Football fans
desire every game to be won.
The Red Devils this year may or
may not bring the rag to the local
school. As the machinist needs ma
terial, so does a coach, and present in- I
dieations point out that the local'
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ends and tackles to the backfield, law offices of H. A. Slack in the First
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carriers in a more or leas radical way.
And as the machinist often meets suc
cess in his operations with tools, so
to Hartley in his balancing of the C.
H. S. football team.
In each rehearsal the team has been
showing much improvement, wortring
in a smooth, systematic manner with
the new shift introduced by Hartley,
but at the same time not forgetting
the value of fundamental work.
Hartley has two teams which look
very strong, besides almost enoogn
players to make up a third eUven. On
tb^ first lineup there are lettermen
at every post except at one tackle and
half. The second team has two letter-
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