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The Coquille Valley Sentinel A Or«gen Hutoric.i Sor THE PAPER THATS LIKE A LETTER JTROM HOME COQUILLB, COO8 COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. 8EITEMBKR 1. »33. VOL. XXIX. NO. 33. COQUILLE-N. S. A. Chairman Goo. Belloni Issues Statement — Organization Perfected and Working x-*“»<um ',7 x a The N. R. A. plan is designed to put five million men back on pay- rolls in a short time. When thia is Hone, 20,000,000 peo- pie (assuming four to each wage earner’s family) will suddenly be placed in positiop to buy the normal necessities of life. That means that the total trade.volume of the nation Will, upon the complete acceptance of this plan, be lifted by from 10 to 20 per cent. Coquille will have a definite share in this increased prosperity to the extent that it participates in the plan, so there ie a responsibility on every citizen here to co-operate to the ut most to make this gigantic plan a complete success. Every employer and every consumer has a definite re sponsibility'to assume. The employer’s responsibility: ■N. R. A. calls upon every employer to shorten hours of labor, so a« to make room for more employees. Each industry will before long adopt its own code which will fix the increased labor obligations to be assumed by all firms associated with that particular industry. Until that time all employers are asked to sign the President’s Agreement and to meet the hours and wages established in that Agreement. This Agreement is sometimes referred to as the Blan ket Code. .. The success of N. R. A. therefore calls for the co-operation of every employer. It is to the Employer’s self-intor- est to do this. Why? Because more people working, with bigger payrolls, will increase the market for his goods. Every dollar spent by an Em ployer now for increased payroll will return many fold aa business flows from a consuming public, once more able to buy to supply its unfilled needs. So every employer should sign the President’s Agreement at once. The Consumer’s Responsibility: Every individual, man and woman, who buys anything, owes it to himself and his community and to the nation, to buy only from those employers who have taken the increased burden of increasing payrolls to bring back prosperity. This is to the self-inter est of the consumer because no citi zen can fail to share in this added prosperity. It will reflect itself in increased values for everything he owns. It will make his present posi tion more secure by reversing the process of deflation. So every consumer ehould sign the consumer’s pledge, which commits him to do his part in this great na tional economic experiment. 3 Games Series Starts Saturday Baseball will bo the leading sport over the week end and Labor Day holiday in Coquille. The Salem Sena tors, winners of the Willamette valley league bunting will open a three game series with the Loggers here Satur day at 2 p. m., and the same teams will compete at the name hour on Sunday and Monday. The Senators have a fast bunch of players, aug mented by stars from other teams up in the valley, and they are anxious to annex this series with the Loggers to strengthen their claim to a state champion standing. Bill Fortitr says they can’t do it. '» Bill has also had requests for games here from Eugene and Bend, but their guarantee demands cannot be consid ered and if they do come it will be because those demands have been modified. Fortier has secured “Swede” Nel son, of Canyonville, to asaiat Gilbert and Murray in mound duty for this series with the Senators. Stores to Be Closed Monday As has been the custom in Coquille for several years, Labor Day will be observed as a holiday and all places of business which are closed on Sun day will also be closed next Monday, Sept. 4. Housewives are reminded that it will be necessary to lay in a two days' supply on Saturday. • COOS EXHIBIT GOES TO FAIR For the seventeenth consecutive year J. L. Smith has gone to Salem with Coos county’s exhibit at the state fair. He left this morning, ac companied by his son, David, expect ing to be gone ten days. The county display this year will feature dairying and lumbering al most exclusively. A 360-pound Swisa 'heese, made at the Swift plant, will center the cheese display with Amer ican cheese around it. Thera will, of course, be butter manufactured down bare an dieplay. Grasses will alee >e used in the decorating. The lumber display will include ce dar and a display of the Smith Wood- Products output, and myrtle wood novelties will also be featured. In years past, when the county displays were in competition, Mr. Smith would win the first prize for the western Oregon district and on two occasion« won the sweepstakes prize for the state. That competition was eliminated »Jf«w years ago and now the state pays 375 to each exhi biting county. As Coos county bud geted nothing for fairs this year, the |75 paid by the state Will be the only compensation Mr. Smith will receive for his time and expenses. But it’s in his blood. Each year is to be the last but when next fall rolls round he is again on the job, advertising Coos county and its resources to the The duty of every citizen of Co thousands who attend the fair. And quille is therefore plain. The Presi his displays always rank among the beat in the state. dent has said: “On the basis of this simple prin ciple of everybody doing things to gether, we are starting out on this nation-wide attack on unemployment. It will succeed if our people under stand it—in the big industries, in the little shops, in the great cities and in the small villages. Thera is noth ing complicated about it and there is nothing particularly new in the prin ciple. It goes back to the basic idea of society and of the nation itself that people acting in a group can accom plish things which no individual act ing alone could even hope to bring about’’ Coquille must do ite part in this great plan, ft has never failed when the nation called and it will not fail now. George A. Belloni, Chairman, N. R. A. Committee Twenty-five representative citizens of Coquille responded to the invita tion of Geo. A. Belloni last Friday evening and organized the N. R. A. advisory committee for Coquille. Or ganisation was perfected, after Mr Belloni had explained the purpose of the advisory committoe, by the se lection of Mr. Belloni as genera) chair men and J. J. Stanley as secretary. Meetings will be held at the call of the chairman. Mr. Belloni announced as his selec tions of the military-titled officers who will conduct all N. R. A. affairs in Coquille, the following: General—6. L. Vinton. Lieut.-Geo.—Jean Young. Colonel, in charge of publicity, Er nest Purvance. Colonel, administration, J. B. Bar- 32.(H> THE YRAR A Purple Sun Sunday “Once in a blue moon" is an old ex pression, but a purple sun is some thing unheard of; yet Coos county saw just that last Bunday evening and again on Monday. Looking at the sun from the bluff above Bandon beach Sunday evening, when it was an hour or more from netting, its appearance was almost ex actly that of a full moon, silvery, and •he reflected path of light on the >cean resembled that often made by the moon. Gradually the sun’a face turned to a light purple and before being ob scured by «moke and fog became lav ender. Whether the smbkw from the fires in the Tillamook section was re sponsible for the freakish appearance is not known. We had alwaya ob served a reddish cast to the sun when it was seen through heavy smokes. B. L. Eddy Appointed Judge B. L. Eddy, of Roseburg, was yes terday appointed by Gov. Meier as drcuit judge for the second judicial comprises several district, which counties in southwestern Oregon, to succeed the late Jas. W. Hamilton. His regular circuit court sessions will be held in Douglas county. Judge Eddy has served four terms as state senator from Douglas, two terms as state representative, and is an attorney of real ability who will adorn the Douglas county bench. Roy Gudmundson left yesterday morning on a three weeks’ vacation trip to San Francisco and Vallejo. Marion dayton is subotituting for hlm aa mall carrier. Beulah Chapter Wins the Cup Coquille Party on Tug Klihyam Faculty, Students and Mer- chants Are Prepared for Ride with “Old Iron- sidea” Ita Opening Beulah Chapter, No. 6, O. E. S., won the cup at the Natal Day cele bration at Bendon last evening, with a percentage of 77 plus. Marshfield was a close second, but Beulah is now started on its attempt to win a sec ond cup for three oonsecutive wins as it did a few years ago. Those who attended the cere monies yesterday report it as a moot successful day. There were 460 pres ent at last evening's seesion and Oc cidental chapter added to its reputa tion for ginving its visitors splendid entertainment, most excellent lunch eons and a general good time. The evening before the worthy grahd matron, Mrs. Monnie Hauser, of Salem, paid J>er official visit to Beulah chapter here, the work of the order being presented for her bene fit by the chapter officers. Mrs. Hauser complimented them on their proficiency and spoke at some length on chapter affairs. Other grand officers here and at Bandon were Mrs. Pearl Pratt, grand marshal, from Salem, and Mrs. Inez Glaisyer, grand conductress, of Co- quille. " The session of Beulah chapter was preceded by a 6:30 dinner in Masonic hall. The beet view of ths U. S. frigate, Next Tuesday the Coquille public “Constitution," or Old Irinsides was schools will open for the 1933-34 had by a party of 16 , Coquille and school yeaar, and all is in redinesa to Bandon people, when the famous old start whit should be one of the most boat was off Coos Bay Tuesday successful years in the school history evening. And it was also the last view of Coquille. An able corps of in- of the boat by people of this section structors has been contracted and for the party aboard the Port of Ban they are all here ready to begin the don tug “Klihyam" travelled along year’s program. side the Constitution for two or three Perhaps we should say that all are miles as it was being towed out to in readiness except possibly the pu- •ea by the U. 6. tug “Grebe." The pile and students who may regret the crew on the Constitution ran up the vacation end. The Coquille merchants are also colors for ite short-time escort, and the “Klihyam’a” parting salute was ready to supply the needs incident to the reopening of school and through answered by the departing vessel. - The Constitution was a beautiful the columns of the Sentinel a good sight as it left Coos county’s shore many of them are telling what they and would have been more beautiful have to offer in the way of school still had ail ite canvas been spread. supplies and wearing apparel. We The “Klihyam” left Bandon at 3:30 recommend these merchants to the and arrived off Coos Bay just as Old public and assure the people of'Co Ironsides was leaving, between 5:30 quille and vicinity that they can se and 6. The visitor slowed up when cure as reasonable prices in Coquille its Crew saw the “Klihyam" - was as csn be found anywhere on the chasing them and permitted the tug coast, for the same quality. To assist in school reopening pro to keep pace at a distance of 200 feet gram the Sentinel is distributing or leas. Tn the Coquille portion of the party 2500 extra copies al) over the Coquille were J. E. Norton, president of the valley. Buy of your local merchants and Port of Bandon, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. It was a question yesterday after Lafe Compton, A. O. Walker, H. A. you may have a chance to spend the noon and evening whether the Sen Young and daughter, Carol. Bix same money again and again. tinel would get out today. When the others were from Bandon and the crew of four completed the list. His Jaw Broken in Two Places power went off at 1:40 p. m. and did not come on until 6:40 it interfered The trip up to Coos Bay was made Geo. W. Bryant was most painfully with a lot of things. Bwift A Co. without any unusual incident, but the 1 injured shortly after noon yesterday had a vat full of milk just ready to tamd-lubebrs aboard had quite a thrill when he was struck by a line at his before tying up at the Bandon dock camp four or five miles above Pow start making cheese and one young about 11 o’clock, and for a while it ers. The line caught him across the lady in a beauty shop had to wait with her permanent only half com looked as though they might lay off left side of his head, cutting his ear, the Coquille river mouth till morning; and broke his lower jaw on both pleted. Many a household here had With darkness came a fog which sides. He was brought to the Knife to do with a cold dinner, and for a shut out completely the lights at Ban Hospital here and after Dr. Rich time it looked as though the Coquille don, and it was like looking for a mond had set the bones it was neces valley might be in darkness »at night. , The trouble was caused by the high needle in a haystack to locate ’he sary for Dr. Rietman to readjust his whistling buoy, three miles off che two plates so that they would fit over wind over on the Bay yesterday. It river’s mouth. After locating that toe wires used to tie the jaw bone blew down a tree just back of Libby, the tug proceeded at slow bell for fl together. Just how serious th* injury inaccessible to autos. The tree just mile anda half in and then dropped to his sap was could not bo told last reached one wire of the 110,000 volt' Copco line from Roseburg and when anchor to await the fog’s lifting^ evening. that line broke the sag back from the which would permit eight of the The Sentinel wants to say that break permitted the Copco wires to range lights. George has plenty of grit. Suffering hit the Mt. States line from the Bay After an hour and a half wait the excruciating pain, he nevertheless to the valley and short the circuit. Bandon lights began to apear and the went home for a bath before going to It was first thought that the burn tug started for her home berth. the hospital for treatment. ing poles along the highway at Green Again there was a thrill as the boat Acres was the cause of the short, but crossed the bar. The incoming waves On a Month’s Eastern Trip when that trouble was remedied there travel faster than an entering boat, Mrs. A. J. Sherwood, accompanying wae still no juice over here and it was and as the stern dropped down from the crest of one wave another caught Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Liljeqvist of nearly four o'clock when the Libby it and the entire rear half of the Marshfield, left Wednesday morning break was found by the patrolman. The truble at Green Acres, just this deck was awash, three or four feet of «■ a month’s eastern trip during water being over the rear deck at one which they will visit the World’s Fair aide of Delmar, was that boys had at Chicago, New York City and Wash shot at and cracked insulators a time. A lady sailor who was slightly in ington, D. C. Mr. Liljeqvist is going month ago. Carrying the standard disposed was lying on a mattress on to Washington to srgue the Malheur 66,000 voltage the insulators stood up the rear deck, the mattress resting on Lake case before the U. 8. supreme but when the 110,000 volts from the life preservers, and wheh the first court, as s special counsel for the Copco line hit the Mt. States wires wave struck she jumped to her feet state of Oregon. The case inwolves the cracked insulators could not carry and was riding around deck when res title to 83,000 acres. He has been the load and the poles were set on cued by her husband. He conducted working on the ease for more than fire. The crew had to pack in their re her to the engine room safely but two years. A hearing is to be held was himself caught in water to his late this summer on the evidence ac pair equipment to the Libby break cumulated over a period of years and and it required half an hour to make knees when the big wave hit. The sea was smooth that day and Liljeqvist’« present trip is to survey the trip. most of the sightseers were able to this evidence. POWER OFF 5 HRS. YESTERDAY partake of the very fine meal pre pared by Jack Nyros, tug cook and able-bodied seaman, who did every thing possible for the guests’ com fort. It was a very enjoyable afternoon and evening and the youngest member of the party was hoping that the “Klihyam would have to remain out- side all night! Library Reopened Yesterday The Coquille Public Library open ed Thursday afternoon at the regu lar hour, after having been closed a week. Renovating and cleaning of draperies, cushions and woodwork and general housecleaning was accom plished. Beside a complete sheet lint was made of all books in the library. This list will be used hereafter in taking inventory and will be of great service. A more efficient charging, or loan ing, system has been instituted. For each person desiring books, a borrow er’s card with his name and address is made and filed. Upon this card notation is made to correspond with the book cards which are also Aled against the return of the books, This double check will make it possible tc regulate the loan of two books to each borrower, said books to be re turned before other» can be obtained, and will keep available more books for circulation, eliminate overdue books and mistakes which some times occured under the simple system which has heretofore used. Patrons and friends of the library are cordially invited to make use of Ma services. Aragon’s Opening Dance The Aragon Ball Room is the name of Coquille’s dance hall, formerly Graham’s Hall, under the new man agement of Ernie Ferrari and Levi Wilson. The grand opening dance of the Arago will be held Saturday eve ning, Sept. 2, and dances will con tinue to be given every Saturday night. Possibly a Wednesday evening dance will also be given. Admission has been set at 40 cents for men and 10 cento for ladies. Ferrari’s six-piece band will pro vide the music. V. F. W. Picnic Sunday The Coquille Valley Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, which comprises joint memberships of Coquille and Myrtle Point, will hold a picnic in Norway Grove, acroM the highway from Herman Tedson’s store, next Sunday, Sept. 8. All V. F. W. and their families and friends are invited to attend and enjoy a get-together and good time. Where Coquille Girls Will Teach County Fair, Sept. 13-16 Coos and Curry County Fair pre mium lists were distributed in Co quille the first of this week. The fair will be held at the fair grounds at Myrtle Point, Sept. 13 to 16, from Wednesday to Saturday of week af ter next.- AH exhibits must be in place by Wednesday evening, the first day as none will be received after that time. Tfiie premium list provides for prizes for as large an exhibit as has ever been made at the fair — live stock, poultry, vegetables, fruit, floral, farm products, dairy and cu linary products, needle and handwork, giothing, art displays and more es pecially 4-H club work and Bmith- Hughes school wort. As usual, on Friday all'high school student« and grade pupils in the county will be admitted free. Genera) admission is to be 25 cento, with the pass list suspended for this year. Officers of the fair board in charge of the four-day program are Ellis De ment, Broadbent, president; H. E. Hess, Coqurlle, vice president; L. H. Pearce, Myrtle Point, secretary- tramiurer. The directors are: W. T. Dement, Myrtle PointpAlbert Powers, Powers; Joe A. Larson, Marshfield; Henry Kern, North Bend; Ernest L. Clausen, Broadbent; P.O. Lund, Myr tle Point; Robert L. Wagner, Port Or ford; Ray McNair, Bandon. Miss Martha Jane Webb, who re turned last Saturday from the normal at Monmouth, will teach the coming year at Pleasant Hill. Other Coquille young ladies who have secured schools are: Jean Pierce who taught last year at Delmar, this year will teach the fifth and sixth grades at Court Here Next Friday Langlois; Gretchen Mehl will again Judge Brand has announced that he leach at Langlois; and Pauline El lingson in the second grade room at will be her* next Friday, Sept. 3, for a notion day session of stiwit ecart. Bandon. Mrs. Sarah Wickham Arrived in Coquille Sept. 4, 1883—Still in Good Health Next Monday, September 4, Mrs. Sarah Wickham and her daughters, Mrs, Geo. O. Leach and Mrs. Nels Os- mundaon, will have been residents of Coquille for 50 years. Half a century is a long time to maintain an unin terrupted residence in one town, and while there are others now here who lived in Coquille before September 4, 1883, there are very few whose ar rival here antedates that of Mrs. Wickham and her daughters. Their first night here was spent in the Myrtle Grove Park. Another daughter, Mrs. Kate Moeller, of To ledo, was a babe of three wee^s then, having been bom at Happy Camp, near the California line while the family was journeying north from east central California. The family lived first on the site of E. A. A «sen’s home on Henry street and later Mr. Wickham built a house where A. N. Foley lives and they re sided there for many years. After Mr. Wickham’s death which occurred Feb. 4, 1902, Mrs. Wickham built and conducted the Wickham House, one of the most popular hotels in southwest ern Oregon, from 1902 to 1918, when it was burned in that St. Patrick’s Day fire. It stood where the South western* Motor Co. building is now located. Mrs. Wickham was born in Eng land, June 20, 1850, and although past 83 years of age is in good health ex cept when attacks to which she is subject come upon her. She was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Taylor who came to the United States while she was a young girl, settling in Michigan. When she was ten years old they crossed the plains with ox and cow teams to the California coun try where her father had gold mines. ’He died the night they arrived in Sacramento. Mrs. Wickham cam remember and tell many interesting things about that long trip across the continent, Indian attacks, a hanging of one of the men in the wagon train for murder, * their day and night travelling to ta cape the Indians. She was married to Geo. R. Wick- am, March 10, 1867, at West Point, Calif. He had served in the Civil war, had been hit by four bullets and car- ried one of them in his body until his death. Of the ten children bom to M m . Wickham—eight Californians and two Oregonians—five are living. They are Mrs. Loach and Mrs. Oamundson, of* Coquille, Mrs. Benham, of Portland, Mrs. Kate Moeller, of Toledo, and Gene Wickham, of San Bernardino. A daughter, Georgia, was drowned when two years of age, Myron H., Charles and Oscar, died here in Co quille a few years ago, and Mrs. Daisy Holland was another daughter who ha« gone on before. Eleven grand children and one great grandson, George Tracy Leach, look to their grandmother, as does everyone who knows the subject of this sketch, as a splendid woman who had done well her wort in life. Lack of time and space prevent« telling all the stories of early Coquille history which Mrs. Wickham can tell so interestingly. J. P. Messer, father of Mrs. M. 0. Hawkins, was the violinest who play ed for the dances she attended in her younger Hfe in Coquille; a round trip to Bandon was, of course, by steamer and took all day to make; there was t trail across from Coquille to Coos Bay by which the mail wss brought over in a spring wagon, and she re calls that a falling tree killed the two horses drawing the mail wagon, soon after their arrival here, but that Mr. Bunch, the driver, escaped unhurt. The business section of Coquille was a maple bottom before its set tlemen, and when the Wickham fam- itly arrived it was dense woods even where Mr. Ida Owen now lives. The Masonic eenrtery was in the block where the Washington school build ing now stands, and the bodies were later removed to the old Odd Fellows cemetery. Mrs. Widkham has had a full, in teresting, and for the most part hap py life, and it is the Sentinel’s hope that she may live for years, and tell us an occasional bit of early Coquille <L - — lYiBvOl'^e B. P. W. Meeto Sept. 4 The regular meeting of the Busi ness and Professional Women's Club will be held next Monday evening at the Coquille Hotel at II® p. m,
