e Coquille
VOL. XXX.
NO. 15.
GASBUBBLES OUT
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82.06 THE YEAR
May Day Dance Tomorrow
ONLY OUT OF OHS BETTEft HOMES
IJ.BENNETT BUR
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MAYDAY-CHILD
HEALTH DAY
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Highway Aas’u Annual Meet
Coquille should be well represented
at the annual meeting of the Coast
Highway Association which is to be
held in Crescent iCty on Friday and
Fat Elk Wall Haa AU the Ear-
Lafe Compton Breaks Cable and And Gardens Week to Be Ob Saturday of next week, May 4 and 5, Commencement, May 25, Bacca
with the opening session a banquet at
Ferb Emery’s Tow IJne
marks of a Producer—
served Here April 29
laureate Services to Be
six p. m. on Friday.
Still Drilling
Sunday Morning
to May 5
Held May 20
The Coast Highway Association,
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under the management of Ed. W.
Last Sunday Lafe Compton and Gene
There are 48 Members of the C. H.
PROCLAMATION
Gas in the greatest volume yet
Miller, has been one of the most po-
Norton, who had spent the night with
Whereas, April 29th to May Sth, tent forces the past, few years, in 8. senior class which will be gradu
struck appeared in the bailing« from
their families at Bandon, went to the 1934, hae been set aside as National bringing progressive action along ths ated May 25. This is about the same
the Fat Elk oil well last Tuesday.
golf course for an early round before Better Home« Week, and
When lighted it would burn for ten
coast One of the most important of size claes as graduated a year ago.
breakfast. About the time they had
Whereas, National interest is being its achievements is the success in se The list include« Audrey Aasen, Mari
minute« as it escaped from the muck
finished nine holes it started to rata shown in the observance of those days curing governmental approval of the anne Axtell, Anne Barton, Alice
and »«nd in the 20-foot bailer, bub
and they hopped into Lafe’s ear, hun and each community should do its five coast highway bridges, all of Bunch, Edythe Farr, Rose George,
bling and boiling out like steam from
gry aa wolves. But thé motor re part by co-operating, in every possi which will be under contract this Lois Harry, Verna Halter, Cherie Mae.
a kettle.
A Much Needed Rain
fused to tarn over. For upward« of ble way, with our local Better Homes summer. We do not mean that the Hartwell, Jeanne Hatcher, Mabel Hill,
Drilling was suspended on Wednes
Approximately an inch of rain on an hour Lafe sat there and played a committee, and
day while another effort was made to
Highway Association secured this ap Faye Hurrel, Marjorie Judd, Hallie
Sunday end Monday brought the total tune on the starter. No good.
Whereas, a great deal of benefit proval by itself, but it haa kept the Knight, Clarice Krantz, Geraldine
get the casing down to the bottom,
for the season up to 35 inches which
Gene finally went to his cabin and wiM- be derived by the proper obser matter to the front so forcefully that M<£larthy, Faye June Nosier, Sara
and the fact that the 1600-foot column
is about two feet short of the aver got his car and with a telephone cable vance of those days and every, inter
of pipe m now slipping down easily
the legislature, the state highway Margaret Nye, Rose Matney, Mildred
age and what this section needs for they tried to tow Lafe's car out. But ested individual should do his part in
Is called almost miraculous by J.
commision, the state end Portland Noyes, Tessie Ruble, Olive Stewart,
the
benefit
of
pasture
and
crop«.
the cable was not strong enough and making said week a successful annual chambers of commerce, and the Bu Florence Tway, Beryl Unsoeld, Freda
Ellis Loreman, after the great difficul
In many ways this has been the broke repeatedly.
•vent
ties the drillers have had in getting
reau of Public Roads have all co-op Wilson, Darrell Anderson, Kenneth
During the unsuccessful towing epi
Now, Therefore, I, J. Arthur Berg, erated in assuring that the bridges Arrell, Bob Bailey, Bob Collier, Er
casing through thia difficult forma- finest winter and spring of the past
twenty during which this writer sode Feri> Emery appeared on the Mayor of the City of Coquille, Coos
tion.
nest Cooper, Joe Davis, Bill Hoten,
will be built.
The IMO feet of water now itand- Ims resided in Coquille. Berries and acene, and Lafe confided confidential County, Oregon, by and throqgh the
At least two Coquille boosters are Charles Gaslin, Vern Hansen, Harold
many garden crops are a month or ly that he would rather it had been authority vested in me, do hereby
ing in the hole, exert» a pressure of
planning on attending the meeting Hatcher, Don Hickam, Harry Kelley,
more ahead of the usual, but this anyone on earth than hi» beta noir, proclaim and declare April 29th to
7,000 pounds to the square inch and
next week, and it would be well if Gorden Neil, Albert Rhule, Jack Mast,
country needs a lot more rain before Ferb.
May 5th, inclusive, of the year 1934, two carloads went. (Reservations for Marvin Skeels, Manley Matney, Earl
Mr. Loreman says that it might re
the summer dry season really starts.
After watching the cable break a ss Better Hemes Week, and aek that accommodations
quire a month for the gas to work
may
be
made Morris, Ellis Newton, Bill Peart, Bill
few times Ferb reached in and offer- all parties interested co-operate in through Lafe Compton at the Co Pook, Morse Stonecypher, Clarence
through that column of water to the
ed the loan of hi« tow rope, But even making thia a successful event.
Shoemaker.
top. But the bailings from the bot
quille Hotel.
that snapped in two.
J. Arthur Berg, Mayor.
The Baccalaureate services will be
tom «how oil as well as gas.
Finally a strong enough rope waa
held in the Pioneer church on Sunday,
When the casing Anally reaches the
secured and Lafe’s car waa towed to
May 20, at 8:00 p. m. Walter Fiscus,
limestone capping which the -drill has
Mrs. W. 8. Sickels has again been
town. No mechanic was needed, how appointed Coquille chairman for na
minister of the Church of Christ has
now reached it is probable that the
MdKinley has lost one of its most ever.
been asked to deliver the Baccalaure
water can be bailed out and drilling
tional Better Homes and Gardens
After two or three hours in the Weeks, April 29 to May 5, inclusive.
ate sermon.
in an open hole continued. Mr. Mar- valued citizens this week, with the
For the commencement exerewes,
rion. who is doing the drilling him passing of I. J. Bennett on April 23rd. rain, with Lafe looking like a drown
This is the third year Mrs. Sickels
Better Homes Week and May Day-
He wss born April 9, 1857, at Bush ed rat. some one had the bright idea has served in this capacity and she
self. is convinced that the gas or oil
to be held in the Community Build
Child
Health
Day
coming
together
as
vein has been tapped, and that when nell, Montcalm county, Michigan. He to look in the tank.
hopes to make the week this year they do next week i« emphasized thia ing on Friday, May 25, at 8 p. m,. W.
It was dry.
G. Beattie, extension lecturer at U.
the water is drawn off that a good was married to Martha Meacham at
more outstanding than any of the
year by the holding of our tuberculin
All this cime out at Lions Club previous ones.
Racine, Wisconsin, in 1877.
After
of O., has been secured to make the
production will be in evidence.
testing
clinic
of
contact
cases,
at
the
address.
But oven should the first showing fifty-seven years of married life, she luncheon yesterday, when Mr. Emery
The purpose of the Better Homes
county eourt house April 30th.
Eleven children opened a “collect” special delivery and Gardens Week i« to arouse and
be not more than a barrel a day it still survive« him.
This
will
be
the
fourth
clinic
held
in
will prove the territory as an oil dis were born to them, of whom six are package in which was found his new stimulate a greater interest in lawn«
Program at O. E. S. Splendid
tow rope in half a dozen short and garden« and in their appearance, Coos county in recent weeks. Powers,
trict, in Mr. Loreman’s opinion. Hie living.
Following the regular session of
Marshfield,
North
Bead
and
now
Co
The early part of Mr. Bennett’s life 1 lengths. And Ferb was very careful and to bring about a definite better
geological experience leads him to
quille, in the order named, will have Beulah chapter, O. E. 8., last evening
in
opening
the
large
package
to
scat
was
spent
in
Michigan,
working
at
his
I
expect the maximum production at
ment of the home, both th« interior
successfully conducted clmcs for tu a delightful program was rendered
about 2,000 feet, which means 350 trade of blacksmith. Ho was an 1 ter the packing, and there waa a lot and the exterior.
berculin «kin-testing and in each case for the pleasure of the large number
of
it,
all
over
the
dining
room
floor.
earnest
Christian
and
for
sixteen.
1
feet more of drilling, with constant
Various committees
have been the attendance hae exceeded expecta who were in attendance.
'Henry
Hess
as
chairman
of
the
ly increasing oil and gas. Mr. Mar years qp ordained preacher, he and
named. The schools are putting on
Solos, "This is My Creed,” and
tions. The work is conducted by the
riott expects the well to break loose his wife riding many miles on bicycles I snooping committee, was instructed a program along the line« indicated;
Coos County Medical association, "The Arrow and the Song,” by F. G.
to
examine
the
rope
and
see
if
it
had
with a flow of the “black gold” at any and enduring many hardships to carry '
Mayor Berg has issued a proclama
Leslie, accompanied by Mrs. Maude
been
broken by the strain, or had tion sailing attention to the week’s physicians donating their time, with
the gospel to out of the way places.
1
time now.
Woodyard.
The last thirteen years of his life
e hapq
'
cut with a singla or double- ,«h««vva ince, and the Campfire girl« no charge . whatever, and sponsored
Harmonica »elections,
by Billie
by the Coos County Public Health
r.
bitted
axe.
He
Returned
to
the
dt«-
wqre spent on the farm at McKinley, u .
....... are pertlrfpathsg-
association. American Legion, as a Black, member of Roseburg DeMolay
He was a charter member of McKin rng room with a beautiful new tow . The Otokson Camp Fire group, of
A meeting for the purpose of or
rq g o w Bryant ^'guard project of their Child Welfare com chapter.
ley Grange, served several years as rope, raying that he could fipd noth- whi h
ganizing a potato growers’ associa
Talk on Masonry, its beginning and
mittee, is lending assistance in cases
Msoter. He wss the oldest Granger ing wrong with it, but Ferb complain- i(lnt ha, arran)fed . eonte,t between
tion for Coos county wiM be held in
of transportation problems.
A call progress down through the centuries,
in Coos county, having been a mem ed that it waa an inch shorter than two groupg
Fire girls from those needing transportation to by lE. P. Lewis, of Marshfield.
Coquille on Wednesday, May 8, an
the dedicated one for which he in
:n w
k;,.h the
th,
ber for fifty years.
which
:h of them Mrs. Leia Elrod, county nurse, will
nounces M. F. Pettit, chairman of the
Piano «elections by William Whar
Honest and upstanding, strong for seemed to have a peculiar affection. will be entered. Not only the ar
Retail Merchants committee of the
ton, Roseburg DeMolay.
receive attention.
Needle«»
to
say
both
Lions
paid
the
the right as he saw it, he was one
rangements of the room, but the
Coquille Chamber of Commerce.
Saxophone selections by H. 8. Nor
During early May a membership
who could say, with the Apostle Paul, limit in Anes.
draperies, bed covering«, furniture,
The preliminary meeting held a
drive will be conducted under the di ton, accompanied by Mrs. Woodyard.
"I have fought a good fight, I have
and the girl’s own handiwork will be
couple of weeks ago was well attend
Talk on the principles and workings
rection of Mrs. A. E. Bradford, local
Milk Price to Be Set May 1
finished the course, I have kept the
considered by the judges. The prise community chairman of the Coos of the DeMolay by William Unrath,
ed, but it is hoped a larger number of
faith.”
M. Kerr, inspector for the Oregon will be awarded at a Grand Camp County Public Health 'association. of Roseburg.
growers as well as of merchants, who
The following poem was written milk control comnvssion, was here Fire Council to be held early next
Selections by high school double
are so vitally interested in the mat-
They have this year a greater respon
for him by a friend on his 77th birth yesterday inspecting ail dairies that month.
ter, will be present on May 9.
sibility than ever, with the launching quartet, directed by Mm. Ruth Bey
day, the ninth of this month:
Last week was Clean-Up week, but
«ell milk, whether it be one that
A North Bank farmer remarked in
of th» important new tuberculin ers. The members were David Rob
the Sentinel office this week, "I have There are many bees on the maple makes it a buisness, or a one-cow the purpose of Better Homes and testing project and need the support bins, Robert Waggoner, Jim Scheer,
dairy where milk is sold to the neigh Gardens Week is more than a cutting of every individual in Coquille.
bloom today.
Don Smith, Jim Robinson, Lynn
a lot of potatoes for sale but'I do not
of weeds and disposing of trash
believe Coo» county growers are en From apple boughs full many a petal bors only.
Membership fee will be only ten Swain and Jesse Barton. They were
Painting of the cents for 1934 and it is hoped to add accompanied by Margaret Purvance.
A week ago members of the com around the home.
shed.
titled to consideration until they im-
A delicious lunch was served in the
prove their product” Hq i meant that There are many memories folded and mission were here and held a meeting exterior; decoration with paint and many new names to the list of health-
at the court house and another one at wall paper of the interior; improve consciotM citizens. The money raised banquet hall at the close of the pro
laid away,
too often potatoes offered for sale
are not properly graded; that suffl- There are many hairs of ailver on Marshfield at which time it waa ex ment of sanitary and living condi in this way is usued for local health gram by the committee in charge,
plained to the assembled dairymen tions greater comfort in "the horns, relief.
your head.
Mrs. Maxine Jeub,
Mrs.
Sylvia
dent care is not exercised I in the se-
Knight, Mrs. Genie Lorena, Mrs. Mabie
lection of need to insure a potato Unnumbered these, and all Blonf the what the new milk control law would all are included in the general pur
pose back of the week’s observance.
do.
Lair, Mrs. Hettle Leslie, W. K. Bos-
suitable to Coos county land, and one
years
To Explain Reduction Plan
Under itu provisions the price will Not many are able at this time to
serman, F. G. Leslie and E. H. Kern.
which will not boil away to mush in Are gnany friends—these aro un-
be set which the distributor must p»y »pend a great deal for new furniture
The dairy reduction program as
cooking after it is fully ripe.
counted, too.
It is expected that a definite organ No house would hold them, if they all the dairyman producer for four P*r or new conveniences around the proposed by the dairy section of the Name School Budget Committee
cent milk, as well as the price for home, but there is no one who cannot Agricultural Adjustment Adminiatra-
isation plan will be presented at the
The board of directors for School
were here
|
which he must sell it to the consumer, do something to make his or her tion at the recent regional
meeting 1 district No. 8 mot Tuesday evening
May 9th meeting.
To shake your hand and wish God’s
and the seme price will prevail for home a more -attractive place in held in Portland for dairymen of Ore and appointed the committee which
best for you.
the producer-distributor, the dsiry which to live.
gon, Washington and Idaho will be with the directors will prepare the
Ulett Building Fine Home
For a life like yours is like that of a which milks ite own ears and retails
explained and discussed at a meeting budget for the 1904-35 school year.
Good progress is being made on the
deep, still river,
the product. The price will vary, of
The public schools have been asked in Myrtle Point, sponsored by the The committee consists of M. O.
Geo. A. Ulett home being built on Feeding msny roots, bearing many course, with the grade of milk «old, to co-operate with the local committee Myrtle Graage, which will be held
Hawkins, R. L. Stewart and Lafe
that commanding site at the head of
ships on their way,
the four per cent product being that on Better Homes and Gardens in ob Tuesday evening, May 1, at 8 p. m., Compton, with E. D. Webb named as
Second street on the north aide of The life of a strong and all uncon usually sold to the public.
serving this week which opens April according to Martin Schmidt, of Nor alternate in case either of the others
the street. There will be six rooms
scious giver.
The regulated price is supposed to thirtieth. The school has net aside way, who is chairmen of the agricul could not serve.
on the first and second floors, besides We, who have known you, honor you go into effect next Tuesday, but local the assembly period on Friday, May tural committee.
Bids for operation of school buses
hall«, bath room, closeta, etc., and
today.
dairymen have not yet received defin fourth. C. C. Farr, former chairman
E. L. Detlefsen, of Coquille, who ia were opened. J. W. Powell, who op
there will be two rooms on the third
ite information as to what it will be. and member of the school board, has a member of the State Dairy Produc erated the bus from Fairview this
floor.
The figure of 81.80 per hundred for been asked to address the students on tion Control committee, and who at year, was the low bidder for that run,
Scout Cabin Nearly Finished
The structure la to be shake-cov
The Scout and Camp iFire cabin, on four per cent milk to be paid to the the subject, “Civic Pride.” Certain tended the (Portland meeting, will his figure being 8180 per month.
ered, on the outside walls, painted
His remarks
For the McKinley bus, Sam Arnold
which L. J. and Howard Post have producer and ten cents a quart as the ly thk is an opportune time for sueh lead this discussion.
white.
been working since last Friday, la retail price are fairly close to what sbeervance and we are in hearty sym will be supplemented by George Jen was low at 8185 per month. Walter
Melvin Kern, who is hi charge of
kins, county agent, who also attended W. Rhula has had the contract for
rapidly nearing completion. That' is, the commission will probably set is pathy with such a program.
the construction crew, tells Mr. Ulett
the Portland meeting.
that run the past year.
the structure itself will be finished in the figures.
it will be ready for occupancy some
While it is recognised that the pro
Bids wore also called for 150 cords
a few days. The plumbing has not
Monday
Last
Day
for
Seed
Loan
time in June.
gram which will bo discussed is only of wood. Specifications can be seen
To Show Colored Cartoons
been installed and will not be until
The closing date that the crop seed tentative, it 1s believed that most
in an advertisement elsewhere in thio
further funds are provided the cabin
The first of a series of thirteen of
A Lecture on Christian Science committee, of which F. 8. Emery is the Walt Disney color cartoons will loan office will receive applicationa dairymen in this community will be issue.
for government seed loan* has been interested in having a report on the
Mr. A. Hervey Bathurst, C. S. B. chairman.
be shown at the Liberty Theatre Sun
set for April 80, according to in progress made up to this time and are Fairview Boy on Short Furlough
Built
ao
that
the
old
fireplace,
con
of London, England, will deliver a
day evening. These technicolor pic
formation received at the county invited to be present whether they
Carl Yeoman, whose home is at
lecture in Coquille next Tueaday eve structed several yean ago, will be in tures will include “King Neptune,”
agent’s office where some 30 applica are Grange members or not
Fairview, left yesterday after a
ning at eight o’clock, in the Odd Fel the center of the main room, on the coming Sunday, "Three Little Pigs,”
tion blanks have been filled out daring
week’s visit with home folks. At the
lows Hall. The title of Mr. Bethurst’s north side, it will provide a very com ’•Babe« in the Woods,” "Old King
the past month.
completion of hie training in the U. 8.
lecture is, “Christian Science: The fortable meeting place for the or Cole,” and others, running about
Sprained
Ankle
at
Portland
In order to meet this requirement
Navy at San Diego, he was on a light
A three of them a month.
Kingdom of God within Us.”
The ganisations which will use it
Coos county fisrmere desiring such a • L. H. Hazard has been using a cane
cruiser for a couple of months, and
lecture is given by First Church of kitchen and a lavatory will be across
loan should make application before and limping quite badly since his re
then transferred to the cruiser Tren
Christ, Scientist, of Coquille and the the east end of the 24x36 cabin.
Motion Day Next Tuesday
the end of this week, it is announced. turn from Portland, Monday. Last ton, which is the flagship of the
public is cordially invited to attend.
Government crop seed loans were Saturday evening he and Mrs. Hazard,
Judge J. T. Brand, who has been
Another School Warrant Call sitting on the bench at Astoria and made available again this spring to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Taylor were enter squadron at Panama. Just now the
vessel is in dry dock at Bremerton,
Naturalization Fees Reduced
Keith Leslie, clerk of School Dis Eugene for some time pent, returned provide emergency funds for the pur ing a show house up there when Mr. where it will be for a couple of
County Clerk Oddy haa received trict No. 8, received 82400 this morn to Marshfield this week and left yes chase of seed and fertiliser by those Hazard caught hie toe on the project months. After that it will proceed
word from the national Department ing from County Treasurer Stauff, terday for Gold Beach to receive the who have no other source of credit ing carpet at the edge of a step. He to Panama and Carl says the vessel
of Labor that naturalisation fees elementary school funds, and the bal report of the Curry county grand available. Only one-third as many fell in sueh a way that his left ankle will be there for the next 18 months.
have been reduced from 886 to 810. ance of the special tax paid in March. Jury, He will be in Coquille for a applications for thia type of loan has was badly sprained and some of the He likes the navy life.
been applied for as were made last ligaments torn. An X-ray revealed
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This includes all fees required from He has issued a warrant call with motion day next Tuesday.
Curtis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
year which is thought to indicate a there were no broken bones, but the Hoiveratott, who ie in training at
the first declaration of intention to interest ceasing tomorrow, April 28.
generally improved condition among attending physician says the bone was San Diego, expects to be home on a
apply for citizenship, to the final pa This calls warrants issued up to Nov.
M. 1898,
alamt pulled from its socket.
furieagh Ubaut July 4.
pers.
Tomorrow evening’s
May Day
Dance and Festival, the annual event
of the Coquille Woman’s Club, will be
as beautiful a dance as the club has
over presented.
The special dance
features which will follow the crown
ing of Queen Faye I and again during
the 10:30 intermission, are under the
direction of Miss Barbara Bradford.
They will be most entertaining.
The grand march which will open
the dance will be at 8:30 sharp, Ad-
mission ia 40 cents for men, 25c for
ladies, 25 cents for spectators, and
children under 12, free.
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