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The 4 '“»‘trai, THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME ............. — VOL. XXX. 'I. NO. M. 30T040PERCENT Reduction in California Taxea, Due to Sale» Tax, Affirmed by Californians 'Here are extracts from letters .re ceived by Jah. N. Jacobsen, of the Coquille Grange, who wrote to Cali fornia friends and Granger* as to how satisfactorily the sales tax was oper- ating in that state. Reductions of 80 to 40 per cent in real property taxation makes quite a difference in a property owner’s taxes, yet those are the figures mentioned. The Arat letter is Iron» L. H. Val- entine, matter of Pomona Grange in Humboldt county: .... . s ,ii _i i _______ !■ i ..ii is- ■■■ ■' 1 ....... ■■ .■■■■■■ COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, ORMGON, FRIDAY. MAY 4, 1934. Cantata “Ruth,’’ May » The cantata. “Ruth,” will be sung by a chorus of thirty voices on Wed nesday, May *■>, at the Masonic Hall. Mrs. Maud Woodyard io directing, with Mrs. M. O. Hawkins and Mrs. C. A. Rietman at the piano, and Miss Muriel Dae, at the violin. The story of “Ruth” tells of Namoi, Orpha and Ruch, driven by famine back to their native land,''Ruth’s de votion to Nacmi, and her meeting with Boas, who helps her and later be comes her hut band. The outstanding choruses are of the famine, song of gleaners, wedding chorus, and the last beautiful chorus of general praise and thanksgiving. The part of Ruth is sung by Mrs. Merwin Moller, of Myrtle Point; Na omi, Miss Marie Whobrey; Or pah. Mrs. Paul Walker; Boaz, Mr. Frank Leslie. The music, consisting of solos, duets, trios, and choruses, ia all very beautiful and appealing to those who love good music. The public is In vited to attend. A charge of 25 and 10 cents is being made to cover ex- penses and to buy new music. “At the inception of the tax in this state there was a good deal of op position to the same. This has ¿led down to a considerable extent because of the fact that real estate taxes have been lowered approximately thirty per cent due to the fact that the state from sales tax revenue re- . n An A r'r'TMr' imburse the counties for the operation /\ rAtvArrllvr, Franchise Referendum, Nov. G Flam« Officially Proclaimed by Mayor Berg—Program for the Shoot Way Up in Derrick- Control Valve Is On Observance Roars Like One and When drilling at the well was »im pended last evening the top wag capped with a valve and thia mornin, when it was opened and a match hek to the opening the flames shot half way up to the top of the derrick and continued to bum until extinguish« Just before noon Pat Collier return ed from a visit to the well, and stats* that'the roar of the gas, even with the valve turned to permit the small est opening, is almost deafening and the fla'iies shoot way up in the der rick when lighted. They have no instrument there for measuring the gas pressure, but Mr. Marrion says he intends letting the gas escape, if it will and calm down, and continue drilling for a larger strike. PROCLAMATION Whereas, May 8 to 13, inclusive, of the year 1904, has been declared as National Music Week, and Whereat, music lovers in this City are planning an entire week of co operation with interested parties in other towns and cities over the whole country, and Whereas, it 1a fit and proper that said week should bo set aside aa Na tional Music Week, and that every in dividual co-operate to the best of his ability in making said Week a auc- oeasful annual event. Now, Therefore, I, J. Arthur Berg, Nayor of the City of Coquille, Coos County, Oregon, by and through the authority vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare May 6 to 13, in clusive, of the year 1934, aa Music Week and hereby request that all parties interested therein co-operate with other individuals throughout this country in making thia a success ful National Music Week. J. Arthur Berg, Mayor. A petition, containing not quite i double the 87 names required to place a measure on the city ballot by refer endum, was filed with City Recorder Leslie last Saturday. The measure is that of the Mt. States Power Co. franchise, granted last month by the council and which will now be held in abeyance until the 8th of November, the date requested by the petition for the referendum election. This move will prevent the city from collecting the two per cent on the gro-a revenue receipts of the eom- oany until after the fall election, and should the franchise measure be de feated then the company would be ex empt from paying the fees into the :ity treasury, although it would con tinue to furnish light and power as it has been doing for years. Housewarming for the Cabin The Lions Club will have a house warming next Thursday noon in the new Scout-Camp Fire cabin. Every member of the Lions club is expected to attend as the regular luncheon will * served at the usual time but not in the usual way. Nomination of officers will be held at this meeting. 1200 Attend May Day Dance and Festival of Coquille Woman’» Club Probably the moat beautiful, and certainly the moot largely attended dance ever given by the Coquille Woman’s Club for their May Day Fes tival wm that last Saturday evening in the Aragon Ball Room here. There were more than 1200 in at tendance. The paid admisisons were over a thousand and the children un der 12 and those participating ran the total utp another two hundred. A great deal of credit ia due the la dies who worked so indefatigably to make the affair the splendid success it was. The stage setting for the queen’s throne was exquisite, with its mass of greenery and flowers, and the en tire decorative scheme was most pleasing. Mrs, H. E. Hess was in charge of decorations; Mias Barbara Bradford supervised and directed all the dance features, and the general management rested in the board of the 'Woman’s Club. Miss Audrey Aaaen was pianist for all the feature dances except the last. Entrance to the dance floor for the grand march was prettily arranged thia year so that the queen and her retinue crossed diagonally from one corner, and more than one hundred ■hildren, the Boy Sooutu and Camp Fire Girls from the other. Queen Faye I was crowned by Mayor Berg, after the royal party •eached the throne, with a few words it congratulations and best wishes for a happy reign. The crown kmarer, Sally Bonney, stole the show for a few momenta The well out beyond Fat Elk is in the beat shape for drilling that it has and maintenance of schools thereby been nince the old Fat Elk Oil 4 Gas reduc'ng the levies on real estate and Go. abandoned it four or five years personal propery for the support of ago. the same. By the use of water, both inside and Some hundred or more years ago a “In this respect it has been a ben outside the casing, W. E. Marrion has vessel of the John Jacob Astor fleet efit to the owners of property in Cal been able to overcome all the drilling Coquille will join other cities all on its way from the Atlantic coast ifornia, and the writer believes in giv Coquille and Coos county fans will difficulties which stopped operations over thj nation in observing Music to Astoria waa wrecked off the Ore ing credit where credit is due al in October, 1932, and which were Week, May 8-18. Our city was one <ee the Logger baseball team for the gon coast. The story that it had a though opposed to the sales tax as a causing trouble a few weeks ago. of the very first smaller places to be first time, Sunday, when “Chick” large cargo of beeswax has been so means of state taxation." The easing can now be raised and gin this custom in the state, and the Hauser’s Toledo Senators journey generally accepted that even a gov dropped back to the bottom of the desire is'to keep our name at the top down the Oregon Coaot Highway to ernment report of some years ago, The second in from Jas. N. Fulmor, hole without binding, permitting of the list in enthusiasm and general Invade the local ball park. ascribes the wax like substance found president of Solano County Farm Bu Coquille was defeated last Sunday steady drilling operation. participation. The aim of Music along the Oregon and Washington reau: Yeserday the joint of pipe wm at Week is to call the public’s attention nt Toledo, 8 to 2, in a red-hot game coasts as being the remnants of this tached to the string of cMing which to music tn general and to give some of ball. Borey and Murray, the pitch “When the sales tax was first put same beeswax. makes 1885 foot in the hole, and It spec is 1 programs for everyone’s en ers, both hurled excellent ball, the For years a controversy has'waged in, there seemed to be some opposi Senators being backed more capably. was then resting on the bottom. A11 joyment^ tion to it from wage earners or peo as to the wax which was found at the water and mud in the holo waa Mr». Maud Woodyard has again This Sunday the r.ame chuckers will ple who had not been familiar with Nehalem in large quantities. cleaned out and the gas accumulation been appointed chairman in Coquille, face each other again. (Cosittnued on eighth page.) . Dr. J. Ellis Loreman, geologist, who our ordinary tax problems. These According to word received from and flow is the result. for the fifth consecutive year, by the has been here for the pest two years, were, for the most part, people who Toledo a large crowd of fans will Wednesday noon this writer wit State Chairman, Mrs. Walter Denton, pronounces it a paraffine wax, with Sentinel Finds Ix>st Articles did not own real estate. make the trip if the weather is aa eon- nessed a bailing of the well which of Salem. “It has now been in operation in an oil residue. Mrs. J. A.- Fitzpatrick was serious tusive as it has been. The fans from bore out previous testimony that Following ia the program for the Last Sunday he visited the Whiskey California practically six months and there ie considerable gas down there. wook. The public ia urged to enjoy ’he Senators’ city are rabid support ly inconvenienced last week by the at the present time I think that the Run section and on the beach, two loss of her glasses. Bhe naturally ers of their dub. Although the bailor had come up all of these programs: feeling towards the sales tax is a lot miles south of Whiskey Run, at very Bill Fortier announces that the thought of running a lot adv. in the through more t£an 1800 fpet of water Sunday night, May 8, special mu- better than it was when it was first low tide, found a quantity of .this there was a considerable «•bowing of stad service at the- Pi eras » Church. tame will start at 2:00 p. m. Luckey Sentinel and this week they were re started. From the reports 1 get' In wax. in small pieces sn Inch or meee oil. Wednesday night. May 9, cantata. Bonney and Penny Studivant will stored to her as a result. But tber, in diameter, and varying in thickness. the papers, it haa been a money raiser "Chiek” Hauser is catching is one article, lost that is seldom re The gas bubbled and boiled from “Ruth,” in Masonic Hall by the choral jmp're. He say* the wax is a seepage from and will eventually bring the finances for hie club, and the receiver for the turned—money. It is usually “find the top and when a lighted mateh club and other singers of the city. the cretaceous beds, and that it is of California out of the ’red*.” Thursday night. May 10, evening of Txtgger* will be a newcomer who is ers keepers” with coin of the realm. waa touched to it the gaa burned all exuded in sheets from between the Nor does the efficacy of the Sen »xpected to thoroughly blast all over the nurfaee of the water. music at the Foursquare church. The third is from Fred Rumrill, of lower Eocene and the upper Creta- It may be necessary to go another Also special musical features at the pitchers the locals face this season. tinel’s want advs. always depend on . » « ceous beds. Eureka: hundred feet, perhaps more and per Liberty Theatre throughout the week. In all Coquille’s lineup on Sunday will the Friday publication. Mm. Olsen, He says the seepage is the result be fifty per cent stronger than it as of Fat Elk, came in Tuesday to place “As you perhaps know, the general of a faulted condition, the fault trend haps less, hut Mr. Marrion and hie an adv. for a lout beaded hand bag last Sunday. sales tax is not the bill that our ing southwest-northeast, consisting of two sons are doing the drilling, so Drowned at Powers —:__ i_________ and found it waiting for her at the there ie no expensive payroll to meet worthy State Master and our farmer a displacement of 150 feet vertical. Last Friday the Richard Harmon and Marrion ia determined to con Dairy Meeting Here Tonight office. senators were fighting for in our last The fault, or wrinkle, in the earth’s family moved from Coquille to Pow oesaion of the legislature, but it was composition, took place at the eon- tinue the drilling until oil sand of a A meeting to be held in the Coquille ers where Mr. Harmon is employed. Mother’s Day Stamp on Sale ail they could get and we feel that it tact of the lower Eocene and the top greater extent is tapped. On Saturday their 14-year old son, Hotel at raven o’clock this evening is is much better than the old system of of the Cretaeeoue beds, the latter hav A new stamp was placed on sale at Robert, was found floating in the open to anyone who ia interested. The taxation, whore it has broadened the ing risen the 150 feet, above lower Masonic Grand Master Coming the post office yesterday, called the nurpose of the meeting which is spon South Fork of the Coquille river, face tax base and relieved the farmers of Eocene. The titanic pressures sored by state agricultural department "Mother’s Day” stamp. It is lavender Leslie M- Scott, grand master of down, and dead. ex th* school tax. ■»nd O. S. C. representatives, is to in eolor, and besides the picture of a erted by these beds have evidently the Oregon Masonic grand lodge, will It is supposed that he slipped on “Our taxes have been reduced about set up considerable heat action, and pay an official visit to the lodges of lady sitting, bears the words “U. 8. the steep, rocky bank of the river, try and stimulate an interest in the forty per cent and the general sales have caused the oil-covered Coos, Curry and western Douglas and in falling struck his head so se oroduction of better dairy product* ’’«stage—In memory and in honor of tax is not creating ae much talk and seep through and between two counties on Ssturday night of next vere a blow aa to render him uncon with the aim in view of securing a the mothers of America—3 cents.” objection as it was when it first went formations. week, May 12, the meeting to bo bold scious, or possibly he was killed by •otter price for all such products It is an inch by 1% inches in sise. into effect More people now have in Masonic Temple in Coquille. All the blow. Hie head was badly bruised. Dairymen are especially invited to at Postmaster Belloni says they have a These seepages can only be 1 learned that they can carry the tax ‘ at low tide and it io probable 1 sufficient quantity on hand to supply the lodges—Gold Beach, Port Orford, The barking of his dog attracted tend and hear what the state speak and consider it a painless extraction1 ill demansd until after Mother’s Day, Bandon, Powers, Myrtle Point, Co the attention of fishermen who soon vrs have to suggest. . they exist to a greater extent and I have talked to a great many I from the shore. The failure of the dairy industry to May 18. It is suggested that use be quille, Marshfield, North Bend, Gar found the body. ' < wage earners and they frankly ae-| made of these stamps for all mes- While Mr. Loreman'« report on diner and Roseburg—will participate. Robert was bom in Portland, Aug. •nthusiaetically endorse the dairy re knowledge that the farmer of The grand master, Grand Beeretary 18, 1919, and is survived by two action program suggested by the sages addreesed to “mother" for that . this paraffine wax is interesting, the state waa in a serious position . conclusions which he draws from his Cheney, Deputy District Grand Mas brothers, Delbert, 12, and Richard,'7, ’ederal government, has caused the day. tax relief waa the only thing that observations make it more no when ter A. P. Davis, and the masters of Man to be temporarily abandoned besides hie parents. would save the farming industry.” and if any further move along that Wild Blackberries Are Ripe he adds that if the proper structural the several lodge will enjoy a 0:80 The body was taken to Portland condition exinta. hundreds of feet ’dinner at the hotel that evening. Fol for interment at 2 p. m. Saturday line io made it will have to be ini Mrs. Geo. Glenn brought in a wild Spud Meeting Here May 9 tiated by the dairymen themeelves. below the earth’s surface, thia show- lowing the special communication at afternoon. blackberry branch from her home at Further consideration will be given I ing of wax determinea without quea- eight o'clock, refreshments will be McKinley last Saturday on which The Harmons had lived here for to improved methods of marketing lo {tion that the cretaceous beds of this served in the banquet hall. Candidates Everywhere .here were a number of ripe berries. several years, near the Ralph Nosier cally grown potatoes at the second area contain a paraffine base oil in Two hundred or more members are home on the highway. Mr. Harmon The ubiquitous candidate is endeav She recalls that in the year 1*17, she meeting of producers and merchants commercial quantities, and it is only expected to be in attendance. is a logger. The dead boy was most oring to see every voter these last went out on the third of July and which will be held Wednesday, May 9, a question of drilling to the depth favorably known and is highly spoken few days of the primary campaign eouldrhardly find berrie*. enough for at 8:30 p. in the Woodmen’*» hall in necessary to strike the cretaceous Regular Mall Delivery Resumed of by his acquaintances. He win be and it has got to the point where one a pie. Last Saturday she easily pick Coquille under the sponsorship of the formations. remembered as a carrier of a daily cannot step out on the street in any ed a quart. Almost all kinds of ber Due to the abolishment of the fur Coquille Chamber of Commerce. The waxy pieces, found by Mr. lough ruling by the postoffice depart paper and is the youngster who sold town in the county without bumping ries are from three weeks to two Tentative plana for a potato grow Loreman Sunday, were greasy with Evening Posts on the into three or four. Everyone of them months earlier this year than usual. ment mail delivery in Coquille has Saturday ers’ association in Coos county will be oil which had the odor of petroleum, streets. apparently believes he is the choice of been restored to its former status, submitted for the consideration of Stevens’ Hardware Opened the majority of his party, And with that of two deliveries a day for five thorn attending according to advanced Civics Clara to Ran the City The display cases and tables, order of them what unanimity nearly all days of the week and one on Satur Skipworth to Address C. of C. announcements. An association of The Civics class at the high school, day. Beginning tomorrow the Satur will join in muttering, the morning ed by 8. F. Stevens for his new hard Judge O. F. Skipworth, who is hold growers wm recommended by several which will be in charge of city affairs day afternoon collection from the after, “all men are liars.” ware store, next door to the People* speakers who attended the first meet ing eourt at Gold Beach thia week, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mail boxes around town will bo at Market on First street, arrived last has been invited to address the Cham ing of this kind held in Coquille sev of next week, listened to a discussion 2 o'clock, instead of 8. ber of Commerce at its luncheon in B. P. W. Mother’s Day Banquet Saturday and on Tuesday of this week eral days ago. of city affaire by Councilman R. A. he opened the doors for business. A the hotel next Tuesday noon, May 8. __ Coos county producers have been The annual Mother’s Day banquet Jeub this morning, and then proceed very readable adv. of the bargains he He will be on the bench here that day. unable to sell some of the local potato Leneve P. O. to Be Closed sponsored by the Business and Profes ed to elect city officials for their three-, crop produced in 1933, according to * Postmaster Geo. Belloni has re Judge Brand having been designated sional Women's Club will take place is offering appears on page nine of day control of municipal affairs. by the supreme court to hear a ease this year at the Coquille Hotel on this Irene. Muri Pettit, chairman of the retail Bob Barley was elected mayor, Vern ceived word from the postoffice de Mrs. Stevens will assist him in in Corvallis next week. merchants* ’committee of the chamber Monday night, May seventh, at 8:30 Hansen as recorder, and Rose Mat partment that the office at Leneve will waiting on trade after this week. Judge Skipworth is circuit judge for of commerce. o’clock. All members who have not After ney, Joe Davis, Tessie Ruble, Charles be discontinued on May 81. Better labelling and standardization this district, a most able man, and sires ly done so are urged to make Gaslin, Manley Matney and Earl Mor that date all those who received mail Auxiliary Card Party, May 7 are given by merchants as reasons and themeelves at Leneve, or on the North Bank be whether he discusses the measures ap reservations for ris as councilmen.. why imported potatoes have sold bet pearing on the ballot this month, or guests with Garnet Gant. The American Legion Auxiliary is « tween Leneve and Bullards, will re The appointive offices will be filled ter than those produced locally. This talks on some subject of his own sponsoring a card party to be held at a speieal meeting of the above at ceive their mail marked “Coquille- condition it is believed can be cor choosing, his talk will bo worth while Bullards Route, Coquille. ” the city hall Monday morning at M 50 Years’ Accumulation Burned next Monday night. May 7th, at 0:00 rected through the efforts of a potato and it is hoped there will be a good o’clock in the legion hall.’ Contract o’clock. Acting on an order from the post and auction bridge will be played. Ad growers’ association which, among attendance to hear this promnient ju Dairy Association to Reorganize rist office department at Washington, local mission is 26c and tickets are now on other things, would encourage proper Sample Ballots Available employees of the office here took a sale. Come and bring your friends. The reorganization of the Coos grading, labelling and standardiza great mass of old papers and files out Sample ballots — there are four County Dairymen’s association will be tion. This, it ia believed, will keep to the Smith Wood plant yesterday many dollani at home which in the separate ones—er« now available at discussed at a meeting which will be Red Crow Meeting Saturday and burned them. These ware an ac past have been used‘in paying foreign the eounty clerk’s office. Beside the held in the City Hall in Coquille Tues A Coos county meeting of the Red cumulation of over 50 years — since republican and the democratic tickets day. May 8. at 8:00 p. m., according producers for potatoes. the opening of the Coquille postoffice Cross will be held in the Coquille city Producers and others interested there is one for the judiciary and an to an announcement made by George —but did not include the permanent hall tomorrow, Saturday, at 2 p. m. from all sections of Coos county are other one containing the five measures E. Hampton, president of the organi- All members are requested to attend. roeords which must to kept to to voted on thia month. being invited to attend tbit meeting WAX SEEPAGE , .......................... LOCAL SEASON OPENS SUNDAY
