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THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME
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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:
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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