The Coquille Valley sentinel., July 13, 1934, Image 1

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The Coquille
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180 Acres Ute Pean Planted
County Agent Jenkin« wh^ „went
down to the Ford and Twayplace«'
yesterday morning to look at the pea
fields, Myu that the vines are doing
splendidly and the prospect» look
good for a fine yield thia year. The
harvesting ia expected to be nearly
a month Mrlier thia year than here­
tofore. Strategeaas, M on « Market
and No. 40’« are the varieties planted
this year.
H. 8. Cadman on the J. E. Ford
place has planted 96 acres, W. M.
Tway A Son have planted 82 acres,
and Al Marsh at Leneve is trying
out 'a two-acre planting this year.
It ia not expected that the um of
pole« and string will be necessary this
year. No telephone peas have been
planted. ’
Very few people who have not been
through the Smith Wood-Products
plant recently realise how that in­
dustrial institution hM grown physi­
cally in the >Mt few years. Starting
«rith six or seven of the saw tooth
units it now ha« ten, and three more
are to be added this summer.
A new planer shed, 40x119* feet, is
now under construction; two addi­
tional dry kiln« are being added to the
•lx heretofore in existence; huge dock
storing space has been added and «rill Loggers Have No Game Sunday
be further Increased; and a large
The Loggers are idle this coming
building to contain finished lumber,
window and door frame«—everything Sunday and many of them will go out
needed by the builder—is to ba built to Roseburg to witness the American
soon. This «rill house the company’s Legion Junior League game there be­
retail business which they «rill soon tween the Coquille and Roseburg
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inaugurate.
On July 21 Manager Fortier hopes
Altogether the company now has
from six to seven aeres of land under to have the strong Cottags Grove
roof or dockag«, and «rill have more. i club here for Logger opposition, and
To insure that sufficient land «rill If he does the Loggers will play out
be available for their constantly ex­ there July 28.
panding operation«, Geo. Ulett has
just completed the purchase of the
ten-acre place belonging to E. A. Fol­
som. Four and one-half acre« of that
lies east of the highway, where the
residence is located, and which Wm.
With only the mayor and four coun­
Ulett will occupy m a residence this cilmen present, the Coquille .city
winter.
council held a short special session
The remaining five and one-half Monday evening.
aeres adjoin« the company’s tract
The council recommended to the
west of the highway and further ex­ State Liquor Commission the grant­
tends their holdings for future en­ ing of beer licenses to Grace Gilkey
largement.
ter the G. A R. Cafe on Front street,
The new planer .Aed lies south of and to Frank Cowan who has just re­
the original plant and new and mod­ opened the Rainbow confectionery and
ern eqiupment «rill be installed as restaurant in the room just east of
soon as the building 'is completed. the Farmens A Merchants Bank build­
Between the original plant and the er
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planer shed a covered, but not en­
The bills approved by the finance
closed MW-tooth section «rill atoo comm it to« the week before were or­
arise. This will be open on the sides dered paid.
and permit truck« to operate through
When the Natural G m Corporation
it MsDy.
wm granted • franchise a few yeaia
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modern mp «ill which ar> Ite bond fot the protection of the
hauto
operation
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----------------- a year or < city streets was «et at »2000. A« the
more ia an interesting place to visit, work of installing mains, wm com pl. t-
were it not for the .urreech of the ,
Bt that time and there will be Ht-
mws slicing the huge logo into lum- ■ tie nwd of digging up the pavement
her and the continuous roar of the in the future, the council voted to
machinery.
reduce the bond to be required from
The saw mill has a capacity of from ite successor, The Coquille Gas A
45 to 50 thousand feet of cedar lum­ Power Co., to »500. That new cor­
ber per day, and from M to 100 thou­ poration is now in eharge of the gas
sand feet of fir.
business in Coquille.
Everything yet invented to enable
The recorder was instructed to draw
the workmen to handle logs and huge a warrant for »20 to be Mnt to the
timbers efficiently and economically offices of the League of Oregon Cities
has been installed here.
The logs for membership in that organisation.
are hauled and kicked around by ma­ The benefit»? which the city can receive
chinery, operated by a man at a lever; from membership are numerous.
ths lumber is all cut, the waste Among them are the preparation of
ground op into hog-feed, and the lum­ standard ordinances, information on
ber «hunted to its destination by ma­ any subject dealing with municipal
chinery.
laws and administration, and the
This hog feed ia used to keep the League also presents a solid front
steam up in the tanks of the electric before the legialature in the enact­
plant where a turbine capable of pro­ ment of tax laws regarding cities..
ducing a thousand watts of juice each
24 hours keeps running from early
Juniors Win from Luckey’n Team
morning until 1 a. m. A second 506-
The Coquille.American Legion Jun­
watt turbine has not yet been com­
pletely set up. It ia here that the ior League team turned the tables on
electricity for operating and lighting the Buaine«a Men in a ball game at
Athletic Park last evening, and won
the huge plant is generated.
The
The other two saw tooth sections, out in seven innings, 2 to 1.
eseh 25x94» feet, are to be construct­ •cor« was tied at the «nd of the
ed on the new dock recently built and sixth when the game wm supposed to
adjoining the original plant on the end.
Art Berg «ms chucker for the B. M.
north.
There are 170 employees of the . and Jease Barton for the Juniora, and
plant at present, the larger part of Jesse kept the old stiffs at bay
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that number being men, but the ladies throughout.
The Business Men, «hart a fielder,
are just as much in evidence in the
battery separator department as they picked on Art Pulford, Logger out­
were when the plan was new in Co­ fielder, and put him in at short where
he Mved many a hit from being safe.
quille.
The Junior Leaguers are «bowing
The Venetian Mind department is
another considerable part of the com­ up mighty «mil now and should give a
good account of themselves in the dis­
pany’s operations.
Mr. Ulett did not cay whether the trict game at Roseburg Bunday.
COUNCIL HELD
SESSION MON.
several new buildings now under con­
struction and to bo built this year will
conclude the expansion program or
not, but with new land being added to
the company’s holdings, ft will be
possible to greatly enlarge the pres­
ent plant should the need arise.
The Smith Wood-Products plant has
been a life «aver for Coquille during
the past five years. Never completely
•hut down for more than a few days
at a time, it has furnished employ­
ment for from 100 to 200 for many
yean, and while we cannot My what
its daily, weekly, ar annual payroll to,
it has practically all gone into the
channel« of trade in OoquHle, and has
helped keep thia city to th« fore front
a« the best eity of its aisa in Oregon.
Continuous advertising, like con­
tinuous-work, is most effective.
If
there is any enterprise in the world
that a quitter should leave severely
alone, it is advertising.—John Wana-
aaaker.
North Bend Flower Show
The annual North Bend Flower
Show, for all southwestern Oregon
flower lovers, is to be held this year
for two days, Friday and Saturday,
July 20 and 21, in the Community
building. The ahow is being sponsor­
ed by the North Bend Garden club.
The big feature of the show this year
will be the gladiolus exMbits, these
blooms now being in their prime. Be­
sides these flowers, a large list of ex­
hibits will be entered, th« same Hat
being Med this year as in 1931. Only
ribbons «rill be awarded first, second
and third place«.
Republicans to Plan Campaign
A meeting of th« executive commit-
tee of the Republican County Central
committee hM been called by Chair­
man Wm. E. Walsh, to be held in hia
office at Marshfield next Thursday,
July 19. Plans for the fall campaign
will bo formulated at that limo.
LETTER FROM HOME
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COQUILLE, 0006 COUNTY, O
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By Coquille Chamber of C om * Wife of Local Contractor Passed
Away at Knife Hospital
merce to Make Marshfield
Wednesday Afternoon
Highway Location Permanent
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Mrs. Ben F. Atkinson, who had
J. W. Garret, a school man from
the Hawaiian Islands who may even-j been seriously iU for the past three
tually come to Coo« county to make' months, passed away Wednesday af-
hia home- was a guest-at th« Chamber ternoon at four o’clock, at the Knife
of Commerce directors’ meeting Tues- hospital, She had undergone an op-
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day noon. In the course ef a i.horl ' «ration
for ______
removal 2 of tumor last
talk he stated that he had travelled ¡Tuesday,
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but it could not save her
up and down the coast, from Belling- life. She had been in poor health for
hom. Wash., to the California ImeJ the past six or seven years.
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Funeral «service« are being con-
and
that
he had
not found any
that suited him m well, climatically ducted at the chapel at two o’clock
and agriculturally, as does the Co­ . this aftemooii by Walter Fiscus, min-
i jster of the Christian church. Inter­
quille valley.
Besides a lengthy discussion of ment will be in the Masonic cemetery.
Elnora Fulford wm born in Walla
various strike features, the greater
part of the session was devoted to Walla, Wash., Oct. 6, l£80, being 53
consideration of the Coquille-Marsh­ year«, nine months and four days of
field highway, its need of straighten» age at the time of her passing. She
ing and asphalt covering. The mat­ wro the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
ter was brought up as the result of Jesse Fulford, both deceased.
She wm united to Ben F. Atkinson
a letter from Ed Miller, manager of
the Coast Highway Association, in In Pendleton, March 24, 1903.
Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson and son
which he reported the lack of action
by the State Highway Commiseion cam« to Coquille in 1924, after having
when he brought it to their attention resided in eastern Oregon, Idaho and
California. They
last week.
_ made their home at
The Commission did not place thia Riverton until two years ago when
improvement on its list of proposed Mr. Atkinson built the present home
projects because of the opposition of on Rink creek, just off the highway
the Federal Bureau of Public Road« to Myrtle Point,
Besides her huabond and son, Lee
engineer. The engineer’s opposition
wm based on the failure of past state Atkinson, of Riverton, Mrs. Atkinson
by
sisters ___
and _____
four
commissions to designate the present 1 to survived
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Coquille-Manshfield route as the p«r- brothers—Mrs. Laura Martin, of Ir-
manent location of this section of th« rigan. Ore., Mrs. Cynthia Johnson, of
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Fulford,
Coast Highway.
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This is one of th« things which tiM fielah, Wash.; V cm Fulford, of Stan-
CoquiUe Chamber of Commerce ia aM 6«! ■Id, Ore.; and Edward Fulford, ef
and the local chamber will presanl B m Uls.
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the matter of a permanent location ui
Mm Al .tkinson was reared as an
the present route to th« county cham- ________
Adventist X, and although not a mem­
ber and the eity chambers of eom- ber of any religious denomination, she
arerce in the eeunty, with the idea of was a Christian woman, a faithful
presenting a solid front when th« .wife and a loving mother,
•tate commi«i«on ie again asked to
take the matter np.
CounJy Cosmeticians Banquet
This to on« of the thing« which th«
The Cosmeticians of Coo« county
(CaquRle
~ Chamber of Com«mrc« is and
regular meeting of the aseocia-
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the Coquille Hotel Wednesday
But the highways committee
evening, the session being a social af­
effectively handle such important fair instead of a business meeting.
matters without the united co-opera­
A splendid banquet was served, the
tion of the whole city.
And when tables were beautifully decorated and
there is not sufficient interest on the those present describe it as ont of the
part of local business and profession­ nicest barfquets ever held in the hotel.
al men, when they are unwilling to
The program consisted of vocal
attend local or county chamber of number by the trio, Misses Anne Bar­
commerce meetings, or Coast High­ ton, Edythe Farr and Audrey Aasen;
way Association sessions, it is re­ piano selections by Miss Farr; two
flected in the scant courtesy shown the very pleasing selections by Randolph
request« of the delegated committee Lorens, and several numbers on the
who attend and ask for the things violin by that mistress of the instru­
that the Coquille valley needs.
ment, Miss Muriel Dae. Miss Dorris
The particular piece of road for Compton presented two dances — a
which improvement was asked was Spanish and a tap dance.
the widening of the highway between
The affair wm greatly enjoyed by
the Coquille Service Station and the the eighteen beauty operators pres­
Ralph Nosier place.
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Final Oiling by July 20
By th« 20th of July th« entire coast
highway, from Brooking to Astoria,
will be oiled. The last stretches—the
Port Orfond-Euchre creek and that
around Yachats and north of Gardiner
—have been oiled and the final water­
proofing coat «rill be applied within
th« next ton days.
Contractor J. C. Campton to now
at work oiling th« Reedaport-Scotta-
burg and th« tunnel section of the
Umpqua river highway, and that will
be finished thia summer.
All the
main highways in southwestern Ore­
gon will be completed an to surfacing
before winter.
There is a state secondary highway
in C om county, th« Po«r«rs-Hoffman
Bridge road, which 1« badly in need of
oiling and the state highway depart­
ment will find that 19 miles an excel­
lent field for road improvement.
Even Cat Noticed the Quake
Not everyone in Coquille felt the
quake last Friday afternoon, about
2:50, but to those who did the sen-
Mtion was unmistakable, as one lady
expressed it, “It Beemed to strike at
the pit of the stomach.” She was ly­
ing on the davenport and the swaying
movement was very decided. Even
the house cat, which wm lying on a
nearby table, roused himself and look­
ed around to see if she had shaken the
table.
’ Press reports indicated that Granta
Pass also experienced the temblor,
and the seismograph in New York,
indicated that the disturbance was
about 2500 miles distant ~
Pioneer Picnic, July 28
The Goos county Pioneere picnic
will be held in Coquille on the last
Sunday in July—the 28th. Last year
it wm held in Bandon vrith 225 pres­
ent. J. E. Quick is chairman of the
arrangements committee; he says
that the program and other detail«
«rill ba ready for publication next
week.
No organiMtion
Pi­
onears Association
af­
fected, but it is hoped that such an
association can be formed this year.
Everyone it invited to the picnic
whether pioneers or descendant« of
pioneera or not Coffee, cream and
sugar will be provided by the com­
mittee.
They Are Not Big Leaguers
Last week the Sentinel referred to
the coming ball game of the Loggers
and the House of David team, as "big
league stuff.” We now wish to apolo­
gise to the big leagues, for the short-
haired, bearded
profMsionals who
■»layed on the team were the bushiest
outfit every seen here. Most of them
could play good ball, hut they were
the dirtiest, nastiest bunch that ever
invaded Coquille, and if they ever
play in this eity again it will be too
soon for most of the fans. This does
not refer to the real House of David
players on the team. They were gen­
tlemen and conducted themselves as
Mjch, but the less said about the rest
of the bunch the better.
Covnty Fair Sept. 12-15
The 23rd annual Coos A Curry coun­
Postal Receipts Up 12 Per Cent ty fair will be held at Myrtle Point
Coquille postal receipts «how a gain on Sept. 12-13-14-15. The premium
of $000.72 for the first six months of list, just off the (Herald press, has
1934 as compared with the same been distributed thia week.
period in 1933. Last year the total
was »5,653.25. and for th« flret half
of 1934 the figure was *6,119.97. That
la an 11.1 per cent increase.
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Library Being Redecorated
The Coquille Library to closed for
two weeks while the interior is being
entirely redecorated. The work is be­
ing done as a SERA project, the li­
brary association paying for the ma­
terial used, and the State Emergency
Relief Association for the labor.
Two painters are at work painting
the walla and woodwork and varnish­
ing the furniture.
Material for a new librarian’« drok
hau been given the library by Geo. A.
Ulett, and new shelving will also lie
installed before its reopening.
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While the library is closed for loan­
ing purposes, books due back can be
returned at any time.
150 Still In Five Powers Camps
Although the little eity of Powers
la feeling the effects of the strike in
a serious way, there are still five
camps running in that vicinity, with
150 men drawing pay therefrom. The
shutdown of the Coos Bay camp Mon­
day night put 450 out of work.
Notwithstanding Powers is still a
good town and the merchants are all
doing a very fair business.
A cooking school was held in th«
Fellowship Hall there this week, spon­
sored by the Powers Woman’s Club,
with the Mt. States Power Co. co­
operating. The school opened its two-
day session there Tuesday noon and
was well attended.
C. W. GANO
SELLS INTEREST
C. W. Gano this week Hold to his
partners, Henry Schroeder, of Myrtle
Point, and ChM. E. Schroeder, of
Bandon, his interest in the Schroeder
A Gano undertaking business in
Coquille and Bandon. He will remain
in charge of the Coquille establish­
ment until the first of August.
What Mr. Gano will do he does not
yet know, whether he will remain in
Coquille or move elsewhere.
ChM. Schroeder reported to the
World at Bandon that he will move to
Coquille and be in charge of the es­
tablishment her«, and that either El­
bert Schrooder or L. L. "THwem win
be moved from Myrtle Point to Ban­
don to conduct the busines there.
Mr. and Mrs. Gano have a great
host of friends here who would regret
their removal from Coquille, should
that be their decision.
Lions Luncheon Yesterday
Ben Flaxel, district attorney, who
was a guest at the Lions Club lunch­
eon yesterday noon, Mid he could see
now, after observing Bob Stewart pre­
side at a Lions Club session, why Bob
was unable to sit on any of the cases
heard at the June term of court and
for which the latter had been drawn
as a juryman!
Fred Reed, an insurance represen-
tative from Portland, was also a
guest and expressed hie pleasure at
attending so Sunday school-like a
luncheon.
Ferb Emery gave a report on his
recent eastern trip which was spent
principally in visiting at his old home
in New Hampshire. One matter he
mentioned was the effect of the Pa­
cific strike on the lumber business,
and how Oregon and Washington will
loss for years to come as a result of
the strike.
It’s only in recent years that ths
fir men of the west have been able to
secure the New England market by
ousting the yellow pine men in thff
south. Now the pine to again prac­
tically the only lumber to reach Bos­
ton, and Ferb sajw the builders and
dealers told him it would be a long
time before fir would again supplant
the pine in that market.
To complete his dominance of the
meeting, Ferb then proceeded to draw
his own name for the attendance pot
Met at Myrtle Point Tuesday
Plan Co-operative Buying
of Automobile Supplies
The co-operative buying of gasoline,
tires,' grease, oil, batteries and other
commodities will become an activty of
the C ooh and Curry County Pomona
Grange membere if the plan outlined
by Irvin King, Washington State
Grange Master, at the Coos and Cur­
ry County Pomona Grange meeting
held, in Myrtle Point Tuesday, July 10,
is adopted by local grangers.
A meeting of all Subordinate grange
masters ■ and secretaries will be held
in the near future, to consider this
project further, according to an an­
nouncement made by George Hamp­
ton, Pomona Grange Master, at the
meeting Tuesday.
The quarterly meeting of granges
in this section was attended by ap­
proximately 150 members.
C. H.
Bailey, editor of the Oregon Grange
Bulletin, attended and gave an inter­
esting talk on “peace.” George Pal­
miter, past master of the Oregon
State Grange, and at present a mem­
ber of the state executive committee,
was present and assisted in the dis­
cussion on the co-operative buying
plan.
A farmers’ picnic will be held at
the Norway grove on Sunday, August
5, according to action taken at the
grange meeting, and all farmers,
whether grangers or not, will be in­
vited to attend. It ie reported that
a state grange officer to expected tobe
present and give an address at the
picnic.
; A committee appointed to have
charge of the arrangement« for the
picnic include»? Miss Hilda Nieme,
North Bend; W. E. Cross, Coquille;
Ray Deadmond, Fairview; Roy Robi­
son, Norway, and Mrs. Cora Hansen,
Langlois.
Mr. and Mrs. Vem Magill, of
Bridge; Mrs. Alex Mackey, of Co­
quille; Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Curl,- of
(Joos River, and Lawrance Rsekleff, of
Myrtle Point, were given the fifth de­
gree and became Pomona Grange
members.
Lunch was prepared at
aoon by memebra of the home econ­
omics committee.
’ <A literary program conducted un­
der the direction of Mis. Beth Culver,
of Bridge, Pomona Grange lecturer,
included a song, “America the Beau­
tiful;” vocal numbers by the Myrtle
Point male quartet; poem by Mia«
Hilda Nieme, of North Bend; humor­
ous skit by Mrs. Pearl Smith and
Carlton Smith, of CoquiHe; vocal solo
by Mrs. H. J. Curl, accompanied by
Edith Mae Curl, both of Coos River;
musical skit by Walter Laird and Vic­
tor Stevens, of Myrtle Point; banjo
numbers by Tom Summerlin, of Myr­
tle Point; reading by Irene Grayber
and a song by membero of the Broad­
bent Grange; « short talk by Irvin
King, master of the Washington State
Grange, and by C. H. Bailey, editor
of the Oregon State Grange Bulletin.
The next meeting of the Pomona
Grange will be held at Bridge on the
second Tuesday in October, according
to the Pomona secretary, Mrs. Pearl
Smith, of Coquille.
To Discuss Old Age Pensions
A meeting has been called for next
Tuesday evening, July 17, at eight
o’clock in the Coquille Community
Building, to discuss the Townsend or
Old Age Relief Pension plan, which ia
one of the moat talked about subjects
on the Pacific coqat this summer, di­
viding public intereat,.with the strike.
If those attending feel so inclined a
local organisation of the O. A. R. P.
will he formed to join the many al-
r-'ady organised. At Eugene recently a
Lane county branch was formed, and
so great was the attendance that
many were forced to leave the court
Improvement at the Laundry hove« because of inability to get
Arthur Simpson has made several within hearing distance.
changes at the Coquille Laundry the
pant few weeks. One is the repainting $32 Netted from Entertainment
of the huilding with a green «trip
The Job',» Daughters Bethel of Co­
screes the bottom of the front where quille netted $32 from their enter­
the rain is more apt to dirty the tainment and candy sale in Masonic
woodwork just above the sidewalk. Temple, Monday evening. This will
New lettering on the windows and a enable them to buy the necessary
large sign across the front of the equipment and paraphernalia.
huilding speak clearly of the business
It was a very enjoyable program,
done inside.
featuring Mrs. J. H. Dalen, of Bandon,
But the greatrot change to the re­ 12-year old Phyllis Taylor, of Marsh­
moval of the office from the lean-to field, who «ang and played remarkably
on the emt to the northeast corner well for a child of her years; two
of the main room, where a very at­ amateur skits by local people, under
tractive office has been fitted up. The the direction of Mm. Roy Boober; a
former office is now used as a receiv­ one-act play by the Marshfield Dra­
ing room for the articles sent in for matic club; a specialty dance by Dor­
laundering.
ris Compton; and musical «elections
by Mrs. Georgia May Moller, of Myr­
Judge Brand Mt Tuesday, July 24. tle Point, and by Miss Margaret Pur-
as the next motion dgÿ; in Circuit vance.
court, when he was here on Tuesday
Calling «arda BO far »IM.
of this week.
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