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Tn COQUTLLH VALLKY SENTINEL, COQOTÌLB. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 97. 19*4. in a day's drive IT’S THE RIDE THAT COUNTS CHEVROLET provides the finest ride the low-price field has ever known HEVROLET’S famous C KNEE ACTION ride —what a difference it make* in the whole "feel” of driving! Nothing elee in the low-price field comes even close to the sensation of it! The soft, gentle wayit smoothaout the bumps. The comfort and ease it gives to back-seat aa well aa front-seat passengers. The safe, sure feeling it inspires in rough-road or high-speed travel. Unless be missing the biggest treat in 1934 motoring. Already hundred» of thousand» of miners are enjoying Knee-.iction in their daily driving. A billion miles has proved ita unquestioned dependability. nd you II satisfied with Could you ask for any better recommenda tion of ita ruggedneaa and reliability? CHEVROLET MOTOR GO., DETROIT. MICH. you try this famous Gliding Ride, you’ll Southwestern Motor Co CHEVROLET—PONTIAC—OLDSMOBILE—BUICK—LASALLE—CADILLAC Coquille, Oregon Live News From Arago Sam Damron wae able to return to hit home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mr». Damron have spent the last ten days in Bandon while he recuperated from a severe attack of acute bronchi tis. Miss Effie Chappell and her brother, Wesley, drove up from Bandon Friday evening and had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. John Damron at their camp. C. A. Randleman came home Satur day evening from his work at the Cheney camp near Powens to stay for the duration of the strike. The camp will not reopen until the trans portation is assured. Ben and Andrew Smalley are cut ting the logs, left on the C. A. Ran- dlemsn place by the overturned truck some time ago, into stove wood thia week. There is a winter’s supply of wood in the three big logs. The tim ber was from the (Ben Smalley tract and wan logged at the Garoutte camp. Mary and Jean Watkins left for a camping trip on Floras creek with the Boek and McNair families of Bandon. They expect to be home in a week’s time. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Damron and Teblma and John Damron returned to Bandon Sunday evening. The Moors mill will start on Monday. Mrs. Bort Doyle wae seriously ill with ptomaine poisoning last week. Canned oyster* were thought to bo the cauae although none of the rust of the family suffered. She is able to bo up part of the time now, Mrs. J. L. Burtls returned from * two weeks’ visit with relatives tn Portland and Tacoma on Tuesday eve. ning. Her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hendricks, of Portland, returned with her for a short visit. during the illness of Janice, the four- year old daughter. Gladys Detleteen, of Eugene, spent several days visiting Maxine Rackleff last week. Mrs. L. 6. Wilkins and daugtora, Marjorie and Jacqueline and eon, Ce cil, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. 8. Webb. They arrived last week from Sunrise, Wyoming, and expect to stay a month. On Friday Mr. and Mrs. Webb drove with them to Bandon for their first sight of the Pacific. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Eds >n, of Granada, California, are the parents of a son, their first child, born July 17. Mrs. Edson was formerly Mary Root snd went to school in Arago. The Arago Bible clam met July 19 in Friendly Woods on the T. B. Mac Donald place with twenty-five pres ent A profitable hour wan spent studying the book of Revelations, around a big bonfire. The meeting was so enjoyable that by unanimous vote the July 26 meeting was sched uled for the same place. There will be a weenie roast and potluck supper preceding this meeting. Those pres ent were Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald, Mr. and Mre. John Carl, Mrs. Olaf Aaaen, Mr». S. C. MeAUiater and Mary Jean, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mun ford and ILeatha, Mre. Stanley Halter, Mrs. Albert Gulstrom and Junior and Darwin, Mrs. Albert Lillie and Laura 'Bernice and Clyde, Mrs. Naomi Robi son, Mrs. Lawrence Rackleff. Misses Edythe Woodward, Lodema and Yvonne Cross, Ethel Snell and Messrs. David and Sam Root, Melden, Herbert and WaMace Carl. Schroeder and Harvey Myers return ed Wednesday evening from a brief vacation in Portland. Miss Lois Schroeder, who drove up with them, remained for a longer visit with the Misses Bernice and Beatrice Green, formerly of this community but now living in Corbett. TBe Arago brickyard will bum a kiln of 45,000 brick this week. Ray Cornwall, of upper Fishtrip, left Saturday for Woodburn, Oregon, where he will attend the annual camp meeting of the Church of God which closes July 29. He plan* to remain for a time visiting friends and possi bly working in the hop field* before his return. Mwa Ruth Keltner ia visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Keltner during her vacation. She will return to Portland the first of August. Mrs. Harrietta Burbank is recondi tioning her house on her place in the upper Fishtrap valley. She plana to make her home here, having just come from the drouth ridden states in the east She says this is the best looking country she can find. Her son, Frank Burbank, and Price Schroeder have been working on her house th« week. The Arago enthusiastic are fixing a horseshoe court at th* C. A. Schroeder ploce so they can keep in practice for all comers. Saturday David Stitt and Bobby Kimball, of Bandon, arrived in time for lunch with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Swift Bobby will stay for a fort night's visit with his grandparents. (Due to an injured hip David will be unable to keep on at the Wilkins mill in Myrtle Point so he moved hie household goods hack to Bandon Sat urday evening. Mrs. Topping accom panied him to Bandon. .toms. The auctions, of the atom Place: City Hail. night be compared in shape to ped- Timo: 8:00 p. m. iles. The Indians cultivated some Date: First and Third Tuesdays. species of the Opuntia long before President—Gee. W. Taylor, Sr. iolunsbua discovered America. The Treas.— Mm. John A. Marti* Spaniards took plants to Spain and Cor. See.—Mrs. Bonnie Dutton. ts colonies, from whence they spreaJ WMMSSBMaa a all warm countries. The Opuntia Cactaw The general distribution of the cac .'orms an important part of the food tus family is through the warm and •f the Arabs in northern Africa, arid sections of the American -con where it is cultivated extensively for home consumption. The nativea of tinents, both north and couth. The great arid regions of Mexico Sicily grow such a line quality of the 'roit that it to exported to New York and our own southwest attract travel er« and scientists from all over the ind other American cities. A much detested member of the world by the oddity and variety of 'Optunia tribe is the Chollo of the their eactas forms and the beauty of their flowers; and it is largely due «outbwest. One variety Is called the to these travelers and to botanists and wicked cactus because its ‘.horns so collectors from other countries that -asily become detached and lodge in Americans have become greatly in the flesh of any one who happens to terested in this great family of native be near. It is the moot thorny of all •actus and forma dense thickets in 5» • plants.. The cacti are unlike any other which all kinds of small animals And planta. With the exception of certain refuge from their enemies. Scientists do not agree about the kinds that grow in the tropios, they «pines of the cactus. Some think that do not have leaves. In response to the long period of drouth to which •.hey developed to protect the plant they are exposed, they have dispensed Others think that those plants that with leaves, and have enlarged their developed strong spines were the best branches and stems into storage re orotected and so survived. It is cer- servoirs. Three may take the form alnly true that without the spines the of huge barrel-like structures, ouch as • tactus would have become extinct long those of the Bisnaga, “the wells of the sgo. Not only do large animals eat it desert." The pulp of the Bisnaga if >ut smell ones, like rata and .nice, often pounded by the Mexicans or rnsw into it. When it b used for for* other travelers in the desert until ige the Indians burn off the thorns to enough water has been extracted to teep them from causing injury to the quench their thirst No one need die animals. A curious form of cactus, but not of thirst where the cactus grows. Th< water stored in a Bisnaga is enough lathrO in the United States, la the >rgan cactus. The tall stalks are saw to keep it gnawing for years. The Bisnaga is called the compass aged and grow close together. Seen cactus because it leatw to the south •a the aroyas of Mexico, thickets of The east Because the roots are small in hem look like pipe organs. proportion to the plant, they are not Mexicans use the organ cactus for flrvwiy anchored in the sand and the fences and hedges. plants lean in the direction of the Another cactus net native, but ot- prevailing winds. ' i ten grown out of door« In the South Other cactus look like tall trees, west, b the night-bloming cercus. sometimes having but a single trunk, (Cereus grandiflorum). It has rather but more often branched. To this «lender, climbing braneboa, and largo, type belong the Sshauro er giant ereemy white blossoms, opening at cactus (Cereus giganteus) of New midnight. The flower somewhat re Mexico and Arizona. The Bahaura sembles a water lily and is very beau towers above all other pleat, of the! tiful. In the old Spanish days in Cal desert. It sometimes lives MO years ifornia, fiestas were often held at the and, although it grows but an inch or haciendas when these flowers were lees in a year, it often reaches a about to bloom. Another variety of height of 50 or M feet. It has beau night Wooming eerous (cereus tri tiful blossoms and edible fruit. angular), has become familiar to vis This fruit was once the principal itors in Honolulu, where there is said food of the ladiaaa of the southwest to be a hedge, known to have had as and was so important to them econom many aa SOM blooms in a night. The ically that they dated the beginning of Woaaom lasts but a day. this year fwn the ripening of the Numerous aaaall forma of the esc- Sahaura fruit tus are found in the Southwest Some The Bahaura ia loved and revered of them are not easily distinguished by the Indiana aad the loo* of owe I* until they bloom, but when many of considered a calamity. The dry ribo them are blooming at one time, the are used for building material, for desert is an unforgetoMo sight making hews aad arrows, far chicken Some books that give information coops, traps, fences and other arti about the caetus, incidental to travel, cles. The wdod does not decay easily are given below: “New Trails in Max and takes a beautiful polish. The loo," Carl Lumhoits; “Old Mexioo and fruit grow« at the top of the plant Her Provinces,” W. H. Bishop; -The and is picked by aid of one of the long Top of the Continent,” Robert Ster riba. It is eaten raw or preserved ling Ward; “Flowers of Coast and and dried for winter use. Sierra,” Edith 8. Clemens; “Mexico,” The Opuntia la another eactus that Freak Carpenter; “The Village ia important far its fruit. It is known Shield,” (story), Gains and Rood. to many people as the “prickly pear” Mrs. A. R. Dimick. and is distinguished by its jointed the road was clear the rest of last week. There will only be one shift hereafter, from eight till four. Janice Lafferty in much better. She is able to be up part of the day. Misses Emm* Gartner and Bessie Lewis accompanied Leola Robison to her home near Montague, California, on Friday to visit for several week*. . ■ Mr. and Mre. George Hampton and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Schroeder at tended the Grange picnic at Langlois Sunday. They arrived in time to at tend Sunday school and visit with Mr. and Mrs Bevy. The woman's horseshoe contest waa the main at traction of the picnic after dinner. First Church of Christ. Scteuttot Coquille, Oregon Sunday School at 9:50 a. m. Sunday Service at 11 •. m. Subject for next Sunday, “Truth." Wednesday eveaiag mooting at • o’clock. Free public Reading Room epan to Church Building every Tuesday and Friday afternoons except bolidaye f*om two to flve o’clock. The public is cordially invited to at tend our services aad to visit the Reading Room. Church of God Sunday School at 10 o'clock with classes for everyone. Morning service at 11 a. m. Evening preaching 7:90 p. m. Young People’s meeting Sunday evening at 6:80. Prayer meeting 7 R0 Thursday eve ning. The public to cordially invited to all these services. Edward E. Watkins, Paster. Evening Preaching 8:80 p. m. 7 RO p. Ray and Emil Fleming arrived Sat urday morning from Clearwater, Vir ginia. They will visit their brother and sister, Gordon and Alma Fleming, and if they find employment will lo Trucking from the Garoutte camp Dr. 0. C. Stem, chiropractic physi- Mies Alma Fleming has been as cate permanently in this community. was resumed Monday morning. They cian, foot correction tot, electro thera Mre. Mary Krfba, Keith Kriba, Price ran out of logs Tuesday evening and pist sisting in the homo of Fred Lafferty Moulton Bt, phon* 8<J. Ntf If
