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PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME VOL. XXXI. COQUILLE. COOS COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935. NO. 34. When a Strike Is Called, Especi ally the Families of the Strikers Mayor Berg Proclaims Afternoon of 13th a Holiday Council Discusses Parking, Paving and Other Matters In accordance with a custom of many years, next Friday afternoon will be observed as a holiday in Co quille so that all its citizens may at tend the Coos County Fair. Below is a copy of Mayor Berg’s holiday pro clamation which he issued yesterday: With all members present the city council met in regular session Tues day evening, transacted some busi ness and discussed touch more, one of the subjects being the cause for many headaches—traffic congestion. Another was that of the logging trucks which use the streets and highways of Coquille with their loads tied together with a very light chain, light considering the power of the load should it leave the truck as one did a few days ago just beyond the Cunningham railroad crossing. It narrowly missed crushing the city's truck as it slipped from the logging truck. An effort will be made to have at least two heavy chains around each load . which passes through town. Stanley Fitzgerald brought up the matter of a burner for the refuse at the Prosper Mill Co. plant, and the council is requesting that the mill management meet with the city offi cials at the next council meeting to discuss the possibility of installing (Continued on Page Nine) , „ ...... I - A labor disturbance at Marshfield HOLIDAY PROCLAMATION has thrown about 200 men out <jf Whereas, The Goos and Curry work. They were employees of the Port Orford Cedar Co. mill and the County Fair is being held in Myrtle Benj. Ostlind plant. True, the men Point, Oregon, on Wednesday, Thurs went out on strike, but the natural day, Friday and Saturday, September query is, did they take that serious 11, 12, 13 and 14, and Whereas, it is partiularly fit and step after mature consideration, or did some outsider from a large indus proper that the citizens of Coquille trial center inflame them into hasty should take an active part in sup action without giving them time to porting the said Fair and should co consider what the effect of idleness operate in making it a success. Now Therefore I, J. Arthur Berg, far possibly months would have upon themselves and their dependents, It Mayor of Coquille, Coos County, is always the innocent members of Oregon, by virtue of the authority the family who suffer th»* most in vested in me by the charter of this disturbances of this kind. With no city, do hereby proclaim and desig pay day ahead, no credit for buying nate tlie after noon of Friday, Sep the necessities of life, no relief from tember 12th, 1935, from 12 o'clock a benign father at Washington or Sa noon of said day, as a public holi lem, what are the wives and small day and do hereby request that all children of those striking mill work places of business in this city be ers going to do? They cannot expect closed from asfcj after that hour. Dated this 5th day of September, the hard-pressed taxpayers to feed , them in their idleness. And if they 1025. J. ARTHUR BERG, expect their brother workers who re J- ' Mayor main on the job to furnish them with the necessaries of life, they are doom ed to a sad disillusionment. After six years of depreslson, the lumber business and its many branches was just beginning to feel a revivifying which would igad to an ----------- ----- ------ ‘J ---- r - increased wage scale, happMas and Funeral services for Right Rev. comfort for all. The indications were Walter Taylor Sumner, bishop of the for a more prosperous fall and winter Oregon diocese ot the Episcopal than the workingman and his em church, will be held in Portland at ployer had known for many years eleven o'clock tomorrow morning. This strike at Marshfield is not so The bishop died suddenly Wednes serious in iteeelf, except for the 200 day morning while on an official visit (Continued on Page Nine) to the Good Samaritan hospital, not as a patient. He was chairman of its BISHOP SUMNER DIES SUDDENLY Port Orford’s Gala Day Cass Hermann, of Roseburg, a member of the party which landed on Battle Rock at Port Orford, 7» yean ago, when the Indians attempted to honored guset at the Labor Day cele bration when the new dock at Port Orford was dedicated with befitting ceremonies Mr. Hermann is yean of age. Another pioneer attendant at celebration was Willis T. White, »2, who came to Port Orford mon than half a century ago. « Officially the celebration and dedi cation was attended by Gov. Martin, Secretary of State Snell and State Treasurer Holman. During the forenoon the steamer Shasta which is to make regular runs between Port Orford and San Pedro, Calif., tied up at the dock and haa since been loading 800,000 feet of fir for shipment south. The elaborate program which had been arranged by Gilbert E. Gable, president of the Port- Orford Dock 4k Terminal Corporation, was carried out, the only Saw in the days' festivi ties being the fireworks showing in the evening when heavy fog damp ened the pyrotechnic display. It was’a gala day for the embryo shipping port of Curry county and if all the plans maturing there bear fruit, it is destined to be one of the important ports of the Pacific ocast. Curry has the timber and mineral resources to make it so. After Drilling Through 209 Feet Rules For Guidance of Co-oper of Limestone Well Pro ating Merchants on Sep duces Gas tember 25 ’ The Sentinel has not reported re cently on the well which W. E. Mar- rion is drilling over beyond Fat Elk because the bit was cutting through limestone where there was no show ing of any kind. The lack of water last Thursday evening necessitated a temporary shut down in operations, but it will be only for a week or two. After drilling through 209 feet of the limestone there is a very strong flow of gas. When the Sentinel man visited the well Wednesday morning, Mr. Marrion opened the valve at the top and the gas escaped with a con siderable roar. Not only that but the odor was the well-known smell of natural gas. There is now 2046 feet of caring in the hole whic^t rests on the top of the limestone. Below that (here is 209 feet of open hole, the total depth be ing 2255 feet. The beauty of it is that the hole is in perfect condition, with all water part way down shut off The last five feet of the drilling showed sand impregnated with oil. The formation here is not like it is in the Montana oil fields with sharp, clean breaks between sand and lime stone, but one gradually merges into the other, and although sand was en countered it was before the limestone bottom was reached. To guard against sloughing below the casing, in the open hole, Mr. Mar rion will underrim and case for thst last 209 feet, and he left Thursday morning for Portland to arrange for casing to be shipped from San Pedro next Monday. It will be here the last of next week. He also had to secure more cable for the drilling operation The creek tram which he drew his water supply tor boiler and tor the drilling suddenly went dry last week, leereed later that it was being <B- (Continued on Page Three) Asks Merchants’ Co-operatloa I Market Day in Coquille is going to succeed or fail according to the sup port given it by all retail merchants in the city. Most of us here know that Coquille is the best town in the country in which to trade. And the purpose of a Market Dgy is to prove it to those who are not acquainted with the fact that it is. Isolated cases of discrepancies in price, of course, occur but on the whole the prices asked for merchan- dise in any line here are as reason able as can be found anywhere, and lower than in many places. Selec tions here are more varied than in towns considerably larger; every ac commodation and courtesy is extend ed; and the purpose of this Market Day is to acquaint all of Coes county with that fact. Wednesday, Sept. 2», has been se lected for the first Market Day. and Water to Be Off Sunday today a committee of the Merchants The water in Coquille will be shut Retail committee is presenting to all merchants in Coquille the following off this coming Sunday, Sept. 8, be agreement which was drawn up fol tween 2:80 and 4:80 p. m., while the department flushes the mains. lowing the first meeting last week: Coquille Market Day The Retail Merchants committee of the Coquille Chamber of Commerce proposes to hold a series of "Market Days,” the first of which is stated to be on the 25th of September. Dates of subsequent Market Days to be de termined at future meetings of the merchants participating. The object of Market Day is to stimulate the retail business of Co quille by co-operative effort by all local merchants and to present to the buying public of southern Coos and Curry counties a series of outstand ing values tri their respective lines of merchandise and to advertise these bargains in a market day edition of the Coquille Valley Sentinel, which ««Weation agrees to give the Co- (Continued on Page Three) 43 IS SCHOOL INCREASE X j ---- —T . / Coquille’s public schools opened on Tuesday. An increase of 43 pupils over the enrollment during last June resulted in a total figure for Sep tember 2 of 688 as compared with June’s 659 boys and girls, an increase of over six per cent. This increase created a special problem since 19 of the new pupils all entered Grade 1. Superintendent Lane will wait, how ever, for a week or ten days until definite enrollment figures are in be fore adjusting the first grade prob lem. i .■ ,7, ......J,., Rousing assemblies took jdecein both High and Lincoln where Principals Hartley and intro Wag« Increase at Smith Plant duced their new teachers and the - Effective yesterday an increase in music supervisor. Washington school the payroll at the Smith Wood-Prod- I »P*"«1 wlth •mooth operation in or- urts plant, mostly in the sawmill de-1 ’ince Principar Shone continues her staff intact. Following partment, went into effect. This was with “ * — — * -- . . in accordance with a promise made short addresses at two assemblies Su perintendent Lane visited all grades some little time ago. The first of the two shingle ma and teachers and is enthusiastic over chines, ordered by the company, ar prospects for the coming year. Principal Hartley reports over rived yesterday and it is hoped to thirty candidates reported for the first have it in operation next week. Constructionton seven or eight new football meeting. Supervisor Bemath five-room cottages, on the hill be is busy enrolling pupils in different tween the plant and the highway, is music activities. A red letter edition of the Holy to be started at once. They will be Bible, self-pronoun6ing, together modern in every respect and will probably all be rented by employees with references and concordance was presented to the library at the High of the Smith company. school. The pupils and staff are In debted to the Seventh Day Adventist . They Scaled Mt. Shasta Church for this thoughtful gift. Fred Fuhrman and Don Farr re turned last Saturday afternoon from Texaco Service Station Mt. Shasta which they climbed last The lot from which the old High Friday. They were caught in-that storm which raged over northern way Cafe building is being slowly re California last week and had to wait moved, has been leased to the Texaco at the 3ierra club house until the rain oil company for service station pur stopped. The summit is 14,380 feet poses. The station will be leased above sea level and they reached the from that company by the Niles top, finding little snojv on the sides Motor Co. which conducts the Ford of the mountain and none at all on agency and garage in the adjoining concrete building the summit. The plans call for a concrete -and steel building, or island, twenty feet Petty Check Writers Busy Robert M. Magill, one of the men long across near the front of the lot. at the transient camp, started on a The canopy will cover the three au check writing spree last week. Up tomatic pumps for distribution of to yesterday morning three of his no Texaco gas. A greasing hoist, air and water fa- funds »10 pieces of paper had been refused by the bank here on which cilties, are also to be installed, giving the station all necessary equipment they purported to be drawn. Another check grafter, who has for a modem filling station. Work will start as soon as the old since gone back to Roseburg, was Jack Ireland. He was more modest building and debris are out of the In his crookedness, fleecing several way. The city council at its Tuesday eve ning session voiced a request which the Sentinel hastens to’ make public. It is that business men and their em ployees do not add to the congestion of traffic on the principal business streets of the city by parking their cars all day in front of their places of business There are back streets, be sides the parking space in Willard street, which are little utilized during the day and if those spots are used by those dependent on public support, there will be ample room for their customers to leave their cars while board of directors. The bishop had been suffering from they do their trading. It is good business to heed the pectorial angina for some years, but had rallied from more severe attacks council’s plea. which had kept him confined to his Coquille Folders Issued bed, and was able to attend to a part of his duties. Twenty-five hundred Coquille val Bishop Sumner was bom in Man ley folders of twelve pages were sent chester, N. H„ Dec. 2, 1872, and had out to the state fair the first of the been bishop of this diocese since Jan. week for distribution at the Coos «, 191». county booth. He has been an occasional visitor These folders are well Illustrated in Coquille for the past 20 years snd with cuts and have much of interest wss highly esteemed by all who knew to prospective settlers. Ten thousand him here. He haa frequently been were printed and anyone who wishes referred to as Oregon’« beat known to send copies to friends or acquan- churchman. tances can secure them from Umpqua Baptist Ass’s. Meet Rev. Hale B. Eubank«, of this city, Chamber of Commerce, or at The Umpqua Association of the and Rev. F. G. Jennings, of Marsh Sentinel office South Central Oregon Baptists will field, will attend the funeral services hold its annual assembly in Coquille, In Portland tomorrow. Coquille Woman’s Club Tuesday and Wednesday, September The Coquille Woman's Club will To Talk Corn Show, Sept. 10 10 and 11, Emmanual Baptist church meet Tuesday, Sept. 10th, at 1:1» p. being the entertaining church. At next Tuesday noon’s meeting of m. at the Guild Hal. * This is the A goodly number of leading Ore the Chamber of Commerce all mem opening meeting for the new term gon Baptists will take part in the pro bers of the Chamber and all directors and the members are to have the gram. The association will convene of the Com Show board of directors pleasure of hearing J. E. Norton, at 2:90 o’clock Tuesday, with Rev. R. are asked to attend to formulate president of the Chamber of Com E. Rollins, of Springfield, moderator. plans for this year's Com Show. merce, Mayor J. Arthur Berg, and Rev. R. R. Mulholland, of Roseburg, Theie plans will be presented at Henry Hartley, high school principal, will deliver the annual sermon at a general meeting of all Com Show as guest speakers Mr. Bemath, the local merchants out of »1.00 and »1.50 7:48 p. m. Rev. Mr. Osgood, mission boosters, business men and others in new music teacher for the schools, amounts. ary from Burma, will give the clos terested at a session to be held in the will play. A large attendance is de W. Y. City Visitor Here ing message of the evening. city hall that evening, Sept. 10, at sired. Wednesday will be a day of general 7:30 o’clock. It, is intended by this John Cary,, an executive of the business and reports of churches. A early start in Com Show preparation National Broadcasting Co., was a Co Dunham’s at M. P. Robbed splendid program by the Baptist to have the best^pbm Show ever held quille visitor yesterday morining. He Dunham’s Safeway store at Myrtle had been in attendance at the dock ladies will be given between the in Coquille ready before November 1. Point was robbed of $1000 in cash last celebration at Port Orford on Mon .« hours of 9:00 to 11:00 a. m., with Mrs. I Thursday night by a thief who cut a day and is most enthusiastic over the Richmond, of Eugene, president of Dey Buys Economy Market small hole in the roof of the building southwestern Oregon country. He is missions. In charge. A cordial invi Steve Dey. former meat cutter in and let himself down into the store an old friends of Gilbert Gable, head tation is extended to mission societies of the Port Orford development com of other churches to attend this ses Coquille, who ha« been living near by means of sash cords. The officers have clues but no pany. Eugene for several years, made a sion. At 6:30 p. m. the Baptist Young deal while here last week for the arrests have yet been made. Oldest Bay Resident Dies People’s Union will install their new purchase of the Economy Market Pays »36,000 for Ranch Erastus W. Guptil. oldest resident associations! officers at a banquet from Marc Shelley. Mr. Dey expects Harry Wilkins, owner at 700 acres on Coos Bay, died last Monday morn held in the dining room of the Pi to return to Coquille by the 15th of of land on North Tenmile lake, has ing at the home of hie daughter, Mrs. oneer church. A charge of 35c per this month to take possesison. Mrs. Shelley expects to enjoy a disposed of his property to Dr. Wil Clara Bessey. in Marshfield He was plate will be made dale, Calif, I past »7 years of age, having been The public will be welcome at any vacation before deciding what he will son, a resident of engage in. but says he will remain who will take poaseei during Sep bora in Maine, March 8. 1838. He or all of these sessions. here or on his ranch at the head tember. It was imported the transac came west to California in 1859, and to tor »1.00. waters of Rink creek. tion Involves at »89,000 to Coos Will Be Ready for Opening Next - Monday—More Attractions Than Ever Amid the glamour of horse-racing, carnivals, stock and industrial exhi bits, Myrtle Point will be the scene of unusual activity next week where the 24th annual Coos County Fair is scheduled for September 11, 12, 13, 14. Second only to the Multnomah County Fair in size, the Coos County Fair has grown until it now offers a wide selection of exhibits to interest the most skeptical observer. Of un usual interest this year will be the pari-mutuel betting on the horse races. This feature has not only proved popular with horse races but has recently been the most popular feature of dog-racing. In addition to all the thrills and at tractions which are offered at the county fair, each evening dances will be held at the Oaks Pavilion, featur ing the Silver Spray Gardens orches tra. The following additional informa- (Continued on Page Nine) Coquille Boys Win at Fair The Coquille 4-H Poultry club made an outstanding record at the state fair on Monday when the three boys of the judging team, Cecil Laws, Robert McGilvery and Ellis Rackleff, scored »69 points to win first place In the state. The Portland 4-H club, and nearest competitor, scored 870 points. Individualy, Robert, with 325 points won first place, Ellis with 310 stood third, and Cecil with 295 was fourth in the state competition. Another point which makes Co quille proud of its 4-H boys is that while every other club competing was coached by a professional poul tryman, the local team was coached by Cecil, who is not a professional. The boys expect to compete also at the Pacific International next month and are trying for the half scholar ship. worth $6 eacli, offered by the Grange, for the 4-H summer school at Corvallis next year. The boys returned from the fair on Wednesday with Geo. H. Jenkins, county agent, who took them out. Elbert Schroeder Now in Charge Elbert Schroeder, who has been in charge of the Schroeder Bros. Mor tuary in Bandon, has removed to Coquille to take charge of the con cern's establishment here, and to gether with Mrs. Schroeder, is occu pying the apartments on the second floor annex of the Mortuary. Mr. Schroeder, who is a son of Henry A. Schroeder, of Myrtle Point, is a grad uate of the San Francisco College of Embalming of two yeara ago, holding a state license and a National Con ference certificate given by the Na tional Conference of Examining Boards, since which time he has been associated with the Schroeder Mor tuary establishments in Myrtle Point, Gold Beach and Bandon. He suc ceeds his uncle, Charles Schroeder, who has returned to Bandon to look after the firm’s affairs In that local ity, including Gold Beach. Last Piling for Bridge Driven I Work on the leviathan bridge for ' the Oregon Coast highway in North Bend, is progressing well, informa tion from the construction office in dicated yesterday. Routine -pro cedure was in effect, it was learned, and they had started raising of steel on pier No. ». Some little delay was encountered through interference with the electric stream but thU was soon adjusted. Mr. Archibald said they expected to drive the last of the bridge piling last night and then seal the pier. No. Repainting the Center Stripe 7, with concrete. The state highway crew which ’ Pier No. », where the new steel la paints that yellow stripe down the going in, is that across the channel center of the highways started at the and in conjunction with No. 10 on the bridge here Wednesday morning to»outh side will carry the big burden work south to the California line.' °t the structure, the long span. When > they finish that they will re-j Satisfactory advancement is being turn here and repaint the stripe be tween Coquille and Marshfield and between here and Roseburg. As a safety measure it is most ben Soon to Be an ex-P. M. eficial but it won’t keep a drunk Duncan Douglas, who will sOon re driver on his own side of the road! tire as postmaster at Marshfield, passed the Oregon' bar examination Red Cross Headquarters Opened this week and when he leaves the Mrs. J. R. Bunch announces that pretoffice he will become associated she will open Red Cross headquar with his attorney father, W. U. Doug ters in the Ijiird building, in the las, in practice The younger man is rooms formerly occupied by Dr. M. a graduate of the Willamette univer Earl Wilson, adjoining Dr Bunch’s sity law school, and is being fre- office, and that the rooms will be tioned as a candidate for open each Monday afternoon, from 1 nomination for district to S.
