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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1935)
OUT-OF-DOORS STUFF ‘ ■nany of us actually live to see our fondest hopes realized or dreams Here is som« belated news, but it come true? The Reminton Aims company has is unusual news and very authentic. A short while back over on the Bay, made wonderin', impi ovements on during the noon hour, one of the la '■heir new model trombone action ri dies working in the veneer plant, was des. Their latest edition is solidly nade with no chance for looseness to reclining upon the ground after eat ing her lunch. She felt a tapping ievelop between the frame and the upon her shoe. Sbelhought that it barrel. The action hos, been im- was one of her fellow workers seek woved upon to such an extent that ing to tease her and paid no heed I can see no wey In which a shell Then she kicked. The steady tapping nay jam on its trip from the maga- continued for a short time and thee ine to the chamber of the barrel. .eased. Presently a cold object Remington always did put out one of moved against the reclining lady’s he finest shooting arms on the mar leg She straightened up and glanced ket. But that is as far as it did go. down and then emitted a shrie., ts action was pitiful, the fhost unde .hat brought the fire brigade dashing fendable action of any gun on the rom the mill. A rattlesnake had narket with the possible exception been responsible for the tapping. It ff one of the old Marlins I do not was shedding its skin and the skin know how the new Marlins function. I got such a stomachful of the old vas pulled over its head. That is probably «11 that saved the lady front ype back in the old days that I nev- ueuig bitten when she moved. Il er had the heart to try one since. One was during the dog days—the snake thing I will say about the Marlin and that is that they always had mighty being blind, strikes at any sound dur fine barrels. The Remington lost ing that period. The lady has the more than one sponsor during the twelve rattles and a button to prove past fifteen years by the poor action ’ ner story. The snake was killed by on that gun. There wasn’t one out' mil woraers. It was thought that the of a dozen that was actually depend- ' i epule came from one of the boats able. Any gunsmith will inform you ( mat unload at the bay. Thè moral to that twice as many Remingtons came ,ms little true story is to “watch your to his shop as all other guns put snakes.” ogether or account of faulty action.! This particular stretch of the Ore But from the looks of the new action' gon coast country is supopsed to be all this is past and their new models uee from rattlers, but another one are the keenest looking guns you could happen along in just the same would wish to put to your shoulder. manner as the one just described. One of the features that makes They can also come down such Winchesters so popular is the fact it reams as the middle fork of the Co that from the time of their appear quille, (there are rattlers at the head ance in the field up to and including of it), on a bit of driftwood and too, the present time they were as de who Knows they may make theii pendable a friend as your old dog. way over forestry service trails and They have always had the action su . oads. Just a few scant miles sep preme. It matters not whether the arates thia county from real rattle barrel is half rusted away and the snake territory and where snakes lun is as old as your great, great abound there is nothing to prevent grandfather’s o’J clock, that cld gun a ratllear from showing up at any - would always func'ion and pump a urne. They worked their way down ■artridge into the barrel • when you us tar as RockCreek many years ago. pumped the lever. There are innum An old resdent of Fairview tells me erable gun concerns in the game to -hat there have been « couple killed day, but up th oujh the years Win-, out here in years past, Last winter chesters have always been the most I caught • big jack rabbit in a trap popular gun wilh dyed in the wool along a stream here in the valley. woodsmen. Winchesters, Remingtons Jack rabbits and rattlers sort of go and Savages are the three leading together, you know. Again I warn guns to be found in the ranks of you—watch your snakes. The harm sportsmen today. Wherever hunters less garter snake might turn out to congregate you are sure to find any oe a rattlesnake. one of these three makes of guns. Curry county, at the time of this There has no doubt been more writing is the only county in the en game killed with the Winchester than tire United States that has no rail all other makes of guns put together, Red Devils and Tigers ' General Motors Concerts to road, no telegraph line and no incor on the north American continent. Be Nationwide This Year Battle to a 6-6 Tie porated town. There is a movement Probably the old 44 has brought on foot at the present Urna to incor down more game than all the modern In the Red Devils second football tootDaaj àlbdliF. Sloan, Jr, president t of porate Port Orford. We pause, to in -‘«libers put together. It was this game of the season Bandon, i defend» 5«Seral Corporation, i an ----------- Motor« ---------- Corporation, quire—why? irm alone that was responsible for ing champions, came to Coquille to nounces that the General Motors Con With the incorporation of a town, the killing off of the vast herds of play the Red Devils a 6 to 8 tie. certs are again on the air. This year, Curry county, the last of the old buffalo on our plains. It was with Both teams started slowly in the however, the concerts will be broad western frontier is going to lose a lot his gun that the hide hunters killed first quarter and both were handi cast to a nationwide audience from of glamour and allure. If the resi hundred of thousands of elk and capped considerably by penalties. 64-stations, as against 20 last season. dents of Curry county could but re deer. It was this gun that made, or However, in the second quarter, These are the concerts that last sea ali’e that the greatest advertising helped to make American history. Fogol, halfback of the Tigers, scored son won the first award in the first tliat county has today is the fact that And yet, they are also obsolete among a touchdown after a pass had been annual prizes of the Women’s Na it boas,s no incorporated town, no hunters of today. Those which are completed and then taking the ball tional Radio Committee for “the best railroad and no telegraph line, they still in existence are setting in closets over on a line play. Bandon failed sponsored musical program.” would hesitate at incorporating any covered with dust and cobwebs—set to convert. The concerts, as in the past season, The second quarter started with a town. ’■id? for high speed “cannons.” I be performed by the General power house, Red Devil attack led by The incorporation of Port Orford, tors Symphony Orchestras, Mr. the 210-pound fullback, Kenneth La Sloan announced. As in the past two .. or any other town in that county, will Homecoming at Aahhnd Branch, who scored at ease on the yean, the policy of the program will spell finis to the last western frontier. Hundreds of Southern Oregon Nor That rough, historic old county will mal School Alumni will head for the Tigers. La Branch started the drive be to present also the greatest soloists automatically fall in line with “civ Ashland campul next week for the from Coquille’s 40 yard line and was in the world. For the fint part of not stopped with less than a five yard the series it is planned to bring to the ilized” counties throughout the United seventh annual Homecoming celebra States. Tourists, who will presently tion slated for October 18, IB, and 20. tain until the touchdown was made. nation of listenen Kirsten Flagstad. However, LaBranch failed to convert Mischa Elman, Richard Crooks, Rosa be coming up and down the coast Many student committeemen and road by thousands, will not be able faculty advisers are now at work on the extra point. Ponselle, Jascha Heifetz and Joee When the whistle blew in the final Iturbi. ird with interest and an- plans to make the event the biggest to look forward ticipation to l pasjing through or stop- nnd most entertaining in the history >uarter, Bandon was threatening to The concerts will continue as in the ping in a county that it unique in this >f the school, and a record number of score from the Coquille six yard line. >ast to present programs selected La Branch, for Coquille, Was the rom the works of the great masters, State«. Old Curry, .rods have already signified their in- civilized United ■■ outstanding player of the game, but 'rut programs built and designed for just as she stands today, rough and •ntion to be there. rugged, with still a certain amount of , Heading the program for the big the educated toe and long dashes of the enjoyment of the majority of that old western hospitality existing, week-end is the Homecoming foot Baird, Bandon half back, showed up \rncrican music loven rather than or pny one particular group or taste. is something rare—something apart, ball game between the SONS and Al well.. Lineups: The orchestra has heretofore been a jewel within itself and the posses bany College on Saturday afternoon Coquille Bandon -on ducted by most of the world’s sor of something that cannot be rhe battle will start early in the af- Griffin ■acting conductors The same policy LE copied by any other county in apy • emoon to make way for other Satur Waggoner Laird will be continued in the current sea- Clinton LT state in the Union. That county still day activities Alexander son? with Emo Rapee as conductor LG Walton smacks of pioneer days, of Indian The annual banquet for students, McClellan Minnott opening the programs for the fint C fight and fighters. Rough, rugged, acuity, a.umni and friends of the in Thrift oart of the season and, it is planned. RG staunch, unspoiled by the advance of stitution will be held on Saturday Ricliardson Roaonblat *o be followed in later concerts by Detlefsen RT modern civilization, what a gem it is! ■vening at the Lithia Hotel, with the Moore such eminent guest conductors ar Ar- RE Arrell Why not preserve it, keep it in its ■olnrful Homecoming dance Jo fol- Wagonner u.o Toscanini, Sir Henry Beecham,' Stevens Q present state down through the pas- ow in the Normal School auditorium, Baird r ^opold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, LH Williams sog«' of time? Why shatter its glam p-'cial church services have been ar Woods Fogol Bruno Walter and others. Toscanini, RH our? Why drag it from its lofty ranged for Sunday. Giles Stokowski, Strawinsky and Walter F LaBranch pedestal and place it on the common Substitutes: Coquille, Moy; Ban- have conducted one or more General f<x>ting with the balance of the states? Salmon a Vegetarian? don. Kosher. Motors concerts in the previous sea To incorporate any town within its Officials, referee, Keith Leslie, U. sons. What does a salmon eat, a\d where borders will do so. Why not allow of O.; umpire, Fasnacht, U. of W.J The concerts will be broadcast this old rugged, untamed county—the docs he eat it? is a question being head linesman, Joe Sayre. hrough WEAF and the Red network last of the western frontier—to con asked by Ike Smith, propri -tor of one ->f the National Broadcasting Com tinue as such. Why take the ro of the small canneries at Wedder- Coquille Juniors Win, 20-0 pany, and the complete supplemen- mance, the last touch of the pioneer bu n, says the Curry County Report mu .. Coquille Juhjor ’ary networks from coast to coast, in- Saturday ...... afternoon away forever by incorporating any er, published at Gold Beach. Smith has long been a commercial fisher Hlgh journeyed to North Bend to eluding Canada, between 10 and 11 town within its boundaries? Spoiling of Curry county. That man on the Rogue, and knows a lot play a season opener with the Junior ■ p. m„ EST, each Sunday night be- was a gigantic undertaking, cutting about the habits of the fish, but ha High of that town. The Coquillians ginning Oct. 8. that long point down which stretched was stumped the other day when he were victorious by a score of 20 to 0. Led by Krantz and Goodman, th« 1M-C. G Stem. Chiropractor. 282 far into the sea, and building the cleaned a salmon bi ought to him by Coquille team passed and plunged the 22tf St . phono BAI dock. Years ago my uncle, Dyer an angler for canning. When the fish was cut open it was line for three touchdowns. Schaer U'neve, who lived and died in Port Orford and was one of the old-timers found to contain an ear of green corn passed to Goodman for the first score « there, visioned the day when Port which appeared to have been cooked and then.jpulled the same play to and to have been bitten into before score the extra point. Orford would boast just such a dock and deep harbor as it does today. He being discarded. When the fish got, Soon after the first touchdown. Krantz plunged his way through the Music and Stationery gazed ahead into the future and saw he corn is the mystery.. North Bend line for another touch - just such an enterprise and in fact Readmore TRESPASS NOTICE ----------- -- .down and Goodman again converted pointed out the very spot where the landing Library No trespassing, hunting or fishing the <’*,ra P3int Again in the ’ast, harbor would be created, just as it is We have the latest fiction—get a todav. But he never lived to see his allowed on my ranch just north of Krantz, with five to fifty yard runs for that rainy dream ìealized. He passed away just Coquille. Trespassers will be prose-, through the line, scored the final a year before the enterprise got un ■uted to the full extent of the law. ' touchdown. North Bend nlayed a bang up game der way. But that is life for you. We It*--------------------------- Jos. Scolari I but the Coquille lads were too large all gaze ahead into the future and i far the North Bend boys. Calling cards, M tor 81.08. dream of things to come, but how By I jut« Leneve H. S. Norton "OMAHA"_-Vinuer, one after the other, of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, anti the Belmont Omaha is an outstanding horse today. And in the cigarette world Ch—t- erfield is outstanding. Both won their place strictly on merit. Apply any test you like—Cheat erfields stand for the best there is in cigarettes. k They are milder . . . yet they let you know you're smoking. They m«bm«r-gi,.yoUrMlpl~u^ for mildness for better taste Mr. and Mrs. Trojan Harrington POWERS Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stevens were are the parents of a daughter born to them in Eugene on October 7, the Marshfield visitors' on Thursday. Friday afternoon, the Altar Society little miss having been named Shir held a public card party at the Fel ley BeD. Sixty-five CCC boys were taken by lowship Hall. At the close of the af- ernoon cake and coffee were served. truck to Roseburg Saturday evening, Mrs. Albert Powers, Mrs. George where they entrained for Chicago Powers ladies attending the county Stewart and Mrs. Earle Wiper re federation of Women's Clubs on ceived prizes for bridge and Mrs. -iarlan Buckingham and Mrs. Henry Wednesday in Myrtle Point were doc received the prizes for pinochle. Mesdames James Gamwell, John Purvis, Henry Moe. Pete Fox, Elmer Saturday afternoon Mrs. Chas, tailard, Sr., Mrs. Henry Moe, Mrs. Davis, Ray Hall, Clarence Conger. Lyman Rolfe, Ida Matthews, Albert Stemmerman and Mrs. R. Stevens were at the FoUowship Hall to re Powers, Clare Lehmanowsky, Allen ceive the articles donated for the vic- King, Don Carver, Wayne Carver and ims of the recent fire. Many useful Lyle McCulloch.. The Fellowship Club held its regu hings were given as well as food Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wicks were lar meeting on Wednesday afternoon zver-night visitors On Friday at the with Mrs. Jess Jones and Mrs. Ches home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle McCul- ter Otis as hostesses. I Mrs. Allison Roberts visited in Eu och. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Varney were gene over the week-end with her daughter, Alyce Kay.. Marshfield visitors on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baker and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Hull- drove to Portland Saturday evening, retum- Wm Marsee were Eugene visitors ! the past week-end. ng on Monday evening Thomas Erickson has been in Co Mr. and Mrs. Earle Wiper and fam- ly and Miss Mary Evans were Myrtl quille working at the Hooton Elec- rlcal Shop this past week. "*oint visitors on Sunday. Mr. and Mn. Chas. Johnson are Mrs. Duncan died Monday evening it her home in North Powers. Sev the parents of a eon bom Monday eral months ago she suffered a stroke morning at the Coquille Hospital. The if paralysis and had been confined little lad has been named Charles ‘o her bed since that time. She is sur Raymond. Charles Stallard, Jr, is confined to vived by one son Ed, with whom she his home by a sprained teg, injured has made her home for a number of years Th’ funeral services were while out hunting. Mrs. Charles Stallard, Jr., entered held Wednesday at the Schroeder Thap'l in Myrtle Point and interment Mast Hospital Thursday evening for medical treatment. was in the Norway cemetery. Lt. and Mrs. Hock were Mr and Conrad Lapp have re- urned from a ten-day trip which Roseburg last Saturday m took them up the coast Highway to Portland. " * ' Mr. and Mrs. Allen King, Jr., and daughter, Suvann». and Alyce June Fox visited in Portland the past' week While then» they attended the Pacific International Livestock Ex position. Harrison McCracken was in the Mercy Hospital in North Bend sev eral days this week, receiving medi al treatment. Coquille Houses—I have a few 'heap buys in good houses, to be paid tor like rent. Write X S. Barton. Co quille. tf Tuesday afternoon the Jewel Club met at the home of Mrs. Richards. After a business meeting refresh inerts were served to Mesdames Wal ter Spade, Ida Mathews, Elmer Dun can, Joe Legett, Edgar Duncan, Jen nie Jones. Dale Marsters, Earle Rcyer, Allen King, Sr.. Lester Thorpe Faye Hall. Lyle McCulloch and Richards. The club will meet in 'wo wseks at the home of Mrs Earle Royer. left The Power community chest board met Tuesday evening to make plans,the jaw that held the spinner,— tor their drive
