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