The Coquille Valley sentinel., December 27, 1935, Page 8, Image 8

fish
when compared to
them. It doesn’t
clean out a stream co.n-
adastardly practice
h darns, dynamite
and spotlights are thjr - contributing
factors dealing with the d?stru7tion
jf our game and fish today.
The use of dynamite is unsports­
manlike to the extreme. It doesn’t
give the fish a chance. A few stick:-
of dynamite used in-a.stream such aj
the North Fork will destroy mo: e
steelheads than the fishermen wiii
ake with hook and line during ar
entire season.’
Tl\c rifle and revolver club which
has been formed at Coquille is i
.nighty fine thing, It furnwhes gooJ
clean sport, teaches the art of marks
manship, the correct and careful way
tf handling firearms and is some­
thing that should be backed by al
,ood sportsmen.
—
vl' t t<
man in the
pt Hence <
tn his prof
of a miQi
derful pen
up n the latter’s duck pond. It
a humanitarian nature Qiat is often
cite that people who are not in the I found lacking in men of the medical
class of the idle rich or who cannot profession. To know Doc was a
count their dollars in a dozen figures pleasure—he was a man well met and
or more are privileged to ¿'xot Upon one who isqgoing to be greatly missed.
a millionaire’s duck pond, unless they
Penny Sturdivant relates the ex­
rrap-ss—which we are not accusing perience of witnessing a battle be­
liewart of doing. Some time, how- tween two large hawks. One of the
we are going to try and get hip hawks had caught himself a snake
to just what sort of a system Stewey smd was flying away with it when
enploya to get next to these big busi- mother hawk set out in pursuit.
r ss men that own duck ponds. Th* They clashed in midair at a consider-
s >ooC.ig that Stewey describes is ible height. As Penny expressed it.
What may be termed without contra­ ‘They simply locked horns” and fell
o the earth. One of them flew away
diction “duck hunting de luxe.”
A person, states Stewey, may go at once but one of them was stunned
, .to the blind at the duck pond with his o such1 an extent that it lay there for
■ :oes on and not have to wear boots. a short time before winging dizzilj
There is an elevated trail-built right iway.
In the Meantime, anothc*
Fairview
out to the blind. The blind consists .iawk, evidently the fallen one’«
of a huge barrel sunk at an elevation mate, became very much concerned
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hedden and
so that a person may shoot from it over the welfare at her spouse an, a.nily of Marshfield were guesis at
al all angles. Comfortable chairs are circled about closely until the falle the Fred Johnson home on Christmi.i
installed within it and there is plenty one had taken wing and then the. lay. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Deadmond
of ream for two hunters. If the hunt­ flew off together.
Now I sincerely vere guests there also.
er 3 get cold, a lantern is placed be­ trust that I got this story correct. At
This week has been one of the bus­
fore th<?m which reflects beat back the time it was related to me the.- iest for nearly everyone'in this val-
ir o the barrel and warms things up were so many ducks, Chinese pheas
ey. Monday and Tuesday were days
in general. On the particular pond tints and hawks flying about Bib ’or the “town-goers'" and most of the
which Stewart shot over, there had Ferbrache’s barber shop that I might
tidents were in Coqillle on those
been forty tons of rice planted and he ■asily have become confused In th< lays.
says that it was impossible to drive elling of it. I am grateful to Penn,
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Teagarden and
the birds from the pond; that they for said yarn and furthermore h<
’arold Young left this week for Cai-
would fly in and almost alight on ays that he has dozens of witness ; fornia where they will visit relatives
you The big boss of the pond usual­ i the fact. But I don’t doubt it i
Fairview will be fortunate In hav-
ly takes along several gunners who ie lcc.si.
I have seen «’.range
ng Rev. G. A. Gray for services on
cannot hit a bam, in order that he 'ilr.gs than that happen in the wood,
undays, December 23 and January
and his close associates may kill the uf when I relate them I am alway: >. Mr. Gray consented to be here the
Hrr.lt for everybody. After the hunt ailed a Mar. A fellow can’t alway
ifth Sunday in this month and ap-
la over and every man has his limi
as fortunate as Penny was witi
rc cis’.ion is felt for his kindness.
the gunners retire to the club house he hawks by having a flock of wit-
The Fairview-North 5oik Grange
where a hot meal is served them
rases on hand.
Io. 739 will hold the last meeting of
When they go in the house they leave
There are tragic things occutim ids mo .th tomorrow. The meeting
lheir birds piled upon benches on iaily in ibis old world--things tha
chedultj for December 14 was post-
the porch. Two Japs cook and serve ommand our attention, our sym-
oned be cause of installation of offl-
the meals and.while the guests arc >athy. One of the most pitiful litth
ers at klyrtle Point.
enjoying their meals and after dinnei kings that has been brought to m;
Mrs. M. E. Teters, who celebrated
smokes the servants pluck and drest ittention and one that touched my ier 82nd birthday anniversary on
the birds and present them to the ieort deeply was the radio news o Tuesday of last week, was very pain-
• unners as they leave. Again I say 1 suicide in. C ali f ornla. The one t< ■ futty injured ' I2ST Thursday ' niglit.
’TTRft hd'eme can dispute the fact that ake his own life was a mere lad o' She suffered a broken hip and sev­
this <s "duck hunting de luxe.” Stew- ourteen, grief-stricken over the loa>. eral bruises when she fell, late that
' ct s *ys that the owner pays *1500 of his old dog. The boy and dot night. Her many friends are hoping
each season for the privilege of hunt- grew up together, were constant com­ for her recovery.
; ig on? month.
panions until the dag’s death. The --The short Townsend meeting held
It appears that California hunters day the dog died the boy went to his
last Saturday was presided over by
i. re rather careless with firearms and ¡oom, wrote a note to his parents, President Leneve. Secretary Lloyd
11 is a miracle that Stewey did not took a gun and killed himself. His
T.agardcn asked that Harold Neal
loae the sight of one eye while enjoy­ >athetic little message read: "My best
■fill the vacancy in his office while he
ing California's brand of duck shoot- oal is gone—he won’t come back and
s In California. A birthday gift was
A hunter across the pond from neither will I. I’m going where he
presented to Mrs. Amanda Johnson,
fired at a duck upon the water
who was «0 years old that day. The
as It took wing he again fired,
The above case commands a lot of election of officers for the club is
o* the pellets struck Stewey attention. It shows the devotion »hat
scheduled for January 4, for which
squarely in tbe pupil of his eye. It i child may possess for his dog. Dogs
ime, according to Mr Leneve, an
caus- d the blue to fade completely ind kids really go together.- Some-
m entertainment has been arranged
from the eye for some time and it ?w the the playful antics of a young
that will surpass all former ones.
was fee red he would lose the sighl log
remind
me of the
do­ Following the meeting last Saturday
of it entirely. But we are glad to re­ ngs .of a kid. There is no doubt at
a program was presented by the
port that it is getting back to normal ill in my mind that a dog’s devotion
school children, to the great enjoy­
in both vision and color. While a lot (S just as great as was the devotion
ment of all present.
The Hayseed
of hunters would no doubt be will­ af the boy who took his own life,
Quartette, composed of many local
ing to give an eye for that sort of rather than go on through life with­
ladies and a one-act play by a group
hunting, no one would want it shot out the companionship of his best pal.
ot young people also added greatly
out by a wealthy sportsman. I still A dog would gladly give his life for
to the program. 'Candy and popcorn
have my doubts as to whether the 1 that of his master at any and all
were
segued and dancing followed.
hunter shot at a duck or shot at times. They have been known to
Stewey, for to place an Oregonian in 1 grievte to death over the death of r ------------------------------------- ~
a barrel with a couple of comfortable ! their masters. A dog means a lot to
chairs and a lantern to heat things 1 children who possess them as well as
up with and let the ducks come in 1 to grownups who own them.
They
and try to alight in the barrel with become just like one of the home
on all kinds of
hip?, he is liable to pull off some stunt 1 family. And then to have some
which really merits a shot being ' poison slinger come along and poison
taken at him. But, nevertheless, I such a devoted animal, it makes it t
I
ALPINE and SCORBY
am mighty grateful to Stewart for his pretty tough on all concerned.
It
interesting experience. It just goes 1 simply breaks a kid’s heart to lose his
Local and Long Distance
to show what a perfectly tough time ' pal—his dog. And without saying,
those millionaire gunners must suffer it goes mighty hard not only on the
while in pursuit of the ^usive (?) kids but on the whole family.
duckLx-
Up in the holes below LaVeme
Phones 10W^224L
A^other sportsman has passed on. Falls on the north fork there is, or
Dr. O. Earl Low will never line up ’ was, plenty of evidence not long ago
i
with the boys at the traps again in ' that the fish had been dynamited
Mansell
Drayage &
this world. His cheerful voice will One angler reports to me as having
be missed where trapshooters gath­ ’ counted fifteen steelheads floating in
er, for that was one of Doc's favorite
’ one hole, all dead and every bone in
sports. His good humor was never
their bodies broken. The practice of
A with to you ... our cwtomers! May
th« Holiday Beason bring you a wealth
of joy and good fellowship. May the
Now Tear bring you Health, Happiness
ana
vxaritw m
in ittu
full iutjaiatire.
muomira
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faithfully and well, making life easier
by this service and bringing to you
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