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THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME VOL. XXXII. NO. 13. $2.88 THE YEAR COQUILLE. COOS COUNTY, OEEGON. FRIDAY, APRIL It, 1»«. Î ~ TEX.OILMANHERE Harry Hanbury Will Drill on Bear Creek if Lease«* Are All Signed More Than 300 Candidates In Trade and Win Contest Myrtle Point, Coquille and Bandon merchants Trade and Win Contest which was launched last Saturday, already has gained considerable mo mentum,, with nearly 300 candidates registered at this time. Campaigners are registered from everywhere in the district with more being added each day. Boys and girls, parents and friends are invited to join the race in which more than one thou sand dollars in prizes are being of fered. Contest headquarters for Myrtle Point have been located in the Myrtle Hotel Building; in Coquille, opposite the Niles’ Motor Company on Front street; and in Gant's Men’s Shop in Bandon. Parents and friends are sincerely urged to co-operate and lend their as sistance to the boys and girls who are interested in the contest. A Ford V-8 Sedan together with cash prizes and several bicycles are being offered in this vote-getting contest sponsored by the south Coo* county mervitants. TO OPERATE SITKA EASTER SERVICES --- ... I Plans Developing for Putting Old Plant in First Class Condition 1337,000 Tax Money Dis tributed by Co. Treasurer Coypty Cha*. Stauff yesterday is sued a call for county general fund Pioneer Church Program for warrants, endorsed prior to April 1, 1931. About $21,000 in principal and Both Morning and Evening interest will be paid out. Observance Practically the same amount will be paid on Non-High warrants, dated Easter Day at the Pioneer Metho Jan. 26, 1935, up to and including No. dist church will be filled with helpful 1643. and inspiring service*. Beginning at The treasurer has made a partial five-thirty in the early hour of the , distribution of this spring's tax col- morning the young people of the , lection, about $337,000 having been Church will conduct a sunrise prayer , remitted to tax-levying districts and meeting in the auditorium. At the cities. It is hoped to have the bal Sunday school hour, nine forty-five, ance of the $613,000 collected ready special attention will be given the for distribution by April 20. Easter theme in the worship pro- Remittance is also being made to grams. At the eleven o’clock worship the school district* of about $62,000 •ervicc Rev. W. Raymond Wilder will from the elementary and county preach upon the theme, “The Light of school fund receipt*. a New Day.” The choral anthem, "Easter Morning,” and a vocal duet, Smith-Hughes Man to Leave “The Lord Is Risen,” sung by the' Floyd McDonald, Smith-Hughes in Misses Elois Wilson and Margaret structor and F. F. A. adviser in Co Purvance, will contribute to a beau quille High School for the past year, tiful musical program. return to Coquille ne next Sep- A dramatic cantata, “On the Third will not re 'ur? 10 « ***- Day,” by Marian Wakeman and Ruth I tem^r h“ ?“**“*? “, *mU‘r Dale, will be presented at the evening f>os,tion with?^ ich<X)1 in h1’ hour of seven-thirty by the choir and home town of Pendleton a cart of thirteen characters. The di- | £r’ McDonald had a rather diffi- ' cuit assignment when he came to Co rection of the drama has been under the leadership of Mr*. Ruth Beyers. quille to follow Bill Cunning who had The cast of characters unfold a beau been Smith-Hughes instructor for tiful story of events in the life of a several years here, and although It Roman soldier who helped ; brucify was his first school after finishing at the Lord Jesus, and the cimr gives O. S. C., he handled the job like a support to the theme with the musi veteran and leave* with the best cal settings of the drama. This wishes of the school board, the fac promises to be an inspiring closing ulty and the boys who have made fine progress under his tuition. for an eventful Easter day. BETTER LIGHTING Of Coquille Business Section Will Result if Charter Amend ment Is Adopted The .city council, at its Monday Premature publication of a story evening session, called a special elec concerning the old Sitka mill here, in tion to be held this (n°nth, to vote yn the Coos Bay Harbor yesterday, is a charter amendment which will per neither confirmed nor denied by B. mit property owner* in the business E. Johnson, who is credited with an section to form a lighting district and intention to rebuild and operate the bond their property for better street Sitka here. The other man mention lighting. ed in the Harbor article, A. O. Walt In no way should this be considered er, has been in Portland and Tacoma this week and could not be reached as a tax on the general public. It is not. But the present form of the city for verification of the story. charter doe* not permit property to This much is certain, however, that be bonded for a lighting district un Mr. Walker has been working on a der the Bancroft act, as it does au deal to clear title to the Sitka proper thorize the bonding for street im ty for several months, and has at last provement, and an amendment to the been successful. charter is necessary to bond for an Yesterday incorporation papers improved lighting system in the busi were forwarded to Salem for the Co ness district. quille Log & Lumber Co., with E. E. The property owners in the down Johnson, Mrs. Julia Johnson and J. town section have practically all A. Berg as incorporators. The capital agreed to co-operate in making Co Slicing Machines to Be Shipped stock was named as $40,000. quille a better lighted city, paying the If the deal is finally concluded it Word from the Arrow Mill Co. at ; will probably mean the rebuilding of expense of installation, posts, etc., Chicago is that the slicing machinery' themselves and this proposed amend I the Sitka mill and it* operation with which is being manufactured for1 ment will make it possible, spreading a crew of about 50 men. them will be ready to ship to the i the cost over a ten-year period. company's Coquille plant on the 17th Eleswhere in this issue will be Temporary Organization Named of thia month, and that N. Jameson found the notice calling the election for Soil Conservation Plan expect* to be here by the first of May and the resolution for the amend to get things started. Chas. E. Char ment. . Organization of a temporary coun ter. who left here a couple of weeks' Another possible improvement in ago, will not return but a new plant ty committee to be followed later by the city which the council discussed a county association and community foreman will be employed at the lo was the gravelling of portions of Sev committees are the first steps in set cal plant. . The public is cordially invited to enth, Ninth, Eleventh, Holly, Bush, ting up thewnew federal soil conser attend all of these services, and those Coulter, Heath and other streets, vation and domestic allotment act in not attending somJ other church are north and east of the Church of God Coos county, according to George especially invited to commemorate corner. Jenkins, county agricultural agent. the Lord’s resurrection at the Pioneer No petition for the improvement The Coos county temporary com church. ha* been submitted to the council mittee, which includes the chairman ' Saturday, April 4, 193«, will be a but the property owners have been op the past com-hog control associa day long to be remembered by all talking better streets alongside their The Senior class of Coquille high tion and the vice-chairman ’of the Finger Print Bureau Being attended the golden wedding property and the council la anticipat school will present its annual class Agrcultural Outlook Conference, has installed in Coquille who jubilee in honor of Mr. and Mrs. ing these demands by having the city play entitled. “The Gentleman from already been formed and includes W. Hong Kbng," next Friday evening, Imbued with the idea that he wish John Root, of Grenada. California, in engineer’s figure as an estimate as to E. Cross, Coquille; Ellis Dement, April 17, in the Community Building Myrtle Point; J. F. Van Leuven, Ban ed to make the identification, capture the gymnasium at .Arago Approxi the probable cost. mately a hundred guests watched the The application of Allen & Linn for at 8:00 p. r don; Leonard Rood, Marshfield, and and conviction of criminals hi* beautiful ceremony perfi The plot of the play is centered by a card room license for the Rex Tav- _ worC Ytermit Shaw, day police Charles Saling, North Bend. a 4 0 3 vote, around a hidden formula for a pois fcFcar 'tare. has been studying the in- Rev. W. ,8. Smith, of C Under the new act, every fi loading friend of long standing of the happy form on the paved onous gas which foreign countries ar* oil promoter, but one of the very sub the county i* eligible to belong to the* tarrwting subject at finger printing stantial eogs in the 18 billion dollar seeking. Much confusion la caused county association whether he later for the past year and Is establishing couple. Their grandson, John Pau! portion of Willard street, alongside oil business of the United States and, by the appearance of several mysteri in the city hall a bureau for that pur Root, proceeded the procession with the Skeels Estate building, not having (Continued on Page Ten) a huge basket of flowers. They were been removed, as ordered by the ous persons, all of whom are under according to government statistics, he pose. I , — and his partners produce more oil suspicion. In this work he has been Instructed attended by the same couple who at council three weeks ago, the marshal Couldn’t Join the Union The “Gentleman from Hong Kong" than I* now produced in the entire ‘ and asistsed by Ben Allsup. night tended them fifty years ago, which was instructed to have it done at The once. enters I* he a mysterious spy, or "Did you ever hear of organized watchman at the Arrow Mill, who in itself is quite remarkable. state of California In the absence of F. G. Leslie, who Another factor which ha* made it doea he solve* a mystery? The solu labor being unfair to.labor?” asked has devoted yea„ to the study of the bridesmaid was Mr*. Martha Hadsall, of Bear Creek. At the other cere was hit hard by the flu Monday af tion will be revealed to the audience. Marc Shelley Wednesday evening? art classification of fingerprints difficult to secure the required lease* And he went on to tell why he made and identification through that mony she was Miss Martha Pruett. ternoon, W. 8. Slckels acted as re is that owners of several of the tracts : The play is directed by C. S. Oaika. The best man was Nathan Barklow of corder at the council session. reside all the way from Alaska to' The cast is as follows. that statement. He aecurd the prom- method. - Jack Clinton toe of a permit at Marshfield which! Mr shaw haa proflclant in Bandon. He was a brother of the Florida, and cannot be interviewed! Boyd Garner Sophia Shedd - Wanda Lee Hickam would enable him to go to work there' the study and already has a collec- other bride, Mrs. Sarah Randleman Many Votes for Sentinel Subs. personally. June Montgomery - Aloha Allen —he made application to join the tion of some 4,000 prints. The Co Robison, who is in Loa Angeles and Some one else may sometime take Trade and Win contestants should up and carry on where Mr. Hanbury Andrew Tomkins - Lewis Mortenson union. Then he saw the contractor in quill* bureau is the third existing in found it impossible to be present. not overlook the possibility of piling - Dorris Compton charge of construction on the new Oregon, the others being in Portland Her bridesmaid. Mrs. Louisa Bark- leave* off, if he is forced to quit be Benita Byron low, sister of Jason Randleman, was up votes rapidly through the medium - - Robert Waggoner federal building, secured a job, and and Salem. cause of failure to secure leases, but Ke Yung of the Sentinle. For renewals of old j Nor is hi* work confined alone to th* only member of the other part of - - Lloyd Wood went to get hi* permit. he is quite positive in hi* statement Ricardo Revell subscription* our offer is 2500 votes the original double wedding party who Cecily -Saraja - Margaret Belloni But “ the charter is closed and we criminal classes Anyone who de that after 30 days more of refusal to tor each $2 subacription, but for a was present. Just before the curtain - June Hickam cant take you.” was the gist of his air« to have hi* finger print* re lease by the landowner*, he will for Elin Joy new yearly subscription 3500 vote* Calvin Savage turn-down by the union head. i corded may do so at the city hall. A went up, "Put on Your Old Grey get all previous intention to test this John Henderson - wUl.be given._^,„._^^»«-,„,«.^ Barbara Oderkirk is assistant di Marc Mas been $ ¿nod" builder and copy of the prints will be Icept her* LMJiiuri, wrtn appropriate iimiigcs in field. He may come back on a fish It is only on subscriptions that the ing trip, he said, but not on business. rector, Dorothy Yarbrough, prompter, contractor all hi* life, but because and aaother copy forwarded to the the words was sung by a girls’ quar Sentinel gives votes. For advertising Monroe Swindali, stage manager. union members over there, who cant department of justice bureau in tette, Leatha Munford, granddaugh or job work no votes can be awarded Rotary Chib Organizing Here Eleanor Smith, assistant stage mana hold a job, are out of work hi* appH-, Washington, if desired But that de ter of the Roots, Annie Deardorff. for it would interfere to a consider ger. Eileen Kern, property manager, cation for membership is denied. pend* entirely on the wishes of the Mary and Jean Watkins. Mrs. Oluf able extent with the retail merchant* Under the sponsorship of the Coos and Norman Ricketta, lmana: one whose prints are taken if he asks Aasen played the wedding mrach; who are participating in the Trade Bay Rotary International, a branch of . ger. Mr. Smith gave an original ceremony 1 for it. F. 0. E. to Sponsor Egg Hunt the Rotary is now in process of or-' . and Win contest. written especially for a golden wed There are five million finger prints The Coquille aerie, Fraternal Order With subscriptions which are paid ganization in Coquille. Twenty-five ding; Mrs. S. C. McAllister sang Coquille Debaters Won men have already signed the charter! of Eagles, announces an egg hunt on in the department at Washington, all but once a year there is a good 'When your golden hair has turned and the organization meeting, at 1 Last Friday Coquille’s negative de? Easter day, next Sunday, the 12th, so classified that within two minutes to silver,” as the company filed down chance for the contestants to make a Fouteen hundred and he name of anyone whose print is killing in vote*. More than that we which time the charter will be closed,1 bote team, Levelle Walstrom, How at 2.30 p. m. (Continued on Page Nine) will be held in the hotel on Wednes- ' ard Hickam, and Miss Hill, I H will be hidden in Patter - ent there can be found in their file*. coach. forty eggs will pay a cash commisison to each day, April 22 Rotary official* from journeyed ’with Miss Hall to Grant* son’s Grove prior to the hunt by the The bureau in Portland contains contestant who bring* in five yearly Portland and member* from Marsh- ‘ P***. where they won the debate,' youngsters. No child is barred from ibout 500,000 priht*. To Investigate Mail Schedule paid-in-advance new subscriptions. In two case* recently Mr. Shaw ha* field and North Bend will be here for which gives them the title of cham participating- Postmaster Elton Schroeder, of pions of southern Oregon. The de There will be one section for chil found after the man arrested was Myrtle Point, ha* received word from the session. North Bend Hotel Sold late was a very close one, the deci dren under eight years and anothei tone that he was wanted elsewhere Chief Clerk Olsen at Portland that Mrs. Jas. Collier, of Powers, took ■»ne of them was a painter who en- sion of the judge* being two for the for tho*e over eight. Golden egg Manon* Meet Twice Next Week the latter ha* been instructed to in negative and one for the affirmative finders will be rewarded with $1.00 ertained the jail inmate* and police vestigate the poposed mail schedule possession of the North Bend Hotel In addition to the stated communica on Wednesday morning of this week, Mr. Yetterday the team, accompanied for each egg; silver eggs will be with his free hand drawing*. I change which was requested by the » tion of Chadwick Lodge, No. 88, A. F. by Miss Hall and Mias Hill, traveled worth 75 cents to the finder, and the » Shaw learned a few week* after the i Chamber* of Commerce in this sec- she having purchased the building It A. M„ next Tuesday evening, April • to McMinnville, where they debated one who finds the moat eggs will re fellow's departure that he had been i lion. Should the plan be approved and hotel equipment and furnishing. 14, there will be a special meeting of Chas. Q. Van Dyne, who has been wanted in Massachusetts since 1923. ■ last evening against McMinnvi’le. ceive 50 cents. : by the department, the mail which the lodge the following evening. . For several week* now Mr. Shaw 1 now arrives here at 5:30 in the eve conducting the hotel for several winner of the Clatskanie-McMinn Work in the M. M degree will be years, does not know yet what he has been taking the finger prints of ville tournament. Speakers at Highway Meeting every man arrested by the Coquille ning would tome by truck from will do. He and Mrs. Van Duyne given both evenings. Chadwick McMinnville was named as winner Drain, through Reedsport and arrive have been the inspiration for several lodge is making greater gains in The list of speakers who have been police. He is also working in co there last evening. here about nine o’clock in the mom- farewell parties by hotel keeper* the membership this year than it ha* asked to address the semi-annual operation with the sheriff’s office ing instead of in the evening. made before in 15 year*. M F. Pettit past week, th first being given by meeting of the Coast Highway Asso- and, of course, has the co-operation Clint Archibald Promoted is the worshipful master this year. Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Compton at the elation, to be held in Coquille next of the federal bureau in Washington, Clint Archibald, local manager of i Yts, Sentinel Ad vs Sell Property Coquille Hotel last Saturday evening. Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, D. C. the Mt. States Power Co. until six Makes His First Solo Flight are Paul Kelty, editor of the Oregon reading of To the uninitiated the If you have something to sell which years ago when he was transferred to Harrison Greenough, son of Mr. Roseburg, has just been made super ian; R. H. Baldock, state highway en- | finger print* is quite complicated, I might be desired by anyone else, the Glenn Murray Goes East and Mrs. F. L. Greenough of this city, intendent of construction and main gineer; Sam Boardman, state parks. but to the experienced, who knows , surest way to dispose of it is to ad- ' Glenn Murray, former Coquille who is a junior this year at O. S. C, tenance for the Oregon-California supervisor; and Geo. A. Otten, land- classifications, the reading is usually vertise it in the Sentinel. Thia is the Logger* betting king, who played in made hi* initial solo flight last Wed Power Co., another Byllesby corpora 1 scape engineer of the highway de- aa simple as A B C, for no two finger opinion of John S. Sanders, who re Florida last year, left North Bend i partment. nesday, at the Dick Lyndon aviation tion aa is the Mt. States. His head i It is anticipated that 100 or more print* have yet been found which cently sold the house and lot he this week for Scanton, Pen., where he agree perfectly in every particular. owned on Coulter street, between will be a member of the Class A team school at Corvallis. After a trial quarters will be in Medford to which from up and down the coast will be Ninth and Tenth, to Mrs Alta Gard at that city. trip accompanied by hi* instructor, city he will move his family. in attendance at this meeting. New Hearse and Ambulance ner. She will occupy it the first of I . he took off alone, circled around a --------................ few time* and returned to earth with Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries, of Co May. The sale was made a* the re Legion Meeting Next Monday Next Thursday, “Clean-Up Day” a perfect landing and then repeated Visitor from Los Angeles quille and Bandon, have recently sult of a Sentinel adv., although local The American Legion meeting next real estate men advised Mr. Sanders Mayor Berg has designated next the performance. Mrs Ora Morgan, of Lo* Angeles, purchased of the Packard Service and Monday evening, April 14, of all poata against putting the adv. ini >> Thursday. April 10, a* clean-up day from Power* to Reedsport, will be a' head of the Oregon-California Petro- Sales. Inc., of Portland a new Pack for Coquille. On that day the city Woman’s Club Next Tuesday loint meeting of the Legion and the I leum Corjjoration, was a Coquille vis- ard hearse and a Packard ambulance. will furnish a truck to collect all gar Dr. T. De La Rhue has secured an The addition of these two automo —'— Auxiliaries —------- of - all ----------- ¡tor last evening and today. She Legion seven cities The regular monthly meeting of ’ bage and trash which may be set out the Coquille Woman’s Club will be —Powers, Myrtle Point, Coquille, says she is up here on a vacation trip, bile* to the Schroeder Bro*.’ equip office adjoining that of Dr. J. R in th* parking. Bunch in the Laird building where ment is in keeping with the policy of held at the Episcopal parish house Bandon, Marshfield, North Bend and absorbing some of the atmosphere ■........... house next Tuesday afternoon, April Reedsport The meeting will be held and scenery. California having sold the firm to render to their patrons the those suffering from eye trouble may Calling cards. M tor 4IM. consult him. finest services possible. In W O. W. hall her*. aU Ito ozone. - 14. > Harry B. Hanbury, eastern Texas oil producer, who is now developing the largest oil field in the Lone Star state, arrived in Coquille Wednesday morning, accompanied by C. W. Sears, of Pasadena, R. B. Newbern, of Seattle, David Kinsey, of Holly wood, and J. F. Ewell, of Roseburg. Mr. Sears and Mr. Newbern are gas men and Mr. Kinsey is drilling su perintendent of Mr. Hanbury’* oper ation*. As ha* been stated several times before, Mr. Hanbury’* interest here is in the Bear creek section where he propose* to drill several test hole* for ftil and gas—provided the leases on 8000 or 9000 acre* are all secured. There are about 800 acres still unsigned, and unless they can be se cured the oil man say* he will drop the whole project. He ha* set a 30-day limit for se curing those leases and anyone who ha* not signed, but wishes to aid in the development of the Coquille val ley and Coo* county may see John Nielson at hi* office in Bandon where lease blank* will be ready for signing. Mr. Hanbury must be ip Texas by Monday and he left this noon in hi* Lincoln car for Medford from where he will fly to Pasadena and thence to . Texas. ...... Before leaving he gave the Sen tinel man the statement that he had found John Haga, of Bear creek, ready and anxious to help in the oil and gas development of the county, and contradicted the rumors that Mr Haga was holding up the oil test of th* valley. Mr. Hanbury'* proposal, if the un- leaaed block is signed up, is to ship a drilling outfit up here as quickly a* it can be made ready for shipment, and to begin a thorough test of the Bear creek section within 60 to 90 day*. SENIORS’ PLAY NEXT FRIDAY GOLDEN WED DING AT ARAGO fl «■»,
