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»«.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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¡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
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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
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