THE PAPER
VOL. XXXII.
A LETTER FROM HOME
NO. 48.
H.
E, W. Gregg Died Ijwt Saturday
After Two Day Illness—
Funeral Mond
He was a builder.
By that we ddjDoi mean that
w.
Gregg devoted all his time and en-
ergy to building homes and business
blocks for others. He probably has
done more in constructing buildings
in Coquille than any other one man.
He had faith in Coquille, had had
since l>e eame here in 1901, and time
after time he helped relieve the house
shortage, here by the construction of
houses which he either sold or rented.
Through his third of a century he
wa^ one ot Coquiiie’s best known
citizens, a man whose word was as
good as his bond, and one who en
and confidence of
joyed the
all who knew him. ■
y at ten
Mr Gregg
o’clock last Saturday morning.
Next Tuesday is the last day for
making any port ot the 1936 tax pay
ment without an interest penalty be
ing added. After that a penalty of
one-half per cent a month will be
added for the delinquency.
C. G- Caughell, tax collection head,
states that the total collected for the
year will be more than the current
year's roll, but that total will include
both the delinquent and the current
tax payments. The total is greater
than the 1935 collections, but the
drop in October and November has
cut down the anticipated collection
for 1936
The total tax levied in 1935 to be
paid this year was $1,344,376.35.
Bridge Endangered by Ditch
Some one, to city officials unknown,
dug a three-foot ditch across the
Dutch John creek bottoms, diagonally
the ull length of the Knowlton
Heights bridge, the ditch coming
within a foot of ten concrete footings
(fl the underpinning of that struc
ture, with the probability that the
piling would ail slip and the bridge
be wrecked
he engineer was ordered to have
ditch filled at once, by the coun
it Monday evening.
JAS. N. MAST TO
BE BURIED HERE
James Nelson Mast saw the light
ot day in Coquille, Oregon, on August
15, 1900, and passed way in the Mast
Hospital, Myrtle Point, on Thursday,
December 10, being thirty-six, throe
months and twenty-five days of age.
Funeral services will be held at
the ScWtoeder Chapel in Myrtle Point
at 2:00 p. m. on Saturday. Inter
ment will be in the Coquille Masonic
Jim attended the local schools and
graduated from Ç.
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taking
a course at the V UtCX. Toffland.
Oregon.
an apprenticeship in
had been ordered to bed Thursday by
his physician who diagnosed his
trouble aS intestinal flu. But early
Friday morning he suffered a para
lytic stroke, and the- third one re
sulted in death.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Gano Funeral Home at 3:00 p. m.
on Monday by Rev: D. Loroe at the
Bar.don Baptist church.
Interment
was in the new Odd Fellows ceme-
<e«T
Elias Wilson Gregg was born Oct.
16. 1880, at Butler, Tenn., the son of
Mr. and Mr». Calvin Grogg, both now
deceased.
When 21 years of age he came
west to Coquille to make hU home
and immediately engaged in the busi
ness of constracting and building.
On Feb. 1, 1905, he was united in
marriage to M;ss Clara Hatcher, who
survives him. One son, Lloyd Gregg,
was born to them. He lx a resident of
Coquille.
Mr. Gregg leaves also a sister, Mrs.
Amanda Ward, who lives in Tennes
see. and four brothers, Linn Gregg,
of San Francisco, and Wm., John and
C'arvnce Grogg. all in Tennessee
For many years Mr. Grogg has also
| operated a store on Front street
where he handled wall paper, paint,
fishing tackle and all kinds of build'
ing supplies.
He has also operated, with Mr»-
Gregg’s help, the Ko-Kee) Village
auto egmp whieh has the ■ distinction
of being on* of the most modern and
complete auto courts in southwestern
Oregon.
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quille Lodge, I. O. O, F.
Jury Dismissed Yesterday
The petit jury which has been on
' duty every week since the October
term of court started was dismissed,
subject to call, by Judge Brand at
the conclusion of the Saling vs. Mc
Carthy
this week.
Judge Brand announced that negt
Tuesday. Dec. 1, would be motion day
Mrs. Gould to Be O.E.8. Matron
Dead Line for Tax Faym«
later to take a position with the
Union Oil Co. as manager out of
Marshfield
He worked there until
1981 when he and his father took
over the Ford agency at Myrtle Point,
Oregon. This business was disposed
of later, since which time he had been
engaged in logging and timber deal
ing until his health failed. He was
afflicted with nephritis and has been
confined in his brother’s hospital the
past four months.
He leaves besides his parents, R
H. Mast and Lola M. Mast, his sis
ter, Mrs. Leta M. Leslie, all of Co
quille, his elder brother, Dr. R. Harri
son Mast, of Myrtle Point, and other
relatives and many sincere friends to
regret his untimely passing.
He was possessed of a sunny dis
position and had a pleasant greeting
for all as he passed along life’s way-
Masonic Elections Held
Annual election of
Chadwick
Lodge, Nq.68, A. F. A A. M. held in
Masonic Temple Tuesday evening, re
sulted in ail officers being advanced
one chair. To succeed M. F. Pettit,
who has been worshipful master the
past year, George K. Oerdlng was
chosen. C. W. Gano was elected as
senior warden, Theo. L. Clinton as
junior warden. L. H. Hazard, treac-
urer, and R. H. Mast, secretary, were
re-elected to the poets they have
filled for the past 20 years or more.
St. John’s Dey. Dec. 87, falling on
Sunday this year, it was decided to
hold joint installation of the above
officers with the Bandon Masonic
lodge in the hall here next Tuesday
evening, Dec. 15, «t 7:30 p. m-
A lunch will be served In the ban
quet hall after the ceremonies.
The Bandon Lodge No. 130 officers,
who were elected at their meeting in
Masonic Temple hero last Friday
evening and who will be installed
next Tuesday, are Tom Smith, Jr.,
W. M.; Chas st Sure, S, W.| Dr. t.
F. Lucas. J. W-i O. R McNair, Troaa
Lee Eaton, secretary.
Coquille
Third of a
Same
Purchase of thé First National I
of Coq'uille was announced today
D. O. Hood, of Portland,
the Giannini Sar\ Francisco in
The bank, which was organized in
1903, today has resouces of approxi
mately 81.000,000.00. No change in
the status of the bank as an individu
al institution
moment,
later it may
First National
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Present officers and personnel will
remain unchanged.
The bank was organized by A. J.
Sherwood, who was
until
his dJBth in 1939, L.
d, the
present president, and others.
Of
ficers today are L. H. Hasard, presi
dent; O. C. Sapford,
E. D. Wèbb, cashier, and Bess
assistant cashier.
Mr. Hood also
that the Giannini in
represents, had cor____ __
‘.ions for the purchase of
National Bank of Ashland
State Bank of Ashland. Both
will continue temporarily
ml institutions though U
stood that they may later be
bined as one
banking quarters of
al but retaining the
of both banks
Tt is
the combined banka may later
The bonk was organized May 7,
1803, and its charter, No. 8849, was
granted June 23. The bank opened
for business in a frame building, now
occupied by the Title Co., on Aug.
3; that year.
ution, Organized
Changes Hands
r the Present
The brick building, which it now
occupies was started Sept. 1, 1909,
and occupied in May, 1910.
The five organizers, and the bank’s
first board of directors, were Andrew
J. Sherwood, Lentner Harlocker.
Robert E. Shine, Louis H. Hazard and
Geo W. White The latter did not
remain with the new institution long
but, went over to Klamath Falls to
Open another bank.
The officers of the new financial
institution were Mr. Sherwood, presi
dent; Mr. Shine, ’.•ice president, and
■r. Hazard, cashier.
Five hundred shares, with a par
value of $100 each, was and is the
capital stock of the bank.
On Dec. 31, 1903, the bank's total
resources were 8164,864. At the close
of business Wednesday night of this
its total resources were
692.50.
O. C. Sanford, who was admitted to
bar in 1905 and practised law in
for a year, joined the in
ion April 1, 1906.
He later
made cashier and when E. D.
joined Coquille’s financial in-
¡ution, July 1, 1930, and became
, Mr. Sanford was advanced to
position of vice-president Mr
became president after the
death of Mr Sherwood. Aug. 37, 1939.
Mise
y entered the bank's
’Wif'loy.
re 1, 1918, and for sev-
jth I yea
assistant cashier.
Mrs. Vera McCurdy, the fifth mem-
ber of the bank’s crew, has been con-
led with it for a considerable part
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years.
announcement has been made
present officials of the bank
as to what iheir future activities will
be. Far a time they will continue to
serve the people of the Coquille val
ley in the same efficient and capable
way that they have for the past three
decades or less.
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Forger Being Sraght
Will Still Log Next Year
The sheriff's office is looking for s
man who worked for two weeks for
Adolph Isler, at the Coquille Sheet
Metals Works on Front street, under
the name of John Morrison.
He quit work Monday saying he
was going to work at the plant, but
Tuesday morning two checks, each
for $35.50, were refused payment at
the bank. One had been cashed al
Charley’s Place and the other at th«'
Pastime.
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Mr. Isler's signature was quite
faithfully imitated on the forged
(¡hecks, but what first attracted the
bank's attention was that it was a
smaller personal check and not the
business size check that Mr. Isler
uses.
The other glaring difference
was that Mr. Isler uses a rubber
stamp for the business name, writing
his name underneath, but these
forged checks did not have the rub
ber stamp printing above the signa
ture.
Ths policy ot cashing a
stranger's check is what causes so
many business institutions to lose
money, and it also makes forgery and
N. 8. F. check-writing much easier
for the crooks.
The Coos Bay Lumber Co., in a
daily paper last Saturday, denies that
it will cease logging operations on
Eden Ridge,' although admitting that
contracts have been signed with
“small logging outfits to cut and de
liver timber from outlying pqsfjpns
of the company’s holdings in the
Powers country.
So far as known the contract with
Kline A Marsh is the only one yet
made in the Powers country, and they
are not going to truck into Powers
but only to the nearest point on the
'ogging railroad Theirs is to be a
'ummer operation and it now seems
probable that the C om Bay will oper
ate on the ridge, at least next sum
mer.
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Out in Fairview valley Kline &
Marsh and C. D. Ray both have con
tracts for logging with the C om Bay
company, and while the strike is on
are utilizing the time in building
their roads, log dumps, etc.
Claude Walker Caught Hare
Claude Walker, wanted at Prosser.
Wash, where he escaped from the
I Benton county jail on Nov. 32, was
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. captured in Coquille Wednesday eve-
Basketball Season Opens
! ning after he had evaded the offi-
Coach Hal Hatton has baan hold i errs on two different occasions. The
ing basketball practices every eve arrest was made by Sheriff Howell,
ning after school for two weeks now. Deputy Culver, State Police Beals and
At present the. squad consists of Coquille Officer Shaw. He had given
twenty-four or twenty-five boys with the state police the slip on the way
only four lettermen. The first squad down here, at night, when another
will not be selected for another two car edged in between the pursued and
weeks, and in the meantime two pursuer'.
practice games wtth Riverton after
Walker has served time in the
school will be played- In addition to Oregon pen and was under arrest in
he regular sohedule, there will be Washington for forgery.
four other games, two with Port Or
ford and two with Powers. There is
also the possibility of a vacation tilt
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willi Tillamook “The lack of height,
size, and experience necessitate the
development ot a particularly fast,
well-coordinated team." says Coach
concrete posts for the new down town
Hatton.
lighting system would arrive here
his week but that it would be the
first of the year before they were all
County Treasurer Stauff will mail
set, connected up and the juice turned
checks in payment of county school
on in the circuit.
11000 in Fines This Year
The posts for the court house block fund orders to the amount of $30,-
Fines in Coquille police court for
will arrive at the same time but it 000.00 when the tax eollections for
will be toward the middle of January November are mailed to the school the past eleven months have totalled
before that district will be lighted districts. A total of over $42.000.00 11,000, Recorder lesile reported at,
the council
Staarr win M>H Ck«k>
Beulah Chapter, No. 6, held its an
nual election of officers last evening
at the Masonic Temple.
This was
preceded by a 6:30 o’clock turkey
dinner served to the Masons and fam
ilies and the Eastern Star members.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year:
W. M — Belle Gould.
W P.—A. N. Gould
i -A- M^—Bass Maury. —
A. P.—W. A. Ulett. ’
Sec.—Emma Pierce.
Tress. Susie Folsom.
Cond.—Florence Sanford.
Asso. Cond.—Maxine Jeub.
At the clone of the session, a short [
floral degree was tendered Camilla I
Rletman, worthy matron. She was i
also presented with a beautiful past
matrons' pin by her officers, the past
grand officersand her husband.
Following this there was presented
a humorous singing skit given by sev
eral of the members, which caused
quite'a bit of merriment.
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Taking On Holiday Appearance
Coquille is beginning to take on a
festive, holiday appearance with the
placing ot a hundred or more trees at
the curb edge throughout the busi
ness district this morning.
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CITY DEBT DOWN
$42,000 IN YEAR
Qualified Voter» to Pass. on
122,500 Bond bone for New
Gymnasium
The directors of school district, No.
8 . met Tuesday evening with C. N.
Freeman, Portland architect, who
showed the preliminary plans for the
proposed new C. H. S. gymnasium.
All the information needed by the
P. W„ A., which is being asked for a
45 per cent.grant of the estimated
$40.000 cost of the new building, lias _
been assembled and sent to PWA
headquarters, and Mr. Freeman, who
has had building experience On 30
similar projects feels quite sanguine
that the board's application will be
favorably acted upon.
The election at which the qualified
voters will pass on the proposal to
Issue $22,500 worth ot district bonds
will be held at the high school on
Tuesday, Dec. 39, and, of course,
should the bonds be defeated the
grant would not be made. But there
is little doubt that the people of Co
quille will do all in their power to
keep Coquille High up to its present
high standard of efficiency and to
maintain its present standard A rat
ing.
Should the PWA grant not be re
ceived, but the bonds voted, the
(Continued on Page Ten)
It was announced at council meet
ing Monday evening that the Coquille
125,000 From >1.00 an Acre
4'y debt had been reduced by $43.-
383.35 for the eleven-month period * A payment ot >1.00 per acre will be
'.his year, Jan. 1 to Dec. 1. This was made for reseeding depleted range
land before December 15. 1986,
in warrant and bond debt reduction.
The city's cash on hand Nov. 30 through the range livestock phase at
was $13.206, most of which will be the agricultural conserv at ion pro
needed Jan. 1 to meet interest and gram, according to information sent
bond oommittments, and It has in ad to the state committee in Oregon by
ditions $14,355 of securities, the George E. Farrell, director of U«e
This information,
greater part of which is its own paper western division.
which will be retired as tax pay which was forwarded to the county
agent’s, orrice will be welcome news
ments permit.
Of the $30,247 collected on street to many of those who have applied
improvements assessments for both for grants under the range livestock
bonded and unbonded tots and for in phase of the agricultural conservation
terest, 6X8.400 hM beetUfiPUacted dur
ing the past four months since the
officials started the Mmpalgn to col
A mixture of sc
lect all delinquencies. The $88,066 is( the county and state committees must
double the amount collected in any be used at 8 rote not less than seven
one of tlie past ten years for the pounds per acre in order to qualify
street improvement and sewer funds. for this payment and the total pay
Water collections for November ments or seeding or for carrying out
were $2,031.50 witli a total for the any of the other range improvement
,'irst eleven months of the year of practices listed cannot exceed $2.06
$26.400.
Should December coilec- for each animal unit included in tl»e
ions run as much as they did in grazing capacity for the range ac
November the year 1936 will show cording to George Jenkins, county
in increase of $3,000 over the water agent. Under the original docket for
collections of 1935 which wax the this program reseeding payments
'argest year for the previous ten.
could be made only for grasses which
The city’s total debt, Nov. 30, was are not adapted to the coast section.
ms,93g.
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The present council has made an
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excellent record in putting Coquille's
Service Cluba Sue Picture«
finances in good shape, since the
Clyde E. Niles, local Ford repre
nadir of the depression, and the in
sentative, was a guest of the Lions
coming council will find .every av
club at yesterday noon’s luncheon,
enue open to continue the policy of
and showed a very interesting set of
uaying off the city's debt..
stereopticon pictures, accompanied
by a comment on them provided by
29-30 Club Will Decorate
a phonograph, of Greenfield Village,
Geo. Haughton has been engaged at Dearborn, Michigan, where Henry
by the Chamber of Commerce com Ford has assembled the greatest col
mittee to furnish and set in place in lection of antiques, historical build
the sidewalk holes in front of Co ings. replicas of buildings and edi
quille places of business the 100 fices of last century, in the world.
Christmas trees with which the town Nothing modern is used In Greenfield
will be decorated by tomorrow.
He Village, even the Ford being replaced
charges the chamber 20 cents apiece by horse and buggy.
for the tree and putting them in
The running comment and the pic
place.
tures furnished the Lions, as it did
The 20-30 club members are plan ths Rotary club the day before, a very
ning on providing ten or twelve fine half hour's entertainment
strings of boughs which .will be
Further combining mention of
stretched across the street at suitabls these two service cluba, a recently
intervals.
elected Lion is L. A. Greene, of the
auto supply store in the hotel build
b Building Six House»
ing, and of the Rotary, Dr. T. De La
>■ Win. Ulett has under construction Rhue and C. W. Kline.
on his acreage, across the highway
from the Smith Wood-Products plant,
He Will Be Happier
six houses, each of four-room and
Within a few days the dally
garage capacity, with another room can get back to normal and
under the main floor possible, if so spreading King Edward’s—or Mr.
desired. He expects to have them Windsor be is now—love affair all
ready for occupancy by Christmas
over the front page. King Ed was
Sheriff Taken Two to Pen
Sheriff Wm. Howell left yesterday
morning for Salem, taking with him
Earl F. Phillip who was sentenced to
t w o ye a r s in the pm f o r invol u ntary
manslaughter, and Harold Stanage
who pleaded guilty to larceny from
the person. Judge Brand sentenced
him to a year in the pen.
Last Jury Case Settled
The case of C. A. Saling for dam
ages caused by splash dam operation
on the East Fork, against R. N. Mc
Carthy, started in Circuit court on
Monday and was concluded yesterday
upon stipulation by the attorneys in
tSe case. The amount of the settle-
in a tough spot with all the tradi
tion-lovers of the British empire tell
ing him what he could not do, and he
will probably enjoy life a great deal
more in the future now that he has
.given up the kingship
Luck to you, Mr. T7
Court House Cases
John Dewey Woims, bound over to
the grand jury from Powers, pleaded
guilty before Judge Brand on Wed
nesday. He was sentenced to a two-
year stretch in the pen with a stay of
execution for 60 days, after which
he will be paroled for two yean.
Lea Crows and Wm. Keeler were
brought over from Marshfield this
week to spend 30 days in jaU on a
petit larceny conviction.
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