* Not a Healthy Weather
Great Variety of City Affairs
Presented—Bicycle Traffic
Rules Suggested
The thermometer dropped to 18
degrees on Wednesday morning this
week, just two degrees above the
winter's low mark. Yesterday morn­
ing it stood at 34, although it had
reached 22 sometime during the
night. But that ended the subfreez­
ing temperature for this spasm and
this morning it stood at 35 degrees.
But this country is not prepared
tor these low temperatures and se­
vere colds are the order of the day,
nearly every other person met suf­
fering from that affliction. The in­
fluenza epidemic has not yet reached
here in its virulent form but in the
schools and business houses there are
many absentees, due to bad colds
bordering on flu.
''
E. D. Webb had his first table as
acting mayor at the council session
Munday evening, but turned the gavel
over to Mayor Rankin before the pro­
ceedings had gone far, the latter hav­
ing just arrived home from a three-
days trip to Salem.
Sale or redemption of property tak­
en over by the city for delinquent
street assessments was given first
consideration.
The Coos Securities,
through E. E. Leslie, offered 8675—
New Grand Jury Drawn
8200 down and the balance in two
Before dismissing the jurors, who
monthly installments—for the three
have served in Circuit court since the
lots across from the high school which third Monday in October, yesterday
the Smith Wood-Products Co. offered morning, Judge Brand had the new
to buy last year and then decided not grand jury drawn, the following be­
to. That is the amount the city has
ing the list:
invested in the property, and the of­
Adelia L. Crawford, North Bend;
fer was accepted.
Floyd L. Teale, Haynes Slough; Geo.
Harry Godard offered 8100 down Glenn, McKinley; W. H. Eickworth,
and 820 a month for the former Louis Empire; Elizabeth Hand and Emma
Sell property, comer Tenth and Coul­ M. Pierce, both of Coquille; Carl M.
ter, in which the city has 81125 in­
Berg, of North Send.
vested. It waa left over until Febru­
They were to be sworn in by Judge
ary 2 to see if Mr. Godard could not Brand this morning.
boost the ante for the down payment.
The next term of Circuit court will
Mrs. Maybelle Cowan offered to start the fourth Monday in February.
pay the city 818 per month to redeem
her former property on Eleventh
street in which the city has 81457
tied up, besides taxes of 8277 against
it. The council felt that the pay­
ments would string out over too tong
a time and asked that she has a bet­
City officials, in session at the
ter offer to make at the next meeting.
Recorder Leslie was instructed to League of Oregon Cities meeting in
protect the city's interest in a tot on Salem last Sunday and Monday,
Moulton street opposite the Odd Fel­ unanimously adopted a resolution re­
lows cemetery, for which the county questing that the provisions of the
na 1*1’“' lew, which have been super­
has an offer. The city’s street u_
sessment claim there is only 826 and seded by the liquor revenue act, re­
the delinquent taxes run over five garding the distribution of revenues
from the Knox law, should be placed
times that amount.
A restaurant license was granted into effect. The original Knox law
Mrs. Faye Morse for her place on provides that all revenues from li­
censes should. Be distributed to cities
Front* street.
and c ou nti e s an the basis of popula-
tHhg’roaM be saved In the eity's’fttet
USEFULLIFEENOS
County Treasurer Disburses Mrs. Ora X. Maury Passed Away
That Amount From Decem­
Saturday Night—Came to
ber Tax Receipts
Coos 60 Years Ago
z
ereil
Including the warrants and interest
which he has culled for payment next
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Monday, Jan. 25, County Treasurer
Stauff has disbursed 8190,000 of the
tex moneys collected in December.
As appears elsewhere in this issue
the call on county general fund war­
rants is up to April 1, 1932, and the
principal and interest payment will
total 840,000.
The bridge fund warrant call is up
to Nov. 1, 1936, and 84200 will be
paid on that account.
The Non-High School call is up to
Nov. 29, 1935, 810,000 to be paid out
Beside those funds the county
treasurer has paid 82,200 high school
tuition; 8650 on Isthmus Inlet bridge
debt; 859,205 to the cities of the coun­
ty; 854,000 to the schools; 816,000 to
the ports, and 82,000 to the drainage
districts. .
Coquille’s share of 858,205 for cil
was slightly over 88,000, which 1
enabled City Treasurer Sickels to
call warrants up to Sept 1, 1988,
today as the time at which int
ceases.
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Soil Resources Conference to
CITIES DESERVE
Be Hold Hero January 21
program for the Coos county
LARGER SHARE soil The resources
conferences, which are
biH by contracting a year's supply,
delivery being'made as noeded.
Jack LeFevre, with the safety of
children in mind, said that something
would have to be done about regulat­
ing bicycle traffic. Another matter
referred to the ordinance committee.
' A resolution in conformity to the
action ot the League of Oregon Cities
was adopted by the council, asking
that five per cent of the gas tax paid
in Oregon be turned over to the cities,
payment being based on population
at the last federal census, for main­
tenance of city streets.
Dr. Rankin said that it would pro­
duce about 8800,000 this year.
The
payment to the cities would all come
out of the annual increase in gas
taxes which has been jumping a mil-
lion dollars a year for the past few
years.
If there is 800,000 urban population
in Oregon, which may be too high an
estimate, Coquille's share at the five
per cent would be around 82700 in
IMF.
The percentage would increase to
six in 1938 and reach its maximum in
1940, at 7 to per cent.
The Coquille Valley Sentinel was
named as the city’s official newspaper
for the two-year period for which this
council and mayor serve.
Highway Hearing Postponed
Due to the illness of two state high­
way commissioners the hearing,
scheduled for Marshfield on Tuesday,
was postponed until Feb. 6, at which
time the commission will consider the
proposed new route from Broadway
in Marshfield, through Bunker Hill.
According to tho engineer’s surveys
and plans the bridge over the mud­
flats at the south end of Broadway
would be eliminated and a fill, with
60-foot paving would curve inside
the present route, cross the present
route near Coal Bank slough and by
easy curves again enter the present
paved route in the neighborhood of
the Bunker Hill school house. All the
right angle and short curves through
Bunker Hill will be eliminated if the
commission approves the route rec­
ommended by the surveyors and en-
gineeers.
A Sheet Worth Preserving
On page nine of this issue will be
found the tax summary for Coos
county and ail its subdivisions which
Assessor Beyers prepares each year.
It shows the valuation of every
school, port and drainage district, the
cities, the tax rate of each and the
total amount of tax levied, beside a
lot of other information. It is well
worth filing away for future refer-
swurce would be approxtatetely 8250,-
liquor revenue has always been re­
garded as a source of revenue for lo­
on! government, since the responsi­
bility for enforcement of liquor laws
has always rested with the local gov­
ernment, that the relief problem ap­
parently justfiied temporary diver­
sion of liquor revenues to state pur­
poses in 1933, but that increase of
revenue from various direct taxes
levied by the state makes the present
time the proper one to return to the
original distribution plan.
Here in Coquille the budget for
police protection in 1934 was 83.240;
in 1935 it was 84,680, and last year
the figure was placed at 84800.
' That the -cities are entitled to a
larger share of the liquor commission
profits goes without saying. If liquor
sales by the state, no matter how ef-
ficidhtly the business is handled.
c,use P®*ice Protection to jump 81600
in cost in two years, the city is cer­
tainly entitled to a remuneration
from the liquor commission which
would cover the increased costs due
to the operation of the liquor law.
The Sentinel is not -arguing here
on the ethics or desirability of Ore­
gon’s liquor law, but simply that such
profits as there are should go in
larger part to the cities.
Choral Club Concert, Jan. 26
The Choral club, under the leader­
ship of Mrs. Maud Woodyard, will
present a concert in the Pioneer
Methodist church, Tuesday evening,
Jan. 26, at 8:00 p. m. The concertizecr
grand opera, "Martha” by Flotow will
be sung as well as two or three
groups of miscellaneous numbers. In
this opera of light, cheerful music is
the lovely solo, " Tis the last rose of
summer,” which will be sung by Mrs.
Roy Barton. Other tuneful numbers
will be sung by Mrs. June Walker
and Rev. W. R. Wilder. Mrs. M. O.
Hawkins will be the accompanist for
the evening and will play a duet with
Mr. Bobby Burns, at the organ. Sev­
eral organ numbers will also be play­
ed by Mr. Bums.
The chorus, of twenty-six voices,
comprises Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stauff,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leslie, Mesdames
Roy Barton, L. H. Hazard, June
Walker, Birdie Skeels, R. E. Boober,
C. W. Gano, G. W. Bryant, J. P. Bey­
ers, Misses Hazel Adams, Dorothy
Glaisyer, Jennelind McKnight, Phyl­
lis, Jiall, Margaret Lange, Messrs. E.
D. Webb, Ray Brown, Dick Sivers,
Aaron Wilson, Herman Floten, Jesse
Barton, C. W. Willey, Rev. W. Ray­
mond Wilder and Rev. G. R. Turney.
Everyone interested in hearing good
music should not miss this date. A
to be held in the Coos River school
on Tuesday, January 26, and at the
Odd Fellows’ building in Coquille on
Wednesday, January 27, has been an­
nounced by George Jenkins, county
agent, who states that the purpose of
the conferences is to plan and discuss
the best ways to use and maintain the
soil resources of Coos county.
The program will be practically the
same at each of the meetings, start­
ing at 10:00 a. m. and dosing at ap­
proximately 3:30 p. m. Lunch will be
ssrVbd at noon at a moderate cost it
was stated in the________ ....__
Following the opening of ea
meeting at 10:00 a. m. with general
statements regarding the purpose, the
subject, “The Conservation of Soil
Fertility,” will be discussed by Dr.
R. E. Stephensen or Dr. W. L. Powers,
of the soils department at the state
college. The care and use of barn­
yard manure including the use of
later designed pits will be discussed
by Arthur King, extension specialist
in soils.
W. L. Teutsch, assistant county
agent leader, will discuss the 1937
Agricultural Conservation program
during the lunch hour and will out-
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4
A Minority Wants War
Evangeline Philbin in her address
Monday evening at Pioneer Church
stated that the masses of the people of
the world do not want war.
Jt is
only the minority that desires war.
• The seven great religions of the
World, she states, each teach the
Golden Rule and through the united
force of these religions and through
education, peace can be established
Miss Philbin believes in collective se­
curity, but since this as yet has not
been realized, she feels that national
security is necessary through the
maintenance of an army and navy
The League of Nations will have to be
reorganized before it can become ef­
fective for world peace.
Miss Philbin gave the cause of thf
depression as the World war. She
stated that the. depression had broken
down much of our international trade
and that peaceful relations could be
strengthened through the restoration
of commercial relations. She advised
listeners to write congressmen soli­
citing their support toward continu­
ing and keeping in force reciprocal
trade agreements.
MarDowell Musk Club to Meet
The MacDowel Music club will
continue the study of American com­
posers, when they meet on Tuesday.
Jan. 28, al the home of Mrs. L. H.
Hazard. The meeting beings at 2:15
p. m.
Mrs C. C. Farr will give a short
history of composers, Stephen Foster,
Ethelbert Nevin and John Phillip
Sousa.
Rev. W. Raymond Wilder and Miss
Inez Rover will also assist with the
program. Members and friends are
invited to attend.
Mr. Stanley in Serious Condition
J. J. Stanley was resting a little
easier this morning after a terrible
night of suffering,
He is becoming
gradually weaker.
Dogs Again a Live Issue
Dogs, which have been a dormant
issue for the past seven or eight years
in Coquille, are likely to became a
live issue in the near future. To the
casual observer the canine population
is as large as the human, which
would mean something over 4,000 in
town. Probably an exaggeration, but
the sentiment expressed by the coun­
cil Monday evening was that some­
thing must be done to curb them. A
city license fee of 85 on females and
$3 on males was suggested, but just
how to clear the streets of them was
not decided upon but was left until
the next meeting.
The present dog ordinance provides
a fine for allowing a dog to run at
large, imposed on the owner, but the
enforcement officers say it is impos­
sible to get anyone to swear out a
warrant against his neighbor whose
dog happens to be a nuisance.
• The ordinance committee of the
council will have some suggestions
for that body’s consideration.
J Funeral I services for Mrs. Ora
X.
Maury, who,
v,
„laury,
passed away at 9:15
«’«lock last Saturday night, were held
at the Gano Funeral Home at 2 p. m.
on
conducted by T. B. ”
Mac-
C
_ Tuesday,
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Donald, of Port Orford, who was min-
ister of the Church of Christ here
twenty years ago, and a personal
friend of Mrs. Maury’s.. Interment
was in the Masonic cemetery, where
she
was laid to rest beside the re­
i
mains of her -husband, L. P. Maury,
Who died Dec. 3, 1931.
Mrs. Maury had been a sufferer
tor some months from heart trouble.
When she was threatened with pneu-
mon is early last week and taken to
the » hospital that trouble was stopped,
but her heart could not withstand the 23 Per Cent in Excess of Levy
»train
Dut to payments of delinquent
Born Ora X. Grigsby, Jan. 26. 1860,
Mrs. Maury lacked but ten days of taxes on Coquille property in 1936 the
; total city receipts from that source
being 77 years of age. She was born
“ was just under 23 per cent in excess
to Jackson county, the daughter of
of the amount levied.
The budget
Henry and Ann Grigsby. They came
fifteen months ago called for a levy
to Coos county while she was a school
of 826,285, while 832,325 was received
girl and lived for a time on the old I
Bullack place, and she attended the from the county treasurer, a matter
of 86,040 more than the levy.
Cunningham school.
At just what
age she came over here her descend­
ants do not know, but it was sixty or
more years ago.
She was united in marriage to Mr.
Maury, April 28, 1882, in Jaokson
county, and they immediately came
At last the faculty play Is with us
to Coos county.
Mrs. Maury is survived by three for the third consecutive year. This
daughters and a son—Mrs. W. E. time, "it’s Great To Be Crazy,”
Bartholomew, of Everett, Wash.; Mrs promises to be the best of all the
Emma M. Pierce and Miss Bess pedagogues’ presentations, and one
Maury, of Coquille, and P. Vane thousand people are expected to wit­
Maury, of San Francisco; besides five ness it------------ ft__
As usual every member of the three
grandchildren—Mrs Everett Strain,
Of Coquille; Miss Elizabeth Pierce, of teaching staffs has been assigned an
San Francisco, and Mrs. Bartholo­ active part in the production of the
Special inducements of free
mew's three children—and two great play.
tickets and home room prizes have
grandchildren
Her eurviving sister is Mrs. May been announced to further the ticket
of Lakeview, Ore., two broth- sale among the school students Mem­
CHgaby. of Klamath Fails, bers of the P. T. A. are co -operating
dChambers Grigsby, of Paradise with the home economic classes in
‘
Valley, Nev.; and a half brother, making home-made candy to ba i s01<1
the evening of the play. All ingredi­
Chas. Thomas, of Winlock, Wash.
Mrs. Maury was an active member ents for the-candy have been donated
for many years in Beulah chapter, O. by the students of the three schools.
E. S„ Mamie Rebekah lodge, the The proceeds from the play will be
Circle of Woodcraft, and a sincere shared equally among the three
schools, to be used for playground
member of the Church of Christ.
* Mrs. Maury was universally be­ equipment and library books.
The play, itself, is a three-act
loved and was a friend of anyone in
farce
enacted in the lobby of a coun­
need. She was a true Christian and
lived according to the tenets of het try hotel. A count, with his wise­
cracking friend, desires to stay there
faith.
incognito. Their situation is sadly
/
altered when they meet and scheme
Townsend Turkey Dinner
with the slickest male gold-digger in
Tuesday evening the Coquille Coquille. From then on, all members
Townsend club served a turkey din­ of the cast are bathed in hot water,
ner in the W. O. W. hall and the re­ even to the worst golf hound to ever
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sults were highly successful. Those visit the Bandon golf course.
Further entertainment will be pro­
who attended the banquet declared it
the best the club has ever offered. vided by Mr. Hatton’s tap dancing
The women of the club cooked and class. The students are: Elaine Gray,
served the entire dinner except that Dorothy Glaisyer, Barbara Leslie,
the turkeys were roasted by the Ideal with Harold Smith at the piano.
IT’SGREATTOBE
CRAZY TONIGHT
Council Discussing Means of Se­
curing Sufficient Supply for
' Growing Needs
City water and the possibility of
preventing of waste and increasing
the supply came in for a good deal of
discussion at the city council session
Monday evening.
/
The matter first came up by the ap­
plication of a dozen residents of San­
ford Heights for an extension of the
water line at the Masonic cemetery
to that district.
The council was not disposed to
grant the request unless the people
there would lay their own pipe line
and will let the matter rest for a
month until the Sanford Heights peo­
ple can decide what they can do in
laying the pipe. The distance is about
half a mile and 4-inch pipe would
cost about a dollar a foot, laid.
From the Tilghman store. Tenth
and Coulter, where the wooden main
starts down past the high school, that
half mile is not in very good condi­
tion and will have to be replaced
soon with iron pipe.
Then the question whether the city
has water to spare for outside sections
entered into the discussion.
City Engineer Stacer suggested the
expenditure of 8375 for a float valve
at the storage reservoir on the hill
east of town which would probably
keep ten million gallons Of water
from going to waste during the three
summer months.
Another sources of waste is the
wooden pipe still in use In various
parts of the city. A check up be­
tween the master meter and the total
of consumer meters shows that half
the water passing through the big
register is lost—only half the amount
which the master meter records is
p^id for.
There is approximately two miles
of wooden pipe in the city system
which will have to be replaced-with
iron before a great while..
The purchase ot the float valve,
which would automatically shut off
the intake at the reservoirs on the hMI
when they become filled, was left to
the water committee with power to
act.
Mayor Rankin, who had just re­
turned from a trip to Salem to attend
a League of Oregon cities meeting,
reported that Mayor Huggins, of
Marshfield, had suggested to him that
Coquille join with Marshfield in a
project to secure water from Coos
river and from the East Fork at
Brewster. It was mentioned as a two
million dollar project and C. C. Hock­
ley had told Mayor Huggins that the
PWA would assist if funds were still
available.
Co. C. of C. Hears Both Sides
Coquille’s representatives at the
County Chamber of Commerce meet­
ing, held in North Bend Monday eve­
ning were R. L. Stewart and J. L.
Stevens.
The greater part of the evening
was used in listening to Sheldon F.
Bakery. They can always be de­
Snow, Ice in Sunny California Sackett berate ship owners and ac­
pended upon to do a fine job.
After the banquet the club held its
H. L. Varney returned Sunday eve- cuse them of spending ail their time
regular meeting with the new offi­ ; ning from his month's trip to south- in the Bohemelan Club in San Fran­
cers ouiciaiing.
officiating. Stephen Dey, the ern California, where he visited his. cisco.
The delegates to the chamber ses­
conducted the meeting j son, Myron, at Santa Monica and his
new president,
i
in a very efficient manner.
The daughter, Mrs A. C. Panter, in Loo sion heard the other side of the pic­
Townsend orchestra played the open­ Angeles. On the return trip he trav­ ture, however, when Howard Irwin,
ing numbers and the order of busi­ elled through snow from south of manager of the mill at Empire, told
ness followed
Grandma Swinney Chico, a distance of 500 miles, to Can­ 1 his experience. The 1934 ship award
presented the club with a pillow to yonville in this state. At Chico, where 1 broke him, he said, after 16 years in
help raise funds. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. snow is almost unknown, there was a the shipping business, and he “never
Brown gave a quilt for the same pur­ foot and a half df it.
At Whittier was in the Bohemian Club in his life.”
He characterized the shipping mess
pose.
there was an inch of ice a week ago
After the regular business the Sunday, and the ridge route in the as due entirely to the fact that union
members enjoyed a program given by Loe Angeles-Bakef-sfield district was members will not live up to their
agreements, after the ship owners and
the following: vocal duet with guitar, blocked with snow and ice.
«unions
have agreed on the points at
Finley sisters; vocal duet with guitar,
Mr. Varney says the snowscape was
Harold Hayes and Mr. Young; in­ beautiful, however, and he enjoyed issue. Until the unions can be made
to respect their obligations, and made
strumental duet, Mr. Mayse and Mrs. all of it.
responsible for their fulfillment, there
Southstone; one-act play, Miss Young.
can be no maritime perpetual peace,
Edith Drake, Howard and Harold
Two Fire Calls—No Damage
he declared.
Pribble; tap dance, Wilma Drake;
The fire department was called out
The county chamber went on rec­
violin and piano duet, Lyndell South-
at 8:40 Monday evening to the Creag­ ord as opposing any diversion of the
stone and Mrs. Southstone.
er apartment house, formerly the Mc­ gasoline tex to the cities at this time.
Every number on the program was
—r-..... . .
Leod rooming house, where a chim­
greatly enjoyed and the generous ap­
ney was burning out. No damage.
P.
T.
A.
Arranges Dental Clinic
plause expressed the appreciation ot
Again at 4:30 o’clock Tuesday af­
The Coquille Parent-Teachers asso­
those present. The next meeting of
ternoon the department was called to ciation plans to invite the parents to
the club will be the first Tuesday
the Francis Edwards’ home at the accompany their children to a dental
next month, February 2. Members
east end of Third street where sparks survey in their children’s rooms.
who skip Townsend meetings cer­
had started a fire on the roof. Very
The object of the survey is to pro­
tainly miss an interesting and good
little damage resulted.
mote better teeth and health, especi­
time.
ally through home care and treat-
Pays 1*6 Cent Butterfat Bonds i ment.
—
October Term Ended Yesterday The Lundy Cheese Factory at Myr­
A local dentist will be present, to
The last case heard by Judge Brand tle Point has declared an eight per whom any question may be referred.
A 83.00 cash prize will be given the
lor the October term of court was cent dividend to its stockholders and
that yesterday morning of Jack Cun-. a cent and a half bonus to its patrons room with the largest percentage of
parents accompanying their children.
ningham vs. State Industrial Acci­ on butterfat delivered in 1936.
*
According to present plans, the sur­
dent Commission. Before it had gone
The Coquille Woman's Club will vey will begin Thursday morning at
to the jury the case was settled by
stipulation of the attorneys, who have a cooked food sale tomorrow nine o’clock in the Washington school.
agreed on a fourteenth degree of dia- (Saturday) at Thrift’s grocery, start­ The children in Mrs. Chase's room
will ba examined first.
ing at 8 30 o’clock.
ability.