PAPER
, JULY 16, 1927.
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Pioneer Picnic July 25
Councilman LeFevre Resigns
The Coos County Pioneer Associa
tion will convene in the Myrtle Grove
park in Coquille on Sunday, July 25.
All pioneers and their families are
cordially invited and urged to attend.
A picnic dinner will be held at 12
o’clock. Bring your dinners and eat
ing utensils; coffee, cream and sugar
will be furnished.
You will be entertained by tlte
most eloquent and able speakers of
the county, and music furnished by
a band, an orchestra and vocal talent
of the best in the land
L. A. Liljequist, who is approach
ing the status of Coos county pioneer,
with nearly a third of a century elap
sing since he came to Coquille, has
consented to deliver the main address
of the day.
Mayor Rankin expects at next
Monday evening’s council session to
announce a successor on the board to
Jack LeFevre, whose resignation was
placed in the mayor’s hands yester
day. Mr. LeFevre now owns no
property in Coquille and is living at
the camp where he is engaged in log
ging, 20 miles above Myrtle Point.
Mayor Rankin said this morning
that he had a successor in mind but
that until he had conferred with all
the councilmen, whose confirmation
is necessary in seating a new mem
ber, he Would not make public the
name of the appointee.
Edgar McDaniel, publisher of the
Coos Bay Harbor, and Mrs. McDaniel,
returned
yesterday from
their
month’s trip to the middle west. He
found the Coos weather very pleas
ant after the 110 degree temperatqre
he had encountered,, and is feeling
very well again.
Harry Bennett, formerly of Powers
but more recently employed at the
Powers-Davis camp on Fourmile,
eight miles below Bandon, had some
premonition of his tragic death which
occurred aL 9:15 o'clock Tuesday
morning. He told his brother the
night before that he hoped the
brother would see that his two sons
were not separated, and that when
they grew up that they would be dis
couraged if they attempted to follow
logging for a living.
Still No Chairs at Roxy
Then Tuesday morning he gave the
E. L. Perrott 8i Son have practically
key to ills new car to the brother and
completed their work in the new
told him to look after it.
Aa he left the
towm* Roxv theatre ^d
■
forgotten his hat. “I won’t need it
today,” was his reply, "and after to
day I won’t need my calked boots.’’
Bennett was killed by a heavy snag
falling from a tree around which he
had been digging with the bulldozer
in the attempt to uproot it. Ashe
saw the snag falling, the machine was
tilted at such an angle that he was
unable to get out from under the
controls and was horribly crushed
and mangled, death being instantan
eous.
The
remains were
taken
to
Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries where
services were conducted yesterday.
Interment was at Powers.
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Mr. Bennett, who was 28 years of
age, is survived by his widow, who
was in the Knife Hospital with her
eight days old son. He is also sur
vived by a four-year old son by a
former wife. Other surviving rela
tives are his father, William T Ben
nett; two brothers, William Franklin
and Marion, both of Powers; two
half brothers, Carl Brooks of Klam
ath Falls, and James Bennett, of Loe
Angeles, and three sisters, Mias ]Tnn-
ces Bennett, of Ftowers, Mrs. Stalls
Ferren, of Powers, and Mrs. Helene
Rex. of Quinault, Wash.
Logger Killed at Fairview
The first fatal logging accident of.
the week occurred about ten o’clock
Monday morning in the Cal Ray
camp at Fairview when a skyline
snapped and fractured the skull of
Elwyn (Slim) Pearl, 29 year old resi
dent of Fairview for the past year.
He was rushed to the Coquille Hos
pital but passed away shortly after
noon. The recoiling wire almost tore
the upper portion of his skull away.
Funeral services and interment
took place at Brownville, Ore., yes
terday, the remains being taken out
by Schroeder Bros.
Deceased was born at Brownsville,
Dec. 6, 1907. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Edna Mae Pearl; two
small children, one and three yean
old; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Pearl, who live at Brownsville, and
two brothers, Ted Pearl, of Powers,
and another brother living at
Brownsville.
Plunges to Death on the Rocks
The body of Alfred Sloan, of Mott,
North Dakota,
was brought
to
Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries here
Wednesday evening for shipment to
his home.
With his wife, his sister and his
three-year old son, Sloan was fishing
in the surf below Port Orford front
therocks. In some way he slipped
and plunged headlong for 50 feet to
the rocks below.
After he had been rescued by the
coast guard he was taken to the Port
Orford hospital where death occurred
at seven o’clock Wednesday evening.
Sloan was 22 years of age, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sloan, of
Richardson, N. D„ and is also sur
vived by two brothers and three sis
ters.
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to walls and celling.
The only thing which will prevent
the opening of this handsome new
playhouse next week * is the non
arrival of the opera chairs, and from '
present indications the chain will not
be here next week.
MRS. MARY E.
KERN BURIED
Funeral services were conducted at
the Gano Funeral Home at 2:30 p. m.
Wednesday by Earl F. Downing, for
Mrs. Mary E. Kern who passed away
at Salem last Sunday evening at
seven o'clock after an illness of sev
eral years.
Music at the services was furnished
by a quartet'of members of Beulah
Chapter, O. E. S., Mrs. June Walker,
Mrs. Birdie Skeels, F. G. Leslie and
O. T. Gant, accompanied by Mrs.
Leslie at the piano.
Mrs. Kern was a member of Beu
lah chapter and the impressive East
ern Star services were conducted'at
the Masonic-cemetery where inter
ment took place.
She was also a
member of the Royal Neighbors and
the Woman’s Relief Corps.
Born Mary Elma Wilson, in Colum
bia City, Iowa, May 5, 1867, and was
70 years, two months and six days of
age at the time of her death.
With her parents, when she was
two years of age, she moved to Man
kato, Kansas, and on February 27,
1887, she was united in marriage to
E. H. Kem, who survives.
She is
also survived by two sons, Melvin J-
of North Bend, and A. Clifford Kem,
of Coquille.
Three other children
passed away, a son at birth, a daugh
ter, Margaret at the age of four and
another, Esther, aged five months.
Mrs. Kern united with the Baptist
church in early girlhood and lived an
active, consistent Christian life.
Barrow Drug Co. to Open Aug. 1
The fixtures for the Barrow Drug
Co. which will open in the comer
room' of the new Roxy theatre build
ing around the first of August, will
arrive in Coquille next Monday. The
room is practically ready for occu-
pancy now, with the windows yet to
be set. The decorating will be done
after the fixtures arrive to insure that
the colors harmonize. F. C. Hudson,
associated with Wm. Barrow in the
ownership of the store, says that all
stock must be assembled, the store
made ready for opening, and the set-
UP inspected and approved by the
chief drug inspector of the state de
partment before the store can begin
to do business. This is a recent en
actment by the legislature.
The Rosebud Delicatessen Opens
Last Saturday in the Roxy theatre
building, facing on Second street, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Pleith, who came
here from Portland, opened The
Rosebud delicatessen and are now
ready to serve all kinds of lunch
goods and a complete assortment of
Kanu Klub Reapportions Sites delicatessen.
The Ko-Keel Kanu Klub held a
Within a few days the dining room
meeting last evening and decided to will be in operation under the super
relocate holdings of the members, vision of Miss Eugene Mullin.
giving each of them more river front
age. At the present time the only
Laird House at Sitkum Burns
cottages out there are those of L. H.
Hazard and J. L. Stevens. Three were
The Ivan Laird home at Sitkum
burned during last fall’s fires, those and nearly all of its contents were
of A. N. Gould. Mrs. A. J, Sherwood destroyed by fire last Friday morning
and S. M. Nosier.
about eight o’clock. Mrs. Laird was
alone at the time when she heard a
New Date for Pilgrim Players roaring sound overhead. Her first
The Pilgrim Players, of Southern attempt was to extinguish the flames
California, scheduled to have given a but they had too big a start and she
play »t the Pioneer Methodist church then turned to saving household
last week, were unable to reach Co goods but the rapid spread of the fire
quille in time for the appointment quickly stopped that. An overstuffed
and will present a play on Wednesday chair, and a davenport saved by the
evening, July 21, at eight o'clock in CCC boys, was about all that
s
In Coquille Will Be Operated In* Had a Most Delightful Trip to
dependently of the Marsh
and Upon the Hawaiian
field Union
Islands
Although the retail clerks ip Co
quille may not be able to secure a
charter for their local from the Re
tail Clerks International Protective
Association, which is affiliated with
the At F. ofL., they have been given
assurance by the locals of the Timber
and Sawmill Workers, the Plywood
Workers, and the Carpenters and
Joiners unions that they will be rec
ognized as a union organization.
The matter of membership in the
clerks’ union at Coos Bay has been
under discussion for some months,
and cards were issued a couple of
months ago to the Coquille stores
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Ulett and
George, Jr., returned to Coquille last
Friday evening from their month's
trip to the Hawaiian Islands, and re
port a most pleasurable 16 days spent
oh the islands of Oahu and Hawaii.
They went across and returned on the
Mattson line steamer Lurline and
stopped fust at Honolulu where they
enjoyed surf bathing in the 72 degree
water several times a day.
Mr. Ulett tells of the wonderful
trees there and all kinds of
vegetation as well as of the
and pineapple plantations,
which are on everv island of
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week those cards ware
the CoogpBay business
clerks’ union from all
the stores here.
Jg.
Backed by the qther unions
the clerks have resisted the attempt
to force them to join the Marshfield
union, and have now made applica
tion direct to the retail Clerks inter
national for a charter.
Aaron Wilson, president of the lo
cal clerks* union, called a meeting in i
the city hall Wednesday evening for ‘
clerks, heads of the other unions, and '
proprietors of retail stores.
It was
made plain at that meeting that the
clerks’ local would be recognized by
the other unions here, whether they
were allowed to affiliate with the na
tional organization or not.
y climate desired can be found
, the higher mountain slopes be-
ng cooler and then colder, and the
all in some sections is only
Inches a year.
In other dis
it is measured In feet, reaching
almost unbelievable total of 600
inches or a little over four feet a
month average.
From Honolulu they flew to the is
land of Wawaii and enjoyed a visit
there with Mrs. Jane Williams, sister
of Mrs. J. A. Lamb, and her son,
Maurice. Both enjoy the islands im
mensely.
On Hawaii is located the largest
cattle ranch in the world, 500,000
acres, with' 30,000 to 40,000 Here
fords occupying it.
The tremendous rainfall is neces
sary for sugar cane culture for it re
J. A. Berg Starts New Home quires Several tons of water to pro
The new home at the west end of duce a ton of the cane.
Fourth street which J. Arthur Berg
expects to occupy before Christmas, Liong Accept M. P. Challenge
was started Monday morning by E.
Enj<*able music was furnished at
L. Perrott, who Is in charge of con the Lions club luncheon yesterday by
struction.
Robert Clarke, of Myrtle Point, who
It is to be of the Colonial type, 28x
two vocal Solos accompan-
52 feet on the ground, two stories and
Bums at the piano.
basement. , shake covered, wbUte
whUK ’
and will contain nine rooms, five of |
ckih to attend the sixth annual ban
them bedrooms on the second floor, quet at Norway of the Myrtle Point
beside breakfast nook, halls, bath Lions Ben, next Thursday, July 22.
rooms, closets, etc. The double garage lA challenge from the M. P. Lions ac-
on the east side of the house will be '-ompanied the invitation, for a golf
in addition to the dimensions given. tournament at the new club grounds,
It is to be located 71 feet back from starting at four o’clock that after
the sidewalk line on the 100 feet noon.
Wallace Dement and Gene
frontage by 450 feet in depth lot, from Laird brought the document an
which Mr. Berg had the former house nouncing the affair and they were
moved in the spring, and directly notified that the Coquille Lions ac
across the street from the C. J. Fuhr cepted both challenge and invitation.
man home.
Geo. Ulett talked very entertain
The architects for the house are ingly of the sights he saw while on
Whitehouse tt Church, of Portland, his recent trip to Hawaiian Islands.
who drew the plans for the new state Elsewhere the Sentinel mentions the
capital.
largest cattle ranch in the world,
Sub-contractors on • the building which the Uletts visited. There is no
will be C. 8. Kaiser, of North Bend, dock from which to load the cattle
plastering and fireplaces; P. L. John and the cowboys throw a lariat about
son, plumbing and heating; Hooton the steer's neck and swim their horses
Electric Shop, wiring.
out to a whale boat about 300 yards
Frederick Nordstrom who pur
chased .55 of an acre from Peter
Johnson, across the highway from
the Coquille Motor court, has opened
a roadway into the property and is
laying it out in lots.
TELEPHONE
IMPROVEMENTS
Want to Buy 150,000 Acres of
Cheap Land for Hunting
and Fishing
The statement has been frequently
made that we (the American people)
took this country away from the In
dians. And it is true, but here is a
Chance to sell a part of it back to
them. At least that is what Chas.
Spaulding, a consulting engineer
Kansas City, Mo., writes Assessor
P. Beyers, in the following letter of
inquiry:
My clients are looking for a block
of land of 100,000 to 150,000 acres of
land to settle down on, hunting and
fishing; no farming. It can be rough
They are a group of wealthy In
dians who are tired of living in an
arid semi-desert country. They do
not want high priced land. Can you
put me in touch with someone who
can assemble a block of that size?
They will pay cash for the land. My
clients are quite anxious to locate
somewhere out on the coast and they
are in a hurry to get action.
Some of these Oklahoma Indians
find it most difficult to spend the
money they receive from oil royalties,
under government supervision, and
Mr. Spaulding is no doubt correct in
saying that they could pay for cheap
land. But it would be some Indian
empire. Coos county contains right
around 1,150,000 acres and their re
quest is for a tract from one-eighth
to one-twelfth as large as Coos coun
ty. And there is plenty of such land
in the county which is unfit for agri
cultural uses. A lot of it, too, belongs
to the federal government.
Fred McGougan, manager of the
West Coast Telephone company in
southwestern Oregon, and Norman
O’Donnell, from the company’s au
diting department at Everett, Wash.,
were in attendance at the Chamber
of Commerce meeting in the hotel
Tuesday noon
Mr. McGougan told of what is be
ing done to speed up service in the
local telephone exchange. The oper
ating force has been increased the
past year, and now the company is
waiting for ordered equipment which
will be installed just back of a new Five School Vacancies to Fill
wicket to be cut in the wall separat
Supt. B. W. Dunn was present for
ing the switch board from the lobby.
the meeting of the school board last
When that is done the No. 1 operator
Monday evening and to him was re
can wait on the window without
ferred the applications for the five
moving from her chair, expediting the
vacancies now existing in the dis-
answer of calls.
| 1 trict's teaching force. Those to be filled
The operating expense of the com
the commercial department in
pany here has doubled since 1934. fare
1
the high school, taught last year by
The students put to work last year
Miss Stahl, the music department,
are now demonstrating their effi headed last year by L. L. Be ma th;
ciency and Mr. McGougan said he
the vacancy caused by the transfer
watched their operations for half an
from the Lincoln building of Miss
hour before coming to the meeting
Bang to the Washington school where
and that three seconds was the aver
she will be principal, and those
age |ime required to clear calls for
caused by the resignations of J. W.
that 30 minutes.
Sayre and Miss Averill Stewart.
The toll lines are clogged at times
Contracts with the other teachers
but that cannot be helped at present. were signed Monday evening and the
As previously stated in these col
month’s grist of bills approved.
umns. one source of delay in'securing
Supt. Dunn left for Woodbum on
connection is due to the fact that of
Tuesday intending to return with his
the 728 subscribers to phone service family on Thursday. He has rented
in Coquille, 306 of them are on four-
the former Jack LeFevre home on
party residential lines, and there are Coulter street
eight four-party business phones.
Mr. McGougan stated that the com
Checking Coos’ Condition
off shore, one at a time. When ten pany was doing everything in its
Co. C. or C. to Meet Monday
animals have been snubbed up to the power to give prompt and efficient, F. H. Young, manager of Oregon
The Coos County Chamber of Com boat it moves out to the vessel a service in Coquille, and the chamber' Business 8c Investors, Inc., of Port-
merce will meet in Floyd's Cafe at quarter of a mile off shore and from J directors all agreed with him that the land’ wa> “ caH«r
the Sentinel of-
Myrtle Point next Monday evening, there the animals are loaded on to service was better than it had been iic« Tuesday afternoon. He and L. B.
July 19, at 6:30 p. m. The post mas the vessel by means of slings.
It at times in the past.
Smith came down together, the latter
,
ters of the county have been invited would seem a primitive way of load
Ito secure statistics from the county
to attend and to take part in the dis ing, but possibly it is cheaper than
records for use by the bond buying
Former Coquille Boys Visit
cussion as to how mall service into building a dock.
firms, associated with Oregon Busi
Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nosier and Mr.
Coos county may be speeded up.
The Ulett party drove just inside
ness 8c Investors, who are figuring on
Port Orford's application for mem the edge of one of the more or less and Mrs. I. R. Nosier arrived here submitting bids for the $376,000
bership in the county organization is active volcanoes on one of the islands last Saturday from San Diego for a worth of bonds to be issued by the
expected to be considered at that and were mystified as to what caused short visit at their old home and left county to redeem road warrants.
time.
steam to arise through the crevises, again on Wednesday for Montana and I While here they visited the Geo. H.
At the meeting of the county cham and stop, both at their guard's com J Yellowstone Park, intending to re Chaney home and inspected the sea-
ber in Powers two months hence, on mand, until he explained that the turn to Coquille before the Pioneer
. going vessel which the senator has
- held
.. .. July 25. Their fcppH wor|cjng on for several months,
Sept. 19, a trip over the new road jolting of their car caused enough picnic .. to be
Y(xjn< WM <rea0
impressed
from Powers to the Rogue is to be trembling beneath the surface to start sister, Mrs. Geo. Hartley, came up by
bus
from
San
Diego
and
on
Sunday.
with
thlp
an<J
the
made by those attending.
the steam escaping.
Mr. Ulett said that the leper settle
<* the man who can make
ment on Malaki is at one end of the nic in Norway Grove with all nine of , ship building a hobby.
Cold-Decked Timber Burned
’ the brothers and sisters present, as
The first, fire in the woods of thei island where sheer cliffs, several i well as their chilldren. Beside those
hundred
feet
high
prevent
the
unfor-
1
Lon Smith Being Sought
current season occurred last Saturday
named there were S. M. Nosier, Oscar
tunates
from
leaving
the
restricted
afternoon in the Camas valley setion
Yosemite Lodge, A. F. 8c A. M., of
Nosier, Gene Nosier, Mrs. A. T. Mor
where C. Weldon Kline is logging for area assigned to them.
rison, Mrs. Birdie Skeels and Mn. Merced, Calif., writes to R. H. Mast,
the International Cedar Corporation.
secretary of Chadwick Lodge, asking
Mary Gage.
Four hundred thousand feet of cedar
for information
concerning
Lon
Mack Wood Found Guilty
logs were destroyed, the estimated
Smith, who formerly operated the
Mack Wood was found guilty by
Saw the Toledo Fire
loss being $10,000.
They were in
Highway Garage beyond the J. N.
the jury in circuit court last Friday
sured.
Wm.
Ulett and Wallie Ash pa ugh. Jacobsen place on the highway to
on two of the three counts on which
The logs had been cold-decked,
Mr. Smith was in
he was indicted—forgery by endorse who returned Tuesday night from a Myrtle Point
and how they caught fire was not
ment. He was given until next Sat i business trip to Portland, happened Powers for a time and anyone know-
. into Toledo that evening just five'ing his present whereabouts is re
known unless it resulted from blast
urday, July 24, to file his motion for
ing in the district.
a new trial. Judge Carl E. Wimberly , minutes before the fire started that quested to notify Mr. Mast.
will be here on that date and pass wiped out two business blocks there.
Farrs Return from Long Trip sentence on the defendant unless the The pictures of the fire which ap Martin Heads Coquille Legion
peared in the Oregonian were taken
Frank W. Martin was chosen as
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Farr returned petition for a new trial is granted.
by Mr. Ulett. Two houseboats were commander of Coquille Poet No. 36
last Sunday from their month's trip
burned before they could be moved American Legion at the semi-annual
with the “Sperry Special,” which
Will
Operate
Maehl,«
at
Roxy
from alongside the old hotel building
_ election held in Legion Hall, Monday
took them over practically every im
Martin Nye was chosen
Clark Brawley, son of Lon Brawley on the bank of the Yaquina and from 1 evening
portant section of the United States.
There were about 300 dealers and of the Southwestern Motors sales there it spread up to the main street, first vice commander, R. 8. Wheeler,
representatives of the Sperry Flour force, arrived in Coquille the first The department from Newport, nine second vice; P. O. Lund, finance of-
Co. in the party, including their . of the week from Portland and is miles away, rushed to the scene and fleer and adjutant; Ed Lund, ser-
wives, and 115 of them were from the! taking a vacation while waiting for 2000 feet of hoee was laid with the geant-at-arms. The executive com
mittee consists of R. L. Stewart, A. H.
Northwset. They enjoyed every min- I ■ the Roxy theatre to be completed. He pumper working steadily.
Grimes and H. H. Hunt.
ute of the month’s vacation which ms a motion picture machine operator
Mr. Farr refers to as a delayed and will be in charge in the projec-
[ tion roam of Coquille's new theatre.
Calling
M tat $1.99.
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