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INDIPINDINT
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VOL. XXXV.
NO. «1.
More Clean
Bay Rotary
Challenges Coquille
Basil Baird Sentenced to 3® Days
In Jail Yesterday — Others
Found Guilty Are Sentence«
Two of them secret, nine true bills
were returned by the grand jury
which completed its labors last week
and made its final report to Judge
Brand in circuit court Monday morn­
ing.
The true bills were against Basil
L. Baird, of Marshfield, driving a car
while under the influence of liquor;
Howard Jed Torrence, who stole from
.a machine shop on the bay; Howard
S. Smith, obtaining money under
false pretenses; Fred Willis, non­
support; Austin Glenn Cain, of Lake­
side, two charges—larceny of poultry
Stanley Emery, of Marshfield,
brought a challenge from that club
to the Coquille Rotary for a golf
game Saturday afternoon at two
o’clock. He said he was bringing
eight «tar getters ever for the con­
test and a call for volunteers to meet
the challenge met a quick response
at the club luncheon on Wednesday.
The dub had a treat in the per­
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Lome Fox of
the Fox evangelistic party. Mr«. Fox
charmed everyone with her lovely
voice in solo and Mr. Fox demon­
strated his wonderful skill at the pi­
ano. They were enthusiastically en-
cored.
President George Turney sang hto
swan song, as by the time he returns
from the east the new officers will
have been installed. He compliment­
ed the members on their co-opera­
tion during his year in office and
singled out several for special men­
tion.
Other guests were Rotarians Ed
Loney and Harry Nasburg, at Marsh­
field, and R. D. E. Smith and Ray
Jeub, of Coquille.
Record Attendance
At Vacation School
The Daily Vacation Bible School
is well under way
Dean of the
school, C. Adrian Sias, announces that
the attendance is the best in the his­
tory of the local school, reaching 230
on the third day (Wednesday), with
206 students present and with some
enrollees absent. The staff of in­
instructors, under the able leadership
of Mrs. Alda Noaler is doing excellent
work and the cooperation of the chil­
dren is laudable.
Mr. Sias wishes the parents to re­
alize that the school is of only ten
days duration this year and it is
highly desirable that there be no un­
necessary absences and he asks their
co-operation toward that end.
The groups assemble in different
buildings this year, the growth of the
school making this advisable: Begin­
ner, «id Primary, Pioneer Methodist;
Juniors, Church of Christ; Interme­
diates, Assembly of God.
Though too late ¿o enroll and earn
a certificate, it to not too late to enroll
and obtain a large share of the course
and have an enjoyable time.
Alda Noaler, director, expresses
herself as highly pleased with the
attendance and with the fine spirit
and co-operaflpn evinced by students,
instructors, parents and community
as a whole.
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Twenty-one votes were cast in the
school district No. 8 election last
Thursday afternoon on the question
submitted of whether the district’s
tax levy should be increased by more
Outside Toilets Must Be Elim­
than the six per cent which can be
inated Within 60 Davs-.-Rj^r-
done without a vote. The majority
voir Dam Nearing Completion
was decidedly in favor of keeping at
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a high point the efficiency of the
The report asked for by the city
schools« 18 being cast for the proposal
council at its session on May 15, as to
arjd three against.
The amount of the increase in ex­ the number of outdoor toilets, was
cess of the six per cent is »10,870.57. submitted to that body at its Monday
Of the »71,280 total budget estimate, evening session. The report gave the
»55,180 will be raised by taxation names of 139 owners of property who
are maintaining this health menace
and
»16,100 from other sources.
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The evening meeting the same day for 142 different houses.
To abate the nuisances the city en­
to discuss the budget with the school
board was even more slimly attended, gineer was instructed to notify all
but one taxpayer appearing besides the owners that compliance with the
the board members and two connect­ city ordinances must be done within
ed with the school system. The board 60 days or they must apply for ex­
voted approval of the budget as it tension of time to the council before
was published in the Sentinel last that time. Another survey is to be
_ made Ih two months and the dty will
month.
Bev. Geo. R. Turney expects to
then make the installation where the
leave Sunday noon, immediately af­
law
has not been complied with and
ft
ter services at the Episcopal Church,
the cost assessed against the property.
Mr Roseburg where he, in company
Where there to no sewer to which
with the other clergymen ot south­
an outlet from patent toilet can be
western Oregon, as well as Bishops
connected the ordinance provides that
Dagwell and Matthews, will take part
septic
tank, or well-covered cess pool,
in the dedication of the church in
must be installed.
the Douglas county capital.
Geo. R. Turney To
Go East For Month
From there Mr. Tumey will go to
Portland and thence east on a month’s
vacation during which be will visit
his parents in Princeton, N. J.
Coquille Club
Wins Free Trip
Mark Seeley, who taught school
last year at Looking Glass in Douglas
county and who came to Coquille a
couple of weeks ago to spend a por­
tion of the summer, received word
yesterday that he had been elected
as principal of the grade schools at
Jacksonville, near Medford.
There
are 179 pupils in the grades there and
te will coach athletics, teach social
Science and arithmetic as well as be-
. Coquille’s former
of the
is leader, won out in the state judging
contest at Corvallis over all the other
teams competing there and thereby
won the right to go to Cleveland,
Ohio, the latter part of next month,
to attend the World's Poultry eon-
The members of the team which
made the splendid record at Corvallis
are Fred Watson, of Coquille; Gerald
Woodward and Junior Gulstrom, of
Arago.
The team will not only have a free
trip to Cleveland but will take part
there in the national judging contest.
While it is announced as a free trip
with all expenses paid for the team,
it will be necessary to raise a portion
of the required amount locally, and
the Coquille Chamber of Commerce
could do no better a job of publicity
for Coquille, nor do more to advance
its prestige than by donating to a
fund to insure that the boys make
the trip. A leader from O. S. C. will
accompany the team to Cleveland.
County Agent Jenkins stated this
i morning that this world's poultry
. show is the biggest thing of its kind
,
on
earth and that the Coquille club
boys will see a wonderful display at
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Cleveland.
He also stated that the prize they
won provides for railroad fare and
( sleeper accommodations but that it
1 was estimated each ot the boys will
,
need
»29 for accommodations in
,
Cleveland
and for meals enroute.
• They will leave July 24, the congress
, opening in Cleveland on the 28th.
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play.
He was popular with his classmates j
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The Sixes and Elk rivers Garden
Club will hold its annual flower show
in the new Grange hall at Sixes on
Thursday, June 22, the show being
ready at 1:00 p. m. This was the word
brought by Mrs. F. G. Wilson, of the
Will Open Dancing School
Four Mile section, who was in Co­
Bill Grogan, Marshfield dancing in­ quille yesterday.
structor, announces in this week’s
Note the adv. elsewhere in this is­
issue that he will hold classes for all
types of dancing in Coquille, starting sue of H. A. Schroeder R Sons, Myr­
next Monday. The classes will be tle Point furniture dealers, who have
held in I. O. O. F. hall and registra­ been named as Hotpoint dealers for
Myrtle Point, Coquille and Bandon.
tion will start at noon, June 11.
Chaneys Shooting
The Rogue Rapids
Geo. H. Chaney, his son, Davis, and
Robert McGilvery left yesterday noon
for Grants Pass from which port they
left this morning on a trip down the
Rogue river to Gold Beach. They
started down in three boats, two
kayaks which the boys will paddle,
and the rowboat, or dinghy from the
senator’s new yacht, “Strumpet,”
which he will navigate himself. It
is 100 miles between the two towns
and they figured it would require
about five days to make the trip.
It was this Rogue river trip that
started ‘Buzz’’ Holmstrom on his ca­
reer of river running which has re­
sulted in his being called “the United
States* No. 1 boatman.” We doubt
that Senator George will continue the
running of dangerous rivers, but his
son may bring more prominence to
Coquille in the news by his nervy ef­
forts on dangerous streams.
Bryant, Bunch
Are Nominated
Buzz" Takes
Parly Up The
Snake River
Two Other Coquille Young Men,
Canadian Lady and Utah Man
a Go Through “Hell’s Canyon”
Haldane “Buzz” Holmstrom
to
winning new fame and receiving col­
umns of publicity as the result of
his last month's trip up the Snake
river. With him are two other Co­
quille young men, Clarence Bean and
Earl Hamilton, and two others, who
expect to read^New York this sum­
mer, going* entirely by water except
for a portage across the Aockies.
In the following, a press dispatch
from Weiser, Idaho, where they rested
a short time, there is undoubtedly one
g. Willto Johnson, at
le.
t, did not aoompeny
Buzz” and Amos Burg, of Portland,
on the entire trip down the Colorado
river to Boulder dam last year, al­
though he did go part of the way.
The dispatch which appeared in
Wednesday’s Oregonian was as fol­
lows:
Five adventurers, led by an English-
born Canadian woman, rested here
Tuesday after conquering the dan­
gerous Snake river canyon in a boat
trip they expect will take them from
the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans.*
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The Lorenz-Rietman party return­
ed Monday from San Francisco,
where they spent last week at (he
fair. Paul Rietman accompanied Mr.
Lorenz and Dr. Rietman when they
left for the south ten days ago. They
all etatyed the fair and the two la­
dles who had been gone since April
16, being in Houston, Texas, the
greater part of the time, report a
very enjoyable visit in that hustling
Texas metropolis.
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Coast Highway Pamphlets
Now Being Distributed
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Secretary Arch B. Sanders, of the
Oregon Coast Highway association,
informs the Coos Bay Harbor that the
1030 advertising pamphlet or strip
map to being issued and 20,000 have
come into hto hands of the order for
150,000.
Of this number, 2,000 are
in the hands of people at the Oregon
exhibit at the Treasure Island ex­
position grounds.
Leaves Soon On
European Tour
Mrs. Ida K. Owen has all arrange­
ments made tor a trip to. Europe flp
which she win leave in ten days. The
route to an American Express tour ar­
rangement. Leaving here on June 18
she will go to San Francisco and
Spend four days at the fair; thence
by the southern route, with a few
hours’ stop in New Orleans and north
to New York where she will visit the
fair for three days and spend one on
a sightseeing tour of the metropolis.
On the first of July she will sail
on the Mauretania for England, visit
Belgium, Holland, her father’s old
home in Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
a,trip on the Mediterranean, France
and the Riviera, and sail for home on
the Queen Mary which will land her
in New York Aug. 20..
Back on American soil she will
spend a day in Washington, D. CM
visit her brother, Fred Kronenberg,
and family, in Philadelphia, and then
go for a day to St Louis, where she
lived for 16 years.
If she to not too tired of traveling
by that time she will stop again in
San Francisco, arriving back home
the fore part of September.
PERSONAL MENTION
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bunch and
two children, of College Place, Wash.,
two miles from Walla Walla, were in
Coquille a few moments this morning.
They had been visiting his sister, Mrs.
L. L. Summerlin in Myrtle Point and
other relatives in the valley. Walter
is a former Coquille boy. He has a
service station in the Washington
town, which he recently opened as
a new one of his own.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Martindale ar­
rived here last Saturday from their
The Schroeder Jewelry store an­ home in Coalinga, Calif., to attend
nounces this week that the auction the funeral of their grandson, Tom
sale which «tatted last Friday will Martindale. They expect to leave tor
close Saturday night of this week.
home tomorrow.
Marvin Thomas, who come« here
from Eugene, ha« taken a position
with the Fuhrman Pharmacy. He to
not an entire stranger to Coos coun­
ty as he was employed for a time in
A jamboree, in other words a sum­ the Nicholson drug store at Marsh­
mer vacation dance, to to be held in field several years ago.
the Community Building this coming
F. S. Emery left this morning for
Saturday evening, in honor of the
students borne from college. Music Eugene to meet Mrs. Emery and
for the jamboree will be furnished by Betty, who were to arrive there to­
the newly organized dance band day after visiting a month in the
which is a combination of the Don east and stopping in San Francisco at
Estes and Spenny Roas orchestras.
the fair.
At Community Bldg.
An ordinance was adopted vacat­
ing a portion of the streets in Burns
Acres, Mrs. Mary Bums having al­
ready filed dedication deeds for other
portions which will make the streets
there conform to the lay of the land.
A letter was read from Carl E.
Green, sanitary engineer for the
state board of health, in which he
stated that he would be in Coquille
as soon as possible to go over the
water situation here and make rec-
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Jamboree Sat. Eve. "*
Flower Show At
Sixes June 22
139 Owners Told
By Council To
Conned With Sewer
The Chamber of Commerce clean­
up committee feels, and rightly, that
only half a job has been done in Co­
quille. Those who have co-operated
in the attempt to make Coquille a
cleaner and attractive place in which
to live have done a good job but there
ire still a number of unsightly spots
where no effort has been made to
join in the clean-up campaign.
The committee realizes that the
contemplated clean Coquille has not
been achieved and urgently requests
that all who have not done so get
busy on parsings, yards, outbuidings,
etc.
places there to even
trash which has accumulated on the
parkings for years.
Coquille River
Claimed Tom
Martindale Thursday
the water for over an hour when
Tommy decided to swim out to a log.
He got part way and called for help
when he saw he could not make it.
Cook and Cardwell immediately
went to his assistance, although
knowing it is dangerous to get near
a person who is fearful of drowning.
Kenneth got hold of Tom and started
for shore but so clinging was Tom’s
hold on him and so desperate his
efforts to cling to any life preserver
that the other two had to break loose
and swim.for their lives. When they
reached a log and looked back Tommy
had disappeared.
Word was immediately rent to town
and members of the fire department
and State Police Officer Beals started
at once in a power boat for the scene
with grappling hooks and pulmotor,
but it was not until about 6:30 that
the body was recovered—nearly two
hours after the drowning — and
brought to the city dock where the
father and’ a crowd of sorrowing
friends and acquaintances had as­
sembled.
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The body was taken to Schroeder
Bros. Mortuaries where funeral ser-
vices were held at 2:00 p. m. on
Monday, C. Adrian Sias conducting
the service. Interment was in the
Norway cemetery.
Charles Thomas Martindale was
born in Loveland, Colorado, in 1021
and came here eight year, ago with
his parents. His father to employed
in the retail lumber department of
Smith Wood-Products.
Just a week before. Tommy had
been sitting on the platform at the
high school gymnasium and was one
of the senior class who received their
diplomas at commencement. A few
weeks before that he had had a
prominent part in the senior class
».SO THE YEAR
School Budget
Adopted Thursday
Up Needed
tent to steal; and Howard Smith for
driving while intoxicated.
Not true bills were returned in the
following cares which were examined
by the grand jury: Walter F. King,
selling lottery tickets; Mil ton An­
thony,
assault with a dangerous
weapon; W. S. Parke, practicing
chiropractic without a license; Ray
Peart, forgery; Mike Sklorenko and
Sam Choat, assault and battery; H.
H. Mitchel, placing wife in house of
prostitution; Edward Coughran, grand
larceny; S. H. Gumm, driving while
intoxicated; C. E. Parks, willfully de­
stroying a fence.
The jury which heard the ease
against Torrence found him guilty
Monday after being out *15 minute«
The Coquille rivér claimed another
and he was sentenced to two years
in the pen. Sheriff Howell took him victim last Thursday, it’s first for
this season, when Tommy Martindale,
out to Salem yesterday.
Basil Baird was found guilty on 18-year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
the drunken driving charge yesterday Chas. E. Martindale, became exhaust­
afternoon and was sentenced by ed while swimming in the cold waters,
Judge Brand at five o’clock to 30 half a mile or more above the Smith
days in jail and to pay a fine of »150. plant
Accompanied by Kenneth Cook,
He was given a stay of execution
Bill
Cardwell and Norman McCool,
until 10 a. m. Saturday to arrange his
serve his sentence.
The jury was
out 30 minutes before arriving at a
decision in Baird’s case.
The next case started was that
against Howard Smith on a drunken
driving indictment. It was still on
trial this morning.
Judge Brand pronounced sentence
Monday on two who pleaded guilty
last week. Chas. Flowers, for passing
a worthless check on Lee Hand here,
was given two years in the pen, but is
to be paroled after 30 days in the
county jail.
Wilbur Ford, of Fairview, who stole
Mrs. Dean Crowell’s car at the bay,
was given a sentence of five years
in the pen. A stay of execution was
ordered, however, and after 00 days
in the county jail he is to be placed
on probation for five years.
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COQUILLE. COOfc COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE », IMS.
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Sandon, who left here ten years or
more ago.
Cliff Yarbrough, of the Cow Bell
Dairy, left Tuesday noon on a three
weeks’ trip to San Francisco. His
mother, Mrs Isabelle Yarbrough, ac­
companied him as far as Ashland,
where she will visit until his return.
Word was received here yesterday
that a seven-pound daughter was
bom to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roeke
at Emanuel Hospital in Portland
that morning. Mrs. Roake was for­
merly Jeanette Pook of this city.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Stewart drove
out to Corvallis last Fri
fo bring
home their daughter, M
who
i\ad just finished her freshm
at O. S. C. Miss Helen Hess,
ter of Coos county’, former
and Mrs. Hess, came iA with them for
a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Gould entertain­
ed last Friday evening four of the
Coquille people who are making ex-
tended trips this summer—Rev. Geo.
R. Turney who leaves Sunday for the
Atlantic coast, Mrs. Ida K. Owen who
will leave on June 18 for a European
trip, Mrs. Annie Robinson and Mias
Bess Maury who later in the summer
will visit both the San Francisco and
New York fairs.
Calling canto. SO for »1.00.