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Oiling Of Dike
Now Being Done
Washington School
Building Is
Coming Down
Youth Council Free
Recreation Program
Five Point Highway
Program Asked
Fourth Of July
Observance Is I
Slated ForCoos
Plant Is To Be
Closed Two Days
The free recreational facilities for
County judges from five of the ■
R. A. Jeub, vice president of Smith
seven counties along the Oregon i the residents of Coquille are defin-
Wood-Products, Inc., announced this
coast as well as men prominent in i Italy limited. In order to provide
week that it will be a two-day holi­
civic and road affairs were included I better facilities tor the city, the
day in all departments of the plant
in the Coast Highway delegation i “Youth Council of Coquille” was
next week, Monday and Tuesday,
Empire,
Lakeside
Provide
which appeared before the state I loosely organized last winter. The
July 3 and 4, being the days.
Two
Celebrations
And
' highway commission in Portland last ; early months of its life were ex-
Business houses generally in Co­
Program At Norway
1 Thursday to present a five point pro­ . pended in making a questionnaire
quille, will not close on the third, this
gram on which all sections of the ■ survey of what the young people of
The independence won by our fore­ city living up with the other towns in
’ coast are united in asking the high­ the community—especially those of fathers in battle and signified by the the county where business will be
way commission to carry out. And [ the adolescent age—now did for rec­ American Declaration of Indepen­ as usual on Monday. If it is like it
when they were through, the mem- reation and what they would like to dence on July 4, 1776, will be ob­ was before the Decoration Day holi­
> bers of the commission thanked them do if given the opportunity.
served once again this year in Coos day the “as usual” will mean that
On the basis of this survey, several
for their brevity, their united inter­
county with a very enthusiastic pro­ there will not be very much.
est in road affairs, and said they leading choices of activities were gram. Presaging the day of the 4th,
would reply to the program asked in chosen. They were archery, ping will be full day programs on the 2nd
pong, horse shoes, singing, badmin­ and 3rd, both at Empire and at Lake­
the not distant future.
The five projects asked were: first, ton, instrumental music, soft ball, and side. On the 4th, the Coos county
the completion next year of the Neah- otteen. It to the plan of the “Youth ministerial association will sponsor
kanie section of the Coast highway; Council” to provide courts and equip­ a patriotic program in Norway grove.
second, the establishment of location ment for these and other activities for
The three-day event at Empire this
and grade for the 12 or 15 miles north the free use of the citizens of the year promises to over-shadow that First Half To Be Wound
of Newport which is now possibly as community and especially the young of 1938 as the second year of such
Up In City Softball
poor a section of roadway as there people and older children. It to also aitivity at Coos Bay’s gateway city.
is on the coast; third, the starting of their intention to provide year-round
Margaret Smith, daughter of Mr.
League Standing
construction between North Bend activities—some of which will be and Mrs. J. L. Smith of this city, to
Won Lost Pct.
and Coquille; fourth the realignment carried on in. the evenings in acme a candidate for queen of the Em­ McKinley
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south from Pqrt Orford to Euchre be equipped with game and handi­ Coos county girls. The winner will Pastime
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creek; and fifth, the relocation and work equipment and can be properly be named at the opening ball in the Cow Bell Dairy
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construction through Gold Beach and
Eagles hall in Marshfield.
Stevens Hardware
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Port Orford.
‘Three days of rodeo with some Jr. Chamber
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on last Thursday’s meeting in Port­
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land before the Chamber of Com­
pire, with the committee completing
Week’s Results
merce sessions here Tuesday noon,
final details today.
June 21—Cow Bell 8, Pastime
added that this section will be pleased
Thirty-four rounds* of boxing Tues­
June 23—Plywood 2, Cow Bell 0.
with the way things are going in
day, and a wresting card Sunday
June 28—Eagles 7, Cow Bell 10.
state highway department affairs and
evening with rodeo on all three af­
June 27—Junior Chamber 3, Fuhr­
that improvements on the Coquille-
A simple church wedding, with ternoons to the schedule at Lakeside, man’s 5.
North Bend section, the heaviest ' only the families and relatives of the where the Ski High Stampede beck­
Playing Schedule, First Week of ‘
traveled highway section in the state i contracting parties present, took place ons the public of this section as well.
Second Half
outside of metropolitan areas, will at St. James Episcopal Church at Water sports with an air show at the
Thursday,
July 6, Cow Bell vs. Mc­
probably require four yean to com­ 8:30 o’clock Sunday morning when Lakeside airport, with dancing each
Kinley.
plete, but that he is sure work will Miss Florence Folsom became the evening in the dance pavilion, make
Friday, July 7, Eagles vs. Pastime.
be started soon on other portions bride at Cart G. Floten; Dr. C. E. this amusement center an interest­
Monday, July 10, Plywood vs.
than the work in Bunker Hill which Skyre, of the Marshfield Episcopal ing spot for Fourth fun seekers.
Fuhrman’s.
has been under contract for some Church, officiating.
J. R. Adams, of North Bend, will
July 11, Stevens vs. Jr. Chamber.
time.
The bride was given by her father, deliver the patriotic address at Nor­
In a match that will undoubtely
Lafe Compton added to the report Dr. Fred Folsom, who came from his way Grove. The program will be
that Arch B. Sanders,
Locks, Ore., to at- preceded by a basket lunch at noon, have the title at stake, the Plywood
rotary of the Coast
Geo. Mc- followed by sports of all kinds in the team will play the McKinley CCC
thia evening tor the champienship of
elation, to doing a
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of the Coquille soft ba 11
uniting an sections
coast in a co-operative plan for furth-^ stood wtih him.
Besides the celebrations listed, the
er highway development, that he 4s
Following the ceremony a reception many beach resorts up and down the the sponsorship of The Coquille Val­
was gieen in the couple’s honor at coast will draw many who desire a ley Sentinel.
Both teams are tied for first place,
the association program and that his the Bert Folsom home and the young quiet Fourth with their own families
concise talks before the association people left tor Oregon City at 12:30 and friends. Many members of the with five wins and one loos each. The
game will commence at 8:30 p. m.
and the highway commission were to o’clock the same day.
Eagles lodge are planning attendance
the point and stamped him as the
The lovely, winsome bride was a at the state convention in Roseburg, sharp. There will be no charge and
right man for the place.
graduate of Coquille High in 1933, which to in session over the holiday the public is invited to attend.
The contest tonight appears to be
The above mentioned were Co­ and she has been employed in Eugene week-end.
that between a well-rounded McKin­
quille representatives at the meet­ for some time.
ley crew that works quite smoothly
ing Thursday, Ban R. Chandler and
The groom was a C. H. S. graduate
and effectively in the infield and out­
John Ferguson were there from with the class of 1934. He attended
field, pitted against the lumber boys’
Marshfield, H. G. Kern and Harold O. S. C. and upon his graduation there
team which is undoubtedly lop-sided
Hickerson from North Bend. Curry this month entered upon his duties as
in strength, built around the al-
county was ably represented by a Triple-A secretary in the Clafcka-
delegation of six, headed by Judge mas county agent’s office in Oregon
Rev. Howard L. Graybeal was re­ mighty “Chub” Allord, who will hold
Boice and Representative Roy Car- City.
Their romance began during turned to Pioneer Church here by down the mound post. Just which
ter.
their high school days in Coquille. Bishop Wallace E. Brown, when ap­ of these two combinations is best will
Louis Folsom, a former Coquille pointments for the Oregon Methodist be decided tonight.
The last game of the half will be
For the
John Martin’s Barn
resident now living in Cascade Locks, Grove, Sunday evening.
Marshfield charge, Rev. Oliver J. Gill played Friday night when Pastime
was
another
from
out
of
town
present
Stopped This Car’s Roll
was returned for another year. At meets Stevens Hardware. Pastime
at the wedding.
The Ford car belonging to
The Sentinel joins with their hosts North Bend the new M. E. pastor will has already clinched the third place
Geneva Agostino, who is on vacation of friends in this section where both be Rev. Malcolm B. Ballinger, who post in the league but a loss Friday
from duty in the Smith Wood-Prod­ the young people are so well and fa­ comes from Canby to succeed Rev. would place Cow Bell and Pastime in
ucts office and to in San Francisco, vorably known, in wishing them con­ Edward Terry, who was appointed to a tie for third.
was pretty badly wrecked early Sun­ tinued happiness and prosperity the Silverton charge. Rev. ,W. C.
day morning when it left the high­ through all the yean that are to come. Cronk to moved from Myrtle Point to
way, just west of the Jno. A. Martin
Woodbum and no appointment has
place, crashed through the fence,
Mr. and Mrs. Lanis Bosworth are yet been made for the Myrtle Point
rolled over and over and stopped at leaving Friday for San Francisco to church.
the door of the bam.
meet their young son, Lanis Loy .from
Rev. G. A. Gray, of this city, goes
Mr. and Mrs. Verner Ames spent
John Norton, who was driving it, Texas. After a few days at the fair, on the retired list of M. E. ministry.
a week in Coquille on their return
and was uninjured, says he was they will all return home and young
With the close of the Methodist con­
crowded off the road by a car he met.' Lanis will spend the summer here, ference at Forest Grove last Sunday from their honeymoon trip to Cali­
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returning to Texas to re-enter school afternoon the three major branches fornia. They were married in Rose­
burg the latter part of May. Mrs.
Calling cards, 50 tor 81.00.
in the fall.
of Methodism in Oregon
stand
Ames to the former Miss Barbara
united into one church, for the first
Richmond, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
time in more than one hundred yean.
Jas. Richmond.
By this merger the two local Metho­
They will make their home in Sa­
dist churches are formally and per­
lem and Barbara was back again
manently joined together in what to
from there the first of the week to
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Church.
One Active Candidate Will morning,' July 1, and Wednesday
Gould, to Salem for a visit, after
Dr. Sidney Hall was appointed as
Earn Extra Reward For Work night, July 5. Here is an opportunity district superintendent of the Cas­ which she continued on up into
for an ambitious candidate to earn a cade district and will exercise the Washington to visit another grand­
welcome cash award in addition to supervision formerly given by Dr. daughter.
one of the original awards, for Just J. A. McKee, of Walla Walla.
Dryer Room Fire Quickly
five days of pleasant competition.
At the Forest Grove conference,
Extinguished Monday Evening
The $10 cash prize is a new cam­ Ernest Purvance, of Coquille, was
paign. It is separate from the ori­ elected as Lay leader for the en­ .• No damage was done at the ply-
ginal campaign in which bicycles and tire Oregon conference. He was also wood plant Monday evening, about
cash commissions are offered to can­ elected president of the Lay con­ 5:30, although the fire department
and
responded
didates. See the large advertisement ference and presided jointly with the was summoned
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bishop during the sessions of the promptly.
in this issue for full details.
z
The
fire
was
in
the
dry
kiln,
where
conference.
And
in
addition
to
these
The prizes offered in this cam­
paign (particularly now with the new offices he was also named as one of the peeled sheets are run in to have
810 cash prize tor just five days) are the trustees of the conference in the the pitch and moisture evaporated.
well worth the efforts of the entire articles of incorporation filed at Sa­ The pitch drops to the flour and al­
though it to washed every week it
,
family. Parents should get behind lem.
The next session of the Oregon con­ to impossible to get the floor perfect­
their entry, help them with actual
work and advice to the end that their ference will be held in First Meth­ ly smooth and the fire was started
own favorite candidate will win one odist Church, Portland, in June, IMO. by the friction of the sheets on the
rough spots.
of the major awards.
With the overhead sprinkling sys­
The Sentinel to especially anxious
tem as protection and the prompt re­
that parents should come to the of-
sponse of the fire department to any
call, it would be almost impossible
for a fire to gain any headway there.
McKinley CCC Vies
Against Plywood
Remodeling, Repaint
Jobs Now Underway
Floten - Folsom
[ Nuptials Sunday
Helping To Send
Boys To Ohio
on the trip will have to be furnished
by themselves, or Coos county or­
ganizations. It 1s the intention to
contact other chambers of commerce
and clubs in the county to raise the
balance of the $180 which it to es­
timated the boys will need.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Armitages, of
Hilo, Hawaii, were guests at the J. A.
Lamb home here Friday, leaving Sat­
urday for San Francisco from which
port they expected to sail for home.
They had been on a trip up through
Canada. Mr. Armitages is manager
of the shipping office in Hilo where
Muarice Williams to employed. He
says Mrs. Jane Williams, sister of
Mrs. Lamb, to feeling better this
summer than she did a year ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ulett
Return From Trip To Seattle
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ulett returned
Saturday night from Seattle, where
he attended on Thursday and Friday
the annual convention of west coast
gas dealers, presidents, vice prési­
dants and managers of gas companies.
The convention next year is to be
held in Jasper, Alberta.
All the reports given at the con-
vention were encouraging and Mr.
Ulett says that in the Coquille Gas
A Power Co. plant they recently in­
stalled a new inspirator, the machine
which transforms the butane from the
liquid to the gaseous state and which
is capable at handling fifteen thou­
sand feet of gas a day.
Dr. Milne To Heod
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Remains Here
Another Year
Visits Here After
Honeymoon Trip
Contestants To Vie For Additional
$10.00 Cash Prize In Drive
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