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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1939)
News Items From Adjacent Communities ing nearly three weeks here. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mack and chil dren, Charles and Jimmy, enjoyed a camping trip at Coos Head from Thursday until Saturday. Clyde Bartlett and his sisters, Vir ginia and Vivienne Lake, left Friday evening to spend the week-end with relatives and friends at Otis. Mrs. Dwight Culver returned home Sunday from Coquille, where she had been since Wednesday, .with the ex ception of Friday evening when she came home to attend Grange), with the Chas. Butler family. Mr. Butler has been critically ill with pneu monia, following an operation, but was on the way to recovery when Mrs. Culver left Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hatfield and sons, Edson and Lyman, returned home on Thursday evening of last week from their trip to the Golden Gate Exposition. They were gone nine days. The pleasure of the trip was considerably marred by the se vere illness of Mr. Hatfield who suf fered an attack of asthma and had to spend several days in the hospital. The attendance at the Grange meeting Friday evening numbered about 18. After the business session, refreshments of peaches, cream and cookies were served by Mesdames O. W. Heath and Dwight Culver. School opened Tuesday morning with the following teachers in charge: Mr. Bernard Senn, principal; Miss Aleta Hudson, intermediate, and Miss Anna Cos, primary. standing feature. O. D. Adams, state director of vo cational education, has just received notice of his appointment as a mem ber of the Oregon state advisory board of the national youth adminis tration. days, hours • to 11:30 a. m.; fees |3 per month. Dena Ellingson Pierce, 440 East Third, Coquille. * Its The Oregon Pension Federation has addressed a letter to Governor Sprague, urging his support of a pro gram providing for a retirement pen sion of $40 a month for all citizens of 85 years of age or over who would agree to refrain from all gainful pur suits. The proposed pension would be financed out of state and federal funds. Leo Friedlander, of New York City, sculptor of the statuary that guards the entrance to Oregon’s new capitol, has been here the past week super vising the finishing touches to the huge granite pieces, work on which is Employees of the public utiliUes now completed. commission are no longer to be per mitted to sip their morning and af ternoon tea in leisurely fashion. Com missioner O. R. Bean has directed that the morning and afternoon recess pe riods shall be reluced from 15 min utes to ten minutes. Already the big guns of the two major political parties are being man euvered into position on the Oregon front in preparation for the political campaign of 1940 Right on the heels of the announce ment by former governor Charles H. Martin that he Would head a cam paign for the nomination of John Nance Gamer of Texas as the demo cratic standard bearer, Frank Mc Hale, democratic national comittee- man from Indiana, came to Oregon to sound out sentiment among democrats of this state in support of Paul V. holiday sig vacation pe- departments Strong Appliance Co. With a deficiency appropriation of Phone 102J »oxy Bldg. SPECIAL Trade in Your See the new Electric Ranges on Display at the following dealers I $129.50 J. A. LAMB COMPANY Biegger fir Gunderson Furniture Lamb Hardware Radio & Appliance Sales Co. Strong Appliance Co. Schroeder & Sons, Myrtle Point Mountain States Power Co pany
