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OBIRTHUREPAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1939.
; Myrtle Point Boys
To Be Held Nov. 28
NEWSPAPER
Are Persistent
Coquille To Play Medford For Southern
Oregon Championship, November 23
99-Mile R. E. A
Project Approved
City To Foreclose
On Delinquents
I Two of Myrtle Point’s bad boy»,
Approval of the Coquille valley’s
R. E. A. project was given by the
The Chamber of Commerce board Albert King, 22, and Vernon Bright,
Agreement
Stoned
Yesterday
By
Local
School
The city council, with Mayor Milne
of directors, at the noon session in 19, were given 60 days in the county
administration in Washington. D. C,
and all members present Monday eve
jail
by
Justice
C.
A.
Barton
here
last
the hotel Tuesday, set Tuesday, Nov.
on Monday and hopes are now held
Authorities For The Thanksgiving Date — Coquille
ning, granted the petition of the Wil
28, at 6:30 p. m, as the date and . week on a petty larceny confession,
that Sitkum, Dora, Gavelford, Fair
lard street property owners, between
Will
Keep
Receipts
or
All
Tickets
Sold
Here
i
The
boys
have
been
in
lots
of
trouble
view, McKinley, Lee, Bridge, Remote
hour for holding the chamber’s an
Fourth and Sixth stret, for a grading
t '
and
Sumner
communities
will
be
nual meeting and election of officers. I before, having served time for petty
1»
and gravelling improvement for 490
The post season game between Co
served with electricity by next spring.
The committee on arrangements was larceny here and elsewhere. Their
feet which will permit them to gef
thefts
are
usually
in
connection
with
quille High’s Red Devils and the Med
instructed to secure a speaker for the
The 99-mile project has been ap out of the bottom there to the higher
*
A
car
equipment,
gasoline,
etc.,
and
one
ford Pearpickers was assured yester
meeting and also a musical feature.
proved by a loan of $119,500 for con ground at the J. P. Beyers comer.
The report of the nominating com man had to buy their car in self de day afternoon when Principal Clar
struction of the line, bids for the con The cost of the improvement was es
mittee presented the following names: fense, they even having gone so far ence Osika informed the Sentinel that
struction of which will be called for timated by Engineer Gearhart at $273.
For president, H. L. Claterbos; for as to steal the cylinder head off his C. H. S. had accepted Use Medford
The annual Red Cross Roll Call after a supervising engineer has been
Signers of the petition accounted
proposal and would si*» the con which officially opens on Saturday, selected, states J. Arthur Berg, at
vice president, J. L. Smith; for treas when theirs went bad.
for 97 pet cent of the property to be
Their
last
offense
was
that
of
tract submitted.
urer, R. L. Stewart; all to succeed
Nov. 11, will continue to Thursday, torney for the valley group.
assessed for the improvement and a
The game, which will be played at Nov. 30. Solicitation of memberships
themselves.
For director, with 17 stealing the radio aerial off of Ralph
call for bids on the'job appear» else-S
Porter
’
s
car
as
it
stood
in
front
of
the
Medford
on
Thanksgiving
day,
Nov
to select, J. P. Beyers, Lan is Bos
in Coquille will be started next Mon
where in this issue.
23rd, is not of Coquille's seeking. day when the committee from the Co
worth, Lafe Compton, J. A. Fitzpat Fred“ Belloni home one night
“We are advised by the city treas
They took it to Don Strong and had Coach “Spike” Leslie stateAlast week,
rick, Don Gillespie, A. N. Gould, Cliff
quille Woman’s Club will begin a
urer
that there is a greatly increasing
it
hooked
up
to
their
radio
and
in
“I am not sticking my neck out by canvas of the town. Mrs. Ida Owen
Gulseth, Geo. Jenkins, Fred Jensen, i
delinquency in payment of improve
R. A. Jeub, Geo. A. Ulett, J. E. Nor- . stalled in their <yr. One of the boys challenging anyone," but he and the is roll call chairman in Coquille this
The very large crowd which at- ment liens. Therefore, I make a mo
ton, D. E. Rackleff, J. L. Stevens, O. i war'picked up by Officer Kolkhorst players and the faculty were in a
year.
tended the Junior Class play in the tion that the treasurer proceed at once
L. Wood, H. A. Young, J. A. Lamb, for failing to answer a traffic viola ceptive mood if anyone else did
In a program designed to reduce
high school gymnasium last evening with the compilation of the necessary
Geo. Witters, Wm. H. Barrow, L. C. tion summons and in the investiga challenging.
the distressing number of accidental
tion
the
stolen
aerial
matter
came
up
enjoyed
a splendid performance, one data for the sale of all real estate
Under the terms of the agreement,
Eaton, Dr. J D. Rankin, Dr. R. F.
deaths, the American Red Cross
and
both
were
arrested
when
Mr.
in
which
each member of the cast did property found to be in this condi
C.
H.
S.
will
keep
the
receipts
from
Milne, S. Gaulke, R. T. Slater and
Porter identified the aerial by the all tickets sold over here, will have swellled its number of qualified First his or her part well, and it was an tion."
O. C. Sanford.
Aiders over the two million mark
The above was a motion made by
appreciative audience which was
expenses paid for the teas» and re
There may also be nominations from welded mark on it.
Councilman Pettit and it is a /ore-
The justice also revoked their driv ceive a percentage of the take at the during the past year throughout the “with” the actors all the way.
the floor the night of the election.
country. Red Cross instructors train
ers’ licenses for six months.
gate. .
Don Hurlbutt was posibly the hit runner of foreclosure proceedings
Cliff Gulseth was named to repre
ed
355,110 men and women in First
’ which will be started if the assess-
Officer Kolkhorst is now seeking a
Medford
High
’
s
team
averages
of
the evening, his comedy part
sent the chamber at the meeting
radio which the mother of one of the something like 15 pounds to the man Aid for the year ending June 30. In which he carried out to perfection ’ ments are not paid. But before fore-
called by the Eagles to prepare for
boys told him they said had been heavier than Coquille's an* they are creased facilities for teaching meth keeping the audience convulsed. As ‘ closure is started the treasurer is giv
this year’s Christmas basket program.
hidden in a Coquille alley. He has said by those who have seen them to ods of treating the injured had been a chemistry student his appearances ing notice by an adv. in this issue that
no information as to whose radio it play a pretty rough game. But the provided by the organization to meet were usually accompanied by explo delinquents still have an opportunity
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ig nor where it is hidden but <te- Coquille boys can tackle just as hard
sions of the chemicals he was work to meet thbir obligations to the city
clare» it is “hot.1
as any team' in this conference and
ing on, at the most inopportune mo without the addition of court costs.
Property owners whose sidewalks
the Pearpickers won’t be able to get
ments, and his explanations and wise
are defective are to be given another
away with much if a roughing game
cracks were good.
warning to have them repaired at
A co-operative movement is again
is started.
„
The male lead was Charles Mulkey, once. If they pay no attention to this
under way in Coquille to provide
There is talk locally of chartering
a senior at Brookfield college, where
baskets at Christmas time for those
one or more buses by the fans who
Four Coos county warrant calls by the plot centered the day before second notice, the city’s crew will
unfortunate families who would
Treasurer Chas. Stauff appear else commencement. He had a good voice make the repairs and charge the costs
Some startling figures on tubercu will want to go out to the game.
otherwise have very little to be thank losis in the local school were given
But before it will be certain that where in this issue, all being as of for the part and made an excellent to the property.
Fire Chief Harry Perrott presented
ful for and not much in the way at a by County Health Nurse Leia Elrod the Red Devils will not be scored on today.
appearance. Patricia Holverstott, as to the council the petition, signed by
holiday dinner.
at the noon luncheon of the Rotary during the regular conference sched
The general fund call is for all a journalism student, played oppos
Last year’s efforts along this line club yesterday.
ule, they must again shut out the warrants endorsed prior to Mar. 1, ite Charles, was another outstanding 67 local residents, asking that the city
buy modem and up-to-date fire
were so successful that the Eagles
“For the past ten years,” stated Myrtle Point Bulldogs who meet the 1939, and the amount to be paid is character whose excellent speaking
fighting equipment for the protection
lodge called a meeting of all organi Mrs. Elrod, “the graduating class of Red Devils here at two o’clock to
$24,533.74, of which $700 is interest. voice helped put the show over.
of property in the city, with the prob
zations which was held in the city the Coquille High school has averaged morrow afternoon.
The Bulldogs
The bridge fund warrants to be
Still another fine characterization ability that such added protection
hell on Tuesday evening of this week. one member a year being sent to the play a heads up game but in their
called aggregate $4,041.54, endorsed was that of Geraldine Cole, who took
would reduce insurance rates in Co
Eleven clubs and orders responded state tuberculosis hospital at Salem.” first meeting with the local squad
prior to March 1 this year, and the the part of* the little boarding house
quille.
and mure will be represented at next
“With the financial aid now being showed the lack of experience and Interest payment will be $120.
landlady.
While the council would like to take
Tuesday evening's meeting at 7:30 furnished by the committee in charge staying powers which the Red Devilg
S The general road fund warrants U Others who kept the action of the action along that line, it is tqo late to _
o'clock in the city hall, when it is ex of the Christmas Seal sale, from the show.
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t
4i
Sailed are aH those endorsed prior comedy. “Spring Fever,” at the prop do it thia' year, City Attorney Green-
pected final details will be worked county and state, we would now be
It will be a good game, the ldst on
to Mar. 1, 1933. Interest payment er tempo throughout the performance ough informed the council for next
out.
the
home
gridiron
this
year.
able to make tests of all the school
will be $1,120.09 and principal pay were Raymond Rowland,
Donna year’s budget has already been adopt
Fred Bull was made general chair children if we could secure the co
Whether the winner of the Co-
ment
$12,455.19.
Dunn,
Virginia
Young,
Wayne ed by the city and certified to the
man and Marjorie Knight, secretary. operation of the children and their i quille-Medford game will play the
Schrader, Helen Nelson, Marvin Mc county assessor.
A dance, to be held in the Com parents, and with the reactors.to (he[winner of the Milwaukie-Portland
The street committee reported that
munity Building on Dec. 9, will pro tests being determined we could save school post-season game, tot a mythi- /^strict fund up to No. 3995, and Clellan, Sterling Gruenewald and
it had decided to leave the two grade
vide the funds, except for donations ' a large part of this terrible waste cal state championship has not been <*ate<i prior to Aug. 31, 1938, are Howard Moy.
*11,017.12 to be paid
called. Of the $11,017.12
which may be made to the fund.
Mrs. Ruth Beyers, who has coached street levels on Myrtle street, be
through death or loss of social use announced.
for the district’s paper, $651.13 is for so many of the high school plays for tween First and Second, as they now
Mr. Bull appointed committees for fulness,” added Mrs. Elrod.
interest
the dance on music, hall, advertising
years, is entitled to much credit for stand and to leave to the city en
Quoting the law pasesd by the re-
and tickets and will name other com- *cent legislature, requirihg'”"iKat all
the splendid way in which each and gineer’s judgment the amount of
earth it would be safe to move from
mitee assignments next Tuesday.
every one took his or her part.
teachers in the public schools submit
Last year the dance netted some to health tests, Mrs. Elrod made a plea
The check-up on the financial re the bank between the two levels.
thing over $220. Of that amount, for cooperation through publicity and
turns from the performance had not . The council supported the mayor
Mrs. Aqnie Robinson and Miss Bess
in his contention with J. C. Stevens,
around $130 was spent for groceries, other channels, in making the T. ,B.
yet
been made this morning.
Maury returned last Saturday from
Portland engineer, that the blue
$31 for beef, there were some con tests compulsory for the children as
Honoring Book Week, Nov. 12 to 18,
their very enjoyable five weeks* va
prints, plans, etc., made for the dam
tributions from the fund to needy well, to help free our schools from
cation trip during which they visited the Coquille Woman’s Club at its
raising are the property of the city,
families and $5 was donated to the this scourge.
the New York world fair. Nearly all monthly meeting in Guild Hall next
and when Mr. Stevens sends the linen
school milk fund.
Program Chairman Osika in thank their traveling was by train. From Tuesday at 2:00 p. tn, will devote its
tracings which he agreed to do a few
ing Mrs. Elrod for her talk, added here to Roseburg it was by car and program to the Coquille library and
weeks ago that the warrant for $400
that in the past year less than one- from there by bus to Portland. A those who helped in its organization.
There are two isolated cases of in due his firm will be signed by the
third of the children in the high school side trip from Niagara into Canada One of the features is to be given by fantile paralysis at the county farm at
mayor and forwarded to him.
took the tests when they had the op and back to Buffalo was by bus and Mrs. Roy Barton, who will tell in
the present time.
One is a Curry
story
form
the
31
years
of
the
local
portunity.
county boy who was stricken while
» from Eugene to Coquille last Satur-
library's history. Mrs. Pearl Elling-
President Muri Pettit advised that day they came by bus.
. The public hearing of the Hydro
visiting in Coos county and the other
They went sightseeing in Chicago, sen, librarian, announces the theme of is a five-year old from the Valley
electric commision of Oregon will be plans for the Rotary-anne dinner
were
well
under
way
and
that
de
the
program
as
“
Story
Hour
at
the
Cleveland, Washington, D. C. New
held in the circuit court room at the
View district two miles and a half
court house tomorrow (Friday) eve tails would be forthcoming at the Orleans and spent ten days at the New Library."
from Coquille on the highway to
Coquille Post of the American Le
meeting
next
week.
All
persons
interested
in
any
way
York fair.
ning at eight o'clock.
Myrtle Point. •
gion
is having two public events this
Rotarian
guests
present
were
Har
in
the
library
at
the
time
it
was
or
The
ladies
say
the
only
tiresome
The result of that meeting will be
Because there are other children in
the commision’s decision whether or ry Nasburg and Albert Matson,. of part of the entire month was traveling ganized in 1908 are invited to be the family in the Valley View section month. Saturday night this week will
not to call an election, to be held at Marshfield. Other guests were A. A. from New Orleans to San Francisco. present at next Tuesday's session of woo had been attending school there. be the annual Armistice Day Ball
with music by the Don & Spenny or
the primary next May, for the voters Bernard, of Portland; Chuck Beyers, They thought the Texas plains would the Woman’s Club.
Dr. James Richmond, as acting coun chestra.
to decide whether a Public Utilities of Eugene, and the speaker, Mrs. Iris never end.
ty health officer, on Monday ordered
On Saturday night of next week—
District shall be formed in Coos coun Elrod, of Coquille.
the school closed until all danger of Nov. 18—the Legion will have its an
ty. Petitions will be presented to the
spread of the disease in that section is nual keno which will be held in the
commission and if the demand is
over. He ordered that all children Shelley building, formerly occupied
deemed great enough and the inter
there must be kept on their own by a Safeway store.
est sh&vn warrants it, the election
A class of eight was presented by premises for the next ten days and
The committee has secured plenty
will be called.
Saturday, November 11, is the na Rev. George R. Turney to Bishop B. that illness be carefully watched.
of good plump birds for this event and
J. E. Axtell the first of this week tional Armistice Day holiday and, as D. Dagwell at St James Episcopal
Practically all ot Coos county and
furnishes an opportunity for 30 to 40
all the incorporated cities of the coun moved the Title Guarantee A Abstract usual, Coquille business houses will church last Thursday evening for
patrons to get their Thanksgiving din
ty, except Bandon, is included in the Co. office from its former location not be open that day. Many are going confirmation. The list included Mrs.
ner
at small cost.
in the First National Bank building to out to the footbal game at Eugene Bonnie G. Walker, Mrs. Ruth Sher
proposed district.
The Legion will not have a keno
The purpose back of the formation the new office building just com that day, at least all those who have wood, Geo. W. Sherwood, Mrs. Caro
just before Christmas this year.
of the district is, of course, to secure plet’d at the comer of Third and El been able to secure tickets for the line W. Rowell, Mrs. Dena E. Pierce,
The Coquille Fire Department re
power from Bonneville in Coos coun liott streets, across Elliott from the game which is reported as a seU-out. Mabel Gosline, Mrs. Veryla Smith,
quests the Sentinel to announce that
ty. The proponents of the measure court house.
The Oregon team is now figured to all of Coquille, and Robert H. Van
The new office is light, commodious have an edge over Oregon State that Orden, of Myrtle Point.
will undoubtedly refer to it as “cheap
A ninth its members are going to assist in
power,” but the figures recently re and comfortable and is located adja day, due mainly to the disappointing member of the class, Mrs. Madeline making some youngsters happier this
leased by O. R. Bean, public utilities cent to the point where most abstract showing made by the Beavers against J. MacKnight, who was unable to be year at Christmas time. The fire boys
Harold Kolkhorst was a guest at
commissioner for Oregon, which ap business originates— the court house. Southern Cal. at Portland last Satur- present Thursday evening because of request that anyone having broken
The most serious objection to the day.
pear elsewhere in this issue, regarding
her recent injury, was confirmed at a toys or toys that they are through the Lions club luncheon last Thurs
electrical costs in Oregon, should location is its distance from the 10
private service at her home the with, to bring them to the city hall day noon and gave a splendid talk on
and leave them either with the city what he heard and learned at the po
make one stop and think what it will a. m. meetings of the coffee clubl
next day.
recorder or the police department. lice officers* session recently held in
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mean to have the Mt. States Power
Early
next month Chief Perrott says Eugene.
company annual payment of taxes cut
the men will begin to mend, repair
off in Coos codnty. He also states
and paint these toys and put them in
that consumers in Oregon pay less for
first class condition so that they
The Fishtrap Drainage District an
electricity than those of most of the
can be distributed on Christmas eve
nual
meeting
was
held
last
Saturday
states in the U. S.
The year's Armistice Day celebra at the C. A. Keltner home on Fishtrap.
Leo B. McCool was adjudged in- to young people whose Yuletide gifts
tion or observance by the American F. B. Fish was re-elected president sane in probate court yesterday and might otherwise be pretty slim,
Health Aaaociatlen To Meet
A Carpenters Local, No. 10M, will
Legion is to be held in Bandon, the and Geo. Hampton supervisor.
was to he taken to the asylum at
It la a moat worthy project the fire- entertain the Oregon coast district
ere On November 27
Post
there
having
invited
the
Co
Assessments
on
land
in
the
distret
The Coos County Health Associa-
Salem (.■day. Dr. Gerald E. Stark men have undertaken but it will need council of carpenters next Monday
x,
set the date for a dinner quille Post to come dowi.. The usual will be the same next year as they was called to the county jail the co-operation of everyone to make evening in the Odd Fellows dining
be held in the Coquille eleven o’clock breakfast is the first were this, $4.50 per acre on 201 acres yesterday to remove splinters from it the success it can be made.
room here. The ladies of the Re
Hotel on Monday. Nov 27. at « 30 scheduled feature on the program. of lowland and $2.25 for the 50 acres his scalp which he received when he j Hunt up the discarded and broken bekah lodge will serve the dinner at
p. m. Further announcement as to Last year the affair was held in the of upland, the budget adopted being started a ruckus at his former home[ toys of previous years and take them 7:00 p. m. From M to 60 are ex
for $1019.
will be made next week. Legion Home here.
the night before.
to the city hall.
pected to be in attendance.
Red Cross Roll
Call To Start
Junior Ploy A
Fine Performance
Arranging For.___
Christmas Baskets
Warrants Called In
Four County Funds
T. B. Figures
Told To Rotary
Home From Trans-
Continental Trip '
Library Program
For Woman's Club
School Closed By
Health Officer
P.U.D. Meeting Here
Eight P. M. Friday
Legion Dance And
Keno Evening
Abstract Office
Is Moved
Stores Will Be
Closed Nov. 11
Eight Confirmed By
Bishop Dagwell
Fire Department
To Repair Toys
Lions Told Of
Police School
Legion Going To
Bandon Saturday
Drainage District
Assesses For 1940
McCool Returns
To The Asylum
Carpenters Local To
Entertain Council