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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1940)
Kansas Rad WheatCame From Two-Galloü Hoard G reenough. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer Mills and their baby daughter of Salem, visited i.londay with Mrs. Gladys Gano. County Agent George H. Jenkins eturned- Tuesday from Corvallis. Lunelle Chapin spent the weekend in Salem, where the viti ted her par enti. Mr. and Mrs. Luther J. Chapin. Mrs. peace W. Jones of Aurora spent the weekend here visiting her daughter, Marjorie Jones. George Ulett, Jr., who is attending medical school in Portland, spent the weekend here with his parents. In 1074 a colony of Mennoniles, seeking religious freedom, departed from Caslov, Crimea, to find homes in Kansas. A patriarchal and agri cultural people, knowing nothing of the conditions which they must face in the new country, they took along everything they thought they might need, including household goods, im plements, and what at the time may have seemed unimportant, but later was to prove most important of all, two gallons of the peculiar hard red wheat of the Russian steppes. This wheat was of the type familiar to them, recites a writer in the Kan sas City Times, and they had no way of knowing it would be an in novation in America. Those two gallons of grains were literally hand- picked, one grain at a time, by Men- nonite children, each grain being examined for color, conformity and the necessary flinty hardness. Near Hillsboro, Kan., the wheat was planted. At that time soft wheat was the type grown in this section end in the high plains it was a crop so unreliable that attempts to grow it had practically been abandoned. Surprisingly to the Americen neighbors of the Mennon- ites, the “Turkey Rod” wheat, as it was known, flourished remarkably. Additional acreage was sown the following year, from the seed fur nished by the first crop, and its suc cess was so great that American farmers began to acquire the seed Marjorie Knight went to Eugene and sow it. Mills had formerly been for the weekend to visit her parents. of the burr type in Kansas; they now began to be converted into the roller type necessary for the harder grata. By 1885 the demand for the new wheat was so great that a Mennon- ite miller sent to Russia for an on- 1 tire carlot of it for distribution'. ! The Kansas State college agricul tural department experimented, de veloped and crosg-bred the original “Turkey Red" into a variety of im proved forms. Members of the Episcopal Guild Land which had been considered j gave a reception Wednesday evening fit only for grazing was broken. in western Kansas. Nebraska, Okla for Bishop D. B Dagwell and mem bers o' the class confirmed at services homa, and in the Texas Panhandle earlier in the evening. The new and eastern Colorado. By the time of the World war, the Southwest candidates were Mr. and Mrs. Julius could literally lay claim to being Ruble, Mrs. Robert Plieth and Miss the "bread basket of the nation.” Marjorie Knight. Refreshments were served from a beautifully appointed table. Yellow . chrysanthemums and greens were used to make the centerpiece, which was flanked by papers. Open face I sandwiches, bowls of Tokay grapes and other attractive viands gave color | to the table. * Episcopal Guild Entertains Bishop ROXY WTAM/M /NOME ÇAM/iE' MULTAMI» iKluIhî,>^ Fuhrman's Pharmacy We’re Never Just Out LIBERTY bob buh ” Tfx Famous Storyof Dr. Thomas Arnold' Mia« lhe . Beacon 1 misch * m W Walt Disney Cartoon Also MUSICAL “CLASS IN SWING” Latest News Admission - - 10c - 30c Crocodiles, Alligators Crocodiles and alligators are sc closely allied zoologically that many laymen cannot distinguish betweer them. Hence alligators are fre n and quently accused of attacking and e this killing men when, in reality, ths where killers are crocodiles. Naturalist* who have spent their lives in ths study of these reptiles, says Col lier’s Weekly, state that they hav« Whether your home be modern or never heard of an authentic case ol traditional, there is a Rittenhouse a human death caused by an al Door Chime styled in such superb ligator. taste that it becomes a decorative Large selection of new lamps, I. E. accessory. See—Hear—Play a Rit S. floor lamps, bridge lamps and,table tenhouse Door Chime at Hooton s lampe, 1.95 to 17.50. Coquille Furni Electric Shop. ture Co. s Calline rema NOV. 17 -18 - 10 Ah-h! \ Together! —in a snappy story as light hearted as the breeze and as romantic as that wanted kiss! . . Come and see them fall in love—on a “honeymoon” for three!” W mi »; -m Lieut, and Mrs. Darrell Brodie drove down from Camp Clatsop Fri day for the week-end. Accompany ing them were Dean Caudle and Fred Pomeroy, Warren Knight, of Myrtle Point, and Lysle Coilver, of Marsh field. Lieut. Brodie and the boys re turned north Sunday. FOR RENT—Two-room Apartment and a two-room Cottage, at 408 . South Elliott St. It* 1 Plus March of Time Bargain Matinpi Sun. 1: V j Evenings 10c - 10c “TUGBOAT MICKEY” Edgar Kennedy Comedy ‘Mutiny In The Country’ ADMISSION Adults 20c WEDTHUR JS- BABY S HERE!
