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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1942)
The Sentinel TWENTY YEARS AGO forever,” said Thomas A. Edison in a recent Interview. Geo. A. Robinson is having in stalled one of the best and most com plete radio receiving outfits on the coast. Enterprising plywood people of the inid-west and east entered the picture. They argued that if Douglas fir was to be used the proper procedure would be to ship the logs, cants or flitches to existing plants which they operate. However, transportation quickly came to the rescue of the far west and now tremendous interest centers around slice cutting and air plane plywood construction in Ore gon. Several strong concerns' are rushing into the picture. If present indices do not fail there will be heavy development of the industries pro ducing Oregon plywood for airplane construction. Good authority is hope ful that out of all this confusion will come unusually promising, payrolls for Oregon and possibly hold.some of the population in smaller cities that otherwise might be attracted to met ropolitan centers. Mrs. H. W. Young, who underwent an operation at the Good Samaritan hospital in Portland in July and has since been in failing health, departed thia life at her home here at two o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Wernich Writes From Minneapolis The Sentinel’s society editor, Mrs. Mabel G. Wernich, who expected to be gone only six or seven weeks when she left here in August for Minne apolis, New York, Washington, D. C., and other points in the east and south, now writes that she will not leave Minneapolis until Nov. 1 and that it will be toward the first of December before she returns home. She writes that she has been having “ a per fectly grand time,” with relatives and old friends in Minneapolis. She says: “I expect to leave here about Nov. 1st for Chicago, where I visit a life long friend; followed by important stops in New York, Washington, D. C., down the Atlantic seaboard to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Loui siana, and up to Amarillo, Texas, to visit relatives in the oil business; then to Pasadena to visit the Lenahans who always park their trailer in our or chard during August, and than home as fast as possible. How do you sup pose I’ll ever get down to earth? Again next Tuesday, Oct fl, an ex aminer will be at the CoqufUe city hall, fj-om 2 to 5 p. m., to receive ap plications from those desiring drivers’ licenses. There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine of force so terrible in itg potentialities, so abso lutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict it will be appalled, and so will abandon war Norton’s have just received several hundred-books for Holiday sale. Shop early while stocks are complete. s As the Nipponese are shooting our scrap back at us, we would enjoy using their silk, for firing the big guns at them. Incidentally, all women here are not wearing cotton hose because the supply is not great enough. At least one store in town, where Inquiry was made, did not carry the cotton. From where I sit iy Joe Marsh Grants Four Divorces Judge Dal King granted four di vorces in circuit court here on Tues day, to the plaintiffs in the following Carl C. Inman vs. Mona C. Ihman. Adin R. Reigel vs. Jessie M. Riegel. Wilmer A. Gault vs. Veme Anita Gault. Loretta B. Hayes vs. Robert J. Hayes. We have a large selection of USED Biegger Furniture By the Following Members of the Coos Cranberry Co-op where it Js needed. .----- ■ Remember, those charged with the heavy responsibility of seeing that our armed forces are adequately equipped with the sinews of war are banking on the fanners of America coming through with a bumper scrap crop. For information as to picking time, get in touch with the individual members.
