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J. S. Houck, Nearly
Years Passes Tuesday
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Dr. U. G. Dubach
To Speak Dec. 10
Dr. U. U. Dubach, educator . and
lecturer, is being sponsored by the
Coquille Business and Professional
Women and the Coquille Lions and
Neighborly I
Results In Wrecked
Car In Curry County Next Tuesday Evening
Women-at-War Week Anniversary Of
Observed in Coquille Pearl Harbor To
Last week Coquille
observed Be Observed Here
“Women at War Week,*’ sponsored by
the United States Treasury Depart
Coquille’s Civilian Defense organ
ment to aell war bonds through the izations will observe the first an
efforts of women's oragnizations. With niversary of Pearl Harbor next Mon
headquarters in a booth at the J. £. day evening, Dec. 7, with an Incident
Penney store here, Mn. Fred L. drill along the lines they have been
Houston, chairman for the Coquille practicing for months past."
Senior Woman’s Club, went all out
E. T. Stella, chairman of the Co
at her task of selling and for her time quille Necessities Division, states that
spent, had the gratifying result of ail men and women of the Canteen
$2850 worth of sales in bonds to her Units, the Registration, Housing, Shel
credit, as well as $47.00 in stamps.
ter and Clothing committees, will
Marjorie Knight was Coquille's meet at 7:30 o'clock that evening in
Minute Girl and on Wednesday of last the study hall kt the high school and
week appeared before Rotary club all members are urged to attend and
ait luncheon, giving a short talk on the perform their duties as is to be done
subject, “Women at War” week.
in every town and city in the state
Ti»e reports ot the Business and that evening.
Professional Women’s Club and also
R. L. Stewart, vice commander of
that of the Junior Women's Club were the Protective Division for the Co
not yet complete for publication and quille valley, has called all those in
must wait until contracts are made that division to meet at the city hall
by their chairmen at their next meet the same evening for that depart
ings.
ment’s participation and drill in the
A contest with money prizes was a anniversary observance.
part of the plan for the week to be
This drill is to be held at the re
figured per capita as to paid mem quest of Gov. Sprague and is in ac--
berships.
The Coquille Woman’s cord with the suggestions from na
Club paid membership is 160 and. tional headquarters that everywhere
being so large, lessened the chance for in the United States that the anni
the prize, but Mrs. Houston’s results versary of the sneak attack on Pearl
are no less appreciated.
Harbor be observed in some fitting
manner.
J. S. Houch, who had been a resi
W. C. Willlama, of the South west
The annual meeting of the Coquille
dent of Coquille for much of the time
ern Motors body shop on Hall street, Chamber of Commerce will be held
since 1814, passed away at the Tim
does not believe it pays to be too in the Coquille Hotel dining room
mons Home for elderly people, at thq
big-hearted!
next Tuesday evening, Dec. 8, at 8:30
comer of Sixth and Henry streets, at
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On Thanksgiving he went down to o’clock,
11:30 o’clock Tuesday night. He had
Gold Beach to estimate the cost of
As usual it is ah open meeting and
been ill only a week but had been in
repairing J. Walker’s far, which had everyone interested, including the
failing health for the past year.
been wrecked at the edge of town be ladies, is invited to attend. Due to
The funeral services are to be held
cause the owner was letting some one the shortage of help jn the hotel a
at the Gano Funeral Home. Friday,
else drive it. Mr. Willisms Joshed dinner will not be served but there
DeC-4. Ln accord with his request,
Mr. Welker about being bir-hearted. will be a luncheon similar to those
made two years ago, Rev. G. A. Gray,
After Mr. Williams had consulted :>erved the service clubs now.
assisted by Rev. W. S. Smith, will of
Mr. Walker and had gone to Gold
A short meeting of the board of
ficiate at ttw service. Interment will
Beach to see the damaged car, a next directors is set to be held in the same
be in the Masonic cemetery, where his
door neighbor of Walker’s, eight miles place this (Thursday) evening at 7:30
body will be laid to rest alongside
south of town, had no way to get when the report of the chamber’s
that of his Wife who passed away in
home, so Mr. WiUiams and his wife 'nominating committee will be re
Rotary Clubs at a free all-community
May, 1837.
ceived. That committee, consisting
offered to take him that evening-
Josiah Scott Houck was born in public meeting on December 10, at
It happened there was an alert on of R. L. Stewart, Lafe Compton and
8:00 o’clock in the Washington School
Foulton county, Penn., Sept. 16, 1853,
that night, which Williams knew H. A. Young, met Tuesday evening
auditorium.
and was two months and 12 days past
nothing about, but it made no differ and selected the following list of can
Dr. Dubach has traveled exten
89 years of age.
ence in his driving for he had the didates whose names will be on the
sively in foreign countries with
He came west as a young man and
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regulation dim-outs for his heed ballot next Tuesday:
which we are now at war. He has
at HyderviUe, Calif., was united in
For President—Geo. E. Oerding.
lamps.
a story to tell that will captivate the
marriage to Electa Jane Burnell,
For Vice President —Geo H. Jenkins
However, he met an army truck,
interest of every citizen of Coquille.
Oct. 8, 1878.
For Directors—J. E. Norton, J. A.
travelling without lights, south of
Those who have heard him say you
Of the five children born, to them,
Gold Beach a ways, on an S-curve, Lamb, J. D. Gillespie, O. L. Wood,
will laugh and shed tears over the
all daughters, one passed away iii
and the truck was over the yellow Geo. A. Ulett, E. T. Stelle, “Andy”
amusing and the sad aspects of this
childhood. The survivors are Mrs.
line. The two collided almost head Anderson, J. L. Smith, John Purkey,
gigantic struggle in which every
Geo. R. Johnson, of Coquille; Mrs.
on and when Mr. Willis
got out to L. L. Bonney, Phil Alboro, J. L.
American is now engaged.
Geo. B. Marquis, qf Walla Walla,
took, one of his wheels had broken a Stereos.
Every person will be richer and
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Wash.; Mrs. John W. Kerns, of Grand
little of the earth on the edge of the
happier by far in attend
ut-
Ronde, Ore., and Mrs. Geo. W. Broad
bluff which was 150 feet above f
standing event which is
to
bridge, of Los Angeles. He is also
beach!
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bring out Coquille's largest crowd of
survived by two sisters and twelve
Neither Williams nor his wife were
A 15-year old boy, Reese DeVere
the year.
grandchildren.
hurt, aside from bruises and scratches,
Boss, of Portland, was taken in
Mr. and Mrs. Houck and their chil
but their car was pretty badly dam
A First 9treet business change charge by the state police at Bandon
dren first came to Coquille in 1814.
aged and suffered a broken frame on which took place on Tuesday this last Saturday and In Justice Fred
After a few years they went back to
the opposite side from where the week brings a new partner to S. Bull’s office he was charged with im
California but returned here in 1827,
truck hit.
Gallas in the Ideal Bakery. L. E. personating an officer.
remaining this timeuntil their deaths.
Although the insurance company Beals is the new partner, he having
He walked into several places in
A notice from the penitentiary, re takes care of his repair it was a
A plumber by trade, Mr. Houck had
purchased Everett J. Seeley’s interest. Bandon, telling them that he was an
been varioualy employed during his ceived by Dr. Jas Richmond this somewhat costly good-will gesture
Mr. Beals has been a resident of F. B. I. officer, and that, the lights
more active years but had been un morning, brought the word that Wm. on his part, taking the neighbor home.
North Bend for the past twelve years, down there did not comply with the
able to work for the past twelve Ede, who was sent there the first of
Mr. and Mrs.. Williams came lim having been with the Beck Bakery dim-out regulations.
At one time, lie assisted in the this jtoer after being convicted of recently from Gold Beach..
Justice Bull considered the young
there for eight years and with the
taking a cow which did not belong
furniture store here.
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ster’s age and turned him over to
Day Bakery for four.
He was a devout member of the to him, in the Powers section last
He and Mrs. Beals and their son Juvenile Officer Leonard, who wired
Pioneer Methodist church, a Christian, year, had passed away tnere yester
have moved over here . * and are living his parents in Portland and ordered
who practiced his religious beliefs, a day morning. Whether It was s case
tar a hearing
• 4i Sanford Heighta.
kindly man who
ldren and of jniicide or not, the doctor was
Monday morning. L Hie paronto imme
s
Mr.
Seeley
and
Mr.
Gallas
have
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— from Portland .but
A Chevrolet coupe, driven by Elton owned and operated the Ideal Bakery diately "1W
about an hour before their arrival
trouble or distress and the memory of on Mr. Ede’s bond before his con
Kiley, who hud just come in from for the past eight yean.
his many acta of kindness will al viction early this year, is convinced
Everett expects to be called by the the boy disappeared and at last re-
Grants Pass with as much furniture
ways be cherished by those who knew that Mr. Ede was not the guilty party.
as the car would hold, cut off the Selective Service board in January ports had not yet been found.
His conviction was at Gold Beach in
him well.
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Another case in the Justice court
power in the Spurgeon Hill section for Army service. Ha was granted a
Curry county.
Xthst
of Wait Smith, who was
six
months
’
deferment
earlier
this
about seven o’clock Monday morning
ten days in the county jail after
and landed wrong side up on the year in order to give him time to dis
being picked up by the state police.
north side of the Fourth street fill pose of his business interest.
Youngster Of Fifteen
Jack Clinton To
Said He Was F. B. I.
Go To Novy School
Everett Seeley
£7 Sells His Interest
William Ede Is
Dead At Salem
Car Slides OH
Fill, Turns Over
Quite A Difference
Surf Was Noisy -
In Twenty-four Hours
Monday Night
Here’s an example of what gas
rationing is doing to the service sta
tions:
On Monday this weekr day before
the rationing started, the Coquille
Service Station had the largest gas
sales in its history, with 3500 gallons
going through the hose, and exceeding
by 1000 gallons the next largest day,
the one next after the Bandon fire on
Sept. 28, 1936
On Tuesday this week up to four
o’clock, just one gas sale had been
made, four gallons for a coupon, and
the entire day’s sales took in eight
coupons, which meant 32 gallons.
$18,214 Warrant
From U. S. Treasury
between the highway and Moulton
street.
He was coming down the bridge
The booming of the surf along the from the north and when he applied
Bandon coast was so hard Monday the brakes the car started to skid and
night that one lady said it kept her continued after it struck the gravel
awake, but the wind next day was not I on the fill. It ran down about 20
as strong as sometimes follows this feet, hitting a power company pole
unusual occurrence.
guy line in the drop and broke the
In nearly 30 yean in Coquille this transformer on the pole loose.
writer has never heard old ocean
He was not hurt, and the South
pounding any harder than it did western Motors wrecker pulled the
Monday night, although the surf is car out after the furniture had been
often heard up here, when the wind taken out.
ia just right, at thia time of year.
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FormerCoquille
May Queen Wed
Same Orchestra For
New Year's Dance
Lily Blooms In
Nine Months
spring, had three full sized blooms
which they picked for their Tranks-
giving table, and that one of them is
still fresh and beautiful. It might be
added that the Coquille valley can be
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surpassed nowhere in the world for
Deputy Clerk John W. Leneve re
growing flowers.
ports the coot of last month’s election
as being $3945
This includes all
The Altar Society ot the Holy supplies, payments to the election of
Name Catholic church will hold a ficials in each precinct, rentals for
Christmas Gift sale next Saturday, the day and all other expenses In con
nection with the election.
Dec. 5, In Thrift’s Grocery here.
Election Cost
Coos County $3945
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Tom Martin, right end, and Jim
Howe, quarterback on the Red Devils
football team this season, were award
ed places on the All-County mythical
team selected by the coaches of the
county after the cloae of the season
last Thursday. Marshfield dominated
the selection with seven Pirates plac
ing on the team. Melvin Floyd, left
guard of the Myrtle Point Bobcats,
and Jack Hudson, left tackle of the
North Bend Bulldogs, were the other
two on the first team.
Jack McCracken, halfback of the
Mrs. Georgianna Vaughan will next Red Devils, who was injured several
Monday resume the position in Coun times during the season, was accorded
ty Clerk Oddy’s bffice which she re a place on the second team..
signed some years ago, that of chief
clerk. She has secured an apartment
in the Opperman Apartments on
North Henry street where she will
make her home.
Mrs. Myrtle Christensen will be
Tills week the Sentinel again has
recording clerk In the office.
as one of its staff of correspon
Georgianna Vaughan
Again Deputy Clerk
Mr. and Mn. A. B. Kirkendall, who
took their eon, Ray, back to his station
after a week’s visit at home, bring
word from Seattie that Miss Venita
Farris, May queen here two yean
ago, and the daughter of Mr. and Mn.
Farris of this city, was Married last
Saturday to Lance Rhodes and that
they are llying in Seattle, where Mr.
Rhodes is a shipyard workman. The
bride has been employed in Seattle
Former Episcopal Minister,
for some months.
County Treasurer Chas. Stauff this
week received the fint warrant,
amounting to $18,314.71, which the
federal government pays in lieu of
taxes on the revested O. & C. lands.
It was for the fint half of the 1937
payment and when the second half
is received the total for 1937 will be
$38,834.41.
Payments for yean after 1937, ac
cording to a change in the law, will
be on the basis of receipts from tim
ber sold from those lands and the
county will receive 78 per cent from
such sales hereafter, instead of 50
So pleased was the crowd at the
per cent, the government retaining Community Building dance last Wed
25 per cent for cost of administration. nesday night when the announcement
was made that Wayne Ryan’s orches
tra would be here for the New Year’s
eve dance Thursday, Dec. 31, that
prolonged cheering greeted the an
nouncement. There was not a large
Bobby Burna reporta that an Easter crowd at the Thanksgiving eve dance,
the building treasury bejjjg helped to
Martin, Howe On
All-County Team
Lans Leneve To
Write For Sentinel
dents a former writer for the paper,
whose “Out-Doors Stuff was so pop
ular a few years ago.
He is Lans
Now a Major, Visits Here
Leneve who now makes his home at
Major and Mrs. Frederick Jennings
Bear creek on the highway, where
stopped in Coquilel a few moments
he and Mrs. Leneve operate the ter
Tuesday morning to shake hands with
vic station and grocery store.
old friends. They were on their way
from Alaska to the Presidio and the
major did not know where he would
be sent from there. They had been
in the frozen north, where it was 35
below iero when war was declared a
A birth in official circles which did
year ago, and says they have enjoyed
cold as well as everything up there. not become known until the new
“It's a great country” was his parting father returned to hi» office in the
court house on Monday, was that of
remark.
Bl
a baby daughter to Judge and Mrs. E.
L. Peterson, which occurred on Nov.
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. mruHwniiei Ktenitnl in- Port*
will Make Their Home Here
land. The baby has been named
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Floten, who have Marcia Ann. Mrs. Peterson and babe
been living in Portland for several will remain with her mother, Mrs
years, were here the first of this Anne Haberlach, at Clackamas, for a
week. They have rented one of the time before returning to Coquille.
Sherwood houses on Second stret and
Lyle B. Beyers, son of J. P. Beyers
expect again to make Coquille their
home. They went up to Portland yes of this city, is now stationed at Fort
terday and are expected back today Belvol, Virginia, where he is in the
with their furniture.
Before her Third Engineer Training Battelion.
marriage Mrs Floten was Florence according to notice from there, re
Folsom.
ceived this morning.
Judge Peterson
Is A Father
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Jack Clinton, son ot Mr. and Mrs.
Theo. L. Clinton, and who has been
employed by Smith Wood-Products
at Sutherlin the past summer and
fall, left yesterday for New York,
where he will take the Navy engineer
ing course at Columbia University.
When he has finished the course he
will receive an ensign commission.
Jack enlisted last summer as an
apprentice seaman and has since been
awaiting the call from the Navy.
Three Valley Boyi
In Virginia
.
BiU** Hughes, who Mt yerter3&~
after a ten-day furlough, said that
there have been three Fairview and
| McKinley boys at Camp McQuaids in
< Virginia. Besides himself there was
( Charles Young, son of Mn. Della
Young ot McKinley, who haa b««n
sent to the C. A. mechanical school at
Fort Monroe, Virginia, for eight weeks
of training.
Another ia Everett Judd, of Fair
view, who has been assigned to duty
z
Attention of the public is called to as truck driver for the Motor Pool at -
Camp McQuaide.
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the City ordinance which makes it un
lawful to have or store more than
five gallons of gasoline on one’s
premises, inside the city limits of Co
quille.
With gM rationing now in effect it
has been called to the attention of
Fresh from civilian life are two
the Fire Department that some people new recruits from Coquille who are
new have gasoline on their premises now undergoing intensive training at
in violation of this ordinance.
the U. 8. Naval Training Station,
It is also pointed out that in case Farragut, Idaho. They were: Wendel
of fire where gasoline is illegally LaVerne Goodwin, son of Mr. and
stored the owner's insurance on his Mrs. Elmer W. Goodwin, and Rolf
property ia void.
N. Holmstrom, son of Mrs. Frances
Holmstrom, who arrived at the camp
on Monday,
After a few weeks of rigorous
Naval training in that wooded Idaho
lake country, the recruits will either
be assigned to a service school for Ad
The mileage rationing, which was ditional training in a specialised field
for the purpose of conserving rubber or will go to sea on a man-o-war in
primarily, will also have a saving ef America’s fast-growing fleet.
fect on the pocketbook in the matter
of auto collision insurance rates.
»35.70 Total Fees Of
George Oerdirig is advertising in
Clerk
’s Office In November
this week's issue that the collision
Of the 8838.70 in fees paid tn to
insurance rates on cars whose owners
have an A card are reduced 20 per County Clerk Oddy’s office last
cent and on B cards the reduction is month, $409.45 was for recording,
10 per cent. The decrease is effective $298 for circuit court fees, $43.50 for
immediately on new policies, but is probate and county court items, $48
for marriage licenses, and $139 75
not retroactive.
for miscellaneous items.
Storing Gasoline
Violation of Law
Two Coquille Boys
At Naval Camp
Auto Collision
Rates Reduced
Return From Trip To
Southern California
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Wayne Smith’s Father
Dies
At Bieber, California
Mr. and Mrs. George Gilman re
Wayne Smith and his mother re
turned last Friday from a trip to San
Diego. They visited their son Eldon, turned last Friday from Bieber, Calif.,
and stopped at Turlock to see the where they went last week to attend
B. C. Burnetts and Mrs. Lou Kine at the funeral of his father, who passed
i wyuniwiw.jw'iuaiiw y1 1 '.’»•'t
yyr'?
meriy lived ip Coquille,
return their »on was married to
Mariane Brown, of Loa Angeles, on
November 26. Eldon ia a pharmacist
in the 8ompog Drug Co., with whom*
he has been for the last three years.
The young couple will live In Loe
Angeles. Eldon wired the good news
to his parents ‘Thanksgiving d4y.
To Southern Calif. For Winter
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hazard left by
Tuesday evening's train from the Bay
for Pasadena, Calif., where they will
visit their son, Austin, and his family
for a time. Later they expect to se
cure an apartment in that section
and Mrs. Hazard will spend the win
ter in the south. Mr. Hazard says
Marc Shelley is expected home this he will probably return to Coquille
in a. month or two.
week on a ten days’ leave.
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