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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1942)
The Sentineli . TWENTY YEARS AGO ___ _ __ — - (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday, December 29, 1922) The most brutal and totally un called for double murder in the his tory of Coos county occurred Wed nesday about 18 miles southwest of Myrtle Point, beyond the head of Catching creek. The murderer was L. W. Peare, and the victims were his own wife and Jas. Culver. Fragment» of Fact , and Fancy 1 « « * • * • R a His many friends here will be In terested to team that Rev. W. E. Copper, formerly vicar of St. James' church here, but now rector of the Episcopal church at Marshfield, has informed his friehds that he and Mrs. Beatrice Holmes, were married at Berkeley, Calif., yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Kern were made happy last week by the arrival of a baby girl at their home on Wed nesday. This is Grandpa Kern's fifth grandchild and all era girls, Next Monday evening the present f - Î driving, was dazzled and can re member nothing that happened after • i Ibat. < ji it is possible to tell what happened. Being dazzled. Major Swift did not | completely follow the bend of the i road and leaving the bitqmen, the I car collided with a tree growing a few feet from the roadway. The tree was growing at about 45 de grees to the ground and leaning in the direction that they were travelling from. The car wedged itself under the tree. The portion of tile car where your husband was sitting received the Julian Leslie, who is attending a dental college in Portland, came down moat of the impact with the result that he was killed. Tltere is no doubt Sunday to spend a week’s vacation that he1 knew nothing of what hap with home folks. pened as he was asleep prior to the accident, and the Medical Officer at Puckupunyal Military Hospital, to which he was removed by ambulance, told me that he must have been ren dered unconscious and died immedi ately. .. I took possession of his personal property and .Later handed them to u number of his fellow officers who rcame to the hospital. They were very upset as your husband was very Coquille merchants generally re jxjpular. He. had been recommended port a very satisfactory Christmas business. While the total holiday by Major Swift to be promoted to a business may not have been quite 1st lieutenant and had purchased his silver bars that day. what it was Just year, local condi He was buried at Springvale Cem tions due to a failure in the rain etery. Tlie other officers who attend crop had something to do with it. ed the funeral told Major Swift that there were masses of flowers. The The pupils of Mrs. M. O. Hawkins' other information you have is correct. music class gave a piano recital and a social afternoon at her home on The other letter was from Chaplain Spurgeon Hili, Thursday afternoon. O. E. Davidson and was written last July 13: / your husband, Join in this expression. He was a noble personality, an excel lent soldier, and treasured friend. His untimely death was a sad blow to all of us. Chaplain Graves and the under signed conducted the late rites. A j large attendance of fellow officers, and enlisted men participated in the service which was held in a beautiful Church edifice. Detailed information concerning the funeral services will, no doubt, be sent you by friends who were present, It is fitting that they Lieutenant Rushing should do so. was a particularly close friend of your husband, and I know that he will write you. Lieutenant Card gave his life in the cause for which America is wag-. ipg the present war. Although you’ are I deeply grieved by his untimely passing, you have also every reason to be proud of him, and his record in the service of his country. We salute you as ope of the brave and noble American women Who has ren dered a supreme sacrifice. God comfort and strengthen you in your present sorrow, and in ail days to come. ' i Officers And Crew On Russian Boats Are Women A letter received by ’ a Coquille man from a friend, in a Pacific coast port tells how strange it seems to see Russian vessels entering the port with Russian women in charge. One vea- sel docking there recently was com pletely “manned" with1 women—of ficers and crew—the only men aboard being the freight handlers in the hold. The United States has not gone that By this date official notice has, no far in women enployment, but if this doubt, reached you concerning the world tragedy continues long enough death of your beloved husband, Lieu we may come to that extreme too. tenant W. J. Carl. It See our large display of choice pot sadness a«d regret that plants at Bergen's, across highway sage is sent to you. from telephone office. Not the As Chaplain of .the regiment in cheapest but the best. Phone 64. s which Lieutenant Carl first serVed, and now also connected with the or- Hunters are expected to add 13 ganization tn which he served at the million pounds of meat to the na time of his death, I wish to express lion's food supply in the next 1 to you my sincere sympathy. Chap months. lain Graves, my associate, and all of- fleers and 'enlisted men who knew Tillamook county creamerlee are Hiking lor hay for their stock and the matter has been taken up with the department of agriculture. Charles Bowling, chief of transportation for the department, has been told that there are quantities of hay in Nevada but that freight rates are tpo high to bring if To Tillamook, An investiga tion is under way to te whether lower freight rates «re possible. Waiter M. Pierce has requested the federal power commission to investi gate the pooling of power by Bonne ville and Grand Cooiee with Eugene and the private companies. The former congressman says that by this pool government power is being sent to Idaho, Montana and Utah, where industries have been located, where as these industries should have been located in Oregon and Washington. Fderal power commission has not indicated whether it will make the investigation. Administrataor Wickard is respon sible for something else—reducing the ice cream wanted by the troops. At Camp White in Jackson county, the consumption of ice cream is 27,019 gallons and Wickard has reduced this supply to 5490. At £amp Adair the consumption is 18,812 gallons and the amount that can be sold is only 1334. And they said that ice cream would not be rationed. Chicken raisers of Oregon state that they will be able to produce the increase of eggs and poultry in 1943 —if the government will see that they can buy the proper food. The demand, it appears, is for meat scrap from Argentine. The department of agriculture explains that owing to the scarcity of cargo carriers due to the activity of German submarines, no space is available for scrap meet at this time, although the subject is being studied. Chicken growers are Busy Corner Hflmisr nt IV Y£RR John D. Carl allows the Sentinel to print the following letters from Australia, which were received by the wife of hie son, Lieut. Wallace | Cart, who was killed on the “down ' under” continent several months ago. The first, under date of Oct. 18, was from Sydney Bent, and reads: I received your letter the other day and was able to see Major Swift on Friday last. He is in the hospital at Melbourne and will, I think, be there for some time. He has aged a lot, but from what he told me he should recover fairly well. He is able to get about in a wheel chair. I knew him, but not your husband, previously. Your husband was killed instantly; he was asleep at the tithe of the ac cident. He Major Swift, and other members of their unit had attended the funeral of another soldier at the I Springvale Cemetery. He and Major ; Swift left to return to Seymour late ! 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