The Sentineli
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
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(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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 !
OW, when all America looks hopefully to a
new and better year, we pause to take stock
of our assets, and find that chief among them is
the good will of our many customers.
■ So we renew our pledge to do everything in our
power to merit a continuance of your good will.
There are clouds on the horizon, and clouds in the
zenith, too, but we face the future with the firm
conviction that now, on the threshold of 1943, we
may truly say, as in th* past, we wish you a
Very Happy New Year.
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