THB COQüOLt VALLtt MWTINBU COQUDXK. OKKOON. THURSDAY, MAY 4, IMS.
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The Sentinel
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
i (Taken from The Sentinel of Friday,
May 4. 1023)
Notwithstanding the early morn
ing rain last Sunday, there were
abmt eighteen car» in the caravan
which came over from Roseburg for
the gun club shoot, bringing about
sixty ladies and men. . . The Rose
burg team was a very much sur
Entered at the Coquille Poetoffice as I prised bunch of sportsmen, when the
Second ClaM Mail Matter.
two big events had been pulled, for
their champion five-man team had
fallen before the prowess of five of
Coquille’s crack shots, and their
fifteen-man team had . suffered a
worse defeat. . . Those shooting for
■ Coquille were: L. L. Thomas, Ira
ATI 0 N
ulisce
Johnson, J. W. Miller, Dr. Leap,
Earl Graham, Pete Miller, M. 3.
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Hartson, Ed Lorenz, Dr, S. Q, Endi
cott, Geo. Lorenz, F. C. McNelly,
Ray Dean, Frank Laee, Alf. John
son, Hugh Harlecker.
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Fragment» of Fact
and Fancy
Dates For Rationing
Stamps Through May
Coffee
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E. J. Page and Dr. G. Earl Low, the
committee which was soliciting sub-
scriptions for this year's baseball
team, report very satisfactory results
yesterday, over $600 having been
subscribed.
L. W. Peare, Floras creek murder
er, and sentenced to be hung on the
second of June, attempted to commit
suicide Tuesday afternoon about one
o’clock by cutting his throat with a
safety razor blade. ... . Dr. Richmond
wm called and within fifteen minutes
from the time of Pears's attempt, the
doctor was stopping the flow of blood.
Stamp No. 3 in war ration book one
to valid for one pound of coffee
through May 30.
Remember Mother on Mother’» Day five cento,
with a beautiful Hall-Mark card from
Calling card«, So fur 11.00
Norton’s. Price five cento to thirty-
WE
NEED
BED
SPRINGS,
MAT
Sugar
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Stamp No. 1 in war ration book- one
is valid -dor five pounds of sugar
through May 31.
Red Stamps
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(For meat products, cunned fish, most
edible oils and cheeses)
Red stamp E, valid April 25, re
mains valid through May.
Red stamp F, became valid May 2.
Red stamp G becomes valid May 0.
Revised point values were effec
tive May 2.
Retailers must register with local
A class of six from Coquille leave boards and receive allowable inven-
this afternoon for Salem where they tories of meats and fats May 3-14.
will tomorrow afternoon be initiated Blue Stamps
into the mysteries of the Shrine. The (For canned, frozen; and certain de
class includes J. S. Lawrence, L. H.
hydrated foods)
Hazard, J. W. Laird, E. G. Opperman,' Blue stamps G, H, J, remain valid
Dr. W. V. Glaisyer and H. A. Young. ’ through May.
TRESSES and
BEDSTEADS
BADLY
What about those stored in your attics. Mice and rust will
ruin them, while many people roally are in serious need
WE ARE PAYING MORE NOW THAN NEW ONES
COST WHOLESALE TWO YEARS AGO
WANTED
• WATER PIPE
• ICEBOXES
• LAWN MOWERS
• CIRCULATORS
We rebuild and repair aU kinds of furniture
Keep your stoves in condition for the duration
The new Taylor-Ditto B.4tety Sta
It would be interesting to know I
what the president’s recent political tion is to be opened for business tb-
swing through the none-too-solid' morrow, Saturday, morning,
south cost in dollars. We know it,
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took the lives of four U. S'. soldiers'
J. L. ‘Smith* received a letter this
and two Mexican soldiers. Armed morning from Lundin, the former
soldiers stood guard at all bridges horseshoe pitcher champion, and as
and ail along the four thousand-mile stain as he returns from his trip to
trip. Like a PrinCe in a fairy tale, Albany
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Roosevelt likes’ to travel incognito I ¿7 a“' horseshe club here, under the
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and bask in the surprise his appear national horseshoe pitchers' rules and
ance causes but the cost is rather i regulations.
stupendous.
AAVCI ’ Used Furniture
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Complimenting
Mrs.
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See our large cuspiay 6r choice pot
Perry and Miss May Perry Mrs. H. I . .
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plants at Bergen s, across highway
W. Pierce and Miss Bess Maury en- /
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Not the
tertained with a sewing party Wed-> .
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cheapest but the best. Phone 64.
nesday evening at the home of Miss ■
Maury.
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The Sentinel received a call Mon
day from Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, of.
Port’ Dover, Ontario. She has taken ■
the Sentinel for the past fifteen |
years, ever since she was a resident of
Coos county and still finds it full ot |
interest and replete with items about
, Dr. C. W. Endicott, or Marshfield, her old friends here. [Editor’s Note:
All the tricks are not in Germany’s
and formerly a Coquille citizen, was Mrs. Perry is still a subscriber, mak- j
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t>ag. Over the Ruhr valley some ene-
married Tuesday morning to Miss ing It thirty-five years tor her on
ihy bombeis dropped counterfeit |
Ciura Myren, of the same city,
1 the list,J.
ration cards which utterly upset the
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■ carefully planned distribution of food
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Over-worked
ration clerks *n
state treasury. The total of tape and delays.
there.
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It is no military secret, however,
, had to prepare new food cards and '<>untY ,'ea' estate taxes for the cur-
: rent fifteen months has reached new that next year there will be an ac
schedules.
There is a silver lining to every [ heights and now the new federal in tual shortage of fuel oil and gasoline
cloud and whei) Nippon, the great come tax may forgive in theory but in the Pacific northwest, for by that
imitator, rains bombs on the Pacific ¡actually it will probably hit your time the war with the Japanese will
coast, let's hope a few ration books wallet a harder wallop, with all re be so intense that millions of gallons
come floating down to us also. That bates promised for “next year,” of high octane for fliers and fuel oil i
which.will be like the proverbial to- for the destroyers, cruisers, battle
would be like manna, front heaven.
' morrow that never arrives.
ships, landing boats, escort vessels,
etc., will be diverted from civilians
The American people need to
and fuel oil will be scarce.
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Isn't
it
just
like
Japan!
With
two
change their tto tgaout
obz
change their thoughts about this war. sacks of sand underfoot the past year
In the eastern Oregon country the
There are too many advertisements the enemy has changed chemicals on
bombers are setting fires with tracer
ext tiling the new inventions and us and the sand Is worthless--except
manufactured goods which will be *or
Hats for the victory garden, bullets and many thousands of acres
have already been burned over. The
offered to us “ after the war.” Indeed,
tracers are as effective as theJpcen-
“after the war” blessings are occu- 1
diary bombs and can ignite anything
pying our thoughts when greater at
of combustible character that they
tention 'should be given to winning
hit. The fires have been caused, as
it Japan Is planning for a one
sert the settlers, by the bombers fir
hundred year war and it is time for
ing tracers at cow hands and sheep
every citizen in this country to ask
men to see how close they can come ’
himself what can he do to aid in the
to them and make them jump—all
vital efforts to defeat our enemies
in a spirit of fun. Complaints have'
and not what he to going to do after
reached the war department and in- ■
it to over.
structions have been given that.de
planes be numbered to enable set
There to a hint that medical prac
tlers to know what bombers are do- ,
tices may be radically changed in the
ing the dirty work. For punishment, I
future, one noted scientist stating
when the guilty fliers are located,1
that it to possible that electronic rays
will be the loss of half a month’s pay.
may be used in treating disease,'
Washington, D. C., May S—An esti The bombers are based at Boise,
with a different wave length for each
mated 10,000 troops will be estab i Walla Walla, Spokane and Pendleton.
of the various maladies.
lished at Camp Abbott, a few miles it is alleged.
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The raid on Tokyo a year ago has from Bend. The disposal of sewage
One reason raised against the lo
from
such
a
city
(it
will
be
almost
as
turned out to be another boner by .
an' arm-chair*strategist in Washing- ‘««e « Bend) presented a problem cation of an aluminum extrusion
ton, D. d It put Japan on the alert *hIc,i the
army *"*«**« have plant in Oregon is the alleged short
The assertion was
for future sustained attacks, result- 1 *olv*d hi theil satisfaction by giving age of labor.
ed in the massacre of countless Chin- the ■*wa«’' a ,reatment and then made that this plant would have to
ese men. women and children over £'U,ing “ into
Deschutes river, get its workers from the shipyards
a vast area of China, and did com-1 Tbla does not I»’*"* th,‘ stockmen and other war industries in the state.
paratively small damage to Japan-,a,,d other ’e,tler!i who ,lelx‘nd “P°n The division of aluminum and mag
ese military installations. Specially Ithe Deschutes river for’their domes- nesium in war production board has
been advised that there are three first
has the Shangri-La persiflage turned t,e water 8upply-
sour with Americans who were be- i Scores °f P^^ hav‘‘ si“ned ■ Po class sites for the plant. These lo
intedly told that all the bombers were lition oi prote8t and
warded it to calities are Salem, Eugene and The
lost and some of the pilots fell into ^«hir^n. a C.
of these pe- Dalles, where there is ample labor
Quibbling
with
tiUoner
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that
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the “wa«e for another war industry. The Ore
the enemy’s hands. t,_____ ______
woids, official announcements once 'from Camp Abbott is permitted to gon senators had a conference with
gave the impression that all the men pollute the river there will be an Donald Nelson and William L. Batt,
and machines were safe when none ' epidemic; that the condition of the but their arguments made no impres
stream will be such that a number sion. Government will finance three
were downed over Japan proper.
of farmers now engaged in raising plants, one in the southwest, one
Victory gardeners may be divided potatoes and other vegetables will south of the Dakotas and one in the
into two classes, those who use the be compelled to abandon their mid-continent area.
hoe and those who do not. After ranches. Army engineers reply that
Several communities in Oregon are ,
sowing the seed, cultivation is the i there to sufficient flow in the Des
most important part ot gardening. chutes to dissipate the sewage and benefiting from war contracts for
Of course, it kills the weeds but it that actually there is 15 times more supplies, shops in various cities co- '
The engineers operating into one organization. One I
also loosens the ground for aeration than to necessary.
and it conserves moisture. A dust also explain that the plan has been of these combinations will produce1
mulch thus formed forces the roots approved by the state sanitary en thousands of truck bodies this year,
you are urgently needed to work on S. P. track on week-ends in this
and it has already produced about
of the growing plants downward gineer of Oregon.
In
the
area
of
Bend
and
Redmond
vicinity. There is a serious shortage of track workers. We must keep
20,000. A high spot in the combina
rather than to the surface where the
heat of the sun would wither them. the sewage is disposed of by using tion is held by Baker, which is doing
our
track in first class shape to move vital war traffic.
Keep the hoe well sharpened and in the underground caverns of that re , its share of the work faster than the
gion.
The
army
engineers
do
not
ap
contract calls for—a bang-Up job.
frequent use if you want to eat vege- [
prove of this plan, explaining that Another of the members ot the group ,
Help win (he war, gel healthy outdoor exercise and be paid for it.
tables of your own raising.
the water in the caverns eventually is located in Eugene, and there are 1
• three plants in Portland's metropoli- j
It is to be hoped that John L. makes its way into the river.
At other points on the line, many business and professional men have
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T^wis is digging the pit for his own
tan area. These separate companies
been
doing week-end work for us. They have heen very helpful and
destruction. He is not aiding the
New fuel rationing regulation have pool their resources and make a
have gotten a lot of personal satisfaction out of this patriotic contribu-
cause of unionism and the smolder- been mimeographed and distributed formidable showing,’handling a large
ing resentment of American patriots to congressmen with the notation that contract which none of them could
tion to the war effort.
individually.
Another
will result in legislation that will di ; they are “secret.” The most impor maintain
vest him of the power he now wields tant feature of these to-be-announced group to building parts of Boeing's
For full detail', please see, as sommas possible_
to the detriment of the public welfare. regulations is that whatever the al- flying fortresses, and another mftnu-
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or Germany since is actions make Till
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fin his oil tank in the summer tnetic robber plants, navy ships, etc.
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him their friend and ally.
; months. Formula for rationing will
Give Mother a beautiful piece o^
' be published almost any day now.
"lio|>e springs eternal in the human A simple plan is devised for the Heiaey crystal for Mother's Day.
breast;
small consumers, the people who are Priced fifty cents to five dollars At
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Man never is, but always to be chiefly
dependent
on
kerosene. Norton’s.
blessed.’’
These would be the ruralites who are
Tux reduction is always promised not in position to illuminate their
Hear Willie White, Evangelist at
—for next year. The state income homes with electricity. The coupon Church of Christ, East 4th and Coul
tax is the biggest fraud, with hope system
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cards _ will
stream- ter. Every nite. May 2 to May 23.
deferred, as a huge surplus piles up lined and generally stripped of red Rest-night Monday.
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HERE’S
WEEK-END WORK
that will help win the war!
Business and Professional Men! Clerks!
College Students! Farmers! All able
bodied men in Coquille
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