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F. S. Emery To
Manage A Mill
At Elgin, Oregon
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• A rotary drill, with which a test
well for oil or gaf will be drilled on
the Westpart arch, at the head of
Davis Slough, will arrive here the
latter part of next week or the first
of the week after, from Fresno,
Calif., accompanied by a crew of 15
men who will work, five men to a
shift, for 24 hours a day, was the
statement of M. R. McArthur at the
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hotel this morning.
Mr. McArthur is from Bartlesville,
Okla., where the company he repre­
sents, the Phillips Petroleum Corpor­
ation, has its main offices.
Mr. McArthur is not to be in charge
of drilling operations but has been
making arrangements for the pre*
liminary preparations on the selected
site which is on the Dobbyn ranch,
section 28, township 26, range 13
south.
Mr. Dobbyn, who lives at
Trail, Ore., is related by marriage to
Mrs. Keith Leslie.
A geologist from Oklahoma is com­
ing next week to supervise drilling
of the well which Mr. McArthur says
will go to a five or six thousand feet
depth if necessary.
Mr. McArthur is guarded in his
Statements as to the probability of
striking oil and gas in Coos county.
The surveys by geologists indicate
that the formations, faults, etc., on the
Westport Arch are the same as those
Where oil and gas is found but this
country has been so brokpn up by
quakes, slides and tremors in ages
past ghat ,the oil may possibly have
*11 escaped. He calls this strictly a
“wildcat" operation, but if the black
gold is found anywhere within a mile
down frfon-the earth's surface it
will mean such *!f influx of capital
and pcpdlgaon as Coos county has
never seen before.
That there to some oil beneath the
surface in the Coquille valley
Coquille is to lose one of its most
prominent citizens, a man who came
here twelve years ago in May from
Massachusetts, who is now president
of the Lions club and has been iden­
tified with every progressive move­
ment in the city for years. He to F.
S. Emery, who will leave Sept. 1
to manage the large pine mill which
the Ralph L.' Smith Co. of Kansas
City has just purchased at Elgin, Ore.
Mr. Emery turned the offer down
when Mr. Smith first broached' the
matter to him by long distance but
yesterday gave Mr. Smith his accep­
tance. •
The plant there remanufactures
40,000 feet of lumber each operating
day.
Mrs. Emery, who has also been
prominent in social and church af­
fairs and civic enterprises, will not
join him until later next month, af­
ter their daughter, Betty, t>as entered
the University of Oregon.
Telling the Sentinel of his pending
move yesterday, Furb said, “You can
say for me that some day I am
going to live in Coquille again. We
like it here.”
His position with Smith Wood-
Products, Inc., here has been that
of superintendent of cedar operations,
he having charge of the mill, factory,
machine shop, power plant, carpen­
ter crew and dry kiln.
,
Coquille will miss Furb Emery as
much as he will miss Coquille and,
while it to regretted that he will soon
leave, one and all his friends rejoice
that the new position will be to his
material advantage.
Victim
Opportunity For The Collision Of Trucks Accident
For Past 23 Years
Was fatal To Mrs Had Lived Here
Greater Use 01
Coos Co. Waste Land C. V. Smith Yesterday
M. S. Anderson, who was tempor­
arily transferred from the sales de­
partment of Cranberry Cann era, Inc.,
to the production department in order
to get the plant across the tracks from
the depot here into operation this
fall, says that after the war, when
things return to normal, the program
is to have a plant here which will
turn out a quarter of a million cases
—28 pounds to the case—of cranberry
sauce.
The company also handles fresh
cranberries and its location here will
do more to help develop and put to
use land in Coos and Curry counties
which has been considered as waste
for "years and years, than anything
that ever hapepned in Coos county
before.
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The company has just purchased
780 acres, nine miles south of Ban­
don, east and across Highway 101
from the Croft Lake road, where a
logging operation to to be started, a
lumber mill anik box-making plant
installed, which will be no small
affair itself.
An 100-acre bog to also being put
in on the 780 acres and it ajone would
necessitate a cannery, but the man­
agement is co-operating with all
growers and will handle their product
when desired both for fresh market­
ing and for canning.
Mr. Anderson says the canning and
labeling operations, all by machinery,
is moat interesting to watch and that
from two or three feet distance as
they are labeled look like a continu­
ous piece of tin so rapidly do they
mow on the conveyors.
Mi Anderson, whose headquarters
were in Chicago, expects to return
there in a few months when an ex­
perienced plant man to available for
Ute Coquille cannery.
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hies. C. V. Smith, burn Pearl
Weaver Kellock, Sept. 26, 1888, at
White River, Colorado, was the
A tragedy that cast a universal daughter of Lydia and Andrew Kel­
pall of gloom all over Coquille was lock. Her girlhood days were spent
that at 1:30 o’clock yesterday after­ in Colorado and on December 24.
noon which resulted in almost in­ 1908, she was united in inarriage to
stant death to Mi’s. C. V. Smith.
C. Vernon Smith in Telluride, Colo.
The accident occurred at the in­ They came to Coquille in February,
tersection of Eighth and Heath streets 1920, and have been residents of this
when the parcels post delivery truck, community since.
of which she had been the driver
Besides her husband she is sur­
since last December, collided with an vived by one son, Carlton A? Smith;
empty logging truck, ’ driven by ■» grandson, David S. Smith, of Co­
Gerald Lillie. 16-year old son of Al­ quille; two sister's, who reside in
bert Lillie of Arago.
Nevada and one in Washington.
, Mrs. Smith was driving the mail
She had been a postal employee in
truck south on Heath and was going the local office about 20 years ago
straight through, leaving the pave­ and when the shortage of man power
ment for the gravelled street south began to become acute was again en­
of Eighth.
gaged a* parcels post deliverer here
The logging truck had turned on last December.
to Eighth from Coulter and Lillie was
Mrs. Smith was a member and past
going eqst on Eighth to the house up president of the Coquille Woman’s
the hill where he resides.
Club, a memebr of the B. 8c P. W., of
A house at the northwest corner the Coquille Grange and of Beulah
of the intersection prevented the two Chapter, O. E. S.
She was a splen­
drivers, both of whom have had much did woman, a member of the Episco­
driving experience and are careful, pal church here; one whose cheerful
from seeing one another until just smile and hearty greeting always
us they reached the Intersection.
tended to make the day brighter for
The wheel marks made by - both those she met and her passing is sin­
trucks show that the brakes were ap­ cerely mourned by a very large circle
plied apd, in his endeavor to miss a of friends.
collision, Lillie turned hard to the
Funeral service« are to be held at
right and had slowed his truck almost two O’clock Saturday, in St. James'
to a stop when the collision oc- Episcopal church, Rev. Robt. L.
curred, according to ladles' who Saw Greene officiating.
the accident from 100 or more feet
The body, where it was taken yes-
away.
I terday, will lie in state at the Gano
fpllttssml Home
I Tri (visa An
Qntiirrinu ■*«*611
The logging truck’s left front ! j Funeral
on Saturday
until
bumper and the right rear fender noon. The interment will be in the
of the mail truck hit with sufficient | Masonic cemetery, Beulah Chapter
force, although there was only a com-’ conducting gra\.side services,
paratively small dent in the fender, , |
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to cause the mail truck to topple
over on its side and it stopped about
90 feet from the spot of the collision.
Whether Mrs. Smith attempted to
jump as the mail truck was turning
Charles Kolkhorst. Jr, familiarly
over, or wltether she was thrown by
known as “Jiggs" to his friends here,
the collision will never be known.
where he had lived since. 1827 unUJ
Hundreds Of Pictures,
Interesting Exhibits
On Display This Week
Coquille^ entered into the spirit of
Oregon’s Historical Exhibit Week,
commemorating the Oregon Trail
Centennial with a very fair collec­
tion of relics and pioneer articles but
where it really went to town is in
the display of old-time pictures. A
large percentage of them were taken
by J. P. Beyers who was a photog­
rapher half a-century ago and who,
with the help of Mrs. Beyers, has a
very large and interesting collection
showing in both the Fuhrman Pharm­
acy and Geo. E. Oerding display
windows.
It to impossible for a
newspaper to mention each of these
camera productions separately, but
it will be worth anyone’s time to
give them the once over this week.
The camera with which Mr. Beyers
worked is also in the pharmacy win­
dow.
In the Oerding window there is a
picture of Crane’s logging camp in
1906, showing Mr. Beyers and Sheriff
Bill-dad Howell; and another of
Yoakam’s camp on Cunningham in
1907 in which E. E. Knife appease.
A hunting party camp, in 1894,
shows deer in the utmost profusion
and dried meat scattered all over the
camp.
There are many Coquille
street and river scenes, picture of
Bandon, Langlois and Riverton, the
McKinley school in 1900, the Sumner
school in 1894, the Leneve store on
Front street and the P. E. Drane
store on Hall, and Individual pictures
all over the place.
An early day baseball club, in the
1890’s lists
J. E. Norton,
Claude
Nosier, Frank Busan, Chas. Baxter,
Dave Johnson, George Baxter, Fred
Nosier, Sam Norton and Byrd Nosier,
all well known here half a century
ago, as comprising the club.
At Fuhrman’s Pharmacy to shown a
large framed picture of “Shorty” and
Cliff Martin with a btAUoad of 75
ftoh, caught in the river near River­
ton, and “Shorty” says the next day
K, was tMT unlucky
they caught about 390 in their set
alike Rotary, which
her head was caught under the top
Fat Elk, but the flow was not
away at the Army camp at Shepherd nets. The "first band" in Coos coun­
to prove that there to oil here tn loot the softball game at Athletic
As has been customary in the Co­ of the cab. requiring the efforts of Field, Texas. last* Monday morning,
ty picture shows all of them with
However,
to
the
Li****
that
evening
commercial quantities.
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quille schools for years, the date on men to lift it from her.
according to word received by his
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Dr. J. D. Rankin, acting coroner,
the well was not drilled to the depth by an 8 to 5 score, but they evened which they will open this year to
wife from the commanding officer
the coming operation by the Phillips up matters or the Coquille Valley Sept. 7, the next day after Labor Day. who was summoned, states that death there.
Corporation contemplates. There was Country Club golf links on Sunday,
The janitors, who are the same as was caused by the «rushing of her
The first message to Mrs. Kolkhorst Fflicl ROOD ClfiFH
M he was seriously ill but the CinCI RWP/
some gas, too, sufficient to capse when they won from the Lions, 27% last year, have the buildings and head and a possible fractured neck. said
he was seriously ill
to
33%.
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Had not Mrs. Smith attempted to
Mr. Marrlon to lay a pipe line from
grounds in tip top condition, Supt.
. cause of his death was not stated in
Don
Farr,
Rotarian,
was
the
hitting
slow
down
her
truck,
as
she
evidently
the well to the Coquille Gas 8c Power
B. W. Dunn reports, and there is only
either message sent.
Co. plant near the Smith plant, but star in the ball game with two home one position in the corps of teachers did, it would have passed in front
The body will arrive on the Bay
News of the marriage of Miss Ethel
runs
to
his
credit
and
Willard
Bos-
of
the
logger,.
the flow did not hold up and the
to fill, that of girls’ physical education
Sunday and funeral services will be Roop, former grade and last year
serman,
Rotarian,
who
caught
the
The fire department was sum-
pipe line has been unused for several
instructor.
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held at the Campbell Funeral Home Junior high teacher in the Coquille
entire game, was the hardest worked
The list of instructors for the three moned with its pulmotor, but Mrs. at 2:00 p. m., Monday with interment
years.
schools, reached here this week in a
player
on
either
club.
His
shirt
Sould oil in considerable volume
schools—high, junior high and grade Smith had expired before its arrival. in Masonic cemetery.
letter to Cherie Mae Hartwell. The
Police Officer Beagle was the first
be 5ilt by this wildcat well and wouldn’t have been any wetter had —for the comign year are:
Charles was born Sept. 5, 1920, in groom is also well known locally. He
he
fallen
in
the
river.
officer
on
the
scene,
soon
followed
by
thereafter by other wells, it will
Mr. Burton W. Dunn, Superinten­
Arkansas and came with his parents la Clem Howard, former manager of
There were some aching muscles
Chief Creager and state police of­
mean, eventually, the building of re­
dent.
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to Coquille When he was seven years the First National Bank of Portland,
night and next day for it was
fineries on Coos Bay. the port from that
'
ficers
who
took
measurements
and
t_ High School—Mr. Clarence Osika,
of age.
Coquille Branch, whose position was
more strenuous exerclie than most
which the product can be shipped by
Principal, Socio - Economics; Mrs. reconstructed the circumstances as
Ha attended Coquille schools and filled by E T. Stelle. following his
of these business and professional
clearly
as
possible
In
the
report
which
either water or rail.
Helen Ayers, Commereiai; Mrs. Ruth
graduated al the age of 17 from transfer to Portland.
The couple
This writer was a resident of In­ men are in the habit of engaging in.
Beyers, Mathematics; Miss Annice will be presented in the coroner's In­ C. H. S. in' 1937.
were married Aug. 9 at Walla Walla
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_ * Mayor O. L. Wood might be called
quest
to
be
held
probably
tomorrow,
dependence, Kansas, when oil was
Chandlee, Biology, . Gen. Science;
He was united in marriage Nov. 29, and the honeymoon was spent at
in the Mid-Continent
ln the golf |snv Miss Lunelle Chapin, English, French; when District Attorney Flaxel can be
1941, at Napa, Calif., to Miss Elvera Wallowa Lake in eastern Oregon.
Young Lillie’s statement,
field and there were scoffers, there
Mr. Earl Leslie, Coach; Mias Loiss present.
Hansen, of Marshfield, who joined They will make their home in Port­
> “hole-in-one” club from
at that time who would not believe
Peterson, Home Economics; Mr. Pau) which cannot be published before its him in California soon after he went
land where the groom holds a bank­
the first tee.
His Lion opponent,
that oil and gas could be found there
Snider, Industrial Arts; Mrs. Rose presentation at the inquest, is also to work there.
ing position. Mrs. Howard will fill
Furb Emery, had won the first round
ready
for
presentation.
The
logging
but it was and frorfl a peak of well
Stromquist, English, Spanish; Mrs.
He enlisted In the Army Air Corps her contract to teach at Oswego this
and when Orville’s teeoff shot rolled
over 300,000 barrels of production a
Thora Watson, English, History; Mr. truck he was driving belongs to this summer and three days after he
coming year.
into the cup Furb remarker, “I didn’t
Clovis
Church.
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day, the state of Kansas has dropped
Harold Withnell, Music.
left for Texas their baby boy, Charles
Mrs. Howard came to Coquille as
mean to make you that mad!" Others
Needless to say Gerald was stunned
to something over 200,000 barrels
Lincoln Junior High School—Mr.
Lewis, now 14 days of age was born. a teacher about four years ago and
in the foursome were George Ulett
by
the
tragedy
and
while
he
did
what
daily, but oil and gas were the cause
Wayne Smith, Principal, Math., Phys.
He arrived at the Texas field'Aug. 8. remained in the system until last
and George Laird and the stunt en­
of southeast Kansas development
Education; Mrs. Mona Inman, Math­ every driver vfould have done under
Besides his widow and son, he spring when she left to teach in
titled his honor to become a member
into an industrial section.
ematics, Health; Mrs. Alice Lafferty, similar circumstances—turn to the is survived by his mother, Mrs. E. O. Oswego. Her leaving was a loss here
of the Country Club.
right
In
an
attempt
to
1st
the
othef
The drilling here by the Phillips
Soc.
Science,
Art,
Penmanship;
Clinton of Coquille; his father, Chas. as she was regarded highly and had
The longest drive for the No. 8
Petroleum Corporation will be watch­
Mrs. Ruth B. Shaw, English and truck go by—his grief is unbounded. Kolkhorst of this city, and two made a place for herself which will
hole was won by Ted Buck and for
ed with intense interest, not only
Reading; Mrs. Marie Stewart, Soc.
brothers, Harold, who is at Camp be hard to fill.
coming closest to the flag on No. 9,
here in Coquille and Coos county but
Science 7 and 8 Gradej; Mrs. Elfleda Baby Girl Born Saturday
Roberts, Calif., and LeRoy, who is
M. S. (Cranberry) Anderson was
all over the United States.
Endsley, Gen. Scténce, Girls* Phys. To The Lud Seharfers
with the Army Air Corps, somewhere
awarded the prize.
“Spike” Leslie won the "blind Education.
Mr. and Mrs. Lud Scharfer were on the European front.
Washington Grade School — Mrs.
“Jiggs” Kolkhorst was a likeable
hole” prize. His was low score among
made
very happy last Saturday eve­
Hazel Hanna, Principal, Firth grade;
friendly
young man whose offer to
the 34 who participated for the No. 5
Mrs. Betty Barton, Fifth Grade; Mrs. ning, Aug. 14, when a seven pounds, serve his country resulted in his
hole, that hole being, selected by ■a
four
ounces
baby
girl
was
born
to
Congressman
Harris
Ellsworth,
Jane Creager. Fourth Grade; Mrs.
death liefore his actual service began.
drawing after the match.
who is making a tour of the Oregon
Lavinia Peart, Fourth Grade; Mrs. them. She has been named Barbara
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A Shrine ceremonial _ by Hillah
fourth congressional district during
Joyce Owen, Third Grade; Mrs. Al­ Elaine and was bom at the Mast
1 Both Another Couple Who Will
Temple of Ashland is scheduled to be
the recess of Congress, was a Co-
thea Harrah, Third Grade; Miss Hospital in Myrtle Point.
held in the Coquille Community
quile visitor this morning and spoke
Dorothy Page. Second Grade; Miss ; mother and babe are doing well I and Return At War’s End
Building on Saturday, Oct. 23. K. P.
Arlene Robertson. Second Grade; Lud •I is expected to recover!
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Smith, who at the Lions Club luncheon this noon.
Lawrence reports. He also says there
He to looking fit and hearty and
Mrs. Inez Chase, First Grade; Mrs.
came down from Vancouver, Wash.,
will be a large class of novitiates
Alberta Tyrrell, First Grade; Mrs. F. O. Eagles Annual Picnic
last Friday night, left again by Sun­ says he has gotten, considerable pleas­
present for the ceremonial.
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iJ'o.Be TUId Sunday, Aug. 22 to
day morning’s bus. C. C., who was in ure out of serving this district in
The dance in the Coquille Com­ Edith Waltòn, Remedial.
Paul Rynning, of Medford, Hillah munity Building this coming Satur-
The annual picnic of the Coquille the refrigeration business here and Congress and hopes that body will
potentate, formerly resided in Co­ ' day night, Aug. 21, to for a most
Since the above was put In type Eagles, to which their families and left fifteen months ago to go to’ be able to accomplish more the com- _
quille when he was district engineer , wOrthy calwe „n, that the Youth Ad. the directors of this school district any visiting Eagle are invited, will be work along the same line in Kaiser’s Ing year than it did the past—pro­
for the State Highway Commission. visory Committee
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is to be heartily held a meeting last evening and held in the Mast Grove near Lee this Vancouver shipyard, says that as vided they are allowed tol
and enlisted for service in World commended for sponsoring. The net granted Mrs. Joyce Owen a release coming Sunday, Aug. 32. It will be soon as the "duration” is past he is I He was a caller in the Sentinel of-
War I, from Coquille.
proceeds from the dance will be uagd of her contract. She is going to Cor­ a basket lunch affair with coffee and coming right back to Coquille. He ' flee just as we were going to press
doesn’t appear to think much of the and we could not get as interesting
to equip, the rooms in which the vallis, where she iwil teach the cregm furnished by the lodge.
Evergreen State. Ibe shipyard where
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Girls’ Club antf the Boys’-Club will fourth «rede in one ofUie schools
enjoy in the basement oPthe Com’- the*.
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Mel Steward, w>n M Mr. tmd Mi». toe to employed far tlfe one which
To take hter place the board ten­ Wm. Steward, of this city, could only makes airplane carriers and those
munity Building
Shady’s Orchestra Will furnish the dered a contract to Mrs. Guy Min- spend Saturday here with his parents, vessels are floating cities with every ll. S. Principal Ready Aug. 23
music for the dance, admission to tonye, who came here from Roseburg arriving that morning and leaving in convenience known to science. They
To Confer With New Students
‘ Mrs. H. S. Norton returned Sun­
which will be Sl.lt) per couple, tax the first of June with her husband the evening.
He is in the Coast will carry 38 planes and the third one
day evening from Portland, coming
Clarence Oslka, C. H. S. principal,
included and extra or single lady and children. She will teach the Guard, stationed at Port Townsend, has just been completely finished for
home as a much more distinguished
enounces that he will be in his of­
third grade in the Washington build­ Wash., and had to spend most of his commission.
admission will be 25 cents.
personage. A baby boy, who weighed
Their son. Bill, who to in the Navy fice in the high school building, be­
The boys and girls who have been ing.
64-hour leave traveling. To further
eight pounds, seven ounces, and has
and
stationed at San Diego, makes ginning Monday, Aug. 23. to confer
selling tickets report a fine response.
I shorten his time he had to give up
a
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been named Alfred Joseph. Jr., was
i his seat on a plane to an army offl- his dad look like a dwarf, Mr. Smith with new students as to studies, hours,
Tresnas«
-o.nicee
pnntwi
on
cloth.
born Saturday to their daughter.
ate*
says.
i car's wife.
Cor sale at this office.
Beverly—Mrs. A. J. Claassen
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Lions Win Soft Ball
Game, Rotary Club
e
Coquille Schools To
Open September 7
Chas. Kolkhorst, Jr.
To Be Buried Monday
Howard Are Wed
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Congressman Talks
To Lions This Noon
Shrine Ceremonial
Here October 23
Dance For Benefit
Boys, Girls, Clubs
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TRe H. S -Nortons
Are Grandparents
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