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Vacation ol Portion
Of Fairview Street
Asked Of Council
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was a guest of the Rotary Club at
their luncheon meeting In I. O. O. F.
hall on Wednesday and gave an en­
tertaining talk on his experiences in
that branch of the service.
Marc is stationed on one of the
new destroyers which is at present
in a southern California port for re­
fueling and overhaul, thus enabling
him to secure a furlough to visit his
family here. He spoke of meeting
many of the boys from Coquille in
various places and was emphatic in
his praise of their records.
Mr. Shelley was stationed at Treas­
ure Island for many months but asked
for a transfer and was finally as­
signed to sea duty. -
Rotarian E. W. Hughes, formerly of
Grants Pass but who now registers
from Coquille, was a guest. Other
guests besides the speaker were Phil
Farrell, of Redmond, and John Don­
aldson, of Denmark. Leo J. Cary was
elected to membership.
B. B. Tournament In
Coos Co. Eliminated
At the meeting of the high school
principals and coaches held here op
Monday to draw up this winter’s
basketball schedule it was decided to
eliminate the tournament and substi­
tute a schedule calling for four games
with each team. This schedule is
subject to the fololwing rules:
On Tuesday nights there will he
only one game, This game is to be
called promptly at 7:30 p. m. If the
home team has a preliminary game
on said evening it is to end at 7:15.
B squads will not travel on this eve­
ning.
Friday night games are to start
promptly at eight o’clock. B squads
will travel. B squad games are to
end promptly at 7:45.
Community Building Broken
Into Monday Night
More interference with and destruc­
tion of city property happened Mon­
day night. Some one broke the lock
on the door of the Community Build-
• intend spUl the door ^ying tOygain
admittance. So far nothing of value
has been missed.
Sadie Hawkins’ Day Dance
This Coming Saturday Evening
Do not fail to see all the Daisy
Maes. Li’l Abner at the Junior
Woman's Club Sadie Hawkins' Day
dance in the Community Building
this coming Saturday evening, Nov.
6. That will be worth the price of
admission if you do not dance.
Mrs. M. E. Dye
Passes Suddenly
Several Elk Killed
The Past Week
All The Same As
Hitler Gangsterism
Selectees Who
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Went Tuesday
r
The report by Councilman C. M.
Gray at Monday evening’s session of
the vandalism perpetrated at the
Clarence Osika home Sunday eve­
A short session of the city council ning, supposedly as a Hallowe’en
was held Monday evening with all prank (?) brought to mind, what a
members except Dr. G. E. Stark pres­ local miniate^ of the gospel said
ent, at which time a petition for va­ Monday morning as he viewed the
cation of a portion of Fairview street, silly soaping of display windows in
about 100 feet on either side of the business section.
“The attitude of parents is re­
Knowlton avenue signed by Dr. T.
De La Rhue, Dr. R. F. Milne, Dr. G. sponsible for these embryo Hitlers,*’
“They are raising their
E. Stark and Geo. F. Burr, was pre- he said.
children to be gangsters.
sented.
“When they say, ‘trick or treat,’
Steep gulches on either side of
Knowlton preclude the possibility you ask them what happens if you
that any of the section will ever be don't treat and they reply; ‘we’U
improved and - the lots adjoining mark up your windows, or tear off
Knowlton street are now in lawn your gate, or something.' ”
It’s the
same kind
of - a threat that
’ or garden
,
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The council did nol take snap judg- Hitler used in Europe, and. the par-
are - the
to blame,’ ----
said the
ment but referred the matter to the ents —
—- ones --
street committee for investigation and minister.
report at the next meeting.
| At the Osika home some boys, prob-
Anyone looking the properties over
h*2h school freshmen or Junior
can readily see that there can be no, I high youngsters, threw eggs at his
street use made of the tracts for many, ’ house, the yellow smearing the
stucco walls, and also rocks which
many years, if ever.
The city’s claim tor delinquent broke two windows. Such hoodlum-
vandalism
cannot
be
street assessments having been paid— ism and
$1,348.50—for lots 2 and 3, block shrugged off as a Hallowe’en prank.
Chief Creager reported that all the
14, in North Addition, on North Coul­
serious
Hallowe’en trouble seemed to
ter street, by Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Peart,
the mayor and recorder, by resolu­ be in that particular section, along
tion, were authorized to issue a quit Coulter and adjacent streets.
There was some talk by the coun­
claim deed to the property restoring
cilmen of reinstating the curfew law,
it to its former owners.
The street department was instruc­ but as Mayor Wood said, “It hardly
ted to fill a wet and muddy spot in seems right to penalize the good
the road leading to ther Boy Scout young people of the town, and most of
them are good, to stop the depreda­
cabin with a half load bf gravel.
To Councilman Burr was referred tions of a few toughies.”
Councilman Pettit added to the
the complaint of N. A. Kent, of Ko
Keel VHlarge, that the ashes, cinders story of youthful crimes with the
and dirt from a nearby smoke stack statement that every afternoon as
kept his tourist cabins so dirty that soon as school is out they begin to
over-night customers always com­ miss articles from the hardware
store.
mented on it.
Marc H. Shelley
At Rotary Club
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Last Football
Game Nov. 11
The bombbardment out back of the
Fairview country beyond the end of
the road Up the North Fork, resulted
in several elk being brought into Co­
quille the past week.
"Rod” Creager and “Chick” Harris
brought in the largest set of horns
yet reported, one of their kills being
a 7 pointer with a 40-inch spread of
horns. The other was a 4-pointer.
Don Gillespie, Ole Jamieson and
Ned Kay got a spike up in that coun­
try on Sunday, while Bill Foote and
Frank Huker dressed out and brought
in a 350 pound bull elk.
These were all killed to the left of
La Verne Park on the ridge between
the headwaters of the North Fork and
Coos river.
Another party composed of Wess
A. Travis and Del Hoke of Coquille,
and Fred Sell of Bandon, who were
up in the Brewster Valley country
the fore part of last week, each got
a deer and Travis brought in a spike
elk.
Beretha E. Nye, wife of Martin E.
Nye, of 829 No. Henry St., passed
away at her home Monday, Nov. 1, at
2:05 p. m. She wgs been in Minne­
sota Jan. 24, 1900, and was nine
months and seven days vast 43 years
of age at passing. She had lived in
Oregon for thirteen years, eight of
them having been spent in Coquille,
Where she had many friends.
Besides her husband she is survived
by two daughters: Mrs. Ted Schaer,
ef Coquille, and Mrs. L. W. Wilkin-
eon, of Seattle. She is also survived
by five brothers: Clarence Copeland,
Tacoma; Floyd and Russell, Seattle;
Clinton, Yakima, and Vinton, Port­
land, and two sisters, Mrs. Ira Losey,
Anchorage, Wash., and Mrs. Geo.
Rokkan, of Kennewick, Wash.
Services are being conducted at the
Gano Funeral Home this afternoon
at 2:00 o'clock, Rev. Robt. L Greene
of the Episcopal Churcji officiating.
Interment is to be in I. O. O. F. cem­
etery, No. 2, here.
Two School Men
Visitors Monday
$116,742.68 Taxes
Paid in October
John F. Cramer, superintedent of
schools at, Eugene. who was one of
the speakers'at the teachers’ confer­
ence here on Monday, was calling
on old friends in the business section
here that morning.
Jack Cramer, who was a very pop­
ular high schdol principal here some
16 years ago, left Coquille in 1927
and has since been superintendent
at Bandon, Bend, Milton-Freewater,
Grants Pass and elsewhere.
Another visitor at the Sentinel of­
fice that morning was Rex Putnam,
.
State
Superintendent of Schools. He
,
said
that notwithstanding the short­
age of teachers in the State now he
thought that practically all the
schools in Oregon are functioning
very smoothly and well this fall.
Some of those who are filling in
taught years ago. possibly have been
The tax turnover from the col-
lection department to County Treas­
urer Stauff, made yesterday morn­
ing totalled 9116,742.88, the collec­
tions in October.
This week also the county treasuer
remitted to the school districts, port
districts, cities, and other taxing dis­
tricts in which the property was lo-*
cated, something over »36,000 re­
ceived during the past three months
from the sale of property the county
had foreclosed on previously for de-
linquent taxes.
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4278 Here Secured
Ration Book 4
War Ration Books, No. 4, ware
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persons in Coquille last
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The Red rx-vilf-
for this season* will be played at the
ball park here next Thursday —
Armistice Day — with the Myrtle
Point Bulldogs as the opposition. The
game will start at two o’clock.
Last Saturday’s game with the Pi­
rates at Marshfield was packed with
thrills from start to finish as was the
North Berd game here two weeks be­
Four arrests have been made by
fore. It was different in one respect[ the game officials of the state police
though, the Red Devils trailing at the for wanton waste of game and a war­
half 13-0 and coming from behind in. rant for a fifth offender has not yet
the third quarter to score two touch­ been served. The offense was that
down.
of killing deer or elk back from Fair­
The Pirates’ last score came just as view valley and leaving it lying in
the final gun sounded, the touch­ the woods.
down play having started before the
Justice of the Peace Fred R. Bull
gun and ended after the shot.
set the bail for each of the four at
The final score was 20 to 12 in a ' $250, and it was posted. The four
'are Walt William Whobrey, Joseph
most hotly contested game.
I Whobrey, Byron Harold Barrows and
■ Alden Adolphus Mast.
Four Taken For
Wasting Game
Armistice Dance
November 11
Coquille American Legion Post No.
36, is advertising its annual Armistice
Day dance which will be held in the
Community Building next Thursday
evening, with Bum Gartin’s orchestra
furnishing the music. Admission will
be 75 cents for men. 25 cents for ladies
and 50 cents for service men, tax in-
, eluded.
Expects 50 Ton Coal
Output By January 1
State Librarian To Address
Woman’s Club Tuesday
The November meeting of the Co­
quille Woman's Club will be held
next Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. at the
Guild Hall. Mrs. George Chaney,
chairman of Education, will have
charge of the program. “The Oregon
Trail Centennial,” will be observed.
I Mrs. George Bryant, soprano, .will
'sing
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Oregon Trail.” ___
Mrs. E. L.
Schroeder and children will wear
; gowns of one hundred years ago. An
atmosphere of the pioneer days will
1 be created through use of old treas­
ures used in the decorations.
Miss Eleanor Stephens, state librar­
ian, will be a speaker, whose sub­
ject will be “Recent Books.” Mem­
bers urged to be present, visitors wel-
come.
Oscar Larson, proprietor of the
Southport Coal company whose, mine
'is half a mile back from the highway
just beyond Davis Slough, said Tues­
day that at present the Navy is taking
' all the coal he can get out, from 15 to
20 tons a day, but that by the first of
! the year he expects to be able to de-
| liver 50 tons a day, and if he’ can get
the “slicing” machine he needs he
: will have all the coal needed for Coos
f county soon thereafter. The South­
A. E. Borel, who has been in charge
port was not onq of those taken over
by F. D. R.’s order on Monday for the of the ore receiving station here for
the past year, has received word
government.
from the Metals Reserve company to
shut down the depot here and ac­
Ensign Dorris Compton A Co­
cept no more minerals here after Dec.
Sponsor at Destroyer Launching 31. The federal unit has been great-
In last Saturday’s Oregon Journal
that
of
appeared the picture of WAVE En­
sign Dorris Compton of this city, who tion has been so small.
was one of the co-sponsors at the
Mr. Borel will be here next week
launching of the U. S. S. Smalley, a to move his family to Arcata, where
destroyer launched at a Seattle ship­ he is now stationed.
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yard last week Miss Compton is one
of -the five Waves shown as they sa­
Mayor O. L. Wood and L. W. Claver
luted Miss Lina Mayo of Harwich- went to Portland Tuesday morning to
port, Mass , who christened the ves­ attend to business for the theatre.
sel which was named for a Cape Cod The mayor also expected to confer
hero.
with WL.B. officials in regard to the
Ensign Compton is expected honie furnace so urgently needed for the
today on a few days’ leave.
• Community Building.
Ore Depot Here
To Close Dec. 31
The registration was again handled
by local school teachers who worked
from three to nine o'clock each day
from Tuesday through Friday. This
I work was done each day after com­
pletion of a full day's class schedule.
The number registering was about
300 less than registered for War Ra­
tion Book, No. 2.
Those who did not get their No. 4
book last week will have a wait until
after November 15 and secure it
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direct from the local rationing board.
The following men were ordered to
report for induction on November 2,
1943, by Coos County Local Board,
No. 2:
Lewis Alfred Floyd, Broadbent.
Bishop for Oregon, |he Rt. Rev.
Louis Wetsel Sell, Jr., Bandon.
Benj. D. Dagwell, was toastmaster at
Donald Garrett Ross, Coquille.
the dinner meeting in Guild Hall last
Clarence John Powers, Powers.
Thursday evening when St. James’
Morris Fred Anderson, Coquille.
Episcopal church was host to the
Robert Orville Waterman, Coquille Deanery
of southwestern Oregon,
Francis Jewel Davison, Bandon.
with an attendance which filled the
Charles Parish, Bridge.
hall and enjoyed the remarks by the
Roy Offery Cook, Powers.
visiting clergymen as well as the
John Dale Hartley, Bandon.
splendid dinner served by the ladies
Harry Montag Brown, Myrtle Point of the Guild.
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Clarence George Lindow, M. P..
In his, opening remarks Bishop
Patterson Chaney, Coquille.
Dagwell said he had been told he was
Worthington Robert Ward, Bandon
putting on the rest of the garb of a
Lester Alvin Wolf, Myrtle Point.
bishop, but that he was not so much
Clifton Ernest White, Riverton.
interested in food as he was in the
Samuel Nelson Wood, Bandon.
aesthetic features of the meeting.
John August Carl Kelch, Coquille.
Rev; Robert L. Greene welcomed
Lee Oliver Burrell, Coquille.
the guests with a few appropriate re­
The above list is less than half the
marks, and Rt. Rev. Patrick Rhea,
number that the Selective Service
bishop of Idaho, made a very inter­
headquarters had called upon the
esting and at times humorous address.
local board to send, but Mrs. Pearl
In fact the clergymen all seemed to
Jackson, in charge of the office here,
, have had a good time cracking jokes
says that the men going were all the 1
and telling stories on their traveling
eligibles on the list at this time.
companions.
The next call will probably include
Rev. Chas. M. Guilbert, dean of St.
pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.
Stephens Cathedral in Portland, made
a scholarly and enlightening talk on
religious education and the church’s
field department.
Other speakers
were Rev. Chas. Neville, rector of the
Church of the Good Samaritan at
November 15 is the deadline for Corvallis; Rev. Louis B. Keiter, vicar
tax payments and the three per cent of All Saints Mission in Portland, and
rebate, cautions A. O. Walker, head Rev. Thos. Lewis, rector of Emmanuel
of the tax department, where he and Parish in Marshfield. Rev. Geo. R.
the crew of ladies have been working Turney, now in Medford, was un­
day and night to get tax statements able to accompany the group because
ready and mailed. After the 15th an of his inability to secure the neces­
interest penalty is added.
sary gasoline coupons.
Delinquent statements for years
Besides speaking on youth work
prior to this have been mailed out of the church in colleges and in gen­
with the 1943-44 statements and Mr. eral, the visitors all commended most
Walker asks that anyone who has highly the sumptuous repast served
not received his or her statement by them.
Ladies in the party were
next Monday to write in for it, es­ Mrs. Patrick Rhea and Mrs. Arneson,
pecially giving the description of the vice president of the Ladies Auxili­
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property,
or preferably enclosing last ary, who told of the national meeting
Three Per Cent Tax
¡Rebate Ends Nov. 15
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More Rain,
Less Cold
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Rainfall since Sept. 1, totalled 11.06
inches this morning, a total of 3 26
inches having fallen from Wednesday
morning last week until this morning.
For the 24-hour period ending this
morning the precipitation was 1.79
inches. On Tuesday this week and
that night .95 of an inch of rain fell.
The rains have raised the minimum
temperature, too. Last Saturday and
Sunday nights recorded low being 33
degrees, only one above freezing, but
since this week’s rains started in
earnest the minimum has been
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Ray left around' 50 degrees.
Tuesday morning for the John Day
country in eastern Oregon where Mr.
Ray recently bought a large ranch
and where they will make their
home. When he purchased the ranch
recently he announced that he was
The state highway department has
through with logging for good and this fall raised the highway at that
he has turned the camp on Bear spot just this side of Riverton, at the
creek over to his soi >n, Mike. Their Joe Nilsen place, where the river goes
other two sons are 1 in the armed over the road every winter when a
forces.
flood is on. It was a needed im­
Mr. and Mrs. Lud Scharfer last provement but there is another low
month purchased the Ray home on spot just below Riverton at the Al­
No. Coulter street, the former J. A. pine place which needs raising just
Berg place, and expect to move into I as much, or more, than the other low
1 it at once.
section did.
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The M. Rays Move
To Eastern Oregon
One Of Two
Sections Raised
$2850 Raised Here
For War Chest
Two Bishops And
Clergy Here For
Deanery Meeting
, More Workers Asked To Come
Out For Bandage Rolling
of the organization held aoeeoMr in
the east.
Before closing the meeting at nine
o’clock, Bishop Dagwell urged the
men of the church not to be A. W. O.
L. at Sunday morning services, be­
cause of hunting or fishing, slyly in­
timating that the larger group of men
in the audience that night might have
been attracted there by the dinner.
Coffee Shop Is
Closed For Present
Compton's Coffee Shop in the Co­
quille Hotel was forced to suspend
all restaurant activities this week
when their cook left. Mr. Compton
states that the Coffee Shop will be
reopened just as soon as a crew can
be secured.
The Lions and Rotary clubs, which
have been meeting for their Thursday
and Wednesday noon luncheon ses­
sions each week in the hotel, have
been forced to meet elsewhere for the
present.
The monthly meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce whose weekly meeting
would have been held Tuesday this
week, was postponed until next Tues­
day and it will probably be an eve­
ning meeting then, and not a luncheon
session.
Son Born to Rev. and Mrs.
R. L. Greene Yesterday
A baby boy, who has been named
Robert Albert and who weighed seven
pounds and fifteen ounces, was born
to Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Greene at
the Mast Hospital yesterday morn­
ing. Both mother and babe are doing
well. Mr. Greene is vicar of St.
James’ church in Coquille.
Mrs. J. R. Bunch, head of Red Cross
bandage
rolling in Coquille, an­
The Coquille quota of $5350.00 for
' the War Chest fund is just a little nounces to the public the fact that a
, over half subscribed and the drive much bigger quota for November has
been requested.
Last month the
will continue, according to George E.
quota
for
some
reason
was reduced
Oerding, Coquille chairman, until the
and as a result the number of work­
quota is reached or until the county
¿
ers coming out for meetings fell off
quota is raised, which ever happens
A New Grand Jury
first. All the people who have not noticeably. There is again a need
of workers. Night meetings will not Drawn for Coos County
as yet had an opportunity to help in
From the October term of circuit
this worthy cause, please make your yet resume but a number of women
contributions to Cjeorge E. Oerding, are needed from 1:30 p. m. to 4:00 court jurymen, a new grand jury
d . m on Mondays, Wednesdays and
was drawn last Friday. The seven
Don Farr or Hode Caughell.
Fridays.
are: Mrs. Lois L. Bunch, Coquille,
foreman; Fred 1C. True and Walter
Amy-Navy Qualifying Test
Murderer Was A Former
E. Newberry, both of Broadbent;
At High School Next Tuesday
Coquille Barber
Austin G. Dodge, Edna S. Hoffman
Point:
bThe Add*°n ^red.th arrested in and Stanley Furman, of ... Mvrtle
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Test win be administered at. 0.00 Renton county*two weeks ago for Mrs. Dora Burr, Coquille.
a. m. on Tuesday, November 9, in the killing a fanner neighbor, is the man
Coquille High School. The examina­ who bought Ralph Nosler’s barber
tion will begin promptly at nine I shop here in 1928 and made his home Ladies Night At Masonic
Temple Tomorrow Evening
o'clock. Candidates should arrive at in Coquille for four or five years.
the examination room between 8:45
Meredith claims as the reason for
Master Masons are again reminded
and 8:55.
shooting Clinton A. Deal that the lat­ of the Ladies Night to be held in
ter had been fSBIsonihg his cattle. He Chadwick Lodge's hall tomorrow
Their wives,
Ward McReynolds will be at the is about 60 years of age and a lady (Friday) evening.
Coquille city hall again next Tuesday, who knew him here says She told daughters and invited guests will find
Nov. 9, from 9 till 4, to receive appli­ her husband when Meredith came a very entertaining hour’s program
cations from those desiring drivers' here, “I don’t like his eyes. I wouldn't has been prepared besides which
there will be dancing and cards.
trust him.”
licenses.
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