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TRI COQUILLE VALLEY SENflNEL, COQUILLE, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1843.
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CHADWICK LODGE, A. F. A M.
levieve Ellis and Bethel Norris. -
A special,
communication of Chad-
I The Home Extension Unit meets
.
I Tuesday, November 23; at th* home wick Lodge, No. 68, will be held in
1 Mrs. Grace Rackleff, of Salem, was
Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Wheeler left
; of Mrs. Charles Holverstott.
The the lodge room next Tuesday Nov.
a Tuesday evening dinner guest at Monday morning on the bus for Live
Work in F. C.
meeting starts promptly at 10:30 and 23, at 7:30 p. m.
the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Me- Oak, Calif., where they will visit un
¡Visiting brothers invited.
the
demonstration
will
be
on
“
Meat
Allister.
til after Thanksgiving with his par
R. C. Johnson, W. M.
into the harbor or to remain thera
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(Continued from last week)
Ladies Aid
met Wednesday
at the ents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wheeler Extenders.” ' All housewives are
urgpd
to
attend.
The
project
leaders
for
long,
as
a
little
storm
or
flurry
of
church
'fo
ran
'
a
Tf
days
’
meeting
with
l and two sisters.
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The caravan of about one hundred
Insurance Specialist, F. R. Bull, s
will be Mrs. Holverstott and Mrs.
rol l ed «ddler the lone weather, might prove to be disastrous, pd Iuck dinner at noon. Those at-
Rev. G. A. Gray will be at the
L
June
Butler.
Bring
dishes
and
sil-
For
r
*^
,or
^
whUv
ths
s
eg
“
Foam^
tending
were'
Mesdames
O.
H.
Aaseh~~fhinTti
Sund
.i
yy
Nuvei
nb
er
31,
foe
th
e
journey, in the early spring, had now,
u 'ver~Tor-e55Tr_nieinbei of the family
on reaching their goal, dwindled wm billed for that port, her schedule ward Evani, Albert Lillie, Albert morning service at 11 a. m. Mr. Gray
attending and also your own sugar.
could
not
be
relied
upon.
Gulstrom
and
Stanley
Halter.
Ward
is
from
Coquille
and
formerly
pas-
down to a horse borne caravan of ten
All along, up through the 50is, the Evans went down and had dinner tored the church twice a month,
Mrs. Maggie Nelson, mother of
animals and six men, namely—James
it Is true, there is a iafe harm*
Mrs. Evans wafe~Everyone is cordially invited to go Mrs. Andy Parks, was ill in bed a
Morrison, Jock Wright, Luther Wil early day men in this region were with the ladies.
subjected
to
more
or
less
hardships,
couple
of
days
with
a
severe
cold.
liams, George Lounts, Stephen Cronck
elected secretary of the Aid, as Mrs. and hear hipa next Sunday morning.
Vlr,1.. who followed limpl» dlreo-
Ki..r« upon^
and Joe Sissons, not all of whom, on account of poor sea borne traffic J. L. Burtis resigned because she is
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Isaacson and Mrs.
W
P.
however, had made the entire journey In a letter written from Port Orford, unable to attend the meetings. The Clara*Kibler were shoppers In Co
from the eastern seaboard but only on April 26, 1857, it was told of the date for the annual bazaar has been quille Friday, while there Mrs. Kib
the first three named had made the discovery of the Sixes mines, which set for Dec. 9(. They voted to give ler called at the hospital and had her
Townsend Club, No. 1, met in reg
entire trip, the other three men had were about twenty miles from Port $5.00 to the Coos County War Chest face dressed again.
ular session Tuesday evening wph 35
taken up with the train at different Orford; that they were very rich, pay Fund. The next meeting will be held
Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Wheeler, Mrs. members present. Mr. Tijghman was
ing the miners around one hundred on Tuesday, Nov. 23.
points along the way.
S. L. Buoy, Mrs. Harry Lindsay, Mrs. in the chair and business of the club
By early winter, the six men were dollars a day and asking that laborers I Mrs. Ward Evans, Pamela and Clara Kibler and Mrs. Carrie Byerly was attended to.
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mended by
comfortably housed in three very be sent from San Francisco to work Maureen, visited at the home of Mr. were'shoppers in Coquille and Marsh
Mrs. Leach gave a beautiful fern,
BARROW DRUG CO.
for
the
claim
owners,
with
wages
Chester
”
Willson
in
Myrtle
neat cabins, at the site of the home of
field Wednesday of last week.
which was bought by one of the
which
were
$60.00
per
month
and
the late Moores, which home was
Point- last Saturday. Chloe Willson
Mrs. S. L. Buoy, her parents, Mr. members and the door, prize was won
mmminiifvwz
with steady
work,
and
if white
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ar.a spent and Mrs. R. M. Noali and her children,, by Mrç. Minnie Clinton. Cake and
preserved as a relic, in honor-of its found,
home witn
with tnem
them and
men
could
not
be
had,
to.
send
Chin-
the
night
th<
Evana
home
.
On
former occupants, which, by the way,
Dorene and Dennis, visited at the coffee were served.
T,hiS JetUL-W“--------------------- Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Evans, •t, Harry Krantz home in Gravelford
was still the habitat of the great as*.
Musiq' by Mr. Laird, M f . Roth and
White Owl which had so graciously George Lounts, who claimed to be ' Pamela and Maureen, took Chloe last Thursday. Mrs. Buoy and Mrs. Mr. Harrisorv was enjoyed, Mrs. Laird
one
of
the
discoverers
of
the
Sixes
1 Willson home and1 they stayed and Krantz aré sisters.
guarded it against the hands of the
accompanying them on the piano.
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J enjoyed a pot luck dinner at the
marauding Indians, as well as spread mines.
Guests at the Harry Lindsay home Group singing was also enjoyed.
In
the
late
50
’
s
and
early
60
’
s
the'
' Willson home. The dinner was in Sunday for a birthday dinner In1 hon
ing terror in the hearts of the pesky
The caravan of clubs will meet here
rodents. It was rather a bewildering Rogue river district and as far north honor of Miss Ardyce Mast, who was or of Virginia Lindsay were Janet at W. O. W. hall Sunday, Nov. 28.
as
Coos
Bay
was
rapidly
filling
up
home from the University of Oregon Lewis of Coquille, Alford Peterson
uhdertaking for these six inexperi
Next Tuesday evening at seven
g
with men looking for homesteads, for a short » visit. Other guests at
enced miners to make any headway
and Dick Gregory, of North Bend.
o'clock
a potluck (jinner will be
as
well
as
for
mining
claims,
and
in
the
dinner
were:
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Roy
.1
A
special
school
board
meeting
was
at the job of saving the gold from
served, so come and has a good time
this overflow of newcomers, all trace Mast and Jerene, Lyle McQuire and
Wartime cotlditions af
the sand and, too, they were not too
. held at the school house Sunday eve- and stay for the meeting.
of
Jimmie
Morrison
was
lost,
as
well
Mr. and Mrs. John Felsher, o’f Myr Í ning.
fect
the »upply but not
sure that the yellow dust was really
At this meeting permission
—Press Correspondent.
gold but, since they were there and as that of the other men who made tle Point; Mrs. Owen Willson and was given the Mothers' Club to use
the
quality of Old
the trip with him but the records Maxine, of Lee, and Miss Lucille Bar
there was nothing else to do, they
' the room added last year for the
Sunny
Brook! You
1944
License
Auto
show that a Jas. Morrison h*d pur ry, of Broadbent.
stuck to the task until finally they
primary class to serve hot lunches
can depend on
chased a 40-acre tract of land in the I Rev. M. M,.Steam, of Myrtle Point, |
Stickers
Now
Available
won out and, as records show, they
to the grade school children. The
Whiskey run district from a man by
that!
Oregon vehicle owners were re
were well paid for their trouble.
came down from there Sunday morn- board voted to install a sink, The
the name of V. J. Bates, in May, 1870,
Bv the early summer of 1850, the'
ing and brought Miss Eliza Miller, a Mothers’ Club will meet in a few minded to register their cars for T9«
CHEEKFUL
in a letter sent out from the secretary
number of cabins at the little settle and whether this was the same Mor missionary from India with him. She days to make further plans,
I
AS ITS
gave a very interesting talk on her
ment, had grown to eight instead of rison or not, it is unknown.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Henagin and I of state’s office this week. The let
The now almost extinct town of work In India. • Sunday school fol- j Marvene moved to Coquille
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three and, since the place was taking
last ter contains a blank which may be
Randolph was evidently established lowed with an attendance of 30. There
used as an application form for the
on some signs of civilization, the in
week-end,
in the late 40'a or early 50's, as the will be services again next Sunday,
habitants thought that it should have
Grange members met for their 1944 registration.
records will show that there was a preaching at 10 a. m. and Sunday
No new license plates will be issued
a name. They took to the early his-
regular session
Saturday evening,
/ tory and the finding of a cask of detachment of Oregon Mounted Vol school at 11 a. m.
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Nov. 13. The H. E. C. served lunch for 1944. Instead, windshield stickers
unteers stationed there at about that
Sunday evening Mesdames Albert of jelly-roll with whipped cream and will be used to validate the 1942
whiskey in the mouth of the stream
time and that the Indians were in a Lillie and Glenda, Albert Gulstrom,
plates on Oregon cars. The de3ign of
and christened the place, “Whiskey
coffee.
rather bad mood, judging from the O. H. Aasen, Stanley Halter, Mr. and
Run,” which name it still bears today,
Mrs. Albert Thommen and Mrs. tHe new sticker features a map of
rigid laws that were in force during Mrs. S. C. McAllister drove to Myrtle ,
although all the buildings have
Clara Kibler were callers in Coquille Oregon in green, with the state seal
that period, regarding the sale of Point and attended the Brethren
mouldered away to dust.
Monday. Mrs. Kibler visited a physi and a space in which the registration
firearms and ammunition to the na church, at which time Miss Eliza
number is printed.
During the period from' 1850 to '55,
cian while there.
tives.
Miller gave another interesting talk 1 Mrs. Glen Richardson was called
Persons who have come to Oregon
the liittle town of Whiskey Run grew
The mode of living, in these early on India. The Mesdames Lillie, Gul
very rspidly and the sea beach along
to Roseburg Wednesday of last week recently and do not have Oregon li
that section of coast was
busy I days, so far as the food supply was strom, Halter and McAllister gave a by the serious illness of her father, cense plates, will receive a set of 1942
concerned, was the source of a great I vocal duet number, accomapnied by
scene of mining operations and many
C. A. Stelzier, She returned Thurs plates ¿together with the windshield
deal of hardships, as these hardy pi-'
Mrs. Aasen.
good clean-ups were recorded and,
day. Her father was no better when sticker for the 1944 registration.
oncers had to depend almost entirely
There will be the usual Thanks- she left.
Anticipating heavy congestion in
- as the miners swarmed into the dis
on what the forest and stream af I giving Day service 'at the Arago I
the mails during the year-end holiday
tricts, they found that the gold-bear
Mrs.
Leona
Dow
came
out
to
her
forded, which at times was out of 'church on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. I
ing sand extended down the coast
home Monday from her apartment in season, Secretary of State Bob Farrell
season and not of a very desirable' 25, at 11 a. m. There will be a speak
south for several miles below the Co
Coquille. She planned to return to urged owners to send in their appli
quality and, owing to the fact that er for the service, also special music
cations' early so that stickers may be I
quille river, and yet, reports were
Coquille Wednesday.
agriculture was at a low ebb, except
the Arago choij
. The usual pot
’ \
coming from Port Orford that the
The H. E. C. met Wednesday, Nov. returned promptly. Those yzho send
that the natives may have grown luck
luck dinner
dinner wlll
will b
be held in the ; ' 10, at the Grange Hall and cleaned their applications in near the end of
claim owners were looking for miners
some few edibles, their menu was not church basement, following the ser
to work their claims and offering
the hall in preparation for the grange the year may have to wait several
too inviting.
vices, to which everyone is cordially meeting. Plans were made for the days for their stickers, he warned.
$60.00 a month and found, with a
After some time of Jhis undiversi
invited.
'•! Thanksgiving dinner to be held Sat
guarantee of steady work and in one
fied bill of fare, these frontiersmen,i | <--
- practice
Lnuii
yiatuuc was ncxu
rtzuaj cvc- urday, November 27.^ A potluck din
Just a few more days left to buy
Choir
held Friday^eve-
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quest sent to San Francisco for men.
at least quite a number of them
home * Mr, Q H /Men 1
National Distillerà Produrla
They asked for Chinamen as no white or
'
ner was served at noon. Those pres gifts for over-seis packages, at Nor
Corp., N. Y. »
Proof
took to the Indian way of life, whieh f ! with
,
th* following present: Mesdames I ent were Myrtle Holverstott, Gen- ton’s.
men were available.
1
a rather idle, no-purpose ex Albert Lillie, Albert Gulstrom, Ward
During the early day of the Whis- was
’
istence and, by taking a native wom Evans, Stanley Halter, S. C. McAl
key Run rush a great many hardened
an for a wife, they could get the lister, Werner Plaep and O. H. Aasen.
frontier men sifted into the country
and, while they were not in any sense J clams dug and cooked without any , They will meet again this Friday j M
outlaws, they were very dangerous J effort on their own part. After be evening at the Aasen home at 8:00
“in-laws,” to the tribe, some ip. m. and anyone who can sing is
men to deal with, unless you were coming
'
of
these
men, upon learning the lan urged to come and help with the
dealing on the square for they were, '
guage and becoming versed in the |
in a way, of the wilderness-bred j
music that is being prepared for
tribal traditions, discovered that there Christmas.
school, where they had learned that ,
had been palefaces in that* region
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Myers ar 1
nature favored no man and, too, that )
many, many moons before, and that Miss Marion Hoxey, of Myrtle Point,
a man’s destiny rested in his own
they had traded many trinkets to the visited at the home of Mrs. Ida I
hands. Acting on this impulse, when
natives for furs and dried meat and
I Myers Sunday.
it came to a controversy, they just
that some of these palefaces had
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Moomaw, Da
acted on the quickness of the draw
married into the tribe and had taken vid and Donna, of North Bend, were
to settle it once and for all, and since
their Mahalas away with theqi- This | week-end guests of Ben Moomaw and
everybody at that time kept a copy
had made the natives very suspicious 1
Nettie_Haîter
of Colt's great works, in a holster on
of the men who came over the great
Mr. and Mrs. Orvus Miller, Phyllig,
his belt, the court, that might makes
waters, with the great white wings, Alice and Orvus, Jr., of Myrtle Point,
right, could be convened at almost
as they feared that they were after and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fish were
any moment and, in the absence of
their squaws and, from this point of Sunday dinner guests at - the Nile
the rigid arm of the law, some few
view, the Redmen, while outwardly Miller home. The dinner was honor
of these .whirlwind panoramas were
quite friendly, held a very deep and ing the birthday df Miss Phyllis
staged in that region and one of the
burning hatred for all palefaces and Miller.
best strikes in the black sand district
were ready at a moment's notice, to
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Pauli, Charlene
was made by one of these whirlwind
wield the tomahawk upon the least and Marlyn, of Myrtle Point, and
performers while he was hiding out
provocation.
Mrs. Martha Pauli, of Gardiner, were
from the law.
(To be continued next week)
Thursday evenihg dinner guests of
•
Jimmie Morrison and his compan
Mr. and Mrs. Nile Miller.
ions, by being the first on the ground
at the Whiskey run beach, got hold Chevrolet Increases Aluminum • Pete Peterson came in from Valsetz
and visited in Arago last week.
of some of the richest claims and were Forgings Ten Fold This Year
LUBRICATION
GOODYEAR TIRE STORE
REPAIR SHOP
PAINT • BODY SHOP
Avon Wilcox came in frond Coos
doing splendidly but, after a time,
Aluminum aircraft forgings for mil
Complete
Overhaul Service
•
Steam
Clean
• Grease Job
• New Tires
rumors were coming in about new itary planes of all types are now be- ’ River and visted at his home on
•
Motor
•
Wash
and
Polish
Fishtrap last week.
• Oil Change
strikes and of coarser gold and big
• Used Tires
ing produced by Chevrolet at a rate
• Transmission
Willis and Marjorie Wilcox have • Vacuum
stampedes, until Lounts, Cronck and that will result in a total poundage
• Anti-Freese
• Recaps
• Rear Axle
been confined to their home on ac • Paint
Sissons got the stampede fever and
•
Wheel
Pack
in 1943 ten times greater than in,
• Brakes
count of the whooping cough.
joined a rush into the Indian Devil
•
Tire
Repairs
• Fender A Body Work
1942, it has been revealed by M. E. i
• Dee Tee Vapor Cleaner
• Steering Gear
Mrs. Wm. Knabe and Judy and
region, a rough and mountainous Coyle, Chevrolet general manager
• Wheel 4 Tire Balancing • Seasonal Gear Change
•
Installine
Glass
• Front End Corrections
territory on the head water of the Se-
Beth Barklow were Tuesday visitors
and vice-president of General Mo
qualchin, where they set their stakes
at the Nile Miller home.
tors. Despite the fact that Chevrolet
on some claims along a stream, which
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Trigg, of
was in volume production of these
I
On our new Bear Frame Checking and Straightener, we can straighten a
they later identified as the Sixes
Norway were Sunday guests of Mr.
vital aircraft component elements
car frame, also front end corrections.
and Mrs. George Gillespie.
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river but, owing to the lack of trans
during 1942, Mr. Coyle said, in each
Mrs. Ward Evans’* attended the
portation facilities, they were not
of the remaining months of 1943,
On our new Bear Wheel Balancer, we can add many miles to the life of
able to do much development for lack
Royal
Neighbors lodge in Myrtle
Chevrolet will deliver as many
your tires.
of proper material.
Point
Monday
evening.
pounds of these forgings as the divi
Mrs. George Gillespie and Mrs.
At that time there was not much sion produced in the entire year of
Have your Headlights adjusted to comply with the State Law on our new
Vernon Trigg, of Norway, were Sun
shipping into the country, there being 1942.
Weaver Headlight Machine.
day
visitors at the home of Mr. and
only two or three boats plying be
In the light of the recent report
Come in and arrange any or all of these Vital Services on a Budget Plan.
tween San Francisco and the Colum submitted by Donald M. Nelson, War Mrs. S. C. McAllister.
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bia river, which would make any Production Board chairman, that
regular stop at either Port Orford or “very soon we will be turning out a
Ward McReynolds will be in Co
Coos Bay. They were the eteaAers, completed plane eiRiry five minutes quille again next Tuesday, 9 until 4 I
*.... WE HAVE AN UTILITY CAR WHICH MAY BE tJSED WIIILH9VOUR
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CAR . IS IN THE SHOP FOR REPAIRS
Commodore and Republic, with the around the clock, every day of the o'clock at the city hall, to receive ap
sailer the Sea Foam, which did main month,” the necessity for high-scale plications of those desiring drivers’
s
tain a regular schedule to these ports volume production of these indispen licenses.
but that only if weather conditions sable aircraft construction units is ap
were right.
parent.”
See Schroeder’s Jewelry Store in
The Sea Foam was a sailing
Coquille for Diamonds and Watch
schooner and had to depend entirely
We carry a complete line of V- Straps.
tfs
on its sails to get in and out of the Belta for all makes of Refrigerators,
harbor and, as the port at Orford Washing Machines and other equip I Remember Norton’s will print any
was rather an open sea affair, it ment. Washer Service Co., 365 W. service insignia on Leather Goods,
16tf* Stationery, etc., for a small charge, s
' was not always a safe bet to come Front, Coquille. Phooe.
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On this you can
depend in spite
of wartime
shortage!
Have Your Car Overhauled
on a Budget Plan
Pay For It By Week or Month
The new equipment we have added to our well-equipped
shop makes ours the
MOST
COMPLETE
AUTOMOBILE REPAIR SHOP
in. Southwestern Oregon
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