THE PAPER THAT’S LIKE A LETTER FROM HOME
VOL. XXXIX.
NO. 47.
Mrs. A. J. Sherwood
Honored On Her
Eightieth Birthday
Mn. A. J. Sherwood.,celebrated her
eightieth birthday on Tuesday, Doc.
7. On that day Mn. Luckey L. Bon­
ney entertained at a large tea in her
mothers’ honor, to which nearly one
hundred invitations Were issued. The
day marked an event of more than
usual social interest. Throughout the
afternoon, from 2:30 to 5:00, friends,
continued to call for a chat and con­
gratulations. Mn. Sherwood in seem­
ing good health, alert and alive, ap­
peared untired even at the close of
the full afternoon.
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The late Andrew J. Sherwood, at­
torney and banker, and Mn. Sher­
wood were residents of Coquille since
before the past half century. In the
fine home built by Mr. Sherwood
more than fifty yean ago, his wife
and the mother of their five daugh­
ters, has continued to live.
On Tuesday the rooms in the big
house presented a gay picture of
charming hospitality. Everywhen
were florist grown pink roses, white
chysanthemums and lovely creamy
white candles. As a background dec­
oration there was*a bright Christmas
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The salvaging of tin cans, which
is so vitally needed in the manufac­
ture of war equipment, is being
stepped up again, reports Geo. F.
Burr, chairman of the local salvage
committee. The saving of thia es­
sential material died down when
there was no local agency function­
ing to collect and deliver the cans
but now with students making the
weekly collections from grocery stores
it is progteasing more satisfactorily.
As has been repeatedly noted by the
proas heretofore, the cans should be
cleaned, both ends cut out. and then
be mashed flat by stepping on them
before they are taken to the stores.
Mr. Burr read a communication
from the state salvage committee at
council meeting Monday evening in
which the suggestion was made that
the collector of garbage throw out
tin cans which were unpatrioticaliy
placed with the garabage, that the
council adopt a resolution requiring
that he do sb, but the council felt
that Coquille people are as patriotic
as any on earth and that the cane
will be saved hereafter, now that a
definite plan for their collection is
in working order, and no such reso­
lution was adopted.
Mr. Burr and his committee also
hope in the very near future to have
a depot selected where papers, mag­
azines and paste board cartons and
boxes can be left.
He also stated that the grease and
fat salvage program is now working
satisfactorily. These items can be
left at any meat market.
Tanker 'Coquille' To
Be Launched Soon
An invitation from the Kaiser Co.
at Portland to attend the launching
of the tanker, “Coquille,” in the very
near future has been extended to the
City Council, the Chamber of Com­
merce, and citizens of this city. Mayor
O. L. Wood, President of the C. of C.
Geo. E. Oerding, Councilmen C. M.
Gray, Geo, W. Taylor and John
Purkey have signified their intention
of going up for the exercises and
there are others who plan on going.
The date of the christening and
launching cannot be announced more
than a week in. advance but it is to
take place a week from today, Dec.
18, and as tickets of admission to the
ynrd«
he »««lied tn nil who will
be there, it if necessary that names
be given Secretary Hode Caughell at
once so that he can secure the re-
quired passports.
The Coquille High school is to lose
one of the most efficient and capable
men to hold the position of C. H. S.
principal—Clarence Osika. He has
tendered his resignation to the school
bbard, effective next month, and
about the middle of January will
take the position of personnel mana­
ger at Smith Wood-Products here,
succeeding Chas. Briggs, who is to
enter the real estate brokerage busit
ness at Roseburg, being associated
with an already established firm.
Mr. Osika came to the Coquille
school system in 1933, after teach-.
Ing one year at O. S. C„ and a few
yean later was awde high -schue ’
principal, a position he has since held.
The Coquille schools lose a very
valuable cog in its educational ma­
chinery, when Mr. Osika steps out,
but Smith Wood-Products secure a
worthy successor to Ed Loney and
Charley Briggs, his predecessors us
personnel manager.
17-Year Old
Student Passes
Funeral services are being held at
Florence this afternoon for Elizabeth
Irrene Peterson, 17-year old daugh­
ter of Mr. and Mn. Elmore John Pe­
terson who have llvetT here for the
past five yean. ■ The body lay in
state at Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries
here yesterday and was taken to
Florence this morning by Elbert
Schroeder.
She was a high school student here
and the brain tumor, which specialists
had not been able to help, resulted
from a blow on the head while she
was at play on the school grounds
last year. She passed away Monday.
She was born at Florence, May 30,
1928, and besides her parents is sur­
vived by two sisters. Glynna Joan and
Louise Nellie, and one brother, El-
more Lee Peterson.
Drill Was Down
2570 Feet Tuesday
The hole which is being drilled
on the Dobby n place on Davis Slough,
for the Phillips Petroleum Corpora­
tion, was down 2570 feet Tuesday
evening, with traces of oil or gas
struck at points above that.
As so often happens with Notary
drills when hard rock is struck, the
Ul *i«u,Ud M
mia J ¡ala nce U um
the perpendicular but that stretch has
been straightened ffut and drilling
continues for 24 hours a day.
Bill Oerding Going Into
Business In Roseburg
She Passes The
Sentinel Around
Mrs. Ted Peterson, formerly of the
Dillard Market here, who now lives
in Roseburg, in renewing her sub-
acrlptlon to the Sentinel says:
“We are sure getting our money’s
worth as I save the Sentinel for
Ted to read when he gets home from
Camp White and then mail it on
to Everett Seeley and his wife in
Louisiana.”
Remember- Norton’s for
school and home supplies.
Another war tragedy has hit near
borne and a Coquille high school
graduate of a few years ago, will
never return to his home at McKinley.
He was Archie E. Hanson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hanson who last
Thursday received the word from the
War Department that Archie had
been killed in action in Italy, on
November 8.
No other details were given. It is
known that he was a sharpshooter in
Clark’s Eighth Army and the last
letter received from him by his par­
ents told of bis recovering in a hos­
pital in Tunsia from a previous
wound.
Archie was 23 or 24 years of age
and had lived all his life at McKinley
until he enlisted a year or more be­
fore Pearl Harbor. • He was a young
man of the highest character and
when he graduated from Coquille
High was within a fraction of attain­
ing the highest honors of the class.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by two sisters, Mrs. Frank Carrillo,
of Coquille, and Mrs. Wm. Frame,
of McKinley, and two brothers, Ken­
neth who is employed at the Ray
Logging camp at Fairview, and Vem
who is in the service and stationed
at Santa Ana, Calif.
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Clarence Osika
To Quit High School
Saving Tin Cans
A Patriotic Duty
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Archie Hanson
Killed In Italy
office.
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Wm. A. Oerding, who has been liv­
ing in Sutherlin for the last year or
two, has sold his home there and has
purchased one in Roseburg. He has
severest all connection with tfte log-
ging and plywood business and is
opening a real estate and insurance
office at the Douglas county seat. He
came over from there Tuesday eve­
ning to consult With his brother,
George, and get some ideas as to how
such a business Is conducted. George
has made an outstanding success of
his agency since he entered that field
here a few years ago.
LofC. Annual
Boy Scouts Have
An Interesting < Meeting Is Set
Camping Out Trip For January II
Boy Scouts of Troop 14 experi­
enced freezing temperatures, saw wild
game and ran a trap line with a fam­
ous Alaskan hunter and trapper on
the upper North Fork of the Coquille
river last week-end.
Fifteen Scouts, in charge of their
scout leader, Phil Alborn, and as­
sistant leader, Conqie Phillips, 'and
accompanied by Superintendent Bur­
ton W. Dunn and Bob Alborn, Co­
quille football player are still re­
counting the thrills they had on their
overnight camping trip last Saturday
and Sunday.
They drove up the North Fork of
the Coquille river as far as the
abandoned Ward and Milton logging
operation, where they made camp.
Here they found a herd pf wild pigs
that had grown up from animals
which had been abandoned along
with the logging activities.
They found the cabin which they
had intended using already occupied
by a trapper by the name of Lee Wad­
dell, who invited the boys to come in
and share the cabin with him. Dur­
ing their stay there the boys pumped
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Fire Destroys
Johnson Mill Near
Camas Valley
The Sentinel has no details as to
the cause of the fire which destroyed
the Johnson lumber mill, out in the
Middle Fork canyon between Brad­
ford Station and Camas Valley, yes­
terday afternoon, but the destruction
was complete, the mill burning to the
ground. Neither will the’amount of
the loss be known until its manager,
Philip E. Johnson, of Glendale,
Calif., can give the figures.
The mill was built a few yea
‘ly. the late E. E. Johnson,' who
«ted
----- J it until his death, and which has
since been managed by Philip John­
son, who has made frequent tripe
north by air from his southern Cali­
fornia home.
R. A. Jeub, who was on the high­
way there as the mill burned, reports
that the destruction was complete, al­
though ther~ was believed to be not
1 a great deal of lumber destroyed.
Mr. Johnson built- his mill across
the highway after the Standley mill
had burned in' the same section a
few years ago.
Heating Plant
Being Installed
As soon as the furnace for the
Community Building arrives there
will quickly be heat in that structure
which has not benefitted any by lack
of a warm temperature this fall and
winter.
The brick work for the furnace is
being put in and the piping, heating
units, etc., are now being installed by
the Chambers company of Marshfield
which has the contract for the work.
Two Seabees Here
Soon On Leave
Mrs. Katherine Littlefield was so
overcome Saturday evening when the
Western Union operator called her up
to say he had a message from Seattle
that she overlooked the fact that she
was not talking directly to her hus­
band, Jack Littlefield, who has been
with the Seabees in Alaska for the
past year. We will not report what
she said but do think Jack should be
notified.
In the same regiment is Mack Best,
formerly with the telephone romnanv
here, whose wife, Mrs. Allie Best, is
employed at the Coquille Hotel. Both
men were on their way to San Fran-
ciaco and
be . home on leave
.™t expect
evn-ot to k
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this month.
The ladies left Tuesday afternoon
to meet their husbands who have
secured leave and were to be in Cres­
cent City Wednesday night.
Duçk Feathers To
¿hroeder
"Ducks Unlimited.” the sportsmen’s
organization which has done so much
toward the conservation of wild fowl,
is sponsoring a movement to collect
duck feathers to make warm clothing
for the armed forces and ask that
all hunters deliver the feathers, limit­
ed to two inches in length, to Elbert
Schroeder on Second street.
The Junior Class
Does Itself Proud
City Council In
Regular Session
Monday Evening
The Coquille Hi Junior Class can
well be proud of the. shoeing its
members made at the annual class
play in the high school gymnasium
Mayor O. L. Wood and all six
The annual forum meeting
last Friday evening. Appreciation of
election of officers of the Coquille the cast's efforts to furnish an eve­ councilmen were present for the reg­
Chamber of Commerce has been set ning’s entertainment was also evi­ ular fint of the month council ses­
for Tuesday evening, Jan. 11, in the denced by the large crowd which sion Monday evening at which tirni
Coquille Hotel dining room, and at thoroughly enjoyed the performance. an objection by Leo J. Cary was read
the meeting of the chamber directors
The comedy, “Almost Summer,” to the vacation of a portion of Fair­
there Tuesday noon, Pres. Oerding was splendidly presented and Mrs. view street, recently petitioned for
appointed J. L. Smith to secure a Ruth Beyers, the play director is en­ by abutting property owners. Coos
speaker and other entertainment for titled to a great deal of credit for the county, which also owns two lots on
the evening. The dinner meeting will manner in which the students, took the street, has objected and action
be for both men and ladies.
their parts. The play itself was most on the vacation was postponed until
One of the features which it is appropriate and the class 'made the the two objectors had been con­
hoped can be secured for the eve­ selection without any guiding effort tacted.
Payment to the Sanford Heights
ning is a revival and appearance of by the director.
the long ago “Cornfield Canaries.”
Mrs. Beyers says the net profit, d'ater committee for 42 meters at
This alone would be worth the price which will be used next May to pro­ 310.50 each was authorized. Five of
of the dinner tickets, without any vide funds for the Junior-Senior ban­ the meters are new and 37 are in­
food. They are still here except quet, was the largest any junior class stalled at homes where city water is
E. D. Webb who might be induced to has had as compensation from the now being used.
The repair of his building on Front
come down from Gardiner for the annual play.
occasion. Those here are Mr. Smith,
Each one of the cast did her or street, for which Drue Cunningham
F. G. and E. E. Leslie and Orvin T. his part well, although it is reported had made application for permission,
that Jack Axtell, who had the heavi- was granted on condition that
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who was I ^re chief s objection to repairing the
The directors voted to increase est part,
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again the board of directors to twenty ! not scared almoat speechless before flue be heeded. Chief Craig Perrott
and the nominating committee, ap- 1 going on.
said that to coat over the present flue
pointed two weeks ago, submitted the! The between acts numbers by the would not make it safe.
I*. W. Claver's report to the coun­
following
were
rniinu,iru> names of those who —
— "Down Beata"------ the orchestra—and
I the singing by Jeanne Griggs and cil on the Nov. 24 dance in the Com­
For president—L. W.' Claver and I Arie) Crook, were also greatly en- munity Building, showed a net of
J. A. Moore.
i joyed and were of a higher class than 3127. Receipts were 3217.75 and ex­
For vice president—Geo. H. Jen­ i might be expected of young folks. penses 390.75.
A petition was read for the installa­
kins, .Don Farr and George B. ' Members of the orchestra are Sher-
I man Gregory, Claire Gray, Gerald tion of a street light at the dead end
Howe.
For secretary-treasurer — C. G. Ulett, Woodrow Howell, Bud Meek of Fourth, corner of Schroeder, and
the suggestion of Chief of Police
Caughell.
ar.d Dorothy Beagle.
For directors—O. L. Wood, R. L.
The cast was composed of Gwen Creager that a light be installed along
Stewart, O. C. Sanford, Lafe Comp­ Elrod, Vera Bishop, Art Trepanier, near the railroad track, near the
ton, John Purkey, H. A. Young, L. Phyllis Litzenberger, Earl Benham, Cream O'Coos plant, were referred to
L. Bonney, Geo. F. Burr, 1. H Heaton, Jim Kimsey, Jack Axtell, Wallace the light committee with power to
J. E. Norton, J. L. Stevens, Geo. A. Cross, Jean Plleth, Venita Brockway act The chief said that section is
Uiett, Dr. R. F. Milne, J. A. Berg, and the voice of the radio announcer. the darkest in town and that fre­
E. E. Leslie, Dr. C. G. Stem, “Andy”
A pretty gesture by the cast was the quently men or boys have rut» from
Anderson, Ralph Thrift, Rodney presentation to Mrs. Byers and to' there as the patrolling officer ap­
Creager, Clarence Osika, Phil Alborn, Mrs. Thora Watson, junior class ad­ proached.
Application to the State Liquor
R. A- Jeub, Dr. T. De La Rhue, H. A. viser, of two very pretty pieces of
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Slack, D. E. Rackleff, Don Gillleepie, myrtlewood.
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~ rrow, A. N. Gould, J. L.
O. Hawkins, Dick Connarn,
J. P. Beyers and Dee
J. L. Smith brought up the matter
of decorating (or Christmas this year,
stating that there were some of the
colored lighted .stars still available
for installation: He and J. D. Gilles­
pie, Geo. W. Taylor, F. W. Martin,
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Geo. B. Howe, Dr. C. G. Stem and
R.T. Slater were asked to arrange for
a Christmas decorating this year. For
the past two years the Christmas
lighting had to be foregone because
of the dim-out rules.
Jas. T. Jenkins, of Bandon, was a
visitor at the luncheon Tuesday and
said that Coos county and the Co­
quille valley is securing lota of publi­
city around Bakersfield in southern
California where he ships cattle from
up here quite frequently. He says
the butter and cheese from here out­
scores any other op. the Bakersfield
market and that it is greatly appre­
ciated down there. He has taken
down. 203 head of cattle this year
from Coos county and the Coos dairy­
men have received more than 320,000
from their sale.
He also told of a coul'belonging to
J. L. Smith, which hsf sold down,
which produced 400 pounds of butter-
fat a year for throe years in succes­
sion for the new owner.')
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November Tex Collections
More Than Three-Qqarters
Of A Million boilers
25 Above Zero
Monday Morning
While.the thermometer registered
two degrees below freezing last night,
it was not the lowest point reached
the past week by several degrees.
Last Sunday morning the minimum
recorded was 26 and Monday morning
I it stood at|25 degrees above zero.
This is the period of the winter
when the valley usually experiences
its coldest spell, when it is not rain­
ing and the winter’s low is quite often
a 20 and sometimes lower in early
December.
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At the Bay the minimum this week
was several degrees higher, just about
freezing, but at Myrtle Point the low
for the week was 22 above.
Mrs. Glaisyer Here
On Deal For House
Mrs. W. V. Glaisyer, after being a
house guest at the W. E. Bosserman
home here since Sunday, expects to
leave Friday for her home in Portland.
i she says that Dr. Glaisyer continues in
, about the same condition of health as
he has had for the past several
months, showing a little improve­
ment all the time.
Besides visiting old friends, Mrs.
Glaisyer came down to remove the
furniture from their former home
here, corner of Third and Beach
street, for which a deal is pending,
through the Geo. E. Oerding agency,
for its sale to Cyril M. Tyrrell.
The latter is a former resident of
Coquille, a brother of Mrs. Amzy
Mintonye, who left here 30 yean
ago and more recently has been in
the contracting business in the Ha­
waiian Islands. He and his wife and
their five children came over from
the islands a few weeks ago by
Clipper
All the tax remittances by mail, re­
ceived in November, have not been
opened and entered on the books yet,
A. O. Walker said yesterday, but his
estimate is that between 3750,000 and
3800,000 was paid last month on de­
linquent and current taxes. J
The personal calls at the tax office
have fallen off now and the crew
i which was rushed to death for a
month or more waiting on customers
af the eotmter 1«
able «0 begin
patching up en the rest of the ¿Nice's
routine business. *
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Postoffice To Be Open Till
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More Tickets Than Blaze
¡At Saturday Night’s Alarm
The fire department was called
about nine o’clock Saturday evening
to the Dick Miller home, corner of
Tenth and Heath where the flue spas
getting so hot it threatened to burst
Into flames.
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That fault was quickly remedied
but when the truck driver triqd Ip
turn around, the streets were so con­
gested with can that he could not.
The police got busy at once handing
out tickets to the violaton. It is a
violation of the city ordinance to fol­
low the fire truck but there were a
lot of them who did it Saturday
night.
Elk Hunters
Fined $200 Each “
The five elk hunters, who killed
elk in October and left them lying in
the woods, being charged with “wan­
ton waste of game” by the state police
officer who made the arrests, all
pleaded guilty this week through
their attorney, J. W. Mclnturff.
Joe. Allen Whobrey, Byron Har­
old Barrows and Walt Williams Who­
brey each paid the 3200 fine and
34.00 costs.
Aldon Adolphus Mast and Harvey
Forbes each paid 3100 of their fine
and 34.00 costs. The 3100 balance of
their fines was suspended and they
were placed on probation for two
years on game law violations only.
LeRoy Zern Swinney paid 310 fine
and costs last Wednesday for truck
speeding. Nine dollars of his fine
was suspended.
Godfrey Howard, for the same of-
fense, last Thursday, paid |10, fine
and costs.
Ronsld Earl Russell, for fishing
without a license, was fined the min­
imum, 325, but 320 of it was sus­
pended, his payment in to Justice
Bull's court being 39.00.
Thomas Carr Frohmader, for driv­
ing while intoxicated and his wife,
Blanche Frohmader, for being in­
toxicated on the highway, were on
Monday summoned by the state po­
lice to appear in justice court next
Saturday.
Joe Sayre’s Sister Is To
Arrive Home Friday Night
Joe Sayre has received word from
his parents in La Grande that his
sister. Miss Geneva, who was one of
those arriving on the Gripeholm in
New York last week, will arrive there
on the Portland Rose Friday evening.
Miss Sayre has been a missionary
in China for the past 22 yean and had
qwi be«»! hwne i«a live yaais. hue
was one of the recent exchanges of
non-combatants between the United
<:M P. M. Next Two Saturdays States and Japan^
To accommodate the public the
Coquille postoffice, which usually Is Non High School Warrants
closed at 12:30 p. m. on Saturday, Still On A Cash Basis
will remain open until 8:00 p. m. for
The call for"'kon-Hi School war­
the two Saturday remaining before rants, appearing Elsewhere in this
Christmas, Dec. 11th and 18th.
issue, is the first he has msde since
last July, County Treasurer Stauff
states, and 'at that time it tvas calling
It Costs Coos County
all warranta to date as it is this time.
For Juvenile Delinquency
J. H. Leonard, probation officer,
called the Sentinel to say that
3115 which Judge Felsheim gave
the amount it cost the county
bring a wayward, run-away girl
home from San Francisco, for
self and wife, alio included the
| penes of taking the girl to Portland.
War Chest Contributions Now
>3100 In Coquille Drive
Coquille’s contribution to the War
Chest drive now amounts to 33,007.01,
reports the treasurer, Don Farr. This
is still 32200 short of the 35300 quota
which was given Coquille.