The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003, April 13, 1944, Page 3, Image 3

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    Commended By His Bill Pook Writes
Commanding Officer From So. Pacific
Mrs. Marc Shelldy is naturally
very much pleased with the copy of
a letter which 9*e commanding of­
ficer of the vessel on which Marc
has been stationed wrote to him on
March 14. It read as follows:
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Another Letter.
From New Guinea
Frank J. Brewster, who lived
or around Coquille for about
Aarch IS—The other morning I
• was awakened with a start by a
fellow saying, “Ilon’t get out of bed
or you will drown." It had happened
to others before so I wasn’t Surprised
i when I saw about six inches of water
al) over the floor. Luckily I slept
in a high corner and hadn’t yet gotten
my blankets wet but lots of my
I clothes were wet and muddy. It was
Mi#s One Another Down Under
Elmer Zwicker wrote his mother
here recently that one day when he
somewhere in Australia he saw
, “Buss" Holmstrom’s name written
just two or three lines above his. At
the time of wtffMg, however, he had
not yet run across Haldane, whose
' mother is expecting him home before
long.
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thought I would drop you a line and
tell you a little about this country.
It is a very pretty place as far as
scenery is concerned—but that is all.
Bdy—the mosquitos are as big as
crows, nearly; and mud and rain!
Oregon is a paradise in the winter
compared to this.
Coos county is
Stevens Cash Hardware
Coquille
Phone 122,
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