i Out-of-Doors Stuff - By , Girls' League Tea Honors Mothers Eagles Notes i Nominees listed on the ballot for election of officers for Eagles lodge LAN* LKNBTR The annual Mothers' Tea held by on May 4, include: Ralph Flannery, < > i ■ ■ ■ ■ i ■ ».< ■■ » Mk Appropriations Two apprapiga- buildings, and provide a park to make the Girls’ League of Coquille High ¡worthy president; Martin Kincheloe A while back,*Mary M. Randleman, tlon items of particular Interest to the a proper setting for our historic Schoo) took place in the gymnasium 1 and Claude Perkins, vice president; >ss: Fourth Congressional District were buildings. writing concerning early Bear Creek of the High School Wednesday after- |E. R. Johnson, Alva Perkins, Ira lions and applied K leer ex upon re- approved by the House this week. ____ history, stated that either fact or noon beginning at three o'clock. Following the hearings, the __ sub-' Royer, chaplain; F. R. Bull, secretary; tlrlns were anaalaglr surprised One was the operating appropriation' committee went out to Valley Forge had-it -that the late Dr. 8. L when they found their pimples had The gymnasium was effectively Charles R. Butler, treasurer; Claude disappeared. These users eatbuluL- for the Bureau of Mine* Electro- which is only eighteen miles from I Leneve had killed a bear in the near ! decorated for the occasion. Chairs ■ Lemon, George Royer, worthy con- tleallr praise Xlssrsx'aad claim they Metallurgical Laboratory at Albany. Philadelphia, and spent several hours . vicinity of the creek in the early days were set in the center of the floor I ductor; Austin Kyle, Peri Miller, are no looper imbarraased and are Kw happy with their older eemplex- On Friday, the House passed the In­ at General Washington’s winter 1 and that the nairie was bestowed up­ facing the stage, the whole area being ' Clarence Plott, inside guard; Louis M. Don’t take our, word for It, Kloeroz tonipht. On’r »•* Xf'eno terior Department Appropriation Bill headquarters and in going over the on it by an Englishman. Mrs. Rand­ enclosed by low white fences decora- Lehman, Wayne Miller, outside pUcatloa-does aet satisfy, y which includeed this item. The park. ■oar money back. There Is no In the museum at Valley leman is entirely right concerning ted with ivy. The tea table was set guard; Earl Schroeder, Glenn Story, as not hesitate. Sold and ... _________ ,___ tent i her statement as to the naming of the at the back of the hall. Spread with j one-year trustee; E. W. Albom and i amount was substantially larger than __ Forge, they have ____ the original mended by the previous appropriation which which George Washington used at cre€k. but 11 was not legend, it was a white and ornamented white’ J. N. Jacobsen, three-year trustee, i ____ with __ ______ BARROW DRUG CO. will place the laboratory on a full Valley Forge and the flag which flew fact concerning my grandfathers’ Hags and cherry blossoms accented ( scale operating basis during the com­ over ------ “ it. The f* • a bear near the mouth of the Phik and whiu> candles, the tables1 The flag, flag, by by the the way, way, was was kmi i hilling ing fiscal year. not the stars and stripes of today, And there was nothing “ provided a beautiful background for • J while t The other item of interest, not only but was a simple blue field with remarkable concerning the killing of the silver, china and dainty refresh- 1 to my district but to the entire na­ thirteen stars on it. This flag, of * *«rge, bUck bear, in those days,, ments. The open curtains on the tion, was an increase in the forest course, was made before Betsy Ross there neverthlees was something re- ; stage showed the suggestion of a products research funds in the Agri­ designed the present flag. The stars markato1« regarding that particular garden scene, complete with shiny culture Appropriation bill. This ap­ on Washington’s flag are six-pointed filing, for the big animal was killed j metal garden chairs, green fences and - devised - -¡by a single blow of a club, in the ¡dainty birds and butterflies floating propriation has been the subject of a stars. It was Betsy _ Roas who long argument The House Appro­ a way of cutting out five-pointed hands of the doctor. I in the air. Grandfather and a man by the priations Committee refused to make, stars with a simple twist of the scis­ The girls with their mothers and name of Caine, were crossing the , guests assembled about three o'clock. the requested increase, whereupon sors. LOGGERS—I have a fine Health and Accident policy. the Senate amended the bill to in­ as wer were driving back to Phila­ river in a skiff, when a large bear I While the guests chatted and were clude the Increase. The bill then delphia, the radio in the official car ' was sighted swimming the river. served by their daughters, several of Special Service on Log Truck Insurance and thss girls C/ir-lc played softly on ik» the nlnnn piano, i came out of the Senate-House Con­ told us of the President’s death. All I Caine wanted to crack it with an oar, • ' the P.U.C. Applications ference with the research item in further activities of the committee but grandfather protested, fearing it. The program of the evening began Allied Clothing Drive Starts April 1st. Support it! disagreement. This placed the mat­ were, of course, inynediately can­ would overturn the boat. They rowed' at three o’clock, opening with the fast and made the shore ahead of the song “Mother” sung by Jeanne Oftw «M Rllll 4»« Front st« ter before the House for a final vote. celled. bear. .As the bear scrambled from Griggs. The curtain then parted to Following quite a battle on the Floor, Res. 1ML the river and started climbing the show four attractive young ladies en­ the item was passed by a fairly i steep bank, grandfather struck it' a joying the garden. Jean Plieth yvas close margin—1W to 143. The ap­ 1 hard blow upon the back of the neck, the reader for the occasion, and Wil­ proval of this appropriation means killing it instantly. The blow was ma Drake played softly on the piano that the wood utilization unit re- » cently established in Portland to on whlch Preliminary qualifying ex­ delivered with a “myrtle peg,” a during the style show which followed. stick of myrtle seasoned and hard as serve the Pacific Northwest region The style show was the chief fea­ will have almost twice as large an , dates for the United States Military a rock. ture of the program. The girls of In those early days this territory the Home Economic Club aided by appropriation as previously allotted. .and Naval Academies at West Point and Annapolis. Members of Con­ abounded with wild game. Elk , their adviser. Miss Leone Ingram, as­ gress must have a list of those de­ roamed the hills and the glades east sisted the Girls’ League in this part Shrine of Liberty. Two weeks ago, to take the examination to of Bandoh; there were thousands of of the entertainment A large num­ I spent two days in Philadelphia with siring ' submit to the Commission by June deer throughout the woods and glades ber of attractive garments suitable a subcommittee of the Public Lands ! ,23rd. and the bear were very numerous. for all hours of the school-girls' day Committee. We conducted a hearing- I do not know yet how many va­ The river teemed with salmon and were modeled. Approximately half on the bill introduced by Represen­ trout and the creeks were alive with of these were mad: in the Home Eco­ tative Bradley of Pennsylvania, cancies I will have at the Academies. which provides for setting aside a We will not be notified until some trout. The sooty grouse hooted nomics Department of the High park area in the immediate vicinity time in June. All I can say is that throughout the forests, the ruffed School by the girls themselves. Sev­ of Independence Square. Our hear­ I believe there will be possibly two grouse (native pheasant), drummed eral of the dresses received especial both in the bottom lands and in the! mention from the guests. Thelma ing was held in Old Congress Hall, vacancies in each Academy. I make forests. There were hundreds of Bales wore a particularly smart green this announcement now so that young which was completed in 1790 and coveys of mountain plumed quail.! jumper which she had made. Sally which housed the Congress from 1790 men who are interested in competing There were ducks by the hundreds [ Bonney's ensemble of teatime dress until 1900. The rostrum on which for an appointment may notify me as of thousands and from out of the with a coat lined to match the dress the subcommittee sat was the same soon as possible. North came great V winged flocks of was outstanding. In the sports Candidates may compete for both rostrum from which George Wash­ geese, thousands of them alighting colthes Leatha Traudt’s tennis out­ ington gave his . farewell address. Academies on the same examination. in the fields on the north side of the fit of shirt and shorts drew the at­ Independence Hall is the center For the Military Academy, candidates river and tn the sand dunes along tention of the audience. Among the building of the group of three fac­ must have reached their eighteenth the coast. It was a hunter’s paradise, formats Marianne Rackleff’s light birthday before July, 194«, but must ing on the Chestnut Street side of green dress was a real attraction. The Independence Square. Independence not have reached their twenty-sec­ if there ever was one. But into this setting came the com­ outstanding . thing about this style ond birthday. Naval Academy can ­ Hail, you know, is the home of the mercial hide hunters, waging a re- show , was that all of the dresses Liberty Bell, and it was in Inde­ didate must have reached their seven- 1 lentlesa warfare upon the elk in shown, and particularly the school pendence Hall that the Declaration of teenth birthday by July, 194«, but not Independence and the Constitution their twenty-first birthday by that particular. Thousands of the noble dresses, were ae very attractive and were both signed. The Constitu­ time. Young npn in service are eli­ animals were shot down, pelted and so very appropriate for the high tional Convention met in that Hall gible to compete, and arrangements the meat left to rot in the woods. On school girl. And all of the dresses These buildings are 'the shrine‘of can be made in most instances for one hillside, within a mile of the were nicely modeled. Several musical numbers were our independence and of the forma­ their examination wherever they may cross roads here at Bear Creek, three tion of the Government of the United be stationed. Those Interested in hide hunters killed S3 elk out of one given during intermissions in the herd, taking the hides and leaving style show. There were piano solos States, but with the passage of time, trying for appointment should write all that meat for food for the buz­ by Wilma Drake and vocal solos by me, giving their legal residence, they have become swallowed up in • Laura Swanson. The High School the center of a groat city. The which must be within the Fourth zards. There were bobcats, cougar and Girls’ Glqe Club, under the direction Congressional District, and the date city has, in fact, moved on so that the buildings which now crowd in of their birth. Other information as hundreds of beaver, as well as mar­ of Mrs. Thora Watson, sang two upon the Independence Hall groups to scholastic training and activities ten, mink and raccoon in those days numbers, “Cradle Song” and “Tjie Appointments There were 100 cougar then where Spring Is Here Again” in their usual are obsolete and some of them .are will be of interest. fire-traps. The proposal is to ac­ will be made on the basis of grades there is one today, yet the deer and fine manner. The Girls’ League is to be highly quire several blocks on the Chestnut , earned in the competitive examina­ elk propagated in vast numbers, thus proving that Nature is pretty well complimented upon the very fine Street side of the Square remove the I tion. i balanced and that the toll taken from work shown in presenting this im­ the ranks of the deer and elk by pre­ portant social event of the school president; Sister Kincheloe, vice Eagles Auxiliary News dators amounts to nothing when com­ year. Shirley Slater is president of president; Sister Jessie Adams and Elizabeth Bartells, Lois Shinkley Sister Nellie Martindale, chaplain. pared to the killing of these same the Girls’ League and Miss Madelene and Nellie Lehman were initiated animals by the greatest predator of McKeown is the faculty advisor. Sister Jacobson is reported to be during the meeting of the Eagles Members who attended as chairmen getting along well since her release all—man. The hide hunters alone were re­ for the various committees were: Auxiliary on April 27. Mary John­ from the hospital and Dorothy Hoeh- sponsible for the complete elimina­ (Program, Phy lite Litzenberger; deco­ son was to have been initiated but ner is much improved from her seri­ was unable to attend because she tion of the elk in this district—the rations, Ariel Crook; reception, ous illness. complete extinction of the thousands Dorothy Howe; tables, Gloria Haga; was ill in the hospital on that date. Nominees for officers to be elected of them that roamed the mountains 1 invitations, Bettie Preston; refresh­ soon are: Sister Ardith DeGroat and and glades. ments, Leota Neely; models, Eulia Sister Amelia Adams for worthy The idea of conservation came too • McCracken; style show, Thelma late to save the great herds. If given i Bales. Assisting by pouring at the time, animals from some of the herds i tea tables were Mabel Roberts and roaming Coos county might have i Genevieve Berry. eventually drifted back to this vicini­ The girls wish to thank everyone ty, But now, such a hope is merely ’ who helped them in many ways, and wishful thinking, for with the season especially to thank those who loaned opened upon the few remaining herds properties for the occasion, in this county it means that never | ............ again will the big animals graze in Coquille Townsend Club No. 2 this vicinity. And it mean, that it) Townacnd chlb No 2> met at will not be many years until they Qf Curtu AprU „ will cease to extelt in the entire member> preM!nt The m