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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,
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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
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,___ 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
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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
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-¡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
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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.
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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 |
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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<et_
county. They cannot buck both the ln< wo
by
predators (the cougar that destroy,
HalUrMrl Buckner rendered
the calves) and the hunter.
’prayer, which was followed by sa-
The State Game Commission may lute to the ^ag. Minutes of the last
be likened to the hide hunters of the meeting were read and approved, as
olden days. They, through pure wag the treasurer’s report,
It was
greed, in order to enrich the coffers aJao „.ported that fifty-five cents
of the Commission, have placed our WM uken in from gale of the papers,
elk upon the public auction block and Mra Halter reported on the Town-
that noble animal is headed the way
meeting at Eugene. Those mem-
You roll on wheels—and
of the American Bison or buffalo, if
raported to be ill should be re-
a halt is not called before long on the membered,
the wheels of your car or
slaughter of our few remaining herds, j
Auxiliary
truck roll on bearings. To
In the first place, it was not shooU char|e of the aux
protect wheel bearings use long-lived, wear-reducing
Ing square or straight with our boys „x-jai and gjck „
RPM Wheel Bearing Grease. Ruined wheel bearings are
who are in the armed forces, to open and a
committee was ap-
the season when they were away.' pointed.
hard to replace these days! Keep yours in
By the time
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Door prize was received by —
Viola
tip-top condition by regular servicing with
the various
Liday, while the penny drill prize
RPM Wheel Bearing Grease!
WHf fl
if the Commission
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went
Mildred Miller. The next
B f A RI N C
ment whatsoever, a season will be meeeting will be held with Mary
declared closed upon they by then, —
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Keck on May —
10.
Please . be on -----
time,
if they are to be preserved for future at the meeting will start promptly
Cl, B. HOWE
j at 2:00 o’clock.
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Coquille, Ore.
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See Ernest R. Smith, office
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local salvage station and get It off Roxy Bldg. Phone 97.
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Then uve tin for
When you need a gift—shop Nor
the world-wide beef we’re carrying
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