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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1950)
MEMO* TC C C M E M A C C T meeting with these women from other countries, visiting in their homes, and touring through several European countries. The Christmas season is upon us. It should be a time of happi ness for all. I t is a season when old friendships are renewed through a visit or correspondence. I t is a time when families gather together to celebrate that very special fam ily day. I t has been said that of all the READY-MIX CEMENT Delivered On The Job SCREENED AND WASHED SAND AND GRAVEL ELMER BENHAM Phone 51 — Coquille, Oregon >1 errtj Claire M. Gray hom e will be their “ e5 rd 8aw * * * to son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and' Take her home. Mrs. Edward McCarthy and tw o 11? a ,w° r ‘d 5° “\ unkno* " ’ daughters of Portland, their son j The light she le ft to shine, and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. For those who knew and Claire Gray, Jr., of North Bend, Lover her best, and Mrs. Gray’s sister, Miss Etta W ill bow their heads And say, Osgood of. Seattle. “Not my w ill Lord but thine • • M r. and Mrs. Fred Von Pegert! The eve before the final day, and Mrs. Mary Hatcher were Sun These words'to me day dinner guests at the home of She did say, M r. and Mrs. David Riggs. “Mary, I have never • • < Ceased to pray.” Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Stevens re- T | , - t -ly - 1 In this hope we w ill rest turned on Tuesday from California ■ n c m S v I V c S Knowing she is in the where they had been visiting for Dan Steinmetz of Steinmetz M o -!Land of a week. They visited relatives in By Mary E. Baumgartner, San Jose, and in Los Gatos they tors, local Dodge dealer, has re Riverton. Oregon visited Mr. and Mrs. John Randle. ceived word that 49 of the 86 state Though they travelled during some champions who competed In the very stormy weather, they also had some lovely weather while they three major events of the 1950 Na tional Truck Roadeo in New York were south; chose Dodge “Job-Rated” trucks Miss Dorothea Yarbrough of to drive ih the spirited contest for Portland w ill spend the Christmas national titles. vacation in Coquille with her par Six of the nine national cham ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Y a r pionships awarded in the straight brough. truck, the tractor single-axle semi • • trailer and the tractor tandam-axle Ernie Sm ith and George Manner semi-trailer classes were won by were in Portland on business for drivers of Dodge trucks. several days. , Richard Wold, of Minneapolis, • • drove a Dodge GA-152 (lV i-to n ) Mrs. O. C. Sanford w ill spend truck to win first place and the Christmas in Portland visiting national title in the straight truck with her niece, Mrs. G. L. Osborne, event. R. D. Wallace, of Charlotte, and fam ily there. N. C., drove the same truck to win third In that event. All three places in the tractor tandem - axle semi - trailer were won by drivers who drove a Dodge YA-142 (4-ton) truck. O. E. Chapman, of Denver, won first place and the national title. Rob ert Rudesill, of Minneapolis, won second, and Harry W. Pollock, of Baltimore, won third. Frank Kirkpatrick, of Portland, Ore., drove a Dodge JA-128 (2% - ton) truck to win third in the Dodge Trucks Do All Right For M ay you r m a tc h t h e @ y b r ig h t n e s s o f Y u le t id e . •z > Cow Bell Dairy Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Yarbrough •M*f TH[ OUT OF WASHDAY with u Westinghouse aomesome* A n o th e rif — DECEMBER 21, ISSO. Reading advertisements is a thrifty habit lainly • About People 1950 W G PAGE JTeiitincl B Y M A R Y AGNES A IN L E Y County Extension Agent. Home Economic« I t ’s good to be back in the coun ty after my two weeks absence. One of the highlights, I thought, on the annual extension confer ence program was Mrs. Elsie Lem ings’ talk on “World Meeting of Country Women." Mrs. Leming is the president of the Oregon home economics extension council, and and was Oregon’s official delegate to the ACW W conference in Den mark, September 9 to 23. In her talk she gave her impressions of play days of humanity there is no I Mr. and Mrs. Julius Ruble have tractor single-axle semi-trailer other that warms the heart and i returned to town from Gold Beach event. Twenty - one state champions quickens the pulse as Christmas. Christmas * * son in Coquille. who had won their titles in state Washington Irving has said, “That eleminations while driving other of all the festivals. Christinas Mr. and Mrs. Walter Oerdin* makes of trucks switched to Dodge awakens the strongest and most were week-end visitors to Salem in the national finals. .T h e ir deci- and Portland. Their son. Buzz! sions were made after they drove COQUILLE, OREGON. heartfelt associations." It is the festivity of the Nativity Oerding, who is attending W ilia m -1 Dodge trucks on a New York Ten manufac- and has been celebrated since the ette university in Salem, returned practice course. early centuries of Christianity. The to Coquille with them to spend j turers offered trucks for the 86 / | contestants in the national finals. name is taken from the name the Christmas vacation. used in early England. "Christe • • ' Thus more champions chose Dodge Ronald Burr of Portland is than all other maeks combined. Messe,” meaning Christ’s Mass. • • The real sgnificance of Christ spending several days in Coquille A MEM O RY OF M Y SISTER mas is based on the birth of Christ. this week. • • As Christ was a gift to humanity The year of 1891 in a little M r. and Mrs. W. D. Roten re- Town, Ashland, Oregon, so “giving” to others of friendship or gifts is the true spirit ot Christ-1 turned from a two-week vacation A baby girl was born mas. ; in sunny Arizona, where they vis- Cord ilia Harriet Lomas. Here is a poem which conveys ited relatives. The temperature And when a sweet little Miss reached eighty-three degrees while She grew to be. this thought: ' they were there and they enjoyed She learned to sing a song G IV IN G I f nobody smiled and nobody , picking tree-ripened oranges and Which went like this: i grapefruit. cheered • “A t the Cross, at the Cross, • • And nobody helped us along Where I first saw the light, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Roten and It each every minute looked after And the burden of my family are leaving Coquille for the himself H e a rt rolled away. winter. They w ill return to their And good things all went to It was there by faith, old home in Leslie, Arkansas. the strong; I received by sight. • • I f nobody eared Just a little for Mrs. Matilda Engen spent the And now I am happy you. A ll the day.” week-end in Portland and Cor And nobody thought about me. As she older grew vallis. And we ail stood alone in the She learned another song • e battle of life. Guests at the home of Rev. and That was quite new. What a dreary old world It . ■ Mrs. Robert Lessing over the Stems as tho’ I can see would be! Christmas weekend w ill be Mr. and Her now as she stood On the Salvation Arm y platform. Life is sweet just because of the Mrs. W. C. Pritchard and daugh And lifted her little face ter, Ruth. Chuck, who is attending friends we have made the Anglican Seminary at Van To Jesus, as she sang, ‘ And the things which In com couver, B. C., is spending the bal “I want to be an angel mon we share; ance of his Christmas vacation And with the angels stand; We want to live on. not because A crown upon with relatives in Portland. .. .. my , forehead, I , . ., of ourselves, , e A harp within my hand. But because of the people who Mr. and Mrs Guy Mauney will ^ n d th e rc before « ^ S a v io r, care. have as guests for the C h ris tm a s ^ , gorio^ * " d 80 I t ’s giving and doing for some vacation, Mrs. Mauney’s parents, ‘A jol^ e * ea\ enly body else— Mr. and Mrs. John Paulson o f ! prai,e and n,(rhl On that all life’s splendor de- Oswego, her brother and’ sister- In the year of 1912 in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Paul She married the man And the joy of this world, when son and son, Johnne, of Spring- She loved the best. you’ve summed it a ll up. field, and her brother-in-law and His name is Ruben Young. Is found in the making of sister, Mr. and Mrs. George Rock- She became the mother of friends. Seven girls and two sons. rise of San Francisco. 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