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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1918)
▼AJXMT CoqoUto’n Red Crams Work. >■ The following is Coos Bay The 1918 Leo For three n a n Marshfield ha» held the county championship. I t IS fi fbadala Jan. 11—North Bead a t Mnrsb- fleld. Coquille a t Myrtle Point. Jan. 18—Marahfleid a t Coquille. Myrhe Point a t Banden. Jan. —Marahfleid a t Myrtle Point. North Bend a t Bandon. Feb. 1—Coquile a t North Bend. Bandon a t Myrtle Point. Fob. 8—Coquille a t Marahilold. Myrtle Point a t North Bond. Fob. 10—North B eni a t Coquille. Marahilold a t Bandon. . Fab. 22—Marahfleid at North Bend. a t Coquille. North The year 1817 baa bean a food and groat year. 1918 is to bo a bettor and greater year for tho people« of the earth are more determined that the “made in Germany” plague »pot of tho earth shall bo eleanod op. Now Tear’s night 1918. Fifty-four years ago today we had a.New Year’s back home a t Putnam, Now York. Undo George Easton’s and U nde Jim Ledgewood’s folks and others were a t our house on that day. I was nine years old than but remember that day and the next day as though they wore bat yesterdays. For on the next day onr white horses wore hitched to the red pong and driven to tho door. My brother, Theodore, rode in it to the Corners, he had enlisted and was in his way to Join his regiment, the 6th N. Y. Cahrery. U nde Georgs Easton took him and Dar Leigh of the same rogiaseat to Whitehall to take the train. Today we received a short let- tar from our son, Theodore, written on shipboard and a postal written In England. He, too, is on his way to the war. A letter in the Farm Journal for December from a Quaker by the name of Scattergeed, who ia helping the people of France to farm the land that has been polluted by the Ger mans says that “the Prussians des troyed all public records in or near Havre, and probably elsewhere, as well as the landmarks.” Billie 2, you are a good one, so good, th at your goodness would taint the cesspool cf hell. R. A. Easton. Can ou US fo r S tatio n e ry Cary was probably the leader ia the last Red Cross campaign ia Coos county, Its quote by nearly fifty per cant. This was probably in of the records made in the prev patriotic drives fo r the Red Creas and Liberty loan. “Coquille ia one of the most patri otic communitisa in the state.” said Mr. Cary. “The response was most enthusiastic. Workers did not get to all of the people and many came in and volunteered their contribu There are only two in that whole section, so far as I can as« tain, who refused to Join. I didn’t personally. I think that the people or government should take some action against in d e n ts who are so lacking in patriotism and char ity as to not aid the Red Cross. There is something wrung with them. “Another thing th at I want to call attention to 1» the fine work th at the Coquille women are doing for the Red Cross in making pajamas, knit ting sox, sweaters and other articles for the front. They sead their out put to Marshfield and have it for warded with the Marshfield Auxil iary's shipments. Tbs Coquille i a n certainly doing their bit and a n entitled to the commendation of every patriotic citizen.” I t’s the same old story, you i Marshfield getting all the credit for Coquills’s work. T h en is one point, , in which Mr. Cary’s me ary was slightly a t fa u lt An o r subscription of 60 per cent for the re cent Red Cross mebership is a record of which Coquille has a right to be proud, but in the first Red Cross drive last summer Coquille and the surrounding country placed in the Co quille district w e n asked for 82600 and they gave 86,000. That was full hundred per cant above our quo te. STADDEN Coneeming the dosing of the sale of a tract of timber pear the Smith Power» Co. Camp One a t Sumner, a Portland papar saya: “United S u tes Jodge Wolverton signad an order confirming the sale by Harry E. Laughlin, special eom- miasioner for the government, to the Coo» Bay Lumber Co., of Marshfleld, of 17,786,000 feet of Douglas flr and hemiock, in Coos county, for 888,- 607.60. — - - involved in the The timber sale is located on the land embraced in the Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant for the forfeiture of which to the government a suit is pending in the United States court. By order of the eeurt, the proceeds of the sale have been depoeiaed in escrow in the First National Bank of this city, awaiting the outcome of the litigation between the United States and the present owners of the grant lands." ■St* : North o f the City Hall In the former Tollman Studio EVERY S A T U R D A Y ------------ ;------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- -------------------------- --------------------- -------------------------------- PHOTOS on display this week at the I KN0WLT0N DRUG STORE WHERE TOUR KODAK SUPPLIES ARE SEE STADLEN for fine por traits and good enlargements. DDEN STUDIO Items From Arago. A League social and midnight watch for the New Year eras enter- a t the home of Mr. Earl Hin- kel now living in the J. H. B. The Arago school reopens Monday after the holiday vacation. We have had an unusually mild winter but the past week has wonder. A fin is uncomfortable in the house and a very little is need ed a t night to keep out the dampness. The honey bees a n working hard in pollan. Violets have been in blossom some time and with nar blossoms and plenty of flies can hardly realise it is winter elsewhen. Mr. and M n. Carley Robison have moved to J. 8. R iot’s i creek. Miss Sylvia Hardman is visiting her home, in {Portland during the holiday vacation of the Fishtrap school which will reopen again Mon day, Jan. 7. Mr. and M n. Oscar Beckman and family have moved from Arago to the Taylor Dement ranch recently vacated by Clarence Williams. There was a meeting held in the Arago school house Saturday night, and organised for a basket ball team, J. D. Carl being elected president. Eleven dollar« was subscribed to be gin with. The children had one half the proceeds from the entertainment which was given to invest for a bas ket ball and a gymnasium equipment for the new school hall, which is nearing completion with quite a num ber of carpenters a t work. I Southern Oregon Timber Sold. L a st Chane* ‘T our friends can buy anything you can give them, except your photograph. MARSHFIELD and COQUILLE Coquille Double Croaaéd. Editor of Sentinel: About the Coquille Woman's Süidy Club a com munication suggesting that the club sell Red Cross Christmas seals. This communication was forwarded to the ex-president, who now lives in Msiihflekk She a t once .sent it back here to the secretary of the club, who without delay consulted the other members and sent for the seals, which came promptly. However, by the time they arrived it was getting a little late and the club couldn’t sell many for the town eras full of them. A certain women’s club in Marshfield had sent seals lavishly to our busi ness men, most of whom bought out, inasmuch as it saved correspon dence and the bother of sending them back. Moreover, they were for the Red Cross. Some of these gentle men put them where they would be resold, thus swelling the fund. Sending the seals over like this la what Marshfield doubtless calls “en terprise.” To Coquille it appears like encroachment on non-belligerent territory. The Coquille Red Cross, not know ing that feals were coming to the Study Club, the officers of the former not being at present members of the latUr, bought some of the above- mentioned Marshfleld dub and pro ceeded to sell them. It is estimated that a t least thirty dollars’ worth of Marshfield seals were sold in Co quille by Coquille people. Next came a letter from headquar ters in Portland to the secretary of the 8tndy club. I t was mostly made up of glowing reports Of sales in various towns. These words struck home: “Here’s your challenge! Keep up with Marshfleld. Of the 8200 seals ordered, have sold all but 844 worth, that amount being distributed tor sale a t different stores. I feel sure we were any on hand but there isn't a drop in the house. *■ If there had been any Marshfield worth mentioning a t the time the Kaiser was born, he would have boon born there. He couldn’t have helped himself. The operation of mystic laws, you know, beside which royal traditions and red tape and conven ience are as nothing. Then wo could better understand his thinking him self It, with a great big I, and his views on the rights of others—pre cisely like the views of a panther on the rights of deer. Ah well! We, of Coos county, out side of Marshfield, know what she is and we ca n t afford to be upset over every fresh perfidy. It’s very un- philosophical. But we are all so very human. Wo c a n t be philosophical SEN D T H E S E N T IN E L TO YOUR FRIENDS IN TH E EAST ' ♦ ' IT S W E E K L Y V I S I T S Death of a Centenarian. The following interesting story about a former citizen of Coos coun ty, who has Just departed this life at a phenomenal age, we find in a Rose- burg dispatch in Wednesday’s Ore gonian: William Aekers, probably the old est man in the state of Oregon, died Friday evening, December 28, a t the County Hospital near this city, at the advanced age of 108 years. The deaceaaed was bora in 1814 in Kentucky, where he spent his boy hood days, and early in life operated a ferry boat on the Mississippi River. He later came west and located in Coos county, where he remained for several years, then came to this coun ty, where he earned a living a t odd Jobs until his physical condition be came so impaired it was necessary for him to take refuge in the county home, having passed practically the past 10 years a t that institution. * ' . 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