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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1918)
H U D A T , J A N U A R Y SS, I t i » . away from them—M pocially at night whoa they a n not running and anaod mon a n on gnard. And thoao who do hayo buainesa in tho vicin ity o f the m ilk and a n halted hy the ooatrk o w ill bo a goad deal m o n lik ely to got aw ay w ith a whole akin if thoy stop and give an.account o f themsel- vos than i f thoy sta rt to ran. A word The N a vy and A via tion corps are short o f spy glsssss and not able to purrhaso as many p a in as a n needed »< the governm ent has published re quests fo r the loan o f ouch aids to vision a t sea from people who have th e a ^ a d can spare them. W illiam Candlin, o f this city, happened to bo tho poooeeior o f a very tn e pair which ho values a t 9100 which ha has had fo r over 29 years and im m ediate ly o ff erred to donate uiem. M r. Caad- lii* is new in receipt at a letter from Secretary Franklin D. R oosevelt, o f the N avy departm ent, thanking him fo r hie p atriotic contribution, and as suring him that tho glasses w ill be C or ailla Hone Guani oa Duty at the Sitka aat Johnson MiUa Nightly. “ Is that you, Joss V* “ I wish you would go through th o instructions and find everyth in * th e n ls about tooth ." ' This was on* end o f a telephone conversation ia D octor Richmond’s offlee W ednesday m orning. The oA oe was fu ll o f young men w aitin g the«# physical exam ination by tho selective service board. Sheriff G age w aa there aiding in the clerical work and Hugh Ilarlocker was presiding at the typew riter to take down tho record in » ech case. In tw o or three casee that m orning it was B question o f how good a set o f tooth a man must have to be sc- copied fo r sruviee. Just how good Tho first o f tho wwok tho officers o f tho Coquille Homo Guard o ffe n d tho sorvieoo o f tho company to tho m ea egom ont o f tho tw o lumbor m ills bore fo r guard duty. / N r. W ernich and M r. Johnson ex- preosod thomsoivos as highly eppre- d a tin g tho patriotic m otives whan prompted tho pngfer o f sorvieoo and accepted the offer. So on Wednesday evening the flrs t guard detail relieved the miU men who had been acting in that capacity. N ot only wore thooe men on duty at night but they wore tryin g to keep up th eir work during tho day, which could only rssult in a lessening at the sprues production. POWERS GIRL BROUGHT BACK m arried E. L. Church, w hile liv in g at Miami, Oklahoma, where she resided w ith her son, C. A . Sickels, a fte r his cieath. F ive years ago she came to Coquille w ith the Sickels fam ily. M rs. Church is survived hy tw o sons, Geo. W . Sickels, o f Corning, lew s, and C. A . Sickels, o f th k city. The follow in g brothers and sisters cem etery. On account o f that being a county highw ay th e city has no au th ority to compel the construction o f a new w alk there but it is liable fo r dam ages should anyone suffer inju ry from the defective condition o f the walk. council a t various tim es in recens years and attem pts have been made Charlee G. Lehmann, Latón, C a lif.; to g e t these who use it to repair the Samuel O. Lehmann, Denver, C ole.; old <me or put in a new walk, the Mrs. C. M arts, F o rt W ayne, Ind.; D r. Anthony Lehmann, Chicago, H I.; as te send lumber but there fo r the Mrs. D avid Heeher, F t W ayne, Ind.; property owners and users to make the repairs with. The elevated w alk beyond B. H. Bums’ place k fu ll o f dangerous holes and loose boards, and so the marshal eras instructed to n o tify the people livin g beyond there that i f the repairs w ire not made a t ones, ho would be compelled, on the council’s orders, to Charles H all, president , o f the Coos tear it a ll out. County Good Roads A seoektton, re S im ilar action is to be token in re turned from Portland Tuesday, and gard to the w alk back o f J. 8. Law - gives eut the inform ation that it w ill reace’s place on the road to F air- be Im possible fo r tho Coos county view . com m ittee to m eet w ith the State An intention te im prove the w est H ighw ay Commission before the firs t tid e o f E lliott, between F irs t and Sec o f March. ond w ith a now sidewalk was declar A a to the stand the commissioners ed. as «p s^ r s published in th k Is w ill take in regard to tbs fulfillm en t sue. TVs estim ated cost is f lM J l. o f the ten as o f tho law on the fa ith o f M r. Gardner re ported that the Cooe which C o m county gave a b ig m ajeri- Curry T alepheas Co. w ould install a ty fo r the bonds, ho says: WILL STATE MAKE GOOD? tab lin g pyrites o r "fo o l's gold,” and others containing a w hitish aeetal. W ednesday C lifford Fairchilds, a Pow ers, was It didn 't take the crowd long to m arried a a a from tumble to tho fo o t th at the prospect arras tod and plaeod in tho Jail or was sligh tly "n u tty " on tho aub- lo r e on a charge at assisting a joct and that k k im agination hod ran aw ay w ith Mm. “ Gas; I ’m reckless w K k m y m oney," rem arked P a t aa ho tossed o $160 The Coquille basket ball team coma into its own in splendid shape last Friday evening and pkyod the kind o f boll their friends knew they could, T'hen thoy held the M arshfield quin tet to a 23 to 12 score. In the flrst b r lf they played the Bay boys clear o ff th eir foot, the h a lf ending 19 to 9. The second h a lf waa also Co- said that A rchie has blisters on his in C alifornia, says that i f C o m insista, funds w ill bo used fo r paving bore, but that w ill mean that the Peciflc highw ay must w ait, and urges that the la tter have the first consideration. Tho lottar adds that the m atter is im portant, and the delegation from C o m should m eet a t the earliest possible date with the- fu ll highw ay board. It k now believed that th k w ill not bo pos sible until March. concerted action and an all-around sp irit o f "on your toes" indicated that the local team this year w ill be in the race fo r county championship to Some fine basket shooting was pull ed o ff by Stanley, Johnson and Wm. Oerding and Chas. Oerding and Fred Lorens w ere righ t there w ith the In terference when M arshfield became dangerous. I t was a very pretty gam e and was hugely enjoyed by the big crowd which filled the hall. w ill be a t North never saw such a disappointed look on a boy’s face as that which he showed when told he could not go. The fath er was notified and came M r. and Mrs. H. A . Ieensee have down that day fo r h k boy. There just received a batch o f letters from had boon no trou bk nt boms but the th eir son, E arl, the first fo r SO days. r ungster sim ply wanted to sm the H r w rites o f receiving ten a t one world and had been saving Ms pen- tim e end sends his mother a very p retty French holiday souvenir. R e tills o f m oving from on# town to an other. takin g a long Journey by rail in n train at cattie c a n when it w m • • cold that tho boys had to keep run ning up aad down tho cars to keop their Mood circulating. He says he is feelin g fine, but wants to know if Prssident— J. E. Norton. V im prssident—C. J. Fuhrman. Cashier— R. H. M ast. The new president, Mr. Norton, who acquired the stock form erly owned by M. O. Hawkins, said there would be no radical change in the method o f handling the institution, but that they expected to make it as progressive and useful a function o f Coquillo's com m ercial life ae it Is possible to do. Claud D. Perrin War Victim. General Pershing announces the death o f Claud D. Perrin , in France, o f pneumonia December 16, 1917. He was a step son o f Rock Robison, o f th k city, and lived here with Mm nearly tw o years. H e Joined the col o r« before w ar was declared and waa K o -K m I Klub Growing Fast. sent In here last summer on duty ss fire patrol. L a ter ha waa sent to That the K o-K eel Klub k grow in g France where he died. in popularity waa ovidoncod again last Monday evening when six now applications fo r membership ware fa vorably acted upon, m aking a total o f In v ie w 'o f the intim ations hereto fore given out that the state bond fund m ight be exhausted before the commission got around to the paving here, th k doM not sound a b it good. No more doM the suggestion that the commission would like to substitute macadam fo r paving between here aad Marshfield. A s to the question whether the state k under any obligqjion to begin paving until 20 m iles o f th k road have been made ready Roadmaster Murdock has stated that 20 m iles o f the road between M arshfield and M yr tle point would be ready fo r paving as soon as the state could possibly ■hould bo pursued la paying the con tractors tho fu ll amount in s thorn urder tho court’s order. The recorder was authorised te or der and purchase a W arrant book and a Minute book from the Irvin-Hodson Co., a t a coot o f $46. The estim ate o f the enty engineer o f the cM t o f im proving H all street from Second to Fron t with hard sur face paving and bridge was $9,291.82. I h k k $1.466.71 m ore than the es tim ate last spring which eras $7,836.- 11. Increase in the cost o f labor and m aterials accounts fo r the difference. Roughly th k would moan aa expense o f $8.60 per fro n t fo o t o f property, without a cent fo r sewer construction which must be made before the pav in g is hpd. T o avoid such expensive im prove- m enu during these w a r tim es, the council asked C ity Engineer Kern what he would estim ate to be the CMt o f putting the H all street bridge *n e safe condition, not asking it te be Bade a thing o f beauty. Mr. Kern replied that ho thought $260 or $276 would make it safe fo r three or four years. Evsn s t a cost o f $600, i f necessary, .the councilman thought it would bo te tte r to repair than to build a new bridge— i f the property owners w ill soe it th at way,— and the street com m ittee was requested to interview those ow ners and ascertain I f each one would be w illin g to bear Ms pro rate o f tho expense o f repairing. I f ih ty are w illin g the im provem ent w ill not be attem pted th k year.
