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.