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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)
mms . » ■um»»*1» -*** wmm i. ’ ■ «•S i PAOB SIX City gcMH Nain, O n of the Fonr-MMrato M a . The following is one ef the four- minute speeches issm tiy delivered (a t the Beanie here by B .^ 6 W fc rd : nix, our forefathers, with the aid sf the liberty-loving people o f France, overthrew the tyranny imperad an ra by n few people who were then in control e f the Government ef Bag 1 ;>J men e f the Sig- Meeting o f Oses Otirnty Bound Table. A meeting of the Cum County Bound Table organisation, comprising aU the man tanchen e f the county, will most at the Coquille Club rooms January 26. The program will com siet e f a general discuseira of super vision. Superintendent Baker will at thia time present papers on taxation. ".V> t i » tea chare of t i » dty schools, mem ber* o f the H igh School Training Class sad t w A in from t i » vario«» rural district* surrounding Coquille, «aere entertained at a social meeting on Friday at t i » home of Mrs. Chase. of Stanfield make the best roads, rock or concret from Gravel Ford to Myrtle Point. But, in the bee for the past forty y en » growing up n powerful, intelligent, and cruel military despotism in con tiol of s thrifty, industrious, and prolific people, the elm s f which organisetlbn wee, not to build’ up government “of the people, by the people, and for the people," but of the raters, by the r a le », end for the rul ers. and whom intention was, aqd te* that they shall be the rulers of whole earth B alien oa the part e f tha and all the ideate dear to heart, there eaa be bus perpetual opposition, and in the war to the death. Either Germany’s intention to rate the world must be effectually curbed, or we must bid farewell to nil principles of meat that we have upheld for u cen tury and a half. The military despotism of Germany in the prosecution of the present wai has sought by unprecedented, deliber etc end intentional cruelty, inflicted on the field, but children and unarmed men, to Instill in the hearts ef opponents n terrible t e « of her power, with the dear object of thus weakening their fighting ability end teaching them that Germany sol itary power must and will rate, fa whatever extent of cruelty it choose, and that they would give up promptly and accept whatov- see fit to give i her might to further But while this spirit of military cruelty has been growing up in Ger many, there had bean also growing up, throughout tha world ns h whole, another spirit and tion, with the express object of alle viating suffering—the Red Crass. And naturally, logically, inevitably, though probably without any each in tention originally, it has come to be os» of the very strongest against German cruelty, and se against Germany herself, in thia war. Where Germany trim to and suffering, far military the Bed Cram most effectively duces and relieve* i t And although this reduction of suffering wee not -a military motive. Its operation is to oppose and de feat the cruelty used aa a weapon by Germany, end thus as actually end really, and effectively, fight against her, as do the soldiers in the field themselves. The Bed Ooea pdts heart Into those soldiers by its kind ness and mercy where Germany would take away their courage by cruelty. Also the Red Cram promptly puts thousands of wounded men beck into the fight who otherwise could never fight again. One of the largest, greatest, most powerful organisations in the whole world, it is doing a work whose tremendous effect stands' alone i unequalled. There is none other be compered with it Help it one of you, in every way that you can. win arc «abject to and all receive the regular pay, which te about M per day. The men are of « remarkably husky typo and sumid well pleased with the prospect o f servie# in the woods. Many aro without uniforms having earns frees Fort Mason, Texas, where there has not boon a sufficient number of uniforms to oqual the number of recruits pouring In. Sen» of the titan are from Camp Lewis. AU have volunteered for this werk end have had previous experience In logging operation*. Both fir and Port Orford coder aro cut at Powers. The latter is that which te needed in aircraft construc tion but the former must be removed a* well. The ratio of fir to tide cotter is about 6 to 1 so that t i » increased tog ging operations will add greatly to More soldier-loggers, It Is stated, Acorns fron t the Boocobul Onk. go back to the seven period one, do ing sway wKh the thirty minute as sembly. On account of the a id-win tar pro motions there is not only a much larg er attendance in the high school; but also in the grade rooms. There are many more pupila than formerly; for example in the sixth grade there is an enrollment of fifty-one. The enrollment of the fourth grade will be decreased this last tames ter as one half of tha fourth B class will be left at the Academy until Spring. Miss Anderson has been out of school the Ant part of this week on account of sickness. During her ab sence Miss Myrtle Neely taught her Pauline Chase is obliged to stop school on account of appendiciti». Mr. Noblet is an owner of e new Underwood typewriter. He he* agreed to tend it to the high school on will permit more students to take typewriting. A circular tetter has basa received from the United States Bureau of Ed ucation, which recommends that sub ject* of study which will prepare stu dents to aid the government in carry ing out the present war be introduced in the high school*. I f possible a few new subject* will be, introduced to carry ont this suggestion. r - ~ The new studente whs enrolled this week ere Sylvia Neely, Harold Schroeder, Homer Oddy, Gertrude Bo- gard, Jessie Pointer, June Willey end Otto Davis. The present enrollment te new one hundred and fourteen iff the high e e h e o L ^ ^ ^ ^ On account of the large number of pupila in the high school it wss nec essary to put in a new raw of docks for their accommodation. Mr. Nohtet is this week essisting in the ««m in in g of the manuscript* of the eighth grade student* of the coun- Acorns from the oak tree in which King Charles the Second hid from the Cromwellian* after the Battie of Worcester, have been planted thia week on the camp«» of the University of Oregon at Eugene. The Boscobel oak, aa it 1a known in English his tory, saved the Stuart dynasty. Tha i king’s pusuers heard a noise which they thought might be his majesty ta i flew out end their suspicions were lulled. To this day certain English regiments bear oak instead of laurel ou their cruets to commemorate this incident. The Boscobel oak, which grows in the perk of the Duke of Grafton, has about outlived its span of centuries and this ¡rear, after being buffetted by the storms of 260 winters, prod «se ed only about 100 aeon». Colons« John Leader,-late of the Royal Irish Rifles, just before leaving England “ Arbor Day,” the second Friday in February, will be appropriately ob served by the high school. The sev enth and eighth gradee especially in tend to do much to beautify the school grounds by setting out shrubs and Hewers end working oa the lawn. Mrs. Elizabeth Grilgn, ef Mon- mouth, Ore., will .fill the vacancy oc casioned by the resignation e f Miss Anderson. Mias Anderson «sill keep the class until February 8, after which she will laave for Monmouth, whom she is to attend school. Os Tuesday morning at the as- of military science at our state «inl- versity, sprat son» tin » visiting Mr*. taisbly period slides, entitled, “Con- Leader’s relatives, the Graftona. s<Jidated Schools,“ ware shown. The While there Colonel and Mrs. Leader collected all the acorns of the most historic of English tram, and have brought them to Eugene for planting on the campus. Tenting Association. Every practical dairyman knows that it pays to test cows and keep n yearly record of them. It has been demonstrated by the progressive New Potatoes Already Yet. fermera ef this county as well « in H. Goodman brought us a stalk other countries that the most eeenotn- broken from one of hie raspberry ical method of keeping sudi record» Saturday, ra which is through the work of the cow test- preen berries and ripe He aSya he picked a nice dish of berries from the patch on Friday. He also gathered a few ripe strawberries. Several of rar eititens report vol unteer potatoes with tape 18 inches our dairy herds. s' to two feet high and in blossom end This year it will not be possible to haring potatoes at the bottom in hire enough men, who are fitted for «time cases nearly ns large ra,bra’s taking charge of the testing work, to Many roam are also in eri- strve ell the dairymen who went Margaret Goodrich, Ahne Oden, Rob Some climate, thin.—Myrtle ert Brown, John Brown, Moite Bran Point American. don. Oliver Latrimele, Jeun Young, Roy Lund, Raymond Odea, Katherine the department o f public speaking, marked out several »pote for snlpoi*’ pests which were built on Saturday. pecta to enlist in the Navy to do his The dugout, capable of holding BO men, win not bo started for a white bit for Undo Sam. ' Zona Bright had to go to Coquille The wood for urn in revetting the to take hi* examination tide week. Mr. Maroon returned bon» thia trends and ateo for putting on the week from Marshflold whore ho has Lottern to hoop the men’s foot above the water is on the ground. A drain been working for the Smith Co. Mrs. T. Summerlin and daughter, ing trench, B feet deep and 85 long Locite, wore callers at tha home of helps to carry off the sea pag e. Colonel Leader procured some two- Mrs. J. D. Bennett Tuesday. •*«. inch pépe jointe as a substitute tor bomba for t i » mon to practise with until boati» can bo obtained. The pipe joints were t i » exact weight of perimented with them. The résulta were astonishing. Whereas the sol diers at the front can hurl the mtesiea 40 yards from the level, Oregon stu dents threw them 60 end 60 yards. Colonel Leader was delighted with their proficiency. Gallows, on which to place dum mies for bayonet practice will be put up thia week in older to begin in struction in this line. Some idea of the bayonet work waa given in the military lectures on Monday and Tuesday o f alst weak. Barbed wire entagtemente will be Republican candi nate for UNITED STATES SENATOR The man who believes in the development o f Ore gon’s opportunities. I f you have not received com plete copy o f my principle», write n » I I BtanfttM R. N. Stanfield Then Steve, Oh Steve, be careful, j For there’s a hole in the Boor of the Mg, red bara. [Paid advertisement] ■ 1 That’s all, methinks, Ok not th em one yet, YeM Loader, Malden, ns sure as answer in detail. Briefly, they in clude the amount «ponded.for labor you Ve born. You’ll have to get up more speed sad in tha preparation of land for crops and in the cultivation, harvesting and marketing of the crop. Deductions may bs made for the cost of seed end fertiliser, the amount expended for tebm In earing for live stock, cost of feed, repairs to farm and other farm buildings, but not the cost of repairs to the dwelling. The cost of repairs to farm fences and machinery is deduc tible, as well as the cost of m all tools and material which te used up In the course o f s year or two, such ss bind ing twine, pitchforks, spades, etc. The cost o f machinery, such as tractors sad threshing machines, can not bo deducted, but the cost of their operation te a deductible item. The value e f term products te not considered taxable until reduced to cash or its equivalent. I f crops end holding up the atteek. Mullin rushed stocks «rare produced in 1SN6 cad sold the snipers’ pest in front end destroy in 1617, the amount received there ed a pert of the garrison with bomba. for te to be included in the fanner’s Crawling on top of the >01 box he tax return for the calender year 1617, shot two machine gunners with his Crape produced in 1617 end on hand revolver. He then rushed to another December SI need not be considered. entrance end forced the garrison’s 16 Persons in doubt as to any of the survivors to surrender. Nothing fin provisions of the income-tax section er has bora done in the war. Al of the war-revenue act are advised by though rapid Are was directed on him end his clothes were riddled with bul lets he never faltered end not only saved the situation but also many lives. He had already earned the military medal.” Notice te hereby given that the Common Coucnil of the City of Co quille did by resolution duly adoped ut a meeting of said council held on the 21st day of January, A. D., 1918, end which resolution is kept of record in the ofitee of the City Recorder in the raconte of the proceedings of the Common Council end reference to which te hereby nude aa a part of this notice, duly declare its inten tion and purpose to improve that por tion o f Elliott Street in EUiott’s Ad dition to Coquills City, Corn County, Oregon, f*pm the north aide o f First Street ins aid addition to the south side of Second Street in said addition, by constructing a wooden sidewalk along the west side of said portion of arid street Said improvement will be made in accordance with tbs plans and spéci fications of the iCty Engineers, filed in the ofitee of said City Recorder ra the 21st day of January, A. D„ 1918, end the estime te of the probable coat of mid improvement is the sum of $189.91. Said improvement will be «—A* at tho cost end «pense of the property benefit ted thereby as stated in said resolution. Amy anil nil persons interested may make and file with the City Recorder written objection to or P rititero, A tten tio n ! « » » i against • raid Any one whs would be within twenty days from the first in securing fm ts e f eight, ton, vubUcatkm, towit: within twenty twdvo-polat century ns good as new, could tel accommoda days from the 26th day o f January A. D„ 1918. tod hors at very 8 . Law ren ce, Set o f am . CHy trie welded for eels at half this office. job esses by t i r r sr - ~ F óri ¿S? States! «r ia l Chib every •t 7 alO. t ?
