VOL. XIII. KO. 8.
* “Squaw Winter” Thin Week.
The annual abetba of officers
brought out a larger attend«ace than
usual at the meeting of the Coquille
Commercial Club Wednesday even
ing-
Before the main event n few bills
were allowed and the aims and ob
jects of tha Pacific Coast Defense
League were endorsed-by the appoint
ment of a committee to draw up reso
lutions to be forwarded to our Con-
gressional representatives. The bill
to carry out the League’s plans is
now before Congress end was ex
plained at some length in last week's
Sentinel.
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The secretary’s report of receipts
and disbursements for the past year
was submitted as follow»:
From Membership Dam ....
Contributions to Corn Show
1017 ......................................
Booth Com. 1917 Cera Shew
Community ChrMaaaa Tree
Donations .........
.........
Sale of 2 P ennants...............
$30,000 FORE
CLOSURE surr
$601.17
Fred HoUbter aad F. 0 . Shores are Practically the entire membership
the plaintiffs in a suit against Lae J. of the War Savings Certificates and
Cary and Mary E. Cary and the Thrift Stamps campaign committees
Coach tim ber company filed in the was present at the city hall Tuesday
Circuit Court here yesterday by Mr. evening whan the organisation for
the year’s campaign was completed.
Hollister.
The petition sets out that on May' Leo J. Cary, chairman of the exec
10, 1016, J. W. Coach made a dead of utive committee for the Coquille dis
trust to Hollister for 96,086 shares of trict, presided, and before the even
the stock of the Coach Timber Co., ing was over had thrown enough
the property of that company consist taunts at the committeemen concern
ing of 4,000 acres of timber in the ing the impossibility of selling the
FI2000 worth of Baby Bonds allotted
Lamps creek section.
This dead of trust is alleged to to the Coquille district, that ha was
have boon given to secure bonds far being called on every hand. That this
#16,000 against J. W. Coach then out method of stirring up interest was af
standing. Mr. Hollister surrendered fective is certain. By the dose of
the stock mentioned to the Coach the session everyone wanted to talk
Timber Ce. and received new steck and for the sake of bringing out toll
ing points Frank Leslie was endeav
for it issued in his own name.
The petition ' then goes on to in oring to convince Mr. Cary that the
cite that Mary E. Cary owns and
holds 06,080 shares of the stock ol
the Coach Timber company, the ea-
Attorney Liljeqvist began a Mg
foreclosure ease involving altogether
nearly .$80,000 in the Circuit Court
here yesterday. The Chandler In
vestment company, of Marshfield, is
ing the company to run behind at tha
rate of $2,000 a year. Also that he
sold $7,224 worth of timber to the
Moore Co. in 1017 end ought to have
$10,000 on hand, while instead of
iL m O
dined the honor and said that the
the present incumbent was because
he did not have the heart to wish it
or him for a fourth term. It quickly
became evident that the club was de
termined to have an« of the two man
named and as Mr. Cary so positively
dt cllned the demand that Mr. Norton
torve again became insistent.
The latter gentleman, in his own
defense, wanted to know how long a
men should sorvo as president in or
der to fulfill his duty to the commun
ity, end protested against any con
sideration of his name, afterwards of
fering to submit te a choice between
himself aad Mr. Cary. The latter
stood pat on his declination.
J. A Lamb said he had three
thoughts—one of the present incum
bent, one that Cary was the man; and
the third that J. S. Lawrence would
make a fine president.
This brought a snort from our gen
ial recorder who tried te even it up by
saying that with one or two excep
tions^ every man ia the club was
qualified to be president except him-
tself and -------- • pointing at Mr.
Lamb. Amidst the tumultuous laugh-
tei greeting the retort, the latter
said he might never be president of
the Coquille Commercial Club, but, be
gad, he would fight. He was imme
diately reported for duty ia the
trenches.
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they had run in to it, thus greatly
diminishing the value of the property.
Other allegations a n that Manager
Cary has used the assets of the Coach
Timber Company to run a stock
ranch and raise cattle, sheep and
goats, instead of paying them te the
stockholders os dividends; that he per
mitted the stock on the place to die
of starvation; that he keeps scrubs;
end that the ranch, ought to pay
$1000 à year profits but Is losing
money.
The plaintiffs ask:
That Mr. Cary be directed to make
an accounting of his transactions as
manager of the Timber Co.
H u t Mr. Cary and his wife be re
strained from using the property of
the Coach Timber Co. as their own,
or from pursuing any other business
It’s a Pic Campaign Now. in behalf of said company than the
A. L O’Reilly, of the Extension business for which It was organized.
Service st 0 . A. C., has been talking That the corporation be dissolved
to the schools of the Coquille valley and a receiver appointed.
this week about pigs end poultry. It
ie a part of the government campaign
to increase production in the country,
and Mr. O’Reilly has had the assist Coach, who claims that the stock of
a n t of J. L. Smith and C. T. Mulkey the Coach Umber company which
Hollister and Shores hold belongs to
in presenting the plan.
the
aetata of her late husband, and
Tuesday aad Wednesday the
schools here were visited, yesterday that it was unlawfully obtained by
they held very encouraging meetings the plaintiffs ia this suit, is sueing
at Myrtle Point end today are up at them to ragain possession of that
stock.
Fishtrap and Arago.
The Farmers £ Merchants bank/ «T o a disinterested spectator it
here has agreed to finance a limited would look as if that suit ought to
number of boys in the pig business by be decided first to determine what in
leaning them the money to *nahj the terest the plaintiffs in the later suit
hold in the Coach Timber com
start at $ per coat interest Other really
pany
If
any.
beaks elsewhere have also done like
wise and the moveanent is practically The same interests back of this suit
rondo s determined fight to secure the
removal of Mrs. Cary as guardian of
her''toother Arthur’s estate, in order
ta get in their hands s majority of
the stock of the Coach Timber com
pany, aad failing in that are now on
another tack to get the upper hand
through the appointment of a re-
- First Pkpm Oat of Date.
The business of making American
citizen» by the naturalization method
h nearly at a standstill in Ceos coun
ty. Of an the men Usted to appear
before the Circuit Court here this
month to gut their final papers, ealy
three will be examined. All the rest
have first papers mors then ester
yuan old aad the U. 8 . Suprepe
Court has rated that those of older
J. C. Almack and Prof. R. E. Baker
f|b l of what the school children here
sad elsewhere were doing in the
Thrift 8tamp campaign and the re
port* they made were extremely en
couraging.
J. J. Stanley said that the confec
tioneries reported a sudden decline in
the amount of-eandieo sold to child
ren, and he declared he wouldn’t bo
outdone by the children in thrift en-
doevor f he had to forego his cigars.
Mr. Cary announced the appoint
ment of the following committees in
communities which ore included tn
/ F a t Elk—Chris Terns, Mary Ol
son, Libby Fish.
Lower Fishtrap—Goo. Henninger,
Sylvia Hardman, Inez Pinkston.
Excelsior (Upper Fishtrap)—Nile
Millsr, Stella Barldow, W. O. Finley.
Riverside (North Fork) — Fred
Johnson, D. A. Moore, Nellie Brener.
Feirview—Pearl WUley, Carrie E.
Benham, Elma M. Roberta.
McKinley—Frona Lawhorne, Mas
on Wilcox, Edna Brown, Sarah
Forbos, Wanda Harry Wilcox.
Dora—Wilma Bunch, Maude M.
Weatherby, Emma E. Easton.
Roy—Annie Winter, Jas. Jacobean,
Lottie Miller.
Johnson’s Mill—W. D. Newton,
Clara Moser, R. B. Knife.
Sitkam—Alex Austin, J. D. Laird,
Minnie Tnyior, Fred Weaver, Verna
Laird.
Beaver Hill—Florence Cox, Paul
Boyd, Blanche Cox.
Coaledo—Jno. Yoakam, H. Witchcy,
II. L. Cad man, Ruth Dungan.
To make the committees published
last Friday complete, the followiag
ladies were added to the local town
committees, the first named gentle
men as chairmen having been previ
ously appointed:
C. W. Endicott—Meedamee Hettie
Leslie, Mabel Hazard, Julia Johnson,
Grace Norton, Misses Allis Phillips
end Hattie Sw eet
C. R. Barrow—j^aedames May B.
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", Coquill« has b*«n haring a squaw
winter this wsak. After a day of The Comadttes for the Wmr
raw winds and driving rain Tuesday
Savings Stamp Drive Now
the storm turned to snow about 10
All Appointed.
«’clock at night and the ground was
whitened for the first time this win
Go Over the Tap.
ter. There were only very slight
traces of the fleecy snow loft the fol The following students in our city
lowing morning, however, the rain schools have sold over fifty dollars'
that fell later in the night washing worth each of Baby Bonds aad Thrift
it away. Wednesday, we had some Stamps, and are enrolled in Superin
tendent Churchill's Rainbow Regi-
oning leaving the wooden walks,
bridges, and some roofs white yes
terday morning, though the group Mary-Esther Johnson . .800 $200
lewns end cement walks bald their Harold Gould ..................4S2 108
own against it On the bridges and Avis H artson........... .374 93.60
high walks the cold air underneath Evelyn Oerding ..............822 80.60
helped to preserve it But wo have Lois Morrison ................260 66
had wintry weather this week for the Marian Norton ............... 232 68
first time this season and nobody has Eugene Allen . ..................229 67.20
seemed particularly enthusiastic Maxine Paulson . . . . . .. 2 2 4 6«
Margaret Shores ........... 221 66.28
about it
Clarence Barton . . . . . .. 2 2 0 60
You can’t SPEND Your Money John Seeley ..................1.200 60
Londy Church ................. 200 60' *
and
Alyce Dell Johnson .,..220 68
SAVE IT TOO!
Helen Lyons . . . . * . I. . . 218 64.50
Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Jean Pointer . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 4 61
Velde Schroeder ..........,.204 61
Hal Howell ......................200 60
Total .........r ..............4760 1190.00
Londy Church Is the only high
JENNINGS WILL
GO TO EUGENE
Rev. Frederick O. Joinings, Vicar
of St. James’ Episcopal church here,
Informs us that he has accepted 8
call to the pastorate of the Epis
copal church at Eugene and expects
tc begin his work there the first of
March. The Eugene parish is the
third largest of that denomination In
Oregon, and Mr. Jennings is certain
ly to be congratulated on becoming
itr pastor. While his many friends
here in his own church mad outside
of it will regret to see him leave this
the government has drafted to fill
them out are getting to work on them.
The Coquille teachers are putting in
time afternoons and evenings and the
Myrtle Point teachers will be down
here tomorrow to do their b it
An index card about 4x7 inches is
used end the answers to 47 questions
cn each questionnaire must be indi
cated on a card for each man, which
will then become s part o^a card in
dex that will indicate all that each
man has told about him self on his
questionnaire.
Buy War-Saving* Stampe!
A rm trosi to R ob Again.
Commissioner G .,J. Armstrong, of
Band on, has decided to stand' as a
candidate for the Republican nomina
tion for the office he now holds at the
May primaries. Ha is thoroughly
conversant with th« business of the
county and batter qualified than any
new man couU be to perform its du
ties. With a»'much unfinished road
work as Coos county has on hand now
and will probably have until after the
war ends, it will be well to keep ex
perienced men, thoroughly familiar
with the details of this work at the
helm. The people will no doubt think
about this office, as we do that it is
no time to swap horses while eross-
i the fifty dollar mark Sat-
Mr. Churchill writes seek
rho wine a personal letter
i them e bronze service but-
Certificates, haring n maturity
valu» of $100. This money will be
used for the benefit of the Govern
ment until its maturity, when tha
greatly increased sum will be invest
ed for the benefit of the school in n
library, and Other needed equipment.
As the treasury ¿Í the district hap
pens to b# empty st this time, the
Board will issue a warrant and pur
chase about $80 worth of Thrift
Stamp« to be kept on hand by the
teacher, Mrs. Minnis M. Hermann, at
her home until the school opens on
the first of April. A number of resi
dents of this district have taken out
a t high as $30 worth of W. S. S.
The Marshfield school on Friday re
ported their first member for the
Rainbow Regiment. Keith E. Hall, a
nine year old boy, who 1s the son of
the chairman of the County Savings
Executive committee, is the first on#
to cross the Una, so far as reported
from any other town school, except
Coquille.
Many meetings are being held in
the school houses throughout the
county to organize the Thrift Stamp
Csmpaign. The Myrtle Point com-
mitt«« ia organising as rapidly as
possible, end the Coquille committee
has two meetings scheduled for this
week at Riverton Friday night and
Fishtrap Saturday afternoon.
Seventeen pupils of the Coquille
schools, of whom nine are in the Fifth
grade, have sold $1100 worth of thrift
stamps, averaging about $70 each.
The North Bend school has col
lected $260 for enrollment fees in the
J jrin r Red Cross«. Society. The big
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land and Mbs Eva Schroeder.
Mor* rrOP*rty ,n ln * Val* y '
' F. E. McKenna—Meadsmes Mabel The Assessor’s Summary of taxa-
Wernlck, Mary A. Branstetter, Vir- Me values in Coos County shows a
gins Lamb, Carrie B. Hamden, Edna total of $20,008,8$6 on the rolls ia
Hartson and Mabel Laird.
the county, to which our railroads
J. S. Barton—Msadames Eva Cur- V>d other public utilities contribute
rie, Elda Anderson, Irens Jones, Susie $868,286.
Folsom, Sarah Wickham and Lima It b worth whib to note that mere
Sterling.
b in the port of Coos Bay district
For the systematic canvassing of $«,*41.612 worth of property and in
the town, which b to be done once the two Coquilb river port districts
a month throughout the year 101$, $10,311.208. This shows that the Co
districts similar to those of the Red quilb end of the county has $2,068,-
Cross drive win bo assigned te the , «*1 more property values, as aasasaed
various committees.
j than the Coos Bay end. and that the
This evening a delegation will go Coquilb watershed outweighs the
to Riverton to help start the work .Coos Bay Watershed fully 26 per
there, going down on the Sitka Spruce cent in values and in county and state
Cn. bunch, “May.”
taxes paid.
Tomorrow a delegation will go up !
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to Fishtrap jsehoolhouM to hold a
No Amount b TOO Small
“Thrift” rally them at 2 o’clock. . 1 , To Land to Your Country.
The tkird rural ateetingbf the earn- ‘ Buy War-Savings Stamps!
Coos county should enroll and send
their enrollment fees to Mbs Edith
M. Stalley, of Marshfield, chairman of
the Chapter School Committee.
Figaro Your Own Tax«*.
The Summary of the Assessment
Rolls of Coos County for 1817 by A s
sessor J. P. Beyurs, published else
where in this issue contains a great
many facto ef interest to a great