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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1918)
\ ..it The 1 #111 . f » T i l * t , ,i .AA m » ■ m % i i t \ Æ J i to * ■ ^ IWI BY H. W. YOUNG. W ith $ 1 J « to dance to the asusie o f it the man wttk only a __________ i o f that amount o f pro perty and that all in only one or two can’t afford to cut .ou t So the 1114 t had paid on the Sentinel property in M days didn’t aosas entirely i away to qe when w i com ing up from Bandon on the last Sunday morning and not certain i whether on reaching Coquills we i should find the 8entinel as we left it ; Saturday morning or a mere pile o f ! ashes and about $60 worth o f scrap i iron. I f you’re rich don’t insure; but ; i if your eggs are all in o n e 'o r baskets, don’t risk being busted by unwise economy. COQUILLB’S CALAMITY Thirteen fam ilies were made home less— ell losing some o f their house hold goods and some their all. Three rooming houses were des troyed with net a bed nor stich o f bed-, ding saved aasong them ’ all. liimHitH“ our ability to entertain transients alm ost 60 per cen t The only other occupied business houses destroyed are the picture shew, Quick’s hardware and second hand store and the Telephone central—the last will, o f course, be in operation in a week. la no other place was there a stock o f goods destroyed. The total losses are appalling in their magnitude and thirty or forty people here are $*,000 poorer on an average than they were a week ago today—som e losing all they had. W ithout a thought of the losses experienced in the two hours during which the flames ran riot, w s must add that Coquille as a city and as a trading center is not ser iously hurt— that $86,000 out o f a m il lion and a quarter community as- sests isn’t going to discourage us or w iaViii oor m o n k . W e are still prepared to furnish goods and services along all lines, and with very little diminution o f stocks on hand. W ar conditions w ill, it is true, retard and dimish the extensive rebuilding which would otherwise be strongly urged and freely financed; but the people who own the now va cant lots on the west end o f First street beyond the First National Bank on the north side and practically the whole length o f the block on the south side have something to offset th a t By building now, they can stake that the first street o f substantial buildings in town and thereby insure a very de sirable class o f tenants. The Ma sonic lodge will probably set the ball rolling tom orrow night by deciding to rebuild on their lot with a business house on the first floor and lodge rooms above. Above all things now, however, is the duty that confronts our city offici als and all the people doing businees in Coquille, o f making the business buildings that remain as safe as siblo. W ith the laxity in regard to fire precaution that has prevailed in the past the only wonder is that block or more o f our business section has not gone up in smoke long ere this. Every stove and furnace, every stove pipe and chimney in the down town district, and m ost especially ev ery opening in any wall through which a stove pipe passee and the floor protection, or lack o f it every stove should have the doeeet attention. , For the loes we have sustained in the past week, although the first big fire Coquille has suffered in 26 years, gives no sort o f immunity fo r an other quarter o f a century or even for a single day, If necessary precau tions are omitted. Another such fire would hit the currents o f ness life a good deal more staggering a blow than this one has; and no pos sible precautions to obviate it should be omitted. W e are now in the posi tion of the burned child who dreads the fire and ought to be ready to take the most drastic measures to H sB - ■ BETTER PA Y INSURANCE The publisher o f the Sentinel lived in Coquille fo r but little i than four years, but in that tin* has paid very nearly $1000 fo r insurance fo r five yea n , or at the o f about $200 a year. Certainly don’t like the monopoly method iron etod combinations at the ind tonet at all Poinds o f Hour Saved CUffN. county this year the says: Douglas Review Aside tram the^Peciftc Highway undertaking the County Court con- eiders the connecting link o f rondwny between Dougins end Coo# counties the moot im portant highway project on hand. It is proposed to construct eight miles o f new rood lending from n point about two m ike beyond the Camas Valley postoflke to the Doug- las-Cooe line, to which point the Coos County Court has already agreed to build a highway o f equal efficiency. H ie first fou r miles o f the new road in CHANGB COMBS SOON this county w ill be plank surfaced, On March 81, one week frein Sun- while the last fou r miles will be sur faced with gravel, which is easy of oae hour and in order to keep up access after Bridge Creek has been A maximum grade o f six with the precession we’ll have to turn reached. out an hour earlier in order to get up per cent is one feature o f the County as early as we have been doing. Six Court’s plans relating to this new o’clock in the morning w ill be before route, which w ill contrast markedly daylight again. But at the latter end with the maximum grades existing o f the day, quitting at 5 o ’clock will there now, which are in some in seem like getting off in the middle o f stances about 80 per cent. W ork on this undertaking w ill bo the afternoon. Whether the churches will hold their evening, services at commenced within the next 00 day» actively 8 by the clock after that we haven’t and will be prosecuted It is ex yet heard. I f so, they w ill begin be throughout the summer. fore sunset along in June. Those who pected that the roadway will be made retire at 8 in the evening w ill do so ready by fall to receive the plank and long before dark.. A s the railroads gravel surfacing, processes that will besffeetu d With another year. The importance this link o f highway order as they must indeed it will result in our getting our eastern mail will occupy to the two counties upon an hour earlier in fact, though we its completion must be apparent to won’t have any jp ore time to read the the most cursory observer, furnishing news if we retire at the usual hour. as it will a direct route o f travel be The change seems revolutionary to tween the thriving lumbering and look forw ard to, though we believe dairying centers o f Coos County and everybody will like it after they are the productive valleys o f this section, initiated. and making possible commercial in terchanges o f a profitable nature to BADGE OF HONOR. both counties. F or instance, our mel A Liberty Lean button is a badge ons, fruits, vegetables and cereals will o f honor. R ightfully obtained it go forw ard from here in automobile marks the wearer as one who has per trucks, which w ill return with the form ed a distinct, definite service to products o f Coos county, which are quite as distinctive in character as N ot all can fight, not all can work those produced here. directly fo r the Government; but in In addition the passenger traffic buying a Liberty Lean Bond, or W ar that w ill result from the completion Savings Stamps, every American ren o f a 60-mile all the year highway be ders some service to the nation. It tween Roeeburg and M yrtle Point has been put within the reach and must be great, as the m ajority o f the power o f every eitisen to Sid the i residents on the coast w ill then find United States financially; it is a poor it to their advantage to seek the out American who withholds support side world by way o f Roeeburg, rather from the Government, from our sol than by the roundabout rail route diers and sailors fronting death on leading from Marshfield north and battlefields oceans. east to Eugene. It will be remember Iron erossoe to German soldifrs, ed that much o f the traffic between and diamond orders exchanged be Coos County and the outside world tween Turkish and German sovereigns moves to and from San Francisco and may be but the badges o f atrocity. fo r this the Roeeburg highway will But a Liberty Loan button, simple as furnish marked saving in both tint it is, signifies a patriots duty done and and distance. is an insignia o f honor. Another contingency confidently looked--forw ard to by the County Can’t Use Red Cram That W ay. Court upon the com pletion o f this Notice has been received that the highway is the re-establishment o f the différant offices o f the International Roeeburg-Coos Bay mail service. Aside from the Pacifie and Coos Red Crass in Swttserland are receiv ing letters from the United S û tes in Highways, new roadwork in the coun groat numbers containing written in ty will practically come to a stand closures accompanied with requests still. that such inclosures be mailed in Switserland and addressed to persons Send the 8entinel to eastern friends named in enemy countries, especially written indoeuree intended for civil KAISER BILL SOUSED ians residing in Italian territory oc By W . M. cupied by the enemy. We’ll fight for W oodrow W ilson, Inasmuch as these written inclo W ell help him all we can. sure# are not transmitted out o f Switserland it is hereby directed that And when we start to catch postmasters and postal officials give publicity, as fa r as may be possible, to this notice in order that correspon dents in the United States may learn that the International Red Cross is not available as a channel through which to seid communications o f the kind herein described to civilians or others residing in enemy territory or the territory occupied by enemy thie recipe if each of our 22,000,000 in fe ri of three loirvee a One loaf ¡ea^lTl^oSIcD O pounds saved l ^ Enough to Food tho Entire Allied Army Corn Bread with R ye Flour shortening orggwf , ^ fZ "% r ° ‘shs‘ r ROYAL RAKING POWDER CO, Dept H, I3S Wahern Sfc, New York FOOD W ILL W IN THE W A R The March which cam * in like a forw ard, but it has been o f the ro;n lamb three weeks ago today may or ing sort alm ost unanimously so far. Old Baton toughed as he scratched may not go out like a lion on the his bead, Calling Cards, 100 fo r $ 1 . 00 . Sunday our clocks have to be turned For on sulphur end brim stone he was fed. So he called his imps with a hearty cheer, And n iti) “ the horo." And took the kaiser on inside. The imps all thought o f the fun he’d make, So they threw old BUI in e sulphur lake. Oh! Blast the luck said Kaiser Bill, The devil is sure some tough old pill. known to man, the savings bank book is the one that will Editor Sentinel:— There has been some recent correspondence on the subject o f Red Cross Christinas seals, through which we learn that there wss a misunderstanding, The Marsh- field comm ittee who sold seals in Co- quille last Christmas-tide acted with the approval o f those nt headquarters. It was hard lines fo ^ u s --b u t every body meant well, and there is no more to be said. F . X. B. Many Coquille People Fall to Realise Backache is so deceptive. It comee and you guessing. Learn the cause— then cure it. Possibly it to weak kidneys. That’s why Doan’s Kidney Pills are so effective. ■ We present the follow ing case as proof: A. Rogers, retired farm er, 407 N. G 8t., Cottage Grave, Ore., says: I have taken Doan’s Kidney Pills off and on for several years and they have al ways done me good. I have been sub It w ill sure take every man. ject to attacks o f kidney trouble which He lieked those little Belgians, have made it hard fo r me to control the paasagee o f the kidney aecrteiona. With bullets filled Russia full, I have found after I have taken a box And alm ost licked the Frenchman, o f Doan’s Kidney Pills my kidneys And little Johnny Bull. have become normal.” Price 60c at all dealers. Don’t But when those Sammies g ot to fight simply ask fo r n kidney remedy—get ing, Doan’s Kidnev Pills— the same that T w as then the Kaiser fled. Mr. Rogers had. Foetor-Milbuim Co., M fgra, Buffalo, N. Y. And out on No Man’s land His whole army ha left dead. handiest in Get one of account with this bank. It doesn’t take much to start an account and it will grow amusingly if -you give it at tention. And now in that hell o f frightfnlneas Where they never see the son, It is now being filled up With the German and the Hon. Now a Closed Incident. in these books by opening an The imps then thought with a grin and thrill How they would punish old BUI. They would kill him by inches in nil that staff, But Kaiser Bill was old and tough. But all those brave old Sammies, WU1 meet above the sun, Where God w ill surely take them ' When their work on earth is dens. som e days o f trouble. ' f l i & MUANTS BANK Commercial and Saving Deposits COQUILLE - - - OREGON i i f ............................. ■ ■ » — LUM BER Our Retail Stock Is Complete Estimates for all kinds of building GLADLY FURNISHED YOUR ORDER will have our special attention E. E JOHNSON He left the whole world with a sigh, But he swore he’d rule it by and by. Last Monday people began to ap preciate how much hoofing it tele He didn't stop and be didn’t wait For he knew right well that h e Was phones had been saving them. It late. took a great many miles o f walking ** that day on account o f the hello girls The kaiser thought he’d like the smell having to take a lay off. O f burning sulphur down in hell. He thought he’d see what was his fate, So he stopped to listen outside the gate. COQUILLE PEOPLE SHOULD EAT PIE DAILY But Ohl He heard the devil speaking there inside, And knew his home in hell had been denied. — ■ Pie is wholesome, combining both He was giving his imps a little warn fru it and grain. Those who have ing, For he expected the kaiser down in ONE SPOONFUL simple buckthorn * the morning. bark, glycerine, e tc , as mixed in A d- ler-l-ka. This flushes toe PNTIRE Then old Satan with an impish grin Asked the kaiser to come in. which poisoned your stomach for The kaiser smiled when he shook his months and relieves A N T CASE sour stomach, gas or constipation and pre vents appendicitis. Loaves stomach in condition to digest ANYTHING. C. J. Fuhrman. .— S O I— ■III» „