The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., March 29, 1918, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

Teffiflf About Peop
Events in the City
them the river baste fam ish the only
« sen s ef communication with the reet
of the wwid, and if they should cease
to run it would be necessary for th a n
to provide themselves with aero­
planes. ' So we believe th at all our
readers will be interacted in the fol­
lowing facts in regard to w ater trans­
portation and the need for It add the
loasee incurred by failure to provide
it as set forth in the article below
furnished by the Rivo is end Harbors
Congrsaa a t Washington. Certainly
the facts given here have been eye-
openers to the Sentinel scribe;
ea the new daylight saving schedule
next week, it will be mighty incon­
venient for slackers who try to keep
their docks “with the sum."
Arthur Ellingeen after hearing of
the A n in which so much e f Me prop­
erty was destroyed came up here-at-
once from San Francisco, arriving
last Friday. Ha to in poor health and
only remained here until the insur­
ance on his properties wee settled'to
return southward.
ceiva due credit la ri week for their
aid during the big fin Sunday morn­
ing, March 17, waa Mrs. Mpry Hos­
ier, who heartened the A n lighten by
T h e n a n still a few of last week’s serving ham sandwiches and coffee
issue of the Sontinel left with the ac­ without money and without price. She
count of the big fire.
certainly did her hit a t th at time.
Mrs. W. T. Dement, accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Young, for­
by her daughter, Miss Alice, called a t merly in the hotel business in this
the Sentinel office Monday.
nesday, from a visit of several months
galas last weak on hearing of the big with their son, S. F. Young, and their
fire, arriving Friday evening.
daughter, Mrs. E. L. Kelley, a t Liv­
Miss E. M. Roberta, teacher in the ingston, M ont Jfr. and M n. Kelley
Fairview district cams in last Fr- have also returned and a n now liv­
ing a t A s s e rt camp.
day for a couple of day's v isit
Mrs. R. A. ¿sub, employed as d ark
sessalg rof noeliW R. V. ot oG
in
the Economy store a t' North Bend,
Translate the above and you a r ^ o n
left Wednesday morning for Camp
the right road.
Dodge, Iowa, in response to a message
Two new eases of scariotina and from her husband, Sergeant Jsub,
five cases of measles have been n - who to stationed th e n .
M n. Jeub
thinks from the brief messege, “Ccme
Glenn Barker was in from Fair- a” once,” th at her bur Land has (jeen
view last Tuesday to get the straight ordered to France. Mr. Jeub was for­
merly ,\t Ec-cUide an J was once em­
dope on the situation in France.
I t looks now as if it wpuld be quite ployed in the oou.'ly offices a t Co-
a spall before we had another moving [ quill*.—Coos Bay Times.
picture show running in Coquilie.
De W itt Clinton, of Myrtle P o in t
was visiting Monday and Tuesday
with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Burk-
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Korn w e n j ty( Orsgon, on tho Democratic ticket
visiting on the Bay last Sunday. M n. L t
Primaries on May 17th, 1918.
Korn has bean with friends th a n for
Wben x w u ducted to this office
the past weak.
I in November, 1916, I was not elected
A. N. Gould went north Monday on any promise or pledge other than
morning to spend the week surveying I th at 1 would conduct the office ae-
for the Eel Lake camp of the Bush- cording to law, as economically as
nor Lumbar Ca., near Lakeside.
consistent with good service, and a t
The Third liberty Loan campaign
Ximm, rendering courteous treat-
s ta rt. next Saturday. Think
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buy. Don't u n it until tbo Innt min- “ * t t r j
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I given my whole time and attention to
I the affairs of the office and hare not
Julian Leslie came home from Eu-1 used the office in any way to further
gene last Friday evening to spend the I my own political in terest I there-
Easter vacation a t home. He will n - fore have no heatitanev in arain ask-
Clean up day will come pretty soon. I confident th at the votors of , Coos
Bettor call Davis, the Junk Ban, County, who, a t the November, 1916,
around in tima. Don’t forget ha buys I «l»cton, gave me a complimentary
rags.
vote of 1879 majority, will again
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T h . first real warm and gem.1 U . , ^
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ta my offici>, c>.
spring oay for week* came yesterday L ^ i t y by reelecting me to the office
- s a d s t noon th a t day was real s u n - \5 ~ g J 2 , CTerk
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County for
sLTrstts
"**b tr - *-w-04i"
Giant Gets In.
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H >■ r- •><*»-. *. ram-uu mn»«
the big fin halted thsin, got away on L ow paneher, six feet six inches in
had
packed
up to go to
Cottage I
C orn Co.
a little bit disappointed th at you, ap-
Three hundred and seventy-six mil-
parently, are not familiar with the lion—count them, 37«,000,000—tons
traditions of this Company and do not freight were handled on the water-
understand its spirit of fair dealing, ways of the United States in 1916.
which has been so wall nterpreted in This is enough to fill 9,400,000 avsr-
every groat conflagration in which we age 40-ton freight c a n , or about four
w e n interested, and in every individ- times as many c a n aa our railroad*
ual esse, however large or email, own today. That shows that the wa-
when the question depended upon terways a n still of some service ev-
faith, equity end good morels.
en after fifty years of cut-throat com-
The feet that you, as our Agent, petition by the railroads,
through oversight, failed to perforin
For the past eighteen months the
the physical act of renewing the traffic history of this country has been
above policy, when.it was your inten- one continuous succession of delays,
tion to do so, and the desire of the congestion, embargoes and car short-
lodge th at it should be done—and the age. On May 1 and again on Novem-
f ln occurred the day after the policy her 1 last year shipper* asked for
expired,—is no reason, in equity or I more than 163,000 c a n which could
good faith, that this Company should aot be supplied. Then came s' winter
not admit any liability that might of extraordinary severity and n coni
have attached to it, had the policy shortage which amounted to a nation-
been renewed.
al disaster.
We authorise you, therefore, to re-
In a table prepared for Secretary
new the policy, deliver it and collect McAdoo by Mr. W. P. Manse, Indus-
the premium thereunder, and we will trial Agent of the B. A. O. Railroad,
instruct our npresentative to proceed it is estimated that in eighteen of the
in the adjustment of the lots, just as principal manufacturing cities of the
if the renewal had been written be- country the losses resulting from Dr.
f o n the f in occurred.
Garfield’s celebrated order amounted
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in workmen’s wagee and manufactur-
Mr. Sherwood'hays th at while he e n ’ products to $4,344,070,000. The
has been writing insurance here for total losses since the car shortage be-
34 y e a n this is the first loss that has gan, in September, 1916, a n proba-
ever occurred on any risk he has fcly not less than $8,000,0000,000, and
written. He had before the receipt may he as much as $10,000,000,000.
of this letter assured the lodge that
Bad as waa this huge financial low,
the $1600 insurance money he would I to lack of coal—which was due to
personally write s check for that lack of c a n —w en vastly worse.
amount to the order of the lodge.
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I W ont of all waa the delay in ship-
f— *“ -
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The Liverpool A London A Globe I ment of supplies and munitions which
Insurance company has won golden I were urgently needed by our own
opinions h a n in Coquille by volun­ I Army and Navy a t the front and by
teering so cheerfully to pay the I those with whom we fight to make the
amount a t the old policy on the Ma­ I world safe for democracy.
A t one
sonic Hall, although not under the I time no less than 218 ships, loaded
Slightest legal pbligation to do so.
land ready to sail, w e n held in New
I York for lack of bunker coal.
I We have hundreds of harbors and
128,000 miles of waterways classed as
navigable, of which less than 2,000
miles have been sufficiently improved
I to have dependable channels. Ons-
tenth of the amount lost by the peo-j
pie of the United States during the
last eighteen months would have been
more than enough to thoroughly im­
prove every mile of our navigable
waterways—and if that had been
done, and we had been wise enough
to foster and develop water transpor- I
tation, instead of allowing it to be I
[crushed by railway competition, there I
would have been no car shortage, no I
coal shortage, no staggering financial I
loss no peril to our armiei and eur I
cause through delays to ships, and I
many, homes would still b t bright I
which today are full of sorrow.
rimely Helps for
House Cleaning
Household Ammonia
Scouring Soap
Powdered Borax
Boraxa
Furniture Polish
for polishing
, Laquerette
for renew ing sur-
face
Bath Tub Enaniel
O’Cedar Polish
Chloride Lime
Floor Stains
Cresoleum
B est and sa fest
D isinfectant
Floor Paints
Floor Varnish
PATHEPHONES
The Beet Talking Machine
PLAY ANY MAKE OF DISC RECORDS
Buy Pore Bred Stock.
The dairymen of this county a n be­
ginning to realise the importance of
p u n bred stock needed in grading up
their herds. A great many have been
brought in h e n during the past two
or throe yean , and many m o n will
be bought this year.
The following is the list of the reg­
istered Jerseys sold by H. Thiesson
and Sons, of Milwaukee, Oregon, on
March 14 a t the Fair Grouds a t Myr­
tle P o in t The name of each animal,
the price paid and the name of the
Card of Thanks.
To the firemen, citizens and friends
who worked so heroically on Sunday
morning. March 17, to save all they
possibly could of my property in the
Scenic theater, the Oregon Rooming
House, the furniture store building'
and the Coquilie Hardware company’s
building, I take this means of extend­
ing my sincere thanks and ap|irecia-
Uon of their services.
I should be
glad to see them att-and thank them
personally for their good work.
i A rthur Ellingsen.
Commercial Club every Wednesday
evening a t 7:80.
AT COQUILLE POSTOFFICE.
Mails D epart
Marshfield and Eastern
6.40 a. m.
Myrtle Point 8:80 a. m.; 7:26 p. m.
Powers
2.00 p. m.
Marshfield
8.66 p. m.
tendon
6.30 a. m.; 4:00 p. m.
Arago (by boat)
1:00 p. m.
Mails Arrive.
Myrtle Point
6:82 a. m.; 4:86 p. m.
Powers
9:20 a. m.
Marshfield
9:20 a. m.; 8:00 p. m.
Bandon
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4:20 o. m.
Eyes Tested
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the Coo. Bay Limited T unday morn-
who WM
th. employ of L.
IP. Bran*tetter last year, enlisted at
The War Savings Stamps commit-1 the postoffle* h e n some months ago
toes of Coos county made their first hut was rejected on account of be-
canvass this weak but what results ing slightly deaf in one ear. Since
they achieved a n not yet known as than, however, he informs Lens Len
no reports have been turned in to the|ev e that ha h is bean taken in the
draft a t Tacoma and has gone to
J . T. Brand came over herq Tuesday Camp Lewis, which suits him to a
to try the Marshfield case of the dot, as his highsst ambition was to
Chandler Investment company against
the Matlock Investment company, but
found. Judge Skipworth had got
through and skipped for home.
I tie Point, Oregon.
No. 82—Halbert Riley Segur, Pow­
ers, Oregon.
No. 106—Charles Epp, Coquilie.
| No. 117—Tom Bardis, Marshfield.
No. 118—Lester Rose, San Pedro,
CaL
Besides these four other Cooe coun­
ty men who are registered elsewhere
have been summoned. They are:
John Moon, North Bend, from lo­
cal board, Larimer county, Fort Col-
lins, Colo.
Peter Heberer, from local board for
The military authorities are shut­
Amador county, Jackson, Calif.
ting down on sending parcel poet
Tom Gunderson, sent from local
packages for the boys in the trenches
board Calaveras county, Langdon,
and say it is foolish to send fruit that
North Dakota.
will rot on the way while it can be
George Miller, son of H. W. Miller,
bought fresh a t the same price over
of this city, who registered in Port­
Date Will B« April 26 or 27.
th e n .
land.
Word has been received from the
The
Coos
Bay
Times
says
th
at
four
Mrs. J . T. Lowery has purchased I ____________ _________ ___
Ellison-White
company th at Monto-
of
those
called
a
n
employes
of
the
the 40x100 tra c t Just west of the i„ such cases, but a t p e rn n t Mr!
Christian church from th at organise- Jackson is provided with blank appli- Smith-Power* Logging company and ville Flowers will be in Coquill* for
tkm and is having the house occupied cations for licenses which will have to A. H. Powers has mad* application the last number on th* Lyceum course
by L. A. Detwiler moved up to Fourth I be made out at Washington befon through Col. Disqu* to have them in four weoks—either April 26 or 27.
street from its old position on the any eattls on the hoof can pass the enlisted and then assigned to the sol­ This will b* the beet number of the
dier contingent now working a t Pow­ year and everyone will want to hear
side hill.
ers *s all sre Important men in th* him.
Wanted befo n April 10, good, white
operations.
They a n Ernest E.
Sito Makes a Great Drive.
potatoes, any number of cars, be­
Hughes, Herman G. P n y , H. B. Se­ Daylight Saving oa the River
tween Pewers and Eugene.
H. W.
Mabel Crush, of the 4th grade, has gur and Chas. H. Leggett.
In order to make s u n of not miss­
Coats.
[been makng a phenomena] record in
ing th* milk boats a good many of the
dairyman have bean practising a day­
Mrs. Bonnie Walker entertained the sale of thrift stamps and baby
light saving system of their own by
the Wednesday “600“ dob a t bar bonds this month, and stands an ex­
keeping their docks half an hour fast.
home last evtaing and the guests had cellent chance to win the Simpson
such a Jolly time they nearly forgot to prise of a baby bond for having the (evening which may ha the last o^e The question with them now is wheth­
go bom*. A t the close of play a da- j * * * ? < —*—- ,n. M" ch of a"y Pupil I ever held in Hess let Hall, if th* pend- er to go it an hour better and really
Every om get up a t half past three while their
lightful two-course luncheon was ia the d ty schools of the county. Ar- ing deal is completed.
served by the boetoes:
o !T*rT r i11 w*nt U h* 0,1 hand ia r the final docks say five.
The Commercial Club meets every!
Wednesday evening a t Tffifi. Every-!
mate for th*
o n Invited.
to the
Coquille, Oregon
Popular Priced
Tailoring
Mooes, Attention.
All Loyal Moose will appear at the
hall a t 10 a. m. Saturday, April 6,
in full uniform to participate in the
Liberty Day Parade.
W. B. Clarke, Dictator.
Card of Thank*.
To the Coquille F in Department, |
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of the '
First National Bank building and to
all who ¿knitted in any way in saving
our building and checking the fire on
March 17, w* wish to extend our sin­
cere thanks and appreciation of th*
gallant fight they made.
First National Bank.
Card ef Thanks.
Tq the friends and neighbors who
worked so earnestly and so success­
fully to save our household goods
from, destruction and our house ftosn
burning on Sunday, March 17, we
want to return our sincere thanks.
lfh. and Mn. B. H. Bona
See the Goode in the
Latest Patterns
from
A. E. Anderson & Co.
Tailors • Q iln jp
tuie mmmsimir
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