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OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6. 1919.
THE DEMON HUN AT THE DOOR
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He is at the door “over there.”
In the m atter o f the Ladd 4 Harris
contract fo r building bridges nsrth o f
the Bay the completion o f contract
w ill be advertised next week and the
warrants fa r the contract price o f the
work w ill be issued at the May t
o f ths cou rt
Then the County Clerk w ill be in­
structed not to deliver thoos w arr
t * either the Security Co. or tbo First
National Bank, to both o f whom they
have boon assigned, until those parties
agroo or until R has bean legally de­
termined which party has the better
claim to them.
The bid o f J. D. Bennett fo r
building o f the Fox bridge near Loo
sms fo r 96,000, whore the engineer's
estimate was about 99J00. The bid
I n i r tja e t^
nnltei Mr* Bennett
modifies it there w ill be another ad­
vertisement fo r bids.
The contrast fo r ths highway cr
o f tha Southern Pacific at Over-
A with a concrete viaduct 1
________ to Ostiiad A Payne, o f
Marshfield at 99.667 JO. Ths court is
still endeavoring to induce the rail
read to agree to pay one half this
amount according to th eir fo r
Tw o small contracts on tha Coos
l a y North section o f the Coast H igh­
w ay were awarded to Ira O. Peacock
and John Hakaaon. on a fores account
basis.
< I t was decided to advertise fo r bids
6n the Coos C ity bridge. This in­
cludes a draw span o f 170 fast and a
total length o f 900 feat, the approach­
es to bo built at tha ends totalling
692 fast m a n . The railroad company
Do you want him at yeur door over here—
to ravage, m urder and take possession?
U n d e Sam— the boys on the firing line— the
Spirit o f Am erican Liberty— stand between you and
immediate danger.
W hat are you doing to help keep them there?
W ill you Aghf$fe the trenches at close range,
or fight at long range behind the lines by lending your
money to U n d e Sam to hold up the hands of those who
can actually wield a bayonet fo r you?
The issue is squarely before-you. A choice
between the two is necessary. W ill you evade, dodge,
w iggle and twist— or, will you assert your backbone
and S T A N D U P L IK E A M A N ?
To Baioo AM Foot Flag Pole.
Yesterday Allan Belieu and Wm.
Brown felled the tree which will be
raised aa a Aagpole sometime before
the parade tomorrow. It towers 100
feet in the air and from it w ill Ay a
10x90 foot flag furnished by the city.
The Oregon Power Co. and the T V -
ephone Co.
tfw t t r r lc n o f
th> ir craws to set the pole.
LAUNDRY HAS
BEEN SOLD
circle* fo r some time is the sale o f
the Coquille Laundry last Monday, ex-
M ayer A . T. Morrison having dis­
poned o f it to D. Hurley, o f Albany,
Oregon, Mr. Morrison still retaining
the ice business which he has been
running fa r years hi connection with
the laundry.
How pitiable paltry dollars appear in the bal­
ance between Am erican Freedom and German
Bondage.
You are not asked to give. You are simply
asked to IN V E S T A T A G U A R A N T E E D PROFIT.
W hat i f it does mean the insignificant sacri­
fice o f giving up the glitter of a passing pleasure ? Hun­
dreds of thousands o f others are voluntarily sacrificing
their lives.
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The fateful hour for you— fo r your country—
the time to submit or conquer— is here.
W ill you jeopardize your liberty by failin g to
do your duty? He who hesitates is most assuredly
AH that your forefathers fought and died
fo r is lost. A ll that the patriots of ’65 fought for is
This is your great opportunity.
Use it and
Take Your Place. A a a Real Am erican.
IN V E S T OR GO U N D E R !
Executive Committee for Coquille District of
Third Liberty Loan.
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L . H. Hazard
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win cost 9989 each f. o. h. CoqtdBo.
This w ill enable one train tob a loaded
at the gravel pits on tha Stxe
another train is being hauled np
road. A small steam engine will be
used fo r yard purposes which w ill
haul tho loaded wagons up from the
crook two at a than.
I t is planned to get the present
outfit down to the Sixes today.
The court deddod to raise the
wages on county road work 60 emits
par day and pay 99 JO fo r common la­
bor, 94.00 fo r foremen and 93.60 a
day fo r teams with the sumo to driv­
ers. A foreman with a team will re­
ceive 97.80.
William Colquiet was employed to
take charge o f the work on the Marsh­
field road at Bunker H ill where a
tramway is to be built over tho road­
w ay fo r the Libbey coed mine pur-
- Coqwille’a War Board.
The Coquille District W ar Board or­
ganised aa a permanent body fo r the
duration o f the war at the city hall
Wednesday evening. The seven bodies
which elected representative« and
those elected to eerve were as follows:
Honor Guard— Mrs. Eva Currie.
Red Cross— O. C. Sanford.
Third Liberty Loan Committee— L.
H. Hasard.
W ar Savings Stamps Committee—
L. J. Cary.
National Council o f D ofen so-J . E.
Norton.
Patriotic
Service
Lsaguo—Jas.
Watson.
Home Guard— H. A . Young.
The organisation was effected by
the election o f J. E. Norton, chair­
man; L. J. Cary, vice-chairman; L. H.
Hasard, treasurer; and Miss Eva Cur-
and war activity
Norton
Mr. Morrison, o f course, has no
thought o f leaving Coquille but will
continue with his ice business as be­
fore, as well as the handling o f Ash
caught on the river which he recently
undertook and which has developed
into a considerable industry during
the past pear. In addition to that he
informs us that he w ill also undertake
the purchase and sale o f beef and C A .Machon Buys a Site and C o u n ty Superintendent Baker
mutton, furnishing to the ranchers of
Accepta Position in City
W ill Erect a Concrete Build­
the valley a cash market at any time
Schools.
ing at Once.
for their stock when they have one or
A concrete, fire-proof theatre is
what C. A . Machon promises the peo­
ple of Coquille in the next three
months. Yesterday he purchased of
Arthur Ellingsen, through the Wm.
Oddy agency, the lots at the corner
of Second and W illard streets, form ­
erly occupied by Quick’s second hand
Repairing Hardw are Home.
store and the Scenic. The size o f the
J. A . Collier began Tuesday the re­
tract is 76x100.
pair o f his building occupied by the
On the corner lot 60x100 he w ill
Coquille Hardware Co. Monday ev­
ening he applied to the cty council build a modern first-class theatre,
for permission to cover the north and which will also be adapted fo r use as
east side o f the burned section with a motion picture house, with a seat­
corrugated iron and repair the glass ing capacity o f 600.
He is now eh larging his facilities
fo r these new lines by purchasing
from the city the river front property
lying immediately back o f the large
building he now uses both fo r the
laundry and upstairs fo r a residence.
front on the west. A s the cost o f the
repair would not exceed 30 per cent
o f the value o f the building the coun­
cil le ft it with the fire committee
which Tuesday granted the permit.
The roof o f the warehouse will be
flat and covered with roofing paper.
T o this kind o f construction is attri­
buted the reason that the fire was
stopped in the rear o f that building
and the possible loss o f the entire
north side o f Front street eras avert-
The building w ill be one story, con­
crete walla, fireproof brick front and
a 2H inch concrete roof. •
A stage o f sufficient width to ac­
commodate any show which may de­
sire to visit Coquille and 20 feet deep,
orchestra pit, a 20-foot lobby, dress­
ing rooms downstairs and comfortable
opera chairs are some o f the leading
features contemplated. The building
will be heated by hot water from a
heating plant in the basement.
This morning Mr. Machon went
over to the Bay to inspect the Noble
theatre there and on his return w ill
be accompanied by W . J. Langston,
who will figure on Uis contract
Mr. Machon has already bad two
offers to lease the building fo r a term
o f years, but has not yet decided who
will run the house. He is in hopes o f
having it ready fo r occupancy within
90 days.
County Superintendent Raymond E.
Baker is to be the superintendent o f
the Coquille city schools fo r the next
two years. This was decided by the
school board at their last meeting,
contingent on Mr. Baker’s acceptance
a.id Wednesday evening he notified H.
O Anderson that he would take the
position.
It only awaits' now the
formal vote o f the board at their next
meeting.
Coquille is to be congratulated on
securing a man o f Mr. Baker’s known
ability in educational lines to head
our schools fo r the next two years;
and that the board has chosen wisely
will be the verdict o f all who are in­
terested in the welfare o f our child­
ren and their school life.
J. C. Almack has demonstrated his
eminent Atness fo r the position he
has held the past year and it was with
regret that the board learned o f his
decision to return to Eugene where
he has accepted a position at the
same salary he received here and
where he will at the same time be able
to Anish his poet graduate course at
the state university.
Mr. Baker’s salary w ill be the same
as Mr. Almack’s, $1,600 a year.
The present lady teachers have all
been tendered their positions fo r an
other year at an increase in salary,
and to date, with the exception of
Mrs. Chase, all have filed their ac­
ceptance in writing.
Their names
eeptances in writing.
Their names
and salaries fo r next year are as fol-
Miss
Miss
Mrs.
Miss
Misa
Mrs.
Miss
Mrs.
Miao
Ada M ay N ew ell ............
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Inex Chase................. ......... 96
Emma K ennedy.. . . , . * e * a • «
May A llen ................. ......... 75
Catherine D u n g e y .... •sees« 75
Joan Fitxgerald . . ......... .
76
Martha M ulkey..................... 76
Winifred Spooner . . . . . .
79
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L. J. Cary
R. A. W em ich
H. A . Young.
91.66 T H E Y E A R .
Mis* Gladys E. T re o d g o id ...........76
[ In dispensing with the position o f
| principal o f the high school, which
has been Ailed so efficiently b y J. W .
Noblet fo r the past two years, the
board has effected a saving which will
permit the raise in salaries mentioned
without increasing the school taxes a
dollar. T o do this the high school
will be conducted on the form er two-
session a day plan, reducing the num­
ber o f instructors in the high school
from Ava to four. Mr. Baker, Miss
Newell, M i*« Bay and one teacher yet
to be selected will comprise the high
school faculty.
Mr. Douglas, it is reported, intends
to enlist and enter the ordnance
branch o f the U. 8. service.
STARTS H FIRE
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Cigarette Stab on Moray Roof
Monday
N igh t
Kindling
Did
the
Act.
"Behold how great a matter a little
fire kindleth,” eaye tho Good Book
and we came very near seeing another
startling
exemplification
o f that
aphorism Wednesday evening.
Back o f Geo. A. Robinson’s store
stands a shed only about four feet
■way from the Baxter House, which
wr.s saved as a brand from the burn­
ing that memorable Sunday morning
less than three weeks ago. A t 6:20
W ater Front Transferred.
Wednesday evening happening to look
The city council met in a special out o f his back window Mr. Robin­
called session at 9 o ’clock this morn­ son saw fire on the roof o f this moss
ing and took the Anal steps to pro­ grown relic o f the early-.days. He
vide fo r the transfer o f the water immediately ran out thero accompan­
his wife, Miss M yrtle DeLong
front property between the laundry ied
and Ferry street to Coos county. As snd Ray P. Miller, a traveling
soon as the engineers get the metes man, who was in tho store at
and bounds o f this property platted tho time. Attorney S. ’ D. Pulford’s
the deed will be drawn, and it is hoped attention was attracted by the fire
to have the whole transaction closed which was visible from his office win­
A step ladder was brought
at the present term o f the County dow.
Court.
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—........ . from tho store which Mr. Pul ford
climbed while the others brought wa­
ter to him in buckets and in a little
while the blare was stopped on the
cutside. It was on the under side
o f the shingles, though, and Mr. Rob­
inson went inside with a pole and
poked a hole through the roof to per­
Tha proposal to dose all pool and
mit the water to reach i t This shed
card rooms except between the hours
about 12x16 and the moss on the
o f 6 and 11 p. m. on week days, as
roof was dry enough to catch eaaily.
a war measure, did not come to a vote
Had this fire started later in the ev­
at the council meeting Monday even­
ening,
after
the store
had
ing.
The orditwnec had been pre­
been closed, it might very easily have
pared by City Attorney 8taniey and
attained such headway as to have
was brought up by Cairman Barrow,
wiped out most o f the business section
o f the ordinance committee.
o f the city In an hour or two, with
Councilman Lorens voiced the plea
the strong north wind that was blow­
o f the billiard hall proprietors that if ing then.
they ware dosed during week days
The cause o f this fire is no mystery. ’
they should be allowed to remain
Mr. Pulford found at tha lower edge '
open Sunday.
s o f the hole a fe w Inches across that
“ Nothing doing,” was the instant the fire burned in the roof there, o
response o f Mayor Johnson to this stub o f a Columbia cigarotte a litt!o
proposal, “ at least that is my opin­ over half an inch in length, while two
ion,” he added.
or three more such stubs were In ev­
Ceeairflman Mansell was tha next idence on the narrow strip o f groand
speaker and he thought the ordinance between
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the shed and the hotel. The
was getting at the innocent party— |
brand ie mentioned because it is one
meaning the proprietor«— while the which holds fire longer than most ci­
aim was to get the loafers to spend garettes.
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their time proAtably in producing
The supposition, o f course, was that
something.
,
some
one smoking in an upper room
Mr. Lorenx, along the same line, o
( f the Baxter had carelessly thrown
suggested the necessity o f a vagrancy out
,
that insinifleant firebrand.
ordinance, under whose provisions the
It was later learned that Commis­
loafers, with no visible means o f sup- sioner*
,
Armstrong and Philip and
port, could be forced to work— i f only Roadmaster
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Sawyer were in such a
on the rock pile.
~ , room discussing some matters in con­
Councilman Hawkins and Barrow, , nection with the county road work
were both emphatic and explicit in and
,
Mr. Philip, who was smoking ci­
stating their positions.
Such closing garettes,
,
had tossed one cigarette
ordinances are being adopted all over stump*
,
aftgr another out o f the open
the country, in some states it being window
,
until attention was attracted
legislative statute, and entirely dis- to
\ the fire on the roof below.
regarding any private opinion they
In view o f such a near calamity one
raght hold as to the necessity o f bil- feels
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almost like suggesting that the
liard halls, they thought the tempta- ,
o f cigarettes should be prohi­
tion to loaf during working hours bited
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In such a tinder box section as
should be removed. Mr. Hawkins al- the
t
business part o f Coquille now fu r­
m favored the enactment o f a va- nishes.
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Certainly It is not too much
graney ordinance.
\ ask that all who do use them shall
to
With the four councilmen standing take
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the utmost care in disposing o f
two and two on the question o f Sun- * ktoumps and that those who don’t
day dosing, the other two members ,
II also be on guard where they are
were asked fo r their opinions. Both being
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used and see that nothing Is
Mr. Miller and Mr. Gardner then done
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to start a fire.
stated their positions that i f the pool
Another suggestion ia that the
rooms were closed during week days |
building inspector shall see to it that
they should be allowed to run Sun- every
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roof on which moos is grow ­
day, and Mr. Gardner moved to in- ing
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shall be thoroughly cleaned off at
troduce the ordinance
permitting once,
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so aa to diminish the danger
them that privilege on the first day c during the coming season.
of the week.
Another thing. Although the Bax­
A hand grenade by Mayor Johnson t ter has escaped all dangers fo r about
that he would veto any such ordin- t quarter o f a century H is certainly
Mice, supported by sharpshooting by to
t be hoped that ere long it will be
Hawkins and Barrow that they would replaced
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by such a modern fire proof
never vote fo r it, acted as an effectual structure
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as there has been so much
barrage in killing the motion and « t talk o f building fo r many years.
lidn’t even come to a vote.
A Good Start in the Race.
Whether the attempt to close these
The Coquille district’s quote o f the
place« during working hours is also
Third
Liberty Loan is about 940,000.
anded remains to be seen.
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An honor flag is to be awarded every .
community in Oregon as soon as the
For the Red Cram .
qu
quota assigned to it is subscribed. A
Goo. Lester, o f the Roy district, list
lis wiO be made o f these communi­
made an offer to the Red Cross this th
ties in the order in which they come
week which was quickly accepted. He ac
with their quota filled. Read
will bring in a saddle horse and a two- about
ab
it on the Fifth page o f this
year old colt Saturday to be auction- pa
The competition begins at 9
ed off and will give half the proceeds o ’<
'dock tomorrow.
The sooner you
to the local Red Oroaa. Nick John- mi
your subscription the farther up
son has promised to ery the sale. The thi
this honor list Coquille will be likely
older animal is gentle, well broken to stand.
and has been ridden much by Mrs.
Volunteers at the First National
Lester.
The colt has not yet been Bank
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before the opening o f the drive
broken. Here’s a chance to aid this have
ha
already expressed their Inten­
patriotic organisation and get value tion
ti« to take between 94.600 and 96,000
received fo r your money.
o f these bonds, which is more than
tan par cant o f oar quota. Lot’s make
Saturday a big day and subscriber at
least half o f the 940,000 then.
POOL HALLS
NOT CLOSED