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COQUILLE, ORBQOM. FRIDAY. lU M l g
Hood River to A storia and the only
barrier to prevent Ho complete servi
ceability is the inrnmpleted section be
tween Hood River and Hosier, a dis
tance at six miles. This is a striking
illustration at the fa ct that the oak-
•traction and improvement o f tw o
hundred rallee o f highway by the High
way Department during the past year
has rendered serviceable approximate
ly nine hundred miles o f rood. v
The six miles between Hood River
and Mosier interrupts, in a degree,
travel over throe hundred and fifty
miles o f highway. To com plote this
stretch will cost approxim ately fS60,-
000 ss its on tire distance is one solid
rock making construction extrem ely
expensive,— yet, its importance can
not bo over-estim ated ss it w ill prac
tically open a thoroughfare to the
vast Inland Empire. It is s sincere
hope that the construction o f this
stretch will soon bo in progress and
that its completion will bo s fa ct by I
the summer o f 1019.
That part casuists in
Arm y and Navy all the support o f
which we are capable. To do that
each an* at us m ost first o f all be a
producer to our maximum ability and
at necessiti«« only, fo r
at man power and every par
ticle o f material is necessary fo r the
us* o f the Arm y ami Navy and fo r the
making at the. things «aeratisi to our
eitisono.
Aa a maximum producer and as a
conanmer o f necessities only, each one
o f ns will be an accumulator o f sav
ings. And these ravings can be in
vested in W ar Savings Stamps with
benefit both to the Government and
ourselves.
ROADMASTER MURDOCK
Admit fo r the asks o f argument
that the appointment o f n young man
o f as littlo experience as R. B. Mar-
dock to the position o f roaiftnaster fo r
Coos county was ns grant n blunder as
the pritics o f the county court claim.
Still if any o f those critics had bean
members o f the court and had gone up
to Portland and gone out over the
magnificent Columbia highway and
had then asked the Stats Highway
Engineer if they could get one o f the
builders o f that road to taka charge
o f the «pending o f the (362,000 road
bond fund in Coos county and ha had
given Mr. Murdock the sort o f recom
mendation he did give to our county
court, we very much doubt whether
s man o f them all would have done
any differently from what our court
I f anyone imagines that Coos coun
ty w ill ever be benefttted by n recall of
the county court to (the extent o f the
M,000 n recall election will cost, ho is
going to have another think coming.
It’s tho open season fo r slackers
now and U ndo Sam is getting after
them without gloves. Raad the com
munication sent us from the adjutant
general’s office «^P ortland printed in
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The extra fare fo r n seat on tho
observation car from Coos Bay to
Portland has been raised to $2.64 and
it will probably bo taken off soon as
the government is continually reduc
ing the weight o f trains ns n war tin s
economy. The -Shasta l i mited on tho
honest as tho day. He had occupied
a subordinate position before he came
down here and it was not strange that
to make him boss should have re
sulted in an attack o f tke big head.
Theoretically he was well equipped.
Coos county paid him a good- salary
to get practical experience ns a boas.
Whether the engineering . percentage
o f road coats under his management
were higher than usual, including
changes in plan during construction,
we are not Inf jrm a ^ That ho made
enemies not only fo r him self bat the
court there is. no question. If, how
ever, tho court erred in appointing
him, it strikes us ns an error ninety-
five men in n hundred would have
made under sim ilar circumstances,
and against a repetition o f wliidh no
possible change in the membership o f
THEIR SACRIFICE SUPREME
(P ort Orford Tribune)
The first Curry county boy to re
ceive his death wound on the battle
field o f the world’s fight fo r froedom
from German rule, is chonicled in this
issue.
Clem Atkinson has paid ths su
preme price in this titanic struggle.
He answered the call to arms that
took his young life, freely and gladly,
realising; some must take the chance
o f meeting the fate he m et if our
national safety, honor and liberty be
The Sentinel is willing to print al
most anything o f interest to its Read
ers, which its correspondents may fu r
nish except along one line. Personal
attacks on anyone are where it draws
ths line. Ease your mind by writing
them if you must, but don’t send them
No fam ily in town is allowed to buy
more than 2 pounds o f sugar at n time
now, except the special purchases for
canning, which may bo as much as
100 pounds. Country people may bay
five pounds— but the lim it allowed for
consumption is 8 pounds per month
fo r each parson.
Lust month the Red Cross asked n
hundred million from tho American
people and received in cash and
pledgee a hundred end seventy mil-
and shows that both the hearts and
heads o f thn men and women o f Amer
ica are working rignt.
R eferring to what our East Fork
correspondent says about Germany's
“ waiving the rules,” we are loath to
believe that Henry Sengstackra ever
made that quotation approvingly or
in glee, though like Mr. Easton we
think that the recall movement is a
serious mistako and bound to injur*
Coos county.
Here is an interesting /t o r y about
one of last Sunday's events on the
American front in Franca:
soldier in an attack on Xivray Sun
day, but he did not remain a prisoner
long. A t the village edge, three Ger
mans came upon a wounded American.
He was placed under guard of n Ger
man private and started fo r the ene
my line. Neer e high point beyond
the wire entaglements, the American
suddenly drew a revolver and forced
his surprised custodian to march back
across "N o Man’s Land’’ into the Am
erican line. A fter turning his prison
er over to his fellow solliera, the
wounded man fell unconscious from
the loss o f blood.
Pres id ont W ilson, in his statement
calling upon every man, woman, and
child to pledge themselves on or be
fore Juna 23 to save constantly and to
buy regularly the securities o f the
Government, says, "M ay there be none
unen listed on that day!”
A s the President points out, "This
war is on* o f nations—not o f armies
—and all o f our 100,000,000 people
must be econom ically and industrially
adjusted to war conditions if this Na
tion is to play its fu ll part in the con-
JHet.”
Our Nation, not our Arm y and Na
vy only, la at war. And that monna
that nil o f as not actually fighting
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We ere now fighting n dry Ger
many. There is no argument at any
time in favor o f retaining the saloon.
But there is every argument in war
time fo r putting it out o f business.
In Germany, the kaiser has abolished
the brewery and saloon fo r the war.
But today in America they ary his
best friends and m ightiest allies, for
they waste oar food end destroy our
men power.
Last year we mad* eight gallons of
beer to Germany's one. This year our
brewers will manufacture 60,000,000
barrels o f bear, but Germany’s brew
eries will make none. No beer will
be made in Germany this year, bnt
our beer veto w ill continue to waste
oar national strength.
The brewers o f America are greater
traitors than our greediest profiteers.
They would encourage every one o f
our 1,260,000 young soldiers to become
habitual drinkers.
They would de
liver the nation up to the enemy for
the money there is in the liquor traffic.
The government is aaking the good
housewives o f this country to save
food, to economize in every possible
in a year. Enough grain is wasted to
make more than 4,000,000 loaves of
bread daily.
W riting from France to the home
folks in Kansas, Lieutenant Clayton
Beach says the poor French and Eng
lish have seven wheatless, seven meat
less, and about three eat]ess days a
week. And while our alliee are suf
fering fo r more foodstuffs that they
may keep more men on the lrihg line
—while to send them this food mesns
the sacrifice o f few er American live«
— the breweries are wasting more
than 60,000,000 bushels o f grain every
12 months. I speak fo r the patriotic
farm ers o f Kansas when I say this
state has not one bnshel o f grain to
waste on the traitorous liquor traffic.
To give it grain at any time Is wicked.
T o give it grain now is a terrible
crime, for it js nothing more than
stabbing our boys in the back.
During the zero weather in Janu
ary I saw poorly clad women walking
along the railroad tracks in Topeka,
thrusting their bare hands into the
snow tb find small lampe o f coal, and
at that moment greet cloud* o f smoke
were belching from the chimney* o f
the breweries in Kansas City.
The
breweries are using millions o f bush-
MIR.
we going to show tho same spirit that
our boys who are making the supreme
sacrifice are showing, and bock them
up with all the energies at our com
mand?
The question is a personal
one to each o f us stay-at-homes. *
WORLD OPPOSES RECALL. ^
(From the Bandon World)
Although defeated in the primary
election and automatically vacating
the position o f county commissioner
on the first of tho year, the mass
meeting held at Coquille last Thurs
day voted to recall Geo. J. Armstrong.
That looks pretty much like kicking
a man after he is down.
In view o f the fact that tho present
activity is directly the outcome o f a
personal quarrel between Archie Phil
ip and Editor Maloney o f the Coos
Bay Times, Bandon people who under
stand the situation have shown little
interest. However, since tho recall is
apt to come to a vote this time, it is
creating more talk in local quarters. *
One thing is certain enthusiastic
citizens who are laboring under the
delusion that to recall the present of
ficials will be a cure for all the politi
cal ills o f the county are doomed to
disappointment. Their expectations go
far beyond the realm o f possibilities.
Without realising their own faults
they will in a year or two, if r.ew men
are elected, find they are still in the
same boat and will begin to look
around for new candidates.
COST MANY MILLIONS.
Just how mcuh it has cost to give
Portland and western Oregon direct
connection with the country east o f the
Cascades we would like to know. The'
amount the United States government
hns spent on the Celilo canal at the
Dalles runs into the millions and,
just for the waterway up the Colum
bia river alone, we have to add the
cost o f the Cascade locks to th at Then
there is the immense cost o f building
two railroads though that gorge, ohe
on each side o f the river—for the
North Bank road is an eastyrn gpte-
MUST QUIT S O ÍT JOBS.
Assessor Beyers, o f the local Mili
tary Board fo r Coos county, is in re- I
cept o f the instructions issued by the
Provost Marshal Ganeral’s office at
W ashington, D. C., in regard to men
o f draft age, who áre idle or are en- |
gaged in non-productive occupations.
Men, who are in Classes II, III, or I
in Class IV on the ground o f d ep en -!
dency, are to be moved right up into
Class I and to go toward the head o f
t ie list in that claw if they era not
busy in some productive industry, re-
garless o f the dependency o f their
fam ilies.
Among idlers are classed
gamblers o f all descriptions, and race]
track or bucket shop employ*«.
Among others whose occupational
‘will not ju stify postponement o f n
call to m ilitary service even if they
are in Claw II, III and IV, on Iht
ground o f dependency,” the follow ing |
are listed:
a. Those engaged in w iling food ]
and drink.
b. Passenger elevator operator*, |
attendants in club«, bath rooms, etc.
c. Those employed in connection
with games, sports, etc.
d. Those in dome«tic térrico.
e. Salesmen and other clerks ini
stores and mercantile establishments.
The latter claw is the only on* that
would be much in evidence in thial
section; and indeed, w rd ou bt whether
there are many young men o f draft
age now clerking in Coquille or in this |
end o f Coos county.
OREGON HAS LOT8 O P COAL.
The Northwest Mines Handbook, I
published by Sidney Norman, o f 8po- [
kane, W ashington, is a valuable refer
ence work o f the mining industry o f I
Idaho, W ashington, British Columbia,
Oregon and W estern Montana.
It I
gives the name, loeation, stage o f de
velopment^, amount o f production and |
in fact, a condensed history o f prac
tically every mine in those state. Be-1
sides, H contains much valuable infor
mation on mining conditions generally
in the state mentioned. F or instance,
it makes the statement that most Or
egonians would at first blush be dis
posed to doubt, but which is true just
the same, and that is that “ Oregon is |
well equipped with coal, there being
numerous fields located in various
parts o f the state, the most impor-1
tant o f which is the Coos Bay field.”
O f this field he says it has been op- |
crated continuously during the pest
36 years and has produced two and
one-fourth million tons o f coal. The]
greatest production in any one year
was in 1904 when it amounted to 111,-
640 tons. The production has been
kept down by the cheap fuel oils o f
California, but the fields will in time
looked to for their v w t stores o f |
fuel.
While most Oregonians know o f the |
Coos Bay coal fields, few o f them
know that down in southern Cooe ]
county two big, viens have been un
covered— one seven and the ether ten |
feet thick, and both o f good quality.
—Salem Capitol Journal.
TWICE
PROVEN.
If you suffer backache, sleepless
nights, tired, dull days and distressing
urinary disorders, don’t experiment.
It’s evidence from this locality doubly
proven.
Mrs. Emma Kirkpatrick, 663 W.
Seventh St., Eugene, Ore., says: "I
am not an advocate o f proprietary
medicines, in general, although I be
lieve there are a number worthy o f
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confidence.
great trouble is to
be certain they are reliable. Because
o f the good reports about Doan’s Kid-
’ Pills from people I knew, I was
to give them a trial. Judging from
the fine results I got, I can say Doan's
are a medicine o f m erit and do all
the ere claimed to do.” (Statement
Price 60c at nil dealer*.
D on t
sin /p ly ra k for a kidney remedy—« e t
Doan's Kidney Pills— the same that
Mrs. Kirkpatrick had. Foster-Milbarn
HHP BIBU) THAT BMPtf Of SUPS
An officer attached to the American Expeditionary
Force in France sends the people back
home this message:
“ Build a B ridge o f Ship« to P erilling”
\ Oar shipbuilding program calls for the expenditure o f hundreds
o f millions o f dollars the citizens o f tb* United States must supply
by taxes and by investing in Government W ar Loan«.
Even 26-eent Thrift Stomps will help build that bridge o f «hips
to Pershing. W * sell them, also W er Saving* Stomp* end Liberty
Bonds.
& rams bank
\ SUSTAIN THE BOYS WITH YOUR DOLLARS
F in
Commercial and Saving Deposits
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EE. JOHNSON
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It pay» to know the facts before you spend
your money.
You will be sending your friend more
tobacco comfort end satisfaction in one pouch
o f Real Gravely Plug than in half a dozen
plugs o f ordinary tobacco.
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