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LUTE WAR NEWS
The Allies Are Closing the Seek
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-7: the Rhelms Salient.
The following ere Cooe Bey Tlinee’
associated preaa dispatches received
here this afternoon at Fuhrman’s
Pharmacy:
Charles L Rsigi
Monday afternoon
from San Praadaeo via tha
M yrtle Point stage, which on that date
afforded a grea t duet bath. Mr. B.
want to 8as Francisco as attorney in
the Ceaet Guard scandal whena Cnpt.
O. P. Britt, o f the A rago station, w ill
appear before a court amrtial to an­
swer chargee preferred against
by R. W . Robertson, a surf man in
tha same coast guard. Robertson is
also to be trial fo r insubordination.
The trouble arose from the alleged in­
fatuation o f Captain B ritt with Rob­
ertson’s young w ife and tho letters
he wrote to her.
Mr. Reigard had tho pleasure o f
meeting Secretary McAdoo a t I
Francisco and was very favorably im ­
pressed with his democratic ways—
visiting war exhibits Hke the British
tank, but asking so favors on account
o f his position, and goin g with the
crowd just like any other citizen. In­
deed. Mr. Reigard, who is an unadulter­
ated republican, says that a fter meat-
tag Mr. McAdoo ho has a much higher
opinion of. our national administration
than | m ever had before.
French have captured town o f
Oulchy-Lo-Chntesu
and
Villemon-
toire, German cannon and hundreds of
prisoners.
Former was important
strategical point.
Japan has agreed with America to
assist Csech-fflovak armies in Siberia.
Entire German position in Marne
salient is such that it may fa ll at any
instant as a result o f some sharp
fighting move by allies affecting vital
part. For this reason, German con-
menders have instructed forces to hold
positions at all seat while defens tv»
position is prepared upon which the
German armies can fa ll
Germans launched counter attack on
British in Meteren sector, recently
Friday evening, August 2, there will
captured by English and on Habetume be a Rad Cress benefit card party at
but both were repulsed with heavy the W . O. W. hall.
Scare cards and
German leases.
refreshments 60 eonts.
E very line o f communication with­
in the German salient la under bom­
bardment night and day from allied
artillery or airmen. German troops
suffering terrible privations, owing to
tho uncertainty o f obtaining supplies
sines allies control practically every
road.
Allies have i*>v*d -up with their
heaviest artillery and are throwing
shells into German lines everywhere.
Germans ere using sneeze gas shells
ineffectively. Poplar and oak foreets
o f Fere and Ris are deaae with under­
brush and making allied progress slow.
General Pershing reports American
forces between Ourcq and Marne con­
tinue steadily to press Germans back.
Germans have reinforced their bight
Bank o f Khehas-floimoua pt
Ebon.
W ar industries board advanced price
o f N ew England sprnce lumber four
dollar* per thousand.
Allies advanced • miles towards*
Soinsons across Rbeims salient. Ger­
man losses alroady in Marne pocket
estimated at over two hundred thous­
and, beside 2,500 prisoners, 500 can­
non and thousands o f machine guns
Propose Change in County Court
Judge Watson yesterday received a
letter from Rufus C. Holman, o f Port­
land, president o f tho state aseocia-
i tion o f county judges and commission­
ers, informing him that tho drafting
o f needed legislation to divide all
counties o f the state into three county
commissioner districts, and the pro­
posal to divorce the office o f County
Judge from the county board which
would provide fo r a third Commission-
or in all counties, except Multnomah,
w ill be taken up at a special meeting
o f the S u te Association o f County
Judges and Commissioners to be held
la Portland from October SO to Nov
ember 2, inclusive.
A number o f County Judges have
declared that the work o f the probate
and juvenile courts, together with the
widow’s pension work, makes it M
esaary fo r them to devote their entire
time to court work exclusively, us Is
now dons in Multnomah county. The
Commissioners, unofficially, have gone
on record as favoring tho districting of
counties in order that every section o f
a county may be represented on a
County Board. -
Other important Butters relative to
modem road-making equipment and
wnr-emergency measures will be dis­
cussed at the four-day meeting. The
association will issus an invitation to
District Attorneys, county surveyors,
road masters and legislators to m e«
w :th them. Detailed plana fo r the en
terteinmont for the visitors will be
worked out at a later dr.to by the
Multnomah County officials.
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Her«.
A proedhsion passed the Sentinel o f­
fice yesterday afternoon. It consisted
o f s gentleman on horseback, who waa
attached by a long rope to a Jersey
cow which led the way—sometimes in
the direction the man didn’t want to
go— and a Joraaw calf o f tender ago,
having no fixed place in the proees
■ion, which didntdook as i f it was real­
ly equal to a fourteen mile drive. This
much we believe we eaa safely saw
without violating the United 8te<
statutes.
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STATE EDITORS
COMING HERE
The Oregon State Editorial Asso-
elation w fll bold its annual masting
this year at Coos Bay, Friday sad Sat­
urday, August 9 and 10, the business
ns taking pises at North Bend
morning and afternoon an Friday and
the evening banquet a t tha Chandler
in Marshfield that evening. They w ill
visit the Tar Heel Logging camp and
dinner there Saturday noon.
There w ill be a business session at
Shoreaeres Saturday afternoon ana a
food
dinner
there
t ip
evening.
Sunday
morn-
iha visiting . edit me and thaw
families w ill came ever to the valley
on the • o’clock traia, going through
to M yrtle Point. There tho people will
them with antes, and after a
short ride up the valley will bring them
down to Coquille at 11:20 in time for
a 12 o’clock picnic lunch to be provided
by our people. A fte r that they are
to be taken down the river by boat to
Bandon where they are expected to
arrive a t four o’clock and be served
with a sea-food dinner on the beach.
Autos from Band on and tho bay will
then take them over to Marshfield that
evening where they expect to arrive a
little after sunset.
It is a big day’s program fo r the
Coquille valley and everything will
have to come o ff on tints. W e regret,
that it waa impossible to arrange for
| longer visit fo r them at Coquille,
and a ride out into the neighboring
country hut tho idea has been to show
them tho principal points o f interest
in tho valley in the limited time it
was possible for them to spend here.
The Marshfield people plan to send
their newly organised brass band with
fa r their trip through the valley.
Other Earthquakes Recalled.
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F R ID A Y , J U L Y 26, IRIS.
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ABOUT MILL SITE DANCE NETS S420
The Council Unabk to Ffa
Way to 8eoue the
M eh l T ra c t.
Chairman« M. O. Hawkins presided
at n meeting o f the council last Mon­
day evening at which the matter o f
the purchase by the city o f the Mehl
t n e t o f between three and a half and
four acres adjoining the Johnson mill
eito was discussed.
• City Attorney Stanley was first call­
ed upon to state whether the cBy could
invest in real estate with tha object
o f leasiag or selling to private Indi­
viduals. He submitted a written re ­
port that all court docisions found ou
the attempt o f municipalities to en­
gage in the real estate business and
where such attempts ware contested
that the deals had invariably boon set
However, he stated that there
was nothing to prevent the city frost
buying the land fo r city purpocea. The
city could not make the purchase with
the expressed intention o f loosing or
selling all or a portion o f tho tract to
Mr. Johnson.
A s to what was the extreme pen­
alty which could be Inflicted for doing
that thing, Mr. Stanley told the mem­
bers that ap action to recover the
amount o f tho purchase price from
tho councilman individually was u m
worst that could befall thorn.
Without any question whatsoever it
is certain that the amount asked y
tho Mehl heirs over what Mr. John­
son fells he can afford to pay fa r the
tract could bo raised by private sub­
scription in u very short time, but the
council rightly feels that the rebuild-
tag o f the mill and on a site s little
further removed from the business
section is s matter vital to every citi­
zen o f Coquille and that the burden
should rest equally on everyone in­
stead o f being borne by a few.
However, I f the eeuncilmen cannot
find a way to make the purchase with­
out violating their oath o f
,
subscription
method win be followed.
The only business o f record at the
council mooting Monday evening was
the passing o f s resolution to increase
the Recorder's salary from $80 to $96
nonth.
Only Two Over tho Top.
song all the shipyards in the
United States building vroodon ships
the only ones that have gone over the
top by exceeding their promisee o f de­
livery are the Kruse A Banka, yard at
North Bond and that o f t|a Coos Bay
Shipbuilding company at Marshfield.
While they each rank over 100 per
cent.no others are up to 90 per cent
though two others stand above 86.
Tbs significance o f this accomplish­
ment is the fact that one year ago—
on Aug. 11, 1917— the present site of
the Cooe Bay yard wee nothing but a
mud flat.
A ll Coos county must feel a justifi­
able pride ta this wonderful achieve­
ment o f the Cooe Bay shipbuilders.
Gat Rich Chroma Ore.
tot Single Donation the Red
Croas Has Recetood at
v Coquille.
"The biggest dance ever held in Co­
quille,” “ A clean dance, without boose
Mr rough stuff," and “ A very enjoy-
able dance at which everyone had a
good time," are some o f tho comments
tbs dance, given by the Home
Guard Wednesday evening fo r tho
benefit o f the Red Cross, which aptly
describe that affair. And it was a
clean dance and one heartily enjoyed.
Being outdoors, on tho street just
south o f the Sentinel office, tho stuffy
over heatedness o f the usual dance hall
was lacking.
The music was good,
the pavement, w ^ ja net as smooth as
a hard wood
floor, was sat­
isfactory arid the pleasures o f the
waltz, one-tap, etc., most alluring.
The sale o f tickets was almost up to
the most sanguine expectations, thorn
only being about 50 unsold o f the 1,000
printed. The total receipts from the
o f tickets Was 2472.60, or 947
tickets.
The expenses were in the
neighborhood o f $50 leaving a not bal­
ance o f about $420 to bo turned over
tg the local Red Cross branch.
From 11:20 on until on# o’clock
the entire attention o f the hundreds o f
dancers was given to making the most
o f the opportunity to trip the light
fantastic under the open sky. A t its
height there must have been botween
160 and 200 couples dancing each num-
m.
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" I t was a beautiful sight," said one
o f a party who came by auto from
Powers, as they turned at tho Farm-
* Mefchsnts Bank corner and
looked up the lighted street at the
rythmically moving crowd, ’You have
no idea how beautiful it looked from a
The'credit fo r the huge success o '
this first open sir dance ta Coquille in
the past three years must go to the
d Cross. Especially was it due to
tha indefatigable efforts o f its chair-
in, Mrs. J. A. Lamb, Mrs. Chas.
Schrooder and Mrs. L. P. Branstetter,
who not only sold tickets here in town
but travailed up and down the valley
advertising the dance and collecting
50-cent pieces by the hundreds.
As
chairman o f the dance committee,
Chas. Schroeder, o f the Home Guard,
should be accorded the honor for hsv.
tag made the dance a success after a
Mg crowd had been assured.
Peaceful Glimpses in France.
In letters to his mother and neph­
ews at home L ie u t Robert Horine,
of Delphos, Ohio, givot these unusual
glimpses o f life in France these days:
“ N o unusual sight to see a husky
in olive drab hoeing in a garden; an­
ther amusing some three-months-old
baby while its mother thankfully
rests.
They even sweep the house
and wash dishes ta sp a r» time. Most
o f them would disdain any thought ex­
cept to pass the time away, but deep
down they are thinking, what if this
woman was my sister, my wife, or my
mother.’
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“Nearly every day you can sea some
o f our soldiers helping a poor old w o­
man ta her garden or cutting hay with
a funny old scythe, although neither
the soldiers nor the old lady eon un­
derstand each other' they soom to get
along very nicoly. Everywhere we go
we make good friends and whan we
leave a village the people wave their
handkerchiefs and shout, ‘Au revoir,
bonne chance,’ which means, ‘Goodbye,
good luck.’ ”
Arthur Fish was down from the
chroma mine, ta which he, Clyde Gage
and two o f bin brothers are interested,
this week. Their claim is located 20
miles aobve Powers and tho ore has
to be packed fo r 16 o f the 20 milee
to that point He was here to make
arrangements fo r pack horses at
supplies. I t is an expensive way to
get the ore out but with the present
prices they are anxious to begin ship­
ping. Their chrome runs over 60 per
at while the highest grade known
only runs 68J per cen t which proves
In one o f Earle Isensee’s letters in
that they have a valuable claim. There the Sentinel we remember a similar
are large quantities o f the ora ta
sigh t
On the statement o f people who had
teen ta Coquille a good deal longer
than the writer, we affirmed last week
that the slight earthquake experienced
here on Sunday, July 14, waa the first
for 26 years.
W s learn since that
there were plenty o f people who took
cognisance o f shocks at the time of
the San Francisco “ fire” — or just prior
to that event which was twelve years
ago, and meantime we are also ea­
red that another tremor occurreo
re. Still we have been reading o f
ocks as slight as the one ws re­
corded last week ta almost every sec
Honor Guard at Work.
tion o f the country during the past
The Honor Guard Girls will meet
half century, so that it is no unenvia
bis notoriety the Coquille Valley has next Tuesday evening for sewing.
They ar* urged not to neglect the duty
acquired by that event.
they have undertaken to provide re­
lief garments for Belgian children,
Pletw M Tomorrow Night. J whose mothers have been made desti
Lieut. F. C. McReynolds will be the tuto by devastation wrought in their
untry by the Huns. The girls «
lecturer accompanying the w ar pic
terse to be shown at Anderson’s hall poet to provide ten layettes at a cost
tomorrow (Saturday) evening.
The eonsideraly within a hundred dollars;
program will consist o f five reels o f and for this purpose added 220 to the
pictures, all taken from actual scon
fund ta their treasury by the sale of
o f various phases o f war preparation ice cream and cool drinks Wednesday
and army life and training. Tw o o f evening. The girls wish to expel
the reels were taken in and around their thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Craegor
fat their belp and the use o f their
Marshfield and North
Band t
iw lee cream parlor on that evening
months ago. Another reel shows sei
plane making and flying; tke fourth,
scones from the western fro n t a
The Red Croes of this city will hold
the fifth w ill portray Ufa at tho Na- its annual election of officers ta tha
CRy HaR
mat Tuesday
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Lectora Here Tuesday Evening
Misa Doolittle, o f the O. A. C. ex­
tension department, will give i lecture
next Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock
in the city hall here to members o f the
Industrial Clubs and 'th eir parants.
An invitation is extended to all in-
rested to be present. She will be
in Coos county all o f next w e e k .,
Mountains of Sugar.
While we are all having to econo­
mise on sugar (no doubt to the benefit
o f our health) there are mountain« of
it ta the Hawaiian islands, waiting the
ae when ws shall have ships to
spar* to bring it to our shores. Mss
time ths shipyards are promising to
ska a bigger splash on Labor day
than they did July fow th .
More Calls in Anffoat.
The Provost Marshal General ad­
vises the local military board here by
telegraph that August calls upon
this
state
w ill
be
as ' targe
as the July calls and that ap­
proximately $200, white men w ill be
celled.
Some o f the August calls
have already been announced but al­
lotments have not boon made upon all
Boards on account o f local agricultur­
al condition». Local Boards ar* here-
b y -d ircted to refuse releases to the
Navy, Marine Corps, or tho Emer­
gency Fleet to all registrants o f the
1817 or 1918 classes, who have been
or will be reclassified in Class I, until
a sufficient number o f Class I regis­
trants physically qualified fo r general
military service are in sight to fill
promptly and properly all calls up to
August 31, with generous allowance
for physical rejections at Camp. This
applies whether or not registrants
have been finally classified or examin­
ed physically.
Local, District and
Medical Advisory Boards era urgently
requested to exert every effort to
make a sufficient number o f men avail­
able to fill August calls. Medical A d ­
visory Boards are especially requested
to speed up examination o f registrants
as yet unexamined. Tho needs o f the
Arm y are imperative and thore must
not be further delay in making the
dees o f 1913 registrants available fo r
service under August calls.
BID THEM
GODSPEED
Last Monday morning about a doz­
en young men frsm Coquille and vicin­
ity boarded the 6:12 train on their way
to Camp Lewia. Quito a little crowd,
composed o f relatives and personal
friends, was there to see them off and
id them God-speed.
These men w er* part o f tee 86
drafted men who left Coos county that
morning, and everyone o f whom was
ta Coquille the day before. What did
ths citizens o f Coquille do to cheer
• sligh t token mi
th*“ “ P. to »how
their appreciation o f the fact that
these embryo soldiers were going over
to Europe to die horribly. If necessary,
that ws and our children might live
peacefully unde« a democratic form o f
government T
To Coquille’s shame let 1. be said
that she has been derelict and selfishly
forgetful o f any obligation to those
youths who a rt offering their lives ta
ths cause o f freedom.
Everywhere
else the drafted men are being accord­
ed receptions, given boxes o f lunch,
magazines, tobacco, etc.
Why cannot Coquili* give a picnic
dinner to the whole county delegation
when they assemble here the day be­
fore their departure for camp, W hy
are not our own team boys accorded a
hearty farewell two or three days be­
fore they leavo, and not just the even­
ing before, that they may have the
last evening to spend at hornet
Some o f these youths, never before
sway from home, are timid and un­
certain. They should be told what to
expect and what to do on arriving at
the camps. Along this line Provost -
Marshal Crowder has made a request
on all county draft boards to see that
s series o f talks is made to each draft
group "before they are started for
camp. Assessor Beyers is taking the
matter up with our citizens and the
organization o f an auxiliary board for
instruction purposes will probably re­
sult.
But by all means let us show a little
more humanity, friendliness, cordiali­
ty and affection fo r the brave young
men who without a whimper answer
the country’s call ta the hour o f her
peril.
It Waa a Water HanL
MORE M G OUT
Lift test Lists Furnished By the
Coos County Military
Board Here.
The Coos County M ilitary board is
ta receipt o f ceil No. 775 to fill the
places o f men rejected at Fort Mc­
Dowell, Cal., and reports the following
nrmes o f those who w ill be sent out
to fill these vacancies:
Lentner E. GaHier, Bandon.
A lg ie W. Hughes, Bandon.
Perley O. Lund, Coquille.
Archie J. Newton, Parkersburg.
Sydney Bryant Clarke, Marshfield.
Everett C. Crocker, Portland.
Ervin E. Landes, Portland.
Harold Thadon Leep, Richmond, Cal.
The follow ing men are to be sent
out from this county next Monday,
July 29, fo r Ijmitod service:
Erich Bernard Anderson, E m pire., .
Ernest Johnson, Empire.
Herbert J. Frye, Coquille.
W a . Osgood Shoup, Lakeside.
Carl Vogel, Coquille.
Ernest A lfred Strong, Leneve.
Chas. Edward Ned, Bullards.
Geo. Wm. Hoffman, M yrtle Point.
Ellis J. Grant, Weuna, Ore.
Winfield Scott Littlefield, Astoria. ’
The following is the list o f men
called under Orders No. 972, to leave
Aug. 5 for Camp Fremont, California,
for m ilitofy training.
Carl Loyd Jensen.
Joseph E. Oland.
Allen T. RqfierU.
Jesse R. Cochran.
Guy A . Cutlip.
Macs Wesley Gant
Ermil Smith.
Ralph Nieme.
Roy Allison McAdams.
Georgs Clausen.
Domenico Zuccaro.
Donald C. Shaw.
Axel Ertchson.
Anton Abrahamsen.
Clyde A . Briggs.
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Going to Enlist in the Navy.
Two more young men, Herbert Lu-
kens end Austin Hazard, will leave
next Sunday to enlist in the navy.
Neither o f them are in the draft list
and consequently are not barred by
the recent orders forbidding enlist­
ment by men subject to draft. They
export to spend s few days visiting at
Qridlsy, Calif., and then go to Ssn
Pedro whore they will sign up fo r
tho period o f the war and seven
months. Their departure will be keen­
ly felt by the Home G u ard'of which
they have been enthusiastic and e f­
ficient members. Herbert will also De
missed ^ta the Ko-Keei Klub o f which
ne has been secretary fo r several
months.
Lots of Rived Cedar.
About 18 men are employed in the
E. E. Johnson logging camp on De­
ment creek. This summer the crew
has been working in getting out split
eedsr and loading it at Bror.dbent. The
government takes mil that the camp
can supply, which is now running
■bout throe thousand feet a day. A t
some points in the creek it is almost
choked with fir and cedar logs which
were cut last winter and spring, but
which, owing to no high water, had to
remain there until a freshet brought
them out.
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Maloney Family Bereaved.
The sympathy o f their brethren o f
the press goes out in full measure to
M. C. end Daniel Maloney, o f the Cooe
Bey Times, in the bereavement they
have just sufferad in the death o f their
father, Peter Maloney, o f Dubuque,
lows, on Wednesday o f this week in
the 80th year o f his age. Tho oldest
son, M. C., had been with his father
for several weeks, but had started fo r
Oregon earlier ta the week, leaving
his father apparently improved in
health.
Deputy 8heriff Clyde Gage was call­
ed up by the Bandon chief o f police
Friday and informed that the Acme
w aacom iqg in with a consignment of
booze— such being the tip received
from Sen Francisco.
The Acme got
to Bandon first; but after interviewing
Earth Shook ai^Rccdsport.
her captain, Clyde was convinced that
mistake had been made, the pre­
Reed*port experienced that earth­
cautions token to prevent illicit ship­ quake shock we fe lt here Sunday a f­
ment on that boat being such as it ternoon, July 14, especially in the
would be almost impossible to evade. tower o f the railroad bridge over the
Umpqua.
As the Courier . tells It:
Harry Graham, one o f the bridge
Fewer People at County Farm. men, who was at the time ta the tow­
N. E. Lendrsth. superintendent of er, says the bridge quivered and sway­
the county farm, says there ere thir­ ed fo r at least half a minute. Being
teen people there now, 12 men and one fam iliar with earthquakes he knew at
omen. This is only a third as many once what was happening, and looking
i there often w er« there three or at kla watch the time was 6:25, about
four years agp. Bettor wages and less the saass time that the shock was fait
booaa are the reasons Mr. Landrste ah Eureka."
icribaa fo r the decrees* ta tadigoa
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