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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1918)
■ " AÎ ** ' ^ ' y : ■fS&Mr . ! •0-, The Sent! a aooo pstu in a OF SHIPS E X And The Cngtelto KesaM o< o e BY M. W. YOUNG. to n ve we strode Billy Pat- isoluble problem* ice but none quite as the one occasionally on ns now, “W hat has bosoms of thwrecall?”___________ •met. M i n s i Second Class One of on____ _ M the m n e of its own city aa i by over working the kh is in n six To be áblé te get away wae the boat the Crown Prtnoo's army in the Boia- aoas-Rheims salient can boast and the flower of the Hun hordes had te be sacrificed for that I t rounds good, saya aoaaa old sol dier a t our elbow, to hoar our soldier boys called “Yanks” again. The soft, tre e d v t a r a peal to anybody who ovar wore tho blue. In Holland new bricklayers are get ting the there unheard of wages of 60 canta an hour. But oven n t that it requires four hoars labor to buy a pound of beefsteak, six to get a pound <rf ten and 48 to aseare a tan of coni. • ' , _ This fat n banner year fa r doer in Curry county, says the Gold Bench Reporter, owing to tho mild winter. I t adds th a t the hunter trim loses no time in getting into the woods by the 16th will be reasonably sure of getting hie share. In four cease recently Dongles county phyekians asede affidavits that men registered for tho draft were about to become fathers end the i were given deferred elassi- The doctors lied, though, and the motad to Class L to the Marshfield idea, in a map printed on the invitation sent out by Ra Chamber of of th a t city to the editors of the state inviting them and their families to become the guests of that city a t their annuel meeting August 9, 10 sad 11, the Southern Pacific ex from Coos county to will leave tho I about Beaver Hill Junction and run across country to Beadoa, thence di rectly southward to Port Orford and Gold Beech. The river crossing is lo cated near Parkersburg. ON BRINK OF PRECIPICE. How nearly the allies came to giv lag ewey in Europe during the first six months of the present year thriltingly told by Walter M. Pierce at the Norway picnic last Saturday. Not once alone hut five times in suc cession were they on tho brink of tho p red pics', to bo saved by the God of battles in ways th at would formerly have been demand miraculous. The first wae early ia the year the French government told the ad ministration a t Washington th at their people were on the point of eollapee end they must have mom wheat or the strain would become unbearable. Then it was that heatlesa days were proclaimed end the coal for factories and storm was diverted to furnish fuel for the grain-laden ships in the har bors that Jiad been unable to mil for lack of fuel. Nothing the federal administration has dene during the war aroused more bitter criticism than the of those heatless days in the dead of ’, bat th at sms tho only way to keep Franco fighting. Tho next event, of which President Kerr also told ns hero two or throe months ego, sms like unto the first. Proud Albion sms on the rocks. Tbs food administrator them told us they have 76 or a hundred million bushels of srheet right assay, or they could not be responsible for the con- We then had only wheat enough to last us until the next har vest, but that sms no obstacle. Our people were asked to save the situa tion by using substitutes and it sms not long before all the big betels in the country had absolutely banished wheat flour from their kitchens and tens of millions of housesrivas all ov er the country were using substitutes to the limit and trying out all kinds of “wheatieos” recipes. No one went hungry in this country as a result of this change, and probably nobody’s health sms impaired, but we had made the sacrifice demanded, and England sms tided over. When the groat German drive be gan in March the third crisis was en countered when the Kaiser’s Huns captured 180,000 of the allied troops and the road to Paris and the Channel posts appeared to be opening before Then tho days wore darker than we ever imagined, and the Ger man* were on the verge of srinning the smr. Chimney comer critics nev er wearied of criticising Foch’s stra t egy sad telling how differently he should have managed that campaign. But while the allied lines bent they did not break and for every foot tho Germans advanced they paid in blood. It sm r during tho same drive that one of the English rm erals—Maurice perhaps got Into s blue funk and thought of nothing but to got stray from F rits aa fast as his logs srould lot him. This opened a gap on his flank whore there sms a general srhe hold his ground, arhich grew wider as the scared one showod his heels. T hen lies absolutely unprotected a td the Bocho had only to walk through and capture the bulk of the British army. Then an incredfle thing happened. Telephone boys, bicycle couriers, engineers without arms, and batanta of all grades filled that gap with a thin lino, using at first anything they could pkk up to fight with and later being supplied with arms brought up frees the m ar. But this line, though ns a rope of sand, did hold and it grew stronger every hot» until that danger sms past. The Huns never realised their opportunity until R was too Into to take ndvnntngfi of R. Tho fifth and last time the allies stood trembling on tho brink sms nt Kommal hill to toko which _m« for the Germans the capture of Yprss and an open road to porta. Thir was the able ton of shipping ad by the British ‘ filled tbs harbors ef Calais and -„ w a r r y - H B Ï M U M »TU M * ----------------------7 but they iron the U tils by sq Munti the odgo of the Caiman legions tfe Y pres was saved, and wRh it the use of civilisation and of humanity. Whoa the smr bogan we wem sore t U t America could not afford to see the allies boati n. 81 m j then sm have cm mom and mom mason ovary day to believe th at God srould never pi mit tho kingdom of hell to bo estab- ihed on earth by n German victory or n Gorman ponce. ABOUT RURAL ROUTES. There’» many a trim word in the ad- vertiaementa which U seldom found in the news columns. Here for-instance from the Oregon Voter the postulate without the conclusion: “If the Government decided to abol ish all deliveries and compel all per sons to call a t local postofflees for stall, imagine the congestion, yet this This, of course, applies only to post- offices large enough to enjoy city de livery or from which rural routes di verge. Coquille is not large enough for the former, and our dependence on river transportation and the geo graphical configuration of this section renders the latter impractical. Of bourse, cities of the sise of Myrtle Point, North Bend, Coquille and Ban- don, without rural routes are anoma lies. In fact, the only practicable rul- rsl route we can think of in this sec tion which would serve enough people to make it worth while and which would not involve a return over the same road the carrier went out would be from Coquille up the river to Nor way, thence acroearfo Lee and up Mid dle Creek to Dora, returning by way of Foil-view and the Cunningham dis tric t This would be an excellent route, considering the number of cus tomers to be served, though some of the Cuninngham people would probably prefer to come to town and get their mail in the morning rather than wait until afternoon for its delivery. And preebly some more road improvement would be needed on portions of this line even, before it would be in shape for all the year round travel. When we get th at Coquille to Ban- don road finished so th at it is good for winter travel, and the railroad gets “settled“ so that the mail arrives here DAIRY COWS SACRIFICED. In greater and greater numbers the dairy cows of Oregon are being sent to the meat block. Perhaps 16,000 to 20|D00 dairy cows have been sacri ficed out of the Willamette Valley alone within the last twelve months. Every day brings its toll to the pack ing plants.- High price and scarcity of feed stuff a, together with uncertainity as home tht* message: that will save duatry and hM dejry product for too babies and cMMmn. moat bo token soon, as dairy • going to too butcher a t too rote ad from 60 to SM a day.—Oregon Tatar. "W U ■ Bride« of Skip* to Ponkiii«” . .MniiuiUii» nrogram calli far the expenditure of hundred» ^ ¿ f d o l t o th^SttooM «f the U n lu T s u to o mutt supply m a S r& S & S S2TK.-L«; Pgjra |IM»M6 to r i BBL “Just to look a t him,” says the edi tor o ' Sunsoi Magaaine In Us “Putos of the Pacific,” notes, “ho did not dif fer materially from others of U s kind. Ho was merely o handsome Holstein bull calf six months old, snuggling up to his Ilf toen-yoar-old koepai when ti-e two entered too auction ring. But the buyers rolled op their sleeves grim ly. The first bid sms $6,000. Tho second sms double this am ount When the offer reached $40,000, ton bidders remained in the ring. At $76,000 only four were left.-and two more dropped out when the bids exceeded $90,000. Fhc youthful caretaker of the calf be gan to cry; a woman burst into team one of too auction# ws, overwrought by tho excitement, Wien the animal sms knocked down to Elbridge A. S tu a rt president of the Carnation Stock Farms, for the world’s record price uf $106,000, the hundreds of asen and women gathered around the ring broke into loud cheers. And through it all. Carnation King jjlvia, ovsrlord of nil the Holstein Freisian breed, calmly and contentedly chewed his ra l, indifferent to the fact .hat he had Drought twice the price aver paid for a bull or a cow. “Carnation King Sylvia ia now a t the Carnation Stock Farm tie, having traveled to Us new home by express on the fastest train. His value ia baaed on tho obvi ous fact that a cow which five dollars' worth of food a week and produces $0 pounds of butter fa t ia worth a great deal mom than a cow which, consuming tho same amount of feed, produces only 20 pounds of but ter f a t The champion’s mother, May Echo Sylvia, produced 162.1 pounds of milk in one day, 1006 pounds in seven days, 12,898 pounds in a hundred days, not mentioning throe other world’s records. “This phenomenal milk production is tree emitted by heredity. Tho pro geny of the bull calf will add many pounds of milk per day to tho pro of the Far Western dairy The acquisition of that bull took courage and a long purse, but the effect of the improved strain on the dciry industry of the Far West will Inst for generations.” WITH YOUR DOLLARS FARMERS I MERCHANTS BANK CoMMRcrciRl and Saving Deposits OREGON COQUILLE • * th at does not wear out your pocket; no high shoulders nor sharp projection» something new in knife manufacture. We also have a large stock o f the best quality of S cissors —Look over our display— f G-E Motors in the Dairy F o r milking, cream separating and churning, electric motor driven machinery is the dairy- m an’s best aid. A single m otor will furnish clean, safe “ always ready’* power for a number o f machines. Phone 71 M 201 7 - t Calling Corda, 100 for gLO*. AFTER FOUR YEARS. Tk u Testimony Remains Unaha Time is the boat tost of truth. H on is a Grants Pass story to st has stood tho test of time. It is a story 1 point which will eoaae straight to many of us. • Mrs. Amelia Lompko, 402 F 8L, Grants Pass, O ra, says: “I suffered traumatic paint and tharu ww whan I could hardly ca t t r am SO stiff and buna. At night lay awake for hours on account of the pains, which srant from one part of my body to another. I got up in the morning ao stiff and lama R was all I could do to hoop up. I tripd many medicines and also need liniments but without the slightest rettof. I finally ad taking Donnk Kidney Pills. I helped from the first and alm< re I know it I sraa fras from I • Coquille Hardware Co. that of the gold. And until recent years the gold only was saved, the platinum being thrown away.—Port Orford Tribune. from their cows. Margins of profit in the creamery business are so low, and prejudice against cold storage com panies so great, that the butter busi ness ia not being conducted aggres sively and the cream-producing dairies suffer as a consequence. The dry season furnished the climax of aggravation to all who were stay ing by the business. Far-reaching effects may be pro duced by the shrinkage of the in dustry. The milk supply of the cities will be affected adversely. Dairy herds in Europe have been reduced to the point where it is inevitable that this country will be called upon to supply tho lack. This will be true es pecially after war. The crisis will find America short of dairy Cattle. It is idle to preach and tell him to continue his .hard frork a t a lose. There is no icdustry involving mors hardship and self-deprivation than the business of milking cows and market ing tho milk. Assured of a reason able return for his effort, the dairy man will hang onto hie cows and milk thesn, even if he make no profit higher The Kind of o c k e t C u tle ry mining on the beach Just south of Cape Blanco, are making $8 or $10 a day to the man. There ia about six feet of sand to strip off to reach the pay streak, and to do this they are using a team and scraper. The pay is be low the water level and a gasoline pump is used to imndle the seepage water, which is also utilised to operate the sluice boxes. Mr. Randall does not use a copper plate, but catches all of the values on riffles. He is new op erating where T. C. Clark min id, hav ing bought the latter's equipment. In speaking of th e values on the beach, Mr. Randall said the platinum in the i Thousands of men h are chew ed Real G ravely C hew ing Plug for tw enty-five years and more* And every time the^ have triad soma other brand it inade fh ffn think »»re of Gravely than ever. Real Gravely Chewing Plug What Does Your Label Say? • r.' y¿ sL 5 r k ilìg u g a •V to the American Expeditionary F ^ r ^ F n m « » .e n d . the people back rrrrs.