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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1918)
I V “Maehon Theatre” k m w81 be opened tom orrow (S atu rday) nicht. Tha opening w ill take place at 7:30 p. and the first thing ob U m pro gram w ill ha our national anthem “ Am erica,” aad tha aadiunca w ill ba invited to arise and Jain in tha singing N ext w ill coma an addraos by Hon. Charles R. Barrow. Than there w ill ba a a peach by M ayor C. E. Johnson sad follow in g him Mrs. Johnson w ill break a bottle o f grape ju ice aad christen the theatre. There w ill ba a six-reel special, “ The Bargain,N featu rin g W illiam S. ] H art aad a tw o-reel comedy. The ad mission fo r this occasion w ill be 28, ' 86 and 60 cents. 1 Letters From Matt Kerrigan, Theodore Easton, Harry Oenlin¿ Earl Isensee, Frank Norris Coquille when It saya that it wae better then w e expected. Indeed, it proved eo good, won such hearty ep- plauee and attracted such large sudi- eneee w ith only a m eager advance sale o f tickets, that it only took a fe w min utes a t the close o f the evening ses sion on W edneslay to secure enough Open Fourth Drive Here. signatures to a guaranty fo r next M ajor Jack Ham ilton, o f the U . 8. year to ineuix that Coquille w ill be on Arm y, veteran c f tha British, French the Radcliffe map in 1919. and United States arm ies, and Hon. Monday the N eapolitan m ale quar L. J. Simpson, j t f Bhermcroe. w ill be tette and Colonel G. A . Gearhart bald gin a tour o f Coos county in the in ter tha platform both afternoon and ev est o f the Fourth Lib erty Loan With ening, though tha children’s pageant a m asting at Coquille tom orrow night, at the opening o f the evening enter Saturday evening, September 14. tainm ent had a local appeal and a his W here tide m eeting is to be held Mr. trionic interest that made it wonder Cory, the Coquille chairman, says ha fu lly •successful. The hearty applause and repeated encores testified to the hit the Quar tette made with our music lovers, and TH E Y S T A R T FOR BERLIN The w ar bulletin received hors et noon today rends as feüow s: . W ith tha Am erican A n ales in L or raine— The AIHed offensive on the western fron t *1$ fo r the ftret Urne domina tin gly Am erican, tha F ranch ce eperetlw g in e m ilitary eenea. since the b ig d rive commenced. W e have been so busy. W e w ere at the b ig battle o f -------- where the Ger mane threw such e terrible barrage. I have much to te ll you that I cannot w rite here, but tom e day I ’ll tell you *11 about it. The last few day«, at least before yesterday, it was ju st HelL W e were doing infantry w or’t and always the Germans retreat end ehraye w e drive them on. Probably you have read something o f the w ork o f the Rain bow division. F ir three days it was im possible fo r any o f us to sleep. W e ju st kept advancing and fighting. Ev ery tim e I dropped into a shall hole I ’d ju st fa ll asleep until w e moved on. One tim e an Infantry boy earns up, kicked me end thought I wee dead, and took m y gas mask. I did not know H a t the tim e but one o f the boys with me happened up just a fter ha had gone on. So as I dll not have Both* prisoners who w ere wounded. Both had their lege shattered by our b ig shells U»3 ::igh t before. W e en tered the town th * next merning. The Germans, mind you, took everything they had away with them, oven water end food, ead then le ft them there in aa old stone tow er. Th y w ere eo helpless they cruldn’t m ove e ff o f a Utter. Whan I walked up to the bed on* o f them waa pn he said, “ kamer- ad” aa i f I w ere goin g to k ill them. The M etropolitan Company filled th * musical role on the ascend day and com pletely captivated the audience which, in the evening especially, up roariously applauded th * sin gin g and th * recitations aad licked their chops fo r m ore with rapontod encore« that w ere acknowledged only by bow*. Tbo ligh ter vein o f the songs end the hu morous skits were most h eartily en joyed. T o the w riter's thinking this Chau tauqua reached it high w ater mark in tiie patriotic address o f tke direc tor, Dr. Wm. E. Adame, o f Seattle, Tuesday evening. H e wae able to Yea, I guess th* w ar newc has bean good. W * have captured * lo t o f ter rito ry but it hes cost a lo t too. I mean In non. O f course, tao G er mane lost more mon than w e did, but our loesce w ere enough. However,' Y (.oppose that’s necessary to win. The wc&ther is gettin g .1 little chilly now but I believe that w e still have a lot o f warm wor.ther abend o f os. About where I am. R igh t where the figh tin g has been thickest hi this last drive, but u soon is we go back, i f we ever do, ( I mean bock o f th* Mrs. H otkey's room. F ifth grade, 4$ lin es), I ’ll lot you know where I am. Mies Spencer’s ream, Sixth grade, A s y et we ere s till located in this place w orking on roads that the G er mane blew up on their hasty depar ture. The follow in g era extracts from a letter ju st received by M r. end Mrs. R. A . E sc ton, o f Brew ster V alley, from thair son, Theodore: Somewhere in France, Aug. A Thera are men end lota o f them, who receive money from home regu larly. The moat foolish man or wo man in the United States is the one the railin g end te r* tt out fo r s die- tam o o f ab ort 80 fo rt and whan th* auto cam# to n trem bling stop one wheel was hanging ever e 14-foot drop to the ground bekrw. He says Se was not going fa ster than 1$ m iles an hour according to the speedometer. John M cN air was d rivin g th * team o f horses which so narrow ly escaped a collision w ith the car. France. There is nothing more ut terly uealeee than a la rge sum o f money here. A man cannot spend it without absolutely throw ing it away. A man cams in tonight who told me ho had gone to Romorantin with the intention -of spending ten francs. H e had ever a hundred francs and seven ty-ft vs dollars w ith him and earn* beck w ith his francs spent end his Am erican money partly spent. He had a bundle o f various articles that he may use a tim e or tw o but which ho w ill never receive value from , and hal spent an extravagant sum fo r ■upper and wine and various end sun dry knickknacks. W ith clothing end food supplied, * men who cannot get by with $88 a month, could a rt g rt by with $SJOO a month. M oct o f the deducted from hie w ages). 1 can get m ilk at nearly sa y farm house end cheese at a good. many. I Uke the French cheeses. M ost o f them are little pottles threo or fou r inches across mad an inch thick that sell fo r e franc e cheese. I like them either fresh or eld. When fresh they are little different from our dutch or cot tage rhases, but when w ell ripened 1 with e coat o f mold on thorn a quarter o 1 f an inch thick tboy have an. indi- ’ H arin g g o t by in the past w ith a low ruination on their real estate tha MsrshSald property owners are mak in g a grea t howl orer the work o f the assessment board that rem itted it— although a ll o f its members were from tha north end o f the county. For years the raluations in this county hare shown about $2,000,000 more property paying taxes in the Coquille end o f the county than in the Coos Bay section. There is not that d iffer ence in actual raluas and it was only by keeping M arshfield assessments at very low figures that the dispropor tion became so considerable. The Board o f Equalisation has set Satur day, Sept. 24, as the date fo r the hearing o f the protest o f the Marsh field property owners against the raise, and it is quite likely the mem bers o f the board w ill go orer to the Bay and personally inspect the pro perty. Twenty-seven o f the property ow n ers h ave filed sworn objections to There w ere 201 men registered fo r m ilitary service in Coquille yesterday in the fou r precincts, se follow s: Court House, 78; C ity H all, 93; Acad emy, 22; Northwest, A Today Is the birthday o f tw o w ell- known men, General J. J. Pershing', in command o f th# Am erican A rm y in France, end our m arrying Justice J. J. Stanley, o f this city,— though the General is fou r years older than our fellow eitison. CEDAR FOR .A E R O PLA N E S E. W . Beckham, o f the firm o f Bock- ham A Hinkle, was in town Wednes day m orning and told the Sentinel something about the work his firm is doing in rivin g P ort O rford coder fee aeroplane m aterial. Thoy em ploy shout 26 men end get out a'oout 20 thousand feet o f m aterial a week, fo r which they are receiving $180 per thousand from the govsrm ent. They began in M ay on upper Fish trap, but haring about exhausted a ll available m ateriel there they are now w orking on H a llV C reok fou r end e h alf miles west o f the Coquille, •No cedar M n than fou r fe e t Hr di am eter is cut, end these in lengths from 18 feet up. Trees o f the m ini mum diam eter are split into fou r sec tions, and sometimes the la rger ones in tj ea many as eight. A fte r the cedar la rived by splitting the lo g into quarters, sixths or eighths, the heart wood which is fu ll o f knots from the branches that cover, ed the tree when it was young is e ll split off, leavin g m ostly clear stuff. It is estim ated that about 26 per cent o f the lumber in trees o f four foot in diam eter is available fo r aeroplane m aterial. , *'•» For some unexplained reason all the tim ber excepting cedar is o f small ■iso, liks a second growth, in the patches where that is found. That it costs som ething to g et out this ma teriel is evident when ft is stated that Moser*. Beckham A Hinkle spent $8,- 009 in building a read from the fo o t hills threo end a h a lf m iles up the creek to where their camp is located. They ere paying their hand* $6 to $6.- SO per day and $12.60 a day fo r teams. This one ofcour sam ller war indus tria l. mad yet . it puts la circulation about $10,000 a month. much. I waa visitin g a fam ily about three m iles from bore where there is quite e herd o f cows. The girls, who do most o f the work, were ready to agree w ith me but the two old peo ple could not see it that way. I sup pose they think the cows would dry up i f thoy were not m ilked the throe times. I wee told that these cows ere Normans. Britagnes and Solognot- tos ere tw o other common broods. There is greet sim ilarity between the trees o f Control France end our own treoe. A lon g the rivor end roads are planted poplars very like our own balm o f Gilead, end another poplar re sembling quaking aspens. There ere small leaved elders end severe^ kinds o f willow s. Tbo ash is somewhat differen t from ours, the leaves are not just the seme. There ere la rg e groves o f beech trees, end e greet deal o f oak. The chestnuts reminded me strongly o f our chinquapin treoe, although the leaf is much different. Many roads ere lined with chestnuts. The horse chestnut which th* French call “ false chestnut” la in th* spring one o f th* most beautiful shad* trees I have ever •een. Recollections o f m y furlough w ill always recall the fragrance o f th* Hu Been Running Donkey. hors* chestnut blossoms. In May Our old friend, O. L. Smallwood, they were in fu ll bloem. Th* ■yea- who hes been running dairy ranches mores make splendid driveways in this section fo r tw o or three years when planted beside th* road. One past, has concluded to go out o f busi thing the French have us beet with is es** in that line, and make his aged the beauty o f their roadways. I t ls> mother in Denver a visit. So be is ■ pleasure sim ply to look down most advertising his stock end outfit in our o f them. There ere no fences to mar want column today. F or a month th* scenery and the landscape re past Mr. 8. has been running a donkey sembles a vast park. Th* maples are eng-ind at Aaaen’s Camp, aa active aa not numerous and have very small a boy ih spite o f hie 84 yea n . He leaves. T . S. E. learned that trade during the y e a n Th« Honor Guard Dance. In the event o f rein next Saturday evening, Sept. 21, the Honor Guard goat dance w ill be held in Anderson’s H all instead o f on the street as now contemplated. Th* girls ere sparing no effort to furnish their guests on that occasion with on* o f the moot pleasurable a f fairs ever held in Coquille. A gypsy fortune teller w ill vie with the goat ** on* o f the prominent feature*. The g irls intend to have It managed strictly by the Honor Guard with young lady ticket sellers, floor m anag ers end dene* announcer. The proceeds ere to be used fo r pa triotic purposes and it is predicted the attendance w ill be large. Tickets are 56c which includes the 6e w ar tax. i Lampa P. 0. No More. J. L. Bean Las closed Ms store a t Lampa and tbs postofflee there tms been discontinued. Lam ps is about midway between Coquille and Ban, <ion and some o f the people who have been gettin g m ail tbero are now h iv ing it addressed to each o f tbeao towns. An effort is being made by A . P. Sweet and Georgo Laird to Lav* a ¿tar route established along the river with deliveries o f m ail by boat daily in each direction. he waa forem an o f the Rocky Moun Sixteen Are There New. tain News a t D enver; and he has many interesting incidents to relate Four new boarders w ere enrolled at o f life in the newspaper offices o f tks County Infirm ary yesterday Su that state. perintendent Leulroth inform * us. They were Mrs. D. O’K elly, o f Marah- iield, who has boon there before; Mr. Old Resident Heard From. Cole, o f Tem pleton; Mrs. Buchanan, Recorder J. S. L a w n ics is in re o f North Bend; and Mr. Lee from ceipt o f ■ letter from C. W . W aite, oi Oakland, C alifornia, w k ) was f<rm*r- Orry eyunty. This brings the number ly ■ m ill m ar hero. He says bin six at the Infirm ary now up to 18. s ms are all in the service, so he and M n . W hite have m ov*.’ down 'tom Me m ill in the mountains and a.:* now liv i.ig a t Oakland. Speaking o f his son. Emmett, who was on the Tus can la when It went down, end wee re ported among the m issing fo r fou r teen days, he remarks, “ 1 te 'l you it was tha longest tw o weokn I ever aaw and it was n great re lie f to ua At the New Theatre. M oving pictures w ill be the attrac tion tom orrow night e t the new L ib erty Theatre, ea it he* just been chris tened. It wouldn’t have behn opened fo r some tim e y et if those tw o b ig machine« Clyde G eg* bed shipped up here from San Franciaeo had ham in the other warehouse at Baadon when