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COQUILLE. COOS COUNTY,
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i. FRIDAY, JANUARY ÌT, 1818.
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»1.50 THE YEAR.
possible to ram pile tbs wM iiVtiM M
room 216 Coke Building has been open
without theaid o f the machines that do
every Saturday afternoon during the
the adding and multiplication in this
month for the convenience o f people,
work mechanically.
pecially from the remoter part of
And yet there are no doubt people
the county, who have wished to con-
in this county wjw think that to be Officials Here Figuring on Dis­ Coos County’s Public Nurse Has | suit with Miss Allen or to arrange for Sentinel Begins 14th Volume
Assessor’ s Office Here Has
an official or a deputy or a clerk at
her to visit in the homes.
Many
Had Plenty to Do
tribution of the Southern
Figure Out ComfataUioas
and 6th Under Present
the court house is such a “ snap” that
availed themselves o f this opportuni­
Oregon Taxes
Lately
W ithout Lim it.
Management
one/w bo gets a position there need
ty during December.
have no further anxiety or worry,
•r‘
"V""r
The demand for the services o f the
The sheriff’s office here is in receipt
When it U stated (hat in Cooe coun­ and has only to sit around and chat
With the present issue begins a new
Divorces by Default
of a letter from Oswald West under county public health nurse is increas­
ty the assessor's office has to figure with callers.
At the session o f circuit court here volume of the Sentinel. It is now
ing with every month as people are
date of the 14th in which he says:
out 180 different combinations of
on Monday Judge John S. Coke grant­ thirteen years old and this is No. 1
“ The Coos Bay bill, now before Con­ learning more about tne character of
taxes, and that if every school and
Annual Election o f Officers
„-
ed decrees of divorce in two cases. of Volume 14.
the work she does. Occasionally a
road district made a special levy the
Five years ago today the Sentinel
The annual meeting o f the stock­ gress, provides for payment of all
Each went by default. Hannah B.
number would be 260, the statement holders of the First National Bank taxes due and unpaid at the time o f case has been reported to Miss Alien Corson, o f Myrtle Point, was divorced was purchased by its present owner.
doesn't convey a very definite idea to was held here last Tuesday evening, the delivery o f the deed from the which she has found it impossible to from Amos Corson on the ground of How times flies. We had no extrava­
any one who has never taken a hand with all but two o f the local stockhold­ Southern Oregon to the government. visit on account o f the inaccessibility desertion. Thomas Halvorsen was di­ gant anticipations o f coining sudden
in the office work o f extending a tax ers present./ There was no change in As this delivery is to take place alter o f the family’s location, but wherever vorced from Dora Halvorcen on the wealth by its publication then; nor are
levy.
the directorate, the old board being the passage o f the bill, the data to possible all calls have been responded grounds o f cruel and inhuman treat­ we disappointed now. Indeed, taking
which interest on delinquent taxes Is to promptly.
It means, of course, that there are re-elected as follow»:
ment. Halvorsen is a grocer o f North all things together the business of
In the southern end sof the county
180 different rates o f taxes to be ap­
A. J. Sherwood, L. H. Hazard, R. C. to be figured is uncertain.
Bend and his wife is now in Cali­ the Sentinel for the past five years has
“ In the preparation o f your claims was found during December a discour fornia. There were no children nor been better than we could really have
plied in figuring out the taxes in Dement, 0 . C. Sanford, Chas. Skeels,
aged, perplexed mother o f several
they should be held open as to
Coos county. The most simple rate Is Dorsey Krcitzer.
were there alimony allowances in had any reason to expect. While the
children. She had just been left
and
penalties,
so
that
when
where there arc no special taxes for
advertising by Coquille business men
A t a subsequent meeting o f these
either case.
widow, the epidemic having caused
for payment they will show
districts o f any kind, and this is the directors the former officials we
Judge Coke will bq here next Mon­ has been less in the aggregate than
her husband’s death. The future, with
amount due at the date o f the
case where no levy has been made in elected as follows:
day to take up whatever business is we had ever before known in a place
the question of food and clothing and
o f said deed.”
either the road or school district and
o f the size and trade of Coquille, other
A. J. Sherwood, President.
presented/
shelter for herself and five children
the property is not located in eithor
sources of income have largely made
R. C. Dement, Vice President.
This morning we found A regie and with the knowledge that in a few
o f the three port districts. In this
L. H Hazard, Cashier
Butter Wrappers and Trespass up for that.
months
another
little
one
w
uld
be
Walker
and
Geo.
O.
Leach
as
busy
as
oase the state and county levy is 16.6
The most gratifying feature of the
O C. Sanford, Assistant Cashier.
Signs at the Sentinel office.
bees figuring out the taxes that (he aided to the circle, seemed very dark
mills and the high school levy is 4
business, however, has been the steady
Southern Oregon is to pay. They are to her. With tears streaming down
tenths of a mill, so that the rate Uh
growth o f business in the subscription
not only getting ihe total amasnt hog-face, she pleaded to be allowed
just 17 mils or one and 7 tenths per
line. Receipts in that department in
from the records, but are finding Just to keep her little ones, with her and
cent on the assessed value o f the
1918 were almost three times as great
how much money is to come to each declared she could not let one o f them
property.
during the year 1918 as in 1913 when
school district and each road district go. It was the nurse’s privilege to
1)1 ext comes the cases where, as in
Lew A. Cates was running the pa­
that the Wagon Road grant latads help this widow make application for
most o f the school districts, there is
per, or in 1914, the first year under
The astronomical predictions o f a
No meeting has been held by the
cover. Some of the wood land on the a pension which will assure her of
a school levy. There are 70 such dis
the present management
That the
storm period about the 18th oi this
Coquille Commercial Club since the
eastern edge o f town east o f Ned C. means sufficient to repr her children.
triets each with a distinct special
efforts we are making to give the peo­
month have certainly been amply ful­
receipt
of
a
letter
from
the
Marshfield
That same‘ day the nurse visited
Kelley’s and the Kerrigan placed is
school tax, and this makes 71 combin
ple of this city and the Coquille valley
filled.
Chamber o f Commerce, requesting the
in the tract, as well as most of the another home in that same commun­
ations in the county. Then there are
the best possible local newspaper are
Coquille
Valley
commercial
bodies
to
Last Friday night we had a dorm-
land through which the high water ity.. Miss Alien had first seen this
10 special road district levies. But
appreciated, we ha$e the hiost sub­
join the Bay people in a kick against
pour that dims the recollections of
line from the Walker and Rink Creek family in November in another part
instead o f making only 10 more com­
stantial possible reasons for conclud­
the present railroad schedule and. a
last summer’s protracted drouth.
reservoirs
passes.
of
the
county
and
had
found
them
in
binations’ these districts may have
ing. Subscriptions are the life blood
Tuesday morning we had a blow
demand for a night train from the
There are 82 aeres of this giant great trouble at that time, as the
either one of three district port levies
of a newspaper; no amount o f adver­
Bay
to
Portland.
The
disposition
ap
that ought to have driven the iafiu-
land inside the city of Coquille, whtelr husband and father of the three small
or no port levy at all which compli­
tising can atone for the lack of that
pears, however, to be in favor of
enza out o f the country, but didn’t.
will get a small slice in the division, children was thought to be in a dying
cates matters still more; and besides
kind of backing.
That everybody
leaving
the
Bay
people
to
pull
their
That was followed by bright sunshine
while our School District No. 8 Will condition. For the past four years he
that each o f the road districts may
wants to read the Sentinel and that
in the afternoon; but along towards
had been more or less of an invalid as own chestnuts put of the fire.
receive quite a bit o f monoy.
have within its boundaries parts of
we are adding many new subscribers
mfahtight the southwesterly gale re­
That is decidedly the case also at
The question whether the taxes of the result o f an accident and now he
from one to four school districts.
to its list each month while practical­
turned
with
reinforcements
and 1918 will be included in the ami
was having such severe hemorrhages Myrtle Point, where the Chamber of ly all old ones are renewing promptly
Then, again, there are eight cities,
houses got to rocking as if on a
Commerce, throught its president, W.
the government will pay appears tdt>e that his life was despaired of. The
each with its special city tax, its spec-
and with good words for the paper
C. Fensler, has indited the following
spree. It was an unusual experience
young
wife
had
been
doing
heavy
settled in the affirmative.
Asseqoor
cial port tax and its special school
are a great stimulus and incentive to
letter to the Coos Bay Times on that
in this section— the hardest wind­
Beyers informs us that the work of washing to earn the living of the fam­
district tax.
the editor.
subject:
storm since five years ago on Sunday,
ily,
but
with
the
anxiety
and
care
of
extending the taxes for that year is
So in regard to the taxes on any
_ As to the policy of the paper and our
January 26, 1914.
Comparatively
practically completed and
piece of property, it mqgt first stand
It hqs come under our observation future plana we have only to say that
. J s damage was done, however. An warrant for then» win
ahd her own health not very good, she
ite ftntfj county and
school tftx?1
several
tames that you have published oar aim is to make a good home pa­
occasional window was blown in and I a week.
was now almost at the breaking point.
then, if it is in a road district with
articles in your paper concerning the per, covering the local field as fully
lot o f the concrete coating o f the
Meantime if the bill for the govern­ Things looked pretty bad.
a tax, that must be added. In nine
present Portland train schedule which as we can; and that we have no in­
“ Bridge o f Sighs”' connecting the hew
Miss Allen at once went before the
ment purchase o f the lands should
eases out o f ten it will be in a port
you claim is very unsatisfactory to tention of trying to cover the world
Hall o f Records with the court housp
pass the senate today, it would require County Court asking that the man be every town in the county.
district and that tax must be added.
or the nation with our news service.
was shaken off.
ten days for it become a law without sent to the county infirmary for prop­
In 70 school districts out o f 84 there
As far as we are able to ascertain, What most interest our readers is
This storm lasted until Wednesday
President Wilson’s signature and af­ er care and that the »rife and children we learn that it is only a selfish move what we shall keep on endeavoring
Js a school district tax and that must
morning and yesterday we had the
ter that the Southern Oregon com­ be put on an allowance for their sup­ on the part of a few individuals in to provide for these columns each
be added. Still again, if it is one of
darkest and gloomiest day o f uninter­
This was done without delay
pany would have to make out its deed port.
the eight cities o f the county, a city
Marshveld, who, »rithout authority,
rupting rain that has been soen for
to the ninety-odd thousands o f acres and Miss Allen’s December visit to speak for the whole county without
tax must be added. Besides there are
months.
It was Chinook weather,
the family found a happy change first obtaining their different opinions.
included in the grant
a good many instances where an in­
Moonshine Case to Jury
though, as it still is today. The tem­
there. The man was fast getting his
dividual piece o f property lies in two
We have talked this matter over
The Moonshine whiskey case from
perature has been that o f a warm
strength and health back follo»ring an »rith representatives o f the tosvns o i
road districts, two school districts or
Powers was expected to go to the jury
spring day; yet this morning there X V IIIth Amendment Ratified
operation which had removed the Coquille, Bandon, Powers and Myrtle
two port districts.
yesterday afternoon:
have been rifts in the clouds and we
The
Prohibition
amendment
to
the
cause o f the hemorrhages. The little
Of course, the boundaries o f all the
Point and learn that they are very
The Journal says of this case in its
are getting some sunshine. A t this national constitution has been ratified
family expected to bo reunited soon. much satisfied »rith the present sched­
districts follow section lines as a rule,
Thursday issue:
season Coos county’s worst beats the by the requisite three-fourths of the
The December report of the work ule o f the Portland train and do not
but sometimes it is quarter section
Charles Zimmerman took the stand
best that the northwestern states east 48 states. Nebraska, which made the
done b y Miss Allen sho»rs the month desire any change whatever.
lines, so that it is possible for some 40
in his own defense Wednesday and
of the Rockies can furnish.
86th
and
the
last
one
required,
acted
to have been a busy one. Six tovm*
acre tracts to have a tax entirely dif­
We resent, very much, the impres­ made denial that he or the Morris
yesterday, so that the following s were visited, the monthly schedule be­
ferent from any other quarter sec­
sion you have given by your numer­ brothers were connected in any way
now
the
roster
o
f
states
that
have
ap­
Fifteen
New
Cases
of
“
F
la.”
ing as follows; one »reek at Coquille ous items in the paper that all the
tion in the county.
with the still. Zimmerman also denied
The influenza has come back here proved it:
and Bandon, one week at Myrtle Point to»ms in Coo« county are not tatia-
All the lines o f the cities, and port,
that
he knew the location of the still.
Idaho
and Powers, one week in the rural fled »rith the present schedule and we
school and road districts are shown on in Coquille and Dr. Hamilton reports Mississippi
United States attorney in his cross-
Virginia
Tennesee
fifteen
new
cases
this
week.
In
town
schools
and
one
week
at
Mi
a big map in the assessor’s office at
ask that hereafter you kindly omit examination dwelt at lenght on how
West Virginia
and North Bend.
the court house, and by going over they are: G. C. Leatherwood, Walter South Carolina
Myrtle Point in any more o f these O. W. Morris happened to become the
Maine
The report gives record of 126 visits itmes o f similar nature and advise
this carefully it is found that 260 dif­ Ricks and three cases at J. W. Dug­ Kentucky
owner o f an instrument used to test
Washington
Across the river there are North Dakota
in all, 7 of which were nursing visits, that you consult the other towns in
ferent rate sheets might be required ger’s.
per cent of altohol in intoxicating li­
California
60 instructive visits, and 69 other »ris- the Coquille valley before using their
in this county and that 180 such seven cases at Ed Gillespie’s, three at Maryland
quors. Zimmerman testified that Mor­
Indiana
its pertaining to the work. A t the names in items which they do not
sheets are required.
About these S. M. Olson’s and Geo. . Lester Jr. It Montana
ris purchased it.
Arkansas
seems like hoping against hope to an­ Texas
beginning o f the month there were sanction.
more a little later on.
A. H. Powers, president of the
North Carolina
86 patients on the nurse’s visiting list,
This map is a good deal more than ticipate that this epidemic will run its Delaware
Hoping that this »rill explain out Smith-Powers Logging company, tes­
Illinois
16 of whom were tubercular cases. views o f the present schedule and that
a checker board as the lines sigxag course and in the near future cease to South Dakota
tified that Zimmerman’s reputation as
Massachusetts
Kansas
During the month 11 patients were you »rill see your folly in misrepre­
over it to mark the boundaries o f the trouble us.
to integrity and honesty was good.
Alabama
The school board, although not yet Arizona ‘
discharged from the nurse’s care and senting the Coquille valley to»vns, we
various districts. We don’t know how
The defense rested its case Tuesday
Georgia
Iowa
there were added 12 new case» so that remain, youra, etc.
any one could get an idea o f how fully decided, inform us this morning
afternoon after Mrs. F. E. Blake, one
Colorado
on January first she had 87 on file.
many divisions this would make with­ that it is not expected to open the city Louisiana
of the material witnesses for the gov­
Oregon
The closing of the schools on ac­
out considerable1 trouble, but it will be schools next Monday. The pastors o f Florida
Their Committee Assignments ernment, became ill or staged a fit.
New Hampshire
count of the epidemic has, o f course,
a good plan to have come of the school the city churches have also decided Michigan
Representative T. J. Thrift, o f Coos Dr. Joseph F. Wood, who refused to
Utah
somewhat delayed the work o f giving
children try it. Take a good sised that they will not attempt to hold ser­ Ohio
county,
hM been appointed on the fol- attend Mrs. Blake, took the stand and
Oklahoma
Nebraska
the pupils inspection for physical de-
map o f Oregon, lay a piece o f tissue vices Sunday.
lowing
committees o f the Oregon testified that the woman was maling­
Misouri
fec. Nevertheless, during December,
paper over it and trace all the county
ering.
house:
Assessment
and taxation, food
This amendment goes into effect pupils
in the Coquille,
Bandon,
lines in red for instance. Then put
Geta Needed Roof
'
_ ■
according to its terms, one year after Riverton, Myrtle Point, Powers and and dairy, roads and highways.
the same piece of tissue paper over
Hall Objects to Raise
Work has been in progress on the its ratification.
Representative
Stannard,
of
Coos
Coos River Consolidated schools were
a map o f Washington and trace all
roofing o f C. A. Mach on’» new store
President Hall, of the Coos A Curry
Meantime the bone dry law just en­ inspected, 261 children undergoing the and Curry, was named on assessment
the county lines in blue. Next place
building this week, the brick work acted by Congress »rill go into effect
examination.
Of these, 160 were and taxation, forestry and conserva­ Telephone company is taking means
the same tissue sheet over a mnp o f
having been completely previously. the first of July and remain the law
to be heard by the powers above in
found with decayed teeth, 102 with en­ tion.
Idaho and trace all the lines in green.
As soon as the roof is finished work until demobilisation is completed, so
In the senate at Salem, Hon. Ira S. opposition to the big increase in long
larged tonsils, 66 with adenoids and
Now count up the separate divisions
can be rushed on the plastering and that we are speedily to i ecome a dry
Smith, senator from Coos-Curry dis­ distance telephone rates ordered by
62 with defective vision.
these three sets of county lines make
inside finishing. Mr. Machon says he nation. When booze is banished, 1» it
Four days of one week in the month trict, is a member of the folloxring Postmaster General Burleson and to
on your tissue sheet and you will have
hopes to have it ready for occupancy roon »rill be, the only wonder »rill be
Some
were spent in Myrtle Point giving the committees»: Education, of which he go into effect next Tuesday.
a fair idea of what' the overlapping
by Feb. 16. Mr. and Mrs. Machon »rill that we suffered it to reign over uc
district divisions make of the asses­
grade pupils twice daily -routine in is chairman; Roads and Highivays, rates are doubled by that order and
occupy the second story rooms them­ as long as it did.
x pections for symptoms of colds o r i £ ssessment and Taxation, Fishing In­ all are increased. We are inclined to
sor's map of Cooe county.
selves and the first floor »rill be used
think that President Hall knows a
influenza.
Several suspicious cases dustries, Resolutions.
All this is only a beginning, howev­ for some business »riiich has not yet
good deal better what the rates should
were
sent
home
each
day.
The
sev­
Clyde
Gaffe
to
Portland
er. For each of the 180 combinations a been stated.
Keep Your Liberty Loan Bonds be than the P. M. G. does.
enth
and
eighth
grade
pupils
were
in­
separate rate sheet must be made by
Deputy Sheriff Gags went to Port­
The advice not to sell your Liberty
figuring out what total its individual
land Tuerday to appear in the feder­ duced to take serum at school expense
F
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&
.
M.
Bank
Election
Appropriation Bill Passes House
tax levies will make on a $6 assess­
al court in the case against O. W. as one of their classmates who had Loan bonds is good. They are worth
Tuesday the Sentinel »rax in re­
ment, a $10 assessment and so on up
At the annual meeting of the Morris, C. E. Morris and Charles just died had exposed them all to the several cents on the dollar below par
,
in the market now, and »rill probably ceipt of a telegram from Representa­
to the hundreds and thousands o f dol­ Farmers and Merchants Bank held Zimmerman, of Posvers, charged with influenza.
If you tive Hawley, informing us that the
In addition to her work in tlie schools bring their face next year.
lars. Each o f the 180 sheets is then the first o f the week, the old board o f operating a moonshine still in the
filled with dosens o f different tax director» was sleeted as follows: J. hills above that place. Some months during the epidemic, Miss Allen has must sell them you don't have to sac­ Rivers and Hgfbors bill carrying an
rates, from which the rate on each E. Norton. C. J. Fuhrman, Geo. A. ago the Sentinel published Mr. Gage’s also spent considerable time helping rifice much more than the prevailing appropriation of $64,000 for the bar
particular subdivision can be readily Robinson, R. H. Mast and F. E. Mc­ description o f the cave In which the afflicted families secure needed nurs­ discount. There are responsible buy­ and entrance of the Coquille river had
figured.
I
Kenna.
secret distillery was run and the way ing care and has acted as an agency ers irho »rill take them at 76 cents on just passed the houie.
The directors elected the old offi­ in which ft was fortified against in­ for bringing into these homes availa­ the $100 below the prevailing New
The figuring out o f the 180 rate
ble women »rilling to undertake the York quotations.
Tuesday Dr. Hamilton reports the
sheets, though, is such a task, that the cers: J. E. Norton, President; C. J. truders.
care o f influenza patients.
birth o f a son to Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
people in the assessor’s office say Fuhrman, Vice President and R. H.
Calling Canta, 100 for $1.00.
■dward Edward« at Crains’■ Camp.
Th public heatlh name’s office is
Send the Sentinel to eastern friends.
they can’t see hew ft would ever be Mast oaahtar
THE TAX TANGLE
IS A YEAR OLDER
MIDNIGHT
WIND STORM
TRAIN SERVICE
SUITS VALLEY