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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1919)
Sentinel AN D THE COQUILLE [HERALD VOL. XIV. COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, NO. 14. FRIDAY, APRIL It, M l*. AT THE MILL HERE AFTER M OISTS i Grand Jury 1 Soon Be Pat U Probe—Many Mr. Ja Will proveas»ts—Caa Cut 50,- OM Feet « Day T W follow ing telegram waa roceiv ad yastarday by Judge Watson from Mr. Wann. the certified public eountant, w W haa fo r several y ea n past bean employed to audit the coun ty books: C a lif- April 17, » 1 # Judge Jamea Watson, Coquille, Oregon. A fte r my brief examination o f tW report o f the Grand Jury* I find to W incomplete, inaccurate and my opinion prejudiced. I w ill in a published report substantiate this criticiam upon my rucurn. You may publish this message above my tore i f desired W . H. W w in* C. P. A . ‘ In addition to this tW Sentinel la informed that j W report o f the grand Jury is grossly inaccurate in citing as valid law, «actions o f tW code already repealed, and recommending suite against Commissioners Philip and ex- Commissioner Armstrong on tW o f such defunct lews. - These facts and others o f a a tional nature-will W brought out la an extended criticism o f the grand Jury report now being . . so amenable to criticism W o tW fo re man o f the grand Jury by his advice to on employe o f the county, that it is possible his own ease may W pr esented to tW Jury. VICTORY LOAN EASY TERMS A visit to the E. E. Johpaon i yesterday was a surprise to oae i has not boon down there f< u Now docking had Waa laid over another big section o f tW water» front, now machinery had Won in stalled and other improvements w er« in U m making or contemplated. TW yard« ware pilad high with lumber and there was an activity and hustle around the plant that was especially gratifying te Coquille people w W have fo r ao many yaart counted tide mill, or its predecessor, as vital to tW city's welfare. On# section o f tW now dock b roofed, and under It are located two achino«, a resaw and a planar. Each o f thooe is driven by n 76-h>rm in fact all tW new equipment is electrically driven, there being tiler motors fa r tW filing room, conveyors, ate. T W resaw and planar increase the capacity o f tW plant 26 par sent, says Mr. Johnson, and no dififeulty is now experienced in tam ing oat 60,000 foot o f lumber a day. It also enables tW plant to toko caro o f any and all lo cal orders desired, something impos- heretofore A largo grinding aad sawing resti, with tW south side one-ha If glass Is now W in g fitted up adjoining tW still ■ ¿ • • d here Prod McClellan wül repair and Wop in condition tW took A Case la Jivtafli Conrt Elsie Z. Vetter, o f Arago, mother died several years ago, was before U m J uveali« Court y seder day. Her father is Godfrey P. Vetter. T W «tetJgftptl r that Elsie W UfC ia t W e a r« o f B . 0 . Scraaton. T W g irl receotiy raa away aad went to tW rssidm m o f Samuel Brewer, o f M yrtle Point. Ho went before the court aad filad a complaint that aW had boon cruelly and inhu- manly treated by bar father and her step-mother— the latter k a via g beau a statar o f bar mother. In court yes terday a number o f witnesses testi fied 'that Elsie had boon cruelly treat ed by her step-moth er. Judge Wateou docidod to ta W Elsie away from her parante and placo W r ni U m caro o f Ed H. Scranton, o f Johnson’s Mill, ia accordane« with the request o f W r W. H. Lyons Makes Assipunent T W grocery store o f W. H. Lyons waa closed this morning, be having made an assignment far tW benefit o f his creditors. He does not intend to U y to resume business but expects tbs stock to W closed out as soon as pos sible. Just w W t W w ill do, Mr. Lyons is not prepared to state, but W says W W s two or throe things in view. T W people o f Coquille w ill all fool sympathy fo r W ill aa W has beau sue o f tW town's most popuar busineas men and they regret to aee him qu it Knows What He Is Dséng 80 per eont Aug: I*. 30 par east Sept A 20 per cant O c t 7. 20 par cent an deferred installments Nov. 11. Don’t forgot tW totter data which to decid edly a pro proa fo r a Victory Loan. T W bonds w ill W dated and boar in- tersst from May 20, 1019, and the in terest coupons w ill W payable Juno 16 sad Doc. 16. T W y will mature May 20, 1022, and ssay W paid May 20, 1022, at tW option o f the govern- eut T W interest will be at the rate o f 4% par cent W r annum and at this rate they win W free from all state and local taxes except estate aad to- T W y will also W subject to tW normal federal income tax, which now stands at 0 per cant aU incomas under $4,000. So fo r those w W W v e aa income subject to the federal tax this would moan just about 90 cents tax on the $4.76 in- aanuaUy on a $100 No ovarsubocriptions will W re- ceivsd beyond tW $4,600,000,000 esll- ad for, but there will W no eut on sub- »cription« up to $10,000. A ll ovsr- subocriptions w ill W deducted Propor tion« U ly from subocriptions in «x- w of $10,000. Its only tW big eap- italiste who will W v « their off «rings scatod down. J. M. Scott, _ agent o f the Southern Pacific linos in Oregon, was a Sentinel caller yester day afternoon. Wo can any that ws don’t believe there is a man in Coos county who knows any botter w W t the people o f this county want, to the way o f a train service than Mr. Scott dom aad W has com« about as asar as possible to giving us w W t the peo ple w a n t Railroads in this day and U m faaJljr, T W RobUon caa* wmf ago are run to please tW people as under advisement by Jude« Wstoon fa r aa Is practicable. when w » want to pr se « loot week. but M W WM m p«rsiat«nt truant, saoey County Court Meets and impwtaat and « a a UWwtao im plica Ud in U m H B—t takng o f an auto T W County Court will row to let tW contract for painting at Baataid« fo r a Joy rido without U m a number o f «m all county bridge« ad owner's coca out ho urna aontoncod to vertised in this Issue o f tW SontlMf. U m Stato Trainine School T^o dopartnr« od thoao two boya They w ill aloe take up the _ o f making an appropriation to ad tiae the Roosevelt Highway aad favorably upoa It i f tW county tonrny and attorney tW t it to within their power to do so. Coming April 26: Mias Anita u t in “ Virinone W lvoa"— Worn famous story by which society'll definition of ita opinion o f marriage is contradiction to tW A young man « r a who would UW to loam the peeially attractive. Only one-tenth is payable with the application on or before M ay 10th and the next pay ment does not fall doe until the mid dle o f July. Thereafter installments are due in August, September and Oc tober. T W date o f tW final install ment is on# that will Uva in all his tory— Novembar 11th. Thtu it trans pires that the American people will pay the last installment o f the war debt on the first anniveraay o f the signing o f tW armistice. Will Be Work for AU With the state doing $210,000 of road work in Coos county this year in addition to nearly as much more be tween M yrtle Point and Roeeburg and tW county carrying on all the projects we listed tost week, it looks as i f no one here would lock an opportunity for employment- Mr. Per ham an nounces that home men with families will W given the preference on the state contract his company W s se cured— the paving o f the Coquille- Marshfield road on which W has boon doing the grading during tW past three years. U. o f O. Girls’ GI m Club On April 24th the Girls Glee Club from the University of Oregon will give a concert at the Liberty Theatre. There are about twenty-three girls in the Club and the people o f Coquille have been asked to entertain them for that night in their homes. A commit tee from the High School has been appointed to find places fo r the girls and thus fa r over h a lf'o f them have beqp provided /or. This to their first trip into Coos county and wo hope that they will go bock with a good im- o f Coquille. Th« City Council a Jail Speed 8«utouco for the T W council was called to order Monday evening by Chairman Mansell itilo wont at it liW an old hand, but ‘ tn W later turned tha gavel over Os. Mayor Johnson ho remarked that W couldn’t talk enough up there to suit him. The enforcement o f city ordinances occupied the attention o f the body for Among those city tows which were mentioned as not being observed were those In regard to au tos. Fast driving was the greatest complaint and several storia« o f nar row escapes were related. Two offend ers were fined in the recorder’s court lately, but a fin« appears to have little effect on tW speed fiends, so City A t torney Stanley presented an ordinance which includes both fine and Jail sen tane«. It was referred to tW propor it to«. Other delinquencies o f auto owners policed wore the running with cut outs open, leaving cars standing on strsst after dark without lights the parking o f ears In tW streets at night This latter offense is quite on and a fe w arrests and fines might bring the owners to a realisa tion that city tows aro not intended msrs ly to givo the council tW pleas ure of passing them. The taking out o f a building permit fo r now or repair work within the fire Matite is another thing that is more often honored in the breach than in $ha observance. , T W statute to not d w r as to whoso duty it to to notify that such a permit is noces ti so the council requested tW marshal W instructed to as- whether that form ality W s nplied with by prospective The building inspector te t t e permit. not toast to the curfew tow, Mr. Barrow I a treated with satire disregard. It should W one o f the most strictly enforced or dinances o f the city. “ Tura to tW right” signs fo r street intersections are a common eight in moet towns, large or small, but Co- quills has heretofore neglected to avail itself o f this precaution which may prevent serious ¿accidents. To rectify this Mr. Mansell way author ised to aecure four such signs, three o f which will be installed on Taylor street— one at the Sentinel corner, and one at each bank corner— and the other at the Busy Corner intersection. The council had intended at this meeting to order the improvements of Hall and First streets, but they were •«ly in g on plans and estimates for tW sewer on those streets prepared two years ago, and when they found how low the figures were, compared with present prices, they decided to let the matter wait a week to give the engineer time to revise the estimates. It was no fault o f Mr. Gould’s as he had not been authorised to change the plana, specifications and estimates prepared by Mr. K ellog in 1917. Make It a County Road As to the matter o f improving the streets in Coquille that are necessary to form a link in tha Marshfield to Roseburg Highway that tha state is improving. County Attorney Hall has given an opinion that the County Court can make no appropriation to improve a city street, which to not al so a county road. It appears to be up to the people o f this city now to unnimously peti tion the County Court to make the stroots between the Burkholder place north o f the gulch and the Sherwood Hill a county road. This can be done and it seems ns if it must be dens be fore the state can pave that link in the highway. The court haa the power to establish such a road i f the Coo* Boys Returning city council consents, and this ap Among the Oregon soldiers o f the pears to us to be the only way out o f 01st aad M is t infantry who arrived the dilemma wo are in. at N ew York Wednesday on the Ed ward Lecken back we nets the follow Cui Have An Tea Want ing from this sed ine: John Hauser, T W more people aubacribe fo r the Marshfield; Herman Gardner, North Bond; Corporal Ellis D. Miller, Wsd- Victory loan the moro o f thooe bond« dsbnra; Sidney A. Wallace, Gold will bo diatributed among the maaaoa Bsaeh; Loslic Rom, Banden; and Fred o f the people and the few er to the big financial corporation. The latter will N. Anderson, M yrtle Crook. W e e to be cut fo r all oner subscrip tion, while thooe taking >10,000 or leaa will get all they aubaeribe far. And it’s a cinch there will be aa ias- menae orar «ubecripUon. »1.5« T H E Y E A R . Waats Earthquake Data I f any o f the Sentinel readers ever experienced an earthquake shock in this state, Warren D. South, o f the Department of Geology at the state university would like to have them tell him about it. And if any one re members o f sny record o f events of that kind or the drying up o f old springs, the breaking out o f new onee, drying up o f stresses, shifting of channels, fractures in the earth or unusual rumblings, in the newspapers o f this section during the past half century they are requested to com municate with him. 'I t seems to us wo have recorded a slight earthquake experienced here during the past year, and that we have heard o f unusual phenomena at the time o f the great earthquake in San Francisco thirteen years ago this month. A t any rate we are listening fo r earthquake stories in this locality i f there are any to tell. Ic « Cream Factory to Start T. B. Currie expects next week to begin th^ manufature o f ice cream in tha building be has erected between the Busy Corner aad the 8. P. track. He has engaged an expert from Port land to do the manufacturing and will turn out as good a product as can be purchased anywhere. The machinery will be operated by electricity. Just what the capacity of the plant will be we could not get Mr. Currie to state, but that he could sup ply all the Coos county requirements requested, to certain from the amount o f machinery be has ordered. STATE LETS BIG ROAD JOB The largest road contract ever tot in southwestern Oregon, or probably on the Pacific coast in this state was awarded in Portland Wednesday when tbs paving o f the Coquille-Marshflald road was given to E. O. Parham, C. R. Doan, W. J. Brown and F. E. Hague, o f Marshfield, at their bid o f «212,781. This work will begin at the end of the present hard surfacing, . ust this side o f Marshfield and ex tend fo r 14 miles to the Davenport place, a couple o f miles west of this city. The work will be 16 foot wide, with a shoulder on each side, and will con sist o f cement concrete 6Vi inches thick in the center of the road and 6 Vi inches on each side. Where the fills are more than a. foot in depth, pav ing will not be done this jrear, but the rest o f the work is to be com pleted by Oct. 81. The Times says: ‘It to expected that by the first part o f July the road will be paved as far as the Coos City bridge and that the new ropd to Coquille via this bridge can be used. By this route it to 27 miles to Coquille.” The bid accepted to said to have been $76,000 lower than that o f the Warren Construction company. Death o f Perry Byron Robison Perry Byron Robison was born May 31st, 1874, in Josephine county, Ore. He died A pril 10th, 1919, aged 44 years, ten months and nine days. When 16 months old he came to Coos county with his parents, where he grew to manhood and spent most o f his life, excepting a few years in Portland, where, he died. He was a member of the 8t. James Episcopal church of Coquille. He was married to Miss Georgia Skelly in November, 1898. To this union were born three children: By ron, age 16; Kathleen, age 12; and John age 2. Those left to modrn his loss be sides bis w ife and children are two brothers and two sisters. Td Lecture Here Wednesday 14083639 But Slight Changes Hero— Mail Will Arrive One Hour Earlier in Afternoon Jno. M. Scott, general passenger agent o f the Southern Pacific, came to Coquille Wednesday afternoon and spent several hours conferring with members of the Commercial Club and local business men. The object o f his trip to Coos county was in regard to a revision o f the present train sched ule between here aud Portland, not to discuss the question of a night train, for on that point he is firmly convinced that such an innovation would not pay. What he proposed here, as outlined to those who met with him, was a change o f one hour in the arrival of the afternoon train in Coquille, mak ing it reach here at 2:20 instead of 3:20. This will be accomplished by cutting out the hour’s wait at Marsh field. The running time between Eu gene and Marshfield will be lessened half an hour, the proposed plan being to leave Eugene 30 minutes later than at present and arrive in Marsh field at the same time as now. The morning’s train for Portland will leave here about 8:15 instead of 8:82 as now, arriving in Portland about 8 p. id. instead of 9:16. For the mixed local between Marsh field and Powers, Mr. Scott thought half an hour could be cut from the schedule in each direction. While these changes have not been definitely decided upon, it is alto gether probable that when a new schedule does go into effect they will be as above stated. As to the Commercial Club’s peti- ion for a new depot here, Mr. Scott could give little hope for an early compliance with the request. He says the government docs not favor the expenditure o f money for such pur poses and until the roads are released from government control be does not anticipate that ouy present small and incommodious structure will be re placed by one suck as Coquille is en titled to. Victory Loan Committees The following are the committee to take charge o f the Victory Liberty Loan organisation in this district: Executive Committee— Leo J. Cary, J. E. Norton, A. J. Sherwood, L. H. Hazard, A. T Morrison. Publicity Committee— H. A. Young, O. C. Sanford, R. E. Baker. District No. 1, Coquille—C. R. Bar row, O H. Knowlton. District No. ?, Coquille—C. W. En- dicott. Dr. G. O. Wilhite. District No. 8, Coquille—J. S. Bar ton, Harry Oerding. District No. 4, Coquille— J. W. Leneve, Oscar Norman. District No. 6, Coquille—J. J. Stan ley, Frank Norris. School District No. 10, Cunningham — Chas. E. McCurdy, N. E. Landreth. School District No. 14, Riverton— E. H. Hamden, W. A. Bean. district No. 19, F at Elk— F. D. Fish, Edd Gillespie. District No. 20, Lower Fishtrmp— Geo. Henninger, Geo. H-dtor. District No. 22, Riverside, North Fork— Fred Johnson, D. A. Moore. , District No. 26, Fairview— T. O. Barker, A. E. Betty*. District No. 27, McKinley— L. A. Lawhorne, W. T. Forbes. District No. 82, Dora— R. A. East on, O. G. Bunch. District No. 44, Roy— Frank W il le d , Jas. N. Jacobsen, Ed Detlefsen. District No. 63, Johnson’s M ill— W. D. Newton, R. B. Knife. District No. 66, 8itkuM, J. D. Laird, Parley Crowley, Fred Weaver. District No. 67, Excelsior, Upper Fishtrap— Nile Miller, Frank Miller, W. O. Finley. District No. 69, Beaver Hill— L. A. Whereat, J. E. Z. Fowle. District No. 72, Coaledo— John Yoakar. 1 , H. L. Cadman, H. Witchey. Conlogue’s Camp— W. P. McKenna, J. T. Conlogue. A assn’s Camp— Harry Kellsy, Ed Aaaan. Sitka Sprues Co. Mill— R. E. Wer- nich, O. B. Hughes. Rev. J. M. Corner, o f Calcutta, India, whore ho to pastor o f an A d ventist Mission church, will lecture again in the Federated church here next Wednesday evening. His pre vious lectures hare were listened to with great interest by packed aildi- ces and we have no doubt the church will be filled again Wednesday evening. It to an opportunity not often enjoyed to bear first hand about conditions to one of the oldest civili Johnson’s Mill— E. E. Johnson, M. sations on tbs globe. Admission will ba free, but Indian coins will bs for O. Hawkins. sale fo r those who desire souvenirs. “ Society uses marriage as a legal There are two change« petitioned cloak o f ermine to make a virtu* o f Ha for on the Lanon Slough road «bore association in couples.“ — From “ V ir the landing and the court haa appoint tuous Wives,” by Owen Johnson— first ed U m following viewers to investi o f Mist Anita’s Stewart’s exceptional To bo gate conditions there: J. S. Sawyer, photoplay starring vehicles. A. 0. Jtjeltoad and D. L Rood. shown bars April 26 sad 26.