The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921, June 06, 1919, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text* m ________ Historical 8 a « W A odi torta» AND THE COQUILLE HERALD TO SETTLE B arrow u d S tra m e C o m p ro a tia a W it h O ffe r to Hw S c h o o l D is t r ic t Editor S e n t i n e l A number o f per- sons have asked me in the last ten days, if Mr. Strang n d I were still willing to compromise with the school dtotrict on the amount due us fo r the school house site. And if we were, they requested us to so inform the Women’s Civic Club, the Commercial d u b and the public gen erally.. In fact some insisted that it was our duty to do so. I hid Mr. Strang coma to town, and ws agreed (as we always have been) to compromise this case with the dis trict, solely and only fo r the purpose and in the Interest o f harmony, peace and goodwill, and in order to stop fur ther litigation and waste o f the tax payer’s money— and particulary in the interest o f the school children, as this is the quickest way to get a new and modern scSool building. Mr. Strang and I cannot compro mise this case by ourselves. I f the people desire us to compromise, and i f they want to stop paying out Court costs and big fees to a lawyer, they w ill have to elect men who w ill take righ t hold o f this matter, settle with ua, and stop the waste o f their money. I t is simply up to the people o f the district. They can thus settle this case at once and have the way clear fo r a new school building. And we w ill settle on terms that v^U save the district a lot o f money. Voters, don't forget that. Several times the people have asked ut to offer a compromise, and we have always complied with their request. But two members o f the school board always gave us the cold shoulder. The Commercial Club appointed a commit tee fo r the same purpoee, and again we complied with their requeet. But the two members o f the school board would not consider either our offer o f compromise, or the request o f the Commercial Club. Now, a number o f people are a fter us again te agree to a compromise. And in consideration o f the beet in terests o f the children o f the district, we state, fo r the fourth time, that we are willing to do so. Mr. Strang and 1 never have asked anything but what was fair and right, nothing more than what was justly aad honestly due us. And we are even ready to give up to the district a good share o f what is justly and honestly due us, in order to promote harmony, good-will, stop wasteful litigation, and more especial ly in the interest o f the children. And if the people will elect direct ors on this birnis fo r the benefit o f their children and the district gener ally, theee directors can settle this case with Mr. Strang and me imme diately and on a liberal basis, and then can proceed at once to build a new and modern school building. .Respectful ly submitted— Z. C. Strang, C. R. Bar- j Sentinel Financially the Chautauqua was not the success It was last year, though the deficit was only about $120. This was due principally to the fact that it came at a most inconvenient sea son. The ticket selling campaign crme just at the time of two or three “ drives” for funds; and the program had to be crowded into the week in which egme tbe Uecorat.on Day ex- , #rcjBeg M (j the annual school corn- mencwnwt. The only wonder was that th. deAcit wa, not gremter, but a l w„ ^ caM her, , „ t year the at- tendance grew steadily during the ses sions. The guarantee fo r next year’s Chautauqua was signed by twenty-five o f our citizens, no one appearing to be w illing to have Coquille drop out o f . the circuit and cease to be a Chau tauqua town. It is thought, however, that next year’s event will come a lit tle later in the season when the nights are not so cold as they were last week. The Salvation army drive for funds to be spent In Oregon work is on now with Fred Slagle in charge both here and at M yrtle Point. It is certainly a worth while cause and we hope to see the quota oversubscribed. CITY PAVING ANDjsEWER Moon St Co., o f Coos Bay, were awarded thh contract fo r the improve ment work which has been ordered on Hall and First street, at the regular seasion o f the council lis t Monday evening. T here were two other bids submitt ed, one for the sewer job and another fo r the bridge, but both were above Mr. Moon's bid. His was the only bid fo r the pavement and sidewalks. For the sewer from tbe eity hall to the Machon theatre the successful bid $1791.60. Baird and Train sub- mittad a bid for $1994. For the bridge at the intersection e f Hall and Front streets, Mr. Moon's was $2100.84, whila L. L. Hazelton o f fered to do the work f * r $ «7 0 . ’F e t the grating, paving, sidewalks, bulkheading, etc., Mr. Moon’s bid was $19,249.19. The total o f his three bids was $74.79 lass than the estimat ed coat submitted by the city engin- Frequent expressions o f approval by property owners have been made that Mr. Moon secured this contract, for they know the kind o f work he did in the improvement around the court house, where he lived up to every let ter o f the plans and specifications and gave the city a good job. The contracts call fo r all three jobs to be completed within ninety days. In order to get the water line ex tended on First and Hall streets be fore Mr. Moon gets to laying pave ment, the water committee was in structed to purchase the necessary pipe at once. While the bridge is under construc tion the road into town from Myrtle Point will be along the old railroad right-of-way on which a little grading will put it into good shape fo r the summer.' F ir * Million Measures Lost. City Selling Its Properties •L fl* T H E YE A R . LS THE RECALL WINS The Chautauqua Finances The fire million dollar reconstruc The city o f Coquille has sold two tion bill was defeated. It was com- .................. and confusing and we do n o t ; o f property recently wh.ch h^d wonder that the voters mi8under. i bmm bought .n by the c.ty for unpaid Flex ' C O Q U ILLE , 0 0 0 8 C O U N TY, OREGON. F R ID A Y . JU N E 8, U t » . NO. ft H . ■ . 'T '. ’ VOL. X IV . tr g r > Interesting Meeting of the Judge Watson and Archie Philip County Board of Educa Replaced by C. R. Wade tion Monday and H. D. Kern The election last Tuesday resulted The County Board o f Education, whose appointment we mentioned last in the recall of Judge Watson and week, held it annual meeting here on Commissioner Philip. The majority Monday. The county was divided in for the recall o f Watson being 758 to two supervisory districts, with Mr. snd that for the recall of Philip 1480. Mulkey as supervisor in the Coos Bay Attorney C. R. Wade, o f Bandon, was district and Miss tfa y Lund in the sleeted county judge and H. D. Kern, Coquille Valley district. Miss Lund of North Bend, county commissioner. Judge Watson attributes his defe was employed fo r the year aa super visor. Plana for educational work for to the failure o f Contractor Perham the year were discussed. It was rec to get to work on the Powers bridge ommended that Superintendent Mul- and to the fight waged upon him for key go to school during the summer four years by the bay papers. Sixteen precincts gave a majority in order to perfect himself in the mat ter o f making mental tests. He will against the recall o f Judge Watson as accordingly spend some time at tke follows: The four in Coquille where University of California at Berkley the vote was 99 fo r and 291 against the recall, two in North Bend, one in during the summer to that end. Thereby hangs a story which Is not Marshfield, Coos City, Empire, Sum yet ripe fo r publication, but which ner, Dora, Willanch Slough, Sugar- involves the school children in this loaf, Fat Elk, Cunningham and Nor county who are either mentally ar way. Where he was best known the physically defective and in regard to judge ran beet. Tbe following fig-4 some o f whom we are promised some ures are the unofficial tabulations of very interesting revelations iq the County Clerk Oddy covering all the near future. Our county nurses in precincts in the county: their investigations have found how For Recall o f Judge W ataon... .2681 large a percentage o f our school child Against Recall o f Judge Watson 1873 ren are suffering from remediabls physical defects, and we understand t y jo r it y for recall 768 that the proportion is about 9 in tan. For C. R. Wade fo r ju dge.......... 2146 In the matter o f the County school Far James Watson fo r judge ..1114 fund, the conclusion o f the board was F o r Recall o f Archie P h ilip ... .2960 unanimous that we have outgrown the Against Recall o f Archie Philip.. 1470 $10 per pupil minimum fixed by the state and that the county court ought Majority for recall ..................1480 to increase it. The way it works now is that a seperate school is maintained For H. D. Kern fo r Com............. 2418 ia districts adjoining the cities Be For Archie Philip for C o m ..... 788 cause in that way the taxpayers of those districts evade paying the school The vote on the state measures was tax levied in the cities. There is Ban- as follows: don, fo r instance, with a tax levy o f For State Bond Irrigation. . . . . . . 2709 21 mills, while the adjoining district Against State Bond Irrigation .. 963 at Randolph, With more than half as much property, pays but littla more Majority for Bonds ................2746 than two mills. By doubling t h e _ _ illion Amendment ..2164 county levy fo r schools, those districts Million Amendment 1986 «vbich now contain a large amount W| property and a very small tax levy would have to pay much nearer their proportion fo r schools. Klamath county now has a county school levy that produces $21.60 fo r each child i f school age in the county, and Umatilla one that produces $16.60. Our coun ty court has been asked to raise the school tax from the $10 per pupil min imum to $16, and that will certainly be a move in the right direction. Fol lowing such a movement, districts like Cunningham and Roy would doubtless be consolidated with the Coeuille city district. Another fact announced at this meeting was that State Superinten dent Churchill has announced that the state noard o f control has decided to establish a vocational school in Coos county. Vocational schools are fi nanced to a considerable amount by the state and federal governments. In this state the amount appropriated biennially for that work Is $40,000, which is matched with a like appropri ation by the federal government. Twelve or fifteen Oregon counties have such sfhpols. In them the pupils spend half a day in the usual studies and the other half a day in learning tome vocation, such as plumbing, the gas engine trade or farming. There are only two districts in this counQ which can possibly get the Coos county vocational school now, and we betray no confidence when we say that one o f them is Coquille, and that so far as an agricultural school specialising in dairy work is concern ed, it would be the only one. What is required o f the town In which a vocational school is located is that it shall furnish the plant, which fo r a plumbing school, for in stance. would be considerable, but for an agricultural school very little. The government furnishes the instructor. stood it. SÜ11 we note that the pro- imProv,m w ' t o f them * = £ pert. o7 the state gave ft s lhe T - A - Walker property op- m ajority and that the heaviest v o U ^ * th? f * h“ Jl •gainst it was in th . moeaback coun- \G™ h™ “ ‘ "o n th paid $600. The tie. o f th. Willamette valley, W a s h - 1 otbcrj ‘V th e ir,regular piece form erly ington, Marion, Linn and Clackamas 1 ,°™ ed ^ A l i c e B. McDonald, lying between Front street and the rail with which Douglas was also lined up. road, just south o f the Geo. A . Robin son property at the corner o f Front W ill Burrow Coming Home and Hall streets. This tract was sold C. R. Barrow has received from to E. E. Johnson for the $633.90 which Hon. W. C. Hawley the information the city had invested in it. that the discharge o f his son. W ill G. Barrow, was ordered May 11th. W ill Successful State Measures hoc been in service fo r some time pest The measures on the state ballot at Gen. Pershing’s headquarters in were all approved by the people ex France. Hin parents now hope to see The Parade Saturday 14 cept the five millidh dollar bill and him soon. Very few o f the Coquille What are we going to have? E v amendment. and the lieutenant gov boys now remain in France, the only ernor bill which its parents le ft to erything we can think of, added to ev one w e recall just now being Ray perish. The Roosevelt Highway bill ery thing you can think of, to make it mond Burns. gets the largest m ajority o f any— interesting. about 22,000. The market roads bill Do you want to help? Take or Brother Dies I* California comes next with 20,000. send your ideas to Mrs. Edwin EUing- The soldiers educational aid bill sen, chairman of the committee. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Krantz were Come and see how it looks and called to Etna Mills, Cal.. Tuesday was carried by about 12,000 and the morning, May 24, when they received irrigation bond interest guarantee by sounds. It isn’t going to be a quiet affair. a telegram informing them o f the over 6,000. death o f Mr. Eli Wrtgh«, Mrs. K ran ti' brother. He had been at Reed*port The Woman Suffrage Amendment, Miss May Lund has had the misfor fo r tw o months until about three ' after forty years before Congress, has tune to lose three fountain pens lately, weaks ago when his health began to been ratified. And new ft goes to the two here in Coquille and one in the fa il and ba le ft for California. The states The senate which defeated it by Lee neighborhood. I f anyone has doctors hare pronounced his trouble a majority o f one, voted in iU favor found a pen Mias Lund would be find „ t e w s hot particulars are not known, j this week 68 to 28. to see them. •a*-,..-., Majority for Amendment 789 For Roosevelt Highway ............. 4091 Against Roosevelt Highway . . . . 364 Majority for Highway .3727 For Five Million Bonds ............ 2191 Aagainst Five Million Bonds ...1368 Majority fo r Bonds * . . . . . . . . 823 For Soldiers’ Education Bill . . . . 2910 Against Soldiers' Education Bill 992 Majority for Bonds ..................1918 About 4600 votes were cast at the election, and the biggest m ajority given was for the Roveevelt Highway, the same being the case in the state. Seldom has a more popular measure been proposed to the citizens o f Ore gon. The Fight a Personal One 7>e Marshfield Record admits that its fight against Judge Wataon was entire ly personal, and not because he was not a faithful and competent official. In concluding an editor»I article on the re suits it says: F ir * i t th e F e r r y An alarm o f fire at 10:46 last Sun day night brought out most o f the town, as well as the department. .With the flames shooting high in the air, it looked as theugh the Oerding A Son myrtle wood factory was the scene o f the conflagration, but it turned out to be the ferrym an’s shan ty at the foot o f Tarry street. This building was destroyed and only quick work by Ferryman Ed Richardson saved the scow and the other boats' tied up around the ferry slip. Mr. Richardson’s account o f the fire is that an r.utoist creasing the ferry desired to purchase gasoline. The ferryman kept a 60-gallon drum on hand for such emergencies and he gave the driver a lantern ana told him to get the gas. A moment after his entrance, flames were bursting from the building and the man barely escaped. Fortunately there was lit tle gas in the tank but the oil and grease made the finest kind of a start for a huge blase. The department wr.s quick to respond and the fire was extinguiehod before it spread to the ferry slip and other wooden plat-‘ forms in that neighborhood. Mr. Richardson had one o f his hands very severely burned while loosening the small boats, but only one o f these was scorched. A TRIBUTE TO WATSON The Sentinel sincerely regrets the recall o f Judge Watson fo r it knows that he has done nothing to deserve defeat. He has filled the office o f county judge with ability and integri ty, and we never expect to see a man in that position who will perform its manifold duties any better than Jhn Wataon has done. Even his princi pal newspaper opponent at the Bay now frankly admits that it had noth- ing against him exeopt a personal grievance. In the intereet o f the tax payers Judge Watson cut the Record’s bills fo r publishing the delinquent tax list and in doing so he was saatalnad by the Supreme Court o f the state. Tha same was true o f the Ttm eel bills. That is why these newspapers fought him so persistently and vindictively, end itot because o f any wrong he had done. That he is a clean, competent and careful official, who has at all times done the best he could in the interest o f the peoplo o f the county, is a fact that cannot be gainsaid. That the voters have been misled by the clamor o f the newspapers whose bills he refused to pay bemuse they wore excessive will prove more to their detriment than his, because they were unjust and injustice never pays. James Watson is noi$ perfect— no man is— but he goes oat o f office with the highest respect o f all who know him. He has held the office at an in adequate salary, and devoted his en tire time to its duties at a pecuniary sacrifice. He has wronged no man and the best wishes o f the host o f friends who stood by him in the hour of his misjudgment and defeat will go with him in the future as in the past. We honor him in his defeat, and are sure that in the future his starling integrity and devotion to duty will he appreciated even by those who have made the mistake o f casting odium upon him in this erisb. A ll honor to James Watson. He has fought a good fight; he has kept the faith; and though defeated he can look his detractors in the eye and defy them to show aught to his dis credit. This page at no time in the controversy took any other stand than it was inalter- ably opposed to James Watson and would do all that it could to defeat him, because/he was and is an enemy o f this newspaper and The Record ia immense Fry Takes Law’s Place ly pleased at the result. It deeply re Rev. J. A. B. Fry, the evangelist grets Commissioner Philip was recalled, who was to have begun a series o f re his was a case o f being in bad company. vival meetings at the Federated church here next Sunday, says that The Woman’s Club he will bo unable to come. He has The Woman’s Club cordially invites accepted an appointment as pastor of every mother and woman interested the M. E. South church at Corvallis, in tbe building of a new school house i He goes there to fill out the year for in the immediate future to participate j Rev. H. M. Law, former pastor here in the big parade Saturday evening, ' at Coquille, who ia returning to June 14. This is the crowning effort Texas. - o f the “ New Schoolhouse” campaign, and its success depends upon the co P r o b a t e C o u rt I te re s operation o f all interested. In the Probate Court, June 4, the The mothers o f small babies are r e quested to join in the perambulator will o f Edward L. Betsey, o f Marsh feature o f this parade, and to let their field, was admitted to probata, with older children, from 2 to 6, ride in Clara Guptill Bessey as executrix. ears which w ill be provided fo r them. T i e estate consists o f $20,000 in real The An invitation is hereby extended to property and $4,000 personal. these mothers to attend the Woman’s appraisers are Doraoy Kreitzer, W. C. Chib meeting o f next Tuesday even Butler and Ben R. Chandler. The ing at the City Hall at 8 o’clock, heirs are the executrix and three whether a member o f the dub or not, children, Warren G. Bessey, Frank L. when plans fo r the parade w ill be Bessey and Ruth O. Bessey. discussed and perfected.— Com. Four Days Successful Here— It Will Come Again The Rudcliffe Chautauqua people arrived here last Friday according to program, though through some blun der o f the express company only a part o f the tent had reached here on time, so that the first session had to be held that afternoon in Anderson’s Hall. The lecture that day was by Dr. W. T. S. Culp, whose subject was “ The Lamp o f Aladdin.” Beginning with the child as it first comes into the world he explained the process o f its education and the differences between right and wrong methods. Profound ly vrsed in child physchology Dr. Culp made a talk which was not only in tensely interesting to every parent, but was so cystal clear in its presen tation that no child In the audience could have failed to comprehend it. The entertainers this afternoon were “ The Fighting Yanks,” four doughboys from “ over there” who ap peared time and again during the two days they were with us, singing at th; school commencement Friday evening, and rendering the songs the soldiers sane in the trenches “ over there” in a way that delighted all their hearers ar.d brought them numerous encores. W a s c e n e s were made very vivid by thme songs and their repertoire was 180 extensive that they never failed to interest. Saturday evening Dr. Culp spoke again and led. up step by step to “ The Greatest Thing Man May Know,” which was to familiarise himself with the work o f his Maker and the laws which he has ordained, until he comos to know God and to work in harmony with Him. This was an inspiring dis course, which seemed to lift all who listened to it into the upper air, where their vision was clarified. That it delighted every one ie expressing the impression it made hut feebly. Seldom, i f ever, has such an addreas been made in Coquille, and it is for the opportunity it affords to hear such talks that the Chautauqua is most highly prised. In the afternoon on Saturday the speaker was Florence E. Besley, a Red Cross nurse, who made hygiene inter esting, and did not allow a dull mo ment while she told o f the dangers it lurk in our pathway through life and how beat to combat them. She had the little folks guessing when she asked them to name the “ most dan gerous animal in the world.” Of course they said' “ bear” and “ lion” and 'tiger,” but she didn’t agree with them and Insisted that the common housefly was more to be dreaded than those ferocious beasts which we nev er see except when they are caged and chained. There is no doubt that she proved her point, too, by making it clear that the fly carries the germs of typhoid and other dreaded dis eases and is responsible for more sickness and death in a single montb than wild beasts would cause in t)iis country in a thousand years. She said the little girl who answered that the fly originated in “ barns” was get ting warm as children say in their hide and find contests. In fact if manure piles were sterilised so as to cease to afford a breeding place for flies, it ia hard to see how they would ever become very plentiful, though the old rain barrel at the corner of the house came in for its share of condemnation.------------- ---------------- How many deaths occurred in sick ness through lack o f care that every woman ought to be able to give was impressed by stories from Miss Bes- ley’s own experience that were told with dramatic force and listened to with absorbing interest. Her confer ence with the ladies on “ Home Care of the Sick“ at the close o f the cession was a feature that was highly appre ciated. The feature o f the Sunday a fter noon session was an aodress t>y the Chautauqua Mayor D. D. Hannon on “ The Problem o f the Unprepared.” I j f f dwelt upon the illuminating facta in regard to our unpreparedness along so many lines that were revealed to us as a result o f our entrance into the world war. W e found out not only how much our men lacked in military training, in arms and ammunition, when we began to fight, but at the same time we learned how much so many o f our men lacked o f 100 per Do yau want a Calling Carda, 100 for »L00. Then beast tar It. Season tCeetfaM** m sixth page.)