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

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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-
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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-
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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
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VOL. X IV .
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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 *
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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.
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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.
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