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COQUILLE, COOS C O U N TY, OREGON. F R ID A Y . JU N E >0. 1*1«.
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IDE BERRY DRIVE
People Don’t Understand
What W e Must Do to Se- -
cure Factory
Im p o r ta a t M e e tin g T o n ig h t
A t the Court House to-night the
Commercial Club hàa arranged fo r a
meeting to be addressed by Mr. Bar­
rows, who is sent down here by the
O. A. C. people to explain the voca­
tional schools which the federal gov­
ernment in conjunction with the state
ie now establishing under the pro­
visions o f the Smith-Hughes set.
One o f these schools is to be estab­
lished in Coos county, which will most
probably be devoted to agriculture,
if some locality will furnish the eqiup-
ment. The Federal government pro­
vides for and pays the teachers. Ban-
den and M yrtle Point as well as
North Bend and Coquille are candi­
dates fo r the honor; but at the county
seat and in the center of the princi­
pal agricultural section o f the county
x ould seem to be the most suitable
location.
Our people can no doubt
secure this vocational school if they
go after it in dead earnest.
,Th* Commercial Club is fully aihre
the poesiblHty o f the berry indus-
1 in this valley and it is the subject
which they fa v e the most consider­
ation Wednesday evening. One thing
they did was to endorse the efforts bd-
iqg made by W . Or'Bradley to secure
tip requisite contracts for 260 acres
o f berries, st least half o f which must
b4' red raspberries. Mr. Bradley re-
that he had signed up about
aqres during the prst week, but
there aro any number o f men who
hdve not signed who signify their in­
tuition to set out up to 15 or 20 acres
if; the ,plant is located here and they
afa assured a market fo r their pro­ Simpson and Hall To Capital
duct.
While this Intention listens
L J. Simpson and Charles Hall will
(bps it does not help in the pr esent
iped, fo r without contratte for 260 soon be in Washington showing the
down in black and white, Mr. members o f tl)e House and Senate
Iley will not be in a positicn to why Uncle Sam should go 60-60 with
effectively'to the manufacturers. Oregon in building the Roosevelt
Here’s hoping they will
Evidence o f this is shown at Marsh- highway.
where the Phes company eras to win again, as Mr. Simpaon did at Sa­
re had a representative last Mon lem when the state appropriation
emed like a forlorn hope.
<Uy, but he did not show up because'
they were shy on acreage.
.The Phes people want to come in
here but it would b « a losing game to
béUd a plant before they had sufficient
p eduction guaranteed, and the era­
te n which Mr. Bradley is working is
The Women’s Clpb wishes to thank
tl I only one by which this maustry
vf th such wepiderfttl opportunities all those who participated in Saturday
night’s School parade including the
cfn be developed. There are thous-
members o f the Coquille Band, the
M da o f aeree in the Coqpillo district
teachers and their helpers, the High
wUch are not utilised for dairying or
School siuigrade students, not forget
anything else, and which, with the
ting the little ones with their orettit«
proper preparation, would turn out a
trimmexLperambulstorp, and for those
regular gold mine, taking rank ahead
loaning cars and the "driver* who as­
oj dairying or lumber;
sisted.
There is only a limited section .o f
They also wish to thank all the ipiak
tl Is country where the loganberry
era who took part in the program, Mr
d a be successfully eultivetod— the
Leslie for the leading o f the singing,
Pacific northwest—and the Coquille
and Mr. Baxter for the use of the piar o
valley is one o f the most favored for
and the porch.
thht jMtfpoep.
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, I V say who made voters reeks' we
In order that thè ranchers and must have a good school house at once,
farm ers may secure first hand infor­ we extend our most hearty thanks.
mation as to cost o f planting, produc-
Do you*think the Woman's Club has
ti«A, etc., a*- raspberries and logan- finished its work in C o-u ilk?
It
beriies the c'.qb has jqvitod Senator does not. Over thirty were at the
A l ^ 'L a f d i l e t t e , o f Marion county, meeting Tueaday evening nnd as keen
who has had 21 years' experience in in tercet was shown as was ever shown
berry culture, to address the people of before the school meeting. Among
this section a t a big smoker to be things discussed was the sort of
held in Lamb’s Grove next Wednesday buildings the school needed and num­
evening i t • o’clock. Everyone who ber o f buildings, what should be done
is interested, or anyone who can set with the old building, etc., and the
out one Ar more peres of .berries, is es­ pros and cons of the unit system. .
pecially invited to attend this meeting.
The sentiment o f the meeting seam­
The smokes will be provided by the ed to be that the city must build for
club..
the needs o f the pupils and must raise
Another thing don# by the club was the amount in bonds that will give
the aeeeaaaicndatiou that after a rea­ results in efficiency nqd health.
sonable time tits Liberty Temple be .E very mother o f Coquille and virin-
sold to the beat advantage and remov­ ity is asked to attend these meetings
ed from Ha present location.
and be free to express her opinions.
C. W. Endieott was named to suc­ — Com.
ceed H. 0. Anderson on the Lyceur.ii
committee with J. J. Stanley and R.
Dr. Wilhite Goes to Kansas City
E. Baker.
A fter a few month’s practice in
The club extended a vote o t thanks
and appreciation to J. E. Norton for Coquille, Dr. G. O. Wilhite, accompan­
his efficient and faithful service as ied by his w ife and her mother, Mrs.
pre ¡dent o f the Commercial Club and Pie res, left this morning for Kansas
fo r his many and Varied public activ­ City, Mo., where he lias just been
ities during the period of. the war. named as patholcgict and. arxia-
It was a tardy recognition o f Mr. tant to the Surgeon at the Swedish
Norton’s invaluable assistance, '**- Kotpitxl. The positicn pays $4,.> 3 a
■ pecially during the war when he serv- year besides s good practice, and the
on the executive committee o f every doctor feels It lj. an opportunity he
cannot afford to paaa up. Ho re; rots
drixe and campaign in this lotion.
The.'com m ittee appointed to ar­ leaving Coquills, but says that . ith
range fo r next Wednesday evening’s Dr. G. E. Low returning here next
big meeting was J. A. Lamb, Frank month the field is not large enough to
Burkholder, W. C. Chase, L W. Oddy support four doctors, and that he
feels the people o f thin section owe
and Ed Ellingsen.
considerable to Dr. Low for the sacri­
fice he made when he entered the
Turnbull Goes to Tillamook
L W. Turnbull, former high school ccrvico twenty month, ago^ Coquille
X.
THE WOMAN’S
CLUB MEETS
principe) in our city schools and for
the last four years superintendent of
the Band on schools, has accepted an
appointment as superintendent o f the
Tillamook schools, st s salary o f $2,-
200 a year. In the high school there
ten teachers are employed. Including
special instructors in domestic sci­
ence. manual training and music, so
that the change ie a decided promo­
tion for Prof. Turnbull.
Teachers* Examination
No*ire is hereby Riven that the
County Superintendent o f Coos Coun­
ty, Oregon will hold the regular ex­
amination o f applicants for State
Certificates at the High School build­
ing in Coquille commencing Wednes­
day, June 26. 1*19. * t 9:00 o’clock A.
M\. and continuing until Saturday,
June 28, 1919. a* 4 o'clock P. M.
&
%IU. C. E- Mulkey,
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County Superintendent
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MEET OUT
Over
400
Voters
Attend
School Meeting and It
MAIN
the C ifc Will Provide For Future
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By Laying a Big One on
First Street
Overflows
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A special meeting o f the city coun­
Due to the activity o f the Women’s
Club, the change in the law allowing cil was held Tuesday evening at which
all citizens over 21 years of age to all members except Councilman Skeels
vote and the general feeling that bet­ were present.
One of the reasons for calling the
ter school accommodations for our
children are imperatively demanded meeting was the necessity for a
here in Coquille, there were 430 votee prompt decision-«» to the water pipe
cast at the annual school meeting to be laid on Hall and' First streets
here in Coquille Monday evening, iiw before the paving is put down. Mr.
Moon will be ready soon tt> begin work
stead o f o n ly 46 as a year ago.
on his sewer and paving contracts,
People began coming almost
hour before the time set for the meet­ and Mr. Lamb, chairman of the water
ing and by the time Chairman Truk committee, had received word from all
made the call to order almoet every the large dealers in pipe that there
single seat in the High School rudl- was no 6-inch pipe on the coast ex­
toriiftn was carrying double and all cept galvanized, and the price on that
standing room was occupied while the is 170 a hundred higher than is the
big hall was also crowded. ‘ Th.ugh price o f Matthewson, which the city
the failure to make a call for the had intended to use, 991.20 being the
meeting in the Sentinel as required by quotation on the latter and $162 on
law rendered it unadvisable te at­ the galvanized. There wta^pm e talk
tempt any other business except the o f putting in a 4-inch pipe from the
election o f the directors and clerk, hospital corner to the theatre but in­
which the law explicitly specifies shall asmuch aa the city is building for the
be done at the annual meeting on the future as well aa for its present needs
third Monday in June, that furnish­ it was decided to instruct the water
ed interest enough for a whole even­ committee to get the six-inch pipe,
even if it did cost more, and make s
ing's entertainment.
Indeed, after tellers had been ap- [permanent job o f it. That a four-inch
-pointed to collect and count the vote pipe would not satisfy the demand
the suggestion was made that people when First street was built up solidly
outside in the hallway could bear with such structures as the postoffice
nothing of the proceedings and it was building, the Laird, the First National
at once voted to adjourn to the yard Bank and the Machon buildings v w
in front o f the building, there being evident and the council wisely decided
ample sunlight there for the business that a larger expenditure now would
in hand, and the rest o f the meeting anve considerable money for rebuild­
was conducted under the open sky as ing the water line in the future.
The other important matter conoid-
the day waned and twilight began to
fall.
In the afterglow with Venus ei ed was the Taylor street flit. A re­
beaming alone in the western sky the monstrance has been prepared to stop
was an uniqus one, emphssing this important link in the Roosevelt
as it did the need fo r a larger as­ high w ay because soma o f the proper­
sembly room for the district than the ty owners did not know what the
improvement would cost them. This
old building furnishes.
When nominations for s director to fill will be worth many times to this
fill the two year vacancy caused by city what it w ill cdht and any move
towasd Lockin g the council's program
H .O . Anderson’s removal . late
who had not heard the reading o f the is to be regretted. The people living
notification by County Superintendent on the Marshfield road will get s pav­
Mulksy that a vacancy existed which ed street id front of their places for
small fraction o f what mo6t o f the
the meeting was required to fill, se­
cured the re-reeding of the document. improved streets in town cost, and
The suggestion that, owing to failure it does not require a very broad vision
to publish the required notice, the to see what this road will moan to
meeting should pas* up the election of Coquille.
But the city administration has in­
directors until there was a legally
called meeting, did not taka with the tended ail along to pay c. pert o f the
voters present; City Superintendent cort of this improvement out o f the
Baker calling attention to Judge general fund and so they voted Tues­
Ccke’s decision in the Eastside case, day evening that if the improvement
in which it was plainly stated that the wr*.s made the city should bear a third
election of directors should take place of the expense. It hinges to s certain
on the date the statute sets for the extent, too, on the new county court’s
annual meeting, notwithstanding any altitude toward building the bridge at
Coquille next year, and the council
informalities in the call.
So the business went on, C. W. En- will endeavor to ascertain the court*
dicott being placed in nomination by intention in this matter at their next
M. O. Hawkins and A. T. Morrison by session, July 2.
The city engineer was instructed to
H. A . Young. Each nomination was
prepare figures baaed on his estimât*
greeted by hearty applause.
Six tellers were appointed by the of the cost o f the fill, showing what
chairman for this election. Mr. Sin­ the assessment 'per front foot of th*
clair’s motion that both directors be improvement district would be. Also
ehoeen on one ballot was withdrawn the time fo r filing a remonstrance
when Mr. Sanford explained that such wns extended until next Monday in
action must ^ cause confusion, and order that all the property owner.
come up fo r consideration.
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Power Co. Must Have Sawdust
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The Bay papers bring the news that
the Mountain States Powers company
is finding the operation' o f its plant
with fuel oil so extremely expensivj
that it will stake the C. A. Smith com­
pany for needed repairs sufficient to
set at leaat one side o f their big mill
in operation and secure sawdust fuel
again. Eight new boilers will be re­
quired to do this at an expense of
about $15,000. We have been in the
habit of thinking of sawdust aa an al­
most useless by-product o f a lumber
mill, to be got rid o f with as little ex­
pense as possible; and here we find
one of the biggest mills in the world
going into commission again solely on
account o f the demand for sawdust.
The mill, of course, is shut down on
account o f litigation over the proper­
ty. and no one interested in that fs
willing to put up the money to run
while its status is unsettled. So the
Byllesby corporation will stake it for
a few thousands in order to get the
cheap fuel and supply Its patrons with
juice at a profit instead o f a loss.
The residence of H. K. Fredenburg
on Hall’s Creek was burned to the
ground, with nearly all its contents
on Sunday night, June 8.
BERRIES FEED
THE. BIRDS
Our city is now suffering from the
depredations o f a gang o f thieves,
who are also carrying on their opera­
tions in the adjacent country. It has
come to such a pass that the looters
are being shot by the scores, notwith­
standing any laws that may exist for
their protection, and there seems to
be little doubt that the most drastic
tasuro* will have to be taken for
the extermination of the gang.
The Sentinel has always stood for
protecting our song birds, taking the
stand that the vegetables nnd fruit
they took were no- more than
fair recompense for what they were
doing ; in
In destroying grubs and worms
and other garden pasks. But H-a con­
dition rather than a theory which con­
fronts us now, and the marauding of
the birds must be stopped i f wa are
to havp any fruit left for ourselvos.
Last year our nearest nsighbor, Dad
Woodford, called our attention to a
loaded cherry tree in his yard that had
been stripped in a single day.
No it
was not pilfering boys, for the pits
had been left by the feathered bipeds.
This year the birds have taken more
than throe quarters o f our currants
and the reet had to be picked before
they were ripe in drder to save that
moiety. A heavily loaded bush not
ten feet from our windows was strip­
ped bare, where a fence afforded a se­
cure perch for the little thieves.
Strawberries, too, are the object of
their raids, and it is getting evident
that we must restrict the output of
birds if we are to get any berries. We
missed the splendid chorus that used
to greet us at dawn in Kansas, when
we came to Oregon, and even how the'
warblers seem to be comparatively in­
conspicuous when it comes to singm*,
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they-e, „ . t
Gov. West Offers to Settle His
Claim Against Coos Coun­
ty in That Way
Referring to the action taken last
week by the new County Court in re­
lation to Governor West’s claim in tho
matter of his services in promoting
the payment of taxes on the former
Southern Oregon company’s lands by
the U. S. Government, under date o f
June 16, Mr. West has sent the fol-
lowng reply to the court without
waiting to receive an official copy of
the court’s resolution:
To the Honorable County
Court o f Coos County.
Coquille, Oregon.
Gentlemen: Being advised through
the columns of the Coquille Valley
Sentinel ss to the action recently tak­
en by your Honorable Court with re f­
erence to my fee for services render­
ed in connection with the claim of
your County for taxes against the
Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant and
believing that it would be plainly to
the interest o f all concerned to have
this matter adjusted without litiga­
tion and its accompanying expense,
I would respectfully suggest the fol-
lowng method o f settlement:
1. Submit the m atter' to Judge
Coke o f your County, or
2. Submit it to three citizens of
the State, not more than one o f whom
shall be a resident of Coos County,
to be named by Judge Coke, or
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8. Submit it to three citzens o f
the State— one tq. be named by your
Honorable Court, one by the writer,
and these two to select the third.
Should either o f these propositions
be adopted, I will accept as final any
award made thereunder. It is to be
distinctly understood, howevsr, that
if neither o f these propositions b?
adopted nothing in this letter is to ba
construed aa a waiver o f any rights
growing out o f any order of your
t h * « f e } « d £ W .t-
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son, with reference to my employment
and fee.
Trusting that this suggestion- will
meet with your approval, and that <1
will be advised at an eary date as to
what action you have taken with re f­
erence thereto, I am respectfully
ycurs, (Signed) Oswald West.
Sweet Bros.’ Safe Blown Open
The store of Sweet Bros., at Lang-
lcis, was robbed by burglars last
Tuesday night. The proprietors are
W. J. and A. P. Sweet, sons o f J. B.
Sweet, o f this city. They blew open
the postoffice safe and got 8360 In
cash and one $50 Liberty Bond. They
also took $19.60 from the money
drawer of the store but overlooked an
envelope containing $260 in Liberty
Bonds and another with $120 in cur­
rency. .Mr. D. P. Ply male, wbo lodg­
ed near the store, heard a car stop
there lata at night, but that is the
only clue to the robbers.
Won’t Deliver
Metwages
W are feeling the effects o f the
wire strike here when the telegraph
doubt aa to its legality. . The tellers
u
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l ~ v . the berry patches and cherry
¡lree, long enoujfh to give u, . grand operator at the depot refuses to de­
named were: O. C. Sanford, J, E. Nor­ would be taxed against them.
In
order
to
settle
dispute,
ss
to
the
chonjs ^ d brB#k
liver commercial messages and peo­
ton, H. A. Young, W. C. Chase, A . B.
These meen took their position on charges for water service the council1 Seriously we have come to cultivate ple who have sent messages asking
the big doorstep in front o f the school adopted a resolution fixing ratea aa fruit mostly foe* the birds, if we don't their friends to meet them at the
house and the voters were directed to follows:
take some measures te curtail their train are found sRtlng on the porch
The laundry and the ice plant are
when their hosts return from a Sun­
pass between them ss they dropped
ravages.
day hike. To inconvenience the gen­
their ballots in the hsts. The pro­ to pay $16 each per month, or if they
Their are some o f Plato’s “ feather
bipcd, . . ^
wbo , r (
some- eral public seems to be the trump
cession moved from left to right ss prefer they can have the water used .
do the hands of a clock and with a putthrough a meter.
'thing in th . thieving line. Not long card on the part o f the strikers,
The resident* using city water out- a|fo ^
Burkholdcr home on T > r o r though it causes the innocent to suffer
double file, the scrape o f paper which
“ fulfill the freemaa’s will as lightning sul* the corporate limits are to pay • Ktr#et WM entered and Gripped ot for the guilty.
does the will o f God,” were dropping minimum o f $1.60 per month for do­ all its eatables, and two of Mr. Sher-
purposes with the regular rate
at the rate o f seventy-five a minute; mestic
Fountain Built For All Time
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iwood’s three mole traps have disap-
CoquiIle h u
for tbe
up there is no m .dd'tion for bath, toilet and other
J. D. Grnham yesterday completed
o— * fln* Phyi,Ci* n Wh* n Dr‘ " * ' W U doubt there were a hundred vote. . extras.
leaves, but everyone congratulateff m:nnU
M Where two families conduct sep­ most part free from the depredations the concrete drinking fountain and
o f sneak thieves, since we have known water trough which the Commercial
him on hi. increased opportunities to ™
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arate establishments under one roof
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, it, but there are some prowlers, who Club ordered installed at the south
rue iB hU Pr° f * Mion
When all had voted the teller, went they shall each pay the regular rate need * ^ p e p p e d with buckshot or
end of the parking in Willard street.
U a n . now.
bock to count, which required several for domestic purposes
It is made o f reinforced concrete and
Public Health Nurse Meeting rimes as long as to cast the ballots,
On water motors, between May 1 j
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will last for generations. It is at­
. Y M r 1 n P u r i«
Mias Jane Allen, the first Public and nominations for director for the snd December 1 of tach yesr the r .te ;
tractive in appearance and fills a long
| A fter . y^ r>i
in Fr#nce
Health Nurse in Coos county, was a full term to succeed F. C. True were will be $8 per month.
felt want in Coquille.
The middle
J. E. Norton prosented
caller this morning accompanied hy called for.
W. C. Chase was appointed
and Ho(th Harlocker arrived in Coquille section U covered and locked to pre­
the
name
o
f
Edwin
Ellingsen,
whose
Mise Helen Cantine, o f Portland and
confirmed a. fire chief to succeed H. lM t Sunday .ftem oon Much of the
vent molestation by mischievous boys
Mr*. R. H. Corey, e f Marshfield, and services ss contractor and builder O. Anderson.
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was on
duty in Paris and
of the sutomstic float and valves.
daughter.
They had come over by , w®vld prove so timely fo r the district
Mayor Jomson reported that
Wa- practically all hi«
tim e since the sign
thin— morning's tram to — attend a
" 8W school houses were Ui be bUPl, ter Superintendent Goodman had ten- jng of the armistice was spent there,
Old Pavement Torn Up
meeting of the Public Health commit- ,n<1 E - H. Kern named F. C. True to dered his resignation verbally to take He was there when President Wilson
tee at the eity hall at one o’clock this *** Kia own successor,
effect July 1, and announced that 8. first arrived in France and witnessed
The work of tearing up the old
aftemcon. Miss Cedi Schreyer, the
The tellers this tune were Ralph V. Epperson would be Mr. Goodman’s th* huge demonstration in his honor, planking on First street from the
new county nurse, Mrs. F. G. Drake, Noeler, W alter Oerding, Clarence Tut- ruccessor. subject to the eouneil’s Hs was discharged very quickly after Mnchon Theatre to Hamilton’s Hospi­
of Myrtle Point, end Miss F. Ami lie ll* *nd Ray Jeub, and the voter« confirmation.
There was no objee- arriving in the United States, rendi­ tal, which has so long been a nuisance
Henry, o f Bnndon, will also be here *K*>n Died across the doorstep with as tion and Mr> Epperson has signified i n f Camp Lewis five days after land- and an eyesore, wns begun last Sat­
to attend the meeting. Coquille is much alacrity as before,
his intention to accept the appoint- jng at New York. Hugh is looking urday and most o f it has already been
represented by Mrs. Virginia Iam b,
Nominations for school clerk were ment.
fin* and says Coquille looks good to purified by fire. A fte r the laying of
the vice president; while Mr*. W. C. next m' order and Mrs. D. D. Pierce
the new water main and sewer
Adjournment was taken until t bins.
Chase w ill act for Mrs. C. J. F u h r-----------------------------------------------------.’ o’clock next Monday evening when J
through that street, the contractors.
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ia fat the M at
(Continued on third peg«.)
the Taylor street matter w ill again
CaUing C a r * , 100 t e fL M .
Moon A Co^ w ill proceed to pavo H.