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Coquille Valley Sentinel
and the coquille herald
Telephone
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COQUILLE, COOS C O U N TY, OREGON. F R ID A Y , J U L Y 4, I t i » .
NO. H
SWAT THE TOLL
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Company’s
Scrap
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The periodical application of the
local telephone company to be allowed
to charge a toll between Coquille and
M yrtle Point and fo r an increase o f
the tariff on certain o f the farmers’ ‘
lines in this vicinity, is set fo r hearing
at, MarshAeld on naxt Tueaday at two
crown up durine our yours o f froo
telephone service would bo almost in­
tolerable. The upper Coquille Valley
is just like one b if fam ily end unre­
stricted communication am one Hs
•people is demanded by existing con­
ditions.
W hy this demand fo r the privilege
o f charging tolls here should keep
coming up after the Commission has
decided all the questions at issue we
cannot understand. We are entitled
ito free service between the two towns
| and with the surrounding country on
the basis o f the agreement under
which our two companies
Wolidated and w e ought to stand Ann-
ly fo r our rights.
o’clock P. Me
The common councils o f Coquille
and Myrtle Point have each Alad an­ F o u r Valley Canneries Combine
swers and objections to the applies • A . Rupert A Co. Csnidiig company,
tion; City Attorney Stanley w ill re­ which is Aguring on erecting can­
present Coquille and Claud H. Giles, ning plants both hare and nt Marsh-
City AttorneJMor M yrtle Point, will Aeld if a sufficient acreage o f berries
represent hldAown nt the hearing.
can be secured, has just increased its
It is plumed to have a goodly dal- cspiU l stock from $25,000 U $1,000,-
egation o f representative business 000.
This will pavs tha way
men from both towns to attend the fo r tha consolidation o f .tha fol-
hearing; the telephone company has ltw in g four plants: the Lebanon Can­
mads several applications fo r like in­ ning company o f Lebanon; the Falls
creases and the Public Service Com­ City Canning company at Falls City
mission has denisd their applications and tha Rupert plant at Gresham. The
in such instance, and it is to be hoped four plants have a capacity o f about
the present hearing w ill result in a 10,000 casts o f fruits, vegetables and
repetition o f the form er Andinge.
preserves, and do a business in excess
Prior to 1908 there was but on# o f $2,000,000 annually.
Ulephone plant in this valley as, at
tbs present time; n toll rate was ex­
acted between Coquille and M yrtle
Point, the farmers ware charged what
they believed to be an axhorbitant
rata and many o f them could not ob-
isin service et any price. In Febru­
Another June weJdirg occurred
ary o f that year the fanners’ line was
here last Monday whan Miss Kathleen
organised to obviate these vices; the
MulTihill, daughter o f Mr. and Mrs.
new company was composed o f farm ­
John Mulvihill, became the brid« o f
ers and business man o f Coquille and
Lon E. Denio.
The cerqmony was
vicinity, a central office was estab­
performed by Rev. W. E. Cpuper at
lished in Coquille end one a t M yrtle
his residence at 2:80 p. m. The wit-
* Point and patrons were given free
•ee war* Miss Georgia Mulvihill,
toll between the two towns and all
sr o f tha bride, and W alter F.
local Unas o f this company connected
Oerding. The happy couple are now
with either town. O f course the old
at the Brewster House but expect to
line company had to mast this com­
leave Sunday fo r Gold Beach, where
petition in service and prices. This
Lon has a home already prepared for
was a great Improvement over the
occupensg.
former eystsm, hut the tncoavmlsnss
Three young people are well and
o f having two telephones in each bus­
(favorably known in Coos county, both
iness house and in many residences
having bean employees o f the Coos A
censed more or lees confusion and was
Curry Telephone Co., Miss Mulvihill
sn additional expense, besides reduc­
as chief open .tor at the local central,
ing the net returns o f both companies.
and Mr. Danio bain? in charge o f the
A t the urgent request o f the Public
company’s lines between Port Orford
Service Commission that the two sys­
and Crescent City. Lon Mime to this
tems be merged, the stockholders of
coast Ava years ago fr ig » Helena,
the farmers’ line sold their stock to
New York, and has spent a considera­
the other company, and the present
ble portion o f that Ume in nnd around
company now holds this stock. This
Coquille.
transfer was made with the distinct
They are receiving the congratu­
understanding that all tha patrons
lations and best wishes pf a host of
should be given the same service at
friends, with whom the Sentinel joins,
the same rates they had been paying,
for a long and happy U fa
with promised betterment o f the ser­
vice.
Pessibly the company now
(Skull Crushed by Falling Tree
seeking to make the change in the
A sad accident happened at Crane’s
rates has forgotten this promise. I f
the application is granted, it would Camp Saturday, June 28, when Her­
not be strange i f another local Una man Be rien, son o f Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Berien, o f Ceres, California, was
‘were again established.
A t a hearing fo r a similar advance caught by a falling tree at nine o’clock
in rates held at Coquilla in September, and died at four. He came to Co­
1917, the petition was denied and the quille two weeks ago from his home
company promised to make certain at Ceres to spend the summer with bis
improvements in ito service, by order sunt, Mrs. L. Crandall. He was only
of the Commission, one o f which wda twenty years old and leaves a mother,
to correct the defects in the lines father, two sisters and three brothers
running out to the County Farm and to mourn his loss.
Fairview; but today the asms defects
His remains were shipped to Mo­
exist.
Poasibly the company now desto, California, Sunday morning,
seeking to make the change in the Mrs. L. Crandall accompanying them.
rates has forgotten this order.
Young Berien, whose skull was
A fte r the Are here on St. Patrick’s ctushed, was taksn to the Bsndon hos­
day, 1918, the Telephone company in­ pital after the accident but died be­
stalled s dinkey little old switchboard fore reaching there.
t someone told us it was one which
had been discarded from the M yrtle
$100,000 • Month fo r ChecM
Point exchange many years ago as
Fred True, who is sales agent for
inadequate and out o f date, but we
cannot vouch for the truth o f this,) the Cooe-Curry Cheese association,
with the promise that a new and up- says he sold a carload of cheese to San
to-date board would be placed just Francisco jobbers last week for S ltt
as soon as it could be obtained from cents a pound, and received one cheese
The
the factory. However, we are still check amounting to $29,000.
enduring the Inconvenience of the an­ monthly sale* are averaging $100,000
tiquated device miscalled a switch­ and his sales payments Saturday
board with no prospect o f anything amounted to $$6,000. Production has
f better. And yet the company desires been decreased a little owing to the
an increese in rates fo r such service. burning of the Coca Bay Creamery
Perhaps the company now seeking to and the Coquille Valley is now getting
make the change in rataa has forgot­ nearly all of that $100,000. Cheesy
brings a steady income here and bslps
ten those A ns promisee.
We are wondering huw much furth­ wonderfully in stabilising Ananeial
er s long suffering public will permit conditions.
themselves to be thus victimised. I f
a vigorous protest will get reeulta, •
Lots More to H ear From
Coquille citisena and farmers should
Only
40 of the 89 district clerks
turn out an masse at tha hearing at
MarahAeld naxt Tueaday and make a hi ve yet made the required returns
showing that could not.be overlooked o f warrants outstanding, cash on
by the Commission nor by tha tele­ hand, ate., on turning over the paying
part o f their dut;ee to the county
phone company.
The business interests o f Coquills treasurer.
and M yrtle Point are so closely inter-
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woven that the freeeet possible com-
Tuesday California voted seven to
musics tion is required between tkeee one for a $40,000,000 roed bond issue,
towns. A toll rate hers after th e,T h e more good roods they get down
amt of «ra te rshtlraahtp that km them, the mem tiny muffi.
DENIO WEDS
HELLO CHIEF
ENFORCETHE LAW FOR A REST ROOM
W«
'a C lab Says
No
Mora The-Com m ercial Club la Favor
O f M akiag One at The
Cigarettes Should Be Sold
To
Liberty Temple
M ia o »
J W ork Begins on Cunningham
Moon A 'C o . last week began cut­
ting down the hill on the MarshAeld
road in front o f Burns’ ranch and
¡basking the All across the Cunning­
ham bottoms.
The cut in front of
the house on Mr. Bums’ ranch is 9
feet. A wooden bridge will be the
crossing o f the Cunningham and
where the turn was* form erly a hair
pin curve across that creek the new
road will make a right angled turn.
The grading by the'county ^iU ex­
tend
the Burkholder place
place at
at this
end, and from there into town the
city expects to have the All and cut­
ting through of the hogback com-
pl*ted th is"fall"
A alimly attended session o f the
r The Woman’s Club met in regular
session -at the eity hall Tuesday even- Commercial Club wa i held Wedrujs-
ing with a fair attendance. Several'day evening. A committee from the
m atura o f public welfare were up tor | Woman's Club, consisting o f Mrs. C.
discussion, among which was the W. Endicott, Mrs. J. A . Lamb and
much needed “ d e a n Up day" fo r Co­ Miss Minnie Kalbus, presented a re­
quille. We all realise the necessity quest from that body that the Com­
o f this campaign and in tbs very near mercial Club rescind their action o f
future the ladies hope to begin active two weeks ago, in which they recom­
w arfare on the many unsightly spots mended the sale and removal o f the
He Saw the Last o f the W a r
in our beautiful little city; and in this Liberty Temple. The ladies desire to
Lester O. Norton, a son o f William
(complete
the
building
and
At
it
up
for
no small undertaking they earnestly
solcit the help, suggestions and en a rest room, and as th e1 Honor Guard .Norton, o f Sumner, who enlisted here
girls made that request in donating April 26th o f last year, has just re-
|CO" m* * ment1 ° *
The question o f cigarette smoking their funds to the Woman’s Club, it * ur" ed home having been demobilized
by minors wss discussed at torn# •is probable that with some help from !'at CamP L®wia on Monday. He was
length, the opinion generally exprees- Coquille citizens, the old debt again st1' " Company L, 321st Infantry and
ed being that our officials were gross­ the temple can be paid and that i t , saw 8®rvic® at the fron‘ in France
He went
ly ignoring the law on the subject end w ill be Atted up for the purpose men- j ^or three months last year.
The Commercial Club took 'A ist to the St. Die sector and on Nov.
that it waa time some action was tioned.
taken in the matter. This resulted in •action as requested snd approved the 9 was sent to the Meuse-Argonne
front but had been there only two
idea o f turning it into a rest room.
a motion as follows:
days
when the end came. Although
Bills
totalling
$24.92
fo
r
the
berry
“ Moved that the Woman’s Club o f
Coquille place on record their earnest
desire that-'the law prohibiting the
g ift or sale o f cigarettes to minors
(under 21 years) or the smoking o f
cigarettes by minors be snofreed.”
In order that ws may ell know
whereof we speak we herewith pub­
lish s pert o f the law:
“ It shall be unlawful for any cor­
poration or person, by himself or as
clerk, servant, employee or agent, jor
as the servant, or agent o f any other
person? directly or indirectly, or by
isny pretense or by any device, to sell,
offer fo r sale or ksep for sale, ex­
change, barter, dispose of, or k l»«
away to any minor any cigarette or
cigarettes in the State o f Oregon.
Having cigarettes in a place o f busi­
ness where minors may take them or
fielp themselves, shall be held to be
prime facie evidence o f an intent to
aell to minora.
A n y one violating
Any o f the provisions o f this section
shall be guilty o f a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun­
ished in the manner hereinafter pro­
vided.
(Sec, I, Chapter 244, Laws o f
Oregon, 1917.)
"Section 4, o f the same act pre­
scribes s penalty o f a Ane o f not more
than $100.00 for the first offense; not
more than $600.00 nor less than $25.-
00 fo r second offense, or by imprison­
ment in the county jail not exceeding
thirty days.^or both puch Ane and im­
prisonment x For the third or any
subsequent offense, a jail sentence o f
¡not to exceed thirty days must be tm-
pposed in addition to any Ane.”
Other subjects o f interest were dis­
cussed which are not yet ready for
publication. '
We are pleased to announce that
our roll of membership is increasing,
but we want it to continue to increase
until every woman In Coquille, who
has the improvement o f our commun­
ity at heart, it enrolled on our list.
Surely we all want to help in making
our own home town better and more
beautiful.— Com.
kmoker o f a week ago were allowed ' h® saw
f “ llln*
«round him
and ordered paid.
, during those fateful days he cune
L. H. Hazard, S. M. Nosier and C. through without a scratch.
W. Endicott were named as a com­
mittee to appear before the council
•to ask that the city general fund pay
•the $100 levied on Coquille as her
'share o f the expense o f the delega­
tion sent to Washington in the inter­
est o f the Roosevelt Highway.
A. T. Hulburd, o f Castle Rock, was
J. J. Stanley, who will represent here Monday as the repreeentative o f
the city o f Coquille at the Public S e r-1 the Ellison-White Lyceum course and
vice Commission in MarshAeld next met our Commercial Club committee,
Tueaday when the telephone company consisting o f J. J. Stanley, Raymond
(will endeavor to show cause why they E. Baker and C. W. Endicott, who
should be permitted to charge toll | signed up with him fo r another year
between Coquille and M yrtle Point, ' for a course o f Ave entertainments
wss also appointed to represent th e , for the season o f 1919-20
'Commercial Club at that hearing.
Mrs. W. C. Chase circulated the
The absolutely unsatisfactory ser­ guarantee pledge and secured 25
vice o f the Western Union was com- ((signatures. The talent costa $650 i f
men ted on pretty strongly'by some of we have Ave entertainments or $450
the members and an attempt will be i f we have only four.
made to secure better service when
The following ore the numbers se-
the present strike is over and pri- iected:
vate ownership has had an opportun­
1. “ Old Fashioned Girls,” a chorus
ity to put the telegraph and telephone o f ladies, who appear in the balloon
lines on an efficient basis again.
skirts o f the Civil W ar days.
The club it considering the matter
2. Thomas Skeyhill, a lecturer,
of getting out a new edition o f pam­ who was in the British army at Galli­
phlets to advertise the Coquille val­ poli, and so severely wounded that
ley and the matter will come up at all the English surgeons pronounced
next week’s meeting.
him hopelemly blind, and he began
to travel aa “ the blind lecturer.” Com­
ing to America in three months his
Gothro Loses that $5,000
That jury which sat up all night sight was restored at the GarAeld In­
(
over the Gothro suit against the stitute.
3. A Serbian Male Quartette.
Southern Oregon fo r $5,000 commis­
4. 'P ro f. Kessinger, a lecturer.
sion on the sale o f $100,000 worth of
5. De M ille’s Male Quartette.
timber to McDonald A Vaughn, Anally
It, o f course, depends upon the re­
brought in a verdict for the defense.
And aa a real estate man on tne jury ceipts whether we have the last num­
says that was ths only verdict poesi- ber.
LYCEUM FOR
NEXT YEAR
ble, we only wonder why it took them
so long to get together.
Although
Gothro had taken up the matter of the
sale o f that timber with McDonald A
Vaughn, he didn’t induce them to
“ sign on the dotted line;” and more
than that Manager Armstrong says
he had no right to make the contract
he did with Gothro.
N o Action on Site Question
Is Second Clam Ponto S ee
Ths Board o f Education met Sat-
Coquille has attained the rank o f ' urday night and gave further conoid-
a second c la n postofllce, Pcstmaster «ration' to the school house site ques-
Leneve receiving notice on Monday | tion but came to no conclusion. They
tl*-t the ehinge would take effect the will meat agan this week or early
next day. What would bo the in­ next to decide upon this matter.
crease in his solar/ on that account
C a D ra w te ri
he w m not Informed.
We
Retain
the
Leader
W h o H as Been W orking
Here This Year?
Whether Miss Minnie Kalbus shall
remain in Coos county to continue the
work of instruction in home economics
in which she has been engaged for
the past six months will soon be de­
cided by the O. A . C. authorities. Her
work has been carried on thus fa r at
Uncle Sam’s chargee but instead o f
appropriating four and a half mil­
lions next year fo r the extension
work o f the department o f agriculture
Congress cut the Agure to a million
and a half. So Oregon's share in that
'fund is only $90,000 and only those
counties that will bear at last a part
o f the expense of the home econom­
ics, as well as the county agent and
industrial club work will be furnished
with leaders from Corvallis.
Mrs. McComb, who is at the head o f
this part o f the College activities,
says that there is a lack o f workers
in this line and that there are three
counties to which they would like to
send Miss Kalbus, and that she would
be withdrawn from the Aeld here at
oi.ee if they knew this county had no
intention of providing for the pay­
ment o f a portion of the expense of
the home economics work. A ll that
they desire to know is that provision
•will be mads foj^it in next year’s bud­
get. In that Case Miss Kalbus would
Anish the present year here at the ex­
pense o f the state; otherwise, she will
be sent to some other Aeld.
The County Court, /ft course, wants
to comply with ths wishes o f the peo­
ple in this respect, but they still re­
main to be heard from.
There is no question about the need
or the value o f the work Miss Kalbus
has been doing in the towns and coun­
try districts as well. And if the wo­
men who know and appreciate what it
being done will m ike their feelings
in the matter manifest there Is no
doubt about what the result would be.
But if no steps o f this kind are taken
and 'nothing done by the women inter­
ested, the court would very likely con­
clude thet there wes no such demend
for instruction in home economics as
would warrant them in making an ap­
propriation in the 1919 budget.
Had the war continued the need for
conservetion and efficiency in the
home would have been so urgent that
this instruction would probably have
been continued at government ex­
pense. As it is, in view o f the vast
expanse due to tha war and the heavy
taxation involved, the lawmakers ap­
pear to he Inclined to retrench wher­
ever possible.
T ax Roil Goes to Capital
Very Prolific Currants
Mrs. J. H. Aker brought in Wed­
nesday soma samples o f the white
currents on her place. We never saw
or even imagined anything as densely
covered m .h fruit— and this too even
after the birds had taken a toll. The
climate hore seems to be absolutely
ideal for both currants and gooseber­
Funeral o f O. J. Seeley
ries and there is no reason why they
The funeral o f the late O. J. Seeley should not be g r o w » here by the
There W a s N o Remonstrance
took place at the Undertaking Par­ hundreds o f tons.
W e are glad to learn that remon­ lors here at 2 o’clock last Friday af­
strance against the grading of the All ternoon and was conducted by Rev.
The River Bridge Here
from the Bledso house north didn’t W. E. Cooper. There was a large
Wednesday
a delegation o f Coquille
materialize; and that at the meeting attendance and the stores were closed
business men called on the County
next Monday night the city council during the services.
There were
will be ready to advertise for bids many beautiful Aoral offerings in Court in interest o f the river bridge
for that $6,000 job. W e expect to tribute to the memory o f the de­ here and the court instructed Road-
i d irt flying there this summer. ceased.
The interment was in the master Sawyer to make a preliminary
The other missing link in the county1 Masonic cemetery and the services report on the proposed bridge site.
highway at the Tuttle House corner, there were in charge o f the local lodge A t one o’clock Thursday afternoon
the court also went down with the
is being prepared fo r the improve­ of the Knights o f Pythias.
members of the City Council to see
ment, the old bridge having been torn
how the land lay, where it is proposed
out to make way fo r a new one.
Can’t Exchange Stamps
to build the bridge.
Postmaster Leneve informs us that
Jcnba B ay Land Confectionery
the statement that three cent stamps
Not AD Gone Yet?
Last Friday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. can be exchanged fo r twos is incor­
iPhe
estate
o f the late Joseph W.
Ray Jeub made a deal with P. O. Lund rect. Stamped envelopes, however,
by which they become the proprietors with three steampe, will be redeemed Coach is supposed to be good picking
A t any rate Joan Herron has
o f Lund’s Confectionery which now this month at the invoice price and yet.
becomes Jeub’a Confectionery.
For three-fourtha o f their coat will be presented a claim against it in the
the present Mrs. Jeub will conduct paid for the old two-cent postal cards. Probate Court to the amount o f $4,-
•the business with Rey assisting ev- Postmasters are not allowed to ex­ 800 for two years' service at $200 per
eninga and Sundays, and he will re­ change stamps of any kind, probably month at the time Detective Mitchell
tain his position in the county clerk’s because o f the great confusion and was on the case and the Aght with the
Ice.
Mr. Lund has made no an­ liability to mistakes that would oc­ late G. T, Treadfold was at its height.
nouncement o f his plans for the fu ­ cur.
ture.
Shall
The Southern Oregon tax roll goes
forward from Portland this week to
the General Land office at Washing­
ton. A fte r it has been checked1 up
there a warrant will be issued to Coos
county to pay that half million o f
taxes, penalties and interest It is
expected it will ba a matter o f two
or three months before the returns
are received here as they take their
time about such things at the national
capital.
Red Cross Takes Vacation
The very lost shipment o f garments
from our local Red Croes was sent out
last week, which included 304 gar­
ments made in the work room here
and 53 garments from the McKinley
auxiliary. There were all clothes for
children.
The chairman, Mrs. V ir­
ginia Lamb, has been notiAed hat wa
will be expected to begin sewing
again In the fall— for somebody,
somewhere.
Like First Line Trenches
The torn up condition o f First Ind
Hall street renders travel impossible
there now and Gardner’s garage is
only accessible by a detour of sev­
eral blocks.
The excavation for a
sewer nine feet deep along the middle
o f First street requires a small army
of men and to the boys who were sol­
diers in France it must give that lo­
cality the aspect o f a Arst line trench,
H o n e Talent For Road W ork
A delegation from Bridge was down
here Wednesday to interview the
_ county court about the special tax
money in their road district. They
, wnhl to have it expended under the
‘ ¿fraction o f their owrW people with
I Dwight Culver aa supervisor in the
¡B ig Creek work and E. E. Weekly on
the Myrtle Point-Rock Creek road.
Mills Close Until Monday
Ths mills hers will both close for
the Fourth— in fact the Sitka shot
down on Wednesday—and will remain
erased until Monday.
Coquille is
going to be a very quiet town fo r the
week end and lote o f our people will
.go to Myrtle Point and
Ito celebrata.
f