,y ’V--.■ IT.T.TC H E R A T ,! ) MV, NO. fir. f â l M THE YEAR. People Wed- ing At A Father, a Mother and a Business Man of Coquille Give Some ; of the Reasons For Favoring the $50,000 Bond — ^ Issue—The Issue Vital. ELECTION MONDAY, SEPTEM BER 29 th rf On-1 The following dispatch waa r* «eefcrad by the Woman’s Club from 0 aw apt ^M. Plummer, president of the Inter »g the national Livestock association,. whs is ad- had been invited by them to soum erary ¡hare and'speak when we came to vet 4 Sitkum; Oscar Bunch, Kara Watson K. & Marcy, 3. N. Gearhart, Dora; L. A. La whom, W. Lee Mast, H. I* Hansen, W. H. Bunch, C. M. Holm- strom , A rthur Brown, McKinley. In addition to this fifty-three, who have actually signed contracts to grow berries here, Mr. Bradley state* th at twenty-fire others hare “agreed* to plant from one to fire acres eaca, and will undoubtadly do so. Beside^ these 25 there are good propects fos Compared- with this the Cops'Bay Times publishes a list of 27 ranchers over there who have ‘‘agreed” to plant berries. Coos Bay will find “it’s a long way to Tipperary,” if she tries to catch up with Coquifle’s stride in the berry business. Coqnitle isn’t going to rest on her laurels either, nor Will Mr. Bradley relax his efforts to secure more acreage for the Rupert snmpany. Ho is aiming high and win be satisfied wKh nothing lass than the Pacific coast here in Coquille, Here’s hop- fag hs goes over the top. He thinks he wfll. y A, . Change In Building Plana , “If we expect Coquille to grow—and who does not—we mqat not fail to provide batter school aeeemmoda- te first question parents ask V community to whiph they Ats moving is, “What kind da are provided?” Apart • building plana which the ta submitted, tho answer cab ng else than, “Totally inade- That fact will do more than er to keep families sway. buildings and proper equip- ’ • ur cchools will remove the obstacle to the rapid dsvel- of Coquilla. The wealth •w residents weald add and i which they would pay would ta cover the cost of a new «The idea th at we can save anv- thing in taxes by voting down the school bond issue is unfounded. If um do not vote for this building, ac- ecmmodations will have to bu furnish- ,d for the schools by direst tax which will for years to come oast « a much 0r more than what we will have to m for interest on tho school bonds, “As to the site to which so much objection has bean made in the past, the opposition to th at waa almost en- tirely on account of its pries and now that the school board has compro- mUed on the price and completed the pnrehase, th at objection vanishes l “So far as tho objection did apply The Tax Fallacy ¡to the location, it has been obviated I financially there is another «iten t by the building of the hat 'touches the local purse lU te highway along the read on rj magnetically. An attrac- wWch |t now stands. It must be sp­ i t which would permit the ^ „ t to every one. too, th at the The Board of Education has decid­ ed to make some changes in the plans of the proposed high school building. . The basement will be excavated un­ der the entire building. This will make an additional playroom which ,Miat the little tots havo to eliteb u p ' buildings alone. In Portland a pro- will be the same sice as the auditor­ on beaches in order to write their posed bond issue was defeated on ao- leasona. The room is improperly count of lack of interest on the part ium which is to occupy the two stories above it. lighted and ventilated and can be only of our citisens. Those citizens are Then the northeast comer north of poorly heated by means of an old- now repenting their lack of foresight, this will also be excavated for fashioned stove such as we used in Regardless of religion, political afflli- manual training department. At the country schools twenty or more y ean a lion or sectional feeling in your same time the plans-will be modified ago. (Anyone interest«! in Antiques town I hope every citisen will exer- to provide a classroom for an agri­ , should ckll a t the “Academy.”) In ciae the privilege of voting and that cultural department. The board Mrs. Dungey’s room the same eondl- the bond issue will carry overwhelm- deems it so certain that the district tfams prevail except th at in place of ingly. I spoke yesterday in the high will dqpire to add theae departments the benches, a sort of platform has school at Bosie, Idaho, a city that m in the near future, th at the plans are beau built around tho walls for the becoming known far and wide for its children to stand cm when working splendid school system. A fter the to be altered to provide for them as soon as they are demanded. All the a t the boards. bonds have carried a t Coquilla J hope new rpoms are sure to be needed and This by the way is the only thing you will invite me to attend your cel- to put them into tho plaps now is wise forethought. / “The one objection to the site, as The outside of the building and the H appears to me, is th at it is not as grounds a rt ugly and uncared for and large as it should be, but there has ure no cause for pride to a town of boan only one other suggested cite i this size. In fact the play ground is thet to not more objectionable on th a t! so rough and full of holes and hum- account. for there to more recant mocks that it to unfit for most games, to utterly land reasonably level than can be The toilets a t the Prim ary building the far found in any other location near are almost, if not quit# the moat of- enough tho cantor of population to fsnsive th at anyone in our party had be considered by the voters. ever visited. The girls' to somewhat “If I were going out to look for a «l*uaer than the boy*,’ but either set school site I couldn’t find any that 1« so repulsive th at a decent man or would suit me better, and this largely woman would abhor tho thought of tvsransi room can ho so- entering one. Yet our little children cured so easily there. 8* far a t there »«■* enter these foul, disgusting. l It Will Be a Day of Days, i N ext Monday will be an eventful day for Coquill«. It is the day on which it will be decided whether we shall take a long step forward, er de­ fer taking it—for you need have no least thought th at a defeat now will prevent the erection of a school build­ ing here. It will only incite the pro­ gressive people of the district to more .earnest effort and a more vigorous campaign. If Coquille is to stay on the map wa must have a new school building and on# or any number of defeats cannot prevent i t We have seen such a proposition defeated id a real mcsaback town in Oregon—and we do not believe CoqoiUe is in that class—but when it was submitted again it was carried. There is abso­ lutely nothing sloe to do but to build a modern school house, and we can save our credit by taking our medi­ cine a t once, even if some of us do it with a wry face. We don’t expect to lose this battle of the ballot*—but don, died a t the W a. Howell logging camp on Hall’s croak near Myrtle Point, September 18th, following the J ¿4..... - 0 ♦ * v.. * gSaS? mimmStmiSSi •dirw.*»* to iiute n ■ [ i-nri f i r t i . „ 1 1 .1 ., l Ï T ; W. C. Bradley informs us th at to encoprage the planting of longan- berries by children, he had decided to offer two prises for the beet show­ ing of berries for both 192fi and 1921, which will include a summer course at O. A. C. and s trip to Salem. He took the m atter up with the Marsh­ field Chamber of Commerce and they decided to offer prises to the value of (100. for both 1920 and 1921, open to any school child in the county. We wfll explain the proposition more fully next week. suffered a stroke of paralysis last winter and has sines been helpless, /^ho funeral services will be held s t the Undertaking Parloiwmt 2 o’clock -Saturday afternoon and the inter­ ment will be in the Odd Fellows Cem­ etery. All friends and acquaintances are invited to attend.