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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
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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.
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“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.
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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
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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.