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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1919)
* ' .. " i i m . Jf ."jf f;V Various Problems Are Discussed.—Re markable Figure« Presented Showing Glaring Inequalities in Taxation. ' he just and equitable to raise the ; school funds needed by a tax on all i the county. ; * Mr. Mulkey referred to the Glenn • j Junction district, No. 7«, in this j county where there were ten pupils j * school age with six in tchooL The i.valuation in this district was $881.96$. ¡•r $100,004 to tax for the education of ‘ such pupil attending schooL In con- 1 treat with this was the Floras cxuak district in which there are 18 child- |tea and the valuation is only $18,42$. th a w Instead of $88,000 to tax for (seeh child of eehool ago there was vely $1,000. This inequality is Startling. . . The Sitkum district with $871,000 snbject to taxation and only 21 pd- fOs has over $80,000 to tax for each child to bo educated. A mill tax there ef tito sterner son, getting all information they could about the sibility of the purchase f f the Mj North Carolina, and paasod peeceful- Ijr to hia reward November 20, 1919, nt his home near Lee, Oregon, *t the advaaeed age of 81 year, 9 months and one day; death resulting from to sand to every school oOeer hi this heart trouble and other complications. teachers throughout the state, in-.ro- gard to «ho pooition It haa taken *a- voring living wages for teachers. „ J “ 7---- ' _ No Toochsr With The* Ws Ison A nt O s teachers from tito Bay, who ware over 'here the day those silly school girls from Marsh- field made a spectacle of themselves by visiting the boy in ths jail hsrs Una and waa married to Sarah March 12, 1878. They came to Ore- gon In 1884 and settled on the North Fork of the Coqeill# river, where he has resided until the time of his doath. His wife proceeded him to the •»*>* world August 28. 1911 Hs 1**v“ Mv*r»> etepehildren; Mrs. Catherine Farthing, of North Caro- ,in» : Nre. Caroline (Hark, of Yuma, THAT ELK BANQUET RICH AND POOR SCHOOLS it is bsrs now the Myrtle.Pqjat Bsndon papa a special tax and Randolph of 1J mills ■fsurth as much on ths $100 war savings stamps in which wo are still $100,000 short of our quota. Spa* Eastern Oregon has four times as nial committees a n to bo appointed la much far each pupil aa the rest e f the nil sections o f ths county to get out state. * and malm ths drive to put Coos over Mia# May Lund, county supervisor, ths top. made e very interesting and inform ing talk on consolidated schools. Cow county with ten now has mors such schools thsn any other county in the state—and ought to have n good many mors. In fact she said every town in the county, except Poster», should first of next week. The deposit of -on solids to with ths outlying dis old cans and trash of all kinds hi ths tricts. Bandoa ought to toko in Ran alleys and on vacant lots gives ths dolph, Boar Creek and Two Mils; Co- town a slovenly, disreputable appar- quill# should take in all the schools ance, and now that the road to the within five miles. Indeed, there ought dumping ground is planked so that it can be usad all wiqfer ths city officials are determinad to aw that Coquille is culty the chy schools here bad me* in trying to fill vacancies. Two form al school graduates had coma hare and gone back the next day. They declared they canid got a/ good sal aries near homo. One rode around town trying in vain to secure s board ing place, they seamed ’to think of Cow county w extremely isolated and n long way out of ths world. Superintendent Mulkey said there * 0,1 Portland next month to present the • will be no more ton mmtt-r. night dances given, ae- gpMlkinf of the way in which school » present plans of the Superintendent v . . , . Mulkey said that the state school ^ provided $1.95 for each pupil rhicti win practico , **1 the county $10 by n tax on all lights in ths wwk end ^ property oi the county. The ru ral gamas there. JmaJntag funds ware provided by “ ------1 ------- special district taxes. IW n w w cramful of thrills, ad- over $8,000,000 of property in Cow s and comedy. A t the county that paid nothing for apodal m aast T ife e J a « T\sase __ -4_____ V a .».__ —_ could raise for schools by a county Sw H tax waa $70,000; there w w no maxi- isoday, mum; A a county court kept the further consolidation now hi the in equality o f taxw as stated above. Randolph, with a special tax of less than two mills, doesn't wont to bo put in the Bandoa district, because the latter is paying nearly twenty mills.' With consolidated schools than will be • great saving in time. Than will be fewer grades, or only one grads to each teacher in the larger schools diately fe lt and the new separate distr together and feel their schools es tb During ths past five or ton years tbs cost of labor and material has in creased from fifty to one hundred per cent, but daring this period the com pany has reduced its rates so that ev eryone could use electricity. The ex penses of the Company have sudden ly increased. A small port o f ths in creased expenses can be met by dis continuing this discount, and tbs Company proposes to try this before asking for an increase which they hope will not bo necessary.