T he C oquille H erald VOL. 35, NO. 27 DIRECTORS TOLD TO MAKE DEAL COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1917. PER YEAR $1.50 ROAD COMMITTEE MAKES REPORT TWO BOYS MAKE 1 GOOD RECORD H D SMOKER IS OIK SUCCESS MONEY IS WISELY EXPENDED MEMBERS INDUSTRIAL CLUB FAVORS PASSAGE OF BOND ACT work will consist of re-shaping the schools, the new course now rqns crown and building to standard width through the twelfth year. When this at maximum 5 per cent grade. law goes into effect, it will run through It is not expected that it will be nec­ the eleventh and twelfth years. essary to re-locate this road materially, A law was provided for establishing although there are several low places military training in the high schools of which will be raised above high water. the State subject to such direction, su­ The largest item of expenditure will he pervision and inspection as the Gover­ about one mile this side of Myrtle nor of the State may order and direct. Point where the road is close to the Realize Big Returns From Credit shall be given toward gradua­ Stockholders of Creamery Committee Appointed Last at which point the road will tion. The amount of such credit shall E. J. Adams Says Pledges of On Tuesday the following report was December by Association railroad, Listen to Conway and submitted Small Amount of Ground be raised, and cross the railroad track be determined by the State Board of State Are Sacred and to the Myrtle Point Com­ with an overhead crossing. Take Action i Education. Heard From Planted to Potatoes mercial Club by the committee on Con­ Will be Kept Project No. 4, Coquille to Bandon: densary : Provision was made for the recall of The work on this road will consist of school directors. There must first be We, your committee appointed to in­ widening and putting on permanent filed with the clerk of the school dis­ vestigate the possibilities of a Milk grade and alignment from the foot hill trict, the petition of the legal voters of Condensary in the vicinity of Myrtle west of Coquille to Parkersburg, a dis­ such district equal in number to 15 per Point, respectfully submit the follow­ tance of about twelve miles. The cent number of children of Give Mr. Conway Informa­ ing Let report: width of this road depends on the cost Baker Sees in It Solution of school of age the in such district. Not more Says Burden of Paying It Is it be understood that this report County Throwing Safeguards of the contract and available funds, and tion Asked for I than two directois shall be recalled at of your committee is confined to a College Problem About Expenditures Rightly Placed it may be necessary to make this road one time and the recall election may be radius of five miles distant from Myrtle twenty feet wide instead of twenty-1 j held only at the time of the annual Point. At a meeting of the stockholders of 1st. In 1916, there was the product Mr. Charles Hall, ^uur' One hundred fourteen dollars in cash, school meeting. This applies only to “The present higeway commisson re­ the Coquille Valley Creamery company of 3,000 cows manufactured by the five At the time of the investigation by enough seed potates to plant one-half districts of the first class. as sacred the promises made by Coos County Good Roads As­ your in the City hall Friday morning, called cheese factories, the product that was President committee complete plans had not acre 0f ground, and a considerable Hereafter, the school districts shall gards the previous and we intend sociation, for the purpose of considering the prop­ manufactured into butter not being in­ Marshfield, Oregon. been made, although the preliminary , amount of stock food, is the returns j notify the county assessor and the to do all in our commission power to them,” survey had been finished and the topo- realized by IjBster and Arthur Haga, county clerk of the amount of money declared E. J. Adams in an keep osition of consolidating the creamery cluded in this report. address be­ Dear Sir: Your committee appoint­ with the Buttercup Dairy Products com­ 2nd. The estimated amount of milk ed last December pursuant to resolu­ graphy taken. [ sons of W. J. Haga, of Parkersburg, I to be raiaed whenever the school dis­ fore the business men of Coquille held pany, should that concern decide to lo­ manufactured Project No. 5, Glasgow-Haynes fron] ies8 than one quarter of an acre tricts make tax levies, instead of certi­ into cheese by the five tion of the trustees of the Coos County Ko-Keel Klub Saturday night. cate their plant here, the directors of cheese factories daily was about 45,000 Good Slough and North Slough road: This of ground which they planted to pota- fying to the rate per cent of tax levy, at He the continued to explain that this mat­ Roads Association for the pur­ the company were authorized by the pounds; let it be understood, though, pose of investigating the plan of ex­ road will be improved for about nine toes last year. j These notices shall be filed not later ter had come up at the first meeting of miles and will connect at its northerly , Legter and Arthur Haga were 13 and than the first day of December of each the new commission and that they had stockholders to meet with Mr. Conway that some of this milk Was brought to of the Coos County bond end with the county road going to m years of age respectively at the i year. and if possible to form a tentative the cheese factories from a greater penditure unanimously to consider these as agreement with him effecting the distance than the five miles in some moneys, and generally to investigate Lakeside. Draws, similar to the draw the time they undertook the task which A law was enacted outlining the pro­ voted the road program in Coos county, would at Coal Bank Slough, are contemplated j they worked out as one of the Indus- cedure whereby any tax-levying body pledges of the state which would be change; which agreement will then be cases. at Haynes and Larson’s sloughs. The trial Club projects carried on by the may submit to the people the question kept. put up to the stockholders for ratifica­ 3rd. We have found a suitable site submit its report as follows: 15, 1916 your commit­ survey work on this project has not Oregon Agricultural College. It in­ of levying a tax when the amount to Mr. Adams broached one of the sub­ tion or rejection. for such a factory, which has the ad­ tee On met December at the court house in Coquille been completed and it is probable that cludes besides the following of instruc­ be raised is a larger amount than the jects upon which everyone present was F. E. Conway, of Marshfield, who is vantages of both wagon and river promoting the new proposition, was transportation, that can be purchased and there made an investigation of the with the f jnds for expenditure it will tions sent out by the college relative to amount limited by the Constitution. anxious to hear the views of the new present, also T. P. Hanley, president of at about $400 per acre for one or three expenditure of the bond moneys m the be necessary to cut down the width of the actual work of raising the crop, This will apply in case the county court commission when he took up the mat­ handling of the goad program of Coos the road to about 18 feet. the new company, and John W. Motley, acres. the making reports of progress at reg­ or the school hoard of a district finds it ter of the Myrtle Point- Roseburg road formerly secretary of the Marshfield 4th. The ground on which the fac­ county. Your committee consulted Conclusion as to expenditure of bond ular intervals and preparing of an ex­ necessary to levy such ar. amount. and the Eugene-Coos Bay project. He Chamber of Commerce. Whenever the court deems it necessary spoke very plainly and made an open tory would stand, if constructed on the with the county court and with the moneys: Your committee believes that hibit at the county fair. After the purpose of the meeting had site investigated by your committee, county road master, and in a general the bond moneys of the county are be- Each of the boys worked separately to levy such a tax it shall certify to the rebuke upon those who had been oppos­ been explained by F. E. McKenna, a would not require the building to be way went over the plans of the county ing wisely expended, and that thecoun- j and made their exhibits alone. Lester county clerk that such an iflerease is ing the Eugene road. It might be well member of the Commercial Club com built on piling, for that reason the cost officials for expenditure of the proceeds ty is throwing every possible safeguard j raised the Beauty Hebron variety, his necessary, state the reasons therefor, to state here, however, that it has mittee, on the condensary matter, Mr. of the piling has been eliminated by of the Coos county bonds; also your around the expenditure of these moneys. I exhibit taking first prize at the fair and the amount of such increase, in not never been the purpose of those most committee investigated in some detail Individual members of your committee j winning an award of $4. Arthur plant- to exceed one hundred words. This de­ interested in good roads here to speak Conway took the floor and went into your committee. detail on his proposition, fie said that 5th. We find that the lumber would the manner in which the county road have heard considerable complaint over ed Pride of Multnomah potatoes and termination and certificate shall be anything but good of this road. It has master was handling his office. while they were there to consider the cost about $18.16 per M. the county with reference to the ex- j won third prize with a $2 award. The made in less than 35 days before the simply been contended that the Myrtle matter of taking over the creamery, 6th. We find that gravel and sand The county court has turned over to pense of the engineer, but if the costs j boys fed all the small potatoes to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Point road should be constructed first. they were not overly anxious to do so such as is on the South Fork of the Co- the State Highway the supervision of on their father’s ranch: saved Novemher of any yi-.ti. The county “Gentlemen, such a course is not and that it had been through the sug­ quille river, would cost about $1.50 per the expenditure of the bond moneys exceed 6 per cent of the expenditure, enough seed to plant one-half acre this clerk shall then issue orders and mail state-wide,” said Mr. Adams, “and I gestion of the Commercial Club that cubic yard delivered. and the state has complete charge of as now estimated, we believe that such year and sold potatoes for cash to the to the judges and clerks of election, hope that you will be able to take a they were considering it at all. notices of election, and the election | broader view of it. I will not be will­ 7th. As to water supply there are all that work. To carry out this work an amount will be reasonable. Of amount of $108. “ We consider the good will of the two sources from which to draw, the in Coos county the State Highway De­ course, in all these matters, your com­ In speaking of the enterprise of the thus called shall be held on the said ing for work to be commenced upon the farmers the most valuable asset which city and the river. partment has appointed the road mas­ mittee is necessarily guided by the es­ two Haga boys County Superintendent date and in the same manner as other Myrtle Point road unless it is com­ we can possibly have,” he continued, 8th. We find that wood three feet ter of Coos county as assistant state timate of the county officials, and it Baker pointed out the opportunity general elections. In school districts menced upon the other at the same “and we are willing to do everything long can be delivered to the factory for engineer to represent the state in the these estimates are in error, then your which the Industrial club work pres­ the determination and certificate shall time.” we can, provided it is consistent with $2.50 per cord. supervision of the expenditure of the committee's report is not based upon ented to the boys and girls of this sec­ be made by the board of directors and Adams is very much in favor of sound business, to obtain that good 9th. We find that the insurance rate bond moneys. The State prepares all the proper premises. Only by the em­ tion. That there is actual money to be notices of election given by the school the Mr. bonding bill which will come up in will.” district clerk which notice shall be on a D class structure would cost $3.25 plans and specifications and authorizes ployment of experts at a considerable made in the work was ably demon­ June, for without it, he pointed out, It was chiefly for this reason that and on a B class building would cost and audits all expenditures. cost would your committee be able to strated by L'ester and Arthur when given and published for not less than tiie Commission will be able to do little. they were willing to consider the con­ $1.75. The costs of survey work up to the check the county estimates and arrive they produced potatoes to the value of twenty days prior to the date of the It is true, he Btated, that the money solidating of interests. In outlining 10th. As to the fire protection, if time of execution of the contract is es­ at conclusions from original sources. nearly $500 per acre. Mr. Bakerpoint- election. Under the provisions of this would be spent on trunk lines; but 'hat what their policy would be, should they the building was constructed on the site timated, and thus far has proven to be But from the estimates and figures ed out that, should these boys, or bill any county may vote a tax suffi­ this was no reason why those living locate here, Mr. Conway made a broad selected by your committee, it would about 4 per cent of the amount ex­ us, from the plans as shown to others near their age, continue in this cient to abolish practically all of the away from these roads should vote and fair propositijn. The company, have the protection of the city water pended under the contract, with 2 per given us, from the manner in which the coun­ work at the same rata and place the local tax levies for school purposes. If aguin9t it. The bond issue Will be paid which will manufacture butter, cheese works. cent additional for engineering services ty officials are earnestly handling this money in the savings bank where it the county takes advantage of the law entirely by automobile owners and the and condensed milk, will be willing to 11th. We find that a cow can be and inspection during the execution of matter, we are satisfied that the peo­ will draw four per cent interest, the in this way, it will be to all intents and paving of the proposed roads will re­ handle the milk of each farmer in the raised to the age of two years for $25. the contract. In other words, the total ple are being protected in the expendi­ college expense problem would be purposes working under the county lieve the county from the responsibility manner preferred by him. They will 12th. Most wagon roads for a dis­ cost of surveyii.g and inspection under ture of the bond moneys. unit of taxation. solved. of caring for them and allow them to either make butter, cheese or condensed tance the several contracts will amount to As to the road master’s office there He also stated that there were two The county school superintendent devote all their energies to the branch oi five miles from Myrtle Point milk of it, and the farmer may either girls, one who had rented five shall apportion the school funds on the can be traveled at any about 6 per cent. to have been considerable con­ Coquille sell his product to the company at the in time any of direction lots and the other over an acre of second Monday in November instead of roads. The specifications are such as have seems the year; most are gravel and flict between the road master system Mr. Adams came into the county to current market price, or they will man­ rock roads, fairly well graded. which they intended to plant the first Monday in October. been adopted bv the State and recom­ the supervisor system, However, ground be present at a preparedness meeting ufacture the product for them at a fixed 13th. We believe that the possibili­ mended by the state engineer. The and to potatoes this year. He did not state The district clerk shall take the which we are advised that the supervisor sys- j their was held at Marshfield Friday price and they can market it for them­ ties for increasing the output from the standard width is 24 feet, with a maxi­ tem school census on the 25th day of Octo­ names; but said that from the was legislated out of existence by ! work they had been doing in Bchool, it ber instead of the 25th day of Novem­ night and he touched upon this subject selves through the cheese association, dairies within a radius of five miles mum grade of 5 per cent. last legislature and that the road \ was almost a foregone conclusion that ber. in his address here. “Do you think it or they will contract for the farmers’ Coos county has been divided in five our be increased to at least three times districts program will hereafter be in the hands going loo far to expect Congress to milk a t a price which will prevail can or projects upon which bond of the county court and its county road they would succeed well in their agri­ Whenever any warrants issued by is appropriate money to build a coast throughout the year. This last method, what is now being produced. any school district of this State have cultural endeavor. money will be spent as follows: hence there is no good reason military highway in this state?” he Mr. Conway pointed out, is a gamble 14th. We find that the further back Project No. 1, Coquille-Marshfield master; been, or hereafter may be endorsed to discuss the conflict between the road ! New School Laws Enacted “not paid for want of funds“ and funds asked. “A year ago the preparedness both ways and there would probably be from the market you may go, the less road.-$150,097.23. master system and the supervisor sys­ upon which the United States times when one would lose heavily interest is manifested in the dairy busi­ Project No. 2, Bandon-Curry county tem. thereafter become available for program By the Last Legislature shall has since was far more im­ while the other was making large pro­ ness, and we believe that the interior road—$66,237.81. the payment of same, such funds shall probable. launched Respectfully submitted, A road could be built the fits, and at other times the matter from five miles out to a distance of 20 Project No. 3, Coquille-Myrtle Point be applied in payment of such warrants A. H. Powers, length of the Oregon coast for miles can be increased to five times as road—$47,491.87. would be reversed. The following is a brief synopsis of in the order in which they were so en­ entire (Chairman) ! some the cost of building one dreadnaught, to what it is at the present time. Re­ Project No. 4, Coquilie-Bandon road In speaking of the idea that seems to spectfully dorsed . of the principal changes made in C. R. Peck, it would be worth much more for submitted, J. O. Stemmier, —$49,616.19. have become prevalent that his was a W. C. Cutler, the School Laws of Oregon hy the Leg­ The law relating to the resignation and H. G. Kern, military purposes." J. S. Whitaker. stock promoting scheme, Mr. Conway Assembly of 1917. These laws of teachers was amended and now pro­ Project No. 5, Glasgow-Haynes ------------------------ » ---------------------------------- Chas. St. Dennis, islative Mr. Adams complimented the people said that the success of the venture did vides that any teacher in the public will go into effect May 21, 1917. The Slough-North Slough road—$60,989.16. Elbert Dyer, of Coos county on the splendid way in Cheese Expert Here not depend upon the selling of one dol­ schools of this State and any teacher revised edition of the School Laws in­ Project No. 1, Coquille-Marshfield Claud H. Giles, which they supported Chas. Hall for the lar’s worth of scock to local people. cluding the new laws will be published who shall have entered into a valid position road: Under this project it is proposed L. Har locker. which Mr. Adams n>-'v holds, “ We have all the money we need,” he H. A. Chaplin, cheese specialist ot to complete the grade and alignment by the Department of Public Instruc- contract to teach in any public school saying tnat he thought the mere of stated, “ Local people may invest if the Dairy Division of the U. S. Depart­ from Marshfield to Cedar Point. Three of this state who shall willingly violate j tion and be ready for distribution about Auto License Fees they desire; but we are not soliciting ment of Agriculture, was in the city contracts are contemplated. The first the terms of his or her contract for them for it. Since the Governor has ; June first. any such investment.’’ j The most constructive measure is the teaching by resigning his or her posi­ chosen him for the place he said that last week consulting with County Agent contract, that of E. G. Perham, is for There will be nine directors in the Smith regarding the new cheese asso­ grade and alignment from Davis Slough For electric cars and gasoline pleas­ law providing for eight monthB of tion as teacher within thirty days be­ it was his earnest desire to carry out new company, and Mr. Conway stated ciation. He went to Eugene Saturday: to Coalcdo. The total yardage of the ure cars, the fees were doubled; for school each year in every school dis- fore the time during the period for the duties of the office in such a man­ that at least six of these would be Coos hut expects to return here shortly and Perham contract is about 175,000 cubic trucks a new schedule was adopted, in- trict in Oregon. The manner of pro- which he or she shall have contracted ner as to inspire and merit the confi­ county men. If the plant locates here to spend some time in inspecting the yards, of which Mr. Perham has already creasing the fees more than double for vidin(f for thig term ia u,e same ag the to teach, shall have his or her certifi­ dence of t! people of this section. there will be one director from Myrtle cheese factories of the county. removed 97,300 cubic yards of earth the larger trucks. AM new schqffules prcgent law. The minimum term was cate revoked by the authorities issuing Captain K. K. Kubli, of Portland, Point, one from the Bay side, Mr Han­ Mr. Chaplin calls Wisconsin his home and 4,418 cubic yards of rock, or prac- go into effect Jan. 1, 1918. changed from six months to eight same upon due notice from the school also addressed the meeting, urging the ley from the lower river and three from state although he is traveling over the tictically 100,000 cubic yards. The av­ Dealer’s Fees: and the minimum amount of board, and shall be disqualified from passage of the bonding bill in June, and number........................... $10.00 months, the immediate vicinity of Coquille. funds was changed from three hundred teaching in the public schools of this explaining the position which Portland country most of the time, and is a erage cost of the Perham contract, ex­ First Duplicates ............................... 2 50 Mr. Motley addressed the meeting practical cheese man having been en­ clusive of engineering costs, is 34 cents dollars to four hundred dollars. If a State for the remainder of the school took regarding the matter. Applause for a few minutes regarding the pro­ gaged in cheese making for many years per yard. It is assumed that the Per­ Chauffeur’s fees......................... 2.00 school district does not receive from the year. The clause relating to sickness greeted his statement that, while not a gress that has been made and will be before taking up his work with the ham contract will be completed during ($1.00 if registered after Aug. 1) County School Fund the amount of four and to the rights of the school board to dollar of the bond money would be made along dairy lines in the county. government. In traveling in his pres­ the summer of 1917. The contract Private Owners' Fees: hundred dollars, it shalLlevy a special release a teacher was left unchanged. spent in Multnomah county, they would He pointed out that Coos possesses two ent capacity he sometimes sheds his from ¿oaledo to < edar Point will in­ Tranfera of Ownership..... $ 1.00 tax not to exceed five mills. If this poll a goodly number of votes in favor 3.00 sum does not produce four hundred dol­ principal industries, lumbering and coat and makes cheese for a day in volve the removal of about 175,000 Motorcycles ............. Wins Championship of it. dairying The former is destined, he some of the factories he visits. yards of material, or about the same Electric pleasure cars ............. 6.00 lars, then the county court must appor­ In citing an instance of the saving pointed out, to decrease as the amount His purpose is to aid the cheese- amount as that of the Perham contract. Electric trucks........................ 10.00 tion the balance from the general, fund Marshfield high school again cinched good roads were to the automobile of timber becomes less, while dairying m-'.ker in making a better grade of This contract will be let at once so that Gasoline Pleasure Cars: of the county. 6.00 The law definihg the qualifications of the county basket ball championship, owner, he said that lie had talked to a will continue to increase as more and cheese and he states that it is of the ut­ work may start early in the spring. It Up to 26 h. p .............. 10.00 a legal school voter was amended so when they defeated Bandon here Sat­ man in Marshfield who said that in more land is cleared and made available most importance that cheese of all the is also intended to let a contract in 26 to 86 h. p ............... his car 10,000 miles he had worn 36 to 40 h. p ................... 15.00 that the property qualifications imposed urday night by a score of 22 to 14. The driving for dairy purposes. factories in any one district be of uni­ May, 1917, for one mile of hard sur­ Over 40 h. p .................... out four sets of tires. “I have driven two teams were tied for first place and 20.00 He pointed out that land values were form grade, for it is always the poorest facing from Marshfield south. Speci­ by this law shall not apply in the elec­ were playing it off on neutral ground. a car 10,000 miles in Multnomah county Motor Trucks: relatively low here compared with Til­ cheese from a section that sets the fications for this hard surface contract tion of school directors and school the roads are all paved,” said l'v to 2 ton ................... $15.00 clerks. Hereafter, any citizen of this Supporters of both teams were plenti­ where lamook and Humboldt, the other two price for all. have not yet been prepared. Mr. Kubli, "and the same ret of tires 18.00 State who is 21 years of age and who ful, those from Marshfield coming by which leading dairy sections of the western He heartily endorses the work the Project No. 2, Bandon-Curry County 2 to 2% ton...................... with it are still in use.” special train and those from Bandon hy 2}-t to 3 ton ............... 21.00 coast, and that feature alone ought to Co r and Curry cheese association