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VOL. XIV. NO. ft COQUILLE, 0008 COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 8, U t » . •L fl* THE YEAR.

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j The Chautauqua FinancesFinancially the Chautauqua was not

the success It was last year, though the deficit was only about $120. This was due principally to the fact that it came at a most inconvenient sea­son. The ticket selling campaign crme just at the time of two or three “ drives” for funds; and the program had to be crowded into the week in

Editor S e n t in e lA number of per- which egme tbe Uecorat.on Day ex- sons have asked me in the last ten , #rcjBeg M (j the annual school corn- days, i f Mr. Strang n d I were still mencwnwt. The only wonder was willing to compromise with the school that th. deAcit wa, not gremter, but dtotrict on the amount due us for the a l w„ ^ caM her, , „ t year the at-

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school house site. And if we were, they requested us to so inform the Women’s Civic Club, the Commercial dub and the public generally.. In fact some insisted that it was our duty to do so.

I hid Mr. Strang coma to town, and ws agreed (as we always have been) to compromise this case with the dis­trict, solely and only for the purpose and in the Interest of harmony, peace and goodwill, and in order to stop fur­ther litigation and waste of the tax payer’s money—and particulary in the interest o f the school children, as this is the quickest way to get a new and modern scSool building.

Mr. Strang and I cannot compro­mise this case by ourselves. I f the people desire us to compromise, and i f they want to stop paying out Court costs and big fees to a lawyer, they will have to elect men who will take right hold o f this matter, settle with ua, and stop the waste o f their money. I t is simply up to the people of the district. They can thus settle this case at once and have the way clear for a new school building. And we will settle on terms that v^U save the district a lot o f money. Voters, don't forget that.

Several times the people have asked ut to offer a compromise, and we have always complied with their request. But two members o f the school board always gave us the cold shoulder. The Commercial Club appointed a commit­tee for the same purpoee, and again we complied with their requeet. But the two members of the school board would not consider either our offer o f compromise, or the request o f the Commercial Club.

Now, a number o f people are after us again te agree to a compromise. And in consideration of the beet in­terests of the children of the district, we state, for the fourth time, that we are willing to do so.

Mr. Strang and 1 never have asked anything but what was fair and right, nothing more than what was justly aad honestly due us.

And we are even ready to give up to the district a good share o f what is justly and honestly due us, in order to promote harmony, good-will, stop wasteful litigation, and more especial­ly in the interest o f the children.

And if the people will elect direct­ors on this birnis for the benefit of their children and the district gener­ally, theee directors can settle this case with Mr. Strang and me imme­diately and on a liberal basis, and then can proceed at once to build a new and modern school building. .Respectful­ly submitted— Z. C. Strang, C. R. Bar-

tendance grew steadily during the ses­sions. The guarantee for next year’s Chautauqua was signed by twenty-five of our citizens, no one appearing to be willing to have Coquille drop out of . the circuit and cease to be a Chau­tauqua town. It is thought, however, that next year’s event will come a lit­tle later in the season when the nights are not so cold as they were last week.

Interesting Meeting of the County Board of Educa­

tion Monday

LS THE RECALL WINSJudge Watson and Archie Philip

Replaced by C. R. Wade and H. D. Kern

The Salvation army drive for funds to be spent In Oregon work is on now with Fred Slagle in charge both here and at Myrtle Point. It is certainly a worth while cause and we hope to see the quota oversubscribed.

CITY PAVING ANDjsEWER

Moon St Co., o f Coos Bay, were awarded thh contract for the improve­ment work which has been ordered on Hall and First street, at the regular seasion o f the council lis t Monday evening.

T here were two other bids submitt­ed, one for the sewer job and another for the bridge, but both were above Mr. Moon's bid. His was the only bid for the pavement and sidewalks.

For the sewer from tbe eity hall to the Machon theatre the successful bid

$1791.60. Baird and Train sub- mittad a bid for $1994.

For the bridge at the intersection ef Hall and Front streets, Mr. Moon's was $2100.84, whila L. L. Hazelton o f­fered to do the work f* r $ «70 .

’Fe t the grating, paving, sidewalks, bulkheading, etc., Mr. Moon’s bid was $19,249.19. The total of his three bids was $74.79 lass than the estimat­ed coat submitted by the city engin-

Frequent expressions of approval by property owners have been made that Mr. Moon secured this contract, for they know the kind of work he did in the improvement around the court house, where he lived up to every let­ter of the plans and specifications and gave the city a good job.

The contracts call for all three jobs to be completed within ninety days.

In order to get the water line ex­tended on First and Hall streets be­fore Mr. Moon gets to laying pave­ment, the water committee was in­structed to purchase the necessary pipe at once.

While the bridge is under construc­tion the road into town from Myrtle Point will be along the old railroad right-of-way on which a little grading will put it into good shape for the summer.'

Fir* Million Measures Lost.City Selling Its PropertiesThe city of Coquille has sold two

The fire million dollar reconstruc­tion bill was defeated. It was com- ..................Flex and confusing and we do n o t; of property recently wh.ch h^dwonder that the voters mi8under. i bmm bought .n by the c.ty for unpaidstood it. SÜ11 we note that the pro- imProv,mw' t o f them *= £ pert. o7 the state gave ft s lhe T - A - Walker property op-majority and that the heaviest v o U ^ * th? f * h“ Jl •gainst it was in th . moeaback coun- \G™ h™ “ ‘ "onth paid $600. The tie. of th. Willamette valley, W a sh -1otbcrj ‘V the ir,regular piece formerly ington, Marion, Linn and Clackamas 1 ,°™ ed ^ A l i c e B. McDonald, lying with which Douglas was also lined up.

Will Burrow Coming Home C. R. Barrow has received from

Hon. W. C. Hawley the information that the discharge of his son. W ill G. Barrow, was ordered May 11th. Will hoc been in service for some time pest at Gen. Pershing’s headquarters in France. Hin parents now hope to see him soon. Very few of the Coquille boys now remain in France, the only one we recall just now being Ray­mond Burns.

between Front street and the rail road, just south of the Geo. A . Robin­son property at the corner o f Front and Hall streets. This tract was sold to E. E. Johnson for the $633.90 which the city had invested in it.

Successful State MeasuresThe measures on the state ballot

were all approved by the people ex­cept the five millidh dollar bill and amendment. and the lieutenant gov­ernor bill which its parents left to perish. The Roosevelt Highway bill gets the largest majority of any— about 22,000. The market roads bill comes next with 20,000.

The soldiers educational aid bill

The County Board of Education, whose appointment we mentioned last week, held it annual meeting here on Monday. The county was divided in­to two supervisory districts, with Mr. Mulkey as supervisor in the Coos Bay district and Miss tfay Lund in the Coquille Valley district. Miss Lund was employed for the year aa super­visor. Plana for educational work for the year were discussed. It was rec­ommended that Superintendent Mul- key go to school during the summer in order to perfect himself in the mat­ter of making mental tests. He will accordingly spend some time at tke University of California at Berkley during the summer to that end.

Thereby hangs a story which Is not yet ripe for publication, but which involves the school children in this county who are either mentally ar physically defective and in regard to some o f whom we are promised some very interesting revelations iq the near future. Our county nurses in their investigations have found how large a percentage of our school child­ren are suffering from remediabls physical defects, and we understand that the proportion is about 9 in tan.

In the matter of the County school fund, the conclusion o f the board was unanimous that we have outgrown the $10 per pupil minimum fixed by the state and that the county court ought to increase it. The way it works now is that a seperate school is maintained ia districts adjoining the cities Be­cause in that way the taxpayers of those districts evade paying the school tax levied in the cities. There is Ban- don, for instance, with a tax levy of 21 mills, while the adjoining district at Randolph, With more than half as much property, pays but littla more than two mills. By doubling th e _ _ county levy for schools, those districts «vbich now contain a large amount W| property and a very small tax levy would have to pay much nearer their proportion for schools. Klamath county now has a county school levy that produces $21.60 for each child i f school age in the county, and Umatilla one that produces $16.60. Our coun­ty court has been asked to raise the school tax from the $10 per pupil min­imum to $16, and that will certainly be a move in the right direction. Fol­lowing such a movement, districts like Cunningham and Roy would doubtless be consolidated with the Coeuille city district.

Another fact announced at this meeting was that State Superinten­dent Churchill has announced that the state noard of control has decided to establish a vocational school in Coos county. Vocational schools are fi­nanced to a considerable amount by the state and federal governments. In this state the amount appropriated biennially for that work Is $40,000, which is matched with a like appropri­ation by the federal government. Twelve or fifteen Oregon counties have such sfhpols. In them the pupils spend half a day in the usual studies and the other half a day in learning tome vocation, such as plumbing, the gas engine trade or farming.

There are only two districts in this counQ which can possibly get the Coos county vocational school now, and we betray no confidence when we say that one o f them is Coquille, and that so far as an agricultural school specialising in dairy work is concern­ed, it would be the only one.

What is required of the town In which a vocational school is located is that it shall furnish the plant, which for a plumbing school, for in­stance. would be considerable, but for an agricultural school very little. The government furnishes the instructor.

The election last Tuesday resulted in the recall of Judge Watson and Commissioner Philip. The majority for the recall of Watson being 758 snd that for the recall of Philip 1480. Attorney C. R. Wade, o f Bandon, was sleeted county judge and H. D. Kern, of North Bend, county commissioner.

Judge Watson attributes his defe to the failure of Contractor Perham to get to work on the Powers bridge and to the fight waged upon him for four years by the bay papers.

Sixteen precincts gave a majority against the recall o f Judge Watson as follows: The four in Coquille wherethe vote was 99 for and 291 against the recall, two in North Bend, one in Marshfield, Coos City, Empire, Sum­ner, Dora, Willanch Slough, Sugar- loaf, Fat Elk, Cunningham and Nor­way. Where he was best known the judge ran beet. Tbe following fig-4 ures are the unofficial tabulations of County Clerk Oddy covering all the precincts in the county:For Recall of Judge Wataon... .2681 Against Recall of Judge Watson 1873

ty jo r ity for recall 768For C. R. Wade for judge..........2146Far James Watson for judge ..1114

For Recall of Archie Ph ilip ... .2960 Against Recall of Archie Philip.. 1470

Majority for recall ..................1480

For H. D. Kern for Com............. 2418For Archie Philip for Com ..... 788

The vote on the state measures was as follows:For State Bond Irrigation. . . . . . . 2709Against State Bond Irrigation .. 963

Majority for Bonds ................2746

illion Amendment ..2164 Million Amendment 1986

F ir * i t the F e r ry

An alarm o f fire at 10:46 last Sun­day night brought out most o f the town, as well as the department. .With the flames shooting high in the air, it looked as theugh the Oerding A Son myrtle wood factory was the scene of the conflagration, but it turned out to be the ferryman’s shan­ty at the foot o f Tarry street. This building was destroyed and only quick work by Ferryman Ed Richardson saved the scow and the other boats' tied up around the ferry slip.

Mr. Richardson’s account of the fire is that an r.utoist creasing the ferry desired to purchase gasoline. The ferryman kept a 60-gallon drum on hand for such emergencies and he gave the driver a lantern ana told him to get the gas. A moment after his entrance, flames were bursting from the building and the man barely escaped. Fortunately there was lit­tle gas in the tank but the oil and grease made the finest kind of a start for a huge blase. The department wr.s quick to respond and the fire was extinguiehod before it spread to the ferry slip and other wooden plat-‘ forms in that neighborhood.

Mr. Richardson had one of his hands very severely burned while loosening the small boats, but only one of these was scorched.

A TRIBUTETO WATSON

The Sentinel sincerely regrets the recall of Judge Watson for it knows that he has done nothing to deserve 180 extensive that they never failed to defeat. He has filled the office of interest.

Four Days Successful Season Here— It Will Come

Again

The Rudcliffe Chautauqua people arrived here last Friday according to program, though through some blun­der of the express company only a part o f the tent had reached here on time, so that the first session had to be held that afternoon in Anderson’s Hall.

The lecture that day was by Dr. W. T. S. Culp, whose subject was “ The Lamp of Aladdin.” Beginning with the child as it first comes into the world he explained the process o f its education and the differences between right and wrong methods. Profound­ly vrsed in child physchology Dr. Culp made a talk which was not only in­tensely interesting to every parent, but was so cystal clear in its presen­tation that no child In the audience could have failed to comprehend it.

The entertainers this afternoon were “The Fighting Yanks,” four doughboys from “over there” who ap­peared time and again during the two days they were with us, singing at th; school commencement Friday evening, and rendering the songs the soldiers sane in the trenches “ over there” in a way that delighted all their hearers ar.d brought them numerous encores. W ascen es were made very vivid by thme songs and their repertoire was

Majority for Amendment 789

For Roosevelt Highway ............. 4091Against Roosevelt Highway . . . . 364

Majority for Highway .3727

For Five Million Bonds ............ 2191Aagainst Five Million Bonds ...1368

Majority for Bonds * . . . . . . . . 823

For Soldiers’ Education Bill . . . . 2910 Against Soldiers' Education Bill 992

Majority for Bonds ..................1918

About 4600 votes were cast at the election, and the biggest majority given was for the Roveevelt Highway, the same being the case in the state. Seldom has a more popular measure been proposed to the citizens o f Ore­gon.

The Fight a Personal One7>e Marshfield Record admits that its

fight against Judge Wataon was entire­ly personal, and not because he was not a faithful and competent official. In concluding an editor»I article on the re suits it says:

This page at no time in the controversy took any other stand than it was inalter- ably opposed to James Watson and would do all that it could to defeat him, because/he was and is an enemy of this newspaper and The Record ia immense­ly pleased at the result. It deeply re­grets Commissioner Philip was recalled, his was a case o f being in bad company.

Brother Dies I* CaliforniaMr. and Mrs. M. J. Krantz were

called to Etna Mills, Cal.. Tuesday was carried by about 12,000 and the morning, May 24, when they received irrigation bond interest guarantee by a telegram informing them of the over 6,000. death o f Mr. Eli Wrtgh«, Mrs. Kranti' brother. He had been at Reed*port The Woman Suffrage Amendment, for two months until about three ' after forty years before Congress, has weaks ago when his health began to been ratified. And new ft goes to the fa il and ba left for California. The states The senate which defeated it by doctors hare pronounced his trouble a majority o f one, voted in iU favor „ t e w s hot particulars are not known, j this week 68 to 28.

The Parade Saturday 14What are we going to have? Ev­

erything we can think of, added to ev­ery thing you can think of, to make it interesting.

Do you want to help? Take or send your ideas to Mrs. Edwin EUing- sen, chairman of the committee.

Come and see how it looks and sounds. It isn’t going to be a quiet affair.

Miss May Lund has had the misfor tune to lose three fountain pens lately, two here in Coquille and one in the Lee neighborhood. I f anyone has found a pen Mias Lund would be find to see them.

The Woman’s ClubThe Woman’s Club cordially invites

every mother and woman interested in tbe building of a new school house in the immediate future to participate in the big parade Saturday evening, June 14. This is the crowning effort of the “ New Schoolhouse” campaign, and its success depends upon the co­operation of all interested.

The mothers of small babies are re ­quested to join in the perambulator feature of this parade, and to let their older children, from 2 to 6, ride in ears which will be provided for them. An invitation is hereby extended to these mothers to attend the Woman’s Chib meeting o f next Tuesday even­ing at the City Hall at 8 o’clock, whether a member of the dub or not, when plans for the parade will be discussed and perfected.— Com.

county judge with ability and integri­ty, and we never expect to see a man in that position who will perform its manifold duties any better than Jhn Wataon has done. Even his princi­pal newspaper opponent at the Bay now frankly admits that it had noth- ing against him exeopt a personal grievance. In the intereet o f the tax­payers Judge Watson cut the Record’s bills for publishing the delinquent tax list and in doing so he was saatalnad by the Supreme Court o f the state. Tha same was true o f the Ttmeel bills. That is why these newspapers fought him so persistently and vindictively, end itot because of any wrong he had done. That he is a clean, competent and careful official, who has at all times done the best he could in the interest of the peoplo of the county, is a fact that cannot be gainsaid. That the voters have been misled by the clamor of the newspapers whose bills he refused to pay bemuse they wore excessive will prove more to their detriment than his, because they were unjust and injustice never pays.

James Watson is noi$ perfect—no man is—but he goes oat of office with the highest respect of all who know him. He has held the office at an in­adequate salary, and devoted his en­tire time to its duties at a pecuniary sacrifice. He has wronged no man and the best wishes of the host of friends who stood by him in the hour of his misjudgment and defeat will go with him in the future as in the past. We honor him in his defeat, and are sure that in the future his starling integrity and devotion to duty will he appreciated even by those who have made the mistake o f casting odium upon him in this erisb. All honor to James Watson. He has fought a good fight; he has kept the faith; and though defeated he can look his detractors in the eye and defy them to show aught to his dis­credit.

Fry Takes Law’s PlaceRev. J. A. B. Fry, the evangelist

who was to have begun a series of re­vival meetings at the Federated church here next Sunday, says that he will bo unable to come. He has accepted an appointment as pastor of the M. E. South church at Corvallis,

i He goes there to fill out the year for j Rev. H. M. Law, former pastor here ' at Coquille, who ia returning to Texas. -

Calling Carda, 100 for »L00.

P rob a te Court I teres

In the Probate Court, June 4, the will o f Edward L. Betsey, of Marsh­field, was admitted to probata, with j Clara Guptill Bessey as executrix.Ti e estate consists o f $20,000 in real property and $4,000 personal. The appraisers are Doraoy Kreitzer, W. C. Butler and Ben R. Chandler. The heirs are the executrix and three children, Warren G. Bessey, Frank L. Bessey and Ruth O. Bessey.

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Saturday evening Dr. Culp spoke again and led. up step by step to “The Greatest Thing Man May Know,” which was to familiarise himself with the work o f his Maker and the laws which he has ordained, until he comos to know God and to work in harmony with Him. This was an inspiring dis­course, which seemed to lift all who listened to it into the upper air, where their vision was clarified. That it delighted every one ie expressing the impression it made hut feebly. Seldom, i f ever, has such an addreas been made in Coquille, and it is for the opportunity it affords to hear such talks that the Chautauqua is most highly prised.

In the afternoon on Saturday the speaker was Florence E. Besley, a Red Cross nurse, who made hygiene inter­esting, and did not allow a dull mo­ment while she told of the dangers

it lurk in our pathway through life and how beat to combat them. She had the little folks guessing when she asked them to name the “most dan­gerous animal in the world.” Of course they said' “bear” and “ lion” and 'tiger,” but she didn’t agree with

them and Insisted that the common housefly was more to be dreaded than those ferocious beasts which we nev­er see except when they are caged and chained. There is no doubt that she proved her point, too, by making it clear that the fly carries the germs of typhoid and other dreaded dis­eases and is responsible for more sickness and death in a single montb than wild beasts would cause in t)iis country in a thousand years. She said the little girl who answered that the fly originated in “barns” was get­ting warm as children say in their hide and find contests. In fact if manure piles were sterilised so as to cease to afford a breeding place for flies, it ia hard to see how they would ever become very plentiful, though the old rain barrel at the corner of the house came in for its share ofcondemnation.------------- ----------------

How many deaths occurred in sick­ness through lack of care that every woman ought to be able to give was impressed by stories from Miss Bes- ley’s own experience that were told with dramatic force and listened to with absorbing interest. Her confer­ence with the ladies on “ Home Care of the Sick“ at the close of the cession was a feature that was highly appre­ciated.

The feature of the Sunday after­noon session was an aodress t>y the Chautauqua Mayor D. D. Hannon on “ The Problem o f the Unprepared.” I f f dwelt upon the illuminating facta in regard to our unpreparedness along so many lines that were revealed to us as a result of our entrance into the world war. We found out not only how much our men lacked in military training, in arms and ammunition, when we began to fight, but at the same time we learned how much so many o f our men lacked o f 100 per

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