Fighting Continues At Dardanelles As War Sees Sinking Vessels
The week shows three ships sunk and one torpedoed but reaching port amid German submarine activity. Diplomacy swirls over the Medea sinking and Dutch ships, while Italy Balkans talks hint at Turkish territorial offers. Russians push on in the Carpathians. Austrians report repelling them. Grand assault looms at the Dardanelles with 20 battleships and 40 000 to 50 000 troops massed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TheoMbiza
England
Holland
Germany
Italy
Balkans
Bulgaria
Carpathians
Bartfeld-Uzsok
Bukowina
Vonges
Belgium
France
Przenys
Geneva
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Ministerial Association and Epworth League Convene Here Next Week
The Eugene District of the Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a four day convention here next week starting Wednesday. Devotions and sermons open with Rev W M Anderson and Rev Cal H Bryan. The program covers meetings on Thursday and Friday with talks on pastoral duties, evangelism, and church life. The League Convention details will be announced next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Eugene
Methodist ‘Episcopal Church
Ministerial Association
W. M. Anderson
Cal. H. Bryan
Joseph Knotts
F. A. Piper
E. Sutton Mace
W.H. Myers
W. E.williams
A. S. Hisey
J. F. Viernon
W. H. Myers
Ted
A. S Hisey
G. M. Knight
J. J. Pacey
League
Roberts Holsteins sale yields fair prices at auction
L A Roberts Holsteins herd brought fair prices last Saturday. A four year old registered cow sold for 300 dollars and a two year old registered heifer for 265 dollars. Dave McKenzie Curry county bought two animals and W T Dement bought most of the rest. Milk and butter fat records influenced prices, signaling buyers may soon demand records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roberts
Jersey
Dave McKenzie
Curry County
W. T. Dement
Local Happenings and Agricultural Auction Plans
A column notes Mr. Boone’s Kentucky lineage and a Marian Marshfield link. Portland Union Stockyards shipped brood sows to Hood River for school children to raise and repay. Aiming for livestock fame again, the program tracks growth with prizes for top records at season end.
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D. Boone
Wink "Kardell
Marshfield
Boone
Missouri
Daniel
Kentucky
Portland Union
Hood River
Consolidation of Local Telephone Exchanges
Myrtle Point now has a single exchange after the Coos and Curry Telephone Company was bought by the Coquille Valley Telephone Company. Long distance lines from Florence to Brookings and Roseburg connect through the new unified system, enabling direct talk between any county subscriber.
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Myrtle Point
Coos and Curry Telephone Company
Coquille ‘Valley Telephone Company
Will .Aéerve
Coos and Curry Company
Florence
Brookings
Roseburg
Hns
Coquizie
Cops and Curry Company
Schreifer
Seal
Fatal accident on South Fork railroad right of way
Foreman Sam Evans, 64, led a crew burning brush along the Smith Powers railroad right of way on the South Fork. About eleven o'clock he ordered the team to proceed while he would finish for the week. His body was found under a snag near the noon break suggesting he was crushed or trapped and could not free himself. No relatives nearby. a letter from Grundy Evans in Wisconsin noted burial in a Lutheran cemetery and that the deceased belonged to J C C F and K P lodges.
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Evans
Vans
Js Evans
Grundy Evans
Drisco
Wis
P. Lodges
Sey
Bes. Ve
New Chamber of Commerce Expands to Lead Oregon
Portland, March 30 Special. The New Chamber of Commerce claims to be largest in the country with over 4 200 members and aims to reach 5 000. 77 committees visited every business house in Portland to secure members. A new business manager will head the consolidated chamber to coordinate statewide growth ahead of the 1915 Exposition travel.
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Portland
Ore
Portland ‘Chamber of, Commerce
Portand, Commercial Club
Chamber of, Commerce
Oregon
Myrtle Point Teachers Institute Report
Myrtle Point section teachers attended the institute with speakers from Eugene including Dr. Sheldon and Profs Baker and Golden. Afternoon session lists numerous teachers such as Florence Jennings Mary Price Hellen Robbins Audry Bryant Doris Williams Etta Darnell Blanche DeArmond Nellie Barton Dora Harrison Mina Magnus Ida Gamble Cleo Dixon Tha Ihrenriech Sarah Devore Ethyl Lessiere Agnes McCracken and supervisors Mrs Whitaker Root Davidson Prof E R Jones and Supt L W Wimberly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheldon
Eugene
R. E. Baker
F. A. Golden
Myrtle Point
Florence Jennings
Mary Price
Hellen Robbins
Audry Bryant
Doris Williams
Etta Darnell
Blanche de Armond
Nellie Barton
Dora Harrison
Mina ‘Magnus
Government land open for entry in Roseburg district summaries
The Roseburg land office lists by township and range the approximate government land acreage in Coos and Curry counties as of January 20, 1915. It details unreserved surveyed lands open to entry, unsurveyed lands open to settlement, and totals for all lands within the Roseburg district, including forest reserves and national forests.
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Roseburg
Coos County
Lane
Douglas
Josephine
Jackson
Coos
Curry
Lincoln
Renton
Linn
Crook
Klamath
Oregon
Curry County
Swedish tailor Frank A Lindh dies in hotel room
The fifty-something Lindh, a Sweden native and veteran tailor who worked in Chicago and at army posts on the Pacific Coast, died early Sunday at the Hotel Guerin after years of ill health. He left a will bequeathing his Oregon property to Thos. D. Guerin. services were held at the Church of the Brethren in Myrtle Point.
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Romney
Hotel Guerin
Lindh
Oakland
California
Chicago
Salvation Army
Quartermasters’ Department
Fresidio
San Francisco
Vancouver
Pacific
Middle Fork
Coquille River
Myrtle Point
Mr. Lindh
Oregon
Thos. D. Guerin
F. A. Lindhu
Church of the Brethren
Tios
Barklow
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West
L. A. Roberts Holstein
Rex ‘Beach
William Farnum
Kathryn Williams
Wilson's 'S
South Fork
NEW Chamber OF Commerce
Institute
the Enterprise the News
Coos and Curry
Frank A
Rea County
Minnesota
Tayen
Ekendorf
N. P
Peferson
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