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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1914
Page
6
Community notices from Arago dated August 2 describe preparations for an outdoor entertainment and box supper at Ray school house to support school funds. The piece also lists local travels, births, camp outings, a moonlight church picnic, and transport updates including the steamer Dora’s return and a new Ford auto purchase.
McKinley Morley, employed by the Hervey Bros for a year, left last Thursday for Roseburg to visit friends and relatives for a few weeks. Lonie Hollenbeck has replaced him on the ranch and will sap cows until Morley’s return. Aunt Lottie Mast was mentioned in the report.
Local items describe improving weather and community interest in the county fair at Myrtle Point. Several residents, including Misses Clara and Rachael Gang, visit Nort Bend. Dick Summerlin enjoys dances despite being stranded. Grandma and Rev. R. G. Summerlin visit, Rube praises North Fork, Effie King visits Claud Waters, George Quittener tours, James Hervey travels to California to see his son Fry who is healing from a broken leg. The Sydiman couple returns home to cheers.
Aug 6 report lists Mrs Mary Miller visiting her aunt Mary Barklow while the latter plans a California trip. Earnest Root spent the weekend at home, returned to camp Monday. Miss Cassie Royer visited Manley Barklow’s home this week. C A Davidson, just back from California, returned Monday morning. John Barklow worked Monday after a Sunday at home. Mrs Thos Root and Miss Agnes McCracken returned Friday from Monmouth after attending the Blue Feather summer Normal.
Rev. R. G. Sumerlin will preach at the U B church August 16 at 11 and a basket dinner at 2. Ed. Olsen works with the binder. Holt and Airey families from Gaston visit. Frank Harnish attends Myrtle Point debate. Carl Hollenbeck hauls lumber for Stryker’s new blacksmith shop. Ruland buys wife a plane. Ray Bennett travels to Coquille for household goods for Prof. Emmerson, academy principal. Outlook for the year is excellent.
Ben Gant of Grave, Ford and Rural attended Leroy Casey’s funeral and eyed land offered by Smith-Powers Co. Three Riverton children visited Henryville before returning home. Roads were rough as relatives traveled. several marriages licenses are listed including Leneve Arrington and Germold Volkus.
John Hensley of South Fork recalls a July mountain bear encounter near John Gram’s place. He shot the bear after it rose in a sudden attack, the first shot through the mouth and a second shot lower that broke the neck. The bear weighed about 300 pounds. The piece then shifts to a note on the deadly impact of the fly on civilization.
A reader recounts a dream about being a newspaper and its readers, paying three dollars on subscription. Nearby notes report Joseph Hay leaving for Hilo Hawaii Territory to make his home. Van Dodge and Philena Corvallis visit their ill father Orvil Dodge, now improving, with Evert Hanshew also present.
Co Rev J G Adams, a dry advocate, visited town this week. He gave a street address Tuesday evening and a lecture at the Presbyterian church last night. His speeches promote the dry amendment with humor.
The piece argues against the fear of Scott's Emulsion causing obesity, claiming it nourishes the body first and builds health from the source, with flesh forming only through continued use and without relying on alcohol. It urges avoiding alcoholic substitutes for Scott's Emulsion.
Oregon industrial brief lists projects and shifts across the state. Astoria docks advance. Baker county dairy barn rises. Oregon City repaving. Pendleton auto streetcar service eyed. Hood River creamery preps site. Salem unions protest public market measures. rail and bridge work reported. coal vein near Medford noted.
Sunday school begins at 10:00. Evening preaching at 7:15 p.m. All are cordially invited to attend.
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