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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1915
Page
6
The note cites twelve reasons to shop at the store, asserting personal integrity of management and a strict policy against dishonest tricks. It emphasizes honesty as a core value and claims employees are trained to uphold it.
Work on the new Powers school building progresses. Joe Pope family visiting Hall household. Grandmother Hayes ill with a cold. Bryant family outing to Eden Valley. Chas Price and Edna Price from Bancroft visit Tom Hayes. Edna to stay a few days. Spies with Stanley hound kills a panther threatening John Hayes flock. Hayes has slain four panthers recently. Miss Millie Bright helps at home. Mrs Neer improving. Emmersons host birthday party for Nettie Iverson. Barton family moved to North Bend for winter. Stryker to return home briefly. Florence Mullen to visit grandparents Culon.
Gravel Ford residents the Coleman Iverson Colvin J D Bennett and Mereen families plan to travel to Bandon for a camp meeting. Mr Emmerson and sons will manage the dairy ranches during their absence. Mrs Geo Mullen had the misfor Readable fragments indicate local notices of temporary departures and farm care arrangements.
The piece chronicles a day trip by sixteen Jolly Rompers to Lost Creek Ore with playful verses by a local poet. It recounts picnicking, camera antics, playful mischief, campfire stories, a cougar scare and fond farewells, ending with memories and a wish to return.
Stringtown Aug 19 Miss Violet Roker traveled to Halls Creek to visit her friend Mrs Alice Aasen. A Collins is having his house repair work and other notes fill the page.
Washington reports say a provisional Mexican government may be formed by a selected group of Mexicans with US recognition and backing from major American financial interests. Ports could be blocked and arms denied until the new regime takes hold, with Latin American republics anticipated to recognize it.
A reader letter describes Myrtle Point farming in August with threshing in full swing. A wood Bros 22 horsepower coal engine handles 2,000 to 3,000 bushels daily, with self feeders weighing and dumping grain, and a large blower expelling straw and chaff. The writer notes machinery dominates, grain handling via a horse powered elevator, and corn husking is not yet a success.
A group of young people gathered Friday evening at Magness Grove for a pleasant outing suspecting luck with the date. They kept a safe camp fire to avoid upsetting any panther roaming nearby and enjoyed story telling songs and games as time seemed to fly. Attendees included Grace Hall Florence Hall John Hall Dorothy Snow Sylvia Davis and others with Mrs L M Magness and Fred Felsher among the adults.
Mrs Leander Barklow and family arrived from the logging camp for an over Sunday visit. Will Hughes is building a cistern for Daniel Barklow this week. Mrs Cora Axe and daughter Agness of Bidge visited at the Dan Miller home. G W Barklow visited his sisters Mrs Geo Adams and Mrs Dan Miller. Daniel Barklow left for hop yards in the Willamette alley. Mr and Mrs Manley Barklow and family visited Geo Bigsby over Sunday.
Julia C Hayes age 55 dies in Los Angeles on June 30 1915 after twelve weeks ill with brain fever. Born January 5 1860 near Omaha Nebraska she moved to Coos County Oregon at age eleven. Survived by two daughters and a son in law Georgina Rice Marguerite Hayes and Arthur Rice, a brother James M Vowell and sister Mrs Glenn Cox. She was active in the Christian church and lived in Long Beach before burial at Signal Hill Cemetery on July 3 1914.
A 1915 letter from S ColemanEs, Adventist Elder, argues Armageddon will follow the Turkish Empire's fall in Asia. It cites Bible prophecies from Daniel Revelation and quotes Asquith's 1914 remarks, warning against faith in princes and urging readiness before divine judgment.
A mixed column from August 21 1897 notes visitors in town including L A Stemmler and a Dora relative, reports on Prof W C Guerin of Coquille, and a Cunningham district school term. It records Miss Laura Jones arriving from Cottage Grove, a wedding in Pleasant Valley, hunting trips, and a mountain trout feast. The piece ends with a note on a proposed forest telephone line project led by H B Barker and George McCaskie detailing a coast road route via Schofield Creek.
A Dora reader urges Myrtle Point Enterprise readers to adopt a county road system. Proposes placing the county on one road, imposing a special road tax biennially, and dividing work among Marshfield Coquille Point Myrtle Center centers. criticizes a bond proposal of 370000, arguing bonds are insufficient and timber resources should fund roads.
An article on hay fever treatment by Dr. R. and K. Daniels appears in The Hygienist Magazine. The piece offers stamps or silver as payment and invites readers to obtain a copy from news dealers or mail ten cents to The Hygienist Publishing Co. in Denver.
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