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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
4
Public road specialists report observations across regions where teamsters move two wagons to the end of the dirt road then abandon one for later. They consolidate loads at the road’s start and finish the trip with a single wagon or yoke. Oxen-drawn teams also adjust by freeing extra animals at the good road’s start.
The Home Circle column urges holiday giving through local home merchants, emphasizing generosity toward the needy and the moral Christmas spirit. It praises supporting community shops, warns against alienation, and calls for outdoor schooling as a public health trend for winter.
A Salem reader argues the Six Per Cent Tax Limitation Bill is misdrawn and would cap state spending below 1916 levels. The letter details the bill's effect on Oregon’s 1917 budget and criticizes the drafting committee for underestimating carryover funds. Sheridan backs a $30,000 hard surface road project.
Critics praise David Wark Griffiths Birth of a Nation for combining spectacle romance domestic drama and tragedy into a two hour forty five minute epic. It traces American life from slavery through Civil War and Reconstruction to union in love and peace, defying old stage unities and uniting North and South.
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Episcopal church held a Friday bazaar and evening social at Lundys hall. During the day fancy-work and other goods were sold, lunch and tamales were served, and an evening program of music and recitations delighted a large crowd. The bazaar added over three score dollars to the Aid’s bank account. Heavy loan plan from Morgan was withdrawn as per foreign guidance and Federal Reserve input. A British-French loan of 50 million dollars was subsequently called off in line with Fed wishes.
Salem Oregon December 2 reports filed with the public service commission show Walla Walla Valley Railway loss of 6610 for year ending June 30 with revenues 110,994.39 and expenses 84,781.71 Astoria Southern Railway loss 2107.15 with revenues 36,797.06 and expenses 19,451.91 Portland Troutdale Electric Railway loss 840.03 with expenses 4827.97 and revenues 3987.94.
The document lists citizenship hearings for Ernest Alexander Liljeberg Johny Salo Henry Wisti Thomas McKelvie Frederick Reichmann Charles Thorwald Farl Emil Stone Emil Johnson and others from Finland Ireland Denmark and Germany. The Interstate Commerce Commission approves higher demurrage charges to curb shortages by railroads, enabling penalties for each extra day, releasing thousands of cars now held in terminals.
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