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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1913
Page
8
Placards reading For Sale For Rent Private Strictly Cash Dont Ask for Credit Keep Smiling and Trespass Notices on waterproof linen offered by Enterprise Prompt in Coquille Valley printed at the leading local newspaper print shop.
A collection of brief local items from Arago, including Ralph Schroeder’s eye treatment in Marshfield, Mrs. Breuer in Los Angeles, and several families affected by whooping cough. School notes on an organ shipment from Chicago, a Christmas event at United Brothern church, and a regional mining production overview including Alaska coal issues.
A brief note lists Pennsylvania Ohio and Illinois among the leading states for mineral production with emphasis on coal iron and zinc sectors. The incomplete fragment suggests a ranking or feature on extraction and industrial significance of these states.
The ad rejects blood cure theories for eczema and promotes D D D Prescription as a penetrating, itch stopping remedy. It claims salves clog pores and fail to reach the inner skin where eczema germs lodge, touting D D D as superior with a full size bottle guarantee if it does not relieve itching.
Absent pupil noted in Park section. New pupil Nay Thomas added to Mrs. Pails room making 27 in attendance. Seventh grade top six weeks: Vivien Annin Josephine Thom Leslie Jones Francis Braden Gladys Carter Alice Dement Marie Green. Sixth grade top: Inez DeVault George Lee Clarice Lee Donald Rackleff Raleigh Greene Raymond Endicott. Seventh grade agriculture A grades: seventeen A and four B. Teachers hosted by Mr and Mrs L A Roberts. High School championship debate set for Dec 12 1913 at Benson Opera House on a single term topic. Bandon negative team: Kronenberg Craine Shields. Myrtle Point affirmative: Dickson Krantz Harrison. Winners advance to district. Musical program Crippling Sunshine by Rackleff chorus and Nellie Barton etc. Debates at 8:15 admission 25 cents. Bazaar at Lundy Hall next Saturday with Japanese style booths. Pupils' work supplies Christmas gifts and refreshments. Circus Day at the Unique Friday.
This clipping recalls visits by J. H. Roberts of Bandon and Dr. Geo D. Elgin, moves of L. S. Rogers to Marshfield, a Norway wedding of W Hunt and Lillie Houghton, river improvements enabling the Myr steamer, sugar beet farming interest, and beet yields including a 28½ pound mangel-wurzel.
An advertisement touts Harmony Hair Beautifier to remove dullness and oily odor, add shine and fluffiness, and ease styling. It claims quick, noticeable results and offers a one dollar price with a money back guarantee, available in stores and Great Britain.
Mrs August Belmont, president of the Spugs, opens the 1913 drive to abolish insincere and wasteful Christmas giving. She notes the society started to prevent compulsory giving by workers in stores and factories and to curb collective gifts that risked embarrassment and loss of jobs. Mrs J Borden Harriman chairs the meeting as membership rolls open to all US residents.
Theodore Jones reports a contest against Matthew Ottis Nichols of Myrtle Point Oregon over the NE% of NE section 23 township 29 south range 13 west Willamette Meridian. Nichols is accused of abandoning the land for over one year and faces cancellation if he does not file an answer within twenty days after the fourth publication. Proof of service and notices must be provided as specified.
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