Notable Myrtle Point News Highlights Local Visits and Fires
Mrs. Frank Fish and daughter visited the Price and Hayes families. Myrtle and Carl Storris stayed with the Appletons while parents were in Coquille on business. The C. E. Russell House burned Monday evening. neighbors saved much. Forest Hermann moved to Taylor Cement place for winter. Brethren meet at Hermann school house on the first and third Sundays.
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Bancroft Billetts Bancroft
Frank Fish
Alice
Price
Forest Hermann
Taylor Cement Place
Hermann School
South Fork Sayings Herald Local Notes December
John Wheabrey returned from a business trip in the Siuslaw country last week. Mrs J M Wagner and family visited relatives and neighbors. Leonard Hartley plans to finish the river bridge work on the Hartley property this week. Clarence Huff moves into the Crutchfield house. Dr Johnson attended Mrs Clarence Russell who was ill but recovering. Uncle John Whittington visits sister Mrs Aaron Crutchfield for a couple of weeks.
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South Fork
John Wheabrey
Siuslaw
J. M. Wagner
Leonard Hartley
John Whittington
Aaron Crutchfield
Town Notes From Stringtown December 17
Mrs Ira Adams and Mrs Gracy Bonewitz visited Mrs Alice Anser and her newborn daughter. Mr and Mrs Alex Barklow welcomed an eight pound boy. Mrs Martha Root has been ill. Snowball is ill and absent from school. Mrs Mollie Barklow helps Mrs Mary Miller with Christmas sewing. Winter appears near with cold weather. Miss Pearl Barklow works for Mrs Alex Snyder. Our old neighbor…
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Stringtown
Ira Adams
Gracy Bonewitz
Alice Anser
Alex Barklow
Martha Root
Snowball
Mollie Barklow
Westward hopes and a quiet December wedding
A letter from Kirkruff Flater describes travel through Nevada Utah and Colorado to Iowa and the wish to return to Oregon. He praises Coos County but notes the cold damp winter of Iowa. A quiet home wedding followed at the Kirkruff home with Wilson Burt Kirkruff and Marie Elimine Flater marrying December 16 under Elder Thos Barxlow. They will reside with the groom’s parents as he helps on the Windsor Falkenstein ranch.
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Conrad
Iowa
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Myrtle Point
Oregon
Aus
Coos
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Nebraska
Coos County
Preaching at M. E. Church South and local notices
Sunday service at 11 with a discussion on A Chaist less World. Special music to aid worship. Salem to build a $20,000 schoolhouse. Local notes include Shook students at public school and lumbago illness of Wm. Brady. Gravel Ford reports river ice and a road slide near Hall place.
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M. E. Church South
Willard M. Anderson
Gravel Ford Gems
Academy
Luke and
Milo Shook
Wm. T. Brady
Gravel Ford
Hall Place
Rev. Munger
Dora
M. J. Krantz
Early days in Myrtle Point section noted residents
Ben Gant a prosperous young rancher of Rural was in town Tuesday. Max Dixon returns from Riverton for holidays. A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Geo Bird near Norway on December 19 1896. Details on local families, miners A H Moore and G Guerin discuss a 64 ounce nugget valued 400 to 600 dollars. County division talk stirs local politics with remonstrance against splitting Coos County.
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Ben Gant
Max Dixon
Riverton
Geo. Bird
Norway
M. L. Lee
Bandon
Enterprise
Milt
A. H. Moore
Salmon Mountain
Thomas Guerin
Eckley
The
Bay
Coos
Coquille
Coos Bay
Court House
Ee Et A Wall
Oregon industry notes governorship appointments and projects
Miss Fern Hobbs is named to the Workingmen's Compensation commission at 3600 dollars a year. Oregon pursues consolidation of Portland business groups, utility expansions, and road and bridge projects across Harney Lake, Tillamook, and Celilo canal. The Northwest Steel Co. bids the lowest for eight Celilo canal bridges.
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Salem
Ore
Fern Hobbs
West
Workingmen’s Compensation Commission
Portland Commercial Club
Chamber of Commerce
Rogue River Public Service Corporation
Gold Hill
Chewaucan Press
Desert Land Board
Oregon
Pacific Power & Light Co
Baker County
Astoria
Gold Leaf Mine
Bohemia
Withycombe
The
Northwest Steel Co. of
Portland
Celilo Canal
Road conference notes and a divorce summons in Oregon
A report covers a state road meeting in which about 300 people attended, including county officials, with photos showing Columbia Highway bridges. The second item is a summons in Mary H. Wadman vs James H. Wadman filed in Coos County Circuit Court seeking divorce, custody of three children, and costs, with publication directed in Myrtle Point Enterprise.
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Ood Roads
Judge Hall
Armstrong
MecCulloch
Coos County
J. L. Laird
E. E
Bridge
Columbia Highway
Multnomah County
Lewis
Circuit Court
State of Oregon
County of
Coos
Mary H. Wadman
James H. Wadman
State of
Oregon
John S. Coke
Circuit Court of the State
Myrtle Point
J. C. Stemmler
Plaintiff
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Palace OF Sweets
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A.H. Bender
C. Roberts Cash Store
Fred Gage
F J. Fish
T. J. Hays
Myrtle Creek
Jeff Gibbs
C. E. Russell
Clarence Huff
C. E. Broadbent
Arthur
Stringtown Stories
Bob Bok
the Public Pulse
Lebelous
Yours Truly
I. A. Otto
George Sigsby
Einterprise
W. C. Conner
Breuer’s
W. J. Grahan
al Baker
Los Angeles
California
Mr Baker
Marshfield
Frank A. Spencer
W A. Spencer
Gardiner
Frank
P. M. Hall-Lewis
Civil Agineers
Industrial Review
Oregon Development News
State Bureau of Industries and Statistics
Dora T. W. Panter
O. K
Cops and Curry Telephone Co
Marshfield, Ore
H. M. Shaw
Irving Bik
Roseburg
J.L. Laird
U.S
Laird's Livery
C. R. Bennett
Farmers
W. T. Ramsey
Benjamin Ostlind
Henry Hermann
W. A. Trefren
Highland Ave
Grants Pass
Dean
Doan
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