01 Jan 1914
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1914
Page
1
A 1913 retrospective notes Myrtle Point and its section enjoying social progress and record financial activity. County road improvements, eleven blocks of hard surface paving, numerous dairy barn constructions, and wide home building programs transform the town with new residences and business blocks.
The governor has sent a special representative to Coos Bay for weeks to investigate local matters. The agent remains reticent about the mission and no definite details have been released. Speculation ties the inquiry to I W W deportations, liquor traffic, or how the governor’s actions were so radical.
In Salem Oregon December 29 a question is raised whether physician prescriptions for whiskey qualify as valid prescriptions. Governor West was asked to decide and District Attorney Brown of Roseburg is tasked with investigating what lawmakers call a dry territory harvest. Copies show one physician using printed forms to rush prescriptions avoiding handwriting.
We desire to thank all who kindly extended help and sympathy during the illness and death of Mr. James Matheney. Mrs. Louisa Corbin and family Mrs. Belle Waldeck Willie Matheny Joseph Matheny
Five shops in the Montgomery building on Marshfield Front Street were ruined by a Monday morning fire with water damage estimated between 25 000 and 40 000. The blaze started above Solomon Lando's store and took about an hour to control with two city engines. Affected businesses included Lando dry goods Sarter confectionery Quartermass photo gallery Stafford candy factory Pullman saloon and Larson household goods. only insurance noted was 700 on Sarter s Soda fountain.
Mr A J Hayes and Miss Charolette Baker wed Christmas day at the bride’s grandmother Mrs Chas Eckhoff home in North Bend. Rev D A McLeod officiated. Attendants were Harrison Hayes and Charolette Rooke. Thirty eight relatives attended the dinner and the couple will reside on the groom’s ranch on the South Fork after a short wedding trip from North Bend. The Enterprise extends best wishes. The steamer Fifield sails from Bandon for San Francisco at 6 00 am Saturday January 3 1914.
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