Myrtle Point Enterprise Record Details
The Myrtle Point Enterprise has a line about entering a second class matter and a March date, with C Milton Schulz as editor and publisher.
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
4
The Myrtle Point Enterprise has a line about entering a second class matter and a March date, with C Milton Schulz as editor and publisher.
The Oregon railroad mileage rose about 500 miles from July 1910 to January 1912. The Enterprise predicts the year 1912 will see more miles built in the state than the previous eighteen months.
The State Superintendent Alderman leads a statewide campaign to engage all children in farming trades and stock breeding. The State Fair Board will hike prizes for children at Salem next fall with Myrtle Point hosting the first county fair. The Enterprise plans a grand prize for the child under sixteen with the most first prizes in school work, agriculture, livestock, carpentry, sewing, or cooking.
The Myrtle Club advances community development as its primary goal. It calls for a conservative local boom to attract investment at home, urging attention from ranchers, workers, merchants, and citizens. It links conservation to broader economic success, applying to all walks of life.
The piece advocates applying conservation to improve home life and neighbor cooperation to build a better town. It notes the removal of failures signposts and urges practical steps through a Myrtle Club meeting space. The Myrtle Club has about thirty members with potential to grow to fifty.
Local notices list several churches with Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. A J Irwin and Rev F E Scofield are named pastors. The Lat ter Day Saints and M E Church South also schedule services and a prayer meeting, with children’s meeting details and invitations to attend.
Advice from a local horticulturist urges observing wild growth to time orchard planting in Coos County. It recommends delaying dates, ordering nursery stock in fall, and proper root handling while noting climate diversity and the role of local horticultural societies in guiding varieties and site preparation.
Capt H E Wilcox former keeper of the Coos Bay Life Saving Station dies at a North Bend home after months of Brights disease and heart trouble. He won honors for heroic work during the Emily disaster and other wrecks off the coast. He had lived at his McKinley ranch on the Coquille for fifteen years and was widely known in the community.
The article honors Capt Wilcox a longtime station keeper who retired fifteen years ago to ranch life and survived the Arago disaster by being away on a visit. He is survived by wife two grown sons Mason and Grant and two daughters Mabel and Margaret. Funeral in Dora at 1 p m tomorrow. Colleagues praise him as heroic faithful and kind. Mention of railway plans for Coos Bay Bridge extension and Smith Powers Co railroad terms.
The Smith Powers Logging Company plans a new camp near Bridge to tap timber held by C A Smith interests. A railway from Myrtle Point to Bridge must be built to deliver logs to the Smith mill, with negotiations ongoing with Southern Pacific for the line.
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