Arago Community Happenings and Summer School Notes
Ben Moomaw completes a second silo for the fall corn crop. A fourth son was welcomed to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Carl’s home on June 22. Sunday School ends for the summer. Residents busy filling silos with grain. Hazel Radabaugh teaches Bald Hill school and visits home. Lange district summer term advances as Clara Bley directs first public literary event in years, outdoors with a basket sale raising 52.65 for school improvements. The program featured violin, songs, recitations, comedies, farce, and stage entertainment with local pupils and families participating.
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Arago
Ben Moomaw
J. D. Carl
Suniday School
Hazel Radabaugh
Bald Hill
Pleasant View
Lange
Clara Bley
Glen Neideigh
Henry Schroeder
Daddy
Leslie Southmayd
Dick Roy
Clarence Strong
Janet Roy
Vera Avant
Nellie Taylor
Ella Zumwalt
Bertha Strong
Mrs. F. Southmayd
Miss
One Hundred Dollar Reward For Catarrh Cure Claim
A damaged ad offers one hundred dollars reward for a catarrh cure that cannot be beaten by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The copy claims thirty five years of use and praises the remedy as most reliable. It describes the product as cleansing mucous surfaces and purifying the blood. The text contains numerous typographical errors and unclear phrases.
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Hall
Ball
Ee Okie
Rate increase in state in doubt in Oregon
Salem June 30 All members of Oregon public service commission say the interstate commerce commission denial of a 15 percent horizontal rise in interstate freight rates ends hope for a similar intrastate increase. If any rise occurs it will apply only to commodities truly needing higher rates and must preserve parity with interstate levels. Commissioner Buchtel comments on the parity issue following the decision.
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Salem
Ore
Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oregon
State Commission
Buchtel
Sherrif R. P. Anderson
Washington
White House
Women’s Party
San Francisco
St. Peter
Socialist Party
Debs
Wilson
Cleveland
Minneapolis
United States
Carl T. Robertson
R. R. Richards
Detroit
Andrew Johnson At Chautauqua 1917 Ellison-White Event
Noted platform humorist Andrew Johnson headlines the Ellison-White Chautauqua assemblies of 1917. He has taken the East and Middle West by storm and is expected to repeat his prior triumphs on the coming program.
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Andrew Johnson
Jonson
East
Middle West
New York Soprano to Headline 1917 Chautauqua Circuit
Mary Ade Hays a noted New York soprano will appear solo with the Royal Venetian Band on the Ellison White Chautauqua tour in Myrtle Point New Oregon. The report lauds her trill and coloratura as well as the band accompaniment and versatile repertoire from opera to ballads. Also noted are local notices on executor appointment for Margaret Elizabeth Strong and a Myrtle Point death.
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Mary Ade Hays
New York
Royal Venetian Band
Miss Hays
Hays
Myrtle Point Chautauqua
Margaret Elizabeth Sting
County Court
Coos County
Oregon
Claud H. Giles
Bank of
Myrtle Point
Myrtle
William ‘Jacob Strong
Margaret
Elizabeth Strong
Liberty loan totals set records and a New York financier dies
Final Liberty loan figures show subscriptions at 3 35 226 850 surpassing the 2 billion goal by about 52 percent with over four million purchasers. Major subscribers included several $25 million plus bids. Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne, longtime Standard Oil treasurer, died in New York at 77, reputed to hold $90 million in the company.
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New York
Oliver Hazard Payne
Cleveland
Payne
Standard Oil Company
Roseburg
Ore
Washington
Senator Chamberlain
Post Office Department
Post Office
War Departments
Port Orford
Humbug Mountain
Port Orford Tribune
Baker, Ore
Killamaque
Rock Creek
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Ayrtle Point Enterprise
Enterprise
Therman ‘Avant
Mrs. Neideigh
Betsey
Squire Hooper
Freddie Zumwalt
Captain Duntley
Clarence Willard
Ellen Haines
Edna Southmayd
Maggie Haines
Annie Haines
Fayma Arant
Blanche
Florence Felscher
Rosa Zumwalt
Audrey Strong
Frank Southmayd
Interstate Commission
All Hope
Oregon Roads
Chautauqua
Johnson
Pacific
Lyceum
Harland
Miller
Corey
Lester James Lester Raymord James
Church of the Brethers
Thomas Barklow
Mary Adel Hays
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