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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
6
Town notes from Myrtle Point and Lee Pointers detail visitors, new autos, movements to S P logging camps, and Fourth of July gatherings. Entries mention Dan Miller and Barklow families, fishing trips, and a humorous tale of a partygoer who missed the dance due to being unbalanced.
Following a recent court decision on the O and C land grant, a Portland mass meeting draft proposes land office disposal as government agent and railroad trustee. It classifies lands into grazing agricultural and timbered categories, sets eligibility rules, and allocates timber sale proceeds to local improvements.
Regular services are announced with Sunday school at 10 a m and preaching at 11 am and 8 pm. Pastor Caiman and Ellis Lewis, son of Mr and Mrs Ray Lewis of North Fork, were in town for medical attention as doctors set a fractured leg from a hayload fall. Lewis recently suffered a face injury from a colt bite requiring stitches.
Thomas Barklow writes from Pearl City Illinois July 1 1915 describing intercity travels from South English Iowa What Cheer Belle Plaine Ames Boon Beaver Webster City and encounters with relatives hospitals cemeteries and civic works He details factory and fire department operations and laments time pressures of travel while sharing family reunions and observations from Washington News Letter notes on Huerta Wilson Germany and US trade issues.
Numerous people from Coos Bay area towns visit Powers Myrtle Point and Port Orford for business and family ties. Bertha Cannon undergoes appendicitis surgery. The Ladies Missionary Society meets July 15 with a focus on Presbyterian Women Home Missions. Road repairs on the county line praised as best road condition in the period.
Oregon Agricultural College notes protein and mineral matter are vital in colt feed. For growing horses the ideal ratio is about five to six parts carbohydrates to one part protein. Legumes like alfalfa, clover, and vetch plus oats and bran are best, while timothy and cheat hay or corn and barley are deficient. Early liberal rations prevent stunting and promote healthy yearlings and mature horses.
The article argues the public bears the war cost through sons and husbands sent to fight and through damaged fields buildings and money wasted. It notes an estimated hole of 2,000,000 dollars per hour and calls out the burden on citizens who fund the conflict.
A speaker laments future debts and the burden on workers from grain taxes, calling war a ruinous business that yields no real gain for the people. After Europe’s cataclysm ends, the duty falls to the suffering public to demand an end to war.
The article explains a chemical digestion principle that acids and alkalis antagonize each other. It argues starches digest with alkaline ferments, acids destroy those ferments, so meals should separate starch and acid rich foods. It notes acids aid meat digestion and advises not mixing starches with meats in the same meal. It ends with a local note about W. Schmedding traveling through Bremen to Marshfield and a family link to the Ploeger household.
Items from Vol. 2 No. 35 report Roane L Roberts and wife visiting the new county seat Tuesday. Geo A Robinson and Annie Leneve wed July 4 1897 at Coquille City. D A Huling hardware merchant troubled by Jobe's comforters this week. S B Hermann and wife visited the country guests of Wash Hermann. M R Lee and wife of Bandon celebrated with relatives and friends. they were joined by the captain of the steamer Moro. County court granted a relocation petition for part of the Myrtle Point Dairyville wagon road and reviewers were appointed.
Elder Levi Puterbaugh and his wife started a week long evangelistic series at the Church of the Brethren in Argos Indiana last Monday and will continue through Sunday July 18. The notice invites everyone to attend with friends and neighbors. Have you paid the printer lately.
Rhoda Fage administratrix of William Page deceased files final account with Coos County Court Oregon. Hearing set for August 9 1915 at the Courthouse Coos County by Judge James Watson to hear objections and settle the estate. First publication July 8 1915 last publication August 1916.
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