Petition Circulation Urges to Preserve Daily Mail Route
Myrtle Point businessmen circulate petitions to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General urging maintenance of daily mail service on Star Route No. 3207 from Roseburg to Myrtle Point. They cite Myrtle Point as a key distribution point and warn against routing via Drain Scottsburg and Gardiner or Portland steamer services, seeking 10 hour summer and 24 hour winter deliveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Point
Myrtle Club
Congress
Washington
Roseburg
Coos
Curry Counties
Stemmiler
Washington, D. C
Cooz
Curry
Oregon
Douglas County
Coos County
Department
Myrtle’ S Point
Curry County
Coquille
Bandon
Drain
Scottsburg
Gardiner
Portland
Guerin Hotel
Jake Stemmler
Close Call Aground Off Oregon Coast Crickets Rescued
The steam schooner Cricket ran aground about 1000 feet from shore near Jarvis landing in thick fog. Jolanda the fishing tug and gas schooner Rustler aided with lines and anchors while Bee also lent help from North Bend. The Cricket, bound from Port Angeles to San Pedro with lumber, lightened its deck by jettisoning cargo and returned to deep water on flood tide. Captain Wehman sent his wife and two daughters and two other relatives to safety as life boats evacuated them after the vessel floated. The Coos Bay station rescued the passengers and sealed the incident as calm despite rare smooth seas along the Oregon coast.
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Cricket
Jarvis Landing
Jolanda
Bee
North Bend
Port Angeles
Puget Sound
San Pedro
Cal
Wehman
Coos Bay
Oregon
Odd Fellows Visit by Grand Master in Coos County
Wm. Galloway, Grand Master of the I O O F in Oregon, will make Myrtle Lodge an official visit in Coos county on Saturday evening July 25. All members and sojourning brothers should attend to meet him.
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Wm. Galloway
Oregon
Coos County
Myrtle Lodge
Latter Day Saints Church Sunday Schedule Brief
The Latter Day Saints Church lists Sunday school at 10 a m with preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Z R L Society meets at 6 30 p m.
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Latter Day Saints Church
Z.R. L. Society
Coos County Court Doings Chronicled
Coos County court session July 2 to July 7 rejected county claims for goods and services. Salaries set for ferryman. road improvements ordered, bids invited for courthouse repairs, and several road relocations approved. Pensions granted to Kate Freeland and Venus Gill. taxes cancelled for J E Oren. Viewers meet July 27 for Two Mile Creek road survey.
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Catching Creek
Myrtle Point
Port Orford
Beaver Sloughs Marsh
Marshfield County
Cooper Bridge
Bandon
Curry
County Line
Bandon Construction Company
Kentuck Slough
Fox Bridge
Ford-Dora County
Stringtown
Foot Hill
River Road
J. W. Laird
P. W. Laird
J. G. Lee
Riverton
Juvenile Department of the County Court
Kate Freeland
North Bend
Venus Gill
Coquille
J. E. Oren
Coos County
Two Mile Creek County
Coquille Sentinel
Wheat Fields Empty Town in Kansas Harvest Crisis
Hoxie Kansas residents flee to the wheat fields as harvest hands from the east quit due to heat. Delegation urges locals to help. bars post Saturday only signs and officials dress in old clothes. County offices close and merchants assign female clerks as the town fears a ruined harvest and paralyzed business.
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Hoxie
Kan
Working the Country for Prohibition Press Payments
An Associated Press dispatch and Medford Mail Tribune summary report that the Anti-Saloon League seeks free use of newspaper space and distribution, pressuring Oregon papers to print propaganda at no cost. It notes salaries for league officials and calls out the unfair burden on country editors while city papers are favored.
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Nhe Mail Tribune
Oregon
Reity
Portland
Pakarly
Mit
Ogg Moy
W. E. Johnson
iLeague
Oreton
Anti-Saloon ‘League
League
Tserejis
Associated Press
Ore
Prohibition Party
E. A. Rowell
Hobson
Alabama
Anti-Saloon League
Ishorer
Medford Mail Tribune
Geo Guerin Visits Oakland and Notes Local Improvements
Geo. Guerin of Illinois arrived in Oakland for a two month visit with his sons and friends. He praises the city’s progress since his last visit, spotlighting the Enterprise and its plant. He helps lead the Submarine Concrete Construction Co., formed last spring, aimed at encasing wharf and bridge piling in concrete.
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Geo. Guerin
Geo
IL. Guerin, Sr
Oakland
Mr. Guerin
Enterprise
Submarine Concrete Construction Co
Local firm plans large contracts at Berkeley wharves
The proprietors, owners of a patented device to protect against steredos and barnacles, are members of the company. They have already carried out work on the Monarch oil wharf at Berkeley and expect to begin a large contract on the Berkeley city wharf soon.
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Monarch Oil
Berkely
Berkeley City
Convicted for burning slashings without permit
Portland reports two Washington convictions for burning slashings without a permit from a fire warden. The fires caused about 5000 dollars in damage to logs and logging equipment, marking the June 1914 forest fire season start. Patrol forces in Oregon Washington Idaho Montana total about 2000, with agencies enforcing permits and precautions against campfires and slash burns.
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Portland
Orez
Washington
Pacific Northwest
Western Forestry & Conservation Association
U. S. Weather Bureau
Canada
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Timber Owners’ Protective Association
National Forests
Forest Service
British Columbia
Christian Church Notes Regular Services Next Lord's Day
The column lists Bible school at 10 a.m. and services at 11 a.m. 7 p.m. Endeavor and 8 p.m. Evening sermon. Attendance growing. Next week's morning sermon titled Gods Art Gallery and evening Path of Life with colored views. Pastor Ellsworth E. Coulter notes Mrs Lillian M Mitchner visits for temperance work.
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Christian Church
God's Art Gallery
Catching Creek
Lillian M Mitchner
WC. T. U. of Kansas
Myrtle Point
Ellsworth E. Coulter
Local measures, health notes, and timber ownership figures
California liquor dealers circulate a petition to limit local option elections every eight years. Eugene’s health officer reports a flyless town after routine alley inspections. Ohio dealers seek a state wide prohibition workaround. Rockefeller is praised for a large research fund. State Forester Elliott reports private timber ownership at 9,543,645 acres with 4,300,130 held by non residents and 94 percent on holdings of 640 acres or less.
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California
Eugene
Ohio
Rockefeller
John
Elliott
Political talks draw crowd in Coos and Curry counties
Republican U.S. Senate candidate R. A. Booth and M. C. Reed of the Oregon Anti Saloon League spoke at the M E church Monday evening. Booth stressed applying moral principles to business while Reed traced temperance history from Washington era to today and rebutted anti dry arguments supporting the Oregon Dry movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Booth
United States
Coos
Curry
M. C. Reed
Anti-Saloon League
Oregon
M. E. Church
Mr. Booth
Coquille
Booth
Reed
Washington
Williams
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Red Cross Optical Department
Marshfield
PRESS
Sal‘aried
N. P. Peterson Farmers Phone
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