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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
3
A collection of quotations on virtue, beauty, happiness, and wisdom from notable authors and thinkers. It urges cheerful resilience, truthful morality, and a simple, devoted life, citing Psalm, Lowell, Sydney Smith, Amiel, and David Swing as sources.
A collage of quotes on duty and the endless life, noting Osler and Emerson ideas, the circle of duty, fear of death, trust in the Creator, and the ache for immortality. It blends citations from William Osler, the Bhagavad Gita, Emerson, and F. E. Robertson on human purpose and faith amidst desolation.
The passage extols a beautiful trait in marriage: clinging to a shared birthplace, mutual love, and restraint of irritability. It argues a home where affection is shown in small acts beats lavish meals without love, and ends with a Tennyson excerpt about seeing a pilot at the bar.
Forest Service figures show Oregon furniture firms use about seven million board feet of lumber yearly. Douglas fir and maple account for more than half, with demand extending beyond the state to Utah, Nevada, California, and the Orient. Export challenges include native hardwood shortages and eastern cabinet woods sourcing.
Amid a flood of 1916 era notices, Oregon firms report Douglas County crops, mills, and plants expanding. Forest Service data shows seven million feet of lumber annually with Douglas fir and maple. Bandon Salmon cannery changes hands. Roseburg builds federal facilities and a new high school with Dillaird Timber interests backing logging routes. Albany and Corvallis facilities advance fruit juice, electric power, and electrification projects.
Stockmen in Eastern and Central Oregon show strong interest in the experimental feeding at the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station. Reports by E. L. Potter of Oregon Agricultural College summarize cattle feeding findings from the Animal Husbandry department.
The report summarizes trials from 1913 to 1916 testing alfalfa, barley, and hay on cattle, noting gains per day, costs per hundred pounds of gain, and finish quality. It compares alfalfa alone, alfalfa with grain, and cut versus long hay, with mixed results and ongoing work. The Kansas Club Picnic detail invites former Kansans to Coquille on July 29 with social and reminiscence opportunities.
Oregon uses 217 cubic feet of wood per person annually versus 100 in the United States. The high rate is attributed to 82 percent of consumption being for fuel purposes.
Obituary notes T M King Thomas Morris born March 27 1916 in Allen Kansas died 1916 at age 70 years 2 months 12 days. He lived in Genes Illinois Winterset Iowa Nebraska before settling in Kansas in 1905. Survived by wife three children Mrs W Lee Ray Horace King and Willams Kansas two sisters in Canada and Iowa. He joined Masonry in 1889 and Methodist Protestant Church in 1914. Funeral at M E Church with Masons in charge. Interment in Allen. Resolutions praise his faith and service and extend sympathy to family.
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