Logansberry loss warns of continued dry spell
Salem Oregon July 23 report warns 40 percent crop loss if dry weather persists with 25 percent already lost and rain needed to curb further losses. Other notes include Oregon fair board request for federal food propaganda exhibit and a self-inflicted death in Medford.
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Salem
Ore
Robert Paulus
Salem Fruit Union
A. H. Lea
State Fair Board
Mr.Nary
Northwest
Medford
Burton T. Brown
Oregon Infantry
Brown
Canby
Oregon
Cottage Grove
Roseburg
State Patrol
Coast Range
Notice to Bidders for Myrtle Point City Improvements
Sealed bids are invited by the Myrtle Point Common Council for grading and paving alley blocks, Fourth Street, Spruce Street, and First Street with concrete, per filed plans. Bids due August 6 1917 by 7 PM with a 5 percent certified check. Council may reject any or all bids. E A D City Recorder.
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Hhereby
Common Council
Myrtle Point
Oregon
Fourth Street
Ash Street
Spruce Street
Said Street
Sixth Street
Railroad Avenue
First Street
Maple Street
City Recorder
City Recorder of
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure and Testimony
An old advertisement boasts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh through blood action. It claims constitutional treatment strengthens the patient and offers 1000 dollars for a proven failure. Readers are invited to request testimonials from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio solicitors.
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Hall
F. J.aeney & CO
Toledo
Multnomah Grange Field Day Set At Gresham
Multnomah county granges plan the Third Annual Grange Field Day at Gresham county fair grounds. From 10 30 a m to 5 p m events include music addresses sports horse and relay races between grange teams. D G O Shea of Spokane will deliver the principal address with George Stapleton mayor of Gresham extending the welcome. Byers band Pleasant Home and a 100 voice chorus perform. Basket lunches advised and fruit and vegetable canning demonstrations planned.
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Portland
Multnomah County
Gresham
D. G.o’shea
Federal Land Loan Bank
Spokane
F. Mulkey
George Stapleton
Byers
Pleasant Home
J. J. Johnson
Multnomah Pomona Grange
Lumber mills seek curb on road work to save woods jobs
A Coos County delegation representing all mills and camps urged the County Court to halt or curtail road-building to relieve a manpower shortage in logging. They asked Governor Withycomb for help as a census of road workers takes place to match skills with woods labor.
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Woods
Coos County
Govenor Withycomb
Buyers Week Opens In Portland With Business as Usual Slogan
Portland merchants plan Buyers Week from August 6 to 11, framing wartime activity as normal commerce. The event gathers Northwest business leaders to review war conditions and inspect shipyards and local industries, highlighting lumber, steel vessels, and contractor demand. Geo H Moore arrived from Vancouver after funeral services for his wife.
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Portland
Wilson
War Department
Congress
Northwest
Geo. H. Moore
Vancouver
Birth of a Nation spectacle highlights Lincoln era
An account describes a Birth of a Nation performance focusing on a southern mother pleading for a condemned son, the Ford Theatre assassination scene, and the Reconstruction era policy toward the South. It notes efforts to recreate the period setting and address race relations and education of newly freed Black people.
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W. E. Johnston
Washington- Sunset
San Francisco
Washington
Johnston Ac
Lincoln
Ford Theatre
South
Community Notes From Myrtle Point July Visitations
Lee of Roseburg and son William visited friends in the area last week. DeWitt Clinton of Gravel Ford visited his son J S Clinton. Clarence Johnson and family spent Sunday with relatives at McKinley. Bob Goetz of Portland, North Bend high school principal, toured Coos county on business. D W Baker hauls lumber for a new barn. T J Hazelton lectured on The New Penology at Hervey Hall. A wedding party will settle at Perham road camp where the groom works. Mrs Willis Oddy suffers blood poisoning in her arm.
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J. W. Parry
Mina Allen
A. E. Allen
Pleasant Valley
Perham’s Road Camp
Willis Oddy
Stork Brings Fine Baby at Parrish Home in Bald Hill Banner
On the Hill notes a newborn boy at Mr. and Mrs. Lannie Parrish with mother and child reported thriving under Mrs. Stevens care. Various neighbors attended picnics and visits, a barn is being built near North Fork, and a quiet wedding occurred at Myrtle Point with Fred Parry and his bride.
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Lannie Parrish
Stevens
Ed Olsen
James Nobson
North Fork Bridge
Henry Miller
Myrtle Point
Leland McNair
Geo. Mullen
Nice
Floyd Abrams
Wayland
New York
Los Angeles
Mr. Abrams
Ramm
Geo. Cornwell
Thomas
Fred Parry
And
Myrtle Point Federal Fort Loan Bank Receives Charter No 383
J C Stemmler secretary of the Myrtle Point Federal Fort Loan association reports the organization has received its charter from Washington No 383. The fifteen original loan applications have all been approved and papers are ready to close a loan for Cal Ray.
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J. C. Stemmler
Myrtle Point
Roseberg Wells Fargo Express Co to Build Office Here
Roseberg Wells Fargo Express Co plans to erect an office building on local property. Officials say the project will provide new jobs and enhance the area’s commercial capacity. Construction dates and contractor details are not yet disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roseberg—Wells - Fargo Express Co
Public Pulse letter about road work in Oregon
A letter from A Crutchfield of Bandon Oregon requests Myrtle Point Enterprise readers consider paying Mr Murdock a hundred dollars per month to oversee road work. He reports surveyors repeatedly alter town ship line stakes causing cuts and fills with taxpayers potentially paying for the errors.
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Bandon
Ore
Myrtle Point
Murdock
Portland
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