Coos County urged to support Branch Experiment Station
A letter urges Coos County residents and farmers to back establishing a Branch Experiment Station under the Corvallis Station. It cites long travel distances, regional climate, and local farm needs, listing meeting dates from June 15 to June 24 across Bridge Myrtle Point Coquille Marshfield North Bend Piper's Grove and Bandon. The writer Marshall Hall Lewis calls for petitions and County Court support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Carson
State Board of Horticulture
Reimer
Medford Branch
Jackson and Wilson
Corvallis Station
Coos County
Corvallis
Coos
Harney County
Manent
Board’ of‘Regents of the
Harney
Oregon
Curry
Douglas
Bridge
Myrtle Point
Coquille
Marshfield
M. Hall-Lewis
Mrs. Jackson Silbaugh to Speak at Christian Church
National organizer and lecturer for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union Mrs. Jackson Silbaugh will address the Christian church at 11:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Sunday June 16 1912. She urges all to attend and support the legal prohibition of the saloon issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Silbaugh
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Christian Church
Gravel Ford Community Notes and Prospective Buyers
Prof James Bunch visited from Parkersburg for a day or two in Gravel Ford. Will Olsen looked for a home site and may buy The Home stead owned by T H Overton. Dorsey Bunch amputated a toe after cutting his foot. Preparations for Gravel Ford celebration underway with local enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Bunch
Parkersberg
Will Olsen
T. H. Overton
Dorsey Bunch
Base Ball Benefit and Victory Over Riverton in Norway
The Base Ball benefit literary entertainment and basket social last Saturday drew a large crowd and added 45 dollars to the boys’ treasury. Norway’s baseball nine hosted Riverton on the home diamond last Sunday and won the contest 7 to 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway Baseball Nine
Riverton
Pleasant Hill Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Miss Lila Smith visited her friend Miss Minnie Minard on Sunday. Miss Goldia Devault passed through this week en route to Brewster Valley. Mrs. Hugh Mallow departed on the Breakwater’s last trip for her home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lila Smith
Minnie Minard
Goldia Devault
Brewster Valley
Hugh Mallow
Children’s Day Observance at Dora and Gravel Ford Dora
Ruth Young’s fifteenth birthday May 31 led to Children’s Day exercises at Dora and Gravel Ford Dora Pleasant Hill Sunday Schools. Rev Bonebrake led afternoon and evening services with a program featuring songs recitals dialogues and a play by local children including Grayce Krantz Clara Moser and Opal Krantz among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Young
Dora
Gravel Ford
Pleasant
Hill
Bonebrake
Wilma -Buneh
Grayce- Krantz
Leese
Andred
Roselle Bunch
Gladys Krentz
Clara Moser
William Wats
Ethel Mason
Song of the Roses
Earnest Moser
Eek Bs George and
Lester Porter
Homer McIntyre
Lela Smith
Deaths of N W Conover and Walter Bennett in Oregon
Obituaries note the sudden death of N W Conover at his Myrtle Point home on June 4 1912 from heart failure. Born December 10 1838 in Montgomery County Ohio he lived across several states before settling in Oregon. funeral at Latter Saints Chapel. Also recorded is the death of Walter Bennett born May 22 1878 in Athens Oregon who died April 28 1912 after battle with tuberculosis. burial May 4 1912 at Dora cemetery with funeral by the writer and a poem in memory composed by Kia Hammarl of Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. W. Conover
Myrtle Point
Nathan Worley Conover
Montgomery County
Ohio
Carrol County
Ind
Alamkee County
Iowe
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Iowa
Missouri River
Camas Valley
Oregon
Douglas
Coos
Leah Conover
Latter Saints Chapel
Chas. E. Crumley
William Walter Bennett
Athens
Coquille
Coos Co
Ore
Gravel Ford
Gravel Ford Academy
Alice L. Hartley
Gravel Ford Church of
Seventh Day Adventists
College Place
Wash
Walla Walla Sanitarium
Tim
Dora
Walter
Kia Hammarl
Wright
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D. Swift & CO
Seventh St
Washington, D. C
Condron’s Livery Stable
Walter Condron
L. A. Roberts
Myrtie
the Public
PULSE
Aresas
Portland
R. A. Annin
Pho
Victor
Wideawake
Gates
Victor Safe & Lock CO
Checinnati
Mitte
Coquille River Electric Company
the. Vicinage
Norway News
Pleasant Hill
Cardui
Iu Gardu
Effie Graham
Willard, Ky
Oregon Journal
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Coquille Valley
Curry Counties
Penton
Sunday Journal
The
Brownsville
Lloyd Leatherman
Breakwater
Verne Bennett
Shilo
Anna Moser
Arrah Wanna
W. W. Bennett
Walter Bennett
Farwell
Jas. F. Ballard
St.Louie,Mo
Spires ‘Pharmacy
G. B. Harrison
L. E. Rose
J. O. Stemmler
Spires’ Pharmacy
George W. Bryant
the Myrtle’ Point Transfer Company
W. T. Ramsey
Spruce Street
Dora T. W. Panter
Hotel Guerin
GEO. H. Guerin & Son
Breuer’s Shoe
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