So Tell You This Too My Daughter Myrtle Point Ad
A Myrtle Point Enterprise advertisement notes the June 3 1915 issue features W C T U content titled So Tell You This Too My Daughter. A Park Region Echo report from Alexandria Minnesota reproduces a dramatic murder trial plea where a defendant blames saloons for the murder of his wife and denounces legalized liquor. The speech accuses local voters lawyers and the judge of bearing responsibility and ends with a call for moral accountability.
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Myrtle Point
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Park Region Echo
Alexandria
Minn
Old Church
Bar of
Justice
Oregon Campaign Aims To Keep Air Smoke Free This Summer
Portland joins a statewide drive led by the Portland Chamber of Commerce to keep Oregon smoke free during the 1915 dry season. The effort urges cooperation to prevent slash burning that clouds scenery and deters tourists, highlighting road improvements built for visitor use and potential future travel growth.
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Portland
Thousad
Oregon
Cascade
East Range
San Francisco
Children Day Exercises at the M E Church
Children Day event at the M E Church next Sunday at 11 00 am features songs prayers recitations from Frank Dodge Lader Alice Garret Wanda Prey and Emma O Conner with Barton Stemmler Audry Lundy and others in a program of choir music and benediction
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M. E. Church
M. E
Frank Dodge Lader
Alice Garret
Wanda Prey
Barton Stemmler
Aed Soho Gomme
Alice Dement
Saesdinaiahd
Audry Lundy
Emma O'Conner
Local race course improvements near completion
The Coos and Curry County Fair Association progresses on track work including widening the home stretch by ten feet and saucer shaping the curves. Improvements promise a faster, top coast speed course and preparations for the July 2nd and 3rd Mid Summer Races with horses already in training.
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Coos & Curry County
Pacific Coast
Baseball Practice Draws Crowds in Norway and Myrtle Point
A Sunday afternoon practice game at Norway saw Co quille defeat Norway 21 to 7 and Myrtle Point hosted another session with old time players and beginners. Talks grow of organizing a young men’s team and arranging two to three competitive games this summer. Powers has a team seeking matches.
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Norway
Coquille
Powers
Birthday Dinner Honors Lundy and Hall on Catching Creek
The joint birthday of Mrs. F. L. Lundy and Miss Myrtle Hall fell on Sunday June 6 and was celebrated at the home of Mr and Mrs J W Hall on Catching Creek. A big noon dinner was the day’s main feature with family members from the neighborhood.
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F. L. Lundy
Myrtle Hall
Myrtle
J. W. Hall
Catching Creek
Marshfield Wins Coos County Track Championship by Wide Margin
Marshfield captured the Coos County track title with 28 points, beating Bandon by that margin as 40 athletes from five high schools competed. Lecocq and Isendorfer led with 20 points each, while Myrtle Point’s H Miller contributed 10 of his school’s 17 points. The meet featured county records in events such as the broad jump and new records in the javelin and pole vault, with local photographers recording action for later showings.
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Coos Bay
Marshfield
Coos County
Bandon
Lecocq
Isendorfer
Miller
K. B. Wesleder
Portland
Back
Bullard
Smith
Russell
North Bend
Merchant
Lrd
Hooten
Coquille
Bowen
Hall
Myrtle Point
Franz
Marshad
L. Miller
H. Miller
Geisendorfer
Root
Geisendorfer Bandon
Seaman
Arshfield
Watters
Chapman
Niles
Myrtle Point Students Do Well In State Eighth Grade Exam
Miss Ida Gamble reports eight of nine Myrtle Point eighth graders passed the state exam last week with one pupil failing only two subjects and allowed to retake those at September. Names include Edna Carter Mildred Smalley Vivian Annin Hémer Gant Elbert King Gladys Carter Eunice Smith Mollie Johnson. All seventh grade geography and sixth grade physiology pupils also passed.
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Ida Gamble
Myrtle Point
Edna Carter
Mildred Smalley
Vivian Annin
Hémer Gant
Elbert King
Gladys Carter
Eunice Smith
City Council Opens New Improvement Projects
The city council met to approve contracts and appoint officers. The mayor backed Hall-Lewis as city engineer amid opposition. a petition for Tenney failed. Plans for street surface work and water line extensions were approved for Spruce Maple A and Railroad avenues. A sewer district committee was formed to study main-town coverage.
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T. D. Guerin
J. Ee Whitaker
C. A. Smith Co
Cuerin
Recorder
Spruce Street
J. A. Stemmler
Supreme Court
Sixth Street
Railroad Avenue
Maple Street
Fifth Street
A Street
D. Guerin
J. S. Whitaker
J. D. Barklow
Secretary of State W J Bryan Resigns in Dispute
Washington June 9 William Jennings Bryan resigns after two years as Secretary of State over opposition to the note to Germany and a foreign policy clash with President Wilson. Robert Lansing named ad interim secretary while a replacement is sought. Bryan favors private life and a peaceful solution to submarine tensions.
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Washington
D.C
William Jennings Bryan
Germany
United States
Bryan
Gary
McKinley
Spain
State Department
Chancellor King
White House
Robert Lansing
Wilson
Oregon Wins First Prize in Horticulture at Panama Exposition
San Francisco June 9 Oregon awarded the gold medal for its horticultural exhibit at the Panama International Exposition. The jury included experts from the Netherlands East Japan and California. Oregon’s All Oregon show used Oregon logs timbers shrubs and plants in framing and display. California was defeated for the first time in horticulture.
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San Francisco
Oregon
Netherlands
East
Japan
California
Pacific Coast
Washington
Caliornia
C. N. Rawlin
Hood River
Marshfield favors wood block paving in city streets
The Marshfield Chamber of Commerce voted Friday to back wood block paving for all city streets. Secretary Motley to dispatch letters to state business groups urging similar action. Wood blocks cost about 60 cents more per square yard but last more than twice as long and aid the lumber industry. Oregon Governor proclaims June 11 a state holiday for Rose Festival attendance. A series of local notes follow including river movements, loan practices, a presidential grandchild, coal shipment to San Francisco, broccoli introduction in Douglas and Lane counties, and Coquille City engineer pay and a Vancouver Oregon Corporation reorganization with seven months earnings.
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Chamber of Commerce
Marshfield
Motley
Costa
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Chauncey Carpenter
E. J. Fry
Bandon
Rogue
Rogue River
Speedwell
Daisy
Jas. Miller
Myrtle Point
Cos Bay
Missouri
United States
Ellen Wilson McAdoo
Squaw Basin
Eden Valley
Grants Pass
San Francisco
Douglas County
Lane County
Eugene Guard
Chicago
Coquille
Washington—Oregon Corporation
A. Welch
Portland
Vancouver
Wash
Sifton
Centralia
Chehalis
It Is a Magnificent Thing for the State
It is a magnificent thing for the state and will boost it horticulturally to thousands of people now thronging the area, drawing attention to its growth and appeal.
Young Ladies Athletic Club Organized Here
Wednesday evening last week in Knob Hill Miss Mimce Kinnicutt led formation of a young ladies athletic club with Mnice Kinnicutt as president Dorothy Miller secretary and Sylvia Davis treasurer The members include Evelyn Pike Fairy Davis Eunice Rutt Leonore Lehman owsky Ruth Attlesey Muriel Pike and Sylvia Davis The next meeting will be at the Davis home with Sylvia hosting Footil 21 A Johnson plans a stone or brick store building.
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Mimce Kinnicutt
Knob Hill
Mnice Kinnicutt
Dorothy Miller
Sylvia Davis
Evelyn Pike
Fairy Davis
Eunice Rutt Leonore Lehmanowsky
Ruth Attlesey
Muriel Pike
Davis
Sylvia
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Alexandra
Minnesota
Harry
Ordnance
Chas
Adams Andi
Abeyajnce
Leslie G. Johnson
L. A. Roberts
J. C. Brown
P. M. Hall-Lewis
Geo. E. Tenney
Whitaker
Tenney
Hall-Lewis
Dement
Strong
Guerin
Schroeder
Laird
Barklow
W. J. Bryan
Folgers Si
Young Ladies Athletic Club
Johnson
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