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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
6
A Myrtle Point section brief notes a light rain cheering gardens, local visits by J W Mullens and J W Perrys, road improvements for farms, and community happenings. Items cover fishing contracts, court visits, poultry, duck hatching, needlecraft, circus attendance, dental work, and a pastor’s planned sermon. Several residents travel, house guests visit, and chicken pox cases appear.
Broadbent residents packed Myrtle Point on Monday for the circus with many locals in attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Culbertson spent Sunday at the Albert Bright home. Elton Brady has returned from California after four months away. He reports Cops still looks good. Mrs. Ben Knight visited Mrs. Brady during the week. Miss Nettie Iverson and Mrs. Ed ...
Victor Stevens assists Percy Peel at the restaurant this week while Eck Guerin M Roscovitch and L Kenedy take a cruising trip to Eden country fore part of the week. Dr G W Leslie osteopathic physician will visit Myrtle Point on Tue Thu and Fri with office in Grandy Building near Unique Theatre. Five new unsolicited subscriptions show Enterprise as the leading home weekly in Southwestern Oregon. Bucklee former Myrtle Point resident returns as Barnes circus head carpenter and plans a gold prospecting trip after vacation in town.
Corvallis Or May 5 The condition of Mrs Emma A Hawley mother of Congressman W C Hawley is critical with little hope for recovery reports say she rested well last night but is gradually growing weaker
A compilation of brief items from Oregon and Washington reporting draft decisions, land sales, vehicle registrations, political party lists, boat and rail updates, cannery prospects, weather impacts, and education plans. Notable mentions include Palmer Griffiths’s rejected enlistment, nitrate land sales by Morton and Dunn, and Portland’s push for a Pacific Coast shipping board headquarters.
Coos County invites sealed proposals for constructing a bridge over the South Fork of the Coquille River at Myrtle Point Oregon. Bids due June 7 1917 require five percent bond and plans from the County Clerk with details of structure including a 180 foot steel span and concrete piers and a concrete viaduct.
An advertisement extols a product claiming catarrh cures by internal action through the blood. It markets Hal's Catarrh Cure from Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, touting testimonials, tonics, and availability at all druggists, plus Ball's Pills for constipation.
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