Adjustment of Labor in Marshfield Mills Ends in Ratified Pact
Marshfield Mills resume work with both plants operating and crews restored after a mass meeting ratified an adjustment plan by 187 to 25. The agreement includes a 25 cent wage raise, a six percent monthly boost, and a minimum daily wage of 291 1/2 cents rising to 3 per day with profit sharing. Bonuses depend on output, with a three year average and a 390,000 foot minimum for monthly bonus eligibility. C A Smith and Arno Mcreen addressed workers, pledging sympathy and open dues processes for grievances.
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Smith Mills
Columbias River
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Aleo
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Arno Mcreen
Mr. Smith
Times
Prohibitionists Form Committee to Influence Congress
Washington May 11 Prohibitionists in the house created a committee to report a program for urging action in the current session. Members include Randolph chairman Howard Crisp Keating Cooper Rankin and Kelly. They consider prohibitive liquor taxes cereal-use bans and a separate prohibition measure.
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Congress
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Crisp
Georgia
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Colorado
Cooper
Ohio
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Montana
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Pennsylvania
House Agricultural Committee
Joseph Cullinan
Texas Industrial Congress
Edwin C. Dinwiddle
Anti Saloon League
Temperance Organizations
Coos Cheese Prices Near Tillamook Levels Amid Coop Factories
The Coos and Curry Cheese Association reports price ranges from 52 to 61 cents per pound of butterfat across member factories in March, near Tillamook levels. Salesman Gaye Giles notes varying cheese yields per butterfat among Sugarloaf Lundy Arago and Whitford factories, with potential method changes likely to raise output efficiency.
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Coos & Curry Cheese Association
Tillmook County
Gaye Claud H. Giles
Cross Curry
Coos and Curry Association
Tillmook
Sugarloaf Creamery
Giles
Lundy
Arago
Albany Linn County Pacific Highway graded and drained
Albany officials plan grading and drainage work on 31 miles of the Pacific Highway in Linn County at an estimated cost of 7000 dollars. The project aims to improve road conditions and drainage efficiency for local travel.
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Albany
Linn County
U. S. Huts Blend Work and Play for Soldiers
Uncle Sam backs 200 YMCA huts at mobilization and concentration points. The $3,000,000 project funds construction through 1918 with Portlands share at $25,000 subscribed. Each hut single story 38 by 15 feet features an auditorium with stage moving pictures piano phonograph and desks for 300. Sleeping rooms classrooms and reading rooms fill the rest. huts host Jewish and other societies and host services for Muslim, Greek Catholic Roman Catholic Protestant and Jewish groups in Europe.
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Jack
Uncle Sam
Navy
Portland
Europe
Card of Thanks for Myrtle Point Benevolence
We wish to thank the kind folks of Myrtle Point for acts of kindness and words of sympathy at the time of bereavement the death of our baby boy. Special thanks to the Modern Woodmen lodge. Mr. and Mrs W J Hammond.
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Myrtle Point
W. J. Hammond
Myrtle Point High School Senior Class Baccalaureate
The Myrtle Point High School Senior Class baccalaureate services will be held Sunday evening May 20 at the Christian Church. Victor Morris will address the class. All friends of the school are cordially invited to attend.
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Victor Morris
Woman official to manage farm show in Salem
Winnie Braden, first woman superintendent of the agricultural pavilion at the Oregon state fair, reports more counties intend to exhibit this year. Space is tight as booths may be reduced or moved to the pavilion second floor. Braden also holds multiple local posts and has led Polk County exhibits to top prizes at the state and regional shows. Government Engineer J Hi Pothe mus attended a Port of Coquille river commissioners meeting in Marshfield.
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Stevenson
Mr. Smith
State Commission
C. A. Smith Co
Casulty Company
State Accident Commission
Salem
Winnie Braden
Mrss. Braden
Polk County Fair Association
Dallas Commercial Club
Polk County Poultry Association
Polk ‘County Good Roads Association
Portland
Polk County
Seattle
Washington
Montana
Oregon
Northwest lumbermen offer huge timber supply for war effort
Seattle May 12 The Puget Sound Willapa Harbor Grays Harbor and Columbia river timber districts of the Pacific Northwest have offered to furnish the government with 340000000 feet of lumber for barracks and shipbuilding backed by 60 leading lumbermen. Specifications for 740000000 feet were received by the government 600000000 feet for barracks and training camps and 140000000 feet for 70 ships. The offer covers the entire shipbuilding amount and 200000000 feet for barracks construction.
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Puget Sound
Willapa Harbor
Grays Harbor
Columbia River
Pacific Northwest
Marshfield Engineer Arrested in Liquor Transport Case
John Martin of Marshfield, claimed The Chandler Hotel engineer and Len Lambeth relative, faces trial before Justice Stanley on charges of illegally transporting liquor. Authorities say two suitcases aboard a logging train at Myrtle Point contained 24 bottles. Martin claims a stranger paid him $2 to load the cases and he cannot identify the man. Sheriff Gage returns with two men linked to a money theft in Crescent City.
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Myrtle Point
Bhoe
Coquille
Ore
Chandler Hotel
Len Lambeth
Stanley
Martin
Gage
Crescent City
Calif
Raby
Weider
Frank Cameron
Taise in Mine Wages Aids Labor Peace at North Bend Plant
North Bend Buehner Co. announces a 25 cent daily wage increase for Taise in its mine workforce. The raise is expected to ease labor unrest and stabilize operations at the plant, signaling a move to improve worker compensation and reduce strikes.
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North Bend
Oregon dairy co op aims to raise cheese standards nationwide
H A Chaplin reports from the U A C Press Bulletin on Coos and Curry County's 18 cheese factories selling through an association led by Claud Giles. Output nears 2 million pounds yearly and aims to push moisture tests, whey separators, and southern California markets while standardizing quality to lift prices across Oregon's cheese districts.
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Coos and Curry People
Claud Giles
California
Los Angels
Tillamook
Oregon
Willamette Valey
Othe
United States
H. A. Chaplin
Card of Thanks for condolences and assistance
We thank our many friends for recovering the bodies of our loved ones and the splendid floral offerings and acts of sympathy. Your sacrifice and help have aided us in bearing our sad loss. ID W Carpenter Lida E Carpenter Chauncey Carpenter Asa L Carpenter Raymond Carpenter
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W. Carpenter
Lida E. Carpenter
Chauncey Carpenter
Asa L. Carpenter
Raymond Carpenter
Northwest Corn Show Opens Open Competition Details
Northwestern bankers receive pamphlets detailing the Third Annual First National Corn Show in St. Paul Minnesota from December 6 to 15 1917. Farmers in Minnesota Wisconsin North and South Dakota Montana Washington Oregon and Idaho may compete for district prizes including ten ear exhibits and first and second awards for men and boys. No entry fee and one acre minimum are required. judging will use regional standards emphasizing yield breed type and appearance.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Dakota
Montana
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
First National Bank and Northwestern Trust Company of
Bankers of
Northwest
Local notes report on visitors and moves in Myrtle Point area
Edgar Hannan from North Bend checked business in Myrtle Point. County Commissioner Armstrong visits this week for repairs on the south approach to the Hoffman bridge. Al Abbott has left Mercy Hospital for home in Powers after losing part of a foot in a logging car accident. Guerin brothers learn their father is gravely ill in Oakland, California, prompting their travel there.
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Edgar Hannan
North Bend
Myrtle Point
Armstrong
Hoffman Bridge
al. Abbott
Mercy Hospital
Powers
Guerin Brothers
Oakland
California
Guerin
Myrtle Point Grammar School Holds May Fair
The Myrtle Point Grammar School will hold a school fair on Wednesday May 23. School work will be exhibited in all rooms and everyone is invited.
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Myrtle Point Grammar School
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