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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
6
Broadbent May 15 Friday marked a special Mother’s Day program at Twit Oaks School with Mrs. George Hermann and her pupils. The event featured poems by Dottie Long and another child praising mothers, read aloud for the Myrtle Point Enterprise readers to print.
On the Hill May 15 notes show Bald Hill school set to start June 18 with Miss Hazel Radabaugh teaching. Local visits include Mrs Wyn Weekly and daughter, J A Parrish from Myrtle Point visiting, and O S Coleman returning from Forrest Grove. Many family updates, weddings, a funeral for Mr Gordon, and a nine month term ending at the public school with a lively farmers gathering and a chichoplate supper.
Weather and flood notes from Lee report persistent rain on May 16. Roads are in bad condition and may become impassable if rain continues. Mention of Wm. Harmon and his mother Mrs H H Harmon and sister Mrs J S appears in the fragment.
City of Myrtle Point Oregon files its treasurer’s annual report for the year ending April 30 1917. Financial committee chairman O K C Harris presides as figures are recorded with partial OCR garble and multiple stray details from a broader page.
R F Goodrich born February 5 1836 Woodstock Shenandoah WV died May 16 1917 Myrtle Point Oregon aged 81 3 11. He lived in Illinois San Francisco Los Gatos and Myrtle Point. Survived by daughters Mrs Mortimer Mrs Charles Mrs Andrew and son Francis M Goodrich with services May 47 1917 at Myrtle Point Methodist Church. Interment Myrtle Point Cemetery.
A garbled health note claims local treatments cannot cure catarrh as the disease affects the inner organs. The text asserts remedies fail to reach the source of the ailment and hints at a controversial assertion about treatment methods.
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