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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
4
Terms of subscription list one year in advance and six months options with postage and foreign surcharge. Advertising rates available on application. Local ads include Central Meat Market Myrtle Point Suuatorium Hub Clothing & Shoe Co Look Them Up.
A Salem editorial argues that urban growth depends on local spending. It says buying supplies locally supports home merchants, increases local employment and taxes, and strengthens community institutions. The piece urges residents to consider where their money circulates and its impact on local interests.
Reports from various parts of the state indicate some registration officials found last Friday morning that they had failed to register. This is not the first case where officials urge others to act while forgetting to do it themselves.
A Kansas printer informs town merchants he will soon need shoes a shirt and a sack of flour and will call for bids as is customary when they want four dollars worth of printing.
The annual Coos county schools track meet will be in Myrtle Point on Saturday May 23 from 10 a m to 5 p m. Eligible entrants include students who attended high school or seventh or eighth grade in the past year. Events include hurdles base ball parade runs jumps throws and relays with a full schedule listed.
The text notes a baseball game at 3 o clock between Coquille Valley and Coos Bay. It outlines pennants awarded for best display in the parade, with one pennant for the best school by points, a second pennant for the relay winner, and ribbons for first blue, second red, and third white. Judges listed are Wm Chandler Oliver Spires and D W Snyder.
The letter from Captain Edward Eberle describes orders to Vera Cruz as head of a special service squadron led by Admiral Winslow. The Washington Texas New York and Montana form the core force with future additions of smaller ships. Eberle plans to visit his nephew Lt Eberle in Vera Cruz.
Reports from nearly every section of Oregon indicate the 1914 grain crop will be the largest in state history due to expanded acreage and unusually favorable weather. Fruit prospects vary by area with frost losses below typical thinning, and a large new orchard plantings promise a record fruit yield. warnings accompany land openings for settlers, including non tilable acreage and high elevation. The Portland Rose Festival runs June 9 to 12 with a Queen of Rosaria replacing Rex Oregonus, while Coos County plans a Panama Pacific Exposition exhibit funded by local mills and rail lines. Salem Cherry Fair is set for June 25 to 27 on courthouse grounds with cherry and small fruit displays.
The Department of the Interior Roseburg land office announces by proclamation the exclusion of described lands from the Siskiyou National Forest Oregon. Unsurveyed lands open for settlement only after June 29 1914, with filings received July 27 1914. Caution issued against preproclamation occupancy as trespass.
Marshfield Oregon invites name ideas for the Conway Apartments being built between San Francisco and Portland. A $25 prize will go to the best name, with J W Motley of the Chamber of Commerce collecting entries and assigning numbers for judging by mayor F E Allen and publishers M C Maloney and A R O Brien. Entries close in 1914.
Polk Yamhill and Washington counties join to spread crude oil on county roads to combat road dust and improve dust control amid agricultural traffic.
I A E Snyder filed in the Secretary of State office a trademark described as "9" capital 8 for canned preserved jellied packed or bottled vegetables fruits and berries to be manufactured and sold in Myrtle Point Oregon with exclusive use of the mark sought.
A fragmentary letter closing a notice from J. M. Upton the Register invites readers to request Suggestions to Homesteaders and signs off with respectful closure.
Sheriff of Coos County announces a public auction on June 20 1914 at 10:00 AM at the County Courthouse Coquille Oregon to satisfy a judgment of 5600 plus interest and costs against E C Allen and Martha C Allen The property described covers portions of sections 33 and 34 in T29S R11W Wilmette Mer Coos County Oregon with mortgage lien prior to sale.
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