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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
4
A rustic column urges appreciating motherly love and the home life. It warns against whining and seek to fortify character through steady work, praise, and simple comfort. Emphasizes mothers’ influence, discipline, and the need for a welcoming, cheerful home environment.
A reflection on the media's role in public welfare. The writer emphasizes air and sunshine as free truths, warns against publications that degrade morality, and extols the home and family as the purest love. The overall message urges readers to choose papers that elevate humanity.
A reflective piece urges daughters toward marriage and motherhood and sons toward honest work and thrift. It praises the fireside as the measure of a man and warns against idleness while stressing town pride, schooling, frugality, and the link between prices and prosperity.
A. G. Bouquet head of the vegetable gardening section spoke at The Dalles on May 12 and 13. He worked with county agricultural agent A. R. Chase to promote farm gardeners and citizen involvement in better gardening practices.
On May 10 Re Ex Reynolds Extension specialist spoke to the Grange and Farmers' Union on a cooperative livestock shipping association. Earlier May 8 Dr A G Dubach addressed Salem High School students on opportunities for higher education.
Community meetings were held at Sweet Home and at the Grange Hall near Lebanon on May 12 and 13. Subjects of interest to farmers and homemakers were discussed and several addresses by leaders in these subjects were given. Professor J. E. Larson, Extension specialist at O. A. C. spoke on soil management.
In a neighboring town the girls form an anti slang society. A Miss is elected president and replies she is rattled yet ready to lead. She vows to run the ranch without monkey business and invites married ladies to join the effort against slang.
The passage argues that automobile prices have not risen under the Stephens standard price policy. It claims uniform pricing by manufacturers has spurred growth, with prices lower and quality higher over the years, such that a car now costs far less in real value than a decade ago.
A Tusayan National Forest ranger notes a rapid rise in wild burros through the Grand Canyon from Supai to the north of Little Colorado. He says the animals, pushed by forage needs, have become a nuisance with thousands residing in the area.
Sixteen clubs in Multnomah county cover two to twelve projects each with Gilbert at seventy five members and Springdale and Gresham among the larger groups. Handicraft sewing cooking gardening tanning poultry and pig raising are prominent. Professor Seymour state leader visited most clubs May 1 to 6 and reported strong interest with projects often following college instructions and leaders planning summer programs.
Assistant state leader L J Allen extended his Oregon assignment from Umitilla to Lane counties over Monday and Tuesday then continued two more days due to demand. Miss Helen Cowgill reported forty one talks plus canning demos before 1160 people, traveling 356 miles in a Ford. She delivered eight lectures and eight demos covering forty miles in one day, and nine lectures with demos traveling fifty miles in another. County Superintendent Bonney of Wasco planned the work and held a Shaniko teachers Institute where Cowgill spoke on boys and girls industrial clubs.
R. D. Hetzel, Director of Extension, attended a Portland Chamber of Commerce conference on uniform contracts for marketing Oregon horticultural products. It is expected the chamber will cooperate with the Agricultural College to implement plans recommended by Federal Government representatives.
Miss Helen Cowgill assistant state leader of industrial club work completed a week in Wasco county delivering forty lectures and performing forty one canning demonstrations. She traveled 356 miles in a Ford and then continued her work in the Willamette Valley visiting Warrendale on the 16th and Monmouth home of the State Normal School on the 17th.
Three horticulture seniors L. P. Wilcox of Walla Walla Harvey L. Lance of Cove and Carlos E. Fisk of Parma Idaho left April 28 for work on a large pear orchard near Hood California Their training positions them for graduation in June and they have completed their work for graduation for the June commencement.
The orchard will focus on fire blight management and irrigation, with cultural practices to address general orchard and fruit care and assistance in overall care.
Professor A L Peck head of the Landscape Gardening department at the College visited Independence on May 19 afternoon to consult with the city park committee. He then traveled to McMinnville to discuss park plans with the local committee.
L J Allen state pig club agent returns from a week in Umitilla county and travels to Douglas county to address organized boys and girls clubs already active in the program.
A professor serving as head of the English department delivered the commencement address at Hood River schools during the annual commencement exercises held on Friday May 19.
Prof G V Skelton discusses good roads and maintenance at the McMinnville Farmers Union gathering scheduled for Saturday May 20. The talk aims to share practical methods and guidance for local road improvement efforts.
Dr. Thomas Shaw traveling representative of Spokane Portland Seattle Railway and J E Larson from the College Extension Service toured the Willamette Valley last week delivering lectures on animal husbandry and agricultural problems. They spoke at the Agricultural College on Wednesday.
H. C. Seymour, state leader of industrial clubs and former Polk County school superintendent, spent much of last week in Dallas, his home city. He worked with H. C. Parsons, Dallas schools superintendent, before returning to county work with W. I. Reynolds, the Polk County superintendent.
The article extols Atlanta as a model, arguing boosting and advertising built the city and can transform any town. It urges local citizens to adopt Atlanta’s booster system, noting how residents from all walks support their home and push civic merit.
L D Slavens of Bandon rejects a £10000 offer for a nek read block he patented for logging use. The dispute centers on ownership and intended deployment in forestry operations.
The piece argues Monday lethargy stems from overindulgent Sunday meals and suggests lighter, easily digested foods. It warns heavy desserts, stuffing, and alcohol hinder digestion and weaken the body’s defenses against germs.
A historical discussion explains two germ types and their roles in digestion and disease. Benevolent germs assist digestion in the small intestine, while disease producing germs invade weakened tissues to grow and cause damage, though the body has developed resistance to the invasion.
Coos and Curry counties offer six round trips to the Farm Week conference in January for top corn exhibits in three districts Ceos Bay Coquille Valley and Myrtle Point. County officials aim to boost corn growing the campaign led by County Agriculturist J L Smith and plan to send county exhibit to the state fair in Salem next fall for the first time along with cheese and butter from the Coos Curry Cheese Association.
The text argues that price cutting aims to form oil and tobacco trusts and now merchandise trusts, enabling big business to control retail. The Stephens standard price bill is said to protect consumers and smaller cities from such competition and dishonest advertising.
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