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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1911
Page
4
The issue lists subscription rates for one year in advance at 1.50 and 3x months at .50. Canada postage adds 50c, foreign 1.00. Advertising rates available on request. Dated Friday October 27 1911 with a farmhouse saying about wearing out versus rust and boosting versus busting.
A reflective adage notes that true friendship grows slowly and that some individuals fear investing locally yet eagerly pursue distant ventures such as a peach orchard in Alaska or an ice factory at the North Pole.
The article claims a wartime scheme where the Enterprise proposes forcing Turks to restrain Italians and flood Coos County with October climate. Aimed at triggering a mass exodus to Oregon, the plan suggests drastic population shifts and the eradication of jack rabbits to deter sultan's forces.
The item defends the paper against being blamed for errors while a new editor runs the Enterprise during a vacation. It boasts the paper’s quality versus other weekly Oregon publications and invites readers to compare and judge for themselves.
In Coos county the elk number is conservatively set at about 35 by locals who spent summers with the timber cruiser Dennis McCarthy. They saw twelve in one group but found no signs of hunting. The article notes historical overhunting by hide hunters and urges strict enforcement of laws to allow numbers to grow, while also reporting church notices and an advertisement for Herbine indigestion remedy.
A speech extols true ambition as the engine of effort and progress. It warns that money without work is covetousness and vanity, urging readers to plan, study, network, and self-improve to secure a fruitful future.
Notice is given that Frank Adolf Lindh of Bridge Oregon has filed intent to make final five year proof to establish his homestead claim for land in Township 29 Range 11 West Willamette Meridian. The proof will be before Edgar A. Dodge at Myrtle Point Oregon on October 20 1911 witnesses Fred Nosler Solomon S Endicott Gustave S Breuer Samuel Breuer. Neuralgia remedy ad follows.
S More Local L W Peare hauls winter supplies to his ranch southwest of the city. Geo Mullen reports district 17 work nearly done minus a plank stretch on North Fork road. Cars rock Middle Fork road with Sugar Loaf rock laid about a foot thick. Cap McCloskey compacts it with a steam roller. W T Lehnherr reports coyotes eliminated among sheep with help from rancher dogs. City Marshal J C Brown imports a Siberian bloodhound to chase down Halloween pranksters and other law breakers.
Notice announces mutual dissolution of the Myrtle Point Oregon firm Schroeder and Black. All interests and liabilities are assumed by Gustave Schroeder with accounts payable thereafter to him.
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