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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
3
The steamer Dora departs Myrtle Point at 6 45 a m daily except Sunday and leaves Bandon at 1 p m. This timetable details morning and afternoon departures for coastal travel.
Ruth Wade visits in Powers. Superintendent Baker tours local and Powers schools. Marshfield visitors Frank C. Catterlin and E Folsom on business. Community notices include Mrs. Dickson and Mrs. McCracken to San Francisco and local sermons. Announcement of Unique Theatre Saturday with Samson and The Spoilers. Local reflections urge frugality and hard work.
Coos County horsemen returned from Roseburg with multiple top finishes. Goodpasture's Gift won the % mile, Peak and Fridday won the mile, while Nay's Chas. Foster placed 2nd in the % mile and Grenlaw took 3rd in the % mile and 2nd in the mile. Bessay Knia Abella claimed 2nd in the % mile and 3rd in the mile, with Wilson's Ro ue River finishing 3rd in the % mile and 2nd in the mile.
The piece invites visitors to a soda fountain showing clean, inviting surroundings. It promises invigoration and a quick thirst quenching effect. It captures a memorable atmosphere and a reluctance to leave once taste and mood are set.
A card offering piano and organ tuning services by Sumner invites Myrtle Point or nearby Co auille residents to contact for tuning. The short notice advertises local service and availability.
H. S. Bushnell attended to business in Coquille on Monday. Benj McMullen returned home Saturday from Powers. Irvin Nelson and children visited T. F. Hillyer’s home from South Fork. W. C. Chase of Coquille Valley Telephone Co. came through for company business. Geo W. Marshall, tax agent for Weverhauser Timber Co., arrived and went to Coquille and Marshfield. Central Meat Market advertises choice meats and cash for hides and meat. Oliver Sumner and Bill Anderson traveled to Powers for a Saturday dance. Guerin Bros. and A. J. Radabaugh shipped cattle to Roseburg and Portland. Guerin returned, Radabaugh and Geo Guerin stayed to Portland. R. L. Weekly and road-views board scouted the Bandon Coquille road relocation between Coquille and Lamna Creek with county officials. Saints Church in Powers schedules preaching September 26 by Elden A. C. Barmore with sermons Abandoned of God and The Four Alls and Sunday services and weekday prayer. Mrs. A. Houge leaves for San Francisco via Bandon for a two to three week visit then Exposition. Herbert Armstrong of Menasha Woodenware Co. in North Bend attends business in town and Powers.
A miscellany of resident visits from Bandon Baker Creek Marshfield and Camas Valley. Local commentary urges civic pride and gentle social reforms while detailing travel, business trips and community clubs. A critique of gossip highlights its harm to reputations and moral standards.
A civic exhortation warns that towns fail when business leaders pursue personal gain. Citizens must unite on a universal platform of the greatest good to the greatest number and work together to prosper. Selfish monopolies and narrow aims threaten the community’s future.
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