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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1934
Page
4
Local notes recount visits and travels of residents to Medford Ashland and California including Edwin and Arza families. Carloads of cattle shipped from Myrtle Point and evergreen berries picked for shipment. Multiple social calls, visits to Coquille Powers and Marshfield, and temporary jobs and travel plans described.
Local notes detail visiting Miss Gilda Muetz and Mrs Emma Hermann, including a range picnic with families such as Dwight Culver, Frank Culver, and Leonard Duncan. Several residents, like Lana Perkins and Fred Mille, attend social visits. plus a hospital update on Harry Brownson and upcoming events at the Bradford CCC camp orchestra and a school opening with teachers listed.
A sequence of social visits, camps, and drives across Coos County includes Mrs SL Laffe and Mrs George F ing with friends in Powers, a bridal shower in Myrtle Point for Miss Kelen Deyoe, and various gatherings in Coquille Norwood Grove and Norway area. Attendees include the MacDonalds Jesse Lafferty Robison Burns Watkins Gulstrom Robison and many others.
Upper Halls Creek Mr and Mrs B B Watkis returned Sunday from a visit with their daughter Mrs J K Baker of Bandon. They drove there Wednesday and Mrs Watkins will stay home while they return to Barden for another week. The Damron place on the Damron place foundation act for a new house with a large porch and garage was mentioned. The ensemble of neighbors and relatives gathered for picnics and outings, including Mrs Bol Barde nan and others. Jesse Damion and family were noted, with plans to camp and a week’s stay. The gathering included Miss Marjorie Woalkirs, Mr and Mrs Cilvier and children, and Mr and Mrs W McAdam, with Powers picnicking and visits.
The piece notes a brief visit with Brandon parents Mr and Mrs Walter Brandon before returning to Marshies to their furnished home. It mentions beaches on the L B Jennings place, summer camps at Rock Creek, Jesse Griffey recovering from an appendectomy in Coquille, and Bert Mecum enjoying a new washing machine.
Mrs Clarence Dick spends summer with husband at jogging camp near Powers. She and daughter Gloria visited Mareh field yesterday and oversaw farm activities.
The Watkins family hosted a gathering in the Myrtle Point area with many neighbors and relatives from Coquille Bandon Myrtle Point and nearby towns visiting for a Sunday picnic in the Myrtle Grove. Attendees included Edythe Woodward Marjor Carl Charles Williem ton Wilkins Annie Deardorff Leon Smith Ronald M T Aasep C A Swift George Murr Bobby Kimball Ernest Watkins Anne and more sharing a corn roast and social visit.
Mr and Mrs Ben Hunt and charge were at Sounitle Liver and Seture with Sylvia and Grace Culbertson at the J D Culbertson home Verna Cain and Mrs Frank McNair were Saturday callers in Myrtle Point.
Gravelford Al Bezoskey Hedwig and Margaret Harnish visited William Lower and Doyle Curtis of Elk Creek Wednesday of last week. Frank Harnish returned Monday from Portland after an excursion to Bonneville Dam to see the president. Al Bezoskey was a business caller in Marshfield Monday. Mr and Mrs J R Flater and Mrs S Clinton visited Hood River for a short relatives and friends. Mrs Clinton visited with her son Jerry and wife and the Lorenzo West family former residents. E L Culbertson was a Mycle Point sister Monday. Orda Baklow spent Monday night on Maree Clinton. Quite a number attended the exchange pick at Lall games at Norway Sunday Gravelford won 8 to 6 from Norway. Lee com Coos Hiner 10 to 2. Clinton spent Saturday night at the W Harmon home in Lee. Mr and Mrs George Nelson were Myrtle Point visitors one day last week. Josephine Schellhanmer and Loma Sanford visited last Thursday at the JS Clinton home. N. B Harvey Barklow spent one day last week with her mother Mrs HR M Minard of Dora. Mr and Mrs Henry Hervey of Lee were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs T J Weekly.
The BH England family plans a stay at their Corvallis home then visits Englands sister in Idaho. Portland visitors Mr and Mrs Loot Mecur Mr and Mrs H B Donough and son Jack tour Sandy Creek this week. They will visit the Frank Mecaum family in Crescent City before returning home via the coast highway through California to Ash.
Bald Hill William Schellhammer was a Myrtle Point caller Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Laney Parrish were business callers in Myrtle Point last Mrs. J. D. Culbertson was a Marshfield caller one day last week.
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