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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1929
Page
3
The upper floor of the First National Bank building at Marshield is being remodeled and modernised. Dr. H.R. Howsten has been appointed marine surgeon at Bandon, succeeding the late Dr. R.Y. Leep. Plans have been made for a new compose house.
The Curry county term of circuit court opens at Gold Beach in September with Judge Brand presiding. North Bend prepares a new city jail, possibly affecting future inmates. Charles Anderson of Empire, 86, has been adjudged insane.
Reports include a nine rattlesnake killed at Lobster Creek Curry County and a Norwegian ship Bronxville sending 2 600 000 feet of lumber to north China from Coos Bay. Local golf and archery events, airport site talks near North Bend, and J F Webster’s new large cantaloupe hybrid are also noted along the Oregon coast.
Oregon wildlife officials halt fishing at Elk Lake near Bend as a newly found half inch parasite destroys trout. Matt Ryckman says the worm kills internal organs. burned carcasses cleared shores. Deer hunting rules change with season reopening on September 15.
A Myrtle Point write up notes business evolution over two decades. W P Petterson, long in business, bought J T Bridges' shop after moving from Ferndale California. Bank of Myrtle Point saw new management. professional ranks show no doctors or lawyers from earlier times. Earlier settlers from 1861 and Hermann colony now mostly departed, with Dement and Nelise Bender as remaining links.
A civic-spirited column argues residents should buy locally to sustain their community economy. The author, billed as The Town Doctor, warns against shopping from distant traders or mail order houses, urging shoppers to evaluate merchants on service, stock, and atmosphere. Copyright 1929, Myrtle Point Herald. Proceeds note cooperation with the Lions Club.
A two year cost and economic study of the dairy industry in Coos County Oregon will be conducted by the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station with county agent H S Hale assisting. About four dairymen with six or more cows will be selected to cooperate and visited by experiment station staff to begin the work. The statewide project aims to determine costs of production across regions and herd types, ways to reduce costs to meet competition, regional plans to encourage dairying, most profitable farming types and internal farm organization factors, and the economic role of dairying in Oregon agriculture. All data from dairymen will be confidential. participants receive annual farm reports and the final complete report.
The Presbyterian Church schedules next Sunday services with a Labor Day 11 o'clock sermon on the theme It and Man. The evening sermon is The Man in Himself. Further announcements will be made from the pulpit Sunday morning.
Sunday services are listed for the Methodist Episcopal Church with a 10:00 am school service. The remainder of the text is garbled but indicates regular worship and children’s activities.
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