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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1949
Page
4
Local residents recount Thanksgiving visits and returns from trips to Seattle Portland Eugene and other towns. numerous families report visits with relatives in Iowa Washington Idaho and Oregon as service and school connections appear amid social news.
Sitkum residents recount Thanksgiving visits with Crowley families from Coquille Salem Roseburg Coos Bay and Myrtle Point. Many kin gathered at the Laird and Jenkins households with Bertha Laird and others noting moves to Fairview and Myrtle Point and school terms for visiting youths. Card of thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy and floral offerings after a bereavement. Deceased Daisy B Clinton noted in estate notices with probate details and six month claim period for creditors.
Last week residents hosted relatives and visitors for Thanksgiving. Mrs. Frank Culver and Claud Gregory of Junction City visited in the city with friends. Truman Robbins reportedly won first in a war contest at the Ihea club. University of Oregon students Grant McClellan and Walter Smith spent Thanksgiving at their homes. Mrs. Ralph Sigsby of Santa Cruz visited briefly with Mrs. Sigsby’s mother and sister.
Boundary board will consider a change affecting the M Point and Dora district. The meeting is Monday December 12 at 16 06 a.m in the county court room at the courthouse in Coquille.
Families and friends gathered in McKinley and Coquille areas for Thanksgiving weekend visits. Fern Nickason and Pat Dion returned from Los Angeles to join Elmer Wilson and guests including Mart Hermens, Debbie, and the Nickasons. John Kirk and John David traveled to Portland and Sweet Home with stops at the Munger and Kirk families.
A late storm dropped 1.88 inches of rain and lifted river gauges by six feet in twelve hours. The week saw an 2 degree low on a day with highs in the seventies, and nights below sixties. Eugene visitors include Mr and Mrs B D Stewart with Mrs Stewarts parents, Harry Griffin. Myrtle Point resident Mrs Rusha Miller stayed with Mrs Mary Farber. Leo Frye and family visited Sweet Home for Thanksgiving with their son-in-law and daughter in law. Emma Lewis and her mother Mrs Johnson returned from a Kansas visit lasting several weeks.
Local households from Coquille to Myrtle Point hosted relatives and friends for Thanksgiving. Names include the Haney and McDonald families, Don McLeod’s guests from Lebanon, Archie Harmony, Carl Clair and Darlene, Clifford Boutin, Ed Brodie and family from Myrtle Point, and visits by the McKeowns and others from Sweet Home and Coquille. Continued visits featured Ed Jackson of Coronis California and various Coquille area households.
Classified notice lists a 1942 Pillac torpe do 8 radio and heater in excellent mechanical condition at R. M Peterson Cemetery Road phone 26R31 after 5 pm. Also equity in a modern 6 room house with inlaid linoleum Venetian blinds automatic oil furnace and electric water heater in Myrtle Point phone 493 after 2 pm.
Mrs Darrell Brodie reports little John Bell celebrated his first birthday with a Banner Bakery cake and guests including Fred Mantz and Barbara Mantz. Several families shared Thanksgiving with relatives in Norway and Powers, with mothers from Norway school attending a program and serving cake and coffee afterward. Other items note visitors from Santa Rosa, Bay area travels, and local social events at the Grant and McCloskey households along with multiple family meals and neighbors joining in over the holiday period.
George Peterson and many relatives visit Mrs Roy Smith and Mrs Schmidt’s kin arrive for Thanksgiving at the Schmidt home. Guests include McCloskeys Lett Strang Gasner Doe Noble Daniels and numerous families from Coquille Coaledo Broadbent Lewiston and Eugene.
Fragmentary items list names Hughes Wallac and Warner from Coquille with references to a court site and a ceremony or meeting noted today.
The story of China’s strife will be shown December 1831 at 7:30 p.m. at the Myrtle Point Methodist Church. The new sound color motion picture China Challenge will be screened and an offering will be taken. It may be the last authentic film shot in China for years due to Communist expansion.
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