12 Dec 1929
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1929
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment mentions an event at a gate and references a top stock or product, but the text is garbled and unreadable, leaving the main facts and entities impossible to confirm from the provided snippet.
Readable fragments show advocates toutting electricity in homes and domestic conveniences. The fragment mentions readers and residents, promising improved life through electric utilities and household connection.
Coaches dispute the midseason all star selections published in the Loosbay Paper. They propose a revised team led by Linn of Bandon and North Bend’s Smith with Myrtle Point and Coquille players honored.
A brief item notes Lai I adding to the Knights Pytrias Elec, details sparse due to damaged text.
Rain returns to the Pacific coast boosting logs to market and bringing river rises as fish run upstream. In Coos County two inches fall with more by midweek, logs loosened from dams move toward Myrtle Point, while ranchers and dairymen welcome moisture despite late-season setbacks.
John David Bennett Born Fayette County Illinois May 17 1846 moved across Indiana Minnesota Oregon lived in Coquille Gravel Ford and Myrtle Point with wife Mary Belle Bunch They had seven children four predeceased him Surviving wife three children two sisters five grandchildren and many relatives Services held at Schroeder chapel Elder Langberg Beven Day Adventist.
A preliminary basketball game between Powers and Myrtle Point is set for tomorrow evening at 7:30 in Union High School. Admission is twenty five cents. Organizers hope for a strong turnout to support the team.
The Gravelféid ciminusity hosts a Saturday night country fair with free admittance. A comedy titled Mix Well and Stir is featured, described as a playful production for the community at the hall.
District 41 grade school vacation is announced from the 20th through December 30th. The school board met with principal Summers to authorize Mr. Isamers to notify eighth grade parents about county examinations and whether to enroll in the newer shoals exams.
An old piece extols the newspaper as a sacred bearer of tidings guiding a community. It notes how every person appears in its pages across years, recording memories from births to deaths and major life events, linking readers through shared news and continuing hope for the year ahead.
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