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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1944
Page
4
News notes recount a recent crab fishing trip with Henry Schroeder hauling a 76 pound skate and the Star AlEberan eclipse viewing disappointment. The item also mentions the Leap Year Ball at M W A hall with M. Carment and Metropole jazz orchestra.
Local society groups meet for meals and programs. Fellowship members from the First Church Protestant groups share a salmon dinner at the Methodist church social room, with a brief business session and games to follow. In addition, women from the 90 and 9 gather for a missionary meeting at the Christian church led by Mrs Evaline Cox, with plans to purchase war bonds when funds permit. A charity pancake party is announced for the OO F hall with a small admission fee and lunch. The Presbyterian Ladies Aid hosts a meeting at Mrs Wm Bell’s home with a program on Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays. Rev Mar Sterpasser travels to La Verne California for a Pacific Union Conference, and Rev Stern speaks on Our Church Heritage. The Holderreads of Olympia arrive for a visit and discuss China mission plans. The State Tax Commission announces help for taxpayers at Coquille city hall next Thursday and Friday.
A Maine con ductor known as Clow recalls carving his name on a mud turtle shell near Junction City in the early 1890s. A Porter Station farmer recently found the shell with the inscription confirming the long ago deed. T D and H A Guerin returned from a six week visit with their Oakland, California, parents. Myrtle Point notes Lincoln birthday annual events.
A 1944 note recalls Congressman Hermann introducing a bill to pension Ralph E Summers of Curry county, one of the few survivors of the Battle Rock siege at Port Orford. Other items note light snowfall, a Missouri editor’s subscriber scheme, Coquille girls, and a club proposal enforcing leap year proposals with draping as a warning.
The bulletin by J. A. Harper and N. L. Bennion argues good chicks require quality breeding and management. It presents a handbook for rearing chicks from hatch to laying age under Oregon conditions and notes practices like wire porch yards and weed control beneath them.
Classified notice indicates sale of baby chicks and related feed and space considerations. Mentions vitamins and diet quality checks, with references to Herald office for details.
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