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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1938
Page
3
Sitkum residents visited friends in Bridge and Coquille. Myrtle Point and Coquille hosted gatherings, dances, and club meetings. School news covers repairs, a fundraising push, and student activities with local families and staff noted throughout the weekend.
Mrs Minnie Smith left Friday for her home in Bandon after a 10 day visit at the SS Reed home. Porter Whittington of Broadbent was a guest of M and Mrs Reed last Thursday night. Mr and Mrs P F Bartlett spent Wednesday evening with Mr and Mrs Verne Lundy. Mrs Myron Wicks, Mr and Mrs Ray Hunt, and Harley Barklow visited Broadbent and Marshfield area. Hickby Epperson of Broadbent was a Sunday visitor at the T J Sullivan residence. Mr and Mrs Jo Haschauer, Gilbert Bud, Iris Hoschauer, were Sunday evening guests at the Van Orden home. Dick Allen and Alma Morgan were day guests at the O A Reed home. Mr and Mrs Robert Ocheltree and Mrs Fred Lafferty and daughter Janice were Sunday dinner guests of Mr Judges. Lloyd Davenport and Ren Reed spent Saturday with their grandparents, Mr and Mrs Reed. Mr and Mrs W H Van Orden and daughter Marjorie and Iris Hoschouer were Saturday business visitors in Coquille. Lloyd Davenport and daughter Shirley Jean drove to Marshfield Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Harley Barklow and He on, Agnes and Dean called on Mr and Mrs Ray Hunt Sunday. Miss Blanche Baker and Mrs Fred Lafferty drove Saturday to Coquille for the teachers meeting and then attended the university class at Lincoln High School in the afternoon.
Mrs A H Bender traveled with Milton Schroeder to McMinnville to see her son Edward Bender and his family and to visit Mr and Mrs R C Latham, former Myrtle Point residents. They returned Sunday night with Schroeder bringing his wife who had stayed in McMinnville the past week. Also on Sunday Mr and Mrs EB F Brodie and several others spent the day on the Coach at Bandon. Joyce Schroeder visited Dorothy Bender and a group including Mr and Mrs J McClockes Elisabeth Lett and Mr and Mrs GC Strang of Coquille.
A long list of visitors and relatives gathered in Myrtle Point and nearby homes over the weekend. Guests included Mr and Mrs Jne Knight and Maes e A'san Shaver, Mr and Mrs Elmer Neg and the Mortle Point group, Ruth Has, Robert and Fur Weekls of Finpee, Eugene Adams, John Morris and family, Whitney of torre Pont, George Ward household, George Pratt, H Howard Strader, Del Rema, and many more from North Catching Creek, Floras Creek, and Pleasant Point.
Dora Mr and Mrs W C Griffin hosted business visitors in Coquille last Thursday. Frances Holverstott, a Pleasant Hill school teacher, is ill at home with poison oak. Numerous local families including the Mayses, Durnams, Griffins, and Shepherds were guests or visitors over the weekend and through Sunday in Brewster Valley and Myrtle Point.
Cement Creek residents Mr and Mrs Chas Harris and their children joined sister Mrs Nester Springstead in Springfield for Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs W F Ray. Ed Peets and daughters from Arizona are visiting. Arthur Chandler family plans move to Arcata California leasing ranch to Earl Ray family. Ward, Gitkison, and Northun connections tied to Mytle Point and Arcata visits.
Pleasant Point residents record a string of visits and hosting chiefly at the Mann and Watson households. Mr and Mrs Guy Mann, Mr and Mrs Wm Johnson, Mrs Esther Hechberger, Kathleen Roberts and family, and Dor othy Watson are among those visiting friends, sharing dinners, dances, and a county orchestra entertainment for the FOE lodge. A chari ta party honoring Tom Nelson featured music, dancing, and a late supper.
Catching Creek brief items report Erma Legsworth returning from San Francisco and Claire Counts departing for Eugene after a Myrtle Point visit. Alder Crest and J E Wood households are mentioned with visits to Coquille, Gold Beach, and Coquite. Several neighbors, including Carl Bushnell, Jess Caude, and Levena Powers, appear in social calls and hospital notes. William Schull hospitalized for appendicitis. wood-cutting activity noted.
Erma Wise and her children visited the Fish and Sargent home Sunday. Orville Hice injured his foot playing basketball in Myrtle Point.
Community sketch shows numerous visits and family gatherings in Coquille Myrtle Point and remote areas. Movements include doctoring lip cancer removals, moving to Myrtle Point, and many Sunday and Thursday visits. Fairview Ladies Aid elects officers Blanche Yeoman presiding. Sophia Tosten vice president. Lois Young secretary treasurer.
Fairview residents travel and visit relatives in Marshfield Eugene and Boise. Mrs Hece Berry hosts Sandra McKinley while Gene Roberts leaves for Hayward after a Christmas in Fairview. William Judd and family plan a move and store building here. Donald Phillips and J A Dedmond motor to Port Orford. Fairview Grade School adds a third teacher Evelyn McPherson Sutphin from Remote.
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