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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1942
Page
4
Powers High won its first conference game Friday, defeating Bandon 48 to 28 on its home court. The text notes future travel to Coos River to face rivals and includes a busy school notes section with band selections, reorganized grades, new student Glenn Goats, and various club activities.
Birthday gathering honors Stalard with neighbors and friends sharing a pot luck dinner. Pinochle club hosts surprise shower for Mrs Hans Jorgensen. PT A to meet at 290 Fellowship club house with social hour after. Sunshine club elects new officers led by Mrs A C Eilings. Sunday school reports year finances and donations totaling 172.89 with 25 average attendance. Local residents attend meetings and visits. steelhead fishing underway on the river with notable catches.
The Portland market opened with beat-fed steers and cows steady, bulls up about 50 cents from Monday. Good fed steers sold $12.25 to $13.00, top $18.46. common dairy steers $8.50 to $10.40. cutters $6.50 to $6.68. fat dairy cows $7.25 to $7.76. bulls $1400. Hog prices were about 26 cents lower, 170 to 215 pound hogs mostly $12.00 to $12.75, heavy butchers $11.25 to $11.50. packing sows $9.00 to $9.75. feeder pigs $12.50 for 44 head. Lambs strong to 36 higher. wooled muttons $12.25. truck-in lambs about $11.78. Printing ad note at end.
A reflective poem traces rural life from sunup to sundown to modern changes. It contrasts hand work with new machines and electric conveniences while noting how traditions endure in memory as farms modernize and children grow up.
Louis Lund, building a new house on his ranch in Gaylord, fell from the roof on Saturday and broke both wrists. The community diary lists visitors and relatives traveling between Cottage Grove Portland and Myrtle Point with health notes and local movements.
Ronauld Grant continues to suffer with an ear infection. Mrs William Mcfiiley and daughter Rae spent overnight as Thurson guests of Mrs Julia Howard. Mr and Mrs H D P Bones enjoyed a visit Sunday afternoon with their daughters, Mrs Kermit Hayes and Mrs Kenneth Rolfe from Powers. Janette and Charline Barker of Myrtle Point spent Monday night with Mrs Julia Howard. Mrs Earl Casler returned from...
Astonia spent Sunday night visiting her husband at Fort Lewis. Mr and Mrs Thomas Luttrell left Friday for Eugene for a week with Luttrells parents. Clinton Carman and John Carman were in Coquille Monday. Mrs John Neal visited Clinton Carman Monday. Tomson took his son Forter to Ashland last Tuesday to enroll at the Southwestern Oregon College of Education. Mr Thompson visited his family in Klamath Falls before returning.
Sunnyhill student Colleen Ingersoll, 15, won the county title in the national food preparation contest. Dorothy E Bishop presented the gold medal to the Sunnyhill 4-H member, with trips awarded to state and national gatherings.
Woody Mason of Husley and G Robbins of Myrtle Point announce the birth of Mason Jerry Allen on January 9 and a son Vernon Lee born January 11. The couple share pride in their new family additions.
Three individuals entered for medical treatment last week including Virgil Hoschauer of Myrtle Point Elmer Post and William Ballard of Powers Mia Lena Cortes of Bandon and Wilmot Hoffman of Brouadbent. Still confined in the hospital are Mrs R H Maat Kate White Arthur White John Kindberg Ronald Malden James Dukes and Florence Nichlaws.
The Port Fowey grew into a favored Cornish holiday resort and major port, supplying more ships for King Edward III’s navy than London in its era.
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