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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1941
Page
2
The Myrtle Point and Coos county region forms a cooperative Retail Credit association to educate the public on credit and help debtors and creditors. Local industry expects a boom with rising lumber prices and expanded employment, signaling strong business conditions ahead.
A proposed cannery for fruit and vegetable packing at Myrtle Point makes slow but steady progress as investors are urged to buy more shares to ensure the project. The bid to establish the facility depends on increased stock subscription to complete the venture.
Fire discovered soon after eleven o clock Sunday damaged the hardware and implement stock owned by Floyd Reed in the P W Laird building just north of the Enterprise office. Andrew Christensen, who recently moved from Tillamook county, has been active in cheese factory deals including the Sugarloaf creamery and Sunrise cheese factory, now Good Times Creamery, plus options on Gravel Ford and Lee 3am cheese plants.
A 1921 Chronicle column recalls Mrs Turned MacDonsid and 10 year old Letha Hazelton selling paintings after lessons. Leola Kirkendall of Bridge shows wildflowers to the American Herald. Miss Vernita Laird, daughter of local residents, returns from a Europe trip and earns UC Berkeley honors. A windstorm causes structural damage to a barn, a tree, a car, a silo, and a smokehouse in the county.
Carl Bushnell sold his 25 year dairy herd in Los Angeles on Friday and plans to enter the sheep business for a time. Local social notes record visitors and callers from Myrtle Point North Bend Coquille Powers Marshfield and nearby towns with gatherings at the West and Wes households and several dinners and visits noted.
Broadbent HEC holds a special meeting appointing Mrs. Sam Root school clerk to finish Mrs. Graham’s term. Residents plan Home Extension at the school gym January 2 with a 10:30 am start and noon potluck. Multiple local families travel to visit relatives in Pondosa California during blizzard conditions.
A homey guide suggests packing hearty hot soup as a lunch alterative to standard milks. It includes a potato cheese soup recipe and tips to keep it hot in a vacuum bottle, with steps for simmering potatoes, making a roux, and finishing with cheese and parsley.
A mix of home cooking ideas and everyday social updates. The column covers cooking on electric ranges, packing lunch jars, bread crust reuse, fried leftovers, and vegetable ideas. It also lists numerous local visits, guests, and church activities across Myrtle Point and surrounding towns with names like Mr and Mrs Fred Massey, Parrish, Barkdoll, and Dan iels, plus church services and union meetings.
West Myrtle Point Mr and Mrs I P Linn and Lela Faye were Sunday afternoon visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs Paul Breuer. Mrs Belle Bennett is slowly improving from a flu illness. Mr and Mrs Ben Daniels spent several days at the Breuer home before moving to Grants Pass where Mr Daniels works for Union Oil. They have lived in Marshfield. Mr and Mrs A L Reed hosted Gerald and Noah Cosner for Sunday dinner in Remote at the home of Mr and Mrs Orval Finch.
On Thursday January 16 Rev W C Cremy led a Scout meeting at the Afethodist parsonage in Myrtle Point. Fifteen scouts plus several adults attended as Warren Knight Donald Brown Kenneth Cofer and Douglas Warner completed Tenderfoot tests and were welcomed into the Scouts. The unit now counts 20 boys with strong interest in the program as Scoutmaster E C Barker reports growing membership.
The Gaylord Womans club held their regular meeting in the club house last Wednesday with Mrs Klan Koy as guest. President Mrs F Medlock announced her son Frendy Medlock was stationed at March Field and sent word home. Members listed include Mes Carter Lee, Mrs Rees Daniels, Evelyn, Jer tuntley, and Mrs Devereaux attended a directors’ meeting in Union High School at Myrtle Point.
The text outlines a church notice for a Brethren assembly led by Pastor Mitchellmore. It urges renewed attendance, announces a youth and adult program, a 7 30 pm union service at the Methodist church, and Bible school at 10 am for all ages.
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