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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1930
Page
3
Community notices report Bandon flower show set for Friday and Saturday July 25 26 along with Coquille Lions sponsored summer camp for sixteen Coquite boys on Elk River July 14 21. Also noted are local deaths births and civic activities including a new Coquille brass band, ferry passenger counts, and regional business filings.
Percy Peel of Florence has a nearly two-ounce bottle gathered from local sands by Myrtle Point friends N P Gjellatad and Bert Medillay. The vial weighs 17.5 ounces and is thought to contain about 76 percent gold. Peel shows the bottle around while companions are away.
We are saving closing out sale beginning Saturday July 12th. All second hand goods going cheap. i A Hoover lt pd.
Mrs. Hazel Rice works for Fat Elk Oil selling stock. Mr. Gifford installed an electric water pump for W. A. Fish. EE Evernden and family celebrated the Fourth at Floras Lake. The Charley Warner family held a Fourth of July reunion. Alice and family spent the Fourth at Empire camping. A Sargent remains under doctor care. Mr. Bogart visited the Gifford family on Rock Creek over the weekend.
The weekly schedule lists Sunday preaching at 10 am and 8 pm by Pastor E. V. Ostrander with communion during the next service. A Sunday evening youths meeting at seven features a sermon on “The Great ness Men Should Adore.” A welcoming note invites visitors without a church home to attend. The article also discusses the value of human capital and the need for parental care from birth through youth.
G Fields of Bale Lakhe City picked up a hitchhiker near Oakland. The man claimed to be Marry Fields his long lost brother from Winterset Iowa. They realized they were siblings they had not seen since 1902. The meeting ended with a warm reunion and a reminder that the world can feel small.
Farmers in Myers Creek section Curry County complain elk from Munter’s Head herd destroy garden crops. A resident limped into Gold Beach after leaping from a trail to escape seven bulls. Port Orford chamber of commerce notes campaign against billboards on 100 miles of scenic SW Oregon highway. Overdrafts.
Bridge, Oregon July reports a Grange meeting with over 60 members and guests in the grove near Evernden's home. Visitors include Frank Porter, Hooton and Moore families from Myrtle Point and Coquille. a Fourth of July outing extended to Brewster valley, Cape Arago lighthouse, Sunset Bay and Shore Acres. A newborn Alden Heath to Ray Beckett and wife in Grenada, California is noted.
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