Myrtle Point Notes Highlight Visits and Local Events
Local residents attend picnics and family visits across Coos county. Roads and postmaster trips frame a page of community life with social calls, church services, and cooperative cheese meetings.
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1941
Page
5
Local residents attend picnics and family visits across Coos county. Roads and postmaster trips frame a page of community life with social calls, church services, and cooperative cheese meetings.
Public notice announces H B Rankin named Executor of the William Chandler estate by Judge Ervin Peterson. All claims must be presented and verified under law within a specified publication window from July 17 to August 14 in Central Point Oregon.
New laws require traps for legal trapping to be branded and registered with the Oregon State Game Commission. Landowners may use unbranded traps for unprotected animals and must register land and obtain a permit at no fee. Resident trappers pay 3 dollars, non residents 25 dollars. Signs must warn within 80 feet of large traps. 1941 season runs Nov 15 to Feb 15. Mink otter and muskrats only fur bearers. predators may be killed anytime. Beavers raccoons fisher marten and ringtail have year long closed seasons.
William R. Vinson 82 died at his Roseburg home after a life in Douglas county. Born June 9 1859 at the Platte river immigrant crossing his parents traveled from Iowa to Oregon. He worked as a stage driver sawmill operator farmer and stock raiser and once drove the Myrtle Point to Roseburg stage on the Coos Bay Wagon road.
City Marshal Bert Pearson reports twelve arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct during the three day Fourth of July celebration. Most offenders slept it off in the city jail and later appeared before Recorder E. C Roberts to pay fines.
Ernest Bernhart and family of Minneola Kansas stopped in Myrtle Point to visit cousin George Hughes on their way to San Francisco. Mrs Nellis Sherman of Charlotte Michigan arrived for a ten day visit with cousin Mrs Emme Bond. A telegram list notes new telephone listings and a residence change for Warren Deyoe.
Monday dinner guests at RE J Myers home were Mrs Winnifred Ray and Harold and Mrs Ora Wellman of Myrtle Point. Mrs George Hempton left for Lyle Washington to join her husband. The Gauer family moved from O H Ansen place to Harold Goldner place.
Bridge Grange held a Sunday picnic for a large crowd at Tendy. Attendees included Mrs H A Hatfield Mrs Vern Magill Mrs Marian Magill Mr and Mrs Dwight Culver Rev F H Sarr and others. Several are at Camp A Myrtle Wood preparing for the Brethren Conference starting July 21.
The Friendly Neighbors club met at Mrs Del Rema's home last Thursday afternoon. Attendees included Mrs Austin Ralph Mrs Eugene Adams Jack Mrs Ora Marsters Mrs Car Bushnell Mrs Tim Sullivan Mrs Hubert Morris Pauline Colleen Misser Betty Bushnell Colleen Sullivan and guests Mr P Bartlett and Mrs John Breuer.
A ten day furlough was granted for Her a en cee from Syal Island where he is presently stationed. Mrs Mancy Keely of Fairview visited from Wednesday to Sunday with Mr and Mrs O G Banceh.
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