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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1929
Page
3
The July term opened with Judge T Brand presiding. Local residents report housing projects near Myrtle Creek and road surveys between Medford and Ashland. Reports of turkey thieves and a push to raise medicine show licenses from $10 to $60 a day appear alongside industrial notes from Marshfield and Coquille.
The region notes a Marshfield lawyer pairing with Claude Gilee, a new traffic officer in Roosevelt highway duties, and a shift to weekly publication of Southwestern Oregon News. Other items include sport fishing on the Checto river, Chinook runs, Myrtle Creek fire gear upgrades, new city marshal in Marshfield, and a bear killed by Mitton Brown in Langlois.
A children’s death follows pneumonia in Coos Bay area. other Douglas county items report taxes for the first half of the year at 804 198.72, four community fairs planned, hospital planning efforts in Coquille, a San Jose death of Mrs. Olive Richards, and local fatalities including J E Fitzgerald and Howard Carter. Roadwork on Roosevelt highway progresses and local aviation efforts pursue a Class A field with a new San Francisco to Portland airline planning stops in Coos County.
A 1929 Myrtle Point Herald piece argues run down areas repel residents and businesses. It condemns door to door dodgers and yard clutter, urging communities to curb littering while noting advertising flyers can be turned to cost effective channels.
Oregon State College in Corvallis announces Leston L. Love as vocational guidance specialist to assist high school students statewide. Any Oregon high school may request his services to help students choose suitable life work and assess the need for further training.
Hooton improves after bed confinement. Lou and Maud visit. Oliver family planning move to California by late August with summer schooling in Los Angeles. Oliver will tour Portland before departure. Culver family visits Hails Creek and MacDonald homes. Krenek surprises Lou Hooton after years apart, joining at Hooton’s Haven then continuing eastward after Crater Lake trip.
The order invites members to meet on the second and fourth Mondays at Weedasan hall. All members are cordially urged to attend at home.
A local church announces Bible school sessions beginning at 11 o clock each Sunday morning in September. Evening meetings are planned with a Peoples meeting and union services in the Christian church at 8 o clock.
Readable fragment notes a Church of Christ service with Sunday school at ten and communion planned. The brief includes references to preaching and worship moments though details are incomplete.
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