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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
2
A shipment brought Belgian hares to Port land by Monday’s train. A 400 schoolhouse is to be built in Fairview district. A small pox case is reported from Coos river with quarantine. No Ste jaublle school in the South Work district. Kate Braden teaches with good pupil attendance.
June 23 1906 Schroeder of Norway left for Portland to enter a hospital for hip treatment. He was accompanied by his brother Henry. The text notes an old complaint and a remark about a woman losing her temper, indicating the fragmentary nature of the report.
Coyotes killed sheep and damaged goat herds costing about $1.50 per day for a month. The Myrtle Point district No. 41 annual meeting reported the school district is debt free for the first time in twenty years. Notables include IL HE Pearce at the Knights of Pythias grand lodge in Portland. Uriah Albee and Nelle Bell wed, and a new Bridge school contract worth 12,383 dollars was let to McChasney & Lawrenson of Albany for an eight room two story building with full basement.
In 1930 Clinton and Christensen launch a logging camp on Big Creek with nine workers, soon to grow to fourteen, operating in section 31 township 28 range 10 and transporting logs to the Middle Fork at Bridge. Union Oil installs a large crew for a new super service station at Spruce and Fourth, while the old building moves to Mrs Cook’s ground near Eighth and Maple. Gas sinks three cents to 23 cents. Mr and Mrs Shirley Hickam visit Coos Bay Junction, meeting Mr and Mrs Frank Burbank on their return from Ashland normal.
Reported local happenings include a 3am Myrtle Point Coquille highway crash injuring Mrs Morris and Mr Lakey with the car damaged beyond repair. Little Jackie Mayse of Sitkum sustained severe leg injuries from a horse fall while hauling hay. Firefighters assisted Mrs Theresa Sherman and Mrs Anna Weeks after moss sparks ignited an attic fire. Numerous local residents and visitors are listed in social notes spanning visits, picnics, and family events across Myrtle Point and surrounding communities.
A Sitkum event mixed Sunday School and church services with readings by Velma Krewson June Abbott and Fern Nickason and musical numbers from Virginia Wilson Donna Krewson and others. Elder William Barnett delivered the message. The annual school election at the gym reelected Ivan Laird as director and Mrs W A Nickason as clerk for 24 years.
Sunday and Saturday gatherings across the region include Arago and Coquille families visiting friends in Marshfield. Du elbert and Edna Haves ard Delbert join Cecil Snyder and Charles Wells households while others host dinners and overnight guests. Yellowstone trip plans, a party at Thelma and Nola Crawford, and care for ill Ora Robison are noted among numerous local residents.
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Mrs. Harold Glenn and Mr. Harold Glenn visited McKinley over the weekend. Young grangers from McKinley hosted Fairview youths at the McKinley hall. Mrs. Walter Lawhorn has been bedridden this week. Pollyanna club gathered at Sitkum with Mrs. Elwin Alford and a group from McKinley and Sitburn including Mesdames Churchill Mast Brown O'Sullivan and Laird among others.
Dora Arthur Bighow visits grandparents M and Mrs Ezra Watson Mard and Mrs Verril Bilderback and Marvin of Barstew join Sunday dinner with Mr and Mrs J Therp and Ms Havey Miard of Coquille Mrs Monta Minard and Mr and Mrs JL Sourmaid with Lows ani To spend week. multiple locals including Colleen Shepherd, Thurston, and Mrs Crumiles partake in visits and travel to Marshfield and Portland for hospital care.
The readable text records scattered references to Halls Creek areas and local incidents. Mentions include a fire, a forest walk, a possible injury, and a family note about Mr and Mrs BooR Wakes, with a vague reference to an event on a Wednesday near Ploras Lake.
Neighbors and friends gathered at the H Ernest Watkins ranch to honor Mr and Mrs B B Watkins visiting from Portland. Attendees included Naomi Robison, Neomi May Stauff, Jim Good, Anthony Van Lydegraf, and many others from Banda, Broad-Gent, Corvallis, Mystic Point, Fyemer ton, and Portland.
The article notes a Monday gathering at Alder Crest for the anvedv school media with attendees including LD A Wood Louis Skia elected clerk and several local residents such as Miss Elizabeth Gallagher visiting her relatives in Seattle. Other names and relations appear among community visitors and residents during the weekend and following days.
Eugene Reed spent the weekend with Vic Bushnell and visits were paid by Mr and Mrs J L Knight to Mr and Mrs GKO Woat. Rema returned home from Haus Saturday evening after working there. Mrs Eugene Adams and John and Mrs J L Knight called Monday afternoon on Mrs Austin Ralph. Vic Bushnell Clarence Ralph Eurene Reed visited In Quicolo Friday.
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