Powers Sets Plans to Incorporate Town
Powers residents discuss incorporation boundaries at a Lions Club meeting led by Arthur Berg. Committees will decide borders with votes planned after several more meetings. Also noted are Lions events, Goos Bay convention plans, Moose chapter activities, and the death of Dorothy Klees at 19 after a fall.
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Powers
A. Arthur Berg
Coquille
Fellowship
Fjwin Fry
The
Lion Club
IP TA Hears t School Program
The first grade directed by Mrs. Robert McMillion presented an Easter playlet at the March Parent-Teacher Association meeting held Friday at the Fellowship clubhouse. Mrs. George Barton read the president's message and Clyde Allen spoke on service men returning to families.
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Robert McMillion
Parent- Teachr Association
Fellowship
George Barton
Clyde Allen
John Kusba
Kermit Hayes
Donald Burch
Carl Briggs
Joseph Boutin
George Fromm
Lawrence Brady
Clarence Conger
Ca! Briggs
Elmer Duncan
Service Men Honored and Returning Hearts in Wartime
The report lists Elvin Widmark a Coxswain awarded the Purple Heart after battle losses, plus Clarence Hull wounded in Europe on crutches awaiting Washington hospital care. R M Allen Stanley visits family before embarkation, and other local boys from Coquille and Powers undergo navy exams and await call to service while still in high school.
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Elvin Widmark
Mra
Elvin Fryn
John Widmark
Coquille
Powers
Clarence Hull
North Carolina
Washington
R. M. Allen Stanley
U S. Navy
Stanley
al Stanley
Parragut
California
Frank Grove, Jr
Buckshot
Ontario
Farragut
Mary Barklow
Portland
Genevieve Norris
Albert Shorb
Sgt Bill
Philippines
Don Coats
Stanley Slonecker
Raymond Wyland, Jr
Leslie King
Visiting relatives and local residents noted in Gold Beach area
Powers locals Mrs Marion Bowers and daughter visit her father in Gold Beach. Mrs Joseph Boutin and two sons left Sunday for a visit with relatives in San Francisco. Mr and Mrs Jean Lawrence spent last week in Portland. Mrs Kay Curtin and children of Portland visited parents. Mr and Mrs Larnon stayed several days. John Purvis remains at home hospital in Coquille after foot surgery to remove a piece of loose bone caused by a long‑ago injury.
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Marion Bowers
Gold Beach
Joseph Boutin
San Francisco
Jean Lawrence
Portland
Kay Curtin
Larnon
John Purvis i
Coquille
Community notes from Gaylord area gatherings
Mrs Swenson visited with friends after a pleasant stay, with luncheon by Mrs Devereaux in her honor. Mrs Thompson escorted her sister to Myrtle Point then to Klamath Falls. Other local residents made trips to Bandon Coquille Portland Reno and back, sharing news of visits and errands.
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Gaylord Mar
Robert Swenson
Antello
Thursaday
Mra James [Devereaux
Wedmeaday
Swenson Cuesta
Reese Daniels
William Lear
Harry Bowen
Mra Devereaus
Tom Thompson
Edwin Boothby
Myrtle Point
Klamath
Boothby
Ronny Joe
Jamen Devereaux
Bandon
Joanne Hayer
Coquille
Erey Bowea
Portland
Julia Howard
Reno
New
Local notices from Coquille and nearby towns
Fragmented arrivals and visits include Mr Feeda Johnson of Coquille a guest at Geo Clarno home Wed. Mr and Mrs Tony Barkley and Miss Dolores Barkley of Broadbent visited W R Cribbin s Sunday. Vernon Sell hosted George Brownson Sr and son George of Grants Pass for Sunday dinner. Jease A Guffey of Myrtle Creek also mentioned.
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I. B
England
Feeda Johnson
Coquille
Geo Clarno
Tony Barkley
Dolores Harkley
Broadbent
W R Cribbins
Vernon Sell
George Brownson Sr
George
Granta Pass
Jease A Guffey
Myrtle
Local visitors weave through area households this spring
Sunday overnight guests included Mr and Mrs Lyle Mecum of Dellwood at the George Clarno home. Lyle plans to report for army duty March 27. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Harry Weathers and family of Myrtle Point at the Henry Weathers home. Clyde McBee and family are spending a few days in Roseburg.
Louis Strong Dies At Bandon
Louis Martin Strong 72 died of a heart attack at his Bandon home Wednesday afternoon. His body was found in the backyard by his wife after she missed him and summoned help. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. Born October 28, 1872 in Phoenix Oregon, he taught school in Myrtle Point before moving to Bandon about 20 years ago to work in a creamery as bookkeeper and cheese maker. Surviving relatives include his wife three sons Alden Lyle and St Roland an army fighter pilot then prisoner in Germany and two daughters Mrs Evelyn Bliss.
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Louis Martin Strong
Bandon
Mr Strong
Lewis and
Catherine Strong
Phoenix
Oregon
Myrtle Point
Benke-Walker Business College
Portland
Alden
Lyle
St. Roland
Germany
Evelyn Bliss
Remains of Calif. Couple with Local Survivors and A Deceased Brother
The obituary notes the late husband and wife from California with Dorothy, a brother Frank Strong of Santa Cruz, California, and sisters Mrs. Lucy Jones of Myrtle Point, Mrs. Ola Warner of Broadbent, and Mrs. Bertie Floyd of Seaside. It also mentions another brother Jake who died about a month ago at Myrtle Point.
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Calif
Dorothy
Washington
Frank Strong
Santa Crus
Narrow Escape in River Leaves Boy with Broken Leg
Lester Barkley eighteen had a narrow escape from drowning after a boat with his father Howard Barkley capsized on the South Fork. The boy suffered a broken leg below the knee, cast still on, after they were thrown into the river by a hidden rock that stove in the front of the craft. The two managed to swim to shore despite a broken log and the collision, while Mrs A M Cooper visits Canyonville with relatives.
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Lester Barkley
Howard Barkley
South Fork
Soone
Also Mentioned on This Page
Town of
James Gamwell
Lions
Fm A
N. A
Leslie Finney
Arthur Beith
Elmer Miller
Warda Smith
Kenneth Mckhenzie
Verna Finney
Donna Gilmore
Francis Stevens
Harold Ross
Daniel Pickle
Felix Campbell
A [ King
John Myers
Women OF Moose
Women of the Moose
W T Grove
Ray Grant
Gaylord
Red Cross
Davie Reader
Mali
Mia Reader
Misa Dorothy Klees
Sweet Home
James Fuller
Lebanon Hospital
Mra Fuller
Puller
IP. T. A. Hearst School Program
Fellowship Club
J W Gamwell
Albert Burch
Gamwell
Rebekahs
Jewel Club
the Rebekahs
William Richards
Weather Report
Jupiter Plusius
General Automobile Repairing
Butterfield Repair Shop
Scofield Studios
Broadway Marshfield
Ore
Mrs
H DD Bonen
Louis Strong
A M Cooper
Canyonville
Sempert
Brooks
Golden Shell Motor Oil
Shell Oil Company, Incorporated
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