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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1935
Page
2
Fragments indicate instructions about remittance by post office money orders or personal checks. It mentions stamps money or currency sent at owner's risk and to provide a full address. The exact recipients or agency are not stated.
The Myrtle Point High School paper Myrtle Leaf will appear in this week's Herald. Journalism class instruction under William E Gurney shapes coverage of school events, carnivals and plays, with front page use of Myrtle Leaf reports.
McKinley School hosts a midweek picnic at Bradley and Floras lakes with a cedar mill tour led by Miss Alice Mast and a lesson from the lake owner about gold ore. After supper at the W Roy Mast home, families and students gathered with Lyman King, Velva and Delbert King, and others. The Pollyanna club met at Mrs Reuben Brown’s home with a Mother’s Day program. the next meeting is planned for June. Additional items note visits, family travel, and club activities around Coquille and Myrtle Point.
Reports detail social visits and events in Coquille area including the wedding party of Mr and Mrs Turner MacDonald and guests at Myrtle Point, a dessert luncheon with jello fruit and wedding cake, plus multiple calls and gatherings among Lafferty Barklow Robison and MacDonald families at Upper Halls Creek and nearby towns.
Mrs Constance Hoffman reports her son with mumps on Tuesday. Guests include Mrs Russel Train from China Flat and Mrs A LaFlarme. Sunday dinners hosted by Mr and Mrs Wallace Detro tank. Mr and Mrs Kau’mar from Marshfield. Mr and Mrs P Ao Rathel from Walla Walla. Visitors to EF Urethian home. returning to Walk Reedsteart. Grandmother Emma Hermann visited by Miss Gilde Dietz. Everett Weir arrives from San Diego via Port Orford.
A fragmented account details visits and gatherings across Myrtle Point families led by Mrs Jans Meer and others. It notes social events, guests, and local ties to Linfield and Oregon State, with mention of Mothers Day visits, a high school student body election, sports, and a county meet.
A fragment lists names including Wilda Petersen Evelyn Bones and Wilda Rede with editorial staff roles such as editor sports reporters feature writer and ag reporter indicating a newspaper masthead or staff roster fragment.
Miss Nella Veverka twenty years old daughter of a Czechoslovakian immigrant was chosen as Queen Shenandoah XII for the Shenandoah Apple Blossom festival. She is pictured among magnolia trees in Potomac Park Washington.
Betty Brooks as secretary Greta McClellan treasurer Eileen Bark and Norma Martin among officers for the senior class. The 1935 may outing included a gym assembly, baseball interclass results 17-11 juniors over sophomores, and the weeklong program featured farm and agriculture lessons, visits to Roy Shull ranch, beekeeping, weed study, garden work, insect control, and FFA meetings with new officer installations.
Roberto Barklow was elected president of the Myrtle Point student body at the regular election held last Friday. Charles Smith was elected vice president and Gene Bonn Re terman won treasurer. The ballot for student secretary was found incorrect and the election was delayed.
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