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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1940
Page
2
The Herald praises local citizens educated in area schools and joins with the Lions club to promote The Herald in southern Coos County Oregon. About thirty members of the Lions Tule will partner for the next month to distribute the weekly paper to homes.
In this city notes list several patients receiving care. Kerrall Hayes of Gaylord and J H Bertie McCloskey of Norway are treated for fractures. Mrs Gledyt Kypers undergoes major surgery and convalesces. Lucy Livingston of Myrtle Point and Laland Barksow remain in hospital care.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Potter family moved to Days. Mrs Clyde McBee visited the Cribbins home. Wyrick and Dick families visited Springfield and Marshfield. Appleton and Cribbins families traveled to Roseburg Salem and Sixes. The school carnival moved from Oct 28 to Nov 15. Community club met Friday with Orvin Finch in charge and lunch served by Mrs Leslie Oden and others.
Mrs Elizabeth Lett hosted the Norway unit Friday with Rug Making as the topic. Leaders were Mrs Ellia Bouthmayd and Mrs George Hoffman. A potluck dinner followed at noon with several local ladies in attendance.
Local leaders vow active cooperation to launch a community paper funded by Lions Club drives. The editorial endorses a Myrtle Point retail credit association and urges voters to back three measures in the Oregon election to strengthen liquor control and curb gambling.
A letter to Mrs Selden Warner from her daughter in law Mrs Roland Warner of Palmer Alaska details Alaskan territory interests. The piece notes many friends and relatives of the Warners in the section will find the facts of interest.
In October 1946 Miss Zetta Lawhorn suffered a pistol accident at a residence when a 38 caliber revolver discharged while being handled. The bullet damaged her left palm, fractured the large bone, and lodged in a wall. Kolt Harrison arrived from the Sixes mines to assist with supplies and winter work. Dr D G Elgin visited Roseburg for land office business.
1965 item reports Dan Patch shaved three quarters of a second from his own mark to set a new world record of 155% in Lexington Kentucky last Saturday. Also noted are Frank Fish and wife traveling en route to Myrtle Creek for logging interests and a house barn fire at John Clinton’s Norway farm destroying hay and implements with an estimated $2000 loss. A plan to add tank steamers for regular trips and an oil refinery on the bay is under consideration.
Mast Hospital admits Tyrell Woodward Aragon Hawley Marshfield Alfred Kellenberger Norway Mrs Anna Oberman Robert VanFossen Warren Gilbert Powers I W Murphy Powers Alton Billings Powers Jessie Tenning Sitkum Jo Rary Sitkum Benjamin Gallegher Powers with multiple entries noting admission dates and current recovery or treatment statuses.
Bancroft Mra Perry Waterman and Patty Jean and Perry Jr with Mra Andrew Waterman and Clarence Waterman were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mra James Jewett and Mra Lyle Hardman. Mary Ellen and Evelyn were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs Hardman’s mother Mra H J Koch of Bride.
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