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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
4
Local notice indicates a group of girls is to be selected at a future meeting as housing space remains at a premium. Two additional groups are forming and will organize once essential materials arrive.
Mrs Walker celebrated at home in North Powers with a birthday surprise Friday. Friends and neighbors hosted a 2 pot luck luncheon and a social afternoon with Mesdames Purvis Parker Church Brady Alles Stallard Stallard King Conger Walker McMillion Richars Munro and Jen in attendance. The Hanging Rock lookout station and tower are completed with crews and equipment arriving for the first pack train on Tuesday.
Figures from Siskiyou National Forest ranger station show about 2908 visitors from Jan 1 to Oct 3, with Daphne Grove as the top camping spot at 1100 visitors. A CCC check period Aug 10 saw 446 people checked at the entrance. 53 went to Agness while many cars bore out of state licenses.
A valuable gold ore shipment from the Diverbiss claims near Eckley Mountain left Powers Monday afternoon guarded by armed escort. Valued at about £2000, the ore was hauled to a railroad and loaded onto a truck for Tacoma, Washington, en route to a smelter.
Boyd Rasmussen U S Ranger will speak to the Woman's club next Wednesday at the Fellowship clubhouse on forest service objectives and district projects. A Moose Lodge program commemorating the order's 27th anniversary is planned at Moose hall with music and talks.
Funeral services for Mra Roy Hawkins were held at Schreder Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon with Rev F H Barr officiating. Mayme Crystal Cass was born in Drain on a date unreadable in the text and was married to Roy Hawkins, with their family noted in the obituary fragment.
In Myrtle Point Mrs Bortal died at Mast hospital on October 21 1939 after years of illness she leaves a husband and two sons Wallace 16 and Terry 2. husband runs a sawmill on Matheny Creek. Bortal rests in Myrtle Point cemetery with funeral at Pioneer Methodist church Coquitle tomorrow at 2 pm. In Riverton Mindas Charles Mortimer Hartwell 59 died after a year and a half illness. He moved to Riverton in 1923 started a silver fox ranch and gained northwest notice. services by Ganu Funeral Home with interment at Masonic cemetery.
Simon Kenton Matcher died at his daughter Mrs. Lucinda Alexander home in Coquille. Funeral services were held under direction of the Gano Funeral Home with interment at Fairview cemetery. Born in Iowa on February 7, 1860, he moved to Cova county in 1877 and is survived by three sons Archie Coquille Clarence Roseburg Ernest McKinley and one daughter Mrs Lucinda Alexander.
One brother Robert Marcher of Co quille and one sister Mrs Bilds Cotton of Gravelford. Tresp.5s notices printed on waterproof cloth. On sale at The Herald office.
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