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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1932
Page
7
Classifieds include horses, cows, Bartlett pears, county warrants trade, tank covers, wood and furniture, old papers, furnished apartments, houses for rent, dress designing, and legal notices. Notices cover final accounts and administrator sale of real property with locations in Coos County Oregon Myrtle Point and surrounding areas.
Oregon hog raisers market 64 percent of hogs at the most desirable weight in Portland and 43 percent at Willamette valley points. The study by Oregon State College experiment station notes demand shifts due to reduced lard use and consumer preference for leaner cuts. The 160 to 200 pound hog with a hard finish is ideal. hogs over 200 pounds fetch 60 cents to $1 less per pound.
A berry grower on H Compton’s farm tested five fertilizer treatments with a control, finding the near-highest cost option yielded nearly the lowest return while a mid cost option produced the best. Other reports cover slow revolving sprinklers for pasture irrigation on Frank Hall’s ranch and early harvests of Bliss Triumph potatoes on Henry Durst’s Grant County farm.
The record lists investments, job creation, and new plants across Oregon towns. Florence plans a $400,000 bridge over the Siuslaw river. Otis surfaces 115 miles east on the Oregon highway. Port Orford opens a crab canning plant by Robert Schuecher and associates. Elk Creek tunnel land leased near Salem. bids on road work around $800,000 due August 3. Roseburg starts a new city barn. more projects include a Coast guard boathouse, a state hospital building bid, and erosion and soil fertility notes from the era.
Prineville potato growers await results of trials on scab resistant varieties. Regional nurseries planted plots at several farms including W Stewart, Geo Truesdale, EB Hall and A Roberts. County agent Bugaee inspected the plots and noted strong growth.
Chas H Barklew invites all to attend Sunday school at 10:00 am and preaching at 11:00 am. Evening services at 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm with a Christian Worker feature. Midweek Bible study on Wednesday at 8:00 pm. Everyone is welcome.
Local notices list schedules for several churches including Presbyterian, Assembly of God, Reorganized Latter Day Saints, Church of Christ, Cathedral of Treem Kool, and Methodist Episcopal. Each presents Sunday school times, worship hours, and midweek gatherings with prayer meetings and special services. Rev W Ostrander plans return to Myrtle Point tonight.
Morning Worship at 11:00 offers worshipful music prayer and a timely message. Epworth League devotional at 7:00 p m invites young people to Christian service and church work. Evening Praise at 8:00 features formal choir and surprise elements. Wednesday Bible class at 7:30 p m and choir rehearsal at 8:30 p m. Thursday prayer meeting at 9:30 a m.
A compilation lists individuals from Homer to Pueblo showing interest in unimproved to partly improved Oregon land. Prospects seek holdings from 2 to 160 acres near the coast or inland for poultry fruit dairying farming and stock raising with various location preferences and travel notes.
President Hoover on July 9 renamed the Crater National Forest to Rogue River National Forest. The forest lies in southern Oregon with headquarters in Medford.
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