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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1934
Page
4
Local residents reported visits and travels among families including Mr. and Mrs. George Rice and daughter L Rice, Mr. and Mrs. P A Ross, Mr. and Mrs. L A Duncan and children, and George and Myrtle Sargent visiting Marshfield and Coquille. Events cover visits, fairs, piano tuning trips, and social gatherings with several health notes and bus iness trips noted.
McKinley School opens with 12 scholars and a busy week of teacher plans. Local residents Mrs Reuben Brown, Mrs Jay Freeman, and many others are listed as callers, visitors, and attendees at events in Coquille and Myrtle Point, detailing social visits, business trips, and farm work around the area.
Bridge School will open here on Monday September 17 with Mrs Elise Amp teaching again this year. She brings her nin daughter and her mother Mrs Christina Erickson Oswego. Mrs Murphy rents a cottage remodated for occupancy. Mr and Mrs Donald Els of Los Angeles arrived to visit through the Faw with Mr and Mrs A C Gates. Hermoine Knight of Corvallis visiting her sister Constance Knight at aunt Mrs Dwight Culver’s home. John Luttrell and Corvallis visitors at Dwight Culver’s home. Mrs Harold James relocates to Walls Walla Walla Washington where her husband is a patient in a hospital there. Frank Culver Glenn Hutton Mae Hatcher Maud and Lou Hooton attended a Christian Endeavor union meeting at Coquille. Charles Mack’s wife visited Mast hospital in Myrtle Point Sunday. Everett Moore spent Sunday with his wife at Eckley camp. Mrs Chris Lund of Marshfield visits sister Mrs Charles Mack and helps with work this week. Elder and Mrs Wiley Barnett and niece Esther with Dwight Culver and children Mary Lou Everett Constance Knight and Hermione Knight were Sunday guests at W A Lett’s. Rev Charles Winders held baptismal services at the Lett place baptising 10 persons. Roberta Bryant had her tonsils removed at Mast hospital Saturday morning and is recovering well.
Upper Halls Creek residents repair and haul shingles for Brodie mill while Swift helps clear a logging road for Ernest Wilkins. Sam Damron and family assist in building a new house and harvest the bean crop. Multiple trips include Inez McAdams visiting in Powers, Garrett Lawrence family leaving for Los Angeles, and Robison family staying with Claude Randleman.
Sunday guests visited Martin Schmidt home and Basview project helpers assisted a brother build a house. Several calls and visits occurred with Mrs Barklow and Rev Glanton and families. Fifteen to twenty seven students enrolled in Sorengeeschool. many Detlefsens and Schmidt families connected to local dinners and moves.
A summer dish features sliced tomatoes filled with a cream cheese and gelatin mixture, layered and chilled. The recipe uses lemon gelatin, cream cheese, mayonnaise, and vinegar, with salt, served in tomato cups on lettuce or watercress for six portions.
County agent J Ro Beck notes diverse crops including loganberries potatoes peaches and alfalfa across three acres of truck crops and claims irrigation will nearly pay for the entire tabulation. He cites reduced wheat yields in Polk County this year from 5 to 10 bushels per acre as controllable by improved farming practices. The narrative mentions irrigation cycles and seasonal timing affecting crop outcomes.
Reports from G R Mystop show bids rising to 110 a hundred for bulk snipping point at Klamath Falls. Willamette valley and irrigated Crook and Deschutes counties yield the two rowed barley introduced in 1900 by the experiment station. Eight Yamhill farmers will plant more stem for crimson clover seed this fall totaling 850 pounds for seed production by listed growers including Fred Horner and Otto Sitton.
Tacoma couple Mr and Mrs A J Ryan visit their son-in-law and daughter in Enrout, while Mrs John Hunt returns from Roseburg to her mother Mrs W F Chase. Portland and Salem guests attend State Fair events. several locals travel to Broadbent, Tolovana Park, Coquille, and Tyee for visits and teaching duties.
Cooper family and guests traveled to Roseburg with Mrs LaFlamme staying at her daughter Mrs Bilinger's home. Henry Hermann and Henry Schroeder groups returned from a state fair visit. Mrs Crawford of Powers visited Mrs Sempert for a week. Robert Parrish of Gravelford suffers asthma. Perkins Broadbent Whitaker family drove to northern caves for a Sunday picnic.
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