Taken by special train to Newport
The annual meeting of the Oregon State Editorial Association in Corvallis drew the state’s largest gathering of newspaper men. Hosts in Corvallis arranged campus dormitory lodging and lavish meals, culminating in a royal OAC banquet. A special 1 o'clock Saturday train ferried editors to Newport for seafood dishes, ice cream and coffee, with generous hospitality.
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Newport
Oregon State Editorial Association
Corvallis
Chamber of Commerce
Si Chamber of Commerce
S. P
Histore
Oldfellow’s Hall
Marshfield Fire Destroys Block Worth 150000
A Sunday morning blaze on Front Street Marshfield destroyed the entire block from Market to Alder except the Bank of Southwestern Oregon building. The city hall and several First Street structures burned as Coquille and North Bend fire crews responded quickly, helping quell the flames. The loss is severe but rebuilding is expected to improve the city, though insured property owners face a hard setback.
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Front Street
Marshfield
Market and
Alder
Bank of Southwestern Oregon
City Hall
First Street
Aasen
Mann Electric Co to Open in Guerin Hotel Block
C G Mann arrival from Westport Ore leases room beside Guerin Hotel barbershop and will open Mann Electric Co with lamps lighting fixtures and labor saving devices. Will handle house wiring and motor renovations on short notice. Tourists report the Roseburg road is poor but promise a great highway when finished.
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C. G. Mann
Westport
Ore
Guerin
Mann Electric Co
Roseburg Road
Logan Berries Yield Big Crop For Holt Chase Cannery
The Holt Chase Cannery reports a strong loganberry crop with over a carload canned this season. Manager Chase expects four carloads or more next year as plants yielding $100 this year could generate about four times that amount.
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Holt-Chase Cannery
Chase
Ben Moomaw
Argo
Moomaw
Firemen Elect Chief and Plan to Buy New Truck
The local firemen elected Harold Bargelt as chief and Ernie Schneider as assistant by popular vote after Broderick resigned. Mayor Schroeder attended and backed the plan to purchase a two hundred gallon chemical truck with about one thousand feet of hose, costing around sixteen hundred dollars, and to canvass the town for support.
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Broderick
Schroeder
Harold Bargelt
Ernie Schneider
Local ranchers show big returns from strawberry crop
Rueben Gray of this city, a leading berry grower, sold 612.50 worth of strawberries from 1.17 acres at seven cents a pound. His berry patch yielded about half a normal crop due to drought. He and his wife did the work, and he notes Coos county land is good for berries. J. O. Langworthy’s five acres produced over 2000 dollars, with remarkable yields per plant. The article also describes a mill fire and calls for a river pump-equipped fire truck.
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Rueben Gray
Mr. Gray
Ozark
Arkansas
Coos County
J. O. Langworthy
Fruit Growers Association
Mr. Langworthy
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Fruit Farms
Myrtle
Beach Town
The
Coquille and
North Bend
Coquille
Firemen’s Meeting
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