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Newspaper
Southern Coos County American
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1925
Page
7
The Myrtle Leaf reports Myrtle Point High School defeated Coquille 22 to 0 in football with key plays by Nosler and Keltner. Debates featured students from Myrtle Point and North Bend with verdicts favoring the affirmative in three contests and the negative in one, under coach Miss Whitaker.
Myrtle Point High School staged its first football rally of the season with record attendance and spirited yells. The parade moved along Spruce street to the Myrtle Point bank and bonfire, ending with speeches by Dal King, Clarke Fensler, and Coach Lever.
English VII students prepared for debate by studying reasoning and parliamentary law. Debates occurred Friday October 2 with five minute speeches and a two minute rebuttal. The first topic asked whether the city should own and operate its street car system. Ovid Hervey chaired the first debate and the negative team won. Sanford Wagg chaired the negative with Florence Felsher and Robert Redell. Maybell Dey chaired the affirmative with Edwin Keltner and Earl Clark as speakers.
After school, Myrtle Point staged a spirited football parade with two underclassmen leading bells and a Coquille rival flag bearer, Lyle Nosler Jr. on a shoulders ride. The team followed in new suits, and public excitement helped fuel Saturday’s win.
A Saturday parade from the school house to Broderick's Service Station showcased pep among students, led by girls to greet the Myrtle Point Band. Citizens smiled as the group chanted cheerfully about keeping the pep. The piece notes curiosity about why boys did not join more actively.
The Agriculture I class this past week covered milk testing physics and chemistry, factors causing variation in butterfat, hog evaluation for market use, and selecting breeding ewes. Agriculture II pursued paint composition care of brushes, steel square use for door steps, and hands on shingle painting plus doormaking.
Gymnasium suits and shoes for all girls in physical education have been ordered. The costume includes black gym shoes and a one piece black henrietta cloth suit for each student to ensure uniform appearance across classes.
A lively fashion trend described as bell-bottomed overalls spreads after a big game at a red brick building. Mothers sew red side strips into sons trousers, with fevers of fashion noted and warnings to be patient as outfits wear out.
School notes show seniors 6 perfect days juniors 9 sophomores 9 and freshmen 8 this month. Any class reaching 20 days of perfect attendance earns a quarter holiday.
The freshmen met Monday October 5 with President Chester Hosman presiding. Miss Coe, elected class advisor, spoke on good sportsmanship. The student body and the Class of 1925 are thanked for the flowers presented by Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Arant and family.
The Union High School attendance this month averaged 97.2 percent with 99 pupils showing perfect attendance and only 10 students tardy.
The Myrtle Point Band drew many members from local business duties to perform during intermissions at last Saturday’s football game. The student body praises the band for its cooperative spirit with the students.
Elbert Schroeder and Francis Warner have mumps and cannot attend school though they were allowed at the football game but must stay in a closed car. The note mentions Agnes Deyoe in post graduate bookkeeping and sewing and Harold Carver leaving school to work. Francis Keltner suffers a severe sprain from Saturday’s game and hopes to return soon. The verse lines imply seasonal conflicts between study and sport.
School scene described with chatter about freshmen and girls, new books, bells, and crowded halls. Notes include uniforms like knee trousers and bell bottoms, a tense mix of students and teachers, and echoes of formal and social transitions.
Fannie Robinson entered the Fourth B. Robert Ocheltree returns after a car wreck. Harold Mullen was sick last week. Fourth B students on time last month included Marvel Brode and others. Eighteen second graders were never absent or tardy this month. Norman Hamilton resumes first grade after Portland trip for tonsil removal. Priscilla Deyoe returns from the Salem state fair in sixth grade. Blanche Massie joins Sixth B from Etelka school.
The article urges dressing up for meals as a family habit for all members from children to parents. It argues dressing neatly even in simple gingham improves digestion, prevents the shiftless impression, and honors the cook who labored over the meal.
Public rivers are shared resources and recreation corridors. Industrial dumping poisons streams, threatens fish life, and endangers drinking water. Cities like Bend Redmond Pendleton Ashland and Portland are beginning remedies. more follow must to save the Willamette.
The Oregon State Game Commission warns that city and state bodies including Albany Corvallis Eugene and the capital must act to prevent water pollution. Section 70 of the 1921 general laws makes it an offense to impair water quality used for domestic or municipal purposes. E. F. Averill, Secretary.
A discussion notes how words evoke strong images beyond their current sense. Examples include dilapidated implying crumbling stone, stunned equating to thunderstruck, and scandal recalling a trap mechanism. The piece also covers scruple, irritate, perplexed, and eliminate with historical senses.
Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, was marooned on Juan Fernandez in 1704 for over four years living on game and goatskin clothing. Rescued in 1700 by Captain Woodes Rogers, he rose to lieutenant in the British Navy, and Defoe’s Crusoe story drew only from the bare suggestion of his adventures.
Books kept in glass-fronted cases suffer more from book worms and moths than open shelves. To guard them, sprinkle shelves with camphor and bitter apple every six months, keep rooms cool, avoid gas light, and beware Russia leather bindings.
A timid woman with checks cashed small sums led to a bank observer noticing her piling money in her handbag. A detective warned her she was under watch, and she expressed delighted disbelief at the attention.
C Gorst of North Bend wins a government contract for air mail service linking Seattle and Los Angeles. The award covers ongoing transportation of mail with specified routes and operational expectations.
Legal voters of Union High School District No Two of Coos County Oregon are notified of a school meeting in Myrtle Point on October 24 1925 at 2 PM to discuss the budget and levy a special district tax. Meeting to be held at the new school building.
The document presents parallel unit costs for services materials and supplies for three preceding fiscal years the detail expenditures for the last of those years and the budget allowances and expenditures for six months of the current year A G Thompson signing official actions taken in the report
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