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Newspaper
Southern Coos County American
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1925
Page
4
The Myrtle Point Independent, published by GEO E HAMILTON as owner and editor, appears as an Oregon weekly newspaper issued every Thursday from Myrtle Point.
Mayor Dement and council members call on citizens near and far to attend next Monday’s council meeting to discuss funding and management for the Myrtle Point cemetery. The grounds are neglected and in decline, and the city may need budget provisions or a community group to oversee improvements.
Local notes mention garbage disposal growth signals in Reedsport area along with county tax totals and road funding. The Coos County court plans to cancel warrants over seven years old totaling 395 dollars, while bids for Gold Beach school buildings are invited with openings on October 20.
The marriage of Hubert Hoyt and Ruth Packerd of Bandon, solemnized before a justice in Myrtle Point, is under inquiry by the girl's mother. The license listed the bride as 18, while the mother asserts she is actually 18. Hoyt is 23. The district attorney is handling the case.
Classified notice offers a 120 acre Seale ranch at Bridge along Big Creek with 10 acres cultivated and a small house barn and chicken house. Priced at 3200 dollars with 400 down and 10 dollars monthly plus interest. Also a 68 acre stock ranch one mile from Myrtle Point with good house and outbuildings, orchard, 25 acres cultivated, timber, prairie land. Terms to responsible buyers. Box C Myrtle Point Oregon.
For sale three work horses about 1400 pounds each. Prices at Bank of Myrtle Point Myrtle Point Gregon. Also available at Auto Park Garage. Headlight adjusting Victor Brown Universal Reflectors and Monogram Lens.
Notice to holders of Myrtle Point Oregon improvement bonds that payment will be made on the first day of November at the City Treasurer's office located on Sixth Street. Details are partially legible but indicate bond payment processing by the city.
Legal voters in Union High School District No. 22 Coos county Oregon are informed an election will be held at the new schoolhouse on October 24 1925 from 2 pm to 7 pm to decide on a tax levy increase for 1925 above the prior year by more than six percent. The increase funds teaching salaries transportation running expenses and interest on bonded debt. J M Arrington Treasurer and H Clarke Chairman note.
Multiple notices from the U S Land Office Roseburg Oregon dated 1925 1926 announce that Robert Benjamin James Ivo Earl Hinshaw Fred Moser and others made homestead entries and filed intention to make three year proofs to establish claims before U S officials at Roseburg or Myrtle Point Oregon on specified future dates with witnesses named from Myrtle Point and Bridge Oregon and registrars handling the proceedings.
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