Port Orford news., April 05, 1927, Page 4, Image 4

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Miners to Meet Saturday Entertains at
The regular monthly meeting
Bridge Dinner
of the Curry-Coos Mining asso­
WANTED
ciation will be held Saturday,
April 9, at 2 o’clock in the af­
ternoon In Port Orford.
With weather conditions reach-
lng the stage where mining ac-
tlvlties will be taken up vigor­
ously, It Is important to make
this organization effective In the
development of the mineral re-
1 sources of Curry. Every mining
man should attend.
CURRY-COOS MINING
ASSOCIATION.
Live Man to Purchase Interest in
POPULAR SERVICE STATION and
AUTO CAMP
On Scenic Roosevelt Highway.
Located in Big Game and Sport Fishing
Region.
PORT ORFORD
LOCALS
No Trades Considered.
Write Port Orford News for Information.
Enjoy Vacation Here
Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Pugh of
Portland, who have been spend­
ing a week's vacation in Port
Orford, returned to Portland
'Sunday morning. Both Dr. and
Mrs. Pugh are lovers of nature
and enjoyed every minute of
their stay while hore. It is pos­
sible that they may decide to re­
turn, Mrs. Pugh being very much
in need of a complete rest; her
time since her graduation from
Hamline university, St. Paul,
where she took her Ph.B. degree,
and also from the South Dakota
State where she graduated Ph.
G. and B.S., being fairly evenly
divided between pharmacy and
medical social work, the latter in
St. Paul and New York city. Mrs.
Pugh is now doing prescription
work In Portland. Dr. Pugh Is
a graduate of the North Pacific
Dental college.
While here
Dr. and Mrs. Pugh found a 20|
point starfish.
Civic Club
will be hostesses at the
meeting.
next
Ladies Aid
The Ladies aid held their
weekly meeting Wednesday af­
ternoon at the iMcKenzie club
room. Mrs. L. R. Pugh of Port­
land was a guest of the after­
noon. Mrs. Arthur Sweet, pres­
ident, presided at the business
meeting. Mrs. Fred Scofield re­
ported on the probable cost of
repairing the walk in front of
the Community church. It was
decided to give further thought
to the rhododendron pageant be­
fore anything definite was un­
dertaken. The next meeting of
the aid will be held Wednesdav
afternoon, April 6, at the club
room with Mrs. Ed Maloy and
Mrs. J. F. Gillings as hostesses.
Primary School Notes
In building our Health Fairy
HouBe the girls have worked
harder than the boys this week.
Miss Schroeder Is reading us
a story about little Metzu and
Klne, a little Japanese boy and
girl. When you come to visit
ub next, you will find Japan on
our sandtable instead of Holland.
Lucille Lindberg brought us a
Japanese costume.
We have our April copy of
Child Life.
Our weather chart tells that
we have had more sun than rain
in March.
The Civic club held its regu­
lar weekly meeting Thursday.
14 members in attendance. Mrs.
L. R. Pugh of Portland was a
guest of the afternoon. The busi­
ness session was presided over by
Mrs. Ella Knapp, president. Mrs.
M. T. Wright reported the stove
pipe put in. The report of the
auditing committee of Mrs. Geo.
Fromm, chairman, Mrs. Ada Por­
ter and Mrs. Robert Forty was
accepted.
No definite action
was taken on the rhododendron
pageant. Mrs. Porter and Mrs.
John Vail, manager of Dun­
Vail, the hostesses, served deli­ ham’s store. Port Orford, was a
cious sandwiches and coffee. business visitor in Marsbfield ov­
Mrs. Knapp and Mrs. C. A. Long er the week-end.
The home of Mrs. Mabel Gill­
ings was the scene Thursday eve­
ning of a delightful bridge din­
ner In hcnor of Mr and Mrs.
Robert Smith. The dinner table
was most attractively decorated
with trilliums and covers were
laid for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Miss
Clark, Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Seymour,
Miss Schroeder, Mrs. Ella Knapp
and the hostess.
Grants Pass Strike
Richer Than Weepah
C. S. McCulloch has returned
from a visit to the new mining
strike at Grants Pass where he
Vic Horner was in town over thought enough of It to stake
the week end from the Inman
out a claim. It Is reported that
mines.
the gold strike there by the Rob-
< apt. Skogs of Marshfield was «rtson family is far richer than
in town on business several days anything ever found in Nevada,
last week.
One claim, according to a staff
W. H. Bennett was a business writer of the Oregonian, has a
visitor in Marshfield a few days gold-bearing vein ranging from
the latter part of the week.
30 to 18 Inches In width. They
R. C. Dunham was a business had to cut a slope 12 feet long
visitor in Gold Beach and Port a'nd they took »1000 for each'
foot of the 12 feet. Much In­
Orford a few days last week.
J. 3. Chambers of the J. 3. terest is also shown in the white
Chambers Plumbing Co.. Marsh- ” «’8’ ' ° und there whlch ” now
field, spent Sunday in Port Or- he'leved to be mostly tin and
averaged In value In
ford.
< which has
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the ton.—
FOR SALE— A 22-foot by 7-foot w X r n “world
beam, new metal lifeboat, t
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ning men and the forest service,
the government agreeing to pro­
vide the powder and 21618 and
the mining men agreeing to pay
the transportation of the powder È
from Rogue river and do *1382
worth of actual work on the
trail.
Mr. Cooper states that through
the energetic work of George F.
Sparks, owner of the Elk Horn
mine, and other local minlug
men, nearly 7000 feet of excel­
lent trail. Including one bridge,
have been constructed, and that
the work, with very little alter­
ation, will meet the forest serv­
ice’s requirements. Further, that
the federal money will not be
available until July 1st for the
forest service's portion of the
trail, and not then if the local
raining men have not fully com­
plied with their part of the
agreement by that time.
Mr.
Cooper expressed a desile tc see
every man who has promised to
support this work out on the job
with the settling of weather con­
ditions so that the portion of the
work to be done locally may be
fully completed at the time the
government’s money is available.
school giving athletic instruc-. y'
tlon to the track team.
George Mayea, former ow ner, Elk River Trail Work
of the Kozy, returned from Port-
District Supervisor L. D. Coop-
land Friday to close up some un- er of Powers returned to Port
finished business.
Orford Saturday from an extend-
John B. Weld returned Wed- ed investigation of the progress
nesday from a several days’ of the work on the Elk river trail
prospecting trip in the upper Elk which is being financed on a co- '
region.
operative basis by the local m i-1
AGATE BEACH PARK
On the Ocean
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On the Lake
Tourist Headquarters
Camping
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Boating
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Fishing
Free Wood
—
Good Water
O w ing to the lim ited num ber of cabins w ould advise
m aking your reservations early. Season opens April ISth.
PORT ORFORD COMMERCIAL CO.
BRUSHES CREEK SERVICE STATION
Associated Gas & Oils
CAMP GROUNDS, CABINS,
CAMP STORE
AND
BANK
Located in the heart of the hunting
grounds. Good fishing.
OF
Chas. Wilson, Proprietor.
Back from Weepah
Edmund Gallier returned th is!
Cashier Young of the Curry
County Bank at Gold Beach week from Weepah, Nevada, '
stopped over night in Port Or- where he witnessed some of the
excitement incident to the gold
ford en route home.
called rush-
«ays ” reminded him
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to the Dalles the forepart of last ° f , 8om® ° f the rural Fourth ° f
week on account of the death of J“,y '«’«’’rations he has attend-
ed whsre everybody was in a
her father.
sweat to get there but had no-
Charles Feller, fish dealer, thing to do when they arrived.
Marshfield, was a Port Orford put j,e jjag found out how t0
visitor Wednesday, where he In­ stage one of these gold-rush at­
spected the new cold storage tractions: Just dig a hole in the
plant of the Port Orford Fish ground, put the screen body of
company now under construe- an oi,j Dodge car )„ front oj it
tion.
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with a few sacks of something
B. A. Britton, Boy Scout ex- an(j a mounted guard inside,
ecutlve, of Roseburg, visited Port lhen get out )n front and ge„
Orford Thursday in the interest stock— Western World,
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of the Scout troop recently or-,
ganized here.
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