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PORT ORFORD NEWS Local News N. S Perkins came in on Tuesday's Coast Auto stage on his return from a trip to Seattle, where he spent sev eral weeks visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Sgoerl met Mr. Per kins in Pcgt Orford with the car to take him hon>e. Mrs. Nellie Milhury of Myrtle Point has been visiting Mrs. Baker at Chinuapin ridge the past week. W. T. White, owner of the Port Orford meat market, spent a few days on the Rogue river last week. Chas. McCray, who lives on an Elk river farm known as the Dean place, was attending to business in Port Orford Wednesday. Attorney Hall came in from his hill ranch Thursday to get supplies in , Port Orford. Miss Ena McKenzie. accompanied by Mrs. Gene Gething. motored to Port Orford Wednesday. Lester Bond motored in to town Thursday from his Elk river farm. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Eggleston left for Gold Beach early Thursday morning. Mrs. Eggleston. Port Or ford high teacher attended the teacfj^ ers' institute Thursday and Friday. G. W Axtell came in from Kis mines <n Middle Elk Wednesday for supplies. Thursday he put a new glass in one of the grade school base ment windows. Wednesday Robt. Fromm, of Brush es creek, transported the school chil dren from the south end of the dis trict in his Dodge car, as the regular ^ o r^ rfo rd ^ )re g o n ^ ru e sd a v ^ M a rc h j2 0 ^ 1 9 2 S . driver, J. E Roseburg. Radford, had gone to ' at Battle Rock theie is more room I for parking. Page 3. 0 * 0 - 0 - O « O S O ♦ -o * o Uu scholastic lists For the entire U niversity for the fall term , it is announced by E arl M. P allett, regis While driving up the Brushes creek Chas Forty, Elk river farmer, was trar. Miss Fenlason carried a total hill Sunday, some part in the steer shopping in Port Orford Thursday. By EDNA PURDY WALSH of 17 hours, two more than the aver | ing gear of J. E Walstrom's truck Raymond Bay was a Port Orford i broke, and the truck, striking a rock, 0 * 0 —0 —0 —0 5 5 0 * 0 —0 —0 —O age, and she received IS hours of I, visitor Friday. the highest grade possible, and two i turned over, but fortunately Mr WaV M akin g U»e o f O ld M a g a hours of II. Jones carried the maxi Mrs. W J Sabin and children vis strom was not injured. mum number of hours allowed one zine» Mrs Fred Scofield. Fritz Smith and ited Mr. and Mrs. Will Sabin of student, 19, and made nine hours of R C T IC explorers put tiewspa Langlois Thursday, returning home H. Adolphsen motored ever from per» betw een th eir blankets 1 and ten hours of II. Bridge in tht latter'» car tc -pend the Friday night. because th ere Is no b e tte r insula Mary Klein, Eugene, sophomore in week end at their several homes tlon against b itte r cold and wind English: Edna English, Eugcue, A. B Funk, a former resident of A. B Dodd left Saturday morn th an paper. We can apply the senior in m athem atics: and Dorothea Port Orford, was in town Friday. He sam e principle In o u r Imines by u- is employed in the Chaney logging ing on the south bound stage for Los ing old m agazines under a thin pat M. Lensrh, Portland, junior in phy Angeles to join Mr«* Dodd, who re or m attress which alone is not suf sical education, tied for third place camp near Coquille. turned to that city about six weeks with 82 points each. Miss Lensch Mrs. Jesse Turner of Gold Beach ago after a winter spent in Port Or- fletent to keep out the c o ld Thin m agazines tied around tin and Miss English each carried 18 came up to Port Otford Friday to j ford. milk or cream bottle on wlntrv hours, and Miss Klein carried 19 visit her father, W Sutton, who has hours. Elton R. Edge, Eugene, sen Gordon E Hayes of Oregon City, not been in the best of health the ior in biology, scored 80 points, , who has been -pending several days past week. m aking 16 hours with a grade of I ' in Port Orford, returned home Wed Minnie Darling returned to Port nesday. in all courses. All of these grades Orford Friday from a short stay in are exceptionally high, since the sys | Dale Smith and Dolly Smith left Marshfield. tem of grading used is to aw ard ; Sunday for Mather's camp on the five points f n the grade of I, four Norman Quigley drove out to Ash ■ Sixes river. for grade of II, three for III, two land with part of the Port Orford foi IV, and one (or V. S tudents Mrs. A. P Sweet and Mrs Alta high school basketball team Thurs carry an average of 15 hours each, i Larson attended a demonstration day, returning Saturday and II I is considered an average , meeting at Two Mile Wednesday W H. Sheridan, who is working at grade. This would make the average Louis Knapp Sr was in Bandon Camas Valley, was in Port Orford about 45 per student. TRY THIS not stop to take on passengers who were standing on the banks waving for them. Competition was keen and the steamboats were out for blood. It used to take us half a day to go from Coquille to Bandon, where, if you rushed, you could eat something be fore starting back. Now, in an au tomobile. one can go from Coquille to Bandon in 34 minutes. The coming of the highway killed off the naviga tion and there is now only a milk boat on the Coquille and no boat at all above Coquille to Myrtle Point." A Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Quigley and Mr. Malloy motored out to Camas Monday. Mr. Malloy remained to work on the school house. Friday. Mr Knapp has reached the remarkable age of 84 and is still ac tive. Miss Luetta Johnston and the Misses Jane and Margaret Snyder of Sixes spent Saturday as guests of Sunday, being a perfect day for Mrs. Mibel Gillings. outdoor recreation, the Port Orford A. B Funk, a former resident of beaches were as thickly populated as a summer resort. Picnic parties, mus Port Orford, «¿as in town Friday sel roasts, clam digging, wading, agate Mr. and Mrs. John Marsh and picking, reading and sun basking w>erc Mrs. Hogatt were in Gold Beach last days will p rev en t It freezing If it he chief pleasures. The motorist Monday. Is loft on th e window or door stop. had a hard time to find parking space Betty Gillings returned to Wcdder- L arge m agazines w ith doublt near Rocky Point or Retz creek,»but burn early Saturday morning after pages may be m ade Useful against spending the week end in Port Orford. moth destru ctio n by w rapping WHAT WHERE WHEN Chas. Farrier of Denmark was trans acting business in town Thursday. R L. Wagner and son aiswdeliv enng piling to be used in the repan j work on the wharf. L B Hatton and Bert Lynch are spending several days at their mining ' property on Elk river. ; ------------------ - Coos River Heads List The Young People of Port Orford are Invited to the Library Thursday Evening, 7 P. M. Helen Rennings of Coos River, age 11, is the first girl who has been re ported in Coos county as having com pleted her club project for the year. Helen completed handwork division last year and is now completing divi sion one Her plan is to immediate- ■« -ign up for division two and next year when -he is at eighth grader to complete division three, hence cover ing all the divisions of sewing TIME TO PLACE YOUR 1928 P r in tin g O r d e r s ♦ ♦ ♦ LETTER HEADS — ENVELOPES PROFESSIONAL CARDS, ETC. H C Handley wa« in town Wed nesday from his ranch on Elk river PORT ORFORD NEWS Coquille Man Tells Of Local Activity (Oregonian) "The McClo-key creamery, which produced 1.000,000 pound- of cheese last year and 800.000 pounds of but ter, wa- sold a few days ago to the Swift company. " reports J E Nor ton of Coquille, registered at the Im perial. "I am informed that the Mc Closkey creamery produced more sm all articles In th e sheets after cheese in 1927 than any other cheese they have been p ainted w ith a factory on the coast. The dairy in w arm solution of dustry is particularly suitable to Cut» Paraffin w ax .............. 8 ounces and Curry counties.” Mr Norton N aphthaline ................ 4 ounces N ew spapers a re ex ■•■llent prole, says that golf is taking hold on many thin against m oths If painted with men in the two counties and although tills solution. he is a member of the Coos County In otir m odem houses and a p a rt Country club he has never yet been laents we have forgotten the g r e a t1 on the link- "A new golf course is Insulating an,I vvarming properties o f p aper w hen placed tinder rags being built near Bandon." he says. and carpets. H eavy m agazine pa "In order to avoid the wind, the p er Is even more effective ag ain st course has been laid on Johnson creek, Cold than thin new spaper. which is sheltered, the course being ,{?). 1SJ7. W e s te rn M d o p a i '- r V n io n .t up one side and down the other." Mr Norton first went into Coquille Students Make High 40 year- ag, "In early days." he "there wa- as much rivalry be (•rude at I uiversity says, tween Bandon and Myrtle Point as there was on the Mississippi. Therd U niversity of Oregon, Eugene.— used to he three steamboat- which LaW anda Fenlason, Portland, sopho would leave Randon at the same time more in history, w ith a total of 83 and they would race up the river, in points, and M elville 8. Jones, Eu such a desire to win that they would INCLUDE BEAUTIFUL F lo r a s L a k e IN YOUR 1928 ITINERARY % On The Roosevelt Highway FISHING — HUNTING — BOATING BATHING FLORAS LAKE HOTEL, John R. Smith & Son, Props. j^ne^um or_¡n_bio]jgy with 85, head Port Orford High School Plays Woodman Hall, Friday, March 23, 7:30 P. M. I. ROSALIE Maid, Rosalie .................................. .......... W ife, Madame Bol ........ Husband, Monsieur Bol .......................... II. IV. Veva Anderson ... Anna Barton Norma Quigley THE TRYSTING PLACE Widow, Mrs. Briggs (¡race Fromm Her Lover, Mr. Englesby... ...... ........... ............... ..... . Frank Paris Daughter, J e ssie ____ _______________ Juanita Johnson Her Lover, Rupert Floyd Wright Actress, Mrs. Curtiss Bertie Lynch Mysterious Voice Fred Ponting III. Wife Husband Manager Clinton Fromm Blue Hose Ruby Purdin 1 ellow Hose Catharine Smith First Herald Eleanor Purdin Second Herald Ruth Miller Pompdebile the Nth King of Hearts ...__ Niel Riee The Chancellor .......... .............................. Donald McKenzie The Knave of H earts..........................................Howard Jamieson 1 rsula Lady Violetta THE SILENT SYSTEM Edna Miller Orland Anderson THE KNAVE OF HEARTS Veima Johnson Dorothy Hutcheson SIX PAGES—George Trihhy Lucille Lindberg, Billy Soranson, Jack Whitsett. Warren Mayea, Frank Sutton. 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