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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1906)
SI SKIRT AND SUIT SALE 33 Percent Off ON 35 LADIES AND MISSES FINE SKIRTS Every Skirt and Suit Sold Fitted by an Experi enced Fitter. Alterations at special prices. ' These Skirts are all of the Season's Styles and you will find no culled antiquities among them We make them fit before they leave the store The discount gives you these goods at cost Sale begins Saturday, December 1,1906 J. G. iSee Hedford Furniture Co.! I Housef urnishers and Undertakers Day Phone 353 Night Pkeae 1 1 la the lust Issue of The Mail was printed an account ot the drowning of A. D. Petdue in Klamath river, The news oame to this paper on a pos tal oard mailed at Weed, Calif, , and was signed "E. H. Tailor." Sinoe the publication ot the item this otflae ia. in receipt of a letter from Sarah . Perdue, WoodTille, Oregon, saying that the report 1b untrue, that she has talked with the yonng man over the 'phone at Weed, California, on Saturday. The lady stated he was well and was earning 13.50 per day at work in a lumber vamp. She was unable to learn anything of the identity of our informant, Hi. H. Tailor. The postal oard was undoubtedly an intended joke' from some narrow minded mon strosity who attempted to be funny at the expense of heartaohes of loving parents and relatives. 1 While orohardists are planting trees is a good time to aet out roBe bushes and shrubs. Misb Russ. Phone 494. J. A. Perry, manager for the Rogue Hirer Valley Fruitgrowers' Union, has purobased the building built and oooupled by the Ingram Tinegar faotory. The Ingram Com pany has deoided to not operate their faotory here any longer and are now preparing to ship their maohinery, presses and trucks to Portland. The building is 56x66 feet in size, three stories high one of whioh is a base ment. It will be used by Mr. Perry s a fruit packing house, it is ad I CITY HAPPENINGS. A HOLIDAY TALK! ON A STRICTLY EVERYDAY TOPIC "What to Eat and Where fo Buy It" is a well worn theme in every household, and an es especially vexed problem during Holidays when something extraordinary is demanded We are pleased to inform the Ladies of Med- . ford that we are prepared to meet every hoi- . : iday want in the grocery line. We have an ticipated your every need and the Fancy Groceries, choice raisins, citron and other dainty fixin's await your call at our store With these necessaries we have provided a handsome line of new designs in table CHINA AND GLASSWARC Many of these patterns are entirely new and are gems of the maker's art. You will find many choice pieces among them suita ble for holiday gifts. We want your appro val of these goods; kindly call and see them Have you ever tried Red Diamond Brand Canned CornP . You'll Like It Reagan E1 Lindley Phone, 373. SPECIAL THIS WEEK VANDYKE'S Van Dyke & mirably arranged for this use and when Mr. Perry shall have installed an elevator it will be very convenient, The prloe paid for the building and scales was 81000, and this carries with it the lease of the ground. We will sell for the next thirty ; -iiiya only large and small traots of i !(!. It bottom land- in Oeo. John B, Koss' farm, 2 miles of Medford, on new county road, at 8105, 110 ana iloO per acre. After January 1st this land will be off the market and owner will improve. Address or oall on White & Trowbridge, Ueal Estate Agents, Medford, Oregon. J)'. U. Tou Velle is loading a oar load of apples this week for the Lon don. England, market. He has al ready shipped one oarload this season to this market and one to Liverpool. This fruit was sold to Page & Son of Portland. Mr. Tou Velle has only abont one-third of a orop this season live oarloads but next season ht will be very much disappointed if he does not get a bumper crop the indications now point that direotion. He has fltfeen aores of Comioe pear trees whioh are of bearing age and from these he ought to get a One orop next neason. Strawberry plants for sale We have ten ,of the very oholoest pedi greed varieties of plants MorrlBon & Wolfer, KFD2, Central Point, Ore gon. 44-tf Dr. H. P. Hargrave will move to his new oillce roomB in the First Na tional Bank building about the 1st of December. , The dootor has a suite of very pleasant rooms, at the front and directly over the bank. These are fitted up and arranged with a view to convenience for a professional man of his class and the doctor has good rea sons to be elated beoause of his good fortune in seouring them. The rear rooms of thiB building are also fitted up very nicely and will be used by Hon. W. S. Orowell, president of the First National Bank. Alfalfa and m-ain hav. Monroe & ! Miller Next Tuesday evening will be "social night" with the members of Olive Bebekah Lodge. The committee in oharge ot the evening's entertain ment is putting forth an extra effort omiMaraoKtaKB Co., to make thiB an especially enjoyable occasion. The lodge hall and banquet rooms are now being improved in many ways, eBpeolally noticeable is the new paper whioh is being put on the walls and ceilings of both these rooms. This work will be completed before Tuesday night. If your watch or olook is out of order, take it to B. N. Butler. He has all the necessary tools, material and experience to do good work, and he does it 12-tf The twenty-one months old son of John W. Bates died at the family home, on Orirtlu oreek, on Tuesday of this week and funeral sarvlces were held on Wednesday, Rev. W. F. Shields officiating. A few weeks ago the child got hold of a oan of concen trated lye and drank of its oontents, from the effects of whioh death re sulted as above stated. Another car of the famous "Blue Klbbon" hard wheat flour at E. N. Warner's Double Front Grocery, 30-tf. J. W. Wiley shipped nine oar loads of mutton sheep Sunday to Cali fornia points. There were 1012 head of sheep in the nine uarjoads and the most of them were shipped to San FrauoiBoo. The price paid for these sheep was from $3.50 to W.75 per head.. Mr. Wiley expects to dispose of these sheep not dueotly to the large market oonoerns .but to the smaller retailers For eale A SDrina tooth harrow. almost new, A bargain. . Inauire of B. L. Baloom, Medford, Oregon. 17-lf Wileop & Higinbotham are now at work putting uo another of their mperior make of drays. This one is fa the Eads dray line. The one they pu up a few months ago was sold reoently to a Portland drayman. Ibe feet that Medford mechanics are put ting up work for a Portland market ought to be good enongh reason for a shower of bouquets. This dray weighed 4700 too heavy for Medford use. . All kinds of bake stuff Vienna Bakery. Call 'phone 496 and have goods delivered. The J. H. Daley . orohard of 106 mtw, near Eagle Point, was sold last week to H.. B. Tronson and E. r; Qutherie of Portland for $11,000. The same parties have purchased the Deuel orobard of 53 aores on Bear MHk, near Central Point, for (7500. Beta sales were concluded throngh the Rogue River Liand Co. The pur chasers expect to increase the acreage of orohard during the coming season. 25 aeres. two mileB from Medford. mostly in bearing fruit, 14500. See w. x. lork. MILL i PRICES. 500 LOTS OR MORE. Flour, $1.70 per 100 lbs Rolled Barley. $1.30 per " lbs Middlings 91.25 per " lbs Mill Feed.....! 1.10 per " Hjb Bran 1.00 per " lbs LESS THAN 500 LOTS. Flour. ........ $2.00 per 100 lbn Rolled Barley.. $l.fiO per " lbs Middlings $1.60 per " lbe Mill Feed. .... $1.30 per ." lbe Bran $1.20 per " lbs MEDFORD FLUUR MILLS. Q. It. Davis ot Portland mm In Medford few days this week on boil ness and visiting old-time friends, it don't seem "natural like" about this old town sinoe Oeerge and his good family bare "went away," There's been a "power heap" o' thinning out since The Mall publisher pnt oat his first paper in Medford. The Webbs were here then three of them aid all in business the Galloways two families; Charley Wolters, selling groceries and babe stuffs; Charley Howard, the Wells Fargo agent; the Qoldstone boys. All were in business here thirteen years ago, and all have gunegelsewhere sort o' scattered, as it were. Ueoige Davis was the last of the old-timers to move hence. But, my, what a lot of people haveldropped into their plaoes and made new plaoes. The Mall publisher is still here, however, and there are notice able symptoms that be always will be until that last' journey is mad. Now you fellows who don't like The Mail publisher beoause that he does not like you and some of your nefar ious notions get in and say-something mean about turning in a oall for the "hurry up wagon. " Medford now has the most up-to- date abstraot ByBtem in this county See Jaokson County Abstraot Co. raim-JNeidermeyer Duuaing. z-ti Theie are a number of new dwell ing houses being built in Medford at this time. Among those on the WeBt Side is the 1. W. Thomas house on South G street. This is 21x31 feet in size, is two stories high, has six rooms with bath and ia being built by U. W. Gray. On North G strut j. 12. Toft is putting np a 22x61 foot residence. Tbla is two stories high, has seven rooms and a bath.- Mr. Toft and J. U Demmer are doing the oarpenter work. Dr. H. P.Hargrave, on L street, near the West Side school house, Is finishing a very pretty, six-room cottage. This -is somewhat out of the ordinary In oon struotion in that the sides as well as the roof are oovered with shingles. The doctor and his famllyUI occupy the building soon after ,the first of December. F. E. Martin, a little farther south on L street, is erecting a one and a halt- story, six-room resi dence. ' i The J, O. Johnson ranoh of S51 acres at Table Rock ia for sale by U U. Pierce & Son, at a bargain. The foundation tor a large water tank is being laid just a little south of the depot. The old tank has been found insufficient for the require ments of the S. P. Company's servioe. This new tank, being located as it is, will permit the taking of water by southbound passenger train engines while passengers are getting on and off at the station, thus saving a few minutes time to each train. For sale Desirable residence, or reBidenoe property, all in fine loca tion, enquire at this omoe. iJO-tl The new Medford greenhouse, re oently completed on the East Side, is open to the public. Mrs. Pierce has a nioe stock of carnations, chrysan themums and other ohoioe flowers and potted plants that will interest all lovers of flowers. The new house, 76x16 feet, is modern in- design and appointments, with steam heating and eleotrlo lighting appliances. Mrs. Pierce expeots to build jin addi tion to the house next year. ' Wanted Goats to pasture on shareB. Plentv of mood Dasture. Ad- dresB "B", care Mail, Medford, or u. ii. urimn, merlin. Frank Caldwell has purchased the meat market formerly owned by E. C. Wells, at Gold Hill and has moved bis family to that town. Mr. Caldwell is an industrious young business man and be will well deserve all the pa tronage the good people of that town oan give him.. W. I. Brown has purchased the oid Ben Webb place in Southwest Med ford, from Mr. Faber, and will move thereto at once. For Sele A steam laundry, near lv new : also frame building. 11x42. Inquire at Medford Mail office. 17-lt Drilling at the artesian well con tinues night and day, and a depth of 650 feet is reported at thiB date, Work progresses more rapidly sinoe the bottom of the old hole has been passed. At the Johnson well a sus pension of operations beoame neoes sary owing to the rebellions oharaoter of the formation encountered. ;A diamond drill will be used in further prosecuting the work. 31 acres, 12 in alfalfa, two miles from railroad, 29 aores in cultivation, with irrigation for two oropB, for wiw, i'or sale Dy w. r. lorn. Medford coal has established its value for domestio use and the ooal stove will soon supplant the wood burner. The Medford i urniture Com pany has been using this ooal for the past two weeks with gratifying suo oess, in an old fashioned wood burn ing stove. It burns easily, leaves no clinker and makes a good heavy ash that does not fly about easily. -Try Warner's "Blue Ribbon" hard wneat nour. Makes more bread, bet ter bread. 30-tf Dr. II. B, Plokel will have office rooms upstairs in the new Jaokson County Bank building. His Buite of otfioes will cpmprise four rooms, two of which his library and wcpnon room will front on Seventh street, while hie operating room will front on C street and back of his Library will be his X-ray room. Tho reported sale of tho Jaokson ville & Medford railway to the Blue Lodge Mining Company is somewhat premature. If suoh transfer has been made tnose who should know of It are keeping the knowledge to themselves, It is altogether likely that the story ia a Grants Puss fable. The Medford Pharmacy haB a full line' nf sowing machine needles and supplies and New Home sewing ma chines .'or fj) to S15. , The fioaty weather of the fore part of tie week was not oonduolve to rapid progress of work on the sev eral new building, now in oonrse of oonskeaotloa la Medford. In the case of moss of tho workmen, however, thla woik was not retarded to any great extant. It oonldn't be. They have teaohed the limit. -10 aores set to fruit, two miles from railroad, with irrigation, 12000, See W. T. York. -The Roseburg News says: "Con gressman Blnger Hermann and Mrs. Hermann have arrived in Washing ton, D. 0., from their trip to Europe. They write the home folks that they are both in .the .best of health and that they bad a delightful time while abroad." Jno. F. White ot Medford has lust received three oarlouds ot Portland oement plaster Paris and wood fiber piaster, uaii on mm tor tnese goods. ! -S. F, Hathaway of Central Point was in Medford Monday. Mr. Hath-' away is an enthusiastic orofaardlst and while no trees of his own are now I bearing he is handling Oroharda for ; other parties. He owns twenty acres of land and baa already set out ten ' aores of it to apples and will put out the remainder of it to pears. i Fresh bread made dally at Vienna 1 Bakerr Call 'ohone 196 and have all yonr bake stuff delivered promptly. -The Rogue River Valley Fruit growers' Union Is experiencing all kinds of tronble in securing cars in which to ship fruit Manager Perry report the packing bouse full to overflowing with boxed fruit ready for shipment and more fruit a great deal more to paok. Choioe varieties of chrysanthe mums for ssle by Miss Russ, 'Phone im. -The "Trip Around the World," which was advertised In oar last issue to be given next week' by the ladies ot the Episoopal Guild, has been post poned nntil after Christmas beoause of the many entertainments adver tised for nearly every date nntil that time. Two houses and one-half aore in Medford, $1600. Inquire of W. T. York. ! O. P. Danielsbn of Medford was in town the forepart of the week. Mr! Danlelson is one of the proprietors of the Medford Iron Works and was in this vioinity trying to secure a quan tity of cast iron for use inthefoun-! dry. Gold Hill News. Sewing machine needles at Med- j ford Pharmaoy. The Medford iron works are hav ing a hard time seouring sufficient old oast iron for use in their foundry. They are offering 11 per hundred tor j It, in any quantity. l NEW IMPERIAL, s JLHv Overcoat of the year at smartest design yet brought This is the Coat you will see worn by all the ,i. sers this Winter. Dignified, simple, aristocratic i treme, it is thoroughly a Gentleman's garment, appropriate as a Dress Overcoat or an every, day. ence. You can see from the picture the di ' look the new French Flare Back gives. You wi model; buy a genuine Schloss-made garment in and you will like the Coat. In no other make find the same unfailing good style, materials ,f, hand tailoring. We are pole local agents for the celebrated Sohloss-Clothr Wo offer you a splendid selection ol the best of these unequ, led garments at prices from $16 up. We have all tho late styles in Fine and Medium Suits and OvercoatB at all pric and everything that's good in Winter Furnishings. Come and see us . ' WE WANT LUMBER HAULERS INQUIRE AT OFFICE IOWA LUMBER & BOX CO. a ; fi, i. '-Pi;, . ;' THETOGGER.Y. The Quality Sfcorff MEDFORD' FASHION STORE rOR. MEW