Gold Hill news., March 25, 1926, Image 1

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THE GOLD HILL NEWS. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1926
Council Settles Fire Department
Much Trouble Meeting Called
De Soto's Landing Place on Coast
of Florida Now Hi^oric Shrine
EVERY GREAT ACHIEVE­
MENT.
NUMBER 5«
Military Ball Is
V an H ook M in e
A Big Success G (M ¿ng R g a d y
Fire Chief Chas Kell, has called
Wednesday night ot this week the u meeting of the Gold Hill Fire de­
City Council met nt the cull ot the partment for Monday night at 8:00
mayor. A quorum only responded I’.M. in the public library here.
to the cull for a meeting with Mayor
A strong effort is being made to
Cook presiding mid Dirk Hobineon, have insurance rales reduced in Gold
Tony Itos*, J. M. Lively ujtd Fred Hill this season und a hearty turn­
Hickman In the council seats.
out is imped for. A feed is plunned
The purpose of the meeting wus for the entertainment of the mem­
to investigate an order by roud sup- bers. An attempt will be made to
erviser John Smith to lower the city turn the Fire Department meetings
pipe line from the pump house to into a Civic Improvement pro|msi-
the reservoir where it crosses the lion and community development
Sams Valley-Crater Lake highway. , ideas will be worked out in this
And to take up and settle the frun- , way. Gold Hill is being widely ad-
chise question where the new water ' vertised and with a little concerted
mains cross prlvute lands in the effort of the citizens much good and
unplatted Riverside Addition, and many new people can be the result,
whatever mutters of unfinished busi
There are no individual invlta
ness that was ready for attention ut lions being sent out. This meeting
the time.
| |g open to all who are Interested in
The first matter of unfinished busi bettering conditions In Gold Hill,
ness to come up was the resignation * The first work of the organization,
of Mrs. Laura Pankey as a council- of course, is fire protection and the
woman on the board. Suggestions consequent reduction in insurance
for her successer in office included | rates.
the names of Hay Heasoner. Mrs. O.
,uril ou, an<J Mar, |h(.
i.'i'n / '
.V ." "
" ;' rrV Givic Improvement ball «Tolling.
March Uth the annual Military
Ball given by the Snowey Butte Can­
The long expected development on
ton No, 15, Patriarch Militant, as­ Oregon’s last big placer mining prop
sisted by the Ladies of Golden-Jos­ osition, in this part of the country,
ephine Auxiliary No. 9, this year is at hand. C. G. Van Hook, who
for the benefit of the Hospital Corps some time past bought the Sleepy
was held at the Gold Hill I.O.O.F. Hollow ranch, at the mouth of Sar­
Hall. The music furnished by the dine creek, and who recently re­
Neal’s Orchestra of Grants Pass was ceived a car load of mining mech-
of the best and every one present inery, announces that in a couple of
hud a fine time.
Members from weeks the pumps will be in opera­
Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass tion and water at great pressure
were present.
will be tearing up the pay channel
O n D e Soto s
After dancing until 12 o’clock all at the mouth of the little stream,
POUTE
retired to the Dining hall where a A three hundred horsepower elec­
THROUGH
hot chicken supper was served by tric motor directly connected to a
T emple
the ladies of the local Past Noble twelve inch centrifugal pump will
T ebpace
Grand Club.
The tables were lift the water from the Rogue and
beautifully decorated with purple project it through a three inch noz­
lambtongues and daffodils which zle at the bank of sand and gravel
represented the Militant colors;— Which has been prospected with
purple and gold. Thanks are ex­ thirteen drill holes and fourteen
tended to Maxwell Marvin and Boyce pits and shows a mean average of
Kellogg for the gathering of the $1.00 per yard in gold to say nothing
purple lamb-longues. The dance of the black sand values.
Heavy
hall decorations were in charge of rock will be handled by an electric­
Earl E. Adams, Commander of the ally operated drag line. The sepa­
Snowey Butte Canton, and Lady ration process to be employed at the
Childers und W. II. Fergusqn. The
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Bertha E. Adams, assisted by Chev- start will consist of about a hun­
vote of the council after it was ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
ilier Robert Adams and Lady dred feet of riffles and additional
E spiritu S anto B ay
found that Heasoner had not been a
Gwendolyn Davis;
The Three
?
Why
not
subscribe
Io
the
News
TAMPA,
Flu.,—One
of the historic here he is believed to have marched Links, F. L. and T. and I.O.O.F. equipment to save a maximum of
resident of the town long enough,
the values in the sand of the channel
that Van Houten refused to accept, ? Why not boost a booster and ? I shrines of America viewed by thou- through the present beautiful resi- were hung from the ceiling in the
will be employed as its need is dem­
sands
of
tourists
every
year
is
the
dential
suburb
of
Temple
Terrace
that J. I). Hedgepeth, who prevented ? thus help boost your own best
colors of the Orders, Purple and onstrated.
landing
place
of
Hernando
De
Soto
surrounded
by
orange
groves
on
the
Gold and Scarlet and were beauti-
annomination by refusing to accept ? interests in the community?
April 10 was the date set as a defi­
on Espiritu Santo bay near here.
highlands overlooking Hillsborough ’ ful. Thanks are due to Cheviliers
if elected, went three votes for Mr. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
nite completion period for the instal
De
Soto's
wanderings,
which
led
river
and
so
on
northeastward.
Earl and Robert Adams for this
Childers anil one vote for Mr, Fer­
to the discovery of the Mississippi
De Soto’s route led him north into extended to sisters Jane and Bernice lation of the machinery on the prop­
guson. Childers was not present so
river, form one of the most roman­ Georgia, south to Mobile bay, then Cook for the lovely white lamb- erty. It is estimated that within ®
it Is not known whether he will ac­
tic
odysseys in Spanish exploration. northwestward to the Mississippi. tongues and ferns used in the dec- short time three shifts of men w ill
cept and qualify or not.
be employed in the operation of th®
With
620 foot soldiers nnd 123 horse He died on the banks of the Father | orations.
The next item of busiifess acted
mine and that about eighteen men
he
landed
in
Florida
May
12,
1539.
of
Waters,
June
1542,
and
was
bur­
The
proceeds
of
this
Ball
go
upon wus the passage of the Junk
will
be required to handle the mach­
Heading
inland,
his
first
camping
ied
in
it’s
waters.
His
followers
Io the Hospital Fund of the State
Dealers ordinance at its third read­
i
After months of suffering, Emma ground was in what is now Tampa. built boats and floating down the j Department of Oregon, this being inery.
ing and its consequent acceptance.
The officers of the company con­
Ingling is now at rest. Last Fri­ A magnificent live-oak known as the river to the gulf, arrived at last in the highest branch of Odd Fellow­
The question of lowering the pipe day morning she went to sleep for
sist of C. G. Van Hook, president}
De Soto oak marks the spot. From ; Spanish settlements in Old Mexico. ship.
under the Sana Valley road where the last time. Her suffering, which
Editor’s Note.—This item is one Geo. C. Hogg. Engineer, secretary
the construction crew is now grad­ nt times must have been terrible,
week
late. It was handed in by a and treasurer; Cornelius Meyers,
ing was declared an emergency. It is no more und the expression on
member of the order and while on
. prw,dent v Th® ‘"corporation
wa» an itans of expense uncx|>ertrd the face of the dead was that of rest,
the editor’s desk was picked up bv °/ AheuC0™If
has been completed,
and one that cannot be avoided. The peace and contentment. Paralysis
one of the local business men who
Much could be sald re«ardin« th®
cost of lowering the pipe line will is given ns the forrunner of the end
used the back of the copy sheet to history of the Sleepy Hollow ranch.
easily hit the MOO mark.
in this instance, and the final clos­
mark down some item for future Many interesting stories have been
A difference of opinion or a lack ing of the eyes of Mrs. Ingling was
told of the Indian history on thia
The Clean-up in Gold Hill started
Many Gold Hill people are express reference and carefully placed in particular piece of land, and spaco
of understanding in the right-of-way the passing of a prominent citizen
his pocket. In later looking over
for the pipe line through the un­ of the conununity; an active nn m- off as planned on Tuesday morning ¡n8 anxiety over whether the new
the memorandum he wrote on the forbids entering into same, but il
platted land in Riverside Addition bes of both the Rebekah lodge nnd when Clarence Hedgepeth piloting water mains will be constructed at sheet of paper he discovered his T*11 be remembered that this was
Was taken up.
The Innd owners the Relief Corps. iHer loss to her John Ritter’s truck commenced a points where they can be served possession of valuable property and
0 ' * e!,*bnmer homestead of pio-
wanted to know just what was ex­ family is unrepairable and her host systematic visit in the alleys of the with w’ater this season. The argu­ too late for publication in last week nee’^<’ays; owned some time past by
ment
waxes
warm
in
some
instanc­
pected of them in giving a right of of friends gathering nt her bier re­ town removing the rubbish deposit­
he returned the story and here it an English nobleman by the nam®
way. Two of the owners objected alized that her place in their lives ed there for the scavenger. As a es by people full of doubt and by is—-late but none the less valuable. of Ensign whose residence, former­
other people full of confidence in
to the laying of the pipe line un­ would forever be vacant.
ly an Indian war ‘blockhouse’ burn-
rule a clean-up comes and goes here the ability of C. W. Martin to make
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less the pipe wns put down deep
j ed down while filled with priceless
The funeral, conducted at the hall as a matter of course and not much good his estimates of completing a
enough to permit them to level the of the I. O. O. F. lodge in Gold Hill interest is shown. Many local cit­
antiques and world wide »elics an«l
land which would mean lowering wns well attended and an impressive izens do not even wake up to the 828,006.00 water system for the sum
souvenirs gathered by the English
the surface right where the pipe at affair. Both her lodge membership situation until the scavenger has of only 815,000.00
owner.
The Chartraw family fop
The writer is the owner of a res­
present is to be laid.
To permit sisters participated in her last rites passed their premises and their sup­
many years owned and operated th®
owners to level their land it would and Rev. Howe spoke the parting ply of rubbish must either be re­ idence on the highest point of land
A car of ‘Smudge’ oil has been re- ranch and of them Van Hook Pur’
be necessary for the city to put the words for 4he dead.
Interment moved privately or lay in the alley in the City ‘served with City water? ceived at Gold Hill for tl> Van Hov- chased the ranch for mining purpos-
pipe down nt least two and a half wns had nt the Rock Point cemetery until another annual clean-up day. and has for several years been pay­ enberg orchards in Sams Valley and es’ The. future of the ranch de­
feet. When the city agreed to put at the dose of the services at the This season, however, the clean-up ing for water he did not receive. ls being transported to the land by j Pends entirely on the extent of th®
the pipe down deep enough all ob­ hall Sunday afternoon.
seems to have struck the populous He used to ‘kick’ regularly and in the Gold Hill Hardware Co. Another v’ ,ues cnn,ained in the soil when
jections vanished nnd the property
♦♦
differently for the scavenger found many ways made life miserable for car of ’smudge’ oil has been receiv-
hydraulic process has had ®
owners were employed to dig the
great quantities of all manner of the administration in the seat of ed by the Del Rio Orchards at Rock chance to liberate the gold.
OBITUARY
authority at the time, but, for the
additional depth nt once so the lay­
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These cars contain about
INGLING—Aletha E. Ingling, wife refuse waiting for him everywhere. past three years has paid the top Point.
ing of pipe would not be retarded.
It
is
safe
to
say
that
the
1926
clean­
of John Ingling "and a resident of
rates for water, and went with out, 8,000 gallons of oil and are the dir­
This closed the session.
Gold Hill for the past seven years, up is the Inrgest of them all from and kept still.
The new water ect means of preventing the frosts
pnssed away nt her home in this city Ihe standpoint of quantity of rub­ mains, when installed, will, It is of the wring months destroying the
at 10:15 n.m. Friday at the age of 71 bish being removed from sight nnd believed, relieve the situation for bloom on the fruit trees, insuring
years. She was born in Cardington smell.
the writer and when that is done a crop and a supply of fruit that in
There are, of course, a few people there will be no one in the entire the case of both orchards has be­
Ohio, nnd when a young woman wns
The Gold Hill post office will ba
married at Jefferson, Iowa, to John who have independently refused to town who will have any kick com­ come in demand.
moved into their fine, new quarters
Ingling. After residing in various co-operate with the citizens of the ing, for if sufficient pressure is in­
next the Gold Hill garage next Mon­
parts of Nebraska nnd Colorado, the town, and who failed to clean-up. sured to supply the Wharton cottage nice margine of profit. The actual day afternoon. The new building
At an official meeting of the Gold family enme to Oregon in 1910 and These few, will, it is understood in
815.000. of the bond has been spent,
Hill School Hoard nt the School in settled in Gold Hill, where they City Council circles, have a chance on the hill with water at all times and that news spreading over the being rushed to completion by for­
the
town
will
have
trouble
in
prev­
Gold Hill Monday night of this week hnve continuously remained and ni to clean-up by order of the nuisance
town when the construction work mer mayor, Frank Childers, is ex­
enting
the
mains
in
the
lower
levels
part of th^ faculty for the consoli­ which place her husband, with committee and remove their rubbish
wns far from done caused comment. pected to be ready in time.
of the town from bursting.
The entire lower floor will be oc­
dated school was elected and con­ whom she has lived for 55 year% nt their own expense.
The sales of pipe recently, however,
Repenting a conversation with have refunded the account and more cupied by the post office while lha
tracts prepared.
The superinten­ was present when the end came.
The enthusiasm with which the City engineer C. W. Martin, who
dent's office was filled by employing
good people of Gold Hill entered since the beginning of the new City work is going ahead rapidly and the second story will house the Reed A
Death
was
due
to
cerebral
hem­
Guy Realestate and Insurance firm
Prof. Chas G. Bluett, of Eugene, the
end is believed to be in sight.
into the Clean-up idea is very com­
assistant to Dr. Ilnlney, head of the orrhage from which she had suf­ mendable and has rendered the Water system has been absolutely
The administration in power at nnd a beauty porlor conducted by
University Department of Educa­ fered several strokes. She leaves town many times more sightly and in charge of the construction of the the time the construction was order­ Mrs. Beebe. All three of these in­
system, we believe we can shed a ed had such complete confidence In stitutions are popular in Gold Hill
tion.
The only other member of besides her bereaved husband, seven healthy than before.
.
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lx.«
i
children,
Myrtle
E.
Millspnugh,
of
little light on the misunderstandings the ability of C. W. Martin that he and the latter two are expected to
the high school
wol faculty so far listed r , , ..... .. ... .....
/ , J ..
Why not make 1926 a “Spruce-up” afloat over the town.
* „ , of
.r %
!• Margaret
u
. Gold
Hill, V. .. \Y. .. Mdlspntigh,
w'as the acceptance
rptnncc
Miss
_ . ..
’ R • of Portl
was given absolute control of the prove as valuable in the near future
If everyone did their very
.
and; Mrs. 1. M. Van Emnn, Pasadena year?
When asked by the City Recorder installation and the present admin­ as the first mentioned.
Carter, of Cottage Grove, Oregon.
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C.alif., Mrs. A. B. Akins and Arthur best to Improve the looks of Iheir
The F. A M. Market on North
In the ‘grades’ the teachers so far j Ingling of New York II. R. Ingling property by leveling up the grass recently, “just how far they could istration so far has not found any
lay pipe on the new system before place where Martin has fallen down Main street purchased a mighty fin®
employed include Mrs Maude Robin a me.nl.er of the Ashland police de- M>ols. keeping the weeds down inside n„
, hp fun(ls werp
, he rpnf1y
beef of Mrs. Tom Wyatt this week.
and is therefore not interfering.
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llim li*
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son, for the 7tl) nnd 8th grades; Miss — partaient,
Bonrninnn
of C ! i Iheir
limits r and
in front
of g l their
nnd . I t Edith
response
was
“all
of
it
nnd
we will
We
might
take
up
one
idea
of
the
Elen Enstrom, Vernonia, Oregon, Nebraska
I property; repaire«! their sheds, an.l havp , 10fl ,pft whh which ,o buy ,hp
Engineer in designing the system of
BORN—To Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
for the 5th nnd ftlii grades; Mrs.
Funeral services were arranged | fences. Put a few dollars into paint city a husky fire siren to wake the
“return flow” in the system by say­ Winkleman. a daughter, early in th®
Sargent for the 3rd and 4th grades by the Conger Funeral parlors, and :’u<l lay a few yards of concrete
nnd Miss Hnrper for the 1st and 2nd. were conducted by Rev. D. J. Howe Walks, and then spaded up the spots sleepy headed ones when a fire al­ ing that by abolishing every pos­ morning March 23. Mr. Winkleman
arm is turned In.”
sibility of a dead end. or pocket is the Southern Pacific foreman hrra
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at the where grass isn’t growing and sprin-
Explaining the funding of the new where water can stand without forc­
+ + A + + + + + + + + !♦'+ + + + + I.O.O.F.Hall in Gold Hill jointly bv
a package of flower seed there, construction here it might also be
+ + 4 + 4 +
4 + +
ed motion, the germination of bac­ + + +
♦
Ihe Relief Corps and the Rebekah what a wonderful difference it well to say that in order to secure
teria
is
impossible.
The
water
♦
♦
♦ Rnree, n most extraordinary
lodges. Interment in the cemetery would make in the impression of three inch water pipe cheaply, sev­
♦ A most unusual serial novel *
mains
are
so
laid
so
that
all
pipe
dog, is hero of nn absorbing
Ihe passing tourist visitors on the eral thousand feet of pipe was pur­
at Rock Point.
ends are connected with water mains ♦ will make its appearance ♦
♦ serial story soon to start in
highway?
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chased at 24 cents per foot and in a system of squares permitting ♦ soon in The Gold Hill News *
♦ The Gold Hill News.
Mrs. C. A. Plckcl and Mrs. Forest,
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since the actual construction only the evenest pressure possible and ♦ Watch for it.
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♦ Hn” -e d of Medford, spent Tuesday Licensed Truck and Driver. We calls
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for ____________
a fraction of ____
that _ a large forcing movement in the water at ♦
♦
of I; ,1 w ek with Mrs. Earl Adams, haul anything. J.J.RRter pd ad—37 I part of the pipe is being sold at a all times.
Prominent Lady
Now A t Rest
Shall Water Main
Local Clean-up
Be Completed?
Was Successful
Orchards Receive
Cars Smudge Oil
New Teachers
Local Schools
<. + + + + + + + + + +4-+ + + + +
Post Office T o
M ove on Monday