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COLD HILU JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1926
Childers Buys
Clark Interests
Grocery Store
Another business in Gold Hill
rbanged hands, when I Larry Child­
ers of this city purchased the build­
ing. stork and fixtures of the Clark
Grocery on the highway. Mr. ami
Mrs. Clark have conducted the store
for the past four years and desired
a rest. Mr. Clurk experts to enter
the chicken business at his place
near this city. Mr. Childers is not
new to |>eople of this vicinity, hav­
ing been here fur many years and
now is serving the city as a city
councilman. He hoe no definite
plans for the future development of
the business but experts to contin
ue the same line of staple ami fancy
groceries as have been carried by
the Clarks. The store will be
known as the didder's Grocery.
OLD TIMER VISITS
John Morris of Lakeview and a
former resident of this valley passed
through our city Monday. Mr. Mor­
ris visitril his sisters Mrs. Tiney and
Mrs. Lee (xxik of this city, lie con­
tinued on to Knots Creek whrre he
intends to greet some of his old time
aequaintenunees. This is the first
lime in seventeen years Mr. Morris
has visited his sisters.
OLD LAND MARK ON
GALL» CREEK BURN»
The old Lawrence place on Galls
Creek burned to the ground Monday
night, together with several of the
out buildings including the store
house, separator house and wood
shell. The property was a total loss.
The farm house was tenanted by
Fred Jenkins, a brother-in-law of
Ernest Keinking of this cily. Mt.
Heinking also lost considerable
goods which he had stored In the
storehouse at the farm. The old
house was a huge R-room structure.
The origin of the fire was not learn­
ed, neither did we hear if there was
any insurance on the place.
WIDENING PACIFIC HIGHWAY
WEST OF ROGUE RIVER
There is quite a large force of men
and teams busy west of Rogue-River
near the Savage Rapids dam widen­
ing the highway. The banks at the
side of the roadway are bring cut
away and the curves are being wid­
ened so Hint a better view of the
highway nhend may be had by the
motorists. It is planned to do away
with several of the curves in this
section as soon ns poaaible. It sure­
ly would be a great improvement for
the curves nre far loo numerous for
safe driving. There is one curve, in
pnrtieulnr, which is bad due to im­
proper grading. This particular
curve is flat and a driver is taking
great risks who negotiates it nt n
greater rnte of speed than 15 or 20
miles per hour.
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By Hie street of hy-and-hy
one arrives at the house of
Never!
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STEALS OWN CAR
AND ESCAPES TO CALIF.
A man giving his name nt F. A.
Page stopped nt Rogue River Inst
week and had his car overhauled nt
the Hatch garage in Hint eily. After
the niechnnles completed their Job
he called and told them to put in
ten gallons of gas and ,oin. oil and
get it all ready for the rond ns he
wnnted to be on his wn.v the nexl
morning. However lie fniled Io In­
form Mr. Hatch how early he want-
ed Io start and ns the gnrnge was
locked he proceeded to enter and
appropriate his car and left the
slate without going through the cus­
tomary routine of paying his bill.
As a result the authorities were put
on his trail to call his attention to
the oversight and he was apprehend­
ed nt Dunsmuir, Calif., To make
sure that he would not want for any
thing, Page took a’ong n typewriter,
check protector, five watches, elec­
tric drill, and supply of batteries,
spark plugs and inner tubes. The
gentleman will no doubt sojourn nt
our county sent for n while and take
a few meals with Sheriff Jennings.
NEW PASTOR FOR
GOLD HILL CHURCH
At the stute Conference of the
Methodist church held this week nt
Eugrne Rev. Viniont wus appointed
as pastor for Guld Hill. itev. Viniont
will now huve pustornl charge
of the churchs at Jacksonville, Tul-
ent anil Gold Hill. Rev. liurnhurt
who has faithfully served the local
congregation the past year or so will
preach his final sermon Sunday
evening. Rev. Barnhart ex|>ccts Io
retire front the ministry for a while
anil then return to the evangelistic,
fi. Id.
He will look after his interests In the
mining districts neur here for a
while as u sort combined business
und pleusure affair.
UNIVERSITY 8AY8 AUTO
DEMORALIZING STUDENT}!
University of Oregon, Eugrne,
Oregon, Sept. 28— Pointing out
tliut automobiles brought to college
by University students are a rause of
poor schoolarship und increase the
danger of moral delinquency. Uni­
versity authorities have apiiealad to
parents to prohibit their sons and
daughters from bringing ears to Eu­
gene, It wus announced today.
“The increasing use of automo-
biles by University students has
been observed with much concern
by University officials everywhere,”
u letter sent to parents today read.
“Careful students liuvr shown that
they cause floor scholarship, are ex­
pensive, waste vulueublr time, in­
crease the danger of moral delin­
quency, and cause Ir.dfle rung' stion
about campus; that ut in st they nre
undesirable and unnecessary at col­
lege, and that they nre often posi­
tively demoralising."
Old Landmark
O regon Pears
Is D estroyed
Finds Market
In Big Blaze
O ver Seas
A noted landmark of pioneer days
in Southern Oregon was wiped out
shortly after 7 o'clock this morning
when the 25-room dwelling at Wag­
ner Springs on the Old Klamath
road, was completely destroyed by
fire.
The blase was caused from sparks
fulling on the dry robf, It was
thought, uml because of the short­
age of water, the big frame building
was quickly wiped away.
The building was more than a
half a century old, and in the early
days Wagner Springs wus the most
popular mineral and health resorts
in Southern Oregon. It had been
operuted as a summer resort up un­
til about 10 years ago.
RECEIVES COMPLIMENT
UPON ENTERPRISE
l'|M»n returning to our office the
other day ufter a short absence, the
following note was found in the ed­
itor's sanctum, “This is the first
time we kew the “devil" to be off
the job. Here is a “V“ for copy of
the paper. Congratulations for your
enterprise, we read your “fight re­
port” several hours before it ap­
peared in the daily papers.” The
writer forgot to sign his name.
PEACHES 50 CENTS EACH
While peaches have retailed as low
as 50 cents per box in Oregon they
retnil from 15 cents to 50 cents in
Englandum states a Department of
Agriculture publication. The same
authority states that Pacific Coast
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stickle sold i Gravenstein apples sold for 84.62 in
their residence that has been oc | Liverpool, with the smaller sixes at
eufiied by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Shot b, I from 83.41 to 8389. Southern apples
for the past couple months, to a Mr. in barrels sold for from 85.11 togtt.73.
Dotcy, a new comer, to our city.
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They will take possession the 1st
813.000,000 FOR PROHIBITION
of October. The Stickles purchased
An appropriation of about 813,-
the property on the highway neross IMMl.tMMI for prohibition enforcement
from the Estes park known us the the next fiscal year has been past
Tom Anderson Estate.
by the treasury.
Canned pears will grace the tables
in many homes in the Unit­
ed Kingdom during the coming
winter. According to a report is­
sued by the Traffic Department of
Hie Port of Portland, 10,365
cases of canned pears weighing 542,
525 lbs. with a value of 843,000.00
cleared for United Kingdom ports
(luring the first sixteen days of Sep­
tember. This was in addition to
large shipments of canned goods
including 14,423 cases of canned lo­
ganberries valued at 863,877.00.
DOMESTIC RABBIT MEAT LIKE
CHICKEN, SAYS NEW POSTER
To acquaint the public with the
vajue of domestic rabbit meat and
to encourage its consumption, the
United States Department of Agri­
culture has issued a colored poster
picturing two dressed rabbits and
plates of fried and baked rab­
bit, and calling attention to the
good qualities of this meat.
Domestic rabbit meat, says the
Biological Survey, which is carry­
ing on investigations in raising rab­
bits, tastes more like chicken than
like wild rabbit. Few housewifes
are familiar with its food value and
delicious flavor. Domestic rabbits
arc raised in hutches, where they
have only limited exercise and
where they can be properly fed.
They are cleanly ' in habits, and
their diet, consisting chiefly of oats,
barley, and alfalfa hay, makes the
meat sweet, tender, and excellently
flavored.
HOMEMAKER'S INSTITUTE
TO BE HELD IN MEDFORD
ished product ready to roll to the j grees at the blast end to a much
markets of the world.
j lesser heat at the end where the
The cars of lime rock was hauled muddy moss is injected into it. The
to a dump and here the rock was tube is lined upon the inside with
dropped into a container and from a ten inch thickness of fire brick.
this container was loaded upon a In the furnace room is a large fire
small steel car capable of holding box where the 3000 degrees of heat
about three tons of rock and was is generated with, crude oil as the
hoisted by meuns of a cable up a fuel. The flame from this roaring
long track to the top of the hill and inferno is so bright that the human
dumped. Then the car would come eye cannot pentdrale its depths and
rolling back at high speed for an­ colored goggles are used by the
other load.
mechanic, that he might stand the
Away back up on the hill, which light. The smoke and heat from
necessitated a long climb up the hill this furnace travels on through the
side, we came to the shale pit where entire length of the enormous re-
men were busy blasting out gravel vollng tube to the smoke stack at
and hnuling it Into the crusher. In the other end. The cement mixture
the storeroom this shale was mixed started in at one end ns a liquid
with the limerock and started comes out nt the other end burned
through a powerful crusher. In this to a white hoi clinker. After pass­
crusher were about 14 ton of steel ing through this terrific heat it is
balls which eventually crushed the dumped on the outside where the
shale and lime rock to a powder. giant steam shovel picks it up and
The huge crushers were kept in mo­ loads it into the awaiting cars from
tion by two huge motors aggregat­ whence it is conveyed to the clink­
ing some 500 horse power. Water er pit and dumped. From the
was gradually added to the mixture clinker pit it is taken to the mill­
and the mass In the shape of a soft ing room where It is ground into a
soupy like substance was let out in­ fine powder like substance which
to huge vats. This mud was tested leaves (he plant for the market.
and analyzed until it met with cer­ This powder is conveyed into the
tain requirements and the passed sacking machines where men are
on to some larger vats where it un­ busy socking the cement and drop­
derwent other processes and finally ping in on to a wide belt that con­
started upon its Journey through a veys it out to where other men are
long eyiindrical receptical in Ihe stationed to receive it and put it
nature of a blast furnace. This in the warehouses or load it on to
huge cylinder was about two hun­ awaiting cars.
dred or more feet long and ten feet
The plant has a very well equip­
in diameter. It wus supported by ped laboratory where the product
three sets of bearings of immense is tested and approved before being
size and driven by an enormous cog marketed.
drive about half way between the
The company employes a large
two ends. This entire cylinder re­ crew of men at its plant and fur­
volves continually making about nishes the city with a very hand­
one complete revolution every min­ some payroll. A trip through the
ute and a half. The heat vnries a- plant is truly on education for any­
long this tube from about 3000 de­ one who has never been through it.
Sinclair Lease
Cancelled On
Tea Pot Dame
Mrs. Jessie D. McComb, Home
Demonstration Agent leader for the
Oregon Agricultural College Exten­
sion Service, announces that now
college is in session details of the
program for the Homemaker’s insti­
tute, to be held in Medford, October
20th to 23rd, are assuming shape.
St. Louis, Sept 29—The Teapot
The program will be announced Dome controversy again has steam­
here in the near future.
ed into view, with the government to
Local details are also being work­ day holding the latest victory in a
ed out and cooperation is met with long career of court proceedings.
on every side. The plans of the
Declaring the entire transaction is
Economics Advisory Committee in­ tainted with favoritism, collusion
clude hostesses each day to receive and corruption, defeating the proper
those attending, introduce them to and lawful functions of the govern­
each other and make all feel at ment, the United States circuit court
home. Each day a different club of appeals here late yesterday or-
will furnish
. . the
, hostesses. At the dered cancelled the lease on naval
close of the afternoon program te a , oil lands in Wyoming, held by
will be served, this is planned to ,he Mammoth Oil Company.
t'ncolJr;‘gc a sociaI hour and help
The decision, which reversed and
various groups to become acquaint-] remanded a decision of Judge T.
ed.
Blake Kennedy in district court at
.Miss Snedicor has volunteered her Cheyenne, Wyoming., in 1925, fur­
services and has promised some at­ ther instructs the lower court to en­
tractive stage settings, of which we join the Mammoth Oil Company
shall hear more before long.
from trespassing on government
The two floral societies will see lands and asks the company for an
that the inspiration of flowers is not account for all oil and petroleum
lacking. In short we feel assured products taken from the reserve dur­
of a very successful institute.
ing the tenure of the lease.
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STATE OF ILLINOIS KNOWS
“HAM AND” STILL POPULAR
VALUE OF LIME FERTILIZER
ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC CARS
The state of Illinois knows the val-
uc of lime as a renewer of cropped
lands and last year 8M(),000 tons were
purchased by the middle west states
but the high cost has held it back
from general use. The lime rock is
shipped from Jackson county to the
prison plant at Salem, where it is
ground by prison labor and shipped
to farmers under local freight rates.
The combined rates makes the price
too high for general use, so state the
farmers and county agents. Govern­
or Pierce has taken up the matter of
MIS8ING LINK THOT FOUND
reduced rates with the Public Ser­
vice Commission, and a hearing has
It is reported that a complete skull been called at Salem, September 22.
of an ape-like creature thought by
some to have been the skull of the BRITONS TO GET
missing link by a Dutch explorer in
WEST COAST GOLD FISH
central Java.
Large shipments of canned salmon
Trip Thru Cement Plant
Proves Interesting Sight
Your reporter took a run down to
the Beaver-Portland Cement filant
last Friday. Ever sice arriving in
town he has had the desire to look
the plant over and become more con­
versant with the method of making
the cement. All our life we have
walked
on
cement
sidewalks,
worked in buildings made wholly
or partly of concrete or have seen
the concrete used in sundry forms
but not until last week end did
we ever see the process by which
the adhesive quality of concrete
was made.
As soon ns we were within a few
hundred yards of the grounds we
could see sighs of enterprise for n
new hard surfaced roadway has
been built from the front door or
court of the offices to the gate of
the grounds. This road has not set-
led sufficiently yet so that it might
be opened for travel but is n very
pleasing piece of road building.
Upon arriving at the plant, about
the first man we saw was the
affable manager and superintendent
of the plant, Mr. C. W. Martin. He
was apparently as busy as a mother
hen with a brood looking after af­
fairs of the plant and discharging
his various duties. We started out
on an undirected scouting trip of
our own mid inspected the machine
shop, where several mechanics bus­
ied themselves during dull moments
by constructing nnother racing car
for Vice Pres. Muirhead. The car
that the men were working upon
was of Dodge Bros. make.
We soon were taken in charge by
I.. L. Smith, plant chemist and start­
ed upon n tour of the factory, We
started at the railway yards with
their ears of products, containing
lime rock from the company's lime­
stone quarry nt Marble Mountain,
and also some, loaded with the fin­
NUMBER 25.
are moving out of Portland. During
the first sixteen days of September
7,876 cases weighing 431,860 pounds
with a value of 879,700.00 cleared for
United Kingdom and Australian
ports. Shipments up to September 1
were 500,266 lbs. Due to the clos­
ing of the canning season and ar­
rival of large quantities from Alas­
kan waters. Sept, usually shows
a large movement. The years’ vol­
ume ordinarily moves during the lat­
ter part of the year.
Shipments to Atlantic Coast Ports
during the same period totaled 7,094
cases, weighing 344,119 lbs. with an
estimated value of $60,000.00.
According to the information pnt
out by the dining car service of the
Southern Pacific system there were
used last year 3,359,352 eggs and
226,922 pounds of ham in satisfying
the traveling publics demand for
this popular breakfast dish.
’Not only are sources of eggs sup­
plies carefully inspected by rail­
road commissary officials, but once
a week a number of eggs are
picked at random, and sent to the
University of California laborator­
ies, there subjected to exacting tests.
All ‘ggs are selected for sixe color,
and are carefully graded and weigh­
ed to assure a minimum of twenty-
six ounces to the dozen.
MEDFORD CLUB CHALKS
UP VICTORY IN 2ND GAME
The Medford team were the vic­
tors in the second of a series of
three games which were to decide
the chamionship of Southern Ore.
Grants Pass won the first of the
series a week ago Sunday. The
Medford aggregation also won the
flip of the coin for the third game
of the series and it will be p'ayed on
the Medford field Sunday, weather
permitting and will be the deriding
game of the series. Sunday game
was rather ragged and was won by
the Pear Pickers in the sixth inning
due to some poor fielding on the
part of Grants Pass team and the
hitting of the Medford batsman.
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STOP AT TRACKS!
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HANFORD ORDERS BLUEJAY AND WOODPECKERS
BATTLE TO DEATH
An ordinance requiring all drivers
to bring automobiles to a complete
No little attention was drawn,
stop before crossing railroad tracks Tuesday morning to a battle bet­
has been passed by the Hanford. ween a blue jay and several wood­
Calif, city council, according to R. peckers. About a score or more
J. Clacy, officer in general charge of people used the sidewalk in front of
safety for Southern Pacific Com­ the postoffice as bleachers from
pany.
which to watch the battle. From
“It is the belief,” Clacy said, “that some of the onlookers who seemed
requiring the driver to stop will re­ to be better posted upon natural his­
sult in looking in both directions tory than the writer we were able
and making observations which will to deduce the following; The wood­
safeguard against accident if a train peckers are fond of fresh meat, and
is approaching. It is the further be­ not having access to a key to either
lief that when required to stop driv­ the F. & M. or White’s markets, have
ers will not approach crossing at a found a method by which they can
speed so high that they cannot stop satisfy their desire for thut part­
before running into the train, a con­ icular commodity, so necessary to
dition existing in more than one their cuisine. The woodpeckers, It
fifth of all grade crossing accidents. appear* have built homes In the
December 31, 1925, 1,678 automobiles large oak trees on the Southern Pa­
struck trains on the Southern Pacif­ cific grounds across the highway
ic instead of being struck by train, from the postoffice. In these holes
nnd 197 skidded into train, resulting in the tree he stores acorns In large
from approaching track at speed a- quantities. The woodpecker we are
bove braking power of the ma­ told does not eat the acorns but
chine,”
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hordes them up until they have be­
come full of grubs ami then eat the
WOMEN OF CITY TO
grubs. The blue jays makes an at­
MEET AT LIBRARY tempt to steal the acorns from Ihe
woodpeckers and the trouble starts.
There is going to be a meeting of No quarter is given until the blue-
all the women of the city who are jay has paid with his life. The birda
interested in the city schools at the keep up a continual commotion
City Library, Tuesday afternoon at which wc might compare to a minia­
2:30. AH women nre invited to be ture Indian uprising. They can bo
present.
be heard for considerable distance,