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About Gold Hill news. (Gold Hill, Jackson County, Or.) 1897-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1930)
NUMBER 16 while, he helped organise, 37 years ago, the first cooperative Freamery The streets are full of tramping job mid "look «50 stock” in IF'. He al less tramps. Many are well dress so boasts that he was'*under in ed, highly eduealed, experts in dictment in 1917 and 1918 in Henne their particular lines. pin county, Minn., for helping to Never u day passes that Ihe work form u cooperative milk producers ing man is not importuned to h«-lp association.'’ A director of Land-o- someone find a job. Any kind of l.ukes Creamery and other groups, job. fine business man stales that he has so many calls from friends ■Y R A D FO R D MOBLEY he Is, with Denman, Ihe most di rectly identifies! w ith the industry seeking employment lhai he has M /ro tA rrre / mkimncton auacAu lie represents. Another of Ihe big A 36-squure mile rural township the society are hut «1.50 per year. done practically nothing for a week men on the board, he is u humorist should huve within its borders 1000 Few slates have profiled more by but answer the telephone. Washington, I), c .— Every one ol nt purls unit u great favorite in tin families if it iH going to have the villuge planning distinct from very larger community life which rural strictly county or rural planning, Ihe other seven members ®f »he Keil Capitul City. And yel— with Ihe situation thus The member of the board who conditions ul (heir best provide. than Mussurhusels. Among ihe Bay erst Farm board is as much a per At Ihe present time the Rock — New York continues lo be ihe hus almost effaced himself from the Common sense und a little fore Stale (owns which iu recent years sonality in his way as is Chulnnan i point cemetery located west of this public eye is Charles S. Wilson, the sight applied lo community plan have rearranged civic centers, and Mecca for unemployed from ail i city is controlled in part by the I. Lrggie, concerning winmi I wrote vegetable representative, who is a ning in rural areas can make them their town hulls, libraries, parks, parts of Ihe country. The moment O. O. F. Lodge and a part of the lust week. resident of Hull, N. Y.. where he many times us profitable and at and other community adjuncts into a dry-good's clerk or plumber’s as j ground we understand belongs The vice chairman of the hoard, has operated for years a 500-ucrc tractive lo live in us they are now. new patterns are Weston, Hadley, sistant Joses his job in Cedar Rap- lo the slate of Oregon. Ids or Tuscaloosa, he makes a bee James C* Slone, came to the board farm. He >» the real general of the These are llie twin gospels of soci Cohasset and Stockbridge. We also understand that the I. O. line for Broadway. The last place entire board membership. Apples, from the presidency of the Burley ologists who have devoted years lo O. F . lodge does not wish lo assume Stockbridge has probably had a on earth to go! Tobacco Growers Cooperative as wheat, other grains, lurge lots of a study of Ihe cireumstunces of ru r greater influence for good on Ihe charge of Ihe entire site nor to be The big city seems to hold out to sociation; a Kentuckian by birth cubbuge and other commodities are al life. And they can cite you ex beauty and cleanliness of other responsible for its up-keep. such people the same sort of illus- j and since, he lives at Lexington. He grown on the Wilson farm. He hus ample ufler example of what com towns than any village in Ihe en As a result several of our local ory promise that America holds for says that he "was born and raised spent most of his time on the new munity action can do when it is in tire country. citizens have expressed a desire to many immigrants: a land of lim it ( on u farm, and when I got through hoard in exhaustive groundwork earnest about making an attractive This town of about 1,800 popula less opportunity, of glittering hope. have the city take charge of the College I went into the tobacco for cooperatives. Physically lurge town. cemetery, or rather that part of the tion is approached through an at If there were fewer Americans business, in the warehouse busin and personally retiring, he hus ever site not now owned by the I. O. O. The merit of community better tractive stone railway gateway, suffering from such delusions, ess.” His cooperative grew to stuck to his knitting und absolutely ment, however, is not Ihe 36-mile station und park. The visitor finds there would In- fewer despondent F. and maintain it. It is thought where it handled from HU to 85 per fought off publicity. square township of the average a broad, leafy main avenue more derelicts jumping from New York’s that the city could take over the The lone politician on the board, cent of Ihe Burlry crop. Another state. liHther, it is the village Huit than a mile long. A 13-aere fenced high buildings, splattering Ihem- land and subdivide it into lots and big man, he resembles Chairman Samuel It. McKelvie. of Lincoln. eon function effectively for social the lots could then he sold out as field contains baseball and tennis Ives inelegantly on the hard, un Legge in this respect, but his per Nebraska, hus not only been gover purposes. the necessity arose and the money courts. A 10-acre wooded knoll, feeling pavements. sonality is quietly friendly where nor of his stale,, but operates a 760- derived therefrom could be used to General propositions with regard near Hie center ot Ihe town has re Lrgge's is dynamic. He is the dip ucre farm and edits Ihe Nebraska improve and support Ihe cemetery. cently been converted into a park lo this work are easily staled. All lomat of this board. Few men in Farmer. The smullest physically Anyone who is interested in this In view of these facts, I was vast villages ought lo he easily reached, and playground with a natural am- the country combine Slone's long of the board members, he is also ly amused und surprised at an in project, either one way or another pithealre where festivals are held und their approaches direct, dur experience in farm cooperation one of the-friendliest. He is a firm There are triangular cident lhal occurred the other day. are invited to either call in in per able und enjoyable. Housing condi annually. with his enthusiastic belief in its believer of Ihe marketing act that A fine-looking youngster he was, son or w rite in to the News office parks at street corners and at all established the bourd und is per tions should be sanitary, conven efficiency. from a city in Ihe Middle west. Yes and give their opinion. If enough Intersections. ient und economical. Public build Carl Williams, an Indiuna Hoos sonally conducting a campaign di A ll of these features and hund he had had training in advertising sentiment can be found to merit ings should he built with a view lo ier who turned Oklahoman by way rected against grain commission reds of others are due lo Ihe Laurel and in selling. He was a college any steps being taken toward the their relationships lo each other, of Colorado Michigan and Missouri, men. As wheat representative he and Ihe needs of the community, H ill Association of the town, organ graduate. And looked the p a r t - acquiring of Ihe cemetery, the mat represents cotton and is one of the must grapple with the oldest and bolh from a viewpoint of doing ized in 1853. and said lo be Ihe neat, suave, and graced with im ter w ill be placed before the city four journalists on the board. His largest, in quantity, of the farmers’ business and of attractiveness. All first town improvement society in peccable manners. He had been council for their deliberation. family left Ihe farm because of problems. The opposite of Wilson, ---------o--------- points of historic interest should ¡his country. Before this commit “laid off” by a Arm in the west, and tbelr inability to make a living, be he hus uttraded much publicity. was very anxious to get back to HUSBANDS GUESTS OF tee was organized, Stockbridge was be preserved and restored. Dump work. says. Hui after he became reporter Originully appointed for a year and heups and congested places should a commonplace, rather dirty and an SEWING CLUB MEMBERS and managing editor his studies regarded us a temporary member, Impressed by his appeal, I looked unattractive small town. give way to open spaces, and rec “were along agricultural lines even he is now held to be permanently Ils example can be followed by around a bit and— very much to reation spots in abundance should then." His two raaiii farm beliefs estblished. The members of the Sewing club almost any rural community that my surprise—did find a job vacant, he eusily accessible. are that tenant and •rropper system one that he could very well have entertained their husbands at a so wants Ihe same things and sets out Above all, a community plan is of cotton farming is destroying Ihe CANNOT ADVERTISE RAFFLES filled, i telephoned the New York cial evening at ihe home of Mr. and to be adopted, a plan which the energetically lo gel them. Individual farmer by keeping him friend with whom the young man Mrs. Earl Moore, Saturday evening, --------- o--------- majority wauls and w ill help to Every now and then we are ask in debt, and that there arc a tre ¡was staying and joyfully asked that it was another of the pleasant so make effective, and one sufficiently mendous number of evils” in scat ed lo advertise u raffle by some org he be summoned to the telephone. cial affairs given by the ladies to flexible lo allow for growth and tered marketing of cotton. The anisation, churituble, religious or change. Sorry, caine Ihe reply, he’s gone their husbands in the past season. fact that he reached these conclu fraternal. These requests come in back to------ .” Cards were enjoyed by the guests fine instance, of community im good faith and we would like to sions while editing a farm paper is W hat! I exclaimed, surely he until a late hour after which re provement is Wii'iicgo, Kansas, a a key lo his background. His prac grant the request but we are un hasn’t given up hope already— he’s freshments were served. The fol “farmers’ tow n." where big summer tical experience with cooperative able to do so. The federal laws are only lieen here three days, and be lowing were present Messers and picnics und Chautauqua courses at- marketing covers 16 years or more, very rigid on this point and it is sides I told him there was some Mesdames Cleo Gilchrist, E arl 'rnct hundreds of people from a big during which time he has directed impossible for a newspaper to ad thing that looked promising. Moore, Eber Davis, Wilmot, Geo. ■rritory. Although Wamego has a a number of ventures. Not quite so vertise or announce tile winner of I know, said the voice at the end Meisinger, Paul and Ray Thompson, splendid modern hospital financed a raffle or in anyway allude to it. large physically us Stone and l.cg- of the wire, but the kid got home C. J. Shorb, Hugh Hayes, A. A. and by local contributions, its pride is ge, he hus Ihe former’s basic faith sick. And besides, I think there's Clyde Walker, Paul Angstead, M. B. the city park. » Joe Lewis returned Wednesday In cooperation, and the latter's Merriman, Aurele Meunier, Wm YORK— Soft lights. Faint a girl out w>est............ Since 1901 this litlle city of 1700 N’EH breadth of view, with something on from Hie coast where he has been H ittle, Wm Ferguson, H. D. Force, of perfume. Dying persons has spent «2,500 for a four fragrance busy shipping cement. The Beaver his own added. George " Hammersly, Mrs. Joe Lewis and a half acre lake, four and a half Joe Cook, the comedian and star ! T X strains of the overture. The migh All of C. I). Denham's life has gone Portland Company shipped a car of the current Broadway hit, “Fine Hankey. feet deep; «225 for a childrens wad ty curtain parts, and a vast, excited Into Ihe livestock farming that he of cement lo Coquille from which pool; for an an electric electric murmuring melts into a trance of and Dandy, has a piano at his Lake ooinl M r I - w l . i i* . . . . ing P °o,; «1,900 »or represents on the local hoard, since Orford lie r r m i r i " u ° ^oun,I,*n w i,h three basin» of stone hushed expectancy. New York so Hopatcong, N. J., home on which he MRS. FRANK CHILDERS he saw the light on a 200-acre farm ciety, attired in u billion dollars makes his guest burn his signature. In Bollinger county. Mo., where he HOSTESS TO HEALTH CLUB _____ 'o r a women’s rest house, and the worth of tine feathers and magnif The piano has 948 names on it. A has always livetl. He helped or .. .. ... I *«»’»<’ for one for men; «950 for a icent jewels, sits around the glitter few of them are Ring Lardner, G il ganise in 1921 the National Live Mrs, Hattie Beeman Is visiting in circular bandstand; «400 for play- ing horseshoe for the opening of bert Seldes, Robert Benchley, Alex The Gold H ill unit of the Jackson stock Producers association, and of "s city as the guest of her daugh- , ground equipment; «125 for three Metropolitan opera. ander Woollcott, Babe Ruth, County health club held a meeting which he was president when he er. Mrs. W. Marlin and family, drinking fountains; «150 for three Meanwhile, u dozen blocks away, Charles McArthur and Hudson at the palatial rural home of Mrs. came to the board; since this agency Mrs. Herman lias been in Sun Fran-1 stone dining tables; «100 for two nine hundred men— many of them Maxim. hrank Childers, Wednesday, after is one of Ihe main agencies organ cisco at Ihe home of her son and is stone runges; «125 for mounting a well dressed— wait in line thru a noon, west of the city, at which ised under the board, no other one now enroute lo her home in Port glacial slone of granite hauled in drizzling rain to he handed tickets. For the foregoing information I time Ihe guests engaged in making member is so completely allied with land. from nearby; and varying amounts Not tickets lo the opera, no. Tick *nn indebted to Miss Florence infant clothes for use by the health the industry he represents. An in for a dancing platform, athletic and ets to entitle them to one free meal. Marks, of the Columbia Broadcast association in their work in this dividual farmer all his life. Den Mrs. Frank Childers, Mrs. C a rrie ' camping grounds, benches, and The Salvation Army opens soup ing System, over which Joe went county. The afternoon was ham typifies the farmer more than Puhi, John Hayes, Mrs. Bena Davis, walks. The average annual main kitchens to relieve the unemployed. on the a ir Ihe other night. From closed by the serving of tea, Mes arty other man on the hoard. Not Mrs. Virginia Marlin, Bud Snyder, tenance cost is only «1,509 a year. And 18,000 heads of families in the same source it is learned that dames Paul Thompson and Geo. a good speaker in public, he is yet Ernest Kell, Mrs. Inn Milspaugh and Over a period of 25 or 30 years Greater New York walk the streets, Cook has on his estate a golf Meisinger. presiding. Those attend convincing, and his fundamentally daughter Janice and Zeldn Smith such expenditures impose no great wondering how the little brood w ill course w ith one hole so construct ing were Mrs. King, county health farmer viewpoint plays a big part were among the Medford visitors, strain on such communities and in ent tomorrow. ed that Ihe player cannot fail to nurse, Mesdames Paul Angstead, M. in the board's formation of policy. Saturday, New York...................... many indirect ways the resulting B. Merriman. Arthur Mullins, Aur make a "hole in one.” H i is another six-foot specimen of • • • park returns direct financial bene ele Meunier, Paul Thompson. Ken • • • the 200-poundcr. neth Kinney, Madison Lively, Joe Among Ihp Medford shoppers, fit which w ill perhaps equal the Heart-rending scenes occur every The fruit member of the board is \ \ Inch ought to go in history as expenditures. da> in business offices as large the greatest invention since the Blair, C. J. Shorb, Green, O. C. C.C. Teague, of California, n short, Tuesday from this city were, lifrs. Even more striking in some ways blocks of workers are discharged. Palmer, Frank Childers and Mis« cork s p r«»w but heavily built man who was born W aller Boss, Mr.s Erank Carter. is Fairy Dell Highway Park in Sauk Nellie Jacobs. Mrs. Chas. Carter, Woodrow Shnv- in .Maine, grew up mostly in Kan county, Wisconsin, where only «200 sas, and has spent Ihe rest of his ■r. Mrs. Paul Angstead. Mrs. Arthur of actual money was spent in open life in the state from which he was Mullin. I.insley Dorman, Mr. and ing the park, amt a negligible sum Mrs. Jack Frost, Jake Cook and appointed. President of Ihe Cali for maintenance is contributed eve- Mrs. H arry Ellsworth. fornia Orchard Co., Fruit Growers ery year by the county. A persist Supply Co., Fruit Growers E x ent highway patrolman who organ change, The American Institute of ized working bees and aroused the Cooperation, and other organiza interest of Hie neighborhood, re tions, he differs radically from Mr. sulted in Ihe creation of a beautiful Denhmn in that he represents es n itvral park there. The work in sentially a business viewpoint on voivu» clearing of underbrush, eon the bonrd, despite his early farm sti neliön of a dam, bridge pavilion training. He is a man who has put lepees, paths, and piping of n lin a miniature "equalisation fee” pro fto,n a spring. It has druwn visi gram in operation in Ihe California tors from all over the I'n i'ed Stales grape industry. Very brisk, he is and fitm foreign countries. personally more reticent than the The Armada, Michigan, commun other members. ity fair furnishes another instance. The Northwest’s contribution to The plant at Armada is valued at the hoard, William F. Schilling, re 816.000 and draws about 10.000 per sponsible for the dairy industry, sons win n Ihe iair is on, although aoxK« do ■vtn.y- places the emphasis again on the Armada contains only 700 souls. T M IN fl O N T I M S ano fnrmer viewpoint. He is proud of Ih e Armada Agricultural Society IO m i O N L ? S U V C A R » his Holsteins, nt Northfield, Minn., bought the grounds in 1878 and has W A X ? Os-W-V VruA-x and says they are the second oldest P o rtu X ^ ’ 7 th ± , M t en' ire,y des,royed by flre conducted more than 50 of these herd in the state, An editor for a W ASH IN G TO N Beautification of Rural Sites An Asset to any Community Would Have City Take Over Cemetery Site & U N tS T CAMP JQ annual fairs. Membership fees In make the proposed night to the U n h id S t E / The bui,der» of «»»P »»Y that it w ill be rebuilt tq
