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( êmîï Th® Moat Thoroughly Read W eekly in Southern Oregon, Published in the Biggest L ittle Town in the State \ <"»l.I’MK XXXVII * WORLD NEWS GOLD HILL. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1934 Odd Fellows Install New Officers Friday Evening Brush Fire Near City Threatens Homes Tuesday r<= Ancient History NUMBER 14 Run r.oe.,1, Premium List for State Fair Is Announced Al the joint installation held Even automobiles seem Io resort Friday llighl. Ihe following officers F R O M O U R F IL E S Io Hie old-fashioned ideas of a few were installed by Hold llill lidg • 25 Years Ago years ago. Now that Ihe horse and No. 12V: —Nrw» girimeli from event* of buggy days are over Hie inodes of Fred ,M. ('.ornult, Noble Grand Ihr week, uml u little commetti transportation are still somewhat Win. Aulciirii h, Vice Grand. From the Gold llill News from (he editor's viewpoint. risky. Toney Boss, Secretary. of July 2, 1909. Monday afternoon while Mrs. W. H. Ferguson, Treasurer. Bose Gay of Kota I is Bunch in lliv - Eire of undetermined origin I It. K. Cook, Wurden la a raid on some fishermen at erside colony was visiting Mrs. swept Hie Western Bed Cedar mills i F. G. I.ance, conductor. Itoseburg last week, eleven nets in Vancouver, Washington, Tuesday ! T. A. Henderson, Inside guard. Entire M ountain North of Stretched under the dam at that Nellie Smith of Ibis city, she park About $50,000 in Prizes ed her car on Ihe side hill directly and caused a damage of $250,000. 1 Geo. Ila ff, outside gourd. Tow n Burned Over but place and two men and two boats in front of Ihe Smith residence. A ft No insurance was held, 11 was Im- | Paul Thompson, II. S. N. G. to Be Awarded Exhibitors were raptured. Just as good or a er spending a short time visiting lleved. Firemen ball led the fire for Ernest Lyman, I.. S. N. G. Now Under Control; Fire belter haul might have beeu made she returned to wtiere her sedan at Annual Event; Dates several hours and succeeded in T. J. West, It. S. S. al Grants Pass but the Josephine had been parked, and just in time keeping oilier lumber from burning. on W ards Creek Friday T. A. Iloolon, I.. S. S. are Sept. 3 to 9. county fishermen seem to be im 10 see il meandering down towards Frunk Carter, chaplain. mune. In the meantime no fisii are town. Thursday, July 12, bus been set Monday evening Ihe Odd Fellows cowing up Bogue Biver, nor can The brakes apparently did not Premium lists announcing the for Ihe deadline for Hie general Installation team went Io f'.enlrrl A brush fire D ia l burned off the they do so. set and Hie slant of Hie hill caused 73rd annual Oregon State fa ir were strike In Portland. If conditions Point and Installed officers of entire llill north of town, caused Ihe machine Io run backwards, turn received here this week with the asked by the unions are not com Lodge No. 193 uml Mount Pitt Ite- consideFable worry Io Gold H ill Mesdames Hodges. Mee and Kel around in Hie road und run into the dales listed as September 3 to 3. plied w ith a strike of nil unions in liekah lodge No. 167. residents Tuesday and Wednesday sey w ill entertain with an informal fence enclosing Hie city hall and Opening day is again Labor Day Ihe city w ill start. There are ap when the blaze crept within a short tea at the home of the latter Tues break off four fence i»osts. This and thousands are expected to jam proximately 25,000 persons on Ihe day afternoon from 3 io 5. The gave the ear another turn and start Ihe gates as they did last year. ilifferenl unions in Ihe city. ! distance of houses and other build customary silver offering w ill be ed it toward Coy's collage where With a blue ribbon as cover de in g s in Iowa. expected as it is for Ihe benefit of 11 ran between two trees und struck sign, the 1934 slate premium list is Ten hoboes were killed in a Ih e fire originated in the neigh the Aid. the house. I'pon arriving at the an attractive little book. And more freight train wreck near Murfrees borhood of Ihe city pumping plant S. A, Boberslon of Wimer who fell scene Mrs. Gay discovered glass attractive are Ihe thousands of dol boro. Tennessee. Monday when the on Ihe Sams Valley road Tuesday Saturday and broke a bone in his around Ihe car where an upstairs lars of premiums listed on the 92 train derailed. An undetermined Tom Shaver was a Gold H ill vis morning. After jumping the road it teg while trying Io gel sway from window in the Coy property had pages within its covers. According number of others were injured. itor Tuesday night. ■ sturled up tile hill taking ail brush * saw which became pinched in Ihe been broken out from Ihe impart io Max Gehlhar, director, purses and Twenty railroad cars overturned. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Helms were |and other vegetation in its path. By limbers was treated in the Gold H ill and showered glass over the car. premiums w ill total about $50,000. mid-afternoon the fire readied the hospital Sunday and the fractures Aside from a badly damaged fender, Meilford visitors Wednesday. This year's premium list, of Tile three balloonists at Bapid lop of Ihe lull and started down to reduced by Dr. Kelsey. Mrs. Bi<lnird Gray and a few scratches on Ihe visor and a which 5,000 were mailed out, con City, South Dakota, are wultiug for ward Hie city. Tile wind however, The light over whether cattle w ill Charles, spent half bucket of green paint spilled tains the largest number of classifi favornble weather Io take off into was in Ihe city's favor and held Ihe be permitted Io ronm the streets on Ihe inside of the sedan it was parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kell. cations and individual premiums apace in t ill effort Io set a new flames front spreading fast. cf Gold H ill at w ill, or not is still not damaged as badly as was ex Mrs. Eli Fieni- of Sardine creek ever. All premiums are practically- record for Ihe highest altitude ever By sundown the entire mountain, Pje main topic of interest at thi pected. doubled over last year and many are reached by man. Tl.e stratosphere , Mr»- w i »‘ front n point east of Ihe ceinenl tegular city council meetings. Con nearly at the 1931 level— the last crew hus been selling up ils equip Wednesdny. plant Io Ihe beacon, was ablaze, siderable discussion is expected at year that the state appropriated Local “N ew lyw ed*” Get Ardili) Combest called on Mr. an-l huge clouds of smoke rolling into ment for several moni Its. the meeting next Monday but it Is Mrs. Hugh Combes! Monday al the Ihe heavens. The city’s fire equip Rousing Charivari Friday money for the fair. The cattle divis doubled if Ihe City Hails w ill take ion is especially high. ment was concentrated al various rny very serious action. Biots in vnrious purls of Ihe con Wagner Gap Banger slulion. Highlight in the dairy products What some say was the largest Mr. ami Mrs. Leon Wise were 1 points from Ihe schoolhouse east ,m tinent continued Io keep govern charivari in years occurred Friday division this year is a new class— mental officials in hot wuler. In Sunday visitors al Ihe home of Mis. that street waiting for Ihe fire to From the Gold Hill News evening when sixteen car loads of m ilk and cream. For a dairy-minded Paris Sunday thousands of police Pearl Dunford on L illie Applegate, i come dow n he hill. of July 9. 1909 Gold Hillites gathered at the Mer state like Oregon this is expected to Clarence llcilgp-.th was down Se veral truckloads of CCC boys managed Io forestall Ihe expected prove outstanding. from Crater Lake Sunday to visit Ins were sent out from Meilford to aid “bloody Sunday" when they kent Quite a number of Gold H ill rill Davis home, near Ihe cement For the soap carver, miniature plant, and forced Mr. and Mrs. Mer 2U.IHH) nationalistic Croix-De-Fe parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. I). lieilg in cheeking Hie blaze. Local people people attended Ihe celebration of boat builder and follower of a hob joined Ihe figiil which held ihe Ihe Fourth al Meilford, and burring ritt Davis to accompany Ihe crowd. veterans and 30,000 n oisy leftists They 'then learned of the mar by, the “hobby fa ir”, under the Art from clashing. Al Hie same lime I nmcis Davis spent Ihe past flumes from spreading Io residences. tin- rain, report having had a good iepartment, should be most wel- riage the day before of Mr. and Mrs communisls were rioting in AiiMler- • I'.-:, hi Ci un.s la v . as guest of I lull evening Hie fire died down lime. -ome. A junior and senior division I.eoq Wise so they w-ent lo the bill a number of CCC men putrolcd dam. Holland, in spile of efforts of Dorothy Smith, a former Gold H ill s listed. Also there are classes for the area covered uml others in poller to maintain order. Leroy Dunge.v left Sunday eve Aulo Park and routed Ihe couple rhnol sludenl. curio, antique and natural history out of bed and insisted they go al lo w 'll kepi close watch. ning for Williams creek on a visit and Mrs. Neil Poly returned Again Wednesday afternoon the to his sisters, Mesdamcs John and so. But Ihe two couples had io con gatherers. While Presidi-ut Hoosvelt il un Io their home in H ill, California, As usual a liberal allowance has his vaealion lo Hawaii, Mrs Hie latter part of Ihe week after fire flared up and came still farther Boy Cameron. The fish in Hogue sent lo trade husbands which prov been made for the Future Farmers ed a considerable amount of amuse down Hie hill, coining within a few Hoosvelt is lakiug in thè W prld’s spending Hie Fourth with home Biver in Ihe vicinity of Gold H ill of America. A butterfat cost contest feel of Ihe W. E. Boss and J. W. held a meeting of congratulation ment. F air in Chicago, unii visiling olher folks. for F. F. A.’s w ill yield $457.50 in After parading around town and H Bryan homes. The fire also circled piare« of Inleresl. Sili- w ill Joi.l on hearing of the departure of Ihe Zelila Mae Smith, who is premiums as w ell as $110 premiums l’-1 1 1 1 1 ii,,. hmiif occupied by Mrs. (1. Sny ill Ihe side roads on a swift and boss fisherman. thè presidenl in Portland on his re in Sacred Hear! hospital, is recov- bumpy ride Hie couples were re for egg feed cost contest. der but buildings of Ihe place were turn io ibis r o l l i l i r y . t ring satisfai torily from her receni All in all, the 1934 state fa ir saved. Fulling embers unit hoi ashes The more or less notorious “Cow turned to Ihe camp ground where major operai ion. She is to lx- re everyone was treated lo a large keg premium list has kept abreast of caused anxiety to others close by. Ordinance** was passed at Ihe Iasi Drunken driving In Ihe L'nih-d turned Io her home here Friday. the better times. It offers greate? As Ihe News went to press there city council meeting with ail of beer, cigars and candy furnish Slates was 3011 per cent greater the purses and premiums to exhibitors. Marjorie ami Arlene Cameron re I were no signs of the fire breaking ed bv the “newlyweds". counrilinen voting in favor of the first half of this year than in a like lumed Io Ashland Tuesday iiighl period Inst year. The increase coin-1 w ,ler, they w ill make their home out again, although small patches proposal. It was brought up for State Policemen Hold cldcs w iih the repeal of national w illi their sister and fam ily, Mr. of smoke could be noted where final consideration after a great deal Gold H ill Ball Club slumps of trees were still smolder-1 of oratory. It w ill be up io Ihe prop- Truck Checkup Here Drops Game to G. Pass prohibition, according to Ihe Chica and Mrs. (His Johnson and son. ,n8- ■ erly owners along Main street to go Tribune. Mrs. Bose Hillings returned heru Many wild rumors were started see that the grass is removed from State police officers Johnson, After beating Ihe Grants Pass Salurduy nigtit from Sun Francisco by Hie fire and spread nearly ns ' along Ihe walks, as Ihe cows w ill Stars n week ago Sunday, Ihe Gold Bishop and Folsom spent Tuesday in Blood was spilled for Ihe first w|u.r,. sb(. b;ls #pen, „,,, Ja#| s e w r. rapiil as the blaze itself. One no longer be allowed their aceus- H ill Cemcntuiakers lost to the same Gold H ill where they stopped all time during Ihe two months strike Afler fru i, blirvesl sbe rumor said Ihiil (wo houses und n I onici I avocation. outfit Sunday afternoon by a score trucks on the highway in a general in Portland Wednesday when police i ,.xp(1,.(s , o g(, barn had burned which is false. of 16 lo 4. Both games were played check on licenses, loads and so fired about a dozen shots from a Mr. and Mrs. A. A. W alker und There was no property damage oth C o m b e a t-W is e W e d d in g on the Grants Pass gorunds but a forth. Each truck was weighed and shotgun into a crowd of pickets. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Hayes rrturned er than the brush und trees. Another third game to decide the best team licenses on the trucks and driver The pickets were preventing the Perform ed in Reno, July 5 w ill be played on the local diamond were checked for discrepancies. Friday afternoon after enjoying J rumor (hat was circulating had Ihe moving of a freight train onio a vacation at Ihe ocean near Crescent cily several thousand ilollurs i.i Roy A. D orf of Medford was ar at a later date. municipal terminal. Hospital allend- A wedding of complete surprise debt for dnmnges r.nd payment of City for several days Iasi week. The batteries: Gold H ill— Hara- rested for improper licenses during anls slated that none of the four Mr. and Mrs. Boy Moore of Che of salaries to Ihe CCC boys that to local folks occurred when Mrs. niersly, Bailey and Force; Grants the check. Another trucker who was would die. halis, Washington, who had spent a helped cheek the fire. A call from Celia Combest and Leon E. Wise iMss— Cook, Hammerick/ton and hauling togs to Grants Pass was held CCC headquarters slated that they motored lo Reno, Nevada, July 5 Keith. for a time. He was driving without week with friends and relatives One big code for 450 sinull Indu >- Sunday July 15, the local team a Public U tility Commission tag but here, returned Io their home Iasi knew of no case where municipal! and were united in marringe. tries is expected Io result from a Mr. Wise is a former resident ef travels to Jacksonville for a game showed where he had made appii- lies were required to pay for work meeting of NBA officials in Wash- j Thursday. done by the 3 C’s. The boys are .Sacramento, California, and is em w ith the Miners and a week from cation for same in Salem and was Paul Dalton of Reno, Nevada, ami inglon Wednesday. The code w ill paid by the government and arc ployed with the Skeel-Grahnm min Sunday, July 22, Prospect come.' eleased. govern wages, hours and prohibit Bob Arant of Sucrnuunto, Cal used in any emergency. ing company in Bed Bluff, Cal here for a game. ifornia were cullers id the Gold ion of child labor but w ill mil regu Fire on Waid« Creek ifornia. Mrs. Wise is owner of the 4RS. HARRY NEWNHAM H ill Aulo park Monday. They are late price fixing. Last Friday afternoon a fire broke local auto camp and is well known MRS. CURTIS PARKER HONORED AT SHOWER moving Mr. Ski-els' mining equip out in Ihe Wards creek district near here. She has been employed for A shower complimenting Mrs. HONORED AT SHOW KF Tw o Oakland. California, women ment to another mine near Loomis, Hogue Biver and swept more than the past several months in Hie Harry Newnham was given at the California. were found murdered in their bed 600 acres lx-fore il was brought un Skeels-Grnham company also. The home of Mr. and Mrs.Curti.- home of Mrs. W ilm er Railed. Wed Iloii Adams met with a very der control. The fire was thought lo Wednesday, apparently victims of Mr. Wise left early this week lo Parker (nee Alatha Robbins) wai nesday afternoon. The afternoon n burglar who ransacked the house painful accident Saturday white have started from a carelessly tos resume his work w ith the mining Ihe scene of a very delightful sur was spent in talking w ith friends working on Hie new bins al Ihe sed cigarette. und then escaped. concern and w ill return here later prise miscellaneous shower Thurs and neighbors and the out of town cement (dant, when he ran a large The fire was confined to the un to assist in the work al the Gold day evening. Twenty-three ladies guests. sliver in his hand which neces settled region of Dead Horse can H ill Aulo Park. met nt the home of Mrs. Bud Forci After the dainty parcels were op sitated calling a doctor to cut the yon of Evans Valley anil little dam and then left in a group for the ened delightful refreshments were livcr out. age to runcliers resulted. Much val- Vaughn Quakenbush returned to Parker home where they were me’ served to about thirty guests. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dorman and »able timber burned however, bis home here from Los. Angeles nt Hie dixir by the surprised couple Those present for the affair were daughter, Helen and W ill Dorman \ crew of (ill CCC men and a Wednesday where lie spent Ihe last The affair had been successfully Mrs. John Edington, Mrs. Olney Ed- | of Seattle relum ed here Sunday number from Ihe transient camp al several days on business. planned by Mrs. Geo. Haff. ington, Mrs. Hugh Hayes, Mrs. Fred H o m Willells, California, where Ihe ralenl were sent out to fight Ihe After the ninny useful gifts were Baker, Mrs. F. W . Stone. Mrs. Logan Dormans held a family reunion. fire which was brought under con and opened light refreshments were Gardner, Mrs. I.ance Wagner, Mrs. Mrs. George Meisinger They have been spending the past trol Saturday. daughter, Patricia, of Salem were served by Viola Moore, Dorn Hain- Cecil Johnson, Mrs. Frank Carter, ' week Hiere visiting with relatives. over night guests of Mr. and Mrs. mersly and Edna Gorham. Mrs, Chas. Carter, Mrs. I.ucy Mee, Mr. and Mrs. Martin of Los An- Mrs. I.ance Wagner (nee Rulh Earl Moore Inst week. They were Those gathering were Mesdames Mrs. Bud Force, Mrs. Vettie Biles, kelps, California, slopped ill the J. 1). Green, former high school student) on their return trip north after vis- W ilm er Bailey, -Joe Blair, Jnmes Mrs. Bedford Biles, Mrs. Win. Fer lleilgl lelh home this week on their I-»mi hnby daughter arrived Tues- ting for several days with Mr. Bryan, B. E. Blnnkenburg, Lilly guson, Mrs. Dale Norton, Mrs E nii way nmlh. The Martins are interest- day from Etna, California, for a Meisinger who is superintendent of (airier, Eber Davis, H. F. Drake, Moore, Mrs. Norman Bailey, Mrs. ed in locating in southern Oregon brief visit with Mr. and Mrs. Logan I instruction in several of the CCC Wm. Ferguson, Cleo Gilchrist, Chas Fritz Snyder, Mrs. Asil W alker, Mrs. and have slopped here at different Gardner. ramps of the Medford district. M rs .' Gray, Dick Gray, Art Gorham, Geo. i Nellie Smith, Mrs. Nina Dusenberry, limes for Hie last several years. j ----------------------------- Meisinger also hnd as her guests Haff, Geo. Hammersly, Wm. H ittle, Mrs. Ed Fiene, Mrs. A. A. W alker, For Photographs of any kind, Friends w ill be glad to learn on the trip, four of her pupils of a Cecil Johnson, Wm. Kinney, Chas. Mrs. Vaughn Quakenbush, Mrs. finishing, enlarging, coloring; also that Mrs. Frank Rodgers returned class of fifty from her conservatory Kell, Aurele Meunier, Earl Moore, Jewel Blount, Mrs. Oscar Helms, I henislitcliing, stamped goods, cm- to her home here the Fourth of of music in Salem, who entertained Paul Thompson, Miss Netty Stone Mrs. Jack Frost, Mrs. Geo. Smith’ broideries, crochet and cut work July after spending the past six with Several selections nt Ihe joint and the honoree Mrs. Curtis Park- Mrs. Wm. W right, Mrs. Marvin Em- ninrie to order, try Theo's Photo years in a California sanitarium, installation of the Odd Fellow and er. ery, Eugenn Quakenbush, Mabel and Embroidery Studio, 712 S. 6th Mrs. Rodgers has completely re- Rebekah lodges Friday night. The Upon wishing them many manv Dusenberry, Jeanne Hammersly, and Comment Smilin' Charlie Sqy. "Th‘world doesn’t pass a man by be cause it w a n ts to - its because it ’has' to - - - 5 St., Grants Pass, Oregon. Give us a gained her health and Is happy t o , Metzingers are former residents of happy returns the guefls left at n Netty Stone and the honor guest, trial. adv be with her family again. Gold HUI. I late hour. Mrs. Harry Newnham.
