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\ <"»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
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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.
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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.