WORLD NEWS
and Comment
—Rew« gleaned from eventi of
Ihr week, and a little cuuiuiral
(rum the editor's viewpoint.
NUMBER 16
GOLD HILL. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 25, 1935
VOLUME XXXV1I1
Ball Team Lose« to
Crescent City, 8 to 1
In a game played at the eoaat
city Sunday afternoon, bold Hill
lost Io Cr“«ecnt City by a score
of 8 to I. The Icculs hud previously
beaten'the boys from the coast on
the local diumond.
Sundny the Coasters were on a
idtling spree and poled out ibree
homeruns (luring the game, bold
Hill's lone tally ulso came via l ie
homerun route when Clyde K-ll
belted one over the fielders’ heads.
Skinny Wilson pitched for (.old
Hill.
Those two famous Humbling re
sort» of northern Mexico, Agua
Caliente mid Tijuana, were closed
thia week by u ruling by the presi
dent of Mexico. The famous cen
ter«, supported mainly by Ameri
can film people und rich thrill
seekers, were the lust plucea in
Mexico in which open gambling Funeral of Floyd Bower«
bad been ullowt-d. The Aguu Cal
Held at Pasadena, Calif.
iente resort, which hud been in
existence for th e past seven yeurs,
Funeral services were conducted
had been creeled at u cost o f from
in I’usudena, California, last week
«6.18)0.000 to «IU.IHgl.tMIO.
for Floyd P. Ilowers, a resident ol
the Fools Creek district for the
Just whut the power rates will last year und one-half, who was
be on electricity sold from Bonne killed in un automobile accident,
ville <’.un has not been determined,
July 11. He was on his way to Pas-
news dispatches state, but an I'n- udenu to visit his sister, Mrs. J. B.
derstunding was reached in Wash «raster, when his car collided with
ington this week that the war de a truck near Bakersfield. He was
partment shall complete work on
laid Io rest in the Mountain View
the dam and make the contracts for Mausoleum in Pasadena.
power, und the power commission
Mr. Bowers is survived here by
is to fix rates on a basis thnt will his wife, the former Beth Boom-
pay for the construction of the dam sluiter. his bride of a little more
within 50 years.
than a year.
Prize Money
for State Fair
Totals $25000
Annual Show Open« in Sal*
em August 31 for W eek’«
Run; Premium Book« Are
Unuaual Rai „ Strike
Here to End Heat W ave
buy Desirnini left Friday night
for Portland where he is visiting
relatives,
Mr. and Mrs. George Ming and
sons were business visitors in Med
ford Saturday,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Sower and daugh
ter of Medford were guests Sunilay
at Ihe borne of Mr. and Mrs. Clin
ton Walker.
Another week of unusual weather
for southern Oregon in mid-July
has just passed, with heavy rain
fall and thunder storms striking
this secticn Sunday and Thursday.
It has been many years, old-timers
say, since such heavy rainfall vis
ited the valley in July, although
many can remember when sum
mers were not marked by the long
dry spells of Ihe past years.
The moisture was welcomed by
everyone, as it broke the severe
heat of last week, and brought re
viving moisture to lawns, garden*
and fields, although many said they
would just as soon take it “without
the thunder and lightning.”
—And to this weather story, we
might add that several natives dis
agree with our item of last week
which claimed that this hot spell
was ihe hottest experienced he-c.
The mercury has climbed to 110 de
grees, some claim, bid agree that
the humidity this year made the
l o w e r temperatures experience»)
more uncomfortable than is usual
At the present lime Ihe weather
man is back on his good behavior
and Southern Oregonians are e.*
loving Ihe tvpe of weather Cali
fornia advertises—but seldom has.
Robbers Blow
Dial Off Safe
At S. P. Depot
Also
Enter
Ham Grocery
and Hardware Store Sun
day N ight; Same Place»
Robbed Two Month« Ago.
The raw grind at Hie cement
plant started operations again Mon
day. it became necessary to shut
Burglars again visited Gold Hill
> Premiums amounting to more down for repairs recently.
Sunday ¿light or early Monday
than «25,000 are offered by the
Miss Patricia Thompson, small
morning for the second time with
Oregon Slate Fair Ibis year, Direc daughter of Hay Thompson of Saw
in two months and the very same
places entered on May 26 were
tor Solon T. While announced at yers Bar I» spending several weeks
here with relatives and friends.
again broken into. They were
ialem Ibis week.
the Ham Grocery. Gold Hill Hard
Premium lists for the fair, to be
Mrs. It. C. Kelsey returned to her
ware and Southern Pacific depot.
held at Salem, August 31-Seplem- home in Portland Sunday after en
At the railroad station tbe rob
her 7, were in the mull this week joying a three weeks' visit with
bers tried to blow the safe with a
for exhibitors.
relatives and old friends here and
charge of nitro-glycerine but the
In addition to that amount «100 on Sardine creek.
attempt failed when only the dial
will be paid to tbe person in charge
of the box flew off, the safe re
Mrs. A. W. Small and Mrs. Fran
if each county which exhibits. En
maining closed. A pile of clothing
tries for the county displays must cis Duetch of Paris, California, left
and blankets, used to muffle the
Thursday enroute home after a
be made by August 15.
blast, were blown to bits when the
There will also be t-H club pleasant visit with their daughter,
charge was set off.
premiums and Future Farmers ol Mrs. S. W. Parks and family.
Local Girl Scouts
Entrance to the depot was made
America awards, as well as special
Mr. und Mrs. Phillip Conway re
to Summer Camp by forcing the warehouse door.
premium money and prizes.
turned to their home in Los An
Wiley Post, that intrepid aviator,
Another door between the ware
The premium list contains ail geles last week after visiting friends
who has made round-the-world and Gold Hill and Live
Fourteen girt scouts, members of house and office was smashed open.
general information relative to ex •nd relatives in and near town.
non-stop flight records, is now
Oak Grange« to Hold
hibit« at tha fair, pictures of Gov Mrs. Conway will be remembered ihe Gold Hill scout troop, are this Two boxes of express were broken
planning a new triumph. This lime
contents strewn
week enjoying an outing at the into and the
ernor Charles H. Martin and Di
Joint
Picnic
Aug.
4
as Miss Marie Biles.
he proposes to fly over the polar
summer camp ai Bybee bridge. about the room. Nine cents was the
rector While, a message from Gov-
region between the United States
Mrs. Buhy Mayfield spent Ihe They have as their companions, ten amount of the loot secured.
Pluns are being completed for a ernor Martin, a list of members of
and Itussia. Soviet flyers also pro joint picnic between members of the State Board of Agriculture and ^asl week with her «do, Haymond, girls from Central Point.
The section tool house was also
pose a non-slop flight over the the bold Hill grunge und Live Oak a list of life members of tbe Ore and wife on Evans Creek. Sunday
The camp conforms to the scout broken into, where tools were tak
north (Nile to Oakland. California. grunge of Bogue River, to be held gon State Fair.
they motored to Cascade Gorge for summer camps, and a fine program en, thought to have been used in
a visit with Margery who is em of sports and other instruction is the burglaries.
There
are
14
separate
depart
in the Grants Puss park, Sunday,
A quantity of liquor and other
A tail-less monoplane built to sell Augusl 4. A picnic lunch will be ments, Including 186 classes for ployed there.
given.
Mrs. Marjorie Pena, local scout , merchandise was taken from Ham’s
for around *121X1 Is Ix-ing demon the big attraction und a large num exhibitors. The names of Ihe de
Miss Virginia Grimes of Medford leader, is in charge of the Gold grocery. Also a little small change.
strated in l.o s Angeles by Waldo D. ber of grangers are expected Io partment heads are expected Io be
spent
fhe past week visiting Miss Hill girls, and also supervises the In the robbery in May about the
Watermun. The machine will make allend.
announced about August 1. accord
Charlotte Walker at her home general camp routine. She is as same items were stolen, indicating
a speed of III) miles an hour und
ing to Leo Spitzbart, assistant di
across the river. Virginia formerly- sisted by Miss Mabie Moore and the job might have been pulled by
13*4 miles to a gallon of gasoline,
rector of the fair.
lived here when her father operat Mrs. Willis of Medford, and Mrs. , the same outfit.
Canadian Juvenile Band
it is claimed.
By departments the amount of
ed a barber shop. Her parents are Skyrnian, who is head of tbe Cen f At the hardware store a shotgun
to Give Free Concert*
premium money offered this year
building a new home in Medford.
tral Point troop. The girls receive and ammunition and a flashlight
at Grant« Pa«« Park is: A. horses, «2540; B and C, beef
nature
study instruction, swimming were missing.
! and dairy cattle, respectively, «10.-
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lance of
M. D. Bowers, who rooms at the
The Vancouver, B. C., juvenile 603; I), sheep and goats, «4491; E. Wolf Creek spent the week end classes are held, camp cooking and
other
courses
incidental
to
camping
hotel
across from the depot, said
i
swine.
«3121;
F.
poullrv.
pigeons,
here.
They
moved
their
household
band, composed of 53 boys and
gills ranging in age from 10 to 17 rabbits and pel stock will be about goods to town and put some of it out are learned, as well as other he heard a blast about two o’clock
Sunday morning but thought it to
There is noticeable ai the pres yeurs, will give free concerts ul the the same as last year when it in storage as they are still camp scout work.
The girls were taken to their thunder, as it was raining that
ent time, a keen interest in biog Grants Puss vity park, Saturday amounted Io a total offered of «2.- ing at Wolf Creek. They expect to
raphy. In Uie confusion of the evening and Sunday afternoon, July 267.50; G. dairy and .poultry prod move into their house there soon, camp Monday by Mrs. Millie Walk night.
State police and county officials
tiiiies, people seek u meaning in 27 und 28, according to announce ucts. «498; H. honey and bees. «195; which is being remodeled. They re er. Mrs. Hose Gay, Jim Chisholm
the ideas and life of others, hope ment received here this week.
I, land products show. «526.25, cently sold their home across the and Joe Lewis, and will return are working on the ease.
An Espee detective is also inves
for some gain in practical wisdom,
river Io Mr. Stearns of Minnesota. | Thursday evening.
The baud is on Ils way Io llie San
(Buck Page Please)
tigating the robbery.
but learn In the end that experi Diego fair.
ence is noi Io be purchased—Ibid
This unique orgunixatlton, which
It must be lived. Nevertheless, the is only two years old, has received
‘W eedy’ Friend« M eeting
SE E AMERICA?
lives of others have a significance: much recognition in band circles.
of Garden Club Povided
they may give us strength Io en Its members, in their natty uni
Much Entertainment
dure our own despairs und strug forms, present a snappy appearance
gles.
which lends much interest to their
Many surprises came to members
Bruno Frank's book "A Man concert's- and b e s i d e s they are
of the Garden club when they
Called Cervantes” is both history rent musicians.
learned the identity of the “weedy”
und poetry. It portrays the back
II Is expected thnt many people
friends who had been sending them
ground of the 16th century with from this section will plan Io be In
gifts the last six months, and con
truth anil wide knowledge and pre Grants Pass during their Visit to
siderable entertainment was pro
sents everything about Cervantes' hear them play.
vided by this feature of the meeting
life Hint is actually known. If ever
at the home of Mrs. R. E. Blanken-
a work could be culled the ideal
burg last Friday afternoon.
biography of a greal man and poel. Gold Dredge in
Fourteen ladies were present, in
Operation in River
it Is this one. His whole life was
cluding three visitors, who became
■ novel, more adventurous than
Near Rogue River
members before the meeting closed.
(hat of Ihe most historically famous
They were Mrs. J. D. Hedgepeth,
adventurer. Mr. Frank gives us a
The drag-line gold dredge re
Mrs. Ellis Matthews, and Miss Helen
vivid presentation of military ex cently set up on the bunks of the
Dorman.
peditions. the oppression of na Bogue a mile ubove the town of
Because of the interest taken in
tions, plundering, religious fana Bogue Biver is now in operation
the “weedy” friends exchange, it
ticism, Ihe insanity of Ihe Inquisi with three shifts employed. Twelve
was again voted to continue it, and
tion seeking lo establish the purity men are at work. The dredge is
names of those present were drawn.
of the blood of people In whose operated by the Hogue River Dred
Members not present, but who wish
veins ran Ihe blood of Iverians, gers, Inc. J. D. Vance is president
to be included should make a spec
Basques. Kelts. Phenieinns. Ho of the company.
ial effort to attending the August 3
mans, Vandals, Jews, Arabs, Ber
meeting which will be at the home
Standard Oil company is rather
bers and Goths.
of Mrs. Evelyn Thompson. The ex
proud of their record in regard to
change will be handled differently
labor strikes and want to boast
Ihe rest of the year, the last meeting
about
it
a
little
to
the
public.
SmiKri Charlie
in August, October and December
They point out that in their his
being set as exchange meetings.
tory there are only two minor
Mrs. R. E. Blankenburg received
strikes and these long past. They
the prize fop the most perfect at
believe that fair dealing, fa|r wages
tendance since the first of the year.
and an rigid hour day have been
Several matters pertaining to
behind their good record. They
the fair were discussed during tha
now allow all their common labor
business session, and light refresh
two weeks pay on vacation each
ments were served.
year. They have kept the eight hour
day since 1917. There is no doubt
that labor responds to a- fair and
City Reservoir to Be
square deal. Standard Oil has had
Cleaned Sunday Morning
a lot of difficulty with seamen and
dock workers who handle their oil
The city reservoir will be clean
hut are not in their employ. They
ed
early Sunday morning and resi
anticipate more it would seem and
dents
are urged to draw enough
are
trying
Io
place
before
the
pub
T K fellow w h osU W
water to supply their needs for a
lic Iheir justification of their fu
(inneelf up in l i f e /
ture relations with these men.
few hours that morning. A crew
Their own record compels us Io
by bi» own boot straw»
under the supervision of Marshal
admit that they seem Io meet fairly
Davis w ill handle the Job which
is p r e t t y au re t ’
with their own help and on that
will take about two or three hour«
know about w h e r e 1
basis are entitled to be considered
and the water w ill be shut off dur
fair In their dealing» with these
ing that time.
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outsiders.
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