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fh e M °» t n e w m g iü y R ~ d W - hly in Southern O r ..« « , PuMuhed in the Biggest L ittle Tow n in the Stete ' ■ r ■ 1 *W T *" ' ■ VOLUME XXXVIII what F / t f W ’t hmk« .about: w r— w 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ .. _ ______ GOLD HILL. OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ¿8, 1935 NUMBER 34 GRANTS PASS PLANS PRE-CHRISTMAS Christmas Seals Go on MANY MINES IN FEATURES; WINDOW UNVEILING DEC. 3 Sale Friday, Nov. 29 SOUTHERN OREGON NOW OPERATING W ith manjt events planned for lected w ill be used as gifts for less Local workers in the Christmas visitors to Grants Pass during the Mrs. Eli« Patrick returned Mon Christmas season, elaborate prepa W ill R e fe r « ’ M e m o ria l. day from « two weeks visit with rations are being made in that city lo r a window unveiling next Tpe* A N T A M O N IC A .— Where I relative* and friend* in Portland, day evening. December 3, when til w riting thia, I can see hit Jackie Hendrickson, who ha* beautifully decorated windows ol home across the canyon. There’s been quite sick, is »lowly recover the many business firms w ill dis still sunlight on the top, hut the ing. He i* at Hie home of hi* aunt, close the most complete arruy of (olds in the friendly hills are turn« Mr*. Violet Eaton, in Medford. Christinas merchandise to he dis ing purple. played in years. Mr*. Mary Gilbert and Mrs. Pearl Many other pre-Christmas event* I he most typical humorist since Hurler, mother and sister of Mr*. Mark Twain, the must beloved com Carl Lents, came Sunday from H in are also being plunnetl under the moner «Inc« Abraham l.lncoln, the sponsorship of the Grants Pass ton, Oklahoma, for an extended m oat popular private eltlxen sine* Merchants' committee and the Ore visit. Benjamin Franklin, bla fame la an gon Cavemen, Inc. •▼«Hasting rock. Why, Although final details have not Mr*. Jesse Treshsm returned then, a monument of Monday from a visit in Portland. been worked out. present plans our fashioning to one Her mother, Mrs. Arthur Smith, re call for a Kiddle*’ Show Saturday, who wns a national turned home with her for an ex December 7, when the admission Institution whilst he w ill he a toy. The articles thus col- tended visit. lived, who became a S national tradition a l Mrs. Grace Roberts of Eugene most before the breath stopped at the home of Mrs. Roy left Ills b o d y ? Centers on Saturday for a visit on Nevertheless It Is her return trip from a visit in Cal fitting that on his ifornia. birthday this country A sports program that delighted should l a u n c h thia Mrs. It. McGarvie, of Souther.) one of the largest crowds of fans memorial. For to help Irvin 8 Cobb California, is here for a visit with lo attend a school athletic pro porjietnttte the bright Mrs. Toni glory o f H in t name la an obligation her parents, Mr. md gram here was staged Friday when we owe to ourselves—a testimony of Cook anti fam ily. She expects to re a smoker including a hockey gratitude for a man amongst us who main until after Christinas. game, a hull right, and wrestling poured out so freely the precious Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harris who and boxing mulches was presented. gifts »r sanity and gweeinens. gener osity mid gallantry, a philosophy lhal have hern living near Grants Pas* A fast hockey game opened the wns kindly, a wit thnt was salty but have moved hack lo their home on never was sour. You gave us no much, the hill near the Cameron place program w ith Joe B lair’s Canadians BUI. we're Juat figuring on paying a and are making extensive im showing the high school boys how little something hark on account. provements. ; real hockey is played, with a score High School Smoker Fri. Success from Every Angle fortunate children. This show w ill be Saturday morning, and Santa, himself w ill be at the theatre to re ceive the children's contributions. Saturday, December 14, an auto show is planned, and another spec ial feature w ill he arranged for the following Saturday. Santa w ill he on the streets of (■ranis Pass each Saturday before Christmas and the children of ail Southern Oregon are already plan ning lo come to Grants Pass to make his acquaintance. Special decorations of the streets and business houses for the Christ mas season are already being made to add the proper atmosphere to this gayest Christmas season in years. SAMS VALLEY NEWS John Wilson, who has been at tending school at Sacramento Jun ior college, is home to spend Thanksgiving w ith his parents, M r and Mrs. O. T. Wilson. Seal campaign, lo open here No W ith the coming of Ihe rains vember 29, are now in receipt of winter operations in many South their supply of the 1935 seals, ern Oregon mines are taking a de which they w ill offer for sale lo cided forward movement. Aban every man, woman and child, to doned soil is being worked and new raise funds for next year's drive fields are being opened for treas against the disease in this district ures of gold. and throughout the state. Pleasant creek in Jackson county, Letters containing the seals w ill above Wim er, has been tested by he mailed to local people, and seals Los Angeles interests for dredge w ill also be sent home by hie purposes, and to date has proved school children. The pupils w ill better than expected. A steam not sell their seals by bouse to shovel dredge on Jackson creek is house canvass. They are for their being put in operation by Southern own parents or others in their Oregon men. household who are not on the mail The Patricia mines at Waldo are ing list of the seat sale secretary. now operating with - crew of about Mrs. Cleo Gilchrist is in charge 54) men. The Esterly mine at T a k il of the campaign here, having hand ma ha* a crew of 58 and is being led the work last year, also. operated by one of the large gold Over 40,000 school children i n |w lp u la u u n corporations of New York, it is Oregon have been given ihe tu b e r-1 understood culin test in the last four year* un- Í In Josephine county the big '. h ' eulosis association and affiliated counly public health associations, w ith Christmas Seal dimes and dol lars helping pay the bills, accord ing to a report from the state office. Doctors, nurses, and lay workers contributed generously of their time and skill, thus stretch ing the money over this and many- other services. Christmas Seals have paid for thousands of visits by public health nurses into the homes of the sick, and into schools in Oregon during the past year. They have paid for scores of X-ray plates of children exposed to tuberculosis, the asso ciation reports. “ If everyone would put a Christ mas Seal on every letter and pack age mailed during December we could easily make our goal,” w o rk ers point out. g » m Mining company, is operating steady. Above the town of Rogue River Mitchell A Mitchell interests have been operating a dragline dredge. The Messer fam ily is selling their On the Lower Rogue river the household goods and equipment, old Channel mine, which has a 275- preparatory to moving to C alifor foot bank of gravel, is preparing nia, where Mr. Messer is employed. to operate this winter. This mine has been closed for many years, John Hoist has been quite ill but w ith the increased value of gol.l since his return from the National it is now possible to make a d iv i Grange convention at Sacramento. dend paying institution of this old channel. Expenditures there w ill of 4 to 1 favoring the Townies re Mrs. Lilley, secretary of the Signs e f N o rm a lc y . Little Donald Ernpey has been suiting. run w ell over $200,000. \ V T K MUST be headed for normal- D. A. V of Medford, and several of quite ill with an infected arm but is On Grave creek the Inmans have j A bullfight followed, with Buster ’ ’ ’ ey. I ’m back ou somebody's the members of that organization, recovering nicely at the present taken a lease on the old Columbia sucker list. As a charter member of culled on Mrs Clinton W alker Mon Mullin as toreador. Busier showed time. th« original mother lodge, I belong day in the interest of the associa- up fine in the arena and kept his mine. The Greenback Consolidated then». I'm a hoot) Ben Adhein who«» 1 lion. w ill operate and develop some of head in face of the dangerous bull Albert Straus left Sunday on name led all Hie rest. the early found veins. I — but the bull lost its head (lite ra l business trip to Portland. Dorothy Ann Harris had the mis ly ) and the figiit was very brief. Today 1 received, not a Hat of se The old Sylvanite mine near Gold lected foreign bonds-that'll come fortune to run the scissors in her H ill, has been in operation for sev Tw o good wrestling matches— Mildred Colwell of Medford and later—but a pms|ioetiis about a gor baud Sunday, the points entering Jack Darling vs. Glen Higinbotham, eral months. Klamath Falls, was a guest of her geous gold mining proposition with a blood vein. She was luken to a The W illiam s Bros, property on and Bay Blair vs. Boh Korth re all the regular hv products guaranteed, doctor, and her hand is now doing Student Body News Ditch creek is being tested by Eu sulted in draws. These and the aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Cha* euch as quicksilver, lead. cop|>ee. moth nicely. Duggan last Thursday and Friday, (Frieda Young, Reporter) gene and Portland capital, and w ill , boxing matches were refereed by ball» and. I think, amalgam fllllngs. Hob ‘‘Marine” Kena.ston, who haj having just returned from a trip to probably- be in full operation this Horry I can't Invent In thia new Mr. and Mrs. Bert Slepbenson Corvallis. The “smoker” given by the boys winter. bonanza. But I'm saving up to go Into ami son, Shirley H all, of Grants won fame on the Coast this year Friday night was a success and all The new Evans, Graves, Jump- an equally timely enterprise. It's a Pass, were Sunday visitors at the with his wrestling, recently fight Plans for the annual Thanksgiv who attended, enjoyed it. The Off-Joe creeks roads which the CCC ing on cards at Medford and Klam buggy whip factory, and on the aide Earl Moore home. .Mrs. Stephenson ing dinner at the schoolhouse were money received w ill be used by ath Falls. has constructed, has opened a ter we're going to turn out flintlock u n s is Mrs. Moore's mother and Mr. not carried out this year due to the basketball team for a trip this keta for the United Stnles army. ritory of wonderful possibilities in A socko match in which six boys H all, her brother. sickness and the school being clos year. • • • Ijoxed blindfolded and w ith their the Jackson-Josephine county areas. ed. According to present plans, S e le c tin g a C a n d id a te . W hile splitting wood Saturday left hand provided considerable hi In the Holland section Democrat school w ill re-open Monday. The basketball game w ith Jack gulch is being checked for dredging I 'V E found out who the forgotten morning. Boh W ilde chopped his larity. A bout between T e rry sonville, scheduled for next Tues purposes by two eastern engineer • man I*. It's any Republican office left thumb, completely severing the Clement and Kenneth Cook, two holder above the grade of assistant hone hut not the ligaments. He was day evening, has been postponed. THANKSGIVING ing companies. budding young grade school box state geologist who hasn’t been pro We are thankful— and now pro In the Aithouse creek district rushed lo the hospital and w ill he ers. also ended in a draw, but posed by self or friends for next years The six weeks' tests were given there are several big operators there for a week. The thumb can | Terry, who succeeded in knocking claim to all afar lo whom these Presidential nomination. this week, and it is hoped a large making good on ground that once out the referee, feels that he has a greeting* come: he saved, doctors state. On every side, disinterested pa- per cent of the students w ill he on was abandoned because they could Save your money, little the edge on his opponent. tmlta feverishly suggest some death- Mr. and .Mrs. W I. Cotton and the honor roll. Leave tornadoes. not find the pay streak, but which In the high school boxing bouts, lean name that nobody outside the Im family w ill leave about the tenth And dusty storms, now has been located, and opera Fred Korth vs. Leo Thompson, and mediate family ever heard of and, lo, of December for Ashland, where The Thanksgiving vacation which tions are proving successful. Floods and earthquakes) Lyle Thompson vs. Gilbert Lentz • national figure whose fame doean’t Mr Cotton w ill be employed. .Mr. we all have looked forw ard lo. Dodge Sudden Death! cover ns much territory as a milk were evenly matched, but Ralph On Pickett creek a hydraulic m in w ill start Thursday. And here abide, route Is In the running. Almost any Colton has been manager of the As Biles secured the decision over ing outfit has been set up. In Pear-A-Dise Valley. body who can read and write appears sociated station. Mr. Allen w ill take Junior Robinson. There are about 900 small gold A rthur Dusenberry went to Med- lo tie eligible, especially If he litho over tin* station and he and his The affair netted over $20 which FARMERS AND FRUITGROWERS operators in southern Oregon graphs well, and. If he has also the family w ill live in the Hugh Hayes ford Tuesday, returning w ith Mrs. w ill be used in the school athletic who are working ihe gold-bearing BANK Arm yet clinging handshake, his stock house. ' iii fund. Dusenberry and baby daughter, earth successfully. (Community Builders) goes right up. Shirley Ann. Gold H ill teachers w ill spend The concern Is "sg a candidate only. SURPRISE PARTY ON MRS. Thanksgiving holidays at When It comes to a platform, the Dem their EARL MOORE MONDAY E VE EXPENSIVE ACCESSORIES ocrats can lend them one which bat their various homes. Mr. and Mrs. Cook, Miss Coinutt, Miss Paulsen been used hardly any. If at all. and Miss Handley g i io Portland; About tw enty friends gathered at R e tu rn to P re b ib ltie a . the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mr and Mrs McGuire to Oswego; A LL else aside, some of us contend Mr Sloan to Phoenix; Mrs Pena to Thompson Monday evening for a ■ ** there were two main underlying Medford, and .Mis* Mitchell and surprise party on Mrs. E arl Moore, reasons why this country went ''dry'' .Mrs. Pendleton to Ashland. the next day being her birthday the way It did go. One renson was anniversary. A treasure hunt was brewers. The other wns distiller*. participated in by ihe guests, vari I f a person of dubious repute o|>ened sitting In Hie nililil • of the big road, ous articles being hidden in the • saloon In a neighborhood already laying eggs. house. Everyone failed to locale I nin offering u suitable prize— over-provided, where, In order to live, one item on the list— a five dollar he must break the liquor laws, there namely, Grimm's Fairy Tales in words b ill— which was in plain view wan, too often, a type of brewer ready of one syllable—to the first national wrapped over the back of a book of to put up for the license and a ty|M> committeeman, lM>ui«eratlc or Itepub- of distiller to help nut with Hie rest. llcno, who can tell offhand whether the same color. Several of the treas Basically, It was the Inarticulate the Constitution atari« off. "When In ure hunters alibied out of the over the course of huinnn pntj," or. "Now resentment of orderly people against sight, however, claiming they had auch practices which plunged us Into la the time for nil v ..«I men to come not seen a five-dolflar bill for so the ghastly legislative error mlscnlleil to the aid of the pniiv,” long they did not know what to Besides, I'd like t»» l - ow myself, prohibition. look for. Bridge took up the bal •R V Ift 8. COBB. Now, with thnt mistake so nearly C SSsrth A m -rlcan * i , Alll«nr«, ance of the evening, w ith Mrs. H. cured, one hears It directly charged In«.—W NT •• »• D. Force taking high score prize thnt certain producers of alcoholic for the ladies and Curtis Parker for drinks nre greedily bnck at the same COPELAND YARD MANAGER old tricks. the men. Refreshments were served EXPLAINS F. H. A. LOANS after the cards. Well, the next time the people of this country vole liquor out—and there'll lie a next time, unless the sane men In Hie Industry can curb the of fenders within their own rank«—It'll he for keep», no matter Imw deplorable the results In bootleggery and graft ami crime and corruption. You can tell a Itink headed profiteer as far as you can see—but you can’t tell him anything else. U p h o ld in g th e C o n itit u tio o . O H E A TE D Is the controversy over the Imperiled Constitution that professional politicians are all «««»It. many going out of one severe gog right Into another, accompanied by Chill«, fever and high blood pre»«ure Everywhere you look, you «ee dli- putanti, all lathered up with excite ment, who wouldn't recognise that Im- ■wctkl document tf tli§j_ raft. luuj It S M. E Treadgoltl, manager of the J W Copeland Yard In Grant* Pass, wns a business visitor in Gold H ill Tuesday, when he discussed with several local persons the advisabil ity of taking advantage of the Fed eral Housing Act loans. He stated that quite a number in Grants Pass and vicinity had luken advantage of the FHA loans and the low in terest rales to build and remodel. Loans may he secured on a three or five-year basis with interest at five per cent. Mr. Trcadgold said he would he glad to have anyone interested call at his office in Grants Pass, or w rite him and he would call to explain the plan in detail. I.O.O.F. NEWS The officers at the helm of Odd Fellowship in Gold H ill for the next term are: D. R. Hendrickson, N. G.; Norman Bailey. V G; Toney Ross, secretary; W H Ferguson, treasur er. We all wish them a successful term of office.— Tont-y Ross, Sec. Crushes Toe in Accident Mrs Susie Coy crushed one of her toes Sunday evening when she dropped a can of meat weighing 27 pounds on il. Mrs. Coy was lift ing the meat, which was stored in tht frigidaire unit in an ice creatn container, out of the refrigerator, when it slipped and dropued on her foot. She w ill be laid up for sev eral days w ith the injury.