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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
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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.