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About Illinois Valley news. (Cave City, Or.) 1937-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1941)
Gateway to The Oregon Caves Illinois Valley News A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts Volume V. No. 21 Redwood Empire Convention Full “mobilization orders" were n cently issued by C. H. Demaray of (¡rants Pass, president of the Redwood Empire association, unt il;' all citizens in the nine Red- v ood Empire counties to actively paiticipate in the 21st annual con- vention of the association, in Eu- rika, October 17 and 18. In President Demaray’s first bulletin to the constituency, it was pointed out that unusual problems must be met and new obstacles hurdled during the coming winter :nd throughout 1942. He emphasized the need for ob taining additional state and fed eral highway appropriations; high- 1 eh ted the growing competition foi tourist and vacationist traffic, in the face of rising costs and in creasing orders for advertising ma tt rial featuring attractions and re sources in the nine counties. “Although there are many ser ious problems to be solved and plans and strategy to be mapped during the important business ses- i ns at the convention, there will also be plenty of fun, fanfare and pageantry, interspersed with gala entertainment, for the enjoyment of delegates and guests during the << ssions,” declared President Dem aray. “If ever the nine counties and (¡olden Gate Bridge District should present an intensified and aug mented united front, it is now, in the fact of growing adverse con ditions. Advice and counsel of all public and civic officials and other loaders and citizens throughout the nine counties is desired during the forthcoming convention, wherein next year’s operation and produc tion schedules will be established.” ------------- o-------------- Gus Hart and Mrs. Ida Wing left Tuesday morning for Salem where Mrs. Wing will enter the sanitor- ii'in to recover her health. Mrs. Wing h's been ailing since the d< ath of her mother, Mrs. Farren, :v 1 her many friends hope for her speedy recovery. Before Mr. Hart returns to the valley he will spend several days in Portland vis iting his sister. —o— Mrs. Agnes Yerke and daughter, i't for Portland last Saturday where she will visit for several i \ . During her absence at the Hot’and hotel Miss Grace Jarvis w I assist. .............................. "•••.......... “.........“3 COMING EVENTS | fl.......................................................... <lil ■y, October 3—Mrs. Ada Tor i'. guest speaker for Illinois Vnl'ey Garden club, Holland ho tel, 2 p. m. Fiid iy, October 3—O’Brien Wo men's club at Mrs. L. W. Mon- ;<• • home on Happy Camp road. Tu< -day, October 14—H. E. U. i leeting at the home of Anna Stilwalt. O’Brien. Sui ay, October 12—Columbus day. i i day. October 31—Hallowe’en. T lay. November 11—Armistice day.. V <■- lay, November 26—O’Bri- "U Women’s club bazaar and tuikey dinner. Legion hall. Cave Junction. W< dnesday, September 26 — '11- I "ois Valley Garden club, at the home of Mrs. L. W. Monroe, on the Takilma road. T irsday, Nov. 28- Thanksgiving. Every Tuesday—10 a. m. Gar den talks over KUIN. Every second Tuesday H. E. U. meeting. Mrs. Lena Yayne, chairman. Illinois Valley Juvenile Grange meets first and third Saturdays of each month at 2 p. m. Regular Legion and Auxiliary meeting the first and third Wednesday of every month. O'Brien Woman’s club meets first and third Friday, 2 p. m. Price 5 Cent* Cave Junction, Oregon, Thursday. September 25, 1941 KERBY HIGH SCHOOL NEWS By ALLYN BATE There are 94 students enrolled in high school so far this year and we hope to have more as the year progresses. The annual Freshman initiation was quite the unusual with Fresh men girls in the halls going through the routine of the hula dance and Dorothy Lamour glamour boys in sarongs and precious pearls of gar lic necklaces. They made quite a show of themselves on the streets of Kerby and Cave Junction which reminded one very much of scenes from Hawaii or the Fiji Islands. They were all very good sports in cluding the new teachers as they were initiated right along with the Freshmen. Miss Bailey and Mrs. Marcy wore the latest in styles, overalls inside out and backwards, rolled up to the knee, tin can beads and beau tiful green ribbons in their hair. Mr. Hanson wore his pants inside out and backwards, rolled to the knee and a nice large bow of green in his hair also. I’m sure we all wish to thank them for their part in the fun we shared during this great event. The initiation dance was a grand success. Freshmen hopping here and there or getting the works if he or she didn't do just as he was told. Mr. Miller gave us a very inter esting and educational lecture on the subject of electricity. Instruct ing us what to do in case we find a broken live wire, etc. He brought us a piece of soil that had been burned by a dragging wire and said, “You would look very much the same under the same condi tions." We hope to have more interest ing news in the future. Bridge Club Entertained Today • GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST" BOOSTS TIN PAN ALLEY STARS Against a background of tuneful melodies, “The Great American Broadcast" unfolds the gay, fas cinating story of the courageous, talented people who first filled the air waxes with song and laughter. From the same studio which pro duced “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” “Tin Pan Alley,” and others, the film "The Great American Broad cast," starring Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, and Cesar Ro mero, screens Saturday and Sun day at the Cave City theater. Mindful of the fact that it is more difficult to reproduce the re cent past on the screen to the sat isfaction of all potential movie goers, one year of research -was spent before a singly line of script was written. People familiar with the styles, customs and trends of 1919 and the years immediately following, will find •“The Great American Broadcast,” historicayy accurate, but in a mist gay, enter taining way. --------------o-------------- Successful Hunters Bring in Many Deer Several Selma and Cave Junction hunters returned the first of the week with their bagged deer in the Lakeview country. Nat Wool- ley, rural mail carrier, left last Thursday for Up-Set Springs near Lakeview and returned Tuesday evening with three buck. With him on this trip were Mr. and Mrs. S. Rove and Kenneth Simpson of Long Beach, California, Vivian Taylor and W. K. Chapman. Ken neth, only 16 years old brought in his and this being his first was mighty proud of his success. Nat Woolley's 207 ’a pounds, and Vi vian Taylor had a 177 pound deer. Ernest Hatmaker of Selma brough. in a 192‘2 pounder. Others in the Selma party were John Pickle, Bud Smith Curley Smith, Marion Breazeale, Dale, Evelyn, H. D. Loy, and J. R. Tucker and Lew Hammer. --------------o ■ At her home today on Caves highway Mrs. H. P. Bearss enter- j tained members of her bridge club with a 1:30 dessert luncheon. Prize winners for the afternoon EMERGENCY CROP were Mrs. C. C. Babcock, first; Mrs. H. O. Smith, second, and trav LOANS AVAILABLE eling prize was won by Mrs. R. Emergency crop and feed loans S. Leonard. are now available to farmers in --------------o------------- Josephine county, and applications Social Evening At are now being received at Eu Smith Home S’inday gene, Oregon, by V. N. Freeman, field supervisor of the emergency Entertaining Sunday evening at crop and feed loan section of the their home in Bridgeview were Mr. Farm Credit Administration. and Mrs. John W. Smith when they These loans will be made, as in invited guests in for a social eve the past, only to farmers whose ning of cards, bridge being the cash 1 eqrirements are small and diversion. Prizes for scores were who cannot obtain a loan from awarded Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Leon ary othi r source, including Pro- ard, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Athey dreiibn Credit Associations, banks, and Mrs. Sam Bunch. or other private concerns or in Delicious refreshments were dividuals. served at the conclusion of the As in former years, the monev evening. loaned u ill be i.mited to the ap ------------- o------------- plicant’s necessaiy cash needs in preparing and cultivating his GUEST SPEAKER AT crops or in purchasing or pro BREAKFAST CLUB ducing feed for his livestock. Borrowers who obtain loans for Mrs. Harry O. Smith was guest the production of cash crops are speaker this morning (Thursday) required to g've as security a first at the meeting of the Grants Pass lien on the crops financed or, in Breakfast club, held in the Grotto the case of loans for the purchase of the Redwoods hotel. Her sub or production of feed for live ject was “Native Flowers of Jo stock, a first lien on the livestock sephine County." to be fed. Cash ciop loans mature on Au gust 31, 1942, and feed loans ma Hotels Operating ture October 31, 1942. The rate of interest in either case is 4 per All hotels of San Francisco are cent per year. now open and operating, Clyde Ed Application forms and full in mondson, general manager of the formation are available at the of Redwood Empire association, ad fice of 0. K. Beals, county agent, vised Ralph Herrick. Redwood Em at Grants Pass, Oregon. pire representative here. ------------- o Edmondson said that only five Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McElwee of the more than 1,000 hotels in who have been operating the San Francisco had been adversely affected by the recent labor trou Pansy Red Hill mine on the Bo bles, and only 26 potentially af lan lake road, recently gave a 90- fected. At the present time all, day option to buy the mine to a including those affected, are now Beverley Hills, Calif., corporation. If the deal is consummated Mr. and operating. Mrs. McElwee will receive a 10 ■ o ■ ' Mrs. Cora Johnson and son. per cent royalty from the opera Quentin, of La Mesa, California, tion n* the mine. It is composed were visiting at the home of Mr. of manganese and gold. ------------- v ■ and Mrs. Ortis Seat and Mrs. Mary Charlie Howard, former rural ''•■at, mother of Ortis. carrier in the valley is seriously ill o ■ — at hi« home at Cottage Grove Look out for autos TAKILMA SCHOOL NEWS Takilma school opened Septem ber Sth, with 12 pupils: Orin Wal lace, Charley Owen, Marian Wal lace, Frances Eggers, Dane Al len, Jean Wallace, Melvin Wallace, Peggy Monroe, Max Morrison, Bar bara Owen, Albert Eggers and Sam North We have two first grad ers, one second grader, two fourth graders, one fifth grader, three sixth graders and three eighth graders. Our teacher is Charlotte l>ans- berry. We are planning on having a Symphonette band as soon as we can send for our symphonettes. Members of our school were very sorry to hear that Mr. Stout se verely injured his hand while working with machinery. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe North, Sam North, and Mr. and Mrs. Ar thur Carter went to Medford last Sunday. On the same day Mrs. Cecil Owen and Mrs. Lewis Mon roe with children, Barbara and Charlie Owen and Peggy Monroe went huckleberry picking near Ta kilma. They reported that few berries have ripened yet. The Clarence Wallace family have purchased three new goats. Lewis W. Monroe went on a hunting trip to the Klamath Falls region last Friday and returned Monday night. BOOK LOVERS TAKE NOTICE Kerby News Notes of General Interest (By Ed Dailey) Mr. and Mrs. Dad Clark of Rose burg visited the Hurley Wilson family for a few days. —0— E. J. Bullard is painting Rubin Tucker’s house on Deer creek. He recently painted the J. H. Pomeroy barn. —o— Maivin Ramsey came in from Diamond creek last Saturday for supplies. Charles Dodd of the Kerby ga rage and Clyde Johnson left last Friday on a hunting trip in the Lakeview district. —o— Morris J. Sauer returned from Anchorage, Alaska, where he has been employed on a government job for the past 4 months and »aid he enjoyed the summer there 'ex cept for the mosquitos and gnats. —o— Mr. and Mrs. Shorty Phillips went to Gold Beach on a fishipg trip to be gone several days. —o— Jim Hogue is busy hauling hay this week. Jim brought his cattle in from their summer range in the Poker flat country. —o— School District No. 4 received their new bus last Friday ami from the appearance, it is an up-to-date vehicle. —o— Mrs. John Banta and Mrs. Harry Elroy huckleberried in Elk valley last Monday. —o—* Oscar Sauer and Clem Sauer went to Shasta county, California to visit a brother Clarence. Before returning they went deer hunting and bagged three nice buck. —o— The auxiliary ladies put on a pinochle party last Saturday night at Clara s Bungalow Coffee Shop with the following present: Mr. and Mrs. Blake Miller; Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Hussey, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Slack, Mrs. Emily Kellert, Mrs. Bert Badden, Mrs. Irene Mc- Casland, Mrs. Ed Stallcup. Mrs. Millie Trefethen, Mrs. Marie White, Ira Brown, Charles White, Les Henry, Dave Webb, Mrs. Clara Magill and Ella Mead. Hamburger sandwiches and coffee were served. Mrs. Robert Balzke, librarian of our O’Brien Branch library made a trip to Grants Pass last week and brought back 44 new books from the library there. Some of these books are Peter B. Kyne’s story of the Northwest lumberjacks “Kindred of the Dust.” A thrilling sea story of fishing in winter ice on the Grand Banks by Edmund Gilligan of Ro chester, Mass. Can he be kin of our Tommy Gilligan who has rela tives in nearby Boston? Then there are those stories by the brilliant English author, Masefield, Dead Ned and Live and Kickin' Ned, the tale of a young doctor sentenced for a murder he had not commit ted but hanged and resuscitated by his doctor friends, sent to Africa with a slave trader. There he buil a new life, returned to Eng- builded a new life returned to Eng- Ciown. These are only a few of Jim Franklin was taken to the the good books. Come and choose hospital in Grants Pass last week for yourself! for medical treatment. He was brought home much improved. Arnold Grocery Moves To New Location Arnold's Grocery Store moved to its new home Tuesday and are now located in the old Chamber of Commerce building which was re cently purchased. The new store has a 10 foot more frontage than in his former location and his gro cery display. Mr. and Mrs. Ar nold will hold a formal opening about October 1st. --------------o-------------- Mary Lenora Dillon The valley residents were shocked this week when word was received that Mrs. Mary Lenora Dillon had passed away at the Jo sephine General hospital in Granf. Pass Wednesday morning. She was born in Kansas, November 27, 1873, and has resided here for 11 years. Mrs. Dillon is survived by two sisters, Cora Bradfield residing at Lamont, Oklahoma, and Ida Stow of Springfield, Colorado. Funeral services will be held Fri day afternoon at 2 p. m. with in terment at Granite Hill cemetery. L. B Hall Funeral Home will be in charge. CAVE JUNCTION POSTOFFICE JOB Th» following dispatch from Washington in the Courier today (Thursday) it self-explanatory : WASHINGTON, Sept civil service commission 25—The will re ceive applications until the close of business, Oct. 10, for the Cave Junction, Ore., pottmastership. an. nual salary Si.500 An attempt was made* to jimmy the doors of the Curley garage between 7 and 9 p. m.» last Mon day. A car was seen parked near the gas tank and Mr. Curley com ing to the garage about 9 discov ered some one had torn a gas hose loose from the pump. He found, however, nothing was miss ing inside. WHAT THE LEGION AUXILIARY IS DOING First sewing day of the new sea son was held in the meeting room Wednesday with eleven persons at the noon lunch. Carpet rags were sewn for the Roseburg hospital. Reports were heard from Child Welfare and Community service chairmen. Many pieces of used clothing were donated by women of the com munity for use in this work. Constitution and by-laws were studied and discussed. Several songs were sung by the members and it was voted that we have this practice at every oppor tunity in the future. Next regular meeting of the unit will be held Wednesday, October 1st at 8 p. m. sharp. This is still membership month. There are now 23 paid up. with several new mem bers. --------------o------- —. Mr. an<j Mrs. Edgar Huebner of Porterville, California, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ortis Seat. Mr. and Mrs.'Huebner are moving to Medford where they will make their future home. --------------o . Support the Fire Department. O'Brien Club Getting Ready For Bazaar On Thursday, September 18, 19 members of the O’Brien Wo men’s club spent a very pleasant afternoon at the beautiful hilltop home of Mrs. Thelma Wilson in Kerby. Also present were two guests, Mrs. Fessler of Kerby and Mrs. Bowerman of the Ranger Sta tion in Cave Junction. During the business session a letter from Mrs. Ella Patrick was read expressing thanks and ap preciation to club members for let ters and cards received. Mrs. Pat rick was quite seriously injured in a power wringer accident. We are hoping that she is recovering sat isfactorily and that she will soon bi able to meet with us again. We were sorry, too, to know that Mrs. Oppie is suffering from a severe cold and unable to attend. On being called upon for re ports, all bazaar committee chair men showed due interest, and things seem to be coming on satis factorily. Quite a number of fin ished articles were brought to this meeting, dressed dolls, children’s dresses, pillow covers, bags, etc. Several committee meetings are to be held this week to make plans for booths, etc. Delicious strawberries, cake and coffee were served by Mrs. Wilson and assisting hostess, Mrs. Lackey. During the refreshment period re sults of the poster contest were given. Several very clever posters, advertising the coming bazaar were shown. First place being given to Mrs. Theresa Cochran which was original and very clever. The next meeting of the club will be held at the home of Mrs. L. W. Monroe on the Happy Camp road. At this meeting antique ar ticles will be shown and something of their histories told. This meet ing is to be Friday afternoon, Oc tober 3. President Anna Stilwalt an nounced that the next H. E. U. meeting will be held at her home on Tuesday, October 14. COMMITTEE MEETINGS The O'Brien Women's club has been busy this week with commit tee meetings. On Thursday three committees met, the dinner com mittee at the Legion hall to make final plans for the turkey dinner; the price marking committee at the Willadora to mark the many ar ticles which have already been finished and turned in; and a committee making lovely gift boxes for Christmas. In the afternoon all came together for refreshments, and exchange of notes, luncheon having been served at noon on the veranda. Those present included Mesdames Robert Balzke, Blake Miller, E. J. Wilber, George Hicks, Phil Patrick, H. M. Morris, John Dow, Anna Stiwalt and Miss Hos ford. Mrs. Overlander of Wald- post, guest of Mrs. Nellie Wilber was also present and the hostess, Mr». W. A. Brown. The Poster Contest which oc curred at the last regular club meeting brought out considerable original talent, and it was diffi cult for the judges to award the prizes, the most artistic card being made by Mrs Balzke, the prize win ner being that one exhibited by Mrs. Cochran and other very nt- tiactive ones were the one done in poetry by Mrs. Wilbur, those by Mrs. Wilson, Barrett, Lackey, Hicks and Miss Hosford. — ■ -o------------- GARDEN LOVERS ATTENTION! Mrs. Ada Turner of Waldport will be guest speaker for the Il linois Valley Garden club Friday afternoon, October 3 at 2 p. m., at the Holland Hotel. Mrs. Turner is a Fellow of Royal Horticultural society and a spon sor of the marking bf the Doug las Trail under the auspices of the Oregon Federation of Garden clubs. Door prize. All interested are welcome.
