diversity of Oregon Cateway to The Oregon Caves Illinois Valley News A Live Wire Newspaper Published in the Interests of the Illinois Valley and Surrounding Districts Volume VII. No. 16 “JOURNEY EOR MARGARET** COMES THIS WEEK END Ed Dailey Passed Away Sunday Morn One of the oldest pioneers of the Illinois Valley passed away last Sunday morning, as Edward Dailey, who had just celebrated his 78th birthday the day before, died at 9:30 a. m. in the Josephine Gen­ eral hospital in Grants Pass. Ed, as all his friends called him, had been ailing for some time, and was taken to the hospital last week . by “Shorty” Phillips, and reports from the hospital Friday were to the effect that he was getting along all right, but old age and in­ firmity called him home Sunday morning. Edward Dailey was born on the Illinois river at the old Rancheree creek, now the creek is named af­ ter his father, Dailey creek. Au­ gust 14, 1865. When a very young boy the family moved to their ranch, now the Maurice Sauer place, where Mr. and Mrs. Bud There Ed was Hoskins reside, raised to a young man, and has lived at or near Kerby all his life. Mr. Dailey was a member of Belt Lodge No. 18, A. F. & A. M , and was the oldest member of the order when he died. He served as Master of the Lodge two different years, and was treasurer for 9 years, before that acted as secre­ tary for a number of years. He was also a charter member of Western Star Chapter. O. E. S., and to our knowledge was the only charter member of the chapter liv­ ing. He was buried Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock in the Kerby I. O. O. F. cemetery with full Ma­ I sonic honors, Roy Wells acting as Master of the ceremony. Surviving him are T. J. Dailey, brother, Roseville. Calif.; Mrs. Jes­ sie M Warren, step-daughter. Sa­ lem, Oregon; Mrs. G. Dimmick, step-niece of Oroville, Calif., and Arthur Hinkle, step-son, of Jack­ sonville, Oregon. Mrs. Jessie M. Warren, accom­ panied by Mrs. Earnest Hinkle, came to attend the funeral as did Mrs. G. Dimmick, other relatives could not be reached in time for the funeral. Like his father, who was a miner in the early days of the county. Edward followed in his footstep- for a long time, but later turned to farming. For the past several years he has lived at his home in Kerby. Mr. Dailey was one of the old pioneers of the county, and with his passing goes a wealth of history of olden times in this section that he could have given to a historical genius that would have made inter­ esting reading to anyone who would be interested. --------------- o--------------- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ch Smith drove to Grants Pass last Tues- day to get Harry O. Smith Jr. who arrived from his station in the east. He will visit his parents for j a few days before returning to his duties. ------------- o-------------- “Dig your well before you are thirsty." Buy Bonds before too late. (•)•>>«««*««•«*((•(!»(((’(I I*•»*••(•((«*It»»•*••***••■••••*•»••••••» 2 COMING EVENTS j Price 5 Cents ( ave Junction, Oregon, Thursday, August 19, 1913 t ! The Cave City theater presents this week the highly rated picture of “Journey for Margaret.” In the way that “Mrs. Miniver" de­ picted the effect of the war upon the people of England, so does "Journey for Margaret.” The same understatement, the reserve, the realism and the calmness, the di- rectness of presentation and the plainness of performance yield the same effectiveness. Robert Young surpasses himself as an American correspondent sta­ tioned in London during the bomb­ ings, one of which injures his wife (Laraine Day) in such wise as to thwart impending motherhood. He stays on after she returns to Amer­ ica and interests himself in car­ ing for children orphaned by the bombers, two of whom attach themselves to him emotionally. He adopts them and brings them to America. The manner of the do­ ings of these things distinguishes them far beyond the promise of this synopsis. ------------- o-------------- Road Work Underway In Illinois Valley Road work in the Illinois Valley is under way at this time. Pete Fredrickson, road commissioner, said Wednesday. County roads are being widened and graded in many places. As soon as creeks are at their lowest, crews will start cleaning out channels in preparation for winter floods, Fredrickson said. —o------------- Forest Men Make Trip to Happy Camp Siskiyou National Forest Super­ visor H. C. Obye, Redwood Forest Ranger Harold Bowerman and Fritz Grunow, of the local station, drove over the Happy Camp road last Monday to Happy ("amp where they picked up Ranger Ernest Sut­ cliffe of the Klamath National Forest. After which the party drove over the Th >mpson creek road to Tannen lake. The men made a study of the grazing conditions of the Thomp­ son creek end and east fork of In­ dian creek cattle allotments. Road conditions, tl phone maintenance i spected. Tannen Mr. Obye hiked from 1 lake to Bolan lake ■ to make a further study of the cattle range and o inspect Bolan peak lookout station. Later he was picked up by the party who drove back through Happy Camp and up to Bolan lake, then returning to the. Redwood ranger station in Cave I Junction. Conditions generally were found satisfactory, hut the fire hazard is high, and all the forests are dry and until rain comes, the forest of­ ficials are crossing all their fing­ ers and toes, hoping that no fires occur. The East fork cattle range on the Siskiyou National Forest was found to be in good condition, and will accommodate about 85 head of cattle this summer. Illinois Valley Garden club meets the first Wednesday of each VALLE? THRESHER month. Aircraft Demonstration school STARTS TO WORK Mondays and Thursday, Red- wood Ranger Station Crew House, 8 p. m. This week Freeling and Clar- H. E. U. meets every second Tues- ence Sawyer and Harry O. Smith started their threshing machine day of the month. and expect to keep busy threshing The Missionary Society meets the second and fourth Thursday of grain. When the grain is finished, each month at the Community the machine will go t<> work on La. dino clover seed. The boys expect church. Cave Junction. to be busy for the next two months, f Illinois Valley . Chamber of Com­ Crop conditions are exception-1 merce meets every Tuesday ally good in the valley this year | noon the Cave City Coffee Shop. and crop« generally are bulging J O’Brien Women'« club meet on and the yield will be far above the first Friday of each month. average. Practically no rust this Ladies Auxiliary meet the first year to cut down the grain yield, and third Wednesday of each which will also contribute to a month. j bumper crop. Kerby News Notes Happy Camp of Cenerai Interest Fewer Fires Employes In Siskiyou Asked To Forest Area Do More Frank Winters of Millville, Cal., visited at the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Del Bigelow. None of the 18 fires reported in Siskiyou national forest this year have been man-set. Kermit W. I.instedt. assistant forest super­ visor, said Tuesday as he urged cit­ izens to redouble their vigilance in keeping Oregon green. Only two acres have been burned in the 18 fires. Sixteen of the 18 fires reported so far occurred in July and all were set bv lightning. Based on averages for the past five years Siskiyou forest can normally ex-, pect 72 fires before the end of the i year but by extreme care, this fig­ ure can be cut, Linstedt stated. Sixteen of Siskiyou forest fires have been under one-quarter o£ an acre and the remaining two, less than 10 acres. None have burned beyond 10 a. m. of the day following report of the fire. In fact in the whole region, only five I acres out of 397 have been out of control longer than the morning following discovery. Siskiyou national forest is one of the 19 included in this region of Oregon and Washington for­ ests. According to the summary monthly fire report released July 31. by the forest service, 301 fires have been set by lightning this year so far, compared to 257 in 1942. Smokers were responsible for the next highest number of fires 33, compared to 31 last season. Railroads came third with 13 this year, seven last. Lumbering, campfires, debris burning and mis­ cellaneous accounted for others. Only four files in the entire re­ gion have been of incendiary or­ igin this season; none for similar period last year. A total of 8,242 acres have been burned this season in the national forests of Oregon and Washington compared to 1.884 acres last year at this time. A 6,587 acre fire in the Umatilla forest during July ac­ counted for the jump over last year’s figures. Every concern in Oregon will be asked to cooperate in bringing its employee personnel to fuller par­ ticipation in the payroll deduction program before the Third War Loan gets under way Sept. 9. ac­ cording to E. C. Sammons, state chairman of the war finance com­ mittee. Need for all employes and em­ ployers to understand the “figure- it out yourself” program of the war finance committee and its connection with the major effort to win the war is stressed by Mr. Sammons. The “Figure it out yourself” plan is as simple as it sounds. It is merely this: You compute your family income by the month, total your monthly expenses, and at“ range for the difference to be put in war bonds through the payroll savings plan. “These are not idle proposals,” says Sammons. “They are as vital to final success as any part of the war program. Our boys at the front, those in convoys on the high seas, those in maneuvers preparing to go, are all concerned with one question: ’What can I do to help?’ The ‘Figure it out yourself' pro­ gram is the ordinary citizen’s an­ swer to this same question. Loyal Americans are acting now.” ------------- o------------- Mrs. Martin Sachse and daugh­ ter Rosemary, returned last week from San Francisco, where they visited Mr. Sachse and Heide, who are both employed in the bay city. Hans Park, brother of Mrs. Sachse is a guest at her home from Los Angeles for a short time. —o— Mr. and Mrs. Dell Bigelow have purchased the Maple Court and will start making improvements of the grounds and buidings very shortly. They bought the court from Mrs. James Kanaly of Grave Creek. Moving Picture at Deer ( reek (¡range Harold Boweiman, ranger of the Redwood Ranger station, who is showing several reels of pictures at the Illinois Valley Grange to­ night. will take the same pictures and run them at Deer Creek grange hall this coming Saturday night. These pictures are very inter- inter­ esting and should be seen by al) the residents of the val’ey. If you did not see them at the Bridgeview hall Thursday night, you should go to Deer Creek Saturday and nee them. --------------- o------------ Deer Killed on Redwood Highway Johnny Clarke of the Farmers Market. Grants Pass, picked up a deer on Rough and Ready flats this week, that had been hit by a truck or car. and was left by the side of the road. Clarke picked the deer up and brought it to the Redwood Ranger I station, where it was dressed and put in cold storage and turned over to Officer Joe Madras of the state policu. --------------o-------------- Mike Wells Now In the Marines Mike Vernon Well«, 20, became a marine corps private at Portland last Monday when he was inducted for the armed services. He is the »on of Roy Wells, Box 203 Route 1, Cave Junction. He leaves for trainir.g on August 30. Private Well« is a former Kerby high school student Last year he was employed as a crane oper­ ator with the naval operating base at Honolulu, T. H. • o Mi-sea Margaret and Ann Mor­ ris were shopping in Medford last Tuesday. Observation Post News 7. We are still hearing many re- percussions from Aircraft Warn­ ing Service Week, and it seems that one of th«* outstanding events of the week was the picnic held in Clackamas codnty by the Oregon City Kiwanis club to honor the members of the Ground Observer Corps who had 500 or more hours of service, A number of pictures were taken at this picnic and one picture in particular created a great deal of comment. Most of you have no doubt heard of the famous Sgt. Sheehan, Sector Ser­ geant for one of the Portland area districts, and the picture in ques­ tion showed the sergeant seated after filling his plate. The fact that Sgt. Sheehan was leaving the following day on his furlough may have accounted for it, but one look at his plate in the picture would make on think that there was no food left in Kansas. The Sunflow­ er State is Sgt. Sheehan’s home. Sgt. George Selles, one of the Eugene Area Sector Sergeants practically ran a one man chau- tauqua during A WS week. He gathered together several films about the Ground Observer Corps, and held open meetings on the streets in a number of towns. One of these films Sgt. Selles had to narrate himself for ten minutes, o he has become eligible to be a barker at a carnival or tent show when the war is over. Sgt. Rawson in the Roseburg urea covered the waterfronts down around Cx>os county there so that the observers at all of his posts were recognized for their efforts over the past months for the fine work they have been doing for the Aircraft Warning Service. Several fine cooperative pages saluting all of the observers in Coos county were run in the Marshfield paper.’. The Fairview Post has 89 ob­ servers, ten of whom have their "(00-I.our awards, and more than 17 have earned their 100-hour arm bands. The post nominated Jack Cardwell as their outstanding ob­ server for his continuous punctu­ ality ever since the post began Jack serves from midnight to 6 a. m. and has only been absent once, and then his wife Freida, who also has her 500-hour award served in his place. The success of the Fairview Post is due to the willingness of its observers and (Continued »■ !•»<• Thr*e) BY ADAH JONES Boys leaving the valley for physical examinations for induc­ tion into the armed service last Friday were Jay Hays, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hays. Rob Roy Mc­ Lean, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McLean; Luther Sherier. son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Sherier; Mike Wells and Walter Goldsby. —o— Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chandler who have been living in a house near Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hassler, left last week for the coast where Mr. Chandler expects to have em­ ployment. o — Mrs. Herbert Marchant and daughter Pearl, Mrs. Harry Elroy and daughter Ethel and Grace Baird left Sunday for hop yards near Grants Pass, where they ex­ pect to remain during the hop har. vest. —o— A number of books have been brought to the Kerby library from the public library in Grants Pass recently and placed on the shelves for borrowers. They range from picture books for the small child­ ren and graded books, stories and even career books for grade school and high school ages. Grown-ups who care to read can satisfy a variety of interests not only in the books from Grants Pass but Ker­ by library has some new books and many- of the old favorites. The li­ brary is open on Tuesday and Fri­ day evenings from 7 to 9 p. m. The younger readers are especially invited on Friday of this week as a small gift is promised to the reg­ ular customers. Mrs. Ferd Jone will be in charge of the library un­ til school starts, when the time will be changed to afternoon hours. --- o--- Mrs. Jesse Warren, and Mrs. Ernest Henkle of Salem and Mrs. Elnora Dimmick of Oroville, Cal. left Wednesday after coming to Kerby to attend funeral services of Ed Dailey. Mrs. Warren is a step daughter, and Mrs. Dimmick a step-niece of Mr. Dailey'. All were guests of Mrs. Dollie Duncan dur­ ing their stay in Kerby. —o— Miss Paula Fox with her mother have been guests at the home of Mrs. Fox's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Lackey Sr., and others of the Lackey family the last few days, leaving for their home in California on Wednesday. Coming with them to Kerby was Betty Lackey who has spent the past few weeks with relatives in Southern California. WALDO MOTEL AT O’BRIEN SOLD LAST WEEK Last week end, a real estate transaction was consummated whereby Mi. and Mrs. M. Demar- ast, of Yakima, Wash., purchased the entire holdings of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Balzke, owners of the Wai. do Motel at O'Brien. The new owners took immediate possession and are now operating the motel and store. Mr and Mrs. Balzke are now domiciled at the Lone Mt. Valley resort, and will make this their future home for some time to come. The transaction included the grocery store, the gasoline pumps and all the cabins belonging to the property. May Get New Electric New activity in the mining in­ dustry and development of gov­ ernment building, together with a natural increase in population, has raised this sleepy, picturesque vil­ lage into a beehive of activity in the past few months. Many problems which heretofore never presented themselves for consideration me now in the fore­ front, with Chamber of Commerce backing. One of the most frequently dis­ cussed and most needed is the ex­ tension of adequate electric power facilities to Happy Camp and vi­ cinity. California Oregon Power Com­ pany representatives recently dis­ cussed this matter with M. A. Crabtree, engineer in charge of the government housing project which is nearing completion. As a result a new survey is be­ ing made to determine actual power requirements. The housing project, according to Mr. Crabtree is designed for a fifty thousand kilowatt hour requirement. Other actual and potential con­ sumers already on the spot include the following: Six store buildings, 3 garages, barber shop, bake shop, 5 rooming houses, 2 hotels, motion picture house, ice plant, 2 schools, 2 churches. 6 cabins and hotel at the camp grounds. .’1 apartment houses. Forest Service station with 12 buildings, large dance hall. 2 dairies, oil distribution plant, be­ tween 175 and 200 large and small houses, post office, miscellaneous buildings, warehouses, etc. This new survey has brought to light some interesting facts. While the local population, scat­ tered as it is, is hard to count, merchants estimate• there are be­ tween 1,500 and 2,000 persons who shop and trade in Happy Camp. Post office figures show over 800 people get their mail in Happy Camp, and this does not include the many others served by rural de­ livery. With these figures includ­ ing only the heads of families it is reasonable to assume that Happy Camp and vicinity embraces a population of several thousand persons. (Continued on l’a the convention ex­ cept Mrs. White who was taking the trip as an alternate delegate. Principal speakers will be Gov­ ernor Earl Snell and Roane War­ ing, of Memphis, Tenn., national commander. A joint memorial service will be held Friday. The party expects to return home Sunday night. ' ' ■ o— ---- --- WHAT THE LEGION AUXILIARY IS DOING A group of Auxiliary and Le* gion members surprised Mr«. Mary E. White at her home in Takilnu* last Sunday afternoon, the occa­ sion being to celebrate her birth­ day which had occurred on th« previous day. A long table was laid, the center piece being a beau­ tiful cake inscribed “Happy Birth­ day, Aunt Mary”. A gift, a hand* some purse, was laid at Aunt Mary’g place. Later the group enjoyed looking over old picture’ and hearing of old times. It w ’ a pleasant afternoon and all w e sorry when the time came foi re­ turning home.