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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1906)
C entral P oint H erald W m . F. K. D euel , Vice-President S. C k o w e i x , P re sid e n t F ir st N a t io n a l L ancaster & P attison , P ublishers S. A. P attison , E ditor . J. E. L ancaster , B usiness M anager P aid U p C apital , $25,000 13an k : -H -H -l-H - l- l- l -H - l- H -e r -H -H - H - K -t- Central Point Market E. A. FORD, P rop . M e d fo r d , O re g o n J. H. G A Y DEALER IN S tockholders ’ L iability , $50,000 Fresh and Cured fvleats FAIR DE A LIN G , S A F E T Y , SECU RITY An independent local newspaper devoted to the interests of Central Point and the Rogue River Valley. Published Every Thursday. W e do a conservative banking business. Always safe-guarding our customers’ interests equally with our own. W e S olicit Y our A ccount . D irectors :—W. S. Crowell, F. K. Deuel, E. V. Carter, Chas. Strang, Geo. W. Dunn. M. L. A L FO R D , C ashier . R ough and Dressed Lum ber, Shingles, Doors, W in d o w s, Etc. Yard on track near depot. Estimates furnished. Let us figure on your lumber bill. Y our P atronage I s S olicited Subscription price, $1.50 ‘per year, ii advance. i riched have hardly yet been touched, and it is only in recent years that the point o f the pros- THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1906. | pector’s pick has been turned in their direction. It is a peculiarity o f human Make Your Town Beautiful nature, especially true in mining, F. A . H A W K ! that the thing most distant, m ost' G en era l B la c k s m ith in g *"p H E recent example o f Port- i difficult o f attainment and re- Repair work of all kinds. land in naming a day which quiring the greatest physical ef- Wood Turning ana Scroll Work. Horseshoeing and Wagon work was set apart for cleaning up and fort and hardships is the most Cast Iron Brazing beautifying the city might be attractive, and for this reason CENTRAL POINT, OR. followed with profit by every the interior o f frozen Alaska, the town and city in the state. We desert wastes o f Nevada and have been told for ages that i Arizona and the rugged mount- cleanliness is next to godliness ajn ranges o f the interior o f Ida- P . J. H ic k e n and it is a pretty good thing to ho and Montana have ever proved E. E. SGUDDER Jeweler believe. Dirt is simply m atter! more alluring to the miner than in the wrong place. As an ex- has this southern Oregon country Permanently located in JO N ES’ CASH ample, good, rich, black Rogue where rich ledges crop out along STORE, Central Point. river valley soil in an orchard or the edges o f the valley, easily Written guarantee on all work for 12 alfalfa field is not “ dirt in the reached by carriage or automo- months. High grade watch repairing offensive sense, while a small bile, and where mining claims a specialty. PRICES REASONABLE amount o f the same substance! and orchards and corn and al- Gold, silver, steel and soft soldering allowed to remain for an indefi- f ajfa fields and garden spots ad- ____________________ done successfully. nite period in the pink, shell-like j 0jn or COVer the same ground, Orders taken for everything known in the jeweler’ s line. Old gold andsiiver ear o f an otherwise bewitching The accessibility o f southern EAGLE POINT OREGON taken in exchange. young lady is not to be admired. Oregon mines is a point in their In the same way almost every favor too often overlooked. A article o f commercial value that j mine in some remote interior v “ n n n i t might be named, if in their mountain fastness, accessible on- proper places, are things o f beau - 1 iy by pack trail in the mid-sum- ty, while in the wrong places mer season, cannot be operated they soon become “ dirt,” of- wjth the same profit nor conve- fensive to all the human senses, nience that one o f the same char- menacing to the public health acter and richness can be in a and a detriment to the entire I C0Untry like this, and if our min- community. Cloth, paper, wood, ■ ,,ra| resources are to be developed iron, straw, and a thousand other ¡n the near future as they should articles that might be mentioned, he that fact should be impressed are all right in the right place and on the mind o f every mining man are absolutely necessary to hu- ¡n the country. Our mineral re T H E S E A S O N ’S N E W E S T IN man happiness and progress, but j sources are one o f our very best when the same articles are re- assets and we should lose no duced to fragments and used to time in letting the world know decorate our door yards, our back au about their peculiar and at- alleys or our principal streets, tractive advantages, they become nuisances in the full sense and detrimental to the Treatint) best interests o f the community. I Some towns need clean-up days When the Saturday Evening Post said more than others, and while Cen that the corkscrew was no longer the ! tral Point is naturally a beauty chief symbol of hospitality, it voiced a Bpot as compared with Portland truth which is becoming generally rec- , ., . ■ ognized, even in the west, where the and many other towns in Oregon. 1 . treating . . . habit . . . . . has . had . . its strongest . , ... T M e d f o r d ’s F a s h i o n S to r e it would require but little united hold. There was a time when refusal effort to make it the cleanest, to drink at the invitation o f a friend prettiest and most inviting town was taken as an insult. There are, MEDFORD, OREGON. perhaps, some few men yet whose mis in the state. conceptions o f hospitality made them • *I**I**I**í**!**!**í*' The H e r a l d would suggest think it their privilege to compel their that the city authorities name a friends to drink at any and all times, day to be known as “ clean-up” but the number of these is fast dimin- J. C. W ilson E. C hapman day and that they invite every | ishing. citizen, big and little, old and The treating custom is growing in young, to turn out and gather ,li8favor’ as * 11 is one of the . , , , . . means by which intemperance is in- up the litter and do whatever is creaged M en who drink beer or whis- necessary to make the town key only when they have a desire for s o n <> cleaner and more attractive. It it seldom become drunkards, but those will pay, neighbors; it will make who drink because they are asked to the town more attractive to s° are »n an easy road to excess. C o n t r a c t o r » a n d B n ild e -rs , The man who is treated feels under Strangers, increase the value of ; obligation to return the compliment, Carpentry and Joining in all its branches your property and arouse a spirit and thus takes two drinks where he felt o f civic pride, something that no desire for even one. In the present CENTRAL POINT, OR. every town and city must have state of the public mind upon the sub Estimates Furnished. before it can hope to advance ject of hospitality, it would be almost impossible for two friends to step up along the line o f progress at a to the bar and order drinks and each r l i l r i t regular twentieth century pace. pay for his own. yet, if such were the • ¡- M -H - H -l -M -H -H -H -H - H -M -H -H - CE N TR A L POINT, OREGON 1 Ik* I «• t* fflc e a l ( • ■ I r a i P a la i, 1 Black,smithing blacks Blacks H. W arner & Son Lumber, Doors, Windows, Hotel and Feed Stable Outing Suits and Blue Serges MEN’S WEARING APPAREL & Cl l a W ii custom, as it is in some countries and may some day be in this, there would be much less drunkenness. Perhaps it .Southern Oregon Mines is not desirable that treating should be •• I entirely discontinued. There is un- • questionably a manifestation of hospi- ’ll LIN IN G men who have p r o s " tality in asking a friend to drink. But it is a cheap and oftentimes a hollow- T’ A pected and operated in form of hospitality, and, as the Post the leading mineral sections of says, the corkscrew is no longer huspi- D o w n in g & • W a g o n s, Old Buggies and Farm Im plem ents. CENTRAL P O IN T , OREGON Kandy K itchen H om e M ade andies S oft Drinks o f all Kinds A. P. Gillett & Son Fountain Soda and Bottled Goods. A good assortment of Cigars. Every thing found in a first-class Confectionery. Canned lunch goods. A fresh supply of bakery goods always on hand. Lunches served at all hours. F. H . W e b b New and Second-hand Furniture ------BOUGHT A N D S O L D -------- I also carry a fine lot o f Confectionery, Cigars and Tobacco and the finest BREAD and PASTRY in the Valley. I Receive Fresh Bread Every Day. Main Street CENTRAL POINT J . W . J a c o b s & Co. Manufacturers of all classes of M a r b le a n d G ra n ite C em eterv W o r k Designs furnished or will manufa- cure from private drawings. Our Granite Quarries, near Central Point, are the finest on the Coast. Electric polishing machines in our local factory. Iron fencing. C E N T R A L POINT, OREGON C entral P o in t M ARY A DEALER IN Î hau.sted. it is also true that the the community and should have a con- q u .m M p . from which the “ r ' i B r S E P S f i S i u i S S gravel be Is were primarily en- Chronicle. H. W atk in s J. H. CARLTON tho west, including southern O re- toBty’,chi»f Or**oni*"- HARDWARE I ARM pm , are almost unanimous in the Ih r City hit kor opinion that, from a miner’s IM P lfM IN T S . ETC, standpoint, the opportunities o f The kickers on the farm are not fered by this section are second Î hard to get along with as those in the B I to none in any part o f western towns. On the farm there is the kick America. “ In the days o f old, ing cow and our long eared friend, the Proprietary Medicines. in the days o f gold, in the days mule, while in town there is the old Paints and Oils o f '49, ” Jackson county placers mossback, who wants all the privileges yielded fabulous returns for the of municipal living without paying for them, and blocks, so far as he can. labor o f the pioneer miner, even every municipal improvement. The though he followed the crudest cow may be sold for beef and the mule methods, and from that time to traded for a shot gun, but nothing IAl.lt POINT OREGON the present day the same creeks short of a funeral will get rid of the and gulches have continued to town kieker.— Medford Tribune. pour a golden stream o f wealth W e have just received at our desk into the business life o f the coun the Central Point Herald, which is a ■ l' H-l-l-l-H-l- H-i- l-l-l-l-H -l'l I try. While it may be true that new aspirant for newspaper honors. It the richest spots o f the placers is a bright, newsy sheet and is well have discovered aim and ex- e“trun'z,<H t •>» «Ovartiser*. means nave been ueen uiacovervu ix finaneia| success. It is a which pusher for p m a n H ickory Hardware, •S-H-H-H - H - H - l- i- H ’ “ The Toggery” Building P harm acy M EE. P r o p r ie to r C IG A R S , T O B A C C O S :: •• Ï & C O N F E C T IO N E R Y Pure Fresh Drugs and Medicines . . :: :: : : : : ic e c r e a m a n d soda LUNCH GOODS Druggists* Sundries, Toilet Articles, Stationery Hooks, Etc. -L------— : Eagle Point. Oregon - :- H - l- ;- !- !- !- K - l- l- l- l- l- l- H - H - l- l- H - !- E m ry When in the city give me a call. You will find my goods first- class ar.d my prices reasonable. Handle Rogue River Valley prop erty , embracing alfalfa and or- chard lands, stock ranches, city property, ct<., on small commission. List your C E N T R A L r o iN T . OREGON. property with us. CENTRAL PC 'N T OREGON