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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1906)
I C E N TR AL PO IN T HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1906 A Good Investment ------------- 1 i V V t T I X i r T V X Ì May be found in our Residence and Business Property in CENTRAL POINT NOW IS THE TIM E TO INVEST in lots and blocks before the Fall rush o f homeseekers have picked out the choice in the valley and is the hub o f TH E RICHEST FRUIT, Pacific Coast. REGION on the I ts climatic, commercial, social and educa- tional advarf nres are unsurpassed and at the present low prices. ( : i i I I For Pro.npily Done Satisfaccio CKNTHAl Jeffers & Peart i t t i General Blacksmiths & Woodworkers HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY We treat you and your horses righ t r I-H -H -I-H Ì H - •H - H - H -H - K -M ! I-H -H H -H - H - I-H -H -H -I-M-I-I- W T I Do Y ou { Need FURMSTURE GR CARPETS ? I see W e e k s & B a k e r •! Xheir Goods are Firat-claaa f MEDFORD - - OREGON DEALER IN Cigars, Tobaccos, Confectioneries and Soft Drinkg 30 D ays ICE CREAM PARLORS IN CONNECTION Posti Office Bnidlug Now is the time to invest, before an ad CtNTRAL POINT TOWNSITE CO. C E N T R A L POINT, O REGO N. PRO FE DR. S lO N A L P L E A S A N T S C e n tra l P o in t, O r e g o n W M . W . P H O LT, M. n P h y s ic ia n a n d S u r E AG LE PO IN T, : : .Central Point, Oregon eon OREGON Î Hay & Learned Getting Rid oi It. While Mrs. Russell Sage has not had a largo and varied experience In giving , away money, yet there is no danger that she will lie obliged to lake lessons from a correspondence school In the art of giving away a large fortune. Thousands of persons, who know all about It In theory, If not lu practice, will be willing to assist her either with liberal advice or ablebodied help, pref erably the latter. I O f course, she may not take all of | the advice that Is offered to her by l mail aud otherwise, but If she prefers to struggle along unaided witn the task that Is her own lookout. But If she doesn't find any way In which she can nse the proffered help, it Is to be hoped that she will appreciate the truly noble and self sacrificing spirit in which it Is offered by her unknown wellwlshers. P o in tin g , P e c o ra * In e a n d P a p e r - H a n g in g In A l l Ito B r a n c h e n . C E N T R A L h P O IN T , O H . -;-:-;-:-:-:- i -!- i - i -!-;-;- i -!- i - i - k -!-!-!-!-!- h - i - h - i - h - h - i - i - i - i - 1 "|"H .. h i ih •H -H -H -H - l- l-H - H - 1 ' I l I I I I I I t -:-:-;-:- i -:-!-;-;-:-;- i -:- i -!- h - h - i - h - h - h - h - i - i -| '1 . h STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS Natural Inference. "H ow old Is Miss Juvenile?” “ I believe she has scon twenty-five summers.” “ Do you mean to say that the lady lias been blind a part of lier life?" h i - í - m - i - h - m i i i n . ONLY WHITE HELP EMPLOYED Central Point, Oregon Rates—$1.00 Up. Special by the Week S p e c ia l A t t e n t io n P aid t o T r a v e lin g M en Not Th en. MRS. M A R Y A S H U R S T — Teacher o f — “ Experience keeps a dear school." “ Not If you acqulro it at tbe other fellow's expeuae.” F*ia io fl ul Organ I 1 I I I H l -H -H -H -H -I- , ’H I 11 H H -H -1' 111 I I I I I I 111 I I , HN H I 1 1 Call on or address: gan to count tbe stones and In another moment turned pale and dropped the ring. : THE INCONVENIENCE “ ‘ What is the matter now?' I gasped. OF SUPERSTITION f “ 'There are thirteen Jewels.’ “ I swore. Then I told her that she must either wear that ring or go with [Original.] Returning to the city after a six out one. H er amiability conquered, months’ absence 1 hastened to congrnt- and I consented to begin over once ■late my intimate friend Tom Funk more. The next time I got ahead of en his engagement, which he had an the fates by giving a solitaire dia nounced to me by letter a few days mond. That was four months after after my departure. I found him in his | she had accepted me. “ I was invited to her house to a den at home smoking an after dinner cigar. lie listened to all the pleasant dinner to celebrate our engagement. things I had to say to him about enter Molly and I sat side by side. I acci ing upon the happy engagement period, dentally upset the saltcellar between then, after waiting for me to light a us.' cigar he handed me, settled back in his j “ ’Throw it over your shoulder, quick!’ she screamed. I grabbed the chair and said: heavy cut glass saltcellar aud, throw “ You're too late. It's off.” ing It over my shoulder, smashed a “ Off?” mirror on the sideboard. "Yes, off—off for good.” “ ‘The salt! The salt!’ she cried. "W liat's the trouble.?” "There is or was just one fault in } ‘Not the saltcellar.’ ’“ Confound the salt!’ I blurted. Holly, and, though I admit there are a great many in me, her one fault Is a j “ She grabbed a fistful of the salt and tried to throw it over my shoulder; staggerer.” hut, being lu n hurry, she threw- it into ‘ Extravagance?” my eyes. Greut heavens, how it smart "No. Quite economical.” ed! I lost my temper and said a lot ‘ Fond of admiration?” of things that shocked my prospective "N o more than any woman.” mother-in-law, but the father-in-law "H ot tempered?” "On the contrary, she'» very ami looked at me approvingly, and I knew be was on my side, though be didn’t able.” " I give it up. Tell me what It Is.” dare say so. “ She’s chock full of petty supersti “ Molly wet her napkin in a finger tions. You know how long I was try bowl and wiped the salt out of my ing to get her. Well, the reason was eyes. She was so lovely about it all that she was consulting fortune tellers that I quieted down, and, though the to find out whether the match would rest of the dinner was not exhilarat be a lucky or an unlucky one. The ing. there was at least no bad feeling. “ Of coarse I insisted on replacing the witch she had most coutidcnce in told her that there was a dark gentleman mirror, aud. of course, I was not per do so. My own celebration wanting her (that's me), but if she mitted married him she’d lie very unhappy. It of our engagement was to be a party took me a year to find out about this, to the opera. I paid $2f> for a liox and but when I did I fixed the witch with Invited the whole of Molly's fa m ily - Everything looked a five dollar bill anil site told Molly seven persons. she'd got the light and dark gentlemen promising, the weather was fine and mixed, and Molly was to marry the we bail every reason to believe we dark one. This settled It, and I sup would have a good time. But just as posed the coast was clear when Molly we were entering tbe opera house Informed me that my original proposal Molly and I both stubbed our toes on bad been made on a Friday and I must a half step between the entrance pas do It over. I wag to call anil t ike her sage aud the foyer. Do you know, by surprise just as I had done on the that girl turned and led the whole first occasion. I agreed, and do you party out on to the sidewalk, where know I struck the thirteenth day of the she declared that nothing could In month. I had to wait a few weeks In duce her to go In again, for the opera order to surprise her again, and tbla house would burn down If she did and time I didn’t atrike any bad luck. I there would lie a holocaust. So we all went home. proposed for the third time. " I treated her so coldly after that “ Stupid ass that I was, I went off and bought an opal engagement ring. that I supposed she would break the engagement. She bore it all beauti When I offered It Molly almost faint ed. She said that even to offer an fully. But I had had enough of it and I opal would Involve a never ending determined to get my freedom. chain o f bad luck. The engagement went to a seventh daughter of a sev must be broken and we must begin enth (laughter anil paid her well to all over. This made me tired, but I give me an unlucky horoscope. She was very much in love and consented said that I was ls>ru on the unlueklest to what I couldn’t help. It took us day of the year at the dark of the tw o months to get around to ■ acre I moon, w.lh all the unlucky stars In could give her another ring. I bought the firmament In tbe ascendant This one with a number of stones lu the I rent to Mollv, who in a tearful letter setting, a big one in the rente-, with broke the engagement. Thank heaven tw o outer cireles. the whole f »• ling a I ’m a free man.” R ” o«ET.L T H O R N S slttste". A* soon ns she saw it -he be : ‘ lie can palut a portrait so natural that you almost expect It to speak.” "Wliut kind o f paint does lie use?” “ I don't know. It comes in tubes.” “ Speaking tubes, no doubt.” vance in prices is made. # e’HH",niii')iii|ma'i||i.iiir,|nyi"imirtr¥-lTTli^)> t All Kinds of Krpoir Work G. S. MOORE We are offering choice business lots at from $150 each and upwards; and choice residence property at $50 and upwards. Pray, who would rave or raise a row About tin* gentle bossy cow i f he should see the creature pass Or pause to take a bite of grass? K*en for a herd of eight or ten 11» wouldn’t turn his head again, And yet, to see her done In oil. With trees and bushes ami some soil, Beside a cool and limpid stream, He'd pause and say it was a dream. No matter if the price were high, HeM pull ills wallet out and buy. i Oh, Art, it really is a shame Things that are practiced In your name! But still an artist must supply The things the people want to buy. u r property is a RARE B ARG AIN. the Next i Some land for which he would not give A dollar if lie had to live Upon its bajv and barren sands And make a living with his hands, A bleak and quite forbidding spot. "Would strike his fancy like as not Jf some bum artist took his paint And framed up something he called quaint— Some bushes and a bunch of grass Would doubtless all the critics pass And be, Indeed, beyond a doubt, A thing to make a fuss about. Central Point is the most centrally located town 1 >AJRYJNG, F A RM ING and M IN ING THE CHARM IN ART. An old and much time beaten shack On which a man would turu his back Or pause to wonder w’ hy the town Or some one did not tear it down, A hovel he would hardly care To will bis favorite son and heir. With not a single window light And not a streak o f paint in sight. Were he to see it in a frame He’d have a lit about the same. To buy ho would not hesitate. Although it cost l\yo-ninety-eight. THE most rapidly growing town in the Rogue River Valley, property. * By DUNCAN N. SMITH L ’wrvML-u.r. i x X ( Humor md Philosophy :-:"i-;-:-;-!-i-H-H-i-i-i-H-i-H-H-i-H -i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i. |' i"i i-i. |.i|i | n n m m R. L. HALE J. H. FITZGERALD Human Nature. Rogue River Electrical Inquire o f Pleasants’ Hotel. Construction Gompany U R . A . B . S W E E T P H Y S IC IA N A N D SURGEON. Diseases o f Women and Children i Specialty rr-o lf. Day sod N'Vbt Calls Answered I The man who tights and runs away, MEDFORD, OREGON. Though no one Is pursuing, j Brings twi.-k his gang with him some (lay, I And there Is something doing. — PERT PARAGRAPHS. G EO . BROWN ' & SONS E LE C TR IC A L E N G IN E E R IN G Constructing, Contracting and General Repairing. Electrical Supplies. — Phone 831 - - - • C Street, Opposite PoBtoffice D o w n in g Dignity is nil uncomfortable perch ! when the taffy Is being passed. General Merchandise Be t Quality o f Goode. Lowest Prices. Highest Prices Paid for Farm Products. P osts a n d S h ak es for S a l e E AG LE POINT, OR. MEDFORD, OREGON ; !!-;-!-:- i -:-:- i - h -:-!-;- h -!- i - i - h - h - i - h - h - i - h - h - h - i -1"1 i ,1"I"I-I"I"I"H- i - i -|"| | h ! People affected with hollow heads always make a roaring noise. When your enemy Is anxious to do you a kiuducss turn him over to your motbcr-ln-la w. | ' ■ 6t E m ry C e n t r a l P o in t K c .il P’ n ta te A iron tH We now have the exclusive sale of some fine alfalfa farms, grain and fruit lands, stock ranches, unimproved People who never say anything may not mean half o f it. timber lands and gold-bearing quartz ledges, partly devel I f he doesn't have n dally stomach ache the vacation boy feels that be Isn’t eating up to Ida opportunities. oped. Business and residence property at reasonable prices. We respectfully solicit the homeseekers’ patronage. Our motto is, “Small Commission and Square Dealing.’’ An appealance of meekneas often covers up a lot of unholy mischief. *1 « ■ ” S t . i - i - i - i - i - i - h h - i - h - h - i - h - h 'M t m í» It Is as easy to pay a penance that doesn't punish as to play postoffice with a pretty girl. Poverty adversity acter, and that their is a blessing that rauka with lu the development of char most people are quite willing enemies should have them. The tongue's chief mission Is to dls tract attention from the delinquencies o f other members o f tbe body. It Is a good thing that we gain All kinds o f stationery, blank books, fancy letter papers, mourning note, strength from our burdens, for It la the Japanese goods—from cheapest grades only reward we get for serving some pcoplc to finest qu a lity-a t the Central Point Pharmacy H. WARNER & SON Lumber. Doors, Windows Building Hardware, Old Hickory Wagons, Buggies and Fairm Implements. 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