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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1906)
CENTRAL POINT HERALD. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. lG *'■- Side Dishes ■“TM "Everybody work* but father." Mossbacks are very nearly extinct in this neck o ’ the woods. All the great men are dying off fast. | We are not feeling very well ourself. The little town of St Johns, down the Willammette River, is to have a knitting factory. The blind can, always have and al ways will, spell by ear.- But how about the deaf? What? We cut our scissors finger this week , and it come* rather awkard to "clip ’ ’ j with the thumb and toe. The Portland Oregonian ia one among us who does not approve of the Presi dent’* reform spelling movement. When Byron wrote “ Roll on, thou dark and deep blue ocean" he didn’t really expect it was going to stop. When the High School girl graduate return* next Spring we expect to have to take a few lessons in reform spelling. "F or rent” signs are disappearing rapidly in Central Point since the in flux of homcseekers began, a month or *o ago. Our funny man has found an answer j to the puzzle "What to do With Our | Ex-President*.” He would have them 1 teach spelling schools. An Ashland man started for th e ' Coyote Hills with a wagonload of giant I powder, and the last heard of the out- j fit was the explosion. Closing Out Sale Too Busy to Write Our entire line of Dry Goods, Notions, Queeneware, Glassware, etc-, will be closed out without regard to cost. Ladies' Gents' and Children's hose an ad. Just Now Misses’ Women’s and Children’s Underwear 100 Suits of Underwear at less than 50c on the dollar Blankets, Comforts; Gloves and many other articles. Everything must positively be closed out before Sept. 1st. Calf and See us, Any wav. L. H A T F I E L D Come and select your Bargains before too late. CASH JO N E S ’ Sanderson & Sons Up-to-date Grocer and Furnisher CENTRAL Galileo’s discovery that the earth | Went round the sun has been outdone many times by men who have discover ed that a lamp-post is revolving around Merritt Elliott is very seriously ill. Central Point to4he Front them. Mrs. Gibson is visiting friends at ______ One o f our wheelmen took his bike Ashland. Central Point is not only the Hub ; — by the— apart the other day to clean it, and Mr and Mrs. Earl Heft are moving j jj0g Ue River Valley and of the while he wa* eating dinner the chicken* into the Hawk cottage recently, vacated ! mog[ important apple and pear ship-j came along and gobbled up all the by the Pleasant family. ping points in Oregon, but it also en bearing*. W. II Norcross is at Salem this week joys the destinction of being perhaps "Four months ago I commenced read attending the state fair and exhibiting the greatest water-melor ' producer in j ing your stuff, since when I have never some tine fruit from hi* orchard. the Northwest. Already 17 canloads Hben troubled with dyspepsia, ” write* \ o f the very finest quality of this lucious j a H khald reader. One dose will cure firuit have been shipped from here, and Table Rockets the-worse case of dyspepsia. Try it. it is probable the output will yet reach [ 20 carloads. Fifteen o f the 17 cars al Wm. Ulrich, of Eagle Point, was ready shipped have gone to Portland, A Startling Story | here Monday getting his annual supply \ where the Central Point melons bring | of seed rye from the Nealon ranch. the highest market price. Salem and A molt startling story comes from I Dr. Jones, of Medford, was called Eugene have each received one car. son Mr. Estes, one of the heavy shippers, Boiie, Idaho, through the associated ; 'ast Thursday to attend the little TRAINS FOR PORTLAND. p m * dispatches in connection with the of E. S. Hitzlend, who was suffering received an order from Salem yester from an attabk of quinsy. The child day for another car of water-melons, Trains leave Central Point famous Steunenberg murder case which will probably be loaded today. Steve Ada**, his wife and two chil-1 is now all right again. for Portland and way dren sped rei^ ctfu lly 7 years and 10 | Rev. G. L. Burbank was here last stations daily at - - - 5:52 a were released from the Idaho week on professional business, which 5:19 p. Good Apple Crop r •1 ■. eu .¡ary last week on writs of i he transacted to the entire satisfaction TRAINi:-POR SAN FRANCISCO. r .-.is corpus after having been in-1 of all concerned. He, accompanied by - 8:00 a. m. Tom Pankey, superintendent o T the . Leave Portland - ,ed therein for some seven Mrs. Burbank, visited at the home of 8:45 p. m. mouths withont warrant or proper j S. M. Nealon, his old comrade of the Snowy Butte orchards, informed the Contractors and Builder* The reasons why you should contract with u s to build your house are— Our work is executed with neatness?* and dispatch and completed in a work-- manlike manner. Estimate* given on work in all parts of the valley POINT, OREGON STORE P lans and S p e c if ic a t io n s F u r n is h e d C E N T R A L P O IN T SO U T H and E A S i OREGON -:- — 1—ΗI— ¿--I—1—i—f—I—f- —1—¡ -*1— I— I—I- -I—I—i—I—’ —I—1—1—1* RETAIL SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. DEALER IN WOOD D . C . O R I¡V I *!* C i t y . D r a y i n o - a r i d T * r s ln » fe r I - — All Kinds o f Hauling Promptly Done. CENTRAL POINT, OR. R SHASTA ROUTE J. H. McFall, «he Boar Crei ek melon grower, who produced the pi i water melon last season for the Lewis and Clark Fair, is again to the front this year with the biggest musk-melon, the weight of which is :t2 |s>unds. “ live w eight." Thu prodigy was sent to the State Fair at Salem, where, Mr. Mc Fall la quite confident, it will curry off the honor* without trouble. Mr. Mc Fall also shipped a crate of casnlms and cantaloups to the fair Moncly even- -i— H - !-i-;-i-;-:..;-;-:-:-M„;- :-i-:- :-i-i-i-i-i- i-i"i m i n i m -* * FRUIT JARS A large consignment (three different styles) of the best known Jars H e r a l d the o t h e r day that the apple Leave Central Point - - - 11:09 a. m. 10:40 p. m. crop will be very good the present sea son. The plentiful supply of water for Arrive Ashland - 12:41 a. m. irrigating which they have had since 12:15 p. m. getting the Fish Lake water into the Arrive Sacramento - - - 5:10 p. m. orchard has helped the size and quality 5:00 a. m. £ SPECIAL OFFERING— For each six dozen lot sold to one o f the fruit wonnerfully. They are Arrive San Francisco - - 7:45 p. m. purchaser we will give one dozen of the famous Schram now receiving their boxes from the 8:45 a. m. Jars FREE. Iowa Lumber & B®x Co., at Medford, and making other arrangements for the | All kinds and sizes o f Caps and Rubbers on hand. Through Pullman, Standard and picking and packing season. Mr. Pankey thinks thiy will ship about 15 tourist cars on both trains; chair cars car*'of apples and eight cars o f pears Sacramento to Portland and El Paso, and tourist cars to Chicago, St. Louis, fro « the orchard this season New Orleans ard Washington. Connecting at San Francisco with £ several steamship lines for Honolulu, T. Pioneer o f '4 6 . Japan, China, Philippines, Central and T. J. Smith, a pioneer o f 1846, for South America. For particulars, see many years a resident of Sublimity, C e n t r a l P o in t. O r e g o n P. F. KUPER, Agent, Marion County, is here this week visit Central Point station, •1-1 » I H - i- l- M I 1 1 l -I- I- l-H -l- l- H - H -l- -i-:-;-H :-6 -;-;-H -l-H -K -6 -:-5 -H - !- l-I-l- l ing his brother, I. N. Smith. —or address— Mr. Smith came with his parents from Missouri in 1846 via the southern W m . McMURRAY, route and passed through this valley in Gen Pas Agt., Portland, Ore the Fall of that year and on through to the Willamette. He returned to this valley a few years later, and mined CHURCHES. near Jacksonville in ’51 and ’52, and has seen Oregon develop from a back C hristian C hurch . woods community to one o f the greatest E. A . La Dow, pastor. Preaching j service at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sun states of the West. day school, 10 a. m. Ladies Aid So-1 ciety meets regularly every Wednesday afternoon at 3 p. m. at the home of j Ashland Normal School its members. Choir practice every Fri day night. M ethodist E piscopal . The State Normal School at Ashland Geo. L. Burbank, pastor. Sunday j opens September 26. The year just school every Sunday at 10 a. m. closed has been the best o f its history. Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. Now, that much is being done by way and every other Sunday at 7:30 p. m. of repairing buildings, adding appara Prayer meeting Thursday evening at tus and library, and the installing of 7:30 p. m. A cordial invitation is ex tended to all. Preaching at Gold Hill water system and modern heating on alternate Sunday evenings at 7:30 plant, the prospects seem extremely p. m. Sunday school every Sunday at bright and it were hard to set a limit 10 a. m. to the growth and influence of this i institution. A strong training school j The H erald would like to see Cen to accompany an academic course, each ! tral Point get a move on and establish department o f which is presided over a system o f waterworks this Winter, PRICES by a specialist. Good musical ad so that by the time Jpring arrives vantages. Well equipped gymnasium. we can have water with which to irri Always the gate gardens, sprinkle lawns and the Good board for $2.75 per week. We carry a full line of CHEAPEST, streets. Don’t wait for the "othW*' For catalogue, address Adds Insult to Injun [ fellow” to make a start, but make a B. F. MliLKSY, President, or Quality Milwaukee Bee. BAIN WAGONS. BUGGIES. HACKS. start yourself. This means YOU. W. T. V an S coy , Secretary. Considered. We venture the assertion that there SURRIES. ETC. ■ RUNABOUTS is not another city in the state that has IN STEEL and RUBBER TIRES a mayor and council and a newspaper CALL AND but what print their ordinances in then- SEE US city puper, but we have a mayor and council who have ao little business about Harness. Saddles. Robes and Whips, Gasoline them as to ignore the city paper in the publication of the ordinances, but to Engines. Pumps. Bicycles and incubators TRANSACTS A GENERAL B A N K I N G B U S I N E S S add to that, they have the gall to type write the ordinances and bring one of We carry one o f the largest stocks in Jackson County them to the printing office and nail it DIR?’* “TORS—J. W. Merritt, President; W. C. Leever, Vice-President; T. M Whitten, Cashier; I. C. Robnett, V . J. Freeman. on our walls. judicial hearing. : days of '61. Adams, it appears, was arrested in Rev. Mr. Davis, a missionar vof the Bhker County, Oregon, last February Congregational Church, held services by Pinkerton detective* and taken to ¡n tbe sshool house Sunday, and organ- Idaho without req u isit'w papers and J ¡zed a Sundav-school, with the follow- there confined in the penitentiary, it j ing as officers: Mr. Bissell, senior being claimed that he wa* being held j principal; Mrs. E. B. Bissell. assistant; as a witness who would corroborate Miss Hazel Byrane, secretary; Miss the alleged confession of Harry Or- 1 May Nealon, librarian. Mr. Davis chard, who had previously confessed promised to visit the school monthly that h<‘ placed the infernal machine anj hold religious serviaes that killed the ex-governor and that he A ,ate issue of the Medford Mail did the job at the instigation o f the gUteg that a gentleman from Pennsyl- officials of the western federation of vania purohase(i in this vinicity a miner*, o f Colorado. A few day* later ..bunch.- 0f good land. Don’ t the detectives from the same headquarters j term " buncbt" as applied to a piece of took Adam*’ wife and two childroti |an(, jar you? Won>t the gentlemaii from Oregon and placed them in tn^; from Pennsylvania bave a time of it •Idaho penitentiary, where they have * when tbe ' benigbted Pennsylvanians also been confined since that time. want to know if land in Oregon is sold Adams now claims that the state by the “ bunch?’ ment signed by him last Winter, in which he admitted knowledge of the Intended for last issue. crime, was made up liy James Mc TalJtit Bros, began threshing on the Farland. chief o f the Pinkerton men then in charge of the case, and that McDonald farm Saturday. hi* signature was secured hy threat* j T. H. Pendleton was visiting his from Governor Gooding, of Idaho, who | brother and family last week. informed him that if he did not cor- I The smoke, dust and heat are very roborate Orchard'* story he would he | disagrees lilt) and we are all anxious hanged, and that if he did do so he j for a good rain. would be given immunity. Judge Dunn was out this way Friday Adams was immediately rearrested on a warrant from Colorado charging examining the rood work being done him with a murder said to have been in this vicininy. committed there in 1904. Miss Ruby Russell, of The Meadows, In a statement made at the time of and her friend Mi*s Katie Gobel, of hi* release, Adam* claimed that James Ashland, are visiting friends here. ¡5. Hawley, one of the counsel for the Workmen are building fish racks prosecution in the Steunenberg case, tail'd to induce him to discharge Ex- across the river a short distance below Governor John T. Morrison, who h e1 the Bybee bridge for the purpose of had retained ns hi* attorney after his catching salmon and extracting the eggs. which will he sent up to the fish incarceration iu the penitentiary. The prosecution of the Steunenberg hatchery near Elk Creek. case h«« lieen unique in many ways, Mr. J. E. Watt, of Medford, was but this story of an entire family being here Monday looking for articles to be practically kidnapped from Oregon into exhibited at the State Fair at Salem. another state and thrown into prison He found some specimens, which, we and there treated as ordinary convicts, think, will show that Table Rock does without so much as a preliminary hear not need to give a “ show down . ” ing. certainly “ takes the cake." Ihc Biggest Musk-MeUi -i- •*"*•<* Just Received I W . C. L E E V E R l T lie H a r d w a r e m a n I Freeman & W iley Farm Implements, V e h i c l e s . Etc. Central Point State Bank Central Point, Ore. CENTRAL POINT. OR. 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