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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1908)
C E N T R A L P O IN T H ER ALD , T H U R S D A Y , SEPTEM BER 17, 1903, Osservatili C irs . market and get my money. Hurrah for us!” “The turtles, frogs and carp have On and after November 15, 1907, the been counted, have they?” asked Mrs. gbservation cars between Portland and Bowser after be had got through dano- Oakland California, on trains Nos. 15 lng around. and 16 will be carried through instead Plans to Become a Millionaire by “ Why, no, of course n ot The man o f being cut out, as heretofore, at Rose- I Supplying Croakers. estimates the number, and be says he burg. has made a low estimate. In a month Southbound, under this new arrange- from now, or by the time we get out CARP AND TURTLES TOO. ment, passengers holding proper trans there, the Increase will be 10 per cent We may catch and sell all we can, and portation and Pullman accommodations the Increase will make up for i t I can may occupy these cars on the night Wants to Trad* His Homs For Somi write him that we will exchange, can leaving Portland until reaching Eugene Desolate Land on Which There Is a IV” at 12:32 a. m. Small Pond— In Anger He Tells “ Don’t rush things, Mr. Bowser. F red P a r k e r , A gt. S. P.lCo., Wlfey to Pack Trunk For Mother’s. Don’t write at a ll Take the train in 31tf Central Point, Oregon. the morning and go out there and sec iCopyright, 1906, by T. C. McClure.) Mr. Bowser was an hour late In com things for yourself.” “ But that would look like doubting Good for Biliousness. ing home from the office, and Mrs. his word.” ’ " I took two o f Chamberlain’s Stom Bowser was almost prepared for the “ You want to doubt until you are sat worst when he arrived. lie was smil ach and Liver Tablets last night, and 1 ing and happy. He had a look of Im isfied. You go right out there and see feel fifty per cent better than I have portance on his face. Even before he the situation of things, and If they are for weeks,” says J. J. Firestone, of bad entered the gate It was evident all right we will go Into the frog, turtle and carp business. I have noticed Allegan, Mich. ‘ 'They are certainly a that something good had happened. fine article for biliousness.” For sale “ Don’t ask for explanations now,” he lately that you are growing old and said In response to her Inquiries. “ A ft have a harassed look on your face, bp Mary A. Mee. Samples free. and I think it will be a great thing for er dinner I will tell you all about It.” "But has something good happened?” you to get out In the country among N e w O lubbintr Oiler- “ Something has, Mrs. Bowser. For the frogs.” Mr. Bowser looked at her for a long tune has at last— But wait a little.” “ Can’t you give me an lnkllug of minute to see if she was sarcastic or In For a limited time we offer the Cen earnest and then adopted her sugges tral Point Herald and the Thrice-a-Week What It Is?” "Just one little Inkling. W e shall be tion of seeing the other property on the World (N ew York) each one year for worth millions of dollars in the course morrow. During the remainder o f the $2.15. This means 208 papers at a cost J of the next five years. Not another evening he was busy with figures. o f only a cent apice He figured 5,000,000 pairs of frogs’ word now.” Central Point is going to improve j During the rest o f the dinner hour legs at 50 cents a pair. more during the present year than in Mr. Bowser sat and grinned and smiled He figured 3,000,000 turtles at a dollar ,ny year in its past history. You will and chuckled, but no further Informa apiece. He figured 4.000,COO pounds o f carp need the Herald to keep posted on tion could lie extracted. It was left to Mrs. Bowser’s Imagination to conjure at 30 cents a pound. what is doing at home up the following possibilities and ar Arrives at Turtle Villa. A presidential election is coming on range them In the order given below: It was a Cripple Creek. It wns a this year and you will need the Thrice- He had bought a cow. Monte Crlsto. It wns a Golconda. It a-Week World to keep you posted on He had Invested In a balloon. was Standard Oil and the steel trust national affairs, especially regarding He had Invented something. combined. A fter an almost sleepless the political situation in New York. Fie had bought hens. night and a bite of breakfast be was He had bought n hog. Better subscribe today on bis way. nnd by 10 o’clock In the n o had hit n now hair dvp. forenoon he bad reached Turtle Villa. He was going to raise cattle, The place was a mile from the rail Best Treatment for a Burn. n o was going to Africa. road station. It was a poor old frame It was a burglar alarm. I f for no other reason, Chamberlain's house which had never been painted It was a fire escape. and never quite finished. The orchard Salve should be kept in every house Explains Hts Scheme. consisted of two dead apple trees and hold on account o f its great value in Wben the meal was at length fin one cherry tree which was trying to the treatment of burns. It allays the ished and the sitting room reached Mr. live for spite. The lawn was a mass pain almost instantly, and unless the of burdocks and weeds. injury is a severe one, heals the parts The lake could bo seen from the without leaving a scar. This salve is front gate. It was a pond off at one also unequaled for chapped hands, sore side nnd at the foot o f the hill. It was nipples and diseases o f the skin. Price, half an acre In extent and at least two feet deep, and on a log sat a solitary 25 cents. For sale by Mary A. Mee. bullfrog with closed eyes and a re signed air. Summer Excursion Rates to Newport. “ Ah. I hardly expected you today,” said tho owner o f the place ns ho came To afford an opportunity to the peo out nnd shook hnnds. ple o f this locality to visit the coast “ No? I thought I would come nnd during the Summer months, the South push things along. You call this house ern Pacific Company will sell round trip a villa, do you?” excursion tickets from Central Point to “ Well, It will be when It’s finished. Newport and Yaquima Bay points for There will be four towers to It.” #10.00 for the round trip daily from “ Tin! And this Is the orchard?” June 1st to October 15th. These tickets “ Yes, sir. W o had nearly a bushel of-cherries off thnt tree last summer.” are good for return passage for six “ And this is the lawn?*’ months from date o f sale. Tickets “ It is.” good only for continuous passage each “ tJml And down there Is the lake?” way, except in cases of serious illnqss “ Yes, sir—Lake Crystal. From that o f ticketholderor memDer of his family, ' lake yon are to draw your riches.” when stop-overs or extension o f limit Mr. Bowser stood nnd took a long may be arranged. For further in look around, and the longer he looked formation, address or call on the madder he got. He finally turned “A M IL L IO N ruooa, IIA L V A M IL L IO N to the map nnd said: F red P a r k e r , W m . M c M urray , T U R T L E S A N D T H R E E O B P O O R M IL L IO N “ Fir, you are nn Infernal liar nnd Agent, G. P. &. T. A., HERMAN c a r p !” Central Point, Ore. Portland, Ore. Bowser made a dramatic entrance and swindler, nnd I can lick you In two minutes by the clock!” 6tf said: Then he turned nway and walked “ Now, then, for explanations, and I down the path and down the highway hope that yon will see things just as and took the train for home. Mrs. A Traveling M an’s Experience. I do and there will be nothing to argue Bowser and the cat were on the front “ I must tell you my experience on about. I will own up that you have steps to greet him. nnd ns he ascend An East bound O. R. & N. R. R. train prevented me from entering Into some ed the steps he was asked: from Pendleton to La Grande, Ore.,” very foolish speculations, but In this “ Well, what nbont Turtle Villa?” ■writes Sam A. Garber, a well known case I know 1 shall find all encourage “ No remarks, woman!” he replied, ment. You know thnt the times have traveling man. ” 1 was in the smoking with a glare. “ You can pack your been hard for the last few months.” trunks nnd bo ready to stnrt for your department with some other traveling “ O f course.” mother's at 0 o’clock tills evening. men when one o f them went out into "Men with even a good thing on You have made a fool of me for the the coach and came back and said, their hands have bad hard work to ! last time on this earth.” M. QUAD. ‘ ‘There is a woman sick unto death in save It, and they are not out of the the car.” I at once got up and went woods yet.” Those Scientific Names. “ Well?" out, found her very ill with cramp colic; “ Well, n man was In the office today her hands and arms were drawn up so you could not straighten them, and with a good thing. He wantod to raise a thousand dollars to save It; but. be with a deathlike look on her face. Two ing unable to do so, he offered me the or three ladies were working with her most colossal bargain of the century. and giving her whiskey. I went to my It’s gigantic. It’s tremendous. It's suitcase and got my bottle of Cham something to take your breath nway." berlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea “ I ’m listening.” “ Mrs. Bowser, where do frogs’ legs Remedy ( I never travel without it), ran to the water tank, put a double come from?” “ They are cut from the bodies of dose of the medicine in the glass, flour ed some water into it and stirred it frogs.” “ And where do we get turtle soup?” with a pencil; then I had quite a time ••From turtles unless the cook uses to get the ladies to let me give it to mutton.” her, but I succeeded. 1 could at once “ And did you ever bear o f a fish see the effect and I worked with her, called the German carp?” rubbing her hands, and in twenty “ I have. It Is said to be excellent minutes I gave her another dose. By eating.” “ And now, Mrs. Bowser, frogs’ legs this time we were almost into Le The Insect—Well, of all the Insult«! Grande, where I was to leave the train. sell at 50 cents a dozen pnlr, and there’s always a demand. A turtle as big as He says I belong to the antitriologl- I gave the bottle to the husband to be the bottom of a quart dish sells for #1. vtdial family! Why. we’ve been bee used in case another dose should be German carp sell for 30 cents a pound, tles ever since the flood!—New York needed, but by the time the train ran and the hotels can’t get half enough ■ American. into La Grande she was all right, and of them. You see all this, don’t you?’ A S tran g. Proceeding. 1 received the thanks o f every passen “ Yes.” “ Well, suppose we bad our own pri ! Infant Terrible (watching Uncle g e r in the car.” For sale by Mary A. vate lake and In that lake we had a Jack’s fiancee dressing ber hair)—How Mee. million- frogs, half a million turtles queerly you do your hair! and three or four million German i “ How so V “ Why, Aunt Jane pin« hers to her carp. Would there be anything to Methodist Church Services. prevent us from becoming million lap, miimmle bolds hers In her teef, but you leave yours sticking to your aire«?” head.” —New York Life. “ Not a thing.” Preaching services every Sunday at 1 a. m and every other Sunday even- 1 “ Ab, but that's the way I like to hear Cute Little Game. you talk! Now you are taking a w ife ng at 7:30 Eva—n e Is so considerate o f your Sunday School every Sunday mom- ly Interest In your husband’s business ng at 10:00 affair*. You can see as well as I do chaperon, n e buys her such Interest- Epworth League at 6:45 every Sun- that we would have something better lag books. lay evening Edna—Oh, I call that strategy. lie than a gold mine. Then you will con Junior Euworth League at 3 p. m. knows If the books are Interesting aba sent to the exchange?” •very Sunday won't look op too often wben we are “ But wbat exchanger' Prayer meeting every Thursday “ W e are going to oxebange our boose together.—Detroit Tribune. •vening at 7:3U and lot for ■ little farm twenty mile« Precocity. out. with a private lake on IL There*« “ Yes. your reverence, oar Johnnie is a fairly decent house and four acre« of fo r a Sprained Ankle. land besides the lake. There's, an or a wonder FIs ran play cards, bowi A sprained ankle may be cured in chard. a garden, and the rest 1« lawn. and cuss like a trooper.” about one-third the time usually re In that lake are the frogs, turtle« and •Tan he say his prayers?” quired, by a p p l y i n g Chamberlain’ s carp I spoke of, and all I bare to do la "N o; he's too little for the'.”* F ile Liniment freeley, and giving it absolute to haul them out and tend them to •-.•tide Blatter. rest. For aale by Mary A. Mee. MEDFORD DOMESTIC OU R ICE CREAM! LAUNDRY, Have you tasted it? Did you use it last Summer? If you did you will be a cus tomer this Summer, for everybody says it Glen Fabrick. Prop. All kineb Laundry work solicited Leave package at Stone’s IS THE BEST. barber shop or see T. J. Kelso who will call for Soda Fountain, Confectioneries, and deliver family work. Work guaranteed. Prices right. E. J. BONNER EYE SPECIALIST Doctor of Opthalmology Guarantees to fit glasses so they will never need to be changed. Office in Grand Theatre big:., Medford, Ore. In Central Point Monday of Each Week. CLOTHING C le a n e d , P ressed , R e p a ir e d . A L L W ORK GUARANTEED. Leave orders and packages at Williams Hotel. J. D. W IL L IA M S. THOROUGHBRED W h it e R o c k .G S. Moore, Cigars, Etc. A t the Old Stand, Second and Pine Sts. Central Point, Ore. Singletrees, Doubletrees, Neckyokes PRICE’S. cheap for The cash at Horseshoer. W H E N IN T O W N C A L L A T TH E OFFICE For Pure “ Astor” W hiskey Which is “ the best” in Oregon. Try it and if you don’t say it is “ the^best” Jack will treat. W e also handle the Celebrated C o lu m b ia B eer T h e O ffice M e d fo r d , - - O regon and W h i t e L e j i ’o r n C H IC K E N S i f you want a atari in the best strains o f these famous breeds, buy now. Call on or address I k e W i l l i a m s , 18tf Central Point, Oregon. H o tel N a s h The Home of Commercial and Mining Men H o tel ASHLAND COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Ashland, Oregon. F IN E S A M P LE ROOM E U R O PE A N P L A N N ash C o.. P ro p rie to r» M e d fo rd - O reg o n Dining-room Unsurpassed. Refurnished Throughout. SOMETHING SPECIAL Business and Shorthand Training, thorough and practical. Si;' months’ scholarship - - $45.00. Nine months’ scholarship - - 60.00. NOTE TUT SPECIAL: A ll students who secure a nine months’ scholar ship and enter September 7th will I ni entitled to ♦he combined course to July 1, 1009, Including- books and stationery, $83.60. This (fives you an extra month. Investigate and Come. Address F. A . H A W K General Blacksmithing Central Point, Oregon. Repair work of all kinds. Wood Turning and Scroll Work. Horseshoing and Wagonwork. Cast Iron Braizing. P. RITNF.R, Pres. There is One Way to Save Your Piano and That is by Expert Tuning D rop m e a Postal and I'll Call A ll G u aran teed W ork Fulljr A Good Investment. JOHN ALBERT, Central Point, Oregon. DIARRHOEA There is no need o f anyone suffer ing long with this disease, for to effect a quick cure it is on'y neces sary to take a few doses of A I/Jt or Block in Central Point, bought before the next advance in prices, will insure you some “ easy money.” Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy In fact, in most cases one dose is sufficient. It never fails and can be relied upon in the most severe and dangerous cases. It is equally v a l uable for children and is the means o f saving the lives o f many children each year. In the world’s history no medicine has ever met with greater success. PRICE 25o. LARGE SIZE 50c. Sold by Mary A. Mcc. Central Point Townsite Co., Herald O ffce, Central Point, Ore.
