CENTRAL POINT HERALD
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Local and Personal
CENTRAL
P o lN T .
OREGON. TH U R SD A Y. NOV
Central Point 1 2 , Ashland 2 .
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The Telephone.
la. 1908.
Chair Hitching.
NO. : O
ROGUE RIVER
LAND CO.
The football season was opened here
rrofessor Alexander Graham Bell Is
“ The chair hitcher,” says a business
I. C. Robnett, the well-known mer
chant, has long been known to his Sunday with a hot game between the reported to have explained In a lecture man, "la the greatest nuisance that an
B. Vincent, o f Sams valley, was in friend’s as an inveterate story teller, ‘ local team a" d Ashland’s crack eleven, how he came to Invent the telephone office man Is compelled to endure.
as follows!
"The hitcher Is always deeply inter
WITH OFFICE IN HERALD BUILDING
after supplies Monday.
but it is only recently that he has es- ' resulting in an overwhelming victory
” M.v father Invented a symbol by ested in the matter he has come to
Mrs. Frank Mee, o f Ashland, visited sayed to invade the field o f Theodore ! for Central Point. Ashland promised w hich deaf mutes could converse, anil talk over, and the more he talks the
Roosevelt and Ernest Seton-Thompson in advance to hand the Pointers a lemon finally I Invented au apparatus by
Miss Mary Mee this week.
closer be draws his chair, and with
Are prepared to show
| and they made 8 °°d on the promise in which the vibrations of speech could be every additional point he makes be
Old newspapers for sale. Twenty- as a full fledged nature fakir.
customers the BEST
"T h a t reminds me,” remarked Mr. i the way o f a -efereewhom they seleted. seen, and It turned out to be a tele gives his chair another hunch In your
five for a nickel at the Herald office.
BUYS in any part of the
Robnett the other day, after listeningj That particular “ lemon" was rotten, plume. It occurred to me to make a direction, and by the tlmo be has fair
Earl Houck, o f Los Angeles, is visit to the recital of a thrilling bear story | or. at least hi<* decisions were so much machine that W'ouid enable one to bear ly entered on his subject ho has his
Valley in
ing his grandmother, Mrs. S. C. Min- from an up-river customer, “ o f the last 1 so that he was removed by practically vibrations. I went to an aurlst, and he feet on the rounds of your chair, his
nick.
i time 1 went bear hunting on upper “ unanimous consent’ ’ in the middle o f advised me to take the human ear as elbow on your desk and Is dropping
FoR S a l e —One first-class fresh Jer Rogue river. The weather was hot the game and Vinton Beall was put in !11-v ibedel. He supplied me with a dead the ashes from his cigar on your coat
and with this ear I experl- sleeve. It would be Just as easy for
sey cow by F. H. Hopkins, Central and dry and large game was scarce or bis place. Mr. Beall has a pecular ad- !
age over ordinary people for this ,n' e" !/ ; and u'10u « P ly in g tbe »PPara- him to make his si>eech or preach his
Point.
hard to fiind. About the only living vau ...
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tus I fouud that the dead man's ear sermon three or four feet nway, but
he never learns that fact and damages
Mrs. Madge Wall, o f Portland, is things that seemed plentiful were fleas position, being atone deaf, and no wrote «ow n the vibrations,
amount o f kicking or rag chewing could
tlrrlveU at tlie t.ouc,us,on lhBt lf , his own cause by dragging bis chair
—
the
woods
and
the
dry
grass
and
paying her mother, Mrs. S E, Beal, a
budge
him.
His
decisions
were
abso-
could
jn.ike
Iron
vibrate
on
a
dead
over your carpet and putting his breath
( leaves were alive with them. I had
a visit.
been tramping over the hills for several lutely on the square and gave universal mini’s ear I could make an Instrument In your face.
Remember the dates for Dr. Davis,
more delicate which would cause those
" I know one office man In town who
Call on us or write us
j hours and went down to the river to satisfaction.
the dentist. Central Point, November
As a matter o f fact, Ashland didn't vibrations to be heard and understood, got so tired of having cigar ashes on
j get a drink, and was resting beside a
your needs.
9th to 14th.
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! rock, when I heard a commotion a little come within a mile o f having a look-; 1 thought If I placed a delicate piece of his clothes and smoke poured luto his
Christian Science ser/ices are held way up stream and soon saw a big in at any stage o f the game. While: stoe* ° ' cr aa electric magnet I could face that he called a carpenter, took
every Sunday morning in the Masonic I coyote frantically tearing around in tl e the two teams look to be very equally ; m a v" ’ratlon' luld <hus the telephone the rollers oft one chair, placed It In
was completed.
a conrenlent position at the end of hla
lodge room, opera house building, at 1 brush and trying to scratch himself balance ! as to weight, the Pointers
"The telephone arose from my at desk, then had the man nail It to the
11:00 o’clock. A ll arc invited to at ; with all four feet at once. He evident were too husky by half for their oppo
Local Representative,
tempts to teach the deaf to speuk. It floor. But It didn’ t do a particle of
tend these services. Subject for Sun l y had fleas.. Finally he began to till nents and the odds was always with | arose from my knowledge, not o f elec-
good. The first hitcher that came In
CENTRAL POINT, ORE.
day, November 15th, “ Mortals and Im his mouth with grass and leaves until them when forcing the pigskin towards i trlclt.v, but as a teacher of the deaf. was a big. strong 200 pounder, who
mortals. ’ ’
Had I been an electrician I would not began his talk and, growing earnest.
he was holding In his mouth a bunch as their goal.
Just pulled the chair up by the roots,
Culey, left guard for Ashland, had have attempted It.”
When in Medford, go to the Emerick big as his own head. Then he began to
dragged It toward the desk and never
for your dinner. W. E. Johnson, pro back slowly into the water.
Very his nose broken and badly smashed
noticed that anything was wrong.” —
C o co a n u ts M ake Good F u e l
prietor.
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slowly he moved backward, an inch at early in the game and went home on
“ Mine Is rather n curious business,” j St. Loula Globe-Democrat
the 3:00 P. M. train, and in the last
a
time,
until
his
entire
body
was
sub
A letter from Prof. A. J. Har.by, j
said a man who owns a srnnll ware
Then his head went under, all rush and pile-up Bowers, who, by the house and shed down near London's j
who now holds the position o f principal merged
" B o g ie s’* In B u sin e ss .
way, is every inch a football player,
to visit
docks. “ I deal In cocoanut shells, aud l The successful business man played
o f the Lakeview public schools, states ^ut
*'P
^la no8e; then his nose
sustained
a
couple
of
broken
ribs.
In
last year I sold more than 50,000 bags with the quaint amulet suspended from
that himself and Mrs. Hanby are de- disappeared and he let go the bunch of
addition to these, several other o f the full of them as fuel.
lighted with their work at that place « ras8' which floated on the surface. In
his watch chalu.
Ashland team received minor injuries,
; a
a m
i n n f a or
n r two
tu rn M
M r r. Coyote
P i M i n t n reappeared
r c o r » .v x » o v o r l
" I buy thousands of coccanut shells ' “ You’d be surprised lf you knew
minute
and like their new home very much.
a couple o f hundred feel down stream, while the home team came through from stall keepers all over London, what a part superstition plays In
November 9th to 14th is the next date
from confectioners, from cocoanut oil business,” he said. ‘T know two part
swam ashore, and with a smile o f satis with hardly a scratch.
When summer has passed
for Dr. Davis, the dentist, in his Cen
extractors, from market sweepers and i ners who aro very lucky In their specu
Following is the lineup and score:
in these northern states,
faction on his face and a backward
others. I won't tell you the usual price, ! lations. Well, they never made a sin
tral Point office.
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the
nun is only mild under
glance at the floating bunch of grass, A s h l a n d
C e n t r a l P o in t
but sometimes T get them for nothing, gle plunge without cousultlug a cer
the bright blue skies of
Toggery Bill is after you again this trotted off into the forest.
Cornutt
Shible
e
for carting them away. In fact. I sell | tain medium as to their chances of
Southern California. This
week telling you all about thoseSchloss
Adam son
“ I war curious,” continued Mr. Rob- Culey—Chaney Iff
is one o f nature’ s huppy
them at fourpence a bag, most of my success.
clothes. Bill says that when you are nett, “ to find out what the performance ! E
E. . Shible
provisions—eternal
sum
Welch
rg
customers being poor people, who mix |
Another man once told me he hhd a
mer for those who cannot
out looking for clothes to try his store all meant, so with a pole I drew the ] G a lb r a it h
Beal
It
them, when broken up, with ‘slack’ | familiar spirit' whom he consulted
endure a more severe cli
and you will be so well pleased that bunch o f grass to the shore and by ac Shepard
coal. But in scores of hotels and large quite frequently and whose advice be
H. Peart
rt
mate.
you will try, try again.
houses a quantity is bought to be mix- I had always found reliable,
Caton
tual count there were 1,837,243 fleas on B o w e r s
le
California has been called
ed with coals as fire lighters, for the : "One of the most daring mnntpula-
the “ Mecca o f the winter
Virgin
Murphy
re
T. E. Daniels, the seller o f “ Duds” that bunch.”
tourist.” Its hotels and
lmmense amount of oil In cocoanut I tors In stock has a fine tiger skin
qb
R oss
It is believed that this story was re K lu m
has a big, new ad in this issue telling
stopping places are as
shells makes them take fire at once, spread as a rag on his study floor. In
B. Peart
lh
o f a lot of big bargains at his store peated in Medford last week and used Howell
varied as those o f all well
Try It ana cee.
sn expansive moment he once Informed
Clark
rh
from this date while they last. You as a campaign argument against the Parker
regulated
cities. Visitors
“ I have rivals in the business In oth-1 a friend that not only did ho seek utt
can always find suitable
Magruder
f b
wo Id better look it up and read it. | Condor company’s water proposition at Stewart
er parts of London, anil some of the vlco from clairvoyants and spiritual-
accommodations, congen
j the water election. I t must have re
Umpire, Grieve; referee, Beall.
7—11 has a lucky sound
makers of pntent fire lighters mix large Ists, but when about to carry out one
ial companions, and var
Score, Ashland 2, Central Point 12.
quantities of the shells In their compo- of his bold schemes he would lie op
Miss Nellie Mulkey has opened a quired some mighty forceful argument,
ied, pleasing recreations.
sltions.” —London News.
hla rug and stroke the paw to get ‘In
studio in Central Point for instruction not hitherto made public, to account
fluence,’ though why and how this
in piano. Miss Mutkey received her for that vote.
S h a m e le s s.
plau works I don't know.” —London
Table Rockets.
education in music at the normal school
Persons belonging to the higher Throne
at Monmouth, at Ashland and at the
walks of life are to be seen promenad
Medford’ s Water Election.
University o f Oregon, her last yea r’s
Fortune displays our virtues and oui
Mr. Collins and family are now living ing In short Jackets anil chimney pot
study being with Miss Whiteside in
Medford held a city election last on their property recently purchased huts without the slightest symptom of rices as light makes all objects appo#
Portland. Miss Mulkey can be found | Thursday to settle the water question, from Messrs. Wokoff and Shannon. awkwardness or shame.—London Tai ent.— Ln Rochefoucauld.
at the residence o f Professor Cooper.
; the result being a decisive victory for W e welcome them to our community. lor aud Cutter.
W ill be glad to supply some
Old newspapers for tale at the Her
Clarence Grisham, the little boy who jthe Fisl> Lak® proposition The coun-
Mr. A. W. Reid is in the Willamette
very attractive literature, de
ald office. Bundle o f twenty-five for
was bitten by a dog last week, is able ; cil- at a sPecial meeting that evening, valley looking for a lo ation, but it is
scribing
in detail the many de
Subscribe for the H e r a ld .
5 cents.
lights of winter in California.
to be at school again. Mr. George, ; instructed the city attorney to prepare doubtful if he can improve on Jackson
Very low round trip excursion
whose dog was alleged to have bitten a contract with Mr. Hamilton without County.
tickets are on sale to California.
the boy, informs the Herald that he delay so that work could be commenced
The
rate from Central Point
Col. Washburn is having his orchard
Mr.
to Los Angeles and return is
knows to a c e ta in ty that his dog was at the earliest possible moment.
sprayed for the scale and other pests, j
shut up at the time o f the occurrence Hamilton, representative of the Fish
The number o f our residents who
$ 4 7 .6 0 .
One of the Soundest Financial
and that he is not the guilty animal. Lake company, has stated that no time
“ knew all along that Bryan had no
Institutions
on
the
Pacific
coast.
However, to avoid even the suspicirn will be lost in getting the pipeline and
Limit
six
months,
allowing stop
chance” have greatly increased since
overs in either direction. Simi
o f keeping a cross dog, in the future, reservoir completed.
the
election.
They
now
outnumber
the
I t Is rumored that Dr. Ray, repre
T ransacts a G eneral Banking Business.
lar excursion rates are in effect
Mr. George has sent his dog to the
“ I-told-you-sos.”
to all California points.
country for the remainder o f the win senting the Condor W ater and Power
Your account is respectfully so
The entertainment given by our Sun-
Company, whose proposition was re
ter.
licited, be it large or small.
For full information. Hloepinjr rar reaerva-
Fred Kincaid, son o f Mr. and Mrs. jected by Medford, will go ahead with day School in Col. Washburn’s ware- j
lona and tickets, ra ff on, telegraph or w rite
Tom Kincard, who live three and one- his project regardless o f Medford and ! house last Friday evening was a great j
DIRECTORS.
E. M. C o n d it , Agent,
half miles north from here, was brought install a system designed for irrigating 1 success in every -particular. The audb j
J. W. MERRITT,
J. O. ISAACSON,
Central Point,
down from Ashland last Thursday and all o f this section o f the valley and to ; ence was a large one, made up of our ,
OR
President
Cashier
taken to his parents’ home. Mr. Kin furnish Central Point with water. The | own residents and many from Sams |
W m . M c M u r r ay , Gen. Pass. A g t.,
Herald is not in a position to give ! Valley and Agate. The play was a |
W. C. LEEVER,
L C. ROBNETT
caid has been seriously ill for almost a
authoritative information on this mat- j good one and was well rendered and j
Portland, Oregon.
year suffering from a form o f spinal
Vice-President.
W.
J.
FREEMAN.
on Mr. F. A. Green,
j
disease. He was taken to an
— Ashland
---------- ter
. . at the
. Present
. . . time, but it is known , reflects , much credit
,
,
Garden, Orchard
or
Alfalfa Lands.
W . E. KAHLER,
Now is the Time
California
Southern Pacific
Company
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hospital some six weeks ago for treat- that a lar* e force ° f men are now « • * ' the author and stage manager, and on
merit and was at first given hopes that (faticd rt the power plant at Gold Ray all who took part in it The rec.tations
a cure could be effected. Later, how preparing to install an extensive addi- by Miss Nellie Dugan and Miss Marie
Nealon were well received and the
ever, his condition grew worse and the , tion 10 the P,ant- ____________
acting by little “ Teeters” took the
physicians pronounced his case hopeless, j
cake. The characters in the play were
He was anxious to be brought home,
\ JrUe g ea r StOfy
! taken by Mr and Mrs. F. A. Green,
and it was at his earnest solicitation |
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.,
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Misses Lillie Dugan, Hazel Byrum,
that the trip «a s undertaken. I t is I W ’ °„ VauBhn’ 3n oId res,d' nt ofJthe
upper Rogue, was in town a few days i Marie Nealon, Jessie Green, Isabelle
feared that the end may come at any
ago after his winter supplies. ¡Mr. Timmie, the Misses Adams, Kathrine
time.
| Vaughn related a bear story while in | Labon and Masters Cecil and Carl
! town for the truth o f which he is will- ! Adams, Guy and W illie Davis. A fte r )
: the play a lunch consisting c f coffee |
I ing to vouch. A neighbor o f hi3 set
School Notes.
bear trap near the bank o f the Rogue and sandwiches was served, followed
and a few hours later heard a terrific by select reading by Miss Mae Nealon ;
W e notice quite an increaoe in en -1 rumpus being kicked up in that vicinity and songs by the Sunday-school choir. |
rollment this week. At^ present there j j e hun-ied to the spot, expecting to The collection taken up amounted to j
are 29 pupils in the high school and a find a captive bear, but instead the trap $9.05.
total o f 268 in the school.
was gone, with never a trace o f which I
The schoel was favored by a visit direction the pole and chain had been
Pdlmer Family Buy Big Ranch
from Mrs. Cooper and Miss Mulkey dragged. For more than an hour the
I
this week.
trapper carefully searched the moun- l
tainside
in
the
belief
that
he
would
find
A
report
reached
here
Tuesday
that
J
There is a general opinion among the
pupils that they are going to receive a either the trap and pole or some sign of Honoré Palmer and his mother, Mrs.
full nine months’ school this year if no where it had been dragged. Finally he Potter Palmer, of the well-known mil- j
turned his attention to the river and llonaire Chicago family, have purchased
fire occurs to cause a delay.
Last Wednesday the school had a after some trouble he fished the dead the Bybee ranch on Rogue river, four
general cleaning. The paper, sticks body o f a big bear, chain, pole and all miles northeast from Central Point. |
and trash was gatherel in piles and from a deep eddy in the river. The The place contains about 1200 acres and
burned. It helped the general appear bear, when trapped had evidently pick- I the price is said to be about $38,000.
ance and the yard is now in conditii n ed the pole up under his "a rm ” and No definite information o f the future
carried it to the river where he became plans o f the purchasers regarding the
to receive the Fall rains.
entangled in the chain and drowned.
, property has yet been given out, but it
The Debating Society gave their first
j is expected that vast improvements will
program last Friday evening and every
be made and it is quite probable that
one was much pleased that heard it.
DdHSOO.
the property will be transformed into
The question for debate was light, but
Levi Dawson, an old resident o f this
an elegant summer estate for the Palm-1
it brought the pupils to their feet, county, died at Talent on the 29th day
er family. The location for such a pur- j
which is the hardest part of the ordeal. of October, 1908, aged about 60 years.
pose is an ideal one, there being sever
It was decided by the judges that C o -! A widow, Mrs. Laura Dawson, o f this
al miles o f river frontage through the
lumbus was braver than Washirgton. 1 city, three daughters, Mrs. Hattie
property with magnificent groves of
The question chosen for the next debate Ragsdale, o f Trail; Mrs. Irene Avery,
natural timber.
is one o f interest to every person in 1 of Roseburg, an ! Nellie Da-vann, of
It will be noticed that most o f the
the state who is interested in education, this place; and two sor.s, Ira and Elmer,
important sales now being made in th e ,
The questi m is: "Resolved, That the o f this city, survive him.
valley are in the Central Point section
The funeral was held October 30th,
Money of the State Should be Appor
and straws show which way the wind
tioned to the Schools in Proportion to interment being in the Trail cemetery
is beginning to blow.
the Number o f Teachers Employed. beside the remains o f his little son.
I
Rather Than by the Census Enumera Jakie Dawson, who was buried there
Subscribe for the H e ra ld .
several years ago.
tion.”
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