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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1909)
C entral po in t H erald VOL. 4 CENTRAL POINT, Many Conventions In Po'tlanJ command good prices. Offers of 13 cjnt3 have been made for the 1908 crop OREGON. Editors Fight fe r fish. THURSDAY. AUGUST 5, 19C9. lost In The Hills. N O Buz/drd Ore Runs High. 16 . Council Sell Water Bonds. that a few weeks ago went begging at (Special Correspondence) The Medford—Grants Pass— Gold, Frank Hatfield and Paul Norcross, Mayor W. C. Leever and Hon. J. W. The city council at its regular meet Conventions of more than usual in 5 cents. Short crops in England and Hill papers have been handing each | two well known young men of Central Merritt returned Sunday evening from ing Monday night disposed of the city other a few complinary remarks over p : . . Merritt returned Sunday evening terest to the whole northwest will be Germany are said to be boosting the the fishing situation at Grants Pass and ’ ave some rl lnK expert- .San Francisco where they went some water bonds, getting a premium of *275 he d he e during the middle of August. prices. to an outsider it has developed into j ences to tel1 regarding their camping | time ago with a shipment of ore from for the entire issue. The highest bid The Am ricun Association of Farmers Oregon lumbermen will participate quite a nice little comedy. Editor Fay tr*P "hen they return to town. The the Buzzard mine ot Institute Workers wi 1 gather here for the headwaters der was the S. A. Keen Company of the 14;.h annua! meeting on August 16 quite generally in the semi-annual meet of the Go d Hill Nev.s starts the ball two young men are camped at the Nat- 0f Elk creek 45 mil northeast from Chicago, and besides the premium they ura| bridge on upper Rogue river and and 17. The Association for the pro ing of the Western Pine Manufacturers rolling as follows: this city. pay the expenses of the bond issue— • Many towns invite everyone to stop, on Sunday of last week they wandered motion of Agricultural Science will Association at Spokane on August 9. Grants Pass not only invites the fish in • 3 t tu 1 The gentlemen shipped 20 tons to the that is the expenses of making the meet here August 17 end the Associa J.he ptogrnm is an interesting one and Rogue river to stop’ but sees that they *way tron® carnp a nd in some manner tion of American Agricultural Colleges their bearings and were unable to smeRer as a test run in order to deter- bonds, etc. Two other bids were re many will go from this state. Among do so, and there don’t seem to be any will hold the 23rd annual convention wav to prevent it. If the commercial return to their starting point. The ™»ne the actual values of the ore and ceived—one at par and another for a . here on August IS. l‘J and 20. The the speakers will be Gifford Pinchot, club of that city were as successful bovs wprp nhqpni with the homeseekers as the fishermen . .‘ ^ Wed- they were more than pleased with the premium of $254.50. conventions will deal with scientific eg- United Slates Forester. Conservation are with the fish, grass woultl soon " y ornin*- retails of their ex- reSult. Mr. Leever says the test nrov- A proposition was also received from ricultute am! improved farming meth ami reforestation are subjects that will sprout through the paved streets of P r,ence are rather meager but evident-■ , , ^ ods will he discussed fully. Able au be discussed and are of general inteiest Medford and Gold Hill would tie a hole ly they suffered no ill effects from it . J 6" beyond a 1 question that the ore ! F. K. Lowry, representing the Ameri- in the ground.” thorities on these su jects wi 1 speak. to lumbermen. they are stiil in the hills. will pay well to mine and ship even with can Light & Water Company, offering Hogs continue to make new records ! Then the Medford Tribune adds in Many will be in attendance from all | the long haul to the railroad and that it to submit plans and specifications for sult to injury, to the Grants Pass in the Portland market. What lis said parts of the United States. I is their intention to mine and ship sev- 1 the proposed system, free of cost to papers, by willfully and malicious y Baby Morphine fiends. Tlie meetings will lie held in Ihe con to have been the highest price ever paid ■ eral cars this season. For business j the city, with a bid for construction of copying Mr. Fay’s remarks, and to are made by all soothing syrups in any market in the United States was | vention hall of the Commercial Club. and, .. the gentlemen do not make the system, the said American Light & show its contempt for both the Rogue babv medicines that contain opium and !reasons reasons the Following the final session on Friday, realized here during the past week when Water Company agreeing to accept the $9.50 was paid for a bunch of tine pork- River Courier takes up the question ¡n narcotics. McGees Baby Elixir con- I Public the actual figures on the result the visitors will he taken by special city bonds in payment for their work at ers. Many other sales was made at behalf of its town with the following: tains no injurious or narcotic drugs of t of the smelter test but it is evident that 5J per cent, or 1 of one per cent less train on a trip through the Willamette “ Material for newspapers must be valley as guests of the Commercial bettor than *9.00 per hundred poundsin 1 scarce in both Gold Hill and Medford. disordered t than the bonds have been advertised ^ f° r ' the fi* the local stockyards. These attractive , . ures a re P ^ t t y well up or it club. The hop, prune, walunt and ot h What has Grants Bass got to do with disordered stomachs, oowels and fret- for sale, should their bid be accepted. eaduig crops of the district wilt be futures ought to encourage farmers to j keeping the fish from going up? The fulness-splendid for teething infants. I wovld not pay to haul and ship so long The report sent from hero to a Medford a distance. raise more hogs. | fish warden says he is going to build a Sold by Mary A. Mee. seen. Corvallis wit entertain the dele paper stating that Mr. Lowry’s propo I fishway in addition to the one already , gates over night. On the following day ■ in the dam which will insure more fish ! ~ " sition comtemplated the private owner a similar trip will be made to Hood Riv ! going up the river, but so far he takes r:f.. . i> „„ i: Fiero Buys Beebe Traci. Who! is Best for Indeyistion ship and control of the water system is it out in talk. He has 1 een trying to G ity G O U rU il PrOCCCdifigS er where the extensive apple orchards entirely erroneous. This proposition j make himself popular, in Medford by 1 will be inspected. Mr. A Robinson of Diumquin, uni. Ont. j talking for publication. He says that The citv council mpt in A. Conro Fiero, who recently pur however was not considered by the The price of hogs is soaring and the h is been trou led for years with iddi- ! fishermen turn out the fights at the : », . *■* sess chased the J. W. Myers tract east of council. advance means money in the pockets of gestion and recommends Chamberlains ! Ament dam and he imagines that they jn * 11t^ Mayor Lee- town, paying *20 000 for 20 acres oflthe The sale of these bonds now insure the northwest growers. A repetition of Stomach and Liver Tablets as .... " are doing or are going to do something ver *n the chair, and all members pres- finest orchard in the valley, has doubled the early commencement of the actual tne | wrong. He admits that he is afraid to ent except Councilman Pattison. The the stirring days of 1904 in the hop best medicine I ever used.” If troub go out after dark without a light and the size of his holdings by purchasing work of constructing Central Point’s trade is promised. Brewers of the led indigestion or constipation give them so he runs over to Medford and tells accumu ation of the month's business from A. W. Beebe 20 acres adjoining water system and if nothing occurs now benefi- ■ about bug-a-boos which he suspects in- ; 'ya* disposed of and bills amounting to world are said to be facing a serious a trial. They are certain to he to the west, paying $11,000 or $550 per to de'ay the work the system can be ... , , 1 habit the river below the dam. Sensi-, $137.95 were audited and allowed, shortage of hops. The market in Port cal- They are easy to take and pleas- | ble peop|e do not take anv stock in The bj(Js for acre for the same. Seveu acres of the completed before winter. the city water bonds land has been lifted in a few week from anc in effect. Price 25 cents, samples j charges which have in no instance been Considering the high rates that are we e opened and disposed of. The bid I Beebe tract is planted to 3-year-old 10 cents to 20 cents. Even old hops free at Mary a Mee’s drug store. | proven. Grants Pass people are not f I pears, and 6 acres to 5-year-old Spitz- now being paid for money in the East ; to i lame because Gold Hill ..... and ____ Med- of S A. Keen & Co.; _ of Chicago, ... I ford fishermen have “fisherman’s ?to,275 being the highest received, the enberK aPP,es- The remaining 7 acres ern financial centers the council has 1 will . be . planted to pears this winter. made a good sale of the bond issue and ¡luck.” | bonds were awarded to them. Other.,™ ,, But the real humor of the question bids were C. H. Coffin & Co., of Chiea- i lhls ^lvea "*r 'r,ero one of the best 40 from the thorough investigation that is made by men .of finance before they I arises when the fish warden does hap- j go, par, J. H. Causey & Co., of Denver | acres ^ru*f ’n the valley. will invest in bonds of this kind a ! pen to catch a pair of poachers napping j $25, 254.50. good opinion will have been formed of and runs them in, and then the I Intense Colicky Pains Relieved. Central Point. Courier has to make the following ex Attention Pioneers. “For some years I suffered from in planation: tense colicky pains which would com: * ‘An article on another page of this I -------- Granulated Sore fyes cured issue, headed “Grants Pass Not Re-1 The 33rd annual reunion of the Pio- on at times and from which I could find “ For 20 years I suffered from a bad sponsi le ,” was written and printed be-1 neer Society of Southern Oregon will no relief, ” says 1 S Mason of Beaver tore it transpired that two Oregon City e„ uo1, * ui j r, * w 11 men had been arrested, charged with Ashland, Oregon; on Thurs- Dam, Ky. “Chamber ains".Colic, Chol- case of granulated sore eyes says Mar fishing with a boat without a name on f‘ay August 26th. We hope to have era ar,d Diarrhoea Remedy was recom- tin Boyd of Henriette, Ky. “ In Feb it. This is hardly a great victory for the pleasure of greeting you on that menc*ed to me by a friend. After tak- ruary, 1903, a gentleman asked me to the officials. I t cannot be c aimed that occasion, together with your family and a ^ew doses of the remedy 1 was en- try Chamberlains Salve. I bought one Grants Pass is in anyway responsible frienrfR i, L * ,.. “ tirelv relieved That A ... for these terrible ct mumps than i t 1 friends. It is desirable thatfthe annual t-*ri‘br relieved. That was four years box and used about two-thirds of it and would be if they had comb from Med-1 •eunions of the society be perpetuated. aK0 uud there has been no return of the my eye» have not given me any trouLle ford.” Prof. B. F. Mulkey, of Jacksonville, 8ymPtons since then.’ since. For sale by Mary A. Mee. It seems really a shame too, that the ^as agreed to deliver an address to the Mary A. Mee, Courier had to retract ail of that good pioneers and their friends on that oc dope which was intended to squash all casion Come and bring your badges Respectfully yours, who have the effrontery to question with you, Silas J. Day, Josephine county's right to monopolize the fishing in Rogue river but it seoms Secretary. that the right thing is bound to turn up once in a while—even if a fish war M A N U F A C T U R E R S B U ILD IN G . You can appreciate the dollar that you save for Chamberlains Colic, Cholera and Diarr den is responsible for it. it represents a sacrifice, either of time, labor or On the eastern side of Geyser Basin, at the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc Ex hoea Remedy Never Known to Fail. position, the handsome Manufacturers Building looks across the restless of some luxury. A bank account with this “ I ¡have used Chamberlains Colic, Colts Show. waters of the Cascades and the fla hing foam of “Old Faithful,” the re Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy since it bank will insure the safety o f your money production of Us namesake in Yellowstone National Park. ------- | was first introduced to the public in Its location is the most central of any of the exposition buildings, and I will have on exhibition in Central j 1872. and have never round one instance its architectural design is especially fitting for the position it. has been Point, Saturday August 14th, a number where a cure was not speedily effected given, ft was one of the first great exhibition palaces to be completed, of colts from the Btallion “ Dewey” , I by its use. I have been a commercial and before the end of last year was ready for the reception of its vast col ranging in ages from 4-year-olds down, ! traveler for 18 years, and never start lection of exhibits. It will house a magnificent assortment of the highest Look them up as some fine anima s will out on a trip with out this, my faithful J. W. MERRITT, President J. O. ISAACSON, Cashier examples of man's ingenuity and invention, and within its walls will be be on exhibition. I5dl6 ; friend,” says H S Nichols of Oakland gathered specimens of manufactured articles from the workshops of every W. J. FREEMAN W. C. LEEVER, I. C. ROBNETT i Indian Territory. J. M. Samuels. nation or importance In the world. I Sold by Mary A. Mee: It overlooks the finest of the formal gardens of the exposition, and Its Lo. The Poor Editor. splendid line of pergolas, with their vine-covered columns and blossoming flowers, complete a restful and pleasing view. At no part of the grounds can be seen a more beautiful Illuminating effect than is presented from The following definition of an editor, the open pergolas during the late evening and early night. A million sparkling electric bulbs flash their white lights through the waters and, ! taken from one of our exchanges hits scattered throughout the greenery, hundreds of electroliers mingle their j the nail on the head and is worthy of many hues with the riot of colors. Looking down the gentle slope of j reproduction: Rainier Avenue the floating craft of two lakes is brought into vision and The editor of today has to get his adds the delights of a broad, light-sprinkled stretch of forest-enclosed nose down on the grindstone and keep waters to the whole effect. ' it there sixteen hours per day and 365 ! days in the year or he falls by the way- ’ side. There are men who quit work Saturday night and rest until Monday morning. They lay aside business cares at five or six o’clock every evening and do not res me them until seven or eight the next morning. Not so your editor He has no elegant leisure. He knows no hours, no Sunday, no nights When vKacassratssoimwasKsamagSBaatmcmxt Have it set while he goes to a party, or to church, or on you wait by the a pleasure trip, it is ail irt the line of WE ARE A L J o MAKING A RUN ON A FEW 1 duty. Withal, your editor is a cheerful longsuffering soul, going about doing .SUMMER DRE-SJ GOODJ THE LATEST P A T goi-d in his humble wav. He returns gi od for evil. He writes 'ong puffs TERNS IN LAWN J , &ATISTIES, ETC THE-SE for church sociables, and in return P R I C EJ AR E PLACED IN REACH OF ALL th-refor he accepts a hunk of cake that would sink an ironclad. He notes the arrival of all the babies in the neigh r ' ‘ r a g J B r a r a 1 a ts a iM w itra a fM — borhood and eternally perjures his soul This machine compresses the metai cold and insures again t by telling how pretty they are. He re charred felloes and over-dished wheels joices with the gay and mourns with those who are sad. He booms every enterprise which makes his community rich and goes about hiirfelf clothed in gunny sack coats and one suspender. He glories over the fortune of his neighbor, and meekiy eats his own re past of I roiled corn-cobs and colored It. beta off tomato tans. He ran »rite a sermon, an account ot a prize fight, a General Repair and Machine work receive prompt attention political speech, an obituary noer •, p •try, etc:t wt,rd. pi'ch hay. »asn C e n tra l Pc indi dishes pr- ids at camp meeting, awry O r e g o n horarf. «?•!• low r;- 7 -1 ,.r :.n; thing e ls. at a n ntn a< t:: e. REAL APPRECIATION CENTRAL POINT STATE BANK Fire! Smoke! W ater Is Your Tire Loose? s f ;U Backed by the Sheriff could not make the prices we are making on our Calicoes All of cur 61- 2 cent Calicoes now 5 cents. W B rooks’ Gold T ir e iS e tte r Process Come Early and Avoid The Rush Our Horseshoeing Department Is In Charge of an Expert, Scientific Operator. F. A. Hawk & Robnett