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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1909)
CENTRAL POINT HERALD, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1909. C entral P oint H erald Balloons In W arfare. Effective shell fire directed upon a Moorish camp at Mellila by Spanish S. A. I’ATTJSON, I’UHUStlKR. artillerists by means of intelligence se cured in a captive balloon Is an up to An independent local newspaper date proof of the possibilities of aerial devoted to the interests o f Central scouting. Dbring the civil War the Point and the Rogue River Valley. balloon was tested in the Army of the Published Every Thursday. Potomac for nearly two years and Subscription price, 41.50 per year, in then abandoned. That it was a mis advance. take to throw askle this novel adjunct of scouting has since been shown by Entered as Second-class Matter, May 4, the admissions of a Confederate signal 1906, at the Post Office at Central Point, expert in the force confronting the Oregon, under the A ct o f Congress of Army of the Potomac at the time. lie March a. 1879. says that ttie balhoon of Professor Lowe caused annoyance in L ees » t camps and resulted In numerous de lays of movements by roundabout marches in order to escape the vigi A MR Al CHURCH CELEBRATION, lance of tlie Yankee aeronaut. Professor Lowe’s ascensions were al ways made with a captive balloon. This month in Pittsburg, Penn- One», with General Fitz-Joho Porter sylvania, the members of the | in the basket, it broke loose and car Christian or Disciple church to ried the general over the Confederate the member of many thousands lines, but a shifting wind turned the course homeward again. Had he drift from all parts of the world will ed lo a Confederate prison instead gather to celebrate the one hun probably Ids tragic experiences at sec dredth anniversary of the found ond Bull Bun would have been avoid ing of the denomination by Bish-1 ed. Confederate marksmen often aim ed at Lowe’s balloon and its cable, but op Alexander Campbell. At a point on Brush run, in the wasted their shots. It went out of commission in 18(53 only because the western part of W ashington aeronaut and the military men could county, Penn., the first converts not pull together. The Confederates of the new faith were baptised made a balloon out of silk dresses con and the new denomination had tributed by women, but in an attempt its humble beginning. Later to tow it on James river the vessel stranded and the Federal« captured Bethany college was founded at the hug of many colors, ending its ca Bethany, West Va., only a few reer. As the Wright army aeroplanes ! miles from the spot where the are to be used by army men, the pro church was founded. The col fessional friction of 1802-3 will not be repeated. GEORGE L. KILM ER. ■ “ 5 ,0 0 0 IN 19 12 MEDFORD FURNITURE GOMP’Y THE ONLY COMPLETE HOUSE FU R N ISHING ESTABLISHM ENT IN S. ORE. Any s ..jsely settled road dls- triet iu Oregon van get good, r, ku I s now by simply voting in ! '< i V l l l l ' t I on the initiative of ten p t T C lilit O'. its citizens such f inds muy required. 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Then in the spring of 1859 he its kind in that sect o ¡o f country Fu 1 ton «how will lio of absorbing in [C opyright, 1909, by A m erican Press A sso succeeded in Infecting two others ciation.] with his delusion, and they provided and in the little cemetery o f the terest and long remembered, the ex One morning about fifty years ago a him with new capital with which to village repose the remains of hibit« in museums and libraries, pic tall man with a black beard, fiis head continue his boring. He secured the tures, books, maps and records fur Bishop Campbell and also those | nishing a complete course in Ameri bent iu thought, sauntered along the services of a practical salt driller and bank of a creek In Pennsylvania. An his two sons, who possessed a com o f his father who was also a I can history. idea find got into fiis brain, and he plete outfit of tools to be used in the minister. work. , could not get it out. It Is ail a pointer to the man who The Campbells came from Scot No sooner had they begun to drill | There have been many men similarly land and the bishop was a grand does the trick oue of these days to go infected, but there have been few —a than through the porous soil water after the south [x»le with a band wag | very few —who have worked out their poured into their well, tilling it with son of Thomas Campbell the poet on or something just as good. mud and interfering with their work. idea successfully. who wrote “ The Battle of Hohen-1 | The man of one Idea stopped beside The drill ceased to bore, but the brain linden,” “ The Fall o f Poland,” ! A colored man has “ hung one” on a trench and watched people placiug of the man of one idea worked on. He and other poems o f considerable the north pole, so Jack Johnson’s ! blankets on the water It contained, must invent some method of preserv then taking them up aud wringing ing his well. Various experiments he popularity. The Campbells were st-unt wasn’t much, after all. them over tubs. This was the early tried failed. Then, securing some cast also Presbyterians when they j The ambitions of a lot o f arctic ex method used in gathering petroleum. Iron piping, he drove it into the ground came to America hut they became j plorers seem to have disappeared in The oil exuded from the soil and when that he might bore within it. That it collected In the trenches, being lighter was of cast rather than wrought Irou involved in a dispute with the £ymines' hole. than water, rose to the surface, from indicates the mau’s pinched resources. which it was either absorbed by tlje It would not stand the blows neces hair splitting theologians w ho! Somehow those uortli pole breezes blankets or skimmed in dippers. The sary to drive it into the soil. After dominated that church in West gave September a very warm spell. process had been borrowed from the more delay better piping was secured ern Pennsylvania in those early! Indians, who used petroleum for lini and a section driven in. It stood the Cronipers and Opportunism. hammering, and, another section hav days and either their names were ment. The man watching the work had ing been welded to if. this was also The triumph of the opportunist dropped from the church rolls or Whence came pounded down successfully. Thus some wing of the Social Democratic party ! seen it often before. they refused to make certain ac o f Germany has made socialism a this Oil? A vision of a great oil lake sixty feet of piping was introduced knowledgement as to their belief more formidable political force in that I lying below the stratum of rock cov- and bedrock reached. The obstacle having been removed, and voluntarily left the old country. The doctrinaires, or radicals, ] ered by tin* soil from which the petro the drill was set to work. The man leum exuded tilled fils mind. And why who hail been in control, would take Scotch church and soon after did it come up through the soil? Be was nearfng the attainment of his founded the Christian church nothing unless they could get the full cause of pressure. There was not idea. He drilled but two days when Socialist program. The new attitude room for the oil lake in its rock prison, the bit struck a crevice, and. being which has grown to be a body of withdrawn, it was found to be smear will be to compromise, to form coali and it was striving to get out. more than 1,000,000 members. j tions and to take a half loaf or even Then came the thought. If he could ed with oil. This was ou Saturday Tbp new denomination soon be a sing]«* slice if the whole loaf Is not bore a hole in the rook the oil would night, and operations were suspended to be recommenced the following Mon came populnr in the south and within reach. This is known ns the burst forth as water from a hydrant. day. One morning in the spring of 1X57 step at a time method or as oppor and west an4 it is today one of The chief driller, who lived in a the man of one idea started from New tunism. It has been adopted with Haven. Conn., for the banks of Oil shanty near the well, early Sunday the leading denominations in that some effect in France and by the morning went on an errand to the der vast portion of Uie United Status. John Burns wing of the labor party l creek. Pennsylvania, with a thousand rick house. There he saw a sight that dollars In his pocket, furnished by The Christians have a strong in England. j I Kickers, to bo used In drilling that told the story of his employer’s suc With if he bought an engine cess. The oil was bubbling over the The new order calls to mind the re dole. church organization in Central cent uproar raised in tlie international and hired an experienced driller. The piping, running over the floor of the Point. trades union congress over Samuel I engine was long in coming, and the derrick and thence into the ground. The first idea that entered'the mind Uoiuperx and the American Federa driller, convinced that his employer The recently published state was a crank, finally refused to stand of Hie discoverer was that u fluid then tion of Labor. The socialistic element ment of a prominent New York 4>f the international body objected to by him. The summer wore awnv, ttie worth a dollar a gallon was running to waste Having arranged for catch physician that all operations for Goinpers because of this very oppor i money was expended, and the entbu- ing the flow, lie went and announced j slnst’s backers, losing faith In him. de his discovery to the man of one idea. the removal of the appendix tunism which lie lias always upheld. fined to furnish more funds, And what did this oozing of oil should he considered criminal (Jumpers lias continuously refused to i Those who were collecting oil in allow socialism to be introduced into blankets and skimming it from the through an Iron pipe Inserted beneath I)‘cause of the large percentage' tile demands of the American feder -urface of water went mi with their the rock mean? it meant that a new o f deaths that follow tin* opera ation and in his campaign for organ vork regardless of the man of one source of wealth had been opened to tion, recall the story of the Fast- ized labor lias followed tlie step at a I idea. The people living on Oil creek. the people of the earth destined to produce thousands of millions of dol era Oregon man who was sub time method. The result in Germany passing i|ny after dav liis uncompleted lars. to give light and beat to myriads j preparation*, considered him u mono ject to fits. The man was at- has vindicated the American attitude. maniac—a man who wished to bore of people, to be manufactured into un products. tarked by appendicitis and was When the Socialist element, which is i down Into the earth to find a lake of limited Tills man of one idea, who drilled quite strong in most European coun taken lo a hospital and upder- tries and has some strength here, de- o||. What more absurd idea had ever the first oil well in Pennsylvania, was got into the brain of man? The sto w n a successful operation. tides permanently to go into the fight ries of Munchausen were no more fin- Edward L. Drake. A handsome tomb Sometime later he w a . in a f«-r whatever it can get it may become probable. The children In the streets j in Woodiawn cemetery, in Titusville, marks his lust resting place. 1 jeered him. aud ttieir parents tapped strange to w n 1 o v < t. en a force to be reckoned with. Aeroplanes make records only to he passed. ! i heir foreheads with a lit and fell upon the side Secretan of Agriculture Wllson I The winter came mi. and the man o f • br-ak them and even make new ones walk. A young, awhonesrushed one Idea found himself faciog poverty. at breaking themselves. says iticnt ix «leal* beca use tlie laborcr to the rescue and atonce diagnos- eats it tinco timen a day and Uislsts IT is funds both for the purposes of out Ids dream and for sup You may not see the connecting Ifnk • d the ease as appendicitis. The upoii Mu» "best cuts.” Tilo bo.st cuta working porting his family were exhausted. between the cool clay and the cooler atient was taken to a hospital ibai come ti» tlie nvértigo lul*>rer\« His children needed f* mk 1 and clothing, Iceman, but 't's there. and his inti rior department again tablc are tiie bo*t froui tiw croas rib, put shopkeepers declined to give cred- 1 round and < hnck. invaded. After that the fellow ivud the follow ing stamped on his ndcrsliirt • “ Am subject to fits; vdt o; i rite,; appendix has been removed.“ W THE MAN OF ONE IDEA Despair and Despondency No one but a woman can tell the atory of the suffering, the despair, and the despondency endured by women w ho carry a daily burden of ill-health and pain because of disorders and derangements of the delicate and important organs that are distinctly feminine. The tortures so bravely endured com- picieiv upset the nerves if long continued. 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