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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1910)
(/ / tL C entral point herald ESTAHLISIIED A P R I L CENTRAL POINT, VOL. 5 V. M. C. A. WORKERS MAKING PROGRESS ILLINOIS MAN BUYS TABLE ROCK RANCH 2<>, 1 0 0 « . OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 11. 1910. BIO IMPROVEMENTS THROUGHOUT VALEEV SHOULD SPRINKEE NO 17 $6,000 BUILDING STREET CROSSINGS PASSENGER SERVICE FOR Y. M. C. A. TO BE INCREASED Some ReJ iupc Necessary to Start Wealth and Beauty of Valley Wins In Every Direction from Central Point Couutil Not Doing Its Duty by the Concrete Structure 55X60 or Per Another Passenger Train anJ Improvements are Inder Headway. Enterprising Merchants. Another Valuable Resident. Increased Motor Service. Building f unJ in Proper Manner. haps Much Larger. an Perhaps no other section o f the state Business men and property owners on A deal was closed last Friday where- An apparently well authenticated re- There was a goodly attendance at the Watch us grow. Y. M. O. A. meeting Sunday afternoon, by the Central l’oinl section of the is enjoying more rapid development Pine street have contracted with Fer An elegant Y. M. C. A. building is 1 port comes from Portland to the effect at which Mr. H C. Garnett of Med- Rogue river valley wins another excel- than is Rogue river valley, and espec- guson & Murray for sprinkling that practically assured for Central Point. ( that the Southern Pacific Company will lord was the principal speaker. Mr. lent resident without losing anything ¡ally is this true with the central por- street in front of their respective busi Mr. I. B. Rhodes, state secretary for | soon double their passenger service Garnett's address was drawn along by the transaction. On that day W. tion o f the valley, that which immedi ness places, and the service commenced the Y. M. C. A. arrived yesterday and over this line by adding two new reason, how- lines o f common sense, and was veryjR . Byrum. of the Table Rock neighbor- ately surrounds Central Point. No mat last Friday. For .. some ... , , , I at a meeting of the local board of di- | through passenger trains daily between instructive and o f great value to the | hood, sold his fine 00 acre farm to H. ter which way the gaze of the observer "* » o w last evening plans were perfect. [ Portland and San Francisco, one of building association o f this place. Mr. W. B. Dunlap, a recent arrival from is turned, whether toward Jacksonville, to arrange with the contractors for ed for for opening and carrying through | which will be of the same class as the Garnett showed great interest in the Illinois, the consideration being $18,000. Medford, Eagle Point, Table Rock. sprinkling the street intersections, and a whirlwind campaign for ra ng the Shasta limited, while the others will future success of the big undertaking! Mr. Dunlap, who is a brother of Tolo or Gold Hill, the same condition in consequence the effect on the dust necessary funds. Six soliciting com handle both through and local traffic New buildings, new fences, nuisance is not what it should be. It mittees, of five members each were ap the same as trains 13 and 15, 14 and 16 here, and gave every encouragement to Councilman A. J. Dunlap of this city, exists. those who are so diligently working in j arrived here two weeks ago on a visit newly planted orchards, new roads and is discouraging for a business man with pointed to go out and get the necessary now do. In addition to this it is stated lit half o f the association. I to his brother as well as to look at the bridges, new irrigating canals and a big stock of goods on his shelves to funds to erect the building and the that the local motor service between William A. Cowley, who donated a j country, and was so favorably im-1 scores of new things which bespeak pay for having the dust kept down in minimum amount these thirty gentle Grants Pass and Ashland will also make fine lot on I’ ine street, valued at $800, to pressed with general conditions that he great activity in the development of i front of his place, while several inches men are going after is $6000.00 and as an additional round trip daily The of dust on an adjoining intersection is the association, was present at the quickly decided to become a permanent this great vallev. much more as can be raised in a week; step is to be taken because of the in meeting and made a report of the visit fixture. After closing the details of | Noticeable among valuable improve- whiffed into his store by every passing the more money the bigger and better creased travel over this line which breeze. It is not only discouraging, has been heavier this summer than o f Mr. I. B. Rhodes o f Portland, State the deal, Mr. Dunlap left yesterday for mentg near Central Point the attention but it is an injustice on these men. will be building and equipment. the east where he will close up his af- ¡s first attracted by the work being J. O. Isaacson was chosen as general ever before. Secretary o f the association. They cheerfully spend their money to . j The local motor service has proven chairman of the money-getting Mr. Rhodes informed the executive fairs and bring his tamily here, arriv- done by tbe county at the Bear Creek bridge near this city. The old covered make our main business street more paign and he it is who will direct the : very P°Pulaf and the car is filled to its committee that before he could do any ing about October 1st. The farm is one of the best in the fa- S[)an and the worn out approaches on attractive and comfortable for every : daily work of the committees. The j capacity almost every trip. Already thing toward giving assistance in rais vored Table Rock section. Seven acres ellber end have been torn away to be body, as well as to protect their own work will commence next Monday twelve passenger trains, including the ing the building fund, it would be nec- of it is now set to commercial apples rep|ac d bv modern spans and ap- merchandise, . . . . . . and . it seems that , it would . , morning and for six full days there will motor, pass over this section of the eisary for some individual to come for be only fa.r for the council^ to perm.t I be thirty public spirited men workin(f road daily and if the reported additions and pears and the new owner will place | proaches, the work now being well ward with a $.»00 subscription, and then a large portion of the remainder under under way aRj ¡s an improvement the general taxpayers of the town to overtime for a cause in which every are made it will give us 22 passenger he would be enabled to take the matter orchard next season. which will be highly appreciated by the pay for the intersections. good citizen in the community is inter trains, or eleven each way every 24 up and assist in raising the necessary The contractors claim that th ey1 ested to the extent of what he can af hours. Mr. Byrum will not leave the valley, traveling public, $0000 for the building. should not be expected to do this work ford. The committees will meet at but will probably buy a smaller tract Farther on we find new farms and The $500 man was found in a very for nothing so long as they are re lunch every day during the week for close in to town. orchards being developed, and conspic F or S ale —A small cook stove. Seo stort time and it is almost assured that 30 This sale is the first made in this vi uous among them will be found the quired to pay the city for the water conference and to receive their assign Mrs. F. Lesmeister. 17tf citizens are here who are willing to put cinity within several weeks, and shows large Modoc orchard, an orchard used in sprinkling and their contention ments of work for the afternoon. up $100 each, and Mr. Tuttle of Med that the mid-summer slack in realty tract upon the development of which sounds reasonable. This matter should Never before in the history of Cen ford, who is an enthusiastic Y. M. C. transactions has been broken earlier thousands of dollars are being ex- be remedied at once. It is not only an tral Point has there been snch enthuBi- A. worker, declared that he would be blic undertaking than usual. It may be taken as ear- pended and hundreds of acres turned injustice to the people who are already asm shown in one of 20 men in Medford to put up $25 nest of what may be reasonably ex- j from thg yirgin gtate ¡„t0 clean> care_ paying for sprinkling, but it makes the and when the campaign ia over Cen. each, and further stated that he be- , , . .. town look cheap and ridiculous to the , tra, wi„ be be in in a a class by herself fail season. fully tral point Point will planted orchards, and long lieved there would be but little trouble j Pecte uring e cnt" lnK . general public. It will only cost the as the smallest town on the coast if not experienced in raising $500 in his city. I f-veryth.ng now points to the greates stretching meadow lands. Through the town m e * dollars, and Central Point I [„ the countty> owning and sustaining m ; i . Medford i has ,.. „Isdcrpd While pledged nnrhimr nothing ' actlvlty In orchard, form, and c. y real center of this great estate, which is 1 estate transactions in the Central Point practically in the hands of the devel is no pauper. ^ an ¡nstitution of this character. o f that kind, yet those who know that I section this fall ever before known. | The proposed building will be 55x60 oper, the magnificent Rogue river very enterprising city and the men be or larger and will contain lobby and wends, and from its clear mountain DHAILED REPORT WILL hind the guns feel practically s ure that reading rooms class rooms, boys’ room, torrent is taken the water which re- j Mr. Tuttle knows whereof he speaks. COME OUT TRUTHFULLY. shower baths, swimming pool, etc. freshes the broad acres lying on either j All hands are busy, there is no lag ASSESSOR ÍR U A X A public sprited citizen, who at his own ging in the fray, no falling from the MAKING ROUNDS side. On the north side of the riv er! the development in the past few j If any steel head, rainbow, salmon or request, has his name witheld for the ranks, the little army of enterprise is months has been something wonderful, other piscatorial denizens of the turbu- present, has already been found who marching onward and there is now no doubt that within the next year Cen- W. W. Truax, deputy assessor for Great stretches of newly planted apple: lent Rogue are left to tell the tale this will head the list with a $500 subscrip tral Point will have a modernlv j Jackson county, is here this week look- orchards, miles of new wire fencing— 1 morning, it is certainly not the fault of tion and numerous $100 men are in equipped Y. M. C. A. building and a ing up "w hat’ s your name and what’ ve rabbit tight—great barns and dwellings, A.> J. Dunlap and party, who went to sight. The directors were notified \ F a m e ’s Pedestal live association with an astonishingly you got for county taxation purposes.” and at present seven new tenement! the river Monday afternoon to show the yesterday from Medford that 20 busi Mr. Truax has had much experience in cottages, facing the public highway, j finny folk what sort of barbed steel ness men of that bustling city have large membership. isn’ t more enduring or solid assessment work in the east before are just being completed and as many j may be hidden in the flashy fabric o f a pledged $500 for the fund. than is this bank’s solvency. The regular men’s meeting will be coming to Oregon, and seems to be more are yet to be constructed, judging factory fashioned fly. Resides the MTW C0NGRTTE MIXER making an earnest effort to make an by the piles of material now upon the councilman, the party consisted of his | Held in the opera house next Sunday [ ) 0 lJ a r s A r e P i l e d H ig h 6 brother, H. W. B. Dunlap of Illinois, afternoon and in the evening a grand IS READY FOR BUSINESS! | equitable and just assessment. The ground. j policy this year will be one o f an in- I At Tolo there is also great develop- Glenn Pleasant, of the S. P depot mass meeting will be held in the same In Our Vault Jones & Heflin, contractors in con-i creased property valuation and a de- ment work at hand, and all along the force, and Joe Boswell, well known place to which everybody is invited. ready to be paid out on chock Several local workers will makp short Crete work, who have secured the con- | creased rate, and while Central Point way from Central Point to Gold Hill, tonsorial artist and Howard Dunlap, addresses at this meeting, to he fol or to be loaned to our pat tract for W. E. Cowley’ s new building ! property values will probably be raised from Gold Hill to Sams Valley, from who went along to chaperone the party lowed by an address by 1. B. Rhodes. rons who require extra on Second street, commenced actual, to some extent, it is understood that the valley to Table Rock and from and incidentally to show his dad how to money. work Tuesday morning. Their present! the levy will be correspondingly lower, Table Rock to Eagle Point and many catch ’em. Echoes from the camp in Sam H. Mnrrav, the well known contract is for a building 55x44, front- | Mr. Truax has adopted the plan of a other points in the valley, new build- dicate that the fishes had a strenuous grocer, has sold his business to Sid M. Travellers’ Checks and ing on Second street, which will be oc certain rate per front foot for city lots ings, new fences, newly cleared farms time o f it for many weary hours dodg- j Nicho'i, a recent arrival from Mosier, by which he believes he will be able to 1 and new highways greet \he eye; in Letters of Credit ing the dangling flies, and whether or, Oregon. Mr. Niched has been engaged cupied as soon as completed, by the in the grocery bus.„ess for several Rogue River Plumbing Co The con make a practically equable assessment, j fact. Rogue river valley in its entirety not they proved to be “ artful dodgers are issued to tourists going i is undergoing rapid development, and will only be Known when the next fish- ; years at Mosier, and al o at Bend, tracting firm have installed a Chicago abroad. We have helped that part of it immediately surround- j ing party make their report. j Oregon. Stock is being taken yester-1 mixing machine on the site of the new ing Central Point in a radius of 6 m iles! --------------- - ¡day and today and Mr. Nichol takes building which will mix and deliver others, can’t we help you? Death of Harvey W . Scott. is a perfect beehive of industry, so . ready for the wall, six cubic yards of Miss Esther Merritt visited the immediate possession of the establish- Harvey W. Scott, editor of the Ore much so that the vastness of it can ment. i I I N IRAI POINT STATE BANK. concrete per hour and this will make Misses Hensley at Ashland last week. gonian, and one o f the best known citi only be appreciated by a visit of in possible more speedy construction than zens of Oregon, died last Sunday even • spection through the various sections could be accomplished by hand. The ing at the Johns Hopkins hospital in where the real handiwork of enterpris machine is operated by a gasoline en Baltimore, Maryland, following an op- j ing husbandry may be seen. gine. The same firm have the contract eration performed 32 hours before. A f- j for placing the foundation for Mr. Cow °Perat‘on *-He physicians in at-1 ley’s large building which will front teT on Pine street, work on the superstruc tendance gave every assurance that no serious consequences should be AN E X P E R T MINER ture of which will be started as soon i feared, but after several hours weak as the walls of the smaller building are IS COMING HERE heart action developed and the patient in place. | gradually and painlessly passed away, Mr. Scott was a native o f Illinois Francis M. Daugherty o f Newton, ; and came with his parents to Oregon Kansas, an expert mining man, writes HAVE W ANDERED BACK Yes, we must admit that, even with our increased facilities we i when 14 years old. A few years later C. L. Gant that he will visit this local Have just ahout had more than we can do. BEAUTIEUL j he entered Pacific University and was ity in a short time and bring with him TO V A LLEY ! the first graduate from that institu- a friend from Kansas, who is an up-to- | tion. He became editor o f the Ore date business man with much worldly F. F. Stone, who formerly! conducted gonian in 1864, and with the exception goods, who is seeking a location farther a barber shop in this city and wfio sold of a few years in the early '70s when west, owing to his health, which is out and left here a year ago an account he was collector for the Port o f Port failing in the Kansas climate. Mr. of Mrs. Stone’ s health, has returned to land, he continued in that capacity un Daugherty is one of the most thorough the Rogue river valley and after trav til the day o f his death. mining men in the west, is a mineralo Mr. Scott was recognized as one of gist of high repute and for many yeai s eling over a good portion of the west, he is more than pleased to be back to the most forceful editorial writers this occupied high positions with the lead what he avers to be the best country I country has produced. He belonged to ing mine operators of Colorado. It is on earth. After leaving here Mr. and |the old school of editors, which num- Mr. Daugherty’ s intention to locate Mrs. Stone traveled through California bered among its members such men as permanently In Central Point, where he The Stuff With Character Original Ideas Cleverness and Snap and then went to The Dalles, where . Dana, Watterson and Greely, and in will conduct an assay office as well as Predominates all Through Our Store. they spent most of last winter. From his capacity of editor of the Oregonian other mining lines. We shall welcome there they went to Butte, Montana, I it may be said that he has exerted a Mr. Daugherty to citizenship in the where they lived for several months, greater influence on public affairs in best country on earth. Butte, once one of the greatest boom | this state than any other citizen. He mining towns of the west is very quiet i was 72 years old. now, Mr Stone says, and none o f the j — ----------------------- country they visited can be compared I While breaking a two-year-old colt New York’ s Mayor rE would not distribute a fabric that we did not to this valley in bustle and progress. I to drive single yesterday afternoon, Is Shot by Assassin feel would give the proper service and genera' However he is well pleased with the Vintie Beall and a horse breaker named result of their trip as Mrs. Stone's Pruett, who is employed by him, had a satisfaction consistent with the article. WE are health ha- been restored by the travel I bit of a runaway in town which re- for our part, doing all we can to elevate the mer Mayor Caynor, o f New York City, and change. 1 suited in a badly smashed buggy and was shot by an assassin Tuesday morn cantile business. We feel that the principal reason for our unusual success, i.-, becaus j | wrecked harness The accident was ing just after boarding a German line the high standard of the merchandise we distribute. * Kdmeades Brothers, the well-known j caused by one r,f the reins breaking steamer on a vacation trip to Europe. shoe men of Medford, were ia town •when Pruett, who was driving, was The mayor was talking with friends on yesterday. They are preparing to put thrown or jumped from the buggy. Mr. the steamer's deck when James J . Gal- on a great shoe sale at their store Beall stayed on the seat until the rig lagher stepped behind the mayor and in the Moore hotel building at which collided with a telephone pole, when he j shot him in the head. Mr. Gallagher they will dispose o f their new and was hurled through the air for some 20 was a discharged employe of the city entire line of Oxfords at factory feet, but fortunately escaped without dock department and according to his prices. Watch for their new ad next serious injury. The damage amounted confession seemed to hold the mayor week. to some $8.00 or $10,00. 1 feaponsible for his discharge. Cranfill RUSHED We TO & Robnett THE VERY L IM IT are Busy Because W e ’ve Got the Merchandise WE ARE STICKLERS FOR Q U ALITY. W Cranfill & Robnett.