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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1911)
/ / / y CENTRAL POINT HERALD ESTABLISHED A P R I L 2 6 , 1 9 0 6 . CENTRAL POINT. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1911. VOL. 5 NO 43 PROMINENT MAN CHOICE OF PAVING DADS ACCEPT PASTOR AND WIFE EUGENE A JOKE GREAT SUCCESS DIES SUDDENLY IS THE QUESTION PAVING PETITION; GUESTS OE HONOR SAYS THIS MAN WAS CAMPFIRE Captain M. F. Eggleston Expires Asphalt at Salem After Short Illness. Process Gives Best Satis- Progress faction In Other Cities. in Big Letters, Indicated ^ sv- an^ Mrs. Sickafoose Tendered Inquirer for Business Location De Record CrowJ in Opera House aod Reception by Admiring Friends. dares the Town a Farce. at Short Session. Many Turned Away. A pleasant event of the past week Secretary Kuhler, of the Commer j The campfire and entertainment SALEM, Ore., Feb. 4 — Captain M : Now that it is settled that Central Town council met In regular ses was the gathering at the Christian cial club, recently received a letter ! given by the Women's Relief Corps F. Eggleston, a member of the leg- Point is to have a lot o f street paving sion Monday evening and after audit church Friday evening, when members ¡stature from Jackson county, died i during the present year, it is in order ing ajid allowing current* hills and of that congregation and many other from a business man of Eugene ask Tuesday even!rift was a great success, this morning at 12:20 o clock. J lie for the city officials, and the taxpayers ecceptlng the petition of property friends tendered a farewell reception ing for Information regarding busi the audience being pronounced the ness openings in this city. After ask largest ever assembled iit the local end came peaoeiuly at tlu Wiliam a3 wel^ to make a thorough study of owners between Front and Sixth to Rev. and Mrs. K. H. Sickafoose, ing numerous straight from the opera house. Stnding room was at streets for street paving on Pine «tte sanatorium in this city ot u mai- > . , , who left Monday for their new field of shoulder questious about business *dy given out try his physician, Ur. the paving question m order that good street the Dads adjourned for one a premium and many are said to have labor at Mosier, Oregon. representation, realty values, future 11 M. Shaw, formerly of Ashland, n< judgement may be used in choosing the week to give themselves a clianve to The occasion Friday evening was outlook, etc., the gentleman added a been unable ever to get inside of the Diiralvsis ' i particular kind of pavement that is to Eldridge entertainment at the opera building. The program was rendered purely informal, there being no set Although Captain Eggleston had be adopted. Laying any kind of hard- house and to recover from the effects progranj, but a number of selections postcript saying: “Eugene is a joke. entirely of local people and, it may teen absent the greater portion of surfaced paving is an expensive under of the laughing gas administered by were rendered by the church choir and I am looking for a good live town be said in passing, this community with a fairly decent climate, In which can boast of much excellent talent in pins week on account o f sickness, his taking, and while all property owners that Impersonator. Miss Garvin, the accomplished soloist, «hath was not expected. I understand that more than the amount The acceptance of the paving peti j also favored. Cake and coffee were to make my permanent home.” And musical and literary lines. A committee, consisting of Rep - ' °f the cost of such improvements will tion shows how the mapor and coun served informally and the evening was . in this manner does the fame of the Following the regular program resentntives Bonebrnke o f Benton, be added to the value of the adjoining cil feel about city improvements and spent in a purely social wav. During wondrous wealth, beauty and salu many old veterans entertained the Westcrlund of Jackson, Smith o f Jo- property, everybody will naturally want may be reconed as the opening gun l the evening Rev. and Mrs. Sickafoose brity of the wonderful Rogue River audience with reminiscent talks of tsephine, Brownhill ot Yamhill, IV- »“ * * the very best Pavement P°S3lbIe in the campaign of "Get There Cen were each presented with an elegant ' valley go forth on the wings of the the civil war. ! morning to the uttermost parts of It Is well to honor the old boys terson of Umatilla. Neuner of Doug- foJ tb®|r money’ . . . tral Point.” gold mounted fountain pen as remem- las mid Carter o f Clackamas, will In this connection Central Point ,s m who wore the blue 50 years ago, and A meeting of the council will be brance souvenirs from members of the the earth. „ ,, a position to profit very materially by held next Monday evening when City these occasions go far towards honor accompany the remams ot the rep- K ... . ., ! «ongregation. . , . ,, , , - ., the experience ot the neighboring city Engineer Osgood will make his report ing the remnant who are still with resentative to Ashland tonight. 1 , .. . . Rev. and Mrs. Sickafoose were both ' . _ , . e .. of Medford, that municipality having on the sewer proposition and at the ■Captain Eggleston was one of tlie . • . . ,, , . , | deservedly popular, being faithful BOX SOCIAL BY LADIES’ CLUB. us, as well a« keeping alive the mem p . ., ... i within the past two or three years laid ory of those of them who have made most popular members on the llooi some ten miles of hard surface pave same meeting a city attorney will be workers in their field while tolerant The ladies of tbe Improvement their final ramp on theo ther shore. o f the house, lie was second choice ment on her streets, different classes of appointed and instructed to prepare and courteous regarding the opinions club propose to give a box social In o f the Thompson-Rusk coherent« for ^ U8ed> Dilig<snt inquiry the necessary charter amendments to and belief of others. cover the proposed new work. It is the opera house next Tuesday even speaker ot t us sessioni an * “ 11 1 among citv officials, business men and HOTEL C HANGES HANDS ing, February 14th, when every lady have been named if Rusk had tailed citizens Kenera)ly of that city in regard understood that the council have In the town, married or single, are to gain enough votes on the first bal- tQ the paving question shoWs that after practically decided to further amend Pininger. requested to bring boxes of refresh lo t . As it was he was gneu many more than two years’ experience, and the charter so that hereafter Central An Important deal was closed here ments to be sold to the hungry men important committee assignment.-.. a]most without exception, the people Point will be officially and legally designated as “City” rather than as John Pininger, a native of this county The hint is dropped that If any bash last Friday when the Central Point Ho was chairman o f the committee j c ^ y jjave decided that the best •on statistics and emigration and 41 quality of pavement to meet all require- "Town” ae It now Is. To many per and for many years a resident of the ful swain wishes to be sure of spend hotel was leased by the owner, Dr. member of the house committee on 1 ments is the standard asphalt pave- sons the appellation "oTwn" indi Tolo section, died at the home of his ing his money for the box belonging C. R. Ray, to B. C. Dunlap and his roads and highways und of the °uc ment Medford now has over 100,000 cates a village or country cross roads : mother, Mrs. I. J. Hanson, at Chico, to the only girl on earth— for him— son, R. B. Dunlap, who recently ar and to hear or read of a “town” talk California, on Wednesday of last week, he may be able to get a straight tip rived here from Illinois. The house •oil ways and means. | square yards of asphalt, which was laid Last week when the present at- hy the Clark & Henery Construction ing of water system, sewer system the remains being brought back for from somebody for a consideration. has been closed for a few days until tack came on he was too ill to at- Co., and that company now holds con and hard surfaced streets Is often burial in the Pininger family plot at The proceeds of the evening will be a thorough renovation of the place tend to his duties and believed lie tracts for more than 150,000 square taken as a joke. The council will Jacksonville. The funeral was delayed used to defray the deficit acquired can be completed and a large amount should retuiji to his home as Ash-1 yardg more to be put in during the com- have the backing of all progressive a few days in order that members of by the club women In bringing the of new furniture etc., can be install the family might have time to reach lyceum course entertainments to town ed.* Innd, but felt that it was his duty to ¡ng season an l petitions are being filed citizens in making this change. here before the burial. B. C. Dunlap was for many years during the past winter. remain and serve the state in behalf every day for additional streets and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Murphy enter Deceased was 41 years old. Besides Scott & Tex, proprietors of the a traveling man on the road and In o f the people of his county, who had ¡n practically all cases the property tendered him a seat in the house of owners are specifying in their petitions tained a number of Medford friend» , his mother he leaves two brothers, moving picture show have kindly consequence knows something of the \ Chas. A. Pininger, of Califprnia, and donated the use of the opera house hotel business from the patron’s repres en ta fives. their preference for asphalt pavement. Sunday. A tew of the advantages of standard C. S. Emry, a former well known j Fred Pininger, of Klamath Falls, and to the ladles for that evenlug and the standpoint, while his son has had Captain Eggleston, was born in asphalt paving may here be enumerated: resident of this city, now residing | one sister, Mrs. Andrew Grieve, of repular show will commence at 7:15 years of experience in first class that evening and after its conclusion hotel work from bell hop to clerk . Indinna. Tie was raised on a farm Asphalt is a sanitary pavement and at Albany, was here yesterday meet 1 Seattle, Washington. end at the age of IV received an ap does not disintegrate under heavy traf- ing old friends. He was much sur | The funeral was held Tuesday at the box social will be heldr Don’t They will be satisfied with nothing forget the date. Ladies should not short of a strictly up-to-date hotel pointment at large to the U. S. mili fic and consequently does not produce prised at the greath growth of this i Jacksonville. forget their boxes nor gentlemen and promise to inaugurate a service tary academy at West Point. ‘either mud or dust. It can be kept city since leaving here four years here that will appeal to people who their pocketbook*. He graduated from that institution ! perfectly clean with proper attention ago and things the town is sure all The Eldridge entertainment In the care. in 1877 , was commissioned a lieu- and, as it has an absolutely impervious i right. Mr. Emry will probably re tenant in the cavalry branch o f the surface, its wearing properties exceed turn to the Rogue River Valley to opera house last Monday evening, Joe Boswell went to Salem Sunday which was the last number in the en •array arid up to 1889 , when he re- | that of any other pavement, reside in the near future. tertainment course given under the night as a member of the delegation J. D. Barker, of this city, formerly signed from the service, he did duty j Asphalt paving is laid on a solid con- j 'auspices of the Ladies’ 1 reprove ment of sportsmen from this valley who of Saratoga, Wyoming, has received a on the southwestern frontier and in Crete foundation four inches in thick- cities of this country, as well as in club, afforded an excellent evening's went to the capital to appear before copy of the Saratoga Sun claiming that the Indian Territory as a troop com- ness, which insures stability. In case amusement to the small audience the proper committees In the Interest Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sterrett, of that mnnder, engineer officer, stu ff of- of wet places in the ground or of a Europe. Unlike some of the other classes of present. As an Impersonator and of fish protection In Rogue river. I city, are the oldest married couple of finer and on special duty as judge- water trench or sewer ditch settling, paving, asphalt is not a patented pro an all 'round entertainer and fun- Fish hogs at the mouth of the river I that state. They were married in advocate. ! this foundation of solid concrete tends cess, and no company nor individual en Upon leaving file service lie took to bridge over the weak spot and pre- joys a monopoly in laving it. This maker Mr. Eldridge ranks high Ills aud at Grants Pass are clamoring for i Indiana in 1848 and are both still hale tip civil pursuits, devoting most of vents the surface from settling. On feature alone is worthy the considera repertoire being particularly clean tbe overthrow of the protective meas ; and hearty, Mr. Sterrett being actively Tiis time to mining operations and | top of the concrete is laid an asphaltic tion of our city officials in making a aud free from the slightest objection ure passed by tlie people last Novem I engaged in business there. The Sun journalism, until autumn, 1905. when binder course one inch thick and on choice of pavement for Central Point. able feature. The same is true of ber and It Is again necessary for brings out this story in answer to a Should some patented process be chosen 'he was elected recorder o f the city this an asphaltic wearing surface f~— 1¡ there can be no competition as between [ every entertainment given in this Jackson county people to give of j Sheridan, Wyoming, newspaper which and effort to a short time ago claimed that Capt. course and while the members of the their money, time o f Ashland. inches thick. contractors. If asphalt is chosen, how -' lie held this position continuously Asphalt paving has been in use for ever, the matter of construction is open club who are responsible for giving thwart these designs. “Toggery Bill and Mrs. W. Rawlings, of that city, __________________________________ _ more than 30 years and has given ex- to competitive bids and the city is thus the people of this community an Isaacs and one or two other Medford and who were married in 1853 were opportunity of enjoying five really fishermen are also members of the entitled to that honor. Capt. and Mrs. (Continued on 4th page) i cellent satisfaction in all the principal assured of a square deal. Rawlings were former resident* here. delegation. high-class entertainments. ► -44 4 4 4- 4-4 4- 4-44 44- 4-4 44 4-4-44- 4- 4-4-4-4 4- 4-4 4 4 4 4- 44-4 4 4 4 4 4 4 - ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Make this Growing Bank Your Place of Deposit. 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