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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1913)
o C E N T R A L P O IN T HER a LD, TH U R SD AY, MARCH 27, 1913 C EN TR A L POINT H ER A LD w’ '*kenecessaryf ‘ ,r tlle m t o ’KeeP practically the same as in the a patrol man on their claim all previous year. Summer at their own expense. The total number o f fires was Uv U i . k a . .is & B a c o n . and this has been urred as a rea- 2,472, as compared with 3.369 in A n I.s'DKPKNhKNT local newspaper devoted to son for sacrifice sale. State- 1911. They burned over, in the th<- int«*r«* t - i f Central Point and the Koauc And Bring it to Our Store and We Will Give You for Your Trouble a K iv e r Valley. ments o f this kind are made pure- aggregate, 230,000 acres as 1*1 M il'll Kl» F.VKHY THURSDAY. Subscription price, $1.60 per year, in advance. Iy for purpose of stimulating the against780,000 in 1911. Califor- Entered a. ! e. oMil-i lass m atter. May 4 1ÍKM3. sale o f timberland, thus increas- nia led all Slates in total .lumber at the |*,.M otfir at < 'entrai Point, O regon, under ¡ng the business and incidentally o f fires, and in the number ¿9 .,t M arch :i. 1879. the le t o f ( 'uni' • We Have Just Purchased a Limited Number to Give Away to Our customers. We the commissions o f timber bro- caused by lightening. Arizona Will Not Give Them to children. Parents must call Personally. I H IS P A P I W i. k e p t on lile at the D A d - kers. | stood second in both o f these I All I II V i , ir r is i n o A i ì k n i y, I n l . 127 ; 'outl: Main St r e e l, I,.. A ngeles, and 779 Market Arkansas stood S tie e t. San I-tan- i « ... where contracta fo r adver The law provides that every tim- classifications. tí ¡iría can l#e marie fo r it. COME BEFORE THEY ARE ALL GONE. herland owner in the State, not fourth in total number o f fires, residing within one and one- and first in those o f incendiary In Utah recently a mother’s 1 half miles o f his property, snail origin, with California second, pension law was passed whereby furnish a sufficient patrol there- The one National Forest in Kan- mothers who were forced by I for during the dry season, and sas had only one fire, which burn- lie likes. He has fought with circumstances to earn a living that, in case lie fails to do so the e l over less than ten acres and poverty and all the doors of for a family o f children would be State Forester shall provide the cost $1.11 to extinguish. North treasure vaults are opened to paid a pension of $10.00 per ! same at a cost not to exceed 5 Dakota had no fires on its one | rain their holdings upon him and month for the first child and tE ARE demoting our very best efforts to furnishing j cents per acre per annum. Any I small Forest. around him until he seems like $1.00 per month each for other Jackson county residents with the very best grade o f ' amount so paid by the State shall I an insect caught in a pit of loose- children. It is stated that the brick manufactured in their home county for their [Ill IXTRAVAGANi AGE. be a lien upon the land and shall I running sand. object of the law is not so much building. I hat <air efforts are appreciated is attested by the j be collected with the next taxes. Domestic efficiency is very to help the mother as it is to give fact that moia and more builders are using it as lime goes by. One may wonder if Mr. Iiocke- It is obvious that the maximum prevalent. Most o f us are blind | her the opportunity of staying at W e’ d like the chance o f giving you prices, terms, etc., on honestly thinks that the expense to the owner o f a quar- t> our own shortcomings. The: home that she may give proper our product. fight has been worth while. And ler-section o f timberland can not good housekeeper may hurl atti i t on to the care and instruct R »member our Drain Tile, Too. we may wonder, too, if the per exceed .$8.00 per year, an amount denunciations at the inefficient ion of the children. In other sons who envy him have any that should scare no owner into 'on • *, but bless you! the self-satis- JAGKSGKVILLE BRICK & T I L E COMPANY* j word... that the children may, conception at all o f what they have the proper kind o f a home j ' lslK,sll-8 of his timber claim at tied dam .* doesn’ t even know are envying. Ashland Tidings. a sacrifice. ! that she is hit. says the House- and profit from the influences of j One o f the best ways >r tim- hold Editor o f Farm and Home. the same. The good o f such a * $ * * $ * > * $ $ * * £ ❖ ♦ < > ♦ ♦ ♦ * > ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ law i . very apparent if it is prac- [ berland owners to comply with It is a fact that none of u,can,(l|ew P(T O |S p os( Wj|| Re- law is to join County Fire progress in any line o f thought t red and carried out in the letter j ♦ o ' i I s intention. We o f the pres Patrol Associations that have or action unless we are filler ♦ ent dav have little chance to see been organized in most o f the with what someone has cleverly ♦ ♦ any rea! good resulting from the timbered counties of the State, j called a “ divine discontent’ ♦ rn :'.siire hut should it he kept up It is expected that every timber- with self: unless vve are willjng he United States Civil Service ❖ ♦ N O W ¡5 THE* and other slates follow the lead ed county will have such an or- t> see our own shortcomings will require the appointment of ❖ ♦ of I tali in this respect the com ganization before the fire season (and you know there are always approximately 35,000 employes ❖ ♦ ing generations o f children arrives. The experience o f these friends to point them out to us) during the coming year. ♦ w nild iimkmillrilly reap substan Associations, some o f which have and unless we are determined to The opportunities for positions been in existence for four years improve ourselves. Self-compla in the Civil Service were never tial benefit from such a law. proves that adequate patrol can cency spells stagnation, mentally better. ♦ *We Have a Complet Line of* Civil Service positions are de ♦ Purporting to have come from be secured at a cost o f from 1 1-2 spiritually and materially. Tin whole world-trend is for prog to 3 1-2 cents an acre, and if ; sirable because the hours for II presentative Merger, the soc P oin t, ialist iiu inher o f congress from of the timberland ow ners join, ress. and lucky the man or wom work are not too long- salaries ♦ Washington, who by the way, the acreage cost will he materi an who falls in line and keeps are good and certain, and pro ♦ ♦ motions are frequent. U the only man who ever sat in ally decreased. Protection from moving. That old saying about a rolling The greater number o f ap congress representing the soialist fire at a cost o f $3.00 or $4.00 per stone gathering no moss seems pointments will be made in the quarter-section should be wel parly, is the statement that the* American working man is better comed by all timberland ow ners to me a mighty foolish one. Post-Office Service, paying from ♦ W . A. ♦ HENRY ♦ off today than he has ever been and it is hoped that no one will Who yvants to be an old moss $600 tc> $1,700 and more per year; COW LEY RILEY before. This from a representa be induced to sell their holdings back? A rolling stone is apt to the R. F. I). Service, paying tive o f a party which generally through misrepresentations made have some o f the sharp edges $1.100 per year to standard ❖ claims the conditions surround by unreliable timber brokers for worn off', and acquire a nice pol routes; and the Railway Mail ing the working man are most the selfish purpose o f increasing ish. O f course, used in that way ervice, paying from $900 to "rollin g” is only a figure o f $1.800 per year. deplorable in this country should commissions. speech it does not mean any be worthy o f some attention. I f you are an American over IIMBIK loss BY I IK E. thing in favor o f tramps or rov 18 years old and can read and There is, o f course, no room for The Department o f Agriculture era, or prodigal sons. write you will make sure o f ap question but that general con One o f the most progressive pointment to one o f these posi has been figuring up the losses ditions are much bette r as must l> * acknowledged by all who have by fires on the National Forests women I was ever privileged to tions by study o f an I. C. S. given die matter study. Not for the calendar year 1912, and know was 60 years old, blind Civil Service Course. long since an article in the Sat finds that they were the lowest ince she was'50, an invalid and Just mark and mail the coupon urday Evening Post gave a very o f recent years. Less than one sufferer, confined to tier room or below and we will send you book- comprehensive review o f the acre to every thousand of timber bed most o f the time during her et giving names o f I. C. S. stud situation in the larger cities. In ed lands was burned over, and ast years. She died when she ents who are now holding Civil this paper it was shown how the the total damage is estimated at was 75, but up to her death she Service positions at good pay. workman o f today arose at a $75,290, or less than one dollar was as bright mentally as many We will also tell you how you, woman half her age is not. loo, can enter this most pleasant much later hour in the day than to every 2,(MM» acres of area. She had had i o special educa ind profitable employment. The good record is attributed wa-; the case with salary men of tional advantages, her life had t), first, favorable weather con titty \ ear.-ago. Instead ot walk Pleasant work good salaries been tilled with hard work, and ditions in most localities, and ing a couple of miles to the fac positions for life. tory or Imp as did the men of second, the increased efficiency she had always to cope, more or MARK AND MAIL IMIS CtHI’ON hill a o ntury ago the hired hand o f the tire-fighing organization. less, with financial stringencies. ir t ir iu t io io e correspond : : ce sckoo . s But that woman was the great-1 of today ha only to catch a car. As Congress makes mailable the Box 1238. Scranton. Penn. est source o f inspiration to mo, I ki-wi e coming home* from a means for extending the system Please explain, with*oil fu rth er « I.!i*. : i * my part, how I can <iualifv for the C iv ile They Excell in Workmanship, Both in h ud day s work l he man o f to o f communications on the Nation as 1 believe she must have been vice position l*efore which I have mat • *1 X to biindrids! From lier invalid's day has the privilege of riding al Forests, the equipment of P O O e ik P. O. In sp rd Steel and Handles. See Them. Mail Carrier home in P cd of a long hike aftei trails, roads, telephones, and chair she directed the whole Im m igrant In K. F. I». C arrier (in a n i Stenograph«*! Janitor a day ot (nil Soon down the liiokoiit stations is yearly enlarg- houshold and had tilings running (¡a u g e r Hookkeeper T\ pew h t« r S toreki ep e r 1 111 - tl t *, n:ia t is drawu as to o l ami tlu tires, it is said, are smoothly and economically. R\ Mail Clerk A ssistant W « R> Mail VN d ith er Sam pler rn ivmii'iit homes and the (o r discovered more quickly and Me-senper D eputy Ortie*': IN I ill AVAl ANt Hl 01 GOLD. K levator Conductor h ;d i i 11 : ' nf homes, what we wear fought more rapidly. Pressman A pt> rent ice P<* »k hinder Skilled Laborer W atchman .od .........id e itainment offered, An especially good showing Early in life John I). Roeke- i ali h , I how a vast impiovi- was made by the Forest officers' 17*11« r set himself to tight against Name i'■•!,t o ' i conditions even a few last year in extinguishing tires ill poverty which had skimped St & No yen leek. All these cost money outside the National Forest be j the bread upon Ins father’s table, City____________ and aio paid for by the men who fore they reached the Fora st which had caused him to shiver Present Occupation w " !. in hon\> toll, say a great bullidnos. Such tires constituted . \\ lien other children had been 1. N. B U L L O C K . M tD F O R D , OREGON. in my vciv truthfully. Never* more than one-sixth o f ail fought warm, which had put restrictions 1G3 Roosevelt Avenue. ^ R e p r ä s e n t a t i v e f or S o u t h e r n O r e g o n . I soli tin i e is the option of by the Forest rangers and guards upon an education he greatly uo- t u *. it or leaving it. If former About nine-tenths were e\tm sired and for which he had an c unlit on wa re better way pa guished before they touched ih e( unusual gift at absorbing. He tronize these now? l! is not so Forests. O f the tires within the fought to such purpose that for i m i l tl .it conditions are consid Forest boundaries more than is the curse o f poverty he over ered worse than that have been per cent wen* on lands in private came ho acquired the curse of AGENCY FOK Indore which gives rise to tile ownership. Nearly one-fourth' great woaltli, for every adì ersity Rain and Milbum Wagons. Racine i Hacks, Gasoline Engines, Hodge discontent o f today as tlu* fact o f the extra expenditures due to ho mastered In* became so rnuch r, < anton and Moline goods, ♦ ♦ t it pi epic want an improvement fighting tires that is, expendi 1 more thè slave o f vast | h > s s o s - • Hay U ... D .d .... I I ................. . . . 1 w '.. , . l i 'i Makes. Harrows a 'd Small T< oil the present day problems. tures outside tlu time of the sions. INCH II BAAS < n\. Mer. e breeds a desire for regular Forest forco was incur- ! Mehold him now deluged with y t ni' ■! e ce: venienceand shorter j rod in fighting these tires. [ money, caught in an avalanche n <0 6AAS □ > — horn for \et shorter work Lightning caused more fires o f gold. The other day a lump h >iirs. than any other agency, followed sum o f ton millions o f dollars by railroads, campers, and in nas piacevi to bis account a C u t T h is Out S o -E -Z Dust Pan I akk I Central Point Furniture & Undertaking Co, Use Jackson County Brick 4 quire Tnouscinds iMore Employes Spring Is H e re Time to Paint and Brighten Up Your House. i Nou.se : : : Wall Paper and Glass Roque River Plumbing Hardware Co. X B. Garden and Hay Tools W. C. LEEVER The H ardw are Man FREEMAN & WILEY COMPANY t I 'NI ' I I liti I \W MISREFUSINIU evndiark In the It has U n i brought to the at- The greatest losses occurred in to the weight upon his back. ; f the State Foresters Arizona, Arkansas and Cali for-] which but chained him the more i ■.. —- » — t it "me unscrupulous timber nia, in which States there uas to his money bags, which could s — M---- :— - ¡P = i ------ I are misrepresenting the the largest proportion o f fires but cause the persons who guard •* t >i is ns of the compulsory pa- causes by lightening and by in- him now as a prisoner is guard - t * 1 1 avi which was enacted bv cendiansm. About 27 per cent cd to draw theirlir.es in closer. He t ■ if . ent le gislature Assembly o f all the tires were started by ' has untold wealth and untold Vehicles. Farm Implement, and American Fence. Harness. Saddlery Goods, W ind- a d bn onu s « tfective June 2. lightening, and about 38 per cent fear, tie has property beyond mil!,. O,!, and Extras. Prices Always Lowest, Quality Considered. < un i - of timber claims have were due to carelessness. The his own power to reckon and ♦ i l \ i t : \ i i * o t \ i , OREGON. been told that under this law it proportion in each caso was he is not free to go and come as r