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C entral P oint H erald
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Will give >ou a “ square deal’ ’
every time They appreciate your
patronage and will treat you right
E stablished A pril 26,
C entral P oint , J ackson C ounty , O regon , T hursday , N ovember 9, 1916
1906
WILL CELEBRATE
NEW INDUSTRY
Special Train To Take Our
People to Grants Pass
as Guests of that City
! sack made up just as the larger
commercial sacks, with printing,
jete., and will contain enough
; sugar to give every family a trial
sample. The factory is giving
I half a ton of its best sugar for
j this purpose.
After an inspection of the fac
tory. the visitors will be given
I lunch by the citizens, when a
public meeting will be held, and
Gov. Withycombe and other nota
bles will be invited to speak.
Chief Agriculturist Austin of the
Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., will be
urged to come from Salt Lake
City, and the culture o f sugai
beets will be a subject for free
discussion. Farmers who have
grown beets this year will tell
how they have succeeded, and
the public will hear why some
farmers have harvested 28 tons
of beets to the acre while others
have failed of profitable yield.
The dissemination of information
upon the culture of sugar beets
will be the order of the day, and
the experiences will be discussed.
The distribution of excursion
tickets (free) will be under the
direction of Mr. Austin and the
field men of the sugar company.
THE
HERALD
Will co-operate with you on any
proposition fur the l.ct term ent
of Central I’oint and its vicinity
V olum e
ELECTION RETURNS
JOHN MUIR AND HI3 BREAD.
E leven
N umber 27
in the extiem e North the soil is more
open than later in the season and o ff
ers a better seed bed.
The first consideration in making a
new lawn is a suitable soil. This should
The naturalist aud explorer, John be well drained and o f good texture
A
Muir, was a curiously simple uiau—us j and should be thoroughly prepared.
simple in his tastes and appetites as good loam will need only enrichment.
In his views o f life ami conduct. On
This may he brought about best
his trips through the Sierras he never | by a dressing o f wall-rotted barnyard
carried a gnu aud never killed game,
manucr tboroly worked in.
It tntnuer
nor did he catch ttsh.
He lived almost exchi % >IJr on plain is not available, 2t) pounds o f bone-meal
dry bread. “ There is no waste in it,” for each 1,000 square feet may he sub-
he used to say. “ Every particle Is of situted. if the lawn site is of stiff clay
value. I also take along a small pack both sand and humus or vegetable mat
age o f tea and a little tin cup In a stout ter must be worked in if a good turf ia
canvas bag. I can sustain my strength to be secured. There is little danger o f
on this diet for months at a time. I using too much o f either o f these mat
occasionally run across some wild ber erials. Light sandy soils should have
ries or an edible root to chew on, hut
clay and humus worked in to increase
they ure not important."
At dinners to which he was Invited their water holding capacity. The hu
Mr. Muir would usually barely taste mus may be supplied in the form o f
o f soup or fruit, never touch meat or maneur compost or Boil from mushroom
auy fancy dessert, talk while others beds at the rate o f one half ton to 1,000
ate and nibble away between times at square feet of area. A fter the proper
a slice o f bread without butter.
constituents are supplied the lawn soil
Once while visiting l ’asndenn lie was should be thoroughly stirred and fined.
one o f a party starting out to get sup This preperation should begin several
per, after which it was purposed to
weeks before seeding time to allow
spend the evening In the rooms of one
o f the company. As they w alked along sufficient time for the ground to settle
the street they passed a bakery, and and for weed seeds to germinate.
T h e F a m o u s N a t u r a l i s t L i v e d the Re al
S i m p l e Life.
Central Point Returns Complete and Jack-
son County Totals
Saturday, Nov. 11th, will be
Candidate
Office
South North
County
Sugar Beet Growers’ Day in
Charles E. Hughes
President
84
119
3298
Grants Pass. It will be the day
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Woodrow Wilson
148
134
4531
when the people of the .district
W. C. Hawley
U. S. Representative
66
85
2259
celebrate the coming o f the great
M . V. Weatherford
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95
77
2598
industry that means a revolution
E. L. Cannon
Secretary o f State
10
21
in farming conditions and that
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Ben W. Olcott
19«
205
will bring a new era in industrial
C. J. Bright
Justi:e Supreme Court
47
41
developement. The celebration
44
Geo. H. Burnett
106
138
will not be of the red fire sort
41
J. F,. Hosmer
23
19
however, but the effort and en
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F.
A.
Moore
90
121
ergy o f the community will be
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Turner Oliver
108
91
put forward to bringing the beet
J. D. Mickle
•\>od Commissioner
155
159
growers, and those who ought to
Fred G. Buchtel
Public Service
89
111
be beet growers, and other inter
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E. L. VanDresar
98
8-1
ested citizens of southern Oregon
Frank M. Calkins
Circuit Judge
155
182
here that they may inspect the
Ben Sheldon
State Representative
89
118
3701
mamoth factory and see Oregon
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C. M Thomas
89
118
3881
beets made into the best sugar
« t
H. L. DeArmond
74
65
2558
manufactured any where in the
<4
Marion B. Towne
133
97
3264
United States.
Some very good beet3 have W. H. Gore
M
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113
3994
The general committee met
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105
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2904
Friday evening and made the been raised here this summer. J. K. Howard
County Attorney
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121
3436
preliminary arrangements for John Brenner had 9 acres which N. W. Borden
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91
3616
the day. Manager Nibley stated averaged 18 tons p e r acre. Part G. M. Rob *rts
Sheriff
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122
3944
that the frctory was now running of this field went 24 tons, but a Ralph G. Jennings
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124
3864
in most excellent shape and that portion nad no water so the aver E. W. Wilson
Clerk
125
145
4719
next Saturday would be the best age was cut down to 18 tons and G. A. Gardner
4 *
92
90
2824
time for inspection of the institu at $5.50 per ton the fiela yielded W. H. Miller
$99.00 per acre, or $891.80. We Chauncy Florey
Recorder
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145
4569
tion.
4 4
J. O. Gerking
73
71
2379
It is expected that a special believe that will beat wheat.
Harvey Walters had 2 acres Myrtle Blakeley
Treasurer
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191
5159
train will be chartered and an
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82
23
1605
excursion run from the upper and harvested 40 tons which J. R. Rigg
J. B. Coleman
102
Assessor
129
4273
part of the valley, while excur brought him $110.00.
4 4
Howard Dunlap had three Clint Gallatin
101
98
3151
sion arrangement will be made
acres
which
brought
him
24
G.
W.
Ager
School
Supt.
108
134
4694
for the bringing of the people
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tons $132. Yet Mr. Dunlap says Anna Jeffrey
99
105
2638
from the other directions.
Surveyor
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187
The arranging of the special he wishes he had 100 acres to A. T. Brown
30
Coronor
23
train or o f (xm rsionsis in the plant next year even if he got Matt Calhoun
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189
hands of a committee headed by only 8 tons per acre. He had n o' John A. Perl
88
Joe Beeman
Commissioner
66
2220
R. B. Miller aided by Preston B. water.
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There is every reason to be Geo. W. Owen
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129
399 k
Delano and J. M. Isham. Mr.
Miller is in Portland today and lieve that this section can have
As to the Presidential race, it will take the official count in
will make definite arrangments a factory o f its own if our farm
while there. It is proposed that ers will first get water and then
the trains be run free for all plant beets, and there hundreds
He Got a Hough.
beet growers from Ashland to of acres near this city that will
Paper Making In Japan.
The agricultural education that we
Sutherlin. The families of the clear the owner $100 per acre, IF Papermaking was one o f the earliest
beet growers will be invited, and they are willing to put the work industries o f Japan. When Europeans hear about should not be confined to
the country. The city needs It too. A
for the day they will be the on the beets.
were writing on the skins o f animals
man went Into a Boston department
and leaves of plants, ancestors of mod
guests of thecityof Grants Pass.
store one day and asked for a hoe.
ern Japanese were recording their
Following the arrival of the
The young woman at the counter pass
thoughts
on
paper
made
from
wood
or
trains with the excursionists in
ed him a trowel and. finding that It
D e sc rip tiv e .
vegetable
tiber.
Papermaking
In
Ja
this city the visitors will be tak
Small Tommy had Just come from pan was probably Introduced from was not what ho wanted, asked him to
en direct to the sugar factory the back yard, where the cook was re Korea about (¡10 A. D. In the reign of pick out a hoe from the idle o f garden
where they will be piloted thru moving the feathers from a chicken.
the Empress Sulko, this being the first tools. He did so. Then the saleswom
"H ave yon seen anything o f Jane?" mention of paper In Japanese history.
an made out the slip, “ One hough. 7.1
and the working of the various
cents.” —Youth's Companion.
machines and equipment explain asked Ills mother.
ed by the factory people. The “ Sure,” replied the little fellow.
Keep It Dark.
Putting Out Gasoline Fires.
beet from the dumping bins to “ She is behind the shed husking a
hen.” —New York (¡lobe.
May—O f course you know that our
Experiments by the British fire pre
the sugar sack will be followed,
engagement Is secret. Jan«—Oh. yes; vention committee show that the l>est
and all the processes of manu
Professional Tondency.
so I am told by everybody!—Pearson's way to put out a small gasoline fire Is
facture explained.
“ What a squint that theatrical man Week iy.
to spread over the burning liquid a
Each lady visitor at the factory ager has.”
mixture o f ten pounds o f bicarbonate
on that day will be presented j "D on't you know managers always
The man who drops his anchor In o f soda and twelve [Murids <>f common
with a souvenir sack of sugar. have more or less a east In their eye.” the Slough of Despond never gets «ny sawdust, free from chips and shar
This souvenir will consist of a — Baltimore American
ings.
farther.
Mr. Muir stopped. "W hy, friends, look
Kentucky blue grass is, in general,
here."’ he said. “ Th-it Is good looking the most desirable turf-forming grass
bread. Why go nny farther? Let s buy for lawn use in the northern part o f
a couple o f loaves and lake them to the United St ates. For best results it
the room with us.” And he was quite
j usally made the predominate ingredent
In earnest.
Once a friend took him to luncheon in mixtures containing also the seeds
at a famous restaurant In San Krau- o f several other grasses and white c lo
clsco. As they took seats at a table ver. A mixture found satisfactory by
Mr. Muir was engaged In some discus department specalist consists o f 17
sion In which he was so absorbed that paits o f Kentucky blue grass. 4 parts
he was oblivious to everything else. o f recleaned red lop, .’! parts o f perenia.
His friend could not Interrupt him, rye grass, and 1 part o f white clover
aud so the talk flowed on until the Those planting lawns must not make
time approached for closing I hr "os
the mistake o f sewing their seed to
taurant. The head waiter told the
thinly
for a thick stand o f grass is es
host that he must give Ids order ■ vltli- •
out further delay. Taking advantage sential at the beginning. From 4 to ,r>
pounds o f the above mixture should be
o f the Interruption, the friend suggest
rd to Mr. Mqlr that he should give Ids sown for each 1,000 square feet o f area.
order. He seemed startled. “ 1 have The seed may be covered over a «mall
all l wish.” he exclaimed. “ Order for urea by iand raking or on a large area
yourself.” For an hour ns lie talked by a weeder. A fter the seeds are cover
he had been chewing bits o f bread.—
ed the planted area may be rolled light
Youth's Companion.
ly.
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Making d New Ldwn
MARKET REFORT
For some reason the following article
was not finished last week so we re-
publish.
The early part o f September is the
best time for seeding a new lawn in
the States south o f New England and
north o f the Potomac and Ohio Rivers
rreording to plant specalists o f the
department. L'kewise the repairing
o f lawn in this region is much m ire
likely to he tucccsful if undertaken in
the early autumn rather than in the
early spring. The reason
late sum-
mer and fall planting is preferable
where climatic conditions will permit
is that young grass does not stool Wcl I
in the spring at.d summer and is no
aggreeive enough during these seasons
to combat weeds. In the northern tier
o f states and New England these con-
ditions do not hold, and Hprinj; in the
best time for lawn w ork „A t that lime
(Prices paid the producer.)
W h e a t.....................
Rye
O a t s ..........................
B a rle y .......................
Corn.....................
A lfalfa haled ..........
Grain hay baled
B u tter.......................
$14.(0
$13 00
C o w s ......................... ...........................q «
H o g * ............... .
Hens...........................
Old ro ck s.................
Turkeys No. 1........
1 JUcliH (o ld )...............
Ducks (young)
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16 c
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Reliability
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Diamonds, W atches,
Jewelery and Silverware,
At this store only reliable merchandise is sold,and at price* which
by comparison will convince you it pays to buy here. You will find
us worthy o f your confidence and patronage.
The holiday season will soon be here.
We have added to our
Mt. PITT
The flour of no regrets
And the favorite for family use.
“Made-lo-Measure ’
A sk Your Grocer for
Clothing the All Wool
Mt. Pitt Breakfast
Wheatlets
Brownsville
Make your selections early
and
Send us your mail orders
Clothing
Martin J. Reddy
The Jeweler
Medford,
House o f quality
Oregon
Visitors Always Welcome
Mt. Pitl Griddle Cake Flour
Manufactured hy
CRANFILL & ROBNETT
The Central Point Mill*