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About Central Point star. (Gold Hill, Or.) 192?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1930)
4 TANK MYSTERY 1» 80LVBO MERRILL O. BETTS Local Company Arouaaa CaHoalty on Coast with Tank Track (From the Gold Hill News) Merrill O. Betts .familiarly known by his friends and associates as (Front the Gold Hill New*) “Stub” passed away at his home in Last week the Beaver Portland this city, Monday following a short Cement Company made a trial run illness brought on by blood poison from this city to Gold Beach, at the ing. Mr. Bells was born in Tacoma. mouth of Hogue River, with a lnrge truck loaded with water for the Washington. June 3. 1890 and came parnose of estimating the cost for with his parents Io Rogue River transporting cement from the Bea- valley when 2 years of age. lie has vci Portland Cement Company in since made his home here, lie wa., this city to Gold Beach where the educated in the local schools and huge bridge will soon be built to in 1917. on the first «lay of the war, span the Rogue River on the Roose April fith, cnlisled in Company 7. Oregon National guard ami remain velt highway. The sight of the tanker on the ed in the service until the spring of highway over that way caused no 1919. He served overseas with the little surmise, judging from the fol 65th Coast Artillery for 11 months lowing article, clipped from the He was married in the fall of 1919 to Bertha Welch of Central Point Curry County Reporter. and to this union were born two An immense tanker and as large children, Mm Marvin and Murial Al a tank trailer traveling down the thea both of whom survive him. Oregon Coast Highway on Wednes Besides his children Mr. Belts is day caused a lot of excitement in survived by his wife, Bertha ami Gold Beach and much conjecture as mother Mrs. Ogden Snyt'er, both of to what the tanks contained. I this city. The story got around that the Funeral services were held at the tanks were a traveling moonshine cemetery with Rev. Mell in charge. plant, with the liquor in water The Medford Post of the American jacketed tanks. Others declared Ugjon of whkh th decease«! was a they were oil tanks sent along the member officiated at tiie grave in Oregon Coast highway on a scouting keeping with the organization’s rit and logging trip, preliminary to ual. Old friends and comrades of sonic new oil company entering the the deceased served as pall bearers field. The sympathy of the community The tanks were accompanied by goes out to the bereaved family. a big touring car driven by "Moose Muirhead, manager of the Beaver ODD FELLOWS CONFER DECREE Cement Company at Gold Hill. The tanks until they reached Rogue Riv (From the Gold Hill News) er were tilled with water and then The local lodge of 1. O. O. F con the water was emptied into the riv er and the tanks proceeded empty ferred the first degree of Odd Fel lowship upon four candidates, I ues- down the highway. The tour of the two big tanks is day evening. The candidates were nothing more nor less than a scout two from Central Point and two ing and logging trip of the Beaver from Ashland. The lodges of the county have Cement Company of Gold Hill been making a new practice Jbtely which is figuring on furnish;.?? the cement for the Rogue River bridge. in conferring degrees. The Cen The tanks were filled with water as tral Point lodge confers the initia will be the cement trucks if the tory degree, the Gold Hill lodge the company gets the contracts, and first, Ashland 2nd and Medford, 3rd. when they reached Hogue River the In this way the several lodges are tanks were emptied as will be the able to fraternalize more with one another and the degree work is bet cement trucks. The company wants to determine ter for each lodge specializes in one the cost of trucking the cement to certain degree. A large attendance and a splendid meeting was report site of the bridge on Rogue River. That’s the solution of the tank ed Tuesday. mystery. How She Took ft W austa Flornft f t a nor« yon gat. ths want They 'r e payabla aa Masoad and good for taca valua. lo m •** coontarfait. Some eotna In amag f t aomtnatfooa, other» la larga. S a m peopla ara atlngy with than, «Chan extravagant Thay e a s t always hay happtoasa only sweat Other» T ryin g f t SBd : woman are Dally Newa U, O. Man Accepts Post HOBBY BUT A BUSINESS her out »ha poked bln» It hd wguW mind going up to Jimmia** room und helping biro wblla aba got ready. Young Klaael was pretty good at arithmetic and he knew he could help Jimmie if that rascal would only pay attention. Ha asked Jimmie to show him his lesson; then he proceeded to give the boy a simple lesson in addition. “Suppose, Jimmie,” he said, “that I gave you ........._....... Read the Ads and profit. A good 50 cents now. a quarter tomorrow advertiser Is usually a good mer-| ami another quarter the uext—” 1 “Aw that's all right with me, Mr. ‘ hunt. Kissel,” spoke up Jimmie. “I ’ll • ———« till e the money and keep quiet, hut , f? what do you think of those prob it in!,; some slickers, alnl they?” trolled only by oil spray, while blister mile and twig miners are aat. isfaelorily taken care of by lime sulphur alone. There Is always «lunger of injury from oil sprays applied «luring the full or wilder, bill no evidence Ihul low tempera ture» following such sprays applied in the spring «luring the dormant period result in Injury. Rabbit breeding was for many years regarded as an interesting aiuuseiueiit anil hobby. W ithln the past few years rabbit farming baa developed Ipto a commercial enter L S- prise. Rabbit skills are today the great staple of the fur trade. Io the United Stales, there are now over lO.OOt) breeder» of utility rub- Idis. Their combined Investment Is In excess of 25 million dollars. In New York city alone 15 fui .tress- ing und dyeing plants ure devoted exclusively to rubhit skins. Nearly all of the felt hats in com k mon use are made from felt manu factured from chemically healed '-3 rabbit furs. Thousands of Ions «>( rabbit skins are used annually for . Ihis purpose. Muiiy other products arc munufac lured from the rabbit. Tne It air is J used as a stull Ing for mattresses, ■ “' ■ ' § £ W pilluws, cushions and qui.ls. Piano r .^ : 4 .4 I w K manufacturers use felt made from abbit fur on the sounding hammers .is their instruments. Shoes pock- ¡ I A* 5- x «- tí* I books, gloves and novelties have tit iCen successfully manufactured fi rom leather made of rabbit skins, .elating and glue ure made of tl v D -. Ralph D. Ca .iy . professor o' « journalism at ths University of O«e pelts from which the hair hag been con, has aije^'.od a pos.t!on as eheir- removed, 'the grease and oil from man of the dopsrtir.jnt of Journal.am the fat of the skin is used in the at the Un.vara ty of ftin n ;so ;a. Tn« muuufacture ot soap uml oilier O rtjo n m :n w ill tr.ks over his new products. The waste -.natter is used duties in tho fall of 1C33. fertilizer. Gov.- or’s Con Initlatsd. Ruobit .kins for the manufacture A ccgrae 12:11 made up ot Univer of fur coat* are principally secured ».ty of Ore.;oa (acu.iy member» la Ih * from Austrailla and New Zealand. Í2 Eugene Icilge ot the Masonic order Under normal conditions, the I idl Initiated W a lt N o .h ltd . of Actorta, aud ed States consumes 50 |>er cent of son of Oregon's now governor, into ihs W.do at'an tlon has been g.7»n D r first degree re c e n t!/ with Carlton the Australian rabbit skin supply, ji n it M gl - r of political in February of last year 75% of all Spencer, of the law school faculty, of science at I ' c U r sity cf Oregon, ficiating. Norblad Is a senior In law the rabbit skins exportcl from Aus fur h i o o is ' . a - t l i r g w - . r k In Interna at the university, and his Inltlatloa tralia yvere shipped to this country. Eonsl re allo n t. Ha w ill fcs on» of was witnessed by hia father. In 1917, when an emhurgo wus the speike-s si tho stuJenl confer placed on tha Importation of furs cnce on international relations in because of the lack of shipping fa Portland during rs b ru a ry . Real Social Spirit cilities, the American manufacturers All the people we meet ara really were obliged for the first time to abler of mind, richer of nature, than Are these egg.s fresh? they have ever discovered. To help look to the American sources for Lady, the hen don’t even know their supplies of rabbit furs and to them to make the discovery la to ax- offer prices high enougii to obtain I’ve got ' ciix yet.—Ex. » relive the true aortal s p irit— L. H Hough. them. Mum ’s the Wor«l This was the opportunity for the Jim was having trouble wilh his establishment of the breeding of Road H a rd to Police So when his sister’s The Khyber pass, a narrow dagM utility rabbits upon a commercial arithmetic. In northwest India, coanaatlag Me basis, and the breeding of utility- beau showed up lliat night to take Punjab with Afghanistan, Is « *« • M rabbits in the United Stutes for traffle only on Tuesdays and F r t f t f t coininercil purposes began to as The amir of Afghanistan awdortftae sume importance. Since then, the to ponce tha paaa tor oaty two dago a weak to protect traveler* tbaaa f t government has recognized the po tential importance of this industry taoka by the lawleea Afrtdi trtbeo. and has established experimental station» devoted to the development River R eally F a lli of the breeding of utility rubbits. » Blobtw— “I took a chance and ktaaad her In the dark.” Slobba— “How did aha taka It? What did »he •a y f” . Fall River. In Maaaachnaetta, takaa Blabbe— ”Sh» »aid »he never wanted Its name from a river ao called be ta aaa my face again.” cause it la only about two mllaa la langth and falls about ldO foot ta a half-mlU. O p t im is f ic Thought “On» nice thing »bout thin-soled ■boa» In winter,” »ay» Gelatine Good tn A d v e rtity Traver«, cheerfully, “la that no matter Adversity has the effect of eltctlag how cold your feet may get outalde. )• talents which. In prosperous d r e w - doesn't take them half the morning to stances, would have been dormant.— warm up after you get ints a beated Horace. oaaas.”— Kansas City Star. For that better Printing—see us. ork and are never satisfied unless you are . ’ *- ■ * ». EXPLORERS HUNT ALFALFAS ON PLAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA After visiting most ot the coun tries of Central Europe and work ing their way well into Alia, 11. L. Westover and We Waithouse, rep resentatives of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agri culture, recently returned Io Ihc United Stales, bringing several hun dred new plant varieties, principal ly alfalfa and fruits. One of the principal purposes of the trip was to obtain varieties of alfalfa which might prove immune from or resistant to bacterial wilt, a disease which is proving serious to alfalfa growers in the Middle West. Preliminary tests had indi cated that varieties from Turkestan and France were somewhat resist ant to the disease. Besides obtaining alfalfa seed from every section of Turkestan, Mr. Westover also brought back seed from France, Italy, Germany, Po land,, Austria, Rumania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. In all, he brought back 170 lots of alfalfa seed. These seeds will be tested at our experiment stations to determine whether or not they are resistant Doctor Whitehouse was successful in his search for fruits, and brought back seeds of apricot, alinond, pls- tache, and melons. The melon seed will he used by plant breeders who are trying to combt melon wilts by breeding new wilt-resistnnt strains of high quality. The wild fruits to be tried out in an effort to deter mine their value as stocks and in ad dition they may prove of value to plant breeders. Give us a chance to Figure on your next job Mac’t Printing Company Glendale, Gold Hill, Central Point ■»t DR. I. II. GOVE IMPORTANCE OF PROMPT DENTAL SERVICE » » I ‘ * • In ease of any defects tn teeth or gums is now fully re alized by nil intelligent |>eople. The sooner the errors are cor rected the greater the assur ance against the muny Ills at tributed to diseased teeth und gums. Radiy decayed teeth old snufs should be remove«! and a plate substituted. If you have your plate made hrre you will never regret It. Dr. I. H. Cove T U B BEST D E N T IS T R Y D O N E P A IN L E S S L Y 235 East M ain, U p a U lra Phoae B72-J We Have For Sale A SOLUTION of FARM PROBLEMS It is frequently said that “we must find some way to keep folks on the farms.” If we are to keep folks on the farm we must make farm life quite as comfortable as * life in the city. The farmer, his wife and children, have become too well educated to put up with the farm life of fifty years ago. Electricity will give them the comforts they demand- to wilt. W e take a Personal Pride in our r- 1 .T w w w - M u a n n w RABBIT MIRINO no longer This, however, is only part of the story. The ,. farmer now insists that his farm be prosper- L <■ ous. A farm can be made prosperous if it is operated along the lines of a manufacturing industry. Electric power makes this possible. ' i« Have you ever heard of an electrified farm A that was not prosperous? We haven’t m FARM POINTERS Although the idea that baby chicks should not be fed until they are 72 hour» old is erroneous, it Is often best not to feed early where parcel post shipments of young chicks are made, says the Oregon Experiment station. The question of whether lime sul phur or oil shall be used in a dor mant spray is answered as follows by the Oregon Experiment station. A* lime sulphur in most cases is a more general cleanup spray than oil, it is generally used, especially in orchards where leaf roller is not a serious pest. This pest ta con- THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWO "Yssr Partasrs
