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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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