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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1926)
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1926 W IL L O W SPRINGS M. F. Young has his new pump house nearly completed and in a few days will install the new pumping system which he has just purchased. We notice that Bonny Bros, are making many improvements around their service station. It will soon be a busy corner aguin. B. M. Bush and family accompan ied Mrs. Miner to Ashland Sunday. A. A. Mathes, wife and mother were among those visiting the B. M. Bush family Sunday afternoon. “ Percy” , the pet cat at the Willow Springs school, has presented the children with several kittens, so the youngsters have decided to call him “ Percyetta” in the future. Mrs. Miner has built a ten by twelve screened addition to her back porch and new is painting the house. Mrs. Miner has received word from relatives in Sabatha, Kansas, that her brother-in-law, S. J. Miner, who spent severa1 months here this past year, ii now in a sanitarian) in Topeka. A fter leaving here January Mr. Miner visited in Washington and Montana fo r two months, and wrote to relatives that he was leaving Bozeman. Montana, March 1, but nothing more was heard from him until Malch 11 when he was found wandering the streets o f his home town, in a dazed condition. He did not know where he had been during the seven or eight days nor how he got home. He then developed pneu monia, and was very ill. While somewhat improved in health last re clear up the mystery. Mr. Miner is ports say that he is still unable to seventy-eight years of age, and is a brother o f J. S. Miner who died last October. Mrs. G. Vincent is confined to her bed with a severe attack o f rheuma tism. • B. M. Bush has resigued his posi tion with Paul’s Electric Store, but will continue to do electric work as soon as some arrangements can be made. Notice o f business location, etc., will appear in a few days. C. W. Anders is planting about three acres in corn this year. He has a nice bunch o f 250 White Leghorn Chicks that were hatched early, and W ear a Smock Practical Comfortable Good Looking For Motoring, Office Wear and Housework $1.90 HATFIELD’ S CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN also has a nice little flock o f early edly add more litigation to the labors Indian Runner ducks. o f the courts, already overburdened; that it would create added expense Monday Mrs. Kidwell and children for the state along enforcement lines. o f Ashland vistied her parents Mr. In brief, the National Chamber and Mrs. Anders. Committee finds that compulsory automobile casualty insurance would C A R D O F THANKS» not do what its backers claim for it We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to all the and, on the other hand, might do a vast deal o f direct and general harm. friends and neighbors who were so ---------- o---------- a kind and assisted during the illness President Clarence W. Greene, of ments was with Mr. Greene, and to Albany College, was in this city Tues gether they have visited 20 o f the day and at the high school explain smaller high school of the state in ing to the senior class the student the past week. self-help plan o f that institution of higher learning. With only one hun S. S. Stevens o f Epgene, service dred dollars a student can obtain a man for the Underwood Typewriter school years educational, according company was in this city Friday on to Mr. Greene. The college will fur his periodical trips visiting the high nish the student with employment schools using Underwood typewrit i n order to pay the rest o f his ex ers. Mr. Stevens reports the ma C A T T L E S U P P L Y R E P O R T E D IN penses. Raymond K. Baker, head of chines in the local high school are and death o f our beloved mother B l-W EEK L Y BROADCAST the psychology and education depart- all in good condition. Mrs. Eliz&geth McDonough, to the Rebekah lodges, and Women’s Relief Reports released by the orderly corps both at Ashland and Central marketing committee o f the Oregon Point and for all the beautiful Cattle and Horse Raisers association flowers and floral pieces sent. showing the number of cattle needed | Mrs. C. R. Fifield in the Portland market and the m m - | Mrs. 0 . O. Wingfield ber bought or contracted for are be- j A. G. Beal Have a good supply of graded, local grown, ing broadcasted each Monday and J R. H. Beal Friday night at 7 :30 from station j field corn now in stock. H. E. Beal KOAC, the Oregon Agricultural col- I This corn thoroughly acclimated— will give Margarite McDonough lege, at Corvalis. The Monday night I FIELD C O R N -- --------------o-------------- BETTER MAGAZINE • is probably on our News Stand ready for you. Come in and look them over. Subscriptions taken by year. Club Prices. PAXSON DRUG CO. The Central Point Store - - Oregon HOMES CAM PAIG N report covers the cattle needed for the next Monday’s market on data ! prepared from statements J>y the | packers, The Friday report shows the number o f cars to be loaded or listed for the Monday market The number o f cars ordered and loaded after Friday afternoon is usually small. Reports are wired to the college department o f animal husbandry from Portland around five o’clock every Monday and Friday afternoon. This information is o f value to the cattle shippers o f Oregon, enabling them to know in pdvance o f ship ment about what the condition of the market will be, says E. L. Potter, professor o f animal husbandry at the college, who arranged the service with C. E. Howell, market director at Portland for the Cattle and Horse Raisers association. ---------- o---------- The Better Homes Campaign now ¥eing conducted in the Rogue River valley, as part o f the nation-wide movement, and which culminates in Better Homes Week, April 25 to May 1, is an educational institution for public service, its aim being to make convenient, attractive, and whole some homes accessible to all Amer ican families. Demonstrations are now being conducted by voluntary local committees all over the United States. Campaigns also include lec tures, discussion meetings, exhibits, and wherever possible, during Better Home Week, the demonstration o f a house, planned and furnished for a family o f modest means, illustrating the best the community can offer in house comfort, convenience, and beauty at a cost within the reach of families o f moderate circum A T R I B U T E TO R E G U L A T I O N O F stances. A SOUND NATU RE Chairmen and assistants have been _____ • appointed for the campaign in this “ I hold no brief- for the Inter section, committees are meeting an(j state Commerce Commission,” said [ functioning with much success, a President Gray o f the Union Pacific | house for demonstration purposes System,” but I can say this: that for I has been secured on North Peach nearly forty years it has progressed street, Medford, and all concerned by deliberate and painstaking efforts ' in any way with the movement are to a point in public esteem second working tirelessly and with much only to the Supreme Court o f the \ enthusiasm. United States. It is without doubt Programs for the Better Homes the hardest working of ouh public ! Week will include lectures, demon bodies; o f its honesty o f purpose, | strations, and exhibits of such sub high and courageous character, there I jects as interior decoration, financ can be no question. Some appoint ing and building o f a home, how to ments have been made which savored renovate furniture, story telting to o f class distinction initially, but the children, music for the home and atmosphere o f patriotic service which books which should be in every animates the Commission has in most j home. These features will be hand cases overwhelmed any individual bi- I led by experts in each line, some as, and, in fact, the special pleader o f them being local people and some has several times grown in these new j from the Oregon Agricultural Col environments to leadership in disin lege. Full details o f program and terested public service. There is no dates will be given next week. Re pomp and circumstance about the I ception hours, when the demonstra Commission.” tion house will be open to visitors w il be from two five and from seven Washington, D. C.— A bill em- \ to nine o ’clock daily. bodying an $85,000,000 five-year The committees in charge o f the building program for the naval air j Medford demonstration are: Gen service was passed by the house April eral chairman, Mrs. Lynn Smith; 12 and sent to the senate. The pro- i Assistant chairman, Miss Ada Brew gram is designed to provide by the j ster; House and Furnishings Com end o f the five-year period 1000 mittee, Mrs. Lynn Smith, Mrs. Sue new airplanes and two new dirigibles, Stewart Brown, Miss Virginia each three times the size o f the Smith, Miss Maurine Carroll, Miss wrecked Shenandoah. Snedicor, E. E. Wilson, Mrs. M. C. Page, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Cornwall; Finance Committee, B. W. Paul, Fred Wahl; Publicity, M. D. Dole, Miss Janice Butler, and Mrs. B. T. - DeLosh; Program, Mrs. A. J. Hanby, I Mrs. Jab Andrews, Mrs. E. E. Wil 1 son; House and Grounds, Miss Mae Carlton, George Seely, Mrs. Donald McKee; Reception, Mrs. Jap An- | drews. REPORT Your Favorite PAGE FIVE IS B A S E D ON F A C T S The Insurance Advisory Commit- j tee o f the Chamber o f Commerce of the United States has delved into the ! problem o f automobile casualty in- I surance. The National Chamber I does not leap to solutions o f a prob lem and then search for facts. In stead, it first gathers the facts, then j exhibits them impartially and seeks j to find the proper solution for the j true problem. In its report, the Committee states j that is finds both motorists and ped- ' estrians at fault, and the Utter only fractionally less blameworthy*, with I a substantial percentage of automi- bile accidents not determinable as to fault) chiefly from absence o f wit- j nesses. It finds that wef claims of a I determinable nature are deprived o f Identification. 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