PAGE THREE
WHY—
Old Family Estates Are Few
in America
Thirty years ago a multimillionaire
built one of the most beautiful and
costly houses then standing In this
country. When some one expressed
surprise at the care and money which
he had put Into the place he smiled
proudly.
"I’m going to found an estate for
my family,” he declared.
He spent the remaining twenty
years of his life perfecting the place.
The gardens were laid out In the most
splendid style; trees and rare shrubs
were transplanted at great expense.
An artificial lake was made. The
house Inside was furnished in r*»gal
style. He sent several experts abroad.
In fact, to bring back tapestries, pic-
lures and furniture. Some one said
that he looted Europe of Its art treas
ures the way Napoleon had looted
Italy, and he was delighted with the
simile.
But within ten years of his death
the place was put up for sale. The
tide of fashion had gone against the
neighborhood, and not one of the wives
of his three sons was willing to live
there.
"To be sacrificed to settle an es
tate." These words occur dally In the
real-estate advertisements of our met
ropolitan newspapers.
And Americans have learned that
though they may plan the most beau
tiful home imaginable there Is no rea
son to suppose that the next genera
tion will necessarily de-ire to live
In it
Palatial houses still go up on Long
Island and In California, and the mil
lionaire still buys hundreds of acres
to protect his country place In Vir
ginia, or In the hunting country of
New .Jersey; hut If he is wise, he does
so primarily for his own enjojment.—
Maude Parker Child In Saturday Eve
ning Post.
W hy Soldiers Spoke of
Death as “ Gging W est”
One authority attributes the expres
sion used *v Roldlers in the World
war when they spoke o f death as
“Going West," to the Egyptians among
whom the West was spoken of as
the abode of departed spirits. An
other authority believes that It origi
nated among the North American In
dians, who used the expression, “ Gone
to meet the setting sun," while others
bring it down to about 5 hundred years
ago in the United States, as a current
expression referring to men who had
gone prospecting in the then unsettled
and dangerous Indian territory In the
West beyond the Mississippi ami who
had not returned, implying that they
were dead. The phrase In the English
language Is at least as old as an early
English Fourteenth century poem,
which has the refrain, “This world Is
but a vanity,” and in which the lines
occur, “ Women and many a willful
man, as wind and water, are gone
West." "Go West," meaning to die,
Xwas a common phrase during the Boer
War. Doctor Brewer says that the
f|ea occurs in a Greek proverb.
CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN
hold much :«.,re moisture wnen hot
than It can>when cold, and the “ raw" NOTICE
cold air o f winter Is near the point
where some of Its moisture will con
dense. Heat the same air to 70 de
grees and it feels dry.
Why It Is Called P m fin
Paraffin is so called from Its having
Ittlie m ,U nity with anything else, the
Latin words meaning this being "pa-
rum affinls.” I'aratttn is obtained In
the distilling of peirolenni, and it was
first obtained in 18T.0. It makes ex
cellent candles.
LAND
SETTLEMENT
ITEMS
DEPT.
(State C. o f C.)
A fter traveling to the Paefic
Coast looking for a location, J. A.
Bergoletti, formerly of Pennsylvan
ia, has at last found in Oregon the
farm he desires.
Moving to Cali
fornia he wa" not satisfied and wrote
to the I-and Settlement Deportment,
in which the Oregon State Chamber
cooperates with the Portland Cham
ber. Following some correspond
ence, W. G. Ide railed on Mr. Ber
goletti in San Pedro, California and
furnished him with reliable informa
tion concerning Oregon lands.
Under the guidance o f the Land
Settlement Department, Mr. Bergol
etti purchased a place on the Pacific
Highway on the Rogue River near
Grants Pass.
Since that time hia
son and a farmer neighbor from San
Pedro have come to Oregon and
bought adjoining acreage.
All o f
them paid cash for their invest
ments.
Calling at the office o f the Land
Settlement Department in Portlund
recently Br. Bergoletti expressed
great appreciation for the services
in aiding him to find the home he
desired and announced that they
were all so well pleased with the
success o f their venture that they
were installing an irrigation pump
ing system for their joint holdings,
paying cash for this also.
That Oregon appeals likewise to
other Pennsylvania farmers is borne
out by the letter just received by
Mr. Ide from Joseph McCluan o f
that state who wishes to invest
about $10,000 in an Oregon poultry
farm. The father o f five children,
Mr. McCluan seeks an opportunity
offering them a good future.
He
has been assured that Oregon offers
all he could wish -and has sent him
descriptive literature o f the various
parts o f the state where he can do
well in the poultry business.
MINING NEWS
(S. W. N. Ore. Mining Bureau)
OF ANNUAL
MEETING
SCHOOL
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
• he legal voters o f School District
No. 6, o f Jackson County, State of
•r gon, that the ANNUAL SCHOOL
MEETING o f said District will be
held at the Public School Building,
in Central Point, in said District; to
begin at the hour o f two o ’clock P.
M., on the third Monday o f June,
same being the 21st day o f June,
1926.
THIS MEETING I? CALLED
FOR THE PURPOSE of electing one
Director fo r a term o f three years,
and one Clerk for a term o f one year,
and
FOR THE PURPOSE o f submit
ting to the legal voters of said
School District the question of
SELLING the Old Framed School
House Building, now situated upon
the Public School Grounds in Cen
tral Point, and within said District,
and for the transaction o f business
usual at such meetings.
Dated this 1st day o f June, 1926.
H. T. PANKEY,
Chairman o f Board o f Directors.
Attest: C. A. BOLES,
District Clerk.
J10-17
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1926
Ths United Artisans gave another
very enjoyable dancing party in the
Knights of Pythias hall last Friday
evening with an immense crowd pres
ent. The feature of the evening was
the entrance at 9:45 o f Old Man
tires and Little Jimmy. These two
characters gave the appearance of
being made of actual tires and creat
ed considerable merriment during
the evening.
The city building permits for the
month of May totaled $110,415 with
the majority for residences and re
modeling. Th# largest was for |45,-
000 issued to the Pacific Telephone
company for its building at North
Central and Fifth.
latst week the local Lions club
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, W. G.
Drew; first vice-president, A. J.
Crose; second vice-president, E. M.
Merrick; secretary, H. T. Hubbard,
lion tamer. Dr. Sleeter; tail twister,
Ernest Scott; treasurer, R. B. Mark-
land; directors, J. O. Grey and J. W.
Judy.
Low Fares
to California
$
Reduced roundtrip summer
fares are now in effect. Plan
your trip to California and take
advantage o f them. Tickets
with 16-day limit are on sale
daily; also season tickets with
Oct. 31 limit at slightly higher
cost, permitting stopovers.
F or Sale----H ardy
S p ra yer
co m
plete or will sell parts.— In dependent
G arage, C en tral P oint, O reg on .
Four trains daily, including
Southern California Express
direct via Sacramento and Los
Angeles.
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B rick Ice C ream at D am on C a fe .
I
LINES
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MEDFORD NEWS
Bliss Heine
A short time ago a California tour
ist was entering Oregon over the Sis-
kiyous with a nice car with large bal
loon tires on and ran over a rattle
snake. As the car passed over the
reptile, it immediately turned its
head and leaped into the huge tire,
its fangs going clear through and
puncturing the inner tube. The fangs
were removed from the bi tire by
Carl “ Shorty” Jeschke at the Med
ford Vulcanizing Works who now has
them there in a small glass case. This
should be a warning to motorists not
to run over rattlesnakes.
Last week Jones & Kirkpatrick,
who formerly owned and operated
the popular service station on River
side at the Merrick Motor Inn, sold
their beautiful service station in
Salem to the Shell Oil company and
are at present in Medford.
Trie special train of war equipment
for (tamp Jackson arrived last week
in «harge o f Major Leo J. Bironi
and a detachment o ftroops. There
were 31 cars o f trucks, autos, guns,
tents, ammunition and other equip
ment. Work at the camp is rapidly
progressing.
Miss Mary Moore,
16-year old |
Junior in Medford high, won the
highest honors for the state of Ore
gon in the third National Meat Story
contest. Her parents ilve at Gold
Beach, but she has made her home
the greater part o f the time with her
grandmother in order to attend the
Medford schools.
Mr. and rMs. A. W. Walker held
their dancing party last Saturday
night in the beautiful Oriental Gar
dens. Huge fans have been installed
in their hall in the Medford building
aad were in operation for the first
time last Wednesday which furnished
a much needed relief from the pre
vailing heat. These large fans in
sure cool dancing parties for the rest
o f the summer.
F. E. Redden and Annie J. Bate
man. owners of the Southern Oregon
Credit Bureau, have sold an interest
in the company to Carl J. Brommer,
who will have charge o f the collec
tion department. Miss Bateman is
general office manager and Mr. Red
den is in charge o f the law and in
surance.
Mr. Brommer was form
erly with the Farm Bureau and is
well known throughout southern
Oregon.
Out o f town visitors this week
included Dr. E. W. Hoffmana, of
Sacramento, J. W. Tosca of Los An
geles, E. V. Bodingdon o f Tacoma,
H. V. Williams o f Ilwaco, H., A.
Strang o f Spokane, A. S. Royce o f
Tacoma, and J. J. Orchard o f Salem.
Dr. Herschel Parker has returned
frem the east, P. B. Wickham is
bacK from Portland, and L. II. Van
Horn from Los Angeles.
The banks report quite a little pla
cer gold in evidence now as the
spring cleanups arc practically com
pleted. The Robinson mine at Gal-
ice continues its phenominal pro
duction. This one small mine has
already produced in less than twelve
months, without any fuss or brass
hand stuff, more than the entire
Why Yawning Is Infectious fruit crop o f this valley for any o f
five
years past.
A peculiar thing about the process
Charles Dcrwachter is again in
of yawning Is that one person In a
room yawning will quite likely set all town, and work on the Wedge goes
or most of the others In the room to steadily on. Alastair Erskine is in
the district, and it is planned to open
yawning also. The only explanation the Ancient river again, on. mining
for this Is that when several people lines exclusively.
are In a room and one of them be
Yates and Coats will be away
gins to yawn the others do so, not be temporarily on business connected
cause they have perceived or are af with mines in other sections.
fected by the first yawn, but because
The sale o f the Banfield Mine in
the air In the room has become so Douglass county to interests with-
poor that there Is not enough good the capital necessary to proper
air for all the people In It. breathing ly develop it is welcome news. Every
normally, and many of them are mine which is put into action helps
forced to yawn at about the same us all.
time.
This month must see the start of
all assessment work. Many have al-
ready started it. Under the present
Why Bump Follows Knock
When a person humps his head the conditions, it would be as well to
j see that it is promptly done this i
soft tissues covering the bone are 1 year. Paper hangers and claipi
elastic and are stretched like rubber. j jumpers are among us, and while a i
While at the time of the hump there ( man who neglects his assessment 1
Is a dent, the tisanes straighten ont j work has in the past been given lota 1
■gain, but some o f them on the side j of leeway, the indications are that j
of the hump are Injured and some I that day is about over.
There have h*en six good sales
even killed. Nature’s way to enre the j
place where the injury occurred Is to this week, butthe details are not yet
fill It with Mood. The little white released for publication. So far as 1
cells of the blood take up and carry we can see. however, they are all to
away the dead tissues and fill this good people who mean business, and
have the ability, financial and other
place with blood, which causes the wise, to s e e
their enterprises
•welling.
through.
Do not neglect the annual meet-
I ing o f the Bureau, to be held on Sat-
Why Spoon Saves Glass
| urday o f this week, at the Park, at
Why a spoon placed in a glass pre i two p. m. It is worth your while ,
vents boiling water when poured Into ; to let work go for that time, and be
It from breaking the glass Is because I present.
It conducts heat somewhat better than
E. W. Miller, the State Senator
the water does, and this causes the from this county, the author o f the
water around It t» he hotter than only mining legislation passed at the
other water at the same level. It. | 1925 session, has completed his ar
therefore, rises and sets up-a circula rangements for the altering and re
tion In the glass, so that the water building o f his hotel here. All min
bolls In the upper levels and not di ers will be glad to hear that he is
| over the top.
rectly on the bottom.
With the payment o f this year’s
dues, the Bureau should be solvent .
Why Moist and Dry Air ! again. Come prepared.
The effect of the air on the body
Why take your cars to Medford
depends on how near the percents«*
of moisture In It romes to being the when you can get a better job for
leas money at the Independent Gar-
greatest the sir run hold. Air run I age at Central Point.
adv ,
Southern Pacific Lines
C. A. B O L E S , Agent
Federalized Service
THE ADVICE FROM AN OFFICER OF
THIS
BANK
CONCERNING
YOUR
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS WILL COST
YOU NOTHING AND MAY SAVE YOU
MAKING COSTLY MISTAKES.
WE
CONSIDER IT A PLEASURE TO
SERVE
YOU
IN
ANY
CAPACITY
WHEREIN WE CAN BE OF ASSIST
ANCE.
Central Point State Bank
W e A re M a n u fa ctu rers o f
DOORS. SCREENS. W INDOW S AND SASH,
W IN D O W AND DOOR FRAMES, MOULD
INGS, CABINETS OF ALL KINDS
Our Constant Aim i* to Keep Our Quality and Prices
Absolutely Right. Do Not Order From Out-of-Town
Concern* Before Letting Us Figure on Your Bill.
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TROWBRIOCE CABINET WORKS
Medford
A MODERN MILL
Oregon
Money Talks
in Every*
Language
Sweet, Tasty Meats
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T H E CHOICE OF T H E LAND— ALWAYS FRESH AND T E N D E R
A lso, you have m ore m on ey if
you lot it talk— b y g o in g to tho
place w here yon can save m ore o f
it on y ou r rep air bill.
T ry the IN D E P E N D E N T G A R
A G E fo r G uaran teed w ork and be
con vin ced .
C. T. G E N Z E L
“ Quality and Service”— Our Motto
(The Man Who Knows)
Wo do
Central Point Meat Market
ACETYLENE WELDING AND
BRAZING
I. D. LEWIS, Prop.