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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1926)
CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN American has nothing very large to gain or loose whether the court house We A . I.da p an da n t W a .k ly P . p . r P u bli.h ad at C .o l r .1 P o i.» , O r . , « , « » a is in Medford or Jacksonville. Entered Friday of aaeh w eek in th e P o e t o ffic e th ereof a> S econ d Claee can pay our few hundred taxes one M atter place as well as the other. If Medford gets the court house, PAUL ROBINSON, Editor and Publisher we will still drive to Jacksonville SUBSCRIPTION RATES occassionally, because it is a nice 12.00 One Year — drive and we like the people there. All Su b script ions Must Be P’aid in Advance The result, in our opinion, rests A d e a rtie in , Ratee Given on A pp lica tion entirely on how many people vote. If all vote in the county who can vote, Medford will receive the county seat and the question will be settled for all time to come. CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN E D I T O R I A ! Put the new court house in Cen tral Point, if you want too. Nobody here is going to object, that we know of. ---------- o---------- Through out the state and through out the Nation are to be found indi viduals as well aa companies with capital who are looking for suitable locations in which to establish clay products plants, beet factories, fruit and vegetable canneries, small fac tories, flax farms, fox farms, etc. Perhaps Central Point is just the lo cation. How would these seekers for such a place know about it bet ter than from a live Comercial club with a live committee working on just such subjects? The new “ morning paper” at Med ford is now a reality. The Medford News is appearing every morning. Jackson county now has a morning paper and an evening paper. • The field, from a newspaper standpoint, is well covered. The appearance o f The Medford News is quite metro-' politan and we welcome it with a breath o f relief and satisfaction. Here is wishing it well. As Medford grows, so will Central Point and as the daily papers of the metropolis grow, so will grow in size and im portance, the “ American,” Jackson county’s weekly paper. The burning of the frame building on our main street last Friday night marked the distruction of an old land mark. The dance hall was built about twenty-five years ago. When built it was a two story frame build ing and about the only building on the north side o f the main street, looking big and lonesome at that time. It was used as a theatre for some years, later the top story was removed. Of late the building has been used as a dance hall only. It occupied the prominent com er o f the city and the spot will make a hand some location for a modem brick — if not grabbed for an oil station, o As election grows nearer it be comes easier to forecast the result. By ignoring straw votes and putting the same time in listening to ex- presesd sentiments from all classes o f people we meet, as well as by reading opinions o f various papers from all parts o f the state, it becomes more apparent daily that Stanfield is loosing some o f his once sure support. The senatorship now lays between Steiwer and Haney, with Steiwer in the lead both east and west of the mountains. For governor at this time, I. L. Patterson has a little the best o f the bet, although a week ago some thought it was a "toss up.” Should Patterson be elected, and it now looks like he would, he will make a good one. He is safe, sure and sane. A god man to lead the ship of state. Should Steiwer get elected, and it looks now like he would, he is honest, capable and will work with the administration. Queer things sometimes happen at elections, but, we repeat, it looks now like this it to be a Republican year for Oregon The so-called “ Housewifes’ Bill" for state control o f power with the spending in the hands of a small board with full power, will go down to defeat by a big majority and well it should, as it is only another freak law to greatly increase our already too high taxes. The “ Housewifes’ Council” act should be snowed under. COUNTY SEAT REM OVAL A question o f much importance to Jackson county to be voted on at the coming November élection ¡6 the removal of the county seat from Jacksonville to Medford. At first thought most any outsider or stranger would think that Med ford was the county seat, simply be cause Medford has about 12,000 population while Jacksonville has a few hundred. And Medford, so the maps show, is on the Southern Pacific railroad and Pacific highway while Jacksonville is on no railroad whatever and o ff the main highway. But Jacksonville has been the county seat for many years— before any one ever heard of Medford. Medford grew when it started, while Jacksonville is still Jackson ville with no modern improvements or little signs o f progress. These are truths, not insinuations for or against any town or cause. Sentiment is with Jacksonville. Jacksonville is romantic and a nice place to visit or drive'through on a sunny Sunday. Jacksonville is one o f the oldest gold camps in Oregon and the ground there is still rich in the precious metal. The court house in Jacksonville is an old out-of-date building. It is not fireproof, it leaks, it is quite too small and crowded, the'jail is too small and the buildings are badly in need o f immediate re pairs. Medford wants the county seat She has made the county an offer. Vote to remove the county seat to Medford and that city will build a city hall half again as large as the present court house, and will rent the new city hall t o Jackosn county for five years to be used as a court house for only five dollars rent. Also the city o f Medford offers to donate the grounds free to the county for the new court house when it is ready to be built Medford claims that the money spent in rides, oil, gas, time and inconvenience going and com ing from Jacksonville is more than the extra tax for a, new court house that some say will be about one mill. Now Jacksonville is not keeping still by any means. They claim over there that at this time our county cannot afford a ne wcourt house to cost any place from $200,000 up. They say, over there, that our taxes are too high now and why try to in crease them for a new building. They are also partial to the present site and present building for old time sake— sentiment. Jacksonville has always been the county seat, why change it? The question will be settled Novem ber 2. We hope it will be settled with no hard feelings from either side. It can be and should be. Personally, the Centra* Point Lumber Rough and Dressed Dimensions We can save you money Sawing all the time F R E E D E L IV E R Y -Cleveland Bros.- Mill at Cauls Creek 5 Miles Southwest of Gold Hill $5 prize for the best stunt, single or group, Carnival o f Venice. Cen tral Ponit gym, Friday, Oct. 22, 6 to — p. m. Let’s go. Reduced round trip excursion fares from all parts on its lines to Port All kinds of land will be put into effect by the Furniture Repaired Southern Pacific for the Pacific In Old Furniture Bought ternational Livestock expositoin to be held there October 30 to Novem Refinishing and Repairing ber 6. at 36 So, Grape, Medford In announcing this yesterday F. S. McGinnis, passenger traffic man A spare time job soliciting for the ager for the railroad stated that live stock men and breeders from all American? Call for particulars. parts o f the YV^st are expected to participate in the show which is rec F. F. B U R K — FO R A U T O TO PS Opposite S. P. Depot ognized as the livestock classic o f SUNNY SO U TH ERN OREGON 0 R'.gue river valley in southern the Pacific coast. M E D F O R D T E N T A N D A W N IN G Oregon is one district in which W ORKS G. C. Vincent is another new sub damaging frosts are unknown dur- scriber to the American this week. Medford, Ore. Phone 145-J the early fall season. Despite the the fact that we recently experienced a heavy rain, the first o f the fall season, clear weather ensued with out a semblance of frost. As a result of this favorable con dition, a wide variety o f flowers are blooming, profusely, in nearly every A \ W A W W / A W .V A V .V A V A V .V J V W A V . yeard. Tomatoes are still ripening on the vines, and other vegetation ip making a marked growth. Lawns are taking on a deeper hue o f green. It seems more like spring than fall. In various other districts vegeta tion has been destroyed by severe frosts. Flurries of snow have been recorded and in those districts all semblance o f the summer season Y W iA W k V V V A V .W /.V .V V V .W A V A V /.W M has disappeared Dress Goods N ew Fabricks Just in From the Best Mills Manufacturies Silk Crepe deChine, in all the Beauti ful Colors of the Season. Rogue river valley enjoyed eight months o f almost continuous sun shine this year. Picnic parties basked in the warm sun of an early spring along the banks o f Rogue river and other streams in February. The first fall rain o f any consequence fell after October was ushered in, mak ing eight months during which local residents l’ved outdoors and in the wide open spaces. Few districts in the world enjoy this record. It is one which makes this valley and all o f southern Oregon a pleasant place in which to live. It is a magnet that will eventually draw thousands of other home-seekers who desire to escape the more rigorous climates of other districts. Well may this dist rict be termed sunny southern Ore gon.— Jackson County News. We Also Show the NEW Silk and W o o l Crepe dress goods These come in any of the new Fall Colors To Appreciate Them You M ust Look Them Over C O R D U R O Y S : In all the same colors as above, at 9 0 cts a yard Come and See the Many in at New Goods Now • * THE MOTHER KNOWS The Aimee McPherson scandal with it’s charges and denials, its con fession and demunications, its slow unfolding o f wholly unlovely drama, ha sdeveloped one admirable person — an old fashioned mother. She is Mrs. W. C. Ormiston, whose son Kenneth is the man in the case. Mrs. Ormiston has given a state ment to a San Francisco paper. It carries no shrieks. It is calm and is simply worded. In it one decerns that unbending honors that would even brush aside a beloved child in order fo right the wrong and that age-old intuitiveness that enables mothers to see. moreal matters with perfect clearness. That is what she said. With this great mass o f evidence showing that Mrs. McPherson was not kidnapped, with the warrants is sued for her arrest, there is no use for even a mother to try to persuade herself that the story told by my son is true. We tried to bring him up as a god-fearing ritious man and until he met Mrs. McPherson there was nothing to mar our joy and pride in him. Since then there has been noth ing but trouble. When Kenneth sent his letter to the district attorney we were hurt for in them our son con fessed a wrong ut we believed them. Now we cannot. There is too much on the other side. He must come for ward and tell the truth, clear up this mess which has kept us in constant misery since his name was first brought into the investigation. Mothers know and children who try to deceive them are but deceiv ing themselves. This mother is tired o f deceit and is too honest to hide the fact. She wants her son to be a man and clear this mess even if he he hurt in the clearing. Mothers are great institutions. ---------- 0---------- B. P. Theiss & Co. VAVW AV > V .V AV W AW .W AV AW .\V .V AV ,,A V . .WYV.V. .a Not io good f} Come olii ta an ih' piropo **»âp Depending on Luck? ’T depend on luck to keep air old tire. D O in N that W e are now selling genuine, warranted United States Tires on easy terms. T h e y tires are guaranteed by the great United States Rubber Company— the Company’ s name and trade mark are on the side wall o f each tire. Pay over a period o f months — as you ride. Beebe and Kindle Central Point, Oregon UNITED STATES TIRES ARE GOOD Ti^ES 102 W r A re M .n u f a c t a r .r . o f U N IO N C H U R C H Title for Sunday scholo lesson is “ Jesus Teaches Humility.” John, chad. 13. Outline, 1, Warning against pride, vs. 1-17. 2, Warning to Judas. vslH -td. 3 Warning to Disciples, vs. 31-36. 4, Warning to Peter, vs. 36-38. The sermon subject for the morning service will be “ The Life of the Clearer vision." In the evening service the subject will be “ The In exorable laws o f the Spiritual life.” The young people's societies will meet at 6:30 and it is desired »*—♦ •ood, promnt attendance will be Hairy Nealon o f Tabi. Rock v t l ■ rifitor T il e d .y. \ R A IL R O A D F A R E S R E D U C E D FO R L IV E S T O C K E X P O S IT IO N DOORS. SCREENS. W IN D O W S AND SASH. W IN D O W AND DOOR FRAMES. MOULD INGS. CABINETS OF ALL KINDS Our Constant Aim ia to Keep Our ■ Quality and i Prices Absolutely Right. Do Not.Order I From Out-of-Town Ou Concerns Before Letting Us Figure on Your Bill. TROWBRIDGE CABINET WORKS Medford A MODERN MILL Oregon