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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1926)
IN T H E LA N D „ "WHERE THE npeix.w/Bi.TUJvs f CENTRAL POINT TH E C E N TR A L POINT OF B U S Y JACKSON COUNTY AMERICAN cs r* 0 »x P a c if ic H i g K - w a v & S P Tx?a.ilroa.<i LUM BERING--FRUIT~DAlI2.YING-~ M IN IN G --F A R M IN G -S TO C K R A IS IN G -F IS H IN G -H U N TIN G VOLUME 2 CEN TRA L POINT, JACKSON, COUNTY, OREGON. HAVE ROUGH TRIP IN EXPLORING LOCAL BOYS ENJOY DIP IN C O LD R IV E R W ATER Search Unsuccessful S w ift C u r r e n t and i ' Taking Wrong C h a n n e l Upsets Boat of , Searchers MAKES HO M ESTEA D PROOF Is Now Resident o f Central Point District Fred Taylor, an old-time re sid e rt of this district, was in Gold Hill on Monday, en-route to G rants Pass to make final proof on his homestead, which he located several years ago down on the Illinois river in Jose phine county. He has recently purchased a home property in Cen tral Point adn his family is now domiciled in th at town. He reports that his father, Jam es Taylor is a resident of Douglas county. The senior Taylor operated the Hughes limestone quarry and kiln out on Kanes creek about 20 years ago. He also reports th at his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William Russell, both passed away early in the present year a t Roseburg. Mr. Russell operated the' Gold Hill brick yards below the Braden mine about 25 years ago, and was a Indian w ar vet eran of the Rogue River wars.— Gold Hill News. The follow ing letter sent by Louis Salade J r, of C entral Point to his frien d , Col. Ralph S. Croskey, 526 Stephen G irard Bldg., Philadelphia, f a ., tell of a little incident that happened to him and several local boys on a recen t trip down the Rogue riv e r in search of a valuable Russian --------- * --------- W olfhound, lost by Mr. Salade. The story is interesting and the CHRISTM AS W E D D IN G IS A m erican is indebted to Mr. Salade HOLIDAY E V E N T H E R E 1 to publish his letter. FRIDAY, D E C E M B E R 31. 1926 ASLAND PARK WILLED MONEY IN V A L U A B L E C H R IST M A S G IFT IS R E C E IV E D Make Improvements Ashland Bank President« Named T rustées to C are for * the E state. Ashland, Dec. 24.— The city of Ashland has received an invaluable Christmas gift from the estate of C. W. Root and his wife, Mrs. Virginia Root. Mr. and Mrs. Root wore for many years citizens of Ashland in terested in every good thing fo r the city and its people. In his will Mr. Root le ft his property in a legacy to the city of Ashland and a t Mrs. Root’s death, her properties were also bequeathed to the city, with the provision th a t it all be used to beautify and benefit the city. The m anagem ent of the estate was left in the hands of tru stees consisting of the presidents of the three banks of the city. The tru stees have decided upo nthe purchase of fo u r p ro p er ties, the Bungalo w property belong ing to Mrs. B ert R. Greer, the JC. F* Smith property on W inburn Way, u strip 72x200 feet belonging to E. D. Briggs and a piece of ground belong ing to Mrs. Emma Oeder. Options have been secured on the properties and the deal will soon be completed. The new additions to the park are near the entrance and will m aterially increase the facilities there besides adding to the beauty of the approach. Some buildings will be removed and im provem ents made. The decision of the Root estate tru stees is consid ered o ff a r reaching influence in the developm ent of the splendid park which form s one of Ashland’s g re a t est assets. Many of the projects which were proposed to th e tru stees could not be considered since the will states th a t the estate m ust go to the city of Ashland and fo r the beautifying and b enefit of the city In its choice the board feels th a t it has complied in the very le tte r and spirit of the bequest and th a t there is no other way in which they could have established a m onum ent to Mr. and Mrs. Root which more nearly m eet the ideas they had in mind for the city they loved so well. It is planned to erect some suitable monu m ent to the honor of the city’s bene factors and to expend the residue eith er in the purchase of more land fo r the park or in the im provem ent of w hat has already been purchased. The business of the estate has been handled by E. V. C arter, president of the F irst National bank; J. P. Dodge, president of the Citizens bank, and W. J. Moore, president of the S tate Bank of Ashland. A p retty rom ance which began December 17, 1926 during their school days clum inated D ear R alph: Y esterday we had quite an adven on Saturday, Christmas day, in the tu re and experience none of the wedding of Miss Edith Copenger of th ree of us will forget for a long time this city to Mr. Orville Shores of the I t came about like this. Last S atur Shores service station of Medford. day my R nssifn Wolfhound went off The simple cerem ony was read a t w ith the police pup and never retu rn the home of Rev. J. M. Johnson, the ed, even though the pup came back officiating m inister, only the immed th e following day. So although we iate members of the fam ily and w it have searched most everywhere about nesses being present. th is section without a clue to his Both Mr. and Mrs. Shores are w hereabouts. I assume he was cought popular members of the class of ’26, in a trap , probably along Bear creek. of the C entral P oint high school and W e w ent along both banks of this oth were star players on the boys’ creek, where boys are known to have and girls’ basketball teams. s e t out trap s fo r miles in both direc Following the cerem ony the happy tion but in several places were not couple left fo r th eir new home in able to even see the creek due to the Medford. dense underbrush. Therefore, having Their many friends wish them no results, I thought the best and many years of wedded happiness. only way was to go down the creek ----------* ---------- by boat. Due to the heavy rains this T H E T IM E WORN P H R A S E creek had swollen greatly and some tim e ago was a raging to rre n t with Health, W ealth and H appiness Is logs and all sorts of derbis rushing the Wish for All. down to the Rogue river, some few miles below here. B ut now it had Living conditions, national and fo r gone down to a more normal size, eign affairs, state and county pros and with care we thought it could perity appear prom ising as the New be successfully done. So with Leon Year, 1927, is ushered in. In Oregon Boomer, Ed. Boardman, Trum an the mild and moist w inter indicate B ren n er all of C entral Point and bountiful crops for the coming year. who w anted some excitem ent, we Building activities all over the North w ere fo rtu n a te in getting a strong west are excelling all records and ex m etal covered flat bottomed boat, pectations. The lum ber m arket is owned by B ert Peck also of C entral indeed bright ;nefc railroad construc point, and with the three of us tion is praeitcally assured; large cor aboard we started down Bear creek. porations have planned extensive op The cu rren t was much sw ifter erations, including a $3,000,000 than was a t all suspected, and al power plant in our own county— though one of us was a t the bow and the big C alifom ia-O regon Power cite an o th er a t the stern with sort of at Prospect. poles and the third at the oars amid- W iththese favorable conditions ahip and pulling upstream , the boat pictured before us, we can earnestly w ent along entirely too fa st fo r com express to our readers and to our fo rt. At a short distance on and personal friends the tim e worn where the stream made a split, we phrase, “ Happy New Y ear.” The took the wrong channel and ran America wishes all, the best of the aground in a small rapids, but final ladn during the coming twelve ly m anaged to get clear with some months. We have no new leaves to --------- + --------- pulling and pushing. turn over; no wild predictions, know To o u r surprise, a fte r going on ing th at work, honestly aqd plenty Consolidation Is Report. some little distance fu rth e r and too of advertising will reap a rich re sw iftly a t th at, due to the strong There irs being planned a scheme ward. cu rren t, we saw just above the su r Happy New Year to you and your to consolidate the high schools of face w hat had bee ntfc: top wire of family. May you live long and pros Sams Valley and Gold Hill. A union a barb-wire fence We had ju st come h'gh school at Gold Hill would result per. around a bend in the stream and did in bigger and b e tte r facilities and Don’t forget to w rite it 1927. n o t have a chance to get to the side advantages to students o f these dis * in tim e to reach the bank before hit tricts. To H s t s Installation. tin g the fence. Evidentally the risen The Womans Relief Corps will creek had been so much higher than have th eir installation Saturday. th is fence, th at the logs, etc., had January 8. A chicken dinner will be Mrs. Mauris« Richardson is visit gone righ< over this and not torn served a t noan fo r the members and ing h er parents at Elgin, in eastern it away as we expected and had been their families. Oregon. Mr. Richardson accompanied th e case in places where the stream her as fa r as P ortland and spent ----------‘fr - was not so hemmed-in by the high I Jack Lynch, form erly of C entral Christm as with his parents in St. banks. Point but now of Weed, CaL, spent Helens, retu rn in g to C entral Point So before we knew H, .the boat Christmas with relatives hers. Monday. I . s- (Continued on peg* I ) DEPARTMENT NUMBER 37 RESTORES LAND T hree Small T ra c ts of Land to Be Homestpaded N ear Here. Notice is hereby given th at the General Land office, by Commis sioner’s letter of December 21, 1926, has restored to entry under the homestead or desert land laws the E f t of SWVi of Sec. 8, and SW Vi NWV4 of Sec. 18, Tp 35 S. R. 1 E. W. M„ and the NE Vi NEVi of Sec. 22, Tp. 35 S. R 1 W. W. M., con taining 161.55 acres. The resto rtatio n will take effect Jan u a ry 18,1927, a t 9 o’clock a. m. and ex-service men of the late war with Germany will have preference right of entry fo r 91 days from and including th at date, or until April 18, 1927. Applications of ex-service men of the late w ar for homestead entry may be executed and filed in this office within 20 days prior to the date of resto rtatio n , and all ap plications for said land filed in this office from December 29, 1926, to and including 9 o’clock a. m. on J a n uary 18, 1927, shall be considered as filed sim utaneously and the right to en ter will be determ ined by draw ing if more than one application be filed for the same tract. The land will be open to general disposition on April 19, 1927. Applications m ust be accompanied by affidavit to the effect th a t appli-. cant served in the United States Army, Navy or Marine corps on or a fte r April 6, 1917, ,and prior to March 8, 1921. the period of such service and the un it in which he served and the date of honorable dis charge or separation from service, and also a copy of his discharge. Citizens of the U nited S tates who served in the allied arm ies in the war with Germany will also have p refer ence right to e n ter this land. Hamill A. Canaday, register, Roseburg, Or. ----------* ---------- SCOTCHMAN CO V ERS T H R E E Y E A P " IN HIS XMAS G R E E T IN G H ere’s a case of Scotch for a bit o’ C hristm as cheer. John M. Scott, assistant passenger traffic m anager of the Southern P a cific Railway company, has a good friend of kindred nativity in the per son of J. A. McLean, pro p rieto r of the Osburn hotel, Eugene, and Scott is chuckling over a naive “ Scotch G reeting C ard” r ocivcd through the mail from McLean. The card is plain to the point of severity and said: "W ishing you a M erry C hristm as for 1926, 1927, 1928.’— Oregon Journal. --------- * --------- Children E njoy Vacation. The school children arc fully en joying th eir m id-w inter vacation. The Christmas program s a t the schools were above p ar and greatly enjoyed by p arent, teacher and stu dent. --------- + --------- Now to Broadcast. Jackson county now has a real radio broadcasting station. Medford Is th e home of KMED, made possible by the enterprise of the M ail-Tribune and Mr. Virgin, radio dealer. KMED is on the a ir every night and o ffers very good progrnirs. You will find them by turn in g the wave length to 250. ---------- + ---------- Fred Inlaw and Ivor French, who have spent several weeks in Cali- fcjynia, returned home fo r the C hrist mas season. They state th at while picking oragnes near Wood lake, in T ulare county, they saw the cyclone which swept through th at p a rt of the country, and la te r saw some of the havoc wrought am ong packing houses and sheds. They also state th a t there is snow on the ridge ro u te which is quite unusual. EXPERT WILL HEAR ON SPRAY IN V E ST IG A T IO N O F SPRAY R E S I DUE IS PROM ISED Arrive Next Month Possible Definite Policy Will Be Taken to Inform Growers W ha t to Do. To investigate the spray residue in southern Oregon, Assistant Secretary of A griculture Campbell is scheduled to leave W ashington early in Junuary fo r Medford, Oregon, where ho will investigate tho situation thoroughly confer with fru it growers and prob ably conduct several hearings to es tablish a definite policy and inform growers ju st what steps they must take to meet* the departm ent of chemistry tolerance in removing arsenate of lead spray from fruits. Catnpell’s trip it is hoped will r e sult in the departm ent of agriculture discovering what the grow ers desire in the way of governm ental co-op eration, and will do away with the confused situation which resulted last year. Growers, they claim, are unable to m eet a tolerance which is secret. Campbell is expected to tell them ju st what the spray tolerance will be, and to inform them us to what they m ust do to m eet it. He will also hear com plaints of fru it men who believe the tolerance to be so strict tb<*t-it is impossible to m eet it. Campbell’s proposed trip is sched uled at the request of Senator Chas. L. McNnry of Oregon, who has urged Secretary of A griculture Jard in e to take steps to aid the grow ers of southern Oregon. Campbell rates next to Jardine in the departm ent o fagriculturo, and it is believed in W ashington th at his visit will be the g reatest constructive step taken since the spray residue ruling threw grow ers and shippers into a state of chaos, with the resu lt th at W estern fru it growers lost p illions o f dollars last year. Bert Anderson and other Medford fru it men have been active in re questing Jard in e to aid the fru it growers of his section.— News. --------- + --------- Is H onor S tu d e n ts a t U. of O. The scholastic honor roll of the University of Oregon, as released by faculty officials lists the names of 76 stddents who averaged a grade of b etter than 2 in all sucji cts. The long list of nnmes included the name of Eva V. Nealon, C entral Point. ---------- + ---------- Have Jo in t Installation. The Masons and E astern S tar held a jo in t installation cerem ony last Monday night, and a fte r the lodge business the member* and th eir families enjoyed the evening with a splendid program and big banquet. ----------+ ---------- J. M. H urley recently retu rn ed fr< m a two m onth’s virit in Portland. Mr. Hurley is a good Jackson county booster and says Medford and C en tral Point will soon be one large city. Mr. H urley raises a few little squash on his lots in C entral Point one weighed 116 pounds and tho other 75 pounds. Some squash. ----------+ ---------- The many friends of Ray H ender son, of the M edford schools, and a form er resident of C entral Point, are grieved to learn of the death re cently of his m other at the family home in Roseburg, Oregon.