IM S -M EA N
PLAN ADVANCED
II
I the parly treatment of th e disease
] lit w III bet on anythin* and It will
j that brings the reduction of the
be for the sake of the gam e rather |
death rate, to a large extent." Except
than the money.
We bet on base »
| in rare cases Christmas seal funds
ball, golf, tenuis, races, elections |
Re-established, September 13. 1928. anything and everything in which
l i f e not used to pay doctors' fees,
Devoted to the beet Interests of there is a contest. All the form s of »
Clarke said. "All services of p h y -
Central Point and vicinity.
I sicians at th e clinics sponsored by
insurance are virtually betting. The
All matter for publication muct Insurer bets we will live, that we |
j the Oregon Tuberculosis association
reach this office not later than W ed w on’t have a fire, that we won't I
are voluntarily given as their con
nesday for Insertion th e sam e week. have an accident, that we won't be I
tribution to the campaign, except in
Published every Friday.
rare in stan ces.”
robbed.
We bet that we will.
it J
Entered as second class matter at costs us money to take these bets f
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — Direct
the post office. Central Point, Ore but we take the chance.
L
Oh how lell do I remem ber
gon, under th e Act o f March 8, 1879.
n egotiation s looking to construction
The prohibitionists will not agree |
Having attended a m eeting of one
How my childhood flighted by;
with the pastor that gam bling is the |
of th e h uge Lakes-to-A tlantic St. 1
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
j of the lake resorts of which the di
Of the cold days In December
worst
evil.
And
we
do
not
agree
j
One year ............................- ............. >2.00
r e c t o r s of the company were In force,
Lawrence w aterway have begun here
And th e warm days of July.
S u Months ....................................... >1.00 with him that It will check gambling 11 heard som e startling information
betw een Maj. William D. Herridge.
in El Paso to close th e bridges lead
Payable In advance.
— Contributed Canadian minister, and Mr. Henry
which if traced down, we would find
lug to Juarez. There are no inter
Advertising rates on application.
that politics plays a great part in
L. Stirason. secretary of state.
national bridges at L ou isville but we
Office— Second Street, o ff Main.
lour Fish and Game com m ission today
With both Canadian and United 1
venture that there is as much gam b
I as it has during the past years.
S tates governm ents favorable to the
ARTHUR EDW ARD POWELL
ling there as there is in El Paso and
During the days that Jim Berrian
gigantic undertaking, it is hoped the
Editor and Publisher
probably a good deal more.
was in charge of th e hatcheries in
present n egotiations will be the final
NOTICE O F S H E R IF F 'S SALE
The pastor says
that w herever
the state of Oregon, th in g s wore
By virtue of an execution on Fore stage looking to actual completion of
there is general gambling the finer
pulled then as today, but honest Jim closure duly issued out of and under the greatest inland w aterway system
things of life are relegated to the
would not stand for It and resigned the seal of the Circuit Court of the of the world.
State of Oregon, in and for the C oun
background.
But, adm itting tha*
his position
The story told was ty of Jackson, to me directed and
A formal announcement, given out
gam bling supplants the finer things
that
he
had
thousands
of
fish
under
dated on the 8th day of ''“cember, by the tw o governm ents today, dealt
MUDDLED.
of life, let us ask the reverend gen
his care and word would com e that 1931. in a certain action therein, with the Stimson-Herridge exchange
This old world of ours seem s to be tlem an to consider prize fighting,
wherein Jackson County
Building
he would have to dispose of what | ,iu*l
Loan \ o, iut on
in Oregon of view s last Saturday. It was stated
greatly muddled these days.
With wrestling, and last, hut not lpast, the
fish he had to make room for a n ex CorporatiaJI> as ,.ia in t|ff, recovered that the conversations had been of
And there are the
chaos on every side, a country and motion picture.
spawn of fish that were Just vaken | judgm ent against Minnie M. Billings. "a broad and general character.”
a governm ent that have been held public dance halls and we believe
On tills one occasion Mr. Berrian I surviving wife of John Billings, d
The discussion, according to the
up as exam ples of progress and glor there are tw o or three in El Paso
wus instructed to
dump
several (•eased; M L. Euphrat and Grace statem ent, "dealt with the Interna
Euphrat, his wife; it. E. Hills, also
ious democracy are floundering In as there are in a thousand other
thousand fish betw een tw o and five known as R. E. Hlllis and Myrtle 8. tional section of the w aterway,” the
u sea of unrest, rebellion, crime and cities.
| inches long In the Columbia river. Hills, also known as Myrtle 8. Hiilis; development of the str:*ly Canadian p
And lastly, lire t lin n. w. « ,, nl,| all
misery.
In this hour, when prob
and John Doe, her naional section of the St. Lawrence I ,
. ..
,
After this was done he resigned is Rose B illin g s
lems of supreme importance confront your atten tion to the most remark he did not want to do business in husband, the defendants, for th e rum
being regarded as a mattei of do A
zealous
pastor's
of Nine Thousand, One Hundred and
us, It is interesting to observe the able of all th is
this manner.
W
Eighty-eight and 70-100 (> 9 ,1 8 8 .7 0 ) inestic concern for Canada.
censorious spirit which seem s to dom charges. He is quoted as saying:
That was years ago, so now we dollars, plus interest at 10% from
Of ou tstanding i a y o r U l C * was 1 J
“ In homes, at parties and social
inate (ho mind of man. Everybody
pass to the present tim e and cite an August 14th. 1931, in the am ount of the decision of the conference to re-1 m
is disposed to blame somebody else gatherings, and in evil Institutions,
Six and
30-100
iustunce that happened tw o months Three Hundred
convene the joint engineering board. m
for all the ills to which they have our mothers may be seen sittin g and ago. It was published in the papers ( > 3 0 6 .3 0 ) dollars; plus Two T h o u
which in 1926 published an elaborate T
sand
Twenty-seven
and
77-100
m
ingling
with
men
whose
past
is
I
become he'r. One by one, they give
about the plan tin g of fish in the dif (> 2 ,0 2 7 .7 7 )
dollars
advanced by report giving cost and engineering
a wallop of hatred at government, unmentionable, whose hearts are as j
ferent lakes and streams of South Plaintiff in the payment of taxes, in data as a basis for carrying through
trusts,
prohibition,
automobiles black as h e ll.”
ern Oregon. This was all true, but surance premiums and necessary re the great seaway. The hoard will be
pairs, with costs and disbursements
newspapers, chain stores, Republi
That, we subm it, is no> only going
these plantings, if all were conducted taxed at Forty-two
and
50—100 reconvened, it w as stated, “ with a
cans. Democrats, and th e tariff— too far, but Is a slander upon the
as the planting at Lake of the Woods, ( >42.50 ) dollars, and the further sum view to insuring agreement upon the
these and other forces too numerous women of El Paso.
Undoubtedly,
have been m ismanaged, and those of One Thousand (> 1 ,0 0 0 .0 0 ) dollars,
to mention are called into account th e pastor's ton gu e slipped when he in charge are very neglectful and*** attorney's fees, which judgment general form of the d evelopm ent to
for nffllrting us with low prices on said, "our mothers. And what does
,
,
1 was enrolled and docketed in the be undertaken in the international
inexperienced.
Clerk's office of the said Court in section of th e St. Lawrence river, as
farm products, shringake in property he mean by “ evil Instltuions?" We
Around 1 10,000 fish m easuring , said County on the 8th day of Decem- to which som e divergence existed in
vnlm s. loss of credit,
threatened don't doubt that the pastor would
one Mich to one and a quarter in ber, 1931.
the 1926 report of the board.
bankruptcy and all th e other evils like to recall these words. But these
Notice Is hereby given that pursu
length were In cans, and on arriving
Major Herridge was accompanied
reformers, these crusaders, must al
ant to th e terms of the said execu
which beset us.
at the lake, the manager of the re tion, I will on the 9th day of Jan u to this m eeting with Mr. Stimson by
Although Americans are endowed ways say som eth in g they do not
sort instructed the men who brought ary. 1932, at l o o ’clock a. 111., at the Mr. Hum e Wrong, counselor of th e
with at least a modicum of rea so n - mean; som eth in g that will startle if
the fish to put them in a certain front door of the Courthouse in the Canadian legation. W ith Mr. S tim
power, we have deliberately thrown not shock. Otherwise, they would not
core, which was protected from the City of Medford, in Jackson County, son were Mr. Hanford MacNider.
discretion to the winds.
Equipped, gain that attention, that notoriety
Oregon, offer for sale and will pell
larger fish and numerous bass that at public auction for cash to the high United S tates m inister to Canada:
as we seem to be, with sufficient
[abound in the luke. The state men est bidder, to satisfy said judgm ent, Mr. Jam es G. Rogers and Mr. John
mathematical knowledge to know that nostrils.
, ,
.
paid no attention or showed no co- together with the costs of this sale, n
four subtracted from tw o leaves us
No, we cannot subscribe to the
as
operation, hut just poured th e c o n - subject to redemption
t
. p r o v i d e d by ° Hlcker8° n - ,hu *,a te d e p a r t m e n t s
■■ of ..........................
minus two, men and women with good pastor's sw eeping indictment.
*
v. „
,.«,„ . „ j law * all
the right, title and interest Canadian expert.
When th e report of the joint board
Incomes of >200 a month have spent It Is too much of a generalization; tents of each can in the lake, a »<U , hat the sai(, defendants. Minnie M
at the rule of >400 a month and won it reveals too much ignorance of real the next morning the hanks w e n - . Hillings, surviving wife of John B ll- 0f en gin eers w as published in 1926,
with thousands of these help I Mngs c r e a s e d ; .
J ; fp K,' ph; a ‘
- , hief interest centered in the 48-m ile
dered why times were so hard on conditions.
Let this pastor make a covered
less little fellows, while others fell Grace Euphrat, his w ife, R. E. Hills
them.
All of our depression has personal Investigation before he again
also known as R. K. Hillls and Myr- international section of the river,
prey to several large buss that were
tie S. Hills, also known as Myrtle S. from Prescott, Ont., to Cornwall,
not been due alone to business con discharges the barrels of his wrath
basking in the sun at tills point. This lliliis; Rose Billings and John Doe, ¡Ont., across from Ogdensburg, N. Y.,
ditions. Some of us have been living upon the d efenseless women of El
showed neglect on the part of the her husband, had on the 4th la y o f ! ,
.
entirely too high for our poeket Paso.
rnwall, Ont. T he United S ta t e s ’
State Game comm ission, and the In May, 1927, or now have in and to "
books. With millionaire desires, we
the follow ing described property, sit . e n g i n e e r s favored one dam in this
experience of these sam e fellow s was
have sought to meet out "appetites'
uated in the County of Jackson, State area, the Canadian en gin eers two;
T H E C IU M ) LABOR r i t o l t i . EM
when they did not test the tem p era of Oregon, to-wit:
from purses thut never knew the
the United States' group favored
AH of Dlork Forty-two ( 4 2 )
Keeping children from competing ture of the wuter in the cans and
feeling of our weekly pay for mere
equal
dis tribution of some 2 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0
of the original town, (n ow city )
than a few moments after signing with grown men and women in the the lake so as to change it gradually
horsepow er to be developed here
of Medford, Oregon, as th e sam e
the payroll, but were most familiar field of labor is not so simple as j before liberating these baby fish.
is numbered,
designated and
whicn the C anadians are believed
I would su ggest
that the State
described on th e official pint
H A R D W A R E an d SPORTING GOODS
w ith hills of ever increasing size that som e persons seem to think it Is.
likely to accept, and finally there
thereof, now of record
came to us for goods we really never They seem to have the Idea that the Game com m ission get those pictures
Central
P
oint,
Oregon
Dated thts 8th* da^ o f D ecember waa th e (»l,est,on of allocatin g the
needed but purchased in order to children them selves, or at least their that were shown at one of the sports 1931.
*v
estim ated
> 2 5 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 costs for
men's
banquets
held
in
Medford
two
parents
can
control
the
situation.
keep up with the ''Joneses.”
RALPH G. JENNINGS,
{construction in the area.
Sheriff of Jackson County, Oregon
Before som e of us see the end of Nothing could be further from the years ago, from the state of Califor
By Olga E. Anderson. DeputyX
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nia. and learn how careful they op
all Mils foolhardiness, we may be fact.
crate
with
their
fish
life.
Child
labor
is
regulated,
is
con
walking instead of riding in a h ig h -
powered ear. And, If we know how trolled in fact, by labor employers.
NOTICE OF S H E R IF F 'S SALK
to separate sheep from goats, in s e If an em ployer does not want child
By virtue of an execution on Core I
lecting public officials, we will be ren to work he can refuse to employ
closure duly issued out of and under
much more careful to choose those them. The reason he em p loys them
(lie seal of the Circuit Court of the!
win* desire to serve public welfare is because he can get their services
State of Oregon, in and for the Coun- ]
rather than to be eternally casting for less than lie would have to pay
ty of Jackson, to me directed and
President Hoover's endorsement of | dated on the 8th day o f December. I
about lo find som ething for which grown persons.
1931, in a certain action therein,
Children are not crazy to work.
to spend the taxpayer's money. We
wherein Jackson
Comity
Ruildingl
may us well be frank about it and They would rather go to school and I of |h c national, state and local tu • ind Loan Association, an Oregon]
But when their parent* are 1« rculosis associations of the nation Corporation, as Pla in tiff, recovered
admit (hut we have been traveling play.
entirely too fust for safety and too unable to find employment and when wns received tills morning by Louis ju dgm ent against Melvin Morgan and
employment Is offered the children. G. Clarke, president of the hoard | Jessie Morgan, th e defendants, for;
luxuriously for financial comfort
the sum of Six hundred t h ir ty -t w o !
both as Individuals and as a govern n h a t are the parents to do? They ° ( directors of the Oregon asaocia
and 2 9 - 1 0 0 t > 6 3 2 .2 9 ) dollars, plus I
have
no
Income,
they
cannot
get
*ion.
ment.
If we are wise, out o f our
Interest at the rate of 10%
per!
The message reads
a n n u a l from April K t k , 1 * * 1 , | n i h 0
depression we'll gather suffl work, amt they are perforce obliged
'I comm end to all our people ( h e | am ° u m o f Thirty tw o and d t 1""
cient lessons to make us better citl to let their youngsters en ter the mill
or the factory or the store. Resound annual sale of Christmas seals con (>32.65 ) dollars; plus seven ty-fou r
tens and a more stable nation.
and 35—100 (> 7 4 .3 5 ) dollars; w ith '
lug slogans will not prevent child ducted by the National Tuberculosis interest ou Judgment at 10% , with
labor
You may shout
" S t a y In association and its affiliated state costs and d 'sbursem ents
taxed
al ‘
I I P i s o f t s T o l t EX K M I I H I T K N School
until you lose your voice and local associations.
These seal- Eighteen and 8 0 - 1 0 0 ( I I S SOI d o l - j
lars, and the further sum of Seven ty-'
Far he it from us to rush lo the hut you can't make them stay in sold during the holiday season pro-
five ($ 75 0 0 ) dollars, as attorney's*
defeltse of gambling, but We feel that school contrary to economic d em ands vide the funds which make possible fees, which ju d gm en t was enrolled
the El Paso pastor who declared >f the home.
and docketed in the Clerk's office of:
"Don't employ children" would he ventimi o f tuberculosis.
These ef said Court in said County on the
gambling th e greatest evil of the day
9th day of December, I9:ii.
was going a little bit far. H e warned a far better slogan. Employers need 1 f'rta are sh ow in g encouraging n
Notice is hereby given that, pur
to
be
educated
against
the
e
m
p
l
o
y
-
!
suits
in
n
dim
inishing
death
rate
the famous Texan city that it was
suant to the term* of th e said e x e
on the verge o f the bottomless pit nieiit of children. They need to huve The proceeds of the seal sale niak cution. 1 will on the 9»b Jay c f j , n
It impressed upon them that in em poss ili!« on the most valuable of all l,ar>'. t9 3 2 , at 10 o'clock a. m at
unless It mended it* ways.
front door of the Courthouse
.
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We believe gambling to he an evil ploying children they are undermin- service to mankind In helping to the
r ilse i.c which I*”* * ,y of Medford, in Jackson Cottn
but we thing there are worse things,
Or.«,.,,, uffer lo r u l , , „ | « m
endangers milli Jit*
homes inni - ' l l .11 pelli«’ auction for cash ,o th
and we doubt very much that g am b country.
———-
{w eakens million.* of c'lizens espe
iBvhe-n I 'der. to «yi*f, ’aid judg-
ling ha* any more of a strangle hold
ment, together with the
sts of th is
The politicians »re trying 10 mak> I•***>>F ***e children and youth if the sale
on El Paso that it has on other cities
ubj«*ct to redemption as pro-
It is especially important
in the land
We are quite sure that the Farm Hoard more expensive, ns nation
vided by law. all of the right, title
El Paso would rather have a con If It w asn’t a taxable luxury already at this time to protect th
health land Interest that the said defendants.
and physical stamina of our people. M>i> n Morgan and Je«*i,. Morgan,
tin u ou s orgy o f gam bling than a
the 12th day of July. 1927.
d evastating reign
of gangalerlam,
Congressional Democrats have a
H E R B E R T HOOX ER
have in and lo the follow ing
such as has inflicted Chicago, De majority, a probable
speaker, hut
"Naturally, we are highly pleased
d property, situated in the
troit, New York and other citlea.
of Jackson, State o f Oregon.
what about a program?
to receive these word* from the Pres
T he pastor asserted that El Paso
'
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Ident of our nation." Clarke declared
B e r inning at th e inside all of
women spend a large part of their
It's remarkable how far away from "We all recall with com passion the
lot mi niher three 13) in block**
time around card tables "where mon- j home Japan has to go to fight a announcem ent from the White House
ntimhe r on? i 1 ) in Cardwell's
Addir*, >n io ih e City
(
ey is the m o tiv e.” We would like to defensive war.
.tw o y*ars »g o that tuberciNosis had
o f Jack-
fllOtì Till
Or.'gon, according to
take Issue with the gentlem an o f the I
------------------------------
Intered Mr. Hoover * own family
th e re corded plat thereof, and
cloth In that respect
The first and:
In Chicago a Mr» Mumms is the The great advance in the early re,
mnnln g then ce
mt h parallel
th e at ron gist motive in gam blin g i» |h e a .| of the W. C T. U. Ah, ha
«ignition of the disease, made i:i the
with ilhe east line of the D L.
uot money, except in the rase o f th*’ Mumms extra dry.
37 in Twp 37 South of
past few years by tne«1b al science
'w o t i t XVe.t of , he W
professional gambler, of which the
....
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played an Important part in restor-
IS feet; then ce we«t at
pnator was not «peaking
T he great I Chicago marksmen are getting so
tug his aon to h ea lth .”
an gles 10*1 feet; then ce
te r * in all kinds of gambling la t h e ^ o o d they ran shoot infanta out of
Clark# declared that the inrreas-
north parallel with the «aid D.
I.. C line 179 f e e t , thence ea*t
eport In It
But for the game Itself, baby carriage*
ing use of the tuberculin t i - t and
at right angle« loo feet to the
w hether I. he bridge or k ey in g on .
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X-rays as returnm. tided hy the axed
place of beginning
margin*, there wnald be go ga*nb-
Both France and Italy sent state»- |«al advisory co m m ittee of the ai
I'aicij thia 9th day of December.
ling. The rhanre of winning or lo* men all the way to America
to tell social ton and em ployed in the tu
1931.
Ing adds e lang, all admit. Retting us they want eternal
peace
Why berrulosts r l l n l . : fcci.4 - « a - » ««_. a „ ;
RALPH G JENNINGS.
Sberifr of Jack •on County. Orezo;.
k * , , r f h um aa weak, eaa. If you don't they talk the same talk aero#.« pice* ha* resulted In the early <1 -
Dy u tg a E \n ders. n. Deputy
waut to put It that way. dome of their ow a herb feace?
covery of many ca»ea
* And it
Dec 11. 1». 25, Jan 1.
The American
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F R ID A Y . DECEMRER 11. 19 31
Th» AMEBIC AN. CENTRAI- POINT. o U tA JU X
PAGE TWO
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Service Station
H as in stalled new A ir C om pressors and i(
now read y to atten d to your tire troubles
General Petroleum Gases , Oils
LEG AL N O TIC E
G oodyear T ires, T ools and A ccessories
Solicit Your Patronage
EDITORIALS
C ourteous S ervice
V . T. R itzin ger and V . H. P en d leton , Prop
CLOSING OUT
W e have d ecid ed to clo se out our large line of
XM A5
TOYS
W e have a fairly large assortm en t of Toys
le ft. C all and look them over.
Mr
faniil
Mr. a
T he prices
Mr
dinne
Viola
are very low .
P ressu re
Ml
Cal.,
brief
Grim
»1th
ces, i
C ookers
W e are sellin g the
N A T IO N A L P R E S S U R E C O O K ER S
Tilt
A t less than M ail O rder H ou se prices
ford
the st
team
Valley
$ 1 5 .5 0
The
one, t
W . C. Leever
Hoover Endorses
Christinas S eals
Pilone 07
Ban
THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW
But you need G aloshes and O vershoes to
keep your feet w arm and dry. Look over
our line and see the low prices in
C H IL D R E N ’S, L A D IE S ’ and M E N ’S
W ATERPRO O F FOOTW EAR
79c, 85c, 90c, 95c, S1.00, $ 1 . 2 5 ,
W ll
point
credit,
Metho
12 po
The
city ai
reeded
money
home
robber
the g;
his bo
ing a
autom
and fo
» a s til
ed her
able s
had in
change
farm , c!
Obench
canned
The
$1.50
S2.00, $2.25, $ 2 .50.
O beneh
not gl
» a n ted
,i ,y. •
automc
sped at
LA D IE S' Z IP P E R S , Special S3.7S
R U BBE R BOO l S for men and boys for
$4.00, 4.50, up to $6 .5 0
LE A '1. H ER B O O T S, a :l sizes S5.75, $7.00,
$ 8 .0 0 and $ 1 0.50
for the Best “S T A R
MILL
L ilt 8
KI ND
BODY
B R A N D ’ Boot m ade.
Easy on the Purse
Theissand Co.
PR IC E, Q U A L IT Y , & C L A S S
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