last year of basketball on the Cen­
I disconcerting,”
say» the Monthly, j
tral Point team, and he is expected
iThat «eeniR mild, but if you know
to be one of the outstanding men
I the Monthly you will think it i»
of the secondary league this year.
really fierce.
It is she, »ay» the
The game last night was the sec­
Re-eatablUhed. September 1J. 191^ Monthly, who ia befriending “ a traf-
Devoted to the beet interest«
go inimical to temperance."
ond this year for the Methodists,
Central Point and vicinity.
they having lost to Sams Valley by
Well, speaking as a Methodist, we
All matter for publication muol have learned a lesson. Let us not I
the score of 27-22 last week. The
reach this offloe not later than Wed be misled any more by a silver tong- .
I preachers haven't a schedule made
nesday for Insertion the same week. gued woman. For, veilly, wine is a f
out, but play anyone who wants a
Published every Friday.
game.
mocker and grape bricks are none (I
By Al Pich*' basketball
Entered as second class matter at the less so. And all the more are j
The lineups for the game were as
the post offlse. Central Point, Ore­ they mockers, when they speak with 1
follows;
gon, under the Act of March *, 1879 the voice of her who seemed to be
!
Methodists
(27 )
Central P. (22)
PRISON F O O T R A L L
a veritable Moses.
Patterson (17)
F
SUBSCRIPTION RATB8:
Warden Laws of Sing Sing has ' H Arthur ( 3 )
Ayres
F
One year ............... ......................l l.i O
introduced football into the prison's C. Franks!4)
Caster ( 2 )
A S T I MI* S P E E C H
81x Months ....................—.......... 11.00
regimen. The Sing Sing team, made 1 J. Powell (18) C
Eicher (3)
G
Payable in advance.
We have no doubt that the tariff
policemen, militiamen and *0 H Powell
Ray Arthur
Taylor
ought to be revised. There never forth. Sports wr
Advertising rates on application.
G
Office— Second Street, off Main.
was an American tariff that did n° l .,),,, games have commented upon the
need revision. It Is too high in some scrupulous fairness with which the
ARTHUR EDWARD POWELL
spots and too low In others. More­ convicts observed the rules.
Editor and Publisher
over, the whole world, even our close
Inevitably, a judge made a speech
N OTICE O F S H E R I F F 'S S A L E
friend Canada, has gone into the at a luncheon club, saying that in
By virtue of an execution on Fore­
tariff business for itself. If we cut his opinion, it was inadvisable to
closure duly issued out of and under
the tariff now, it wouldn't do any let the convicts have such a good t)ie
seai of (j,,. c i r(Uit Court of the!
The
L
riffs
of
other
nations
tjme
good
He pointed out that these State of Oregon, in and for the Coun-
would simply i»e made more effective ire depressed times end that many ty of Jackson, to me directed and •
SPEAKING AH A METHODIST
against us. We believe that inter­ an honest citizen had neither the
the Sth day of December.
Whenever there Is anything to be national tariff regulation would be a : money nor the leisure to play foot- 1931, in a certain action therein,
wherein Jackson County Building j
said about that great and good wo­ good thing. Then we could balance hglj Also, he thought the publicity and Loan Association, an Oregon|
man, Mrs. Mabel
Walker W llle' the different national tariffs against Kjven tQ tt)e conv)cts as good foot- Corporation, as Plaintiff, recovered
each other and possibly get things »<>, hull players might be very bad In- Jud>'mt‘nt a« ainst Minnie M. Billings,
brandt, we like to retire Into ob­ arranged that all the countries
.
' .
.u r v iv ii ig w if e o f J o h n B il li n g s .d de-
e-
Grace
. . . .
ueed ror ,nem-
'eased; M. L. Euphrat and Grace
scurity, for this writer, being
would be benefitted.
- d
The ungwer , 0 this is, of course— Euphrat, his wife; R. E. Hills, also
Iso;
Methodist, hag strong feelings on the believe that our tariff is the result | BOSII
known as It. E. Hillis and Myrtle S " I
of political corruption, as a wild
Society hus tried torturing orim- . j Hills, also known as Myrtle S. Hillis
subject.
gentleman In New Mexico asserted!, ,
them nllttin” thenl
a,ld John Doe, her
Helng a Methodist, this writer was
- ..
, inals, neglecting them, putting Hum | 1 Usband, tile defendants, f o r t h “ “ "*»
in
a
speech,
the
other
day.
Besides.
Jn
prjgong
„-here
they
have
the
time
of
Nine
Thousand,
One Hundred and
naturally a prohibitionist, when pro­
when anybody begins to talk about ; aMd opportunlty to t,,ai.h one an- Eighty-eight and 70-100 (19,188.70)
hibition was in its first fine flower political corruption, we know he ts
other new devices in crime.
Now dollars, plus interest at 1 0 " from
Especially were we strong for prohi­ just making a stump speech, all
,
■
.August 14th. 1931, in the amount of
a few int lllgent wardens are mov- Threp Hlln(lre(1 six ail(, 30-100
bition in the national campaign of sound and fury and no sense.
ing slowly and carefully in the dl-l < $306.30) dollars; plus Two Thou-
The American
THURSDAY. DECBMRER IT, 1931
The AMERICAN, CENTRAL POINT, -jltmuuN
PAGE TWO
Tfl
m s**# *# *
T h ey ,
T e ll !
Me
LEGAL NOTICE
EDITORIALS
1928 and then
Mrs. WiHebrandt
lection of education of the convicts, sand
Twenty-seven and 77-100
FIRE PROTECTION
endeavoring to make them good and
' / ^ dollars advanced by
blossomed forth as the bright, partic­
„ , ...
„
„
. . . 1 ‘ uintiff in the payment of taxes, in-!
If there is anything the farmer useful
ular star of the prohibition cause
citizens. By all means, let s su
-------
ranee premiums and - necessary ’ re- '
and the Republican party. All of ought to prepare against It is fire. keep going in this new and civilized pairs, with costs and disbursements
us know that— and there is no use There is no general alarm system in direction.
taxed at Forty-two
and
50-100
There are no
quibbling about It— Mrs WiHebrandt the rural districts.
Football Is a manly sport and, « ' i ? L L 50 J KdO,lar^
*urthf r1,BUm
, ,
, o f One Thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, I
was IT. She was taken up by our organized fire fighting companies. criminals
learned to play it. learned lls uUorney's fees, which Judgment
church (we are now speaking as a There are no elaborate fire fighting the teamwork, the skill, the fairness was enrolled and docketed in the
Methodist) and if there had been machines. Rut the farmer ran pre­ that are required to play it, you may * h’rk s office of the said Court in
time she would have been the hon­ pare very effectively against fire. be sure that they would be better j
1 9 3 ) ^ 0,1 the 8 th day of Decein-
ored guest and chief speaker at The Department of Agriculture has cltlzens for it.
Notice is hereby given that pursu-
every conference As it was she got railed attention to the situation and
Football games at Ban Quentin ant to the terms of the said execu-
around pretty llvply and the papers has Issued a warning to the farmers Iall(j Folsom would never do half the tlon, I w ill on the 9th day of Janu-
were filled with stories of her ap­
by foolish repres-;
1 J * al
0 clock a. m., at the
peal to the Methodist clergy and that the annual fire loss ln the rurul slon. by overcrowding, by giving .'By of'MedfortMn '.larkson VLun'ty!
laity to rally 'round the cause of dintrlctH amountH to $100,000,000 .1
hardened criminals a chance to Oregon, offer for sale and will noil
Hoover and
prohibition.
If we year.
The Department says thisjteach younger men (he art» of vice at public auction for cash to the high-
est bidder, to satisfy said Judgment,
(speaking again uh a Methodist) had eould be reduced to $50,000,000 by UD(j crjme
, ,
....
I together with the costs of this sale,
had our way about it, ami It is no
little preparedness ou the part of|
. ,
,p.
. .
for th,‘ •Dfument that publicity subject t0 redemption as provided by
are several , y|ven t() u convict’s good football law, all of the right, title and interest
use for any of us Methodists to deny the farmer.
There are
it, we would have had her regularly slmpl» fire fighting apparatuses that j playing might do his soul harm, it that the said defendants, Minnie M.
ordained as a minister and then put ould he installed with little troublei|M certain a wise policy to glyp a 'Billings, surviving wife of John Mil—
her uhead as dlstrlHt superintendent, nd at little expense. One of the man publicity for doing good thing.
book concern agent, or president of most important things to be lionr Such publicity encourages hitn, de- also known as It. E. Hillis and Myr-
Del’auw university and finally made Is to huve ladders attached to Ibe | velops In him the desire to “ go
bills, also known as Myrtle S
her a bishop, if there had been any house and barn. Then it is suggested . r;,jKht •*
Hillis; Rose Billings and John Doe.
her husband, had on the 4th day of,
way of accomplishing that. We say, that community fire fighting com-
_______
May, 1927, or now have in and to
speaking as a Methodist, a disciple panics be organised. A good hand
"The wise man and the fool seem the following described property,” sit-
of Wesley and Hlshop Anbury, Bish­ force pump is also of value and
I niuc-h alike when they fail in love j "Jteil It* the County of Jackson, State
op Bowman, Bishop Simpson and all it a section of hose. The cost Is j or try to explain hard times.”
of Oregon, to-wit;
All of Block Forty-two (42)
great leaders of Methodism, that is trifling.
of the original town, (now city)
v^iat we would have liked to huve
of Medford, Oregon, as the same
done back there in 1928
REVIEWING t h e m o v i e s
is numbered.
designated and
But a great change has com« about
described on the official plat
You can't do anything with th> :
thereof, now of record.
apparently, as we Methodists de­ movies. Not long ago we heard that
1 Dated this 8 th day of December,
scribe it. Mrs. WiHebrandt has be­ they were going to drop al< the blood '
The South Methodist basketball . J 931.
come a backslider. We doubt very and thunder, the gungsterM and the team came to Central Point Wednes-
RALPH O. JENNINGS,
much If there Is one of our con racketeers, murder, robbery and day night to defeat the Pointers to
Sheriff of Jackson County, Oregon.
ferencea so lowly as to think of in sudden death and go lu for the the tune of 27-22. The game was
By Olga E. Anderson, Deputy.
D«c. 11, 18. 24, Jan. 1 .
vittng her to make an address. We higher things of life. If our memory; tust and clean, though ragged In
view Mrs. WiHebrandt now as no doesn't serve us HI, the announ- | spots, lack of practice being evl- j
more or less than a traitor to the cement was made by no less a person dent in the Central Point team.
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S KALE
cause. She has sold herself for a than the lion. Will llavs, the church
By virtue of an execution on Fore­
J. Powell of the Methodist was
mess of grape bricks. It is unde­ deacon who became the movie czar. high scorer of the evening with 18 closure duly Issued out of nnd under
niable that but for her, the grape Now it appears (hut the announ­ counters, with Patterson, slippery the seal of the Circuit Court of the
State of Oregon, in and for the Coun-
brick business would never have cement didn't mean anything at all.
torwurd of Central Point, a close ty of Jackson, to me directed and
started. But she assured its man­ It was Ju»t a collection of words.
second with 17. Tlils Is Patterson's! daled 0,1 the Sth day of December,!
ufacturers that it was perfectly le­ Here is a case in point: Remember
1 ' : 1 •<> a certain action therein,
w herein Jackson County Building
gal, that it was immune to anything The Miracle Man", a great picture,
und Loan Association, an Oregon
like prosecution under the Volatead a moral picture and an art i st i c pic­
j Corporation, as Plaintiff, recovered
law and that If the grape growers ture. Now It is going to be revived
judgment against Melvin Morgan and
of California wanted to turn their and Incidentally revised. The gang
| Jessie Morgan, the defendants, for
grapes into bricks, it was a good element is to he Introduced so as to
the sum of Six hundred thirty-two
¡and 29-100 (1632.29) dollars, plus!
and legal business.
bring it up to date. Machine guns
interest at the rate of 10%
per
That looked to those grape grow­ will be omnipresent. They seem to
annum front April 30th. 1931. In the
ers Just like manna from heaven. have forgotten all about the higher
amount of Thirty-two and 65-100,
($. 12 . 6 5 ) dollars; plus seventy-four
They entered the brick industry with things of life. In this picture, which
and 35—100 ($74 35 ) dollars; with
a rush and if there is anyplace In originally was based upon the higher
interest on Judgment at 10%, with
this country where you cannot buy things of life, they will probably
costs and disbursements taxed at
grape bricks over the counter Just throw out all those higher things
! Eighteen and 80-100 ($18.80) dol-1
like you do bread and cheese we and go In for whatever may be the
lars. and the further sunt of Seventy-
five ($75.00) dollars, as attorney's
haven’t heard of it. Now the thing lower things.
fees, which judgment was enrolled
that makes grape bricks so populat
and docketed In the Clerk's office of I
and so profitable la revealed in a
said Court In said County on the
A CORRECTION
warning on each and every brick
8th day of December. 19li.
The American wishes to correct the
Notice is hereby given that, pur­
to the effect that “ if you are not Item published last week in regard
suant to the terms of the said exe­
careful but let the grapes ferment, to the action by the city council In
cution. I will on the Sth'dav of Jan-
the result will be wine, which is Il­ the Myers-Gleason controversy.
uarv 1932. at 10 o'clock a m , at
legal.”
That’s Just like warning
the front door of the Courthouse In
We are since Informed that the,
he City of Medford. In Jackson Coun I
that If you put a certain amount of council asked for Mr Myers' res
ty. Oregon, offer for sale and will —
money In the bank you will be paid Ignat Ion. but when he refused to
! »ell at public auction for cash to the
Interest on It.
resign and claimed he had a contract
These grape brick makera thought with the etty for hla services .or
ment. together with the costs of this I
ao much of Mrs. WiHebrandt that "«me time, the council changed Its
i t i i a "£**?** lo redemption as pro- !
j
they made her their counsel
She mind and voted to retain him
ar. Interest that the said defendants. !
seems to have forgotten all her de
It Is reported the first vote (which
Voted friends and admirers of the carried ) was on the question of firing
had on the 12th day of July. 1927 ! V
or now h»y,, in gn<J fo , hfl f()|lowtng I
Methodist conferences
She, once Myers. Hut when informed the city
described property, situated In the
the associate of the i.uipit orators would still be llshle for his salary
50 ' » " y nf J“ ' k<on. State of Oregon f
of oor church, the esteemed of onr under his Contract, the vote was
district superintendents and the co­ ■hanged to i«k for his resignation
Beginning at the inside ell of
I
lot namber three (3) In block
I
worker with our bishops, aids and
This whole matter seems to us to
' ' ° " e 111 in Cardwell's
I
abate those brick makers from thel be something better forgotten Such
Addition to the City of Jack-
i
vineyards of California
lenses may drag out indefinitely and
son v I lie, Oregon, according to
I
Hut don't think that the Metho always cause community strife and
the recorded plat thereof, and
f
rnnning th, nee south parallel
I
dials are not taking notice of the'trouble
with the east line of the D. L.
$
•Boating
They are. Also they are!
-
______________
O No. 37 In Twp 37 South of
I
bet ender the collar They feel that | Prohibition
Director
Woodcock
Range two t2l West of the A'.
|
M.. 178 feet, thence west at
f
Ibey were misled, fooled and bam ¡seems to he determin'd to drive all
1».
|
boot led
The name
Mr- Wllle- the Joy out of being a dr, agent
north parallel with the said D
I
brand! Is now anathema marametha First, he barred taking an attractive,
|
to them. Even the meek among them {young woman with you to a speak
at right angles I no feet to the
$
place of beginning
t
are refusing to turn the other cheek easy. Now he has Issued an order
Dated this 8th day of December v
There la the
Adult
lllhle Class forbidding any dry agent to take a!
1911.
i
Monthly, as mild a publication as drink.
After all. we don't think
RALPH G JENNINGS.
I
wae ever published. gitoshl)* its we'll apply for one of those spsak-
8herlff of Jackson County. Oregon |
l«el* and lashing tu UHL "U ia easy Jobe.
By Olga E. \nders<>n. Depute »
>1. 1» JS, t.p V
•
Methodists Win
From Central Point
For Christmas Goods
ORANGES, the big size at, per doz....................... 15c
NO SUGAR GRAPEFRUIT, each only
5c
CLUSTER RAISINS, cellophane wrapped,
Per large package ........................................... 30fc
NUTS, fancy Christmas Mix, all good quality
nuts, per lb.
*..............-....................................18c
Filberts, Walnuts, Almonds, Peanuts or Brazils the best
obtainable for the money.
CHRISTMAS CANDIES, plain or French Mix.
Chocolates, candy canes, candy bars of all kinds
All priced for SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SALE
B. P. Theiss and
PRICE, QUALITY, & CLASS
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Scho
SPECIALS
With
once ag
a progr
I patrons
I tertainm
I Open H
I school \
I and gra
which w
| at 7:30
rooms tt
December 18, 19, 1931
TEA
id (c k or (,i
m .
i:
9 7 -
lb. pk|.....................................
GANDY
^
jQ j {
ir
,
Rest grade Xmas Candles, from
o n
l O
SWANSDOWN CAKE FLOUR
O r»-
Per 8m I,
A m S
SARDINES
C
i-
Prr C m
j
COFFEE
SALAD OIL
a
Rulk (bring container) per gallon
...................
an
«
t P l s L / c )
COCOA
r\ av
Bulk. 2 H lbs.
ORANGES
, -
Per 1 »■
^
PRUNES
r
SOAP SPECIAL
o r%
Per p a o d
White King, large; 2 bar- Mission llcll and large rubber ball
BACON
,V| .. .
• a
IO C
Rem em ber our 5c Bread
M A R I N E ’ S G R O C E R Y
Central Point, Oregon
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I
CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Everyi
program
friends i
be in at
The (
I direction
I pared t«
'Deck t
I llolly,” t
I event.
The fl
I C hrlstma
■ ardson is
I which thi
I The seco
I combined
I pf rtainirij
I and Miss
I them.
A Ohri
I on by thi
I fifth grad
I Mrs. Han
I boys' qua
I this pagei
The six
own figut
I Mrs Mur]
I this is v<
I be very i
| as the pn
| own figur
A quat
from the
Three elgt
ft* as rcadi
•ter. Ed w
Jones, coa
The pr
M ednesda
7 30.
Christmas is just around the corner, and before it reaches the
corner we suggest you look over the following gift articles at
ridiculously low prices.
R« und ('Marróle and Frame large sire.
,,u "
I omplete for..
' ’ t*- |,,«t*' * " d F r a m e , la r g e size . » in.
( o m p le t e f o r
( i la » - P ie P la te a n d F r a m e , a m a li ,|*r. N in . U r m p l i l i
*0.2A
IM S
fo r
D a i»» A ir R ifle « , » in g le « h o t. R e g . P r ic e A l . .VI. >|‘ E( I A L
* '•»■( I « '
Irti. Bolt
letto»— Regular (LX.(Hi--- MPECIAI.
Mt. tr « . ro| ',ter < la d » t a t id .-» « . | „.g . ¿ V
U ill
Ml 2%
l i r R if le Mho( i*y lid ie », .V a tu b,- ,,r 7 f o r 2 .V .
It.tn
TUR
Also h
*4 |.X
M P E C IA I, 13c
— I in-----««'Pi r lad «fatui. — |jeg. Mr— NPF« IAI. *(V
Rolli a -I Hal* hearing Skal.»s will, sngl, ¡„m e*le„.»,m bar. ( t r a i l
4L *1 .(LX pair.
MEDFi HI*
AL.
PICHE
DA
' »REGON