THE AMERICAN
• «>l.l ME M
CENTRAL POINT, O R r a O N . T i l l
PIONEER LADY OF Great Drouth to
EAGLE POINT IS Have Effect on
CALLED BY DEATH
AAA Program
M u sin g s—
By an Innocent Bystander
Last Monday we had the pleasure i
of playing th e old army game and!
dodging a general. When Generali
Martin passed through town we were j
carefully hidden.
But we are told j
we made a mistake by so doing as;
the General is a mighty fin e fellow
Mother Howlett received word ot
and carries no "side“ w hen travel-,
the passing of her daughter, Sarah
Ing.
Howlett Lewis, on Sunday, August
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White Mice
Will Sleuth
A t Big Fair
TWOFOLD OSE OF
GOG IS STRESSED
BY NATIONAL GRIEF
White mice will play an important |
| behind-the-scene part in th e Oregon j
State Fair horse races this season
No, not gaboling about in the feed
The double u sefulness of tho C.C.-
bins.
C. program was stressed by Robert
The great drought, which has re- just compensations for their co-op
To make horse sense out of this
Fechner, director of emergency con­
duced g r a i n and hay crops to record . •ration.
w hite mice business, one has to know
servation
work in his address to the
nearly
4
milieu
checks,
low levels, has started a country- |
A read)
that Fair Director Max Gehlhar is
Portland Chamber of Commerce.
amounting to approxim ately 30G
wide discussion of the agricultural million dollars, have been issued as ^ o ln g to employ w h ite mice, the August 13. C onservation of human
ad justm ent program and affected rental and benefit payments to far­ state chemist and several venerlna- character as well as conservation ol
rians to see that no doping of horse# the
American
forests constitutes
P aym ents on th e corn-hog
m aterially the agricultural refinan­ mers.
is practiced at the state fair.
main objectives in this popular and
cing program of the government, a c ­ contracts for 1934 production a n
Recently, w h ite m ice set up co m ­
w orthwhile program of the “ new
cording to inform ation received by just gettin g well started, w h ile the petition to the chem ical laboratory
deal", according to Director F ech ­
wheat, cotton and tobbaeo contracts
the Oregon A gricultural extension
on the doping tests, and now bid ner.
already in effect run through the
fair to displace the chem ist to large
service.
"Most people think that we are
year 1935.
degree When w h ite mice are given
In answ er to those who f e e l thu.
organized to plant trees," said F ech ­
Owing to d ep red ated security, the
agricultural
ad ju stm en ts
are
no ,farin refinancing program of the an hypodermic injection of the sa ­ ner. "As a matter of fact, we have
longer necessary. Secretary W allace Farm Credit Administration is being liva taken from a su spected doped planted very few trees, but we have
horse, they will show a quivering of
of the United States departm ent of slowed up in the drought areas, both
devoted our time to forest con serva­
agriuulture says that undoubtedly as to mortgage loans and production ! the tail and an arching of it over tion and to com bating the worst en ­
the drought will make It necessary 1 loans, says the college extension ser- , *lt' back if stim u la n ts have been emy of conservation, th o lot'esl
fire.” The C.C.C. camps have spent
to change many of the agricultural vice, hut drought-stricken farmer! used on the horse.
The State Fair m anagem ent is a large part ot their tim e In build­
programs for 1935.
1 are receiving som e aid through spe-
Joining better race tracks over the
ing roads and trails for more e ff e c ­
R egardless of what revisions may d a l emergency drought relief loans
be made, however. Secretary W a l - ’ as well as from the crop adjustment country to guard against doping of tive forest fire suppression, accord­
horses
A federal government c a m ­
ing to Fechner, and in cuttin g tire
lace says there will not be any aban- j benefit checks The cattle purchase
paign against this pratice last year
breaks, falling snags, and in other
donm ent of the principle of govern- program is also affording relief from
ment assistance to farm ers in esta- the distress caused by the drought resulted in som e arrests, and has forms of fire hazard reduction. They
hlishing the necessary balance be-1 and plans are being made to pur- helped to put fear into those who also have completed many recrea­
would win by foul means.
tional projects in national forests
tween supply and demand and giving ( base sheep in the drought areas.
¡12 , at her rauch near Spokane,
We have been watching him ever Washington,
since he has been in Congress and w J
.\*rB.
was t,ora j uae
said last spring that to our mind j i j i g j , oa
old hprnestead of her
he^was the beat qualified of any ot p*rfenta> Alfred C. and Sarah How-
the
gubernatorial
candidates
t o | lett( whlch wa„ iocated on what is
clean things up at Salem
At least known as the Big Desert near Eagle
he would let folks know we had a Point and about three miles south
governor, which is more than J u liu s of the present Charles Cingcade
has done. And w oe bettde the ven­ home and was the eldest daughter
turesome person who tried to bull­ ot thirteen children, only tw o ot
doze him.
which are still living.
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Raised in this com m unity, she was
This writer has b"eu a Republican married to Jam es M. Lewis on Sep­
for lo, these many years, but we are tember J, 1890 while living on wha:
not so hide-bound as not to see good is now the Alva Vista Orchard and
in SOME Democrats We do not a l­ where her parents lived for eighteen
together agree with the President in years.
som e th ings, and we say so with fear
The first ton years of her mar­
end trembling.
But if the sm iling ried life were spent with her hus­
General will forget the idea of trying band on the Britt Place and where
to be our next governor on the their tw o children, Edward and Vir-
strength of his close affiliation with gie were born.
the New Deal, and will stand square­
They moved to Sterling on the
ly on his own record ar.d accom plish­ Applegate River in 1900 where they
ments we are inclined to support lived until 1906, and then went to
and park areas.
i,
him. And we claim to he the only Kansas for one year, in 1907 m ov­
"Anyone who could compare thf
newspaper man in Oregon who can ing to W ash in gton near Spokane
appearance of th ese boys ut the
dodgo m eetin g a major candidate which has lieen their home ever
tim e of enrollm ent and a few weeks
since.
and still support him.
later would not question th e rea
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Her husband, Jam es M. L ewis,
The lowa aunual p|ca ic waB j,eld i
Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd
Nolta ofj
MEDFORD, Aug. 12.— (S pecial.) worth of this C.C.C. m ovem ent or
We fear the time is close at hand passed away in April of this year Jn Rivprgjfje park, Grants I’ass Sun-1 Willow», California have made a trip.
the fact that the nation is gettin g
Huv August
Alllriia, 12 wtth about 350
t„
World s Fair. They left by! — Mrs. Everett Faber entertained on returns for he cost involved, in th e
» hen our city will be faced with the Mrs. L ew is has been in poor health j dav
F rid a y evening, at her home, 907 W.
problem of installing new water for several years, but with the P » »» -j.tten d an ce from dif feren t points in train hut bought an autom obile 111
rebuilding of hum an lives as well as
Eleventh street, inviting fifty friends
mains. And when that time does ing of her husband she became more I S()Uttiern Oregon.
Lansing and are completing their
in material accom plishm ents," said
to a reception for her brother, F ra n k ­
come we hope a plan will be worked subject to heart attacks, which re­
Fechner.
At one o'clock the crowd was seat- trip by car. They will go to Nlagaru
lin B Launer, deau of the school of
out to secure Medford water. There sulted in her death on August 12. ed around long tables h eautfully dec-1 Falls and come home by the Cana-
M,r- Fechner will spend severs
music at the Christian college In
Beside her aged mother, Mrs. orated wth gladioli, so
was a time when the kind of water
profusely I f^ a 11 route. They will return by Ccn-
days visiting C.C.C. camps and will
Columbia,
Mo.
system we have was
a wonderful Sarah H ew lett of 'Eagle Point, she grown in that locality.
j iral Point and stop for a visit with
leave this region for Idaho and Mon­
Included ainoug those present at
thing. But today we want b e t t e r , leaves to mourn her passing, on<
The Grants Pass Iowans, us host- j Mr. Nolta's parents. Mr. Nolta is an
tana A ugust 17.
the
reception
were
Mr.
Launer'#
Edward
Lewis of Colville ess. furnished co ffee anti fruit as a aviator and ow ns two planes. They
things Our city water, while pure! son,
a
daughter,
Virgie supplem ent to the fine and varied » r it e that they were in the tail end mother, Mrs. Alice Launer of Albany,
en ou gh , is too hurd: too warm andj W ash in gton ,
and his sister. Mrs. Barkley N ewm an
Potts
of
Sprague,
Wash.,
tw
o
grand­
I a cyclone in Michigan.
to limited in quantity for preseut
spread.
of Salem.
children, Donald and Delbert Lewie
Jay demand#.
Many were the joyful surprises In
Guests called betw een 7 :3 0 and
Mrs. Marie Lange is living up to
and tw o sisters, Octavia Shaw ot j meeting pepole from ones own home
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Mrs. Marine invited in a number
1 0 :3 0 o'clock, during which tim e Mr.
It is with genuine regret that we Portland and Hattie H ow lett ol | town and hearing som e one say, "O, her reputation of being a wonderful
of guests to help celebrate her hus­
Launer entertained at th e piano. In­
| v,
announce the resignation from our Eagle Point.,
bands birthday.
Those attending
yes, I used to know them years ago.'' gardner. Such tom atoes, peppers and
all other garden products you never, cluded among his selections were: were Mr and Mrs. Chester Merrlman
She was buried near her home at
schools of Miss Lottie Franklin w ho
Included in the program was se v ­
"Irish Tunes from County Kerry’’ by
never have seen.
this week notified Supt. Jew ett of Spokane, W ashington.
from Medford, Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
eral musical numbers by the yo u n g |
Percy Granger; Liszt’s transcription
And
to
Mother
H
ow
lett,
beloved
her intention to en g a g e in other
Scott, Mrs T. A. Marine, Mr. Bill
people orchestra of Grants Pass, two!
Mrs. F J. Devore from Hale, Mis- of Verdlt's "Rlgoletto", and “ Feu
Carr from Applegate, Mrs. Croford
work. She says she expects to enter pioneer mother, who has endured so lo ’s by Mrs. E. Ntcho^i of Medofrd
rouri is spending the sum m er with Flais" by lsadore Phillipe. Other
all
the
privation,
the
heart
ache>
church work. It is our feeling that
from Sams V alley Now everything
"Iowa Corn Song" and “ Iowa State
her d aughter Mrs. F. J. W llm ot.
'n u m b ers were from the works of
teaching the young, especially child­ and su fferin g as well as th e Joys of Song" by all with piano accom pani­
was lovely, a delicious didnner, th e
ICohpin, Schubert, Schumann,
Bach
usual rongratulary messengers, etc.
ren of 7th and 8th grades Is Just as the pioneer mother, the proprietress ment.
Clarence Kruse arrived Tuesday
nnd Betthoven
worthy and important a work as o f the S unnyslde Hotel at Eagle
only no one could tell which an n iver­
An address by General Charles H for a visit with her Aunt and family,
Mr. Launer has studied
with
there is on earth. To lead and guide Point, who, tho' nearing the Fou r­ Martin was enjoyed.
sary was. They could ont count
Mrs Frank Lawrence.
Grainger in Chicago and also spent
score-years
and
ten
mark,
is
still
these young minds into proper paths
the candles on the cake because the
During the business m eetin g the
Albert
Hickens
from
Oakland three years studying with Phillipe in cake never showed up. It left Med­
Is a big Job and Miss Lottie was do­ actively engaged in her daily duties, secretary
was instructed to send
Paris.
He
has
been
doing
so
m
e
c
o
n
­
ing it well. She will be missed from who has buried husband and eleven greetin gs to the Iowa Club w ho will visited his little d aughter Evelyn at
ford bound for Marine's dinner table
Mrs.
Sim mons cert work In St Louis and also plays paused for a few m in u tes at
the com m unity. Here's wishing her | children, and to her daughter Hattie, meet August 19 at Champoeg. C H. her grandmother,
Mar­
at tim es with the Mineapolis Sym ­
success In her new work.
! ' he sym pathy of the entire commu- Demoray was reappointed chairman home. While here he visited Crater
ines store, Marine was absent so it
phony.
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( uity and of all southern Oregon Is for next year. Meeting to be held In Lake.
traveled to Prospect. On the return
Mr. Launer viisted the Baldwin
new
»orrow.
At a meting of the school hoard j n t e n d e d in tin
Grants Pass. Iowa club w om en of
Mr
Clearly, son Charley and shop here and stated that he conisd- trip going around a sharp curve the
back door of the bakery wagon Jar­
this week it was decided to postpone
(¡rants Pass organized this year o f l - ! cousin Eliza Sparks have moved la­
ered the studios equal to th o s e of a
the opening of school until Sept. 17.
red open and the beautiful cake roll­
¡low in g the first southern Oregon tn the Jacob house across from
metropolitan city. He played sever­
ed down Into the Rogue to feed the
This is to enable those w ho wish, to
| m eeting held at Gold Hill in 1933.
F inley Imp. Co.
al selections at the shop for a group
fishes. So we'il have to wait until
finish work in the fruit. But th el
A club was organized in Medford
family of friends who gathered there.
next August to tell how old George
hoard made it clear that all pupils
i during the boom days led by Mr.
-'*r- and Mrs. Musty and
Having arived here on Tuesday, is.
will be expected to be on hand
' Hoon who later returned to his Iowa have moved into the Rowe house.
Mr. Launer left Saturday for Albany.
on that date and no sta llin g off en-
, home at Sioux Rapids.
Mr. T. A. Marine left recently for
tering will be allowed? There will be j
Caanda to look after his wheat har­
no making up of lost work allowed
Miss F la n celia LaDieu and Earcel |
vest.
Caster were married at th e LaDieu j
this year.
hom e in Trail Sunday evening atj
Born Monday at the Purucker H os­
The m anager of the Medford Play
The work o f picking and packing eig h t o'clock. The father of the bride j
pital a baby d aughter to Mr. and
ground was In Central Point to see
Mrs. W. J Gebhard was hostess to
The minimum price to th e reta il­ Roy or (R ed ) Heath to m i k e sure
of our pear crop is in full swing. The performed the ceremony. The bride
Mrs. Otto Rohnert. Mother and
the Berean bible class Thursday af-
packing houses are w orking
night was charming in an all-over embroi­
daughter are g ettin g along
nicely. er on all tom atoes sold in Oregon that he would be in Medford today
ttrn oon at her home on Bear creek.
and Washington will be 40 cen ts for to go with the boys to play a game
and day, using local labor in so far dered yellow organdy dress with a;
Baby w eighed 7 ‘x lbs.
Mrs. Case presided at the meeting
each 20 pound box effective In pro­ against the Ashland boys. We d o n ’t
as possible.
There are a few Cali­ corsage of pink roses and m aiden)
and also conductd the devotional ser-1
\ | r \ ,.rae Pendleton left for Crew- ducing sections, Tuesday, A u gu st 14,
fornia packers in evidence but most hair fern. Sanford Richardson w a s|
Roll call w as answered
by, cent city this morning and will re­ and in consum ing markets A u gu st 15. know who else went with him b u t
o f those working are local people best man and the brides sister Miss j vice.
we did hear th e boss tell him if ho
verses containing th e word faith.
, turn this evening.
T his new price was agreed to had no way to get to Medford they
which is as it should be. The price Laurabeii LaDieu was maid of honoi
Louise Grimes gave an illustrated
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Saturday, August 11, by the e x e ­
per box paid packers is the same as and was dressed in |»each color taf- I
KthPl Klllot *«"» ia m i |y >«fl cu tive com m ittee of th e Oregon- would com e after him. W e have
chapter on Dust and Ashes of Em-
last year and is too low, but there feta,
' plres. follow in g
with a solo— "U n ­ I this morning for Calif, where they Washlngton Melon and T om ato Mar­ been tipped off by a number o f base­
has been no trouble so far.
Those preseut were Mr. Kuhn and
ball fans that Roy is exceptionally
der his Wings". Cake and punch expect to locate.
keting Agreement which has pow ­ good and may put Central Poin t on
son and d au gh ter Jack and
Betty,
! was served by Mesdam es Langston.
We notice a number of cars com ­ er to set minimum
prices on all th e map som e day.
It is to be noled that i*ore than Mr. and Mrs. Charley Cushman and
\y ers and h o s t e s , assisted by Miss
ing from the north that stop and m elon s and tom atoes sold in th*
the usual amount of tom atoes arc tw o little daughters, Mrs. Art La-
Those present wt-r, read our sign and then
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Ross and little
turn and tw o statt'#.
being raised in the valley this year. Dlen and three children, Mr and Mrs Norma Holland.
| Mesdames A. J. Milton. A. W Ayers, drive thru here and on to Crater)
of
Morton daughter Janet
from Grants Pas#
This board consists
V,V hope to see the tim e come when Sanford Richardson and Charlotte,
,,
r.. Manns. W P. Grimes. Elizabeth
Lake.
j Tomkins, chairman of Dayton, Ore- j spent W ednesday here on business,
enough mil'll things will be grown Buddy Rostcll. Mr. and Mrs. L aDieu.
.
,
,,
, „
. ,
gon; C. H. Dills, W'apato, W ashing- Both Mr. and Mrs. Ross were born
here to enable the year-round opera-
brides parents, Mrs. C'rance Mr | <,aH,'> L)HH p Gebhard. Hoy Nichols.
Jessie Mosher from Oakland visit­ ton; C. Wesley W illiams. Roseburg. sm l raised here.
Henry Borah. Daisy Brewer, Viola
tion of a cannery. We hate to see Caster's mother, Mis« Laurabell La-1
Lampman. E. C. Richmond. Marie ed her brother and family, Mr. and' Oregon; II. N. Hampton, Hover
our Bartlett# being shipped to Cali­ Dleu. After the ceremony sand- j
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| Comstock.
Alice
McKIm.
Louis«* Mrs. Mo«her last week.
W ash in gton and Roy Hewitt, Salem
fornia to be canned as California ' wiches, ice cream, fruit cake and
(G rim es. I^rrlie Mimmick Mary Lang-
f rnit.
W e should be able to raise the w edding cake which was a d e­
Mr nnd Mrs. Tony Garrgols and Oregon.
Iston. L. H. Smith and hostess.
enough diversified fruits and v e g e ­ licious w hite cake were served. Mr.
baby daughter Ttarbara from San ;
Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Honney and
tables to keep a cannery of our own and Mrs. Caster left
immediately MISS H l GRIFT SPARROW
Francisco, who arc visiting Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Vince R ittin ger spent j
WHO WOULD BE
going
And our fruit and v egetables , amid sh o w ers of rice for Grants Pass
HOSTESS AT LUNCHEON Garrgols' parents in Medford visited Sunday on the Noe Cabin at Sunset |
should be marketed under an Oregon They spent Monday and Tuesday at
at the George Marine home one day
A COMMUNIST?
on the Rogue.
Miss Nancy B ukeley of Honolulu. recently.
I the Oregon Cave* and Roseburg.
label.
ARGUE EVERY DAY,
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T. H„ house guest of Miss Harriet
Mr and Mrs. Frank
Hammond
Mrs.
and
Mss
C
W.
Anders
cele-j
Sparrow
at
Kirkland
farm,
was
honor
We hear a lot of bunk these days,
DIVIDE EVERY DAY.
and children and Mr. and Mrs
How carefully guest Monday at luncheon and bridge brated their golden wedding anni- Brunlfleld and children are planning'
but the cake-w in ner Is Townsend's rows would ensue.
SQUABBLE
EVERY DAY.
versliy at their son# and wife#, Mr
idea of a *2(»«» per month pension for ! the kids would watch over poor old \ at Mis* Sparrow's hom e
a trip to Diamond Lake th is next i
Invited to the affair were Miss and Mr*. Ray Anders home. Those week.
OVER DIVISION?
s ry man or women 50 years ol dad’s health for fear that princely
Peggy Hamlll of New York. Mis> present to enjoy the lorely dinner
'im i
would stop.
age.
This amount to he placed to
THINK IT OVER?
Mr. Fred Wiley Is confined at his j
Koxane Buhl. Mrs. Charles Voorhies, were their son and wife Mr. and Mrs.
his credit by kind old Uncle Samuel
home
with
an
Infected
leg.
Under,
Miss
Betty
BardweR,
Miss
Mary
Par­
C
E
Anders
from
Klamath
Falls
Bah'
These dreamers give us a
In a local itank each month, and at
Mrs W i l e y 's c a r e he is expected t o 1
the end o f th e month any unspent pain In the neck. W’e believe in tin son« o.* Seattle. Mrs Katherine Hef- who is a e n g in eer and has a train
anotehr be hack In the feed atore soon. This
old age pension plan for disabled feruan. Mrs. W. H Mutrhead, Mrs ont from Klamath Falls,
balance must revert to Uncle.
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really old people
They have earned W W Aldrich. Miss Mary Bchott of son M H Anders and fam ily w ho Is the first he has had a doctor since
But Los Angeles, Mrs Robert Maentx is a fruit Inspector and the host and he was thirteen year# old and the
(D c | m >«I u In « tire d )
Sound« fine, don't it? But think th e right to liv e in comfort.
ras ever confined to
of what mischief It would cause •u ch wild notions a« the above are Miss Frances Sparrow and the honor h ostess and little daughter and son, first time
« .,r„
•d
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n - — -
TJ»i-:k
-ha*, ^ . ' k a a 2 f a » l l *
Iow a A nnual Picnic
H eld G rants Pass
Mrs. Faber E ntertains
LOCALS
For V isitin g Brother
Birthday P arty
at M arine H om e
E arcel C aster and
M iss LaDieu W ed
A t B ride’s H om e
Mrs. G ebhard H ostess
T o B erean Class
M inimum Price on
T om atoes R educed
Local Lad M ay Be
Future Babe Ruth
It M ight be W orse!
Farm ers and
F ruitgrow ers Bank
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