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About The Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1936-195? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1936)
C E N T R A L POINT pa g e four AM ERICAN T i l l l!M >AV, I t K O M I lH i 17 , |H;UJ CENTRAL POINT, OfUiXJON office have responded wholehearted- will cooperate in every possible man ly to my requeat for their aid ¡n ner to develop this program to the making visitors to Oregon feel that fullest extent " they are welcome,” the secretary o f Oregon's greatest tourist r.-gistra- stat.. repotrs. "Son. ■ very definite tion in history is being recorded this and valuable result- have follow* d year .according to records compiled from this program. It is possible to by Snell, and an even larger Influx add millions of dollars to the o f visitors is expected during the amount spent in Oregon by motor com ing year. vehiclp tourists by inducing them t o ------------------------------ prolong their stay «veil a single da". CARO O F THANKS and nothing will get more tangible j ----------- r esu lts along this line than to n n k e We wish to thank our friends for CO M PARISO N Christmas Quilt Blanche Tanner Dillin C H R IS T M A S SP E C IALS Reviva Tone Permanent W ave $2.50 Kluunpoo « B obby—That parrot look* lite Aunt Jane. Mother — Gracious Bobby, you shouldn’t talk that way. B obby—Gosh Mom, that parrot ca n ’ t understand English, the sign says h e’s from Brazil. | made one feel somewhat -*■ lonely, N ancy Atwell thought as she stood at the window watch ing the falling snow. For an in stant she regretted refusing the ur gent invitations o f her two brothers and two sisters to spend the holi days with them. Each o f them THE ARGUM ENT had been insistent, but were all so far away it was out o f the ques tion, financially, and she didn't want them to furnish the m oney— and then for years she had spent Christmas here in the Connecticut hills with grandm other and she couldn’t im agine it seem ing like Christmas any p lace else. P eggy North, her old and dear friend, had written that she could not get away for the holidays, so hoped that N ancy could be with her. Nancy had done little toward any sort o f festivities and had left put ting up the decorations until the He— It you don’t m arry m e, I last minute. In fa ct she hadn’t shall do something desperate. bought anything new—the old ones She—And I ’d have to be pretty would do well enough. Perhaps desperate to m arry you. she might just as well go up to the attic now and see what there was. AN O BSTRU CTIO N It might seem m ore like Christmas with some decorations around. As she opened a drawer in an old chest her hand touched grand m other’ s old quilt— ‘ ‘Grandmoth e r ’s happiness quilt,” as she al ways called it. It was just such a Jay as this so long ago, when sit ting at grandm other’s feet down in the "setting” room she had heard the history of the pieces in the quilt. There was no place here in the attic to look at it, so togeth er with wreaths and garlands of Irate Customer—See here, m ade a terrible botch with coat. I told you to mend the so you couldn’ t see i t Tailor—Well, you can’t see hole, can y ou ?” Finger W URRAY’S M ART H A IR D R E S S E R S Phone 363 «07 E. Main them feel that they are truly guests o f the state while here. This is a matter o f interest to every one o f us and especially effective work can he done by those who coutact our visi tors, such as garage and service sta tion attendants, hotels and restau rant, clerks, and business men In many other lines. My department Oregon” will be distributed the first o f the year to all nonresident regis trars. The new sticker design was pre pared by George Stephens, an em ployee o f the secretary o f state’s o f fice. “ During the past year the 51 non resident bureau managers for this Southern Pacific Be made more joyous than e\ Chosen gifts from Brophy’ you this hole the 2 0 9 R. Main Phone 149 TO POINTS IN CALIFORNIA, OREGON >od other » hi « , we ■gain offer greedy reduced round trip, for the holidays. Leave any day from December 17 to and including January 1. Return limit 10 day*. For fare* tod detailed information see or phone your Southern Pacific agent note' HORSE POW ER COUNTS JEWELERS MEDFORD, ORE LOW FARES EAST VIA CALIFORNIA She U sd Heard the History o f Ike Pieces. tinsel she carried the quilt down to the room where she had heard its history for the first time, and ’ ’Seem s to m e this is a one-horse spread it out on the bed. Here was a piece from the dress town.’ ’ had worn when “ Mebbe so, stranger, but we g ot grandm other grandfather proposed. Here was over two hundred autom obiles.” the piece of grandm other’ s wed ding dress—others from Christen OFF IIIS TRO LLEY ing robes, party dresses, wedding dresses and dresses worn on other happy occasions— som e alm ost in shreds, but still enough left to re call the stories to Nancy as Grand mother Atwell had told them. How grandmother had loved telling them and how she had laughed at som e m em ory. Nancy had com mented on what a happy life grandm other had had No one ever had a happier one. grandm other assured her. How cheerful, unself ish, grandm other had been, never He— If you m arry m e, darling, there’s nothing in the world I— dwelling on her own troubles, but She— Never mind that now. Keep ready to help others in theirs. Nancy recalled the times grand your mind on what you ’re doing. m other had been the m eans o f m aking the path a little sm oother, NO D ISC O U N T the pain less keen, by the gift o f something Nancy especially want ed or the fulfilling of som e cher ished plan of Nancy's. And when Nam y was left alone in the old hom e and grandmother sent for her she must have guessed just how much Nancy wanted the rest and quiet the hills would give her. Nancy never forgot the sm ile and em brace with which grandm other greeted her no rehearsing o f painful experiences, but plans tm- ir.ediately made for happy days in the future. N ancy’s loss had been How much for a kiss?’ Do you V i the rate for d<>*n grandm other's as well. What a satisfaction it must be to l ir able to help others as grand mother had. Then Nancy saw how she could do the sam e, in a m eas ure at least. First she could give Anna a vacation over the holidays. Next she would wire P eggy she would be with her over Christmas. As she laid the quilt away after currying out her plans, deep grati tude filled her heart for if she hadn't found the quilt she would never have known the happiness • paper says the a verage life sh e now felt. C W M tvrn lin o . t a ship is twenty-eix y e a rs .” That’s why a ship is called ’sh e” r a woman never gets sn y older Carnation Club than that.” NOT ONLY can you buy a winter roundtrip ticket to the last at lower cost than ever before, but from mote weitern Oregon and Washington points the privilege of going or returning through runny California ii your« when you travel Southern Pacific. For example, to Chicago and bark (one way via California) from main line points: in coaches S«7.35, in tourist sleeping cars $68.80 (plus berth), and in standard Pullmans $86.00 (plus herd Southern P<asP«ic See your t o o l S.P. agent c r » rite J. A. ORMAN DY,( Pastengfr .Igeiti , 705 Pacifi'- Muilding,Portland,O r^ake Xm as Greetings Phone 998 “ Hew did you like the banquet last night?” "N ot m uch. The menu was as dry as the speech es.” The Carnation Club met laut Thursday at the home oi Mr». Mario Putney in M odfoid. Thi» » u a Chrts’ mn party and <*!«>«• . \ bang d gifts T.»b’« decoration« con«l»t«*d o f a hai.ta Clan« sad h.» «h igh , Christ mas tree and red and green gum ’ ro, ■* ui.ul« individual candle hold er,» for red »ud green ra ndlee Red .apd gpron Jello » t « nerved All report a very good time. Medford, Ore Buy the Family the The on ly f n l nixed t-r y lin d rr c » r on the m arket today H alf the » lie and tw ice th e em ai l nee*» G IF T U N U S U A L PACKARD visit Medford $1085 M ETAL KRAFT SHOP Holds Xmas Party NO W E T GOODS Leonard’s Cafe Last from year ina up HERE A gift whose lasting beauty and qu «•Ill a note or d u tin r ito n with a gift that will gtv pteatswre fo r e v e r ! P. S. Wrought Iron. Harry wiI1 br*ng Joy not only this Christmas I? for many a Christmas to come. Karl PER R Y L. A S H C R A F T . G O O LD & McBEE 200 W M ed ford Main St. P hone ta n ^ 128 S. Riverside. S
