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About The Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1936-195? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1936)
PAG E r o n t X f C E NTRAL POLNT X------- 1 - » 1 ................ I I I '. ' : a n r -1 . z ,1 s i 1 i i i a - i. AM ERICAN CENTR A L POLNT, OREGON rmilMIW, DKt KMlt K I ; 04 1W.U1 » — -r-i . v t T O E S A N D TOES Skates Ring on Ice as Hockey Teams ^attle “ I'm afraid 1 have ptomau r Who’s a good doctor to see?" "Tom aines! Oh, for anything th matter with m y toes I always ca' on a chiropodist.” U P-TO-DATE Harold Jackson (left) and Andy Blair, m em bers of the Chicago Blackhawk hockey team, kick up the sr.ow aa they make a hurried stop in fror.t of Goalie Mike Karakas. Interest in tlie lightning-fast ice gam e ha:- Increased rapidly in the United States in recent years, since the professional gam e was introduced from Can •da. American V orkers Stage “Stay-In"’ Strike in Plant Et h uIa oi an auto' j l the r ■tide 'he i „i.t. of industrial strikers in France a few months ago, approximately 1,000 workers ’ in f'outh Bend, Ind., held the fort during a recent strike. While the operations ■ cethearts and friends passed food Into the workers who chose to remain in- Fifth "’Philadelphia” Is launched for 11 S. Navy , June Ohratrom examines what is left of one of the first three plows made by John Deere who in 1837 gave to the world the self-scouring steel plow. The 100th anniversary of this historic event will be cele brated in 1937. The inaet photograph is of John Deere. MOLINE, ILL.—National honors i-mooth, gleaming surface, an idea » ill be accorded by agricultural took shape In his mind.. America throughout 1937 to John Obtaining the blade, the 33 ,vear Deere in commemoration of the old blacksmith labored carefully 100th anniversary of his steel plow and long and finally produced the which ushered in a new ora of history-making plow. In the pres Diogres., for the prairie status and ence almost of the entire commun- agriculture in general. | ity and settlers from far and near It was in a little blacksmith shop Deere hitched a horse to his gleam in Grand Detour. Illinois, In 1837 ing plow and began a triumphal that Deere fashioned and gave to march up aDd down the test field. This was the only plow produced the world the self-scouring steel plow. This achievement, hailed as 1 that year; eight were hammered one of the most important contrib 1 out the next year, and business utions to modem agriculture, will grew until in 1842, when the de be honored in thousands of small mand became too great for his and large communities with “John slender resources and he took info Deere Centennial Celebration"days, partnership Major Leonard Andrus. with community leaders and farm In 1847 Deere decided he wanted better transportation and soure*si ers participating. T>eere was born In Vermont in of supply, so he relinquished his 1*04 and came to Grand Detour in partnership, moved to Moline and 1*37, where he established a black established the John Deere plow smith shop. He heard the farmers works. Today the John Deere organiza complain that the stteky soil, while rich m fertility, gummed their tion still maintains headquarters at Moline but from the original small primitive plows and made plowing plant has grown an internationally virtually impossible. famous farm implement house Deere applied himself to the whose products, covering the en problem, and one day, while in a tire gamut of farm machinery, are sawmill, he noticed a broken steel in use all over America and in saw Made. As he contemplated its every part of the world. "Those Newriches are dre illiterate.” “ Y e s; they arc much more m iliar with the parts oi an e than with the parts of speech O VE R W O R K E D “ The only objection tha* i to golf is that it sometimes comes a trifle wearisom e." "B u t you don’t play the g; "N o , but I have a friend does.” A R IT H M E T IC Old Letter Found PWA Writer To Vunie W alker and Annabel!'- Walker, husband and w ife; Mrs. Ed ward K. Brenner, wife of Edward K. Brenner; The First Methodist Epis copal Church of Medford, Oregon, "Y o u want to knov h"r corporation; Clarence Portland, Dec. 18, 1D3G:— Alfred an Oregon F. Van easy to find out ” Begsworth, field worker for the his Meeker; H. C. High; E. “ How?” Dyke; A. W. Pipes; Eugene Thorn torical records survey, W P A writers' "A sk her, then double it dike; E. J. Palmer; J. W. Srailie, project, in listing source material A. W. Shephard and F. F. Burk, for Oregon history in Jackson coun constituting the Board of Trustees WRONG PRONUNCI ty discovered thro« fragments o f an of said Defendant The First Metho old letter, one of them being widely dist Episcopal Church of Medford, Oregon, Defendants: separated from the others. He pieced IN TH E NAM E OF TH E STATE the letter together, and found it to OF OREGON, You and each of you be from the United States Treasury are hereby required to appear and to Col. John K. Ross. The text con answer the complaint filed against cerned a shipment o f beef which Col. you in the above entitled suit on or be(ore the tost day o f four (4 ) Ross had furnished the Oregno-Cali- weeks from the date o f the first pu fornia battalion for the Hogue River blication o f this summons, said Indian Wars. Upon the date men period of four (4 ) weeks being the tioned. Sept. 7, 1853, Ross had fur time prescribed for publication here nished the battalion with beef valu o f; and if you fail to appear and answer said complaint for want ed at $2238.60, a claim for which thereof, the plaintiffs w ill apply to the treasury allowed. Thomas D. the Court for the relief demanded in “ L a y down, dog, lay dow n !” That a Ross, of Central Point, son of the their complaint, to-wit: “ He doesn’t understand you, mai man to whom the letter was directed decree be entered adjudicating any don’t you see he's a Boston bull." and all right, title, estate, lien or now owns the fragments. claim which you or any o f you have or claim to have in, to or upon the INOCULATION ^ . , I i : r . - e m Clph,a,naV3r y,ard’JBPProP ria,e,y. w a S the scene of the recent launching of the light cruiser "Ph il- follow ing described real property, £ 5 5 * v w w l to ^ lh- U- S. flag under that name Mrs. George H. Earle, III ™ of the situated in the City of Medford. gwvemor of I ennsylvarua sponsored the new craft, that is seen here sliding into the water for the first time Jackson County, Oregon, to-wit: Lot numbered six (6 ) in ....... .......... ................................... ..................... ...... ' — ---------- V block number one (1 ) o f Narre- Alber M. Akers, 70, passed aw?) gan's addition to the City of at his residence on Beall Lane early Medford, Jackson County, Ore Sunday morning after a long resi gon, as the same is numbered, designated and described on the dence in Jackson county. He hail official plat thereof now o f re- j been a long sufferer from heart cord, I trouble. and declaring any and all of such Mr. Akers was a member of the claims to be null and void, and de-H Jane — Even typhoid and con Church o f Christ. Besides his wife creeing plaintiffs to be the owners sumption can be caught from kiss Arebello Akers he leave* one broth in fee simple of said premises, and ing, M r. Rash! er, and three sisters. 8. F. Akers, of the whole thereof, free and clear Rash— I've taken the preventive of any and all right, title, estate, treatment for both. Miss Jane. Medford; Cora Peterson, La Grande; lien or Interest o f the defendants Myrtle Smith, Wallowa and elia Cox herein, or any of them, therein or thereto, and that each and all of the of Baker county. E F F IC IE N T SERVICE Funeral services were held at the defendants herein, and each and all Conger chapel at 1 p. m. Tuesday, persons claiming or to claim, by, through or tinder them, or any of Rev C. A. Phillips, officiating. In them, be forever enjoined, re terment was in the Central Point strained and barred from assert ing, attempting to establish or cemetery. r(aiming any right, title, estate, lien or Interest In or to said prop**rtv, or any portion thereof; Legal Notices and that plaintiffs' title to said pre mises be forever quieted and set at SUMMON« rest; and such other and further re Waiter — Why $o happy. V IN TH E C IR C U IT COURT OF THE lie f as may he just and equitable In Spider? STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK- the premises. Diner— I just found a fly in n SON COUNTY. This summons is published by or soup. John H Denison and Reba F. Deni der o f the Honorable H. G. Norton. son. hush-ad and wife. Plaintifffs Judge of the above entitled Court, Vs made and entered In said Court and F A S H IO N A B L E V a r’ W alker and Annabelle Wal- cause on the l*th day of December, k’ i. husband and w ife; Mrs Ed 1938. prescribing that this sum ward E Brenner, wife of Edward mons he served by publication there E Brenner; The First Methodist of once each week for four (41 con Episcopal Church o f Medford. Ore secutive weeks In the Central Point gon. an Oregon corporation; Clar American, a weekly newspaper pub N E W YORK, (Special).-Vibe* m The quadrangle will he targe meugh “Federal Hall" and. at the left » range ence Meeker; H. C. High. E. F lished In Jackson County. Oregon 19J9 the residents of the several to oermit such exercisr* as the massing of other Government buildings The Van Dyke; A. W. Pipes; Eugene December 24. 1938 Is the da'* state* and territories visit tire New of the flags of the states ne of the colon principal approach to the great Plata Thorndike; E J Palmer; J. W. the first publication of tbN snm- York World’s Pair, they will fird their of the world— while ten* of th xisands MSclal representatives sod the “home” of spectators watch from the vantage trill he from the direction of the Smllle; A. W. Shephard and F F. men? exhibas m the "Hall of State*", shown of the brood flights of steps which “Thematic Centre" of the Fair, ever Burk, constituting the Board of F. P. Farrell here at the right in a first drawing of form toe architectural feature of.the an extraordinarily bread avenue lined Trustees and officers o f said de Attorney for riaintlffx the “ Piara of Governments", -ere- many already planned by the Fair with row upon row of grown shade fendant Th* First Methodist Epis Room No. 10, Jackson County monial centre of the $1J5,CM).OOU r it tr I Corporation. _________ trees flanking low water copal Chnrch v f Medford, Oregon, Ba n k Building. Medford. Ore^pi- “ Mr, these folks keep a nice dm. ae Duna I expiait I'm I IMAsodnctP icaodea. to the backferod ts the 11*7— I M I ’i- li KSt * Alber Akers of Beall Lane Dies WUisiUS STATES MAY EXHIBIT AT NEW YORK 1 4