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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, l»ll CENTRAL POINT .AMERICAN, CENTRAL POINT. OREGON I your mushrooms and that is to buy I disagreeable taste and no lurid hues them from your grocer. He NEX ER take» any chances. His source is sure and certain. It comes from commer cially grown beds and not from the wild beds of the fields. Buy from your GROCER. Do you realize there are seventy-four poisonous species, not all fatally, poisonous but enough to make the gathering a gamble. Toxicologists have divided them Into groups: The cerebral type; The rare but blood devolving kinds; Th. species affecting the nerves and the intestinal (gastro) group. The last but XV’ORST the choleriform type with a high death rate: By K. D. T. to warn. It looks much like the common mushroom of commerce, The eating of it is almost certain death because it's effects are slow *n reaching the nerve centers that by the time jt does and distress is felt, it Is USUALLY TOO LATE. So when your neighbor Miys he will bring you some mushrooms, don't let him. Buy from your grocer. Be safe. Well, I knew I am due for a rib bing from all of you because I have now used single eggs trying to catch steelhead, But I defend myself as to my right because the water below the dam has been no milky for a long time and I have cast so many times I with my flies that I have only In one month of fishing, caught two big ones. Well. I went fishing last Mon day night and caught a three poun der on single egg. But the way the water seems to get clearer all the time. It may soon be that I will have The action, of the nerve affecting (Continued from Iji-t XX eelO some luck on flien. But you never species is very rapid, with painful can tell in the long run because while cramps in the stomach and violent March 5. 1941 the work of constructing the dam is convulsions. This group yield» to a Well, as you have probably guess being carried on, it is impossible not complete cure if Atropine is given ed, we have raided the mail bag.*» to muddy the water. soon enough. Be slow to buy mush again and have drawn two more let rooms from Peddlers who come to ters from you out of the mess. Alto So it may be possible that I will your back door. They may not know gether we have received four letter*», No. 14. 15, 16. and 17. also the letter use eggs quite a bit this fall but next any more about mushrooms than you. containing calenders. We are certain fall the water will be clear because It has been established in one caae on ly tick’ed to get so much mail. Alto the work on the dam will be finiah- record where a mother poisoned her gether we have received sixteen let ed and then I can get a lot of steel ♦ ntire family by buying from an ters in this boat’s mail and it is not head on flies without having to re- itinerant peddler who assu*-d her all up to the plantation as yet, of course, greedy us. we are still hoping sort to egg fishing and if any of you that she "eaten this kind many many for more mail. Now these people can catch me using eggs next fall you times." She evidently had become get a bunch of mail and set a letter may rib me all you want. < onfused on the "this kind" and mis- aside each day to read is more than I can comprehend, for 1 am so near —0— taken it for another. dead with curlousity when I see all Y’ou will say ’’what about above I^*-t us borrow an example or two that lovely pile of letters that I would the dam where the water is clear?” from a story which appeared in the sit up all night if nece.*«ary to read This is true but I don't think I will magazine "Frontier»" last year. I do every last word, and Joe is the same. L’y. I think the only time people have any luck because in the last not think there will be any objection. Frankly, allot themselves a letter a day to read two years I have not caught any A prominent citizen in Government is in the movies or in story books, above the dam. Two yearn ago I Service in XX’ashington D.C. ordered don't you? I don’t think it's being caught a 7 lbs., 15 ounces steelhead ! from his farmer a load of Caesar’ A done in Africa. We got a kick out of the cartoons just below Dodge Bridge which en laanita. However the farmer ap- which you sent too, and that dipping abled me to win a first prize of I parently did not know his mushrooms about the Kebar was interesting, steelhead rod in the Ross & Ross and brought in a load of the DEAD- Gee, both the Keliar and Otho sure contest. Then I have never had any LY’ Amanita Muscarin. Both the made the headlines and plenty of luck for the last two years above. buyer and a guest he was entertain pictures were taken of them as they limped into harbor in New Y’ork. My bent luck seems to be around in ing died. Captain Smith of the S. S. Otho is the vicinity ot the Hardy Riffle. Then we have the pitiful story of visiting on the plantation Just a few houses away from u» while the Otho the little 12 year old boy who came is in harbor on her outward voyage, Next year if the river don't get too running to his neighbors in the night the first voyage since she was dry low before August there will be a crying that his parent» were dying. docked in New York and he sure tells good run of steelhead coming up and He «aid Upon examining the remain» of the some hair-raising stories. they will not have any trouble going mushroom stew it was found to con he has been on the sea for 35 years and it is the worst storm he has ever over the new fish ladders and then tain at least five deadly species. The been in. The nose of the boat was the fishing above the dam Is bound boy had eaten only one bite and felt under water all the reMt of the way to improve. It will take two or fine. His little sister died first, then into harbor even after the storm three years before we know how had cracked the the father followed by the two guest.«. abated. The storm plates on the how of the ship and much improvement it has done. The mother because of her wonderful consequently it did no good to jump —0— response to castor oil was saved, out water for as fast as It was pump Just had a talk with Coach Hui- older brother recovered but burt as to the prospect of having a forced to walk on crutches for football team at high school this months. The little boy about whom year. He stated that I it Is impo we spoke and who seemed alright, slble to know right now und! the took suddenly ill and died al»o. Tile school opens next Monday, Will let interesting thing about It was in the you all know next week. fact that he had eaten only one PARCO PRODUCTS mouthful lait showed examination A Roof for Every Home him to have eaten a moral of the A Paint for Every Purpose deadly Amanita Phalloides, some- New Stock XVall Paper (THE MUSHROOM) times called the "death cup" or "The Fire-Retardant Roof« hrlng D. D. DAVIS destorying Angel"., a beautiful fun Lower Insurance Rates »05 W. 10th St., Medford. Or®. gus, inviting in appearance, with no Dial 3843 38 8. Bartlett The one vegetable that a lot of UH we know so well and usually are gambling with oui very life when we assume to gather it. It has fooled many folks who have gathered it often and still there comes that time when they fail to distin Real F.-tatc guish the variety today a» different X Soft-Lustrous XY'avc, Steamed from what they picked yesterday. into Your Hair With The New ■‘Well, it looked just the same"; this EXRMS. CITY PROPERTY Cri'iini Oil Duart Solution — .VII remark usually after the Doctor ar RENTYLS The Curls You Want. rives and before the Undertaker Phone 2381 1G S. Central comes. Medford There is only one way to be sure of Main Phone 2721 of African Rubber Plantation • d out the sea rushed in through the quently the company hasn't secured ' broken plates on the front and bot- enough crew as yet. They will pro- : torn of the ship. Whew! All the car bably sail within a few daya though, go which waa forward on the ship XX'ord > us received that the paanen- w.is dumped overboard to lighten the gers were not terribly hysterical on I ship and they still couldn't raise it. He said the passengers were not the Kebar either. They had become hysterical for which he was thank resigned to their fate of a waterly ful. There were four bachelors from grave for alii hope was given up at the Plantation on this boat, two were the time and they had to face eternity sent home because they were habitual square in the face for this was the drunkards (a fault with backelors out end . They spent most of their time here), one was going home on vaca in prayer preparing for certain death tion (a chemist) and one was return and so were prepared to accept their ing from special duty out here in fate when it fell. The launch which connection with the Delaval centri is always carried on deck on freight- 1 fuge machines in the factory. They era and some of the life boats were took snaps of each passenger as they torn from the ship and crushed by I docked in New Y’ork and the chemlsh the wave« and when you see that | looked like he wasn't worth saving, happen before your very eyes you | one of the returned backelors was know it is utterly uaeleau to try to deathly sick all the way and the other save yourself in a lifeboat, They said 1 group of I one was formerly a sea-going man they were a very meek _ and looked perfectly hale and hearty people when they got ashore in New and like he was waiting for the next York. 1 am anxious for Mrs. Foley adventure. It sure was a kick to see to return and get her version of it those sna|«s. The Captain said they for she has traveled all over the started dumping Palm Oil overboard world and experienced many thing.-, probably give a good off the coast of Florida and he bet and could there was a path of Palm Oil ail the description of it. XX'ill let you know way from Florida to New Y’ork for what she says. (To He Continued) they got rid of tons and tons of it That will certainly be a nice insur- ance loss won't it? The rubber and latex from the Plantation happened to be stored farther back in the ship and came through alright. I am glad you got that letter off the Debar and I guess you were lucky llaie That to get it. Several people out here have mentioned receiving word from home with the same news in it obout their letters being covered with oil. The Kehar was scheduled to sail the 28th of February from New York but hasn't sailed for here yet as they are having difficulty getting a crew to Dini 2376 sail her. There 1» such a demand for nt Riversiilt seamen just now that the whole crew got other jobs when the Kebar went in drydo< k for repairs and conse- Dr. Geo. S. Jennings OSTEOP XTIIIU Specialist in all problems of eye comfort and vision 8M 'Fluhrcr Bldg. 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