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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, Aug. 4, 1939
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• HILTS NEWS •
• A non weighing 8>t pound« was
tx>m to Mr. and Mrs Harry Block
Thursday at the Ashland hospital.
His name is Robert Stanley Mrs.
Black's aunt, Mrs. W. A. Schwartz,
of Portland, is caring for her
daughter Shirley during her ab
sence.
• Mrs. Charles Parker of Fulton
ville is visiting her cousin. Mrs.
Oman Lee.
• Iver Andersen is visiting his
brother at Scotia.
• Mrs. L. D. Clark and daughters.
Mrs. W. Tallis and Doris, and Mrs.
Fred Bayliss returned Monday
from Olympia. Wash., where they
attended" funeral services for Mr
Clark, who died here Tuesday of
last week.
• Ernest Dutro, Donald Geroy
and Billy Bayliss returned home
Sunday from a week at the Scout
camp at Lake o’ the Woods.
• Mr and Mrs Harry Kennedy
are on a vacation trip down the
coast to Santa Cruz. Howard May
berry of Ashland is taking Mr.
Kennedy’s place during his ab
sence.
• Mr. and Mrs Del Black and son
left Sunday for a month’s trip
east to visit relatives.
• Mrs. Oman Let' entertained
last Wednesday afternoon with a
surprise birthday party for Mr.
Lee’s mother, Mrs J. L. Cruse.
Those present were Mesdames Joe
Veiera. C. A Cobb. Buster Cavin.
M. M Seif. Arthur Pedersen. Ted
Quamme, Ed Wells and Charles
I*arker
Delicious refreshments
were served. Mrs. Cruse received
many lovely gifts.
• Mr. and Mrs. Don Ward drove
to Medford Saturday.
• A large crowd attended the
charivari of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Bray at the State Line service
station Saturday evening
• Mrs. Grace Deter of Medford
Phone 6/32
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MILLIONS OF POUNDS HAVE BEEN
USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT
and Oren Deter of Butte Falls
were dinner guests at the C. A
Baumgartner home Sunday.
• Miss Desty Klemegar of Klam
ath Falls visited in Hilt Sunday.
• Mrs Elaine Capp of Oakland is
visiting her daughter. Mrs. James
Sawyer.
• Mr. and Mi's
B
Rossi and
daughter Josephine of McCloud
spent the week-end at the home
of his brother, Louis Rossi and
family.
• Del Bagley left Thursday eve
ning for Sacramento to take a
position in a store there.
Prophets
Iccordin/t to ancient Eng
Ii»h legend, rain on St. Suith
m*s Ihiy, July 15, means rain
tor 10 day». The folk lore of
every country imbues animals,
foul and insects uith the gift
of foretelling rain. Here are
a few of the more popular
superstition»:
By EARL SNELL
Secretary of State
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Since the time Dr. Marcus
Whitman drove the first horse-
drawn vehicle across the plains
and mountains to the Oregon
country, the horse has played an
important role in the development
of Oregon, but the passing of the
equestrian era is no more clearly
shown than in traffic accident re
ports. Earl Snell, secretary of
state, said today.
There have been but three fatal
ities from accidents involving
horse-drawn vehicles in this state
during the present decade. The
last such accident occurred in
Lane county in November. 1937,
when a car crashed into the rear
of a wagon, throwing the driver
to the pavement. A year before
that, in November, 1936, the driver
of a junk wagon in Portland was
killed when a car cut in too close
in passing it and collided with the
wagon. The other fatality was in
1931, details of which were not
available at the secretary of
state's office.
The sad plight of the horse, ma
rooned in the advancing civiliza
tion to which he contributed so
much, is illustrated in these acci
dents which were caused not by
any fractiousness on the part of
the animals, but by the modern
conditions of automobile-crowded
streets and highways, the secre
tary of state pointed out
"At first, legislation was all in
favor of the horse, but now it is
the other way around," Snell re
marked. "When the first automo
biles started using the roads, the
country hastened to pass laws
protecting Old Dobbin from the
snorting gas machines.
Around
1900 Oregon passed a law provid
ing that when any motor car en
countered a team, the operator
was to avoid frightening the ani
mals, even to the extent of stop
ping if necessary and remaining
stationary till the horses were
safely under control of their
drivers.
"Another law provided that no
vehicle should be driven faster
than eight miles an hour ‘in the
country when within one hundred
yards of any vehicle drawn by
horses.’
Incidentally, this same
law set a speed limit of ‘one mile
in tow and one-half minutes’ on
any public road outside a city. At
that time there were only about
200 motor cars in Oregon and the
dictates of safety were well satis
fied with regulations preventing
frightening of horses.”
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Despite
meteorologist«,
many
tarmers here and elsewhere listen
to the rooster’s crowing for advance
weather information. This supersti
' tion is based on the age-old couplet:
’If a cock crows when be goes to
bed. he'll get up with a wet head.”
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Another "sure-fire"
rainfall, fishermen to
is when "Through the
the fishes rise, and
incautious flies.”
indication of
the contrary,
clear streams
nimbly catoh
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GERALD PATRICK HAAS
Funeral services for Gerald Pat
rick Haas, two-months-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Haas, who
died July 29, were neld July 31 at
the Litwiller Funeral home with
the Rev. J. P. Senter officiating.
Interment was in the IOOF ceme
tery.
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• Mr. and Mrs. W. O Martin
made a business trip to Medford
Wednesday evening.
Government weather experts look
upon kitty as nothing more than a
household pet, but according to die
hards, rain is a two-to-one bet when
‘Puss on the hearth, with velvet
paws, sits licking o’er her whiskered
aws.”
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The not-loo-particular housewile
can disregard scientific prognostica
tions. according to legend, because
rain is definitely due when "The
toot falls down, the spaniels sleep,
and spiders from their cobwebs
creep.” ’
And this wise old bird may be as
«mart as his reputation paints him.
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