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Friday, Sept. 19, 1941 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Page 4 TALENT NEWS Southern Oregon Miner NOTED QUARTET • Mr anil tars O. Carver have opened the Talent cafe, recently operated by Mr. and Mra DeBord. The Carvers are former residents CHAS. M GIFFEN of Talent and ran the cafe a cou Published Every Friday ple of years ago. at 167 East Main Street WILLIAM SAVIN • Frank Maxon, a resident of ASHLAND, OREGON Publishers Talent for many years. )>assed ¥ away last Friday evening at a ★ Entered as second-class local hospital. Funeral services SUBSCRIITION matter February 15. were held Monday morning at the RATES 1935, at the postoffice at Litwiller Funeral home Interment (In Advance) Ashland. Oregon, under was made in the Mountain View ONE YEAR ....... $150 the act of March 3.1879. cemetery at Ashland. SIX MONTHS 80c • Mr. and Mrs Nobel Green of «Mailed Anywhere in the Phoenix were callers in Talent United States) Monday afternoon. • Rev. W. S. Wilber of Grants l*ass is conducting a series of THE TRUTH WIIX j meetings at the Baptist church evenings of this week. • Mrs. Dick Morrow and daugh- | ters Benny and Betty Lou of Wagner creek were shopping and Rising prices are definitely not the fault of retail visiting friends here Monday. • Mr and Mrs. Alva Smith mov merchandising, despite mistaken rumors to that effect, ed to Medford this week. Mr. which have recently gone into circulation. The truth Smith is employed at Groceteria i 2. is that retail merchandising has done a remarkable No. • Mr and Mrs. Wiley Hotchkiss j of Denver, Colo, are visiting Mr. job in holding price increases to the minimum. brother and sister-in- The MimtiKMlppI G<m|>el Four The figures tell the story. Today factory payrolls Hotchkiss' law. Mr. and Mrs. Will Hotchkiss. quartet, one of the outMtcuidlng They are looking for a location negro quartet» of America, will are 50 percent greater than a year ago, and the aver and plan on locating in the valley, ap|H-ur at the Anhliuid Church age worker’s earnings are 22 percent greater. Yet re i • Mr and Mrs. Fred Cook of of the Nazarvne, 3 p. m. Munday. tail food prices have advanced only seven percent since Yamsey logging camp in Klamath This quartet, noted for It» ren were week-end guests of dition of negro »plrltuala, has June 1940. In the same period, wholesale food prices ' county Mrs. Cook's parents, Mr. and Mrs traveled a» a quartet for more advanced 22 percent—an increase three times as great Walter Holmes in Valleyview and than 11 year» and his» »ung over Mr. and Mrs Elmer Cook in Thl- station WDGX, MiniirapoUri, for as that which took place in retail food prices. I ent. Mr. Cook’s father accompan two yean. The quartet In now them home for a visit. working under the <.|Min»onhlp Compared with 1929. factory workers have about a ied • Mr. and Mrs. Allen Clark mov- of the Northwest Nazarene Col 42 percent greater food purchasing power. Other work I ed from the Brag orchard west of lege of .\iuii|MU Ida., and will Phoenix into the home of his prvwent negro »plritual» a» well ers’ food purchasing power is up 28 percent. Retail father. Ben Clark. an go»|>el »origw In their Sunday food prices are some 20 percent under 1929 levels. • The Community club held its appearance. What is true of food, is true to a very large extent first meeting of the season at the hall Wednesday afternoon. of other commodities. The fact that price rises have so city Mrs. C. W. Ix>ng is president of of the Parent-Teachers association was held at the school house Fri far been moderate, in the light of the inflationary ten the club. Mrs Kenneth • Talent school began Monday day afternoon. dencies produced by the arms drive with its unprece with an increase of attendance. Brown .president, conducted the meeting. Mrs Jo Goldpenny was dented spending, is very largely the work of merchan A number of high school students appointed secretary by Mrs are working in the pear harvest Brown and installed by Mis» disers. and will start later. burg to fill the vacancy left Prices will inevitably rise in the future. Higher • Mr. and Mrs Will Iamb of Gans by Mrs. Kenneth Nelson. Plans Reese creek and their daughter costs of doing business, combined with increased pur and family of California were were discussed for work on a play for the coming year The chasing power and dwindling supplies, make that in guests of Tom Lamb and Mr and ground P-TA creed was read by Mrs T Mrs. Roy Estes last Thursday. evitable. But to blame this on retail merchandising, is I • Claude Ward and family of Quamme; a poem entitled "When ’s Away," by Jean Henderson, to put the cart before the horse. Generally speaking, Wagner creek are anxiously a Ma poem, We Do Mean You," awaiting a visit from their daugh retail prices are being advanced when, and only when, ter, Mrs. Margaret Davis and in by Mrs. M "And Bradfield, and a poem. "Secretaries,” by Mrs. Jo Gold- wholesale prices and operating overhead make it ab fant daughter whom they have penny Music was played by Mrs seen. Mr and Mrs Davis solutely unavoidable. That is the progressive retail never left here a couple of years ago John DeWitt at the piano. Hist- policy today. And it will be the retail policy in the for South America and after esses were Mrs Franklin and Mrs Blanchard. Refreshments ( spending some time in Colombia, Art Tutuie. moved to Panama where Davis is were served. employed in the Canal Zone. Mrs • A Girl Scout committee meet- GEMS OF THOUGHT Davis is coming by air transport ing was held Tuesday evening at to Los Angeles where she will the Club hotel with Mrs. T Quam No more important duty can be urged upon those who are spend a few days visiting friends me. Mrs Sam Dunaway, Miss Lu entering the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best before continuing the journey here cille Gansburg, Mrs White and convictions. —Chapin. Mrs. Enzie Wright attending. ----------------------- •----------------------- He that respects himself is safe from others; Mrs. John De Witt and Mrs Fred HILT NEWS He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.—Longfellow. Bayliss were unable to attend. It is noft what he has. nor even what he does, which directly ex- , • The "Country Fair" given by • Louis Alphonse, Barbara and presses the worth of a man, but what he is.—Amiel. the Women’s Society of Christian Phyllis and Mrs Enzie Wright Service at the hall Friday evening and Mrs. Julio Rossetti were in a great success. Attendance Medford and Ashland Saturday. Up was ---- - - -------—........................ New Books in Library X™? the! tar exceeded the hopes and plans • Gordon Alphonse and Kenneth I Inveri vs ra- liet ____ of the ladies who worked on the Rogers of Stockton are hunting The F following list of nani new Krv^b-a books ’ ( Earth, their vacation and plan to has recently been added to the1 Longworth—Desk Drawer An- I project Music was furnished by during return to College of the Pacific at thology. Louis Alphonse with recordings public library: Stockton next Sunday. McNeill — Wy'east the Moun- ' played over his loud speaker sys- Abercrombie—How to Buy or Build Your Home Wisely; Ander tain; Marquand—H. M Pulham, [ tern, and Bill Tallis very ably pre • Mr. and Mrs Richard Williams and sons Roy and Russell and Ed son—Dog-team Doctor; Appelhoff Esq. : Mel bo—Our Country's Na-1 sided as master of ceremonies Bemheisel, accompanied " *--* ward Ekwall were Medford visi —You Can Be Happily Married; tional Parks; Morton—Angle of1 Bethel by Rita Sultana and Gladys tors Saturday. Earth and Sky. « Arnim—Mr. Skeffington. Quamme, and a court of fairies, • Mr. and Mrs Clinton Cobb re O'Brien—Best Stories of 1941. Capek—I Had a Dog and a Cat; Shirer—Berlin Diary; Silverman clowns. Girl Scouts, and Boy turned Sunday from their vacation I Cardwell — Mountain Medicine; Cleaveland—No Life for a Lady; —Magic In a Bottle; Streeter— Scouts, was crowned queen of the trip. • Bob Purvis and his small eon Clendening — The Human Body; The Kaw i Rivers of America ser fair by Frank Ward. Exhibits were put on by the Mike, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cobb—Exit Laughing; Coatsworth ies). Young—Behind the Rising Sun. Boy Scout troop. Girl Scout troop, Purvis, spent last week at Pendle —The Trunk; Cronin—The Keys Yreka Camera club, Mr. DeWitt ton, Ore, with Clyde Purvis and Williams—Crater Lake. to the City. and Howard Trivelpiece, besides Mrs Inez Sowall of Klamath Falls Derleth — Still Small Voice; Dodd—Ambassador Dodd's Diary. BIRTHDAY SURPRISE PARTY booths of flowers, vegetables, pets, attending the Pendleton Round- Ethridge—I’ll Sing One Song; Mrs. Afton Hannah was guest art (which included the school i Up. They returned Sunday. Fear No More. A book of poems of honor at a surprise birthday work and fancy work), fortune • Mr. and Mrs. Orman Lee spent by English poets. party held at the Madden home telling, and tea towels. The tea Sunday at Crater I^ake. Fisher—Toilers of the Hills; last week. Guests included Mes- towels, made by the ladies, were • Mr and Mrs Don Ward and Fletcher—South Star. dames Helen Reigel, Fem Berry, i all sold out early in the evening. daughter Diane and Mr and Mrs Grey—Twin Sombrero; Grissom Mabel Roberts, Will Darby, Row Mrs. Lucy Mendes presided over W. Gran and son Bill spent Sun —Under Desert Skies. ena Myers, Will Stennett, A. A. the fortune telling booth. Prize day picnicking and, fishing on Handy—Father of the Blues; Madden. Afton Hannah and the ribbons were awarded for the best Beaver creek Harding—Amazon Throne; Haycox Misses Voda Brower, Velma Brow exhibits. Judges were Mrs. King. • Mr and Mrs Frank Gracey of Miss Gansburg, Frank Ohlund and Klamath Falls were visiting her —Trail Town; Hedin—A Conquest er and Leona Ormand. i Frank Ward. parents, Mr. and Mrs H. Cleven i During the latter part of the ger, early this week, Walter Clev evening cake, coffee and ice cream enger left for Klamath Falls with them, planning to obtain work were sold by the ladies. WITH MODERN • The first meeting of the term there. —- METHODIST FELLOWSHIP MET MUNDAY AFTERNOON At 4 o'clock Bunday afternoon the Methodist Fellowship group oi young folk» met nt the home of Dr an<i Mra. G W Bruce and laid plana for their fall anil winter work Following the bUMiiirai sea aion attended only by the officers, 27 young folks drove up Wagner creek for a picnic dinner and wor ship service Miss Wilma Froman, president, led the worship pro gram which consisted of hymns, 1 prayer and a discussion At this meeting it was announc ed that Mr and Mrs Kenneth A Wood had accepted the stMinsoi ship of the Methodist Fellowship group in Ashland 11 » GUILD IIOI.DM SESSION I The Martha Gillette Guild of the Presbyterian church met Fri day evening with Mm F F. Whit tle and Mra F. J. Ahlatrom an hiiateaaes Ml«« Alta NorcroM led the devotions and Mias Juanita Demmer presided over the busi ness meeting Ina trail of a regular lesson atudy. members told Inter eating account« of their summer vacation«. LODGE MET MONDAY The Neighbors of Woodcraft met nt the FOOF hall Monday evening with Guardian Neighbor llnrry Moore presiding Mi and Mrs .1 II Philpot served refresh ments during the social hour Cart Before The Horse! xa I r"' You can go EAST through CALIFORNIA for no extra rail fare If you're planning a trip East and back this year, just remem ber that Southern Pacific round trip tickets take you Eu/ llnougb California lot not Ic eatra rail fare to most destinations. Add San Francisco, I.os Angeles and many other cities to your trip at no additional ticket cost. Fast, airconditioned trains all die way including streamliners and coach-tourist economy trams. S’ Th« Friendly Southam P«<ltl< local B P scant or wilts J. A. OHMANDY Css Past 4(snf rii PaclBa Sullding. Portland. Oiagoo 22. The SUNGOLD Family IS GROWING! You Can Now Have— SUN Butter Full Cream Milk Churned Buttermilk GOLD MiNNion Orange SUNFREEZE ICE CREAM ASHLAND ICE & STORAGE CO For home delivery, Phone H7H1 CLEANING EQUIPMENT Permanent PRICES! SUITS PLAIN DRESSES PLAIN COATS $5“ OR ANY THREE FOR FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY COLLEGE CLEANERS 823 Siskiyou Blvd Phone 6338 REMEMBER WHEN a barber pole was a real red, white and blue wooden pole as high as a man or higher? Those were the days when father had his own gold initialed shaving mug in the barber shop’s glass case. Remember? Pays for three years insurance on $1,000 dwelling or household goods inside Ashland city limits. Lower rates if building qualifies Litwiller Funeral Home C.M.Litwiller We Never Close—Phone 4541 Brakes and steering inspected in an instant with this simple machine—the Weaver Brake and Alignment Tester. Just drive on—you don’t need to move out of your seat, or disturb your pas sengers or load. Four thermometer-like tubes show con dition of each brake, and whether weak out of adjustment, or O. K. Dial shows condition of steering, and if road friction is scuffing away your tires. Use of this equipment is absolutely free —we have installed it for your safety drive in today. is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us.” DEPUTY COUNTY CORONER SAFETY TEST I. C. ERWIN 240 East Main Street CLYDE N. CATON GARAGE PHONE 5311 AT THE KLAMATH JUNCTION (SlMkiyuu Boulevard and Indiana Street)