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Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, September 21, 1944 I of Mrs. Paul Merfeld at Medford. Miss Burns is stenographer and clerk in the office of Robert Holmes, Southern Pacific agent Modesto, California. They were at Medford, going back and forth here unul Tuesday morning clos- daily to her work mg the' deal, but left for their 1 ------- home to make final arrange I Pvt. Alf Ashland of Medford ments to move to their new loca Army Air Field visited Ashland tion. The farm is of considerable U.S.O. Sunday afternoon. Pvt. size, being operated as a stock , Ashland was born in Gottenburg, farm. i Sweden and has been in the 1 United States for 6 years. He has Check your heating equipment been in the Armed Forces for 17 now for coming winter. We have months. He is now a naturalized plenty of stove pipe, dampers citizen. Pvt. Ashland was a mass and stove boards in stock at M a r eur in civilian life and came to the United States to work at his shall-Wells store on ‘.he plasa. | i profession. Mrs. Ruth Shell who lives at j 195 Harrison street, has been ' Check your heating equipment ' quite ill the past several days, now for coming winter. We have but Tuesday afternoon was some plenty of stove pipe, dampers ! what improved. . and stove boards in stock at M a r Kenneth Burns, who was in- I shall Well» store on the plaxa. LOCAL HAPPENINGS Roger Clark and Jack Baker spent from Friday until Sunday morning at the Weyerhauser Um ber farm at Camp Four with Herb Huston, proprietor of the commissary at Camp Four. Mr. and Mrs. Harry arry Chipman and son will leave today, Thurs day for San Francisco for a com bined pleasure and business trip to be gone for a couple of weeks. Harry owns a fine news stand and spends the days as city edi tor for the Daily Tydings. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Johnston announce the birth of a daughter named Mary Ellen, September 1, weight six and three-fourths pounds. The Johnstons are form er residents, now living at Jose ph Oregon, where Mr. Johnston ducted into the army at Monte- is pastor of the Christian Church. rey, California on Sept 6, is still being held there, as he has re- Allyn King was arrested last . ceived no assignment for train- week on a bench warrant issued I ing. Most of the other group who from Judge Hanna's court in went in with him the same day Medford, charging the youth ' were assigned for infantry train- with breaking his probation a- ing at Camp Roberts, Cali ifornia. greement. The case was brought up by King’s being mixed up in Mr and Mrs. Joe King received the "disappearance” of an Ash word the first of the week from land woman some weeks ago. their son Capt. Joe King that he Last week King was sentenced to was in an evacuation hospital, two years in the state peniten somewhere in France as the re tiary, as a result of the forgery sult of severe injuries suffered charges brought against him and j I in a plane crash a few days be- for which he was given sus" ! fore. He is test pilot for the army pended sentence pending good air forces at advanced bases. He behavior. stated that he was in casts for injuries to his back, neck and Check your heating equipment legs. He has been overseas for now for coming winter. We have the past two years, his parents plenty of stove pipe, dampers advised and has been in the and stove boards in stock at M ar fighting all the way through Af- shall-Wells store on the plaza. rica, Italy and now in France, Mr. and Mrs. King were also The Arch Kincaid farm, six notified Monday that their nep miles east of Ashland in the Emi hew, George High, of Ashland grant creek district was sold this wa sreported missing in action in week to Mr. and Mrs. Wyant of New Guinea, he has been over seas for the past six months. His wife has been in Ashland the past several days to see about property they own here, coming down from Portland. I V arsity Fri. - Sat. “ ACTION in ARABIA” with George Saunders Carole Bruce also SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS Sun.-M on.* Tues. Samuel Goldwyn’s TECHNICOLOR Musical Comedy “ OP IN ARMS” Starring Check your heating equipment now for coming winter. We have plenty of stove pipe, dam pen and stove boards in stock at M a r shall-Wells store on the plasa. Mrs. Floyd Samford and fam ily and Mrs. Wm. H. Ford and two children were in Medford Tuesday afternoon, that the child ren might go to the carnival in progress there. This was the first time the children had ever at tended a carnival and the thrills and sights were greatly enjoyed. Beecher Danford, with the city electrical department, suffered a painful but not particularly ser ious accident this week when he fell from a ladder while on a city work project. He broke his heel in the fall. He will be confined to his home for a while. Mill, West Virginia. He was one of 200 present, 150 of them being presidents of educational col leges. Others were guest speak ers and councilors. The meeting was for presidents of teachers colleges that are members of the American Association of Teach ers Colleges, and was in session for nine days, from August 15 to 24. Former Ashand Eductor Passes mined that the rain hud ended erican Legion Auxiliary; Mrs. P. tlie dry spell which forced the E. Ayers, Mrs. Everett McGee, Christian Church; Mrs. W. E. closing order three weeks ago. Cook and Mrs. Henry Carter, Methodist Church. Books: Dette Pendleton. Flowers, Miss Berna Haight and Miss Estella Hays. L. L. Lewis, a government hunter from Central Point, was in Ashland Friday, and displayed two beurs which he had killed in t h e vicinity o f M t Ashland where he had been hunting bear the past several days. He had in the car with him seventeen dogs which he uses in hunting bcai«., and wildcats whenever they are reported molesting sheep or cat tle. He stated that he had been in the Mt. Ashland area hunting the bear after it was reported that they had been killing sheep from the Austie Barron flock. It had also been reported that the bear had been molesting sheep and cattle in the Wagner Butte area. Hunter Bags Two Bear at ML Ashland Word cume to Dr. Walter Red ford of the death in Portland lust week end of A. C. Strange, fol lowing an illness of several years. Mr. Strange was u member of the faculty o f the Southern Oregon College of Education since it wus established in 1926, until his re tirement last year. His work was in the education department and I Members of the Elks club who with his broad experience and | can spare the time are busy mak preparation he was able to offer ing up 500 small wooden boxes, ins classes an interesting course. which they will donate to any He was affiliated with the Ash Presbyter>an church a n d one who wants them. The boxes land are the maximum size for over was an active worker. His sur seas mailing set by the post of vivors include his wife a n d fice department. They are made daughter, Mrs. Frances South- Vows were spoken Friday of wood, size 12x6x6 and will dis wick. September 8, at 8 o’clock at the tributed from the Taxie Bus de- Baptist Parsonage, uniting in marriage Miss M. Betty Hileman 1 pot The boxes are made of wood and Alden Deston Powell both * so that contents will arrive in the best possible condition. of Ashland. Rev, Gordon C. Griffin read Governor Snell issued a pro Mrs. G. W. Bruce and her clamation late Monday opening t h e beautiful service of t h e daughter, Mrs. Ruth Robinson of all the forests west of the Cas church. The only attendant was Dallas, Oregon, returned on cade mountains with the excep Miss Patricia Powell, daughter of Thursday from a visit with rela tion of Josephine and Jackson Mr. Powell. Mr. and Mrs. Powell will make tives in Alameda and San Jose counties, and the Rogue and Sis Colifornia. Over the week end kiyou forests. Decision to open their home on Oak street. Mrs. Powell is a popular mem Mrs. Reba Kelsey and Mr. and the forests was made on the re Mrs. J. W. Kellogg served each a commendation of State Forester ber of the teaching staff of Lin dinner honoring Robinson, i N. S. Rogers, after he had deter coln training school and has been wring Mrs. M for a number of years. She will Mrs. Robinson’s husband is in the continue her work in the school, i army, serving at present in Cor Mr. Powell is a Southern Paci sica. Mrs. Robinson, after three fic employe and a veteran of weeks with her folks in Ashland, y o u WRITE THE ANSWERS World War 1. The Powell family j left for her home last Sunday are long time residents of Ash ON A FIFTH WAR LOAN morning. ----------- o------------ land and well known in the com BOND APPLICATION/ munity. Marriage Unites Bettv Hileman Alden Powell Governor Snell Opens Some Oregon Fortsts LITHIA Boulevard Meat De partment Leased by Central Point Man Frid. - Sat. The meat department of the well known Boulevard Market has been leased to Harold Arney the past week, it was announced. Mr. and Mrs. Arney come from Central Point and are also well known in Medford where he had charge of the Oakdale grocery market and for a time managed the meat market at Faber's mar- i ket at Central Point. Two new meat refrigeration f show cases have recently been I . . . . . u n m 'i DADDV installed at the Boulevard mar- DUN KtU DARK I ket to make it one of the most modern in town. Mr. and Mrs. Arney a n d daughter, Haroldine, have moved into an apartment at 64 Gresham street THRILL A MINTO ! “MAN FROM RIO GRANDE” Dr. Redford Returns From Virginia Meet Dr. Walter Medford, president Miss Betty Jo Burns, daughter of the College of Education here of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Burns at Ashland returned last week spent Tuesday night at the home from a meeting held at Jackson’s Justice Nelle Burns Weds Local Couple Miss Katherine Marcenc Wil son and Glenn Lawrence West were united in marriage at the home of Judge Nelle Burns at 8 o’clock Thursday evening Sept ember 14. Both are from Jackson county, Oregon, but Mrs. West was formerly from Texas Mr. and Mrs. West were at- 1 tended by Mrs. Thora L. Hall, E. H. Poole, Mrs. Bill Barker and another friend. Their future plans were not * announced. USO Donations .... Cookies: Mrs. H. C. Jobbins, Baptist Church; Mrs. Ruth Cush- 1 ing, Mrs. C. M. Frazier. Mrs. I Mildred Harmsen, Mrs. W. R. Whittle, Mrs. M. P. O’Harra. Am- t The Miner for Quality Printing. OM S a* rk Are timed, but fires and t auto accidents are n o t We w rite Fire and Auto In surance that protects your homo and car a l l the time. J. F. EMMETT 187 East M ain Street Phone 8561 NOTICE! PLUS This week we are ending three years of work with the Bus Depot Taxi. We take this means of expressing our thanks to our patrons and friends in Ashland and vicinity for their pa tronage. We feel assured that we have placed the taxi business in competent hands, under the new ownership. 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