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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1918)
11 r IfEDFOTtD MATL TRTBTTXK. MTCTF01?P. OTiKfiOX. MOXPAY. SKPTEMKER !0. : THIS PAGE TT1REK Jill PRIZE WINNERS AI STATE FAIR 1 - " i hi I gootliern Oregon exhibit nf lliiine- not No. 13 field corn was a big drawing card at the fair. Verne Owens of Motion! secured first plure in club work and open PCBte-st, Constnni'e Hordwcll oi Jacksonville took first in Iti-ljjiim hiire rawing, having had the uchI pair of Belffittu linren as well as the best re port on the irojeet which she undor topk. ' 'These two students havinjf won two of the fourteen (rrand pries offered nt Xhe State Fair will each Ret a free trip to tho Oregon Agricultural college : ne;t tmmmer to attend a two weeks Rummer session at the 0. A .(.'. The first trip is offered by the Interna tional Harvester company, while the second is offered by the Kouthledgc Seed & Klorul colnpuuy of i'ortlnnii. Several other boys and X'rls dome; oluu work and haviiuf sent products to the state fair did well, and so the winners are here mentioned. Kichard S)nglctf ktf Jacksonville, second in - iurni and home handicraft; Mildred vOyger of Ashland took fourth place ; in the sewing contest, while ltuth li lis ! sell of Will kins took fifth place in the ' same project. Ueth Ager of Jack sonville won fifth place in the fat hog contest. Guurgie Lowe won third place in the pure bred hog contest. ! Nutria McCoy of Gold Hill won see i oud in the poultry project. In the opui contests Verne Owens : took first plnco amomr all compet- iters of the entire state, Hoscoe Hob ! erta of Medford had the best pie l pumpkin and the best watermelon. Geortfie Lowe took first place in popcorn, and Joe Barrett of Talent took second place for best exhibit of beets. . Much of the credit for the ex cellent, uniform display of com at our state fair should be (riven to Mr. Delrby Getchell of the Jackson coun ty bank, for furnishing a good grade of seed corn to our boys and uirls taking up this project, und thus mak ing it possiblu for them to grow a good grade of corn. Minnesota No. 13 does very well in tho Hogue river valley, especially where it is possible to secure irrigation. County Superintendent Acer went ;to Salem with the Jacksonville nii ining team on Friday morning. The I team gave a canning demonstration on Friday afternoon. The entire dele gation consisting of I.cola llessel gtrave of Central Point. Hcth Ager, Bernioe Reter and Ruth Fleming of Jacksonville, Vern 0n and Hoscoe Roberta of Medford, headed for home Suturduy, delighted with the entertainment and instruction they had received at the hands of state of ficials in charge of the boys' and girls camp, andJpleascd with the re sults of their contests with other chilren of the state. Of the Jackson county prize win ners nt the state fair the first two mentioned below will be given free trips to the two weeks summer school at the 0. A. C, Corvallis. The prize winners were us follows : Corn growing, Vern Owens, Med ford, first prize; Belgian hure pro ject, Constance Bnrdwcll, Jackson ville, 1st; handicraft project, Hndolf hinglcr, Jacksonville, 2nd; pig pro jeet, division III, George I.owe, Ash land, 3rd; sewing project, division I, i Mildred Cyder, Ashland, 4th; Rath ; Russell, Wntkins, 5th; Dairy herd ' record, Lester Mcrriman, Central Point, 5th j market hog, under I year, I'oland China prize, Beth Ager. ( Jacsonville, 5th; field corn, onencon- tcst, Vern Owens, Medford, lt, If) tears popcorn, open contest, George Lowe, Ashland, 5th: one watermelon. open contest, Hoscoe Roberts, Med ford, 1st; pie pumpkin, opei contest Hoscoe Roberts, Medford, 1st. ! There wus hardly a minute when there were not a number of people if not a crowd, looking at the Jackson county courn. The county did not 'wulk away with a great number of I blue ribbons, but made n big point in ; getting all the blue that was offered Ion corn. NIGHT SALESIOF GASOLINE CUE OUT BY ALL DEALERS Asking the co-operation of the members of the oil industry and the public at large in the movement to conserve man-power, 1). M. Folsom, director of the Pacific Coast section of the oil division of the fuel adminis tration, has announced that all sell ers and distributors of gasoline and engine distillate, have been requested to limit their sales to the hours be tween 0 a. ui. and (i p. m. With the public co-operating with thu oil companies anil making their purchases only during tho hours sug gested it is pointed out Ihnt a large reduction can he made in the number of employes needed in the distrilm tion of gasoline and engine distillate and these men released and made available lor national service. Mr. Folsom uctcd at the suggestion of the Pacific Coast Petroleum War Service committee, which has been considering the problem of'conscrv ing man puwer for some time, follow ing the nppealiof A. C. Bedford, chairman of the National Petroleum Wur Service committee. Mr. Bedford stated in a recent communication to the western body .that two essentials were to he kept in mind in taking steps to meet the national emergency, first : 'That every man within the draft ages whom it is posible to disense with should be spared for miitary service." and second : "That the vi tal importance of the oil industry to the successful carrving on of the war requires the retention of an ade quate force to maintain the indus try in the highest state of operating efficiency." Chairman Buriich, of the war in dustries hoard, in a recent order placed the oil industry first in the list of essential industries. The movement to conserve the man power of the country was initiated bv Murk L. Heipia, head of the oil di vision of the fuel administration, who urged that every man that can possi bly be dispensed with be released for national service. RUSSIANS niOW HAVE PLENTY OF VODKA 1 ; STOCKHOLM, Sept. 30. The peasants of I'kriiine and central Russia have used two thirds of their grain stocks to make vodka. Tliou- l-iinds of distilleries are n,?aiti at work, and vodka is the only thing in ' Russia of which there is nlmndnnce, although the price is still high, i , '"GRADE I" ADDED TO I OUR ENGLISH IDIOMS i LONDON', Sept. :tn. "Crude 1" is rnpidly becoming a pari of the Brit ish lnnenage apart trom its niennin: as applied to (he army. For instance, "The dinner is Grade 1." or "The Americans nrc a tirade 1 lot" are ex pressions of n tyjic commonly heard. AT THE RIALTO TONIGHT AND TOMORROW iS. vy E PARIS, Si'pt. HO. AnuTican sol diers mny spend leaves at the famous Monte Carlo, world s playground on the Freneh Reviera. The l'riuee of Monaco, ruler of the tiny principality, offered to let $33 n month dough boys mingle with his multi-millionaire guests. Hut wait ! The gambling easino is not open to the soldieis of nnv na tion. They won't be able to take n hand in the game or try n pet system for breaking: the bank. Hut outside of "business" hours they enn stroll through and -ee where panies speedier than "cntps" or stud poker are play ed by lMttshurq- millionaires, grand dukes and princes. PARIS, Sept. :W.Ameriean, they ean do nnythini! That is the super compliment the Krvtieh gave the boy from the states. Their praise is stinj; biuhest in a little village where two privates of the Knginecrs' corps single handed repaired a cathedral organ that was more than 1 00 years old and hadn't delivered a note in 15 years. They worked nfter 5 o'clock every afternoon, at tho end of a hard day'" work. They cleaned It, 000 pipes, some 20 feet high and a foot in diameter. They removed doens of ancient bird's nests, piaster and other debris, and scoured the pipes with a sulphuric acid process. And one day they gave a concert of Anicricnn hive mhujs on the old cathedral pipe organ, much to the astonishment of the cure and delight of the villagers. ELSIE'E HANDSPRING DELIGHTS DOUGHBOYS KITH Till: AM I'M CAN AH MY IX FRANVK, Sept. :t0. The smoke hnd hardly cleared off the Manic battlefield, before Kino Junis, the ae-tros-, appeared and put on an enter tainment for the hoys. Her stage was in a field that only a few days be fore had seen some of the Moodiest fighting of the war. She ang songs, told stories and then did a dance that ended up with n hnnd-pring. Hunk (Inwdv got mi enthuia.-tic that he stood right np in nveetiug and moed a ote of thanks.. M 6k Eh til GLADYS BROCKWfiLL - DIRECTION WILLIAM FOX PRESIDENT'S TALK LOIR INSURANCE PRAISED IN SPAIN RATES FOR SHIPPING MADRID, Sunday. Sept. 29. (Reuter's). All the newspapers here publish the address of President Wil ton in New York in full. In com menting on the speech, the Liberal says: "The address Is the noblest thing that has been thought or said since the beginning of the war. It is the epitome of tho general spirit of amity which dwells in the depth of every conscience that if free from covetous egoism. "Perhaps President Wilson's pro gram may bo too idealistic hut we might forget that this doctrine, so noble and so humun, will be guaran teed in return by the mighty power of the IT nlted States." "The president's address," says the Epoca, "will make a profound impression all all by Its sublime dis interested attitude, renouncing as It does, all desire for territorial hnd economic delineations." Tho work of paving Ashland hill with concrete was begun Monday morning. LONDON, Sept. :. The allied an-ti-Mdmiarine war is now so successful that the Pritish government insur ance bureau bus lowered the war risk piemiums on many ocean routes. Lloyds and the other marine com panies have followed suit. On one 'route the Mediterranean route to India, the rate bus been increased. The Scandinavian rate has been cut in half. Six months ago it was (iO shillings; now it is MOs. per hundred. The charge for 'Dutch business, curiously enough, remains at 00. One of the recent devices put into use for combatting the I-boats, and said to be successful, is called the Yarrow smoke screen. This causes the smoke to be emit ted from the sides of the ship, elim inating the tell tale black clouds that pour out of the funnels. The importance of ibis invention may be understood when it is known that 1150 square miles is the maximum area over which a single l'-luint inav discover the presence of a ship by smoke. EYEGLASSES FOR IE E PAIilS, S..pl. :i). Anii-rii-iin (.fii ficnev t Why, I'lu-lt- ,miii htii lias his own sX'i-iiiilo lai'orv in Kranct! , Three thousand don.ulihoys an1 woarini; new biases which (hey ilitln't have lo send home l'or be cause Vncle Sam is on the job. The pluses are put together in France by American soldiers; they are ground ami polished out of Aineri.-an jilass on American motor driven machinery. And the jilnses are free lo the soldiers. j They're made with frames, that look like platinum, hut are of the stulY that keeps the liberty motor liht aluminum. A new .standard pattern has been adopted for the routih usae glasses ct in the army. They're military looking and as unbreakable as it is possible for eye.ulasses to lie. Now there are eiejit hospital units attached to base hospitals here, each in charge of oculists ranking hili in their profession back home. The huh of I ncle Sam's spectacle making unit is in a village in n popu lous section of France. It's a bar rack like buildine; full of filine; cab inets, delicule machinery and buck privates that know a whole lot more about tilings scientific than militaris tic. l'ackini; eases full of wrapped and cushioned squares tit rouuh I lass ami spectacle frames come into that building daily. And out go specta cles by the hundreds anil thousands, each fitted with the best optical class obtainable. That ejass comes from l'itlsbur, l(o hester ami Corning, N. Y., where sccntists and skilled mechanics have proved that they ean made out of the sands of the western U. S. A. optical Klass better than the Oennaiis ever made. And it's made without nsinir Turkish emery an "indispensable" that has been replaced by a member of the carborundum family. And t'nclc Sam's spectacle factory has two "side lines" Ihe manafae lare of artificial eyes for wounded and the nuikinc of special lenses for ens masks, the latter for the use of men who have trouble in seeing with out piasses ami who iiecrMvarily have to whip off their glasses when a ijas; alarm comes, I SEVEN DAY LEAVES PROMISED YANKS! l'AHIS, Sept. 30. There's n rumor j:oiiif the rounds that seven day haves are to be started for American I soldiers soon. They'be been over here i r-oi! many months with nolhiii; do iiis in the vacation line except after the second ballle of Ihe Manic, when per cent of them were j;iven two days in Paris. Kvenlually, of course, Paris will be right side up anain, but 'she'll never be quite the same. GASOLINE FOR. SALE 6 a. m. tc 6 p. m. Only Beginning October 1st The Pacific Coast director of the oil division of the fuel administration has requested that the sale of gosoline and engine distillate be limited to the hours between 6 a, m. and 6 p. .in. The Standard Oil Company is glad tocomply with this request, and beginning October 1st all of our stations and delivery facilities will serve the public between those hours only. This request is made for the purpose of con serving man power, and we know that our patrons will patriotically co operate with the fuel adminis tration in carrying out this important war measusc. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CALIFORNIA) We will win this war Nothing else really matters until we dot The Flavor Lasts High School Books Wo carry n comploto lino ot nil High School nooks roqulred la the Medford High School. The SKcdL Store ItAM'll WOOOI OICI), Prop. Save the Freight and Help Win the War USE Vito Pitt Flour A HOME PRODUCT It's (!liciipcr it lid liiltcf than must, and thu Equal tif .-niv. Kvt'i-y barrel uf Hour we sell means ;i market for five inure, bushels: of nur farmers' wheal. '1'hey l 1 Ihe money, and feed, and wc need the business. Ve maintain a nay roll, and support Jjwk son cotinfv institutions. Vhat do Portland or Seat tle Mills do Tor Jackson county J Do von appreciate factories here? Then purchase It. Pitt Hour. The Central Points Mills MAKERS OF QUALITY PRODUCTS .i COST OXIi-UAI.ie AS MUCH And wear twice as long as the avorugo l'ubrlc Tire. Guaranteed .1,000 miles. I'l'MTl ltK l'ltoop Our Service Station Is now equipped with tho latest mechanical Tire ('hanger, Up-to-I)ato Vulcanlzlnc Kiiulpinnnt, Curtis Air Free From Oil. Try our Tire Service It's Different. F. R. Roberts 1 32 S. Riverside Painting, Paper Hanging, Decorating and Tinting """Now In tho thno to hnvo your house (minted to Sprototd tho same for t li o wlnl'.T, Wo KiinrunttH) vnry Inch of our york to be first cIiiha; tho mill or! ui wo uno la tho very host. Prhcs Aro Modofjilo. R. J. Miller Decorating Co. I'linni! IMImntr I'rw of (liiirue
