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Jill
PRIZE WINNERS
AI STATE FAIR
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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
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; 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,
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'"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
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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..
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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
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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
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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!
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