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( PYTHIAN PROGRAM Dill fEDT'ORT) MAIL TftTBTT MEDFORD, OftEfiON1, WEDNESDAY, APTJTL 2.1. lfl2S. PAGE TITR EH DISTRICT MEET TO BE PLAYS ET Social Notes and Meetings The southern Oiccon dlBtrli-t convention of the Knights of l'yth lii will open in'MeiUord ut 2:30 Tbursilay ufternoon. Uelenutes will arrive Thurmlay morning. The program will be uh followu: 2:30 p. rn. Opening ceremony. ' 8:00 p. in. Order of buslnena. 8:16 n. m. Tttlk by Oranil Vice Chancellor Stanton Rowell ot Ornnta Vans. S:30 P- ni. Reaillnc of paper by Alpha IoiIro No. 47 of Kusebiiris. 3:45 p. m. Reading of paper by Thermopylae lodge ..No. 6U of Urnnts I'aiw. 4:00 n. m..ReadlnK of paper by Klamath lodge No. 'J9 of Klamath Vn'llH. 4:15 p. m. Rending of paiier by Ashland lodge No.' 117 of Ashland. - 4:30 p. m. Reading of paper by Talisman lodge No. 31 of Medford. 4:45 p. m. Closing ceremony. 6:30 p. in. Dinner. Evening session. . 11:00 p. m. Opening ceremony. 8:10 p. m. Order of business. " :30 p. nr.- Selecting next con vention city. Contost: selecting of Judges; "Friendship" ' by Grants Pass, Roseburg, Klamath Falls, Ashland. Medford: "Monitor" by Grants Push, Roseburg, Klnmuth Kails, Ashland, Medford: "Uth Senator" by Grants Pass. RosrMirg. Klain- ath' Fulls! Ashland, Medford. Till by Grnnd Keeper of Records and (teal Walter G. Oleason of Port land: Judges report on contest; closing ceremony: refreshments. Preparations have been made for a record attendance. E The support of Medim-d's base ball funs U ursently requested ut the preKeann enmc tu bo ulityod jm-xt 8unrty between the Met! ford jMercliHiitN ami the Dunsmuir, t'al., nine at thn county full moumlH diamond. Neither of the two teams will bo in irrfect condition, but the Riuiio la expected to be rlo.se. ' tjyVilmlMHion to the K"", includ ing RtundHlaml privilcui'H, will be Go centM mid till Id ten under 11! yeui-H of tigi will bo admitted free. The memberu of the Medford team have been putting in hard praetfre and, accord I nff to Man nper Court Hall, are all In good physical condition. IIo is of the opinion that next Sunday's battle will indicate Medford'H Htrenxth In Ihe league, inasmuch an Dunsmuir is regarded alonn with Klamath Tails to be the atronge.st nine In cluded. MannKer Hall plans to use four pitchers Sunday, starting off with Michels of Uokuo Jtiver. Harrison of Metlford and two other local hu tiers. In hiKh school baseball, Medford will pluy Ashland next Saturday, according to present plans, which are soniewhnt in the air. The game was to have been played at the fair grounds diamond, but due to the fact that a , Medford grade school-track ;nwet' Ik to be held there, the game, if played, will probably ..take place on the Ash land diamond. QUEEN -PARADLFIAY Friday at 4 o'clock there will be a-parade with the candidates for queen riding , In decorated cars. There will also bo the De Moluy patrol in the parade, and several clowns. Tho carnival will start ut 7:30 Friday cveningi April 27. All tho high school organisations will have concessions at the carni val. The program for the evening will be as follows: At 7:30 the carnival queen will be crowned. Then the carnival will last till 9:30. A free program will be given which consists of tumbling and many other interesting things. This program will lust till 10 o'clock. Then there will be n Jitney dunce till 12 o'clock. . ""'The s'tunding" of'the carnival' ijuecn. contest is as follows: Miss Mohr, a senior, in Ihe lend with 47.900 votes; tho next highest Is ' Miss Orth, n sophomoa'. with 37.200 Votes; Miss Horner, a fresh man,1 is third, with 2.1.700 votes: and last Is Miss llulandcr, u junior with 22,100 votes. l : 1 The ladies are ugaln reminded j of the "W. C T. U. mothers' meet ing at the V. W. C. A. Thursday at 2:30. Mrs. Ada Jolley. state! president of tho V. t. T. L'.,' Willi i be tho speaker of tho afternoon. jalso a reading by Mm. A. Oilll ; Schenck, solo by Mrs. T. 11. Tern-1 tide, and other musical numbers, j Refreshments will be served dur-j I ing the social hour. All women, ; who are interested, are urged to j come, and especially the youus f mothers. i FATE OF KLAMATH jllEBFORD HI TO IMEDTORD WATER INDIAN KILLER IS! BE REPRESENTED PROTECTION BILLS READY FOR JURYj UPSTATE TESTS1 SIGNED AS LAWS The orcliardists with orchards In tho low parts of tho valley had a scare this morning and four of them smudged about sunrise, until dan ger was past. Although the lowest temperature in Medford was M.7. It wn five degrees colder In Ihe low lyliK? orchards, which, at this stage of the development of the buds, cannot stand a temperature lower than 30 without damage. Two of the orchards firing were the Klam ath and Bear Creek orchards. Little, If any. damage was done by the frost In the colder orchards. Floyd Young, the frost expert, predicted a temperature1 of 3'1 last evening, hence the fruit men with orchards lying in the more exposed parts were on 'guard ready to smudge ir necessary . The tempora luro bewail dropping about - mJd-night. By All Means See this Great Picture . Geo. Bancroft In THE SHOWDOWN . 2 DAYS 8TART3 TOMORROW ESTELLE TAYLOR 'The WHIP WOMAN" THK NKW RIALTTO RADIO PROGRAM OF JUNIOR HI SCORES M TODAY A novel radio program was pre sented over the local station last evening during Copco hour featur ing the Harmonica Quartet of the Junior high school under the di rection of Miss -Melba Williams, instructor of music. The progiVim was sponsored by the California Oregon Power company in nn en deavor to stimulate Interest in the Harmonica Bitnd movement which Is becoming nation-wide in scope. Preceding the musical numbers Miss Williams gave un interesting outline of the work ami told of the thousands of American youths who are taking It up throughout the country. Philadelphia leads the United States with 70.00U enrolled and many other clt:es have already organized one or more harmonica bands.'' The Junior high school of Medford ulreudy bus u similar hand under way thanks to the efforts of Miss Williams and it is hoped to present this novel organi zation during n Copco program In the near future. In addition to tho harmonica quartet, solo and duet numbers last evening Mifs Williams sang several attractive groups of so prano solos, being aceompunied by .Miss Alnui Lawrence. Members oT the Junior high school harmonica quartet are the following: Bob Dietrich, Tngley Cham tie. Hob Schi ecungost and Wood row yhnw. - Musician-evangelist Orville lien- ham, and party, who nre now con- ! ducting an old fashioned revival campaign at the Full Gospel Tem- pie. Main and Newtown streets are attracting considerable interest in j the nightly nervices. The visiting revivalist will speak tonight on, "Are There Modern Miracles?" It Is reported that he will Invite the sick for prayer. Rev. Pcnham Is composer of a number of gospel songs and a spe cial feature of the program tonight will be tho rendering of a number ot cartip-moeting choruses with banjo accompaniment. Numbers of people nre In atten dance' from outside points. The meetings nro non-sectarian In character. The V. It. C. will hold a social nt Mrs. S. A. Cornwell's at lti South Orango Friday, April 27. All members and friends are invited. PORTLAND. Ore.. April -.". (iP) With uil testimony taken and but; the final argument of tho govern- ment yet to come the murder1 charge against Orville Davis. Ida- j math Indian on trial in Ked era 1 1 Judge Henn's court is expected to i reach the Jury late today. Davis is charged with having I killed another Indian, Iawrenco I Walker, with a doublo-bltted axe, as the climax of n New Year's I drinking bout that lasted until January 2. After a bitter fight by W. 1. Myurs, defense nttorney, a confes sion made by Davis to o. C. Dewey, special government agent was ad mitted by Judge Hean as evidence. "Would you teach the modern red man that white men do ns tho primitive Indians and torture their victims?" asked Myers as he told of the confession being obtained at 8 n. m. after Davis had been forced to examine the wounds In Walker's head. BAYES TO BATTLE Tho Oak Orovo Parent-Teacher association invites ull members of the Oak Orove community to a inner untl program at tho school house on Friday evening, April 27. Dinnef will be served at 0:30. The meat, potatoes and coffee nre being' furnished by the P. T. A., and those attending arel asked to bring one article of food; Pie, cake,- salad, pickles, and cream have been suggested as con tributions that will be welcomed. Tho program to follow tho din ner will consist of scenes from story books: Mother Goose Grades 1, 2, 3. Alice in Wonderland Grade 5. Tom Sawyer Grade c. Edith's Burglar Grades 4, 6. lively Mary Grades 7. 8. M tisical Hat S h o p ( 1 ra d es 6 , 7 and 8. The Knotty Problem Grade 8. Musical numbers will be sup plied by tho Andrews studio. E U.G. Another business change In thu city took place this week when I. G. Coleman purchased all the Interest of his partner, N. H. Har rison, in tho DeVoe confectionery, lunch and sundries store. Mr. Harrison retires from business be cause of 111 health and because of poor tienlth had not been ublo. since he and Mr. Coleman pur chased the business lust Septem ber , at West Main and North Oukdnle from C. A. DeVoe, to do vote much time und energy to it. Mr. Harris now retires from nil active 1uislnes( with the in tention of devoting the next year to regaining his health and for mer vigor. - "Is There a Modern Christ?" will be tho subject discussed by Evangelist Nelson Morris nt the Salvation Army revival tonight rtt - 8 o'clock. This is a very timely subject, and one of great Interest. The meetings are prov ing a success. There will be special singing and music. The special numbers have been very interesting und inspiring. , , . .A , cordial Invitation is extend ed to all to attend. Come, und bring some oho with you. . Med ford's first boxing smokel to be held for several months, will, be staged at the Hilarity Hall pavilion May 4. according to an announcement made toaay by Sailor Jack Wood. . who yesterdny succeeded In signing contracts with Phil Hayes of Salem -and Pat Padelford of Medford for n 10-round main event, which will be" preceded by a semi-final wrest tling match between Don Nolan of Portland, a husky lsO-poumt grupplcr, and Stanley Kodgera ot this city. Tho Hayes and Padelford match is expected to be a hot battle with Padelford fighting his best to outwit and oulbox Hayes, who recently returned from a tour of Australia, Hayes Is a hard man to handle, and with this In mind, Padelford has begun a vigorous program of training. Hoth fight ers have posted forfeits with the city boxing commission. Padel ford was reinstated by the com mission on the posting of his for feit of $100 after having been dropped when he refused to fight at the Hilarity hall last winter. The Medford high school will have good representation, both nt the amuiiil state hih school mu sical tournament at Cottage Grove Friday ami Saturday and the typing team of the commercial department which will compete Saturday in the sixth annual slate typing contest at Corvallis, held under the auspices of tho school of commerce of lite Oregon State Cniverslty. The delegations bave Friday morning for Cottage Grove and Corvallis. Tho musical. delegation will con sist of tho girls quartet, compris ing Hetty Janes, Ellow Mao Wil son, Lucille Crews and Mildred ljiwrenee, Genevieve Hrown as accompnulst( and tho supervisor of music of tho Medford schools. Miss Esther Church. Miss Wilson will also compete in tho solo con test. Members of both the amateur and novice divisions of tho com mercial department will take part In the contests at CorvalllH. and Mrs. Elizabeth Jerome, head of that department, nnd Glen Smith, head of mathematics, will accom pany them on the trip. J.ouise Wells and William Purdin are In the amateur .division and Vcr Dean Harvey and, Theodora An seth nre In tho novice division. F EDITI The long discussed plans of hav ing an auto road constructed to the top of Roxy Anne, picturesque mountain east of M-edford. re ceived encouragement this fore noon when the county court, at the request of a citizens' committee composed of Mayor O. O. Alender fer, 4J. G. Thomson. A. O. Hubbard nnd Vernon Vawter, authorized tho surveying of the proposed road, which Would permit auto traffic to the top of the mountain. The surveying will probably bo bo gun In n vfry short tlmr-. TSESSI . 0. 0. F. TONIGHT Tho Rcmlannual mooting of the Southern Oregon Odd Follows as sociation will bo held In Metlford this oveninr;, beginning ut 7:3(1 o'clock. The Jurisdiction of this as sociation coiUprlsus Jackson and Josophlno comities, and delegations nre expected to bo present from all lodges in the district. Many matters pertaining to the welfare of Odd Fellowship will be presented and discussed, and plans outlined for. the social meeting to be held next fall. All subordinate members are en ittlod to sit in these sessions and have a voice and vote, and the of ficers hope that there will be a good turnout for tonUht's meeting. Refreshment will follow the busi ness program. A special edition of the Medford 1U-T lines came off the press this afternoon under the heading of 'Medford Hani Times," represent ing the issue as a goof edition. The edition is well illustrated aud Is lar-Tor than the averaRe issue. Kdltorinlly the paper has tho fol lowing to say of itseir: "This is the Good Edition of the Medford Hi-Tlmos. Many of the articles must he tueu with a grain of salt. The most common of salts and perhaps the most eusily pro nounced is NaCl. Thift is a white crystalline substance found In the sea, mines nnd ice cream. This will do for several of the stories hut is too subtle tor some. For them an other chemical compound is recotn memlod; NaOll, This will be bettor suited, for what i'. together better than a falsehood and a lye?" A telegrnm received hero today by the Mail Tribune from Con ctrsMnaii W. C. Hawley conveyed the information the water shed protection bills for Mod ford's water supply, which were paused last week, by the senate and house, hud been signed by tho president and were now laws. These bills reserve land uround the Rig Rutte springs, the source of the city's water supply, for n distance of six miles. One bill provides that all the laud within six miles of the springs be given into the custody of tho forest ser vice, thus ensuring that it will be patrolh'd ami guarded by that ser vice. Tho other bill provides that wheJtf the Owen-Oregon Lumber company has completed Its present logging operations within the six miles enclosure tho company can exchange Its logged off land With in the six miles enclosure for good timber land outside of it. "Whip Woman," Itlnlto. "Cave-woman love," minus the cave, is the dominant note of "The Whip Woman," which comes to the Rialto theater tomorrow, with F.s- telle Taylor, Antonio Moreno nnd Lowell Sherman in tho lending roles. "Tho Whip Woman" Is not an ancient story, however, but a mod ern one, laid In picturesque llun Bnry. Estello Taylor Is a girl or phaned by tho war, a madcap who works her own land, nnd refuses either to marry or tolerate a sweet heart because she has not found the man who Is her ideal. To defend herself from tlte peas ants who would force their atten tions on her sh e ca rr ies n n ox -whip, and Is not slow to use It. And It is through using it on the hero of the picture, played by An? tonlo Moreno, that she comes to love him only to loso him. The crew of workers employed by tho John Hampshire Construc tion company, which has been op--orating on roads In the Kaglo Point district for tho past two months, completed their work yesterday and will leave today for Mt. Rainier, Washington, to fulfill the next large road contract on their schedule. Among the families who have taken up residence In the Eagle Point district while the company operated there, were Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Coons, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cramer and Fred Wallace, all of whom be came well acquainted' In Medford during their slay, and will be miss ed by local merchants and husi iiph pfnpl". : "Circa Hookies" Cuitlilli;. Screendoms f a no u s comedy team, Karl Dane and George K. Arthur, the comedians responsible: for "Rookies" and "Ilaby Mine, arrive at Hunt's Cruterlnn tomnr row In "Circus Rookies," said to ; be one of the most hilarious of the 1 season's comedies. In this film the elongated Dane and the pine edit ion Arthur do their stuff against n circus back ground, Dane as an odd-job man around thn "big top," who essays I his hand at lion taming, ami Ar- Ithur as a loquacious, quli-k-wltteil press iiKi'tit, They run a fit u I ot each otbt'i when tbey: both - tune ! j their h-'arls to u dainty, pretty tra-i pczc artist. Sheep Owners Attention! Wo are In position to pay you more than anybody for wool-mo-halr. See us before you sell. MEDFORD I ARC. A IX IIOCHK. Phono 100:'. 27 N. Grnp-t St. ar,iif Always the Latest It is always the aim of this store to have the latest merchandise in its line. Our buyers are always searching for something new that will be a pleasure and convenience to you. Something New A springtime assortment -of decorated glass ware in frosted colors. Flower bowls, vases, sandwich travs, candlesticks, etc. Each $1.38 Special colored glassware. Flower bowls, vases, cake plates, candlesticks, candy jars, etc. 98c . Read This The new Rosalind pattern of Johnson Bros. Pa reek English dinnerware. A plain pattern with ivory border and gold bound-. - Fol those who do not care for bright decorations. Open stock. 42-Piece Set $13.15 BisselPs Carpet Sweepers make your rugs last longer. In red and green Duco finish. Each $6.50 ' Boyco Galv. Sprinkling Cans ' 4-qt. size ; 85f 6-qt. size ........?i.66 8-qt. size ....:.,...$1.20 10-qt. size ...l....$1.40 12-qt. size $1.60 16-qt size ..'......$1.90 A 1 -quart tin sprinkling, can' foe. house, plants. Each 35 Protect With Polish , Do you know that you can buy the Best Polish for less than most brands'? f Golden Star Protection Polish and Cleaher has stood the test of time. We have been selling it fbrVears and find that it always givcB satis faction. Use it on your finest furniture, auto, floors and woodwork. In fact whercVer you need a polish. . . , , , v 4-oz. bottles ..........25 ; 12-oz. bottles 50 Quart cans $1.00 Vo gal. cans ..,.$1.75 1 gallon cans $3.00 COLDS ' o! head or chest are moro easily ' treated externally with VICKS V VaroRub - OiKr SI Million Jar, Ud Vnrlr The Weather Lowest temperature this morn ing 34. Precipitation for 24 hours end ing 5 n. in., none. Yesterday weather here: HiKh chi temperature, 62; highest tills month since lit! 2. !)6. I-owcst tem pcrature yesterday, 4 ; lowest this month since 1!UJ, 22. Mean turn pern lure yesterday, 62; depar ture for the day. deficiency, 1 de gree. Average daily deficiency for tho month, 2 degree? Prcclpttntlnn: Total rainfall since 1st of month, 1.07 Inches; 15 year average for the month, 1.3G inches. Total rainfall sine Janu ary 1st. 6.i2 inches. Total rainfall since September 1. 14.90 inches. Humidity yesterday, 5 p. m., 71) jur cent; 1J noon, 47 per cent; & p. m., 39 per cent. Character of day, partly cloudy. Hun rsctH today at 7:03 p. m., rises tomorrow1 5:14 a. in., sets to morrow 7:04 p. m. (Kihps and sets computed for level horizon). Forecast for tonight and tomor row: Increasing cloudlnesn tonight and Thursday. Moderate tempera ture. U WALTKR DICK. Meterologlst, t'nlted States Weather Hurenu. t . BIRTHS You Can Feel Safe in recommending' this association to your friends for the invest ment of surplus funds or installment share accounts. This is a local, mutual institution affording an investment that is SAFE, PROFITABLE and AVAILABLE. - " " READY TO HELP those who desire a home, is the object of a building and loan com , . . , . ,pany. When a person starts to save, he soon accumulates suf ficient money to : make the first payment on a home. 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