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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1929)
4 A M"ET)FOTtD MAT!, TTtt'RTTJsT!, fKDFO'RT), OKEfioy, SATFTtDAY, .TTXE 3. IflCO. PAflTC THREE iVcw Light Will Go On Promptly at 8:48 Tonight Em 1 K;lil, whu ha lit'o none of tlm Ii'ailern on the llninovtiiunu mill liKlitln got srxrh tlget from ItH em-Hunt bediming, will push tho liutton, ptomptly nt 8:4! p. m., to nlBht, turning of tho '50 IIkIus of Hie now, modern' street lighting system. .' tJni'inK Die past three years Mr Fe'hl has constructed two buxlnesa ItutiNeH on Went Sixth street, one of whlt'h he oceuples with tho Jtec-oill-lleittlil. The oilier liullillni? Just recently completed, haa four rooniH. three' of : vrlih-h aro uccu pieil ly liUHlneyw firms. . 7: Bliss Heine Co. Sixth Street Firm EUROPEAN BEAUTIES SEEK HONORS AT GALVESTON ISO Tho Bllsa Ifinc Company. Inc.. located- on West Sixth street, waa selected as the of filial decorators for the Shrine and 1. O. O. F. con ventions held in Medford, during which the streets took on u Bay carnival Appearance with tho many IniEht colors. This is tho onlv company of ita kind between Port land and Sacramento, and has strons faith In the future of Sixth street. they have an eloefrlc cut-awl with which they: make novelties, ni b 1 e m s. fancy whfclow Imck-Ki-minds. This ta.tlio only machine uf Its kind in southern Oregon. WILL AID HIOU JINX (Continue from Page One.) ' 411 M wx fje r I MW , v ' " Xssortafeji Press PhoU Europe's beauty C0ntet winner arrived In New York en route to Galveston, Tex., on their quest Tor nterna-tionsl beauty honors. Left right: Ketty Hipp, Miss. Luxemburo; Bennie Dicks, Miss fcngland; R, Velasquez, Miss Spain; Lisle Goldarbeiter, Miss Austria. - , mont of tho Economy Groceteria. Nut only that, but Gates &hd I.vcl-'1 una have belome familiar house hold characters personalities that cannot be divorced from, the his- - iry oi .Mearora s civic and com- Confectionery, Pout Office Barber j morelal development. Shop. S'iiiKcr Sewing Machine com- of ho little importance did1 the pany. Pacific Record -Herald Pub- cify of Medford consider Sixth Hulling company, Federal building 1 street, seven vwirn nm thnt .ih..v Home Telephone and Telegraph were rather inattentive to the demand of tho partners' In the Kconomy Groceteria to install u lamp on that corner of the street. As a consequence. Gates and company. Triangular Service Sta tion. Shuler Apt.s., Colonial Garage, Cargill Court, Post Office Super Service, Pantorlum Cleaning and Dyeing, Elite Beauty Shop, Bite i LydiarU erected their own light nemo ueroruioi. uua renown over the tup of the building, which building. Hotel Holland, Carl Y. ' threw Its glow up the two streets. Tengwald Realty and Insurance jn.st yesterday. Mr. Gates took Agency. down the very .same 500 watt in- UAYtr iAitii ivuivtii rrRvrrr camIaftcent K,ol, he Purchased HAM, I Aim IN SIX III STREET: f.om the IVoile-s KlectHc com. j pany seven years' ago. It Is on .(display In the window of that place (Continued from' Page One.) everything that happened on that of business today, having broken day that I even remember who bought the first loaf of bread from us It was Sirs. E. II. Porter," he said. , Two years later,5 their business had reached such proportions that they needed larger wpaee. The Groceteria partners looked through the (loot way of their small place of business and wished that someone would erect a suitHble building on the vacant ' lot wcross the street " Someone ilid. A'fter'talking wRh the grocery men Fruit Kxports Jump, UK) DK JANEIRO (P) More than 100,000 tons of fruits were exported from Brazil In li)2? The I Ministry of Agriculture found that Porter J. -Neff I from this nort alone 160,000 boxes decided to take a chance on such a I of orangos were sent to Europe, building, and Induing so, the local of these. "0.00 went to England, .attorney tsr expressed his faith 50. 000 toGcrmany and 40,000 to the record for electrical endurance. So when the lights go up on Sixth Street And the band begins to play Main Street will visit Sixth Street And the "Bills" will have theid diiy. In the future of Sixth street. Med ford residents are familiar with the success an c in irpie d e vol o 0'- Holland. Classified ndvertislng gets results: FATHERS DAY IS- hrtlon not n law. Not until lfl'-'2, and without tho aid of legislation, was the first- successful attempt matlc to observe the day national ly on a given date, the third sun day , In' Jun. Mrs. Dodd's original idea of wearing a red rose for living 's t fathers and a white rose for those who have passed on, will be car- 1 lathers seventh a n n I versnry ried out as Is the long establish occurs Sundflv. .funn ifith In the ed custom, next Sunday. Th'o cus r-n.i c., .,.t r---.i fui., torn has grown almost universal ante to bo kept with dad always ! p,';se"t l,,,' a PcM falls on tho third Sunday In June. "" '' f fo Hub such ..a a Within the past few years ' f or other ulniplo Bift, in a lo popularlty has become so wide- i ins ""'' spread that millions 'annually ol- ',x r-ray mnr.y a p'.l!p:t will serve it In his honor. I hold forth on father and his vlr- Yet this movement besan less I t"es. so often taken as a matter than a generation ago. its object j of clurse. Kuloplcs In his praise being to let father know that he j will "ko on tho air" to millions was something more to his fnm-1 t rndl listeners. Other deninn ily than merely lis provider, shock i stratlons in his honor will bo glv absorber and complaint bureau. p" organlrntlona, societies vnr In 1110, Mrs. John B. Dodd ofjious institutions such as county Spokane, Washington, suggested ! homes and homes for the ngon. assigning a yearly date on which ! A. 11., Spanish-American Mar to cast spells. I asked her is she ' could cast a spell on them so ; (hat tluiso who read would like i l be m. 1 suppose- she did and : mnylM Ibe spell os working still." J Mrs. Pelerkln and another Curu-r linlan. Dul'iose Heyward. aie cred-S it ed wit h writing the mosL intel-1 ligent literature of tbu southern 1 negroes. A n d as Heywood's "Purgy" captured the Pulitzer award as a play hist y ar. so , "SearU't Sister Mary" carries on the tradition this year. j PAYS FOR ITSELF to sing the praises of the world's champion "unsung hero" dad. U was taken up by allied and other organizations in other cities. Is being generally observed. In 11)14 Congress endorsed a na tional Father's Day resolution. But by 11H7 most of the nation's fathers were ;doing their bit" either nt home or "over there." Theso grim, sortowful times call ed a halt on the natural expan sion of Father's Day. After the World war another Congressional and Amcrlean Legion Posts. But the uiio grout spot where tho limelight of loving homage should shine brightest, is tho place in which Father's Day has its most ideal setting HOME. 4 . Kxnmincft Gulf Stream Power. v HAVANA iP) Georges Claude, sent by the French government to inv4?setigato the possibility of utiliz ing power in the currents of the Gulf Stream as a possible source of lectrical energy, has resumed resolution was introduced In 1929.1 his research nfter a two months' Hut rf resolution -is only a reso- vaention In Franco. FOItTE MOTTR. S. C (A1) Ko-j cuiiip a by grew up and went off, to school, his mother turned to ! writing as a means of passing the I lomly hours. I And because this mother lived; on a Carolina plantation where life is placid and strangers arej few, .-he wrote of what she saw, nod specfoully, she wrote of the nemnes she sai. Mrs. Julia Fetcrktn possibly would never have wriitcn had ho j not felt the need to do wmf- j thing with tho timo suddenly ntv-' en a mothers whose child no lotiff er needed her care'. She tried music, but her heart was not in music. Tho suggestion that sho write came from her t curlier, Henry Uelluman of Columbia, a ! And out of that suggestion etime 'Green Thursday" and "Rlack April" and. finally. "Scarlet Uls ter Mary" which won tho rullv-; zer prize. ! All are tales of tho same Ken const plantation, of tho ncgroeH wbo live as they lived since slav cry days. "Ulaek April" his his counterpart and the magdaleno , who Bove her favors but kept her j heart, lives an surely ns Mrs. l'o- teriiin made her live in nor prize novel. I Mrs. I'eterkln started to write because the placid existence in this little townsh was nvt enough to keep nllvo her Internet interest in the world outside her, door. Music failed and, because she was disappointed with her progress, she tried to divert her! teacher's attention by telling him; incidests of her plantation life. He urged her to write them. 1 "1 told him I couldn't write a1 dN-ent letter," Mrs. I'eterkln says. "He Insisted and r tried several sketches. Then Carl Ssndburg' came lo Charleston on a visit and Mr. lteliaman brought him up to Forte Motte." j Tbero was the turning point. Sandburg was enthusiastic and the southern woman was won; over. ' I "I asked them for tho severest1 critic in America and they told me of Henry Mencken. I sent : him my sketches and ho wroto that ho liked them." Theso sketches appeared and : then canio her first book. "Green; Thursday" and , in measure "Jilaek April," were well rounded sketches, but sketches none the less. "Scarlet Sister Mary" was a novel, breathing tho aroma of damp' soil and scorching cotton fields, of love and1 laughter and a code of morals which aro pe-, culinrly negroid. j "Ileforo 1 sent the first sketch-; os away." Mrs. Peterkin confesses laughingly, "I called In an old ne-i gress who Is supposed to be nble' .JH'HUN' i&t The l,rlsh Free State parliament, in its seven years existence, has passed lis:; laws. A guide for them has just been complh'd by Mr. Justice r-fnunuh of tho High Court. ! ANGKLF.p, Four years ago Arrigo Jtothonl crashed In his plane. Ho offered to sell tho wreckago for half of what tho plane hail cost him. As no buyers appeared, he de cided to Junk il himself, and when I he lust guy wire had been scdil he found himself with more money than he had originally in vested. "Thic." he said, "is a good 1 nickel." ! Today Molbnnl lias what Is be lieved to bo the first airplano Junk yard in the United States. Ho buys damaged planes from disgusted owners who have crashed, and ru sells them, either whole or in part. Planes- that are too badly wrecked to bo repaired are sold piecemeal, and those, that ci-.n be fixed are repaired, tested and re sold. Ilolbonl makes tho tests himself at u local nlrport. OUIiEANS, Franco (jP) Cole bratlon of the DOOth anniversary of Joan of Arc was seized upon by the Boy Scouts of France to make a big demonstration here. They gathered from all sections of tin country, 4.000 strong; and lived in tioo tents furnished by tho ministry of war. Alw&ys" This Seems to Be the Motto of Our City. 1 ' Tlio new li,nlitiiiR' sysfa'in on Sixth street typifies the spirit of progress that prevails in Medford. And tho Home, Telephone and Telegraph ('(nnpany joins in hearty congratulations upon the completion of this latest improvement. AVe are happy to have had a part in this moA'C toward a more beautiful and up-to-date Medford. if dk Look for the Public Telephone Sign 9 THE HOME TELEPHONE ANT TELEGRAPH COMPANY- ? A Pleasure Indeed to Co-operate in Progress It, is ii pli'iisui'l; to liave linen nl)l to cooperate with tlie city of M I'd ford in the in stallation of the new light ing standards now being put into use on Sixth Street. Let us join in congratulating you on the completion o this project. When the lights are turned on, Medford add an other important .thorouglu fare to those already in use. It is indeed mint her step for ward in growth, conveni ence and safedy. In the, purchase of General Kle'ctrie tops mid Union Jfct id standards Medford has chosen wisely, it has obtain ed the best quality and work manship obtainable. It has fallen in line with mctropoli taiv centers of America where problems of lighting are even more aeule. Cleve land, Ohio, for instance, has recently installed 1SKK) light standards that are identical to those used on Sixth, Street. The Pacific States Electric Co. Portland, Oregon ' The Banks of Medford EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS to the business men and property owners of Sixth Street as the new Lighting System is formally put into operation thi3 evening. ' . Our felicitations in particular because the investment repre-' senting $12,000 is exclusively assumed by ' the progressive SIXTH STREET interests. This latest achievement to the benefits, and for civic promo tion of Medford is of the highest merit and affords an exem plary inspiration. ; ' V ' ' -, 11., Let everybody participate in the celebra tion program tonight. Obey the impulse to voice appreciation for this splendid achievement that has happened to the de light of all. 1 , ' ' FARMERS & FRUITGROWERS BANK MEDFORD NATIONAL BANK FIRST NATIONAL BANK JACKSON COUNTY BANK A
