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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.
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Bliss Heine Co.
Sixth Street Firm
EUROPEAN BEAUTIES SEEK HONORS AT GALVESTON
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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 ' ' -,
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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
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