'rEDFOftP MSIIi TRIBUNE, ftrEDFQRD, QTCEOOy. SUNDAY. 'AUGUST 3. 10:50.
PXGE THREE
Razing of Beall Mansion Built in 1 872 . ,
Recalls Pioneer Days in Rogue Valley
Scene of School and Social Gatherings
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Sunp, tains aid snows -.failed to
wpather its hod I'd s of sugar pint?
as season after season resigned to
Rive nlnee to nnuther, completing
the cycle of each new yenr dating
down from 1872. March winds
that blew through the sturdy
maples and walnuts, lashing their
branches across the . high roof,
preparing it. for the coming tatoo
of . April rains, left few scars on
the old Beall house, constructed
HS years ago as home of Thomas
Fletcher and Anne Beall, former
pioneers of Jackson county.
Today the stately old house of
southern colonial design surrend
ers to human hands. Rafters and
beams that knew the echoes of
pioneer children's voices, the clat
ter of hordes hoof 3 hurrying down
Ileall Iane,; tho- road that leads
by the house through one of the
richest farming -areas of southern
Oregon, are yielding to the ham
mers and hatchets of wreckers.
Modern Home To Kiso
They are tearing down, the old
Beall house in order that John
C Thorson, who recently purchas
ed the farm from Ashury Beall
of the AVest Ride district, son of
Thomas Fletcher and Anne, ' may
replace it with u modern bunga
low. Th e ra f t ers and ben m s will
learn new echoes. They will be
utilized in the construction of the
bungalow. For while styles in
architecture, dress and travel have
changed and its ownersdied, the
sugar pine lumber has retained
its youth. Today the timbers,
scattered about the grounds where
lilacs bloomed before long white
columns in spring time, are bet
ter than those used in most pres
ent day houses, according to car
pent ers w h o a re w rec king the
structure.
Motorusts who in future drive
thru the lane which lies between
highways, will miss the friendly
lights that used to twinkle tit
travelers through old fashioned
window panes. But to pioneers
nf southern Oregon, who attend
ed the first winter school ever
held in the region of Central
I'oitit, and what is now Med ford,
conducted In the "east room," the
old Beall house will always he
standing, protected by maples and
walnuts. For the memories, of
which it is the foundation, will
never surrender to wreckers,
rioneor School
Prof. J. X. Hall, father of Court
Hall of this city and brother of
the former Mrs. Anne Beall,
taught the school before the "east
room" fireplace, one of the three
that warmed the eight room
house.
J lis son Court, the Deal Is, the
Merrimans and Plymales attended
the classes and were later re
warded for flights In mental arith
metic, when the house was thrown
open for dancing parties and "Old
Man" Beery, father of Wilkes
Beery tunerl up his fiddle.
The children who went to the
school were: Bell Merriman (Mrs.
Fronk of Portland), Kffie Merri
man (Mrs. Mill of Seattle), t'assie
Plymale (Mrs. John Curry of San
Francisco), Tyson, Lee. Tom find
Clara Beall, children of Mi', and
Mrs. Thos. Fletcher Beiill and
Mamie Beall (Mrs. ("has. Strang
of Medford), daughter of Mr. and
.Mrs. R. V. Beall, whose house,
constructed on the adjoining farm
in lS05i is still standing and own
ed by their son. Vinton Beall.
Jlcniciiihcrs Teacher
Mrs. Kd Stroh meier of Central
Point (Lulu Ben tl), the youngest
of (Ire eight chilldren, was not ad
mitted to the classes In the "east
room," for educational purposes,
she staled a few days ago when
reminiscing, but frequently saunt
ered up the long winding stair
way to bring down the fire shovel.
The school and the school master
in particular stood out clearly in
her memory because on one of
these occasions he gave her sev
eral energetic raps on the legs as
she loitered from step to utep cry
ing out in sing-song fashion,
"Bring me the shobel, bring me
the shobel."
Court Hall's cousins, who lived
at Myrtle Creek and came down
to attend summer school at Cen
tral Point each year, did not par
ticipate In the spelling and arith
metic matches in the "east room"
but were frequent Visitors at 'the
Beall house and ' enjoyed sliding
down the long polished- banister
of the stairway. . which led into
the downstairs hall.
Death A Visitor
Kven as people with character,
the old house has known sorrow.
Death visited it almost frequently,
taking from the family Uire- chil
dren, Carrie, Tom and Hen Beall.
The three deaths me compensated
in its record by three births. Ty
son, J..ce and Lulu Beall were
born t here.
The house was not completed
when Tom was born at the It. V.
Beall home, due to the fact that
his father was filled to llancheree,
wieh was then owned by Mr.
Beall and his hi her. Work was
discontinued for a while and Tom,
who was exacted to be the first
son born in the big white house,
arrived M the home of his aunt
and uncle. Hjbroihers and sis
ters, who are still living are: As
hury Beall of Medford, .Mrs. I. M.
lwis of Reno, .; Leo Beall
of ITkeview. Ore.; Tyson Beall of
Willow Crgk. Calif., and Mrs. Kd
Btrohmeier of Central Point.
1 bers of this swarm are so scatter.;
ct around the orbit that we run,
1 through great numbers of them
yearly, from the middle of July (
to the middle of August. The
greatest display is to bo seen
about August 11.
Each shower of meteors Is nam
ed from the location of the ra
diant point among the constella
tion". Thus the Perseids seem to
j diverge from a point in the con
stellation Perseus. This constella
tion Is located in the Milky Way.
It has the appearnnce of a great
arrow which points upward tow
ard the familiar Chair of Sassi
opela and may be seen rising in
the northeast beford midnight on
the first of August.
A Small Boy's Dream
The home constructed tit 3H72 by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fletcher
Beall, now rtecciiswl, pioneers of southern Oregon, will give way to
11 modern dwelling. The Beall ranch and house now belong to
ilohu C. Thorson, who will build a bungalow to replace the old
colonial house, sold to him by Asbury Hcall, sou and heir of the
original owners. In the photograph arc Mrs. Anne Ben 1 1 (left)
and her sister, Mrs. Maria Purkeypile.
were all that Mrs. Strohmeier,
little sister, saw of the parties,
she remembers them as gala
events.
Recall Gala Events
Mr. Chapman is now a capital
ist in Red -X.odge but remembers
with Mrs. Strang the sheet and
pillow case masquerade, with the
rot esq u e sh a d o ws cast I ' t h e
weird costumes on the hearths
while flames roared up the chim
neys built by. Mr. Priddy. father
of Ceorge Priddy,,- who also did
the plastering it. the' house.
Rides on spirited horses down
tin lane and across the fields are
also recalled with happy days by
Mrs. Strang. The horses are not
so vivid in the mind of Court Hall
I as the famous old Jack, who ruled
; the barn lot at the Beall ranch
laud left the imprint of his teeth
in several chunks of flesh. , Ho
lists among the moments of great
est suspense in his life the - few
seconds ho lay limp in the Jack's
stall one afternoon after falling
through the hay loft, whore he
had been gathering eggs. The
ji!;k for the first time equally
frightened, did not show his long
teeth at Court or give out his
terrifying bray. On another day,
however, when he was watering
the domineering beast, belonging
to his uncle, he was knocked down
and was staring into a mouth full
of ugly teeth, which were ap
The "visit" in the valley of John
Chapman of Red Lodge Mont., a
cousin of the Bealls, and hand
some beau bromine, was always
the inspiration for1 a- big -party,
M is. Strang and M rs. Kd Stroh
meier say. The latch string of the
Beall house was out to friends
from all sections of southern Ore
gon and though the nails that fas
tened the extra candle holders on
the walls to light the big house
preaching his throat, when the
shimming of the house door caus
ed the jack to bolt nnd run.
More pleasant events at the
Beall home in Court Hall's mem
ories are the mental arithmetic
contests inspired by his father at
winter classes and the big dance
given 4 4 yeai"s ago in celebration
of his birthday.
Storehouse of Memories
Reasoned with these memories
the house has endured. Each of
the eight rooms, contributing
something of romance to the lives
of southern Oregon's early set
tlers and their descendants. The
"dark room" upstairs, which was
lighted only by a. transom, the
spacious pantry downstairs, with
a cooky Jar, always filled, the
"east room" facing snow-capped
Pitt, . the two big rooms down
stairs with.fireplaces voicing hos
pitality through crackling logs,
withstood all trials but the in
sistent and destructive tools of the
j wreckers.
The shingles, hand shaved by
I Joe (leppert in the early HO's to
I replace those made by Dave Dun
: laji when the house was built, fall
: to the ground to exhibit firm tex
1 tures, through which the most am-
bilious rains have not penetrated.
I The beams ami rafters, dove
tailed in the manner of those in
; King Solomon's temple, along
fwith the hand dressed lumber still
bear the penciled lines drawn by
thorough carpenters of the " past
century.
They will soon resign themselves
to the markings of the modern
carpenter's pencil, even as they
ha ve f a I Ion before th e wreckers.
I They will be sawed and planed
land nailed into a "modern bunga
j low," where there will be no cor
ner plaques beneath the roof read
I ing. J872.
Id the Skies in August
Increased power and Improved .
performance of all Chrysler "7 0" ,
models has been effected with thej
announcement by the Chrysler I
Sales corporation that the A3- j
horsepower engine used In the
"77" models is now offered fs ;
standard equipment In nil cars of,
the "70" series. Th chango to I
the larger engine' has Uven made
at no increase In retail prices, nnd
provides the motorist in the mod-
-erate price field with mechanical
equipment heretofore associated
only with cars of higher price.
Models available in the "70" ser-j
les include the oyal sedan, brough- j
am. Royal coupe, business coupe,'
convertible coupe, nnd roadster. 1
The power plant pf the ''70"
models now has a bore of 3 3-S
Inches, a stroke of five Inches and
a displacement of 26S.4 cubic!
inches. Compression ratio Is 5 to:
1. Seven bearings, having a total!
area of 76 square inches, support!
the counterweighted crankshaft,
Down-draft carburet ion ami the
four-speed transmission with multi
range gearshift continue as out
standing features f all "70"
models. Improved manifolding,
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w it h the d o w n - d ra f t sy s t e m X o
insure maximum performance un
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With the four-speed transmls-
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j Some 10,000 petitions have reach-
ed King CaroHsihed lid seized 'the
throti but "a'hbfe ,,fr'6m' tfift "ptil
ace states that he Intends to give
all of them personal attention.
I Perpetuation or the weird uui
j hih ' melodies, chanted and sung
by slaves of their ancestors in thu
I object of a Charleston, S. C, so-
eiiay recently lormea.
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ish dominations which hitherto
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ISTAMICU (d1) U. Talbot ltlce.
Itritlsh archaeologist, rece nt ly
hnnmht to Ihtht another of Istan
bul's buried treasures, ruins of a
hitherto u 11 I; n u w u ttyantine
church in the Vlanga Ilostnn
quarter. The work was financed
by Rudolph Messel of Drewstegn
ton, Devon, l-hiKland.
Italy Is celehratlnn the fiftieth
anniversary of the St. Ootthai'd
tunnel, nine and a fifth miles
Ions.
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a committee seventy-five thous
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" niHAXA, 111. f1) Meteors or
shoot Inc stars always appear in
more than usual numbers during!
August. This annual display of;
Iireids or August meteors never
is spectacular, but if the evening j
sky Is watched for n few mlnutt's
one or several are likely to be !
seen,
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Meteors are fragments of stone j
or metal, on the average no larger j
than the head of a pin. They are i
movljig in vast numbers through :
interplanetary space. In the neigh-:
borhood of the earth their speeds'
are as much as 26 miles a second, i
Ordinarily cold and dark and ;
therefore invisible, meteors come ,
suddenly into view whenever they
encounter the earth's atmosphere,
for resistance of the air to their j
swift flight heats them to incan-t
descence and quirk ly consumes
them, causing the luminous streak j
that we call shooting stars. , f
Many meteors travel in great!
swarms around the sun in clon- j
gated orbits like those of comets, j
If the orbit of the swarm crosses'
the earth's -orbit and if the earth'
nnd pwnrm arrive at thf point of
intersect Ion at the same time, a
shower of meteors results,
The orbit of the I'erselds or All
gust meteors cross that part of the
earth's orbit that we traverse In
.Inly and August, and the mem-
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