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PXGE F0URTEE1T ' IIEDFOED MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, 'OREGON, 'WEDNESDT, OCTOBER 21, 1931 E SIGN AGREEMENT City Council to Consider Lease Giving Protection Roxy Ann Park May Become State Project At one of the shortest meetings held by the city council In recent years, that municipal body last sight wrestled for a few minute over granting permission for the City Cleaning and Dye Works to erect an electric sign across the street on South Riverside, voting 4 to 4 on tho proposition. Then, although he favored the petition, Mayor E. M. Wilson, Instead of breaking the tie with hi vote, showed diplomacy, pleasing both aide by instructing City Attorney T. P. Parrell to prepare a lease agreement for the placing of such a sign on which the council will vote at It next meeting. This agreement will contain all the ; things those opposed to the erection of signs want for the pro tectlon of the city. Councilman Grey, especially, I opposed to grant ing permission for any sign to be placed across any street, and favors that policy which has been pursued by councils of recent years. To By Park Site-. Or. h. D. Inskeep, city health of ficer, Informed the council that he had' received letter from 8. H. Boardman, stats highway engineer on the matter of atato parks, re garding Inskeep' offer to the atat highway commission for the atat to tak over the proposed Roxy Ann park as a state park. The commis sion ha Instructed hlra to make an Investigation of the site and report back to the commission, and he will be In the city for that purpose In the not distant future. Dr, Inskeep was one of the original booster for the Roxy Ann park. ' The council voted the contract for paving the alley across from the city call building, lying between Hortn Central avenue and North Front treet, and extending betweon 6th and 0th streets, to Bulllvan & Melnes, lowest of the three bidder, for 748J0. The work will be begun Inside of 10 days to be completed before the fall rains set In. The other two bids were those of the Medford Concrete and Construction company at 97080 and R. I. Stuart e Son at S700 0B. The three bid ders were all Medford concern. . Renew Ktohfteld Lease. 1 It was voted to renew the lease of the Richfield OH company, at the airport for another year, on terms of one cent a gallon for go and B cent per gallon for oil, the mini mum compensation to the city for a month to be $10. The other oil company lease at the airport had been renewed from time to time on the same condition at recent coun cil meetings. The council adopted an amend ment to the city electrical cods, which bring that code up to date by authorising the olty electrical department to shut off electricity from building not complying with the city's ordinance on standard wiring and where there wa danger to life and property. The much-wanted amendment by Jhe " Dairymen's association to the city milk ordinance, which was turned down at a previous meeting by the council, wa not discussed, a no representative of the associa tion were present to ask the council to reconsider It aotlon. Mail Tribune Daily Cross-Word Puzzle INSPECTION DEPOT lfm comet from Orwcant City that construction ot ths new quar antine itntion near Siskiyou camp ground on tha Redwood highway be tween Crescent City and Grant Paaa la going ahead rapidly and It will only be a matter of a tew weeka until the new station la In use. The state U spending several thousand dollars on tha new inspec tion station, which la situated on tha highway Just opposite Siskiyou camp. In addition to the Inspection sheda there will be a main building fitted with rBt rooms and other conven tenocs lor the accommodation of motorists from out of state, who are required to stop and have their lug gage Inspected. ACROSS L Italian city f. 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" il H 1 I iH I 1 1 BH 1"- Newbury Recalls Days Of Flour Sack B.V.D's. Coat rellned and remodeled at the Fashion Shop, 424 Mrdford Bid. Tel. 1181. There were no gay pink and green rayon then, "Back In tile Good Old Days." And they didn't call thorn lingerie. The undies -were made from "A. A. Davis' Best." But many old tim et remember the cloth a It gleamed from teeter-totter and rail fence, In the "0's when "times were hard." Some mothers had time to boll the letters out of the sacks, but the ma jority left them In and everyone knew that A. A. Davis' flour mill was supplying southern Oregon with un derwear. Kayser and Van Haalte didn't have a chance. Times were really hard then," Qua Newbury, local attorney, who wa Jui a oountry boy at Phoenix during the panic, declared yesterday. "I have a Tlvtd reoollectton of the three years from "88 to "SO, The prevail ing wage In the harvest fields wa 76 oenU during threshing time. We got Sl.flO a day for feeding the ma chine and we worked 10 hours a day. We got up no later than 4:00 a. m. and kept going until the sun went rtown behind the hill. The men on the threshing machine started at sun up and worked until dark. You oould meet Rufus Cox on the road any time of night looking after hi thrashing machines. "We didn't est strawberries for breakfast either. They were almost unknown. Grapefruit oouldn't be had and oranges were in the markets about onoe a year. Farmers' had ohlcken dinners twice a year and laborer none at all. 'Oak wood, epllt for oook stoves, s sold for SUB tier, delivered In Medford. And the roads over whloh It was delivered were hub deep In mud from November 1- to April 1. Those were the good old days," At torney Newbury added, "I know a lot of other good things, too. "J. B. Stewart raised wheat and sold It to the mill at Ashland, de livered for 90 cent a bushel. He made two wagon trip a day, starting, on the first one at 4:00 o'clock In the morning. "You could buy the finest beef In the oountry for one and a half and two and a half cents a pound. Farm era killed their own hogs, made their own lard, sold the surplus hogs to Bill Ulrlch, who ran the southern Oregon pork packing establishment. The prloe wa one and a half to t&roe cents per pound. Chicken ad for 3S cents a piece, but nobody tvA the 35 cent. Thanksgiving turkeys brought 76 cent. The farmrrs cer.ie to town In their overall arV. uo oft ener than they had to. "Subscriptions to the Medford Mall (parent on the mother's side to the Mall Tribune) were paid to A. S. Bllton In tier wood at 11.36 per. "Pur coats wore never seen and 11 a young lady appoared In a top coat, coating more than eight dollars, well .he wa pointed out as a paragon of great extravagance." S DALEY GIVES JOLLY PARTY FOR CRATE'S BIRTHDAY Tha seven tJi anniversary of ttie Cratcrlsn theater was celebrated yes terday morning at a unique birth day party for which Miss Venlta Daley was hoe teas. Guests arrived at 9 30 o'clock. Attractive Hallowe'en stag settings, arranged by Wm Prouty and Leo Ryan, added much to the colorf ulneea of tha party. The black cat drop curtain was used and the table for refreshments decorated In Hallowe'en novelties by Miss Daley, Miss Wilson and Mlaa Boberson. The program began with a mock theater opening. -The theater em ployees presented some jolly bur lesques and the following numbers were then given: Musical selections appropriate for October on the Vltaphone. A brief history of the Craterlan theater by Venlta Daley. Piano solo by Jean VanDyke. Violin solo by Geraldlne Thompson, accompanied at the piano by Mar garet Chlldera. Pipe organ selections by Jean VanDyke, former pupil of Betty Brown, the first Craterlan organist. A reading, "To Autumn." A delightful luncheon. Including a huge birthday cake, was served fol lowing the program. Those present were: Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Prouty, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Cash, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Don Cun- nlngton, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Ryan, Mrs. Ted Bough, Mrs. Lemore McBee, Tom Olnn and the Misses Dorothy Stead, Rura Bouasom, Margaret Chlldera, Elizabeth Mailing, Margaret Melllng, Lucille Garrett, Laura Marie Rober- son, Dorothea Wilson, Geraldlne Thompson, Althabel Wilson, Jean Van. Dyke and Venlta Daley. 1 T, P,T. A. PLANS IN READINESS PHOENIX, Ore., Oct. 31 (Spl.) Ladles' Aid society of the Presby terian church here have plans corn plated for the annual harvest sup per to be held on Friday of this week at the church. Mrs. L. O. Caster la chairman of the kitchen committee, with the following on various committees t Mrs. Lillian Coleman, Mrs. Edmona Anderson, Mrs. John Roberts, Mrs, Dave Walker, Mrs. Henry W. Frame, Mrs. J. B. Webster, Mrs. H. H. Boyer, chair man of dining room committee. ACCURACY Ml encompasses IfeUlobe In appearance), tho distinc tion of Tavonne, Watches Is everywhere acclaimed... In performance, their un failing accuracy hat won world-wide leadership for forty Venn. Exclusive Agent in Medford for TAVANNE3 Watobei Only Schilling specializes in fine coffee. It would be sucK a sim ple matter for Schilling to produce both good coffee and cheap coffee. Everyone else does it. So did Schilling at one time. But Schilling learned that cheapness is contagious. There are many good coffees all made in company with bad coffees. But Schil ling good coffee has no companions. The finest things usually come from those who make good things only. Some times the difference is not great but it's there just the same. Schilling coffee Wlngt of lh Morning Invitation are out for the Talent Parent-Teach eta meeting tomorrow evening In the Talent sign school at 7:30,. at which time a program ot muslo and short talk will be given. Program for the evening will In clude community singing, led by Matt Thompson of the .Ashland Y. U. C. Ka. reading, "A Obost Story." by Mary Jean Barnes; abort talk, "How Parents May Co-operate With School Authorities in a School Im provement Progrm,M Mr. Low. Mia Hoy Young wUl play two violin numbers, "Largo," from the New World Symphony (Dvorak), and variation from "When You and 1 Were Young, Maggie." "How the School Guides the Child." will be th. subject of s talk by Prof. Bow- "Duna" (McOtU) and "You Bet ter Ask Me" (O'Hara), are th title of two vocal solos to be sung by Mia Dorothy Baughman. The dis cussion "Row Parent May Help the School," will be led by Mr. Prink. Juuuiipattnu Bell Brims Lend Grace to New Matron's Felts and prove large head sizes are no bar to youthful chic I $500 Adroit curves brims often doubled or tripled --latest trimmings every new Paris idea is skillfully adapted in these fashionable fur felts. 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Thl S5.00 Pen and Pencil Set la given to you FREE. You really pay only for the New Lifetime Chromium Pen Point. It I guar anteed never to tarnish, rust or corrode. A factory lifetime guarantee with each set. If you can't come on this day and hour, send someone to our store with coupon before sale, leave 99o and your set will be laid aside. Positively none sold at this price after 5 p. m., Friday, October 33. Limit of 3 et to each customer. All the latest mottled pearl effect French onyx, black and white, and mottled green. Also midget set for golf and bridge Mm. price. IDEAL FOR SCHOOL This Store Only Heath's Drug Store Phone SM Medford, Ore. 0E30 Funeral Home Distinctive Service at ModeraU Bates Established 30 Yean 5 Ambulance Service' q Blxth" St at Oakdala Telaphone it jj DRESS SALE THURSDAY Sensational Offering of Over 200 Fall and Winter Dresses at Anniversary Sale Prices 50 new winter Silk Frocks of a 9 1 lovely Quality and every one a vrvl marvelous value at.., '50 wonderful New Dresses of Afvoi light weight woolens and fine tMl silks Special 50 lovely new Silk and Wool 4. 9 1 Dresses. Every size and all v I I the approved styles 1 A large group of sample w Af Winter Dresses in all the new P I ZL I shades and styles 1 1 v SECOND FLOOR A Special Showing and Sale of The Famous Ko 1 1 i n s kvi In the Season's Smartest New Colors and Styles A timely offering of new colors and fashion features in Rollins Eunstop Hosiery, famous for its wearing service. An occasion enabling yon to complete the color harmony of new ensembles with the smartest shades in full-fashioned hosiery. This is a thrift event which you cannot afford to overlook . . . The popular grenadine twist panel heel cradle sole lace top and in addition to these style features, the economy of Rollins Bunstop positively stops garter runs at the hem. Fashion's Newest Shades Blsck. Oak Rose. Ren d e a v o u s, Mayf air, Mauve Beige, Oun metal. Inky Black. SUverwlng.' Blush. Beige Claire. Sandee. Nubrown, Tendresse. Ivory, Plage, White Jade. Manon, Light Ounmetal, Tan Blush, and Duskee. PRICES On Pure Silk Hose This Week 89c Pt. $ 1 .2 1 pr. $1.65 pr. MAIN FLOOR 01
