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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1934)
PAGE TWO lEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1934. Recently the widow of i firmer, trlrlng to keep tfee farm going, had tome difficulty with her hens, and wrote the following letter to County Agent Bob Fowler: "Something U wrong with my chicken. Every morning when I come out I find two or three lying on the ground, cold and stiff, with their feet In the air. Can you tell me whit Is the matter?' After a little while she received the following letter from the de partment: "Dear Madam: Tour chickens are dead." ' Bill B. says rt takes a woman longer to dress thsn a msn because she has to slow down for the curves- One of our Central Point com rades ate a big mess of garllo the other day In an unsuocesaful tempt to prevent the flu. Now he has flu, Indigestion and halitosis Prank "We're going to give the bride a shower.' Oeorge: "Count me In. ZH bring the soap." The hired man rises to remark that he ain't got much use for a woman that cuts a "punkln" pie Into six pieces. Christmas Suggestions... Coats fo' All wcaslons Lovely Frocka Formal Dinner Dresses with Wraps Ski and Outing Togs Costume Jewelry Underthings and Accessories Style Without Extravagance Locals & Personals Corn Cobs and Everything Else for the Smoker 8o1v the jlft problem for "Illm" with Tobacco, Cigarettes or Clgara MAGAZINES CONFECTIONS Shirley's 807 B. Main. Phone SOB IMIIttlMltllMMIIIIIHIIIIIMMIItllllllMMIIIIIIIIIIIIMIMIIMIIIIIIIMIIIIMIIItlllllllMHIl IIIMMMMMIIHMIIItlll WHAT IS IT? The Electric Hand! WATCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT EAKIN MOTOR CO. HUDSON - TERRAPLANE DEALER WUlle Walt, our genial band leader la starting a movement for a new Legion drum and bugle corps, our present one Is becoming a bit fray ed about the edgea as they haven't had new unles for ten years. Oood luck. Willlel Chief of Police Clatous McCredle says something had got to be done about the way animals are wan dering loose In the atreets. To strangers coming to town It gives an ornery Impression, says the chief, to see cows sauntering sround "Rosey's' depot and to find sleep grazing in "Art" Banwell's office grounds. Medford Is not yet a ham- let and we don't want to look like one. The crownln' lglntmlty was last Saturday when four of Wig Ash' pole's bald face steers wandered from one end of Central ave to t'other. It could be no worse. Let us have pride enough to keep our animals where they belong. Cider making la on the Increase this winter. Come again Comrade Wend.;, say we. The horse trough for watering at Hubbard Brothers has been given a thorough cleaning. Nice work Rol and. This shows the proper civic uplrrut. Comrade Ernest Winkle has been named chairman of a croshay tour nament to be held by the Elks club In the near future! Ernest Is busy thinking up rules for Bill Gates to break. Orchards In this neighborhood produced fine, and full callers Is the rule among the hsppy horti culturists, hey Ted Fish? Swede Anderson, one of our gen ial firemen, got bis arm burned in the recent box factory holocaust and upon returning to the fire hall told Chief Elliott the liniment he applied made his arm smart. "You better put some on your head then," said the chief. Which made the wrestling fireman mad. The life of our genial baker, Heinle Fluhrer'a life waa spared the other night when when he tried to look into his gasoline tank with a cigar lighter. Our efficient school teacher, Mrs. j Beeson, says she don't know where I the children get all the Ideas they have nowadays. Last week she was testing the knowledge of her class as to the value of money. Slapping a half dollar on the desk she said. "What la this?" Instantly s little boy in the back row piped up, "Heeds 1" Diamond Flynn was working with an apprentice on an emergency wir ing Job last week for the People's Electric store. Turning to the helper he said, "Say, Bill, take hold of the end of that wire." The apprentice did ao and Diamond asked, "Feel anything?" The helper said "Nope." wen, then, don t touch the other one; its got 8,000 Tolts," warned Flynn. Legion Auxilliary Officers President Mri. Cole Holme. (Irsa Vlce-Preildent Mrs. Weldon dram. Second Vice-President Mr.. John Fluhrer. Secretary-Treasurer Mr. Belva Aiken. ' Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Earl Foy. Cbaplaln Mri. Lee Garlock. IllitorUn Mra. Tim Dally. Sergcant-at-Arms Mrs. Casa Wjmore and Mn. Barbara Jtnnlnjs. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE " Mri. Walter Olmsrheld, Mm. Carold Parker and Mn. t.ee Garlock. CHAIRMEN OP STANDING COMMITTEES Welfare Mri. Bay Wright and Mri. John Fluhrer, Hospital Mn. John Fluhrer. Publicity and Radio Mn. Karl Foy. Americanism and Fldao Mra. Edward Leach. National Defense .Mrs. Earl York. Music Mra. Warren Butler. Community Serrlce Mn. wm. Holloway. Unit ActlTltles Mra. Oliver Overmyer and Mn. Cast Wymore. LejWatlve and Education of War Orphans Mrs. C. H. Martin. Constitution and By-Lans Mra. Walter Olmscheld. Poppy Sale Mrs. Weldon Cleaves. Poppy Poster Mrs. Kenneth Ross. Floral Mra. 4. W. Jacobs. Refreshments Mra. Edgar Feldman. Memorial Mn. Bunnell Semon. Membership Mrs. Lee Garlock. Finance and Budget Mesdamea Fluhrer, Dally and Webber. Grandmother to granddaughter: When I via your aga we girl, aU wore petticoats." Granddaughter: "Bui even then. boys would be boya, wouldn't they, gnrhdma?" Prosit! Gesundheit! With the Finest Drinks of All RAINIER BEER and TACOMA ALE In The Gay Nineties . . . men wore sidewbiskers, and wo men wore vegetable gardens on their hats. Fashions have changed and banking has advanced for your benefit since then. Save regularly in this modern banking institution. 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