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jrEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKU, OREGON. TTTLTRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1935. PAOE THREE Society and Clubs FnreH Dinner Honor Mis filll Compllmentip Mlss Boinlce Gill, who la leaving tomorrow to enroll In tiie Stanford nurses' training achoal. a group of her friends entertained with a dinner at the Hotel Medford Tuesday night. Following the din ner, guests played bridge at the home of Grace Vom. Hostesses for the affair were Miss Lottie Caldwell. Mlsa Marjorl Und ley, Mlsa Thelma Moore. Mrs. Jack Fletcher. Miss Joyce Gage and MUs Grace Voss. Guest were Ml&sea Dor othy and Marjorie Ooff. Anr.le Meade Watkina. Helen Klnsey. Bess Watson and Mra. Waldon McBee and Mrs. Alta Prultt. Missionary Society Will llolii Meeting Federation of women's Missionary societies of Medford will meet Friday aftemon at 2 o'clock in St. Marka parish house. Ladles of the 7-ton Lutheran church will present the program, and tea will be served by ladles of St. Mark's following the program. All women lnrested In this work are cordially Invited ts at tend. Birthday Tarty For Miss Meeker Eleanor, email daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Meeker, was hostess at a lawn party Tuesday afternoon In hon or of her fourth birthday. The little guests were served a picnic lunch out of doors. Guest were Patty ana Bobby Roberts. Joanne Harrison, Ale ttm and Gordon Hart. lOly Hess. Phyllis Florey and Joan Williams. Jeromes Back From Vocation Trip Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Jerome returned Friday from an extended California tour. Leaving here August 3, they went first to San Francisco and Oak land, taking a boat from there to San Diego, where they viewed the ex position. Medford Pioneer Celebrates Birthday Mrs. Susie Stewart. Jackson county pioneer. Is celebrating her 86th birth day today. She will be entertained this evening with a dinner at the home of her son. William Perry, In Eagle Point. No-Host nliOier Honors Mrs. nines Complimenting Mrs. William Bines (Jane Dixon), a group of her friends gave a no-host dinner at the Hotel Medford last night. Mrs. Hlnes has Just recently arrived here from her home in Yakima to teach In the Pros pect high school. M DeMolayi will Install Officers Medford chapter. Order of DeMolay. will hold a public Installation of of ficers this evening at 8:15 In the sonlc temp1 All friends and parents of DeMolays are cordially invited to attend. , -M Olenn O. Taylors Making Const Trip Representative and Mrs. Olenn O. Taylor left recently for a trip up the Oregon coast. Including Crescent City and points south. They will visit a whl'Q at Coqullle. o Central Point Scene of Recital Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harkness will present a recital thla evening at 8 o'clock In the Brick church at Cen tral Point. Mr. Harkness la pianist and Mrs. Harkness. sopraij. will sing finest of Carpenters Will Leave Tomorrow Miss Peggy Emery, who haa been a house guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. V. Carpenter for the past two weeks. Is , leaving tomorrow morning Dy plane ' for her h:fie In Pasadena. (iarden Club Will Hold Meeting Tonight The Medford Garden club will meet tonight at 7:30 at the Hotel Medford Mrs. Darby, the new president, urges all members and those Interested in flowers and gardening to be present. WASHING MACHINE REPAIR SERVICE Guaranteed work at reasonanie prices. Mayta and all other ma ken. Phone 497. C D. BEAN 3 E. Main St EXPANSION SALE SPECIALS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Tag Ends in Summer Lines-Re-marked at Give-Away Prices . . . Fall Dresses as low as . ... . .$3.95 Fall Hats as low as $1.00 Fall Shoes as low as . . .$1.95 EXTRA SPECIAL Slips, Panties and Dancettes 59c The BAND BO The Stor that Saves You Mo;iey Workers ConOrrnre To Be Held Tonight A covered dish supper and workers' conference will be held at the Pres byterian church dining room at 6:30 thla evening. This conference la be ing planned by the Sunday school staff .and all teachers, parenU, and those Interested In the educational program of the church are urged to come. Plans under consideration call for an enlarged staff In order that a correlated program of study, work, play and expression may be made available to the boys and girls and young people of the church. A round table discussion will follow presenta tion of these plans In which all are Invited to participate. Arrangements for the dinner are In charge of Mrs. Verl Walker, general chairman, and those coming are asked to bring one covered dish and sandwiches. Beaches Return From Eastern Visit Recently returned from Nebraska are Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Beach, who have spent the past month with rela tives there. The return Journey was made via the San Diego exposition and California. BEND. Ore.. Sep,. 5. iTPt Nearly a blocker buildings was destroyed by fire today In the small unincorpor ated town of Lapine, 30 miles south of here on The Dalles-California high way. Fire Chief Tom Carlon of Bend de clined to estimate the damage. The fire started In a general store. Soon after It broke out there was a. ter rific blaat, probably caused by an ex ploding oil drum. The explosion scattered flaming brands throughout the village. The general store, two residences. tourist cabins and a number of rmall buildings were stroyed. The BenJ fire department, after a fast 30-inile run, finally controlled the fire. Water with which to fight the fire had to be hauled by tank truck from a river, one mile away. Mrs. Richard Arlni. "Joby" and "Dick" were extras to gether. 12 years aj?o, when they first came to Hollywood. . . . it Richard Arlen didn't meet his present wife. Jobyana Ralston, until their mutual friend, Charles Farrell. introduced them at a dance. . . . Jobyana vras "going with" Charlie but soon she was Arlen'a fiancee . . . and so they were married. , . q Mrs. Arlen's chief j Interest la two-and-a-half-year-old j Richard. Jr. . . . Dick plays golf 1- j most every day and Jobyana plays, once a week . . . whenever a tourna- . ment comes along, they both enter. 1MCC nevf haa wun a wiloe. but lil-s ; wife usually geta one she plays bad minton, too. and her hobby la col- ; lectlng early American furniture she ! answers her husband's fan mall and j otherwise acts as his secretary. LAP1NE SUFFERS DISASTROUS FIRE WFE VI 1 i I REACHES PEAK OF Arrival Marks Victory in Race to Complete Truck Trail Before Rainy Season To Build New Tower CAMP WIMER. Spt. ls-t,Spl.. Oall Hugglns, who learned caterpillar bulldozer operation In the CCC, had t)Q honor of setting the first Wlmer machine on. top of Battle mountain Tuesday. Arrival of Hugglns at the top of southern Oregon's historic In dian battleground signalized victory for WImer's technical force in the race to complete a truck trail to the summit before the fall rains. Ma terial lor the new 40-foot observation tower has been received and by the end of the week trucks will be able to travel up Fry gulch to the Battle mountain-Fry peak ridge and thence to the summit of Battle mountain. Lew Mort. Junior civil engineer, will build the new tower with 2x8 creo sotcd laminated plok. The house at the top will be of the nested type strongly braced. Construction work will be done with CCC labor. The country surrounding Battle mountain la an excellent hunting ground, but hunters who hope to get their deer out by car will be disap pointed to learn that the road will not be opened for traffic this season. Gates along the road will be locked so that CCC members working near the summit will not be menaced by stray 'illets Intended for deer. Because of its historical signifi cance. Battle mountain may some time be designated for development as a natural park. The story as it that In 1851 a body of soldiers lost three officers killed In a brush with the Indians. The bodies of the dead men were concealed hastily. Later o n. thefff t11"8 returned with three metal coffins to give the den off! cers proper burial, they found that the dead had disappeared. Ty ac cordingly nailetPthe three coffins to a tree. Wlmer members have search ed for thP tree but have not been able to find it. The new road passes above the spring on the Fry peak side of Battle mountain and makes one and s half turns around the mountain to reach the summit. Viewed from an airplane, the road will look like a huge ques tion mark. Visitors to the tower, spl raling up to the summit, will have an unobstrued view of the sur rounding country during the last half mile of the ascent. O At the Juncture of the new road with the Bvans creek trail, parking space Will be lrft. Kn t.hnf. vtcitnr .ni ,je able to leave their cars lfQiey do not wisn to continue up the moun tain. A coo! spring at the old log cabin near this point will add to the comfort of visitors. VICTI OF R0EX8E WAITED FOR SEVEfiGE NEW August YORK, Sept. 5. (UP) On 17. Robert Canfleld. New Haven. Conn., was slueeed with iron pipe In Central Park and robbed of $20. Nightly iO.cc then he follow ed the same path In the park, watch ing. Monday nig he caught and turned over to police Albert Agcitu tin, 18, and said, "here's the guy that slugged me." DANCE At Bonncy's Grill every Saturday night. Use Mall Tribute want ads. 1X dHl HP dr '? ' Your Kind Co-operation Will Be Greatly Appreciated! Southern Oregon Gas Corporation Contortionist With Shrine Circus ' o ; ; gue Enos, Internationally known circus star. In one of his many dif ficult poses, one of the all-star 2t professional circus acts now appear ing with the Polnck Bros, circus, sponsored by the Shrine Patrol of HUlah Temple, each night this week, with a special matinee Saturday, at Jackson county fairgrounds. Rue Enos has appeared in every country In the universe with his act, and will appear at several of the lunch eons during his stay In Medford to BOOSTED IN EFFORT TO SECURE WORKERS INDEPENDENCE, Ore., Sept. 5. (AP) Hop picking wages In this dis! tvlct had been raised today by most growers from $1.20 Jo $1.60 per 100 pounds In an effort to attract the 6,000 pickers needed to save the crop. Alt yards were reported aa desper ately In need of pickers and facing a large loss unless picking crewn could be strengehtned. Several of the larger yards needed 500 or more addlttonal workers. In Salem, Governor Charles H. Mar tin voiced an appeal to the people of Oregon to sr.ve the hop crop, saying he was informed that more than L 000 pickers vera required In Polk county alone. This is a serious slt uatt and one that reqQres Imme diate attention," the governor de clared. It wns learned thaP the picker shortagcOwft!! not confl&d to this section alone, but was general throughout coast hop growing regions. The RhoOgfl in valley yards viiSi great that many growers have een unable to get harvesting under way. v Milk production Amazes. BROCKVILLE, Ont. (UP) A 3-year-old Hoteln Is astounding On tario farmers with her amazing milk giving accomplgimcnta. Lost month she produced 3.502 pounds ofQi'gc. or nearly aa much as the average cow j gives In a year. Aft ft Part of Oar Cose3tetaticBa Pvoegrom To Iffij&afo Our Servic to tho Public We Are Injecting Into Our Mains a HARMLESS ODDU'ANT to Etot&ct Ga Laa& If You Should Notice an Unusual Odor on or Your Premises Kindly Phone the Company andt Be Taken Care of Promptly. demonstrate his ability. He is also famous m being one of the Ameri can acts to appear before the king and queen of England at a special show. Recently he appeared In -motion pictures in Hollywood, having doubled for picture stars In doing some sort of body contortion that to the star would have been a physical Impossibility. He also performed all the contortion work In Barbara Staawyk's picture "The Miracle Woman." TALENT DISTRICT REFUND DELAYED ADDllcatlon of tht Talent Irriea tlon district for a $47,000 Increase to I Its approved loan of $377,500, for re funding of bonded Indebtedness has been disallowed by the general board of the Reconstruction Finance Cor- j poratlon at Washington. D. C, Olen i Arnsplger, general manager of the lr-' rlgation districts reported today. Attorney frank P. Farrell returned last night frbm Washington, D. C, where he went to conduct the nego tiations. The or1$nal approved loan to the Talent district of $377,300 would have enabled the district to pay off the bonded Indebtedness at 35.12 cents on the dollar. The bondholders declined CO acceDt this Drice. Thn nrirtlt.lnnnl 1347.000 would have mai It po;ible to refund at .40 cents on the dollar which would have been acceptable to the bondholders. Although no deflnl announce ment Is forthcoming. It Is under stood arrangements are under con sideration, for completion of the re funding as planned. -f Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Jones of 1010 South Grape street are the paront of a baby girl weighting eight pounds, born this morning at the Sacred Heart hospital. Y TO TALK TO SERVICE CLUBS SEPT. 1 8TH It was announced Wednesday at the regular weekly luncheon meeting of Medford Lions' club at the Hotel Medford that Major Murphy of the 31st bombardment squadron, will be in Medford Wednesday. September 18. to speak before a Joint meeting of service clubs. A letter was re ceived to that effect today from the major. S Bill Bowerman. new coach at Med ford high, school and Ed Klrtley, as sistant coach, were speakers today, telling the Lions of the football prospects this year. Material Is scarce and much of what there Is of It is green. Coach Bowerman said. Eugene C. Golden, district CCC educational adviser, spoke on the work of the government In occupa tional classification among the mem bers of the corps. Through educa tional and recreational opportunities, the members are being fitted for many types of work after they leave the corps, Golden said. Lion Woodward of Oakland. Cai., was also a guest of the club having arrived recently with Mrs. Woodward en route to Crater Jake. He said he stopped first at orants Pass, but came here to attend the Lions' meet ing when he found that there was no club In the sister city. Walter Abbey will be chairman ol the day next week, and Michael Beck will have charge of the Joint service club meeting on the 18th. f ; TAKEN BY DEATH James Davies. a resident of the Forest Creek district for the past 30 years and of Jackson county for the past 40 years, passed away in this city early Thursday morning at the age of 00. suffering but a short Ill ness. He Is survived by his wife. Anno Davies of Forest Creek, and seven children: Leta Flekert of Corvallls; Ivan Davies, Medford; Arthur, John. Mary and Susie Davies of Jackeo vllle. and Hazel of Myrtle Creek, Ore.: and one brother, Evan Davies of Ray mond. Wash. The body is at the Conger Funeral Parlors from where funeral services will be announced later, 4 Ijji k Abound".. All Bad MOBILE. Ala. (UP) Ollle Broadus had a horse and wagon. Both were hltCoy a car, a'gl the horse was killed. He bought iother horse. A motorist hit his wagon, scared the horse and It ran away. He bought a car. It col fcicd with another, and Broadua paid damages, A blend of rich spices aromatic leaves and seeds for all pickling purpose Schilling lP$a! lteUg Se Jta Near Will Saturday Take Advantage of These During Our Hundreds of Items IWk '-isr VOX Ah All of our COTTOM DRESSES, Vls to $7.94 You chpic A Lola's ij& t& D- HATS Final Close Out a few of thase hats, values to $695 laft going while they lost, choice KNITTED WEAR Values to $14.95 On Sale $7.95 Values to $24.95- On Sale $14.95 While attending this sale tomorrow 'and Saturday, be sure to see our smart new Fall Apparel, arriving daily 1 n BTRfl 303 East Main Last Day! Store-Wide 19 Great Sal r-$4.95'. Medford Phone 526 iiMWiai'iMrllh,