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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1935)
TVfe Medford nn Second Section BUNE Thirtieth Year Full Associated Press MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935. Full Inltcd rress No. 161. llahed in Medford. It was opened by tho elder Mr. Strang in March, 1884. when the city's population was only 200, Mr. Strang having come here from Jacksonville, where tits parents resided. Mr. Strang has now passed his 75th birthday, but he Is still hale and hearty and In active charge of his pharmacy which ne has conducted here continuously since 1884. since a similar contest lost year prov ed so popular. Stores participating In the event are located throughout Oregon and, south western Washington. The closing date of the contest Is October 31. WINDOW Q LAS b We sell window glass and will replnoe your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab met Works HITCH-HIKER, AGED 3, IS KLAMATH PROBLEM KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. '(UP) Po lice had to deal with the youngest hitch-hiker to go on the blotter 3 years old. t Two women motorfng from the country club mw the youngster hop out of the weeds along the road and flash his tiny thumb at them. They picked him up and brought him into town, but he wouldn't 11 them where he wanted to go. He spent most of the afternoon in police hpnti quartcra before his family was lo cated. DRAW POKER RULED AS GAME OF SKILL SALEM. (UP) The sanctity of the pleasant art of filling an In.ilde straight, holding the kicker and kctrhlng the other ace has been writ In large court records. "There's only one gambling game that's a game of skill, and that Is good old-fashioned draw poker," rul ed Judge L. H. McMahan In a legat dictum concerning an Investigation of local gambling. declares Fred C. Homes, local farmer who has studied the habits of the in sect. Yellow Jackets befriend the farmer by destroying large numbers of al falfa weevils. Many crops have been saved, he said, by advent of the wasps on poorly yielding farms. GUNSMITH. Repairs for all make! of guns. Sims Bros., 33 N. Plr. Six Pages RI FIRST TELEPHONE SYSTEJVMN CITY Switchboard Installed In Drug Store in 1898 Few Subscribers Until Jacksonville Tolls Erased YELLOW JACKET FRIEND OF FARMER, IS CLAIM ASHLAND, Ore. (UP) The yellow Jacket Is not a 100 per cent nuisance, "KICKERNICK" Undergarments that fit at Ethelwyn 3. Hoffmann's. L- RALLY PLAN The telephone today is looked upon u an Indispensable convenience If not a commercial and social neces sity, but there was a time In Med ford when !t was viewed as an ex travagant and unnecessary luxury. And Charles Strang, owner of Strang's drug store, recaled today Just when It was when telephones were frowned upon In this locality. The memory took. Mr. Strang back to 1898 when Med ford's first switch board was Installed In the back of his pharmacy, then situated where the Economy meat market now stands. At that time the Pacific States Telephone company had Just linked up San Francisco and Portland and was endeavoring to build up its tele , phone business along the line. Switch board service had already been in augurated in Ashland and Jackson Tillo and the company sought to es tablish Its business here, Mr. Strang recalled. Few Cared for Phones. I The result was that a small board j was set up In the rear of the Strang : drug store and Mr. Strang became I the first operator. He built up his patronage to 15 or 18 subscribers, but there the expansion stopped, as no one outside of a few physicians and business men showed even pass ing Interest in the blessings and con veniences the telephone was sup posed to bring, Mr. Strang related. Despairing of the poor showing, an official of the company came to Med ford from San Francisco and asked Mr. Strang If he had no suggestions as to how the patronage might be Increased. "Yes. I have," Mr. Strang replied. ' "Establish free service between Med ford and Jacksonville." That was done, Mr. Strang said, and tolls between the two points were eliminated. Business began to grow from, then; for Jacksonville was at that time the county seat and there was naturally considerable commun ication between the two cities. Soon It became necessary to Install another switchboard in1 the pharmacy and It was not long before a third board was needed to handle the increased business, Mr. Strang .sold. First Operators Named. The first full-time operator to be employed at the drug store switch board was Lillian Barr, now Mrs. Ralph Woodford of this city, it was recalled by Mr. Strang's son Fred, who by then had become an inter ested observer of the telephone busi ness. The second operator was Flor ence Toft, who subsequently married and now resides in Los Angeles. She was a sister of the late Ray Toft. The third operator to be employed at the drug store was Miss Edna Eifert, who now Is bookeeper at the -Hutchison Mercantile Oo. Mr. Strang said for hla compensa tion he received a percentage of the phone rentals and tolls, out of which he had to pay the employes and take care of other expenses. He recalled with a chuckle that It always cost him more to operate the service than he received. After ten years the subscribers ex ceeded 600 in number, Fred Strang related, and a separate office was es tablished by the. telephone company. While a student at the University of Oregon, Fred himself worked for the company during vacations, his Job being to drive about the countryside In a buggy to collect rentals and to remove the wall phones when pay ment was refused, though he was call ed upon seldom to snip the wires, he said. "Those were the real horse and bugnry days," the younger Mr. Strang commented. Strang's drug store. Incidentally, was the first pharmacy to be esta'o- Next Sunday the Sunday school of the First Methodist Episcopal church will hold Rally Day Services In the sanctuary of the church. At the same time Promotion Day will also be ob served and all the classes will be ad vanced according to grade. All children advanced from one department to another will be given certificates. A number of new teach ers are being added so as to-provldc for all attending. A class In teacher training will be started the first Sun day in October. "This Is about the finest time of the year to enter a Sunday school class if you are not already attend ing and a large number of new mem bers are expected to be present Sun day. Any one not attending else where is cordially Invited to be pres ent," said the church announcement. The Sunday school this Sunday will begin at 9:30 a. m. SAFEWAY STORES LAUNCH CONTEST The entire month of October is the time set for a $1200 customer coffee contest, sponsored by Safeway Stores. It was announced today. Contest fans are to be treated to a unique type of contest In the firm's latest drive for coffee business. Un like many contests, prizes will not be awarded on the basis of chance or skill. Awards will be made according to the number of pounds of the firm's three brands of coffee (Airway, Nob Hill and Edwards Dependable) sold upon the recommendations of the contestants. . 1 There are SO prizes In all to be offered. $1200 In cash prizes are to be awarded as follows: First pvlzc, $600; second, third and fourth prizes. $100 each; fifth, sixth and seventh prizes, $50 each; eighth to seventeen th prizes Inclusive, $25 each; . The 33 remaining prlaea will each be a copy of Julia Lee Wright's latest edi tion of her loose-leaf cook-book, per sonally autographed. The contest, which la open to everybody except, of course, employes of the company, works this way: The contestant calls at the store and asks for a supply of contest slips. These are to be signed and then passed out to friends and neighbors with a rec ommendation to try a pound of one of the three brands of coffee. When the purchase is made the slip Is countersigned by the purchaser and turned In at the store, and at this point the contestant receives a credit of five points for each pound of coffee purchased. At the end of the contest the 50 highest contestants will be awarded the prizes in accord ance with the standing of their scores. 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