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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.
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Pages
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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.
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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.
Safeway officials predict a tremend
ous interest in the contest this year,
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