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STEDFOKT) MXTL TTITBTTS VrETDFOHt), OT?EfiOy, rOTPAY. 'AUflrST 2. 1fl3T. ' PXflE THREE SOCIETY and CLUBS By Janet Wray Smith Wedding In Ashland. The lovely horns of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Sugg In Ashland was the set ting (or a charming wedding Satur day evening, when their daughter. Mlia Jane Sugg, became the bride of Prank Mas. ion of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mee ot Applegate. The bride wore a soft pink taf feta gown, and carried pastel colored flowers. The only attendants were tse bridesmaid, Mlsa Ftrn Madden, and the best man. Clay Sugg. Only relatives and very close friende of the young couple attend ed the wedding. After a short trip through the northwest, the young couple will be at home In Ashland. Methodist Loyalty Circle. The Loyalty Circle of the First Methodist church will hold its regu- lor monthly meeting Thursday, Aug. 6. at the home of Mrs. Ellen Doras, at Table Rock. Covered dlah lunch eon members are asked to bring their own service and meet at the church at 11:30. The meeting Is being held a week early in order to take care of unexpected business that haa arisen. to Guests From Australia. Mrs. Bruce Allyn la entertaining her mother and father, who live in Melbourne, Australia. Mrs. . Allyn's father. B. B. Abbott, Is a mining executive in Australia. The Abbotts vacation plana are enabling them to remain In Medford at least a month, and later a trip to Glacier park. They will drive across the continent to New York, oeiore returning Melbourne. Former Resident Visits Brophys. Mrs. Civde Warnock, formerly of this city, la visiting for a few days with the Iceland Broohy family. With Mrs. Warnock are Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Shlnlev. also from San Francisco. Mrs. warnock Is a member of the San Francisco Chronicle stsff, and Is enjoying her vacation In Jackson county, The Shlpleys will motor on to Salt Lake City In the morning, Central Point W. R. C. to Meet. w. R. c. No. 37 will meet at their , hall on Saturday, August 7. After the business session, birthday celebrations for all members whose natal day occurs during July, August and September will be honored. A good attendance la desired. Guests from Klnmath Falls. Mrs. Rose Kcesee, Mr. and Mrs Vernon Keesee and children were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Keesee. Miss Louise Keesee returned from a visit In Klamath Falls, with them. Joint Club Picnic - Three branches of the Business snd Professional Women'a cluba will meet for a picnic next Sunday. Klamath Falls, Grants Pass and Medford will journey to Union Creek for a get-together social evening. Helen Psrrlsh, of the Medford club. Is Iocs chairman. 18 HIT BROKEN RAIL (Continued trosa Page One.) Wenonah Club Entertains Tonight Miss Helen Keesee will entertain the Wenonah club at her home at 38 South Peach, tonight. The first part of the evening will be spent on decorations. Cards and refreshments will, follow. . A large attendance la urged. Entertains for Son . Lieutenant Wm. H. Coatee' mother entertained Saturday evening. In celebration of her son's promotion to a captaincy. Thirty-five guests were Invited for a cocktail party, and went to the Chateau for dancing, later In the evening. Returns From Eugene Miss Laura York returned Saturday evening from' Eugene, where ahe has been attending summer school for six weeks. Will visit San Francisco Lieutenant and Mrs. T. P. Coatea, and family, will leave tomorrow for Ssn Francisco, where they will visit for two or three weeks. Carrol Scheffel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Scheffel of this city, returned to Medford this morn. tag. Miss Scheffel has completed her first yesr's training at Children's hospital In San Francisco, and is on a month's - vacation, which ahe will spend with her psrents. ' Portland between 6 and 6 o'clock thla afternoon. He reported the derailed cars lean ing at a 48-degree angle. Railroad officials said the accident could have occurred as the train passed a switch and a wheel flange broke. The wreck occurred on a straightaway section of a mountain plateau and the train probably was traveling "at a pretty fair clip," Or mandy said. The most seriously injured in tne wreck were reported here to be: Woman Injured Mrs. Ernest Roach, shock and addi tional injuries to ribs broken In a tall In a hotel at San Francisco yea Howard Coleman, porter, whose back was hurt when he was thrown halfway through a window and scalded by hot water from a con tainer In a dining car. Other Injuries were said to be minor, caused chiefly by flying glass from windows breaking. Moat of the windows on the right sides of the derailed cars were broken. Terror reigned as paasengers screamed and rushed tor the exits in the dizzily tipped care. Coleman, the porter, was pitched through the window ot the most badly damaged tourist car. As he hung, half out ot the window, a pas senger came up behind and believed he was crawling through tne opening "Hey, porter, let me through first' the passenger urged. Witnesses at the scene of the wreck ssld the right hand rail was broken. sheared off aa If It bad been sawed In two. The fourth ear back on the train was believed to have broken the rail. Aa the forward cars pulled out with all passengers aboard alter the accident, a passenger with an accor dion struck up the strains of "there s be a hot time in the old town to night." witnesses reported. About 100 men were at work at noon at the scene of the wreck.- DANIEL BOONE KIN PLANS TO RESTORE E 'Shrine Will Be Made of Old Stone House, St. Charles, Mo., - Where Frontiers man Spent Last Days on Boone and a quaint collection ot old books on the code of dueling Misfortune In Kentucky The pleasant old home might never have sheltered the great woodsman but for the misfortune that caused him to leave Kentucky. When Ken tucky became a state In 1791 Boone did not file legal claim to the land he held there. Land operators forced him to relinquish his 'holdings through civil courts and the Impov- erlsbed pioneer had to atrike out In search for a new home for the fourth time In his career. Boone returned to the scene of his childhood, but left because of the change worked by the swift sdvance of civilization. After a ahort visit and he was accorded a warm reoep tlon. When Boone settled with his son In the Femme Osage district he had been a subject or citizen under five flags. Born before the revolution, ne lived his early life a subject of George II and George in of England, After the revolution he became a cit izen of the United States. He was at one time a citizen of the- temporary nation. Transylvania. The Shawnee Indian tribe adopted blm as a son and citizen. Then he became a aub Ject of Charles IV of Spain, and later, of Napoleon. He died under the United States flag In the first year of Missouri's statehood. Soanlsh authorities made Boone rename usage, I ' mum T O P P I R . The Influence of masculine dress on women's fashions produces a startling effect in this Viennese top hat for the ladies. DANCE TO BENEFIT BY Angeles, a twin biother, Henry ot Roaeburf, and another brother, Noel of Ashland. TAMINGOFMSHREW AUTQ REGISTRATION SHOWS JULY DECLINE Out -of -at to automobile registra tions during the month of July showed a sharp decrease under those ot the same' period last year. It was revealed today by Lee Oarlock, man ager of the local AAA office. A total of 357 tourists registered last month aa compared to 726 In July of 1938 Last month also fell below June of 1937, when 461 out-of-state cars ap peared at the local office. The heavy decline from July of last year was attributed by Oarlock to the fact that Ashland's office Is now remaining open 24 hours a day. CONTROL BOARD PLANS BUILING FUND PARLEY SALEM, Ore., Aug. a. (AP The board of control decided today to meet with the state Industrial acci dent commission before ruling on whether to use the commission's funds to finance the proposed stste office building at Portland. . The decision was made at a public hearing attended by 50 persons rep resenting the sponsors of about 40 building sites.. No decision will be made until the method of financing Is determined, and until each site has been in spected. Phone 543. Wel hau.away your ec.uav. uiw etamtarv service. The helpful spirit of pioneer days still prevails in Jackson county, it was brought out again today as steps were taken to assist a well-known family that has met wtth a series of serious misfortunes. The family, highly respected throughout the county. Is said to o in dire need of help though no re quest for assistance has been made. The move to assist haa come sponta neously from friends. First misfortune to befall the fam ily was the death of the mother. Shortly afterward the son was strick en with Infantile paralysis and had to be sent to Warm Springs, Oe., for treatment. A little later a daughter suffered a paralytic stroke. Recently the father was found helplessly 111 In a farm cabin. Food and medicine axe urgently needed and friends have rallied to the family's aid. The Jackson county agriculture committee will sponsor a benefit dance anA social in the Jack sonville Orange hall next Saturday evening. The Jacksonville orchestra will pro vide music in the Orange ball at the old county court house. Other or chestras will be engaged to play for the overflow that Is expected. Re freshments will be served. All county Oranges are participat ing in the benefit and the public Is invited to attend and help the cause. Tickets may be procured from any orange member or at the county agents office in the court house here, E RESIDENT PASSES Word was received here today of the death of Herbert Ersklne, former Mod ford resident, In Los Angeles on July 28 after a lingering illness. Mr. Ersklne, who was well known In the Rogue valley, left here about 30 year ago. Survivors residing tn Medford arc his mother. Mrs. Julia Tucker, 320 Clark street, and two brothers, Wat ter Ersklne of Stewart avenue and Al vin O. Ersklne of 320 Clark street. Other survivors arc his wife, daugh ter Opal, son. Herbert, Jr., all of Los FESTIVAL THIS EVENING (Continued worn paga One.) Charles Furnas, Medford's acting mayor, who la representing Mayor Qeorge Porter, at present away on a trip. Mayor Thornton Wiley ox Asniand will represent his city. Eddie Nugent and Bradley Page, Hollywood stars, will be Introduced, as will Jimmy Oruelle, famous au thor of the "Raggedy Ann" stories, noW summering in Ashland. The festival will continue for six days, with "Taming of the Shrew" opening tonight and closing the fes tival Saturday night. Romeo and Juliet," immortal trag edy, will play tomorrow night and Thursday, and "Twelfth Night," pop- ular Shakespearean comedy, will play Wednesday and Friday. Curtain will rise at 8:30 each evening With the new festival association functioning smoothly, advance ticket sales Indicate record-breaking audi ences. The advance sale ot tickets this year has already surpassed last year's total box office Income. Attractive three-color programs, which will make permanent souvenirs of the shows, have been lithographed for this year's festival and every thing Is being done on a much more Impressive scale than before. the accident occurred. All aboard were klllM. The crew of five and the four pas sengers were believed all to be Ital ians. Road Oil Program Nears Completion The Jackson county road oiling program for this yesr. will be com pleted within the rext week or ten days, according to county Engineer Paul B. Rynnlng. Rain and delay in delivery ot oil delayed tne work some The county court la considering steps to Improve, and round off two or three comers, now sharp angles, on the "Pioneer Road" between Phoe nix and Talent. The court conferred last week with property owners, to procure sufficient right of way to eliminate the sharp turns. Spectacular Broker Suffers Breakdown NEW YORK. Aug. 9. (flV-Michael J. Meehan, spectacular broker who made millions on the meteorlo rise of radio before the 1929 slump and who was found guilty of stock manipula tion today by the securities and ex change commission. Is recovering from a nervous breakdown, close as sociates sold. He has been away from his office since last spring. Brokerage house me&renger at 18. then a cigar salesman and a Broad way theater ticket agent, Meehan In four years became one of the best known speculators and brokers Wall street has known In recent years. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads is 1:30 p. m. Schilling I pure 'ct nulla Queerw of the kitchen Four Lose Lives In Auto Crackup BELLE FONTAINE. O., Aug. (P) Only one person of, a party ot alt survived today the crash of an auto mobile through a heavy wire fenee and a plunge Into Indian lake. Among the victims were Donald Frledley, 30, dramatics tnstrutor at the University of Maine who thla fill was to have become director of the Portland, Ore., civic theater. Elizabeth Dugan. 31, Hartford. Conn., medley's fiancee and a re search worker at Vale university. Nine Meet Death In Plane Plunge WAD'I HALPA, Anglo-Egyptian Su dan. Aug. a. VP) Nine passengers and members of the crew of an Ital ian commercial plane were killed to day when the plane crashed near the Wadl Haifa airdrome. The craft was southbound when PLANT YOUR SUMMER GARDEN O NOW! Aa you remove Spring sown vegetables, re-plant and keep your garden working ' -BE THRIFTY Grow more vegetables for health's sake and your purse. For Fall and Winter crops PLANT NOW! Spinach, Carrots, Beets, Turnips, Cabbage Plants, Rutabagas. Kale, Radishet; and Lettuce. Plant "Monarch Quality Seeds tor greatest garden satisfaction MONARCH SEED & FEED CO. 0or. 6th and Bartlett Sts. Phone 260 IB I 1 me woocsman ana ms lamuy , mhm . . .tand. and gave him a vast tract of land, Again By James W. Brennan 8T. CHARLES, Mo. (UP) Tho house In which Daniel Boone died Is to be restored to Its original ap pearance. Col. Prancles Marlon Curlee of St, Louis, a direct descendant of Boone's brother, John, Is the present owner. The stone house, which ' changed hands many times, was bought In 1904 by 'a farmer, Henry Bollman. Bollman sold It to Col. Curlee In 1925. Boone's youngest son. Major Na than Boone, built the house In 1810, taking almost two years to complete the Job because the plaster had to be burled during the winter to "ripen." All cutting and finishing was done with an adze. The walls are two and a half feet thick. Their extraordinary thickness makes the house warm In winter and cool In summer. Most of the furnishings Installed by Col. Curlee are reproductions, some originals, of the pioneer's per iod. Windsor Chairs Authentic The dining room, which Is in the bssement. Is one ot the most Inter esting rooms In the house. The sun light enters from the south on a room with a celling of huge timbers, native brick floor Bnd sparse furnish ingsauthentic Windsor chslrs. tsble and an old-lashionea siaeocmru. over the flrenlsce hanga a Ken. tucky long rifle. The five-foot-long rifle has a sharply curved, short stock fsshloned to be fired from the elbow, not the shoulder. Besides the living room, which ex tends the breadth of the house along the east side, there are two other chambers on the first floor. Three rooms cn the second floor are divided by a hall which has been converted Into a library wtth some 3.000 nooks. There are many volumes a 300-mlle trek to the mouth of the Kanawha river, which empties Into the Ohio at Point Pleasant. Here he built a log hut and remained until 1795. During his sojourn at the Point, huntera who visited Boone fired him with dreams ot a new land to explore beyond the Mississippi. Boone again struck out for a new home. Welcomed By Spanish The Spanish government, then in possession of the territory, and eager to settle the land, welcomed emi grants. Boone's fame preceded him he failed to comply witn tne legal obligations and lost the grant. The "Judgment Tree." under which he held court, stands near the house and has been resuscitated after months of work by tree surgeons. Following the system devised by Joseph tor the salvation of ancient Egypt, government authorities In China have . established granaries where a percentage of bumper crops is stored against the threat ot fam ine In leen years. ' WOMEN WHO HOLD THEIR MEN NEVER LET THEM KNOW NO matter bow much your back aches and your nerves scream, your husband, because he Is only a man. can never under stand why you are so hard to live with one week in every month. Too often the honeymoon ex prns Is wrecked by the naming tongue of a three-quarter wife. The wise woman never leu her nushand know by outward sign that she is a victim of periodic Pain. For three nenwatlonsooe woman has told enoUwr now to go ' rail ing through" with Lydla E Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. II helps Nature tone up the syitem. I hus lessening the discomforts 'rom the functional disorders which women must endure In the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from airlbood to womanhood. X Pre paring for motherhood, s. Ap proschlng "middle age." Don't I a thremoarter wire take I.VDM K PINhlTAMS VF.iiKT.ani.E COM POIND and Go "snuiiAf Through," OUT THEY GO! All White and Colored Ties, Pumps, Straps, Sport Oxfords. One Pair at the Regular Price, Another Pair Only 2 FOR 11 2 FOR Sale Starts Tuesday Morning August 3rd. HADLEY'S CINDERELLA SHOP 44 South Central J A HOME OWNED AND MANAGED INSTITUTION EXAMINED AND SUPERVISED BY THE GOVERNMENT! WITH SAFETY and PROFIT for FUTURE SECURITY And Remember Your Savings Are INSURED! (t7 A'AJrl (FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN INSURANCE CORP.) COMFORT and security for future years are as sured if you place YOUR savings with this long-, established Medford institution . . . YOUR money is used to build the community in which you live, yet you are assured absolute safety through strict federal supervision of this association and the fact that savings accounts are insured up to $5000 through the.Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Cor poration. And here b an added incentive to place YOUR savings with this institution NOW SAVINGS DEPOSITED BY AUGUST 10 RECEIVE 5 Full Months Dividends Jan. 1st, Current Dividend 4 JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 East Main Street
