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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1955)
SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February 20. 1S5S In and Around Table Rock " Table Rock R e c e n t move ments of livestock here are sev eral truck loads of lambs sent to market from the J. L. Nealon yards, and thirty head of cat tle from the Ed Taylor farm to a the Four Corner Auction. Phones recently installed in this community were at the Dean Inglis, Bert Pierce, and W. M. Howsley homes. Mrs. Walter Timm, operator of the Observation Post at Tou- Velle Park, logged 9,873 planes during her first year's work completed on Feb. 10. She is now reporting an average of 30 planes a day, which includes all types. Aubrey Taylor, one of the Table Rockers who deserted cig arettes last spring, reports that he has gained 22 lbs. in weight, feels fine, but wishes his appe tite wasn't so keen. : Jenny, the Bishop bummer lamb, presented the Bishop kids with three lambs as a valentine while Abigail the Doty bummer sheep had to be satisfied with two. Mrs. Ray Doran acted as co hostess at a pre-nuptial shower given by her daughter, Mrs. Dale Schulz, at her home in Sams Valley for Miss Lois Hows ley. There was a large attend ance of invited guests from this district, and many lovely and worth while presents were re ceived by the bride-to-be. Complaints are being heard from all sides about the size' of light bills, which many claim have, advanced tremendously since the beginning of the new year. Among recent Table Rock visitors are V. C. Bishop of On tario, Oreg., who was a guest last week with relatives at the William Bishop home, and Rus sell Wheeler of Medford who is making an extensive visit with his brother and family at the Don Wheeler farm. Of interest to local people was the wedding of Mary Pol lock and 1 Kent Clark of ; Gold Hill, Feb." 14," at the home of Rev. Perry Johnson in Med ford. The local swan family has Increased about 100 -per cent ac cording to O. T. Wilson who has been counting them on his daily trips through here. He claims he saw some 23 last Sunday which is about twice the number ever seen here in previous years. The large poplar trees along the highway on the Ed Taylor farm set out by a Mr. Findley about 1912 have been felled and are being cut up into firewood. Roland Schope spent a week of his vacation visiting at the home of his sister Miss Lou Schope in San Diego, Calif.. Mrs. Emma Houston of Kanes Creek was a Sunday visitor here with her granddaughter, Mrs. R. E. Nealon. Holly Swingle who used .to trade horses in Eastern Oregon and never passes Hp a good trade, recently traded us a half pig for a half lamb "sight and seen," but the half pig weighed more than the half lamb so we had to pungle up quite a little spondoollix. The local Sunday school has recently donated $25 to Miss Hazel McCabe, formerly of Eagle Point, now a Missionary in the mountainous section of Kentucky. This is to be used by her in getting a pump to re place the old oaken bucket at the mountain home built by her. ,The Ralph Reisinger family of Medford were recent visitors here with friends, also the Ed Pierce family who visited .rela tives at the Bert Pierce home Saturday evening. George Loftin, Beagle farmer, sometimes called the "Sams Val ley chamber of commerce," who was a recent visitor at his old stamping ground back in Texas, says the farmers there during the drouth went to work in fac tories in town and are now mak ing more money than ever be fore. George thinks it won't be long now until no one will have to work as the country is going socialistic as fast as it can. In the past years, he says, we heard much about creeping socialism, but now it has got on its feet and is beginning to walk. Bob Galloway of Sams Valley was a business caller here Mon day. Mrs. Orville Hamilton and Mrs. J. Sanford Richardson at tended a tea at the home of Mrs. Marie Dizney in Medford last Wednesday in honor of Mrs. W. H. Snook from Bend, who is visiting Mrs. Dizney. Our bird feeder is doing a big business these days after a slow start. At first the smaller birds were not showing much appetite, but later the flock of 57 quail moved down from the berry patch and took over the feeder house from basement to roof and so far the birds have devoured a half barrel of feed. A dozen or more of these quail will get on the 12x24 inch top of the house with their heads bobbing up and down as they gather the small seeds. If a sud den emergency developed they can do an about-face quicker than any West-pointer and with all heads facing out in case it turns out to be a real attack they will take off like the shell of an exploding hand grenade in all directions. If a window hap pened to be in the line of fire it would be too bad for both the quail and the window. As to our oil well story, this is the way we remember it: It was about in the middle nine ties, a man by the name of Jen nings, with his family were liv ing on the farm now a part of the Leverette holdings in the house now occupied by the Elmo Stallings family. Jennings had come here from Napa, Calif., and purchased the farm from Fred Hansen and after trying farming , for sometime started looking for some easier way of making money. After finding coal croppings in the north field a few hundred yards west of the south end of the rock fense, he started drill ing for oil using what was call ed the churn drill, operated by man power. After going down a depth of between 50 and 100 ft. he was coming to the well one morning to resume work when he discovered what he be lieved to be oil. Jennings was a short man somewhat on the heavy order, but after getting a few whiffs of the oil scent he started on the run for .his home about a mile distant and was so exhausted when getting to the house that he fell in the door as. his wife opened it. 4. It was some minutes before he could get his breath to, gasp, we have struck oil. The fam ily carriage with a fast stepping team was soon on the way to Medford where his excited man ner soon convinced every one be met that oil had been struck at Table Rock. For the next few days the livery stables did a big business transporting people out to see a real oil well, sveryone eagerly awaited the report from the sample sent away for analysis, which when received read thus: Good drinking water if some one hadn't put kerosene in it." As far as we know Jennings never knew what had really happened but it developed a few years later that a man working for the Davis family, then liv ing in one of the houses on the place had gone in the night with a can of kerosene and "oiled the well", unbeknown to anyone. After witnessing the excite ment it caused he was afraid to let it be known lest he might be hanged or run out of the country. Since that time a shaft was "Tt&Tz; w ,tW MTftv; FIRE CLAIMS 99 AGED WOMEN Police a nd firemen probe for bodies in the smoulder ing wreckage of Catholic Mission Home at Yokohama, Japan. Ninety-nine aged women perished when flames swept the condemned structure. Fifty persons, including three nuns, survived the blaze. The two-story wooden building had neither fire escapes or a water supply. ' A NichoVs Worth of. . . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United PrcM Ftur Writer Washington (U.R) News in. the papers 100 years ago was pointed mostly in the direction of George Washing t o n's Birthday annivers a r y, which was just around the calendar corner. The monu ment in honor of our first leader was growing from Harman fcucnols the ground up at the moment. But it wasn't growing very fast. What was needed was money, and it was coming in slow. Pasteboard models of th proposed monument were plac ed around - town, with money boxes ' in front begging for a pittance here and a dime there. The lead editorial in one oi the main papers of the day, pleaded: "People of the District and Congress and visitors: Con tribute to one of the best and most patriotic modes of cele brating the birthday of the Fa ther of Our Country. Contribute on this occasion to the erection of this monument." There must have been some suspicion of whether there was harmony among those in charge of the project. A "select commit tee of the House" met and "examined the officers of the Washington National Monument Society, its architects,! its build ers, its books and all its trans actions with'---the view of re moving from the mind of the country the distrust which pre vails regarding the character of those having :. the work in charge. . An editorial in one paper com mented, about Washington's Birthday: - Whatever there is to be of ceremony has not been heralded with the usual spirit . . . But we doubt not there will be respect ful observance of the day which gave to the country and the sunk near the same location and a ledge of fairly good coal was uncovered, also a tunnel was run in about 100 ft. in the south east side of lower Table Rock by the late E. H. Davis and some good samples of coal were found there. ' ; ' Gwendolyn Burkland, of the Old Stage road was a week end guest of Miss Linda Doran. . DUE TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW ARMORY AT THE FAIRGROUNDS . . . OUR WARE HOUSE AND OTHER. BUILDINGS MUST BE REMOVED! . . . Therefore, we are offering ALL of our ROOFING, SIDING and ALLIED ITEMS for SALE at SACRIFICE PRICES1 .' CHECK These Few ITEMS for SAVINGS! 11 Colors-3 Tab 3 Tab 90 lb. Mineral Surfaced THICK BUTT HEXAGON ROLLED SHINGLES SHINGLES ROOFING S7.50 sq. S5.92 sq. S3.Q8 oh GOTHIC POINT SHINGLE ROLL $3.63 Per Roll o 45 lb. SMOOTH ROOFING $1.88 Per Roll 55 lb. SMOOTH ROOFING $2.21 Per Roll 65 lb. SMOOTH ROOFING.......... .......$2.57 Per Roll Va lb. Deadening FELT $3.10 Per Roll ABOVE PRICES F.O.B. WAREHOUSE AT FAIRGROUNDS EKERSON'S PAINT ROOF STORE world one of the immortal names not born to die." Today, we speak of millions for new buildings. The House of Representatives in 1855 was concerned with a bill calling for $300,000 "to continue work on the Treasury Building." That big hunk of stone still stands solid as the rock of" and is the home of records uncountable on the inside and also of uncounted pesky starlings in the eaves on the outside. On page one of the local pa pers 100 years ago there was a lot of trivia. One person an nounced in a paid classified ad that somehow he had lost "4 or 5" keys and would love to have them back. So much, in fact, he said at so much per word, that he would be willing to" get up a liberal reward, "as well as thanks." There was to be an auction that week for 50 barrels of hams and flour, "just received." "Fine for family use," the advertise ment said. One paper had a long disserta tion from its correspondent in Paris, "just arrived by boat." The correspondent started out apologetically by saying he had "nothing to report," but sug gested that the editors of his paper take a look at dispatches from London which had put out the intelligence that the British Ministry had fallen. Whereupon, the correspondent went on to report something that was many miles from his home base. The paper ignored the reports from London , and printed the Paris man's entire letter. 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