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
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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!
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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. With noth
ing but "nothing" about France.
Gerald Kidd Cleared Of Attempted Arson
Portland (U.R) Gerald R. i by a Multnomah county grand
Kidd, 24, of Portland was clear- jury. ,-..
ed of attempted arson Friday! The grand jury returned a
not true, bill to a eharge fhat
Kidd attempted to set fire to a
downtonw burlesque theater in
the middle of a show recently. :
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