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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL. TRIBUNE Friday, April 27, 1956 Grsnae Sams Valley Juvenile Grange Regular meeting was held Sat urday evening, March 24, with a large attendance. The Juvenile Zipper was read and Dixie Dug gan was complimented on her puzzle page. Herschel Mack was awarded a prize for being the winner in the checker tourna ment. The office of Ceres being vacant, Dede Fitzgerald was elected to be the Ceres for rest of year. Project plans were discussed as was work on our history scrap-book. We are happy that we have earned the dues paid pennant which will be awarded our Grange at the state "session at Pendleton in June. Our next regular meeting is Saturday evening, April 28, at the Grange hall. Grange mem ber are reminded to come early and dressed in working clothes as we are going to finish up one of our projects. Also bring that board which the matron dis cussed at the last meeting. APPLEGATE - JACKSON VI LLE Homemakers Festival Set Swore Swallowing Secret Said To Miss 'Gagger" Decatur, 111. (U.R) "Any body," said salesman Frank Boulware, "can swallow swords, if they make it miss their 'gag ger . Boulware should know, for he retired from his sword swallow er's routine in 1949 after 48 years traveling around demon strating how to make swords and shotgun barrels, bayonets, auto axels, steel rods miss the "gagger." The 63-year-old showman set tled down to sell shoes after he retired.but he keeps an I8V2 inch Civil War bayonet around "just to keep in practice." The nine pound axel is probably the trickiest thing to swallow. "It would go right through my stomach if I let it go," he ex plained. Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday By HELGA MITCHELL Applegate-Jacksonville The Homemakers Festival open house will be held Tuesday May 1, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Cen tral Point Legion hall. Projects and activities of the Home Ex tension .Units will be exhibited and the public is invited to at tend the first open house. Re freshments will be served. The Upper Applegate and the Apple gate units will bring five dozen MORE TRAINING NEEDED? Muncie, Ind. (U.RJ Mun cie firemen set fire to an abandoned coal building and put it out just for training. A short time later, a new fire broke out in the same building. It took the firemen 50 minutes to put out the blaze. Court Records BERGMAN'S SHOP 118 SOUTH BARTLETT Will Be CLOSED MON. & TUES. Open Wednesday IN THEIR NEW LOCATION 3012 Crater Lake Hiway CITY COIRT Timie C. Hunt, violation of basic rule. $10. Larry V. Cranston, excessive noise (pipesi. $10. Darrel M. Brereton, violation of basic rule. S10. Anne C. Valentine, violation of basic rule, $10. George L. Gilman, excessive noise (tiresi. $10. Gladys L. Parker, expired vehicle license. $3. Caroline F. Vincent, violation of basic rule, $10. Phil H. Blood, violation of basic rule. $10. Marlene S. Duarte. failure to stop at red light. $3; no operator s license, S3 Ray F. Harpham, violation of basic rule. $10. Michael R. Phair, violation of basic rule. $10. BiU F. Sanderi, violation of basic rule. $10. William H. Smith, excessive noise (pipes , $10. William M. Longmire Jr.. violation of basic rule. $10. Violet Florey, violation of basic rule. $10. Lewis R. Breazeale, excessive noise (pipes), $10. Benjamin F. Spence, violation of basic rule. $10. Louis Gomes SUva, no operator's license. $3. Barbara Ann Cameron, failure to stop at red light. S5. Kenneth H. McManama. inadequate muffler. $10. Richard H. Hayes, failure to yield right of way. $10. Leo M. Martin, failure to yield right of way. $10. DISTRICT COURT Gearold L. Janes, inadequate muf fler. $6. Darrell L. Johnson, operating motor vehicle while license suspended, $30. Len Crum. failure to operate on right side of highway. $15. Henry L. Stevens, passing with in sufficient clearance, $15. Daun L. Chaney, overload. $15. Norbert R. Schieber, driving with out license. $10. Gerald O. Close, overload, $105. Wilson B. Dir. defective tail light, $10. Gene C. Flickinger, no chauffeur's license, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Viola Byrd vs. William I. Byrd, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Melvin Wesley Pearce. 1221 Thomas rd.. and Patricia Marie Bunnell, 801 East Main st. cookies each for this event. Ex hibits of the Upper Applegate Unit will include baskets, lamp shades and drapes. The Homemakers Festival Day will be held on Wednesday, May 2, in the Central Point Grange from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The program will include skits, songs, talks and movies. Due to the Homemakers Festi val, the regular meeting of the Upper Applegate Home Exten sion meeting will be postponed until Friday, May 4, and will be held at the home of Mrs. Edna Sawyer from 10:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. The project will be "Gar ment Finishes" with Mrs. Gail Buffington and Mrs. Charles Williams as leaders. Mrs. Loran Cooper, one of the past presi dents of the unit, will install the new officers for the new year which include, Mrs. Lynn Val entine, chairman; Mrs. John Sut ton, vice chairman; Mrs. William Green, secretary, and Mrs. Otis Buck, treasurer. The luncheon committee will consist of Mes dames George Mitchell, William Green, Loran Cooper, Bill Zie gler, Rex Davis and Edna Saw yer. Anyone who is interested is welcome, and everyone is asked to bring their own table service and trays. Services at the Ruch Commu nity church include Sunday school, 10 a.m.; worship service, 11 a.m.; Bible study, 8 p.m. Last Sunday night, Mr. and Mrs. Dribble and Mr. and Mrs. Skank of Sams Valley visited the church. Mrs. Louis M. Jones of Taylor Lane entered the Sacred Heart hospital last Sunday and under went surgery. Ladies attending the Cow belles association in Medford last Wednesday were Mesdames Bob Tolle, Dora Krouse, John Horner, Jack O'Brien. Leon Of fenbacher and Lance Offenbach er. The luncheon was in the Jackson hotel. Mrs. Harry Foster hag re turned home from the Mitchell sanitarium in Jacksonville after three months. She is reported to be feeling fine. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Collins of Long Beach are spending their vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sutton, of Upper Applegate. The Collins are plan ning a camping and fishing trip in the southern Oregon area. JAIL TO BE WARMER San Diego, Calif. (U.R) It will be warmer in the San Diego county jail for the next few days. Officers located a pigeon's nest in the air conditioning sys tem and ordered the unit shut off until the bird hatches her eggs. Medford Growers For dependable, low-cost pest control . . . use these proved DuPonr fruit chemicals The 4-H Applegate Fisher men's club were on the Farm and Home TV program .last Wednesday. Vincent Freemantle and David Prowell demonstrat ed "fly tying." and Jeffrey Wood and Mike Harris demonstrated "How to care for fish, after they are caught." When asked where the club plans to be on the open ing day of the fishing season, the leader, Mrs. Curtis Gerhardt, re plied, "On Thompson creek." A pre-festival gathering was held at the home of Mrs. Rolland Smith last Tuesday, as the wom en prepared the exhibits. Those attending were Mesdames John Byrne, Lynn Valentine, Loran Cooper and Harry Davis. Mr. and Mrs.' Lee Wright and their son, Bob, of Vallejo, Calif., spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Mike Loftus. The Wrights formerly lived on the Little Ap plegate. Jim Horn arrived here from Milwaukee, Wis., last Friday, and spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Brien. Horn was recently hired by the forest service in Union Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Arion Christen sen of Applegate left last Mon day for a two week trip to Iowa, where they will be visiting their families. There will be an executive meeting of the Applegate PTA's members and their families at the Applegate school cafeteria, on Friday, April 27, at 8 p.m. Edward Milam of Sterling creek and Edwin Hinkle of Jacksonville started to work for the forest service this week. Mrs. Hugh Scovell, Mrs. Ger ald Buck and Mrs. Edward Fin ley, all of Upper Applegate, are going to Gold Hill this Saturday to attend the Grange memorial services. Sunday visitors at the Rolland Smith residence were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McKee and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Eslinger and their daughter, Joan, all of Medford. The Applegate school students of Hugh Clark and Ralph Hol brook's rooms will attend the Festival at Southern college in Ashland on Musical Oregon May 4. W. L. fell off Shannon of Applegate his horse last week, when the horse tripped over a wire which was hidden from sight in the grass. Shannon's col lar bone was torn loose from his shoulder, and he went to the Sacred Heart hospital. Last Sun day he returned home and is improving gradually. Visitors at the Byron I. Pef fley residence are Mr. and Mrs. Dean Warden from Anchorage, Alaska. Peffley, who is the new clerk dispatcher at the Star Ranger station, also came from Anchorage, where the friendship of the Wardens and Peffleys be gan. The Wardens will be stay ing here approximately a week, and then return to Minneapolis, Minn., where they originally came from. Ed H. Fossen of Upper Apple gate who has been leader of the Ruch 4-H Livestock club for the last four years, became estab lished in 4-H work back in Ait kin, Minn., in the early 1920s. At that time, one county agent handled all the children, and there were no individual groups, as we know them today. Fossen has chalked up several awards during his 4-H activities. He was first place winner for five years, I and each time was awarded a trip to the state fair in St. Paul, Minn. As a result of a judging at the state fair, he was awarded a trip to Chicago to the National Livestock exposition. Another time, a newspaper awarded him a trip to the Dairy Congress in Milwaukee, Wis. Then there came a temporary lull in Fossen's 4-H activities, when he sold his 4-H herd of five cows and used the money to marry Mrs. Fossen. Today the Fossens maintain a grade A dairy consisting of 26 cows. The Ruch Livestock club, which has 10 members, meets twice a month, after school, at the Fossen residence. 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