In the corn contest for 1913, Francis Winn of Wellen, Jackson County, won first prize. As a result of his winnings at the fairs, he was enabled to attend high school during the entire year of 1914. The prize won at the State Fair, a full-blooded Poland China pig, under good care, came to maturity and produced ten young pigs, which sold for a good price. The money earned enabled Francis to pay his way in school the past year.
    This year the first prize again went to Jackson County, Claus Charley of Brownsboro being the successful contestant at the State Fair. We give herewith his own story and his figures, showing the cost and returns:
    "After manuring the ground I plowed it as soon as it was in good shape, which was March 17, letting it lay up rough for about three weeks. This was after a rain, and I worked it down with a spike tooth harrow. In about ten days I repeated the example with a disc harrow, and about four days before planting I ran over it with a pulverizer, which left the soil in fine shape for a seed bed.
    "I planted the corn April 25, with a two-row horse corn planter, planting it about three inches deep with about three grains to the hill.
    "I again used the harrow about a week after planting to loosen up the packed places made by the planter, and also to hold the weeds in check until the corn was large enough to cultivate. After this I used a two-horse hoe cultivator, cultivating it May 18, and June 1, each time a few days after a rain, so as to prevent capillary evaporation. Then I put the final finish and touch on it with the old hoe June 19, cutting the weeds and now and then breaking off a sucker."

	5.87 bushels common corn, at 90¢	$	5.26
	8 bushels seed corn, at $3.50		28.00
	Total receipts	$	33.26
	Cost		6.53
	Profit	$	26.73
	Profit per acre	$	212.14

    Audley Meyer also won a corn prize, being one of the few boys who carried two projects through to completion. His eighth of an acre of potatoes, however, won him the trip to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco. He raised his potatoes on land that had been cultivated for thirty years, proving beyond all question that new land is not required to produce good potatoes. Audley attended school and lost no time on account of his work--taking care of his corn and potatoes on Saturdays and evenings after school. He plowed his ground May 1, and double disked and harrowed it well. His ground was plowed deep, about 12 inches, and his potatoes were planted deep. He planted one piece with two eyes in a hill and eighteen inches apart in the row. The rows were three feet apart. One hundred and twenty-five pounds of seed were used, which Audley bought of his father at 50 cents per hundredweight. The ground was hoed twice, cultivated twice and irrigated three times.
    The yield from this eighth of an acre amounted to 4,136 pounds, which, at the market price at the time, brought him $62.94. The cost of production was $14.00, which included wages to himself for all work done, leaving a net profit of $47.98 on one-eighth of an acre, or at the rate of $383.84 per acre, not including the small potatoes, which were of considerable value. How many farmers beat Audley Meyer the past year, and how many Oregon boys will be able to get into his class the coming year? How many will try, not only to do as well, but to excel Audley Meyer in the production of potatoes for the 1915 State Fair?
Industrial Club Work of Oregon Boys and Girls, 1915, pages 12-13  Photos of the prize winners are in the original.


    John Minter returned from Portland last week and brought his sister, Mrs. Clearwater, with him and they two have moved into her place near Reese Creek. Ed Spencer came in on the same car and went out to his mother's, Mrs. Chris Wooley.
    Quite a number of our citizens have been having trouble with their water pipes on account of the cold snap we have had. In many instances the pipes would burst and let the water flow over the rooms, and in several instances the pipes froze up so that they could get no water at all and then they would have to carry their water from the creek or nearby wells. Our coldest weather was so that the thermometer registered six above zero, but that is the first time for a great many years that it has been so low.
    Prof. C. E. Johnson, principal of the Table Rock school, came over Saturday eve, spent Sunday here and attended church and Sunday school, and Monday went up to his homestead along the P.&E.R.R. to spend a few days there.
    Speaking about church brings to my mind the fact that Rev. L. L. Simmons and family were not forgotten by their many friends on the occasion when we had our Christmas tree exercises and wishes me through the Eaglets in the Mail Tribune to express their high appreciation of their kindness.
    C. E. McDonald and S. E. McDonald, his brother, came in on the car last Monday and took the E.P. and Persist stage for their brother's ranch near the mouth of Elk Creek on Rogue River. Dr. C. E. McDonald has been in Alabama during the past season and has come back here to stay; says that this Rogue River Valley has the finest climate of any country he has ever found, and he has traveled over a very large portion of the United States and Canada. Says that in Alabama the weather is suffocating and the air seems to be so stifling that one can hardly breathe and that the mosquitoes are a fright up to about Christmas. He is surely boosting Jackson County.
    James Culbertson came out last Monday from his home in the Lake Creek country after his daughter, Miss Mabel, who has been spending Christmas with friends in Medford.
    Frank Lewis, who is keeping a pool room and confectionery store in our town, has been taking advantage of the cold snap and has put up a quantity of ice for summer use, but a few days ago he had the misfortune to run a nail into his foot, but at last accounts was getting along well with it.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Witther of Spokane, Wash., arrived here last Saturday the 26th to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stewart. Mrs. Witther was formerly Mrs. Libby Elkmeyer nee Libby Perry, one of the seven sisters known at the time of the reunion of the G.A.R. here a few years ago as the Perry girls that favored us with such fine vocal music, and her many friends here gave her a warm greeting.
    Sherman Wooley brought in last Tuesday three crates of chickens for our local R.R. agent, F. I. Newport.
    Mrs. Fred Lewis, hostess of the Lewis Bros. farm near Wellen, who has been spending a few days on the farm with her children during the holidays, went to Medford Tuesday p.m. She has been spending most of the time during the winter in Medford so that her children could take advantage of the good schools there. She left the two older boys on the farm, as they wanted to remain as long as they could but will return to their studies by the 4th of January.
    Tuesday we had among us Wm. Gore, Geo. B. Carpenter, S. Storey, J. W. Collins and I. E. D. Bundel, who were out here in the interest of the sugar beet industry, and there was a company of about fifty met them in Geo. Brown & Sons' hall and heard the subject discussed from the standpoint of the industry. Mr. Gore was the principal speaker and he went into the details explaining approximately the cost of production, and some of the advantages the farmer would derive if the project would succeed. There were six of the farmers that signed up for a little over thirty acres and there is quite a number who will take an interest in the move after they have had time to think over and examine into the matter. As there are many of the readers of the Eaglets that were not here to hear Mr. Gates talk, and I would have been glad to have had every farmer in this section of the country to have heard it, I will give a few points he presented. In the first place he did not try to make us believe that we could go right to work and raise sugar beets on any kind of soil but that the soil must be passed upon by an expert, for the company does not want to have a big lot of land signed up that will not produce what they want, and this testing is free of charge. Then after the soil has been approved it is to be plowed very deep and still better to go still deeper and tear up the under strata or subsoil and he figured that expense at three dollars an acre and then the harrowing and leveling, etc., he placed at two dollars more, then the planting, weeding, etc., making a long story short he estimated at $35 an acre. That is supposed to include all of the expenses from the first to last. And there was another difficulty appeared and that was that one man could not tend to a very large tract and would have the means to hire, and then the company would furnish the necessary help and charge it against the crop, and that an acre of land would produce $75 worth of beets and all of the expense would amount to only $35 an acre so that the producer would realize $40 an acre clear for his work. He then told of some of the other benefits to be derived from the move and one item was 18,000 cords of wood that they would have to have and a vast quantity of lime, and all of these would require the labor of a large number of men and thus be of benefit not only to those in the immediate vicinity of the plant but would help the business in the entire valley. But I see that I am getting this letter entirely too long but will perhaps have more to say on the subject later on.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 1, 1915, page 4


    The last time that I wrote I was trying to tell something about what the sugar beet men, who had come out from Medford last Tuesday, had to say in favor of the enterprise but found that my letter was getting too long, so that I think it best to stop short, but I will add at this time that there seemed to be a lot of deep thinking along that line and after having talked with Frank Brown on the subject had concluded that there is more interest taken in the subject than would appear on the first of the move. I find that the people are taking interest enough in the project to begin to talk it over among themselves, and that is a good sign. I was talking to one of our citizens on the subject, and he is a man of means, and he remarked that if the plant was established that foreigners would have to be brought in to do the work so he could see no advantage in trying to promote the move. But let us admit for the sake of argument that foreign labor would have to be brought in to do the work. Those who are already here would surely derive some benefit from it for it would cause money to be put into circulation and create a demand for more of the products of the soil, as well as cause more of a rotation in crops and a greater demand for what we produce in other lines of business. One thing the move cannot do any special damage and bids fair to bring good results.
    Carl Narregan and wife, Miss Hazel Brown, Miss Lorene Taylor and Mrs. Howlett went to Medford Tuesday afternoon on business.
    Tuesday night Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Knowles of Medford, W. E. Coleman of Phoenix, W. T. Walden of Medford, O. G. Maxfield of Edgewood, Cal., and Mr. G. W. McCallister of Butte Falls spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Sam Jackson of Yakima, Wash., came in last Wednesday to visit his brother, J. B. Jackson, and was given a cordial greeting by his old-time friends. He was formerly in business here and was burned out.
    Last Wednesday Mrs. A. N. Thomas, one of our old-time settlers, gave a dinner in honor of the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Welther. Mrs. Welther is one of the seven Perry sisters, and on the occasion invited Mr. and Mrs. Norman McQuoid, and daughter Miss Norma, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nichols and their two daughters, Thelma and Garnett, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grover and two daughters, Verta and Ruth. The last three married ladies named are sisters of Mr. Welther. She also invited Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Wolfer, Miss Lorene Taylor, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Knighten and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Howlett. Perhaps it is not best for me to try to describe the kind of a time we had, for I am sure I could not do the subject justice, for we had one of those good old-fashioned times when dull care was cast to the winds and all were bent on trying to enjoy life and help the neighbors to take part in the enjoyment, and so far as the dinner was concerned Mrs. Thomas is celebrated for her perfection in the culinary art.
    Wednesday evening, our regular prayer meeting night, we had an unusually good turnout, and at the close of the meeting the members of the Baptist church held their annual business meeting and among other things in their business line elected the trustees for the church for the coming year, namely W. G. Knighten, Dr. W. W. P. Holt, W. L. Childreth, Charles Painter and A. C. Howlett.
    Thursday Miss Alma Gould of Medford, who is teaching in Lake Creek, returned to her school and Prof. C. E. Johnson, who came out from his homestead on Wednesday, went on to Medford on the P.&E.
    Thursday, December 31st, being Mrs. Howlett's and our daughter Hattie's birthday and while we spent the day in regular routine of duties about 7:00 o'clock p.m. while everything was quiet and I was sitting in the parlor talking to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Gray of Medford, who had come out to attend a masque ball that was given that night, all at once I heard a company come marching into the room and on looking over the company discovered that it was a company of our neighbors coming in to tender congratulations to my wife and daughter Hattie on their birthday, led by M. A. Thomas, and right along behind him were Charles Painter and wife and son Walter, M. S. Wood and wife, W. B. Bryant, wife and son Harry and daughter Katrena, Rev. L. L. Simmons, wife and daughter, Miss Bernice, Dr. W. E. Buchanan, son Edgar, Carl and Vaughn Quackenbush, Miss Fern Daley, Mrs. E. S. Wolfer and G. W. Wamsley. Well, after congratulations were extended and all hands were made welcome, M. A. Thomas, Mrs. Howlett and a few of the more sedate ones quietly disappeared and the rest of the company settled down to enjoy the evening, some playing checkers, some dominoes and the younger ones rook and the rest engaged in conversation. Suddenly M. A. Thomas came in and began to count noses and found that there were just 24 and in the course of a few moments the order came for all hands to retire to the kitchen to pull candy. They had brought with them a lot of sugar and had made a big kettle of candy. Well then the fun commenced, and after pulling candy for a while they returned to the parlor for music. I should have said that different ones kept the phonograph going the most of the time during the evening, but now we managed to get Miss Bernice Simmons to the organ and with her father, Mr. and Mrs. Bryant and son Harry, Mrs. Wolfer and a few others we had some choice singing, and thus the time was spent until someone announced the advent of the year 1915. Then Mrs. Howlett invited the company out to take ham sandwiches and coffee and at 12:40 a.m. the company began to disperse, but before they went stopped long enough to tender congratulations to Mrs. Charles Painter, as New Year's Day 1915 was her 47th birthday. So thus ended the year 1914 and began the new year 1915, and as we parted they all wished Mrs. Howlett and Hattie many returns of the 31st of December.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 4, 1915, page 5


    Boyd Tucker and family returned home New Year's Day from a fortnight's visit with Sams Valley relatives.
    The Trail telephone line, No. 16, held their annual meeting at the Central school house Monday. John Houston was elected president, Dave Pence vice-president, and Edwin Peile secretary-treasurer.
    Alex Vestal and Pearl Stowell were pleasant callers at the French home recently.
    Mr. and Mrs. Henry French were shopping in Eagle Point Tuesday.
    E. E. Ash took up a load of supplies a few days ago.
    Joe Phipps and Mr. Boothby of Prospect were down to Ed Foster's Sunday.
    Bird Johnston was in Medford Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jasper spent several days in Central Point this week.
    Mr. Croft is visiting his parents.
    Miss Velma Hannah is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Frank Miller, of Central Point this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Houston were Medford visitors the last of the week.
    Mrs. Van Dyke, Mrs. Daw and son Jack and Harry Skyrman made a business trip to Medford a few days ago.
    T. C. Gaines went to the valley Tuesday.
    Harry Coffeen and wife returned home to Sisson, Cal., Wednesday after spending a week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Coffeen
Medford Mail Tribune, January 4, 1915, page 5


    Jail life and jail fare is agreeing with Loris Martin, held in the city jail accused of the slaying of Game Warden A. S. Hubbard, last December. He is gaining weight. This is not surprising, for most of his life has been spent in the vigorous exercise of tramping over snow-clad hills attending to his widely scattered traps. His detention is a rest. Apparently Martin is not worrying over the outcome of the trial. His plea will be self-defense. Martin is a great favorite with his fellow prisoners. He has a bank account and is able to buy tidbits not on the jail bill of fare, such as sugar.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1915, page 2


    I have noticed during the past few days that the people are discussing the possibility, probability and advisability of going into the business of raising sugar beets in Rogue River Valley. Some of them of the more conscious kind say they think that it would be a fine thing for the valley if everything works O.K., but whether we can make it a success or not in this section is the question. Since I last wrote for the Mail Tribune I have, in a sly way, been noting what has been said on the subject and find that quite a number of our citizens have been not experimenting but growing the sugar beet in their gardens and some on a larger scale for stock feed and some claim that they have raised them as large as a stove pipe, six inches in diameter, while others claim that they can be raised to profit simply to feed their cows, and we all know who have had any experience with sheep that the beet is one of the best plants grown for sheep. While I call attention to the articles in the two leading papers in the country, the Medford Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun, some of the wiseacres will say, oh, that is only newspaper talk, but when it comes to talking with men who have had a practical experience of ten or fifteen years, and that have made good money out of it, this should be considered positive evidence in the case, and if the company is willing to invest half a million dollars in the venture I can't see how the farmer is taking a very great risk in planting a few acres, for even if the sugar plant proves to be a failure the beets can be utilized as food for stock, but there seems to be no grounds for fear as our soil will produce almost anything that we put into the ground. In concluding this part of my letter I will suggest that the authorities offer a special prize to the boy or girl who will raise the best one hundred pounds of sugar beets to be exhibited at the school fair next fall.
    Miss Hattie Riley, living near the lower Antelope bridge on the E.P.-Medford road, lost a ladies' satchel containing $27 and a gold ring with an old-fashioned English W on it.
    Rev. L. L. Simmons announced last Sunday night that Rev. Douglas of Grants Pass would commence a series of meetings here in the Baptist church on Monday, January 18 at 7 p.m.
    Welden Sage, who has been engaged with Mr. Dodge in the well boring business, came in Monday morning for breakfast.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nunan of Jacksonville were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. von der Hellen last Sunday.
    T. F. McCabe, one of the wide-awake farmers and orchardists, who owns a farm on Rogue River about five miles above here, was here for dinner Monday and took the P.&E. for Medford.
    Last Sunday we had services in the Catholic church, Rev. Wm. J. Meagher officiating.
    Gus Smith, who has been working over in California for some time, came in and spent a few days at the Sunnyside and on Monday went out to the country.
    Henry French, one of our hustling farmers, orchardists and gardeners, was in town last Monday, and while here renewed his sub to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Gus Rosenberg, the Eagle Point well digger, gave me his sub to the Daily Mail Tribune last Monday. He wants to start the year right, so begins with reading the leading newspaper of Southern Oregon.
    Green and Grant Mathews, who have farms on the routes between here and Trail, were in town last Monday.
    V. E. Baitson, who lives on the Vatche farm on Rogue River, was in town trying to sell some hides to our local buyer, Jake Jones, last Monday.
    Wig Jacks, son-in-law of our mayor, John Nichols, was doing business with our merchants last Monday.
    W. H. Crandall brought in a lot of apples last Monday and traded them to Mr. Echenburg for a fine fat hog.
    The mask ball proved to be a grand success, I am informed. There were over a hundred tickets sold and everyone, so far as I can learn, was satisfied unless it would be that the hall is too small for the crowds that attend; there is a complaint that they were so crowded that they trod on one another.
    Miss Cora Crandall is the guest of Mrs. Wm. Brown at this writing.
    Mrs. Thomas Cingcade was doing business last Monday with our merchants.
    Word has just come Tuesday 11 o'clock a.m. that Wm. Messal's little boy had his arm broken. It is not the one who was here so long getting over an operation for appendicitis, but an older one. It does seem as though their troubles do not come single.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 8, 1915, page 7


    Lee Farlow went to California last week to visit friends.
    R. H. Bradshaw and Jess Allen have rented Frank Farlow's sawmill and will begin to saw this week.
    O. Tyrrell of Hornbrook, Cal., is visiting his brother, John Tyrrell.
    The dance at the South Butte hall was attended by a large crowd.
    Mike Sidley was at Eagle Point last Tuesday.
    Gus Nygren went to Eagle Point on business last Tuesday.
    A. R. Chase, accompanied by Mr. Pitman of the State Normal, will visit the schools of this vicinity during the latter part of the week.
    Theodore Hoeft hauled a load of wood to Medford last Monday.
    Miss Eva Kinney spent Christmas with Miss Blanch Burleson.
    Miss Fay Slinger of Medford attended the dance at South Butte hall New Year's Eve.
    Mr. Colby of Lake Creek went to Medford last Monday on business.
    Floyd Charley, Bill Holman, Tom Stanley and Helen Sidley attended the dance at Eagle Point New Year's eve.
    Miss Margaret Schell started to high school Monday.
    Miss Marie Newstrom and father went to Medford last Tuesday.
    Samuel Randles, an old residenter of Butte Creek, after being away for many years, has returned on a visit.
    The oldest son of Willie Messal's while playing fell and broke his arm. He was taken to Medford to have it set.
    The neighbors of this community got together Saturday evening, December 26, and went and surprised Tom Farlow and family. The party was a great success and everybody had a very enjoyable time.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 8, 1915, page 7


    Mrs. Ed Tucker and her daughter Mildred spent the last of the week with James Martin's family of Rogue River.
    Mrs. C. B. Stout and daughter Ora have been out here from their home in Jacksonville visiting some of their friends, among whom were Mr. F. F. Boltz, W. G. Knighten and Mrs. Howlett. This is the first time they have been out here for a year and they found quite a number of changes had taken place.
    Mike Sedley, one of the Lake Creek farmers and stock raisers, came out with a fine lot of ducks for our railroad and express agent, F. Newport. He has been doing quite a business this fall in the poultry trade and causes several dollars to be scattered around.
    Rudolph Pech, also of Lake Creek, came out and when he returned had some new furniture in his wagon.
    Our school is progressing finely under the management of Prof. W. E. Buchanan, assisted by Miss Minnie B. Taylor and Mrs. George von der Hellen. I herewith give the roll of honor for the month of December.
    First room, W. E. Buchanan, teacher, John Greb, Nellie Coy, Lawrence Luy, Nina McIntosh and Walter Painter. These were all perfect in deportment and were neither absent nor tardy.
    Room two, Miss Minnie B. Taylor, teacher, Miss Ruth Grover, Mamie Winkle, Rufort Simmon, William Coy, Lloyd Cingcade, Bon Buchanan, Harold Van Scoy, Elsworth Stowell, Lyle Van Scoy, Judge Florey, Nora Childreth, Kee Buchanan, Margaret Riley and Freda Lebs.
    Room three, Mrs. von der Hellen's department, Lova Buchanan, Katrina Bryant, Loetta Truelove, Gwendolyn Brophy, Nelva Simmons, Alvin Greb, Clarence Greb, Donald von der Hellen, Hugo von der Hellen, Dennis Truelove, Ansil Pearce and Johnny Phillips.
    John Smith, of the Harnish Livery Stable, has been taking a layoff and went to Butte Falls to visit his children and grandchildren and while he was gone they had a masque ball in our town and of course quite a number of horses to look after and the question came up, "How are we to run this stable without John?" But they did and no one was hurt and they all had a good time, and John says that he had the time of his life.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rader were out last week visiting his brother John, his niece and nephew Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Fred Dutton and shaking hands with old-time friends.
    P. M. Kershaw, representing the Oregon Granite Co. of Medford, was out here for dinner Wednesday and while here took an order for a monument from W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith.
    I omitted to state in my last that Mrs. W. E. Buchanan had returned from her visit to Butte Falls.
    Owing to the scarcity of rain the wells and springs are failing and John Greb has gone to work to dig his well down deeper. He has to blast, and the rock is the hard granite.
    Some of our people out this way are very much interested in the Medford charter but several of them say they will be glad when the election is over so that we will have more news in the Medford papers and not so much of a strictly local issue.
    Earl Croft, the foreman of the Cooley orchard, was in town Thursday and renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Taking the Daily Mail Tribune is like some of the bad habits, say smoking or chewing tobacco; once they form the habit they seem to want to keep it up, at least it seems that way out in these parts.
    Fred Dutton was here smiling on his many friends about the middle of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 11, 1915, page 5


    The annual telephone meeting of Eagle Point line 5 was held at the residence of Eugene Bellows January 2. Henry French was elected president: Peter Betz, vice-president; and Ed Foster, secretary-treasurer. The Mrs. O. Nichols phone share was sold to Green Mathews. An assessment of 50 cents a share was voted. Next annual meeting each shareholder is to bring his better half and a lunch.
    Dave Pence, road supervisor of district 14 for 1914, attended commissioners' court at Jacksonville this week.
    John Houston and M. Slusser attended the telephone convention at Central Point as delegates of Trail line No. 16.
    Mesdames French, Howard, Betz and Foster called on Mrs. Bellows Saturday.
    Gus Smith of Sams Valley called at the French home a few days ago.
    Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mathews spent several days with his brother, Green Mathews, this week.
    Everyone has been sorting out the frozen potatoes and giving piggie an extra feed.
    Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bergman returned to their home in Irving Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Howard called at the Slusser ranch Saturday.
    Miss Murl Coffeen spent Saturday with Mrs. Wallace Coffeen.
    Misses Helen and Margery Coffeen were the guests of Miss Margaret Howard Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 11, 1915, page 5


    A. P. Chase, one of our school supervisors, and W. S. Pitman, a member of the faculty of the normal school of Monmouth, were here last Friday evening for supper on their way to Brownsboro, where Mr. Pitman was booked for a lecture that night.
    Last Thursday the lodge of I.O.O.F. had their regular meeting in their hall and installed the following officers: Harrison Hess, N.G.; W. L. Childreth, V.G.; W. E. Buchanan, secretary, G. H. Wamsley, treasurer; George Phillips, warden; Floyd Pearce, conductor; E. Coy, I.G.; L. E. Smith, O.G.; Roy Ashpole, R.S.N.G.; Ray Harnish, L.S.N.G.; Nick Young, R.S.V.G.; John Foster, L.S.V.G.; Jed Edsall, R.S.S.; Roy Smith, L.S.S.: L. L. Simmons, chaplain. They also initiated Professor C. E. Johnson and Thomas Vestal into the order. From all appearances we have one of the best lodges, or rather two of the best, for we must not forget to mention the Rebekahs, in the country, and from what I can learn as an outsider, they have as fine times there as anyone could wish.
    J. F. Lewis of Prospect was out and spent the night here last Friday.
    J. L. Kershaw, who is living on Antelope Creek, was in town on business last week.
    Mrs. Mary Terrill of Brownsboro was also doing business with our merchants at the same time.
    In conversation with one of our leading business men last week on the subject of the sugar beet industry, I remarked that there were acres of fine beet land up on Little Butte, and I thought that the people up there would take hold of an enterprise of that kind, but he said, yes, he was sure they would if it was not for that Nygren hill. There is one of the greatest drawbacks to that fine country, that is peopled by a class of citizens that would be a credit to any country. That Nygren hill is a long, very rough, steep hill that can be cut out of the way with but little expense, but as it is now, the farmers living up on Little Butte say that if it was not for that hill they could bring out 3000 to 3500 pounds easier than they can now bring out 1500 to 1800 pounds. But I suppose that the authorities think that the road, originally a deer trail, has always been there, and so will just have to let it stay.
    George Lytle, a brother-in-law of Mrs. D. Cingcade, who has been in San Francisco, Cal., being treated for a cancer, has returned and is now a guest of Mr. Cingcade. He seems to thing that he is all right now.
    John Downs of Butte Falls and Matthew Hawkinson of Medford called Sunday for dinner, the former on his way to Butte Falls and the latter to Joseph Hannah's, on Rogue River.
    Mrs. Carter of Ashland, a sister of Mrs. Clay Cole, has been visiting her sister and took the P.&E. car Saturday for her home.
    C. E. Hammond of Phoenix came out on the car from Butte Falls Saturday with his two blooded hounds. He went up to try to catch a panther that was prowling around the country, but he said that the deer tracks were so thick that he was afraid to turn them loose, as he does not want them to learn to run deer.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wetther, who have been visiting her brother, William Perry, returned to our town on Saturday.
    Mrs. Frank Tungate of Jacksonville came out Saturday and went on up to visit her sister, Mrs. F. J. Ayres. Mrs. William Perry also came out to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres.
    Miss Hazel Brown gave a birthday party to her cousin, Miss Allison Officer, last Friday evening. There were only a few invited guests, and besides her, Miss Officer's mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien were Miss Gladys Natwick and Miss Maud Corlies.
    I took a little spin around last Friday and Saturday to see what I could do in the interest of the Mail Tribune, and among the first I met was Charles Cingcade, who renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune; then Joe Moomaw, he also renewed his subscription to the Weekly M.T., and on Saturday I interviewed F. T. Newport, and he renewed his subscription to the Daily M.T., and then Mrs. Jude Mayham, when she paid me $1.50 for a year's subscription to the Weekly M.T., and later in the day secured the subscription of C. Hoogerhyde, our shoe cobbler. He has been reading the Oregonian, but stopped that paper for one that he thinks is more reliable. And then Saturday night I took in the picture show that is open every Saturday night. There was a nice audience and everyone seemed to be well pleased with the performance. After the show was over the seats were removed and those who felt so disposed spent a while in a social dance. One redeeming feature of the dances here is that there is a man kept at the entrance who is to keep anyone out who is under the influence of liquor. I noticed among the attendance quite a number of the people from the country, and among them was Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush, who have just returned from a visit to his parents in Michigan. He had a little experience with the cold weather back there when the thermometer registered 30 below zero. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson (Mr. H. is the foreman on the Orton orchard, north of town) and Guy Bishop of Butte Falls were also in attendance, beside others too numerous to mention.
    There was a little social party at Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Clements' last Saturday night, when by mutual consent Mrs. J. V. McIntyre and Mrs. George von der Hellen prepared some refreshments and the two families met at the Clements home and had a royal feast and a splendid social time, one of the little bright spots in life.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1915, page 5


    Last Thursday and Friday, Mr. Chase and Mr. Pitman visited the schools of the vicinity. The chief purpose of Mr. Pitman's visit was to get an idea of what the rural schools were doing and what their requirements were. This way he could get an idea of how the teachers should be prepared at the state normal. He seemed to be especially interested in the arithmetic classes.
    He gave some very rousing lectures while visiting several of the schools, the first being made at Brownsboro, where there was quite a crowd present. He spoke on the subject of standardizing rural schools, telling what the schools should be and how the teachers should be prepared. The most interesting part of his speech was the comparison of the schools and school teachers of the present time with those fifty years ago. He not only aroused great [omission], but his lecture was mingled with a countless number of jokes and toasts which brought the whole house down with laughter.
    Everyone was pleased with his lecture and said that he was the best speaker that they had ever heard.
    Mr. Chase and Mr. Pitman visited the Butte Creek school Friday, January 8. They got here just as school was taking up in the morning. They heard the arithmetic class recite.
    About 10:30 o'clock Charles Terrill brought his thoroughbred Belgian stallion up to the schoolhouse. Mr. Chase then took charge of things and they had a horse judging contest. Each of the pupils had a score card and judged according to the specified items on the card. The horse scored all the way up from 80 to 90.
    This horse is a royal Belgian, raised by the king of Belgium. He was imported to Oregon by the Denver Horse Importing Company. The horse will be 8 years old in February and weighs about 1800 pounds.
    Mr. Pitman made a speech to the school, which made all the scholars nearly kill themselves from laughing. They left about noon, and you may be assured that the school was very sorry to have such a fine speaker leave.
    Friday evening, January 8, Mr. Chase and Mr. Pitman made a speech in the Lake Creek schoolhouse. Mr. Chase was the first on the program. He talked about the improvement of country schools and the need of a union high school in this vicinity. He talked about the attendance in the Lake Creek school, stating that in the past three months there was a gain of 4 percent over the term of six months' school last year.
    Miss Julia and Helen Sidley were pleasant callers at the home of Mrs. H. A. Meyer last Thursday.
    Gus Edler of Lake Creek returned home after spending a few days in Medford.
    There was a dance at the home of Charles Terrill last Saturday night. A good time was reported.
    When he finished speaking Mr. Pitman came to the front and began his speech, which consisted of a good variety of jokes that brought to view some important points in school life. He told of the use of a normal school in instructing teachers, the need of supervisors and the assistance of the school board. He told how the parents could aid in keeping a good attendance in school and why the school board should pull together in building up the school and making it more interesting for the teacher and pupils.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 1, 1915, page 5


    James Ringer, one of our old-time citizens, has disposed of his property here and gone to Portland to live. His many friends here regret to lose him from our midst. He has been one of the standbys in the I.O.O.F. lodge here and I heard more than one remark how they missed him.
    Chris Bergman, one of our progressive farmers who has a farm on the Eagle Point and free ferry road, came out the first of the week with a lot of dressed chickens and shipped them to the San Francisco market. He found the mud so heavy that he concluded to remain overnight with us.
    Paul Vandyke, who is farming the Stone House ranch on Rogue River, the old J. E. Enyart ranch, was here for dinner the first of the week.
    J. M. McAllister of Butte Falls passed through here Tuesday, the 12th instant, in company of his oldest son on their way to his old home in Oklahoma. The old gentleman has been afflicted many years with Bright's disease and he wanted to go back to his old home before he dies. Fears are entertained that he will not survive the trip.
    E. G. Hughes, one of the Butte Falls merchants, and J. A. Howard spent Tuesday night with us on their way to Medford and Mr. Hughes returned to the Sunnyside the same night but Mr. Howard remained in Medford one night but spent Thursday night with us.
    Benjamin Fredenburg of Butte Falls also came out and went to Medford Tuesday but came back here Wednesday night.
    Henry French and wife were doing business with our merchants last Tuesday.
    Our town council met last Tuesday evening and the finance committee of the old council made their report but it was not acted on as the report had to go through the hands of the new finance committee, so we are still at sea as to how our finances are in our town.
    D. A. Lyons of Central Point and N. O. Larking of Los Angeles, Cal., came out Wednesday and took the Eagle Point and Persist stage to go up in the neighborhood of the Buzzard mine.
    Tuesday, January 12, the Rebekah lodge of Eagle Point had their regular meeting and initiated the following officers: Miss Mae Trusty, N.G.; Mrs. Minnie Bryant, V.G.; Mrs. Lottie McQuoid, recording secretary; Mrs. Sarah E. Howlett, treasurer; Mrs. Varian Jonas, financial secretary; Miss Samantha Minter, warden; Miss Loretta Childreth, conductor; Mrs. Nettie Grover, chaplain; Miss Hattie Howlett, R.S.N.G.; Mrs. Rosa Smith, L.S.N.G.; Mrs. Anna Bacon, R.S.V.G.; Mrs. Rachel Wood, L.S.V.G.; Mrs. Mae Painter, I.G.; and Miss Mabel Taylor, O.G. After the ceremony was over they had lunch served and their usual good time. It seems that the most of the members of the I.O.O.F. are also members of the Rebekah lodge, so they all have a good time together.
    Mrs. I. L. Greenwall of Washington is here visiting her sister, Mrs. J. R. Jackson.
    Mrs. Rebecca Jonas made the trip Thursday up beyond Big Butte Creek to spend a while with Mr. and Mrs. Art Nichols.
    Mrs. John Terrill of Lake Creek was here for dinner Thursday and took the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for her home on the same day.
    Mrs. George Nichols, Jr., of Lake Creek came out from Medford Friday and proceeded on her way up to her home the same day.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 18, 1915, page 5


    Mrs. Mary Martin and Mrs. Charles Skyrman were Central Point visitors this week.
    A bouncing baby arrived last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Storms of Elk Creek.
    Dave Pence was appointed road supervisor of district 14.
    Miss Florence Kincaid of Agate has been engaged to teach the Debenger Gap school for the spring term.
    Dr. Kirchgessner made a professional visit to northwestern parts of the state this week.
    Harry Merriman was a Medford visitor Wednesday.
    Norman and Miss Martha Gage are visiting the valley towns.
    Mrs. Daily and Miss Ina Hannah are visiting friends on Elk and Trail creeks.
    Dr. Conroy of Central Point came out in his auto Tuesday to Frank Johnson's to visit Miss Janie. Miss Janie was taken to the hospital in Medford.
    Miss Pollie Johnson returned home from Medford Friday.
    Miss Ora Raimey spent the week with her sister, Mrs. Frank Miller, of Central Point.
    Dr. Holt was called to the George Storms home Monday.
    John Cox is very low at his home below Trail. His son, of Eagle Point, stayed with him to help care for him.
    Miss Eula Houston was a Jacksonville visitor a few days ago.
    Mr. Croft's house caught fire from the stovepipe and burned the roof pretty badly and but for the quick and effective work of his sons the house would have soon been in ashes.
    Eugene Bellows was in Medford Friday and Mrs. Bellows visited with friends in Eagle Point.
    A valuable hound belonging to C. C. Gilchrist was found dead on a hill a few days ago. It had been shot.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 18, 1915, page 5


    Fred W. Davis of Portland spent the night with us last Friday and Saturday morning was met here by Rev. W. E. Smith of Medford and they went out to the Reese Creek school house where Mr. Smith has been holding a protracted meeting. Mr. Davis is known in the logging camps and railroad centers as Haywire Davis. He advertises himself on his cards as Haywire Davis D.D. (Devil Driver), the loggers' sky pilot of the Pacific Coast. He preached in the Reese Creek school house Saturday night, and Sunday during the time there was some interest manifest.
    James Kershaw of Antelope came out last Saturday with a quantity of cream for the Independence creamery. It seems strange that the dairymen of Southern Oregon should send their cream to those distant creameries while we have creameries in our own county and then the merchants send off to those far-off places for our butter. And still we cry, "Keep your money at home and don't send off for your goods!"
    J. B. Findley accompanied Mr. Kershaw on his trip to town.
    Benjamin Brophy, one of our prominent stockmen, was doing business with our merchants last Saturday and so was N. Gorman, the foreman on the Laidlaw orchard.
    A. A. Betz, one of our progressive citizens, was in town the last of the week and while here paid up his arrears on the Weekly Mail Tribune and also paid a year's subscription in advance.
    Pete Young, who owns a fine farm just southwest of our town, was also in town interviewing our merchants. He has a large tract of land that I think would prove to be good sugar beet land if it was tested. Speaking about the sugar beet, I notice in my intercourse with the people that they are still talking about it and some of them that seem to be greatly interested in the subject are simply hanging back waiting to see what the other fellow is going to do about it.
    Wm. Sears of Butte Falls spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside. He had been to Medford to get a contract for supplying one of the school houses with wood for next season. He went on up home Sunday morning.
    John Goodwyn of Medford and John P. Bowen of Illinois came out from Medford Sunday and took dinner at the Sunnyside. And so did Amos Ayres and Miss Mae Trusty, Mr. and Mrs. Clay Cole, Mr. Cole is the engineer on the P.&E., also Guy Bishop and a lady, a friend of Mrs. Cole, whose name I did not learn, and Wolden Sage and Mr. Holman, who lives near Climax, were with us Saturday night.
    J. R. Robison and his son were in town the last of the week and while here renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Last Monday Mrs. John Terrill of Medford, who went up to the Lost Creek country to visit her husband's parents, returned to her home in Medford. She was accompanied by her father-in-law and while he was here renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. Susan Hart and Mrs. John Stowell were doing business in our town Monday.
    Rev. Stephen A. Douglas, the pastor of the Baptist church of Grants Pass, commenced a series of meetings in the Baptist church of this place last Monday and expects to keep them up indefinitely. He is a very pleasant and forceful speaker and bids fair to accomplish some good here.
    One of my neighbors in commenting on an editorial in the Daily Mail Tribune of a recent date on the subject of prohibition in Russia asked me to inquire if the editor would advocate that kind of prohibition in Oregon.
    Mrs. W. E. Buchanan and children spent the evening with Mrs. Howlett while her husband was attending a meeting of the I.O.O.F. lodge.
    The weather is simply delightful out in our town.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 21, 1915, page 5


    Last Saturday Charles Terrill and son Dalton went up to their mountain ranch to repair their fences. They stated that the snow was 12 inches deep at McCallister's saw mill.
    Last Sunday there was a large crowd of people from Medford gathering agates near Brownsboro.
    Lee Farlow of South Butte, who has been on a trip to California, returned home last week.
    Wm. Messal's little boy, who had his arm broken, is getting along nicely. They brought him home last week.
    Lloyd E. Stanley, a member of the Butte Creek school, took the final eighth grade examination last Thursday and Friday.
    Glen Terrill is absent from school this week, as he is helping his father put up a shed.
    Otto Meyer and Herman Meyer, Jr., went down to Clay Barker's last Friday to have some blacksmith work done.
    Claus Charley was in Medford last Monday on business.
    Reed Charley returned from Eagle Point last Friday with a load of wire fence.
    Otto Meyer attended Sunday school at the Lake Creek school house last Sunday. When Sunday school was over he went up to Mr. Colby's. Here he spent the rest of the day.
    Mrs. Wm. Hoeft and Maude Miller were pleasant callers at the Lake Creek school last Monday.
    Walter Charley of Climax went to Eagle Point Tuesday to send off some more of his patents.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 22, 1915, page 5


    Ed S. Wolfer started for Anita, Ia., last Wednesday, but before he started he paid up a little balance on his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and renewed his subscription for another year, so that when he is resting from his labors he can read about the happenings around his old home. His family will remain here with Mrs. Wolfer's parents until the school closes in Medford, as his stepdaughter, Miss Lorene Walker, is attending the high school there. Mr. Wolfer expects to spent the time until about the first of February in the Willamette Valley with his parents before proceeding on his journey to Iowa.
    The same day, Wednesday, Frank Manning, who has a fine farm on the Rogue River near Peyton, started to visit his father in Wyoming, whom he has not seen for twenty years, and his father is now past 80 years of age.
    Miss Pearl Gould of Medford was with us Thursday for dinner on her way up to the Lake Creek country to visit her sister, Alma, who is teaching in the Lake Creek district.
    A man who gave his name as N. N. Lewis of Ashland passed through here with a small bunch of goats last Thursday, remaining overnight. I understood that he went while here to see Peter Young to try to buy his goats, but as to what success he had I cannot say.
    We have finally succeeded in having an electric light put over the door in front of the Baptist church, something that has been greatly needed for some time.
    George Owens and wife of Wellen were doing business in our town on Thursday. I forgot to say that I was in Medford on Wednesday, so cannot chronicle the events of that day.
    P.J. Parton, the owner of the famous Joe Rader farm, was in town on Thursday on business, and while here in conversation on the subject of the sugar beet remarked that if that project proved a success that it would be worth $5000 to him. That is the way the far-seeing men look at the venture.
    Jack Stowell and Peter were doing business with our merchants last Thursday.
    Thomas Riley, Jr., was in from his farm on Antelope Creek Friday after a load of lumber to put an addition on his father's house.
    Last Friday I overheard a conversation between two ladies, in which the principal speaker was relating her experience during a drive out in the country. The speaker is naturally quite nervous, and it appeared that she was going out riding with a lady friend and on their arrival at Mr. C.'s the lady friend proposed to tie the horse, and in so doing left the rope a little too loose, and when they came out to start home the horse had backed the buggy around, and in the changing of position the horse had got down in the black sticky mud, and the first thought was that the horse was dead, so what should the nervous lady do (we will call her Mrs. X.) but commence to scream for one of the neighbors, who finally was attracted by her cries, so he ran with all haste to her assistance, not knowing what the trouble was, and about that time the neighbor's brother and wife came in, and they also came to the rescue of the lady, and by the time the neighbors got close enough to talk to Mrs. X., exclaimed, "What is the matter with him, G.?" and his laconic reply was, "I not see him yet," but when they reached the horse he was lying quietly with his head under his side, and when straightened out stood and tried to shake the sticky off of him. During the time that G. was coming she ran to the phone and called up her brother and told him that C. was dead, so had the whole family excited over the pony getting down in the mud, but she drove him home, and while she was telling of the incident laughed as though she rather enjoyed the occurrence. But hereafter she will always tie her own horse.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Harnish, who have been up in Josephine County with Mrs. H.'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moomaw, returned Thursday. They used to live in this neighborhood. The old gentleman is one of the Dunkard preachers of that settlement. They have a Dunkard colony in that neighborhood and are all perfectly contented.
    John Meyer and wife of Lake Creek were here for dinner Friday, and I am glad to be able to say that Mrs. Meyer is gaining strength quite rapidly. She underwent an operation in Medford a few weeks ago.
    William Nussbaum, one of the progressive citizens of the Lake Creek country, was also here for dinner at the same time.
    William Daley, also of Lake Creek, was smiling on his friends Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Swen Berquist, who have a nice farm just west of town, about three miles, was here for dinner Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 25, 1915, page 5


    Mrs. T. Raimey and daughter, Miss Ora, were the guests of Miss Mima Hannah Friday.
    Everett Dahack gave a candy pulling as a farewell party Monday night. Quite a crowd was present and a merry time was had by all. Everett is going to Medford to live.
    Perry Foster sold 25 head of cattle to the Cottrell Bros. of the Meadows Friday.
    Mr. Wyant of Ashland spent a couple of days with his daughter, Mrs. Eugene Bellows, this week.
    Two daughters of John Cox have arrived from Texas and are helping to make his time pass as pleasantly as possible.
    Miss Eula Houston was a successful applicant at the last teachers' examination. She will teach in the Long Branch district.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Fry spent Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Howard.
    Pete Betz was an Eagle Point visitor Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Central Point spent Tuesday at the Raimey home.
    There were religious services at the Reese school house every night last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 25, 1915, page 5


    Floyd Charley was in Medford last Friday and Saturday on business.
    Ralph Stanley went to Eagle Point last Saturday after a load of wire fence.
    There was a surprise party at Mrs. Clay Charley's place last Saturday evening. There was quite a crowd present, everyone having a good time.
    W. B. Milam, who is spending the winter with his son, James Milam of Lake Creek, received a letter from his youngest son in Portland inquiring about the vacant land in Jackson County. His father gave him the following information: "There are plenty of hills and coarse sand, scrubby timber and sticky land."
    Otto Meyer of Lake Creek was in Eagle Point last Saturday having some dental work done.
    Miss Pearl Gould of Medford is spending a few days at Lake Creek visiting her sister, Miss Alma Gould, who is teaching the Lake Creek school.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Meyer of Lake Creek were in Eagle Point last Saturday on business.
    Ben Kingery is visiting J. D. Culbertson and family of Lake Creek this week.
    There was a dance at the home of Gus Nichols last Saturday night. Among those present were Tom Abbott and Miss Marie Newstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Will Nickell, Mr. and Mrs. Haworth, Will Holman and Miss Geneva Taylor.
    Thomas Stanley of Brownsboro has been reappointed road supervisor in this district.
    Mike Sidley, Jr., took a load of sheep to Jacksonville last Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 27, 1915, page 5


    J. S. Baker of Derby came out from Medford, where he is engaged in the employ of Gaddis & Dixon, the Page fence men, and spent the night with us last Saturday, going on up home before breakfast.
    Mrs. Jettie Clarno, who owns an interest in a farm near the Eagle Point and ferry road, came out last Saturday to have some dental work done on her little boy, spent the night with us, while her mother, Mrs. Bert Clarno, went over to spend the night with her son, Mr. Bergman.
    Last Saturday there was a petition circulated in our town to the members of the legislature asking them to vote for the house bill No. 1, to enable the people of the state to enforce the prohibition amendment and was generally signed by the people, and on Sunday the question was submitted to the congregation in the Baptist church and endorsed by a unanimous vote. In addition to that, there were several wrote to our representatives at Salem urging them to vote for the measure with the Porter amendment.
    Frank Johnson, who has a fine farm on the Rogue River at the mouth of Indian Creek and his daughter, Miss Susie, who has been in the hospital for the past week in Medford, and William Grieve, our efficient assessor, and B. E. Hoffman and Mrs. Julius Bedrock of Montague, Cal., came out on the P.&E. Monday morning and took the Eagle Point and Persist stage for the Elk Creek country. Messrs. Grieve and Hoffman were going up to the Elk Creek country to clear up some of the timber, so that the land can be properly placed on the assessor's book and try to unravel some of the tangles that are now filling the Medford papers, and Mrs. Bedrock is a sister of Louis Martin, who is now in the county jail on the charge of killing A. S. Hubbard, the game warden of Ashland. She was on her way up to visit her mother.
    Jack Florey, who has been up in Washington, returned the last of the week, and his mother, Mr. A. J. Florey, went to Jacksonville to see her new grandson that the stork brought to our county recorder, Chauncey Florey.
    Lyle Carlton, who is running his father's farm near Wellen, was in town Monday on business.
    Carl Murphy of Ashland was a visitor in our town the first of the week.
    Harry Conroy and Bert Higinbotham of Prospect drove into the Sunnyside Monday night for the night, and the next morning went on to Medford after two loads of grain for Bert. He never stops for rain, snow or mud, but keeps on going all the time, and that is the way he manages his business so well. He has two fine farms near Flounce Rock.
    Last Sunday we were honored by the company of Mrs. Mary E. Yockey and her daughter, Miss Helen, and Miss Ethel Curry, all of Medford. Miss Helen is the main guy in the office of the Medford Publishing Company that publishes that live newspaper, the Mail Tribune. They came out on the Pacific & Eastern so as to take dinner at the Sunnyside and have a good time generally.
    Henry Trusty, the accommodating mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Trail and Persist route, Orville Childreth and Guy Bishop and Miss Lorene Grigsby of Agate were also here Sunday, and Mr. Holman, Mr. Thornton and Mrs. Keyes were also with us.
    W. E. Bell of Portland, the state inspector of drugs, was with us on Tuesday, and so was Miss Perl Gould of Medford. She had been up in the Lake Creek school district to visit her sister, Miss Alma, who is teaching in that district.
    George von der Hellen while at dinner Tuesday told me that his father, our state senator, was preparing a bill to be introduced to have all the public highways that pass through the small incorporated towns like Eagle Point, Talent, Phoenix, Gold Hill, Rogue River, etc., become county roads, and if he succeeds in working that through so as to become a law we may want to send him back again to Salem.
    Miss Hazel Brown and Robert Pelouze entertained a few of their Medford friends last Saturday evening, among whom were Margaret Souther, Laura Gates, Earl Hubbard and Bill Mitchell, and the latter part of the evening they took part in the social dance given in connection with the moving picture show by Messrs. Newport and Ringer.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 28, 1915, page 5


    Proving that Southern Oregon mountain roads may be negotiated by auto even in winter, Seely Hall, of Medford, drove his Cadillac, with seven passengers, to Prospect one afternoon of last week. At various places the car traveled on the snow crust. Rangers reported 20 feet of "the beautiful" at Crater Lake.
"Southern Oregon's Shortstories," Gold Hill News, January 30, 1915, page 1


    Last Wednesday Messrs. Ragsdale and Pech of Lake Creek brought out some beef cattle and were met here by Messrs. Bennett and John Dennington of Jacksonville and taken to the latter place. They spent the night with us at the Sunnyside.
    Charles Weldon of Lake Creek came out on the P.&E. and started immediately for his home.
    J. C. Carpenter of Medford came out Wednesday and took the stage to go out to W. H. Crandall's. He is out here looking after a young orchard that belonged to his brother, the late Judge Carpenter of Ohio.
    L. J. Greenwalt of North Yakima, Wash., came in Wednesday to meet his wife and little boy who were visiting her sister, Mr. J. B. Jackson, and after staying one day started for San Diego, Cal., to attend the exposition there and later expect to visit the fair at San Francisco. They expect to be gone until fall. Mr. Greenwalt at one time lived in Phoenix and cultivated the Colver farm.
    On the same day, Wednesday, Mrs. J. B. and Mrs. Carl Jackson and Mrs. Greenwalt and her son took dinner with Mrs. Howlett.
    Just after I had mailed my Eaglets the following item [arrived] with the request that I put it in my Eaglets.
    On the evening of January 23 a party of young people gathered at the home of Gus Nichols and his charming wife. They indulged in the pleasant art of Terpsichore until Morpheus claimed them. Supper was served at the bewitching home. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. C. Haworth, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nickell, Miss Marie Newstrom, Miss Neva Taylor, Mr. Thomas Abbott, Mr. Will Holman, Robert A. Neill, C. W. Cox, Thomas Nichols, Jr., and John Foster.
    Harry Ash, a son of Mr. Ash, one of the Trail merchants, came out last Wednesday after a load of goods for his father's store. He spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Wm. Grieve, the wife of our county assessor, motored out Wednesday afternoon to meet her husband and B. E. Hoffman on their return from a trip to the Elk Creek country. The same day, according to previous arrangements, all of the really industrious people in the neighborhood who could spare the time--I was very busy that day--gathered at the home of J. W. Grover for the annual wood-cutting bee, to provide wood for the church for next winter and from all accounts prepared wood enough to last all next winter. I heard one industrious man express his regrets that he could not be there but he was promptly told that the wood had to be hauled and that he could lend a hand in that line when the road dried up. Dinner was served by Mrs. Grover, assisted by the ladies. Well, Wednesday night we all went to the church and heard a fine sermon from Rev. S. A. Douglas of Grants Pass. He has been preaching here now for over a week and expects to continue all of next week. He is a very interesting speaker and is attracting considerable attention. The interest is increasing and the congregation is growing in size and interest.
    Wm. Nickell of Lake Creek was with us on Thursday, and he had planned to go home but was called over the phone to Medford on business on Friday.
    Friday morning Rev. Douglas and your correspondent visited our school and the folding doors were opened and all three of the rooms were invited to meet together and meet us. Mr. Douglas was invited to give the children a talk and in response he related several pleasing incidents in his life and at the close of his short talk I was requested to tell the children something of my early school days experience. Our school is progressing finely under the management of Prof. W. E. Buchanan, assisted by Miss Minnie Taylor and Mrs. Grace von der Hellen.
    Fred Klippel of Portland came out Friday and took passage on the stage for Trail to visit his mother and sister who are living on their farm about two miles above the town of Trail.
    Last Friday we had here for dinner Messrs. H. M. McIntyre, H. N. Moe, J. E. Green and Thomas H. E. Hathaway, all of Medford. They had motored out to try to influence the farmers to take hold of the sugar beet movement. They were joined by Wm. von der Hellen in the afternoon and he visited with them several places but they found that the farmers had their land already sown in wheat and were unwilling to plow the wheat up. They succeeded in having three and a half acres signed up.
    C. H. Willison of Ashland, Ore., a traveling salesman for Wadham and Kerr Bros. of Portland, was among our merchants Friday. He said that he has not been in our town for about nine months.
    Mrs. L. C. Etta Worthen, who is teaching school in the Laurel Hill district, was a pleasant caller Saturday. She was accompanied by Ray Watkins.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 1, 1915, page 4


    Miss Myrtle Farlow and Miss Blanche Burleson, the Lake Creek correspondents for the Mail Tribune, were at the Lake Creek post office some time ago.
    Gus Nygren was at Eagle Point last Wednesday on business.
    F. S. Charley went to Medford last Wednesday, after a thoroughbred Hereford calf which he shipped from Eugene.
    Ralph Bieberstedt was at Eagle Point last Wednesday on business.
    Last Sunday Mrs. Minnie Stapleton was out visiting her daughter who is going to school at the Butte Creek school.
    Claus Charley was at Eagle Point last Wednesday on business.
    Tom Abbott was visiting Charles Newstrom of South Butte last Sunday.
    Mrs. Margaret Meyer and Miss Alma Gould were visiting Mrs. John Tyrrell last Saturday and Sunday.
    Arden Tyrrell attended a motion picture show and dance in Eagle Point last Saturday evening.
    John Tyrrell of Lake Creek bought some hay of Herman G. Meyer last week.
    Tommy Ragsdale and Henry Towne went to Jacksonville with a bunch of beef cattle last Tuesday.
    James Milam was buying hay of Mr. Burleson last Tuesday.
    Miss Maggie Sidley, who has been working for Mrs. H. A. Meyer, returned home last Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mr. T. L. Farlow of North Butte Creek went to Medford in their auto last week. This is the first winter that autos were ever able to manipulate on Butte Creek as late in the season as this.
    Mr. Burleson has rented T. L. Farlow's ranch on South Butte.
    Lloyd Stanley, who took the eighth grade examination at the Butte Creek school, received his diploma Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 3, 1915, page 5


    The last time that I wrote for the Medford Mail Tribune I omitted to state that John Greb, C. W. Clements and Benj. H. Brophy had renewed their subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and just after I had mailed my letter Saturday afternoon Robert A. Neill of Brownsboro renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Miss Grace Conley, who has been spending some time in Medford came out last Saturday evening on the P.&E. train to visit her people.
    Arden Tyrrell of Lake Creek was a guest with us Sunday, and so were Mr. and Mrs. Norman McQuoid, G. H. Wamsley, Mrs. E. S. Wolfer and daughter, Miss Loreen Taylor, Waldon Sage and Rev. Steven G. Douglas.
    Last Saturday Rev. L. L. Simmons, the pastor of the Baptist church of this place went to Grants Pass to fill the pulpit of Mr. Douglas, and Mr. D. remained here to fill the pulpit for Mr. S., simply a change, and Mr. S. returned Monday evening and reports having had a very pleasant time, but not so large congregations as he had expected in such a place as Grants Pass. Mr. Douglas had a very fair congregation both morning and evening, and he preached two fine sermons, but at the close of the evening service he announced that the series of meetings would close, as there seemed to be so little interest manifested, or rather that the people seemed so reluctant to change their course and accept Christ.
    James Trusty, who has been working in a sawmill at Weed, Cal., came in Monday morning on the P.&E. and took passage with his brother on the Eagle Point-Trail-Persist stage for the Trusty home on Elk Creek. He had had the misfortune to fall and dislocated his elbow, so had to lay off for a while.
    Hamlinton Watkins and wife came in on the P.&E. from Medford Monday and took the stage for their home.
    E. S. Wolfer, who started from here about ten days ago for Anita, Ia., but stopped in the Willamette Valley to visit his parents, started Monday for his future home.
    After all of the complaining at a kind Providence on account of the long dry spell, we are at last favored with as fine rain as anyone could wish, so now we are assured of a fine crop this coming season.
    In looking over the Oregon Journal I see that the Washington legislature has a bill before it, if it is passed, [that] will be of great value to the taxpayers of that state, and that is to allow no one to vote on a question in an incorporated town, city or county where a tax or bond issue is to be decided. As it is now, under the law, anyone who is of legal age and entitled to the right of franchise can vote and by that means a few men who wish to vote a bond or tax in a town or county can round up the loose element and influence them to vote for a tax or bond and thus inflict a heavy burden on the few taxpayers and they themselves, the non-taxpaying part of the community, will not have to pay one cent, while only a very few of the taxpayers will be benefited by it. So I would suggest to our representatives at Salem that they introduce a law to allow no one but bona fide taxpayers to vote on any question where a tax or bond issue is at stake. I know of a small incorporated town that was incorporated by a vote of that kind and then afterward voted a bond of several thousand dollars on the taxpayers of the town.
    Mrs. Jettie Clarno, Thomas Vestal and his sister, Mrs. Wilbur Jacks, attended church here Saturday night.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Downey of Medford came out Saturday to visit friends and to transact business. Mr. Downey is the man who bought the Owings Eagle Point hotel property and then sold the hotel property to a Medford man. I have lost his name, and I learned that they, the man that bought the hotel, and Mr. Downey were out to try to arrange a sale of the property where Smith Bros. have their soft drink and confectionery store, but have been unable to learn any of the results.
    Last Monday night, just about the time that the most of the people in our quiet little town were going to sleep for the night, we heard a most unearthly noise, the reports of guns, the war whoop of the savage Indians, the clashing of arms, and we began to think of the prediction of that great and wise Senator in the United States Senate, who predicted that the Jap would make a raid on our coast, but in a few minutes quiet was restored and we resumed our dreams, and Tuesday in looking around for the dead and dying and to ascertain the fearful result of the engagement, I learned that it was all over the marriage of Fred Dutton and Miss Dottie Harnish by Rev. L. L. Simmons. They had slipped down to Mr. Simmons' home after dark, in company of Roy Ashpole and his wife, and were quietly married and returned to Mr. Ashpole's to spend the night, thinking that they were unobserved, but someone found out what was up, so a few of their many friends, and they are counted by the score, in spite of the rain and wind, turned out to give them an old-fashioned charivari, and after they had had what fun they could out of doors Mr. and Mrs. Dutton invited them in and they were invited to partake of some nuts, candies, cigars, etc., that Mr. D. had already provided, and this (Tuesday) morning everything is in its normal stage.
    W. E. Hammel, one of our progressive farmers and stockraisers, who has been back to St. Louis, Mo., to visit his parents, returned this (Tuesday) morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 4, 1915, page 5


    James Wallace Cox was born in Fayette County, Texas, November 19, 1850 and died at his home near Trail February 3, 1915, aged 64 years 3 months, 14 days. He died of cancer of the liver.
    He was married in 1874 to Miss Elizabeth Gordon of Hood County, Texas. He was a member of the Methodist Church, joining about 1884. Since his sickness began he often expressed himself as "I have no fears of death." He has spent all his life except the last 16 months in Texas.
    He leaves his wife, three sons, O. M. Cox, Miami, Texas; Gordon Cox, Eagle Point, Oregon; Smith Cox, of Trail, Oregon; five daughters, Mrs. Muriel Mitchell, Elbert, Texas; Mrs. Betty Jones, Arabella, New Mexico; Mrs. Alla Parker, Round Timber, Texas, Mrs. Della Holmes, Weston, Texas; Miss Lucile Cox, Trail, Ore., and 19 grandchildren besides many friends in Texas and Oregon to mourn his death.
    He was interred in the Central Point cemetery Thursday afternoon and funeral services [were held] at the grave.
    Mrs. Cox and children are very thankful to the friends and neighbors for the many kindnesses shown them during their husband and father's illness and especially George Croft for his faithful help.
    Lee Black of Forest Creek was a recent visitor at the homes of his sisters, Mrs. Chris Bergman and Mrs. Peter Betz.
    Mrs. H. L. Howard called on Miss Ely Saturday.
    Mrs. Eugene Bellows and Miss Mattie Minter were Eagle Point visitors.
    Miss Zella Taylor of Sams Valley brought her uncle, S. F. Smith, over to the French ranch Wednesday.
    At the telephone meeting of Trail line No. 16 Saturday, it was decided to reconstruct the line to the Antioch road.
    Dr. Holt removed the adenoids for Miss Mina Minter last Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 1915, page 5


    Fire destroyed the Tavern Hotel at Eagle Point early Wednesday morning, causing a property damage estimated between $6000 and $7000, covered by insurance. Hotel and bar fixtures and household effects were destroyed. The building and contents were owned by James Vogeli, who was in this city when the fire started. The structure was built in 1911. Defective electric light wiring is supposed to have been the origin of the fire. The insurance is $6000.
    Serious damage to the business district of Eagle Point was averted by the fact that no wind was blowing, otherwise the lumber yard and P.&.E. depot would have been menaced. The hotel property is practically an entire loss. Mr. Vogeli's plans for the future have not been decided upon.
    The Eagle Point fire department and bucket brigade battled the flames and protected adjacent property.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 10, 1915, page 2


    Miss Ruby Haley, daughter of one of our progressive farmers, who is greatly interested in the move to have a sugar beet plant established in the Rogue River Valley, who has been visiting friends in Jacksonville for some time, returned to the parental roof last Tuesday.
    G. W. Frey, who has a farm on the north fork of Butte Creek, passed through town Tuesday on his way from Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Riley were doing business with our merchants Tuesday.
    Last Tuesday, February 2, the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dutton concluded they would give them a little surprise party, so the following persons met by mutual agreement at the home of Mrs. Dutton's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Harnish, where the newly wedded couple had come to spend the second night of their married life. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Daley, Mrs. Sophia Robinett, Mrs. A. C. Howlett, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Mrs. Loretta Childreth, Miss Mabel Taylor, Hattie Howlett, Roy and Robbie Harnish, John Simon, Ed Coy, Jed Edsall and Clarence Robinett. There was just enough old ladies there to make the meeting interesting, so they put their heads together to devise a plan how they could keep the young folks out of mischief, so what should they do but hunt up the old quilting frames, resurrect a comforter and tack it out. Candy, nuts, and popcorn were served and about 11 o'clock the company dispersed after wishing the newlyweds all the happiness to be realized in married life.
    The following is the different rolls of honor in the three departments in our school:
    Principal's Room--Ruberta Pearce, Lawrence Lily, Bernice Simmons, Walter Painter, Albert Conley, John Butler, Verta Grover, Thelma Nichols, Ethel Riley, John Gries, Carlyle Natwick and Charles Winkle.
    The following pupils passed at the eight grade examination: Bernice Simmons, Nida McIntosh, Albert Conley and John Butler.
    Intermediate Department--Elsworth Stowell, Lyle Van Scoy, Judge Florey, Fern Lewis, Katie Buchanan, Nora Childreth, Ethel Winkle, Kee Buchanan, May Greb, Myrtle Greb, Margaret Riley, Freda Leabo, Joyce von der Hellen, Lillian Findley, Dorner Nichols, Ruth Grover, June Robinson, Ruford Simmons, Lloyd Pearce, Truman McClelland, Harold Van Scoy, Bon Buchanan.
    Primary Department--Lova Buchanan, Katrina Bryant, Loretta Trulove, Letha Findley, Melva Simmons, Donald von der Hellen, Heath Childreth and Ansil Pearce. The foregoing were neither absent nor tardy during the month of January.
    John Tyrrell of Lake Creek took dinner with us Thursday. He had been to Jacksonville to interview the county court with regard to the road from Lake Creek on up Butte Creek, endeavoring to have it located permanently on suitable ground or else put it back on the old survey again.
    Fred Pelouze has had a lot of lumber hauled out to his farm; he is one of our farmers who believes in improving and keeping up his farm.
    H. P. Burleson of Lake Creek and wife were in town Thursday. Mr. Berlison had come in after a load of oats and alfalfa seed for Thomas Farlow and while here subscribed for the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Jeff Brophy passed through our town Thursday on his way to Medford.
    Ray Spencer and wife of Butte Falls spent the night with us Thursday and Friday morning went on to Medford.
    Some time ago I mentioned that Miss Riley had lost a purse containing $27.00 and a gold ring. The purse was found by one of her neighbors and the finder spent a part of the money before it was discovered that he had found the purse and steps were taken to prosecute him, but F. M. Stewart, justice of the peace, gave him a chance to get the money so he dug it up and the girl secured the money, ring and purse.
    Bert Dunken of Los Angeles, Cal., spent the night with us Friday on his way up to Elk Creek to visit his brother-in-law, Mr. Miller.
    Rufus Trusty came in from Dunsmuir Friday morning and took the stage for the Trusty farm on Elk Creek.
    Charles Klingle and wife were doing business with our merchants on Thursday.
    Mrs. O. E. Nichols of Medford was out visiting friends and looking after business in Eagle Point the first of the week.
    E. A. Moore, salesman for a Seattle firm, was here for dinner Wednesday.
    Thursday morning Mrs. C. Hoogerhyde, the wife of our shoe cobbler, called and paid $2.50 on their subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    J. E. Garner, recently from Gold Beach, Cal., spent the night at the Sunnyside. He is a brother-in-law to Mr. A. H. Horton, who owned a farm just above Brownsboro and went last winter to G.B. to try to find a better country but Mr. G. tells me that they have about concluded that they missed it in selling out, for they now believe that Jackson County, Oregon is one of the favored spots on the globe.
    Miss Bessie Simpson of Medford came to the Sunnyside for dinner Wednesday on her way to Brownsboro to take charge of that school. She took the E.P. & Lake Creek stage.
    Rev. Albert H. Gammons, Presbyterian minister of Butte Falls, and wife came out from Butte Falls on the P.&E. Tuesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside and Wednesday morning Mr. Gammons went to Jacksonville, returning the same day, and that night, Wednesday, attended prayer meeting here giving us an interesting talk on Christian fellowship.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 11, 1915, page 5


    Last Friday night Mrs. Fred Pelouze, Mrs. J. Frank Brown and Mrs. Carl Narregan gave a dance with refreshments in the opera house and I understand that they not only had a good attendance but a very pleasant time. Those three ladies know just how to conduct an affair of that kind so as to make a success of it. W. E. Hammel was one of the participants and reported the result to your correspondent.
    Last Saturday B. J. Blankinship of Medford came out and took dinner and the next Monday returned to the Sunnyside in company with L. E. Troxel, a mining engineer of Medford. They were trying to get in touch with someone who could put them onto a lode of copper or silver ore. Mr. Troxel claims to have had several years experience in that line of business and just as the war in Europe broke out was on a deal to sell a mine to an English company for one and a half million dollars.
    Miss Rose Nealon of Table Rock, who is teaching school in the Reese Creek district, called for dinner Saturday on her way to her home to take part in the rehearsal of the play that is to be rendered the latter part of the month.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres were visiting their children, Mrs. Laura Newport and Mrs. Rosa Smith, Saturday.
    Grandma Heckathorn, who has been up on Evans Creek visiting children and grandchildren, returned home the last of the week.
    I omitted to state in my last that Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Haak and Mr. and Mrs. C. Hoogerhyde spent Sunday, Jan. 31, with Mr. W. H. Crandall and his sisters Mrs. Harris and Cora Crandall, and Mrs. Hoogerhyde reports having a lovely time.
    Last Saturday one of the town boys came out after a load of wire fencing to take up to the Tonn home in the Lake Creek country.
    Arthur A. Smith, who has a fine farm on Big Sticky, brought over a half dozen of guinea fowls for Grant Mathews, who lives on the free ferry road about eight miles from here, last Saturday and while here gave me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Frank Johnson came out last Saturday from his home on Indian Creek and Rogue River to bring his daughter, Miss Jennie Francis. She had been in the hospital in Medford and the doctor wanted her to come in so he could see if she is all right.
    Tom Hampton and wife were in town Saturday interviewing our merchants.
    Last Saturday we had a citizens meeting in our town to select delegates to attend a larger gathering to be held in Medford on Monday and Messrs. T. E. Nichols and Frank Brown were chosen. James Owens, one of our prominent farmers and stockraisers, was in attendance at the meeting.
    Last Sunday was rather a noted day in this community, for it was the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan and on the occasion Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Knighten and your correspondent and wife were invited to take dinner with the aged couple and their daughter, Mrs. E. S. Wolfer, and her daughter Miss Lorena Taylor. They received some handsome presents, and in the evening just before church time quite a number of their neighbors and friends called on them to tender their congratulations.
    Another incident that will likely be remembered for some time is that the wind blew about as hard as it ever blows in this favored spot in Oregon, and while it was blowing it left its mark in its wake; it wrecked several buildings, flues, etc., and among them will mention that it took the pipe off the top of our kitchen flue but did but little damage. It blew down the barn on the old Storey place belonging to the Hoovers of Medford, a part of the fire wall on T. E. Nichols' new brick building, Mr. McQuoid's smoke house, broke two large panes of glass out of Dr. Holt's office in the upper part of the von der Hellen building, moved one of the large sheds on the Cingcade barn on the edge of the desert, tore down P. J. Parton's hog scale house, unroofed the barn and buggy shed for Ed Dutton, blew off the roof on the old Matney place where Fred Dutton lives, tore two of the chimneys off of Senator von der Hellen's residence, picked up the garage off of Harry von der Hellen's auto and tore it to pieces leaving the auto unhurt, played havoc with the telephone wires, uprooted one of the ornamental trees in George von der Hellen's yard besides leveling fences without number.
    The same day we had for dinner at the Sunnyside a gentleman by the name of Barnes, wife and two sons, J. V. McIntyre and family, W. I. Mapes, wife, son and his wife of Medford, W. E. Coleman of Phoenix, the latter five came out together and after dinner, leaving the ladies at the Sunnyside, the men went up on the north desert to look for agates, remaining until the afternoon train on Monday before going home. Paul Opdyke, who has a farm on Rogue River, also spent the night with us. Mr. Vogeli also closed his Tavern Sunday; he asked permission of the council to let him keep his saloon without keeping this Tavern, as that was a losing business, and they granted his request. Sunday night, before preaching, there was organized a young people's society, to be known as the Christian Endeavor Society. They elected Miss Loretta Childreth, president; Bernice Simmons, vice-president and Ruby Haley, secretary and treasurer.
    Jeff Conover and his son were in town Monday and so was A. G. Bishop and P. W. Haley.
    On Tuesday P. W. Haley called and renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Clay Cole, Roy Ashpole and wife motored to Talent Sunday to bring home Mrs. Cole, who has been visiting her brothers the past few days.
    Wig Ashpole, one of the prominent meat market men, came out Monday and bought 83 head of steers from Walter Wood.
    I understand that there are quite a number of our citizens congratulating themselves over the appointment of ex-County Commissioner Smith as road master, as he is said to be a fine man and a good road builder.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 12, 1915, page 5


    The last time that I wrote for the Mail Tribune I mentioned the fact that Mr. Vogeli had made application to the town council for permission to close his hotel and run the saloon on the grounds that the hotel was running behind all the time and they granted his request and on Sunday he closed the hotel, and Monday afternoon took his family and went to Medford, and that night the hotel, "The Tavern" took fire and burned down and some of our people thought that would be the last of the saloon in Eagle Point as we have a dry mayor and four out of the five remaining councilmen were elected on the dry ticket, but Lo like Banquo's ghost it will not down, for I understand that he has gone around and interviewed the councilmen and mayor and they have concluded to let him move into another building and run the saloon for the rest of the time for which he has paid his license, April 5th, and those whom I have talked to, of the city authorities, seem to think that he will apply for a renewal of his license in March, so as to enable him to run on until the first of the next year and then if the liquor interests can succeed in the senate in killing the house bill No. 1 so at to prevent the enforcement of the prohibition amendment we can have a saloon indefinitely. I see that Mr. Vogeli is having the old bakery building fitted up in anticipation of the council granting his request.
    In spite of the hard time and dry weather there seems to be quite a number of our traveling salesmen visiting our town. On Wednesday we had here for dinner R. T. Perkins representing a wholesale tea and coffee house of Portland, F. A. Dunlap of Derby and R. S. Sinclare and wife to spend the night and on Thursday we had C. M. LaValley of Portland, J. E. Reid of Portland, R. A. Taylor, T. West, and just as the men had registered in the Sunnyside register in came George von der Hellen all out of breath and told me that G. A. Pech was down at his hardware store and wanted to pay me his subscription to the Mail Tribune so off I started and just then another salesman came in but I was off so did not learn his name. Well, on arriving at the store I met Mr. Pech of Lake Creek and he told me that the day before he had his leg hurt so that he could not walk to see me so sent, but he renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune all right. Another incident [that] occurred Tuesday morning about the time of the fire in the Tavern was the arrival of a fine baby boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Strong, and on the arrival of the youngster Mr. Strong gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Dr. W. W. P. Holt was in attendance.
    The following items were sent to me from Medford by letter and the sender signed the name "Subscriber":
    Mr. Nate Messenger of Agate is working at the Alta Vista orchard.
    Mr. and Mrs. Everett McArthur of Medford spent Sunday with Mrs. McArthur's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Corlies.
    Mrs. Frank Corlies left Tuesday to spent the rest of the week visiting relatives and friends in Medford.
    The W.C.T.U. of Eagle Point will hold memorial services in the Baptist church on Saturday, February 20th at 2 o'clock in commemoration of Miss Francis E. Willard's birthday.
    Last Wednesday Carl and Harry von der Hellen shipped a fine lot of bacon hams to Portland.
    J. E. Howell spent the night at the Sunnyside last Thursday. He came out after a load of goods for Mr. Ash's store at Trail.
    Archie Turpin, who had the misfortune to have his barn blown down on Sunday, the 7th, came in for a load of lumber and shakes to repair the damage last Thursday.
    R. H. Toft, who owns a farm just above Brownsboro, was in town on Thursday and in speaking of his farm said that he had about 100 acres sown to alfalfa and clover and that he expects to cut this season 200 tons of hay off the place.
    Fred L. Heath, one of our merchants, has adopted the plan suggested in an editorial in the Daily Mail Tribune, and has one of his show windows well filled with lard and other canned goods marked "Made in Eagle Point," "Made in Lake Creek," Made in Talent," etc., showing that he believes in patronizing home industry.
    Another change in real property has taken place in our town; John Downey has traded his property just across the street from the Eagle Hotel for property in Josephine County.
    T. H. Veghte, L. A. Neil, Charles H. Willison and wife, Miss Alma Gould and Albert Anderson were at the Sunnyside for dinner Friday.
    Fred Pelouze and wife took passage on the P.&E. for Medford last Friday afternoon to attend the big blowout on Lincoln's birthday.
    Last Friday afternoon George West and wife motored out from Medford accompanied by Mrs. E. C. Maasdam and Mrs. W. E. Merrill and visited Mrs. Howlett.
    The Parent-Teachers Association met in the school house Friday night and had a very interesting program and among other things an old-fashioned spelling match.
    Perry Foster, one of the pioneers of the valley, who has a fine farm on Rogue River, was with us Friday night.
    Mrs. Charles Painter has gone to Gold Hill to visit her daughter, Mrs. Walker.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 15, 1915, page 5


    The Tavern Hotel at Eagle Point was completely destroyed by fire last Wednesday. The damage is estimated at $7,000.
Ashland Tidings, February 15, 1915, page 1


    Jack Houston of Trail was in town last Saturday and reports that everything is flourishing up on Long Branch. That his daughter, Miss Inez, was to commence teaching school in the Wellen district on the 15th of this month and that his niece, Miss Eula Houston, is to commence her school on March 1 in the Long Branch school district.
    Chris Bergman and Rube Johnson were both doing business in Eagle Point Saturday.
    W. E. Hammel made a business trip to Medford Saturday afternoon.
    Harvey Stanley, one of our prominent stockmen, and wife were in town Saturday. Mrs. S. was seeking someone to do some dental work.
    C. E. Johnson, who is in charge of the Table Rock school, came over and went to Butte Falls Saturday, returning the same day to Eagle Point, and spent the night at the Sunnyside. He reports that the Arrow Literary Society of Table Rock are preparing to have a grand entertainment at the Table Rock schoolhouse on the evening of the 27th of this month. Your correspondent expects to be present and tell the readers of the Eaglets something about it.
    Last Sunday was quite a busy day at the Sunnyside, and among those who took dinner that day were Florence Trowbridge, Ed, Ben, Alice and Mrs. Ed Trowbridge, Ione Flynn, May Trowbridge, all of Medford, Mr. Towers of Portland, John Owens, wife and two sons, Miss Ida Bishop, Guy Bishop, Miss Nina McIntosh, Miss Lorene Grigsby of Agate, Howard Painter, Orville Childreth, Professor C. E. Johnson of Table Rock, George West and wife, Miss Violet Cook of Medford, L. A. Stagg, Ray Coleman, T. Saum, George Boeump of Talent and Weldon Sage of Medford, and in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. George W. Loosely and two sons, son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Neil of Ashland.
    Last Saturday night our council met in special session and granted James Vogeli permission to open his saloon in the old bakery building, and on Monday morning it was formally opened, and those who are craving that kind of goods can have their appetites satisfied, provided they have the price, but we live in hopes that after the first of January, 1916, that our boys and girls will not have the temptation so prominently before them. But it was a question before the council what they were to do, for Mr. Vogeli had already conformed to the law and paid his license money, $50, for six months, and he had about two months license money paid and they did not like the idea of digging up the $80 and refunding to him, and they did not feel that it would be altogether right to force him to put up a house where the Tavern stood just for a short time, and so they kindly let him run the saloon, and I have good conclusive evidence that if he wants to run the saloon on up to December 31, 1915, the council will allow him the privilege.
    John D. Holst, one of the forest rangers of Sams Valley, came over in his car and stopped at the Sunnyside Tuesday. He expects to remain in the neighborhood for a few days. Bert Peachy, another forest ranger, and Mr. Holst went out riding Tuesday afternoon.
    Leslie Ossman and Louis Anderson of Trail came in for dinner Tuesday, and George von der Hellen brought in Mr. Bagger of Portland, who represents Mason, Ehrmann & Co. of that city.
    Miss Louisa Blaess, proprietress of the Eagle Hotel, gave me her subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune so that she and her boarders can keep posted as to what is going on in the world.
    H. G. Meyer, who has the contract for carrying the mail from here to Lake Creek, renewed his subscription Tuesday for the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Just as I was looking at my receipt book to see if I had reported everything, I see that F. T. Newport has paid me for the ads he ran in the Daily and Weekly Mail Tribune. He reports that the masked ball was well attended and that they had a very pleasant time.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 18, 1915, page 5


    B. Dawson made a business trip to Central Point Tuesday.
    School will start again next Tuesday, the 23rd, with Miss Dewie Howe as teacher.
    Miss Mae Trusty returned home Monday after a few days visit with friends in Eagle Point.
    Sheriff Singler, Mr. Irving and Mr. Saunders made a business trip up Trail Creek Friday.
    J. H. Trusty of Elk Creek went to the valley Sunday bringing a large load of grain home with him Monday.
    B. Dawson and Irwin Howe moved Boyd Tucker and family up to Mr. Grieve's road camp the last of the week.
    Middlebushers are making some fine improvements on the hill back of their house, clearing and burning all brush.
    The people are all looking forward to a good time at the dance at the power plant Saturday night.
    Dennis Zimmerlee and his brother-in-law M. Evans left Sunday for Yreka, Cal. They will drive through. Mrs. Evans will stay and Dennis will return home.
    Mr. Dunlap has recovered sufficiently to resume his work in the blacksmith shop again.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher has been visiting relatives and friends at Table Rock the past week.
    We notice several hauling hay, although we have had a fine open winter.
    L. Z. Poole is much better at this writing. Lewis Thomason is staying with him, during Mr. and Mrs. Poole's absence.
    F. Klippel of Portland is visiting with relatives near Trail. His health is improving fast.
    Mr. Bingham, Mr. Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. Vandyke, Mr. and Mrs. Poole, Boyd Tucker, Ed Ash, J. Warner and L. Middlebusher went to Medford Monday. Some of the former were subpoenaed for witnesses by the grand jury.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. Cushman entertained the Misses Hazel and Mae Warner, Gertrude Shoults, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Warner and little son, Mrs. Daw and family, O. Gaines and Frank Middlebusher at their home Sunday. The afternoon was spent in a game of ball.
    L. L. Mareks, T. C. Gaines, W. Houston and Dave Pence finished surveying the new telephone line Friday.
    J. Embry, lineman of Prospect, made a tour of inspection over the line between Trail and the power plant Friday, and found the line in fine order after the big wind storm.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 18, 1915, page 5


    How we spent Friday afternoon. A few of the farmers living close to our school decided on having a social dinner with us at our school house on Friday, February 5th. Among those who were present were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Terrill, Mrs. C. Charley and son Flody, Mrs. Wm. Stanley, Mr. Chase, the school supervisor, Alice Nygren, Leo and Emmet Klingle, Henry Meyer, Jr., Irvin Fry, Lloyd and Edward Colby, Jim and Simon McAllister. While the ladies prepared dinner the men and boys played ball. After the dinner was over, was the opening of the society. The first thing of the meeting was the election of officers. Those who were elected are as follows: Lloyd Stanley, president; Dalton Terrill, vice-president; Claus Charley, secretary; Myrtle Meyers, treasurer, and Audley Meyer health officer. After the election we had our program as follows: Violin solo, Carl Dresk; Composition, Dalton Terrill; Speech, Audley Meyer; recitation, Anna Nygren; Speech, Mr. Sehell; Talk, Claus Charley; Recitation, Albert Myers; Talk, Leland Charley.
    Debate, Resolved That a Silo is More Benefit to a Dairyman Than a Field of Alfalfa. Affirmative, Claus Charley; negative, Audley Meyer.
    After the program was the judging of dairy cows under the direction of Mr. Chase.
    The Lake Creek school ball team has challenged this school for a game.
    Miss Maude Terrill, Miss Myrtle Farlow and Miss Blanch Burleson were pleasant callers to the Butte Creek school Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. I.L. Bradshaw and son went to Medford last Saturday on business.
    Thos. Ragsdale and his younger brother went to Eagle Point Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stanley were visiting Wm. Stanley's Monday.
    Miss Myrtle Myers spent Sunday with Miss Verna Charley.
    Charley Edler and Harry Fry just returned from a trip to Klamath County. Mrs. Harry Fry is down visiting her mother.
    Wm. Stanley is helping Carl Stanley with his house.
    George Brown and family spent Sunday at Mr. Barker's.
    The Klingle children and Lloyd Stanley were visiting H. A. Myer and family Sunday.
    Mrs. Wm. Bradshaw has returned to her home in Medford from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Bradshaw.
    Thos. Stanley is smoothing the roads down this week with a road grader.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 19, 1915, page 5


    A nine-pound valentine made his arrival at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Conover.
    Mr. and Mrs. Peter Betz, Mr. and Mrs. Slusser, Miss Piele and Harry Daily were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howard.
    Steve Smith has rented 50 acres of Perry Foster.
    Fred Bellows is spending a few days with his brother Eugene and family.
    Wilfred Jacks came in from Lake County this week. His family and children came in last fall and spent the winter here.
    Miss Florence Kincaid of Agate opened the spring term of school in the Debenger Gap district Monday.
    Howard Rogers and family of Beagle were the guests of the W. T. Houston home Sunday.
    Miss Nellie Ely has been on the sick list.
    Mary McNott was born in Wisconsin in 1848 and was married to Mr. Schaffer. One child, Hiram, was born and her husband died. In January 1866 she was married to Mr. Fisher. To this union four sons and two daughters were born. She joined the Methodist Church when a young girl. She was sick about 20 minutes but suffered untold misery for that time. She died February 17, 1915. An aged husband, two sons, George and Ed Fisher and two granddaughters, Mrs. Tessie Robinett of Eugene and Miss Fisher survive her. She was buried Thursday at Trail cemetery. Rev. Simmons of Eagle Point conducted the funeral services at the grave. The handsome flowers given by Mrs. W. Brown of Eagle Point were greatly appreciated.
    Among the Medford visitors this week were Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. T. Raimey, Norman Gage, T. C. Gaines, Mr. and Mrs. A. Pool, Mr. Bingham, Eugene Bellows, Green Mathews and John Warner.
    Miss Janie Johnson is a guest at the Grant Mathews home.
    Mrs. B. Clarno entertained Mrs. Grant Mathews, Mrs. J. Johnson, Miss Janie Johnson and Mrs. J. Clarno Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 23, 1915, page 5


    Frank Caster and wife were doing business with our merchants last Tuesday.
    Walter Wood drove a fine bunch of beef steers through our town last Tuesday for the Medford market.
    Thomas Riley, Jr., was smiling on some of his friends Tuesday.
    S. J. Howell, representing Blumauer & Frank of Portland, spent the night at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    F. D. Hougham of Seattle, Wash., representing Fidelity-Phoenix Insurance  of New York, took dinner at the Sunnyside Wednesday. There was another traveling salesman also took dinner with us the same time, but he just came in, sat down to his dinner and disappeared as soon as he finished, so I did not learn his name or business. But I notice that there is getting to be quite a number of gentlemen of that profession visiting our town recently which indicates that our merchants are doing considerable business, and there is getting to be quite a number of strangers on our streets; that would indicate that Eagle Point is regaining her place on the map of Oregon.
    It becomes my unpleasant duty to chronicle the death of two of our fellow citizens, both dying on the same day.
    The first one to die was Matthew (Bud) Thomson of Climax, who died on the morning of the 17th at the residence of his brother-in-law, W. W. Taylor. He leaves a wife, brother and sisters to feel their bereavement. He had had an operation performed in Ashland and never fully recovered. He was just in the prime of life, being only 40 years, 3 months and 4 days old. He was a man who was highly respected by all who knew him and one who will be greatly missed in the neighborhood in which he lived. The remains were interred in the family lot in the Antelope cemetery. Religious services were conducted at the grave by the pastor of the Baptist church, Rev. L. L. Simmons.
    Died--February 17, 1915, at her home on Indian Creek, on the Eagle Point and free ferry road, Mrs. Mary Fisher, wife of John Fisher, one of the veterans of the Civil War. The deceased was born in Wisconsin, August 12, 1848, and came to Jackson County in 1901. She leaves her husband, a son, George, and daughter, Mrs. Walter Robinett, of Eugene, Or. The remains were placed to rest in the Laurel Hill cemetery.
    Thursday as I was on my rounds looking after the interests of the Mail Tribune and picking items to write in the Eaglets, I met R. M. Whitman, the foreman on the W. Hart Hamilton place, and he invited me to go up with him and see his hog pens, but that was rather far for me to walk in sticky, but on inquiry I learned that he had succeeded last fall in procuring about thirty brood sows and that among them they have now about fifty fine blooded pigs and that they are doing well.
    Grant Mathews was in town Wednesday, and his brother, Green, came out from Medford the same evening on the P.&E. He had been to Jacksonville to look after a lawsuit he has pending in the circuit court, a foreclosure proceeding in bankruptcy in the Art Nichols case.
    Court Hall of Medford came out Thursday, bringing a Hupmobile for George von der Hellen. George says that it is a present for his wife, and if she can handle that as well as she does the little folks in the primary department of our school she will have but little trouble.
    I also met G. H. Wamsley, and he paid on his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune, and in conversation remarked that he had received a letter from his daughter, Mabel, and in that letter says that she is getting so fleshy that her clothes are too tight; that she has filed on a homestead out there at Bend and has started in on a new lease on life. She went from here to Arizona for her health last winter, and this fall went to Bend for a change, with that result. Her many friends here in Rogue River Valley will be glad to learn of the change for the better.
    Mrs. James Stewart, who has been visiting her cousin, F. M. Stewart, took the car for Medford Thursday afternoon.
    Last Wednesday H. H. Lord had a runaway and his feet became entangled in the lines, throwing him out of the rig and bruising him up quite badly, cutting a gash on the side of his head and injuring one of his eyes. But Dr. Holt, who reports the case, said that he could not decide how badly until the swelling was reduced.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 19, 1915, page 5


    Orin Wakefield made a business trip to Butte Creek last week.
    Tom Dawson is spending a few days with relatives and friends in Medford.
    E. E. Ash brought in a load of grain from Central Point Wednesday.
    Miss Hazel Warner left Saturday for Medford.
    Miss Dewie Howe spent Sunday with the Misses Enid and Lee Middlebusher.
    Mrs. A. Albright has been sick for the past week, but is better at this writing.
    J. E. McDonald and R. R. Dawson went to the valley Monday, the former being selected as one of the jurymen.
    Miss Dewie Howe returned to Trail Friday after a two months visit at her home in Centralia, Wash.
    Mrs. F. I. Todd is in Medford visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McDonald, who are proud parents of a baby girl born Thursday, February 18.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher was summoned to Jacksonville Wednesday to appear before the grand jury.
    Mrs. Fisher, aged 74, residing between Eagle Point and Trail, died suddenly Wednesday morning. She had been ailing for some time, but up until the time of her death was able to be about the house. She was laid to rest in the Trail cemetery at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Rev. Simmons officiating.
    Last Saturday evening Paul Opdyke was agreeably surprised by a number of his friends, it being his birthday. The evening was spent in playing games, singing and various other kinds of entertainment. A delicious lunch was served about 1 o'clock, after which the guests departed. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. McLeod and family, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. McDonald and sons, Wesley and Harold, Messrs. Norman, Lester and Fred McDonald, T. I. Todd, Mr. and Mrs. Ossman and sons, Leslie and Ernest, and daughter, Effie; Mr. and Mrs. Capell and little daughter Genevieve, Byron Leabo, Alf Weeks, Leif Anderson, Irwin Howe, Miss Dewie Howe, Miss Rena Ash, Miss Alice Cromer, Howard Ash and Otto Tucker.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1915, page 5


    Mrs. T. G. Todd, wife of T. G. Todd, who, with N. T. McDonald, bought the Johnson place near the mouth of Elk Creek, was with us the last of the week on her way to Medford.
    C. D. Huffman and A. P. Davis of La Grande, Or., were with us last Saturday. They were out here to see what prospect there was to organize a grange. They were both deputy grange organizers for this state.
    Mrs. L. H. Deweese, formerly of this place, who left here a year ago last November for Missouri, arrived last Friday morning. Her husband is expected by the middle of the week. His health failed him, so he thought that he would return to Jackson County and regain it.
    Clarence Cox, formerly of this place, but more recently from Portland, came down to attend the funeral of Matthew Thompson last week and spent the night with us. He also visited his half-sister, Mrs. Gus Nichols, on Salt Creek.
    Mrs. W. J. Austin of Climax visited our town for the first time, although she has been living on Antelope Creek for a number of years. She was quite favorably impressed with our town.
    Mrs. A. J. Hatch of Berkeley, Cal., a sister of Mrs. Dr. W. W. P. Holt, is making her sister a visit.
    Mrs. L. Hessler of Brownsboro was in town on business the last of the week.
    Gus Nichols and wife of Brownsboro, who has a fine farm on Salt Creek, came in on business last Friday.
    Last week B. H. Brophy sold forty head of yearling calves to Paul Anderson of Applegate.
    Matthew Hawkinson, who has been engaged on the Hillcrest orchard, took a layoff for a month and instead of lounging around and blowing his money foolishly, took a trip up in the hills on Rogue River, making headquarters at Joe Hannah's, and spent his time in fishing and pruning orchards and making himself useful, and so came out with as much money as he took in and had a good time generally. He returned to the Hillcrest orchard to go to work last Monday.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Conover, February 14, a son.
    W. E. Hammel has just had a spray tank made in the Childreth shop, Mr. Bryant doing the carpenter work. The tank is made of sugar pine lumber and the lumber cost in Medford 12½ cents a foot, and that right in a timber country where we have millions of feet of sugar pine timber standing waiting for someone to saw it up ready for use.
    Friday night the Ladies' Missionary Society met at the home of Mrs. W. E. Buchanan. There were twenty-eight present. After the regular exercises of the meeting were over, cake and tea were served. There was an interesting program and quite a number of pieces read on the subject of mission work.
    On Saturday afternoon the W.C.T.U. of this place had a special meeting to commemorate the birth of Miss Frances E. Willard, one of the moving spirits in the organization of the work for the overthrow of the liquor traffic. There was a good attendance and several pieces read touching on her life work. Among the readings was one read by little Jud Florey entitled "Five Cents a Glass" that made quite an impression. The piece was well rendered. At the close of the business session the ladies served cake and coffee.
    The Ladies' Aid Society will have their semi-annual sale and serve oyster soup and cake the afternoon of February 27.
    Miss Frances Greb, who is attending high school in Medford, came out last Saturday to visit the old folks at home.
    Will try to tell about the school exercises last Monday in my next.
    Mrs. A. M. Thomas has an ad in this week's Weekly Mail Tribune offering a lot of household goods for sale.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1915, page 5


    Milton and Miss Eula Houston spent Sunday as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Betz.
    Henry French came out home from Medford for a couple of days this week.
    Paul Opdyke bought two tons of oats of Theo. Glass and hauled to his home on the Tucker place.
    Frank Zuccala made a business trip to Central Point this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Houston spent Tuesday night with their daughter, Mrs. James Cornutt, of Central Point.
    Steve Smith and Ed Foster were buying seed oats of William Jones of Beagle Wednesday. They also called on Mr. Rogers, the Beagle merchant.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ray Whitley have gone to Portland to make their home. Her mother, Mrs. Mary Gage, and Bird Johnston accompanied them as far as Roseburg.
    Dr. Holt was called to Elk Creek to attend Grandpa McDonald Tuesday.
    Mrs. Fry has been on the sick list this week.
    Miss Mia Hannah was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Tim Daily of Medford, the middle of the week.
    M. Slusser and H. L. Howard were in Medford this week. Mr. Slusser took down a fine porker.
    Dr. Kirchgessner spent the weekend at his Riverside ranch.
    Mrs. Daw of Trail was the guest of the Hannah families the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston were valley visitors the last of the week.
    There was a telephone meeting on Line 16 to draw lots for construction of the new line.
    Miss Rose Nealon spent the weekend with home folks at Table Rock.
    Gene Bellows and little daughter Mildred were on the sick list the last of the week.
    Mrs. Wallace Bergman was on from Eagle Point to her mother-in-law's, Mrs. B. Clarno, Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah and Miss Ora Raimey were in Eagle Point Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 1, 1915, page 5


    The last time that I wrote for the Mail Tribune I found that my letter was too long to add all that I had to write so stopped off just as I got to the place where I was to give an account of our school entertainment on the 22nd. The exercises took place in the forenoon and there was but very few of the patrons of the school attended as it was not generally known that it was to come off in the forenoon. The two lower rooms were thrown together and all of the children were assembled in that room and after singing "America" and prayer led by Rev. L. L. Simmons we had the exercises by the primary department. It is not necessary for me to particularize but they had a song by the little folk, then the hatchet brigade, a drill exercise by five little boys and five little girls that would have reflected credit on large children. Then we had the intermediate department and they, as a rule, did remarkably well, some reciting pieces and some reading. While listening to the rendering of the different parts that were rendered I could not help but notice the difference there was in the way the boys and girls rendered their parts. As a rule the girls went through their parts without a bobble while the boys were troubled with defective memories, and I have about come to the conclusion that that is the reason that the women are forging ahead so in all branches of business and will soon be taking their places in the legislative and judicial branches of our government as they are now in the educational branch. We then had several pieces read or spoken by the pupils of the first room, and that took up the time to 12 noon and we all went to dinner.
    J. E. McDonald and Robert Dawson were here the first of the week after a seeder for the McDonald and Ludd place near the mouth of Elk Creek, formerly owned by Jeff and Rube Johnson.
    John D. Rockafellow and Major Anderson of Medford were at the Sunnyside last week for dinner.
    Gus Nygren of Brownsboro, who owns a fine farm on Salt Creek, came out last week with a fine lot of hens for our railroad agent F. Newport.
    Misses Sarah Singleton and Ruby Haley drove in from their homes west of here the first of the week to do trading with our merchants.
    Joe Pool and wife were in town buying an outfit for housekeeping from our hardware, drug and furniture merchants, von der Hellen Bros., the first of the week.
    J. S. Quackenbush and wife were here getting supplies from our merchants Wednesday.
    There were three four-horse teams with a lot of men and their outfit passed through our town Wednesday on the way up to the intake to go to work on the Fish Lake ditch.
    Perry Foster and his grandson were in town Wednesday.
    While on my rounds among the business men of our town I met Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Silliman at F. L. Heath's store. He is traveling for the Romana Candy Co., of San Francisco, Cal.
    Last Wednesday night, it being our regular prayer meeting night, some of the good people--the ladies--concluded that they would have a change in the program without consulting the pastor Rev. L. L. Simmons, so they put their heads together to get up a surprise party for him at his own house, so they let his father-in-law into the secret, and he very innocently started off to go to light up the church, build the fire, ring the bell, etc., but got no farther than one of his neighbors and about 7:15 p.m. Rev Simmons and family started for the church and just as they had turned off the electricity they met a number of their neighbors going to the parsonage so of course they turned back, still not full realizing what was up when he happened to think that it was lacking but one day of his 37th birthday and his friends knew that he would be at the annual celebration of the organization of the I.O.O.F. the next night so they planned to catch him at that time, and so they did and we had the prayer meeting all right and in addition one of the most pleasant times in our history. There was about 25 persons present and most of them contributed something they thought would be of use to him or the family. There was $7 in money and quite a lot of little presents such as neckties, handkerchiefs, etc., and Grandma Thomas presented him with two beautiful silver napkin rings. The company remained until about 11 o'clock and dispersed wishing many returns of the happy event.
    Bert Higinbotham of Prospect came out Tuesday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    H. J. Stewart of Central Point, who owns a farm northeast of here about three miles, passed through here Thursday on his way home.
    In making her report of the meeting of the W.C.T.U. commemorating the birth of Miss Frances E. Willard, the press reporter made a mistake and signed the name of Etta Florey to the report when it should have been the name of the reporter or left without a name. The article that was read and published was written and read by Mrs. Florey, and by a unanimous vote the request was made to have it sent to the Mail Tribune for publication, but the report of the proceedings was written by someone else.
    J. P. Feaster, of Medford, a teacher of penmanship, has organized a writing school here and is giving three lessons a week.
    Frank Frederick of Portland was here for dinner Wednesday. He is selling blacksmith supplies.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 1, 1915, page 5


    Carl Drsek of Brownsboro and John Shadager of Butte Falls were naturalized at the courthouse at Jacksonville on February 23. On account of said event Carl Drsek, with the members of the Little Butte Creek society, gave an entertainment on Saturday, February 27. As the weather was very rainy, the attendance was only from the closest neighborhood. The program was as follows:
    Violin solo, Carl Drsek; recitation, Albert Myers; recitation, Leland Charley; Butte Creek, Glenn and Dalton Terrill, song, Mrs. D. W. Myers; recitations, Adon Myers, Dalton Terrill, Carl Drsek; song, Floyd Charley; recitation, Lloyd Stanley; song, Mr. Wilson; song Carl Drsek.
    After the program a supper was served and about midnight the participants departed for their homes.
    There have been a large number of cattle vaccinated for blackleg in the past two weeks around here.
    There was a dance at the Lost Creek hall February 26. A large crowd was present and a good time was reported.
    Our teacher, Mr. Schell, was very ill last week, but is now on duty.
    The ninth grade of this school has been absent almost a month.
    Mike Conley and Mrs. L. Hessler were visiting at W. M. Stanley's Sunday.
    Glenn Terrill was at Lake Creek Sunday afternoon.
    Mrs. C. Charley and son, Claus, went to Medford Sunday.
    Charles Terrill is over at Jacksonville on the jury.
    Monday, February 22, there was a ball game between the Butte Creek school and the Lake Creek teams. The score was 16 to 5 in the Butte Creek team's favor.
    Verna Charley and Karna Stapleton spent Sunday with Alice and Anna Nygren.
    Mrs. I. L. Bradshaw and son went to Medford Monday.
    Miss Maude Terrill returned home Sunday from a visit up at South Fork.
    R. A. Pech was in Eagle Point on business Friday.
    George Brown went over to Mr. Rhodes' to see about some sheep.
    Gus Nygren went to Eagle Point last week on business.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Charley returned home Friday from Medford.
    Mrs. Will Hoeft is in Medford visiting her folks.
    D. W. Myers is spraying his orchard.
    Reed Charley has been plowing some land that they have just cleared.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 4, 1915, page 3


    John Winningham returned home from Medford Sunday.
    Don't miss the dance at Trail the 13th.
    Ray and Mae Warner spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. R. R. Dawson.
    Mr. Lewis of near Prospect spent Monday night with us, on his way home from the valley.
    Among Trail callers Sunday were Ray and Mae Warner, Walter Cushman, Frank Middlebusher, Leif Anderson, Leslie Ossman, O. Gaines, Lester McDonald and Mr. Ditsworth.
    Minnie Poole is staying with Mr. and Mrs. Albright during Mr. and Mrs. Poole's absence.
    Jeff Pearce of Elk Creek stopped at Trail on his way to Medford and Jacksonville Monday.
    Deputy Sheriff Wilson made a business trip to Trail and vicinity last week.
    E. E. Ash drove his car to Medford Monday for the first time this season. The roads are in a pretty bad condition.
    Miss Clara Skyrman returned from Peyton Sunday, where she has been teaching the past six months.
    Miss Minnie Gaines left for her home in Medford Monday after an extended visit with relatives on Trail Creek.
    Miss Hazel Tony returned home from the valley Monday where she has been the past month.
    There will be a shadow social at Trail hall, Saturday evening, March 20th. Everybody come and bring well-filled boxes, and be prepared for a jolly good time, funds for school.
    Mr. and Mrs. Poole, Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyke, Mr. and Mrs. Cushman and sons, Ed and Charlie, and daughter Dora, T. C. Gaines, Ed Ash, Fred Middlebusher, Mr. and Mrs. Ragsdale, George Weeks, Bob Dawson, Boyd Tucker, Mr. McLeod, Eph McDonald and Mark Applegate were called to Jacksonville as witnesses on the Martin case.
    The Misses Lea and Enid Middlebusher, Dewie Howe and Rena Ash, Frank Middlebusher and Irwin Howe of Trail attended Sunday school at the Hatchery church Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 4, 1915, page 5


    The I.O.O.F. held their anniversary meeting in their hall in this place last Thursday night, and after the regular order of business was disposed of the doors were open for the admission of the Rebekahs and of course they had to have one of their big feeds, and from the reports that came in to me and the time that the participants returned to the Sunnyside they must have had a good time; in fact this little village of ours is noted for having the best little socials of any place in the country.
    On Friday night, the 26th inst., the Parent-Teachers Association had their regular monthly meeting and there seems to be a growing interest in the move and the people are waking up to the fact that there is something higher than the simple pleasures of everyday life.
    One day last week as our neighbor, Wm. G. Knighten, was walking along the street a large bulldog belonging to some of the Natwick family grabbed him by the wrist, forcing two of his teeth into the flesh, but fortunately did not result in anything very serious except causing Mr. D. to suffer from a sore wrist. The marshal immediately ordered the dog kept confined. If our town council would levy a town tax of one or two dollars on the dogs that infest our town it would help the taxpayer and rid us of a lot of dogs that are of little or no use in the town.
    D. E. Whitley, who has been up in the Prospect country visiting his parents, passed through here last week on his way to Walla Walla. He reports that his friends up in that section gave him a farewell party the night before he left.
    Lem Charley and wife, who have been in Medford on business for a few days, came out on the P.&E. Friday and so was Mr. Dunlap of Derby, A. Pech of Lake Creek, Mr. Berquist, who has a farm west of town, J. A. Howard, Horn Watkins and wife, Pete Betz and wife and J. Brittsan, foreman on the C. Veghte farm.
    S. H. Harnish & Son, our livery stable men, took a span of horses to Medford one day last week and traded them off for a Ford car and now when they have a customer who wants to go in a hurry they can accommodate him. John W. Smith, one of our local carpenters, is engaged today (Tuesday) arranging a garage adjoining their livery stable.
    Emmett Nealon, one of the progressive young men of Table Rock, came over last Friday after his sister, Miss Rose, who is teaching in the Reese Creek district.
    Last Saturday night according to previous arrangements about all of the Minter family, including Frank Caster and wife, and your correspondent, wife and daughter, Jed Edsall and two of the Minter girls, went with us over to Table Rock to witness the rendering of the play "What Happened to Jones," and when we reached there we found the large school house well filled, but my friend Emmett Nealon had reserved two seats for my wife and I so that I could see and hear all that was said and done. I would like to give the names of the actors in the play but suppose that your Table Rock correspondent will give them in his report, but I must add that it was one of the best rendered plays I have witnessed for many years. Everyone of the thirteen had their parts perfect so that there was not a bobble in the play, although it took two and a half hours to render it.
    Miss Rose Nealon, Mrs. Isaac Merriman, Irvin Daley and L. P. Harrington, one of the assistants of the state superintendent of schools, came in on the P.&E. Monday morning. Miss Nealon was on her way to her school on Reese Creek and Mr. H. was to visit her school Monday afternoon and Mrs. Merriman was on her way up to Trail to visit relatives, and Irvin went up to his father, W. C. Daley.
    In my letter published March 1st in speaking of some machinery being taken to the Todd & McDonald place on Rogue River near Elk Creek, I wish to make a correction, as they are simply renters and the place belongs to N. T. McDonald, and one of his brothers and Mr. Todd are working it on the shares. I am requested to make the correction.
    Last Saturday Miss Gertrude Shoults, who is teaching on Elk Creek, and her aunt, Mrs. Mae Dew, both of Trail, N. T. McDonald, also of Trail, Fred Crewe, Jr., of Grants Pass, H. Reed of Greenmans, Utah, and L. H. Deweese, also from Utah, arrived at the Sunnyside for the night and Mr. Crewe remained until Tuesday morning and went to Butte Falls on the P.&.E.
    Sunday Wm. von der Hellen and wife and J. V. McIntyre and wife came in for dinner and there were also two strangers came with them besides those who ate at the first table. Business is looking up.
    J. F. Ditsworth of Prospect came out Monday and brought Miss Clara Skyrman, one of the teachers on Trail Creek. She went on the train but Mr. D. remained at the Sunnyside overnight.
    Mr. Peterson, one of the school supervisors, went up to the Crater Lake school Tuesday morning and he and Mr. Herrington will spend the week in the hills visiting rural schools.
    Wm. Nichols of Lake Creek and a stranger took dinner Tuesday at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Deweese, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside, have rented rooms of Mrs. A. M. Thomas and have gone to housekeeping.
    Miss Mabel Hanson, who has just closed a six months' school in the Flounce Rock district, came out Tuesday and spent the night at the Sunnyside. She reports that they had a fine program and very pleasant time last Friday, the last day of school. The board have hired her to teach again next fall--that tells the story.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 8, 1915, page 5


    Mrs. Henry French returned to her home from Medford Saturday.
    There were over a dozen vehicles of people went down the first of the week as witnesses and spectators to Jacksonville to the trial of Loris Martin.
    Wm. Houston made a business trip to Gold Hill Friday. Mrs. Houston and little girls accompanied him as far as Beagle and visited relatives there.
    Among the Eagle Point visitors Saturday were Ed Foster, Henry French, Steve Smith, Perry Foster, Gene Bellows and family.
    Mrs. George Fry has spent the last week with Mrs. H. L. Howard.
    Mrs. Jasper Hannah and Miss Ora Ramsey were the guests of their sister, Mrs. Frank Miller of Central Point.
    Miss Eula Houston began the spring term of school in the Long Branch district the first of March.
    John Nealon of Table Rock began the spring term of school the 8th in the Central district.
    Dr. Kirchgessner has gone to the fair at San Francisco.
    Mrs. Edwin Piele was a valley visitor the middle of the week.
    Mrs. N. Garrett of Medford visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. McCabe the first of the week. The last of the week she spent with her brother Anthony and wife at Derby.
    Harry Merriman report the arrival of a bouncing baby boy at his home last Thursday.
    A phone meeting was held Friday at Chris Bergman's for the purpose of building a new phone line from the ferry to Eagle Point to be known as the Free Ferry line. There are to be eighteen shares, and ten were sold at the meeting.
    Steve Smith went to Medford and bought a team a few days ago.
    Among the Central Point visitors Saturday were Harry Merriman, Mr. and Mrs. Belcher and Mr. Murray.
    Perry Foster is having some wire fence put up.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 8, 1915, page 5


    Among other things that I omitted to write in my last was that Senator von der Hellen was among us on Tuesday, the 2nd inst., smiling on his friends and receiving congratulations on his safe return from the state capital.
    Among the arrivals at the Sunnyside since I last wrote who registered their names were: Tuesday night, H. G. Bolton, a shoe man of St. Louis, Mo.; Wednesday, O. N. Nelson, one of the insurance agents of Medford; J. R. Kline and E. T. Stockman, deputy fruit inspectors of Medford, and H. G. Bolton of Derby; Thursday, W. H. McNair, G. S. Butler and G. W. Owen of Ashland and H. S. Stine of Medford; Mrs. L. Michl of Kansas City, Kan., and her son W. Michl, of Lake Creek; Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hatch of Berkeley, Cal. Mrs. Hatch is a sister of Mrs. Dr. Holt, who has been here for some time visiting her sister, and Mr. Hatch after spending a short time visiting here went on up to Seattle on business, returning on Wednesday, and they concluded that they would take dinner with Mrs. Howlett and Dr. W. W. P. Holt. Mrs. Holt and daughter, Miss Helen, also took dinner with them, and after dinner they started for their home in Berkeley. Mrs. Hatch, who has been here just long enough to become attached to our country and fall in love with our climate, will tell her friends of her sister's lovely surroundings.
    F. W. Klippel of Medford was a passenger on the Eagle Point-Persist stage the first of the week on his way to Trail Creek to visit his mother and sister.
    While Miss Mabel Hanson was here we visited our school together Wednesday morning and after my giving the children a short talk by way of encouragement I excused myself and left her to visit the intermediate and primary departments, and she made a very favorable report, in fact we think that we have a model school in our little town. I herewith send the roll of honor for the month of February. The roll is not so long as it generally is, as during that month we had considerable rain and many of the children have to walk quite a distance and were occasionally late and that would keep their names off the roll. In the primary department: Katrina Bryant, Loeta Truelove, Melva Simmons, Donald von der Hellen, Hugo von der Hellen, Howard Vogeli, Donald Vogeli and Ansil Pearce. Intermediate department--Joyce von der Hellen, Ruth Grover, Ruford Simmons, Lloyd Cingcade, Foster Greb, Harold Van Scoy, Elsworth Stowell, Lyle Van Scoy, Judge Florey, Katie Buchanan, Nora Childreth, Helen Hoyt, Kee Buchanan, Margaret Riley and Freda Leabo. Principal's room--Roberta Pearce, Walter Painter, Vesta Grover, Ethel Riley and Carlyle Natwick.
    Henry French and wife came in Wednesday evening from Medford. Mrs. French has been in the hospital for some time, having had an operation performed by our local M.D., Wm. W. P. Holt, and he met them at the P.&E. depot and brought them to the Sunnyside, where she is staying for a few days. She left the hospital last Saturday, February 27, and spent a few days with one of their old neighbors in Medford, Mrs. Olie Nichols. Mr. French is one of our thoroughgoing farmers, who believes in progressive work, and he and his wife are receiving congratulations over the recovery of his wife.
    There has been quite a number of strangers in our town during the past few days, and during the first few days a number of the Trail and Elk Creek people passed through our town on their way to hear and attend as witnesses at the Martin trial.
    Mrs. Sophia Thomas, whose husband, Charles, is engaged in the logging business in Klamath County, came in Thursday morning to make a short visit with relatives.
    Our city dads, after Mr. Knighten was bitten by an ugly dog, have passed an ordinance taxing dogs $1 and a bitch $3--a good move.
    Mrs. Whitman, mother of our townsman, R. M. Whitman, arrived Thursday to visit her son and wife.
    A. D. Young, a Portland salesman, was with Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen at the Sunnyside for dinner Friday.
    Mr. Perl, our county coroner, has established an agency here for caskets and funeral arrangements. W. L. Childreth has the agency.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1915, page 5


    The baseball game at Lake Creek last Sunday was attended by a large crowd. The score was 7 to 21 in favor of the Butte Creek boys. At the first part of the game the Lake Creek run in most of their tallies, but the Butte Creek team proved to be superior.
    Claus Charley has been visiting relatives in Medford the past week.
    Our school supervisor, A. R. Chase, visited the Butte Creek school Friday and also demonstrated the use of a Babcock milk tester.
    A. R. Chase held a school fair meeting at Lake Creek last Thursday. The directors of the Butte Creek, Lake Creek and South Fork schools met and decided on a school fair this fall at Lake Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Myers were visiting Mrs. L. A. Hessler last Saturday.
    F. S. Charley was at Lake Creek last Thursday on business.
    R. A. Pech has been sawing wood for the people in the Lake Creek vicinity.
    Charles Terrill has just returned home from Jacksonville. He was on the jury.
    Blanche Burleson has been very ill for some time.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1915, page 5


    Loris Martin, slayer of Game Warden A. S. Hubbard, can return to his haunts in the Trail hills, by virtue of a verdict of "not guilty" returned by a jury in the circuit court Tuesday afternoon. The verdict was a stunning surprise. Lawyers who heard the evidence in the case, before the return of the talismen, predicted that the best Martin could expect would be a hung jury.
    Jurors after being released said the two features that influenced them most were the instructions of the court, and the testimony of Sheriff Singler and Deputy Wilson for the defense. The sheriff's office is supposed to aid the prosecution in securing convictions. It is one of their duties prescribed by law. In Jackson County they gathered evidence and collected photos to be used against the state. Activity of the same officers along the same lines was noticeable in the Major Canton and Mrs. McNulty cases. Martin during his incarceration suffered few if any inconveniences.
    Martin did not appear in public after his "acquittal." He left at once for his home. There was a family reunion with his relatives and friends. It is understood Martin will leave shortly for British Columbia to live.
    When the findings of the jury were read, a wild demonstration broke out in the court room, followed by cheers and handclapping from sympathizers of the defendant, though the widow of the man he slew sat mourning among them. The court ordered the bailiffs to clear the courtroom after this outbreak. Afterwards the bench qualified his order by allowing those who had not clapped or cheered to remain. The final court formalities were soon over, and the prisoner officially given his freedom.
    The trial lasted seven days, and will cost the county in the neighborhood of $5000.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 10, 1915, page 6


    H. S. O'Hare of Medford was the guest of Professor W. E. Buchanan last Saturday, the 16th.
    Among the visitors to our town last Saturday were Steve F. Smith, and while here gave me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune. He had come out with Perry Foster after some wire fencing for the Foster farm that he is cultivating this season.
    Gus Nichols of Brownsboro, one of the stockmen of the Salt Creek neighborhood, was also doing business among us.
    Mrs. O. Bell, formerly of Brownsboro, and her brother, James Culbertson, were also in town the same day.
    W. E. Hammel also came in for a barrel of spray to use on his orchard.
    F. T. Newport, our depot agent, also shipped two crates of chickens and twelve cases of eggs the same day.
    While at the depot I met Delbert Fehl, agent for the Fehl Investment Company of Medford, and also the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Medford. He had been out to look at the farm and orchard owned by W. E. Hammel.
    William Beale and Harvey Smith came out from Butte Falls the same day and stopped here, while Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neil, who came out on the same car, went on to Medford.
    G. W. Glick of Portland and Will Tolman of Climax were guests at the Sunnyside Saturday, and Saturday night attended the movies and dance.
    Pete Young and two sisters, Miss Clara and Mrs. James Owens, were doing business Saturday, and while here Mr. Young renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Robert Neil of Brownsboro was also trading with our merchants Saturday.
    M. S. Wood, one of the old veterans of the Civil War, met me Saturday morning and asked me for a receipt for a year's subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. And the same day H. G. Meyer of Brownsboro had me change his paper from the Weekly to the Daily Mail Tribune, paying the difference, so that he and his family can get "all the news all the time."
    J. S. Quackenbush has just finished hauling from the depot twenty-one barrels of spray mixture for the A. Corbin orchard. Mr. Quackenbush is the foreman on the place and keeps everything up and a-going, and the result is an abundant crop every year.
    Sunday was rather a lively day in Eagle Point, as there seemed to be quite a number of people coming and going. There were services at both the Catholic and Baptist churches, Rev. William J. Meagher of Medford conducting the services at the Catholic church. He and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Clements took dinner at the Sunnyside, and so did Dr. and Mrs. W. W. P. Holt and their daughter, Miss Helen, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Knighten and Professor C. E. Johnson of Table Rock.
    John Ashpole and wife and his brother Charles and wife of Portland and Wilbur Ashpole of Medford were out Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants.
    Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen, another of our hardware, furniture and drug merchants, came in for dinner Sunday.
    Mrs. Clay Charley of Brownsboro drove in Monday morning.
    William Messall and family were in town Monday. They are all able to be around again. That is the family who had their little boy at the Sunnyside so long and had to be operated on for appendicitis, and afterward had another boy fall and break his leg, and had all sorts of trouble, and we are glad to see them on tap again.
    G. A. Monse of Talent and C. G. Butler of Green Springs were at the Sunnyside Monday.
    C. W. Morton of Medford was out Tuesday interviewing our city dads with regard to putting up some street lamps in our town.
    When George von der Hellen came to dinner Tuesday he brought H. D. Waring of Portland with him. He is a salesman for a furniture house in Portland.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 11, 1915, page 5


    George von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, made a business visit to Medford on Tuesday last.
    Benj. Brophy, one of the hustling farmers and stockraisers, was doing business here Tuesday and so was T. F. McCabe. Mr. McCabe has a fine farm and orchard on Rogue River and generally keeps a number of our people supplied with something in the eating line, such as apples, peaches, pears, and when they are out of season he brings in garden truck so that we seldom have to go hungry.
    Floyd Pearce, deputy assessor, has been interviewing the taxpayers of Eagle Point during the past week as to what they had, and he manages to keep everybody in a good humor all the time. He is the right man in the right place.
    Florence Bloomfield, who has been teaching school in the Nye district, came in Tuesday on an ass from Lost Creek where she had been to engage another school, as wet as a drowned rat, cold, hungry and tired and spent the night at the Sunnyside. She engaged the school all right.
    I. C. Moore came in Tuesday evening to the Sunnyside from his Elk Creek ranch on his way to Ashland with a team. He put up his team at the livery stable of Harnish & Son.
    J. S. Quackenbush came in on Wednesday after a small lot of fruit trees.
    Mrs. J. C. Gaines of Trail came out on the P.&E. and took the E.P.-Persist stage for her home, and one of the Moore brothers, who has a homestead on the headwaters of Elk Creek, was also on the same stage on his way home.
    There is a move on foot to put up another telephone line starting here and running to the free ferry. It will accommodate quite a number of people on the route. The company was organized last week and Wm. Winkle was elected president, John Blaess vice-president and Marshall Minter secretary. The president tells me that they are going right to work and put the line up.
    Prof. George O. Henry, who has been teaching in the Peyton district, came into the Sunnyside Wednesday night for a late supper. He has a homestead near the mouth of Big Butte Creek. He was on his way to Medford.
    F. T. Boltz, the general roustabout for the P.&E. railroad, has gone to San Francisco to attend the Panama exposition. He is accompanied by his wife and two children. After viewing the fair Mrs. Boltz and the children expect to go back east to visit her parents.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, has been having a change in exercise while helping Mr. Cingcade to mark and brand his cattle. Roy is an expert with a rope.
    L. S. Grosse, the foreman and engineer on the Dodge farm--Riverside--came out Thursday and took out a pair of thoroughbred Bronze turkeys to the farm. They were shipped to B. L. Dodge. People are beginning to wake up to the fact that it costs no more to raise a good article, no matter what it is in the vegetable or animal kingdom, than it does to raise an inferior article. These progressive farmers are teaching us old mossbacks a new trick altogether.
    P. A. Bosney of Ashland, representing the Southern Oregon Broom Company of Ashland, was here for dinner Thursday and he says that they have built up such a business that they expect next season to furnish all the brooms used in the valley, that our soil produces a fine quality of broom corn.
    Roy Davis of Derby was at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday and at night E. A. Hildreth and wife of Butte Falls came in to spend the night. He was on his way to the county seat to get ready to begin assessing the Butte Falls district.
    N. T. McDonald and Miss Ella Shacts [Shesler?], who is teaching on upper Trail and another young lady teacher and a man whose names I did not learn, went up to the Trail and Elk Creek country Thursday morning on the stage.
    J. D. Arnes and wife were doing business in our town Friday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Willison of Ashland, who are traveling for the firm of Wadham & Kerr Bros., Ed Monson of Derby, Mrs. H. A. Meyer and son, and G. H. Wamsley were at the Sunnyside for dinner Friday.
    Bert Clarno was in town Friday morning after a new wagon he had just bought in Medford and engaged 500 pounds of seed potatoes from F. L. Heath.
    Mrs. High and a friend of hers of Ashland were up here to look over the Eagle Hotel property Friday and took dinner with Miss Louisa Blaess, the present proprietor. Miss Blaess and Miss Hazel McClennan went to Medford Wednesday night to attend the play at the Page.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 15, 1915, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Brittsan are the proud parents of a 10-pound son which arrived in Ashland one day last week.
    Misses Mattie and Jessie Winter entertained Mesdames Roy Smith, Newport, G. Bellows, F. Caster and Foster at dinner last Friday.
    Miss Diehless Minter spent the weekend with Mrs. G. Bellows.
    Miss Rose Nealon spent Friday night as the guest of Miss Mary Robertson.
    Ed Foster made a business trip to Medford Tuesday.
    Mrs. Mae Daw and son Cyril returned to their home above Trail Saturday.
    Joe Phipps of Flounce Rock passed en route to his home Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 15, 1915, page 5


    Last Saturday A. J. Graff of Portland, representing a Portland firm who makes a specialty of pickles, was here interviewing our merchants, and while he was here for dinner and he was telling Mrs. Howlett of the different varieties of pickles he had for sale. The thought occurred to me, What are the people of Jackson County doing that we have to have drummers coming all the way from Portland to supply us with an article that we can raise in abundance right in our dooryards, and with so little work, for with a little exertion one can raise enough cucumbers on four square rods of our Butte Creek bottom land to supply a small town like this or Talent, Gold Hill or Jacksonville, and still we pay a foreign company to put them up, a man to come out from Portland to sell them to our merchants and then we pay him a large commission to sell them to us. Why?
    Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Gardner of Lake Creek were here last Saturday.
    Saturday morning as I was making my rounds looking for items of interest to the general reader, I was standing talking to our ex-postmaster, A. J. Florey, and in the run of conversation he remarked that Loris Martin was in town, pointing him out in the Childreth blacksmith shop, and in a few minutes he came out, and I was introduced to the man who has attracted so much attention during the past few days. Well, I confess that I was disappointed when I met him, for instead of meeting a medium-sized man of a mild appearance, with none of the bravado that had been pictured to me, I expected to have seen, a young giant with a cartridge belt full of cartridges and a revolver in his belt, but I was mistaken, and I found him to be pleasant and affable and none of the characteristics that had been so prominently portrayed.
    W. C. Daley and his son, Irvin, came out from the farm on the north fork of Little Butte Saturday.
    T. J. Boltz of the P.&E. railway company returned from San Francisco last Sunday.
    Art Nichols, who has spent the winter on Big Butte, has moved his family out and I understand that he has gone to California.
    Mrs. Elizabeth Jonas, who has been stopping with her family, returned to the old home Saturday night.
    L. H. Deweese has moved his family into the house owned by Mrs. M. S. Wood, and he has gone to work on the Riverside ranch.
    T. D. Reed of Utah stayed here Sunday night and went to the Riverside ranch Monday morning to work.
    Lester Abbott of Butte Falls came out Sunday to go to work here.
    It was announced last Sunday night that a Mr. Hill, a Baptist missionary from Japan, will be here on Monday night, the 29th inst., and deliver a lecture on the missionary work in that field.
    Joe Rader of Phoenix and a Mr. Applegate were here Monday on business.
    John Blaess, who makes his home at the free ferry on Rogue River, was in town Monday looking after the interests of the new telephone company that is putting up a line from here to his home. He is the vice-president of the company.
    Morton Berdan of Medford is here at this writing moving Frank Lewis' confectionery shop and pool room from down near the depot out on Main Street, as he could not get business enough to justify staying there.
    Mr. and Mrs. McArthur, son-in-law and daughter of F. M. Corlies, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, came out Saturday evening to make the old folks at home a visit. Mr. Corlies paid up a year's subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune a short time ago, and I think that I failed to mention it in my Eaglets.
    C. F. Case of Sams Valley has also renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    S. F. Coy has also subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune. Thus the new subscribers keep coming in and the old ones keep renewing, and thus keep the ball in motion.
    Thomas Riley, Jr., is engaged in painting signs for S. H. Harnish & Son, this time an automobile sign. We are steadily coming to the front.
    I. C. Moore, of Elk Creek, S. M. Clevenger of Butte Falls and C. W. Morton of Medford were with us Monday night. He (Mr. Morton) was here looking after the interests of the electric light company, trying to interest our mayor and council in having some street lights put in, something that is greatly needed.
    This Tuesday, March 16, 1915, is my 83rd birthday and Mrs. Howlett is going to give me and my old friends a big feed tonight, but I will have to give an account of that next time.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 18, 1915, page 5


    At the last meeting of the state fish and game commission, at the request of the Rogue River Fish Protective Association and upon the recommendation of Master Fish Warden Clanton, an appropriation of $2000 was made for cooperative work with the United States bureau of hatcheries for trout propagation work in Rogue River at the Elk Creek hatcheries. The money will be used to defray the expense of trout egg taking and feeding fry to the age of fingerlings. It is expected to hatch several million steelhead and keep at least a million until they reach the fingerling stage. The government appropriation covers only salmon propagation.
    Field Superintendent O'Malley writes that on March 8, 181 steelhead trout eggs had been collected at Trail, also 480 cutthroat trout eggs which will be held separately and fed. At the Applegate station, 1,151,800 steelhead eggs had been taken, part of which will be shipped to the Elk Creek hatchery when eyed.
    March is also a month when many steelheads spawn, and it is expected the take this month will equal that taken previously this season.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 19, 1915, page 6




    The last time that I wrote for the Mail Tribune it was on my 83rd birthday, and I then told the readers of that valuable publication that Mrs. Howlett was planning to give me and my friends a big feed that afternoon. They whole thing had been arranged between Mrs. H. and our daughter, Hattie, and the first intimation that I had of anything in that line going on was as I happened to be looking around in the kitchen on Monday I discovered that there was a large turkey and one or two dead chickens and that being on Monday I began to "smell a mouse" and naturally asked Mrs. H. if she was inviting in some of our old friends for my birthday dinner and Hattie spoke up and said: "Now, you ask no questions, but be sure that you are here at 5 o'clock sharp." So I simply kept mum, and sure enough, on that afternoon about 5 here came Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Knighten, and then came Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan, and then--well, as I did not keep tab on what order they came, I can't say in what order they did arrive, but by the time they were through coming there was, in addition to the aforementioned persons, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade, Grandma Heckathorn, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stewart, Mrs. A. M. Thomas and G. H. Wamsley. They all gave me a hearty greeting and wished me many returns of my natal day. It was but a short time until we were invited out to the dining room, where the table was spread with enough to make the heart of a hungry man leap for joy, for it was not an ordinary meal, but enough of what the ordinary person would call "good things" to supply a young army. Well, after we had eaten of roast turkey, chicken, roast pork, cold boiled ham, potatoes, corn, etc., then Mrs. H. came in with a great large cake, covered with eighty-three wax candles, all lighted, and demanded of the company to count the candles, but before anyone could have time to count, Mrs. Cingcade cried out eighty-three, and by that time the heat from the candles was such that they had to be extinguished, and then four different kinds of cake, sweetmeats, jellies, cream pies, orange salad, peaches and cream, etc., were served, and about that time I drew my little book and pencil and began to inquire the age of each individual and found that the sum of their ages including myself was 1122, and the average was 70 years and a fraction--a hale, hearty and happy company that will stand as an advertisement for the healthfulness of Oregon.
    There was one little incident occurred just before dinner was announced, and that was that the ladies all repaired to the parlor and in a few minutes marched out in regular order, and each presented me with a little token of friendship and a word of congratulations and a wish that I may live to see and enjoy many returns of my birthday. After dinner was over and the men who indulged in the use of the weed had had their evening smoke, we all repaired to the parlor, where we were entertained with some choice selections of music on the phonograph by M. S. Wood, that he had brought from home to play on the occasion. Later in the evening some of the ladies asked to see some needlework that Hattie had been doing and that brought out a request to see some needlework, embroidery, etc., that a young man has done who lives with us, and that brought the decision that his work was equal to any that any one of the ladies present could do, and those of us who wished spent the evening in social converse until 10 p.m., when the company dispersed, expressing the wish that we all may live to celebrate many more of my birthdays.
    Well, here I have about a column of matter already written, and no Eaglets yet.
    Mrs. A. M. Thomas, who has a sale tomorrow, Saturday, has rented her house to Walter Cardwell, who was married to Miss Hattie Riley last Wednesday, March 17, and expects to move to Central Point by the last of next week.
    Mrs. Frank Corlies, wife of the foreman of the Alta Vista orchard, has been visiting her son in Agate last week.
    H. G. Meyer, the mail carrier on the route from here to Lake Creek, took up a lot of fruit trees for his brother, Henry, last Thursday.
    Gus and Fritz Pech of Lake Creek were here Thursday after seed grain to sow this spring.
    Among the business callers Thursday was Senator von der Hellen.
    Morton Berdan, the man who is moving Frank Lewis' confectionery and pool hall, had the grippe so that he was unable to work this Friday morning.
    Mrs. Henry Conn of Roseburg arrived at the home of her mother, Mrs. A. M. Thomas, Thursday.
    F. L. Heath, one of our merchants, has placed a large gasoline reservoir in front of his store, so as to supply the travel.
    W. L. Childreth has had a new sign painted for his blacksmith shop. S. H. Harnish has also had a sign painted the public that he has an auto to hire. Thomas Riley, Jr., is doing the work.
    Court Hall of Medford came out Thursday in his car and brought Mr. and Mrs. John Ashpole and Mrs. Tillie Nichols, and he came out Friday morning and took Miss Louisa Blaess, the proprietress of the Eagle Hotel, and Miss McClennan to Medford.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton was visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Harnish, Friday, and Thursday night we had Mr. McArthur here for supper and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Anderson of Seattle, Wash. Mr. Anderson is soliciting for the Crescent Manufacturing Company. They went Friday to Trail and McCloud and returned to Medford in the evening.
    I should have said in mentioning the names of those invited to the birthday dinner that Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey and Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols were invited, but Mrs. Florey had hurt her shoulder so that she could not come, and Mr. Nichols had so many duties to attend as mayor of the city that he did not come.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 23, 1915, page 5


    Last Saturday G. D. Hoffman of Portland, a representative of the Cudahy Company, was here for dinner, and so was J. J. Barber of Eugene, representing the Union Oil Company of California. It is a fine thing that we have some competition in that line of business, for formerly we have been paying 21 or 22 cents per gallon for gasoline in Medford in fifty-gallon lots, but now the same company is delivering it at our houses in less than barrel lots for 17½ cents per gallon.
    Paul Opdyke of Trail, who keeps the stone house station on Rogue River, spent Saturday night with us.
    Miss Claire Zimmerman, who works in the telephone office for our postmaster, is acting as an assistant in the post office.
    Hon. Porter J. Neff and wife, J. V. McIntyre and wife and Dr. W. W. P. Holt and wife and daughter, Miss Helen, were among the guests at the Sunnyside last Sunday.
    Weldon Sage and a stranger came in Sunday night and spent the night.
    Mrs. A. M. Thomas had her sale last Saturday, as per advertisement in the Mail Tribune, although she had already sold off the most of the things she wished to dispose of, as she had, in answer to the ad, she furnished two different families with a part of their outfit for housekeeping. She moved what things she had left to Central Point Monday, and I understand that Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cardwell expect to move into the house in a few days. Mrs. Thomas' daughter, Mrs. Henry Conn, of Roseburg, remained with her until after she got moved and her house affairs arranged in her new home.
    Fred L. Heath has planted his gasoline reservoir and had it filled with gasoline and has posted a sign that he can supply the travel right from the tank.
    Henry French and John Foster, his brother-in-law, came in Saturday and Mr. Foster is at present stopping at the Sunnyside.
    Frank Lewis has succeeded in moving his confectionery and pool hall. It has taken a week to do the work of preparing to move and to move the building, although Mr. Berdan, contractor, was on the ground one day, so that they did not do anything that day. It was quite an undertaking, as the house is 50x25 feet and the walls are 20 feet high. Before he got through with the job Mr. Clements, the telephone man, had to cut and remove out of the way forty-one of the phone wires.
    Professor C. E. Johnson of Table Rock came over to the Sunnyside on Saturday eve, remaining overnight.
    Emmett Nealon and Mr. Vinson of Table Rock came over Saturday evening to see about engaging the opera house to render the play "What Happened to Jones," the same play they rendered at Table Rock last month that gave such general satisfaction. They are talking of giving the play in the Vining Theater in Ashland, the proceeds to go toward buying a piano for the Table Rock school. I have not learned if they secured the house here or not.
    Peter Young and his sister, Miss Clara, were in town on business Monday.
    S. H. Harnish, our livery stable man, has had John W. Smith, one of our carpenters, making some changes in his dwelling and changing the appearance of the exterior of the building.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Knighten motored to Phoenix Monday and brought out Mrs. Knighten's sister, Mrs. Al Mayfield.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Parton, who own the noted Rader farm on Antelope Creek, were in town recently.
    Thomas Farlow and wife of Lake Creek were also among us Monday.
    Frank Howard of Bonnet, Tex., has been up on the river visiting his father.
    J. A. Howard, one of our old veterans of the Civil War, took dinner at the Sunnyside Tuesday on his way to his Texas home.
    Since my last report, T. W. Cingcade has renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune, and Professor C. E. Johnson of Table Rock has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 25, 1915, page 5


    At the last meeting of the state fish and game commission, at the request of the Rogue River Fish Protection Association and upon the recommendation of Master Fish Warden Clanton, an appropriation of $2000 was made for cooperative work with the United States Bureau of Hatcheries for trout propagation work in Rogue River at the Elk Creek hatchery.
    The money will be used to defray the expense of trout egg taking and feeding fry to the age of fingerlings. It is expected to hatch several million steelhead and keep at least a million until they reach the fingerling stage. The government appropriation covers only salmon propagation.
    Field Superintendent O'Malley writes that on March 8, 181 steelhead trout had been collected at Trail, also 480 cutthroat trout, which will be held separately and fed. At the Applegate station, 1,151,800 steelhead eggs had been taken, part of which will be shipped to the Elk Creek hatchery when eyed.
    March is also a month when many steelheads spawn, and it is expected the take this month will equal that taken previously this season. 
Gold Hill News, March 27, 1915, page 1


    Cattle and horse owners of the south fork of Little Butte have formed the South Butte Cattle Association, securing the permit from the forestry department to range their stock in the Crater Lake national forest reserve. At a meeting held recently the following officers were elected: President, Charles Hoeft; vice president; C. R. Moore; secretary and treasurer; W. T. Kinney; advisory board; Gus A. Pech, Charles Edler, John Walch and Henry Tonn. A dozen stockmen are on the membership list. The members cooperate in care of the cattle and the economical handling of the range.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 29, 1915, page 2


    Our school board has elected W. O. Wheeler as the principal of our school; Miss Minnie Taylor, the present incumbent, as the intermediate teacher and Miss Shesler for the primary department.
    Frank Manning of Peyton spent two nights and a day with us on his return from a visit to his parents in Wyoming.
    J. A. Carpenter came out Tuesday and took the Eagle Point-Persist stage for W. H. Crandall's.
    Miss Mae Trusty, who has been visiting friends and relatives in our town, returned to her home on Elk Creek Tuesday.
    Last Tuesday while I was in F. L. Heath's store looking for items for the Mail Tribune he called my attention to an editorial in the Oregon Journal [above] commenting on an item I wrote with regard to agents traveling over the country selling pickles to our merchants to supply the demand while anyone with very little exertion can raise them so easily at home, and while talking on the subject he took a pickled cucumber out of a jar about three and a half inches long and remarked that there was a pickle he sold seven for 10 cents, and turning to another lot said that he sold those twelve for 10 cents, and then remarked that anyone could take an old candy pail, set it in the back yard and by throwing the dishwater on that, filled with dirt and a few cucumber seeds, can raise all they want for an ordinary family, and then turned and pointed out a number of articles that he had on his shelves that were put up in other countries that we raise here in abundance, while if we had a good canning factory here we could supply the demand and save the freight in many instances on the articles both ways and save what money we have here, but as it is, we send our money out of the valley to pay for bacon and ham that is made in Portland or San Francisco out of Jackson County-raised hogs. But such is life in this bountiful country.
    Mrs. Joe Riley and her daughter Mrs. Whetstone were doing business in our town Wednesday.
    Vaughn Quackenbush, son of the foreman on the A. Corbin orchard, went to Medford last Wednesday. Lyle Carlton of Ashland, who has been visiting on the Carlton farm with his brother Herbert, also was on the same train, and so was H. H. Lord, who was hurt in a runaway accident a short time ago and had his spine severely injured.
    The same day R. H. Pollard, who has a farm on Reese Creek, had a runaway and smashup here in town. He had hitched his team to a rack back of George Brown & Sons store and a piece of paper was carried by the wind under their feet, causing them to break loose and shortly after they started the pole came in contact with a woodshed and broke near the whiffletrees and soon the short end of the pole ran into the ground and turned the hack clear over, the hind part facing the direction in which they came, smashing one of the front wheels all to pieces.
    The same day A. H. Peachy, who is engaged in selling the Ward remedies, had a runaway near Brownsboro and smashed his wagon up considerable.
    The same day I met E. J. Austin of Wellen, and he was driving a mare that he used to drive in Michigan. She is now 24 years old and still quite spry. He brought her across the plains when he came to Oregon.
    Last Wednesday evening Rev. L. L. Simmons joined in wedlock Ray B. Harnish of the firm of S. H. Harnish & Son, liverymen, and Miss Mabel R. Taylor at the residence of the bride's parents in Eagle Point.
    Alvin Conover was in our town on business Thursday.
    Frank Lewis has his house finally arranged and has reopened up for business. He says that he expects to do four times the business in his new stand that he did on the old one.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 30, 1915, page 3


    The last time that I wrote for the Mail Tribune, last Saturday, about the time that I was about half through with what notes I had I had a call over the phone to come to Medford on the P.&E. car, so simply gathered up what I had written and started and mailed what I had written and started, so that left me with the following items on hand.
    Messrs. C. W. Lewis and John Walters came out last Thursday, the 25th inst., with a hackload of bananas and distributed them over town, selling them from $1 to $1.25 a bunch, but when they left town they had a quantity on hand.
    Mrs. H. O. Simpson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey, came in from the state of Washington last week to visit her parents, brothers and sister. I understand that Mr. Simpson has gone to Alaska.
    Austin Green, who has been in California for some time, returned to Eagle Point last week.
    Dave Pence and Paul Opdyke of Trail were callers at the Sunnyside last Thursday.
    H. A. Adams, a Portland salesman; O. C. King, his mother-in-law; Mrs. C. E. Smith and his daughter, Miss Elizabeth, of Ashland; Henry Meyer, wife and two children and mother-in-law, Mrs. Klingle of Lake Creek and James Pen of Ashland were among the callers for dinner on Thursday of last week.
    Mrs. E. C. Wharton, her three children and Roy Watkins spent Friday night at the Sunnyside. Mrs. Wharton has been teaching in the Laurel Hill school district, and at the close of her term the school gave a nice entertainment. She took the P.&E. for Eugene Saturday, where she expects to attend school and finish up the Normal course.
    This is the end of the batch of items I had on hand when I was called to go to Medford.
    On my arrival in Medford I met my old chum, Rev. M. C. Davis, and he came out home with me to spend the night. Among the callers on Saturday were C. H. Willison and wife of Ashland. They are traveling for Wadham and Kerr Bros. of Portland, and two other salesmen whose names I did not learn. On my way to Medford I saw Rev. Lindblad of Ashland, who had been up to Derby to preach, and on my return met Pete Young, one of the hustling farmers of this section, and J. E. Spencer, and while en route he gave me his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. He is just finishing up a contract for clearing a tract of land near Willow Springs. I also met on the train Al Mayfield and Mrs. Nellie Stillman of Grants Pass. They were on their way out to visit W. C. Knighten. Mr. Knighten is a brother-in-law to Mr. Mayfield and an uncle of Mrs. Stillman. Saturday night I. C. Moore, who has been spending the winter on his farm on Elk Creek, was on his way to Ashland, where he expects to remain for some time. J. S. Baker of Derby also came in about 7 o'clock. He was leading a cow with a young calf he had just purchased and stopped for a part of the night, for he took time by the forelock, got up sometime before daylight and started so as to get across sticky before the threatening rain that came about 6 a.m.
    On Sunday, Herman Meyer and wife of Lake Creek, Miss Alma Gould, who is teaching in the Lake Creek district, and her mother of Medford; Fred L. Heath, wife and son Fred, G. W. Wamsley, C. W. Clements and wife and Dr. W. W. P. Holt and wife took dinner at the Sunnyside, and I might add that F. T. Boltz, the assistant superintendent on the P.&E.R.R. force, was also in the company, although he boards here the most of the time during his wife's absence on a visit to her relatives in Philadelphia.
    I should have said before that Professor L. P. Herrington and Professor J. P. Wells, our county school superintendent, came out Friday evening and Professor H. gave an illustrated lecture showing the rise and progress of the work of the industrial fair work among the schools. It was not generally known that they were to be here at that time, as Professor Buchanan was not certain of his coming, but he had a very good audience, and they seemed to highly appreciate the lecture.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Whitman, March 25, 1915, a ten and a half pound girl.
    Born--to Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Robinson, March 27, a son. Dr. Holt reports that the mother and baby is doing well.
    Last Monday G. F. Fry and Ed Foster, both of Trail, came in to spend the night with us. They had been to Medford, so that Mr. Fry could make his final proof on his homestead.
    Fred Frideger of Medford also spent the night with us. He came out in the afternoon on his wheel, and the nice shower we had induced him to remain overnight.
    Rev. George W. Hill of Osaka, Japan, a Baptist missionary who has been laboring in Japan for the past eighteen years, who at present is making his home in Pasadena, Cal., came out Monday evening on the P.&E. train and delivered a fine lecture on the work of the Christian missionaries in that country. The lecture was very entertaining and instructive and was highly appreciated by the good-sized audience that met him at the church, but owning to the rain that was falling at the time there were not so many out to hear him as would have been if the weather had been more settled.
    Bert Higinbotham of Prospect also came in Monday night for a late supper and spent the night with us.
    Mrs. A. C. Tants, mother of one of our prominent townsmen, Charles Painter, arrived from Nebraska a few days ago to visit her son and family.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1915, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gaines were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah Wednesday night. Mr. Gaines recently sold his Trail Creek ranch to Harry Banks and has bought a piece of land near Debenger Creek.
    L. J. Mareks took up a load of wire fencing this week.
    Jerry Bellows is making his cousins, Edward and Bennie Bellows, an extended visit.
    John Foster is a guest of the Foster and French homes.
    It is reported that C. H. Veighte has exchanged his ranch on the east side of the river for Canadian property.
    Dr. Kirchgessner has gone to Florence on a professional trip.
    Gordon Cox was selling some nice apples on the west side of the river this week.
    The goat owners have about finished shearing this week.
    The farmers are busy plowing and sowing grain.
    The bills announcing a free entertainment at Ash hall, Trail, Saturday April 17, are out. Every lady is requested to bring a box, and boxes will be sold at auction and the proceeds to be applied on payment of an organ for the Elk Creek Sunday school. The following program by talented players begins at 8 p.m. sharp. "Swedish Minister," comedy; "Two Jay Detectives," comedy; "The Morning After the Night Before," drama; "A Lesson in Elocution," comedy; scene in Louisiana, ministerial comedy; " A Foolish Quitter," comedy; colored sermon and male quartet. Everyone is invited to come and have a good laugh and bring a box to help out a worthy cause.
    Dave Pence and daughter, Miss Viola, were valley visitors this week. Miss Viola was one of the successful applicants for eighth grade diplomas.
    Frank Zuccala was a Central Point visitor Thursday.
    George Fry made final proof on his homestead the 29th. Edward Foster and Elton Raimey were his witnesses before Commissioner Canon in Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mathews spent Sunday with Frank Johnson and family.
    Mr. and Mrs. Peter Betz were pleasant callers at the French ranch a few days ago.
    Mrs. T. C. McCabe is on the sick list. Dr. Holt was out to see her Sunday.
    Miss Lucille Cox was the weekend guest of her brother, Gordon, and family.
    The six months' term of school in the Laurel Hill district with Mrs. Wharton as teacher closed Tuesday. The patrons and Supervisor Peterson were present to the following program, which was well rendered:
    "America," by all; "Like the Bird and the Flower," Vera Wharton; "Country Boys," Vera and Leonard Wharton, Mosie Johnson, Earl Mathews; reading, Blanche Conover; recitation, Hattie Johnson; recitation, Vera Wharton; recitation, Stella and Blanche Conover, Hattie Johnson; recitation, Earl Mathews; song, Hattie Johnson and Stella Conover; recitation, Mosie Johnson; solo, Leonard Wharton; recitation, Bertha Clarno; recitation, Johnnie Clarno; recitation, Mrs. Wharton; song, Mosie and Hattie Johnson.
    Earl Mathews attended the entire six months' term without being absent.
    Mr. Peterson gave a talk on birds and asked each boy to build a bird house. He said the boys at Trail had built some and the birds were occupying them.
    Mrs. Wharton gave a party in the evening, which was well enjoyed by those who attended. She and her children left for Eugene Thursday.
    Harry Howard made a business trip to Medford Monday.
    Mrs. Tom Raimey called on Mrs. Will Houston Wednesday.
    Mr. Peterson visited the Debenger Gap school Wednesday.
    The free ferry line has elected the following officers: Fred Pettegrew, president; W. Whitman, vice-president, and Dick Johnson, secretary. They have their poles set and are stringing the wire.
    The majority of the shareholders of Trail line No. 16 are setting posts and putting up their poles.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 1, 1915, page 5


    J. A. Houston and his son, Edward, were among the business callers last Tuesday, and while they were here Mr. H. gave me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune. They were on their way to Jacksonville to settle their taxes.
    Harrison Hess, who has occupied the little house on Main Street, formerly occupied by S. B. Spiker, has moved into the house formerly occupied by James Ringer, and has been making some material changes in the Spiker house, putting in a large four-light window, changed the hanging of the door and arranging it for Mr. Whitman's barber shop.
    Fred Klippel and his sister, Miss Allie, came out on the Eagle Point and Persist stage Tuesday and came to the Sunnyside to spend the night, but someone told them over the phone that S. H. Harnish and Son, our liverymen, were going to Medford with an auto, so the took passage with two other passengers and went on to Medford that afternoon.
    On Wednesday, Benj. C. Sheldon, the king of the Medford boosters, and Thomas F. Drake of the Portland weather bureau office called for dinner Wednesday. Mr. Drake was out here for the purpose of establishing an observation station in our town to demonstrate peculiarities of climate, conditions of the atmosphere, etc., in the different parts of the valley. He plans to establish about fifteen in Rogue River Valley, so that the head office in Medford can be kept posted as the degree of frost, precipitation, etc., in the different localities and ascertain where the frost will hit harder in one place that another, so that the weather bureau man in Medford can send warning to those places that are most susceptible to frost.
    While they were here Mr. Drake secured the services of R. M. Whitman to take charge of the instrument for testing the weather and selected the site for the location in the corner of F. M. Stewart's yard, as that place is thought to be as near an average for location as can be found in our town, it being in the low bottom land, and if frost does not strike there it will not likely do any damage anywhere in this section of the country.
    I. V. Dunlap of Derby was doing business in our town Wednesday, and while here took dinner with us, and so did William Nussbaum of Lake Creek.
    Otis and Alex Hubbard of Medford passed through town on their way home Wednesday.
    Pete Stowell was a business caller also Wednesday.
    B. J. Palmer, one of the piano dealers of Medford, was out Wednesday looking after his Eagle Point hotel property. He told me that he had a deal on hand whereby he expected to dispose of it, but as there is nothing positive, will say no more about it at this time. Miss Louisa Blaess, the present proprietress of the hotel, tells me that she has rented the property for another month.
    Mrs. J. B. Blaess, her mother, is here visiting her daughter, too, at this time, unless she went home on the stage today (Friday).
    April 1 was a high old day at our school, as a large part of the children concluded to fool the teacher, so at noon after eating lunch deliberately walked, or rather ran, for fear the teachers would see them. Some went over to the business part of town, but the most of them strolled off up the creek, and the result was they had a fine time and lots of fun, but Mrs. George von der Hellen, the primary teacher, told me at dinner today that the children were so tickled over the prank that it took all the forenoon to quiet them down, but our teachers, instead of getting angry over it, laughed it off as a good joke on them, and everything passed off pleasantly.
    The following is the roll of honor for the month of March; First, or principal's room: Theo Florey, Verta Grover, Theron Taylor, Walter Painter, Nida McIntosh, Thomas Barry, Nellie Coy. Intermediate department: Ellsworth Stowell, Lyle Van Scoy, Katie Buchanan, Nora Childreth,  Haak, Helen Holt, Bessie Eckenburg, Ethel Winkle, Kee Buchanan, May Greb, Freddie Leabo, Joyce von der Hellen, Ruth Grover, Jane Robinson, Ruford Simmons, Lloyd Cingcade, Truman McClelland, Foster Greb, Bon Buchanan, Harold Van Scoy. Primary department: Katura Bryant, Lottie Trulove, Letha Findley, Melva Simmons, Vera Eckenburg, Elvin Stowell, Myrtle Stowell, Alvin Greb, Clarence Greb, Arthur Stowell, Ansil Pearce, Howard Vogeli, Hugo von der Hellen, Donald von der Hellen.
    Miss Jessie Minter was doing some trading in our town Thursday.
    Mrs. Sophia Robinett, who has been stopping with her sister, Mrs. George Daley, has taken a position as housekeeper for Mr. Rhodes on his farm, and her son, Clarence, will work on the place.
    Charles Hoeft of Lake Creek and two strangers were here for dinner Thursday on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. Conley and family, who have been keeping house for Mr. Rhodes, have gone to Yreka, Cal.
    C. W. Clements, our postmaster and telephone man, has purchased the James Vogeli residence property in our town and expects to move into it about the 20th. Consideration, $10.
    Miss Norma A. Smith of Ashland called at the Sunnyside for dinner on Friday. She was on her way to Climax to take charge of a school.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 6, 1915, page 5


    Reed Charley was at Medford last Friday on business.
    There is going to be a dance at the Lost Creek hall April 9.
    The Antelope and South Butte baseball teams played last Sunday. The score was in favor of Antelope.
    Mrs. Terrill of Talent is at Brownsboro visiting friends and relatives.
    The Butte Creek school was out last Thursday and they had an entertainment.
    Verna and Leland Charley of the Butte Creek school are going to go to school at Lake Creek, where they will finish up the eighth grade.
    Claus Charley and mother were at Medford last week on business.
    Mrs. Bradshaw of Medford is visiting her relatives at Butte Creek.
    A telephone meeting was held at Lake Creek Saturday.
    There is strong talk of building a city hall at Lake Creek. They held a meeting at Lake Creek Saturday for the purpose of discussing it. They got up a petition and all of those who are in for it will donate what they can afford. If the hall is built it will be used for all legitimate purposes. The revenue derived from the proceeds shall be distributed in proportion to [the] amount subscribed by each individual.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 6, 1915, page 5


    W. A. Nickell and wife were guests at the Sunnyside last Saturday, and while here gave me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune. Herman Meyer was also with us at the same time.
    Joe Riley and wife were in town, and while here paid me his son James' subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Earl Croft, foreman on the Cooley orchard, was also in town Saturday, and while here renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. Viola Kentz of Butte Falls came out on the P.&E. last Saturday and stopped off to visit her father, John Smith. She was on her way to Klamath Falls.
    Mrs. Margarette Simpson, nee Margarette Florey, has accepted a position with her brother in the recorder's office.
    Professor C. E. Johnson, now of Table Rock, came over Saturday and spent the night with us and while here told me that the Arrowhead Society of Table Rock had decided to render the play "What Happened to Jones" in Eagle Point sometime near the last of the month. They could not tell until they could arrange the time with Mr. F. Newport, who has charge of the opera house.
    Mrs. Mary Ringer of Ashland came up the last of the week and rented her house here to a family by the name of Holmes for a short time only.
    Last Sunday Mrs. Paul Opdyke came out from the hospital in Medford and took a room at the Sunnyside, remaining until Tuesday afternoon, when she was taken to her home, the old Stonehouse ranch, on Rogue River, by Dr. W. W. P. Holt. They were accompanied by John Foster and Fred L. Heath, one of our merchants. They got through all O.K., but on the way back they had a regular downpour of rain that filled the mud holes with water and they had considerable difficulty. At one place they ran into a hole of water that stopped the machine and they had to throw in a log of wood to walk on to crank the machine. They reached home at 1 a.m. Wednesday.
    Sunday evening W. W. Willits and his son Roy drove in from their home on Elk Creek to the Sunnyside, and after eating their supper went with me to church to see the Easter Sunday exercises. The house was properly decorated and the way the children rendered their pieces showed that they had been well trained, and the entertainment seemed to be highly appreciated by the large audience that filled the church building.
    J. R. Kline, one of the fruit tree inspectors, was out Monday looking after the orchard men, notifying them to spray their trees for scale.
    Miss Katie Warner of Trail, who has been in Medford visiting her sister, came out Monday and took the Eagle Point-Persist stage for her home.
    Last Monday was school teachers' visiting day with our school, and Professor Buchanan went to Ashland and Miss Taylor and Mrs. von der Hellen spent the day in Medford.
    I see that the people are still planting fruit trees, for Mr. Stewart and son were taking out a large box of trees Monday to be planted on a place that Benton Bowers has sold to Mr. Mayberry, just east of town.
    Ed Foster and Henry French were in town Tuesday, and while here called at the Sunnyside for dinner.
    Mrs. McArthur of Medford, who has been out visiting the family of F. M. Corlies for the past week, returned home Tuesday.
    Fred Pettegrew and his stepdaughter, Miss Ethel Ewing, were doing business with our merchants Tuesday.
    Mrs. Sarah Glass of Ashland, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Theodore Garth, above Brownsboro, returned home Tuesday. She was accompanied as far as Eagle Point by Mrs. H. C. Barker.
    Your Eagle Point correspondent took a hurried trip to Medford Tuesday afternoon, but as the train was a little slow starting and had to make several stops on the route and slowed up to distribute a lot of ties along the way, etc., was way behind time when we reached Medford, and as we have only three-quarters of an hour to attend business there in the afternoon, I did not have time to pay my respects to the Mail Tribune office. While on the train I fell in company with Rev. Smith, who is traveling in the Sunday school interests, and he reports that on Sunday evening they had a very hard rainstorm in Big Butte. And on my way home I met Mrs. Elsie Head of Agate, nee Elsie Beebe, and she said that she expects to start in a few days for Weed, Cal., to join her husband, who is one of the engineers in a sawmill in that section. Miss Maud Corlies, Miss Hazel Brown, Miss Lorraine Walker and James Conover were passengers on the car, besides quite a number whose names I did not know.
    When I reached home I found C. W. Martin, who is looking after the interests of the California-Oregon Power Company, A. B. Cunningham, both of Medford, and H. B. Rogers of Portland. They came out in an auto and were to meet the town council that night and try to make arrangements to have some street lights put in.
    I. R. Wirt of Medford was also here. He is traveling for the Watkins remedies and extracts, and while her he gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    A. H. Daugherty of Medford was also a guest a little later. He is traveling for the Rawleigh company, also selling remedies and extracts.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 8, 1915, page 5


    Among the valley visitors this week were: Mrs. Hannah, Mrs. V. Raimey, Miss Ora Raimey, Jack and Ed Houston, John Fry, Ed Cushman, Clarence Middlebusher and E. E. Ash.
    About twenty young folks from here attended the dance at Beagle Saturday night and report a fine time.
    Joe Hannah and sister, Miss Mia, spent the Easter weekend at the Skyrman home.
    Miss Allie Klippel was a passenger on Tuesday's stage.
    The Eagle Point-Persist stage timetable has been changed for the next seven months, beginning April 1. The stage will arrive in Eagle Point before the 2:30 train and will be an accommodation for travelers.
    Mrs. Lizzie Morrison of Sams Valley is the guest of Mrs. W. Houston.
    Among those who went to Eagle Point Tuesday and enjoyed the shower were Mrs. Chris Bergman, Mrs. Jettie Clarno, Mrs. C. E. Bellows and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mathews.
    Miss Florence Kincaid took Dessie, Velma and Everett Hannah home with her Friday evening to spend the weekend. She took them to Medford and they took part in the program at the grange at Agate and had a general good time.
    The Debenger Gap school has erected another pole and has a new flag.
    Early Mathews visited his cousin Nye a few days ago.
    Easter morning there was Sunday school at the Reese Creek schoolhouse. At noon a bountiful picnic dinner was served. In the afternoon the following program was given to a large audience: Song; reading, Mrs. John Robertson; prayer, Rev. Simmons; story of Resurrection by Rev. Simmons; song; recitation, Paul Robertson; dialogue, Edward and Bennie Bellows, John and Bertha Clarno, Cleo and Lois Robertson, Merle Jack; recitation, Diehless Minter; recitation, Louis Robertson; song, recitation, Jessie Minter; recitation, Mrs. Jettie Clarno; recitation, Mary Robertson; recitation, Miss Nealon; recitation, John Clarno; recitation, Bertha Clarno; recitation, Cleo Robertson; sermon Rev. Simmons.
    Dave Pence has bought a fine piano.
    Mrs. J. Houston and Mrs. Middlebusher were on the sick list this week.
    Died--At the residence of Andy Pool, April 3, 1915, their only son, Elza, aged 25 years. He came to visit his parents last fall and was never able to return home. He leaves a wife, two children, father, mother and two sisters to mourn his death. Interment was made at Central Point cemetery Monday. Rev. McDonald officiated at the grave.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 8, 1915, page 5


    Herman Meyer, our mail carrier and contractor, has purchased a Ford so as to accommodate the travel on the line between here and Lake Creek.
    A young man by the name of Al Clements, who has been working on the road for Ed Dutton, our road supervisor, while running a horse after stock had his horse fall on him and hurt him quite badly about the face and body, although there were no bones broken.
    J. M. Wilfley and wife, who own a fine orchard northeast of town, arrived from Los Angeles last Tuesday. They came all the way in their auto and the first time he met me ordered the Daily Mail Tribune to be sent to him.
    Mrs. J. B. Jackson and her daughter-in-law were in town Wednesday buying eggs to set in her incubator. She is going into the chicken business quite extensively, said that she had already brought off two batches of chicks but the rats had been killing some of them and that Mr. Jackson caught one by the tail and brought it in to show it and when he laid it on the floor for inspection that the rat bit him through the finger and then they had a time catching it again, but finally succeeded. Mrs. J. is aiming to bring off about one hundred and fifty thoroughbred White Leghorn hens to keep on the farm, and that will beat raising hogs at five cents.
    Mrs. E. G. Roberts and her mother Mrs. J. Montgomery were in town trading Wednesday.
    Frank Farlow and wife and Charley Klingle motored into town Thursday morning and stopped at the Heath gasoline tank for a fresh supply. They were on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. Mary Terrill and her daughter drove in from their home in Brownsboro Thursday morning.
    Roy Stanley and Mr. Charles Vatche were doing business here the same day and Mrs. Eugene Bellows also drove in from their farm on Rogue River with a lot of cream for shipment.
    Mrs. Chris Wooley and Mrs. Wm. Beale were also among the business callers Thursday.
    Miss Bessie Simpson, who has been teaching school in Brownsboro, closed her school Wednesday and came out on the stage Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside, taking the train for Medford in the afternoon.
    L. E. McDonald of Trail and E. E. Ash, one of the Trail merchants, and J. R. Tyrrell of Medford were all here for dinner Thursday.
    Fred Frideger of Medford and W. E. Coleman of Phoenix spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Grace Ashpole of Iowa, a cousin of our hardware merchant, Roy Ashpole, was out visiting him and his wife during the week.
    W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, has a new sign announcing to the public that he has all kinds of undertaking goods, and S. H. Harnish and son, our livery men, have put up a sign that they have an auto to hire.
    Friday we had Mr. Charles Hussey of the firm of Fleisher, Meyer & Co., of Portland, C. H. Willison and wife of Ashland and Mike Sidley of Lake Creek here for dinner.
    Mrs. Bing Brophy came in Friday on a business trip and to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols.
    J. S. Quackenbush and wife came in Friday and brought in several boxes of apples from the A. Corbin orchard for Geo. Brown & Sons.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 12, 1915, page 3


    Robert Lewis and Roy Willits, two Persist farmers, were valley visitors the first of the week, and each brought out a load of supplies.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gaines of Medford went to Trail Sunday. Miss Klippel came out home with them.
    Dave Pence pitched his road camp at Jasper Hannah's the first of the week.
    Dr. Kirchgessner returned from Florence, Or., Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Howard visited Eagle Point Sunday.
    Mrs. Jasper Hannah has been on the sick list for the last few days.
    Among the valley visitors this week were: Mr. and Mrs. W. Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Skyrman, Mr. and Mrs. Albright, Miss Middlebusher, Clarence Middlebusher, Miss Mary Gage, Jasper Hannah and E. B. Ramsey.
    Miss Florence Kincaid will give an entertainment and box social at the Debenger Gap schoolhouse April 23 for the benefit of the school. Everyone is invited and a merry time is expected.
    Mrs. Jettie Clarno and children were the guests of Mrs. C. E. Bellows Saturday.
    John Fry was a Medford visitor a few days ago.
    Among the Eagle Point visitors were: Mrs. Eugene Bellows, Henry French, Perry Foster, Steve Smith.
    Mrs. Brittsan and children have returned from Ashland.
    Mr. Hannah is the guest of his son, Jasper, and family.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 14, 1915, page 4


    Mrs. John Cadzow of Butte Falls and Mrs. Chris Bergman, W. E. Coleman of Phoenix and Henry D. Mills of Butte Falls were among the guests at the Sunnyside Friday night.
    Benj. C. Sheldon, the general manager of the Medford boosters, and Theo. F. Drake of Portland were out Saturday to look after the government temperature and rain tester that was established here a few days ago, and while here took dinner with Mrs. Howlett.
    Among the business callers last Saturday in our town were Harvey Stanley of Brownsboro and Roy Willits of Persist. Mr. W. came out with a pack horse and went on to Medford the same day.
    Nick Young, one of our promising young farmers, was a guest at the Sunnyside Saturday night, and so was A. H. Peachey of Ashland, who is selling Ward's remedies. This must be a good place for disposing of "remedies," for he was the third man in the business who had stopped with us in less than a week, and they all seem to be doing a thriving business and have money to pay their bills.
    Last Saturday night the Eagle Point Amusement Company had a fine movie show and after the show was over gave a dance to those who desired to participate in that kind of amusement, but your E.P. correspondent thought it best for him to go to bed.
    Speaking about shows, I received a letter Tuesday morning from Professor C. E. Johnson, in which he stated that the Arrowhead Society of Table Rock would render the play "What Happened to Jones" in Eagle Point on the night of the 23rd of this month, and they are expecting a large crowd to witness the play. The funds are to be applied toward purchasing a piano for the Table Rock school.
    On Sunday afternoon the Antelope and the Eagle Point ball teams met on the school grounds and engaged in a lively game, and the result was 5 to 7 in favor of Eagle Point.
    I am informed over the phone that the stork has visited the home of Wilfred Jacks last Thursday morning and the result is the arrival of a fine boy at his home.
    There was no moving picture show Sunday night, and Mr. Newport, the manager of the E.P.A. Co., tells me that they do not intend to have any more shows on Sunday night.
    On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. P. Holt and daughter, Miss Helen, Austin Green, Guy Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Holmes and Al Clements were guests at the Sunnyside.
    On Monday morning Joe Smith, the general road supervisor for the county, came out and took Chris Natwick and Ed Dutton, our local road supervisor, and went up to the rock crusher and a decision was made to fix it up and have rock crushed to put on the county roads, something that is very much needed in these parts, and Ed Dutton expects the crusher to be in operation by Wednesday noon.
    G. H. Wamsley took his farewell dinner with us Monday and started for California to try to find a location that would suit him in an altitude of about 4000 feet so as to be an advantage to his daughter, who is now at Bend, at the head of the Deschutes River, where she has good health.
    Ed White of Climax came in Monday from his farm and spent the night with us. He has about 400 Angora goats and he says that they are doing fine, and when he left home he had about 110 kids--not children.
    J. W. Bateman of Iowa is here visiting his son-in-law, Mr. E. Hurd, and family.
    R. H. Pollard, who has a homestead on Reese Creek, came in Tuesday after his buggy that was wrecked in a runaway a fortnight ago.
    W. P. Haley, one of our progressive farmers and orchardists, was here on business Tuesday, and so was Mr. Henderson, the foreman on the Orton orchard. Gus Gorman, foreman on the Laidlaw orchard, was also in town the same day, and George N. Smith of Wellen, one of the wide-awake farmer-orchardists, and who is interested in the bee culture, came in Monday with a fine lot of chickens, and also some fine honey to feed some of the Eagle Pointers, and while here renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune, and Gus Gorman also renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Gordon Cox, who has been on and still is [on] the farm known as the Hoover farm, tells me that Hoover & Engle have sold the place to a man by the name of Duffy, of Seattle, Wash.
    Perry Foster and S. F. Smith and Mr. Osgood of Trail were in town on Tuesday and P. J. Parton also made a hurried call on some of the business men here.
    Messrs. Simpkins and Scott came out Tuesday from Medford and put up two electric lights, one at each end of the county bridge, a free-will offering to the town, as the city dads refused the company offer to put in five lights on the streets at 75 cents per month per light, as the company kindly donated the lights after the town had donated them a fifty-year franchise for their lights here. Mr. Simpkins and Mr. Scott took dinner at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 15, 1915, page 5


    G. L. Wilfley of Marysville, Mo., arrived in our town on Tuesday last. He was met in Medford by his brother, J. M. Wilfley, and came out in his auto. The two brothers own the Wilfley orchard, situated about two and a half miles northeast of our town, the old John Hart place.
    E. A. Hildreth, deputy assessor for the Butte Falls district, came out Tuesday evening on the P.&E. train and spent the night with us on his way to Jacksonville to meet the county officials, returning to the Sunnyside Wednesday evening and stopping with us again that night. J. P. Hughes also came out from Medford and spent the night here on his way home to Butte Falls.
    I. C. Moore of Ashland and his daughter, Mrs. Martha Oden of Siskiyou County, California, came out on the P.&E. and took the Eagle Point-Persist stage for Elk Creek to spend a few days on his mountain ranch.
    Ed Pence and family of Central Point were the guests of W. G. Knighten Tuesday.
    Bert Higinbotham of Prospect came out Wednesday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford that night. He was going as a witness in a suit where Mr. Lewis, his neighbor, is the defendant.
    Herman Meyer, Jr., took out a big load of wire fencing and barbed wire up the Lake Creek country for a man by the name of Ed Harding of that section.
    Mr. Fox of Lake Creek brought two milking goats, and I understand that our townsman, A. J. Daley, purchased one of them and the other Mr. Fox shipped to a man in Ashland.
    J. S. Quackenbush, the foreman on the A. Corbin orchard, brought in a load of apples and shipped to parties in Butte Falls Thursday.
    T. C. Keithley of Portland was in town Wednesday. He is out here visiting Thomas Riley on his famous Antelope ranch.
    C. A. Knight, the owner of the Alta Vista orchard, and his foreman, F. M. Corlies, were in town Wednesday and report that the frost had done them no damage, although the mercury dropped down to 27 degrees, but they smudged. They seem to think that they will have a fine crop of pears and apples this year; in fact, the prospect is good for a bumper crop of everything this year.
    Ed Higinbotham, H. M. McIntyre and his son, John L., were here for dinner Thursday on their way to Medford to make final proof on John L.'s homestead.
    Mrs. S. H. Harnish and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ray Harnish, spent the day Thursday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Taylor, and Sam and Robbie Harnish took dinner with Mrs. Howlett.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Martin of Derby were in town Thursday doing business with our merchants.
    Mrs. Wilbur Jacks drove in Thursday from the farm to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Nichols.
    B. J. Palmer of the Medford piano house was out Thursday looking after his property here, the Eagle Hotel, and while here sold an organ to J. L. Ragsdale of Lake Creek.
    Charles Mason of Medford came out Thursday and engaged room and board at the Sunnyside. He is working on the county rock crusher, situated about a mile above town on Butte Creek.
    A. E. Laport of Central Point came in Thursday night for supper and then went on up to Brownsboro, returning Friday morning, and took dinner with us.
    Mr. Down of Trail came out for a load of supplies for Ash Bros., Trail, Friday. He also took dinner at the Sunnyside hostelry.
    Thursday night Mrs. Howlett, our daughter Hattie, J. E. Edsall and your correspondent took S. H. Harnish's Ford and motored to Central Point. Robbie Harnish acted as chauffeur, to see the play "My Man and Lady." The house was well filled and most of the play was very well rendered, but some of the actors spoke so low that they could not be distinctly heard in the back of the room. That is one feature of the performers in the play by the Arrowhead Society of Table Rock, that is to be given here next Friday evening, April 23, "What Happened to Jones." They speak loud, so as to be heard, and from the way the people are talking about it, we are expecting a full house.
    William G. Knighten and wife motored to Talent Thursday and he reports that the frost Tuesday night did but little damage in that neighborhood.
    W. L. Childreth has put up a very attractive sign on the Roy Ashpole building, telling where to find undertaker's supplies.
    Charles Wilkinson, who has a home near the soda springs, on the south fork of Little Butte, caught a large black bear in one of his traps a few days ago, so Thomas Cingcade informs me.
    Mr. Daniels, who has a farm near Lake Creek, was doing business among us Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 19, 1915, page 3


    Mrs. Tim Daily spent the weekend with her father, J. C. Hannah, as also did Mr. and Mrs. James Cornutt of Central Point, at W. T. Houston's and Miss Ida Houston at Jack Houston's.
    Misses Mary Robertson, Rose Nealon, Ethel Ewen, Louis Robertson and Mr. Robertson were pleasant callers on the French ranch Sunday.
    There was a large crowd at Trail Saturday night to the box social and show and everyone enjoyed themselves. About forty boxes were sold and brought a good price.
    Mrs. Henry French was the guest of Mrs. Thomas McCabe Friday.
    Mrs. Eugene Bellows ate Sunday dinner with Mrs. Wilfred Jacks. A tiny son, Maurence, arrived at the Jacks house April 6.
    Steve Smith spent the weekend with home folks near Medford.
    Harry Howard and family were in Central Point Tuesday having some dental work done.
    Miss Florence Kincaid has postponed her box social and entertainment from April 23 to May 18, on account of unavoidable circumstances.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 22, 1915, page 3


    Mrs. Tim Daily of Medford came out Saturday and was the guest of William Knighten.
    Miss Laura Gates and Miss Allison Officer were out Saturday visiting Miss Hazel Brown, remaining over Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Chadwick and Miss Wightman of Chicago and their chauffeur, O. V. Meyers, called for dinner Saturday.
    Miss Frances Heath, daughter of one of our merchants, who is attending the state University of Oregon at Eugene, who has been spending her week's vacation with her parents, returned to Eugene Saturday.
    Harvey Stanley and P. T. Young, two of our prosperous farmers and stock-raisers, were doing business among us Saturday.
    Born--To the wife of Verna Mathews, April 15, a daughter, and now Grandpa William Winkle begins to feel quite aged.
    Mrs. Chauncey Florey has been out visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis, and family, and Saturday afternoon her husband, our county recorder, came out and spent Sunday.
    William Sierle of Medford came out on his "Ford colt." He was here to demonstrate that an ordinary bike can be turned into a machine that will run with "no horsey pulley and no horsey pushy." It is a simple bike with a gasoline attachment that goes like "Jehu." He spent the night here and took in the show.
    Henry Meyer and a part of his family and Herman Meyer, Jr., with a carload of passengers, came out Saturday to see the minstrel show that was staged here Saturday and Sunday nights. The performance was very creditable and the company took in over $100 at the door. Henry Meyer and family remained until after dinner Sunday.
    Among the callers here for supper Saturday evening were Robbie Pelouze, Edward Montague and Miss Lorene Grigsby of Central Point.
    P. H. Daily and family motored out from Medford Sunday and during the afternoon his daughter, Miss Fern, and Miss Ida Stearns made a short call at the Sunnyside. The Daily family were the guests of Professor W. E. Buchanan.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze, Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Brown, Dr. and Mrs. W. W. P. Holt and daughter Miss Helen, F. T. Boltz, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer and three children of Lake Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Heath and son Frederick, Henry Trusty, the mail contractor and stage driver on the Eagle Point-Persist route, Mr. and Mrs. W. von der Hellen, R. A. Petty, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Clements, our post office officials, Nick Young and Al Clements.
    On Monday Messrs. L. Niedermeyer, John Dunnington, C. Dunnington and Roy Ulrich, "retired capitalists" of Jacksonville, motored out to the Sunnyside for dinner and while here interviewed Mrs. Howlett with regard to supplying her with fresh meat for the hotel.
    Henry French came in Monday and brought in a fine lot of eggs, and while at the depot looking around for items for the readers of the Mail Tribune I noticed that F. Newport, the depot agent, sent off several crates of eggs and a fine lot of chickens.
    On Tuesday Joseph Oswald was in to procure a new branding iron. He tells me that he and his brother have rented the Rosenbaum farm on Dry Creek and are busy putting in their crops.
    At the depot Tuesday morning I met Rev. Lindblad. He was on his way to Butte Falls, and O. Adams of Butte Falls. He stopped off to go to Brownsboro to visit his daughter, who is being cared for by Mrs. Tucker.
    Mr. Raynard, the man who has been keeping a barber shop in connection with James Vogeli's saloon, and Mr. Vogeli have closed out their business and moved away. Mr. Vogeli checked his trunk to Sacramento, Cal.
    Frank Olsen, Clyde Wise and Homer Reynolds of Trail came out on the stage Tuesday and took the train for California to work in a logging camp.
    Tuesday morning R. A. Whitman renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    W. J. Tuck, representing F. F. Haradon Sons, Portland, was among our merchants Tuesday.
    Rev. Gammon of Butte Falls, the pastor of the Presbyterian church at that place, was on the car Tuesday evening on his way to Grants Pass to attend the Presbytery, and Mrs. McKee, mother-in-law to Mr. Kelso of Derby, was also on the car on her way to Medford.
    I also met Fred Cunningham of Medford. He was here on business with Mr. Harrison, our lumberman. At present he is engaged irrigating the A. Corbin orchard.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Haworth, April 18, a daughter, Dr. Holt reports.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 22, 1915, page 5


    Gus Norman, foreman on the Laidlaw orchard, was doing business at the Eagle Point State Bank Tuesday afternoon.
    Miss Allie Klippel of Medford came out on the P.&E. Wednesday and took the E.P.-Persist stage for Trail to spend a while on the farm with her mother.
    Mrs. R. A. Petty came in from the Corbin orchard and met Mrs. Quackenbush and took her to her home on said orchard Wednesday.
    H. L. Ossman and his sister, Miss Effie, came out from their home at the mouth of Elk Creek on Wednesday, took dinner with us and returned the same day. They report the roads in a much better condition than they were a few weeks ago.
    William Hillman of Lake Creek also took dinner Wednesday.
    Robert R. Minter was doing business with our merchants Wednesday and so was F. M. Corlies, and he reports that his father, H. D. Corlies and wife, were out at the Alta Vista orchard visiting him, and that his son Lloyd, and wife, were going to move on the place recently vacated by Mr. Hos Ring, and owned by our road supervisor, Ed Dutton.
    Mike Hanley and L. D. Harris came in Wednesday evening late for supper, but succeeded in getting all they could eat before leaving.
    Thursday morning your E.P. correspondent made a hurried trip to Medford on the P.&E. and he wanted to return on the return trip. Had only thirty minutes to attend to business so had no time to call at the Mail Tribune office. On the return trip I met Mrs. Hattie Chambers and Mrs. Mary A. Campbell, both of Derby, on their way home from Medford.
    Thursday afternoon Benjamin Fredenburg came out to have Dr. Holt treat him for Job's pets [boils] and the next morning the doctor opened seven boils for him on one leg. He has been afflicted for the last two months but will likely improve. He is at the Sunnyside.
    I see that the large hand-painted bills are out for a grand ball Saturday night, May 1st, and that refreshments will be served at the Eagle Hotel.
    Gus Nichols and wife took the evening train for Medford Thursday.
    George von der Hellen and wife motored to Medford last Wednesday to attend the theater.
    I was down to the P.&E. depot Thursday looking for something to tell the readers of the Mail Tribune and while there met Mr. Hazelrigg; he was taking out Mr. John Rader's cream cans and that caused me to begin to look around and try to see what was doing in that line of business and found that there were still remaining twenty-six empty cans to be delivered and that brings up the question, why can't we have a creamery here and save the expense of sending the cream off to some other place, and I know that some of it goes to the Willamette Valley, and then when we want butter all that we have to do is to pay a grocery drummer from Portland to come out here and sell it to our merchants and then we pay the freight on it from Portland to Medford and then from Medford to Eagle Point and then we pay our local merchants for handling it and interest on the investment, etc., and then complain of the high cost of living.
    F. M. Stewart and wife took passage on the P.&E. for the Edsall station Thursday. They were going up to visit Mrs. S.'s son, Wm. Perry, for a few days. Mrs. S. thought that the change might help him.
    Norman McQuoid had a regular surprise birthday party Wednesday night. He is a member of the town council and was at the meeting of the council, not mistrusting that there would be any tricks played on him, but when he arrived at his home he found Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nichols and daughter Miss Thelma, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ashpole, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Newport and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bacon. Mr. McQuoid's birthday was on Thursday but his friends thought that he would of course be at the lodge of Odd Fellows so they took time by the forelock and had the surprise party beforehand. My reporter says that they had a very pleasant time and all hands wished Norman many returns of such occasions.
    Mrs. W. A. Marbin [Martin?] of Gold Hill is here visiting her cousin, Mrs. Jacob Jones.
    Mrs. George Weeks of Elk Creek (Trail) brought out a nice lot of mohair for shipment a few days ago.
    R. E. McNeal and O. C. King of Medford were soliciting among our merchants Friday and while here called on Mrs. Howlett for dinner. John Holtz, a rancher, was here also for dinner.
    Miss Lizzy Bieberstedt rode into town Friday morning to have her horse shod. She is one of the enterprising ladies that has turned her attention to the cattle business and rides the range to look after them, and I heard one of our old stock men remark that she knew more of the marks and brands on the range than most any of the men who ride.
    Sam Swenning, one of the old forest rangers, who has recently returned from Alaska, and William von der Hellen called for supper Thursday.
    Well, here I am on my twelfth page and still have to tell of our trip up to the rock crusher, about the work that is being done on the roads, about F. Pelouze's fine farm, etc., but will have to keep that over for the next time in order to keep "Our George" in a good humor.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 27, 1915, page 5


    The last time I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune I promised to tell them something in my next about our trip up Butte Creek to the rock crusher, Corbin's bridge, etc. Well, Thursday afternoon, April 22, Frank Brown invited J. V. McIntyre, the cashier of the Eagle Point State Bank, Benjamin Fredenburg of Butte Falls and your correspondent to take a ride up to where they were rocking the county road between here and Brownsboro, and so we all climbed into his auto and in a short time we were at the rock crusher, where Chris Natwick was working a force of men and teams putting the rock on the road, and he had John W. Smith leveling it down, getting it ready for the big steam roller. There is a vast difference between the way they have the crusher fixed now and the way they had it when they crushed the rock for the streets in our little town, for they now have it set on a solid cement foundation and there is no jar or jerk about it now, but everything runs as smooth as a well-regulated steam engine, and Mr. Natwick is getting out a fine lot of rock for the road.
    But some of the "kickers" may say, Why is the county going to the expense of fixing that particular piece of road and neglecting other places that seem to need the work just as much as that or perhaps more? Well, there is a secret about it that perhaps all the readers of the Eaglets do not know, so I will simply tell it so that others in outlying districts may "catch on."
    Frank Brown and Fred Pelouze went to Jacksonville while the county court was in session and laid the case before them, and as a compromise measure the two enterprising, whole-souled men proposed to the court that if they would fix up the crusher and rock the road from the Corbin bridge to Eagle Point that they would agree to have 500 yards of the crushed rock hauled onto the road, and through their influence the court was induced to make the appropriation. Go then and do likewise.
    Well, while I was up there I was looking out to see what changes had taken place since I was over the road last, and I discovered that Mr. Pelouze had cleared off quite a large tract of land and has it sowed to grain, and also that he has, by the use of the proper use of fertilizers, has brought out his alfalfa so that he has a fair prospect for a bumper crop of hay this year.
    Ed Dutton, our road supervisor, is also at work on the same road, straightening out the short curves and cutting of the brush and timber so as to avoid the danger of two autos coming in contact with each other, and when the road is completed there will be another beautiful drive for our autoists.
    But here I am on my sixth page and enough little Eaglets to fill a column.
    Last Friday afternoon Edward Vinson and Emmett Nealon came over to fix up the stage in the theater for the play, "What Happened to Jones," and they were so busy that they could not stop long enough to eat, as Emmett had to return to Table Rock and back again before the play, but Mr. V. with a little assistance from your correspondent had everything in readiness by supper time, and after we had served the first tables here come in twelve of the performers and their friends for supper, so that made them a little late in getting ready for the play, but by 8 o'clock the crowd began to fill the house, and soon almost every available seat was occupied, and by 8:30 the performers commenced, and they held the audience spellbound for about two and a half hours. Well, as a matter of course, I was anxious to know how the performance was appreciated, and first one would say it was simply fine, the best I ever saw, and another would say, as good as the best, and then they would particularize and one would say, well, didn't Ebenezer carry his part fine, and another would comment on Mrs. Ebenezer and another of Jones, etc., but they all seemed to credit the old maid as carrying her part the best of all, but there was no severe criticisms, but all seemed to be well pleased. The receipts were $40.75 and after paying the rent on the opera house, $5.50, and a small incidents expense for nails, etc., the money goes to purchase a piano for the Table Rock school. They are talking of giving the play at Willow Springs in the near future.
    Among the callers the night of the play for supper who were not counted among the players were James Reese, Miss Katherine Nealon, Darwin Phillips and James Penland.
    On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Willison and daughter Violetta were here for dinner.
    Gus Pech of Lake Creek came out after some machinery for John Walch last Saturday.
    M. M. Gault, the chief mechanic for the P.&E. R.R. Co., came out Saturday to fix something that went wrong with the pumping plant that furnishes water for the engines.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, was appointed a special constable to go over to Wellen last week to sell a [stray?] cow that one of the von der Hellens had posted. The cow brought $10. There was but one bidder and that was Carl von der Hellen.
    F. M. Stewart and wife, who went up to William Perry's, their son, for his health, had to return on Saturday on account of his difficulty in breathing in that altitude.
    Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pool and two daughters, Miss Lee Middlebusher and Sam Swenning came out from Trail Sunday and called at the Sunnyside for dinner. Also Mr. and Mrs. Clements, E. A. Dimkin of Klamath Falls and E. H. Willis of Pueblo, Cal., Miss Mae Trusty, Amos Ayres, Henry Trusty and Miss Laura Pence of Trail, Nick Young and C. Mason were also here for dinner Sunday.
    I. C. Moore, father of Mrs. David Cingcade, who has been stopping in Central Point for some time, came out to his daughter's last week.
    George West and wife and two other ladies motored out to visit Mrs. Howlett Sunday afternoon, but as I did not see them, failed to learn their names.
    Bert Higinbotham came out Sunday and stopped with us, returning Monday morning to his home in the Flounce Rock district.
    Gus Nichols of Lake Creek called Sunday for supper and his wife called Monday on her way home.
    I. C. Moore and his daughter, Mrs. Martha Oden of Siskiyou County, California, spent Sunday night with us.
    Well, here I am on my fourteenth sheet and so will have to stop, but the next time will tell something of the big feed among the I.O.O.F.'s and the Rebekahs Monday night.
    Since I last wrote, Wallis Bergman has given me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune and J. V. McIntyre has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1915, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Harry Merriman returned home Monday after several days' visit with Medford relatives.
    An auto load of Dailys spent the weekend at their hunting lodge above J. C. Hannah's.
    Mrs. Daw and Teddy and Lawrence were the guests of the Scholtz home in Medford this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. Gaines were welcome visitors at the Grant Mathews home Monday night.
    Mrs. Jettie Clarno and Mrs. Gene Bellows attended "What Happened to Jones" in Eagle Point Friday night.
    Fred and Dora Bellows were out from Medford to C. E. Bellows a few days ago.
    W. P. Morgan and wife were in Eagle Point Monday.
    Among the Central Point visitors were Perry Foster, John Frey and wife, Chas. Skyrman and wife, Mrs. Raimey and Miss Ora, John and Jack Walker.
    The farmers are busy planting corn.
    Alvin Albright made final proof on his homestead recently.
    The entertainment and box social at the Debenger Gap school house is May 8th instead of 18th as printed in the paper.
    Miss Lottie Sholty closed an eight-months term of school at upper Trail 16. Last Tuesday the friends gave her a surprise party. The evening was spent in games and nice refreshments were served.
    Mrs. George Weeks and children visited her mother in Eagle Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Central Point were the guests of the Jasper Hannah and T. Raimey families last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1915, page 6


    The last time that I wrote I had to stop in order to keep ye editor from saying cross words and then I promised to tell the readers something about the grand time the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs had at their anniversary meeting they had in their hall on Monday, April 26. There were forty-six in attendance and they had one of the times long to be remembered by those in attendance. It was a box social, and while there was not very much competition as the bidders were limited to twenty-five cents, and the bids would generally be ten cents, fifteen, twenty-five, and the last bid would get the box and be entitled to eat with the lady whose name was on the inside of the box. But before the sale of boxes they had a fine programme as follows: Opening song by the lodge, "Someone Is Looking to You." Then Harrison Hess gave a descriptive lodge reading in which he reviewed the history of the lodge from its infancy and told of its advancement, how it cared for its members in sickness and looked after the orphans, etc., a very interesting paper. A piano solo by Miss Mina McIntosh. Dialogue, "Cousins," taken by Rosa Smith and Floyd Pearce. Song, "Tipperary," by the lodge. Then a reading by Miss Jessie Minter, "The Twistmont Family." Piano duet by Mina McIntosh and Roberta Pearce. A dialogue, "Woman's Rights" by Sisters Bryant, Childreth, Painter and Mina McIntosh. The characters were dressed so as to make the right kind of impression, a comic play. Reading by Miss Hattie Howlett. Song, "Keep the Heart Singing" by the lodges. Reading, "That Hired Girl," by Miss Mae Trusty. Dedication to the Rebekahs by Norman McQuoid. Reading of absent brothers' letters. Dialogue, "Down East" by Prof. W. E. Buchanan, Anna Bacon, Hattie Howlett, Thomas Vestal and Lottie McQuoid, and closed with the song "Farewell," by the lodges. The meeting lasted until near midnight and all went home feeling that the fraternal bond was tightened and each wished that they may be able to meet on the ninety-seventh anniversary.
    Now comes a batch of Eaglets I had to leave out of my last on account of its length.
    L. H. Ossman of Trail was here for dinner on Monday the 26th and reports that they had had a box social up there to raise funds for the Trail Sunday school and the receipts were $35, and in addition to helping along a good cause they had a good social time that helps to cement the neighborhood together.
    James Culbertson and Mike Sidley were also here the same Monday for dinner and Mike's father was also in town but went out to his son-in-law's, Timmie Duggan, and in the afternoon Mr. Duggan and wife came in with him after having a fine visit together.
    Inns [Iva?] Frederick and Bob Pelouze took the train for Medford the same Monday, and so did Mrs. Chauncey Florey to go home to Jacksonville.
    The same day Edward Pottenger came out and shipped to Oakland, Ore., about 2500 pounds of mohair and the same day, after he had gone to Medford, there were several small lots of mohair and wool brought in for shipment.
    Mrs. Ray Harnish went up to Climax last week to visit her aunt, Mrs. Thompson and brought her sister, Neva Taylor, out with her so she could attend the grand meeting of the two lodges that Monday night.
    Mrs. Henry Ossman of Trail and her son, A. P. Capell, the superintendent of the fish hatchery at the mouth of Elk Creek on Rogue River, and J. S. Tucker, formerly of that section, but now not located, but spending his time with his children, motored out to our town and took dinner at the Sunnyside last week.
    George Nichols and Wilbur Ashpole came out last Tuesday to establish a station where they could receive orders for meat, lard, etc., and send it out in quantities to suit the purchaser, a very convenient arrangement for those of us who wish to procure meat in that way. They made Roy Ashpole's hardware store the depository.
    Mr. and Mrs. Geo. West and Miss Viona Cooke motored out Tuesday and the ladies visited with Mrs. Howlett while George motored out to Lee Bradshaw's.
    Rev. L. L. Simmons, wife and daughter, Miss Bernice, and Mrs. Etna Florey went to Ashland to attend the Baptists' convention last Tuesday and Mrs. Florey will go from there to Roseburg to bring her mother, Mrs. Chauncey Nye, home with her.
    W. D. Wilson, who is stopping with his son-in-law, Wm. Mitchell, near Lake Creek, came out and took dinner with us. He reports that the crops are looking fine up in that section.
    Mrs. Steward of Emmett, Idaho, a sister of J. B. and Sam Jackson, is here visiting them.
    Chris Bergman, Herman Meyer, Henry Frey and wife were callers at the Sunnyside Thursday for dinner.
    Mrs. Marguerite Simpson, nee Marguerite Florey, is here keeping house for her father and brothers during her mother's absence.
    W. E. Hammel brought in a small lot of fine mohair Thursday.
    Frank Dimmick was doing business with our merchants Thursday.
    Charles Manning of Peyton and E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls stopped at the Sunnyside Thursday night. Mr. Hildreth is out procuring lumber at the E.P. lumber yard to build in Butte Falls.
    While in Fred L. Heath's store Thursday he showed me an old copper cent that was coined in 1793 and is now valued at $57.50 by parties who are gathering old coins. He has quite an assortment of old coins that are of considerable value.
    George A. Stannard of Ashland spent the night with us Thursday. He was here on private business. He has been engaged in selling school supplies.
    I received word over the phone that one of Austin Corbin's large barns burned to the ground Friday, but did not learn any of the particulars, except that there was no stock hurt, but all the hay was burned.
    W. W. Willits and Henry Thornton of Persist came out on the P.&E. this morning and took the stage for home. They had been in Ashland to attend the funeral of Mr. Thornton's stepmother.
    J. R. Kline, one of the fruit inspectors, was here for dinner Friday. He makes a favorable report with regard to prospects for fruit, but at this writing, Friday 5 o'clock, the temperature is about we might expect in December.
    Gus Rosenberg has renewed his sub to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 3, 1915, page 3


    Miss Mabel Hanson and Charles Manning drove in from Miss Hanson's home near Climax last Saturday, took dinner with us and then went on up to Trail, so as to attend the dance that night.
    W. E. Butler and son called for dinner Saturday. They had been engaged sawing with their machine a carload of wood for the county to be used on the road roller.
    E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls, Thos. Hamrick of Lake Creek and Nick Young and Charles Mason spent Saturday night with us.
    Sunday the Eagle Point ball team went to Table Rock to play against the Table Rock team, and the crowd that went from here completely stripped Sam Harnish & Son's livery stable, and Mr. Harnish had to make two trips with his Ford to carry all that wanted to go. The result of the game was that Table Rock came off second best, the game standing 6 to 26, but I heard one of the ladies remark that what beat the Table Rock boys was that Eagle Point had all the hooters and that she had yelled so much that she could hardly talk. Our boys seem to think that they are "the It," and there is some talk of their challenging the championship team of New York. I understand that the Tolo team is coming here to play next Sunday, and then the fur will fly.
    Edward Trowbridge, wife and daughter of Medford motored out and took dinner with Mrs. Howlett Sunday. Mrs. Henry Meyer and two of her sons came out and attended Catholic church Sunday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did John W. Smith and wife, and later in the day Amos Ayres and Miss Mae Trusty.
    Sunday afternoon I drove out to the Reese Creek schoolhouse to hear Rev. Simmons preach. There was a good attendance and good attention. Before preaching the Sabbath school was held and the teachers and officers seem to understand their businesses. At the close of the school it was announced that Miss Rose Nealon's school will close Friday, the 7th, and on Saturday night there will be an ice cream social and a program by the school, and that on Sunday the Bible class of the Methodist church of Medford were coming out to meet with the Reese Creek Sunday school.
    On my way home I met John Bigham of Sams Valley. He had been up to Pool Hill, near the S.F. soda springs [the springs on the south fork of Little Butte Creek], and reported that the snow was two inches deep up there and that the weather was very cold.
    Al Clements was also among the callers Sunday.
    I just learned today (Tuesday) that Mrs. Charlotta Brown, recently from Vancouver, B.C., was here visiting her nieces and nephews in the Brown family, and I heard Royal G. Brown say that she thought that the Rogue River Valley was the most beautiful on earth, and she has traveled some.
    I went to Medford Monday to attend the funeral of one of our old neighbors and a warm friend of our family, Mrs. Elizabeth E. Murphy, of Ashland, and was glad to meet five out of seven of her sons. The pastor of the Christian church, of which she was a member, delivered a very appropriate funeral discourse in the chapel, before the interment, which seemed to be appreciated by the large number of her old friends and neighbors who met to do honor to her memory.
    Fred Dutton has a mare which gave birth to a colt a few days ago that has five feet. The fifth seems to be attached to one of its forelegs, near the pastern joint.
    Arthur D. Moore of Elk Creek came in Tuesday morning and sold to Geo. Brown & Sons 455 pounds of mohair and then I began to inquire of Frank Brown about the goat industry in the surrounding country, and he gave me the following names of persons he had bought mohair from this spring, and he said that he had already bought and shipped to Salem, Or., $2500 worth of mohair this spring. The following is the list of names he gave me: D. Walsh, L. Dorren, F. Luy, Dan Foeller, A. D. Moore, E. Dahack, William Butler, R. A. Tucker, Ed Tucker, A. Bieberstedt, F. Edler, Art Vestal, Sam Coy, W. E. Hammel, T. E. Loomis, George Austin, Charles Veighte, A. McCabe and several others whose names had slipped his memory, so the reader will see that the goat industry is getting to be of considerable importance in this section, and in addition to this Ed Pottenger has been out here buying up all that he could.
    With this letter Mrs. Ed Wolfer sends an ad to the Mail Tribune offering a lot of household goods for sale.
    E. Hurd, our local electrician, is engaged in repairing the motor at the rock crusher, which burned out this (Tuesday) morning.
    I heard while looking for items for the Mail Tribune Tuesday morning that some of the dogs in the neighborhood were killing sheep, and that on Monday night they had killed quite a number of old sheep and thirty or forty lambs for one man.
    R. A. Holmes, the insurance man, came over Monday to see about the burning of the A. Corbin barn last week.
    I see that I am getting my letter too long again, so will keep the rest of the Eaglets for next time.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 6, 1915, page 9


    George Coulter has reopened his paint shop in our town.
    Miss Sarah Singleton was among the business callers Tuesday.
    Mr. Volna Webster, an old resident of Jackson County, came out Tuesday on the P.&E. and remained with us until Thursday, then taking the P.&E. went up to Butte Falls.
    Last Tuesday the roll of honor of our school was crowded out. I will now give it while I have room: In the intermediate department Miss Minnie Taylor, teacher, Joyce von der Hellen, Ruth Grover, Mamie Winkle, James Robinson, Lloyd Cingcade, Foster Greb, Truman McClelland, Harold Van Scoy, Ellsworth Stowell, Lyle Van Scoy, Judge Florey, Roland Stowell, Katie Buchanan, Helen Holt, Ethel Winkle, K. Buchanan, Myrtle Greb, Margaret Riley and Freddy Leabo. Primary department: Mrs. Grace von der Hellen, teacher, Ansil Pearce, Hugo von der Hellen, Donald von der Hellen, Katherine Bryant, Evelyn Stowell, Gwendolyn Brophy, Verna Eckenburg, Ardis Eckenburg and Myrtle Stowell. I did not procure a copy of the roll of honor for the principal's room for the last month. Our school will close on the 21st instant for the summer.
    Dave Pence, the boss road builder in the Elk Creek district, was out Tuesday on his way to the county seat, and he reports that Mr. McDonald is building a ten thousand [dollar] hotel on his property near the Elk Creek hatchery, on the old Rube and Jeff Johnson place, one of the popular summer resorts for fishing.
    Frank Stinson and another man in the employ of the C.&O.W.&P. Co. [COPCO] came out Tuesday to repair the motor that was running the rock crusher and called at the Sunnyside for dinner.
    Wm. Perry of Butte Falls and J. L. Tucker of Trail came out on the P.&E. Tuesday and when Wm. Perry went back home he went in his new Ford that he purchased while in Medford. Speaking about autos, they are getting about as numerous as wagons or buggies, for there are no less than fifteen autos owned on Butte Creek above Brownsboro, and one more ordered that I know of. Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek motored today in his new auto and so did Geo. Owens and wife and his brother John and wife motored in in their new machines.
    George W. Frey, wife and son Fredrick drove in from their homes on the north fork of Little Butte Wednesday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    George W. Wamsley, who has been spending some time looking over that portion of California with an eye to locating in a higher altitude than this, returned Thursday. He visited the Panama exposition in San Francisco and said that the Oregon building and exhibit was rated as third in the list of states and said that Jackson County stands up among the foremost in the line of exhibits. That the man in charge of the Jackson County exhibit, he had forgotten his name, he is from Ashland, asked him if he would like to see the Jackson County papers, showing him a file of papers, and the first thing he did was to go through the file of the Medford Mail Tribune and hunt up the Eaglets and by that means learned that the Tavern was burned, about the weather here and all the news. There is nothing like a newspaper for reliable news.
    Dr. I. W. Woodel, a veterinary surgeon, spent Wednesday with us and Thursday went out to the Fred Dutton place and removed the surplus foot that I reported on Mr. Dutton's colt.
    J. W. Lawler was also a guest Wednesday night at the Sunnyside.
    Our school is planning to have a nice entertainment the last day of the school, 21st of May, on the school yard lawn.
    Mr. Ranon, the man who had the barber shop in the Tavern that was burned, has moved to Western Oregon.
    Frank B. Tungate and R. E. Neal of Medford and A. H. Cunningham and D. J. Beakey of Portland, Gus and Fritz Pech of Lake Creek were here for dinner Thursday and later in the day John Owens and family called and visited the rest of the afternoon taking supper and then took some of the young folks riding in his new Ford.
    F. J. Ayres and wife, Miss Ruby Haley, Mr. Gus Gorman, Miss Sarah Singleton and John Blaess were doing business in our town Thursday.
    George E. Johnson, superintendent of the P.&E., and Mr. Stout, the head of the bridge builders, called Thursday evening and Mr. Johnson spent the night with us. Mr. J. takes the place of Mr. Gariz and F. T. Boltz.
    Friday we had W. F. Sergeant representing Miller, Sunington, Calhoun & Co., of Portland and Erwin A. Taff, representing the Fisher Flouring Mills Co., Seattle, Wash., C. H. Willison and wife of Ashland, Fred Dunlap and wife of Derby, and Miss Rona Sears for dinner, and Miss Sears spent the night.
    Mrs. Charles Painter has gone to Gold Hill to visit her daughter, Mrs. Taylor.
    Misses Marie Nealon and her sister Katherine came in on the P.&E. Saturday to attend the entertainment at the Reese Creek S.H. Saturday night.
    L. C. Ream, member of the new R.R. force for the P.&E., came out Saturday to look after the R.R. co.'s interest here and took dinner with us, and so did Mr. A. C. Ullery, representing the Lilly Seed Co. of Portland.
    Lemon Charley and wife motored in Saturday morning from their home above Brownsboro.
    Since my last Earl Croft and Gus Rosenberg have renewed and John Owens of Wellen has subscribed for the Weekly Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 10, 1915, page 6


    Miss Claire Skyrman is the guest of Mrs. Jasper Hannah for a few days.
    Mrs. Johnston of Oakland, Cal., is at her daughter's, Mrs. Mae Davis.
    Among the Eagle Point visitors last week were: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston, Mrs. C. E. Bellows, Ed Foster, Lloyd French, Steve Smith.
    Will Houston was in Central Point after spraying materials Friday.
    Marshall Minter and sisters, Misses Mattie and Diehless, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pettegrew were Sunday callers at the French ranch.
    Tobe Raimey made a business trip to Central Point last week.
    The entertainment at the Debenger Gap schoolhouse was well attended and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. The following program was given:
    Instrumental music, Norman Gage and Mia Hanna; recitation, "When Robin Comes," Velma Fry; recitation, "The Scholar," Mabel Foster; song, "The Mischievous Brownies," the primary grade; recitation, Theodore Daw; recitation, Lorance Daw; recitation, Everett Hannah; monologue, "The Silent Method," Josephine Kincaid; reading, Dessie Hannah; violin solo, Norman Gage; dialogue, "The Questioner," Velma and Everett Hannah; recitation, Theodore Daw; recitation, Margaret Howard; recitation, "The Birds," Velma Hannah, nigger hoe-down; recitation, Mabel Foster; recitation, Velma Fry; song by the negro chorus.
    Mrs. Jasper Hannah was in Central Point after supplies the last of the week.
    Miss Mia Hanna went home with her sister, Mrs. Daily, Sunday for several days' visit.
    Miss Rose Nealon closed an eight months' school in the Reese Creek district Friday. Saturday evening the school gave an excellent entertainment. The dialogue of six spinsters and six old bachelors and their views of marriage was the cause of much laughter.
    May French, Charles and Leland Pettegrew attended the entire term without being absent or tardy.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 12, 1915, page 5


    Our rock crusher that has been crushing rock for the county road between here and Brownsboro went out of commission last week and Mr. Hurd found when he went to repair it that the electric motor was burned out so as to necessitate rewiring, and at this writing he is at work on the job and Mr. Natwick, who is superintending the work of crushing the rock, thinks that they will be able to start up again by tomorrow, Thursday.
    Robert A. Neil of Brownsboro was doing business in our town Saturday.
    Mr. Newport, the manager of the E.P.A. association, has had a large bulletin board put up to post his bills on, on Main Street, and Saturday night gave a movie show that was very good and instructive. After the show the younger part of the audience remained and enjoyed a social hop.
    Our efficient and progressive road supervisor, Ed Dutton, reports that he has reopened the old road just this side of the free ferry, thus shortening the distance and avoids a piece of bad road in the winter. Ed is doing some fine work on the road, straightening out the crooks, leveling out the rough places and making a fine driveway between here and Brownsboro, and in fact Ed keeps on the move all the time, and says to his men, "Come on, boys," instead of saying "Go on, boys," and leaving them to take their own time on the road.
    Sunday, although it was rather a drizzly day, we had Dean Terrill, Miss Eva Farlow, Herman Meyer and wife of Elk Creek, here for dinner. They came out to see the ball game played between the Eagle Point and Tolo teams, and the result was the game was so close that they had to play the tenth inning in order to see who was entitled to the honor of winning out, as it was the game stood 6 to 7 in favor of Eagle Point. Who will eventually be the victors over the Eagle Point team?
    We also had the same day, Sunday, for dinner, Charles Bacon, wife and two sons, William von der Hellen, wife and son and daughter, Carl von der Hellen, Fred Pelouze, wife and son, Bob, C. E. Johnson of Table Rock, W. H. Wamsley, Miss Lorine Grigsby, F. T. Boltz, Guy Bishop, W. L. Childreth.
    Sam Harnish, our livery stable man, and wife, their daughter, Mrs. Fred Dutton, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Dutton, Sr., motored to Williamsburg Monday to visit Mrs. Harnish's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moomaw.
    Green Mathews, one of our prosperous farmers and stock-raisers, was doing business here Saturday.
    J. Morris of Brownsboro was a business caller also Saturday.
    Since my last report, George Brown & Sons have bought wool from Roy Davis, W. C. Daley and C. Frank Rhodes, and mohair from W. J. Austin. Mr. Brown reports that W. C. Daley's sheep averaged eleven pounds per head of wool.
    Charles Manning and Miss Mabel Hanson came in from the Prospect country Monday and spent the night with us. Miss Hanson had been up in the neighborhood where she taught school last winter, visiting friends, and while up there attended a dance at Trail and one at Prospect.
    The Eagle Point Hotel has closed for the present, as the proprietress, Miss Louisa Blaess, expects to start for the Panama exposition in a few days.
    Joe Parker, the railroad agent at Medford for the P.&E., took dinner with us Tuesday. He was out talking to the business men about making a change in the time of running the trains from Medford to Eagle Point and Butte Falls, but did not give out anything definite.
    Since the closing of the Eagle Point Hotel, Harrison Hess, George Wehman and Tony McClelland have taken rooms at the Sunnyside.
    Among the business callers Tuesday were Henry French, J. W. Wolfrey and wife, Mr. Hoefft of Lake Creek, W. H. Crandall, Lemon Charley and wife, William Perry and family. They motored out in their new Ford from Butte Falls.
    Tuesday afternoon our honorable county court, as least that part of it that looks after the county roads, i.e., Judge TouVelle, Mr. Madden and Con Leever, motored out and on the way up to where Ed Dutton is working on the Eagle Point and Brownsboro road picked up J. Frank Brown any your Eagle Point correspondent, and we all went up to see what was being done on the road, and on the way we picked up Chris Natwick and Fred Pelouze, and after going over the road and the court approving the work as far as it was done, returned to Mr. Pelouze's residence, where he gave us a genuine old-fashioned treat of buttermilk, and I don't think that Judge TouVelle has had any buttermilk before, for at least six months. Well, I was going to tell how many glasses of buttermilk he did drink, but he drank at least twice as much as I did, and I know that I am some buttermilk drinker. Well, we all spent an hour very pleasantly at the beautiful home, and while there I called the attention of the court to the fine field of wheat that Mr. P. had on a tract of chaparral land that he cleared last year and his fine alfalfa field.
    Alvin Bieberstedt was a business caller Wednesday morning.
    Wednesday morning the senior class of the Central Point high school passed through here on their way up Butte Creek on a pleasure trip. The company was composed of Jake Awley, Benjamin Hilton, Miss Readcrist, Miss Lizzie Creede, Miss Edie Creede, Miss Vada Altimus, Miss Sadie Bailey, Miss Helen Porter, Fritz Taylor, Paulus Elson, Leonard Fremandis, Rank Frost, James Vestal, Bolivar Flarup and Walter Denter. They had three autos and a more lively company of young folks is hard to find.
    I sent in a little ad for the Mail Tribune a short time ago announcing the sale of a lot of household goods for Mrs. E. S. Wolfer, and in a very short time she reported good results.
    If you have anything to sell or want anything, advertise in a live newspaper, as that always brings results.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 14, 1915, page 7


    J. E. Hutchinson, Miss Ethel and Charles Pettegrew were business callers last Wednesday.
    S. H. Harnish, our liveryman, returned Wednesday afternoon with his wife, daughter and Mrs. Dutton, Sr., from Williamsburg.
    Bert Clarno and wife passed through here Wednesday on their way out to the Bear Creek Valley, returning in the afternoon with a lot of furniture in the rig.
    The Eagle Hotel of this place has changed hands again, this being the eighth time that it has changed proprietors in the last ten years. Thursday, B. J. Palmer traded the property to J. T. Zimmerlee for a tract of land in Siskiyou County, California. It is not definitely known yet what disposition Mr. Zimmerlee will make of the property, as he is on a deal to turn it over to his son-in-law, but there is nothing definite known yet.
    Mr. Hart brought in a small quantity of gooseberries last week, but they were most too small to use yet. He has been delivering strawberries for the past few days. He is on the Ed. S. Wolfer place, a model berry farm.
    Mrs. Joe Riley and her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Cardwell, who is living in the A. N. Thomas house, were in town on business Thursday.
    Senator H. von der Hellen and his son, Carl, were among us Thursday, and so was Walter Henderson and wife.
    E. C. Silliman, the proprietor of the Sugar Bowl of Medford, and Theo. Hoefft, Mike Sidley and Herman Meyer were at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday.
    Mrs. Thomas W. Cingcade was in town Friday and Miss Louisa Blaess accompanied her home. Miss Blaess has been keeping the Eagle Hotel up to the 10th of May and is now planning to spend a few days visiting among her friends before she starts for San Francisco, Cal.
    Perry Foster and his son, Ed, were doing business here Thursday.
    Mrs. J. W. Grover, who has charge of the culinary department on the Alta Vista orchard, was shopping here Thursday.
    Thursday, P. M. Kershaw of the Oregon Granite Company, Medford, came out and erected a beautiful monument over the graves of our eight children who have passed on before us to the better world.
    He also brought out the base for a large monument for the late Mr. Kershaw's grave.
    Our road supervisor, Ed Dutton, has commenced to open a new road, commencing on the county road at the Cingcade farm and running west to intersect the county road running from Medford to the lower bridge, near the mouth of Little Butte Creek.
    Frank Randle was in town Friday making arrangements to stand his stallion here for this season.
    John Rader, one of our hustling farmers and stock raisers, is installing a pumping plant on his farm so as to have water convenient for stock and also in the house.
    O. E. Williams of Portland, one of the Southern Pacific officials, spent the night with us Friday and took the train for Butte Falls Saturday morning. He came out on a speeder and is looking over the property of the P.&E. along the route and gathering up the property of the company that is not in use at present. He will take a speeder at Butte Falls and ride over the road so as to see all of it. Speaking about the railroad, the company is playing havoc with our plans by changing the time of running so as to gives us only three days a week service. We don't know what arrangements will be made about the U.S. mail service, but it begins to look as though our mail was going to be badly jumbled up, as we will have no mail between Saturday afternoon and Tuesday at 9:45 a.m., and then we will get the Saturday, Sunday and Monday's Portland evening papers and the Sunday and Tuesday morning Sun and the Monday's Mail Tribune, to say nothing about the inconvenience of the letter mail. S. H. Harnish has already planned to put on an auto to carry passengers.
    W. E. Hammel, John Caster and Miss Samantha Minter were among the callers Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, 1915, page 7


    Corbin Edgell, one of our prominent orchardists, was doing business in our town last Saturday.
    Chris Bergman and wife were in town also Saturday. Mrs. Bergman came out from home to have some dental work done.
    In making my rounds last Saturday at the depot I discovered that our depot agent, F. T. Newport, had a fine lot of chickens on hand ready for shipment. While there J. F. Fry and daughter, Mrs. Phillips, drove in from their home on Trail Creek with a lot of chickens and eggs for Mr. Newport, and he tells me that he is doing quite a business in that line, buying poultry and eggs for shipment.
    On the same round I met Pete Betz and J. A. Howard, who live on or near the road to the free ferry on Rogue River. Mr. Howard was in after a load of lumber. I also met Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Gardner and daughter. Mr. Gardner and daughter were on their way to Medford to spend a few days.
    Charles Bacon and family started Saturday to go to Golden so as to leave their children with Mrs. Bacon's mother while they went on to Newport to attend the grand lodge of the I.O.O.F. and Rebekahs, and Norman McQuoid and our daughter Hattie started on Sunday and will be joined by Mr. and Mrs. Bacon at Wolf Creek. Mr. Bacon and Mr. McQuoid were delegates to the grand lodge of the I.O.O.F. and Mrs. Bacon and Hattie Howlett delegates to the grand lodge of the Rebekahs.
    Charles Veatch and three strangers stopped at the Sunnyside Saturday night.
    Saturday night the train of P.&E. cars pulled out after their arrival at 4:55 p.m. and went to Medford to stay instead of spending the night here as has been the custom for some time and by that move took Messrs. Diamond, Ringer, McClellan and Edsall, four of our regular boarders. Although Messrs. Ringer and Edsall came back on a speeder and stayed over Sunday with us.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were: G. H. Wamsley, Harrison Hess, Earl Ringer, Misses Nida McIntosh, Miss Loretta Childreth, Miss Ruby Haley, Miss Nora Childreth, Mr. W. L. Childreth, Guy Bishop, Miss Hazel McClellan, Alex Vestal, Miss Claire Zimmerman, J. V. McIntyre and family, Clarence Robinett, Al Clements and a stranger who did not register.
    We fully expected to have had Judge TouVelle with us Sunday also as he had told me that he expected to be with us and asked me particularly to have a good supply of buttermilk on hand. So Mrs. Howlett killed the chickens and churned Saturday evening so as to have everything ready for his honor, but he failed to be present and so missed the buttermilk and the privilege of meeting so many of the good people of this neighborhood, but we trust that he will try to honor us by his presence in the near future.
    Assessor Wm. Grieve came out Monday morning and took the E.P.-Persist stage for Trail Creek country. He was going up into the timber belt on the headwaters of Trail, Elk and the Umpqua streams to look over the timber with a view to placing a proper valuation on it in assessing it.
    Monday was one of the quietest days I ever saw in Eagle Point. Those who had autos took loads of people to Medford and among them were a large part of the school children to see the show and Mr. Harnish, our liveryman, made three trips to Medford with his auto (Ford); his son Robbie acted as a chauffeur. Some of the merchants shut up their stores and went; in fact there was but a very few persons left here and they who were left stayed in the house.
    Miss Louisa Blaess took the E.P.-Persist stage Monday for her parents' home at the free ferry.
    Percy Haley took supper with us Monday night.
    Well I am so heartbroken over the conduct of our justly celebrated Eagle Point ball team that I hardly know how to start off on that subject, but will preface my humble confession by saying that our Eagle Point team was beaten before the game was commenced, for they were not expecting to play last Sunday, as their main pitcher, Bob Pelouze, was gone and when they saw the mighty phalanx from Medford all cocked and primed they simply wilted and gave up in despair, but I have not heard of any deaths on account of the terrible defeat of our "Invincibles." The game stood 13 to 2 in favor of the Medford boys.
    Born May 18th, to the wife of our Deputy Assessor Floyd Pearce, a ten and three quarter [pound] boy, so Dr. Holt reports.
    Our mail arrived on time through the management of the P.&E. railway co., and the lobby of the post office was well filled, each eager to get the news. But Mr. Johnson, the new manager of the P.&E. railway, told me this Tuesday morning that he thought that arrangements would soon be made to have the mail come regularly as heretofore.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 19, 1915, page 7


    John and Grandpa Houston were at Beagle Sunday. Grandpa will be the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Jasper Rogers, for the next three weeks.
    Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Albright made a business trip to Medford last week.
    Mrs. Jasper Hannah has been quite sick for the last ten days and Dr. Holt has been over from Eagle Point several times. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Central Point are helping care for her.
    Harry Howard made final proof on his homestead Monday. E. R. Raimey and Edward Foster were his witnesses.
    A few of the people attended the circus in Medford Monday.
    There was a school rally at Trail Monday. They were to be an enjoyable time to be had according to the notices sent out.
    Perry Foster attended the rally at Trail and visited friends there.
    Dave Pence is camped at the Morgan place and has a crew working on the unfinished Morgan hill grade.
    Mrs. Viola Bergman was the guest of the Clarnos a few days ago.
    The Elk and Trail country have had plenty of rain, but south of there there is still a deficiency.
    Miss Mia Hannah returned from Medford Sunday.
    Edward Bellows, an 8-year-old boy, caught a fine fish two feet long Sunday.
    Frank Middlebusher went to Central Point Tuesday.
    Roy Stacey and sister, Miss Dessie, brought Mr. and Mrs. Henry Morgan home in the auto Sunday. Mrs. Morgan has spent the last fortnight visiting home folks at Beagle.
    Pete Betz and C. E. Bellows were in Eagle Point a few days ago.
    Steve Smith spent the weekend in Medford.
    Thomas Raimey has been laid up for a few days, caused by falling from the wagon and hitting his hip on a rock while working on the road Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 20, 1915, page 6


    F. Ayres has bought a Ford auto.
    James Vestal, a Reese Creek boy, was one of the graduates of the Central Point high school last week.
    Edward Foster is in Jacksonville on the petit jury this week.
    M. Slusser went to Medford Monday.
    Dr. Holt was called to Persist Thursday to attend Mrs. W. W. Willits, who is very ill.
    Ed Ash autoed to Medford a few days ago.
    Miss Florence Kincaid closed this year's school in the Debenger Gap district Friday. Miss Joe and Robbie and Robert Kincaid and Miss Eva Beebe spent Friday afternoon with the school.
    Steve Smith and Perry Foster spent a night at the French home this week.
    Mrs. Johnston has returned to Oakland, California after a fortnight visit with her daughter, Mrs. Mae Daw.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cornutt of Central Point spent the weekend at the W. T. Houston home.
    T. C. Gaines went to the valley Tuesday.
    McCreights were distributing notices of their auction sale a few days ago.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 26, 1915, page 5


    J. E. Stowell has moved to Baker City, Or.
    Joe Mayham brought in two sacks of wool and sold it to George Brown & Sons since my last report.
    Miss Ruby Haley and Miss Sarah Singleton drove in Tuesday of last week.
    H. W. Andrean, a traveling salesman from Portland, was with us Tuesday for dinner, and so was Arthur Smith, Nick Young, Ed Dutton, our road builder, and Wallace Cushman and Miss Hazel Werner were here for the night Tuesday, taking the E.P. and Persist stage for their homes Wednesday morning on Trail Creek.
    One of the Edler young men came out from Medford Wednesday morning with S. H. Harnish on his car. Mr. Harnish is engaged to bring the U.S. mail out from Medford and carry the mail to Medford every Monday, Wednesday and Friday until further arrangements have been made.
    Mrs. George Jackson of Medford came out Thursday and took dinner with Mrs. Howlett and then went on up to the H. B. Tronson orchard to visit her adopted daughter, Mrs. Robinson.
    Lemon Charley and Lee Bradshaw came out Thursday and while at dinner told us that the rains up Little Butte Creek were so heavy that the creek raised about a foot in one hour and that the roads up there were very muddy.
    Marshall Minter was in town inquiring for a horse he had lost, and he has concluded that he has been taken off the range by someone who is not afraid of the law. He said that it was not worthwhile to advertise for him, as he was not branded.
    Dolph Kent of Wellen was doing business with George Brown & Sons and the von der Hellen Hardware Co. Wednesday.
    Frank Simpson, one of the native sons of Jackson County, was in town Wednesday, and while here was speaking of the business prospect in the neighborhood of Spokane, Wash., and just remarked that up there a man couldn't sell a $20 gold piece for $19.50 cash there, for no one had that amount of cash on hand, or, in other words, times up there were very hard and no prospect for improvement.
    Mrs. C. J. Scanlon of San Diego, Cal., called for dinner Thursday on her way home. She has been visiting the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. Clinton Haworth of Lake Creek.
    Thursday, just as we were about through with the first table for dinner, in came George von der Hellen, Henry Meyer, wife and son Otto, G. W. Frey, wife and son Irving, and Herman Meyer, Sr., the mail contractor on the Eagle Point and Lake Creek route, for dinner, but in a few minutes Mrs. Howlett had a fresh supply on the table and they all went away satisfied.
    Harry Carlton of Central Point came out Thursday on a business trip, returning the same evening. Mrs. Carl Jackson came out on the same train.
    Scott Claspill of Butte Falls came out from his home Thursday and went on to Medford.
    I noticed a fine Duroc Jersey red sow in the depot Friday that M. E. Hammel had expressed from one of the stock farms of the Willamette Valley, and he tells me over the phone that he will receive another Saturday the 22nd, of the white kind, but did not specify the breed.
    Mrs. Etta Florey and her mother, Mrs. Chauncey Nye, came in from Roseburg last week.
    William Brown, of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons, told me Thursday that Mr. Rhodes had sold a bunch of sheep at $5.25 a head after they were sheared, and a lot of lambs at $2.25 per head. Don't that make mutton and lamb taste like "greenbacks."
    John Rader has installed a pumping plant, built on a tower, put in a tank that will hold 1500 gallons, and is arranging to have water not only for his house and barn, but to irrigate his garden.
    Royal G. Brown is in Portland looking after their real property there.
    Walter Henderson was doing business here Thursday.
    William Lindsey and I. C. Moore came in from the Moore farm Thursday night, spent the night at the Sunnyside and went on to Ashland Friday morning. Mr. Moore has sold his two farms on Elk Creek, one to William Sturges and the other to his son, William Moore.
    Mrs. Arglee Green, who has been up in Washington this spring, returned home Thursday night.
    Mrs. George Weeks came out from her home on Elk Creek last Thursday to visit her mother, Mrs. Leabo, and the children, and to attend the entertainment given by the school Thursday evening in the opera house. I did intend to give an account of the entertainment and tell of what a fine time we all had and about the picnic dinner we had at the schoolhouse on Friday, give the roll of honor of our school and the closing exercises of our school, but find that it will take up too much space, so will have to reserve that until the next time I write.
    A. L. Young, a salesman from Portland, took dinner at the Sunnyside with George von der Hellen Friday.
    Al Clements was also a guest with us Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 25, 1915, page 7


    The last time that I wrote I promised to tell the readers about the school entertainment, picnic dinner, etc. but as I was so slow getting to the opera house was compelled to take a back seat, so that I could not hear or see very well, so I secured the services of a lady friend to write up an account of the whole proceedings and sent it with this batch of Eaglets.
    The closing exercise of the schools was on Friday, May 21, and there was a number of visitors attended, and we had a genuine old-fashioned picnic dinner in the grove on the school ground. After dinner the children and parents were called together and Prof. Buchanan gave us a very interesting talk, after which tickets were distributed among the children that was good for a cone of ice cream each at French Louie's confectionery shop. Then Miss Minnie Taylor, the primary teacher, presented the following children with a nice book apiece, as a reward for being perfect in attendance during the entire term: Ellsworth Stowell, Harold Van Scoy, Lloyd Cingcade, Margaret Riley, Ruth Grover, Lyle Van Scoy, and a book to Truman McClelland for the highest grades in the room. The following pupils passed in the January examinations: Bernice Simmons, Nida McIntosh, Albert Conley and John Butler, and in the May examination Walter Painter passed. Before the final dismissal the question was brought up with regard to having an industrial fair here this fall, and the following persons were selected a committee of arrangement to take charge of the subject: Rev. L. L. Simmons, Madams J. B. Jackson and L. K. Haak. After the dismissal of the school the two baseball teams of Eagle Point had an interesting game of ball.
    J. M. Bates, a traveling man of Portland, who is furnishing the county with machinery to work the roads, spent the night with us Friday.
    Benj. F. Pedegrue, formerly of Los Angeles, but now a homesteader in this section, was in town Saturday.
    Henry Wahler of Wellen brought in a lot of cream Saturday and shipped it to the Ashland creamery.
    Born, to Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Clevenger of Butte Falls, May 21, a son, reported by Dr. Holt.
    Mrs. Charles Blaess is visiting her mother, Mrs. Zimmerlee, the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel.
    Mr. Matt Lewis, one of the Eagle Point raised boys, of Reno, Nevada, was here last week visiting his uncle, Frank Lewis. He had his wife and three of his children with him.
    Bert Clarno and wife were shopping in our town last Saturday.
    C. H. Willison, wife and two daughters, Mrs. S. S. Drake and Miss Velletea, were here last Saturday for dinner.
    I. F. Lader, an electrician, was here looking after the interest of the O.&C.L.&P. Co. [COPCO] Saturday.
    J. C. Ford, son of Henry Ford, the manufacturer of "The Ford," and Ernest Dern were here Saturday for dinner. Mr. Ford is out looking over the country in the interest of his father's autos.
    J. R. Cline has been around here several days rustling up those who have diseased orchards, and he says that he wants those who have orchards and especially small ones, to look after their trees and keep out the scale, etc.
    Miss Nida McIntosh took passage on S. H. Harnish's car for Medford Sunday to catch the S.P. car for her home in Golden in Josephine County.
    S. H. Harnish is engaged to carry the mail from here to Medford and bring the mail from there to Eagle Point three times a week. See his ad. in another column.
    Last Saturday night Rev. M. C. Davis, our Sunday school man, came out and we went together to Tolo, where I preached and then went to Table Rock and he preached. And while there I learned that the Arrow Head Society has given the play "What Happened to Jones," there the night before, the second time they gave the play, and realized over ten dollars. They expect to give the play in Willow Springs next Saturday night, the proceeds to go toward buying a piano for the T.R. school.
    Jerry Bishop of Butte Falls was here looking for someone to doctor a sick tooth Monday.
    N. W. Slusser, who has a homestead on Long Branch, is taking the place of Mr. Whitman in the barber shop this week.
    Percy Haley and Orville Childreth were riding on a motorcycle last Monday and both came in contact with the ground and when they gathered themselves up found that they were quite badly skinned up, and Percy needed another suit of clothes. They were neither of them badly hurt, but it was more luck than management.
    The Jacksonville baseball team expects to be out here next Sunday and play against the E.P. team.
    S. S. Aiken of Prospect was on the P.&E. Tuesday on his way up home.
    Misses Blanche E. and Grace Miller of South Butte came in on the P.&E. Tuesday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on up to their home on the Lake Creek-E.P. stage.
    Miss Lottie Van Scoy started to San Francisco Tuesday to spend two or three months.
    M. M. Gurk and L. Rukes, both of them cigar men of Medford, came out and took dinner at the Sunnyside Tuesday and spent quite a while fishing.
    W. E. Buchanan moved Tuesday to Ashland, where he is engaged to teach school in the Bellview district.
    Miss Minnie Taylor, who has been teaching our intermediate department started for San Francisco, and from there expects to go to Texas, Georgia and other southern states, but will return in time to take charge of the same department this fall.
    Mrs. Anna Corum, who has been in the Medford hospital for some time, came out with Dr. Holt Monday evening and is stopping at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 27, 1915, page 5


    Lemon Charley and I. L. Bradshaw were in our town last Tuesday and while here called at the Sunnyside for dinner; also R. A. Petty, Charles Mason and Carl von der Hellen of Wellen took dinner with us.
    On Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols took the P.&E. train for Medford to be gone several days, and some of the far-seeing ones predict that when they return they will come in their own "Ford."
    The same day Miss Hazel McClelland and Miss Louisa Blaess started for San Francisco to visit the fair.
    Notices have been posted that the general stores will close hereafter on Sunday so that persons desiring anything in that line will supply themselves on Saturday.
    Edgar Southerland of Lakeview has been here for some days visiting J. L. Robinson. They were old neighbors in Oklahoma and Mr. Robinson has returned with Mr. Southerland to Lakeview to look over the country with a view to locating there.
    Charles Veighte and W. E. Hammel have each bought a quantity of wire fencing of the von der Hellen Hardware Company of Eagle Point.
    Mrs. Hazel Sears came in from Medford Tuesday to visit her mother, Mrs. Leabo and family.
    Charles Bacon, the conductor on the Pacific & Eastern railroad who went to Newport as a delegate to the I.O.O.F. convention, returned Tuesday to his post.
    Isaiah P. Darson, the handy man of Medford, was out Tuesday canvassing our town for work and spent the night with us, and Wednesday morning repaired the large clock that has been standing silent as death since the post office was moved, and now those visiting the post office can readjust their timepieces.
    W. Hart Hamilton, who owns and cultivates a large farm just outside of Eagle Point but has his home in San Jose, California, is here now and expects to have his family here in a short time to spend the summer. He has secured the house recently occupied by Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy for the summer.
    Mike Sidley, Sr., and his son, Mike, came in Wednesday with a fine lot of wood that they sold to George Brown & Sons, and Mr. S. Sr. went on to Medford but young Mike came to the Sunnyside for dinner.
    The same day there were two men and a woman called for dinner but they were so reticent that I could find out but very little about them. They had been up in the neighborhood of Butte Falls for about a month and were from Portland. They had been camping out, and their clothes would indicate that they had been in the timber cruising business, as the men's pants were worn off several inches. They appeared to be persons of more than ordinary intelligence and refinement, and we concluded that they were rather out in the interest of a railroad or timber company. Jed Edsall, a special supply man for the P.&E. who lives with us, saw them frequently about Butte Falls and says that they each, all three, carried a heavy knapsack as though they were living a roving life, but they were the most closed-mouthed people I have met for a long time. The lady told me they were from Portland, but they have no use for newspaper reporters.
    Miss Lenore Walker, one of our high school girls, who graduated in the Medford high school, has just passed her fifteenth birthday and passed with the highest honors, while the average age for girls in the high school to graduate in Oregon is eighteen years, and in the United States, seventeen. Miss Walker is a daughter of Mrs. E. S. Wolfer, whose husband owns the celebrated fruit farm above our town.
    G. F. Hall of Prospect and Miss Inez Willits of Persist, and Charley Mason of Lake Creek spent Thursday night with us. Miss Willits has been attending the normal at Monmouth and was called home on account of the sickness of her mother, and I am glad to say that she is convalescing.
    Henry Meyer of Lake Creek went to Medford last week and bought a Ford car and last Friday Mrs. Meyer and her children, with her son Otto as chauffeur, came out and motored to Medford, while Herman Meyer, Jr., and wife came out and met his father Herman Meyer, Sr., and his uncle Henry here. They had motored out from Medford and they all came around to the Sunnyside for dinner.
    J. F. Ayres and wife were in town Friday and when I met him the first thing he told me was that he was mad and on inquiring the cause said that your correspondent who writes "Along Rogue River" said that he had an auto, and he was mad because it was not so. So after this we scribers must know who has autos if we want to keep people in good humor, but I think he will get himself a Ford and then will be good natured.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Corlies May 27 a nine and a half pound boy, and Grandpa and Grandma Corlies are just as proud as they can be.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1915, page 7


    W. P. Morgan brought out a load of grain from Central Point last week.
    Henry French took some chickens to Eagle Point Thursday and sold them to F. Newport.
    C. E. Bellows was in Jacksonville Saturday as a witness for Talent parties before the circuit court.
    Bird Johnston brought out a band of 150 sheep a few days ago.
    John Nealon closed the spring term of school in the Central district Friday.
    Among those attending the auction at Beagle Wednesday were Jack and Will Houston and wives, Ed Houston, Henry Morgan, Perry Foster, Jasper and Joe Hannah.
    Edward Foster spent Sunday and Monday at home and returned to Jacksonville Tuesday on the petit jury.
    Little Truth, the 2-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Piele, fell down the stairs recently and was moved to the Dow hospital at Central Point Wednesday. She is in a helpless condition, but she is slowly gaining.
    Some of the farmers are cutting their early hay.
    E. E. Ash returned from the valley Monday with a load of supplies.
    Most of the turkey raisers have lost a number of turkeys the last few weeks.
    Will Grieve went up the river Monday.
    Mesdames Harry Howard and Geo. Fry were shopping in Central Point Tuesday. Miss Anna Holton returned home with them and is visiting the Howard and Houston families.
    Mrs. Mae Daw was an all-night guest of Miss Mia Hannah Monday night.
    Dr. Kirchgessner is at Fall City for the summer.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 2, 1915, page 4


    Samuel Pollard, a brother of John Pollard, who bought the John Smith homestead on Reese Creek, has traded a farm in Oklahoma for a farm in Sams Valley, I understand.
    D. W. Daniels and Thomas Sharger of Lake Creek were in town Saturday.
    E. D. Reaney and J. L. Kershaw of Climax have shipped in a quantity of wire fencing.
    F. J. Ayres and wife, who own and operate a fine farm on the Derby road, were in town Saturday, and while here bought of Roy Ashpole a McCormick mower.
    Daniel Foeller, who lives on the divide between Rogue River and the Umpqua, brought in a lot of mohair that he sheared from 100 goats that netted him $1.12 per head. He sold his wool to George Brown & Sons.
    E. P. Melvey of Seattle, Wash., representing the Crescent Manufacturing Company, was with us last Saturday. It was his first visit to this section of the country, and he seemed to be very favorably impressed with our surroundings--in fact, he has done as almost everyone does who comes here--falls in love with our lovely valley.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze and his son Robb came out on the P.&E. last Saturday, and so did Rube Johnson.
    Mr. and Mrs. Pelouze had been to Medford to attend the graduating exercises of the high school, where their son Robb was one of the graduates. Robb expect to enter either the Corvallis college or the University at Eugene this fall.
    Mrs. H. C. Barker drove in from the farm just above Brownsboro last Saturday with a lot of hens for our railroad agent, F. T. Newport, and told me that she expected to take home with her a hundred of the White Leghorn breed.
    Mrs. Thomas Farlow and family motored out from her home Saturday to meet her husband, who came out from Jacksonville, where he had been serving as a juryman. Ed Foster also came out at the same time, took supper with us and went on up home the same night.
    L. B. Caster of Derby was with us Saturday.
    J. V. McIntyre and wife and F. L. Heath and wife motored to Medford Saturday afternoon.
    The foregoing articles were what I had to leave out of my last article on account of its length.
    Herbert Carlton and Miss Retta Robbins of Wellen came in to the Sunnyside Saturday night about 8 o'clock and called for supper, and after eating a good hearty meal spent an hour or so hearing our phonographs. They came Sunday night at about the same time, but unfortunately for them we had had the following named persons here for dinner, or supper, and Mrs. Howlett had gone out at that time, and I was alone, so I declined to try to get them a square meal at that late hour. Among the guests were Rob Harnish, Clarence Robinett, Jay Spicer, Ed Coy, Henry Trusty, Guy Bishop, George Wamsley, Carl Ringer, Carl von der Hellen, Glen Haley, John Singleton, R. A. Petty, Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush and son, William Mervin Quackenbush, and his aunt, Miss Dorris Arens, Merritt Dews, Floyd Jones, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hurd, Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen and son Donald, William von der Hellen, wife and son Hugo, Fred Collins, Charley Abbott, George B. Henselman, Charles Bacon, wife and two sons, Louis Mitcher, Harry Baker, Herman Meyer, Jr., and wife, John R. Tyrrell, Heath Childreth, George Lewis, Joe Moomaw, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Robb Pelouze and Percy Haley. After all of that crowd had been fed, besides our regular boarders and myself, and you know that the Table Rock correspondent thinks that I am a great eater, does not the reader wonder that I balked at trying to get Herbert C. and his friends their supper at that late hour.
    Well, the occasion of such a crowd being here was that it had been announced that there would be two games of baseball played here Sunday afternoon, one between the Eagle Point scrubs, the younger boys, and the Antelope small team, and one between the Jacksonville team and the Eagle Point team--the Invincibles. Well, the result was in the first play the game stood 6 to 7 in favor of the Antelope team, a hard-fought game. And--well, my hand trembles so that I can hardly write--well the Invincibles came out second best, the game standing 6 to 14 in favor of the Jacksonville team. Since the Medford Tigers came out and scared our boys so badly they have lost their grip.
    There was quite a number of our citizens went to Medford and Central Point on Saturday, Sunday and Monday to attend the memorial exercises. Also quite a number went to the Antelope cemetery on Monday and decorated the graves of loved ones who have gone on before.
    The citizens of Butte Creek Valley above and at Brownsboro met in a beautiful grove just above Brownsboro and had memorial exercises and a picnic dinner. D. W. H. Nuding delivered the address.
    J. L. Kershaw of Climax had two fine buck goats brought in this (Tuesday) morning on the train.
    John Allen of Derby brought in two sacks of wool this morning and sold to George Brown and Sons.
    Since my last report David Cingcade and F. L. Heath have renewed their subscriptions to the Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 3, 1915, page 5


    Mrs. E. S. Wolfer and her daughter, Lenore Walker, started last Tuesday to join her husband in Anita, Iowa.
    Ed Foster, who has been serving on the jury for some time, came out from Jacksonville Monday, [and] spent the night with us on his way home. He was dismissed until the 15th.
    John Rader was in town last Wednesday and while here purchased a new hay rake of Roy Ashpole.
    R. R. Minter, one of our progressive farmers and stock raisers, was in town Wednesday to meet three men he had engaged to shear his sheep. I heard Frank Brown say this morning that Minter was going to have a fine lot of wool this spring.
    R. G. Brown, a member of the firm of George Brown & Sons, who has been in Portland for the last fortnight, returned the first of the month.
    D. Oleson of Wellen brought in a lot of wool for Geo. Brown & Sons last Tuesday and on the same day Alvin Bieberstedt sold his wool to the same firm, and since then J. H. Trusty of Trail and George Brown of Brownsboro have sold their wool to that firm.
    Mrs. T. L. Sherman, Mrs. Ray Peebles and Mrs. H. C. Behling of Medford were here for dinner Wednesday. The three ladies drove out in a buggy to see the country and get a good dinner.
    We had the same day Will Nickell of Lake Creek, C. Edgell, who owns an orchard joining the A. Corbin orchard, Geo. von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, F. Stinson, Ernest Scott, Gus Stinson, B. F. Cook of Medford, the last four being out here removing the electric light poles out of the county road and placing them in the right place, and Al Haley of Climax. He was out after a load of wire fencing for J. L. Kershaw.
    Geo. Brown & Sons also bought wool from Art Nichols and Fred Stinson since my last report.
    C. L. and L. K. Shepard, who own the Ashland Piano House, were guests at the Sunnyside Thursday night.
    We had some excitement here Thursday evening about 5:45, just as Mrs. Howlett was preparing to put supper on the table and the sitting room was quite well filled with hungry guests. She was called to the phone and in an instant she announced "The depot is afire" and in less time than it takes to write it J. V. McIntyre jumped to his feet and into his auto with as many men as could get in the auto and on the running board and off they went at the rate of sixty miles an hour for the depot and in a very few minutes the fire was out with but little damage done except a few shingles burned off. The fire originated from a spark from the engine. Joe Parker came out this Saturday morning and said that danger would be overcome in a short time as the company intend to use crude oil instead of wood for fuel in the near future.
    Thursday night there was a company of what claimed to be Mexican Gypsies gave a rope exhibition at the opera house but I have not heard anyone say that they were there, so concluded that is was slimly attended. They had been camped for a day or two telling "fortunes" for some of our inquisitive citizens and I understand that they relieved them of several dollars. Friday morning our mayor went to their camp and told the men, there was one man and two women, that he had come to tell him goodbye, that he thought that they had better move camp and they did.
    Miss Ida Houston, who has been teaching in the Wellen district, has closed her school and took the E.P.-Persist stage for her home on Long Branch below Trail, Friday. Art Kent was with her in town when she took the stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. Perry Ashcraft and daughter motored out to the Sunnyside Friday for dinner and after dinner took a trip over towards Wellen and was unfortunate enough to break something about their auto and had to come to the Sunnyside and phone for repairs, but they came out all O.K. Mrs. Ashcraft has charge of the Studebaker garage of Medford and was using one of the "Studebaker Fours." While they were here we had Mr. and Mrs. John Conover and their daughter, Ray Parker of Butte Falls and P. M. Kershaw of the Oregon Granite Company and two strangers whose names I did not learn, for dinner.
    O. C. King of Medford was doing business with F. L. Heath Friday.
    The family of W. Hart Hamilton arrived Thursday and moved into the Van Scoy house.
    Milton Belcher and wife of Trail are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerlee at the old Eagle Hotel.
    H. B. Nye of Medford was out Friday to visit A. J. Florey and W. G. Knighten.
    George von der Hellen, wife, son Donald and nephew, Hugo von der Hellen, started to motor to Corvallis and Portland Saturday morning.
    Haying is well underway in these parts and everybody is busy.
    Mrs. Susan Hart was doing business in our town Friday.
    Rev. M. C. Davis will conduct a Sunday school picnic in the grove near Tolo Sunday, June 13. Exercises commence at 10:30 a.m. Picnic dinner.
    The lumber is being hauled to build a new barn on the A. Corbin place.
    O. E. Garner, a brother-in-law of the late A. H. Horton, formerly of Brownsboro, arrived at Eagle Point Saturday forenoon and went on up to Mrs. Hessler's where he expects to make his home for a while.
    Roland Hubbard and Ernest McKee came out and took dinner with us and so did Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wilson of Ashland. Mr. McKee and Mr. Hubbard came out to put up a wagon, hay rake and corn cultivator for W. Hart Hamilton.
    Since my last report C. Edgell and C. W. Clements have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune and Joe Moomaw, Geo. Brown and Gus Nichols of Brownsboro and H. P. Burleson of Lake Creek have renewed their subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Gus Nichols and wife were among the callers in our town Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 8, 1915, page 5


    Miss Mary Robertson of the Reese Creek school passed the eighth grade examination held last month.
    George Croft went to the valley Tuesday.
    Mrs. George Weeks went to Eagle Point Friday. Her sisters, Mrs. Hazel Sears and Miss Freda Leabo, have been her guests.
    F. Benson autoed out Tuesday evening after Mr. Sager to help him on his ranch.
    Mrs. Davis and daughter of Medford are the guests of the Slusser home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah were Central Point visitors the last of the week.
    John Fry returned from the valley Monday.
    Miss Eula Houston closed the spring term of school in the Long Branch district Friday.
    Steve Smith attended a birthday dinner at his sister's, Mrs. Abbott's, Sams Valley Sunday.
    Mr. Robertson and son, John, are in Eastern Oregon looking for a home to suit them.
    Charles Pettegrew started to school in the Reese Creek district the fall of 1910 and has been neither absent nor tardy during the five school years school in the district. He is 12 years old and has just completed the sixth grade.
    Charles Skyrman and wife went to the valley Monday. They will visit the Panama exposition for the next two weeks.
    Ben Pettegrew was recently married at Yreka, California. Mrs. Pettegrew came here from Los Angeles. We extend to them a welcome and wish them a happy journey through life.
    Misses Janie, Polly and Hattie Johnson are visiting in Central Point.
    The farmers seem to have difficulty in selling their fat goats, as people are prejudiced against them. The goat lives the same as the deer, and the deer is considered a delicacy.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 9, 1915, page 5


    John Owens and family motored over to Eagle Point last Saturday evening and visited a while with Mrs. Howlett and family, and while they were here William Perry of Butte Falls rode up with his family in their new Ford and spent a while in a social way.
    Mrs. J. B. Jackson and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Carl Jackson, came in and spent the evening, and about the same time Louis Smith, one of our regular boarders, came in with his best girl, Miss Lorine Grigsby, so we had a very social time together. Perhaps one reason of the arrival of so many from a distance was the word that had been given out that the ladies of Eagle Point were going to give a May dance that night, although it seemed a little strange that they should give a May dance on the 5th of June, but nevertheless they gave a dance, and the ladies were to have full control of the whole affair, and it was given out that if anyone of the male variety should walk across the floor or do any other unbecoming act they would be required to pay a fine of two cents. Well, they had the dance and report that they had a good time, and there was but very few, if any, of the "he" class that misbehaved in any way, and judging from the time the people came in to go to bed they must have enjoyed themselves very much. The next morning there was quite a number of the young men and some young ladies were a little slow in getting ready for breakfast.
    Among the lodgers who arrived on Saturday night were Will Holmes and Harris Geppert of Butte Falls and Ray Parker, also from Butte Falls, but he had been over to Medford and just returned. Henry Trusty and his sister, Miss Mae, were here for supper Saturday night also.
    Miss Hazel McClelland and Miss Louisa Blaess, who started some two weeks ago for San Francisco to visit the Panama exposition, have returned. Miss Blaess went to Rogue River to visit friends and Miss Hazel returned to the Sunnyside and assumed the duties of the hello girl in the Eagle Point telephone office.
    Sunday was surely a busy day at the Sunnyside, for a little after 11 a.m. the guests began to arrive, and among the arrivals were: Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Brown and daughter, Miss Helen, Mrs. W. D. Allen, Miss Alene and Master Lee Reagan Allen of Medford, E. E. Emery and C. A. Bell, engineers for Ashland springs; Bert R. Greer, chairman of the water commission, Ashland, and editor of the Ashland Tidings; Mrs. Greer and daughters, Lidion and Elbert, and Miss Mae Cornitius of Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Harding and Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Gallager of Gold Hill. Mr. Harding has been teaching in Gold Hill the past season and is now engaged as principal of the Rogue River school, and Mrs. Gallager is one of the Medford teachers. They were out for a good time and a good dinner, and had them both.
    As I had an engagement to go to Reese Creek Sunday afternoon I did not have time to gather the names of all the guests at the Sunnyside who were there for dinner, so I ate a lunch in the kitchen and left while the first table was eating, and when I returned from Reese Creek inquired how many there were for dinner. Some said sixty, but Hattie said that while the first table was eating there were twenty-two at that table, and someone said there were fourteen more in the waiting room, but they kept coming in so that it was hard to even approximate. Late in the afternoon someone asked Mrs. Howlett if they had not eaten everything she had cooked, and she replied, "No, I have enough left for supper." And there were twenty-five for supper. Eagle Point is getting to be quite a resort for pleasure seekers.
    The carpenters are busy now, Mr. Wamsley is putting up a woodshed for one of our merchants, Mr. Heath and John Smith are putting up a house for a man on Antelope, I have forgotten the name, and the lumber is being hauled to rebuild the A. Corbin barns, and everybody else is busy haying, cultivating corn, etc., and consequently news is very scarce.
    Miss Marie Newstrom of Lake Creek, who has been working in Medford for some time past, came out on the P.&E. Tuesday, and so did Charles Hoefft, Sr., and E. B. Edwards from Fort George, Can. Mr. Edwards and Miss Marie took the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for the upper country.
    Rev. W. E. Smith, the Sunday school missionary, who is traveling in the interest of the American Sunday School Union, spent Sunday night with us.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carey of Talent are here, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Knighten.
    C. E. Johnson, who has just closed a school at Table Rock, is a guest at the Sunnyside again.
    George W. Daley, one of our merchants, has gone to the Big Butte country to look after his interests in that section.
    Mr. Sears and Mr. Wheeler of Butte Falls passed through here on Tuesday morning on their way home.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 10, 1915, page 5


    Dave Pence, the boss road builder of Elk Creek, and Ed Houston of Long Branch were here for dinner last Tuesday.
    I see that Mr. Zimmerlee, the proprietor of the old Eagle Hotel, has changed the name of the hostelry to Farmer's Hotel, and has a new sign erected over the walk in front of the house.
    Earl Croft, foreman on the J. H. Cooley place, was in town Tuesday and reports that he has some as fine growing wheat on the place as can be found anywhere in the valley, that it will cut over two tons of hay to the acre, and that he has a fine crop of peaches also this year.
    Frank L. Johnson, who owns one of the best farms on Rogue River, was in town also Tuesday with his three daughters, Mary, Jennie and Hattie. They all three went to Medford to visit friends and relatives and Hattie remained to visit her cousin, Mrs. Belle Daley. While Mr. Johnson was in Eagle Point he gave me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. Thomas and Miss Lenore McIntyre, aunt and cousin of the cashier of the Eagle Point State Bank, J. V. McIntyre, of Illinois, is here visiting her nephew and family.
    J. M. Wilfley and wife were in town on business last Wednesday and report that the crop of wild oats on their place is simply fine, tall and thick, in fact Mr. W. has one of the best sticky farms and orchards in the country.
    Jeff Conover has brought a lot of wool for the Brown Bros. since my last report, and this reminds me that Robert R. Minter has just sheared his sheep and has about six thousand pounds of wool that he has sold to a firm in Salem. And he has an ad in this issue of the Daily Mail Tribune offering for sale five hundred head of sheep.
    Mrs. Wm. Butler was doing business with our merchants Wednesday.
    Edison Hurd of Butte Falls was with us on Wednesday.
    Miss Grace Conley came out from Medford the same day to visit friends.
    Our county court is having the Antelope bridge repaired, putting in concrete abutments.
    Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush was in town Wednesday rustling a man to work the Corbin orchard, and Charles Pruett was in town the same day.
    Joe Smith, the county road boss, and Ed Dutton, the boss road builder, were here on road business last Wednesday.
    Mrs. Marguerite Simpson, nee Miss Florey, came out from Talent Thursday to visit her parents here.
    E. A. Taft of Seattle, Wash., took dinner here Thursday. He is traveling in the interest of the Fisher Flour Mill Company of Seattle.
    W. E. Buchanan, formerly principal of our school but now of Ashland, came up Thursday on business, returning the same day.
    Carl Ringer, one of the railroad men, met with a little accident a few days ago and while recuperating is staying in his old room at the Sunnyside.
    Thomas Farlow and family, and brother and sister-in-law, Mrs. E. O. Nichols, motored out from Medford Thursday evening and went on up to his home on the north fork of Little Butte Creek. He has bought himself a large seven-passenger car so as to take all his family and some friends of his at once.
    Get ready to attend the school meeting.
    Mr. Avery Trask of Ashland came up in his car and the last time I saw him he had three nice-looking ladies in his car with him.
    Miss Dottie Stowell, John Winningham and R. E. Lally of Roseburg came out on the P.&E. Thursday and Mr. W. went on up to his home on Elk Creek. C. E. Johnson also went to Derby the same day, returning that afternoon. Mr. Lally spent the night here. He is a tobacco salesman for a San Francisco firm.
    Charles Manning of Derby came out and spent the night with us.
    George Hall of Prospect, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Trusty and Dr. Kirchgessner came out from Medford Friday morning on the Harnish auto stage with the mail.
    The remodeled motor car that the P.&E. railroad is putting on the railroad to carry the mail and passengers the days that the train don't run made her trial trip Thursday and the company expect to have it make regular trips out here but have not given out their plans yet.
    Lemon Charley, wife, son and daughter motored out from their home above Brownsboro Friday morning, secured a fresh supply of gasoline of von der Hellen Bros. and went on to Medford.
    Mrs. Joe Riley and her daughter, Mrs. Cardwell, were doing business with George Brown & Sons Friday.
    S. Berquist and wife, who own a farm on Rogue River west of town, were also here Friday.
    J. F. Lewis of Flounce Rock passed through town Friday.
    I understand that a brother of Mrs. R. A. Whitman, wife of the foreman on the W. Hart Hamilton ranch, has come on but I have not learned his name.
    While on my rounds Friday I met Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Tadwick, foreman on the Fred Pelouze ranch, in Heath's store.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 14, 1915, page 5


    Mike Sidley, who lives on the fine Sidley farm about twelve miles above here, near the Lake Creek post office, came in from home last Saturday morning for breakfast.
    Born--June 6, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pool, a seven and a half pound boy. The grandfather, Wert Pool, was in town last Saturday telling the news.
    Saturday afternoon Professor C. E. Johnson and your Eagle Point correspondent started in a buggy for the home of E. H. Davis of Tolo, to be on hand to take part in a Sunday school picnic in a beautiful grove near the Tolo school house. After driving about ten miles, the most of the way across the vast stretch of prairie land known as the desert, we began to reach the fine farms along the banks of Rogue River and Bear Creek, and after driving over the dry and almost unproductive tract of desert land our eyes were greeted with great fields of growing grain and shocks of hay so close together that one had to be careful in hauling the hay not to run over them with the wheels of the wagon, and the buildings were so neatly arranged as to make one feel glad that they lived in Southern Oregon. But that was not what I started to tell, for everybody knows that Rogue River Valley is noted for its productiveness, especially of its hay and grain, when the land is sowed in grain. But I started to tell about the Sunday school reunion and dinner, etc. Well, on Sunday morning we started about 10 o'clock for the picnic ground and found that quite a number had already arrived and some were still coming. But there was a feeling of disappointment with all of us on account of a telegram that I received from Rev. M. C. Davis announcing the news that he was called to Portland on account of one of his boys being sick and could not be with us, and the intelligence of the sickness of his son caused a feeling of sadness to prevail on the entire audience, and that, added to his absence, was truly a great disappointment, but finally the most of those who were expected arrived and we began to formulate plans for the exercises, when the following program was arranged: Song, "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder," and prayer by A. C. Howlett; song by the Tolo school, "What Shall We Children Bring?"; recitation by Nellie Eldridge of Table Rock; song by Table Rock Sunday school; recitation, Alice Seabrook; "Welcome to June," by six girls, a dialogue; recitation by Tolo, "Children's Hour"; recitation by Lloyd Caton, "T.R."; solo by Myrtle Byrum; recitation by Rose Nealon; solo, "Sleep Little Baby, Sleep," by a little girl, Tolo (name not on program); recitation, "Baby," Glen, Tolo; song by Table Rock primary; reading by Professor Johnson; recitation by Clarence Eldridge; recitation by Katherine Nealon, and song by Table Rock school. Then I announced that a collection would be taken up for the Sunday school cause and called on Miss Katherine Nealon and Miss Stickel to "pass the hat," with the result that they collected $6.09. Then dinner was announced, and of all the picnic dinners I have ever attended that one took the prize for quantity and quality, for it seemed as though each householder tried to outdo his or her neighbor in that line, and then to make bad matters worse, your Table Rock correspondent challenged me to see which could eat the most, and he knew that I had to preach that afternoon, but he ate enough for any three, and I about concluded that he had been fasting for a day or two for the occasion, but I gave up as soon as I saw him fill his plate the first time. Well, we had a sumptuous dinner and after spending an hour or two in a social way we reassembled at the stand and had a very interesting talk from Professor C. E. Johnson and then a short sermon by your correspondent when we were dismissed, but even then it seemed as though the people were loath to leave the grove. At the close of the meeting it was announced that the Arrowhead Society of Table Rock would give a musical entertainment at the Table Rock school house on Saturday evening, June 26, and charge a small admission fee to raise funds to finish paying for a piano they had purchased for the use of the school, etc., and if the lovers of music will attend I will vouch for it they will be well entertained.
    On arriving home at 6 o'clock p.m., I learned that the Talent ball team had come up here and were so badly beaten that the four young men and two ladies whom I met at the Sunnyside refused to give me their names, for they did not want anyone to know they were there, they said. They were in a Ford, No. 6367. [sic--In 1922 a number 66367 was registered to E. H. Tucker of Brownsboro.] The game stood 4 to 13 in favor of Eagle Point. When I inquired of Mrs. Howlett who was here for dinner Sunday she said she didn't know, but that there were about thirty beside home folks.
    Among the arrivals Sunday night were E. A. Hildreth and wife of Butte Falls.
    D. B. Dunkin of Busking [Banning?], Cal., came out on the Harnish auto and took the Eagle Point-Persist stage for Elk Creek to visit an old friend, John Mill, in that section.
    Brown Bros. shipped between 5000 and 6000 pounds of wool for R. R. Minter since my last report.
    Rufus Trusty, who went up on the stage to Elk Creek last Friday, returned Monday, as he was called to his place at Hilt as engineer at the mill.
    Since my last report George Austin of Wellen has renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune and F. F. Newport, our railroad agent, has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    H. C. Barker, the foreman on the R. H. Toft ranch, just above Brownsboro, came down and took up a load of lumber from Eagle Point lumber yard Monday.
    Woodford Harrison, a son of the manager of the Eagle Point lumber yard, is out here with his father during his vacation.
    Mr. Matthews and Mr. McKee of Butte Falls brought each a load of posts for the Eagle Point Lumber Company Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walter Henderson were doing business with Roy Ashpole Monday.
    F. J. Ayres and wife are going to enjoy life in their latter days. They have bought a Ford, I am informed, although it may be a mistake again this time, and I understand that John Tyrrell of Lake Creek has also bought a Ford.
    Dr. Holt reports that the stork has again visited the home of Dave Pence on Elk Creek and brought another girl the 12th.
    T. Shattuck was with us Monday night and Tuesday. He is selling a home-made cement.
    Mrs. Mary Terrill of Brownsboro, Miss Vera Kershaw of Climax, Paul Bast of Portland, representing the Niehoff Shoe Co.; George E. Johnson, manager of the P.&E. railway, and a friend of his, and W. H. Wamsley, who is doing wood work in the Childreth blacksmith shop, and Mrs. Charles Bacon and two boys were at the Sunnyside Tuesday for dinner. We regret to say that owing to the change in the management of the business of the P.&E. railway, Mr. Bacon has had to move to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1915, page 5


    Roadmaster Smith was up the river last week.
    Dr. Holt reports the arrival of a seven-pound daughter at the home of Dave Pence, June 12. Dave and the little miss are both doing fine.
    Elmer Simmons and sister are visiting their grandfather, John Walker.
    Sanford, Eula and Ida Houston were at Beagle Saturday.
    Mrs. W. T. Houston and Frank and Doris went to the valley a few days ago.
    Mr. and Mrs. Slusser, John Howard, Peter Betz and Chris Bergman called at Harry Howard's Sunday.
    Mrs. Walter Bergman and children arrived Monday evening from Irving and are the guests of the Clarno families.
    Hildreth and Mabel Foster spent Tuesday with Margaret Howard.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Clarno killed two rattlesnakes a few days ago.
    Lloyd French went to the Tex ranch Tuesday to work during haying.
    Alex Vestal and Wilfred Jacks and family spent Sunday at the Bellows home.
    The government truck and two large autos passed up the river Saturday.
    Among those on the river Sunday were the Robertson and Minter families and Tom Jones and family.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1915, page 5


    Della Nichols and her mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, called on Mrs. Howlett Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Kind of McCormack, Washington, came out on the P.&E. Tuesday and took a room at the Sunnyside and remained until Friday morning, taking passage on [a] Ford with L. H. Ossman to Portland. Mr. Kind had traded for a ten-acre tract of land on the Stoddard, the old John Williscroft tract known as the Eagle Heights that he had never seen so they concluded to come out and see it. While they were here they took a walk around our town and when they came back to the hotel he asked if this was an incorporated town and on answering in the affirmative, remarked "Why don't the authorities keep the walks open? Why, the weeds and grass have almost taken the town and the foxtail and horehound is a fright," at the same time picking the seeds out of his clothes. And it is a fact that if one should pass along the main street with a worsted suit on it would almost ruin it. But what is everybody's business is nobody's business so we have to put up with it.
    Mr. Cobleigh and his son, William, who live on Big Butte, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Frank Smith, Wm. Nickell and family and N. W. Slusser of Trail were here for dinner Wednesday. Mr. Slusser is alternating with Mr. Whitman in the barber business and while on his way down from his home lost his hair clippers on the road.
    Miss Frances Heath, daughter of one of our merchants, has returned from Eugene where she has been attending the state university.
    Last Wednesday was quite a busy day with Mr. Harnish as he had to make four trips to Medford that day. He put an ad in the Mail Tribune for his auto service and the result is that he is kept busy a good part of the time and he has given me another ad to put in for the rest of this month and until the middle of July. Read it.
    Miss Louisa Blaess, who went to San Francisco to the fair, has returned to our town again.
    J. P. Hughes of Butte Falls, who has been out to Medford on business, came out Wednesday evening and spent the night with us.
    There were about twenty-five men passed through here the first of the week on their way to work on the Fish Lake district road.
    Senator von der Hellen was in complaining about the poor mail service we have had since the Pacific & Eastern have changed their schedule. Now we have the regular train but three times a week and that leaves us with no Sunday mail and the result is that we don't receive the Mail Tribune until the next day after it is published, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and on Monday we get the Morning Sun, the Saturday and Sunday Journal, Evening Telegram, Sunday Oregonian, etc., so the news in most of the papers is old by the time we can read it. And when you take into the account that this is the distributing office for Trail, Persist, Derby, Prospect, Butte Falls, Brownsboro, Lake Creek, Wellen and Climax the reader will see that a very large number of the taxpayers are wronged by the change, not that I will be understood as censuring the Pacific & Eastern railroad company, but think that we have claims on the U.S. government for better service in that respect.
    Walter Painter and G. W. Denny took a stroll up the Big Butte to spend a few days fishing.
    F. J. Ayres, one of our prosperous farmers and stock raisers, passed through here Thursday with his new Ford. He had with him his two daughters, Mrs. F. T. Newport, Mrs. Roy Smith and his little granddaughter, Miss Lucile Newport. He got so mad over having it reported that he had bought a Ford that he decided to buy one and get in good humor.
    M. C. Colliston, the local agent for Puritan Tailors of Chicago, was out Wednesday soliciting and took dinner with us.
    E. L. Radcliffe of Griffin Creek came out with his family on the P.&E. Thursday and were met by Mrs. C. C. Tadwick and went on up to the Pelouze farm where Mr. Tadwick [omission].
    The friends of Frank Caster gave him and his family a farewell party last Wednesday night. They expect to go to Washington to live.
    J. H. Gustin of Medford was out on business connected with his farm just above here Thursday.
    H. D. McDonald of Trail passed through here Friday morning on his way to Medford.
    Mrs. Stevens of Ashland motored up here Thursday and brought three of Mrs. Leabo's grandchildren, the Misses Alda and Zelda and James Herr of Ashland to visit their grandmother.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 22, 1915, page 5


    Jerry Bellows took the P.&E. on Thursday for his home in Medford.
    Mrs. Jack Houston and daughter, Miss Ida, and Arnice Holton spent Tuesday at the William Coffeen home.
    Mrs. Frances Stowell was the guest of Mrs. Henry French Tuesday.
    Mrs. Blaess went to Medford on Thursday to have some dental work done.
    Joseph Hannah was the guest of his son, Jasper, and family Thursday.
    The Lewis sheep passed en route for the mountains Friday.
    Jasper Hannah and Alec Raimey took their cattle to the Umpqua divide, on the head of Trail, the first of the week.
    Miss Dessie Hannah is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. T. Daily of Medford.
    A little daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Piele June 12 at the Dow hospital in Central Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Harry Howard were Central Point visitors Tuesday.
    Nearly one hundred friends of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caster gave them a surprise party last Thursday evening. The time was spent in games and a jolly good time. Refreshments of popcorn and candy were served.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Skyrman returned from the Panama exposition Sunday. They enjoyed the fair very much.
    School election was held Monday afternoon. In the Long Branch district Mrs. Kregor was elected clerk and Jack Houston and Mr. Kregor directors; central district, Clarence Middlebusher and Will Houston, directors, and Mrs. Piele clerk; Debenger Gap district, George Fry director and Edward Foster clerk; Reese Creek district, F. Ayres director and Fred Pettegrew clerk; Laurel district, Bert Clarno director and Jettie Clarno clerk.
    The Laurel district hired C. E. Johnson for six months school.
    Trail and adjoining district voted on a union high school. It was reported to have carried in all districts but Trail.
    Mrs. Walter Bergman went to Tolo Tuesday to visit her parents, J. Watkins and family.
    Chris Bergman went to Central Point Tuesday.
    Harry Howard sold a small bunch of goats to Chris Bergman.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 23, 1915, page 3


    Last Friday night William Haselton gave a party to a few of his friends at the parental home. There were about fifteen or twenty young people invited and the report comes to me from those in attendance that they had a very enjoyable time. Light refreshments were served and it was with great reluctance that they began to separate about midnight.
    Mrs. Royal G. Brown is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles Rippy, in Portland.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. A Gammill of Medford; H. V. Harlan of the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.; Barthold Barnum of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Willison and two daughters; Mrs. S. S. Drake and Miss Viletta Willison of Ashland were among the callers Saturday for dinner.
    William Butler and wife were doing business with our merchants Saturday.
    John Conover, a young man, started for Montana last Saturday. He was accompanied by his sister, Miss Ruby, as far as the depot. He expects to remain in Montana during the summer.
    Mrs. E. L. Redpath of Griffin Creek, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Tedrick, on the Pelouze place, returned home Saturday.
    Mrs. J. L. Harrison and her daughter, Miss Margueretta, of Medford, are out here visiting Mrs. H.'s husband, the agent for the Eagle Point Lumber Co.
    Dr. Holt reports that David Swihart has been visited again by the stork, and the result is a son added to the family.
    Marsh Garrett and wife of Lake Creek motored through here Saturday on their way to Medford.
    Thomas Cingcade has brought in a small lot of wool for George Brown & Sons since my last report.
    Alex. Betz was a business caller Saturday.
    A. G. Bishop, who has a fine orchard on Rogue River, was doing business with F. L. Heath Saturday, and Harvey Stanley brought in a lot of eggs the same day for Mr. Heath.
    R. A. Petty and Jed Edsall ate an early dinner at the Sunnyside Sunday and went in S. H. Harnish's auto to Medford to see the ball game.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Sullivan, the superintendent of the Fish Lake Ditch Company, were here also Sunday for dinner. They had been up to the intake of the ditch and returned this far on the way home. Mr. S. says that they are preparing a road so that they can haul the material to construct a dam at the outlet of Fish Lake. The present structure will be about twenty feet high and so arranged as to be the foundation for a still higher dam. They are planning to have Fish Lake as a large reservoir to hold water enough to supply the valley with all the water that will be needed. We also had for guests Sunday Wilbur Beeson of Talent, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. James and son, H. L. Noblit and wife of Medford, Porter J. Neff, wife and son, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, W. P. Mealey of Minneapolis, William Haselton, Guy Bishop, Glen Haley, William von der Hellen and several others whose names I did not secure.
    Mr. Lydiard of Table Rock and wife called in the afternoon to talk with C. E. Johnson over the phone, who had taught the Table Rock school, but the principal reason of their coming to Eagle Point was to see the ball game between the Eagle Point and Table Rock teams, which resulted in the Eagle Point team coming out ahead, the score standing 4 to 8 in favor of Eagle Point.
    Monday we held our regular annual school meeting. There were quite a number of the voters turned out and some who were not voters, as under the new school law, as interpreted by the chairman, no one can vote or hold an office in the school district unless their name is enrolled on the assessor's book as a bona fide taxpayer. The question arose when the name of Mrs. L. K. Haak was presented as a candidate for director for one year, and it was found that her name was not on the list, although her husband is among the heavy taxpayers of the county, but the matter was settled by having the deputy assessor agree to assess her, so she was elected by the clerk casting the vote of the house for her, and Fred Pelouze was re-elected as director for three years, and J. V. McIntyre re-elected clerk in the same manner. The meeting decided to employ another teacher, the fourth, and have the high school grades taught. Under the revised school law we have to wait until we know how much money we are to have at our disposal and then the school board will make up the budget and that has to be published for thirty days and then a special school meeting will have to be called so that the people can vote on it. And so it goes--more red tape.
    Miss Mae Trusty of Elk Creek came out Saturday and stayed with her brother, Henry, until Tuesday, and then went up to visit a few days with Miss Jessie Minter.
    Dave Pence came out Tuesday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went into Medford with Robbie Harnish. Mrs. William Beale also went at the same time. Since Mr. Harnish has advertised in the Mail Tribune that he is going to make regular trips to Medford and back, he has about all that he can do with one car.
    N. S. Bennett, the Eden Valley Nursery man, came out to the Sunnyside for breakfast Tuesday morning. His daughter accompanied him. They came out to meet his mother-in-law, Mrs. Chapman, who came out from Lake Creek with Herman Meyers in his auto.
    Mrs. Charles Bacon and her two little boys came out Tuesday morning on the P.&E. train, but the train was so late, 12:25 p.m., that she had to hurry to the Sunnyside for dinner, but she got there all O.K.
    Since my last W. H. Crandall has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    The farmers up Little Butte Creek and in the Lake Creek country are bringing in a quantity of cream now for shipment.
    Norman McQuoid has rented and refitted the Nichols ice plant and is making a good quantity of ice.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 24, 1915, page 5


    George Stannard of Ashland, who is interested in supplying the schools of the county with the general necessities of the schoolroom, spent two nights with us since my last.
    Horace Addis, field editor of the Rural Spirit, an agricultural weekly of Portland, spent Wednesday night with us.
    Art Nichols has moved his household goods, I understand, to Eastern Oregon, and his family will follow later.
    Mike Sidley of Lake Creek was out last Wednesday after a load of pipe. He is going to install a water system and bring water from a large spring down to the house and barn so as to have everything convenient in that line. Those people up in the Lake Creek and Upper Butte Creek country are a wide-awake set and believe in having things up to date.
    Mrs. Charles Skeeters and daughter, Miss Marjorie, came out Wednesday and spent the night at the Sunnyside with her husband. Mr. Skeeters is in charge of the county road roller that is in operation on the road between here and Brownsboro, and his wife and daughter came out to visit him and see the country, as this is the first time they were ever out in our town, and I am authorized to say that she is very much pleased with our surroundings.
    Royal Cowgill, chief engineer for the Fish Lake Ditch Co., and K. Benson stopped here for dinner Thursday on their way up to the camp at the intake of the ditch, where they have a gang of men at work repairing the road between the intake and Fish Lake so as to be able to haul the material up to make the big dam to form a reservoir. It is a big undertaking, but that company laughs at big undertakings and goes right along and does what it undertakes.
    George von der Hellen, wife, son and nephew returned from their visit to Corvallis and Portland the first of the week.
    Last Thursday Professor W. O. Wheeler and wife, Mrs. J. B. Robison of Talent and Miss Orpha Fox of Sacramento City, Cal., motored out to inspect the home belonging to P. H. Daily, that Professor Wheeler and wife expect to occupy during the coming school term. Professor Wheeler has been employed as principal of our school, and they were out to inspect the place. Since the school meeting decided to have four teachers and have the high school grades taught and will have to employ the fourth teacher, the probabilities are that the board will employ Mrs. Wheeler to fill the place.
    Charles S. Wilson of Grants Pass, A. D. Wooding of Cottage Grove, E. Steinwalt and E. A. Hamlinton of Roseburg passed through here Thursday on their bicycles on their way to Crater Lake. They had been to the Josephine County caves and explored them and report that the sights are doubly worth the trouble and expense of the trip. They were prepared to camp, had their camp outfit, grub and bedding with them and are out for a good time and are bent on having it.
    Since my last report, E. Hurd, our town electrician; L. K. Haak, one of our leading orchardists, and J. M. Wilfley have paid their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune, and I regret to say that Mr. Wilfley and wife have been called, on account of business, to Salt Lake City and consequently ordered their paper discontinued. Mr. W. said that he did not know how they would get along without the Eaglets for breakfast, dinner and supper, but did not think it best to have the Mail Tribune sent to Salt Lake City for so short a time, as they expect to return in August.
    I started out last Friday to see what I could do in the way of collecting and soliciting for the Mail Tribune, but found that everybody was busy and the most of the men at work out in the field, and that ready cash was, with some of them at least, a thing of the past. But I saw some as fine-looking grain and garden truck as anyone would wish to see. The wheat and oats in most places seemed to be both tall and thick. I stopped to see my old friend, Fred Pelouze, and found him out in his alfalfa field irrigating his land, and his prospect of a bumper crop of hay is fine. I next called to see Wm. Butler and found that he was about a half mile from the house cutting hay, and while at the house Mrs. Butler showed me some oats that Mr. B. had pulled up and brought to the house that was about six feet long and well filled that was raised on his upland. Passing on up the creek I passed several places where the grain showed the richness of the soil, as it seemed to be at least six feet tall and where some of it had been cut for hay the shocks were large and thick on the ground. I could not but notice what a fine job the road workers have done on the road between here and the Corbin bridge, and by the time that Ed Dutton gets through with it the road will be equal to any of our city streets, unless they are hard surfaced, and the way the county court is making our roads it will not be long before the farmers can bring in a full load of the farm products. Let us have good roads and good schools and the country will soon be settled up with progressive farmers.
    Among the many improvements made along the route one of the most important is the putting in of a culvert in the stream in front of the Pelouze home, so that in the winter the horses will not have to break the ice to pass the place. The road boss has opened up a way so that the travel can still cross the water, but in the cold weather they don't have to.
    When the county court agreed to make that piece of road two men, Frank Brown and F. Pelouze, agreed to haul 500 yards of the crushed rock to put on the road, and Chris Natwick has agreed to finish the part yet to haul by the two men, so that is secured.
    Mr. McPherson of Portland, a son-in-law of Thomas E. Nichols, has moved onto a farm just northeast of our town.
    Gus Gorman, the foreman on the Laidlaw orchard, was in town Saturday and reports that he will have a fair crop of apples this year, considering that this has been a poor year for apples.
    J. M. Wilfley has left his orchard in charge of Wilfred Jacks.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 29, 1915, page 5


    John Warner bought a new mower recently.
    Bird Johnston and Norman Gage have returned from a business trip to Portland. They bought a small saw mill while there.
    Ralph Dean and family of Willow Springs picnicked on the river Sunday.
    Among those who were in Eagle Point were Jasper Hannah, E. B. Raimey, Mrs. E. E. Bellows, T. C. McCabe. Jesse Ragsdale and family spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Jane Ragsdale of Beagle.
    At least twenty-five friends gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Jacks' and surprised them Saturday evening. A grand good time was had by all.
    On account of the dry weather the squirrels have begun to eat the gardens.
    Steve Smith and Edward Foster went to Medford Sunday. Edward Foster went to Jacksonville Monday to serve on the petit jury.
    Mrs. Lee Vincent visited her sister, Mrs. Middlebusher, one night this week.
    Miss Myra Hannah is the guest of Miss Fern Daily of Medford.
    Mrs. P. H. Daily and Marjory and Orris [omission] of Medford are camped at the Daily cabin.
    Among the Central Point visitors were Mrs. T. Raimey, Misses Ora Raimey and Velma Hannah, Henry Morgan and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Belcher, Perry Foster, Henry Morgan and Larry Howard and wives started for Fort Klamath Saturday. The Morgans have leased a farm for five years and will make their home there and the Howards will spent the summer at the Pelton ranch.
    Lloyd French returned from Medford Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 30, 1915, page 5


    Last Saturday night Professor C. E. Johnson and your correspondent hitched old Babe to the buggy and started at 7 o'clock for the Table Rock school house to attend a social entertainment that was to be given for the purpose of raising money to pay the balance of the piano that the Arrowhead Society purchased for the general use of the school, church and society, and on reaching there found quite a number had already arrived, but when the manager came to count noses and found that there were two of the principal members who were to take part in the exercise were not present so they decided to have an entertainment at any rate and have it.? So at 9:15 p.m. the president of the society, Emmett Nealon, called the house to order and we were entertained with a nice program, consisting of music, both vocal and instrumental, three pieces on the violin and the others on the piano and reading and recitations, etc., for an hour or more, after which adjournment was announced. The president then called the society to order, when they transacted some business, appointing a committee of the program for the next meeting, imposing fines upon the members who did not come up to the requirements of the constitution and by-laws, and remitting the fines, etc., after which we adjourned and then we visited for twenty or thirty minutes and finally started for home, reaching the Sunnyside at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. For me to say that we had a fine time would not convey fully the whole truth, for if anyone wants to have a genuine good time in a literary or social way all that they have to do is to go to Table Rock and attend one of their literary entertainments.
    Sunday morning broke on us bright and clear and bid fair to be one of the bright days of Eagle Point, but just after an early breakfast the whizz of the autos began to be in evidence and by 7:30 a.m. seven autos, loaded down to the guards, dashed out of town for Hornbrook to witness the ball game between the Medford and Hornbrook teams, and to see the Pacific Highway through the Siskiyou Mountains, and since then you can hardly hear anything else except about the scenic beauties of the route and the splendid road we have over the route. The first man that I asked about the trip was Royal G. Brown, one of our merchants, and his idea is that the English language is inadequate to tell of all the beauties along the route and the prettiness of the Pacific Highway, as far as it is completed. The next man to tell of the trip was Fred L. Heath, another one of our merchants, and he says that so far as the road is concerned he does not begrudge his part of the tax to make such a road, and so far as the scenery is concerned that we do not have to go to Yellowstone park or the Alps of Switzerland for beautiful scenery, but simply take a trip slowly over that road and you will see enough to satisfy the most fastidious. And then comes F. T. Boltz, and his idea is that the half has not been told. The members of the party were: J. Frank Brown and wife, Fred Pelouze and wife, J. V. McIntyre and wife, W. C. Clements and wife, George von der Hellen and wife, I. L. Bradshaw and family, Lem Charley and family, S. B. Holmes and wife, L. C. Narregan and wife, Royal G. Brown, daughter Miss Hazel, and niece Miss Allison Officer, William Brown, Dr. W. P. Holt and wife, F. L. Heath and wife, and T. F. Boltz. Those with whom I have talked all feel that they were well paid for the trouble and expense they endured on the trip.
    H. C. Stock and wife came over from Ashland Monday with their large auto hearse and brought some small caskets for his agent, Fred L. Heath, and also made the arrangements with Mr. Heath so that anyone buying a casket can have the free use of the auto hearse to carry the corpse to the cemetery. It was as nice a one as I have seen for a long time.--Adv.
    Professor C. E. Johnson went to Jacksonville to take the examination on some of the higher branches and prepare for his life's work as a teacher Tuesday.
    Among the incidents that took place last Saturday that I failed to mention in the proper order was that William von der Hellen and family and E. Hurd and family motored to Prospect and attended a dance in that neighborhood, returning Sunday evening and taking supper at the Sunnyside.
    And another incident was that our mayor, John M. Nichols, has treated himself to a 1915 Ford.
    Another incident was that the Misses Mildred and Jennie Hamlinton and their brother, Sherwin, children of W. Hart Hamilton, who moved his family from San Jose, Cal., and Miss Hazel Brown, Miss Allison Officer, Fred Heath and his sister, Miss Frances, and Gene Narregan had a regular picnic supper by moonlight on the banks of our beautiful Little Butte Creek one night last week.
    The people of Little Butte expect to meet at the picnic grove just above Brownsville and join in celebrating the national birthday.
    And the people along Rogue River between here and the free ferry are to meet at the same time at the Veighte farm on Rogue River for a picnic dinner.
    Fred L. Heath shipped in the first watermelons of the season Tuesday.
    P. Cowgill brought in a lot of loganberries and blackberries Monday for the Eagle Point market, dispensing of them without any trouble.
    There will be quite a number of our citizens go to Medford on the 3rd to join in celebrating our great national day. I heard Sam Harnish remark this (Wednesday) morning that he had to make two trips to Medford with his car Saturday morning, and I think from what I can learn that the most of the cars will be pressed into service on that day.
    Since my last report R. R. Minter renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and S. H. Harnish has paid $3 for an auto service ad and F. L. Heath has paid $1 for an ad in Eaglets.
    R. R. Minter made a business trip to Medford Tuesday, returning on the motor car Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 1, 1915, page 5


    E. M. Ward and wife of Salem passed through Eagle Point last Monday. Mr. Ward was canvassing for an agricultural paper and giving out a pair of spectacles as a premium. He seemed to be meeting with considerable success.
    Larkin Reynolds of Medford, who secured the contract for building a barn for A. Corbin, was in town Tuesday of last week procuring some of the hardware fixtures to finish up the barn. He said that they had it about completed, except hanging the doors, etc. He procured the hardware for von der Hellen Hardware Company.
    William Butler, one of our progressive farmers, was cutting grain for S. H. Harnish last week. He broke the reel of his binder and had to come to town and have it fixed.
    A. S. Bliton, who used to be the brains of the Medford Mail before its consolidation with the Tribune, was in town on business last Tuesday.
    Judging from the amount of freight that is brought out on the Pacific & Eastern railroad, business must be brightening up some in these parts, for there was freight for Geo. Brown & Sons, Fred L. Heath, von der Hellen Hardware Co., Frank Lewis' confectionery, besides a lot of wire fencing and barbed wire for W. P. Morgan and J. A. Howard. Mr. Howard and Pete Betz came in Tuesday after the fencing material for Mr. Howard.
    A. J. and L. J. Gresham, who own a band of sheep and live near the divide between Little Butte Creek and Antelope Creek, brought in about four thousand pounds of their wool to Geo. Brown & Sons Tuesday and spent the night with us. They took back a load of salt with them and intended to bring in the remainder of the wool by this time. This is Saturday, July 3.
    Mrs. L. H. Deweese went in to Jacksonville to take the teachers' examination last Wednesday. She comes well recommended from her high school in Indiana but how she will succeed in our Oregon course of studies, with our Oregon school books and revised school laws, is a question, but we wish her success in her undertaking.
    The foregoing Eaglets are some that I had left over and gathered during the interval between the time when I last wrote and the time when I started on my trip to California last Thursday morning. Leaving Eagle Point about 8 o'clock a.m. in William Knighten's Ford in company with Mrs. A. N. Thomas, who had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Knighten for a few days, we motored to Central Point and Mr. Knighten left me at the Central Point hotel. Bidding them farewell, I soon was in a "jellie" on my way to Medford and was landed at the office of the Mail Tribune where I transacted a little business, and at 10:45 boarded an S.P. car for Vacaville, California, to visit my brother, arriving there Friday morning. After I left Medford we traveled along the same old route and through the same country as of old, but what a change. The first change that I noticed in particular was the road. The new Pacific Highway, it looked from the car's window like a broad streak of white marble, and with the beautiful farms and orchards on either side of the road I could not but feel proud of our beautiful Jackson County. We stopped at Ashland for twenty minutes for dinner but I was so busy about that time that I did not notice any great changes in my surroundings, and by the time I was through attending to the interests of the inner man the train was in motion again with three large locomotives in the lead wending our way toward the summit of the Siskiyou Range and in the course of time we reached it and began to descend into Siskiyou County, Cal., and for the first few miles the country was not very inviting, and I heard one man I was talking to remark that he would not give a hundred acres of land in Indiana for a whole section of that land, but as we began to reach Shasta Valley and see the thousands of acres of fine grain and alfalfa he changed his mind with regard to that country, for the shocks of alfalfa hay were so thick and large as to attract attention from the passerby, and in addition to the hay and grain there were hundreds of head of cattle that were being fed for beef and beside that I noticed two large herds of horses, and everything indicated that the owners of the farms were doing well financially. One thing that I particularly noticed was the absence of large orchards, but instead of orchards was hay and grain fields. And when I reflected that when I used to ride over that vast tract of land and hear the settlers in the surrounding foothills remark that this land was not worth entering at one and a quarter dollars an acre, I mentally remarked "What a change." Passing on, we soon came to the town of Elkwood, where in 1864 I used to preach in the Kavanaugh hotel and lay my Bible and hymn book on the center of the "bar" where the booze fighters used to drink until they could not stand, and gambling was carried on openly, but still with all of these surroundings the men seemed to appreciate the visitations of the minister of the gospel and in most instances would treat the minister with respect. Passing on we soon came to Weed, the junction of the S.P. main line and the Klamath Falls road, and there I was surprised to see so much life. There was a crowd of men and women and children coming and going and everyone seemed to be in a hurry to do something. I noticed one thing and that was a large load of beer barrels were unloaded there and that did not strike favorably quite a number of tourists that were on the S.P. car from Indiana, and my wearing the badge of the W.C.T.U. perhaps caused them to remark about the beer. Passing on, we passed Mount Shasta and had a fine view of it in all of its grandeur and one thing that seemed to me as about as grand was a large high butte that lies directly between the road and Mount S. There was something about it that particularly attracted my attention. I did not notice any great change in the towns since I went over the road in January, 1906, unless it is that some of the buildings began to look a little more seedy. Just as we had descended the long grade in the loop where we start down the Sacramento River proper we were simply held up on account of a wreck of a freight train. A car loaded with fruit box material simply broke in two in the middle and was so smashed up that it took the wrecker quite a while to remove the car after the contents had been removed, detaining us about three hours, so that I missed seeing some of the sights I wanted to see in my daylight ride over the route.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 8, 1915, page 2


    The last time that I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune I was giving an account of my trip from Medford to this place, and if I remember stopped off just after we had passed where the wreck occurred. Shortly after passing the place where the wreck occurred we came to the celebrated Shasta Spring and here is one of the noted places on the entire route as here is one of the greatest health resorts along the entire route unless it is the celebrated Ashland springs, but by being held up on account of the wreck we were detained about three and a half hours and that threw us into the dark. Just before the holdup there were two ladies and a boy from Oakland, Cal., who were having their summer outing at the Shasta resort and had been fishing along the Sacramento River, boarded the train so as to avoid the five-mile walk and in order to hurry up and save time, and after we had been kept up there for over two hours they came to the conclusion that they would have saved time and the suffering from empty stomachs if they had gone on foot. But our tribulations were not over, for in a short time we were stopped again and an investigation, for there is no use in asking any of the train men what the trouble is, for they never know a thing. We found that we had run into a broken rail and in the course of a short time we had another stop and found that the trouble was another broken rail, and by this time we were so far behind that we had to stop and give the right of way to other trains until we reached Tehama when it seemed that the way was made clear for us, for from there on we had no long stops and smooth sailing. By this time daylight began to appear and we had a fine view of one of the beauty spots of Northern California. We traveled for miles over a vast prairie interspersed with grain, in sacks that were scattered over the fields, indicating the reason that there were so many fine large houses and barns and occasionally an orchard, but the principal part of the country seemed to be devoted to farming and while a part of the land would have the grain in the sack, for there they use the combined harvester, there was a large part of the grain still standing and in addition to the grain there were hundreds of acres of alfalfa and everything indicated that we were passing through a fine productive country, but there is one very serious drawback, not that I would speak disparagingly of the country, but we all know that every country has its drawbacks, and one great drawback to that part of California is the heavy wind which often burns up the crop, for I have seen apples almost cooked when I was preaching on the Red Bluff circuit. Along the route we passed several towns and in some instances what might claim to be cities, and at last we began to reach the land of my earlier days where I spent my early manhood and finally we came to a stop at Davis, situated on a vast prairie between here (Vacaville) and Sacramento City, and there we made quite a stop and I had a chance to look around and see what changes had taken place since I preached my first sermon in the old school house in 1858 when I was nothing but an exhorter, and my memory was kept busy running over the past fifty-seven years. Leaving there we soon arrived at Elmira where I had to change cars for Vacaville.
    The next time I write I will try to tell something of the country around here and my ride to Vallejo, about the roads, orchards, etc.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1915, page 5


    The last time that I wrote for the Mail Tribune I was at my brother's at Vacaville, but had hardly had time to take notice of the place or anything else. I arrived here on Friday, the 2nd, and remained until Wednesday, the 7th, and during that time had an opportunity to see considerable of the country around. The town of Vacaville is situated in Vaca Valley and is one of the many small towns or cities that are scattered all over the agricultural and horticultural section of the country, and at one time was the seat of the Ulatis Academy, but the building was turned [sic] and the Christian church now stands on the spot where the academy stood. The town has three churches, Presbyterian, Baptist and Christian, and the church and school buildings reflect credit on the citizens of the town. It is situated on a branch railroad of S.P. system that runs from Elmira to Woodland and taps a very rich and productive section of the country. On Sunday I attended the Presbyterian church in the forenoon and at night the Christian, where the three ministers held a union meeting. On Monday I took an auto ride down to Vallejo, about forty miles and back, and had a fine chance to see what used to be my stomping ground sixty years ago, but the country has changed so much that there was but few places that I could recognize, for where used to be miles of vast prairie land it is now covered with orchards and timber that is planted for fuel, shade and manufacturing purposes, the eucalyptus tree--and that is the wood grows very rapidly and after it gets started to grow proves to be a very profitable tree to grow, for one can cut off the limbs and they will sprout right out again and thus perpetuate a forest indefinitely. I have read a great deal about the roads in California, and the vast sums spent on the roads, but I found the roads after I left the state highway which lasted only about 12 miles, if anything not as good as the roads in Jackson County, Oregon. But I could not help but notice the vast improvements in the line of buildings as all of the farms through which I passed had good, large, neat buildings and everything had the appearance of thrift and prosperity. The city of Vallejo is one of the neatest places I have seen as yet since I left Ashland, Oregon, but the reader knows that Medford and Ashland are among the leading cities of the coast for beauty and neatness. I would be glad if I could without trespassing on the patience of the good-natured editor of the Mail Tribune like to particularize a little on that trip, for I saw so many things that were of particular interest to me, but I must refrain as I know the value of space in the paper, but will add that in going to Vallejo that I passed through one of the finest, richest and most beautiful valleys in the state and if it was not for the heavy winds and fog they have there would be an ideal place to live, but on the trip to and from Vallejo I had to wear a heavy overcoat and had a heavy lap robe over my lap and then did not suffer with the heat.
    On Tuesday evening I visited my nieces in Suisun valley and had an opportunity to see how they handle the fruit on the large orchards. The apricot was the only fruit that needed attention just then and Mr. Davis, the husband of one of my nieces, was putting them out to dry. The way they handle them, after taking out the seed, they lay each piece on it back, so as to expose the cut part to the sun, on trays, made of slats, about four feet square and lay them flat on the ground and the heat of the sun and the warmth from the ground dries them in a short time, and then the seeds are saved for fuel--I saw a lot of several hundred pounds of peach seeds in my brothers and I asked why they were used for fuel in the place of coal, and that they paid $3.50 a ton for seeds for fuel. But I see that I am getting this letter too long so will have to close for this time. But the next time will tell something of what I saw here and in San Francisco at the fair, etc.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 12, 1915, page 2


    R. Minter started with his sheep to the mountains Friday.
    Arthur Morrison and family of Crystal arrived at his mother's, Mrs. Alvin Albright's, last Saturday night.
    Little Mildred Bellow is recovering from an attack of tonsillitis.
    Mrs. Edwin Piele and children have returned home from the Dow hospital at Central Point.
    Mrs. P. H. Daily and Mrs. Bressley and their children returned to their homes in Medford Monday.
    Misses Anna Robertson and Alice Schlacker spent Saturday night with Mrs. Jettie Clarno.
    Perry Foster spend Sunday at the Albright home at Trail.
    Independence Day was celebrated along the river by a great many picnics from Saturday morning to Monday night.
    Sunday at the Dodge-French [bridge?] a small boy fell from a boat in the rapids but was rescued. A horse backed off a grade along the river and upset the buggy and threw an elderly lady out and bruised her quite badly and a doctor was called.
    Dr. Holt made a couple of professional calls to Charles Skyrman's within the last week.
    Miss Ellen McCabe is visiting her sister, Mrs. Nate Garrett of Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Brittsan are the guests of their sons on the Veighte ranch.
    Ivan Skyrman is showing improvement after ten days of sickness.
    Mrs. Mae Daw and children were the guests of Mrs. J. Hannah on Wednesday night.
    There seems to be a complaint among the petit jurors as to their pay. They have to pay cash for their expenses and receive their pay in county warrants which they must hold about four years to cash them for full value. They are hard to cash even at discount.
    Miss Mattie Minter was in Medford one day last week.
    Wilfred Jacks and family expect to start for their home in Lake County one day this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 12, 1915, page 4 


    The last time that I wrote for the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune I wrote from this city but did not tell anything about what I saw or heard in the city for I had such a fund of items that I had not reached that point yet. And before I have anything to say about what I have seen in this wonderful city I want to say something more about what I saw and heard before I reached here.
    Just before I left Vacaville my brother, who lives there, received a letter from his son who is foreman on a 1600-acre lemon ranch at San Paulo and in his giving an account of the way they do business there in the line of fruit raising. He mentioned the fact that they had 125 carloads of lemons on hand that they had to place in storage on account of the enormous yield of that variety of fruit, and in addition to the 1600 acres in lemons, they have about the same amount in lima beans--but why take the time now to write about the ranch, for I expect to visit the ranch before I return to Eagle Point. I might write columns about what I saw and heard while in and around Vacaville but will have to forgo the pleasure for fear that the editor might think I was writing a history of that part of the state. My brother Wilbur and I started from Vacaville on the morning of the 7th inst. for this city and we traveled through a vast stretch of fine country as well as some of the tule lands and there is one stretch of about two miles that we had to cross where the civil engineers have never been able to find the bottom of the soft muck and although the railroad company have hauled in hundreds of carloads of timber and stone and buried it along the track, still occasionally the track sinks so that the trains go slow over the place to avoid accidents. I noticed that this land was enclosed in large tracts and utilized for pasture and higher up on the rivers, for this I have been writing about is along the bay, the capitalists have drained and diked the land, cleared off the tules and find that they have some of the most productive land in the state and are raising rice in considerable quantities and in the course of a few years the cultivation of the rice will be one of the leading industries of the state. Passing on we soon come to the city of Benicia, where the train crosses the strait between Benicia and Port Costa, and here is a sight worth seeing. The ferry boat is recognized as the largest ferry boat in the world. I am not able to give the dimensions of the boat, but it is wide enough to take four trains of cars on abreast and the engine houses on the outside of them. When we crossed we were on the local train and after we were on the main overland train came on so as to fill up the four tracks the whole length of the boat, and if the reader will just stop to reflect what that means to have two whole trains with their locomotives, tenders, etc., on the boat and still when they came on to the boat there did not seem to be the least jar and the only way one would know that the trains were coming on was by looking at them as they came alongside of you, and when the boat started the only way that you could tell that it was moving was by taking objects on the shore or wharf. Leaving Port Costa we traveled through a rather rough hilly country for quite a while before we began to come to the different towns and cities along the route, and in many of them we saw evidence of prosperity, for in some of them are large manufacturing establishments where they employ thousands of men and women, but the train did not stop long enough for me to form an adequate idea of what was going on inside, so I had to guess and learn by inquiring, for the readers of the Eaglets know that I know how to ask questions. In a short time we were in the city of Oakland and soon reached the Oakland mole where we took passage on the ferry boat for San Francisco. These ferry boats that are leaving the Oakland mole on the Oakland side and the ferry house on the other leave every twenty minutes day and night, and one can take a ride from either starting place to the other for ten cents.
    While we were on the ferry boat we had a fine view of the San Francisco Bay and of the shipping craft that were floating on it, in addition to the myriads of small boats that were running, going in almost every direction. Landing at the boat house an attendant soon put us on the track of the right car to take us to my brother John's store, and the rest of that day and Thursday we spent in visiting each other, for my two brothers had not met before for 30 years and of course they had a lot to talk about as well as myself. In my next will tell something of San Francisco.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 16, 1915, page 4


    Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis of Persist were in Central Point on business and visited relatives there recently.
    Frank Caster and family have moved to Crawford, Wash.
    Arthur Morrison and family have returned to their home in Klamath County after visiting the Albright, Foster, French, Martin and Ragsdale families.
    Jack Vaughn and wife of Flounce Rock passed en route for Beagle to visit Mr. Gordon and family.
    The guests of the Bellows home Sunday were Misses May French and Diehless Minter, Alec Vestal and Pearl Stowell.
    Mrs. McKee of Bandon and Miss Millie Hodges of Gold Hill were visiting relatives here last week.
    Mr. Backus of Portland is staying at the French ranch and is fishing.
    We regret to hear of the death of George Jackson of Medford. He owned the Dodge ranch here years ago and was known as the "watermelon king" on account of the great quantities of watermelons he raised. He was a friend to the poor and no one left his house hungry.
    Among those who passed en route for Klamath County were Oscar Rogers, Percy Chapman and family and Charles Fry and family, Frank, Milton, Ed and Sanford Houston.
    Tom Raimey, Jasper Hannah and E. B. Raimey were in Jacksonville Monday.
    Among those on the sick list are Mrs. John Conover and daughter, Tobe Raimey, Ed Foster, Cora French.
    Miss Mattie Minter is spending a few days in Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 21, 1915, page 4


    I had just reached my brother's in San Francisco in my last article when I thought it best to rest awhile and now I am rested and seated in my room to resume the pleasant task of writing for the readers of the Mail Tribune. After we, that is my two brothers and myself, had eaten a hearty dinner and spent a few hours visiting we began to look around and see what changes had taken place since we were here last, I say we, for my brother Wilbur had not been here for over 30 years and I had not been here since January, 1906. I noticed as I came from the boat house or as some call it the ferry house, that there was occasionally a spot that still showed the result of the earthquake and fire of April, 1906, but the most of the vast tract that at that time was a howling waste is now covered with fine buildings and the streets are laid off so wide that there is plenty of room for all the traffic. They have double tracks for the street cars and they are so arranged that the number of the car and the streets they travel can be plainly seen for a block or more and then there are stations placed in the middle of the principal streets where the people can congregate to take the cars as they are passing and a policeman stationed to prevent a collision between the cars and the autos, for they are as thick as flies around a sugar barrel and a traveler can take a car or jitney and go almost anywhere in the city for a nickel, by taking a transfer ticket.
    Well, after looking around for awhile we went to the room that had been secured for me while I remained in the city, and it is arranged with every modern convenience in a quiet part of the city. After arranging for our lodging and partaking of a good hearty meal we all three went to the Bee Hive, where we saw a fine play and by 11:30 were ready for our bed. The next day, Thursday, we spent visiting our nieces, nephews, and their children and that night we were tired enough to hunt our beds by 9:00 p.m., but the next morning were off for the exposition grounds, and after riding a long way we came to a hill that was so steep that the car going toward the fair grounds had to pull the car going the other way up. They have a set of cars arranged so as to attach the cable and the weight of the car going down the hill draws up the one going up and thus they work incessantly day and night. Reaching the gates where you enter the grounds the first thing to do is to dig up a half dollar and that lets you inside the enclosure, but then you are met by a gang of men and boys offering to sell you almost anything that will help to enlighten you on your trip, or if you don't feel like walking you can hire an electric chair large enough to accommodate three, or by crowding a little, four persons, and have a man push it and he rides on a bike for one and a half dollars an hour, or you can take a miniature electric car that will hold about 50 or 60 and ride over a part of the ground for ten cents, in fact they have all the necessary conveniences imaginable for accommodation if you will dig up the cash.
    As we advanced into the fair grounds we began to realize that if we undertook to see all that there was to be seen that we had at least a month's hard work before us, so we decided to visit the "mechanic" building and there we saw about everything in that line that can be thought of and in fact there was such a vast amount of different things to see the sight rather bewildered us. Among the most interesting things in that department was the U.S. Mint, where we could see them take the gold in heavy bars and roll them out to the proper thickness to make $20 gold pieces and then they would test each bar and see if it was just the right thickness, and then put the bar, drawn out in the machine to cut out the gold pieces, weigh it to a fraction of a hair and then mill it, stamp it and prepare it for circulation. And connected with that they were making fifty-dollar gold pieces, such as we used to have in the '50s, and they also were making two and a half gold pieces and one-dollar gold pieces and they were also coining souvenir silver half dollars and these coins they sold. I did not price the $50 slugs but the $2.50 gold pieces sold at $4.00 and the $1 at $2 and the 50-cent silver $1, so if a person wished to invest in that line they could get a valuable souvenir. We then skipped around and saw the life-saving crew perform rescuing a man that was out in a small boat that filled with water and was apparently drowning, and just as he was having his troubles the life-saving crew were giving an exhibition of how they could turn their boat upside down and right it again, and in the meantime the poor fellow calling help! help! and just as he went under the third time one of the men dove from the boat and brought him up as limber as a wet rag and apparently lifeless. But I could see that I am getting this letter too long so will stop for this time. The next time I write I expect to write from Los Angeles, as I expect to take passage on a steamer this afternoon for that city to visit a sister whom I have not seen for 70 years.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 26, 1915, page 2


    The last time that I wrote I was giving an account of something of what I saw at the exposition grounds. After witnessing the maneuvers of the life-saving crew we visited the Oregon building and we were much impressed by the grandeur of the edifice. It truly represents the great state of Oregon. It is built of Oregon timber and the massive pillars represent the growth and character of the timber, for they are simply the bodies of some of our Oregon firs about five or six feet in diameter and as near as I could guess about 40 or 50 feet in length and the whole of the building reflects credit on the men who conceived the idea. The interior was filled with the products of the state and I thought that they compared favorably with any other of the states of our great West and if any difference the balance seemed to be in favor of the Oregon products, for our apples and pears surely did look tempting while the different samples of grain, alfalfa, clover, etc., was up to the standard. The dairy products also showed that our Oregon was likely to come to the front in that line. But by the time we had got fairly started looking over this building, we, that is my two brothers, who are each a long way on the sunny side of 50 and your correspondent began to feel as though we better be turning our steps toward the entrance of the fair grounds and then we had to walk over a mile to reach the gate. This was on Friday, and on Tuesday my brother John and I visited the fair again and this time we visited the concession zone where men had paid a fortune for the privilege of occupying a certain space, but there one can see almost anything that they want in the line of curios and scenery. There you see the Grand Canyon of Colorado or the Yellowstone Park, Niagara Falls in miniature, but one has to walk and climb over and under to see them, for they are built of a material that resembles the stone and earth, or one can visit the different foreign countries like Japan and at the entrance it is marked free but by the time you get through you will find that you are freed of several nickels. It don't cost very much for any individual item, but by the time you go the rounds you will find that you have seen something and are out several nickels. There was an arrangement contrived so that you could be carried to a height of, it looked to me, several hundred feet and then be turned around so that you could see the whole of the fair grounds and the surrounding country, but I did not have the price to take in all of these things. My brother was a little nervous over the thought of going up so high in a contrivance that looked so frail, so after spending a couple of hours in looking around we changed our course and went to the U.S. building again to visit the army and navy department, and there we were shown how the different kinds of ammunition was made and the machinery for testing the weight of the cartridges and all the particulars. We then went to the wharf where the life-saving crew were advertised to give an exhibition of rescuing the passengers from a wreck, and it was a novel sight. They first shot a long ball with a small rope attached from a cannon so that the ball would just miss the mast of the ship and the rope would catch on a hook arranged for the purpose, and then a man on deck hauled the small rope from the shore until he had reached another size rope and then he hauled that larger rope, which was attached to a still larger rope and then when the large rope reached the boat it was made fast to the mast up several feet from the deck of the ship and then the life-saving crew sent out a contrivance so arranged that a man could put his legs down through it and was so secured that he could not fall out and then they would pull him to shore. The carrier was so arranged that they took two boys about 12 years at one time. In addition to all that was to be seen on land there was a sight on water. The battleship Oregon stood out but a short distance from shore and she was accompanied by five large cruisers, a monitor and two submarines and there were small boats to take passengers from the shore out to these different ships and back, for the price. It costs money to travel and see the various sights that are to be seen, but many of them are more that worth the money. There was one more feat that I wish to mention before I close this letter and that is to tell about Art Smith, the world-renowned aviator. He went up each afternoon about 2:30 o'clock, and this time he went up until he looked like a little speck in the air and then he dropped to within about 1000 feet of the earth and then began to show what he could do. He opened up a valve that let out a substance that looked like steam and the first thing was to write his name, Art Smith, in the air, he then commenced to turn somersaults in the air and he would turn his machine any way he wished, sometimes he would be on his side and then on his back and thus he would maneuver and finally he began to circle like a hawk and finally lighted on the spot from which he had started. But I must stop for this time as my letter is getting too long. But the next time I will try to tell something about the mammoth printing press of the Examiner on the fair grounds, and then of our visit to the Golden Gate Park, my sea voyage from San Francisco to San Pedro and rail trip to this city.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 27, 1915, page 5


    The last time I wrote for the Mail Tribune I was about ready to leave the fair, but did not mention the fact that when I reached the Oregon building, among the first things I saw was the Daily Mail Tribune filed so that we Oregonians could read the news from home. Strange as it may seem, with my very extensive acquaintance I did not meet a single person that I recognized as having seen before and there was a continual chain of humanity passing to and fro but the faces all seemed to be faces that I had never seen before, and what a feeling of loneliness one has in such a place, in a vast crowd of humanity and still alone. But in all that I have had to say about the fair I have not said a word about the exhibits of the products of our own state. The fruit exhibit compared favorably with that of any other state, although in the California building fruit there was a variety of fruits on exhibition that we do not produce in Oregon, but the fruit that was in the Oregon building would come up to that of any other display and in some instances, especially the apple and peach presentation, was far ahead of anything I saw in the California building. The grain, alfalfa and clover was equal to the best, and so far as the different kinds of fruit and vegetables that was in glass jars there was a striking resemblance in all of it, but I saw nothing in the Oregon building but what reflected credit on our home state. But I am afraid that I am taking up too much space on the fair question although there was enough there to keep an ordinary scribbler writing for six months and then he would say with the "Queen of Sheba when she went to see the greatness of Solomon, that the half has not been told." But before I leave that subject I must ask the privilege of saying something about the greatest of all wonders in Oregon and that is Crater Lake. When I reached the Jackson booth among the first things I noticed was the different pictures of Crater Lake and when it was known that I was from near that section of the country and was somewhat familiar with its surroundings I was kept busy answering questions and pointing out the different points of interest in and around the lake. But I must leave the fair grounds with all of its display and beauty and tell the reader some things of the wonders of the Golden Gate Park. And now I am at a loss to know just where to start in my story, for the whole thing seems like a dream. And when I stop and reflect on what there is to be seen and the different subjects to write on I confess that I am bewildered over the thought. But I will commence just where I entered the park grounds and the first thing that particularly attracted my attention was an artificial lake and all around it was a growth of evergreen plants in all of their various stages of production, some in full bloom, some in the bud, and others bearing the full grown fruit, and in the lake there was a myriad of small fish of different kinds and colors and fowls of a different variety from the ordinary mud duck to the great swan. A little further on we came to the beaver dam where the beaver was at work at his daily task. Going on from there we began to come to where the larger animals were kept and among the first in that line was a herd of buffalo, but I was disappointed in them for they had a kind of a forlorn look and the impression they made in my mind was that they had not been properly cared for, for they seemed to be thin in flesh and their hair had a dead appearance and I could see a marked difference between them and the ones I used to see roving wild on the plains on the Arkansas River in 1849. We then visited the elk yard where there was a number of large elk and they had just been fed on the boughs of trees that were cut off and placed there, I suppose to take the place of green grass. We then saw the moose; they are somewhat like the elk only I think somewhat larger. Then the deer park but they are too common in Oregon to need a description, although they seemed to be quite interesting to many who came from the older states. The next place we visited was the bear park and there we saw almost every kind of bear that can be found in the world for in addition to our great grizzly bear of California and Oregon there were the ordinary brown bear, the cinnamon bear but the cinnamon bear of Alaska, he is not so large as some of our bears but he is an ugly-looking beast. We then turned to see the different varieties of birds, and time would fail me to undertake to tell of all that I saw in that line but they were there from the great American bald eagle to the tiny hummingbird. But I must tear myself away from all these beautiful things and go to the places of amusement where they have places for almost all kinds of athletic sports such as baseball, football, basketball and several other different kinds of games they play with balls, and in fact they have so much that it completely bewilders me to try to think of all that was going on and there were several games going on that were new to me that I could not name. But I did not have time nor strength to see all, for the park covers over thousands of acres and every acre seems to be covered with something to please the eye. The entire park is covered with different kinds of evergreen trees and shrubbery, interspersed with grass lawns and these are kept up to date all of the time and to me the visit to the park was of as much interest as the visit to the fair grounds. But I must bring this letter to a close and the next time I write will try to tell something of my trip on an ocean steamer from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 28, 1915, page 5


    Jasper Hannah and family went to the Umpqua divide Monday for a few days.
    An auto load from Ashland called on their friend, Gene Bellows, Monday.
    Miss Ida Houston will teach the Elk Creek school this winter. She will have two high school grades for the Misses Pence.
    Robert Minter spent Sunday with Henry French.
    Mrs. Mae Daw and sons, Cyril and Teddy, were in Medford the guests of Mrs. Sholtz.
    Louis Sager is working at Crater Lake.
    Miss Eula Houston has been elected to teach an eight months' school in her home district, the Central.
    Miss May Wilson is a guest of the Minter sisters.
    Steve Smith was to Medford the first of the week and brought a new Moline wagon home with him.
    Elmer Simmons, fire warden, was seen along the river Monday.
    Jack Walker and family are in Klamath County for a while.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Kregor were Central Point visitors recently.
    Mr. and Mrs. Slusser are in Medford.
    George Fry was in Medford and Central Point last week.
    A swimming party of twenty properly chaperoned spent a jolly afternoon in the river Friday.
    Mrs. Dave Pence is having a complicated siege of tonsillitis and was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Medford. Dave returned to his home on Elk Creek Monday.
    Mr. Kirk and family of Ashland spent the weekend camping on the French ranch.
    Mr. and Mrs. N. Garrett of Medford and Mr. and Mrs. A. McCabe of Derby spent Sunday at T. McCabe's.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 29, 1915, page 3


    The last time that I wrote for the readers of the Mail Tribune I was at the Lemonsira [Limoneira?] ranch four miles from Santa Pena, Ventura County, California, and stopped off just as I was about to start from San Francisco on my way to Los Angeles. I took passage on the steamer Congress from San Francisco to San Pedro, Cal., on Friday July 23, at 4 o'clock p.m. and had a fine voyage, as the weather was quite calm and the sea was reasonably smooth, although the vessel rocked considerable and several of the six hundred passengers were quite sick but I made up my mind that I would not be sick and consequently was not, and the next morning the fog was gone and we had a fine view of the distant lands along the California coast and the islands that we passed reaching San Pedro about 5 p.m. on Saturday, where we took the car for a twenty-mile ride. But before telling any more of my trip I wish to say something for the benefit of persons who contemplate taking a like trip. There are three different companies that are in business and the first one I visited said they charged $9.35-$10.35, and we would have to pay for our berth and meals extra. The next charged $5.35, $7.35 and $9.35, and the next was $8.35 for first class, meals and berth included, so I took the latter and found a good berth and meals equal to the best. After taking the car we traveled through a barren waste the most of the way for about ten miles and then we began to see some places that showed a little signs of life, but the land all along the route did not compare with the land of Rogue River Valley. We finally reached the wonderful city of Los Angeles and after looking around for a few minutes I concluded that at least some of them were dark angels, for the first man I spoke to who had a taxi asked me a dollar to take me to the Bible Institute, the hotel where I was directed to stop, a distance of six blocks, but I took a street car and paid five cents for the trip. On reaching my hotel I secured a good room for 75 cents a night. The next morning I took a street car and rode eight miles out to where my sister lives and found her awaiting me, and our meeting was the first one for the past seventy years, and of course we were simply strangers, but still a happy meeting. I found her well and hearty in her 89th year. I was very much disappointed in Los Angeles, for I found the streets were very narrow and except in the most crowded parts of the city there were no policemen to guide the cars, autos and wagons so that pedestrians had to keep their own lookout and find out the way they wanted to go the best they could, and the only way there is to keep a cool head and inquire of the street car conductors and I found them very obliging. After spending three days in Los Angeles I took a train for Santa Paula, where I was met by my nephews and taken to the Lemonsira ranch. But before I begin to tell of the wonderful lemon ranch I wish [omission] through I had to pass, although dark came on before we reached the city of S.P. For a few miles out from L.A. we traveled through some nice-looking land, but when we got into the San Fernando Valley I was surprised to find that we were actually traveling over a vast desert, for there was no vegetation visible except the cactus and sagebrush, and this continued for a long way. I am not able to say how far, for it began to get dark so that I could not see but the country did not appeal to me in the least. On my arrival at Santa Paula an auto and my nephew James W. Howlett met me and took us out to the Lemonshire ranch and the next morning began to get my bearings and see what were my surroundings, and I found myself in the midst of one of the most celebrated lemon orchards in the U.S.
    There are three thousand acres in the tract and it belongs to a bunch of capitalists. There is a considerable portion of the land that is worthless, as the hills are so steep that they cannot be cultivated, but they have 800 acres in lemon trees and 350 acres in walnuts and several hundred acres in hay, and some 300 acres in young trees, and this land is planted in lima beans. But the most interesting part is the handling of the lemons. They ripen every month in the year and consequently are constantly picking and packing them. The picking is done by Mexicans, and they are required to wear gloves so as not to scratch the lemons with the fingernails and each picker has a ring on his wrist that he measures each lemon, and any one that will go through the ring he leaves to grow larger. The lemons are placed in a sack with snaps to hold the bottom up and when the sack is full enough he places the sack in a box, loosens the snaps and the lemons roll out so as not to bruise them. They are then placed on wagons and taken to the packing house and there they are first washed in a vat of soapsuds and blue vitriol water and each lemon forced by the current to come in contact with a row of brushes so arranged that they are constantly in motion, and thus they go through a flume. They then pass through another runway where they are sprinkled with clear water to wash off the suds and vitriol water. They are then run onto a platform where ten Japs are to sort them over and carefully examine each lemon and put it in its proper grade. They are then stacked in boxes to dry and if the weather is too drying they are covered with heavy canvas so as to exclude the air and are watched by men who have charge of this work and when the atmosphere is right the canvas is raised, etc. this process is kept up for two months and by that time they are cured and ready to put on the market, but before that is done each lemon has to be examined and handled by two more men, then wrapped with paper and packed in boxes for shipment. They are now shipping three carloads a day and expect to ship four hundred carloads this season.
    But I see that my letter will be too long to try to tell all about the wonderful place in this so will stop and try to tell about the rest of the orchard and about my ride around the country for 25 miles to see the country, about the lima bean industry, etc. I am now at my brother's in Vacaville again on my way home.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 30, 1915, page 7


    Well I am home again after taking a month layoff visiting the San Francisco fair, relatives and friends of bygone years. I arrived at the Sunnyside on Saturday, July 31, at about 11 a.m. and found some of the old boarders and some new ones all enjoying the accustomed health of the southern Oregonian. I have not taken time to gather many items as I have been kept busy a good part of the time answering questions and telling what I have seen on my trip. But among the items of interest to the reader will mention that I found Frederic Vermeren, the owner of a farm near here, who has been making his home in Vera Cruz, Mexico, for the past several years. I also found to my astonishment Prof. C. E. Johnson a single man, although I saw in the personal column in the Medford Mail Tribune, and that is considered a very reliable paper, that Prof. C. E. Johnson and wife were attending the Chautauqua at Ashland, while I was in California, but found that that was a mistake so the fair ones who have been downhearted on account of the item can cheer up. I also noted that there has been a new telephone line put up from here to the John Greb farm. That John V. McIntyre, the cashier of the Eagle Point Bank, has gone back east on account of his mother's illness, that Mrs. Howlett has fenced in a tract of land along the creek for a cow pasture and made some changes in the line of fencing. That Mr. Henry Meyer and family of Lake Creek were here Sunday.
    That Carl Ringer of Medford was spending a few days at the Sunnyside. That Miss Claire Zimmerman, one of the phone girls, who has been visiting her relatives at Derby, returned to her room at the Sunnyside Saturday. That Rev. and Mrs. Thos. R. Gale, who are managing a mission car sent out by the American Baptist Publicity Society of Philadelphia, had been conducting a series of meetings in the Baptist church here for the past three weeks. That Mr. Cowgill, the civil engineer for the Fish Lake Ditch, was having a lot of material moved from here to Fish Lake to be used in putting in a dam across the outlet of the lake and that everybody, so far as I know, is well and happy. Miss Grace Coyle of Santiam, Oregon, a cousin of Frank Nichols, is here on a visit, and that the Eagle Point ball team went to Gold Hill Sunday and played a game, coming out second best again; the score stood 4 to 5 in favor of Gold Hill.
    The last time that I wrote for the Mail Tribune I was in Vacaville, Cal., and then I promised to tell the readers something more about the wonderful lemon orchards. I say wonderful, for it is one of the noted places in California and is visited by hundreds of the tourists who are visiting the fairs, and some of them are so inconsiderate that they expect the company to furnish them with a guide to show them through the place. While I was there, there were three ladies come in and inquired for the foreman and on his being pointed out, one of them asked him to show them through the building--a two-hour job--and he politely informed them that his time was so occupied that he could not take the time, but assured them that they were welcome to examine any part of the building, whereupon one of them turned to me and remarked: "We are from the Bluegrass State and want some attention paid to us." But they had to do as the others did, look around the best they could. In addition to the lemon industry, as I believe I stated in a former letter that they have a large tract planted to walnuts and this is quite a source of revenue and does not require the care and attention that the lemon tree does, for even in that mild climate they have to guard against frost and the various pests that infect an orchard and in addition to all that they have to keep enriching the soil and my nephew told me that the bill for fertilizer alone amounted to about $10,000 a year. They practically own their water system and that saves quite a bill of expense as they have to irrigate the entire tract about every five or six weeks, and counting the expense of the teams, about 75 or 100 mules and hundreds of men, at not less that $2 a day, for that is the lowest wage, the investment of capital is a subject of vast moment. They have about 200 acres planted to young trees and this land is utilized by planting in lima beans. The second day that I was there a friend of the foreman, and the foreman is my brother's son, took me in his auto and rode me around the valley, about a 25-mile drive, so that I could see the country, and I did surely see a great country; one place we passed the man was sacking his dried apricots, I did not ask how many he had, but it looked as though he had at least two carloads of them already sacked and as many more to sack, but I started to tell about the lima beans. The first place we passed after we left the orchard was a bean patch of 700 acres, and just across the road was another field of 200 acres and then we saw beans in every direction, and my friend with whom I was riding told me that the bean farms extended clear to the coast, a distance of 12 miles, and extended for miles up the coast and that putting a fair estimate on the amount of land in lima beans in that section would amount to not less that 70,000 acres. As I left Santa Paula in passing one field of lima beans I counted 60 men out with their hoes at work.
    I may, in my next, say something about what I saw in the line of sugar beets, for near the lima bean section they have a sugar factory and raise sugar beets in great quantities. But I must stop for this time as my letter is already too long.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 4, 1915, page 5


    Rube Johnson returned from a trip to San Francisco Friday.
    Mr. Head of Ashland came out to Gene Bellows' Tuesday.
    Fred Pettegrew took a load of fruit to Fort Klamath last week.
    Steve Smith is hauling wood from Sams Valley to Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Raimey and Miss Ora were called to Gold Hill Tuesday by the death of Mrs. R.'s brother, Sam Hodges.
    Bird Johnston autoed to Central Point Thursday.
    Sanford Richardson visited his daughter Doris Sunday.
    Mr.and Mrs. Will Houston were in Central Point Monday.
    Among the Eagle Point visitors this week were Mrs. C. E. Bellows, Henry French and wife, Ed Foster, T. McCabe, Fred Pettegrew, Mrs. Ethel Ewen, Perry Foster.
    Charles Drexler and Dick Johnson were at Fish Lake this week.
    Misses Mia Hannah and Velma Fry returned from a visit to Trail Friday.
    Mr. Zimmerlee is hauling his winter's wood from his ranch to his hotel in Eagle Point.
    Mabel Sager spent Thursday with Mabel and Hildreth Foster.
    Ed Houston took a load of apples to Klamath County this week. He was accompanied by his sister, Miss Ida, and Miss Ola Pence.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peniger of Stockton, California, Mr. and Mrs. Will Wright and daughter, Marie, of Central Point returned to the valley Thursday from a trip to Crater Lake.
    Mrs. Mary Martin and Walter Oliver were valley visitors a few days ago.
    Miss Odessa Stacey of Beagle will teach the fall term of school in the Long Branch district.
    Mrs. Dave Pence returned home from the Sacred Heart Hospital, Medford, last Monday.
    Green Mathews and Gene Bellows took their cattle back in the mountains the last of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 4, 1915, page 5


    W. A. Galloway and family, Geo. P. Goule and family and C. A. Myer and family, 14 in all, of Medford passed through here last Monday on their way to Crater Lake with teams taking their horse feed with them, and one of them had a cart attached to the hack loaded with hay, grain, etc., but if Mr. Galloway gets through without a breakdown I will lose my guess. Among the company were Mrs. B. P. Hart of Iowa and J. C. Hillard of Montana.
    The same day and about the same time Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Haines, Miss Bernice Haines, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dunn of Portland, Ore., and Mrs. W. H. Bartges of Ashland went through in an auto for Crater Lake.
    During the time that the cashier of our Eagle Point State Bank, J. V. McIntyre, was away, Mr. Treve Lumsden of Medford came out and attended to the business of the bank and later on Mr. Roy L. Maule, also of Medford, came out and remained until Mr. McIntyre's return.
    Harrison Hess is helving [sic] the old Ashpole building that was built for a billiard and pool room, and Mr. Ashpole intends to move his stock of hardware from where it is now into his own building on the main thoroughfare about August 30.
    John Smith is now engaged in building a garage for Gus Nichols on Salt Creek as Gus has fallen in line with the rest of the progressive farmers in that region and bought himself a Ford.
    During my absence von der Hellen Bros. have been making some substantial improvements in the interior of their store.
    Last Monday after I had written the Eaglets for the Mail Tribune I took a stroll down to the depot to see the new motor car that the P.&E. have had built to run on the line from Medford to Eagle Point. It is quite a handy arrangement and is so arranged as to carry about 10 passengers beside the engineer and conductor and room enough on the top to carry the U.S. mail and what baggage the average passenger would want to carry.
    Among the passengers who came out was James Gillis of Medford, who spent the night with us and the next morning started for Fish Lake. Mrs. Robison of Sacramento also came out and spent the night with us. She was out demonstrating Valentine's toilet articles for F. L. Heath.
    The candy kid of Medford and his cousin Mr. Dobbe were here for dinner also and so was C. A. Newstrom and Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek and so was Miss Hazel Carlson. She went on up to Lake Creek with Herman Myer, the mail contractor, in his auto. She is from Iowa and is engaged to teach school in the South Butte school district.
    John Rader and wife have gone to Rancheria Prairie to spend a while on account of the warm weather.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Faulkues of Michigan have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Heath. Mr. Faulkues is the president of state board of pharmacy of Michigan.
    Mr. Heath's son Frederick has gone to California to enter the University of California and his many friends here wish him abundant success in his effort to prepare himself for a business life.
    John Owens and family and our daughter Hattie and Jed Edsall started Wednesday for Crater Lake in the Owens Ford.
    While I was gone on my trip to California our mayor, John Nichols, got himself into a bad box with a Ford. In trying to cross Antelope Creek with his machine, in pulling up the bank--I should have said that workmen are repairing the bridge on Antelope Creek so that the traveling public have to ford the creek--the road was steep and rough and he being unaccustomed to handling the machine, got stuck and the more he tried to pull out the less progress he made and there was a lady there and the man was fixing something about their machine and the lady remarked that he did not seem to understand how to manage his auto whereupon he readily admitted that he was a novice at the business, whereupon the lady began to tell him how to handle it when he abruptly stopped her and suggested that she get in the machine and show him--I believe he is from Missouri--so she jumped into his Ford, opened up the throttle and out went the machine, greatly to his relief. He says that he will always have a warm spot in his heart for that lady.
    Lemon Charley and family motored into town last Wednesday.
    Misses Mabel and Hazel Lawrence of Monmouth, Ore., cousins of Mrs. George von der Hellen, are here visiting Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen and son Donald.
    J. P. Hughes, one of the Butte Falls merchants, spent the night with us Wednesday and took the P.&E. car for Butte Falls Thursday.
    Delwin Claspill of Butte Falls is here at this writing taking orders for enlarged pictures.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 7, 1915, page 5


    Incendiarism in the Trail district Monday resulted in the setting of 21 forest fires within half a day within a radius of five miles. The fires were started, in the opinion of State Supervising Warden Eberly, for the purpose of furnishing labor for idle men in the district. The pay is good and the work is easy but hot. All of the fires were discovered in time to prevent their spread, except one which was controlled after a ten-hour battle. Evidence of the work of the firebug was found near each blaze. All of the fires were started outside of the national forest reserves, the fear of rigorous prosecution by the federal government being feared.
    Most of the forest fires this year have been traced to the work of firebugs. There was a fire from this source in the Ruch district Sunday that threatened a number of homes, one of the same origin in the Mosquito Gulch section Tuesday afternoon, which is now under control and thought to have been set, reported from the Yankee Creek district this afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 11, 1915, page 4


    Married, at the residence of the bride's father, R. R. Minter, August 3, 1915, by Rev. L. L. Simmons, Waldermer E. Hammel and Miss Jessie Minter. The newly married couple started the same afternoon for San Francisco on a bridal tour and to visit the Panama exposition. Their many friend in this section are wishing them all the happiness imaginable. Mr. H. owns a large tract of land north of here and is considered one the leading men of his neighborhood, and Mrs. Hammel has been raised on her father's farm, three miles north of Eagle Point, and has a host of friends where she is known.
    I. R. Cline, deputy fruit inspector for Jackson County, and E. F. Stuckman called last week for dinner on their rounds looking after the fruit industry.
    Nimrod Charley and his son Walter were in town Thursday. Mr. Nimrod Charley is living now on his farm in Illinois Valley, Josephine County, and his son is living on his father's place on the divide between the north and south forks of Little Butte Creek. N. C. seems to think that his section of the country promises to be one of the rich sections in the state as there are very extensive copper mines there that are being developed and the owners are now hauling vast quantities of ore to Grants Pass for shipment, and he seems to think that when the railroad that is being built out of Grants Pass to that valley is completed that there will be a large number of men employed there, and that will create a demand for the food supplies of the valley.
    L. L. Small of Medford came out to visit our town last Thursday, the first time although he has been living in Medford for some years. He was very favorably impressed with the appearance of our town and seems to think that we have a bright future.
    Last Saturday afternoon Prof. Chase, one of the county school supervisors, called on me and invited me to take a ride up to Lake Creek, as there was to be a meeting of the Grange there that afternoon, so without any ceremony I jumped into his Ford and we went at the rate of 23 miles an hour and of course were soon there, where I met quite a number of the members of the Grange and some who were not members, and among those who were not members was Miss Hazel Brown, a daughter of Royal G. Brown, one of our merchants, who was up there visiting Miss Verna Charley, and the two young ladies preferred to take a horseback ride to riding in Mr. Charley's auto, so they went on horseback. The Grange has only been organized about two or three months and is not yet in good working order but they have a good prospect for a flourishing grange in that neighborhood. Their next meeting will be held on the bank of Little Butte Creek just across from the Lake Creek post office in a tent and before the meeting of the grange they contemplate having a picnic dinner which will take place on Saturday, Sept. 4. Everybody is invited to come and bring their dinner and have a good time. There will be present on that occasion a deputy Grange organizer, and a special dispensation will be granted so as to allow the grange to receive applications for membership and have them acted on and initiate the applicant the same day. I expect to be there at the time and will have something to tell the readers of the Mail Tribune on the subject and also be prepared to transact business for the Mail Tribune. It is the intention of the leaders in the Grange movement to try to build a hall in a central place so as to accommodate the people living on the two forks of the creek, and all the surrounding country. There is just the right kind of material in that Butte Creek neighborhood to organize and perpetuate a good live grange and then they can work as an organization to promote any public enterprise like putting a road around the Salt Creek hill, something that should have been done forty years ago.
    Mr. and Mrs. Isbell, who are living on one of the W. E. Hammel farms, was doing business with our merchants Friday.
    Corbin Edgell, one of our progressive fruit growers, made a trip to Medford, returning Saturday evening and taking supper at the Sunnyside before going home.
    W. F. Lewis and E. J. Phillips of Flounce Rock, Prospect P.O., stopped and fed their teams and took supper at the S.S. before going on to Medford Saturday night, and while here Mr. Lewis renewed his sub. to the Daily Mail Tribune and John W. Smith, one of our carpenters, also renewed his sub to the D.M.T. since my last report.
    T. J. Parton has sold, or rather traded, his farm--the old Joe Rader farm--for property in the East and moved to Texas last Friday.
    Last Sunday Prof. C. E. Johnson and Mrs. Chris Bergman and Mrs. Bert Clarno were received into the Baptist church here and the first two named were immersed in Butte Creek,. Mrs. Clarno had already been immersed.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 12, 1915, page 5


    Peter Betz and John Howard left Monday for a three weeks' trip in Klamath County. Miss May French will be the guest of Mrs. Betz during Mr. Betz' absence.
    Mr. Wyant and son James of Ashland are the guests of the E. E. Bellows family.
    Miss Ora Raimey is in Central Point this week packing fruit.
    Mrs. Jasper Hannah, Mrs. Daw, Misses Clara Skyrman and Dessie Hannah went to the berry patch the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Skyrman and little ones are camped at the Soda Springs above Ashland.
    Robert and Albert McCabe are working as blasters at Crater Lake.
    Alec Betz arrived at his home on Butte Creek from Eagle Point Friday just in time to save his buildings from a grass fire. Quite a bit of rail fencing was burned.
    Mrs. Francis Fry is visiting her parents, the Crofts.
    Miss Lucille Cox was the guest of her brother Gordon one night last week.
    A pretty wedding occurred at the home of Robert Minter Thursday when his daughter, Miss Jessie, and W. E. Hammel were married. An elaborate dinner was served after which the happy pair took the P.&E. to Medford and then to the Panama exposition at Frisco.
    Mrs. George Fry and Miss Mia Hannah went to Upper Trail Sunday.
    A forest fire is raging on Bald Mountain between the Meadows and Dry Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 12, 1915, page 5


    Born, August 12, 1915, to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hart, an eight and a half pound boy.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clark Rippy of Portland are here visiting Mrs. Rippy's mother, Mrs. R. G. Brown and sister, Mrs. Wm. H. Brown.
    Since my last J. H. Carleton, wife and daughter, Mr. Clark Rippy, wife and son, Earl Webb and wife, Clarence Lovering and wife, and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy have taken an auto trip out to Crater Lake, Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, Shovel Creek Springs, Hornbrook, Ashland, etc., back home. There were three autos and a merry crowd and of course had a good time, and those who had never been over the route before are loud in their praise of the whole trip. Thomas E. Nichols and wife and two sons-in-law, Benj. Brophy and Mr. McPherson and families took the same trip except via the Shovel Creek Springs instead. They went up Butte Creek from Klamath Falls and came into the road near Hornbrook. In fact the people now seem to think no more of going that route of about 300 miles that we used to going from here to Medford before we had roads to travel on in our old lumber wagons.
    Ted and Harold Guerin and wife, nephews of R. G., J. F., and W. H. Brown, arrived from Portland last Thursday to visit their relatives.
    Mrs. Ed Pence of Klamath County is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. G. Knighten.
    Mrs. Leabo has moved into the Mrs. Thomas house in the lower end of town.
    Herman Meyer and wife, John Tyrrell and wife of Lake Creek and John Tyrrell, Jr., and wife of Medford started for the coast last Friday to see the big pond.
    Mrs. Leolia Lewis of Reno, Nev., is here visiting the family of Frank Lewis and so is Miss Leada Maegly of Rogue River, and Chauncey Florey and family of Jacksonville, a son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis, were met at the train last Saturday by the Lewis family. They were on their way to Prospect to visit their relatives, the New family.
    Miss Fern Lewis has returned from Jacksonville where she has been visiting relatives.
    Since I wrote my last for the D.M.T. I have come into possession of some of the facts with regard to an outdoors dance that was given at Brownsboro on Saturday night, the 7th. There was a jolly crowd started from here for the dance on a hayrack. I understand that there were twenty-eight in all, and they only had one span of horses and the load was proved to be too heavy for the team so some of the company had to walk and finally procured another team but forgot to get the lead (long) lines so had to walk and lead the horses. Finally they managed to press an auto into service and had not gone far before the gasoline gave out and my informant, a young lady, said that she had to walk two miles on the home stretch and thanked her stars that she reached home alive, but still they all claimed to have had a good time.
    Among the callers since I last wrote was A. Lindamen of Chicago, Ill., representing the Great Northern Manufacturing Company, and Fred Tibbin of Portland of the American Central Insurance Company, C. H. Willison of Ashland, representing Wadhams & Kerr Bros., Mrs. W. and their two daughters and Mrs. V. A. Stewart, also of Ashland, accompanied them. Mrs. A. N. Thomas of Central Point, Carl von der Hellen of Wellen, Ed Walker, deputy game warden, J. H. Driscoll, the district game warden, A. Cobleigh of Butte Falls, R. W. Watson of Seattle, Wn., and Ed Dutton, beside several whose name I didn't learn.
    Mr. [Napoleon] Rice, the mayor of Roseburg, was among the business callers in our town.
    J. T. Sullivan, his son Jack and Mr. Patrick Welch and N. E. Griffin of Seattle, Wn., called Sunday morning for breakfast on their way to Fish Lake. Mr. Sullivan is the general manager of the Rogue River Canal Company, and was on his way up to the lake to see what was being done up there.
    C. E. Whistler and H. F. Corlies have been visiting the family of F. M. Corlies on the Alta Vista orchard.
    Miss Hazel Rader, a member of the faculty of the University of Oregon, has been here visiting Miss Francis Heath, one of the pupils of the institution.
    R. B. Fairley of Portland, sales engineer of the Kelly Switchboard & Supply Company, and Mr. M. McGuirk with the Oregon Central Cigar factory of Medford, were with us for dinner Monday.
    John Rader and wife were doing business in our town Monday.
    C. W. Clements and wife and J. Frank Brown and wife started for Crescent City Monday afternoon in Frank's auto. Speaking about autos I learned yesterday that I had made a mistake in reporting that Gus Nichols had bought a Ford. It was a Dodge instead of a Ford and I want [omission] sees me.
    Mrs. Marguerite Simpson, nee Marguerite Florey, is engaged as an assistant in the Eagle Point post office during the absence of the postmaster, W. C. Clements.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 18, 1915, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Albright were Medford visitors Thursday. Mrs. Albright went from there to Dorris, California, to visit her son Fred Inlow, who is in very poor health.
    Robert and Albert McCabe made a fast and dangerous ride on their bicycles last Saturday night from Crater Lake to their home to the bedside of their mother.
    Mrs. Eugene Bellows and Miss May Wilson spent several days the first of the week visiting friends and relatives in Ashland.
    Edward Foster made a business trip to Klamath County this week. He went on horseback directly east over the mountains.
    T. C. Gaines has bought a new carriage. He was in the valley last week.
    Perry Foster was in Medford on Tuesday.
    Allen Hodge is up from California visiting his sister, Mrs. Thomas Raimey.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller were out from Central Point visiting relatives Sunday.
    Harry Howard and family arrived Monday from Fort Klamath where they have spent the summer.
    Misses Mattie Minter, Anna and Mary Robertson and Marshall Minter returned Sunday from a trip to the mountains.
    Lloyd French went to Rogue River Monday.
    Mrs. Thomas McCabe died August 16, at the family home on Rogue River. She has been in poor health for some time but the last sickness was less than three days duration. She was nearly 70 years of age. She has lived here about ten years. She rarely got away from home and her pleasure was in doing for her family and she was greatly beloved by them. She leaves a husband and several children among whom are Robert, Albert, Anthony, Philip, John, Henry and Ellen McCabe and Mrs. Eva Garrett besides a great many friends to miss her pleasant and cheerful face.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 19, 1915, page 5


    Harry Howard and family returned to Klamath County Monday to spend the winter.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bowman and his mother of Portland camped on the river and fished a few days last week. They returned via Crater Lake.
    Ed Raimey of Central Point and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson of Northern Oregon visited their brother Tom Raimey and family the first of the week.
    Died at the family home August 16, 1915, Mrs. Thomas McCabe, aged 59 years, 2 months, 25 days. Lucinda Butler was born in Alabama May 22, 1856 and moved to Illinois with her parents where she grew to womanhood. She moved to Missouri and on June 11, 1873 married Thomas McCabe and three years later they came to Eastern Oregon and ten years ago to their present home. She was the mother of eight children and all but two were at her bedside during her last illness. She was greatly devoted to her family and spent her life for them.
    She leaves a sister, Mrs. C. Thompson of Illinois, two brothers, Chas. Butler of California, and Robert Butler of Missouri, her husband, and eight children, Thomas Jr., and Oliver McCabe of Eastern Oregon, Anthony and Philip McCabe of Derby, Mrs. Eva Garrett of Medford, Ellen, Robert and Albert McCabe at home and two grandchildren, Marvin Garrett and Elmer McCabe besides many friends to miss her loving voice and cheerful face. She was laid to rest in the Central Point cemetery.
    Mr. and Mrs. Green Mathews have returned from a pleasure trip to Klamath County.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel returned from the fair Friday. Saturday evening their friends serenaded them and after a pleasant time playing games, dainty refreshments were served.
    Alec Raimey and Joe Hannah sold some beeves last week.
    The Butler thresher is on the east side of the river and the Gage thresher on the west side.
    Tom Jones and family of Beagle passed here Monday on their way to the mountains.
    Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and Gwendolyn were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cornutt at Central Point one night last week.
    Tom Raimey and Jasper Hannah and wives were in the valley last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 25, 1915, page 5


    Since my last the legal advisor of our county court, E. E. Kelly, passed through here as a part of the advance guard of the K. of P., and just before he passed, this was on Monday evening, the main guy of the Mail Tribune, George Putnam, passed and in each car there was three stout-looking men who seemed to be a kind of a bodyguard to the aforesaid gentlemen, but the first car did not stop at all but went whizzing right through town just as though they did not know that the town of Eagle Point was incorporated and had notices posted warning the traveling public not to travel faster than eight miles and hour, and in the course of the evening there was several others followed and those who took time to stop said that they were going as far as Prospect that night, and the next day the road was simply lined with autos and Fords on their way to Crater Lake. I also saw quite a number of people going the same road with different kinds of vehicles, from a push cart to the Dodge, Hup, Maxwell, up to the Ford, all bent on having a good time and seeing the eighth wonder of the world--Crater Lake. I also saw quite a number who had been to the lake and were on their way to different parts of the country looking for other things of interest to see.
    Prof. U. S. Collins, formerly the superintendent of schools of Medford, but now representing the Northwestern School Furniture Co. of Portland and M. E. Chance representing the Occidental Health and Accident Insurance Co. of Los Angeles, Cal., were here Tuesday and Wednesday for dinner.
    Tuesday afternoon Fred Hopkins of the Hopkins orchard, near Central Point, called on your correspondent and left an order for dinner for 13 at 6:30 p.m. and just as the family timepiece struck that hour there were two large autos came up and the following persons alighted and marched into the dining room of the Sunnyside: Miss Helen Noble, Billie Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hopkins of Central Point, Mrs. John D. Olwell of San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Noble of Portland, Mrs. D. M. Pratt and Miss M. Pratt of New York, H. B. Tronson of the Tronson orchard, F. W. Hopkins of Central Point and Miss Francis Noble of Portland. Well, about the first thing they did after the formal introduction all around to the host and hostess was to make the declaration that they were hungry and before they left they gave proof of the fact, for they surely did seem to enjoy the dinner and expressed themselves as being will pleased with the result of their first visit to the Sunnyside. They were surely a happy company and seemed to be bent on having a good time while going through life.
    I see in the Oregon Journal of the 17th a glowing description of our motor car that serves the people on the Pacific & Eastern railroad, and among other good things the writer says about it is that they have a turntable expressly for the aforesaid car, but the turntable is carried right along with the car and consists of a jack screw, short hand bar and two small blocks of wood. When the engineer wishes to turn the car he simply places the jack screw under about the center of the reach or coupler, places the two blocks of wood on top of it and with the short bar turns the jack screw until the car is raised from the track and then he and the conductor simply turn the car on the pivot and lets it down and then it is ready for business again, quite an arrangement.
    J. R. Addleman, representing Wright and Ditson Athletic Supplies of Portland, stopped with us Tuesday and Wednesday.
    Prof. Charles E. Johnson has been engaged to teach school in the Laurel Hill school district.
    Mrs. Love J. Farnum, a granddaughter of our townsman, James Jordan, recently from Iowa, is here visiting her grandparents.
    Rev. L. L. Simmons reports that he and Charles Pointer have hauled the wood to use in the church next winter so that we need not suffer with the cold.
    On Wednesday noon Messrs. Sam Sandry, the fish warden, Pete Smuck of Rogue River and Verna Grigsby of Wellen called for dinner and Mr. Sandry invited me to go with them to Antelope Creek where they were taking the fish out of the stagnant pools and putting them in Butte Creek. When we reached the place we found George Grigsby and another of his sons with a seine dragging the pools and putting the fish into large cans of water to take to the clear cool living waters of Little Butte. Mr. Sandry estimated that he had caught several thousand small steelheads and by that means, saved the lives of the young fish, for the water was drying up and he was restocking the waters of Little Butte Creek. He has a small glass jar filled with the little fish, preserved in a liquid that he intends to send to the head of the department.
    It becomes my painful duty to report the death of the wife of Thomas McCabe, who owns a farm about four miles above here on Rogue River. Lucinda McCabe was born in the state of Alabama 9May 22, 1855, being 59 years, 2 months and 25 days old. She departed this life August 16, 1915. She leaves a husband, six sons and two daughters to battle with the trials of life. The interment was in the Central Point cemetery August 18 and the funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. L. Simmons at the grave. A large number of the friends of the family followed the remains to her last resting place. The bereaved have the sympathy of a host of friends.
    There will be an important church meeting at the home of Charles Painter Saturday night, August 21 at 8 o'clock and all who are interested in the church work are invited to attend.
    Mrs. Nellie Stillman, a niece of Mrs. W. G. Knighten who has been visiting her aunt and uncle returned to Grants Pass Thursday.
    Carl Stanley motored to Medford Thursday morning and brought out two of his wife's sisters, the Misses Beeson of Myrtle Creek.
    Herman Meyer, Jr., and his father-in-law J. R. Tyrrell of Lake Creek and the rest of the company returned from their trip to the coast Wednesday and report having had a fine time and that the roads were very good.
    Mrs. Mary Terrill of Brownsboro, and Ed and Herman Meyer came out on the Lake Creek stage car Thursday morning.
    George L. Treichler and W. J. Dozier of Medford came out here for dinner Thursday. They are representing the Overland automobile company of Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Meyer, Otto Meyer, E. E. Meyer, Miss Goule and H. G. Meyer started for Crater Lake Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 27, 1915, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. Clark Rippy of Portland, who have been here visiting Mrs. R.'s mother, Mrs. R. G. Brown, and sister, Mrs. William H. Brown, have returned to Portland. They were accompanied by Mrs. William H. Brown.
    Mrs. Palmer and daughter, Miss Loraine Grigsby, of Central Point, have gone to the hills beyond Butte Falls last Friday about nine miles for an outing. Lou Smith started in that direction a short time later, expecting to join them at Butte Falls.
    Last Friday Mrs. E. G. Hayes and her daughter, Miss Minnie, Mr. and Mrs. Isaacs and Miss Lottie Stewart of Long Beach, Cal., stopped here for dinner on their way to Crater Lake and on Saturday evening returned for supper. They seemed to take a fancy to something here. They seemed to be very favorably impressed with our surroundings.
    R. L. Burdic of Ashland, the man who came in here last spring and bought up about all the hogs he could find, was here last Friday and bought a carload of hogs. Walter Woods has been assisting him in his purchases. He bought 100 head of Wig Jacks, fifteen head of Joe Mayham and twenty from Frank Johnson. Last spring he bought over $15,000 worth of hogs in this section.
    Mrs. L. S. Grouse, whose husband has been foreman on the Riverside ranch, but is now foreman on the F.L.D. Co.'s orchard, near Agate, was here for dinner last Saturday.
    Saturday afternoon your Eagle Point correspondent drove over to Tolo to the Dr. Ray orchard, expecting to meet Rev. M. C. Davis there, but was disappointed in that respect, but met the family of E. H. Davis. They had just finished threshing their grain crop of about 1700 bushels and had just stacks of hay and fruit galore, especially peaches and pears. The apple trees are almost too young to bear much fruit yet. Sunday morning I met the Sunday school and preached for the people. I could not but notice what fine corn was growing along the route between Agate and Tolo in the bottom land especially, where the soil was sticky, and I was led to believe there will be more corn raised in the valley than was expected, although in some places it showed a want of moisture. From what I could learn from the men who have been with the threshing machine the wheat and oats crop will be up to the average.
    When I reached home I learned that Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Heath and daughter, Miss Frances, Dr. W. W. P. Holt and wife, T. F. Boltz, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, Avery Trask and Lyle Carlton of Ashland, Henry and Miss Mae Trusty of Elk Creek, Amos Ayres, Joe Moomaw, Miss Ruth Thomson of Derby, Roy Willits of Persist, Carl Ringer of Medford, Mr. Petty of the Corbin orchard and A. P. Long, a member of the police force of Portland, had been here for dinner during my absence, besides several whose names my informant did not know, and later Rev. W. E. Smith, a Baptist minister, who is working in the interest of the American Sunday School Union, called to spend the night.
    Monday, W. C. Clements, our postmaster, and wife and J. Frank Brown, one of our merchants, and wife returned from their trip to the coast, and report that they had a lovely trip and that the roads were fairly good.
    W. W. Cooke of Damascus, Or., a nephew of Mrs. Howlett, and his wife, who have been visiting us since Thursday. They started for his home Monday afternoon. They drove out in a rig.
    Al Mayfield and wife have been visiting Mrs. M.'s brother-in-law and sister, William G. Knighten and wife.
    Professor Wheeler, wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Robinson, have moved into the P. H. Daily house and expects to commence school on Tuesday, September 7. I understand that Mrs. Ella Shesler, the primary teacher, has engaged two rooms of Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and intends to keep house.
    Mrs. Cadzow and little son of Butte Falls spent Monday night with us and there were three transients came in at 10 p.m. and called for supper and beds whose names I did not learn.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hutchinson, who have been living on Mr. Gresham's place, were [here] for dinner Tuesday. They were on their way to Ashland to live. We also had for dinner Monday Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Helfrich and their daughter, Miss Velma, Miss Ercel Carroll, F. G. Mathison and daughter, Miss Helen P. Mathison, all of Medford. Mr. Mathison is the man who traded with T. J. Parton for the old Joe Rader place.
    Tuesday morning William Gregory, Sr., wife and daughter, Mrs. Wheedon and her son, and A. N. Thomas of Central Point, motored out to visit Mrs. Howlett. They are some of the people that we used to be with about fifty years ago and we had a good, old-fashioned visit.
    Monday in my rounds looking for something of interest to write for the readers of the Mail Tribune, I interviewed our lumberman and learned that he has been selling considerable lumber lately, and I met there William Gresham of Lake Creek, and one of his brothers with teams after lumber. They have bought quite a bill and several thousand shingles. And learned that W. C. Daley, also of Lake Creek, Stella Bros., G. W. Sevenson, Chris Natwick, Thomas E. Nichols and Nick Young had been getting building material of the yard. And while talking with the manager of the E.P.L. yard, J. T. Harrison, he told me that he went to Medford Saturday evening, and while at home witnessed the marriage of his son, J. Herman Harrison, and Miss Stella Kribs, both of Medford. The first break in his family so far, and he seems to be very proud of his new daughter.
    Lou Rukes, one of the Medford cigar salesmen, was here Tuesday for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 30, 1915, page 3


    M. E. Root and B. U. Young, representing the Produce Fruit Co. of Sacramento, Cal., were among us Tuesday last looking after the interest of the fruit men. Mr. Young is the vice-president and assistant manager of the company.
    The orchard men are busily engaged gathering their pears and peaches and the prospect is that they will have a large crop and the peaches seem to be of a superior quality.
    George Stevens and T. W. Osgood, one of the civil engineers, and Mr. Cowgill, another civil engineer, were all here trying to perfect the plan to have a general irrigation system throughout the valley last week.
    In my rounds Wednesday I had occasion to call on T. D. Singleton, one of our progressive farmers. While he has planted quite a tract of his land to fruit trees he also has utilized his land for diversified farming and the result is that he has a large lot of hay and grain on hand and is perfectly independent so far as this world's goods are concerned. While I was there he renewed his subscriptions to the weekly Mail Tribune and is talking of having his subscription changed from the weekly to the daily so that he can get "all the news, all the time." While I was there he told me that he had been over to help at a barn-raising for Nick Young and that the following persons among Nick's neighbors assisted in the work: Pete Young, James Owens, Charles Givan, Jimmy Duggan, Alex Betz, W. W. Taylor, Thomas and John Singleton and Thomas Cingcade.
    The Butler threshing machine was at work at George Givan's at the time, so that kept quite a number from joining in the festivities of the occasion for while they worked hard to get the frame up which they did, including the rafters. They always have fun on such occasions and to "cap the climax" two of Nick's sisters, Miss Clara and Mrs. James Owens served a regular "Butte Creek" dinner that consisted of all the good things the country affords.
    The next move I made was for the beautiful home of Charles A. Pruett and just as I was turning around with my buggy to go to the next place Mr. Pruett came dashing by me in their auto. They had been out to Crater Lake, Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, Yreka, etc., and after resting a little while a nice large watermelon was cut and we helped to dispose of a part of that and then Mr. Pruett gave me his check to renew his subscription to the weekly. Passing on to the next place I stopped at the home of J. L. Frank, where he renewed his subscription for the weekly Mail Tribune. From there I went to George Givan's home where I found Mrs. G. and her daughter and one of the boys but Mr. Givan was working on a tract of land that fell to Mrs. Givan in the division of her father's estate, so I did no business there but sampled some of their fine peaches. Going from there to Nick Young's I found Nick at home just fixing up his wagon to go to the Edmondson mill after lumber to finish his barn and he told me that he was going to build a new house also on his own land as he has been living in his sister's house. I done no business there. The next man I saw was Sam Coy, who bought a part of the old J. J. Fryer place. He was on his way home and had been down on the Bishop place picking peaches, but did no business with him, then went home and reached there just in time to eat my supper alone.
    Dr. Rebec, one of the professors in the state university, and a carload were here Wednesday evening for supper. The doctor has an orchard near Jacksonville.
    Miss Ruth Holmes of Central Point is here visiting her cousin Miss Hazel Brown.
    While I was out Thursday working for the Mail Tribune I met Mr. Frank Derrick and he gave me his subscription for the weekly. I also called at the farm of John Rader but found that he was in the hills but his wife renewed the subscription to the weekly. I also went to some other places but found that they were short of cash so did no business, but live in hopes of doing better in the future.
    I see that the school board have posted a notice that there will be a special school election September 3 at 3:15 p.m. to vote on the adoption of the following budget, to wit:
For teachers' salaries……$2,925.00
Apparatus, maps, chalk, etc. and H.S. equipment……300.00
Janitor……180.00
Fuel……75.00
Light……10.00
Clerk's salary……25.00
Postage and stationery……5.00
Incidentals……80.00
Reducing floating debt……1,000.00
    TOTAL……$4,600.00
Medford Mail Tribune, August 31, 1915, page 2


    John Fry was a valley visitor recently.
    Gene Bellows sold a load of hogs to Walter Woods.
    Dr. Kirchgessner of Fall City, Or., was out on the river Sunday.
    Ray Whitley of Ashland is spending a few days at the Debenger Gap ranch.
    A bouncing baby boy arrived August 24 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Grieve on the Nichols ranch.
    Professor Collins was interviewing the directors of the several districts in regard to new furniture.
    There was a dinner party and family reunion at the Ayres home Sunday.
    There was a swimming party at Mrs. Gene Bellows' Sunday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller are out from Central Point visiting relatives here.
    C. H. Veightes of Ashland was out to the ranch the first of the week.
    George McDonough and family and Mrs. Gilchrist of Sams Valley passed en route to the berry patch Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Graham have returned to their home after a year's absence in San Francisco. Mrs. Graham has been quite sick for the last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 1, 1915, page 4


    G. F. Euston of Prineville was here looking over the country in this section.
    William Heckathorn of Yakima, Wash., was among the callers last Thursday, and on Friday went up to Thomas Farlow's and finally went up to his old home on Elk Creek.
    Dr. Emmens and Mr. Kidd, both of Medford, passed through here on their way to Crater Lake last Friday.
    Last Saturday C. H. Willison and family were here for dinner and the way the traveling salesmen congregate here one would be led to think that our merchants were doing considerable business.
    On Sunday W. Hart Hamilton and family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, their son, Sherwood L., Miss Mildred Hamilton and her sister, Miss Janet, were here for dinner. They were preparing to return to their home, at least the ladies in the family were, and Mrs. H. said that she could not think of leaving Eagle Point without taking a meal at the Sunnyside and meeting the author of the Eaglets, as she had been in the habit of reading them in her home in San Jose, Cal., for several years. The three ladies started on Tuesday evening on the S.P., accompanied by Mrs. R. A. Whitman and son. Mr. Whitman is the foreman on Mr. Hamilton's farm and orchard, and during his wife's absence he, Mr. Hamilton and his son are taking their meals at the Sunnyside.
    In addition to the Hamilton family we had about twenty transients here for dinner, some of whom were strangers, but among them were R. L. Burdic, who has been buying up another carload of hogs for shipment to the California market. Walter Woods has been assisting him in making his purchases. They report that they have succeeded in securing sixteen porkers from Eugene Bellows, thirty-five from L. D. Tucker of Brownsboro and 115 from J. W. Wakefield of Medford.
    Mrs. John Ashpole of Medford has been visiting her son Roy and family the past few days.
    George Childreth came out from Medford Monday to visit his brother, Wesley L. Childreth.
    W. L. Childreth has moved his supply of undertaking goods from the Ashpole building into a house just below the mill, and Roy Ashpole has moved his stock of hardware and dishes into his own building on Main Street.
    One of the barns on the place known as the Parton or Joe Rader place took fire Sunday night about 11 o'clock and burned to the ground. I understand that there was about fifteen or twenty tons of hay in the barn at the time. The property had changed hands a short time before and is now owned by F. G. Mathison. I have not learned about the insurance or whether it was insured or not. I understand that there was quite a lot of farming implements stored in the barn. I believe that there was no one on the place when it burned.
    R. P. Cornelius of Ashland was doing business in our town Monday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Bert Higinbotham of Flounce Rock was among the guests Sunday night.
    Kenneth G. Hook, a brother-in-law of R. A. Whitman, is among the boarders at the S.S. Hotel during the absence of his sister.
    T. W. Osgood and S. E. Mountain were with us Tuesday for dinner, and so were M. E. Root, the Fruit and Produce Association's man, and J. J. McMahon of Ashland was here with Mr. Burdic and Walter Wood Tuesday.
    Tuesday afternoon three of the seven sisters known as the Perry sisters, to wit: Mrs. Libbie Whetter, Mrs. Nellie Simpson of Spokane, Wash., arrived here to visit their mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, sisters and brother, Mrs. Nettie Grover, Mrs. Lottie McQuoid, Mrs. Della Nichols, Mrs. Emma Seine of Oakland, Cal., who has been here for several days, and William Perry of Butte Falls. The eight children aim to have a family reunion once each year, and they always have a good time, and I heard Mrs. Howlett say something about them inviting her to give a quilting party while they were all here together, as she generally does, and I suppose that she will, for she is about as young as any of them.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 3, 1915, page 5


    In looking around for items of news, among other things I notice that the school board have had the floors of the schoolhouse oiled so as to make less work for the janitor and improve the appearance of the building.
    Mrs. L. Walden, a daughter of our townsman, Thomas E. Nichols, arrived from Oakland, Cal., the first of the week to visit her parents, brother, Gus Nichols, and sister, Mrs. Anna Brophy.
    Mrs. Susan Whitsett of Glendale, Or., arrived at the Sunnyside Wednesday evening to visit her grandchildren, Hazel and Thurman McClallen, two of the regular boarders.
    Thursday morning there was quite an excitement in our little town over a fire in the residence of Fred Findley, the cause of which was a defective connection of the stovepipe and the flue. It did but little damage, as there was a crowd of about twenty men collected in a short time and soon had the fire extinguished.
    The same morning Roy and Harold McGee of Cow Creek, Douglas County, called for a short time on your correspondent and family while on their way to Crater Lake. The two young men were partly raised in our town, and it seemed like meeting home folk to meet them.
    Mrs. Love Farnum, a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan, who has been here for a few weeks, started on her return trip via Vancouver, B.C., for her home in Iowa Friday.
    Professor C. E. Johnson, who has been making his home with us during the summer, expects to commence his school in the Laurel Hill district on Monday, September 6, and the school in Eagle Point will commence the same day. Miss Mabel Hanson arrived at the Sunnyside Friday noon and Saturday morning took the car for Derby and the stage for Prospect to commence her school in the Flounce Rock-Higinbotham district, where she taught last season and gave such satisfaction.
    Ed Dutton, our boss road supervisor, was taken from this district, where he has been serving in that capacity for some time, to the Lake Creek district to do some much-needed work up there in repairing bridges, putting in culverts and doing general repair work. And while working on one of the bridges, while assisting in getting an auto across on some planks he had his hand caught between the spokes of a wheel and a cogwheel and his fingers badly bruised and cut.
    George Wamsley returned a few days ago from the David Cingcade mountain stock ranch, where he has been engaged in building a new house.
    Our school meeting to vote on the budget, as arranged by the board, passed off very pleasantly Friday afternoon, considering the number of people that were there, for there were fifty-six voted and there was quite a number who were not voters. After the reading of the budget a motion was made and carried to have the different items in the budget voted on separately, and when the item of $3600 for teachers and $300 for high school equipment was read, John Nichols made a motion to have that portion of the amount asked for, that is, the $675 for extra teachers' salary and the $300 for high school equipment stricken off. There was some discussion and the advocates for the high school pleaded long and lustily for the rejection of the motion, but all in vain, for when the vote was taken it stood: For high school 18, against 37. Then a motion was made to levy a 7-mill tax, 4 the upkeep of the school and 3 to liquidate a part of the floating debt, and the vote stood: For tax 38, against 18, the same number that voted for the high school, and it is believed that the same ones who were defeated in trying to have a high school started voted to keep down the tax "to teach them a lesson."
    The Gresham brothers came out Friday after another load of lumber and a load of seed grain.
    William Hoefft of Lake Creek was here for dinner Friday, and while in town bought a lot of lumber of our local dealer.
    Miss Laura Gates of Medford was out Friday, the guest of Miss Hazel Brown.
    Friday there was a kind of a surprise party at the home of Mrs. Della Nichols. Her six sisters and a number of their friends by agreement met at her home and had vocal, instrumental and mechanical music. Refreshments were served and before they got through some of them indulged in dancing, but they had a fine time as could be expected.
    Charles Leton and family of Roseville, Cal., are here visiting the family of John Rader. Mr. L. and Mrs. Rader are cousins.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 6, 1915, page 7


    Thomas Stanley of Yreka, Cal., spent Monday night with his nephew, Jasper Hannah.
    Charles Skyrman returned home Sunday from Ashland.
    Mrs. Austin and daughter, Bernice, passed Thursday en route from Glendale to Fort Klamath to make her home.
    Among those who attended the circus were: Will Houston and family, Perry Foster, Mrs. Mae Daw and children, Jasper Hannah and family.
    Miss Anna Robertson spent a couple of days last week with Mrs. Jettie Clarno.
    Mrs. Tom Raimey was last week with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Miller, in Central Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pettegrew were Sunday callers at the French home.
    Joe Hannah, Jr., has bought the improvements of Wallace Coffeen on his homestead.
    Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Albright spent Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fitzgerald of Sams Valley.
    Mrs. Hattie Ragsdale was at Beagle Sunday.
    Among the valley visitors the last week were: Mrs. Kregor, Mrs. Sager, Mrs. Middlebusher, E. E. Ash, Mr. and Mrs. Belcher.
    T. C. and Oliver Gaines sold some beef cattle last week.
    A crew of men are moving the wire from the old poles to the new ones on the Trail telephone line. The power company gave them a plan to prevent the hum that has been on the line since the power company put up its pole line. By the last of the week the line will be finished and will be one to be proud of.
    Miss Eula Houston is teaching an eight months' term of school in the Central district.
    Gene Bellows took some fine turkeys to Eagle Point Tuesday.
    John and Jack Walker were in the Eagle Point vicinity Monday.
    Bird Johnston and Norman Gage hauled their sawmill out from Central Point Tuesday.
    Mesdames Bert and Jettie Clarno took some nice chickens to Eagle Point Tuesday.
    Professor C. E. Johnson began the winter term of school in the Laurel district September 6.
    About thirty gathered at the home of Mrs. Jettie Clarno Tuesday night and spent the evening playing games, after which refreshments were served.
    Wayman Bergman spent last week with his mother, Mrs. B. Clarno.
    Miss Maxon of Talent began a four months' term of school in the upper Trail district August 30.
    Tom Raimey and Edward Foster were Central Point visitors Monday.
    Miss Dessie Stacey of Beagle opened a three months' term of school in the Long Branch district September 6.
    Harry Skyrman and sister, Miss Clara, went to Central Point Saturday. They will attend the high school there this winter.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 8, 1915, page 5


    On Saturday of last week your Eagle Point correspondent took a trip up Little Butte Creek to attend an outdoor meeting of the Lake Creek Grange and picnic dinner, but was somewhat disappointed when I reached the picnic grounds to discover that they were just eating dinner, and I had eaten a lunch just as I left home at 11 o'clock a.m., so that I had no appetite to be satisfied. But those whole-souled people would insist on my eating after all of my protesting. But the dinner was enough to tempt anyone to eat without any extra persuading, but if I could not eat I would enjoy seeing others enjoy the dinner, anyhow. There were about thirty-five or forty persons present and fully as many ladies as men, and each vied with the other to see who could make the other the happier. After dinner was over and an hour or so spent in a social way, pieces of canvas wagon sheets, etc. were stretched on a wire from tree to tree around the seats that had been prepared and the company was invited by Professor Chance to come inside of the enclosure to hear the speaking, and soon the company was seated and he began to get ready to introduce the speaker of the hour, and among the first things he said was that his speech was to be silence, and then he would talk awhile and then say that his speech was going to be silence, and finally after so long a time he introduced as the speaker Mr. Canaday of Medford, and announced that he was a lawyer and about the first thing he said was that he supposed that some of the audience would be surprised to have called on a professional lawyer to make a speech at a grange meeting, and he was about right in that respect, for I, for one, was greatly surprised myself at such a move, but he did very well, as you know that a lawyer is supposed to be able to speak in favor of any subject. But he apologized for being in that role by saying that he had been raised on a farm and had had some practical knowledge of farm life. The next speaker was Mr. Cowley, the district deputy for the master of the state grange, and he have us a good, practical talk on the workings of the grange, not only in this state, but throughout the entire country. Then Mr. Berkholt, master of the Willow Springs grange, was called on and he commenced by saying that he never made a speech in his life and never expected to, but he did very well, considering that he had never made a speech, for he told us several good things, and I believe that if he would make up his mind that he could that he would make a success in that line. Then the chairman, Mr. Chance, called on your Eagle Point correspondent for a speech, stating that he had formerly belonged to the Eagle Point grange and knew something of the workings of the order so he got up and tried to tell some of the advantages of being a member of the grange by citing the difference in the handling of our wool in an early day while the grange was organized in Douglas County, and the wool growers put their wool all together and demanded a good price for their wool. We in Jackson County were simply at the mercy of the speculator and he demanded the wool at his price, and we were forced to take it simply for lack of organization. After the speechifying was over those who were not members were invited to retire and the regular business of the grange was taken up and two new members were initiated. There were steps taken to erect a large hall near the grove, a joint stock arrangement, to be used for the grange hall and any other purpose that might come up. Owning to the fact that the farmers up there were busy with their alfalfa hay, the third crop, there was not the attendance at the meeting that there would have been if the people had not been so busy. But the prospect is good for making a grand success of the grange movement in that neighborhood, for when such men as Thomas Farlow, Lemon Charley, James Culbertson, C. D. Schell, Herman Meyer, Jr., and a host of the bright women in that section take hold of a move it has to go. While I was there I met C. D. Schell, and he informed me that his father, 84 years old, had been spending the summer with him and had just returned to his home in Nebraska.
    C. D. Schell commenced his school in the new schoolhouse with new furniture on Monday, September 6, in the Kent settlement.
    Miss Alma Gould expects to commence her school next Monday, the 13th, in the Lake Creek district.
    Miss Mabel Hansen spent Friday night with us and went to Flounce Rock district to commence her school last Monday.
    R. Post of Medford and Miss Fannie Hurst were here for supper Sunday evening. They were out to see about a position as teacher in our school, but learned that there was no vacancy.
    Professor C. E. Johnson commenced his school in Laurel Hill district Monday.
    Our school commenced last Monday, but all that was done was to enroll the names and be assigned to their places in the classes. There were sixty names enrolled.
    Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tedrick and Malvin Wade are visiting Mr. Tedwick's son, C. C. Tedwick, on the Fred Pelouze place.
    Marion Trusty, a brother of the contractor, Henry Trusty, is carrying the mail from Eagle Point to Persist. His sister, Miss Mae, is visiting friends in Eagle Point.
    L. G. Palmer of Central Point, who has been up in the hills taking an outing and making shakes, returned Saturday and brought out his stepson, Andrew, stepdaughter, Lorene Grigsby, and Lew Smith, and spent the night at the Sunnyside, and Mr. P. and son went on to Central Point Sunday morning, but Lorene remained here up to Wednesday morning.
    Miss Frances Heath was visiting friends in Medford Saturday.
    Messrs. Knight and Bishop have shipped a carload of pears from here Monday.
    Frank Caster and family returned from Washington last Saturday.
    Mrs. McArthur and her sister, Miss Maud Corlies, daughters of the foreman of the Alta Vista orchard, were in town on business last Monday.
    Mrs. R. G. Brown was attending to business in Medford Monday.
    A. J. Florey reports that they have pullets that lay eggs at four months old--some pullets.
    M. E. Root and B. U. Young of the F.&P. Co. were here Monday.
    Mrs. Susan Whitsett, who has been visiting her grandchildren for the past week, returned to her home in Glendale Monday.
    Joe Pool has been hauling baled hay and storing it in the old bakery building.
    William Gressom has shipped in seven wire gates and a lot of windows and doors, the latter for his new house.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton and Mrs. J. A. Montgomery were among the business callers Monday.
    Mr. Chase, our school supervisor, and L. P. Huntington, who are working in the interest of the school fairs, were here Tuesday morning looking for exhibits for the county fair.
    Frank Lewis of the Lewis confectionery and Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, have gone to work and cleaned up the street in front of and between their places of business, and Wes L. Childreth has joined them in the good work, greatly improving the appearance of the place.
    Ed Walker, our efficient game warden, was here Tuesday for dinner, and so was William Nickel and Audley Meyer and his uncle, Herman Meyer, Sr. He had just returned from the Medford hospital, where he had been confined for the past two weeks.
    The accidental shooting of Henry Frey has caused a deep feeling of sympathy for the bereaved families.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 10, 1915, page 6


    Dr. J. Lawrence Hill and wife and Mrs. Rice, a neighbor of the doctor, motored out from their home in Medford to visit the author of the Eagle Point Eaglets, at the suggestion of Our George, the editor of the Mail Tribune, and we had a very, very pleasant visit, talked of old times and church affairs, as the doctor is a minister as well as an M.D., and while here they each expressed their admiration of our surroundings.
    The same day, Wednesday, A. A. Pine, a salesman for Hills Bros., shoe merchants, San Francisco, Cal., was here for dinner.
    I omitted to mention in my last that Mrs. Della Nichols gave a party to a number of her Rebekah friends on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the marriage of her sister, Lottie, and Norman McQuoid. Those present were: George Wamsley and daughter, Miss Mabel, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Newport, Miss Mae Trusty, Amos Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McQuoid, Mr. and Mrs. William Perry and their two daughters, Stella and Fay, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grover and two daughters, Verta and Ruth, Claude Gaines, Mrs. W. L. Childreth, Mrs. A. C. Howlett and daughter, Hattie, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. McQuoid, Mrs. Nellie Simpson, Mrs. Emma Seines, Mrs. Harriet Allen and Mrs. Libbie Whittier. The five mentioned last are sisters of the giver of the party and the one in whose honor the party was given, and Mrs. F. M. Stewart is the mother of the seven sisters (Mrs. J. W. Grover is one of the seven), and William Perry of Butte Falls is the only brother, making a family of eight children, and they had one of those reunions that causes us to look to our younger days with feelings of gratitude to the giver of all good for the many blessings of life.
    R. L. Burdic and Julius Hart of Ashland stopped off at the Sunnyside for supper Wednesday evening. They were out buying up a carload of hogs for shipment. They had been up to Asbestos that day with their car and found some of our noted Oregon mountain roads. Walter Wood accompanied them on their trip.
    J. N. Smith of Yankee Creek (Wellen post office) was out Thursday with a nice lot of honey. He has been making a specialty of bee culture and finds it to be a lucrative business.
    F. M. Backus of the firm of Backus & Morris, Portland, was here taking orders of von der Hellen Hardware Company for fishing tackle, Thursday.
    Earl Croft, foreman on the J. H. Cooley farm and orchard, has just finished baling a fine lot of hay on the place, and W. Hart Hamilton is now engaged baling his hay crop with the same baler.
    E. S. Crutchfield of Medford and C. L. Stevenson passed through here Thursday on their way home with two deer as the reward of their tramp through the hills. They said that they had had a very pleasant time while out in camp and felt as though the outdoor life in the hills had been a great help to them.
    Jed Edsall came out from his ranch three miles this side of Butte Falls, Wednesday evening and Thursday made a business trip to Medford, returning to his ranch Friday morning.
    Dad Mahoney of Butte Falls passed through here Thursday afternoon with a load of shakes, and I have noticed that quite a number of persons are going through with shakes and posts lately, which shows that there is some improving going on.
    Mrs. L. J. Hessler called while I was out and left a year's subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Professor C. E. Johnson came out from his school Thursday evening, spent the night at the Sunnyside, attended the meeting of the I.O.O.F. lodge and Friday went to the county fair at Medford.
    Speaking of the county fair, those who have attended report that it is up to date and that the produce exhibit is one we may feel proud of.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 1915, page 5


    The Pacific & Eastern railway company departed from their regular custom last Friday and ran their motor car up to Butte Falls for the purpose of taking Congressman W. C. Hawley up. I understand that he has an interest in a tract of timberland in that region.
    I see that J. M. Wolfrey, the owner of one of our best orchards, has returned to his place. He has been spending the summer in Salt Lake City where he has some interests. His wife remained in Salt Lake City while he came back here to look after his orchard.
    R. L. Burdic, the hog buyer of Ashland, was here the first of the week to receive another lot of 98 hogs that L. M. Walch brought in. He also received a nice bunch of beef cattle that Bert Higinbotham and Ed Hollenbeek brought in from the Prospect country.
    Mrs. J. L. Robertson and her son, Elmer, gave a birthday party last Saturday night, as the mother and son had their birthday come in the same week, and invited in about all of their neighbors. Early in the evening they began to collect, and in a short time there were 47 there and the fun began, playing games, eating ice cream, sandwiches, etc., and continued the sport until a late hour. One of our boarders who was there came home about 4:00 o'clock in the morning. I tried to get a list of the names of those who were in attendance but the lady friend to whom I entrusted the task perhaps thought that there would be too many for one letter.
    Our son-in-law, C. E. Hoyt, and wife came in last Friday night and they brought in Mrs. R. F. Pfeiffer of Medford and her two children. Mr. Pfeiffer has been employed as cook in the Klamath Hotel at Fort Klamath during the summer and his wife has been his assistant.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brittsan of Ashland are visiting their son, V. E. Brittsan, on the Abe Reese place on Rogue River.
    Last Saturday Clyde Cormack, formerly of these parts, his father had a sawmill on the south side of Round Top and Clyde worked in the mill, he came out Saturday to go up to his old home and Butte Falls. He took dinner here and renewed old acquaintance with several of the old timers. He came from Santa Barbara, Cal.
    R. N. Helge and C. H. Willison of Ashland were among the callers Saturday for dinner.
    H. R. Smith, B. U. Young and M. E. Root, all interested in the fruit growers association of Medford, called Sunday for dinner on their way up the country. Frank Abbott and wife were among the callers Sunday for dinner.
    William Whitman, one of our barbers, has moved into the James Ringer house.
    James Vestal, one of our promising young men who has worked his way through the high school of Central Point, stopped here for dinner Monday on his way to Corvallis to enter as a student. Such boys as that will make their mark in the world.
    B. Klum and his two assistants passed through our town Tuesday. They were putting up signboards along the route to Crater Lake and among other things he did was to put up a sign right in the middle of the city of Eagle Point with the pointer pointing in a northerly direction that said Eagle Point one-quarter mile and a number of us who have been living here from 10 to 40 years thought that we were living in the town, and paying our taxes and voting illegally, if the sign be true, all these years and just learned that we were not in the town at all. But perhaps the man who drew up the plan of the route and the man who had the contract to make and put up the signs did not know as much about the boundaries of our town as they might, but that is the way our tax money goes, for such signs as that must have cost the taxpayers at least $1.50 or $2 apiece beside the expense of setting the posts, etc.
    Miss Mae Wilson is spending a few days visiting the Robertson family, about four miles north of here.
    W. B. McDonald of Medford spent Tuesday night with us. He had been up to Elk Creek visiting his parents.
    W. C. Daley has an ad in this issue of the Daily Mail Tribune offering hay for sale.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 16, 1915, page 2


    Fred Inlow and daughter Amber of Dorris, Cal., are the guests of his mother, Mrs. Alvin Albright.
    E. E. Ash and family autoed to the fair in Medford Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. Glusser have returned to their home.
    Jasper Hannah made a business trip to Medford Friday.
    Steve Smith has returned home after spending the last six weeks hauling wood to Medford.
    J. C. Hannah was visiting relatives in Medford.
    Jasper Hannah and E. B. Raimey moved Dr. Kirchgessner's household goods out to his Riverdale place Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Peter Betz were Central Point visitors a few days ago.
    Jack Houston went to the valley Monday.
    There was a large crowd gathered at the Robertson home to help Mrs. Robertson and son Elmer celebrate their natal day last Saturday. Games were played and sandwiches, ice cream and cake were served for refreshments.
    Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and children visited Tom Raimey and family and E. B. Raimey the first of the week.
    Mrs. Skyrman went to Central Point Monday.
    Mr. Deardroff and wife of Ashland will live in the Findley house this winter. Mr. Deardroff will begin a winter term of school in the Reese Creek district Sept. 20.
    Joe Hannah was in Medford on business Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 16, 1915, page 5


    Last Wednesday I hitched the old mare to the buggy and started out to see what I could do in the way of soliciting and collecting for the Medford Mail Tribune and found that quite a number of the persons that I wanted to see were not at home and in many instances the man of the house was out looking after the cattle and the madam would have no money, so I would pass on and think that I would be fortunate at the next house, and so it went until I finally reached the fine farm of G. Nygren, and his son said that he was in the potato patch, and so he sent his little sister for him against my protest and after waiting about an hour he put in an appearance and the old gentleman seemed glad to see me and wrote out a check for a year's subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune. I noticed as I was around his place that he had some corn and potatoes that looked good to me; in fact he is among our best farmers and citizens. Passing on I met a Mr. Schelle and bought a fine lot of blackberries of him or rather his wife, but could not prevail on him to give me his subscription for the Mail Tribune, offering to take truck for pay, but he thought he better not take it now. Going on still higher up the creek I stopped to see Charles Klingle and he readily renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. Turning my course I started on my return trip and stopped to see quite a number and finally met A. Grissom of Climax going home with a load of doors and windows to put into a new house one of his sons was building, and he renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. The next day I started out again and met Mrs. Mary Beale and her daughter, Miss Nellie M. Smith of Butte Falls, and secured a subscription from Miss Nellie for the Weekly Mail Tribune. Feeling greatly encouraged I started out and the first man I found that I wanted to see was our old friend, Thomas Riley, Sr. Had a pleasant visit with him and his wife and later he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Going on about two miles I came to the home of Dolph Kent, found him at home and had him renew his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. From there I went to Fred Frey's beautiful farm and found him at home and he gave me a check for a year's subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. On my way home I stopped at the beautiful home of Senator von der Hellen, had a short visit but did no business. From there on I stopped to see one or more but did no business. Friday I stayed at home and did no business. Saturday I went up to the Commercial orchard after some of their fine peaches and while there J. E. Robbins, the foreman of the orchard, renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and after taking dinner with mine host and his family, returned home tired and dirty. Now, if anyone thinks soliciting and collecting for a newspaper is making "easy money" let them follow me a few days in the heat and dust.
    Charley Klingle of Lake Creek came out Thursday after a load of brick and his horses became unmanageable near the Pelouze farm and ran into a wire fence, cutting both horses badly.
    F. D. Axtell and wife of Gresham, Oregon, came in Tuesday night in their car on their way to San Francisco to visit the fair and remained until Friday morning when they and their son-in-law and daughter, C. E. Hoyt and and wife, started for Crater Lake and Fort Klamath.
    Jacob Monia and family of Brownsboro came up with their car Saturday morning, bringing with them Miss Mary Monia and Miss Mildred Tucker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tucker of Brownsboro. They had by their industry and management secured prizes at the county fair on their products and as a premium were entitled to a trip to Crater Lake and were starting on the trip. While they were here Prof. E. R. Peterson, one of the school supervisors, came up with Miss Tillie M. Knips of Talent, another one of the prize winners, on her way to Crater Lake. The two young misses joined her in the professor's car and all started out for the trip, a merry and happy company.
    Miss Gladys Holmes of Derby has been visiting her cousin, Miss Claire Zimmerman, at the Sunnyside last week.
    Wm. Newstrom of Lake Creek was among the guests on Saturday at the Sunnyside.
    John Rader, one of our prominent stockmen, was doing business in our town Friday and Saturday.
    W. W. P. Holt, M.D., reports the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. H. Hoogerhyde of Eagle Point on the 14th inst.
    Joseph Riley, who owns a farm on Antelope Creek near here, has some as fine corn as I have seen this season. He intends to send some of it to the state fair.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 21, 1915, page 5


    Arthur Morrison of Fort Klamath brought Mrs. Swan and family over to Eagle Point to spend the winter. Mr. Morrison called on relatives and then took a load of fruit home.
    Mr. Olson of Elk Creek took forty-two fine fat spring lambs to Medford last week.
    Velma Fry spent Monday night with Velma Hannah.
    Mr. Wyant of Ashland made his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Bellows, a flying visit.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Warner were valley visitors the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Slusser are spending a fortnight in Eagle Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cornutt of Central Point came out to Will Houston's Monday.
    Jasper Hannah and family were Medford visitors last week.
    Mrs. Frank Miller is visiting her mother, Mrs. Raimey.
    Dr. and Mrs. Kirchgessner spent a few days at the Riverdale place.
    Misses Dessie and Velma Hannah went to Medford Tuesday.
    Among the valley visitors this week were Mrs. Middlebusher and son Clarence, John Fry, E. E. Ash, Jack Daw, George Fry, Will Houston and Edwin Peile.
    Mrs. Eva Garrett of Medford is the guest of her sister, Miss Ellen McCabe.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 22, 1915, page 5


    Since I wrote last Saturday I have put in one day riding for the Mail Tribune and had rather poor success, as I found that one-third of those on whom I wanted to call were not at home and six-tenths of those I saw were not prepared to settle, so I have but little to report at this time in that line, and today have spent the day in town and done but little better, if any. I have to report that William Winkle has renewed his sub. to the W.M.T. and von der Hellen Hardware Company gave me an ad for the classified column.
    Last Sunday we had the following persons here at meal time besides our regular boarders, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Emerick, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge, and daughter Miss Florence, all of Medford. Wm. Heckathorn of Douglas County, A. H. Peachey of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, the cashier of our Eagle Point State Bank, Amos Ayres and Clarence Robinett, besides two strangers.
    Mrs. Ida Magerle of Rogue River is here visiting her mother, Grandma Heckathorn.
    John H. Stewart, a son of F. M. Stewart, is here visiting his father.
    Mrs. Mert Daley of Medford has been out visiting Mrs. Minnie Bryant and others of her old friends among the members of the Rebekahs. Speaking [of] the Rebekahs, the lodge here celebrated their 64th anniversary last Monday night. There were about 40 members and invited friends present and they report having had a very pleasant time. They had a regular program and report that everything passed off without a hitch. They had the usual feast this time; in addition to the usual courses they had peaches and cream. I might add here that Mrs. Mert Daley is one of the charter members of the lodge and her many friends gave her a cordial greeting at the lodge. Prof. C. E. Johnson, who is teaching in the Laurel Hill district, came out to attend the lodge meeting and brought one of his pupils, young Master Mathews, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mathews. Mr. Johnson reports that the school in the Reese Creek district was opened on Monday Sept. 30 by Prof. Deardorff recently from Montana. Mr. Deardorff has moved into the home formerly occupied by J. B. Findley.
    G. W. Coulter, our town painter, who has been out in Klamath County this summer, has returned and reopened his paint shop.
    Gus Nichols motored to town Tuesday morning on a business trip from his home on Salt Creek.
    E. M. Scherf of Portland and F. Thomas of Columbus, Ohio, took dinner at the Sunnyside Tuesday. Mr. Scharf is the special agent of the Fidelity-Phoenix Fire Insurance Company and came out to look over the Sunnyside property.
    T. A. Swan of Fort Klamath has moved into the old Robinett building now owned by J. Frank Brown. Arthur Morrison brought in the families, the old gentleman, wife, daughter and grandson.
    Wm. Deweese has moved into the Charley Bacon house. Our empty houses are gradually filling up as winter approaches. Our splendid school is a great attraction.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 23, 1915, page 5


    Last Wednesday morning I started out to rustle for the Mail Tribune, and the first place I stopped was at the free ferry, and there I found the old ferryman, Mr. Blaess, and he was just like a number of others whom I have met during the past month, has just paid out the last dollar that he could spare, but assured me that he would have it in the course of the next two weeks and send it to me by the mail carrier, and I was so satisfied that he would do it that I felt perfectly easy about it. Leaving there, taking my backtrack, I stopped at the farm of Grant Mathews for dinner, and had a fine visit with Mr. and Mrs. Mathews, and Professor C. E. Johnson, and when I began to talk to Mrs. M. about taking the Mail Tribune she told me that they had the Daily in the family, as Professor Johnson boarded with them. From there I went to see Mrs. Lucy A. Conover and had her renew her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. From there I passed by the fine farm owned by Christ Bergman, but as he is one of the paid-up subscribers, did no business with him, but at all of the places I had visited up to that time I noticed that they all seemed to be very well provided for in the way of corn, hay and fruit, and I noticed as I passed Frank Johnson's place (another paid-up subscriber) that his orchard was simply loaded with fruit.
    Leaving Mr. Bergman's place, I called on Mrs. Jettie Clarno, but found that she was not at home. Going on to Bert Clarno's I found her there, and she paid up her subscription to W.M.T. and so did her stepfather, Bert C. pay up his also for the W.M.T. While there I had a little experience that sometimes happens to people traveling in the country. I had started to go down the river to see my next man, and about the time I had gone fifty yards down the hill I met a boy coming up the hill with a load of wood, and the grade was just wide enough for one wagon, but not wide enough to pass so Babe began to try to back the buggy up the hill, and I concluded that if I could get out and thus relieve the buggy of 160 pounds, she could back uphill that much easier, so, getting out, we went at it, but about that time Bert C. and Pete Betz discovered my dilemma and came to the rescue, and after backing quite a distance we came to a place where I could pull out of the way. Going on my journey, thankful that I did not get further down the hill than what I did, I drove over some of the roughest road I have seen for the last two years. I came to the farm of C. E. Bellows and found that he was off at work, and after waiting until after his usual time to come home I started and met him about a mile from home, and had no cash with him, but promised to meet me in Eagle Point the last of the week and renew his subscription. Thus ended my day's work, so I started for home, reaching there after supper was over, but in time to get a snack and go to bed as tired as one need to be.
    Since my last, J. H. Smith of Chicago, Ill., has arrived. He owns an orchard in this section and is managed by E. E. Strong.
    F. R. Wear of Dayton, O., representing Martin Bros. Piano Co. of Columbus, O., who is introducing a new sewing machine, have been stopping with us for several nights during last week.
    T. G. Bunch of Roseburg, Douglas County, has been visiting W. O. Wheeler, the principal of our school, and while here spent several hours visiting our school. Mr. B. is an old schoolmate of Professor Wheeler's, and while Mr. Wheeler was giving me the item he also gave me his subscription for the D.M.T.
    There was quite an excitement in our town last Tuesday night about 11:30 p.m. The alarm of fire was sounded and in the course of a very short time almost every man, woman and many of the children of our town was at the fire. It was an unoccupied house belonging to A. B. Zimmerman, and the origin of the fire will probably remain among the mysteries. The fire was first discovered by Mrs. Roy Ashpole, and she said that the blaze was coming out of the upstairs window. I understand that it was fully insured and that William Ulrich came out today (Friday) to adjust the insurance. While that fire was burning that building it also caught onto the Ashpole building, but through the perseverance of one or two men who climbed to the roof and tore the cornice off and applied water from the Frank Brown hydrant and the rest of the men and some of the women carried water and helped in every way they could, they succeeded in quenching the fire. A man by the name of Davidson, who was in Medford at the time, came out and adjusted the damage on the Ashpole home, but I could not learn the name of the company the property was insured in or any of the particulars, as I was away at the time, and Roy Ashpole did not know the name of the company his father insured in.
    I understand that the fire was so close and hot that it ruined a suit of clothes that young Zimmerlee had on as he sat on the roof and poured water over the building.
    George L. Howard, formerly of Eugene, but now of Medford, was out here for dinner Friday. He has taken the agency for the Oregon Fire Relief Association and has taken rooms in the Hubbard building, Medford. Mr. H. is a son-in-law of my old friend and traveling companion, Rev. M. C. Davis of Wolf Creek.
    Ed Dutton, our boss road and bridge builder, has been sent by Mr. Smith, the county boss, to repair the bridges on Antelope and Dry creeks and do some repair work on the roads.
    C. E. Applegate of Climax came out Thursday after a load of grain, etc., for Mrs. Thomson, and spend the night with us.
    Julius Hart of Ashland came in from Crater Lake Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Calef of Eugene. They were out last Tuesday to see the world's greatest wonder, Crater Lake.
    R. H. Pollard of Reese Creek has moved to Beagle.
    C. H. Willison of Ashland and G. F. McCarthy of Portland, the traveling salesmen, and W. F. De Witt, a merchant of Ashland, were here for dinner Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 28, 1915, page 5


    I omitted to state in my last that Asahel Hubbard, one of the hardware merchants of Medford, was out and took dinner with us last Friday, and C. E. Johnson came in from his school to be here on Saturday, and James Kershaw of Climax was here Friday night.
    Last Saturday was rather a remarkable day in our little town. As the arrangements had been made to have a congress of the members of the I.O.O.F. meet here on that day and considerable preparation had been made for their reception and entertainment, but there seemed to have been some misunderstanding in Medford and Jacksonville about the arrangement, and as one of the reception committee remarked to me, "everything got balled up." The Pacific and Eastern train was held up in Medford until after the arrival of the southbound passenger train on the S.P. line and the people on the star routes who get their mail via the P.&E. train had to do without until Monday, and those who were expecting to receive mail were in anticipation, but finally about 11:45 a.m. the train arrived and brought in Geo. W. Trefren of Ashland, R. J. T. Smith of Gold Hill, C. P. Floss of Ashland and C. D. Abbott of Jacksonville, and they were escorted to the Sunnyside for dinner and accompanied by Floyd Pearce, our deputy assessor; Alex Vestal, C. E. Bellows and wife, and later Paul Opdyke, Mrs. Paul Opdyke and baby and Otto Tucker and his sister, Miss Iva.
    H. J. Kenfield and wife of Chicago, Ill., came out to visit Mr. K.'s old business partner in Michigan, Fred L. Heath, last week.
    S. E. Calkins and family, recently of Utah, are here visiting Mr. Deweese and family.
    Mike Sidley, one of our progressive farmers of Lake Creek, was in town Saturday, and while here renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. And the same day A. Corbin, our leading orchardist, was in town, and while here gave me his subscription to the D.M.T. Pete and Nick Young and Geo. Givan, three more of our live farmers and stockmen, were in town the same day.
    A. S. Bliton, formerly proprietor of the Medford Mail, was interviewing our business men and women with regard to the product of the Medford flouring mill last Saturday.
    Along about supper time the Sunnyside began to be filled with guests, and among the arrivals were W. E. Price and W. E. Price, Jr., Canoral Paine, W. A. Crane of Central Point, Dr. J. L. O. Rickert, Arthur S. Wells, Dr. R. J. Lockwood, Charles Bacon and family and George Wamsley. The most of the above names were representatives of the different lodges of I.O.O.F. in this district. And in addition to the foregoing there were in attendance at the congress J. L. Demmer, F. D. Redden, A. S. Wells, A. N. Hildebrand of Medford and G. Phillips, C. S. Painter, J. W. Grover, Ray Harnish, Roy Ashpole, Fred Dutton, S. H. Harnish, Ed Coy, Norman McQuoid, W. L. Childreth, Roy Smith, L. L. Simmons, W. O. Wheeler and Jed Edsall. And the ladies in attendance were Mrs. Bert Bryant, Mrs. Hubbard, Miss Nora Taylor, Mrs. Mabel Harnish, Mrs. Rosa Smith, Miss Nora Childreth, Miss Katrina Bryant, Mrs. Nettie Grover, Mrs. Lottie McQuoid, Mrs. C. Painter, Mrs. Nellie Simpson, Miss Hattie Howlett, Miss Mabel Wamsley, Mrs. S. E. Howlett, Mrs. M. S. Wood, Mrs. Charles Bacon, Miss Loretta Childreth and Mrs. Sophia Robinett. They had an interesting program and after the exercises were over the ladies served hot coffee and--well, I was going to try to tell, but will simply say that they had another "big feed," and one has to participate to realize what it is to have a big feed in Eagle Point.
    Mrs. Howlett gave a special invitation to F. M. Stewart and family and their relatives, who consisted of the following persons, to take dinner with her Sunday, September 26, as she wished to have a good time with as many of the "seven sisters" as she could. The following is a list as near as I can get from memory: F. M. Stewart and wife, J. W. Grover, wife and two daughters, Norman McQuoid, wife and daughter, Mr. McQuoid, Sr., and wife, Mrs. Della Nichols and two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Simpson, Mrs. Hariet Allen, William G. Knighten and wife, and besides them, we had Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moffat, A. A. Hagen of the Mail Tribune force, wife and baby, Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Clancy, Winifred Clancy, Robert Clancy, Jr., of Medford, and the doctor's father-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pasmore of Toronto, Can., besides a number of others whose names I did not secure or cannot remember. I had to go away after the second table had been served and on my return asked my wife how many there were here for dinner, and she said all told there were fifty-three sat down to the tables.
    I will simply add to this letter that Mike Sidley of Lake Creek and W. E. Butler of Eagle Point have renewed their subscriptions to the W.M.T. since my last report.
    I have quite a list of notes in my "catch book," but will have to keep them until the next time I write, as they will make this letter too long.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 29, 1915, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Henry French were shopping in Eagle Point Monday.
    Mrs. Daw has rented the Caster place on Trail and is moving her household goods there this week.
    Carl, the 3-year-old son of Robert Dawson, had his leg broken last week by a hack running over it. He is getting along nicely now.
    Ed Frazer reports newly frozen ice at his home on Indian Creek Monday night.
    Miss Ida Houston is teaching in the Elk Creek district.
    It is reported an auto was backed into the river and turned two somersaults one day last week near Trail, but the driver escaped after a good ducking.
    Mrs. Grant Mathews visited her mother, Mrs. Woods, in Eagle Point while Mr. Mathews made a business trip to Medford.
    Dr. and Mrs. Kirchgessner have gone to California for the winter.
    Dick Johnson and wife have returned from Klamath County, after having spent the summer there.
    Alvin Conover has been working at Crater Lake this summer, but returned home Monday.
    Robert Lewis of Persist was to the valley after supplies this week.
    Tom Raimey took his daughter, Miss Ora, to Central Point Friday.
    Steve Smith spent a couple of days with his father near Medford last week.
    Miss Dewie Howe is teaching her fourth term of school in the Trail district.
    John Fry was a valley visitor a few days ago.
    Died, Sept. 21, 1915, near Rogue River, Frank Stowell, aged about 23 years of age, of typhoid fever. Frank was born near the river and has spent his life, except for a few months at a time, among us. He leaves a mother, Mrs. Frances Stowell, three sisters, Cora Smith of Eagle Point, Mrs. Lizzie Smith of Bandon, Dollie Stowell, and three brothers, Jack, of Mt. Vernon, Pearl and Pete Stowell of Eagle Point, besides many friends to mourn his death. He was laid to rest Wednesday in the Central Point cemetery.
    The Medford sportsmen had a venison barbecue at the Joe Hannah place last week.
    Mrs. C. E. Bellows called on Mrs. Deardorff Tuesday.
    Lloyd French called on Derby friends a couple of days last week.
    An auto load of the Daily family spent Sunday on the river.
    The river is the lowest in years. The ferryman, Mr. Blaess, has to use his pike pole in order to get the ferry across the river.
    Mrs. G. Mathews and Mrs. Dick Johnson called on Mrs. Frank Johnson Monday.
    Mrs. Martha Betz was the guest of her cousin, Miss Mia Hannah, Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 29, 1915, page 5


    R. E. Root and B. U. Young, two of the fruit men of Medford, were here last Monday, looking over the fruit interests.
    Mr. Osgood, one of the civil engineers of the valley, and Mr. Whitesides, Jr. were here the same day trying to hustle more subscribers to the irrigation project in the valley.
    Mr. Bursell, who owns one of the fine farms of the valley, was here the same day looking for a certain grade of swine. Hogs are so plentiful now that the buyers seem to be quite particular about what kind they buy, and thus it ever was and ever will be.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hazelrigg and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Allen, the latter from Ashland, were in town Monday the 27th ult. doing business with our merchants.
    Frank Smith, one of our orchardists,spent the night at the Sunnyside Monday night.
    Benj. Brophy and wife were buying household supplies the first of the week.
    Wm. Grissom took out a load of wire fencing the first of the week and another one of the family took out a big load of ceiling lumber about the same time.
    Some of our enterprising corn raisers are placing some of their specimens of corn in the show windows of Roy Ashpole's hardware store.
    Speaking about corn raising brings to mind the fact that while I was out riding over the country looking after the interest of the Medford Mail Tribune, I stopped for dinner at the home of Mrs. C. Charley, just above Brownsboro, and while there was shown some of the different varieties of corn that they raise on the farm, for the reader will remember that Mrs. Charley's son, I have forgotten his Christian name, took the premium at the county and state fair on his corn, and among the different varieties they have was one that attracted my attention, more particularly than any other, on account of the variety of color of corn on the same cob, for there was almost, if not every variety of colors of the rainbow. It is called the rainbow corn and it appears to be a good solid variety, a long slim cob but the corn is well matured and appears to be perfect in every respect. Another variety they showed me was a medium-sized ear of the white variety that was absolutely perfect, for I could not see the cob at all, for the corn grew all over the ends of the cob and this was a part that was raised by Mrs. Charley's youngest son, Nolan Charley, a school boy. He staked off just one acre and planted it in corn on a tract of land that could not be irrigated and cultivated it himself, keeping a complete record of all the work, and he gathered 88 bushels of such corn as I have tried to describe, and his brother who exhibited the corn and the tract of land told me that the corn was much better on the lower end of the piece than it was on the upper end and if the upper end had been as good as the lower end that he would have gathered 125 bushels off of the acre of land, and mark you that was without any irrigation. Another place where I stopped was Henry Meyer's and they were just finishing gathering in their corn and he had corn that would make the Kansas corn raisers green with envy to think of Jackson County, Oregon, and on Butte Creek at that, raising such corn, but that corn had water. But while I am on the subject of corn will relate another incident. I stopped at the farm of Rudolph Pech for dinner, and while at the barn putting away "Babe" he asked me to take a look at his squashes that he had hauled in for his cows, and O My! There was just tons of them all put away in the dry--there is no slipshod work in that neighborhood, they are mostly German-Americans, and keep everything up in place ready for winter. And after commenting on the squashes he told me that he tried an experiment this season and planted three and a half acres in corn and squashes and the result was seventeen loads of squashes and two hundred bushels of good solid corn--systematic farming. If anyone can either equal or surpass that let us hear from them through the Mail Tribune.
    Well I started out to tell of my trip up Butte Creek but find that my letter is now long enough so will simply stop here and tell more about that wonderful country and its resources the next time, for I have enough now in my mind to make a full column.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 4, 1915, page 5


    The first place that I stopped and did any business on my trip up Butte Creek valley--although I stopped at several places and invited the people to try the Mail Tribune for general news--was at the beautiful home of Lemon Charley, but found that he, like many others, was off hunting up his cattle, but Mrs. Charley was there and renewed the subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and I wish I had the space to tell of their beautiful dairy farm and its surroundings, but I have not space this time.
    The last time that I wrote for the Mail Tribune I was giving an account of my trip up in the upper part of Little Butte Creek valley, and when I stopped I was telling about what wonderful corn they have raised in that valley. I tell you, Mr. and Mrs. Reader, that it does one good to get out of the dry part of the valley up into the foothills, where one can stand and look over the evergreen fields of clover and alfalfa and then to drive or walk out in the fields and see the hustling farmers and in many instances their wives and children gathering in the corn, potatoes and other kinds of vegetables, and see the barns just crowded with nice sweet clover, alfalfa and timothy hay and see the dairy cows standing chewing their cuds, it puts new life into one, and in addition to that, to inhale the fresh, cool morning air, it makes one of my age feel as though they were about 40 years of age, and seem to give him a new lease of life. But here I am trying to tell about the scenery and its surroundings instead of telling about what I saw on my trip. Well, after I had given H. A. Meyer a receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. I proceeded on by several nice farms, but did not stop, as some of them have already paid up and others did not take either of the county papers, and as a rule their places were not up to date so far as tidiness is concerned, but still they seemed to have a good prospect for something to tide them over the winter. But as it was getting about time for me to call a halt, I pulled in at the hospitable home of my old friend, W. C. Daley, for the night and found him at home and happy and cheerful, but found his good wife still confined to her bed most of the time, suffering with a fractured thigh, but able to sit up in her rocking chair a part of the time. It is not necessary for me to say that Mr. Daley has one of the best farms in that section, if not in the valley, and to see his great fields covered with green grass and his barns filled with hay and everything around the very picture of comfort and of necessity of contentment; it almost makes one living in a town or city wish for a change.
    After spending the night with the family he took me out in the morning to show me his power house--yes, a veritable power house, for he is putting in an electrical plant of his own that will furnish him with all the power and light he will ever want, and is planning to put in a small motor to run the washing machine, cream separator, churn, turn the grindstone, wood saw--in fact, everything where a labor-saving device is needed, and in addition to all that he will have all the light he will ever need in his house, barn and other buildings. I predict that this move of Mr. Daley's will revolutionize the whole of the Butte Creek country, for it will be an easy matter for others to follow his example, for I was talking to several of the farmers along the creek, and they began to figure on how they would get the power. He estimates that the whole plant, after it is complete, will cost only about $300.
    After leaving my friend, Mr. Daley, Wednesday morning I turned my course up the north fork of Butte Creek as far as Thomas Farlow's, but did not find him at home, as he was, like several others, out gathering his beef cattle, but found his estimable wife, and she settled for a year's subscription to the D.M.T. If I had the space I would be glad to give a description of his beautiful home and farm, but must forgo that pleasure.
    The next place I stopped was at Henry Tonn's, but he was not at home, was helping one of his neighbors build a new house. I then went to Rudolph Pech's and took dinner; that is where I saw that immense field of squashes. The next stop I made was at Mr. Ragsdale's. I found him at home, but his wife had gone to town and taken all the cash with her, so did no business there. From there to T. Kenney's, but he was not at home, so did no business there. My next stop was at John Miller's; found him at home and he renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.; from there to Frank Farlow's and found no one at home, but found him the next morning and he renewed his subscription to the W.M.T. I also called on Lee Farlow and he renewed his subscription to the W.M.T. Returning to Mr. Miller's, I spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning, started for home, doing some work on the route but not collecting.
    While I was at W. C. Daley's, C. A. Newstrom heard over the phone that I was there, and had his daughter, Miss Marie, pay me his subscription to the W.M.T., and since then I have given receipts to C. E. Wilkinson; C. E. Bellows, W.M.T.; C. E. Johnson, D.M.T.; J. B. Jackson, D.M.T.; Mrs. Susan Hart, W.M.T. and T. A. Swanson for ad. I also took the subscription of Thomas F. Nichols for the W.M.T. while on my trip.
    There was a deer came down onto the Butte Creek bottom and was killed in Fred Pelouze's alfalfa field. It appears that W. E. Butler first saw it and shot at it, and then Mr. Pelouze shot and hit it, wounding it, and then Mr. Butler's brother shot and brought it down, so it was divided between Mr. P. and Mr. B.
    H. G. Butler, representing the Petaro Shoe Co. of St. Louis, Mo., was here Thursday.
    P. S. Anderson, the man who traded for the Vatche farm on Rogue River, and Mr. Vatche were here for dinner Thursday.
    Dr. Holt reports that the stork has visited the family of Frank Derrick September 28 and added a son to the family and to the family of Earl Croft September 26 a son, and to the family of William Whitman a daughter on October 1.
    On Friday, October 2, Dr. J. L. Hill and wife, J. T. Harrison and wife and Mrs. O. L. Davidson, all of Medford, came to the Sunnyside for dinner and to have a social chat with your E.P. correspondent and family.
    Saturday Edgar Hafer and wife, accompanied by Welles Campbell and Captain T. A. Marshall, editor of the Chicago Examiner, and special representatives of the Remington Arms-Union Metallic Cartridge Co. of New York, came out for breakfast at the Sunnyside on their way to Crater Lake. Mr. Marshall is one of the sporting characters of Chicago and is recognized as among the crack shots of America and also a newspaper writer, and Mr. Campbell is one of the leading orchardists in the country.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Conner of Iowa and C. E. Bellows and wife called for dinner Saturday and while here Mr. Bellows renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
    W. R. Meland, who was recently burned out on Rogue River near the upper steel bridge, was here for dinner Saturday, and Jesse Houck, wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. R. L. Bish, H. E. Bigham, W. H. Stewart and wife, Carl von der Hellen, J. E. Johnson and J. V. Schmidt were among the callers Sunday for dinner.
    Since my last report C. E. Johnson has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. J. B. Jackson has paid up, T. A. Swanson has put in an ad to exchange a place in Klamath County for one here in the valley, and Mrs. Susan Hart has renewed her subscription to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 6, 1915, page 5


    Perry Foster and Jasper Hannah were on Elk Creek Monday.
    Mr. Wyant and son, James, of Ashland, and Mr. and Mrs. Conner of Missouri were the guests of the C. E. Bellows home several days last week.
    Professor C. E. Johnson was an Eagle Point visitor Saturday.
    Henry McCabe is visiting his father, T. McCabe, and family.
    Louis Sager has returned home from Crater Lake.
    A truck came out Wednesday morning and took a load of apples from Thomas McCabe's to Medford.
    Hunters are as thick as bees in May.
    John Warner, aged about 65 years, was found dead near his home last Wednesday morning. Heart trouble is supposed to have caused his death. He had lived on Trail for about fifteen years. He leaves a wife and nine children.
    John Winningham went to Medford Friday. He was a ranger this summer, and the season closed October 1.
    School opened in the Debenger Gap district with Mrs. Marie Foster as teacher.
    W. H. Crandall and Mrs. Jettie Clarno were married in Medford Monday and went from there to the fair at Frisco.
    Joe Hannah, Sr., is the guest of his cousin, Mrs. Peter Betz.
    Miss Mia Hannah is visiting her sister, Mrs. Tim Daily, at Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 7, 1915, page 5


    I should have mentioned in my last that Edward Ulrich came over after the road roller and in trying to cross Little Butte Creek at the ford in coming up the bank which is very steep and rough, he broke one of the main castings on the machine on the hill and Frank Brown, who seems to be interested with Chris Natwick in the road contract, had to send to Portland for a new casting and when it arrived the next thing was to pull the twelve-ton roller up the bank, but by the use of a stump puller they finally succeeded and got it fixed so that by Wednesday morning it was ready for the road again, but there was the loss of the use of the roller for about three days and the expense of the engineer, etc., that might have been saved by having the bank graded down and a few large boulders taken out of the way in the road. That crossing has been an eyesore for years, in fact ever since it was first blocked out by the late George Brown at the time he was county commissioner, and since that time the county has paid enough extra in getting the county machinery across the creek to have paid for fixing the grade half a dozen times.
    Last Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Paul Opdyke of the Stone Hollow ranch on Rogue River above Trail, and Miss Pauline Gurley of Dallas, Texas, were here for dinner.
    N. Gorman, the foreman at the Dr. Laidlaw orchard, was here the same day delivering some fine apples to his customers.
    Mrs. John Ashpole of Medford was out the first of the week visiting her son, Roy, and family, and meeting many of her old-time friends and acquaintances.
    Charles Holmes of Ashland came up here last Wednesday morning and met C. Vatche at the depot and while the car was getting ready to make the return trip bought a fine stallion of Mr. Vatche. Mr. Holmes is a stockman and is raising a lot of fine horses and mules.
    Thursday afternoon I called James Owens over the phone to learn if he was at home as I did not want to drive six miles to see him and not find him. But he was at home and so I drove up there, found him and his good wife busy in the fruit business, the wife doing the work and he was--well, I hardly know what he was doing--but they both seemed to be engaged with peaches, pears and tomatoes, and after my feasting on a nice casaba and having a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. Owens he and I transacted a little business for the Mail Tribune, he renewing his subscription and then we got to talking about corn, hay, etc., and I naturally asked him where he got so much hay, for all his barns were full and he had a stack out in the pasture that looked as though there might be 80 or 100 tons, and then the subject turned to the raising of corn, and he showed me a small tract of sticky land, one-eighth of an acre, that his youngest son, Vern, had planted last spring to corn and harvested a yield of 960 pounds in the ear and counting 80 pounds of corn on cob to the bushel, would make it yield twelve bushels or ninety-six bushels to the acre, and that without water, and if it had been a good season for corn we don't know how much it would have yielded. I had planned to go from there up Dry Creek but I brought the phone into use again and learned that the two men I wanted to see were in Medford at the time so I turned my course and went home and before I got out of the buggy was met by one of my old friends, John Iseli of Portland, but formerly of this section. He and Mr. Stepp owned and ran the Round Top saw mill that was burned some years ago. His health failed him in Portland and he has come back to Jackson County to regain his health. His wife will follow as soon as he can fit his house on Round Top ready.
    Thursday, just as the first table at the Sunnyside were finishing their dinner, there were two autos rolled up and the spokesman, J. C. Barnes, one of the Medford real estate men, inquired if Mrs. Howlett could set dinner for nine hungry persons and being assured in the affirmative the following persons filed into the dining room: Dr. Collins, J. C. Barnes, of Medford, C. W. Coleman and wife of Fellows, California, C. C. Davis and wife of Shorman [sic], California, J. C. Farney of Medford, W. W. Huft of Pasadena, California and James F. Ledgerwood of Serman [sic], California, and partaking a hearty dinner they spent a while looking over the place and making special inquiries about the country. They were going out to look at two different tracts of land that Mr. Barnes wished to show them.
    I should have said that the corn that Vern Owens raised took a premium at the county fair and also at the state fair and that I brought two ears home with me and placed it in the show window of Roy Ashpole's hardware store on exhibition.
    Friday morning I took a spin across the hill to the Ringwood orchard and there met Mr. J. C. Ladd of Ringwood, Ill. He is here visiting Mr. A. G. Bishop, an old acquaintance in their younger days; in fact Mr. L. and Mr. B. knew each other as school boys in Ringwood. After Mr. Bishop renewed his sub. to the D.M.T. we separated, Mr. B. and his guest starting for Central Point to visit old friends and I started to see who else I could find and before I reached home received a check from Mrs. C. Charley for the renewal of the subscription of Claus C. Charley to the D.M.T. and a renewal to Mr. J. L. Robinson's sub to the W.M.T., and when I reached home found Mrs. W. T. York, Mrs. Ed Warner and son Ed Jr., and Mrs. F. L. Sherman, all of Medford. They had motored out for a pleasant time and dinner at the Sunnyside and at this writing, 3:45 p.m., are still here. They had a fine time feeding the rabbits, admiring the flower beds, etc.
    I have also to report the subscription of Mrs. Wm. Deguer of this place to the W.M.T.
    John Higinbotham of Butte Falls and Mr. E. Hurd, our local electrician, were also here for dinner, and Miss Peters of Butte Falls is also stopping for a few days at the Sunnyside, nursing a very sore finger, with a carbuncle on it.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 11, 1915, page 5


    R. B. Messer of Hastings, Mich., and E. Lyden of Chicago, Ill., who have been here visiting Fred L. Heath, one of our leading merchants, started for the San Francisco fair the first of the week. Mr. Lyden is one of Chicago's leading manufacturers and capitalists of that city and is one of the noted inventors of the age, and now has a vast income in royalties on his inventions.
    I here will deviate from my rule and give a little scrap of history that I procured through the kindness of F. M. Stewart, and he says that he procured it from Rev. McLean, at one time pastor of the Presbyterian church of Grants Pass, Or. I thought it might be of interest to the readers of the Mail Tribune. In speaking of the then vast army on the Union, or Northern, side of the great conflict of 1861-65, the writer says the nation was saved by boys in their 'teens. Of the total number there were only 618,511 of 22 years and over, of 21 and under, 1,159,798; of 18 and under, 151,438; of 16 and under, 844,891. Not over 10 there were 25; not over 14, there were 1523. Truly a boys' war. And still we are horrified when we read of the boys of 17 to 19 years of age being pressed into military service in Europe.
    By the time this writing is in print I expect that our townsman, David Cingcade, and his good wife will be on their way to San Francisco to see their two children, Ed Cingcade and Mrs. George Singewalt, nee Hattie Cingcade, and their friends are rejoicing to think of David Cingcade coming to the conclusion to make the start.
    Among the new arrivals at the Sunnyside last Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. John W. Johnson of Medford. Mr. Johnson is one of the Medford jewelers, and said that he had read so much of my writing that they were anxious to meet me, so they came in about dinner time and found me at the dinner table. There was about the usual number here for dinner but they come so often that I concluded that I would not give their names this time for fear it might seem monotonous.
    On Monday Mike Hanley of Lake Creek, L. Hutton and O. C. Anderson of California came in for dinner on their way up to the Hanley ranch on the north fork of Little Butte, but did not state their business, but talked a great deal about hogs. Miss Vera Kershaw of Climax was also a guest, and so was C. W. Coleman of Fellows, Cal.; W. H. Huff of Pomona, Cal.; C. C. Davis, Sherman, Cal; W. J. Scott, Medford and W. Newstrom of Lake Creek.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchard men, was in town Monday and reports that he has a fine lot of apples this season, and that he has bought the apples on the Frank Nichols orchard and that they are proving to be better than he thought they were.
    E. H. Hurd of Wichita, Kan., came in on the Prospect stage Monday on his way home. He had been up near Prospect to look over a farm--the old Perdue farm--that he had bought without seeing, and seemed to be well pleased with his venture.
    H. B. Tronson is picking, packing and shipping his apples. He estimates that he will have seven carloads this year.
    The two Grissom brothers, who have been hauling so much lumber from here to their home near Climax, were here Monday and took out a lot of furniture.
    A. B. Zimmerman of Butte Falls and son, Roy, were in town Monday after a load of brick.
    Mrs. Zimmerlee, the proprietress of the Farmer's Hotel, has been spending a few days at their farm near the free ferry.
    C. W. Clements and wife made a business trip to Prospect Monday, and later Mr. C. went to Butte Falls.
    Harris Geppert of Butte Falls came out Monday and went to Medford to have a needle taken out of the back of his hand by Dr. Pickel. He had to use the X-ray to locate it.
    Truman McClelland, one of our regular boarders, spent the last of the week in Medford with his father.
    Carl Ringer, one of the brakemen on the Pacific & Eastern, and Guy Bishop spent Saturday and Sunday nights at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Bradshaw were doing business in Eagle Point Monday.
    Walter Woods and Irvin Conover were here Monday.
    Gus Nichols of Brownsboro came in Tuesday after a scalding vat that W. L. Childreth had made for him. So we may expect to have him bring out later in the season some fine bacon and hams.
    Thomas F. Nichols of Lake Creek was also in town the same day. He says that he is getting the W.M.T. that his mother had sent to him.
    J. H. Cooley, one of our orchardists, is building a packing house on his orchard.
    Otto Wyss, a representative of Robinson Steel Co. of Portland; G. C. Murphy and Murray Murphy of Ashland; Mrs. Ralph Gardner of Lake Creek and a stranger whose name I did not secure were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mike Sidley, Jr., was here also on Monday. He had been out to Medford with a load of dressed hogs for the Medford market.
    Since my last report O. W. Wheeler, the principal of our school, has paid a six month's subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Earl Croft also has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. F. L. Heath has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. All of Eagle Point. Ralph Gardner of Lake Creek has renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 14, 1915, page 5


    Senator H. von der Hellen returned last Tuesday evening from Corvallis and Astoria, where he had been on business.
    Bert Higinbotham of Flounce Rock district was with us Tuesday night. He had been over in the valley for a load of apples.
    Tuesday being a holiday and school had the regular courses up to two p.m. and then the children and principal had a game of basketball among the larger pupils, and the smaller ones enjoyed a game of volleyball and spent a while in that kind of amusement and some of the larger girls seemed to be quite proficient in the art. Our school seems to be getting along nicely and the teachers and pupils seem to be on splendid terms and we are in great hopes that the school will prove to be a great success. I am sending with this letter a report of the first month of the school under the head of "Eagle Point School Notes," prepared by one of the members of the school.
    Mrs. Manley Conley came out on the Lake Creek auto stage last Wednesday expecting to go to Butte Falls that day but found when she reached here that the train did not go until the next day so she and her two children spent the night at the Sunnyside. Mr. Conley came out from the home of his mother, Mrs. Hessler, the same day that she went up to Butte Falls and was also a guest at the Sunnyside.
    Wallace Bergman, who is among the noted corn raisers, was also here for dinner and was telling some of the guests how he managed to raise such good corn in a dry season. Mr. T. P. McCabe was also here engaging peaches to those who wanted them. He brought in a load that day but disposed of them before he got around to the Sunnyside.
    There was quite a stir in our town last Wednesday and when I began to inquire the cause of the arrival of so many people and many of them persons who are not in the habit of coming to town in that part of the week, and the first thing I knew I ran right against Rev. L. L. Simmons and then began to see why there was such a stir at the Farmer's Hotel. There was to be a wedding there. The landlord's son, William Zimmerlee, was to be married that afternoon to Miss Mary Christine Johnson, a daughter of one of the old pioneers of the valley, Frank L. Johnson, by the aforesaid reverend gentleman, and after having a big feed at the Farmers Hotel they repaired to the opera house and indulged in a social hop until the wee hours of the morning, and their friends are still offering congratulations.
    The same day, October 13--now don't tell me that 13 is an unlucky number for there are four at least that think that they were lucky that day--yes, the same day, one of our former town boys, Thomas F. Nichols and Miss Eva H. Farlow of Lake Creek were married in Medford. The groom is the son of Gus Nichols and Mrs. E. O. Nichols, formerly of this place, and the bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow, one of the prosperous families of the Lake Creek section, and the young couple have a host of people up there who will give them a hearty greeting in their venture on the matrimonial sea of life.
    G. L. Ferguson, superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, was here Thursday doing business.
    Grover Mitchell and C. H. Matheson of Madera, California, and U. S. Collins, representing the New York School Supply Company and P. M. Kershaw, representing the Oregon Marble Works of Medford were here for dinner Thursday and later Mrs. Deweese of Eagle Point and Mrs. S. E. Calkins of Eagle Grove, Iowa, were callers at the Sunnyside.
    L. B. Warner and a man by the name of DeGrent and another by the name of Stewart passed through here Thursday on their way to the high hills on a bear hunt.
    Mr. Swihart, the Derby merchant, sent out a fine load of fence posts to F. L. Heath, one of our merchants, and C. W. Clements, our postmaster and telephone man, last Thursday.
    C. A. Burbank, Jr., representing Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Company, and L. B. Filbertson of S. F. Brown & Co., Fort Wayne, Indiana, spent the night at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    Miss Frances Heath expects to start the last of the month for Chicago and the state of Michigan to spend the winter.
    Frank Farlow and wife spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside.
    The following persons have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune since my last report: George von der Hellen, Dr. Holt and J. W. Grover, all of Eagle Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 19, 1915, page 5


    The annual meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association was held at the school house on the first Monday in October. After a brief discussion of the object and benefits of such an organization, officers were elected by ballot for the coming year. Those chosen were Mrs. L. K. Haak, reelected president; Mrs. George von der Hellen, vice president, Mrs. B. H. Bryant, secretary-treasurer. It was voted to take advantage of the free lecture course offered by the University of Oregon.
    Meetings will be held in the evening of the first Monday of each month. All are invited to be present.
    Considerable interest has been manifested in the new basketball and volleyball. In each case the pupils have made their own court.
    During the month of school ending October 8th, 41 pupils were neither absent or late.
    At a recent meeting of the Boys' and Girls' Industrial Club the following officers were elected to serve for one year. President, Kenneth Hook; Vice-President, Ethel Riley; Secretary, Theo. Florey; Assistant Secretary, Verta Grover; Treasurer, Nellie Coy; Advisor, W. O. Wheeler.
    Kenneth Hook was also chosen editor of the school paper, "The Semi-Monthly Eagle Screams." He has appointed Thelma Nichols, Freda Leahs and Gern Lewis as assistants. Meeting will be held the first period in the afternoon of the first and third Fridays of each month.
    A short debate will be a feature of the next meeting.
    The intermediate department has moved to the south room on the second floor.
    The school board has voted to use the last period of each Friday afternoon for manual training for the boys and sewing for the girls in the two higher rooms.
    Mrs. Shesler, the primary teacher, is suffering from a severe case of poison oak.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 19, 1915, page 5


    I omitted to state in my last that A. S. Bliton, at one time editor, proprietor and publisher of the Medford Mail, was out and took dinner at the Sunnyside last Friday. He was here this time in the interest of the Medford flouring mills and seemed to be meeting with some success.
    L. K. Sunderland of Oakland, Oregon, was also a caller the same day. Mr. Sunderland was raised near here by his uncle, Mr. McCarty, who has a homestead on Connution Gulch, and has lived there for several years, but now is living in Oakland, Oregon.
    Last Saturday I started out to see what I could do for the Mail Tribune and what I could find of interest to write for the readers of that live paper. And the first place that I stopped was at the orchard of H. B. Tronson and found them as busy as nailers packing and hauling apples, but did not find Mr. Tronson, as he had gone fishing with a friend, but he surely had a fine lot of apples and is shipping as fast as he can get them boxed and carted. My next place was at the beautiful home of Fred Pelouze, not on business for the Tribune particularly but on other business, but found the house vacated. Going on to the A. Corbin orchard I met Mr. Quackenbush on his way to Eagle Point but went to the ranch and found Mrs. Quackenbush and she gave me a check to renew their sub to the D.M.T., and later I met Mr. Corbin Monday morning, and Mr. Quackenbush of Eagle Point, and they had a bucket of apples that would compare favorably with any apples in the state, that they were taking to Medford to let people know what kind of apples they grow on sticky. They told me that their entire crop this year excelled their expectations. They finished up hauling the fruit off Saturday. It seems as though it pays to use water in an orchard or as to that on any other land in this country. My next move was to the Lewis brothers' farm and there I met Charles Lewis, the junior member of the firm. The reader will perhaps remember that about three weeks ago I made mention of my being there while they were cutting their clover to thresh for seed and I asked what the result of the undertaking was and Mr. L. told me that they threshed almost 1400 pounds of seed and had sold most of it in Medford at a good figure and they are so well pleased with their experiment that they intend to in the course of time put the whole place in clover. They already have a large tract sown this fall and are now sowing their corn ground. They raised the clover seed that they threshed in their orchard and by that means raised two crops on the same land and by that means they claim they can raise apples at a very low cost. They are very strong advocates for the use of water on their land, and I have noticed that those who use water generally have a good crop. I asked him about using water on small grain and he told me that they had a field of wheat, and on the part that they could get the water on it yielded from 150 to 200 percent more grain that the other did. Now I want the reader to understand that I am not in the employ of any water or irrigation move, but what I see convinces me that it pays to have water on the land. I next went to Mrs. Kate Walch's and found her at home and had her renew her sub to the W.M.T. She is putting in her grain in the dry. She owns one of the best farms in that section, Wellen, and knows how to handle it.
    L. Dewees and Mr. Calkins, recently from Iowa, moved Sunday, Mr. D. into one of the James Owens houses and Mr. Calkins into the Wm. von der Hellen house.
    Last Sunday was a busy day at the Sunnyside; when C. E. Johnson and I left for Reese Creek they were still eating and when I returned I asked my wife how many there were for dinner and she said just 43 and the following is a partial list of the comers: F. L. Heath, wife and daughter, Miss Francis, Wm. von der Hellen, wife and two children, Dr. W. W. P. Holt, wife and daughter, Miss Helen, T. F. Boltz, R. A. Petty, Marion Trusty, George H. Wamsley and daughter, Miss Mabel, Gus Nichols and wife, Harvey Stanley and wife, Mrs. Ware of Dayton, Ohio, J. V. McIntyre and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Behling of Medford, besides quite a number whose names I did not procure.
    Ralph Waldo Elden of Central Point was here interviewing the farmers with regard to the use of fertilizer that he is an agent for. He is known around here as the fertilizer man.
    Robert R. Minter has sold his entire band of sheep, about 1300 head, to M. S. Martin of Shasta Valley, Siskiyou County, California.
    H. D. Hoffman and N. C. Hoswell, two traveling salesmen, were here Monday.
    W. W. Martin of Brownsboro and his brother, C. M. Martin of Yakima, Wash., were here for dinner Monday.
    Miss Louisa Blaess and her brother John were doing business with F. L. Heath Monday and report that their father, the old ferry man on Rogue River free ferry, and his wife, have gone Sunday to Rogue River to visit relatives.
    Since my last report Dr. W. H. Nuding of Brownsboro, J. S. Quackenbush, E.P., Mrs. Katie Walch, Wellen, Charles Cingcade, E.P., Henry Tonn, L.C. and Ed Dutton of E.P. have renewed their subs to the Mail Tribune. Some of them cry hard times, but say they cannot do without the Mail Tribune. Since writing the foregoing, Mrs. R. A. Whitman has paid up their sub to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1915, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crandall returned from the Frisco fair Thursday.
    Dave Pence, Charles Skyrman and Jasper Hannah took some beef cattle to town Wednesday.
    Gene Bellows and sons, Edward and Ben, were Medford visitors Saturday.
    Mrs. Dave Pence was in Medford last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Hammond went to the valley Sunday.
    Mrs. Tom Raimey spent Thursday night with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Miller, of Central Point.
    Bert Crandall and sister, Mrs. Harris, have returned to their home in Los Angeles.
    Miss Ida Houston was a passenger on Saturday's Eagle Point and Persist stage.
    Frank Houston and sister, Miss Eula, spent the weekend in the valley.
    Miss Mary Johnson and Will Zimmerlee were married in Eagle Point Friday. Miss Zimmerlee is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson, below the free ferry, and Mr. Zimmerlee is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerlee of the Farmers' Hotel of Eagle Point. Their many friends wish them a happy life.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1915, page 5


    Since I last wrote I have been traveling the most of the time, so have but very few items of interest to write of a local character.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush and family motored into town Saturday morning on a business trip. Mr. Quackenbush is the foreman on the A. Corbin orchard and was in the act of spraying the orchard when the nice rain commenced to fall yesterday (Friday) afternoon, but he is satisfied with the long-looked-for and much desired rain.
    On Tuesday, the day that I left for the hills, William Butler and his son John were here for dinner. They were engaged in sawing up a lot of wood for F. M. Stewart with their wood-sawing machine. Ralph Bieberstedt was also a caller the same day.
    Mr. Hildreth, Sr., of Butte Falls, came over on the P.&E. car Saturday morning and stopped off on business.
    John Grieve of Prospect was also a passenger on his way home from Jacksonville, where he had been to attend to the road-working business in the Prospect district. He is the boss road builder in that section.
    Al Mayfield passed through here Saturday morning with a load of grain and hay on his way to Red Blanket for Benton Bowers. There was a small band of cattle going along with him.
    Last Tuesday afternoon I started to canvass the Derby, Trail and Prospect country in the interest of the Mail Tribune, and the first place that I stopped was at the home of Mr. Vestal, but found that the one that I wanted in particular to see was not at home, so done no business there, but expect to hear from Thomas before long. From there I had to pass several places where the menfolks were not at home, so could do no business, and finally reached the Neil ranch and found Frank R. Neil at home and he kindly renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. From there I went to A. B. Charlton's and found Mrs. C. at home, and she renewed the subscription to the W.M.T. Going on to the home of John Allen, where I spent the night, and there I found his uncle, Allison Allen of Spokane, Wash., who had just arrived, and we renewed our acquaintance and spent a very pleasant evening with the family, and found John to be just as whole-souled and accommodating as ever, but could not persuade him to subscribe for the Mail Tribune.
    While I was there the subject of the drought came up, when he told me in the morning that I would have to take "Babe" somewhere else for water, as his two wells were so near dry that it was about all he could do to get water enough for his horses and domestic use, and that a large spring he has on his farm that usually has one and a half to two inches of water has gone dry.
    Starting out from there Wednesday morning I went zigzagging over the country, and the first one I found to do business with was Mrs. Cora E. Whitaker, who is living in the old Derby schoolhouse with her mother and is waiting for the contractor to finish the new schoolhouse, so that she can commence to teach school. There seemed to be a hitch in the work or contract some way, as she said that she was to have commenced the school some weeks ago. The citizens of that district have built a nice, large two-roomed schoolhouse and when it is completed will reflect credit on the enterprise of the community, and while I was there Mrs. Whitaker renewed her subscription to the W.M.T. From there I went to the home of H. E. Webb, found Mrs. W. at home, but her husband was gone, so did no business there. The next place was Fred Dunlap's. Found him at home, but did no business. He has a homestead located on Indian Creek and was daubing his log house. He seemed to have everything fixed convenient around the place. I next stopped at W. L. Edmondson's sawmill, fed Babe and took dinner with the family, and had him renew his subscription to the W.M.T. Mr. E. has his sawmill on the bank of Big Butte creek and floats his logs down to the mill. He says that he has cut about one and a half million feet this summer and now has but little lumber in the yard. From there I went to the home of C. C. Kelso, but found that he was off on Red Blanket fighting fire, so did no business there. Retracing my steps, I next stopped at Ed Higinbotham's farm, found him away, but his wife renewed the subscription to the W.M.T. Going on, I stopped at a house to try to get a new subscription, but failed, then I started to go to Charles H. Toney's, but found no one at home, but on my return trip I drove back out there from the steel bridge and found his daughter and she renewed the subscription to the W.M.T. Leaving Mr. Toney's, I crossed the bridge and met W. R. McLeod and he renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. He had just been burned out but a short time, so I did not ask him, but just as I got ready to start he asked me if I had my receipt book with me and said that he wanted to renew, that he always paid as he went. He has a new building in the course of construction and is getting in a new stock of goods, and from what I could learn from his neighbors, is doing very well and is the right man in the right place, for they all speak favorably of him. Leaving McLeod, I went on up to T. B. Higinbotham's and spent the night and had them renew their subscription to the W.M.T. The next morning I started for Prospect, and on the way met Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis of the Flounce Rock ranch. Mrs. Lewis was waiting for the Prospect-Derby stage. This was about 8:30 a.m. and I met the stage at 11:45, about three miles this side of Prospect. They had had tire trouble with their auto. Give me "Old Babe" and the buggy instead. I did no business with them. Going on, I stopped at the Evergreen ranch and there met Mesdames Roler and Blanchet. The men were off at work. They have one of the best farms in that section and sell everything they raise right at the door. Did no business there. The next place I stopped was at the J. F. Ditsworth farm, near the Hole in the Ground, but Mr. and Mrs. D. were both away from home, so did no business there. There I met Earl Ulrich and he told me that the subscribers to the Tribune were paying James Grieve, but I went on to the Nye farm and met Mrs. A. Nye and she renewed her subscription to the W.M.T. I then went to the Prospect power plant and met J. C. Embry and asked if I could get dinner and horse feed and he kindly made the arrangements with Mrs. Glenn B. Conwell for my dinner and then cared for Babe, and I soon met Mr. Walker and he invited me to take a ride down to the power plant on an 80 percent grade, 500 feet, in which I gladly accepted, and there at the car I met Mr. Irwin and we went down together, and at the plant met Mr. Lowery, the chief electrician, and had a good view of the works.
    After dinner I retraced my steps and on my way stopped to visit Miss Mabel Hanson's school. She is teaching in the Flounce Rock district, has a small school of nine pupils and is giving very general satisfaction, and the children told me that they love her very much. This is her second term in that school. I stopped that night at Mr. Higinbotham's again, and the next morning I stopped at the beautiful mansion of George Mansfield. He has one of the best farms in that section and has it greatly improved. He has a transmitter installed so that he has electric lights, power and heaters, everything up to date, but when I met and introduced myself to Mrs. Mansfield and inquired for Mr. M., was told that he was sick, but when I told her my business she simply wrote me out a check and thereby renewed their subscription to the D.M.T.
    My next stop was at the home of Mrs. Gordon and R. B. Vinson, but found that Mr. V. was in Klamath county, so did no business there. I next stopped at the Rogue River ranch, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Opdyke, found him at home, but he was very busy--the stork had been there the day before and left a 7½-pound boy, and I am glad to be able to say that the boy and his mother are doing fine. Did no business there. My next stop was at the home farm of David Pence and found him at home and had dinner and horse fed. Had him renew his subscription to the D.M.T. From there I stopped at the home of A. C. Weeks, and he told me that he had over fifty hogs that he was about to sell, and if he sold he would leave the cash at the Eagle Point Bank for me. next I went to Dr. C. E. McDonald, but did no business there. The doctor had just completed a very neat five-room house on the McDonald place. From there I went to where one of the McDonald brothers is putting up a large rooming house for a summer resort, but found that J. E. McDonald and wife were both away from home, so did no business there. My next stop was at the home of T. B. Dawson and had him renew his subscription to the W.M.T. I then went to the free ferry and had J. B. Blaess renew his subscription to the W.M.T., and then started for home in the rain.
    The following persons renewed their subscriptions to the M.T. on Tuesday before I started out in the country: J. T. Zimmerlee, Trail; Geo. Owens, Wellen; Wilbur Jacks, Eagle Point and Thomas F. Nichols of Lake Creek renewed his by check that I found when I returned home Friday night.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 26, 1915, page 5


    Wilford Jacks and family have returned from Klamath County, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Young, Jr., who have been away for some time, have also returned.
    Miss Josie Riley, who is engaged as one of the teachers in the Medford schools, was here last Saturday, combining business with pleasure.
    George von der Hellen, S. B. Holmes, J. B. Jackson and Carl Narregan started for Elk Creek country last Sunday on a hunting expedition.
    James Driscoll, district warden, and Ed Walker, deputy district warden, were here for dinner last Saturday, and so was J. M. Wilfley. Mr. Wilfley is the owner of a 160-acre orchard about two miles northeast of here, and has been here superintending the work, and reports that he has his fruit all shipped and he has gone to Salt Lake City to join his wife, who remained there the past summer to look after their interests there.
    W. E. Mann, O. V. Meyer, C. B. Tou Velle and family, Herman Meyer, Mrs. Mary Terrill, Mrs. George von der Hellen and son Donald, William von der Hellen and family, C. W. Clements and wife, J. J. Spitzer, R. M. Mansford of Wheeling, Nev.; Carl Wick, Mr. and Mrs. V. T. McCurry, Mrs. I. L. Hamilton and Miss Katherine Cofers were among the guests last Sunday.
    John McAllister of Lake Creek, who owns and operates a sawmill on the north fork of Little Butte, was doing business with von der Hellen Bros. last Monday.
    William Grissom and his father were doing business here last Tuesday.
    W. E. Hammel, one of our progressive farmers, orchardists and stockmen, shipped in another fine hog last Tuesday.
    J. L. Robinson was in town Tuesday and reports that he and Marshall Minter went up to the Elk Creek hatchery Saturday night with one of Mr. R.'s sons, and Sunday morning procured about 500 pounds of fish that they are curing for future use.
    Ralph Elden, the Central Point fertilizer man, was here Monday night, and on Tuesday unloaded a carload of super-phosphate and quite a number of the farmers here were here to receive their part. Some of them procured as much as 5000 pounds, and quite a number took from 1000 to 3000 pounds.
    Miss Gertrude Abbott and a lady friend of hers took passage on the P.&E. for Butte Falls Tuesday, and Dave Pence came out and took the Eagle Point and Persist stage the same day.
    Frank Hurst, one of our Jackson County boys, who has been in Eastern Oregon for the past seven or eight years, was a guest at the Sunnyside last Tuesday, and so was Henry and Herman Meyer, Frank Abbott, W. C. Clements, E. Hurd, besides several strangers whose names I did not learn.
    Sam Harnish has had his house reroofed.
    I took a drive out Tuesday afternoon to try to do something for the Mail Tribune, but only have to report the name of George Givan as having renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
    A. N. Hildebrand of the Medford Sash & Door Company of Medford called for supper Tuesday night, and so did two men from Ashland spend the night here whose names I did not learn.
    Quite a number of the ladies of the Eagle Point Rebekah lodge went to Central Point Wednesday to attend the Rebekah convention.
    The Rogue River Irrigation and Canal Company is having a large quantity of lumber taken from here to the flume near Lake Creek post office, to either repair or enlarge the present flume, and the truck they are using to haul the lumber is generally loaded both ways with men. Wednesday (today) it went up with seventeen men, and one of the men running the machine said they would have thirty more tomorrow. They seem to be constantly coming and going.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 28, 1915, page 5


    A Hallowe'en party will be given at the schoolhouse Monday night, November 1, under the auspices of the Parent-Teachers Association. Beginning at 7:30 the association will hold its regular meeting, at which time all will be invited to take part in the discussion of the question, "How Can the School Grounds Be Made More Attractive?" After the program the evening will be given to merrymaking in keeping with the spirit of the occasion, while the inner man will be satisfied with pumpkin pie and sweet apple cider.
    L. K. Haak has very generously offered to furnish the cider and the ladies are invited to bring the pies. Everybody is invited to be present. Admission free.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 1, 1915, page 7


    Jack Houston and wife were at Beagle Sunday.
    Harry Banks and T. C. Gaines returned home from the valley Wednesday.
    Mrs. Chas. Skyrman visited her children Clara and Harry at Central Point this week.
    Grandpa Houston is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Jasper Rogers of Beagle.
    Gage and Johnson have bought a Chalmers auto.
    Mrs. Berdoff spent Thursday with Mrs. Gene Bellows.
    Frank Houston spent the weekend in the valley.
    Jack and Lawrence Daw were trading in Central Point Thursday.
    Roadmaster Smith was seen on the river road Friday.
    Among the valley visitors this week are John Walker, Robert Dawson, John and Will Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. M. Belcher, W. P. Morgan and Alex Belcher.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dick Johnson were to Central Point Friday after a load of flour.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 2, 1915, page 3


    Miss Orbie Natwick gave a special dance and served light refreshments last Friday night, October 29, and invited about seventy-five couples, and I understand that they had one of the nicest and best conducted dances they have had for some time. The opera house was beautifully decorated, and Miss Orbie seemed to take special pains to make everyone feel at home.
    On Saturday night the Eagle Point Entertainment Company gave a masque ball that was well attended, and those who were in attendance report having had a fine time, the only trouble seeming to be that there was not room enough in the hall, so that the people, and especially the dancers, did not have the room that they needed. Those who masked seemed to take a great deal of pains to look neat, and while some of them had a grotesque appearance, there was nothing in the low or vulgar to mar the beauty of the occasion, and everyone with whom I have talked expressed themselves as highly pleased. Sunday night the same company gave a moving picture show, but I have not heard any report from that, but do not think that they made a success of it, as there had been two dances, one on Friday and the other on Saturday night.
    And then to wind up the Hallowe'en festivities, the teachers in our school had a Hallowe'en party for the school children, as well as for the older ones. They had the Parent-Teachers' meeting in the first part of the evening and talked over the wants and needs of the school and how they could manage to beautify the school ground, and at the close of that part of the program the young folks came in for their share of the fun. They had a pole about six inches in diameter placed on two ladders about ten feet apart, and had the boys and in some instances, young men sit straddle of the pole and battle with each other with feather pillows, and the fun was to sit on the pole and fight and keep the other fellow from knocking you off, for your feet could not touch the ground. In addition to that, they had been provided with a load of dry limbs and a lot of other combustibles to make a large bonfire, and to cap the climax there was provided something like five dozen pumpkin pies and all the sweet cider that all hands could drink, donated by L. K. Haak. This ended the festivities of our Hallowe'en.
    There was but very little on the mischievous order, as I saw but very little that had been done that would particularly inconvenience anyone.
    Word came to me Saturday afternoon that the store and residence of L. D. Swihart--they were together--were burned to the ground Friday night while Mr. and Mrs. Swihart were attending a social party at the home of John Allen, but I did not mention it in my last, as I wanted to learn the particulars before I reported the case. I understand that he was not at that time carrying any insurance on the property, although he had had the property insured, but after the McLeod fire the company had notified Mr. S. that they would not insure where the store and residence were under the same roof. I have not learned the loss sustained, but it is very hard on Mr. and Mrs. Swihart to lose their all.
    Leonard Deweese started for San Francisco, Cal., Saturday to try to find a position of some kind where he can make both ends meet. He has left his wife and child here temporarily while he is on the hunt.
    Pete Young and his sister, Clara, were doing shopping in our town Saturday.
    Mr. Stanley, Sr., and wife have moved to Butte Falls from their place on Salt Creek to spend the winter.
    W. E. Hammel has had shipped in from Seattle a lot of wire fencing.
    Saturday evening Rev. M. C. Davis of Wolf Creek came out to visit me, and after spending the night we went together to Tolo, reaching there in time to meet the Sunday school, and at the close I preached for them and in the afternoon Brother Davis preached to a very appreciative audience, judging from the way they paid attention and the greeting they gave him at the close of the services.
    At the close of the services I took him in the buggy and drove as far as the "Scenic Avenue," and there he left me for Central Point, so that he could catch No. 16 and go home that night, and I turned my course up or down "Scenic Avenue," I hardly know which, and was naturally looking for something on the scenic order, and the first thing that particularly attracted my attention was an old moss-covered post and rail fence and on a little further I found an old-fashioned worm rail fence and they did surely look "scenic," the most of the farms I passed were up to date, and after driving a few miles I came to the home of E. H. Davis, on the Dr. Ray ranch, where I spent the night, and in the morning he renewed his subscription to the D.M.T., sold me 25 pounds of grapes for 25 cents, and I started on my way for home and found about thirty persons at the Sunnyside waiting for dinner, and Mrs. H. reported that there were 43 guests there for dinner Sunday noon and 30 for supper Sunday night.
    Tuesday Dr. J. L. Hill of Medford phoned out that he and his wife, Rev. J. C. Rollins and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Harrison would be out for dinner, and in due time they arrived and we had a very pleasant time together. The doctor is a fine conversationalist and so is Rev. Rollins. He is the pastor of the M.E. church of Medford.
    Herman Meyer and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Setzer, and her two daughters were here for dinner Saturday, and so was George Austin and his cousin, Miss Grace Austin of Climax, and Mr. Driscoll, the chief game warden, and his deputy, Ed Walker. Art Smith was also here. He arrived from Crater Lake on Sunday afternoon and A. N. Mullen and E. L. Culbertson of Jacksonville. Also Mrs. Mary Beale and her two sons, Polk and Corbin, of Butte Falls. They were here Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights.
    Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Miller of Portland were here Tuesday night on their way to their homestead on Trail Creek.
    W. Hart Hamilton and son, Sherman, who have been boarding with us for the past three months, started for their home in San Jose, Cal., Monday morning. He has left Frank Abbott in charge of his place during his absence. Frank Abbott paid up a balance due on his subscription to the D.M.T. and had it discontinued and subscribed for the W.M.T. as he moves into the old Ashpole place, now owned by Mr. Hamilton, so that he can't get his mail every day.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1915, page 5


    B. Klum, the advertising man of Jackson County, came out with two other men and erected a frame on the corner of the lot facing Main Street and Hamilton Avenue, and later he intends to cover the frame with a metal covering, and the structure is to be used for general advertising. The billboard will not add much to the beauty of the place, but Mr. Klum says that he has so arranged the structure that there will be no paste drop on the sidewalks and that he intends to clean up the entire lot and try as much as possible to improve its appearance.
    Messrs. Hoefft, who owns a fine farm on Little Butte Creek, near Lake Creek, and Ernest Rithtes, who owns a farm between Medford and Central Point, were here Thursday for dinner, and I noticed when they left town that they took several sacks of flour on home with them from one of our stores. Arden Tyrrell of Lake Creek was also with us at the same time, and so was Henry Meyers of Brownsboro. He brought out a load of fine-looking potatoes for some of our citizens. Gus Pech, another one of the Lake Creek farmers, was also doing business here that day and was a guest at the Sunnyside, besides four strangers whom I did not know.
    C. A. Chatman and wife came in Thursday afternoon, after taking the wrong road, coming out from Medford and going across Dry Creek into the Wellen neighborhood, and having an experience with sticky. They were tired and hungry when they reached here and so spent the night with us, and the next day went up to the Hoagland ranch and back and spent Friday night with us. They are agents for the Singer sewing machines.
    Arnold Banholzer of Butte Falls came out Thursday on the P.&E. to be treated by Dr. W. P. Holt. He seems to be having trouble with his heart. He has taken a room at the Sunnyside.
    Joseph Prall and Art Vestal, the men who took the contract to build the schoolhouse at Derby, were doing business with our merchants Thursday.
    Mr. Stimson and another man, both in the employ of the O.&C. Power Co., came out Thursday and installed two electric heaters for J. V. McIntyre in his home, I believe the first ones to be used in our town, but if they prove a success there will probably be several more put in.
    A son of Fort Hubbard and two more men who had been working up at Fish Lake came out and spent Thursday night here on their way to Medford. They report that the R.L.I. Co. [Roguelands & Irrigation Company] have completed the first section of the dam, having built it twenty feet high, and have moved their camp.
    Paul Opdyke was here Friday and took a load of supplies home from one of our stores.
    A. G. Bishop, who is interested in the Hollywood orchard, was in town Friday on business.
    H. C. Stock of Ashland brought out a lot of caskets for F. L. Heath, one of our local undertakers, last Friday.
    Frank Lewis, one of our confectioners, and J. T. Zimmerlee, proprietor of the Farmers' Hotel, took a hike for the hills last Friday. Some said they were going to prospect for gold and take an outing.
    Bert A. Naren, one of the forest rangers, spent Friday night with us on his way to Trail with a load of flooring.
    Messrs. Meyer and Mann, the two men who are managing the big truck that is taking the big lot of lumber from here up to be used on the R.R.I. Co.'s big ditch, when they came in for dinner reported that a Swede who had been working on the big ditch dropped dead Saturday morning near Camp 4, near the Lake Creek post office. The coroner went up to take charge of the corpse this morning.
    Among the guests here for dinner Saturday were C. H. Willison, one of our grocery salesmen, wife and daughter: O. V. Myers and W. E. Mann and William Nickel, wife and two children.
    Since my last report, Thomas Vestal has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1915, page 3


    E. E. Ash and Irwin Howe are hauling hay for Fred Sturgis.
    Little Carl Dawson is able to be up and around the house again, after being laid up with a broken leg for the past six weeks.
    There will be a masquerade ball at Trail hall Thanksgiving night, November 25. It will be a basket supper for those who wish to bring lunch. Good music will be furnished and a good time guaranteed. Everybody come.
    Mrs. Furlong and brother, Lewis Thomason, of Tiller, returned home Friday after a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ash and family.
    Fred Sturgis and Mr. Messenger made a business trip to Medford this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dickey entertained a few of their friends Wednesday evening. The evening was spent in various card games, after which a light lunch was served, and the guests departed for their homes. Everyone reports a fine time.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1915, page 5


    Rube Johnson is visiting his brother, Frank, and family.
    The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Noe of Medford was buried at Trail Thursday. Mrs. Noe was formerly Miss Ruth Warner of Trail.
    Mrs. S. Vestal and son, Alec, spent Thursday at the C. E. Bellows home.
    A colored man from Haiti lectured at the Reese, Laurel, Trail and Central school houses.
    There is to be a masquerade ball at Ash's hall Thanksgiving.
    Mr. and Mrs. Albright went to Medford Friday.
    Miss Mia Hannah has returned home.
    U. S. Collins, wife and daughter, Mary, autoed out to the Debenger Gap school house Tuesday. He brought a book case and other supplies for the district.
    John Foster returned to Eagle Point Sunday.
    At the school meeting held Saturday in the Laurel district, Mrs. Bert Clarno was elected clerk to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mrs. W. H. Crandall. A flag pole was raised and a handsome flag was floated.
    Jack Daw was a Medford visitor Thursday.
    The rain Thursday night caused the farmers to smile.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. Linville, Mrs. Gage and Bird Johnston autoed to Central Point Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1915, page 5


    In my last I omitted to mention that Mr. W. R. McLeod and son, one of the prosperous business men of the McLeod settlement, was with us on last Friday night.
    I understand that a family by the name of Heath has moved from Klamath County into this section and are thinking of buying property here.
    Last Saturday Mr. Nibley, Mr. Gates and Dr. Page came out to meet the citizens of this section and talk over the sugar beet proposition. There was but few met them at the Brown hall and Mr. Nibley gave us a talk on the subject and then Mr. Gates talked some and referred those who wished to ask questions to Mr. Nibley, and there were some few asked questions and he seemed to answer them satisfactorily and then the "contract" was distributed among the farmers and the contents pretty well thrashed out and two signed up, i.e. Fred Pelouze and Carl Narregan, and I learned later that there is some more who have conditionally agreed to sign up. There seems to be one difficulty in the way in this section, and that is about all the beet sugar land that we have in these parts is covered with alfalfa, and a number of the people are Missourians and want to be showed. They can make more money by plowing up the alfalfa and planting it in sugar beets than they can make by raising alfalfa and feeding the separated milk to the calves and hogs. They seem to think that it is a debatable question, at least. And another serious question is the transportation of the beets to the factory, as at five dollars a ton they could not afford to haul them far at that price. Now up on Little Butte Creek there is a lot of fine soil that will produce almost anything that is put in the ground, but it is too far to haul, especially over such roads as there is up there. How would it do to build the factory, say, at Brownsboro instead of Medford? But some of our enterprising business men are going to canvass this section and see what can be done in that line and perhaps if we all whoop the move up we make it go anyhow.
    That day in the afternoon while I was around seeing what I could learn about the sugar beet industry I was also looking after the interests of the Mail Tribune, and in the course of the afternoon I met Mr. L. S. Grosse, who is living on the big demonstration farm at the Agate R.R. crossing, and he gave me his sub for the D.M.T., and soon after Mr. A. E. Strong, and he paid four and a half dollars on his sub to the D.M.T., and then Fred Pelouze paid up his sub to the D.M.T. and then Timmie Dugan renewed his sub to the W.M.T., so that was not so bad for an afternoon's work.
    James Culbertson of Lake Creek brought out a lot of fine cabbage to Mrs. Howlett Monday to make a barrel of sauerkraut.
    Mr. Fox, the milk goat man, who lives in the foothills on Little Butte Creek, was in town last Monday on his way home. He had been down below here fishing and said that he had a fine lot of trout.
    Thomas Farlow and wife came in from Medford Monday where they had motored to take their daughter, Miss Myrtle, to high school.
    Wm. Grissom was in town Monday negotiating with von der Hellen Bros. for a lot of pipe.
    The many friends of Miss Frances Heath, daughter of one of our merchants, will be pleased to learn that she arrived safe in Chicago on the 3rd inst.
    Speaking about the Heath family I see that Mr. Heath has occupied the old meat market building to store his flour, breakfast food, etc.
    The moving [of] the camps of the R.R. ditch car laborers brings business to the hotels in our town, as last Sunday about ten Mrs. Howlett received word that there would be twenty of the men here for dinner and Tuesday about 3 p.m. she had word that there would be 17 more here to spend two or three days, and this Wednesday p.m. I heard there would be another gang tomorrow. Thus they come and go all the time.
    Messrs. Meyers and Mann who are handling the big truck had quite a loss from their machine Tuesday night coming from Brownsboro in the dark, so when they went out to the garage to take the machine out, lo they had lost the crank so they had to resort to the novel plan to get a long rope and wrap it outside of one of the hind wheels three times and then had five of the men pull and jerk on one end of the rope, the wheel already being raised from the ground so that it would turn with a kick and start the engine. By retracing their steps they found the lost crank back about two miles.
    John Allen of Derby was out Sunday and came out again on Tuesday. He has been buying up a lot of cattle of different ones of his neighbors.
    I understand that A. L. Haselton will move on to the Ed Wolfer place and that Wm. Perry, who has bought the Haselton place, will move out to that place.
    Perry Foster and Steve Smith of the Debenger Gap country were in town Tuesday, and so was Nick Young, Timmie Dugan, Mike Sidley and Mrs. Thomas Cingcade.
    I see that our R.R. agent is shipping quite a lot of poultry again this fall.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 11, 1915, page 5


    There will be an entertainment at the Eagle Point hall on Wednesday night, November 17, under the auspices of the Boys and Girls Industrial Club. The program will consist of humorous readings, catchy songs and instrumental music and will be given entirely by outside talent. Miss Bertha Calkins and Miss Gene Creekpaum of Ashland, two members of the party, won considerable fame for their readings and solos in the entertainments which they gave in the various towns and cities of Southern Oregon last year and the violinist who is to accompany them this year comes equally well recommended. A small admission will be charged and a portion of the proceeds will be for the benefit of the school athletic club.
    About one hundred and fifty persons attended the second parent-teachers' meeting on the first Monday in November. After the business session refreshments were served. The next meeting to be held the first Monday evening in December. The subject for that date to be "A Community Christmas." Mrs. George von der Hellen, vice president of the association, will have charge.
    Kenneth Hook left last week for his home in Oakland, California. He had been in school here since the beginning of the term and will be very much missed as he was active in student body work, having served as president of the school industrial club and editor of the school paper. Kenneth had been staying with his sister, Mrs. Whitman, of this place.
    Three new pupils were enrolled this week.
    The new traveling library from Salem arrived Tuesday. A list of the books will be published later.
    The school board has just put up about fifty feet of new green board and have also installed several new drinking fountains.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 11, 1915, page 5


    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hurd of Eagle Point, November 10, a daughter, reported by Dr. W. P. Holt.
    Samuel Storey, W. C. Woodford and Ed F. Hubbard were out about the middle of last week interviewing our farmers with regard to the sugar beet proposition. They seemed to be quite encouraged over the prospect of securing the sugar factory in the valley and were urging the friends of the movement to put forth their utmost efforts to bring the subject properly before the people. There is one thing certain and that is that we, as a community, can't be worsted by the accession of such a plant to the valley, and I noticed while I was in the sugar beet section in Santa Clara Valley, California, last July, and saw hundreds of tons of beets on the cars that the people were not complaining of hard times, and I was told that the business was very remunerative and that those who were engaged in the business were well satisfied with the results.
    David Cingcade and wife returned from their trip to San Francisco and the fair and David says that when he got back to Medford that it looked to him about like Eagle Point did when he left, for he had never realized how large this world was until he visited San Francisco, Sacramento and Stockton; that one day in the fair more than paid him for his expense of going; that it is a school where one can learn more in one day than they ever thought of before. He advises all who can to go and see for themselves.
    Last Saturday night the Eagle Point Lodge, No. 227, of the I.O.O.F. gave an entertainment and supper at their annual "homecoming," and your Eagle Point correspondent was one of the invited guests. The following persons were out as visiting members from Medford: E. W. Brainard, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Meadows, Dr. and Mrs. R. J. Lockwood, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bateman, Mrs. Rosa Robbins, E. E. Wilson, G. W. Howard, R. E. Wilson, G. W. Howard, R. E. Wilson, A. S. Wells, J. E. O'Bilen, Earl Reynolds, A. R. Chase, Joseph Bateman and Joseph Corkhuff. There were seventy-six took supper, and--well it is not necessary for me to try to describe the feast; suffice it to say that they all had all that they could eat except one poor preacher, and he was the last one at the table, and two of his lady friends had compassion on him and went and forcibly took him away from the table to save him from committing suicide, and he seemed to be grateful to the ladies for their consideration of his interests. After the feast was ended and a few minutes spent in chitchat conversation, W. L. Childreth called the house to order and announced that we would have a short program, and then called on Miss Hattie Howlett for a reading, when she rendered a comic dialogue between a man and his wife, then Professor A. R. Chase was called on and he recited a very interesting reading in his own peculiar way, and he was encored, and then related how Dr. Lockwood lost his cow by freezing to death on a hot day in midsummer, and that brought down the house. Then Mrs. Lottie McQuoid was called and she gave another interesting (comic) reading and was encored, and the second was better than the first. Then Dr. Lockwood was called and sent a shot at Professor Chase that produced a telling effect and brought down the house. Then Mrs. Lottie McQuoid was called again and she read a comic piece written by one of our townsmen that was entitled "Uncle Josh on the Odd Fellows," and was received with cheers. Then Professor W. O. Wheeler introduced a new move requiring everyone to have their "smile" measured, stating that the one who had the broadest smile would be entitled to a genuine diamond pin, and represented it to be a genuine "dime on pin," and Professor C. R. Chase was appointed to perform the measuring act, which he reluctantly performed amid the applause of the company, and Professor Wheeler and Rev. L. L. Simmons acted as tellers. The measurements ran from two and a half to three and a half inches until they came to our townsman, G. H. Wamsley, when it was announced that his smile was thirteen inches, and here Dr. Lockwood protested that there was cheating in the measurement, when the committee finally reduced it to six and a half inches. So the pin was awarded to him, with the understanding that if he did not succeed in finding someone to wear it within six months--he is a widower--that he is to return it to the lodge again. Professor Wheeler then introduced another play or game. It consisted in distributing slips of paper with different numbers and letters on them, and by collecting all those who had a particular number, say the number 7, and placing all the letters on the 7 together would spell the name of a certain kind of apple, and then the group was required to compose a poem on the apple, and the best poem entitled the group to an apple pie, and this caused considerable sport, for while the different ones were looking for their place someone stole the pie, and they had a time hunting it up, but finally succeeded and by this time it was 11:45 p.m. so we went home after having had a fine time.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 16, 1915, page 5


    Ezra Whitley, who has been living in the state of Washington for several years, came in the last of the week on his way to Prospect to visit his parents.
    Frank Peacock of Dixon, Ill., came in last week to visit his cousin, Mrs. A. J. Daley.
    Mrs. Percival and Mrs. Vaughn and her son came in from Derby last week on their way to their homes in Medford.
    Mrs. F. E. Satzer and her two daughters, Amanda and Clara Maria, and Miss Verie Tonn and Henry Tonn of Lake Creek were here for dinner Saturday. Mrs. S. and her two daughters have been up in the Lake Creek country visiting her father and family and other relatives.
    C. A. Newstrom and his son, Theodore, and uncle, William Nussbaum, Henry and Herman Meyers were also here for dinner Saturday.
    I see in the Mail Tribune of the 13th inst. the statement made that William Packard of Talent had raised twenty tons of onions to the acre on his farm, and that would look big to one who was not familiar with the growing [of] onions, but A. L. Haselton, the boss onion raiser of Southern Oregon, reported to me some years ago that he had raised and marketed that year thirty-six tons to the acre on a two and a half acre tract, and there was a large number of them weighed from two to three and a half pounds. So Talent will still have to take off its hat to Eagle Point [on] the onion question.
    Last Saturday there was quite a number of our farmers in town getting their plowshares sharpened and their farming tools fixed up generally.
    The Boys' and Girls' Industrial Club of Eagle Point are going to give an entertainment at the opera house November 17, entitled "The Jolly Colleens." There will be three girls in the company and there will be a fine program, consisting of songs, instrumental music and readings. We are expecting a large audience and a good time. Let everyone turn out and help and encourage our boys and girls who are instrumental in bringing the talent to our town.
    Last Sunday morning your Eagle Point correspondent took a trip over to Tolo, where he met a few of the good people of that section, and after Sunday school gave them a short talk. I noticed as I went and came that there is scarcely any farming done as yet, and those who have tried to plow say that the ground in not wet deep enough to plow yet, although they seem to think that after the rain soaks into the ground that they can plow, although the ground is so dry that it will take a while to get it soaked up again.
    Monday morning about 3 o'clock, fire was discovered in Smith Bros.' confectionery store, and by the time that help arrived the fire was under such headway that there was no saving anything. Everything was burned. There was a partial insurance on the goods and billiard tables, but it is not known here whether there was any insurance on the building or not. I understand that it belonged to a man by the name of Stis of Douglas County. There were two small buildings joining the large one that belonged to A. J. Daley that burned. The buildings have been considered regular fire traps for years. The entire town turned out to help to save the Farmers' Hotel that stands just across the street from the burned building. I have not heard an estimate of the loss.
    Since my last report, C. W. Clements, our accommodating and efficient postmaster, has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
    Orville Childreth, oldest son of our town blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, and Clarence Robinett, started Monday for South Dakota.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 18, 1915, page 5


    As I wrote for the Mail Tribune Monday last, the day that I started for Salem, Portland and his place, I am not able to give very many items of interest of a local character, but will give what I have and try and fill the balance with incidents along the route.
    Miss Grace Miller of Lake Creek came out on the Eagle Point and Lake Creek stage Monday and stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner and in the afternoon took the S. H. Harnish jitney for Medford. She and your correspondent had engaged passage on the 1 o'clock auto but there were so many to go at that time, seven, that it became necessary to make two trips, so we, Miss Grace and myself, were elected to wait until the 8 o'clock car, but we got started all right and went through in about thirty minutes to the hospital where Miss Grace was left to take lessons in nursing, as she thinks of turning her attention to that branch of business. And right there I came near being "knocked out" of my trip, for when we reached the depot I began to look around for my suitcase and upon inquiry of Robbie learned that he had left it at the hospital with Miss Grace's baggage, but fortunately for me we had an hour to wait for the train and he made the trip back to the hospital and brought it to me safe and sound.
    W. L. Childreth and his daughter, Miss Loretta, and Mrs. Sophia Robinett went to Medford Monday to see Mr. Childreth's son, Clarence, off as they took the 4 o'clock train for South Dakota.
    Mrs. Frank Nichols and her two daughters, Misses Thelma and Orbie, were in Medford Monday doing business with the merchants. I understand that they expect to start for Seattle, Wash., in the near future. Mrs. N. and her two daughters will be greatly missed from the social circle of Eagle Point, and their many friends wish them a safe and prosperous journey to their new home.
    When the alarm of fire was sounded Monday morning and the sleepers at the Sunnyside were aroused from their slumbers, we of the household could see no sign of fire across the creek, but the fire was on the inside of the building, so Jed Edsall, one of our regular boarders, in running downstairs to look for the fire made a misstep and badly sprained his ankle and when I left was suffering very much from the effect of the sprain.
    At 5:25 Monday afternoon I took the car for Salem to make a call on my old friend and benefactor, Dr. M. C. Findley, and arrived at the depot about 5 o'clock a.m. and after breakfast called Dr. Findley up on the phone simply to let him know that I was there and wanted to see him, and he said that he would meet me at his office at about 9 a.m. So taking the car I rode out and noticed that there had been some changes for the better in the city, so far as the buildings and their surroundings were concerned. In fact when you get away from around the depot out into the city proper you find one of the neatest-looking cities on the map of Oregon. After spending about three hours in his office, although he was busy about all the time, we went to his beautiful home, where I had the pleasure of meeting his wife and children and Mrs. Findley's mother and spent all the time I could so as not to miss the electric car for Portland. Taking the car at 1:45 p.m. we rode through a fine country, arriving in Portland at 4 o'clock p.m. and found the city in a commotion on account of the convention of the Anti-Saloon [League] that was in session at that time. But it will make my letter too long for me to try to tell about the convention and before I tell about that, I want to tell something about the country through which we passed on my way from Salem to Portland. So will stop writing for this time.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 23, 1915, page 6


    Jasper Hannah and wife, Mrs. T. Raimey and daughter, Miss Ora, were in Central Point several days the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Peter Betz, Miss Allie Klippel and Mrs. Skyrman and son, Olaf, were Sunday visitors at the Jasper Hannah home.
    Henry French of Washington made a business trip here the first of the week. He called on his old-time friends, Perry Foster and Joe Hannah, Sr.
    Gordon Cox has rented the W. P. Morgan place and Mr. Morgan will move to Central Point for the winter.
    Mrs. Mae Daw and children, Cyril, Loretta and Vivian, went to Medford Saturday to spend Thanksgiving with her mother, Mrs. Johnston.
    Henry French sold his small bunch of goats to Alvin Albright.
    The Elk Creek school district are building a $1000 school house.
    Milton Houston and sister, Miss Eula, were Central Point visitors the first of the week.
    Harry Banks made a business trip to the valley the first of the week.
    Perry Foster was in Eagle Point Thursday.
    Mrs. Bert Clarno received the sad news of the death of her nephew, Willie H. Gibson, at Syracuse, Kansas, of typhoid fever and paralysis of the heart. Willie was a native of Missouri, and was nearly 27 years of age. He lived here about fourteen years. He and his father, Louis Gibson, were on their way to Florida when he was stricken down and died among strangers.
    Miss Mattie Minter shipped twenty-one fine turkeys Saturday.
    John Walker and son Jack drove a drove of hogs to town one day this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 23, 1915, page 6


    The last time I wrote for the Mail Tribune I stopped when I had reached Portland with the understanding that I was to tell something of what I saw after I reached Salem. The first thing that particularly attracted my attention after reaching the capital of our state and leaving the S.P. depot, for we all know that that is not up to date, was the beautiful streets and buildings, and these buildings, at least many of them, of a modern appearance and the surroundings arranged with the utmost taste, for while Portland can boast of her flower gardens and artistic work, Salem has some of the most beautiful exhibits to be seen anywhere, and the buildings, especially the business blocks, reflect credit on the enterprise of the citizens. But it is expected that the state capital will be attractive. Taking the Oregon Electric car at 1:45, we traveled through as fine a farming country as anyone could wish to see, and one thing that particularly attracted my attention was the universal neatness of the farms that led me to conclude that the owners were generally persons of intelligence and enterprise, and one thing that led me to think the farmers were generally "full-handed" was that they nearly all appeared to be engaged in the dairy business to greater or less extent, and I noticed in one of the local country papers that it is claimed that on some of the farms they are realizing as high as $500 a year off an acre of ground. This is, of course, counting in the expense of labor, etc., but the farmers have learned the value of barn manure as a fertilizer, and they do save and use it all, thus putting back into the land all and more than they took off. And then they aim to keep stock enough to eat the most of the hay, grain and a good part of the vegetables they raise on the farm. Near the little village where I am now writing there are two farms where they keep large herds of Holstein cows, sell the milk to the Portland people and thus make big money. I also noticed as I rode along the road that, notwithstanding the fact that Oregon and Washington both went "dry," that there were several hop fields to be seen along the route. Another thing that I noticed was that the farmers in many places are turning their attention to the cultivation of corn and are using the silos, thus securing a fine substitute for green food for their cows.
    On reaching Portland, among the first things I did was to pay my respects to the headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League, where I met several of my old-time friends. Spending the night with one of my brothers-in-law, the next morning I went direct to the White Temple and heard Attorney General George M. Brown explain the new prohibition law of Oregon in a talk of about an hour, in which he explained the different points and answered various questions bearing on the law and its enforcement. He was followed by District Attorney W. H. Evans of Portland, and between the two attorneys almost every phase of the law was brought out. Among other questions asked was, could each member of a family of the father, mother, two sons of 25-27 years of age, and a daughter of 30 years of age, and all living under the same roof, order the specified amount, two quarts of whiskey or twenty-four quarts of beer for each member of the family. Whereupon Attorney Brown turned to the decisions of the supreme court to define what constituted a family, and then told us that under the decisions of the higher courts that the father, or in case it was a family where the mother was the head of the household, was the recognized head of the family, and that only the allowance for one person could be obtained in that family. There were several other questions asked and answered, and while I am on this subject I will add that Attorney General Brown and District Attorney Evans have prepared a layman's primer on the Oregon dry law and [it] is being sent out by the Anti-Saloon League of the state that seems to answer almost every question on the subject that can be thought of.
    Before I close this letter I must beg space to say something about the weather. It was raining on Monday, November 15, when I left home, and it has been raining almost all the time ever since, and the wind is so cold that it seems as though I would freeze. And the wind blew so hard Monday, the 22nd, that it stopped the electric car traffic most all day from 9:15 a.m. to 4:23 p.m., but the people up here don't seem to notice the wind or rain any more than a duck would. I understand this (Tuesday) morning that yesterday there was a half an inch of water fell in thirty minutes. It surely rains some up here, but we are living in hopes of having a little better weather for Thanksgiving day.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 29, 1915, page 2


    Jasper Hannah was in Central Point the first of the week after a load of supplies.
    Mrs. George Fry had the misfortune to run a needle in her hand and break it off. Dr. Holt removed the needle Saturday.
    There were forty at the hard times party at Gene Bellows' Thanksgiving evening. Anna Robertson and Robert McCabe took the prizes for the "best dressed" lady and gentleman. All kinds of amusements were indulged in and refreshments served. The party departed for home about 3 o'clock, and all report having enjoyed a most delightful time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sanderson of Central Point accompanied Harry Skyrman and sister, Miss Clara, to their home on Upper Trail to spend Thanksgiving week.
    Norman Gage and Edward Linnville autoed to Central Point Tuesday.
    There was a large crowd at the masquerade ball at the Ash Hall at Trail, and everyone reports a fine time was had.
    Grant and Green Mathews have been gathering their cattle in the Rancheria country.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Central Point spent Thanksgiving with relatives here.
    Joe Hannah Sr. spent several days this week with his son Jasper and family.
    Miss Viola Pence and Ed Houston were married last week. Mrs. Houston is the eldest daughter of Road Supervisor and Mrs. Dave Pence of Elk Creek and Mr. Houston is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston of Long Branch. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Houston have lived among us all of their lives and have a wide circle of friends who wished them a long and peaceful journey on life's matrimonial sea.
    There will be a box social at the Reese Creek school house the evening of December 3 to raise funds for the neighborhood Christmas tree to be at the school house Christmas Eve.
    Miss Odessa Stacey closed a three months' term of school in the Long Branch district.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 29, 1915, page 3


    The last time that I wrote I was telling about the kind of weather we have up here, and among other things spoke about it being so cold that I almost froze, and still yesterday while I was in Portland I saw green beans and tomato vines that had not been affected by the frost in the least. This is remarkable country up here. While they have had no frost up to last night, Friday, November 26, still they have what they call the east wind. It comes down the Columbia River like a whirlwind and seems to penetrate the very marrow in the bones, and even some of the old settlers who have been living here for the last thirty to fifty years complain of the cold wind.
    Last Wednesday the school here gave a Thanksgiving entertainment, and had in connection with it an exhibition of the mechanical ingenuity of the children and some of the products of the soil. There was specimens of the needlework of the girls that would have passed in a country fair, and some of the work of the boys showed taste and neatness in the manufacturing art in wood work.
    The program was well rendered, and especially in the primary department the children did remarkably well. The corn exhibit surprised me, as I used to hear the farmers say when I lived here between fifty and sixty years ago that they could not raise corn in this wet climate, but they have procured an early variety that matures early, and now raise corn that will compare well with the Jackson County corn. Thanksgiving Day passed off very quietly, as the Thanksgiving services were held the Sunday before and Rev. Self, an aged Presbyterian minister, preached a fine sermon suited to the occasion.
    Friday morning one of my daughter's neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sennith--he was formerly of Jackson County but now a citizen of this place--proposed to take my daughter and myself to Portland in his auto, and O what a ride we had over that sandy road! It is hard finished all the way and scarcely a bump on the whole route, and we traveled through a section of the country that I was familiar with fifty years ago, but what a change! Then it was a vast forest with here and there a log cabin and a small clearing where the farmer would raise his spuds and enough grain to make his flour and feed, and they generally kept a few sheep that supplied the family with wool to make their woolen clothes and yarn enough to knit socks to sell or exchange for some things they needed out of the store. And thus they lived and really enjoyed life, for they were happy and contented and knew nothing of the hurry-and-greed game of the present day, but lived within their incomes and on friendly terms with their neighbors and really enjoyed life. But now the whole country is cut up into small farms, and as a rule have good houses on them and everything is up to date, and instead of the mother taking her two, three or perhaps half a dozen children on foot to see a neighbor two or three miles away, the lady of the house takes her auto or carriage and goes to the city to do her shopping, and in many instances does not know her nearest neighbors only by sight. But what about the children? Why, bless your soul, if they have any at all there is often but one, and he or she is left in care of the nurse or governess and the mother goes carefree.
    But this is a wonderful country, and while it has its drawbacks, such as that east wind and a great amount of rain, yet it is very productive, and the most of the people seem to be employed at something, but when you reach Portland there you will find it quite different, for there are plenty of idle men who are looking for a job so as to keep the wolf from the door.
    Well, when I commenced to write I intended to tell of my visit to Portland, and especially to the I.O.O.F. home, but will have to keep that for my next, as it will make this letter too long.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 30, 1915, page 3


    Since I wrote the last time there has been some changes in our thriving little town that have not been mentioned in the Mail Tribune.
    Since I left home Gaddis & Dixon, the Page fence men, have had their man go out to Eagle Point and tighten up the suspension bridge across Butte Creek just below the Sunnyside Hotel and the town council has had two bents put under it so as to take the strain off of it thus making the spans shorter, greatly improving its appearance and making it less trouble to walk.
    Miss Mabel Wamsley has gone to Bend, Oregon, to spend the winter, the same place she lived last winter. She has gone there for her health.
    Frank Nichols and family have moved to Seattle, Washington.
    George Wamsley has gone to Los Angeles to spend the winter with his brother.
    When I left home Nov. 15, from the appearance of the signs of the times it is about time for me to announce two weddings in Eagle Point, and they may have already been announced for all I know for I have not seen a copy of the Medford Mail Tribune for about a week as I have not had any mail since last Monday and then did not get the M.T., and I am almost lost without it. The last account I had from the sugar beet committee the prospects were not very flattering for securing the plant, but I hope that that is not a failure. We have had so much rain up in these parts that I have been confined the most of the time to the house so have not stirred around very much, but while I was in Portland I visited one of our old boarders, James Ringer, now a resident of the I.O.O.F. home, and found him well, hearty and happy. The home is situated out in the suburbs of the city and is a fine home for the aged and infirm. I was taken through the entire building and found the rooms to be large and neatly arranged and the occupants seemed to be perfectly contented. Mr. R. said that they had a plenty of good wholesome food.
    While I was in the city I also met another of the old Jackson County citizens, Mrs. Lizzy Carlton, nee Lizzie Wolgamott. She is living out in the region of Sandy. I also met a stranger who recognized me, he having stopped at the Sunnyside some time ago, and he was so glad to see me he introduced me to a friend, asked where I stopped and proposed that we take in the city together, but I was most too old to bite at that kind of bait.
    We are having all kinds of weather up here. It has rained I think every day since I left home, not all the time but there has not been twenty-four hours at a time but what we have had some rain, and a part of the time sleet and all together; the thermometer does not register very cold still the air is so chilly that a Southern Oregonian wants heavy clothing and a good fire, but the people up here don't seem to notice the cold or wet.
    I am enclosing a clipping from the Oregon City Enterprise that I think contains some good suggestions on the subject of school systems, and if you think best would like to have you publish it for the benefit of some of the Jackson County people.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 6, 1915, page 2


    Harry Banks and T. C. Gaines returned from Medford Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Edward Linville and Bird Johnston have gone to Sams Creek to spend a month.
    Miss Edna Whitley of Portland and sister were the guests of their brother, Ray, and family this week.
    Miss Eula Houston has spent the last ten days at the Panama fair at San Francisco, Cal.
    Chris Bergman has been on the sick list this week.
    Mrs. George Fry is having quite a serious time with her hand. She spent this week in Eagle Point to be near the doctor.
    Friday night was a stormy night, but nevertheless the Reese Creek box social realized $28.70 from the sale of the boxes and everyone had a good time.
    Miss Mia Hannah is visiting friends on Trail Creek.
    Peter Betz and Edward Foster were Eagle Point visitors Saturday.
    E. E. Ash returned from Central Point Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Schuyler Hammond spent Thanksgiving in the valley.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 6, 1915, page 5


    Dr. Kirchgessner returned to his Riverdale ranch Thursday after a four months' stay in San Francisco.
    Mr. and Mrs. Will Zimmerlee were Eagle Point visitors Friday.
    The Laurel school is closed this week, as Professor Johnson is in Jacksonville taking the teachers' examination.
    Grant Mathews and wife spent a couple of days at the T. C. Gaines home on Trail.
    Cy Matthews of South Dakota and Verna Matthews and wife are the guests of Grant Mathews and family.
    Dave Pence is putting some needed gravel on the Morgan grade.
    Velma Fry was the Sunday night guest of Velma Hannah.
    Mrs. Sanford Richardson and Doris brought Miss Eula Houston out home Friday.
    Mrs. Graham called on Mrs. Bellows Saturday morning.
    Perry Foster was on the sick list this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 14, 1915, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan were called to Central Point by the serious illness of her brother, Alec Belcher.
    The high school in the Central district is progressing nicely under the management of Miss Muriel Coffeen.
    Mrs. George Weeks took some nice turkeys to Eagle Point Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston were guests of the Kregor home Wednesday.
    A party of twenty-two gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Raimey last Saturday night and gave them an old-fashioned surprise party. Games of various kinds were indulged in and everyone enjoyed themselves hugely. Refreshments of cake, apples and coffee were served.
    Tobe Raimey was in Central Point Thursday after his winter supplies.
    Lloyd French was smiling on his friends and relatives on the west side of the river a few days ago.
    Mrs. Tom Raimey and Miss Ora were shopping and visiting in Central Point this week.
    Dr. Kirchgessner was an Eagle Point visitor Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Fry were Medford visitors the first of the week.
    Mrs. Skyrman was in Central Point the last of the week. Harry and Clara returned home with her to spend the holiday vacation.
    There will be a Christmas tree and entertainment at the Reese Creek schoolhouse Christmas Eve.
    Among those on the sick list this week are Mildred Bellows and Joe Hannah.
    J. Hannah has bought a bunch of goats from the Brittsan Bros.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 20, 1915, page 6


    After an absence of a little over a month up to Portland and vicinity, I reached home last Friday and found that several changes had taken place during my absence. There had been two weddings; the first one was that of Mr. Ed Coy and Miss Loretta Childreth, Nov. 25th, oldest daughter of our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, and the other was Mr. William Holman of Climax and Miss Nova Taylor, daughter of one of our old settlers, W. W. Taylor, Dec. 15th. Both marriages were solemnized by Rev. L. L. Simmons at the homes of the brides.
    Another incident of note was the death of Rachel Ann Daley, Dec. 15, 1915, wife of one of our old and highly respected townsman, A. J. Daley, aged 78 years, 8 months and 6 days. The deceased was born in Illinois April 10, 1837, and married to A. J. Daley July 1st, 1855. She leaves her husband and three children, George W. Daley, John H. Daley, and Mrs. Rose Potter of Ashland, and several grandchildren to battle the tide of life. She was a member of the Church of God, or the Restitutionists, in which church she lived up to the day of her death. The remains were interred in the Central Point cemetery, Dec. 18th. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. L. Simmons, assisted by your E.P. correspondent.
    S. B. Holmes, who has been up to B.C. to bring his wife's uncle, William Brown, here, who is in poor health, arrived last week.
    Our town election resulted in the reelection of John M. Nichols mayor and all of the old councilmen except Charles Bacon, and he has moved to Medford, and in his place Mr. F. T. Newport was elected as a member of the council. Ray Ashpole was reelected treasurer and J. V. McIntyre recorder, and peace reigns supreme.
    Ed Cingcade came up from San Francisco to spend Thanksgiving with his parents and has not returned yet.
    Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Jackson of Idaho are here visiting Mrs. J.'s brother, J. B. Jackson and family.
    Mrs. T. F. Boltz and children have returned from an extended visit to her parents in Pennsylvania.
    Sam Caicney [Cagney? Cairney?], the young man who was accidentally shot through the wrist while I was gone, near Brownsboro, and has been stopping at the Sunnyside since, is recovering very rapidly.
    Raphael Chartsen of Derby came out and brought Gus Rosenberg and his tools. He has been engaged for the past two or three months digging a well for the school district up there.
    Since my arrival home I have receipted Mrs. Judge Mayham for a year's sub. on the W.M.T.
    Miss Mattie Minter, who has been assisting in the work at the Sunnyside for the past month or more, went home Monday morning to stay until after the holidays.
    Dakota Davis of Jacksonville spent Saturday night here. He was on his way up the country buying up hides.
    Miss Ruth Thomson of Derby came out Saturday and remained over Sunday with her cousin, Miss Claire Zimmerman.
    Prof. C. E. Johnson and Miss Blanche Miller, who have been taking the teachers' examination, spent Friday night with us.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 22, 1915, page 7


    In the death of William M. Brown at Eagle Point on Thursday, December 24, another old pioneer of Rogue River Valley, has passed away. Deceased came to this valley in 1861. After a two years' residence in this county he removed to Revelstoke, B.C., where he has since passed the greater part of the time. In recent years, however, he has come to reside with relatives here during the winter months, returning to his British Columbia business in the spring.
    Mr. Brown was 77 years, 9 months and 17 days old on the day of his death. He has been declining rather rapidly for some time. S. B. Holmes of Eagle Point, a relative, went to Revelstoke to accompany him down to this valley for another winter, arriving here a week ago. The trip appeared to be severe. Pulmonary trouble followed, from which Mr. Brown was physically unable to recover.
    Aside from engaging in the hotel business for many years in Revelstoke, Mr. Brown was a mayor of that city for a term and a member of parliament for two terms. He was prominent in political and business life in British Columbia, and was highly esteemed by many people there, who will regret to learn of his death.
    Deceased remained single all his life. Among relatives left at Eagle Point are nephews R. G. Brown, Wm. H. Brown, J. F. Brown and Merritt Brown. Two brothers, George Brown and Henry Brown, now deceased, were pioneers in this valley. George Brown was once a commissioner of Jackson County. He died four years ago. His brother Henry died about twenty years ago. They were prominent in their time as progressive citizens and most excellent neighbors. They were natives of Yorkshire, England.
    Funeral services will be held from the Weeks & McGowan chapel in this city, Sunday, December 26, at 1 o'clock p.m. Rev. L. L. Simmons will officiate. Interment will take place in the Jacksonville cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 24, 1915, page 6


    C. E. Boyd, recently from Klamath Falls, was out the first of the week reading the meters for the California-Oregon Power Company in the place of Mr. Connell. Mr. C. has gone to Klamath Falls to take Mr. Boyd's place.
    Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush and her two sons motored in from the A. Corbin orchard with a lot of fine dressed turkeys that she sold to our railroad agent, F. T. Newport. He reports that he has shipped fifty or sixty crates of fowls this fall for the Thanksgiving and Xmas market.
    W. S. Hoagland of Central Point stopped here for dinner last Tuesday on his way up to his ranch near Brownsboro and stopped again today, Thursday, on his way home. he reports that everything looks lovely up there, that the grass is growing fine and that the stock looks well.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seefield and their daughter, Miss Mildred, stopped on their way from Medford where they had been to lay in their winter supplies.
    Last Tuesday evening there was a company of the following persons: Mayor John M. Nichols and wife, W. G. Knighten and wife, Marvin S. Wood and wife, Mrs. Jane Curtis, Mrs. Rebecca Jonas, A. C. Howlett and wife, Miss Wood and Norman McQuoid and wife and daughter, Miss Norman. They marched into the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McQuoid about 7:30 o'clock to help them celebrate their fortieth anniversary of their marriage, taking them, at least the old gentleman, [by surprise,] for he was undressed and just in the act of going to retire for the night, when his son Norman told him that there was someone coming. There was no one notified of what was going on except the older citizens of the town, and they were all there except Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan, and her poor health was a good excuse for their absence. The evening was spent in conversation interspersed by music from an Edison phonograph. About 9:30 o'clock the dining room table was spread so as to seat the whole company except Mr. and Mrs. Norman McQuoid, and sandwiches, cake and coffee were served and about 11 o'clock we began to scatter for our homes after having spent an evening about as pleasant as one could wish, and it will be a long time before we all forget the pleasant time we had on the anniversary of the marriage of Captain R. J. McQuoid.
    Fred Elder and his brother were pleasant callers Tuesday for dinner.
    Died, December 19, on the ranch of one of his countrymen near Butte Falls, Arnold Banholzer, a native of Serbia. Mr. B. had been stopping for some time at the Sunnyside under the care of Dr. Holt, but as his case seemed to be almost hopeless he wished to be taken to the home of his friend. He had some real property in Butte Falls and seemed to be well respected in the community.
    J. E. Hensley, recently from Seattle, Washington, and two of his brothers, sons of the man who bought the Frank Nichols place near here, arrived in town Wednesday with an auto truck loaded with household goods and later five wagons loaded with the same kind of goods. They were unable to go on up to the ranch on account of the roads being so soft, so they rented the Allie Nichols house and moved into that for the present. I understand that they intend to build in the spring. I learned that there are three families all together.
    Mrs. Wm. McFay, whose husband is the foreman of the Fish Lake ditch company's work of repairing and enlarging the ditch, was here Wednesday on her way to Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Terrell, from near Portland, stopped here Wednesday for dinner on their way up to his father's on Lost Creek.
    Perry Foster and two of his grandsons, the sons of Henry French, and two of J. L. Robinson's boys were in town Wednesday doing Xmas shopping.
    W. R. McLeod, who has a store on the Prospect road near the upper steel bridge, came out from Medford Wednesday and went on up home the same day. He had a load of supplies with him.
    S. H. Harnish and wife, who have been visiting Mrs. H.'s parents in Josephine County, returned last night.
    Miss Claire Zimmerman, who is our assistant postmaster, and also assistant telephone girl, and Thurman McClelland went to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman, near Blue Canyon Thursday.
    Miss Mabel Henson and Charles Monnissy came out today from the Flounce Rock country where Miss Henson is engaged teaching school. They went on up to her father's after taking dinner here.
    There is to be a Xmas tree entertainment by the E.P. school Xmas eve in the opera house.
    Since my last report F. T. Newport has renewed his sub to the D.M.T.; Art Smith paid up his sub. to the W.M.T.; Frank Derrick, Brownsboro, paid up his sub to the W.M.T.
    Wishing the readers of the Mail Tribune a merry Christmas I close for this time.
    Since writing the foregoing I have just learned of the death of Wm. Brown, an uncle of the Brown family of this place. A more extended notice later.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 27, 1915, page 5


    George Knowles and wife, nee Ruth Warner, and her sister Miss May Warner of Trail, came out from Medford last Monday and took the E.P.-Persist stage for the Warner farm on Trail Creek.
    August Edler, Fred Frey and Chas. Edler passed through here last Monday on their way to Medford just in time to catch the train.
    W. F. Horn of Medford came out on Monday and was taking orders for suits. He was representing the Continental Tailoring Co.
    Last Friday night our school gave a very interesting entertainment consisting of songs, recitations, drills, and instrumental music. The piano solo by Miss Nora Childreth and violin solo by Vaughn Quackenbush were simply fine for school children, and if they continue to improve as they have in the past until they are grown they will make their mark in the music world. The Christmas tree was beautifully decorated, and at the proper time Santa Claus put in his appearance and distributed candy and nuts to each child in the house, after which we were formally dismissed by old Santa himself, and we repaired to our homes hoping that we may all be able to meet again at the opera house next Christmas Eve. The three teachers in our school deserve great credit for the pains they have taken in training the children in the various parts they took in the exercises.
    Mrs. Nellie Skillman of Grants Pass, a niece of Wm. G. Knighten, and a brother-in-law and sister of Mrs. Knighten, of Ashland, came in last Friday to spend Christmas together.
    Miss Hazel Brown, who is attending high school in Medford, came out Friday to spend the holidays with her parents. She was accompanied by her cousin, Miss Allison Officer.
    Another important event that took place was the marriage of Mr. Amos Ayres, a son of one of our prosperous farmers and stock raiser, and Miss May Trusty of Elk Creek, on Christmas Day by Rev. L. L. Simmons. Although the bride was raised on Elk Creek, nevertheless she has spent so much of her time among us that she has surrounded herself with a host of warm friends who are wishing the happy couple a long, safe and prosperous journey through life.
    But it see that I am getting ahead of my dates, for I should have said before that Dr. W. W. P. Holt has reported the following births to have taken place since my last report: Born Dec. 19, to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony McCabe of Reese Creek, a daughter, born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stephenson of Brownsboro, a son, Dec. 20; born Dec. 20 to Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Conley of Brownsboro, a son; born Dec. 23 to Geo. P. Mansfield of Prospect a daughter, and at last accounts the mothers and children were doing well.
    Miss Grace Miller, who is taking lessons training to be a professional nurse in the Medford hospital and had been up to visit her parents on their farm on the south fork of Little Butte Creek, and spent a few days at home, returned to Medford the last of the week.
    C. G. Peebler, the man who has bought the Hoover place north of here, was a guest at the Sunnyside last Monday, and so was George Nichols Jr. of Medford, and several strangers. In fact, there is getting to be quite a number of strangers here now looking over the country.
    Charles Harth, the man who purchased the Harry Carlton place east of here, was in town last Monday.
    I see that there are some of the farmers still planting fruit trees instead of sugar beets.
    Charles Potter, one of the prominent stockmen of Sprague River country, spend Monday night with us. He was here visiting the family of A. J. Florey and took the train to go to Prospect to visit the Nye family Tuesday.
    Revival services will commence next Friday night, and a watch night meeting will be held to watch the old year out and the new year in. The services will be conducted by Rev. Taylor of Albany.
    Cephas Moomaw and wife of Josephine County are here visiting their relatives, Joe Moomaw, Mrs. S. H. Harnish and the Dutton families.
    Chauncey Florey, our county recorder, and wife came out and spent Christmas with their people, taking Christmas dinner with Mrs. Florey's parents, Frank Lewis and family.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 31, 1915, page 6


    Tiny Miss Hazel Lucinda McCabe arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony McCabe of Derby for an indefinite visit.
    Among the Eagle Point visitors this week were George Fry, Lloyd French and T. C. McCabe.
    Misses Eula and Ida Houston and Dewie Howe, Professor Johnson and Mrs. Marie Foster are attending the teachers' institute in Medford this week.
    Miss Ellen McCabe visited her brother Anthony and family, of Derby, last week.
    Mrs. Mabel Rush and little daughter of Ashland are the guests of Mrs. Deardorff.
    Robert and Albert McCabe were Medford visitors Monday.
    A party of friends serenaded Mr. and Mrs. George Croft last Monday night.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Houston were shopping and visiting relatives in Central Point last week.
    Alex Milton Belcher, aged 45, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Belcher, died at the family home in Central Point, December 27. Funeral services early Tuesday morning and was laid to rest at Trail cemetery. The relatives have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad bereavement.
    Jim Vestal is home from the O.A.C. in Corvallis to spend the holidays with his parents.
    The entertainment and Christmas tree at the Reese Creek school was well attended and was a credit to the teacher, Professor Deardorff, and to the community, and rendered the following program:
    Prayer by Professor Johnson; song "The Bells of Christmas Day"; recitation, "A Dear Little Schemer," Cleo Robertson; dialogue, "Misunderstood"; recitation, "The Modern Santa Claus," Edward Bellows; dialogue, "The Schoolmaster Abroad"; recitation, "When Santa Claus Comes," Cora French; song, "I've Been Good"; dialogue, "The Lost Dog"; recitation, "The Boy Who Scoffed at Santa Claus," Earl Wood; dialogue, "How She Managed It"; song, "Star of Love"; recitation, "Selfish Billy Green," May French; dialogue, "Going to California"; recitation, "Riding with Santa Claus," Lois Robertson; recitation, "What I Got for Christmas," Merle Jacks; dialogue, "Just Like Papa; recitation, "Old Santa Claus in His Den," Nye Mathews; recitation, Fern Jacks, recitation, Professor Johnson; song, "Christ, the Lord, Is Born"; dialogue, "Aunt Lucinda Stays."
Medford Mail Tribune, December 31, 1915, page 6


    Jed Edsall, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside for some time, returned to his ranch last week.
    T. E. Jordan, who bought a farm near Brownsboro, was down and seems to think that he is going to have a bountiful crop of fruit, judging from the fruit buds there are on his trees. He was on his way to Medford.
    Mrs. Irwin Daley of Lake [Creek], and her daughter, went to Medford last Wednesday and her husband came out Friday morning and took the car for Medford.
    H. B. Tronson, owner of the famous apple orchard, went to Medford Wednesday.
    William Lewis and one of John Greb's daughters, Miss May, took the train to Medford the same day.
    Mrs. Swan Berquist was also a passenger for Medford on the same car, and Mrs. George Jackson came out Wednesday afternoon and went up to the Tronson orchard.
    Ezra Whitley of Prospect came out on Wednesday to meet a young lady by the name of Scott, who is teaching in Prospect, remaining overnight at the Sunnyside, although Miss Scott did not arrive until Thursday morning.
    Misses Minnie Minter and her sister took dinner at the S.S. Thursday and took the Harnish jitney for Medford, returning via the Pacific and Eastern the next morning.
    Miss Julia Sidley, who lives with her parents, Mike Sidley and wife, came out from Medford Thursday and took passage on the E.P.-L.C. stage for her home near Lake Creek P.O.
    Sam Courtney, the young man who was accidentally shot through the wrist and has been stopping here for some weeks, has so far recovered the use of the wrist that he has returned to his home near Brownsboro.
    They have been making some changes in the arrangement of the public amusements and instead of having a dance after the moving picture show they had a basketball game for a change a few nights ago and on last Wednesday night a public exhibition of how to play basketball was given at the opera house.
    I see that in spite of the mud, rain, snow and ice that the ditch company is still hauling lumber up to their ditch from our depot.
    W. E. Hensley, the man who bought the Frank Nichols orchard and bargained for his residence property here in town, has come on from Seattle with his wife and daughter, Mrs. L. L. Hickox, and Mrs. J. E. Hensley. As soon as the necessary arrangements can be made they intend to build and move onto their different places. At present they are stopping in Mrs. O. E. Nichols' house.
    Mrs. Ed Foster of--well, I hardly know where to locate her for she lives on the road halfway between here and Trail--who has been out to Medford attending the teachers' convention, stopped a few minutes to see Mrs. Howlett on her way home Thursday.
    Wm. Newstrom of Lake Creek was interviewing our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, about shaping his branding iron over again so as to comply with the new law regarding branding irons, as they all now have to be recorded in Salem.
    The neighbors of Mr. Burleson living on the north fork of Little Butte gave them a farewell party last Wednesday, so Mr. A. C. Edler reports.
    Paul Opdyke, who lives in the stone house on Rogue River road to Prospect, came out and went to Medford Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Henry, recently from Klamath Falls, came out Friday morning and took the E.P.-Persist stage for Elk Creek where they were going to visit Mrs. Henry's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee.
    Mr. and Mrs. Higgins of Ashland came out on the E.P. and L.C. stage Friday morning and hurried off to catch the train. They had been up on Salt Creek visiting his sister, Mrs. Gus Nichols.
    Miss Flora Edler, formerly of Lake Creek but now of Medford, came out Friday and took the stage for her brother's, A. C. Edler, near Lake Creek post office.
    Since writing the foregoing Sam Courtney, the young man I mentioned as recovering from his gunshot wound, returned to the Sunnyside Friday eve. He had fallen and hurt his wrist over again and came for medical aid from Dr. Holt.
    Robert O'Neil of Brownsboro was in town Friday and while here renewed his sub. for the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1916, page 5


    Miss Maxon has closed her school in upper Trail district and returned to her home in Talent.
    Mr. Wyant came down from Ashland Thursday to visit his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Bellows.
    Harry Banks sold a bunch of beef cattle last week.
    The Lewis sheep came to the desert on the east side of the river Thursday.
    Will Houston was an Eagle Point visitor Saturday.
    Misses Ida Houston and Dewie Howe have closed their fall term of school.
    Miss May Daily is in Medford this week.
    The teachers enjoyed the lunch at the teachers' institute in Medford given by the high school girls and considered the cooking a credit to them.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows were host and hostess to a large dancing party New Year's Eve. Everyone enjoyed themselves greatly and departed for home, hoping they will give another party soon.
    The thermometer registered 20 degrees above Thursday morning, and the ice froze an inch thick in one night. The small running streams were frozen over and the still water was frozen along the river.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1916, page 5


    New Year's Day was quite a watch time in our little village, for the Baptist evangelist arrived the day before and held a watch night's meeting in the church, to watch the old year out and the new year in, and William Wright entertained a party of his friends at his home, having a feast of good things to eat and spent the evening playing games and having fun generally. And New Year's Day we had a lot of trouble over our mail. Something got the matter with the Pacific and Eastern locomotive so that it did not bring our mail until afternoon instead of at 9:45 a.m., the schedule time. Someone suggested that Medford was so dry that morning that they could not get up steam enough to move the train. And on the return trip the engine run off the track at Butte Falls and after it was replaced the engine and all the rest of the crew could not get the thing to go so had to send to Medford for another engine to take the dead one back to Medford and then the No. 1 was sent to the rescue and the result was that we didn't receive our Butte Falls mail until after bedtime and the passengers along the route had to wait in the cold for the train. One couple was waiting from two to about 8 p.m. at Derby without fire or supper and another couple was stationed about Schoolhouse Gap until a late hour and the load was so heavy that the little one spot had to stop every few miles to get up enough steam so as to pull the dead engine and the cars, but they finally reached Medford between one and two a.m.
    And New Year's the Eagle Point Amusement Company gave a dance and that caused quite a number of the young folks to lose some more sleep. So taking it all around New Year's Day 1916 proved to be quite a day for Eagle Point. And Sunday night there was preaching by Rev. Taylor at the church and a moving picture show in the opera house, so our New Year starts off pretty lively and the weather is ideal, yes, simply lovely.
    Mr. Harth, the man who bought the Harry Carlton place, about two miles north of here, and his wife came on from Los Angeles the first of the week. They came as far as Redding in their auto, but had to leave it there on account of the snow, and came on the S.P. to Medford.
    George West and wife, who have been visiting the Howlett family at the Sunnyside, returned Sunday morning to their home in Medford.
    Kenneth Erskine, of Oakland, Cal., who has been visiting his sister, who is teaching in the Ed Higinbotham district, came out the first of the week and spent the night with us on [omission]
    Charles Manning and Miss Mabel Henson stopped here Saturday eve and took an early supper and went on up to the Manning ranch that night. Miss Henson is teaching the school in the Flounce Rock district.
    Miss Louisa Blaess was smiling on some of her friends Saturday eve, at the dance.
    C. W. Clements is putting up a new telephone line from here to reach as far as the old S. A. Carlton place and will accommodate some ten or twelve settlers in that section. Thos. Riley Jr. is assisting him in the work.
    August Edler and son Chris and Otto and Ed Frey of Lake Creek were here Monday for dinner.
    Irvin Daley and wife came out from Medford Monday and went right on up to their home on the Wm. Daley place.
    John J. Wood, now of Medford, but recently from Idaho, came out on the P.&E. and went up to Brownsboro to look at a farm but the man he wanted to see was not at home. He wants about 10 acres of good land.
    Mrs. H. H. Waltermeier of Lake Creek is here at this writing on her way to visit her mother, who is in a serious condition in the Medford hospital with blood poisoning.
    The protracted meeting that was commenced here last Friday night under the management of Captain Taylor and L. L. Simmons is growing interest.
    H. D. Blanchet of the Evergreen ranch was a pleasant caller Monday p.m. and took the P.&E. for Medford late in the afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 6, 1916, page 3


    Among the many social events of the holiday week was the meeting of the Onward and Upward Club with W. C. Clements, and splendid work was reported.
    Philip Jackson and wife, who have been spending the holidays with his brother, J. B. Jackson, left Monday for Klamath Falls.
    Mr. and Mrs. Carl Narregan entertained at dinner Christmas Day Mr. and Mrs. Will Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen, Mr. and Mrs. William von der Hellen.
    Mrs. George T. O'Brien and daughter, Allison, of Medford, spent the holiday week with relatives, returning to Medford Sunday.
    Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Holt entertained at Christmas dinner Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Heath, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Boltz and children.
    Miss Hazel Brown on the Medford high school spent the holiday week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown.
    The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stewart, who are spending the winter in Southern California, are pleased to learn that the Judge is much improved in health.
    Marvin Mitchell of Medford spent New Year's Day with R. G. Brown and family.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre entertained Wednesday evening with a dinner party in honor of Miss Alice McIntyre, who is visiting her brother indefinitely.
    N. L. Narregan, who spent the holiday week with his family in Medford, returned to Eagle Point Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown entertained with a watch party New Year's Eve.
    Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen entertained New Year's night with a five-course dinner. Their lovely home was tastefully decorated. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Will Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Narregan, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze, Mr. and Mrs. William von der Hellen, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre and Miss Alice McIntyre.
    Mrs. Otilla Nichols of Medford was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Will Brown Monday night.
    Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy was called Monday evening to attend the funeral of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Van Scoy. The deceased was the wife of Professor Van Scoy of Ashland.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson Tuesday evening entertained at dinner Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen and son Donald.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1916, page 7


    Professor W. E. Buchanan, wife and son Key, of Ashland, stopped off on their return from Butte Falls, where they had been to spend the holidays, and visited some of their old friends here. The professor taught as principal of our school here two terms and is now teaching near Ashland. While here they attended church services and met quite a number of their old friends, who gave them a hearty greeting.
    Benj. H. Brophy, son-in-law of one of our townsmen, Thomas E. Nichols, was in town last Tuesday, and while here renewed his subscription to the W.M.T. Mr. Brophy is one of our hustling stockmen and farmers.
    Mrs. J. M. Riggin and her niece, Miss Gladys Holmes, of Derby, came out on the P.&E. the first of the week and spent the night with us on their way to the Medford hospital. Miss Holmes is in such a nervous condition that she was taken there for treatment.
    George L. Nelson, who has a homestead near the junction of Big Butte and Rogue River, and has been timekeeper on the Pacific Highway under Chris Natwick, returned to his home Thursday, having come out from Medford the day before and spent the night with us, and while here gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    A. G. Bishop, proprietor of the Hollywood orchard, was doing business among us last Thursday.
    William Almy of Yreka, Cal., came in on the P.&E. last Thursday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on up to visit his mother, Mrs. Martin Bowles, of Lake Creek.
    Mike Hanley and his son Mike, Harry Young and William Heckathorn, were also here for dinner the same day.
    E. P. Anthony of McMinnville, Or., who is out buying up hides for the Albany Tanning Company, was also with us Thursday.
    Thursday night the Eagle Point and Central Point basketball teams played in the opera house before a good audience, and the result was that the Central Point boys came off away behind, the score standing: Eagle Point 32 and Central Point 15, and the next morning one of our lady boarders was so hoarse that she could not call "Number, please." I understand that the two teams will play again in Central Point in the near future.
    Robert Pelouze, formerly one of the Medford High School boys, but now a student in the University of California, who is spending the holidays with his parents, assisted the Eagle Point team very materially.
    We have a stock law in our little village, and our mayor is very particular to see that if any of the farmers' stock ventures over the line that the marshal runs them into the pound, and a short time ago he ran four hogs in and they were advertised for sale and duly sold, and they brought $3.35, and the feed bill was $11, so the original owner lost his hogs and the town was in debt $7.75--a very unprofitable business for the town.
    Charles Bacon, the conductor on the Pacific & Eastern railway, spent the night with us Thursday. He stopped off to attend a meeting of the lodge of the I.O.O.F.
    Rev. Taylor has been conducting services here during the week, but the attendance has been very small, owing perhaps in part to the fact that since he commenced his meeting Friday night, that night there were two or three social gatherings and Saturday night there was a dance at the opera house, Sunday night a picture show, Monday night basketball practice, Tuesday night basketball game, Wednesday night there was nothing of note that I heard of, Thursday night the E.P. and C.P. basketball game and dance and meeting of the I.O.O.F. lodge, and Friday night it rained so that some had to stay away from church on that account. But notwithstanding the hindrance there seems to be some good being done, and I understand that it is to be continued all next week, until and including Sunday, January 9.
    Fayette Sunderlin of Medford was out and spent two nights with us the last week.
    Sam Sandry, the fish warden of Rogue River--the town--and George Aitkins of Medford were here Thursday. Mr. Sandry was trying to find out where the ditches are that he may put in traps to prevent the fish from going down the ditches, and Mr. A. just came along for an auto ride.
    Miss Alma Gould, who is teaching school in the Lake Creek district, and had been taking a layoff, returned to her school home Saturday on the E.P. and L.C. stage. She was accompanied by Miss Eve Beebe of Agate, who was on her way to reopen her school in Brownsboro.
    Since my last report B. H. Brophy and L. A. Smith have renewed their subscriptions to the W.M.T. Geo. H. Nelson of Prospect has subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune and S. F. Coy has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 11, 1916, page 5


    Last Saturday was rather a quiet day in Eagle Point. Although there were quite a number of strangers here, among them were some who were looking for homes, or rather, land on which to make homes, and others were here simply to look around to see the town, for if Eagle Point is a small place and hardly known in the European lands, still it is known far and near, for people have come here and tell me that they have seen an account of Eagle Point even as far off as New York City, in the Mail Tribune.
    And I also notice that there is quite a number of travelers who came in on the Pacific & Eastern Railway and in autos and go out into the country--in fact, there seems to be considerable business done here, notwithstanding the cry of hard times.
    Miss Alice McIntyre is here visiting her brother, John V. McIntyre, and last Sunday took dinner with Mrs. Howlett. She was accompanied by her brother, his wife and little J. V. Mc.'s little daughter.
    W. C. Clements, our postmaster, and wife, William von der Hellen and family, W. L. Childreth and Mrs. Sophia Robinett, J. B. Jackson and wife and Harry Young and wife were also here for dinner on Sunday.
    Sunday we had services three times, conducted by evangelist Taylor of Portland, and he also has services on Saturday evening and had a rather small congregation, but Sunday morning he had a fair audience, and in the afternoon he delivered a lecture to men only, giving an account of his travels through Europe and other parts of the world, when he had an audience of between forty and fifty, and also at night there were about the same number of people out. He has announced beforehand that on Sunday night he would preach on the subject of "A Prayer Meeting in Hell, the Home of the Lost Soul: Who Would Be There and Who Would Lead in Prayer." And there was a number who seldom go to church at all who went, but his lecture seemed to produce but little effect, as there was no move made, and he seems to think that Eagle Point is a hard place to start a revival. He is continuing the meeting all the week in hopes of waking up someone.
    Monday morning there was a number came on the P.&E. and the U.S. mail piled up, "all the same big city." Henry Trusty, who generally takes everybody and everything that is to go up Trail and Persist way, had to leave some passengers and a part of the luggage of those who did go up. He took up Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Poole, one of the foresters, wife and daughter, and I did not learn the name of the other passengers, but he surely had a load. Mr. and Mrs. Poole and daughter had been up to Roseburg visiting their parents, his father and mother and her parents for a few weeks and were on their way home.
    James Daily and his brother, M. L. Daily, farmers on the Hillcrest orchard, and Vern Quigley were among the callers at the Sunnyside Monday for dinner; also C. O. Power, John Foster, Pete Betz, Elvin Abbott, John Higinbotham and Howard Fox, the last three from Butte Falls and were on their way to Medford, but returned Tuesday and spent the night with us. Richard Thomas of Brownsboro also spent the night, and so did E. P. Power and Frank Hurst. E. P. Power has had charge of the carpenter part of the work on the big Fish Lake ditch and John Foster has been one of his assistants in the work.
    Word reached here yesterday (Tuesday) that Mrs. Ellen Sidley had died that morning at the Sidley home, near Lake Creek. She has been an invalid for some time and leaves, beside her husband, Michael Sidley, six children--Mary Duggan, Maggie, Julia, Michael Jr., and Joseph, and a large circle of friends who loved and honored her in life and mourn her departure. She and the family have been strict members of the Catholic Church, in which faith she died.
    Since my last report, Earl Croft has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Frank Lewis, our confectioner, and J. T. Zimmerlee, the proprietor of the Farmers' Hotel, returned Tuesday from Evans Creek, where they have been engaged in mining. The snow was so deep that they concluded to come home and wait until the snow melted. Mr. Lewis seems to think that they have a good prospect to make some money out of their claim.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1916, page 5


    Everybody is out sleigh riding these days.
    A. T. Boothby is on the sick list.
    A. Albright made a trip out near Eagle Point Tuesday for grain.
    There will be a dance at the Trail hall Saturday night, February 12. Good music will be furnished and a good time guaranteed everybody. Come.
    J. L. Ragsdale made a business trip to the valley Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. Ayres returned to Eagle Point Tuesday after a short visit on Elk Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 14, 1916, page 5


    The three story summer hotel on Rogue River at Elk Creek, in process of construction by W. G. McDonald, the well-known landscape artist, is nearly completed. It contains about 150,000 feet of lumber. The fireplace, which is built of native stone, is estimated to weigh ninety tons. The steps of the approach are thirty feet wide. The columns supporting the front porch are twenty-six feet high. The type of architecture is colonial. It was designed by C. O. Power, the architect. The building and the grounds will be lighted by a private electric plant. It will contain all modern conveniences.
    From this data it will be seen that the hotel is a substantial structure, built wholly on modern lines of architecture of its type. Its interior is spacious and most conveniently designed. It will be devoted to the accommodation, convenience and entertainment of pleasure parties and tourists during the season of vacation and sport, leisurely travel and sightseeing. For these purposes it is typically designed and appointed. Add to these features the rugged charm of its exterior and you will have a home in the wilderness peculiarly mountainesque. Its environments, including the turbulent splash of the upper Rogue River, with here and there a charming pool for the fish fan with rod and reel, are in happy accord with the appearance and purpose of this great summer home in the hills.
    L. E. McDonald will be the manager of this resort and is preparing to make the welkin ring with an appropriate dedication about the first of June.
    The hotel is located on a 600-acre ranch, twenty acres of which will be cleared up and beautified as a park and general resort. The owner has in contemplation a suspension bridge across Rogue River for the convenience of guests and patrons. This will give them easy access to excellent fishing pools. A trail will also be constructed to what is known as the Umpqua divide for the accommodation of hunters. An excellent swimming pool in Elk Creek, near the hotel, also supplies an interesting feature.
    Manager McDonald announces that many requests have already been received from coast cities for accommodations during the fishing and hunting season.
    One of the special attractions of the hotel will be a permanent art exhibit of paintings and sketches of scenes of Crater Lake and vicinity, of Rogue River Falls and other interesting scenes along that historic stream and its tributaries, and of mountain views of many types.
    The hotel is situated about thirty-three miles from Medford on the main highway to Crater Lake. Its location had been most conveniently and happily selected as a resort. The landscape about it is in appearance wild, weird and rugged. It possesses a charming grandeur peculiar alone to the wilds of the upper Rogue River country.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 15, 1916, page 6


    Dr. I. N. Woodle, a veterinary of Ashland, was with us Thursday night on his way up to Henry Meyers' to perform an operation on a horse for him.
    Thursday evening a part of the Eagle Point basketball team, the kid part of the team, went to Central Point and played against the two teams of that city. The first team Central Point won out, the score standing 6 to 11. Then the second team of the C.P. put in new men altogether and the score stood C.P. 35; E.P. 5. The Eagle Point boys say that they had to play against their full team and that they were not treated fairly, but that is an old trick of the Central folk, and this brings to mind a time when baseball was all the go and the Eagle Point team went to Central Point to play and there was so much crooked work on the part of the C.P. team that one of the E.P. men threatened to send a letter written by one of the leaders of one of the C.P. team to one of the leaders of the E.P. team proposing to E.P. to throw off the game and give C.P. the game and then C.P. wilted and played fair and got beat. The "kids" who went feel sore over the actions of the C.P. boys, they say.
    It becomes my duty to record the death of another of our old settlers, Adrian J. Daley, who passed off Thursday morning about four o'clock, just four weeks after his wife died. Mr. Daley was born January 25, 1834, in Florence, Erie County, Ohio, and died January 13th, 1916, aged 81 years, 11 months, 18 days. He was married to Rachel Ann Peacock, July 1, 1855, in Dixon, Illinois. Six children were born to them, three of whom are still living, George W. Daley of Eagle Point, John H. Daley of Medford, and Rosella Potter of Ashland. The deceased has been prominent in business affairs in out town, for several years was owner of the Snowy Butte grist mill, which he operated during that time, but for several years has been retired from business.
    Nick Young, one of our prosperous and progressive young men, was a pleasant caller Thursday, and so was Mr. Michael Sidley, Sr. He had been to Jacksonville to bury his wife and stopped overnight with us on his way home and Friday was joined by his son Joseph and daughter Maggie, and they all took the E.P.-L.C. stage for their home Friday p.m.
    Cecil Culbertson, James Fader and Samuel and James E. Moran, who has been the timekeeper on the work of repairing and enlarging the Fish Lake ditch, they were moving camp and stopped here for dinner. While here Mr. Culbertson reported that the goats up on Little Butte have been dying off at a great rate.
    Henry Trusty, the mail contractor on the E.P.-Persist route, reports that the snow has fallen to such an extent that it is breaking down the trees. That he had to have five cut out of his road up Elk Creek and at his father's place a large tree fell on a shed and killed a fine cow and three sheep.
    George von der Hellen, wife and a salesman, Mr. Young, called at the Sunnyside for dinner Friday.
    W. C. Pool was among the business callers Friday and while in town renewed their sub to the D.M.T. and W. C. Daley spent the night with us and took the afternoon train for Jacksonville to look after his brother's business, who was just deceased. He was named in Mr. A. J. Daley's will as the executor of his will, and while here renewed his sub to the D.M.T.
    I have been having la grippe for the last few days and consequently items of interest are scarce.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 17, 1916, page 2


    At the annual meeting of the Rogue River-Eagle Point Telephone Company January 8, held at Gene Bellows' home, the following officers were elected: Henry French, president; Peter Betz, vice-president, and Gene Bellows, secretary.
    La grippe has visited every home, and sometimes every member of the family.
    John Foster called on the French and Foster families the last of the week.
    Mr. Wyant has returned to his home in Ashland.
    Road Supervisor Pence attended commissioners' court in Jacksonville.
    Mr. and Mr. Edward Linnville have returned home from Sardine Creek.
    Among the Eagle Point visitors are Dr. Kirchgessner, Steve Smith, Henry French, Fred Bellows and Peter Betz.
    Murt Daily returned to Eagle Point Saturday after spending a few days with her brother, Tim.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roundtree gave a social dance to their friends Friday night, and everyone enjoyed themselves very much.
    Pearl Stowell started Monday for Bellingham, Wash., to make his home.
    Among the valley visitors were: Jesse Ragsdale, Frank Middlebusher, Will Houston, Alvin Albright, Boyd Tucker and family.
    Mrs. Mabel Rush and little daughter made a business trip to Ashland the last of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 18, 1916, page 5


    Ed Walker and L. C. Applegate, two of the deputy game wardens, stayed Saturday night with us and went from here up Little Butte Creek and Monday returned and spent the night. They report that the snow is getting quite deep and that it has driven the game out of the high hills almost entirely.
    School Supervisor Peterson called on our school for a few moments on Monday morning on business with the principal, W. O. Wheeler, and hurried on out into the foothills.
    Evangelist J. D. Taylor, who commenced a meeting here January 1, closed his meeting Sunday night after an unsuccessful effort to get the people of the town to turn out and hear him. He started off on the wrong foot to do any good here--tried to imitate Billy Sunday and failed. He told of too many "great exploits" that he had done.
    J. E. Turnbull, who is canvassing for the Oregon Journal, was here for dinner Monday. He appointed Miss Claire Zimmerman, assistant postmaster, as the agent for this section of the country.
    Al Clements, who has been assisting our efficient road supervisor, Ed Dutton, in the road work, was a pleasant caller Tuesday.
    J. H. Cooley, one of the Medford lumber men, came out Tuesday, and the stockholders in the Eagle Point Ditch Company held their annual meeting and elected J. H. Cooley president, H. B. Tronson secretary, and the following persons as directors: J. H. Cooley, L. K. Haak, Frank Lewis, W. W. Taylor and Chas. Painter as directors for the ensuing year.
    Frederick W. Heath, son of one of our merchants, F. L. Heath, who has been taking a course in the University of California, returned last Sunday and expects to go into business in Medford. His father is at this writing attending business in Medford. A further notice will be given later.
    Lester McDonald of Trail came out Tuesday evening on the Eagle Point-Persist stage and went directly to Medford.
    Sam Courtney, he who had his wrist shot, was here Wednesday for dinner and reports that the wound has healed up entirely and that he is getting so that he can use his wrist quite well. He was accompanied by his cousin, R. A. Thomas, and Ed Edwards.
    M. B. Baker of Medford, who is in the telephone business, was out for dinner Wednesday.
    E. O. Ingal, traveling salesman for Dinkelspiel & Co. of San Francisco, was here doing business with George Brown & Sons Tuesday.
    T. F. Boltz, formerly in the employ of the Pacific & Eastern Railway Company, started for Philadelphia on Wednesday morning. He expects his family to follow in the near future.
    The following named citizens of our town went to Medford Wednesday evening to attend the Page and witness the play "The Bird of Paradise": Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. von der Hellen, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Young.
    Chris Bergman and Jeff Conover were callers for dinner Monday and while here Mr. Bergman renewed his subscription to the W.M.T. and Tuesday Nick Young renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 22, 1916, page 5


    The Snowy Butte roller mills, located at Eagle Point, formerly owned by Holmes Bros., but purchased a few years ago by the Rogue River Canal Company, have been sold by the latter to F. S. and G. W. Brandon of Medford.
    The mill will be overhauled and thoroughly modernized in machinery and methods in time to grind the 1916 wheat crop. The California-Oregon Power Company will furnish the power to operate the mill part of the season. At the close of the irrigation period the mill will be run by water power.
    The mill will be conducted mainly as a farmers' exchange and custom mill. The firm will also do merchant milling.
    For many years the "Snowy Butte flour" was on the market in the Rogue River Valley and recognized as one of the leading brands of flour made here. Brandon Bros. have for the past season been employed as millers and are well known in Jackson and Klamath counties.
    F. S. Brandon was formerly proprietor of the Wardrobe clothing house in Medford. The new firm promises to maintain a high standard for "Snowy Butte" flour when put on the market again.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1916, page 2


    Mrs. Jasper Hannah was shopping in Central Point Thursday.
    Bird Johnston is suffering from a relapse of the grippe. Dr. Holt is attending him. 
    Perry Foster was the guest of Peter Betz Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Central Point were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. Raimey a few days.
    Mrs. Mae Daw went to Medford Thursday to visit her mother, who has received internal injuries from a fall.
    George Fry was in Eagle Point Friday.
    Ray Whitley was called to Persist by the illness of his father.
    Peter Betz had the misfortune to lose his smokehouse and winter's meat by fire Thursday.
    Dr. Kirchgessner was called to attend Mr. Fisher Friday. Mr. Fisher is quite ill with pneumonia and is past 80 years of age.
    Those who were sick with the grippe are either well or on their road to recovery.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bellows were the guests of the Wilfred and the Wilbur Jacks families the last of the week.
    John Foster spent several days at his father's, Perry Foster.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1916, page 5


    L. A. Gardner of Lake Creek was a business caller Wednesday. He was purchasing some hardware of the Von der Hellen Hardware Co.
    J. D. Singleton, one of our prosperous farmers, was in town Wednesday looking over the hay market.
    H. Hoogerhyde has been employed as an assistant in F. L. Heath's general merchandise store during the time that Mr. Heath was engaged in taking an invoice of [the] stock of drugs he bought in Medford, and he and his son Fred W. have opened what is to be called the Heath Drug Store in Medford under the management of F. W. Heath.
    Miss Belle Stanley, who came out from her home in the Lake Creek country on Wednesday on the E.P.-L.C. stage, went to Butte Falls on Thursday.
    Delbert Meyer of Brownsboro came out on Thursday and went on to Medford, returning on Saturday. He and Carl and Harry von der Hellen of Wellen were at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday, and so were Harry's two brothers-in-law, F. R. and Henry Berger of Portland.
    Mrs. Stillwell and her brother, John Minter, returned from up in the Willamette Valley, where she had been to look after her farming interests. John reports that the snow was two feet deep on her place near Portland. They were met by their niece, Mrs. W. E. Hammel, and taken out to their home.
    Three head of cattle wandered out of their range into town last Wednesday and were promptly taken up and put in the town pound. A small pen of about three square rods without a shelter and the mud half knee deep--we have no humane society here--and one of them was still there Friday. If the town authorities are going to impound the farmers' stock that happen to pass through here, the least they could do would be to place them in a place where they could lay down in a dry place and have shelter to cover them. One of the cattle proved to belong to George Stevens of Medford, and his man just happened to be in town and saw the animal, or it might have been kept up the required fifteen days and sold and he would have been out a cow and no one particularly benefited by the deal.
    Mrs. Roundtree and her father, who are living on the Orton place, were doing business with our merchants on Wednesday.
    The readers of the Eaglets will bear in mind that this year of grace 1916 is leap year and the result is that a number of our boarders are in danger of being captured by some one of the ladies who are boarding here or make regular visits to the Sunnyside, for while we only have six bachelor boarders now, we have--well, I won't say how many young ladies, widows and prospective widows. From experience of one of them, there is danger of the others being taken by the wiles of the fair sex.
    Mrs. Lewis E. Smith, nee Lorine Grigsby, succeeded in luring Mr. Smith to Medford last Thursday to the home of the pastor of our Baptist church, Rev. L. L. Simmons, and had him tie them together so tight that nothing but "death doth them part," and he managed to reach home at the Sunnyside between 9 and 10 o'clock p.m., thinking that they had avoided the charivari party, but about the time they had got tucked into bed they heard the most unearthly noise--the inmates of the Sunnyside, that is, the boarders who were in at that time had all gone to bed as the unsuspecting couple imagined, but all at once new life seemed to enter and they all appeared on the scene prepared for the work of keeping everybody awake for the rest of the night, armed with guns, tin cans, cow bells, a heavy steel triangle and in fact almost anything they could use to make noise, and with this noise, such as it was, they marched right up to the bedroom door and the result was that the newlyweds capitulated and took the crowd to Lewis' confectionery for candy, nuts, cigars, etc. The newlyweds are planning to move next week into the Wright house, in the lower end of town.
    N. W. Slusser, one of our barbers, has opened up a watch and clock repairing shop in one part of the barber shop and seems to be getting considerable business.
    I. J. Asher, representing M. Friedman & Co., San Francisco, was in town taking orders of goods to be delivered by parcel post.
    H. F. Fry of Trail called for dinner Thursday. He reports that his wife's hand is improving rapidly. Some three months ago she ran a needle into her hand and was in the hospital for a long time, and for nearly three months has not been able to dress herself, but now is on the road to recovery.
    C. A. Newstrom of Lake Creek, the newly appointed road supervisor, was here Friday and says that he has a lot of work to do on the road to help the stage drivers out, for the roads are in a bad condition.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 25, 1916, page 5


    Steve Smith was in Eagle Point Tuesday. John Foster returned with him to visit a couple of weeks.
    Prof. and Mrs. Deardorff are the proud parents of a son, who arrived January 25. Tiny Frank tipped the scales at 5¾ lbs.
    Dick Johnson has built a neat cottage and will give a housewarming Saturday evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Central Point are the guests of the T. G. Raimey home.
    Dr. Kirchgessner made a business trip to Medford a few days ago.
    The rain the last of last week and the first of this raised the river, so the E.P. and Persist stage went on the west side of river Monday morning. The rain changed the creeks into raging torrents.
    Mrs. Daw spent Friday night with Mrs. Jasper Hannah. She was en route for her home on Trail.
    The snow of Thursday and Friday fell about three inches deep. It was very welcome and pleasant as [was] the snow of two weeks ago.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 31, 1916, page 3


    Last Saturday night there was quite an interesting basketball game played in the opera house between the Talent and Eagle Point school teams, and the Talent team proved to be too heavy for the E.P. children, and the game stood 4 to 34 in favor of the Talent school. I am requested to say that the Jacksonville and Eagle Point school teams will play on the evening of February 5 in the Eagle Point opera house.
    I am informed that F. E. Jordan of Brownsboro has sold his farm in that section to two Michigan men.
    Mrs. Charles Pruett and her daughter, Miss Mabel, were doing business among us last Saturday.
    Mr. McFarland of Vermont, who owns an interest in the Alta Vista orchard, was in our town last week.
    H. Hoogerhyde has moved out of the Daley house into the house owned by Mrs. E. O. Nichols.
    J. B. Anderson and E. S. Tumy of Medford came out on the P.&E. and spent the night at the Sunnyside, procured a team at the Harnish livery stable and went up to their farm in the Lake Creek country, returning the same day, spent Sunday night with us, taking the early Monday morning car for Medford.
    Sunday was rather quiet at the Sunnyside, as there was only about twelve or fourteen here for dinner besides our regular boarders.
    Rev. L. L. Simmons, the pastor of the Baptist church here, preached two fine sermons to two rather small congregations.
    W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, went to Medford last Monday, and so did Mrs. Etta Florey.
    Thomas Hampton was doing business with our merchants last Monday.
    On account of the continuous rain and snow, the roads have become so bad that two of our star route mail carriers have put their rigs under shelter and are using pack animals to carry the mail, and the other two are talking of leaving their hacks and using pack horses. The roads are simply awful.
    Steve Smith, who is farming near Debenger Gap, was a pleasant caller last Tuesday and when he returned John Foster went up with him to visit his father, Perry Foster.
    Guy Bishop, who has been here visiting a friend who is boarding here, returned to his home again Monday.
    Mrs. J. T. Zimmerlee, the hostess of the Farmers' Hotel, was called to Talent Tuesday on account of the sickness of her father-in-law.
    Al Roberts was doing business with us Tuesday.
    F. S. Brandon of Medford came out on the P.&E. Tuesday and in an interview I learned that he and his brother had bought the old grist mill here and he had come out to take measurements to put in new machinery and fix it up for the harvest of 1916. I learned later from "a reliable source" that they intend to put in machinery to steam and roll barley and oats, keep all kinds of grain and feed as well as make a first-class grade of flour. They have made arrangements with the F.L.D. Co., of whom they bought it to use the water power during the season when the water will not be needed for irrigation purposes and during the dry season use electricity. If their plans materialize it will be one of the best things for Eagle Point that we have had for years, for when the old mill was being run by the late A. J. Daley I have seen the street so blocked with wheat teams that it was difficult for a team to get through, and the farmers would arrive here from Sams Valley and the surrounding country by 6 a.m. so as to get unloaded in time to go home and load up again. That was before the people went crazy over the fruit business.
    Von der Hellen Bros. report that they have sold quite a lot of the fence posts they had advertised in the Mail Tribune a short time ago to the F.L.D. Co., who are fencing up their desert land.
    Orbie Natwick came out from Butte Falls Tuesday evening on the P.&E.
    Dr. Kirchgessner came out Tuesday from his farm home and took the P.&E. for Medford.
    R. A. Whitman, who was foreman on the W. Hart Hamilton farm and left here last summer, had his household goods shipped to Sacramento City, Cal. Tuesday.
    Mrs. Thomas Carlton was a passenger on the P.&E. for Medford Tuesday.
    D. S. Litts, who has a sale stable in Medford, and Anthony Andrews, also of Medford, came in about 1:30 p.m. to the Sunnyside for dinner.
    Lewis E. Smith and wife, the newlyweds, have moved into the Wright building, just outside of the corporate limits of Eagle Point.
    Since my last report Henry Trusty, the mail contractor on the route between here and Persist, has given me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 31, 1916, page 2


    Dr. Kirchgessner came out from his farm and took the P.&E. for Medford last Wednesday.
    Dr. W. P. Holt reports that the stork has visited the family of Joe Arens and left them with a six and a half-pound daughter January 24, and also visited Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Deardorff and presented them with a son on January 26. Mr. Deardorff is engaged in teaching school in the Reese Creek district.
    W. C. Daley, who was named as executor of the will of the late A. J. Daley, came out last Wednesday and has been looking over the accounts, etc., of the deceased, and looking up the property and has found property notes and accounts appraised by Thomas E. Nichols, Frank Lewis and W. L. Childreth at $6,554. Before his death he deeded to his son, George W. Daley, 160 acres of land in township 33, range 1 east, as part of the estate, and then willed to his son John and his daughter Roselle the balance of his property; to John, 160 acres of land on Elk Creek and a tract of land in the south of the town of Eagle Point and two lots in the town of Eagle Point, and to his daughter the home place and three lots on the north bank of Little Butte Creek and a tract of land joining the old George Brown property, leaving out two small tracts of land that he had overlooked, and the personal property to be divided equal between John and Roselle.
    Mrs. F. T. Newport, wife of our depot agent, went upon the P.&E. to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, Tuesday morning.
    The teamsters are having a time hauling the lumber from the depot upon the F.L.D. Co.'s canal, on account of the snow and mud.
    Clarence Pierce and A. L. Viaene, a member of the Portland fire department who is taking his vacation, called for dinner Thursday.
    Mrs. Gus Nygren and her daughter Ella of Lake Creek came out from Medford on the P.&E. Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and were met by Mr. Nygren, going home the same day.
    The nice snow that has covered the ground here to the depth of about two inches has started some of the enterprising pleasure-lovers out with their sleighs, and Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze were out in one, taking some of their friends here in town sleigh riding. They had lots of fun which taking advantage of the cold snap.
    Percy Haley, one of our promising young men, has been a guest at the Sunnyside for the past few days, and on Saturday his brother, Glen Haley, Ed Walker, the deputy game warden; Alex Betz and Professor C. E. Johnson came in for dinner. W. C. Daley had been stopping with us since he came out Wednesday.
    Pete Betz, one of our prosperous farmers, was in town Saturday, and so were W. H. Crandall, one of our orchardists and fancy poultrymen, with us, and while here they both renewed their subscription to the Mail Tribune.
    Carl Bieberstedt of Brownsboro was doing business with von der Hellen Saturday.
    Carl and Harry von der Hellen were doing business in our town Saturday.
    C. E. Austin of Climax shipped two bales of goat hides to Salem Saturday.
    Wayman Bergman and two strangers took the P.&E. for Medford Saturday.
    J. B. Anderson of Medford was a passenger on the P.&E. from Derby Saturday afternoon. The same train took out thirteen cans of cream to the creameries.
    I have been having the grip, so that I couldn't rustle many Eaglets this time.
    Richard Johnson, he who married Grant Mathews' daughter, has built a house on a tract of land that he obtained from his father-in-law and moved into it about the middle of the week, and is to give a dance tonight, Saturday, January 29.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 2, 1916, page 5


    The subject for consideration at the meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association next Monday night will be "The value of local track meets and school fairs." The meeting will be in the form of a free-for-all discussion. It is hoped that a good number will attend. It is expected that County Superintendent Wells will be here.
    Basketball practice at the opera house Monday and Wednesday nights of each week.
    The Jacksonville boys are scheduled for a game here Saturday night, February 5, after the picture show.
    The last game played was with Talent, at which time the local boys were defeated. In the first half the score was 22-2. In the second half Harnish, who is the regular center but who, on account of la grippe, had not been playing, got into the game and the score stood 2-2 on that half. Both teams played well. After the game light refreshments were served to the players.
    Ruth Grover of the intermediate room had an operation for appendicitis at the Medford hospital recently. She is expected home soon.
    Bad colds and la grippe have caused a very irregular attendance in school the past month.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 3, 1916, page 5


    On Saturday night, January 31, the Eagle Point Dancing Club had one of their swell dances under the management of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Newport and Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McPherson. Those in attendance were: Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. von der Hellen, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, Mrs. Hoogerhyde, Mrs. Marguerette Simpson, Miss Alice McIntyre, Miss Mabel Pruett, Miss Tenie Lewis, Guy Pruett, William Lewis, Edward Cingcade, Thomas Riley, Fred Heath and Mrs. T. F. Boltz. After dancing until near midnight, light refreshments were served, and my reporter reports that they had a very enjoyable time and some of the company remained until toward the wee hours of the morning.
    On Sunday night the Eagle Point Amusement Company had a moving picture show on and on Monday night a practice basketball game, so the readers of Eaglets will see that our town is not dead or fast asleep.
    George Austin, the mail contractor and carrier from Eagle Point to Climax, decided last week that he would dispense with his rig and carry the mail on a pack horse, but he found that he had too much mail and extra packages to carry and distribute that he had to fall back onto his rig again, but he says that the roads are almost impassable, and from where the road leaves the valley and he begins to climb the hills that the snow and mud combined make it almost impossible for him to make the trip in the allotted time.
    Wilbur Jacks was among the business callers Monday.
    Monday we, and when I say we I mean the whole town, had our full quota of tramp solicitors. The first one was a long, tall specimen of humanity that came marching in, unannounced, and the first thing he said was: "Have you any corns?" On being answered in the negative he went into the parlor where the ladies were and made the same inquiry and they told him no. By that time a lady had come into the main sitting room, where I was, and he asked her the same question and received the same answer, leaving in disgust. He went to every house in town, but what success he had is not known except to those whom he bled.
    The other was a photographer soliciting for H. C. Mackey, but he was more civil.
    Henry French and Robert Minter were business callers Monday and so was A. W. Bradshaw doing business with our business men.
    The friends of Mrs. Lee Port, nee Bertha Peachy, formerly of this place, but now of Ashland, will be pleased to learn that the stork has visited the home and they are the recipients of a fine son.
    Rev. Albert H. Gammons of Butte Falls, who has been out to Medford attending a meeting on the P.&E. and spent the night with us, took the train for Butte Falls Tuesday morning. He was accompanied by Dr. Holt, who was called to Butte Falls to see a sick woman.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 3, 1916, page 5


    Mrs. Henry French and Mrs. O. E. Bellows were the guests of Mrs. Deardorff Sunday afternoon.
    John Foster returned to Eagle Point Thursday.
    Miss Mima Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Daily, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, Norman Gage, Mrs. M. Foster and children were Sunday callers at the J. B. Hannah home.
    Among the Central Point and Medford visitors were Will Houston, Ira Dunlap, Jack Houston, Miss Eula Houston, Joe Hannah, Jr., Clarence Middlebusher, S. Hammond and daughter, Miss Alice.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller returned to their home in Central Point Monday.
    Most of the snow and rain is soaking into the ground and every farmer is glad to see it.
    The groundhog did not see his shadow, nor did we see the eclipse of the sun.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Clarno called on Mr. and Mrs. W. Crandall Saturday.
    The housewarming at Dick Johnson's Sunday was greatly enjoyed.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1916, page 2


    Max Stockford, Jack Hickson and A. C. Serome were doing business with our merchants the first of last week.
    Harold and Paul Peyton came out Monday on a handcar with Mr. Sist and took the train for Medford where they went to try to find a job of work.
    Manley Conley came out Tuesday from Medford, spent the night at the Sunnyside and Wednesday took the Lake Creek stage to his mother's home near Brownsboro.
    Paul Opdyke and his sister-in-law, Miss Ethel Hucker, came out Wednesday, took dinner here and drove to Medford that afternoon, returning the next day, ate dinner and started for their home, the Old Stone House ranch, that afternoon about 4 o'clock. They had a long, dark, muddy drive.
    Before I forget it I wish to correct one of my blunders that I made in my last. In reporting the names of those who were in attendance at the Eagle Point club dance on the eve of the 31st. I by some means omitted the names of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Narregan, and they were among those who were entertaining the guests. The omission was purely accidental and I did not discover it until I read the article in the Mail Tribune.
    Mr. and Mrs. Alexander McCabe called in Wednesday forenoon and Mr. McCabe left his wife and baby here until the next day, he going on foot up to his ranch. Mrs. McCabe took the train the next day for their mountain home.
    I. F. Summerville and George West came out on Wednesday evening and spent the night with us and so did Mr. Hughes, one of Butte Falls merchants, and Mrs. Trefren and Inlow from above Ashland also came in for supper the same day.
    Mrs. Leroy A. Smith took the car for Medford Wednesday.
    B. F. Koenig, who had a homestead in the Meadows district, came out from Medford Thursday evening, spent the night with us and the next day went to Derby on business.
    I see that F. L. Heath is sending out circular letters announcing his determination to close out his stock of goods in this place, assigning as a reason that he has other engagements that require his time. And I saw Mr. Stabb, the Brownsboro merchant, in the store talking business with Mr. Heath the same day the announcement was made.
    Friday evening Orrin Bishop, wife and daughter, Miss Ethel, and son, Paul, of Tulare County, California, came in on the P.&E. and spent the night at the Sunnyside, taking the P.&E. for Butte Falls Saturday morning, where they expect to live at least for a while. Their principal reason for coming was to try to improve the health of their daughter. Mr. Bishop was raised on a farm on the east side of Bear Creek north of Phoenix. The people who have been here once will eventually come back to our "Italy of Oregon."
    Miss Francie Greb, who is attending the high school in Medford, came out Saturday morning on the P.&E., and so did six strange men whom I didn't know.
    Alex. Vestal and Professor C. E. Johnson came in Saturday morning and procured a rig from the Sunnyside stable and went on to Medford the same day.
    Mr. Hensley, who bought the Frank Nichols property here and the Nichols orchard, has secured the property in the lower end of town. When he made the trade for the orchard there was an option on the town property, and now the option is off and he has taken possession of the whole Frank Nichols property. And the friends of Frank Nichols will be glad to learn that they are doing fine in their new home in Seattle.
    A. E. Strong, who has charge of an orchard on the hill above town, was here Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1916, page 5


    The members of the Onward and Upward Club beg to state that they have changed the name of said club to the "In Bads."
    Mesdames George and Will von der Hellen were hostesses to the reading club at the latter's home last Wednesday afternoon.
    Mrs. Holt, who has been a patient at the Sacred Heard hospital due to an attack of la grippe, returned to her home Saturday.
    The dancing party given by the Eagle Point Dancing Club last Saturday evening was well attended by about thirty couples and was a very pleasant affair. The music was exceptionally good and nothing was left undone to make the evening a pleasant one for all who attended. The hostesses were Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, Mrs. Fred McPherson, Mrs. Carl Narregan, Mrs. F. Newport.
    Miss Orbie Natwick, who spent the weekend with her parents, returned to Medford Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen entertained with a dinner party followed by bridge Thursday evening. The following guests were present: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Narregan, Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, Miss Alice McIntyre, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen.
    Frank Brown was in Jacksonville on business Wednesday.
    Chris Natwick spent Wednesday and Thursday in Medford and Jacksonville on business.
    Gene Bellows was shipping cream here Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole spent the weekend with Mrs. Ashpole's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rader.
    In spite of elements and bad roads Dr. Holt makes daily trips to the Sacred Heart hospital in attendance of his several patients there.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown entertained with a very unique and prettily appointed dinner Wednesday evening. A color scheme of red and green was carried out in the dining room, a basket of beautiful red carnations formed the centerpiece, surrounded with green ferns and red hearts pierced with arrows marked the individual places, strings of hearts and cupids hung from the chandeliers. Covers were laid for fourteen, including Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze, Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Narregan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McIntyre and Miss Alice McIntyre.
    The male portion of Eagle Point have something to look forward to in the near future, in the form of a leap year party.
    The J. B. Jackson family are convalescing from a siege of la grippe.
    A. L. Haselton and family will move to the Wolfer place next week.
    N. L. Narregan is spending the weekend with his family in Medford.
    Fred Pelouze and wife, with the aid of a good ranch horse, "tobogganed" in Eagle Point last Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 1916, page 5


    Mr. Swan, a member of the G.A.R., who is spending the winter in Eagle Point, visited the school Monday and related some of his war experiences to the seventh and eighth grade history classes.
    The regular meeting of the Boys and Girls Industrial Club was held at the schoolhouse Friday afternoon.
    County Supervisor E. R. Peterson stopped at the school Tuesday afternoon and entertained the pupils with some humorous readings during the opening exercise period. Mr. Peterson was on his way to visit schools in the vicinity of Derby.
    The meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association has been postponed till Wednesday night, so that Superintendent Wells could be present. The subject for discussion will be the value of a track meet and a local fair for Eagle Point and the surrounding country. Come out and help boost.
    An old-fashioned box social will be given at the opera house Monday night, February 21. There will be a program by the school, after which the boxes will be sold to the highest bidder. A prize will be given to the lady having the best decorated box, and the man paying the highest price will have 50 percent of the price refunded. The admission will be free and the money received from the sale of the baskets will be applied toward the purchase of a water system for the school. All are invited to come and bring baskets.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 1916, page 5


    Madames Lottie Van Scoy, T. F. Boltz, J. S. Quackenbush and Misses Mabel Pruett and Minnie B. Taylor will entertain their special friends at a social dance in the opera house on Saturday evening, February 12.
    F. M. Corlies and J. E. Crain of Medford came out Saturday eve on the P.&E. and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Saturday night the Jacksonville basketball team came out and played against the Eagle Point team. There was quite a number of the citizens of Jacksonville came out with them, and among them was our genial assessor, William Grieve and wife. Mr. Grieve came out in the afternoon and paid his compliments to your E.P. correspondent and family, but Mrs. G. came later via the P.&E. route. The game was quite exciting and occasionally there would be a wordy scramble over the decision of the umpire, but everything passed off very pleasantly, as the Jacksonville crowd were a set of gentlemen and knew how to be entertained. The result of the game was 18 to 16 in favor of the Jacksonville team. It was conceded that the Jacksonville boys outweighed the Eagle Point boys, but they had a very even game, and all hands seemed to enjoy themselves very much. By special arrangements the P.&E. jitney, or auto car, came out to take the Jacksonville folks home about midnight. After the game was over those who felt so inclined remained and enjoyed a social dance.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside besides our regular boarders on Sunday were: J. V. McIntyre and wife and sister, Miss Alice, Henry Trusty, Joe Moomaw, C. E. Johnson, Alex. Vestal. The two last named came out from Medford Saturday night and spent the night, going up home the next morning, and Miss Mabel Cobleigh and Sam Courtney. I am glad to be able to say that Mr. Courtney's wrist where he was shot has entirely healed up and that he can now do some work with that hand. He expects to open up a paint shop in the old bakery building next week.
    The E.P. Amusement Company gave a moving picture show last Sunday evening.
    Mrs. Whitsett of Glendale, grandmother to Miss Hazel and Master Thurman McClelland, two of our regular boarders, and Miss Hazel is one of the operators in the telephone office, came in Saturday and is visiting her two grandchildren.
    John Foster, who has been visiting his father on his farm in Rogue River, is stopping at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Seely of Roseburg is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Leabo and a son of Mrs. Leabo, who lives on Elk Creek and has been visiting his mother, sister and the family, took the stage for home Monday.
    Frank Lewis and his son, Jack, and J. T. Zimmerlee started Monday for their mines on Evans Creek.
    Jasper Hannah, who has a farm on Rogue River between the Dodge-French bridge and Trail, was doing business among us Monday.
    Mrs. Thomas Carlton, W. L. Childreth and Mr. Stewart came our from Medford Tuesday morning on the P.&E. Mrs. Carlton was met at the depot by her husband and taken to their home.
    William Perry, William Heckathorn, William Nickel and a stranger whom I do not know came in Tuesday for dinner.
    Jeff Johnson was among the business callers Tuesday on his way to Medford.
    George Austin, the mail contractor and carrier from Eagle Point to Climax, had quite an experience here Tuesday on his arrival here with the mail. After he had delivered it he concluded to drive into Butte Creek and wash mud off his rig and horses, and in trying to turn around in the water one of the horses fell and the other gave a sudden jerk, breaking a singletree, and by this time the water was dashing against the dashboard of the rig, when he jumped out to unhitch the other horse, and by the time he had the team unhitched the current was sweeping horses, driver and rig downstream. He managed to get the team unhitched and he got out after going downstream about fifty or sixty yards and the buggy floated on down for about 200 yards more, when Jack Florey ran in and threw a rope so as to catch it, but he lost his seat and cushion, chaps, large umbrella and tarpaulin that he had to cover his mail and broke the dashboard and tongue of the buggy, and lost his hat, but he was fortunate that he did not lose his life.
    W. H. Crandall shipped two hens and a cock of the popular Wyandotte variety to the Southern Oregon Poultry Show Tuesday. They were beauties.
    Mrs. W. O. Wheeler, wife of the principal of our school, took the train for Talent Tuesday to visit her mother.
    The P.&E. brought out five cars of wood for the Medford market on Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 10, 1916, page 5


    Fred Bellows went out to the valley Saturday.
    Boyd Tucker and family returned to their home above Trail Monday.
    Jasper Hannah made a business trip to the valley this week.
    Benton Bowers called on Perry Foster Tuesday en route for his home at Ashland.
    Supervisor Peterson spent the week visiting school in this vicinity.
    Steve Smith spent the weekend with his father, William Smith, of Medford.
    Charles Cingcade of Eagle Point was a business visitor of Trail on Thursday.
    A crew of surveyors have spent two weeks within the last six weeks surveying along the river. We hope it will benefit someone besides the surveyors, as the previous surveys have done.
    The farmers are anxiously watching their fields to begin plowing as soon as possible.
    Mr. and Mrs. Henry French called on Mr. and Mrs. Graham Sunday afternoon.
    Mrs. Rush and daughter, Opal, have returned to their home in Ashland
    Reese Creek was so high Monday that Professor Deardorff could not cross it, therefore the pupils had a holiday.
    L. J. Mareks of Trail was shipping in the valley towns a few days ago.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 14, 1916, page 2


    W. L. Cassady of Medford, salesman representing Sealy-Dresser Co., Portland, was out last week on a business venture, and while here spent the night with us.
    Henry Meyer and wife of Lake Creek came out Thursday.
    Since the roads have been so muddy the Pacific & Eastern Railway Co. have been doing quite a heavy business in the line of passenger traffic. It is not an uncommon thing for them to have as high as a dozen passengers on at a time, and they are bringing out a quantity of freight and today (Tuesday) they brought our a lot of freight for our merchants, as well as 10,000 pounds of land plaster and commercial fertilizer for the farmers.
    F. M. Decker, a veterinary from Ashland, came out last week and treated the teeth of five horses for William Roberts.
    D. McNary had a big lot of household goods come out on the P.&E. and took them to Brownsboro, where he has purchased a farm, I understand.
    Mrs. J. B. Jackson and daughter, Mrs. Harry Young, Mrs. W. O. Wheeler, Miss Rebekah Pierce, Mr. Rhodes, S. B. Holmes, S. H. Harnish, Fred Heath, Jr., and our daughter Hattie were passengers on the motor car Friday.
    There was a train of eight wood cars of wood, besides the other cars, came out from Butte Falls a few days ago.
    Among the passengers on the P.& E. last Saturday were four strangers and Mrs. J. W. Grover and her daughter Ruth. Little Miss Ruth has been confined in the hospital in Medford for three or four weeks. She was operated on by Dr. Wm. P. Holt for appendicitis and has been in a very critical condition, but, thanks to good nursing and medical skill, she is now convalescing quite rapidly. There was a large circle of the friends of her parents as well as of the little girl met them at the train and carried her on a cot to her aunts, Mrs. Norman McQuoid's.
    M. W. Mathews and G. N. Birkland, two traveling salesmen, were among us the last of the week. The first one was selling lubricating oils and the other hardware.
    Last Saturday the P.&E. met with a little mishap just as the long train, ten cars, was going over the brow of the hill onto the desert a cylinder broke, and they had to back down the hill, take the crippled engine to Medford, get the little "one spot" and take the passenger car and what they could of the train on to Butte Falls, and they did not get back until after dark. In the meantime the"motor" came out and brought the mail and what passengers there was to come, but later on they had to come back and bring out a party to attend the dance that was given by Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush, Miss Lottie Van Scoy, Mrs. T. F. Boltz, Miss Mabel and Miss Minnie B. Taylor, and I understand that they had a very enjoyable time.
    W. C. Pool was among the business callers Saturday, and so was F. J. McPherson and W. P. Holbrook.
    Mr. Gallagher, one of the post office inspectors, was looking over our post office last Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Huebner of Hamilton, Mont., came in on the train Saturday, took dinner at the Sunnyside, then went on up to visit Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Farlow in the Lake Creek district. Mrs. Huebner is a cousin of Mr. Farlow, and is on a visiting trip seeing the country and visiting relatives. They spent a few days visiting her cousin, Mrs. E. O. Nichols of Medford.
    Last Monday Harry von der Hellen, his son and brother-in-law, B. F. Berger of Phoenix, and Carl Bieberstedt were here for dinner.
    Sherman Hamilton, son of W. Hart Hamilton, came in Monday from his house in San Jose, Cal., and announced that he expected his father to be here in a few days. Mr. Hamilton is the owner of the old William Ulrich place, or rather did own it all before he sold off a part of it lying on the east side of the railroad track, where the new part of the town in Eagle Point is now located. Mr. H. is coming up to look after his farm and see about putting in his spring crop.
    John Foster, who has been upon Rogue River visiting he father and brother, returned to the Sunnyside Monday.
    Henry French and wife were doing business among us Monday.
    Born--In the Medford hospital, February 12, to Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Mills of Butte Falls, a daughter, Dr. Holt reports.
    W. R. McLeod, who has a store at the McLeod station on Rogue River, fifteen miles this side of Prospect, came out Monday, went to Medford, returning Tuesday, spent the night at the Sunnyside. He seems to be greatly encouraged over the prospect of better times.
    W. G. Knighten has been tearing away his old fence and opening up a runway to a garage he is going to build, and otherwise improving his place.
    Since my last, Thomas E. Nichols has paid up a year's subscription to the D.M.T.
    Our school contemplates holding a box social on the evening of the 21st for the purpose of raising funds to put in a water system on the school ground, and a prize will be given to the young lady who has the handsomest trimmed box and the gentleman who pays the highest price for a box will have one-half of his money refunded. They expect to have a large crowd there and lots of fun. Everybody turn out and help along the good cause.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 17, 1916, page 5


    Dr. W. A. Laidlaw had sold his orchard, that formerly was known as the Herrin orchard, to a man by the name of Fender of Portland.
    A. G. Bishop, one of the owners of the Kingwood orchard, was a business caller the middle of the week.
    G. Norman, who has been foreman on the Laidlaw orchard, was in town the last part of the week. He will remain on the place until other arrangements are made with the new owner.
    W. Hart Hamilton, the owner of the Hamilton orchard, came in Wednesday and he and his son are numbered among our regular boarders again.
    Mrs. Donnie Ashpole, wife of one of our hardware merchants, went to Medford Wednesday, combining business with pleasure, and remained until Saturday.
    C. A. Burbank, salesman for Lyjell & Meyer, Portland, was working among the tobacco users Wednesday.
    Wig Ashpole, one of the Medford cattlemen and meat market men, was out Tuesday and Wednesday and while here bought a bunch of cattle of Green Mathews and Wig Jacks, taking them to Medford Thursday.
    Dolph Kent of Wellen was among our business callers Wednesday.
    F. A. Dunlap of Derby and B. C. Smith, who has a homestead on Round Top, were guests at the Sunnyside Wednesday night on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. George Brown of Brownsboro came out Thursday on her way to Ashland to go to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. O. Bell, who was dangerously ill, and I see by the papers that she passed away at the home of her brother, Thomas Culbertson, in Ashland, on the 18th. Mrs. Bell had lived in this immediate neighborhood for the past twenty-five years and has a number of warm personal friends in this section of the country. She was an active member of the Baptist Church and exemplified the spirit of her Divine Master.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McPherson motored into town last Thursday to visit Mrs. P.'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Nichols.
    The Pacific & Eastern had a little stoppage in their business last Thursday. A wood car got mixed up with the rails and so the passengers had to ride about a mile on the engine until they reached the Eagle Point depot, when they were transferred to a box car and with them was enough to make about fifteen or twenty altogether, but they got through all O.K. and the next day the car was removed from the track and everything is all O.K. again.
    Bert Peachey and wife, who live up in the mountains, as Bert is a forest ranger and his wife shares his life with him, came in Thursday and are spending a few days with Mrs. P.'s parents here.
    Miss Orbie Natwick, who sometimes lives in Medford and sometimes in Eagle Point (she is a dressmaker), took the P.&E. Saturday morning for her father's farm.
    Ed Montague, who arrived recently from San Francisco, is boarding at the Sunnyside at present.
    B. S. Baker has moved his family out from his homestead near Derby onto the Fred Pelouze place, so as to send his son to school here.
    Pete Betz and wife and their cousin, Miss Mima Hannah, and J. A. Howard, came out Friday, and Miss Mima went on to Medford on the 5:30 car.
    J. D. Arnes, son-in-law of Wirt C. Pool, who has charge of the Edgell orchard, was here Thursday looking for men to work the orchard.
    Sheriff Singler came out this week and took Reube Johnson to Jacksonville to have him examined by a medical board with regard to his sanity.
    John Rader and wife came in Thursday on business. Mrs. Rader said that the weather was too fine to stay in the house.
    Mrs. L. W. Owen, a traveling lecturer, is here holding services at this writing (Saturday). She lectured last night and it was very forceful. She is an easy speaker and holds her audience until she gets through.
    I noticed this morning as I was at the depot that there were thirty-seven empty cream cans setting on the depot platform and quite a number waiting for shipment, some for Medford, some for Ashland and quite a number for Independence. Why is it that the Independence creameries cam pay enough more to justify the dairymen to ship the cream 300 miles further than Medford instead of keeping the product of the farms at home in our own country?
    The last few days there has been a large number of strangers here. For instance, today there were five strangers to dinner at the Sunnyside and almost every day there are from one to three or four here or in other parts of town.
    Mrs. Herman Meyer, Sr. came out on the P.&E. and another lady stopped here, and there were five ladies on the car on their way to Derby and Butte Falls.
    I was talking with a man who came in from Washington this past winter, and he said that he did not know if he would settle here, but he was sure that he would not leave Southern Oregon.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 22, 1916, page 5


    Last Saturday Henry Trusty, the E.P.-Persist mail carrier and contractor, brought out word that Peter Applegate was found dead in his bed that morning.
    Audley Meyer of Lake Creek, who is attending high school in Medford, came out Friday and started on up to his home on foot. He had telephoned to his father to meet him on the way, and Monday morning he came marching back in time to catch the 10:15 car. His kind don't stop for trifles. He is one who won the trip to the Panama fair by raising the best corn in the state.
    Elvin Abbott of Butte Falls came out Sunday afternoon and spent the night at the Sunnyside. He was on his way to Medford.
    In my last I spoke of a lady by the name of Owen being here and holding a series of meetings. For some months past it has seemed almost impossible to get the people here interested in the subject of religion, to even come to church on Sunday, and while Mrs. Owen was telling one of the members of the church here of the crowds that flocked to hear her in Central Point the church member remarked that if she succeeded in getting a crowd here she would give her a gold medal. By Sunday night Mrs. C. M. came to her and said that she guessed that she would have to give up the medal as she had the house about full that night. She made the arrangement with Mr. F. Newport to have him put off the opening of his picture show until 8:15 o'clock p.m. and she would commence her services at 7 o'clock sharp and she held the large audience (large for this place) intensely interested until right up to time. At that time she announced that she would not hold any services on Monday or Tuesday evenings as there was to be a school entertainment and box social on Monday night and the Rebekahs were to have their lodge meeting on Tuesday night, and they asked her not to hold any meeting on that night as that time there was to be a wedding ceremony performed in the lodge room and the members in the lodge wanted to hear the lecture, so she announced that she would hold services on Wednesday and Thursday night and would give an entertainment, but just then the members of the I.O.O.F. protested, saying that they hold lodge meeting that night and go through with the initiatory work, so asked her to postpone her entertainment until Friday night, which she did. So as it now stands Mrs. Owen will lecture on Wednesday and Thursday nights in the church and on Friday will give an entertainment in the opera house. She seems to attract more attention than any speaker we have had before in years.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush and Mrs. N. Gorman, Mrs. Q.'s sister, motored into town Monday morning and were transacting business with our merchants.
    Monday morning I took a stroll down to the P.&E. depot and while there discovered that there were 12 passengers on the little motor car and their baggage besides what the mail carrier estimated to be a ton of mail matter, and that some morning George Austin, the mail carrier from here to Climax, had to take over 500 pounds of parcels post mail. Among the P.P. mail was 500 pounds of oats that was sent up on Antelope Creek, but George piled it all on his light rig and carried it all.
    Mr. Kline, one of the fruit tree inspectors, was among us last Monday.
    William Mann was among the guests at the S.S. hotel Monday and so was Sam Courtney.
    Last Friday while Mrs. Hoogerhyde was visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. L. K. Haak, and was in the act of changing the little boy's dress, the boy being about 2½ years old, she stepped into the adjoining room for the clean dress and in less time that it takes me to write it he made a dash for the creek about a rod away. She turned just in time to see him run into the creek, and saw the swift current carrying him downstream. With a bound and a scream Mrs. H., his mother, jumped into the water and grasped him before he sank, thus saving him from drowning, but it was a very narrow escape.
    On Monday night our three teachers, W. O. Wheeler, Mrs. Shesler and Miss Minnie Taylor, had their school give an entertainment and the whole community joined in having an old-fashioned box social. The entertainment consisted of instrumental and vocal music, recitations, dialogues, etc., and the children did themselves credit and showed that their instructors had not neglected their duty in that respect. During the exercises, Mrs. Owen, the lady evangelist, sang one song of the old-fashioned Southern melodies, "Old Uncle Ned," accompanied on the piano by Miss Claire Zimmerman, and they simply brought down the house. They were encouraged, but instead of singing another song Mrs. Owen gave a recitation for the boys and then another song. The selling of the boxes was quite amusing. Frank Brown was the auctioneer and there was one little boy about six years old who attracted more attention than most. He had 25 cents and he bid on every box, standing most of the time on the platform near the auctioneer, until finally there was a box bid off to him, but he was determined to have a box. The handsomest box was awarded to Miss Myrtle Greb for the large girls and the other to Miss Helen Holt for the younger girls, and the highest priced box was Miss Claire Zimmerman, and was bidden off by Joe Moomaw and he received 50 percent of the price back again as per announcement. The receipts of the evening were $36.50. If we did not raise much money we had lots of fun.
    I see that the bills are out for a movie picture show Saturday night when they propose to show scenes of Jackson County commencing in an early day and coming up to present time.
    This, Tuesday morning, when the P.&E. train came out they had the seven wood cars, a box car and the passenger car in addition to the freight they brought there seemed to be quite a number of passengers. Some of them stopped here, but the most of them went on up further on the road. Among other things they brought out were 16 milk and cream cans for our dairymen and two lots of fruit trees. One lot was for L. K. Haak, one of our prominent orchardists, and while I was in the depot talking to one hustling farmer he remarked that he had just cut down and carried off the trees of eighteen acres and sowed the ground with oats. Thus it is some plant fruit trees and some pull them up. I was relating the incident to Mr. Haak shortly afterward and he expressed his strong faith in the future fruit business.
    Revs. L. L. Simmons and South came in Tuesday morning with W. H. Crandall from the Reese Creek country where they are holding a protracted meeting. They claim with some success, although up to this time they have had no conversations.
    Arden Tyrrell of L.C. came in Tuesday on the stage and went to Medford.
    Since my last report C. Hoogerhyde has renewed his sub to the D.M.T.
    The people out in these parts seem to have a mania for making garden during this fine spell of weather.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 24, 1916, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen and son, Don, accompanied by Mrs. Pevuel, of Corvallis, were guests at the Sunnyside on Tuesday. Also Henry Trusty, R. R. Minter, W. E. Hammel and Mrs. Peter Stoddard, of Butte Falls.
    Mrs. Stoddard came out to spend a few days to consult with Dr. Holt with regard to her health. And Mr. Hammel had just returned from serving on the grand jury in Jacksonville. Tuesday, being a holiday, proved to be quite a noted day in our little town, as that was the day on which the Rebekahs held their regular lodge meeting at night, and the way it turned out will be a day long to be remembered by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, for on that day, or rather evening, he was joined in marriage to Mrs. Sophia Robinett, by Rev. L. L. Simmons, the pastor of the Baptist church in this place, in the Odd Fellows' hall at the close of the lodge work. They marched from the anteroom, Rev. Simmons in the lead, J. W. Grover with the groom, and then came Mrs. Grover and the bride-to-be, and stationed themselves under an arbor on the grand master's throne, and amid the most profound silence Rev. Simmons read a portion of scripture and then joined them in marriage. After spending a short time in tendering congratulations there were at least thirty-two of us, seated at the well-supplied tables for the supper that had been prepared by the friends of the bride and groom. Now it is almost useless for me to describe that feast for they had almost everything on the tables and sideboard that even the most fastidious could desire or imagine. After the feast was over the groom and wife arose to their feet and is a short address thanked the brothers and sisters of the lodge and visiting friends for their kindness in thus honoring them, after which Mr. C. took a box of cigars and Mrs. C. a basket of oranges and distributed them among those present. And by this time is was near 11 o'clock so we, after bidding the bride and groom a hearty good night, began to start for our homes. Thus ended the day that is commemorated as the birthday of the father of our country.
    On Wednesday R. D. Hoke, proprietor of the Rogue River Valley cannery, and his son, H. E. Hoke, accompanied by George E. Johnson, were out getting the farmers and gardeners to contract to put in tomatoes for their cannery. And Mr. Johnson was out hustling up business for the P.&E.R.R. They seemed to be succeeding quite well in their undertaking. They were all at the Sunnyside about 12 o'clock noon and so was J. H. Driscoll and Ed. Walker, the men who are looking after the game birds, and Sam Sandry, the deputy fish warden. There was not anything of interest occurring that day, only a few of the farmers came to town to have their plows sharpened or to get something they had to have; they are too busy farming this lovely weather. But Thursday was another rather noted day as two more hearts were joined together until death doth them part. Yes, we had another wedding in our neighborhood on Thursday, two weddings in one week in a thinly settled community is not so bad, and there have been four couples so united since the 19th day of January. Three out of six were boarders at the Sunnyside, and there is talk of two more weddings from the same hostelry. The ladies are surely taking advantage of the leap year season. But I did not tell who were married. The last couple that were married was Samuel H. Courtney and Miss Samantha (Mattie) Minter, on Thursday, February 24 at the residence of the bride's father, R. R. Winter, by Rev. L. L. Simmons. There were thirty-two persons present, all told, and after the marriage ceremony was performed we were seated at a long table, at least eighteen of us were, and O, such a spread--but what is the use of talking about a big feed out in the Butte Creek country. Well, after we had eaten more than prudence would dictate, the second course came on, ice cream and cake. Some of them had the faculty of holding out, especially the three preachers. Rev. Simmons, he is a stayer; Rev.Smith, the Sunday school man, and your correspondent tried to keep up with him, but signally failed. In the course of time we all left the table and took a stroll around and had some photos taken of the group and the family, then they marched back to the table and commenced to eat cake and ice cream again, but right there I drew the line--threw up the sponge and wilted. After spending the most of the afternoon with family we began to separate, wishing the newlyweds a long and prosperous journey through life.
    Friday there was nothing of special interest occurred until at night, unless it was that Mr. and Mrs. Austin and L. R. Schmalhausen, of Medford, came out to spend a part of the day visiting the Howlett family. Mr. S., in speaking of this country, of our beautiful climate and the productiveness of the soil, said that in all of his travels he had never seen any country to compare with Rogue River Valley.
    Friday night Mrs. Owen, the lady evangelist, who has been lecturing here for the last week, gave an entertainment in the opera house that was not only very interesting, but instructive. She opened the exercises by having the entire audience of over 100 join in singing "America," with Miss Claire Zimmerman as pianist, and they sang it with a vim that you don't find outside of Eagle Point. She then gave us a short talk and sang several of those old Southern melodies that we used to hear in our childhood days that would almost raise the hair on a bald head. She then introduced Miss Claire Zimmerman and she rendered "A Warning" in her own peculiar style and it was received with an outburst of applause. Then Mrs. Owen gave us a fine address and whistled for about half an hour, when she bade us good night. The entire company seemed to regret that she did not talk longer, for she surely can hold an audience.
    John Holtz, one of the forest rangers, spent the night with us Friday.
    Mr. Dupray, who owns a sawmill between here and Butte Falls, has established a lumber yard here and I understand that Mr. Newport, the depot agent, will look after it at present.
    J. H. Cooley, Professor C. E. Johnson and Mr. Lyerell were here for dinner Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 29, 1916, page 5


    Our quiet little village is being visited occasionally by those who are so anxious to serve the dear people in one way or another and are perfectly [omission] that would not cause loss of principle, especially if the dear people would only be considerate enough to vote for them at the coming election. There seems to be quite a number of those who are or have been engaged in school teaching who want to fill the office of county school superintendent, and some of them have expressed their desire to fill the office, some orally and some by letter. The first one was the present incumbent, Professor Wells, who announced his candidacy orally while out here a short time ago, visiting our school, and the next was Professor G. W. Ager of Talent, who has acted as one of the school supervisors for two years and is now engaged as principal of the school in Talent. He has not the time to spare to go out and visit the voters, so is writing personal letters to different ones on the subject; and then comes Francis C. Smith of Medford, announcing himself as a candidate for the same office, and they are all on the same ticket (Republican), and want me to support them in the primary, and I have already registered as a Democrat so what am I to do in such a case? The two last mentioned, Professor Ager and Smith especially, stand for school efficiency and personal supervision of the schools and the elimination of school supervisors--the fifth wheel of the coach--and it seems to me, and not only to me, but to most of the patrons of the schools, that if they would eliminate about half of the books that the patrons of the schools are taxed with that that would be one of the most popular movements they could suggest, for as it is now the children, especially in the lower grades, have so many studies that they do not have time to master any one of them and the result is the children have a very superficial knowledge of each and are deficient in the fundamentals.
    Miss Mabel Hansen, who has been teaching in the Flounce Rock district, closed her school last Friday with an entertainment and picnic dinner and reports having had a very pleasant time. She came out Saturday on the Pacific & Eastern and remained over Sunday with us, taking the Eagle Point-Climax stage Monday morning.
    Jud Edsall, who is engaged in cutting a thousand cords of wood on his place near Butte Falls, came out the last of the week and remained over Sunday and Monday with us, and while here engaged John Foster to go up and work for him in the wood camp.
    We had with us on Sunday for dinner Mr. Wise of Trail, Frank Abbott, foreman of the W. Hart Hamilton ranch, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ayres, Henry Trusty, F. T. Newport and wife, George Austin, the mail contractor and carrier from Eagle Point to Climax; Miss Mabelle Cobleigh and Mrs. L. W. Owen, the lady evangelist. Mrs. Owen closed her meetings here Sunday night. On Sunday at 11 she spoke on the subject of "Opportunity," and at night her subject was "Who Is Who?" She has had large congregations each time after it was known who she was. She is a very pleasant speaker and has the faculty of holding an audience. She left here for Central Point Monday morning and expects to be in Gold Hill next week.
    Manley Conley came out on the Lake Creek stage last Monday on his way to Grants Pass, where he will put in a fish screen in Rogue River that he has invented. He expected to stop at Rogue River and have Sam Sandry examine it before putting it in the stream.
   Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Frey of Lake Creek came out Monday, stopped here for dinner and went on to Medford the same day, and C. A. Newstrom, the newly appointed road supervisor for the Lake Creek district, was also here for dinner the same day.
    Our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, puts in a large part of his time now making new and altering old branding irons. The last legislature passed a law requiring the stockmen over the entire state to have their marks and brands recorded in Salem so that there would be no two brands alike in the state, and now almost every stockman in the state has to have his branding iron changed. He has to send to Salem to the register of marks and brands--another fat office--and have the branding iron selected for him, then have the iron made, send an impression to the office, and if it is correct, have it recorded, and then the trouble has just begun. The stockmen have to gather all of their cattle and horses and rebrand them, but then the trouble has just commenced, for under the old law the different stockmen and many who are not stockmen know each other's brand and mark, and when after stock would look out for each other's stock, because they would have a stock book and by that means could tell whose stock they saw, and if one was inquiring after stock would easily find it, because the brands were familiar and easily remembered, but now, under the new arrangement, many of the branding irons are of such a shape that they will be hard to describe, much less to remember. I think that we better quit sending lawyers and doctors to the legislature and send plain, common-sense old farmers instead, and they will be more practical.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 3, 1916, page 5


    Born--To Mr. & Mrs. John W. Smith, February 29, in the town of Eagle Point, a daughter.
    William Perry, one of our hustling mountain farmers and stockmen, has disposed of his mountain home near Butte Falls and moved onto the A. L. Haselton place that he secured some months ago. When he moved out from the old home place he simply chartered two cars on the P.&E., loaded his household goods into one of them and loaded the other with cedar posts and yew posts to be used for fencing the tract of land he traded his old home place for, with the Smith brothers of Butte Falls.
    Pete Young was among the visitors in our town Wednesday on a business venture. He is one of our persistent go-ahead farmers just below town.
    George Weeks and family of Trail came out the last week to visit Mrs. Weeks' mother, Mrs. Leabo, and Mrs. W. and the children are remaining here for the present. They were all in attendance at the prayer meeting Friday night.
    Earl Croft, the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard, and wife were buying supplies from our merchants last Wednesday.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, has been called to act as a juror in the circuit court in Jacksonville, and his wife is filling the place of saleslady in the store; her mother, Mrs. John M. Rader, is here with her, attending to the household duties and taking care of the chickens.
    Frank Ditsworth called for dinner last Thursday and reports that as he was coming down Reese Creek he met Clifford Davis of Derby, and hearing two dogs barking as though they had something treed, asked what the dogs had, and he answered that it was probably a digger squirrel; that he had been down and could see nothing, but Mr. D. suggested that there was something more than a squirrel, the way the dogs barked, so they walked out to the edge of the cliff and while Mr. Davis was looking up in the small trees for something Frank was looking for a deer being bayed in the water, and soon discovered that the dogs had a coyote in the water all covered except his head, and he told Davis to slip down as close as he could and kill it with a stone. As he approached the dogs began to give way and the coyote was watching the dogs so that Davis got up within about a rod and a half of him and threw the first stone, striking him just beyond the shoulder, but not hard enough to kill him, but as he began to swim away he threw another and missed him, but the third one struck him on the head and killed him, thus ridding the neighborhood of another one of the worst pests in the country. Davis took the skin home with him to show the proof of having killed a coyote.
    Ed Foster, how owns a farm on Rogue River near Debenger Gap, was in town last Thursday.
    George L. Howard, an insurance agent for the Oregon Fire Relief Association, spent Thursday night here. He had been up to Derby and concluded that he better retrace his steps as it looked so much like rain and he had eight miles of sticky road to cross over, and he got in just in time to miss the mud.
    Mrs. Harvey Stanley, a sister of Mrs. Roy Ashpole, came over from the Rader farm to have Mr. Holt treat her arm for something like poison oak.
    Last Thursday was rather an eventful day with our livery stable man, S. H. Harnish. In the afternoon just as the wind was blowing its hardest the soot in the flue in the livery barn caught fire and the blaze simply poured out of the top of the flue, but as soon as it was discovered John Foster grabbed a can of salt, ran up a ladder and threw it in the fire and soon quenched the fire. And there was no damage done, and just then his son Robbie had gone to the depot for the United States mail. He had tied the horse as usual with waiting for the train, but something frightened him and in pulling back slipped the bridle off and started with a dash for the barn, but soon collided with an electric light pole, and by the time he reached the barn was stripped of all the harness and the buggy was minus a wheel and the shafts were demoralized, but no one hurt. The horse dashed into the barn among the men who had assembled on account of the fire, half seared to death.
    Manley Conley came down from Grants Pass Thursday and reported that the sugar beet company has shut down and discharged all their men, but it now appears that there seemed to be a cloud over the title to the land and they simply stopped to obtain a clear abstract of title. If all the reports be true, we are to have sugar beet factories to throw at the birds in Southern Oregon and Northern California.
    Mr. Brown, our meat man, is making his regular trips twice a week out here.
    Frank Brown and William and Geo. von der Hellen, three of our leading merchants, went to Medford Thursday.
    George H. Wamsley, who has been spending the winter with his brother near Los Angeles, returned to our town Thursday eve and his many friends gave him a cordial welcome.
    Mrs. F. L Heath went over to Medford Thursday and returned Friday evening on the P.&E.
    John Walsh of Lake Creek shipped ten rolls of wire fencing from Medford and J. B. Hannah has twelve rolls of wire fencing at the depot.
    G. H. Bolton, who is representing the Pelor Shoe Co. of St. Louis; Norman Zimmerman and a stranger were at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday.
    I understand Shorty Miles was out Friday trying to negotiate for the rent of land to raise sugar beets.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 6, 1916, page 7


    In 1914 Claus Charley of Brownsboro won the capital prize in the corn-growing contest with a good project report on a crop of 111 bushels per acre. His good corn attracted considerable attention and was in demand. A good many farmers, and no less than fifty boys in Jackson, Claus's home county, planted seed from his field last year, with the result that there was twice as much good corn grown in the county as ever before.
    The use of well selected, tested and acclimated seed and the application of scientific methods of cultivating by the members of the boys' corn clubs as in a large measure responsible for the fact that corn is rapidly coming into favor as a farm crop in Oregon.
    Leland Charley, a brother of Claus, was the champion in the industrial corn growing, and Claus was also champion in the agriculture contest of the corn growing in 1915. Leland writes as follows regarding his work:
    "I enrolled as a club member because I thought I might win a prize, and as I intend to be a framer I thought it would be a good schooling for me. I think the object of the boys' corn club is to get those interested in farming, the main industry in the world, who are lazy and want to leave the farm. Corn was first raised by the Indians. It was a poor grade of corn--shallow and loose grains, and it has been graded up until it is the leading crop of the United States today. I tested my seed corn by taking ten ears and ten grains from each ear, amounting to 100 grains; and I put in three inches of sawdust and one inch of dirt into a box and a cloth over the dirt. I put the corn on the cloth and another cloth over the corn, on which I put an inch of dirt and a half inch of sawdust. I kept it damp and in a warm place, and as a result out of the hundred four did not sprout. I planted my corn one grain in a hill about two feet apart. I harrowed it after planting and cultivated it after each rain to kill the young weeds and to form a mulch top, which prevents capillary evaporation. I suckered my own corn by pulling off all the blank stalks. I harvested my corn when the ears were fully matured. I shocked it and let it stand until it was thoroughly dried. I selected my seed corn by going out in the field and selecting ears on good stalks. The total yield of my acre was eighty-seven bushels."
Medford Mail Tribune, March 8, 1916, page 6


    On Wednesday of last week, March 1, the Reese Creek school went up to the Laurel Hill school to hold a spelling contest. The children from the fifth to the eighth grades all stood up and spelled orally to see which one of the schools would win the prize. There were eleven of the Reese Creek school that spelled against six of the Laurel Hill school. The rule was when one missed a word he sat down, and the contest grew exciting as the ranks of the schools began to thin out, and the result was when the last one of the Reese Creek school was seated there were three of the Laurel Hill pupils still standing.
    In a written contest, when they spelled words there were two of the Reese Creek school who made 100 percent so that they were quite evenly matched, but they all had a royal time and no doubt learned more that day than they did the rest of the week. They had a good practical exercise. On Friday, March 4, it being the last day of the term for the Laurel Hill school, the patrons and many of the friends met at the school house and had a picnic dinner and wound up the exercises of the term by having an old-fashioned spelling match, the children spelling against the older people, and the result was a tie. The older people called in some of the citizens of the district on the opposite side of the Rogue River to help them spell down the school, and some of them had been engaged in teaching, and still the best they could do was to simply do as well as the children. Professor C. E. Johnson seems to feel quite proud over the success of his pupils, and the patrons seem to be highly pleased also over the success he has made during the term. Professor Johnson offered a prize to the winner of the spelling contest, and as the result was a tie he gave two prizes, one to Mrs. I. N. Stille and the other to Earl Mathews, who is acknowledged to be the best speller in the school. The reader will pardon me for a suggestion, but it the children on our schools would indulge in contests of that character instead of so much basketball, town ball, football and the dance hall they will find that it will prove of lasting benefit in future life.
    The arrangements are to have the Eagle Point school go out to Reese Creek on next Friday, March 11, and hold a spelling contest. There will be about thirty go from here to spell against the Reese Creek school, but they find that they will have done something when they match the Reese Creek school. Here I will add that Earl Mathews and Miss Stille have entered the Reese Creek school, as Mr. Deardorff, the Reese Creek teacher, has two months more to teach.
    While on the subject of school, I will add that if the weather permits the Applegate basketball team, both boys and girls, are to be here to play against the Eagle Point boys' and girls' school team next Saturday evening. Everybody turn out and see the fun.
    Mrs. S. J. Quackenbush, wife of the foreman on the A. Corbin orchard, went to Medford in her auto, taking our intermediate teacher, Miss Minnie Taylor, and brought back a nice bunch of pear trees. She said that Mr. Q. was digging up the apple trees above the water ditch and planting the ground with pear trees, as they will mature in that ground without irrigation.
    W. M. Stewart, a brother of J. H. Stewart, who lives about two miles northeast of here, came in from Iowa last Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Deardorff of La Cygne, Kan., came in Monday in the P.&E., took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on out to visit his son, who is teaching school in the Reese Creek district. They talked at though they might remain here indefinitely. They seemed to be delighted with our country.
    Paul Wright of the Buzzard mine and Mr. McLeod were passengers on the Eagle Point-Persist stage Monday.
    Dick Johnson gave a dance Saturday night at his home near the free ferry.
    Speaking for the free ferry, I understand that the county court has condemned it, and now the Eagle Point-Persist stage has to go by the way of the French-Dodge bridge.
    Last Monday there was a large number of the stockmen in our town. They assembled to organize a stock association. At first I heard that the meeting broke up without effecting the organization and part of the stockmen went home, but I learned later that some of them on Little Butte Creek did organize.
    Monday was quite a busy day at the Sunnyside about dinner time, as we had twenty-two beside the family for dinner.
    Miss Caroline Dexter, a daughter of Mrs. Frank Jackson of Indian Creek, is visiting her mother.
    There is a young man living in the Reese Creek country who has business almost every Saturday on the other side of Rogue River, and he trots down to the river and takes a skiff, crosses and usually ties the boat so that he can use it to return. But a short time ago he was in such a hurry to see ------ that he forgot to tie the boat, so that when he came back Sunday evening he found the boat was gone, so he had to walk down to the French-Dodge bridge to cross and his good friend is out a boat, and he had to find a different route to go see ------ on special business. Such is life in the Far West.
    Among the guests at the S.S. for dinner Monday were Mrs. Roy Ashpole and Mrs. Thomas Carlton. Mrs. C. was visiting Mrs. A. in the store, while her husband was trying to effect a stock association.
    Miss Della Stanley was also visiting Mrs. Ashpole in the store. She is the head of the firm now, for Roy Ashpole is on the jury.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 13, 1916, page 4


    A. W. Walker, a prominent candidate for the office of sheriff, was out here shaking hands with his many friends last Wednesday. He seems very sanguine of success in his efforts. He was accompanied by David Cingcade, Harry Cingcade and Mr. C.'s son-in-law, George Singewalt, the superintendent of the engraving department in the San Francisco Call and Examiner building, San Francisco. They all took dinner at the Sunnyside before going back to Medford, where the Cingcade family are watching the developments of an operation that was performed on Mrs. Cingcade about the first of the month.
    Wm. Nickel of Lake Creek was also here for dinner the same day.
    The word came over the wire Wednesday that Perry Farlow of Lake Creek had passed off on Tuesday night. Mr. Farlow was one of our highly respected pioneer citizens and has been prominent in the business world in Jackson County. He lived to be about 80 years of age and leaves a wife and several children, among whom are his sons Thomas, Frank and Lee, all of whom live in the neighborhood in which he died; besides a large circle of relatives and friends. His remains were interred in the Brownsboro cemetery on Thursday.
    Wert C. Pool was among the business callers Thursday.
    Messrs. Dunnington and Ulrich took a band of sheep through town Thursday on their way to range north of here.
    J. H. Tyrrell and Mr. Martin of Lake Creek were among the guests at the Sunnyside Wednesday. They came out to procure a casket for the [omission] Perry Farlow of F. L. Heath, one of our merchants.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Parker of Clinton, Iowa, Mrs. H. C. Behling and her mother, Mrs. F. L. Sherman, of Medford, were with us for dinner Thursday.
    Lee Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Charley and Miss Ethel Meyer motored into our town Thursday evening from their farms just above Brownsboro.
    Walter Charley of Climax was a guest at the Sunnyside Thursday night. Mr. C. is perfecting an invention of his own that he expects to patent soon and put on the market to be used on trolley cars. He was accompanied by N. P. Henson, also of
Climax.
    G. W. McPherson of Portland stopped off to visit his son and family, F. Y. McPherson. He was on his way to the Hawaiian islands.
    J. C. Turnbull of Grants Pass was here working in the interest of the Oregon Journal. He secured the services of Miss Clare Zimmerman to act as agent for the paper.
    There was quite an interesting spelling match in the Reese Creek school district between that school last Friday and the Eagle Point school. There were thirty-two of the pupils who went from here to spell against eleven in the Reese Creek school. They went out on wagons, autos, carriages and the rest went on a hayrack jammed in like sardines. The two schools--that is all above the fifth grade--were lined up and when one missed a word he or she sat down and after spelling one thousand words there were left standing on the floor Miss Freda Leabo, Miss Fay Perry, Miss Fern Lewis, Miss Nellie Coy, Miss Helen Holt, Miss Mae Greb, Master Adin Haselton and Master Theo Florey out of the thirty-two Eagle Point pupils and of those left standing in the Reese Creek school were Miss Mae French, Miss Ellen McCabe, Master Earl Mathews, Master Paul Robinson and Charles Pettegrew. They all did very well and deserve credit for the interest they seemed to have taken in that important branch in our studies. As there were so many more of the Eagle Point pupils than there were in the Reese Creek school, the committee decided to call it a tie. Little Miss Joyce von der Hellen had made a cake to be presented to the winner in the contest but as there were eight on one side and five on the other it was decided to have the thirteen cut the cake together. After devouring the cake the two basketball teams enjoyed a contest in that branch of their studies, but as the Reese Creek team came out second best. But they all had a good time and no doubt the children learned something that may be useful in after life.
    While we were at dinner Saturday word came over the phone wire that Mrs. Everett Abbott of Butte Falls had died suddenly. When her husband left her in the morning she was in her usual health and during the forenoon someone happened to go in and found her on the floor and help was summoned. She was placed on the bed and upon examination she was found to be dead. No cause of her death was stated, if known.
    Among the guests Saturday for dinner were Miss Norma A. Smith of Ashland. She was on her way to Lost Creek to take charge of the school.
    Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Gardner while here gave me an ad to be put in both the daily and weekly Mail Tribune offering a horse for sale.
    Mrs. E. C. Bellows came in today, Saturday, with a lot of cream for shipment.
    W. P. Holbrook was among the business callers Saturday, and so was Rudolph Pech of L.C.
    G. W. Ager, a very prominent candidate for county school superintendent, accompanied by Prof. B. F. Nibert of Agate and Prof. G. H. Grover were among us Saturday. Prof. Ager seemed to have received a very cordial greeting among his old friends whom he met while here acting as one of the school supervisors.
    James Owens, wife and son, motored into town Saturday afternoon.
    Since my last report M. S. Wood of E.P. has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 15, 1916, page 4


    Last Saturday night the Applegate basketball team came over and played against the Eagle Point team, and as I do not understand the peculiar phases and combinations connected with the game, I have secured the services of Professor W. O. Wheeler to give a write-up of the whole affair which I herewith incorporate in the Eagle Point Eaglets:
    The double-header basketball game here last Saturday night between Applegate and Eagle Point was the most successful of the season from a standpoint of attendance and enthusiasm. About 150 persons were present. All the teams played well, the scores being close and exciting, especially in the boys' game, in which there were several ties. At the close refreshments were served at the schoolhouse by the home team, after which all players were guests at a little dance given by the Eagle Point Amusement Company. Eagle Point won both games, the score being: Boys, 29-23; girls, 13-6.
    Boys' lineup: Applegate--Barrows, center; Knutzen, Rice, forwards; O'Brien, Brown, guards. Eagle Point--Harnish, center; Van Scoy, Childreth, forwards; Stowell, Montague, guards.
    Girls' lineup: Applegate--Kubli, center; Benedict, forward; Rice, Miller, guards. Eagle Point--Leabo, center; Newport, Wheeler, forwards; Colby, Riley, guards.
    A return game will be played soon.
    Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge and daughter and Miss Florence and Mildred Elmer were out from Medford for dinner, and Glen Haley, Amos Ayres and Henry Trusty were also guests at the Sunnyside at the same time.
    J. C. Pool of Trail, one of the forest rangers who has been in Medford for the past week or ten days, came out Monday and took the stage for his home on Trail Creek. He said that his wife, who had been operated on in the Sacred Heart hospital, was getting along fine.
    W. C. Daley of Lake Creek and H. G. Meyer, the Eagle Point and Lake Creek mail carrier, took dinner at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Frank Lewis, who is engaged in mining on Evans Creek, came home Saturday, but returned Monday to his mine.
    George Billings of Grants Pass called on us Monday. While here he bought the fixtures in the Art Nichols meat market and shipped them to Grants Pass Tuesday.
    William Heckathorn of Corvallis was here the first of the week visiting his relatives, the Frank Lewis family.
    S. H. Harnish's auto will leave the Heath drug store, just opposite the Nash Hotel, every afternoon, except Sunday, at 5 o'clock p.m.    Adv.
    Our painstaking and accommodating county assessor, Will Grieve, was out on business Monday and incidentally met a few of his many old friends on the street.
    Gus Pech of Lake Creek was doing business with our merchants Monday.
    Richard Thomas and his brother Riley, of Brownsboro, spent the night with us Monday and so did Sam Sandry, the fish warden. He was out arranging to put in fish screens in the various ditches along the creek. William Wright of the Buzzard mine also spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Sam Courtney has opened up a paint shop and he and his wife are rooming at the Sunnyside. And so is Ed Montague. He has been pulling stumps and grubs for F. Pelouze.
    J. Hoeft of Lake Creek called for dinner Tuesday.
    Alex. Vestal was having some work done by W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, Tuesday.
    The Brandon Bros., F. S. and G. W., who have bought the grist mill at this place, were out Tuesday putting in new windows and window frames and preparing to tear out the old wheels and put in a more modern one in the place. They are remodeling the mill and putting in modern machinery. They say that they intend to make as good flour as there is made in the country. They have engaged rooms at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Hazel Bishop, who was married some time ago in Grants Pass, returned to her room in the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush were doing business with F. L. Heath Wednesday morning.
    E. H. Hurd of Medford came out Wednesday morning and took the stage for McLeod, Prospect, etc.
    G. M. Roberts, one of the candidates for the nomination for district attorney, and Lee Root, representing the Metropolitan Insurance Co., were here Wednesday for dinner, and so was Dr. J. L. Hill and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. J. G. Hill, and Mrs. Geo. A. Hunt, all of Medford. Dr. Hill is a noted magazine writer and a prominent Sunday school worker.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 16, 1916, page 5


    R. A. Knipp, a wealthy rancher of Tiller, was arrested by Constable H. B. Church recently for violation of the game laws. He was arraigned in the justice court at Roseburg before J. B. Riddle, justice of the peace, and was found guilty as charged and fined $100 and costs. His trial and conviction for violation of the game laws is the culmination of one of the most aggravated cases of bold disregard and indifference of the law that has come before the courts for many years. Knipp was found guilty of killing deer and having in his possession fresh deer meat during the closed season.
    Mr. Knipp when called to the stand admitted the killing of the deer on the date charged in the complaint, and also another one, and defended his action by claiming that he killed the deer only to protect his crops, which were being destroyed by the ravages of the animals.
    Some months ago Knipp wrote a slanderous article and it was published in a Medford paper, severely criticizing several well-known men who have a statewide reputation for game preservation and protection. In his article Knipp poses as an injured citizen whose efforts in game protection have been frustrated by these gentlemen. On the other hand, it is stated that Knipps' game law breaking has become notorious in the community in which he lives.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 18, 1916, page 6


    Miss Mima Hannah returned home from Medford Saturday.
    Dave Pence was dragging the road between the mud holes this week.
    Among the visitors at the J. C. Hannah ranch Sunday were: Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Raimey, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Daily, Mrs. W. Houston, Mrs. George Fry, Everett Hannah, Misses Ora Raimey, Odessa and Velma Hannah, Given Houston and Velma Fry.
    One of A. McCabe's cows presented him with some fine twin calves last Saturday.
    Mrs. Henry French took dinner with Mrs. John Smith of Eagle Point last Wednesday.
    Stella Conover and Hattie Johnson are attending the Reese Creek school.
    The farmers along the river are glad to see the rain but the sticky farmers do not look so pleased, as the ground was just getting dry enough to plow.
    Mrs. T. Raimey and Miss Ora were Central Point visitors part of the week.
    The county court was up the river last Saturday.
    Charles Skyrman is at Phoenix under the doctor's care.
    Lloyd French called on his grandfather, Perry Foster, Thursday evening.
    Harry Skyrman and sister, Miss Clara, came up from Central Point and are spending a few days with home folks.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 20, 1916, page 3


    Frank Manning of Peyton spent Wednesday night with us on his way from Jacksonville, where he had been to straighten up his taxes, and he and Mr. Cameron of Derby took the Thursday morning train.
    Mr. Gallagher, one of the post office inspectors, came in Thursday morning, took dinner with us and Friday went up to Wellen with our postmaster, Mr. Clements.
    The P.&E. has considerable passenger and freight traffic this spring.
    S. H. Harnish's auto will leave the Heath drug store, Medford, every afternoon for Eagle Point at 5 o'clock p.m.
    Miss Ella Thompson and Mrs. Hull of Derby were on the P.&E. going to Medford Thursday, and Miss Bessie Bell, who has been up above Brownsboro visiting her sister, Mrs. George B. Brown, took passage at the same time at Eagle Point.
    Marsh Garrett and wife motored through here on their way to Medford Thursday.
    James Kershaw of Climax and Irvin Culbertson of Lake Creek were doing business here Thursday.
    Corbin Edgell, owner of the Edgell orchard, who had been spending the past year in the East, returned Thursday looking fine and hearty.
    Thursday was rather a memorable day in the life of your Eagle Point correspondent and on that day he passed his 84th mile-stake, and if anyone wants any evidence that Jackson County is a healthy place just let them take a look at me. Am able to eat my three meals each day and sleep my eight hours.
    H. C. Seymore, one of the agents for the State Industrial Society, wife and County School Superintendent J. P. Wells were out and visited our school and gave the school a moving picture exhibit of what was being done in that line. It was not known that they were to be here and the consequence was that but very few outside of the school children were in attendance.
    The arrangement is being made to have a spelling contest next Tuesday evening, March 21, in the schoolhouse when the school children will be pitted against the old people. There is a list of a thousand words to be spelled and the children have been practicing on them for the past few days. They are words that are common everyday use that have been selected by a state board and distributed among the schools over the state. Another move in the right direction. In speaking about schools brings to mind a little item I saw in the Applegate correspondence where he or she, as the case may be, says after admitting that they were outplayed by both of the Eagle Point teams, "The game was a chewing match from beginning to end. The audience insulted the referee and the boys and girls were badly disappointed in the treatment of the Eagle Point people." I have not heard any complaints in our town of any of the Eagle Point people being mistreated and am satisfied that the Applegate correspondent has things a little mixed, for, so far as I can learn, there still remains the kindest of feelings on the part of those interested in the ball game. I understand that the E.P. ball team intends to go to Applegate in the near future and teach them how to play basketball, and if there was any unbecoming conduct here they will surely overlook it. Since writing the foregoing I have thought the matter over and concluded that perhaps the aforesaid correspondent intended to convey the idea that the Eagle Point people acted rudely and treated the Applegate guests unbecoming, but the language I have quoted surely says that the people of E.P. were treated badly, and if that is the case, when the E.P. boys and girls go over to Applegate I hope that they will teach the E.P. folks how to behave in company.
    Wilbur Jacks and R. R. Minter were doing business in our town Friday.
    B. Klum, head of the Klum Advertising Co., was out Friday and put up boards for advertising on the side of the old bakery building.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mayham, a son, on March 5, 1916.
    Mrs. Susan Hart was calling on some of her friends Friday.
    Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, who has been spending the winter at Dead Indian Springs, came out Saturday on horseback as far as Lake Creek and took the stage there for E.P., going on the P.&E. to her home near Medford.
    Mrs. Gertie Spencer, nee Gertie Mahoney, of Butte Falls, came out on the P.&E. Saturday on her way to Medford and so did O. Adams, Bennie and Lee Parker (Bennie P. was on his way home to Bandon) and Mrs. Hurd of Medford.
    C. E. Bellows and wife and Mrs. J. F. McPherson were among the business callers Saturday.
    Since my last report, J. V. McIntyre has removed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Mr. Trusty, the father of Henry Trusty, who carries the mail from here to Persist, came out Friday to get his team shod.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 22, 1916, page 6


    Last Saturday night the following young ladies gave a social dance in the opera house: Miss Clare Zimmerman, Miss Dora Arnes, Miss Christina Lewis and Mrs. Margueretta Simpson. There were a few over 100 invited to the dance, and about all responded by being on hand at roll call. The opera house was decorated with evergreens and flowers and Mr. Newport had taken special pains to have the floor in splendid condition, and the music was up to date. The following young men acted as assistants in arranging the room and furnishing the guests with the necessary attention: Glenn and Percy Haley, Frederick Heath, Ed Conley, Joe Moomaw, Thomas Riley, Jr., Thomas and William Lewis and Robert Harnish. The dancing commenced about 8:30 p.m. and continued until 11:30 p.m., when a bountiful lunch was spread. And right here I must draw the line, for I cannot undertake to tell of or describe an affair of that kind, but simply say that the talk for the next two or three days was about the dance and the good things they had to eat, for the four ladies who had the matter in charge spared no pains or expense to make it a crowning success. I heard William Grieve remark that it was one of the finest socials he and his wife had attended for years, that everything passed off so pleasantly and was so nicely arranged. After lunch was served dancing was resumed and continued until about 4 o'clock a.m., when the company began to retire and go to their homes and the Sunnyside Hotel, for many of the young people from Jacksonville, Central Point, Medford, etc., took rooms at that hostelry. It was perhaps the first dance since the dry law went into effect but what there has been more or less booze there, but in this case it was a subject of remark that there was no evidence of anyone drinking in the house, for this was emphatically a select company.
    Mrs. Alice Booth of Grants Pass, Mrs. Frank Tungate and her daughter, Mrs. Caroline Tomlinson, of Jacksonville, were on the P.&E. Tuesday on their way up to Christopher Wooley's to visit Mrs. Booth's mother, Mrs. Dan Grey of Fort Klamath, who is there visiting her sister, Mrs. Wooley.
    Tuesday morning while at the depot looking for Eaglets I noticed that there were seventeen empty cream or milk cans taken off the car at this place and on the outgoing train in the afternoon there were about as many filled cans put on the train for different creameries in the country. The farmers are waking up to the fact that there is more money in keeping cows and pigs enough on the farm to eat what they raise and selling the product of the farm in that way than there is in any other way, and another big advantage in doing business in that way is that they--that is, the successful farmer--put what they take off the land back again in the shape of manure, and thus increase the productiveness of the soil.
    W. E. Hammel, one of our enterprising farmers and orchardists, came Tuesday and took home two barrels of spray mixture to use on his orchard. And C. A. Knight, another one of our prominent orchardists, had a carload of petroleum come out on the same train.
    I should have said before I got so far along in my write-up that I paid a visit to the county seat to try to straighten out my taxes, for I found by looking over the tax list we have in the Eagle Point bank that they had me all "balled up" (a U.S. senator uses that term, so I suppose that it is proper) with other people's taxes, having land assessed to me that I never did own, so I simply went to the sheriff's office, procured a statement and took it to the assessor's office to have them straightened out and found that everything in his office was perfectly correct, but the mistake had been made in copying from the assessor's list, but I got them all untangled and was assessed for another year.
    B. G. Pharsen of Washington state and Ray C. Spencer and wife of Butte Falls were on the train Tuesday on their way up to Butte Falls. Mr. P. is a brother-in-law to Mr. Spencer, having married his sister. He is one of the family of Spencers who first settled in the "unsurveyed" section, north and east of Butte Falls. There were five brothers who took claims up there, lived on and improved their places, proved up and are now living on "easy street."
    School Supervisor Peterson came out Tuesday, left his car and took the train for the upper country.
    J. L. Robinson, who is on a farm out north of here, about four miles, was in town Tuesday attending to business.
    The von der Hellen Hardware Co. received Tuesday five rolls (about thirty) of auto tires, so that we can all get tires to throw at birds.
    Since my last report George von der Hellen has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    On my trip to Jacksonville, Ed Mills and H. L. Young of Brownsboro, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Bishop and Swan Berquist of this section were on their way to Medford. On the return trip Mr. and Mrs. Bishop were accompanied by Mr. B.'s brother and wife of Washington, whom they met in Medford, and E. W. Lawrence of Talent, who spent the night here with us and went the next morning up to the Dodge ranch to do some grafting for him. Also Corbin Edgell came out with us and took supper at the Sunnyside.
    Roy Cobleigh, who is in the employ of the P.&E., is stopping at the Sunnyside, waiting on his sister, Mabel, who is sick with the grippe.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 23, 1916, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cornutt and niece, Doris Richardson, spent the weekend at the W. Houston home and attended the funeral of their cousin, Mrs. James Amick, at Antioch Monday.
    March has shown its changeable weather during this week.
    Among the Central Point visitors this week were Tobe Raimey, George Fry, E. E. Ash.
    Grandpa Houston and his sons, Jack and Will, and their families attended the funeral of Mrs. James Amick at Antioch Sunday. Mrs. Amick was a granddaughter of Grandpa Houston, and her many friends here sympathize with the relatives in their sad bereavement.
    The dance at Trail was well attended, but the boys, all except one, failed to bring any lunch, so we conclude the boys are all such good cooks they do not wish the girls to find it out.
    W. H. Crandall received the sad news of the death of his brother Bert, in Los Angeles. Mr. Crandall visited his brother W. H. and made a number of friends here.
    Dr. Kirchgessner was in Medford Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 27, 1916, page 3


    Last Tuesday evening there was a spelling contest between the fifth to eighth grades of our school and the grownups. The children had a very decided advantage over the grownups, as they had been drilling on the list of 1000 words for some time, but the contest was quite spirited and the children held their own up to the very last.
    An amusing incident occurred is the course of the contest. Miss Taylor gave out the word "rational," and as quick as a flash the little hands went up with the exclamation that the word was not on the list. She had made a mistake and pronounced rational instead of national, and the children had the words so well memorized that they detected the change in a moment. The result was at the end of the contest that among the children, Misses Nellie Coy, Helen Holt, and Stella Betz and Master Rolland Stowell remained, while Dr. W. W. P. Holt was left along among the adults. They ruled out all who are now engaged in teaching, but admitted some who have been engaged in that profession. Everything passed off very pleasantly and no doubt the contest will be of lasting benefit to the children and may stimulate the older ones to rub off the rust and revive some thoughts of our youthful days.
    Harry Lofland, one of the candidates, was out Wednesday trying to influence the people to vote for him at the primary for sheriff.
    Lee Farlow of Lake Creek came out Thursday, took dinner with us and went on out to Medford on the P.&E. to have an ulcerated tooth treated.
    S. P. Mathews of Butte Falls came out Thursday and stopped off to see Dr. Holt with regard to his troubles.
    Corbin Edgell was among the business callers Thursday, and so was A. N. Hildebrand. He was out introducing himself to the voters of our town as one of the candidates for the nomination for county clerk. He seemed to make a very favorable impression while here. While he was in Butte Falls one of the voters asked him if he was a lawyer, if he had ever held office, etc., and wanted to know all about him.
    R. F. Robinson camped here Thursday night with his family. He was from Siskiyou County, California, on his way to the Gresham school district to teach. He had traded for a farm in Siskiyou County, and last winter the snow fell six feet deep on his land, so while the snow is going off he is going to teach school and thus utilize his time. He has a wife and seven children.
    A. F. Brown of Medford came out Friday and took the Eagle Point-Persist stage for Elk Creek, where he is going to do some surveying on the old Tucker place.
    Carl von der Hellen, Richard Thomas, Sam Courtney, George Austin, the Eagle Point-Climax mail contractor and carrier, and Ed Walker were here for dinner Friday.
    The Eagle Point basketball team was to have gone over to Applegate to play against the Applegate team Saturday, but the continued storm has been such that Professor W. O. Wheeler, the leader of the Eagle Point team, notified the Applegate folk that they would not come at that time, but some time in the near future. And he further told me that the people of Applegate were very much hurt on account of the statement made in the article to which I referred a short time ago, and that there was the kindest of feeling on their part toward the citizens of Eagle Point.
    J. P. Hughes, one of the leading business men of Butte Falls, and S. P. Mathews, also of Butte Falls, came out from Medford Friday evening, spent the night at the Sunnyside and Saturday morning took the P.&E. for Butte Falls.
    G. W. Wheeler, recently from Massachusetts, where he went intending to remain permanently, but found the winter too severe for him, called on his son, Professor W. O. Wheeler, on his way to Fresno, Cal., last Friday.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tungate of Butte Falls, March 23, twin boys, Dr. Holt reports.
    John Owens of Wellen was smiling on his friends here Saturday morning.
    I noticed eight rolls of wire fencing on the depot platform this (Saturday) morning for Lemon Charley of Brownsboro.
    Among the arrivals on the P.&E. this morning was William Grieve, our county assessor, and a very prominent candidate for the nomination for sheriff at the primary. He stopped off just long enough to shake hands with about a dozen friends who met him at the depot and went on up to Butte Falls. J. Terrill of Talent was with him, but he stopped off here and went to the Sunnyside and so did E. W. Leaming, also of Talent. Also J. J. Conway, a salesman representing Peet Bros. Co. of Kansas City, Kan., Miss Pearl L. Gould, who is teaching in the Antelope district, and J. J. Spitzer.
    Six months ago F. J. Ayres, who owns a fine farm on the Eagle Point-Derby road, took a notion to make a change in his paper and ordered, through me, his Daily Mail Tribune discontinued and paid me for a year's subscription to the weekly, and last winter I saw him and he said that he thought that he had missed it in making the change, but he would let it go for a while, but today he called on me to make the change and paid me the balance, $4.25, over the 75 cents he had paid on the subscription to the weekly, making it $5, and took his receipt for a year's subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune--a sensible move.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 29, 1916, page 3


    Last Saturday Chris Bergman, who lives on the old ferry road, was in town getting signers to a petition to the county court asking for an appropriation to have another bridge put across Rogue River about where the free ferry has been located. I do not know what success he had, for when he was at the Sunnyside I was out on the street looking for Eaglets and subscribers for the Mail Tribune. But it looks like an immense undertaking to try to get the county court to order another bridge across Rogue River, especially when the taxpayers are so hard run for money to pay the taxes we have to pay now. Although there seems to be some grounds for complaint, as there is quite a number of citizens along the route from where the road leaves the Eagle Point-Dodge-French bridge road to the end of the county road at the old ferry stand. It seems to me that a better plan would be to get up a petition to locate a new road, beginning at a point where the present county road crosses Indian Creek, and go up Indian Creek and have it intersect with the road running from Derby to the McLeod bridge and then have a mail route established starting from Eagle Point, as it does as present, go to Derby and then instead of turning around and coming back over the same route, go on from Derby over the new road past the Judge Neil property, down Crowfoot Creek about two or two and a half miles and intersect the new road down Indian Creek, and by that means there would be a number of settlers accommodated with their mail that now have to go from three to ten miles for it. But then the objector says there would be the expense of opening up another county road, and that would cost so much that we can't afford it. Well, can we afford to have some sixty or eighty of our citizens deprived of the use of the mails or forced to go such a distance to get their mail to save an additional tax of a few cents? All that would be necessary at first would be to survey out the way and legalize it as a county road. And I think that the people living on the route would gladly donate work enough to make the road passable; and, in fact, they, the people who are living on that proposed route, have not been used to good roads in the hills and would hardly know what it meant to find one up there, for if the road from here to Derby of to the ferry stand are taken for a sample, one would suppose that they would not be much disappointed even if the road was not first class.
    Monday, E. F. Scharf of Portland, representing the Fidelity-Phoenix Insurance Co. of New York, and G. A. Resh, also of Portland, representing the London Assurance Co., England, were here for dinner, although both of these companies are represented by our banker, J. V. McIntyre.
    Thomas Ragsdale of Lake Creek and Charles Manning of Peyton, and Thomas Riley were here for dinner, and Mr. Ragsdale and Scott Claspill of Butte Falls spent the night with us.
    J. E. Gaines and Mrs. D. W. Myers of Brownsboro came out on the P.&E. Monday and were met by Mr. Myers and went up home the same day.
    J. W. Brainerd was a passenger on Tuesday on the P.&E. on his way to Butte Falls to superintend the construction of a fish hatchery in Big Butte Creek.
    I noticed that the train crew put off twenty empty cream cans at the depot Tuesday morning, and that is but a "drop in the bucket" compared with the amount of business that is done in this section in the creamery business. In my next I will try to throw a little more light on that subject if I don't have too many other things to take up the space.
    Fred Findley, one of our citizens, has gone to Idaho and thought when he left that he would soon send for his family.
    Lou Walch of Wellen was in town Tuesday exhibiting one of his fine horses.
    Mrs. J. A. Miller of Lake Creek, E. N. Palmer, an orchardist of Central Point; I. R. Kline, fruit tree inspector of Jackson County; Karl Moltzner, recently of Portland, but now settling in the place recently purchased of Thomas Riley by Mr. Hitchcock, but now purchased by Mr. Moltzner. He expects to move his family onto the place soon.
    Charles Seafield of Lake Creek was here for dinner Tuesday.
    Wednesday morning Mrs. H. L. Young of Brownsboro and Mrs. Ethel Stickel of Gold Hill came in on the P.&E.
    Claus Charley of Brownsboro came in on Wednesday morning and took out the balance of 600 rods of wire fencing for his father, L. C. Charley.
    Dave Ashcraft, Jr., and wife, representing the Saxon automobile, and H. F. Brown and wife, representing the Studebaker automobile, were here for dinner Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 30, 1916, page 5


    Steve Smith visited his father, William Smith, of Medford and sister, Mrs. Abbott, of Sams Valley this week.
    Miss Mima Hannah spent several days with her brother, Jasper Hannah, and family.
    Jasper Hannah and family were Beagle visitors Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller were visiting relatives here Friday and Saturday.
    The Harnish teams were dragging the road on the east side of the river Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Houston were valley visitors a few days ago.
    Frank Houston returned to Central Point Wednesday after a few days spent with home folks.
    Among the valley visitors this week were Mr. and Mrs. W. Houston, Mrs. M. Middlebusher, E. E. Ash, Clarence Middlebusher, Ed and Miss Ida Cushman.
    At the recent telephone meeting of Trail line No. 16 it was decided to rebuild the line from Table Rock to Central Point. Each shareholder is to put up eight posts and poles.
    Over a hundred head of Bowers' cattle passed en route to the valley Thursday. Bowers, Jr., H. Carlton and two other helpers were driving them.
    V. Brittsan took some fine bacon to Eagle Point a few days ago.
    Verna Mathews and wife and Alvin Conover and family have been visiting relatives near the ferry.
    Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mathews were the guests of the Bradshaw family last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 3, 1916, page 3


    Mrs. J. R. Seiler of Butte Falls came out and went to Medford to have her eyes treated and came out this far on the P.&E. and spent the night with us, taking the morning train for her home Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reed, who have been spending the winter in Seattle, Wash., returned to their home on Osborne Creek Thursday
    F. G. Thompson, the Lake Creek postmaster and merchant, came out Thursday and went on to Medford. While here he took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did C. A. Chapman, one of Medford's businessmen. He was out here representing the Singer Sewing Machine Company and the Baldwin Piano Company.
    Roy L. Maule and family were also with us Thursday. Mr. Maule is one of the candidates who is aspiring for the nomination for the office of county treasurer, were also at the S.S. for dinner Thursday. Carl von der Hellen also was with us at the same time.
    Thomas F. Nichols of Lake Creek and Mr. Martin of Brownsboro spent Thursday night with us.
    Friday morning Ed Dutton, our road supervisor, went up and opened the county road leading up to Round Top. It appeared that Mr. Butler had bought a large tract of land, the old C. C. Beekman tract, from Benton Bowers and had the tract fenced so as to close the road leading up to the old Nichols place now occupied by Benj. Brophy, J. F. McPherson, et al., and complaint was filed with the county court and so the work had to be done. Ed says that he took the gate off of its hinges and threw down the fence that was obstructing the road.
    G. A. Harth, who has been up to Portland a good part of the winter acting as a juror in the U.S. federal court, returned Friday and went out to his farm about two miles southeast of here. He formerly lived in Umatilla County and was drawn as a juror while living there and the authorities hunted him up and had him go to serve in Portland.
    L. F. Engall, one of our traveling salesmen, representing the American Woolen Mills of San Francisco, was here Friday showing his goods and taking orders for suits.
    Quite a number of our young men went up to Brownsboro Friday night to attend a dance. Among them were William and Harry Lewis, Frederick R. Heath, Frank Haselton, Sherwin Hamilton, Graydon Childreth, T. Taylor and Bobbie Harnish. Rollie took the seven young men up in his Ford and reported that they had a very pleasant time, accompanied by a big feed, but these big feeds are getting to be so common they scarcely attract any attention.
    The enterprising citizens of Eagle Point school district commenced Wednesday morning with their teams, plows, fresnos, etc., to level off the school ground and fix it up for a baseball ground and otherwise beautifying the ground and on Thursday the ladies brought in a basket dinner for the men who worked and I heard one man say there were victuals enough to supply half of the people in the town. But they, the men, did a good job and in addition to leveling off the ground they took the grandstand that was standing over the Jonas field down and put a part of it up and are getting things in shape to have a pleasant time here this summer. The arrangement is to have a game of baseball tomorrow (Sunday) between the Talent team and Eagle Point boys.
    I see that I omitted to state in my last that W. E. Hammel had renewed his sub to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Saturday morning the P.&E. brought out almost a full carload of goods for our merchants, Geo. Brown & Sons, F. L. Heath, von der Hellen, Roy Ashpole, and Geo. Daley, beside a lot of household goods for J. F. McPherson, among which was a furnace for his new house that he is building. Also quite a lot of goods for Frank Lewis' confectionery. Rev. W. E. Smith was one of the passengers and Mrs. L. J. Young of Spokane and her two children who were on their way up to Lake Creek to visit old-time friends.
    Mr. Swan and family, formerly of Klamath County, but who has been spending the winter here, started Saturday for his old home.
    T. W. Osgood, one of our civil engineers, was out Saturday to see Frank Brown on business and he and Frank Smith took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Our daughter, Hattie, and Miss Claire Zimmerman, our assistant p.m. chief operator in the telephone office, took the P.&E. for Edsall's crossing Saturday.
    Since writing the foregoing Prof. A. J. Hanby, one of the Republican candidates, called on me to let me know that he was a candidate and to get acquainted as we had never met before. He feels quite hopeful in his undertaking
Medford Mail Tribune, April 3, 1916, page 5


    Community day at Eagle Point, April 27, promises to equal in interest and general attendance a similar event held in the Applegate country last year, when 3000 people, including the governor of the state and other notables, enjoyed the spectacle. Professor W. O. Wheeler, whose plan was rendered excellently on the occasion, is at the head of this event this month in the Eagle Point district. Thirty schools have been invited to participant and it is believed, from the interest already manifested, that the greater number of them will join in making the occasion the greatest of its kind ever held in Southern Oregon. County School Superintendent Percy J. Wells and Rural School Supervisor E. R. Peterson are assisting very generally in enlisting the aid and interest of many schools. They report unusual encouragement in every district so far visited.
    State Superintendent Churchill will come down from Salem to attend community day at Eagle Point.
    The forenoon will be devoted to the details of the school meet. The outline for this feature was prepared by the University of Oregon with a special view of helping all of the pupils instead of the already proficient few. A cup will be presented to the school with highest honors, instead of the individual member of some school.
    A great picnic dinner will be enjoyed at noon.
    Free-for-all sports will occupy the afternoon. Liberal prizes will be given. Entertainment is to be provided for the evening, the school superintendent and school supervisors cooperating.
    A complete program will be issued soon.
    Professor W. O. Wheeler is the leader in staging the event and is receiving encouraging assistance from many quarters.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 7, 1916, page 4


    A family by the name of Swanson has moved into the Egenburg place.
    Last Saturday while I was on my rounds I met N. German, the manager of the old Dr. Laidlaw orchard, and he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Dr. Laidlaw has sold the orchard to a party in Portland but I have failed to learn the name of the purchaser.
    Sunday morning broke bright and clear and it proved to be a lovely day, but what is the use of talking about lovely days in Southern Oregon for it has proved to be one of the most lovely spots on the American continent where we have no extremes but everything is simply grand. But I started to say that with the arrival of spring weather with its sunshine and gentle breezes the crowds begin to arrive and in many instances pass along up the creek and up Rogue River to fish or simply have a picnic dinner and enjoy the cool, fresh air and in some cases stop here in town for dinner and then take a ride in their autos up country, cross Butte Creek or Rogue River and take a spin through some of our fine little valleys and get themselves revived up, after the arduous duties of town or city life. Among the twenty-four who took dinner at the Sunnyside last Sunday were B. U. Young and daughter, Miss Susanna, Miss Robinson the public librarian of Medford, Mrs. Austin and Miss Evans of Hillcrest Road. Miss Susanna seemed to be proud of her old-fashioned name for she said that was her grandmother's name, so she had a right to be proud of it. After dinner they took a ride around the country and by the time they reached home had seen some of the most lovely parts of Rogue River Valley.
    Ed Montague, who has been working for J. L. Ragsdale, returned to his room at the S.S. Saturday night.
    The Talent baseball team came up last Sunday and played against the E.P. team and the game stood neck and neck up to the end including the ninth inning they stood 5 to 5, so had to play another inning, but by this time Frank Abbott the E.P. pitcher had about given out as he had not practiced pitching, so they put in Jake Jonas as pitcher, and as he had formerly played with the Talent boys knew just how to strike his balls and the result [was] they made a big run on two different strikes, and the result was the score stood 6 to 11 in favor of Talent, but they all had a good time and there was a good feeling existing between the two teams when they separated for their homes.
    Monday morning I took the morning car for Medford and after transacting a little business paid my respects to the Mail Tribune office and about 10:45 went to the Baptist church to attend a meeting of the Rogue River Ministerial Association. There was quite a number of men and a few women in attendance and one would suppose that where such a body of men, especially a body of ministers, were assembled to transact business that there would be some conformity to parliamentary rules, but there seemed to be a serious defect in that respect. About the first thing after I entered was a call for a report of committee on the standing of the candidates for the different offices, and one old gentleman arose and walked forward and commenced to read from a paper the report and began by saying that Mr. A., B., C., etc., had been appointed as a committee to inquire into the character of the different persons who had announced themselves as candidates, etc., and that they had unanimously agreed on the following report, but about that time Mr. A. jumped to his feet and remarked that he did not know that he was on that committee, and then another arose and made the same kind of statement and thus it went but finally the chairman of the committee began to read the report and he or rather the committee had picked out those who they thought would fill the bill, going over this eliminating those they did not think would fill the bill and when he was about through with the list of candidates for treasurer a lady behind me asked if Myrtle W. Blakely was not a candidate for county treasurer and the aforesaid chairman remarked yes, but we don't want her, and by this time the political teapot began to steam up but the chairman finally finished his report and then the question came up as to what was to be done with the report. A man made a motion to adopt the report and then the jangle commenced, for the individual candidates each had their friends, and first one would have his say and then another. Mark you, as yet there had been no second to the motion and it had not been seconded and it had not been announced by the chair, until finally someone discovered that there was no second to the motion and then another man made a motion that we expunge the whole from the record and that motion was promptly seconded and the chair called for the vote by the uplifted hand, but that was not satisfactory to those who favored the adoption of the report so a division of the house was called for, but right here there arose another trouble in "camp," for the question was raised as to who was permitted to vote and it was decided that none were except those who signed the constitution and paid up their dues, then the secretary read a list of those who were delinquent and a man jumped to his feet and said that he knew Brother ------ had paid his dues for he lent him a half a dollar to pay it with and that he had paid his at the same time and then the secretary discovered that he had read the wrong list, but finally the rising vote was taken to have the whole report kept off the record, and there were four stood up and then the negative vote was two stood up so it appeared that there were but six members who were really members of the association. Thus ended the morning session of the association and we went to lunch. In the p.m. I had business elsewhere so will have to depend on someone else to report the proceedings.
    County School Supervisor Peterson was over Monday and he and Prof. W. O. Wheeler were out arranging to have a grand field meet here April 27, when they expect to have a big feed and lots of fun.
    Harry Lewis, Norman Zimmerman and Al Clements started for Klamath County Tuesday, to work in the lumber camps.
    J. M. Wilfley and wife, owners of a large orchard northeast of here, came in Tuesday on the P.&E. and went direct to their farm, but while here gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. They have been spending the most of the winter and spring in Los Angeles, Calif.
    Thomas Grigsby of Ft. Klamath passed through here Tuesday morning on his way home.
    There were quite a number of the young men crossing the mountains via Fish Lake route for Klamath County this spring.
    Benj. Brown and C. B. Hamlin of Medford were here for dinner Tuesday and Mr. H. reports that fishing is remarkably good in Butte Creek.
    Mrs. Ed Pence of Applegate is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. Wm. G. Knighten.
    Miss Claire Zimmerman, who has been taking a layoff for a few days visiting friends near Butte Falls, returned Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 7, 1916, page 6


    I omitted to say in my last that Mrs. A. J. Florey, who has been up to Roseburg to visit her mother, Mrs. Chauncey Nye, returned on Tuesday and reported that her mother was greatly improved and on the road to recovery.
    Mr. Harth, who bought the Harry Carlton place, returned from a trip to California Tuesday.
    William Dezner and wife left here last Tuesday for Idaho.
    Mrs. George B. Brown of Brownsboro came out on the stage last Wednesday, took dinner here and went on to Medford.
    Frank Lewis and J. T. Zimmerlee, who have been mining on Evans Creek, returned home last Wednesday.
    There were sixteen of the best spellers of the Agate school who came over last Wednesday and spelled against the Eagle Point school, carrying away the laurels by a small margin. A more profitable exercise than basketball!
    J. A. Carpenter and wife came out from Medford last Wednesday, went out to W. H. Crandall's, remained until Friday and came to Eagle Point to say farewell to some of their many friends here. They expect to start for Indiana by the last of next week and spend Sunday in San Francisco en route.
    George W. Trefren, of Ashland, the grand warden of the grand lodge of the I.O.O.F. of Oregon, came out Thursday. He was accompanied by C. E. Hooper, who was trying to rustle up some new subscribers for the Medford Sun, and W. W. Usher, of Ashland. They came over to meet the two lodges of I.O.O.F. and Rebekahs here. Mr. Usher had a stereopticon with him and showed some fine views. There were none admitted except members of the two lodges. But those who were there report having had a fine time. They had one of their famous big feeds and the next morning Charley Hooper was unable to eat any breakfast, but the rest of the guests ate their regular quota.
    Don't forget that April 27 is to be a holiday among the schools of Jackson County as I am informed that Superintendent Wells has so arranged as to give all the schools in the county an opportunity to come to Eagle Point to the big track meet on that day. There will be all kinds of amusements and the state superintendent of schools is to be here, and there will be some good speaking, as it is to be a high day among the schools. There have been thirty invitations sent out to that many of the schools to be present, so come and join the happy throng.
    Last Friday, April 7, we had a spelling contest in our school that was quite spirited as there was a prize offered for the victor in the final outcome. The eighth grade averaged 95.2 percent; the seventh grade 92; the sixth 95 percent; and the fifth grade 79. In the eighth grade there were six who made 100 percent. They were Adin Haselton, Theo Florey, Nellie Coy, Verta Grover, Fay Ferry and Estella Betz. And in the sixth grade Helen Holt, Nora Childreth and Ethel Winkle. These spelling matches are waking the children up and getting them to aspire to something better than mere sports so much of the time, and I think that if the schools would drop off some of the frills and adopt some of the rules that we has sixty years ago it would be a benefit to the children, and have contests in spelling and arithmetic, history, etc. And I am not alone, for I find that many of the teachers agree with me on these lines.
    Last Thursday I took a little spin out to William Perry's and took dinner. He is on the old Haselton place and has changed the appearance of the entire place, had the inside of the house repainted and cleared out some of the shrubbery, etc., and planted the most of it in alfalfa and it looks fine. While I was there he had me sent the Daily Mail Tribune, as he wants "all the news all the time." He has over 1000 fence posts that he expects to use in fencing the tract of land he traded for of the Smith brothers.
    While I was there there were some twelve more for dinner whom I failed to meet, but I heard my wife remark that she did not look for more than seven or eight here for dinner, and that there were twenty. But that is the experience of the hotel keeper.
    The next Friday we had M. E. Root, who in interested in Producers' Fruit Company of Medford, F. S. Bromwell, J. B. Pettingill of the Oregon-Utah Sugar Company, of Grants Pass. They said that they were here the day that I was away from home. They were quite optimistic over the sugar beet prospect. B. L. Mitts, a civil engineer, and his two assistants, Mrs. M. Stevens and James Matthews, were also here for dinner Friday. They are surveying the route of the P.&E.R.R. and making a correct map of the road.
    J. L. Ditsworth and his stepdaughter, Miss Ila Lytle, drove in Friday night and Saturday morning drove to Medford. Miss Lytle is on her way to Nebraska, where she has a position to take charge of a telephone office, and Mr. D. was after a load of freight for James Grieve of Prospect.
    Messrs. Cobleigh and Umphry of Derby shipped a fine lot of mohair by Saturday's train.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bateman came out Saturday on the P.&E. to visit their daughter, Mrs. Hurd.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 1916, page 5


    Miller was too much for Eagle Point, holding them to seven scattered hits, while Gold Hill bunched their hits in the seventh and ninth, scoring three runs in each inning.
    Neither side was able to score until the seventh. Abbott of Eagle Point and Miller of Gold Hill pitching shut-out ball.
    Miller weakened in the eighth, but tightened up after E.P. scored one and retired the side in short order.
    The feature of the game was a triple play by E.P. in the fifth inning. With a man on first and second Upton knocked a screaming liner and Ashpole speared it, catching Stout and Miller off the bases.
    Batteries: Gold Hill, Miller and Eddings; Eagle Point, Abbott and Lewis.
    Score by innings:
    E.P.-------0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0--1
    G.H.------0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3--6
Medford Mail Tribune, April 12, 1916, page 4


    Last Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Daily Mail Tribune I met Mr. and Mrs. Harth, their son Charles and daughter, Mrs. Tauscher, and her two baby girls, twins. They have arrived lately from California and appear to be just the kind of people we want to fill up the vacancies in our neighborhood. They have gone to work to improve their place by bridging a stream that runs through their place that has been there for the last forty years a constant menace to travel on account of the mud, and blasted out with powder a large rock that stood just on the side of the road so that one passing with a rig would have to run over the side of it, so that now we can drive through the place with some satisfaction. We would be glad to have two or three hundred more families of the same makeup settle in our community.
    Mrs. Van Quigley and Henry Daily of the Hillcrest orchard called for supper Saturday eve.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Irwin of Prospect motored out from Medford Saturday afternoon, and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Lew Smith and wife and N. W. Slusser took supper with Mrs. Howlett the same evening.
    Rev. Carl Felts, recently from New Jersey, but formerly a missionary from Peking, China, came in last Saturday to visit his brother-in-law, sister and niece, the Calkins family, and on Sunday morning he lectured on China and the work in that country in the mission fields, and at night he gave us another lecture along the same lines. He is a very pleasant speaker and told us many things about that wonderful country that was new to us "American heathens." He tool his departure on Wednesday morning via Harnish's auto route so as to catch the 10:30 train for San Francisco. He expects to return to his charge in Pekin in a short time.
    The Calkins family and Rev. Felts took dinner at the Sunnyside on Sunday.
    On Sunday we had quite a crowd at the Sunnyside for dinner and supper both. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. F. J. McPherson, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Young, Mrs. J. B. Jackson and son James, J. V. McIntyre, wife and sister, Miss Alice; Mrs.Wm. von der Hellen and son and Ray Cobleigh for dinner or lunch, and for supper his honor, Judge F. L. Tou Velle and wife of Jacksonville, C. W. Hudson and Lester Hudson of Portland, Lester, Guy and Willis Davis and Misses Gay, Jessie and Ethel Webb of Tolo, besides several of our townspeople of the young people that just drop in for a meal occasionally. There were altogether about fifty took dinner and supper here that day.
    The Talent team came over and played against the E.P. team a game of baseball, and carried off the laurels. The game was very close up to over half way through as neither team made a score but finally the Talent team made a run and made six points and then the E.P. team made one and thus it stood 6 to 1 in favor of Talent. But the boys have a lot of sport and a good time and the best part of it is they always take their defeat good naturedly, as there is no grudging about the defeat. There was one little accident of mishap; the ball was struck and was what they call "a fly," and it came over the grandstand and one of John Greb's sons was sitting watching the ball and it came directly to him and struck him in the face just below the eye knocking him senseless and the Talent catcher jerked off his mask and caught the boy before he fell from the seat. He bled very profusely at the time but was not seriously hurt, as his father told me that he ate his breakfast the next morning. The reader will understand that I was not there and have to give my reports of Sunday ball games and the dances from hearsay.
    Monday I took myself a spin to Medford and treated myself to two pairs of spectacles as my old ones were too young for me. Mr. Elwood did the work and now I can read much better than I could before. It rained so much that I did not run around town much but spent most of my time sitting in some house of other.
    Tuesday was quite a busy day here as there seemed to be quite a number of people in town and one of them was Lee Farlow and Wm. Martin. They had motored in from Lake Creek country for some of the necessities of life, for Mr. Martin had been burned out on Sunday and lost about all that he had. He was living on the Tom Kenny place, but I did not get the particulars of the fire any further than that there was no insurance on the house or barn and they both burned.
    J. A. Howard, who has a homestead on the free ferry road, was also in town that day and while here renewed his sub to the W.M.T., and I also can report that Pete Young renewed his sub to the Daily Mail Tribune since my last report.
    F. D. Hill of Derby sent out two small sacks of mohair on the P.&E. Tuesday and our depot agent, F. T. Newport, sent out a coop of White Wyandotte hens that he purchased of A. E. Strong. He seems to be making a specialty of the White Wyandottes. They are beauties.
    The P.&E. railroad seems to be doing a good business this spring as the little motor car seems to be loaded about all the time and there is quite a number of passengers on the regular car each time it passed through here.
    F. M. Stewart and wife returned from their trip to Los Angeles Tuesday, but I have not seen either of them and am not prepared to state with regard to his health.
    A. G. Bishop of Ringwood orchard and his wife were in town Tuesday afternoon. They brought in their cream for shipment, but I have not the space to comment on the creamery question, as my letter has about reached the limit.
    Since my last Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Mitts, the civil engineer, who is making a map of the P.&E. railroad, and his two helpers, M. Stevens and James T. Mathews, all of Portland, have taken rooms at the Sunnyside.
    I am glad to be able to say that Mrs. David Cingcade, who was given up to die in the Sacred Heart hospital about two weeks ago, is at home and says that she feels better that she has felt for years. She is helping to do the housework. A modern miracle.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 14, 1916, page 4


    Last Wednesday, April 12, L. H. Osgood of Trail, who is in charge of the Elk Creek fish hatchery, came out to meet the head manager of the fisheries of the state to take him up to Elk Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Mitts, M. Stevens and James Matthews of Portland, who have been stopping at the Sunnyside for a few days, started up the line of the P.&E. railroad to continue their work of making a correct map of the entire route of the road to Butte Falls.
    Thos. Riley, Jr., and Carl Roberts are engaged in repainting the school house.
    In writing up the names of the pupils in the sixth grade who made 100 percent in the spelling contest I unintentionally omitted the name of Fern Lewis. She is one of our brightest little misses and will someday make her mark in the world.
    Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Deardorff, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows and Mrs. Huldeating of Kansas called on Mrs. Howlett for dinner Thursday and J. R. Cain and C. E. Wilcox, recently from California, came in at the same time and took rooms at the Sunnyside and C. A. Newstrom and Will Newsbaum of Lake Creek also were among the callers Thursday. A little later in the day, but in time for dinner, that irrepressible booster, Ben C. Sheldon of Medford, came in as hungry as a starved hound, accompanied by J. Carl Aller of the U.S. Weather Bureau, temporarily situated in the Rogue River Valley, and Prof. F. C. Reimer, who is in charge of the Talent experimental station. They were making a trip all over the valley studying conditions as to the weather and frost problems preliminary to making an exhaustive frost survey of the valley. U.S. government authorities have become interested in the question of the frost and weather problem in this valley through the efforts of Benj. C. Sheldon and through his efforts have secured the cooperation of the O.A.C. in the movement. He is one of the live wires when it comes to doing things. They left here for Sams Valley to see what they could find in that part of our renowned valley.
    Thursday night J. C. Herring of Central Point, one of the candidates for assessor on the Republican ticket, was with us and the next forenoon canvassed the town, getting acquainted with the voters. He seemed to have made a favorable impression while here.
    Mrs. Charles Pruett and her daughter, Miss Mabel, called Friday afternoon.
    Friday morning I saw William Winkle and Young Wooley going over to Frank Brown's farm on Dry Creek to commence putting in fifteen acres of sugar beets. I tell you Frank is one of our hustlers and if there is anything in the sugar beet business he will come out on top.
    Wm. Hoeft of Lake Creek was among the business callers Friday and Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade and their daughter, Mrs. George R. Singewalt of San Francisco, Cal., and Mrs. Cingcade's father, Grandpa Moore, were guests at the Sunnyside Friday. Mrs. Cingcade was in the Sacred Heart hospital and on the 10th inst. she was brought home here in an auto, got out of the auto and walked to the house and yesterday came up to the Sunnyside, and after dinner walked over to S. H. Harnish's and visited a while and this Saturday morning was doing her housework. Are the days of miracles past? Her daughter, Mrs. S., started this afternoon for her home in San Francisco.
    Miss Brown, one of the national lecturers of the W.C.T.U., will lecture in the Baptist church of this place on Saturday night and Sunday, April 22nd and 23rd, and illustrate her lectures by stereopticon views and on Saturday afternoon will lecture on the moral problems of the children. She is a lecturer of national renown and can interest anyone that wants to be interested.
    B. F. Billings and wife and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ralph Billings and B. F. Holman of Ashland, and Thomas Kenny were here Saturday. They had been up on Little Butte Creek above Lake Creek to appraise the loss sustained by Mr. Kenny on account of the burning of his house and barn. From what I can learn the house took fire and the roof from sparks from the stovepipe or flue and there was no one except Grandma Kenny home, and she was sitting out on the porch and did not discover the fire until it was too late to save anything. Mr. Kenny carried small insurance in the Hartford Insurance Company that will help him along that much.
    The frost thus far has done no damage in the section and the prospect is that we will have the biggest crop of all kinds of fruit that we have had here for years.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 17, 1916, page 6


    The program for the Community Day and School Meet will be ready for distribution this week.
    In the meantime all plans are being made for the comfort and pleasure of the large crowd which is expected to be present. The school meet will begin at 10 o'clock at the school grounds and it is planned to have something doing every minute from that time till night. About thirty schools have been asked to participate and teachers in the surrounding districts have already begun to send in the names of those to take part in the various classes.
    Nearly fifty dollars in cash and merchandise have been subscribed by the merchants of this place and Medford to be given as prises for the free-for-all sports in the afternoon.
    Friday being Arbor Day, the first period in the afternoon was spent on the school grounds, pruning the trees, removing the mistletoe, raking the track and marking off the new tennis court. The older boys also moved the basketball goals from the opera house to the school grounds,; the girls raked and marked off the court. The second period was devoted to a little try-out athletic meet.
    Adin Haselton and Theo Florey have been selected to represent the school in the final county spelling contest. They were chosen after a series of written and oral contests from among the ten pupils making 100 percent in the first county contest.
    There is some talk of having a community cleanup day in the near future.
    The work of painting and repairing the school house is progressing nicely and will probably be completed by the last of this week. The school board is to be commended for these much-needed improvements.
    The Eagle Point State Bank has purchased a beautiful silver cup to be presented to the winning school in the meet on April 27th.
    Messrs. Quackenbush and German were here Wednesday with their teams getting the track worked down for the meet and dragging the new ball grounds.
    Alvin Greb, who was struck by a foul ball at the game Sunday, is back to school again.
    A wiener roast was given last week in honor of the basketball teams, all members of the Boys and Girls Industrial Club also being invited to be present.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 17, 1916, page 6


    Last Saturday night, April 15, there was quite a number of our young people went to Brownsboro to attend a dance, and those with whom I have talked say that they had a fine time and a good supper.
    Mrs. R. G. Brown, wife of one of our leading merchants, went to Medford Saturday to attend a meeting of the Eastern Star, of which she is a member.
    Harry A. Young and James Jackson have gone to Klamath Falls to work in a flouring mill.
    The Central Point and Eagle Point ball teams played here last Sunday and this time the Eagle Point team won out, the score standing 8 to 7. There came up a little shower of rain just about the time they were through playing, and then there was a general scattering of the people for shelter and wraps, as there was quite a number of the ladies who had nothing heavier than their white shirtwaists. There were two of them who had walked from the Stevens and Bradshaw places, but they obtained wraps from one of our boarders, as Mrs. Howlett and Hattie were away at the time and I knew but very little about the whereabouts of the women's wraps, but I proposed to let them have a bed quilt apiece, as I thought that that would keep them both warm and dry.
    The school board has had, in addition to the painting of the schoolhouse, the stone wall under the building wainscoted and painted, and new steps put at the doors, greatly improving the appearance of the building.
    Miss Helen Yockey, the bookkeeper in the Medford Publishing Co. office, her mother and a lady friend whose name has slipped my mind, were out Sunday for a ride and stopped here for dinner.
    The subject of the culture of sugar beets is being discussed again, and Joseph Riley, who owns a farm on Antelope Creek, has concluded to put in about three acres as an experiment. The necessary amount of beet seed has arrived and those who are in the business are putting in their crop.
    A. G. Bishop of the Ringwood orchard came in Monday with his mohair and sold it to George Brown & Sons, realizing 42 cents a pound. L. M. Nelson of Prospect also brought his mohair for the same firm. Frank Brown told me that they had shipped about a ton on Tuesday. E. J. Culbertson also brought in a lot of mohair and several beef hides.
    Grant Mathews has just shipped in 480 rods of wire fencing from Portland, and J. B. Andrews has purchased a large lot of wire fencing from the von der Hellen Hardware Co. There seems to be quite a lot of fencing going on out this way this spring.
    I am glad to be able to announce that our townsman, F. L. Health, has secured his license to practice pharmacy in this state. He was in the drug business in Michigan and had his license before he came here, but was turned down last year, as that seems to be a kind of universal law with the pharmacist and M.D. board of Oregon to turn down at least the most of the newcomers.
    The promoters of the track meet or community day meet have had large posters struck off and are scattering them broadcast over the country, announcing what a fine time they are going to have on the 27th of April in our little town. And they say that they expect to have a thousand people here on the occasion, as they have invited over thirty schools to come and participate with us on the occasion. And I understand that there is to be a teachers' convention here next Saturday, the 22nd, when all the male teachers in the district are expected to attend.
    I see the bills are out for a ball game here next Sunday between Tolo and Eagle Point.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Tuesday for Butte Falls were five strangers, Scott Claspill and our daughter Hattie.
    There seems to be considerable demand here for lumber since the new lumber yard was established, for I noticed quite a number of wagons loaded with lumber of different kinds going out to different parts of the country.
    Since my last report S. F. Coy has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T., and so has Corbin Edgell, one of our leading orchardists.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 21, 1916, page 6


    A family by the name of Calkins, who came in here last fall, started for Roseburg the first of the week.
    J. O. Kerth, a traveling salesman for Fisher's flouring mills of Silverton, Ore., was with us Tuesday.
    Mrs. Chauncey Nye of Prospect, who has been visiting her relatives and friends in Roseburg and was taken sick while there, had recovered and returned to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Etta Florey, of this place.
    Mrs. W. O. Wheeler, wife of the principal of our school, motored to Wagner Creek Wednesday, taking with her Theo Florey, Adin Haselton, Miss Fay Perry and Miss Helen Holt to witness a spelling math between some of the best spellers in the valley. They are considered among the best spellers in our school here and take pride in their work in that line.
    T. Miller, Pete Boyden and Pug Wilson were here for dinner on Wednesday on their way up the creek to survey and locate some short irrigation ditches. Mr. Miller was the chief engineer.
    James Kershaw of Climax came out Wednesday and brought his own and E. M. White's mohair. They sold it to a man in Jacksonville, but I did not get the name. They had about 1500 pounds and realized 42 cents a pound. And Mr. Dan Foeller, John Cooper and George Austin, the mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Climax route, brought in their mohair and sold it to Geo. Brown and sons, realizing forty-three and a half cents. I understand that they are paying a higher price for mohair this spring than has been paid before for the past thirty years.
    Messrs. C. C. Cate, county pathologist; J. C. Aitken, fruit inspector, J. C. Alter, weather observer, were all with us Wednesday.
    Andrew Meyer, Mr. Bateman and his daughter, Mrs. E. Hurd, came out from Medford Wednesday and T. F. Nichols of Lake Creek went in to Medford on the same car.
    I see that Wm. Perry has started his wood saw again, sawing up a lot of wood for our railroad agent, F. T. Newport.
    Messrs. B. L. Mitts, M. Stevens and James Matthews, the three men who have been engaged resurveying and making a map of the Pacific & Eastern railroad, were with us Tuesday night and Wednesday for dinner and finished their job and by the time this is in print will be on their way home in Portland.
    Wednesday night Mike Sidley of Lake Creek and his two sisters, Julia and Helen, spent the night with us on their way home from Medford, where they had driven from home and back this far. He says that he has not sold his mohair yet, as he doesn't like to sell while it is on the raise.
    George Frey of Lake Creek had four forty-rod bales of wire fencing come out on the train Thursday morning.
    Rev. Day went up to Butte Falls on the P.&E. Thursday morning.
    In order to settle a question of considerable interest we would like a little legal light on the following question: Can a person who has registered as a Democrat vote in the primary in May for a Republican whose name is on the Republican ticket. To illustrate: Mr. A. has registered as a Democrat and he wants to vote for one of the Republican candidates for sheriff, say William Grieve, for instance. Can he write in his name on the Republican ticket; will it be legal? There are several out there who are readers of the Mail Tribune who would be glad to have an opinion by Judge Kelly or Judge Calkins so that we can vote intelligently.
    J. B. Pettingill and Frank P. Anderson, who are associated with the Oregon Utah Sugar Company of Medford, were out here Thursday for dinner. A. N. Hildebrand and Joe Wilson, two of the candidates for county clerk, and J. B. Coleman, one of the candidates for assessor, were also here at the same time.
    The sad news came to us over the phone Tuesday afternoon announcing the death of Mary Ann Winkle, wife of William Winkle of this place. She was taken from here to the Sacred Heart Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and after an operation it was discovered that a blood vessel was ruptured and but little hope was entertained for her recovery. She passed away Wednesday, April 19. She was a native of this section, the daughter of the late Mr. Mayham. She leaves eight children, one of whom is married to Verna Mathews, and several brothers and sisters. The remains were interred in the Central Point cemetery April 21 and were followed to their last resting place by a number of her sorrowing friends. The sympathy of the entire community seems to go out for the bereaved husband and children. She was about 42 years of age.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 22, 1916, page 6


    Community day at Eagle Point, which will be Thursday, April 27, promises to be the largest, most enthusiastic and best-equipped school field meet ever held in Southern Oregon. Faithful preparation has been made for it by all of the many schools that will participate. Many features will be added that have not yet been included in the school field meets.
    The leading feature of the music for the occasion will be furnished by the Medford High School band, under the directorship of Professor J. W. Gressly.
    The competition for the silver cup will be the first event of consequence. It will begin at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and conclude at 12:30. All of the schools will compete for this silver trophy to be given by the State Bank of Eagle Point.
    The boys' classes are segregated by weight. The contests will include sprinting, jumping,"chinning," running jump, broad jump, 100-yard dash, standing broad jump, putting eight-pound shot, 440-yard relay race, throwing basketball from foul line, throwing basketball from fifteen-foot line.
    An old-fashioned picnic dinner will be enjoyed in the park.
    At 1:30 J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of public schools, will deliver the principal address.
    At 2 o'clock the cup will be presented to the winning school.
    Among the contests for prizes, cash and otherwise, which will be "pulled off" on that day are: Pie-eating, wheelbarrow race, crab race, sack race, tug of war, footraces by boys, girls and women, fat men's race, three-legged race, potato race for boys on horseback, auto obstacle race, auto egg race, auto bun race, nightgown race, tournament race.
    A baseball game at 4 o'clock promises an exciting contest between good valley clubs.
    Free moving picture show at the opera house, given at 7 o'clock by the Eagle Point Amusement Company.
    At 8:30 an all-night bonfire will be started and along with it will be enjoyed an all-night wienie roast.
    At the same hour also a dance will be open, with music by the Central Point orchestra.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 23, 1916, page 3


    Among the Sunday callers at the Bellows home were Professor and Mrs. Deardorff, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caster, Mrs. H. French and daughter Cora, Nye and Earl Mathews, Alex. Vestal.
    Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Albright spent several days in the valley. They bought forty goats and brought them home with them. They have 100 acres fenced and now have seventy goats clearing it.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hannah and son, Everett, were to the valley towns on a business trip.
    Among the Eagle Point visitors on Thursday were: Mrs. Gene Bellows, Alex. Raimey, Joe Hannah, Jr., Mrs. H. French and son Lloyd.
    Jesse Ragsdale was at Table Rock Thursday.
    Mr. Lemming of Talent has been pruning orchard on the Dodge and Theiss farm for the last fortnight. He spent Sunday with his old friend Tom Raimey.
    Schuyler Hammond and family moved to Medford to make their home.
    Mr. Edmondson of Sams Valley has moved his family to the homestead on the head of Long Branch.
    Frank Zuccula called on Edward Foster Sunday.
    Miss Ora Raimey is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. Frank Miller, Central Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 23, 1916, page 3


    This is Thursday morning and as I arrived from Wolf Creek and Cow Creek last night where I have been since last week I have not much of local interest to write, but will give what I have and promise to try to do better next time. Since my last Joe Wilson, one of the candidates for county clerk, and J. B. Coleman, one of the candidates for assessor, were here for dinner, and J. C. Herring, another candidate for assessor, has spent the night with us. He seems to feel greatly encouraged over his prospect and is making friends in these parts quite rapidly.
    Since my last report on the shipment of mohair George Brown and Sons have reported the purchase of 800 pounds from J. McAllister of Lake Creek, and 250 pounds from Mrs. Hessler of Brownsboro. I have not had time to look around for items of interest but just called up Frank Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown and Sons and he told me he had shipped about 1000 pounds of mohair since my last report and that all together there had been about 6000 pounds shipped. The farmers in the foothills are learning that by combining diversified farming and the stock business that will soon make them independent.
    Last Saturday the teachers' convention met here. There were about twenty teachers met. I have not been able to learn if there were any lady teachers took part or not, but my understanding was that it was to be strictly a men's club and that the ladies were to be excluded, but the gentleman who gave me what information I have received said that about all they did was t talk about athletics and high schools, but "did not get down to the work of our school unless it was on the subject of sports."
    We had a noted lecturer here the same day, Miss Brown, who is making a tour of the coast lecturing on the subject of moral training of the children. Her lecture Saturday afternoon was to the parents and she emphasized the importance of parents telling their children in early life the true facts in regard to sex questions before someone else told them in a vile and distorted manner. She claimed that the children were not safe as long as the other children in the neighborhood were not properly taught along the lines of good morals. She lectured again in the evening along the same line of thought, emphasizing particularly the necessity of children being kept clean, not only morally but in a line of body cleanliness.
    Last night about an hour after supper the following persons came into the Sunnyside for supper, beds and breakfast: W. W. Parker brought them out from Butte Falls and they had phoned down that they would be here so as to have everything in readiness: W. W. Parker, Miss Edith Fredenburg, Miss Gertrude Fredenburg, Miss Elsie Wright, Miss Wilma Morris, Miss Marguerite Sears, Miss Rubie Peelor, Miss Helen Abbott, Miss Helen O'Brien, Miss Millie Patton and Miss Ailene Mahoney. The two last named spent the night with friends, and the following young men and school boys came out from Butte Falls and camped so as to be on hand for the track meet today. Prof. Ray Parker, Lester Smith, Thos. O'Brien, William and Earlsay Cross [Earl Croft?], Lloyd Stanley, Glen Abbott, Merrel Stewart, Shirley Claspill and Charles Stewart.
    On Sunday at 11 a.m. she told the object of the W.C.T.U. movement and the struggles and trials that the leaders of the movement had in its early history, especially those of Miss Frances E. Willard, who worked so hard and so successfully in the early days of the movement and the result, the organization of the prohibition party and the anti-saloon movement and the glorious results; how the move was started by a few devoted Christian women who were not afraid of the scorn and jeers of the rabble and who trusting in God went on step by step until the move now encircles the entire globe, and now a man or woman who seeks for office is seeking for the help of the anti-saloon party. At 8 p.m. she gave another lecture treating on the subject of hereditary diseases, how they are transmitted from parents to children. Also told of the effect of the use of alcohol, tobacco and the social dance, illustrating each subject by stereopticon slides and wound up by cautioning the girls against the young men to become familiar in handling them in a dance.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 1, 1916, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gaines of Trail spent a couple of nights with Grant Mathews and family.
    Mrs. Thomas Raimey, Mrs. Jasper Hannah and Miss Odessa Hannah were Central Point visitors the first of the week.
    Messrs. Grieve and Rigor have sold their crop on the Nichols place to Mr. Whetstone of Medford. Messrs. Grieve and Rigor moved to Medford the first of the week.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Fry and Velma were Central Point visitors Tuesday.
    The field meet at Eagle Point Thursday was a very enjoyable affair. I heard many say they enjoyed it much better than a Fourth of July celebration. Four of the prizes were won in the Reese Creek district, besides the school winning the third place in competition for the silver cup. Misses Ellen Cabe and Hattie Johnson won a running race, Gene Bellows the sack race, and Visson Edward the crab race. Among those who attended from the west side of the river were Misses Tressie Pence and Ida Houston of Elk Creek Enid district; Misses Lou and Enid Middlebusher, Clarence Middlebusher and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gaines of the Trail district; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Houston and Sanford Houston of Long Branch district; W. Chapman and family of Antioch; William Houston and family, Ed Peile and Kathleen and Albert, Mrs. Fry and Velma of Central school; Jasper Hannah and family, Tom Raimey and family, Norman Gage, Perry Foster, Mrs. M. Foster and Mabel and Hildreth of Debenger school. The Reese Creek school and all of the parents were there, too.
    Mary Ann Winkle was born in Eagle Point March 17, 1916, and died in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Medford, April 19, 1916, aged 42 years, 1 month, 2 days. Mrs. Winkle has spent her life near Eagle Point. She was a loving mother, a good wife and a faithful friend, and her death leaves a vacancy that can never be refilled. She leaves a husband, William Winkle, eight children, Mrs. Nora Matthews, Charles Mark, Ida, Bertha, Mamie, Ethel and Glenn Winkle; one grandchild, Verta Mathews and aged mother, Mrs. Mayham, all of Eagle Point; two brothers, J. A. Mayham, Yreka: J. P. Mayham, Eagle Point; three sisters, Mrs. Ray Buckland of Portland; Mrs. Rosetta Wooley of Independence and Mrs. Lou Dowell of Seattle, Wash., besides many friends to miss her cheerful presence. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. I. Simmons of Eagle Point, and she was laid to rest in the Central Point cemetery. There were many beautiful floral offerings. There was an Easter picnic near Kelly's Island Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 2, 1916, page 5


    Last Thursday, April 27, was a high day in Eagle Point. Prof. W. O. Wheeler and wife with his two assistants, Miss Minnie Taylor, the intermediate teacher, and Mrs. Shesler, the primary teacher, and some considerable assistance from the business men and women of our community, succeeded in raising the necessary amount of cash and labor to prepare for communion day and school field meet. Although we had a shower of rain on Wednesday evening it did not seem to deter the people from coming and by nine o'clock a.m. they began to arrive on almost every kind of conveyance and by ten o'clock the sports began. The first thing of the list was a school meet for a silver cup, in which all of the schools in the vicinity of Eagle Point took part. The classes were divided into classes according to weight, the first class--class A--was composed of boys ranging from 50 to 90 pounds, fifty-yard dash; standing jump, min. 3 feet 5 inches; climbing pole, min. three times; the second--class B---consisted of boys ranging from 91 to 115 pounds, one hundred-yard dash, max. 16 seconds; standing broad jump, min. 4 feet five inches; running jump, min. 7 feet 10 inches; climbing, min. three times. Unlimited class, over 115 pounds, 100-yard dash, max. 15 seconds, standing broad jump, min. 9 feet 10 inches; putting 8-pound shot, min. 22 feet 6 inches; 440-yard relay, three from each school, one from each class. Then came the girls--class A--eight to eleven years of age. (The reader will notice that the weight was not considered)--forty-yard dash. Class B, 12 to 15 years of age, forty-yard dash. Then climbing, three times the min.; throwing basketball from foul line. Class C, above 15 years of age, forty-yard dash, climbing, throwing basketball from 15-foot foul line. That concluded that part of the contest for the silver cup. The condition was that the school that made the most points in the contest thus far was to have the silver cup, and the judges decided that the Eagle Point school had made the most and won the prize.
    From 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. was devoted to consuming dinner. But one hour would not begin to be enough time, for there was such a crowd that I did not get my dinner until after two o'clock. Notwithstanding it was given out that it was to be a picnic dinner there was such a jam at the Sunnyside that about 1:30 Mrs. Howlett began to send word to the people not to come as she could not feed any more, but they kept coming and by the time we, the family, got dinner it was after two o'clock. She estimated that she had fed one hundred people at noon and fifty at night for supper. One-tenth of the company who were at the Sunnyside for dinner were candidates for office, but I couldn't think of trying the patience of our good-natured editor by writing all their names in this letter. At 1:30 p.m. the state superintendent of public instruction spoke, but I did not hear him on account of my being busy trying to satisfy the cravings of the inner man. Nor did I see the presentation of the prize. From 2 to 4 p.m. was taken up with sports of all kinds, from a pillow fight to fat men's race, and a tournament race. At 4 p.m. the baseball game was called between the Jacksonville and Table Rock teams. It was a very interesting game, although the Table Rock team was handicapped on account of their pitcher being unable to be with them, and the Table Rock boys seemed to give up before they commenced. The score stood 8 to 6 in favor of Jacksonville. It was estimated that there was about 1000 people there and some estimated that there was 1500 but the most with whom I have talked on the subject place the estimate at from 800 to 1000. It will be a day long to be remembered.
    There was one prominent feature connected with the whole of the proceedings and that was that there was something going on all the time and everything on the program was carried out to the letter. There was not a jar or ripple but everybody seemed to be happy and bent on having a good time.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 3, 1916, page 6


    Since my last report, Rev. John Wesley Sharp, a Free Methodist, came out from Medford, took the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage for Elk Creek.
    Mrs. George Weeks and family also took the auto stage at the same time for the same place.
    Mrs. Bass, a San Francisco lady, has been here visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wilfley, but since that time Mr. and Mrs. Wilfley have been called to Salt Lake City, where he is engaged in business.
    Last Sunday we had the pleasure of having one of the Sabbath school classes of the Baptist church of Medford with us all day. They came out in the morning and met with the Sunday school in the church, attended preaching services in the forenoon, bringing their lunch with them, and had an old-fashioned picnic dinner along the shady bank of our beautiful Little Butte Creek, and in the afternoon roamed its banks. At about 5 o'clock dinner was served by the ladies of the church at the Farmers' Hotel and in the evening rendered what was supposed to be an Easter program, but was more like a foreign missionary meeting, but it was a very interesting entertainment, and some of the pieces rendered were fine, and perhaps all, but many of the children spoke so low that I could not hear what was said, but judged they were good by the way they were cheered by the vast audience, for the church was about full. To my mind, the piece rendered by Miss Pauline Johnson, representing the life of a China girl in her native land, describing the manner the girls are treated, and the little value placed on them, how they are destroyed by the father in many instances among the poor, and the torture the poor girls have to endure in the process of flattening their heads and compressing their feet. She spoke so that everyone in the house could understand what was said, and when she closed was cheered most heartily. The teacher of the class then read an article, "The Experience of Mary Magdalene," that was very touching. Miss  Haak, a member of the Eagle Point Sunday school class, was the only member of the class that took part in the exercises, and she recited a very appropriate piece on the resurrection of our Lord. Taking into consideration that out of the thirty-three girls--thirty-four, including Miss  Haak, there were none over about 14 years of age, they did remarkably well and we, citizens of Eagle Point, will be glad in the near future to give them a hearty greeting.
    Professor P. H. Daily and two or three others came along to chaperone the bunch.
    The same day we had with us L. A. Neil, Miss Ethie Davenport, Miss Angeline Neil and Mrs. Harold A. Lawrence of Ashland and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Foster and son, Day Foster, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wissing and son, Carroll Wissing. After dinner or lunch they went on up the stream to try their hand fishing.
    N. P. Hanson of Climax and son were here to spend the night since I last wrote.
    Sunday, April 30, the Eagle Point ball team went to Gold Hill to play ball and came home looking rather crestfallen, reporting the game as standing 19 to 1 in favor of Gold Hill, but the boys say that they had a very pleasant time, if they did get beaten.
    W. B. Chance, the mill inspector, was here this week.
    B. Klum, the advertising man, and his two assistants were here on May Day and on Tuesday he and C. D. McIntyre of Chicago were here again. He seems to be a busy man.
    Mrs. George von der Hellen is teaching the primary department, on account of Mrs. Ella Shesler, the regular teacher, being called away on account of the sickness of a relative.
    C. A. Newstrom, the road supervisor of Lake Creek district, was here for dinner the first of the week.
    Mr. Deardorff of Ashland was here Monday on his way out to Reese Creek, where his son in teaching.
    Since my last report Charles H. Toney of Derby has sold his mohair to George Brown & Sons and Mike Sidley of Lake Creek has sold his mohair to Ed Pottenger of Medford, price 44 cents per pound.
    John Thompson of Climax was in town Monday and so was Mike Sidley of Lake Creek; Adolph Bieberstedt and son, Rudolph; Russ Moore and wife of Lake Creek, and when they returned took his father, old Mr. Moore, with them to spend the summer. Tommie Dugan and his two boys were also in town.
    Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Bishop came out from their mountain home Tuesday to have Dr. Holt treat Mrs. Bishop.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 5, 1916, page 10


    Perry Foster, one of the old-time pioneers of Jackson County, was smiling on his friends in our town during the past week.
    H. H. Thompson, at one time apple king of the Pacific Coast, has been getting a lot of lumber and is having a new flume put across Butte Creek to irrigate his orchard.
    M. C. Mahoney of Butte Falls passed through here about the middle of the week, moving his son-in-law, S. M. Clevenger, and family to Talent, and in the meanwhile looking for a location for himself, and there was another family moved out Thursday.
    Dr. Wheedle, a veterinary from Ashland, has been among us a few days during the past week, working his line.
    John Singleton, one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists, was doing business in our town and reports the prospect never better for a bountiful crop of everything in the farmers' line.
    W. J. Gibson, engaged with the Chicago Portrait Co., has been here working his line.
    Miss Ethel Tucker stopped in the other day on her way to Medford and also on her return Friday, taking the auto stage for her home on Elk Creek.
    A. C. Edler of Lake Creek was with us Friday. He is engaged in changing the telephone line going up to Butte Creek along the county road, where a change has been made to straighten it just above town.
    William McLeod of McLeod, on Rogue River, near the upper steel bridge, was a passenger on the P.&E. for his home Thursday.
    Miss Anne Keliehor and Miss Kate Keliehor of Medford came out on the P.&E. Thursday and were met by their friends, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, and taken to their home.
    Thursday the P.&E. unloaded a full carload of freight at the Eagle Point depot and I heard the depot agent, J. F. Newport, remark to the manager of the road, G. E. Johnson, that there would probably be at least 100 cars of fruit shipped out of here this season. There is an effort on foot to have a packing plant established here, utilizing the old lumber yard building.
    Mrs. A. J. Hanby, wife of one of the prominent candidates for the nomination for school superintendent, was visiting in Eagle Point. Mrs. Hanby is superintendent of the county Sunday school institute for Jackson County. She was accompanied by Mrs. T. A. Howell, president of the county W.C.T.U. While they were here ostensibly looking after the interest of the county institute and W.C.T.U., they were not unmindful of the fact that Mr. Hanby was a candidate and that we--I mean all of us W.C.T.U. people--are very much interested in the selection of the sheriff and district attorney, one who will try, at least, to enforce the prohibition law of the state.
    Our daughter Hattie, who has been stopping in the hills near Butte Falls for the past few weeks, returned home Thursday, greatly improved in health.
    James Culbertson, one of the prosperous farmers of Lake Creek, motored into town Friday.
    In our school the children have been taking examinations and there seemed to be considerable uneasiness among them as to the result.
    C. G. Cameron, a traveling salesman for Wagner Oil, Tank and Pump Co. of San Francisco, Cal., was with us Friday, and so was Professor F. C. Reimer and his assistant, A. C. McCormack of the experiment station of Talent, making a soil survey of the Rogue River Valley, and are now, May 6, working in the Eagle Point region.
    E. P. Anthony, representing the Albany Tannery Co., and G. N Birkland, with Failing McCalman of Portland, and E. F. Slide of Salem, were all here Saturday for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 11, 1916, page 6


    Last Saturday evening C. V. Cummings, the manager of the Alta Vista orchard, called on me and gave his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Saturday evening the Lake Creek school gave an entertainment under the management of Miss Alma Gould, and those who were in attendance report that they had a very enjoyable time and that the children rendered their pieces very well.
    Henry Meyer and a part of his family of Lake Creek were out Sunday to attend the Catholic services in the church here and took dinner at the Sunnyside, and so did Mr. and Mrs. Royal G. Brown take dinner here, and later they went to Medford. A. V. Cummings, Joe Moomaw, Carl Ringer of the P.&E. force, Jed Edsall and John Foster of Edsall Crossings.
    M. E. Root and J. C. Brown, who are working on the interest of the Produce Fruit Company, Medford, were here Monday.
    John Owens and wife of Wellen motored over Tuesday morning bringing his sister-in-law, Miss Ida Bishop, and niece, Miss Ethel Bishop, so as to take the train for Edsall Crossing. They were accompanied home by John Foster and Jed Edsall. Miss Nina Sears of Butte Falls was on the same car and so was Miss Mabel Cobleigh and her brother Roy. Miss Cobleigh has been confined to the Sacred Heart Hospital for some weeks with an injured knee, but has so far recovered as to be able to go to her home below Butte Falls.
    Miss Grace Irene Brown gave an entertainment at the opera house last Monday evening. The weather was so inclement that she did not have as large an audience as she was entitled to, for those who were in attendance report that she gave some very fine renderings and readings. She is said to be a very fine elocutionist. Miss Brown was partly raised in this neighborhood and educated in our schools.
    Herman Meyer, the mail contractor for carrying the mail from here to Lake Creek, tells me that he has changed his schedule time for leaving Eagle Point from 1 p.m. to 10 o'clock a.m., to any time up to 1 p.m., so persons desiring to take passage on his auto stage will have to be on hand in time. He is one of the subscribers to the D.M.T who believes in keeping his subscription paid up, so renewed his on Tuesday.
    L. F. Trefren and son of the Rancheria country, beyond Butte Falls, called Tuesday for dinner on their way to Ashland, where he was going to move his family to his homestead. He has been living on a farm south of Ashland for some time, but has sold and has to give possession now, consequently the move this time of year. He says that the roads between Butte Falls and his home are almost impassable with a load. Two of his neighbors, sons of the late John Cook of that section, were here also at the same time.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Litts came in Tuesday a little late for dinner, and Mrs. Litts and little daughter spent most of the afternoon with us while he and Sam Harnish talked horse, but as they are both horsemen they did not trade, although Sam offered him two for one, but one was afraid and the other "dasn't."
    Frank Lewis and son William have purchased a new Ford, and I understand that he intends to start it as a jitney on the Eagle Point-Medford road. It looks like as though the jitneys and auto trucks were going to put the railroad companies out of business during the dry season, and then when the roads get so that they can't run, if the railroad put the screws to us pretty bad, will we have any grounds to kick? The way we have it arranged now we can get an auto to go to Medford or most any place about as cheap as we can go on the railroad, and I see that now, instead of shipping the milk and cream on the railroad that the creameries are sending out their auto trucks and taking the cream right from the producer, thus cutting the railroad out of that branch of freight--and still we wonder why the railroad people don't extend the P.&E. on to connect with the Oregon Trunk and open up the country, while at the same time we are encouraging every move that is made to retard the very development that we are calling for.
    Miss Grace Conley came in Tuesday on the car and went to the home of Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy.
    Mrs. Rufus Trusty came out on the Trusty auto stage Tuesday, and Wednesday went to Medford on the Harnish auto jitney.
    Mrs. Floyd Huff of Shion [Zion?], Idaho, a sister-in-law of Mrs. George von der Hellen, arrived Sunday to visit her sister and family.
    Mrs. H. A. Young, daughter of our townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson, started for Klamath Falls this (Wednesday) morning via Harnish's jitney.
    William Nickell, Charles Ayer and C. A. Newstrom of Lake Creek were here for dinner today.
    From what I can learn, the frost has done but little damage out in this section, and the prospect is good for a big crop of everything.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 13, 1916, page 6


    Geo. Adamson and family of Mist, Ore., arrived here Saturday and are thinking of settling permanently in the Rogue River Valley.
    Mr. and Mrs. Springer and A. A. Hall returned to their homes at the ferry this week, after spending the past year at Crawfordsville, Ore.
    Died--at Trail, Wednesday night, May 3rd, Clyde A. Wise, age 38 years. He leaves his father, John Wise, who resides at Trail, and a sister in Pennsylvania to mourn his loss. The funeral services were held at Trail cemetery Friday, Rev. J. E. McDonald officiating.
    Claude Moore, Jeff Pearce and A. Olson attended the funeral of Clyde Wise Friday.
    R. T. Willits made a trip to the Valley Wednesday, returning home Saturday.
    Ethel Tucker was a Medford visitor Thursday and Friday.
    Rev. Sharp of Medford held services at Elk Creek last Sunday. There was a good attendance and a nice time.
Gold Hill News, May 13, 1916, page 1


    Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek motored into town Thursday morning, transacted his business and was on his way home by the time some of us were out of bed. He gets up and moves while others sleep is the why he can run an auto.
    George Brown & Sons are beginning to receive their quota of the spring clip of wool.
    Charles Hoeft of Lake Creek was doing business with our merchants Thursday. Mrs. C. L. Farrar, also of Lake Creek, was also doing shopping at the same time.
    Miss Pearl Gould, who has just finished her term of school in the Antelope district, was with us Friday and later in the day was met by her sister, Miss Alma, and they two went on to their home in Medford.
    Earl Croft, who has charge of the J. H. Cooley orchard, and wife were in town and while here renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Henry Meyer of Lake Creek motored out Friday with pork and veal for the Medford market. He is another of our citizens who gets up and moves.
    Charles Terrill and brother, John, and wife, drove our from their home near Brownsboro Friday. Charley is a horseman and consequently sticks to his carriage.
    G. M. Roberts, one of the candidates for nomination for district attorney, came in Friday late for dinner, but is perhaps excusable for being a candidate. He had to join the crowd of candidates to do a lot of talking. J. Percy Wells was out the same day talking to the voters.
    Royal G. Brown, of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons, received a carload of wool from the Butte Falls section Thursday.
    Mrs. Bertha Lewis started from here for Lewiston, Idaho, Thursday.
    Miss Grace Conley, who came out a few days ago to visit her mother, returned to Medford Friday evening on the P.&E. motor.
    C. J. Seaman was in our town Friday and I understand that he was interested on circulating the petition for the recall of our county court. I did not meet him or see the petition, but was told that that was his business. I learned that W. W. Parker of Butte Falls has been circulating one of the petitions and has secured all of the registered voters in the precinct except two, but if there is a petition being circulated I have been unable to find out who it is or the grounds of the complaint that the petition is based upon, but was told by one who claimed to have seen it that the complaint is the unlawful use of the county funds. I don't see why the advocates don't publish the charges so that we, the voters, can investigate for ourselves.
    J. S. Quackenbush and family motored into town Friday and were attending to business at the P.&E. depot. The word came to me yesterday (Friday) that the P.&E. had unloaded a lot of iron south of the depot, and that aroused a feeling of curiosity in the minds of several of our citizens as to what kind of iron it was, and we began to see visions of new tracks, an extension of the road up into the timber beyond Butte Falls, and possibly connection with the Oregon Trunk, so I rushed off to learn the cause of the excitement and learned that the company was just gathering up a lot of old iron that was scattered along the railroad for future use. While I was at the depot the accommodating agent, F. T. Newport, renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. The next morning (Saturday) I again visited the depot and met Mrs. Hunsaker of Eugene, on the way to the Hensley orchard to visit her brother-in-law. I also met that indefatigable worker, Ed Dutton, the road supervisor for this road district. He was there with his team to unload a carload of culverts to be used in this and the adjoining districts. He is engaged now opening up a new road between the land belonging to the Rogue River Land & Irrigation Co. and the Dutton, old Joe Rader and the Brown and von der Hellen places to connect with the Central Point-Wellen road.
    J. H. Harth and son, Charles, were shopping in Eagle Point Saturday morning. J. H. has just returned from Redding, Cal., where he had to leave his auto last winter, but he brought it home with him this time, but was surprised to find such cold weather, for when he left here some weeks ago it was warm weather. Speaking about the weather, or rather frost, from what I can learn there will be an abundant crop of fruit left, although in some of the low places the frost has done considerable damage.
    Mrs. E. N. Deardorff, wife of Professor Deardorff, who is just closing his school on Reese Creek, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Fred Deardorff of Ashland, called for dinner here Saturday and took the Harnish jitney for Medford. They are moving to Ashland to make that place their home.
    J. H. Terrill and F. G. Thompson of Lake Creek were here for dinner. Mr. Thompson reports that the excitement is increasing over the discovery of copper on Lake Creek and that about all the government land has been staked off in mining claims.
    While I was on my rounds today I saw William von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, and he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and also secured a subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune from George H. Stowell.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 16, 1916, page 5


    Harry Howard and family returned home from Klamath County last Saturday. They have spent the last ten months there.
    A. A. Hall and daughter, Miss Clara, of Willamette Valley, are here for a short time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Richardson of Central Point were Trail visitors on Thursday.
    Jasper Hannah made a business trip to Medford the first of the week.
    Norman Gage and Ray Whitley and family autoed to Persist Monday and were the guests of Ezra Whitley and family for the day.
    A number attended the dance at Beagle Saturday and enjoyed themselves.
    Among the Medford visitors this week were Edward Foster, Lloyd French, Albert and Robert McCabe, Bird Johnston, Mrs. Gage, Perry Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston.
    George Fry and family were Central Point visitors Saturday.
    The dance at E. L. Roundtree's was well attended, and a fine time was had last Saturday night.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, 1916, page 3


    Last Sunday was rather a quiet day in Eagle Point, as many of our young folks went to Brownsboro to attend a dance Saturday night, and consequently done some sleeping during the day. Still Rev. L. L. Simmons, the pastor of the Baptist church, had a larger congregation in the forenoon that he has had at that hour for some time, and preached about one of the best sermons he has preached here for a long while. His sermon was on the interest taken by mothers in their children.
    We had quite a number of transients here that day, among whom were W. E. Crews and wife, Miss Alice Forbes, B. F. Forzes and Inez Wheeler of Medford, R. G. Brown, wife and daughter, Miss Hazel, and Wm. Mitchell, William von der Hellen, wife and two children, of Eagle Point; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bates and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bates of Medford; Mrs. L. A. Haselton, Mrs. E. Kline, Mrs. M. Arnold, Master F. G. Haselton and F. K. Flynn of Medford, and E. M. Morrison. Mr. Flynn is connected with the Medford Electric Co. of Medford, besides three men whose names I did not learn.
    Last week we had our annual eighth-grade examination in our school and the following named pupils posed and received their diplomas on the following grades: Miss Ethel Riley, 89; Miss Nellie Coy, 87.3; Verta Grover, 87.2; Adam Haselton 91.5; Estella Betz, 85.1; Theo. Florey 89.3; Carlyle Narwick, 86.4; Fay Perry, 89.6. The commencement exercises were had in the opera house on Tuesday evening, when the following program was given: Piano solo, Carl Quackenbush; roll call of graduates, and in response each one responded with a quotation from Shakespeare. A recitation by Loretta Truelove; class song, "Voice of the Woods"; class will, Adin Haselton; valedictory; "America, My Native Land," piano solo. Then followed an address by George A. Briscoe, superintendent of the Ashland schools that was rather unique, as it was strictly in a class to itself, apart from the old, worn-out rut. He took us back to our boyhood days forty to sixty years ago, when we had tho old log schoolhouse with the large fireplace instead of a modern heater, with the old blue-backed Webster speller and the little blocks to have us drill, drill on the ABC's for a long, tedious school term, learning to spell Ba, Be, Bi, etc., and then turned the picture and presented the modern schoolhouse with its modern seats, blackboards, heaters, etc., and the little child learning to read and going through three or four books before they take time to learn the alphabet. He then spoke of the great advancement made in all of the arts and sciences, drawing the contrast between the old methods when he, as a boy, went with his father to town twelve long miles away with a load of wheat, and did not know what it was worth until he reached the buyer, contrasting it with the modern way by telephone inquiring the price in the morning, load up the wheat on a motor truck, go to town and get back by early dinner, and wound up by reading an extract showing the wonderful advancement made in every avenue of life, and told the children how this was all brought about by work, push and perseverance, finally addressing the class of graduates in a short, complimentary lecture, urging them to keep on climbing and striving for higher attainments. At the close of the address Professor Wheeler, the principal, with a short address presented each member of the class with the diploma. The exercises closed with a violin solo by Vaughn Quackenbush. There was a large attendance and most everyone seemed to be in a good humor when we adjourned.
    Monday morning Professor P. J. Wells, county superintendent, and wife, accompanied by Earl Kirkpatrick, assistant dean, extension division University of Oregon, Eugene, motored out and stopped here and picked up Misses Mildred and Ellen Dugan to take them to Derby to have Miss Mildred take part in the spelling contest there. She went to represent the school west of town, known as the Givan school district--I have forgotten the name and number of the district.
    B. R. McCabe was one of the guests at the Sunnyside Monday, looking after the voters. He made a good impression out in this section. In the afternoon he, accompanied by one of our townsmen, William G. Knighten, took a spin up on the north and south forks of Little Butte Creek and saw quite a number of the voters. But by the time this is in print the agony will be over, with a majority of the seekers of public favor, at least for the next two years.
    Andrew Grissom of Lake Creek, Frank Miller and C. R. Wilson, agent for the Overland auto, of Medford; Miss Vera Kershaw of Climax, Mrs. Myrtle W. Blakely, one of the candidates for county treasurer; James Cronemiller, another candidate for county treasurer, and his son, D. H. Cronemiller, were here for dinner on Tuesday, and Wednesday we had our popular county clerk, George Gardner; George Launspach, one of the Republican candidates for assessor, and wife, and Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Hines, Wig Jacks and Benjamin Brophy, two of our leading stockmen, and A. H. Peachey of Ashland and William Ferguson of Central Point, here for dinner.
    Mrs. Ed Hanley was out to see the voters, accompanied by Mrs. Phoebe Angle Platt, and in their rounds called on Mrs. Howlett. They were working for the candidacy of Mr. Burton for the presidency.
    We are well supplied now with jitneys, for Frank Lewis and son have put on a car, S. H. Harnish has decided to make two trips each day, except Sunday, so now we can go to Medford at most any time, morning or afternoon, if you have the necessary half dollar or the credit.
    Speaking of Sam Harnish, he is among the subscribers to the D.M.T who has renewed since my last report, and so has B. H. Brophy renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. Henry Jones, who has been visiting her parents, William C. Daley, and wife, of Lake Creek, passed through here Tuesday on her way to her home in British Columbia.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abbott, May 16, a boy baby.
    R. R. Minter was doing business with our merchants Tuesday.
    Little Bertha Winkle, daughter of William Winkle, fell off a fence Monday and broke her arm.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 19, 1916, page 5


    Professor E. N. Deardorff closed his school in the Reese Creek school district Wednesday, the 17th, and had a very interesting time, as there was a spelling contest between that and some of the other schools, and then to cap the climax had a spelling contest, the children vs. the old folks, which resulted in the old people coming out second best. After lunch, a picnic dinner, they spent a while in athletic sports, the most interesting part of which was a basketball game. The professor's family had already gone to Ashland before he closed his school and he was on his way to his home there when he stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday and gave me the foregoing items.
    Speaking on the subject of schools, since my last our school board has met and re-employed Miss M. Taylor to take her old place in the intermediate department, and Mrs. Shesler for the primary department, and have conditionally employed Professor Wheeler, the principal, the conditions being as follows: If the people of the district, at the annual election, will vote to establish and maintain a high school department, they, the board, will employ Professor Wheeler and his wife at a salary of $175 a month, but if the people vote against a high school then Professor Wheeler is to receive $1000 for the nine months. That is $110 per month, making a total in the first instance of $325 a month, or if the people vote down the high school proposition then they will pay $261.11 a month for the three teachers, making a difference of $63.89 per month, or of $525. There is a strong feeling in the district against the high school move as well as against paying the price that has been and is proposed to be paid.
    The graduating class, eight pupils, and the other six of the pupils of Professor Wheeler's room gave the professor a surprise party on the eve of the 17th; ice cream and cake was brought in and the children report having had a very enjoyable time.
    On Thursday, the 18th, Professor Wheeler and wife motored over to Applegate, taking with them the two boys and the two girls who had the highest grades in their examination, to wit, Adin Haselton and Theo. Florey, and Miss Fay Perry and Miss Ethel Riley. Although the weather was not what one would like for a picnic, still they report having had a very pleasant time and a large crowd in attendance.
    Last Thursday Joe Parker, the ticket agent for the P.&E. Railway Co., of Medford, and A. L. Hammel, traveling agent for Wells Fargo & Co., were at the Sunnyside for dinner.
    F. E. Fender, the present owner of the orchard known as the Laidlaw orchard, of San Diego, Cal., has been here a few days in this neighborhood looking after his interests. While here he has been the guest of F. M. Stewart.
    Ed Coy, one of our hustling young married men, who had gone to housekeeping, gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. He and his good young wife want to keep posted as to what is going on in the world and consequently have subscribed for a live paper.
    Since my last report George Brown & Sons have bought wool from Mr. Trusty of Trail, George Owens of Wellen and W. F. Butler of Eagle Point.
    W. E. Butler was in town Friday circulating one of the recall petitions and late in the afternoon reported that he had between eighty and ninety names on it.
    A. J. Mitchell, one of the Christian Science healers of Medford, came out Friday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade. He is the man they give the credit to for her recovery to health.
    Benj. H. Brophy, one of our enterprising stockmen, was in town Friday, and while here had me change his subscription from the Weekly Mail Tribune to the Daily.
    While in town Friday, J. Marsh Garrett of Lake Creek and H. L. Carlton of Wellen, two of our leading citizens and stockmen, took dinner at the Sunnyside and renewed their subscriptions to the Weekly Mail Tribune, and Saturday morning Jed Edsall of Butte Falls, who has been in town attending to business for the past few days, gave me his subscription to the D.M.T Times are so hard that people are looking in every direction to find some new avenues that will open up to prosperity and are beginning to learn that in order to keep up with the business world they must read and see what is going on in the world, and so they are subscribing for the Daily Mail Tribune and thus get the news of the world in a condensed form.
    Among the passengers Saturday morning to Butte Falls were N. B. Stoddard, the Butte Falls hardware merchant, and wife, on their way home, and Mrs. Royal Brown and her daughter, Hazel. Mrs. B. went in Friday afternoon to attend the commencement exercises of the Medford high school. Miss Roberta Pearce and Miss Gladys Natwick, who have been attending the Medford high school, were also passengers on the car for this place.
    Saturday noon G. N. Birkland of Medford, representing Failing McCalman, hardware merchants of Portland, and M. W. Matthews of the Pure Oil Co. of Minneapolis, were here for dinner.
    Our election passed off pleasantly and everybody seemed to be in a good humor, although there was serious disappointment on the part of some of our citizens who were working for W. T. Grieve.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 24, 1916, page 3


    Report of school field and track meet, Eagle Point, April 27, 1916:
    Name of school, place won, average and best individual record.
    Boys' class, unlimited--Eagle Point first, 13¼ times, Car; Liberty second, 12 times; Lake Creek third, 8 times. Carl Quackenbush, Eagle Point, 27 times.
    Class B--Lost Creek first, 8⅓ times; Reese Creek second, 8½ times; Antelope third, 8 times.  Tyranno Ragsdale, Lost Creek, 14 times.
    Class A--Eagle Point first, 8 2/11 times; Liberty second, 8 times; Antelope third, 6 times. Truman McClellan, Eagle Point, 18 times.
    Girls--Class A--Central first, 6 times; Eagle Point, second, 3 times; Agate third, 2 times. Gwenn Houston, Central, 11 times.
    Girls--Class C--Liberty first, Reese Creek second, Agate and Antelope tied for third. Miss E. McCabe, Reese Creek, 3 times.
    Class B--Antelope first, Liberty and Reese Creek tied for second, Eagle Point third. Margaret Riley, Eagle Point, 3 times.
    Boys--Class unlimited--Liberty first, 7 feet 8 inches; Eagle Point second, 7 feet 6 inches: Lake Creek third, 6 feet 11 inches. Ellsworth Stowell, Eagle Point, 8 feet 3 inches. Reese Creek second, 6 feet 11 inches; Antelope third, 6 feet 10 inches. Lawrence Baker, Eagle Point, 7 feet 7 inches.
    Class A--Eagle Point first, 5 feet 9 inches; Lost Creek second, 5 feet 6 inches; Lake Creek third, 5 feet 6 inches. Vernon Meyer, Lake Creek, 6 feet 11 inches.
    Boys--Class unlimited--Liberty first, 34 feet 5 inches; Eagle Point second, 28 feet; Lake Creek third, 26 feet. Baxter Bradshaw, Liberty, 34 feet, 5 inches.
    Boys--Class unlimited--Liberty first, 13 feet 4 inches; Eagle Point second, 13 feet 1 inch; Lake Creek third, 11 feet 1 inch. Ellsworth Stowell, Eagle Point, 14 feet 4 inches.
    Class B--Eagle Point first, 12 feet 3 inches; Antelope second, 11 feet 8 inches; Reese Creek third, 11 feet 1 inch. Harold Van Scoy, Eagle Point, 13 feet 9 inches.
    Eagle Point first, Ellsworth Stowell, Harold Van Scoy, Lloyd Cingcade; Antelope second; Reese Creek third, L. Pettegrew, Hattie Johnson, E. McCabe.
    Boys--Unlimited--Eagle Point first, Ellsworth Stowell; Liberty second, Baxter Bradshaw; Elk Creek third, ------ Miller.
    Class B--Eagle Point first, Harold Van Scoy; Antelope second, Lester Bradshaw; Lake Creek third, Lloyd Colby.
    Class A--Lake Creek first, Vernon Meyer; Agate second; Reese Creek third, E. Bellows.
    Girls--Class C--Reese Creek first, C. McCabe; Eagle Point second, Fay Perry; Antelope third, Miss Winkle.
    Class B--Reese Creek first, Hattie Johnson; Eagle Point second, Fern Lewis; Antelope third, Miss Bradshaw.
    Class A--Eagle Point first, Joyce von der Hellen; Lost Creek second, Thelma Morgan; Antelope third, Miss Grigsby.
    Number of schools reporting 12; number of schools tubing part, 9; total number of points, 174; points in each event, 9, first 5, second 3, third 1. In case of tie in third place, 1 point is counted for each; in second place, 2 points for each.
    Result by schools--Eagle Point, 59 points: Liberty, 33; Reese Creek, 24; Antelope 21; Lost Creek, 11; Lake Creek, 11; Central, 11; Agate, 5; Elk Creek, 1.

    With "Bobby" Pelouze in the box, Eagle Point easily won from Gold Hill Sunday by a score of 8-4.
    Hitting the ball with men on bases, coupled with some costly errors by Gold Hill, won for Eagle Point, while Pelouze pitched steady ball and received good support from his teammates.
    Miller struck out 7 and Pelouze 10. Eagle Point plays at Central Point next Sunday and is anxious to schedule games with Medford and Grants Pass.
    Batteries: Eagle Point, Pelouze and Montague; Gold Hill, Miller and Eddings.
Score by innings:
Medford Mail Tribune, May 25, 1916, page 3


    R. E. Peyton and wife passed through here the first of the week on their way home near Prospect. They had been out to attend the commencement exercises of the Medford high school.
    Mrs. John Rader and her son-in-law, Harvey Stanley, motored into town Saturday in her new Chalmers.
    Last Sunday was a busy day in our little village. The Gold Hill baseball team came in to meet the Eagle Point team in a game and there was quite a crowd of the friends of each team gathered to witness the game. It was a hard-fought contest and for some time the game stood one to one, but finally a change took place and the final result was that the E.P. boys won out, the score standing 4 to 8 in favor of Eagle Point. The great trouble with the E.P. team seems to have been on account of their pitcher, Frank Abbott; although he is considered a good pitcher, he is at work on a farm and consequently has not the time or the opportunity to practice, and that is one of the essentials in a ball pitcher, but last Sunday they had their old pitcher, Bobbie Pelouze. He had just come home from Stanford University, California, and was already trained for almost any part of the game and I heard some of the boys remark that he threw a "stunner of a ball," and the result was they began to get back onto their old standing,for the E.P. boys when they are properly lined up are some ball players.
    Last Sunday was also a busy day at the Sunnyside, for although Mrs. Howlett had no reason to expect any more than perhaps a few of her friends in for dinner, there seemed to have been a concerted action, for there were between 50 and 60 took dinner with us and among them were Mr. and Mrs. Fender, recently of San Diego, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McPherson and son, Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols, Mrs. T. F. Boltz and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and two children, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown, wife and daughter, Miss Hazel, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brown, Mr. Bert Bryant and daughter, Geo. Lewis, Mr. C. A. Knight and his foreman, Mr. C. V. Cummings, Mr. John Frick, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze and son Robert, Mr. Raymond Reter of Jacksonville, besides a lot of young folk whose names I did not know, but they all had their appetites satisfied and went away in a good humor.
    A man and wife by the name of Martz have moved into one of the houses owned by James Owens.
    Joe Stickel of Gold Hill has been up here visiting his daughter, Mrs. Jake Jonas.
    Since Frank Lewis has started his jitney he has had a telephone put in his confectionery store so that people having business in his line can call him up on the phone.
    Rev. Gammon, the pastor of the Presbyterian church of Butte Falls, spent Monday night at the Sunnyside on his way home to Medford.
    Died, in Ashland, May 21, Mr. J. W. Abbott, aged 76 years. The deceased leaves ten living children and about forty grandchildren, besides a host of warm friends. He has two grandchildren in our town, Frank and Leslie Abbott, and several in Butte Falls.
    C. A. Knight has been making a change in the management of his culinary department and has arranged with Mrs. Howlett to feed part of his men for the time being.
    Monday morning early the crowd of people from all parts of the upper country began to arrive and pass through to see the grand parade for the Robinson circus and later witness the performance, but there was comparatively few who went from here.
    Miss Estella Betz, who went to Medford Monday reports that an old resident of the Butte Falls country, Mr. Moore, passed away Sunday at the hospital in Medford and that the remains were taken up on the P.&E. railroad on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Austin, two of his old neighbors, followed the remains from Medford to their last resting place.
    Rev. L. L. Simmons, the pastor of the Baptist church of this place, who has been living in Medford so as to send his daughter to high school, returned to his home here Monday.
    R. R. Minter, one of our leading stockmen and farmers, was in town Monday on business.
    Henry Meyer of Lake Creek was having some repair work done at the Childreth blacksmith shop Monday, getting ready for his hay harvest.
    Our orchardists are putting in a force of men to thin out the fruit that the frost has left. The trees are simply loaded with fruit.
    I have been living in this neighborhood for the last 48 nine [sic] years and have never known of a crop failure in the Rogue River Valley yet.
    Although the people have been telling all the while of the havoc the frost, the drought, and other visitations have done, and I am still loath to believe that the damage to the fruit has been half so bad as the pessimists would have us believe.
    Miss Ruth Thomson of Derby is the guest of Miss Claire Zimmerman at the Sunnyside Hotel, Eagle Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 25, 1916, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Daley and their daughter came out from Medford on the P.&E. last Tuesday, and Mrs. Frank Neil was on the same train on her way home near Derby. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Austin were on their way to Butte Falls to attend the funeral of one of their old neighbors in the unsurveyed country, years ago, Mr. John Moore.
    Tuesday evening I received a summons over the telephone ordering me to be at the court house in Jacksonville at 2 o'clock p.m. Wednesday as a witness in the case of State of Oregon vs. W. E. Butler and accordingly I started about 12 with Thos. E. Nichols, another witness, reaching there on time, but as the case was not called that p.m. had to go back again in the morning of the 25th, and after the jury was empaneled and five witnesses were examined the prosecution discovered that a mistake was made in the indictment and the case was dismissed, so we probably will all have to be called back in another suit. I noticed while I was at the county seat that the most of the jurors were fine, intelligent-looking men and that speaks well for the representatives on Jackson County.
    Last Thursday we had with us E. R. Peterson, our school supervisor, and he was accompanied by L. J. Allen of the extension service preparatory college at Corvallis, and C. P. Barkman, who has been spending a few weeks in Butte Falls, but who arrived a short time ago from Princeton, Ill. They were out rounding up the eighth grade pupils of the different schools in the county.
    N. W. Slusser, our town barber, has got to be quite a regular visitor at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Ruth Nichols, daughter of Mrs. E. O. Nichols, of Medford, who is now on a visit to Pennsylvania, came out Wednesday with her uncle, John Nichols, and is alternating between her two uncles and the rest of her relatives in this section.
    Dan Maegly, wife and Mr. and Mrs. George Maegly and daughter, Miss Lelah, and Donald Karnes, of Rogue River, have been visiting here with their aunt, uncle and cousins, the Frank Lewis family.
    Everett Dahack had put on another jitney on the E.P.-Medford route. That makes three jitneys on that route with the P.&E. running two round trips a day. It looks as though we would be able to go to Medford almost any time, but I predict that the last jitney will last quick and Mr. S. H. Harnish seems to have the run of the trade in that and the livery business and Frank Lewis is well known and is in business, and between them two with all the side help they receive and the popularity of the P.&E. railroad one would think that a third jitney would stand a poor show, especially when there is not enough business to justify the keeping up of one good machine.
    Wm. Nickell and D. T. Patrick were here for dinner Friday and before Mr. Patrick left town he renewed his sub to the W.M.T. and Mrs. Ed Tucker has also renewed her sub to the W.M.T. They are both of Brownsboro, and C. E. Hoyt of Fort Klamath has also sent the cash to renew his sub to the W.M.T.
    Geo. Brown and Sons have bought wool from R. H. Broadshaw since my last report.
    Delbert Meyer and family motored through town Saturday morning on their way to Medford and W. E. Hammel and wife also drove over to Medford the same morning.
    Edgar Ford of Butte Falls took the P.&E. for his home Saturday morning, but was so sick that he could hardly get on the car and then the conductor held the train for a few moments while a friend went to the drug store for something to relieve him. Mrs. S. M. Hawk and her daughter, Mrs. H. L. Vandermark, were on the train on their way to the Hawk home near Butte Falls, where they are to have a family reunion Sunday, having all the family, consisting of father, mother and eight children, together. Miss Agnes Allen of Derby was also on her way home and so was Mrs. Benj. Edmondson Jr. of Butte Falls, and Mr. Couey of Derby, and E. A. Hildreth, also of B.F.; he was just returning form the county seat where he had been to help count the votes of the late election.
    H. M. Brown, of Iowa, came out on the P.&E. and went to the Sunnyside to be met by one of his old-time friends, D. T. Patrick, whom he expects to visit for a few days.
    Mr. Kline, the fruit tree inspector, Mrs. Herman Meyer Jr. and Miss Alma Gould were guests at the Sunnyside Saturday for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 30, 1916, page 5




    Green Mathews, one of our leading farmers and stock raisers, was in town Wednesday on his way to consult an eye specialist. He was trimming the knots off a fish pole and one struck him and came near putting his eye out. While here the subject of blight came up and he remarked that he had got rid of all the fruit pests by pulling up all of his fruit trees and putting the land out to corn, hay and small grain. Said that he [would] rather feed the product of the farm to cattle, hogs and other kinds of stock than to be fighting the fruit pests, smudging and watching for the frost to take the fruit after waiting for years for the trees to grow. And the result of his action is that he is adding more farms to his list and lending money to the people who are clinging to the fruit trees.
    Mrs. Benjamin Brophy motored into town last Wednesday to transact business while her husband was looking after the stock on the farm.
    Prof. E. N. Deardorff, who has been teaching in the Reese Creek school district, passed through here last Thursday morning on his way from his home in Ashland to be present during the examination of his eighth grade pupils. For some reason, the children of the examiner, Mr. Pettegrew, were not ready to have the examination during the school term. If I can procure the list of the applicants for eighth grade certificates and their grades, I would be glad to publish as I did the Eagle Point list.
    J. S. Quackenbush and wife were in town Thursday looking for men to work in the Corbin orchard thinning the fruit, and at the same time Mr. Cummings, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was inquiring for hands to work in that orchard thinning the fruit. A few weeks ago the cry was that all or all except on the upland, of the fruit had been killed and that there would not be any fruit left in the valley, but now the cry is for help to thin out the fruit as the trees will simply be ruined and the fruit will be too small if left on the trees. I have lived in the Rogue River Valley continuously for the past forty-nine years and have been taking note on the weather, crops, etc., and have never known of a failure in the crop, either fruit or grain.
    Olive Adams of Butte Falls was here on business Wednesday and Thursday, going home on the P.&E. Thursday.
    Since my last report Geo. Brown & Sons have bought wool from George B. Brown of Brownsboro, B. H. Brophy and Ed Conley, E.P.
    Lee Edmondson, the sawmill man of Derby, was on the P.&E. en route for his home Thursday. He has his sawmill on the banks of Big Butte Creek now and tells me that he has a fine lot of lumber on hand and has a big run before him for the summer. D. L. Swihart, also of Derby, and Mrs. George Richardson and her four children, of Butte Falls, were also passengers, beside quite a number that I did not know.
    H. D. Cox, local organizer and representative of the Modern School of Correspondence, San Francesco, was with us Thursday night.
    Prof. F. A. Haight, a music teacher of Medford, came out Thursday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside. He was making up a class in instrumental music and seemed to be progressing fairly well.
    F. W. Walt and wife and daughter were here for dinner Friday. Mr. Wait is of the firm of F. W. Wait & Co., of Medford, their business being making monuments and other work for cemeteries.
    J. V. McIntyre and family and Miss Orbie Natwick, N. W. Slusser, our barber, Mr. Brown, our meat man, S. F. Smith and Ed Foster were here for dinner Friday and before he left town, S. F. Smith renewed his subscription for the W.M.T.
    C. A. Harth, who came in last fall and traded for what is known as the Harry Carlton place, has traded the place off again to a man by the name of Randolph Hissling for a farm near The Dalles. Mr. Harth says that he does understand raising wheat but he does not understand working in sticky.
    Mrs. John Holtz and son of Sams Valley motored through here Saturday morning on her way to Butte Falls, where she will be met by her husband, one of the forest rangers.
    Those who are interested in having good schools and an economic administration and a curtailment of expenses and a reduction of taxes and a judicious distribution of the school funds are requested to be on hand at the annual school meeting on Monday, June 19th. If you want to see the fun be on hand at the time stated in the notice to be sent in later.
    Mrs. Kent, the hostess of the Kent rooming house of Medford, motored out here Friday eve, and her son Dolph and wife motored in from the ranch Saturday morning.
    Mrs. J. B. Baker and Miss Bessie Chambers of Butte Falls were on the train going home Saturday morning.
    Jed Edsall came out from his farm near Butte Falls Saturday and while here paid up his sub to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 5, 1916, page 5


    Since my last report George Brown & Sons have bought wool of Joe Mayham and Adolph Oleson, the latter of Elk Creek.
    John and Charles Blaess were in town last Saturday afternoon for supplies. They are just finishing a contract for building a large barn for Green Mathews on his home place, 100x100 feet square, with the posts twenty-eight feet long and the roof to run down to within seven feet of the ground, having a double row of mangers all around, so that he can shelter and feed a large lot of cattle at a time.
    Lucius Kincaid the panther hunter of Prospect, spent Saturday and Sunday nights with us, and Clyde Rodgers was with us Saturday, and so was Mr. Reter of Jacksonville and John Foster of Butte Falls.
    Sunday was another busy day at the Sunnyside. About 11 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Boyce, Mr. and Mrs. W. McKay, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rose, Miss Jane Rose and Mr. and a Mrs. Joseph Rader, all of Phoenix, autoed up to the Sunnyside and called for dinner. And they had been there but a short time before Mr. and Mrs. Frank Abbott and two children, Lester Abbott, N. Gorman, William von der Hellen and family, Dr. W. W. P. Holt and daughter Miss Helen, Mrs. F. L. Heath and son Fred, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Brown and daughter Miss Hazel, A. C. Edler and brother, Andrew, besides a number whose names I failed to learn, were here for dinner.
    George von der Hellen and wife started in their car to Corvallis Sunday morning to attend the commencement exercises of the O.A.C. They both graduated in that college some eight years ago, and they feel an interest in the institution, although they do not expect to meet many of their old associates there. They were accompanied by Mrs. von der Hellen's sister-in-law, Mrs. Huff, and after spending a few days in Corvallis they expect to proceed to Portland and visit friends in that section.
    The new free ferry across Rogue River was completed last week and everything placed in readiness to accommodate the travel, and now the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage crosses there again, but there has been a change made in the mail route or either in the plan of carrying the mail, and now instead of the auto stage going from here to Trail by the ferry, as has been the rule, now it goes by the Dodge-French bridge, crossing there, and goes up on the north side of the river to Trail, etc., and on the return trip crosses at the ferry. The change will make a difference in the time of those along the route receiving their mail, as instead of getting their mail on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, they will not get the mail until the following days. Instead of Monday they will get their mail from Trail Tuesday, etc. If any of the readers of the Mail Tribune or Medford Sun along the route want the address of their papers changed from Eagle Point to Trail, if they will drop me a card I will make the arrangement to have the change made. I met this (Tuesday) morning Chris Bergman and J. A. Howard and suggested to them the idea of having the change made, but they both said they did not want the address changed, as then part of their mail would be in Eagle Point and a part in Trail. The change was made, no doubt, for the reason that the mail carrier going out from here nearly always has a heavy load of mail and parcels besides generally passengers, and the road for about four miles this side of the ferry is generally bad, and in the winter always bad and very sticky, and the change will make it much easier on the team by making the change and having the light load come the downhill grade.
    W. R. Holman of Climax called on me and had me send him the W.M.T., as he says that he cannot get along without a county paper. And since my last report A. C. Edler of Lake Creek has renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
    Adolph Oleson and a friend of his, both from the Buzzard mine, and John Minter were at the Sunnyside for dinner Monday.
    Miss Lillian Findley went up to the farm of J. L. Zimmerlee, near the free ferry, Monday with Mr. Z. He is the owner of the Farmers' Hotel, and Mrs. Zimmerlee conducts the business of the hotel and Mr. Z. runs the farm when he is not on the road or here.
    Professor P. H. Daily of Medford was smiling on his friends in Eagle Point Tuesday morning. He was on his way up the country.
    Mrs. Caroline Thomason of Jacksonville, her son Manuel and daughter Bessie Pool, were on the P.&E. Tuesday on their way to visit their aunts and uncles, Chris Wooley and F. J. Ayres and wife. They expect to stop off here on their return and visit relatives here.
    Rev. Gammon, the pastor of the Presbyterian church of Butte Falls, was also on the car on his way home. Also a lady by the name of Anderson was on her way to her home beyond Butte Falls.
    Jed Edsall and John Foster went to the Edsall ranch with Dr. Holt on Monday morning.
    C. D. Moody of Fullerton, Cal., was here Tuesday to look at a farm, but when he arrived said that no one seemed to know where the orchard or Applegate farm was, so returned to Medford after taking dinner at the Sunnyside.
    A widow lady by the name of Poole and her two little girls stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 8, 1916, page 5


    Since my last report, Lee Farlow of Lake Creek, Alvin Bieberstedt of Brownsboro and John Allen of Derby have brought in wool for George Brown & Sons.
    A few days ago I took a trip up to the F. Pelouze farm with Frank Brown, one of the firm of George Brown & Sons, in his auto. We found Mr. P. busy at work and his good wife attending to her domestic duties. Had a talk with Mr. P. with regard to the management of our school and especially with regard to the move to have a high school to be voted on at our annual school meeting on Monday, June 19, at 3:15 p.m., and as to how we could conduct our school at a less expense that what we have been doing, and finally we all three had a general talk with regard to the road work that was undertaken last season, and suddenly dropped after those who had paid the amount subscribed toward making a good road. And then we all three went up and met A. Corbin, and they three agreed to meet in the county seat Wednesday and have the county do something toward repairing the road. And while I was there on the road I had my eyes open to see all that was going on in the line of farming. I asked Mr. P. how he was getting along with his sugar beets and he told me that he did not get any in as the ground was not in a proper state for beets, but he had some good-looking corn and potatoes. On inquiry at the whereabouts of their son Robbie, was told that that day (Tuesday) he was in Vancouver, Wash., undergoing an examination to enter the military academy at West Point, and we all are hoping to hear that he passed with his colors flying. I see by the Mail Tribune that the county court has ordered the piece of road mentioned repaired. I also noticed that William Perry has had a neat garage built for his auto to be housed in.
    S. M. Hawk of Butte Falls passed through here Tuesday evening on his way to Medford to get legal advice with regard to the use of the water for his sawmill in the Big Butte country, and Lester Abbott went to Medford the next morning to look after his claim on the same water.
    Mrs. F. L. Heath, wife of our merchant, made a business trip to Medford Monday, where her husband is conducting a drug store. Mrs. Heath and her son, Frederick, conduct the business of the store here. She returned to her home Tuesday evening.
    Last Tuesday evening our mail contractor and carrier, George Austin, and Miss Lucinda M. Story of Gold Hill were married in Jacksonville, and he surprised his many friends in our town by bringing her out with him and introducing her as his wife. We all wish him a lot of unalloyed pleasure and a prosperous journey through life.
    Invitations were given out the first of the week to some of the older members of the community to meet on Wednesday, June 7, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Painter and join in commemorating the 87th birthday of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Jane Curtis, and also Mrs. A. N. Thomas of Central Point, who was also born on the 7th of June, this being her 76th birthday. Those present were: Rev. L. L. Simmons and family (they were not so old, but he being the pastor of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis' church, of course they had to be there), Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Wood, Mrs. M. E. Owens, Miss Virgie Owens, Mrs. Wheeden, Mrs. Thomas, George H. Wamsley and daughter, Miss Mabel, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McQuoid, Mrs. T. E. Nichols, Mrs. Elizabeth Jonas, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Knighten, Mrs. R. M. Whiteside, beside the family and your correspondent. There was a sumptuous feast prepared and one of Mrs. A. N. Thomas' daughters, Mrs. Bond, thought enough of her mother to send her a nice, large birthday cake for the occasion from Bend, Or., and that seemed to please the old lady more than all the rest of the presents she received.
    Misses Mary, Anna and Cleo Robertson and Miss Amandie Schleichert of the Reese Creek district were doing business in Eagle Point Wednesday.
    Thursday Rev. D. J. C. Rollins, wife and son Robert, P. J. Halley and W. H. Gore of Medford called for dinner on their rounds looking over the country.
    E. W. Liljegran, assayer of Medford, on mining business, was out and took dinner Thursday, and that brings to me mind that C. E. Terrill of Brownsboro was in town this Saturday morning and while here told of some of the discoveries being made in the hills surrounding us. Some days ago I called attention to the discovery of copper in the neighborhood of Lost Creek, and Mr. T. told me that Irvin Daley and Manley Conley have run a tunnel into the hill eighty-five feet and struck a regular vein of copper, and that he, Mr. Terrill, was here to meet a man and show him a place where asphalt is found in abundance. And he has other specimens of rock that he thought would prove valuable. He seems to think that the hills in this Butte and Antelope country abound in rich ores of different kinds.
    Carl Richardson of Peyton was a caller for dinner Thursday.
    Don't neglect to attend the school meeting on Monday, June 19, as the clerk, J. V. McIntyre, is going to put the financial report on the blackboard so that all can understand the whole arrangement. There is quite a lot of business to attend to and you are wanted there at 3:15 p.m. sharp. If you don't come, don't kick.
    There was an auto car went through here Thursday from Alameda, Cal., on the way to Crater Lake. A little early, but they looked as though they did not stop at trifles.
    Miss Mabel Pruett motored into town Friday. She was accompanied by her mother and aunt, Mrs. John Cox, formerly of this county, but now of Oakland, Cal. John Cox owns one of the best stock ranches in Klamath County. It is leased now to James Gordon.
    Mr. Wyland, who used to live on Antelope Creek, but now of the Meadows, was here Friday on business.
    R. W. Doyle of Pottsville, Ky., was here Friday for dinner. He represented White's Crown Fruit Jars Co.
    Two of our neighbors, W. E. Hammel and Robert Minter, met with quite an accident the other day. They had a horse that had been traded off quite a number of times lately and they hitched him to a buggy to come to town, and just as Mr. H. was starting to get into the buggy while Mr. M. was holding the horse by the bit, he started to run, dragging Mr. M. some twenty yards. The hind wheel of the buggy struck Mr. H. and knocked him down, and in less time that it takes me to write it Mr. M. was thrown out of the way, and the sequel is the wreck of the buggy was brought to W. L. Childreth's shop for repairs, but fortunately no one was seriously hurt.
    Miss Elizabeth Blackford has been here visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements.
    Attorney Gus Newbury of Medford was out Thursday on professional business.
    Ed Walker, deputy game warden, and J. H. Driscoll, district deputy game warden, were here for dinner, and so was Dr. Holt, Mr. Slusser and Fred Heath.
    Chauncey Florey, our county recorder, and C. M. Hawk came out on the P.&E. Saturday morning, and Mr. Hawk, Mr. Swihart and Miss Gladys Holmes of Derby went on up.
    Since my last report George Austin of Wellen, M. D. Bowles of Lake Creek and C. E. Terrill of Brownsboro have renewed their subscriptions to the Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 13, 1916, page 5


    Since my last report on the wool question Henry Tonn of Lake Creek has brought in a small lot of wool for Geo. Brown & Sons, and William and John Grissom have brought in three loads of wool. They had it engaged to Roy Ashpole, who was buying for a Willamette firm, but when they arrived with the wool Monday Mr. Ashpole was up a stump what to do about it. The demand now is for the long coarse wool and this lot of about 6000 pounds is of the Merino variety, short and fine. Since I commenced to write this, Wednesday afternoon, I had a talk with Mr. Ashpole and he said that the head of the firm that he is buying for expected to be here tonight, but that Messrs. Grissom had had another offer for the wool and he advised them to take it and let it go as the price was on the decline. If they let it go at the price now offered they will lose several hundred dollars and may terminate in a lawsuit, for the company Mr. A. represents is supposed to be solvent. I learned that Mr. Ashpole has just received a small lot of wool. As is often the case, about the time the sheep men begin to bring in their wool the buyers begin to lower the price, but if they would do as the sheep men in the Umpqua Valley did, pool their wool and wait for a buyer to come and hunt it up, then the seller could set the price instead of having the buyer set the price and force the unorganized sellers to take their price.
    Last Sunday was another busy day at the Sunnyside. When I came home from church I found Mr. and Mrs. Lone Moffett of Medford, Mr. Henry Walton of Portland, Mrs. A. P. Hagen and son Billie of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. N. Bates, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bates, and Mr. and Miss Newton W. Borden, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe A. Johnson and Miss Anna Ulrich of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith and mother-in-law, Mrs. Stowell, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Brown, Jack Florey Jr., Frank Abbott, Dr. W. P. Holt and daughter Miss Helen of E.P.
    There was a regular string of autos and Fords passed through here Sunday morning headed upstream toward Crater Lake, and I understand that William von der Hellen and J. V. McIntyre and families went as far as they could for the snow somewhere about Big White Horse, about 17 miles this side of the lake.
    Monday noon James Vestal, one of the promising young men who had been raised on Reese Creek, but has taken a four-year course in the high school in Central Point and one year in the agricultural college in Corvallis, came in for dinner on his way to visit his parents, brothers and sister, Mrs. Wilbur Jack. He is a young man that they may feel proud of. He expects to take the remaining three years' course at the Corvallis college and then four years at the university at Eugene. He has high aspirations.
    Ernest Smith, of Butte Falls, was also here for dinner Monday. He is a son of Prof. E. E. Smith of B.F., one of the U.S. Forest Service men.
    F. M. Stewart and a relative, Harold A. Hill, one of the fruit men of the valley, just looking around to see how much fruit there is left after the frost, blight moth, etc. They simply called a few moments Monday.
    Monday afternoon Arthur Smith, accompanied by Walter and Leodore Fleming of Lakeview, the two young men are brothers who lived in their boyhood days on the place now owned by a S.F. California lady by the name of Bell, and later on what is known as the A. Corbin orchard, and when their father, H. C. Fleming, sold it for four thousand dollars he thought he had received a wonderful price.
    They are in the stock business in the Lakeview country and were on their way to Portland in their auto. Wm. and John Grissom still have their wool at the Sunnyside barn and at 4:20 p.m. was undecided what they would do with it. Henry Tonn brought out a load of wool for the Grissom boys and Tuesday unloaded his load at the S.S. barn and went home while the G. boys are stopping at the S.S. yet.
    Chris Natwick is repairing the rock crusher just above town and getting it ready to crush the rock for the road that was left unfinished last fall. I understand that he has traded off the old electric motor for a thirty-horsepower, as the one they had before was entirely too light for the work.
    Miss Vera Kershaw, the sheep and goat queen of Antelope, and Mrs. Owen Grigsby were in town Tuesday p.m.
    Mrs. Susan [Hart?] was transacting business in the Eagle Point State Bank Tuesday.
    Queen Mathews and S. H. Harnish have each treated themselves to a new McCormick mower. Roy Ashpole, agent.
    W. Hart Hamilton, who owns a large farm and orchard near Eagle Point, has a good prospect for a bountiful crop of fruit and hay and has now over one hundred young pigs. He is what we call a progressive, with no allusion to politics.
    Tuesday night three young men rode up to the S.S. Hotel and called for rooms about 9:30 and in the morning on inquiring who they were found that two of them were Messrs. J. H. and C. E. Haak, two brothers of our neighbor, L. K. Haak, owner of one of the best farms and orchards in these parts. And the other was I. Lowengart, of Portland. They are here visiting L. K. Haak and family for a few days.
    Alonzo Morrison, a traveling man, and J. P. Hughes of Butte Falls came in for dinner Wednesday and Mr. H. spent the night.
    Wm. Knighten, wife and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy motored to Central Point Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 16, 1916, page 5


    I omitted in my last to mention the Sunday school program that we had last Sunday evening. The ladies and some of the larger girls of the S.S. had arranged the church building very tastily and had trained the smaller children with their parts so that everything went off without a hitch. The entire performance was very creditable and the audience and the house was well filled, seemed to be well pleased and some of us are looking forward to the second Sunday in June, 1917, Children's Day, for another pleasant time of a similar character.
    Wednesday night we had Frank Manning of Peyton and J. T. Hughes of Butte Falls with us on their way home from Medford. They had been to Medford, transacted their business and came out here to the Sunnyside to spend the night.
    John and William Grissom also spent the night with us, having sold their wool they brought out for an Albany firm who refused to take it. They finally sold it to Geo. Brown & Sons, losing about $100 by the deal.
    Messrs. J. H. Haak and his brother, H. E. Haak and I Lowengart, all of Portland, also spent the night with us and the next morning started at 4 o'clock for Grants Pass for breakfast, stopping on the rounds to take in Mrs. L. K. Haak, sister-in-law of the two Haak men. They were going to Portland and Mrs. Haak went with them to make a visit.
    R. L. and J. C. Dusenburg, father and son, of Gold Hill, were here Thursday looking for a location to go into business of some kind, but they left as soon as they had their dinners.
    Miss Violet Zimmerman, a little sister of Miss Clair Z., one of our regular boarders, as well as one of the phone girls and P.O. clerks, has been here for about a week. She started for home Saturday morning to her father's place near the Blue Canyon. Her sister accompanied her as far as Derby, where she expects to spend a few days resting up and visiting relatives and friends.
    Miss Lola Carlton and Miss Bruce Putnam of Medford are here the guests of Miss Joyce von der Hellen.
    The 14th, Flag Day, was celebrated by grand display of flags, but there was no special demonstrations here. Quite a number of our citizens went to Medford.
    Prof. C. E. Johnson, who is canvassing for Billy Sunday's book, "Trip Around the World," etc., came in Friday evening and reported that he had done very well in his soliciting. He also carries a petition to place a new amendment to the "dry" law prohibiting the shipping of intoxicating liquors into the state for beverages. He had filled his petition with sixty names and said that if he had had another he could have had it filled by the time he came in. The people voted the state dry and they are going to make it dry de facto.
    Mr. Kline, the deputy fruit inspector, was here Friday looking over the fruit trees [and] said that many of them were in bad shape. Some of them have the blight, the scab, the codling moth, the scale, and goodness only knows what he doesn't find.
    The Brandon Bros. are getting the grist mill in readiness for the wheat that is to be raised where the diseased fruit trees are now encumbering the ground.
    Pete Young, one of our prosperous farmers, was in town Friday and reports that his brother, Nick, has a fine colt that is sick and fears that he will lose it.
    Lee Edmondson and D. L. Swihart came to the S.S. Friday at 10 p.m. for supper and beds. They had started out from Medford with a traction engine to take it up to Mr. E.'s saw mill on Big Butte to be used to run the mill a part of the time and to haul lumber to the Derby depot. They had had trouble with it on the desert and had to leave it. Mr. E.'s son remained with it while the two men came for something to eat and a place to sleep.
    David Cingcade went to Medford Saturday morning.
    Delbert Meyer and family motored through town Saturday morning on their way to Medford.
    Mrs. Charles Pruett and daughter, Miss Mabel, were in town Saturday morning and reported that they were to meet Mrs. P.'s brother-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. King of Sebastopol, Cal.
    Frank Johnson and wife, who live near the mouth of Indian Creek, were on their way home from Medford Saturday morning.
    Mrs. Walter Wood, who has been in the Good Samaritan hospital for some time, came out Saturday morning on the P.&E.
    Our depot agent, F. F. Newport, reports that he is selling a quantity of lumber now, the lumber being furnished by the Dupray mill, and Mr. N. is in charge of the lumber yard.
    Will Mansfield and little daughter went up on the P.&E. Saturday morning. Mr. M. is one of the game wardens for this county.
    Mr. and Mrs. John McKee and their son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Courtwright, of Baker County, and Mrs. A. Pool of Jacksonville, were out Saturday morning looking over the country.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 20, 1916, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Tabor and three children passed through here last Saturday evening on their way to Ashland. They had been up on the Rogue River visiting their relatives, the Bittsons, and intended to stop at Ashland and visit Mrs. Tabor's parents, then proceed to their home in Chico, Cal. Mrs. T. used to live in Ashland before they went to Chico.
    Emery Davis of Tolo spent the night with us and Sunday morning went to Hornbrook to pitch the ball for the Eagle Point team in their game with the Hornbrook team. They had quite a spirited contest, as the game stood 4 to 4 at the end of the twelfth inning.
    Sunday was rather a busy day in our quiet little town and neighborhood. At 10 o'clock we had Sunday school and at 11 a.m. Rev. Simmons preached and at the close of the services he gave an opportunity to any who wished to unite with the church, and there were three little sisters, Olive, Ida and Blossom Clark, aged 12, 11 and 10 years, came forward and took the seats designated for them to take. There was no excitement or unusual interest manifested, but they had been instructed by their aunt, Mrs. Lillie Cingcade, and on being questioned by the pastor, Rev. Simmons, gave the necessary evidence for church membership and were duly received as candidates for baptism. This closed the services for the forenoon, but at Reese Creek schoolhouse there was another program going on. The arrangements had been made to hold the annual Sunday school picnic, have a picnic dinner, a nice program and preaching in the afternoon. So after dinner I started to go to Reese Creek to see what I could find of interest to the readers of the Mail Tribune, and when I left the dinner table I left there Misses Christina, Bermuda, and Fern Lewis, daughters of our confectionery and soft drink man, and later Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis, their parents, came; R. R. Reter of Jacksonville, William von der Hellen and family, Jack Florey, Jr., Dr. and Miss Helen Holt, his daughter, Mr. Peters, beside our usual Sunday crowd, all told about thirty. There was quite a number of our Sunday visitors went to Hornbrook.
    When I reached the Reese Creek schoolhouse they had already commenced with their program and on entering the house found that the house was full. The exercises, what I heard of them, were very good, and the singing by the children was fine. They had already been to dinner when I reached the schoolhouse, but Rev. Simmons, instead of eating dinner with me and riding with me in a rig, rushed off on his wheel to eat dinner with the picnickers. You know, or perhaps you don't, but we know that Brother Simmons had a particular fancy for picnic dinners, and wd don't blame him, for such dinners are not picked up every day. Well, after all the exercises were over Mr. S. gave us one of his best on preparedness, not military preparedness, but a preparedness to meet God. Returning to his house we found that quite a company had already collected to witness the immersion of the three little girls, and when everything was in readiness and he was about ready to administer the ordinance of baptism, he announced that his little daughter, Melva, aged 9, had decided to make the start in the divine life, so after going through the usual questions that are asked applicants for membership she was formally received into the church as an applicant for baptism. They then all four joined hands and were led out into the water to the proper depth and he baptized them one at a time, after which the right hand of fellowship was given by the church and encouragement was offered by those who were not members of the Baptist Church, and we were formally dismissed with the benediction. After supper we went to church again and Mr. S. preached again on the subject of the woman who was a sinner and the Pharisee, Luke, 9:37. So the reader will see that Brother Simmons was busy last Sunday, if not all the time.
    I learned Sunday that Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crandall had been visited by the stork and the result was the arrival of a boy baby June 16, 1916.
    Monday was quite a lively day in our little town. It had been announced in the Eaglets as well as by the legal notices that there would be the annual school meeting on Monday June 19, at 3:37 p.m., and there had been so much talk about the school and how it was run and the finances of the district that the people woke up and attended the meeting, and there was some very pointed questions asked and answered after the report of the clerk was read, but everything passed off very pleasantly, and after the remarks on the report were all settled Fred Pelouze offered his resignation as director. I will say here that nothing that was said there caused his resignation, for he had offered it some months before, but the board would not consent, and was duly accepted. And then nominations were called for for a director for two years to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Pelouze, and F. T. Newport and Mrs. L. K. Haak were placed in nomination, and the result was Mr. Newport received twenty-six votes and Mrs. Haak twenty-seven votes, and she was declared duly elected. Then William Perry was nominated for director for the full term, and he was elected by the clerk casting the ballot for him. For clerk, C. Hoogerhyde and John W. Smith were nominated. The result was Mr. Hoogerhyde received twenty-eight, J. W. Smith twenty-four, and J. V. McIntyre, the old clerk, two. He had positively refused to act any longer, so was not a candidate. Thus ended the business of that meeting. The subject of having a high school will be taken up later.
    There were three men came in from Portland and pitched their tent, opening a photo gallery Monday morning, and gave their names as M. Lotoff, L. Neklcoff and H. Baku, but they do not seem to be doing much business.
    It becomes my painful duty to record the death of one of our nearest neighbors and one of our most highly esteemed citizens, Mrs. James Jordan, who left here just a month prior to her death with her husband to visit her old home and her children in Anita, Ia. She died June 14 of acute bronchitis. She leaves a husband and several children and grandchildren, besides almost everyone who knew her in this section, to mourn her loss. There is one cheering thought and that is that she had made her peace with God and died among her children.
    Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Lupton of Medford, who are in the harness business in that city, spent the night with us.
    J. F. Ruhl of Hermiston, Or., an insurance man, came out for a late dinner Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 22, 1916, page 5


    In one of the best games of the season Eagle Point and Hornbrook played a twelve-inning tie Sunday, the score being 4-4.
    The game was called in the twelfth to enable Eagle Point to get over the Siskiyous before dark.
    The score was 3 to 1 in Eagle Point's favor in the ninth and two errors by Eagle Point enabled Hornbrook to tie the score. Eagle Point made another tally in the eleventh and another error on their part tied the score again. Big Emery Davis of Tolo pitched superb ball for Eagle Point, striking out twelve and walking none. His fast ball had a wicked break that few could connect with and with good support he should have had a shutout.
    With some hard practice Eagle Point could give the best teams in Southern Oregon a hard tussle, having the best team in years. A big delegation of rooters accompanied the team to Hornbrook.
    Score by innings:
    Batteries--
Medford Mail Tribune, June 22, 1916, page 6


    Roy E. Peterson and R. R. Lowe of Hartford Capewell Horse Nail Co. were doing business in our town the middle of the week and called Sunday for dinner.
    There was a party passed through here last Wednesday with an auto truckload on their way for Union Creek. One of them was the same man who had a store there last summer, and I understood that he was going out there again to rebuild his store building, as the house he occupied was crushed last winter by the snow.
    Green Mathews was in town the first of last week and reported that someone of his neighbors had stolen off of his hay rake seventeen teeth and several of the clamps that hold them in place. He said that the teeth were so marked that they could be identified, as his son Verne, had heated them and turned the ends of the teeth so that one-half would be turned to the right and the other to the left, and that the next morning he looked around among the hay rakers and found rake teeth that filled the description. That one of his neighbors about the same time lost several sickle guards off his mower and about the same time Frank Abbott had a five-gallon can of coal oil taken from his home, and I am expecting to have to report that someone will be found with a load of shot in his body before long.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Haworth on their farm in the Lake Creek country, a nine-pound boy, June 20, 1916. Reported by Dr. W. W. P. Holt.
    C. Y. Tengwald, representing the candy department of the Medford Grocery Co., was here Thursday.
    Dr. W. E. Buchanan of Ashland, but recently of this place, came up the first of the week to do dental work for quite a number of our citizens, remaining all week. He has his room in the office of Dr. Holt.
    B. F. Bigham of Trail was here during the week looking over the situation with an eye to opening up a meat-peddling outfit, as Mr. Brown, the man who has been furnishing this section with meat, contemplated going away about the first of July. He goes on account of his wife's health, so she can change climates.
    Mr. Stinson and a co-laborer have been out here in the employ of the electric light company and installed an automatic motor to pump water from the grist mill ditch for the benefit of the Brown, Holmes, Holt and Knighten families. It is arranged so that when the water tank gets partly empty of water that the pump will start and when it gets full it will stop--a fine arrangement.
    George Richardson of Butte Falls, who has been falling trees for one of the large mills near Odessa, Klamath County, had the misfortune to cut his foot so as to be laid up for some time, came in and spent the night with us Wednesday on his way home.
    A lady by the name of Glenn and A. Hubbard came out on the P.&E. Thursday and Mr. Hubbard went on up to his ranch beyond Derby, and Mrs. Glenn took the auto stage for Lake Creek. The fish and game car also went up to Butte Falls at the same time with a load of young fish to be used at the Butte Falls hatchery.
    W. C. Daley and wife were guests at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    Professor Howard Grover of Medford was also at the S.S. for dinner Thursday. He was out on the interest of the Medford Business College.
    Elmer Hurd, the Eagle Point electrician, was here Thursday. He was putting in the new electric pump in the Snowy Butte Mill.
    Miss Edna Whitley of Portland came in Thursday on her way to the Prospect country to visit her parents. While here she was the guest of Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen.
    Mr. and Mrs. George von der Hellen, who have been on a visit to Corvallis to attend the commencement exercises of the O.A.C., returned the first of the week via the Columbia River Highway, Bend, Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls and Ashland. Mrs. von der Hellen says that they encountered considerable snow and were in a snowstorm for one day, but they had a delightful time.
    Since my last report George Brown & Sons have bought and shipped quite a lot of wool of J. W. Thompson of Prospect and Fred Luy of Wellen.
    Pete Young and his sister, Miss Clara, were doing business in our town last Friday, and their brother, Nick, was here Saturday morning.
    Professor C. E. Johnson went off to the headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League, Portland, his second petition for the adoption of the amendment to the constitution of the state barring the shipping in of intoxicants for beverage purposes and started his third one last night, Friday, and Rev. L. L. Simmons has sent off one, making in all 120 names. In a former letter I stated that there were sixty names on a single petition, but there are but forty.
    Saturday I met Mr. Edwards of Brownsboro, and he was telling me of the wonderful discoveries being made on Lake Creek in copper, and later in the day I met Irvin Daley of Lake Creek, one of the discoverers of the mine, and he told me that they were in about 100 feet and that the farther they go into the hill the richer the vein becomes; that he can take a piece of the rock as large as a man's fist, pound it up and wash out about a half-teaspoonful of copper. Another peculiarity is that he finds solid rock like agates as large as his fist or perhaps larger, and the outside will be perfectly dry, but on breaking them open will find they contain as much as half-teacup full of clear water and having crystallized quartz inside them. He says that if the lode proves to be as rich as it prospects that they will not ask Eagle Point to bond the town to build a railroad for them, but will build it themselves. Mr. Daley was down after a load of lumber to build his new house. He bought the lumber last fall, but the roads were so bad that he could not haul it, so stacked it here until dry weather.
    He brought down a lot of drills he uses in his mine to our blacksmith to have them sharpened.
    J. W. Grover has been treating himself to a new hay fork (Jackson), track and carrier to put in his barn.
    One of the Gould sisters of Medford came out on the P.&E. Saturday morning and went on up to Dee Bradshaw's.
    Miss Clare Zimmerman, one of the phone girls and post office clerks, who had been taking a vacation visiting relatives near Derby, and one of our regular boarders, returned to her post Saturday afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 27, 1916, page 5


    Fred Inlow and son Freddie of Doris, Calif., were the guests of his mother, Mrs. Albright, several days last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and Grandpa Houston attended the funeral of the late Floyd Rogers at Beagle Friday.
    Among those who took the teachers' examinations this week were Misses Murl Coffeen, Ida and Eula Houston, and Mrs. Marie Foster.
    The school meetings passed off quietly. In the Long Branch district Mrs. Mabel Sager was elected clerk and Jack Houston director; in Reese Creek district Fred Pettegrew clerk, and Mr. Robinson, director; in Debenger Gap, Jasper Hannah was elected director and Mrs. Marie Foster, clerk.
    Mr. and Mrs. Will Houston and Givan and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan went to the valley Tuesday.
    There was a social dance at the Findley house Saturday night.
    Mrs. Tim Daily visited her father, J. C. Hannah, Sunday.
    Frank Houston and wife removed to Central Point Tuesday.
    Gene Bellows and family, Wilfred Jacks and family and Miss May French were Sunday guests at the Vestal home.
    Henry French, Perry Foster and Steve Smith were Eagle Point visitors Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 28, 1916, page 5


    Howard A. Hill, one of our prominent fruit men, and one of the fruit shippers, was out Monday looking over the orchards, to learn approximately the amount of fruit there will be to ship. While here he took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Last Sunday morning I drove over the new road to Tolo and found that it was all O.K. so far as it goes, but by the time it rains on it for a couple of weeks the men that travel over it will find that about six inches of fine gravel or crushed rock will improve it very materially, but it is a very decided improvement over the old road. While riding along I was noticing to see if there was any changes on the route for the better. After leaving Agate I noticed that some of the places looked as though they were almost deserted, if not quite, and one place in particular just as I was starting down into Bear Creek bottom that the crop, if there was any, for what was growing looked like dog fennel, and mustard looked very bad, what struck me most was that last year they appeared to have such fine crops, and when I stopped at one of the prominent citizens in the neighborhood of Tolo I inquired the cause of the place looking so dilapidated, was told that the place had been bonded to one of the companies which was in that business, and according to the contract was to give up the place the first of May and receive a good price for the place, but the deal did not go through and the man had tried to put in a little crop late, but that it did not amount to much of anything, as it was sowed so late.
    Miss Mary Holmes of Medford is visiting Miss Hazel Brown, her cousin.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Austin of Climax were trading among our merchants Monday.
    Last Saturday night we had a combination show. The Hoyt company were here and had announced that they would show on Friday night, giving a sleight-of-hand and other performances, and there were a few of the younger folk turned out to see what was done, but of the program, they told those who had paid to receive their money back and come the next night, when they would have the combination show, the movies and the Hoyt company show combined, and by Saturday night the talk of the wonderful feats Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt performed, the house was well filled and the people were well pleased with the whole performance.
    There is being hauled out of here quite a lot of lumber from the Eagle Point lumber yard this season and business seems to be looking up in every direction. During the last few days Herman Myers, Jr., has taken to the Lake Creek section a load of extra fine flooring to put in a new house he is building, and J. T. Singleton and William Perry of this neighborhood and Messrs. Archibald and Stevens of Brownsboro have taken out quite a lot of lumber, and our railroad agent, Mr. Newport, says that they haul it away about as fast as they can get it from the mill. Our merchants say that business is better than it was at this time last year. Fred Luy of Wellen brought in a fine coop of chickens Monday.
    C. J. Vaughan, the foreman of the section gang on the P.&E. railroad, gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune Monday and since my last report C. V. Cummings, Roy Ashpole and Thomas F. Boltz have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    J. L. Robinson, Fred Pettegrew and John Minter were doing business in our town Monday.
    Frank Tungate and wife and Miss Nora Daley were on the train Tuesday going to Butte Falls, and S. S. Aiken was on his way to Prospect.
    Mrs. E. C. Bellows brought in a can of cream Tuesday and took back a buggyload of supplies.
    Mrs. George Phillips went to Medford Tuesday to be with her sister, Miss Anna Watkins, in the hospital. Miss Anna was to be operated on for goiter. Her mother, Mrs. Watkins, went in on Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Higinbotham, W. E. Hammel and wife, the last named were on their way to St. Louis, Mo.; John Minter; Brown, the meat man; Henry Trusty, Fred Heath and Dr. Holt were at the Sunnyside for dinner Tuesday.
    A. C. Weeks and his brother George of Elk Creek were doing business here Tuesday and so was Perry Foster and Henry French.
    Thomas Long (Uncle Tommie) went to Ashland Tuesday on the P.&E. and Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, George Richardson of Butte Falls and Mrs. Gladys Holmes of Derby came out on the same train. Miss Gladys expects to spend a while with her cousin, Miss Claire Zimmerman, at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Thomas Cingcade was doing some shopping Tuesday in our town.
    Our mill men, the Brandon Bros., are tearing out the old timbers where the old wheel was placed and are planning to put in a concrete foundation and a much larger wheel, furnishing 100 percent more power.
    S. H. Harnish will run his auto jitney from Eagle Point to Ashland July 4-5-6. Adv.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 30, 1916, page 5


    Eagle Point and Medford will play for your approval Sunday.
    The country teams have already upset the baseball dope this season, the smaller towns putting out teams equal to any teams in this part of the state.
    Gold Hill, heretofore a negligible quantity, as far as baseball is concerned, sprung a big surprise and nearly won from Medford last Sunday. It was sure a heads-and-tails game, both teams in the money all the time.
    Now fans and fanettes figure out the strength of the Eagle Point team from the following dope and you will see that you will have a good afternoon's entertainment Sunday, July 2.
    June 4th Eagle Point defeated Gold Hill 8 to 4; June 11th Hornbrook defeated Gold Hill 4 to 2 and on the 18th Eagle Point and Hornbrook battled 12 innings to a 4-to-4 tie.
    With Big Bill Davis twirling for Eagle Point any amateur team that beats them will sure have to go some.
    Caster and Force will do the battery stunt for Medford. Sieberts and Hill will work against Weed on the 4th.
    The prices for this game: Automobiles and bleachers 25¢; grandstand 35¢.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 30, 1916, page 6


    Mr. Reynolds, the goat man of Trail, was with us Tuesday night and so was George Richardson of Butte Falls. O. N. Bishop also came out from the Edsall crossing and took supper with us and was met here by his brother-in-law, John Owens, with his Ford and took him home with him to help through his haying.
    On Wednesday morning I took a drive up above Brownsboro to take a passenger, returning in time for dinner. I noticed some very good-looking wheat and oats along the route and the alfalfa looked fine. I also noticed a small tract of land planted to Sudan grass and it looked quite promising, and I hear it predicted that that is going to be the coming feed for cows and horses. Those who are familiar with it say that it grows very tall, as well as thick, and will grow on dry land without irrigation and yield two to three tons to the acre and on developed land can be cut the second time. I also noticed that R. E. Tucker of Brownsboro was putting up a large barn on his place and that Wm. Perry, who owns the A. L. Haselton place, is putting an addition to his barn. I also noticed several patches of sugar beets that looked good to me.
    Among the callers Wednesday was George Howard, Medford's irrepressible insurance man. He is like the Irishman's flea--find him almost anywhere you go.
    Among the callers Wednesday were Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Rigdon, Miss E. Hogue, Miss Maud Booth and Dr. R. A. Jones, all of San Francisco, Cal. They are simply traveling over the country to see it. They came up the coast to Crescent City, to Grants Pass, Eagle Point and went on up to Prospect. They seemed to be anxious to visit the power plant near Prospect, intending to retrace their steps and go to Eastern Oregon via Klamath Falls and want to visit Crater Lake before returning. They may possibly go as far as Bend. They were undecided as to what course they may take after reaching Klamath Falls. They seem to be very much pleased with our valley.
    John Greb has been hauling a lot of 2x4 scantling to prop up the limbs on his fruit trees to save the fruit as well as the trees.
    Mrs. F. J. Ayres took passage on the P.&E. railroad to her home Thursday and Stanley Spencer, Geo. and Donald Johnson, sons of George E. Johnson, the superintendent of the P.&E. railroad system, were on their way to Butte Falls. The last two mentioned were to go on to Rancheria Prairie to spend a few days in the tall timber. One of the wood cars was partly loaded with hay for the Dupray saw mill.
    W. E. Butler brought in a coop of fine Plymouth Rock broilers for our railroad agent, F. T. Newport, Thursday morning, and W. Hart Hamilton shipped a carload of hogs to Portland the same day, Frank Abbott having charge of them, Mr. Hamilton going on No. 16 on the S.P.
    On the same train Rev. Gammon and family were on their way to Jacksonville to make that place their home. He has had a call to take charge of the Presbyterian church at that place. Frederick Heath, one of our merchants, also went to Medford at the same time. Mrs. John Sieler of Butte Falls also came out and is stopping at the Sunnyside at this writing. George Richardson, who came out to have Dr. Holt treat his cut foot, returned to Butte Falls Thursday.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the Butte Falls hatchery, was a passenger on the P.&E. Thursday
    R. R. Ringer, who is living on the Medford-Jacksonville road, was doing business with George Brown & Sons Thursday, and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    H. M. Berglund, representing the Sharples Cream Separator Company, came out from Medford Friday morning for breakfast at the Sunnyside.
    E. A. Geary of Griffin Creek and T. P. Ferrell, representing Guy W. Conners, packer and distributor of fruit, also representing a number of fruit firms in the U.S. and Europe, were at the Sunnyside for dinner on Friday. Mr. Geary is a son of Dr. E. P. Geary, health officer of Multnomah County, who was the first physician who ever settled in Eagle Point, and now owns the Griffin Creek farm, orchard and vineyard on that creek.
    Friday afternoon I heard the school house bell ring and my curiosity led me to go down and see the cause of the ringing of the bell and when I reached there I discovered that there was some there singing, so egged on by my curiosity, I went on up to the principal's room and there I found that the Eagle Point Industrial Club was having a meeting. The meeting was presided over by the president, Miss Ethel Riley. They had a very good program and the children did remarkably well in performing their parts. Some of the boys told what they were doing in the line of agriculture and some of the girls told what they were doing in the culinary department, and everything was conducted according to the rules of governing such clubs. The officers are: Miss Edith Riley, president; Adin Haselton, vice president; Theo. Florey, secretary; Verta Grover, assistant secretary; Nellie Coy, treasurer.
    Since my last report J. F. Brown and his brother, W. H. Brown, two of the leading merchants on our town, have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    The farmers are complaining on the account of damp, cloudy rainy weather as there is a lot of hay cut that needs attention and considerable that is suffering to be cut.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 5, 1916, page 5


    Miss Emma McCaslin of the Alta Vista orchard has been visiting Miss Freda Leabo the past week.
    I. M. Bates of Portland was a guest at the Sunnyside Sunday night and remained over Monday to hunt agates.
    Professor C. E. Johnson sent off his third petition for the constitutional amendment to prohibit the bringing into the state of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, last Friday, and Rev. L. L. Simmons sent off one petition making a total of 140 from this section, and if the anti-saloon forces all over the state have done as well as they did, the 23,000 names have been secured with plenty to spare.
    Mr. Newport, our depot agent, received five crates of chickens and shipped them out to Medford Poultry Company last Saturday. They were brought in by John Rader of Eagle Point, James Grieve of Prospect, W. E. Hammel by Mr. Isabel, his foreman, and later in the week Mrs. F. J. Ayres brought in a crate.
    Tuesday, when the train came in they had quite a lot of freight for our merchants and several passengers, and among them was Mrs. F. D. Hill of Derby, and she informed me that her husband was building a sawmill at the cedar spring, near the property of Frank Neil, which will be quite a convenience for the people who live off the railroad.
    Irvin Daley came out last Saturday for a load of lumber he has stacked here last fall, and while here was showing specimens of the copper-bearing rock he has taken out of his mine, and the copper was so plentiful that it could be seen by a young person with the eye without a glass, and I could see it with a magnifying glass. He seems to think he has a fortune right within his grasp.
    G. N. Birkely of Medford was with us last Saturday. He represents Failing, McCalman Co. of Portland. C. A. Newstrom, the road supervisor of the Lake Creek district, and wife were here for dinner at the same time.
    Miss Ruth Thomson of Derby came out on the train Saturday and the same evening was met by her sister, Miss Nell, and the two Hudson sisters, Misses Gillian and Lola Hudson, recently from Seattle,Wash., but now of Medford. The two sisters and Miss Thomson had just returned from Jacksonville, where they had been to take the teachers' examination, and Sunday after they all had taken dinner at the Sunnyside they boarded Henry Trusty's Ford and took a trip to Derby. The company was composed of the two Hudson sisters, Misses Ruth and Nell Thomson, Miss Clare Zimmerman, Misses Diehless Minter, Joe Moomaw and the chauffeur, Henry Trusty. Now, perhaps you may think that they were crowded, but they did not seem to be, for Henry is used to carrying passengers and he arranged them in the following order: He seated one lady on each end of the seat and then seated two more on the laps of the two ladies, and Joe in the middle, verily "a rose between four thorns," then he put two of the ladies on the front seat. They kind of doubled up so as to leave room for Henry so he could manage the car, and off they went, as merry as a clam at high tide. Misses Gillian H. C. Z. and Diehless returned home, Miss Minter to her home and the others to the Sunnyside, and reported having had a most enjoyable time. The Hudson sisters are looking for schools, as they are practical teachers.
    Professor C. E. Johnson returned to his room Friday from Jacksonville, where he had been taking the examination on some of the higher branches.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside for dinner Sunday besides those mentioned above were J. V. McIntyre, wife, daughter and sister, Miss Alice, William von der Hellen, wife, son and daughter, Jack Florey, Jr., John Foster, John McPherson, Jed Edsall, Carl Ringer, Dr. Holt and daughter, Miss Helen.
    Marshall Minter came out Monday and went to Medford on his way to Ashland.
    Mr. Archibald, living on what is known as the Heath place, came out Monday for another load of lumber. He and his partner, Mr. Stephenson, are building a house on a five-acre tract of land they have an option on, joining their place, as one house is not large enough for two families to live in.
    J. L. Cacy and family came out on the train on Monday on their way to Mrs. C.'s parents at Edsall Crossing, Mr. and Mrs. Geppert. They took a livery team to Derby, where they were met by some of the family, as the stage was so crowded that they could not go by stage.
    Rudolph Iseli of Portland came out Monday evening, spent the night at the Sunnyside and took the P.&E. train for the Dupray mill, where his father is engaged as head sawyer.
    Carl Salor of Lake Creek, a nephew of Charles Seefield, came out on the P.&E. Tuesday, and H. N. McIntyre of Derby came out on the same car, and Mrs. J. A. Jonas took passage from here to Butte Falls. French Hard of Butte Falls, who lives near the old Obenchain place, came out, took dinner with us and went up home the same day.
    Miss Lola Hudson, Frank Tungate and wife of Jacksonville and E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls were passengers on the P.&E. the 4th.
    The members of the I.O.O.F. lodge here have erected a flagpole on the top of their hall, the bank building, and had Old Glory floating from it on the Fourth. Speaking of the Fourth, every business house in town was closed and almost everybody went to Ashland to celebrate.
    The alarm of fire was given over the phone Wednesday afternoon, but the few men and women who are left here came to the rescue. The fire caught in a fence between the Zimmerman barn and the barn now owned by Mrs. Rose Potter, known as the Dick Daley barn, and was about to reach both barns by the time help came. There was little damage done. The cause of the fire is unknown to the public.
    Since my last report, George von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, Gus Nichols has renewed to the W.M.T.; S. H. Harnish, our livery stable man, had paid for an ad in the Eaglets and Harris Geppert of Butte Falls has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 7, 1916, page 5


    H. W. Clark of Central Point, who has been boarding with us for the past week and is engaged thinning and weeding a thirteen-acre tract of land the Narregans have in beets, in talking about the beet business in this valley said that the land in Rogue River section was remarkably well adapted to the culture of beets and that a yield of ten tons of beets to the acre was a small yield, but that it pays $12 an acre for the use of the land and good wages beside. He seems to be highly pleased with the prospect generally, although he says that to make a complete success of the culture of sugar beets the ground needs to be put in the same condition as though it was planted in any of the ordinary garden seeds, plowed deep and well pulverized.
    Mr. and Mrs. Brittsan, parents of Mr. Brittsan, who is living on the old Vatche place, came out Thursday, was met by their son and went on up to the ranch. They had been up to Ashland rusticating.
    Oliver Adams and E. A. Hildreth were passengers on the same train for their homes in Butte Falls, and Ralph Stanley and Miss Miller of Lake Creek were on the same train on their way home.
    Harris Geppert also boarded the train here for his home near Edsall crossing, on the P.&E.
    Mrs. A. E. Strong, wife of one of our prominent orchardists, was in town Wednesday shopping.
    C. W., T. B. and O. E. Frey, three brothers, who reside on the north fork of Little Butte, in the Lake Creek section, came out from Ashland the morning of the 6th and took the Lake Creek stage for their homes.
    Speaking of the Lake Creek stage, the owner and contractor, Herman Meyer, Sr., on his return trip from Ashland, had the misfortune to wreck his Ford so that he had to leave it on the roadside, and before he could get it to the repair shop some sneak thief stole one of the tires off a wheel, and the report was that he or she, whoever it was, had taken all of his tools, but he said when I interviewed him on the subject that a man who was to take the wrecked Ford to his repair shop had taken them out for safekeeping.
    C. Hoogerhyde has been assisting in the F. L. Heath store a part of the time during the holidays while some of the force were visiting Ashland.
    W. J. Coffeen, who lives up on Rogue River, near Trail, came out Thursday on his way to Jacksonville to look after his interests there.
    Our justice of the peace, F. M. Stewart, had a little case before him Thursday. A man by the name of Roberts and his neighbor, Wollover Bergman, had some trouble. In the course of events Mr. R. struck him with a tool he had, with the result that Mr. R. was arrested, pleaded guilty to simple assault, paid the fine and costs.
    Thomas Vestal was a business caller Thursday.
    J. A. Howard passed through town on his was to his home between here and the ferry.
    There was a carload of people consisting of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Walker and their two daughters, Miss Francis Akin and Mr. Embry, all of Prospect, passed through here Thursday afternoon on their way home from Ashland. They join in the announcement that the celebration in that city was a grand success.
    L. S. Trefren and his son John, of Butte Falls, were here for supper and breakfast Friday night and Saturday morning on their way to Ashland.
    Mrs. C. E. Hutchinson of Pelican Bay, Klamath County, was with us Friday night, and Saturday morning he, Harry Lewis and D. Dooms took the P.&E. for Butte Falls. They expected to be met by Frank Middlebusher at Derby and by three more at Butte Falls, and they were all going to start today, Saturday, for Pelican Bay, where they have all been employed in a lumber camp.
    Miss Anna Watkins, who had been operated on in the Medford hospital for goiter, was brought home since my last writing.
    Saturday morning on boarding the P.&E. train I met Mrs. E. C. Bellows of Eagle Point, her sister-in-law, Mrs. L. H. Wyant, and her sister, Miss Christina Wyant, of Ashland. Mrs. B. had been to Ashland to see the sights and visit her relatives and the last two named were going to the Bellows farm to spend a while visiting. Also Mrs. Kee, the mother-in-law of Dr. W. E. Buchanan of Ashland, and Mrs. Doubleday, on their way to their home in Butte Falls.
    Four strangers from Jacksonville, two ladies and two gentlemen, and Mrs. Minnie Bryant and daughter Kirtura, returned to Eagle Point from Ashland.
    Died--July 8, at the home of her parents, Ruby, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Jacks, aged 3 years. The little child was taken suddenly with inflammation of the bowels and lived only thirty hours.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 11, 1916, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, July 14, 1916, page 5


    Rogue Elk Resort, owned by McDonald brothers, located about 35 miles from Medford on the Crater Lake Highway, at the mouth of Elk Creek, will be formally opened next Saturday night with an elaborate entertainment. The resort is located on a 600-acre ranch, fronting on Rogue River.
    The building is of colonial type, with towering 26-foot columns, and represents an investment of $20,000. The steps leading into the building are the widest of any in Jackson County. Within the house a complete lighting and water system has been installed. In the large entrance hall are two huge fireplaces weighing 90 tons. A feature of the resort will be an artistic exhibit of landscapes, comprising Oregon's most famous scenery.
    The facilities for entertainment and amusement are many. In the river, before the resort, is a natural swimming pool. Guides and horses are furnished for hunting parties. By the beginning of the hunting season a trail, now being constructed, will be finished to the Umpqua divide. Excellent fishing is to be had in both Rogue River and Elk Creek.
    W. G. McDonald, the proprietor, and L. E. McDonald, the manager, are contemplating building a suspension bridge across the Rogue in the near future and parking 20 acres for summer cottages and a general camp ground.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 17, 1916, page 3


    Miss Frances Heath, daughter of one of our leading merchants, who has been visiting in Chicago and the state of Michigan for several months, returned to her home in Eagle Point last Monday, the 11th inst.
    W. C. Daley of Lake Creek spent Wednesday night with us. He was out looking after the interest of the heirs of his brother, the late A. J. Daley, trying to settle up the estate, of which he is administrator.
    C. A. Newstrom, the road supervisor of the Lake Creek district, called for dinner last Wednesday, and while here renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Last Thursday while I was looking around the P.&E. depot for items of interest to write I learned that the new sawmill at the cedar spring near Derby station was so far completed that they were sawing the lumber for its completion. It will prove to be a very great convenience for that community, as there are a number of settlers who have timber on their claims to use up in that way that without a sawmill would be practically useless, for it is too far from the railroad to justify cutting it into wood, but with a mill the most of it can be utilized.
    Among other things I saw at the depot was that there were on the car sixteen passengers, all bound for Derby and Butte Falls. There was one, a traveling salesman, E. A. Taft, who is working in the interest of the Fisher Flouring Mills Co. of Seattle, Wash., stopped here.
    Later in the day Mr. Taft joined Miss Muriel Burris, Mrs. H. L. Young and her son, Whiting Young, at the Sunnyside. Miss Burris was on her way up to the home of her mother, Mrs. Young, to make a visit. They all met at the Sunnyside and Mr. Taft and Miss Burris had a pleasant visit together. I also noticed that Mrs. Young had brought down a crate of nice fat hens for shipment.
    Miss Flora Elder of Lake Creek was at the Sunnyside for dinner the same day, and so was Joe Brown and M. E. Root of Medford. They were around among the orchardists trying to work up business in that line.
    Last Wednesday J. L. Robertson of Eagle Point, Mr. Bigham and his sister, Mrs. Henry Klippel, formerly of Medford, took the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage for their home on Trail Creek.
    Mrs. Terrill of Talent also took the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for the home of her son, Charles, just above Brownsboro.
    Mrs. Arglee Green also arrived at her home here, the old J. J. Fryer place, Thursday. Mrs. Green has been spending some time in the state of Washington and her son, Austin, has been living on her place.
    H. W. Rothermel and James B. Fee of Medford were also at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday. They were gathering material for a Jackson County directory. And Mr. J. A. Maloney, representing a soap manufacturing company of San Francisco, also was here the same day.
    J. G. Johnson and wife, formerly of this place, called on us for a few minutes Thursday, took dinner, but spent the most of the time they were here calling on the best of old-time friends. They left here twenty-three years ago. Mr. Johnson was the original composer of the Eaglets, as he wrote the Eaglets for the Medford Mail while I wrote the Butte Creek Items for the Valley Record, now, the Ashland Record, and when Mr. J. moved to Nevada Mr. Bliton engaged me to take up the Eaglets and I have kept them up since. Mr. J. is now engaged in the business of building and operating grain elevators and now is on his way to the state of Washington to engage in that business. [Johnson is apparently the author of the Big Butte Nuggets, signing his columns as "Jerry."]
    W. R. McLeod, who has a store near the upper steel bridge, was doing business in our town Friday afternoon, and so was Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Farlow of Lake Creek. They had their two daughters with them. Mrs. F. reported that a pack train of sixteen burros passed their place up on the north fork of Little Butte Creek, and that they were coming this way, but where they came from or where they were going is a mystery in this section of good roads and automobiles.
    Our town mayor, John M. Nichols, has sold his hens to Mr. Newport, our railroad agent, and started this Saturday morning for Fort Klamath with his wife to visit their son Artie, who is out there in the sheep business. Mrs. H. L. Young of Brownsboro also brought in a lot of hens for Mr. Newport.
    John Greb was in town for another load of lumber Friday.
    J. A. Howard walked in this (Saturday) morning from his farm near the free ferry, and took the P.&E. for School House Gap on his way home. He expects to start on the first of next week for Kansas City, where he expects to spend awhile visiting, and then go to his old home in Texas.
    Miss Lola Hudson came out Saturday morning, took dinner at the Sunnyside, procured a saddle horse at the Harnish livery stable and started for Derby to see about a school to teach.
    H. E. Rinabarger also came in for dinner Saturday. He had just came in from the Buzzard mine, where he has been employed to run a pump in the mine.
    The Brandon brothers are working away at the Eagle Point grist mill. They have a new turbine wheel in and are getting everything in readiness to start making flour this season.
    Since my last report, C. A. Newstrom of Lake Creek [and] C. S. Escher of Central Point have renewed their subscription to the W.M.T. and C. J. Vaughan has paid a six months' subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 18, 1916, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, July 20, 1916, page 3


    Lee Edmondson came out from his sawmill Tuesday on the P.&.E. and later took a jitney for Medford. Said that he was just ready to haul a carload of lumber to the Derby depot but the rain Sunday made the roads so muddy that he had to postpone it to some other time.
    O. C. Boggs and family called for supper Tuesday evening on their way up the country. Mr. B. is one of Medford's prominent lawyers.
    J. D. Pierce and Louis Martin of Trail came out Tuesday evening from Medford, where they had been on business. They have both been working in the Buzzard mine, and Mr. Pierce says that they have been running a tunnel into the hill on the opposite side from where they formerly worked, at a depth on about one hundred feet and find good prospects of fine gold, but he says that it will cost a good sum of money to develop the mine, as it is so far from the railroad and costs so much to get machinery up to the mine.
    I have enough items to make a third of a column of reading matter that I will have to keep over until I write again Saturday.
    There will be a special school meeting on Wednesday afternoon to vote on the budget and elect one director and one clerk. It is important that we all turn out at this meeting as your vote may make a difference of several hundred dollars in the expenses of the school district in the coming year--drop your work and come out to the school meeting. Remember the date, July 26, 1916.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 21, 1916, page 6


    More than 200 Medford people motored to Elk Creek Saturday night and attended the opening of the Rogue Elk resort. The accommodations of the resort were taxed to the utmost and many of the guests continued to Prospect after the entertainment, to spend the night.
    The interior of the building was beautifully decorated with masses of ferns and flowers, banked in the fireplaces and corners. The furnishings were pleasing, most of the furniture being made by the McDonald brothers and upholstered with an inlaid effect in different skins.
    During the evening a short program was given, a recitation by L. E. McDonald, eccentric dancing by F. E. McDonald, dancing by little Miss McDonald, and a reading by Mrs. John McDonald of Medford. In the art room Herbert Alford and Herbert Launspach furnished music for dancing.
    At 11:30 a mystic supper was served, after which those who were unable to find rooms at the resort set out for Prospect, many of them returning next day for dinner. A goodly number of those who stayed at the resort motored up to Prospect in the morning to spend the day, returning late last night.
    The resort promises to be especially popular, with its cool evenings, its excellent accommodations and beautiful scenery, for weekend parties.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 24, 1916, page 6


    Irvin Tyrrell of Lake Creek was among the callers Wednesday.
    Mrs. Andrew Grissom, wife of one of our progressive farmers in the Lake Creek region, had the misfortune to have her face and neck badly burned by carbolic acid. The bottle was knocked over by some means and the contents struck her in the face and some of it went into one of her eyes, but Dr. Holt, who was called to dress the burn, seemed to think that the eye was not seriously hurt.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Lowe of Ashland called for dinner Wednesday and while here entertained us with an account of how he managed his dry land farming--that is, without irrigation, and how he manages to raise fruit of almost all kinds without the use of water, and how he managed to arrange his orchard so as to be largely immune from frost. The reader will remember that Mr. Lowe was the man who had such a fine display at the county and state fairs, and I think that he also had quite a display of the products of his farm at the San Francisco fair last year. They were out working up an interest in the coming county fair and selecting persons to work up an interest in this district, No. 9. He says that he is going to have an exhibit at the fair this fall, but that he does not intend to enter the contest for prizes. He said that from the present appearances that we are going to have the best county fair this fall that we have ever had in the county.
    Julius Hart of Ashland was also here with Mr. Lowe and wife in the same car.
    Nute Gorman was here the same day. He was spraying W. Hart Hamilton's orchard for him, and as Mr. Hamilton is one of our regular boarders, he naturally brought him here for dinner.
    George E. Boos, district agent for the North American Accident and Health Insurance Company, was also here the same day.
    B. F. Morris of Butte Falls was doing business in our town Wednesday. He came out with Mr. Berrian, who has charge of the fish hatchery at Butte Falls. He was out looking after hay to supply his needs this coming winter.
    Dewey Hill of Derby and J. P. Hughes and son Sam of Butte Falls and F. K. Bright of Washington state spent Wednesday night with us.
    Mr. Bright is in the dairy business up in Washington and was here to look over our country with an eye to that line of business.
    A special school meeting is called for Monday, July 31, at 3:15 p.m. to elect one director and one clerk, as George von der Hellen has resigned as director shortly after the annual election and C. Hoogerhyde, who was elected, failed to qualify. The voters will be called upon to decide on the proposition as to the establishment of a high school, the amount of money to be raised for school purposes the coming year. It is estimated in the budget that our expenses will be $3875 and the receipts, not including the tax to be voted at this meeting, will be $1181.14, leaving a balance of $2693.86. Deducting the $2350 for teachers' hire as agreed to by the old board, that is, $1000 for the principal and $675 each for the two lady teachers, then add $150 for furnishing the high school, provided it carries, and if it does carry we will have to pay, under the agreement sum of $575 for additional teacher, provided the principal's wife is employed to teach, making a total of $2925 for teachers' hire alone, more than is being paid by any other third grade school district in the county. Isn't it about time to call a halt?
    C. A. Hanscom brought in a fine lot of hens and broilers for our depot agent since my last report.
    Mrs. John Obenchain of Butte Falls, who has been out to Medford visiting relatives, returned home Thursday.
    J. L. Frink has finished cutting a thirty-five-acre field of wheat for W. Hart Hamilton, and Mr. Rhodes started his threshing machine to threshing it out this Saturday morning.
    Misses Laura Gates and Mary Holmes, Miss Allison Officer-O'Brien, Miss Margaret and Miss Kittie Soutter have been visiting Miss Hazel Brown the last week.
    Thomas Riley and Everett Dahack were guests at the Sunnyside for dinner Friday and later in the day Archie Parker of Central Point, the man who has taken the place of Mr. Brown, the meat market man, called for dinner. It is quite a convenience to have a man that you can depend on come twice a week with fresh meat right to your door.
    Howard A. Hill and F. R. Steel were here also. They were looking over the fruit prospect, and Mr. Steel is in the stock business. He keeps pedigreed Berkshire hogs, Holstein cattle and Percheron horses. Mr. Hill is one of our Medford fruit men and Mr. Steel is located in Grants Pass.
    Mrs. Etta Florey has returned from a trip to near Prospect, where she has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Chauncey Nye, and her sister, Mrs. Joe Phipps.
    James Jordan, who left here some time ago with his wife to visit their children in Iowa and Montana and buried his wife in their old home town, returned to his home here Friday.
    Rev. John Day of Butte Falls spent Friday night with us and Saturday morning took the P.&E. for his home.
    Mrs. Dora Hess of Medford, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Hamilton Watkins, took dinner at the Sunnyside Saturday and took Lewis' jitney for Medford the same afternoon.
    Harry A. Young came out Friday with Everett Dahack in his jitney.
    Miss Nell Thomson came out from Derby Saturday and is visiting her cousin, Miss Claire Zimmerman, at the Sunnyside.
    There was a company of our citizens made a trip to Crater Lake the first of the week, but as I have not all the names will mention it in my next.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 26, 1916, page 6


    On Monday, the 17th inst. William von der Hellen and family, accompanied by his mother, Senator H. von der Hellen's wife and G. V. McIntyre wife and sister, Miss Alice McIntyre, started from here about five o'clock in the morning and made the round trip to Crater Lake and back. They went to within about one and one-half miles of the lake with their autos, but had to walk over the snow the rest of the distance. The snow, in some places, was 16 feet deep. They were particularly anxious to go at that time as Miss Alice Mclntyre was very desirous of seeing the great lake and beautiful scenery surrounding it, as well as all along the route, as she had planned to start on her return trip in the near future. Miss Alice started the following Wednesday for her home in Illinois, via California, where she contemplates spending some time with friends along the route.
    George Childreth and family came out from their home in Medford last Saturday to visit his brother, Wesley L. Childreth, our town blacksmith.
    William Butler, one of our progressive and hustling farmers, has been getting lumber to build a new barn on his place between here and Brownsboro. He is busily engaged now at this writing running his binder and getting ready to start his threshing machine.
    Charles Wright of Talent was here last Saturday visiting Mr. J. T. Zimmerlee, the proprietor of the Farmer's Hotel.
    Miss Edith Lewis of Prospect came out Saturday on the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage to visit her aunt, Mrs. Clark.
    Henry Trusty, the mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Persist route, reported that Mr. Sander's house on Elk Creek was burned Saturday morning. They were not able to save much of the household goods. I did not learn if he carried any insurance or the amount of the loss. It leaves him with quite a family on his hands and will prove to be a severe loss to him.
    Miss Ruth Lumsden and her sister, Nell, of Derby, Mrs. Charley Bacon and two boys, and her sister, Miss Nada McIntyre of Medford, came on Saturday evening to spend the night.
    Sunday was quite a busy day in and around Eagle Point, for that day the big Elk Creek resort was formally opened to the public and the street through our town, leading thereto, seemed to be lined with autos of every kind from midnight Saturday to 8 a.m. Sunday morning and the P.&E. had announced an excursion to Butte Falls on that Sunday, and that took nine of our citizens from here. The station agent here, Mr. Newport, told me there were ninety tickets sold for the trip and that would mean 81 from Medford and along the route from there to this place. And then there was the Klamath Falls-Medford ball game, and that took quite a number of the sporting class from our midst, but still we had at the Sunnyside Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Snider, the people who furnish the people of Medford with milk, and his brother-in-law, Mr. D. O. Frederick. Mr. Frederick is the man who had such a time getting a minister to perform the marriage ceremony for him. As he was too busy teaching school at the time to come over and engage me to tie the knot, he sent his intended bride and after the arrangement was all made to have me meet them at the Table Rock station, April 20, 1911. They missed the train. At that time the train left Medford at 8 a.m. They then had to race to overtake me with a team on my way to Antioch. When I came back and met the two witnesses they had brought on, we went to the big pasture belonging to the F.L.D. Co., and pronounced them man and wife. They have not forgotten it, while he was here being the first time we have met since that memorable occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Rolph Elden, the fertilizer man, their two children and two young men, whom I did not know, being present.
    We had a little sensation created in our town Saturday night. Our town marshal is proving to be a live wire, for he sits up until a late hour to watch the speeders in their autos, and it appears, according to the complaint, that one Everett Dahack was dashing through town about 1 a.m., Sunday morning, and the marshal said he thought he was going about 40 miles an hour, without any lights, so he quietly stopped him, and took him before the town recorder, and Mr. Dahack pleaded that he had an important engagement in Klamath Falls, and the time for the case to come up was fixed for Wednesday, when we will probably have a free display of legal talent.
    C. Edgell took out a load of tree props from the lumber yard Monday and Mr. L. K. Haak and A. E. Strang also bought a load each of lumber to use on their farms.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mitchell, who live near the newly discovered copper mine, were all in town Monday, and so was Ralph Gardner and wife, with two children and Mrs. Yorde Mayham and while here the last two named remained with me their subs to the W.M.T.
    E. L. Sryle, the popular salesman for L. Dinkelspiel and Co. on San Francisco, called on the firm of George Brown and Sons Tuesday morning.
    As I board the P.&E. in search for items of interest to the readers of the Mail Tribune I met Mr. Alfred Powers of Oakland, Ore., and Ben H. Williams of the University of Oregon, Eugene. They were on their way to Crater Lake. They had started from Eugene, went to Coos Bay, and traveled from there to the mouth of the Rogue River, up the Rogue to Medford and were going to see Crater Lake, Fort Klamath and return to Oakland through the hills, via the Umpqua route. Mr. Powers is taking pictures for the various scenic beauties along his route and gathering data and material for magazine articles. They seemed to be men of a fine appearance and quite intelligent. The train started while we were talking, so I was stopped short, or I would have learned more of what Mr. Williams, was out for, but they were combining business with pleasure.
    William Welch and A. M. Butler, who at this time are on the Mike Hanley ranch, and Charles Gilmore and Archey Parker and three others were here at noon Tuesday.
    Melvin Bleecher and his son, T. R., of Central Point, were in town stopping at the Farmer's Hotel Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 28, 1916, page 5


    Bob Verbick, the man who has the store at Union Creek on the Crater Lake road, passed through here the middle of the week on his way out with a truckload of goods for the store. He said that the road was in fine shape most of the way through now.
    Married, Monday, July 24, Mr. Sherman Wooley of Eagle Point and Miss Nellie Smith of Butte Falls.
    Married at the residence of the officiating minister, Rev. L. L. Simmons, July 25, Mr. Louis Coy and Miss Doris Arens, both of Eagle Point. The bride is a sister of Mr. J. S. Quackenbush, wife of the foreman on the A. Corbin orchard, and Mrs. Coy is one of the popular young women of this section and her husband has just entered in the age of manhood, having been married on his 21st birthday, and I understand that the bride is in her 17th year. Their many friends here are wishing them a long and prosperous journey through life.
    Rev. L. L. Simmons started for Butte Falls shortly after the marriage to assist in conducting a protracted meet there.
    N. W. Slusser, our town barber and watch repairer, who has been away from his place of business for about two weeks, returned last Wednesday. During his absence, Mr. William Whitman filled his place as town barber.
    F. J. Ayres and wife were among the visitors in our town Wednesday.
    William Butler and Narregan and son have each been hauling lumber from the lumber yard since last report.
    William Mansfield, one of the deputy game wardens, passed through on the P.&E. railroad for Derby and the surrounding country Thursday.
    Mrs. Aden Tyrrell of Lake Creek passed through here last week and on Monday evening the friends of the family gave them a surprise party at the home of her father-in-law, Mr. J. H. Tyrrell, where light refreshments, including cake, ice cream, etc., were served and my informant tells me that they had a regular old-fashioned jolly good time. The people in the Lost Creek country know just how to have a good time when they get together, for they are one of the most sociable neighborhoods in the county.
    Mr. J. W. Street, the man who is supplying the schools in the county with school supplies, was with us again Thursday and so was S. H. Harnish, Henry Trusty and two strangers.
    H. J. Hanver, one of the U.S. fish hatchery men, was here Thursday on the P.&E. He had been up to the Elk Creek hatchery and was on his way up to Clackamas to inspect the hatchery there.
    Jasper Hannah, who lives on the Bybee Bridge-Trail road, was here on business Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. Foster and Mr. Foster's brother-in-law J. F. Dunlap of San Francisco, are here at this writing, Saturday, visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stewart. Mr. Dunlap and Mrs. Foster are nephew and niece of Mrs. Stewart and have come in their auto from San Francisco via Red Bluff, crossed the mountains, the Coast Range, to Eureka, Cal., came up the coast to Crescent City, thence to Grants Pass, Medford to this place, and today went to Crater Lake to see the ninth wonder of the world.
    Thursday afternoon I concluded that I would take a stroll out of my usual beat and decided to call on one of my friends, Mrs. Arglee Green, who recently arrived from the neighborhood of Los Angeles. Just before I reached the place there was a buggy stopped at the place and two ladies got out and the third one went on. By the time that I reached the place, I discovered that the two ladies were met by Mrs. Green in the lawn, under the shade of the trees that Mrs. Green's father, the late J. J. Fryer, had planted years ago and they seemed to be inspecting a lot of apparently old hats. As I drew nearer I discovered that Mrs. Green had pulled out ribbons, etc., and that one of the ladies was showing Mrs. Green an old hat--but I am going ahead of my story--I had been there but a few minutes before the same buggy came up and another lady got out and she had some more old hats, and I began to wonder what kind of a jamboree I had gotten into and about this time the serene buggy arrived again and this time the driver and another lady got out, tied up the horse and joined the company, and the new arrivals had what looked to me like a large sugar sack (white), and on bringing it to the place we were sitting, began to empty the contents on the ground, and lo, it was filled with old hats, and in less time than it takes me to write the account, here came another lady and a little girl and about the first question that was asked was: "Didn't you bring your hat?" By this time I discovered that I had settled down right into a hatmaking bee. I will here state that Mrs. Green is a special teacher in millinery work and had invited some of her old friends to come in at that time and bring in their old cast-off hats and she would help them remodel them, trim them over and, in fact, make them new. Those present were Mrs. W. L. Childreth, Mrs. J. W. Grover and daughter, Mrs. Norm McQuoid and daughter, Mrs. Floyd Pearce and Miss Mabel Wamsley. Mrs. Green began to look around for a needle, thread and thimble for me to go to work on mine or some other old hat, and I suddenly thought of business that I had to look after in another part of town, so I bid the ladies adieu and retreated. After I left I learned that ice cream and cake was served and that they actually turned out two new hats, complete, and had several under way of construction, and one of the ladies told me that they had a very enjoyable time. After I left on my way to other parts, I met two ladies and one of them asked: "Have you been down to the 'hen party,'" and I answered in the affirmative and asked: "Weren't you invited?" and she answered, "No."
    Mr. Carl von der Hellen and Miss Orbie Natwick motored up to the Sunnyside for supper Thursday evening for supper and Dave Smith, formerly of Butte Falls, but now of Pendleton, Ore., spent the night with us.
    Chalmers Ringer, one of our old boarders, came out from Medford Friday to stay a while with us, until he recuperates.
    J. B. Roberts, who is interested with Thomas Riley, Jr., in this year's crop, took supper with us Friday night.
    Since my last report C. W. Clements of Eagle Point has removed his subscription to the Mail Tribune and David Cingcade and Henry French have renewed their subscriptions to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 31, 1916, page 5


    Our town has lost another esteemed family, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Mantz, who have moved to Medford. They have been here but a few months, but have made many friends during their stay.
    Mr. Netherland, formerly of Butte Falls, but now of Medford, was here during the week. He had been up to his old home and was on his return trip home.
    Charley Cingcade was a business caller Thursday.
    Thursday J. C. Benedict and R. H. Duncan, two mining men, were here and on Friday were met by Mike Hanley and taken to his mountain ranch. Mike says that he has a fine lot of hay this season.
    Mr. Stabb and Mr. Ed Tucker of Brownsboro were here Thursday after lumber, Mr. Stabb for lumber to be used in building a new store building for a man by the name of Cannon, who contemplates opening a new store at that place, and Mr. Tucker was hauling lumber to cover a stack of hay, as he has more hay than he could get into his barn. Speaking about lumber, Mr. Newport, our R.R. agent, tells me that he had on order for 18,000 feet in one lot a few days ago, but could not fill it as the demands is so great. Mr. Rurfries, the owner of the mill four miles this side of Butte Falls, had a breakdown and had to shut down about ten days to put in another engine. Thinks that from this time on that he will be able to supply the demand.
    Miss Grace Miller, who has been learning to be a trained nurse in the hospital in Medford, a daughter of John Miller of Lake Creek, and has been up to her home visiting her parents, came out Thursday and took dinner here and went on to Medford the same day.
    Gus Nichols and wife of L.C. were doing business in our town Thursday.
    W. H. Phillips of Rochester, New York, representing Todd Protectograph Company, was here for dinner Thursday.
    Thursday as the train, the P.&E., pulled into our depot I , as is my custom, boarded the passenger car and counted eighteen persons in the car and among them was Dr. J. F. Reddy and wife, of Grants Pass, Mr. DeWitt Van Ostrand of Phillips, Wisconsin, Mr. Charles F. Gunnell and B. F. Fifer of Medford. We all know who Dr. Reddy is, for he was one of the main men who changed the Pacific and Eastern from "two streaks of rust across the desert" to a flourishing railroad from Medford to Butte Falls, and put new life into the sleeping village of Eagle Point. And Mr. DeWitt Van Ostrand is one of the big timber owners of the country, being president of the Good Land Co., owners of 50,0000 acres of land in Northern Wisconsin, and also president of Neenah-Oregon Land Co., owner of 1,000,000 feet of Oregon timber, while Mr. Gunnell is one of the big mining men of the country and Fifer is a building contractor, but the question naturally arises in the mind of the inquisitive one, what was they doing up in the country, and I was inquisitive enough to ask the Dr. if he was going to absorb the P.&E. Railroad and connect it with the Grants Pass road?  And he said that as unlikely things as that had happened. But they all went up to Butte Falls and came back the same day and we are just as wise now as to the object they had in view as we were before they came and went.
    Alex Vestal started out from Medford Thursday p.m. on his bicycle and had gone but a short distance before he found himself afoot and I saw him in Ray Ashpole's hardware store putting in a new inner tube.
    Captain McQuoid has been repairing the sidewalks and footbridges across Little Butte Creek.
    F. H. Clausing, who is traveling in the interest of the Farquahar Mfg. Co., of Chicago selling the Little Wizard washing tablets, was doing business with our merchants and took dinner at the Sunnyside. There were two more men I took to be traveling men, but they came in just as dinner was ready, ate, paid their bill, but I did not get their names; some of them are too fast for the old man.
    Wm. W. Clements of Plaza, Josephine County, Ore., recently from Pennsylvania, was here Thursday night and took the E.P.-Persist auto stage for Trail. He expects to spend a couple of weeks fishing at Trail in Rogue River. He seems to be a young man just traveling for pleasure.
    Mrs. Nela R. Mayfield of  Edgewood, California, and two of her grandchildren were also with us on Thursday night on their way to her sons on Rogue River.
    Mr. and Mrs. Seth M. Bullis of Medford, a son of the Blue Ledge R.R. promoter, were here for dinner Friday. Mrs. Bullis, nee Miss Root, was one of the company of ladies who made a raid on me two years ago and tried to persuade me to boost for Wm. Hanley, among whom I lost my pencil, and she had not forgotten it. But the pencil was made up by the Bill Hanley Progressive Club.
    Our new meat man, Mr. Packer of Central Point, was accompanied Friday by Miss Mary Elliott of Central Point in his rounds. They dined at the Sunnyside.
    Died, at Brownsboro, July 29, Mrs. Dency Elizabeth Nicholson, aged 69 years and 4 day. She was born in Haskell, Steuben County, New York, July 25th, 1844. 
She united with the Presbyterian Church in her early youth and later with the Seventh Day Baptists. She lived a Christian life and seemed to be ready at the master's call. Services at the Brownsboro cemetery, conducted by Rev. L. L. Simmons, July 30.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 7, 1916, page 3


    Rev. Morny Oser, the Lutheran minister of Medford, held services in the Lake Creek district last Saturday and came out with the mail carrier, Herman Meyer, Monday morning.
    F. M. Stewart and wife went with their nephews and niece, Mr. and Mrs. E. Foster and Ben Dunlap of San Francisco, last Saturday to Crater Lake and back, taking in all the sights along the route, and Mr. Dunlap says that they were well paid for their trip. Mr. and Mrs. Foster and Mr. Dunlap started on the return trip Monday.
    Last Saturday morning I went to Tolo to hear Rev. C. M. Davis preach and while on the way kept my eyes and thoughts busy, gathering items for the readers of the Mail Tribune. There was nothing in particular to attract my attention, until I reached the west side of the Desert. Although there is considerable vegetation growing on that tract of land, for I saw some growing and the stubble showed that there had been some hay cut off the land, I also noticed that there were people using water, for the berry vines look healthy, but as I approached the Bear Creek section the scene was changed. The first place that looked extra good to me was a tract of about three acres that was planted in tomatoes. The vines looked vigorous and healthy, but there seemed to be a lack of fruit set on the vines and I hear complaints all around that the tomatoes do not seem to be setting on as well as usual this season, caused probably by the cool summer we have had. On going a little farther I began to get in the sugar beet section, and they did look good to me. As a general thing, although there was one patch where they didn't seem to be doing so well, in fact, they seemed to need cultivation. Another thing that I noticed was a small field of Sudan grass growing that looked as though it was four or five feet tall and just beginning to head out, and it looks to me as though, where the land will not produce alfalfa or clover that that is the coming food for cattle in this country. Arriving at the Tolo S.H., I found Rev. Davis was already there and about ready to open the Sunday school. After Sunday school he called together a special class that he had organized for the purpose  of studying the Bible through in courses. He organized the class about the first of the year and the lesson is announced four weeks ahead, as he cannot be there oftener than once a month, and to facilitate the work he is writing questions on the typewriter and supplying each family with a list so to have them take up each leading thought and then he draws out the ideas of the members of the class. The people in that section seem to be greatly interested in the work and the class is growing in size and interest.
    As I was away from home Sunday, I am not able to make a report of what went on that day, but I asked Mrs. H. if she had many for dinner Sunday and she said, "No, not very many; mostly strangers."
    Monday Mr. Ben Noonan and his two boys came in from Coos Bay to visit his sister, Mrs. S. H. Harnish, and found that she had gone up to the ranch that Mr. Harnish rented on Antelope Creek, so the next morning they all went to meet her and the most of her family there, as they have driven their milk cows where they can have good feed and are milking them there. It keeps Sam Harnish busy now to attend his livery stable, his jitney, house here and his mountain ranch.
    D. R. Patrick was in town and while here renewed his subscription to the Mail Tribune and told me that he had contracted to build a new store building in Brownsboro, but didn't remember the name of the party who was to open up the store, but would give it to me later.
    Monday night Mr. H. J. Eberly, one of the state forest fire wardens, stopped with us and Tuesday morning Mr. L. R. Wilson of Central Point and his son, Robert, came in about six o'clock for breakfast on their way to Prospect. Mr. Wilson is another one of the firm believers in the future of Jackson County and is very enthusiastic over the pear crop this year.
    Monday afternoon there was a special school meeting held at the school building for the purpose of voting on the budget, electing one director and a clerk and to vote on the high school question and attend to any business that would properly come before the meeting. Mr. L. K. Haak presided and before the meeting was called to order he had placed on the blackboard the budget, the amount of money that would be raised in the district on the valuation of property from one mill up to 10 mills, so that all could see just what they were voting for. The first thing was the election of a director and Mr. W. L. Childers was chosen and John W. Smith was chosen clerk. Then the question as to the high school came up for consideration and after it was understood that there are to be but three teachers employed and that the principal would be required to teach the ninth grade with the other grade, it was decided to have a high school. They then voted a 6-mill tax, four mills for the upkeep of the school and 2 mills to apply on the debt.
    W. D. Knighten has gone to the hills on a prospecting tour.
    Miss Mary Holmes, who has been visiting her cousin, Miss Hazel Brown, for some time, returned to her home in Central Point Wednesday.
    S. S. Aiken of Prospect was on the train Tuesday, on his way home.
    Rev. Shields, formerly of Medford, but now Burns, passed through here Tuesday on his way to Eastern Oregon.
    John M. Nichols and wife, who have been out in the Fort Klamath country, returned the first of the week.
    Mr. Bonner, the hay baler man, was here Tuesday night to interview W. Hart Hamilton with regard to baling his hay. He has about 70 tons to bale.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 8, 1916, page 3


    Harold Simpson came out last Saturday and went up above Brownsboro to visit his father, Frank Simpson.
    Al Mayfield and wife were here the last of the week visiting his brother-in-law, Wm. Knighten.
    E. D. Hill of Ashland was on the P.&E. car Saturday, en route to visit his son, who has a saw mill near Derby. There was a quantity of sand and crushed rock on the car to be used in remodeling the school house in Butte Falls. Tuesday B. F. Piper and his three employees, with a quantity of cement, was on the P.&E. en route to Butte Falls, to work on the construction of the building.
    Mrs. Alice Booth and son were also on the car on its return trip and so was Guy Bishop and wife and his sister Miss Alice Bishop. They were met here by John Owens in his Ford and taken to his ranch on Dry Creek.
    W. C. Daley and his son, George W. Daley, Jr., were also here on business Saturday.
    Since I last wrote for the Mail Tribune, I think it was on Friday, Mrs. F. H. Madden and her sister, Mrs. Fredrick P. Lamb, Miss Francis Gurley, Mr. Robert Wilson and Mr. Carter Brandon stopped here for dinner. Mrs. Madden, Miss Francis Gurley and Mrs. Wilson are of Central Point, Mr. Brandon from Medford and Mrs. Lamb is from Chicago, here on a visit with her sister. They had been to Crater Lake and were on their return trip. They reported the road in good condition and the trip worth taking.
    J. G. Smith of Portland was doing business with our hardware merchants Saturday and visiting an old friend, Mr. F. M. McPherson. He represents the H. J. Frost Co., of New York, manufactures of fishing tackle.
    Perl Stowell was also among the business callers Saturday.
    Mrs. Elizabeth Cox of Phoenix walked into town from the Alta Vista orchard, where she had been to visit a son, to visit Mrs. J. T. Zimmerlee, the hostess of the Farmer's Hotel, last Saturday. She is in her 85th year and seem as spry as many of the women of 30. She lives alone, although she has children that she could live with, but says that she prefers to live alone. She raises a garden, keeps hens and by that means manages to keep busy and consequently contented.
    Lee Watkins and his daughter, Mrs. Pearson and daughter Mrs. Simmons and son, all of Medford, were visiting Mrs. John Watkins last Saturday.
    On Sunday Mr. D. E. Heney and wife and Mr. George Roberts drove up to the Sunnyside just before 11 o'clock a.m. and held a consultation as to whether they could wait until 12:30 for dinner, for they were on their way to Crater Lake and on being assured that they could go to Silver Creek, where they wanted to camp, easily in four or five hours, finally decided to stay, as Mr. Heney said that he had boarded here for four days four years ago, and he knew what was coming.
    John Tyrrell and wife and Herman Meyer and wife, J. W. Grover, wife and daughter, Miss Vesta, Leslie Abbott, Guy Pruett and Henry Trusty were here Sunday for dinner.
    Sunday morning the road was lined with autos on their way to Crater Lake and among those who went from here were Dr. Holt and daughter, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Preddy, and Fredrick Heath, returning Monday afternoon.
    Monday I met George H. Himes, secretary of the Oregon Historical Society, on his way from Crater Lake. He said that he had been about 20 years trying to see the lake and had just succeeded. I see in the Medford Sun that the reporter sets the time of his arrival at 1899 and he has been the Secretary of the Oregon State Historical Society for the past 50 years, as he came here in 1863. He is one of the noted men of the Pacific Coast.
    In my rounds Monday I dropped into F. L. Heath's store and there I met Jack Hittson and a friend living on Rogue River, Mrs. E. L. Roundtree and Mrs. David Cingcade. Mrs. Cingcade is the woman who was given up to die in the Good Samaritan Hospital and was so miraculously cured. She says that she feels as well as ever before and has gained in weight some 20 pounds.
    Miss Emma Roberts of Ashland is at this writing the guest of Mrs. David Cingcade. Miss Dorsy Diamond has been visiting Mrs. Charles Cingcade.
    Mrs. Benjamin Brophy is spending a few days with Mrs. T. B. Higinbotham on Rogue River near Flounce Rock.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Holt of Ashland were on the P.&E. car Tuesday on their way to Butte Falls, and so was O. Adams.
    Earl Croft brought in about three and a half dozen chicks this morning for Mr. Newport and took his check for $10.56 for them; verily there is something to be made in the chicken business.
    Monday evening there was a surprise party given to Mr. Freeland Newport, our depot agent, and Mrs. William Perry at the home of Mr. Newport and at the home of the latter, it being the 36th birthday of Mr. Newport and Mrs. Perry, both the same age, born August 7, 1880. Another incident in connection with their life is that Mr. Newport married Mrs. Perry's sister in San Francisco, before Mrs. P. was ever known to him. A long table was prepared on Mr. Perry's lawn and a sumptuous meal was served. The surprise party was gotten up by the near relatives of the two in whose honor it was arranged, those present almost all being related either by blood or marriage. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grover and daughters, Misses Verts and Ruth, Mr. and Mrs. Norman McQuoid and daughter Miss Norma, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ayres, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Newport and daughter Lucille, Mr. and Mrs. William Perry and daughters Misses Fay and Stella. The lawn was interspersed with Japanese lanterns and after supper was served the evening was spent playing games and in social conversation. At late bedtime the company dispersed, wishing the lady and gentleman many happy return of their birthdays and a long, happy and useful life.
    Roy Cobleigh, who had been working for Thomas F. Nichols on his ranch on South Little Butte Creek, came in to the Sunnyside Monday, spent the night and took the train for his home near Butte Falls Tuesday.
    Tuesday we had with us for dinner Mr. W. C. Mandall of Portland, representing the Nyal Company's medicines, carried by the von der Hellen Hardware Company.
    Mr. and Mrs. Owen Grisby and her two children and her sister-in-law Miss Vena Kershaw and one of the Holman girls, all of Wellen.
    Mrs. O. D. Wright of Bakersfield, Cal., and son took a room at the Sunnyside Friday. She expects to remain for some time.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 12, 1916, page 5


    Mrs. Ed Hanley, son and daughter and Mrs. Charles T. Chamberlain of Portland called for 6 o'clock dinner last Tuesday, Aug. 8. Mrs. Chamberlain is the guest of Mrs. Hanley, and they made it convenient to call on Mrs. Howlett in their rounds.
    S. H. Harnish, wife and son Robbie, Benjamin Moomaw and two sons and two daughters from Coos Bay and his brother, Joe Moomaw, started the first of the week on a trip to Crater Lake, Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, Ashland and Medford, returning to Eagle Point Friday. The pleasure of the trip was somewhat marred on account of the sickness of Mrs. Harnish, who was suffering when she left with shortness of breath caused by heart trouble, but barring that they had a pleasant time and were delighted with the scenery along the route and the lake. The next day the two Moomaw brothers and the four children started to visit their father and mother in Josephine County, and going from there to visit a brother, John, in Portland, and two sisters in the Willamette Valley, returning via Roseburg, will go to Coos Bay, the home of Benjamin, and Joe will spend a while looking over the country and taking a rest from his labors here. He is the mail carrier from here to Derby, going three times a week. Jack Lewis is filling his position as mail carrier during his absence from his post of duty.
    Talking about traveling brings to my mind an incident that was related to me while I was in Medford last Wednesday. Austin Corbin met me on the street and gave me an account of a trip that he took in company with Corbin Edgell and E. G. Burgess. They started out in their auto to go to the top of Mt. Pitt, sometimes called Mt. McLoughlin. They encountered little difficulty until they began to ascend the mount proper and then the work began, climbing over the rocks and through the brush and snow. After climbing for six hours they reached a point within about one hundred and fifty yards of the summit and there found the snow was so slippery and the ascent so dangerous they concluded to retrace their steps, taking five hours to make the descent. But Mr. Corbin says that he don't want any more such experiences as that, for owing to the hardness of the snow in some places and the softness in others, making the ascent both hard and dangerous. But while they were there they took photographs of the mountain from different points and he showed me some fine photos of the big hill. They also could see with a glass all of the high points in Oregon, California and Washington.
    G. F. Koenig, who is interested in the sawmill near Derby, at the cedar springs, was on the train, the P.&E. , Wednesday, on his way home. He had been out to Medford to send a part of his engine out to Portland for repairs. A cylinder head had blown out and he had to send it to the repair shop in Portland, necessitating lying idle for a week or more. He says that they have been getting out some fine lumber.
    B. C. Vestal and family, a nephew of J. S. Vestal, who lives on Reese Creek, came in from Butte, Mont., a few days ago to visit his uncle, aunt and cousins, and in going from one house to another visiting he ran his auto against a low stump and bent the front axle of his auto very badly. He brought the axle out to W. L. Childreth for repairs and afterward had to bring the whole machine out, as some of the parts of the bed were badly sprung. He says that he was going very slow, but the auto is so heavy that it jammed it up considerable.
    There were seven or eight loads of hogs passed through out town Thursday morning on the way to Medford. Marsh Garrett had three loads and Mr. Gardner one or more, but I did not learn the names of the parties who were taking them out, but it seemed to be a kind of a neighborhood arrangement. Mr. Gardner lost a nut off his axle and  Mr. and Mrs. Garrett returned with him to Eagle Point in their auto from the desert to try to find the nut or procure a substitute and get some jack screws to raise the wagon, and they were just ready to start as I met them, is why I do not know more about it.
    Herman Meyer was out Thursday after another load of lumber.
    E. Wheeler, O. Adams and Mr. Matthews of Butte Falls were on the train for their home Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bellows, who have a dairy farm on Rogue River, were in town Thursday with their cream.
    Cyril Haak, a small boy, but a member of the Boys' and Girls' Industrial club, is trying his hand at plying Eagle Point with a fine variety of beans.
    Speaking of the Haak family brings to mind the fact that either myself or the printer made a list of mistakes in my article published in Tuesday last, in which I gave an account of our special school meeting. I aimed to state that Mrs. L. K. Haak, being the chairman of the board, presided, and had written out on the board a copy of the budget, etc., and the printer had it Mr. Haak, and where I had she it was printed he. Speaking on the subject of schools, I see that the board has advertised for bids for wood and also for the janitorship. This time it will be let to the lowest bidder.
    Ed Walker and J. H. Driscoll, two of the deputy game wardens, stopped here for supper Thursday night, fed their horses and then drove on up to Trail by moonlight.
    While I was writing the last item Mr. W. D. Roberts came in and gave me an ad for the classified column wanting to trade farm stock, etc., in Coquille Valley for farm property in the Rogue River Valley.
    Sherwin Hamilton, son of W. Hart Hamilton, who owns a large farm joining Eagle Point and had been to Crescent City, Cal., visiting for the past month, returned to the Sunnyside Wednesday.
    C. H. Willison, a traveling salesman, wife and daughter, came up from Ashland Friday morning for breakfast.
    J. L. Hovey, manager of the Dr. Hart farm, and wife and Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fifer (Mr. F. is one of the Medford contractors) and Mr. F.'s little grandson, Bernard Rice, stopped Friday forenoon for dinner on their way from Crater Lake. They were speculating on how such a great hole could be blown out of the top of a high mountain and still be so beautiful.
    A. E. Le Ponte, proprietor of the I.X.L. monument works of Central Point, was with us Friday and Friday night.
    Mrs. W. E. Butler, Mr. Bieberstedt and Mrs. Ratcliff have brought in their chickens to Mr. Newport since my last.
    Mrs. Annie Baker of Butte Falls was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Daley Friday night.
    G. N. Birkland, representing Failing-McCalman Co. of Portland, was here.
    The Eagle Point Boys' and Girls' Industrial Club will meet at the school house August 16 in the afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 14, 1916, page 3


    The other day Joe Riley, who has a farm on Antelope Creek, was here, and I asked him how his sugar beets were doing, and he said that the sugar beet man who goes around to examine the beet crop told him that he had the finest-looking beets he had seen in Jackson or Josephine counties; that he had beets that would measure eight or nine inches across and were twelve inches long. And he said further that the man--he had forgotten his name--remarked that there were acres of land in this section that was just as well adapted in the growth of sugar beets as his land.
    Before I forget it, I wish to correct a glaring mistake I made in my writeup I gave of the trip that Messrs. Harnish, Moomaw and Co. took to Crater Lake. I omitted to note that Ray Harnish and wife and S. H. Harnish's daughter, Mrs. Fred Dutton, also were with the party, and helped to make the trip the more pleasant. I have not met the three whose names I omitted since I wrote the article and hope that I won't until they read this correction.
    Grant Matthews, wife and daughter, Mrs. Richard Johnson, were doing business with our merchants Saturday afternoon.
    All is well that ends well. Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. O. C. King, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Trevorrow, Billie Trevorrow, Mrs. C. E. Smith, Miss Elizabeth Stewart and Miss Elizabeth Blackford, all of Medford, arrived in our town full of hope on their way to Crater Lake, but just as they were in front of Heath's store one of their autos went out of commission and refused to budge, so they phoned to Medford for an expert to come out and investigate, and he soon discovered that the auto would have to go to the repair shop, but they, the tourists, did not propose to be balked in that way, so went to Medford for another car, and while it was coming took their lunch baskets, went into the park, where there are seats, tables, etc., and ate their lunch, and by the time the new machine arrived were all ready to go on their way rejoicing.
    Russ Moore, wife and two daughters, who have a fine stock farm near Dead Indian Springs, and had been out to Central Point visiting Mrs. M.'s mother and family, passed through here Saturday afternoon on their way home.
    J. J. Spitzer, one of the regular occupants of the A. Corbin orchard, was here Saturday afternoon. O. O. Lotts and Alex. Vestal came in from Medford Saturday night, reaching the Sunnyside at 11 o'clock. They had started out on a motorcycle and after they had had three punctures and blowouts, having run out of patching material, cached their machine on the desert and walked in. Verily, the old horse and buggy is the surest in the long run.
    Sunday was rather a busy day at the Sunnyside. When I came home from church I found six autos banked at the hotel, and on looking around found Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. McNaer, Mrs. Maud Stickel, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Briggs of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Brannon, Miss Varian Brannon, L. J. Davis, Clyde Brannon, all of Medford; F. L. Heath, wife and daughter, Miss Frances and son Frederick, of Eagle Point, and they were accompanied by Miss Charlie Fenton of Portland and Miss Hazel Rader of Medford; W. L. Childreth, wife and son Heath, George von der Hellen, wife and son Donald, Misses Ruby Haley and Sarah Singleton, Anson Pierce and Gus Rosenberg.
    Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Matthews of Portland, representing the Pure Oil Company, were among the callers the first of the week, and after dinner spent a few hours in our celebrated agate fields. They were quite successful and procured some very nice specimens. Mrs. Matthews seemed to be particularly interested in the agate hunt and had some very pretty stones already polished.
    Arrangements have been made to have our depot agent here moved to Medford to take charge of that depot and have Amos Ayres take charge of the business here. We regret very much the loss of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Newport, the present agent, but feel that our loss will be a gain to Medford and trust that Mr. and Mrs. Ayres will prove to be as efficient and pleasant in their line of business as Mr. and Mrs. Newport have been.
    Miss Nina M. Sears of Butte Falls was a pleasant caller Monday.
    D. E. Clay and Clay Gray of Medford came out Monday, took the Lake Creek stage to go up to visit Messrs. W. C. and Irvin Daley and take a hunt during the open season.
    R. C. Ward of Phoenix and wife came in Monday evening about 9 o'clock on their way from Crater Lake. They drove out with a team and rig, camped out and had a good time, taking in all the places of interest.
    Ed Hoyt and son-in-law came in from Fort Klamath Monday evening, spent the night with us and Tuesday went to Ashland and on the way back stopped at Medford and took Mrs. Ion Peters and her son Billie, taking them to Fort Klamath.
    Jesse Straight of Phoenix and Manford Zimmerlee were at the Farmer's Hotel Tuesday.
    Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Haworth of Lake Creek and two children were here for dinner, and so was William Nussbaum, Fritz Pech and J. D. Bowles, all of Lake Creek; John Foster, now of Trail, and a stranger whose name I failed to learn, were here for dinner.
    W. C. Clements and wife and Royal Brown and wife and daughter, Miss Hazel, went to Crater Lake Sunday, returning Tuesday via Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, Ashland, etc. Miss Hazel reports that they had a very pleasant time and thought that the scenery along the route and around the lake are almost beyond description.
    Miss Jose Riley, daughter of our ex-county commissioner, Thomas Riley, was attending to business in Eagle Point Monday and Tuesday.
    James Owens came in Tuesday morning and brought in a sample of his Sudan grass and it measures nine and a half feet in height. It was raised on sticky. He also brought in a few peaches, presenting me with a sample that reflects credit on our country as a peach country.
    A. Dupray, the sawmill man, and his son-in-law, George Alberts, came out Wednesday morning in their auto and went to Medford.
    Since my last report, Ed Coy has paid up his subscription to the D.M.T., and Dr. W. P. also renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 18, 1916, page 3


    Joe Horton has been in our town for the past few days trying to work at a scheme to move a sawmill from Klamath County and put it on the right of way of the P.&E. The proposition, as near as I can understand it, is to form a joint stock company with a capital of $10,000, have him put up the mill as his part of the stock at $3000 and the other shareholders own the remaining $7000, and bring the timber off the land in the Big Butte country and pay for it every thirty days, and sell the lumber here at about $12 per 1000 [board-feet]. Frank Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons seems to be one of the main promoters in the move. It would be a fine thing for Eagle Point if they could make it work, but there seems to be too many who say it can't be done. But if we don't have something done here to break up the lethargy Eagle Point will never be as big as Chicago.
    Bert Bryant has moved his family to Medford, so we lose another prominent family from our midst.
    H. O. Foster, one of the district supervisors in the forest protective force, spent the night with us Wednesday night and so did Mrs. S. C. Zuber, Mrs. Noyes, Mrs. Harry Hoffman and T. E. Bucholz, all of La Grande, Or. They came in their auto across the country via Pendleton to Wasco to Bend, Lake Aison [sic], over the high desert from Lake Aison to Klamath Falls, Crater Lake to Eagle Point. After spending the night at the Sunnyside they then had to see the metropolis of Southern Oregon. They turned off their course on their homeward track via Grants Pass, Roseburg, Eugene, Portland to their home; they had been out just twelve days when they reached here and had no trouble with their auto except an occasional puncture and one blowout. They were simply out to see the country and have a good time, and they seemed to be having the good time, and they were as pleasant and jovial a set as I have seen for some time.
    Gus Lovegren and Clarence Clements were also here Wednesday night. They are two of the United States government timber inspectors and were on their way up in the timber to establish stations for the different timber cruisers to use as their headquarters in cruising the timber on the land formerly owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
    The Eagle Point Sunday school had a picnic dinner last Wednesday on the banks of our beautiful Little Butte Creek. There were between fifty and sixty in attendance, and they had an old-fashioned picnic dinner, corn boiled on the cob and coffee, besides the knickknacks. I heard one man say that they had a stack of corn cooked, he measured about three feet from the ground and said that the stack was that high, and they ate it all. They were expecting to have had quite a number from Brownsboro and Reese Creek, but in that they were disappointed, on account of the farmers being so busy.
    Mrs. Sam Courtney, nee Samantha Minter, came in Thursday morning on the P.&E., expecting her father to meet her here, but instead of surprising him by her arrival, she was surprised herself to find that he and all the rest of the family had gone to Eastern Oregon, so she came to the Sunnyside and remained until the next day, when her husband came and they both went out to the Minter ranch.
    Thursday morning I took passage on the Harnish jitney to meet our granddaughter, Miss Esther Shaw of Fairview, Or., who came in on the Southern Pacific at 10:30 a.m., returning in time for dinner.
    Herman Meyer, Jr., and his father were both at the Sunnyside for dinner Thursday, and so were E. Hurd, Mr. Meyer, Sr., the mail carrier, had his Ford go back on him that day just as he reached town, so he had to phone his son to come with his Ford after him, and he had employed Mr. Hurd, our electrician, to repair the machine. There was an important shaft broken in the engine, but Mr. Meyer procured another piece at the Ford headquarters, and by this time (Saturday afternoon) they have it ready for business. We also had Frank Smith and C. M. Jennings and John Smith; the last two named were running a truck hauling fruit for Corbin Edgell to Medford.
    F. L. Heath, one of the Medford druggists, also owner of the F. L. Heath general mercantile store of this place, came out Thursday evening.
    Chauncey Florey, our county recorder, and family came out about the first of the week and went up beyond Brown's cabin for an outing, and so Chauncey could take a hunt. They were accompanied by William von der Hellen and George Lewis, two of his brothers-in-law. They killed one deer, but I did not learn by whom.
    Mr. Parker, the Central Point meat man, and W. A. Craine of the Craine Grocery Company of Central Point were here. Mr. Craine was looking over the route with an eye to purchasing the outfit and going into the business of selling meat himself.
    Marsh Garrett and Ed Holman were here for dinner Friday, and Marsh and his wife were here again Saturday for dinner, and so were W. C. Daley, E. Hurd, Herman Meyer, Sr., and Leslie Abbott. And on Friday night A. W. Bradshaw of Wellen came in late for supper. Mr. Bradshaw was out riding over the country buying up hogs to be shipped to Portland. He says that he has already shipped over $5000 worth of hogs out of this valley this season and is still buying. While he was here he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    J. L. Robinson, one of our prosperous farmers, was doing business Friday and Saturday in our town.
    Mrs. Hessler of Brownsboro brought in a crate of chickens for our depot agent Friday.
    Frank Netherland of Medford was on the P.&E. Saturday morning and so was R. E. Peyton and his son, Earl, going to Derby, and Mr. Berrian, the fish hatchery superintendent, on his way to Butte Falls.
    Bert Higinbotham, G. E. Hollenbeak of Flounce Rock, Henry and Marian Trusty, W. C. Daley, N. W. Slosson, N. P. Coty, representing the Columbia Veterinary Co. of Hartford, Conn., and W. N. Williams of Portland, representing the Continental Fire Insurance Co. of New York, and L. E. Wakeman, district agent of the New World Life Insurance Co., Medford, were for dinner Saturday.
    Jed Edsall motored out from the Edsall ranch Saturday morning with our daughter, Hattie, and Mrs. O. C. Wright, and after dinner started for Ashland.
    Dr. Holt reports that Mrs. Graham, who has been confined in the Sacred Heart Hospital for some time, has returned greatly improved in health to her home on Reese Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 22, 1916, page 2


    Last Sunday evening H. G. Roberts and C. E. Anderson, two traveling men representing the Chicago Portrait Company, spent the night with us. They are traveling from house to house aiming to visit each family as they go. They were headed for the upriver country when they left here.
    Miss Urgie Geppert of Butte Falls is visiting Miss Estelle Betz and her stepsister, Miss Fay Perry.
    Sunday was rather a quiet day in Eagle Point, as the majority of the pleasure lovers went out to the different places of amusement, and there were but five or six outside of our regular boarders here for dinner, but in the evening a company composed of W. W. Bellou and wife, Miss Dorothy Bellou, Master Walter Bellou, Louis and Virginia Bellou and Felix Dielschneider of the Oregon Paper Box factory, Portland, and Mr. Bellou is a member of the Dryer-Bellou Company of Portland.
    Rev. L. L. Simmons, pastor of the First Baptist church of Eagle Point, announced last Sunday that he would preach his last sermons here next Sunday, morning and evening, as he expects to start for Valley Forge the first of the week.
    Saturday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pool and son William, Frank Arnes and Mr. and Mrs. Dorris Coy started for Happy Camp for an outing.
    D. E. Clay and Clay Gray came out from the soda springs, where they had been hunting for the last few days with Herman Meyer, Sr., the mail carrier, last Monday, and reported that they saw but few deer, except does and fawns, and that the woods was so full of hunters that it was dangerous for one to be outside of a good, solid house.
    John Minter and William Winkle were among the transient callers on Monday. Mr. Winkle expected to start for Crook County to bring his mother home with him to care for his small children. Mr. W. is the man who lost his wife a few months ago and greatly needs a housekeeper to care for his five small children. He goes overland with a team and will camp out along the route.
    William Packard of Talent has been here taking steps to organize a lodge of the Modern Woodmen. He seems to be very sanguine of his success and tells me that he expects to send up a million members next month. He took a room at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Since my last report on the wool question Irvin Daley has brought in a small lot for George Brown & Sons.
    J. Clinton Haworth of Lake Creek and J. L. Zimmerlee of Trail have brought in two crates of young chicks for our depot agent.
    I see almost every day people hauling lumber from our lumber yard here, and the agent, Mr. Newport, tells me that it is hard for him to keep sufficient lumber on hand to supply the demand.
    There seems to be considerable travel now on the P.&E. railway, as Tuesday as I went through the car I counted twelve passengers on their way up country, all strangers, and from the amount of goods there is unloaded here our merchants must be doing a good business, and we have a great many strangers here almost every day.
    John Tyrrell of Lake Creek and Lee Bradshaw and family of Brownsboro were business callers Tuesday.
    Last Saturday there were three very much disappointed young folks in and around here. There was a certain young man who had engaged to go out into the country and bring in two young ladies to that they could enjoy the Saturday evening show and dance, and after he had everything ready to start, feeling somewhat tired, he concluded that he would lie down and rest awhile, as it was only 6 o'clock, so he lay down, not thinking of going to sleep, and the first thing he knew he woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and there stood his Ford, and all this time the two young ladies were looking for the lights of the Ford and imagining all kinds of trouble had befallen him. The next time he is going to start before time, and then if he goes to sleep the girls can wake him up.
    In my last I spoke of Chauncey Florey and his family and William von der Hellen going to the hills for an outing and hunt, and omitted to add that William had his family along also, and they all together had a fine time.
    Tuesday we had quite a noted company here for dinner. Among them were Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Hill, Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Rollins and son Robert of Medford, and Mrs. H. M. Snyder of Corvallis; Miss Mabel Curtis, Miss Mollie Curtis, Mrs. Plum, G. A. Webb and E. C. Connerford, all of Crescent City, Cal. The first two named from Crescent City are sisters-in-law of W. Hart Hamilton, one of our regular boarders, and owner of the Hamilton ranch, joining Eagle Point. They had motored from Crescent City and were on their way to Crater Lake. Mr. Hamilton went from here with them to see the ninth wonder of the world. The ladies complained very much on account of the heat, although the thermometer only registered 92 at that time, but they had been used to the climate along the coast, where one always needs good heavy clothing.
    S. H. Harnish, our livery stable man, reported to me Wednesday morning that he had sent a team up to F. J. Ayres' Tuesday morning for a load of hogs that Mr. Ayres had sold to Mr. Hamilton, and again today for a load from the same man for A. W. Bradshaw, and his son Baxter was here this morning to take them to the Bradshaw ranch on Dry Creek.
    W. E. Hensley, the man who bought the Frank Nichols orchard in the country, and residence property in town, was in town Wednesday, and while here gave me his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 24, 1916, page 5


    Thursday morning R. L. Wilson, son Robert and daughter Frances came over from Central Point where Mr. W. has one of the finest pear orchards there is in this valley, to the Sunnyside for breakfast on their way to Prospect to stay during the hot weather, and while they were eating their breakfast the subject of how little the highly educated people of the city know about the common affairs of farm life, and he related for the benefit of the readers of the Mail Tribune two incidents that occurred in his family. He and his wife were out riding a short time ago and passed a place where the people were threshing grain and Mrs. W. saw the threshed straw coming out of the elevator and she asked what they were doing and in the question inquired if they were spraying and was told they were threshing wheat!  And Thursday morning when they were getting ready to come over here Mrs. W. asked, "How do you feed the wheat to the chickens?" and Robert spoke up and said, "Why, with a spoon." Still when it comes to understanding the affairs of city life they could teach us country jakes things we never dreamed of.
    Glen Nichols of Medford was doing business in our town Thursday.
    It is related of Jed Edsall that he had a lot of cordwood to haul to the R.R. and one tree had been cut on the side of a very steep hill and the question came up how they were to manage to keep the wagon from turning over, but Jed was determined to haul the wood so he took his low-wheeled wagon just below the tier of wood and put two large blocks of wood against the wheels on the lower side to keep it in place while he was loading it and after he had placed the wood all right he cut a small tree so that it fell directly across the wood, the heavy part of the tree being on the upper side of the load and then started down the side of the hill reaching the flat all O.K. Now how many of our city boys would have ever thought of such a plan to haul a  wagon loaded with a high load and keep it from turning over.
    Thursday morning Henry Mayer and wife, and son Auden, G. Nygren and Charley Ingle, all of Lake Creek, motored through town on their way to Medford.
    I noticed when I went to the depot Thursday morning that there was a carload of lumber that had been brought out Tuesday on the P.&E. from the Dupray mill.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. was Judge Crowell on his way up to his camp at the fish hatchery. He ways that he has a boarded-up tent with a floor in it and a screen room in front so that he is not bothered with mosquitoes or flies and that he is simply enjoying life in his old days--pardon me, judge.
    Thursday afternoon I took passage on the Harnish jitney for Medford to see the movie "Damaged Goods" at the Page as it had been so highly recommended by such men as Drs. Carstens, Hill and Rollins, all three ministers, and after it was all over I felt like adding my endorsement to what they had said. For if the subject of a higher standard of morals and purity of life among the young of both sexes was taught more publicly and lay aside the silly idea of so much false modesty the world would be better off.
    While I was in Medford, I met Marshal Minter and his sister, Mrs. W. E. Hammel, who had just arrived from the East and a trip through the most of the state of California. I asked Mrs. Hammel how she liked California, and she said that while there were some very pretty places in California and some fine farms, there was no place that would compare with Jacksonville for climate, soil and health. Mr. Hammel was in Eagle Point this (Saturday) morning but he was going like Jehu and we nearly waded.
    T. W. Godfrey of Sams Valley was here supplying the community with a choice variety of beef Thursday.
    J. W. Tarleigh and wife of Luning, Nevada, and Benjamin Laton, of Leland, Oregon, spent Thursday night with us. They had come from Nevada by auto and were looking over the country, including Crater Lake. Mr. Farleigh remarked when he saw Mrs. Howlett sprinkling her garden that if water was as scarce here as it was in Nevada that she would not be using it so lavishly, for said he, where I live I pay two and a half dollars a barrel for all the water we use and $25 a cord for wood. The water has to be hauled 60 miles and the wood costs $13 a cord at the cars and then it costs twelve dollars a cord to haul it. Excuse me from living in such a country. Life is too short.
    W. Hart Hamilton and his company returned from Crater Lake on Thursday and Mr. H. stopped off here but the rest of the company went on up to Ashland where they expected to camp in the park until Saturday evening. They will go to Grants Pass for the night and Sunday go to their homes in Crescent City. They speak in high terms of the scenery along the route and around the lake.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 28, 1916, page 5


    At the meeting of the school board the contract was let to D. A. Sheibley, the father-in-law of Rev. L. L. Simmons, to do the janitor work for the school for the term beginning September 4.
    Last Sunday Mr. Simmons preached his farewell sermon at Reese Creek and this place. There was an unusually large attendance here both morning and evening, and especially at night, and at the close of the services Mr. Simmons and his family stood in front of the pulpit while we sang "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love,"  and the entire congregation gave them a hearty farewell handshake. It was one of those affecting scenes that must be seen to be understood or appreciated, for Mr. S. and his family have been going in and out among us for the past four years as pastor of the Baptist church here, and they have made for themselves many very warm and devoted friends. He has labored hard and faithfully trying to induce the men, women and children to live right and make their peace with God. He has worked especially among the young men, ladies and children. He has left but very few enemies here, and their enmity was caused on account of his zeal for the cause of prohibition, as he is an unmitigated foe to the saloon and all of its auxiliaries. He started from here Monday morning for his new field of labors in Valley Forge, Wash., and with him took the strong desire of a very large majority of the citizens of this entire community for his welfare.
    J. T. Sullivan, Edgar S. Hafer and J. H. Cooley autoed out from Medford Saturday morning for breakfast at the Sunnyside on their way to Butte Falls to look over some of the big timber in that region.
    E. W. Lansing of Talent, M. D. Wheelmush of San Francisco and J. F. Holdersand of Central Point were here for dinner Saturday.
    D. A. Sheibley, Norman McQuoid, S. B. Holmes and Pete Betz have brought in chickens for our railroad agent, Mr. Newport, since my last report.
    Mrs. G. Marvin of Gold Hill went to Butte Falls last week.
    We had a little excitement in our town the other day when S. H. Harnish's dray team ran away and tore things up generally, causing our harness maker, George Wehman, a job repairing the harness. There was nobody hurt.
    Mrs. N. E. Parker, wife of the late Dr. Parker of Butte Falls, was on the train Saturday on her way to her home. She had been out to Lakeview to visit her daughter and was on her way home. Miss J. B. Sears of Butte Falls was also on the train on her way home.
    Miss Alice Lyon of Medford, who had been up in the Lake Creek country visiting the family of John Miller, came out with Herman Meyer on his auto stage Saturday, took dinner here and took the jitney for her home in Medford. J. H. Tyrrell spent the night with us on his way home with a load of wheat.
    Henry Sprague and wife of Portland, formerly in the lumber business in our town, were the guests of J. V. McIntyre and wife a few days ago. They were on their way to Crater Lake.
    Jed Edsall, acting as chauffeur, started Saturday morning at 3:20 with Miss Claire Zimmerman, Mrs. O. D. Wright and baby and our daughter, Hattie, for Fort Klamath via Crater Lake, and on the road met our son-in-law and daughter coming in with Mrs. Ion Peters and son Billie at Silver Camp, but they, Jed and company, decided that they would go on to the lake anyhow, and the others came on and Jed and his company reached the lake in the afternoon, went down to the lake and fooled around until 5 o'clock, then decided to go back to Prospect and spend the night, but when they reached Prospect concluded to eat dinner and come on home that night, arriving here about 11:30 p.m. They were out about twenty hours, and the first Jed did was to go to bed, about tuckered out.
    Among those who were here Sunday were: Leonard Woodford of the Gates garage, Mrs. Ion Peters of Medford, Miss Ruth Dixon of Fort Klamath, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Vance, Miss Lenore Vance, Jeannie Deardorff of Medford; Cleone Pottenger of Pittsburgh; Al Hagan of the Mail Tribune force, Medford, and Thomas Moffett of the Medford sash and door factory, Medford.
    Boyd Potter, wife and niece, Miss Bell McKinney, of Central Point, passed through here Monday on their way to the Big Butte country for an outing and to eat venison.
    H. M. Parks and family and G. E. Stowell of Corvallis were here for dinner Monday. Mr. Parks is director of the bureau of mines and geology of the O.A.C., Corvallis.
    A. W. Bradshaw of Wellen was here Monday getting things ready for the shipment of a car of hogs. He and Mike Sidley of Lake Creek and William Chambers of Butte Falls were here for dinner. Mr. C. had spent Sunday night here and Monday went to Medford to have two teeth extracted.
    There was a truckload of lumber, counters, etc., passed through here on Monday for Conner's new store in Brownsboro.
    W. E. Hensley, the owner of the Frank Nichols orchard and town property, passed through town with his children and grandchildren Monday, two of his sons-in-law and their families.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Miller and Mrs. Blosser and little son were here for supper Monday night. They came from Portland and were on their way up on Salt Creek to visit Mr. and Mrs. William Nickell. They had already spent a week in Ashland park.
    V. L. Bowman and wife of Alameda, Cal., manufacturers of Rex tire specialties, stopped here Monday night for supper, then went on toward Crater Lake. C. W. Quinn of White Velvet creamery, Medford, and his chauffeur were here for supper. Mr. Quinn has build up a trade in the creamery line and runs an auto truck to gather up the cream in all this surrounding country. Oliver Adams of Butte Falls was also here and spent the night. And so did H. O. Foster, one of the forest rangers for the U.S. government. And about the time that these were through with supper Willie Porter came along with twelve others, right from the woods north of Ashland--they are some of the U.S. timber cruisers--and called for supper, beds and breakfast. And they, with the regular boarders and visitors, filled all the beds. Thursday morning they started for Butte Falls to establish camp to cruise and assort the timber on the O.&C.R.R. tract.
    Today (Tuesday) is the day that Mr. Bradshaw had set to receive the hogs to make up his second carload, one from here and one from Medford, and of course we had a house full here for dinner, and among the diners who were here for dinner, outside of those who had brought in hogs, was Mark C. Weatherford of Albany, candidate for Congress. He is one of the most pleasant men I have met for a long time, and from the impression he made here on the company he met at the Sunnyside--for there were about forty here altogether--he is going to carry the state, for he is not only the Democratic nominee, but is the prohibition candidate as well, and we think that he and Woodrow Wilson will work together during the next Congress.
    Newton W. Borden, Democratic candidate for district attorney, was also in the group. He made a very favorable impression and will probably be the next district attorney.
    O. V. White of Albany and Mr. Iserbell were here working to help elect the Democratic ticket, and the irrepressible Wig Ashpole of Medford was among the pushers. I did not secure the list of those who brought in the hogs, but will try to get it from the weigher.
    George Hilton of Medford came in late for dinner. He is out on a business venture.
    Since my last report, Frank Lewis of Eagle Point has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, Paul Opdyke of Trail has paid $5 on his subscription to the D.M.T., Earl Croft of Eagle Point has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T., and G. A. Pech of Lake Creek has renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 31, 1916, page 5


   L. H. Osgood of Trail came out on Wednesday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. Haworth of Lake Creek came out last Wednesday to have one of their children treated by Dr. Holt, and Mrs. Haworth remained here while Mr. Haworth went to Medford.
    Charles Klingle and Mike Sidley came out Thursday after a load of wheat, returning the same day, but the next day they were both here for dinner. And Mike came out Friday to try to buy a horse of S. H. Harnish, the livery man.
    Last Saturday, when Jed Edsall was coming in from Crater Lake he lost a suitcase belonging to two lady passengers, and Miss Clairzim Merman, one of the owners of the contents of the suitcase, telephoned an ad to the Mail Tribune, and it was published on Wednesday, and Thursday morning she received a note that it had been found and taken to Ashland, stating that he would send it up to Medford by M. L. Daley's jitney line and that afternoon it was returned to the Sunnyside all O.K. Surely it pays to advertise in a live paper.
    There were four more of the U.S. timber cruisers stopped here for dinner Wednesday on their way to the Lake Creek camp, and the same day F. T. Bates of Ashland and Gus Lovegren, the head of the cruisers, were here for supper on their way to Lake Creek.
    Mrs. W. T. Morgan and Mrs. Chas. Blaess drove out from their home near Trail last Thursday, taking home with them a quantity of flour and other eatables.
    C. P. Nickell, father of William Nickell, came out Thursday, expecting to meet his wife here at the depot, remaining all day, but when the motor came in that night she was not on it.
    Last Thursday night there was what was intended to have been an ice cream social, but as the ice cream could not be obtained owing to the fact that Frank Lewis, the ice cream man, had had such demand for it that day that he had run out of it, so that lemonade and cake were substituted. I have been unable to learn who the leaders in the move were, as those that I interviewed on the subject said that they did not know, for they were invited, but suspicion points to two young ladies who live near the Antelope bridge. That they had a good time was very evident. Those present, as near as I can learn, were Estella Betz, Ethel Riley, Margaret Riley, Joe Riley and wife (they were the only old people present) Emma McCaslin, James Jackson, Elizabeth Stowell, Rowland Stowell, Harold Van Scoy, Lyle Van Scoy, Fay Perry, Robert Harnish, Fern Lewis, Frank Haselton, Aden Haselton, Ed Montague, Carlyle Natwick, Sherwood Hamilton, Frances Greb, Myrtle Greb, May Greb, John and Foster Greb, Jerry Lewis, Master Singleton and Walter Shusler. The first that any of the older people of the town knew of the move was the ringing of the schoolhouse bell and lighting up the house. They spent the time in playing games and having a good time generally.
    Joe Moomaw, the mail contractor on the route between here and Derby, who has been off visiting relatives in Eastern Oregon, the Willamette Valley and Coos Bay countries, returned last Thursday and resumed his place as mail carrier. Jerry Lewis has been carrying the mail during his absence.
    John H. Daley of Medford came out Saturday to look after his interests here, meeting his uncle, W. C. Daley, the executor of his father's will.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday was S. H. Hawk, Jr., and his sister, Miss Catherine Hawk, of Butte Falls; J. H. Cooley of Medford and Sherman Spencer of Eagle Point.
    Since my last report of receipts for the Mail Tribune, George L. Howard of Medford has given me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune and John W. Smith of Eagle Point has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. and C. R. Moore and J. A. Miller of Lake Creek have renewed their subscriptions to the W.M.T. Mr. Moore and wife came out in their auto and brought out his father with him. The old gentleman stays up at his son's place most of the time, but comes out in the fall and spring so that he can visit his children in the valley, stays about a month and then goes back to the hills for the winter or summer, as the case may be. C. R. Moore has a fine stock ranch about four miles this side of the Dead Indian Springs. He also had with him C. R. Pech and J. A. Miller. They started on the home stretch about 5 o'clock p.m.
    W. O. Wheeler and wife have moved back from Talent to our town to take charge of our school. Mr. W. will have charge of the high school department and Miss Taylor the intermediate and Mrs. Shesler the primary, the same as we had last year. The arrangements are to have the school commence on Monday, September 18.
    I omitted in my last to state that Harris Geppert of Butte Falls had been out and spent a few days at the Sunnyside, and while out in the valley treated himself to a Ford. He had quite a time learning to handle it, but finally succeeded so that he could take it up to his home.
    Friday, Joe J. Parker, who has been dispensing tickets at the P.&E. depot, Medford, for the past year, and A. L. Hammel, Wells Fargo agent, were out at the Sunnyside for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gray of Medford, the Page & Dixon hustler; A. H. Peachey of Ashland, Thomas Riley and his partner, Mr. Roberts, and four strangers were here for dinner Friday.
    Mrs. (Grandma) Bishop came out from the Edsall ranch Friday and went on over to her son-in-law, John Owens, on Dry Creek.
    Thursday, George Trusty came out to the Sunnyside to remain while he is being treated by Dr. Holt. He is not considered dangerously ill, but needs the assistance of a good doctor. His father and mother came out from their home on Elk Creek on Saturday morning. They were accompanied by little Miss Nellie Willits of Kerby, Josephine County. Miss Nellie is a niece of M. W. Willits of Persist.
    Saturday morning Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Rose and Mrs. R.'s brother, Mr. Archie Eubanks of Ashland, came in from Crater Lake for breakfast. They had driven from Ashland across the mountains via Lake of the Woods, Pelican Bay, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Prospect, and Friday night camped without water on the road between here and Derby, but they did not know where. They ate breakfast about 8 a.m., let their horse rest awhile and started for home about 9:30 a.m. They had a very pleasant time, barring one thing--they spent too much time before they reached the Lake and had to hurry over the road without seeing the sights.
    Saturday morning when the P.&E. pulled in they had two passenger cars attached, as the crowd was so great that one car would not hold them. I counted twenty-seven, and among them were Frank Manning, G. W. Kincade of Peyton and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Conklin, F. W. Holler and wife, Miss V. Wellman, Miss M. Brown, Mrs. Emma Winches of Medford, A. B. Edwards, wife and three children of Ashland, William Sears of Butte Falls. There were twenty-seven altogether, and the most of them were going into the woods for an outing.
    Henry Wahlers, who lives on Dry Creek, Wellen post office, brought a lot of cream this morning.
    G. W. Daniels of Lake Creek was doing business with our merchants this morning.
    W. A. Marquis and J. D. Henson of Klum Advertising Co. were here for dinner today, and so were five more of the United States timber cruisers. There were altogether fourteen transients for dinner.
    Miss Mabel Henson of Climax came out and went to Buncom to teach school.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 4, 1916, page 4


    T. B. Lumsden and Elmer Foss of Medford were among the crowd at the Sunnyside Saturday night. They came out from Medford for supper and then started for the intake on the F.L.D. Co.'s big ditch this side of Fish Lake. They were expecting to spend Sunday and Monday hunting.
    Miss Minnie Taylor, who taught our intermediate department in our school last year and is engaged to teach again this fall and winter, came in last Saturday from Eastern Oregon, where she had been spending her vacation. Mrs. Shesler, the primary teacher, came a few days previous to be ready to begin their duties on the fourth of the month.
    There was an unusually large crowd here last Saturday evening for supper and many of them spent the night here. Among the company was Mr. Henry Trusty and Miss Nell Thompson, Carl Ringer and Miss Claire Zimmerman, Mr. Rekter of Jacksonville and Mr. Glen Nichols.
    Mr. Leonard Woodford of Medford and A. W. Clark came out Sunday morning and took Mrs. Tom Peters and son to Medford, returning Monday. Mrs. Peters and son Billie is boarding at present at the Sunnyside.
    Beside the regular Sunday visitors, we had seven of the regular timber cruisers here for dinner and at night Mr. Lovegren, the superintendent of the cruisers in Southern Oregon, came and left his horse, took an auto, and went up to one of his camps on Antelope Creek, and your correspondent went along, just for company, and noted as we were passing that Mr. Frank Bybee has been making some changes in his residence, but I was disappointed to find that the general appearance of the country had not changed for the better in the last 10 years. The same old rail fences and the houses and barns have rather a seedy appearance, and there is quite a lot of land up here that looks as though it was good land if the rocks and brush was cleared off, and the road was just passable, but the bridges are a disgrace to the county, if not to the people living along the route. Mr. Lovegren spoke to William Lewis, the chauffeur, about getting an auto truck to go up and move the men and their camp equipage out and taking them up on Rogue River, and he said that the bridges were so rotten and dilapidated that they would not bear up under the weight, so he had to hire four ordinary autos to do the work that should have been done with an ordinary freighting truck.
    Henry Wahlers, who has a farm on Dry Creek, brings in his cream regularly every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
    Miss Lottie Van Scoy has had her old woodshed torn away and a new one built in a different place, affording her more light and greatly improving the appearance of her place. The building she tore down was said to be the oldest building in Eagle Point, that is, that was left standing.
    Charles Humphrey of Prospect was here for supper Sunday night and while here paid me up a year's subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Roy Ashpole, C. Hoogerhyde, W. T. Croft, the present foreman on the J. H. Cooley ranch, have given me their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Earl Croft, a brother of W. T. Croft, who has been the foreman on the Cooley orchard, has moved to Rogue River to take charge of an orchard there, and before he left he paid up a year in advance for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    C. E. Howser, wife and three children passed through here Monday on their way to their home at Myrtle Point, Oregon. They had been traveling for a month in the wonderful scenery of Southern Oregon and decided that Crater Lake and the scenery along the route between here and Fort Klamath excelled anything they had seen in all their travels.
    W. W. Laylor is re-roofing his barn.
    Thomas Farlow and wife motored through town Monday morning for Medford.
    There seems to be a vast amount of travel through this section of the country, for almost every day we have from ten to twenty transients here for dinner. Among the guests Monday was D. M. Lowe of Ashland. Mr. Lowe is the man who seems to be doing a lot of pushing for the county fair next week. He was gathering up different kinds of vegetables to place on exhibition and he had with him two large squashes that he secured of J. B. Jackson to put in the exhibit building in Medford. He told me that he had secured the services of Mrs. L. K. Haak of Eagle Point to help work up an interest in the fair in this section, and that she is going to place on exhibition some of the products of the farm and poultry yard. Mrs. Haak is a live wire, if I may use such an expression with regard to a lady, and she will exert an influence for good. I don't know, but I think her little son will have some of the product of his garden on display. Mr. Lowe says that he hopes to get the farmers interested in the fair so as to make it a permanent institution of the county, as he has secured the cooperation of 75 of the merchants of Medford in the work and that they are planning to buy 40 acres of land near Medford and put up a building and have a place to have our county meets. Let all hands take hold and give it a push upward.
    Mr. J. Hart of Ashland was helping Mr. Lowe boost the fair.
    Perry Foster and his son, John, were here Monday for dinner, and so was Fort Hubbard and Wilbur Rumley, a traveling man selling threshing machines.
    Bert Higinbotham and family had some trouble Monday with their Ford and had to stop here and have an expert, Mr. Hurd, repair it. They are stopping at the Sunnyside at this writing.
    S. H. Harnish and family went to Josephine County to visit Mr. Harnish's parents Sunday.
    Harry W. Johnson of Brooklyn, N.Y., representing Elcay Toilet Preparations, and Robert E. Mose of Oakland, Cal., spent the night at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Harvey Hill of Brownsboro was with us Sunday night.
    Herman Meyer, Jr., brought in two crates of chickens for our new depot agent, Amos Ayres, Monday.
    John Ashpole of Medford came out to visit his son, Roy and family, Tuesday, but found that Roy had left this morning for a two days' hunt in the hills. He and Mrs. Roy Ashpole took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mr. C. Capell and daughter and 14 other transients.
    Tuesday morning about 6:30 o'clock the alarm of fire was given and in less time that it would take to think, the whole of the roof of S. H. Harnish's livery barn was in a blaze. The fire seemed to have caught in the hay in the loft. Mr. Harnish and a hired man were working the barn at the time, but they can form no idea how the fire originated, as the hay, about 30 tons, was as dry as a bone and could not have caused the conflagration. They managed to save all the horses and a part of the harness, saddles, etc., and all of the rigs, except two buggies and a surrey. The loss is partly covered by insurance,  I do not know if Mr. Harnish will rebuild or not, but the livery stable is quite a loss to him and to the town and community at large.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 1916, page 10


    Mrs. Emma Smith and daughter, Miss L. P. Smith, mother and sister of Mrs. Ella Shesler, our primary teacher in the public school, are here visiting the latter.
    William Whitman, formerly the town barber, but now living on his homestead on Indian Creek, is bringing in a lot of telephone poles for our telephone manager and postmaster, C. W. Clements
    Mr. and Mrs. Hopeland of Fort Klamath came in in an auto and had to stop here for repairs the middle of the week.
    Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro and Charles Oswell of Wellen were here after dinner during the week. The Big Pines Lumber Co. left here just as the business in that line began to be looking up for Amos Ayres, our new depot agent, seems to be doing a lively business in that line.
    J. B. Jackson shipped out to Butte Falls a fine lot of onions Thursday.  
    W. G. Knighten is having his dwelling reroofed. G. W. Wamsley is doing the work.
    Last Thursday I hitched old babe to the buggy and started out to work for the Mail Tribune, and the first man I called to see was in the hills gathering beef cattle, so I failed to do any business there. The next one was also gathering beef cattle, and I had taken the precaution to phone to the next one, and his wife answered the phone and said that he was at home, so I drove up to the house and inquired for him. His wife said that when she answered the phone she saw him about the place, but he could not be found, and later his son said that he had gone to look after some pigs--another failure in my business venture. Next I cut across lots and reached the county road leading up Dry Creek, and soon ran into a bunch of men working on the road hauling sand and gravel, donation work, under Carl Beebe, and the first one I met that I knew was John Owens, and he suggested that I better go up to his house, feed my horse and take dinner, and as it was about noon, of course, I accepted the invitation, reaching the place, found Mrs. Owens busy putting up fruit, and I should have said that I found the lady at the last house I visited, Mrs. James Owens, busy putting up peaches and pears. Shortly after I had watered and fed Babe, John Owens arrived with his three teams and we had dinner, and then spent a few moments looking over the farm, and he rushed back to work hauling sand. After dinner I wrote out receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. and then went up to his brother George's place and found George and his wife tying chicks to take to Central Point or Medford, but he stopped long enough to write out and sign a check for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. Three brothers live in the same section and each has good, large farms and are each interested in the stock business and have their barns packed with hay and tons stacked outside. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Owens were hurrying around to get off to Central Point and Medford to meet Mrs. Owens' mother, Mrs. Ella Barnes, and daughter, Miss Ise Barnes, were coming from Honolulu to make a visit to the Owens family and friends. Starting from there, I found Dolph Kent also working on the road with his team, and he told me to go to the house, a short distance off, and his wife would renew the subscription to the W.M.T. and on reaching the place found Mrs. Kent just coming from the garden with a lot of cantaloupes, stated my business and gave her a receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. The reader will notice that the of the subscriptions to the Mail Tribune in the rural districts take the W.M.T. instead of the Daily. This is owing to the fact that they have such poor mail facilities and many of them live so far from the post office that they don't get their mail oftener than once a week. But there is a move on foot to get a rural route starting from here, going by Brownsboro, taking Yankee Creek, Antelope Creek and Dry Creek countries, and then reach those along the edge of the desert down Little Butte Creek, etc., back up to Eagle Point. Mr. Singleton was here a few days ago getting signers to the petition for the change, and said that he was succeeding quite well in securing names to the petition.
    My next move was to Fred Luy's and found that he was not to be found. From there I went to the von der Hellen farm, but did no business. From there to the Walsh farm, but did no business there. From there to the Cypress Lawn farm, looked around the beautiful place, for it is one of the prettiest places on my entire route, but found no one at home, but learned later that Mrs. Riley was out in the garden, so started home, it being after 5 p.m., and met the lord of the manor, Thomas Riley, our ex-county commissioner. He had been out in the field cutting and shocking corn, but he said that he would send it to me by his son, Thomas R. Jr. After a short visit with Mr. R. on the road I went on my way, reaching home by 6:30 p.m., tired and hungry.
    William Winkle, who started a short time ago to Burns to bring his mother home with him to help care for his five little children, the oldest of which is only 12 years of age, reached here Wednesday.
    W. E. Hammond is keeping himself busy these days hauling stovewood into town.
    F. S. Johnson, representing Honeyman Hardware Co., Portland, was here Friday.
    F. M. Stewart, who went to San Francisco a short time ago, returned Wednesday with an auto.
    T. S. Zimmerman, formerly of this place, but now of Aberdeen, Wash., came in Friday afternoon on the P.&E. spent the night at the Sunnyside and Saturday morning took the train for Butte Falls to visit his brother, A. B. Zimmerman, and family.
    W. Hart Hamilton, owner of a large farm joining Eagle Point, and who has been a regular boarder at the Sunnyside for the past eight months, started Saturday morning to rejoin his family in San Jose, Cal.
    L. E. Smith's name has been added to the list of subscribers to the W.M.T. since my last report.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 13, 1916, page 6


    F. M. Stewart and William Brown of the firm of George Brown & Sons are both enjoying the satisfaction of riding in their own automobiles
    Since my last report, Herman Meyer, Jr., Thomas Vestal and Mr. Radcliff have sold chickens to our depot agent.
    Saturday, Mr. Berrian, the Butte Falls fish hatchery man, J. I. Patton of Butte Falls and Miss Helen Parker, who is now teaching in the Brophy school district, were passengers on the P.&E. on their way up the country.
    Dr. E. P. Geary of Portland, who has been the county physician for the last twelve years and was formerly the M.D. for this section, but later joined in the practice of medicine with the late Dr. Pryce in Medford, and his son Edward, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Montgomery of Griffin Creek, motored out from the doctor's Griffin Creek orchard and vineyard and took dinner with us last Saturday. H. A. Meyer, wife and son were also with us at the same time. Dr. Geary remarked what a remarkable change had taken place in the country around here during the past twenty-five of thirty years.
    Since my last I have been doing some riding in the interest of the Mail Tribune and had hardly got started before I ran up against what was a stunner to me, for the first person I approached was Mrs. Charles Cingcade, and she proposed to pay up a year's subscription to the W.M.T., provided I could change a $10 piece, and fortunately I happened to have the change and gave her a V and three and a half dollars in silver. So far, so good; but the next one was P. W. Haley, and the smallest coin he had was a V, and as I had about two dollars in silver, was balked right there. But nothing daunted, I proceeded on my way to C. A. Pruett's and found the house locked and the good-natured dog on guard, but the next time I started out I went in the morning and found Mrs. P. and Miss Mabel and received the cash, and went as far as E. S. Eischer's farm, where I found Mr. Eischer had already changed his subscription from the D.M.T. to the W.M.T., and paid up a year's subscription, so procuring a couple of crates of berries, turned my course for home.
    Saturday evening Jed Edsall came out from his home near Butte Falls and brought with him Mrs. Anna Corum and her two little girls, her sister, Miss Zeula Geppert, and Miss Pearl Gould, the teacher in the Crater Lake school district, and after supper they all went to Medford, after being joined by Mrs. Howlett, our daughter, Hattie, and granddaughter, Miss Esther Shaw, where they visited the Page, a part of the company returning about midnight.
    Sunday morning N. S. Bennett, proprietor of the Eden Valley nursery, Medford, and his nephew, J. C. Brown, recently returned from North Yakima, Wash., came in for breakfast. They were on their way to Prospect to procure moss from the large trees in that section, to be used at the county fair that is now being held in Medford. Mr. Bennett said that he wanted the moss to lay his 128 different varieties of dahlias and China asters, and to one that is not partially color blind they must appear beautiful, for she seemed to have almost every color of the rainbow.
    Later in the day L. B. Brown of the old Russ mill, Medford, and family were here for dinner and about twenty others, but I did not see them as I was not present until about 2 p.m., and they had all gone then.
    A. W. Clark and his nephew, John Edgar Gould, and Mrs. Woodford, the mother of Leonard Woodford, motored out and took Mrs. Ion Peters and her son Billie back to Medford. Mrs. Peters has been boarding at the Sunnyside for the past two or three weeks, but has returned to her home in Medford for a while.
    Alex. Vestal was among the callers Sunday.
    H. W. Barron and family of Ashland drove in Sunday evening on their way from Crater Lake. They had gone the rounds from their home south of Ashland by the Lake of the Woods route, via Pelican Bay, Fort Klamath, and camped here Sunday night on the home stretch. They are joining the multitudes in praising the scenery along the route between here and Fort Klamath.
    W. L. Coppernoll and wife, jewelers of Eugene, motored in from a trip to Pelican Bay and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    In the absence of a pastor the members of the church and a company of young people met Sunday night and organized an Epworth League by electing Mrs. Nettie Grover as president, and she appointed Misses Ruby Haley, Freda Leabo and Mrs. Ed Montague as a committee to draft bylaws, rules, etc. for the league. They are to meet Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock.
    J. H. Smith of Chicago, Ill., of the firm of James H. Smith & Sons, the owner of two orchards in this immediate vicinity, came in Sunday night and spent the night with us, and Monday morning John Greb and two of his daughters came along with his Ford and took Mr. Smith and started for Crater Lake.
    Newton W. Borden, Democratic candidate for district attorney for Jackson County, and Ralph G. Jennings, candidate for the office of sheriff on the Democratic ticket, were here Monday and Wednesday for dinner. They seemed to be in fine spirits and are very hopeful of success. They seem to think that the Democratic Party is in a fair way to win out, not only in the presidential campaign, but in many of the county offices. Speaking of the presidential campaign, there was a lady of more than ordinary intelligence who has traveled quite extensively the past summer, who made the remark when conversing on the subject in a company of men and women "that the women of the United States would elect Woodrow Wilson this coming November for the President of the United States with very little help from the men."
    Mrs. Mary F. Stowell started for Junction City, Or., Tuesday, and before she started sent me $1.50 to pay for a year's subscription to the W.M.T., as she wants the news from her old home. Thus the long list of subscribers continues to grow.
    Howard Hall, who has been boarding at the Sunnyside for the past week, started Wednesday morning for Brownsboro where he has secured a job for a while. Chalmer Ringer, another of the Sunnyside boarders, has secured a job as a section hand on the P.&E.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 14, 1916, page 5


    John Greb, his two daughters, Frances and Myrtle, and J. H. Smith, a Chicago manufacturer, returned from their trip to Crater Lake Wednesday, perfectly delighted that the scenery is beyond description.
    Our school opened Tuesday morning and as a commencing exercise they had a school fair, consisting of tests in writing, spelling and arithmetic, and an exhibition of the products of the garden and the culinary art. There were prizes offered to the ones who proved to be the most proficient and another to the second best. In the primary room, Roscoe Roberts receives the first and Donald von der Hellen the second in writing; in spelling, Roscoe Roberts first, Donald von der Hellen second.
    Intermediate--Writing, Ethel Winkle first, Fern Lewis second; arithmetic, there was a tie between Ethel Winkle and Ethel Shaw; spelling, Fern Lewis first, Lyle Van Scoy second.
    High school room--Writing, Nellie Coy first, Miss Freda Leabo second; spelling, Theo Florey first, Verte Grover second. For some reason to be explained, there was no test in arithmetic in the high school room, but I am not able to assign a reason. The copy before me was handed to me by the principal, W. O. Wheeler.
    General exhibit--Field corn, first, Aden Haselton; tomatoes, Theo Florey; baking, Joyce von der Hellen first, Judge Florey second; garden collection, Cyril Haak.
    It was not generally known that the fair was to be held at that time, and the consequence was that there was not the attendance or perhaps the display that might otherwise have been.
    Since S. H. Harnish was burned out of the livery business I see that he has rented the barn joining the Farmers Hotel and is doing business there.
    Thursday morning we--that is, Professor C. E. Johnson and myself,  hitched Babe to the buggy and started to take in the county fair and hear ex-Governor West speak at night. Reaching the fair grounds after dinner, I did not like the idea of eating dinner in the sun, and we concluded to eat at the Montgomery house, so, reaching the grounds, about the first thing that attracted my attention was the immense crowd that had collected, and especially to see so many from this section, especially from Butte Creek. There are others more capable of writing up the fair than myself, and so I will simply say that the exhibit of grain and fruit was up to date and there was a good display of stock of different kinds. But I wish to call the attention to the management. Especially to the one who has charge of the grandstand, to an ugly place in the floor a short distance from the entrance, where a short piece of board has been laid over a hole in a board. I noticed a lady leading one child and carrying another stumble over it and came near falling down. At a little before 8 p.m. we strolled around to the Presbyterian church to hear ex-Governor West and Mr. Coe speak, and at 8:05 the speakers arrived and Dr. Rollins introduced the speaker. I am sorry that there was not more present, for the church was not "packed," but there was a fair audience, but the most of them seemed to be heads of families and their wives. The governor began by relating a portion of his experience while he was governor in his dealings with convicts, telling of the vast number there who were sent there on account of their intemperate habits. He then read the amendment that is being placed on the ballot for our consideration and to be voted on November 7. There was in his talk one of the most impressive lessons on the necessity of proper punctuation that I ever heard. He showed us how, by the insertion of a comma after the words "for medicinal purposes,"  and before the words "upon prescription of a licensed physician," it makes it possible for druggists to sell for medicinal purposes without prescription, and for physicians to prescribe for other than medicinal purposed. He then showed us how, by the adoption of the brewers' amendment, the brewer could open up a beer saloon anywhere, close to our schools, churches, and sell to anyone, old or young, not only the moderate drinker, but the habitual drunkard. He also urged on us the importance of registering and voting against the beer amendment to make the state absolutely dry. He spent a few minutes on the subject of taxes and also on the state banking law, showing how the farmers, by means, could borrow money at a low rate of interest. He was followed by Professor Coe with a short talk on the prospect of universal prohibition, and Mr. Smith gave a short talk on the tax bill. After taking in the fair, two square meals and three speeches, we started home at 9:45, had a very pleasant ride and by twelve midnight were ready to go to bed.
    I just learned today, Saturday, that there was a picnic party on Rogue River near Eugene Bellow's last Sunday in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Graham and Miss Diehless Minter, who are both leaving the neighborhood. Miss Minter, I understand, expects to go east to attend school.
    M. D. Bowles, who has a farm up Lake Creek way, brought in two crates of chickens for our railroad agent, Amos Ayres, Friday.
    Mike Sidley passed through town Saturday morning with a small lot of finishing lumber.
    Norman Hawk and wife and E. A. Hildreth and wife, H. D. Mills, all of Butte Falls, were on the P.&E. Saturday on the eastbound trip.
    Wednesday morning the Eagle Point-Trail-Persist stage auto had four passengers, two strangers, John Simon and Mrs. Trusty.
    Since my last report Frank Abbott, T. D. Singleton and P. W. Haley, all of Eagle Point, have paid up their subscriptions to the W.M.T., and C. Hoogerhyde has paid up on his subscription to the D.M.T. Phillip McCabe has paid up his subscription to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 20, 1916, page 5


    At the school fair held September 11 here, in addition to the report already made in the Eaglets, I have the satisfaction of reporting that Miss Joyce von der Hellen had the honor of winning the first prize on baking bread and cake, and Aden Haselton the first on corn, not only at the school fair, but also at the county fair, and Master Haselton took the first prize on corn at the county fair, which wins him a trip to the state fair, where he will compete for the first prize on corn. When it comes to raising corn, the Little Butte Creek country will compare favorably with any other county in the state. We will watch with interest the result at the coming state fair.
    I am authorized to announce that the state president of the W.C.T.U. will be here next Sunday, September 24, and speak just at the close of the Sunday school about 11 a.m.
    Last Sunday was another busy day at the Sunnyside. Among the guests were J. P. Hughes and Mr. Cross of Butte Falls, Alex. Vestal, John Foster of Reese Creek, Mrs. L. A. Delbey of Copco, Cal.; Mrs. E. D. Briggs, Mrs. O. C. Crawley, M. E. Briggs of Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Wilson and son Robert, of Central Point; L. D. Corbit of Chicago; Mrs. M. E. Schmit, N. E. Haley and wife, Miss Catherine Deuel, Mrs. A. J. Vance, Miss Lenore Vance, of Medford; Henry Trusty and two nephews, sons of Henry Childreth, recently from Eastern Oregon. Henry Childreth lived here for some years, and about two years ago sold out his blacksmith shop to his brother and went to Northeastern Oregon to try to better his condition and improve his wife's health, but he, like most everybody else, has come back to try again to make another stake.
    Mrs. Tillie Ball and daughter, Miss Ina, of Crescent City, has been here for the past few days visiting her mother, Mrs. Heckathorn (Grandma), her sister, Mrs. Frank Lewis, and family.
    Monday we had a regular lawsuit here in Judge F. M. Stewart's court between W. S. Hoagland and Messrs. Lenox and Hanscom. The suit was over possession of two horses that Mr. Hoagland had let the two men have to put in and harvest a crop on his (Hoagland's) farm near Brownsboro. They had a jury trial, and P. J. Neff represented Mr. Hoagland's interest and B. R. McCabe the two young men. After hearing the evidence and the case was submitted to the jury, four of the six decided at once that Mr. H. ought to have his horses (he had replevined them), and one thought that he ought to have them, but the two young men should have about $50 damages, and the other thought that the two men should have the horses and $50 damages, and thus they stood and argued for between two and three hours, and finally the one who wanted to give the horses to Mr. H. and the $50 to the young men gave way and they decided to let Mr. H. have his horses and let the two men pay the costs, about $30. By the time the two attorneys get their fees and the $30 costs is paid it will take more than the horses are worth to settle the bill.
    When the contest between Ethel Winkle and Esther Shaw in arithmetic was settled in the school, Esther Shaw received the first prize and Ethel Winkle the second.
    Miss Mabel Cobleigh of Butte Falls, the young lady who had such a time with her knee in the G.S. Hospital last spring, spent the night with us Monday on her way up home. She is so badly crippled that she has to carry her foot in a sling attached to her neck, so that she can raise her foot from the floor to walk. She went on up to her home Tuesday morning.
    Mrs. J. E. Graham, whose husband owns the old Fred Pettegrew place on the free ferry road, was here Tuesday for dinner on her way to San Francisco, Cal. P. W. McCabe brought her to the Sunnyside.
    Miss Dottie Stowell of Medford came out on Tuesday evening to visit her sister, Mrs. John W. Smith.
    Fred Dutton has moved his family from the old James Matney farm to Eagle Point into one of the houses owned by James Owens.
    Miss Sarah Kershaw, who, with her brother, owns a fine farm and stock ranch on Antelope Creek, Wellen post office; Mrs. Raphael Gardner of Lake Creek, Henry Tonn of Lake Creek and a stranger were here for dinner Wednesday, and so was L. F. Legarie, a grocery salesman from Portland.
    While Henry Tonn was here he renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
    Tuesday I went over to the Ed Phipps orchard, and while there the subject of country roads came up in conversation, and he suggested that a near cut could be made from here to Ft. Klamath by opening up the road up Little Butte Creek via Fish Lake, to Pelican Bay. He said that he had driven with a hack from Pelican Bay to Four-Mile Lake and that a good roadway could be made from the bay to Fish Lake, a distance, according to Jack Lewis, who has just returned from Pelican Bay, of only about fourteen or fifteen miles. They claim that it is only four miles from Fish Lake to Four-Mile Lake and seven miles to Lake of the Woods and four or five to Pelican Bay. By that means, tourists going to Crater Lake could come via Fort Klamath out by Pelican Bay, Lake of the Woods and several smaller lakes, Four-Mile and Fish Lake, down Little Butte Creek, and have no heavy grades and have fine scenery all the way.
    Rev. Phillip Deschner., the Texas cowboy, will address the citizens of Eagle Point and vicinity on Monday, Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m. in the Baptist church, Eagle Point, on the subject of the two amendments, wet and dry, to be voted on November 7.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 22, 1916, page 6


    Mrs. Blanche Gray of New York City, a short story magazine writer, came out on the P.&E. Thursday, took a room at the Sunnyside, spent one night and was called back to Medford the next day.
    J. M. Wilfley and wife, who own one of the large orchards near here, but have been in Utah for the last summer, returned last Saturday to their Oregon home. They were accompanied by Mrs. Betty, mother of Thomas Betty, formerly of this section.
    J. E. Reed and family of Wellen were here for dinner Friday. Mr. Reed is one of the progressive farmers in Yankee Creek, and is another one on the stand-pat Republicans who thinks that Wilson ought to and will be re-elected as President.
    J. A. Malone, representing the Fairbanks Company of San Francisco, and H. J. Murray, representing the Toledo Scales Co., were here Thursday for dinner, and so was Steve Smith on "Along Rogue River" country, two strangers and L. M. Barrnard of Agate, who was canvassing for The Successful Farmer.
    J. D. Singleton, who owns and operates one of the fine farms and orchards in the banks of Little Butte, was in town and I inquired how he had succeeded in his effort in trying to have a rural mail route established, taking in the country beginning here, turning up Butte Creek to Brownsboro, turning there so as to take in the country by Dr. Nuding's, the Bradshaw and Stevens places via Thomas Riley's and sons, via James Owens, along the edge of the desert back via the Cingcade, Riley, Young, Coy places and Alta Vista orchard, and he said that he had done fine, having secured ninety-three names, and he was satisfied that he would secure two more, making more that was necessary, as the department only required four names to the mile, and he thought that was not more than twenty miles. He said that the people along the route seemed to be anxious to secure the mail route so that they could get their mail every day, as they want the Daily Mail Tribune, but don't subscribe for it because they can't get it only about once or twice a week.
    Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro came in yesterday (Friday) with a piano on his wagon and unloaded it at the opera house (he owns the property), and upon inquiry I learned, although I had heard a rumor before, that Howard Hall and Miss Claire Zimmerman had formed a partnership, rented the building and were going to conduct the movie picture show and dancing business here. Mr. Hall seems to be a live man, and Miss Claire Zimmerman is one of our wide-awake young business women. She is post office clerk and one of the phone girls, also interested in the newspaper business to a limited extent.
    Professor W. O. Wheeler and wife started for Crater Lake Friday afternoon after school. They were accompanied by a friend from California, but I could not learn his name.
    H. O. Foster, one of the United States forest rangers, spent Thursday night with us.
    Elsworth Stowell spent Friday night with us on his way to Grant County, and Mrs. A. L. Cross and two sons, Arnous and William, also were here Friday night. They were with Jed Edsall in an auto on their way to Crescent City to spend the winter. They were joined here by our daughter, Hattie, leaving here at 8:30 a.m. Jed and Hattie expect to return Sunday evening.
    W. C. Daley was here Saturday with a team to take out a few hundred feet of finishing lumber he had shipped out on the P.&E.
    Saturday morning I met George Howard, now of Berkeley, Cal., but formerly a prominent citizen of Medford. He was at that time interested with the late W. I. Vawter on the Jackson County Bank. He was on his way up to Rancheria to visit his son, who is interested in raising horses and mules. He remembered me as Eagle Point correspondent for the Monitor and later the Mail, and in later years the Mail Tribune. He seemed to be in fine health and spirits.
    John W. Smith, our leading carpenter, is engaged at this writing in making a bookcase and a large stand for the school library.
    Miss Nell Peachey of Ashland called Saturday morning. She is engaged in teaching school in the Antelope district.
    About twenty of the Boy Scouts on Medford scouted through here this morning on their way to the hills. I did not see them until it was too late to procure their names. They looked like a jolly set of boys.
    John McPherson was looking after his business interests here Saturday morning.
    G. N. Barkland of Medford, representing McCalman Co. of Portland, and W. A. Kinney, with M. Setler Co., Portland, were filling orders for Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, Saturday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 28, 1916, page 5


    Last Saturday the new amusement company, Mr. Howard Hall and Miss Clarice Zimmerman, gave us their first moving picture show and they had a well-filled house and the general opinion seemed to be that it was as good as they have at the Star or Page in Medford. At the close of the show, those who desired spent a while in dancing. The new amusement seemed to hit the right chord, and I predict that it will prove a success with the pleasure-loving people.
    Sunday morning I went to Tolo to meet Rev. M. C. Davis and hear him preach and was pleased to note along the route the abundant crop of tomatoes and sugar beets. Although I am no judge of the beet crop, it did look good to me to see the acres of beets in the Bear Creek bottom. Another thing that I noticed was the vast stacks of straw already threshed and the stacks of hay waiting for the balers to come and put it into shape to be put on the market. The usual amount of fruit did not appear to be on hand, but the orchardists said they had had a fine crop of pears, although the peach and apple crop was not as good as usual. After attending Sunday school and a special Bible class, introduced by Rev. Davis, we went to the hospitable home of Mr. Webb, took dinner and in the afternoon heard a fine old-fashioned gospel service by Brother Davis, spending the night with Mr. E. H. Davis and family, and Monday morning he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. I then started for home, reaching there about 10:30 a.m., and asked my granddaughter, Esther Shaw, if they had much of a crowd on Sunday and she said that they had two full tables and that means 32, but she did not know who many of them were, and my wife was too busy to bother with gathering items for the Eaglets.
    There was a stranger dropped in for dinner Monday who represents a New York firm. His business seemed to be painting fancy signs on glass. I didn't have a talk with him, as he came in with one of our regular boarders and seemed to address all of his conversation to him.
    J. H. Driscol and Ed Walker stopped off to feed their horses and take dinner Monday on their way from Trail. They are both deputy forest rangers and report that they have had but very little trouble with forest fires this season.
    Charles Humphrey and Mr. Hill, the Derby saw mill man, brought out five loads of lumber Monday from the Hill saw mill and took back a load of supplies. Mr. Humphrey has been trying to handle goats on his farm to help clear his land of brush, but he says that the coyotes are so bad that he can hardly raise a kid, and suggests that if the county court would offer a bounty for coyote scalps large enough to justify people hunting and killing them that there would be double the amount of goats, sheep and pigs raised in the county that would be taxed, thus bringing in more that enough revenue to more than repay the amount paid out for the varmint scalps.
    I see that Brandon Brothers have started the Snowy Butte Mills and are turning out flour, etc., and that will be another line of business to help build up our town if the business men and women will encourage it, by patronizing them and giving them a word of encouragement. I have not known of anyone who has tried the new brand of flour, so cannot say as to its quality, but when George Daley ran the mill the flour commanded 20 cents a barrel more than any flour in the valley.
    Professor W. O. Wheeler, wife, her cousin, Miss Orpha Fox of Sacramento, Cal., and Mr. William Marshall of Crescent City, who went to Crater Lake last Friday, returned Sunday evening feeling well repaid for their time and trouble in going to see the eighth wonder of the world. Professor Wheeler says that it was very cold at the lake while they were there, but the grandeur of the scenery more than balances all the rest.
    Jud Edsall and our daughter, Hattie, who started for Crescent City last Saturday with Mrs. Sears and two sons of Butte Falls, returned Monday night tired and cold. They say that the road is very rough and hard to travel over with an auto.
    S. F. Lamont of Berkeley spent two days with us the first of the week.
    Mrs. Buel Hildreth and Mrs. K. T. Kee of Butte Falls were on the P.&E. Tuesday on their way home. Mrs. Hildreth had been out in the hills with her husband, who is one of the forest rangers, and was on her way to civilization again, and Mrs. Kee had been in Ashland visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Buchanan.
    Mrs. Alma Hunt and Mrs. Henry Sunder of Tonopah, Nev., came in with Marshall Minter for dinner Tuesday on their way up on the Obenchain Mountain, to look at two different places that are for sale. They went as far as George Brown's in the jitney and were to go on the next day on horseback. Speaking about jitneys, Marshall Minter has just put his Ford on the road to run between here and Medford.
    Among the other callers Tuesday were John Minter, Green Mathews, H. J. Eberly and George A. Codding.
    Matt Laughlin of Nevada and a family by the name of Steers of Rogue River came up and visited their uncles, John and Robert Minter, and the Minter children Sunday. Marshall say that they had a house full but had a good time.
    George A. Stannard and wife had supper on their way to Medford. Mr. Stannard is supplying the schools in this county with school supplies.
    Bert Higinbotham came out Tuesday with his team to take back a load of supplies to his home in the Flounce Rock district.
    J. E. Graham, who owns a farm on Reese Creek, about five miles from here, was in for dinner on his way to Medford and so was George von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, and a friend of his whom I did not meet.
    Professor C. E. Johnson, who spent some time this summer canvassing for the sale of books, has just secured them. They have been on the road since about the 8th of July. He commenced to deliver Tuesday. Before he started to deliver, he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    A. S. Bishop of the Ringwood orchard was doing business with F. L. Heath Wednesday morning, and Thomas Riley brought in a load of wheat for George Brown at the same time.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 2, 1916, page 5


    W. C. Clements, our postmaster and manager and principal owner of the telephone business here, has caused to be erected on the rear end of the post office and telephone building a neat porch that will probably be needed this winter to protect the stovewood from the storms and lessen the burdens of the phone girls in keeping the room warm.
    Fred Dutton has finally succeeded in getting moved from the Frank Brown farm, a part of the old James Matney place, into one of the James Owens houses in our town. He had hardly got moved before he renewed his subscription with me for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Our new depot agent, Amos Ayres, and his wife went to Medford last Thursday evening and took in the show.
    Miss Coney, who is teaching school in the Persist district, came out Tuesday, visited Medford and Friday returned, taking the Eagle Point and Persist auto stage, under the management of the owner, Henry Trusty, and returned to her school.
    W. M. Benedict of Jacksonville came out Thursday, took the Eagle Point-Lake Creek auto stage for Lake Creek.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Peeley and two sons, Lawrence and Howard, and Milton York of Orange, Cal., passed through here Friday on their way to Crater Lake. They came from their home in the southern part of the state of California via the San Joaquin Valley, up the Sacramento Valley to this valley, having a trail attachment to their auto, but found that when they reached the hilly part of the road that they had too much of a load for their auto and that the coupling to the auto was not strong enough to bear the strain, so they packed up every superfluous article except two dogs and shipped them from here back home, and then went on their way, intending to go on to Crater Lake, thence via Klamath Falls, back to Ashland, and from there to Crescent City, down the coast to San Francisco, still following the coast route south to their home. Mr. Peeley said that they were looking over the country with a view of someday coming back and settling in Oregon.
    Thomas Stanley and his father passed through our town on their way to the valley Friday.
    Mike Sidley of Lake Creek was doing business with our business men Friday evening.
    Gus Ditsworth of Prospect brought out a load of potatoes Friday evening, spent the night with us and went on to Central Point with them, but thought that he might go on to Medford with them.
    E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls also spent the night with us at the same time.
    George Guerin, who is engineering Frank Brown's auto truck, took in four tons of the product of the Snowy Butte flour mill Saturday morning, thus putting the ball in motion to start a big business in the milling line in our town again. With the new water wheel and other machinery, the new owners seem to think that they will be able to secure water enough to run the entire machinery in the mill the most of the time, if not all the time, as they find that with their modern improvements that they will not require the same amount that was required under the old system.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. railway Saturday morning on the eastern trip were: E. A. Hildreth, who came out on the P.&E. jitney Friday; M. D. Stoddard, wife and son; Alex Hubbard, Jerry Bishop, H. D. Mills, all of Butte Falls, and Miss Nydah Neil of Derby.
    I also noticed the smiling features of Richard (Dick) Diamond, who has been taking a layoff for the past few months, enjoying a trip back east visiting friends and relatives. He has been in the employ of the P.&E. Railway Company for some years and has been taking a rest from his arduous duties. Dick is a fine fellow and has many warm friends in these parts.
    Lemon Charley of Brownsboro and James Kershaw of Wellen, both of them are prominent stockmen. Mr. Charley is interested in cows and horses and Mr. Kershaw is interested in cows, sheep and goats. While they were here for dinner Saturday, Mr. Charley related one of the most remarkable incidents on record. During the construction of the Rogue River canal on Little Butte Creek that supplies the valley with water and Dan Morris was superintending the work, Mrs. Morris lost her watch and Mr. M. offered a reward of $20 for its recovery, but all in vain. But some three or four weeks afterward as Mr. Charley's two daughters were riding through a gate that was used and had been used during all that time as a passage for all the horses and wagons in use on the canal, and there were at least fifty horses passed through that gate twice or three times a day, going to and from work, and the mud was six or eight inches deep as the two girls were riding through the gate and one of them was in the act of shutting it, on horseback, her horse, by a move of the foot, brought the watch to the surface, and it was found to be uninjured. What some would call a streak of luck, while others might call a mysterious act of Providence.
    The other day I met Ed Dutton and after he had renewed his subscription to the D.M.T., he remarked that he had just sold thirteen head of beef cattle for over $800, and I thought that it was no wonder that Mrs. H. has to pay so much for beef--over $60 apiece.
    C. Hoogerhyde has moved his family to Grants Pass. They will be missed, as Mr. H. has been the superintendent of our Sunday school, and Mrs. H. will be missed from the social circles.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 3, 1916, page 5


    Last Sunday, Oct. 1, was quite a noted day at Eagle Point. In addition to our usual routine of Sunday religious work at the close of the Sabbath school, Mrs. Jennie M. Kemp, president of the Oregon W.C.T.U., came in and favored us with a good sensible talk on the rise and advancement of the W.C.T.U. way back in my childhood days, originating in a family of noted drunkards, when a young man was raised by a pious mother and as he grew to manhood realizing the fearful results and consequences of the use of booze, started out with the determination to use all his influence to abate the curse. In one of his meetings he suggested to the mothers that they take the matter up and commence a series of prayer meetings in the saloons and asked how many of the mothers would start the ball in motion and every mother rose to their feet. He then asked how many of the men would back them in their undertaking and about all of the men pledged their support, and thus started the W.C.T.U. in an Ohio town some sixty or more years ago, and the movement has spread until now the W.C.T.U. has girdled the globe and extends almost from "pole to pole." She then gave us an account of the workings of the prohibition move, calling attention to the fact that we now have nineteen states that have adopted the dry amendment and assured us that we had a very good prospect for five more states joining the dry ranks, etc. She then paid her respects to the brewers' amendment, calling especial attention to that comma that is so placed as to destroy the present dry amendment and make the state of Oregon as wet as a "drowned dog." She spoke very encouragingly of the prospect of our final victory, not only here in Oregon, but of a thoroughly dry nation, assuring us of a bright prospect for having the entire Pacific Coast without a black spot on the map this year.
    Mrs. Kemp is a very forceful speaker and held her audience's attention from first to last. She was accompanied by Attorney O. C. Boggs and wife and Mrs. L. A. Howell, the county superintendent of the W.C.T.U. of Medford. There was not the audience that we had wished but still quite good for Eagle Point, as there are a number here who are a little skittish about going to such places for fear they will have their corns hurt.
    The next day, Monday, we were favored with another fine speaker on a similar subject, Philip Deschner, the Texas cowboy. Instead of him following the old ruts, he started off by showing that there were other things connected with the liquor traffic that was worse than the open saloon, and then we all began to take notice, for if there is anything in the world worse that the saloon we all wanted to know what it was. He then called attention to the power the brewers exerted politically and told how they, through the use of money and political patronage, managed to elect men to office, and especially to the legislature and Congress of the U.S., relating an incident that occurred in Texas where there was an amendment to be ratified by the legislature that required a two thirds majority and the friends of the move labored until they secured a good two-thirds of the house and about the first thing the did was to commence to debate and they kept that up for about four weeks and finally when the vote was taken, they found that they lacked just three votes, and upon investigation found that three of their men had been bought off and received the neat little sum of $40,000 each for their votes. He related another incident where a case was in the courts, a lawyer was engaged to carry up a case to the higher courts and just as he was going into the court house there were two men standing one on each side of the door and just as he was entering they each fired three shots into his breast, killing him dead. They were indicted and brought to trial, the jury hung in the first, second, third and fourth trials, with the same result, and finally after the fourth trial the prosecutor asked how they could always bring in a disagreement and one of the jurors stood up and said that he could tell, as far as he was concerned, that he had a wife and three children at home and that he thought too much of them to sacrifice his life, as each one of the forty-eight jurors had received a letter stating that if they convicted these men that each one would pay for it with their lives and that they did not care to make the sacrifice, so finally the case was dismissed and the two men went free. He also related a case in Portland where justice was thwarted in a case where the superintendent of the anti-saloon league had a case in court and a thug struck him on his glasses and thus disabled him so that the case had to be postponed and they would not let it come up again. And I will add that we don't have to go outside of Jackson County to find cases where the liquor power has thwarted justice.
    Miss Corney Riggins, Miss Neil Thompson and her sister, Ruth, of Derby came out Saturday evening, attended the movie show and dance, and Wm. Cameron, also of Derby, was with us Saturday and Sunday nights and Monday went to work on the Corbin orchard picking apples.
    Mrs. E. J. Scammon of Minneapolis, who has been out here visiting the Minter brothers and family, returned home and R. R. Minter's daughter, Miss Diehless, went with her to attend school.
    Last Monday just about noon there were two autos came up with the following persons and they called for dinner: Frank J. Miller of Salem, Or., H. C. Stoddard of San Francisco, Phil B. McRee, San Francisco, L. D. Leedy, Salem, E. W. Moreland, Salem and H. T. Walther of Medford. They were going up to the Prospect power plant to inspect it, then going on to Crater Lake. After they were gone, I learned that they were all more or less interested in the electrical business.
    Marsh Garrett and wife were also here the same day, and so was C. A. Newstrom of Lake Creek.
    Earl Ulrich of Prospect was smiling on some of his old friends here Tuesday and A. G. Pech of Lake Creek was also in town on his way to Medford with an auto load of spuds. He had some samples that would show well anywhere; they were whoppers.
    Mrs. Sarah Guerin and son Harold of Portland, a sister of the Brown Bros., merchants, Mrs. Van Scoyoc and Mrs. S. B. Holmes are here visiting her relatives.
    Wig Jacks has just sold three of his horses.
    J. W. Grover had the misfortune to lose one of his work horses, by having his leg broke by a kick from one of John Collins' horses, and Sam Coy lost a fine work horse Wednesday morning.
    We are well supplied at this time with meat peddlers, as we have two twice a week.
    V. E. Brittsan and brother brought in two loads of hogs and took them to Central Point market.
    Fred Kleinhammer, Mr. Redmond and J. Sambert of Medford came in from Four Mile Lake Monday eve, spent the night here with us.
    Ed Conley, one of our neighbors, has purchased the F. L. Heath stock of goods and they will finish the invoicing Thursday and he will formally open in the old Heath store Friday morning.
    Bert Higinbotham of Flounce Rock came in Tuesday eve on his way to the valley in search of seed wheat. If those who have clean wheat for sale would put an ad to that effect in the Mail Tribune, they could find purchasers more readily. August Volt of Prospect and wife were also here the same night.
    Since my last report John Rader has renewed his sub to the W.M.T. and Floyd has given me his sub for the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 5, 1916, page 5


    Bert Higinbotham of Flounce Rock spent the night with us Thursday on his way home with a load of seed wheat and flour. These men who live back in the hills have to prepare for winter while the roads are so that they can haul a load, and Bert is improving the time this beautiful weather. While here he told of J. S. Tucker selling his farm, the Stone House ranch, for $20,000 to a Californian, but he did not learn his name.
    Thomas Riley, Jr., son of ex-County Commissioner Thomas Riley, Sr., and his partner, Carl Roberts, are husking out their corn and storing it in the Snowy Butte mills warehouse. They are boarding at the Sunnyside while at work.
    O. A. Milligan of Trail is supplying this section with some fine beets.
    Frank Ditsworth of Peyton stopped here for dinner the middle of the week on his way to Medford. He was looking over the potato market.
    Mrs. Prue M. Platt of Medford was here for dinner Tuesday, canvassing for some of the high-grade magazines, and seemed to be meeting with considerable success. She is a good talker.
    Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro has been hauling lumber from the Eagle Point lumber yard to build a new barn, and the Grissoms of Lake Creek have been getting a quantity of lumber and shingles at the same place.
    Henry Tonn of Lake Creek brought in a fine lot of chickens Tuesday. The foregoing Eaglets were left over when I wrote Wednesday, as I was afraid to put in all that I had for fear of trying the patience of the editor.
    Mrs. J. M. Vogeli, wife of the man who kept the tavern and saloon near the P.&E. depot that was burned down, has been here visiting Mrs. Frank Brown.
    Last Thursday there was quite a number of our children went from here to attend the pioneers' reunion at Jacksonville, but I put in my time the most of the day working for the Mail Tribune. Starting out in the morning, I went to the Ringwood orchard and found the proprietor, A. G. Bishop, busy cleaning up his smudge pots and getting them ready for next season. He said that they had a fine crop of pears, but that the frost injured the apple crop, but that his corn crop is fine. In fact, from what I can learn about all of the corn in this section of the country has proved to be good. While I was there he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. From there I went to Swan Bergquist's fine farm and orchard, found Mrs. B. busy canning tomatoes. She is one of those thoughtful housekeepers who believes in taking time by the forelock. There I had to wait for awhile until her husband came in with a load of stove wood, but when he came he paid up arrears and paid for another year on the W.M.T. He is a man who believes in paying as he goes. From there I went to W. P. Holbrook's, found him working in his corn, but he stopped long enough to write out a check for a year's subscription the Daily Mail Tribune. From there I went to see J. L. Frink, but the lady I met at the door told me that he was not at home, and so I did no business there.
    By this time I began to think that it was about time for me to start for the Sunnyside, and when I reached there about 1 p.m., found D. R. Hill, one of our leading orchardists; A. W. Morey of San Francisco and J. C. Barnes, the real estate man, at the dinner table; they had come in late. I did not learn their business or where they were going, as they were in a hurry. After they were gone, I asked Mrs. Daley, who had charge of the house during the absence of Mrs. Howlett and Hattie, if she had had many for dinner, and she said that the three who had just left made fourteen besides our regular boarders. After dinner I wrote a letter and then started to go up the creek but got switched off up to the Corbin orchard and found mine hostess, Mrs. J. S. Quackenbush, preparing for the evening meal. Went down in the orchard where I found Mr. Quackenbush and about twelve or fifteen men picking apples. Now, talk about apples--so far as quality and quantity were concerned, they were surely up to date, for I think that I saw some as fine-looking apples there as I ever sat at any of the fairs in Portland, Seattle or San Francisco, and as for quantity, the trees seemed to be loaded. Mr. Q. showed me one tree, a Spitzenberg, that he gathered fifty boxes off last year, but he said that he did not expect to gather over forty boxes this season. Mr. Q. is making a change in the management of the orchard, and instead of letting it go and realizing anything but fruit, he has sowed, at least the part I saw, to red clover and lets the hogs run in the orchard all the time, thus raising hogs with little or no expense, and keeping the codling moth out of the fruit, for if any of the apples have any of the eggs in them and fall off, the hogs will eat the apples and thus destroy the germ. When the late Henry Brown of Brownsboro was living, he adopted that plan and said that he seldom had a wormy apple, but if that is merely a notion, by that means they can raise a fine lot of hogs to put on the market that will help pay the expense of caring for the orchard. Before I left he renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. and after loading me down with samples of apples I started for home, reaching there tired and hungry.
    Friday, among others who came in for dinner was Howard B. Hill, a son of D. R. Hill, the orchardist, and in the course of conversation he asked me, "Who is going to be our next President?" and I answered, "Why Wilson, of course." And that led to the subject, and he remarked that he and his father had been Republicans all their lives and voted the Republican ticket, but that this time they were both going to vote for Wilson, and he related an incident that happened a few days ago in Medford. He said that Mrs. ------ was organizing Hughes clubs and asked him and his father to sign up, but he reminded her that she at the last election was working for the progressives and thought that Wilson was really the only progressive candidate in the field. And that brought up the subject of who was supporting Wilson, and I remarked that for the past month or so I had been keeping tab on those who came here and expressed their views, and that I had found a very large percentage of the Republicans were working for Wilson--in fact, almost all of the voters in Eagle Point, except for a few of the "yellow dog" kind, are for Wilson. Speaking [omission?] I have that the Republican candidate for district attorney, S. M. Roberts, signed the petition to have the brewers' beer amendment placed on the ballot.
    G. W. Brandon, one of the new owners of the Snowy Butte mills, has moved into the Tillie Nichols house.
    Mrs. M. D. Stoddard, wife of the Butte Falls hardware merchants, came out from Medford Friday afternoon, spent the night with us and took the P.&E. train for her home Saturday morning.
    Since Ed Conley has purchased the Heath store, he has become an occasional boarder here.
    Jack Florey, Jr., who has been in the hospital in Medford, having been operated on for appendicitis, has returned and is on our streets again.
    M. C. Logan, recently from Crook County, Oregon, has moved into our town and rented the old A. J. Daley (Dick) property, but will not be able to move into the building for a short time, owing to the sickness of Ralph Potter, who is confined to his bed with a rupture of one of the valves of the heart.
    John Foster, Miss Dewie Howe, Miss Ruby Ash of Trail and Miss Norma Smith of Lake Creek were among the guests Saturday for dinner. Miss Howe is teaching school at Trail and Miss Smith is teaching at Lake Creek and Miss Ash is the postmistress at Trail. They all three went to Medford Saturday afternoon.
    There were nine passengers on the P.&E. car Saturday morning on their way up the country.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 12, 1916, page 5


    Miss Dewie Howe and Miss Ruby Ash, the two young ladies reported in my list as being here Saturday for dinner, instead of going to their home, Trail, went to Medford and spent the afternoon and evening, returning to the Sunnyside between ten and eleven p.m., took a room and after dinner Sunday, were taken to their home by our accommodating mail carrier, Henry Trusty. They thought that they would have to join the crowd that went from here to see the Elks' carnival in Medford. Speaking about the crowd who went from here, I heard Mrs. H. say that when she looked around at the Nat that she thought that there would be no one left to attend the movie and dance here and she was about right, for there were so few that the management gave a free dance and had the movie show Sunday night, and I understand that there was a good crowd in attendance.
    Sunday we had another crowd here for dinner and supper. Among those here for dinner were: P. J. Neff and wife, Mrs. H. A. Harman, Mrs. G. Fields, Miss Elizabeth Richards and Mrs. A. H. Wissing of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. Emil Peil, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bush, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Butler, Mrs. M. A. Barrow (Grand Ma) and Mrs. J. Rose of Ashland, beside Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, our bank cashier.
    Quite a number whose names I failed to secure; there were all told forty-one beside the family who took dinner. Among them was John Allen, Fred Chartraw of Derby; Earl Zimmerman and Benj. Edmondson of Butte Falls and Frank Johnson, who lives on the road one mile this side of the free ferry. The five last named came out with a band of beef cattle to take to Medford and later in the day were joined by Owen Conover, also of the free ferry road. All six spent the night in the Sunnyside and the next morning by six o'clock, Mrs. H. had them seated at the breakfast table and they were soon on the road with as fine a bunch of beef cattle as anyone could wish.
    As an item of news, Frank Johnson told me that he and his son, Charles, had just finished building a large frame barn on his place (the old Geppert place), north of Butte Falls.
    Wallace Cushman and wife of Trail started out from Medford with Marshall Minter Monday morning in time to catch the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage but they had a punctured tire, and the result was they reached the Sunnyside just too late for the stage, and then Marshall had to go to Derby to bring Mrs. G. White and her daughter, Mrs. Lola M. McIntyre, out and take them to Medford; come back and take Mr. and Mrs. Cushman up on Trail. They all met at the Sunnyside and took dinner and everything passed off pleasantly and after Marshall came back from Trail he had to go to Medford and bring Mrs. White and Mrs. McIntyre out and take them home to Derby. Now talk about the trials and tribulations of a jitney driver.
    I should have stated in connection with Saturday's proceedings that Mr. Ed Conley, our new merchant, was among the crowd that went to Medford Saturday evening and when he went to where he left his "Ford," found that someone had borrowed it and failed to return it, but later in the night he found it two or three blocks from where he had left it. It was uninjured, someone simply wanted to take a little ride and borrowed it for the occasion.
    Mr. Petty, who has been farming the place known as the Widow Jacks place, has rented and moved into the Thomas Riley, Jr., place and intends to farm it the coming year. He was here for dinner Sunday.
    Ray Harnish, who is living on the Emil Peil place on Antelope, came out Saturday, and this Monday morning his wife gave me a subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune. She said that they would like to take the Daily Mail Tribune, but that they could not get their mail oftener that once a week and that the news would be stale by that time, so they would take it with the news in a condensed form.
    Wm. Nickel and another man of Lake Creek were here for dinner today. They are hauling cordwood here, this time for our postmaster and telephone manager, W. C. Clements. He has filled his contract for furnishing the school with wood.
    We are expecting a big crowd here next Thursday evening to hear the joint discussion between P. J. Neff and E. E. Kelly on the one side and the strongest men the G.O.P. can find in the county to put against them. They will speak in the opera house at 8 o'clock p.m. The Hughes folk, for there are a few of each sex who seem to have a little hope of Hughes carrying Oregon, but they are trembling in their boots, but I was told this morning by a prominent politician that a large majority of the Republicans here and around here are supporting Woodrow Wilson. So mote it be!
Medford Mail Tribune, October 13, 1916, page 5


    Henry French and wife were doing business in our town the first of the week.
    William and Andrew Grissom of Lake Creek came out the first of the week to buy two loads of corn for their use on their mountain ranches.
    William Haselton and Walter Painter, two of our town boys who have been working this summer and fall in Klamath County, came in to procure a load of apples. They shipped thirteen boxes by parcel post as far as Klamath Falls.
    A. H. Peachy, who is selling Watkins remedies, met his daughter, Miss Nell, who is teaching school in the Antelope district, at the Sunnyside on Tuesday the 10th, on her way to attend the teachers' institute.
    Miss Edith Fredenburg of Butte Falls, who is teaching in the Lake Creek district, and Miss Norma Smith were also here for dinner on their way to attend the institute at the same time.
    Homer Randall of Trail and Chas. Clark spent Tuesday night with us. Mr. R. was on his way home and Mr. Clark had been looking over the scenes of his childhood days. He expects to remain here permanently, as he owns a forty-acre tract of land north of Eagle Point and expects to cultivate it.
    Henry Childreth, formerly one of our blacksmiths, who has been living in Eastern Oregon for the past season, but has come back to his old scenes, came out to visit his brother, W. L. Childreth, and took the Eagle Point-Persist stage for Elk Creek to visit his father-in-law Wednesday. Jess Phillips and his son and daughter came out from Halsey and took the same stage and so did H. C. Mitchell and V. A. Hoffman, wife and four children. The last named, Mr. Hoffman and family, were on their way to take charge of the Elk Creek hatchery in the place of Arch Cappell, who has gone to Montana to live. They all went out on the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage, making thirteen altogether. They and their baggage, with the U.S. mail, made about all that Henry Childreth could take, and then he had to put on this trail attachment. He had his trailer loaded with mail matter and baggage and then had three large men in it besides.
    Fred Luy of Wellen was in Eagle Point Thursday after a load of lumber to cover one of his hay stacks and while here gave me a check for a year's subscription to the D.M.T. He is one of the number whom I went to see at the time I was up in that neighborhood that I could not find, as he was out at work on the farm.
    There is quite a quantity of land plaster stored in the P.&E. depot for John Walsh and Lee Farlow of Lake Creek.
    Mr. Knight of the Alta Vista orchard is shipping his apples on the P.&E. direct to Europe, I understand. He has a fine quantity and excellent quality. This has been a remarkably dry season, but still the fruit crop here, especially on sticky soil, has been fully up to date.
    Mr. Hensley, the man who bought the Frank Nichols orchard, reports that he has a fine crop of choice fruit and seems well pleased with his purchase.
    Well, I have kept writing items as I had them jotted down, and almost omitted to say anything about the grand Wilson rally here last Thursday night. P. J. Neff and E. E. Kelly came out according to the announcement and met a very large number of the voters at the opera house and gave us two very interesting talks on the current issues of the day. Mr. Neff spoke first and gave a plain but logical talk on the subject of international law, showing the intricacies of law that President Wilson has had to ferret out, and how nicely and how shrewdly he has handled the different law points he had to meet, and how he had to compete with the brainiest men in the world and still come off victorious, and how he not only had foreign diplomats to battle with, but the agents of the big mining interests with all of their cunning and treachery, and still has kept us out of the war and saved our national honor. He was followed by Mr. Kelly with a short address giving us the legislative side of the conflict and spoke of the different laws he has been instrumental in placing on the statute books of our nation. There was no mud-slinging or hard sayings about the opposing parties, but they gave simply two good, clean talks that we all could understand and think over between now and the 7th of November.
    W. C. Daley of Lake Creek had a fertilizer distributor come out on the P.&E. last Thursday. He is one of our successful farmers and knows the advantages of using fertilizers.
    Perry Foster and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ed Foster, were here Thursday. They came out from their home along Rogue River to transact some business with the bank here, and found the bank closed and the cashier gone, it being a holiday, so had to return without attending to the business and will have to come back again.
    Bert Higinbotham and his father, T. B. Higinbotham of Flounce Rock precinct, motored out Thursday.
    J. L. Frink, who is living on the old Nick Young place, was in town Thursday and while here renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
    William Perry, who owns and operates a wood saw, has been sawing up the winter's wood for several of the citizens here, but I understand that he has quit for a month or so, so as to do other work. He is a rustler.
    D. F. Koenig of Derby, one of the owners of the new sawmill in that neighborhood, spent the night with us Thursday.
    G. M. Roberts and E. W. Wilson, Republican candidates for district attorney and sheriff, were here Thursday for dinner, and while here they were trying to secure votes.
    Friday I took a ride in Minter's jitney to Medford and after transacting a little business, visited the Page and saw the movie play. "Civilization" played, and when I retired remarked to a man who came out with me that that play would make thousands of votes for Woodrow Wilson, for it showed up the barbarism of war and the folly of the people submitting to the dictation of the money powers.
    Since my last, in addition to those whose names I have already mentioned in this article, A. C. Edler of Lake Creek has renewed his subscription to the W.M.T. by his brother, August Edler.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 17, 1916, page 5


    SALEM, Or., Oct. 18.--Losses were reported by five Oregon railroads in reports filed Monday with the Public Service Commission. Among the reports were the following:
    Pacific & Eastern--Operating revenue, $16,363.31; operating expenses, $25,324.15; net loss, $141,127.17.
    Carlton & Coast--Operating revenue, $3,114.18; operating expenses, $17,831.33; net loss, $43,539.84.
    Willamette Valley Southern--Operating revenue, $49,983.65; operating expenses, $65,770.01; net loss, $70,092.19.
    Independence & Monmouth--Operating revenue, $6,932.69; operating expenses, $10,937.75; Net loss, $4,378.50.
    Mount Hood--Operating revenue, $60,660.04; operating expenses, $50,360.90; net loss, $21,865.65.
    In arriving at the net loss in each instance, interest on bonds and other items not included as operating expenses are charged.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 18, 1916, page 4


    The season for evening parties has arrived, or at least in this neighborhood, and I have the pleasure of reporting a very pleasant one at the L. Rose orchard, owned and occupied by Mr. John Greb and family. The entertainment was to honor two of the children, Miss Myrtle and Master John. There was a little departure from the usual program, as on this occasion a large bonfire was added to the rest of the activities of the evening. Those present were: Misses Estella Betz, Freda Leabo, Nellie Coy, Fay Perry, Leila Roberts, George Wilson of Medford, Master Carl Quackenbush, Vaughn Quackenbush, Harold Van Scoyoc, Judge Florey, Theodore Florey, William Coy, Walter Shesler and Roscoe Roberts. The above named young folk are schoolmates of John and Myrtle Greb, except Miss Williams. I understand that they had one of those old-fashioned times that none except the hale and hearty folk of Jackson County can have. Light refreshments were served before the company retired to their respective homes, wishing that they may all live to meet again under similar circumstances.
    Misses Ruth Bullock, Octavia Childers and Ruby Wilcox came out Friday afternoon to spend the weekend with Miss Zanta and Miss Zelma Roberts at their home on the old Joe Rader place.
    Lucius Kincaid of Prospect spent Friday night at the Sunnyside.
    Last Sunday we were favored with two addresses from Mrs. Victoria Mitchell Crow of Merlin. Mrs. Crow has been in the missionary field in Burma for seven years, but left that work, came home and married. She is now engaged by the Baptists to lecture in behalf of that denomination in trying to build up the churches that are needing help and assist members during the next five years. She is not what we would call a forceful speaker, although she gave us two good, sensible talks.
    On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Ed Steep and their son-in-law, daughter and granddaughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Van Scoyoc and Miss Marion Van Scoyoc of Medford, were among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner. Mr. George H. Wamsley of this place and Mrs. Louisa Whitney of Colma, Cal., Wm. von der Hellen and family. Thomas Abbott and Miss Cecil Moore of Lake Creek were also with us Sunday.
    There was a gentleman here Sunday night who seemed to be greatly interested in agates. He was looking at some that Thomas M. Riley has and was greatly interested in the wonderful beauties connected with the agate field just north of our town.
    I see that I have another pleasant little party to mention in this week's Eaglets. Misses Zanta and Zelma Roberts entertained a number of their friends at their home near Eagle Point on Friday evening. Among those in attendance were Messrs. John Butler, Robert Harnish, George Grigsby, Harry Lewis, James Butler, John Greb, Lawrence Luy, Roscoe Roberts, Misses Ruth Bullock, Ruby Wilcox, Francis Greb and Octavia Childers. The evening was spent in playing games and music, and before retiring refreshments were served and finally, after wishing the host and hostess and Misses Zelma and Zanta good night, they departed for their homes.
    H. E. Bunnbarger of Medford took breakfast with Henry Trusty at the Sunnyside Monday morning.
    Mr. W. Retes [Reter?] of Medford spent Saturday and Sunday nights with us.
    The apple picker's dance was given Saturday evening, and the manager of that department of the amusement club reports that it was a grand success. The plan was for the men to wear their overalls and the women and girls to wear their gingham aprons.
    On Monday we had as a guest at the Sunnyside Hotel T. M. Peelor and his son-in-law, H. D. Blanchard of the Evergreen ranch on Rogue River, above Elk Creek. They report business lively and that there is some property changing hands in that section.
    Died--October 15, 1916, at the home of his son-in-law, Ralph Tucker, in Brownsboro, David Clemens, aged 86 years, 6 months and 25 days. The deceased was born in the state of Pennsylvania March 30, 1830. In 1862 he moved to Iowa, where he remained until 1898, when he moved to Brownsboro, where he remained the rest of his natural life. He leaves an aged wife, now in her 89th year of her life, and a daughter, Mrs. Ralph Tucker. The remains were interred in the Brownsboro cemetery on Monday, October 16, 1916. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. C. Howlett at the grave.
    Our accommodating depot agent reports the shipment of quite a lot of young chickens to the Medford market.
    Charles Scofield was doing business in our town Tuesday morning.
    Mr. Johnson, the business manager of the P.&E., reports that he brought out a carload of fertilizer for parties in this section Tuesday morning, and that he takes out his first load of sugar beets this Tuesday evening.
    County Recorder Chauncey Florey came out and went to the hills for a hunt Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 20, 1916, page 5


    Professor C. E. Johnson, who has been acting as local solicitor for the Universal Book and Bible House of Philadelphia, has accepted the appointment as traveling agent to secure substitute agents through the western part of this state, has left here for his new field of labor. Before he left here he appointed Mrs. Charles Painter as the local agent for this district.
    Last Wednesday afternoon I started out to canvass the Brownsboro and Lake Creek district for the Medford Mail Tribune, but just before I started, I met at the Sunnyside quite a number of people from different parts of the country who came in for dinner. Among them were Newton W. Borden, the Democratic candidate for district attorney; Ralph Jennings, Democratic candidate for sheriff and J. O. Gerking, the Democratic candidate for county recorder. J. W. Mitchell, one of the Christian Science healers of Medford, I learned on my return that he conducted services that night at the residence of David Cingcade. R. M. A. Mohney of Portland, who is representing the Equitable Savings & Loan Association of that city; L.H. Ossman, formerly of the United States fish hatchery of Elk Creek, and while he was here he gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Mr. and Mrs. Van Wegen of Ashland were here and spent the night on their return from Klamath County.
    The day before I started on my trip, G. W. Brandon, one of the owners of the Snowy Butte mill of this place, renewed his subscription to the D.M.T., and the first men I met were W. E. Butler and Chris Bergman, who renewed their subscription to the W.M.T. Going on from there, the next place I stopped was at the store of W. J. Cannon of Brownsboro. He and his wife have built a neat store building in that town and seemed to have it well stocked with new goods, and from what I learned in the neighborhood, bid fair to make a success in their line of business. He owns and operates an auto truck, so does his own freighting, and thus gives his customers the advantage of cheap freight. While there Mr. Cannon gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    The next place I stopped was at the home of George B. Brown, but he was not at home, and his wife was confined to her bed with another baby girl, that being their fifth daughter. But I met him later on the road and he renewed his subscription to the W.M.T. His daughter was born October 10, 1916, and I am glad to say that the mother and girl are getting along finely. From there I next went to C. E. Terrill's, but found that he was out on the ranch, but I met him later on the road, but did no business. Next to Mrs. C. C. Charley's, but she was uncertain as to whether her son had paid in the office or not, so did no business there. She was preparing to build another new barn to cover her enormous crop of hay. Speaking about hay, the people in this section of the country are surely blessed with that necessary commodity, for go almost where you will you will see great stacks of hay standing out, some of them covered with lumber, some with canvas, and in a number of instances the people are building new barns or enlarging their old ones. But I will have something more to say later on the cause of such hay crops.
    The next place was at the orchard of D. L. McNary of Brownsboro. I found him busily engaged picking his crop of apples, but did no business with him. Going from there, the next place I stopped was at the beautiful home of L. C. Charley. I found Mr. C. sitting in his rocking chair and naturally inquired why he was taking things so easy at that time of the day and learned that he had been under the weather for about two weeks, but was on the way to convalescence. After a few minutes of general chat he paid up his subscription to the D.M.T., and then asked me to put up my horse and spend the night, and of course I could not refuse such an offer, and the next morning he seemed to be quite smart, and acknowledged that good, lively company had had a good effect on him. Mr. Charley is one of our live, enterprising farmers and stockmen who knows how to have things convenient and handy. In addition to his modern house with many of the latest conveniences, he is planning to put in an electric power plant on his place, so as to have not only electric lights in the house and barns, but power to run his machinery, including his cream separator, churn, etc., for he has a herd of fine blooded cattle and supplies the consumers with milk, cream and butter. Next I stopped at the home of G. Nygren, who owns a fine farm on Salt Creek, and as I drove up about the first thing I heard was the buzz of the cream separators. When I met Mr. Nygren, after giving me a hearty shake of the hand, he remarked that he might as well go get some money, as he supposed that was what I was after, and in a moment returned with the cash to renew his subscription to the W.M.T. About this time I began to meet teams going to Eagle Point after a carload of fertilizer. There were seven or eight teams, two and four horse, and one of them was William Nickel of Lake Creek, and he stopped long enough for me to write out a receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. From there I went to the Charles Klingle farm and met his wife, and she told me that Charley had gone to Eagle Point after a load of fertilizer, but for me to stop as I went home and she would have the cash for me. And right here I will explain the cause of the vast amount of hay there is in this section. A few years ago one or two of the most progressive farmers invested a small amount in commercial fertilizer to simply try the experiment, and the result was so satisfactory that others ventured, and now there has just in the last two days been hauled up on Little Butte Creek a carload of the stuff, and on inquiry I was told by such men as Thomas Farlow that in most instances the land produced double the amount it did before of alfalfa and clover. Another man, Thomas Abbott, said that on the ranch where he was working, Gus Nichols', that year before last they put up 100 tons of hay, and this year they had put up 200 tons off the same tract of land; they had been using the "dope." But this is a digression.
    I also stopped at the home of H. P. Burleson but found that he was off on the pipe line at work. From there to the neat little farm of R. A. Pech, and found that he had gone after a load of the dope, but his wife asked if she could not settle the bill, so I gave her a receipt for $1.50 for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. Next to his cousin's, G. A. Pech, where I found the old lady, Mrs. Pech, the mother of G. A. and Fritz. The boys were digging potatoes, and they had some fine ones, and G. A. took a receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. From there to J. L. Ragsdale's where I asked about dinner and horse feed and was told that they did not have dinner until about 2 o'clock, but that she, Mrs. R., could set me a lunch, but as I had about half an hour before noon, concluded to go on to Charley Scofield's for dinner. I should have said that Mr. R. had gone to Medford and had paid his subscription to the W.M.T. in the office. Arriving at C. Scofield's, I found Mrs. S. and her daughter, but Charley had gone to Eagle Point, but I fed my horse and had a fine dinner, spent an hour or so with Mrs. S. and daughter and wrote her out a receipt for a six months' subscription to the W.M.T. I should have mentioned that I called on Mike Sidley, Sr., and found him clearing and burning some small brush that the goats could not eat, for he had slashed the brush and let the goats do the rest, but I did no business there, but will as soon as he gets his paper changed from Brownsboro to Lake Creek, as he has taken that means to have the W.M.T. force make the change.
    From Mr. Scofield's I next went to the home of Thomas F. Nichols, but found no one at home, as he had gone to Eagle Point after a load of "dope." In a few minutes I was at the Farlow sawmill, where I met Frank Barlow and his wife. They have established a camp at the mill. I also met a Mr. Parker, who was helping in the mill. As soon as I reached there, Mr. F. told me that he had paid his subscription to the W.M.T. in the office in Medford, and that his brother, Lee, was out to Medford, and so did no business there.
    Changing my course, I next stopped to see W. S. Chatman, but he was not prepared just then to renew, but would later.
    From there I went to spend the night with Thomas Farlow on his fine ranch on the north fork of Little Butte Creek, but found him not at home, but was on the road with two loads of dope. He laid in six tons this fall. He and Mr. Nickel soon arrived and soon were all seated at the supper table with his little family of wife and two boys and two girls. His oldest girl is going to high school in Medford. I also met Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols there. She is a niece of Mr. and Mrs. F.
    The next morning, bidding Mr. and Mrs. F. and Mrs. N. and the children a hearty farewell, I started homeward, but stopped at Mr. Klingle's and left a receipt for $1.50 for subscription to W.M.T. Started on, I met George B. Brown of Brownsboro and gave him a receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. From there to Mrs. Ed Tucker's, but did no business. I soon met T. F. Nichols and he paid for his renewal to the W.M.T., and that wound up my day's work for that day, reaching home about 11 a.m., tired and with a good appetite, where I met E. G. Headley of Medford, Bert Rippy, Ben Sheldon, one of the candidates for the legislature; C. A. Newstrom and son Charley, Klingle and Mike Sidley, Jr., and a traveling man who asked me not to mention his being here.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 23, 1916, page 2


    Mrs. Mae Daw moved from Trail to Medford. She spent a day as the guest of Mrs. Rose Cushman.
    Mrs. John Hall spent a week at the home of her mother.
    Harry Skyrman, who was home on a week's vacation, returned to school in Central Point.
    Jack Daw, from Klamath, spent a week at the home of Charles Skyrman and has left to spend a week with his mother in Medford.
    Mrs. Edward Miller and Mrs. Chas. Skyrman of Trail spent a week with friends in Medford and Central Point.
    John Klippel of Portland is visiting with his sister, Allie Klippel.
    E. E. Ash, Trail merchant, was in Medford doing business Saturday.   
Medford Mail Tribune, October 24, 1916, page 5


    On Thursday night, October 19, we had a regular Republican rally, and the party was represented by the best and brainiest men in the county that was available--such men as Judge C. B. Watson, William Gore, etc.--to teach the people how to vote, but I was so unfortunate that business called me up in the Lake Creek country and I did not have the satisfaction of being present and listening to them, but I had friends there who gave me some idea of the meeting and some of the things that were said and done. From what I could gather there was about the usual number in attendance that attend such meetings, and there were some very good things said and no mud-slinging. I understand that one of the speakers in particular was considerably annoyed, for whenever he mentioned Woodrow Wilson's name, a large majority would clap their hands by the way of endorsing Wilson, but he could not have expected anything else, as a large part of the community here seem to be in favor of letting well enough alone and when we have a good thing, keep it.
    As I said in my last, I reached home Friday morning and that afternoon rested and looked around for something of interest to write and see what had happened while I was gone but found very little that would interest the general reader.
    Thomas M. Riley and Carl Roberts have finished husking out their corn and hauled and stored it in the warehouse belonging to the Brandon Bros., connected with the Snowy Butte mill, and they had hardly finished hauling it before R. W. Elden of Central Point bought all that they had not already sold or promised. They realized forty tons of corn in the ear of thirty-five acres of sticky land. They are both industrious, practical young men and have farmed a hundred acres of land the past season and realized a neat sum for their labor.
    Saturday I was so busy writing up an account of what I had been doing the past few days that I forgot to go down at dinner time, and when I did go I soon discovered by the stack of dishes in the sink that there had been an unusually large crowd here for dinner and I asked my wife if she had much of a crowd, and she drew a long breath and said, "Oh, I didn't count them." But when I went on the street, I met Charley Scofield and William Nussbaum of Lake Creek, and they said that they were in for the second table, and that it was full. I would have been glad to have met them, for it may have saved me considerable riding, as many of the subscribers, when they are here and think of it, pay up their subscriptions to me here.
    Sunday was not a very busy day here, as it was so pleasant out that quite a number of the pleasure lovers, instead of coming here for dinner, took their lunches and went on the banks of the streams to catch fish, but there were with us that day Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Sherman and son-in-law H. C. Bohling and wife, Mrs. M. E. Yockey and daughter, Miss Helen, the bookkeeper in the Mail Tribune office, and Misses Delia King and Ethel Curry, the bookkeeper in Hutchison & Lumsden's store, beside quite a number who I did not know who just dropped in for dinner, and later in the evening Leslie and William Davis, in company of Misses Ethel and Eva Webb, all of Tolo, came in for their meals. There were about twenty or perhaps twenty-five of the girls with their attendants out from the Catholic school of Medford, who were enjoying themselves looking at the beauties of nature along our grand Little Butte Creek.
    Mrs. Tim W. Daily and Mrs. Pat Daily, Jr., came out Monday morning on a jitney, took the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage and went up Rogue River to visit Mrs. T. W. Daily's father and sister, Joe and Jemima Hannah.
    Henry French and his brother-in-law, John Foster, came down from their homes along Rogue River Monday morning, took dinner at the Sunnyside, and John went to Medford with Marshall Minter in his jitney.
    Miss Marian B. Towne, Democratic candidate for the legislature, and Clint Gallatin, Democratic candidate for county assessor, were also with us Monday for dinner. They both seemed quite confident of their election. Miss Towne simply points to her record while she was a member of the legislature two years ago this winter when she, by her knowledge of common law and diplomacy, defeated the schemes of those in the northern part of the state when they tried to pull everything their way, and she, a lone woman and a lone Democrat, threshed their plans and came out victorious, and Mr. Gallatin banks on his experience while he was deputy assessor for three years under the present incumbent, William Grieve.
    Theodore Glass of Sams Valley was doing business in our town Monday.
    While I was on the street Monday, Penny Leabo gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    W. Hart Hamilton, who went to San Jose, Cal., to be with his family a while, returned last week and joined his son Sherwin on the ranch.
    It will probably be of interest to many of the readers of the Mail Tribune to learn of the marriage of Miss Verna E. McGee of Ferndale, Or., to Shirley F. Gilham, also of the same place. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. P. McGee, who formerly lived for several years in this place and later in East Medford. They were married at the home of the bride's parents October 11, 1916. The bride has been one of the most popular young ladies in the Cow Creek country, eight miles north of Glendale, and the groom is of one of the best families in that section. They received an abundance of presents of all kinds and have the best wishes of the entire community.
    Jack Pelton and wife of Klamath County came in Tuesday evening and was accompanied by Mrs. Van Vactor of Ashland. They stopped here for supper and then went on to Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. Pelton spend their winters in Roseburg and were on their way there but went by Ashland to visit Mrs. P.'s mother.
    Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro went through Eagle Point Tuesday morning with two loads of hogs for the Central Point market.
    Word came over the phone Tuesday morning that E. E. Smith of Butte Falls had died Monday night. Mr. Smith has been one of our best citizens and largely interested in the education of the youths. A more extended notice will probably be given by the Butte Falls correspondent.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 28, 1916, page 6


    Frank Rhodes' men passed through town last Tuesday morning with a fine lot of hogs for the Central Point market. They drove them and one of them gave out here and had to be helped. About that time W. J. Burbidge passed by and remarked that he would haul them in his auto truck for what they would shrink in driving. The most of the farmers when they take their hogs to market haul them on wagons and even then they lose considerable by the excessive heat from being packed so close together, but in an auto truck they go so fast and consume so little time that they lose but very little. There has been a large lot of hogs passed through here this season for the Central Point and Medford markets, and I hear it predicted that hogs will be scarce in Jackson County next spring. The reason assigned is the high price of hogs now and the price of grain, and some of the farmers are disposing of their small pigs on account of the high price of grain.
    As I wrote last Tuesday afternoon for the Daily Mail Tribune, about all the news of interest that I had in stock and left here Wednesday morning to rustle for the Medford Publishing Company and returned last night, Friday, and have been so busy today getting my report ready for the D.M.T. that I have but very little of interest with regard to our town, so will give an account of what I did and saw in my rounds. After leaving home, the first place I stopped was at the home of A. B. Clarno, about eight miles from here, and found them just sitting down to the dinner table. They were getting ready to go and move Mrs. C.'s son, Wallace Bergman, up in the hills near Prospect, where he expects to spend the winter trapping and hunting. After eating dinner and letting my Babe eat a while, Mr. Clarno wrote me out a check for $1.50 for a year's subscription to the W.M.T.  I cut across lots to Mr. Betz', found our old friend, J. A. Howard there, who had recently returned from Texas. Mr. Betz was just getting ready to go out on a hunt. I did no business there. I then went on to Mrs. Conover's, found her with a fine lot of turkeys, but not ready for me yet. The next stop was at the fine farm of Frank Johnson, found him out in the field harrowing in his wheat on corn ground. He had cut it up with a disc cutter about eight inches deep and was giving it the finishing touch. He is one of our successful farmers but had no change with him, so said that he would see me in town. I then went on to the free ferry and found our accommodating ferryman at his post but did no business.
    My next stop was at the home of Mr. Croft but did no business with him. The reader will begin to think pretty soon that I was on a "cold trail," but such is life on the dry farms. I have noticed that wherever the farmers have cows, especially where they sell milk and cream, that they most always have some cash on hand or in the bank, and with the most of those I go to they are all O.K. but have not sold their hogs or chickens or turkeys or dug their potatoes, but the milk and cream brings the cash every week or month at most. My next stop was at the fine farm of Will Houston, where I found him and his two sons putting away their winter apples. After spending a few minutes with that family and giving him a receipt for two years' subscription to the W.M.T., went on to another one of our progressive farmers, J. C. Hannah, where I spent the night and the next morning had him renew his subscription to the W.M.T.  I turned my course back up the river again and went out in the tall timber to the Marks sawmill, where I did business with him, and then steered my course for the town of Trail, where I found that they had been making some substantial improvements. There I met Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher, proprietress of the Trail Hotel and store, giving her a receipt for a subscription in advance to the W.M.T.  I passed on to the Ash Hotel and store, where I found R. E. Murrell and had him renew his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. I went on up the river to the home of T. B. Dawson, where I met his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert Dawson, and she told me that Mr. D. was helping A. C. Weeks to build a barn. Going there, I found him on the top of the roof laying shakes, and he, as soon as he saw me, took out his purse and remarked, "Well, I suppose that you want some money," and threw me a dollar and a half. Going to the Wicks house, found A. C. there, and he remarked that he had some money for me this time, and asked how much I wanted. I told him the bill was $9 for the past six years, and he wrote out the check for that amount--showing him to be an honorable and honest man.
    I should have said that I stopped at the Elks' resort, fed my horse and took dinner, but did no business, as the proprietor was off on a hunt. However, I met the landlady and she told me that they had done very well during the past tourist season.
    After leaving Mr. Weeks', I went up to Dave Pence's fine farm--to my notion, the best one on the creek--but found that Dave was off digging his potatoes, so did no business there. Retracing my steps, I met Dr. McDonald, the eye specialist, and he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Going on up to the McLeod bridge, I crossed the river and went up to C. H. Toney's, where I gave him a receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T.  My next move was to McLeod's, where I put up for the night. Since I was there last October, Mr. McLeod has built a neat store building, finished up his house that he was building at that time, and has everything neat and convenient. After giving him a receipt for a year's subscription to the D.M.T., I went on up to R. B. Vinson's, where he is building a new house on his place, had him renew for the W.M.T., then went on up to the Gordon place, now owned and occupied by Thomas Carlton and wife, where I met Mrs. C. Thomas was out sowing his wheat. There I learned that T. B. and W. A. Higinbotham had sold out to the Stanley Bros. and were not at their old homes, but had gone to Medford, so I retraced my steps and recrossed the river, visited W. L. Edmondson's sawmill, found him busy sawing and loading lumber. My next stop was at Mr. Webb's, on the old Wilkinson place, ate dinner and fed Babe. Next visited the Chartraws' home and gave Mrs. C. a receipt for a year's subscription to the W.M.T. Next stopped to see Mrs. Susie Higinbotham and gave her a receipt for the amount due on subscription to the W.M.T., and she ordered it stopped as they have sold out and are on the move. I stopped three more places, but did no business, reached home tired and hungry.
    When I reached home, I found letters informing me that I was mistaken in my statement that G. M. Roberts had signed the petition for the brewers' amendment, and as I did not wish to do anything that might injure him in any way, I make this statement. It appears that he signed the petition in an official capacity as a notary public to qualify the party who procured the names of the signers, and in that way the idea got out that he signed the petition, so I hope that those who have read what I had to say on the subject will notice this retraction, for I am heartily sorry that such an error should have been published.
    The Brandon Bros., owners of the Snowy Butte mill, have been receiving a quantity of wheat. M. J. Burbidge has been hauling a large lot of wheat from Sams Valley to the mill with his auto truck.
    Thomas Carlton and wife, now residents of the Rogue River country, near McLeod, passed through town Saturday morning.
    G. W. Ager, the Republican candidate for school superintendent, and J. B. Coleman, candidate on the Republican ticket for county assessor, were in town Saturday and took dinner at the Sunnyside, and so did Chris Bergman and wife and G. N. Birkland of Medford, representing Failing-McCalman of Portland.
    Carl Richardson of Peyton came out with a load of potatoes, and so did Henry Meyer, and while here renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 2, 1916, page 5


    The masque ball last Saturday night proved to be a grand success to the promoters of the move. There was a good attendance, and everything passed off very pleasantly. The music, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Launspach of Medford, gave general satisfaction and the lunch served by Frank Lewis was up to date. There was quite a number of masquers, and I hear of no one finding any fault with the proceedings. The management, Messrs. Hall and Riley, seemed to be on their job.
    Sunday night the Christian Endeavor met at the usual hour and had an entire change in their program. Instead of following the old rut, the president, Mrs. Grover, changed the whole plan and in the place of having the young people take the leading part, she had her class composed of about all of the old people who attend the religious services here. Among them were Jane Curtice, aged about 86, Marvin S. Wood and wife, aged about 78 and 68, W. G. Knighten and wife, aged about 70, Grandma Heckathorn, about 80, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Painter, aged about 60, and your correspondent who is old enough to be a better man. We were all seated on the rostrum and I imagine made a good appearance. There were not as many present as usual, as there was a picture show in the opera house at the same time and that divided the few people in town, so that neither party had the number present that was expected. The exercises were opened by singing two or three selections by the class and prayer by Mr. Painter, followed by reading the scripture lesson by Mrs. Charles Cingcade. (She was not a member of the class, as she was not old enough.)  Then Grandma Curtice gave us a recitation, which met with hearty applause, and M. S. Wood read an article from a magazine. This was followed by a solo by the president, Mrs. Grover. Mrs. M. S. Wood was then called on and started to repeat her part from memory but failed and finally read the poem. Your correspondent was then called on to make a few remarks and was limited to four minutes on the subject for the evening: "The Advantage of Being a Christian." And about the time he got well under way, time was up. Mrs. Norman McQuoid gave us a recitation that seemed to meet with the approval of the audience and then Mrs. L. K. Haak gave us a talk and used a paper, but as she stood in the rear end of the building I was not able to hear anything that was said. The two ladies last named were not members of the class, as they are too young.
    J. H. Petty has rented Mr. Thomas M. Riley's farm on Antelope Creek and gone on it to live.
    F. L. Heath has sold his stock of goods and fixtures to a man by the name of M. Z. Aslaff and he has taken possession. Mr. Heath had bargained the goods to another man but on account of him not being able to collect money due him was unable to meet the claim so necessitated another change. Mr. Aslaff and a companion of his are stopping at the Sunnyside at present.
     There have been some changes in our neighborhood recently. Austin Corbin has leased his orchard to Henry Van Hovenburg of Sams Valley for a term of two years and has taken possession and that has caused us to lose one of our best families. J. S. Quackenbush and family who moved to Medford Tuesday and Mr. Von Hovenburg's foreman have already moved on the orchard, but we trust that Mr. V.'s foreman, I have not met him or learned his name, will prove to be as good a neighbor as Mr. Q. has been.
    Born, to the wife of one of our hardware merchants, Roy Ashpole, Oct. 30, a son, and Roy steps as high as a multimillionaire. At last accounts the mother and child were doing well.
    There were quite a number of the Rebekahs of our town went to Medford Tuesday to attend an assembly of the order.
    W. Hart Hamilton, who owns an operated a large farm joining our town, started for his home in San Jose, Cal., Monday.
    Just as Mrs. Howlett was getting ready to take the Minter jitney for Medford Tuesday and dinner was over, Messrs. Earl Day, Henry Van Hovenburg, L. W. Day, Howard Bushnell and Henry Schuman-Heink, all of Sams Valley, and Howard Hill and Thomas M. Riley called for dinner, but she had provided for just such emergency for she had Mrs. Geo. W. Daley to fill the place of chief cook.
    Perry Foster and J. F. Maxfield were in town Monday. Mr. Maxfield has rented the Perry Foster place on Rogue River above here. His son, Ed Foster, and family have gone back to Pennsylvania on account of Mr. F.'s health.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 8, 1916, page 5


    Miss Fannie Thompson of Climax was doing business in our town last Wednesday.
    George Austin, the mail contractor and carrier from Eagle Point to Climax, has moved into one of the houses belonging to Mr. James in Eagle Point.
    Hallowe'en night was properly observed in our city. Mark you, we are incorporated and have all the officers necessary to keep the city as quiet as a country church, and still when the trusting, confident citizens woke from their slumbers they found that several sections of the sidewalk had been torn up and carried away and that an automobile was taken from where it was left by the owner to the middle of the street where it leaves the Main Street and a corral built around it of telephone poles about five feet high and staked with fence posts. The corral was built so large that it almost covered the street going from the main business part of the town, and the sidewalk was stacked up against the corral. The poles belonged to our postmaster and principal owner of the telephone system here.
    The same night the Ladies' Improvement Club gave a box social, but it was not as well attended as might be expected as there was quite a number of our pleasure lovers went to Medford that evening to attend the Rebekahs convention and so divided the citizens, but the boxes sold for a good price, and the bidding was quite spirited. I understand that there was one young man who bought four boxes before he got the one he wanted. The receipts of the evening were $22.02. Those who attended say that they had a very enjoyable time. I understand that the proceeds are to go for the benefit of the school.
    This is Saturday afternoon, and the long-desired rain is coming at last.
    Mrs. M. D. Stoddard, wife of the hardware merchant of Butte Falls, was with us Wednesday and so was George Gardner and Ben Sheldon, candidates for county clerk and representative, and O. N. Bishop, formerly of Phoenix, but now from Washington.
    Fred Rapp of Talent came in after dark to spend the night, from Willow Creek country, with two deer and a young bear he had killed while hunting. He was out with James Howard and another man, and their horses got out of the pasture and left them afoot, but on the way out Mr. Rapp found them at Mr. Chapman's and sent word where they were.
    Word came over the phone that there was two fires in Butte Falls on Wednesday night, but it appears that there was only one, but two buildings were burned. One, the old Briggs store building, belonging to W. E. Buchanan of Ashland, and the other was E. A. Hildreth's confectionery and soft drink store. I have not learned the particulars or the loss, nor the amount of insurance they carried. Mr. Hughes phoned that he had a hard fight to save his store.
    W. E. Buchanan and his brother-in-law, W. S. Kee, were on the train Thursday on their way up to see about the damage done in the fire at Butte Falls. R. E. Morton, representing the Portland Flour Mill Co., was also on his way up to Butte Falls. Lion Moore of Butte Falls was also on the train on his way home.
    Thomas F. Bolts, formerly one of the officers of the P.&E., but now of Montana, came in Wednesday evening to visit his family. He is traveling for a concrete contracting company of Philadelphia. His many friends gave him a cordial greeting.
    Little Miss Violet Zimmerman has been spending a few days with her sister here at the Sunnyside. Her sister, Miss Claire, is one of the young ladies who assists in the post office and telephone office.
    Pete Betz and wife, who own and cultivate a fine farm along the banks of Rogue River, about eight miles above here, were doing business with our merchants Thursday.
    H. J. Eberly, district warden in forest reserve service, spent Friday night with us and so did A. E. Edler. He has been out on the headquarters of the Umpqua with Mr. Lewis' sheep of Central Point, and has just brought them in, and was on his way up Little Butte Creek to visit his folks. Fred Sturgis of Elk Creek also spent the night with us. And Carl Richardson and his father of Peyton drove their wagonload of potatoes under our shed, put their team in the barn, and went on out on the desert in an auto and spent Thursday night with friends. Bert Higinbotham of Prospect also was here Thursday after another load of corn he bought of von der Hellen Brothers. While here he renewed his subscription to the Mail Tribune, and Mr. Sturgis of Trail renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Wm. Perry has resumed work with his wood saw in our town.
    Saturday was a rather busy day at the Sunnyside as we had Henry Trusty and Miss Tressie Pence of Elk Creek, Henry French, who owns and tends a fine farm of Rogue River bottom land near the French-Dodge bridge, came out and brought Mrs. H. a fine large porker and took dinner. Wilford Jacks also called and while here paid up the account of J. M. Wolfrey with the Daily Mail Tribune, and ordered it discontinued, as Mr. W. and family have returned to the East. Mr. D. R. Patrick of Brownsboro and Mike Sidley of Lake Creek were both here for dinner and both renewed their subscriptions to the Mail Tribune.
    F. L. Johnson and J. W. Grover, Eagle Point post office, have paid up since my last report.
    Miss Nell Thompson of Derby was here Saturday night, the guest of Miss Claire Zimmerman.
    Saturday night there was what they call a "club dance." I confess that I do not know the difference between the club dance and the ordinary dance, unless it is that when they have a club dance, they import their musicians and when the have the ordinary dance they have, generally, at least, some of the home talent, for the same people go and they dance the same way--that is, they sometimes walk and sometimes skip around the hall, and keep that up until the get tired and then go home, go to sleep and sleep until about noon, then get up and feel worse than an ordinary person would after doing a hard day's work, and call that fine sport. Well, they had the club dance Saturday night and the next morning Harry Powell and Miss Florence Clark put in their appearance from their rooms, and on inquiry I found that they were two of the imported musicians who had come from Medford to help to furnish music for the dance. From what I can learn the music was up to date, and as usual, they all had a fine time. But the club dance necessitated having the movie show coming on Sunday night, and I understand that the attendance was quite small, as the Christian Endeavor had their regular meeting at the same hour in the church and had a very good attendance, especially considering that Sunday night was a rather cold, disagreeable night. The meeting was presided over by Miss Nora Childreth and they had a interesting program. We were favored with the singing of three or more songs and then the reading of the Scripture lesson. The reading of select pieces or clippings and prayer by your correspondent. Then the topic of the evening was announced, "Why Is Christianity the Hope of the Nation?" and J. W. Grover gave us a very interesting talk on the subject. This was followed by several recitations. One was by two little girls, the Clark sisters. Mrs. Charles Cingcade recited a beautiful poem on the wet and dry subject and Mrs. Florey read a poem, and then the choir sang two temperance songs that brought down the house. Then followed the usual benediction and we all went home feeling that the evening had not been spent in vain.
    George Wamsley and Mrs. L. Whitney were among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday, and so was Mr. Reter of Medford.
    There was nothing special took place on Monday worthy of note unless it was that we were all getting ready for the election Tuesday.
    Monday evening Mr. Good, the postmaster of Derby, came in and spent the night with us, and C. A. Newstrom came in for a late dinner and while here renewed his subscription to the W.M.T. and Charles Wonnel of Derby also took dinner at the S.S. the same day.
    Louis Gibson, who formerly lived on his farm on Reese Creek, but went back to Arkansas, and from there to Kansas, married a widow with two children, returned to his old home, arriving on Monday. He has seen some of the world since he left and can tell some hard stories about the country through which he has traveled.
    Dick Daley, one of our boys, born in this town, but who has been living in Medford for the past ten or twelve years, was out Tuesday smiling on some of his old friends.
    Tuesday morning the buzz of the auto, the rattling of wagons and the groups of pedestrians was heard on our streets early waiting for their turn to come when they could record their vote for their favorite candidates, and by 10 o'clock the crowd had collected about George Brown & Sons store. The voting took place in the hall over the store, each one trying to catch some word that might be used to encourage them in their hopes, and by noon the sidewalk was almost crowded, notwithstanding the fact that the air was so cold that many of them were wearing their overcoats and heavy cloaks, but still they came and went until noon, and then they began to concentrate at the old Ashpole building, where the Ladies' Aid Society has spread a sumptuous feast. There were over a hundred took dinner there, and the receipts of the day amounted to $25.20. I saw one man as he came out, place his hands on his stomach, and exclaim, "Oh what a dinner!" The great danger of those dinners gotten up by the ladies of Eagle Point is that some poor fellow who has not the will power to resist temptation or the discretion to stop when he or she have enough, may overeat and thus cause a death, for such dinners are dangerous to the uninitiated. But our election passed off quietly and there seemed to be the best of feeling manifest. There were about 300 votes.
    I learned too late for my last that the ninth grade class of our school gave the two Quackenbush boys, Vaughn and Carl, a genuine surprise party just before they left the Corbin orchard for Medford. Mrs. Quackenbush was apprised of the coming and had prepared and my informant said that they had a truly wonderful time, for Mr. and Mrs. Q. know just how to arrange to make young people have a good time. They had a feast of good things, and everything passed off pleasantly.
    Mr. Hurd of Medford is to be here and will speak in Brown's hall on Saturday, November 18, at 2:30 p.m., on the subject of the new banking law and wants everybody to come and hear him.
    Wednesday has been rather a dull day in Eagle Point, as many of the young me who cast their first vote for a president cast that vote Tuesday, sat up about all night to hear the election news, and were finally persuaded that they might have to wait for two or three days or perhaps a month before they would know the result. Us older people have not forgotten the Tilden-Hayes election when the Democrats were beaten out of the presidency by the committee of 7 to 8.
    Wednesday we had with us for breakfast Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby. Mr. N. had been one of the election board, and when they got through with the count, came right out with the returns, and Mrs. Neil accompanied him. They left their team in Harnish's stable and took Minter's jitney for Medford.
    Earl Day, Henry Vocvenburg and Henry Schumann-Heink of Sam's Valley were with us for dinner Wednesday.
    In addition to C. A. Newstrom paying up his subscription on the W.M.T., C. V. Cummings has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. and Mrs. T. F. Boltz has paid for an ad in the classified column for election dinner, 25 cents.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1916, page 5


    When I wrote the last time the leading citizens of our town were on their nerves over the presidential election, to be sure the die had been cast, and so far as the ordinary voter is concerned it makes but little difference, but there seemed to be a kind of elastic strain on the nerves that kept them constantly on the move, and every little while someone would go to the phone office or else call up to learn the latest news regarding the election, but now, Saturday afternoon, the excitement as partially died down and the masses of the people have settled down to business again.
    There has been but very little doing in the ordinary walks of life, but few people are coming to town; the merchants are not rushed with their work, but there was some anxiety manifested on Thursday on account of the Pacific & Eastern railroad train being late in coming, and by 10 o'clock there were fears that President Wilson had been re-elected and that the result was already being felt in Jackson County, Oregon, and that that important branch of business had suspended operation, for we were told that if Wilson should happen to be kept in the presidency for four long years that the result would be certain business death, but when I went to the depot to try to learn the cause of the delay found that three of the big officials had boarded the train and that that was possibly the reason of the delay, but they finally arrived, looked over the depot and its surroundings and then went on to Derby and Butte Falls. As the reports regarding the election arrived the effect could be plainly seen in the acountenances of the different persons one would meet. Some of them would look as though they had lost the last friend they had and that the country had gone to ruin, and perhaps the next time you would meet the same one who looked so blue would look cheerful as though they had fallen heir to a gold mine. But Friday morning when we received the Morning Sun and it told us that it was practically certain that Woodrow Wilson was still to remain in the presidential office, then the spirits of the one side went up and on the other, a few of them gave way and showed their serious disappointment. But I think that by the time this is in type and the big Democratic jollification is over in Medford, that we all will be attending to our ordinary duties.
    Among the notable events of the week was the quilting and rag-tacking party given by Mrs. Howlett on Friday, November 10. Invitations had been sent out to nearly a hundred ladies to attend the party and by 8:30 a.m. they began to arrive. Mrs. H. and Hattie had already put in the frames four quilts and had everything ready for business, and they--the visitors--were as busy as though their lives depended on getting the quilts out of the frames and others in, and by about 10 o'clock the ladies were so thick in the two rooms where they were quilting that I did not venture in, but as soon as I got my mail, scudded to my room upstairs, but in going I had to pass a third room, and lo! The floor was covered with carpet rags and the ladies so thick that I could only look in, but after I was starved out of my room and ventured down and found the whole bunch of them as busy as ants around a sugar barrel. By this time I hit upon a plan to secure the names of those in each room. I handed my writing tablet to Mrs. George von der Hellen and asked her to write the names of everyone in the room, and that I would stand guard and keep all in and all out. I then went to the next room and made the same request of Mrs. S. B. Holmes, and thus secured all in that room, but I was not so fortunate in the next room but had to do the writing myself. But I got along quite well, as by this time had learned the names of everyone in the house, and the result was the following names were secured, to wit: Madames Geo. Phillips, Dr. Holt, Lou Smith, Montgomery, W. L. Childreth, Jonas, Jackson, Curtice, Wm. von der Hellen, Painter, Watkins, Wm. Brown, Geo. von der Hellen, R. G. Brown, Haselton, Van Scoy, Wood, Clark, Newman, Frank Lewis, T. E. Nichols, S. B. Holmes, Pruett, Palmer, Heckathorn, Whitney, Grover, Courtney, Ed Coy, Perry, S. H. Harnish, Fred Dutton, Frank Abbott, Charles Cingcade, Thomas Cingcade, Knighten, Roy Smith, E. J. Smith, Hammel, John Nichols, McQuoid, Sr., Lottie McQuoid, Stewart, David Cingcade, A. Ayres, Wheeler, Florey, Frank Brown, Boltz, Clements, Geo. Daily, Nye, Shesler and Courtney; Misses Taylor, Wamsley, Wood, Pruett and L. B. Smith. In addition to that list there were ten men with seven children. All took dinner, except Mrs. Amos Ayres and Mrs. John Smith, as they could not come until after dinner, but they came and worked like beavers. It perhaps is not best for me to say anything about the dinner, unless it would be that they all ate until they were satisfied. The result of the work done was forty-five pounds of carpet rags, eleven quilts complete, seventeen sheets and thirteen pillow cases. To say that they all enjoyed themselves I don't think would be overreaching the remark.
    In the afternoon, Mrs. Geo. Owings, who at one time kept the old Eagle Hotel and went from here to Nevada, called in a few moments. She is on her way to Pendleton and stopped off here to visit her daughter, Mrs. Fred Findley. Her daughter, Miss Carey, accompanied her.
    T. F. Boltz, who came in a short time ago to visit his family, started back to his business in Montana on Thursday.
    Mrs. Roundtree, who is living on the Upton place, was doing business in our town Thursday.
    F. Ditsworth and Bert Higinbotham came in Thursday, spent the night with us, went to Medford Friday and returned to spend the night with us again.
    J. H. Henderson, a traveling man from New York, was with us Thursday night, and so was George W. Trefren of Ashland, deputy state warden of the I.O.O.F.
    The Odd Fellows had their regular meeting that night and then invited the Rebekahs and they had another of their big feeds.
    T. D. Singleton was in town today (Saturday) and reports that he is just finishing up a 170-foot shed around his barn, sixteen feet wide.
    D. W. Swihart, T. B. Higinbotham, F. Northerlin of Derby, Dr. Hart, the county M.D. of the county poor farm, and S. S. Akin of Prospect, were on the P.&E. Saturday, going eastward.
    C. F. Hammel, a traveling ventriloquist, came in to spend the night Saturday.
    W. J. Burbidge came in Saturday for dinner. He was here with his auto truck for a load of flour, etc., from the Snowy Butte mills.
    William Heckathorn, Rudolph Oleson, Fred Moore and Edith Lewis of Persist and Murphy and McDonald of Elk Creek were here for dinner on Saturday and went on to Medford with Henry Trusty.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 14, 1916, page 5


    Well, the election, with all of its attendant excitement, is over and almost everybody has settled down to business again, and I feel truly thankful to the good Lord that I am still alive and in the enjoyment of my reasoning facilities, for the next morning after the quilting and rag-tacking party I was told that there were some of the ladies that wanted to mob me on account of what I had put in the Eaglets [above] about some of the voters being like the old darkey who said that he would vote for a yellow dog if it was on his ticket, and my description of why the people dashed nowadays--that is, some walked and some skipped over the floor until they were tired, went home and went to bed and slept, etc. If there was any offense it was simply unintentional. Perhaps I did not understand the new rules for dancing as well as those who are experts in the art, for I have had no experience in that line since the 22nd of February, 1856, and have seen but very little dancing since that time, but what I saw was so different from what I saw and practiced then that I could see but very little similarity between the dancing then and now, provided the dancers in this section are up to date. If I had known at the time that the group of ladies, bless them! were here and that the feeling was as intense as was represented to me, I might have been a little shy, but when I went among them everything was as peaceable as "Mary and her little lamb," and I did not know that I had written anything that would ruffle the feelings of anyone, but if I did, I hope the offended party will excuse my mistake.
    Last Saturday night R. B. (Dick) Vaughn of Prospect spent the night with us on his way home. He had been out to Medford and was on his way home with a load of supplies.
    Miss Claire Zimmerman, one of our regular boarders, who has been spending a few days rusticating in the hills with her relatives, returned to her room Saturday evening on the P.&E.  She is one of our popular phone ladies. They are not all girls; some have the prefix Mrs. before their names and also assistant P.M.
    Misses Hattie and Pearl Fletcher and Vern Kershaw of Wellen came into the Sunnyside early Sunday morning from a dance and box social that was given in the Roosevelt schoolhouse the evening before. They report that the boxes sold quite readily, the receipts of the evening being $60. I did not learn the object of the social, but understood that it was to be applied in some way toward the school.
    Riley and Hall gave a motion picture show here Saturday night and a vaudeville exhibition and ventriloquism performance interspersed with it. There was a very good attendance and the performance was very good, in fact, the best picture show I have seen here for a long time.
    George C. Mansfield, son of Geo. A. Mansfield of Prospect, who bought the Alfred Gordon place on Rogue River, came out Sunday night with a load of registered hogs for Ashpole & Nichols of Medford, spent the night with us, returned Monday night with a load of grass seed of different kinds.
    E. A. Hildreth of Butte Falls, two men, a lady and child were on the P.&E. Tuesday, bound for the Big Butte country. In speaking of the fire in Butte Falls when Mr. H. was burned out, he says that he lost over and above his insurance about $1500, but thinks that Mr. Buchanan's loss was covered by insurance.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel, who own  a large tract of land near Reese Creek, were doing business with our merchants Tuesday.
    Fred Carnes, a youth who is working for Ed Dutton, had his hand caught in the sickle of a mowing machine while cutting cornstalks and cut off the index finger of his right hand, except it hung by the skin. Dr. Holt dressed the wound and he thinks that he will save the finger.
    Mrs. Warren and daughter, Miss Claire, Miss Buffin, Mrs. Miller and daughter, Miss Nellie, of Medford and vicinity, were out Sunday for dinner.
    Frank Farlow and Gus Peck of Lake Creek were out Tuesday after two loads of corn. They bought it of Timmie Dugan.
    Frank McDonald of Trail came out Tuesday  and Wednesday, took out a part of a load of the household belongings of V. A. Heffner, superintendent of the U.S. fish hatchery on Elk and Rogue rivers.
    William Hannah and son George came out on the P.&E. Wednesday morning and took Herman Meyer's auto stage for Lake Creek. They are out looking for a location. Mrs. John Miller and daughter, Miss Myrle, came out on the same car, took the same auto stage for their home in the Lost Creek country, Lake Creek post office. Miss Merle had been in Medford having dental work done. She had twenty-three cavities filled.
    Marion Trusty went up to his home on Elk Creek Wednesday morning with his brother and another man in Henry's auto stage.
    We had with us for dinner Wednesday A. C. Allen, horticultural commissioner; C. C. Cate, county pathologist; L. C. Allen and I. R. Kline, fruit tree inspectors. They were on their round looking over the fruit that is being put on the market.
    The farmers are generally very busy at this time putting in their crops and getting ready for winter, and consequently there is but very little business being done. Once in a while a farmer will come in to have his plow sharpened or some part of his farming tools repaired, but as a rule, everything is very quiet, but they need more rain, as the ground is too dry to work well in most places.
    Sam Courtney has just finished painting the roof of the Sunnyside Hotel, changing it from a dingy pea green to a jet black.
    Since my last report, W. L. Childreth has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 17, 1916, page 5


    Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Stanley, were shopping in Eagle Point last Wednesday and Fred McPherson was also a business caller the same day.
    J. P. Hughes and John Cadzow, both merchants of Butte Falls, came out from Medford last Wednesday, spent the night at the Sunnyside and took the P.&E. train for their homes on Thursday morning. They seem to think that the prospect is brightening for better times in their town than what it has been the past year, now that the election is over and business has resumed its normal state.
    Born--To the wife of Ed Higinbotham, Derby, November 15, 1916, another daughter, making it the third daughter out of five children. Ed's many friends are tendering congratulations. Dr. Holt reports all O.K.
    Mr. Berrian, the superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, came out on the train Thursday on his way to Medford, returning Saturday.
    E. P. Fox, the milk goat man of Lake Creek, was doing business here Thursday. He reports that his goats are not doing so well as usual this fall, as he has them on the Roxy Ann range, and that that is not so good as the range on the higher hills.
    Robert Neil of Brownsboro was in our town Thursday.
    Our accommodating and efficient assistant depot agent, Mrs. Amos Ayres, went in to Medford Tuesday with her mother, Mrs. Trusty, returning Wednesday, and the latter took the Eagle Point-Persist auto stage for her home Thursday. Amos Ayres, the present agent, is proving himself to be not only an efficient agent, but an accommodating and painstaking gentleman.
    Mrs. T. T. Newport, wife of the former agent of the Eagle Point depot, and her daughter, Eucele, came out Saturday morning, spent a few minutes with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Amos Ayres, and then went on up the line to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres.
    J. H. Cooley of Medford, Gus Peck and Lee Farlow of Lake Creek, Mr. Geppert of Butte Falls, George Brown of Brownsboro and a number of others from the different parts of the country were here Saturday afternoon to hear Messrs. C. C. Cate and E. H. Hurd talk on the subjects of cooperation and the National Farm Loan Association, but as my letter is too long to incorporate my report in this, will leave it until my next.
    Since my last, W. L. Childreth has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.  Floyd paid up his subscription to the D.M.T. and changed to the weekly. W. E. Farlow of Lake Creek has renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.  D. W. Pence of Trail has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T, and W. G. Knighten has given me his subscription to the D.M.T. and paid $5.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 22, 1916, page 5


    George Weeks, one of the rustling farmers and stockmen of the Trail and Elk Creek country, came near losing his left eye. He was stung by a honey bee just below the eye and that caused him considerable pain, and while working in the brush a little twig struck him on the same eye, causing it to swell, and the pain was so intense that he could hardly bear it, so he went to one of the eye specialists in Medford to have it treated, and had to remain there and have it treated four times a day for two weeks, and during nine days of that time the specialist had but very little hope of saving it, but now it seems to be apparently our of danger. See what a man may suffer from so small a thing as a bee sting. He and his son went up on the stage Friday.
    S. G. Harding of Lake Creek was a guest at the Sunnyside Friday noon.
    Joe Rader, wife and her sister, Mrs. Taylor, were in town visiting friends, but principally to see Joe's new nephew, Donald Ashpole, Friday afternoon.
    Dr. L. N. Rednet of Dayton, Wash., spent the night with us Friday. During the evening he visited Dr. W. P. Holt and Saturday morning took the P.&E. for Butte Falls. He was simply looking the country over and looking over some mining interests.
    L. K. Haak shipped a small lot of apples to Butte Falls Saturday, and there were several sacks of corn shipped to the same place for J. P. Hughes.
    There was about a ton of land plaster came in Saturday morning for Fred Frideger of Medford, who owns a twenty-acre tract of land just east of Eagle Point.
    George H. Wehman, our harness maker, and one of our regular boarders, has been spending the past week in the hills with one of his friends, Jud Edsall, and Carl Roberts, another one of our boarders, has been spending a few days in Medford looking after his business interests in Washington, D.C.
    Frank Ditsworth came out Thursday with another load of beans, taking them to Medford, realizing 7 and 8 cents a pound. He returned to the Sunnyside Friday and spent the night.
    Saturday there were eight or ten came in for dinner and there was quite a number of them strangers. They simply came for dinner (lunch), ate and started, giving me no time to ask questions.
   Miss Hida McIntosh and the two children of Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh, her sister, Charles Bacon, came out to the S.S. Saturday evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 23, 1916, page 7


    Last Saturday evening at 10 o'clock, when I finished writing my last article for the Mail Tribune, I stated that we had had a meeting at Brown's hall for the purpose of hearing discussed two propositions. The first one was the subject of "Cooperation," by C. C. Cate, the county pathologist, and the other, "National Farm Loan Associations." By a little past the hour designated--2:30 p.m.--the two speakers arrived and a few of the citizens of our town were there to greet them, with perhaps a half dozen of the country people, and the prospect was not as encouraging to those who were directly interested as desirable, but in a few minutes the farmers began to arrive, and the meeting was called to order by J. H. Cooley, who owns a fine farm and orchard near here, and C. C. Cate was introduced as the first speaker to address us on the subject of cooperation among farmers. He cited many instances where the farmers were legally held up and robbed by those who, by being in a position to take advantage of the farmer when he would have farm produce to sell, and be forced to dispose of it at the beginning of the season, before the market had fairly opened, illustrating the advantage of having the farmers combine, and by a united effort force the consumer or manufacturer to pay the market value, instead of having the middleman come in and take advantage of the condition and force the product on the market at a reduced price. He pointed out several ways whereby the farmer by cooperation could save sacrifices and avoid being placed in a position where he would have to work single-handed. I well remember an incident that occurred here several years ago when a farmer gave a chattel mortgage to a mill firm on his growing crop, and by his energy and push he put in sixty acres of wheat and in May there came a hail storm and ruined the most of his wheat, so that he did not have more than enough for his seed and bread, but he had to clean out his granary, put all his wheat in the mill at 50 cents a bushel and then rustle more wheat to sow his corn ground at 60 and part of it at 75 cents a bushel. Well, his plan, by cooperation among the farmers, would enable an individual farmer to avoid just such positions in the business world. He gave several good suggestions as to how they, the farmers, could arrange to help each other in that line, either by forming a farmers' union or the Grange, or by say ten or twelve going in together and agreeing to on a plan of their own, but recommended taking some steps to stay the tide that had engulfed so many of the small farmers here in a early day, say twenty to thirty years ago.
    At 2:45 p.m. the chairman introduced E. H. Hurd as the speaker on the subject of "National Farm Loan Associations," and he in a clear, pointed way gave an outline of the object of the law passed by Congress during its last session, known as the farm loan bill. If it had been delivered before the election we would have thought that the speaker was trying to induce the hyphenated Americans of German descent to vote for Wilson, for he showed that the idea of the law originated in Germany in 1849, and had been in successful operation ever since, and that it was by that system that the Germans had succeeded so well in their financing the war and illustrated his idea by telling of an incident that occurred in the early history of the country. A merchant kept a store in a little old log cabin and among other things sold whiskey, and in those days coon skins were legal tender. (Now he was getting back to my early childhood days.)  A young man came in with a coon skin and traded it for a drink of whiskey; the merchant took it, threw it back on the counter, and while he was busy the young man stole it and bought another drink, and kept that up until he was too drunk to steal the skin any more, and he used that illustration to show how the law works in Germany, and by that means the German people could take up the bonds for the government and the money would be paid back to the farmers and in turn lend it to the government again, thus keeping up the endless chain, and told us that by the taking advantage of the law we could keep the money in a constant circle, helping each other and thus help ourselves. There were several points that he touched upon but did not have time to make as clear as was desirable. When he concluded he called on those who wished to take advantage of the law and go into an association to come forward and sign applications he had already prepared. There was quite a number came forward and signed up to $500 to $6000 each. They then elected L. K. Haak as temporary chairman and Mr. Hurd acted as secretary. It was announced that they would meet again on Saturday, the 25th, and effect a permanent organization. There will be an effort made to organize an association in the Lake Creek district on the same day, but some of those living up there think it would be better to have all in that and the surrounding country, up Rogue River, Antelope, Big Butte, and the intervening country go into the association, and thus have a strong central association that would accommodate say all the country east of Bear Creek and north of an east and west line running east from Central Point and south and east of Rogue River. I have talked with several of the citizens in those sections on the subject and they seem to think that would be a very judicious move.
    There were two men came in here last Saturday, the 18th, and again on the following Monday and bought a lot of sows and pigs, but desired that I would not give their names, for business reasons.
    R. A. Mohney of Portland, who is representing the Equitable Savings & Loan Association, came in the first of the week and spent two days among us. He said that he was doing a thriving business here. He seems to have his plans arranged so as to visit us once a month.
    Frank Abbott and Fred Heath were among the callers last Monday. Mr. Abbott is the foreman on the W. Hart Hamilton farm and orchard and Mr. Heath was out settling up the business of the late firm of Fred L. Heath.
    Word came to me the first of the week that Chris Wooley, one of our farmers, aged about 75 or 80 years, was found on the road under his wagon with his collarbone broken and otherwise injured. It seemed that he had started after a load of wood and he said that the first thing he knew he found himself lying under the wagon holding onto the horses. He was taken to his home and Dr. Holt was summoned and administered the necessary relief.
    I see that the P.&E. is still doing considerable business, in spite of the jitneys and free auto rides, as I counted nine passengers on the train going Butte Falls way Tuesday. Among them was Floyd F. Howard, who owns the old Rancherie ranch, and is in the horse and mule raising business, and Joseph Geppert, who has a farm between Derby and Butte Falls, and Mrs. John Iseli, whose husband is the foreman of the Dupray sawmill.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 24, 1916, page 5

 
    We have been having trouble on our railroad during the past few days. There was some mishap to the locomotive up in the neighborhood of Butte Falls and they had to phone to Medford for another, with the result that on Tuesday the train did not reach here until late in the afternoon and our mail was considerably behind time at night, greatly to the disappointment of most of the readers of the Mail Tribune in this section, as we all look for that live wire as regularly as we do for our supper.
    James Jordan, who lost his wife last summer, has Joe Croft and wife stopping with him so as to have company and someone to keep house and look after his interests.
    Charles Wonnel of Derby was a business caller the middle of the week.
    Henry French, one of our rustling farmers and stockmen, makes his regular trips to our depot every few days. I have noticed when I am our collecting for the Mail Tribune and the Sun that whenever I call on a person who keeps a few cows and sells cream that they always have the cash to pay, and it is often the case that they hunt me up to settle up before they become delinquent. The creamery business is getting to be one of the leading businesses of this part of the country, especially in the upper Butte and along Rogue River, where the farmers can use water and raise alfalfa or clover.
    I omitted to state in the proper place that Miss Marian Shaw and William Galloway were visiting Professor W. O. Wheeler and wife, and while here the four took supper at the Sunnyside together. Miss Shaw is counted among the prominent teachers of the county. I did not meet Mr. G., and so do not know if he is a teacher or not.
    L. K. Haak, one of our successful farmers and orchardists, shipped small lots, a few boxes, of extra choice apples to Pennsylvania and to Michigan and about a dozen boxes to his brother in Portland last Thursday. He sent the apples to Pennsylvania and Michigan by express, and the charges to the latter state was $2 a box, so the agent at the depot told me, but they were marked "extra," and of course were some of Mr. Haak's best.
    Since the state voted "bone dry" I notice that there is an unusual amount of liquor being shipped in here by express. There were nine packages came in on Thursday's train. Those who must have booze seem to be laying in a good supply before the new dry law goes into effect.
    H. E. Webb of Derby brought in 625 pounds of live turkeys to our railroad agent, Amos Ayres, Thursday, and at the same shipment the agent sent out 325 pounds of live chickens.
    Mrs. A. S. Bliton, wife of the editor of the Medford Mail before the consolidation of the Southern Oregonian, Ashland Tribune, Medford Mail, etc., was out the middle of the past week visiting the family of F. M. Stewart.
    Ralph Biebersteadt of Brownsboro was doing business with our merchants Thursday.
    Thursday some of our enterprising citizens took a notion to give some of the school children an opportunity to see that wonderful play, "The Birth of a Nation," so, headed by Professor W. O. Wheeler, with his auto, and assisted by quite a number of our heads of families with their autos, the following pupils in the high school and eighth grade departments were taken in to Medford and treated to the sight. The last five named are in the intermediate department:
    Nellie Coy, Ethel Riley, Adin Haselton, Verta Grover, Winnifred Haak, May Greb, Margaret Riley, Emma McCaslin, Wade Logan, Frank Brandon, Harold Van Scoy, Freda Leabo, Nora Childreth, Ruth Grover, Joyce von der Hellen, Hugo von der Hellen, Buster McClelland.
    Our school is progressing finely, and the pupils seem to be getting along very well. They have organized an industrial club for the boys and girls and held their regular monthly meeting Friday and elected the officers for the ensuing year. An account of the meeting will be given in my next, as it would make this letter too long to put it in this.
    D. W. Meyer of Brownsboro came out Friday with a lot of cream to be shipped to Medford. He has a small farm on Butte Creek, keeps a few cows, raises alfalfa, sells cream and occasionally a veal, is happy and contented, enjoying life.
    Mrs. Lola White of Derby came out on Marshall Minter's jitney Friday, went to Medford and returned  this far, spent the night with us and Saturday morning took the P.&E. for her home.
    Harvard Hall, the business manager of the Hall & Riley Amusement Co., was a passenger on the P.&E. Saturday on his way to Butte Falls, and W. L. Edmondson and wife, J. E. Good of Derby, Frank Netherland of Butte Falls, Miss Blanche Miller of Lake Creek and several others were on their way to the hills.
    There was a box social at the Reese Creek schoolhouse Friday evening and a large attendance. There were twenty boxes sold, and the receipts for them amounted to $42 and some cents. After the boxes were sold and the contents disposed of the company went to Mr. Roundtree's and engaged in dancing for a while, and the receipts from the dance was $5. After the musician was paid the whole amount was placed in the hands of a committee to purchase the necessities for a Christmas tree. My informant reports having had a very pleasant time, although he was cheated out of his box, but not his girl.
    R. A. Tucker of Brownsboro brought in and shipped Saturday over 400 pounds of dressed turkeys. There was also another lot of live chickens shipped at the same time.
    Miss Anna Robinson, whose parents live about four miles north of here, but is now living in Medford, came out to attend the box social on Saturday night.
    The good, old-fashioned rain has come at last.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 27, 1916, page 3


    The last time I wrote for the Daily Mail Tribune, I promised to say something in this batch of Eaglets with regard to our school work along industrial lines. Last Friday, November 24, the boys' and girls' industrial club held their regular monthly meeting, elected their officers and arranged for the work of the season. The following persons were elected to fill the offices, to serve during the season: President, Theodore Florey; vice president, Nell Coy; secretary, Ethel Riley; treasurer, Aden Haselton; editor, Freda Leabo; organist, Verta Grover; advisor, Prof. W. O. Wheeler. Then plans were taken for the work, to prepare for the industrial and county fairs, and each pupil selected the particular line of work they expected to take up. Miss Verta Grover, sewing; Joyce von der Hellen, baking (Miss von der Hellen took up baking last year and won a prize, but not the first prize in the county contest, so she is going to try again); Master Cyril Haak, gardening (he took that up last year and would have won the prize in the county fair but did not enter his samples); Aden Haselton, corn culture (last year he took up the culture of corn and won the first prize and a trip to the state fair, and now he is going to try his hand at not only the production of corn, but the most profitable way of disposing of the production after it is raised); Theodore Florey, poultry raising. Division 2: Frank Brandon, handicrafts, Winnifred Haak, canning and home beautification; Emma McCaslin, baking; Clark Logan, potato raising; Ethel Riley, sewing and canning; Wade Lyon, gardening; Hugo von der Hellen, poultry raising; Walter Shesler, gardening; Nell Coy, sewing; Estella Betz, canning; Freda Leabo, sewing; Mary Riley, sewing; Willie Cornell, gardening; Lyle Van Scoy, gardening; Mamie Winkle, baking; Donald von der Hellen, potato raising; Ruth Grover, baking; Merl Jack, potato raising; Walter Radcliff, gardening; Rosco Roberts, pork production; Edward Clark, gardening. They all are starting off with buoyant spirits and next fall we expect to have results that will cause the rest of the schools in the county to sit up and take notice.
    Last Saturday there was another meeting of the farmers and their friends in Brown's Hall to hear E. H. Hurd explain the workings of the Farmer's Credit, or loan law. Notwithstanding the disagreeable weather and muddy roads, there was a good attendance and Mr. Hurd interested us for an hour or more, explaining the working so the new law and telling us how we would have to proceed in order to take advantage of the law. He made it very clear how we were to proceed to derive the benefits of the law, but there were several points that he did not make perfectly clear to the average farmer, for he did not have time as the meeting was not called to order until nearly 3 o'clock, and these short days the farmers have to be home by 5 p.m. to do their chores. He started in to tell how the sinking fund was created but was interrupted by some having to leave and did not make it as clear as desirable. Another point was how the farmer is to pay the amount at the expiration of the contract, whether it is to be paid in a bulk or is there a certain percentage paid in annually or semi-annually and thus create a fund, so as to have it paid off by the time it is due. There are a number of people in this section, and when I say this section, I mean the Butte Creek and surrounding country, who want to take advantage of the law so as to procure funds to improve and stock up their farms but are anxious to know more about the law before they venture.
    Mr. C. C. Cate went up into the Lake Creek country and held a meeting at the same time that Mr. Hurd was here, but I have not learned the result, although he was booked to talk on the subject of cooperation, but it all drifts into the same channel.
    Henry Trusty, the mail carrier between here and Persist, has planned to have the mail carried from the free ferry here by horseback carrier, as the road up this side of the Rogue River is so bad from the ferry to the Hammel ranch that he cannot run his auto, so he takes the mail from the Trail post office to the ferry, in the individual mail sacks and is met by the horseback man at the ferry and he distributes the mail. Dave Pence, the road superintendent of the Trail district, has got the road in such a good condition that Mr. Trusty can run his auto stage for some time.
    Ben Fredenburg and son of Butte Falls came out last Saturday and brought out a beef for Nichols and Ashpole, spent the night with us and went on to Medford the next day.
    Miss Josie Riley, who is engaged teaching one of the schools in Medford, came out Monday to see a play given by Hill and Riley, by a company of eight negroes. Those who attended report that it was about the best of its kind that has ever been seen here. Mr. Hall and Riley seem to have the ability to get something good in that line. They had a crowded house.
    There was a select company of young men and bachelors met at the bachelor headquarters of W. P. Holbrook for a time on the 23rd, where they feasted on roast turkey, cake, pies, etc., in the early evening and about midnight had oyster soup, etc., then went to a neighbor's and spent the rest of the night dancing. The young man who gave me the item said that they had one of the best suppers at Mr. Holbrook's he ever saw, and a good time generally.
    Rev. J. B. Weyley, a Medford minister, expects to hold services in the Baptist church next Sunday, December 3, both morning and evening. There will be a Thanksgiving program in the early evening, commencing at 7 o'clock, that will be worth hearing.
    W. E. Hammel of Reese Creek and Art Smith of Roosevelt School district were in town the middle of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 1, 1916, page 4


    At an election in Eagle Point Tuesday, J. F. Brown, W. C. McQuoit and George Phillips were re-elected councilmen. There was no opposition.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 6, 1916, page 4


    The last time that I wrote was the day before Thanksgiving Day, and there was a general stir among all classes getting ready to go and do. Some were getting ready to go to one place and some another, everyone intent on getting all the pleasure out of the event as possible. The day was commemorated in different ways, and the most of the people were interested about what they were going to have to eat.
    Quite a number of our citizens went to Medford to witness the game of football that was played between the Medford and Ashland team, and some went to Butte Falls to join in the festivities of that section, while others went to Trail and there enjoyed the party given by Mr. Ash, and those of us who stayed at home, the most at least, had a good old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner and entertained their friends and neighbors, so that the day was properly celebrated. But the most important event of the season was the marriage of Thomas Stanley to Miss Mabel Pruett by Professor Hanby of Central Point. Mr. Stanley is one of our progressive young men and by his perseverance and tact has accumulated a good start in life, so far as this world's goods are concerned. Mrs. Stanley is, or rather has been, one of our most popular young ladies, and Mr. S. may well feel proud of being able to capture so worthy a prize. I understand that the wedding was rather private, although there were between thirty and forty guests present, but all except the officiating minister and Mr. Kline and family, some of their nearest neighbors, were relatives. Mr. H. used the marriage ceremony in the Episcopal service, and my informant says that it was very impressive. I did not learn with regard to the presents, but am free to guess that they were in abundance.
    I have a few items in my note book that were crowded out of my last that I will give now before I go any further.
    Corbin Edgell, who owns an orchard joining the Corbin orchard, started the first of the week for Denver, Colo., to be gone a few months.
    Charles E. Wilkinson, who has his home up to the Dead Indian Soda Springs, spent the night with us on Monday on his way down to California to spend a few months, and while he was here renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
    Carl Roberts, who has been boarding with us for the past month or more, started for Seattle, Wash., the first of the week.
    R. D. Hanson and Floyd Jenkins were out Tuesday pasting advertising bills for the Klum Advertising Co. and from force of habit came to the Sunnyside about noon for dinner.
    R. H. Ridgeway and wife, parents of Mrs. T. F. Holtz, arrived the first of the week from Pennsylvania to spend the winter with their daughter.
    George and Otto Frey of Lake Creek, who live above the intake on the north fork of Little Butte, spent the night here Tuesday with two loads of lumber for their father's new house near Lake Creek. O. N. Bishop and Jud Edsall came out from near Butte Falls and spent the night with us at the same time.
    William Thomas of Brownsboro stopped here for dinner Tuesday, went on to Medford, where he met his mother just from Sacramento, and they came out and went on up to his home Wednesday.
    Stanley Spencer of Butte Falls and A. G. Slade of Portland spent Wednesday night with us. Mr. Spencer was on his way to California on business and Mr. Slade was on his way to the hills, loaded with traps. He expects to spend the winter trapping.
    John Thomson of Climax was out Wednesday visiting his sister, Mrs. W. W. Taylor.
    Thursday being Thanksgiving Day, some of the business houses closed. Mr. Childreth's blacksmith shop and most of the stores were closed, and about all of the excitement was in going to the various places of attraction.
    Among the guests of the Sunnyside were: Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and son Mike, Mrs. Ella Shesler, our primary teacher, and son Walter; her mother, Mrs. E. J. Smith, and daughter, Miss L. R. Smith; John W. Smith, wife and little daughter, Louis Smith and wife, Joe Moomaw, Mrs. Carl Cobley, Miss Minnie Taylor, our intermediate teacher; Jud Edsall, A. W. Slosser, Ed Cingcade and Henry Trusty.
    Sam Courtney, our local painter and paper hanger, has just finished a job papering Slater Johnson's house on the Antelope orchard.
    S. S. Engle of Medford spent Thursday night with us. He is a stock man and is taking his cattle to Applegate to feed.
    Ed Anderson moved into the Charley Bacon house Thursday night with his family from Round Top, where he has been engaged in cutting wood.
    Charles Stewart of Butte Falls spent Friday night with us and Saturday morning went to Medford.
    Just as I was about finishing this letter the news came to me that Miss Mabel Wamsley had just died this (Saturday) afternoon. An obituary notice will appear in my next.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 7, 1916, page 5


    In my last I made mention of the death of Miss Mabel Wamsley, who died just as I was finishing up my letter and of course could say but little with regard to her at that time. She was born May 21, 1885, and died at her home in Eagle Point December 2, 1916, aged 31 years, 6 months and 14 days. She was the only daughter of George H. Wamsley, with whom she lived up to the day of her death in our town. Until her health failed her she was quite prominent in social affairs. She was a devoted daughter and did everything she could to help encourage her father after the death of her mother, but for the past few years has been suffering with tuberculosis of the lungs and after trying different climates without avail, finally succumbed to that dreaded disease. She leaves a father and a brother who the last time I heard was in El Paso, Texas, and a large circle of friends. She was a member of the lodge of Rebekahs, and the remains were interred in the Central Point cemetery by the members of the order on Sunday afternoon. Considering the disagreeable weather there was a large number, about fifty, followed her remains to the grave. She had every care and attention that loving hands and hearts could provide.
    There was quite a number of persons came in for dinner Sunday and among them were Robert R. Minter who has been off in Coos Bay country for several weeks, who arrived at his home a few days before. His son Marshall, daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Carl Ringer, Howard Hall and his chauffeur and Miss Mida McIntosh of Roseburg were here Sunday night for supper, but had to return to Medford that night.
    Mrs. P. H. Daily of Medford came out on Saturday on business, returning the same day.
    Mrs. John Cook and family have moved into the old von der Hellen store building.
    Frank Ditsworth of Derby came out Sunday, spent the night with us, going to Medford and back Monday and Tuesday morning started for his home. While here he gave me his subscription for the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Mr. L. O. Walker and Miss Millie Hodges of Gold Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Edington were here Monday for dinner. Mr. Edington is now the foreman on the Corbin orchard, under Henry Van Hoevenburg, who has leased the orchard of the owner, Mr. A. Corbin.
    Wm. Mussall of Lake Creek came out Tuesday and brought two dressed hogs for the Sunnyside and then went on to Central Point.
    Frank Lewis is complaining that he has about all the business that he can do with his jitney. His sister-in-law, Mrs. Frank Stimson of Hubbard, Ore., came out with him Tuesday evening to spend a few days visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    We held our town election Tuesday afternoon, but there was so little interest taken that many of the voters did not know of it and the result was there was but few votes cast. Frank Brown, George Phillips and Norman McQuoid were re-elected as members of the town council. There was but twenty-four votes cast.
    Sam F. Coy was in town Tuesday and while here renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Limmie Dryon was in town Wednesday morning and so was Frank Abbott, foreman of the W. Hart orchard and farm.
    The president pro tem of the local federal farm loan association of Eagle Point has called for a meeting of the members, and those interested in the movement meet at the Eagle Point schoolhouse Saturday afternoon at half past two o'clock. A full attendance is desired as Professor Reimer of Talent will be here and give an illustrated explanation of the workings of the loan law on the blackboard.
    Wednesday morning when we arose from our beds we found the ground covered with snow, and that brought to mind a remark made by Mr. Mussall about snow. He expressed the belief that if we did not have more snow this winter than what we have had in the past two or three that about all the springs in the hills would dry up as many of them had already done and rendered it difficult for stock on the range to get water to drink.
    H. S. Harnish and John Simon went to Medford Wednesday afternoon in Lewis' jitney.
    I omitted to state at the proper time that Rev. J. B. Weyley of Medford came out and preached for us last Sunday morning and evening and at the close of the evening services arrangements were made to have him preach here next Sunday both morning and evening. Owing to the funeral of Miss Mabel Wamsley Sunday and other causes the Thanksgiving exercises for Sunday evening were dispensed with so that Mr. Weyley had the whole evening. He had a good-sized audience and seemed to take with the people. There is talk of calling him to take charge of the church here. He comes well recommended as a devoted Christian worker, and we trust that he may do us all some good.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 8, 1916, page 3


    Thursday, December 7, Mrs. Eugene Bellows, Mrs. Greyham and Mrs. Isabel and a stranger dropped in for dinner. Mrs. Bellows had come in to bring cream from the Bellows farm and the other two ladies to do some shopping.
    Mrs. J. H. Trusty of Trail, who had been out to Central Point to visit relatives, came in on the motor and took passage on the stage with her son Henry for her home on Elk Creek. Speaking about the stage from here to Persist, Mr. Trusty tells me that on his round trip from here to Persist and back, he does not return all the way on the same route but crosses the Rogue River going by way of the Dodge-French bridge, and returning by the free ferry road, and on the entire route has to deliver 85 individual sacks of mail. He has been running an auto stage up to today, Saturday, but finds that the roads are so bad that he has to put on his team again. Although Dave Pence, the road supervisor of the Trail district, had made wonderful improvements in the road on that side of the river, still there are so many bad mud holes on the entire route that it is not considered prudent to try to keep running the auto.
    C. A. Colby of Lake Creek started with his family for San Diego, Cal., Thursday. He has rented his farm in the Lake Creek section, but I did not learn the name of the renter. His moving out has reduced the membership of the school, as it was not very large at best but the loss of that school will, perhaps, be a help to some other school.
    I noticed when I was at the depot Thursday that Mr. Amos Ayres had six crates of chickens to ship out to Medford. The poultry and dairy business is getting to be a big business in the Butte Creek country, and if the farmers succeed, as they expect to, in procuring money at a low rate of interest, and invest it properly, this part of the country will be one of the most prosperous sections in the county, for we have the soil, the water and the climate, and all that we need is the means to improve and develop the farms.
    In spite of the mud, snow and rain, I see that the farmers are still coming into town and taking lumber out to their homes, and the railroad agent, who has charge of the lumber yard, is kept busy looking after the various interests.
    Mrs. Colonel Roberts came in on Thursday and brought in her mother, Mrs. Montgomery, who has been spending a week with her daughter on the farm.
    L. K. Haak, one of our leading farmers and orchardists, was in town Thursday looking for a man to work on his farm.
    Delwin Curry, who has always been known as Delwin Claspill, as his grandparents have raised him and he has always gone by that name, came out Thursday and was initiated in the I.O.O.F. lodge here Thursday night with four others, but I didn't learn their names. The lodge seems to be in a flourishing condition in this place.
    Frank Peyton of Peyton passed through here Thursday on his way to Sheridan, Wyo., to visit his father, who has had a stroke of paralysis and is considered in a critical condition.
    Steve Tobin of Casper, Wyo., came in Thursday, engaged a room and went on out to his farm about a mile west of here to meet Frank Smith, who has charge of his place, a fine peach orchard. He has decided to remain with him for a week or so.
    H. J. Stewart, who owns a part of the old C. C. Beekman place northeast of here, passed through town on his way to Central Point Thursday.
    W. H. McLeod of McCloud, and H. C. Mills of Butte Falls, were on the P.&E. Thursday on their way home.
    Misses Nell Peachy and Deilie Grigsby were in town Saturday shopping.
    Ed Watson of Butte Falls was on the P.&E. on his way to Jacksonville, where he has obtained a business position, and Scott Claspill was on his way to Medford to take charge of an engine in a manufacturing establishment.
    E. H. Hurd arrived here Saturday in the place of Mr. Reimer, who was detained at his station on official business, and gave a lecture on the Federal Land Loan Law, but I will have something to say on that subject in my next Eaglets.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 12, 1916, page 5


    It was announced in the Medford Mail Tribune last week that there would be a meeting of those interested in the federal loan law at the schoolhouse in Eagle Point last Saturday afternoon and that Mr. Reimer of Talent would be here and give an explanation of the workings of the law, but when the time came for the meeting, it was found that Mr. Reimer was unable to be here, as he had to stay at his station to meet one of the high officials of the O.A.C., so E. H. Hurd came in his place and gave us another lecture, illustrating it on the blackboard. The chairman pro tem, L. K. Haak, was detained so that he could not be in attendance, so J. W. Grover was called to act in his stead, and after discussing the subject of the boundaries of the association to be formed, it was decided to leave that matter to be decided at the next meeting, as there are some in the Brownsboro and Butte Falls sections who prefer to come into the Eagle Point association, and after discussing some minor subjects it was decided to meet at the call of the chairman pro tem and at that time elect the board of directors, decide on the boundaries, and elect the permanent officers. The prospect is that we will have a strong association here, as there are a number who own land and have not the means to improve and stock it, that feel that they can afford to pay a low rate of interest, say 5½ or even the limit, 6 percent interest on long loans, and by that means make something off of their land instead of simply living on it paying taxes on it and deriving no revenue from it.
    Mrs. John Greb, wife of one of our prominent farmers, went to Medford last Friday and spent a few days with her daughters who are attending the Medford high school, returned Monday morning.
    R. E. (Emmit) Newlan came over from Table Rock last Monday with a load of wheat to our mill to exchange for flour, bran and shorts. Speaking of the Snowy Butte mills, I am glad to say that they are doing a good business and have a demand for all the product of the mill they can put out, and Mr. Brandon tells me that they have quite a large lot of wheat on hand, enough to keep them running for quite a while yet.
    Mrs. Harvey Stanley was among the business callers Monday and so was Louis Blaess.
    Word came Tuesday morning of the death of Edwin Hayman, a nephew of our townsman, F. Lewis. He died December 12 in a sanitorium in Salem. He was afflicted with tuberculosis and lived for quite a while with his grandmother, Mrs. Heckathorn, and after trying different remedies went to Salem, where he finally succumbed to the dreaded disease. The remains will arrive in Central Point today, Wednesday, but the arrangements for the funeral will not have been completed until the arrival of his father from Arizona.
    W. T. Croft, the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard just above town, was in town Tuesday and while here paid his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry French, accompanied by Mrs. French's father, Perry Foster, were doing business in our town Tuesday, and while here Mr. Foster gave me his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune, and Mrs. Ed Tucker of Brownsboro and two other ladies came in to trade and while here Mrs. Tucker renewed her subscription to the W.M.T.
    Plenny Leabo, one of our industrious young men, started Tuesday for McCloud to do a lot of grubbing for Mr. McCloud.
    Mrs. Swindon Marvin of Gold Hill is here visiting her cousin, Mrs. Jake Jonas.
    Mrs. Minnie Bryant, formerly of this place, but now of Medford, came out on the P.&E. Tuesday to look after business.
    Speaking of the P.&E., when the train arrived here the motive power was confined to the locomotive that is dubbed with the name of "the 1-spot," and although there were four or five passengers on board and two of them got off here, and they had no extra cars, simply the passenger car, they did not get back from Butte Falls until 5:30 p.m., although the schedule time is 2:25, and the result was that we had no mail from Medford Tuesday evening. It appears that when it is going up to Butte Falls that the grade is so steep that the poor little engine gives out or has what the medical faculty would call heart failure.  But I suppose that the expenses on the railroad are so much more than the receipts is one reason why the railroad company still holds on to it as a makeshift in an emergency, but it is a serious disappointment to the people to miss the mail.
    Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cobleigh of Phoenix, who have been up in the neighborhood of Butte Falls visiting their parents, came out Tuesday, spent the night with us and went on home this (Wednesday) morning. 
Medford Mail Tribune, December 14, 1916, page 7


    John W. Smith, our school clerk, reports this season 105 children in this district.
    There was a carload of culverts came out to our road supervisor, Ed Dutton, the first of the week, to be distributed among different road districts around here.
    Fred Dunlap of Derby passed through here Thursday on his way to Medford.
    A. M. Tyrrell of Lake Creek brought out a load of hogs and while here gave me his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune for his father, J. H. Tyrrell.
    Charley Vatche of Ashland spent the night with us the first of the week. He had been up to his old ranch on Rogue River that he sold to a man by the name of Anderson some time ago, to look after some horses that he still has on the place.
    Earl Tucker of Brownsboro was doing business with the Eagle Point Hardware Co. Thursday.
    Susan Hart came out and took the train Thursday for Medford.
    Delwin Curry of Butte Falls spent Thursday night with us.
    C. E. Bellows and wife were in town Thursday and took a small load of lumber out to the Reese Creek schoolhouse.
    Herman Meyer, Jr., of Lake Creek brought out a load of hogs for the Central Point market Thursday.
    Since my last report, J. H. Tyrrell of Lake Creek has paid up on the D.M.T. and paid for a year's subscription to the W.M.T.
    Thomas Todd of Trail has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T., and E. Hurd of Eagle Point has paid up his subscription to the D.M.T.
    Fred Thompson of the firm of Thomson Bros., our Lake Creek merchants, passed through town Thursday on his way to Medford.
    Friday noon, J. Percy Wells of Jacksonville and Miss Helen M. Cowgill came in for dinner. Mr. Wells is our county school superintendent and Miss Cowgill is traveling in the interest of the O.A.C. in the work connected with the industrial clubs of the various schools. She gave a lecture, accompanied by stereopticon views of the O.A.C. with its various and varied surroundings, and then branched off on the work proper of the members of the different industrial clubs throughout the state, giving photos of many of the winners of prizes in the different branches taken by the members. She devoted a good portion of her lecture to those who had tried their hand at corn raising, and then illustrated the best way to dispose of the corn after it was raised by showing four pigs, all the same age, but of altogether different sizes, showing the advantage of systematic feeding. She then gave a lecture on the culinary art, impressing on the minds of the children the importance of systematic work in that line. And in speaking in that line, there were two in our school who won out in the contest last season, Aden Haselton, who won out on raising corn, and went to the state fair, and Miss Joyce von der Hellen, who won the honor of being among the best in the culinary department. She won out in cake baking, but as there but four go to the state fair, two boys and two girls, she failed to go on the trip to Salem, but secured the pin showing that she was among the prizewinners. Miss Cowgill is a very fluent talker, articulates distinctly and has a fine voice, speaks loud enough to be understood all over the house and has the facility of interesting and holding the attention of everyone in the room. After she had concluded her lecture, Professor Patterson gave us an illustrated lecture on Alaska, simply trying his hand in the line of practice, as he is a novice in that line, but the exhibition was very good. At the close of the afternoon exercises, Superintendent Wells returned home and Mrs. Patterson and Miss Cowgill came to the Sunnyside for supper, and there they met Thomas Stanley, Sr. After supper they all three started for Brownsboro, where they were to give another illustrated lecture. The people of Brownsboro had arranged to have a box social at the same time, and after the social a dance, but I have not been able to learn much about what went on there, as the two young men who came in from there, my informants, seemed to know but little about what went on, except the dance, and of course they report favorably of that.
    Since my last report, Fred McPherson, Mrs. Swanson and Henry Meyer have brought in several dozen chickens to our railroad agent, Amos Ayres, and I have the promise of a statement of the amount of the value of the poultry that has been shipped from here this fall. It will surprise some of those who think that Eagle Point and the surrounding country are but a mere speck in Oregon.
    G. S. Stevenson, who has been living on what has been known as the Heath place, just above Brownsboro, has moved to Sacramento.
    Thomas Stanley and bride returned Saturday from California, where they have been spending their honeymoon.
    Marsh Garrett, Guy Holman, Mike Sidley of Lake Creek and W. W. Taylor of Eagle Point were here on Saturday for dinner.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Jacks, on the Wolfrey orchard, December 14, 1916, a daughter.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 20, 1916, page 5


    Last Sunday was rather a quiet day in our little town, although it was one of those days we have occasionally in the month of December when it was quite warm and pleasant, the sun shone bright and clear and everyone seemed to enjoy it. There was not the usual number of transients here there generally are. Wm. von der Hellen and his family and three or four young men called for dinner. We had a very interesting Sunday school, and in the absence of the Bible class leader, Mr. Swanson took charge of it and there were some very interesting suggestions presented with regard to where Heaven was, what it consisted of, and whether it was located at any particular place. At night we had a meeting of the Epworth League at the usual hour, but when we reached the church we found quite a number were already there, but no lights except two small lanterns and a coal oil lamp and as I was onto the job I took a lamp and a flashlight with me. The cause of all the trouble was that I concluded, after consulting two of the other directors, that we would have the five electric lights lowered about four or five feet each and as our regular electrician, Mr. Elmer Hurd, was at his home and very busy getting his farming done, thought I would secure the services of a neighbor who has had some experience in that line of work, to do the job with my assistance. So on Saturday afternoon we went at it and after we had them all fixed O.K. as I supposed, we turned on the juice and there was simply a flash and no more. The plugs were burned out. So Mr. ------ thought he had discovered the cause of the trouble, so he went over his work again but still with no better success, so gave it up as a bad job. We were each of us to look out for Mr. Hurd and have him straighten out the difficulty, but when the crowd assembled at the church some of the young men who wanted something to do secured some more plugs and as fast as they put them in, out they went, and one man even went so far as to go home, take the plug our of his home and try his hand at raising light, but all to no avail, but we managed to get along all right with the lamp and Tuesday I had Mr. Hurd examine  it. The first drop he examined found a "short circuit," two of the small wires were not sufficiently covered with the rubber tape and so came together, causing all the trouble. The incident reminded me of my early experience in the ministry in the fifties, when I was on the Red Bluff and Clear Lake circuits, when I used to go from house to house to preach, and as a substitute for lamps or candles they would use pitch knots in a large fireplace to make a general light and have someone hold a pitch torch for me to read my scripture lesson; in those days ministers didn't have to have their sermons written out and read them off or even have their notes so they could refresh their memory, but had their subject "Christ and Him Crucified" so thoroughly at their tongue's end that they could preach, not without preparation, O no, but without notes. I was just thinking as I wrote about Mr. Hurd doing his farming of what the readers of the Eaglets back in the eastern and northern states would think of my talking or writing about farming or plowing at this time of the year, the 20th day of December and people going around in their shirt sleeves. Nevertheless, it is actually the case in Jackson County, Oregon, where we have rosy-cheeked girls and big red apples.
    Charley A. Newstrom and his son Theodore and Miss Alice Nygren of Lake Creek and Thomas Carlton, now of Prospect, were here for dinner Monday. Mr. Newstrom brought out a lot of chickens for our railroad agent, Amos Ayres, and Miss Alice came out with her father and took the afternoon train for Medford.
    I met M. S. Wood and his wife's son-in-law, Mr. Henry W. Coppinger, on the street Tuesday morning. Mr. C. and his wife and three children came in Monday to visit Mrs. Wood and expect to remain here awhile.
    Charley Klingle and wife of Lake Creek were doing trading Tuesday with our merchants.
    Wm. Newsbaum of Lake Creek brought out a lot of chickens Tuesday for our railroad agent and the Cingcade Bros. brought in four large crates of turkeys so there were all told four crates of turkey and three of chickens shipped out Tuesday on the P.&E.
    J. Hartman of Jacksonville was on the P.&E. on his way up to near Prospect Tuesday, and C. Kelsoe and wife and Mrs. Frank Neil were on the car for Derby.
    P. S. Anderson, the present owner of the place on Rogue River known as the Vatche place, came in Tuesday eve from Alberta, Canada, and took the E.P.-Persist stage Wednesday morning to go out to his farm.
    S. H. Harnish and daughter, Mrs. Fred Dutton, went to Medford Wednesday morning with Jud Edsall and our daughter, Hattie. 
    W. R. Byrum of Table Rock came over to our mill with a load of wheat to exchange for flour and byproducts of the wheat and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    It is a great convenience to be able to bring one's wheat to the mill and exchange it for flour, etc.
    Since my last report, A. Grissom, Climax, has renewed his sub to the Weekly Mail Tribune and so has Pete Betz, Eagle Point, renewed his sub to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 21, 1916, page 5


    W. H. Crandall, one of our prominent farmers and fancy poultry men, came in to town Wednesday afternoon.
    W. W. Laylor, who owns one of the choice farms in this section, brought in a fine lot of poultry for our railroad agent since my last and I. W. Frey of Lake Creek also broughtt in a crate of mixed chickens for the same party.
    Scott Claspill of Butte Falls was among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday and so was Noble Zimmerman, who has been confined to a hospital in Grants Pass for about a month, came in on the P.&E. on Thursday and at present is stopping at the Sunnyside, visiting his sister, who is post office clerk and one of the telephone operators in our town.
    Fred Bellows went to Medford on the P.&E. Thursday, returning the same day.
    William Haymond of Arizona, who was called here by the death of his son, Edwin, who died in Salem on the 11th, is here visiting his brother-in-law, Frank Lewis. The remains were interred in the Central Point cemetery on the 14th. The remains of his mother who was buried in Butte three years ago last August are to be taken to the Central Point cemetery for interment in the near future.
    Miss Louisa Blaess, who formerly conducted the old Eagle Hotel, now known as the Farmers Hotel conducted by John Zimmerlee and wife, has accepted a position as saleswoman in the old F. L. Heath store, now owned by Thomas E. Nichols and managed by Ed Conlry. She is expecting to give a ball on December 30 in the opera house here.
    Roy Willits and wife of Persist were out the middle of the week, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. William von der Hellen.
   Born to the wife of Fred Finley December 21, a daughter. Mother and daughter are doing well, so Dr. Holt reports.
    Swain Bergquist, one of the prosperous farmers west of town, was in Eagle Point trading with our new merchant, Thomas E. Nichols, Thursday. John Rader, also one of our leading farmers and stockmen, and D. W. Meyer of Brownsboro were trading with the new merchant. Mr. Meyer was in for a load of lumber.
    Irwin Daley of Lake Creek brought a load of potatoes for the Nichols store Thursday. Talking about the store, one would be surprised to see the amount of goods that came in on the P.&E. for different merchants.  There is a fresh lot of goods come in on every train for Brown and Son's and the two hardware stores, the Eagle Point Hardware Co. and Roy Ashpole, and Frank Lewis seems to receive a new assortment of goods every few days, and from the amount of goods that go out to the different parts of the county from these stores it seems to be a mistake about the re-election of President Wilson causing hard times, for the past ten days the merchants are kept busy and the post office force is kept busy mailing and sending out packages.
    Brandon Brothers have received a lot of new brick and are putting up a new flue in the Snowy Butte mill as they are so crowded with their work that they have to run night and day and have to have a fire to keep warm.
    F. B. McDonald and his sister Mrs. Ossman of Trail (Elk Creek) came in for dinner Friday and went on to Medford with Bobbie Harnish and our daughter Hattie and granddaughter Esther Shaw. The latter went on to her home in Portland. P. S. Anderson, the owner of the Vatche place, and his tenant Earl Britton and Clint Hurst, one of the boys who was raised in the Wellen neighborhood, were also here for dinner Friday.
    Lunmon (Buster) McClelland, one of our regular boarders, who is attending school here, started Friday for Glendale to visit his grandmother, Mrs. Whitsett, and spend the Xmas holidays there.
    Jud Edsall and George Wehman, our town harness maker, who has been in the hills for the past month, came out Saturday morning to spend Christmas at the Sunnyside.
    Charles Painter brought in for our depot agent a fine lot of hens Saturday morning.
    Saturday morning A. E. Strong, one of our fancy chicken raisers, received from Eugene two of the four White Wyandotte cocks that took the highest prize at the poultry show in Portland a short time ago with the privilege of keeping one of them and sending the others back, as the owner does not wish to sell more than one of them. They attracted as much attention at the depot as an ordinary horseshoe. Mr. Strong has been breeding up his hens and intends to have the very best in the market.
    Mrs. Belle Bailey of Medford, one of our Eagle Point raised girls, but now a mother of two boys, came out on the P.&E. Saturday to spend a few days among her old friends and relatives. She was accompanied by Mrs. Fremont, the lady that H. B. Tronson brought out from England some years ago and had her for a housekeeper.
    Miss Francis Greb, daughter of our expert farmer, who is attending the Medford high school, came out Saturday evening on the train to spend the holidays with her parents. She was met at the train by her brother John.
    Since my last report Plenny Leabo has renewed his sub to the Daily Mail Tribune and George Phillips has renewed his sub to the W.M.T.
    S. H. Harnish and family started Saturday morning to visit Mrs. H.'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Maw, near Williamsburg.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 26, 1916, page 3

 
    I unintentionally omitted to state in my last Eaglets that W. O. Wheeler, the principal of our high school, entertained the students in the eighth and ninth grades on Friday evening, December 22.
    The Federal Land Loan Association of Eagle Point will meet in the Eagle Point schoolhouse Saturday, January 13, at one o'clock sharp. The temporary chairman requests that those interested will come early, so as to get through with the business before chore time. It is the desire to perfect the organization at that time by the election of permanent officers and thus get it in shape to begin to do business.
    A. A. Bilz paid up his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune the day that I wrote last, but not in time to acknowledge it in the Eaglets.
    Al Clements, Harry Reter and Earl Haley were among the guests at the Sunnyside Saturday night.
    Miss Mabel Hanson came in on the evening of the 23rd from her school on the Applegate, Uniontown, and was met here later in the evening by Charles Manning. They spent the night with us and Sunday morning they went on horseback up to her father's on Antelope Creek, near Climax.
    There was no special preparation for a Christmas entertainment here either on Saturday or Sunday evening, and a man had already given the word that he was going to have a Christmas tree and an entertainment, something a little extra, and the church did not prepare for the event because the main leader in everything in that line, Mrs. Y. W. Grover, was at that time, and for several days before, taking care of a sick woman in our town that had to be attended to, but the young people had a little program suited to the occasion Sunday evening that was very good, but the continuous storm, snow and cold weather prevented some from coming. Almost every family in the town had something going on Christmas Day, although many of our citizens went to Medford for the day.
    Sunday morning at the Sunday school, Mrs. Shesler, our primary teacher, taught the bible and intermediate classes combined and gave us a very interesting and instructive lecture on the lesson, Isaiah 9, chapters 6 and 7 verses, on the birth of Christ foretold.
    James Vestal, son of one of our respected citizens, who is attending the O.A.C. at Corvallis, came down last Saturday and was met by his brother, Thomas, and they went out to the Vestal farm. James is one of our promising young men who is working his way through college by his own industry and perseverance. He graduated from the Central Point high school, went to work to raise the means to go higher and expects to go to the top of the ladder in his line.
    T. F. Boltz, who is traveling in the interest of a concrete company in Pennsylvania, dropped into our town Friday evening to pay his wife and her parents a visit, leaving again Tuesday p.m. His wife, two children and Mrs. Boltz's mother accompanied him as far as Medford.
    W. G. Knighten and wife, Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, wife and daughter, Miss Fern, and Frank Smith were among the guests on Christmas.
    Christmas morning the stages were loaded down with parcel post mail, and the bad roads and snow work a hardship on the mail carriers. Henry Trusty did not get off from here till eleven o'clock and it took him five hours to get to Trail, a distance of fifteen miles, and it was 11 p.m. when he reached Persist, where he had to contend with snow 30 inches deep on a heavy uphill grade.
    Miss Louise Blaess spent Christmas Day in Medford, arranging for her masque ball here Saturday night.
    Orville Childreth, son of our blacksmith W. T. Childreth, who has been up in Wyoming during the summer, fall and this far in the winter, returning to the parental roof Saturday. In speaking of the weather up there, he called my attention to his chin, which had been frosted on the way home.
    Noble Zimmerman, who has been with us for the past few days, took the P.&E. for Derby Tuesday, moving to visit his relatives, Messrs. Swigart, Riggins and Edmondson.
    Henry French, the hustler, came in Tuesday with his week's product of cream to be shipped, and in conversation with him, I asked how many cows he milked, and he said six, and I suggested that the cream would bring about $50 a month, and he said no, that his cows were all strippers and that they brought him around $35 or $40 a month. That will give an idea of what can be made off of cows if properly cared for, right around $6 or $7 a month per cow, and they on the decline in the milk flow, and in the middle of the winter at that, and no special preparation for caring for the cows. It means, at any rate, about $500 a year from the six cows beside the increase of six calves each year, and the skimmed milk for the pigs. It is not a debatable question: "Does it pay to keep cows?"
    Fred Pelouze and wife drove into town Tuesday.
    A lady by the name of McDonald got off of the train Tuesday and was met by one of the Stanley brothers and taken up the creek.
    The P.&E. was well loaded with passengers Tuesday on the westbound trip from Butte Falls and were joined here by Mrs. McDonald and Mrs. Hessler of Brownsboro.
    Roy Ashpole and family spent Christmas with his parents, John Ashpole and wife.
    Ed Conley, the business manager of the Nichols store, visited friends at Medford Sunday.
    S. H. Harnish, wife and son Robbie returned from a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Noonan Tuesday. They report 18 inches of snow at Williamsburg.
    James Vestal, Frank Brown, Wm. von der Hellen and a traveling salesman by the name of Jones were here for dinner Wednesday.
    Since my last report, L. E. Smith has renewed his subscription to the Mail Tribune.
    The von der Hellen brothers spent Christmas with their parents.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 29, 1916, page 5