Last Wednesday afternoon John Rader, one of our leading stockmen and progressive farmers, was doing business in our town.
    Mrs. L. B. Caster of Derby came out on the Moomaw stage and took passage en the P.&E. motor for Medford. She was met at the depot by her son Frank and family. They were on their way down to some point in California--I did not learn where--to be with her son, Byrd, who had been knocked off a carload of lumber and badly hurt, and fears were entertained that his hurt would prove very serious, as his body was paralyzed from his shoulders down.
    Walter Bergman and family of wife and three children were also at the depot waiting for some conveyance to Medford. Also his mother, Mrs. A. B. Clarno.
    When the little gasoline motor [arrived], the one the section men use in the repair work on the road, it had four passengers on for this section, and when I saw the crowd at the depot waiting to go to Medford I wondered how they were going to manage to ride on that little car--four women, four children and four or five men--but later I learned that provision was made for those who could not get on the motor to go in a jitney. During the season when the roads are bad so that most of the people dislike to take their Fords and autos out in the mud or the roads are so bad that they are afraid to try to run them, then they will rush to the train and if, as is the case now, the railroad company happens to have trouble with their cars they raise a howl about the poor service we get from the railroad company, but they never stop to think that the company has been running this route ever since they started at a loss of from $15,000 to $25,000 a year, and that the employees have to put up with such conveniences as they can get.
    I noted a few days ago that there were twelve persons who wanted to go to Medford, and if the wagon road had been good and dry not one of them would have thought of traveling on the railroad, but would have gone in their own cars. I asked one woman why she did not go in her own car and she replied that they could not get the car out to the county road.
    Mrs. Laura Abbott and son Orbra, who have been out here visiting her son Frank and family, and O. Adams took passage on the P.&E. for their homes in Butte Falls Thursday, and Jack Tungate of Butte Falls was also a passenger on the P.&E. for his home.
    Messrs. Farrar and Harding of Lake Creek were also passengers on the P.&E. and stopped off here. A. M. Tyrrell of Lake Creek and family came out on the Meyer auto stage Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside, and C. W. Scott, the manager of the Lost Creek mining enterprise; Claus Charley, Herman Meyer, Jr. and Frank Hand were among the diners at the S.S. Thursday.
    E. E. Bond, wile and two children, of Lakeview, and Mrs. Bond's daughter, Mrs. Varian Jonas, came out on the P.&E. and were guests at the Sunnyside Thursday, and while here gave an account of a family reunion of the family of A. M. Thomas in Central Point Christmas. The entire family, including her five daughters, sons except Charley, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. My informant said that she could not give the number or names of the company, but that there was a perfect jam of men, women and children. Some of them came from distant parts of the U.S. to have a good time visiting their dear old mother and grandmother.
    Herman Meyer had his car loaded this (Saturday) morning, as he has six passengers, among them Miss Blanche Burleson and her brother of Lake Creek, on their way out to Phoenix to go to school, and some of the others were men interested in manganese mining who had been up there looking over the situation.
    The Tacoma Metal Co. had another engine come in and taken up to the mine, that being about all of the heavy machinery they will have to take up this winter.
    Among the lodgers at the S.S. Friday night was John Iseli and wife of Butte Falls and Mrs. A. B. Chartraw and son, Fred, of Derby. They took passage on the P.&E. for their homes Saturday morning, and so did Mr. Watson of Butte Falls and John Smith of Eagle Point. Mr. Smith was going up to visit his children.
    Mrs. A. B. Clarno, who lives north of here a few miles; Mrs. Farrar and a lady friend of Lake Creek, came out Saturday morning and took passage on the E.P.-L.C. auto stage for their homes. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Tyrrell were also passengers on the P.&E. for Lake Creek.
    L. H. Pickel, who is running an auto truck for the Jackson County Creamery; Mrs. R. A. Weidman, who is assisting in the T. E. Nichols store on Saturdays, and Mrs. Nichols, Nick Young and Amos Ayres, our depot agent, were among the diners at the Sunnyside Saturday.
    Since my last report, W. H. Crandall has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
    I am wishing the entire force in the Medford Mail Tribune office a happy new year and the readers of the Eaglets not only a happy new year, but a prosperous one through life.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1918, page 3


    The Reese Creek school, Miss Mayes, teacher; also the Laurel Hill school, Miss McDougal, teacher, began school Wednesday after a short vacation.
    Miss Mayes visited Mrs. Watkins a few days the first of the week.
    The Misses Alice and Maudie Schleichert of Medford were weekend visitors at Mr. Robertson's, Miss Mary Robertson returning home with them to spend New Year's.
    James Vestal, who was home for the holidays, returned to the O.A.C. this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caster, John Caster and mother are in California at the bedside of Byrd Caster, who fell from a lumber car, causing paralysis.
    John Brittsan is in Medford for a few days.
    Chris Bergman's brother and nephew, from Missouri, are visiting them for a few days. They expect to leave for California this week, where they will also visit relatives. Chris will accompany them to California.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 5, 1918, page 6


     There will be preaching service in the church Sunday, January 6, commencing at 7 o'clock. The same evening all of the young people are requested to be there by 7 o'clock sharp. It is expected that Rev. Carstens will be with us on the occasion.
    Rev. Carstens of Medford was with us last Sunday and preached a fine sermon to a small audience. It was not known that he was to be here until late Saturday evening, so late that there was not time to circulate the announcement, but those who were there seemed to enjoy the service very much. He remained until after the evening service and took part with Rev. Paul Bandy in the services. Mr. C. was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Lillian, who sang for us at both services, and Miss Virgie Meadows and C. S. Webster, and at night John Johnson, Dana Davis, Childs and Merl Willits of Medford came out and attended the evening service,
    We had as guests at the Sunnyside Sunday Dr. W. P. Holt, wife and daughter, Miss Helen, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Boltz and two children, Mary and Thomas, Jr., William Lewis, Henry Trusty, Glen Haley, Orville Childreth, Miss Eula Geppert, Albert Clements, Estella Betz, Adin Haselton, Joe Moomaw, Howard Painter, Roy and Lloyd Stanley.
    Prof. J. C. Barnard, the principal of our school, wife and brother-in-law, Joe Welch, and Miss Benedict, our primary teacher, who went to Ashland to spend their vacation, returned to their posts so as to be at church Sunday. Mr. Welch remained in Ashland for a while.
    Mrs. L. B. Caster of Derby returned Monday morning from her visit to her son, Byrd, who was seriously injured by being thrown off of a load of lumber at Dorris, Cal. She reports that there is but little hope of his recovery. Her son Frank and family came out Tuesday and they report that it is a question as to how long he may linger but they think that he cannot recover. John J. Winningham of Trail also came out but after his arrival found that it was necessary for him to return to Medford the same day.
    Mrs. R. A. Weidman, who is helping T. E. Nichols to invoice his stock of goods, and Mrs. T. E. Nichols, Amos Ayres, our depot agent, John Winningham were diners at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Conover and family were doing business with our merchants Monday.
    Mrs. Carl Jackson, whose husband is in Mare Island, Cal., moved her household effects to Butte Falls Tuesday. Charles Edmondson was on the same train for his home in Butte Falls.
    Miss Ida Houston of Trail, one of our progressive teachers, came out from Medford on the same train. and Miss Tressie Pence of Trail came out on the Trusty auto stage. John C. Wise of Prospect also came out on the stage and after dinner went on to Medford on the afternoon train.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside New Year's Day was Wm. von der Hellen, wife, daughter Miss Joyce and son Donnel, Miss Tressie Pence, Henry Trusty, J. C. Wise, Roy Ashpole and family, Mrs. T. E. Nichols, Mrs. R. A. Weidman, C. A. Newstrom of Lake Creek, Thomas Carlton and wife and Ray Davis. Later in the day L. H. Ossman and wife of Medford called. Mr. Ossman was out with a Paige car, for which he is the agent. He reports that he is meeting with considerable success in his line of business.
    A. Marion of Derby, and Harris Geppert of Butte Falls came out to attend the dance Tuesday evening.
    W. O. Johnson of Jacksonville came out Monday evening with a dozen cows that he had sold to Mr. P. S. Anderson and after spending the night here took them on up to Mr. Anderson's farm on Rogue River, now occupied by V. E. and John Brittsan. Mr. Anderson is aiming to stock the farm with about twenty milk cows and have the Brittsan brothers milk them. Mr. Johnson returned to the Sunnyside where he was met by Mr. Anderson Tuesday night.
    The Red Cross dance here Tuesday night proved to be a grand success so far as numbers are concerned, for those in attendance report that there was a perfect jam there, but I have not learned the final result, but will try to find out for my next letter.
    Wednesday morning the P.&E. force came out with a new motor car and were on time. Tuesday night the old motor car gave out on the men and Wednesday morning the men hitched the old motor on behind the new car and started for Medford but I have not learned, at this hour, Wednesday p.m., the result of the undertaking but hope for the best.
    This morning just as the men were getting the new car ready to start for Medford Frank Nygren and his sister Miss Alice drove up to the depot with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sundberg and their three children Leroy, Alfred and Hazel. They came from Loveland, Colorado, to visit Mr. Sundberg's sister, Mrs. Gus Nygren of Lake Creek. Mr. Sundberg is one of the well-to-do farmers of Colorado and came out here with his family to visit his sister and see the country. He says that he admires our valley, but not being used to the rocks and hills of the upper Butte Creek, although he thinks that this is a fine country to live in. But the rocks and hills don't suit him.
    Since my last report Charles Cingcade had paid up a small balance due on his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune and ordered it discontinued and the Daily Mail Tribune sent in its place. The demand for the Daily Mail Tribune is increasing every day.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1918, page 3


    Last Wednesday night D. H. Barneburg and E. C. Bartley, two of our prominent stockmen, came in and spent the night. They had made the arrangement to procure a band of cattle from the Stanley brothers, and were to meet them here Thursday. Thursday they looked over the cattle and after spending another night at the Sunnyside, started with 120 head of cattle for the southern end of the valley, where they will pasture and feed them during the winter. The same evening (Wednesday), Lloyd C. Wilson, the mail contractor who is carrying the mail from Derby to Prospect, was also here and spent the night; also John Scheidegger and Horace Geppert of Butte Falls and Alva Marion of Derby spent the night with as, the last three named taking the train for their homes Thursday. Also Miss Alta Allen of Derby was a passenger on the P.&E. for her home.
    Mrs. Ed Watson of Butte Falls, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Ed Conden, on the Rhodes place, took passage on the P.&E. Thursday. While coming from home to catch the train, Mr. Conden came near having a smashup as, while he was driving very fast to reach the train in time, a bolt came out of one of the hounds that held the tongue to the axle, causing the tongue to drop down, but fortunately no damage was done, and Mrs. W. reached the train in time.
    Owen Swift and his son went to Butte Falls to cut wood for one of the companies that are engaged in that business.
    Frank Bergman and his son, William, of Missouri, who have been visiting his brother, Chris Bergman, who lives about eight miles north of here on the free ferry road, were passengers on the P.&E. They were accompanied by his brother, Chris, and he intended to accompany them as far as Sacramento City, if not all the way back to their homes in Missouri.
    V. Conley and Charles Centers of Sams Valley spent the night with us Thursday. They were out looking for milch cows to buy. There seems to be quite a demand for milch cows just now, as three different persons have been here the past week looking for them. If the small farmer will turn his attention to the use of the silo and keep as many good milch cows as he can raise feed for we will soon see a different state of affairs in this country.
    Mrs. Bertha Emerick and her infant daughter, Eleanor Mae, of Medford, who have been visiting the family of C. Farrar of Lake Creek, took passage on the Meyer auto stage Friday morning at Lake Creek in time to catch the P.&E. motor car. Mrs. Emerick is a teacher of music on the piano.
    Speaking of the motor on the P.&E., I see that the company have installed the old Jacksonville motor car on the P.&E. and are trying it out, and if it proves to be a success are thinking of purchasing it. It is to be hoped that it will prove a success, for surely the old one has been an eyesore to not only the men who have had to run it, but also to those who patronize the road.
    Miss Helen Moore, who is teaching school in the district just above Brownsboro--the Lem Charley district--has been visiting the Harnish
family and Mr. Harnish's daughter, Mrs. Fred Dutton.
    C. Davies of Suisun, Cal., came out on the P.&E. motor car Friday and he and Mr. Neilson, the manager of the railroad, went on up to Butte Falls on the little gasoline car used by the section men, to look over the timber section. Perhaps I will have more to say on the subject later on.
    Speaking of timber brings to mind that there is on hand a deal for lumber from the Butte Falls mill to parties in Medford to be shipped out soon. They have been putting out as fine a lot of lumber from the Butte Falls mill as can be found in the country, as they have as fine a body of sugar and yellow pine timber in that section as there is on the coast.
    Friday, H. G. Meyer, Jr., and wife, and his uncle, Henry Meyer, were here for dinner, and before he left H. G. Meyer Jr. gave me his subscription to the D.M.T.
    Mrs. Rosa Smith and her niece, Miss Estella Betz, were also with us for dinner at the same time.
    It had been announced in the school during the week that Robert Pelouze would talk to the school on Friday afternoon and give an account of his experience from the time he left here until he returned, and of course a great many of his old friends here were anxious to hear what he had to say and to meet him personally, as he received a part of his education in our schoolhouse. About 3 p.m. Robbie drove up to the schoolhouse in his father's car with his mother and C. P. Menick, a particular friend, of Medford, and was met by Professor J. C. Barnard and your correspondent, and Professor B. escorted him to the high school department and soon introduced him to the school and the visitors. He began his talk by referring to his schoolboy days when he was a pupil in the same house, and expressed his regrets that he had not been more diligent and studious in his boyhood days, advising the children to improve every opportunity to acquire knowledge, not only from the text books, but also from every source at hand, especially to read the newspapers and glean information from them as to what was going on in the world. After giving the children some good, wholesome advice along that line, he told us of his experience while crossing the Atlantic, of their contact with a submarine and their lucky escape, and then his labors while engaged in the ambulance service, what he saw and of the atrocities of the Germans, some of which seem to be almost unbelievable. Such a maiming for life of poor little children, poisoning the drinking water, defacing and destroying the fine engravings and sculpture, etc. He then exhibited a lot of curios that he had brought from the battlefield and told us how the enemy used them to try to destroy the innocent little children, and finally closed his talk by encouraging us to use every means in our power to help along the good work of securing a stable democratic form of government throughout the world.
    I see that I have omitted one very important part of his speech, and that was when he spoke of the unflinching bravery and determination of the French soldiers, of their nerve to endure pain and their willingness to do all in their power to carry on the war until victory crowns their efforts. He spoke for about an hour and held the attention of the entire audience all the time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Aiken of Prospect were on the train this (Saturday) morning on their way home. Mrs. F. T. Newport and daughter Lucille were on their way up to visit Mrs. N.'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Freeland Ayres. Miss Beth Blanchford, who is teaching in Rancheria district, and Miss Mable Johnson, who is teaching in Butte Falls, were also on their way to their schools, on the P.&E.
    John McPherson passed through town this morning with a band of cattle, taking them to where he had hay stored for them, and a short time after Wig Jacks and Ben Brophy took a band of cattle to Talent to feed. Up to this time the cattlemen have not had to feed scarcely any.
    W. L. Jones of Butte Falls and F. L. Carson of Fort Klamath, two of the U.S. forest rangers, and Marian and Henry Trusty and Fred Middlebusher of Trail were here for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 9, 1918, page 5


    Miss Pearl Burrell of Medford, who is teaching in the Antelope district, came out on the P.&E. motor Saturday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Sunday morning Mrs. Dr. Ray, son Charles, and daughter, Miss Mabel, came out from their home in Medford to take dinner at the Sunnyside. Lloyd Stanley and Mrs. Roy Stanley also came in for their noon meal.  
    About noon Sunday our daughter, Mrs. C. E. Hoyt (Millie) came in from Roseburg. Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt formerly lived in Fort Klamath, but he having sold his sheep decided to go to  a warmer climate, so have located temporarily in Roseburg, and Mrs. H. is now visiting with us, as her husband had a business call to the Willamette Valley.
    Sunday evening, Mike Hanley, Jess Eadley and a man by the name of Form came in and spent the night with us, and Roy Stanley joined his wife and brother that night here for supper.
    Charley Cingcade and family took dinner Sunday noon with our depot agent and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ayres.
    W. D. Roberts, who is living on the Joe Rader farm on Antelope Creek, near here, was a business caller on Monday.
    Alvin Conover and wife were passengers on the P.&E. for Medford Monday.
    J. C. Wise of Prospect, Rudolph Pech, Mrs. Carl Farrar of Lake Creek and A. F. Poole, one of the forest rangers, whose headquarters is Trail, were passengers on the P.&E. coming in from Medford Monday, beside quite a number of passengers I didn't know. There seems to be considerable travel on the P.&E. just now, and many of them are strangers looking over the country for locations in different branches of business, and from the number of men I meet who are looking for sawmill sites and timber land that is on the market leads one to the conclusion that there is going to be something done in the line of railroad extension on the P.&E.
    Grandma Maggie Pech and her son, Fritz, Lottie Tonn, M. D. Bowle and Thomas Ragsdale of Lake Creek came out Monday, some of them to sign up their questionnaires before Judge J. V. McIntyre, our banker. They all came to the Sunnyside for dinner, and so did James Bowers and W. E. Pearson of Ashland.
    Mrs. Walch and one of her twin daughters, of Wellen, who have been up to Butte, Mont, to visit her daughters, Mrs. Charles Thomas and Mrs. Ed Fought, returned home the first of the week.
    Mrs. Josephine Houston of Thompson Creek was here the first of the week visiting her aunt, Mrs. Jack Montgomery.
    Mrs. Middlebusher, the proprietress of the Trail Hotel, came out the first of the week on her way to a hospital for medical treatment.
    The owners of the property in front of some of the business houses are having crushed rock hauled from the rock crusher and placed so as to do away with one of the bad mud holes along the sidewalks, among whom are Thomas E. Nichols, general merchandise. Also along the street in front of and on each side of the post office, and it is the intention of the business men to have some crushed rock placed in front of each one of their places of business, something that has been greatly needed, for in some places the mud was so deep that a pedestrian could hardly get along without rubber boots.
    George Trusty of Elk Creek came out Tuesday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and Wednesday morning started home with a load of land plaster.
    W. E. Walker and A. J. Anderson, agents for the Standard Oil Company, shipped out ten barrels of gasoline on the P.&E. and brought out two barrels on their little Ford truck and distributed it among our merchants, Thomas E. Nichols and von der Hellen Hardware Co. They also brought out a barrel of Pearl Oil for George Brown & Sons. They found that the roads were so soft that it would not be safe to come out with their large truck, so adopted that  plan to supply their customers. While here they patronized the Sunnyside.
    Since my last report George B. Brown of Brownsboro called me up on the phone and ordered his W.M.T. discontinued and the D.M.T. sent in its place.
    J. F. and W. H. Brown of the firm of George Brown & Sons have both renewed their subscriptions to the D.M.T. and Fred Dutton has paid up his subscription to the D.M.T. and ordered it discontinued, as he and his wife are keeping house for her father, S. H. Harnish, and as he is taking the D.M.T. did not see the necessity of both of them taking the same paper.
    A. S. Anderson had a lot of lumber come out on the P.&E. Tuesdays to be taken out to his ranch on Rogue River. He bought some more cows Tuesday and took them up to his ranch, and the lumber is to fix up the barn for the dairy business.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 11, 1918, page 5


    Al Bell of Talent was a passenger on the P.&E. Thursday and took the auto stage for Brownsboro to visit relatives.
    Mrs. R. S. Gleason and her sister, Miss Juanett Sears, of Butte Falls, were also on the train. They were going up to the country beyond Butte Falls onto Mrs. Gleason's homestead.
    William Gunn and Oliver Adams were also on their way to Butte Falls.
    John Foster, who is interested with Jed Edsall in the sheep business, and has been on the Edsall ranch the most of the time this winter, came out Thursday to have their team shod up, preparatory to hauling saw logs, and while here went to Medford on business. He has made the Sunnyside headquarters. He returned to the Edsall ranch Saturday.
    E. J. Gallagher, one of the post office inspectors, was here Thursday, and after inspecting our post office and taking dinner at the Sunnyside, went out to Wellen and examined that office, returning to Medford that night.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Houston, who have a farm on the E.P.-Trail road via the French-Dodge bridge, were doing business in our town Thursday. They brought out eight boxes of apples and shipped by parcel post to parties in Fort Klamath.
    Buel Hildreth and wife of Butte Falls were passengers on the P.&E. bound for San Francisco, Cal., to visit Mrs. Hildreth's mother, whom she has not seen for eight years.
    Sam Ward, who lives on Rancheria Prairie, was a passenger on the P.&E. for Medford Thursday and returned Saturday.
    P. S. Anderson came out Wednesday and went on up to his ranch, returned to Medford the next day.
    F. J. Ayres and wife came out on the P.&E. Tuesday and went on to Medford. They were accompanied by their daughter, Mrs. Leroy Smith.
    R. S. Bullis of Medford was a passenger going to the lumber camp near Butte Falls.
    In a former article I promised to say something with regard to the work [of] the ladies of the Red Cross Society here, what they are doing and the result financially of the dance that was given the night of January 1. I spoke of there being such a large attendance, and now am able to give the result in cash. After paying all expenses the net income amounted to just $90, and that amount has been or will be applied toward purchasing material to be made up into useful articles for our soldier boys. The last report handed to me embraces the list of made-up articles up to January 3, 1918, is 50 draw sheets, 10 hot-water covers, 5 wash cloths, 35 face towels, 15 bed shirts, 4 bath robes, 1 convalescent jacket, 760 gauze compressors. There is a small society of industrious ladies who meet over George Brown [&] Sons' store twice a week and spend the afternoon working for the comfort and happiness of our soldier boys who are engaged in the struggle to down militarism and firmly establish the principle of true democracy, and when the war is over and the credits are awarded, many of them will be bestowed on the ladies who are giving their lives to help along the work of the Red Cross.
    The same ones who were at the head of the move to have the last dance are planning to have another dance on the 14th of February in the Eagle Point opera house for the Red Cross Society.
    J. R. Norris of Medford, who is with the Rogue River Produce & Packing Co., of Medford, came out Friday morning and had the paraphernalia used in the old lumber house, used by the Big Pines Lumber Co., when they were in business here, but later by the B.F.P.&D. Co., taken out and shipped to Medford.
    Frank Caster and family were in town Friday afternoon buying a bill of goods of one of our merchants.
    J. H. Stewart, who owns a farm east of our town, has made a business trip to Medford, returning Saturday morning, and Alex. Vestal also came home from Medford on the same train.
    Mrs. Frank Abbott and two children were passengers for Butte Falls on the P.&E. Saturday, and so were Roy Cobleigh, H. D. Mills and Sam Ward.
    The same train brought out a lot of lumber from Medford for Mr. Von Hoevenburg of Sams Valley, who has the A. Corbin orchard leased.
    Mrs. Roy Stanley drove out to Medford in her car to meet A. B. Manley of Portland to bring him out to her home. She spent the larger part of her life before her marriage with Mr. Manley and he said that he came down from Portland to see Mrs. Stanley's fine baby boy. Mr. Stanley started to move some of their furniture up to their farm on Rogue River Friday. They were at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday, and so were Frank Nygren and his mother of Lake Creek and L. C. Charley of Brownsboro.
    Since my last report, Frank Abbott and W. L. Childreth of Eagle Point have renewed their subscriptions to the D.M.T., and J. D. Arnes has given me a classified ad--he wants to buy a team.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 15, 1918, page 5


    Sam Courtney, who has been working on the Tronson orchard, came home Sunday.
    Mrs. Roy Roundtree was taken suddenly sick in the night last Wednesday. She was taken to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Medford the next day, where she had an operation for appendicitis; at last reports she was doing nicely.
    The rains Friday and Friday night raised the creeks and river; Saturday morning Reese Creek was higher than it has been for some years; it soon began to fall, however. The river also was up Saturday so that the mail could not cross, but returned by the river road.
    Lloyd Stanley, who has been up to the old Higinbotham place helping move his brother, Roy Stanley, to Eagle Point, got almost to the Ash Springs when the wagon wheels refused to move except to bury themselves deeper in the mud, consequently Lloyd spent the night at Mr. Watkins' but when daylight came, with the help of his brother, Roy, they soon pried the wagon out.
    Mrs. Watkins visited at Mr. Hammel's Tuesday.
    Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at the school house. Everyone come.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 16, 1918, page 4


    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Sunday were Philip Jackson and wife, Jay Pitzer and Miss Margaret Riley, Orville Childreth and Miss Zula Geppert, Glen Haley and Rev. Paul Bandy of Central Point.
    Rev. Bandy preached for us at the close of the Christian Endeavor Society exercises. Although the night was remarkably dark and stormy and the streets muddy, except on the sidewalks, there was a good attendance and the entire audience remained to hear Rev. Bandy preach. He gave us a very interesting talk in the introductory service on the parable of the unjust steward, and at the close preached a short but very interesting sermon on the subject of the harmony and Christian fellowship existing today between the Protestant churches, of the great change that had been brought about through the influence of Christian men and women who are devoting their lives toward the upbuilding of society, and referred to the fact that now it is a common custom for ministers of different denominations to exchange pulpits, and even do as he himself was doing, acting as pastor of the Presbyterian church in Central Point and of the Baptist church in Eagle Point at the same time. And that shows that the Christian world is dropping some of its old "hidebound ideas" and embracing a more conservative spirit.
    Mr. Bandy, after preaching, went to spend the night with B. F. Fuller.
    Among the passengers who came out on the P.&E. motor Monday morning were Mrs. C. M. Wisdom of Elgin, Or., and her sister, Mrs. J. A. Obenchain, of Butte Falls. They were on their way up to visit their brother, John A. Miller, of Lake Creek. Mrs. Wisdom was raised near Brownsboro, but has been away for about fifteen or more years, and consequently had not seen her brother for all that time. They went up as far as Lake Creek on the stage and was met there by their brother.
    Mrs. B. H. Bryant, formerly of this place, but now of Medford, and Mrs. Mary H. Lancaster, president of Rebekah assembly, Astoria, Or., were also on the same train. The latter two stopped at the Sunnyside and attended a special meeting of the Rebekah lodge, where the following named officers were installed: Mrs. Nettie Grover, N.G.; Hattie Howlett, V.G.; Sophia Childreth, secretary; Sarah E. Howlett, treasurer; Louise Wamsley, warden; Mae Painter, conductor; West Childreth, R.S.N.G.; Nick Young, L.G.; Geo. Wamsley, R.S.V.G., and Rachel Wood, chaplain. At the close of the session the tables were spread with a bounteous feast and those who were present report having had a joyful time. Mrs. Lancaster is a woman of a pleasing address and her lecture and general course of procedure was highly spoken of and has added a long list of friends to her list of admirers.
    J. L. Mackechnie of Jacksonville and Bert Peachey, one of the forest rangers, were here Monday for dinner.
    L. T. Kemp of Medford and an eastern lady came out Monday and took rooms at the Sunnyside and the next day employed S. H. Harnish to take them up in the neighborhood of Derby to look at a tract of land Mr. Kemp has to dispose of. The lady asked me not to publish her name.
    Marian Nealon and a friend by the name of Kyle called on your correspondent Monday on business connected with the sale of a tract of timber land in Applegate.
    Mrs. C. A. Thomas and her daughter, Miss Gertrude, who have been to Ashland, where Mrs. Gertrude is attending high school, and on their way stopped at Mrs. T.'s son-in-law's, Carl von der Hellen, but finally reached the S.S., where they spent the night, taking the train Tuesday morning for their home.
    I am requested to announce to the readers of the Mail Tribune that Miss Anna McCormack, emergency home demonstration agent for Jackson and Josephine counties, will speak in the schoolhouse on Wednesday, January 23, at 3 p.m., before the Parent-Teacher Association. All who are interested are invited to be present.
    There was a lot of machines came out Tuesday on the train for the Tacoma Metal Co., who are developing a manganese mine in the Lake Creek country.
    L. A. Taylor of Portland was here Tuesday for dinner. He is selling Shayle's separator. He was visiting the company's agent, von der Hellen Hardware Co.
    W. C. Daley of Lake Creek came out on the E.P.-L.C. stage Monday, caught the outgoing car, went to Jacksonville to attend a meeting of the county court, as he is interested in the building of a good road from the manganese mine to Eagle Point, so he attended to learn at first hand the result of the bid, for there was but one for the construction of the new road around the Nygren hill. The bill was turned down by the court as too high, $4000. He returned on Tuesday.
    Since my last report, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy has renewed her subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 17, 1918, page 5


    B. W. Paul and A. B. Cunningham of Paul's Electric Store in Medford were out and took supper at the Sunnyside and Miss Helen Cowgill, assistant state club leader of O.A.C., Corvallis, and R. E. Morris, school supervisor, Medford, spent the night with us.
    John Iseli of Butte Falls and Fritz Pech of Lake Creek were passengers on the P.&E. Tuesday. There were also quite a number of strangers on the same train going up the country.
    Wednesday Brandon Bros. of the Snowy Butte Mills sent out a carload of flour and feed to parties in Medford.
    B. F. Piatt of Medford came out and took the Eagle Point-Persist stage Wednesday for Trail.
    John Iseli and J. P. Hughes of Butte Falls and Fred Warner of Trail were among the guests at the Sunnyside Wednesday night, and so was Miss Helen Cowgill and Prof. R. E. Morris among the lodgers here the same night. While here Thursday morning they visited our school and Miss Cowgill took steps toward the organization of an industrial club in our school. There was some eight or ten of the boys who agreed to enter the contest in the agricultural pursuits and a committee was appointed to have others join in the movement, and also a motion was made to have some of the vacant lots utilized so as to produce something more to sustain our army and the armies dependent upon the allies.
    W. J. Cannon, our Brownsboro merchant, shipped out to Medford one hundred and twenty sacks of potatoes on the P.&E. Thursday afternoon.
    Mrs. Carl Jackson shipped her household goods to Butte Falls Thursday.
    Louis Smith and family were passengers on the P.&E. on their way to visit Mrs. Smith's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, in Butte Falls.
    J. U. G. Morrison, formerly of Medford and Table Rock but more recently of Nevada, was on the train on his way to Derby.
    Floyd Howard and his sister, Mrs. McDonald, were also passengers on the P.&E. bound for their home on Rancheria Prairie where Messrs. Howard and McDonald are engaged in the stock business, principally raising horses and mules.
    Ernest McKee, general roustabout of the firm of Hubbard Bros. of Medford, was on the train going to Butte Falls.
    J. H. Tyrrell of Lake Creek came out Friday from his home. He reports that the Tacoma Metal Company who are developing the manganese mine on his farm have the machinery all in and will be ready for operation as soon as they can get the water ditch ready and that they are planning to build another mill in the near future but they are handicapped now on account of the horrible roads between here and the mine.
    It seems to me that our county officials are standing in their own light, as county officials, when they dillydally along as they have over that piece of road around that Nygren hill, and now, judging from the experience in the past, we will have to wait indefinitely before we will have anything more done on it. In conversation with a gentleman this Saturday morning, who was on the train, he remarked that on account of the condition of the roads, they being so bad that the people of the country instead of going to town to do their trading sent their money away to the cities to get their supplies and we see almost every train day evidence of the truthfulness of the statement, and the mail carriers are being loaded down in consequence.
    Pete Betz has just received a machine for cutting wood in the tree. He took it home Friday and said that he was going to start it that afternoon.
    John Blaess, who lives at the free ferry, was in town Thursday and while here renewed his subscription to the D.M.T. His father takes the W.M.T. but he says that a weekly paper is too slow these fast times, and he is not alone, as the general call wherever there is a daily mail service is for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    There was a lot of long lumber brought out from the Dupray mill Thursday for George Brown & Sons.
    Mrs. Frank Abbott and her two children came out Thursday from Butte Falls where they had been visiting her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wm. Abbott.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen went to Medford Thursday on the P.&E.
    W. E. Hensley. one of our progressive farmers, was trading with our merchants Thursday.
    Thursday evening Robert Pelouze favored us with another interesting account of his travels and experiences in the service of the U.S. His talk was along the same lines he touched on before, although he was much more explicit and extended his remarks over a wider field. He held his audience, the church being well filled, for an hour and forty minutes, and the most of them seemed to be sorry when he stopped. He in a very easy and pleasant speaker. There is no attempt at oratory, but he has his subject so connected that everyone is interested from start to finish.
    W. D. Roberts, who is on the Joe Rader place, was in town Friday and brought in a few sacks of wheat to the mill and took back a load of wire fencing to be used on the farm.
    Mr. Barker, the Butte Falls banker, was a passenger on the P.&E. Saturday morning.
    Jed Edsall had a car of hay taken up to the Edsall ranch Saturday.
    Mrs. John Butler and two men from Ashland and J. H. Tucker of Medford were diners at the Sunnyside Saturday.
    Since my last report C. R. McIntosh, John Blaess and O. M. Goss have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. John Butler, whose husband is working in the round house in Ashland, moved her household goods and went to Ashland Saturday on the train.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1918, page 5


    Our paper hanger and expert sign painter, Sam Courtney, has painted two neat signs on the T. E. Nichols store that add to the attractiveness of the building.
    W. H. Crandall and Marion Mitchell of Asbestos were in town trading Saturday afternoon. Mr. Mitchell's father was some years ago one of the leading citizens of our town, and was also mail contractor for carrying the mail from here to Brownsboro, that being at that time the outside boundary of the circle that was favored with mail facilities.
    Sunday forenoon the people began to assemble at the Sunnyside for dinner about 11 o'clock and by dinner time, Sundays 12:30 p.m., the following had arrived: Fred Pelouze, wife and son Bob; that is the name that J. W. Grover used when be introduced him to the audience on the Wednesday night before, when he gave us that fine address on his experiences in France. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carlton and two of their children, Prof. J. C. Barnard and wife, Miss Estella Betz, Glen Haley, Orville Childreth, Miss Zula Geppert, Lloyd Stanley and sister-in-law Mrs. Roy Stanley, Joe Moomaw, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and E. P. Merrick of Medford, as a guest of Rob Pelouze. It would have been fine if the editor of the Mail Tribune could have been with us at that time, for in addition to having a good dinner he would have been able to have spent an hour or so in the best of company and heard Rob give an account of his experiences while away from the parental roof. Later in the day Jay Pitzer and Miss Margaret Riley came in but not in time for the enjoyment of all in the company.
    Monday J. C. Aiken of Medford, the superintendent of screens in the different irrigation ditches in this section of the country, B. W. Paul of Paul's Electric Store in Medford and his helper, Richard Sleyher, were also here for dinner. They have been here before and left one of their electric washing machines to be tried as to its merits as a clothes cleaner and had come that Monday morning to show what it would do in that line of business, and after having Mrs. Geo. Daley give it a thorough test--well, they left the machine in the laundry room and the hostess of the Sunnyside is satisfied with the arrangement.
    Mr. and Mrs. Edington were trading Monday with Geo. Brown & Sons and so was Harry von der Hellen of Wellen.
    Some of the Red Cross ladies were packing up a lot of goods Monday morning when I interviewed them, there was only Mrs. R. G. Brown, Mrs. Geo. Wamsley, Mrs. A. L. Haselton and Mrs. T. F. Bolz; they were working away like beavers to get everything ready to be sent out on the next train; they had ready for shipment 10 bed sheets, 15 bed shirts, 20 towels, 5 wash cloths, 560 4x4 gauze compresses and later Mrs. Wm. Brown reported over the phone that they had sent away 15 yarn sweaters and had 17 more in the course of construction. There are about 165 members of the Red Cross Society here, but there are only about 17 who are devoting their time to the work of the society. The dance given last Saturday night netted the society $9.00.
    Tuesday morning your E.P. correspondent took the Lewis jitney for Medford and the result was that he didn't meet the P.&E. train as usual, but he met it at the depot in Medford on its return and met quite a number of the passengers as they got off the car, among whom were Mrs. A. N. Thomas of Central Point and her daughter, Mrs. Kate Denine of Butte, Mont. They had been over to Eagle Point to visit some of their old-time friends. Also I met Charles Painter, Ed Cingcade, H. B. Tronson, Frank Nygren, W. L. Childreth and wife and our daughter, Mrs. Millie Hoyt, formerly of Fort Klamath but now of Roseburg. She has been visiting her parents here for the past two weeks. I also met Miss Ruth Thompson of Derby. Messrs. Painter and Cingcade were going to Portland to secure work in the shipyards and Mr. Childreth and wife were going up to Port Stevens to visit their son Graydon, who is in the service of the United States at that place. I should have said that Mrs. A. J. Florey also went to Medford the same morning, Tuesday, in the Lewis jitney.
    Mr. Childreth has closed his shop while he is gone and now that it is closed there are some of the farmers at a loss to know how to get along without him, as his is the only blacksmith shop in or near here, but there is but little doing here as the roads are too muddy and rough to travel over in an automobile and our farmer citizens are so used to going at the rate of from 20 to 40 miles an hour that they can't stand it to poke along at a slow rate.
    Since my last report S. H. Harnish of Eagle Point has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T. and Joseph Proll of Derby but now of Portland has paid up his sub. to the W.M.T. and ordered it discontinued for the present.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 29, 1918, page 4


    Mrs. Bellows visited Mrs. Graham one day last week.
    Mrs. Wilbur Jacks and children visited at Mr. Bellows' last Thursday night.
    Mrs. Wilbur Jacks and children spent the weekend at Mr. Crandall's. Mr. Jacks is in Portland working at the shipyards.
    Sam Courtney has been painting a new sign for T. E. Nichols of Eagle Point.
    Mr. Lewis has moved his sheep out on the desert for a short time.
    The directors of Reese Creek met one day last week and put up a swing on the school grounds, to be enjoyed by the pupils.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 29, 1918, page 4


    Miss Anne McCormack, emergency home demonstration agent for Jackson and Josephine counties, and her sister, Mrs. Max Todd of Phoenix, Arizona, called at the Sunnyside Wednesday afternoon before going to the school house to give her lecture before the Parent-Teachers Association. Promptly at 3:30 p.m. the president of the association, Mrs. Nettie Grover, called the meeting to order and after singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and two songs by the children, for school was still in session at the time of opening the meeting, the president introduced Miss McCormack and she give us a fine lecture on the subject of the different kinds of food, giving us an account of the different properties they contain and what kinds were best adapted to the different stages in the growth and development of the child. She used the blackboard to point out the various component parts, showing the different food properties and the usefulness of some of the foods that have little or no food properties, etc. She is a very pleasant speaker and entertained the audience for about an hour or more, closing just in time for them to catch the five o'clock motor.
    Thursday morning the P.&E. was on time and on its arrival there was quite a number of passengers, among whom were Mrs. Irvin Daley and Mr. Edler of Lake Creek and C. O. Guches, one of the creamery men of Medford. Owen Swift, who is in the wood business, took passage on the train from here to Dupray's mill. There was a lot of hay came out for Frank Abbott on the car. On the return trip Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, Ira Tungate, Ben Fredenburg, the last two were from Butte Falls, and Mr. Tungate reports that the B.F.M. Co. are making preparations to run the sawmill the coming season up to its full capacity.
    Mr. Benedict of Ashland took passage on the car for his home. He has been here a few days visiting his daughter, Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher.
    O. C. Boggs, one of the Medford attorneys, came out and took dinner at the Sunnyside Thursday and so did Phillip Jackson and his wife.
    Since Mr. Charles Painter has gone to Portland to work in the shipyards his wife has had a telephone installed in their home.
    Howard Painter has gone to Ashland on special business.
    Frank Lewis and Geo. Brown and Sons have had a lot of finely crushed rock placed before their places of business, and if the von der Hellen Hdw. Co. and Roy Ashpole Hdw. store and W. L. Childreth blacksmith shop would follow the example set it would improve the appearance of their places very much and add to the convenience of their patrons.
    H. R. Burrill, who is in the service of the U.S. land office, and E. O. Siecke, deputy state forester, spent Thursday night with us. Mr. Burrill was on his way up in the Lost Creek country to look over the homestead of Mr. Harding, and Mr. Siecke is making a tour through the country giving illustrated lectures on the forest subject. He had lectured in Butte Falls on Tuesday evening and at Derby Wednesday and lectured to a good-sized audience here Thursday evening. He exhibited one hundred different pictures of single trees, forests, foresters' stations, trails, lookouts, observation stations, logging camps and logging trains, sawmills, etc., and the scenery was not only well taken but the lecture was quite entertaining.
    Mrs. O. E. Ragsdale of Lake Creek, who had been to Medford and Jacksonville on business, returned Friday morning, took an early dinner at the Sunnyside and went up home on the Meyer stage.
    Since W. L. Childreth has gone away to Camp Stevens to visit his son, Graydon, who is in the United States army getting ready to go to France, someone has posted a notice on his shop door, "Gone to France to get the kaiser," and when the attention of a couple of Red Cross workers was called to it, one of them remarked that "if he did we would all have a grand jollification right in the streets of Eagle Point."
    Amos Ayres, our depot agent, took dinner at the S.S. Friday, and Mrs. Ayres, his wife, went to Medford on the motor car.
    L. H. Ossman of Medford was out Friday in a new Paige car interviewing some of our business men.
    C. W. Scott, who has the management of the business of the Tacoma Metal Co., who are developing the manganese mine on Lost Creek, and Herbert Brewitt, president of the company, were here Friday on business with our bank and the von der Hellen Hdw. Co. and reported that they expected to start the mill and commence to grind out the ore Saturday and as soon as the roads were in a condition so that heavy loads can be hauled over them they would be shipping out the metal to be used by the United States.
    Since my last Mrs. O. E. Ragsdale has renewed her sub. to the W.M.T.
    Mr. Harrington of Portland, the explosive man, was also here interviewing Wm. von der Hellen, who handles his explosives, and Mr. Scott, as to the amount of powder, fuse and caps they would likely need, and I expect to be able in a short time to report that they are grinding out tons of ore.
    P. S. Anderson, who owns the Vatche farm on Rogue River, and also who has just purchased a small farm just outside of Medford near the P.&E. crossing on the C.P. road, and Lloyd Howard, who with his sister, Mrs. McDonald, owns a fine stock farm (Rancheria Prairie) northeast of Butte Falls, spent the night at the Sunnyside Friday night.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 30, 1918, page 3




    Theo. Florey, one of our promising youths who is attending the high school in Medford, came out Saturday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey.
    Born, to Mr. and Mrs. P. S. St. Clare, Jan. 20, 1918, a daughter.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside last Sunday, the 26th, were Lloyd Stanley, Robert Harnish, Miss Helen Moore, who is teaching school in the Lem Charley district, three miles above Brownsboro, B. E. Haney and wife, mother, Mrs. Schmidt, and his niece, Miss Margaret Harney, Glen Haley and Miss Virtie Grover, Jay Pitzer and Miss Margaret Riley, Orvie Childreth and Miss Zula Geppert, Henry Trusty and Albert Clements.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Ebel of Medford were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Jackson on Monday and took lunch at the old resort, the Sunnyside. Joe Moomaw and Amos Ayres also took lunch at the S.S.
    Miss Clara Gordon of Trail, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Riley Meyer of Central Point, came over from C.P. Monday and took the E.P.-Persist stage for her home. She was accompanied as far as E.P. by her sister, Mrs. R. Meyer, and two of her children, Jake Meyer and Mrs. Florence Walker.
    Wm. Nickle of Lake Creek and S. W. Tracy were also diners at the S.S. Mr. Tracy is traveling in the interest of the Mishawaka Woolen Mfg. Co. and was doing business with our merchants.
    Wm. Grieve, ex-county assessor and now engaged in the Forest Service, and A. J. Young of Abbotsford, Wis., came out on the P.&E. Tuesday, also Mrs. L. B. Caster and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Byrd Caster, wife of the late Byrd Caster, who died recently from the effects of a fall he had near Dorris, Calif.
    Last Monday your E.P. correspondent spent the afternoon visiting the primary and intermediate departments of our school and Wednesday forenoon spent an hour in the high school department. I visited the primary room first and there I met the teacher, Miss Pina Benedict, and about 20 of the little folk and as I went in at recess time could see just how they were managed and what they were doing. After the little necessary confusion of taking their seats and commencing their work, the teacher called the first reading class, new beginners, and I was surprised to see little tots that were just beginning call off the words so readily. Upon inquiry as to how long they had practiced on the lesson, was told that they had commenced on it the day before The teacher then put some of them to work on the blackboard and others to writing on paper and they showed clearly that they had been in the habit of taking pains in their work, and I concluded that they had the right person in that department, for I have long since concluded that if any of the different grades should be served with an incompetent teacher, that the primary should always have the best, for it is so hard to undo, especially with a child, errors in teaching the first lessons. I then went to the intermediate department and found the teacher, Mrs. O. M. Goss, busily engaged hearing a recitation, but she was about through and soon called the class in hygiene and the readiness with which the children answered the questions and explained their lesson convinced me that they had done some work in that line. She then called the language class and they seemed to be just as proficient in that branch as they were in the other. One thing that I noticed was that almost every one of the children seemed to be interested in their work, and speaking of Mrs. Gass as an instructor, I heard one of the larger boys remark that she could come nearer explaining a lesson so that they, the children, could understand it than any teacher he ever saw. In fact I concluded that we had at least three first-class, up-to-date teachers. I only spent a short time in the principal's room and heard but one recitation and that was the class in biology. The lesson was on plant life and the class seemed to understand what they were talking about. The school seems to be all O.K. and up to date.
    George W. Neilson, the superintendent of the P.&E. railway, was here for dinner Tuesday. He had come out on the train as far as the bridge across Little Butte, where he left it to inspect the bridge. He is one of the wide-awake men in the employ of the company and tries to see to the whole road; he steps off the car and walks over the road so as to examine every part. He is having men cut up the timber that was cut down when the right-of-way was cleared for the railroad, and selling it so as to give the road the hauling, and he seems to be building a good business all along the route.
    H. C. Stock, one of the Ashland undertakers, and G. F. Bates of the Ashland Transfer & Storage Co. were here for dinner Tuesday . They came up to bring a casket for Carl Heifft, who died at the home of his son-in-law, Steve Smith, between here and Trail, on the north side of the river. The remains were interred Wednesday in the Lake Creek cemetery. I have not been able to learn any of the particulars but suppose that the writer of "Along Rogue River" will give it in her next.
    Mrs. Monia and her son, who live east of Brownsboro, came in Tuesday with a load of wood for L. E. Nichols.
    Fred Cummings, the water boss of Jackson County, called Wednesday for late dinner; he had been up in the Lake Creek country and to the manganese mine. He reports that the mill is in operation and the owners are grinding out the ore.
    There was a carload of wheat unloaded on the track Wednesday for Brandon Bros.' Snowy Butte mills.
    Since my last N. W. Slusser, our barber, has given me his sub. for the D.M.T. and Pat Young has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T. and D. S. Nichols has renewed her sub. to the D.M.T., all of Eagle Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 6, 1918, page 5


    Ed Cingcade, one of our prosperous young men, went to Portland a short time ago to try to get on a job there but failed as he is not a carpenter, so he returned and went to Medford Thursday to take the examination for the army or navy but seems to be doomed to stay at home and run his cattle, for that is his business.
    There is getting to be considerable business done on the P. and E. now, as every train day the passenger car seems to be well filled and there seems to be quite a lot of freight brought out and about every trip there are at least five wood and hay cars pass up and on the return trip bring cut about the same number of cars loaded with wood for Medford and saw logs for the Medford mill, and the prospect is favorable for us to have three trains every day to Butte Falls as I understand that the Butte Falls Lumber Company intend to run up to its full capacity the coming season and ship out lumber, and it is strongly hinted that there is to be another mill built beyond Butte Falls and the road extended farther into the timber, and that with the output from the manganese mine that is now being developed the P. and E. will begin to prove to be a factor of no small moment.
    Mr. and Mrs. Buel Hildreth, who have been visiting Mrs. Hildreth's mother in San Francisco, returned to their home Thursday and among the other passengers was Mrs. Doubleday, Horace Geppert, Oliver Adams and Mr. Sam Ward. Mr. Hildreth in speaking of California, especially of the climate, says that there is no comparison between that and our Oregon climate. Although business is good down there and wages are high that he prefers our even, mild climate to that where in the forenoon one will want on a summer suit and in the afternoon a heavy suit and overcoat. Horace Geppert had been out to take the examination for the army, and although they found some defects the board passed him as a class-one subject to the draft.
    Wm. von der Hellen, manager and one of the proprietors of the von der Hellen Hardware Company, and Harry Stark, representing Marshall-Wells Hardware Company, Portland, were here for lunch Thursday and I should have said that Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her two children were here Wednesday for lunch. Carl Farrar and one of the Edler boys were also diners Thursday.
    The Paul Electric Store Co. of Medford has just installed an electric pumping plant in our school house.
    John Smith, while working for Wm. Perry putting up some wire fence, was quite badly hurt by the anchor post giving way and catching him. It came near breaking his leg.
    Robbie Harnish while leading a horse past another in the stable was kicked on the leg just above the knee and came near breaking it. He is now going on crutches.
    Mrs. Wm. Butler sent in by her son another nice lot of hens to Amos Ayres, our depot agent.
    Saturday morning the P.&E. was on time again and had quite a list of passengers for the upper country, Derby, Dupray, Edsall's Station and Butte Falls. A number of them were young men who had been out to Medford to take the examination for military service and the most of them seemed to be very cheerful as about all of them had passed A-1 and are getting ready to start for France, Belgium or Italy or any other place where they are needed to help along the cause of universal democracy and put a stop to the bloodshed and carnage. Scott Claspill, Charles Patton and Frank Smith were among the passengers from Medford and Mrs. Ira Tungate, who has been visiting Mrs. T. Cowden and family took passage for her home in Butte Falls. Ed Cowden accompanied her to the train and while here paid on his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune.
    Phillip Jackson received Saturday morning by train a "bug" to put on his Ford in place of the heavy body there is now on it.
    Otto Meyer and Otto Frey of Lake Creek came out on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage Saturday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford on the P.&E.
    J. W. Grover and Jake Jonas who have the W. Hart Hamilton place rented are engaged in putting up a lot of wire fencing on the line between the Hamilton place and Mr. Perry's.
    W. D. Roberts, who is farming the old Rader farm now owned by Joe Rader, has been putting up quite a lot of new fencing on the place. Mr. Rader sold it to a Mr. Parton and he traded it off to another party, he assuming the payment of the balance and failed and now Mr. Rader has the place back again.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1918, page 5


    Saturday evening a number of the people of the district met and surprised Miss Mayes, the teacher. The evening was spent in games; everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.
    The pupils of the Reese Creek [school] who made a hundred in the last spelling contest, Jan. 28, were: Third grade, Bennie Bellows; sixth grade, Cora French; eighth grade, Paul Robertson. Several others passed the 95 percent. Those neither absent nor tardy during the month were: Bennie Bellows, Edward Bellows, Cora Belle French, Millard Robertson, May French, Myrtle Minter, Paul Robertson and Robert Merritt.
    The annual telephone patrons of line 23 met at H. Watkins' Monday afternoon, Feb. 4, and transacted the business of the company.
    Mrs. John Robertson of Eagle Point is visiting at Mr. Robertson's this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1918, page 5


    Percy Outlack of Albany came in Saturday afternoon and engaged a room and said he was going out on the agate field to look for agates. Later in the p.m. he came in and inquired at what time he could get passage to Medford; was told that there was no jitney or car service to Medford Sundays. so he concluded that he had better take the P.&E. motor that afternoon. He said that he had found a few agates but no real nice ones as the ground seemed to have been pretty well picked over.
    D. A. Borad of Medford, in the employ of the Cal -Ore Power Co., was here on his way to the Dodge ranch to do some work for the company.
    Mrs. Claud Hunt and Miss Helen Moore were here Sunday visiting Mrs. Fred Dutton.
    Monday was one of those dismal, gloomy days that we have once in a great while in our beautiful valley and there seems to be a mutual understanding with all concerned that they would stay at home and it seemed as though they all kept the agreement intact for there seemed to be scarcely a one on the street and even our blacksmith who seems to be busy most of the time appeared to be idle but Tuesday made up for any lack of life for the first thing in the morning I met Mr. Egenbury and his daughter on my way to the train and then Mrs. Wm. Perry going to the train where she was met by her sister, Mrs. F. T. Newport, wife of the ticket agent of the P.&E. at Medford. They were going up on the train to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ayres. I also met one of our sturdy, progressive farmers, and he was regretting that the ground continued so wet that he could not sow more wheat. Fred Chartraw of Derby was on his way from Gold Hill where they have their cattle, being fed this winter. Also A. J. Potts of Davis; he was here transacting business with our bank. Irvin Daley of Lake Creek came in on the E.P.-L.C. stage that morning. Miss Sarah Singleton, whose parents own and operate one of the choice farms in Little Butte Creek bottom, was also a visitor among the merchants Tuesday.
    Fred Surran, who has been working at the manganese mine, J. H. Tyrrell, who sold off his farm and interest in the mine on Lost Creek, were here Tuesday for dinner and so was Mr. Potts, and while here Mr. T. stated that they were getting out quite a lot of manganese and I asked him what they were going to do with all the dirt that would come from the mine, a very natural question for an old California miner, and he replied that they were going to put it on the road near the mill, in a bad mudhole, and that it packed hard like cement and after a short time he could run over it with a buggy and that the wheels would hardly make an impression. J. D. Patrick was also among the guests at the Sunnyside Tuesday and so was Mr. Jacks Aiken, the superintendent of the ditch screens in this district.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Watkins were also business callers Tuesday.
    Frank Nygren of L.C. came in for a load of wire fencing Tuesday.
    W. T. Croft, who has been the foreman on the J. H. Cooley farm, has moved away and Mr. Grover Cooke has taken his place.
    Our town authorities have been having some repair work done on the sidewalks, greatly to the satisfaction of those who walk over them in the night without a lantern.
    Since my last report W. E. Hensley, one of our busy farmers and orchardists, has renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Sam Courtney, our house and sign painter, came into our house and remarked that he was going to subscribe for the D.M.T., for by my mentioning his painting a sign for T. E. Nichols, he had secured the job of painting Mrs. Charles Pruett's house, at least eight rooms, and another job of painting a house for John Rader. There is nothing like advertising in a live paper.
    There were a dozen boxes of apples and a barrel of cider shipped to parties in Butte Falls Tuesday, I think by Mr. Haak.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 12, 1918, page 3


    Max Jackson, a brother of J. B. and Philip Jackson of this place, came out Thursday to visit his brothers and their families. Mr. Jackson is in business in New York City and has come to this coast combining business with pleasure. He only spent a few hours with his brothers.
    Gus Nichols, one of the leading stockmen of the valley, and wife, came out from Medford Thursday on the P.&E. and went directly to their home on Salt Creek.
    John W. Smith and wife, formerly of this place, but now living on the Antelope orchard, also came out and were met here with a rig and taken to the country. And Polk Smith, who with his brother, Corbett, own the old Perry place near Butte Falls, was a passenger and went on up to his home.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, has installed an up-to-date gasoline pump in connection with his other business. He has one of the best stands in the town, right on the main thoroughfare to Crater Lake.
    J. H. Cooksen, representing T. Denkelspeed & Co., S.F., was here doing business with Geo. Brown & Sons Thursday and Friday and while here took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    On Friday C. W. Scott, the business manager of the Lost Creek manganese mine, motored out bringing with him the foreman of the company, Herbert Brewitt, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Faust of Seattle. Mr. Faust is general manager of the Faust Concentrating and Manufacturing Company of Seattle and is the inventor and patentee of the machinery for concentrating the manganese after it is run through the crusher, thus separating the metal from the dirt and rock. Also Mr. Comroy, an expert geologist, who has thoroughly inspected and analyzed the material in the mine and they report that there is one of the best mines of its class in the Lost Creek section in the United States. It extends from the hills south of Little Butte to the north fork, a distance of several miles, and in conversation I mentioned that I have heard that the company was planning to erect another mill in the near future. Mr. Comroy remarked that he thought that there would likely be a dozen more mills erected in the course of another year. G. H. Tyrrell, the man of whom the company bought the mine and the land adjoining, drove out and brought the baggage for Messrs. Brewitt, Comroy, Faust and Mrs. Faust. He also brought out samples of the metal as it comes from the mill. They all took dinner at the S.S. together. They all except Mr. Tyrrell went to Medford in the afternoon and all except C. W. Scott went on up north but Mr. Brewitt expects to return in a few days. Mr. Tyrrell took a hackload of sacks up to the mine with him as they will have to sack the metal until they have better facilities for shipping it out than they now have.
    L. C. Port, one of the forest rangers who is camped near the Dead Indian Soda Springs, was here Friday night and while at the supper table said something about his having a family record and upon inquiry he stated that he had the old family Bible that was published in London, Eng., in A.D. 1609, and has the family record of the "Port" family since 1653. It was handed down from one generation to another, always giving it to the youngest child, and he expects to have it handed down to the next generation through his youngest child. It is prized as a family heirloom.
    Saturday morning there were four men on the train who were strangers to me but I met Mrs. Amos Willits, formerly of Prospect, but now of Medford, Mrs. Haak, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Medford, Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby and Mrs. F. J. Ayres who lives on the E.P.-Derby route.
    There was also a part of a car of hay for Philip McCabe en route for Derby.
    C. E. Bellows came in Saturday morning with his can of cream to be shipped to the creamery.
    Saturday noon we had at dinner C. W. McCallister of the Union stockyards of Portland, H. D. Foster, forestry service, Medford, and Claud C. Cate, the pathologist of Jackson County. They were on their way to Brownsboro to attend a meeting of the stockmen of this subdivision.
    Since my last report Amos Ayres, our depot agent, has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
    Rev. Mrs. W. M. Ferris, assistant pastor of the Baptist church of Ashland, will preach in Eagle Point on Sunday morning and evening, and her husband, Rev. Wm. Ferris, will preach on Monday evening at 7:30.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 13, 1918, page 6


    Rev. Wm. Ferris, the pastor of the Baptist church of Ashland, came up last Saturday evening on the P.&E. and was met at the depot by your correspondent and taken to the Sunnyside to spend the night. The next morning he preached to a fair-sized congregation and arrangements were made to have his wife, who acts as assistant pastor to the church in Ashland, come up next Saturday, February 16, and preach next Sunday, both morning and evening for us and the next day, Monday, Rev. Ferris will come up and conduct services again at 7:30 p.m. As near as I can understand the arrangement they are coming up with, an idea of at least partially taking charge of this work as Reverend Bandy has had to make a change in his plans on account of the removal of the Methodist minister of Central Point to some other place. We regret very much to have Mr. Bandy leave this field as he is a very interesting speaker and seemed to be gaining in popularity with the people. But we hope that if Rev. Ferris is "called" that he may prove to be quite as acceptable a preacher. The sermon he preached Sunday was very good--above the average.
    On Sunday among the callers was Mr. E. DeRoboam, one of the pioneers of Jacksonville, as he was born there during the early history of that city. We also had Grandma Schmidt, an early resident of that city. Among the old settlers her presence brings to mind the times when we used to go out of the business centers to Mother Schmidt for a square meal. She was accompanied by her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Haney of Medford, Miss Lucile Watson, Miss Florence Trowbridge, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge of Medford, Wm. Nickle and wife of Lake Creek, besides quite a number of our town people.
    Floyd Pearce reports that he and Sam Vestal have discovered another manganese mine. This one is not in the same locality, but on Reese Creek, about five or six miles from Eagle Point, and almost on the P.&E. railroad track. Mr. Pearce said that they had sent some of the rock to have it tested and the report was quite favorable. If it proves to be what he anticipates we may have a mill with the concentrators right in hearing. If this proves to be a success there is no telling what discoveries may be made yet in that line of business. The opinion is that this is simply an extension of the same lode that has been found on the south fork of Little Butte Creek.
    Mrs. W. W. Willits of Persist came out on the P.&E. Monday and took the E.P.-Persist stage for her home. She had been in Medford combining business and pleasure.
    Messrs. O. H. Sheersbery and E. J. Ellis, traveling book agents, called for dinner Tuesday and Horace Geppert came out from his home near Butte Falls Sunday forenoon, "Walker's Line," and went on to Medford Monday, returning to the Sunnyside the same day and Tuesday to the P.&E. for home.
    Jed Edsall came out Sunday evening and spent the night with us, as did Roy Davis of Derby.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton went to Medford on Monday, remaining until Tuesday afternoon. While she was gone her husband and brother, Rob. Harnish, took their meals at the Sunnyside.
    W. E. Denny and wife of Derby were on the P.&E. Tuesday on their way home from Roseburg where they had been to attend the funeral of Mrs. Denny's brother, R. C. Smith. The funeral services were conducted under the auspices of the I.O.O.F.
    James W. Dunlap, one of the real estate men of Medford, and George W. Neilson, superintendent of the P.&E. Railroad, were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Neilson had been unloading a car of rock at the Ruth Creek bridge to keep the water from undermining it.
    Since my last report Alex Mathews has given me his sub. to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 14, 1918, page 5


    P. J. Wellen, one of our progressive young men, made a business trip to Derby last Thursday.
    Mrs. Tungate, formerly of Jacksonville, but now of Butte Falls, and her daughter, Mrs. Col. Thomalson [Caroline Thomason?], formerly of Gold Hill but now of Butte Falls, were on Thursday's train homeward bound.
    Lee Edmondson, owner and operator of a sawmill on Big Butte, was also a passenger on the P.&E. Thursday on his way home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Robert Halla and two children were on their way to locate on a place near the McCabe crossing.
    Floyd Pearce, one of the discoverers of the manganese mine on Reese Creek, went out Thursday on the P.&E. to more fully develop his discovery.
    Frank Netherland, the head sawyer at the Butte Falls mill, was also on his way home Thursday.
    E. Conkling came out Thursday with a load of caskets from the Perl undertaking parlors of Medford for W. L. Childreth and our blacksmith who has accepted an agency for his goods. He uses the old building formerly occupied as a barber shop before Mr. Slusser built his new shop.
    The ladies of our town are arranging to have a hard times party in the church Friday evening, where the principal requirement will be to be dressed in anything but your "store clothes." They anticipate having a good time, as all will be on an equality.
    Wm. Haselton, who has been working in the country for some time, returned and took dinner at the Sunnyside Thursday and among other guests were Charles Vatche of Ashland, Carl Farrar of Lake Creek, C. W. MackGee, representing Chamberlain medicines, and Mrs. Villa Stovall, who is advertising the Golden West coffee, Guy Perrett, A. Clements and Nick Zoimy were among the diners Thursday. Mrs. Stovall remained with us until Saturday.
    George Collings, a brother to James and John Owens, formerly a resident of the Dry Creek section, but now a Montana farmer, spent Thursday night with us. He had returned to settle up some unsettled business and disposed of a lot of his cattle he left here.
    C. S. Webster and A. J. Anderson of Medford were among the business callers Friday.
    Miss May Warner of Trail, who has been stopping in Medford for some time, returned and took the E.P.-Persist stage for her home Friday.
    Frank Smith, who lives north of our town, has been spending several days in Medford recuperating.
    Ray Harnish and wife, who live on Antelope Creek, came out Friday to spend a few days with their relatives and friends.
    Since my last report C. J. Vaughn, the foreman of the section gang on the P.&E.R.R., has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T. and J. N. Edington, the foreman on the Corbin orchard, has given me his sub. to the D.M.T. and Henry Trusty of Trail has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T.
    For the past week your E.P. correspondent has been tussling with la grippe and that has kept him so busy that he could not gather the usual amount of items, but hopes to do better in the future.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 20, 1918, page 5


    Mrs. Seal's brother and family of Idaho are visiting them and perhaps will locate, as he owns a ranch in the vicinity.
    Wayman Bergman, who has returned from the shipyards at Portland, is now confined to his home with the la grippe.
    Mrs. Vestal is suffering with an attack of la grippe.
    May French is rapidly recovering from a slight injury on the school play grounds. The school board met Monday and while there repaired the flag pole, run up the flag and forgot and left it at half mast.
    Miss Mayes visited at Mr. Robertson's after Sunday school.
    The Sunday school is increasing in interest as well as attendance.  Everyone is made welcome.
    Word was sent out Monday for Marshall Minter to appear in Medford Tuesday at 3:30 to take the federal examination, but as Marshall was somewhere in the vicinity of Butte Falls and the line was down from the recent storm, the family tried all the remainder of the day to get him but as far as we are informed at this time they had not succeeded in locating him.
    The last week was the first winter weather of the season in this locality. Snow fell to the depth of about two inches, but was soon gone, however; the rains continue causing high water and lots of mud.
    Mr. W. E. Hammel was in Medford Monday on business.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 21, 1918, page 3


    Last Saturday night there was a gathering of some of the young folks, married and unmarried, at the Sunnyside, and while they were enjoying themselves in social converse the head of the culinary department and her assistant were busy arranging an old-fashioned candy pulling in the kitchen and about 8 o'clock the announcement was made that the taffy was ready to pull and in less time than it takes me to write it Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harnish, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hatton, Mr. Robert Harnish and Miss Helen Moore, Mr. Orville Childreth and Miss Zula Geppert, Glen Haley. Miss Estella Betz and Truman McClelland marched to the south porch and commenced their evening's work. Now no one except those who have participated in or witnessed a free-for-all candy pulling can form any adequate idea of the amount of fun they had. Well, they kept it up until bedtime when they began to depart, hoping that it will not be long before they will be able to spend another such evening at the S.S.
    L. W. Woodward, the 5-10-and-15¢ store man of Medford, and his brother-in-law, Matlin Olson of Seattle, Wash., were among the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday. And so were Mrs. Fray von der Hellen and her two children, Joyce and Hugo, Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols and Mrs. R. A. Weidman, Miss Margaret Riley, Mr. Pitzer, besides George and Thomas Lewis, Philip Jackson and wife, Joe Moomaw and Geo. Sanders of Wellen. Mr. Sanders is the foreman on the Antelope orchard, had been to Medford and on his return spent the night with us.
    In addition to having a good company here at the S.S. we had preaching service twice on Sunday. Mrs. Ferris, wife of the Baptist minister in charge of the work in Ashland. preached twice for us on Sunday. In the forenoon her subject was "The Second Coming of Christ," and in her discourse she took up the various prophecies in the Bible with regard to the great war and pointed out where the prophets had predicted the rise and fall of the different nations now involved in the war, thus following the old ecclesiastical rut that has been followed for the last half or three-quarters of a century, but in all of her explanations of these predictions, not only by the lady, but by all that I have seen except Dr. Baldwin of Tennessee, they have invariably left out what is now admitted to be the most powerful and leading nation in the world today, the United States of America. If the prophecies in the Bible so closely refer to Russia, Turkey, Germany, England, France, etc., as the explainers of them claim they do, why is it that in all their research they fail to make mention of our own great nation. If the prophetic predictions refer to all these great European and Asiatic nations why should not they refer with equal clearness to the United States, and if they do how is it that none of the explainers of them have ever brought them to the surface? The two sermons were quite interesting but I confess that I was disappointed in her not even mentioning a prophetic sentence that might point to the United States. The suggestion I have given may lead some of our more modern thinkers to investigate the subject more thoroughly and bring more light to bear on the subject. On Monday Mrs. Ferris lectured the school children and gave them a reading. She is a very pleasant speaker and well qualified to interest an audience. Monday night we were favored with a fine sermon from her husband. There was a good attendance and he made a good impression, and many of us would be glad to have him preach for us regularly, but no arrangements to that effect were made.
    Monday C. M. LeValley of Portland was here in the interests of the Chippewa show.
    Monday evening B. W. Paul of Medford and his friend, M. H. Nichols of the Western Electric Co. of Portland, called late for supper. They said that they were hungry and after the meal was over they both admitted that they were but felt better. They had been out by Thomas Riley's place where Mr. Paul had installed an electric light plant, up by Brownsboro around through sticky, so they were entitled to a good appetite.
    Welborn Beeson of Talent, one of the leading men in the valley, spent Monday night with us on his way to Butte Falls.
    Miss Zula Geppert took the P.&E. for her home Tuesday.
    Among the passengers Tuesday were C. Adams, J. W. Berrian, the fish hatchery man, Floyd Pearce, a man by the name of McCormack, who seemed to be interested in a timber deal, Otie Hubbard of Medford, besides quite a number I did not know.
    Mrs. J. H. Carlton and one child and her neighbor, Mrs. Marshall, and two children, W. E. Hammel, J. H. Tyrrell and one of the Rummel brothers and Frank Smith were diners Tuesday at the S.S.
    W. J. Cannon, the Brownsboro merchant, was doing business in our town Tuesday and George Mansfield, Jr., of Prospect, spent Tuesday night with us. He had come out for a ditching machine to use on the Mansfield farm.
    Benj. Brophy, one of our leading stockmen, went to Butte Falls with Mr. Beeson on the P.&E.
    Roy Smith and family spent Monday night with us before starting for Medford on Tuesday's train and while here he renewed his sub. to the W.M.T.
    George Phillips has also moved to Medford. He and Roy Smith are working for the P.&E.R.R. Co. and consequently have moved to Medford to comply with orders.
    Since my last report Mrs. N. E. Watkins of Eagle Point has given me her sub. for the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 22, 1918, page 4


    A Junior Red Cross has been organized in school. One period a week will be devoted to teaching the children to make different articles for Red Cross use. Women from the local Red Cross chapter will instruct the children. G. W. Ager, county superintendent of schools, is at the head of this movement and all schools in the county are supposed to join the Junior Red Cross and devote one period a week to its work.
    Much team work is being done in our schools today. Industrial clubs, thrift stamp campaign, conservation of food campaign, and now Junior Red Cross. Successful team work is as necessary a part of a child's education as is the study of the three R's--readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic.
    Monday afternoon Mrs. Ferris, wife of the Baptist minister at Ashland, visited the school and gave a short talk to the children on the evils of the cigarette habit. She also gave a reading in German dialect of the "Little Blue Hen." Mr. Howlett, Mrs. Grover and Mrs. Childreth were also at school with Mrs. Ferris.
    Little Johnnie Phillips, a pupil in the sixth grade, has moved to Medford.
    Washington's birthday will be observed at school with appropriate exercises. The children, no doubt, will again have their attention drawn to the fact that there has been at least one American boy who could not tell a lie.
    We are sorry to state that while two of our pupils received a 100 count in the December county spelling contest, no pupil received 100 in the January contest, although there were nearly 100 more pupils in the county getting 100 in January than there were in December.
    The traveling library at the school is not being patronized as much as it should be by the public. This library contains many good books which are loaned to anyone in the community desiring them for a period of two weeks, when they may be renewed or exchanged. These books may be had by applying to the principal at the school from 4 to 4:15 p.m., or recess. 
    G. W. Ager will be at the schoolhouse on Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., to give a talk to the Parent-Teacher Association. Mr. Ager is very anxious that all women in Eagle Point and vicinity attend.
    Mrs. Hank visited the school all of Monday afternoon. She spent most of the time in the intermediate room.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1918, page 5


    William Nickle of Lake Creek, who had been to Medford to visit his wife, who was in a sanitarium in Medford, having had an operation performed, came out on the P.&E. Thursday morning, and so did Henry Meyer, also of Lake Creek, and both took passage on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, had a Fresno brought out Thursday for Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro.
    R. C. Weidman, who is living on a ranch near the Antelope school house, brought in a fine calf and shipped to one of the Medford meat market men Thursday.
    Thomas Cingcade came in Thursday for a lot of chicken wire fencing. He says that the cats took nearly all of his young chicks last year and that he is going to fool Mr. Red this time and move his chicks away from the old building and try to raise quite a lot of them this year.
    W. D. Roberts, who is on the Joe Rader place, has just completed putting up a lot of wire fence on the place.
    Carl Imes, one of the forest rangers, who has been up on the railroad land to warn people not to cut the timber off the land, came out Thursday and started for Klamath Falls.
    George Brown & Sons received a large car of cordwood Thursday, and wood seems to be in demand in these parts.
    Henry Meyer, Jr. of Lake Creek, who is attending school in Medford, came out Friday morning on the P.&E. motor and went on up home on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    Among the business callers Friday were Guy Pruett and his mother, Thomas Stanley and wife, George Stowell and his mother, W. H. Crandall and family, Miss Minnie Givan and Sam Vestal. Mr. Vestal is one of the men who discovered the manganese mine on Reese Creek, and he and Floyd Pearce have been interviewing some of our business men and capitalists with regard to the development of the mine.
    Emmett Nealon of Table Rock was a business caller Friday. He had brought a load of wheat over to the Brandon Bros. Snowy Butte mills, and he speaks in the highest terms of their way of doing business as men of high standing and moral worth. We are glad to have such men doing business among us.
    J. J. Skinner was also doing business among us Friday.
    Friday evening we had our hard times party in the church. It was gotten up in the interest of the school children and, as was announced by the principal mover in the undertaking, Miss Pina Benedict, they did not expect to have very many attend but in this she, or they, were agreeably disappointed, for the house was filled. The exercises were commenced by singing on the phonograph our national hymn, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," etc. Then we had songs, recitations, readings, etc., and some of the little folks done themselves great credit by the way they performed their parts. There were a few of the older ones took an active part, and I will mention Jake Jonas and Glen Haley. Also Mrs. R. C. Weidman. Messrs. Jonas and Haley sang a duet and were encored, and so was Mrs. Weidman. The condition of admission was that we were to wear our worst clothes and neckties were absolutely forbidden, and I had hardly entered the building before I was held up on account of wearing an old cast-off necktie, but I ran a bluff on the five girls, and so their attention was soon called to L. K. Haak. He, perhaps, had not noticed the restriction with regard to dress, but I think that they let him off easy. Then came poor George Wamsley. He had unthoughtably tied a piece of a curtain cord around his neck, and when the bevy of girls made the attack on him he pleaded that he had to tie the cord around his neck to keep his shirt collar together, because there was no button, and he was too poor to buy one; and thus they went the rounds, but all hands seemed to enjoy themselves. After the exercises were over lunch was served, consisting of baked beans and sandwiches without meat--they are all Hooverites--pickles and coffee to those who brought cups to drink out of. After all had eaten, then the question came up as to who should have the prize for being the most shabbily dressed, and the prize fell on Mrs. Nettie Grover, and she received an antiquated negro doll. The next day she told me that she had to have a good old Bible name for it, so she called it Joseph. It was one of those joyful times such as we can have out in the country where the restraints of arbitrary rules are forgotten.
    During the past week there was a number of our soldier boys passed through Medford, and among them was one of our Eagle Point boys, Percy Haley, on his way to Washington, D.C., and there was quite a number of our citizens met him there to cheer him on his way.
    M. E. Morris, our school supervisor, was out looking after the interest of our school.
    There was a Junior Red Cross Society organized in our school during the past week, consisting of fifty-two members, each member paying an initiation fee of 25 cents, and several of them promised to subscribe more in the future. The following ladies were appointed as a committee of instructors: Mrs. J. W. Grover, Mrs. W. L. Childreth, Mrs. O. M. Goss, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, Miss Pina Benedict and Miss Hazel Brown, and Mrs. J. W. Grover, as president of the Parent-Teacher circle, is president of the auxiliary chapter, and Mrs. W. L. Childreth is secretary-treasurer.
    Among the business callers Saturday were Mr. Arnes, foreman on the Edgell orchard; Sam Coy, Sam Vestal, Henry French, Miss Alma Gould, who is teaching in the Agate school; Brittsan Bros., Ed Walker and family. Ed is deputy game warden and while here on official business brought his family out to enjoy a visit at the Sunnyside.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday were Mrs. W. E. Buchanan and two of her children, on her way to Butte Falls to visit her mother; Mrs. Key, John Higinbotham, Mrs. Dora Hafe, G. C. McCallister and two children, and H. D. Mills, superintendent of the Butte Falls Lumber Co., who had with him a lot of machinery for the sawmill at Butte Falls.
    Since my last report, Mrs. N. E. Watkins has given me her subscription to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1918, page 5


    Sherman Morehouse and wife and daughter, Caribel, of Ashland, and Mr. Morehouse's sister, Miss Anna Morehouse of Oskaloosa, La., came over last Friday evening to spend the weekend with Professor J. C. Barnard and family, and while here attended the hard times party social. The above item was handed in too late for my Saturday letter.
    Sunday morning Judge Tou Velle, our county judge, and wife drove over from their farm near Jacksonville and took dinner at the Sunnyside. G. W. Wamsley, our Eagle Point poet, and wife, Mrs. William von der Hellen, and daughter, Miss Joyce, Philip Jackson and wife and Joe Moomaw were also among the diners at that hostelry.
    William von der Hellen and son Hugh, made a trip up Butte Creek to the manganese mine Sunday. He and his brother-in-law, Chauncey Florey, have each located mining claims in the Lake Creek district that may prove to be valuable as the manganese mines are developed.
    Sunday evening our county assessor, J. B. Coleman, came in and spent the night. He is trying to ascertain the number of cattle there is among our cattlemen, as there seems to be a deficiency in the memory of some of them. According to the report of the old deputy assessor, Mr. Wamsley, there was a kind of agreement among some of the cattlemen to give in only a small part of the cattle, and the result was that men who were supposed to have from 75 to 300 head of cattle only gave in to the assessor from 30 to 40 head each, and the result was they were called before the equalization board and had their memories so refreshed, making a difference in the assessed valuation of some forty or fifty thousand dollars. But after Mr. Coleman and his deputies get through counting the cattle in the various feed yards it will be less trouble for them to remember how many cattle they have.
    Mr. Roundtree was a business caller Monday and so was George Givan. Mr. Givan is one of our sturdy, progressive farmers and stockmen, generally up to date in everything.
    J. C. Aiken, the superintendent of fish screens for this district, was here for dinner Monday and while in town was exhibiting a model screen such as is being used in the irrigating ditches in this section. While here the representatives of the Eagle Point Ditch Company signed up for one of them, to be placed in the entrance of the ditch just above the Fred Pelouze farm.
    A. G. Bishop, one of the leading orchardists of Jackson County, was doing business here Monday.
    Frank Abbott has moved his family to Butte Falls, as he has taken a logging contract in that section.
    Word was received Monday announcing the death of J. R. McQuoid in Oakland, Cal., February 24. Mr. McQuoid had been a resident of our town and a short time ago he went to spend the winter with his children in Oakland, intending to return this spring, but death claimed him. He was about 70 years of age and leaves two sons that I know of and a devoted wife to feel their bereavement.
    A gentleman giving his name as A. Blin of San Francisco was here on Tuesday with Mr. Aiken. He seemed to be simply looking over the country.
    Thomas Cingcade and wife were doing business here Tuesday. Among other things, he was procuring some anchor posts for a new fence.
    R. M. Wood and N. H. Otis of Medford were here Tuesday looking over the prospects for a meat market here. They were interviewing T. E. Nichols about renting his building for a market house, but I have not learned the result of the visit.
    A. S. Worswick of San Francisco spent Tuesday night with us. He was on his way up into the timber belt. He was very reticent with regard to his business, but intimated that he was a representative of a New York syndicate.
    Mrs. Samuel Courtney and her sister, Miss Mina Minter, came into the Sunnyside Tuesday morning, and Mrs. Courtney is still here at this writing, Wednesday eve.
    Miss Zula Geppert came out from her home and went to Medford Wednesday, returning the same day.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Carey of North Talent came over Wednesday with Joe Rader and spent the day at the Sunnyside. They are in the plant-producing business, raising the different kinds of plants for sale. They expect to put 100,000 tomato plants on the market this spring and other kinds of plants in proportion.
    Wednesday the Junior Red Cross spent a part of the day beautifying the school grounds, the principal, J. C. Barnard, and some of the larger boys planting trees and shrubbery and the two lady teachers and larger girls were working in other branches of the business.
    There was a meeting of the school board Tuesday night, and at that time Professor J. C. Barnard gave notice that he was not an applicant for the position in the school the coming season. Many of us would be glad to keep Professor Barnard here as principal of the school for another year, for he has given very general satisfaction as an instructor, and his discipline has been as near perfect as can be in a mixed school like ours. He seems to talk as though he may be forced to quit teaching and turn his attention to another line of business, although he has already secured his life certificate.
    Since my last report Mrs. Isabel (Grandma) Heckathorn has given me her subscription to the W.M.T. She has been away for some months, and as soon as she returned she says she must have the W.M.T. She has been getting it up among her children near Rogue River--and she is lost without it.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 1, 1918, page 5


    Medford, Mar. 2.--William Butler, the Eagle Point rancher charged with the murder of Donald Stewart of Central Point the night of October 29, was found guilty of manslaughter, with a recommendation for clemency, by the jury in the circuit court early this morning. The jury was out eight hours and a half.
    Stewart was sent to the Butler place by county authorities the night of October 29th, to see who was putting up a portion of the Butler fence over the county highway. Butler had been arrested once for doing this and it was believed that he had been repeating the offense. In a revolver and rifle duel which started about 8 o'clock in the evening, Stewart was fatally wounded, dying shortly after midnight, and Butler gave himself up to the sheriff, claiming he had shot in self-defense. The state contended that being surprised in the act of putting up the fence rails, Butler shot Stewart, the latter seeking refuge behind the oak tree where his body was found. The trial started Monday and the prominence of the principals attracted widespread interest. Butler has lived in Southern Oregon for over 30 years.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 2, 1918, page 1


    Marshall Minter is working in Butte Falls, helping build a flume.
    Miss Diehless Minter returned here last week from a few days' visit at Butte Falls.
    Mrs. Ayres is suffering from an attack of rheumatism.
    R. R. Minter and W. E. Hammel were in Medford Thursday.
    Mr. Brittsan will preach at the schoolhouse Sunday morning, March 10. Subject, "John's Vision of the Holy City."
    Reese Creek now has a Junior Red Cross organization, with every pupil a member.
    A good many of our boys are taking the federal examination.
    As Jackson County went over the top in volunteers, also the farmers' questionnaires, now comes a Jackson County poet from Ashland whose poem is over the top, entitled "From Dad," signed Dick Posey, printed in the semi-weekly Journal, February 22.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 2, 1918, page 7


    Trial of Butler, indicted by the grand jury for murder in the second degree for the killing of Joseph M. Stewart last fall, was begun in the circuit court in this city Monday morning. All of Monday, Tuesday and part of Wednesday were spent in securing a jury.
    The opening statement of the prosecuting attorney was to the effect that the evidence for the state would be mostly circumstantial, there being no actual eyewitnesses to the shooting except the defendant and the victim. The attorney for the defense relied upon the plea of self-defense.
    Witnesses for the state proved the death of Stewart, the cause, certain statements made by defendant, etc. A number of exhibits were introduced as evidence.
    For the defense, attorney Boggs placed the defendant on the stand. His story was brief and told the story of the shooting from his viewpoint. He claims that three shots were fired at him before he replied in kind. The Bieberstedt family were the principal witnesses for the defense, all of them telling the same story as to the number of reports heard by them, etc. A number of character witnesses were called and examined, after which the state called witnesses in rebuttal.
    The arguments for the state were then made by Mr. Roberts and for the defense by Mr. Boggs. Judge Calkins, in a fair and impartial charge, in which he explained the law as it affects this particular case, submitted the case to the jury shortly after four o'clock Friday evening. The jury reported at midnight a verdict of manslaughter with a recommendation to the clemency of the court.
    The jury was us follows: H. C. Garnett, C. A. DeVoe, Emil Britt, E. E. Dimick, Ed Baer, D. D. Churchill, Geo. Alden, W. H. McNair, Robert Cook, C. J. Layne, H. C. Egan and Chris Kelso.
Jacksonville Post, March 2, 1918, page 2


    Captain George von der Hellen, who was the only Jackson County man attending either of the officers' training camps to win a captain's commission, has won high commendation for his efficiency and ordered to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for drill with big guns. This means his transfer to the field artillery and probable speedy departure for France.
Jacksonville Post, March 2, 1918, page 2


    Thursday morning there was quite an exodus from Eagle Point to Medford and Jacksonville. Among them were Mrs. David Cingcade, Mrs. Geo. Wamsley, Miss Zula Geppert, E. R. Minter, W. E. Hammel, besides quite a number who were summoned to be witnesses in the W. E. Butler trial.
    Mrs. J. C. Barnard, wife of the principal of our school, went to Ashland to spend a few days with some of her old neighbors, and during her absence Professor B. took his noon meal at the Sunnyside.
    On Thursday Harvey Smith of Butte Falls, O. V. Meyer of Medford, representing the A. W. Walker company, one of the companies of Medford who are handling the various autos on the market; C. E. Barnard, representing Parker, Holmes & Co. of Boston. shoe dealers, and A. A. Fasnant, representing Endicott, Johnson & Co.'s shoes, were doing business in our town, and all met at the Sunnyside at dinner time, and a little later Mrs. R. Hargood, Mrs. D. T. Glenn, Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson of Ashland and son, Corp. G. C. Simpson, 13th company, Ft. Stevens, called for dinner, and in conversation with them found that the four represented four generations. The son, mother, grandmother and great grandmother, the great grandmother is in her 73rd year of her age, and her husband served in the Civil War, her son in the Mexican War, her son-in-law served in the Spanish-American War, and she has two great grandsons in the service at the present time--quite a patriotic record. Corporal Simpson came out on the train with the troops that passed through Medford Wednesday and stopped to visit the folks in Ashland, and his mother decided to have all hands take a trip to the Sunnyside Hotel of Eagle Point for dinner.
    Mr. Combes, the folks who lived in the P. H. Daily house last fall and moved to Table Rock, re-entered the house last Thursday.
    Since the school board have had the electric pump installed they have had wash bowls and a drinking fountain put in, greatly improving the situation.
    Thursday evening a stranger came in about early bed time and engaged a bed, said that he did not want supper, but he was so reticent that all I learned was that he was going through the country interviewing a few of our citizens, but he appeared to be a traveling man who knew how to attend to his own business--a gentleman.
    Word came over the phone Friday morning that a son had been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Peachey in Ashland, March 1. Bert is one of the forest rangers and was at the time of the birth of the boy up in the neighborhood of the Dead Indian Soda Springs.
    Bert Higinbotham of the Evergreen ranch, near Flounce Rock, came out Thursday with 1000 pounds of corn to have it ground. He took it to the Russ mill, Medford, Friday and had it ground, returned the same evening and spent the night with us. He and his neighbors are Hooverizers and are trying eating cornmeal. He took a lot of land plaster home with him to be used on his garden and meadows.
    B. E. Haney of Medford came out Friday morning in his auto to bring a man out to see Mr. Combes, who has just moved into the P. H. Daily house.
    James W. Dunlap of Medford was here for dinner Friday. He is representing the Rogue River Oil Company, and his business seemed to be to secure leases on land for the purpose of prospecting for oil and coal.
    Guy Pruett, who is operating the C. Pruett place, just below town, was in town Friday procuring paint to finish painting the Pruett home. Sam Courtney has just finished the job of painting. Mr. Courtney is the man who said that my little notice I gave of his painting a sign for T. E. Nichols brought him two jobs of painting, and that he intended to give me his subscription to the D.M.T. and so he kept his word and gave it to me Saturday morning.
    Mrs. R. G. Brown informed me Friday evening that the Red Cross Society of Eagle Point had another lot of supplies ready to be shipped to France to be used by the soldier boys.
    There were seven lady passengers off the car Saturday morning. Among them were Mr. William Nickle of Salt Creek who has just left the hospital and is on her way home; Mrs. Carl Farrar, Mrs. Irvin Daley and Mrs. Herman Meyer, Sr. They had been as delegates to attend a Red Cross convention in Medford.
    Mrs. Burleson, Mrs. Rose Potter and her daughter, Miss Cecil, and E. H. Hildreth and wife, Ed Higinbotham and one of the Runnel brothers of Lake Creek and C. Adams and Harvey Smith were passengers for Butte Falls.
    Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, went to Ashland, her home, to spend the weekend with her people.
    J. H. Tyrrell of Lake Creek, the man who owned the place where the Tacoma Metal Company have their mill, and Charley Seefield, also of Lake Creek, came out Saturday. Mr. Tyrrell has given possession to the company and has moved into a place belonging to Herman Meyer. He has not decided yet where he will settle. They and William Nickle and wife were among the diners Saturday. Bert Higinbotham and son, Courtney, were among the lodgers and Amos Ayres and wife, agents at the P.&E. depot, were here for supper.
    Since my last report, in addition to the subscription of Sam Courtney D. S. Nichols has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 5, 1918, page 5


    Saturday afternoon, after I had sent my letter to the D.M.T., Miss Diehless Minter and Miss Mary Robertson, two young ladies who live with their parents about three miles north of Eagle Point, were doing shopping in our town.
    Miss Allison Officer of Medford, a cousin of Miss Hazel Brown, was out visiting her uncles, R. G., W. H. and J. F. Brown, and their families and other relatives.
    Mrs. Nell A. Hanman of San Francisco, Cal., representing the publishers of the Designer, came in Saturday afternoon, engaged a room and remained until Monday morning. She reports having had considerable success in her line of business.
    Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, who are living on the Fred Pelouze place, attended our Sunday school Sunday morning.
    William G. Knighten and wife, W. C. Clements and wife, Rev. William J. Meagher of Medford, Mrs. von der Hellen and family, Orville Childreth, Miss Zula Geppert, Jay Pitzer, Miss Margaret Riley, George Lewis, Amos Ayres and wife, John Foster, P. D. Jackson and wife, Joe Moomaw, Geo. Mansfield of Prospect, Albert Clements and Mr. Trusty were among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday.
    Rev. William J. Meagher conducted services in the Catholic church in our town Sunday morning.
    John Foster came out from his home on the Edsall ranch, near Butte Falls, Sunday and reported that it was snowing to beat the band when he left. He drove out in a buggy and by the time he reached here was completely chilled through. He and Jed Edsall are drawing saw logs down the chute for the Bullis sawmill of Medford.
    Robert I. Miner, one of our progressive farmers and stockmen, was a caller Monday morning and took the Lewis jitney for Medford. Ed Fisher was also a business caller Monday.
    Ed G. Harding, formerly of Lake Creek, but now of Medford, and C. W. Hays of the Paul's Electric Store, Medford, came out on the P.&E. motor Monday morning and took the E.P. and L.C. stage for the manganese mine, & Mr. Hays was going up to install an electric motor for the company to generate their own electricity.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. U. Morrison of Medford came out Tuesday on their way to Derby, where they expect to spend a few days visiting friends. The newly wedded couple, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Diamond, were also on. Mrs. D. was going to Derby to visit her mother, Mrs. Thompson. They were accompanied by Miss Agnes Allen of Derby. Mr. and Mrs. Diamond have a host of friends in these parts who are wishing them all kinds of enjoyment in life.
    Corbett Smith and Miss Myrtle Drake were also on the train bound for Butte Falls, their homes. Mr. Smith and his brother, Poke, own and operate the old Perry farm near Butte Falls. Mrs. Leroy Smith was also on the train on her way up to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres. J. A. Coos of Portland was a passenger on the P.&E. He had been up in the B.F. country looking over two places that are for sale and intended to go out about twelve miles to look at another place.
    John Rader, one of our leading stockmen, brought in his can of cream to be sent to Medford Tuesday.
    Mrs. Nygren of Lake Creek came out Tuesday on the E.P.-L.C. stage, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford that afternoon.
    George West and a man by the name of Double, both forest rangers, came in Tuesday for late dinner.
    There was quite a number of passengers on the P.&E. Wednesday morning, but I did not learn the names of but two of them--Rev. W. C. Driver, chapel car evangelist, traveling in the interest of the Baptist Church. He stopped off here to look over the prospect for holding services here for a while, but I have not learned the result of his visit at this writing, as the question is still undecided at this writing, Wednesday afternoon.
    Mr. Deaton, representing the Simmons Hardware Company, Portland, and William von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, dined at the Sunnyside Wednesday, and so did W. A. Stewart of Medford and O. R. Stewart of Klamath County. and Walter Wood, one of our local cattlemen. The Stewart brothers were out looking at some of the cattle in these parts.
    Everybody is busy and the result is very few people are coming to town.
    Prof. J. C. Barnard, our high school teacher, was called away Wednesday to attend the funeral of his wife's brother-in-law, who died in Ashland Monday.
    If the reader will address Box 43, R.F.D.. 2, Central Point, Ore., they can learn of a fine tract of timber for sale. See ad in this paper.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 9, 1918, page 4


    J. H. Ackerman, president of the state normal at Monmouth, Ore., and G. W. Ager, school superintendent of Jackson County, visited our school Wednesday afternoon; they first spent a few minutes in Miss Pina Benedict's room, the primary, and Mr. Ackerman, after giving a little folks a short talk, had the three rooms called together and gave the entire school a lecture and the Junior Red Cross work, and spoke very encouragingly of the prospect before us in that line. Miss Benedict was formerly a pupil under Mr. Ackerman and she expressed herself as being very much pleased to meet with him in her own school room.
    Mrs. Ida Magerle of Rogue River has been down here visiting her mother, Grandma Heckathorn, and her sister, Mrs. Frank Lewis and family besides some of her old friends in this neighborhood.
    Sam Courtney, our painter and paperhanger, has finished another job of painting for David Cingcade.
    Fred Pelouze, one of our progressive farmers and orchardists, was in town Wednesday afternoon getting some lumber.
    John Foster of Butte Falls, who came out on Sunday the 3rd inst. has attended to business in Medford and here and returned home Friday.
    Amos Ayres, our accommodating depot agent, received a part of a car of shingles Thursday.
    R. S. Bullis, who is interested in procuring saw logs for the Applegate mill at Medford, was a passenger on the train Thursday for the timber belt. On the same train was a car of hay for different parties in this neighborhood. Mr. Hickox took several loads of it out to the Wilfley orchard.
    J. L. Robertson, who is operating a large farm north of here, was in town Thursday and reports that his wheat is looking fine. He took the chance on rain last fall and sowed his wheat in the dry--not dust, for it is sticky--and the result is that he has a fair prospect for a fine crop of wheat this summer.
    W. H. Crandall and family motored through town Thursday on their way to Medford.
    R. A. Petty, who is farming the Thomas Riley, Jr., farm, was doing business with our merchants Thursday. He is another successful farmer who sowed his wheat in the dry last fall and the result is a very bright prospect for a big crop of wheat.
    J. H. Tyrrell of L.C., E. G. Harding of Medford and Henry Meyer of Brownsboro were business callers Thursday.
    J. W. Walford of Portland, representing J. K. Gill Co., and Mr. Harding called for early lunch and took the E.P.-L.C. stage Thursday.
    Our accommodating and efficient road supervisor, Ed Dutton, did us a fine job scraping the road from the wagon bridge across Butte Creek up to the Sunnyside Hotel Thursday.
    R. E. Morris, our school superintendent, spent Thursday night with us on his way to L.C.
    Died, at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Medford, Mrs. Hannah Whetstone, last week, after having had an operation performed. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Riley of this neighborhood. She leaves a husband, a 3-year-old boy, father, mother, two brothers, James and Thomas, and five sisters, Mrs. Mollis and Inez Hayse, Hattie Cardwell, Misses Ethel and Margaret. The remains were interred in the Antelope cemetery on Saturday afternoon, Owing to the extreme disagreeableness of the weather and the condition of the road to the cemetery there was not as large an attendance as there would have been. The bereaved families have the sympathy of the entire community.
    J. W. Dressler of the real estate firm of Page, Dressler & Co. was here for dinner Friday. He was looking for suitable land to lease for the purpose of securing it for the Rogue River Oil Co. He claimed that they were succeeding quite well in their undertaking.
    Among the business callers Friday were Harvey Stanley, F. J. McPherson and family and Mrs. Dee Bradshaw.
    Saturday morning Dr. Holt reported that on March 5th there was born near Trail to Mr. and Mrs. George Weeks a girl baby; March 6th to Mr. and Mrs. Owen Swift, E.P., a daughter, and March 6th to Mr. and Mrs. David Smith, B.F., a daughter.
    L. K. Haak shipped via the P.&E.R.R. 22 boxes of apples to parties in Butte Falls.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stanley went to Butte Falls Saturday morning on the P.&E.
    Mrs. Lena M. Thrift and son, Boyd, of Jacksonville, came in on the P.&E. Saturday morning and took the E.P.-L.C. stage for Lost Creek, where she is engaged to teach the spring term of school.
    Mrs. Herman Meyer, Jr., and Mrs. Henry Meyer, both of L.C., came in on the E.P.-L.C. stage Saturday morning, and Mike Sidley, also of L.C., came in at the same time.
    E. L. Webster of Portland, representing Sherwin Williams Co., was a diner at the S.S. Saturday noon.
    Miss Estella Betz, one of the telephone girls, has taken a room at the Sunnyside.
    Since my last report Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T.
    F. J. McPherson has exchanged his sub. from the W.M.T. to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 11, 1918, page 7


    W. H. Crandall has indulged in the luxury, or necessity, of a Hupmobile car. Mr. Crandall expects to keep up with the times in traveling.
    Mr. Bellows bought a new Ford car some time ago, and left it at Eagle Point on account of the bad roads in this direction. He has it home now, however, and they expect to enjoy themselves when the roads permit. They expect to spend less time traveling by being able to travel faster.
    A certain young man living in Eagle Point started to Reese Creek Sunday school in his car the other Sunday, got stuck in the mud, but by the heroic aid of his lady friend who went to his rescue his car was finally extracted, but too late for Sunday school.
    It certainly would be appreciated if some of the good roads money would be spent in this part of the county. A great many places are very bad, where a little work and money from the county would put them in very good condition.
    Elmer Robertson is home from Portland.
    W. L. Crandall and family visited at Mr. Hammel's Sunday all day.
    Miss Mayes visited Miss Diehless Minter after Sunday school.
    Mrs. Chris Wooley is quite sick.
    Mrs. Sam Courtney has an attack of la grippe.
    Miss Maud Merritt is cutting blight at the Potts orchard, near Medford.
    Mr. Brittsan preached at Reese Creek Sunday school last Sunday.
    Born--To Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Thursday, March 7, a daughter, Edna May. Mother and daughter are doing nicely.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 14, 1918, page 7


    Mrs. John Greb and two of her daughters were among the business callers Saturday afternoon.
    E. J. Darson [sic] of Tacoma, Wash., called Sunday afternoon and spent the night at the Sunnyside Hotel. He was on his way up to the manganese mine. He is one of the owners of the mine and seems to be as thoroughly posted on the subject of mines and mining industries as anyone I have talked with on the subject. He claims to be somewhat of an expert in the business. He was taken up to the Lost Creek mine on Monday afternoon by one of our hardware merchants, Wm. von der Hellen. While here he called on our deputy assessor, Floyd Pearce, who is one of the discoverers of the manganese mine on Reese Creek, and after carefully examining the specimens he had, expressed the opinion that the samples were very good, that the discovery is likely to prove valuable. One advantage that the Reese Creek mine has over the Lost Creek mines is in the matter of transportation, as the R.C. mine is only about a mile off of the P.&E.R.R. In speaking on the subject of moving the metal out from the L.C. mine Mr. Darron [sic] expressed the opinion that they would use trucks to haul it out to the railway and that if the P.&E. did not give rates to suit that they would while they had it on the truck take it right on to Central Point or Medford and place it on the S.P. road at once. He furthermore expressed the opinion that the company, after they got well under way, would put in an electric railway and ship direct from the mill, for he says that they have a whole mountain of the metal.
    There was an auto carload of manganese miners passed through here Monday on their way up to the L.C. country to look over the mining claims that the company have secured, with a view to taking a lease, and I have it on good authority that they have the necessary machinery on the way to thoroughly prospect the different places, for the holdings embrace a large tract of land.
    Thomas F. Boltz, one of our traveling men who is in the employ of a large concrete company, formerly a consulting engineer on the P.&E.R.R., and whose family still reside here, came in Saturday evening to visit his family, returning to Portland Monday. While here he and his wife paid a visit to the Sunnyside Sunday afternoon.
    Thomas Vestal and Elmer Robertson, both of this neighborhood, who have been working in the shipyards in Portland, returned home Monday.
    Miss Lee Middlebusher of Trail, who has been in the Applegate country for the past two weeks, came out on the P.&E. Monday and took the E.P.-Persist stage for her home.
    William, George and Thomas Lewis, three brothers, have been taking some of their meals at the Sunnyside since Sunday evening. Thomas has been looking over some of the real estate near the S.S. and may settle down for life as one of our neighbors. There are some good locations on our side of the creek.
    There were 37 rolls of wire fencing came out on Tuesday's train for L. F. Charley and five or six rolls for Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro.
    Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley of this place were passengers from Butte Falls Tuesday.
    Among the passengers going to Butte Falls was Shorty Dodge, who has been engaged with a fruit packing company since last fall. He said that he had just got through with the apples and was going to Butte Falls to work in the timber.
    C. R. McIntosh, the fireman on the P.&E.R.R., had his face badly burned Tuesday while firing on the train. While at Butte Falls using oil for fuel there seemed to be an explosion of gas and it struck him in the face, burning him quite badly. Dr. Holt was called over the phone to meet him at the depot, where he administered some relief, but he went on to Medford where he was placed under the care of the company physician.
    The parties who placed their bids for carrying the mails over the star route from Derby are rejoicing over the fact that the U.S. government has called the bids all off after the bidders had been notified of the acceptance of their bids. This was caused by the government raising the amount to be put in a package in the parcel post mail, from 50 to 70 pounds. They, the contractors, say that if they would have to carry the mail with that addition that I would do away with the pack horse altogether and there are places on some of the routes where it is out of the question to think of carrying the mail in a rig unless it would be a cart and then they could not get all of it on for sometimes they have several hundred pounds of parcel post mail. A short time ago George Austin, the mail carrier from here to Climax, had so much grain in 50-[omission?]tin, the mail carrier from here to [omission] take four horses and a heavy wagon to haul it.
    J. P. McCabe and Ed Dutton were among the diners at the Sunnyside Wednesday.
    Since my last report Verna Matthews has paid up his sub. to the W.M.T., E.P.P.O. J. V. McIntyre has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T. Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, E.P., has renewed her sub. to the D.M.T.,.and T. C. Dugan has renewed his sub. to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 15, 1918, page 7


    Fred Pelouze, one of our enterprising farmers, has given me his sub. to the D.M.T.
    Rev. M. T. Wire, the pastor of the M.E. church of Grants Pass, came in Wednesday afternoon and spent the night with us and the next morning had an early start for the agate field to try his fortune hunting agates. He took a lunch with him and intended to hunt until the train came along to the Mountain View station and board the train for home.
    There were 22 boxes of apples shipped Thursday morning on the P.&E. to two of our Butte Falls merchants.
    Mrs. Harry Young, whose husband is in the U.S. service, took passage on the P.&E. Thursday for Butte Falls.
    Messrs. Powers and Sunday [Leander?] Swihart and Jase Hartman were passengers on the same train going to Butte Falls.
    The E.P. Telephone Company shipped a lot of seasoned telephone poles from here to be used along the line between Derby and Butte Falls. The company have a force along the route doing repair work.
    Louis Baker of Portland, a son of James Baker, formerly of this place, passed through here on his way to Butte Falls to visit his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tungate and intends to take them to Portland to live during the summer.
    Benj. Brophy, one of our hustling farmers and stockmen, received a fertilizer spreader to be used on his farm.
    Charley Seefield came out Thursday to take up the furniture for C. W. Scott, the foreman and business manager of the Tacoma Metal Co. in the Lost Creek manganese mine. Mr. Scott met his family with his car in Medford and took them direct to their home, the J. H. Tyrrell place, that the company bought at the same time they bought the mine. Mr. Seefield called at the Sunnyside for his dinner in company of Frank Hard who lives on the old Obenchain road from Brownsboro to Butte Falls. Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Stewart of Klamath County were also diners Thursday at the Sunnyside. They had been over to look at a band of cattle he afterward bought of Walter Wood.
    Claus Charley of Brownsboro took a big load of machinery for drilling purposes to the L.C. mine about the middle of the week and Friday and Saturday took up two loads of wire fencing four miles, that they will use on the C. C. Charley place near Brownsboro.
    There was a car of men who are interested in the Rogue River oil projects out here Friday but I have been unable to ascertain what they did. I understand that W. E. Hammel came in to see about signing up his 1400 acres but did not see him.
    George Trusty and Amos Ayres, our depot agent, were here Friday for their meals as Mrs. Ayres has taken a vacation and gone to Elk Creek to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Trusty.
    H. C. Stock and his sister, Ashland undertakers, were here on business Friday.
    C. S. Cole of Medford and A. B. Cunningham of Paul's Electric Store, Medford, were here for dinner Friday. Mr. Cunningham is putting in an automatic pump for L. K. Haak on his farm just above here.
    Miss Margaret McQuiston, who is teaching the Lake Creek school, came out on the P.&E. Saturday morning, took early lunch at the Sunnyside and went on up to L.C. on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    T. M. Stowell and Miss Bessie Eckenberg were married Friday in Jacksonville and their many friends here are covering them with congratulations.
    And the report is very current that one of our popular young ladies and a popular young jitney driver of Medford are to be married this Saturday evening, but as I have no authority to make the announcement will leave the matter until my next.
    Since my last report Dolph Kent, Wellen P. O., has renewed his sub. to the Weekly Mail Tribune; Perry Foster has renewed his sub. to the W.M.T. and Henry French has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T. Henry brought in his week's supply of cream.
    Friday evening O. R. Stewart of Klamath County and his cousin passed through here with 60 head of cattle he had bought here. Fred Frideger, Wm. Mansfield and a young man who did not register spent the night with us. Miss Zula Geppert is spending a few days at the Sunnyside.
    Our popular road supervisor has treated himself to a Chevrolet car and, well, there is no telling what will be done next.
    E. A. Bass, who owns an orchard in this neighborhood, arrived on the P.&E. Saturday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 18, 1918, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. George Weeks are the proud parents of a fine baby girl, Lucy Kathleen.
    Mrs. Mary Warner returned home Monday from Medford, where she was called to the bedside of her daughter, May, who was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia. She reports her much improved.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Springer are moving from Trail to their homestead near Derby.
    Fred Sturgis, Mr. Ditsworth and C. Skyrman were Medford business callers last week.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres of Eagle Point and little son are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Trusty, on Elk Creek.
    Paul Wright passed through Trail on Sunday on his way to his mine on Elk Creek.
    C. Skyrman and W. Willits are returning from the valley with their cattle, as the warm rains have started the grass sufficient to turn them on the range.
    The Misses Lee and Enid Middlebusher were Sunday guests at the Blaess home.
    George Mansfield and family motored to Medford Saturday.
    The recent storms have put long faces on some of the farmers, as they were planning to soon start general farm work.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 20, 1918, page 5


    Mrs. Fuller has moved out of the John W. Smith house into Leroy Smith's house.
    The death of Mrs. Margaret Wooley on March 16 has already been announced in the Mail Tribune and interment was made in the Central Point cemetery on Monday. Religious services were conducted by your E.P. correspondent. Owing to the downpour of rain and inclement weather the services were abridged as much as possible.
    Miss Hannah Stewart and Miss Ella Belford of Central Point came out Saturday afternoon to attend the Red Cross dance here, and engaged a room at the Sunnyside for the evening.
    Sunday, not counting the guests who remained after the dance for breakfast, we had Marian Nealon of Table Rock, who came on other business and spent the night with us; L. B. Brown, wife and daughter, Miss Helen; W. T. Learned and Mrs. A. E. Anderson of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Jackson, William Mansfield of Trail (he also spent the night), Wm. von der Hellen, wife, son Hugo and daughter Joyce; N. W. Slusser, our barber; Wm. Haselton, Amos Ayres, Judge Tou Velle and wife, our county judge; Henry Trusty, Jay Pitzer, Jed Edsall, Harry Lewis, Albert Clements, Thomas and George Lewis.
    Ed Cingcade, one of our rustling stockmen, started for San Francisco to visit his sister, Hattie, and to visit their friends in that city.
    Miss Mildred Seefield of Lake Creek came in from Medford on Monday morning on the P.&E., took an early lunch at the Sunnyside and went on up to her home on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    R. R. Minter and daughter, Miss Diehless, were doing business here on Monday.
    Joe Haskins of Trail was also a business caller Monday.
    John Painter of Montana, a brother of our townsman, Charles Painter, who is now working in one of the shipyards in Washington, came in Tuesday on the train to visit the Painter family.
    Miss Zula Geppert of Butte Falls, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside for the past week or so, started for her home Tuesday on the train.
    D. L. McNary, who has been living in Medford for some time, has purchased the interest of Mr. Banker in the farm in Brownsboro. Mr. McNary used to live on and is going to move onto the place, so he tells me.
    Mrs. Campbell of Derby, who has been spending some time in Medford, went up to her home Tuesday.
    E. A. Hildreth was also a passenger on the train for B.F. Tuesday.
    Floyd Pearce had a lot of hay shipped in Friday.
    Mrs. Slusser, wife of our barber, and Mrs. Amos Ayres, wife of our depot agent, who have been visiting Mrs. Slusser in Medford and Mrs. Ayres her parents on Elk Creek, both returned home Tuesday.
    Mrs. Alvin Conover and two sons went to Medford Tuesday, returning Wednesday morning. They were accompanied as far as the depot by Mrs. Walter Wood and her father-in-law, Jeff Conover.
    On the return trip of the P.&E., Ira Tungate and his father and mother of Butte Falls were passengers on their way to Portland to visit their daughter, Emma Carson, Lee Edmondson, M. Marion and Miss Alta Allen, the last three named going to Medford or Jacksonville.
    I learned Tuesday that the Red Cross dance had Saturday night, St. Patrick's Day, was a grand success, the receipts for the dance being $95.75, for refreshments $17.55, making a total of $113.30. The expenses were: For musicians, $31, including carfare; hall rent, lights, etc., $7; printing, $4.25, leaving a balance in favor of the R.C. Society $71.05--quite well for these hard times.
    Irvin Tyrrell of L.C. was moving his household goods out to Medford Tuesday.
    John Simon, who has been working on Elk Creek for some time, returned to his sister's, Mrs. George W. Daley, Tuesday.
    Mrs. Mary F. Stowell and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. T. M. (Perl) Stowell, called on your cor. Wednesday and left one and a half dollars for a year's sub, to the Weekly Mail Tribune. Mrs. Stowell said that they had been taking the W.M.T., but had ordered it stopped, but found that it was hard to get along without a county paper.
    R. G. Brown, one of our leading merchants of the firm of George Brown & Sons, called for dinner on Wednesday and remarked that his wife and daughter, Miss Hazel, had gone to Medford and he was left without a cook.
    Sam Courtney, our fancy painter, is doing a lot of work on the von der Hellen Hardware Company's store.
    In addition to Mrs. Stowell's sub. to the W.M.T., John W. Smith of Wellen has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 21, 1918, page 5


    Died--Mrs. Chris Wooley died Mar. 16 at her home near Eagle Point; she leaves a husband and three sons.
    John Stille preached at Reese Creek Sunday both morning and evening. He gave us two able, earnest sermons.
    The Junior Red Cross are busy making quilts, etc.
    Mr. Lewis has moved his sheep back on the Finley ranch; they are busy building corrals, etc., getting ready for the shearing season.
    Also Mr. Steers of Rogue River has a band of sheep on Marshall Minter's ranch,
    Mrs. W. E. Hammel visited Mrs. Watkins last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 22, 1918, page 5


    L. J. Allen of the Oregon Agricultural College, state pig and club leader, and R. E. Morris, our school supervisor, were out and met quite a number of our citizens at the schoolhouse Wednesday evening. Professor Morris gave us a short talk on the importance of the club work, interspersing his remarks with thoughts on the necessity of utilizing everything to help along the advancement of the cause of democracy. At the close of his speech he introduced Mr. Allen, who gave us a very interesting lecture on the club work in general, of its progress and its accomplishments. He then gave an illustrated lecture with a set of stereopticon views. The views were designed to impress on the minds of the children the advantage of systematic work in agricultural and stockraising lines. The two lectures, both by Mr. Morris and that by Mr. Allen, were quite interesting and seemed to be appreciated by most of the audience.
    Fred Frideger and E. H. Hessler of Medford came in Wednesday evening and engaged rooms at the Sunnyside for the rest of the week. Mr. Frideger has a small orchard just outside of the town of about eighteen or twenty acres and they have been pruning and shaping it up, getting it ready for the fruit season.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. train Thursday going up the country were M. Marion, Miss Alta Allen and Lee Edmondson for Derby and Mrs. Caroline Thomason going to Butte Falls.
    Charles H. Brown and J. C. Brown of Medford were out Thursday seeing what they could do in the way of securing cull fruit for a fruit evaporator to be built in Medford. They seemed to be very optimistic over the project, as almost every one of the orchardists seemed willing to contract what fruit was not fit to ship. They both took dinner at the Sunnyside, and so did J. J. Skinner, the electric light man. Belmont Pankey of Tolo came in later and spent the night with us.
    Marsh Garrett, now of Medford, was a business caller Thursday.
    Mrs. Emily M. Pishon of New York City and Mrs. G. T. West of Hornbrook came out Friday morning, took an early lunch at the Sunnyside Hotel and started in their hired car for Ashland.
    Among the transient diners at the Sunnyside Friday were Clifford Sitsen, S. H. Harnish and son Robert, John Pomeroy, Fairbanks, Wash.; J. F. Leach and W. A. Ewing of Seattle, and Miss Vera Kershaw of Climax.
    John Sevedge and wife and John Ashpole and wife of Medford were out Friday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole.
    E. A. Bass, who owns a small orchard on Antelope Creek, and came out from his home in Massachusetts, has leased his orchard to Fred Dutton and started Saturday morning for his old home.
    A. G. Bishop, James Gibson and Miss Minnie Givan were among the business callers Friday.
    Thomas Vestal and his sister, Mrs. Wilfred Jacks, started Saturday morning for the Vestal ranch on Reese Creek, on the P.&E., where she expects to remain until they can drive across the mountains to Bend, Ore.
    T. M. Stowell and wife were business callers Saturday morning, and so was Mrs. Thomas Smith.
    Ira Tungate returned from Portland, where he had been to take his father and mother Saturday morning and went on up to his home in Butte Falls.
    There was a car of machinery, etc., came out for the Tacoma Metal Co. of Lake Creek Saturday morning and a half dozen tanks of fuel oil.
    T. B. Tronson and L. K. Haak had a lot of spray on the P.&E. Saturday morning, twenty barrels.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze were in town Saturday morning, and she was telling me of a narrow escape she had while crossing the wagon bridge in our town. She met a band of cattle on the bridge--it is covered and sided up so that a person approaching it from either direction cannot see what is coming, and she was on the bridge with her machine before she discovered the cattle, and perhaps was a little confused on account of them--and the result was the car collided with a railing on the side of the approach, tearing it off but fortunately did no damage to the machine or to her, although she came very near going over the side of the bridge, car and all--a lucky escape.
    Ardin Tyrrell, who has lived about all his life in the L.C. country, has moved to Medford, but expects when the roads get good to move to South Dakota. We dislike the idea of losing such families as the Tyrrells from our community. He and Charles Newstrom, Charles Edler of Lake Creek, Albert Conley and H. N. Beecher, who is traveling in the interest of the Pacific Coast Borax Co. of Portland, were at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday.
    Since my last report S. F. Smith, E.P., has given me his sub. to the W.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 27, 1918, page 7


    The Junior Red Cross had a pie social at the school house Saturday evening, realizing over $20. The pies averaged $1.12 2-9 [sic], the ladies taking the pies, they being auctioned off to the highest bidder, who hunted up his lady and together they ate the pie. Mr. Crandall was the auctioneer "who has followed the business one summer for 13 months." The evening was spent in games out of doors, beside a big bonfire which the juniors heroically piled up for the occasion, Miss Mayes, the teacher, laying the first brush. Everyone went home feeling they had spent a pleasant evening, also pleased over the amount that was raised.
    Under the efficient leadership of the teacher, Miss Mayes, the juniors are very enthusiastic. As school will be out in a few weeks they elected the following officers: Chairman, Mrs. Bellows; secretary, May French; treasurer, Paul Robertson.
    The following pupils were neither absent nor tardy during the past month: Johnnie Clarno, Bennie Bellows, Edward Bellows, Cora French, May French, Myrtle Minter, Paul Robertson, Mina Minter. Those receiving certificates in the spelling contest were: Paul Robertson, 8th grade, 100; Robert Merritt, 8th, 98; Cora French, 6th, 100; Nye Mathews, 3rd, 96; Bennie Bellows, 3rd, 100. Bennie Bellows has the distinction of having 100 at each contest.
    Mrs. Lizzie Jacks and children have moved from Eagle Point to Mrs. Jacks' parents, Mr. Vestal's, where they expect to stay for a short time before joining her husband in Eastern Oregon.
    Mr. Leaper and family of near Rogue River are living on the Rhodes place.
    Mr. Lewis of Central Point was out the first of the week looking after his sheep.
    Mr. Crandall has been on the sick list the last few days.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 29, 1918, page 5

   
    Mrs. Rena Avery and Mrs. J. L. Ragsdale were guests at Mrs. Albright's Tuesday.
    E. E. Ash is blasting and clearing more alfalfa ground.
    George and Marion Trusty bought about 40 head of cattle last week and drove them to Trail and branded them in the new chute before taking them home.
    Harry Banks is visiting friends around Trail. He expects to return to his work at Weed, Cal., the first of April.
    Fred Sturgis and George Weeks were Medford callers this week.
    Enid Middlebusher was appointed on the committee in the thrift stamp campaign this week.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher and son, Fred, made a trip to the valley this week for supplies with their truck. They reached home O.K., although the roads are very bad for cars now.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Mansfield were Medford visitors Friday, returning Saturday with their daughter, Marguerite, who has been attending school.
    W. P. Morgan had blacksmithing done by George Fisher Tuesday.
    Mrs. Irwin Howe and Mrs. Rena Avery were callers at the Warner home Monday. We are all in sympathy with the relatives and friends of May Warner. who passed away on Sunday night. She leaves many friends who will mourn her death, as she was loved by all who knew her. The funeral services were held at the Trail cemetery Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.
    Mr. Sandry of Elk Creek made a trip to Central Point Monday.
    The Misses Tressie Pence and Eva Osburn of Elk Creek spent Saturday and Sunday at the Ash home. Miss Osburn and Mrs. Pierce were schoolmates in California.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 29, 1918, page 5


    James W. Pew of Ashland, who has resided in this valley for the last thirty-five years, came up the latter part of the week to visit some of his old-time friends and to take birthday dinner with David Cingcade. They have been in the habit of celebrating their birthdays together, as Mr. Pew's comes on the 23rd and Mr. Cingcade's on the 24th. And David has a first-class cook for a wife, and Mr. P. is a bachelor. They generally manage to take the birthday dinner at Mr. Cingcade's, where he can have his children that are at home with them. Mr. P. being one of our old personal friends, called on us Saturday and spent the night, and Saturday afternoon your correspondent took him through the principal business portion of the town and called his attention to the fine stock of goods there is in the different stores and to our fine bank and store buildings. He remained until Tuesday morning. After meeting quite a number of his old friends, he took the Lewis jitney for home.
    There was quite a number of our young folks went from here to Gold Hill to attend a dance that was given there Saturday night, and when they returned Jack Taylor, Harry and George Lewis spent the remainder of the night at the Sunnyside.
    As Sunday was not a very pleasant day and the recent rain had made the roads between here and Medford somewhat slippery, there was not the usual company at the Sunnyside, but B. E. Haney, wife and mother, Mrs. Schmidt, and L. B. Brown, wife and daughters, Miss Helen, of Medford; Clifford  Sitson, Albert Clements of Eagle Point and Miss Ella Belford of Los Angeles, Cal., called for dinner. Miss Belford is a tapestry artist, whose pictures ornament several prominent places in the United States. Her masterpiece, as she calls it, was purchased by Mrs. George Talcott of Los Angeles, and sent to her daughter, Mrs. Gordon C. Hunt, wife of Captain Hunt of London. Miss Belford has been spending the winter on the Stewart farm, northeast of Eagle Point.
    Harvey Stanley, Fred Warner and Charles Edler were passengers on the P.&E. motor car Monday, and Fred went up to his home on Trail and Charles took the E.P.-L.C. stage for his home near L.C.
    W. P. Holbrook and A. G. Bishop were among the business callers Monday.
    W. B. Hensley and his daughter, Mrs. Allen, Wert Pool and R. A. Petty were callers Monday.
    Mrs. J. C. Barnard, wife of the principal of our school, has gone to Ashland to arrange for their garden and Prof. Barnard is taking his noon meal at the Sunnyside during his wife's absence.
    Charles Loar of Medford spent Monday night at the Sunnyside. He had been out in the mountains with his brother-in-law, Ed Walker, and they returned here and found Mrs. Walker ready to take her husband on to Medford in her car and leave Charley with the team to care for.
    Tracy Boothby of Prospect and Wm. Moore of Butte Falls were among the passengers on the P.&E. Tuesday.
    Peter Young, Timmie C. Dugan and George P. Stowell were among the business callers Tuesday morning and later in the day J. L. Robertson and daughter Miss Mary. Mr. Robertson says that his wheat looks as well as he ever saw it.
    Hamilton Watkins and his wife were passing through our town and stopped to do a little trading with our merchants Tuesday.
    Wm. von der Hellen, one of our hardware men, and Harry M. Parks of Portland, director Oregon Bureau of Nines, were with us Tuesday evening for supper. Mr. Parks had been up to the L.C. manganese mine and was on his way to.Medford, going that night.
    There were six passengers came in on the P.&E. motor Wednesday morning but they were all strangers.
    Since my last report G. W. Brandon has renewed his subscription to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 30, 1918, page 7


    I unintentionally omitted to state in my last that Miss Anna McCormack, home demonstration agent, delivered a very interesting lecture, illustrated with slide views, in the school house here Sunday evening, March 24. There was not so large an audience as might have been desirable, but those who were present were well pleased with the lecture as well as the views.
    Miss Estella Betz, one of our efficient post office clerks, as well as one of the telephone operators, went to Medford and spent the day with her aunt, Mrs. Leroy A. Smith.
    Miss Garnett Nichols, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nichols, formerly one of our promising school girls, but now of Seattle, Wash., is here visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols; her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Nichols, beside a number of other relatives and friends.
    Wednesday afternoon, after I had written my letter for the Daily Mail Tribune, I met the following persons from different parts of the community: Pearl Stowell, Robert R. Minter and daughter, Miss Diehless, W. W. Edington of Sams Valley, the father of John N. Edington, foreman on the A. Corbin orchard: J. H. Carlton, Chris Natwick, the road work contractor; Bert Peachey, one of the forest rangers of Ashland, who was on his way home to see his new baby, Charles and John Painter--Charles had just returned from somewhere in Washington, where he has been working in a paper mill; Miss Ruby Haley and J. L. Robertson. Wednesday was one of our nice, warm spring days, and it seemed as though almost everyone who could come to town that afternoon did.
    There was a carload of machinery came in Thursday, and Claus Charley took up a load of it to the manganese mine on Lost Creek.
    George Pech of L.C., one of our loyal citizens of German descent, was doing business here Thursday.
    When the P.&E. train arrived Thursday morning, among the passengers were Ed Walker, deputy game warden, and H. D. Mills, the superintendent of the Butte Falls Lumber Co. He was on his way from Portland, where he had been to investigate the working of the eight-hour law for mills and logging camps. Rev. George Black, a Baptist minister, formerly of Medford, when Medford was in its infancy. He came unannounced and said that he was going to have a big revival here, and started in that night. There were but few turned out to hear him, about a dozen, but he persisted in staying and held services again Friday night, but I did not learn the result. He will probably remain over Sunday, and perhaps longer.
    Al Mayfield and wife of Ashland came up Thursday to visit Mrs. Mayfield's sister, and Mr. Mayfield and his brother-in-law, William G. Knighten, drove up to the manganese mine. They report that it looks good to them, and Mr. K. says that they have enough in sight to last for a generation. The Tacoma Metal Co. have commenced to haul out some of the metal already for shipment, but can make but little headway until the roads dry up and are improved.
     S. F. Smith and wife were doing business with our merchants Friday, and while here he paid me his subscription to the W.M.T. he had ordered over the phone a few days before. Joe Mayham, Verna Mathews and wife were also business callers Friday.
    George R. Brown and wife of Brownsboro motored into town Friday, and J. L. Robertson and Robert R. Minter went to Medford in a buggy, returning Friday morning.
    Misses Margaret and Ethel Riley were trading here Friday.
    Friday evening Dr. J. F. Reddy, Henry Callahan of Medford and Harry M. Parks phoned from somewhere on Butte Creek that they would be in for supper in about an hour, and in the course of human events they arrived, hungry, tired and--well, I was going to say dirty, but perhaps they were just soiled. At any rate, they reached the Sunnyside in time to eat at the third table. The tables were not all filled, but Fred Frideger and Mr. Hessler, who have been working in Mr. Frideger's orchard, were late coming to supper, so they made the second table. The three gentlemen named had been up to the L.C. mine and were just returning, and after supper and resting awhile, they went on to Medford that night. They spoke very favorably of the prospect for manganese.
    George W. Stowell, who is making a specialty of the chicken business, comes in every Friday and last Friday brought in over four double crates of eggs. He was met here by an auto truck from Central Point, and exchanged his full crates for empty ones. The driver said that he was also gathering cream for the Hazelwood creamery.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Haak, who own and operate a farm and orchard combined, and Mrs. H. makes a specialty of raising pure-bred chickens, made a trip to Medford and Jacksonville on Friday.
    I noticed a truckload of flour going out from our Snowy Butte Mills Friday.
    Levi A. Richter of Elk Mountain, near Asbestos post office, was here for dinner Friday and spent most of the afternoon with us, taking the P.&E. motor for Medford that P.M. C. W. Scott, manager of the L.C. mine, and Mr. Sherman were here for dinner Friday, and John and Ray Cobleigh and their mother spent the night at the Sunnyside Friday. The two brothers had bought up thirteen head of calves and yearlings and were taking them up to their place below Butte Falls.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning were Professor Van Scoy of Ashland. He was here on business connected with the school and visiting his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wilfley, they were returning from their visit to Los Angeles. He is an owner of what is known as the Wilfley orchard, about three miles from here. About the first thing he did was to give me his sub. for the D.M.T.
    Roy Martin and family. wife and two children, were also passengers on the P.&E. They were met at the depot by V. E. Brittsan and taken to the S. V. Anderson ranch,
    A. E. Dodge and his bride were on the train moving to Butte Falls.
    D. L. Swihart and W. S. Baker of Derby were also among the passengers.
    There was also a part of a car of wire fencing for Dr. Emmerson of B.F. and a lot of machinery for the B.F.L. Co.
    Chris Bergman and R. A. Petty and Ed Dutton were among the diners with us Saturday. Ed Dutton is our road supervisor, and has been doing sane much-needed work on the road from the Sunnyside to the county bridge. He has plowed up the sides of the road and graded up so that if begins to look like a turnpike.
    In addition to those already reported, J. B. Jackson has renewed his sub. to D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 2, 1918, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, April 3, 1918, page 5


    John Fader, one of our enterprising stockmen and farmers, was among the business callers Saturday afternoon, and so was Mrs. Radcliffe; she was disposing of her week's product of eggs with our merchants.
    Easter Sunday morning broke with all of its splendor, without a cloud to mar its beauty and those who had been anxiously watching to see the usual Easter rain were disappointed, for they looked in vain for it proved to be one of the most delightful days of the season. In fact it was one of those rare occasions when almost everyone remained at home or near home for there was scarcely anyone stirring, in our quiet little village at least. For that day we had but few guests outside of our regular boarders, but those who were at the Sunnyside that day were J. F. Brown and wife, W. G. Knighten and wife, Nick Young, who was just introducing his Chevrolet car, Clifford Sitson, Albert Clements, Miss Ruby Haley, Miss Garnett Nichols, Joe Moomaw, and Geo. Lewis
    Charley Sherman, who has been working at Hilt, Calif., returned to the Sunnyside Sunday night.
    Among the business callers Monday was A. T. Poole, one of the forest rangers of Trail, Mr. Downs, also of Trail, and John Holtz, another of the forest rangers of Sams Valley, Fred Pelouze, one of our successful farmers, C. W. Scott, manager of the L.C. manganese mine, the two Rummel brothers, also of L.C., Frank Hard of Brownsboro, the foregoing were all here for dinner. W. P. Haley, A. G. Bishop, A. E. Strong were here simply on business.
    J. H. Tyrrell, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of the Lake Creek country, who sold his manganese mines and farm to the Tacoma Metal Co., moved out to Medford Monday.
    Corbett Smith, one of the prosperous young farmers and stockmen of Butte Falls, was with us Monday night.
    We had another of those devastating fires in our little town Monday night, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole being burned, the fire taking place about 8 o'clock p.m. It appears that Mrs. Ashpole had a short time before built a fire in the heater and in a few moments she discovered that the ceiling was all on fire. The alarm of fire was rung over the telephone and in an incredibly short time almost every available person, man and woman, was there to try to save what they could. They managed to save about all of the household goods that was on the floor proper but the things that were in the cellar were lost, consisting of her nice dishes, silverware and fruit. They were carrying insurance, but not enough to begin to replace the property. The next day they moved into the house belonging to John W. Smith, recently vacated by Mrs. Pullen and her son.
    Tuesday was rather a busy day, as there seemed to be quite a number of people in town besides the regular visitors and among those who visited the S.S. Hotel were Royal G. Brown, one of our merchants; he came over for his breakfast; he said that the night before at the time of the Ashpole fire something went wrong with the electric pump in the grist mill and they connected the water wheel up with the water tank that supplies that part of town with water and the pressure was so great as to burst a pipe connected with the reservoir in the culinary department and the result was that that part of the house was completely flooded with water so he resorted to the S.S. for breakfast.
    Fred Frey and wife of L.C. came out Tuesday morning but reached here too late to catch the Lewis jitney so [he] went to the S.S. Hotel for dinner, taking the P.&E. train in the afternoon. Ralph Cowgill, R. S. Stewart, E. Andrews and H. C. Johnson came in for dinner Tuesday; the last three engaged rooms and board at the S.S.; they are engaged in building a new wagon bridge across Little Butte Creek for H. B. Tronson, replacing the old one that is considered unsafe. John Rader, wife and daughter, Mrs. Harvey Stanley, Roy Ashpole and family were also diners at the S.S. Tuesday. Mr. Ashpole is a son-in-law of John Rader and they all came over to see the result of the fire and help Mr. Ashpole into their new home.
    Miss Zula Geppert came out from her home near Butte Falls Tuesday and spent the night with us and Wednesday morning went to work for John Edington on the A. Corbin orchard.
    Fred Frey returned from Medford Wednesday morning, took early lunch at the S.S. and went up home on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    F. H. Russell of Portland was here Wednesday morning working in the interest of a telephone supply house and A. B. Cunningham of the Paul's Electric Store, Medford, came out to install an electric washing machine for Mrs. L. K. Haak. They both took dinner with us.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 5, 1918, page 2


    I omitted to state in my last that T. F. Boltz, formerly of the P.&E.R.R. Co. force, but now in a business position in Montana, came in to pay his family a visit on Saturday night, Mar. 30, remaining until Monday morning.
    Another item of general interest I omitted to mention was that the setting of the clocks ahead on the 31st of March knocked Rev. George Black out of preaching his Easter sermon on that day. It appears that the family where he was stopping went by the old time and the superintendent by the government regulation and commenced S.S. at the appointed time, 10 o'clock a.m., and that brought the Sunday school exercises to a close at 11 o'clock a.m., new time, and the result was that the people became impatient and restless and after waiting for over half an hour began to disperse and by the time Rev. Black arrived, 12 o'clock noon, most of the congregation had gone, so after a consultation with the few who remained he decided that he would not try to preach at that hour but would preach at night, which he did, but the congregation was rather small compared to what it might have been.
    A. G. Bishop and an elderly gentleman, a relative of Mrs. Bishop (deceased), were in town Wednesday afternoon.
    Dave Pence, the enterprising stockraiser of Elk Creek, was a guest of Frank Lewis Wednesday night.
    Mrs. J. R. Safley and Miss Viola Hughes of Butte Falls spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside. They had been out to Medford and came out this far to spend the night, on the P.&E. motor car. Mrs. J. Montgomery also came out on the same car.
    C. W. Scott motored out Thursday morning in time to catch the train for B.F. He was in a hurry for a lot of lumber and had a special car taken up to bring out 5000 feet that day for his flume, as his water was failing at the manganese mines. Claus Charley came out the next day and took one-half of the lumber up to its destination.
    N. W. Slusser, our barber, has moved out of the James Ringer house into the J. R. McQuoid house where he can have more land to cultivate and also have the use of water to irrigate.
    Our school board met last Wednesday night and among other things employed Prof. E. N. Deardorff as principal of our school to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the present principal, Prof. J. C. Barnard who has about decided to turn his attention to a different branch of business. I have had it hinted that he is likely to be the nominee for county judge on the Democratic ticket. The board also re-employed the present teacher, Miss Pina Benedict, as the primary teacher, greatly to the joy of the little folk, for they seem to almost idolize her.
    E. E. Farley of Upper Table Rock and A. O. Olson of Trail and Frank Smith were among the diners Thursday, and among the other visitors were Master Walter Allen of Derby, Rube Johnson, Owen Conover and Fred Stanley. Fred looked kinder lonesome, so on inquiry I learned that his wife and baby were in Portland visiting relatives. J. M. Garrett was also a business visitor and while here he paid up a balance due on his sub. to the W.M.T. and had it stopped and paid a year's sub. to the D.M.T. There are so many stirring events to read about now that the general reader is unsatisfied with a weekly paper so are changing from the weekly to the daily.
    J. W. Granthan of Medford came out Thursday evening to the Sunnyside and engaged board and room, and the next morning went to work for R. A. Stewart, the contractor, on the H. B. Tronson bridge.
    J. N. Edington, the foreman on the A. Corbin orchard, was in town Friday putting an extra gasoline tank on his auto. He said that he was preparing to go to the hills and wanted to take along extra gas. George W. Stowell also came in with his four crates of eggs, the weeks' product, and was met by the representative of the Central Point produce merchant who takes eggs, cream, etc., to C.P.
    Mrs. J. M. McDonald of Elk Creek came out on the P.&E. motor and went on up home on the E.P.-Persist stage.
    Miss Evelyn Watenburg and Miss Winifred Haak, two of our bright, promising high school girls, went to Ashland to spend the weekend with Prof. and Mrs. J. C. Barnard.
    Mrs. Ray Harnish of Climax came out during the week, combining business with pleasure, returning Friday.
    A. C. Spence and wife of Brownsboro drove down Friday and were trading with Geo. Brown & Sons.
    Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, and Miss Julia Sidley of L.C. went to Medford on the Lewis jitney Saturday morning, Miss B. intending to go to Ashland so as to attend the funeral of Rev. Van Scoy, who died very suddenly at Rogue River.
    Mrs. J. M. King of Medford, Mrs. John Obenchain of Butte Falls and Mrs. F. J. Ayres were also on the train going to their homes.
    J. C. Findley of Aberdeen, Wash., and his son came out on the train Saturday morning to locate on the old Irvin orchard place, now belonging to a widow lady. He tells me that among the first things he will do is to pull up the fruit trees on the place and plant the ground to corn.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres, the wife of our depot agent, was taken to the hospital in Medford Friday evening and operated on for appendicitis and at latest account was resting well and getting along all O.K.
    J. W. Cookson, one of our traveling salesmen, was here for dinner Saturday.
    The members of the Junior Red Cross are scattering handbills around town announcing a lecture on Mexico by W. L. Mellinger, a noted lecturer. See class ad.
    There was about a half car of sacks came in Saturday morning for the L.C. mine.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 9, 1918, page 7


    Harry Skyrman and sister Clara motored to Medford Sunday in their new car.
    R. R. Dawson returned from the valley Sunday, where he has been plowing.
    L. B. Tucker left Tuesday for Weed, Cal., where he has employment for the summer.
    Mrs. E. P. Knapp returned to the valley Saturday after visiting friends and relatives in Trail for a week.
    Fred Sturgis passed through Trail Sunday, driving his cattle to the mountains after feeding them near Central Point this past winter.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Weeks and family spent Sunday at the Johnson home near the ferry.
    Mrs. Rena Avery and Mrs. Hattie Ragsdale were Sunday callers at Mrs. Tucker's.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 10, 1918, page 6


    The Sunday school contest closed Sunday, March 31, with the addition of members. Friday was the Sunday school reception. There was a short program, consisting of patriotic selections and a social hour, in which some of the young folks played games outside. The refreshments consisted of Hooverized cake and pickles. There was to have been ice cream, which was shipped out, but the depot being closed that day on account of Mrs. Amos Ayres, the depot agent's wife, having an operation that day, they could not get the cream.
    Missionary G. C. Griffin preached at Reese Creek Sunday morning on "God's Special Protection." "But my God shall supply all your needs, according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus." Mr. Griffin preached at Laurel Hill in the afternoon also. Those who miss his messages are missing something.
    The Sunday school elected two commissioners Sunday, namely: W. H. Crandall and T. J. Pullen, to confer with the neighboring Sunday schools, Laurel Hill, Eagle Point and Derby, to arrange for group gatherings for the summer.
    Mrs. W. E. Hammel is visiting in Butte Falls for a few days.
    Marshall Minter was home from Butte Falls for a few days while he was waiting for the mill to open at that place.
    Tom Vestal went to Butte Falls Monday to get work.
    Mary Robertson has been confined to her home for a few days with la grippe.
    Several people are having bad colds and sore throat.
    Mr. Griffin and family visited at H. Watkins' last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Graham visited at Mr. Bellows' Sunday.
    Miss MacDougal visited Miss Mayes Saturday night.
    W. H. Crandall and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leaper, motored to Rogue River Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 11, 1918, page 7


    Saturday afternoon Miss M. P. Borrell and Mrs. S. A. Van Hardenberg were trading here. Miss Borrell is engaged in teaching in the Antelope district.
    Sunday was another one of those delightful days such as we so commonly see here in the spring and the result was quite a number of the Medford people took advantage of the occasion and drove out for a ride, enjoy the fresh, invigorating morning air and pay a visit to the Sunnyside Hotel. Among them were George H. West of the Forest Service and wife. Mrs. West has recently returned from Portland where she was confined to her room for some time, but we are glad to be able to say that she has so far reclaimed her health that she is looking and feeling fine again. They come out with Mrs. Emma Cook and her daughter Miss E. V. Cook and grandson, Master Harwood Cook. Miss Cook is the head bookkeeper in the forester's office, Medford. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gates, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gates, Miss Marie Gates, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Mitchell, Miss Grace Mitchell, Miss Geneveor Fillery, besides Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wamsley, Thomas and Harry Lewis, Orville Childreth, Jay Pitzer, Clifford Silson, Miss Mamie and Master Thomas Boltz and Al Clements. It was the first time that Mayor Gates or his brother or their wives were at the Sunnyside, but the ladies expressed a determination to come out quite frequently as they found everything quite satisfactory.
    Miss Marie Gates came out Saturday evening to visit Miss Hazel Brown and I suppose to take part in the Red Cross dance. I understand that there was a large crowd attended the dance and that the most of the attendees had a fine time but there were several who were unthoughtful enough to leave their wraps, lap robes and in some instances their handbags in their cars and had to go home without them as there was, I am informed by the mayor, Hon. John M. Nichols, that there was about $60 worth of articles taken by petty thieves. While there may be and probably are some in this vicinity who would not hesitate to take such things, still there were some from a distance might be tempted to purloin a little thing, take a good warm overcoat or even a lap robe. I understand that there was quite a lot of empty bottles in evidence the next morning.
    Miss Estella Betz and Thomas Lewis motored over to Medford Sunday morning where they were joined by A. L. Smith and wife and took a trip up to Rogue River (town) and had a royal good time.
    Dr. W. W. P. Holt reports that Mr. and Mrs. John J. Winningham of Trail have been visited on April 6th by "the stork" and the result is another girl is added to the family.
    Wm. Ewing of Seattle, who is interested in the manganese mining enterprise, was here for dinner Monday and so was D. T. Lawton, the weight and measure tester for this district.
    Ed. Hoyt, our son-in-law, and Loven Miller of Roseburg came in Monday evening, spent the night and the next day, going on to Medford Tuesday evening. They were here interviewing our cattlemen with regard to the cattle market.
    Mrs. Carson of Butte Falls, who has been visiting Mrs. J. B. Jackson and family, returned home Tuesday.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. train were a sister and aunt of Mrs. Chris Natwick but I did not learn their names; they were on the way to visit Mrs. Natwick.
    Tuesday was a busy day at the Sunnyside. Among the callers were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Graham, who own a farm about five miles northwest of here on the free ferry road. They were on their way to Spokane, Wash., to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows, John Thurm, agent for Valvoline oil, from Portland; A. T. Poole of the Forest Service, Trail; Walter Wood, one of our stockmen; Prof. J. C. Barnard, J. H. Cookson and three strangers who came in, ate their dinner and left as soon as they paid their bill without leaving their names.
    J. C. Findley and son were in town Wednesday morning to get a plow. He is the man who has settled on the old Irvin Dahack place. He intends to put in a crop of corn.
    Mr. and Mrs. Sam Folk of Portland have been here visiting her grandparents, M. S. Wood and Susan Hart. They were going to Gold Hill to visit her father, Thomas Henderson.
    Mesdames John F. Boltz and Fred Frey came in from Medford Wednesday morning and took the E.P.-L.C. auto stage for Lake Creek. Mrs. Boltz is of Medford and is spending a while visiting relatives in the L.C. country.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Miller also came in from the Weed lumber camp and took the E.P.-Persist stage for Trail.
    Mrs. Giles S. Gitzen, nee Bermuda Lewis, is here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Gitzen were married last summer and went direct to Indianapolis, Ind. Mrs. G. was born and raised here and she says that she has all of that cold country that she wants, that there is no place like Eagle Point. Her husband has gone on up to Portland, where they intend to locate.
    Ed Gore and Mr. C. M. Speck motored out from Medford Wednesday morning; they were inquiring for sheep and hogs.
    W. C. Daley, pioneer of the Upper Butte Creek country, passed through here on his way home from Medford where he had been having dental work done.
    Mrs. Howlett returned from an extended visit to Portland, Oregon City and Damascus Wednesday evening.
    Rev. F. L. Hornshuh and a company of five others motored into town, saw some of the trustees of the Baptist church and made arrangements to conduct services this Wednesday evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 12, 1918, page 7


    Mrs. Ed. Cowden and daughter went up to Butte Falls Thursday. Mrs. Leroy Smith and Mrs. Chartraw were also passengers, the first named to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres, and Mrs. C. to her home near Derby.
    John Edington, foreman at the A. Corbin orchard, was in town Thursday morning to take out a new tractor plow to try in the orchard. He has tried one of the tractors with two twelve-inch plows and found that the work was too hard. The ground is black, deep sticky set in clover and alfalfa, and has been pastured off with hogs for two to three years and is completely packed. But he thinks that one plow will do the work all right.
    Rudolph Pech, William Hoeft, Henry Tonn and C. A. Newstrom of L.C. were doing business in our town Thursday. And so was Miss Sarah Singleton, who is living on a farm west of Eagle Point. Miss Ruby Haley was also here on business.
    I should have mentioned in the first of this article that Rev. F. L. Hornshuh and his company consisting of Mrs. Hornshuh, J. J. Gard, Lawrence Grace, Nettie Dow and Marie Shelby held services in the Baptist church on Wednesday evening. Before commencing the services they toured the town in their Ford, giving a short concert with instrumental and vocal music, and made the announcement that there would be services, etc., also just as school was being dismissed they stopped in front of the school house and sang and played, and gave out to the children copies of The Apostolic Faith, and by that means secured quite an attendance. As they were a new sect in these parts, there was quite a number turned out, some through curiosity and many went on account of the singing and music, which were fine, while others went because they wished to enjoy religious services. About eight o'clock they began by singing, with instrumental music, and after singing several lively songs they had an "experience season," when each one of the six related their personal experience, telling what God had done for them in the line of a personal salvation. They then all united in audible prayer, each one praying aloud, then Rev. Hornshuh gave us a short talk on the teaching of Christ, emphasizing the doctrine that we must live above sin in order to escape hell fire. There was considerable criticizing and quite a number seemed to think that he used too strong language, etc., but he gave us something to think about, and we trust that they did some good. They seemed to be very sincere.
    Ed Hoyt, S. C. Miller and his son Loren Miller of Roseburg came in Thursday for dinner. Ed and Loren Miller had been here looking at some cattle and they wanted the opinion of the old gentleman on some points of the deal, so he came down.
    A. A. Lathrop of Medford and Wm. Lewis were also here Thursday for dinner and so were B. H. Horn of Gold Hill, J. B. Leabo of Trail, W. H. Coffey, representing a Portland firm, and whooping it up for Mosier of Portland for governor. David Rummel, from the L.C. mines, was also here for dinner.
    Rev. Brittsan, his son-in-law, Roy Miller, daughter and grandson were here Thursday on their way to Medford. They were brought to town from the Anderson ranch by Rev. B.'s son, V. E. Brittsan. They went to the depot to take the train, but there was a little hindrance on the road, so they hired Mr. Harnish to take them over to the city.
    Benj. Brophy, who has been living in town the past winter, has moved back to the ranch.
    C. W. Scott, the business manager of the L.C. mine, and C. L. Stone came out with a tractor and one trailer bringing 3000 pounds of manganese, and Mr. Stone said that a part of the time the hind end of the trailer was dragging in the mud. They loaded up with sacks and gasoline that afternoon and Mr. Stone spent the night with us, but a rig came out for Mr. Scott, so he went home that night.
    Mrs. Royal G. Brown, wife of one of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons, has taken a trip to Vancouver, B.C., to visit her aunt, Mrs. Lottie Brown.
    W. E. Hammel went to Medford Friday and brought out his car that he had in the repair shop.
    The school board met Thursday evening and among other things, employed Miss Elizabeth Blackford to take charge of the intermediate department of our school.
    Tharon (Zack) Taylor and Carlyle Natwick spent Friday night at the Sunnyside.
    Friday was a remarkably quiet day in our town; perhaps one reason was that we had a very stormy day, at least the latter part of the day, but in the evening it partly cleared off and we had a good time for the lecture by W. L. Mellinger on Mexico. There was a good attendance. The proposition was to give one-half of the net receipts to the Junior Red Cross Society, the receipts being $24.75. Mr. Mellinger is a fine lecturer, has a good voice and fine delivery, and while he dug up some of the things in the history of the dealings of the United States with Mexico along in the days of slavery when the plot was laid to grab the state of Texas, so as to make more slave territory, etc., he related nothing but the plain facts in the case, but some of his hearers could smell "German propaganda" in his talk, but if the lecture had been given at any time besides during our present trouble with Germany, it would have been pronounced first-class. His slide views were very good, and well explained. He held his audience for over an hour and a half, and the most of them seemed sorry to have him stop so soon.
    Saturday morning our P.&E. train looked quite dignified. There were several flat cars for wood and logs, two box cars and two passenger cars--a special, as there was a delegation of school teachers, all male, came to Butte Falls to hold a school teachers' club, and the arrangement was for the railroad officials to hold the train in Butte Falls until 3 o'clock p.m., so as to give them time to get through with their work. Among the passengers were Lincoln Savage of Grants Pass, J. S. Levan, G. W. Godward, H. H. Mathews, S. L. Spencer, R. E. Morris and G. W. Ager. Beside these, there were S. S. Bullis, O. Adams, D. Swihart, besides several others whose names I cannot recall.
    John Simon went to Medford and Jacksonville on business Saturday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 15, 1918, page 3


    Clara Skyrman returned home Sunday from Central Point, where she has been visiting friends and relatives the past week.
    Mrs. Charles Blaess returned to her home at the hatchery Sunday after a few weeks in Medford.
    T. C. Gaines is hauling grain from the valley.
    Mrs. Boyd Tucker and little son, Wilbur, left Thursday for Weed, Cal., where her husband is working.
    Miss Dorothy Palmer of Medford is visiting with her sister, Mrs. L. B. Pierce, at Trail.
    W. McDonald motored to the Rogue Elk Resort Sunday.
    Mrs. Palmer left for her home in Medford Sunday, after spending a couple of weeks with her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Pierce, at Trail.
    R. R. Dawson and W. Cushman are working on the road for D. Pence.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 17, 1918, page 5


    Miss K. Mayes closed a successful eight months' term of school Monday of this week. At noon the teacher and pupils, with some of the patrons, enjoyed a picnic dinner, after which Mr. Bellows took the fifteen pupils all in his car at one time for a short joy ride. The directors have engaged Miss Mayes for the next winter term of school. She was packed ready to go on the train when one of the directors of Debenger Gap came over and employed her to finish out the school year at that place, their teacher having enlisted for service in the government. He was called east the first of the week, leaving about nine weeks of school yet to be taught. The pupils who went with their teacher from Reese Creek to Debenger Gap to attend school are: May French, Myrtle Minter, Paul Robertson, Millard Robertson and Cora French.
    Wayman Bergman is in Irving, having failed to pass the government examination.
    Tom Vestal is visiting his father's brother and wife in Mosier, Or.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Miss Diehless Minter, also H. Watkins were in Medford Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bellows were in Medford Wednesday.
    Our artistic painter, Sam Courtney, is now in Butte Falls, where he is painting a house both inside and out, for Mr. Barker.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 19, 1918, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. Bert Van Hardenburg and Mrs. J. H. Carlton of Wellen were here Saturday evening trading with our merchants.
    On Sunday morning our Medford postmaster, George P. Mims, Mrs. Frank McKee, Miss Ruth Hamilton and Miss Blanche McKee of Medford drove out to the Sunnyside to have a visit, take dinner and meet your Eagle Point correspondent, and as Mr. Mims is the postmaster in Medford and knowing that we have no mail out here on Sunday, was thoughtful enough to bring out the morning Sun and the latest Oregon Journal so as to partly relieve our minds on the all-absorbing subject of the great battle that is now raging in Europe, and we all highly appreciated the favor. Go thou and do likewise! Beside Mr. Mims and his company, we also had that day Mrs. J. H: Trusty and her son, Henry. Mrs. Trusty spent the night with us and the next day took the stage for her home on Elk Creek; Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, her daughter Miss Joyce and son Hugo; Orville Childreth and Miss Zula Geppert, Will Haselton, Miss Ethel Riley, Jay Pitzer, Miss Margaret Riley, George Lewis, Miss Estella Betz and Joe Moomaw.
    Wm. von der Hellen went up to his manganese mine Sunday.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchardists, was doing business Monday and so was J. P. McCabe, another one of our orchardists, Charles Clark, who is working on the Alta Vista orchard, and wife were in town Monday. Sam Coy, another one of our hustlers, was here Monday.
    When the train pulled in Tuesday morning there was quite a number of strange-looking men on board bound for Butte Falls to enter the lumber camp; in fact, there is quite a lot of people on the different roads, some going to Butte Falls and some to the Lake Creek mines, some to the Applegate logging camp, while others are simply going to see what they can find. Among the passengers that I knew were Mr. Trowbridge of Medford and S. S. Bullis, who were on their way to the big timber.
    George W. Frey, Sr. and one of his sons called for dinner Tuesday.
    Mrs. D. M. McDaniel, who, with her husband, are living on the Fred Pelouze place, took the P.&E. car for Medford Tuesday evening, and so did T. C. Berry of Ashland.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett, widow of the late Charles Pruett, called on your correspondent and agent Tuesday evening and gave him a notice to be published in the Mail Tribune, inviting those interested in beautifying the Central Point cemetery to meet at that place on Saturday, the 20th inst., to help do the work. See ad.
    Tuesday evening F. L. Putnam and W. C. Bibby of Ashland and George Lamb stopped with us on their way to the Applegate logging camp, with their teams. They had been employed to get saw logs to the railroad track for the Medford mill. The demand for men to work in the various industries is such that I learned that Thomas Stanley, who has charge of the making of the new road between here and the Lake Creek mine, cannot get the men to do the work, work that is greatly needed, for upon that depends to a large extent the success of the manganese mines that are so promising, and it has been suggested that the Tacoma Metal Co. will have to shut down their mining for a while and put the force they have on the road before they can haul the ore out. I understand that they have now quite a force of men and they are adding to the number daily.
    R. E. Morris, the school supervisor, visited our school Wednesday forenoon, took dinner at the Sunnyside, and in the afternoon visited the Long Mountain school. Miss Benedict also took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, moved out of the Charley Bacon house into the one formerly occupied by N. W. Slusser, our barber. She says that she wants to get on a place where she can raise a garden. She is a Hooverizer.
    John Simon has taken a room at the Sunnyside, and Amos Ayres, our depot agent, is taking his meals at that hotel during his wife's stay in Medford. She is getting along nicely, was taken out of the hospital Tuesday evening and expects to be home in a few days.
    News items and money appear to be very scarce.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 22, 1918, page 5


    J. C. Dunn and wife and W. R. Black and wife of Medford called at the Sunnyside Wednesday for dinner.
    Wm. Stallings of Hornbrook, who had been up to the L.C.  mine, came out on the E.P.-L.C. stage Wednesday and went to Medford, purchased an outfit for sleeping, returned the next morning and returned to the mine.
    J. R. Robertson and Wig Jacks were business callers Wednesday.
    Miss Laura Gates of Medford has been visiting Miss Hazel Brown of this place.
    Ray Harnish of Climax came out on business with his father, S. H. Harnish, Wednesday.
    L. R. Cook of Butte Falls went up home Thursday morning on the P.&E.
    W. B. Chance, state deputy Labor Commissioner and factory inspector, was a passenger on the P.&E. on his way up to Butte Falls to inspect the machinery in the mills in that section last Thursday.
    Miss Nettie Grover and Mrs. Etta Florey came in from Medford on Thursday morning, where they had been to attend the W.C.T.U. county institute, and report having had a very interesting and profitable meeting.
    Rev. Brittsan of Ashland and his nephew came out on the P.&E. Thursday; Mr. Ward of Rancheria and David Rummel also was a passenger. He was going up to his ranch on Trail Creek.
    Nimrod Charley of Climax was shaking hands with some of his old-time friends about the middle of the week.
    L. C. Charley of Brownsboro and son, John Singleton and J. A. Howard were business callers in our town Friday.
    W. C. Fruit of the Blue Ledge mining district went up to the Round Top country Thursday and spent the day prospecting for manganese, returning in time to catch the P.&E. motor. He did not discover anything of consequence.
    Carl Gross and his brother, William, and Emil Pekurl, three Poland Russians, came out on the E.P.-L.C. stage Thursday morning, procured an auto and went up to Medford to look at some railroad land for homesteads, returning to the Sunnyside about 9 o'clock p.m. for supper and bed, and about the same time Corbett Smith of Butte Falls came in, and he also wanted supper and bed. He had just come out with Dr. Holt in his car, and Friday morning they all four went to Medford in Lewis' jitney. The three Russians had come recently from Michigan to Portland.
    Friday about noon there was a message came over the phone asking Mrs. Howlett if she could serve dinner for five men about 2 p.m., as they could not get here sooner, as they were weighing cattle at the von der Hellen ranch and could not get there sooner, and of course the answer returned was yes. So about that time Carl von der Hellen, John McPherson, Shorty Allen, John Mayham and Ed Dutton came in, and of all the excited men you ever saw Carl was the limit. He had hardly got into the house before he began by telling that he had sold 75 head of two-year-old steers to Mr. McPherson at 9½ cents a pound, right off the grass, and that they weigh on an average 948 pounds each; that they was the finest bunch of steers that was ever sold in this county, etc., but when we learned more about the transaction found that they averaged about 350 pounds each, and the price was about one-half what was stated. But Carl was most wonderfully excited, and if we did not know him so well we might think that he had been over to the Shasta Soda Springs.
    C. E. Stone and H. A. Sherman came out Friday afternoon from the L.C. mine with a load of 5500 pounds of manganese ore with their tractor engine and a wagon trailer. They spent the night at the S.S. and report that everything is prospering nicely, but that the roads are still in a very bad condition and are bound to be for some time, as they are not properly drained, and in some places are just as nature made them.
    Pearl Stowell, wife and mother have moved into the Norman McQuoid house in town.
    Mrs. John Rader and her son-in-law, Harvey Stanley, came over to town Friday in their automobile, the first time they have been able to bring it out this spring, on account of the mud, not on the county road, but between the road and their house. While here Mr. Stanley asked me if their sub. to the D.M.T. was not due, and being informed that it would be out the 27th of April, remarked that he [might] just as well renew it now, so wrote me a check for $5. There is some business in that. And the same day Miss Estella Betz, one of the P.O. clerks, called me and said that Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy wished to see me, so going into the phone office, she wanted to renew her sub. to the D.M.T., which she did.
    H. A. Sonne of Baker, Or., was a lodger here Friday night and took the Lewis jitney for Medford Sat. morning.
    C. E. Bellows and John Joy, who is living on the Graham place, came out Saturday morning in Mr. Bellows' auto, he bringing in his cream for shipment to Medford.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning was Mrs. Mary Clevenger, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hildreth, H. D. Mills, wife and two children, and Mr. Mills' mother from Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ayres. Mrs. Ayres was just returning home from Medford. She had been operated on by Dr. Holt for appendicitis. She has surely got along finely after the operation, and her many friends here are rejoicing with her and her husband over her speedy recovery.
    Mrs. Mary Beale and her son, Corbett Smith, of B.F., were also on the train going home.
    Thomas F. Boltz came in to visit his family Friday from his business home in Montana.
    G. N. Barklund, one of our hardware salesmen; J. W. Pomeroy, Wm. Ewing and J. D. Seack, the last three from the L.C. mine, were guests of the S.S. Saturday noon
Medford Mail Tribune, April 23, 1918, page 5


    Miss Flossie Tucker is staying with Mrs. R. R. Dawson until school is out.
    Mrs. Wallace Cushing left Sunday to cook for the men working on the road near Dr. Kirchgessner's.
    Miss Dorothy Palmer returned to her home in Medford after spending a week at Trail.
    D. Olson was a Sunday caller at Trail.
    John Winningham and J. E. McDonald are working the road between Trail and Persist.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. Sturgis motored to Trail Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ash.
    R. Thomason and E. E. Ash are working their cinnabar mine near Trail.
    Mrs. A. Poole of Drew is visiting friends near Trail for a few days.
    Miss Ide Cushman returned to her home on Trail, after a few weeks in Gold Hill.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 24, 1918, page 5


    Robert R. Minter and daughter, Miss Diehless, Misses Margaret: and Ethel Riley, James Johnson and wife, Miss Minnie Givan, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Watkins and Charles Clark were among the business callers Saturday afternoon.
    Sunday was another one of these delightful days that tempts the pleasure lover to make a move for a change in the location and try new fields for enjoyment, and so it was with a large number of people in Rogue River Valley, for a little after sunrise the autos were buzzing through our quiet little village, some going one way and some another, according to the particular tastes. Some were headed for the fishing grounds on Rogue River and some for Butte Creek above and below our town, while others were out for a little recreation and a good dinner, some taking it along the banks of the streams and some going to the hotels. Among those who patronized the Sunnyside were Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Wagner, Masters Paul, Lawrence and Wilfred Wagner, Mrs. L. N. Lease, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Butler, all of Ashland; Mr. George T. Mims, the Medford postmaster, Mrs. Frances McKee, Miss Ruth Hamilton, Miss Blanch McKee and Miss Jeannette Richardson of Medford: Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Foster, Mr. Day Foster, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Wissing and Carl Wissing of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Reter of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Carter, Mrs. A. H. Pracht, Mrs. Ella B. Mills of Ashland, S. C. Roseburg, T. F. Boltz and wife, Miss Mary and Master Tom, William von der Hellen, wife and son and daughter; Mr. Cross of Butte Falls, beside a dozen or more of the young folks who come to the S.S. almost every Sunday for lunch or supper.
    Monday morning Mrs. Dan Gray of Fort Klamath and Rube Johnson came in and took the Lewis jitney for Medford. Mrs. Gray was on her way to her home; she came in to attend the funeral of her sister-in-law, Mr. Margaret Wooley, but did not reach here in time. John Allen, one of the Derby stockmen, and Ed Higinbotham, another Derby stockman, came in Monday on business, Mr. H. going on to Medford in his car.
    I should have mentioned that the citizens in the vicinity of the Antelope school house gave a dance last Saturday night for the benefit of the Red Cross Society and the report comes that they had a large attendance and of course a fine time. They always have a nice time at these country gatherings. They charged $1 admission and put the money into W.S.S. They also served sandwiches and cake and these were donated and the receipts applied toward the Red Cross fund. There were also two nice large cakes raffled off and these fell to Randolph Wiesman and Rob Harnish. The net proceeds amounted to over $50. These littles all go to help meet the demands on the government to keep up the expenses of the war, and it seems that the longer it lasts the more determined we are to win out and crush Prussianism.
    Monday was quite a lively day in our little town, and among others who were here were C. A. Pickle, D. A. Donar, J. J. Skinner, Sam Jones and F. F. Loder. They were a company who came out from Medford to rearrange the substation (electric plant) here. They came out with Mr. B. E. Haney and all came to the S.S. for dinner. Mr. McGuirk, the cigar manufacturer of Medford, and J. H. Carlton were also diners at the S.S. Monday.
    About 4 o'clock Monday afternoon there was an auto loaded with the following young folks: Eva Collins, Eva Nealon, Myrtle Bycum, Floyd Nordwick and Mary Collins, all from Table Rock, stopped in front of the post office door and they commenced to canvass the town for W.S.S. They said that there was a contest between the Table Rock school and the Agate school to see which could raise the most money for the benefit of the soldier boys. After they had tried almost everyone in town they realized that we have some workers here, but they are entitled to much credit for their nerve and pluck and we wish them abundant success in their laudable undertaking. They said that they were to give a Red Cross dance in Colonel Washburn's packing house, Table Rock, Friday night and make a charge of $1, the proceeds to be given to the party in W.S.S. so that all that they will be out they will have refunded with interest.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kerby of Ashland were here for supper the same evening.
    L. S. Frence of Portland and John O'Harry of Seattle and O. M. Goss and William Cross of Butte Falls and S. S. Bullis of Medford were passengers on the P.&E. Tuesday.
    J. C. Pomeroy, William Ewing and wife and J. H. Harding were here Tuesday for dinner. Mr. Armstrong is an expert in mineralogy and the company he represents are going to work right away to put up another manganese mill. This one is to be put on Mrs. Ragsdale's place. Mr. Ewing, who is interested with Mr. Pomeroy in the mine, said that they were going to put up a sawmill of their own soon on the Harding place to cut their own lumber to make the manganese mill, so that they will not be annoyed getting lumber as these others have been.
    Wednesday morning Mr. J. W. Miller and Mr. V. A. Heffner, superintendent of the Elk [Creek] hatchery, came out on the P. & E. and went on up home on the E. P. Ferris stage.
    T. B. Denson was also among the passengers on the P.&E. and E.P.T. stage.
    Fred Pelouze and wife passed through here Wednesday morning for Medford.
    The Snowy Butte Mills of Eagle Point are at this writing receiving a quantity of wheat, I understand, from Sams Valley.
    Miss Estella Betz, one of the post office girls, as well as one of the phone girls, has been saving up her money and has invested it in Liberty bonds. She has an eye to business as well as being interested in the welfare of our boys in the army.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ashpole of Medford were visiting his brother Roy, one of our hardware merchants, Wednesday.
    Since my last report F. J. Ayres has renewed his sub to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 25, 1918, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, April 26, 1918, page 2


    I wish to announce to the people of Jackson County that I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for County Clerk, at the primaries to be held May 17th.
    In asking for the nomination for County Clerk, I do so feeling that I am thoroughly qualified to serve the people in that capacity, and that my previous service as County Recorder has fully prepared me for the more important office of County Clerk.
    In case the people are satisfied with my administration of the Recorder's Office, and should see fit to promote me to the Office of County Clerk, I assure them that they will have no reason to regret it.
"Political Announcements," Jacksonville Post, April 27, 1918, page 2


    Our sheriff, Ralph Jennings, was out Wednesday afternoon on official business.
    Our son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hoyt, who have been spending the winter in Roseburg, and have been spending a few days with us, started for Fort Klamath Thursday morning. They are traveling in their own automobile.
    Mr. Carson of Butte Falls was a passenger on the P.&E. Thursday and on the train was quite a lot of machinery for the Butte Falls Lumber Company. There were also four fish screens unloaded off of the train here to be used in the irrigating ditches in this section.
    Mrs. L. H. Wyant and son, Mr. and Mrs. Settles of Ashland, and Mr. Frank Smith were among the diners at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    The Antelope school district presented, through Mrs. R. A. Weidman, the district clerk, to the Eagle Point Junior Red Cross social $25.26 cents received from the patrons of the dance given at the Antelope school house on Saturday evening, April 20.
    Rev. F. L. Hornshuh and his assistants will conduct services in the Baptist church in Eagle Point on Wednesday evening, May 1st at 8 p.m. They are the same company who conducted services here on Wednesday, the 10th of April, and serenaded the town.
    Mrs. W. G. McDonald, hostess of the Rogue Elk resort, came out on the E.P. tourist stage Thursday and took passage for Medford on the P.&E. evening train. She was one of the diners at the Sunnyside, and so were Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Schurck, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Fitch, Dr. Henry Fitch of Utica, N.Y., Miss J. C. Fitch, also of Utica, N.Y., Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Elleste of Central Point.
    Mr. Charles Wounal of Derby, who has been engaged in the timber by the Butte Falls Lumber Company, cut his foot quite badly and came out Thursday and took a room at the Sunnyside so as to be handy to Dr. Holt, our M.D.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rader were here Thursday visiting his niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants.
    Mr. J. C. Aiken, the superintendent of fish screens in Jackson County, was here Friday. and so was O. C. King and C. E. Polhemus of Chicago. They are both selling the Acme Company's canned meats, the Red Crown.
    Dave Pence, the road supervisor of the Elk Creek district, came out and got a load of material for culverts Friday.
    Mr. J. T. McCabe, one of our hustling farmers and stockmen, brought in two cows and their two litters of pigs Friday, one for Roy Stanley and the other for Carl von der Hellen. Speaking of Carl brings to my mind the mistake I made in my writeup I gave of that deal Carl made with Mr. McPherson. I had Mr. Mc.'s name John, and it should have been Fred.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning were Miss Margaret McIniston, teacher of the L.C. school, and Miss Blanche Burleson, who has been attending the Phoenix high school and was called home on account of her mother's sickness, who took the E.P.&L.C. stage here for their homes.
    Mr. A. D. Naylor came out from the L.C. mines Saturday morning on the E.P.-L.C. stage and went to B. F. on the P.&E. to work for the B.F.L.C. for a short time putting in new machinery, and Miss Winifred Haak, one of our high school girls, also took passage on the P.&E. for Derby, where she will visit Miss Alta Allen until Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jasper B. Hanna and their two daughters, Misses Dessie and Velma, and Terry Foster, who live on the stage road from here to Trail, drove in Saturday morning in their car to have their plows sharpened and patronize our merchants.
    William von der Hellen and Mr. H. M. Park of the state bureau of mines, Portland, Mr. T. Tarbell of Elk Creek, Fred McPherson, wife and two sons and Mr. G. W. Baker of Butte Falls, the banker, were our guests for dinner Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, April 29, 1918, page 5


    W. E. Hammel has purchased a couple of thoroughbred Jersey dairy cows, which are beauties.
    H. Watkins has also bought a couple of dairy cows.
    Miss Mayes and Miss Myrtle Minter walked to Mr. Minter's from Debenger Gap last Friday after school.
    Miss MacDougal closed an eight months' term of school at Laurel Hill Monday with a picnic dinner.
    Mrs. Sam Courtney returned Saturday from Butte Falls, where she had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Caster; also her husband, who has a painting contract at that place.
    Frank Caster, who broke his arm some time ago, while cranking his car, is getting along very nicely. They spent the weekend at Mr. Hammel's.
    Mr. Freeman, of Wiley, Freeman & Co., of Central Point, was in the Reese Creek neighborhood Sunday, looking for some colts that had strayed away.
    Mrs. Lizzie Jacks is in Central Point visiting her husband's mother, Mrs. Minnick.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 1, 1918, page 4


    Harry Skyrman of Central Point spent the weekend with his parents on Trail Creek.
    Geo. Weeks transacted business in Medford this week.
    Miss Minnie Poole visited Lucy and Eula Foeller Sunday.
    Lowell Ash and Oren Adamson killed the first rattlesnake of the season this week.
    Ella Adamson returned home Friday from Medford, where she had been working the past winter.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sturgis motored to Medford Tuesday.
    Lulu Adamson is on the sick list.
    Cyril Dan of Medford spent a few days last week with friends on Trail Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 1, 1918, page 5


    Last Saturday night, April 27, the Red Cross Society of Derby gave a dance in the school house, and I understand that the receipts amounted to in the neighborhood of $75. There were representatives from Butte Falls, Flounce Rock, Prospect, and Eagle Point, and their surrounding communities, and the only trouble seemed to be the room was too small to accommodate all that came. My informant tells me that they had a very fine time, as well as a fine supper, contributed by the ladies of the Red Cross Society.
    Speaking of the Red Cross brings to my mind the report of Mrs. B. A. Weidman, the efficient clerk of the Antelope school district, since she reported the donation of the $25.26 from the Antelope Junior Red Cross social she has made a supplementary report of another donation by the Antelope J.R.C. of $8.20 to the E.P.J.R.C. and requests the Medford Mail Tribune to publicly tender thanks for the same.
    Fred Peterson of Baker, Ore., came in and spent Saturday and Sunday nights at the Sunnyside. He came to visit Mr. Chris Beale of Central Point.
    Rev. Dunlap, who has charge of the Baptist chapel car, will commence a series of meetings in the Baptist church here on Friday, May 3, 8 o'clock p.m.
    On May 12 there will be Mother's Day exercises in connection with the Christian Endeavor Society 8 p.m. and at the school house on May 10, 2:30 p.m. Everyone invited to attend.
    The following persons were guests of the Sunnyside for dinner on Sunday. April 28: Mr. and Mrs. Verne Luce, Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Haney and her mother, Grandma Schmidt, Miss Margaret Haney, Miss Ruth Bullock and Miss Rose Bullock, Mr. and Mrs. Asahel Hubbard and son Chester, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Brown and Nealon Brown, P. J. Neff of Medford, J. V. McIntyre and family, William von der Hellen and family, George Lewis of E.P. and later in the day, Charles Bacon and family, Mr. B. is the accommodating conductor on the P.&E. He has treated himself to an auto, not a Ford, and used that to come out and visit Mrs. H. and family. He was accompanied by his sister-in-law, Miss Mida McIntosh. Joe Moomaw, Will and George Lewis were here for supper.
    Sunday morning Thomas Lewis took his mother, grandmother, Mrs. Heckathorn, and Miss Estella Betz and visited his aunt, Mrs. Magerle, on Evans Creek above Rogue River.
    J. C. Mann and M. Purdin came out Monday morning and stopped a few minutes here, just long enough for them to see some of the leading Democrats in town. Mr. P. is one of the candidates for county judge.
    Miss M. D. Wetterer of Jacksonville came out on the P.&E., took the E.P.-L.C. stage for L.C. to visit Miss Margaret McQuiston, who is teaching in that district.
    J. E. Weaver of Talent, special deputy assessor, was here Monday. His duty is to assess the merchants in the county and by that means they, the merchants, will be likely to pay taxes on the amount of goods they have on hand the first of March, as he calls for the inventory and if they object to showing it he has a way to induce them to comply and they generally do so without any trouble. It takes but a short time and by that way of assessing the merchants, it is hard to cover anything up even if they had a disposition to do so, and he thinks that by that means that there will be several thousand dollars of assessable property on the assessor's books that might be overlooked.
    Brandon Bros. have during the latter part of April received about 3,000 bushels of wheat from Sams Valley and are now running the Snowy Butte mills to their full capacity, running night and day to fill a government contract for 70,000 barrels of flour to be delivered May 15.
    Mr. J. M. Shafer of Flounce Rock spent Monday night with us.
    Mr. W. H. Everhard, formerly of Portland, but now of Medford, representing an orchard company selling an appliance to brace fruit tree limbs when they are too much loaded with fruit, was here Monday and went up to the manganese mine on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    Mrs. William Beale and her son, Corbett Smith, passed through town Monday on their way from Medford to their home near Butte Falls.
    J. H. Carlton of Wellen came in Tuesday morning and brought in Jack Vaughan of Prospect. Mr. Vaughn has been working for Mr. Carlton during the past year, but owing to sickness of Mr. Ditsworth, who is working his farm, had to go home to assist in putting in the spring crop. He went up to Butte Falls on the P.&E., and so did Jerry Palmer. Mr. D. L. Von Needa, Utah, Mr. M. H. Otis and Mr. and Mrs.
Sandoz, merchant of Butte Falls, and family.
    Mr. R. E. B. Avy of Fallon, Nev., was also a passenger on the P.&E. on his way to look over the tract of land owned by the Spencer Bros. There were five or six brothers who took up homesteads on what was known as the unsurveyed, lived on their clearings and proved up, secured a title and now have one of the finest tracts of land in the woods, embracing a large body of the best timber in Southern Oregon. He said that he represented a wealthy syndicate of timber owners.
    A man by the name of Schrader of Climax came in Tuesday for late dinner and reports that the coyotes were very troublesome among his goats.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 3, 1918, page 6


Medford Mail Tribune, May 4, 1918, page 7


    B. W. Paul of the Paul Electric Store, Medford, and M. H. Nichols of the Western Electric Company, Portland, were out and took supper at the Sunnyside Wednesday evening and also Thursday evening. They are installing electric light plants to be run by gasoline engines and seem to be meeting with considerable success.
    Miss Mae Wilson of Derby came out on the P.&E. and spent the night with her old friend, Mrs. Amos Ayres, wife of our depot agent at this place, and while here visited Charles Wornall of Derby who is stopping at the Sunnyside, under the care of Dr. Holt, nursing a cut foot.
    Mrs. A. J. Florey took passage on the P.&E. Thursday for Prospect to visit her mother, sister and family. They have measles in the family and she has gone up to assist in caring for them.
    Rev. F. L. Hornshuh and four of his associates came out and conducted religious services Wednesday night. They had a very good congregation, about 60, and they seemed to be very much interested. Rev. H. preached a very good, plain, old-fashioned sermon, something out of the ordinary. He insists on people living better lives, studying their Bibles more and taking Christ as their partner instead of drifting in the old ecclesiastical ruts.
    Rev. Driver, who has charge of the Baptist Publication Society's chapel car, came in Friday morning. He and his wife have a special car, so arranged that they live in the car and when they visit a community where they have no church they can hold services in the car. They arrived Thursday and commenced the meeting on Friday, I suppose, for I left home on Friday afternoon and am now writing at the home of my old friend, Rev. M. C. Davis of Wolf Creek.
    Prof. N. L. Narregan of Medford, the truant officer for Jackson County, was out on official business Thursday.
    Mrs. A. V. Heffner, wife of the superintendent of the Elk Creek fish hatchery, who has been in one of the hospitals of Medford for some time, came out Thursday and expected her husband to meet her and take her home. She was feeling fine when I saw her on the way to the hotel.
    C. S. Webster, who is working in the interest of the Standard Oil Co., was at the S.S. for dinner Friday.
    John Singleton, one of our progressive farmers, was doing business in Medford Friday and so was B. F. Fuller, one of our farmers of Eagle Point, and Mrs. R. A. Tucker of Brownsboro was also transacting business in Medford. W. H. Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons of E.P. made a flying trip to Medford and back Friday. George Nichols Jr. of Medford who had been up Little Butte Creek on business came through E.P. Friday afternoon and I had the pleasure of his company in his auto between E.P. and Medford. We had a fine ride and a very pleasant time on the road. After arriving in Medford the first thing I did was to go to the Mail Tribune office and transact a little business, then went to the Hotel Holland and secured a room for the night and then started out to take in the city, for I go to Medford so seldom that I have to be shown some of the changes being made and had not gone far before I met that jovial Republican candidate for the nomination for sheriff of Jackson County [A. W. Walker] and he invited me to go over and take a look at his new quarters for he was fixing up a fine commodious garage at 125 West Main and was decorating the main room for an opening dance that night and gave me a special invitation to attend but I told him that was rather out of my line as I did not dance. I might have gone and seen how nicely he had his new quarters fixed up but before the time for the dancers to begin I was so tired I went to my room and after reading the D.M.T. through went to bed and had a good night's sleep. The next morning at 7 o'clock started out to find something to eat and went to three eating houses and found no one around--they must be doing business in the morning by the old time--and finally I asked a stranger if he could tell me where I could get my breakfast and be told me to go around the corner a short distance and I would find a cafe that kept open all night. After eating a hearty breakfast I went to the S.P. depot and at 8:02 started for this place, was met by Brother Davis with his Maxwell and taken to his home. More anon.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 7, 1918, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, May 8, 1918, page 4


    Patrick Daily, a well-known young man of Medford, was drowned Tuesday noon near a logging camp in Klamath County. He was 24 years old, the son of James Daily of the Hillcrest Orchard and a nephew of Patrick H. Daily of Medford.
    Details of the accident were lacking in this city today beyond the fact that Daily was a logging camp employee and was hauling logs at the time. His father left for Klamath Falls this morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 8, 1918, page 6


    Mrs. Earl Brittsan and children are visiting in Medford and Ashland.
    Henry Trusty and Diehless Minter called on Miss Mayes Sunday evening at Debenger Gap.
    While Miss Mayes and Myrtle Minter were spending the weekend with friends at Reese Creek, some petty thieves broke in and stole most of their groceries.
    Mrs. Sleichert and daughters, Misses Alice, Maud and Minnie, visited at Mr. Robertson's for the weekend.
    Frank Caster and family visited at W. E. Hammel's Sunday.
    Sam Courtney has completed his painting contract at Butte Falls and is home for the present.
    W. H. Crandall and family visited at Bert Clarno's Sunday after Sunday school.
    Rain began falling early Thursday morning and seems to be general. The farmers are all rejoicing that now the dry weather is broken.
    Mr. and Mrs. Goding and children of Rogue River, but recently from the coast, are visiting at W. E. Hammel's.
    The Lewis sheep have been moved to their camp on the desert for a few days.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 10, 1918, page 4


    As I stated in my last, I am now at this time at the home of my old friend and ministerial brother, Rev. M. C. Davis, four miles from Wolf Creek. On my arrival at the Wolf Creek station, I was met by Mr. Davis and was soon on the way in his Maxwell car, for his home, where I was met by his wife, son Bertie, daughter Miss Esther, and little granddaughter, Inez Howard. After partaking of a bountiful dinner, Mr. Davis then took us in his car for a trip up to the reservoir, where they store their supply of water for mining. On the route we passed through the little village of Golden, that at one time was quite a flourishing mining camp, before the different mining claims passed into the hands of the few capitalists. The reader will remember that while an individual may have a good mining claim where there is good-paying dirt, or if it happens to be a quartz mine, good prospect for gold, that that one person, unless he has the capital to develop the mine is not much better off than he was before, for it takes money to make money. And that is almost invariably the case, for instance, the mine of which I am writing, which is situated .on Society Creek, before it could be worked successfully had to have two ditches dug and one of them is some five or six miles long, and the other is about half that length, and then they have made a large reservoir where they store the water so as to give a pressure sufficient to do the work, and then in addition to the ditch and reservoir there is some five thousand feet of heavy steel pipe from 16 to 24 inches in diameter through which the water is forced by gravity pressure and comes out of a discharge pipe six inches in diameter, and all this has to be done before the gold can be taken out of the dirt, and the result is that the poor man is forced to sell out to the man or men who can command the capital to do all this work. Passing on through Golden we went on up, up the mountainside until we finally reached the reservoir, where we found Mr. Nias Layman, the man who attends to shutting off and turning on the water as it is ordered by telephone and who goes over the entire length of the ditches every day. He lives in a beautiful little cove on the side of the mountain and seemed to be as "happy as a clam at high tide."
    After spending an hour or so looking over his neat new house, garden and flower garden, we began to retrace our steps, and on the way left the car and walked a few hundred yards to the part of the mine where they are working at this time. Owing to the scarcity of water, for there is no snow in the hills this season, and consequently a shortage of water, they can run the hydraulic only a part of the time, a few hours each day. But since I was here a few years ago they have washed off and cleared up several acres of land. The way they clear up the land is to first cut and roll together the timber and burn it to get it out of the way. They then set their elevators and that is an incline built of heavy timbers and plank. It is made on about a 25 percent grade, 12 feet wide and runs to an elevation of about 20 feet. The first part of the floor is made of heavy steel bars two inches wide and one inch thick and a space between the bars of two inches. This extends up for about 12 feet and is so arranged that all of the gold and fine gravel passes through onto a heavy plate of steel and that is so constructed that all the dirt, gold, etc., goes from that into a sluice box containing apartments to catch the gold. The rest of the floor of the elevator is made of heavy plank and extends on up until it reaches the required height, generally about 20 or 25 feet, and as the dirt is washed up by the force of the water the racks are forced onto the elevator and pushed over it. When the rocks get up even with the top they will sometimes put on an extension of 16 feet so that they pile the rock up to a height of 30 feet, and they will roll a boulder over the elevator that will weigh five or six hundred pounds simply by the force of the water. By the use of the two elevators they will clean off an acre of two of land at a time without moving the elevator. When the fine gravel and dirt accumulates so as to interfere with the flow of dirt from the flumes the man who directs the hydraulic simply turns loose the water on that and drives it into a pile to itself and now they have some six or eight of these mammoth piles of rock and gravel. At one setting they will clear off over an acre and half of ground, down to the bedrock, and in many instances the dirt is as much as 12 to 15 feet deep. After they get the dirt and rock all sluiced off they then go over the whole of the bedrock and clean up the gold.
    But I will have more to say about that in my next letter, as I expect to go to the mine again and watch the process of cleaning the bedrock. And also of my trip to Cow Creek.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 13, 1918, page 5


    The last time that I wrote for the Medford Mail Tribune I was at the home of my old friend, Mr. M. C. Davis of Wolf Creek, and in that letter told something of what he and his brother-in-law were doing in the way of mining and promised in my next to tell something more about the mine and of my trip to Cow Creek. After visiting the mine on Saturday afternoon and looking over the work they had done, on Sunday morning we started, that is, Mr. Davis and his daughter Miss Esther, and I, for a school house about eight miles above Glendale on Cow Creek, passing over the noted Cow Creek Hill that used to be such a terror in early days to teamsters--the sixties--but now is one of the finest roads in the country. The route has been changed so that after reaching the summit of the hill going from Wolf Creek the road turns off to the left and runs along the side of the mountain in a northwesterly direction, making a detour of about five miles, so as to take in the city of Glendale, but it is a lively grade, eliminating a long steep hill that in the days of teaming from Roseburg to Jacksonville it used to take sometimes three or four hours to climb. Passing on over the fine road through some of the finest farms in Southern Oregon, we stopped at the little school house and in a short time the children and other members of the Sunday school collected and after an interesting session of Sunday school Brother Davis preached one of his good old-fashioned gospel sermons. There we met quite a number of our friends, and among them was Mr. O. P. McGee. Going to his home we met all the rest of his family, except his oldest daughter, Mabel, who is living with her husband at The Dalles. Mr. McGee for several years was a resident of Eagle Point and Medford, and the family have a number of very warm friends living in this section. He and his boys have bought what used to be known as the Levens stage station, one of the best farms in the Cow Creek Valley, and they are turning their attention to the dairy business, as they now have 21 purebred Holstein cows and three jerseys, and something like 200 head of hogs, 97 head now about ready for market, beside other stock. After dinner Mr. Davis returned home and I remained with the family until Tuesday evening when Mr. Davis and family came over to make a visit and take me to his home with them, reaching there about 11 o'clock p.m.
    In my last I spoke of the amount of dirt they moved in the mine and of the manner of taking care of the rock, etc. But the most interesting part is the cleaning up the "bedrock." The debris is all washed up into piles, as before stated, and then the bedrock is left bare with the exception of a little dirt and what gold naturally settles in the crevices of the rock. Then the hydraulic man turns the pipe onto that and all of the remaining dirt is washed into the lowest part of the channel and carefully gathered up and put into the flume; and then the tedious part of the work begins. For every foot if not every inch of that bedrock has to be gone over with a steel scraper and pick, and often they have to go down as much as a foot where they find a soft place, where the gold accumulates and all has to be gone over with a brush specially prepared for the work until they can find no gold. This is attended to after the water fails so that they cannot clean off the surface. But in this mine it seems to pay, but how well remains to be seen. Friday morning after bidding the family adieu, Mr. Davis started posthaste to catch the S.P. train and when we reached the depot, found that it was one and one-half hours late, but finally we started, and I could but notice the effect the fine rain had had on the growing crops, and the nearer we came to Medford, the brighter the prospect and the more noticeable the improvement in the crops,
     On reaching Medford I went to a cafe, procured my dinner and was soon in company with Charley Terrill, Jr. of Brownsboro, son of one of the prominent Republican candidates for sheriff, on my way home. Reaching home found that Rev. Driver was still there with his chapel car holding services, and that W. L. Mellinger was advertised to lecture that night, on the "Background of the Present War." Mr. Mellinger had delivered his lecture on Mexico some four weeks age and some of the hearers, because he gave the historical facts about our deal, as a nation, with that country, connected with the war of forty-six, threw cold water on the move, accusing him of being pro-German, but by the time he got through with his lecture last night, I think everyone was convinced that he is strictly loyal to the old blue stocking stripe. The commencement was a prayer by Rev. Mr. Driver, the Baptist evangelist, and a song by Mrs. R. A. Weidman, "Its a Long Way to Tipperary," the marching anthem on the battlefields of Europe, and she sang it as no one but an English lady could sing it, giving the regular English accent, and reading a poem by Prof. T. C. Barnard. In the lecture Mr. M. took us back to the days of the formation of the several small states that was molded into the German empire, and showed the cause of the rivalry between England, Russia and Germany. But his lecture must be heard to be appreciated, but everyone I have talked to on the subject speaks in the highest terms of it. The receipts of the evening were turned over to the Junior Red Cross Society of Eagle Point. The Antelope R.C.S. have sent a nice large box of gun wipers and wash cloths to the Eagle Point Junior Red Cross Society through Mrs. R. A. Weidman, their school clerk, for the use of the soldiers.
    Mrs. Jeanette Montgomery has moved to Kerby, Josephine County, and has sent her subscription for the Medford Mail Tribune, as she wants to hear the news from home.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. train Saturday morning was J. N. Fleischner, fish and game commissioner; Carl D. Shoemaker, state game warden of Portland, and George Putnam, the editor of the Medford Mail Tribune. They were on their way to visit the Butte Falls fish hatchery. W. S. Baker and Charles Beale were also passengers on the P.&E.
    Mr. B. R. Burleson and L. M. Wilson of L.C. came in on the P.&E. and took passage on the E.P.-L.C. stage for home.
    Sam Courtney and wife were here Saturday morning. Mrs. Courtney had come in to get 100 little chicks she had ordered by express from Petaluma, Calif. Sam has just got through painting Mr. Baker's, the banker's house, in Butte Falls.
    William Nickle of L.C. brought in a fine lot of hens for Mrs. Howlett Saturday morning.
    Saturday among the guests at the S.S. for dinner (lunch) were: William Nickle, M. J. Moran, John Bell of the Nash Hotel, Medford, Bert E. Harney and A. J. Moran of the Rialto Theater, Medford.
    Miss Katie Sutter and Welthy Bradford of Medford were the guests of Mrs. Van Scoy of Eagle Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 14, 1918, page 5


    A. T. Moore of Persist was a Medford visitor this week,
    Mrs. Fred Sturgis visited at Trail Saturday.
    Mrs. Mark Applegate and little daughter of Medford spent the weekend at Trail. She leaves for Portland Saturday, where her husband is working,
    Miss Enid Middlebusher returned home Saturday after a few weeks in Medford, where she has been having dental work done.
    Fred Sturgis, George Storm, P. F. Johanson, J. W. Miller, E. E. Ash, T. C. Gaines and W. W. Willits were business callers in Medford Saturday.
    The farmers are all rejoicing over the lovely rains a few days ago.
    Dolph Olson was a Sunday visitor at Trail.
    Irma Ash and Mrs. L. B. Pierce spent Saturday and Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Palmer of Medford, returning home Sunday evening.
    Mr. J. Draper and Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Fleming from Chicago have been business callers at Trail for a few days this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 15, 1918, page 3


    The Lake Creek auxiliary of the Red Cross Society will give a cafeteria dinner of the residence of L. C. Charley, about three miles above Brownsboro, on the Little Butte Creek road, Sunday, May 19, from 12 noon until all are served.
    A novel feature in connection with the dinner will be a room fitted up in a manner reminiscent of colonial days, when carding, spinning and weaving were done by the old-fashioned spinning wheel, and the wool combed by hand. The ladies will be attired in Puritan garb. The making of socks from the raw wool to the finished article will be worth the price of the dinner to those who have never witnessed it.
    The roads are now fine for motoring and to those who go, it will be a day of recreation as well as helping a worthy cause. The ladies of the Red Cross have donated the dinner and the proceeds will go entirely for the purchase of material.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 15, 1918, page 6


    Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Medford Mail Tribune Mr. and Mrs. John Perl, Republican candidate for coroner, and their son Frank and his chum, Willis Stockam of Medford, and Harry Smith and Lloyd Stanley called for supper.
    Sunday we didn't have the usual number here for dinner, but among the guests were H. G. Mitter, W. A. Bishop and Gus Plymate, of the S.O. Traction Company, Jacksonville, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wamsley, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Knighten, Mrs. Bert Bryant and her daughter Nitura, Joe Moomaw, Jay Pitzer and Miss Margaret Riley, Harvey Smith, V. S. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Anderson of Ashland, S. S. Bullis, Charley Bacon, wife and two boys and sister-in-law, Mrs. Roy Davis, E. W. Anderson of Copper, Calif., of the Blue Ledge mine, and Mrs. Frank L. Watkins.
    The Antelope Red Cross Society gave a dance on Saturday night in Harvey Carlton's barn and the report comes to me that there was a fine attendance, a good time and everything passed off pleasantly until time to set the supper, when it was discovered that some scalawag had purloined a nice cake that had been donated for the occasion, but they had sufficient for all. The receipts were $53 and one-half was turned over to the Eagle Point Red Cross Society and the other half to the Lake Creek Red Cross Society. If the ladies in the rest of the country are doing as well as they are doing in and around Eagle Point there will be no danger of our boys at the front suffering for the necessities of life.
    The little son of Floyd Pearce while riding his bike Sunday night, going down the street, ran into Chauncey Florey's little boy. He had just come out of his grandfather's confectionery store and stepped into the street when the bike struck him, knocking him senseless. He was picked up and carried to Dr. Holt's residence and soon restored to consciousness. There was no serious damage done, but it should teach bicycle riders to use a lamp at night, especially when they are going so fast.
    Mr. and Mrs. Fleming of Chicago, Ill., and J. Draper of Seattle, Wash., came in on the P.&E. Monday morning and went to Trail with Henry Trusty, the E.P.-Persist auto stage driver.
    J. D. Culbertson and his daughter, Mrs. F. L. Chitwood of L.C., were doing business here Tuesday.
    Mrs. A. G. Florey came out from Medford Tuesday on the P.&E.
    Rev. Driver, the traveling evangelist who is here with his chapel car, is still holding services in the church. On Sunday and Sunday night he had good congregations, especially on Sunday night, when the house was well filled; on both occasions his talks were appropriate to "Mother's Day." He is a very pleasant speaker and so far as I can see is in a fair way to do good in this community. He expects to remain here until June 1.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 16, 1918, page 7


    Mis Ella Belford was here Tuesday, making arrangements to have an entertainment in the school house of Eagle Point on Monday, May 20, at 3 o'clock p.m. It appears that she has been sent out by Mr. Folger, who is one of the many subagents of the food administration to try to influence the people to eat potatoes instead of flour. The Hooverizing agents have us on the point of despair for fear that we will starve and now we have to pay more for the "substitutes" than we do for the flour and if we settle down to live on potatoes, I suppose that the next thing they will take a rise and go like corn, barley, oats, etc., up to nine cents a pound. I don't like to say a word against the printing business, but if the thousands of dollars that is invested in getting out the tons of literature that is sent broadcast over the land through the mails and then thrown in the wastebasket, and the thousands more that is spent in paying the salaries and expenses of the various subagents that are scattered over the country, was appropriated toward defraying the expenses of the war there would not be the great cry for more money to supply our armies.
    J. B. Jackson and family, composed of his wife and daughter, Mrs. Harry Young, and daughter-in-law Mrs. Carl Jackson, whose husbands are now in the U.S. service, started for San Francisco Tuesday in their auto to visit their son Carl, who is at Mare Island at this time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Reter are here visiting Mrs. Reter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey.
    Eli Dahack and J. C. Findley received some four thousand tomato plants Tuesday from the Rogue River country. Mr. Dahack intends to put in an acre, and Mr. Findley two acres this season, besides an acre of squash.
    Jack Vaughn and Gus Ditsworth came out Tuesday with a load of potatoes and sold them to George Brown and Sons.
    Newton W. Borden and wife and Mrs. N. G. Shearer were guests at the Sunnyside Tuesday. Mr. B. is one of the popular Democratic candidates before the primary election for the county judgeship and found quite a number of warm friends in this neighborhood. John Winningham and the S.O. Co.'s truck driver and James Owens, one of the popular candidates for county commissioner on the Republican ticket, was also here Tuesday for dinner.
    George Gardner, the present county clerk and candidate for the county judgeship, and Mr. W. H. Johnson and son were here for supper Tuesday. George and his many friends are quite optimistic over the result of the coming primary election.
    Since my last effort J. C. Barnard has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, 1918, page 2


    Died--Mrs. Stille died of a paralytic stroke Saturday morning, May 11, at her home near Laurel Hill. The remains were interred in the Central Point cemetery there, to await the coming of the Lord.
    Mr. Brittsan preached at Reese Creek Sunday morning.
    Earl Brittsan has bought himself a 1918 Chevrolet.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bates of Medford visited at Earl Brittsan's Sunday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ayres, also Miss Mayes, visited at H. Watkins Sunday afternoon.
    The Junior Red Cross did not meet at the school house this week on account of the eighth grade examinations.
    W. H. Crandall gave the eighth grade examinations at Reese Creek. Those taking it were May French, Myrtle Minter, Paul Robertson and Robert Merritt.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, 1918, page 5


    H. M. Parks, director of the state bureau of mines, at the request of the federal government, recently made an extended examination of the manganese deposits in the vicinity of Lake Creek,and his report made to Secretary Lane is most favorable. He says: "If this low grade manganese ore is distributed throughout the entire depth of the tuff, they will soon have demonstrated a very large tonnage of ore. In fact, if this be the case, it can be demonstrated within a few weeks that ore sufficient to supply the entire needs of the government will be here available, provided proper equipment is installed of sufficient capacity."
    The report in full follows, and will be followed by supplementary reports, and Mr. Parks is now again examining the deposits.
    The Manganese Metal Company's property is situated in Jackson County, Oregon, about 17 miles southeast of the railroad at Eagle Point, a station on the P.&E. railway, connecting with the Southern Pacific railway, near Medford. It is about five miles southeast of Lake Creek post office and near the confluence of Lost Creek with the south fork of Little Butte Creek at about latitude 40 degrees, 20 minutes, longitude 122 degrees, 35 minutes. (See Ashland topographic sheet, U.S. Geological Survey.)
    The manganese ore is found as psilomelane and pyrolusite disseminated through a flat bed of volcanic tuft breccia. The thickness of this bed of tuff in the vicinity where the development is taking place has not been fully determined, but will probably exceed 100 feet. The bottom of this tuff bed outcrops 400 feet above Lost Creek at an altitude of about 2,400 feet.
    The development work thus far is mostly confined to the outcrop of the bed on the nose of the hill, lying between Lost Creek and the south fork of Little Butte Creek and consists of a large open cut on the west side of the hill, some views of which are seen in the accompanying photographs, numbers 1 and 2. This open cut exposes a face about 40 feet vertically in the deepest place and 75 feet horizontally, in addition to this there are five or six other surface cuts farther to the north along the hillside, following the outcrop of the tuff bed for a distance of about 400 yards. In each case these surface cuts penetrate the mantle of weathered overburden, exposing the manganese-bearing tuff in place.
    A churn drill of approximately 100 feet capacity is being used on the north point of the hill which is about 400 yards, north from the large open cut first mentioned. The first drill holes in this vicinity were located at points almost too far down the hill to catch the tuff at all, most of them showing a depth of tuff only 10 to 15 feet thick, the last one being located further up the hill, penetrating 30 feet of manganese-bearing tuff.
    The ore is largely psilomelane, with some pyrolusite very widely distributed throughout the tuff and occurs in varying-sized grains and rounded nodules, sometimes in butyroidal masses. A few of these individual masses have been found weighing from 25 to 50 pounds, but most of them occur as smaller pieces or grains from the size of a bean down to mustard seed. These grains of manganese oxide, when clearly separated from the tuff gangue material, are quite pure, running from 53 to 58 percent manganese. All of the open cuts above described were sampled, running from 2.13 percent to 14.86 percent manganese, the smaller percentages coming from the shallow cuts, the higher one from the main open cut. Here a 12-foot vertical channel sample taken from the face of the open cut, beginning at about six feet below the surface, contained 14.86 percent manganese. On the face of the cut in the deepest part there is exposed an area 12 feet vertically by 30 feet horizontally, that will average from 12 to 15 percent manganese. The development thus far indicates that the manganese content improves materially eight or 10 feet below the surface.
    This company has secured options also on certain holdings about two miles farther north on the ridge, lying between the south fork of Little Butte Creek and the north fork of Little Butte Creek. Some very good-looking manganese ore is found, outcropping in the same formation, and is probably a continuation of the same volcanic tuff bed. The development work here is confined to eight or 10 surface cuts, exposing in most cases ore which appears to be of concentrating grade.
    The volcanic tuff bed in which the ore is found lies between flows of basalt, the overlying rocks of which on this particular hill have been very largely removed by erosion. A glance at the topographic sheet above referred to will show that at least 2,000 to 3,000 feet of these rocks have been removed by erosion in the tributaries of the Little Butte Creek. To have not as yet had the opportunity to particularly study the local conditions, in order to suggest a theory of the origin of these ores, but it seems probable from my hurried study of the situation that the manganese ore described will be found to be the product of weathering and rock decay of the overlying rocks and that they were concentrated in these very porous tuff beds largely, if not entirely, by the action of descending surface waters.
    Very good use is being made of the prospecting drill at the present time and it seems probable that the development work which is now in progress will show that the manganese ore is distributed or disseminated through this tuff bed in sufficient quantity and quality to make it possible to mine a very large portion of it. If this low-grade manganese ore is distributed throughout the entire depth of the tuff, they will soon have demonstrated no very large tonnage of ore; in fact, if this be the case, it can be demonstrated within a few weeks that ore sufficient to supply the entire needs of the government will be here available, provided proper equipment is installed of sufficient capacity.
    Although the milling of manganese ores is comparatively a new field and has been many times attempted with unsatisfactory results, it seems reasonable to expect, owing to the peculiar texture and the occurrence of these hard, rich grains of manganese oxide in a comparatively soft tuff gangue, that the ordinary processes of water concentration would be successful.
    A small experimental mill was built last winter about 150 feet below the large open pit on the west side of the hill. The mill consists of a gyratory crusher of about 550 tons daily capacity, two sets of rolls and two Faust jigs. They also have a Faust table which to date has not been used, owing to a lack of proper adjustment. This machinery has been installed under the direction of the Faust Concentrator Company of Seattle. Some details of the mill are not well arranged and on this account they have been operating under difficulties. Notwithstanding these difficulties they have produced recently about 200 tons of 60 percent concentrates from the two jigs, containing from 10 to 14 percent silica. At my suggestion, Mr. C. W. Scott, the manager, shipped to the mining experiment station at Seattle a few hundred pounds of this ore so that we can assist them in working out the very best scheme of concentration possible.
    A study of the topographic sheet shows plainly that Lost Creek at the property is only 200 feet higher than Eagle Point, the railway station 17 miles away. The wagon road follows the stream on an even grade through an agricultural valley. The road is a fair earth road, certain sections of which, however, are poorly drained. For heavy, all-year road hauling this road will require macadamizing or graveling. Railroad construction from Eagle Point to the property would be comparatively simple and of low cost, there being no rock work and no heavy cuts or fills and only a few small bridges.
    The manganese company is backed by business men of Tacoma.
    Both President Brewitt and manager Scott have expressed their desire to cooperate with the government and seem to be concerned more about government needs than personal gain. They are receptive and appreciative of technical advice and are extremely anxious to avoid mistakes. The services of the Oregon Bureau of Mines and Geology, in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Mines, has been tendered and accepted.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 20, 1918, page 1


    The Sunday chicken dinner held by the Lake Creek Red Cross auxiliary for the benefit of the Red Cross was a big success as hundreds of people from Medford and all parts of the county will testify. The dinner was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lem Charley between Brownsboro and Lake Creek.
    About 500 people were in attendance and the price per plate was 50 cents. All the furniture was taken out of the lower part of the house to make room for the diners, and tables were fixed on the porches and in the yard. It required over two hours to feed the multitude, who were constantly arriving by auto and other vehicles. Cars were parked all about the yard and barn and for a great distance in both directions along the road.
    The bountiful dinner was served on the cafeteria plan, which system worked splendidly. All the edibles, etc., had been donated by the people of the Lake Creek district, so the money taken in was all profit. It is estimated that the total receipts from the dinner and the auctioning of cakes and other things which followed were about $280. Mayor Gates of Medford auctioned off the cakes, several of which brought as high as $3.25 each.
    For some time the women of the Lake Creek auxiliary have been making socks for the soldiers from the raw wool which is donated by the residents of the district, and a striking feature of the dinner yesterday was the exhibition of the old-fashioned spinning wheel and the wool combing cards, and the socks already made.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 20, 1918, page 2


    On Wednesday evening, after I had written my letter for the Medford Mail Tribune, Judge William M. Colvig, his daughter, Mrs. Helen Gale and grandson Windsor Gale, Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Emmens, all of Medford, came in for late supper and after satisfying themselves in that line spent a while visiting our family. That is the first time the judge has honored us in that way for some time. He tells us that he has come to Medford to make his home and expects to be with us more frequently.
    There were three cases of fish came in Thursday to be taken to the Elk Creek fish hatchery to be used to feed the little fish on, that are hatched out. There is quite an art in knowing how to handle the fish hatching business, and from what I can learn, we have the right men in the two hatcheries in this county--the Elk Creek and Butte Falls hatcheries.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Hotel Thursday were Mr. W. Wagner of Elk Creek, Grant Wortz and Mr. A. H. Sunderman of Rogue River, insurance men, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fleming of Chicago, and Mr. J. Draper of Seattle, Wash., who came out on Monday on the P.&E. motor and went to Trail to look over the country, and returned that day and started from here for Medford, intending to go to Roseburg that night. They are in some way connected with the land business. Prof. J. C. Barnard, the principal of our school, [was] also among the diners Thursday.
    D. N. Cochrane of Portland, C. S. Webster and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith and Peter Betz were here Friday.
    F. J. Ayres, one of our hustling farmers, took out two loads of hogs to Mrs. Charles Pruett about the middle of the week.
    Prof. J. C. Barnard went to Central Point to meet his wife, who has been spending a few days in Ashland.
    Mr. Combs, who has been living in the T. H. DeLay house, Eagle Point, has moved onto the Joe Rader place to work for W. D. Roberts.
    Our election passed off very quietly. There were but about one-half of the registered voters who voted, and there seemed to be but little interest manifested. The friends of Chauncey Florey and George Gardner seemed to be the most active.
    John Spitser of Pendleton, Ore., and Gus Ditsworth of Prospect spent the night with us Friday.
    J. V. McIntyre, our banker, and family started for Los Angeles, Cal., in their car Saturday morning, to be gone a couple of weeks.
    Henry M. Parks, director of Oregon Bureau of Mines, was here Saturday on his way up to the manganese mines. I see that the Tacoma Metal Company, the company who are operating the manganese mine on Lost Creek, are hauling out quite a quantity of the ore to our depot ready for shipment.
    Our daughter Hattie started Saturday morning for Portland, where she will spend the summer with her sister, Mrs. G. H. Shaw, and Monday join the rest of the delegates to the grand lodge of the Rebekah from Jackson County and go to Seaside to participate in the work of that convention.
    B. E. Haney of Medford and Mr. F. A. Coffman of Portland called on your correspondent Saturday afternoon, trying to learn of someone who had land suitable and would like to raise cantaloupes simply for the seed. He wants to contract for a large quantity of cantaloupe seed.
    Miss Alma Gould, who is teaching in the Agate school, and Mrs. Herman Meer, Jr., were here Saturday afternoon getting dishes from Roy Ashpole, our hardware and dish merchant, for the picnic dinner to be given at the beautiful home of L. C. Charley, near Brownsboro on Sunday, the 19th, under the auspices of the L.C.R.C. society.
    Gus Ditsworth brought out a load of potatoes for Geo. Brown and Sons Friday evening.
    Among the business callers Saturday were W. P. Houston, wife and daughter, and while here renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune. W. E. Hammond also renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune, and Mrs. R. A. Weidman had her Weekly Mail Tribune discontinued and subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Other visitors to our town were Thomas Ramey, Henry French, Harvey Stanley and Charley Clark.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 21, 1918, page 5


    Miss Eva Osburn spent the weekend with Mrs. L. B. Pierce at Trail.
    Miss Tressie Pence was a Sunday visitor at Trail.
    Miss Flossie Tucker left Saturday for Weed, Calif., where she will join her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Tucker.
    Mrs. R. R. Dawson and little children Carl and Givan visited the road camp near Dr. Kirchgessner's Saturday, returning home with her husband in the evening.
    School has been, and is still, closed on account of measles, but [I] cannot find anyone who has them.
    Miss Clara Skyrman spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Howe.
    Mr. H. Richardson and goats have returned.
    Lulu Adamson is on the sick list.
    M. E. Middlebusher was a Central Point caller Saturday.
    Minnie Poole returned to her home at Drew Sunday, after attending school at Trail for the past six weeks.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 22, 1918, page 5


    It now looks as though the Lake Creek section will lead by a big margin all the other outside divisions of the Medford district in the Red Cross drive. Lake Creek is sure to be the banner section, size of territory considered, unless the other sections get a move on and come to the front with liberal subscriptions.
    Campaign Manager Daniels this noon announced the amount of the contributions reported so far in some of the outside districts as follows: Lake Creek, between $600 and $700; Griffin Creek, $167.25; the Meadows or Antioch district, $100; Butte Falls $100, and Ruch $44.
    Mr. Daniels gave out no figures as to the total so far contributed in the district or in the city of Medford, merely stating that the campaign was progressing favorably and that the various committees were hard at work throughout the district.
    He again announced that when the drive is over a complete alphabetical list will be published in the newspapers of all subscribers and the amount each contributed.
    Tomorrow booths will be established on all the prominent corners in the business district of the city in charge of women workers, who will importune all passersby to contribute to the Red Cross fund.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 24, 1918, page 2


Medford Mail Tribune, May 27, 1918, page 5


    Swan Bergquist, one of our prosperous farmers, has sold his farm and is preparing to leave this part of the country. He told Wm. von der Hellen that he was going back to France to help clean out the Germans. He was in town Thursday morning settling up his affairs and among other things settled for his W.M.T. He sold to C. E. Engelhardt.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Seller, W. Belle, wife and stepson, Corbett Smith of Butte Falls, motored through town Thursday on their way to Medford.
    C. C. Pullen, Portland, mechanical engineer Standard Oil Co., and W. E. Walker, manager Standard Oil Co., dined at the Sunnyside.
    Denny Zimmerlee, who has been living in the house owned and formerly occupied by Rev. L. L. Simmons, has moved out and gone to the L.C. manganese mine to live, where he expects to work this summer, and Owen Swift has moved into the building.
    F. J. Ayres and wife were doing business with our merchants Thursday.
    P. S. Anderson. who owns the Vatche ranch on Rogue River, has purchased a Dodge auto and expects in the near future to take a trip to Los Angeles in it.
    Mrs. F. I. Newport, wife of the depot agent of the P.&E.R.R. of Medford, came out to assist her sister-in-law, Mrs. Amos Ayres, in the business in the E.P. depot during the absence of her husbandm who was called to Portland on business.
    Mrs. Rosa Smith, wife of one of the R.R. employees, came out Thursday.
    W. H. Crandall, the hustling farmer and fancy poultry raiser, was in town Thursday afternoon.
    There are three or four auto trucks hauling manganese ore out from the mine daily and now have a large quantity stacked up at the depot ready for shipment. They each make three trips a day bringing one and a half tons at a load.
    Thursday we had a regular train wreck on the P.&E.R.R. As the train was coming out from Butte Falls loaded with five cars of logs, a car of ties and two box cars, an empty flat car and the passenger coach, one of the logs jarred off the top of one of the cars, causing the derailment of four of the log cars and the passenger car, and the result was that the conductor, Charley Bacon, detached the cars that were wrecked and transferred the passengers to an empty flat car, using railroad ties for seats, and came on out to E.P., and as it happened Henry Trusty, the E.P.-Persist mail carrier, was at the depot with his Ford and Charley Bacon soon arranged for the transportation of the passengers to Medford, among whom were Mrs. John Sandoz, Mrs. Harvey Smith and a man and his wife whose name I didn't learn who was going on to Yreka, Calif., that night, and besides them some four or five little children and several men. The men all except the man who was going to Yreka were taken on to Medford on the little speeder used by the section men. After Charley had arranged for his passengers he started back up the line with his engineer, Tony McClellan, "Dick" Diamond and El Coy, the two brakemen and Mr. Stout, the fireman, and in the course of four hours they placed the four log cars and coach on the track, after repairing it, for considerable of it was out of commission, and were in E.P. safe and sound. There was one of the cars broken in two in the middle, but not so bad but it could make the trip. For fast work in that line Charley and his crew are up to date. Fortunately there was no one hurt and no great damage done.
    Frank L. Bailey, a timber cruiser of the general land office, and William of Applegate spent Thursday night with us; they were on their way to Butte Falls.
    Mr. Burleson, who has charge of the water intake of the Medford waterworks, came out Friday and took the E.P.-L.C. stage for home.
    Our mill men, the Brandon Bros., are running the Snowy Butte mills night and day on their second contract to furnish the government with flour. They have already shipped the first contract, 70,000 pounds, and are rushing the second lot through as fast as possible.
    H. N. Starr of Marshall Wells Hdw. Co., Portland, was here for supper Friday.
    The arrangement was made to have the Reese Creek, Brownsboro, Lem Charley and Eagle Point schools meet in a nice grove about three miles above here on the creek Friday morning and have a nice social time and picnic dinner but there were only two schools represented, the Brownsboro and Eagle Point schools. The cause of the failure of the other schools coming here I have not learned. They had the usual sports enjoyed on such occasions, such as running, jumping, etc., in the forenoon and in the p.m. Prof. Allen of the Corvallis college gave them an address on club work and then Mr. Herrington of Salem gave an address on conservation of feed, etc. There was quite a large crowd and all hands had a good time and the dinner was just like all the picnic dinners they have on Butte Creek, first-class.
    I am requested by our primary teacher, Miss Pina Benedict, to tender the thanks of the board of teachers to those who so liberally gave the use of their autos to carry the children to and back from the grove and other little acts of kindness.
    Miss Mabel Thompson of Derby, who has been visiting Miss Joyce von der Hellen, returned home Saturday.
    Mrs. George West, wife of one of the foresters, was on the train going to B.F. for a few days to visit with Mrs. Beul Hildreth.
    J. B. Jackson, who with his family have been to San Francisco and Mare Island to visit their children, returned Friday night.
    Since my last report Swan Bergquist has settled up for the W.M.T. and Lem F. Coy has renewed his sub. to the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 28, 1918, page 5


    Rev. John Stille preached at Reese Creek Sunday afternoon to a good-sized audience. He will preach at Mr. Merritt's next Sunday afternoon.
    Mrs. Steers and grandson Lee Goding visited at Mr. Winter's the latter part of the week.
    Mr. Bellows and family were in Butte Falls Sunday.
    Miss Maud Merritt has returned to work in the orchard.
    Mary Robertson and Myrtle Winter are also thinning apples in the Corbin orchard.
    Mr. and Mrs. Avery were in Medford last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hammel, Miss Diehless Minter and Mr. and Mrs. H. Watkins were among the business callers last week.
    Mr. W. H. Crandall and family, also Mrs. Clarno and Mrs. Bergman attended service in Eagle Point Sunday morning.
    Last Saturday night about 10 o'clock, there was the most perfect rainbow in the Northwest, which is a very unusual occurrence.
    The frost has been doing quite a bit of damage in this part of the valley.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 30, 1918, page 5


    Mr. Homer Randall returned home Wednesday from Klamath Falls, where he has been working.
    Adolph Olson took a loud of wool to Medford Monday.
    Ed Cushman will leave Monday for Fort McDowell, Cal., where he will go into training.
    Mrs. A. T. Poole was a visitor at Trail Monday.
    Trail lost one of its school teachers when Clara Skyrman was married to Edwin Miller of Central Point Saturday afternoon. We all wish them much happiness.
    George Weeks returned home from Medford where he has been receiving medical treatment.
    Frank Middlebusher went through Medford Thursday on his way to Fort McDowell, Col., where he will go into training. Mrs. Middlebusher and family went to Ashland to see him go through.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Cushman were Medford callers Monday.
    Mrs. C. Skyrman and children went to Central Point Sunday and returned Tuesday evening.
    Mrs. Fred Sturgis visited at Trail Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1918, page 5


    Last Sunday morning, it being the Sunday before Memorial Day, we had our annual memorial services in the Baptist church. It had been announced for several days before and there was an unusually large attendance, and the program was carried out to the letter. The arrangements were all made and the house was beautifully decorated with flowers and bunting, and shortly after Sunday school was dismissed the procession began to file into the church, led by M. S. Wood carrying a large flag of our "Land of the free and home of the brave," followed by the three old veterans of the Civil War, James Jordan Andrews, Jackson Florey and George Wamsley. Then came the wives and widows of those living and of those who have passed on before. There was a seat arranged for any of the Confederate veterans but there was none here to fill the place. Then came the ladies of the Red Cross Society, dressed in their regalia. They were all seated on the left-hand side of the aisle. Then came the Junior Red Cross members, also dressed in their regalia, and they were seated on the right side of the aisle. Then the rest of the congregation was promiscuously seated in the rear. The choir was seated on the platform. Then all of the congregation sang "My Country 'Tis of Thee," etc., prayer by Rev. William Driver, the traveling evangelist, who is here with his chapel car. Then singing by the choir. Then the pinning on the stars on the service flag by the parents of the boys who have been called to do battle for their country, according to the roll call. This was the most solemn part of the entire program. This was followed by an address by Rev. Driver. As he is a minister he took for his text the forty-fifth of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm. It was more of a lecture than a sermon, for he carried us back to the landing of the Pilgrim fathers and brought us down through the ages and showed how our fathers adhered to the true democracy and the result is a great and glorious nation honored by all the world. I heard quite a number express the opinion that it was as fine an address as they ever heard. Mr. Driver is a very pleasant, forceful speaker, and those of the citizens of Eagle Point and vicinity who have neglected to hear him during the past three weeks have missed a regular treat.
    Among the callers Sunday at the Sunnyside were Mrs. C. D. Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Gall of Sams Valley, Charley Clary of Table Rock, Frank L. Bailey, a U.S. timber cruiser, who had been up to Butte Falls during the week and came back here to spend the Sabbath, Mr. and Mrs. William Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons, Charley Bacon, wife and two boys, Joe Moomaw, Horace Geppert, Jed Edsall, the last two named had come out from one of the logging camps to reload a car of saw logs from off a car that was wrecked in the smashup onto another car, Lloyd Stanley, Jay Pitzer, William Haselton, Miss Ethel Riley, and Miss Urzula Geppert.
    Mrs. Etta Florey and Miss Hazel Brown went to Medford Monday morning.
    Miss Inez Willits and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Amos Willits, came out Monday morning in Mrs. Willits' auto, and Miss Inez went on up home to Tourist [sic] on the auto stage.
    William Holman of Climax came out Monday with an old mower and traded it to a Medford hardware firm for a new one. That is business.
    R. E. Morris, school supervisor, R. P. Harrington of Salem and Prof. J. C. Barnard, principal of our school, N. N. Yost of Boise, Idaho, W. E. Root of Medford, who are canvassing the county looking after the fruit industry in the interests of Denny & Co., Chicago, Ill., Otto Weiss, with Robertson Hardware Company, Portland, and J. C. Brown, who is also in the fruit business, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Since my last report W. Wagner of Trail, James Owens, ex-commissioner, and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and D. S. Nichols have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, May 31, 1918, page 5


    Among the business callers Wednesday afternoon were D. S. Patrick, Mrs. Dupray and her daughter, Mrs. George Albert. The two ladies had been to Medford, from the Dupray sawmill at Bridge Nine on the P.&E. and on the way home had a breakdown in their car so managed to get as far as Sunnyside and after phoning to different parties to come to the rescue, without avail, trying to secure someone with a car to take them, finally got Horace Geppert to come to the rescue, and about 10 p.m. started for home. They said that the rush to get home was on account of caring for the cows, chickens and pigs at home as Mr. Albert had to have his car hauled to Medford for repairs.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Ewing of Seattle were business callers Wednesday evening. Mr. Ewing is one of the Seattle firm that is interested in the developing of another manganese mine in the vicinity of Lost Creek.
    Mrs. George West, wife of one of Uncle Sam's timber cruisers, located now near Odessa, Klamath County, came out from Butte Falls Thursday and spent the night visiting Mrs. Howlett, taking passage with Bert Peachey, one of the forest rangers, for Medford, Friday morning. She expects to start soon to join her husband and spend the summer in Klamath County.
    Frank Haselton, one of our soldier boys, who enlisted in Company C, Coast Artillery, and has been at Camp Stevens, came home to visit his parents and friends in Eagle Point and was with us Thursday for dinner. He, with the thousands of others of the patriotic young men, are getting anxious to be in the scrap with the Huns in Europe. He is on a short furlough, and by the time this is in print will probably be on his way across the continent.
    Rev. William Driver and wife, the Baptist evangelist, who is here with his chapel car, went to Butte Falls with Mr. Guy Pruett and his mother about the middle of last week. He expressed a desire to go to Butte Falls and spend a month preaching there, but says that the railroad is so rough that he is afraid it would wreck his car all to pieces as it is so long, 77 feet, that it will not stand the strain.
    There was quite a number of our citizens who have relatives buried in the Central Point cemetery went from here to do honor to the loved ones who have gone before.
    Miss Helen Moore, who has been teaching school in the Lem Charley district, just above Brownsboro, is visiting the family of S. H. Harnish and daughter, Mrs. Fred Dutton.
    Thursday evening Mayor Gates and wife, Laura Gates, Mark Gates, Judge Milton Bradon, wife and Browning Purdin, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Newberry, all of Medford, came in unannounced for supper, and Gus N. notified your correspondent that he would not be able to get any supper, but as usual there was enough for all and then some.
    John Simon, who has been up in the Lost Creek country prospecting for the past week or more, returned to his room Thursday evening.
    Friday Mrs. E. L. Roundtree called me up on the phone and ordered the Daily Mail Tribune. Thus our list of daily subscribers continues to grow larger as its worth becomes more generally known, and the interest in the titanic struggle seems to grow more intense.
    Jed Edsall and Horace Geppert came out from the logging camp to unload a car of logs that was wrecked in the smashup. As the car was so badly damaged as to be unsafe to use on the road, it was taken to Medford for repairs.
    Friday J. Frank Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons, and wife, S. E. Purvine, a business man from Salem, O. C. King, wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. C. E. Smith, and Mr. C. S. Webster of the Standard Oil Company were here for dinner.
    Amos Ayres, our efficient and accommodating depot agent, who was called to Portland on business, returned to his post of duty and this Saturday was helping to unload the freight that comes to our town.
    Oliver Adams and William Sears were on the train bound for Butte Falls Saturday morning.
    Mrs. J. H. Carlton and Mrs. Van Hardenberg were shopping Saturday morning with our merchants.
    Our school closed Friday and two of our teachers, J. C. Barnard and Miss Pina Benedict, have returned to Ashland, but Miss Benedict expects to return to take charge of our primary department in the school again this fall.
    George Wehman, who is clerking in the von der Hellen hardware store, R. G. Brown of the firm of George Brown & Sons, L. (Buster) McClelland, Jed Edsall, the logging contractor of Edsall's station, Mrs. Howlett, Eugene Geppert, Orville Childreth, Estella Betz and Thomas Lewis, Reed Charley and Fay Perry went to Medford Friday evening to attend the carnival.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 4, 1918, page 5


    Mrs. C. A. Thompson and two small daughters, Mabel and Gertrude, moved to Portland recently, where they will make their future home. They will be greatly missed by their many friends and customers as Mrs. Thompson kept the store at Derby.
    Mr. and Mrs. [omitted initial]. M. Allen spent last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl von der Hellen of Wellen.
    Miss Alice Humphrey spent a few days with the McIntyre family at the Pine Lumber Company's camp, near Butte Falls, last week.
    Mrs. Fred Kelso and Ed Chartraw of Butte Falls spent the weekend with their brothers, Raphael and Fred Chartraw.
    Mr. and Mrs. August Edmondson and children of Butte Falls motored down Sunday to spend the day with Mr. Edmondson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Edmondson.
    Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman spent Friday night with her sister, Mrs. W. L. Edmondson.
    Miss Alta Dunlap is spending the week with Mrs. H. E. Webb, during Mr. Webb's absence.
    A few of the patriotic persons of Derby observed Memorial Day by spending last Friday at the Butte Falls cemetery.
    We expect to lose some more of our neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Schutt, who intend to spend the summer on the Stille ranch near Trail.
    Mr. Frank Neil and his crew of men have been doing road work lately. They have been leveling and grading the roads, which makes quite an improvement.
    The days are warm, the roads are fine, the water is clear. What has become of all of those fishermen that used to come up here every Sunday last summer?
Medford Mail Tribune, June 6, 1918, page 5


    Among the business callers Saturday afternoon were Miss Wilmer Morris, of Butte Falls, W. S. Baker, V. E. Brittsan, Carl Bergman, and Thomas O'Brien. Mr. Brittsan and Bergman were on their way up to the P. S. Anderson ranch with seven head of milk cows. Mr. Anderson is stocking his ranch with dairy cows and finds that it is a profitable business. They bought the cows near Talent and drove them as far as Eagle Point the first day.
    The Red Cross dance Saturday night proved to be a paying business as they sold one hundred and twenty-five numbers at a dollar each and received twenty-five dollars for lunches, netting the society a little over one hundred dollars.
    Sunday morning broke on us bright and fair, just such a morning as we generally have here in this favored land about June 1st, and the result was that quite early in the morning the autoists from the different parts of the country as well as from the towns and cities were on the road going some one way and some another. Quite a number of our citizens took a trip across the Siskiyous to Hilt, Hornbrook and Yreka. Some of them had a little experience on their return trip when they crossed the state line, having their autos searched by the state police, but I heard of no arrests being made. There was also a number came from Medford and Jacksonville out here for dinner, among whom were the Medford postmaster, George P. Mims, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, H. K. Hammel and wife, Judge and Mrs. Tou Velle, J. J. Haville, Mrs. M. Barber and Miss Barber.
    Sunday was the closing day for the protracted meeting that Rev. Wm. Driver has been holding for the past month. He has preached six times a week during four weeks in May and the most of his sermons were good; although he did not succeed in gaining many members to his church during the month, there were eight came forward and by that act expressed a desire to embrace Christ, but there was only two united with the church and they were Mrs. Robinson and her little daughter. They were immersed Sunday afternoon in Butte Creek. Sunday night he held his last services and had a good congregation. Rev. Driver and his wife are fine singers and are very pleasant and agreeable companions, and we trust that their labors in their next field of labor will be crowned with abundant success. His car was taken to Medford Tuesday.
    Died--June 5, Mrs. Emma E. Mills at the residence of her father, Mr. John McCallister, near Lake Creek, aged 22 years, six months and 13 days. She leaves her husband, one child, her father, three brothers and three sisters. The remains were interred Wednesday afternoon in the Brownsboro cemetery. Religious services were conducted by your Eagle Point correspondent. There was a large number of neighbors and friends followed the remains to the grave.
    County Surveyor Rhodes was among the business visitors Tuesday.
    Mrs. O. M. Goss, who has been teaching the intermediate department of our school, moved to Butte Falls Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Tyrrell, formerly of Lake Creek but now living on the Medford-Jacksonville road, were smiling on their old friends in Eagle Point Tuesday. They had been up to look over their old place where the manganese mine and mill is situated, but she says that the place does not look natural for things are so changed; it don't look like her old neat home but more like a mining camp. They have bought a little home about two and a half miles from Medford and Mrs. Tyrrell says that she is getting used to her new home and likes it very much. That she has become acquainted with quite a number of her new neighbors through the Red Cross Society and is beginning to feel quite at home.
    D. R. Patrick was among the diners Tuesday and he reports that he has about seventy porkers that he intends to turn off this fall and then he thinks of going to work in some one of the government shipyards. He is a carpenter by trade.
    Superintendent Nealon of the P.&E. reports that the S.P. railroad company have put in an order for 90,000 feet of lumber and that the U.S. government have an order for one hundred thousand feet from the Butte Falls mill, so that will give the P.&E. something to do provided the mill gets to work and does business.
    The most of the farmers are busy now cutting and putting up their hay and I noticed that there was quite a lot of hay already cut as I went to Brownsboro today to attend that funeral. But there seems to be a general complaint that the hay crop is very short.
    Sam Courtney and his brother-in-law, Frank Caster, are cleaning up and repainting a number of cars just now. They took dinner with us Tuesday.
    J. H. Trusty of Trail and his son Henry and C. W. Webster were also among the callers Tuesday.
    Ralph Gardner of Lake Creek, Mrs. Grant Mathews and her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Johnson, Miss Diehless Minter and her father, Robert Minter, Frank Miller and wife and J. A. Coss were among the business callers Tuesday. Messrs. Miller and Coss report that they have unearthed a manganese mine on Salt Creek that assays equal to if not better than any of the ore that has been discovered as yet in that section.
    One of the Adler brothers and one of the Rummel brothers who are working in the manganese mine on Lake Creek went up on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 7, 1918, page 5


    Rev. John Stille preached at Mr. Merritt's last Sunday afternoon to good audiences on: "Jesus Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost." He will preach at Reese Creek next Sunday afternoon.
    The Junior Red Cross still meets at the school house on Friday afternoons.
    Cleo and Lois Robertson of Eagle Point visited at their grandparents' this week.
    W. E. Hammel and H. Watkins made a business trip to Talent this week.
    Mr. Crandall and family took dinner at Mr. Vestal's Sunday.
    Several from this neighborhood attended the services and baptizing at Eagle Point Sunday.
    There is a busy throng at the Lewis sheep camp these days shearing his sheep.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 7, 1918, page 5


    George Brown of Brownsboro finished shearing his sheep Wednesday and has engaged his wool to one of the Medford wool buyers at 61 cents a pound, about the highest price ever paid in this section for unwashed wool.
    George Brown and Sons received a carload of salt Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Hickox and their daughter arrived from Iowa Thursday to visit their son, L. L. Hickox and family. They were met at the train by their daughter, Mrs. L. L. Hickox and little daughter.
    S. P. Harmon and family of Medford were also on the train on their way to the Ed Walker logging camp near Bridge mine on the P.&E. railroad.
    William Willits of Persist sent out by Thursday's mail 18 packages of pie plant weighing 267 pounds to Crandall & Robinett of Central Point.
    E. Cole, C. A. Hamlin, Oscar Heiktz and J. H. Looley of Medford, C. A. Newstrom of L.C.; C. W. Webster and Ernest McKee of Medford, S. H. Harnish and Ed Dutton of E.P. were diners at the Sunnyside Friday. Ed is our road supervisor in this district and has just completed a new piece of road just west of Brownsboro where he has made a fine four percent grade around a hill that we have been going up for the sake of coming down for the past 50 years. And there has already been work and money enough spent on that hill to have paid the cost of a good share of building the new road, to say nothing about the wear and tear of horses and harness.
    Ed also reports that he has just sold 88 head of mixed cattle to Thomas Farlow of L.C. for a good round sum.
    Ernest McKee was out to overhaul our gasoline engine and pumping plant.
    Thursday's train brought in two cars to be loaded with manganese ore, and a force of men were loading them Saturday.
    Our P.&E. [rail]way seems to be doing considerable business just now, as they are hauling out occasionally a car of lumber and about every trip they make, three trips a week, they bring out from two to four cars of logs, beside they have quite a number of passengers each way and when the railroad company get in the new siding at Bridge mine, at the Ed Walker camp, they will probably have enough to do to justify running every day.
    J. L. Robinson, one of our prosperous farmers, brought in twelve sacks of flour and turned it over to one of our merchants to be used by the United States government, and he said that he would like it if he could turn in as much more. Said that he had a lot of corn meal and that they could live very well on that, and if it was necessary he would let that go also. The people are beginning to realize the importance of the position, and while our boys are doing battle on the front those of us who are left are willing to make any sacrifice to help and encourage them. The women and girls are also showing their willingness to do their part, for I notice that they are working in the orchards, cultivating the ground, thinning the fruit, cutting out blight, mowing and raking hay, in fact doing almost anything there is to do.
    William Haselton has sold off his hogs and is now talking of going to Ashland to live.
    Since my last report C. A. Newstrom of Lake Creek has renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune.
    Rev. M. C. Davis, the veteran Sunday school evangelist of Wolf Creek, Oregon, will preach in the Baptist church in Eagle Point on next Sunday, June 16, at 11 o'clock a.m. and 8 o'clock p.m., or immediately after the closing of the Christian Endeavor Society. Free for all. No collections.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 11, 1918, page 5


    Mrs. Lizzie Nichol and little children are spending the summer with her uncle, N. C. Vaughn.
    Mrs. Fred Warner was a business visitor in Medford Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Miller of Central Point spent a few days with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Skyrman, last week.
    Mrs. Marian Pierce closed a very successful term of school at Trail Friday. She returned to her home in Medford Friday evening.
    Miss Flora Skyrman visited Friday and Saturday with Irma Ash.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. Trusty of Ashland are visiting with the former's parents on Elk Creek for a few days.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. Sturgis and Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Ash toured to Yreka Monday, returning Tuesday.
    Mrs. Chas. Springer is staying with her mother, Mrs. A. A. Hall, during Mr. Springer's absence.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 12, 1918, page 5


    Sunday morning by 9 o'clock the road was lined with autos going to the different resorts along the banks of our beautiful Little Butte Creek, and by noon there were hundreds of pleasure seekers picnicking not only along the banks of the stream, but also up Rogue River, and many of them improved the time and opportunity to catch a mess or two of fish for their lunch. We didn't have so many guests at the Sunnyside as usual, but still there were enough to make it interesting, Among those who were there for their dinner were Dr. W. P. Holt, wife and daughter, Miss Helen, Mr. Pelouze, one of our progressive and prosperous farmers, who has recently returned from the Presidio, near San Francisco, where he could be in close touch with his son Bob, the young athlete who has been to France and had a taste of the realities of what the United States soldiers have to encounter, and was taking lessons in the aviation course when he was stricken down with that dreadful disease, spinal meningitis, and who had been hovering between life and death for some time, but he reports that his son seemed to be getting along all right when he left him and hopes that he will be able to come home on a furlough in a short time. Mrs. Pelouze remained with him, or rather near him. We are all anxiously waiting to see him return again in good health, and the many friends are experiencing a great deal of sympathy for the family.
    Mr. Jack Latan and three other men from the manganese mine on Lost Creek were here for dinner Sunday. Mrs. T. F. Boltz and her two children, Mr. Orville Childreth and Miss Urzula Geppert, Joe Moomaw, and later in the day Mr. P. S. Anderson and his daughter, Miss Phina, who recently arrived in Medford from Coos Bay, where she has been teaching school, Frank Smith, Miss Viola Hagen, who is teaching in the Crater Lake school house near Butte Falls, Mrs. Anna Corum and her two little girls, John Foster and Horace Geppert of Butte Falls.
    We had a very interesting meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society last Sunday evening and at the close elected new officers. Mrs. Robison was selected president and Mrs. Grover vice president; Mrs. W. S. Childreth secretary-treasurer and Miss Nora Childreth organist. It was decided that they would meet promptly at 8 o'clock p.m. during the summer months.
    Remember that Rev. M. C. Davis is to preach here Sunday, June 16th, at 11 a.m. and as soon as the C.E.S. closes, and afternoon.
    Monday morning Mr. and Mrs. J. Rigsby of Brownsboro went from here to Medford in Lewis' jitney and Sam Coy went to Central Point at the same time.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Farlow and their three daughters, Myrtle, Elva and Vida of L.C. came out and went to Medford, taking with them 600 pounds of flour to turn over to the United States government and returned to take dinner at the Sunnyside.
    E. D. Rose of Wellen, Miss Winifred Haak, Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Stanley, were among the business callers Monday.
    Miss Elsie Warren of Crescent City is here visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    Mrs. Manuel Leibman, nee Miss Claire Zimmerman, for several years head clerk in the E.P.P.O. and telephone girl in the telephone office, and one of our old and highly esteemed boarders, returned to the Sunnyside to spend the summer Monday. Her husband is packing cantaloupes in Imperial Valley, California, and expects to join his wife in July and pack fruit this fall.
    Mr. and Mrs. Marsh Garrett of L.C. passed through here on their way to Medford Tuesday.
    D. M. Hill of Derby, J. E. Olson of Medford, W. L. Kirkland of Beagle, L. Williams of Central Point, Sam Miller of Bly and his sister, Myrtle Miller of Lake Creek, were passengers on the P.&E. Tuesday and among them were two veterans of the Civil War, and the subject came up as to who had sons in the present war and one of them remarked that he had two sons in the service and another had three and a younger one said he was ready to go whenever called for and thus it goes. Almost everyone seems willing to help the good cause along. Mr. Miller is a son of our John Miller up Little Butte Creek, above L.C., and he was going up to visit his parents.
    Mr. Stillwell, one of the men engaged in one of the logging camps, and Dolph Naylor, a machinist in the L.C. mine, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    W. W. Willits sent out 12 packages of rhubarb weighing 230 pounds Tuesday to Medford by parcel post.
    Amos Ayres, [our] P.&E. agent, sent out a fine lot of broilers to Medford Tuesday.
    Miss Ruby Haley of Eagle Point, George Albert and Mr. Ward of Butte Falls were on the train Tuesday evening, bound for Medford.
    Since my last report N. W. Slusser, Eagle Point, has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and Gus Nichols of Brownsboro has ordered his Weekly Mail Tribune discontinued and the Daily Mail Tribune sent in its place, as he says that a weekly paper is too slow these fast times.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 13, 1918, page 5


    Mrs. Mae Richardson, son John and Miss Winnie Walker visited at the home of the former's brother, Frank Ditsworth, last week.
    The Misses Margery Erskine and Hope Nye were visitors at the Peyton home last week.
    Lorne and Mildred McCoy made a business trip up in this vicinity last week.
    Mr. Toney is trying to improve the road between his ranch and R. B. Vaughan's.
    Our mail carrier, Lloyd Wilson, has purchased a new Ford and is now carrying the mail in it.
    Miss Lillian Nye spent Friday night and Saturday with Hazel Ditsworth.
    A party of friends and relatives motored up from Beagle to visit Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Ditsworth last Sunday.
    Mr. R. B. Vaughan also spent the day Sunday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L. A. Ditsworth.
    The pond at Peyton's is being visited quite frequently by the young people of this community these warm afternoons.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 13, 1918, page 5


    Miss  Abbott of Butte Falls visited Mrs. W. E. Hammel Saturday night and Sunday.
    Rev. John Stille preached at the school house Sunday afternoon to a full house. A few came from Agate, also from Laurel Hill. His text was "Putting on the Whole Armor of God." This is probably the last time Mr. Stille will preach in the vicinity before leaving for Portland.
    The Sunday school group gathering of this section of Sunday schools will meet at Reese Creek school house the last Sunday of July. Everyone should plan to come. It will be an all-day meeting.
    Mrs. Davis of Derby spent Saturday night at Mr. Vestal's and attended Sunday school and preaching at the school house the following day.
    Miss Maud Merritt spent Sunday at home and returned the first of the week to her work in the orchard.
    Mr. and Mrs. Steers of Rogue River are out looking after their sheep and visiting at Mr. W. E. Hammel's.
    Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. F. Newport and daughter; also Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Smith of Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Ayres of Eagle Point, visited at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres.
    The hot weather is causing the farmers some anxiety in this vicinity. Wednesday morning the people's hopes were raised by the thundering and lightning, but the rain all went around, leaving this section disappointed.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 14, 1918, page 5


    In a former letter I stated that Thomas Farlow of Lake Creek had brought in six hundred pounds of flour and taken it to Medford to be returned to the U.S. government to be used for war purposes, but I should have stated that he left it with George Brown and Sons of Eagle Point instead of Medford and I understand that several others have brought in flour and left it here with our merchants to be turned over to the government. It is a common remark that we hear every little while that "We are willing to live on potatoes if by that means we can put an end to this horrible butchery."
    Gus Nichols, at the time he came in and stopped taking the Weekly Mail Tribune and subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune, brought in two hundred pounds of flour and left it for the U.S. at the store of T. E. Nichols.
    Ed Higinbotham of Derby and his little daughter were doing business here Thursday.
    Ferdinand Lawson, a traveler from St. Louis, came out on the P.&E. from St. Louis Thursday and went on up to W. E. Hammel's farm to visit the family, as he is a friend of Mr. Hammel's family in St. Louis.
    A. B. Cunningham, salesman and contractor for Paul's Electric Store, Medford, and O. C. Knight, traveling light specialist of Western Electric Company, Seattle, Wm. Moon, of Prospect, and two of his men and P. S. Anderson and daughter Miss Phina were here Thursday for dinner.
    Andrew Simpson, a mining prospector formerly of these parts, was shaking hands with some of his old friends of long ago. He is a son of Wm. Simpson who lived some forty years ago in Brownsboro and [is] of the pioneer stock of Jackson County. He has been a traveling miner for the past twenty-five years and has made some good discoveries. He was headed for the headwaters of South Umpqua River.
    Adolph Olson of Trail and two of the Trusty brothers were here Thursday night for supper and beds.
    Herbert Carlton and wife passed through town on their way home Friday morning. They had been out to Medford to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ulrich.
    Mr. E. L. Roundtree was in town Friday and while here paid up a three months' subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune that he had ordered over the phone about a week before. Wm. von der Hellen has also renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and Mrs. W. B. Chartson, formerly of Derby, but now of Gold Hill, while on the train Saturday morning paid up a small balance on her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. She had written to have the change made from the Weekly Mail Tribune to the Daily Mail Tribune and so paid up a small balance due.
    Mrs. Royal G. Brown, who has been on a visit to relatives up north as far as Vancouver, B.C., after visiting her aunt, Mrs. Robert Brown in British Columbia and her daughter and son in Portland, returned to her home here last week.
    Prof. C. Engelhardt, who bought the Swan Bergquist place west of Eagle Point, was buying fence posts of the von der Hellen Hardware Company Saturday.
    Henry Trusty, who has the contract for carrying the mail from Eagle Point, answered the call of his government and started for Portland Saturday evening at 7 o'clock. He has been a regular boarder at the Sunnyside the most of the time for the past four years and has left a large circle of warm friends to look with anxiety over the casualty list from the seat of conflict. During the almost four years he has carted the mail from Eagle Point to Persist he has made a host of friends who will miss his genial smile and cordial greeting.
    John Winningham, the man who has secured the contract for carrying the mail over the Eagle Point-Persist route, was in town Saturday trying to arrange for a house to move his family into while he is carrying the mail during the next four years.
    W. J. Cannon, our Brownsboro merchant, and Mr. Thompson, our Lake Creek merchant, were doing business among us Saturday.
    S. M. Miller of Bly, Oregon, who has been up in the Lake Creek country visiting his parents, took the train Saturday for Eastern Oregon.
    A young lady by the name of Zimmerman came out on the train and took the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for the Lake Creek country. She was going up to see Messrs. Thomas Farlow and H. P. Burleson on business connected with the school.
    Mr. C. Hepp of Portland came out on the P.&E. and took the stage for Lake Creek. He was going up to the manganese mine.
    O. Adams of Butte Falls was a passenger on the eastbound train Saturday.
    There was considerable machinery on the P.&E. for Ed Walker's logging camp Saturday.
    Mrs. Hessler and Miss Daley, a daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Daley of Lake Creek were also passengers on the train.
    Lee Steers, who has a band of sheep in one of the pastures on the desert south of Eagle Point, came in Saturday morning for his breakfast. He said he had to stay all night with his sheep on account of the coyotes.
    Mrs. David Cingcade requested me to say that she had picked up a pair of spectacles near Agate, in a case from Dr. Rickert's office.
    Rev. M. C. Davis and wife motored from Wolf Creek Saturday and were guests of your correspondent and family over Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 18, 1918, page 5


    Last Saturday night Horace Geppert, mother, brother and sister, of Butte Falls, and Rev. M. C. Davis and wife of Wolf Creek, were among the guests at the Sunnyside; and on Sunday morning after leading the Bible class in the Sunday school Mr. Davis preached to a small audience one of his good, old-fashioned gospel sermons, but at night after the exercises of the Christian Endeavor Society were over he preached to a good-sized congregation, who after listening to his sermon gave him a cordial greeting and expressed their pleasure in meeting him once more. He used to preach here quite often when he was the traveling evangelist for the Congregational Sunday school and church, and has a host of friends in this county who are always ready to give him a cordial greeting.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday in addition to those already mentioned were Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ash, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. and C. Kee [Ernest McKee], daughters of Medford; Mr. Charles Clark of Table Rock, William Coy, B. E. Haney, wife and mother, Mrs. Schmidt, of Medford, J. A. Thomas, wife and son of Eugene; Mrs. Yockey and daughter, Miss Helen, Mrs. W. A. Herman, also of Medford; George Wamsley and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Meyer, Guy Pruett and Clifford Hickson, R. E. Thomas and Y. C. Milend of L.C., spent the night with us.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres, wife of our depot agent, went up to Elk Creek Monday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Trusty.
    Our school election passed off very quietly Monday. There was an unusually large attendance, as there seemed to be an effort on the part of the minority to have a change in the school board. After the statement by the retiring director, Mrs. L. K. Haak, of the financial management of the district, showing that by such judicious management that there had been a saving of considerable money to the district and demonstrating the advantage of having the high school department, the meeting was called to order in due form and the report was made by the clerk, W. C. Clements, showing that the district was in a healthy condition, and stating the object of the meeting, the chair called Mr. S. B. Holmes to take the chair during the election. Before Mrs. H. called Mr. Holmes to the chair, the clerk read the resignation of William Perry as director and the resignation was accepted, and then the nominations were called for the directorship. Mrs. Haak was nominated for reelection and Sam Coy was nominated to take her place on the board. The result was Mrs. H. received 28 votes and Sam Coy 19. Then nominations were called for for a director to fill the unexpired term of William Perry and the name of Mrs. Mary Brown was called and there being no other, the clerk was instructed to cast the vote for Mrs. Brown. Then came the tug of war, the nomination for clerk, and the following names were called and as fast as called refused to accept. W. C. Clements, the retiring clerk, and he positively refused, then J. V. McIntyre, S. B. Holmes, G. W. Wamsley, Roy Ashpole, Lottie Van Scoy, Mrs. W. L. Childreth and Mrs. J. V. McIntyre, and they all declined the honor, and then someone named Mrs. W. H. Brown, and as she was not present to protest, she was elected. But now comes another difficulty, for it is one thing to elect a person to an office and another to make them serve, and in this particular instance it is the "office seeking the man," for there seems to be no one who wants it. And whether they can force the present incumbent to hold over or not is a question, for he is a United States officer, the postmaster, and can he hold two remunerative offices at the same time? So it seems to be up to the board to provide a clerk. So far is Mrs. Haak is concerned as a school director it is generally conceded that during the four years that she has been director that she has taken more interest in the school than anyone in the district, and I heard one man that was in a position to know say that she had done more to build up the school than anyone in the district and still he was opposed to her reelection.
    George Nichols, Jr., and Ernest Klingle of Lake Creek and S. S. Engle of Prospect were with us Monday night. They were driving a band of cattle Mr. Nichols had bought of Fred McPherson up to the Dead Indian range.
    F. M. Tungate and wife of Jacksonville were on the P.&E. Tuesday on their way to Butte Falls and Mrs. S. E. Loer was going up to the Ed Walker logging camp to visit her daughter, Mrs. Ed Walker.
    Mr. Delman Claspill was on the train to Butte Falls to visit his parents. He was on a short furlough to visit his old home.
    Mrs. Brittsan, wife of Rev. Brittsan, who has been stopping on the Anderson ranch with her two sons, was the guest of Mrs. Thomas E. Nichols Tuesday, on her way to Medford.
    L. H. Jurgens and son Hartel, of Orton, Wash., were through here looking over the country Tuesday, and Mrs. Fred Frey and her sister-in-law, Mrs. W. C. Edler of Lake Creek, were passengers for Medford on the P.&E. Tuesday.
    Robert A. Neil of Lake Creek was doing business with our bank Tuesday, and while here renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune, and J. F. Maxfield, who lives north of here five or six miles, left one and a half dollars with George Brown and Sons, our merchants, to subscribe for the Medford Mail Tribune, and W. H. Crandall while in town renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 20, 1918, page 5


    The Trail school board met Friday and re-elected D. Foeller as clerk and elected Oliver Gaines as chairman.
    Ella Adamson is assisting Mrs. J. Trusty with her work for a few weeks.
    Mr. Moore passed through Trail Monday with his cattle on their way to the summer range.
    Harry Skyrman and father, C. T. Skyrman, were Central Point visitors last week.
    Mrs. Chas. Springer and brother, Ruby Hall, were Sunday visitors at the Ragsdale home.
    Mrs. Ragsdale and children visited Wednesday with her sister, Mrs. Rena Avery. Mrs. Avery and children move to Union Creek Thursday for the summer.
    Mrs. T. C. Gaines is improving slowly.
    Mrs. R. E. Foeller and children were Trail visitors Wednesday.
    A. A. Hall is hauling lumber to the Sturgis ranch.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 21, 1918, page 5


    Mr. Brittsan preached at Reese Creek last Sunday forenoon, his text being "Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is."
    Mr. Stille not having left was to have preached at the same place in the afternoon, but his car was out of commission and living so far away he phoned he could not be there. It was quite a disappointment, but as most everyone had brought their lunch expecting to remain for the afternoon they stayed and had a good prayer service.
    The Junior Red Cross meets each Friday afternoon at the school house to sew. The following is a list of the articles that was made and sent to headquarters last month: Five waists, seven pair of panties, seven skirts, six dresses, six pair mittens, sixteen wash rags, one shawl, two quilts, six joke books and four thousand and eight hundred gun wipes.
    Just now they are making up old material. The ladies in the neighborhood who do not attend are invited to come and help in the good work of relieving suffering, and help win the war in this way. If any have flour sacks they can give or old garments not too badly worn that can be worked over, that will be appreciated.
    Most of the farmers are busy in the hay fields with women as first aides. It is not an uncommon sight to see women running mowers, hay rakes and driving spray wagons, etc. The women are quite heroic in their efforts to conserve the crops.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 24, 1918, page 5


    Last Wednesday night Mr. A. A. Vandermark, recently from Bend, Or., and Mr. Ferdinand Larson of St. Louis spent the night with us and the next day Mr. Larson went to Butte Falls to see that country, and Mr. Vandermark went to the Lewis sheep camp to take charge of the Lewis band of sheep.
    Misses Estella Betz and Miss Geppert took passage on the P.&E. for the Geppert ranch near Butte Falls Thursday. In the train there was two box cars for Butte Falls to be loaded with lumber.
    There were several passengers came in on the train for the Lake Creek mine. Among them were Mr. W. B. Bell, F. Hammond and H. Stoepe and a young lady by the name of Zimmerman went up to Lake Creek school district.
    Dennie Zimmerlee, a young man who is working in the Lake Creek mines and was engaged in loading a railroad car with manganese here, in assisting in closing the car door had his hand caught and badly crushed two of his fingers, but he continued on at work. This is the third car of ore that the company have sent out; the first two went to New York and this car goes to Chicago.
    Mrs. Emily Hooper and her son David came out Thursday on the P. and E. to inspect two lots in our town, returning the same day.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres, who has been visiting her parents on Elk Creek, returned to her home, the P. and E. depot, Tuesday. She had her niece, Miss Glenna, one of Henry Childreth's daughters of Ashland, with her who had been visiting her grandparents.
    Mr. Wiley of Trail was also a passenger for Medford and so was E. J. Lewis of Flounce Rock ranch on his way to Medford, returning Saturday.
    Mr. L. G. Bieberstedt and Miss Vivian Stancliffe of Medford called for supper Thursday evening.
    A. S. Bliton, formerly editor and proprietor of the Medford Mail, but now meter reader for the California Oregon Power Company, was here on official business, taking dinner with one of his old correspondents.
    J. Rigsby of Brownsboro, I understand, has gone to Washington to live.
    Rev. R. H. Dollarhide, district elder of Medford district of the Free Methodist Church, came out Friday morning and took the E.P.-Persist stage for the Elk Creek country where he will hold their regular quarterly meeting for the Trail circuit.
    J. J. Buchter and O. O. Alenderfer, who are in the employ of the Oregon and California Power Company, took dinner here Friday morning.
    There was a convention of the officers of the different school districts called for to meet in Eagle Point school house, Saturday morning, to take steps to raise the quota of money to be invested in War Savings Stamps. The meeting was presided over by Dr. Henry Hart, chairman of the Jackson County War Savings Stamp committee, and he gave an interesting and instructive lecture on the subject, answering a great many questions on different phases of the subject. The amount expected to be raised in school district No. 9 is $3924.00, but as I understand Dr. Hart, the amount that has been invested in War Savings Stamps up to this time, about $1000, is to be deducted from the $3924, leaving a balance we are expected to subscribe or rather buy, $2924. Among those in attendance were A. G. Bishop, A. B. Clarno and wife, Henry French, W. H. Crandall, J. L. Robinson, Henry Pech, Lee Farlow, W. P. Holbrook, Dr. Holt, Mrs. L. K. Haak and Mrs. W. H. Brown, the clerk elected at the annual election, but she assured me this Saturday morning that she will not serve. Mr. Emmett Nealon and Mr. Lydiard of Table Rock, E. C. Bellows was also among the attendants beside several others whose names I cannot recall. From the interest taken in the meeting it looked as though the amount will be subscribed without much trouble.
    Mr. Palmer and wife of Butte Falls were at the car Saturday morning on their way home and E. J. Lewis was also on the train.
    W. C. Daley of Lake Creek was a business caller Saturday.
    George W. Parker, a hardware salesman of Portland, Mr. Sheibley, S. H. Harnish and son Robert were among the diners at the Sunnyside Saturday.
    Buel Hildreth and wife, Dalmer Claspill, Lewis Baker of Portland, and Elgin Abbott of Butte Falls were passengers on the P. and E. Saturday afternoon.
    Since my last report D. S. Nichols, Jed Edsall, A. M. Gay, B. F. and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy have paid on their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 25, 1918, page 5


    Last Friday evening at the home of Mr. R. R. Minter there was a farewell party given in honor of some of our boys who are going to serve Uncle Sam and help win the war. The house was nicely decorated, and between 60 to 75 were present to do honor to the boys. The evening was spent in games, music and conversation. The boys going at this time are Elmer Robertson, Robert McCabe and Owen Conover. Elmer received a short furlough in order to harvest his crop. Marshall Minter, having enlisted, will perhaps go shortly.
    Robert McCabe surprised his many friends by announcing his marriage while in Portland. His wife will probably remain with her people while Robert is serving Uncle Sam.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caster, Mrs. Sam Courtney and Miss Mina Minter went to Rogue River Sunday to visit their cousin.
    Mr. Lewis has finished shearing and dipping his sheep and is now branding preliminary to starting to the mountains.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 26, 1918, page 5


    Lulu Adamson spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Zimmerlee of Eagle Point.
    Jack Vaughn visited with his daughter, Mrs. Nichol, a few days this week.
    L. H. Howe took his cattle to the mountains this week.
    M. E. Middlebusher made a trip to Central Point Friday, returning Sunday, accompanied by her sister of Table Rock.
    Fred Inlan and little son of Bend, Ore. are visiting with his mother, Mrs. A. Albright.
    Dolph Olson was a Trail caller Sunday.
    Buy Thrift Stamps.
Medford Mail Tribune, June 27, 1918, page 7


    Thursday H. L. Walther of Medford and P. O. Crawford of San Francisco, Cal., were here for dinner. They are in the employ of the Oregon-California Power Company.
    C. A. Browser of Ashland spent the night with us and went on up to the Big Pines Company's logging camp Thursday. He started from home with a motorcycle and had trouble with his engine and after working with it about three hours discovered that he had burned out one of his cylinders, and about that time a man came along and he sold it to him for $15, coming the rest of the way, about 10 miles, on foot, and when he reached the Sunnyside he was about exhausted by heat and thirst. The next day he took the train for the logging camp.
    F. L. Putnam of Talent was among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday. He was on his way to one of the logging camps near Butte Falls.
    Irvin Pool, formerly a resident of this place, but for some time having been a resident of California, was here the first of the week visiting his sister, Mrs. Amy Brown.
    On Thursday there was a car of wire fencing came in for one of the Bieberstedts and the same day there was a car of lumber came out for Jackson County to be need on the Salt Creek bridge and other places where it is needed. Fred Stanley and another man are engaged now in hauling it to Salt Creek. There was also another car of lumber came out and went on toward Medford; there was also two cars of wood and six cars of saw logs in the train.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our principal orchardists, brought in eight empty barrels that had been used for spray dope and shipped them to a Medford concern. I asked him about his fruit prospect and he spoke quite encouragingly. He took a lot of fruit packing tables from the old Big Pines Lumber Company's warehouse, that were used last year, home with him.
    Amos Ayres, our depot agent, shipped out a fine lot of young chickens Thursday afternoon.
    The P.&E.R.R. Co. have been using a large seven-passenger car lately to bring out the passengers and mail in the morning that the train does not run. Friday morning they brought out Fred Warren of Trail and two ladies.
    Nick Young, Ed Clements and Harry Lewis were with us Friday noon and Harry Lewis and John Rayburn spent Friday night here.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pelouze and son Bob took supper at the Sunnyside Friday evening. Mrs. Pelouze and Bob had come from Medford and stopped here and Bob went up home for his father and we had one of those good old-fashioned visits such as one can have with people of that class. The reader will bear in mind that Bob has just left the hospital and is just getting over an attack of spinal meningitis, where he was hovering between life and death for several weeks, and now is home on a furlough of 20 days to recuperate in our healthy climate while visiting his parents. While he has lost some flesh, 15 pounds in weight, still he looks hale and hearty and can see no serious results.
    The meeting Friday night in the interest of the W.S.S. move proved to be an abundant success. There were 75 in attendance. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Holt and the object announced. Our school clerk, W. C. Clements, acted as secretary. After the reports of the different solicitors were in the clerk announced that the amount subscribed so far amounted to $3,425 of our apportionment. Then Dr. Holt called for any persons who had not been approached by the solicitors to raise the hand and then for a few moments quiet reigned, while they were filling out their cards and soon the clerk announced that there still lacked $130 and hands began to go up for more cards and the next announcement was that we had gone over the top and $50 to go on, and the chair also announced there was one person who went the limit and bought $1,000 worth of stamps and that was Mrs. Jessie Curtis, an elderly lady 89 years of age. Mrs. W. L. Childreth led as she reported $1,875 subscribed on her list. After the work of raising money was through then the W.S.S. society was organized by the election of Mrs. W. L. Childreth as president and W. C. Clements as secretary, when we adjourned feeling a willingness to redouble our efforts to down the Hun.
    Noble Zimmerman, who has been working at Trail for several months, came out on the P.&E. Saturday morning on his way to Blue Canyon to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman. He was met at the train by his sister, Mrs. Maud Lindmen.
    Mrs. Charles Pruett gave a little social last Saturday night in honor of one of her neighbor boys, John Singleton, who has been ordered to report for military duty. There were only a few of her near neighbors in attendance, among whom were Mr. Singleton's family, Charles and Thomas Cingcade and their families and one or two others whose names I failed to secure.
    George Wehman, who has been clerking in the von der Hellen hardware store for the last several months, has gone to work in the Edsall logging camp.
    Last Sunday morning at the close of the Sunday school exercises, the call was made for birthday offerings. The Sunday school has a right to ask for birthday offerings and those who have had a birthday during the past week are requested to contribute a penny for each year of their age for the benefit of the missionary cause, and on that occasion Grandma Curtis walked forward and deposited eighty-nine pennies in the contribution box, indicating that she was eighty-nine years of age. She is quite feeble and it was with difficulty that she could walk to the stand and place the contribution in the small opening made to receive the change.
    Among the guests with us last Sunday were B. E. Haney and mother Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Trowbridge, Mr. M. J. Mason of Medford, Mrs. Wm. Perry, Joe Moomaw, Orville Childreth of Eagle Point, Mr. Geppert, Fred Stillwell, John Foster, Frank Abbott of Butte Falls, and Miss Lula Allen and Marion Trusty of Trail.
    Lewis Martin, formerly of Trail but now working in the manganese mines, who was quite badly hurt last week by being caught between two rocks, was a business caller in our town Monday. Speaking of the manganese mine, the report [that] was started here that the mill had shut down and that they were not doing anything up there was circulated around here, but it was all a mistake. They had fired two men and it is thought that that is the way the report got started. They are still running and hauling out the ore. Tuesday they shipped to Tacoma twelve or fifteen bales of sacks that had been shipped to them and on examination found to be no good so they sent them back.
    Mrs. Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls, who had been to Medford to have some dental work done, came out Monday morning and remained at the Sunnyside until Tuesday when she took the train for home.
    Emmet Piel, who has been engaged working in the Lake Creek mine for the past month, came out Tuesday morning and took the P.&E. for Medford.
    A man by the name of Sears, while working in the Ed Walker logging camp, had his knee quite badly hurt. He was standing near where they were hauling in logs for shipment when the log that was being dragged by the donkey engine caught against a stump, causing it to swerve sideways and caught him hurting him quite badly, but my informant did not know how badly.
    Wm. Perry, who now owns the part of the old John Mathews place that fell to Polk Mathews and that he, Polk, willed to Polk and Corbett Smith, reports that some of his wheat is so badly injured by the extreme cold and hot weather that he has to cut it for hay and that in addition to his clover and alfalfa is running his hay crop up into over a hundred tons. But Will is one of the best farmers in this country and does farming right.
    Word has come to us from Ashland that one of our old neighbors, Mrs. A. H. Peachey, of that city, is down with that malignant and dangerous disease diphtheria, and that will stop many, if not all, here from going to the celebration or roundup. Her many friends here are hoping for her speedy recovery.
    There are quite a lot of tourists passing through here every day on their way to Crater Lake and Eastern Oregon.
    There was a family stopped here Tuesday evening to have our blacksmith do some repair work on their auto. They were from Pendleton, Ore., and seemed to be enjoying their trip very much.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Henderson arrived here Monday from Imperial Valley, Cal., right joining the Mexican border, to visit Mrs. Henderson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fuller, who own a farm near this place. They seem to be highly pleased with our section of the country.
    Andrew Grissom and wife were here Wednesday morning doing business with Geo. Brown and Sons and the von der Hellen hardware store. They started out with their wagon well loaded.
    C. E. Bellows passed through town this Wednesday forenoon with his little boy on his way to an ear specialist. The little fellow has had a rising in one of his ears, and it had broke and then closed up again and our local M.D., Dr. Holt, thought it best to take him to a specialist for treatment.
    Miss Bellfrey of Central Point, was a business caller Wednesday morning on Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy.
    The P.&E. railroad company came out Wednesday morning and brought the mail and three passengers in a seven-passenger auto. The motor car that they have been trying to make do service is indefinitely laid up for repairs and the good-natured men who have been doing their best to make it do the work are rejoicing and hoping that the company will consign it to the junk pile.
    Harry Lewis and Albert Clements arrived from Klamath County Wednesday morning. Albert has been recalled to service for U.S. They were guests at the Sunnyside for dinner and so was Mr. E. Conger, J. B. Renault, J. B. Coleman, our assessor of Jacksonville, and Mr. J. W. Adams of Talent. Mr. Adams is a confirmed invalid, being paralyzed in his legs. He remained in the car and had dinner brought to him. He seems to be very cheerful in spite of his afflictions. He is one of the old veterans of the Civil War and was one of our boarders while the G.A.R. held their encampment here a few years ago.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 1, 1918, page 7


    The clearing up of the wreck on the Pacific and Eastern Railroad one mile west [sic] of Eagle Point last Saturday afternoon was expected to be completed by this evening, and conditions on the railroad restored to normal.
    The wreck occurred about 4 p.m. The train, consisting of engine, a carload of lumber, three carloads of huge logs, a box car and a passenger coach, was en route to Medford when one of the wheels of the lumber car climbed the rail. The car was derailed and upset; the tender of the engine was also derailed. This spread the track and the cars in the rear ran off the rails. The track was torn up for a distance of 200 feet.
    Otherwise the damage done by the wreck was not serious. The logs were consigned to the Applegate Lumber Company from the Big Pines Lumber Company logging camp, and the car of lumber was consigned to San Francisco by the Dupray Lumber Company of Butte Falls.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 2, 1918, page 6


    J. J. Winningham, the new mail carrier between Eagle Point and Persist via Trail, made his first trip Monday.
    Mrs. W. Willits and daughter Inez returned home from Portland Monday, where the latter underwent an operation. She is doing very nicely.
    Trail district went over $200 "over the top" W.S.S. pledge day.
    Missionary Griffin of the Union Sunday school gave a very interesting talk Sunday evening in Trail hall and showed some pictures of other Sunday schools in his district. It was greatly enjoyed by all.
    Miss Lee Middlebusher visited with relatives in Central Point and Table Rock last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. Houston and daughter Ida were Sunday visitors at Trail.
    The forest fires are keeping the patrolmen very busy.
    Mrs. I. Zimmerlee is visiting her daughter Mrs. Chas. Blaess at the fishery.
    Master Frank Pence is visiting his grandma, Mrs. Middlebusher, for a few days.
    We were all greatly surprised to learn of the wedding on Elk Creek, of Mr. James Miller and Miss Florence Lees. We wish them much joy and happiness.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 3, 1918, page 5


    Last Saturday we had a genuine wreck on our P.&E. railroad. The train, consisting of four box cars, six log cars, a coach and engine tender, passed through here all O.K., but in turning around a rocky point about a mile from the depot, it appears that the heavy box car of lumber creeled so as to spread the track and toppled over, and it was attached to the tender, and so they both toppled over into the ditch, fortunately tearing loose from the engine, so that it did not turn off, but there were two or three log cars got off the track but did not turn over. Fortunately there was no one hurt.
    I see in the Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun attention is called to an item in one of the last list of items I sent in where I spoke of Mrs. A. H. Peachey having the diphtheria and the mayor and the board of health alluded to the item and denies that there was any diphtheria in Ashland, etc. I obtained my information from the Peachey family, who wrote every day to Mrs. Peachey's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bert Peachey, telling her that she, Mrs. P., did have the disease and was quarantined, warning her not to come to Ashland, and if they did not to stop on account of Mr. Bert Peachey's baby and I thought and still think that I was correct in my statement. When I make a statement of that kind I am to know the facts before I write. No doubt the quarantine had been raised before the letter was published, but the facts were the same.
    Miss Fay Perry and Miss Garnett Nichols were shopping Saturday afternoon in our town.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols of L.C. were among the visitors Saturday afternoon.
    The W.S.S. move in the Antelope school district proved to be a grand success. The allotment for the district was $1,070, and the amount subscribed was $1,825. The people out in the rural districts as a rule are willing to do anything to help to crush the kaiser.
    Mrs. A. B. Clarno offered a pig for sale for the benefit of the Red Cross Society, and when all the chances were sold it brought $27.23.
    The Red Cross dance Saturday night the receipts of the evening were for tickets, $155.40 and for lunch $27.25.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. J. Taylor, and of the boys in khaki of Fort Columbia, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Taylor of Rush, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Pepper, San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Buchter, S. T. Richardson, Miss Richardson, Miss Ethyl Eifert of Medford, Roy Stanley and family and Carl Stanley.
    Mrs. C. A. Chatman and H. D. McDonald, two deputy sheriffs, were out here for dinner Monday. They were here on official business and I see by the Medford papers that they have been doing some business while here. I feel sorry of the boys who are trapped, but would be glad if those of the older ones who are really the guilty ones and bring the dope from Medford and selling it to the boys here at the dances and at other places, could be caught and given the full benefit of the law and also many of the older ones who do not go that far but encourage the younger ones to violate the bone dry law by making light of its violation and impressing on their minds that it is a smart trick to not only evade but violate the law. If the older ones would stand firm for law enforcement and teach the rising generation that it is a crime to violate any law, but to uphold it and if it is a bad or unjust law repeal it, it would make a vast difference in the morals of the rising generation.
    J. Hartman and seven or eight others passed through here Monday the first, on their way to the Flounce Rock cemetery, to try to stop the ravages of the fire in that section.
    W. E. Hammel was a business caller Monday.
    Russ Monroe of the Soda Springs district brought in his wool and sold it to the C. P. Produce Company Tuesday. He also brought in two small lots for Mr. C. M. Martin and Henry Tonn of Lake Creek. He realized 63 cents a pound for it in the dirt, that is, unwashed.
    Since my last, two of the subscribers to the Daily Mail Tribune and two of the subscribers to the Weekly Mail Tribune have renewed their subscriptions.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 5, 1918, page 5


    There was a general exodus from here during the past week and among those who took advantage of the national holiday and left here for the different places of amusement and pleasure resorts were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze and son Bob, Royal G. Brown, W. C. Clements, our postmaster, and a few select friends, who went up to the  McCallister Soda Springs to spend the Fourth fishing and feasting
    Mrs. Frank Lewis and son William took a trip to Crescent City to visit Mrs. Lewis' sister, Mrs. Ball. Our county recorder, Chauncey Florey and family, who come out here and took his mother and two brothers to spend the day in the shades of Big Butte Creek. Bert Peachey and family, who went up on the headwaters of Little Butte Creek, Mr. S. H. Harnish and family, who spent the Fourth in the Ashland park, besides quite a number who simply took a trip for the day to the shades along Butte and Rogue rivers to have picnic dinners. The business houses in our town were all closed and several of our citizens spent the day at home. There was very few went from here to Ashland, as the most of them were afraid of the diphtheria.
    The Pacific and Eastern Railroad train made its regular trip Thursday, although the train was pulled by a Southern Pacific locomotive. They had a few passengers going up the country, and among them were W. S. Baker who works most of the time for Gaddis and Dixon, the Page fence men of Medford, but has his family on their homestead near Derby; W. A. Bishop and Buel Hildreth. Mr. H. came over from Siskiyou country to spend the day with his wife in Butte Falls, and a business man from Portland, by the name of Flood, who has been furnishing the machinery for the Butte Falls mill.
    Among the visitors at the Sunnyside the Fourth were Reed Charley, son of L. C. Charley, one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen of Brownsboro, Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wynkoop, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kissing of Medford, Joe Trefren of Butte Falls, Mrs. T.  F. Boltz, son and daughter, and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy.
    Mrs. Howlett and our daughter Hattie started with Jed Edsall for a visit with another daughter, Mrs. C. E. Hoyt, on Seven Mile Creek, near Fort Klamath on the afternoon of the third, and returned at midnight Friday. They came the Shovel Creek route via Topsy and report the road very rough. John Foster, who is working with Jed Edsall in the logging business near Butte Falls, and the Geppert family also went to Fort Klamath to spend the Fourth and on the return trip Horace Geppert had a mishap, having his car turn over about two miles the other side of Hornbrook, demolishing the top and one of the windshields of his car. And in the smashup Mrs. Geppert's collarbone was broken, but no one else was seriously hurt.
    Clarence Dome, Jake Meyers of Central Point, W. E. Hammel, O. C. King and wife were among the diners Friday. Mr. K. is selling groceries for a Medford firm.
    Thomas Stanley and wife and Hamilton Watkins were business visitors Friday.
    Robert A. Neil of Brownsboro spent the night with us, and so did another man who aims to avoid publicity.
    Al Mayfield and wife are at this time visiting guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Knighten, his brother-in-law. Mr. Knighten is quite sick at this time--Saturday afternoon--and I learned yesterday that an operation would be performed today.
    Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman, recently from Southern California, who are guests at the Sunnyside, went to Medford Friday on business, returning the same day.
    Once in a while a person comes here and requests me not to mention his name in the Eaglets, but the most of them are perfectly willing and in several instances I have been asked to mention their names.
    Mr. Joe Barney called for breakfast Saturday morning. He and Mr. Neil were going to Crater Lake to work this summer.
    Mr. W. D. Roberts, who is living on the Joe Rader place, started this morning with his family for Crater Lake and Fort Klamath.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 8, 1918, page 4


    D. Olson and Fred Middlebusher were Medford visitors Monday.
    Mr. Griffin organized Sunday school at Trail Sunday evening.
    R. R. Dawson and A. T. Poole are kept very busy looking after fires. They seem to be very numerous.
    Howard Ash returned home Friday from Coram, Cal., where he has been working in the Balakalala mine the past two months.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. Sturgis motored to the valley Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Albright and Mrs. J. L. Ragsdale and children spent the 4th with Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hall.
    Mrs. Fred Warner left Tuesday for Jacksonville where she will join her husband at the Star ranger station.
    A. T. Poole and family moved to the Trail ranger station this week. They had the misfortune to lose their house and furniture by fire.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 10, 1918, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, July 12, 1918, page 6


    Our P.&E. railway is getting to be quite a factor in our little business world. Last Saturday afternoon when it came down from Butte Falls there was a train of twelve cars--lumber cars, wood, box cars and a passenger and baggage car combined. Among the passengers was Mr. Bennett, one of our prominent nursery men, who was returning from a business trip to the big timber country, and Mr. and Mrs. Hickox, father and mother of our neighbors, Mr. L. L. Hickox. They had been out here from Iowa to visit their children and were just starting for their home.
    In my last letter I spoke of parties who went from here to different parts of the country to spend the Fourth and spoke of Royal Brown and W. C. Clements, but did not mention that their families accompanied them, but Mrs. Royal Brown and their daughter Miss Hazel and Mrs. Brown's married daughter, Mrs. W. H. Brown accompanied them, and so did Mrs. Clements accompany her husband.
    Thomas Farlow and wife were doing business with our merchants Saturday afternoon.
    I am requested to announce that Rev. Wm. Driver, the evangelist who spent the month of May here with his chapel car, will preach at Brownsboro on Saturday evening, July 13th, and here on the Sunday following, both morning and evening.
    Sunday was rather a busy day here. Among the guests were Miss Belford, who is at present staying on the Stewart farm just northeast of here about two miles, R. E. Haney, wife, mother and niece, Miss Margaret Haney, Mr. and Mrs. Fred McPherson and son Fred, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson and grandchild, Joseph Moomaw, Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Holt and daughter Miss Helen, Dr. Pickel, Dr. Thayer and Mrs. Ausbern of Medford. The three doctors and Mrs. Ausbern had been called to perform an operation on one of our old and most highly respected citizens, Mr. Wm. G. Knighten, that morning and they all came here for dinner. Rev. John Powers of Medford, Thos. O'Malley, J. B. Dugan, W. Joffe of San Francisco, and Francis Smith of Medford, Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Van Scoyoc and daughter Miss Varian, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Steep of Medford, and Nick Young now of Butte Falls, and later in the day Ernest McKee of Medford and Walter Wood, one of our cattlemen.
    When Wm. Lewis went to Crescent City he took with him his grandmother, Mrs. Isabel Heckathorn, his brother Harry and cousin Miss Warner of Crescent City. The two Lewis brothers returned Tuesday.
    Thomas Riley who owns and operates a fine farm on Antelope Creek, came over to the Sunnyside for breakfast at 6 o'clock a.m. to secure a lot of hogs he had bought of Wm. Haselton and while en route to where they bought seven more of Wm. Perry, so had to wait until they could be brought from the pasture so that it began to get quite warm before he reached home with them. He paid fourteen cents a pound for them on foot, a big price.
    Theodore Roosevelt Florey started Monday morning for Portland to go to work in the shipyards.
    G. W. Cook, wife and daughter Miss Carolyn of Leesburg, Penn., and Mrs. Cook and daughter Miss Violet of Medford, came out Monday evening to supper and spent the entire evening with us. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cook are out here with their children. They had been up to North Bend prior to coming here and are now visiting their daughter in Medford. Miss Violet is the bookkeeper in the forester's office in Medford.
    Mrs. Pete Betz, wife of one of our prosperous farmers between here and the free ferry, brought in about four dozen young chickens, broilers, and shipped them to San Francisco Tuesday. She expects to realize at least fifty cents apiece for them. They were of the Plymouth Rock variety. J. F. Maxfield came in with her and took the train for Butte Falls to work in the lumber camp; and so did Homer Reynolds of Trail. Mrs. Kee of Butte Falls was also a passenger and so was Mrs. C. H. Natwick.
    T. W. Elden and family of wife and three children stopped for dinner Tuesday on their way from the Dead Indian Soda Springs, where they had been to recuperate.
    Noble Zimmerman, who had been up beyond Butte Falls to visit his parents, came out Tuesday on his way to Weed where he is engaged working in a mill.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, Mrs. T. F. Boltz and two children were here for dinner Tuesday and John Edington, who has charge of the A. Corbin orchard, and three of his men were here for supper Tuesday evening and so was Mrs. F. Rakowitz, Russell Rakowitz and Paul Howser of Joplin, Missouri.
    C. W. Scott, the business manager of the Tacoma Metal Company of Lake Creek, was in town Tuesday morning. He says that they are rushing business right along at the Lake Creek mine and will soon be working on another mill to grind out the ore.
    Our Eagle Point, Wellen, Derby, Trail, Climax, Brownsboro, Persist and Prospect mail was brought out Wednesday morning on an auto and among the passengers was R. R. Minter, one of the Butler boys and J. L. Robinson.
    Since my last report Mrs. Rebekah Jonas has renewed her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Albert Clements, who is working in the Edsall logging camp, came out and spent the night with us.
    Joseph Geppert and John Foster, both of Butte Falls, took supper with us and went on up home the same evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 12, 1918, page 5


    W. J. Cannon, formerly our Brownsboro merchant, but now in the officers training school in one of the training camps in California, and Carl Stanley, one of the successful stockmen and farmers in the Brownsboro section, and A. H. Peachey of Ashland were here for dinner on Wednesday.
    Mr. Mary E. Wright Ringer of Ashland and her daughter, Mrs. E. S. Hoek of Albany, have moved into Mrs. R.'s house in the lower end of Eagle Point to remain indefinitely. Mrs. H. is here to visit her mother.
    Mrs. C. N. Thomas of Central Point and her daughter, Mrs. Lon Herbert of Medford, spent the night with Mrs. Wright Ringer and her daughter Mrs. Hoek, Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Artie Nichols and son Harold came over from Siskiyou County to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols, and sister, Mrs. William Jacks, Thursday.
    Mrs. Hessler of Lake Creek came out on the P.&E. Thursday and took passage on the E.P.-L.C. stage.
    Mr. W. Wagner came out Thursday on the E.P.-Persist stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside. John Winningham, the mail contractor on the E.P.-Persist route, brought out his wife and two of his children and they all took dinner here and then went on to Medford together, remaining overnight.
    C. E. Bellows, whose little son has been in a sanatarium in Medford for some days, undergoing treatment for an abscess back of the ear, brought him home about the middle of the week, but he is still having Dr. Holt dress the wound, but is getting along very nicely.
    There was about 10 or 12 sacks of manganese ore in its natural state shipped to a man by the name of Shultz, of Joplin, Mo., on Thursday's train to have it thoroughly tested.
    There were three men called at the Sunnyside Thursday night for beds. They were Mr. W. E. Allen, of Phoenix, Ore.; Mr. H. M. Parks and J. T. Pardee. The latter two were geologists who were sent out by the United States government to ascertain the quality and the quantity of the ore. After spending the night and eating breakfast they took their lunches and returned to the hills.
    Mrs. Joseph Geppert, who had an accident in an auto wreck over on the California side of the line and was hurt in the wreck, came out and spent Thursday night with us, the next morning went on up to her home near Butte Falls.
    Miss Belle Warren of Crescent City is here visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    John Walch, who had a part of a car of shakes brought out Thursday, was hauling them home the last of the week.
    A man by the name of Whetstone, a brother of Mrs. Pullen, and another man came in and spent Friday night with Mrs. Pullen and her son.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton, who has been away for some days, returned to her father's, S. H. Harnish, Friday evening.
    Ed Higinbotham came in Saturday morning with his Chevrolet to bring in Dr. Holt, who was called Friday night to see his wife. She had been taken with the measles about Thursday and Saturday morning gave birth to a bouncing big boy. He reports that the mother and boy are getting along fine.
    A part of Ed Higinbotham's business in town Saturday morning was to meet Miss Gladys Holmes of Central Point, the young lady who is to teach school in that neighborhood, and a friend of theirs, who came out on the P.&E., to take them home with him.
    Among the diners of the Sunnyside Saturday was Perry Foster, Lloyd French, G. W. Neilson, the superintendent of the P.&E., C. M. Bates, R. Thomson of San Francisco and L. N. Bremerd of Medford. They have been up over the P.&E. railroad placing a valuation on the road. Perry Foster and his grandson, Lloyd French, and Miss Ella Belford, formerly of Chicago, but now spending the summer with Mrs. H. J. Stewart, her daughter, Miss Winnie Stewart, and son Claude. Mr. Stewart, Sr., is at present in Portland working in one of the shipyards
and his son has gone to join the forces of the United States.
    Sines my last effort Wilfred Jacks of Fort Rock, Ore., has paid up a small balance due on the Daily Mail Tribune and ordered it changed to the weekly on account of them not being able to get their mail regular.
    Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy--she pays by the month and is as prompt as the "town clock" every month. Amos Ayres, our P.&E. agent, has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 17, 1918, page 5


    C. J. Kafer of Brownsboro came in last Saturday afternoon just as I had sealed my letter to the Medford Mail Tribune with a fine lot of beef; he and his father have bought out W. J. Cannon's store and he intends to try to furnish the people of the surrounding country with beef.
    Saturday night we had the Nichols family, at least a part of it, here for supper. Among them were Mrs. John Nichols (her husband had gone up to Gus Nichols' to bring out his son Frank and wife, but did not return in time for supper), her son Artie, wife and son Harold and daughter Mrs. Frank Abbott, grandson Leonard Abbott and granddaughter Virgie Abbott, Mrs. Nichols' son-in-law and family Wilbur Jacks, wife, sons Kenneth and Wilbur and daughter Edna. Artie N. and his family had come over from Siskiyou County, California, to visit the old folk, and had planned for the whole family to take supper together at the Sunnyside the evening before they departed for home, and when they were here they planned to have a midnight supper with the old folks at home. Mr. Artie N. and his family, including his daughter, Mrs. Frank Abbott and her two children, started Saturday night about midnight for their home on Klamath River, and Mrs. Abbott returned Tuesday morning on the P.&E.
    Rev. William Driver, the Baptist evangelist, preached for us Sunday morning and evening and started the ball in motion to try to arrange to have us have regular preaching here, but whether he will succeed or not remains to be seen.
    Among the visiting guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were B. R. Greer, Mrs. R. R. Greer, Miss Elbert Greer, W. G. Carey, Mrs. W. G. Elroy, and Miss Florence Wilson, all of Ashland. R. E. Haney, Mrs. R. E. Haney, R. G. Worthington and L. D. Corbit of Medford, Mrs. G. W. Frey and son Everett of Lake Creek, William Coy, Mrs. William von der Hellen, Harvey Lewis, Joe Moomaw and Albert Clements of E.P., and Mr. Stillman of Phoenix, Ore.
    Mr. Stevenson of Brownsboro and Mr. Edenburg were among the visitors Monday morning.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Tuesday morning were Mrs. Frank Abbott and her two children, Leslie Abbott, one of the enlisted members of the United States army. He is on a furlough, being on the sick list having been operated on for appendicitis in San Francisco, and was on his way to Butte Falls to visit his mother. Mrs. J. F. Ditsworth, Prospect, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Stepp of Portland.
    Mr. J. McPherson of Griffin Creek and a friend of his by the name of Wilson, from Coos Bay, were here Tuesday looking over the country. Mr. Wilson was looking for a small tract of wood land to buy or trade for.
    Philip McCabe, who owns a good farm on Rogue River, a few miles above here, called for dinner Tuesday. He was having some repair work done on his wagon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanley of Butte Falls were doing business in town Tuesday. They were buying a lot of hardware of Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants. Mr. Stanley is one of our prosperous farmers and stockmen and is building a new house on his farm on Willow Creek.
    Mr. H. Van Hoevenburg of Sams Valley, who has the A. Corbin orchard leased, was here for supper Tuesday evening.
    J. H. Trusty of Elk Creek drove out Tuesday evening with a team. He and his son-in-law, Amos Ayes and wife, took supper at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Neilson, the superintendent of the P.&E., and Mr. Stought, brought the United States mail out Wednesday morning in their seven-passenger auto. They had three passengers and among them was Mrs. Farrar of Lake Creek.
    Clifford Henson spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside and Mr. C. J. Kafer of B.B. took dinner with us.
    J. B. Dawson of Trail came out Saturday to visit his brother-in-law, W. G. Knighten, who was operated on on Sunday, the 7th, and returned on Monday morning on the E.P.-P. stage. While he was here he renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 20, 1918, page 5


    Ed Cingcade, one of our promising young men, who was called by the United States draft board from near San Jose, Calif., arrived at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Cingcade, Wednesday evening and on going to Medford to answer the call and taking the second or third examination, was turned down again on account of his having a weak heart, and now he says that he is going to have his residence changed from Eagle Point to his present home in California, as it is quite an item of expense to him to leave his work and pay his railway fare from San Jose, Cal., up here and back, beside losing the time. It seems as though after a young man has been examined by a medical board and pronounced unqualified for military duty, that there should be some provision made so that he will have his expenses paid if he has to make an extra trip of several hundred miles to have another examination made by the same or some other board.
    Thomas Cooke and George Givan were among the business callers Thursday and Mr. Cook took passage on the P.&E. for his home in Butte Falls.
    J. Ward, of Phoenix, a brother of Sam Ward, of the "Palace of the Kings" on Big Butte, was among the diners here Friday, and A. S. Bliton, the meter reader for the C.&O.P. Co., and his son, Kenneth, Mrs. F. F. Poltz and her daughter Mary, were diners at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. M. C. Logan of Brownsboro was a business caller Thursday and while here gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Benj. Brophy was here on business. He is preparing to take water from the main ditch north of town to irrigate some of his land.
    S. H. Harnish, who has been up on his mountain ranch, returned Thursday evening.
    Marsh Garrett was here for dinner Thursday. He says that it keeps him busy all the time irrigating his two ranches, one on Lake Creek and the other on Dead Indian, and the way he has to go it is sixty miles from one ranch to the other, as he has to go and come by way of Ashland. but he goes with an auto. Talk of the auto being a luxury. In his case it is a necessity.
    Friday noon Mr. J. G. Cranford and Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Willis of Albany, Ore., stopped for dinner. Mr. C. is a stenographer and Mr. W. is one of the engineers on the S.P.R.R. They started from Albany Thursday evening and reached here in time for dinner about 220 miles. They came out to see the country and to look over our agate field. They found several very fine specimens. Taking their supper here, they went on to Medford that night.
    Mrs. Sam Coy and children came in from their ranch Friday morning to do her week's trading. Mr. R. A. Petty, who is working the Thomas Riley Jr. farm on Antelope, was a business caller, and so was Mrs. Combs, who with her husband resides on the W. D. Roberts (Joe Rader) place, was doing business here.
    H. C. Mitchell of Oregon City and Mr. V. A. Heffner of the Elk Creek hatchery were here Friday. Mr. Mitchell is in charge of the fish hatcheries of the state and has been up looking over the work in Butte Falls and Elk Creek and was on his way to his home in Oregon City, and Mr. Heffner has charge of the hatchery at the mouth of Elk Creek.
    William von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, who has been seriously ill for some time, was taken to Portland Friday evening to a specialist. He was taken with an abscess behind the ear and is in a critical condition.
    Saturday morning there was quite a number of passengers on the P.&E. and among them was quite a number of the young men who have been called to the colors, who had been in to attend the meeting of "the boys" in Medford. Among them were Thomas Vestal, Mr. Pearson, ------ Robinson and some whom I did not know. Albert Clements and Ed Cingcade came home Friday night. Other passengers on the train were Mrs. Obenchain of Butte Falls, Harry Young, formerly of the Daily Mail Tribune force, but now developing his muscles on the farm, Mrs. Brittsan of Medford and Miss Diehless Minter.
    W. C. Daly and his son Irvin were business callers Saturday morning.
    Since my last report M. C. Logan has given me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune, and J. B. Jackson has paid five dollars on his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 22, 1918, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. De Forest of California are spending a few days at the Buzzard mines on Elk Creek.
    Lee Middlebusher and Dolph Olson were quietly married July 22 in Medford. They left Tuesday for Washington.
    There were 3 present at Sunday school Sunday. Everybody is invited. Come at 10 a.m.
    Johnnie Ragsdale is on the sick list.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ash, Mrs. E. A. Ash and Katie Warner were Sunday visitors at Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe's.
    Ralph and John Hoskins started work at the fish hatchery Monday.
    Fred and Miss Enid Middlebusher made a trip to Medford Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Minnie Pence spent a few days at the Middlebusher home.
    Mrs. Vinson of Table Rock spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Mary Middlebusher.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 24, 1918, page 3


    The farmers in this vicinity who expect to thresh are waiting on the machine.
    Grant Mathews is doing the threshing in this community.
    L. A. Vestal has been working at the Walker camp near Butte Falls for a few days.
    Tom Vestal and Lloyd French left the 22nd for Camp Lewis.
    Young men in this vicinity are getting quite scarce. Their country is calling and they will help Uncle Sam win the war.
    Several from our Sunday school attended the Sunday school group gathering at Happy Camp July 14.
    The Sunday school group gathering of which Reese Creek is the center will meet at Reese Creek school house in the grove July 2S. Do not forget the date and come prepared to spend the day. There will be speakers and singing.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 24, 1918, page 3


    Last Saturday afternoon just as I had finished my last letter to the Mail Tribune who should walk into the Sunnyside but Mr. and Mrs. Manual Leidman. They had been up in the Blue Canyon country for about two weeks visiting Mrs. Leidman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman, and after occupying their room overnight and spending the most of the day Sunday they went to Medford to live, as Mr. Leidman has a job in a fruit box factory. Mrs. Leidman, nee Clarice Zimmerman, was formerly in our town and one of our pleasantest boarders and we feel that our temporary loss will be to the advantage of someone in Medford.
    Thomas Lewis and Pearl Stowell and wife--they were accompanied by another party but I have been requested to withhold the name--returned from a trip to Crater Lake, Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, Hornbrook, etc., Saturday afternoon.
    Sunday morning about 8 o'clock Mr. Charlie Strang and wife and daughter Miss Helen and C. Virgil Strang, Mrs. A. G. McCarthy, wife of the pioneer stage driver from Jacksonville to Yreka, and Mrs. Frank Moore drove up to the Sunnyside and inquired: "What is the chance for breakfast," and on receiving an assurance that the "chance" was good got out of the car and began to apologize for calling so late for breakfast saying that they had started early but had a puncture. They were on the way to Prospect for an outing and picnic dinner and were supplied with everything except breakfast, for the trip. Later in the day we had S. H. Harnish, Jos. Moomaw, Horace Geppert and his mother, two sisters, Mrs. Anna Corum, Miss Zula Geppert, Jed Edsall, Fred Putnam, Fred Stillwell, Wm. Bibby, Joe Trefren, Mrs. T. F. Boltz and two children, Roy Parker, Raymond Reter and wife and Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Pennington of Wichita Falls, Texas. They had traveled home in Texas across the country as far west as they well could and remain in our own country and after looking over Washington had come this for south and after supper Sunday evening started for Prospect, Crater Lake, Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, etc., to explore California. They were simply taking a pleasure trip and seemed to be enjoying it.
    We had a very interesting Sabbath school Sunday morning and especially the Bible class is getting to be more interesting every Sunday, and Sunday evening we had the regular meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society. Miss Winifred Haak was leader and she seemed to handle the subject like a veteran.
    I noticed Harold Van Scoy and Frank Brandon, two of our youths who have been working in a box factory in Hilt on our streets again and on inquiry why they came home found the reason was that the cost of living was too high at the hotel where they were boarding as they raised from a dollar a day to a dollar and five cents and they thought that they could make more money here than they could there.
    Born--To the wife of Joe Pool, July 22, a daughter.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Maxfield and family were doing business here Monday.
    Mrs. T. F. Boltz and her two children started Monday to join her husband in Montana who is doing business there for a concrete company.
    Benj. Brophy, one of our promising farmers and stock men, spent the day picnicking and fishing with his family Monday and by the time this is in type they will be enjoying an outing in the Rancheria country. Before he left he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. Amos Ayres is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Trusty of Elk Creek.
    Bobbie Pelouze, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pelouze, left us again to take a fresh start to try to win the world for democracy the first of the week, Monday or Tuesday. He is one of our indomitable young men such as are now striking terror to the hearts of the leaders in the German nation and he will never feel satisfied until he has taken a more active part in the great conflict. Our prayers and sympathy will follow him through his career through life and [we] wish him abundant success in his undertaking.
    Monday Fred Frye and wife, August Elder, Miss Elizabeth Elder, Mrs. H. A. Frey, Miss Cecil McCallister, L. C. and A. L. George of Portland with the Portland Land Company were here for dinner.
    Mrs. Sarah Guerin and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frank Guerin of Portland are here visiting Mrs. Guerin's brother, the Brooks brothers and sister, Mrs. S. B. Holmes and Mrs. Frank Guerin and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy spent Monday evening with Mrs. Howlett. Miss Ruth Holmes of Central Point is here visiting Miss Hazel Brown and friends.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hildreth, Jasper Miller, one of the pioneer school teachers, who has been spending the past few years in Arizona and Miss Gardner of Trail were passengers on the P.&E. Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Vinson and Mr. and Mrs. Gus Ditsworth of Prospect and Miss Gordon, a sister of Mrs. Vinson, were here Tuesday for dinner.
    In addition to those already reported in this letter V. A. Heffner sent me a check for two and a half dollars to renew his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 25, 1918, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, July 30, 1918, page 4


    C. A. Newstrom and family of Lake Creek, and a stranger were here Wednesday noon for dinner and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Reter and Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman of Medford called.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday going to Derby and Butte Falls were Ralph Peyton, Mr. and Mrs. Lew Smith and Mrs. Smith's mother, Mrs. Palmer and James Watkins. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were moving from Central Point to Butte Falls to work in the sawmill.
    J. P. McCabe was one of the business callers Thursday.
    Wm. Cantrall and Wilbur Jacks were diners Thursday. Mr. Cantrall is the man who bought the Joe Hannah place four miles this side of Trail, on Rogue River and is engaged in the stock business.
    Gus Nichols and wife and Mrs. Harvey Stanley started for the Rancheria Prairie country north of Big Butte for an outing Thursday.
    Mrs. Roy Stanley motored over to Medford Thursday to take her brother-in-law Carl Stanley and in the evening stopped at the Sunnyside for supper. He was getting ready to start threshing his grain Friday morning. Mr. H. Van Hoevenburg of Sams Valley was also a guest at the Sunnyside Thursday evening.
    We, that is the citizens of Eagle Point, are in a peck of trouble, for the P.&E. railroad company have actually dropped off the evening mail Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and if Secretary McAdoo, the director of the railroads in the U.S., had been here last Thursday evening about 6 o'clock and heard the bitter denunciations there were expressed, and the threats that were made he would take the whole Pacific & Eastern railroad system and thrown it into the junk pile and turn the mail service over to the postmaster general and had him make a star route of the whole bunch of post offices, for the way it has been in the past few months once in a great while the mail would get here on time and sometimes very late. For instance on the regular train days the mail will sometimes reach here at 9:45, the schedule time, and perhaps the next time at 11:30, and in that case the star route carriers leave without the mail and the people living along the routes between here and Persist and Derby can get no mail until the next day or two as we have on the star routes only every other day. And now on train days we receive our mail sometimes in the forenoon and then there is no mail goes out to Medford until late in the afternoon and by that means we do not receive the Medford Mail Tribune until the next day after it is published. But we live in hopes of having better mail accommodations and thereby have our mail come regularly on time.
    Joe Rader and family were visiting friends here Friday.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning were Rev. Wm. Driver and who on their way to Butte Falls to preach on Sunday, Mrs. Thomas Grigsby and her daughter Mary, Chris Beale, O. Adams. These were all going to Butte Falls.
    Mrs. Mary E. Wright Ringer, her daughter, Mrs. E. S. Hock, and her two children came from Ashland but expect to remain here this fall.
    W. E. Hammel and wife and her father, R. R. Minter, passed through here Saturday morning for Medford.
    W. D. Roberts motored in Saturday morning from his home on the Rader ranch.
    C. J. Kafer, our meat man from Brownsboro, Amos Ayres, Miss Margaret Mansfield of Flounce Rock, Miss Gladys Wilson and Miss Delie Whisenant of Medford, were here for dinner Saturday. The last two were friends of Miss Mansfield. She had been to Medford to take them to her home to participate in a Red Cross dance at her father's beautiful residence on Rogue River.
    The Red Cross ladies are doing all that they can to make the dance Saturday night a grand success.
Medford Mail Tribune, July 30, 1918, page 5


    Last Saturday evening Frank Haselton and Richard Muskopf were here for supper. Frank is one of our town boys who has enlisted in the service of his country and is here recuperating. He has been at Fort Columbia and has been on the sick list for some time. Mr. Muskopf is from Prospect. Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Lee Steers, Miss Abie Steers, Mr. and Mrs. Godding and two sons, Jack and Rex, were here for supper. They were returning from a trip to Crater Lake. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Buchter of Medford were with us also. They were also returning from Crater Lake.
    During the past week there has been quite a lot of travel over the Crater Lake road going both ways. Generally when they go through from here to the lake they keep on and go out by Fort Klamath, Klamath Falls, Ashland and Medford. Among the tourists passing through here there is quite a number from the East; as far east as Texas, and quite a number from Idaho and Washington, all anxious to see the eighth wonder of the world--Crater Lake.
    The Red Cross dance here Saturday night was not so well attended as some of the others have been, but those in attendance report that they had a very pleasant time, if anything, better than the last, as there was not the jam or the unruly conduct that has been here on other occasions. There were 78 tickets sold and the receipts from the sale of lunches amounted to $18. After deducting the expenses the R.C.S. realized about $50.
    Sunday morning we had no Sunday school as the arrangement was to have all who could go to Reese Creek and take part in the "all-day exercises" in connection with that and other schools. From what I can learn they had a very pleasant and profitable time.
    I am requested to announce that Bro. William Driver and wife, who spent last Sunday in Butte Falls, will be here next Sunday, August 4, and that Mr. Driver will preach for us both morning and evening. If the reader of this notice wishes to hear a good old-fashioned gospel sermon he can likely hear it at that time.
    Last Sunday we didn't have the usual number here for dinner we have been having, owing largely to the fact that all of the young men of military age have gone into the army, except a very few who have not passed the examination, and the most of them are off at work in the different places where help is required. But Sunday morning Mrs. E. Cook and her daughter Miss E. V. Cook, and Mrs. J. F. Bothrock of Medford arrived and shortly after Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McKee, their daughter, Miss Jeanette, Mrs. C. M. Delin, Misses Florence and Helen Reddy, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Piatt and J. W. Cunningham of Medford arrived and after partaking of a "chicken dinner" Mr. McKee left the ladies here to visit the family and he motored up to the W. C. Daley ranch to see Mr. Devin Daley on business, but failed to find him, but the ladies seem to have enjoyed themselves and they remained for supper.
    Monday was one of our "blue Sundays" and there seemed to be out very few people visiting our town and it was so warm that those of us who exist here were so warm that we didn't stir around any more than we had to.
    Tuesday the Grissom Bros. shipped ten sacks of wool.
    Tuesday the P.&E. made its regular trip to Butte Falls and back, and from the length of the train seemed to be doing some business. They had in the train seven log cars, two wood cars, two lumber cars, a box car and the passenger coach. Among the passengers were Mrs. Emma Ellison and daughter of Portland. on her way to Butte Falls to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tungate, Miss Edith Lewis. formerly of Persist, but now of Medford, on her way to visit friends in Derby.
    C. W. Scott, the business manager of the manganese mine on L.C., came out and brought Mr. Carl Hammond, who was on his way to join the colors.
    Among the diners here Tuesday were William Warner, Mrs. M. Stinen, Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher, Mr. P. S. Anderson, his two daughters, Misses Helen and Phena and L. A. Fifer, all of Medford, and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bernice of San Francisco, Cal., and Mr. H Tasker of Portland, called for supper. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, at the time the tract of land on the north and east of Big Butte known as "the unsurveyed" country, was settled by a number of people from Pennsylvania, were among those who located claims and Mr. Bruce went to work as a timber cruiser for the S.P.R.R. Co. and has been and still is in the employ of the company. After eating their supper they went on up to visit some of their old neighbors, the Kelsoes on Big Butte.
    M. S. Wood, one of our veterans of the Civil War, made a business trip to Medford Wednesday morning in the Lewis jitney; there were two ladies in the car, passengers also.
    Mrs. Florence Walker and family passed through Eagle Point Wednesday morning. They were just returning from a two weeks' outing in the hills; in addition to his family, he had his father, who is now in his 95th year. Mrs. Walker said that she was considerable worried during the trip. Mr. Thomas Smith, a married daughter, whose husband is among the drafted soldiers, was with them.
    Since my last report Frank Lewis has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Jed Edsall, Butte Falls, has subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune. He paid up a short time ago and stopped his paper, but found that he missed it so that he subscribed again.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 1, 1918, page 7


Medford Mail Tribune, August 1, 1918, page 7


    Mrs. Frank Johnson, who underwent an operation in the Medford hospital, was able to be brought home last week; she is getting along very well.
    Miss Diehless Minter with Mrs. Amos Ayres visited Mrs. Ayres' parents last week.
    The Sunday school group gathering which met at Reese Creek last Sunday was well attended, with ten or eleven Sunday schools represented. Sunday school in the forenoon; at noon most all put their dinners together and enjoyed a social hour. In the afternoon Mrs. Griffin conducted the service; there were exercises from some of the different schools; Mrs. Earl Brittsan sang a couple of songs which were well received. Dr. Rollins of Medford talked on "The Master cometh and calleth for thee."
    Missionary Griffin expects to hold an all-day service at Trail this coming Sunday.
    The little threshing machine is in the neighborhood and doing good work.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 3, 1918, page 5


    Last Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Fred Stinson and her daughter, Mrs. Hurbert, were here looking for a notary public so that Mrs. G. could sign a legal document, but were too late in the day as our N.P., Mr. J. V. McIntyre, had closed the bank and gone away.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Charley and their daughter, Miss Verna, were also business callers Wednesday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Thomsen of Lake Creek arrived on the P.&E. Thursday morning from a somewhat protracted visit over in California. Mr. Thomsen is the postmaster of Lake Creek and is engaged in the mercantile business. They had been to California visiting relatives. C. W. Coos of Medford and Frank Ditsworth of Prospect, and two families bound for Butte Falls were on the train.
    J. L. Robinson was a business caller Thursday, and reported that his son John, and family, daughter Mary, sons Paul and Elma Thomas Tellen, and Miss Diehless Minter started with a mule team that day for Huckleberry Mountain, to be gone several days. They went prepared to bring back quite a lot of huckleberries.
    John Winningham, the mail contractor for carrying the mail from here to Persist, broke a spring on his car a few days ago and so has put on his winter rig--a span of mules and a two-seated covered hack--a good outfit, until he can get his car fixed up.
    While Mr. Cadzow was here he was telling of a near escape from severe damage the people in the Ed Walker camp had of losing their donkey engine. Fire broke out, cause unknown, among the saw logs, and came near getting to the donkey before they could save it. From what I can learn there was but little damage done.
    Mrs. G. Montgomery, who has been up to Kerby visiting her brother, returned to her home a few days ago.
    Mr. Cadzow of Butte Falls was a diner at the S.S. Thursday.
    S. J. Stevens of Portland was with us Friday.
    There was a little wreck on the P.&E. at that camp. The train men had hitched onto two log cars loaded and pulled them out from the Edsall logging camp onto the main line and detached the engine from them, leaving them to back up onto the Walker switch, and just as they were getting onto the Walker switch the cars they had left broke loose, the brakes being insufficient to hold them, and though the engineer discovered what had happened and started to back so as to catch the oncoming cars on the engine--as while underway he could have stopped the cars if he could have it strike the engine square, but while the train of empty cars was running back onto the main track the other cars were coming, as they were running, to a certain extent, almost parallel to each other, the cars collided, throwing one of the loaded log cars off into the ditch upside down, and jamming another car under the end of another, breaking it up considerable. There was no special damage done and no one hurt. The next time they will block a wheel, as we used to do with our wagons when hauling lumber.
    Mrs. Walter Mitchell, Miss Fern Van Hardenberg and Miss Jose Carlton of Wellen were doing business here Friday and so was Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and Roy Stanley.
    Harry Starr, representing Marshall Wells Company of Portland, was here for supper, and Mr. E. Wheeler of Butte Falls and Thomas Lewis spent the night at the Sunnyside Friday night.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning were F. O. Ahlstrom, one of the Butte Falls merchants, E. P. Mulvey, a representative of the Crescent Manufacturing Company of Seattle, Washington, S. S. Aiken, the pioneer of Prospect, on their way to Butte Falls and Prospect.
    James Culbertson came out on the E.P.-L.C. stage and took the Lewis jitney for Medford.
    John Welch of Lake Creek came out Saturday morning and took a small lot of shakes he had left at the depot here home.
    Carl Brommer of Medford, and S. A. Sanford of  Roseburg, Frank Smith, C. J. Kafer, our meat man, and E. H. Hoger, representing the George Lawrence Company, Portland, were here for dinner Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 6, 1918, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Van Scoyoc and family returned to their home in Medford after a week's vacation near Trail.
    C. Blaess is sporting a new Ford.
    The Sunday school picnic at Trail Sunday was well attended and greatly enjoyed by all.
    Everybody invited to Trail Red Cross at the hall Thursday afternoon. Come prepared to work, as they will prepare the hall that day for the big dance Saturday night.
    A Red Cross dance at Trail hall Saturday, August 10, Medford music, a good floor and a good time for all.
    Mrs. Nichol, Mrs. Irwin Howe and Mrs. C. Blaess visited Medford Red Cross Monday and received instructions for the Red Cross at Trail.
    Don't forget the Red Cross dance at Trail the 10th. Everybody invited, and a good time insured.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 8, 1918, page 5


    Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Daily Mail Tribune I met Henry French and his father-in-law, Perry Foster. Mr. Foster had been over in California visiting some of his children and was on his way home, having come in on the P.&E. that morning.
    R. R. Minter was also a visitor in our town.
    William Coy spent Saturday night at the Sunnyside.
    I understand that Jerry Lewis and Albert Clements, two of our town boys, and Thomas Vestal, from this section, who went to Portland to enter the ranks of our soldiers, have all passed their final examination and are now full-fledged defenders of our homes and working to overthrow the reign of kaiserdom.
    Sunday was one of those lovely days, such as are so common here in Southern Oregon. The air was cool and bracing and just warm enough for one riding out to need a light wrap, and in addition to those who went up the country to fish or have a nice picnic lunch, we had as guests at the Sunnyside Hotel quite a number of visitors who came, not only for the social enjoyment, but to partake of the Sunday chicken dinner, among whom were J. H. Lushen and wife, J. W. Bates and wife, George P. Mims, the Medford postmaster, Mr. and Mrs. W. Amos Baker and Miss Ruth Holmes, Mrs. Dennis Duggan and Mrs. Mary Duggan of Sams Valley, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mann, Margaret Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Heath of Medford. Dr W. W. P. Holt and wife, J. W. Snyder and family, Fred Putnam, Fred Stillwell, Wm. Bebby, Charley Bacon, wife and two boys, and sister-in-law, Miss Midu McIntosh and J. B. Price and wife. I may have overlooked some, as when I came home from church and Sunday school I found the most of them already there. Speaking of attending church and Sunday school, we had another one of those interesting old Sunday school sessions, although we crowded a little into the preaching service hour, although Brother Driver took it all in good part and seemed to enjoy the Sunday school exercises as well as the rest of us. At the close of the Sunday school services Mr. Driver preached one of his characteristic sermons, such as does the Christian good to hear and causes the irreligious to stop and think. He also preached again at night a good plain sermon from the sixteenth verse of the third chapter of the gospel by John, showing the undying love of God for the human race.
    Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, who taught the primary department last year, and is engaged to teach again this fall, came over from her home in Ashland last Saturday and was in attendance at Sunday school and church services Sunday, She told me in the run of conversation that she had received her life papers as a teacher, since she left here this last spring. She has taken special training as a primary teacher and is considered here as good as any in the land.
    Mildred Robinson and Carl Bergman of Eagle Point and E. T. Hodges of Butte Falls spent Sunday night at the Sunnyside. Mr. Hoefs is working in the logging camp in Butte Falls and while working with a wire cable had a piece of the steel wire get in his eye. He came out Sunday evening to Dr. Holt, but he couldn't see to take it out by lamplight, but Monday morning he succeeded in removing it and Monday he went up to his home again.
    Russ Moore of Lake Creek phoned to have me announce that his daughter lost on Saturday evening, August 3, between Eagle Point and Lake Creek, a crocheted purse containing some money and some other trinkets.
    Mrs. McDonald, hostess of the Rogue Elk resort, came out Monday and took passage on the Eagle Point-Persist stage and Mr. Dixon went to Trail on the same stage.
    Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Dee Bradshaw were doing business in our town Monday.
    John Iseli of Butte Falls went to Medford and met his son Rudolph of Portland. They both came out on the Lewis jitney and went up to Butte Falls by private conveyance that night. While Mr. Iseli was out he renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune.
    Monday evening Mrs. Claire Leidmer and Mrs. Margaret Peters of Medford motored out to spend the evening with relatives and friends in Eagle Point.
    Mrs. J. F. Ditsworth of Prospect was a passenger on the P.&E. Tuesday on her way home.
    Mrs. W. E. Hammel and her sisters, Mir. Sam Courtney and Miss Minter, were shopping Tuesday morning in Eagle Point.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanley and his brother Carl were doing business in Eagle Point Tuesday.
    George W. Austin of Medford motored out to the Sunnyside Wednesday morning accompanied by three ladies, and one of them, Mrs. Harding of San Diego, Cal., called for breakfast and a lunch for dinner. She said that she was stopping at a hotel and she had to start before they served breakfast. They were on their way to Crater Lake.
    Mose Barkdull of Medford and F. W. Howard of Los Angeles were here for dinner Wednesday. They are both interested in the fruit business.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 9, 1918, page 4


    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday were Mrs. A. C. McDonald, nee Agnes Allen, youngest daughter of John M. Allen of Derby, Ore. Mrs. McDonald was on her way from her home in Portland to visit her parents. Her husband has been drafted and is preparing to join the colors, and Mrs. MacDonald has preceded him in their visit. Her many friends around this section are glad to have her among us again.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hildreth of Butte Falls came out with Harry Mills, the manager of the Butte Falls Milling Company, on Monday and Mrs. H. stopped off at the Sunnyside to see Dr. Holt as she is on the sick list and Mr. H. went on to Jacksonville on business, returning that night and joining his wife at the Sunnyside, where they spent the night.
    Mr. R. A. Petty, who is living on the Thomas Riley, Jr., place, was a caller Tuesday afternoon.
    Miss Pearl Simble of Medford came out on the P.&E. and took passage on the E.P.-L.C. stage to visit her mother, Mrs. Gus Nichols, on Salt Creek, Tuesday.
    John Robinson and his company, who went to the huckleberry patch just this side of Crater Lake, returned Thursday. John says they had a nice time but that it was very cold there at night. They did not succeed very well in procuring berries as none of them knew where to go to get the best results.
    Mr. R. A. Weidman came in Friday to consult Dr. Holt. He is troubled with something like poison oak.
    Mr.and Mrs. G. E. Fox of Central Point and Miss Eades of Portland, who have been out to the Dead Indian Soda Springs for the past five or six weeks, returned to Central Point Friday.
    J. H. Carlton ands wife came in from their ranch Friday bringing in Mrs. Frank Guerin of Portland, who has been visiting her aunts, uncles and friends.
    Mr. and. Mrs. J. P. Hoagland of Central Point, who had been up to the Dead Indian Soda Springs with Mr. and Mrs. Fox, also returned Friday evening.
    Green Mathews, one of our wealthy farmers and stockmen, was doing business here Friday.
    Uncle John Thomsen was among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Mr. E. L. Roundtree was a business caller Friday.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, made a business visit to Gold Hill and Medford Friday, bringing back with him two loads of dynamite.
    Rolley Mathews was an Eagle Point visitor Friday.
    Mr. Conger, who lives near the mouth of Big Butte, passed through here Friday afternoon accompanied by several ladies on their way to the hills.
    T. C. Barry, who has a homestead northwest of Brownsboro, came in from Crater Lake where he has been working this season, Friday and spent the night at the Sunnyside Hotel. He says that it has been very cold up there this season.
    T. C. Gaines and wife of Trail passed through here Saturday morning on their way home and while here had me change their paper from the Weekly Mail Tribune to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Charles Frey and wife of Lake Creek came out Saturday morning and took the Lewis jitney for Medford.
    Hamilton Watkins came in Saturday morning and brought in Mrs. Hess of Medford. She has been visiting Mr. Watkins' family for the past few days.
    Mr. N. L. Hawk of Derby was on the P.&E. stage Monday on his way home.
    James Culbertson of Lake Creek and one of his sons motored into Eagle Point Saturday and remained a few minutes only in town.
    G. A. Sanders, the foreman on the Antelope orchard, M. C. Logan and C. J. Kafer of Brownsboro were here for dinner Saturday. Mr. Kafer is our meat man and Saturday he had trouble with his car so he had to bring his meat around with a mule team, but he gets there all O.K., but not so quick. Mr. Charles Humphrey of Derby called later for dinner and while here renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. He is hauling wood out here to supply the demand next winter.
    P. F. St. Clair has also paid up for his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and ordered it discontinued as he starts Saturday for the state of Vermont.
    Alex Vestal took in a truckload of swine Thursday to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 12, 1918, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Olson returned to Trail Monday after a short visit with relatives and friends in Washington.
    Tressie Pence was a Trail visitor from Saturday until Thursday.
    E. E. Ash made a business trip to the valley Monday.
    A. Albright and Denzil Middlebusher are working at Crater Lake this summer.
    Miss Irma Taylor is spending a few days with her uncle, Henry Richardson.
    Chas. Blaess is on the sick list.
    Mrs. Lizzie Nichol will go to Medford Thursday to see her brother, Roy Vaughn, as he leaves for the training camp.
    The dance given by the Trail Red Cross Saturday night was very successful. Music was furnished by a lady orchestra, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Willits and Miss Campbell, and was greatly enjoyed by all. Net profits were $95. Fred Sturgis of Elk Creek was the lucky man, winning the silk couch throw and pillow.
    Red Cross meeting in hall at Trail Thursday. Everybody come.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 14, 1918, page 3


Medford Mail Tribune, August 17, 1918, page 2


    Last Saturday after I had sent my letter to the Medford Mail Tribune I met quite a number of people in our little town, among whom were Raleigh Mathews and Rube Johnson. Rube has bought an automobile, and is enjoying life joyriding. He says that [he] is going to try to enjoy life now as his working days are about over. Thomas Farlow and family of Lake Creek were also doing business here.
    Gus Edmondson of Derby and a lady I did not know passed through town going toward Medford. James Culbertson, who passed through here in the morning on his way to Medford, returned, bringing out a lady by the name of Thomsen with him. Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Stanley, were among the business callers Saturday.
    There was a Red Cross dance in Trail Saturday night and there was quite a number of our young folk went from here and about 3 o'clock Sunday morning William Coy, Millard Robinson and Carl Bergman came in for beds at the Sunnyside.
    Walter Wood passed through town with 12 or 15 head of cattle, taking them to his ranch.
    Harvey Stanley was at work building a large barn on his ranch in the Rancheria country.
    Among the callers Sunday were Frank Haselton, Alex Betz, Lyle Van Scoy, William Coy of Eagle Point, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Mat Day of Ashland. Mr. Day is one of the interesting contributors to the news columns of the Daily Medford Tribune and from the slight acquaintance made a very favorable impression. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge and their daughter, Miss Florence, and Miss Lucille Watson, all of Medford, Benj. F. Tanner of Koontz, Ind., was with us Sunday night.
    Monday J. L. Robinson, one of our progressive farmers, came in with one of his boys to see him off to join his comrades in the army. J. H. Tyrrell, formerly of Lake Creek, but now of Medford, who sold the site and land adjoining of the manganese mill on Lost Creek, came out from Medford Monday morning for breakfast. He and his family have been camped at the Dead Indian Soda Springs for the past five or six weeks and he took a run out to Medford to look after his interest there and decided to come out this far before breakfast, so that he could reach camp before it got so warm.
    Mr. W. E. Allen and G. E. Stowell called for dinner Monday on their way up to the manganese mine. Mr. Stowell is with the Oregon Bureau of Mines and Geology in the exploitation work at the noted mines of Lake Creek. I understand that they have the Dodge drilling outfit up there at work on the development work and that the results are very satisfactory, that they are discovering almost an unlimited amount of ore on one small tract, about 15 acres, and are still making new and greater discoveries.
    Mr. and Mrs. Coger of Clackamas County, Oregon, were here to spend the night with us Monday. They were here to look at a tract of land with an eye to buying it, but when they learned that it was nine miles from a high school and four miles to the nearest school they decided that it would not suit them, so left Tuesday to look for another place. They have six children to educate and one of them has passed the second year and another the first year in high school. We would have been glad if they could have found a place to suit them as they seemed to be of that class that will be a help to a community.
    Tuesday morning there was quite a number of passengers on the P.&E. train and among them were Mr. and Mrs. Morris of Butte Falls. They had been out to Medford and were returning home.
    Herman Meyer and his son Herman Meyer, Jr., were in town Monday.
    There was a meeting of the school board Monday night and among other matters attended to was the employment of a teacher for the intermediate department of our school. They employed a lady by the name of Miss Florence Lansing, an eastern lady with seven years' experience. Dr. Holt says that she comes very well recommended.
    Mr. Dave Bergon and son Burns passed through here Tuesday on their way home via Crater Lake and Huckleberry Mountain. Mr. Bergon at one time was a resident of this community and is remembered by many of the old stockmen.
    Mrs. Mabel Weitz, nee Mabel Hartson, formerly of Climax, was a pleasant caller Wednesday. She had come out on her way to Climax to visit some of her old neighbors. She has been teaching on Applegate and expects to teach the fall and winter term in Gold Hill.
    George Phillips and family, one of the section men on  the P.&E.R.R., came out and went Saturday night and Sunday with his mother-in-law, Mrs. N. E. Watkins, and while here paid up his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune and ordered it stopped as he is taking the Daily Mail Tribune. He is now a resident of Medford.
    W. P. Holbrook, ons of our prosperous farmers, was in town Monday and while here renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 17, 1918, page 5


    Miss Helen Beeson of Berkeley, Cal., came in with Mrs. Ray Stanley Saturday evening on her way up to the Lake Creek country to visit her sister, Mrs. Carl Stanley.
    A. J. Summerville of Wimer came in Wednesday evening and spent the night. He came over to purchase a bean threshing machine, as he will have twenty acres of beans to thresh this fall.
    Mrs. C. H. Natwick and J. W. Grover went to Medford Thursday morning in the Lewis jitney.
    James Grieve of Prospect passed through here Thursday morning on his way home. He had been out to Medford to take his father, John Grieve, to receive medical treatment.
    P. M. Allen, engineer in U.S. forest survey, was with us Thursday.
    John Smith took passage on the P.&E. Thursday for the Butte Falls country to visit his two sons.
    I understand that Wm. Perry, who now owns the old Haselton place, will cut fifty tons of hay off of eight acres of the twelve acres of land in the place. That shows what water and proper cultivation will produce in the Butte Creek country.
    Mrs. Kee of Butte Falls was on the P.&E. Thursday on her way home. She was accompanied by her granddaughter, Miss Lova Buchanan of Ashland. H. N. Darnell and wife of Butte Falls were also on the train on their way home.
    W. H. Crandall and J. P. McCabe were business callers Thursday morning.
    Frank Neil of Derby was among the business callers Thursday and so was Nick Young and George Givan.
    Mrs. E. S. Hock, nee Mamie Wright of Albany, and her mother took passage on the P.&E. Thursday afternoon for their home. They had been here for a few weeks looking after Mrs. Wright's property here.
    There was a report circulated here that our old janitor, Mr. Sheibley, was going to move back to Washington, but I am glad to say that this is a mistake as he has contracted to serve as janitor in our school again for the ensuing term.
    Arthur B. Meyer and John Foster, two of the forest rangers, came out Thursday evening, took supper at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford.
    Miss Minnie Givan and J. L. Robinson were among the business callers Friday and while here Mr. Robinson renewed his subscription to the Mail Tribune.
    Among the callers Friday evening for supper at the Sunnyside were Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Truet and Harry Starr. Mr. Starr is traveling for Marshall Wells Co., Portland. Jessie Wilson and J. B. Renault of Jacksonville, who had been out to the Huckleberry Mountain, were unfortunate in having their horses stray off and Mr. Wilson hunted for them for four days before he found them and then a man had tied them up on Red Blanket ranch for him and the result was that they did not secure many berries. They picked a few and bought the rest that they brought home. The last two-named spent the night here with us. Mr. Renault is seventy-eight years old and says that he has always had good health and can see to read as well as he ever could, and acts more like a man of forty than one almost eighty. About the time that they arrived Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Enders, Jr., and son Jack Enders and Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Norris and three sons Raymond, Armand and Bobbie [arrived], all of Ashland. The eight last mentioned have been out rusticating in the hills, going from Ashland out by the way of Lake of the Woods, Pelican Bay, Klamath Lake, Fort Klamath, Crater Lake, Huckleberry Mountain, etc. They had a fine trip and enjoyed every moment of the time. They had been out about two weeks. Just as they were getting ready to start Ray Wilson and Dr. Holt came up to the Sunnyside with Mr. Ray Wilson's father, Mr. Daniel F. Wilson. Mr. Wilson, Sr., had been in an automobile wreck and was brought here for medical treatment. He was riding with Ray's family. Mrs. Wilson was at the wheel and in going out from the Dodge-French bridge the machine was running on high and when she came to the steep part of the hill--it is quite steep and on a curve--she tried to change it from high to low, the lever caught and by some means "killed" the engine and the car began to run back down the hill and she lost control of the machine and it ran off the grade turning completely over, smashing the top all to pieces and catching the old gentleman under the wreck, jamming his chest quite badly, but hurting no one else.
    Mr. Wilson is about eighty-two years of age and seemed to be in considerable pain but the doctor decided that there was no serious damage done. His son took him to Medford Saturday morning to stay with one of his sons. After the inmates of the auto were all extricated they simply rolled the auto over on the wheels and took it on to Medford for repairs, by its own power.
    Miss Kinsheloe Going came out Saturday morning. There were three more youths came out on the P.&E. and all took passage on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for Lake Creek. Miss Going was going up to teach the Lost Creek (South Butte) school.
    Among the callers for dinner Saturday were W. F. Quisenberry, O. O. Alenderfer of the California-Oregon Power Company and another man in the employ of the same company whose name I cannot recall. Also Charles Bacon, conductor on the P.&E. and J. C. Kebbe.
    Since my last report D. S. Nichols and J. L. Robinson have renewed their subscriptions to the Mail Tribune.
    S. H. Harnish, son Bobbie, son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dutton who went to Crescent City the first of the week returned Thursday evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 20, 1918, page 3


Medford Mail Tribune, August 20, 1918, page 3


    Charles Dunford, one of the forest rangers, was with us Saturday evening.
    Miss Isabella Werner of Crescent City is here visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harvey Stanley, were visiting Mrs. Rader's oldest daughter, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Saturday afternoon.
    C. E. Bellows and family were here Saturday evening and so was Russ Moore, Dean Terrill, Wila Goss and family, Elbert Robinson, who lives on a part of the Lennier Lugen place, Lee Watkins and Chris Beale of Medford, Walter Wood and wife, Thomas Riley, one of our ex-county commissioners, and family were also business callers Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Buehler and Mr. and Mrs. Miles of Medford were going to Prospect Saturday night.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Phipps and son Estell, and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ray, Mrs. Dr C. R. Ray, daughter Miss Mabel, and son Charles, of Medford, Mrs. Joseph Geppert, son Charley, Mrs. Anna Corum and two daughters, Misses Irene and Jenette, Mr. Putnam Bibly and Sallwell, John Foster and Nick Young.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Arnes, August 19, a daughter, and Monday Joe was buzzing around Eagle Point as happy as a lark.
    George H. Wamsley, one of the veterans of the Civil War, started Sunday evening for Portland to join in the festivities of the reunion of the G.A.R., but the most interesting reunion with him will be the reunion of himself and two brothers, one of whom he has not seen for 30 years. W. S. Wood, another one of our veterans, also went to Portland at the same time. A. J. Florey, another one of the soldiers of the Civil War, a respected citizen of our town, was so crippled up with rheumatism that he did not feel that he was able to stand the trip, and I have not learned whether James Jordan, another of the Civil War veterans, went or not. There is only four of them left now, and we realize that each successive year the ranks of the G.A.R. are being thinned out and in a very short time they all will be numbered with those who have gone before. And when we look back at the gracious results of their bravery and perseverance we can't help but look on them with veneration, and witness the result! A united nation, the grandest in the world, solidly fighting for a united democracy of all the civilized nations of the world, a nation not only respected but recognized as the leading nation in point of intelligence, progressive in all the arts and sciences and in the line of invention leading all others, and now Old Glory is hailed and joyfully greeted by all and feared by our enemies.
    Monday was one of the quietest days we have had here for a long time. There seemed to be but little going on although I hitched old Pete to the buggy and started out to try my hand working for the Medford Mail Tribune, and the first place I went was to the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Riley, found them at home with their two daughters, Mrs. Wilson, whose husband has joined the army, her little son, and their single daughter, Josie, and after spending several hours, for one is seldom in a hurry to leave their lovely surroundings, and they are all good company, and here I met Mr. and Mrs. James Owens, he who is to be our next county commissioner, and enjoyed their company for a few minutes. James was assisting in rearranging the telephone wires, so did not see much of him. While I was there Mr. Riley took me out to see his electric plant, the electricity being generated by a gasoline engine. He has his house and barn and all the outbuildings lighted and power enough to pump water, etc., and when he wants to go to the barn in the night, all that he has to do is to turn a button and the path and barn is lighted all through. Before we separated he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Bidding these good folk adieu, my next stop was at the lovely home of Mrs. M. L. Pruett. I found her and her son Guy at work in the bean patch, preparing for next winter. While there Mrs. Pruett paid up a small balance due on the Weekly Mail Tribune and she had that subscription stopped and subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune. After looking over her flower garden a short time, my next stop was at the home of W. P. Haley, but I found that he was not at home, so did no business there. My next stop was at the home of Charles Cingcade, and learned that he was out gathering beef cattle in the hills. My next stop was at the home of Joe Riley, but found that his son James was not at home, so did no business there. By this time I was ready to start for home. There was some others I called on the phone and found that they were not at home so did not call on them.
    On reaching home I found Mr. W. M. Henson, George A. Henson and his wife. They had just returned from Brownsboro, where they are planning to live, as they have purchased a part of two places.
    Mrs. Clare Leidman of Medford came out Monday and spent two days in her old room in the Sunnyside. She came out to help in the telephone and post office here during the absence of W. C. Clements, the postmaster.
    A. S. Bliton, the meter reader of the C.O.P. Co. and son Albert were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Misses Mildred and Gertrude Carlton were doing business here Tuesday evening. C. M. Speck of Medford and Dale Hazel were guests at the S.S. and Mr. Hazel spent the night.
    Since my last report, beside Thomas Kiley and Mrs. M. L. Pruett, W. D. Roberts has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and gave me a classified adv. telling the readers of the Daily Mail Tribune that he has wheat and straw for sale.
    Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy has renewed her subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and J. F. Johnson has given me his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 22, 1918, page 5


    D. R. Patrick was here Wednesday and had an ad put in the Daily Mail Tribune advertising a lot of hogs for sale and the next morning was called up on the phone and that day by a little after noon had sold them to Ad Helms of Ashland. It pays to advertise in a live paper.
    Among other visitors to our town Wednesday afternoon were J. L. Robinson, P. W. McCabe, Mr. Findley, the tomato raiser, Miss Ruby Haley and her mother.
    S. H. Harnish has taken the contract to carry the mail from here to Medford and back the days that the train goes to Butte Falls, namely Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, leaving here promptly at 4 o'clock p.m. The mail will close about 3:30 p.m.
    Thursday Joe Arnes, W. H. Crandall, Rube Johnson, Alex Mathews, and Ad Helms of Ashland were among the callers. Mr. Holmes stopped here for dinner and hired Mr. Harnish to take him out to Frank Rhodes' place to look at the pigs D. R. Patrick had advertised the day before. Joe Moomaw and your Eagle Point correspondent accompanied him.
    J. P. Hanford of Lewiston, Idaho, but now working in the shipyard in Marshfield, Ore., came in on the P.&E. Thursday morning and took a room at the Sunnyside. The next day he had S. H. Harnish take him up on Elk Creek to look at some of the O. and C. land that has been put on the market, and the next day they went up in the Lake Creek country and up to this hour, Saturday, 1:30, has not returned. He was looking for a homestead where he could irrigate the land, and finds that such places are very scarce.
    Benj. Bishop and family have gone to Huckleberry Mountain for an outing and are expected home this afternoon.
    Among the business callers Thursday afternoon was Miss Sarah Singleton, Peter Young, Timmie Dugan, F. J. Aver and wife.
    Word came out from Trail Thursday evening that J. B. Davison was taken with paralysis while out from home and was being carried in on a stretcher in a very critical condition, and this morning the word came that he was gradually sinking. He is one of the old citizens of the Trail country and highly respected. He is a brother of Mrs. W. D. Knighten of Eagle Point and Mrs. Al Mayfield of Ashland.
    John Allen of Derby, and son Walter, passed through here Friday morning with a lot of chickens and geese on his way to Medford.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday noon was A. B. Cunningham of Paul's Electric Store, Medford, Dr. E. E. Emerson, Charles Pennington of Butte Falls, Ralph Bieberstedt, one of the prosperous farmers between here and Brownsboro, Gus Nichols, Ed Tucker, D. R. Patrick of Brownsboro, Dr, J. S. Holmes and G. Gaskel of the Holmes Veterinary Hospital, Medford, and Charles Humphrey.
    W. E. Hammel, wife and his sister, Miss Diehless Minter, passed through our town Friday morning on their way to Medford.
    Sam Coy, who has been working out in the Fort Klamath country for the past six weeks, was a visitor in our town Friday and so was Mr. J. L. Robinson, one of our patriotic citizens, and while here the subject of the cost of substitutes for flour came up in conversation and he remarked that when the demand was made on those who had more than a sack of flour on hand to take it to the merchant and turn it in to the United States government, that he had 600 pounds on hand and that he brought it in and turned it in to T. E. Nichols and a few days ago he went to the same store and bought a sack of the same flour and that he had to pay $8.45 for it and the substitutes and that it looked as though there was something wrong somewhere. And that brought up the subject of an article in the Oregon Journal of Thursday, August 22, in which the writer criticizes the statement of W. B. Ayer, state food administrator. The F.A. says that the farmer who raises the grain complains more than anyone else about the prices of the wheat substitutes and is the one who produces the substitutes, that he is not controlled by the food administrator as to substitutes, but the miller is. The writer then takes up the prices and shows the profit the dealer makes on some of the substitutes. He takes July 11 as the day he quotes the prices. On that date the merchant made 25 cents on a quarter of a barrel of flour and on a 50-pound sack of rice flour he made $1.25 and he paid $2.75 for a barrel of barley flour and sells it for $3.48, etc., giving the prices the merchant has to pay and the profit the farmer, who raises the grain, has to pay. He also calls the attention of the food administrator to the fact that the bakers in the city are allowed to use 80 percent white wheat flour in making bread--that is designed for the city folk, the higher ups--but the farmer is cut down to 50 percent, thus forcing the masses of the bread eaters to patronize the bakers. And the conclusion was that while no one wishes to condemn the government officials, they did seem to think that there was something wrong somewhere.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning were Mrs. Obenchain and her granddaughter, Miss Bessie Chambers, and Mr. G. W. Coleman of Butte Falls.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchardists, was in town Saturday morning and reports that he has sold his entire crop of apples to a California buyer.
    Charles Painter and W. P. Holbrook started Saturday for Portland to work in the shipyards.
    Since my last report C. Painter paid up a small balance on his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and ordered it stopped as he goes away.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 27, 1918, page 5


    Levi and John Stille have returned from Portland where they spent the summer.
    Mrs. Pullen, T. J. Pullen and Miss Mary Robertson have taken a trip to Bandon.
    Edward and Mildred Bellows are getting along fine from the effects of having their tonsils removed last week.
    This part of the valley is experiencing some of the hottest days of the season.
    Miss Mary Phipps of Medford is visiting Mrs. Natwick this week.
    Miss Myrtle Minter visited Miss May and Cora French Sunday, Cora returning home with her for the night.
    Mr. Chris Bergman made a business trip to Medford Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 28, 1918, page 5


    I unintentionally omitted in my writeup last Saturday to mention that Mrs. S. A. Potter, her son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Creson, Miss Georgia Potter and Miss Rene La Trowett, all of Ashland, stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner on Saturday on their way to Crater Lake, and that J. M. Dodge and Ray Coffman were here also for dinner that day. Messrs. Dodge and Coffman had just come from the manganese mines on Lost Creek where they had been using the Dodge drill prospecting for ore. Mr. Dodge said that they had drilled to a depth of 30 feet in a solid mass of the manganese ore and that the indications are that it is almost inexhaustible.
    Other business callers that afternoon were J. F. Johnson, Sam Coy, R. A. Petty, J. H. Dunken of Lake Creek. While Messrs. Coy and Petty were here the question of what they were going to do with their wheat came up, at the Corner Shop and Mr. Petty said that he had 150 bushels of old wheat on hand that he had tried to sell but could not, on account of government restrictions, and Mr. C. said that he wanted to dispose of his wheat and took a sample over to Central Point and was offered only $1.75 a bushel for it. The Snowy Butte mill is not doing business as yet this season, and the Medford mill was full, and according to their understanding they were not allowed to sell their wheat except for seed. During the conversation another farmer joined in the discussion and he said that he expected to have about 600 bushels and was obliged to sell some of his wheat to get money to pay the expense of harvesting and threshing. This question of the disposal of the wheat is a serious question. I was talking with a lady the other day, who has been to considerable expense to arrange to handle thoroughbred chickens and I asked her if she was still raising as many as she had been and she replied, "Oh, no; we can't get wheat to feed them so had to give it up." So by the restrictions placed on the farmer who raises wheat, the women who are trying to "Hooverize" by raising chickens and thus help out the meat market are deterred from so doing on account of lack of feed, and the question still stares us in the face, what is to be done with the wheat.
    Mr. and Mrs. Green Darnell and family passed through here Saturday afternoon on their way to Butte Falls, and on the road between Applegate and here they had the misfortune to break a spring on their auto, but were fortunate enough to find another spring at one of our local blacksmith shops.
    John Foster passed through here Saturday afternoon and had Mr. and Mrs. Geppert and two of their boys with him. They were on their way to their home near Butte Falls.
    Sunday morning Revs. W. T. S. Spriggs, pastor of the Baptist church, Medford, and G. L. Hall, colporter of A.B.P.S., came out and Rev. Mr. Hall preached for us a good practical sermon on the resurrection of Christ. They two, and J. W. Grover, were among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner. Mrs. Thomas Westlake and son of Los Angeles, visiting her sister, Mrs. C. R. Ray, son Charles Ray, Miss Mabel Ray. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ray of Medford, Mrs. Anna Corum and John Foster of Butte Falls and Fred Stillman of Ashland, Thomas F. Nichols and Clifford Henson of Lake Creek were eaters at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. John Zimmerlee, hostess of the Farmers' Hotel, had quite an addition to her family Saturday morning. Her daughter, Mrs. Abel of British Columbia, and her eight children, and a niece of Mr. Zimmerlee's, Miss Verna Zimmerlee. They had not seen each other for nine years before.
    Mr. H. Paulsen, traveling in the interest of the Canadian Pacific Railway, was a diner at the Sunnyside and so was Fred McPherson, Eagle Point, P. H. Brown and L. L. Conger of Medford, Wig Jacks, Prof. R. E. Morris and his mother, Mrs. Morris, is recently of Eureka, Cal.
    Monday Charley Sherman, who has been in California for some months past, returned to the Sunnyside.
    Died, at his home near Trail, Thomas Benton Dawson, about midnight Saturday, Aug. 26, of paralysis. He was taken while out in the hills on Wednesday, six miles from the Buzzard mine, and when taken became unconscious. He was carried on a litter to the nearest place accessible by wagon, six miles and taken to his home, where everything that could be done was done for him, but never regained consciousness. He was a man whom all who knew him had highly respected as he has spent the greater portion of his life in the community where he was born in Washington County, Ore., Feb. 26, 1851. The funeral services were conducted at the Trail cemetery by Rev. Mr. Sharp. There was a very large attendance at the funeral. He leaves two daughters and one son and two sisters to feel the bereavement.
    Rev. Sharp and two others were holding a protracted meeting of Trail at the time, and I understand are meeting with considerable success.
    Mr. Joe McCallister of Susanville, a brother of John McCallister of Lake Creek, was in our town Monday.
    Mrs. Etta Florey returned from her trip to Huckleberry Mountain Monday with about 15 gallons of berries.
    Mrs. Mabel Wertz, nee Mabel Henson, returned from a trip to Anderson, Cal, where she had been to meet her husband, who is in the army and had a furlough for 48 hours.
    Among the diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday were Mrs. Mabel Wertz, Fred McPherson, Wig Jacks, Mark Winkle and Walter Wood. Mr. McPherson has bought a crop of alfalfa hay on the J. B Jackson place and the above-named men are putting it up and taking their dinner at the Sunnyside.
    William and Mark Winkle and Miss Ella Belford were here for dinner Wednesday and while here gave me a classified ad for the Mail Tribune, Charles Manning of Peyton was also here for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 29, 1918, page 5


    In my last I omitted to state that we had a fire in our town Tuesday afternoon; the grass took fire and got beyond control of the one man who discovered it before anyone else discovered it and the result was that the barn formerly occupied by Roy Willits while he was carrying the mail from here to Persist took fire and burned to the ground. It contained about two tons of hay belonging to our barber, Mr. Slusser, but the fire came very near taking the home of our school janitor, Mr. Sheibley, but there happened to be quite a number of men from the country in town at that time, and about every available man and woman in town turned out and by hard work managed to stop it. The loss was light as the barn was only a small one, that and the hay being all so far as I know.
    The P.&E. made a trip to Butte Falls three days in succession, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and are hauling out quite a lot of logs, lumber and wood, as well as several passengers.
    Wednesday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Low, Miss Edith Chapman, Miss Mary Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Mark True of Ashland, called for supplies. They had been from Ashland via Lake of the Woods, Pelican Bay, Fort Klamath to Crater Lake and spent three days coming from the lake here, stopping all along the route to see the various places of interest. They seemed to be delighted with the scenery along the route. While they were here Mr. Low gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and Mr. True renewed his subscription to the same paper.
    William Grissom of Climax had a part of a car of shakes brought out from Butte Falls the past week and is hauling them to his mountain home.
    Wednesday I took a little drive out in the country, but was not very fortunate in doing business for the Mail Tribune, as so many of the people are away from home at this time, although I found Mr. Fuller at home and had him renew his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Thursday, among the passengers on the P.&E. were O. Adams of Butte Falls, [and] Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Drommo of of Grand Rapids, Mich. They came out to attend the annual meeting of the G.A.R. and were on their way to visit old friends in Butte Falls. Mr. K. D. Jones of Butte Falls was on his way home on the train.
    Mrs. N. E. Watkins of Eagle Point called Thursday, and renewed her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    John Allen of Derby passed through here Thursday morning with his uncle, Allison Allen of Spokane. He had just arrived in Medford that morning and they were on their way to Crater Lake. Mr. Allen purchased quite a lot of canned goods to use on the way here. The family would join them at the Allen ranch and all go as far as Prospect that night.
    Mrs. John Tyrrell and Mrs. Herman Meyer, Jr., were among the business callers Thursday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stanley and Mrs. Stanley's mother, Mrs. John Rader, passed through town on their way to the hills Thursday.
    M. C. Logan of Brownsboro was a business caller Thursday and while here renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    W. Hart Hamilton of San Jose, Cal., came out Thursday on the P.&E. to look after his interests here, leaving Saturday.
    Misses Sarah and Elsie Sayleton and Miss Ruby Haley were business callers Thursday.
    E. E. and H. W. Reams of Phoenix, Ore., were here for dinner Friday. They came over to try to rent land in this section to farm.
    Amos Ayres, our depot agent, and his wife spent Thursday night with his parents, and she remained there until Friday evening. Amos took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Alex Vestal by some means hurt his hand so that it caused a rising in the palm of the hand. He had Dr. Holt lance it for him Friday.
    Among our callers in town Friday were F. J. Ayres, C. Kafer, Verna Mathews and family, Mr. Swensen and his sister, Mrs. Eannetta Montgomery, Thomas F. Nichols, Ed Dutton, Miss Anna McCormick, Fred Stillman. He spent the night at the Sunnyside and took the jitney for Medford Saturday morning. Miss Rosetta McGrail, the county nurse, and F. C. Eckerson.
    Miss Catherine Froley and Miss Burnice B. Hargrove were on the P.&E. Saturday morning on their way to Butte Falls where they expect to teach this fall and winter. Mrs. W. T. Grieves was also a passenger on the P.&E. for Butte Falls.
    Charles Kafer, our meat man, and his son Fred, of Brownsboro, Wm. Hinkle, of B.B., Albert Van Goethen, one of our khaki boys from Fort MacArthur, L.A., Cal., who is off on a furlough, and Mrs. Mills, Miss Ellen Mills and Mrs. Hoover, all from Grants Pass, stopped here for dinner Saturday. They were out for an outing.
    F. C. Erickson was in town Friday evening and while here gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 4, 1918, page 5


    Mr. H. von der Hellen of Wellen had a lot of lumber brought in on the P.&E. the first of the week.
    In spite of the war excitement and the cry of hard times, the farmers are still going ahead improving their places and it appears that the demand for lumber shakes and shingles is just about as urgent as ever. Herman Meyer, Sr. of Lake Creek was in Tuesday after a load of shakes to cover a building.
    Prof. C. E. Johnson, formerly of this section of the country, but now of Roseburg, came in last Saturday evening and spent a few days at the Sunnyside during the time he made a business trip to Derby. Since he left here he has been traveling for a publishing company a part of the time but during the past year has been teaching near Roseburg. He expects to teach this fall and winter in the same locality. He has followed teaching in this county for several years.
    Mr. and Mrs. Putman and Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman of Medford were among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday, and so was Geo. A. Hopper of San Diego, Calif., Mrs. Raymond L. Ward, New York City, and Miss Louise Mosier of San Francisco. Also Judge E. D. Briggs and wife, J. J. McNair and wife of Ashland and Mrs. Mary Sitzer of St. Paul, Minn. And Mr. W. H. Watt and Henry Currier of Medford.
    Fred Frideger of Medford, who owns a twenty-acre pear orchard just outside of the corporate limits of our town, came in Monday to commence picking and boxing his pears, taking a room at the Sunnyside. His pear crop is quite good this season as he has a good tract of land and water to irrigate.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dolph of Portland arrived at the farm of Mr. Fred McPherson of this place. Sunday night they came down in their car to visit Mr. McPherson and family, as they were schoolmates together when they were boys. Mr. Dolph is a relative of the late Senator Dolph and a grandson of Mr. Vanderbilt of New York.
    Mrs. Thomas Harrocks and daughter Gladys of Portland, a sister of Mrs. R. A. Weidman, who is the business manager and saleslady in the T. E. Nichols store in this place, arrived in Medford Sunday morning, and Thomas Lewis brought them out to visit the Weidman family that morning. The meeting was somewhat of a surprise but equally as pleasant. They had not seen each other for some years.
    Monday the lawsuit between W. E. Butler and Ed Dutton et al. and the et al. proved to be the county of Jackson for ten thousand dollars damages because Ed Dutton acting as road supervisor in this road district removed obstructions in the road acting under, as he supposed, the order of the county court and in consequence of the suit there were some fifteen or twenty witnesses summoned from here and surrounding country and among that number was Frank Brown, Roy Ashpole, L. E. and John and Gus Nichols, Jeff Conover, Geo. Daley, Wm. Perry, A. C. Howlett, and a number from the country. Some of them did not appear while a few who did go to Jacksonville were not called on the witness stand. The principal point the plaintiff seemed to want to establish was that it was not a legal county road and that the plaintiff had a right to fence the land. How it will be decided remains to be seen as the court did not get through examining the witnesses until 6 p.m. There seems to be considerable feeling manifested in this community over the suit and the decision will be looked for by the friends on both sides with interest.
    Fred McPherson and his friend Mr. Dolph and Mrs. Benj. Brophy were among the business visitors Tuesday.
    A. C. Edler of Lake Creek was also in town Tuesday.
    I learned this Wednesday morning that the beautiful home of W. E. Hammel situated about five miles north of here was burned to the ground Monday morning about 3 o'clock. There seems to be no cause of the fire as far as I have learned as Mrs. Hammel was away from home on Applegate at the time and there had been no fire in the house since Saturday. There was some insurance but I understand that Mr. Hammel claims that the loss will amount to over a thousand dollars over and above the insurance. He saved nothing more than his clothes as he was in bed when he heard the fire.
    Our school will open for the fall term on Monday, Sept. 9th.
    Wednesday John Winningham, our mail carrier from here to Trail and Persist, had his auto out of commission so had to use a span of mules and a hack Wednesday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. Monte Venham came out on the P.&E. auto stage Wednesday morning and took the stage for Long Branch on the E.P. and Trail road.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Caster, all of Medford R.F.D. route near Phoenix, and D. R. Patrick and Miss Ella Belford and a little orphan boy she has taken to raise and educate were all here for dinner Wednesday.
    Mr. Patrick is starting for San Francisco to try to join the army and if he does not succeed intends to go to work in one of the shipyards.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 5, 1918, page 5


    George Trusty and his mother, Mrs. J. Trusty, of Elk Creek, came out Wednesday evening, stopping with Mrs. H.'s daughter, Mrs. Amos Ayres.
    The Tacoma Metal Company have shipped another car of manganese east, this car goings to Philadelphia, and the company have about another car at the depot ready to ship.
    The P.&E. railroad seems to have [omission] ing considerable more business than they have been doing. I heard the superintendent remark the other day that during the month of August they had done three times the business they did the August before. They seem to have quite a number of passengers, especially on the eastbound trips, and are hauling out from four to seven cars of logs to the Applegate Lumber Company at Medford every trip, and almost every trip bringing out one or two cars of lumber besides more or less cars of wood for this place and points along the line between here and Medford, and we are living in hopes that their business will increase so as to justify them making a trip every day except Sunday.
    Mr. C. Hopp of New York was a passenger on the P.&E. Thursday on his way up to the L.C. manganese mine. He seems to be considerably interested in that enterprise and is greatly encouraged over the prospect.
    E. C. Eversen and Goldie Brown were among our guests Thursday.
    T. E. Powell, who is traveling in the interests of the Tobacco Company of California, was here for dinner Thursday, and so was Frank Miller and wife, recently from Burns, and Mr. Davis, the court reporter of Jacksonville. Mr. Davis and Mr. Miller had been up Rogue River fishing and caught a few fine fish.
    Wm. Beale of Butte Falls was brought in Thursday afternoon by Dr. Holt from his home to remain a while at the Sunnyside on account of his having a rusty nail puncture his foot. He had been acting as night watchman in the Butte Falls mill and while on duty he jumped off a platform and landed on a rusty spike nail and it penetrated almost through the foot, about two inches back of the toes. He is being treated by Dr. Holt and seems to be getting along as well as could be expected.
    Prof. R. E. Morris, one of our school supervisors, and Miss Rosetta McGrail, public health nurse, spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Prof. E. N. Deardorff, who is to act as principal of our school this fall and winter, and family came in Thursday on the P.&E. and went direct to the Sunnyside and after dinner moved into the P. H. Daily home.
    Miss Pina Benedict, who taught our primary department last season, and is engaged to teach in the same department this season, moved into town Friday. She is occupying the same house she lived in last season, the Ringer house.
    John W. Smith, one of our old boarders, who has been at Marshfield working in one of the shipyards this summer, called Friday for dinner.
    Mr. Sheibley and a man from Paul's Electric Store, of Medford, sent out to make some connection in the electric pump at the school house, were also here for dinner Friday. There were also two traveling salesmen here for dinner Friday. They were representing a San Francisco grocery firm.
    Charles Humphrey of Derby is hauling out stovewood to Eagle Point. He and his wife were diners at the Sunnyside Thursday and while here he renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    John Howard and Pete Betz were doing business with our merchants Friday.
    Mrs. M. J. Hawk and her son, S. H. Hawk, were among the passengers on the P.&E. on their way to Butte Falls Saturday.
    Mrs. G. M. Steidhem and her son Louis, who have been up in the Lake Creek country visiting her mother and family, took dinner at the Sunnyside Saturday, and so did Mr. and Mrs. Seiler and their four children.
    Since my last report Roy Ashpole, J. M. Wilfley, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, and Henry Knighten have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 10, 1918, page 5


   Eagle Point school will open to begin the year's work on Monday, September 9th. All children will report in their old classes at 9 o'clock sharp. It is customary to hold school only during the morning session on the first day when after organization and learning the rules and regulations of the new teachers, they are dismissed to get the necessary equipment for the year's work, and report for business Tuesday morning.
    The teachers engaged for the coming year are Prof. E. N. Deardorff, for principal and high school teacher. Prof. Deardorff was formerly high school teacher at Applegate.
    Miss Florence Lansing will have charge of the intermediate department, consisting of 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Miss Lansing is from Minnesota, where she was principal of a junior high school, is a teacher of vocal music and art, and was leader in the glee club where she taught.
    Miss Pina Benedict will have charge of the primary work, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades. Miss Benedict proved very satisfactory as our primary teacher last year, and was well liked by her pupils, the school board and the community as well.
    We expect good work from this corps of teachers this year, both in the school room and on the play ground, all being enthusiastic workers.
    Three years of work will be given in the high school this year, physics, Latin and one commercial branch being added to last year's course of study. Very thorough work will be expected of the high school, and parents need not worry about sending their children here to high school as our school is standardized or accredited according to rulings given by the state board of education, and all subjects offered will be carefully taught and credits given by the county superintendent equal those given to the larger high school pupils. We believe more individual attention can be given the pupils in a well-organized small high school than in most large high schools, as the larger schools are nearly all overcrowded. Everything possible is being done to give you a first-class school at the lowest possible expense to the taxpayers. Reciprocate by being public spirited. Keep your children in the home and home school as long as possible. They will leave the home and home influence soon enough. And the more children we have in our school the lower will your taxes be.
    We expect several pupils from outlying districts, where there are no high schools, to attend the high school here this coming year. All are welcome.
    The personnel of the school board of directors this year is Dr. W. W. P. Holt, Mrs. Mary Brown and Mrs. Gertrude Haak. All are interested in a first-class school and will carefully supervise all departments.
    Mr. Sheibley will again be janitor for the year.
    We note that Prof. N. A. Narregan, long a resident of Eagle Point, will be principal of Rogue River High School this year. Mr. Narregan is an educator of ability and we wish him success in his work.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 10, 1918, page 5


    Mr. H. Richardson of Trail attended his brother's funeral in Central Point Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Griffin left for Fowler, Cal., Monday. They sold their ranch to Mr. Stewart of Medford.
    Mr. Clarence Pierce of Medford killed a bear while hunting on Elk Creek.
    Olaf Skyrman left Tuesday for Klamath Falls to get his brother, Harry, who is working there.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Mayfield are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Dawson this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. Frye of Medford were Trail visitors Sunday.
    The rains of last week are helping to get control of the fires on Applegate and upper Rogue.
    Mrs. C. Skyrman and Miss A. Klippel were Medford callers Saturday.
    Roy Warner is reported much better. A wagon ran over his leg and bruised it very bad, but he is able to be up again.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 11, 1918, page 7


    W. C. Daley, the pioneer potato raiser of the Little Butte Creek country, was a business caller Saturday afternoon on his way from Medford.
    Mrs. William Purdy, mother of Mrs. Dr. Wm. P. Holt, and her little granddaughter, Mary Hatch of San Francisco, Cal., came in Saturday afternoon to visit her daughter.
    Our Sunday school met as usual Sunday morning and after the routine of the school, Mrs. Nettie Grover, who has been acting superintendent for several years, tendered her resignation, stating that she expected to move away in the very near future, and Miss Winifred Haak was elected to fill the vacancy. It is universally regretted that Mrs. Grover is going to leave us, for she has always been in the front, in religious work especially, but also in the front in every public enterprise calculated to benefit society or assist the needy. Her daughter, Miss Verta, who has been acting as our organist at public meetings, will also be greatly missed from our social and religious meetings. But in these cases our loss will result in the gain of the community where they may locate. Mrs. John Robertson was elected as assistant superintendent and Miss Nora Childreth was named as organist.
    Mr. Dupray, who is owner and operator of a sawmill about four miles this side of Butte Falls, spent Saturday night with us, and Sunday morning his son-in-law, George Albert, and family came out and they all went up to Herman Meyer's, near Lake Creek, returning in the afternoon and took supper at the Sunnyside.
    Herman Meyer Sr., his son Herman Jr., and wife, also Mr. and Mrs. Ed Meyer, all of Lake Creek, were here for supper Sunday evening. I understood that they were accompanying Ed Meyer as far as Medford, as he was going to answer the call of his country to suppress Germanism.
    William Haselton, who has been out in the Klamath country, has put in an appearance among us again.
    Among others who were guests at the Sunnyside Sunday were Mr. John Hecket, Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Willson, the Medford second hand man, and A. Vandermark, Mr. and Mrs. Quisenberry, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cunningham and son William, and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Brown, all of Medford. The last eight named had been up to Prospect Saturday evening to attend a dance and were just returning. They report that they had a very pleasant time, a large crowd and a good supper.
    George Plymate came out on the P.&E. Monday morning on his way to the L.C. manganese mine, and Leonard Brown and Sherbert Gray, both of Medford, came out and took the E.P.-Persist stage for the Elk Creek country, and I imagine that I can see them coming in with two five-point bucks on their backs, as that was their business up there.
    W. T. Moore of Central Point came out a few days ago to visit his daughter, Mrs. David Cingcade. Mr. Moore is now in his 88th year of his age and although he is unable to do much work, still is in good health and quite active.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis received a card from their son, George, one of our E.P. boys who joined the army, in which he said that he had arrived in a foreign port in Siberia. Thus it is our boys are taken from us and one is sent east and another west to do battle for democracy.
    Rev. L. C. Sutherland, who was a volunteer in the Canadian army, went to France, was wounded, and after lingering in different hospitals for several months was given an honorable discharge, lectured for us Monday night. He gave us a one man's experience as on "stretcher bearer" whose duty it was to go along and pick up those who were wounded and carry them to the ambulances to be taken to the field hospitals. But I am getting ahead of my story. He told how he happened to get into the service when he only weighed 101 pounds and was very short at that; his experience going to France, of the course of training they had to undergo to develop and harden the muscles, of his experience on the battlefield, how he was wounded while assisting another man to bind up the wounds of a comrade, how a shell burst right over them, killing the wounded man and striking himself on the head, rendering him unconscious for awhile, and when he gained his senses again, found himself a paralytic on his right side, giving the details of his recovery, how he was treated, speaking in the highest terms of the nurses, doctors, etc. He spoke for a little over an hour and held the large audience deeply interested during the whole time. I say large audience; it was a large crowd for Eagle Point, for almost everyone turned out to hear him and all that I have heard express themselves speak in high terms of the lecture. His lectures are free, but at the close he took up an offering and received about five or six dollars. He is a very pleasant speaker and pays his way as he goes.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 12, 1918, page 5


    There was a number of items that I have noted down in my little book that I did not have time to write when I wrote last Wednesday, so I will get them down at this time, and among them was that of two of the little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Pearce of Forest Creek have been here visiting their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pearce.
    Mr. Charles Wonnal formerly of Derby, was a guest at the Sunnyside the first of the week. C. M. Speck and wife were here Tuesday afternoon on business with Mr. Wonnal, and took supper at the Sunnyside.
    George Trusty and his mother, Mrs. J. H. Trusty, came out from Elk Creek Tuesday night. They had trouble with their Ford and were late getting in.
    J. B. Jackson and wife have gone to San Francisco to visit their son, Carl, who is in the United States navy, and Mrs. Carl Jackson is keeping house for them while they are gone.
    Charley Bacon is surely entitled to a good deal of sympathy on account of his misfortune in connection with his carrying the mail. He started out from Medford in due time in his car with the United States mail and a lady passenger, and when he got within about four miles of the Eagle Point post office he had a "blowout" so he had a hurry-up job to fix up the wheel and proceed so as to get to Eagle Point before the E.P.-Persist stage started, as the lady wanted to take that stage. After working at the wheel for some time Mr. O. V. Meyer, who is riding over the country selling Chevrolet cars, came along and took the lady in his car, but when he reached the post office found that the stage had gone, but as luck would have it, Mr. Winningham, the contractor, had to go at that time with a mule team instead of a car. He was easily overtaken and she was soon seated in the stage on her way to her destination, but Charley was still left with the mail and after patching and repatching the tube some three or four times, Mr. Rhodes, our county engineer, came along and took the mail sacks in his car and brought them into Eagle Point. But by this time the mail on two of the star routes had started, one for Trail and Persist and the other for Derby, leaving the people without their mail along the way from Tuesday until Friday, and when they do get their mail the news is way behind the times and at this exciting time we are almost all of us anxious to get the news as soon as possible, so that Charley is not the only one interested who is entitled to sympathy, but the farmers along the star routes.
    Our school opened last Monday with Prof. E. N. Deardorff as principal, Miss Florence Lansing intermediate and Miss Pina Benedict primary teacher. Our school opened with 10 high school pupils and between 40 and 50 in the other two grades.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday morning were Joe Trefren, Mrs. M. C. Mahoney, Mrs. Jack Tungate and four children, Ralph Garnett and bride, on their way to Butte Falls, and Mr. C. Carey of Phoenix. He came out to visit Mr. William G. Knighten, who has been confined to his room for some time. He has had two operations performed but at last accounts was getting along as well as could be expected.
    Ora Bellows, formerly of this place but now of Bend, Ore., was on our streets Thursday.
    W. C. Doty, one of our progressive farmers and stockmen, received via the P.&E. railway a registered Cotswold buck sheep from Halsey, Ore. He is only a year old and is as large as the largest. He is surely a fine one.
    J. T. Ketchum of Portland, adjuster of insurance for the Phoenix Insurance Company of Hartford, was here for dinner Thursday on his way to adjust the loss of the property burned on the W. E. Hammel place.
    George L. Treachler of Treachler, and Morton Doty of Portland, agent for the Sampson tractor, were on their way out to the J. M. Wilfley orchard to assist in demonstrating one of the tractors.
    W. F. Biddle of Medford was among the guests Thursday and so was Mrs. E. M. Bower, with Standard Fashion Company, San Francisco, Cal, also Fred McPherson, Eagle Point, engineer Geppert of Butte Falls, Fred Stillwell, Medford, Dr. J. H. Mastendale and wife of Los Angeles, the two last named were simply traveling to see the beauties of Oregon.
    D. A. Bonar of Medford was here Friday for dinner. He is with the Oregon-California Power Co. and was adjusting the wires, drops, lights, etc., in the house now occupied by Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher.
    Miss Estella Betz has engaged rooms over the T. E. Nichols store and is housekeeping, She is one of the telephone girls.
    J. W. Grover has moved to Medford and Roy Harnish has rented the ranch.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 17, 1918, page 5


    Mrs. L. B. Pierce returned to her home in Medford after spending a week visiting with friends at Trail.
    Trail school opened Monday with Veda Lynch as teacher.
    Mrs. R. E. Foeller and son Charles went to Medford Saturday to see a doctor about the latter's hand; he had it bruised while cutting wood and it kept getting worse until blood poison started. He is much better at this writing.
    Mr. and Mis. Dolph Olson spent the weekend with the latter's mother, Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher.
    The Misses Eula and Lucy Foeller, who have been employed at the hotel at Crater Lake all summer, returned home Sunday to attend school for the winter.
    There will be a dance for the Red Cross at the Trail hall, Saturday night, Sept. 21st. Medford music, and a good time guaranteed for all.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 18, 1918, page 7


    School began last week with Miss Marguerite Hammond of Ashland as teacher.
    Laurel Hill school began this week with Miss Zanta Roberts of Eagle Point as teacher.
    Rev. John Stille preached Sunday afternoon at Mr. Merritt's.
    Saturday evening there was a farewell reception given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Watkins in honor of T. J. Pullen and mother, who leave for California in a short time; but owing to the bad weather last Saturday there were but few present.
    Tom [Pullen?] has been quite active in Sunday school work, and his friends are sorry to lose him.
    Miss Myrtle Minter is attending school in Eagle Point this winter.
    Paul and Millard Robertson also expect to attend the Eagle Point school when the fall work is done.
    Mr. and Mrs. Crandall motored to Medford Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 19, 1918, page 7


    Ed Higinbotham of Derby was a business caller Saturday afternoon.
    Mrs. Foeller and daughter, Miss Sadie, of Trail, were doing business with our merchants Saturday afternoon.
    Miss Eula and Zanta Roberts and Nellie Coy, three of our promising young ladies, were among the visitors in our town Saturday.
    In my last letter I omitted to mention that I had been out visiting a few of the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune, and among them [I] was at the fine farm of Mr. Fred Pelouze, situated about two and a half miles above here on our beautiful Little Butte Creek. I say fine farm, and to anyone familiar with the situation a few years ago when he purchased the farm from Eli Dahack, when it was an effort for one to raise enough feed to keep a cow and a span of horses, and look over it now and see the broad acres of alfalfa growing, where at that time a large part of the land was covered with chaparral and [all] kinds of brush and timber, one can see what scientific farming and water will do; how they will turn an apparently useless tract of land to be among the most productive places in the country, for now his yield is so that he has his large barn filled with hay and sells enough to bring him a handsome return from his investment from the sale of hay but also he is enabled to keep a nice herd of fine dairy cows that are bringing him a handsome return for his labor and investment. While I was there he renewed his subscription to the Medford Mail Tribune and Medford Sun combined.
    I also visited the fine farm of Mrs. Susan Hart and found that she had just recovered from a severe spell of sickness but she renewed her subscription to the Mail Tribune and in addition to the two subscribers just mentioned Alex Vestal has given me his subscription to the Mail Tribune. D. S. Nichols has paid up a small balance and ordered his Daily Mail Tribune stopped for the time being as he and his family have gone to visit their son Artie in Siskiyou County, Cal. Lucy Conover also renewed her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune and L. L. Brennan, the foreman of the J. H. Cooley orchard, gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Miss Ruth Grover renewed her subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and had it changed to 506 Beatty Street, Medford.
    W. A. Higinbotham on the Prospect route was here on his way up to Wagner Creek to bring out some cows and calves he had purchased, and to buy more and while here had his Weekly Mail Tribune stopped and took the Daily Mail Tribune in its place. And R. G. Brown, one of the firm of Geo. Brown and Sons paid up a subscription to the Medford Sun to go with his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Thus the readers will see that the people are waking up to the fact that in order to keep posted as to what is going on in this busy world they must have a real live newspaper to read.
    The nice shower of rain that we had the last of last week made it look as though we would not have the usual number of guests here on Sunday but we had quite a number and among them were B. E. Haney and wife, M. A. Schmidt and Mr. Haney's niece, Miss Margaret Haney of Medford, Nick Young, one of our bachelor friends who owns and operates a fine farm just below town, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Barnum, Miss Marian Barnum, Miss Mildred Heine and W. B. Barnum of Medford.
    Mrs. John Perl, Frank Perl, Frederick Perl, Robert Rollins, Howard Gault, Willis Stockam and Jimmie Webb also were here. Mrs. Perl came out in her car to bring the above named six boys for an outing and while they were here they took advantage of the warm season and indulged in an old-fashioned swimming treat and after taking their bath they strolled over the hill and took in all of the sights to be seen. They surely did enjoy themselves and after satisfying their ravenous appetites at the Sunnyside started for their homes in Medford feeling that they had not spent the afternoon in vain.
    Among other callers were J. F. Hart and Mr. and Mrs. Speck of Medford, W. A. Higinbotham and Nick Young.
    Benj. Brophy has been hauling his winter's wood from the P.&E. depot that he had shipped out from Butte Falls during the past week.
    Gus Nichols of Lake Creek was among the business callers Monday.
    E. W. Nutting of Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. Piatt, J. A. Garrow and Lee Davenport of Medford were guests at the Sunnyside.
    S. H. Harnish and Joe Moomaw, who have been visiting Joe's brother Benjamin in Marshfield, returned home Monday. Joe is the mail carrier from Eagle Point to Derby and while he was gone Robert Harnish took his place.
    Mrs. Foley of Tolo was a passenger on the P.&E. Tuesday on her way to Butte Falls to visit her daughter, who is teaching school in that district.
    The P.&E. had a car of concrete culverts on the route to be used between here and Butte Falls.
    Miss Olga Bieberstedt was a passenger from here to Butte Falls.
    G. W. Cruise and family of Ashland and Miss Wright of Fort Stevens passed through here Tuesday on their way to Union Creek on the Fort Klamath road to spend a few days hunting and fishing.
    Word came over the phone to Dr. Holt that Wm. Chambers Jr. of Butte Falls had his leg broken and for him to come right away. It appears that Mr. Chambers was working at a log getting it into the mill road when a large boulder gave way on the steep hillside above and came rushing down and just then someone hollered "Look out, Bill!" and just as he tried to climb onto the log the rock caught his leg just above the foot breaking the small bone and the knuckle on the larger bone but the next morning he was going around on his crutches. And a day or so afterward Mr. Lumas Doome, who was also working for the same company, the Butte Falls Lumber Company, got caught among the same logs and I understand had three of his ribs broken.
    Mrs. Ed Murphy of Wellen was trading with our merchants the first of the week.
    W. E. Hammel made a hurried trip through our town Tuesday.
    D. E. Phipps and wife. who were in our town Tuesday on business, took supper at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 23, 1918, page 5


    Last Wednesday morning when the mail arrived in our little village I received the announcement that Mrs. Dr. Holt, Miss Hazel Brown and myself were appointed a committee to solicit funds in behalf of the Salvation Army that is working in the armies in Europe assisting in every possible way to crown the efforts of the allies to down the kaiser, and before I knew that I was appointed to that position I received word from Mrs. Holt that she could not act and when I went to see Miss Hazel Brown and give her her receipt book, she told me that she was planning to start for Portland either that afternoon or the next, so the reader will see the predicament I was in, and marked on the notification I received was "quota $50.00." Well I could see no other course but to start right at it, although that was my regular day to write for the Mail Tribune, but I thought that collecting $50 was of more importance than getting "copy" so I started in at once and the first man I met gave me a dollar and then the next and the next, etc., but I found some that were too poor to give anything. And one poor old soul pleaded poverty, saving that he had already invested $1400 in government bonds and did not feel able to give anything more, although he admitted that that $1400 was bringing him four percent interest. But the people are generally responding quite well. I met one lady and asked her to assist in the good cause and she said "I will give 25 cents," and just as I was arranging to write the receipt she exclaimed "Oh this is for the Salvation Army that is working among the soldiers in Europe, I want to give $5 for that," so I wrote her out a receipt for $5 instead of 25¢. Another lady said that she would give a dollar and just as I was starting to write the receipt and she was writing out her check she remarked, "Make it two." That seems to be the feeling generally among the people, although many of them have invested about all they can spare in W.S.S. and U.S. bonds, still the feeling seems general that they are willing to make any sacrifice to down the kaiser, and establish true democracy.
    Frank Neil of Derby was among the business callers Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Booth and son Perry of Grants Pass were here for dinner Wednesday on their way to Butte Falls to visit friends.
    W. S. Barnum and wife of Medford, who have been spending the summer out at Pelican Bay, passed through town Wednesday evening on their way home.
    Charles Humphrey of Derby was hauling wood into town Wednesday and took dinner at the Sunnyside. Ed Walker and family passed through our town Thursday afternoon on their way to Medford.
    Ed Dutton and John Greb were among the business callers Thursday.
    J. C. Findley, our tomato man, was in town Thursday.
    R. D. Watson and family arrived in a car with household goods and stock from the state of Washington Thursday to settle on a homestead near Trail.
    M. H. Simons, the foreman on the Corbin orchard, was a business caller Thursday.
    A. S. Bliton, Dr. E. B. Pickel and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith and two children were among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Miss Anne M. McCormick, the  county food demonstrator, and Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, were here for dinner Thursday and that afternoon Miss McCormick lectured to the ladies of the Red Cross Society.
    Dave A. Kinson, state general agent of the Northern Assurance Co. Ltd., and J. V. McIntyre, agent for Eagle Point, where here Thursday for dinner.
    Dave Ball and a part of his family and Mrs. Ball's mother, Isabel Heckathorn, arrived from Crescent City, Cal., a few days ago to visit Mrs. Ball's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leneir.
    E. C. Bellows of this section and his brother Ora, of Bend, Ore., were visitors Friday, and so was Perry Foster of Beagle.
    Friday being the day set for children's fair day, our school turned out en masse to attend it at Medford. Mrs. Benj. Brophy. Mrs. Roy Stanley, Mr. S. H. Harnish and others whose names I couldn't procure took a load each of the school children over to the fair and those in attendance reported that they had a very pleasant time.
    Forgetting that Friday was fair day I started that afternoon to see some of the patriotic citizens up the creek soliciting for the Salvation Army fund and when I got as far as Wm. Perry's learned that Messrs. Haak, Fuller, Pelouze, etc., had gone to Medford, but I did not have my ride for nothing, for the three men I met responded to the call for help for the good cause.
    Since my last report C. H. Nordwick has given me a subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune and Medford Sun for three months.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 26, 1918, page 5


    Everything seems to be progressing smoothly in all school affairs. The ability of Miss Lansing as a vocal teacher is noticed in the interest manifested by the children in the half hour of vocal exercises which the school has each morning.
    The high school started Monday to take two new subjects--physiology and business correspondence, spelling and penmanship. These subjects were not started earlier because the pupils were unable to obtain textbooks.
    There seems to be some apprehension on the part of some parents because we are not offering bookkeeping as an elective this year. It does not seem to be generally understood that the business correspondence, spelling and penmanship subject is part of the bookkeeping or commercial course. No student could possibly be a good bookkeeper or stenographer without thorough training in business correspondence, spelling and penmanship.
    The annual or special school election to vote a tax for the coming year was held Saturday, 3 p.m., September 21. The meeting was not opened until 3:30 p.m. on account of not enough people present. Only four voters were present at 3:30. Mrs. Gertrude Haak acted as chairman because of the absence of Chairman W. W. P. Holt. Mr. J. Florey was appointed as secretary pro tem. The financial statement of the year was read and approved. The budget was read and after considerable discussion of same it was moved and carried that budget be voted on as a whole and not itemized. Budget as follows: Total estimated expenses of year $2,792; for payment of outstanding warrants, $1,070. Combined total, $3,862. Total estimated receipts, $1,128.59. Balance, amount to be raised by tax, $2,733.41.
    This was then voted on by ballot. As the ballot was being picked up another voter came in and the whole budget explained again for his benefit. The balloting proceeded with the following result:
    Yes, 4; No. 1. Carried in favor of amount as designated on ballot, $2,733.41. Two other people came in too late to vote on above tax. Mr. J. Florey was elected as clerk for the ensuing year.
    Mrs. Gertrude Haak spent Tuesday afternoon at school, visiting the various rooms.
    One notable fact concerning our school is that while nearly all high schools in the county have shown a decided decrease in attendance this year, our high school has shown a decided increase. We now have 11 pupils enrolled. A Mathews boy, who has been going to Medford High School for [the] past month, started in as a pupil in our high school Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 26, 1918, page 5


    A man by the name of Adamson and his family of Trail passed through here Saturday on his way out to the valley, with a motor truck to get fruit, and returned with fruit and vegetables on his way home.
    Roy Stanley, who has been in the Rancheria country for some time, returned home Saturday evening.
    John Blaess, who lives at the free ferry, was a business caller Saturday evening and while here renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    We had our school meeting Saturday afternoon and there were just six in attendance and two of them were so late that they did not get to vote, and the budget was voted on as a whole, but as I could not get a copy [I] am not able to particularize, but as near as I can remember, the amount we have to raise the coming year is about the same as what we had to raise last year, about $3.000. A. J. Florey was also elected clerk.
    Deputy Sheriff Anderson and family were here Saturday afternoon. He came out to serve some papers.
    C. A. Pickle and J. C. Embry, two electricians, were here for dinner Sunday. They were out looking over the O.&C.E.L. Co.'s lines, as the lightning had put the lights out of commission.
    B. E. Haney and wife of Medford, and F. L. Knight and wife of Portland, were also here Sunday for dinner. They were on their way to Crater Lake. Mr. Knight is the proprietor of the catsup factory and cider mill of Medford and says that he wants all the apples he can get.
    J. D. Applegate and wife, Mrs. Emmet Peil of Ashland, John McCall of Klamath Falls and Lidia McCall of Ashland, A. W. Hobbs of Medford and Miss Lola King of Chicago, Ill., E. G. High and family and George C. Ward of Ashland, were here for their dinner Sunday.
    Rev. John W. Sharp of Medford come out on the P.&E. Monday morning and took the E.P.-Persist stage for Elk Creek.
    J. M. King and wife of Derby were here for dinner Monday, and so was John Allen and his son Walter of Derby, George Givan and his son Dewey, and Wilbur Jacks of Eagle Point. Mr. Allen, George Givan and Jack brought out a lot of beef cattle for Mr. Cottrell. While John Allen was here he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and they all except Walter Allen contributed to the Salvation Army Fund. Walter being only a boy, his father contributed for him. Charles Humphrey was also here for dinner and he had contributed to the S.A.F.
    Miss Rosetta McGrail, Jackson County public health nurse, was here for dinner Tuesday and during the day examined the children in our school as to their health. She spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    John Nichols and family, who have been over in Siskiyou County for a few days visiting their son Arty and family, returned home Mondays.
    J. M. King and wife returned from Medford Tuesday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on up to their home, Derby, that afternoon. Henry McCabe of Burns, Mike Hanley, Otto Meyer of Lake Creek, Mike Lumas, Homer Dedswol, James Brophy, Dan Guin of Toronto, Canada, were among the diners here Tuesday also.
    Charles Foeller and Howard Ash of Trail were here for medical treatment Wednesday morning. Mr. Foeller had a badly hurt hand and blood poison had developed and Mr. Ash had a badly inflamed eye. but after being treated by our M.D., Dr. Holt, they started for home Wednesday on the mail truck.
    On his trip to Persist and back Monday and Tuesday Mr. John Winningham, the contractor, had trouble with his car and had to employ a man with a truck to help him out, so that accounts for his having the truck to carry the mail.
    During the past week your correspondent has been busy working in the interest of the Salvation Army in Europe. The other members of the committee appointed to solicit funds for the cause were unable to do their share so it devolved on him to "go it alone," but owing to the deep interest manifested in the cause we "went over the top" like a whirlwind. Our quota was $50 and we had to report $53. The money was turned over to the Salvation Army fund through William Gore of the Medford National Bank.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 28, 1918, page 5


    Wednesday Mr. Simon McCallister of Lake Creek was here for dinner and while here renewed his father's subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. And Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bradshaw, Mrs. C. C. Charley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Nichols were among the business callers.
    Thursday was one of the quiet days in our little town, but Mr. and Mrs. John Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Hurst and C. W. Scott of the manganese mine were here for dinner.
    R. A. Weidman, who has been living on a farm near Wellen, has moved onto the T. E. Nichols farm joining Eagle Point, a part of the J. J. Fryer farm, and will cultivate it the coming season. Mrs. Weidman is the business manager and saleslady in the T. E. Nichols store.
    I noticed on the street Thursday that Jud Florey, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey, was walking on crutches. On an inquiry we learned that he had a badly sprained ankle, but we hope that it will not prove to be as serious as was feared.
    Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, who have charge of the pipeline near Lake Creek, were business callers in our town Thursday.
    Friday Joe Rader and wife, of Phoenix, Mr. and Mrs. Missall of Lake Creek, and Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, were guests at the Sunnyside at noon.
    On Friday the remains of one of our highly respected citizens, George H. Wamsley, were carried to the Central Point cemetery, and were followed by one of the largest crowds that has ever attended a funeral in Eagle Point. Mr. Wamsley has been afflicted for a long time with a disease of the kidneys and on Saturday the 21st inst. submitted to an operation, but owing to a weakness of the heart sank under the treatment on Tuesday. A notice has already appeared in the Mail Tribune. The funeral services were conducted at the home of the family, by Rev. A. C. Howlett. It was the intention to have the burial services conducted at the grave by the G.A.R. and the I.O.O.F. and Rebekahs but owing to unavoidable contingencies neither of the societies were prepared to do more than show their high respect for his memory by casting an evergreen on the casket at the grave. His only son of Long Branch, Calif., and his brother, Dr. Lafayette Wamsley, and his stepdaughter, Mrs. Jenson, were in attendance at the funeral. Mr. Wamsley has left a host of friends, not only in Eagle Point but throughout the entire community, where he has resided for the past twelve years, and he will not only be missed by the public generally but by the lodges of the G.A.R., I.O.O.F. and Rebekahs, of which he was an active member. On returning from the cemetery the family took supper with Mrs. Howlett.
    Miss Geppert is spending a few days at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Wm. Cottrell of Derby spent the night at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Saturday Floyd and Jed Edsall, Mr. Robert Coffman and Miss Bessie Chambers and Jack O'Connor were among the diners at the Sunnyside.
    Since my last report D. S. Nichols and M. C. Logan have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    John Greb has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and J. F. Reed of Wellen has renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 30, 1918, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, October 2, 1918, page 3


Medford Mail Tribune, October 3, 1918, page 5


    Rev. John Stille preached Sunday morning on "What it Means to Be a Christian."
    Sunday, October 6th, there will be an all-day meeting at the Reese Creek school house. Sunday school at 10:30 a.m. Preaching at 11:30 a.m. Lunch at noon. Afternoon there will be a question box about anything that is bothering you in the Christian life, or Bible. Then a sermon. All are invited and bring a light lunch, prepared to spend the day with the people.
    On Saturday night, October 12, missionary G. C. Griffin will be at the school house to give his famous lecture on the "Life of Christ" illustrated by about 90 lantern slides. It will be well worth attending. Mr. Griffin will also have charge of the service the following day.
    The Junior Red Cross of this school has not been idle this summer, but meet each Friday afternoon. The following was sent away October 1: 15 shirts, 13 waists, 8 pair panties, 1 coat, 11 small dresses, 1 large dress, 1 pair bloomers, 8 wash rags, 4800 gun wipes. The ladies are all invited to meet with the Junior to help sew and relieve the suffering and thus eventually doing their bit to help win the war. If any have clothing to donate that can be made over it will be thankfully received.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 3, 1918, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, October 5, 1918, page 4


    Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols and Miss Ruth Smith of Lake Creek, were business callers Saturday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Simpson, R. P. Neil and wife, Mrs. D. L. Glenn, Mrs. Elena Hargrave and Miss Anna Hargrave, all of Ashland, were guests at the Sunnyside Sunday for dinner. Mrs. Elenor Hargrave is now in her ninety-fourth year and seems to be as healthy and spry as many of the women of sixty or seventy. There were with her her daughter and granddaughter. After partaking of a good hearty dinner they remained for an hour or so and spent the time in a social way and seemed to really enjoy the visit to the Sunnyside. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Luce, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bush, Miss Rachel and Ruth Bush of Medford, Mr. John Daley and son, and Mr. Frank Shearer of Merlin, Ore., were also here Sunday for dinner. Mr. John Daley was formerly a citizen of this section. At one time he was the owner of what is now known as the H. B. Tronson orchard.
    Emil Schmidt, wife and children, Jonas Wold, wife and children, L. Roy Davis, wife and son, of Medford, Roy Stanley, wife and son, Claude Wamsley of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. G. H. Wamsley and daughter, Mrs. Jatson and Dr. Lafayette Wamsley, Joe Moomaw and Mrs. Dollie Graham of Portland were also here for dinner. Mrs. Graham spent Sunday night with us and on Monday was taken by Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows out to their farm or dairy ranch for a short visit. Mrs. Graham at one time lived near here on the free ferry road.
    Monday was quite a busy day in our little village as there were quite a number came in to sign up their questionnaires. Among the callers at the Sunnyside that day for dinner were Mr. Lovel Storm, H. B. Smith, S. G. Grissom and A. J. Grissom, J. D. Lawton, our scales and weight inspector, and while here examined the hay scales and notified the owner, Mrs. Rosetta Potter, to have them overhauled and put in good shape. J. V. McIntyre, our banker, was also here Monday for dinner. He is kept busy about all the time now filling out the questionnaires for the men who are called to serve their country.
    We are still having trouble getting our mail on time, and last Friday the Medford Mail Tribune failed to come altogether, and Saturday morning it was still behind time and it would amuse our editor if he could hear the anathemas that were pronounced against him. For instance, I heard one of our leading business men make the remark that "It was a d---- shame that George don't look after it and see that the paper is out on time." As though it was the duty of the editor of a newspaper to superintend the editorial department, look over the type-making. typesetting, proofreading, etc., and even he is charged with the duty of seeing that the papers are sent to the post office on time and even see that the package is put in the right mail sack. As in the case referred to it happened that the bundle of papers was put in the Butte Falls mail sack and taken on Saturday night to Butte Falls and brought back on the train in the afternoon, but the editor is blamed for everything that goes wrong even if the star route carrier happens to put the mail in the wrong box.
    Wm. Hayes has moved out of the George von der Hellen home onto the place known as the Widow Jacks place a mile or so above town, and a man by the name of A. C. Middlesteadt has moved into the von der Hellen house. Mr. Middlesteadt is the man who has taken charge of the telephone business for Mr. W. C. Clements who will probably be on his way to Fort Pike, Arkansas before this is in type.
    Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Spike and Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Thomas of Medford were here for supper. Mr. Spike is one of the prominent orchardists near Medford and Mr. Thomas is one of the leading attorneys in the county and a prominent fixture in the political ring, and has made his mark in the legislative body by his stand he has taken against the "Portland ring" and expects to go to Salem again to keep up the fight for right and justice.
    Fred Frey and wife and Miss Helen Sidley of Lake Creek came out Tuesday morning and took the Lewis jitney for Medford.
    There was another car of manganese shipped out Tuesday for the East.
    W. S. Baker and Charles Humphrey, Roy Ashpole and W. C. Clements were among the guests at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    V. E. Brittsan and family, C. E. Bellows and family, Mrs. Dollie Graham, Pete Betz and wife were doing business here Tuesday and while here C. E. Bellows had his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune stopped and subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Charles Cingcade, Geo. W. Brandon, our Snowy Butte mill man and S. H. Harnish have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune and John Winningham renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. Laura Abbott and her son Orbra of Butte Falls spent Tuesday night with us. Mrs. Abbott's son was out to have Dr. Holt dress his arm that was broken about two weeks ago.
    Tuesday there was quite a bunch of cattlemen in town as they had brought in their different bunches of beef cattle for shipment and among them was the Stanleys, Carltons, Gaines, father and son, Fred Sturgis, etc., and J. C. Gaines of Trail spent the night at the Sunnyside. And while Mr. Sturgis was here he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, has been making some decided improvements in the show window department.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 7, 1918, page 5


    Our school closed during the first three days of the week and our teachers all attended the teachers institute.
    Among the business callers Wednesday was W. C. Daley, Mike Sidley Jr., F. J. Ayres, John Foster, Miss Hogan, the lady who is teaching school in the Crater Lake district, Mrs. Joseph Geppert and son. The last four took supper with us and Thursday night Mr. W. C. Daley of Lake Creek spent the night with us.
    Mrs. Dollie Graham spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside and started Friday for Medford. Joe Moomaw, the mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Derby route was also a guest at the Sunnyside.
    Gus Nichols and wife, Roy Stanley and wife were among the prominent business callers Thursday.
    John W. Smith, wife and daughter were here visiting old-time friends. They up to within the past year or so have been residents of our town. They sold their property and have been spending the summer at Marshfield.
    Mrs. A. E. Strang spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    J. V. McIntyre, our banker, has been taking his dinner at the Sunnyside for several days.
    Mrs. R. Gardner and Mrs. M. D. Bowles were business callers and while here each renewed their subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. They took passage home on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    Thursday night W. C. Daley who had been over to Jacksonville on legal business came out on the Lewis jitney, spent the night with us and look passage on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for home. Emanuel Leidman and wife, his brother George W. Leidman and C. Putnam came out from Medford Thursday evening and took rooms with us. Messrs. Putnam and the two Leidmans have contracted to pack the apples on the Tronson orchard and went to work Friday morning.
    Thomas Stanley, one of our prominent stockmen, and wife spent the night with Mrs. Stanley's mother, Mrs. M. E. Pruett, Thursday. They are moving onto their farm and stock ranch in the country northeast of Butte Falls.
    There has been another change in mail service. It seemed as though the P.&E. railway company had so much trouble getting the mail from Medford out here and from here to Medford on time on their cars that a change had been made and now S. H. Harnish, the veteran mail carrier, has taken the job of carrying it for three days out of the week, twice a day and three days once a day. Mr. Harnish will leave here on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:15 a.m. and return, leaving Medford at 9 a.m., and in the afternoon will leave Eagle Point at 3:30 for Medford and return leaving Medford at 4:45 p.m., arriving at Eagle Point about 5:45. By that plan we will get our mail regularly on time and on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays the P. and E. Co. will bring the mail out in the morning and Mr. Harnish will leave here in the afternoon of train days the same as on the other days. As it has been we would often have to wait at the post office for from 30 minutes to two
hours, depending on how much of a breakdown they had on the P.&E. Mr. Harnish has had a great deal of experience in the mail carrying business and was always on time.
    Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, has moved from the house where she has been living--the Ringer house--into the Wamsley house. Mrs. Wamsley expects to start the first of the week for San Francisco with her daughter, Mrs. Stella Jetsin, and remain there until the first of the year and return to her home here and she and Miss Benedict will live together, at least until the close of the school year.
    C. E. Bellows and family came in Saturday morning and among other things they brought in was a large basket and suitcase filled with clothing to be sent to the suffering citizens of Belgium. They deserve a great deal of credit for the part they are taking in the Red Cross and other patriotic work for the suffering in Europe.
    While I was in Medford Friday I met, among others, Mr. T. D. Singleton, and while we were together he gave me his check for four dollars and changed his subscription from the Weekly Mail Tribune to the Daily Mail Tribune. He had coming to him one dollar subscription on the weekly and placed that on his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, thus paying for a year's subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. Carl Jackson moved from the J. B. Jackson home to Butte Falls Saturday.
    Since my last report in addition to those already mentioned Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and F. C. Egerson have renewed their subscriptions to the Daily Mail Tribune and C. J. Kafer of Brownsboro has subscribed for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    W. W. Taylor, who has been out in the Klamath country, returned to her home.
    Cookson, a safe man, J. V. McIntyre, Wilbur Jacks and W. W. Cantrall, the latter of Trail, were here for dinner.
    The fine rain that we had Saturday night is making the farmers and millers rejoice, as by the first of the week the ground will likely be wet enough to plow.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 9, 1918, page 6


    E. E. Ash and Fred Middlebusher are hauling supplies for winter from Medford.
    D. W. Pence has resumed road work, near Dr. Kirchgessner's.
    Central school started Monday, the 7th, with Tressie Pence as teacher.
    Mr. Carlton, Fred Sturgis and I. H. Howe weighed beef cattle at Trail Monday and drove on to the valley Tuesday.
    There will be an auction sale at R. E. Wilson's Saturday, Oct. 19. Red Cross will serve dinner. Come all.
    W. T. Houston finished sorghum boiling for the season, Saturday.
    Mrs. R. E. Wilson and Mrs. Stewart were Medford visitors Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 9, 1918, page 6


    There was an all-day meeting at the school house last Sunday. Sunday school in the morning, after which Rev. John Stille preached on "Keeping the highest ideals before our minds--the Christ." Lunch at the noon hour. In the afternoon a question box over which Mr. Stille presided. Then a duet by Mr. Eli and John Stille; also a sermon by Rev. J. Stille on "Seeking God While He May Be Found." It is hoped there will be many other such meetings.
    Mr. Stille will preach again Sunday morning, October 20.
    Next Saturday evening missionary G. C. Griffin will be at the school house with his stereopticon views on "The Life of Christ." There will be about 90 or more pictures. They are all good and it will be well worth the effort. Everyone come.
    Mr. Griffin will also be at Sunday school the next day and preach for us, and at Laurel Hill in the afternoon. You will all want to hear Mr. Griffin.
    Mrs. Bellows and Mrs. French were around last week soliciting sheets, towels, handkerchiefs and such things for the Red Cross hospitals; also clothing for the Belgians.
    Mr. W. E. Hammond has completed a small house in which he and his wife expect to live this winter. Mr. Crandall did the work.
    Apple picking seems to be the order of the day. Several have gone to the different orchards to work.
    Miss Maud Merritt, Robert Merritt, Mary Robertson, Willard Robertson, Mina Minter, also H. Watkins, expect to camp out at the Corbin orchard while picking apples.
    Mrs. Frank Caster has been suffering quite seriously with a badly burned foot.
    Mr. R. R. Minter has returned from Crater Lake, where he had been working the past summer.
    Mr. John has also arrived from Banks, Ore., to look after his crops and visit for a few days.
    Mrs. Graham visited Mrs. Bellows a few days last week. Mr. Graham is in the neighborhood at present.
    Mr. and Mrs. Crandall, Mr. and Mrs. B. Clarno spent Sunday at Mr. Mitchell's on Evans Creek.
    Saturday evening, October 12, missionary G. C. Griffin will be at Reese Creek with his stereopticon views on "The Life of Christ." All are invited.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 9, 1918, page 7


    Last Sunday was one of our bright, beautiful days such as we so often have in our lovely valley, and the result was that quite a number of the pleasure lovers of the surrounding country started out in the morning and very naturally congregated at the Sunnyside about noon in order to appease the keen appetite that a ride out in the fresh morning air produces. The first who arrived was Mr. W. A. Sumner and H. C. Christofferson who were combining business with pleasure as they were on their way up the country; O. C. Boggs, one of Medford's leading attorneys and family consisting of wife and two husky boys, Mrs. Newbury and Mrs. Collins of Medford, Mr. W. L. Childreth, our local blacksmith and automobile repairer and wife, Mrs. R. J. Beadenridge of Chicago, and Miss Ella Belford who is now managing the Stewart farm; Mr. Claud Wamsley of Long Beach, Calif., and his
stepmother, Mrs. Geo. Wamsley, Mrs. Stella Jitsen and daughter of San Francisco, and Dr. Lafayette Wamsley of Spokane. The five last named were starting for San Francisco where Claud Wamsley was to remain for two days and then go to his home in Long Beach. He is superintendent of the scaffolding department in the shipbuilding yards and was off on a furlough to attend the funeral of his father. Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, was also with us on Sunday for dinner. W. H. McNair and wife, one of the Ashland druggists, J. V. McIntyre, our banker. Mrs. McIntyre has gone east to visit her relatives and the result is that Mr. McIntyre visits the Sunnyside quite frequently. Mrs. J. H. Butler, Mrs. C. T. Noe, Mrs. Carl D. Bowman, Miss Lola Bowman of Medford were also among the diners and Mrs. Joseph Geppert and little boy. Later in the day John Foster and Miss Viola Hogan, Mrs. Anna Corum of Butte Falls, Roy Smith and wife of Medford, David Cingcade and wife of Eagle Point, R. F. Muskopf of Prospect, John Ashpole and wife of Medford. Mr. Ashpole and wife are here for a few days helping Mrs. Roy Ashpole to attend the Eagle Point hardware store while Roy is off on a hunt in the hills.
    Mr. Muskopf was out having his questionnaire fixed up. He spent the night here and Monday went on up to his home near McLeod.
    County Commissioner Geo. Owen, wife and daughter, Mrs. Perkins and Jane Hartman were here for dinner Monday. They were on their way up to the French-Dodge bridge, five miles above here on Rogue River, to inspect it. Just a few minutes after they left Ed Dutton, our hustling road supervisor, came in inquiring for them, and on learning their whereabouts started post haste after them and your Eagle Point correspondent accompanied him, reaching the bridge almost as soon as they did. Upon examination they found that one of the posts had rotted off and that some of the rest of them were rotting and Mr. Dutton was ordered to replace the rotted post. The approach is said to be six hundred feet long and is built on piling and the decision arrived at was that in the course of the next three years the whole of the piling will have to be replaced.
    While we were there Mr. Owen asked how much kicking would be done if that bridge was taken down and carried up the river to where the old Hannah ferry used to be, right near to where Pete Betz now lives, and do away with the free ferry and from the way he talked it might possibly be done. Of course there are two sides to the question and if it is moved there will be somebody badly disappointed on both sides of the river and on the other hand there will be less sticky to contend with on the new route and the change will not materially change the distance. And another item to be taken into the account will be the extra expense of keeping up the road--about two miles of sticky--and the expense of keeping up the ferry and road will be offset by the expense of tearing down and rebuilding the bridge, but these matters will all be taken into consideration by the proper authorities before anything is done in that line.
    Just as we were ready to start for the bridge Joe Hoskins of Trail and Harry Hayes came in for dinner. Mr. Hayes has been out in Eastern Oregon for the past two years, his [wife] came in some four weeks ago to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Riley of Peyton.
    Frank Manning of Peyton came in Tuesday evening and spent the night with us. He left here a year ago last December for Wyoming where he has been ever since, at the bedside of his father, who passed away in September last. While he was here he renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harry Stanley, were transacting business with our merchants Tuesday afternoon.
    W. E. Hammel was also a business caller, hunting for blue vitriol, and that means sowing wheat. The rain the last few days has wet the ground so that the farmers can plow and sow their fall grain, although another good rain would help still more.
    Fred Pettegrew, at one time a prominent citizen in this section, passed through here Tuesday.
    John Simon who has been spending the summer in Northern Oregon and Idaho, returned to our town Tuesday.
    Mrs. Sayles and another lady drove in from their homes on Indian Creek near the free ferry Tuesday to do some trading.
    Mr. and Mrs. Cross and son and Miss Mabel Morris of Butte Falls came in Wednesday morning and went on to Medford.
    B. R. Richter of Roseburg, and R. E. Haney of Medford were here for dinner Wednesday. Mr. Richter was out looking after some property he purchased near the Antelope school house.
    One of the Zimmerlee boys, Dennie I think is his name, while trying to crank his car broke a bone in his hand.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 15, 1918, page 5


    Wednesday afternoon Miss Florence Lansing, our intermediate teacher, gave an entertainment in her department, and invited in the patrons of the school. Master Nansing Pierce presided. It consisted of vocal and instrumental music, recitations, readings, and wound up with a spelling match. There were nine of the pupils lined up. Dr. Holt, Mrs. L. K. Haak and A. C. Howlett were selected as judges. There were over 200 words pronounced and but very few of them were misspelled. Mrs. Haak's little boy and John Robinson's oldest daughter did not miss any and then they stood up and spelled for the championship, and we began to think that we were in for an afternoon spelling contest, but after a good long time Miss Robinson missed a word and that closed that part of the program. During the entertainment Mrs. Royal Brown and Miss Lansing sang a duet. The exercises were very good all the way through, and one thing that I noticed in particular was that all of the children spoke up loud and distinct, and little Miss Smith, a girl of about 12 or 13 years, read an article on the work of the Red Cross, and I think that she deserves special credit for the manner in which she rendered the reading. The entire entertainment reflects credit on the teachers who have acted as instructors. Miss Lansing announced at the close that she expected to have similar entertainments every month of six weeks. There was quite a number of the patrons of the school in attendance and everybody seemed to be well pleased.
    Mrs. Charles Painter returned from Ashland Thursday, where she had been for medical and dental treatment. She tells me that she expects to start for Washington (state) to join her husband, who is working in the lumber industry, in a short time.
    There has been some ugly-looking holes in the bridge between the post office and the depot and our mayor has taken it upon himself to tear up the old floor and replace it with new lumber, something that has been needed for some time.
    Shorty Allen and his brother-in-law, Mr. Hensley, came in Thursday morning for breakfast. Mr. Allen had been up to the sawmill near the free ferry, the day before, after a load of lumber to be used in building on a tract of land he has purchased off of the von der Hellen tract on Antelope Creek, and Mr. Hensley is engaged in picking apples on the Tronson orchard and is taking his supper and breakfast here at the Sunnyside.
    Friday Mr. E. A. Perty, business manager for Mrs. L. E. Arnes of the Interurban Truck Company of Medford, and his chauffeur were here looking over the fruit industry, taking dinner at the Sunnyside.
    The sad news of the accidental shooting of Roy Willits came over the wire and appeared to be a complete shock to almost everyone who heard it. Mr. Willits was the mail contractor and carrier from Eagle Point to Persist for four years and was one of our most highly respected citizens and leaves a number of warm friends to join in sympathy for the bereaved family. Word came Saturday that he passed away Friday night.
    Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, daughter of ex-County Commissioner Riley, was doing business in our town Friday.
    Rev. J. F. Brittsan, his brother T. E. Brittsan and V. E. Brittsan were doing business in our town Friday afternoon.
    I understand that the people of the Apostolic faith, who have been holding services here on Wednesday evenings, will hold services next Wednesday, the 16th inst. They seem to be doing some good and are creating some considerable interest in this section of the country.
    Miss Florence B. Watson of Trail came out on the S. H. Harnish mail car and took passage on the E.P.-Persist car for her home Friday.
    John Winningham, our mail contractor on the E.P.-Persist route, seems to have a great deal of trouble with his car on his route. Friday morning he had Mr. L. L. Love of Central Point take his mail and passengers over his route on account of his car being out of commission.
    J. B. Jackson and wife have returned from their trip to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Stockton, etc. They have been gone for some weeks and report a splendid visit. They went to Los Angeles via the coast route and returned through San Joaquin Valley, taking in the most of the valley part of the state. They brought their daughter, Mrs. William Chambers, home with them. Mrs. Chambers' husband is in the service of Uncle Sam.
    Fred Pettegrew, now of Los Angeles, came in a few days ago to look after his farming interests here, but expects to return in a short time.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our leading orchardists, was a business caller Friday. He says that he has already shipped a car of apples and is getting along finely with his work. The weather is ideal and the fruit is good.
    Wm. Terry and wife, who left here two weeks ago last Sunday, September 24, returned Friday last. They have been visiting his mother, Mrs. F. M. Stewart, and two of his sisters in Oakland. This is their first visit to the large city and he expressed his admiration of the wonderful sights. He saw his first rice growing, his first lemons and oranges, and pronounces California a wonderful country.
    A gentleman came in Saturday morning on the train by the name of Luton, of Albany, Ore., inquiring for Mrs. Hessler, an aunt of his, who he has not seen since he was a small boy, and I took him to be 55 or 60. He took passage on the E.P.-L.C. stage to go to her home near Brownsboro.
    Joe Stickel of Gold Hill is here visiting his daughter, Mrs. Jake Jones.
    W. E. Nyswaner in the employ of the California-Oregon Electric Power Company was here for dinner Saturday. He came out to bring a large transmitter to be used here by the company.
    W. E. Walker, special agent for Standard Oil Company, Medford, and Charles R. Roberts, credit manager Standard Oil Company, Portland; J. Beauford, G. C. Dupsia, H. Buett, Tacoma, Wash., and Mrs. C. W. Scott of Lake Creek were here Saturday for dinner. The party from Tacoma is interested in the Lake Creek manganese mine, and are here looking over their interests. They had just returned from Crater Lake where they went Friday afternoon expecting to find accommodations but when they reached the lake found that everything was locked up so had to return to Prospect. Mrs. Scott has been there three times before but thinks that the sight that night was the most beautiful she had ever witnessed. Mrs. Scott is the wife of the manager of the Tacoma Metal Company's business at the  Lake Creek mines.
    The P.&E. company removed our agent from the depot Friday. Mr. Newport, the ticket agent of Medford, came out Friday and checked up their belongings and Saturday morning when the train arrived there was no agent here, but the conductor, Charley Bacon, is on the job and will keep things straight. Now all freight has to be paid in advance.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 16, 1918, page 6


    Last Friday, Oct. 11th, about 8 o'clock p.m., Fort Hubbard came and requested an interview with your correspondent and on presenting myself he remarked that I had done such a good job before that he wanted me to try my hand at it again, referring to an incident that occurred 24 years ago the 18th day of last February, when I joined himself and Miss Tressa McGee in marriage, and that he and his intended would be out the next evening sometime between 4 o'clock and 8, owing altogether as to what time he could get off from the store. The next day he phoned over that there would be a party of six out for supper about 7 o'clock. About that time he came accompanied by Mrs. Lida L. Meadows, and her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Buteau, Dr. J. D. Rickert and Mrs. Carrie M. Headlee. After waiting a few minutes for Mrs. Howlett to arrange the supper she came into the parlor and announced that she was ready to serve supper, whereupon Mr. Hubbard handed me the license authorizing me to join Fortunatus Hubbard and Mrs. Lida L. Meadows in marriage, and as the couple was getting in position to be joined in marriage Dr. Rickert jumped to his feet and asked, "Why not make it a double wedding?" and I informed him that could be easily arranged if he could produce the license, and while I was calling for them he produced a roll containing the necessary paper and in less time than it takes to write it Fort Hubbard and Mrs. Lida L. Meadows were united in marriage and Dr. J. D. Rickert and Mrs. Carry Headlee made husband and wife. There were no guests invited although there were some five or six of the boarders present. The newlyweds and Mrs. Hubbard's daughter, and your correspondent, were seated at a table where a feast had been prepared for the occasion, and after supper and spending a while in a social way with music and singing the company started for their homes in Medford, and while on the way met one of our guests coming from Medford who reported that they said that they were married so quick that she did not hardly know whether they were married or not, but they had the marriage certificate to show that they were. The double wedding was a complete surprise to all, not even the brides or myself knowing anything of the arrangements as it was arranged between Mr. Hubbard and Dr. Rickert and when Dr. Rickert suggested a double wedding Mrs. Meadows simply sat down in amazement.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 17, 1918, page 4


    Sunday morning was another one of our lovely bright October days, warm and pleasant and when I returned from Sunday school found that the guests had already commenced to arrive for dinner. The first that I have on my list of visitors is Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Burdic and Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Butler of Ashland, J. N. Homeric and wife of Central Point, C. L. Upden, wife and daughter, H. L. Whited, Mrs. Marjorie Whited, Miss Alma Ross and Miss Eleanor Norton of Ashland, the two last named are two of the Ashland teachers, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mann and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Heath of Medford. Mr. Mann is the manager of the Mann department store in Medford and Mr. Heath is proprietor of one of the drug stores of that city. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Herren and Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kilgore, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Nininger, Dorothy Nininger, Coran Nininger, Mrs. William Hulen and Billie Hulen, all of Ashland; Herman Weaver and wife of Lake Creek, T. J. Williamson and wife and daughter of Central Point and George A. Hanson and his brother, W. M. Hanson, who were moving onto the McNary farm near Brownsboro. I do not know whether I have all of the names of the visitors here on Sunday for dinner as at one time there was a company came in at one door and another company at the same time at another door and mixed with those who were already here. so if there is anyone omitted they will please excuse my oversight.
    John Ashpole and wife, who have been here assisting in the Eagle Point hardware store for a few days returned to their home in Medford Sunday, as their son Roy had returned home Saturday evening. They, the hunting party consisting of Jake Jonas. N. W. Slusser and Roy Ashpole, were out three or four days and bagged five deer, bringing in three of them and eating two.
    Miss Hazel Brown, who has been up to Portland for the last few weeks, has returned and resumed her place in the telephone and post office.
    Mrs. W. S. McIntosh of Trail came in on the Harnish motor Monday morning and took the E.P.-Persist stage for her home.
    Mrs. Leroy Casey, formerly of Klamath County, but now of Butte Falls, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Geppert, Mr. San Stillman and John Foster, all of Butte Falls, except Mr. Sanders, were here for dinner Monday.
    Gus Nichols and wife and Mrs. Raphael Gardner were doing business in our town Monday.
    W. B. Penniston of Ashland spent Monday night at the Sunnyside and so did Mrs. R. E. Putnam and Mrs. George Leidman and the two ladies remained until Wednesday morning. Mr. Putnam and George Leidman were already here; they and Manuel Leidman have the contract for packing the apples on the Lawson orchard, but owing to the rain went to their homes in Medford until the weather settles.
    Henry Meyer of Lake Creek, John Foster of Butte Falls and Clifford Henson were among the guests at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Since my last report W. P. Haley, Eagle Point, has renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Amos Ayres, the man who has been acting as agent at the depot here, has been called off and the depot is left without an agent, and he has moved to Medford. The depot looks like a forsaken habitation sure enough, for when we made our daily trip to gather items of interest for the readers of the Mail Tribune we generally met Mr. Ayres or his charming wife and little baby boy to help make life cheerful, but now everything is changed and it is simply the dry routine of business and our conductor, Charley Bacon, is so busy that he only has time to give a passing "Hello" and is off looking after the freight, collecting bills, weighing out the freight that is to go out, etc., and the passengers that travel on the cars look as though they had lost their last friend. But we can't consistently censure the railroad company, for they have been running at a loss almost all the time since they started, and the jitney business and the fact that it seems that a majority of the farmers and many of the citizens of the towns of Eagle Point, Brownsboro and Trail own autos themselves and when they want to go to Medford jump into their car and go and if a neighbor happens to want to go they cheerfully take them along. And another thing that has helped to put the railway company out of business is the auto trucks, as they are used to haul the wheat and other grain to the mill and to haul the produce to the market and the orchardists use them to haul their boxes to the orchards and take a load of fruit back, and the farmers use them to haul their spuds and corn to market so that the railroad company does not have near the amount of business to do that they might if business was carried on in the old-fashioned style. It is predicted that as soon as the logging industry stops that the railroad cars will run only enough to hold their franchise, But looking at the subject from the different viewpoints there seems to be nobody to blame, but simply a change in business methods.
    Our mayor, John Nichols, issued a proclamation Wednesday ordering the school to close, and all public meetings to be stopped such as church, Sunday schools and dances. He is acting under orders from the health officer of the state. The order is to try to prevent the spread of the Spanish influenza. I am glad to be able to announce that there have not been any cases of the disease in this section of the country as yet so far as I can learn.
    Among the business callers Thursday was F. C. Egenbury, W. E. Hammel, Rev. Mr. Dollarhide, who was on his way up to Elk Creek to hold the regular quarterly conference of the Free Methodist Church at that place. He came out on the S. H. Harnish mail car and was working his way on up the river. Mr. Hammel took him as far as his place and he started to walk the rest of the way--there was no stage that day--so he had to do the next best; quite a walk through sticky for a man of his age.
    Pete Stowell, Harry von der Hellen, Mrs. "Dick" Diamond, Pete Betz and Mrs. Mary Stowell were also among the business callers Thursday.
    Our postmaster and principal owner in the telephone company here started Thursday for Fort Pike, Ark. to enter the government service. His wife is left in charge of the post office and Miss Hazel Brown is the chief clerk, and A. C. Middlesteadt has charge of the telephone work as lineman. Mr. Clements will be greatly missed as he has been one of our most prominent citizens and a thoroughgoing business man as well as a prominent character in social life.
    I don't think that there is any danger of us being short of wood this winter, for I see that Geo. Brown and Sons have laid in an abundant supply; enough for themselves and a good part of the town.
    Mrs. David Cingcade made a business trip to Medford Thursday.
    Mrs. N. E. Watkins and her daughter, Miss Anna, went to Medford the first of the week and remained until Thursday.
    Thomas Carlton was a business caller Thursday and while here gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune, and the same day L. L. Bowman renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and David Cingcade renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    O. O. Alenderfer and J. J. Buchter, two men in the employ of the California and Oregon Power Company, and O. C. Kime, a grocery salesman from Medford, were here for dinner Friday.
    Thomas Farlow and a part of his family accompanied by Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols were business callers Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin were guests of Mrs. Martin's uncle, W. G. Knighten Friday.
    W. G. Knighten, who has been confined to his room for several weeks, was on the streets Friday for the first time. He went out in his car to one of the stores to be weighed. His many friends were rejoicing to see him looking so well, although for weeks there was but faint hope for his recovery.
    Jerry Lewis, who came in Friday on a four days' furlough from Camp Aberdeen, Wash., to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis, expecting to start back today. Saturday in trying to jump onto Rudolph Pech's auto truck loaded with spuds he slipped and fell under the hind wheel of the truck, it running over his ankle. He was brought to town from the rock crusher, just above town, and he was just being put into his brother's jitney as it came along. It was not known how badly he was hurt. They took him on to Medford for treatment. His many friends were glad to see him, but sorry to have him meet with such an accident.
    I notice several hundred rods of wire fencing at the depot for Bresson Bros. of Climax.
    Friday Roy Stanley, one of our leading stockmen, was in town and while here gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune; and Mrs. Charles Painter gave me her subscription for her husband in Camas, Wash., for the Weekly Mail Tribune. She expects to start up there in a short time herself and mother, Mrs. Jennie Curtis.
    Saturday morning Chris Bergman and wife were transacting business at the Eagle Point State Bank and while there renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune with me. Mrs. M. D. Kokoles of Lake Creek was also transacting business with the bank.
    Gus and Frank Ditsworth of Prospect, were early callers for breakfast Saturday morning. They brought out two loads of hogs for Geo. Brown and Sons in the night, which was the reason for their being so early.
    John Simon has taken a room at the Sunnyside.
    I notice that Mrs. Chauncey Florey, wife of our county recorder, was on the street Saturday morning. She is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis and Chauncey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1918, page 3


    R. R. Dawson returned from the mountains Friday with his beef cattle. He reported 16 inches of snow.
    The Red Cross netted $27.00 from their dinner and auction sale at Wilson's Saturday.
    Lewis Thomason of Drew is working on their Cinnabar mine near Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Howe spent Sunday with Mrs. Warner and family.
    Trail Sunday school is growing every Sunday.
    Ella Adamson returned home Saturday from the orchard near Table Rock, where she has been working the past month.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 23, 1918, page 2


    J. Stille preached at the school house Sunday morning on "The Sufficiency of God." There will be an all-day meeting again Sunday, November 3rd. Among the good things of the day will be a short temperance program. Rev. Stille will preach both in the forenoon and afternoon.
    Mr. Earl Deardorff, who is principal of the Eagle Point school, with his wife and son visited at H. Watkins' for a few days last week.
    Mr. Deardorff and wife attended Sunday school and preaching at Reese Creek Sunday.
    J. T. Robertsons have moved to the Hamilton ranch, which they have rented for the coming year.
    Mrs. Davis of Derby visited Mrs. Vestal Saturday night and attended Sunday school.
    Mr. Crandall and family visited at Bert Clarno's Sunday after Sunday school.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 23, 1918, page 6


    Frank Farlow of Lake Creek was a business caller Saturday afternoon and while here renewed his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Henry French, one of the farmers who lives near the French-Dodge bridge, was here Saturday and he tells me that my little notice given in a former letter concerning the removal of the bridge near his place has raised a regular howl in his section on both sides of the river and intimates that if the bridge is moved there will be somebody--disappointed at least.
    Mr. Garland of Medford was a passenger on the P.&E. Saturday for Derby.
    There were two cars of apples shipped out by J. M. Wilfley Saturday.
    Mrs. Gus Nygren and daughter were among the business callers from Lake Creek Saturday.
    Mrs. J. C. Hays and her sister, Miss Margaret Riley were also here the same day and report that William Haselton and their sister Ethel Riley were married that day in Ashland.
    Sunday was another busy day at the Sunnyside, as early in the forenoon the guests began to arrive and inquire at what time dinner would be served. The first to arrive was Judge Tou Velle, wife and aunt, Mrs. S. A. Nickerson of Chicago, R. E. Haney, wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. A. Schmitt and niece, Miss Margaret Haney, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Rose, he is one of the leading business men of Ashland, and is the agent for the Victor talking machines, Mr. and Mrs. Hal McNair, also of Ashland; W. J. Hartroll and wife, W. Y. Schenck and wife, Dr. Charles T. Sweeney, wife and daughter, Miss Edith. Dr. Sweeney is the Democratic nominee for state senator; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gates, Miss Lena Gates, Judge M. Purdin and wife, Lena and Burwing Purdin; Judge Purdin is the Democratic nominee for county judge; Miss Margaret Hammond, Miss Hammond is teaching the school in the Reese Creek district. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith, and while Mr. Smith was here he left the money to renew his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Ornald [Ronald?] Harphad and Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Logan and daughter, of Prineville, Ore, the last three sent the night with us. Mr. and Mrs. George Leidman, Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman and Mr. and Mrs. Cringo Putnam. They also spent the night with us. Nick Young, John Joster, Joe Moomaw and Fred Edsall, Mrs. Joseph Geppert and her daughter, Miss Urzula and Joe Stilwell also spent Sunday night at the Sunnyside and Monday morning they and your correspondent took passage with Jed Edsall to Medford and the consequence is I am unable to report Monday's doings. While I was in Medford I met Mr. and Mrs. Logan of Brownsboro and he renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Jack Munyon of Fort Klamath came in Monday night and spent the night with us.
    As I spent the day in Medford I have no report to make for Monday but from what I can learn there was nothing of special importance occurred.
    Tuesday the P.&E. train came in about on time and left some freight; had a few passengers, and among them was a timber man from California, by the name of G. M. McMullen, on his way to Derby. He said that he was looking for timber as well as a mill site.
    There was a company of five young ladies and a little boy came out to spend the day Tuesday fishing and enjoying the scenery around Eagle Point and as a matter of course came to the Sunnyside for dinner. They were Mrs. S. J. Wilson, Miss Ruth Wilson, Mrs. Elizabeth Gravatte, Miss Winfield Bailey, Master Randolph Bailey. After taking dinner they tried their hand at fishing again but seemed to have poor success, but said that they had had a pleasant time. In addition to the above W. L. Childreth, wife and daughter Miss Nora were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Mrs. V. A. Heffner, wife of the superintendent of the Elk Creek hatchery, and Mrs. Charles Blaess of Trail were business visitors in town Tuesday and P. J. Neff, attorney of Medford, was on our streets Tuesday morning.
    Word came this morning to Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, that his son-in-law, Robert Verbia, living near Los Angeles, was dying and that his wife was in a very critical condition; did not state disease, and Frank Lewis started immediately to see them.
    William Lewis, the sheepman, passed through here for the valley with a band of six or seven hundred lambs Wednesday morning.
    Lewis Martin of Trail was among the visitors this morning.
    Miss Ella Belford and her aunt went to Medford this morning with Wig Jacks.
    Gus Ditsworth and wife and A. A. Holenheke of Prospect were here for dinner today.
    I omitted to say at the proper place that Mrs. A. S. Strong of Central Point [are] on the F. M. Stewart place, gathering the produce of the garden, and took supper here Tuesday night.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 25, 1918, page 5


    George Brown and Sons, our leading merchants, shipped several hundred pounds of mohair to Salem Thursday.
    Thursday, J. L. Kershaw. the mail contractor, who is carrying the mail between here and Climax, while he was here, paid up a year's subscription to the Medford Sun.
    H. B. Tronson shipped quite a lot of apples to Butte Falls Thursday.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday was Mike Howley, Sr. and O. Gaines.
    Among the guests at the Sunnyside Thursday were Deputy Sheriff W. O. Garrett, Democratic candidate for sheriff's office the coming term, and after dinner he remarked that he would like to have some good-looking man go along with him up in the Lake Creek country. Well, I thought that as a matter of course that he meant me, as I thought that I was about the best-looking man around here, so volunteered my services; at the same time thought that perhaps I might do some missionary work for the Mail Tribune or at least gather some items of interest for the readers. So we started post haste, but before we left Eagle Point I introduced him to some of our business men and women, about all Republicans, and they gave him a cordial greeting. In going on up the country we met quite a number on the road as well as stopping at several houses, kept on going and stopping until we reached Lemon Charley's, where we stopped. The reader must know that Mr. Charley is one of the leading Republicans in that section and we were pleased to see he received us with such a warm welcome. In fact we, that is I, could hardly pull them apart, but we did at last succeed and so we started on up the creek and on reaching the Thompson Bros.' store and consulting our watches decided that we would not have time to go to the manganese mine and visit the other places we had planned to visit, so we turned our course and on the return trip met Mr. Charles Klingle and Frank Miller, and while we were there Mr. Klingle remarked that his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune was about due and that he wanted to renew it, so giving him a receipt for $5 and Mr. Garrett receiving assurance of their hearty support we went on our way out to the beautiful homes of the Meyer families, Herman Sr., and Herman Jr. and also met Mrs. Ed Meyer, whose husband is in the service of his country. Off to the right of the road through the farms I noticed a large field where corn had been raised the past summer, all nicely sown in wheat and in meeting Mrs. Meyer Jr. remarked that she had just finished putting that field in, that she put a seat on the cultivator and rode, and that she really enjoyed helping her husband with his work in that way, that it made her healthy and strong, so that she could enjoy life. After meeting Mrs. Meyer we met her husband, and we both received a pleasant smile and encouraging words from them all. Herman Meyer, Sr. was away from home, while we were there, so we did not see him. Bidding them adieu, we started on the return trip. We hurried along homeward but at Brownsboro we switched off on the road that leads direct to Medford, stopping at the home of our old friend, ex-County Commissioner Thomas Riley, and found him just coming in from his barn, where he had just turned out his fine herd of jersey cows, and after giving us both a hearty welcome and encouraging words to Mr. Garrett, he suggested that he wanted to renew his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, so after giving him a receipt we started for the Sunnyside, where we found supper waiting. I found Mr. Garrett to be a very agreeable traveling companion as well as a very broad-minded man, and judging from the way the people along the route we met greeted him, he will be likely to carry Lake Creek precinct by a large majority, as all but two that we met gave Mr. Garrett assurance of their support and the two were noncommittal. While we were traveling through the country my eyes were open to notice what was going on in the way of improvements, and one very noticeable improvement I noticed was the work of our road supervisor, Ed Dutton, is doing on the road between the rock crusher and Brownsboro, putting crushed rock on the new road around the hill just this side of Brownsboro. I also noticed that the road between Brownsboro and Lake Creek was greatly improved but was sorry to see that the new road around the Nygren hill was still uncompleted, but at a dead standstill, a piece of road that is as badly needed as any road in the county, a road where the manganese company have to haul all the ore for shipment. I noticed also that L. C. Charley was beautifying his already lovely home by hauling fine sand and spreading it in front of his house outside of the fence. I also noticed that a number of the farmers were very busy putting in their grain and getting ready for a good crop next year.
    But I see that I am getting my letter too long and that I have quite a number of items to jot down before I get through the list.
    W. D. Roberts, one of our successful farmers, was doing business in our town Friday.
    George Brown and Sons shipped a car of hogs Thursday afternoon to Portland. R. G. Brown, one of the firm, accompanied them.
    Miss Helen Holt was rejoicing Thursday morning over the advent of a little nine and a half pound sister that was born to Dr. W. P. Holt and wife that morning.
    Thomas Riley and his father, Joe Riley, has just received a new wood-sawing outfit, through Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, and says that he has contracted to cut a thousand cords of wood for Joe Rader.
    M. B. Morrow of Spokane spent Friday night at the Sunnyside on his way up the country.
    Vernon Jones of Butte Falls spent the night with us Friday. He was down to secure their winter supply of apples.
    Mrs. George von der Hellen, wife of Major von der Hellen, who has been at the government station near San Francisco, Cal., returned and was visiting her father-in-law, Senior von der Hellen, Thursday and Friday.
    Lew E. Smith of Butte Falls sent me the amount of his subscription to the Mail Tribune by our accommodating railroad conductor Charley Bacon, Thursday.
    There were two cars left on the track here Saturday to be filled with fruit for shipment.
    Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Meyers of Rogue River were here for dinner Saturday on their way to Butte Falls. Mr. Meyers is Jackson County supervising fire warden and was going the round of Butte Falls and Prospect to gather up the tools that have been used there this summer.
    Amos Ayres has moved onto his father's farm and Mr. F. J. Ayres expects to move into town.
    Since my last report in addition to those already reported, W. C. Daley has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and F. C. Egenbury has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    John Robertson has moved into one of the James Owens houses.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 29, 1918, page 3


    The directors closed the school last Friday because of the influenza epidemic, although there are no cases in the community.
    Miss Marguerite Hammond, teacher at Reese Creek, went to her home in Ashland Saturday evening, to remain until such time as the school will be reopened. Consequently the Sunday school is closed also; the all-day meeting that was to have been held Sunday, November 3, will necessarily be called off.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammond called in Ashland Saturday evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres have left the farm and moved to Eagle Point. Amos Ayres and wife expect to run the farm in the future.
    Frank Caster and wife are living in Marshall Minter's homestead house; Frank expects to work for the Brittsan brothers this winter.
    Mr. John Minter, who has been in the neighborhood for a few days, has returned to Banks, Ore.
    Last reports are that Marshall Minter, who is in [the] Presidio, is convalescent from an attack of the influenza.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 30, 1918, page 5


    Among the visitors in our town Saturday afternoon were Mrs. Manny of Brownsboro, Mrs. Roy Stanley, Thomas and Joe Riley, Williams Hays of the vicinity of Eagle Point, Mrs. A. G. McCarthy, Mrs. Frank M. Moore of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. McCarthy of Dunsmuir, Calif., C. M. Thomas, Republican candidate for the state senate, and wife, C. M. Speck and wife of Medford and A. L. Cross of Butte Falls.
    Notwithstanding the fact that Saturday night was stormy and Sunday morning bid fair to be a rainy day, and the roads were more or less slippery, there seemed to be quite a number of persons come out to enjoy the pleasures of getting out of the humdrum of town life and enjoy the pure air of country life. Some went on through our town up the different streams to try their luck at fishing, but most of them stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner, and among those who did were Mrs. Celia Cross, Robert Coffman and wife of Butte Falls, Manuel Leidman and wife of Medford. They came in and spent the night with us and went out in the Harnish jitney Sunday evening. G. K. Wilkinson of Lane County, Oregon; he came over to visit his brother-in-law. S. H. Harnish, N. P. Bayliss, J. K. Bayliss, of Central Point, W. A. Sumner and H. C. Christoffersen of Medford, R. E. Haney, wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. A. Schmitt and niece, Miss Margaret Haney of Medford, Dr. W. P. Holt and daughter, Miss Helen, J. V. McIntyre, Mrs. W. C. Clements, of Eagle Point, Chauncey Florey and little daughter of Jacksonville. Mr. Florey is our county recorder, and stands a fine show to be our county clerk the next two years; Mr. and Mrs. von der Hellen, one of the hardware merchants of our town, and Miss Urzula Geppert, formerly of Butte Falls, but now a resident of Eagle Point.
    On Monday Mr. George Owen, one of our county commissioners. was here for dinner on his way up the creek to look over the roads, and I understand that when he inspected the road work of our road supervisor where he was rocking the new road around the hill between here and Brownsboro that he expressed himself well pleased with the manner in which it was done and the judicious manner in which our supervisor, Ed Dutton, has used the funds placed at his disposal, but that he was greatly disappointed and surprised to find the road around the Nygren hill in the condition it was in as it was the calculation to have the bridge built and the road opened for travel, so as to have it packed, ready for a coating of fine rock or gravel. It seems to be almost impossible to get that bad hill eliminated and a good road made in its stead.
    Jed Edsall and Fred Stillwell came in Monday evening from Prospect, with the boiler for the new sawmill that is to be placed at the junction of the P.&E. and S.P. railroad and Tuesday went back with the truck to bring out the rest of the machinery. So I guess that Medford is really going to have a large saw mill in the vicinity at last.
    William C. Daney, Thomas Culbertson and Mike Sidley, Jr. of Lake Creek came in Tuesday morning and stayed about an hour. They seemed to be in a hurry to get home.
    A. G. Bishop, one of our leading orchardists, was doing business in our town Tuesday.
    Mrs. Lois Whitley and son, John Robert, from Lacombe, Alberta, but now of Trail, Theodore Nicholson, C. E. Hoyt, of Fort Klamath, T. C. Gaines of Trail, William Cottrell, owner of the old Joe Hannah place on Rogue River, below Trail, Fred Stillwell, Jed Edsall, Mrs. Joseph Geppert, son Charles and daughter Urzula and John Foster of Butte Falls were roomers Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    E. H. Hurd, the man who took such an active part in assisting the farmers take advantage of the law authorizing them to borrow money on their land from the government, was doing business in our town Wednesday morning and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    J. L. Robinson, one of our hustling farmers, was a business caller Wednesday morning.
    Mrs. M. B. Pletch of Medford came out Wednesday morning on the Harnish mail car and went on up to the Tronson orchard to keep house for him for a while.
    John Cox, one of the large land owners of Fort Klamath country, is here visiting his sister, Mrs. M. L. Pruett.
    Since my last report N. W. Slusser, our town barber, has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 1, 1918, page 3


    Last Thursday evening Mrs. Thomas Fredenburg and her son Robert Coffman came in and spent the night. They came here to meet the corpse of her son, Wilbur (Bert) Coffman, who died in Camp Mills, New York, Oct. 22, 1918, aged 25 years. He had been in the service eight months. He was in the quartermaster's department. The remains were shipped from Camp Mills. N.Y. to Butte Falls, Ore. for interment. The funeral was conducted st the Butte Falls cemetery on Friday, November 1st.
    William Welch of Central Point and Miss Hilda Abbott were also here Thursday evening for dinner.
    There were two carloads of sulfur phosphate and land plaster came in Thursday morning and it looked as though almost everybody in the upper Butte and Lake Creek country were in town, for there was a string of teams two or three hundred yards long at the depot waiting for the train when it came in, all to be loaded. The farmers up Butte and Lake Creek country have found that judicious use of fertilizers about doubles the production of grasses of different kinds, as well as the different kinds of root vegetables. I learned later that there was to have been three cars of fertilizers, but that for some reason there were only two, but there is to be another car coming yet. There were but very few of the above-named visitors took dinner in town as they seemed to be afraid of the flu, although there was at that time but one person sick, Miss Estella Betz, and she was not considered to be in a critical condition. I understand that she is getting alone very well and the excitement is dying down.
    William Hoeft and Lew Tonn of Lake Creek and Mr. Elvin, the fertilizer men of Medford, were among the diners Thursday.
    Friday Fort Hubbard of the firm of Hubbard Bros., Medford, and W. W. Carroll, representing Marshall Wells & Co., Portland, were here in the business of selling and installing electric pumps. They are both very smooth talkers and came near making me believe that they have just the thing one wants. They seem to be meeting with some success. While the people are squabbling over getting water onto the farms they are telling how to get the water without a dam or a reservoir. Simply dig a well, put in a pump, attach the juice and off it goes. Ain't that easy?
    Saturday I was called on to attend the funeral of Robert Leland Smith, who died Nov. 1st, 1918, in Medford. The remains were interred in the Central Point cemetery. He was the only child of Leroy and Rosa Smith, aged 11 months and two days. From the floral offerings one would conclude that the parents had a host of friends, for the grave was simply covered with flowers. And I am requested to express the gratitude of the parents and relatives to the friends who have assisted and consoled them during the short illness and the sad hours following.
    P. S. Anderson of Medford passed through our town Saturday on his way to his dairy ranch on Rogue River. He said that he was going up to dehorn his cattle.
    A. J. Florey. Jr., son of our townsman, A. J. Florey, Sr., is home on a sick leave from Fort Stevens. He does not look as though he could carry the allotted amount, 60 pounds, I believe it is, but we are glad to see him looking as well as he does, for from what I can learn he has spent the most of his time in a hospital since he has been in the service, and he was one of the first to volunteer in the Medford  company.
    Bert Koontz and wife passed through here Saturday morning on their way to Butte Falls.
    R. A. Petty, one of our most thorough and progressive farmers, was in town Saturday having his plows doctored up by W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith.
    There has been another change in the time of the departure and arrival of the mails as far as S. H. Harnish, contractor, is concerned. He leaves here Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 o'clock a.m. for Medford, and leaves Medford at 9 a.m. and in the afternoon leaves Eagle Point at 3:30 p.m. and leaves Medford at 4:30 p.m. On the days when the train runs he leaves here at 4:30 p.m., as the train brings the mail out on train days in the morning.
    Since my last report D. S. Nichols, Eagle Point, has renewed her subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and W. P. Morgan has sent me one dollar to pay for two months' subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, address Eagle Point, Ore.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 6, 1918, page 5


    R. R. Dawson returned from the hills Wednesday with the rest of his cattle.
    Mr. and Mrs. Rolph Olson and Fred Middlebusher left Friday for Bend, Ore., where Mr. and Mrs. Olson are thinking of buying.
    A. D. Moore of Persist, is hauling potatoes to the valley; also Frank and Gus Ditsworth.
    Word has been received that Harry Skyrman, who is attending military school at Eugene, has completely recovered from the Spanish influenza.
    E. Ash moved W. Wagner and family of Elk Creek to the Modoc orchard Wednesday, where Mr. Wagner has employment for the winter.
    D. W. Pence has begun working on the road again.
    Tressie Pence, teacher at the Central school, spent the weekend with her parents on Elk Creek.
    Francis Simmons was a Trail visitor Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 6, 1918, page 5


    We had a fine and truly welcomed rain Saturday and Sunday and of course the rain made the roads somewhat slippery so as to interfere with the travel more or less, still that did not interfere to any considerable extent with the people coming to the Sunnyside for the Sunday chicken dinner. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Koontz and Poke Smith of Butte Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Leidman and Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Putnam of Medford; the last four came out Sunday morning and remained until Monday. They have been engaged in the fruit packing business in Medford most of the time the past fall and were about through and Mr. and Mrs. Putnam have returned to their home near Los Angeles in their own auto while Mr. and Mrs. Leidman expect to remain here for the present at least, as he is subject to the draft and anticipates being called on at any time. Mrs. A. E. Strong of Central Point was also a caller Sunday and so was Mrs. W. C. Clements, our postmistress, during the absence of her husband, who is now at Fort Pike, Ark. Also Mr. H. C. Christofferson and Wm. A. Sumner of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Enders and son Jack, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Paulserud of Ashland.
    Sunday afternoon I was called to attend the funeral of Robert L. Verbick who died in Pomona, Cal., Oct. 23. He was born Oct. 17, 1896, was married to Miss Christina Lewis of Eagle Point, March 16, 1918, and went to California where they lived until he was called away by the messenger of death. He leaves his wife and his parents and brothers and sisters beside many warm friends to mourn his early death. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, and the members of that order took part in the burial services.
    Monday was one of the quietest days we have had in Eagle Point for some time as it looked as though everybody was staying at home getting ready to go to the various voting places to exercise their prerogative as loyal citizens of our great nation, but there were a few of the country people came in; but what few did come simply drove through or if they stopped at all attended to what business they had to and departed.
    J. P. McCabe, one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists went to Medford and returned on the Harnish jitney Monday evening, and spent the night at the Sunnyside. Jack O'Connor of Phoenix also spent Monday night with us.
    Our election Tuesday passed off very quietly and there seemed to be but very little interest manifest except it might be that there were some of the ladies who did a little electioneering for Mr. Purdin for county judge, but it seemed that about everybody had their minds made up and voted as they pleased, although before the election the mailboxes were pretty well filled with letters and circulars soliciting votes. Of course before this goes to press the country will know the result of the election, unless it would be in our town election, and that was considered of so little importance that there was no ticket brought out. So the voters had to write in the names of the ones they wanted. There were about twenty or perhaps twenty-five votes cast for mayor and J. M. Nichols, our present mayor, received twelve votes and the other candidates received from one to three votes, most of them one, and for councilmen J. F. Brown, W. L. Childreth, Wm. von der Hellen, Dr. Holt, Roy Ashpole and James Gordon, unless it was in one case, that of Wm. Brown. On the tally sheet he is reported to have received six votes in one place and two in another, making eight altogether, and that would make him one ahead of Dr. Holt, who received seven votes. The great trouble seems to be that no one wants to be bothered with the offices, and it is a question whether those elected will qualify.
    J. V. McIntyre was reelected recorder and Roy Ashpole was reelected treasurer.
    It seems that the promoters of the incorporation have succeeded in getting what they wanted--a bonded indebtedness of $10,000 on the town, increasing our taxes so far $14 a year on the thousand dollars and succeeding in getting a couple of streets fixed and now if they could would be glad to let go but can't.
    J. H. Trusty of Trail (Elk Creek) spent the night with us. Tuesday night he came out for a load of supplies.
    Miss Urzula Geppert has taken a position again as "hello" girl in the telephone office.
    Since my last report Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy has renewed her subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and Ed Higinbotham has ordered his Weekly Mail Tribune discontinued and ordered the Daily Mail Tribune instead.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 8, 1918, page 5


    D. Patrick, who has been working in one of the large shipyards in Portland, came in last Wednesday. He reports that the shipyard in which he was working had closed down and that thousands of men were laid off. That is one of the results of closing of the great world war which has been raging for the past four and a half years, and the result will be that there will be less heartaches, less anxiety and one result will be that those who want to hire help will not be at the mercy of the man who has to hire but it will be likely to equalize things more and we will all have good times together.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday morning was Dr. Emmferson of Butte Falls, Floyd F. Howard and Mr. Schramm. Mr. Howard of Medford and Mr. Schramm of Salem returned the same day and spent the night at the Sunnyside. Marsh Garrett was also a passenger on the P.&E.
    Word came in since my last that Fred Green, who was stationed at Ft. Warren, Wash. died the 3rd of November. Mr. Green was one of our Eagle Point boys, a grandson of the late J. J. Fryer, and proved to be one of the leading business men in his line. He went from here in his teens to San Francisco with his mother, Mrs. Arglee Green, and secured employment in the office of the S.P. railroad company, working during the day and attending school at night until he secured a business education and then was promoted to a high position, and when I saw him last was among the leading men in the office. He was so highly esteemed by the railroad company that they gave him a month's leave and a pass over the lines for himself and mother free, so that they visited Salt Lake, Chicago, New York, etc. He later secured a position with a large paper manufacturing company in Washington where he was employed when he was called into the service of his country. He leaves a wife, mother and brother to mourn his untimely death. He was 30 years of age the 7th of November, 1917. He was truly a self-made man. I have written this brief notice to try to encourage other young men to strive for higher walks of life. He was a nephew of our townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Pearce.
    T. Dugan, one of our prosperous farmers, and two of his sons were in town Friday.
    Mrs. Radcliffe and Rube Johnson were among the business callers Friday.
    B. F. Butler was also a business caller and while here told me that he had traded his farm and orchard to H. C. Christoffersen of Talent for Portland property.
    Mr. Cross of Butte Falls tells me that he brought out a fine cow for our new telephone man, Mr. Middlesteadt.
    Thomas Culbertson and two of his sons came out Friday from Lake Creek on a business venture.
    Thomas Cingcade brought in two porkers for George Brown & Sons Saturday morning that tipped the beam at 300 pounds each, and they brought him about $90. Good money for two pigs.
    Mrs. Frank Neil and Mr. and Mrs. Denny of Derby were passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning.
    C. E. Bellows and his two boys, Bennie and Edward, came in Saturday morning and brought in a load of hogs for George Brown & Sons, and to meet Mr. B.'s brother-in-law, Bert Wyant, who has been working in the shipyards in Portland. They and R. L. Frulayson, with J. A. Folger & Co., Golden Gate Coffee, San Francisco, J. P. McCabe and A. M. Gay, recently of Butte Falls, were at the Sunnyside for dinner Saturday.
    Mrs. E. L. Martin, who is on the Corbin orchard, was in town Friday and while here gave me her subscription for the D.M.T.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 12, 1918, page 5


    I learned after I had written my last letter, Saturday, Nov. 9, that in addition to the hogs reported in that letter that H. E. Webb of Derby, Eli and Irvin Dahack and Chris Natwick had brought in a lot of hogs for Geo. Brown & Sons for shipment to Portland that afternoon. Royal G. Brown went to Portland with them. The two hogs brought in by Thomas Cingcade mentioned in my last weighed 650 pounds instead of six hundred as reported.
    I notice in the last Eaglets published that I am made to say that B. F. Butler had traded his farm and orchard to H. C. Christoffersen for Portland property, and it should have been B. F. Fuller instead of B. F. Butler, so please make correction.
    Pete Young, Mr. Simons, the foreman on the Little Butte Orchard (A. Corbin orchard), Herman Meyer and wife, W. H. Crandall, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Foeller of Trail were among the business callers Saturday afternoon and at night Mrs. Charles Pennington of Butte Falls (Willow Creek) came in and spent the night.
    To our surprise, Sunday morning being one of those disagreeable foggy days, such as we have almost every November, and with the fog the indications were that we would have rain before night, in came Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McCoy and Miss Margaret McCoy of Ashland. and by the time they reached the Sunnyside it was raining like guns and the first question Mrs. Butler asked was "Have you any flu here?" On being assured that there was not a case in our town we were then asked about dinner. They said that when they started from Ashland the sun was shining and the day bid fair to be lovely, so they concluded to come up and take dinner at the Sunnyside. Miss Ella Belford also came in to take "chicken dinner." Later in the day Lincoln Savage, principal of the Butte Falls high school, and wife, son and Mrs. Savage's mother, Mrs. George White of Missoula, Montana, came in. Mr. S. and family had started from Grants Pass for their home at Butte Falls and when they had got well into the sticky between the Reese Creek school house and Vestal's a pinion in the differential broke and he had to get Robert Minter to hitch on and pull his car back to the Sunnyside. He sent to Medford by our mail carrier, S. H. Harnish, for one Monday, but when he reached town found that the stores were all closed on account of the glorious victory over the Germans, so had to come home without it. He then phoned to his brother-in-law, O. H. Robinson in Grants Pass to get what he wanted. There were two pieces broke, and bring them up, so he came Tuesday afternoon and brought his two daughters, Miss Thelma and Vera, with him, and they soon had the car ready for service again. Mr. R. and his girls returned to Grants Pass that afternoon but Mr. S. and family remained until Wednesday morning,
    Henry McCabe and R. W. Lewis were among the callers Monday for dinner.
    Miss Jose Riley and her sister, Mrs. Myrtle Wilson, daughters of our ex-commissioner, Thomas Riley, were in town Monday and while here secured a fine lot of shrubbery to plant.
    George Brown & Sons shipped wool for John Foster and mohair for Eli Dahack Tuesday.
    Earl Zimmerman, who lives on the headwaters of Rogue River, beyond Butte Falls some sixteen miles, came out Monday night and spent the night at the Sunnyside and went to Medford Tuesday and back that evening and spent the night with us again, going on up home Wednesday.
    Fred McPherson has moved into the Thomas Farlow house and N. W. Slusser has moved into the F. M. Stewart house and F. J. Ayres has left his farm in charge of his son Amos, formerly our depot agent, and moved into his house he bought of L. A. Smith.
    Since my last Mrs. N. E. Watkins has discontinued her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune and subscribed for the D.M.T. and C. E. Hoyt of Fort Klamath has renewed his subscription to the W.M.T.
    Ed Higinbotham of Derby passed through here Tuesday with his family on his way to Medford.
    Everybody is busy farming and rejoice over the dawn of peace again and we feel like singing "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow."
    Since writing the foregoing Mrs. Albert L. (Bert) Peachey has given me a subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
    I omitted to state in the proper place that Miss Estella Betz has fully recovered from her sickness and is attending to her usual duties again. She and Thomas Lewis took supper Sunday night at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1918, page 5


    George McMuller of Northern California was a visitor Thursday morning. He came out from Medford and took passage on the P.&E. for Derby. He has been spending several days in this section looking over the timber and mill sites.
    That little writeup that was published in the Medford Sun on the tenth instant has put the timber men to talking if nothing more, and the question comes up, "What will be done with all of the vast body of timber in the Big Butte country if the railroad is torn up?" And one of our customers who lives in Butte Falls seemed to be somewhat uneasy about his investments in that thriving little city, but the general feeling on the subject seemed to be that it was simply a bluff to try to scare the "big timber owners" into buying the road and taking it off the hands of the company; but be that as it may it is a serious proposition when it comes to talking about tearing up a railroad thirty-two miles long and leaving people with thousands of acres of timber land on their hands, and leaving such a town as Butte Falls out in the woods with a sawmill that has already cost four times what a first-class mill [should]; that mill cut a hundred thousand feet of lumber a day, with no way to get the lumber out, and another mill on the tract, the Dupray mill, and logging camps along the route. One very common opinion seems to be that the company is aiming to work on the railroad commission for higher rates, while they are charging so much now that the truck men are bidding for the freight. One of our merchants, a member of the firm of George Brown and Sons, told me that a truckman in Medford offered to deliver his freight at the store door for the same price that the railroad company charges for bringing it out on the cars, and the merchant would save the drayage on both ends of the route, and one of our grist mill men told me the other day that he could save $7.50 on a car of flour by having it taken from the mill direct to destination in Medford, Central Point or Gold Hill, on account of the extra cartage. But the probabilities are that the railroad company will do as they have been planning ever since before the war, extend the road on to connect with the Oregon Trunk and possibly extend it on from Medford to the coast, or perhaps the government will take the matter up and build the road through and simply connect with the S.P. at Medford and have it all one continuous line to San Francisco.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Thursday were E. Hurd, a Medford attorney, who was on his way to Butte Falls; H. D. Mills, the superintendent of the Butte Falls Lumber Company, Jack O'Connor of Talent, and Fred Stillwell of Ashland who stopped off here and returned to Ashland that afternoon on the train, while Mr. Hurd returned and spent the night with us. Scott Claspill and wife also spent the night with us. They had started out to go to Mr. J. P. McCabe's place to get their winter potatoes and while plowing through that piece of sticky between the Reese Creek school house and the Ayres place he broke the hub out of his car wheels [and] so had Mr. Middlesteadt, our telephone man, bring him in and that afternoon he sent to Medford by our mail carrier, Mr. Harnish, got his extras, and Friday morning repaired the damage and went on their way for home.
    Wm. Lewis, our sheepman, was doing business here Thursday, and so was Mrs. John Rader and her daughter, Mrs. Harry Stanley.
    Miss Urzula Geppert has taken a position in the telephone office here and is rooming at the Sunnyside, and S. H. Harnish is taking his meals at that hostelry.
    There were several passengers on the P.&E. Saturday morning but the most of them were strangers, although Ed Walker was among them, and he said that he was going to close down for a short time in his logging camp while the Applegate Lumber Company moved their mill to the junction of the P.&E. and S.P. railroad. There was one woman among the passengers and she had on a mask so that I could not tell whether I knew her or not.
    H. W. Audley, J. Clapsedel, Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher, one of the post office inspectors, Mrs. W. C. Clements, our postmistress, C. H. Tull and son Buster of Medford, J. D. Welch, a timber man, G. W. Somers of Medford and Wig Jacks and Dick Bessie of Central Point were among the diners here Saturday. Dick has come to drive the mail wagon from here to Persist while Mr. Winningham, the contractor, is sick.
    Word came Saturday morning that the remains of Chris Wooley, one of the pioneers of this valley, was found dead in his bed that morning. The cause of his death is not known so far as I know. He has been a resident of this neighborhood since his early manhood and was looked upon as a highly respected citizen. As near as I can learn he was about 80 years of age.
    The principal of our school reports that the Liberty Boys and Girls assignment for this school district was $12.90 and that they have raised $20.60 the first day and that the assignment for the county was $1000 and that the children have collected $1800.
    Mr. and Mrs. Draper of Medford came out Friday with S. H. Harnish to visit our confectionery man's family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    Since my last report J. M. Hayes of Eagle Point has given me his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 19, 1918, page 3


    Nellie Dawson of Medford is assisting Mrs. Ash with housework.
    The friends of Minnie Poole gave her a pleasant surprise when they gathered at her home unexpectedly Sunday evening. The evening was spent in games and music and was greatly enjoyed by all present.
    Lewis and Bob Thompson are working in the mine near Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Olson left Tuesday for Bend, Ore., where they will make their home this winter.
    We were sorry to hear of Mr. Winningham's sickness. It is reported that he and all the children are very ill with the "flu."
    R. R. Dawson and Roy Warner started work on the road Monday morning.
    Georgie Weeks, little daughter of G. W. Weeks, is on the sick list. Dr. Kirchgessner is in attendance.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 20, 1918, page 5


    Sunday was one of the days that we call disagreeable simply because it happened to be a little showery and the roads were not quite so good as they have been earlier in the season, but here in Jackson County, Oregon people don't stop on account of a little rain and mud. There was not so many here for dinner as there has generally been but there were a few and the most of them were citizens of our town or living nearby, but we had one family from Medford, O. C. Boggs and family. He phoned out that he would be here for dinner about 1 o'clock and Mrs. Howlett's hour to serve dinner on Sunday is 12:30 p.m., but she kept the victuals warm until 2 p.m. and then concluded that Mr. Boggs had had a mishap, for one can never tell when they are out with a machine what may happen, but about 4 p.m. he came in with his wife and two husky boys for dinner and on being told that they would have to wait until she could get things warmed up Mr. Howlett rustled around and in a very short time, although it seemed to them an age, she invited them to dine. By way of apology for being so late Mr. Boggs said that he had started up to a place near Trail to see a man on business and when he got up Rogue River as far as Dry Creek learned that the man he wanted to see lived about two and a half miles up in the hills. Now mark you, the ground was wet and sticky and the trail led right up the hill, but off Mr. Boggs and one of his boys started, leaving Mrs. Boggs and the oldest boy with the car, and the result was they came near having their dinner and supper at the same time. But Mr. Boggs accomplished what he had undertaken and after resting a while they started for their home in Medford.
    Charley Clark, who is engaged on the Modoc orchard, came in Sunday and has been here with us since and this is Wednesday p.m. He has a boil on his wrist that has caused him to lay off for a few days.
    Mrs. Dr. Holt, who has been in a hospital in Medford--I didn't learn which--but suppose the Good Samaritan, has returned to her home in Eagle Point, bringing with her a fine baby girl.
    Wm. G. Knighten, one of our most highly esteemed citizens, who has been confined to his home for the past three months, walked over to the Sunnyside Monday morning and renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. He has had to undergo two operations during his sickness and for some time was considered in a very critical condition, but his many friends are congratulating him on his recovery and wishing him many years added to his long life of peace and happiness.
    Mrs. Freeman Newport, wife of the depot agent of the P.&E. at Medford, and her little Lucile, are out here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres.
    Wm. Perry, one of our most progressive farmers and general hustler, is kept busy a good part of the time with his gasoline wood saw. He finished up sawing about fifty tier of stove wood for Mrs. Howlett this morning.
    The teams that have been engaged hauling rock to the crusher and hauling crushed rock onto the road have been taken off and I understand that our road superintendent, Ed Dutton, has done a fine job on the hill below Brownsboro.
    A few days ago I asked our mayor how long it would be before he would remove the ban on our school and he said that we had another case of flu in our town, that John Winningham was sick and since then I have learned that five out of six of his children were sick and that accounts for Dick Bessie being here driving stage. He is making his regular trips now on time.
    We are having more improvements in our town. Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, has built himself a garage back of his store.
    A. G. Bishop was in town the first of the week having some repair work on his auto machine.
    Mrs. A. L. Haselton was a business caller. I met her in the post office and she was busy as a bee knitting socks for the Red Cross. She has been one of the foremost workers in that line of any of the women of this section, although it would be hard to determine who is entitled to the most credit, for they are all entitled to much praise.
    J. V. McIntyre, our banker, has gone to Portland to meet his wife and baby girl, who have been in Illinois visiting relatives. They are expected home Thursday and Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 21, 1918, page 5


    School began again Monday with most of the pupils present and one new one.
    The school at Laurel Hill has not opened yet. The teacher, Miss Zanta Roberts, has been suffering from a bad cold.
    Mrs. Walter Wood has recovered enough to be up and around in the house some.
    In the recent war drive of the Victory Boys and Girls, Reese Creek went way over the top. The school was closed during the week of the drive, but the week following Miss Marguerite Hammond, the teacher, being back took hold of the work very enthusiastically and pushed it with success, sending in about eight dollars.
    Mrs. Frank Caster is still suffering from a very sore foot.
    H. Watkins and wife were up at the Rancheria ranch last week and brought down F. Howard's horses. H. Watkins will have the care of them.
    W. E. Hammond was in Central Point the first of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 22, 1918, page 3


    Among the business callers since I last reported was Ed Cowden, C. E. Bellows and his brother Owen, W. H. Crandall, Benj. Brophy and E. Jacks.
    Miss Roberta Pearce, daughter of our townsman, Floyd Pearce, returned from Portland Thursday, and S. P. Harmon of Butte Falls was also a passenger on the P.&E. the same day.
    Messrs. M. O. Arvent, M. C. Arvent, Benton Reed and H. Woesaht of Grants Pass spent the night with us on their way to Butte Falls. They had with them three large logging trucks on their way to fill a contract for the delivery of a large quantity of saw logs to the Butte Falls Lumber Company's mill. The understanding is that the mill company is to lay a plank road from the dumping ground to the timber and they, the mill company, to load the saw logs on the cars, and the contractor, Mr. Arvent, is to deliver them at a certain rate per thousand feet. And I have heard it predicted that the three trucks, if kept busy, would simply bury the mill up with logs. But we hope that the critic was mistaken and that the mill will do a thriving business.
    Mrs. H. F. Platt of Medford called for dinner Thursday evening and spent the night, going to Medford Friday and back, and spent Friday night with us. He says that he has about two weeks' sawing to do to clean up his logs that he has on hand and then he will shut down and put in the winter cutting logs and wood. [He] says that he has a quantity of large timber on his place that is too large to saw, as it does not make good lumber on account of the limbs being so large, [and] makes the lumber too knotty.
    Thomas Culbertson and two of his boys were doing business here Friday.
    A. W. Smith of Astoria came in Friday morning and spent the day and night with us, taking the train for Butte Falls the next day. He was going to visit a daughter in that vicinity.
    J. J. Skinner of Medford, who is in the employ of the C.&O.P. Company, was here Friday reading the electric meters. He had taken the place of A. S. Bliton, who was confined to his room with the flu.
    O. C. King of Medford, representing the Medford Grocery Company, and W. H. Ramsey, representing the West Coast Soap Company, were here for dinner Saturday.
    Mrs. Raphael Gardner and two of her children came out from their home on Salt Creek, to have some blacksmith work done.
    J. L. Robertson was doing business here Saturday morning and his son John and little daughter went to Medford that morning to have some dental work done.
    Ernest McKee, who is general roustabout for Hubbard Brothers, came out Saturday to install an electric pump and motor for Mrs. Howlett, at the Sunnyside.
    Since my last report W. L. Childreth has renewed his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and D. A. Sheibley has given me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 26, 1917, page 5


    Henry McCabe, Otis Hubbard and Ernest McKee and wife were here for dinner Monday, and Mrs. Wm. Beale of Butte Falls was here Monday for the night.
    Among the business callers was Pete Young, Mr. Egenbury and T. C. Dugan.
    The P.&E. came in on time Tuesday and brought in two cars of lumber from Medford for the Fish Lake Ditch Company to be used in replacing the old flume up above here and build new flume.
    There was a car of lumber came in last week for Mike Hanley and there were three four-horse teams came in to take it away Tuesday morning. It seems to be a funny idea to have the saw logs brought out from Butte Falls on the P.&E., sawed into lumber and then shipped back over the same road again to Eagle Point when there are two sawmills on the railroad, one at Butte Falls and the other four miles this side, but that makes business for the railroad company. But I understand that the Butte Falls Mill Company have all the orders that they can fill now from the government.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Tuesday was Jap Andrews of Medford, and his sister, Mrs. Ablefield of Cleveland, O., who is out here on a visit and her brother was dating her up to Butte Falls to take a look at that beautiful country, although the way the day turned out it was not the kind of day that one would select where the party wished to make a favorable impression, for about noon it commenced to snow and soon the foliage on the evergreen trees was covered with a white mantle. But she saw the country through which the road passes before it commenced to snow.
    C. J. Kafer, our Brownsboro merchant, was at the Eagle Point depot to ship three-quarters of a fine beef--that is I guess that it was fine, for l heard Mike Hanley, who was there at the depot to see about his lumber, remark that "You folks out here seem to live on first-class beef" and it proved to be, for Mrs. Howlett had a part of it at the Sunnyside. Ed Welsh was also a passenger on the P.&E. He was going up to Prospect to look after his sawmill he has there. Also Mrs. F. D. Hill of Derby and Mr. Ward of Butte Falls were on their way to their homes.
    Dan Foeller and J. D. Cowper of Trail and Charles Woodworth, recently from California, were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Foeller is one of our leading goat men in the county. Mr. Woodworth is interested in the fur business and is talking of locating in this section of the country.
    I see by the papers that the schools in the county have, as a general thing, opened again but the ban is still on here, as when I spoke to our mayor, Mr. J. M. Nichols, about what time our school would upon he called my attention to the fact that there were some new cases of the flu in our town and since that Dr. Holt reports that there is another family down with that dread disease. The last case was that of a man by the name of Able, came in from Canada, who had had it and that he was well but took a relapse and thereby gave it to his family, but at last accounts the sick were all doing well. But speaking on the subject of schools, I see by the official report of the vote in the county on the normal school amendment that there were several hundred votes cast in Jackson County against the amendment, and I also noticed that the vote on the amendments was very high compared to the other votes. I asked one man here after he had voted how he had voted on one of the amendments and he answered by saying that he voted no on all of them, and in my astonishment I asked, "You didn't vote against the Normal at Ashland, did you?" and he said yes, that he voted no on all of them; that if the people wanted their children to go higher than the eighth grade let them pay for it themselves, thus shutting the door against hundreds of young men and especially girls who would and could do well for themselves with a little help [but] are driven to resort to means for a livelihood less honorable when with a trifle additional tax, only a part of one percent, help could be afforded to many deserving young persons and the  taxpayer would never feel it, but the trouble is so many never stop to think and it is a very common custom with many persons to vote for nothing on the ticket except for their party men and leave everything else either blank or vote no.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. D. MacCochen came in for dinner Wednesday and they had picked up a little girl who gave her name as Elsie Cleveland as they came out from Gold Hill, their present home, but formerly of Sacramento, Cal. Mr. MacCochen has a contract to supply the teams and machinery to make the canal near Gold Hill. Miss Elsie had started from Medford to find her father, who is in charge of Ed Phipps' sheep above Brownsboro. They all took dinner at the Sunnyside and Mr. Woodworth volunteered to pay for the little girl's hotel bill and stage fare and to have her go on the stage, but Mr. MacCochen paid for her dinner. Mr. Woodworth came Tuesday noon and spent the night.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 2, 1918, page 5


    Charles Woodworth, a professional trapper, spent Wednesday night with us, and so did Miss Elsie Cleveland. The same two were mentioned in my last, and when I wrote I supposed that they were going on up the country. Miss Elsie is the fourteen-year-old girl I mentioned. The little girl was without friends and had started out to walk from Medford to the Houklang place, two and a half miles above Brownsboro, nineteen and a half miles from Medford, and was picked up by Mr. and Mrs. MacCochran and brought to the Sunnyside, and Mr. Woodworth learned the facts in the case. He kindly proffered to pay her hotel bill and have her remain overnight and he would take her on the E.P.-L.C. stage as far as she would go on his road. He was going to Fish Lake, so they both went on Friday morning and she was started on the right road to find her father. The girl said that her mother worked in a hotel in Medford and that she had a sister older than she was. I suppose that she reached her destination all O.K., for I saw the stage driver the next morning and he reported that she was started on the right road.
    Miss Alice Schleichert of Medford was out visiting Miss Mary Robertson Thanksgiving Day.
    Mrs. Howlett gave a Thanksgiving turkey dinner and among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest McKee and little daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Bailey and son Ralph, Mrs. Archie Ash and two daughters, Misses Gertrude and Frances. The two misses are from San Francisco, Cal., visiting their mother, S. H. Harnish, Rand and Robbie Harnish, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dutton.
    Mrs. Amy Brown gave a Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday and among the invited guests were Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brownm Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Miss Hazel Brown, Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Holt and daughter, Miss Helen, Mrs. W. C. Clements and Joe Moomaw. It was a kind of a family affair as nine out of the company, that including the host and hostess, were relatives, and a very pleasant time was had, and they, no doubt, felt thankful that the fearful war was over and that they were all alive and well.
    Thanksgiving Day was very quiet in our little town. Porter J. Neff of Medford came out on business on the train, and J. S. McIntyre and he went back to Medford for dinner.
    E. C. Hamilton, who is working in the interest of the Fish Lake Ditch Company, was here Saturday for dinner and was trying to secure teams to haul the two carloads of lumber from here to Lake Creek to repair the flume across that stream.
    A man by the name of Boulden, in the employ of the S. and O.P. Co., was here for dinner Friday. He came out to put a new and larger transmitter on the electric line and connect the line up with the new motor and pump that Ernest McKee had just put in for Mrs. Howlett. Mr. McKee is not only a general roustabout for Hubbard Bros. Hardware Company but is also their chief machinist, as he seems to be perfectly familiar with all kinds of machinery, from a kitchen pump to the most complex pieces of machinery. He and O. C. King, the representative of the Medford Grocery Company, and Samuel Courtney, were also diners Saturday.
    Dr. Emmerson and wife of Butte Falls were visiting the family of J. B. Jackson the last of the week and took passage on the P.&E. stage Saturday for their home.
    Miss Roberta Pearce and W. N. Campbell of Medford, federal explosive inspector for Oregon, came in on the P.&E. and Mr. Campbell took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. M. H. Simons, the foreman on the A. Corbin orchard, was a business caller Saturday. He reports that he has a Cleveland tractor and eight teams plowing up the clover and alfalfa in the orchard. It is genuine black sticky and he is having a time plowing the ground, but he is doing it all O.K.
    Mrs. Mary Brite of Butte Falls spent Friday night at the Sunnyside and took passage on the train for home, and Jack O'Connor and Mr. Berrian, the B.F.F. hatchery man, was also passengers for Butte Falls. Mrs. Rosa Smith came out to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Ayres.
    J. T. Arnes, foreman on the Edgell orchard, was a business caller Saturday.
    Charles Klingle and his son, Charles, Jr., were among the business callers Saturday.
    Mrs. C. H. Nordwick and Miss Mary Phipps were among the callers Saturday.
    J. L. Robertson was in town Saturday and while here gave me an adv. He wants to buy a span of horses. See adv. in Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Since my last report Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy has renewed her subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 3, 1918, page 5


    George Adamson of Trail cane in Saturday night and remained until Monday. He was engaged in hauling manganese from the Lake Creek mill. The Tacoma Metal Company have been hauling the ore out as far as L. Charley's and Brownsboro with teams and Mr. Adamson hauls it from there to the P.&E. depot on a truck. Mr. A. says that the roads from Mr. Charley's to the mine are so very muddy that it is almost impossible to get through with a truck. He says that the road supervisor has put fresh gravel on the hill known as the Lem Charley hill and that in going a few rods with his truck he broke the two chains on his wheels. It seems like poor encouragement for capitalists to come into this country and have to go to double or triple the expense necessary to get the product of the mine out to the market, having to handle the ore six times to get it in to the railroad car. But perhaps we will have a change for the better under our next county officials, not saying anything against our present county board, but perhaps the new ones, the new commissioner and the new county judge, people out here seem to place a great deal of confidence in them. Mr. Adamson says that the manganese mill is shut down at the present time, owing to a large slide having slipped into the cut where they have been getting out the ore, and that the debris will all have to be taken out before they can crush any more rock. Mr. A. left his truck with us while he went to his home for a few days. He says that they have about 25 or 30 tons of ore out that he expects to haul this winter and that, with what the company have at the depot, will make a carload.
    J. F. Hale, general manager of the Hale Piano House, Medford, was here Monday for dinner, and C. H. Natwick, our boss road maker, and Joe Moomaw, the E.P.-Derby mail contractor, and Mrs. W. C. Clements, our postmistress. She says that she is looking for her husband, who went to Camp Pike, Ark., a few months ago, to join the officers' training school about the tenth or twelfth of this month.
    Jack O'Connor was one of the business callers Monday. He is interested in a logging contract near Butte Falls.
    Sam Coy, one of our hustling farmers, was here Monday to meet a friend and to have his plows sharpened up.
    Thomas Cingcade brought his gang plows in Tuesday to have scrapers put on it to clean the wheels when he is plowing sticky. Oh, that sticky is the limit.
    George Stowell was in town Tuesday to bring in his eggs and cream. He makes the poultry business a specialty and dovetails in the dairy business with it, selling the cream and feeding the milk to his chickens and pigs.
    C. E. Bellows, another one of our prosperous farmers and dairymen, and wife were here Tuesday. Mr. Joss, who is living on the Fred Pettegrew place, came in with them and while they were here witnessed the passage of an airplane. It was witnessed by quite a number of our citizens as it passed over, but it was so high that it was beyond the vision of us older people. I was talking at the time with J. L. Robertson and he said that he could hear the noise but could not see the machine.
    Mrs. Sherman Wooley went out to Medford on the P.&E. Tuesday and came near leaving her baggage. She had set it on the platform, a suitcase and baby cart, and spoke to one of the trainmen to put it on the car for her, and entered the coach, but the trainman was not in that department so neglected to attend to it and just as the train started I called attention to it and the two brakemen made a grab for it and threw it on the car on the run. We have no agent here so she didn't check it.
    J. P. McCabe was a business caller Wednesday, arranging to ship his hogs through George Brown and Sons, who have been doing quite a business in that line this fall.
    R. A. Petty, one of our successful farmers, was here Wednesday. He is farming the Thomas Riley, Jr., place, and says that he has all of his wheat sown and his corn ground plowed, ready for planting in the spring.
    Sam Courtney was a business caller Wednesday. He was to take out a lot of wire fencing.
    Tuesday evening I received by mail a notice from the Medford Mail Tribune office that my services as a solicitor and collector for the Daily Mail Tribune and Weekly Mail Tribune were no longer required in that capacity, as under the present arrangement every subscription must be paid in advance, and consequently there will be no debts to collect. And while on this topic I wish to express my sincere thanks to the many friends who have been so considerate and so obliging as to give me their subscriptions, renewals and the advertising business during the many years that I have been serving the public as well as the publishing company who have been in charge of the business from the time of the Medford Monitor [and] the Medford Mail, etc., was that parties who have been sending particularly since the consolidation of these with the Jacksonville Times, the Southern Oregonian, the Ashland Tribune and the Medford Tribune, so that parties who have been sending to me their subscriptions and other business in that line will please send direct to the Medford Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 6, 1918, page 6


    After patiently waiting at the P.&E. depot Thursday morning for the train to arrive, and listening for the familiar whistle of No. 5, but in vain some time after the scheduled time the little passenger coach of the old R.R.V. railroad arrived loaded down with passengers among whom were Fred Austin, one of the Butte Falls merchants, Mr. Barker, the Butte Falls banker, D. O. Mills, the superintendent of the Butte Falls Lumber Company, Charles Edmondson, the superintendent of the logging interests of the Butte Falls Lumber Company, and Jack O'Connor and about all the mail that they could store away. During the trip from Medford by some means or other a fire was started in the compartment where the mail matter was stored and one of the mail sacks was burned but about all the damage done was the destruction of a bundle of the Morning Oregonians. I noticed that before they started, the superintendent, Mr. Neilson, took the precaution to take a cream can of water in that part of the conch, whether as a precaution or for drinking purposes I cannot say. When they reached the Eagle Point depot they found that Mr. C. J. Kafer, the Brownsboro merchant, had three quarters of a beef to be taken to Butte Falls, and after consulting with the conductor, Mr. Charles Bacon, they decided to call up Mr. Vaughn, the section boss, and have him come with the little gasoline motor that they use on the road for transporting the section crew from one place to another, and have him come and take the beef up to Butte Falls and it was further arranged for Jack O'Connor to wait and go up with Mr. Vaughn. Mr. F. J. Ayres, who has a farm along the track, in the hills, reports that the little coach was so slow that Mr. Vaughn overtook it about his place and passed it, but they finally reached their destination late in the afternoon. Our sympathies go out to the men who have to do work under such hindrances, but I suppose that they are used to it by this time. While Mr. O'Connor was waiting for Mr. Vaughn to come with the motor car he went to the Sunnyside and ate an early dinner.
    I notice that the Brandon Bros. are getting in considerable wheat as the trucks are coming in quite regularly.
    John Greb, one of our leading citizens, who has his only grown son in the army, requests me to correct a mistake in the Medford Sun of Dec. 1st in which it was stated that his son John Greb, Jr., had been killed in France, as the report not only cast gloom over the family, but also over the entire community, and he assures me that his son was not dead at the time reported.
    Mr. Fisher of Indian Creek went Thursday night with us.
    Mrs. Klippel of Trail came out on the Eagle Point-Persist stage Thursday and went to Medford the same afternoon on S. H. Harnish's mail car, returning on the same car again the next morning and going home on the Eagle Point-Persist stage. Mrs. Hamilton Watkins also came out on the same car. Mrs. Klippel went on up home on the stage and Mr. Fisher went as far as the free ferry on the same stage.
    Speaking about the stages, John Winningham, the mail contractor on the Eagle Point-Persist route, who has been confined to his room for the past few weeks, and has had Dick Bessie driving for him, and after Dick had been driving for about two weeks, Dick fell one morning while attending to his team and dislocated his hip, and was brought as far as Trail. Then a man by the name of Miller commenced to carry the mail and last Friday Mr. Winningham went up with Mr. Miller to take charge of the work again and that night he was taken bad again and sent for Dr. Holt and he started this Saturday morning and when he got a few miles on the road his car balked on him and about the middle of the afternoon he procured another car, reached there sometime that night, but we have not heard the result as yet.
    Ira Dunlap and son Ralph of Trail were doing business Friday and Saturday.
    Saturday was a busy day with Geo. Brown & Sons as that day was the day they were to load a car with hogs and cattle--a mixed load--and really the hogs commenced to arrive for T. F. McCabe brought in one load on Friday and another on Saturday, and Pete Betz, Mr. Vogt of Sams Valley, Thomas Givan, E. E. Robinson. J. F. Johnson, Ray Harnish and L. K. Haak also brought in hogs, sixty-five all told, and S. F. Smith, Perry Foster and Wm. Perry brought in the cattle that were shipped.
    Among the passengers on the P.&E. Saturday were W. T. Grieves, our ex-county assessor, A. H. Nelson, a Portland traveling man, S. T. Ward, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Medford, Mrs. F. D. Hill of Derby, Mr. and Mrs. Denny of Derby, D. A. Sheibley, Zack Taylor, Jim Swift, Rob and Mr. Harnish, E. L. Kellenborn, representing the Goodrich Rubber Company, Portland, R. W. Nichols and Ralph Householder of Central Point were here Saturday for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 10, 1918, page 5


    Dick Bessie is slowly improving but is still at Trail. He was hurt while carrying the mail.
    Mrs. Geo. Lynch spent Sunday with her daughter Veda at Trail.
    Lowell Ash's friends gave him a pleasant surprise Saturday evening when they all gathered at his home. The evening was spent in playing games.
    Geo. Adamson is carrying the mail for John Winningham.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pence of Central Point spent Sunday with P. R. Dawson and family.
    John Holst returned home from Trail, just in time to have the flu, as he came down with it soon after he arrived.
    Kevie Hutchison returned home from Medford Tuesday where he has been attending high school.
    Mrs. Will McDonald received word her husband is much improved. He is in Pomeroy, Wn., ill with the flu.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 12, 1918, page 3


    Among the many callers last Saturday whose names I didn't mention was William Martin of Trail, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Spruce of Brownsboro. They brought in a load of grain for Brown Brothers. Floyd Charley of Brownsboro and Mrs. Richard Meyer and son of Big Butte.
    Saturday night Miss Edwina Howlett, advance agent for the War in Europe and vaudeville company, came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside and Sunday morning went to see our mayor, Mr. John M. Nichols, with regard to giving an entertainment here, but he at once informed her that the ban was still on and would be as long as there was any danger of the spread of the Spanish influenza, so she employed Harry Lewis, the present jitney driver, to take her to Central Point that afternoon.
    Owing to William Lewis, the regular jitney driver, having the flu, his brother Harry is filling his place in that capacity.
    Frank Smith was an early caller Sunday morning and Miss Ella Belford, the lady who has charge of what is known as the Stewart farm northeast of our town, was one of the diners at the Sunnyside Sunday, and later in the day George Adamson, the man who is engaged in hauling manganese from the mine to this side of the "Charley Hill" by teams, came in for dinner and reported that that day he had gone to the mine with his truck and that just this side of Lake Creek he had broke a casting on his truck and had to leave it and come out to try to get the superintendent of the mine on the phone. On Sunday our phone office is not open only from 10 to 12 a.m. and from 3 to 5 p.m. and so he came on here to await results. He finally got him on the phone but I have not heard the result.
    Owing to the sickness of the mail contractor on the E.P. and Persist route we are having all kinds of trouble all along the route. Monday there was no one to carry the mail from here as the mail team was somewhere on the route between here and Persist and on Monday, late in the afternoon Mr. George Adamson, the same man just referred to as having trouble with his truck, started to take the mail to Persist, with the understanding that he would try to get as far as Trail that night and the next day, Tuesday, go on to Persist and return to this post office Tuesday night, but this Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, he had not arrived.
    J. J. Skinner, who is one of the electricians in the employ of the C.&O.P. Co., came out Monday to put in a meter in the pump house for Mrs. Howlett and while here wired up and put in an electric light in the pump house for her. He and Mr. T. F. McCabe, Mr. G. M. Lumas of Medford, J. D. Welch, a cattle and sheep buyer of Portland, A. M. Gay and Sherman Wooley, were here for dinner and while here Mr. Gay gave me one dollar to pay for two months subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
    Monday night Mr. A. J. Howard of  Oakland, Ore., spent the night with us. He is looking for a suitable place to start a turkey ranch and says that he likes the climate here much better than he does around Oakland. He seems to think that if he could secure a place on one of these deserts either north, south or west of us, that it would be an ideal place for that business.
    George Trusty, who has been in a hospital in Ashland for some time, was with us Tuesday for dinner.
    Word came over the phone this (Wednesday) morning that Benj. Fredenburg, while out riding, found Gus Nichols of Lake Creek lying on the ground where his horse had either thrown him or had stumbled and caused him to fall off, in a semi-conscious state, near his place just below Butte Falls, and took him to his home. How badly he was hurt his parents did not seem to know, as all that they knew about it was the message over the phone.
    Audley Meyer, son of Henry A. Meyer, of Lake Creek, came in this Wednesday morning on the Harnish jitney. He has received his discharge from the army at Camp Lewis and was met by his parents here.
    Several of our citizens claim that they heard, and some say that they saw the flying machine as it passed over here about 11 o'clock this morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 13, 1918, page 4


    Rev. J. Stille preached Sunday after Sunday school.
    Mr. Merritt continues about the same.
    Frank Caster has recovered from a severe case of tonsillitis.
    San Courtney and wife have moved on their homestead,
    W. H. Crandall and family took dinner at Mr. J. L. Robertson's Sunday.
    Miss Marguerite Hammond also spent Sunday afternoon and evening at Mr. Robertson's.
    Mrs. H. Watkins spent Thursday night in Medford.
    The rain Sunday night caused the water to rise in Reese Creek.
    Miss Gladys Natwick arrived home last week.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 14, 1918, page 3


    It is to be hoped that the E.P.-Persist mail will be carried a little more regularly than what it has been for the past few weeks, as the postmaster has notified the bondsmen on Mr. Winningham's bond that they would have to attend to the matter, as Mr. Winningham has been sick himself and his family with the flu, although Mr. W. told me this Saturday morning that he had recovered from the flu but was still troubled with the pleurisy, but otherwise was feeling fine, and seemed to think he would be able to resume his work on the route.
    As long as I am on the subject of reporting sick cases I will say that Prof. E. N. Deardorff and wife have been confined to the house with appendicitis, but at last accounts were improving.
    Speaking of the flu, Dr. Holt, our local M.D., informed me this morning that there had been 22 cases of the flu in Eagle Point and 32 cases in Butte Falls and so far as Eagle Point is concerned there was not a case in our town but what it had been brought into the family from outside the town and that the patients were all convalescing. We have had no deaths from the disease at all and about all of the patients are up and around.
    The P.&E. arrived Thursday morning on time and had quite a number of passengers. Mrs. Jack Zimmerlee, the hostess of the Farmers' Hotel, took passage for Butte Falls and Mrs. Dick Diamond, wife of one of the railroad officials, came out and took dinner with Mrs. Howlett.
    Mr. John Thompson of Climax, having sold off his sheep, was in town Thursday to engage a car to take his household goods and some of his other stock to Douglas County, and since then has been getting his car loaded ready to start this Saturday afternoon.
    The many friends of Mrs. Dr. Holt were glad to see her on our streets again Thursday, with her two daughters.
    Miss Ella Belford took passage on the Lewis jitney Thursday morning for Medford.
    W. H. Crandall was a business caller Thursday.
    Mr. A. J. Howd--not Howard--of Oakland, Ore., returned to the Sunnyside Thursday night. He has been up both sides of the Rogue River looking for a place where he can open up a turkey ranch, and has decided on a place known as the Smith ranch, provided he can make the deal for it. In the meantime he has bought up two different lots of turkeys, getting ready for business. He has been in that business in Douglas County and when asked what he would do with his turkeys he had bought, in case he didn't secure a suitable place for his business, he said that he would ship them to Oakland, where he has been in that business when he came down here.
    C. H. Pierce, the florist, formerly of Medford, but now situated on a farm northeast of here a few miles, was in town Friday and so was Joe Riley and Joe Sickel.
    Since the word has gone out that the flu was in Eagle Point almost everyone who can, stays away from town, and when they do come they hurry up to get through with their business and leave as soon as possible.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Davis of Klamath Falls came out Friday evening on the Lewis jitney and spent the night with us and have been spending the day looking at some of the places around here that are for sale or rent.
    Nick Young was a caller on our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, Saturday.
    R. G. Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons returned from Portland Friday night and reports the hog market improving.
    Chris Edler of Lake Creek was a diner at the Sunnyside Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 16, 1918, page 3


    The ladies of our Red Cross Society have finished up the work that was assigned them by the county committee and sent the result of their labor to Medford by Mrs. B. F. Fuller, but they have been furnished with a new supply of material and with their usual goitaheaditiveness are getting a lot of underclothing ready for the use of our boys in the service. There is quite a number of our women who have taken the matter up and are determined that so far as they can the good work will go along.
    Mrs. Roy Whitley of Elk Creek (Trail), came in Sunday morning and spent the night with us. She has been attending the business college in Medford but when the flu broke out with such violence and the schools were stopped she went home. Her husband was called into the service of his country and she decided that while he was gone she would prepare herself for a business life. She took the Harnish mail car for Medford Monday morning.
    William von der Hellen, one of our prominent business men and one of our hardware merchants, went to Portland to consult a specialist with regard to his mastoid. The reader will remember that some weeks ago he went to Portland and was in a hospital there for quite a while but recovered so as to return and resume his business in the store, but after hoping for some weeks more that he would get entirely over his trouble he decided to visit his specialist again but when he consulted him was told that it was not necessary for him to remain as he could be treated at home, so he returned Sunday morning, having been met at the Southern Pacific depot by his wife and two children. They all took dinner at the Sunnyside Sunday noon.
    The prospect of having the mail carried from here to Persist is looking a little brighter, for Monday morning there were two young men arrived at the post office to carry the mail; the first one was a boy giving his name as Rolly Hughes of Medford; he said that he was sixteen years of age, and the other came out on the Harnish jitney that morning and gave his name as C. W. Daw. It appears that one of the bondsmen had employed one of them and the contractor the other. However the Hughes boy took the mail and Daw went back to Medford.
    In addition to Mr. Daw, Mr. Harnish had Prof. R. E. Morris and Mr. J. M. Vaughn, who were both on the way to Trail. Prof. Morris, being one of the school supervisors, was out visiting the schools and Mr. Vaughn was going to visit his son near Trail.
    The many friends of Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, who has been confined to his house for about a week with the flu, are glad to see him at his old stand again and he reports that his wife and son are both fully recovered. His mother, Mrs. John Ashpole, who has been caring for the family, returned home Monday morning.
    Jack Hickson reports that the concrete work on the Bishop and Stowell water ditch is about completed and that the flume work will soon be completed and the water turned in.
    Robert Neil of Lake Creek spent Monday night with us. He says that he has leased his farm to Thomas F. Nichols for a period of three years and thinks that he will go to the coast to spend next summer.
    E. G. Starr and V. V. Hedgepeth of Ashland were here for dinner Tuesday and so was Chris Beale of Butte Falls.
    Among the business callers on our merchants Tuesday were C. E. Bellows and wife, Mrs. Samuel Courtney, Mrs. W. T. Hammel, Henry French, Perry Foster, Herman Meyer Jr., who brought out a four-horse load of manganese from L.C. Charley's; Alvin Conover and wife, Walter Wood, W. H. Crandall and A. J. Howd.
    Mr. Howd has secured the old Dave Smith place for a turkey ranch and was here buying wire fencing to use in the turkey business. He said that he had already sent out a truckload of turkeys to start with.
    The flu is about all over in our town, as there are no new cases reported and those who had it are getting well.
    I was talking with Mrs. R. G. Brown, one of the school directors, and she said that our school will not open until after the holidays.
    The many friends of the Clements family are glad to see the portly figure of the head of the family among us again. He entered the service a few months ago and was ordered to Camp Pike, Ark., and just returned this Wednesday morning. He says that while in camp he read the Eagle Point Eaglets regularly, so your Eagle Point correspondent is adding to the satisfaction of some of our boys in the service.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 19, 1918, page 7


    W. H. Crandall called me up on the telephone Thursday and announced that Mrs. J. T. Carpenter passed away Dec. 16, 1918, at their home, 2043 Monroe Street, Princeton, Ind. The deceased was the wife of J. T. Carpenter, who came out here a few years ago to look after the estate of his brother, Judge Carpenter, an orchard lying alongside of that of Mr. Crandall. Mr. Carpenter roomed for several months with us and in order to enjoy better church privileges they moved to Medford where they, especially Mr. Carpenter, were very active in church work in the Christian church. They will be remembered by a host of warm friends here as well as in Medford. We deeply sympathize with the bereaved husband and children who remain on earth. But we sorrow not as those who have no hope.
    The train came in on time Thursday morning and had on a few passenger, among whom was H. D. Mills, the mayor of Butte Falls and superintendent of the Butte Falls Lumber Company, and a man who was on his way to Derby. He was looking for a good place to trap for coyotes in particular, although he traps for almost anything in the fur-bearing kind of animals. There were a few more passengers on the car but as I had no mask and some of them did I stayed out of the car.
    A. M. Gay and County Surveyor Rhodes were among the business callers Thursday.
    A. J. Howd, the turkey man, was here for dinner Thursday on his way to Medford to secure more turkeys. He reported that he had secured forty-nine turkey hens and three gobblers and today, Saturday, came out on the train with enough to make up the number he wanted, 60 hens and four gobblers. He has been paying 35 cents a pound, live weight. He is keeping them at present on the Graham place and Mr. Joy, the present incumbent, is helping him to care for them until he can get his place properly arranged. He is going to make an enclosure of chicken wire fence large enough to keep the whole flock and keep them there until they lay their eggs and hatch their young. Sometime I will tell the readers of the Mail Tribune how he manages to keep the coyotes from catching them.
    Mrs. W. L. Childreth and Miss Hazel Brown were out on a drive for the Red Cross Thursday and report that they succeeded quite well. The lady members of the society spent the entire day in their sewing room over Geo. Brown & Sons' store. While Mrs. Childreth and Miss Brown were driving for the cash the other ladies were driving the needles making garments for the boys in the hospitals.
    C. C. Gilchrist and W. S. Green of Sams Valley were here Thursday for dinner.
   Among the callers seen on the street and in the business places Thursday Mrs. Wm. Holman, Amos Ayres, formerly our depot agent, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gibson, Chris Bergman, Pete Stowell, John Howard and William H. Mansfield of Prospect, who came out with a team and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    A. S. Bliton and Leonard Brown and E. C. Hamilton also took dinner at the Sunnyside. Mr. Bliton was reading the meters in our town and Mr. Brown was acting as chauffeur for him, as Mr. Bliton was not strong enough to crank his Ford since his sickness and accident.
    Word came in.from the manganese mine that a man by the name of John Foss, who has been working with Chris Natwick for some time on the roads, had passed away, a victim of the flu. It seems that he was getting along all right but exposed himself too much.
    Another death is reported in Butte Falls, George Richardson, another victim of the flu. I understand that he leaves a wife and five or six children.
    Mr. Dunlap, formerly of Derby but now of Butte Falls, spent Friday night at the Sunnyside. He reports that they have a new man as head sawyer at the Butte Falls mill and another new man as timber foreman, and that since the changes have been made the mill has been running regularly.
    Ed Welch, one of the mill men in the new mill in Medford, was here for dinner Saturday. He came out to load a large boiler on a car to be taken to Medford to be put in the Tomlin mill. Mr. A. J. Howd came in on the train Saturday morning and took a crate of turkeys out to his ranch. He and Ezra Whitley were diners at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Nygren, her son Frank and daughter Miss Anna were transacting business with our merchants Saturday and report that Mrs. Nygren's son Eric had just come in from Ft. McArthur, having received his discharge from the army.
    Herman Meyer Sr., and wife, Mrs. Henry Smith, Henry French and R. Gardner of Lake Creek were also here. He brought in two large boxes of turkeys for shipment.
    Miss Grace Natwick and Cleary Cameron came out on the train from Derby Saturday.
    Everybody seems to be getting ready to enjoy the coming Christmas and we wish each reader of the Eaglets a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 24, 1918, page 3


    Katie Warner was a Sunday guest at her sister's, Mrs. R. R. Dawson.
    We are glad to say there is as yet no flu cases around Trail.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. Hughes of Roseburg are visiting the latter's sister, Mrs. Watson, and family near Trail during the holidays.
    T. C. Gaines is hauling hay while the weather is good and cold.
    Paul Wright made a trip to the cinnabar mine at Trail for samples this week, and was greatly pleased with the same.
    Trail Sunday school gave a small entertainment Sunday after Sunday school and it was a great success. Sunday school will be discontinued for a short time.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 26, 1918, page 3


    Dr. W. P. Holt reports that the stork has visited the family of Mr. and Mrs. Henson of Brownsboro, Dec. 21, and the result is an increase in the family of a fine boy weighing a little over ten pounds.
    Dick Bessie, who started in to carry the mail to Persist from here, and fell and hurt his hip so as to be confined to his chair for ten days, at the Ash Hotel at Trail, has so far recovered as to be able to be on our streets again and came in Saturday evening to his room at the Sunnyside. Ezra Whitley, who came in Saturday, remained with us until Monday morning, taking the Eagle Point-Persist stage for his home near the Persist post office.
    John Winningham called Sunday afternoon to see Mr. Bessie to try to arrange to have him help about carrying the mail from here to Trail. The route is a hard one to carry the way they have the schedule arranged; that is, to start from here after the mail arrives from Medford, schedule time 9:45, but train days it is often behind time and the postmaster can hold him until 10:30 a.m. and then he has to go uphill almost all of the way for about thirty-three miles, and a large part of the road is very bad in the winter. The result is that it is often 9 o'clock p.m. before he reaches his destination.
    A man who gave his name as Edmonds of Butte Falls came in Monday afternoon and called for dinner. He had started from his home the day before and when he came to the sticky road between the Keene Creek school house and the Ayres place he ran into a mud hole and caught his machine on two oak grub stumps, tearing it so that he had to go to Mr. R. R. Minter's for help and the result was that he didn't reach here until after dinner time and he appeared almost frozen. He had just gotten up from an attack of the flu and was in no condition to be exposed or be out on such a day as Monday was, freezing cold and foggy. But after a good warm dinner and sitting by a good fire he seemed to be ready to proceed on his journey. He was going to Medford to meet his son, who was on his way home from Camp Lewis.
    When Bob Harnish, the mail carrier on the route between here and Medford, reached the Medford post office Monday morning someone in the office offered to bet him a dollar that he could not get all of the mail on his Ford and the result was that he was a very few minutes behind his usual time but he got to our post office with all the mail. He had his Ford packed full to the top and all that he could lash on both running boards. There never has been such a load of mail matter brought to this post office before and the result was that the two-horse stage and the two auto stages were loaded down to capacity.
    Tuesday morning there were two auto loads of people came out from Medford and among them was Miss Gladys Natwick, Gladys Phipps and her sister, Miss Phipps, who stopped off here to take the train for the Natwick farm.
    Mrs. Garrett, her little son Marvin and her sister, Miss Ella McCabe, came out on the train Tuesday from Medford to go out to the McCabe farm to spend Christmas with their father.
    S. S. Aiken of Prospect came in from Salem where he has been spending a few weeks with friends. Rev. and Mrs. Brittsan of Medford were on their way to take Christmas dinner with their two sons who are on the P. S. Anderson ranch on Rogue River; Carl Jackson, son of our townspeople, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jackson, who is in the U.S. navy and came home on a furlough. He was met at the depot by his parents but went right on up to Butte Falls. Ray Parker, another one of the soldier boys, son of W. W. Parker of Butte Falls, was also on the train on a furlough. Also Andrew Edler, who has been discharged and went on up to Lake Creek on the stage. Jed Edsall also came in on the P.&E. from Dunsmuir, Cal., where he had been on business.
    Among the business callers was Wm. Butler, Sr., and his son William Jr., Alvin Conover, W. D. Roberts, John Greb, C. E. Bellows and quite a number of persons unknown to me.
    Christmas Day broke upon us, one of the most lovely mornings in the history of Christmas Days. The fog of the previous day had disappeared and the air was crisp and cold, 23 degrees above zero, and everything seemed to combine to make us feel thankful for the day and the coming of the one in whose memory we commemorate it, and from what I can learn the day was properly observed in the usual manner: good dinners and the usual greetings.
    Just about the time that we were thinking about our dinner Mr. Walker and another man of Medford drove up with a car and had as passengers Marshall Minter and one of Mr. S. S. Aiken's sons who came into Medford the night before and had come out to take his father back to Medford. So they started to get back to Medford "to eat turkey dinner" as Mr. Walker expressed it, and Marshall Minter started for his father's to surprise them but Judge Tou Velle and wife were here and seemed to not only enjoy their dinner but enjoy the surroundings.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 27, 1918, page 5


    The last time that I wrote was Christmas Day, and afterward I learned that Fred McPherson had a united family reunion of his father-in-law's people on Christmas Eve and also had a Christmas tree for the benefit of the little folks. They had almost all of the T. E. Nichols family, his father-in-law's family connections and some of the neighbors remarked that they appeared to have a royal good time.
    R. R. Minter, one of our progressive farmers, gave a Christmas dinner and a family reunion. He also invited in a few of his special friends among whom was Prof. E. N. Deardorff and family. He had all of the family together except one daughter, Miss Diehless, who was in Portland and could not be present, but among the most welcome of all was his son Marshall who had been discharged from the service as artilleryman. He walked in unannounced and the rejoicing was almost unbounded.
    J. V. McIntyre, our banker, and wife were invited to dine Christmas Day with our postmaster and wife, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements. The Brown family had a family reunion the same day and about all the members of the family were present. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holmes and a part of their children, S. B. Holmes and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Brown, Mrs. Cora O'Brien and daughter, Miss Allison Officer, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Carlton. The dinner was served at the home of Royal G. Brown and counting Mr. and Mrs. Brown and daughter Miss Hazel, made just eighteen. They had two tables spread and just nine at each table. It was one of those pleasant family reunions such as the good people can have out here in Eagle Point.
    Another joyful reunion was in the family of Mr. Geppert of Butte Falls. His son Horace came in on the P.&E. Thursday morning and he phoned to his sister Urzula who works in the telephone office here telling of his arrival and that he was on his way up to their home. In the afternoon Miss Urzula procured a saddle horse from E. H. Harnish and started for her home and about the time she should have reached home the Sunnyside began to inquire as to her arrival, but no word came, but later we began to think that perhaps she had got on the wrong road on the north side of the Obenchain Mountain as though [the] side of the mountain has been partially logged off and there are several log roads leading to the loading stations on the P.&E., but our minds were soon set at rest when she called up and said she had arrived safe at home, but that the ground was frozen so hard and was so slippery that she had to get off of the horse and walk down, thus retarding her movements. The only sad feature in the incident is the fact that her brother Horace can stay only five days, as he is off on eight days furlough and must start back Tuesday.
    Another joyful incident was the arrival of Elmer Robinson from Camp Lewis at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Robinson. Another arrival was that of Thomas Vestal, but his discharge and arrival home was the sad news of the death of his brother Roy who was a victim of the flu in Portland, whose remains were shipped to Central Point and the funeral was to be today, Saturday, Dec. 28, It was arranged that I was to have gone to the Central Point cemetery and officiate at the burial but the snowstorm this morning caused me to change my mind as I begin to realize that l am at that age when I must take care of myself as I am now in my eighty-seventh year.
    There are some other families who have been made happy by the arrival of their sons from the army and navy, and some whose hearts are saddened by the sad news of deaths, wounds and disease. Our sympathies are for such and for those also who are in suspense over the thought that they can get no word from the loved ones over there.
    Ed Walker was a passenger on the P.&E. Thursday for Medford to see about rounding up another crew for his logging camp four miles this side of Butte Falls and he went back to his home Saturday and there were about twenty-five men with him and I suppose that at least part of them were for his camp. D. H. Mills, the superintendent of the Butte Falls Milling Company, was also among them.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Murphy of Wellen were transacting business here Thursday.
    If there are no more cases of the flu in our town our school will open again on Monday, Jan. 6th, 1919.
    P. F. Swaine and R. D. Hinx of Jacksonville were diners st the Sunnyside and J. P. Goin of Newport came in and called for a room for a few days. He is in the agate business and has been spending his time looking over our vast agate fields, and seems to be meeting with considerable success.
    I have just learned that Owen Conover has come home from the army. Miss Mina Minter spent Friday night at the home of Prof. E. N. Deardorff with her sister, Miss Myrtle, who is staying with the Deardorff family and attending school.
    Joe Rader and wife were here Friday visiting his niece, Mrs. Roy Ashpole.
    John Rader, one of our leading stockmen, was a business caller Friday.
    W. D. Roberts, one of our successful farmers, had a Christmas dinner Wednesday, I have just learned.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 31, 1918, page 5


    Mrs. Bellows visited Mrs. Graham one day last week.
    Mrs. Wilbur Jacks and children visited at Mr. Bellows' last Thursday night.
    Mrs. Wilbur Jacks and children spent the weekend at Mr. Crandall's. Mr. Jacks is in Portland working at the shipyards.
    Sam Courtney has been painting a new sign for T. E. Nichols of Eagle Point.
    Mr. Lewis has moved his sheep out on the desert for a short time.
    The directors of Reese Creek [school] met one day last week and put up a swing on the school grounds, to be enjoyed by the pupils.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 31, 1918, page 5


    Miss Katie Warner gave a Christmas party at her home Christmas night. Those present were: Misses Minnie Poole, Eula and Lucy Foeller, Nellie Dawson, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe, Howard Ash, Lewis Thomason, Charlie Foeller, Denzil Middlebusher, John and Charlie Cushman, and D. Rummel. The evening was pleasantly spent in games and music; after a Christmas supper all departed for their homes.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wash. Hughes returned to their home in Roseburg Saturday after a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. R. Watson.
    W. W. Willits had the misfortune to hurt his thumb quite badly last week while leading a steer.
    John Winningham has recovered sufficiently to resume his work as mail carrier between Eagle Point and Persist.
    Mrs. W. G. McDonald and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson entertained for Christmas dinner and supper in the former's home. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Heffner and family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blaess, Mr. and Mrs. Todd, Mr. and Mrs. J. McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson and son Keva, Mrs. W. McDonald and little daughter Gladys, and Miss Mabel Everhart. The evening was spent in a short program and games.
    Miss Ella Adamson spent a few days last week with Mrs. Charles Blaess.
    The party at W. Cushman's was well attended, and greatly enjoyed by all present.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1919, page 3


    Died--Roy Vestal, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Vestal, of Reese Creek; died in Portland last week of the influenza. The remains were shipped to Medford, and were interred in the Central Point cemetery. The family have the sympathy of all their friends.
    Jim Vestal arrived Monday from Portland.
    Marshall Minter has received his discharge and is home from the army.
    Elmer Robertson, Tom Vestal and Owen Conover were among the boys who came home on a furlough for the Christmas holidays.
    Paul Robertson while running stepped on a rail and sprained his foot quite badly.
    Myrtle Minter met with quite an accident. She fell and hurt her arm, but is getting along all right.
    The Sunday school had its semiannual election of officers Sunday, and also took a collection for the sufferers in Palestine and Eastern Asia.
    Miss Marguerite Hammond, our school teacher, returned after a week's holiday visiting her parents in Ashland, and has resumed her duties in the school room.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1919, page 4


    S. B. Holmes, who has been working in the sheriff's office for the past two or three weeks, finishing up the business of the present incumbent and getting the books and business ready to be turned over to his successor, finished up the job last Saturday evening and is again a resident of our town, but we do not know how long it will be before he will again be called upon to enter in an official capacity upon the duties of another office, for it is reported that he is to be a deputy in the county clerk's office. So far as his qualifications is concerned there are perhaps few men in the county better qualified to attend to the clerical part of the business than our townsman S. B. Holmes.
    Miss Margaret Hammon and Miss Helen Moore came out on the Harnish auto stage Saturday evening. The former was met at the post office by Hamilton Watkins and taken to his home. She is engaged as a teacher in the Reese Creek school and expected to commence her school again on last Monday, Dec. 30th, and Miss Helen Moore was here on a visit to the Harnish and Fred Dutton families. She has been attending school in San Jose, Cal. She taught last season in one of the districts above here on Little Butte but is now taking the necessary courses to prepare herself for positions in the higher educational departments. She returned to Ashland, her home, Tuesday evening and goes from there direct to San Jose again to assume her studies next Monday.
    Fred Pearce, a brother of our townsman Floyd Pearce, came in to visit his brother last Thursday. He had just come from Camp Lewis.
    Andrew and Fred Edler of Lake Creek, who were home on furlough, started back to their posts on the Lewis jitney Monday morning. C. H. Natwick was also a passenger to Medford Monday morning.
    James Vestal, another one of our soldier boys, came in Monday morning on the Harnish mail auto and started immediately for his father's on the Moomaw stage. He entered the service from the O.A.C. expecting to go to France, but after he had enlisted and the officers learned that he was a military student they put him in a school as an instructor, and in telling me of his experiences in that line he remarked, "That is what one gets by letting them know that you know something." He is one of our country-raised boys, but had his mind set on an education and after passing the eight grade in the Reese Creek school went to Central Point High School until he finished his high school course, then went to Corvallis. He is what we may call a self-made man for he has worked his way up, working during the vacations to pay the expense, and is still climbing. He has set a noble example for his boyhood associates.
    George Stowell was a business caller Monday.
    Ed Meyer and wife of Lake Creek were in town Tuesday morning on a business tour.
    Among the passengers Tuesday morning on the P.&E. was Miss Gladys Natwick, of this neighborhood, Mrs. F. D. Hill of Derby, Miss Bernice Hargrave of Medford, B. F. Frankson of Oregon City, Floyd Fick of Grants Pass, and William Bless.
    George Sanders, the superintendent of the Commercial Orchard, came in Monday evening and spent the night with us.
    Died, Dec. 30, 1918, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Tucker in Brownsboro, Mrs. Elizabeth Clemens, aged 84 years, two months and 16 days. She leaves to mourn her loss one daughter and three grandchildren. She was stricken with apoplexy some time ago and rendered helpless and quietly passed away on Monday last. She was born in the state of Pennsylvania, Oct. 14, 1834, moved from there to Iowa with her parents and came to Jackson County, [and] settled in Brownsboro in 1899. She was highly respected by her neighbors and took quite an interest in the Sunday school work. She professed religion when quite young and joined the Baptist Church and lived a consistent Christian life and died a peaceful death. The funeral services were conducted at the grave in Brownsboro cemetery by your Eagle Point correspondent. There were quite number of her neighbors who attended the funeral Tuesday afternoon.
    Wm. von der Hellen has purchased what is known as the old Cromer place on Reese Creek and is starting to fence it, having sent out a load of wire fencing this Wednesday morning.
    John Winningham started in Monday to try to carry the mail again. He was to take it from Trail to Persist and Dick Bessie to take it from Eagle Point to Trail, but it so happened that Dick went with him up to Persist and John was taken sick at the "Mathews cabin" where they had to spend the night and Dick said that they had nothing to eat from the time they left Trail until they got back, twenty-four hours, and that he, Dick, was up all night without sleep. He had to leave Mr. Winningham at Trail as he was not able to ride home. They sure have a time with the mail on that route.
    Our New Year 1919 came in as a gentle lamb, clear, cold and gentle and found us surrounded by all the blessings of life and reminds us that through a kind Divine Providence we have been permitted to enjoy the blessings of another year while millions of our brothers and sisters have been counted among the dead, and if we could but realize the debt of gratitude we owe to Him who cares for us we would be ready to offer our profound thanks to the giver of all good for His kind watch over us. Pardon this digression.
    Among the guests this New Year's Day we had Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and son Hugo.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 6, 1919, page 4


    Mr. E. L. Martin, one of the force on the A. Corbin orchard, was a business caller Tuesday morning. Later in the forenoon Mrs. Charles Nichols, whose husband is the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard, brought in her produce to George Brown & Sons, to exchange for goods.
    John H. Daley of Merlin was here Thursday looking after his landed interests.
    The Pacific & Eastern railway train was some hours behind time Thursday morning, in fact did not reach here until 1:30 p.m. and fears were entertained that it had met with another mishap, but on inquiry as to the cause of delay it was learned that that morning it was the intention of the management to make the same with the little gasoline motor, but later a change was made in the plans and the regular No. 5 was brought into use. After your correspondent and some others had waited there until almost 12 o'clock, noon, we that is the waiting company, decided to take the desperate chance of missing the train and go to dinner, but if the unprintable language that was used there that cold frosty morning had been heard by those responsible for the delay, it might have shocked their nerves--threats of boycotting the railroad and putting on a two-ton truck to do the work of freighting for our city and putting on another jitney making three, to do the passenger business and turn all of the mail business over to Sam Harnish, the present mail carrier--in fact, simply put the P.&E. out of business. Why, it made me feel blue to think of what a calamity it might bring onto, not only this community, but Butte Falls as well, and then all that vast tract of timber to be left until the Oregon Trunk Line railroad could be extended to Butte Falls to carry all of that lumber to market, but I guess that the P.&E. will run the rest of the winter at any rate, as it came in on time the next trip and the company is planning to do quite a lot of logging and hauling this season yet.
    R. R. Cleveland, who is living on the Hoagland place near Brownsboro, came in Thursday noon with a load of baled hay, taking it to the ranch. He stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner on his way home.
    G. A. Finnsom of Brownsboro was doing business here Thursday.
    Sam Vestal and his son, Sergeant James Vestal, were her for dinner Thursday, and James went on to Medford to take the train for Portland to accept a business position there. Chris Beale was also among the guests at the Sunnyside Thursday noon.
    The question of enforcing the stock law in our little city is assuming great proportions. The city dads have ordered the old pound torn down and rebuilt, taking it away from the Farmers' Hotel barn and putting it between the grist mill and the mill warehouse; then stock taken up can have water and the town is to put up a shed to protect the stock from the storms and feed will be kept to supply all needs, and our miller, George Brandon, will act as poundmaster and marshal and woe be to the animal that ventures inside the corporate limits of our city.
    Jerry Lewis, the young man I spoke of in the latter part of the summer as being here on a furlough and getting his ankle broke, is on our streets again. He has obtained his discharge from the army and went to Jacksonville to visit his sister, Mrs. Chauncey Florey, wife of county clerk-elect, and while there was taken with the flu and confined to his bed several days.
    Dave Pence and Mrs. Adamson of Trail were doing business here Friday and so was Walter Allen, son of one of the prominent stockmen of Derby. He was out cow hunting.
    William Perry, one of our prominent business men and farmers, and wife were among us Friday; also C. L. Beltz, Benjamin Brophy, Antioch stockman, Mr. Egenbury, Nick and Peter Young, Miss Sarah Singleton also were doing business with our merchants.
    Fred Pelouze, one of our prosperous farmers and dairymen, was here Friday.
    Miss Ella Belford was among the guests at the Sunnyside Friday.
    A man by the name of Welch came in Friday evening and spent the night. He is engaged in hauling lumber from the P.&E. depot for the Rogue River Canal Company, to repair the flume across Lake Creek.
    Mis Vivian Jones of this city, who has been on the sick list for some time in a hospital in Medford, came home Saturday on the P.&E. Corbett Smith, a discharged soldier, was on the train on his way home three miles west of Butte Falls. There was quite a number of passengers on the train, but about all strangers to me.
    Fred Stanley has been busy riding after his stock, and F. J. Ayres and wife are stopping on the farm with Mrs. Stanley, doing the work.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1919, page 4


    Mrs. Ed Pence, formerly of Trail, but now of Central Point, is here visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Knighten.
    Ivan and Charles Hockersmith, two brothers, of Beagle, came in Saturday night and spent the night with us. They were on the track of a cow that had strayed away, but fortunately heard of her at W. E. Butler's just above town.
    Miss Amy Leavitt of Ashland came in Saturday evening on the Lewis jitney and engaged a room at the Sunnyside. She came to fill a vacancy in our board of teachers, caused by the sickness of our primary teacher, Miss Pina Benedict, who has had an attack of the flu, but I am glad to say is rapidly recovering and expects to resume her duties in our school in a short time. Miss Leavitt is a young teacher, but seem to take right hold of the work like a veteran, and is making a favorable impression, and with more experience bids fair to become an instructor of renown.
    Our Sunday school was opened again last Sunday morning, January 5, with a fairly good attendance, especially as it was not generally known that the school was to be opened at the time. It is the calculation to continue right along unless the flu breaks out again, although the word came in Tuesday that there was another family, Mr. Swift's, that had three cases of the disease, and if that is the case the probabilities are that school will be closed again, but we are living in hopes that the report may prove false.
    Our school reopened Monday morning with Prof. E. N. Deardorff principal and Miss Lansing, our intermediate teacher, in attendance and as already stated, Miss Amy Leavitt as primary teacher, with an addition of five names to the roll, although there were a few who have been attending who have not started yet, among whom are the Swift children referred to above as being sick with the flu, and we are greatly in hopes that our school may continue right along, for the children are not only losing advantage of the school but their school funds are being paid out to the teachers and janitor and the children are deriving no benefit from it.
    While on the subject of education and Sunday schools, [I] will announce that the Christian Endeavor Society will resume their work next Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. and a full attendance is desired.
    Marshall Minter and his brother-in-law, Sam Courtney, came in Monday and while here Mr. Minter gave me his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune and Saturday Mrs. Elsey Robertson, wife of John L. Robertson, gave me her subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. I have already announced that I am not in the business of soliciting or collecting for the Mail Tribune company, but from force of habit will once in a while break over and send in a subscription for accommodation, although I have refused four different offers of renewals and subscriptions since I was notified that all of the business is to be done direct with the office in Medford.
    On Monday Merle Willits, another one of our soldier boys, came in on the S. H. Harnish jitney and went direct home on the E.P.-Persist stage; thus the hearts of the friends are made to rejoice over the fact that the war is over and the boys are free again to go where they please.
    The Rogue River Canal Company have put on another team to haul the lumber from the P.&E. depot to Lake Creek. A man by the name of Baker, who is driving the extra team, came in Monday night and took a room at the Sunnyside.
    Charles P. Mayhew, representing the Fisher flour mills of Seattle, Wash., and Mr. Raymond Reter of Medford were here on Monday for dinner. Mrs. Reter also came out but instead of coming to the Sunnyside, spent the time visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey.
    Chris Bergman and wife were in town Monday arranging to have their Liberty bonds recorded. He said that they would have to be sent to Washington, D.C., to be registered.
    Joseph Geppert of Butte Falls, one of the sawlog contractors, came out Tuesday on the P.&E. and spent the night at the Sunnyside and went to Medford, intending to return this Wednesday afternoon. Said that he did not intend to spend the night in Medford, for fear of the flu.
    Monday night your correspondent, who is almost universally so healthy, was taken with something like cholera morbus, so was off his feed Tuesday and today and the result is but little to report for the two days, but am able to write a few Eaglets this afternoon and expect that by Saturday to be able to report as usual.
    J. W. Snider of Medford, and a man who is working for him by the name of Hiltrey, came in for dinner Tuesday and so did J. J. Skinner, who is in the employ of the C.&O. Power and Light Company.
    Charles J. Brommer of Medford, who owns and operates a farm near the P.&E. railroad tract this side of Medford, and V. C. Brock, of Spokane, Wash., appraiser for the federal land bank of Spokane, were here for dinner today.
    L. (Buster) McClelland, one of our regular boarders, who went to Climax, the last of last week, returned Wednesday in good health and fine spirits.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1919, page 5


    During the cold snap Frank Lewis, our confectionery man, has been taking advantage of the weather and put up a nice lot of ice for future use. He has put up enough to supply the house with that needed article during most of the summer if not for the whole season. One advantage he has over the manufactured ice is that it is solid all through and an average of about five and a half inches in thickness, and the water is absolutely pure and healthy. W. E. Butler, who has a fine farm about two [omission] put up a quantity of ice for family use.
    The reader will bear in mind that I have been on the list of those who do not feel exactly normal so far as health is concerned, not exactly sick but a little unwell for the past few days, as announced in my last, but the letter has not been published as yet, Saturday afternoon, so that I am not able to chronicle the events as they occurred Thursday and Friday, although on Saturday morning I ventured out as far as the P.&E. depot and there saw quite a number of passengers, among whom was Miss J. F. Carson of Butte Falls, who had been visiting Mrs. J. B. Jackson. She was taking passage for her home. Also Floyd Stanley, he also was on his way to his home near Butte Falls, and several others, most of whom I did not recognize.
    Horace Geppert, on of our soldier boys, came in from Camp Lewis on a furlough Friday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside, taking the P.&E. train for his home Saturday. He expects to be discharged from the service about the first of the coming month.
    Alex Betz called for dinner Friday.
    Among the business callers Saturday morning was L. K. Haak, one of our prosperous farmers. M. H. Simons, the superintendent of the A. Corbin orchard, he says that he has the entire orchard plowed up--the reader will perhaps remember that I made mention of what a time they were having early in the season plowing, on account of the alfalfa roots in that sticky, for the land is genuine sticky and that is one reason why they always raise a good crop of fruit--but they succeeded in plowing the soil good and deep and now the men are pruning the orchard and are having a time of it since the freeze and partial thaw. But they will succeed in that as they did in the plowing of the land.
    E. L. Martin, one of the force on the A. Corbin orchard, was also a caller Saturday morning.
    Jack O'Connor of Talent, and W. E. Hammel were among the diners at Sunnyside hotel Saturday noon.
    Miss Amy Leavitt, who has been teaching in the primary department of our school during the past week, in the place of our regular teacher, Miss Tina Benedict, finished her work Friday evening and took passage on the Lewis jitney this morning for her home in Ashland.
    Among the business callers this afternoon was Amos Ayres and his mother, Mrs. F. J. Ayres, J. C. Arnes, foreman on the Edgell orchard, Raleigh Mathews and his cousin Earl Mathews, Miss Ethel Winkle and her aunt, Mrs. Ed Winkle and their uncle, Ki Mathews of Winston, N. Dak., formerly of this place. He was one of my pupils in what is now the Eagle Point school in 1867, having been raised in this neighborhood, being a son of the late John Mathews, one of the early pioneers of this country. He was the successful rider in the race to get the news of the execution of Captain Jack at Fort Klamath at the close of the Modoc War. He rode for J. S. Howard to secure the prize of $500 to get the news to the telegraph office in Jacksonville. He rode against Curly Webb, Wes Manning and another man, they changing horses and riders. They had nine horses to use stationed along the route, while Ki had only four, making the trip from Fort Klamath to Jacksonville in five hours and thirty minutes. He rode over what is known as the Wild Cat Hill route, just north of Mt. Pitt, while the others come the wagon road by Rogue River, making the run in six hours. There was the most intense excitement along the entire route and bets were made as to the result. He is here visiting his two brothers, Green and Grant Mathews and other relatives, the Johnsons--Rube and Frank. He expects to return to his home in North Dakota in a short time.
    C. J. Kafer and Lloyd Tucker of Brownsboro were also business callers this Saturday afternoon, and so were William Haselton, P. S. Anderson of Medford, and his son E. W. Anderson of Portland, were callers today, also Earl Brittsan. Mr. Brittsan and his brother Bert are tending Mr. Anderson's farm on Rogue River about six miles above here. Sherman Wooley and wife were also trading with our merchants today.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Baker and George Walch, who have been stopping here while hauling lumber for the Rogue River Canal Company, were called home to the R.R.C. Co. ranch this morning on account of the condition of the roads after the thaw, but I see that Dee Bradshaw is still hauling lumber for Mike Hanley.
    Since my last Mrs. N. E. Watkins has handed me the money to renew her subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 14, 1919, page 5


    Last Saturday evening Orville Childreth came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside Hotel.
    Mr. and Mrs. William Perry were among the guests at the Sunnyside Sunday, and about noon J. V. McIntyre, our banker, came in and remarked that the kid was not feeling altogether right and that they did not have a very good supply on hand, so he was getting Mrs. Howlett to fix up a lunch to take home.
    Our Sunday school met at the hour appointed with our Sunday school superintendent, Miss Winifred Haak, presiding, and the rest of the officers and teachers in their places. There was an unusually large attendance, and the Bible class teacher, Prof. Deardorff, managed to so develop the lesson that our superintendent rang the five minute bell before we were half through with the subject under consideration. After the regular exercises of the school were through Mrs. J. L. Robertson, Jr., read a letter from Mr. Griffin, the Sunday school missionary, in which he promised to make a date when he could be with us and make the necessary arrangements to furnish us with the literature of the company he represents. After that was done the regular election of officers and teachers was held and Miss Winifred Haak was reelected superintendent by unanimous vote and Mrs. J. L. Robertson Jr., was elected as assistant superintendent. Miss Helen Holt was chosen secretary and treasurer and Miss Cora Childreth was reelected as organist and Miss Mary Robertson as assistant. Prof. Deardorff was reelected the leader of the Bible class, Mrs. Charles Cingcade teacher of the intermediate and Miss Nellie Coy as primary teacher. There was quite a number of persons in attendance, some of whom have recently moved into the neighborhood, among whom were Mrs. J. L. Robertson and family, who have been regular attendants in the Reese Creek school. In the evening the Christian Endeavor Society met for the first time this winter and after an interesting program proceeded to reorganize by electing Miss Pina Benedict, our primary teacher, as president, Mrs. Deardorff as vice president; Judge Florey, that is his Christian name now, not a judge of a court tribunal, secretary and Mrs. A. Y. Florey treasurer and Miss Mary Robertson organist. The prospect is good for having a very interesting series of meetings of the society this winter and spring.
    Monday was rather a quiet day in our little town as the weather conditions were such as to cause people to stay in when they could and the constant dread that seems to prevail, with some at least, of the flu, naturally makes people stay at home unless urgent business calls them to go out, for while the newspapers are reluctant about publishing accounts of the ravages of the disease, nevertheless there are cases of it breaking out every few days. Monday night, our mail carrier, Bob Harnish, came down with it, but the doctor reports that he is getting along nicely, and today the word comes that they have another case, Mr. Dunlap, Jr., of Trail at the Farmers' Hotel, and two cases in Fred Dutton's family, and two more cases I might mention, so it stands people in hand to be careful about going around unnecessarily.
    Prof. R. E. Morris, our school supervisor, who is on his regular rounds, came in Monday evening and spent the night.
    Thomas Abbott and family, who live in the Lake Creek district, came out Monday and called on Mrs. Howlett, Mrs. George Daley and Mrs. David Cingcade, some of their old friends.
    Prof. Morris went up and visited the Reese Creek and Laurel Hill schools Tuesday and had a time getting through the mud; he went as far as he could with his car, about six miles, and then walked the rest of the way. He says that the road, especially with a car, is a fright since the thaw. He had to break a road a good part of the way with his car and the wheels sank down about four inches all the time and a part of the time hub deep, but he made the trip and reached here about 6 o'clock p.m. Reports the schools all O.K., says that Miss Harmon, who is teaching in the Reese Creek school, is doing fine and that Miss Zanta Roberts, who is teaching in the Laurel Hill school, has been engaged again to teach in the spring. Prof. Morris has gone today to Brownsboro, the Lem Charley school and the Lake Creek. He said that he was going as far as he could with his car and then walk the rest of the way.
    I spoke in my last about Frank Lewis putting up ice for future use and he tells me that he has put up about ten tons, and counting that he will lose about 20 percent, still that will be a saving of about one hundred dollars on the deal.
    Ernest McKee called for dinner Tuesday. He came out to install a new pump for William von der Hellen, as their pump froze up and burst. He thinks that he will put in an electric motor instead of a gasoline engine.
    Another one of our soldier boys came in this (Wednesday) morning on the Harnish jitney, Orlin Bell, formerly of Brownsboro, a brother of Mrs. George Brown of that place. He took the E.P.-L.C. stage for Mr. Brown's.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 18, 1919, page 5


    Mr. A. C. Plumley of Seattle, Washington, came in from Derby, Ore., Thursday evening to spend the night. He had been to look over the Lee Edmondson sawmill situated on Big Butte about two miles from the steel bridge on Rogue River near Lake Creek, with an eye to purchasing it. He said he was looking for a location where there was plenty of timber. The only objection he seemed to have to the location was that the road out of there to the railroad station, Derby, and from what he could learn about it was that it would be so soft about five months out of the year that he could not draw a truck load of lumber over it, but the water power was splendid and a vast quantity of timber ready to be put into lumber and onto the market. If your state road commissioner would take some of the thousands of dollars that they are appropriating to make better roads in the northern part of the state and apply it toward improving the roads in Southern Oregon, outside of the main thoroughfares, so that the people who have the capital to invest could do so with any assurance it would not be long before Southern Oregon would be supplying the world with, not only fine lumber, but all kinds of agricultural products, but the products of our rich mines of gold, silver, copper, as well as cement, building stone, granite and marble, and almost anything else the world will demand but as long as the politicians of Northern Oregon control the legislature and continue to hog the larger part of the appropriations we must quietly submit and take, with thankfulness, the meager allowance set apart for us. I might cite one instance or two to illustrate the thought. Take for instance the road from here to the Lost Creek magnesium mine. The Tacoma Metal Company have moved their machinery from the state of Washington to develop the mine and have spent thousands of dollars in prospecting and developing the mine with the reasonable expectation that the county or state would try to encourage the move by having the road made so that they could get the product of their investment to the railroad, but no! That Nygren hill is still to be climbed, notwithstanding the fact that half enough money, spot cash, was subscribed to pay the damages caused by moving the road around the hill, with the understanding that the county would furnish the other half and put the road through by the first of January, 1917. It is broadly hinted that there was a certain element in the woods that was opposed to having a good road come into that section and the result is we still have to climb the hill and plow through the mud and the company are about to be forced to abandon the undertaking. I might refer to the Blue Ledge mine as another instance where a little needed help would have brought results.
    Prof. R. E. Morris, our school supervisor, spent Wednesday night and took the train Thursday for Butte Falls, where he intended to go out to visit one or two of the schools in that section, stopping off at the Crater Lake S.H. and walking from there to Butte Falls.
    Among the other passengers on the P.&E. train Thursday were Horace Geppert and his mother, J. W. Barrian, the fish hatchery superintendent, O. C. King, the crockery salesman, J. W. Mitchell, the Christian Science healer, F. M. Phillips, the deputy state dairy and food commissioner. He visited the Sunnyside Hotel, and after carefully inspecting the cooking vessels, cooking, the pantry, bed rooms, dining room, etc. went away, but about noon came back to sample the cooking, and after eating a hearty dinner and a pleasant visit, went on his way satisfied.
    The two Stinson brothers, O. E. and W. H. of Medford, were also among the diners Thursday.
    Since my last letter to the Medford Mail Tribune Mrs. Susan Hart has paid $1.50 on her old subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune. While there she told me she had just sold an agate in the rough to Mr. Goin, the agate man, for $20. While he was here he bought up a lot of nice agates and when he went away took with him over 100 pounds of nice stones.
    Wm. Beale and wife of Butte Falls passed through here Thursday for their home and Wesley McDonald of "El Resort" at Trail came on from Camp Lewis on his way home, having his discharge from the army. Miss Margaret Riley has been stopping for a few days at the Sunnyside.
    H. J. Devaney was here Saturday visiting our banker, J. V. McIntyre. He engaged a room at the Sunnyside. Miss Ella Belford was also a diner at the Sunnyside.
    On account of the sickness of S. H. Harnish and his son Rob, Jed Edsall is engaged to carry the mail from here to Medford and back.
    Mrs. John Iseli of Butte Falls, who has been spending the past two weeks in Portland, visiting her son Rudolph, came in Friday on the Harnish jitney and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Henry French, Perry Foster, T. Stowell, Charles Henson and Joe Mayham were among the business callers Sunday.
    Major George von der Hellen, one of our townsmen, returned from a military camp in the east the first of the week and went on to Corvallis to join his family.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 21, 1919, page 5


    Fred Middlebusher came home Saturday with a new truck. He reported the roads in very bad shape for a car.
    Dick Bessie came down with the flu Thursday while carrying the mail to Eagle Point. He is much better at this writing.
    Ira Dunlap and son Ralph are ill with the flu at the Zimmerlee hotel in Eagle Point.
    Mr. Rummel and Mr.Archambeau of Drew came over the mountain Monday. They say there is no snow on the mountain except in a few places.
    Mrs. J. E. McDonald returned home Monday after a few days' visit in Medford.
    Mr. and Mrs. Westley McDonald are spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald.
    Lewis Mason expects to go home in a few days. He has been at work at the cinnabar mine near Trail.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 23, 1919, page 5


    Last Saturday afternoon Dr. Holt moved Fred Dutton and wife, with their nurse, from the ranch where they were living into the home of Mrs. Dutton's father, and by that means was able to procure a nurse for Mr. Harnish and son Robert and also save the necessity of having the doctor make the extra riding. They all four were down with the flu and it seemed almost impossible to secure the services of a trained nurse or even anyone to assist in caring for them, but now under the new arrangement the patients are improving and will soon be able to care for themselves. The other cases around town and in the country, so far as I can learn, are on the list of convalescents unless it is three new cases reported this Wednesday morning.
    Sunday J. V. McIntyre and wife, W. C. Clements and wife and H. J. Devaney, an insurance investigator, were here for dinner and Marsh Garrett and Guy Holman came in later and spent the night.
    Mrs. W. C. Clements entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown, J. V. McIntyre and wife and Mr. H. J. Devaney at the evening meal and the evening was spent in social enjoyment.
    During the time Mr. Harnish and his son Rob are confined to the house Mr. Harnish had Jed Edsall engaged to carry the mail from here to Medford and back nine times a week, but Monday Jed Edsall was reported on the sick list and the services of Wm. Perry have been secured to carry it until Jed Edsall recovers. He was simply sick with a bilious attack and this Wednesday afternoon reports that he will be able to carry the mail again Thursday.
    Those who travel over the roads report that they are almost impassable between here and Agate and if the order of the federal court is carried out, that is to suspend operation entirely, it may be the means of getting our roads approved to say the least of it.
    Speaking of the order of the court to suspend operations on the P.&E., we, and in this case I use "we" in a broader sense and embrace a good part of the community, did not realize that the city of Eagle Point was of so much importance as we are credited with, that is having the blame of the failure of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad to succeed in the laudable undertaking of supplying the demands of the public. We are accused of not patronizing the railroad and keeping up two jitneys to carry passengers to and from Medford. Now let us see how much we are to blame for that. When the P.&E. trains started here in the morning at 8 o'clock there were no jitneys on the road, but the manager changed the plans and arranged to start from Medford at 9 o'clock a.m., thus necessitating the taking of the railroad men away from here to Medford, and several of them had bought lots and built their homes, but we are not questioning their right to do so, but after that we had, according to their schedule, service so that they would arrive here at 9:45 a.m. and then go on up to Butte Falls, returning at 2:25. And then if we wanted to go to Medford we could, but we must stay all night, or else walk home. All of this is provided the train was on time, but if it happened to be late, as it often was, we could wait until the next day and try again. But how was it about the mail? I have known the second-class mail to remain in the depot here, when the train was making two trips a day, overnight so that the mail sack could be carried on a bicycle to the Medford post office, and finally the mail service got so bad that arrangements were made to have the mail carried by a jitney from here to Medford and back once a day on train days and twice a day the other days, and yet we are accused of knocking the Pacific and Eastern Railroad out of business.
    But let us look at the freight question. In some instances their charges were so high that parties could hardly afford to pay them. Take for instance ice as an item. The railroad company charged 19 cents for 100 pounds from Medford to here, but perhaps that was all right if we could depend on the freight getting here on time, but I have known of teams visiting here to take the freight away several hours and in some instances didn't come back at all for lack of cars. And but a short time ago Geo. Brown & Sons engaged a car to take a load of hogs to Portland and had them brought in ready for shipment. When the train came in there was no car, so they had to go to the expense of extra feeding here until the next train day. And further, I heard Frank Brown of the firm of Geo. Brown & Sons tell twice that he had had an offer to have their freight taken from the S.P. depot and laid down at the store door for the same price the railroad company charged to bring it out to the Eagle Point depot and by that means save the cartage from the P.&.E. depot. There are two sides to this question, and while we perhaps have not thrown as much patronage to the P.&E. as we might we feel that it is an unjust charge against us when we are charged with being the cause of the failure of the P.&E. to make a success of the road.
    George Edler of Lake creek was a business caller Monday and Paul Robertson came in from the Robertson ranch and went out to Medford Tuesday morning on the Lewis jitney.
    The P.&E. failed to make the trip Tuesday but a little after noon brought out the mail on a motor car.
    Paul Peyton came out Wednesday morning on the Harnish jitney and took passage on the Eagle Point-Persist stage for Elk Creek, intending to walk from there to his home. He could not go via Derby as the roads are so bad the mail carrier has to go with a pack horse.
    Jerry Lewis took the Derby mail out Wednesday morning for Joe Moomaw.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1919, page 4


    Myrtle Minter had a light attack of the flu, while in Eagle Point, where she had been attending school.
    Mrs. Deardorff, with whom Myrtle was staying, has the flu at present, but is on the road to recovery.
    There has been no cases as yet reported in this district, so that the school is in session and doing good work.
    Bennie Bellows while on his way to school one morning found a bird with one wing broken and seemingly chilled through. He carried it to the school house where the teacher wrapped it up, getting it warm, when it began to chirp as though quite happy, and it became quite a pet, the children keeping it well supplied with food from their lunch pails, but between Friday and Sunday Bill (for that was his name) disappeared, which was a source of grief.
    Mrs. Robertson, Paul and Millard are reported as having the flu.
    The heavy rains lately are causing the creeks to raise.
    Amos Ayres and wife spent Sunday at S. Courtney's.
    W. F. Hammond and wife and Marshall Minter were at Frank Caster's Sunday.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 25, 1919, page 5


Medford Mail Tribune, January 28, 1919, page 5


    In my last letter I mentioned that it was rumored that Joe Moomaw, our mail contractor on the route between here and Derby, had brought a housekeeper home from Portland with him and on investigation found that he and a lady by the name of Grayham of Portland were married in Vancouver, Wash., on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1919. Some of his friends in and around our town gave the newly married couple a cordial greeting on their arrival at his beautiful home just outside of the corporate limits of our town on their arrival Friday evening, and they with the rest of his many friends are wishing them a long and prosperous journey through life.
    Neal Emmett O'Brien came in Saturday evening and called for a room. He had been working on the Corbin orchard for the past few months, but was looking for another job. Wm. Coy and Orville Childreth were also callers at the Sunnyside Saturday night.
    Miss Maude Bowman, who was mentioned in my last letter as coming from Butte Falls to fill a vacancy in the telephone office here on account of the illness of the regular operator, Miss Zula Geppert, remained until Monday afternoon and went to Medford on the Harnish jitney, as Miss Zula had so far recovered as to be able to fill the position again.
    As already announced in the Medford Mail Tribune of Jan. 28, another of our Eagle Point boys, William A. Haselton, has been called away by that fearful scourge, the influenza, and his many friends and school mates are called on to feel the sad bereavement and join in sympathy for the bereaved wife, father, mother, brothers and sisters. He was one of our high school graduates and but recently married one of his school mates, Miss Ethel Riley. The remains of the deceased were taken this Wednesday afternoon to the Central Point cemetery for interment.
    In my last letter I mentioned the tragic death, Jan. 24, 1918, of Ivan Russell Monia of Brownsboro, whose death was caused by the breaking of a singletree while he was working on his father's farm with a stump puller, the sweep of the machine flying back on account of the breaking of a singletree and striking him in the stomach, which caused his death. He was fifteen years and five days old and leaves his father, Jacob Monia, and mother, two brothers, Vernon, Elden and three sisters, Velda, Donna and Mary. The remains were interred in the Brownsboro cemetery. He was a boy that was well spoken of by those who knew him and as a token of respect not only for the boy but for the family almost everyone in the entire community came to the funeral Monday. The religious services were conducted at the home by Rev. L. M. Boozer, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Medford. He used the burial service of his church interspersed with words of comfort and consolation for the living, not only those present who were the immediate sufferers but to all who have been called on to bury their dead, pointing them to the Giver of All Good, who knows how to comfort those who have been bereaved.
    W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, who was forced to close his shop on account of his having the flu, has reopened again and N. W. Slusser, our barber, who also was forced to close for the same reason, has recovered and is at the old stand again.
    Reed Charley, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Charley, came out from Medford last Monday and took the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for home.
    W. P. Haley, one of our rustling farmers, was doing business in town Monday.
    John Butler, Jr., son of W. E. Butler, came in Monday morning to meet Rev. L. M. Boozer to take him up to Brownsboro to officiate at the funeral of Ivan Monia, but when the mail car came in it was so loaded that he could not come, as there was 1000 lbs. of mail to bring, and as soon as he learned that Mr. Boozer did not come he started to Medford for him. In the meantime Mr. Boozer found a way to come out and they passed each other on the way so Mr. Butler had to go through to Medford. Returning here he found Mr. Boozer at the dinner table in the Sunnyside and after dinner I joined the company and we all went together to the funeral, stopping on the way to take in Mr. and Mrs. Butler and daughter.
    Chauncey Florey, our new county clerk, came out Monday evening to bring Dr. Pickel to see his mother, who is at this writing is in a very critical condition with the influenza. They took supper together at the Sunnyside.
    Henry Trusty, our former mail contractor on the route between here and Trail and Persist, came in and spent the night Monday, taking the P.&E. for the F. J. Ayres ranch to visit his sister, Mrs. Amos Ayres. He had just returned from near Louisville, Kentucky, having received his discharge from the U.S. service.
    Mr. M. A. Gay, who is farming the Rhodes farm, Sherman Wooley and Mrs. Radcliffe were among the business callers Tuesday morning, and James Peyton and Dalwin Curry, a grandson of Scott Claspill of Butte Falls, two discharged soldiers, and Mr. Berrian, H. D. Mills, besides quite a number of others, were passengers on the P.&E. on the way up the country.
    Sergt. G. A. Gitzer and wife came in from Seattle to spend a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    M. C. Logan of Brownsboro was a business visitor to our town this Wednesday morning, and when he went home took with him a new cream separator.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 31, 1919, page 4


Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1919, page 7


    Mrs. Robertson is recovering from the flu.
    Elmer Robertson arrived home Sunday from Camp Lewis, having been discharged.
    Albert McCabe received his discharge and arrived home Monday.
    Owen Conover came home several days before.
    Most of the boys from this neighborhood have already arrived home, only two or three having gotten as far as France.
    Corporal Louie Blaess of the aviation corps, who lives at the free ferry, received his discharge and arrived home last week.
    W. R. Zimmerman, a former Reese Creek boy, has also arrived home.
    J. F. Wakefield went to Central Point Monday to move his sister-in-law to Eagle Point.
    Miss Gladys Natwick, who has been visiting at home for several weeks, left for Portland Tuesday.
    This has been a very favorable winter for the stockman, very little snow; the range has been nice and green.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1919, page 7




    The last time that I wrote for [the] Mail Tribune I was at Fort Klamath, and was giving an account of what I saw and heard on the road. After eating my lunch and feeding and resting my team for an hour, I started from Pole Bridge Creek on a downhill grade for the Wood River Valley, and for the first few miles the road was fine, leading down Anna Creek canyon, where is to be seen some of the most beautiful scenery found anywhere on the Pacific Coast, if not the world, for I can hardly conceive of anything being grander or more beautiful than the grand precipices of solid rock, in many instances being perpendicular for hundreds of feet and running up and down the stream for miles, but to my mind the place a short distance below the government station, named the Garden of the Gods, is one of the grandest, most sublime places, where the action of the elements has left the surface of the vast precipice covered with pyramids, one-half embedded in the solid rocks, arranged as though some person had put them, just as systematically as though they were arranged to picture the beauties of nature, but I must confess that its description is something beyond my ability to undertake.
    The government officials have arranged the driveway so that the tourists can stop their cars in small groups, and not only view but study the grand picture presented along the route, where one can sit in the car and look down hundreds of feet toward the bottom of the canyon. But all along the entire route we not only have the different places of marked interest, but all this time the traveler is passing through as fine a body of timber as there is to be found in the world, as you descend to a lower altitude, for the reader will remember that we have just passed the summit, at an altitude of 6,225 feet, but talking about the timber in the highest altitude, it is not so attractive, for it is interspersed with tamarack, which as a rule does not grow so large, but even some of them grow quite large; but after you have descended a 1,000 or 1,500 feet the timber begins to change and as you descend the trees seem to grow larger and have less limbs on the body of the tree, and in many instances there are trees measuring from four to six feet in diameter, with scarcely a limb for 60 to 80 feet, and a large proportion of them are yellow pine and will make billions of feet of the finest kind of finishing lumber. After descending for about 2,000 feet you will find a large sawmill that is cutting a quantity of the yellow pine into lumber, and notwithstanding the fact that they have a number of large trucks running both night and day, seven days in a week, hauling the lumber to the railroad, they have now on hand millions of feet of lumber and are still sawing all the time.
    Leaving the sawmill and still descending Anna Creek, the road leads into one of the most beautiful valleys on the coast. Although, when you first enter the valley proper, it does not present so fine an appearance as might be desired, for they have not put water on that part of the valley, and it does not look very inviting, but leaving two or three ranches that were taken as homesteads and after proving up have been left by the owners, you begin to see some of the finest stock farms to be seen anywhere--everything so green and fresh-looking, with cattle of all ages, but all of them fat and sleek. Still going on down the valley I came to the farm now owned by one of our old citizens, A. H. Bradshaw, formerly of the Commercial orchard, on Yankee Creek. I did not stop, but noticed that he had a lot of calves, indicating that he was in the dairy business. Passing different farms on the road, some of whom were busy putting up their hay and stacking it out in the field, I noticed that nearly all of the barns were full of hay and a great many stacks were standing in the fields, being covered with lumber to protect it from rain and snow--yes, snow, for they have snow there so deep that the fences, 48 inches in height, are covered, so that a person can walk right over them. Going on, admiring the beautiful valley, if anything more than ever, I came to the home of my son-in-law and daughter, about 5 p.m., and found them just about ready to start down to make a call on John Pelton and wife, one of the leading business men of the valley, so after washing off a part of the dust that had accumulated on my person, we all started in a Buick car, and I continued my journey down the valley for a few miles further, where we found Mr. Pelton and wife at home. They had been in a wreck a few days before and Mr. Pelton has some of his ribs broken and his wife was badly bruised on the body, with an ugly cut on her face, but they both able to be around. Some of our readers will remember Mr. Pelton, for at one time he filled the office of sheriff in this county for two terms, having been raised in Sams Valley. After visiting with them for an hour or so we returned to the home of our son-in-law and daughter, and after supper I lost consciousness in slumber. More anon.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 27, 1919, page 5


    The last time that I wrote for the Daily Mail Tribune I had just reached home from Fort Klamath the evening before and had had but little time to even think of anything to write, but on my arrival learned that Mayor John M. Nichols and wife had started to visit their son Frank, and family, of North Yakima, Wash., the Friday before, that one of our near neighbors, Mrs. Louise Wamsley and B. F. Cummings of Central Point had been united in marriage, and later that one of our prominent and prosperous young men, Guy Pruett, had captured a prize, it being one of our Eagle Point young ladies, a girl raised in our community, Miss Virta Grover; that N. G. Goodlow, who had been hurt by his horse falling and was here at the Sunnyside under the care of Dr. W. P. Holt, had so far recovered as to be able to return to his home in Prospect, that Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman and Mr. Roy Putnam, professional fruit packers of Los Angeles, had come out from Medford, their temporary home, and that the men were at work making apple boxes for H. B. Tronson, that our road supervisor, Nick Young, has completed the reconstruction of the rock crusher and has it in operation on Antelope Creek, and has some 12 or more teams hauling crushed rock onto the road between here and the Agate station and that in addition to the teams he uses a truck to haul out what crushed rock there is left in the bins at night, and is rushing work to get the road fixed before the bad weather sets in. That Bob Harnish has a standing job for the winter hauling the high school pupils from Eagle Point to Medford, and that everybody is busy and that business is thriving.
    In addition to the foregoing, since my arrival I have picked up the following items of interest to the general reader. Tuesday night Prof. R. E. Morris, one of the school supervisors, was with us, and Wednesday went up into the Lost Creek district, visiting the school in that and Lake Creek districts, returning to the Sunnyside Wednesday night.
    W. C. Daley of Lake Creek was a business caller Wednesday.
    Charles Humphrey and wife were among the guests at the Sunnyside for dinner Wednesday.
    Miss Florence Lensing, the principal of our school, is taking her meals at the Sunnyside.
    Pete Betz, G. W. Stowell, John Higinbotham and T. F. McCabe were among the business callers Wednesday. Mr. Higinbotham came out for a load of Willamette cheat seed and Mr. McCabe was here arranging with Messrs. Leidman and Putnam to pack his apples. He expects a thousand boxes.
    Perl Stowell, who has been working up in Washington, returned Thursday.
    Floyd French, Eagle Point, and Herman Myer, Sr., of Lake Creek were among the business callers Thursday.
    Miss Bessie Downing of Portland, a niece of Mrs. Thomas Farlow and daughter of Mrs. Ragsdale, also of Lake Creek, came out on the Lewis jitney Thursday, and was met here by friends and taken to her mother.
    Charles Terrill, our sheriff, and Mr. Everard Smith of Klamath Falls were here for dinner Thursday.
    Frank Haselton, one of our Eagle Point boys, who has been out in Klamath County working during the summer, returned Thursday.
    George Leidman and John Jones of Los Angeles came out from Medford on the Edsall Medford-Butte Falls stage Thursday and took rooms at the Sunnyside. Mr. L. and his brother, who were already here, and Mr. Jones are professional fruit packers and follow the business from Yuba City, Cal., to Oregon. They all, except Mr. Jones, are well known here among the fruit men, as this is the third or fourth year they have been here.
    Resuming my writing of what I saw and heard on my trip out to Fort Klamath and back: After resting Tuesday night, Wednesday morning I took a spin down to the town of Fort Klamath. It is situated on the bank of Wood River, one of the most beautiful streams to be found anywhere, so clear that a pebble the size of an egg can be distinctly seen in the water 10 or 12 feet below the surface, and so cold that it will make one's teeth ache to drink it, in fact it is so cold that it has been known to kill stock that is not used to that climate by simply falling into it. The stream simply gushes out from under the side of a mountain and runs through one of the most beautiful valleys to be found anywhere. The valley is covered with green grass, and when I reached there the 16th day of September, I could see several of the farmers putting up their last crop of hay. But I started in to speak of the town. It is not the beautiful, thriving town that it was five years ago, the last time I was there, and then there were four general merchandise stores, a livery stable that seemed to be doing a good business, a blacksmith shop, two hotels, besides several business houses on a smaller scale, and a creamery. It is still in operation; a church building, and at that time they kept up a flourishing Sunday school and had preaching occasionally; they also had, I think, two garages, etc. But now there is but two small stores with a very limited stock of goods, one grocery and the other merchandise stock of goods, and the principal garage was burned some two years or more ago, and was never rebuilt, and several of the old buildings look dilapidated, and they have no Sunday school or preaching and I heard some of the people complaining that they could not even have a dance, although the did have one the Saturday night before I left, but how well it was attended I was not informed. There has been some changes in real estate in the town. Mr. Melhose, who owned one of the principal buildings, a store and dance hall, sold his building and stock of goods to another merchant just before my arrival. But one would naturally inquire what has caused the great change in the town, and I don't know of a better word to express the idea than wealth. The landed interest is in the hands of the few and that few, some of them, live on their farms and some only stay on them during the summer, and go to a milder climate in the winter. To give the reader some idea of the way business is managed out there I will relate one incident. I was visiting an old acquaintance and looking over his farm. I inquired how much land he had there and he replied, I think, about 300 acres, but I said that is not all the land you have? He replied, "O, I have 1800 acres up the valley." That will give the reader one reason why the town of Fort Klamath has so run down. When it comes to one man owning 600 to 3000 acres of land they generally take but little interest in the upkeep of a small town for they buy their supplies by the quantity and the most of their work is during the summer months putting up their hay, and in the winter one man or two, at most, will care for the stock on the place, from 100 to 1000 head, mostly cattle, for they find that sheep do better in a milder climate. Speaking of one place that was sold a short time ago for $100,000, upon inquiry I learned that with the place was included 300 head of beef cattle, a quantity of hay, etc., but the land is selling from $50 to $75 per acre, and there is but few who will sell at all. But I see that I am getting this letter too long. More anon.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 29, 1919, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Caster came down from the Lookout last week. They expect to live in Medford for the winter.
    Mrs. Bickell of Portland returned to her home Monday after spending several days visiting her nephew and wife, Mr. and Mr. W. E. Hammel.
    Mrs. Pete Betz is suffering with a very bad cold.
    Everyone in this community is busy working in the fruit, or otherwise preparing for the coming winter.
    Rev. Mack Stille preached Sunday morning after Sunday school on "The Future Home" prepared by Christ.
    Several from Laurel Hill and Reese Creek attended preaching at Eagle Point Sunday night where they heard a good sermon on "Prayer." Among the number from Laurel Hell were Will Stille and family, and Mrs. Chris Bergman; from Reese Creek, Mrs. Emma Merritt and family, Mrs. Will Merritt and son and Mr. and Mrs. H. Watkins.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 3, 1919, page 6


    After finishing my writing Saturday afternoon I started out to canvass the town for items of news for the next writeup and the first person I met from the outside sections were A. C. Spence and his daughter Miss Leeda, of Brownsboro. Mr. Spence was here having some changes on his wagon to use on the road work. He is the supervisor on that road district. His daughter Miss Leeda was on her way to Medford, being one of the pupils in the Medford high school.
    Also met William Stanley of Lake Creek, father of the Stanley boys, who are among the leading stockmen in the country. He was with William Perry, one of the leading farmers in the county, and seemed to be on a deal for a lot of corn.
    Mr. Silas of Butte Falls was also among the business callers that afternoon.
    Mrs. Laura Abbott of Butte Falls was a passenger on the M.B.F. stage on her way home.
    There were also two other ladies as passengers on the stage for Butte Falls.
    Sunday morning we had our Sunday school as usual and I understand that Rev. Joseph Trovato, the pastor of the Presbyterian church on this field--Butte Falls, Brownsboro and Eagle Point--preached, but I did not go to Sunday school that morning as I was not feeling real well, and didn't know of the appointment for preaching, as I had been away from home and had not heard of the appointment. He is to preach Sunday night, October 5, and a good attendance is desirable.
    We did not have the usual number here for dinner Sunday that we have been having here for Sunday chicken dinner, still we had quite a number and among them were Miss Grace Harper, our primary teacher; Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, Miss Lizzie Reuter, E. Britt and sister Miss Mollie Britt, all of Jacksonville, Mr. and Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. H. L. Heriford, W. R. Packson and Miss A. L. Kerr, all of Ashland. They were on their way to the Butte Falls country as Miss A. L. Kerr is engaged in teaching in the Mt. Pitt school district and was on her way to school. We also has as guests Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bevan of Medford Electrical Works and their friends Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McDonald of Kansas City, Mo., beside Jay Pitzer of Medford. He remained overnight and went out at 7:15 a.m. the next morning, and Percy Haley and Clifford Henson, besides six of our regular boarders.
    We had Rev. John Stille with us Sunday night and also the Hillis girls, the noted quartet, and they entertained us by singing three of those soul-inspiring songs that makes one feel glad that they are in a land where we can sing the songs of Zion. Mr. Stille gave us a good practical sermon, taking for his subject what is generally called and known as "The Lord's Prayer," and as he began to unfold the short sentences in that prayer his audience became more and more interested and by the time he was through they began to look upon it in a very different light from what they did before. He is to preach here on Sunday evening, October 12th, at 7:30 p.m., and it is expected that the Hillis girls will be here again at that time and take part in the services. When he comes October 12th, he is going to take for his subject "Dancing" and those interested in the subject are especially invited to come and hear what he has to say on the subject.
    Among the business callers Monday was J. D. Arnes, the superintendent of the Edgell orchard, and he reports that he has a fine crop of fruit this season. W. P. Haley, one of our progressive farmers, was rushing around Monday as though he had more business to attend to than anybody, but he always gets there.
    Our Medford-E.P.-B.F. stage seems to be loaded to its capacity. Monday Jed had only three passengers, but left five on the sidewalk to catch the next car. He had two on the front seat with him and one man laid on the mail, parcel post and baggage. I say laid, for there was hardly room for him to sit on account of the car being so full.
    Chris Bergman was a business caller Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Dr. Getson, nee Bermuda Lewis and her sister, Mrs. Chauncey Flory, were out Sunday visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lewis.
    J. M. Wilfley was a business caller Monday. He says that he has a wonderful crop of apples this year.
    Charley Nickle--not our old editor of the Democratic Times, but the foreman of the J. H. Cooley orchard--was around Monday selling some very fine peaches.
    The many friends and patrons of our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, are congratulating him on his success in securing a state license to do repair work on automobiles. There were fears that he might not pass the examination, and if he had failed it would have left this section of the country without any help in that line. Henry French came in Monday to have him straighten out his machine.
    R. A. Petty, one of our rustling farmers, was in town on his way to consult Dr. Emmens with regard to his eye that had been troubling him for some time.
    J. H. Cooley, a Medford lumber merchant and Eagle Point orchardist, was out on business Monday.
    John Singleton, who owns and operates one of the best farms and hay fields on Butte Creek, was a business caller Monday.
    Wm. Morrell of Lake Creek was doing business here Monday.
    Charles Foeller of Lake Creek was patronizing our new shoe repairer. He seems to have fully his share of the work and gives general satisfaction.
    Miss Ella Belford and her sister, Mrs. Beckinham, were in town Tuesday.
    Mr. Milin of Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, was a business caller Tuesday and so was Mr. Ira Dawson.
    Mrs. Mary M. Sheibley of North Dakota has been here visiting her relatives. She is a daughter of Elder J. P. Moomaw, formerly of this place, but now of Josephine County, and has been visiting her parents and the past few days has been visiting her brother Joe Moomaw, her brother-in-law, S. H. Harnish and his children. Last night, Tuesday, Mrs. Howlett gave her a chicken dinner (supper) and invited in the following relatives of the lady, Joe and Mrs. Moomaw, S. H. Harnish and son, Ray, wife and son, Rob Harnish and wife. In addition to them we had Mr. and Mrs. M. Leidman, R. Putnam, Geo. Leidman, Carlyle Natwick and Clifford Henson. And after the feast and those who wished to smoke had had their smoke George Leidman went to the organ and he and his brother Manuel gave us some fine songs and after them Mrs. Manuel Leidman, nee Clair Zimmerman, went to the organ and she and the two Mesdames Harnish gave us some of our sacred music and the company remained until late bedtime enjoying the social part of life. I should have said that the evening's entertainment was interspersed with some fine selection on the phonograph.
    I did think that when I commenced this letter that I would find room in it to tell something more about my trip out to and from Fort Klamath but will try to the next time I write.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 6, 1919, page 4


    Mrs. Hulda Nygren of Brownsboro was a pleasant caller Wednesday noon and took dinner. She reports that the road around the Nygren hill is now in a very good condition but that there is room for improvement in one place. As near as I could understand her it is along the banks of Salt Creek, but these little hills will be attended to in due time. Just give our county court time and money and the roads will all be made good. I understand that our road supervisor on this district, Nick Young, has a full force at work on the road between here and Agate station and that they are doing a fine job, putting it in shape so that the autoists will be able to travel all winter. But there is a piece of road on the E.P.-Butte Falls road between the Reese Creek school house and Mr. Ayres' that must be rocked this fall or it will be almost impossible to carry the mail over it. But I got switched off onto the road question again instead of giving E.P. items.
    Mrs. Amy Brown was also a diner at the Sunnyside Wednesday. During the time that French and Royal Brown, two of the contractors on the C.L.H., are engaged in the work of construction, and William Brown, another member of the firm, has entire charge of the store, Mrs. Frank and Mrs. William Brown take turns in assisting the store, and sometimes the services of both are required.
    I met J. H. Howd, our turkey man, Wednesday afternoon and on inquiring with regard to how he was getting along with his turkeys, he replied very well, but that morning he had lost them and on looking around for them found that they had wandered off into the sticky and that it was very difficult to get them out as they fell into the cracks and the rain had made it so soft that it stuck to the turkeys' feet so they could hardly get out.
    Among the business callers Wednesday afternoon was George Stevens of Wellen, one of the leading farmers and orchardist in that section, and J. Harry Carlton, also of Wellen, and R. A. Petty, who is now farming the Thomas M. Riley farm.
    Sam Coy, one of our progressive farmers, who bought a farm near Eagle Point on the installment plan and is making good, has been hauling wood to town the last few days.
    Mrs. Celia Cross, formerly of Butte Falls, came out on the M.B.F. stage Wednesday afternoon on her way to Falls City, Ore. She owns property in Butte Falls and expects to return again when the P.&E. railroad begins operating again.
    Mike Sidley, one of the prosperous farmers and stock raisers of Lake Creek, made a business call Thursday morning.
    F. P. Tracy of Eugene, Ore., was also a caller Thursday, and so was W. P. Haley and L. L. Conger.
    Mrs. Fentling of Portland was among the passengers Thursday and so was Mrs. Sears and her two daughters, and Mrs. Haley of Derby, and in addition to them were six more making an even dozen in all. Mr. Edsall had eight passengers out from Medford and some of them stopped here, three taking the E.P.-L.C. stage and one the Trail stage. There seems to be a vast amount of travel on the roads now both ways.
    Mr. Von Needa, who is living on the old Obenchain place just east of Round Top, was a business caller Thursday. He says that he has the place fairly well fixed up and is getting ready to raise hops. The place is very badly run down as there has been but little care taken of it for several years.
    Frank Caster was also a business caller Thursday and so was Rev. Brittsan and his son, E. V. Brittsan.
    H. B. Tronson was also here on business Thursday, looking after his fruit interests.
    C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the C.L.H., came out and reports that they are progressing finely with their work on the road, although the late rain caused some of the men to quit work, but some of them simply laid off during the bad weather.
    George Givan and his son Charles were here Thursday having our blacksmith do some repair work on their machinery.
    John Daley of Medford, who owns a farm near here, was here to see Carl Henderson with regard to the farm Thursday.
    John Goin, our agate man, who spent several weeks here last winter and spring, came in Thursday and took a room in the Sunnyside. He has gone to work sorting apples for the Leidman brothers and Mr. Putnam.
    Adin Haselton and Al Clements came in from Klamath County, where they have been working for some time.
    Mrs. Harry Frey and her two children came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and took passage on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage for home. And Mr. Bingham of Trail came out and took passage on the Eagle Point-Persist stage for Trail.
    Harvey L. Emstrom, representing J.  E. Haseltine and Company of Portland, Ore., called for dinner Friday.
    Fort Hubbard of Medford passed through here Friday.
    Charles Painter and family, formerly of this place, but recently of Washington state, are here settling up their business and getting ready to return to their new home. He has rented his place to John Robertson.
    Thomas Stanley of Butte Falls was here Friday.
    H. D. Mills and family, including his wife's aunt, called for supper Friday evening.
    The time before last when I wrote I promised the reader to tell them something more of my trip to Klamath County and if I remember right, I was telling of the wonderful Wood River Valley.
    And I should have told the reader that the valley is not confined to Wood River entirely, but extends up Anna Creek for several miles and also embraces the country along Collehen and Sevenmile creeks and extends along Klamath Lake down to Williams River, embracing a large tract of the finest pasture and meadow land on the coast. The town of Fort Klamath, as I remarked in a former letter, is not as inviting in appearance as it might be, although there are several good substantial buildings, but the Sunday evening before I left Monday morning, the town was visited by a destructive fire. A garage belonging to a man by the name of Page was burned. The fire was caused by the explosion of a gasoline blower use to heat soldering irons and the explosion caused the fire to spread rapidly and the proprietor, Mr. Page, was burned very badly. He started to carry out a can of gasoline and fell, spilling the gas on his clothes, with the result that his body and arms were very badly burned. The heat was so intense that the Klamath Hotel, but a short distance off, took fire in several places and had it not been that help arrived from every quarter, not only the hotel would have gone but the entire street swept, but the smoke could be seen from all parts of the valley, and the telephones called for help in less time than it takes for me to write it up, autos were coming from all parts of the valley. There were four machines in the garage at the time and they were all burned.
    There was but a small insurance on the property, but what the loss was, I am not informed.
    Everything in the hotel was taken out, including the things of the guests, and after the main excitement was over there was a middle-aged lady rustling around trying to find her handbag containing $1,500 dollars in paper money. She finally found it among a lot of bedding that had been piled out, but it ought to teach her a lesson about carrying so much paper money with her and no doubt did. Fortunately there was no one seriously hurt by being burned, or getting hurt, but it was a narrow escape, except the proprietor.
    But I see that this letter is already too long, so will stop for this time. More anon.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 7, 1919, page 6


    For some time there has only been a one-way-a-day mail service between Medford and Eagle Point which was very inefficient, and the Mail Tribune has been working with the patrons of the Eagle Point office through Congressman W. C. Hawley to get the service made efficient. The following message was received today:
Mail Tribune, Medford Ore.
    The post office department has decided to increase the mail service between Medford and Eagle Point as desired to be effective when an agreement is reached with the contractors.
    This will give a twice-a-day mail service and possibly a once-a-day Sunday service. Under the present service all mail received in Medford laid here 24 to 36 hours before going to Eagle Point.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 10, 1919, page 3


    Last Saturday, October 4, after I had finished my letter to the Medford Mail Tribune, as is a custom of mine, I started out in search of something else to write to try to interest the readers of that live and newsy paper, and on going to meet the stage from Butte Falls met Miss Grace Kerr on her way to her home in Medford; she is teaching school in the Mt. Pitt district and comes home on Saturday, returning on Sunday afternoon.
    Miss Hazel Brown, the assistant cashier in the Eagle Point bank, was also a passenger on the stage for Medford.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our leading orchardists, was also a business caller and says that he has a fine a crop of apples as can be found in the valley and that by the first of the week he will have a full force to pick and care for them.
    Mesdames Thomas and Charles Cingcade were also among the business callers.
    Later in the evening Misses Ethel Freeman and a friend of Miss Edna Brown of Ashland and Emma McCaslin came into the Sunnyside preparatory to going to the dance, and A. C. Clements, Frank and Adin Haselton, Wm. Coy, Glen Haley and Jay Pitzer were here, some of them taking supper and beds.
    Sunday morning was one of those lovely mornings, such as we have in the fall of the year in Southern Oregon, and there was a good number met for Sunday school and after the regular exercises of the Sunday school were over we had our election of officers, and the old superintendent, Mrs. J. L. Robertson, was re-elected and Mrs. Frank Cummings, formerly Mrs. Wamsley, was re-elected assistant superintendent; Miss Nora Childreth re-elected organist and treasurer, and Miss Cleo Robertson as secretary. Teachers: Bible class, A. C. Howlett; intermediate, Mrs. Charles Cingcade and primary, Miss Grace Harper, our school primary teacher, and corresponding secretary Mrs. Robertson. As there was no preaching service we adjourned.
    On my arrival at the Sunnyside found that the guests had already begun to arrive, and before the chicken dinner was consumed we had as guests J. C. Barnes and wife and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Satchwell, Mr. and Mrs. Gustrice and Bernard and Tichner of Medford; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mowat from Ashland, W. K. Askren of Ashland; Miss A. L. Kerr, Mrs. J. A. Kerr of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. John Dill of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mitchell, Miss Jeanette Hood, Mrs. Edna Sottnall, Mrs. Lulu Frank Kinsley, all of Medford; Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hanna, Jacksonville, Mrs. R. A. Nimrod, Mrs. Tusig, Miss Dana King, Mrs. Maud Anderson, J. Vernon Honey Alton, M. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McDonald of Kansas City, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bevan, Medford, John Bless and Miss Mollie Turpin and Mrs. Louisa ------- nee Louisa Blaess, (I failed to understand her husband's name), H. C. Applegate of Seattle, Ed M. White and wife of Medford. Beside them we had quite a number of local friends, especially among the young folk, and later in the day C. D. Patton and Lewis Geppert of Butte Falls came in and spent the night.
    We had our regular preaching service and were favored with a very good sermon by Rev. Joseph Trovato, the Presbyterian minister.
    Next Sunday, October 12, he will preach at 11 a.m. at the close of the Sabbath school, and Rev. J. C. Stille will preach at 7:30 p.m., taking for his subject dancing. A large attendance is expected.
    A man giving his name as J. H. Cummings came in from Klamath County, representing himself as a traffic agent for the railroads. He was traveling in his own auto and sleeping in his car. He called for breakfast about 8 a.m. and said that he wished to see some of the contractors on the C.L.H. about having them ship their supplies over the P.&E. railroad, but in talking with George W. Neilson, the agent for the P.&E., Medford, with regard to him and his connection with the railroad, he disclaims any knowledge of such a man.
    Mr. and Mr. L. C. Mann of Medford were among the guests for dinner Monday, Mrs. Mann is the daughter of F. L. Heath, one of the Medford druggists, and for some time was a resident of this place, where she can count her friends by the dozen.
    John Nichols, our mayor, and wife, who went up to North Yakima to visit their son Frank and family, returned last week.
    Thomas Vestal, Thomas Stanley, Mrs. Hall and son were among the business callers Monday, and Monday Charles Manning of Flounce Rock came in and brought with him Thomas McAndrews, Jr.; he is going on to Medford that evening and Charley spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    E. Sparner of Eugene, Ore., and K. G. Price of Portland, Ore., were here for dinner Wednesday. They represent the Firestone Tire Rubber Company.
    Tuesday was quite a busy day here and among the callers at the Sunnyside for dinner were W. C. Daley, Thomas Culbertson, Henry Meyer, Lake Creek, E. G. Sinclair, G. W. Neilson the manager of the business department of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad Company, Miss Hazel Brown, the assistant cashier in the First State Bank of Eagle Point, George Brown, wife and two of their children, Frank Simpson of Brownsboro, W. J. Bruggeman, Sam Courtney and a few strangers. The five last mentioned had just come in from Crater Lake, where they had been working when the snow came one and a half feet deep and drove them out.
    W. H. Crandall, W. D. Roberts and S. A. Van Hardenburg were business callers also Tuesday. E. G. Sinclair spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    T. J. Maxfield of California and S. S. Aiken of Prospect were passengers on the M.B.F. stage Wednesday morning. Mr. Maxfield was met here by his son, who lives a few miles north of here.
    S. A. Van Hardenburg of Wellen and A. L. Haselton are moving into our town, Mr. Van H. into the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Rose Potter and Mr. Haselton into the Thomas Farlow house.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 10, 1919, page 6


    At a meeting of the Brownsboro district school board last Saturday afternoon Walter Marshall of that section bought for $2150 the Mills ranch which was left to the school by J. E. Mills, an old resident of Brownsboro, at his death. Mr. Mills, who was greatly interested in the school and had no heirs, left all his property to the school.
    The ranch of 160 acres, part hill land, is located near Brownsboro on the Brownsboro-Antelope road. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall will move onto the place this week and the new owner plans to greatly improve the property.
    The school board advertised some time ago that the ranch would be sold to the highest bidder at Saturday's meeting. Mr. Marshall's bid was the highest one. The board has voted to place the money paid for the ranch out at interest and will purchase government bonds with it.
    At the meeting Saturday the board arranged for the construction of a shed for the horses and repairs for buildings, and discussed plans for digging a well and fencing the school yard. The Brownsboro people are going ahead in many ways, having recently installed a good playground apparatus and made a number of minor improvements in the school.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 13, 1919, page 3


    Marion Charley, who has been working on the rim of Crater Lake came in about the middle of the week and reports that the snow was so deep and so badly drifted as to cause them to suspend work there entirely for this season. He said that they had had difficulty in getting their wagon and trucks out. He was here having his teams shod.
    Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols and her sister-in-law, Miss Ruth Nichols, motored into town from their home, Lake Creek, Wednesday afternoon.
    Mr. Evenston, son-in-law of Senator von der Hellen, was in town Thursday morning looking for apple pickers. They seem to be greatly in demand but still I notice a few of the young men around town apparently unemployed. I met one the other day and asked why he was not working and he said he had been that forenoon, but it was hard work and that they did not pay enough, and on inquiry learned that they were paying only 40 cents an hour and that was not enough! Shades of our fathers that used to work from sunrise to dark, and then made from ten to fifteen dollars a month, and we don't have to go back to the days of our fathers, but can refer to men now living who used to plow sticky all day for, not 40 cents an hour, but 50 cents and board for a long day, but things have changed. Now it takes two men to do what one man used to do and at eight or ten times the wages.
    J. L. Robertson, our veteran farmer was rushing around town in his one-horse buggy Thursday morning, and L. K. Haak and his daughter, Miss Winnifred, motored into town the same day.
    Charles Painter, wife and son Walter started for their home in Camas, Wash., Thursday.
    The many friends of Mrs. Manuel Leidman, nee Claire Zimmerman, are glad to recognize her voice again over the telephone. She has taken the place of Miss Zula Geppert temporarily while she is off on a vacation.
    Sam Courtney, our painter and paperhanger, was here Thursday for dinner. He was canvassing the neighborhood taking orders for wall paper and seemed to be having considerable success.
    Ervin McCall of Prospect, came out on the Prospect stage and met the Butte Falls stage at Derby and came on out on his way to Medford. He is one of the pioneers of that section having been up in that part of the country for the past thirty years or more. While he was waiting for the mail to be changed we had an old-time visit talking over incidents in our pioneer lives, especially with regard to scenes in our younger days when we used to drive teams over the old Flounce Rock grade where if a wagon happened to turn over it was liable to go for hundreds of feet over the precipice.
    Ralph Stanley was a business caller.
    John Zimmerlee, formerly the owner of the Farmers Hotel, came in Thursday with a load of stove wood for Mr. Morgan, the present proprietor of said hotel, and the next day took a load of baled hay to Trail for our Eagle Point-Persist mail carrier, Mr. Adamson.
    Thursday a little after noon, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Isaacs of Butte Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Merrill of Beagle, and Mrs. Mamie E. Riddle of Medford, came in to renew old acquaintances and eat dinner. Mr. Isaacs is a son of the late George Isaacs, well known capitalist and land owner and brother of "Toggery Bill." This is the first time that he has been here in the county for fifteen years and he and his brother-in-law and two sisters and Mrs. Merrill's two children were on their way up to the old home place, the Stanley place on Salt Creek. It being twenty-seven years since he was there and being a number of years since either of his sisters were there. After partaking of dinner and visiting for a while they started on their way, returning in the evening for supper, and it would take a whole column to tell of what they said about how they enjoyed their trip. George said that the old hills looked natural but the many changes in the surroundings were very noticeable and Mamie and Agnes said that they tramped and tramped around over the old trails and did so enjoy the entire trip, it made Mamie look several years younger, in fact it seemed to be a kind of renewing of life with them. After supper they renewed their journey to the home of their aged mother in Medford.
    Mr. Kershaw, the marble tombstone man, was here for dinner Friday.
    Two of the employees of the electric light company were out Friday to connect up the Farmers Hotel with the main line so they can have electricity to use.
    Mrs. Anna Brophy and Mrs. Amy Brown motored to Medford Friday afternoon.
    Eugene J. Owen of San Francisco, representing the Economy Stock Powder Company, was here Friday interviewing our stock men on the subject of feeding their stock.
    A. B. Zimmerman, who owns a stock farm in the neighborhood of the Blue Canyon, came in and spent Friday night with us. He was on his way home from a visit to his brother in Seattle, taking the Butte Falls stage Saturday morning for Butte Falls.
    Friday evening Charles Hoffman of Portland, D. Gholdson of Portland, Ralph Stanley, Butte Falls, and Roland Fitzhart, Medford, came in for late supper. They had been up in the Rancheria country hunting and to look for beef cattle.
    W. C. Daley and daughter, Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen of Lake Creek, Hamilton Watkins, Mrs. W. E. Hammel, her sister, Miss Mina Minter, and brother, Marshall Minter, Alex Mathews, Rube Johnson and Mr. Joy were business callers today.
    W. A. Hauser of Portland, of Failing McCalman Company, and W. C. Clements, our postmaster and telephone man, were here for dinner today.
    Mrs. W. C. Clements has gone on to a visit in Kansas City, Mo., to be gone for some time and her many friends will miss her, not only from the post office but from the social circle also.
    J. F. Johnson and family were business callers also today.
    I realize that this letter is already long enough to rouse the ire of the editor, but the last time I had anything to say about my trip to Fort Klamath I left myself at Fort Klamath and quite a number of my friends have insisted on my writing up the rest of my trip. The next morning after the fire in Fort Klamath I had my buggy all ready to hitch onto after my breakfast. I hitched Nellie between the shafts. I had taken one of the horses out to leave with my son-in-law, so starting at 9 o'clock a.m. on a forty-mile drive and about half of the distance uphill I necessarily drove slow for the first twenty miles, but I jogged along looking at the beautiful things along the route, especially the fine, sleek, fat cattle by the hundreds, for every place I passed there were more or less cattle in sight, but one thing I noticed was the scarcity of calves, and on inquiry learned that the cattlemen had decided that it was better to sell the calves for veal than to keep them and find hay worth from $15 to $16 a ton and I was told of one lot of two hundred calves that had been shipped to San Francisco a few days before I arrived. But I have talked already about coming up the hill. I can think of so many things that interested me that I hardly know what to put in and what to leave out.
    Passing on up Anna Creek, where I passed a number of fine ranches and evidence of prosperity--milk cows and hens--the hill getting a little steeper all the time, at last I got beyond the ranches and the sawmill mentioned in a former letter, and reentered the heavy timber, and O, what a sight! But I had to keep on going, no time to look as I had to make the Natwick camp that night, so on I went through the heavy first timber, first admiring the forest and then the Anna Creek canyon, passing old deserted camps where the road builders had camped while working on the road. And just as I was emerging from the old road I was help up at the entrance to the park to register. That done, on we went and finally reached Pole Bridge Creek where I stopped and fed Nellie and ate a lunch, resting for an hour. We started on and by a little after 2 p.m. arrived at the government station at the head of Anna Creek, where the water gushes out from the side of the mountain almost as cold as ice and clear as crystal. But the traveler don't have to take his horse down to the creek to drink for Uncle Sam has arranged to have everything as handy as a "pocket in a shirt" and one can water from a trough. Here the main house was being painted as I went out to the fort and I noticed particularly the steepness of the roof, it being three-fourths pitch--the old house had a half-pitch roof and it was crushed by the snow--but here I am switched off again. Well, after watering Nellie and taking a drink myself we started on up the grade--a fine one--and after going about two miles came to the summit where it was marked 6225 feet. Feeling relieved that that long hill was behind me, and Nellie seemed to realize it also, for she seemed to start off with fresh life, so on we went down, down, but found that the road had been considerably cut up since I had gone over it a week before.
    We kept going; once in a while we would meet or have an auto come up behind, but the drivers were always very nice and we got along with very little trouble. I was surprised to see the amount of work the men had done while I was gone. One thing I noticed was the amount of timber the road workers had burned and the stumps they had blown up and destroyed. They are surely doing a great work. If I cared to I could write columns on what I saw on my home stretch but prudence says check up. So passing over many sights unnoticed, I finally came to the Rogue River Gorge, where all of the water of Rogue River is forced down a canyon only about eight feet wide and a solid rock wall forty of fifty feet perpendicular and running a short distance the water makes another drop and drops on down a steep canyon. They have changed the road so as to have the new one go right by this place and made a place 20 cars can be "banked" and the tourists stop and examine this wonderful place.
    But I am also to camp, where I meet Mr. David Phipps and he kindly assisted me about caring for my team so after that was done we dined and I went out to supper and found mine hostess, Mrs. Natwick, and her assistant, Mrs. Buel Hildreth as cheerful as could be and after satisfying the ravenous appetite went around and met quite a number of old friends and then went to bed to dream of the beauties of nature I had passed through. More Anon.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 14, 1919, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel entertained Sunday, having Mr. and Mrs. Lee Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Courtney, Mrs. A. P. Coleman, the Misses Nan and Mary Aldrich, Miss Margaret Toley, Miss Bertha Lovingood, Miss Grace Gregory, the Misses Mina, Diehless and Myrtle Minter of Medford, also R. R. and Marshall Minter. The Misses Aldrich and Lovingood rendered some fine music in the afternoon, all having beautiful voices, the Misses Lovingood and H. Aldrich each playing the ukulele. Altogether is was a jolly crowd.
    W. H. Crandall and family visited at Mr. Clarno's Sunday.
    The Poland place has been sold to a man and his wife from Portland.
    Rev. M. Stille preached last Sunday on the "Sure Promise of God." Rev. J. Stille will preach Sunday morning, October 19, on "Christian Science."
Medford Mail Tribune, October 18, 1919, page 4


    Saturday afternoon Miss Hilda Abbott of Butte Falls came in for supper, and afterward went to Medford to attend the carnival, and Chris Beale and Orvin Hamilton called and spent the night. They had just come in from Klamath County via the old Fort Klamath trail with a small bunch of blooded cattle belonging to the R.R. Canal Company.
    There were quite a number of our townspeople went to Medford Saturday evening to attend the carnival. There were nine went from the Sunnyside in one car and it seemed as though almost everyone who could went unless it was some who had been to work that day and decided to go to bed and rest instead.
    The next morning Oscar Higinbotham and Miss Patton and Wm. Walch and Miss Hilda Abbott came out from Medford and called for breakfast, and B. E. Cornelius was also a guest at breakfast Sunday morning.
    We had quite an addition to our Sunday school Sunday morning, and at the close of the exercises Rev. Trovato gave us a very interesting sermon on the subject of Forgiveness, and by the time I reached home the house and yard were quite will filled with guests who had arrived ahead of time to partake of the chicken dinner. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. S. B. McNair, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Cyester of Ashland, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Grainger, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Rutter, Mrs. M. A. Brown, also of Ashland, Gus the Tailor and wife of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Pelton, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Smith, one of the Gold Hill bankers, Miss Dorothy Smith, also of Gold Hill, Captain E. B. Day and wife formerly of Gold Hill but now of Albany, Mr. and Mrs. George Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Mamie and Andy Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, J. R. Wing, G. A. Sanders, Fort Hubbard, wife and daughter, Miss Aletha Hubbard, Dr. J. D. Rickert and wife and son Raymond Headlee.
    Fort Hubbard and family and Dr. J. D. Rickert not only came out to feast on the good things at the Sunnyside chicken dinner but to celebrate their wedding anniversary, for it will be perhaps remembered that just twelve months ago last Sunday, Oct. 12, that there was a double wedding in the parlor of the Sunnyside when Mr. Fortunatus Hubbard and Lida L. Meadows, and Judson D. Rickert and Carrie M. Headlee were the principal actors in a double wedding, at which time a little surprise was sprung on your correspondent when he was asked why they might not have a double wedding and the doctor presented the necessary official document. Well, the two happy families, having had such a joyful season for the past year, concluded to celebrate their anniversary by all uniting again around the dining table at the Sunnyside, and they had the pleasure of the company of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Ulrich to join with them at the feast.
    Mrs. L. P. Mohen of California was also among the guests Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ware, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Wold and brother of California, Dr. Henry Hart and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Stone of the First National Bank, Medford, beside quite a number of our home folks.
    Owing to there being so many here when I came home from church and the continuing string of people coming, I was unable to procure the names of all that came, but on inquiry of Mrs. Howlett as to how many there were to dinner she replied just 70. That includes our regular boarders, but they were eating from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30.
    At night we had preaching and at that time there was a large congregation as it had already been announced that Rev. J. C. Stille was to preach on the subject of Dancing and he took no text but referred his hearers to Ezekiel's commission as recorded in the third chapter of the book named after him beginning at the 17th verse, and it would be well for those who find fault with his plain preaching to turn to their bibles and read that commission and then perhaps they would not feel like censuring him, as some of the boys do. An earnest Christian man who has been called of God to preach feels a responsibility that few men can feel. Brother Stille will preach here again on Sunday evening, Oct. 26th, at 7:30, and brother Trovato will preach next Sunday, Oct. 19th at 7:30 p.m. Turn out and hear them and it will do you good, for the next time that Brother Stille preaches he will tell you of a source of pleasure and happiness far more enjoyable and lasting than dancing.
    Monday was rather a busy day considering that it is right in the midst of the fruit harvest as well as that the farmers are, some of them at least, busy putting in their fall grain. J. R. Milen and Wm. Nickel of Salt Creek, came in with a beef they were selling out to those who wished. They and Mr. G. Stubblefield were here for dinner, and Mr. Tronson and Mr. Wilfley, two of our leading orchardist, were here, simply passing through town in their autos, but were in too much of a hurry to stop and talk. Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Wooley, Roy Watkins and A. M. Gay came in from Lake Creek and spent the night with us. Mrs. Wooley took the stage Tuesday morning for Butte Falls and the men were going back to work again on the road. Carlyle Natwick also came in and took supper but he is such a live wire that it is hard to keep up with him, for he will come home, this, the Sunnyside, is his home at present, and perhaps eat supper and the next we hear of him he will turn up from the Union Creek camp. Sometimes he will come from school, he is attending high school in Medford, eat a bite, start and go to the Union Creek camp and back, sleep a little, to school again and thus he spends his time, but he delivers the goods.
    C. E. Cornelius came in Tuesday morning, ate his breakfast, paid a week's board in advance, went to Medford and back on a jitney and is now working in the Tronson orchard.
    J. M. Rader and wife, W. C. Daley, Percy Haley, Percy Leabo and Graydon Childreth were among the diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday. Graydon Childreth has taken a room and is working in the Tronson orchard.
    J. C. Stille and one of his brothers, there are four brothers of them, came out Tuesday delivering fresh meat, veal, to those who wished it.
    Died, Tuesday, Oct. 12, Miss Lucile Elizabeth Wood, a sister of M. S. Wood, aged 79 years last March. She has been quite feeble for some time and lived alone, but after she was taken seriously ill her brother took her to his home a day or two before she died. Funeral services will be held at the home of her brother, the religious service conducted by Rev. J. C. Stille at 1 o'clock p.m., Thursday. Interment in the Central Point cemetery.
    Irvin, Carl and Ralph Bieberstedt were business callers Tuesday.
    John McAllister, who owns a farm on the north fork of Little Butte, was a business caller Tuesday and when he drove through town had two Angora billy goats in his wagon.
    Herman Meyer of Brownsboro came in Tuesday with seven sacks of apples for George Brown & Sons.
    J. B. Jackson and wife, who motored up into the state of Washington some six weeks ago, returned the first of the week and report everything flourishing up there, and the fruit crop, well it is beyond description, both in quantity and quality, but he don't like the climate, too cold in winter and foggy.
    L. G. Swanson who formerly lived just west of our town and went north has returned to this valley and is now living near Beagle, and his sister is teaching in the Antioch school district.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 20, 1919, page 5


    Last Wednesday afternoon George Sanders, the business manager of the Antelope orchard, was in town making arrangements with our blacksmith and auto machinist to do some repair work on his auto truck, but D. N. Walsh had trouble bringing it over and the result was they came into the Sunnyside about 10 o'clock Thursday night for beds and the next morning after eating breakfast took it to the shop and in a short time Mr. Childreth had it fixed up in shape all ready for business.
    Thomas Cingcade came early Thursday morning with the main shaft of his gasoline wood saw for repairs and it was but a short time before he was ready to go back to work again.
    Frank Brown, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, came in from the camps on the road and reports that they are getting along finely with the work, just rushing the work right along, and have the road finished so that the travel can go either on the road or beside it most of the way from Whiskey Creek to Silver camp. His wife told me that he had killed and brought in one of the largest bucks she ever saw, and of course he was so extremely modest that he would never have said a word about it, especially to a news reporter.
    Henry French and his father-in-law, Perry Foster, were in Thursday with their cream and eggs, and in commenting on the price the creamery men were paying for eggs, 65¢ per dozen, Henry remarked that since last January his one hundred hens had brought him in over $300, but that he did not know the amount of clear profit as he hadn't balanced up the cost and did not intend to until January 1st, 1920, but he was satisfied that the hen business was a profitable business. I have noticed one thing and that is that where it was a very common thing to see the farmers who let their cows and calves run together on the range and said that it did not pay to feed ten- and twelve-dollar hay to cows and one-dollar wheat to hens, generally come to town in a lumber wagon or an old dilapidated hack, but now since they are turning their attention to caring for the hens and cows, even feeding them on eighteen- and twenty-dollar hay are now coming to town in their autos and carry their checkbook along with them, paying cash as they go, and getting whatever they or their families want.
    Among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Friday was Mr. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls and A. J. Florey, Jr. While the travel is not so heavy as it has been in the past there is now considerable travel on the different stage lines.
    Lewis Raimey, one of the pioneers of the Sams Valley country, who still lives between Sams Valley and the Meadows, was a business caller Friday.
    Chester Wendt, his mother, Mrs. Mary Wendt, and sister-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Wendt, of Jacksonville came in Friday morning in their auto and Mrs. Minnie Wendt took passage on the Lake Creek stage. She was on her way up to visit her mother near Lake Creek
    Morton Doty of the Treichler Motor Company of Medford, also agent for Dodge Bros. trucks and tractors, was here for dinner Friday.
    Thomas Farlow and wife autoed through our town Friday morning on their way to Medford.
    Adin Haselton, one of our high school pupils, came in from the Tronson orchard Friday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Our son-in-law, C. E. Hoyt, and wife, motored in from Fort Klamath Friday, combining business with pleasure.
    Mrs. Mary Clevenger, a daughter of M. C. Mahoney, who is living on the Nob Hill orchard, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage this Saturday morning. She is preparing to move back to her home in that city.
    Milo Conley of Lake Creek, and E. S. Potts of El Dorado County, California, were also on the stage.
    Among the visitors at the Sunnyside today for dinner were Wm. Cantrall, J. H. George, the latter a stock buyer of Woodland, Calif., Alex Vestal, Nick Young, our road supervisor, and Joe Moomaw. Mr. Moomaw is working on the rock crusher where they are procuring the material to put on the road from here to Medford, and reports that they had broken something about the crusher and had to lay off for a while today; also that they are rushing the work along as fast as possible and doing a good job on the road.
    Fred Pettegrew of Eagle Point, and Robert Neille of Salt Creek, and J. D. Arnes, the former on the Edgell orchard, were business callers this forenoon. Mr. Arnes took home a lot of furniture from Roy Ashpole's.
    The last time I mentioned anything about my trip to Fort Klamath and back I left myself at the Natwick camp on Union Creek, and for fear that some of the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune may think that I was lost up there in the woods will resume my story. After having a night's rest and a hearty breakfast I started for a forty-seven-mile drive, but did not feel as I did on going out, for if I became too tired I could stop on the way, but on going out I had to go through to the Union Creek camp or else make a fifty-two-mile drive the next day, the most of the way uphill. But as I started all right and as I jogged along every once in a while I would come across a bunch of men at work on the Crater Lake Highway, and I confess that I was surprised to see the amount of work they had done during my absence--a week. They had cleared away a long strip of fallen timber, great large trees piled one on top of another, and tangled in every conceivable shape and as I rode along going out I was wondering how they would ever manage to clear that green timber away, but when I returned found that the most of it was already burned and a force of men at work clearing away the stumps, and my curiosity led me to inquire how they managed to make those great green trees burn and I learned that the company had a boring machine and bored holes all along the bodies of the trees and put in a charge of powder sufficient to tear the body of the trees all to splinters and after that fire was put into the trees and as they would burn the men would pile the fragments onto the fire so that in a short time the bulk of the timber would be burned and the remainder would be gathered up and either burned or thrown outside of the specified distance.
    Well, passing on through one of the finest bodies of timber on the coast, I soon left where the men were working on the road and came to the town of Prospect, the country noted for turning out more school teachers, in proportion to the population than any other in the country if not the state; where they have had some of the best schools to be found anywhere, and have one of the best school houses and fully equipped. There they support the school by taxing the timber owners and of course have plenty of money to carry on the work. There I met that jovial jolly host, James Grieve, and spent a few minutes with him, but had but little time to spare visiting for I was still thirty-six miles from home, so passing on, the next thing that I particularly noticed was the new grade stakes that were being placed along the road getting ready for the road builders to extend the work on the Crater Lake Highway from Prospect coming this way. About noon I stopped at McLeod and fed Nellie, ate my lunch, rested an hour and then resumed my journey. By this time I began to realize that traveling over a rough mountain road in a one-horse buggy at the rate of about five miles an hour was quite an undertaking for an aged man that was not used to that kind of exercise, but I started and then it was climb a rough, yes rough, hill, for it had been traveled over after the rain and badly cut up and left to dry in that shape and that left me to choose which to do, make Nellie walk on the rough road and keep the buggy on the smooth road, or save her strength by letting her have the smooth road so I decided to compromise and let her have the smooth road a part of the time, but it was hard on both of us, but on we went and after worrying over that rough road for eight miles we finally reached the road at Derby that was quite good, and so we went on, stopping at the home of Mr. Hill, the old Caster place, to water Nellie and visit a few moments with Mr. Hill.
    We started on and the next stop was at the beautiful home of J. S. Vestal, where Alex met me with a great bunch of fine grapes that I devoured with a relish and then Mr. Vestal came out with a nice large red apple. Resting a few moments with them we kept on wondering how the people will manage to get through that sticky road this winter since the sides of the road are fenced up. I say that the road, for in the winter it is impossible to stay on top so they have to go through it. But we won't borrow trouble in that line, for our county court are doing the best they can.
    From Mr. Vestal's there was nothing of note to notice so on we went and about 5 o'clock reached home tired out, and found all well and thus ended my journey to Fort Klamath and back.
    On my arrival home I began to pick up items of interest for the readers of the Mail Tribune.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 22, 1919, page 7


    After I had written my letter for the Mail Tribune Saturday, Lester Abbott of Butte Falls came in from Medford with Jed Edsall, the mail contractor, and rested a few moments and then they both started for the Butte Falls country to have a bear hunt Sunday. They were joined by Horace Geppert and one or more friends and after spending half of the night getting dogs suitable to hunt with they put in the most of the day without success and Jed came home Sunday night tired and hungry, without meat.
    There was a dance in the neighborhood and I understand [it] was fairly well attended and the result was that after the dancers were through with their performance quite a number of them repaired to the Sunnyside to rest and sleep. Among them were out-of-town men, the clerk in the von der Hellen store, A. J. Florey, Jr., and Misses E. and G. Anderson of Medford, Jay Spitzer, Adin Haselton, Lyle Van Scoy, and quite a number of others of our boys who live in and near town.
    Sunday morning was one of those beautiful cool, crisp mornings that makes one feel glad that they are not in Siberia or in the tropics, but the air was just right to make one feel as though they could tackle almost anything and eat enough to satisfy the craving of a mountaineer trapper. O, it was just lovely. We had no preaching Sunday morning and after enjoying the blessing of an old-fashioned Sunday school I went home and there met the people who were coming to help devour the chicken dinner. Among these were Miss Cordelia Reuter, Miss Dora Reuter of The Dalles, Miss Lizzie Reuter, Miss Mollie Britt and her brother, E. Britt of Jacksonville, R. E. Kenney, Mrs. R. E. Kenney, F. D. Wagner, wife and three boys, Lawrence, Paul and Wilfred Wagner, J. M. Wagner and wife, Mrs. Tillie Letts and Miss Ada Letts of Iowa, Mrs. Ellen Wagner, George W. Looseley and wife, Mrs. George S. Meakenmore of Sacramento City, Miss Alice Shaw and Mrs. McClure--sixteen in all from Ashland. There were seventeen in the party but I see that I have failed to secure but one name--an oversight.
    Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Minear and family, Gladys, Ruth Glenna, Maud and Robert Minear, Mrs. R. C. Minear, Mrs. Hunter, Miss Eleanor Hunter, Mrs. Maud Anderson, Vernon Harney, Kathryn Dunham, of Medford.
    W. H. Crandall, wife and Johnnie, Bertha James, Edison and Cora Maria Crandall, R. F. Munkoff of Prospect, F. A. Whaley, Butte Falls, George W. Sanders, Wellen, and Gus the Tailor and wife of Medford. The five last mentioned came in later for supper. Gus and his wife had been up to their farm on Salt Creek and by that means missed the main chicken dinner this time.
    Sunday evening Rev. Trovato favored us with a sermon on the biggest text in the bible, John, 3rd chapter and verse 16. His congregation was not as large as it would have been owing perhaps to the fact that there was a dance here the night before. He will preach here again next Sunday, Oct. 26 at 11 a.m., and Rev. Stille will preach that Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
    Monday morning Mr. Homer Reynolds of Trail was a business caller and Fred Whitley and Charles Stewart of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage on their way to the hills to take a hunt.
    J. L. Robertson, Sr., one of our hustling farmers, was in town and reports that he has his summer fallow all in, about 140 acres, and has seventy acres more to plow and seed to wheat as soon as it rains.
    A.S. Bliton, the meter reader for the California-Oregon Power Company, was here Monday on his regular monthly rounds and took dinner as usual at the Sunnyside.
    Fred McPherson, a son-in-law of our merchant, T. E. Nichols, formerly of this place but now of Portland, came in Monday for a short stay to look after his farming interests here, but expects to return to Portland in a short time.
    Raymond Reter and family of Medford came out the first of the week to visit Mrs. Reter's father and family.
    Wm. von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants and one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, came in from the Union Creek camp the first of the week and reports that the work on the Crater Lake Highway is progressing finely; that they have about fifty men working up there at present and that they are getting along very well; that they have about all of the slashed timber burned and out of the way. They have been putting on an extra force to burn the timber before it gets wet as it burns so much better before it becomes water-soaked.
    R. A. Petty, who has been farming the Thomas Riley Jr., place the last two or three years, has rented the Fred Vermeren place and was here Monday getting a load of shakes to reroof the house and barn.
    Mrs. Dee Bradshaw of Brownsboro was transacting business here Monday, and so was L. Charley, also of Brownsboro. Miss Ella Belford and her sister were business callers.
    James Owens, one of our county commissioners, had his son hauling fence posts from here Monday, so we suppose that James is going to fence more land to raise more hay to feed more cattle to sell to raise more money to buy more land to raise more hay, etc.
    Al Mayfield of Ashland, was here during the first part of the week visiting his wife's brother-in-law, Wm. G. Knighten.
    Merrit Charley passed through here Monday with a fine load of stovewood on his way to Medford.
    Benj. Edmondson of Butte Falls came out from his home Monday with a load of shakes for Geo. Brown & Sons. Now talk about the land of perpetual youth, here is a man 88 years of age making shakes in the timber and hauling them to market with a horse team and laughing at the whining of our boys, that plead that the work in an orchard is too hard for them to do. But here is a man who still persists in being young. It must be the Southern Oregon climate that braces up the aged.
    A. B. Zimmerman and his daughter, little Miss Violet, came out from their home 16 miles northeast of Butte Falls, Monday, to act as witnesses before the grand jury in the case where David Smith and two others are charged with setting out fire unlawfully. Benj. Edmondson, Jr., and Joseph Geppert were also witnesses in the same case. Mr. Zimmerman and his daughter spent the night at the Sunnyside, and they and Mr. Geppert came out to the Sunnyside for supper Tuesday evening, taking passage on Jed Edsall's little Ford for the hills, and Jed had arranged to have Rob Harnish run the stage for him while he took a bear hunt.
    Fort Hubbard of the firm of Hubbard Bros., Medford, and L. A. Taylor of Portland came in late for supper. They had been up near the foot of Mt. McLoughlin and came to Butte Falls for supper, but failed to find any so came on to the Sunnyside where Fort said that he knew they could get supper.
    J. B. Jackson, F. F. McCabe and John Daley were visiting our town Tuesday.
    J. C. Kafer and Lloyd Tucker of Brownsboro came in Tuesday with a lot of beef, pork and mutton, selling it out to those who desired it.
    Charles Humphrey and wife of Derby brought in a load of wood for the Sunnyside, Tuesday, took dinner, and procured their winter's supply of flour and other groceries.
    James E. Aitchison of Portland, and George W. Neilson of the P.&E. were pleasant callers Tuesday for dinner. They were on their way up to the timber country. Miss Grace Webber, our primary teacher, was also here for dinner Tuesday, and so were Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hartzell.
    Fred Pelouze was also a business caller Tuesday.
    Oliver Gaines, Benj. Edmondson, Jr., Mrs. Holla and her little boy and Jack Vaughn were passengers on the stage this Wednesday morning. Mr. Vaughn said that he had a gang of men working on the Diamond Lake road and that he had been called out on account of the sickness of his sister-in-law in Ashland.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Driskel and Mr. and Mrs. J. S. O'Brien of Medford phone out word to Mrs. Howlett that they would be here for dinner Wednesday and it developed that this was Mr. Driskell's sixty-ninth birthday so concluded to come out here and celebrate it by dining at the Sunnyside. Fred McPherson and Walter Wood were also here for dinner Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 24, 1919, page 7

    Wednesday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Mail Tribune, I met the following persons on the streets of our town: Miss Della Stanley, Mrs. John Reeder, Mrs. Harvey Stanley, Mrs. Thomas Cingcade and Mrs. Charles Cingcade. They were here on various kinds of business. Mrs. Reeder and Miss Stanley, her daughter, were out gathering in a supply of apples and the two Cingcade women were on general business and Miss Della Stanley was here visiting Mrs. Rob Ashpole.
    Mr. and Mr. A. C. McDonald were passengers on the stage from here to Derby. Mrs. McDonald and her husband were going up to Derby to visit Mrs. McDonald's parents and Miss Winifred Haak was their guest going up there to spend a few days on the hill. I also met Mrs. William Marian, also going to Derby to visit relatives, also Miss Perl Sears of Derby. They were anticipating having a royal good time while in the hills and some of them anticipated having a good time at the dance to be held there tonight, Saturday, October 25.
    Mr. and Mrs. O.C. King of Medford--Mr. King is the traveling salesman for the Medford Grocery Co.--and while here in the morning stopped long enough to pick up W. C. Clements, our postmaster and telephone man, taking him to Butte Falls with them, returning to the Sunnyside for late dinner Thursday.
    Mrs. Floy von der Hellen and her son, Hugo, were also diners at the Sunnyside the same day.
    Mrs. Ora Bellows, who is here with her husband from Bend, is visiting her sister, Mrs. C. E. Bellows, was among the business callers Thursday. Mrs. Ora Bellows said that they wanted to locate in this section if they could find a place that suited them.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. H. French were here and brought in a part of a crate of eggs and their cream. Henry remarked that his hens were dropping off some in laying, but as long as he can get 65 cents a dozen for eggs, he won't kick. Seven or eight dollars a week for eggs and twenty-one dollars a week for cream off of four or five cows and them "strippers" is not so very bad, especially when the range is so poor and the cows have nothing more than hay to eat, no grain.
    E. V. Brittsan and P. S. Anderson were here Thursday. The Brittsan brothers are working Mr. Anderson's farm and dairy on shares. Mr. Anderson is the man I referred to a short time ago as putting up a hundred-ton silo and Mr. Brittsan remarked that he had it about full of ensilage, and that someone had remarked that he could have realized a thousand dollars on the corn that he had put into that silo, but he thinks that he will realize more than that figure and good interest on the investment for when it comes to feeding ensilage to cows, it simply takes the place of green feed and the result is a fine flow of milk and a rich yield of butterfat.
    Mr. L. S. Swenson of Beagle was a business caller Thursday.
    C. A. Pickle and E. W. Gebhard, representatives of the Oregon-California Power Co., were out Thursday to connect up the houses of A. L. Haselton and Floyd Pearce, so that they can have electricity to use.
    Sam Coy has been engaged for the past few days in bringing in wood for parties in town.
    Mrs. Julia Roundtree, nee Julia Cooper, formerly of this section of the country, and her daughter, Mrs. Ella Welch of Jacksonville, were out here visiting some of her acquaintances of fifty or more years ago. Among those they visited were Messrs L. E. and John M. Nichols, Joe Riley and Mr. and Mrs. Howlett. Mrs. Roundtree is a sister-in-law of the late James Matney, who owned a farm on Dry Creek, now owned by George Brown and sons, E. T. and E. L. Brown.
    Mr. Francis Meyer of Derby came in Thursday evening and took supper and then went up to the Corbin orchard to work.
    Mrs. M. E. Buett, the widowed companion of the late Charles Buett, who is living on the Buett farm on Little Butte Creek, southeast of town brought Mrs. Howlett a half of a fine hog Thursday and spent a good part of the day visiting.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. Krons of Butte Falls, Mr. C. E. Seitzel of Portland were among the passengers on the stage Friday and so was Mrs. Frank R. Neil of Derby. Mr. Seitzel was on his way up to Trail to visit his friends, the Hazelwoods.
    Mrs. A. Platt, wife of one of Medford's hardware merchants, W. H. Isbell, Charles Humphrey, Floy von der Hellen and son, Hugo, and Alex Vestal were among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday. Other business callers were J. E. Spencer, formerly of Eagle Point, but now of Fort Klamath, and while here gave in his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, remarking that he would take that paper and then he would hear from home twice a week, via the Eaglets. R. A. Petty, formerly of Eagle Point, and Mrs. Sears, Reese Creek, Gus and Fritz Pech, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Carlton of Flounce Rock, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Daley and his father W. C. Daley, Herman Meyer of Lost Creek, Mrs. Guy Pruett and mother-in-law were also among the business callers Friday.
    There will be a school entertainment here on Thursday, October 30. Mrs. Florence Lansing, our principal and Miss Grace Harper, our primary teacher, have been preparing for it for some time past and the public, especially the parents, are invited to attend.
    John Jones, a professional fruit box maker, who has been employed in the Earl fruit packing establishment in Medford, came out and spent a few days at the Sunnyside the last of the week, but returned to Medford today, Saturday.
    W. M. Adair, a bank examiner, was here Friday and examined the condition of our Eagle Point Bank.
    This Saturday morning G. W. Sanders, foreman on the Antelope Orchard, was in town on his way to Butte Falls with the family of F. R. Whaley of that place. They had been employed picking apples for Mr. Sanders and as he has the entire crop ready for the packers, was taking them home. Mr. Sanders reports that his crop has far exceeded their expectations, both in quantity and quality.
    F. M. Stewart and wife were here on business a day or two during the week. They are getting ready to start for California to spend the winter.
    G. Abbott and Charles Foeller of Trail were here for dinner Saturday and while here related a circumstance of a young man by the name of Shaw being caught by a bear near McLeod. The young man had shot the bear and wounded him and the bear started for him and in putting in a new cartridge it became "foul." He then started to run, but bruin overtook him, throwing him down and biting him severely on the leg, but his partner being close by shot him just in time to save his life. The young man was quite badly hurt and at last account was still on crutches.
    Joseph V. Woodruff, a traveling man representing the American Thread Co. products, of San Francisco, was also here for dinner.
    Among the passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Saturday morning was Mrs. F. R. Neil of Derby. There were five others, but all strangers to me.
    W. A. Hauser of Failing-McCalman Co. of Portland, was also here Saturday for dinner.
    Miss Alice Schleichert of Medford came out Friday evening to visit Mrs. John L. Robertson, Jr., expecting to remain for a few days.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 28, 1919, page 7


    Last Sunday was the first cold stormy day of the season, consequently there was not many out to Sunday school.
    Next Sunday Rev. J. Stille will continue his series of sermons on Christian Science. Come and hear him.
    F. M. Lewis has built a cabin on the William von der Hellen place, where he expects to live and cut wood this winter.
    The Merritt brothers have rented H. Watkins' farm and expect to move right away.
    Robert Merritt has been putting in wheat on the place.
    Willard Robertson is herding sheep for William Lewis, the sheep man.
    Mrs. W. E. Hammel's uncle and aunt from Westport, Cal., drove through in their car and visited for a few days the first of the week.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 31, 1919, page 7


    There were not the usual number of guests at the Sunnyside last Sunday for dinner, owing probably to the fact that the weather was very unsettled as it rained Saturday night and then turned off cold and the roads had become slippery and everything combined to influence the most of the people to stay at home. However there were quite a number considering the disagreeable surroundings. There was Mrs. Argalee Kerr of Butte Falls, W. R. Aiken, Mrs. R. Roberts and D. W. Myers of Ashland, Miss Grace Webber, Mrs. Mittelstaedt, Joe Spitzer, Miss Margaret Riley, Graydon Childreth, Miss Zula Geppert and Pliney Leabo, and just before dinner Jed Edsall came in from his hunt with a nice large buck. He and Charley Patten, Horace Geppert and Lester Abbott had gone out on a hunt hoping that they might succeed in killing a bear but on reaching the bear range the found that they, the most of them at least, had gone to their lair to home up for the winter, so they turned their attention to the deer and Thursday Charley Patton succeeded in crippling a large buck, and after trailing it for quite a distance up the side of Mount Pitt succeeded in killing him, so hanging him up and rejoining his comrades they returned to camp. The next morning they started out to find the deer and there was a difference of opinion as to just where the deer was hung up, so Jed went one way the two of the others went another and in a short time Jed killed two more and proceeded a little further and found the deer right where Charley had hung him, so hanging them up they continued the hunt and about time to go to camp, off about five miles (one of the boys was already at camp), so Jed started on but the other two lingered behind so Jed continued on his journey and it soon got dark, and when it does get dark it is dark up around Mount Pitt, and Jed got to within about two miles of the first camp.
    It appears that there were two cabins where the hunters stopped but this first camp was some two miles from the camp where Jed and his company camped and there at the first camp Jed found two more hunters who had come in from Pelican Bay, and they had three horses with them, so Jed stopped there until he became convinced that the other men could not find the way in, it was so dark. Then he went on down to their own camp and the next morning took his little Ford buckboard and went up to the camp where he left the two men. They in the meantime had succeeded in killing two deer and were all up above the timber line on Mount Pitt.
    In the meantime the two men had, after spending the night up on the side of the mountain, come into camp, and Saturday morning the two men proposed to the boys to take their three horses to bring in the six deer so on the way out to get the deer Jed killed another, making seven altogether, so after cutting off their heads (the horns interfered in packing them on the horses), they finally succeeded in getting the seven deer on the three horses, but they had to drag the deer down the side of the mountain for a long distance to where they could get to them with the horses, but they finally succeeded in putting the seven deer on the three horses. They were all of them very large and the one Jed brought home weighed 135 pounds after it was skinned and cut up, and the others were all about the same size, except one, and that was a great deal larger, so the reader will see they had a good load on each horse, but finally they got into camp Saturday night and putting the fine deer on the little Ford buckboard they came on out to Butte Falls and there left two of them, and then on to Mr. Geppert's and left two more and Jed brought one home. Thus ended the hunt, and while they were out they had rain and snow (about six inches of snow), but all hands came in well, hearty and happy.
    After a very interesting Sunday school Rev. Mr. Trovato preached for us and it was the calculation to have Rev. J. E. Stille preach for us in the evening but he failed to reach here so your correspondent gave them a short talk on Phil. 4, chap. 6, and 7th verse. I received a letter today from Brother Stille in which he says that it rained and snowed all day Sunday up at his home on Indian Creek and as the road is very sticky he didn't venture out, but if the weather and roads will permit he will try to be here on Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and preach for us again.
    Frank Neil, who has been in charge of the clerical department of the Crater Lake Highway keeping the books, etc., was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage on his way home and from there to the Union Creek camp, but he says that the whole force will likely come out before long as the weather is so cold and it is so stormy that they cannot work to advantage.
    Geo. W. Sanders, superintendent of the Antelope orchard, passed through here Monday morning looking after his cattle.
    Earl Brommer, Frank Perry, James Harvey and Wallace Roger, all of Medford, were here Monday and asked for an early dinner as they were on their way to Prospect to place an appraisement on a piece of land. Geo. McDonald, who has had charge of a gang of men in the camp on Whiskey Creek, Crater Lake Highway, was also here for dinner Monday and W. S. Goodlow and mother, Mrs. G. E. Hollenbeck of Prospect, also were diners Monday.
    T. J. Maxfield and his son, J. L. Maxfield, were here Monday. T. J. Maxfield is here on a visit and Monday sent six boxes of apples from here to Coloma, Cal., to his family.
    J. W. Wilfley was a business caller Monday and says that he has gotten along nicely with his apple crop.
    Lewis Romey of Sams Valley, and Clym Abbott of Butte Falls were passengers Monday evening on the Butte Falls stage going to Medford.
    Pliney Leabo spent the night at the Sunnyside Monday and took the stage for Medford.
    Miss Ethel O'Brien and her brother Lawrence O'Brien of Butte Falls, who have been working in the Corbin orchard, came in to the Sunnyside Tuesday to wait for the Butte Falls stage to go to their homes.
    L. K. Sunderland of Roseburg was also a passenger on the same stage.
    Alex Mathews and Wm. Heckathorn were business callers Tuesday.
    Wm. Lewis, our sheep man, took a large band of sheep through town Tuesday on their way to the valley.
    Mrs. Ralph Gardner, her daughter Levina and son Ralph of Lake Creek were doing business here and all took dinner together at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Geo. B. Holmes, Artie Vestal and Owen Cornish came in from the Union Creek camp, Crater Lake Highway, Tuesday and took supper and the two first named remained overnight but Mr. Cornish went on to Medford that night.
    A. B. Zimmerman and daughter Violet came out Monday evening from their homes sixteen miles northeast of Butte Falls, in answer to a summons to be on hand as witnesses in the case of the three men who are indicted for setting out fires in the timber unlawfully, but were officially notified here that court had adjourned until Nov. 12, so the next day took passage on the Butte Falls stage for home again after spending the night at the Sunnyside.
    Benj. Edmondson of Butte Falls also was summoned by telephone to come out and he went on to Jacksonville, so that he could claim his fees for mileage and attendance.
    Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby was also a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday for her home.
    Mike Sidley Jr., of Lake Creek, was also a business caller Tuesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 1, 1919, page 6




    Last Monday morning the word came here that the house of Fred Dutton had been broken into and robbed. There were two watches and a lot of other jewelry taken. The house was literally gutted; everything about the place had been investigated, even to the bureau drawers, and the thieves, for there were two of them [sic]. According to the report of sheriff Terrill, who came out to investigate, he decided that there were two as one of them wore rubber boots or shoes, and they were tracked for quite a distance in the soft ground.
    The home of Mr. Dutton is off of the main road and in a rather secluded place on Antelope Creek, and the thieves could easily get into the house unobserved unless it would be someone out hunting. Suspicion points to two youth of rather an unenviable reputation, who live but a short distance from there. Sheriff Terrill was out here last Monday to investigate but when he left here had no definite clue to the culprits.
    Sunday morning the attendance at Sunday school and church was very small. Rev. Trovato preached at 11 o'clock and left an appointment for himself to preach on next Sunday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. Rev. J. C. Stille had a conditional appointment to preach last Sunday evening, but the condition of the roads was such that we did not expect him to come as there are about eight miles between here and his place, on Indian Creek, two miles above where the free ferry road crosses the creek, of sticky, and those of us who are familiar with the country did not expect him to come.
    There were but few outsiders here for dinner Sunday, eight of the young folks who are working in the orchards, some of them came in Saturday night and stayed until Sunday evening.
    C. H. Natwick and Roy Watkins came in from the Union Creek camp and brought in Mr. Natwick's three four-horse teams that he has had working on the Crater Lake Highway the past season. Mr. Natwick is the rock worker in the Eagle Point Construction Company, being one of the contractors and a professional road builder. He is the man who built the Flounce Rock grade this side of Prospect, a piece of work that will stand the test of years to come. He says that they have about half of the work done and expect to finish it up next season. They have been handicapped on account of not being able to procure the necessary material to finish the bridges and culverts. Mr. and Mrs. Natwick have been stopping with us since their arrival, moving to their home about four miles from here, on the P.&E. railroad, Tuesday morning.
    Oliver Gaines, whose parents live at Trail, spent Sunday night at the Sunnyside taking the Trail stage Monday morning for home.
    W. C. Daley of Lake Creek was here on business early Monday morning.
    There were four passengers came in on the Butte Falls stage Monday and two of them went on the Trail stage and two went on the Butte Falls stage, one for Derby and the other for Prospect.
    C. M. Martin of Lake Creek came in Monday with a four-horse load of potatoes from Messrs. Tyrrell and Farlow of Lake Creek, for Geo. Brown and Sons, our leading merchants.
    C. R. McDonald and his son A. C. McDonald of Cambridge, Idaho, has come in the first of the week to visit Mr. A. R. McDonald, son-in-law, the cashier of our Eagle Point State Bank, Mr. Deveney [sic]. In talking with the older McDonald he expressed himself as being very much pleased with our country, comparing it with the Willamette Valley. He seems to think that this valley is far ahead of anything he has seen in Oregon, especially the climate. He thinks that it is about the finest yet, a mean between the California and the Northern Oregon climate. He predicts that Rogue River Valley will be one of the beauty spots of the Pacific Coast.
    Louis Robertson, son of J. L. Robertson, one of our leading farmers, came in to the parental home, about a mile north of town last Saturday, from the Klamath country where he has been working for the past 18 months, and the result was that Mrs. J. L. Robertson Jr., our Sunday school superintendent and her two daughters, were missed from their places Sunday morning. However, Mrs. Cummings, the assistant superintendent, filled the vacancy caused by her absence.
    Fort Hubbard and his mechanic were here for dinner Tuesday. They were on their way out to the Ed Cowden ranch. They had installed a tractor and were taking out some narrower wheel to put on it in place of the wide ones to ascertain which would be the best in sticky, and broke a cog in their machine. They came here with Nick Young for dinner and then employed a truck from Brown Bros. to take them on up. While they were eating their dinner Jeff Brophy of Flounce Rock, and Benj. Swertz and Mike Spencer, two young men who were on their way out to the J. M. Wilfley orchard to work, came in for dinner.
    Roy Watkins also was among the diners Tuesday.
    Three noted railroad and timber men passed through here today, Wednesday, on the P.&E. jitney that runs on the track. They were Messrs. Buntney, Cox and Olds. And H. D. Mills, manager of the Butte Falls Lumber Company, also went up on the stage. He seemed to be very much elated and I judged from his appearance that the clouds on his business sky were disappearing and the prospect for business to open up in Butte Falls was brightening. But it is almost too good to believe that business is to be resumed in Butte Falls and all along the route of the P.&E., but time will tell.
    Mrs. Susan Hart, who owns a farm north of here, and Mrs. Hessler of Lake Creek, were business callers Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 17, 1919, page 5


    R. B. Taffer who has been in the employ of the U.S. government as a geological engineer at Fish Lake, came out from Medford Wednesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside, taking the Lake Creek stage Thursday morning for his headquarters at Fish Lake.
    Mike Hanley and Mr. Frey also came in and spent the same night with us.
    Louis Robertson and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sutherland and family, recently of Oklahoma, were also here Thursday looking for a place to live and they later engaged the C. H. Painter house to move into and Louis Robertson will live with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Robertson, Sr.
    Wm. Holman and his brother Guy of Lake Creek were transacting business here Thursday, and so were John Miller of Lake Creek, Herbert Carlton and his brother Thomas of Flounce Rock, three of the leading stock men of their section. The Carltons were out securing a supply of apples for winter use.
    Mr. Marshall of Lake Creek came in Thursday with a dressed beef for Geo. Brown and Sons. It is quite a convenience for us to have our regular merchants take beef, and in fact meat of all kinds, and sell it out among their customers, although there are quite a number of the farmers now who are killing beeves and hogs and peddling the meat around town.
    Mrs. Ed Cowden, who is living on the place formerly owned by Wig Jacks, came in Thursday with her cream to meet one of the creamery trucks that pass through out town every Thursday. There are quite a number of the farmers who come in on the days when the creamery men come in. C. E. Bellows and wife, when they came in Thursday, in addition to their cream and eggs brought in a nice lot of chickens for the creamery man.
    Perry Foster was among the business callers Thursday.
    Thomas F. Nichols was in town Thursday and reports that he has quite a lot of grain already sown and that the ground plows very nice.
    Mr. Joy and Mr. Howd, the turkey men, were in town and Mr. Howd reports the turkeys doing fine. He is feeding them on corn, getting them ready for the Thanksgiving market.
    Mrs. A. C. Allen of Wellen was also a business caller trading with our merchants.
    W. H. Isbell who lives on the tract of land recently purchased by Wm. von der Hellen near the Reese Creek school house, was in town and while here gave me two and a half dollars to be applied on his subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune. Wm. G. Knighten also asked me to send in $5 to be applied on his subscription to the same paper.
    Lucius Kincaid and John Mayham came in from Union Creek camp Thursday evening and took supper at the Sunnyside. They were the last to leave the camp and with the exception of someone going there to look after things left will be deserted for the winter, although Mr. Verbick, who has a trading post on Union Creek, expect to remain there all winter.
   W. H. Crandall and family were here Friday morning on their way to Medford. They were taking Mrs. H.B. Colburn of Myrtle Creek, Douglas County, to Medford. She had been visiting her relatives who are living on the old Schneider place near the French-Dodge bridge.
    F. T. McCabe was in town Friday inquiring where he could buy some corn.
    Jeff Brophy of Flounce Rock was a passenger on the Prospect stage Friday.
    Mrs. G. W. Sorrels of Phoenix came out on the S. H. Harnish jitney Friday and took passage on the Trail stage to visit her son, Mr. Oliver.
    In mentioning the arrival of Messrs. A. K. and A. C. McDonald I had not learned that Mrs. McDonald had come also. They are the mother and father of our bankers, Mr. H. J. Deveney's wife and since then have learned that they have decided to remain here, at least for the winter, if not permanently.
    Friday noon Mr. Gordon Reel of Seattle, representing DuPont Company, of Seattle, and George M. Nolan, superintendent of agents, Portland, Ore., of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and R. J. Fuson of Medford, called for dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Herman Meyer, Sr., of Lake Creek, was a business caller and so was L. L. Conger of Trail, Friday.
    J. L. East, who has just come in from the Crater Lake Highway camp, spent Friday night at the Sunnyside and so did Phillip Geppert and John P. Goin, and Graydon Childreth and Zula Geppert took supper here also.
    F. A. Whaley of Butte Falls, Mr. Geppert and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. McDonald were passengers on the stage for Butte Falls and Derby.
    Mike Sidley of Lake Creek, and Miss Frances Greb who is teaching school at Brownsboro, came out on the Lake Creek stage this Saturday morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holman and son and Mrs. T. P. Coleman of Pendleton were here for dinner today. Mr. Coleman and wife have bought the place of Mr. and Mrs. Holman on Lake Creek. They also bought a part of the Holman cattle, etc. Mr. Holman has not decided just what he will do or where he will go as yet.
    Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro and his little boy rode into town on horseback today and Wm. Nickel of Butte Falls was also a business caller.
    Dan Foeller of Trail, wife and daughters were transacting business today with our merchants.
    Pete Betz, who lives on the bank of Rogue River about eight miles above here, came in today with two lots of dressed turkeys to be shipped to market, one for himself and the other for J. F. Maxfield, one of his neighbors.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 18, 1919, page 5


    Rev. Mack Stille preached Sunday after Sunday school on "Lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect."
    Eli Stille, Rev. John Stille, Rev. Mack Stille, wife and baby took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. Watkins.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. Vestal and Tom Vestal were at Mrs. Merritt's Sunday for dinner.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammel were in Medford Sunday on the way home when their bug became uncontrollable. They left it at the side of the road and walked home.
    Most of the farmers are busy plowing while the nice weather continues.
    Ora Bellows and family have moved into the Lewis Camp house, while Mr. Bellows expects to build a barn for Mr. Lewis.
    Dave Smith and Millard Robertson are herding the sheep on the Eagle Point desert at present.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 19, 1919, page 7


    Henry Trusty, Mrs. Whitley and Jay Spitzer were lodgers here Saturday night. They had been attending a dance at this place and took beds the latter part of the night.
    We had no preaching services here Sunday morning, although Rev. Trovato preached in the evening. He was favored with a very good-sized congregation. He will preach here next Sunday at 11 o'clock a.m.
    The time of the year has passed when there are crowds coming out here to take chicken dinner at the Sunnyside, although mine hostess still serves chicken as part of the bill of fare. But we had as visitors for dinner Sunday F. J. Ayres, who owns a farm and orchard on the Butte Falls road about six miles from here, and Herman Meyer, Sr., of Lake Creek, Jay Spitzer and Miss Margaret Riley, Pliney Leabo, Glen Haley and John Foster of Lake Creek.
    E. J. Harlow, a young man engaged in the road engineering business on the road this side of Prospect, was here Monday morning taking passage on the M.-B.F. stage for Prospect.
    O. Y. Bell of Brownsboro was a passenger on the E.P.-L.C. stage Monday morning.
    Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen, W. C. Daley and daughter were visitors in our town Monday and so was Gus Nichols, all of Lake Creek. And so was R. A. Petty, who is farming the Fred Vermeren place.
    There has been a change in the schedule time in the route from Medford to Butte Falls commencing on last Monday morning. Under the present arrangement the stage leaves the Sunnyside Hotel at 7:10, leaving the post office at 7:15 for Medford, arriving there 8:30, reaching Eagle Point at 9:15, leaving Eagle Point with the Prospect and B.F. mail about 9:45, connects with the Prospect stage at the old Caster place, now owned by Frank Hill, leaving there on the arrival of the Prospect stage for B.F., arriving at B.F. in the afternoon, the mail carrier staying there overnight, and starts the next morning at 9:30 going on through Eagle Point by noon or a little after; leaving Eagle Point at 2:45 for Medford, arriving in Medford about 3:45; leaving Medford for Eagle Point at 4:30 p.m. and arriving in Eagle Point at 5:30, thus giving us two mail services daily each way. We also have a Sunday morning mail service but I have not the schedule time yet, but will try to get it so as to give it next week.
    The changes that have been made will be a great convenience to the people of this section of the country, thus giving us our evening paper and the Portland morning papers the same day they are published.
    Horace Geppert has been employed to carry the mail one-half of the time, but I suppose that Mr. Edsall, the contractor, will carry the mail on Sunday.
    Mrs. Joe Casey and two children of Phoenix, who have been visiting Mrs. Casey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geppert, near Butte Falls, and Mr. A. Wines of Medford, came out on the E.P.-B.F. stage Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Frank Swampe [Swingle?], Chris Bergman and wife were business callers Monday, and so were Mrs. Thomas F. Nichols and Mrs. Fred Dutton, whose house was burglarized a short time ago, were here to trade with our merchants.
    I learned Monday that Mr. Sample and family and Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Weidman took a trip to Phoenix last Sunday. Mr. Sample is the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard and Mrs. Weidman is the saleslady and business manager of the T. E. Nichols general store of this place.
    In speaking of going to Phoenix reminds me that there is considerable complaint by those who travel over the new work done on the road between here and Agate station that the much-needed work on the road in keeping it in repair is very much neglected and the vehicles in going over the freshly laid crushed rock cut down through the coat of crushed rock into the soft dirt and the suggestion made, and I think it is a good one, that the county put a man on the four miles of newly patched-up road with a rake and hoe and have him keep the newly made ruts filled up and by that means will preserve the road and keep it in good condition all winter and by next summer the travel over it when it is dry will pack so as to make it a good solid road for future use. We, and when I say we, I feel that I am expressing the feeling of the entire community, not only here but everyone living above here who has to travel over the road, and I emphasize that little pronoun, we are very grateful to our honorable county court for the favors already bestowed, but would earnestly plead that something be done to save what we have from being wasted.
    Mrs. M. E. Pruett and Miss Sara Singleton were business callers Monday. Miss Singleton informs me that her father, John D. Singleton, has bought a tractor and is plowing up his alfalfa field and intends to raise a crop of wheat on the land this year. The foxtail and other noxious plants that infest our alfalfa fields have taken such a hold that he thinks it best to make the change at least for one year and reseed it next season.
    John D. Martin of Derby was among the business callers Tuesday. He had been to Jacksonville to try to learn something with regard to taking up railroad land, but found that he would have to get his information from the land office in Roseburg.
    George McDonald and Pliney Leabo have been stopping at the Sunnyside for the past few days.
    S. S. Aiken of Prospect came in on the E.P.-B.F. stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    R. R. Minter, one of our hustling farmers, passed through here Tuesday with a load of wood for Medford. He was taking it in to his daughters, who are attending the Medford high school.
    L. C. Drake of Trail was a passenger on the E.P.-B.F. stage and took passage on the E.P.-Persist stage for his home Wednesday morning.
    Benj. Whetstone, who is farming his father-in-law's place on Dry Creek, was a business caller Wednesday morning.
    H. B. Shoote, who is interested in trapping, and has a home near Fish Lake, was here Wednesday and related some interesting experiences in trying to trap a bear.
    Hamilton Watkins and wife were trading here today, Wednesday.
    Wm. A. Summer, Mr. Welsh and Mrs. Purkeypile of Medford were diners at the Sunnyside today.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 24, 1919, page 5


    There will be a mask dance in Trail hall, Thursday night, Nov. 27. Basket supper, orchestra music, and a good time ensured for all. Come everybody.
    Mark Applegate of Medford just returned to Trail from a trip to the Buzzard mines on Elk Creek.
    J. D. Pearce and Loris Martin are having fine luck trapping, as they got a bear and a cougar the first thing.
    Gus and Frank Ditsworth of Prospect are still hauling to Medford. The bad roads don't seem to stop them.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Thomason accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Howe home from Tiller, Ore., and will visit relatives and friends near Trail for a few days and attend the mask dance.
    E. E. Ash has commenced work extending his irrigating ditch.
    Mrs. Howard Ash spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. J. Warner.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 26, 1919, page B1


    R. Halla, who has been up in Idaho since last July, a contractor in one of the logging camps, came in Wednesday afternoon and spent the night. He owns a farm in Reese Creek valley about eight miles from here. The next day his wife and two children came out on the Butte Falls stage, took dinner at the Sunnyside and in the afternoon they all went to Medford together. He reports that when he left Coeur d'Alene, Idaho the snow was three feet deep and that men were receiving eight dollars per day and that then they would quit work just to annoy and injure the operation of the mills, that the I.W.W. were very plentiful and that they were mostly foreigners, Russians, Poles and Finns.
    W. G. Massal of Lake Creek also spent the night with us. He had been out to Medford with a team and got this far back Wednesday night.
    W. A. Bishop of Medford was a passenger on the stage to Brownsboro to look after his interests in that section. He owns a tract of land in that vicinity.
    George Plymate of Jacksonville was also a passenger on the stage for Brownsboro.
    James A. Reyborn, formerly of Butte Falls, at one time some eight or ten years ago was the mail contractor, carrying the mail from here via Brownsboro to Butte Falls, but now of Benton County, Oregon. He is a half brother to one of our townsmen, George Phillips, and is here visiting his relatives. He took passage on the Butte Falls stage for Prospect Thursday.
    J. E. Roberts of Medford and P. S. Anderson, also of Medford, owner of a large ranch on Rogue River about six miles north of here, were transacting business here Thursday.
    Mrs. Jasper Hanna and her two daughters, Bessie Haskins and Velma Hanna, were transacting business here Thursday. Mrs. Hanna was inquiring where she could buy seed wheat.
    Wm. G. Pierce, the machinist for Hubbard Bros., of Medford, and one of the Hubbard boys passed through here Thursday on their way to Medford trailing a crippled machine. Fort Hubbard and Mr. Pierce had been out to the Ed Cowden place to change the tire on a Caterpillar Hubbard Bros. had sold and some of the machinery on their car broke so that they had to trail it in, but Ed Cowden says that the machine is doing fine work plowing.
    Marshall Minter spent Thursday night with Sherman Wooley.
    Ivan Bieberstedt and his son Ralph came in on the Lake Creek stage Friday morning.
    J. M. Wilfley, owner of one of the large orchards in this neighborhood, came in Friday morning to catch one of the morning autos that go to Medford, but was a little late so had to wait until two p.m., for the Lewis jitney. In the meantime he took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Boyd Tucker, Gus Ditsworth, John W. Richardson, W. M. Cross, Frank Lindley and H. T. Haswell took dinner at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Mr. Wilfley had just got through shipping his apples to Medford to be packed. He reports that he will have about 6000 boxes of apples and 1000 boxes of pears this season.
    Messrs. Lindley and Haswell each had a truckload of lumber on their way to Lake Creek and they said that the loads were so heavy that the trucks cut right through the crushed rock down into the mud and that unless something is done to preserve the road that it will soon be as bad as it was last winter.
    L. L. Conger and daughter were business callers Friday and so was Ora Bellow and his little son.
    R. H. Sears, who has a home on Reese Creek, and his daughter passed through here Friday on their way to Medford to have his daughter's tonsils operated on.
    Mr. Mosier of Brownsboro, one of the hustling farmers of that section, was here Friday having some tools repaired by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth.
    Phil McCool, Wm. James and Geo. Kish called early Saturday morning on their way to the Butte Falls country. They were expecting to meet our county surveyor, Mr. Rhodes, here and go with him to work on the survey on the water ditch, to be opened from Big Butte Creek to bring the water into this section of the country for irrigation purposes. Whenever that work is done and the water is brought into this section of the county it will make it one of the most prosperous sections in the country, for with water almost all of the land in the entire neighborhood can be made to produce an abundant crop of hay, grain and vegetables.
    Wm. Perry has started his wood saw and is cutting up a quantity of wood for different parties in town.
    Oscar Higinbotham of Gold Hill, but formerly of Butte Falls, and Wm. Cross of Butte Falls, were passengers on the Butte Falls stage this morning.
    The Pacific and Eastern Railway Company, if there is any such concern in existence, has started a train of cars now that is proving to be a very great blessing to not only this community, but the people all along the route from Medford to Butte Falls as well as beyond, for now passengers who wish to travel in that way can go to or from Butte Falls, and I understand that the conductor (I have not learned his name yet) is very accommodating and will carry packages or cordwood, shakes or millinery goods and will supply the needy with lumber in small quantities, and it is hoped that the company will put the auto trucks out of business, at least for the winter season, for they are simple tearing our roads all to pieces and it will soon be so that we will have no roads and have to resort to flying machines and then we will not need any roads and will not have to pay any road tax.
    Our mail carrier coming in from Butte Falls, since the change had been made in the schedule, gets here and takes dinner at the Sunnyside. Today he came in by noon and brought Mrs. Mary Clevenger of Butte Falls and little daughter and Miss Frances Neil of Derby.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 26, 1919, page B2


    We have had another change in real estate ownership in our little town, W. E. Hensley having sold his beautiful home in the lower part of the town to A. R. McDonald, the father-in-law of the cashier of our First State Bank of Eagle Point, consideration $2,500. Mr. McDonald recently came from Cambridge, Idaho and when he had had a few weeks experience in our beautiful Italian climate concluded to remain here, so bought himself a home. He has the appearance of a first-class citizen and we are glad to welcome him and his family, wife and son, a young man, to our community and trust that they will prove to be what their appearance indicates--first-class citizens and a blessing to our community.
    W. A. Hauser, one of our pleasant and progressive salesmen, representing Failing McCalman Hardware merchants of Portland, was a pleasant caller Saturday afternoon.
    A. J. Howd, our turkey man, who came in this neighborhood in the latter part of last winter and invested a limited amount of capital in turkeys and has turned his attention to caring for them, was in town last Saturday afternoon and reports that he had just sold between 1300 and 1400 pounds of turkeys dressed and ready for shipment, at his home for 42 cents a pound and has quite a lot that will be ready for market for the Christmas holidays, besides keeping enough for breeding purposes, and expects to be able by next Thanksgiving to be able to make a shipment of several thousand pounds.
    Charley Manning of Flounce Rock passed through our town Saturday afternoon. He had quite a bunch of traps tied to his saddle and then stopped at Ray Ashpole's hardware store and bought a lot more traps. He is making a business of trapping for skunks and coyotes and other small game.
    Mrs. Christina Verbick, a daughter of our confectioner, Frank Liker's and her little son were on the streets Saturday evening.
    Mrs. Thomas Gaines of Trail was here Saturday afternoon on a deal with Wig Jacks for his band of cattle. He spent the night at the Sunnyside, and so did John Spiker of Applegate, remaining with us until Tuesday morning.
    Sunday morning after Sunday school Joseph Trovato peached a very appropriate Thanksgiving sermon and left an appointment for preaching next Sunday evening, November 30, at 7:30.
    Sunday was such a beautiful day that there was quite a number of our citizens from Medford and Talent and Jacksonville came here for dinner, beside quite a number of those in our own community, who love a good chicken dinner. Among those from Medford were Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Knapp of Fresno, Cal., who are visiting relatives in Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Knapp and son of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Andress Hearn, mayor of Talent, and Mrs. E. A. Reames, also of Talent; Dr. Henry Hart, wife and son, Floyd Hart, C. M. Speck and wife, all of Medford. Miss Nellie Coy, one of our telephone operators, and Miss Grace Harper, our primary teacher, Edward Meyer and wife of Lake Creek, Judge Geo. A. Gardner, wife and daughter, Miss Geraldine, of Jacksonville, and while the judge was here I had a talk with him in regard to caring for our county road between here and Medford, and he assured me that he would have the grader put on the newly made roads and have them kept in repair, and I have learned since that our supervisor had been working on the road between here and the Agate station on the P.&E. railroad.
    The many friends of the wife of our postmaster, Walter C. Clements, are congratulating her on her safe arrival from Chicago, where she has been visiting her parents for some weeks past.
    Last Monday morning Dr. W. P. Holt, our local M.D., reported that the stork had been busy the week before and that Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith, who live on the edge of the desert south of here, were favored by the arrival of a ten-pound boy on the 18th, and that there was a boy baby born to the wife of Walter Marshall November 19, and a girl born to the wife of David Leveque.
    Robert Harnish and Gifford Hensen took two loads of telephone poles from here to Sams Valley for W. C. Clements, our telephone man. He expects to put up a new telephone line leading out from Sams Valley post office.
    W. E. Hammel and wife passed through here Monday morning on their way to Medford.
    Marshall Minter and his brother-in-law, Sam Courtney, passed through here on their way to J. M. Wilfley's orchard. They were planning to paper Mr. W.'s house.
    James Hensley and J. M. Wilfley were among the diners at the Sunnyside Monday and so was George Armstrong, Warner Armstrong, Miss Alice Armstrong. The Armstrongs are the family who bought out C. A. Newstrom some few months ago, and Mrs. M. D. Bowles and her son William Almy, all of Lake Creek, George Laidley, a timber cruiser who has been cruising beyond Butte Falls, came in on the Butte Falls stage, took dinner at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford on the same stage.
    John Greb and Charles Gaxley, the latter of Butte Falls, were business callers Monday and Monday evening Mr. R. C. Seaman of Medford, and Mrs. Florence Lee, county public nurse, came in for supper and Mrs. Lee took a room and remained until today, Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Lee has been visiting our school, examining our children as to their physical condition. She seems to make the examination of the throat a specialty, although she seems to try to ascertain if there is any defect. Tuesday she took the 13 little tots over to Roy Ashpole's hardware store and had them weighted to try to ascertain if their weight were in accordance with their ages and other conditions.
    Mr. Mary Clevenger of Butte Falls, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney, on Nob Hill orchard, was a passenger on the stage for her home Tuesday.
    Charles Cunningham of Central Point, who had been to Prospect with a team, stopped here for dinner Tuesday on his way back.
    Mr. Simmons, formerly foreman on the Corbin orchard, was in town Tuesday having some work done on his wagon.
    A man giving his name as M. C. Gray and claiming to be a representative of the Medford Mail Tribune and the Medford Sun, was here Tuesday soliciting for the Medford Sun and trying to get renewals for the Daily Mail Tribune but he didn't seem to be having very great success, as the people were wondering why the publishing company should send out a stranger on that mission when the old agent, who has worked for them for the past ten years or more, was already here.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of the largest orchardists in the valley, was here for dinner Tuesday, and reports that he has about all of his fruit packed and ready to put on the cars so soon as they can be had.
    Mrs. Walter Meyers, living on the French-Dodge bridge road, came in Wednesday morning with W. H. Crandall and went on to Medford to take the train for Myrtle Creek to visit her daughter.
    W. D. Roberts, Miss Winifred Haak, Mrs. Fred Dutton, F. T. McCabe, Mrs. Nettie Garner and Mrs. Bert Bryant of Medford were business callers Wednesday morning. Miss Winifred Haak and John Smith and Mrs. Harvey Smith took passage on the Butte Falls stage. Miss Winifred was going to Derby to visit the family of John Allen of that place.
    Miss Thelma Ellestendt, who is teaching the Derby school, came out on the Butte Falls stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside, going on to Medford this afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 28, 1919, page 6


    A. M. Gay, one of our progressive young men, was doing business in our town Wednesday afternoon, and so was Mr. M. E. Pruett and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Guy Pruett.
    William F. Smith, who owns and operates a small farm on the Medford-Central Point road, was also transacting business here Wednesday.
    B. F. Fuller, who is living on an orchard a mile or so above town, was doing business with our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, the same day and so was Pete Young, one of our prosperous farmers and stock raisers.
    Miss Katherine Foley, one of the teachers in the Butte Falls school, came out on the M.-B.F. stage Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and then went on to Medford that afternoon.
    R. A. Petty, Jr., and wife of Medford came out Thursday about noon expecting to meet his father, R. A. Petty, Sr., but he failed to come in to the post office and so failed to get a letter his son had written to him to meet them at the Sunnyside and all take Thanksgiving dinner together, so after consultation they decided they would go for him and all three take dinner together, so off they went and in a short time the three were seated at the table enjoying their dinner together.
    C. F. Rhodes, our county surveyor, was also a dinner guest Thanksgiving Day and spent the night with us.
    Miss Ethel Freeman, who is teaching in the Lem Charley district, just above Brownsboro, Miss Julia Sidley, who is teaching in the Lake Creek district, Ralph Tucker of Brownsboro and William Holmes came in on the E.P-L.C. stage Friday. Mr. William Holmes has not decided yet just where he will located, but says that he has a job feeding cattle on the James Culbertson farm just above the L.C. post office for the winter.
    Thanksgiving Day passed off very quietly; the business places were all closed except the confectionery and T. E. Nichols, even the blacksmith shop, but our smith is somewhat of a jovial sort of a man and enjoys a good dinner as well as anyone, so concluded to lay off and rest at home and have an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner with his family. Raymond Reter and family of Medford came out and spent the day with Mrs. Reter's sister and her father, A. J. Florey, and family, and quite a number of our citizens had their Thanksgiving dinner together and one or two families joined together and thus had not only a good dinner together, but a good social time, and some of them went to Medford and spent the day.
    Judge George Gardner and our county commissioner, James Owens, came in Friday. Mr. Owens was in his car and he proceeded on up into the Lake Creek country, and Judge Gardner came on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and went on up to Butte Falls. They were both riding over the roads to see what was needed to be done to improve them.
    Speaking about roads calls to my mind the fact that we had an election in this district to decide whether we wanted to levy a special tax for the benefit of the roads or not. As I understand the question the county court proposed to the people outside of the incorporated town and cities to take a vote to levy a special tax of say $5,000 on the district, said amount to be duplicated by the county and the amount to be spent to make our country roads better, and I am glad to say that the measure carried in this district by a handsome majority, and word has come over the telephone that the Butte Falls people voted in favor of the tax about two to one, so we are living in hopes that by this time next year we will have our roads so improved that people can travel with some comfort.
    J. D. Arnes and Corbin Edgell, the foreman on the Corbin Edgell orchard, were in town Friday.
    As I understand the arrangement, A. Corbin has appointed Mr. Edgell as the manager of his orchard and Mr. Arnes has been the foreman and business manager of the Edgell orchard for several years and now Mr. Edgell has appointed Mr. Arnes a foreman on both orchards.
    Edward W. Hensley and Albert Clements were among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Thomas F. Nichols and wife autoed into town Friday, Mrs. N. remaining here with her husband's grandfather and he went on up to his old home to look after some hogs he had there.
    George Stowell, our chicken man, was a business caller Friday and so was Jimmy Dugan, two of our hustling farmers and stockmen.
    Our creamery men, instead of coming out on Thursday, their regular day, one of them came on Wednesday and the other came on Friday and the result was that there was a change all around in the customers. The creamery man Friday took out about 12 dozen chickens for the Mathews families, Green Mathews and his son Verna.
    Miss Sarah Singleton was a business caller Friday and so was George Givan, and Mr. Howd, our turkey man. He tells me that he has about one hundred turkeys ready for the Christmas market.
    Saturday Miss Bernice Edmondson, Mrs. Mary Heriford, Mrs. Fred Ahlstrom and daughter Hazel, and Mr. Larkin Barker, all of Butte Falls, came out on the stage from Butte Falls and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did A. M. Gay, T. F. McCabe and Pliney Leabo.
    W. E. Hensley, who sold his property to Mr. McDonald, has moved to Wellen to live with his son-in-law, Shorty Allen, this winter, and his son Edward W. has taken a room at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Grace Harper, our primary teacher, has resigned and as soon as another teacher can be secured will leave here, and her sister Alice, who has been teaching in the Gold Hill district, has also resigned, and at present is visiting with her sister at Mrs. Mittelsteadt's.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 2, 1919, page 5


    The school teacher, Miss Marie Meyers, and also the pupils were in their places Monday morning after the Thanksgiving vacation. Sunday morning at Sunday school an offering was taken for the Armenian relief fund, and $52 was raised in a very few minutes. This we consider highly satisfactory, considering the size of the Sunday school, which is a small Sunday school in the country, with an enrollment of about 22.
    The Butte Falls mail carrier deserted his automobile Monday morning and brought the mail out to Derby on horseback, but Jed Edsall succeeded in getting through the sticky as far as Derby and back.
    Johnnie Clarno, who fainted and fell one day last week while on his way to school, is improving and able to be out again.
    C. E. Bellows is getting better and able to be out some.
    Earl Courtney, the carpenter of Oakland, Calif., is here visiting his brother, Sam Courtney, the painter and paper hanger.
    Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, will complete the preliminary survey of the Eagle Point, Brownsboro, Reese Creek, water ditch in about 10 days.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 4, 1919, page 2


    There was a dance here Saturday night and notwithstanding the fact that the weather was rather inclement, rain, cold and wind, still there was a fairly good attendance and those who attended report that they had a very pleasant time and kept up the dancing until at least late bedtime, for I could hear the young folks coming in to their rooms until toward morning. A. J. Florey, Jr., came in with Miss Ethel Anderson from Medford and Jay Spitzer and Miss Margaret Riley and Graydon Childreth and Miss Zula Geppert came in from Talent. Glen Haley, A. M. Gay, W. W. Hensley, Sherman Wooley and family, Pliney Leabo came in from the surrounding country and took supper that evening, spent the night and several of them remained until Monday afternoon.
    Sunday morning was not so clear and pleasant as we have had, but we had our regular Sunday school that was well attended with about the usual number, but we had an unusually interesting session as the subject that we had under consideration, "Peter and John Asleep in Gethsemane," which led to quite a number of questions being asked by members of the Bible class, and these questions called for a number of thoughts and suggestions from the class making the meeting more interesting than usual. At night Rev. Trovato preached for us and left an appointment for preaching next Sunday at 11 o'clock a.m.
    Wm. Lewis, the sheep king of Rogue River Valley, was here Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    W. H. Crandall and family were in our town Monday. Mrs. Crandall's little boy by her first husband, deceased, while going from home to school with his little sister, a distance of nearly two miles, was taken with a fainting spell and fell backward, striking the back of his head on a stone and was so helpless as to be unable to go, so his little sister had to walk back home for help, and the result was that they brought him into the office of Dr. W. P. Holt for treatment, but I did not learn the result of the examination.
    Joe Mayham and Roy Watkins were among the business callers Monday and so was J. L. Robertson and his two sons, Elmer and Lewis.
    Mrs. Wm. Holmes of Medford was here visiting her sisters, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy and her brothers, R. G., J. F. and Wm. H. Brown and their families. The Brown brothers are among our leading business men in the county and are the leading merchants of our town and are members of the Eagle Point Construction Company. C. H. Natwick, another member of the Eagle Point Construction Company, was a business caller Monday.
    W. D. Roberts, who is farming the Joe Rader place on Antelope Creek, was trading with our merchants Monday.
    Ralph Bieberstedt and Charles Hanstrom, two of our stockmen, were here Monday also and so was Mrs. Fred Dutton.
    Lawrence O'Brien of Butte Falls, one of the high school boys, came out Monday on the Butte Falls stage, took dinner at the Sunnyside, went on to Medford to have Dr. Emmens treat his eyes, came back on the evening stage from Medford to Eagle Point, spent the night with us and went up home on the stage Tuesday.
    A. M. Gay, who has been on the sick list for the past two weeks, has taken a room at the Sunnyside while he is recuperating.
    Jacob Monia of Brownsboro is hauling lumber from the Eagle Point depot to be used on his farm for building purposes. He ordered it from the Dupray mill and had it brought out on the P.&E. track.
    Fred Sunderlin of Brownsboro came in Tuesday on the Lake Creek stage and returned the same day. He is one of our boys from overseas.
    There has been another change made in carrying the mail from here to Butte Falls. The arrangement was made to have Horace Geppert carry the mail from here to Medford and from Medford to Butte Falls and back here one day, and Jed Edsall the next, but now Jed goes from here to Medford and back in the morning and then goes on up to meet Horace at the junction of the Prospect-Eagle Point-Butte Falls roads and there they are met by the Prospect stage and then the Prospect stage takes his mail and Jed and Horace change the mail from the Eagle Point car into the Butte Falls car and vice versa and Jed brings the Butte Falls-Prospect mail out here going on to Medford and back.
    Speaking of the mail carrying reminds me that the teamsters who are traveling over the sticky road from the Reese Creek school house to Vestal's are in the habit of stopping and cleaning the mud off of their wheels right in the track, thus leaving from two to four large piles of mud that the autos have to run against, thus endangering the springs or perhaps the lives of the occupants, while if they would pull out of the main traveled road to clean their wheels it would save that risk as well as be a great accommodation to the rest of the travelers.
    D. C. Herren, grandmaster of A.W.A.W., was here on business connected with the order. He was the guest of Royal G. Brown.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 8, 1919, page 5


    August Meyer of Lake Creek was here at the Sunnyside Wednesday afternoon inquiring for a horse that was to be left by a man from Medford, but there was no horse left here and so he had to return without him. But the next day George Howe of the Medford Junk Company came out about noon with the animal and Henry Meyer was called on the phone and notified and the result was that in a short time August Meyer was here, so after Mr. Howe had eaten his dinner and let the horse he drove eat, he started for Medford, not failing, however, to inquire if we had any old cast-off car tires or tubes to dispose of.
    Marshall Minter and Irving Pool, the latter from Klamath Falls, but formerly of this place, was here visiting his half sister, Mrs. J. Frank Brown.
    Gus A. Pech of Lake Creek was among the business callers the same afternoon, and while here gave me $1.50 to renew his subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Eldon Johnson of Medford, connected with the poultry business in Medford, and S. S. Ingle of Prospect and Pat Walker of Medford came in for dinner Thursday and a little later D. T. and E. J. Jones, father and son of Seattle, Wash., and W. H. Buskirk of Portland came in for dinner and remained with us until Friday morning when the two Messrs. Jones took the Trail stage to go up to the free ferry, where they were to leave the stage, cross the river and drop back to Indian Creek and go a short distance and visit the Stille brothers, J. C., Eli, William and Mack, four of their old neighbors, and also to look at an old homestead with a view to locating up there. Mr. Jones, Sr., said that he was so favorably impressed with the appearance of this country that he would like to rent a farm for a year and then he would be able to decide whether he wanted to buy a farm or not. And Mr. Buskirk remained up to the present time, Saturday afternoon. He is interested in the agate business and is putting in his time looking over the agate fields for them.
    Frank Farlow of Lake Creek and Ivan Culbertson were business callers Thursday.
    Mrs. Walter Meyer, who with her husband are living on the old Schneider place, whose name I mentioned a short time ago, is going to Myrtle Creek to visit her daughter, has returned home and came in Thursday to bring in her eggs and cream.
    Among the other callers Thursday was Pete Young, C. J. Kafer, the Brownsboro meat men, Wm. Stend, our mail contractor, who carries the mail from here to Brownsboro and Lake Creek. He had already made his trip to Brownsboro and Lake Creek and had returned on other business than carrying the mail.
    William Lewis, our sheepman, Ora Bellows and Mr. Joy were other business callers.
    William Perry, who lives in the suburbs of our town, passed through here with his wood saw Thursday to saw up a lot of cordwood that had been brought out from Butte Falls on the Pacific and Eastern railway. The company or someone else have fixed up a car so that now people can procure a limited supply of cordwood and then have it sawed up at their homes.
    L. K. Haak and family motored through town Thursday, going toward home, and the supposition is that they had been to Medford.
    Mrs. Ed Tucker and daughter of Brownsboro called on our business men, among whom was our shoe mender, W. S. Chappell.
    P. S. Anderson of Medford was also out looking after his dairy and farm interests.
    Miss Mildred Neil, who is acting as one of the assistants in the office of the county clerk, passed through here Friday morning on her way out to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby.
    Frank Hall, who is living on the old Caster place, Derby, was in town the same day patronizing our merchants.
    John McAllister and his daughter, Miss Ethel of Lake Creek, were patronizing our merchants also, Friday.
    Walter Allen of Derby, son of one of our leading stockmen and capitalists, was here Friday also, looking after their stock.
    Mr. and Mrs. Cox of Portland drove in from Butte Falls Friday and on account of having to be pulled through sticky by a team were a little late to dinner, but succeeded in satisfying their appetites, and as I was just ready to go to Medford invited me to ride with them in their car, which I did thankfully. Mr. Cox has been engaged for some time in cruising timber beyond Butte Falls, and came out combining business with pleasure, to see friends off for Portland as well as to attend to business matters. While I was in Medford after attending to a little business in the Medford Mail Tribune office and making a few purchases I spent the rest of the time meeting friends, some of whom I have not seen before for some time. I also met quite a number of people from this section who were there trading, among whom were C. E. Bellows and wife, Miss Mary French, Perry Farlow of Lake Creek, A. M. Gay, Frank Smith, Graydon Childreth and Zula Geppert, Jay Spitzer, Miss Margaret Riley and Orin Bell. There were five of us came out with William Lewis in his jitney that evening.
    Among those whom I met in Eagle Point before I started for Medford was Clarence Pierce of Medford and John Rader and wife, who came in to attend to business and visit their son-in-law, Roy Ashpole and family.
    William Taylor, who has been spending the summer out at Merrill, near Klamath Falls, came out Friday evening on the mail stage.
    Roy Ashpole and family motored over to Medford Friday evening to visit his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Ashpole, who had just returned from a visit in Portland.
    John Welch of Lake Creek and E. D. Rose of Wellen, Miss Elise Singleton and W. H. Crandall were also here Saturday.
    J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, came out Saturday on the stage and went on to Medford. He reports everything up to date in his line. He and J. J. Skinner, who are looking after the interests of the California and Oregon Power Company, took dinner at the Sunnyside Saturday.
    Up to this writing Saturday evening the school board have not secured a teacher to take the place of Miss Grace Harper, who has resigned.
    Louis Gipson and C. H. Natwick were business callers Saturday and so was Irvin Bieberstedt.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 9, 1919, page 7


    We have been talking of Jackson County as the Italy of the Pacific Coast, as far as the climate is concerned, as well as its fruit-producing properties, and while we were representing the climate especially as that of the most desirable character, so far as I am concerned I am ready to admit that, even in this delightful section of our land, that we have freaks in our weather makeup that astonishes the oldest settler, for after enjoying the pleasant evening of last Wednesday, for that I remarked what a warm and pleasant evening it was, notwithstanding the fact that it was somewhat cloudy, and then for us to wake up a little after midnight and find a mantle of snow covering the ground, and a little later hear the crash of trees breaking down under the weight of the snow, I am ready to confess that I was completely surprised; and then after daylight to see the havoc that it had done. The first thing in that line was to see an old balm tree that stood in the street on our place completely crushed under its weight, and then crossing the bridge and seeing the havoc it had played with the telephone poles all along the various lines going out from here, and hearing different ones tell of the effect of the storm in different parts of the country and even in a little village, I was ready to admit that this was not as much of an Italy as it might be, but when I woke up this Saturday and found the thermometer registering seven degrees below zero I was ready to admit that I have been altogether mistaken with regard to the Southern Oregon climate. While it has not done as much damage as it would had it been accompanied by a sleet, as I have seen it in the Willamette Valley, still it has done considerable, as it has broken down a number of trees and the limbs off of some and greatly damaged several ornamental trees, for instance in Dr. W. P. Holt's yard there stood a large black walnut tree that was a beauty to behold as well as one that afforded a beautiful shade, and the storm simply tore it half in two, laying one-half across his yard fence, thus destroying the fence entirely, and then William G. Knighten's large almond tree had some of its larger limbs twisted off, and in addition to all the storm played havoc with our electric lights and phone service, but this perhaps is a part of what our astronomers have been telling us was to happen about the 17th of this month, but we have reason to be thankful that it is no worse as so far I have not heard of anyone being killed or even hurt by the storm.
    Fred Pelouze came dashing into town on horseback Thursday morning and went and interviewed our postmaster who was working repairing his telephone lines near the post office--just getting ready to start in on the big job of replacing a lot of poles that were broken down.
    Mr. Walter Meyer was also a business caller, having come in to deliver his week's supply of cream.
    C. E. Bellows drove in with a team Thursday to get a wood-sawing machine and gasoline engine of Roy Ashpole. He says that he is going to saw up a lot of wood he has on hand, use the engine to pump water, run his cream separator, turn his grindstone and if necessary use the engine to cut or grind feed for his cows and pigs. He is quite a genius and will get his money out of it and save a big lot of hard work.
    Ed Condon was in town and had some cream cans in his wagon, but I do not know of him running a dairy. Perhaps he does, for he is one of our wide-awake men.
    Emmit Klingle passed through here Thursday with Thomas F. Nichols' Fordson tractor, taking it home. T.F.N. said that they had had it out plowing a tract of land that Nichols and Ashpole had bought of Thomas McAndrews near Medford. When asked how he liked it he said it is going to take the place of horses in that line of work, for one can plow about three-quarters of an acre in a hour and that makes about six acres in eight hours and if a man is in a hurry he can have two or three shifts and plow 18 acres a day and then he can detach the plows and hitch onto his seeder and harrow and finish up the job and after he has his own crop in he can plow for his neighbors and soon get his money back, and will not have the expense of keeping horses, for he says that he can do any farm work with it that he can do with horses.
    B. S. Baker, who owns a ranch on the E.P.-Derby road, went out with the mail carrier Thursday morning, and James Peyton, who went up a few days before, came out on the same stage that day. Jerry Lewis and Graydon Childreth, who are helping Mr. Clements on his telephone work , also took dinner Thursday and so did Richard Muskopf of Prospect.
    Ora Bellows and Wm. Lewis, our sheep men, were here on business. Mr. B. says that his sheep are doing fine and that he has plenty of hay to keep them.
    J. P. Goin, our agate man, started for Portland last Thursday, to be gone a few weeks. He intends to go to Marshfield and visit his parents before returning.
    H. L. Pickel and Carl Beebe came in for supper Thursday evening. They are in the employ of the Jackson County Creamery Company and started out on their regular route but when they reached Brownsboro some part of their truck gave out so they had to leave it there and come to the Sunnyside for supper and after supper hired Jed Edsall, our mail contractor, to take them to Medford and Mr. Muskopf went with them.
    Mrs. Gus Edmondson of Butte Falls came out with the mail carrier Thursday evening and spent the night here and Friday morning went up home with the mail carrier.
    Mr. Sandoz of Elk Creek came out on the E.P.-Trail-Persist stage, reaching here Thursday about 10 o'clock p.m. At Persist the snow was about three feet deep and the road was blocked every few yards with fallen timber, so that he had to cut his way through, with the result that he did not reach here until that late hour. Mr. Sandoz went on to town the next day.
    J. J. Menard, representing the Cleveland Tractor Company, service instructor, and William G. Pierce, mechanic for Hubbard Bros., were here for dinner Friday, and so was A. A. Betz, Emil Feentzler and F. J. Ayres came in Friday morning. Mr. Feentzler had been out to the Powers place on Reese Creek.
    Carlyle Natwick and Gus Nichols and wife came in Friday.
    Richard Weiker and Andrew Green, representing themselves as being in the evangelistic work, came in Friday and inquired about the use of the church as they wanted to conduct services here next week beginning on Tuesday evening, December 16 at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody is invited to come out and take part with them in the good work.
    Claude Charley of Brownsboro was a business caller Friday.
    H. L. Cox, brother of J. T. Cox, and George Laidley, three timber cruisers, came in Friday evening to the Sunnyside. The two last named were brought in by W. W. Parker of Butte Falls, and Harry Heriford came in from Medford on his way home, also Zula Geppert came in from Phoenix and spent the night and Mrs. F. O. Austin of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls-Medford stage and met her brother, Mr. Heriford here, and they and Mr. Parker took dinner with us and then started in a sleigh for home.
    Harry Kyle of Idaho came in Friday to visit his mother and brothers. Mrs. Kyle is the lady who bought the Jay Grover place in the lower part of town some time ago and went onto it this fall.
    W. H. Buskirk of Portland, of whom I made mention in my last letter, who came on Friday evening, and was interested in our agate fields, came in, going from here to Long Beach, California, to spend the winter. While here he secured quite a lot of agates that he found himself and bought quite a lot of J. P. Goin, our agate expert, who has been stopping here for some time past.
    Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, who has been engaged on the survey of the water canal from Big Butte to this neighborhood, spent Sunday night with us.
    Sunday was one of our quiet days. There was about the usual attendance at Sunday school and church Sunday morning, and Mr. Trovato gave a short sermon in the forenoon and then went to Brownsboro to preach in the afternoon, and at Butte Falls at night. He will preach here next Sunday evening at 7:30. About the usual number of our young folks were here for dinner Sunday, but none except locals.
    J. D. Arnes, the foreman on the Corbin Edgell orchards and family, was here Monday, apparently buying a stock for the coming holidays.
    L. Turner and Mrs. F. Lees of Trail came out Monday morning on a special "for hire" and took the Trail stage for their homes.
    J. W. Berrian, the Butte Falls hatchery superintendent, who came out last week, came out Monday and went on up home on the Butte Falls stage.
    Joe Pool and wife were here Monday laying in quite a stock of supplies.
    Roy Stanley and wife motored to Medford Monday.
    Robert A. Neil of Lake Creek was in town Monday. He says that he has rented out his farm but has reserved the home, so that now he has a home to go to again, and that next year he intends to get him a Ford and then he can go when and where he pleases and not have to walk.
    Mr. and Mrs. Radcliff, who own a farm on the E.P.-Brownsboro road, were business callers Monday and so was the two Brittsan brothers.
    There was a man and a woman came out on the stage and went on up the country. They were both strangers to me.
    Miss Florence Lansing, the principal of our school, intends to have the Christmas exercises for the school on Friday evening, December 19th. There will be proper exercises and a Christmas tree and presents will be distributed to all the children if their names can be obtained.
    Mr. A. Wines, the coal prospector, and Jack O'Conner of Phoenix came out Monday and went to Brownsboro, but could not find accommodations for the night so returned to the Sunnyside for the night, going on above Brownsboro the next day to look over a tract of land. While here Mr. Goin, our agate man, being here was showing them a lot of 250 agates already polished, ready for mounting and after looking them over Mr. O'Conner asked what will you take for the lot, and Mr. Goin replied. And in a few minutes Mr. O'Conner took out his checkbook and drew his check for the required amount and passed it over to him, taking the box of agates, and I am inclined to think that I was not the only one in the room who was astonished. But Mr. Goin says that he can soon collect another fine assortment of agates, as he knows where to find plenty more.
    Tuesday morning Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stanley and Mrs. Stanley's mother, Mrs. M. E. Buett, were business callers, and while here Mr. and Mrs. Stanley tried to engage the services of Prof. A. L. Haselton to go six miles beyond Butte Falls to Rancheria Prairie, to teach a school consisting of two small children. But up to this Wednesday morning he had not decided whether he would accept and he said, "Why, Howlett, I don't know how I would occupy the time. And I imagine that it would be lonesome to a man who has been teaching schools of from 36 to 60 pupils."
    Lemon Charley of Brownsboro was also here Tuesday on business.
    Our school board has at last secured the services of Miss Ruth Young, recently from Kansas City, Mo., to take the place of Miss Grace Harper, our primary teacher, who tendered her resignation as the primary teacher in our school. Miss Young will commence her term next Monday morning, December 15.
    W. D. Roberts, who has been farming the Joe Rader place for some years, tells me that he is selling off his stock and intends to leave the farm as the difficulty in getting farm help and the high price of labor is such that it will not justify him staying on the farm. He did not say where he was going or what branch of business he was going into. We regret very much to have to lose as good a citizen as Mr. Roberts.
    John Foster, who has been working for Thomas F. Nichols this winter, came in Tuesday evening to the Sunnyside as it is his home and is ready for another job. Mr. Nichols has his crop all in.
    H. B. Tronson, one of our orchardists, was in town this morning looking for a valuable dog, a pointer that had followed someone off from the orchard.
    Miss Myrtle Maegly of Rogue River, who has been here visiting her aunt and uncle, Frank Lewis, and her cousins, etc., went to Medford this morning.
    Lawrence Obenchain of Lake Creek was here this morning smiling on his friends.
    O. M. Goss, formerly a teacher in our school, and Wm. Perry and wife were here also, on business. In fact Will has business almost everywhere he goes, for he is a rustler.
    Harvey Stanley was here looking after his cattle this morning.
    W. P. Brooks and wife were here also. Mr. Brooks came out to clean up Mrs. Weidman's piano and brought Mrs. Brooks along with him.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 15, 1919, page 5


    Saturday evening Mrs. R. C. Brophy, who is teaching school near Peyton, came out on the Prospect stage as far as Derby and then was brought out by H. Watkins as far as the Reese Creek school house where she is expected to find conveyance to bring her out to the Sunnyside, but in that she was disappointed and as there was no telephone in working order the prospect looked dark for accommodation that night, but she finally got word to a friend to come to her relief. There was another woman, Mrs. Chris Beale, we came out from near Butte Falls at the same time with Mr. Watkins and they were both in the same plight, as they were left at a bachelor home, Rube Johnson's, but she was relieved of the situation and she went to stay with a relative while Mrs. Brophy spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    The next morning Mrs. Brophy went on to Medford with the mail carrier. Ira Tungate also spent the night at the Sunnyside and went on to Medford at the same time.
    Sunday morning a few of us met at the church to hold Sunday school and after consulting with regard to trying to have preaching services that night, as it was bitter cold, for this country and the electric wires were out of commission we decided that it was best not to have services and so notified the minister, Mr. Trovato, but he expects to preach here at 11 o'clock next Sunday, the 21st.
    Speaking of preaching, Mr. Richard Weiker and Andrew Green are holding meetings here now and expect to preach every night this week except Saturday. They expect to hold services Sunday evening also at 7 o'clock.
    We did not have anybody here from the outside world for dinner, although we had A. J. Florey, Jr., and his brother-in-law, Wm. von der Hellen and family, and a lot of the young folks who come in almost every Saturday night to spend the night and take dinner Sunday.
    D. R. Patrick, who has been working on the Talent canal, he is a carpenter, came in Sunday evening and went on up to his ranch about three miles above here, the next morning.
    Mr. Fisher of Medford came in Sunday afternoon and brought Miss Ruth Young, our new primary teacher, who took charge of that department Monday morning. She took a room at the Sunnyside and seems to be getting along very well with her work.
    In spite of the snow, ice and cold people will continue to travel. Mrs. Doubleday of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls stage and went on to Butte Falls. Mr. Charley also came out on the same stage and went on up to his ranch above Brownsboro on the Lake Creek stage.
    J. B. Arnes was doing business with our merchants Monday.
    Harry Young, a son-in-law of our townsman, J. B. Jackson, who has been up in Washington since his discharge from the service, came in a few days ago with his family to visit the old folks at home.
    Mrs. Austin, who lives on the Frank Bybee place on Antelope Creek, was a business caller also Monday and so was Emmit Klingle.
    About noon G. W. Sanders, foreman on the Antelope orchard, Geo. McDonald, foreman on the Frank Rhodes ranch, four men who were repairing the electric wires, and Orville Childreth were here for dinner Monday.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the fish hatchery near Butte Falls, came out on the stage Monday and reports that the storm did but very little damage to the hatchery and that it was all repaired and everything in shipshape order again.
    Miss Elsie Singleton and her brother Thomas were among the business callers Monday and so was C. H. Natwick and W. P. Haley, one of our progressive hay and orchard men.
    W. W. Parker, the "Old Reliable" of Butte Falls, came out Monday and took passage on the stage for Medford, where he was met by this mother Mrs. R. L. Parker, and his sister, Mrs. E. E. Smith, and her daughter, Mrs. Ira Tungate and her husband, and they all came out to the Sunnyside Tuesday evening to spend the night.
    Monday afternoon J. W. Lower and T. I. Loughlin, two timber cruisers, came out from Butte Falls on the mail stage, spent the night here and went on the same stage to Medford the next day.
    Fred Chartraw and his brother Raphael Chartraw, and John Caster, three cattle men who were riding for cattle, came in and spent the night Tuesday, and Cecil Culbertson, who had just come in from Portland also spent the night with us.
    Tuesday Carl von der Hellen, Shorty Allen, George McDonald, Mrs. Mabel Hildreth, Jake Walsh, G. W. Sanders of the Antelope orchard were here for dinner Tuesday.
    S. L. Vinson, a traveling fruit contractor and his cousin, Ralph Peyton, walked out from Medford Tuesday afternoon and spent the night at the Sunnyside and so did K. S. Jones of Butte Falls, and those already mentioned in the former part of this letter, and Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls. Counting our regular boarders we had that night almost a full house.
    Mrs. Dupray and her little boy came in Wednesday morning and stopped with us. R. G. Brown of the firm of Brown and Sons also came out from Medford on the stage.
    Mrs. Wm. Holman and her father, Mr. Wm. Taylor, and Irvin Bieberstedt came out on the Lake Creek stage this Wednesday morning.
    Sherman Wooley and W. C. Clements were diners at the Sunnyside today.
    This morning I spent a short time visiting the primary department of our school and was impressed with the manner that our new teacher managed to keep the little folks busy. She seems to be perfectly at home among the little tots and I asked one of the little girls how she liked her new teacher and she replied, "O, splendid."
    W. E. Hensley and Guy Pruett were among the business callers this afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 19, 1919, page 5


    Mrs. Mabel Hildreth, who came out from her home near Butte Falls, the first of the week, and went to Medford on account of the sickness of her mother-in-law, returned Thursday and went up home, reporting that Mrs. Hildreth, Sr., was improving in health. Mrs. William Holman of Lake Creek also came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage from Medford and went up to Lake Creek on the stage.
    Reuben Pitt, Walter C. Clements, our postmaster and telephone man, were here Thursday for dinner, and so was George W. Neilson, Charles Branard, William Olesen, Chris Beale, John and L. B. Palmer. The three last named remained overnight. Mr. Neilson and his engineer had started out to go to Butte Falls with the motor car on the P.&E. track, and about the time they reached here found that there was something wrong with the propelling power and had to return to Medford for repairs, but I understand that they went through the next day.
    Mrs. G. P. Hanley and Mrs. Violet Graham of Trail came in Thursday evening and spent the night, and so did R. E. Marris, out school supervisor, and the next morning he went up the creek to visit some of the schools and returned early enough to witness the school entertainment here Friday afternoon.
    Jake Jones, formerly of this neighborhood but now of Merlin, came in and took dinner and remained until Saturday afternoon.
    S. S. Aiken of Prospect and Miss Bernice Edmondson of Butte Falls came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage, took dinner here and went on to Medford on the stage.
    Mrs. Phillip Geppert of Butte Falls and Miss Viola Hagin, who is teaching in the Crater Lake school district, came out on the stage and took dinner here and then went on to Medford. John Foster, who is stopping here also, went to Medford the same afternoon.
    Mrs. Howlett and daughter Hattie also went to Medford Friday and while shopping Mrs. H. lost her small gold watch, having engraved on the inside of the back the letters A.C.H. to S.E.H. See reward offered in the classified ads.
    Frank Rhoades, our county surveyor, spent Friday night with us.
    Miss Florence Lansing, the principal of our school, gave an entertainment Friday afternoon that was both instructive and entertaining. I say Miss Lansing gave, etc., the reader will understand that our present primary teacher, Miss Ruth Young, had only been here for a few days, five, and so could not be expected to be of much assistance, although she rendered what help she could, but the principal part of the work of preparing came on Miss L. The exercises commenced promptly at 2 o'clock and the first on the program was singing "The Merry Christmas Bells" and the "Old Sweet Story" by the seventh and eighth grades.
    Second, a recitation, "Hang Up the Baby's Stockings" by Bertha Winkle, well rendered. Then came a history drill--questions covering reconstruction after the Revolutionary War and the first six presidents. It was remarkable to see with what promptness and accuracy the children responded. This was followed by a reading by Miss Muriel Smith. We then were entertained by songs by three of the little folk of the primary department. The first was by little Miss Margaret Brophy; she sang two songs just like an adult. She was followed by a song by Wilbur Jacks, and he performed his part nicely. Then another little tot was called, Miss Dorotha Pierce. She is only old enough to be admitted to the primary school but she was fully competent to perform her part. We then had a spelling contest first by all the pupils in the fifth and sixth grades, and then one by the girls in the fifth and sixth grade. Miss Lansing has adopted the old style of spelling orally, and it was quite a treat to hear the boys and girls as they stood in a row as we did 80 years ago and hear them spell and see them watch to catch a misspelled word. In spelling 100 words there were only five reported misspelled, but finally when it came to the simple word alcohol, and I wonder how many of the pupils in our school would have to succumb to the drinking of alcohol now our glorious country has become legally bone dry. We then had a recitation, "My Christmas Visit," by Edith Nichols. It was all right.
    We then had another contest in spelling in the seventh and eighth grades, and they showed that they had worked hard to prepare for the contest, for they brought credit to themselves and the teachers.
    The next on the program was an exhibition on physical culture and Christmas frolic that was fine. This was by the grammar grades. We then had a song by the school, "Holy Night." Then Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus came in and gave us a nice little talk and distributed a basket of nuts and candies. That brought the exercises to a close and after congratulating the children and teachers we returned home satisfied with the manner in which we had spent the afternoon.
    This, Saturday, morning, I spent a short time in looking around for something to interest the readers of the Mail Tribune and while rambling around town in the snow and slush I met Pete and Nick Young, two of our prominent farmers and stockmen; William Houston of Trail also came in and was having our blacksmith do some work on his hack. I also met Mrs. J. O. Arnes, she had came in to interview Santa Claus with regard to doing business next Wednesday evening.
    S. M. Hawk of Butte Falls came out on the stage and A. S. Bliton, the meter reader, was at the Sunnyside for dinner and so was Jake Jones, taking passage on the Lewis jitney for Medford on his way to Merlin.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 22, 1919, page 7


    Now that the cold weather is a thing of history, people are enjoying the real Oregon chinook and rains; the sticky is real sticky on the Reese Creek-Derby mail route. Mr. Edsall tried it with his car and failed. However the road from Eagle Point to Reese Creek is very good and cars are continuing to run.
    As the Christmas season is approaching, people are expressing their good will in different ways in memory of the Christ child.
    Rev. J. Stille preached Sunday after Sunday school to a fairly good audience on the Twenty-third Psalm, "The Lord is my Shepherd." Rev. J. Stille is worthy of a larger audience than often attends.
    On Sunday, December 28th there will be an all-day meeting at the school house; everyone is invited. Bring your lunch and remain for the day.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crandall and two small children left Monday for Sacramento where they expect to spend Christmas; they will then go on to Los Angeles, where they expect to visit for a while.
    Johnnie and Bertha Clarno are staying with their grandma, Mrs. B. Clarno, where they will attend school at Laurel Hill.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 24, 1919, page 5


    Last Saturday night Miss Edna Goetham, John Caster, Fred Chartraw, Jay Spitzer, Margaret Riley, Graydon Childreth and wife nee Zula Geppert and Mrs. Louisa Whitley of Trail who has been in a hospital in Medford for some time, and Charles Moreland came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside and the most of them remained, some until Monday noon, and Graydon Childreth and wife and Mrs. Whitley are here at this writing, Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Moreland is a young mining man from Portland.
    Sunday morning we had a very interesting Sunday school session and afterward preaching services by Mr. Robert Weiker. It was Rev. Trovato's regular hour for preaching but he gave way and asked Mr. Weiker to fill the appointment and then Mr. Weiker preached again at night and has been holding meetings every evening since.
    William Winkle moved his family to Eastern Oregon last Monday.
    There seems to be a great deal of travel now as the stages seem to be doing a lively business now. Monday morning the Lake Creek stage came in with four passenger, three of whom were O. J. Bell, Miss Ethel Freeman, who is teaching in the Little Butte district, and Edwin Potter Potts of California. They all took dinner together at the Sunnyside. Mrs. Ralph Gardner of Lake Creek, and W. H. Crandall, wife and two children also took dinner here. Mr. Crandall and family were on their way to Los Angeles to visit relatives and some of his old schoolmates. They expect to be gone about six weeks.
    Lee Farlow and one of the Tyrrell boys of Lake Creek were also here Monday.
    Green, Grent and Ky Mathews, three brothers, two of them, Green and Grent, farmers and stockmen here and Ky came recently from Montana, were here Monday and so was John Layton of Trail, and Frank Johnson.
    When Will Lewis started out from here with his jitney he had to refuse quite a number of passengers for want of room, and later in the day Wig Jacks started with his car and took a load of people to Medford Monday afternoon and then there were some who were anxious to go to Medford that afternoon that had to wait until the next morning to go.
    Corbin Edgell and his mother, Mrs. George Edgell, motored into town Monday. Mr. Edgell owns a fine orchard joining the A. Corbin orchard and now has the supervision of both orchards, but Mr. J. Arnes, who has been foreman on the Edgell orchard, is the foreman on both orchards.
    F. J. Ayres came in from his ranch Monday and reports the road this side of his place on Reese Creek to be in very bad condition so that he had to come on horseback.
    J. B. Broken, a traveling cow tester for the Cow Testing Association of Jackson County, was here Monday and went out to Medford on the stage.
    W. E. Webb of Derby was also trading with our merchants Monday and so was Milo Conley of Lake Creek.
    Among the lodgers at the Sunnyside Monday night were S. S. Aiken of Prospect, F. W. Arnes, a brother of J. D. Arnes, Charles Manning of Flounce Rock, Mike Hanley of Medford, and J. F. Ditsworth of Talent.
    Mrs. Richardson of Medford was here Tuesday and went up to Derby on the motor as the stage was so loaded that there was no room for more.
    Speaking about the stages, the last few days they have been so heavily loaded that they had no room for passengers and so they have to go on the best way they can, but since the P.&E. men have started their motor car, many of them take advantage of that and go to Derby, Prospect and Butte Falls in that way. They take passengers and freight up and bring wood out to supply the needs of the people in Medford, going on the principle that "half a loaf is better than no bread," but we are living in hopes that the P.&E. will be revived and refitted with good locomotives and take its place among the railroads of the land, and the prospect is brightening.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wortz of Jacksonville were here Tuesday for dinner. Mrs. Wortz, nee Mabel Hansen, is one of the teachers in the Jacksonville school.
    Roy Stanley, one of our prominent stockmen, called for supper Tuesday and reported that his wife had gone to the Willamette Valley to visit her relatives and spend the Xmas holidays.
    A. S. Bliton, the meter reader for the O.&C. Power Company, was out on his regular rounds Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    J. J. Skinner, the man who looks after the electric meters for the company, and his assistant, E. E. Martin, were here for dinner today, Wednesday.
    There was a little girl and her brother, no name, of Ashland, came out on the Butte Falls stage today and went on the Lake Creek stage to visit her uncle, Chris Edler.
    Owing to the fact that tomorrow will be Christmas and the cream collectors will not come out on that day they, by previous arrangements, came today and the result was that there were quite a number of our cow men in town, and in addition to the regular comers, we had among others Pete Betz, Fred Pettegrew, Carl Beebe, W. C. Daley, H. B. Tronson and while here Mr. Tronson was telling of his experience in feeding hay that had been cut in the orchard where the grass had been sprayed with the spray containing arsenate, and the result was that he had poisoned both horses. The trouble seemed to be in their throat.
    Miss Ella Adamson, who had been staying in Medford for some time, went up home to Trail to spend Christmas with her parents.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 26, 1919, page 6


    Miss Marie Meyers, teacher at Reese Creek, gave a school entertainment and Christmas treat Tuesday night, before closing school for the holidays. The beautiful decorations and the training of the children are all worthy of note. The program was well arranged and showed careful thought, the children all doing their part nicely.
    The first on the program was a song by the audience, "Joy to the World the Lord Has Come." Those taking part aside from the school: Miss Maud Merritt, who read an account of the first Christmas. Mr. Stille sang "The Star of Bethlehem." Andrew Lonchar gave some well rendered music on his flute, Carl Bergman gave an organ solo, Santa Claus and his assistant came on the stage in due time, distributing presents to the children, the older people being served with coffee and cake during which every one had a social good time.
    During the social period, Miss Meyers in her pleasing way announced the intention of taking up a collection to build a hospital for the orphan babies of the state. The result--$8 and some cents in the collection.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 29, 1919, page 3


    Wednesday afternoon our two school teachers, Miss Florence Lansing and Miss Ruth Young, at the close of school hired John Foster to take them to Medford so that they could enjoy the whole of Christmas Day in their respective families. They will resume their labors January 5th.
    Wednesday night George Pennington of Butte Falls, Sam Courtney, our painter and paperhanger, and Carl Beebe of Central Point spent the night at the Sunnyside, and Ray Stanley took supper and remained until bedtime.
    There was scarcely anyone seen on the street Thursday as that was Christmas Day and it appeared as though about everyone stayed at home and enjoyed the society of their own family and each had a Christmas dinner, for I heard one man remark that he had a fine fat goose for his Christmas dinner, and another remark that his mother had a chicken dinner, so that he could not fill an engagement he had made to dine out.
    Ed Conley, one of our soldier boys who served for eighteen months in France, who formerly lived here and had charge of the T. E. Nichols store, came in Thursday and took dinner and after dinner gave us a brief sketch of his experience while in the service. Mr. Conley is taking advantage of the offer made by the government to aid the ex-soldiers to finish their education. He is taking a course in the O.A.C. at Corvallis and thinks that he will take the full four-year course. His many friends here are wishing him all the advantages obtainable in his new undertaking.
    We also had W. C. Clements and wife and Frank Brown and wife here to take Christmas dinner.
    Later in the day Henry Thornton came in from Persist for supper and spent the night, and A. J. Florey, who is assisting his brother-in-law, Wm. von der Hellen in his hardware store, and Miss Ethel Anderson of Medford and A. J.'s brother Theo., who also is attending the Medford high school, accompanied them. Also Mr. Fred Pettegrew came in and enjoyed a bed and still later there were quite a number came in after the dance and took beds and breakfast.
    The dance that was given Christmas night seemed to be well attended. The next day after the dance was about as dull a day as I have seen in Eagle Point for a long time, yes for months, for there was scarcely a person to be seen on the street. Mrs. F. J. Ayres, who had been out to Medford to see her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Perry who is temporarily confined to a hospital on account of having a minor operation performed, and is getting along nicely, came out on the mail stage and went on up to her home, and Guy Pruett and wife were about all, unless I might mention that Mrs. Floyd Pearce and her daughter, Miss Roberta, who is working in the court house in Jacksonville, were on the streets Friday. Also Wallace Bergman, another one of our returned heroes, came in and took dinner Friday. He was in France for 22 months and was under shell fire for one hundred and twenty days. He says that at one time he literally had his coat torn off of him and was hit several times but had no serious mishap. To hear him tell of the terrible slaughter he had experienced will make one's hair stand straight on his head. For instance, when a company of eighty will start in and all be either killed or wounded except five it looks as though there was something doing.
    The following marriage notice has been sent to me from Fort Klamath for the Eaglets: Married, Dec. 10, 1919, Mr. Archie Winn and Miss Golden Bradshaw. Miss Bradshaw is the daughter of A. H. Bradshaw, who for some years was a stockholder in the commercial orchard on Yankee Creek and now is engaged in the haying business near Fort Klamath, and Mrs. Winn has a number of warm friends around her old home who are wishing her a happy and prosperous journey through life.
    Mrs. Jasper Hanna and her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Hoskins, living near Trail, were here Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins were laying in supplies getting ready to go to housekeeping.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harrocks and daughter Gladys of Portland have been here visiting Mrs. Harrocks' sister, Mrs. Rudolph Weidman and family. Mr. Weidman has bought a farm, a part of the old J. J. Fryer farm, and his wife is the manager and saleslady in the T. E. Nichols store. Mr. and Mrs. Weidman accompanied them as far as Medford Friday afternoon on their way home, going and returning on the Lewis jitney.
    Miss Thelma Ellestad from Central Point, on her way to Derby where she is engaged in teaching, and Miss Ethel Freeman from Ashland to Butte Creek district. where she is engaged teaching, came out on the Butte Falls stage Saturday morning and went on to their respective schools.
    P. F. McCabe, M. F. Lewis and Mrs. Pearl Murphy and sister Miss Ethel Holman and Mrs. Murphy's daughter Miss Thelma Murphy of Wellen were diners Saturday at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 29, 1919, page 5