EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett

EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett

EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett

EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett

EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett

EAGLE POINT EAGLETS
By A. C. Howlett

    Saturday night there was a general dance here and I understand that there was a very good attendance. As a matter of course there was a goodly number of young folks at the Sunnyside for supper, beds and breakfast, among whom were Fred Middlebusher and Miss Eula Houston, Henry Trusty and Miss Enid Middlebusher, all of Trail; Wallace Bergman and Miss Vida Bradshaw of Wellen; H. Bruggeman, a traveling salesman, Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, and F. B. Rayborn of Medford, besides quite a number of our young people who came in after the dance and took beds and did not get up until after I had gone to Sunday school.
    We had a very interesting session of Sunday school, we have some new members coming in and some old ones returned who had dropped out during the cold weather. After Sunday school, Rev. Joseph Trovato preached for us, taking for his text "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" presenting some fine thoughts. He will preach for us next Sunday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m.
    There were two carloads of people came out from Medford Sunday for dinner, among them were Helen Silliman, H. B. Silliman, Mrs. H. B. Silliman and Howard Silliman and J. W. Wakefield and family, all of Medford. Mr. Wakefield is agent for the Continental Insurance Company. We also had Henry Trusty and Miss Enid Middlebusher, Fred Middlebusher and Miss Eula Houston here for dinner. Also Rob Harnish and wife and Ernest Albert of Butte Falls. Later in the day Miss Marie Myers who is teaching in the Reese Creek school district and Miss Josephine Koppes who is teaching in the Debenger Gap district and Miss Minter and her brother, Marshall Minter. Mr. Minter came with a buggy to take the two teachers, Miss Koppes to Jasper Hannah's where she is boarding, and Miss Myers to W. E. Hammel's, her boarding place, and Miss Minter went to Medford with an auto driver.
    Rev. Richard Weikes, one of the men who has been holding evangelical services here for the past month and went to Phoenix last Saturday, returned Monday to gather up some of their belongings they left and to attend to some other matters. In my last letter I stated that they had gone to Trail to conduct services, but I had misunderstood him and he told me on Monday that they had not decided just where they would go but would try to find someplace where they could go and try to do some good. They seem to be very devoted and earnest in their efforts to help to bring people to a knowledge of sins forgiven. While here they lived in rented, furnished rooms and seemed to pay their own expenses.
    A. C. Spence, the Lake Creek road supervisor of Brownsboro, was a business caller Monday morning and so was P. W. Haley.
    In my last letter I spoke of there being two different elections Saturday, and Monday learned the result. The first election, the one to vote on the bonding of the district for money to build the ditch to bring water from Big Butte Creek into this valley, resulted in carrying for the bonds 28 for and 8 against. There was but very little opposition to the bonds and that was confined almost entirely to one family and relations, and those who have been keeping tab on the question as to who was in favor and those who were opposed report that there were quite a number who were in favor of bonding who were unable to be at the polls to vote. The other election was simply the annual election of the Eagle Point Ditch Company to elect officers for the ensuing year and to levy an assessment to enlarge the present ditch, as it is too small to carry the amount of water needed on the land under the ditch. The election resulted in re-electing the old officers, J. H. Cooley of Medford, president, and Wm. Perry as ditch superintendent.
    John Iseli of Butte Falls, who had just returned from a trip to Portland, came in Monday evening on the Harnish jitney, spent the night and Tuesday here and Tuesday evening J. W. Berrian of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, and Mr. and Mrs. Austin, one of the Butte Falls merchants, came out and took supper and after supper they all four went on to Butte Falls.
    George W. Sanders, the foreman on the commercial orchard, was here for dinner Monday. He was trying to find someone to help him repair his telephone line.
    Other business callers Monday were Mr. Radcliff, Wm. Smith and wife of Medford, who were on their way up the country to visit relatives, Gus Nichols and wife of Lake Creek, Roy, Ralph and Thomas Stanley. During the time that Mrs. Roy Stanley is up in the Willamette Valley visiting, the Stanley brothers have acquired the habit of dropping in at the Sunnyside, sometimes for supper and sometimes for breakfast or dinner, and they came so thick and fast that I have left their names out of my little book and count them as regular boarders.
    Mr. Vernon of Trail, came in Monday afternoon to have his horses shod and reported that someone had borrowed his doubletrees, neck yoke and other appendages of his wagon while it was standing under a shed and had neglected to bring them back, and he would like to have them returned. Some people are so forgetful!
    Martin L. Hurst was here representing a Portland firm selling the portable drag saw. He spent the night here and took passage on the 7:30 stage for Medford Tuesday morning.
    W. A. Livingston, representing the American Tobacco Company, of Medford, was here for dinner Tuesday, and so was F. M. Lewis and A. S. Bliton.
    E. V. Brittsan of the P. S. Anderson dairy farm came in Tuesday and was having our blacksmith and auto repairer work on his auto.
    Mrs. F. Trefine of Butte Falls, came out Tuesday and went on to Medford.
    W. H. Newstrom, wife and mother, Mrs. A. C. Newstrom, formerly of Lake Creek but now of Grants Pass, and Mrs. Stedum, a sister of Mrs. A. C. Newstrom, passed through here Tuesday on their way up to their old home.
    L. W. Smith of Idaho, came out from Medford Tuesday and went up to Lake Creek on the Lake Creek stage. He is here visiting his daughter, Mrs. Stubblefield.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1920, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Van De Mark and three babies, aged two, three and four years respectively, are in this city entirely destitute as the result of a fire which completely destroyed their home, food, clothing and winter supplies near Derby last Thursday. The fire caused by a defective flue started while Mrs. Van De Mark was alone in the house with the children, and she had a narrow escape from death in effecting the rescue of all three of them.
    S. M. Hawk, who operates the Hawk sawmill nearby and is the father of Mrs. Van De Mark, was soon on the scene but the fire had already gained such headway there was no hope of saving the building. Mr. Hawk was painfully burned trying to get out a few belongings.
    Until fruit boxes can be sold next summer the family will be entirely without money, so a number of friends headed by Dillon R. Hill have started a relief fund. Mr. Hill gave $20 in cash this morning. Contributions in cash will be received at the Mail Tribune office or contributions in clothing, particularly baby clothing, food or other articles may be sent to 701 West Eleventh Street, where the family is now residing. There is no residence telephone.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 26, 1920, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. Simon, formerly foreman on the A. Corbin orchard, but now living on their own place, near Wellen, were in town Wednesday afternoon trading.
    H. B. Tronson and Mrs. Ward, wife of his foreman, were also trading at the same time.
    R. E. Morris, our school supervisor, came in Wednesday afternoon and invited me to go with him out to the Reese Creek school house, which invitation I gladly accepted and the result was that after enjoying a five-mile ride with Mr. Morris we reached the school house just after the little folk were dismissed, but we met them at the door before they had dispersed. Miss Marie Myers, the teacher, was just commencing to hear the class in civil government recite and the way she handled the subject evidenced that she was fully competent to fill the position. Then came the spelling classes, but as the recitation was in writing it was not so interesting as what it would have been if they had spelled orally. After the school was dismissed we were entertained by Miss Myers in giving Mr. M., the superintendent, an idea of how she was conducting the school and then she showed us the stock of goods they had on hand in the store that she uses to give the children practical lessons in business affairs, having them purchase a number of different articles on different plans. For instance, one would buy a bill of goods to run a certain length of time at a certain price and so much discount for cash, thus giving them actual experience in doing business and by that means she would enable them to secure a better idea than could be obtained otherwise. After spending a while in that way we then visited the camp of the men who are inspecting the different routes for the Crater Lake Highway. They had come down on the east side of Rogue River and were just establishing their camp. But of course, knowing as much about the working of civil engineering as we did we wasted no breath asking questions, but we will know where the road is going to be, possibly, when the contract is let for building it. Retracing our steps we reached the Sunnyside before dark and Mr. M. spent the night with us, going up to Lake Creek the next day.
    Mr. J. L. Robinson, Sr., walked into town from his farm to try to catch the Lewis jitney, but arrived just five minutes too late, and then while waiting for a car to come along so that he could ride to Medford, and talking to friends he let two cars pass unnoticed, and when I saw him last was still looking for a car.
    Raymond Bergman and Roy Watkins were diners at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    There was the usual number of visitors in town Thursday, those who bring in their chicken, eggs and cream. George Stowell brought in three crates of eggs, 90 dozen at 40 cents per dozen, and 20 gallons of cream, and I heard him tell the creamery men to bring more crates as he would have four crates next week. He keeps the White Leghorn hens, and keeps no cocks, but simply keeps the hens to lay and sends off for his new supply of hens, and I heard him say that the last lot of pullets he sent for, 3,000, but he could only get 250 on account of the demand. [See correction, next column.] Perry Foster, one of the old standbys of the Debenger Gap country, was in town Thursday. He reports that he has been laid up with rheumatism for the past two weeks, but is all O.K. now.
    Mrs. Monia of Brownsboro was also a business visitor, bringing in a crate of chickens for one of the creamery men, and then she took passage on the Lewis jitney for Medford.
    I noticed in the Table Rock Items that some hard-hearted person has been leaving a poor old horse to starve over in his neighborhood, and die by inches and suggest that someone ought to report such owners to the Humane Society. Well, last winter we had two old horses here that had been turned out to "root hog or die" and after hanging around all winter, one of them disappeared and the other was taken up and put in the pound, and after keeping it there for several days the owner notified the town marshal that they would make the town a present of the old horse, and the next morning the horse was seen in the lane about four miles this side of Medford. There is now four or five head of horses running around town and starving to death, and I would suggest that someone gather them all up, as they did in the Butte and Lake Creek country and drive them off to Medford and have them put in the pound and then someone would buy them, if for nothing else, for chicken meat, and have them put out of their misery.
    H. C. Mechem of Ashland and Thomas Spencer of Prospect spent Thursday night with us, and Friday morning took passage in the E.P.-Persist stage for Trail.
    A. L. Boggs and H. Dolf of Medford were here Friday for dinner. They were here with a new wood saw that Mr. Boggs is placing on the market. It is fastened onto the front end of an auto and is run by having a drum fastened onto the hind end of the auto with a belt running to the wheel on the saw frame. It cut up quite a lot of wood for William von der Hellen while it was here and when they got through simply lowered the hind wheel of that contained the drum and started right off for another job. Mr. H. Wolf has accepted the agency for the machine in this country.
    Ed Cowden, Fred Luy, Mrs. Thomas Cingcade, Mrs. Lynn and daughter were shopping in town Friday. Mrs. Lynn is the lady who lives on the Egenbury place they bought last spring.
    Friday evening G. Albert, Harold Patton, Ernest Abbott, Sam Hughes, Ora Abbott, Wilson O'Brien, Prof. H. P. Jewett and Fred Fredenburg, all of Butte Falls, came out and took supper at the Sunnyside and then secured passage to Gold Hill on the big Hudson mail coach, where they were engaged to play a game of basketball against the Gold Hill ball team, all returning to the Sunnyside that night about midnight, except Prof. Jewett. He went to Medford and came out on the stage, going on to Butte Falls that night.
    Welborn Beeson of Talent spent Friday night at the Sunnyside.
    W. C. Daley and Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek were early callers Saturday morning. Mr. Daley was on his way to Medford on business.
    Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby came out on the E.P.-B.F. stage and went up home.
    Word came Saturday morning that the residence of S. M. Hawk near Butte Falls was burned Friday night, but I have none of the particulars.
    P. E. Sandoz of Elk Creek, Trail post office, came in Saturday for dinner. He had just returned from Nebraska, where he had been combining business with pleasure, looking after business interests and visiting two of his sons and a sister. After dinner, he started right on up home.
    H. A. Hauser, representing Failing, McCalman Company, Portland, Ore., was here for dinner Saturday.
    Mrs. McGill of Medford came out Saturday morning and spent the day at the Sunnyside.
    John Holtz of Sams Valley and A. C. Spence of Brownsboro were business callers Saturday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 27, 1920, page 5


    A. L. Peachey of Ashland is in our vicinity, taking the U.S. census.
    A. F. Poole visited his home over Sunday, going to Medford Monday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clark Drake have moved to Trail and live in one of Asher's rooms.
    Mrs. A. T. Poole joined her husband at Medford Tuesday.
    There will be a neighborhood dance at the Trail hall Saturday night, January 31. Basket supper.
    Oscar Stewart took about 40 beef cattle through Trail Tuesday.
    The Sunday school at Trail has a very good attendance this winter. They meet at 11 a.m.
    Ed Ash made a business trip to Medford the first of the week.
    Fred Sturgis is expected home from Susanville, Cal., where he went to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Jones, who passed away January 20, 1920.
    Fred Middlebusher made two trips to Medford the first of the week. He reports the roads very bad.
    Irwin Howe and Howard Ash are drawing logs to Hall's saw mill.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 28, 1920, page 5


    Pete Thurman of Elk Creek came in on the Persist stage Saturday and spent the night at the Sunnyside, taking passage on the Sunday morning stage for Medford.
    Sunday was one of those quiet balmy days such as we often have in the latter part of January, and during February that reminds one of an April morning and makes us almost forget that a short time ago we were shivering with the unusually cold snap that visited our Southern Oregon country, and made us feel thankful that our lot has fallen to us in such a lovely climate.
    We had our usual Sunday school exercises Sunday morning and at the close of the school our janitor, Heath Childreth, tendered his resignation and now it devolves on us, as a Sunday school, to secure the services of another. We regret very much that Master Heath decided to resign as he has been rendering good service and has given general satisfaction. We had no preaching services at 11 o'clock a.m. but Mr. Trovato preached for us at night and had what might be called a fair-sized congregation, but not near so large as it ought to have been. He gave us a very good discourse on the history of Jacob, from the time he cheated Esau, his brother, out of his birthright up to the time of his seeing the vision of "The ladder that reached into the heavens."
    There were but few came in for dinner Sunday although in the evening Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Jerome of Medford called for dinner and so did Lawrence Luy of Wellen. Mr. Jerome is interested with the Standard Oil Company of Medford. G. E. Pierce and wife, who are now located on the Charley Terrill farm near Brownsboro, also took supper with us.
    Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, was here Sunday night and Monday he and Wig Jacks were surveying out a ditch running from the main ditch that is taken out of Little Butte Creek just above the Pelouze place, to water the tract of land he purchased from F. M. Stewart, and Wm. G. Knighten, known as the Grover tract.
    Sam Courtney was a business caller also Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    F. G. Thomson, one of the firm of Thomson Brothers of Lake Creek, came out on the Lake Creek stage Monday and went on out to Medford that afternoon. J. F. Johnson also came in and went to Medford Monday.
    Wm. Smith and wife, who own a small farm on the Medford-Central Point road, came out Monday and went on up to Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, to visit Mrs. Smith's daughter, Mrs. Gus Nichols, returning Tuesday and taking with them their granddaughter Muriel Smith. Miss Muriel has been attending school here during the school term but her grandmother took her home so that she will be greatly missed from our school, for she was one of the brightest pupils in our school.
    Mrs. Charles Nichols and two of her sons, Otto and Carl Nichols, were doing business with our merchants Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thornbrue were transacting business with George Brown and Sons Tuesday. Mr. Thornbrue is the foreman on the Pelouze farm.
    R. A. Petty was also a business caller Tuesday.
    Ira Tungate of Butte Falls came in Monday night, took supper, went to Medford to attend the Page Theater, came back and the next morning went on up home.
    Ed Frey of Lake Creek, and Miss Haynes of Ashland came out from Medford Tuesday morning and took passage on the Lake Creek stage for Mr. Frey's home.
    Wm. Perry and wife went to Medford Monday on business, remaining overnight, and while there attended the Page to see and hear the performance.
    S. R. Snapp of San Francisco, representing Royal Baking Powder Co., was here for dinner Tuesday.
    I see that our new garage men, McDonald and Holmes, are getting their garage fixed up in good shape as they bought out a garage firm in Central Point and are moving the tools and machinery out here. They are also putting in a new gasoline pumping plant and a lathe, drill and other machinery. They are expecting to do considerable business the coming season.
    Mrs. H. L. Vandenburg of Butte Falls came out Tuesday and went on to Medford on the stage.
    P. W. Haley, one of our rustling farmers, was in town Tuesday having our blacksmith make him a hoe of a peculiar make, to cut the rushes and tough grass out of his ditches. He stood right by Mr. Childreth all the time he was making it and was constantly borrowing trouble for fear he would not make it just right, but when it was completed pronounced it O.K.
    Sam Coy, another one of our rustling farmers who bought his farm on the installment plan and is making good, was in town Tuesday.
    Hamilton Watkins and wife were also in town Tuesday. Mrs. Watkins is taking subscriptions for the Oregon Journal.
    The Dodge brothers are starting to drill a well for Mr. McDonald, the man who bought the Hensley place in the lower end of town.
    Miss Humphrey of Derby came out this Wednesday morning and went to her home on the stage, and Miss Veva Loun of Lake Creek also came out at the same time and went up home on the Lake Creek stage. She is attending the Medford high school and was through with her examinations for the week, was excused and has gone home to spend the weekend with her parents.
    F. G. Thomson of Lake Creek came out this morning on the stage and went up home.
    Frank Rhodes and John Grieve, the old reliable road builder, spent the night at the Sunnyside last night and Mr. Rhodes started for Derby and Mr. Grieve for Prospect.
    There were two strangers came in last night and called for beds, stating that they wished to start early on their journey this morning.
    I see in my letter published Tuesday the 27th that there is a big mistake made either by myself or the typesetter. In speaking of George Stowell's hennery and of his sending off for his young hens I am made to say that he sent an order for three thousand pullets when I intended to say three hundred. While Mr. Stowell is keeping quite a lot of hens he is not going quite that strong into the business. The mistake was possibly made by my using numerals instead of letters to express the number and it is very easy to add an extra cipher, making a difference of twenty-seven hundred in the statement.
    John Rader, who owns and operates one of the best farms in this section and is also one of our leading stockmen, was in town Tuesday to have his plow shears sharpened and to attend to other business matters.
    In spite of the high prices for dishes Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants and the only one in town who handles dishes, has had a fine lot of cups and saucers placed on his shelves.
    Rev. Trovato will preach Sunday, Feb. 1, at 11 o'clock a.m.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 29, 1920, page 5


    Al Sturgis, one of the leading citizens on Elk Creek, passed through town Wednesday and went on up to his home.
    Joe Wattenhouse, who is living on the Joe Rader place, and a friend were doing business with our merchants and blacksmith Wednesday evening.
    John B. Martin and A. Stockford of Derby came out Wednesday afternoon and report that they were almost four hours coming from the Ayres place on the Derby road to the Reese Creek school house, a distance of about two miles, with a good team and wagon with about five hundred pounds, Mr. Martin's tool chest and a few other things. The piece of road referred to is a strip of sticky that has been a source of trouble to almost everyone who has to travel over it. I heard the mail carrier remark the same afternoon that he had been carrying the mail over the same road for the most of the time for fourteen years and he had never seen it so bad before as it was that day. And while our county authorities are spending thousands of dollars on what are comparatively good roads the people of rural districts are left to plod through sticky mud, and this road is along an old mail route that has been used for years to carry the U.S. mail over, and yet is neglected from year to year with the promise "Well, we will try to do something next year."
    G. T. Wilson of Medford came in and spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside on his way up to his ranch near Derby station on the P.&E. John Mayham was also a lodger at the same time with us.
    C. J. Kafer of Brownsboro was among the business callers Thursday.
    Carl Bieberstedt, one of our well-to-do citizens, was canvassing our town Thursday morning with a petition to Governor Olcott requesting him to use the executive clemency to keep W. E. Butler from going to the penitentiary. There is a very strong sentiment here in his favor as the mitigating circumstances seem to be greatly in his favor. Mr. Butler was indicted by the grand jury about two years ago for shooting a young man by the name of Stewart and after lying in jail for a long time was finally brought to trial and if my memory serves me right was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation to the court for leniency. The case was appealed to the supreme court and after pending in said court for a long time the sentence of the district court was sustained by a divided court. But his friends, and they seem to be numerous, are asking to have the governor give him a free pardon. I understand that there are several petitions being circulated in his behalf.
    Prof. G. W. Ager, county school superintendent of Jackson County, was out Thursday visiting our school and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mr. McGuirk, the cigar manufacturer of Medford, and while here was looking after that branch of business in our town.
    James Archibald of Brownsboro passed through our town with a fine registered bull he had purchased at the stock sale in Medford. He also had a fine boar hog that he had purchased in the same place. Mr. Archibald prides himself on keeping up-to-date in that line. He believes that it costs no more to keep a cow that will give ten or twelve quarts of milk than it does to keep a cow that will hardly raise a calf, and if our stockmen would pay more attention to the quality and less to the quantity they might find it to their advantage.
    Our creamery men were a little mixed Thursday as some of them who supply the Jackson County Creamery with cream came in and found that they had phoned out [sic] that he could not come out on Thursday as their truck broke and was out of commission, but the Independent Creamery man was on hand and met his customers, but the other man did not reach here until Friday and got his cream and eggs just the same. While here Thursday I overheard a conversation between two of our dairy men with regard to a contest or that had come out to teach the dairy men how to tell a good cow from a poor one and Mr. A. remarked to Mr. B. that he had in his herd a large Holstein cow and Mr. G., the tester or teacher, remarked that she was good for beef but good for nothing for milk or cream, whereupon Mr. A. told him that she was among the best milkers he had, but the teacher said she had such a small udder. Yes, remarked Mr. A, her udder is small but it expands and she will give over eight quarts at a milking. The teacher then thought that he would save himself on the cream or butterfat supply so he remarked that she was no good for butterfat, but Mr. A. assured him that her milk tested from four and a half to five points or percent. (I don't fully understand the full meaning of their terms.) The teacher then started in a different direction and pointed to a large roan Durham cow and remarked that there was the best cow in the herd fully expecting that Mr. A. would confirm his statement, when lo and behold, he was told that that cow would make good beef but was no good for milk or butterfat. So Mr. A. derived but little benefit from the professional teacher and Mr. B. remarked that that was about his experience in the same line. Although there are some who have studied and partially mastered the subject, it is not everyone who goes to school and gets a smattering of the business who make a success in that line.
    R. M. Conley and G. C. Cottrell of Butte Falls were here for dinner Thursday.
    Ed Cowden, who is living on the old J. M. Nichols place, and C. A. Hanscom of Brownsboro were also in town Thursday.
    W. A. Nessler, a member of the fire department of Portland who has been here visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. G. Knighten of this place, left yesterday (Friday) for his home.
    Mrs. R. M Richardson of Butte Falls went up home Friday.
    Pliney Leabo, one of our old boarders who has been away for a few weeks, returned to his room Friday.
    C. H. Obenhaus, of Portland, was here for dinner Friday.
    Grant Matthews and wife and son-in-law, J. F., and his brother Frank Johnson were in town Friday.
    There have been some changes in real estate out this way in the past few days. W. C. Daley has sold his fine farm on the north fork of Little Butte to a man by the name of Dundus and W. C. Daley has bought the George von der Hellen place just above town. While the community in the Lake Creek country are losing one of their best citizens, we as a community will be the gainers.
    We hope that Mr. Dundus may prove to be equally as desirable a citizen in the Lake Creek country and that he will not only prove a blessing to that neighborhood but to the surrounding country.
    J. L. Robertson brought in a lot of hogs Friday to ship to Medford today, Saturday, for the Portland market.
    Nick Young, our road supervisor, was here for dinner yesterday.
    Mrs. Wm. Nickell of Lake Creek was here yesterday.
    Messrs. Dodge and Sage, the men who are drilling wells in this neighborhood, have been lodging with us for the past few nights while they were drilling a well for Mr. McDonald, and Mr. Dodge was here for dinner today while Mr. Sage was taking the drill, etc., out to John Greb's to drill a well for him.
    Mr. H. Bruggeman of Lake Creek spent the night with us Friday and so did M. C. Mahoney of Butte Falls, and was met here this morning by his daughter and Mrs. J. L. Vanderberg of Butte Falls.
    Jimmy Dugan was an early caller this morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 2, 1920, page 4


    Mrs. S. B. Fry of Trail came out on the Persist stage Saturday afternoon and spent the night at the Sunnyside, going on to Medford Sunday morning on the Medford stage.
    Mrs. M. L. Cadzow and her son Robert and Mrs. H. P. Jewett of Butte Falls also came out on the stage, took supper at the Sunnyside Hotel and went on up to Butte Falls that night. There were quite a number of our young men and boys went to Butte Falls that night to attend a dance that was given that night.
    At the close of our Sunday school, by special arrangement and invitation by the pastor of the Presbyterian church, your Eagle Point corresponded preached here in place of the said pastor, Rev. Joseph Trovato. There was a rather small but very attentive audience. Mr. Trovato expects to preach here next Sunday, Feb. 8th, at 7:30 p.m.
    Mrs. Henry Meyer and her two sons, Audley and Vernon of Lake Creek, came out Sunday to attend services at the Catholic church and came to the Sunnyside for dinner.
    Wm. Lewis, who owns two or three ranches and a large band of sheep, was doing business here Monday morning.
    Miss Hazel Brown, the assistant cashier in the First State Bank of Eagle Point, who has been off duty at the bank on account of the health of her mother, who has had to submit to two operations, has resumed her duties in that institution, as her mother has gained sufficient strength to partly attend to the duties of the household.
    Fred Matz, one of the forest rangers, came in Monday from Trail and took dinner and so did Charles Boussum, an orchardist who has been engaged in the J. M. Wilfley orchard.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. Hardman of Lake Creek, and A. C. Spence of Brownsboro, were among the business callers Monday.
    Mrs. David Smith, whose husband is helping to care for a part of Mr. Lewis' sheep, came in Monday and did considerable trading with our merchants, Geo. Brown and Sons. She was met here by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Sherman Wooley.
    Charles Drexler, who is feeding his cattle out on the desert north of here, was doing business Monday and so was Owen Conover, Frank Johnson and a number of our citizens who are interested in the cattle business, and while they were here were discussing the possibilities of having the Crater Lake Highway pass through here or whether it would go up Rogue River, crossing Little Butte near the mouth of that stream, and the consensus of opinion seem to be that it would pass through or near Eagle Point, because if it went on the route up Rogue River about all of the scenic beauty discernible would be occasionally a view of the river and the trees along its banks on one side and on the other side a row of low hills covered with scrub oak and chaparral brush, whereas if it was brought through or near here it would pass through one of the richest valleys in Jackson County, and after the new ditch that the good people of this district have decided to make--they have already voted to bond the district for $200,000 to pay for its construction--yes, after that ditch is completed and the water brought in and put on the land there will be thousands of acres of land brought into a state of cultivation and will produce thousands of dollars of produce and have new homes established, that will add to the scenic beauty of the route.
    The many friends of Mrs. Roy Stanley are glad to see her once more on our streets. She has been visiting her relatives for some time past.
    Miss Alice Humphrey of Derby came out Monday and went on to Medford to resume her studies in the high school.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. Frutzling, who have a farm on Reese Creek, Derby road, came out Monday and Mrs. Frutzling went on up to Portland to settle up some business that they had left unsettled last spring when they moved out here.
    Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nygren and Mrs. Nygren's brother, Ralph Bieberstedt, were business callers Monday.
    S. S. Michel of Ashland, and Mr. Harley Dunn of Talent, two cattle men, were here Tuesday looking over the situation and while here took dinner at the Sunnyside. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harnish and S. H. Harnish were also diners with us and so were C. A. Rekel and Earl May. Messrs. Rekel and May came out tightening up the electric wires along the different routes in this district.
    Mr. Esch, the man who has bought the Singleton farm a couple of miles below town, was a business caller Tuesday.
    There is a lot of wire fencing been dropped off at the corner next to the Childreth shop, and I learned that it was for Carl Bieberstedt. He seems to be fencing quite a tract of land.
    S. H. Harnish and sons and the Sunnyside Hotel are placing a lot of sand and gravel on the street leading from the wagon bridge up to the Sunnyside, thus greatly improving the street. We call it a street although it is really a county road, but the powers that be have more than they can do to care for the roads entirely outside of our town.
    Wm. von der Hellen is having the rocks taken off of the tract of land lying between the city hall, not the dance hall, but the place where our mayor and the city dads meet occasionally to look after the interests of the town, the city hall and the new garage. The rocks were once used as a foundation for a large barn and some of them were used in making the forges for a blacksmith shop that was burned down, and is going to cultivate the land. The tract contains a number of lots of good land that no one has received any benefit from, no, not even the town, for the taxes on the land have not been paid for a number of years. Speaking of the non-payment of taxes, there is a farm in our town that the state school board has a mortgage on and the taxes have not been paid on the land for ten years and now the school board have commenced foreclosure proceedings and will probably have to take the property, and our little town as a corporation, has a claim for back taxes, and the question comes up, if the state has to take the property will it, the state, have to pay the back taxes, or will the county and town have to lose it? There is an old saying that there are two things that we never miss, that is death and taxes, but it looks as though there is a case of at least a strong liability of the county and town losing the tax money this time.
    L. K. Haak and his two children were there Tuesday and he was buying quite a lot of nails of Wm. von der Hellen and I inquired if he was building, and he replied he was, but not much; as long as lumber is as high as it is we cannot afford to do much building.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 6, 1920, page 5


    Now that the enumeration of the fourteenth census of the United States is at an end, everyone is wondering how many inhabitants our beloved country contains. Some of the enumerators had quite an experience getting through the sticky, but that is all in the work.
    Word has been received from Mr. Crandall and family, who are visiting in California this winter, that Mrs. Crandall and son Edison are down with the flu.
    Hattie Johnson, who is a student in the Medford high school, is in the hospital with the flu.
    Mrs. C. E. Bellows is still in the Sacred Heart Hospital.
    Andrew Lonchard departed a few days ago for Portland where he expects to work at his trade, the tailoring business, for a few months.
    The government surveyors surveying for the Lake Creek highway are still at work in this section of the country.
    The winter has been so dry that most of the farmers have improved the opportunity to get their spring plowing done, and some are putting in their early spring crops. However the rains are badly needed.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 9, 1920, page 4


    Mr. Cummings and wife, who went to San Francisco a few weeks ago to be gone a short time, have decided to remain there for the winter if not longer and he has returned and is arranging his business here accordingly and packing up some of this household goods to take to the Bay City with him.
    P. W. Haley, one of our leading citizens and a constant reader of the Mail Tribune, was a business caller Wednesday, and so was Ernest Peachey, one of our forest rangers, and have been staying at the Sunnyside since and is still here at this writing, Saturday.
    C. E. Bellows, another one of our hustling farmers and dairy men, was in town Wednesday afternoon. He had been to Medford to bring his wife out. She had to undergo an operation at one of the hospitals but had so far recovered as to be able to ride out home again.
    A gentleman by the name of Norton and wife, of Medford, who is traveling in the interest of the Olympic Milling Co., were here for dinner Wednesday. He gave me his card but I misplaced it so lost his Christian name.
    Henry Meyers and wife of Lake Creek were also here for dinner the same day. They are counted among the leading citizens in that community.
    One of the pure food inspectors was out and served notice on our merchants that they must not handle or offer for sale any country-made butter unless it has the name of the maker stamped on the wrapper. It would not do to write the name on the wrapper with pen and ink or pencil but before the farmer's wife can sell her homemade butter she must procure a rubber stamp with her name and address, and the prevailing opinion seems to be that is just another one of the schemes to force the farmers to sell their cream to the creameries, giving them almost complete control of the butter market so that they can fix the price of the cream and butterfat both, giving them a complete monopoly, and one of our merchants here denounced it as an outrage and branded it as another move to crush the small fry and enrich the trust.
    H. T. Pankey of Sams Valley, one of the fruit tree inspectors, was in town Thursday, but he was not doing [omission] as two young men, or rather boys, just out of the O.A.C., who were out in this section some time ago. They said that they were sent out to mark the trees in the various orchards where there was blight so they went through the orchards in this neighborhood and tied strips of calico of different colors, the colors indicating the nature of the disease of the tree and the result was that they had almost all of the trees decorated, but the owners or the foremen paid no attention to their inspecting of the trees but simply tore the strips off and let the trees grow, but the boys drew their pay as fruit tree inspectors from the taxpayers' pockets. But when the state or county sends out men of mature years to attend to these duties it is all right but when it comes to boys who want a vacation being sent out and drawing salaries for the taxpayers it is not much less than robbery.
    Mrs. Sample, wife of the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was shopping here Thursday.
    F. J. Ayres, one of our prosperous farmers, was in here to get some oats that had been brought out for him, and in the run of conversation he remarked that he paid at the rate of $100 a ton for them, and still that very day I heard a farmer remark that they, the farmers could not get anything for their produce--only $1.60 a bushel for oats.
    J. E. Edmiston and C. A. Myers, two fruit men of Medford, W. C. Daley and wife, formerly of Lake Creek but now of Eagle Point, were here for dinner Thursday, Mr. Daley having sold out his farm in Lake Creek and bought the George von der Hellen place just above town was moving out, but Carl Jackson and family were living on the place and had not moved out so they came to the Sunnyside to stay until today, Saturday. Mr. Jackson moved yesterday into the house with his parents, J. B. Jackson, and Mr. Daley took possession this morning.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our prosperous farmers who has been with his family visiting friends and relatives in Los Angeles, returned Thursday.
    Mr. Shaffer of Prospect came out Thursday and went out to Medford, returning this morning and going on up home on the stage.
    Theo. Florey, who is working at a mine near Gold Hill, came out to visit his father and sister Thursday.
    There have been several changes in real estate in this neighborhood in the last few days. In addition to those already mentioned Wm. Perry has sold 320 acres of land to Wilbur Jacks lying just north of town, and about 40 acres are under a ditch. Mr. Jacks also bought a one-half interest in a 40-acre tract of land a little further north of Wm. von der Hellen.
    Mr. and Mrs. James Archibald were here for dinner today and report that they sold their fine farm just above Brownsboro to a man from Mexico by the name of Roscoe Hulse.
    Roy Kyle, the man who has the J. W. Grover farm, was here Friday and reports that his brother, Harry, from Applegate, had been over visiting him and his brother.
    Jack Schooler, who has a homestead east of Round Top, was in town Friday and so was Eli Dahack and W. C. Pool and I learned this morning that he had his leg broke and Dr. Holt was called to reduce the fracture. No particulars.
    The report reached me Friday that George Henson of Brownsboro had a fire in the roof of his house that morning. C. J. Kafer of Brownsboro was my informant. Damage slight.
    Ralph Tucker, Albert Gipson, and Green Matthews were also visiting our town.
    O. C. King, the Medford grocery man, was here and took dinner Friday.
    George Myers of Portland, who has been visiting G. E. Pierce of Brownsboro, returned to Portland Friday.
    Dolph Kent of Wellen, and Carl Asch were patronizing our blacksmith Friday.
    Mrs. Myers, who lives with her husband on the old Schneider place, went to Talent Thursday and bought a lot of fine turkeys for breeding purposes, returning Friday.
    Mrs. Irvin Culbertson of Ashland called at the Sunnyside Friday and took supper, going up home later in the evening.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 9, 1920, page 5

    It begins to look like business in the matter of the proposed improved Crater Lake road between Medford and Trail, which improvement will be shared jointly by the post roads department of the government and the state and county. The estimated cost of the grading and macadamizing is over $500,000, the government to contribute 50 percent and the state and county 25 percent each. Work will be begun just as soon as the route is chosen.
    C. L. McKesson of Portland, government engineer, C. C. Kelley and C. B. McCullough of Salem, assistant state highway engineer and state bridge engineer respectively, spent Monday and today with Kenneth Hodgman, the state highway district engineer in inspecting the two routes, the one by way of Eagle Point and the other by way of the Rogue River. The decision is expected to be made soon and the improvement work may be begun by fall. The county court favors the Eagle Point road.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 17, 1920, page 6


    Last Wednesday Dr. F. G. Thayer of Medford took dinner with Dr. W. W. P. Holt at the Sunnyside. They were on their way up to the Lake Creek country on professional business.
    H. H. Williams, salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford, was also a diner at the Sunnyside and so was F. W. Metcalf, representative of R. L. Polk & Co., publishers of directories, Portland.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Matherson of Chicago came in Wednesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside. They were on a trip visiting all of the national parks in the country and had a little break in their car, so were detained a short time here. They had spent several days in the Yellowstone park and were on their way to Crater Lake park when they broke down. While here they related some amusing incidents that had happened along the route and especially in Yellowstone park. In speaking of the various animals to be seen there he related one incident where a large bear was looking around among the camps and discovered a can of honey and was helping himself. When the owner of the car discovered the bruin he waged war on him with a frying pan, driving him away, but having already had a taste of the honey he became very persistent in his search for more so made a raid on a tent nearby where the family was eating dinner and the result was the family retreated, leaving the preserves for the bruin, with the result that from that day on they were without preserves until they could procure another supply. They report that the different animals in the park are so tame that they pay no attention to the approach of a man. Perhaps every reader of the Eaglets does not know that the carrying of firearms is strictly forbidden in all of the national parks over the country.
    They were on their way to Crater Lake and were going from there to see the big trees in the Yosemite park and from there on to San Diego, California, and then to the Grand Canyon in Arizona, expecting to reach their home in Chicago about Nov. 1st. He is the proprietor of a large printing establishment in Chicago. They have fallen greatly in love with our country and think that Southern Oregon is one of the lovely spots of the West.
    W. S. Baker and Fred Dunlap of Derby motored through our town Thursday morning on their way to Medford.
    T. F. McCabe, one of our prosperous farmers and orchardists, was doing business here Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Charles Henstromb and son, and George Givan and son Charles were among the callers Thursday.
    Frank Swingle and family of Ashland were here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. McAllister, recently from Ashland, the past few days.
    Thursday evening a man came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside giving his name as Jonas and claimed to be a traveling evangelist and said that he was just traveling through the country preaching in the school houses, where the directors would permit it. When I inquired with regard to his church relation he said that he was raised a Roman Catholic and had left them and was exposing the ways of that church, that he did not affiliate with any church and was not ordained or licensed to preach by any body or church. That he had but very little money but never took up a collection. I suggested to him that there was a great demand for laborers and that he might go to work and get money to pay his expenses. He went from here to Brownsboro Friday.
    Our cobbler, W. S. Chappell, has been over on Applegate for the past few days interested in mining.
    Fred Luy of Wellen was a business caller Friday.
    When the Butte Falls stage came in Friday morning, Grandma Parker of Butte Falls and her daughter, Mrs. H. Heryford of Rancheria Prairie, Mr. E. D. Hill of Napa City, Mr. O'Brian of Butte Falls were passengers.
    An effort was made about a year ago by J. D. Singleton to have a rural route established so as to take in the settlement along the edge of the desert and I understand that Mrs. M. L. Pruett and John and Carl Esch have finally succeeded in having their names placed on the route that has been used from Medford out to that neighborhood.
    E. E. Barnes of Burns, Oregon, and family were here for dinner Friday. They have sold out their farms and stock in that section and bought a farm near La Center, Wash., and were on their way to their new home. They left here in the evening to go to Central Point to visit with Mrs. Barnes' mother, Mrs. Ann Thomas of Central Point.
    Herman Meyer, Sr., and wife of Lake Creek were doing business here Friday.
    Frank Johnson, wife and daughter Miss Hattie were patronizing our merchants Friday.
    Joseph Geppert, the road supervisor of the Butte Falls district, came out from Medford on the stage Friday evening, took supper at the Sunnyside and then went and spent the night with his daughter, Mrs. Graydon Childreth, going home on the stage this Saturday morning.
    Robert R. Minter was a business caller this morning having his team shod.
    Notwithstanding the excessive hot weather that we are having now, 106 to 110, the farmers and orchardists are so busy that scarcely anyone takes time to come to town and when they do they come in on a run and go back home to cool off. Today we had a few come in for dinner and among them was Horace Geppert and Everett Abbott, Alex Vestal, J. E. Sumner, F. H. Ross and E. V. Peterson, the mail carrier from here to Persist. The three last named were from the Trail and Elk Creek country.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 16, 1920, page 2


    Among the business callers Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Medford Mail Tribune was Mr. Carl Berryman, Ed Cowden, Mrs. M. L. Pruett and Mrs. Carl Esch, and Andrew Pool of Trail. One of the Forest Service men was at the Sunnyside Friday night, but failed to register, so I omitted to mention it in my former letter.
    Saturday evening Miss Marguerite Mansfield and Miss Thebua Nettles called for late supper while on their way to the Mansfield home on the Crater Lake Highway.
    George Holmes and Thomas Anderson were also guests at the Sunnyside for supper. Mr. Holmes is a member of the firm of Holmes & McDonald of the Eagle Point garage.
    Notwithstanding the fact that there was 160 people at the Dead Indian Soda Springs on Sunday, August 8 and an immense crowd at Prospect and Crater Lake, and the McAllister Soda Springs, we had among us at noon that day the following named persons: Mrs. C. V. Stabby and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Clark of Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams, Master Vernon Williams, Walter and Donald Williams and Miss Lacy May Williams of Central Point, and Dick Bessa, formerly of Central Point, but now out near Klamath Falls; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gustine (Gus the Tailor and wife) of Medford; Thomas Lowry of Climax; Wm. von der Hellen and wife, Mrs. J. F. Brown, Mrs. Fred McPherson, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, Graydon Childreth, Lynn W. Smith, Gold Hill, Earl Crossman, Carlyle Natwick, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Palmer, piano man of Medford, Esther and Eleanor Palmer; Mrs. Isaac of Red Bluff, Cal.; G. C. Wing, Eureka Cal.; and later in the day D. R. Patrick, who has taken carpenter work for Mr. Mittelstaedt; W. C. Vance, Miss Allie Caten, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Vance, Lynn Wilson, H. C. Scousen, Charlotte Widell and M. M. Widell of Medford.
    Sunday afternoon we had one of those terrific thunder storms in the hills beyond here that was accompanied by hailstones as large as nutmeg that did considerable damage to the fruit, corn and gardens. Mr. F. G. Ayres was here Monday morning and reported that it had almost completely stripped his fruit trees of pears and apples beside almost ruining his garden. He reports that it was the worst storm he had ever witnessed in his life. It rained as well as hailed over an extent of several miles including the Dead Indian country and from there on north and west for several miles. Our townsman, W. L. Childreth, and family were among the visitors to the Dead Indian Soda Springs and had the full benefit of the storm although it did not hail anywhere he was, but rained and made the roads so slippery that it was difficult for him to travel. The next morning, Monday, Thomas Merriman, Nellie, Francis and Merle Merriman, came in from the McAllister Soda Spring and called for breakfast. They went up to the springs Saturday, intending to return to Medford Sunday night, but the storm made the road so slippery that they thought it best to remain until morning, but they reported they had neither supper or breakfast and were blessed with a fine appetite, but when they left the Sunnyside they were refreshed and ready for another move.
    Among the passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday morning were William Heckathorn of Trail, W. M. Lewis of Flounce Rock ranch and Mr. E. S. Florey. Mr. Florey went out in the country a short distance, returning in the evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    George W. Daley, Jr., and wife of Scotts Valley, California, were in town last Monday. They were here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Daley. Mr. Daley is engaged in making flour, etc., in Scotts Valley.
    Pete Barneburg and wife and Wm. Gregory and wife passed through here Monday on their way to Union Creek for a two weeks' outing.
    Mrs. Merritt and daughter of Reese Creek were in town and Marsh Garrett and wife of Lake Creek passed through here Monday on their way to their stock ranch in the Dead Indian country.
    Our sheriff, Charles Terrill, and Oliver Adams of Butte Falls were among the diners Monday and so was Clarence Martin, Carl Nelson and Bud Fristo, these young men who were on their way to Crater Lake with six horses to work. Mr. E. N. Warmoth from the Motor Sales Co., Medford, and B. A. Daws of the McCracken Motor Co., Medford and Frank Thompson and wife of Central Point, Walter Kaiser and H. W. Conger of Medford and O. R. Campbell were also diners Monday. Mr. Conger is now in the undertaking business with Mr. Orr.
    Rev. John W. Hoyt, representative of the Sunday school interests of the Presbyterian Church, and Rev. J. W. McVeigh of Rogue River passed through here Monday afternoon on their way home. They had been out to Crater Lake and held services in the Crater Lake hotel. They report that this is the third annual service that Mr. Hoyt has held at the lake and that they had about seventy-five listeners.
    Georg W. Warner of Cedarville and J. E. Warner of Hilt and his little girl stopped here Monday night on their way to the Big Marsh, Klamath County.
    Lyle Van Scoy, son of Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, who has been living with his uncle, William Holmes, since the high school closed in Medford, came out on the stage Monday to visit his mother.
    Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Tillston of Ashland spent Monday night at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. A. C. Koppes, Miss Josephine Koppes, Mrs. H. C. Richling and Mrs. F. L. Sherman of Medford were here Tuesday for dinner and so was Wm. Marx of the Portland Music Co., and E. S. Redpath of Medford.
    Dr. W. W. Holt, our M.D., reported Tuesday that Mrs. S. J. Hessler, an elderly lady living in Brownsboro had fallen and broken her arm above the elbow about a year ago, and now has met with a similar accident with the other arm. It seems as though she is having her share of trouble.
    Mr. Bennett Gardner, who lives on the headwater of Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, was doing business with our merchants Tuesday.
    Mrs. Clyde Plymire, who has been up to the Dead Indian Soda Springs with her mother, Mrs. Charles Wilkinson, came out Tuesday and spent a short time at the Sunnyside.
    Fred C. Bell, the man who bought the A. Corbin orchard, was here for supper Tuesday night.
    Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cummings, who have been in Oakland, California since last season, returned to their home in Eagle Point a few days ago, but expect to spend some time in Central Point.
    Mrs. Walter Meyer and three grandchildren came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage this Wednesday morning from near Phoenix, where she has been visiting her sister.
    Miss Ruth Henry of Phoenix also came out and went up to Brownsboro to visit her sister.
    George Holmes, member of the firm of Holmes & McDonald, garage men, went to Butte Falls on the stage today.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 16, 1920, page 6


    BUTTE FALLS, Aug. 19.--The citizens of Butte Falls are anxiously waiting for the 24th of the month to roll along, as we hear so many rumors flying over that there are several prospective buyers of the P.&E. and are wondering if there is a breath of truth in any of it.
    Mrs. Carl Cobleigh is stopping in town this week while Mr. Cobleigh is delivering wood at the depot.
    Mrs. Mary Heryford arrived home Friday, after closing up her business in California. She is a sister to Mrs. Ella Smith and W. E. Parker, having moved her household good here earlier in the season and is located in the Dr. Goss house.
    The large fire on Buck Creek is still running at large and this afternoon several other fires were reported giving some trouble, and men are very scarce around here. Some have been sent up from Medford already.
    The hot weather the past four days has been going from 98 to 103, but today, Monday, is some cooler.
    The Barker and Heryford families are in the mountains camping this week. The huckleberries won't be ripe until about the first of September.
    J. Doubleday sold his timber claim above the falls last week to the Olds company.
    Al Hildreth came in on the stage Tuesday from Central Point, where he has been helping his parents pack up, they having sold their property there and are contemplating moving to California.
    Essie Whaley visited home folks over Sunday, returning to Medford Monday where she is working.
    W. S. Kee came up Saturday from Ashland with a load of goods for the store.
    Those who attended the Eagle Point dance Saturday were Bill Welch, Everett Abbott, Hilda Abbott and Hildred Smith. Most all of the men and boys are out on the fires at present, which are all under control at this date.
    What a glorious cool climate we have up here, anyway, the last few days. There was a slight frost Tuesday evening.
    Sam and Luther Hughes with Pat O'Brian are enjoying a camping vacation this week at Blue Canyon.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 19, 1920, page 3


    Marsh Garrett and wife were among the business callers Saturday on their way home to their Lake Creek ranch. They had been out to their stock ranch on Dead Indian Creek and were just returning.
    Benjamin Brophy, wife and her sister, Mrs. Fred McPherson, were also business callers the same afternoon on their way from a business trip to Medford.
    Saturday evening Miss Marguerite Mansfield and Miss Caroline Greaves of Medford called for supper on their way to the Mansfield farm on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Later in the evening Mr. D. M. Holdman and son, Lee Farlow and wife and Mrs. Don Tyrrell called for supper on their way to Medford to see the show. They live about 12 or 15 miles above here in the Lake Creek country and after taking in the show returned home. The advantage of owning a car.
    Mrs. James Finley of Grants Pass also called and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Sunday morning bid fair to be one of the hottest days of the season and some of our citizens went to the different places in the hills. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, our bankers.
    There was [not] the usual number of people passed through here Sunday morning or came to the Sunnyside for dinner, but among those who came here was Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Vaupel of Ashland, on their way to Crater Lake, although they only expected to go as far as Prospect that day; Gus the Tailor and wife were also on hand for dinner; Wm. von der Hellen, wife and son Hugh, and daughter Joyce; Mrs. Fred McPherson, Florence Milligan, Jake Milligan, Medford; Nora Porter, Mrs. Charles L. McWilliams, Klamath Falls, S. A. Sanders of Wellen and his brother, H. E. Sanders of Nashville, Tenn., who is out here visiting, and looking over the country with a view to locating here; R. M. Cowley and his brother, J. M. Cowley, of Butte Falls. These two and A. J. Florey, Jr. and wife spent the night and Mr. and Mrs. E. G. High and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil B. Norton of Ashland called and spent the evening.
    Mr. Monia Jr., of Brownsboro was in town getting the nails to build a barn on his father's farm.
    Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson of Trail was a passenger on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday on her way home.
    Last Monday morning while Mrs. Wesley Butler, who has a baby about three weeks old, was out on the bank of Butte Creek washing out some clothes and her little brother was sitting in a wheelbarrow holding the baby, by some means the wheelbarrow turned over spilling both into the water, but fortunately the mother was close enough so that she caught the baby before it washed away, and the boy crawled out. Although the baby was so young, no damage was done, though Dr. Holt was called and after making an examination decided that there was not a serious result, although it was a close call for the baby.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Morgan and children of Trail came out the first of the week to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan, and Mrs. Morgan's sister, Mrs. Anna Stevenson from Mitchell, Wheeler County, Oregon, who is here visiting.
    Last Monday G. S. McKesson of Portland, G. G. Kelly, Salem, C. B. McCullough, Salem, and K. E. Hodgman, Medford, the first three named being, as I understand, the three U.S. road commission, were out here looking over the prospective Crater Lake Highway. They all took dinner at the Sunnyside. They gave out nothing more than that they were looking over the route for the road.
    Mrs. Fred McPherson and son, Fred, Jr., started for their home in Portland Monday.
    Mrs. Thomas Harrocks and daughter, Miss Gladys of Portland, came up Monday to visit her sister, Mrs. R. A. Weidman, who is the business manager in the store.
    James Owens, county commissioner, was among us Monday.
    C. P. Combest and two sons of Applegate spent Monday night at the Sunnyside on their way to Butte Falls, where Mr. Combest has a contract for getting out some logs for a mill in Medford.
    Verna Matthews was in town Monday and left with me a check for $1.50 to pay a year's subscription to the Weekly Mail Tribune.
    Cecil B. Norton and Edward G. Hyde of Ashland came in Monday evening and have been here since. They are selling the Columbia Six car, headquarters Ashland, Ore.
    Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Goodman of Coos Bay were guests at the Sunnyside on their way from Crater Lake. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Darby of Medford.
    Irwin S. Watson, state agent for the Phoenix Insurance Co. of Hartford and H. E. Campbell of the First State Bank, Eagle Point, were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Fred C. Bell and Carl von der Hellen took supper at the Sunnyside Tuesday evening.
    Tuesday afternoon Mrs. Howlett, our daughter Hattie and I took a ride out to Jimmie Dugan's farm, and although the ground is cut over on the farms along the route, the shocks of hay and the stubble still standing and the stacks of straw clearly show the productiveness of the soil, and the fruit trees loaded to the breaking point show the quantity and quality of the fruit that our soil produces. We did not find Mr. Dugan at home. He is too busy to stay indoors, but we found Mrs. Dugan at home and I really enjoyed my visit hearing Mrs. Howlett and Hattie and Mrs. Dugan, and occasionally some one of the children, talk and visit.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of the big orchardists, and Mr. J. L. Hovey, foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, were in town this Wednesday morning and to hear them tell the havoc the wind and hail and rain done with the apples and pears was enough to make a man of less nerve shudder, but they did not seem to take it to heart at all. Only a few thousand boxes of apples and pears knocked off and the trees badly bruised, as a matter of no consequence.
    Harvey Stanley and wife passed through here this morning on their way to Rancheria Prairie. They had their saddles along and intended to procure horses and go to the huckleberry patch before they came back.
    Today we had among the diners Mrs. J. D. Hoag of Ashland and Mr. Hutchinson, the man who bought the Johnson place near the mouth of Elk Creek. Mrs. Hoag has been up there visiting for a few days. Mr. G. F. Wilson of Derby, who has a homestead on the P.&E. railroad track, was doing business in our town Wednesday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mr. R. M. Conley and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Brooks of Ashland.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 20, 1920, page 6


    ELK CREEK, Aug. 20.--Mr. W. Kortenaum, Swiss ambassador to the U.S., accompanied by his physician, Dr. R. Schoepfer, and chauffeur were weekend guests at the Rogue Elk; also the La Pearl opera company, who are on the Orpheum circuit.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Burnham of Martinez, Cal., are again registered at the Rogue Elk Hotel for the remainder of the season.
    Mr. Van Heffner, superintendent of Rogue River Fisheries, motored to Medford to meet Mr. H. Mitchell, head of the state fisheries.
    Mrs. J. E. McDonald was in Medford for two days shopping.
    Mrs. Eugene Howell, who has been visiting her people near Portland, is expected home tomorrow.
    Mr. D. G. C. McNeil, British consul to Mexico, his wife and daughter, are staying at the Rogue Elk for a few weeks.
    Dr. C. C. Van Scoyoc and family, who have been spending their vacation at their summer home here, returned to Medford to care for their fruit.
    Many people from Medford and surrounding country are enjoying the splendid swimming pool in Elk Creek.
    U.S. Senator Chamberlain, Mr. R. Watson of the Portland Journal, and D. C. McPherson, all of Portland, sojourned at the hotel.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McDonald entertained Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Eads of Medford for lunch Wednesday.
    Mr. Sandoz, of the upper Elk, drove to Medford on business Tuesday.
    W. F. Isaacs and party stopped for breakfast at the Rogue Elk, on their way to Crater Lake.
    The new refreshment pavilion at the hotel is receiving a liberal patronage from thirsty travelers.
    Dave Pence is busy haying.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 20, 1920, page 5

Medford Mail Tribune, August 31, 1920, page 3


    Much interest is being manifested in the sale of the Pacific & Eastern Railroad at auction at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the depot under orders from the federal court of this district, by Robert F. Maguire of Portland, who is expected to arrive in the city today.
    According to rumors there will be several bidders for the property. The most prominent probable bidder is M. D. Olds of Sheboygan, Mich., who arrived in Medford on Sunday and is stopping at the Hotel Medford. Mr. Olds and his agents have spent much time here during the past year buying up timber along the route of the Pacific & Eastern. His main representative stated this noon that neither he nor Mr. Olds had anything to say about the big sale Tuesday, which means so much to the future welfare and development of Medford and the towns along the P.&E. railroad.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 23, 1920, page 6


    Mrs. Dick Daley of Scotts Valley, Cal., is here visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Daley, and aunt and other relatives.
    Wednesday afternoon your correspondent took a trip out to where Mr. Thrasher and his crew were grading the right of way for the county road over the Reese Creek route. They are following the old route the most of the way but cutting off some of the rocky points so as to straighten out and level up the way. It is astonishing to see the work they are doing with their 125-h.p. Caterpillar and other appliances to correspond. They simply go right through anything they come across that is movable, pulling up and dragging out of the way large trees or stumps and plowing through rocks and dirt the same as one would plow loose alluvial soil. They have four or five teams to use on the fresnos, but the most of the plowing they do with a machine called a pulverizer; it weighs about six tons and is constructed of a very large beam or bar of steel, with a row of spikes about 3½ or four inches square, that are set in such a way that the spikes will naturally go into the ground, and all this is mounted on four wheels and so arranged that they can be put in the ground any depth up to say 18 or 20 inches, and sometimes it will come in contact with large solid rocks where dynamite will have to be used to shatter it, and sometimes will dislodge a rock so large that it will have to be removed before the machine can go on, but there seems to be no limit to the strength of the Caterpillar.
    While I was there they were plowing off a steep rocky point. They have a plow that weighs six hundred pounds and they attach a fifty- or sixty-foot cable to the plow and attach the other end to the Caterpillar, but before it starts another chain or cable is attached to the end of the beam and a heavy team of horses is hitched to the chain about ten or twelve feet from the plow and that keeps the plow from slipping down the hill and the plow goes into the ground a foot or more and simply tears everything loose before it. When they want to take the plow back to the starting place they simply hitch the team to the back end of the plow and drag it back with the cable attached so there is no dragging around by hand and the machine simply backs up and is attached to the plow and in a very short time the work is done and ready for the fresnos.
    The county court has established a rock crusher on the Rogue River on the C. E. Bellows place and will begin to put crushed rock on the road that has been finished, ready for the roller, so we are greatly elated over the prospect of having a road that can be traveled all winter.
    Wednesday afternoon T. P. Coleman and wife of Lake Creek, and mother, Mrs. J. E. Coleman and brother Dr. H. P. Coleman of Portland passed through here on their way from Medford to Mr. Coleman's home. The doctor is looking for a location where he can enter the practice of his profession. Mrs. Coleman, Sr., is very much pleased with our valley and seems to think that Medford is quite an attractive city.
    W. W. Parker of Butte Falls, who has been visiting relatives in and around Sacramento, Cal., and Mr. Barry of Brownsboro came in Monday morning on the stage and went on home.
    Mrs. M. L. Pruett of Eagle Point and Mrs. Anna Cole and son Kenneth of Roseville, Cal., called at the Sunnyside for a short visit Monday. Mr. Cole was formerly an engineer on the P.&E.R.R. here but when the change in business took place he entered the service of the Southern Pacific Company.
    We have been favored during the past week with automobile agents from Monday night to Friday morning. We had Mr. Norton and Mr. High of Ashland and while they were here they sold two Columbia Six autos and a Maibohm, and Thursday H. H. Noel of the Treichler Motor Company of Medford, sold a (I think) Dodge, and at the same time we had Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Lange of the Motor Sales Co. of Medford.
    Mrs. Martha McCord of Napa City was here Thursday. She and her sister, Mrs. Owen of Walla Walla, are visiting their brother, Frank Hill of Derby.
    Mrs. E. S. Raymond and two sons of Crescent City, Calif., came in Thursday from Crater Lake for dinner on their way home.
    Among the business callers Friday were Ray Parker and Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, Jeff Conover and daughter of Trail, John W. Smith of Medford, J. E. Moran of Medford, T. G. Bushong, meter reader, in place of A. S. Bliton, for the California-Oregon Power Company, Amy Brown, of Eagle Point, Bert Higinbotham of Flounce Rock, Prospect P.O., L. O. Dragg of Evanston, Ill., were here for dinner and for supper Geo. Cantrall, R. M. Conley, Butte Falls, Mrs. Dora Plymire, Portland, Marion Plymire, Medford, and Dorothy J. Anest of Roundup, Mont. They had been out to Crater Lake and returned in time for supper.
    Among the callers Saturday morning were A. C. Spence, our Brownsboro road supervisor, and son and Mrs. Spence's brother, W. E. Spence of Orland, Calif., who is here visiting his brother.
    There were eight passengers on the stage Saturday morning for Butte Falls. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth, Sr., of Ashland.
    Miss Kershaw of Climax, who is interested with her brother, James Kershaw, in the mail contract between here and Climax, came in this morning in a one-horse buggy.
    Word came this morning that Sadie Matthews had died in the hospital in Medford last night of appendicitis, aged nine years. She is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Green Matthews, who live about four miles from here on the French-Dodge bridge road to Trail.
    D. R. Patrick, who has been remodeling the house Mr. Mittelstaedt bought, has got through with his job, for a while, bought him a Maibohm car and went out to his ranch today.
    Cecil Culbertson of Lake Creek and Ralph Bieberstedt were business callers this morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 24, 1920, page 5


    Now that the Pacific & Eastern Railroad has been sold all the Medford and Jackson County public is wondering what the new owner's plans are in connection with the operation of the road, and when he will start it. But M. D. Olds won't talk.
    However the fact he has for the past year or more been busy buying up timber holdings and leases in the territory contiguous to the road, and the fact that at least one new large mill is in contemplation for Medford, leads to the general belief that he will operate the road partly in connection with this contemplated project.
    Another patent fact to the well informed is that there are six billion feet of the best timber in Oregon, 60 percent fir and 40 percent pine, in the country east of Medford, mostly in the Butte Falls section, which would be tapped by the operation of the Pacific & Eastern.
    While there have been and are many rumors in connection with Mr. Olds and his ownership of the road, some of which, if true, would have a stupendous bearing on the future welfare and development of Medford and the valley, nothing will be known until the Michigan lumber man's plans are perfected. The fact that Mr. Olds refuses to rush into print is taken by many as a good sign showing that he is not the type of hot air promoter which led the people of Medford to entertain false hopes so often in the past.
    As it is now the people of Medford, Eagle Point, Butte Falls and the general residents along the P.&E. line are happy that Mr. Olds has bought the road and the strong probability that he will put it in operation within the next year.
    But about the sale yesterday. Notwithstanding the rumors that there would be several probable bidders and the fact that until a few hours before the auction the Miller Grier Construction Company of Portland contemplated bidding and had their first payment check of $15,000 deposited, the Pacific & Eastern went under the hammer to M. D. Olds, who was the only bidder for $190,600, of which $15,000 was to be paid at once and the balance in 60 days.
    The sale was conducted by Attorney Robert F. Maguire of Portland, special master for the United States court in conducting this transaction, before a crowd of about 100, and Mr. Olds' bid was just the exact amount set by the court as the minimum price which would be accepted at the sale.
    The Pacific & Eastern had an estimated scrap value of $438,000, according to W. E. Turner, its receiver, who is vice president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railroad Co. and System Lines, who after the sale before departing for Portland last night with C. H. Hart, attorney for the receiver, said that the Hill railroad interests favored the sale at auction at the minimum price set by the court, rather than to see the railroad torn up and scrapped.
    The rolling stock of the P.&E. went with the sale, consisting of two engines, two passenger cars, one box car and six flat cars. The road also had been using for years six S.P.&S. railroad cars which will probably be taken over by the new owner.
    The Miller Grier Construction Company's failing to enter a bid at the sale yesterday is a mystery, as during the forenoon G. M. McDowell, its secretary and treasurer, while in the Mail Tribune office with Receiver Turner stated that it would try and purchase the road, and that if it was successful at the sale the company would see that it was operated in the interests of development of the great timber territory east of Medford.
    The Pacific & Eastern was built in 1909-1910 by John F. Stevens, the famous engineer, now in Siberia, and was then intended to complete the link of the Hill system between Bend and California.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 25, 1920, page 5


    Mrs. Hoag, who has been visiting at the Bar Eight ranch, returned home Wednesday.
    Mr. S. W. Hutchinson made a business trip to Eagle Point Wednesday and Mr. Weeks and Mr. Hutchinson made another trip to Medford Monday of this week.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher returned home Saturday from a five weeks' visit with her daughter. She returned with Mr. and Mrs. Merriman.
    Mrs. A. F. Beardsley left Monday for home, after a few day's visit with Mrs. Oscar Stewart. Her home is in Salem, Ore.
    Mrs. Will Houston entertained Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson and Keva and Enid Middlebusher and Hazel Pence at dinner Sunday.
    Will and Oscar Stewart and Floyd Hutchinson took a bunch of cattle to the range intending to be gone three days.
    Messrs. F. L. and S. W. Hutchinson made a business trip to Vincent's.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 27, 1920, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Heffner and family and Mr. and Mrs. Howell spent a very pleasant weekend at Crater Lake.
    Mr. and Mrs. I. Coleman of San Francisco are registered at the Rogue Elk resort for the remainder of the season.
    Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Parkhurst of Crater Lake took breakfast at the hotel on their way to Medford.
    The stages continue to be well loaded with passengers for the lake.
    Mrs. McNeil, wife of the British consul in Mexico, her daughter, Dorothy, Mrs. T. K. Burnham, and Mrs. T. Coleman, who are all guests at the Rogue Elk, motored to Medford Tuesday for shopping and the theater.
    Employees of the fish hatchery are busy with the annual salmon catch.
    Mr. C. Chancey of Portland, one of the managers of the state fair, accompanied by a party of friends, are stopping for a few days at the Rogue Elk. Mr. Chancey is looking after exhibits for the fair.
    Mr. T. B. McDonald went to Medford on business Thursday.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 27, 1920, page 3


    Saturday afternoon Herb Carlton drove in from the Carlton ranch on business.
    Saturday afternoon our banker and wife, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, Mrs. Amy Brown, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and family, A. J. Florey, Jr., and wife, started for the huckleberry mountain and part of them returned Sunday evening. Some of the party went to within three miles of the berry patch and one of the party reported that the fifteen of them all together gathered but a few gallons. Between the bears, Indians and pale-faced pickers is quite a contest as to who can get the most berries, but they have the fun of climbing the steep hills and enjoying the fragrant air in the high mountains.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her children and Mrs. von der Hellen's brother, A. J. Florey, and wife expect to remain in the neighborhood for some time, probably until school commences in Medford.
    Our school in Eagle Point will be opened on Tuesday, September 8.
    The printer in my letter of the 18th inst. had me say "that the attendance at the Sunnyside for the Sunday dinner was about as usual" leaving out a "not" changing the meaning altogether, for then was only sixteen here for dinner that day. Last Sunday morning, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Watkins and his son-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Pearson of Medford came out for breakfast on their way to Dead Indian Soda Springs, and at noon we had E. G. High and C. B. Norton of the E. N. Norton Motor Co., Ashland and Robert Norton also of Ashland, Gus the Tailor and wife and J. W. Rorick and wife who has recently bought an interest in the business with Gus, and Mr. Howard Lanman, a representative of Ed V. Price & Co., Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Noonan, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gates, Miss Laura Gates and Mr. J. E. Kerr of Medford, John M. Allen and wife and daughter, Miss Alta Allen, Evelyn Swihart, and Walter Allen, William Perry and wife and Ray Smith and wife and D. R. Patrick and Gus Nichols and wife of Lake Creek.
    John Foster of Medford came out on the stage, spent the night and returned to Medford Tuesday morning.
    Mr. F. A. Smyley of Nebraska, who is visiting his son and family in Medford, went up to the Dead Indian Soda Springs Sunday and had a mishap with their car, so had to leave it at the garage for repairs, while Mr. Smyley spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls were doing business with our merchants Monday.
    J. H. Heckman, the man appointed to rid the country of rodents and other destructive animals, such as coyotes, wolves, etc., was here Monday. He has been arranging his traps, etc., for the fall and winter run. He did not stop long enough to eat his dinner at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Mr. Davis and son of Ashland were also here. Mr. Davis and son had been up to Dead Indian Soda Springs and had trouble with their car and had to stop at the garage for repairs. They both took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did two young men who were out here reopening the electric light plant, as the current had been shut off since Sunday.
    There was also two young men and two young women or girls came in for dinner Monday. They had been fishing Rogue River and were on their way to Prospect.
    Thomas Farlow and wife of Lake Creek were among the business callers Monday and so were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. French and Rev. Mr. Brittsan, wife and daughter-in-law. They were on their way out to the Brittsan dairy farm. I understand that Rev. Brittsan has a son who has recently come in from the East and that he and the two brothers, who have been tending the farm and dairy, have gone to the hills for an outing.
    Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bradshaw of Brownsboro passed through town on Monday evening.
    Mr. Thomas Horrock of Portland came in the first of the week to visit his wife's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Wiseman. Mrs. Horrock and little girl were already here and Mr. Horrock came to join them. He will remain a few days and while here will assist Mr. Wiseman in putting up a silo on his dairy farm.
    August Edler and daughter, Mrs. Louisa Betz and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frances Edler and little girl of Lake Creek came out on the stage Monday afternoon, took supper at the Sunnyside and later were met here by his son with a car and went home that night.
    D. R. Patrick is engaged putting up a silo for Carl von der Hellen at Wellen. He still keeps his room at the Sunnyside, riding to and from his work in his Maibohm auto.
    Ralph Bieberstedt and his sister were here getting some work done on his truck. They were on their way to Butte Falls to deliver some fencing. They had several rolls of wire fencing.
    J. B. Jackson and wife, who sold their ranch to Roy Smith some months ago, and have been traveling throughout Oregon and Washington, returned Monday and are visiting some of their old friends and neighbors. They and Mrs. Roy Smith and Wm. Perry and wife were visitors at the Sunnyside Tuesday and Mr. Bernice Edmondson, one of the Cook brothers, who are in the Forest Service and two young men or boys in their 'teens were also here for dinner Tuesday.
    Carl Stanley of Lake Creek was in town Tuesday and met two ladies who came out on the evening stage, supposed to be his wife's mother and her daughter. They did not stop, but walked right on to a waiting auto and started for his home above Brownsboro.
    Mrs. Benny Edmondson of Butte Falls, who has been visiting relatives in California, returned Tuesday in her own car, with her children.
    Tuesday afternoon J. P. Coleman and wife of Lake Creek and his mother, Mrs. J. E. Coleman and son, Dr. H. P. Coleman of Portland, passed through here on their way to Lake Creek. They had been out to Medford and while there Mrs. J. E. Coleman bought property, as she had fallen greatly in love with the Southern Oregon city and Dr. Coleman has decided to locate in Medford and practice his profession. The whole family seem to be highly pleased with our country, as a short time after his arrival here, J. P. Coleman went up to where he is now living and bought Wm. Hillman out, and now the doctor and his mother have come and purchased their home and no wonder, for they found one of the loveliest spots on the Pacific Coast.
    Among those formerly mentioned as going to the huckleberry mountain was R. G. Brown and wife and his sister, Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy. Mr. Brown is a member of the firm of George Brown & Sons, and Mrs. Van Scoy is one of the "hello girls" in the telephone office and post office clerk.
Medford Mail Tribune, August 27, 1920, page 7


    In my last I mentioned that the Brittsan brothers had gone to the hills for an outing, but before the letter reached the printer, one of the brothers was at the Sunnyside for dinner. They had gone as far as the Evergreen ranch and there found that one of the small cog wheels was broken so had to stop and one of them, E.V.B., returned with a couple who were coming in from Crater Lake, brought the broken part to the Eagle Point garage and all came to the Sunnyside for dinner, but I did not learn their name; it was a man and wife from California.
    B. F. Cummings and wife, who have been in Oakland, Calif., for some time past, came in Wednesday. They expect to remain in Central Point the coming fall and winter.
    Fred Luy, one of the leading citizens of Wellen, was among the diners at the Sunnyside Wednesday noon.
    Lloyd Stanley, who has been in California for some time, has returned to our town.
    Verna Matthews, one of our leading stockmen, and family were in town Wednesday afternoon.
    Nick Young, one of our promising young farmers, was in town Wednesday and took supper at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Hamill and children of Medford came in from Prospect and took dinner on their way home Wednesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rohrer, James E. Rohrer, Miss Helen Rohrer, Miss Ida Champion and Miss Helen Champion, all of Yreka, Cal., came in from Klamath Falls via Crater Lake Wednesday and spent the night. Like everyone else they speak of the wonderful beauties of the scenery along the route and Crater Lake.
    Frank Ditsworth of Peyton passed through here Wednesday with a new motor truck.
    There seems to be general rejoicing over the way the P.&E. Railroad has been disposed of and the prospect of having the route re-established.
    P. B. McDonald, who has charge of a Medford service station, was here Thursday for dinner.
    Ira Tungate, of Butte Falls, was transacting business here Thursday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Charles Humphrey, wife and daughter of Derby, were here Thursday. They have recently returned from a visit to Iowa to visit their old home and relatives. They made the round trip in an auto and report having had a very pleasant time.
    S. L. Kidder of Roseburg, one of the post office inspectors who had been in this vicinity inspecting the different post offices, was with us Thursday night and Friday went to Butte Falls, inspected the post office and returned to Medford the same day.
    Cecil Culbertson of Lake Creek was a business caller Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan, who own and occupy the old Eagle Point Hotel, went to Central Point Friday.
    B. O. Davis, representing the McCracken Motor Co. of Portland, was here Friday for dinner and showing his autos.
    Dr. Helms, the veterinary surgeon of Medford, and Tex Higgins and his little boy were here for dinner Friday. Dr. Helms was out looking after some of his horses and mules, which have been running around here this summer.
    Walter Painter, formerly of this place but now of Washington, and wife nee Ella Adamson of Trail, passed through here Friday on their way to her former home.
    Mr. and Mrs. Corson of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday on their way to California.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Peterson of Coos Bay and C. Hopp of Portland, passed through here Friday afternoon on their way to the manganese mine of Lost Creek. Mr. Hopp seemed to be taking them up to show them the country or it may be to sell them the mine.
    John Norris and Clarence Fox were here having W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith and auto machinist, repair Mr. Norris' Ford.
    Perry Farlow, who makes his home in the Lake Creek country but has been on the coast the past season, came in Friday evening and spent the night with us.
    F. M. Maxwell, who is living on the Bert Clarno place eight miles above here, was here this Saturday morning on his way to Medford. He went out with Mr. Adamson.
    Mrs. George Richardson and three of her children and Mrs. Ernest Peachy and Mrs. Heryford, all of Butte Falls, came out on the Butte Falls stage this Saturday morning.
    John McAllister and D. R. Patrick came out on the Eagle Point stage and Mr. G. H. Schermerhorn and Mrs. Louis Whilley of Trail came out with Mr. V. E. Peterson on the Persist stage and took dinner at the Sunnyside Saturday.
    Mrs. Susan Hart visited out town on business this Saturday morning.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our promising orchardists, was a business caller also.
    Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen came in from the Union Creek camp on the Crater Lake Highway last night and took dinner with her daughter at the Sunnyside.
    Miss Ruth Grover of Medford was visiting Miss Nora Childreth today.
    Ed Dutton brought in a load of stove wood for one of our townsmen this morning.
    Other callers today were George and Charles Givan and Shorty Allen.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 1, 1920, page 5


    H. D. Mills and wife of Butte Falls passed through here Wednesday afternoon on their way home. They had been up on Wagner Creek and were taking home about a hundred pounds of very fine peaches. The reader who has not experienced how well six or seven peaches taste can have no idea until after they are preserved in 25¢ sugar. It is like eating money.
    Mr. Hawk, the old sawmill man who owned the mill on Clark's Creek now owned by R. M. Conley, was in town Wednesday afternoon trying to find someone who wanted to kill a deer to go hunting with him. How well he succeeded I did not learn.
    C. W. Brown and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Emmens, the Medford oculist, came out Wednesday afternoon, stopped and took supper and then started to go to Prospect that night. They were going out for a ten days' outing.
    Henry Gordon of Fort Klamath came in the same evening for late supper. He had had trouble with his car coming in, had broken eight leaves out of ten in one of his springs, but he took it to Holmes & McDonald's garage and the next forenoon was on his way home, the springs all O.K. The new garage men seem to be kept busy about all of the time and this Saturday they seemed to be rushed with business and at the W. L. Childreth shop he had to run one car out to make room for another to come in.
    A. H. Dougherty spent Wednesday night with us and reports doing a good business.
    Gus Nichols has moved into town and has moved into the T. Farlow house.
    W. L. Childreth, who dropped out of sight so mysteriously a week ago last Friday night after locking up his blacksmith shop, put in an appearance again last Thursday morning greatly refreshed and invigorated and reports that he felt like a new man. He had been up in the hills of Josephine County hunting and the change of exercise and the mountain air has wrought a wonderful change in him. He succeeded in killing one deer.
    J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, was among us Thursday morning.
    There was a voting contest here Wednesday night to decide who was the most popular young lady in our community and the winner was to be presented with a diamond ring by the show men, Hoyt Bros., and the choice fell on Miss Mae Greb, who lives about two miles out of town, although she attends school here.
    F. S. Davis, the agate man who is in the employ of a San Francisco firm, was a business caller Thursday.
    Walter Wood, one of our leading stockmen, went to Butte Falls on the stage Thursday.
    Harry Hayes and wife of Trail came out to visit her parents Thursday.
    Ernest Peachey of Butte Falls, A. A. Gleason of Medford, Mrs. Peter Betz of Trail, and Henry Trusty of Elk Creek, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Owen of Applegate, and V. E. Peterson, the Persist mail carrier, were among the guests at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    Charles Brophy of Klamath County, Mrs. K. O. Jones of Butte Falls, were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday. Mr. Brophy was going up to his brother's, Jeff Brophy's, place and then take passage on the Crater Lake stage for Fort Klamath.
    H. J. Vondermark of Butte Falls came out Friday to have Dr. Holt dress his hand. When I asked him what ailed his hand he said that he caught hold of a saw in the Hawk mill when it was running and when he felt it strike the bone he jerked his hand away. Two fingers were badly cut.
    Mr. Schooler of Brownsboro was trading here Friday.
    R. A. Arnold and daughter, Miss Reva Arnold, of Central Point, were passing through here on their way home Friday. They had been out to Reese Creek to meet the school board with a view to Miss Reva taking the position as teacher, but they found that the board was not at home.
    Friday morning T. J. Maxwell, Jewel Wattenberg, T. B. Rayborn and another young man came in with a hack and on the outside of their load they had the horns of two deer in sight. Mr. Rayborn, who came to the Sunnyside for dinner, reported that they had killed four deer among them.
    Dr. S. L. Lee of Carson City, Nev., and E. D. Stephenson, real estate man of Grants Pass, came into the Sunnyside about 11 o'clock a.m. to inquire about the time for dinner and then went up to the sulfur spring just above the house to drink sulfur water. They said they were here to try to find some nice agates. They went out to look in the afternoon and came back in and spent the night. They had gathered about half a bushel of stones and probably some very good ones. Everett Abbott and Mrs. Ernest Smith and child of Butte Falls also spent the night here, taking passage on the stage for home this morning.
    O. D. Wingfield of Weed, Calif., also spent the night with us. He was over here visiting friends. He left for home on the early stage.
    There were two young men came in from Trail, Friday, with stove wood, a very scarce article, and was selling at $3.50 a tier or ten dollars and a half a cord--a big price for pine wood in a timber country, but there seems to be a scarcity of stove wood and quite a number of people here have not secured their winter wood yet.
    Lee Edmondson and wife passed through here this Saturday morning.
    Scott Boyer was procuring a force pump at the von der Hellen hardware store this morning.
    Mrs. H. J. Vandermark of Butte Falls (Hawk's mill) was in town this Saturday morning with her three children on her way to Medford to visit her mother, Mrs. Hawk, and have her baby receive medical treatment.
    Alex Vestal, of Reese Creek, R. M. Conley and Geo. Cottrell of Butte Falls, Pete Young of Eagle Point, and Oliver Gaines of Trail were in town today, the latter dining at the Sunnyside.
    A. J. Anderson of the Standard Oil Company came out this morning to bring three barrels of oil out for our Eagle Point Garage.
    A report is going the rounds that our school janitor, Mr. Sheibley, has sold his place here to Ed Morgan.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 2, 1920, page 9


    Elk Creek, Sept. 3.--Mr. C. William Kolb of Kolb and Dill fame, accompanied by his wife, and Perry Bronson on the Orpheum circuit were guests at the Rogue Elk this week.
    Dr. C. C. Van Scoyoc has returned for the hunting season.
    Phillip N. Westcott, son of [Edward Noyes] Westcott, the author of David Harum, will spend the remainder of the season at the hotel.
    Mr. and Mrs. Van Heffner motored to Medford on Tuesday.
    The Oregon Bureau of Mines party of one hundred and twenty-five people will stop at the Rogue Elk on their way to the lake.
    Mr. J. T. Johnson of Medford stopped at the hotel for lunch.
    Many cars of hunters are on their way to the hills.
    Mr. D. Seibert, Mrs. T. Davis, Mrs. G. Hasbrouck, and chauffeur, are guests at the hotel.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 3, 1920, page 3


    Miss Enid Middlebusher and Miss Eula Houston are spending a few days camping at Prospect.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart went to Medford today.
    Miss Eula Houston is just back from a week's stay in Portland.
    Mr. Ace Weeks and Mr. Dunlap are helping Mr. George Weeks put up his new house.
    Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson dropped a boiler of boiling water on her foot, scalding it quite severely. It is improving rapidly, but is still very sore.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 3, 1920, page 5

    Saturday afternoon, after I had written the Eaglets, I gathered the following items: Mrs. John Rader and Mrs. Sam Klingle, George Stowell and wife, Mrs. Engelhardt, Gus Nichols and family are preparing to move into our town, into the Thomas Farlow house, and have Mr. D. R. Patrick doing some carpenter work, making some changes in the arrangement of the house. That Mrs. Arglee Green, who owns the old J. J. Fryer place in town, had arrived from her home near Los Angeles. Also that Miss Anna Swensen was in town; she and her brother lived on a farm now occupied by Mr. Long and now are living near Beagle. Dee Bradshaw, who lives between Brownsboro and Wellen on the Brownsboro-Medford road, Dr. Helms, the Medford veterinary, called at the Sunnyside for supper and Harry Lewis also came out from Jacksonville and stopped at the Sunnyside until Sunday evening. Herman Meyer, Sr. of Lake Creek, came in and brought in his auto to the Holmes and McDonald garage to have it overhauled.
    Mr. and Mrs. E. G. High and little daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Enders, Mrs. Jessie Ferris, Mildred Ferris and Gladys Norton of Ashland came in Saturday evening for supper, spent the night and took breakfast and dinner, Sunday. Mr. High is working in the interest of the E. N. Norton Motor Co., Ashland, and they all came up to attend the dance and to enjoy a visit at the Sunnyside.
    In addition to the eight just mentioned, we had as guests at the Sunnyside Hotel Sunday, Mr. Emil Britt and his sister, Miss Mollie Britt, Dr. J. A. Renter and Elizabeth Renter of The Dalles, Ore.
    Dalton Terrill of Jacksonville also attended the dance and remained until Sunday evening. Gus the Tailor and wife, Dr. and Mrs. Clancy, Robert Clancy, Winifred Clancy, Marie Hillis, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Munn, Mrs. Gertrude Booth, Margaret Mary Mann, Garrett Mann, Medford; Thos. H. Simpson, one of the county commissioners and wife, H. V. Simpson, Mrs. A. Hargrave, of Ashland; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Westerlund, Miss S. Holenbery, Mrs. James Burman of the Hotel Holland, Medford. I consider it quite a compliment when such a man as Mr. Westerlund will remark that when he receives the Mail Tribune he always looks for and reads the Eagle Point Eaglets.
    Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, was one of the guests Sunday and so was Mr. and Mrs. Donegue, son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cunningham and son Wilbur, Miss Florence Wakeman, who came in Saturday night from Iowa via Colorado to visit her brother, George Wehman, one of our regular boarders, remaining until Tuesday, when she started north on the early train. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Hesler, Fred Frideger of Medford, Frank Haselton, Bernice Sdetzler, Eva Emely Sdetzler and Mrs. E. S. Sdetzler, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and daughter Joyce. In addition to having these for dinner, before the diners were through with dinner, Rev. M. C. Davis, wife and granddaughter, Miss Inez Howard and Mrs. Caroline Thomasson called, but had dined before coming.
    Wm. von der Hellen, one of our hardware merchants, went to Portland Sunday morning, returning Tuesday.
    Monday was quite a lively day in our town. Among the business callers was Mr. C. Hepp of Portland and Mr. W. H. Peterson. They had been up to the manganese mine and reported that the mine will be opened in the near future, but no telling when.
    Our postmaster, W. C. Clements, has been making some material improvements in the post office, as someone has broken out the glass in the front door, 36½ x 26½ inches, and two panes out of the windows, letting in the cool air in the mornings and evenings. He has filled the holes with new lights, greatly to the comfort of the clerks in the office.
    Rudolph Gardner came in from his home in Lake Creek with a load of hogs for parties in Central Point.
    Corbett Smith and his half-brother Earl Smith, of Butte Falls, were among the guests at the Sunnyside Monday noon, and so was Thomas Farlow and wife of Lake Creek.
    Sherman Wooley, who has been working on the Crater Lake Highway, came in Monday to look after his interest here and to have his family visit her mother at Butte Falls while he goes out and takes a hunt.
    Mr. W. W. Green of Butte Falls came in Monday with a load of shakes and sold 500 to Mrs. Anna Watkins and Mr. J. Monia of Brownsboro went through town with a load of shakes to cover a large barn he is building.
    Henry Meyer and family of Lake Creek went to Medford Monday morning.
    Charles Humphrey and W. S. Baker of Derby are engaged delivering wood to some of the families of our town. There seems to be quite a demand for wood here and those who have been delivering wood say that they have already promised more than they can supply and leave any for themselves and the prospect is that there will be a wood famine here this winter, as there is quite a number of families here who have not secured their wood for winter yet. Charles Givan brought in two loads Tuesday for two different families, a cord for each family.
    Frank Smyley of Ashland came in Monday to help Mr. McAllister with his furniture, bringing in his piano and Tuesday Mr. McAllister brought in another load on a truck attachment to his car.
    G. R. Robinson of Talent passed through here Tuesday with his family and household goods on his way to Butte Falls.
    C. M. Speck and wife stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner Tuesday and so did Mr. Thrasher, the foreman of the workers on the road work on the Reese Creek-Butte Falls road. He had come out to assist in taking the rock crusher across the creek here. The crusher weighs about five tons and in order to take it over the wagon bridge he drew it to the edge of the bridge, then detached the truck and attached a long cable and went part way across, leaving about fifty feet of space between the truck and the crusher, thus dividing the weight and by that means taking no chances on bringing down the bridge. He then took the large, self-propelling engine through the water all O.K. I stated some two weeks ago that this crusher was already on the ground on the C. E. Bellows place and that it would be crushing and distribute the crushed rock on the newly made road in a few days, but in moving the engine it was discovered that an important part of the engine was broken, thus detaining them in the work, but Mr. Thresher thinks with no mishaps they will finish up the work in about six weeks unless it would be a piece of rock work near the Reese Creek falls.
    J. H. Howard, one of the Civil War veterans, spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 3, 1920, page 7


    Fred Pettegrew and Ed Meyers brought their autos in to W. L. Childreth for repairs Wednesday and the same day S. A. Strolworth and family from Sacramento Valley, Calif. came to the same repair shop to have work done on their machine, showing that there is something besides pleasure in traveling in an auto. Mr. Strolworth and family had come up to visit Mrs. Strolworth's sister, Mrs. Wm. Gipson, in Lake Creek country. They soon had the necessary work done and went on their way up the country.
    H. H. Williams, salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford, was here for dinner Wednesday and so was Mrs. Charles Painter, formerly of this place but now of Washington. She came down with her son Walter and wife to attend to business, look after their property here and pack and ship their furniture to their home about 30 miles from Vancouver, Wash., and they expect to return on the return trip in a few days.
    Harold Patton of Butte Falls came out and went to Medford on the stage Wednesday afternoon.
    Just after I had mailed my letter for the Mail Tribune and was returning home I discovered a huge volume of smoke in the west side of town and upon investigation learned that it was Wig Jacks' barn, and in less time than it takes to write it there were a bunch of us in a car and off for the fire, and when we arrived found quite a number of men and women already there to assist in saving the property. Although the barn and  chicken house were destroyed, fortunately there was only a small bunch of hay in it. Mr. Jacks saved his harness and pitchforks but lost one of his wagons that was standing with a hay rack near the building. He saved one of his wagons but was unable to pull the other out of the way. The cause of the fire was a little out of the ordinary; his two little boys were playing in the barn and a cow came in and was eating hay and the smallest boy tried to drive her away and finally concluded to burn her out so set a match to the hay and the older brother seeing what was done ran screaming to the house and just as it happened Mr. Jacks was there, so he ran and the first thing was to save the child, for he was so scared that he did not know enough to get out of the building. After rescuing the boy he turned his attention to saving his harness and other things he could move. Just as it happened the gasoline pump was out of order but the water from the ram was available. The lawn between the barn and the residence was so green that it would not burn so the house was not in much danger and the wind was favorable. The loss was not much as it was a small barn, but unfortunately for Mr. Jacks there was no insurance on the building.
    Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stanley returned the first of the week from the huckleberry patch. They were there only a few hours and gathered about four gallons of the berries.
    Mrs. John Rader, Mrs. Stanley's mother, took a trip out to Rancheria Prairie for a few days' outing and returned Wednesday afternoon.
   C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, came in Wednesday morning with seven of his work horses that have been used on the construction work and reports that they expect to finish up the job about Sept. 15 or 20.
    Harry Smith, who has charge of one of the sheep camps of Wm. Lewis, came in Wednesday and has been here up to this Saturday afternoon.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Shutts and children of Ashland passed through here Thursday headed for the hills.
    Dr. J. E. Paul and family of Santa Ana, Calif., also passed through here for Crater Lake and Klamath Falls.
    Alex Matthews, Rube Johnson and Verna Matthews and family were business callers Thursday.
    Frank P. Dutton and R. W. Wilson were here for dinner Thursday on their way out to the Frank Rhodes ranch to get a corn binder. Mr. Dutton said that they could not buy one in Medford or Ashland so had to hire one.
    F. E. Hayes and M. F. Thornson, J. Seiver, travelers, and Mrs. G. H. Morgan and brother of Little Shasta, Walter Painter and wife of Washington were here for dinner Thursday.
    Other business callers Thursday were Carl von der Hellen, of Wellen, Ed Cowden, Mrs. Bert Clarno, Mrs. Pete Betz, Mrs. C. E. Bellows and Mrs. Ludson, who owns the old Bill Smith farm on Rogue River, and Tim Dugan.
    Mrs. John Obenchain, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Medford, was on the Butte Falls stage for Butte Falls Friday.
    Mrs. Dan Foeller and a lady friend of Trail, came out on the stage from Medford and went out on the Persist stage.
    A. J. Florey, Jr., and wife of Eagle Point and mother-in-law, Mrs. Anderson and son of Medford, who have been taking an outing on the Crater Lake Highway near Union Creek returned Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and J. Geppert, the Butte Falls road supervisor, Mrs. Amy Brown of Eagle Point and C. Combest of Jacksonville also took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    Dr. W. W. P. Holt's family arrived at their home in Eagle Point Thursday. They have been spending the summer in Oakland, Cal.
    Thos. Abbott and family and his father-in-law, Russ Moore and family came out from their home above Lake Creek to attend the funeral of his uncle, George Little, who died at Weed, Calif., Sept. 1st, and was buried at Central Point Friday, passed through town Friday afternoon on their way home.
    Mrs. Ethel Vandosen and a friend of Grants Pass, stopped here for supper Friday evening and then started home. Mrs. Vandosen was here to see a party but failed to meet him.
    H. H. Noel, of the Geo. L. Treichler Motor Company of Medford, was here for dinner Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 6, 1920, page 6


    Messrs. George and Ace Weeks and Mr. S. W. Hutchinson have gone to the mountains for a few days to look after cattle and pick huckleberries.
    Miss Eula Houston and Miss Enid Middlebusher have returned home from a few days' camping at Prospect.
    Messrs. Oscar and Will Stewart and Mrs. Oscar Stewart were in Medford last week shopping.
    The water commissioner was up to see about water rights this week. He finds lots of trouble but is confident it can all be settled peacefully.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess are camping at Union Creek while they rob the huckleberry patches.
    The dance at Trail Saturday night was very well attended.
    Mr. Alec Stewart, brother to Oscar and Will Stewart of the Rogue River ranch, spent Sunday with them.
    Mr. Ash brought a crowd down in his truck to attend the dance Saturday night.
    There has been considerable trouble in district No. 84 to find a place to board the children as there is no school this year. It seems the parents expect the school board to find a place and provide for the board.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 9, 1920, page 6


    Dr. C. L. Becker and wife, of Newark, N.J., were guests at the Rogue Elk.
    We regret to announce that the home of Mr. Johanson on Elk Creek burned one night this week.
    Mrs. J. E. McDonald was in Medford Saturday on business.
    Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Dougherty and two daughters, from Ashland, are registered at the hotel.
    Mrs. T. B. McDonald and children leave today for Eugene, to spend the winter. Mr. McDonald will follow soon.
    Mr. T. K. Burnham, the famous fisherman, who has been a guest at the Rogue Elk most of the summer, met a bear last week while he was landing a steelhead. Not knowing which he wanted most, he finally decided in favor of trout, and giving Mr. Bear a parting shot with a stone, let him go and landed his fish.
    Mr. H. W. Shattuck, a prominent salesman from New York City, is at the hotel for a few days.
    Mr. and Mrs. D. Pence and family motored to Medford Monday.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 10, 1920, page 7


    Saturday evening H. D. Mills and wife of Butte Falls, accompanied by Miss Alvhild Romstoedt of Talent, who has been teaching in that place, but is now engaged as one of the teachers in the Butte Falls school, called for supper on their way home.
    Along about 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning Hilda Abbott and her brother, A. Everett Abbott, Miss Mildred Smith of Butte Falls and Wm. Welch of Medford came in from Trail where they had attended a dance, and took beds at the Sunnyside and after sleeping for a few hours partook of breakfast and proceeded on their way up to Butte Falls. They reported that they had one of those enjoyable times, but admitted they were tired and hungry.
    Speaking of Saturday's experience coming home from the dance, when Henry French and his son, Lloyd were in town today, Wednesday, they were telling of a little incident that occurred at the east end of the French-Dodge bridge Sunday morning. Mr. French was sleeping outside of the house and he heard a car come across the bridge and stop and the lights were put out, and that created suspicion in the mind of Mr. French, as his garden is situated near the bridge, so taking his shotgun, he quietly stole down that way and could hear someone right in the vicinity of the watermelon patch, so elevating his gun, he fired into the air, holding the gun at such an angle so as to cause the shot to fall about the place where he thought they were, and then he heard them run for the auto and about the time he thought they were in the road he again fired his gun so as to have the shot fall about where they were, not wishing to hurt them, but simply letting them know that they were caught and the result was the party remained hid until daybreak when they resumed their journey for what they thought was safer ground. Henry says that the next time he will lower his gun and it is not healthy to be prowling around his watermelon patch after dark for that he is often up and around while others are asleep.
    The fact that the two couples named in the foregoing came into the Sunnyside several hours earlier than the time mentioned removes all suspicion that might be laid on them, but they were in bed before the incident occurred.
    Sunday morning we did not have the usual number out here for dinner, as it is supposed that Monday being a holiday, that there was quite a number of those who enjoyed an outing, started out on Sunday morning and spent the night in the hills, or along the banks of the streams, returning Monday evening. Nevertheless, there were a few who enjoyed the chicken dinner that had been prepared. Among them was Mr. D. W. Bradshaw, for some years editor and publisher of the Jacksonville Post, Mrs. D. W. Bagshaw, Lizzie Renter, Miss Mollie Britt and Emil Britt, all of Jacksonville, and Gus the Tailor and wife of Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Gustine (Gus the Tailor) have been customers at the Sunnyside every Sunday since the season opened, but one Sunday they went up in the Lake Creek country to visit their ranch, but stopped here for supper.
    Later in the afternoon Florence Milligan, Nona Prater, Ida Pecks, Charley Gentry and J. E. Milligan and John Foster of Medford called for early supper. In addition to them there was quite a number of the local people took dinner.
    Monday morning your Eagle Point correspondent started on the 7:10 stage for Medford to see the sights and try to attend to a little business during the early hours and in the afternoon witness the sights at the aviation grounds. I also had a little business at the Medford Mail Tribune office, but the editor was off with his family on the coast, having a good time, but while I was there I was introduced by Mr. S. S. Smith to the business manager of the Medford Printing Company, and had to almost fight my way out to keep them from pinning one of the "Harding for President" pins on my coat, but when I told them that I was too strong a prohibitionist to vote for either Harding or Cox, they quieted down and I sat and read quite a while in the office. After dinner I took passage on a jitney for the aviation grounds and had a look at the flying birds as they stood on the ground, but I will not attempt to describe them for there was such a sight to see and so many to meet and the anties the birds eat [sic], and such a multitude of people and things to see, that if I should undertake to tell it all, it would require a whole copy of the Mail Tribune to contain it, and then about all of the readers of the Tribune within a radius of a hundred miles were there to see for themselves.
    Floyd Pearce, one of out townsmen, also went out on the early stage for Medford and the next day, in talking with one of our merchants as to who was there he remarked that there was not anybody left in town scarcely, and I thought that if a fire had happened to have started that day, it would have swept the town for all who were left were mostly old men and women and but very few of them.
    F. J. Max of California, came out Monday to visit his son, who lives seven or eight miles north of here.
    Mrs. D. Bradshaw of Brownsboro and O. Adams of Butte Falls were passengers on the stage Tuesday morning and Graydon Childreth and family went up to her father's near Butte Falls.
    W. M. Lewis of Flounce Rock came out from Medford on horseback on his way up home. He has rented his farm to Carl Richardson of Peyton for one year and he and family are going to live in Medford.
    Tuesday George and Manual Leidman and John Jones and Royal Putman, our professional fruit packers, were in for dinner Tuesday. They came out looking over the prospects for work.
    J. C. Barry of Brownsboro came out with J. D. Patrick from Medford and went on up home Tuesday.
    W. C. Messal and son of Lake Creek were here Tuesday.
    Mrs. Fred McPherson, nee Olive Nichols, has returned to our town to remain indefinitely.
    Our school opened Tuesday morning with Miss Josephine Riley, daughter of our old neighbor Thomas Riley, as principal and Miss Ruth Young as primary teacher. The attendance is small at present, but will increase as the fruit season advances.
    F. J. Ayres passed through here Tuesday evening.
    George W. Barker, Butte Falls banker, and W. W. Parker, one of the pioneers of Butte Falls, were here for supper on their way home Tuesday.
    Sheman Wooley and family returned from Butte Falls and Mr. Mittelstaedt and three others, who were out hunting in the neighborhood of the Buzzard mines, came in and report that they had killed five deer.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 10, 1920, page 7


    Last Tuesday morning when W. L. Childreth came to his blacksmith shop and garage he found a Mitchell car standing before his shop door. The license number was 72573 and it stood there all day with nobody to claim it and that naturally created some little excitement as the gas tank was dry and suspicion pointed to a stolen auto, but Wednesday a short time before noon two youths came in and went to work on it and on inquiry as to the reason for leaving the car in that manner said that the battery gave out so that they had no light. In a short time they left without giving their names or destination.
    Mr. M. A. Fox of Corvallis, and her daughter, Mrs. Berg, a sister of Mrs. Fox of California, came out on the stage Wednesday from Medford and went up to Lake Creek on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage to visit Mrs. Fox's son who is interested in the milk goat business. A. E. Hildreth and wife of Ashland were also passengers on the Butte Falls stage bound for Butte Falls, their old home, and so was George Miller on his way from California to the tall timber.
    Byron DeFord of the Riverside ranch was a business caller also Wednesday. He has rented the place and is planning to pump water out of Rogue River to irrigate a large portion of it, using his tractor engine instead of electricity, on the ground of economy, as he claims that by using that power instead of electricity he will save several dollars in the course of the season.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, shoe dealers of Medford, drove out Wednesday evening for supper.
    Miss Mildred Patton, formerly of Butte Falls but recently from Marshfield, Ore., where she has been working in a book store, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Thursday on her way to visit her parents in her old home.
    Louis Baker of Portland was also a passenger on the same stage for Butte Falls.
    John Walch of Lake Creek was a business caller Thursday.
    Chris Bergman, who owns a farm on the free ferry road, was also trading here Thursday and so was Perry Foster and C. E. Bellows.
    Mrs. W. E. Hammond motored through town on her way to the Hub looking for fruit to put up for future use.
    Charles Clark, who has been spending the summer out in Klamath County, came in Thursday and took board and room at the Sunnyside. He owns an interest in a house and lot here in town and also owns a forty-acre tract of fine sticky land about three miles northeast of here.
    John Jones, one of the expert fruit packers mentioned in my last letter, also came in and took room and board. He is engaged making fruit boxes for the T. B. Tronson orchard.
    J. H. Howard, one of the veterans of the Civil War, who is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Pete Betz, spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside and took passage on the Persist stage Friday morning to where he could cross Rogue River to his home in a small boat.
    Among the business callers Friday were Nick Young and T. F. McCabe, one of our prominent farmers and orchardists.
    George Phillips, one of our prominent citizens, has been making some substantial improvements around his home and prominent among them is the putting in [of] a neat and roomy porch.
    D. R. Patrick, who has been doing some carpenter work on the Thomas Farlow house, has finished his job and has gone to Brownsboro to build a barn for J. Monia.
    Wm. Lewis, the sheep king, and D. H. Thornbrue of Central Point and Charles Humphrey and wife were among the diners at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro were doing business with our merchants Friday.
    The Butte Falls stage has about all that it can do now to accommodate the travel. Friday morning the driver, Rob Harnish, started from here with the Ford but when he returned he had five passengers and two waiting here to go to Butte Falls beside a big lot of mail and baggage brought out the evening before, so had to call for the Hudson Six 7-passenger car, and this Saturday morning he did the same thing and brought out five passengers and left three or four in Medford, and had two here who came out Friday evening and this morning had to get his big car again and take six passengers beside all the mail he could put on the car. The two passengers brought in last night and left overnight were Mrs. W. W. Parker and her son Ray, Parker and the passengers on the stage this morning were Mr. and Mrs. Al Hildreth, Miss Nydah Neil and a stranger, and by the time the mail and baggage was on and in the car it looked as though it was full but after he started he picked up another passenger who sat on the hood.
    Ray Parker was simply going up home to bid his father, etc., goodbye and get his baggage and start for Forest Grove to start in on a two-year course in that college. The directors of the college propose to give all the young men who were taken away in the army or navy a two-year course free and Mr. Parker expects to finish as he has already taken a two-year course.
    This Saturday morning Ed Dutton met me on the street and asked me to send in his check to pay a year's subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, and of course I did it just for accommodation and to help the Medford Printing Company along. He had brought in a load of wood for one of our hardware merchants, Roy Ashpole.
    Among the guests at dinner today, Saturday noon, were Mr. and Mrs. Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls, William Lewis of Central Point, E. D. Hill of Derby, who was soliciting for the Medford-Ashland Herald; Hugh H. McManus of the Correspondence Association, Sherman Wooley, M. G. Beaver, C. B. Norton of the E. N. Norton Motor Co. of Ashland, Tim Casey of Juneau, Alaska, C. M. Delin of Medford, H. E. Armstrong and wife of Medford, U.S. livestock inspector for Washington and Oregon. His district also embraces Northern California. He reports that he has found 250,000 head of sheep in Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties and in Northern California and that they are mostly in a very healthy condition.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 14, 1920, page 3


    Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the readers of the Daily Mail Tribune, there was quite a number of people came in and among them was Emmett Plymale, his sister and a lady friend from Lake Creek.
    C. B. Norton and M. G. Barber and E. G. High of Ashland, representatives of the E. N. Norton Motor Co. of Ashland, and Mr. High remained overnight at the Sunnyside, while the other two, after eating supper, went on up home that night.
    Hugh V. McManus of [the] Seattle corresponding association, who was canvassing this part of the country, remained with us until Monday morning.
    Elga Abbott, his brother, Arbia Abbott, and Verie Bell of Butte Falls came out to attend the dance here Saturday, also ate supper here and remained until after dinner Sunday and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Armstrong, the livestock inspector, called for supper and then went on to Medford that night.
    Harry Lewis, who is working in Jacksonville and Clifford Hickman, a transient, also came in to attend the dance and spend the night and Sunday until dinner.
    Henry Trusty, one of the truck men working on the Crater Lake Highway, came in and spent the night with us here until Monday morning. He started with his truck to his father's on Elk Creek, but found the road so slippery that after going a short distance, abandoned the trip, taking an early start Monday. He reports that they are getting along nicely with the work on the Crater Lake Highway and with ordinary progress will have the road ready to turn it over to the proper authorities by the first of October, if not sooner.
    Dalton Terrill and his chum, Bill Rinabarger of Medford, also attended the dance and took rooms at the Sunnyside, remaining until afternoon.
    Owing to the heavy rain Saturday night and Sunday morning, there was but few others took dinner at the Sunnyside Sunday.
    Monday morning our neighbor, Sam H. Harnish, started out on his contract to take the high school pupils from here to Medford and the first day he had eleven and a young lady friend of one of the pupils who went along for company. Our school had been opened one week, but the attendance is rather small as at last accounts, there was only eleven in the primary department and fifteen in the principal's room. And only a few years ago we had seventy-four names enrolled and they all attended regularly under one teacher in one room and he received a salary of fifty dollars an month and performed his own janitor work. The reader will likely ask why such a falling off of children in attendance. One reason is our town is settled now to a great extent, by old people, while there are several families of two, man and wife, who have no children, and the children we used to have here are grown up and married and gone to seek their fortunes elsewhere. And at the rate we have been going, in the course of a few years, without a change, our town will be a childless town.
    Saturday morning as I was making my rounds, I found that W. L. Childreth's blacksmith shop was closed and on making inquiry as to the cause, found that no one in that neighborhood knew the cause, but Sunday learned that he had gone up to Douglas County to take a hunt, and up to this Wednesday noon it was still closed.
    Rob Harnish started Monday morning for Woodlawn, Cal., to visit one of his cousins and his wife spent the time during his absence visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nickell of Phoenix.
    Ed Morgan and family of Trail have been out visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan.
    Speaking of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morgan, of our town, they went to Medford the last of last week and bought a new Ford and Monday started in it to visit relatives in the Willamette Valley, to be gone about three weeks.
    Charley Clark, who has been here at the Sunnyside for the past week or more looking after his business, started Monday for Chiloquin, Klamath County.
    G. W. Neilson, the superintendent and manager of the Pacific and Eastern Railroad Company, was busy at the large water tank at the Eagle Point depot Tuesday tightening the hoops, getting ready to do something beside junk the road, but he is as dumb as an oyster on the future movements of the new owners of the road. He took dinner Tuesday and today at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. C. R. Farrier of Lake Creek brought her sister, Miss Martha E. Porter of New York, who is here visiting, in to the Sunnyside Monday afternoon and took a room to have Dr. W. P. Holt give her treatment for an abscess on her foot.
    H. W. Conger, undertaker of Medford of the firm of Weeks & Conger, stopped here for supper on his way out with the corpse of Mr. Simon Farlow, who died Tuesday, September 14, at the home of his nephew, Frank Farlow, aged 88 years. He and his brother Perry Farlow, lately deceased, have been living together for the last several years. He was never married and has for the past few years been living with his nephews. The burial took place in the Brownsboro cemetery today, Wednesday, at 3 p.m.
    A. H. Daughtery, agent for Raleigh's Remedies, spent Tuesday night with us and so did Mr. R. M. Conley of Butte Falls.
    We had one of those traveling shows here last night, but as none of us attended, do not know how it was, but I heard one man say that it was better than the Negroes' show. It is strange that our city dads will have these "catchpenny shows" come here and show and in some instances take away $100 or more and let them show without paying a cent license to help keep up the expense of the town.
    W. C. Hanson and A. C. Speck of Brownsboro passed through here this morning on their way to Sams Valley to see about getting a rock crusher to use around Brownsboro.
    Mrs. E. E. Smith of Butte Falls came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage this morning and went up home.
    Milo Conley, Charles Swem, Mr. Davis, the agate man of San Francisco, and Mr. Berry of Brownsboro were business callers.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 21, 1920, page 6


    Oscar and Will Stewart have gone to the mountains to look after their cattle. They intend to be gone three days.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Saltzman of Medford spent Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Fred McDonald, who has been running a small summer store near the Rogue Elk Hotel, is having a closing-out sale. His family have already gone to Eugene, where they will stay for the winter.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess visited with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Sunday.
    Miss Gwen Houston, who is attending school in Central Point, visited home over the weekend.
    Keva Hutchinson spent the weekend visiting with his parents. He is attending school in Medford.
    The home of Peter Johanson burned a few days ago causing a loss of about $800, and rather than build again he sold the place to Dave Pence.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson spent Sunday hunting in the vicinity of Yellow Rock Canyon. They had no luck, not even seeing any signs of game.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 23, 1920, page 7




    Saturday afternoon after I had written my letter for the Mail Tribune I took a stroll around town to see if I could find anything of interest to write for its readers, but found that items of interest were as scarce as mice in a deserted church, but about supper time Mr. Frank Smith, one of the citizens who lives alone and does his own cooking, came in to spend a while looking over my newspapers and to have supper, and Dave Smith and family--no relation to Frank--came in to spend the night, and the next morning Cliff Hickson was here; he came in after I had gone to my room.
    Sunday morning we had a very interesting Sunday school session, although the teacher of the Bible class, John Esch, having been called away on business to Ashland and his son Carl notified us that his father was expecting to be gone to Arizona for the winter, where he has business interests that require his attention. His place as teacher of the Bible class was filled by H. E. Campbell, our banker, and the way he handled the subject, the evils of intemperance, was not only instructive but very interesting. He has a way of his own to teach a class in Sunday school that makes it impressive.
    Sunday was not too cold or too hot or too wet or too dry but simply a lovely day, and the result was we had a nice company here for dinner, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Gilmore and Mr. and Mrs. I. Finley of Ashland. Mr. Gilmore was born in England in 1838 and came to the United States on the Great Eastern when it came across the Atlantic Ocean to lay the first telegraph cable. We had also Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rader, Gus the Tailor and wife, Frank Rhodes, A. A. Clenson, [and] H. V. McManus, who was also here Saturday night and remained until this morning. He is distributing books on farming in this section. Also Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Merrill and son Jess of Medford, Mrs. Geo. Rebec and Mrs. Elizabeth Rebec of Ashland, Mrs. Geo. B. Canode, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Neff of Medford, and Mrs. Elizabeth Barker of Tien Tsin, China; Miss Clara Moore and Robert Edmondson of Butte Falls, and later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Huls, Mrs. Effie Stewart, Mrs. Marjorie McCharney and Walter Leningston of Medford.
    Monday morning Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek passed through here with a truckload of potatoes on his way to Medford.
    G. W. Sanders, foreman on the Antelope orchard, was also a business caller Monday morning and so was Miss Ethel Ewen and T. E. Gaines of Trail. He was on his way from San Francisco home. He had been to San Francisco to look over the beef market and reports that the prospect is not as favorable this fall as usual.
    P. S. Anderson, a retired capitalist of Medford, was out looking after his interests here. He owns a fine farm on Rogue River a few miles above here and has been running a dairy farm under the management of the Brittsan brothers on shares, but now he has leased to them the ranch for three years and sold them the herd of cows, and the result is they are planning to eventually buy the whole outfit. He has confidence in their making good, and their many friends here are wishing them success in their undertaking.
    Monday, Sept. 20, was quite a noted day in our little village, as it was the marriage anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Knighten, pioneers of Oregon, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Clements, our postmaster for the past several years. Mr. and Mrs. Knighten were married on Sept. 20, 1860, in Forest Grove, Oregon, they having come to Oregon in 1847, and are now well along in years as Mr. Knighten is about 87 years of age and his wife is about the same age. They have had three children, all deceased, two boys and one girl and all lived to be grown; the eldest son was married and had a family. They have three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. But what I started in to tell was about the way they were treated on their marriage anniversary. They were taken completely by surprise when ten or a dozen of their neighbors marched in on them last Monday just before noon with baskets and plates loaded with eatables of every kind and arranged the table for them to have a sumptuous dinner.
    Mrs. Knighten's health is so poor that she could not enjoy the eating of the food, but the aged couple were so delighted that they could not find language to express their feelings.
    While Mr. and Mrs. Clements have a host of friends here there was no special demonstration made as they are likely to live to enjoy a score or more wedding anniversaries and when they are ready to celebrate their sixtieth, if they are still living in this neighborhood, probably will have as many friends visit them at that time as the venerable couple just referred to.
    W. M. Lewis, formerly of Flounce Rock, but now of Medford, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage to take the Prospect stage for his old home. There were three other passengers on the stage for Butte Falls.
    Mack Stille, of the Stille brothers sawmill on Indian Creek, was a business caller Tuesday and so was W. H. Crandall and Charlie Cingcade, one of our stockmen.
    R. C. McGill of Medford and a friend were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Ed Houston of Trail and Guy Pruett, who has a farm southwest of here, were also business callers.
    Lewis Martin and George Fisher of Trail came in Tuesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside and so did M. M. Chenoworth of Aberdeen, Wash., who was passing through looking for a warmer and dryer country than Washington and in the meantime looking for a job. He is a house carpenter and has his tools with him.
    Fred Pelouze, one of our substantial farmers and dairy men, was in town Tuesday. He says that he has entirely gotten over the effects of his fall.
    A. C. Edler of Lake Creek, one of the old substantial citizens of that country, was a business caller and so was C. R. Farrier and wife of Lake Creek. Mrs. Farrier's sister, Miss M. E. Porter, has recovered from the trouble with her foot and went out today, Wednesday, on the Butte Falls stage to Derby to take charge of the school in that district.
    Mrs. Allen of Wellen was in town today.
    W. H. Isbell, the foreman on Wm. von der Hellen's ranch four miles north of here, was in town today and reports that his wife's sister, Mrs. G. Wilcox, had arrived on the stage today, but did not say where she came from. His wife is in very poor health and her sister has come to help care for her.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 27, 1920, page 7


    Last Wednesday Jack Thrasher, R. Hayman and R. W. Knight, three of the men who had been working on the county road between the Reese Creek school house and the Vestal place, called for late dinner. They had finished the job of grading the road and were bringing the machinery out. Mr. Thrasher has been in charge of the work and the other two men are helpers, Mr. Knight having charge of the Caterpillar and Mr. Hayman seemed to be caring for the pulverizer and graders. After they had eaten their dinner they started the train, the truck taking the trap wagon across the wagon bridge, and then came the job of taking the big Caterpillar across the creek. In order to come in so as to strike the grade just right, they had to describe a perfect S starting in so as to cross an irrigating ditch near the wagon bridge and then turn up the creek so as to strike the ford just right and them make a turn at right angles so as the strike the grade, a very steep, narrow and rocky grade, just so that the pulverizer and two graders would follow exactly, but when the machines were in the right position the Caterpillar slacked up and dropped the trailer and went up the hill O.K. Then they hitched a cable to the tongue of the first trailer and attached it to the Caterpillar and they all three went up the hill as easy as Old Robin could take up a chair. It was a question whether Mr. Thrasher and his crew would be able to make the turns so as to go up the hill, but he did. There was almost every man in town that could leave his work, or loafing, turned out to see them cross the creek. Those who have passed judgment on the job of grading the road report that they have done a fine job, and now if [sic] can have two weeks of pleasant weather.
    Mr. Thrasher thinks that the rock crusher crew can make a fine road over that horrible, sticky three and a half miles of road that has been such a drawback to this and the Butte Falls sections of the county.
    It seems that Wig Jacks' troubles do not come single, in addition to his losing his barn by fire he last Wednesday went out to where he had staked his milk cow in his alfalfa and found her dead. She died from bloat caused from eating too much wet alfalfa.
    Wednesday afternoon Mrs. R. C. Farrier of Lake Creek and Mrs. Ernest E. Smith, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Los Angeles, called and later in the afternoon Mr. Farrier called and took his wife home. She had been to Butte Falls on business while Mrs. Smith and child remained overnight and went to Medford on the early stage at 7:15, on her way to join her husband in Los Angeles, who is in business there.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Leidman of Los Angeles passed through here Wednesday. They had been out among the orchardists looking over the fruit prospects. He is one of a company of four professional fruit packers from Southern California who have been here the past three or four years packing fruit. One of the four has been stopping here with us for the past week or two, Mr. John Jones, making fruit boxes for Mr. Tronson and today starts to make boxes on the Bell (Corbin) orchard.
    Ed Morgan, who bought the Sheibley place, has been stopping for the past few days in the home of his father, W. P. Morgan, who is off on a vacation in the Willamette Valley.
    J. T. Carpenter of Princeton, Ind., and his daughter, Mrs. H. J. Otto of Evansville, Ind., arrived Wednesday afternoon and called simply for a short visit as Mr. Carpenter and wife, now deceased, boarded with us for several weeks a few years ago. They were with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crandall, who is looking after his interests here while he is away. He owns an eighty-acre orchard that Mr. Crandall is caring for.
    J. D. Pierce of Trail, L. F. Hall of Prospect, George Fisher, Lewis Martin and Henry Trusty of Trail came in and spent Thursday night and went to Medford on the early stage Friday, and Mr. Pierce and J. L. Wise of Prospect spent Friday night with us.
    J. H. Smith of Chicago, who owns a small orchard near here, called Friday morning on his way out to the orchard.
    John Smith, one of the pioneers of this section, took supper with us Friday.
    Warren Starkey, representative of Hayes Fruit Savings Bank of Chicago and sales manager of school books, Clyde E. Wilson, factory representative of a tire and rubber company and M. B. Beldon, Portland, and two men from near Phoenix were here for dinner Friday.
    J. L. Robertson was in town this Saturday and reported that his boys had started today for Lakeview in a car to go via Crater Lake and at last reports the snow was seven feet deep at the lake. They will likely have to camp this side of the summit.
    Frank Rhodes, Marshall Minter and Fred Pettegrew and son Charles were business callers.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 28, 1920, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. D. Miller of San Francisco are again spending some time at the Rogue Elk.
    F. B. McDonald closed his business for the season, and left for Eugene. He expects to resume it next season, on a much larger scale.
    Lieutenant and Mrs. E. H. Holt and baby of the Marine barracks, navy yard, Puget Sound, are guests at the hotel for some weeks.
    Mrs. J. E. McDonald visited Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Borden of Medford.
    Dr. C. C. Van Scoyoc is spending a few days at his summer home here, enjoying the hunting season.
    Miss Gladys McDonald leaves Sunday for Eugene to attend school this winter.
    Van Heffner was a Medford visitor today.
    Mrs. Dr. Dean and Mrs. Folger of Medford were dinner guests at the Rogue Elk.
    Mr. and Mrs. Parkhurst of Crater Lake are guests at the Rogue Elk.
    H. D. McDonald left for Seattle to attend the University of Washington.
    The salmon fishing activities at the government hatchery, which was delayed on account of the recent rains, has again been resumed.
    Mr. and Mrs. T. Todd and J. E. McDonald are Medford visitors today.
    Mr. Johnson, whose home burned recently, left for the valley to work this winter.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 30, 1920, page 5


    Saturday afternoon after writing the Eaglets I took my usual stroll around town to pick up any little incidents that I might find to help make up a readable article for the Mail Tribune, and had not gone far before I met Wert Pool, James F. Johnson and Thomas F. Nichols, three of our farmers, who had come in to do a little trading and renew acquaintances.
    In a short time I met J. H. French and son Lloyd. I have occasion to mention their being in town once in a while for they, especially J. H. French, for he is one of the citizens who is wide awake and is demonstrating the fact that if a man has a small farm where he can raise a few tons of alfalfa hay so as to be able to keep a few cows and a few dozen hens, that he can not only make a good living and if he is in debt, can get out of debt and soon have a bank account of his own. But what I started out to say of Mr. French and son was that they are extending their business from a few hens to a considerable number. They had just been up in Josephine County and bought eight dozen White Leghorn hens of the O.A.C. strain and then down to Phoenix and secured three dozen more of the same kind of hens, and an incubator capable of hatching 33½ dozen chicks at a time, provided that all the eggs hatch. He has sent off and procured a fine lot of registered cocks and intends to turn their attention to raising thoroughbred chickens. Those they have just purchased added to what they had on hand runs their stock up to about 400, and with their experience in the poultry business and the careful oversight of Mrs. French to aid them we predict that in a short time they will be counted among the leading poultry men in Rogue River Valley.
    Just as I was meeting Mr. French and son, Roy Ashpole was demonstrating how his new grease gun would work by injecting auto grease into his auto, and just about that time Alex Betz and Carl Bergman joined the company.
    The lovely and much-needed rain that we have been having the past week has passed over and left the sky clear and bright for our Sunday morning duties and after attending Sunday school and going to the post office to get the mail, and getting comfortably seated and looking over the Medford Sun, just about that time the guests began to arrive and by the time they were all here and your correspondent had secured the names and residence of the guests, I found that I had just twenty-nine, although I didn't have all of their names as there were two men and a lady whose names I did not secure.
    Among them was Glen Haley and Miss Stella Anderson of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Florey, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Riley D. Henson, Medford, Gus Gustine and wife, J. P. Oswald, Judge George Gardner, wife and daughter, Mrs. William von der Hellen, son Hugo and daughter Joyce, Mrs. Fred McPherson, Florence Milligan, Josephine Madden, Rena Prater, J. C. Milligan, Raymond Reter and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Armstrong, U.S. livestock inspector, Medford, and later C. H. Natwick, highway contractor.
    Mrs. Arglee Green of Los Angeles, who passed through here a week or more ago for Seattle, returned and stopped to visit her sister, Mrs. Floyd Pearce, and to look after her property here, and called on your correspondent Monday morning on her way home.
    Earl Ulrich and Herb Carlton of Prospect passed through here Monday morning on their way to Medford with a nice lot of beef cattle for the Medford market and returned today, Wednesday, and stopped at the Sunnyside for dinner. Wilson and Carl Stanley of Lake Creek went out to Medford Monday morning and Lewis Geppert, who has been working in the neighborhood for some time went up home near Butte Falls Monday on the Butte Falls stage.
    Speaking about the traffic on the different stage routes, especially on the Butte Falls route, the cars have been crowded and in several instances the driver, Rob Harnish, has had to leave them for want of room and then he would have five to seven passengers each way.
    Mrs. Chris Bergman came in Monday and on her way her horse shied and broke one of the shafts of her buggy, but W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, soon repaired it so she went on home that afternoon.
    F. M. Wilson, who has a ranch on the P.&E. near Derby, Mr. King, who has a homestead on the Butte Falls road and Charley Manning, who lives on the Prospect road, called for dinner Monday.
    Mrs. J. L. Robertson and Mrs. Susan Hart drove in Monday on business and remained until after the evening mail came in from Medford.
    Chris Beale, one of the forest rangers who has been stationed out in the vicinity of Lodge Pole since last June, came in on the stage from Butte Falls Monday.
    Steve Smith and family passed through here Monday on their way from Medford, where they had been to do their trading, on their way home.
    George Frey and his brother of near the McAllister Soda Springs were here Monday afternoon and so was W. H. Crandall and family; they had been to Medford on business.
    John Howard, one of the vets of '61, spent Monday night at the Sunnyside.
    W. G. Knighten made a hurried trip to Medford and back Tuesday, and W. W. Parker of Butte Falls went up home on the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning.
    Miss Lola Roberts, who has been out in Klamath County for some time, returned home last Sunday and her sister--I have forgotten her name--has gone to Merrill to teach school.
    Mrs. F. M. Stewart of Oakland, Cal., who came up with the remains of her husband, who died in their home in Oakland and was buried in Medford last Saturday, and three of her daughters, Mrs. Norman McQuoid of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. E. P. Watther of Spokane, and Mrs. J. W. Grover of Medford and her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Perry of Eagle Point were here visiting friends Tuesday.
    George Ford of Central Point called Tuesday for dinner while on his way to the Wm. von der Hellen ranch to shear his goats.
    Mrs. Comings, formerly Mrs. George Wamsley of this place, but now of Central Point, was out looking after her property here Tuesday.
    Mr. Trowbridge and Mrs. Boyden of Medford came in from the McAllister Soda Springs and report that they had succeeded in killing a bear and one deer. Mrs. Boyden's son accompanied them.
    Wm. Nichol of Lake Creek was a business caller Tuesday.
    C. H. Natwick, Henry Trusty and F. Frideger spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, September 30, 1920, page 7


    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart spent Sunday evening visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Mrs. George Weeks spent Sunday afternoon visiting at the Rogue Elk Hotel.
    The Sumner family have returned from an extended absence, where they were picking prunes.
    Mr. Keva Hutchinson spent Sunday visiting his parents, returning to Medford with his father, Mr. S. W. Hutchinson, Monday morning.
    There was a basket dinner for the church people at Trail Sunday. There was preaching services in the afternoon.
    Mr. Dave Pence was elected superintendent of the Sunday school and Mr. Frank Houston assistant.
    The Clary brothers of Ashland spent Sunday looking the country over, Saturday stopping for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson.
    The rain this week caught several farmers with their hay down. However, if the sun shines for a few days no damage will be done.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 6, 1920, page 8


    When I finished my letter Wednesday, I found that I was in danger of ruffling the temper of our naturally good-natured editor of the Mail Tribune if I made my letter any longer, so I just stopped writing before I used up all the little items I had jotted down, and among them was the fact that Charles Brown of Medford, who owns a fine orchard on the Medford-Eagle Point road was out in our section of the country looking over the fruit prospect, and dropped into the Sunnyside for dinner Wednesday and also that Horace Geppert of Butte Falls came in about the same time and satisfied his appetite at the same table. He was on business and stopped long enough to eat dinner, returning home that evening.
    Walter Wood, one of our leading business stockmen, was out in the country south of Ashland buying beef cattle for the California market and succeeded in securing quite a fine lot, he reports.
    Mr. and Mrs. David Ball and Mrs. Duffrey of Crescent City, brother-in-law and sisters of Mrs. Frank Lewis, have been here visiting the Lewis family and Wm. Lewis went to Salem to attend the state fair for a few days, returning Friday morning.
    Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitehead of Butte Creek orchard called for supper. Mr. Whitehead is the manager of the business on the Butte Creek orchard (Corbin) during the absence of Mr. Fred C. Bell, the present owner. And later in the evening Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Pinse, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Kanison of Ashland and Mrs. R. W. Baker of San Jose, California, came in for supper. They had phoned ahead that they were coming.
    Thursday morning I went to Medford on the 7:15 stage and about the first thing I did after my arrival in the city, after meeting a number of friends, was to go to Dr. J. J. Emmens' office to enter my name and an application for his services, for he is so busy that in order to have prompt attention, one must register early. After attending to that duty my next move was to go to the Medford Mail Tribune office to leave my Saturday's writeup and try to transact a little business with that ever-going S. S. Smith, the business manager of the concern, and after waiting for some time I spied him, but found him too busy to even talk business and he finally made a date for 2:30 p.m., so I went at 2 and waited until after 3 p.m., and then got the editor's ear for a few minutes and succeeded in attending to the matter with him. If one wants to do business with that man Smith he had better have a good rope or a shotgun, for he is a goer. In the meantime, between my first visit and last to the Tribune office, I reported at Dr. Emmens' office and there met one of my neighbors, Mrs. M. L. Pruett, and her sister, Mrs. Ed Pottenger, who were in the waiting room to consult the doctor and in a few minutes his assistant, a very pleasant lady, called me and stationed me in the corner of the first room and then she called Mrs. Pruett and seated her in another room, and by this time the patients began to arrive in earnest and the lady kept bringing them in and I began to wonder if I had to sit in that corner all the forenoon, but the doctor soon came around and gave me the first test, and in a few minutes more, another and finally told me what he thought of my case. It was not as encouraging as one would hope for, but he told me to come again the first of the week and he would supply me with medicine that he thought would help me, so I will have to bother him again the first of the week. But while I am thus engaged I always have my eyes open to try to find something of interest to the readers of the Medford Mail Tribune.
    While I was in Medford the first man I met from this part of the country was Mr. J. Wittenberg, who is farming the Joe Rader place about two miles from Eagle Point and in addition to working that large farm, he also went and put up the hay on the Fred Pelouze place, so the reader may know that he goes some. I also met Mr. W. P. Haley, formerly of Eagle Point but now of Central Point, and he informed me that he had sold one of his Central Point places in Central Point to one of our promising citizens. I withhold his name, for I know that he is so reserved that he shuns publicity. I also met the Brittsan brothers, who are on the P. S. Anderson dairy farm a few miles above here on Rogue River. Besides quite a number of old acquaintances, among them some whom I have not met before for fifteen or sixteen years.
    During my absence Perry Foster, one of the pioneers of this country, and Mr. Neslin called for dinner and Mr. Foster left word for me that he had rented his farm to Mr. Neslin.
    Friday Ed Cowden came in on horseback and went on to Medford in a jitney, returning the same day.
    J. L. Robertson came in town early Friday morning and reported that the wind Thursday had blown down a large silo that Mr. Wm. Lewis, the sheep king, had just put up on his place just north of town, a mile or so, and Mr. Lewis was planning to fill it with feed for his sheep as soon as Mr. Weidman got through with the cutter and engine. Mr. Weidman is filling his silo today, Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Leidman and his brother, George Leidman, and family, passed through here Friday on their way up to Mrs. Manuel Leidman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Zimmerman, in the Blue Canyon country, the two brothers wanting to kill a deer apiece before they go back to Los Angeles. Mr. John Jones was with them, but did not go up with them, but remained here until after supper and then went up to the Butte Creek orchard.
    Grover Neil of Ashland and Wilbur Ashpole, Medford, who had been up on Butte Creek to the Stanley ranch to look at some beef cattle, stopped at the Sunnyside Friday for dinner, and Charley Winkle was also a diner at the Sunnyside.
    Mrs. Dollie Skeen and her son, George, of Dorris, California, came in and spent the night Friday evening on their way up to her son-in-law's, R. C. Conley, near Butte Falls. They took the wrong road and went out of their way, via Brownsboro, etc.
    We had a show, vaudeville, and dance here last night, and I asked one of the men who attended and he reports that it was very good. I understand that the manager had quite a time trying to find the recorder of our town, so he could get a permit, but he looked in vain, for since J. V. McIntyre resigned several months ago we have had no recorder and the council has not met for several moons.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 6, 1920, page 9


    Miss Alice Humphrey of Derby, who is attending the Medford high school, came out Saturday morning on the stage and was met here by her father and went out home to spend Sunday. Miss Oatman of Talent also came out on the Lake Creek stage and went to Medford.
    H. L. Vradenburg of Glendale came out from Medford and went to Butte Falls on the stage.
    The Rogue River Canal Co. has three large trucks and a force of men hauling lumber from our P.&E. depot up along their canal.
    R. A. Weidman has just about finished filling his silo with sunflowers. He claims that it makes splendid feed for milk cows.
    W. Y. Marshall of Central Point came over to have his horse shod by our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, he being an expert shoer. He was met here by his son Walter and family of Brownsboro.
    W. E. Webb of Derby was also a business caller and while here procured a load of seed grain and took it home with him.
    A. C. Spence and wife of Brownsboro were also callers and so was G. W. Isbell.
    W. A. Hauser of Portland was here for dinner and so was Nick Young.
    F. J. Ayres and wife were in town on their way to Medford and when they returned seemed to have their Ford loaded with supplies.
    George Stowell and family, who have a fine farm on the bank of Rogue River, were also in town Saturday afternoon and while here I saw that he was having quite a lot of nails weighed out in Ashpole's hardware store, so I began asking questions and learned that they were putting up a new barn, and while Mr. Stowell was busy I asked Mrs. Stowell how many hens they had now and she replied that they did not have very many hens as they had sold off quite a lot and had bought a lot of pullets, that counting them they had about 800 altogether. They have been making a specialty of the hen business, turning their attention to the production of eggs. I asked if they raised any chickens and she said no, that they kept no cocks but that next year they would make a change and raise chickens as well as sell eggs. In addition to their egg business they are milking quite a number of cows and have to build a new barn to store away feed. In addition to what I have already referred to they have installed an electric light and power motor plant, run by gasoline motor, so that they have light all over the place, in the house, barn, woodshed, hen house and yard, and in addition to that have all the power they want for washing machine, flatiron, grindstone, pump, etc., and all this is the result of industry, economy and good management.
    Wm. Perry, wife and Mrs. Perry's sister, Mrs. Leroy Smith returned from Medford Saturday afternoon. I had notes for what I have written thus far when I wrote last Saturday so had to keep them for this letter.
    Sunday morning was a very nice and pleasant morning but there were not many came in for dinner as it seems a little late in the season, but those who did come had their regular chicken dinner just the same and among the guests was Geo. McDonald, Mrs. C. H. Natwick, Henry Trusty, who came in from the Crater Lake Highway camp Saturday evening and spent the day. In addition to them there were Mr. and Mrs. Gustine (Gus the Tailor), Mrs. Wm. Perry, Mrs. L. A. Smith, Rob Harnish and wife, Lloyd Stanley, Miss Nora Childreth, J. E. Mooney and R. Murk from Steward, Alaska, Florence Meligan, Nora Frater, Josephine Madden of Kenneth Hotel, Medford, and while the five last mentioned were here they took photos of each other standing amid the beautiful flowers in the Sunnyside garden.
    We also had as guests R. E. Nealon and Mrs. C. F. Meier of Jefferson, Ore. They were out to look over our noted agate fields. George Albert of the Dupray mill was also a diner Sunday noon and later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Holmes of Seattle, Mr. Chincapan of Pekin, China, Mr. Gates of Portland, Mr. Chrys F. L. White of Kansas City, who represents Puts [P&G?] greaseless soap, Mrs. Andy Anderson, formerly of Patagonia, S.E., visiting the U.S.A. for the first time and Mr. Rosenberg, owner of Bear Creek orchard. They called during the afternoon simply to see and be seen. They seemed to be completely carried away with our valley and when they saw the vegetables growing in our garden they seemed to doubt their own eyes. They seemed to be guests of Mr. Rosenberg and were out for pleasure.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our leading orchardists, was in town Monday and has a force of pickers at work gathering his crop of apples. He seems to think that the hail storms did not do as much damage as he feared it would.
    Miss Mina Minter and her two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Hammond and Mrs. John Castor, were in town Monday.
    George Hollenbeck and Bert Higinbotham of Prospect were diners a the Sunnyside Monday.
    Rudolph Pech passed through our town Monday having a fine-looking white bull in his truck; as he did not stop we did not learn his destination or pedigree.
    Wm. Stanley of Lake Creek was a business caller also Monday and so was Frank Neil, who came out on the Butte Falls stage on his way to Medford. He had been spending the summer at the Union Creek highway camp, keeping the books for the Eagle Point Construction Company.
    Ralph Bieberstedt and his sister, Miss Orga, were in town Monday getting binding twine to tie up corn.
    Harry Stanley and his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Rader, were trading and looking after their banking interests here Monday.
    Dave Pence, one of the rustling farmers of Trail, and E. V. Brittsan were also among us Monday and so was James Vogeli, the man that owned the Tavern when the state went dry, who was shaking hands with his old friends. He is now, I understand, interested in the oil industry in Nevada.
    James Leabo of Trail, who has been spending the summer in Tillamook County, came in Monday and took a room, remaining until this Wednesday morning, taking passage on the Persist stage for his home.
    Everett Abbott and Wm. Welch of Butte Falls also came in the same evening for supper and then went on up home that night, and Mrs. Charles Wilkinson of Dead Indian Soda Springs called and spent the night.
    Tuesday morning your Eagle Point correspondent took passage on the 7:15 stage for Medford to have Dr. Emmens put in my new lens so as to improve my ability to distinguish one person from another, and of course I reached Medford entirely too soon to find him in his office, but when I visited the office found that the doctor was performing an operation in the hospital and on further inquiry learned that he was removing the tonsils from the throat of one of our prominent merchants, Mr. William Brown. I saw them both start out of Eagle Point that morning about 7 a.m. and learned when I met his brother of his having the operation performed. After getting my glasses arranged all O.K. I had nothing to do but visit and read, which I did all night. Among those I met that day was Geo. McDonald, who, it will be remembered, has been in charge of the rock work on the Crater Lake Highway this summer, and now he goes back up there to go to work for the U.S. government putting crushed rock on the road just graded. I also met T. C. Gaines, one of the leading stockmen of the Trail country. He was in town arranging to get cars to ship his beef cattle.
    While I was in Dr. Emmens' office I met Mrs. Sears and her daughter, who were there for treatment. I also met Harry Young, formerly of the Medford Mail Tribune force. But I see that I am getting this letter entirely too long and will have to stop to save my credit with the entire Mail Tribune force. More anon.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 12, 1920, page 7


    The last time I wrote I had to stop before I used up the list of items I had jotted down so now I will start in where I left off and give some of the main ones.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Spence of Brownsboro were here Tuesday, Mr. Spence is the supervisor of the Brownsboro road district and from what I can learn from those who travel over his roads he has been doing some fine work up there.
    Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meyer, who are making a specialty of the dairy business and raising poultry, especially turkeys and ducks, as well as raising quite a number of chickens, were in town Tuesday.
    Tuesday I made another trip to Medford to see Dr. Emmens, the oculist, and have him place the new lenses in my spectacles, and found him as busy as ever, but it took him but a very few moments to arrange them, so the rest of the day I had to look around, see my friends, visit and incidentally pick up an item for the Mail Tribune. I have already mentioned in my last several incidents among which was that Wm. Brown, one of our merchants, who had his tonsils removed by Dr. Emmens the day I was in town, is getting along fine at this date, Saturday, and soon will be eating anything he wants as usual.
    Tuesday evening when I reached home I found that the following persons were there to spend the night, the most of them to take rooms and start the next morning to pick apples in the Tronson and Little Butte orchards. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Purinton of Portland; Wm. C. Benton, Eugene; M. C. Hill, and F. A. Hill of Yreka, Cal., W. J. Hantley and E. V. Peterson, the present mail contractor, who is carrying the mail from here to Persist. I might say that the original contractor was unable to fill his contract and he sublet the contract to Mr. Adamson and he to Mr. Peterson, up to Oct.1st, when it became necessary for the bondsmen to hire somebody to carry it for the next 21 months and they have made a contract with the aforesaid E. V. Peterson to carry it the rest of the time, and he has engaged room and board at the Sunnyside for the present at least. Speaking of the stages, they seem to have about all they can do now as it is necessary often to engage seats a day in advance.
    Mrs. Day was at the Sunnyside Tuesday night. She is the wife of Rev. Day of Butte Falls and had the misfortune to dislocate her shoulder some time ago and was taken by Dr. Holt to the hospital in Medford to set it, then came out here to spend the night going on up home Friday morning on the stage. Ernest Abbott, also of Butte Falls, who came out to work in the orchards, spent the night with us.
    Henry Trusty, who has been running a truck all summer for the Eagle Point Construction Company, has been making his regular trips, bringing out tools that have been used in building the Crater Lake Highway, has been making the Sunnyside his headquarters and had finally got through and gone up to his home on Elk Creek. The company has finished their job and the work has been accepted by the proper engineer and I understand that the work is highly spoken of by the inspectors.
    Mrs. D. Bradshaw of Brownsboro was an early caller Thursday morning.
    John L. Robinson, Jr., has been roofing the Rev. L. L. Simmons house, where he is living with his family.
    Benj. Whetstone, one of our enterprising farmers, was in town Thursday.
    Rudolph Pech, another one of our hustling Lake Creek farmers, has been and still is hauling out his crop of potatoes to Medford and also distributing them along the road. He is now making two trips a day from his farm to Medford. He and his family are goers. We tried to get him on the phone yesterday, Friday, and I was calling his attention to the fact and he said that about noon was the only time between midnight and midnight when he could be found by the hello girl as they are always busy, and the results on his farm show it. He has a fine crop of spuds this fall.
    Mrs. Sherman Wooley and two children went to Butte Falls on the stage Friday morning.
    Kay Loosley and another stockman from Fort Klamath came in Friday, took dinner at the Sunnyside and returned the same day to the Fort.
    John Howard, one of the veterans of the Civil War, stayed with us Friday night on his way to Los Angeles to spend the winter.
    Wm. Lewis, the sheep king, passed through here Friday morning on his way to his ranch to assist in rebuilding his silo. The reader will remember that we had a little windstorm about eight or ten days ago and that it blew down.
    The Stanley Bros. took out a nice lot of cows to the Medford market. Judging from appearances there were about one hundred.
    There was a party went through here Friday with a new circular saw for the Conley and Cottrell mill near Butte Falls.
    Earl Ulrich of Flounce Rock, one of our hustling stockmen, was a business caller also.
    W. J. Hartley, I. A. Richardson, Ray Dillinger of Idaho and Wm. A. Holmes of the firm known as the Rogue River Land Company called for dinner Friday morning and so did J. E. Reid of Portland.
    John Iseli, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Glendale, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage going to Butte Falls and so was Mr. McCall of Prospect.
    J. D. Pierce of Trail and Frank Ganiard of Medford and J. C. Reynolds of Washington, D.C., were here for dinner Saturday. Mr. Reynolds is in the employ of the government in the Chamber of Commerce of Agriculture, taking statistics of products in that line. He came out on the stage and hired S. H. Harnish to take him to Trail and back and he and Mr. Harnish took dinner together.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 13, 1920, page 5


    Mr. Hollenbeak has been hauling sorghum cane this last week.
    Mr. Thomas and family are moving into the Ryan place. Mr. Summer, who was living there, moved to the valley.
    Tom Spangler, who has been lookout on Bald Mountain since June, returned Monday, Oct. 4.
    Mr. Adams, who owns the store at McLeod, returned from Medford with a load of gasoline.
    Dave Pence and Fred Sturgis made a trip to Medford to see about their beef.
    Ed Phillips made a business trip out to Eagle Point.
    Ace and George Weeks were helping at the Bar Eight ranch with the hay. S. W. Hutchinson, who owns the ranch, will have about 175 tons of hay this year.
    Charlie Foeller passed through here on his way to the mountains to gather his beef.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart made a business trip to Medford last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson have been helping his father, S. W. Hutchinson, with the hay this week
Medford Mail Tribune, October 15, 1920, page 3


    Saturday afternoon after I had finished writing my letter for the Medford Mail Tribune, I met Mr. Corbett Smith, one of the Butte Falls stockmen, but found that our streets were about cleared of the visitors, but in a short time there was a company of five came in for supper, i.e., Fred Mears, Charley Terrill, J. B. Coleman, A. C. Walker and H. A. Canaday of Medford, all on their way to Lake Creek to hold a Republican rally, but they stopped long enough to take supper and tend to a little campaigning for Harding. And they had hardly got under way before Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Snider and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Norton of Ashland, representatives of the E. N. Norton Motor Company of Ashland. They came up to take supper at the Sunnyside and attend the dance that was given that evening in our opera house. In the course of a half hour, Mrs. Eugene Thompson of Jacksonville, Miss Susanne W. Holmes, our present county school superintendent and F. S. Carter of Gold Hill called for supper. They were also on their way to Lake Creek to take part in the exercises in the grand rally. It was the arrangement to have Mr. Mears, Mr. Canaday and Miss Holmes act as the principal speakers, but if they kept Messrs. Coleman and Terrill still they would have accomplished wonders, for they have so many friends in that section that it would be hard for them to keep quiet. Miss Holmes is also a candidate for election to fill the office she is now filling by appointment. I have not heard what kind of a crowd they had or the success they had.
    That same evening Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Laws and family of three children came in to spend the night. They had come from their home in Philadelphia, Pa., through the Yellowstone park, Idaho, Washington and through Oregon this far, coming from Medford to Crater Lake, and in coming from Crater Lake, when they reached Elk Creek they took the wrong road, turning up the stream instead of following Rogue River down, and before they discovered their mistake found themselves with three miles of Persist and there they had a break in their auto and had to call a man from Eagle Point garage to come to their relief and the result was they had to have their auto "towed" out, getting to the Sunnyside about 8 p.m. They had the break repaired and after eating a Sunday dinner at the Sunnyside started for Los Angeles, where they expect to spend the winter.
    There was quite a good attendance at the dance Saturday night, and those who took part report that they must have sold at least a hundred tickets and the result was that the beds in the Sunnyside were about all occupied.
    Sunday morning was one of the most delightful mornings we have had for some time, warm and pleasant, and the result was a goodly number of people from different parts of the country were among the guests for dinner. Among them was Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Davis, Mrs. H. H. Kerr of Medford and Mr. E. L. Hogan of Detroit, Mich.; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hittson and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Gannaway and R. Gannaway of Medford.
    Rathburn S. Willing from Moose Jaw, Sask., Canada, at present one of the teachers in Gold Hill, also Marguerite Grayson, also from Canada, Miss Nellie Meaver, Ashland, Mrs. Lynn Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Smith of the Gold Hill bank, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Pelton, Sams Valley, and Gus the Tailor of Medford were also here.
    Mrs. R. A. Richardson of Hilt, Calif., came in on the stage Monday and went up to her former home on the Trail stage.
    J. W. Miller of Trail, who has been in Medford for the past few days, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and spent the night at the Sunnyside Monday night.
    J. W. Maxfield, W. E. Hammond, Fred N. Armes, were business callers Monday and Earl Tucker of Brownsboro came in to have his horse shod.
    John Iseli of Glendale, who has been up to Butte Falls on business and to visit one of his countrymen (a Swiss), came out in the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday.
    Mr. Joyce, Rube Johnson, Alex Matthews, Nick Young, Thomas Cingcade and E. V. Brittsan were also transacting business in Eagle Point Monday.
    Al Hildreth of Butte Falls came in Monday evening and engaged a room. He is engaged picking apples on the Tronson orchard. The continuous showers of rain that we have been having greatly interferes with the apple picking and Tuesday there were a number of the pickers went up to their homes near Butte Falls, but returned today, Wednesday.
    Elijah Hurd, one of the Medford attorneys, came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Tuesday from his farm near Prospect.
    Clarence Clark, who has a homestead near Derby, was also a passenger on the stage for Medford.
    J. P. Hughes, the principal merchant of Butte Falls, came in Tuesday evening from Medford and spent the night at the Sunnyside, and so did Mrs. Day of Butte Falls, the wife of the Presbyterian minister of that place. She had dislocated her shoulder some time ago and let it go without having it set and when Dr. Holt set it, it became necessary for her to have it treated so she came out and spent the night with us and went to Medford this morning.
    Miss Ethel Holman of Wellen, a sister of our townsman, Mr. Holman, was dealing with our merchants on Tuesday.
    Mr. O. M. Goss, one of our leading citizens, went to Medford to have Dr. Emmens perform an operation on his nose, having a malformation removed a few days ago, and I learned Tuesday that he was getting along nicely.
    Miss Ruth Young, our primary teacher, has had quite an addition to her room, as she now has a regular attendance of nineteen and Miss Jose Riley, the principal, has sixteen in attendance.
    Wm. Coy, a brother of Mrs. H. E. Campbell, our banker's wife, came in Tuesday night for supper and bed. He is from Kansas and expects to remain here during the winter. He is visiting his sister.
    George Trusty of Elk Creek also spent the night with us and so did Mr. E. V. Peterson, the Eagle Point-Persist mail carrier and his daughter Edna. She carries the rural mail from Trail to Reese Creek on the east side of Rogue River when the roads are bad.
    Miss Lorine Walker of Hubbard, a granddaughter of our townsman, Mr. James Jordan, is here during her vacation visiting her "grandpa." She is a daughter of Mrs. M. S. Wolfer, formerly of this place, but now of Hubbard, Ore.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1920, page 6


    The Stewart brothers of the Rogue River Ranch brought their beef out of the mountains last week. Mr. Will Stewart and Mr. Neil Olsen were riding for them.
    Mr. Hollenbeak is to make a trip soon to Houston's to get his sorghum.
    Mr. George and Ace Weeks brought their beef out of the mountains.
    Buyers for beef complain that not any of the beef in this section of the country is up to standard. That none of them are in good condition.
    Mr. Dave Pence, after some trouble finding a mount for him to ride, brought his cattle down out of the mountains.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 23, 1920, page 3


    Last Wednesday Miss Hilda Abbott and Mrs. Hildred Smith of Butte Falls called for dinner on their way up home. They had been working in the Edgell orchard, but the continuous showers made the sticky mud so that they could not lift their feet to the rungs of the ladder, so they concluded to suspend operations until more pleasant weather.
    Earl Ulrich and Thomas Carlton of Flounce Rock and Prospect were business callers also Wednesday afternoon.
    Sam Coy, one of our hustling farmers, who has leased his mother's farm and moved onto it on the Medford-Eagle Point road, has rented his own farm to Wm. Wright, and he has taken possession.
    W. P. Houston and George Cottrell of Butte Falls were passengers on the stage Thursday morning, and so was Graydon Childreth and family passengers on the stage for Butte Falls. Graydon was off for a hunt.
    Eli Dahack and his son, Ernest, came in early Thursday morning to W. L. Childreth's shop to have him do some repair work on their auto, and it was but a short time before C. E. Bellows came in with his auto for repairs and in the afternoon Mr. John Norris, foreman on the G. M. Wilfley orchard, brought his in, making three cars in one day. In fact, Mr. Childreth has about all the work that he can do in that line.
    John L. Robinson, Sr., one of our leading farmers, was in the same morning and reported that he had 20 or more tons of corn already shucked out, laying on the ground, where he had spread it out to dry in the sun on account of it being too damp to put in the bins, and that it was, and has been, exposed to all this rain, and fears are entertained that he will lose it all, as some of it that is lying next to the ground is already sprouting. The rain has also caught considerable of the last cutting of the alfalfa in the swath or shock. These showers that we have been having for the past month, while they are making the grass grow for the stock on the ranges, are doing considerable damage in that line, but will be a big help to the stockmen, for it will leave the cattle in fine shape for the coming winter, thus saving hundreds of tons of hay that otherwise would have been fed out.
    R. F. Muskopf, formerly of Prospect, but now the owner of what is known as the Grover place, was a business caller Thursday and Friday and Friday went through our town with a fine-looking combination of grain drill and disc cultivator.
    C. E. Bellows and wife, Fred Pettegrew, Mrs. Merritt and one of her sons, J. H. French and wife and Sam Coy were among the business callers Thursday. Mr. Bellows, who has been boarding the men who have been working with the rock crusher and hauling crushed rock onto the newly graded road on Reese Creek, reports that they have had to stop work altogether on account of the rain. When Mr. and Mrs. French came in to bring in their cream and eggs, I noted that they had only a few dozen eggs, and I naturally asked the cause of there being so few and he said that they had sold off their old stock of hens, and that those they had bought from Grants Pass were mostly molting, but that in a short time they would go to laying and then he would bring in eggs in abundance.
    Miss Susanne W. Holmes, our county school superintendent and candidate for the office for the next term, Miss Fuller--I did not learn her Christian name, or official position if she has one--and Mr. F. S. Carter of Gold Hill called for dinner and supper. They had been up in the Butte Falls country visiting some of the schools and were on their way to Medford.
    H. E. Campbell and wife and her brother, Fred Coy, recently from Kansas, were also guests at the Sunnyside Thursday evening for supper.
    Mr. W. Wagner of Elk Creek-Trail post office spent the night at the Sunnyside Thursday night.
    Rawles Moore, the Democratic candidate for district attorney, was out here for dinner Thursday and Friday. He seems to be very popular out here among the farmers as well as among the business men and ladies of our town and bids fair to carry this precinct.
    F. J. Maxfield of California, who has been visiting his son, F. J. Maxfield, Jr., came in and passed through here in company with his son on their way to Medford Friday morning.
    Mr. J. R. McMichell of Los Angeles, Cal., came in Friday forenoon for a room and meals for the day and night, as he wanted to go up on Round Top to look over a tract of timber land that belongs to his wife, formerly Mrs. Clark of this neighborhood.
    Mr. E. Hariranton of San Francisco was also her for dinner Friday with Eugene C. Bartlett of Ashland.
    Pete Young, one of our staid farmers, was a business caller Friday afternoon.
    J. W. Hovey, foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, made a hurried call on one of our business firms Friday.
    Mrs. Koontz of Butte Falls was visiting Mrs. Sherman Wooley Friday.
    Lucius Kincaid of Prospect came in with one of the tractors belonging to the Eagle Point Construction Company that had been used in building the Crater Lake Highway, and spent the night with us. And John Jones of Glendale came in Friday evening for a bed and breakfast. He has been out on the agate field gathering agates, and had quite a lot. He continued his hunt until about 1 p.m., going to Medford on the Medford-Butte Falls stage.
    Clifford Hickson was also with us Friday night.
    About 9 o'clock Friday evening, John Allen, his son, Walter, Benjamin Fredenburg, Theodore Fredenburg, Raleigh Conley, Dewey Hill and John Cobleigh came in and called for supper and beds. They had just brought a bunch of beef cattle from Butte Falls, and left them in Roy Stanley's pasture, and came to the Sunnyside, and complained of being hungry. Of course, they got their supper, beds and breakfast and went on their way rejoicing.
    Harry von der Hellen and little boy motored into town this Saturday morning, and so did John Owen. W. E. Hammel was also a business caller.
    W. E. Buell, Seattle; W. A. Johnston and H. A. Jerome of Portland called for dinner today. They seemed to be making special inquiry with regard to the irrigation projects around here and as to the value of our prairie land.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 25, 1920, page 7


    Saturday evening J. T. Whitehead and wife called for supper. Mr. Whitehead is the business manager for Mr. Fred C. Bell on the Butte Creek orchard. And about eight p.m., W. W. Willits of Persist, Dale Bonney, Drew; Fred Sturges, Trail; A. S. Tison and E. P. Hamlin, Drew, and Clifford Hickson, local, came in and called for supper. They had just come in from the Trail and Elk Creek country with a lot of beef cattle for Mr. L. Neil of Ashland.
    Mr. A. Von der Mark also came in and remained until Wednesday morning.
    I unintentionally omitted to state in my letter of Saturday, October 16, that Mr. and Mrs. Sam Coy of Eagle Point are the happy recipients of a baby boy on the 14th of October.
    Sunday morning was rather gloomy and the general rainy weather indicated that there would not be many guests come to the Sunnyside for dinner, but still the usual chicken dinner was served, but Mr. and Mrs. Norman Merrill and their two children were the only ones who came from Medford to enjoy it.
    Monday Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ulrich of Jacksonville were here for dinner. They were out arranging for a meeting to be held on Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the opera house for the purpose of hearing Colonel H. H. Sargent speak on the subject of moving the county seat from Jacksonville to Medford.
    In addition to them we also had Mr. E. V. Brittsan, one of the leading dairy men in this section of the country, and in addition to his work in the dairy business he is also interested to a considerable extent in the chicken industry, as he raises quite a lot of chickens for the Medford market. After he had eaten his dinner he gave us, the family, a very interesting account of how he managed his dairy and poultry business. Wm. Welch and Miss Hilda Abbott of Butte Falls also came in for dinner.
    The continuous rains have interfered very much with the fall work among the farmers and orchardists, as the pickers could not pick, and in many instances the pickers became discouraged and have quit and gone elsewhere to find work, and in some of the orchards where the ground is sticky they are not able to haul the fruit out of the orchard and I understand that in the Butte Creek orchard that they have 2000 boxes already picked that they are not able to haul to the packing house, and on account of the rain, there is great danger of having the fruit fall off of the trees, especially if we should have a brisk wind.
    Eli Dahack was in town and reports that he has 8 or 10 tons of squashes out in the field that he is unable to get in on account of the continuous rain, but we have been now without any rain for almost two days, Tuesday and today, Wednesday, so we live in hopes of a letup for a few weeks so that the orchard men and farmers can get their fall work done up. But we are not the only ones who are thus troubled, for I see by the Portland papers that in the Hood River country they are having the same trouble.
    Perry Farlow of Lake Creek came in and spent the night Monday, and so did A. A. Belisle, who has a homestead near the McAllister Soda Springs. He was on his way to Portland.
    Mr. R. A. Weidman, one of our leading dairymen, went to Medford Monday to attend the meeting held there in the interest of the dairy business. He is one of our enterprising citizens, who believes in getting all of the information possible on the subject.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, Thomas F. Nichols, one of our leading farmers, and Alex Betz started for the hills to get their quota of venison last Monday.
    E. C. Bartlett of Ashland was here for supper Tuesday evening.
    Mr. J. R. McNicoll, recently of Los Angeles, who owns a tract of timber land on Round Top, went to Medford, returning Monday evening, and has decided to settle among us, has sent for his family and rented rooms of Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy.
    Thomas Anderson of Reese Creek spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Mr. Bartlett of Ashland had a band of about 1500 sheep pass through our town this Wednesday morning on the way to Ashland.
    Harry Hayes of Indian Creek was in town this morning, buying supplies for winter.
    Mrs. John Norris was visiting her sister, Mrs. Gus Nichols, this morning, it being her birthday, and she reminded her of the fact by making her a nice present of a cake dish.
    Mr. Barker, the Butte Falls banker, came out over the new Reese Creek road and says that he has been traveling it for the past nine years, and that it is in a worse condition now than he ever saw it, notwithstanding there has been $20,000 expended on it already.
    W. H. Crandall and L. L. Conger were here Tuesday and word came this morning over the phone that Mr. Conger was stricken with a paralytic stroke, but have not heard how seriously he is stricken.
    W. E. Hammel was in town getting batteries for his gasoline wood saw.
    Today noon Buel Hildreth and wife came in for dinner. They were on their way from Crescent City, where they have been working for the past two months to their old home, Butte Falls.
    Henry Meyer and wife were business callers this morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 26, 1920, page 6


    Thos. Anderson of Reese Creek spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside.
    Thos. Cingcade, who is operating a wood saw in this neighborhood, had the misfortune to get his hand caught in the saw and badly cut. Dr. Holt, our local physician, dressed the wound and he thinks that he will soon be able to resume his usual place again.
    Frank Netherland of Butte Falls was among the passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, and two or three others who went out hunting have returned and report that they captured one deer.
    R. C. McGill and W. H. Hooker of the Earl Fruit Co., Medford, were out Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Lucius Kincaid, Mrs. F. Coy and the man who reads the electric meters for the California-Oregon Power Company.
    Robert McCabe came in Thursday on his motorcycle and took out a lot of hardware with him.
    J. H. French and his father-in-law, Perry Foster, were in town Thursday and reports that a company has been organized consisting of Miss Ruth Nichols, her brother, Thomas F. Nichols and himself, and have let a contract to Frank Rhodes to make a canal to take water out of Rogue River to irrigate their farms, and that the camp had been established and they expect to have sufficient water the coming season to put their whole farms under water, and they expect to be able to raise an abundant crop of alfalfa the coming season.
    John Zimmerlee of Trail has been hauling stove wood in for Roy Ashpole since the rain ceased to fall.
    Dave Smith has moved into the Wolfer house, now owned by Wm. Perry.
    F. W. Crane and his son, H. H. Crane of Tillamook County, Oregon, are here visiting their uncle, M. S. Wood, one of the veterans of the Civil War.
    Mr. Myron S. Hermann, a traveling salesman of Eugene, was here for supper Thursday evening and went on to Medford that night.
    R. M. Conley and Everett Abbott of Butte Falls were guests at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    George Holmes, S. B. Holmes, Harold Van Scoy and J. W. Prillaman went out for a hunt and up to Saturday noon had not reported.
    Mrs. Reeder of Ashland has been visiting the family of Gus Nichols.
    Lucius Kincaid of Prospect, who has been working for the Eagle Point Construction Company on the Crater Lake Highway, has been engaged the past few days bringing out a large tractor for the company and had considerable trouble on account of the condition of the roads. He finally took a large truck up to where he left it, loaded it into the truck and finally succeeded in bringing it out.
    George Givan and son Charles were here on business Friday. They are among our leading farmers and stockmen and are up-to-date dairy men.
    Fred Anderson, Ray Moore and S. Steadman of Medford, and Carl Spence of Kerby, a cousin of A. C. Spence, the Brownsboro road supervisor, was in town Friday having some repair work done on one of the county trucks by our blacksmith and machinist, W. L. Childreth.
    Dave Phipps of Medford, who has been working with his team on the Rogue River Canal Co.'s ditch, came out Friday and stopped to have his team shod by our expert horseshoer.
    Mrs. Thomas Stanley of Butte Falls, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Roy Stanley, were shopping with our merchants Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Carlton of Prospect brought out some fine beef for some of our citizens Friday.
    It was published in the Medford Mail Tribune and by handbills and passed by word of mouth that there would be a grand Republican rally in the dance hall of Eagle Point on Friday evening at 8 o'clock and on the same evening at 7 o'clock there was to be a meeting of those who were interested in the Big Butte ditch in Brown's hall, and the result was that the grand Republican rally was almost a failure. The next morning I asked Roy Ashpole how many there were out and he said about twenty; the next one I asked said about fifteen, the third man said about a hundred and when I told him what the others had said he began to count, from memory, and made it about thirty-five, and ten or twelve of them were the speakers and booster who came from Medford, and later I asked B. F. Lindas, one of the speakers, and he said about twenty-five. There seems to be less interest taken in the political campaign than any I have ever witnessed. The general feeling seems to be that it makes no difference which one of the two prominent candidates is elected, that Wall Street will be the guiding power, and that the President, whoever he may be, will be but a figurehead or tool for the interests.
    Miss Probers of Ashland, who has been teaching in South Butte district, came out on the Lake Creek stage Saturday morning to try to catch the 8:30 jitney but was a little late, but finally succeeded in finding a way to go to her home.
    F. Wynn of Portland was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage going to Butte Falls. John Grieve, the veteran road builder of Prospect, was also a passenger on the same stage.
    There are some changes taking place in the real estate business. Wm. Lewis, the sheep king, sold a tract of land just north of town to Raleigh Matthews.
    Mr. Lewis reports that his son had the misfortune to have his leg broken when his horse slipped on the pavement and caught him under his body.
    Harry Hayes has been hauling hay from here to Indian Creek for Stille Bros.' saw mill.
    D. R. Patrick came in for dinner Saturday and reports that he has just completed a barn, 56x80 feet, for Mr. Meier near Brownsboro and also reports that the shakes to cover it cost more than the lumber.
Medford Mail Tribune, October 27, 1920, page 4


    Word came to me a few days ago that Mrs. Hessler, who lives near Brownsboro, had fallen and broken her arm. Not over a year ago she fell and broke her other arm.
    Last Saturday Mr. Sears and Mr. Kinney, who live on Reese Creek, were in town and called for dinner at the Sunnyside. W. E. Phipps and wife and H. H. Rowley, W. H. Gipson and wife and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitehead of the Butte Creek orchard, Miss Ruth Nichols, Mrs. Norma Reeder and Miss Smith were also at the Sunnyside for dinner. Mr. Phipps, being the Democratic nominee for the legislature, was out interviewing the voters on the subject.
    Green Matthews, local, and John Toney of Derby were business callers Saturday.
    Wm. Brown and wife started Saturday for Los Angeles to spend the winter. Mr. Brown is a member of the firm of George Brown and Sons and they have gone to Los Angeles for his health.
    W. O. Garrett, B. F. Garrett and our sheriff, C. E. Terrill, passed through here Saturday afternoon to take a hunt and have a little recreation.
    The foregoing list of items I had to leave out of my Saturday's letter for fear that I would trespass on the good nature of ye editor.
    Sunday morning was one of the most delightful mornings ever experienced by mortal man; if the most artistic creature had had the making and arranging of it, it could not have been improved. Cool and bracing and yet warm enough so that one could be perfectly comfortable riding out, with a cloudless sky and all creation rejoicing in the beauties of nature. And the roads in the valley in fine condition for auto riding and just breeze enough to give a person a good appetite, was perhaps the cause of so many of the citizens of Rogue River Valley to start out to ramble and quite a few stopped at the Sunnyside about noon to satisfy that appetite, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McGill, representing the Earl Fruit Company, I. B. Morrow, Medford, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, shoe dealer of Medford, Mrs. K. S. Miller, Mrs. Carrie Larson of Medford, Gus the Tailor and wife, Mrs. Myrtle Bradford, B. F. Lindas and wife and daughter Anna, new Medford attorney from Washington, D.C., Dr. and Mrs. B. R. Elliott of Medford, formerly dental surgeon in the U.S. Army, and Miss Amy Elliott, J. G. Taylor, formerly of Medford, and his son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Pierce, now living on the Charley E. Terrill place near Brownsboro, Mrs. Minnie Bryan of Medford and D. R. Patrick of Brownsboro. Mr. Patrick remained overnight.
    W. S. Parker, formerly of Derby but now on the Frank Rhodes place, was in town with his two boys Monday morning.
    John Spence of Kerby was also a business caller Monday.
    Orville Tarbell of Rogue River, and two strangers, were here for dinner Monday.
    J. B. Jackson, wife and daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Young, formerly of this place, who have been combining business with pleasure, visiting in the Willamette Valley and Washington, were here Monday on their way to Los Angeles to spend the winter.
    J. M. Wilfley, one of our big orchardists, was here and went to Medford on the Lewis jitney Monday.
    Rev. Brittsan of Medford and son E. V. Brittsan were among the business callers Monday and while here Rev. Brittsan was planning to arrange so that he could have an appointment to preach for us in the near future.
    Mrs. Schutt of Derby drove out from home Monday in a one-horse buggy to bring her cream and buy supplies. She says that the road is so badly cut up that it is hard to travel in a rig of that kind as the trucks have cut the roads up so that it is very difficult to get over them, but we live in hopes of sometime having an improvement as the trucks came out this Wednesday morning to go to work on them again, but the sky would indicate that they will not be able to do much more work on that sticky road this fall as it looks now as though it would rain again before morning.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charles Humphrey of Derby were business callers Monday. Mr. Humphrey brought in a load of stove wood and was taking back his winter supplies. He came in for late dinner today. He was hauling wood from the von der Hellen farm at Wellen for Dr. Holt, and taking a load of hay back with him for Mr. Schutt, one of his neighbors. He is a hustler.
    W. P. Morgan, one of our townsmen, and wife, who have been up as far as The Dalles, returned to their home Monday. They went in their Ford, took their time and had a very pleasant visit with their relatives.
    Hayd Leve, a young schoolmate of Robert Pelouze, is here visiting the Pelouze family.
    Born in Medford, Oct. 13th, to the wife of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Cameron of Lake Creek, a seven-pound daughter. The mother and child came out through here Monday on their way home, both feeling fine.
    Henry Meyer and part of his family and Thos. Farlow of Lake Creek passed through here Monday evening on their way home.
    Our old townsman, A. J. Florey, one of the veterans of the Civil War and for years our postmaster here, who has been stopping in Jacksonville with his son Chauncey, our county clerk, came out Saturday afternoon to hear Col. Sargent speak on the subject of moving the county seat, had the misfortune to fall. He is very feeble and quite aged, past 80, and as he was getting out of the car he fell and dislocated his hip. Dr. Pickel was brought out and replaced the joint and the result is that he is now at his son's, A. J. Florey, Jr., but is getting along as well as could be expected. His many friends here sympathize with him in his affliction.
    Speaking of Col Sargent, it was announced that he would speak here on Monday night on the question of moving the county seat from Jacksonville to Medford and he was greeted by a fine audience and he held them so intensely interested that there was a deathly silence except the voice of the speaker for considerably over an hour, and by the time he was through speaking there seemed to be but very few who would vote to move it at this time, especially under the circumstances. He is a very clear and forceful speaker and seemed to have a fund of matter to draw from. But by the time this is before the readers, the die will be cast and the question settled, at least ready for the lawyers to begin to reap their harvest.
    Messrs. N. Anderson and C. Pennington of Butte Falls came in Monday night and remained until after dinner Tuesday. They had come in to have their team shod and get a load of apples to take home.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 2, 1920, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Moen and two sons from Decorah, Iowa, came in last Saturday for dinner. They had made arrangements by phone to have Mr. J. H. French or C. E. Bellows meet them here and take them out to one of their homes. Mr. Moen had conditionally engaged to teach the unexpired term of school out in their district, so they went out to Mr. Bellows', and Mrs. Moen commenced to teach Monday morning, although they had not secured a house to live in up to Tuesday noon. It seems fortunate that they have succeeded in getting a school and that the district secured the services of a competent teacher.
    Miss Bessie Violl came out on the stage Saturday morning and went out to teach school in the Laurel Hill district, and Tuesday came out and went to Medford to attend the teachers' institute.
    Mrs. Chris Bergman came in in a buggy to take Miss Violl out with her Saturday but she found one of her neighbors in town with a car, so had her go with him, as she could go much quicker and more comfortably.
    A. H. Peachey and M. F. Taylor of Ashland and Russ Moore of Lake Creek came Saturday evening for a late supper, and Mr. Peachey remained overnight, but Russ Moore and Mr. Taylor returned to Mr. Moore's that night. Mr. Peachey and Mr. Taylor had been out on a hunt and when they started on the return trip Mr. Taylor discovered that his battery had gone dead on him so engaged Mr. Moore to bring them and his battery out, taking the battery to the Eagle Point garage to have it recharged. Mr. Taylor was taken violently ill Saturday night after he had rode back up to the Moore ranch and had to drive his car out the best he could without his battery Sunday morning. And when he reached Dr. Holt's residence was almost past going. He is afflicted with kidney trouble, but so soon as possible Dr. Holt relieved him and he remained at the Sunnyside until Monday morning before going to his home in Ashland.
    C. H. Natwick, wife and son Carlyle came in Saturday evening to spend the night. Mrs. N. had been up to one of his camps on the Pacific Highway, where her husband has contracts to do some work on said highway.
    The younger element of the E.P.S.S. had a Hallowe'en party at the home of our banker and Bible class teacher, during the temporary absence of the regular teacher, Mr. Esch. Our banker, H. E. Campbell, is not only acting as teacher, but is leading in singing and is an all-round Sunday school man. After the Hallowe'en party had enjoyed themselves in a social way and partaken of light refreshments, they, properly attired in Hallowe'en costume, visited several families adding a lot of fun to the other enjoyments.
    John Miller and wife of Lake Creek came out Saturday to procure the necessary supplies for winter and spent the night with one of their old neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Stanley, and owing to Mrs. Stanley being quite unwell that morning and Mrs. Miller suffering with the sick headache, they came to the Sunnyside for breakfast. Note: They both possibly sat up and talked until long after their usual bedtime, being the cause of them both having the sick headache.
    L. F. Ferguson of Ashland and W. G. King of Seattle and D. R. Patrick of Brownsboro, Mr. and Mrs. Guther, Floy von der Hellen and Mrs. Fred McPherson and Gus the Tailor of Medford were among the visitors Sunday for dinner.
    John Zimmerlee of Trail was a visitor Nov. 1st, and so was W. S. Baker.
    W. A. Rummel, who is living with Mr. Cottrell on the old Joe Housh [Hoskins?] farm, was a passenger on the stage from Medford and went up home on the Trail stage.
    F. J. Ayres came in Monday morning to get a road drag to drag that part of the Reese Creek road to try to make it passable until it rains and then we will see what comes next.
    Al Hildreth, who has been working in the orchards around here and boarding at the Sunnyside, went up to his home, Butte Falls, as he is a member of the election board.
    George Schermerhorn of Trail, who came out to run E. V. Peterson's truck and was stopping with us, had the misfortune to have his arm caught by the crank while cranking his truck and so nearly broken that he had to give up the job and go home.
    Clem MacDonald reports that he and Gus Nichols succeeded in killing one small deer.
    Judge G. A. Gardner and County Commissioner James Owens were out Monday securing the right of way for the Crater Lake Highway that runs along the side of the hill west and northwest of our town.
    There was quite a number of people here to arrange a satisfactory settlement and it looks as though the most of the injured parties are willing to settle quite reasonably, and the judge and county commissioner seem to want to do the fair thing by both the tax payers and the injured.
    Alvin Matthews brought in a fine lot of about six dozen chickens Monday for the Medford market.
    Ernest Dahack, the new barber, took possession of the shop Monday and opened up for business.
    N. R. Korst and S. G. Conley of Medford, G. E. Pierce, Medford, and William Lewis, Central Point, were at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Robert McCabe came in Monday to assist his relative, Mrs. Gooch, his wife's grandmother, and other members of the family. They were going to Medford.
    Noble Zimmerman and his brother came out from the Blue Canyon country with a quarter of beef for the Sunnyside Monday.
    Thos. Riley, Jr., S. B. Holmes, Mrs. Roy Ashpole, Roy Ashpole and son Donald, George Phillips, John Greb and Thos. Vestal were here for dinner Tuesday, election day. There were quite a number of the voters came in, but the most of them seem to have come in the afternoon. There were 226 votes cast and up to 2 o'clock this Wednesday afternoon the statements had not been made public and the E.P. ballot box had not been opened, but the vote for the presidential candidates, state and county offices had been sent in to the Mail Tribune office. I was surprised to hear so many express their choice for Debs.
    Alex Vestal, C. H. Natwick, N. E. Slusser, Lewis Martin of Trail were here for supper Tuesday night. Mr. Slusser had started for Los Angeles, but came back for his overcoat.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 4, 1920, page 3


    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart and Will Stewart were in Medford Thursday. Will Stewart stayed several days.
    There was a Hallowe'en party and program at the Elk Creek school house Saturday evening. It was well attended and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves.
    The Sunday school at Trail was well attended last Sunday, where it was announced that Mrs. Barnett will speak at the Trail school house next Sunday.
    Miss Enid Middlebusher spent Saturday night with Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Miss Given Houston spent the weekend at her home.
    Westinghouse Automatic Ranges. People's Electric Store.
    Thor and Eden washers. People's Electric Store.
    Simplex Hedlite heaters. People's Electric Store.
    Do your Christmas buying early at the People's Electric Store.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 5, 1920, page 7


    When I wrote the last time, Wednesday, I wanted to give the names of the new town officers, but when I left the voting place about 2 o'clock they had not finished making the statements, etc., and had not opened the Eagle Point ballot box so had to put off that item until today, but it is better late than never. There was no ticket made out for district or municipal officers. The following officers were elected: For justice of the peace, S. B. Holmes, and for constable, Roy Ashpole, but he declines the honor and I heard one of our prominent business men offer to bet five to one that Mr. Holmes would not accept the office. For mayor of our town, H. E. Campbell, our banker, was chosen; for recorder, Mrs. Clement MacDonald; treasurer, Roy Ashpole and he refuses the honor; for city or town council, J. F. Brown (he was a member and his time expires Jan. 1st), Mrs. W. H. (Mattie) Brown (her husband is a holdover), and Mrs. W. C. Clements. The members of the council as it now stands including the newly elected ones, is Dr. W. W. P. Holt, chairman, Wm. von der Hellen, Wm. H. Brown, J. F. Brown and Mattie Brown, but Wm. H. Brown and wife Mattie are in Southern California for his health and it is very uncertain when they will return. Our old mayor, John M. Nichols, has served for, I think, three terms, and some of our best citizens would have been glad to have kept him in but he threatened vengeance on us if we voted him in again. It is a thankless office and he has managed it so that he has kept down expenses and in most cases has given general satisfaction, but it is a question whether the newly elected mayor will accept the position or not and if he does not qualify that will leave us just where we were before the election so far as the mayor is concerned.
    Wednesday among the business callers was Geo. Hanson and wife of Brownsboro, F. Neil of Derby, who was on his way out with the ballot box for Derby, Charley Humphrey, also of Derby, on his way to Medford with a load of wood for Misses Neil, Mrs. Schutt of Derby, who was also on her way to Medford, and J. M. Loorck of Medford.
    G. E. Brinell of Elk City, Idaho, G. W. Frey and two of his sons, Irvin and Edward W. Frey, F. L. Stevens of Seattle and A. A. Slausen of Medford were here for dinner.
    Bert Peachey, wife and two children came in Wednesday to her parents to remain for a while, perhaps all winter.
    Mrs. C. H. Natwick and Mrs. J. E. Day of Butte Falls came in Wednesday and spent the night at the Sunnyside, and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Whitehead, Mr. Bell's business manager on the Butte Creek orchard, came in for supper.
    Corbin Edgell, Frank Arnes, John Jones, one of the crew of apple packers with Geo. and Manuel Liedman from California, who has been making apple boxes for the Tronson and Butte Creek (Corbin) orchard now owned by Fred. C. Bell of Chicago, came in Thursday and remained overnight and so did C. M. Gardner of Portland. Mr. Gardner is one of the stock inspectors and came down from Portland to superintend dipping Wm. Lewis' sheep of Central Point for the scab. Mr. Wm. Lewis and A. M. Gay also came in for supper but went on to Central Point that night, returning the next morning for breakfast. J. E. Hughes of Butte Falls also spent the night with us and so did O. Burnwell.
    A. C. Spence, the road supervisor of Brownsboro, and Thos. Abbott of Lake Creek were patronizing our merchants, and Rudolph Pech was also here; he has raised a fine crop of spuds this season and has been hauling them out and disposing of them at a good price.
    R. C. McGill of the Earl Fruit Co., Medford, and W. A. Hooker, also of Medford, were guests at noon at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Chauncey Florey came out and brought his sister, Mrs. Margaret Reter, to visit their father who is confined to his bed with a dislocated hip, and at the same time brought out Miss Orbia Natwick of Forest Grove, Ore. She met her mother, Mrs. C. H. Natwick, at the Sunnyside. They expect to start in a short time for Los Angeles where they will visit a daughter and sister and Mrs. Natwick's twin grandchildren.
    Among the passengers on the stage from Butte Falls was Mrs. Mabel Hildreth.
    Frank Swingle of Ashland was here visiting one of his old neighbors and family, Mr. and Mrs. McAllister of this place.
    Miss Wiley, who is teaching above here, was met here Friday night and taken up to the Bradshaw farm near Brownsboro by one of the Bradshaw boys.
    This Saturday morning when the stage came in from Medford among the passengers were Miss Philena Evans, A. L. Haselton, Mrs. Leutzen and Mrs. Nasdent of Prospect. Some of them had been out to attend the teachers institute.
    T. F. Nichols and wife were in town this morning and he reports that Frank Rhodes is getting along nicely with the ditch that his sister, Miss Ruth, and J. H. French are having made.
    John Dixon, T. F. Throwell and T. C. Gaines of Trail came out from Medford this morning, took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mack Winkle, Frank Brown and wife, Frank Neil and W. C. Clements.
    Mr. Adamson, the old mail carrier, passed through here today with a part of the machinery for a sawmill that he, John Zimmerlee and W. S. Chappell, our shoe cobbler, are taking up to Trail to put in Mr. Adamson's timber near the town of Trail.
    Mrs. A. M. Robertson and Mrs. J. A. Montgomery went out to Central Point this afternoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 9, 1920, page 7


    Owing to there being no jitney or stage going from here to Trail Saturday afternoon Messrs. Gaines and Dixon of Trail, mentioned in my last letter as going home that day, did not go but remained at the Sunnyside until Sunday morning, and during the night there were five or six young men came in and had beds and breakfast, who had been here to attend a dinner given Saturday night.
    Rev. H. G. King, the evangelist missionary for the Union Sunday schools in this district, also came in and spent the night with us, and attended Sunday school and assisted in the work and preached for us at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. The congregations were rather small, as his coming was not advertised, but we had very interesting services that seemed to be highly appreciated, as it was the first preaching services we have had here for several months, but he has promised to visit us again in the near future.
    We did not have very many to call for meals Sunday, but among those who did come was Mrs. C. H. Natwick and daughter, Miss Orbia, who had just come from near Forest Grove to join her mother and the two started Sunday afternoon for Los Angeles, Calif. to visit Mrs. Natwick's daughter. Mr. Natwick arrived from Portland and joined his wife and daughter. He was accompanied by his son, Carlyle, so they were all together for Sunday dinner.
    Among the diners also was Perry Foster of Trail, his son, John, of the R.V.C. Co. ranch and Miss Viola Hogan, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs and his mother, Mrs. E. D. Hubbs, Medford. Miss Viola Hogan is teaching school in the Crater Lake district, this being her fourth school in succession in that district. She seems to be very popular both with the people and the children. Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Pierce of Brownsboro and Mr. C. B. Watkins and Miss Jean Smith of Medford came in and took supper.
    Miss Inez Willits of Elk Creek and Mrs. Caroline Thomason of Butte Falls were among the passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning. Mrs. Thomason was going to Butte Falls and Miss Willits to her school on Elk Creek.
    Lawrence Conley of Butte Falls and Gus and Fritz Edler were among the business callers and were diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Other business callers were Geo. W. Stowell, who is extensively engaged in the chicken industry. He now has on hand 800 hens and pullets and says that his pullets are just beginning to lay, that he is getting 300 eggs a day, and that they are increasing every day in laying.
    Rudolph Pech was also a business caller. He came out to bring a thousand pounds of spuds for George Stowell. He had just about completed his delivery of his crop and is now ready to prepare for another crop for next year.
    Robert Neil of Lake Creek was also here on business.
    Ed Phipps passed through here Monday with his sheep. He was taking them over on Rogue River to pasture.
    E. D. Cook, Al Hildreth, Joseph Geppert, J. P. Hughes, B. F. Merchant and Jack Doubleday were passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday, and John Foster also came out with his car. The continuous rains have made the road, especially in the timber, very muddy so that it is difficult to get through with a car, unless the chauffeur is an expert car handler.
    B. F. Fuller and wife passed through here Monday on their way from Medford to their orchard.
    J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, was here Monday afternoon looking over a location for a hatchery in this section. The project is to catch the small fish, mostly steelheads, in Antelope Creek and bring them to this stream, as Antelope Creek goes almost dry, leaving the young fish to perish in the stagnant pools that are formed in the bed of the creek. A few years ago Mr. Sandry, who was at that time a fish commissioner, gathered up several thousand of the young fish, brought them over and turned them loose in Little Butte Creek, but it was thought the sudden change from the warm pools to the cold water of this stream was too much for them, so that a great many of them died, but by bringing them here and properly caring and feeding them, it is thought that they will greatly add to the supply of fish in this stream and its tributaries.
    John Allen of Derby, one of the leading stockmen of the Derby and Butte Falls section, passed through here Monday afternoon with a fine-looking buck sheep in his wagon, taking it out to the valley.
    R. D. Caffe of the Dead Indian Soda Springs came out from Medford on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and went up home on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage Tuesday and J. R. Silas of Butte Falls also came out and went on up home on the stage.
    J. Waterbury, who is farming the Joe Rader farm on Antelope Creek, was a business caller Tuesday and so was Henry Meyer of Lake Creek, and Mrs. O. M. Schutt of Derby.
    Since our barber shop has changed hands and Ernest Dahack has taken possession; he has been making several important changes. He has installed a hot and cold water system so as to have an abundant supply of hot water and is planning to add a bath room so as to accommodate any who would desire a good warm bath, and has also installed an electric hair clipping machine and is arranging to have a complete up-to-date bath establishment.
    Jan Andrews, the financier of Medford, was out Tuesday to look after his different farms and other interests, and so was Mr. Sears of Reese Creek, and they both went to Medford Tuesday afternoon on the Lewis jitney.
    Irvin Daley, formerly of Lake Creek, but now, I think, of Medford, was a business caller Tuesday.
    When the Butte Falls stage came in it was well loaded and so was the Eagle Point-Persist stage. Among the passengers going to Medford was Mr. Willard Heryford and his sister, Mrs. Hildred Smith and Everett Abbott and Lyman McCord, all except Mr. McCord from Butte Falls, and he had been up to Rancheria Prairie to visit his sister, Mrs. A. L. Haselton, and was going to Prineville, his home.
    Manuel Leidman and wife of Covina, Cal., and B. F. Putman of Porterville, Cal., were here and Mr. and Mrs. Leidman spent the night with us, and so did Mr. Geo. H. Schermerhorn and E. V. Peterson of Trail. They are the present contractors for carrying the mail from here to Persist, via Trail. They also spent the night at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 13, 1920, page 6


    Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols entertained at their home, 7:30 p.m., to dinner J. M. Wilfley, one of our leading orchardists, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Norris and family. Mr. Wilfley was just ready to start for Salt Lake City.
    Wednesday Mrs. Harvey Stanley and Lewis Blaess, who is working on the John Rader farm, motored into town on business. Mrs. Stanley is the youngest daughter of Mr. John Rader, and she and her husband are living with her parents.
    Mrs. A. S. Carlton of Ashland has been here visiting her brother, Thomas E. Nichols, and other relatives for the past few days.
    V. F. Slater, representing the firm of Waterhouse & Lester Co., and O. O. Gooch with Munnell Sherrill, Portland, Ore., were dinner guests at the Sunnyside Wednesday, and so was Dennie Zimmerlee, a recent arrival from Washington state. He was formerly a resident of Trail and has purchased his father's interest in a sawmill that has recently been purchased by Messrs. Adamson, Chappell and Zimmerlee, and is being put up near Trail. Dennie was on his way up to Trail.
    Ira Hensley, who has just returned from Washington, has rented what is known as the old Abgor place near Wellen and moved onto it, so his brother-in-law, Shorty Allen, who was in town Wednesday reports.
    Mede [Monte?] Venham of Trail was here also Wednesday having his team shod.
    Mr. and Mrs. Clement MacDonald, one of our garage men, who has rented what is known as the Ringer house, has been to Medford and they have bought their future and are moving in today, Saturday.
    Ernest Dahack, our new barber, has rented the P. H. Daily home and is moving into it at this writing.
    F. A. Hill, S. J. Conley, N. B. Karr, Mrs. Hildred Smith and L. A. Whitley and wife were at the Sunnyside Wednesday night for supper and all remained overnight except Mrs. Smith, who went out to the Edgell orchard and remained two nights, taking the stage for her home in Butte Falls Friday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Whitley had come out from Medford that night intending to go to their home on Elk Creek (Trail), but their lights went out so they concluded to remain here overnight.
    Messrs. Victor Parton and Labe Sannevast of Portland were here for dinner Thursday, and so was Dr. J. F. Reddy of Medford, and W. J. Crane of Portland. They were out looking over some of the work on the Crater Lake Highway and while here Dr. Reddy engaged board and rooms for five or six men who expect to commence work on the proposed route.
    There were several of our sport-inclined citizens went to Medford Thursday night to witness the encounter between some of the artistic combatants and some of them seemed to be well satisfied with what they saw, while others pronounced it a badly trumped-up game to get the people's money, but if they will bite at such bait as that they may not be surprised if they get caught.
    Fred Arnes was among the early business callers Friday morning, and Jack Doubleday of Butte Falls was a passenger on the stage for home. He had been on the jury but had been discharged.
    A. F. Morris, one of the U.S. officers of public roads, and K. E. Hodgman, the head civil engineer on the Crater Lake Highway, were here for Friday and so was A. M. Gay, Miss Olga Bieberstedt and W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith. Mrs. Childreth had gone to Medford and their daughter, Miss Nora, was attending Medford High School, so Mr. Childreth came here for dinner.
    Mrs. Reeder of Ashland, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols and others in the neighborhood, returned home Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Campbell, a brother of our banker, H. E. Campbell of Kansas, are here visiting his brother and Mrs. H. E. Campbell's brother, Wm. Coy.
    Ezra Dahack, who lives in the hills near the Dead Indian Soda Springs, came in Friday and went on to Medford.
    Lloyd French came in Saturday to consult Dr. Holt with regard to a hurt he had received by too heavy lifting, but the doctor decided that it was nothing more than a strain of the muscle.
    Frank Batcheller of Portland came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside. He was on his way up to his son-in-law's, Mr. Wymore, near Derby.
    W. A. Nessler, a grandson of W. G. Knighten, is here visiting his grandparents on his way to Arizona.
    Friday evening, H. E. Campbell, our banker and wife, gave a dinner at the Sunnyside to a few of their friends so as to have them meet and become acquainted with his brother and wife and Mrs. Campbell's brother Mr. Coy. Among the guests were Mr. Campbell's brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Campbell, and Mrs. Campbell's brother, Wm. Coy, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. McDonald and son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Clements, Mr. MacDonald, retired capitalist and garage man, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown of the firm of George Brown and Sons, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Clements, our postmaster, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols, retired capitalist, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, wife of one of our hardware merchants and road contractor, and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy, a sister of the aforesaid J. F. and R. G. Brown. The dinner was served at 7:30 p.m. and they all seemed to fully enjoy the feast as well as the social functions.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Whitehead of the Butte Creek orchard were Medford visitors Friday and stopped at the Sunnyside for supper on their way home.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 15, 1920, page 7


    Miss Enid Middlebusher took a load of fat hogs to Medford in her truck for Mr. Floyd Hutchinson, stopping on her way home to pick up Mr. Keva Hutchinson, who is working at Woolworth's in Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Watson at the Modoc and Miss Eula Houston, who has been attending the institute in Medford.
    Floyd Hutchinson shipped his fat hogs through the Farm Bureau at Medford.
    Oscar Stewart has made two trips to Medford this week with dressed beef. Monday Mrs. Stewart accompanied him and Wednesday he went alone.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson spent Friday of last week visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George Weeks, incidentally digging potatoes.
    Billie Mansfield with the tractor from the Mansfield place was over to Brophy's last week helping to fill a silo.
    Mr. Heffner of the U.S. Fisheries has made arrangements to send his boys to the Elk Creek school, having purchased a gentle horse from Mr. Olsen for them to ride.
    Thom. Todd is hauling lumber for the hatchery.
    Will McDonald is putting a rustic fence around the lawn in front of the hotel, for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald intend to spend the winter in Ashland.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 16, 1920, page 5


    The Clement MacDonald family received their furniture Saturday afternoon and have moved into their new home and gone to housekeeping just like "old folks."
    Henry and George Trusty, who live on Elk Creek about eight miles above Trail, came in Saturday noon for dinner.
    Fred Pettegrew and son Charles were business callers Saturday afternoon.
    Mrs. George Brown, her daughter Miss Verne Brown, and Miss Leida Spence of Brownsboro were also trading with our merchants.
    Wm. Perry, who owns a small farm just above town, has been busily engaged with his wood saw cutting up pole wood the past few days. He seems to have about all the work in that line here there is to do. He has a good outfit and is reliable.
    George Givan, one of our prosperous farmers living a few miles west of town, was a business caller also Saturday and so was F. Y. Ayres and family including two of his daughters, Mrs. Leroy Smith and Mrs. Wm. Perry.
    Mr. W. A. Bishop, who has been the engineer on the road roller on the Reese Creek-Butte Falls road, and also the engineer on the rock crusher located on Rogue River, where the county was crushing rock for the Reese Creek-Butte Falls road, came in Saturday night for supper and bed. He had trouble with his car, so had to spend the night here, but the next morning soon discovered the trouble and had his car ready for business again. He had just completed taking the rock crusher to pieces and covering it for the winter.
    Raymond Garrett and Vern Danford of Jacksonville came in Sunday evening for the night. They were on their way up to the Charley Terrill place just above Brownsboro with a tractor, a binder and a wagon, quite the combination. They have rented the farm and were moving onto it.
    J. P. Hughes, one of the merchants of Butte Falls, who was in Jacksonville doing jury duty, came out Sunday and spent the night, he having been discharged, going up home on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday morning.
    Frank Johnson and family, who live at the mouth of Indian Creek, were business callers Monday. His son, J. F. Johnson, and family were also business callers and so was Mr. Jay and Mr. Isbell.
    W. E. Hammel passed through Monday morning on his way to buy a load of corn of Sam Coy. There seems to be quite a quantity of corn in this section of the country and still it is selling at $40.00 a ton, dear hog feed.
    W. F. Webb of Derby was here having his team shod by our smith Monday.
    Mrs. Carl Gibson of Lake Creek, a daughter of Mrs. Gus Nichols, was combining business with pleasure, visiting her mother and trading at the same time.
    Mrs. Anna Robertson and daughter, who have been living with John Robertson's family since the birth of his baby and death of his wife, has moved to Central Point.
    Monday noon John L. Robertson, Sr., Lawrence Conger, Roy Ashpole, Lloyd Stanley and Mrs. Floy von der Hellen were guests at the Sunnyside for dinner.
    Frank Dressler and Owen Conover were also in town Monday.
    Mrs. Roy Ashpole, wife of our hardware merchant, has gone to Medford to have some dental work done and Roy is taking his dinner and supper at the Sunnyside while she is gone.
    Miss McCabe and two of her sisters-in-law, Mrs. Robert McCabe and Mrs. Albert McCabe, drove in Monday, and Mrs. Albert McCabe went on out to her home in Phoenix. She had been out to the T. F. McCabe farm on Rogue River, visiting.
    Fritz Pech of Lake Creek, E. V. Brittsan, Wm. Hiatt, Henry Meyer of Lake Creek, Joe Pool, the foreman on the Butte Creek orchard, Timmie Dugan and Nick Young were among the business callers Tuesday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Wymore of Derby were also business callers Tuesday.
    Percy Haley and wife, who have been visiting Mrs. Haley's mother, Mrs. William Perry--Mrs. Haley, nee Estella Betz. is a daughter of Mrs. Perry by her first husband--spent Monday night and Tuesday at the Sunnyside. They are thinking of locating in our town.
    J. Waterbury and Charley Winkle were business callers Tuesday and while here Charley complained that the ground was not wet enough to plow good yet, that the plow would dig up dry dirt, and on inquiry found that even in the free soil the plow would strike hard soil, but the prospect is there will be no more complaint about a shortage of moisture.
    Ira Tungate, John Seiler, Butte Falls, and Judge George A. Gardner of Jacksonville came out on the stage Tuesday morning and went on up to Butte Falls. Judge Gardner was on his way up to the Crater Lake S.H., where there was to be an election to levy a special road tax. The result was a levy of a five-mill tax. About all the road districts have voted from five- to seven-mill taxes for road work next year, although there were four who voted against levying a tax at all in the district.
    Dr. W. W. P. Holt, our local physician, started Tuesday for San Francisco, to be gone a month. He went to take a course of lectures on his line of medical practice.
    Mr. E. V. Peterson, the present mail contractor who carries the mail on the Eagle Point-Persist route, reports that Mr. Anton Ring of Persist has killed a large bear a few days ago.
    Judge Gardner and George Albert came in Tuesday evening from the Crater Lake school house in an open car on the P.&E. railroad, through driving rain, and by the time they reached the Sunnyside they were thoroughly wet, but they found a warm room and hot supper and in the course of the evening got dried out.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 20, 1920, page 6


    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart made a business trip to Trail.
    Mr. Floyd Hutchinson has been riding after a runaway cow several days this week.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent Sunday afternoon visiting their son Floyd and family.
    There will be a special tax meeting at Adams store Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m., for voting on a road across the river.
    Mr. George and Tom Weeks went up the river after a load of shakes Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 22, 1920, page 5


    Charles Edmondson and Mrs. L. H. Smith of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday on their way home.
    Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor and one of the contractors on the route for the Crater Lake Highway between here and Trail, was a business caller Wednesday.
    Thomas Cingcade, Lloyd Stanley, Pete Young and Wm. Martin were among the business callers Wednesday. The three first named are among our stockmen in this section of the county.
    F. W. Hutchinson of Roseburg was a business caller and spent the night at the Sunnyside Wednesday. The next morning he started for a stroll over our agate fields and Friday came in again for a late dinner and reported that he had tramped over the field north of here, been to Butte Falls and done the best he could to see that country but said that it rained so hard that he could not examine the country to advantage but intended to come back later, as he was looking for a place where he could locate as a homesteader. After dinner he started off to explore the agate fields south of here, intending to return to the Sunnyside again that night, but after he had walked through sticky until dark he returned to the Sunnyside, gathered up the rocks he had left here and started for Medford on foot. He found that walking over the sticky ground in a rainstorm was anything but a picnic.
    Thomas Cook and wife and his sister-in-law, Miss Dunlap, called Wednesday night for beds at the Sunnyside and Thursday morning started quite early for Derby.
    H. E. Campbell and wife went to Medford Wednesday to take his brother, A. M. Campbell, and wife so as to take passage for Los Angeles where they will visit other relatives.
    C. H. Natwick, the road builder, spent Wednesday night with us.
    Harry Lewis, who has been working out in Klamath County during the summer and fall, came in Thursday and commenced boarding again at the Sunnyside.
    Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, who went to Medford a few days ago, returned on the Butte Falls stage Thursday for his home.
    Nick Young and A. M. Gay were business callers Thursday and so was Miss Maud Merritt. She was accompanied by her brother and while in town she planned to make her little nephew happy by purchasing of Roy Ashpole a neat express wagon for him.
    Mrs. John Rader, wife of one of the leading citizens in the Antelope district, spent several days in Medford having some dental work done. She was accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Roy Ashpole. She was also having dental work done, but Mrs. Ashpole returned Friday evening on the stage.
    Among the business callers Thursday was Mrs. Thomas Cingcade, Joe Kidd--Mr. Kidd is the foreman on the Nichols-French ditch on Rogue River--J. H. and Lloyd French; Lloyd says that the hurt he was complaining of last week has not proved as serious as was feared; Joe Riley, Harry Stanley, Walter Meyer, Richard Muskopf, the present owner of the J. W. Grover place just below town, Alvin Matthews, Ed Cowden and Miss Ella Belford were visiting town. Miss Belford spent the night at the Sunnyside and is on her way to one of her homes in Florida. Miss Belford has been in charge of what is known as the Stewart place and has left it in the charge of Mr. Ed Cowden during her absence.
    Mrs. J. A. Anderson, wife of the Standard Oil man of Medford, has been out visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. J. Florey, Jr., who had his hip dislocated some time ago; he has had a hard time as he is quite aged and with a dislocated hip has suffered quite severely.
    John Swanson of Elk Creek, Trail post office, came out on the stage Friday morning and went on up home on the Persist stage.
    Fred C. Bell, the present owner of the Butte Creek orchard, who has been back east for some weeks, returned Friday and was met by Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitehead, Mr. Bell's business manager during his absence, and taken to the Butte Creek orchard.
    Ed Coy, son-in-law of our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, came out from his home in Medford on a business venture.
    Fred Dunlap of Derby came out on horseback Friday for a few supplies. The roads are so bad that it takes a stout heart to tackle them with anything more than a horse or on foot.
    A. J. Moen, the husband of the lady who is teaching school in the Reese Creek district, was a business caller Friday.
    Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby came out on the stage Friday, took passage on the stage on her way to Medford to visit her daughters, one of whom is working in the clerk's office in Jacksonville, while one of them is working in one of the banks in Medford, stopping at the Sunnyside for dinner.
    S. H. Harnish, his daughter Mrs. Fred Dutton and his daughter-in-law Mrs. Ray Harnish went to Medford Friday.
    Prof. G. R. Robinson, principal of the Butte Falls school, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Friday going to Medford, and Mrs. Roy Ashpole came out on the stage Friday evening.
    Miss Ruth Young, our primary teacher, went to Medford Friday afternoon.
    John P. Goin, our agate man, who has been out in the Fort Klamath country the past six months, returned Friday. He came in with two of the Klamath County stockmen.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 24, 1920, page 9


    Mr. and Mrs. Jack Houston spent Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S.W. Hutchinson.
    Mr. Will Stewart and Mr. Floyd Hutchinson took a bunch of cattle to Medford Friday. They were gone three days only, going as far as the Riverside ranch Friday evening.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Train spent Sunday visiting with her mother, Mrs. Hall, who lives below Trail.
    It has rained almost continuously for a week here, Saturday being the only decent day in the week. The river has been quite high, but has fallen about five feet the last few days.
    Mr. Jim Lebeau has almost finished his cabin on the other side of the river, a short distance above the hatchery.
    There has been a good run of silverside at the hatchery during the last rise of the river.
    The work on the right of way for the new road is progressing rapidly, although the rain is making it very difficult to work.
Medford Mail Tribune, November 26, 1920, page 6


    Among the callers Saturday not mentioned in my last were Harry Heryford and M. E. Niccoll of Butte Falls.
    C. E. Bellows and T. F. McCabe, who own and operate fine farms along the banks of Rogue River a few miles above Eagle Point, came in Saturday. They each of them brought in a load of fine fat hogs and were met here by a truckman and both loads were loaded onto the truck and sent to the Farm Bureau of Medford for shipment. Mr. McCabe had a lot of apple boxes brought out on the same truck and took them from here to his orchard.
    W. H. Crandall, another one of our progressive farmers and orchardists, brought in a fine lot of large dressed turkeys for the Eldridge Creamery and Produce Company of Medford, and Mr. J. F. Maxfield also brought in another lot of turkeys for the same firm. Turkeys are so high in price this season that it is almost prohibitive, 45¢ a pound, but it is good for those who have raised them.
    F. J. Ayres and wife were also callers Saturday.
    Mrs. Pete Betz, wife of another one of our energetic farmers on Rogue River, was a business caller Saturday.
    Carl Bergman of Trail and Ed Tucker of Brownsboro were here for dinner Saturday. Mr. Tucker brought out a dressed beef for the people of Eagle Point.
    Thomas Vestal and wife were also among the callers Saturday afternoon. So was Rev. H. G. King, the representative of the American Sunday School Union, and Rev. A. Werdon, the pastor of the Free Methodist church of Ashland, who called to make arrangements for Mr. Werdon to preach for us on the following Sunday evening, and also to try to arrange for him to include Eagle Point in his field of labor. He and Mr. King went out to Reese Creek and met with the people of that neighborhood and Mr. Werdon preached for them. He also preached here Sunday evening and owing to the heavy rainstorm and general disagreeableness of the weather there was only a very small congregation and so there was nothing done about making arrangements for him to come and preach for us regularly, but he arranged to come and preach for us again the first Sunday in December, it being the 5th day of the month, at 11 o'clock a.m. and 7:30 p.m., at which time all who are interested in having preaching services here are especially invited to be present. There will be Sunday school at 10 a.m.
    There was a dance in the hall Saturday night but I am not able to report as to the attendance, but from every indication there were not as many in attendance as usual. That night Carl Bergman and his brother C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle and Harry Smith spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    There were but very few outside of our regular boarders here for dinner Sunday but we had Lawrence Luy of Wellen, Harry Smith, Mrs. Florence Milligan, Mrs. Florence Manning, D. S. Faroner and James E. Lowe of Kenilworth Hotel, Medford.
    W. L. Jones, one of the Forest Service men formerly of Butte Falls but now of Central Point, and Miss Alene Mahoney of Butte Falls were passengers on the stage Monday morning going up the country, and Mr. Chatman of Lake Creek came out and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. Teffer of the Dead Indian Soda Springs came out with Russ Moore Monday but too late to catch the Lewis jitney, but after dinner they went on their journey to Medford with I. B. Millard, an auto salesman for the Pruett-Myers Co., Medford, who was here for dinner.
    Rev. J. F. Brittsan and wife of Medford came out Monday morning and were met here by their son, E. V. Brittsan, and taken out to the P. S. Anderson ranch that the Brittsan brothers have leased.
    J. F. Maxfield and his neighbor, Mrs. Pete Betz drove in Monday morning, and so did Mrs. Walter Myer.
    Russ Moore of Lake Creek also took dinner at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Mrs. Walter Marshall of Brownsboro was a business caller Monday.
    I see in looking over my notes that I have omitted to state that Albert Clements and Mrs. Lois Whitley of Medford and another lady and little boy were here Sunday for dinner.
    K. D. Jones of Butte Falls came in Monday for dinner and so did J. C. Aiken, the inventor and distributor of the fish screens used in the ditches to prevent fish from entering the irrigating ditches, and he was accompanied by J. W. Berrian, the superintendent of the Butte Falls hatchery. They are planning to put in a plant in Antelope Creek to take the eggs and then bring them to the plant to be built here, for hatching and feeding.
    Wm. Perry and wife went to Central Point Monday to take Mr. and Mrs. Percy Haley to their home. Mrs. Haley is a daughter of Mrs. Perry and they have been out visiting the Perry family.
    Steve Smith and wife were among the business callers Tuesday.
    Mr. Heiff and wife of Lake Creek came in Tuesday and left a lot of fine-looking spuds for the Alta Vista orchard.
    Irvin Daley and a stranger came out from Medford Tuesday, went up above here and returned late in the afternoon for home.
    G. E. Merrill of Derby was a guest at the Sunnyside for dinner and so were Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Pierce and L. E. Hartwig. The three last named came in and enjoyed board and room for a few days. Mr. Price is in partnership with Frank Rhodes in the contract to open up and grade the Crater Lake Highway from Hay Creek to the bridge site at the mouth of Indian Creek. They are engaged in wrecking the large building formerly used as a lumber shed by the Butte Falls Lumber Co. and later used as a packing house by some of our orchardists. They intend to use the lumber to put up camps on the Crater Lake Highway for their men and horses who will be employed on the road.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 1, 1920, page 7


    Pete Stowell, the chicken king of this section, and wife were among the business callers Wednesday afternoon. He is greatly encouraged over his prospect in the egg production business, and seems to think that he soon will be getting seven or eight hundred eggs a day.
    There is a man by the name of Rose living on the north side of Round Top, who comes into town driving four jennies abreast and claims to be able to compete with any of the two-horse teams in the country when it comes to hauling a load, although none of them are very large and one is quite small, but he makes his drives into town with his loads of wood, and when he starts for home starts off on a trot the same as one would with a span of horses. In addition to his jennies he keeps twelve dogs and spends a good part of his time hunting. When asked how he fed so many dogs he replied that he fed them on mill run and what wheat he could kill.
    Perl Stowell, a brother of Pete, was also in town Wednesday.
    T. F. McCabe, one of our successful farmers and orchardists, came in Wednesday afternoon and brought in his daughter, Miss Ellen, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert McCabe, and her two children and the ladies and children took passage on the stage for Medford. They were going to Grants Pass to visit Mrs. Robert McCabe's mother and grandmother and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner together.
    Mr. and Mrs. J. H. French, Alvin Conover and two boys, Charles Foeller of Trail, Mrs. Carl Esch, and Wm. Stanley of Lake Creek were among the business callers also Wednesday. It being the day before Thanksgiving, that being on Thursday and that being the day for the Jackson County Creamery men to come to town, he came on Wednesday instead and that was one reason why so many happened to be in town, and some came to procure some of the extras for the Thanksgiving dinner.
    Pliney Leabo, formerly a citizen of Eagle Point, but who has been working at Hilt the most of the time for the past two years, came in Wednesday evening to pay his compliments to the Sunnyside Hotel and Thursday morning went to Ashland on the morning stage to take dinner with his sister at her home in that city.
    Thanksgiving day passed without any special interest manifest, as the continuous rains for the past--I am afraid to say how long, but I heard a man say this Saturday morning, that it had been since some time in September, but the rain had made the roads sloppy and slippery, and it rained some that day so that there was but very little stirring around, in fact it was about the deadest day I have seen for some time, as all of the business places were closed except Frank Lewis', even the blacksmith shop, and there was scarcely a man or woman to be seen on the streets. It was worse than a "blue Sunday" in Massachusetts, under the old blue laws. Nevertheless there were a few who found their way to the Sunnyside to partake of turkey dinner, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs and mother of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitehead, the business manager on the Butte Creek orchard, Harry Smith, Mr. and Mrs. James Owens, and later in the day John Swanson of Trail. He and Mr. Smith remained overnight. I have not heard, but suppose that there were quite a number of families had their Thanksgiving dinners and many of them really felt thankful for the blessings of life, but from what I can learn very few had the regular turkey dinner as the price of turkeys was almost prohibitive.
    Friday Frank Rhodes, one of the contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, Walter Allen of Derby, Charles Winkle and Earl Matthews were here for dinner.
    J. B. Bichen, the official cow tester, was here Friday and went to Medford on the afternoon stage.
    Guy Pruett and Lawrence Conger were also among the business callers Friday.
    Wm. Moore and F. A. Hill of Butte Falls, and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby, were passengers on the Butte Falls-Medford stage Friday.
    Wm. Holmes has been moving his household goods up onto the Gus Nichols place on Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, and Friday morning had his wagon already loaded to start but the rain Thursday night and Friday morning was so heavy that even after he started he concluded to take the advice of his friends and run his wagon under a shed and wait until better weather.
    Friday evening Chris Beale, one of the forest rangers, Sam Rose and Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Swink, merchants of Butte Falls, were guests at the Sunnyside, Mr. Beale and Mr. and Mrs. Swink going up on the morning stage to their homes Saturday morning.
    Mrs. J. W. Anderson, wife of the Standard Oil man of Medford, came out to visit her daughter, Mrs. A. J. Florey, and so did Mrs. Raymond Reter Friday afternoon.
    John Allen, one of the Derby stockmen, came out this morning with a load of hogs and went on toward Medford with them.
    Geo. Schooler, recently from Hood River, and Jack Schooler of Brownsboro were business callers this morning.
    There were three passengers went out this Saturday morning on the stage for Butte Falls. It seems that as the roads get bad the more people want to travel. There were six passengers went to Medford yesterday afternoon on the stage, and six on the jitney this afternoon and among them were Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Haak.
    Dan M. McFarlin and J. C. Dean of Grants Pass, Percy Haley of Agate and his brother Glenn of Medford and A. Dean Butler and Charles DeLin, contractor of Medford, were at the Sunnyside for dinner today.
    James W. Miller, now of Trail but [who] for some time past has been up in the Alberta country, was in town on business today.
    Geo. Adamson and son of Trail drove in today with a team. Mr. Adamson is one of the party who is putting up a sawmill on his land near Trail. He says that the continuous rain has greatly interfered with their work, but they expect to have the mill ready for logs very soon.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 3, 1920, page 11


    Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Haak, who went to Medford Saturday morning. returned to Eagle Point on the Eagle Point stage Saturday afternoon.
    Mrs. Robert McCabe and her two children and Miss Ellen McCabe, who had been to Grants Pass visiting relatives, returned Saturday evening and went out to the McCabe farm that night.
    John Norris, the foreman on the Wilfley orchard, was also a late visitor Saturday evening and so was George Lewis of Jacksonville, out visiting his parents.
    H. Spangler, for a number of years a resident of Prospect but living near McLeod, came in Sunday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside and so did Irvin Frey of Lake Creek. He came in to be ready to go to work on the Agate-Trail section of the Crater Lake Highway and went up to the Lewis sheep camp Monday morning to go to work for R. B. Price, one of the contractors who is interested with Frank Rhodes to clear and grade the unit between Hog Creek and Rogue River at the mouth of Indian creek.
    G. C. Fredrick, C. L. Redpath and Bursell Redpath, recently from Klamath County where they have been working in the logging camps, also came in and engaged rooms and board. They are working in the H. B. Tronson orchard.
    George McMullen of Grand Ronde was also a caller Sunday evening.
    Marshall Minter, one of our enterprising homesteaders, was a business caller Monday.
    The Butte Falls stage when it came out Monday morning was loaded to its capacity and most of them went to Derby, Prospect and Butte Falls. Since the roads have become so sloppy and muddy those who have autos of their own prefer to pay stage fare to running their own machines. Among the passengers was Mr. E. E. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Polk Smith, John Seiler, J. W. Berrian, a civil engineer who was going up to the Conley place near Butte Falls to do some work in his line.
    B. F. Fuller and wife were transacting business Monday morning in our town.
    I. B. Millard, a salesman for the Pruitt-Myers Motor Co., Medford, was here for dinner Monday.
    Frank Rhodes and Wm. Kidd were among the diners at the Sunnyside Monday and so was Pliney Leabo and Miss Humphrey, daughter of Charles Humphrey of Derby.
    Marsh Garrett of Lake Creek passed through town Monday on his way to Medford. He was moving out for the winter.
    R. B. Price, the contractor, finished wrecking the old B.F. Lumber shed Sunday and Monday morning, started two or three teams to hauling the lumber out to the Lewis sheep camp, where he is establishing headquarters camp to work on the Agate-Crater Lake road--that is the name decided on by the road commissioners before they advertised for bids on the route--and put a few men at work putting up suitable quarters for the men and stock.
    Mr. Price seems to be quite a rustler and with the assistance and management of his wife will, no doubt, make a success of the undertaking.
    Ralph Haskins and wife of Trail were in town Monday and laid in their supplies for housekeeping for the winter. Mr. Haskins expects to work this season on the unit between where the Agate-Crater Lake Highway will cross Rogue River and Trail.
    R. A. Weidman went to Medford Monday to attend the fruit growers association meeting last Monday.
    Earl Hayes, the road supervisor in this district, went to Medford Monday.
    E. V. Brittsan, of the firm of Brittsan Bros., who are interested in the dairy business, started into town Monday morning and had the misfortune to break something about his auto and had to call on the Eagle Point garage men to haul him in and the result was he was compelled to remain overnight at the Sunnyside, something he very seldom does as they have about all that they can do running a big farm and milking and caring for about twenty cows besides other stock, and that includes feeding by hand twenty calves and tending to other stock.
    W. C. Daley, formerly one of the leading farmers and stockmen of the Lake Creek country, who bought the Geo. von der Hellen property just above town, has been making some changes in his fences and putting in some new fence on different lines, making some important changes.
    M. H. Simmons, formerly foreman on the Butte Creek orchard but now located on his own farm near Wellen, was a business caller Monday and so was Charley Cingcade, another one of our prominent stockmen, and Ed Dutton, one of the practical road builders of this section.
    Master Heath Childreth, son of our blacksmith, spent Thanksgiving visiting the family of Joseph Geppert, near Butte Falls.
    There has been another change in real estate in our town. Mr. Sheibley, our school house janitor, has purchased the property known as the Roe property and is now putting it in shape so as to make it his home.
    P. H. Daily, one of the game wardens, came out on the stage Tuesday morning and went on up into the Butte Falls country.
    Mr. Chatman of Lake Creek also came out from Medford Friday morning and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    There were also five other passengers came out Tuesday morning and went to different places.
    Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek was a business caller Tuesday. He has quit hauling out spuds but says that he has about 150 sacks still on hand buried up that he expects to sell in the spring.
    Mrs. Heryford of Butte Falls came out from Medford Tuesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside going on up home this Wednesday morning.
    W. H. Crandall, one of our leading farmers and orchardists, was in town Tuesday and reported that the stork had visited him again and this time it was a nine pound boy, born Nov. 29th. The mother and boy are doing fine and the prospect is that Mr. Crandall himself will live through the event, as he appears to be one of the happiest men living.
    John Rader, one of our leading farmers and stockmenm was in town Tuesday and reports that his wife, who has been seriously afflicted for several weeks past with an ulcerated tooth and after having it extracted had to have an operation performed to relieve the situation, is greatly improved.
    J. W. Sanders, foreman on the Antelope orchard, was in town Tuesday evening and also Wednesday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 6, 1920, page 6


    When I wrote last time and had written up the items as far as Wednesday noon, I concluded that I better stop and save what I had jotted down in my "little book" for the next time, if I wanted to keep the editor in a good humor, so I will commence just where I left off.
    Mrs. Ralph Gardner and daughter, Miss Bernice, of Salt Creek, drove in Wednesday morning, bringing in the produce from the farm and getting supplies, and after doing their trading with our merchants and attending to other business matters, dropped into the Sunnyside for dinner, and while they were there Mr. J. H. Johnson of Medford came in. He had been up to Prospect extending an electric power line from the power plant to where the men are working on the road that was graded up last summer leading from Prospect to Crater Lake, putting on the finishing touch, hard surfacing it.
    Dr. J. F. Reddy and Ralph Clark, who are interested in the contract to grade the unit of the road from the north edge of the desert at the David Cingcade ranch to Hog Creek on the Agate-Trail road, were also here for dinner and they were accompanied by Mr. W. J. Crane of Portland, a salesman for the Clyde Equipment Company of Portland, who will furnish the necessary machinery to be used on that unit of the road. There seems to be considerable stir in that line of business, and our town is being visited lately by all kinds of people, looking over the different propositions that are being offered.
    John Walch of Lake Creek, one of the leading farmers and stockmen of that section of the country, was here also Wednesday afternoon.
    Messrs. K. Dean Butler and Charles M. Devlin were also here Thursday. Mr. Devlin is a general contractor to do almost any kind of work on roads, ditches or railroads. He was here at the time to arrange for the keeping and feeding of twenty-seven head of horses and to have about fifteen head of them shod ready for use on the construction work on the above-named road, as he has rented out to Wm. von der Hellen 20 head of them to be used on the unit between the site for the new bridge across Rogue River and Trail, and the remainder he did not say what he would do with them. It was a busy day at the Childreth blacksmith shop Friday and kept Mr. Childreth and his son Gideon busy about all day getting them shod.
    Among the busy callers Thursday were Messrs. R. A. Petty, Guy Pruett, Alex Bates, Wm. Kidd, D. Bradshaw, J. H. French, one of our farmers who is directly interested in the poultry and dairy business, and while I naturally asked him how his hens were behaving, as he was one of the men who went to Grants Pass and bought quite a lot of registered hens, and he said that they were not behaving very well, as the contractor was making the irrigation ditch near his hen house and they have to blast the rock out and that now whenever a man cries fire that every hen starts for the brush for shelter, as the rock flies in every direction and the noise and confusion keeps them so excited that they don't lay very well, but he says that they are getting along nicely with the irrigating ditch and when they get through with that the hens will settle down to business and go to work in earnest.
    J. W. Hovey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was also a business caller Thursday.
    Ralph Bieberstedt was also a business caller Thursday.
    P. H. Daily, one of the game wardens, and Mr. Charles Lear of Medford came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and went up to the higher altitudes and when they returned the next day said that they had been to the end of the road.
    Poke Smith and wife, who went to Butte Falls for Thanksgiving, returned Thursday.
    Thomas F. Nichols, Harvey Stanley, Fred Arnes and Wm. Martin were among the business callers also on Thursday.
    Frank Rhodes, one of the contractors on the Agate-Trail-Crater Lake Highway, was in town having his team shod up to use on the road work.
    E. S. Thompson and G. C. Beck of Medford came in from Trail on the Eagle Point-Persist stage Thursday evening and have been here since but expect to go to work on the road the first of the week and Chris Beale of Butte Falls has also been here for the past few days.
    Mrs. Roy Willits and child came out from Medford Friday morning and went up to Persist on the stage.
    Mr. Heckner, the official trapper and hunter, also came out on the stage Friday morning, and there was seven others came out beside the chauffeur, making nine passengers. Among them was Mrs. Theo. Hoefft of Lake Creek, who went out on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Smith, who bought the J. B. Jackson farm just above town, went to Medford Friday morning.
    Elvin Abbott of Butte Falls, who recently returned from Portland, spent Friday night here and went on up to Butte Falls this Saturday morning..
    G. F. Coday and wife were in town Friday on their way up to the Riggings place near Derby.
    Born December 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahack, an eight-pound boy.
    Dr. J. F. Reddy and Ralph L. Clark were here Friday afternoon interviewing Charles Delin with regard to road work.
    The Brittsan brothers sent 25 large fat hogs to the Farm Bureau, Medford, this Saturday morning and they and Pete Betz and Edward Bellows were here for dinner today.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 7, 1920, page 6


    Oscar Stewart was in Medford Wednesday after his mother, who will make them a visit on their ranch above Trail.
    Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson spent several days visiting with her mother in Ashland last week.
    Dick Vincent is hauling hay from the Bar Eight ranch.
    Gene Howell of the U.S. Fisheries has been transferred to Clackamas and will leave about the first of the year.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson made a business trip to Medford Wednesday returning Thursday.
    They are having considerable difficulty in taking a steam roller to Prospect. The roads are so slick that it is almost impossible to guide the roller, which weaves from one side of the road to the other. The man refused to ride it across the bridge crossing Elk Creek just below the hatchery. On my way to town we had to wait for it to be turned around, as it had skidded and was crossway over the road. It will be dangerous work going up the grade above McLeod.
    A new city is going up in Zimmerlee's back yard. Several bunk houses and a large cook house for the road camps have been erected on the new highway. The camp could justly be called Swedenburg.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 7, 1920, page 6


    BLAESS--John Blaess died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Louise Bates, 112 Laurel Street, December 7 from paralysis, aged 79 years, 4 months and 10 days. He was born in Alsace Lorraine, France, July 27, 1841, and came to the United States when 25 years of age. His home was near Trail, Oregon, where for the past 17 years he had run the ferry across Rogue River. He leaves his wife Octavia and three sons and four daughters, who are John and Charlie Blaess of Medford, Ore., and Louie Blaess of Trail, Ore.; Mrs. Amelia Miller of Nebraska City, Neb.; Mrs. Beulah Morris Wallace of Nebraska; Mrs. A. K. Earhart of Rogue River, Ore., and Mrs. Louise Bates of Medford, Ore. The funeral services will be held at the Perl Funeral Home, Thursday, December 9 at 1:30 p.m. Interment Central Point cemetery.
"Obituary," Medford Mail Tribune, December 8, 1920, page 5


    Van Heffner has gone over on the Applegate to fix the government dam. He will be gone about a week.
    Mrs. Stewart is visiting her sons Oscar and Will Stewart of the Rogue River ranch. She will probably stay about two weeks.
    Mrs. Ash of Trail has been making the rounds of all her neighbors for miles around in the hope of interesting them in a Christmas tree the school is going to give. The plan is to have donations of small sums in order that everyone who comes has a gift.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gene Howell spent Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 9, 1920, page 5


    At the close of our Sabbath school Rev. A. Werdon, the pastor of the Free Methodist church of Ashland, preached for us and although he had been here the day before and visited many of the families of the town, he had a very small congregation to preach to and he also preached again at 7:30 p.m., but there were but a very small number to hear him, owing perhaps in part at least to the fact that the night was very dark and the streets and roads muddy. He preached two very good sermons, one on the subject of Christian Perfection and the one at night on The Second Coming of the Lord. If the weather had been more favorable no doubt there would have been more out to hear him, but the people of Eagle Point will have to have a different kind of minister, one that can wake them up and make them think before they become interested enough in the subject of religion to go to church.
    George Lewis, who has been running a truck hauling saw logs around Medford, came out Saturday afternoon and took supper with his brother Harry at the Sunnyside Sunday evening. John W. Smith and family, who are interested with his brother Artie in a farm and orchard on Big Sticky, were visiting at the Sunnyside Sunday afternoon.
    There have been some changes in real estate in our little town. Wilbur Jack had sold twenty-one acres of land inside of the corporate limits of the town to Allen Denton of Ashland, and G. C. McAllister has traded his home place here, the A. J. Daley residence, to the same man for Ashland property, and J. F. Brown has purchased a plat of land joining his home place of Mr. Rose Patter of Ashland. There are two more deals on where real property has been sold and money paid to close the bargain, but as the deals have not been closed and the deeds given I am not at liberty to make the matter public as yet. In making the deals referred to as already closed, we are going to lose one of our highly esteemed citizens, Mr. McAllister, as he expects to move in the spring, but we will have in his place Mr. Denton, who is of one of the finest families in this or Klamath Falls county, and he will be permanently settled, while Mr. McAllister had already bought a small farm near Central Point where he had planned to live as soon as he could dispose of his property here.
    A. G. Bishop, owner of the Hollywood orchard, was a business caller Monday morning and so was J. Simmons of Trail. He had had the misfortune to cut his foot with an ax and was stopping here with friends a few days while the cut was healing.
    Prof. G. R. Robinson, the principal of the Butte Falls high school, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Monday morning and so was A. Wyne, the oil and coal promoter.
    Mrs. Walter Meyer and her brother, William Wright, were callers also Monday. And so was Irvin Bieberstedt and his nephew, Ralph Bieberstedt. Ralph was hauling lumber from here up to the Nygren place on Salt Creek to build a house for one of the Nygren boys who married his sister.
    Walter Marshall of Brownsboro, was also among the business callers and so was Mrs. McKissick, formerly of this place but now of Medford. She had been out Saturday and had taken her father, J. W. Prillaman, and his sister, Miss Prillaman home with her and had brought them back Monday.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our leading business men, a hardware merchant, has been making some material improvements in front of his store. He has hauled gravel in and leveled up the side of the street where the water was standing so that when people ride up in their cars they don't have to jump to avoid getting their feet wet or wade in the water.
    Robert Merrill, his mother and brother were transacting business here also Monday.
    Ed Spencer, who has been out herding sheep all summer and fall, was here Tuesday and while here gave me his subscription for the Daily Mail Tribune, as he says that he gets lonesome without it to read when he is out in the hills.
    Benj. Whetstone was also a hurried business caller Tuesday. And Herman Meyer, Henry Tonn, A. C. Spence, Cecil Culbertson and Charles Spence came in with three of the Jackson County road trucks, taking them to Jacksonville from the Lake Creek road district.
    Mr. and Mrs. Cady of Derby came in Tuesday and Guy Pruett, Messrs. Lloyd French, C. E. Bellows, Alex Betz, C. Delin, Ralph L. Clark of Portland, Chris Bergman and wife, I. B. Mallard, representative of the Pruitt-Meyers Auto Co., Medford, and W. B. Lull of Portland were here for dinner Tuesday. Mr. Lull is the man who took the contract to build the Agate-Trail road from the edge of the desert to Hog Creek.
    M. S. Stutt of Derby came out on horseback Tuesday to have him shod. He says his roads are so bad that that is the only way to get out except to walk.
    Mrs. J. Montgomery and Fred Robbins went to Medford Tuesday afternoon in the Lewis jitney.
    Lewis Martin of Trail came out on the Persist stage Tuesday.
    A man by the name of Winters of Yakima, Wash., came in Tuesday morning, walked around town until 3 p.m. and went to Medford to catch the S.P. No. 16 for Portland.
    Chas. Foeller of Trail and Marshall Minter were business callers Tuesday evening. He said that his sisters, Mrs. Sam Courtney and W. E. Hammel, had bought a small cannery and were canning up the pears that were spoiled for the market by the hail storm last summer.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 10, 1920, page 9


    George Conger of Butte Falls, who is interested in the old Hawk sawmill on Clark's Creek with Mr. Cowley, was a business caller Wednesday and took dinner at the Sunnyside.
    William Brown of the firm of George Brown & Sons, who, with his wife, have been spending some weeks in Southern California, on account of Mr. Brown being troubled with rheumatism, have returned home greatly improved in health.
    Sam Courtney and wife, who have been in California for several months, he working at his trade, painting and paper hanging, have returned to their home north of our town.
    Carl Stanley of Lake Creek, one of our leading stockmen and ranchers, was a business caller Wednesday.
    Allison Allen of Spokane arrived here Wednesday on the stage and went on up to Derby. He is an uncle of John Allen of Derby and is making his annual visit to his nephews, Wallace Bergman and J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the Butte Falls hatchery and other fishing interests, were also passengers on the Medford-Butte Falls stage.
    Harvey Stanley brought in a fine lot of dressed hogs and distributed them among the citizens of our town Wednesday.
    Thursday morning Fred Pelouze, J. L. Robertson, Sr., and Mr. McNicoll went to Medford in the Lewis jitney.
    J. W. Sanders, superintendent of the Antelope orchard, was a business caller Thursday morning.
    Benjamin Kingery and wife of Antelope motored into town Thursday with a load of produce for our merchants.
    Robert McCabe and his father, T. F. McCabe, drove in the same day and took out a small lot of lumber with them for repair work.
    Charles Delin is having the old Daley barn fixed up so that he can care for a part of his horses that are to be used on the Antelope-Trail unit of the Crater Lake Highway. He sent two teams up to the Mike Hanley ranch on the north fork of Little Butte after a lot of feed troughs, and from all appearances he will soon have a force of men and teams moving dirt and rock along that route. The incessant rain is hindering the men in their work along the route of the highway, as the ground is so soft and muddy that they cannot work to advantage, even in clearing the right-of-way, as a considerable part of the route is "sticky," but I understand that Mr. Price is doing considerable work clearing away the rock on the route and that Wm. von der Hellen is getting along nicely with his unit between Rogue River and Trail, as about all of his contract is on sandy, gravelly and rocky land.
    Our enterprising school teachers, Misses Josie Riley the principal, and Ruth Young, are training the children in their departments to take part in a community Christmas entertainment in the opera house on Thursday evening, December 23, and the plan is to have one of the best times we have had in Eagle Point for years. We have the talent here to compete with any of the towns in that line. Everybody is invited to come and help make it a glowing success.
    Speaking about our school, I had a little business with Miss Young the other day, and called at recess time, not intending to visit the school at all, but after I had obtained the information I desired, Miss Young insisted on my going in and looking over some of the work of the little tots in their line, especially in the line of decorations, and I was surprised to see the amount and kind of work they are doing.
    C. H. Natwick, a contractor, who has had two different jobs above Ashland on the highway, came in for dinner Thursday and reported that the rain was interfering very much with his work as the men cannot work to advantage while it is raining and the ground is so soft and wet.
    John McAllister of Lake Creek was also a diner here Thursday.
    Mrs. J. L. Davis and her two children and Miss Sophia Cooley of Roseville, Cal., nieces of Mrs. Walter Meyer who have been visiting their aunt and uncle, came in Friday and went to Medford on their way home on the Lewis jitney. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer accompanied them as far as Eagle Point.
    Mr. Luke Ryan of Medford came out from his farm near the mouth of Big Butte Creek Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did John Smith.
    H. E. Hensley of Wellen, formerly of Eagle Point, came in Friday on business.
    Mr. Wm. Johnson and his father, who own the farm formerly owned by W. P. Haley, just below town, were business callers Friday.
    J. P. Coleman, of Lake Creek, was in Eagle Point on his way home from Medford, where he had been to take his brother, Dr. Coleman of Medford, who came out to treat J. P. Coleman's baby, who is troubled with indigestion.
    Joe Poole and family and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Whitehead, the foreman on the Butte Creek orchard and the business manager for Mr. Fred C. Bell, owner, Thos. O'Brian of Butte Falls and Miss Ruth Young, our primary teacher, went to Medford Friday afternoon on the stage.
    Mrs. Wm. Perry and her daughter, Mrs. Percy Haley, were shopping in town Friday afternoon.
    Mr. Gilmore of Paul's Electric Store called on business Friday evening.
    Mrs. J. E. Gleason was on the Medford-Butte Falls stage for Butte Falls to visit relatives, and also on her way to Michigan to be with her son, who is attending the university there.
    U. R. Scott of Medford was a diner at the Sunnyside today, Saturday, and so were Paul B. Rynning, state highway engineer, and R. T. Seaman, department engineer, both of Medford. They are working on the route between the Cingcade ranch and Trail, and R. C. Johnson and P. Silverton of Medford. They were looking over the route between the Cingcade place for the first four miles, with a view to contract for clearing the right-of-way.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 14, 1920, page 6


    Late Saturday afternoon R. A. Petty and W. H. Crandall, two of our enterprising farmers and orchardists, were in town, a thing rather out of the ordinary, for they are both men who are supposed to be at home, at least, by chore time, but one of them, Mr. Crandall, was looking for one of his neighbors he was expecting in from Medford.
    C. E. Bellows and Mrs. Bert Clarno were also here late the same afternoon. They had been to Medford and were just returning home.
    Mrs. D. Bradshaw of Brownsboro was also a late business caller Saturday afternoon.
    Still later in the evening Dr. Pickel and Wm. Budge, both of Medford, came in for supper. The doctor had had a call to go out about five miles beyond here to see Mr. Joyce and on the road had the misfortune to rip open a tire on one of the front wheels of his car by striking a sharp rock on the desert, and was detained for some time on account of having started from home without a flashlight and his transferable light was out of commission so they had to put on a new tire as best they could by the light of matches and what light they could get from the lights of the car. But after supper they, by the use of the phone, got the parties and arranged to have them meet them at the Reese Creek school house and proceeded on their way.
    Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Weidman, who owns a farm and orchard just at the edge of town and are interested in the dairy business, and Mrs. Weidman is the saleslady in the Nichols store, went to Medford last Saturday on business.
    Charles Nickell and family of Phoenix and a relative of the Nickell family came over and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Nickell's daughter, Mrs. Robert Harnish.
    There was a little more stir in our town Sunday than usual; there were quite a number of people came in during the day, among whom were D. H. Slead, George W. Jacobs and L. R. Raymond of Gold Hill, who were investigating the prospects for work on the Agate unit of the Crater Lake Highway. Also Glenn Haley and Miss Sadie Anderson, George Cottrell, Ira Tungate of Butte Falls, Lewis Martin, who were all at the Sunnyside for meals, and several stayed overnight and Lewis Martin remained until Wednesday morning, going up to his home on Elk Creek. He had brought out a lot of furs that he had taken from animals he had caught and taken them to the Medford market.
    Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Leabo of Grays Harbor, Wash., came in on the Butte Falls stage Monday and went on up to Trail on the Persist stage.
    Mr. Thomson, one of the firm of Thomson Bros., Lake Creek, came out also on the Butte Falls stage and went up home on the Lake Creek stage the same day.
    J. P. Goin, our agate man, who is now engaged with the Price-Rhodes workers on the unit of the Agate-Trail [road] between Hog Creek and Rogue River, came out Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and took out a load of scraps of lumber that was left from the building that Mr. Price tore down and moved out to fix camps, etc., for his men.
    Corbin Edgell, one of our orchardists, and Lee Farlow of Lake Creek also came out and went on to Medford Monday morning, returning this Wednesday morning.
    J. W. Hovey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was also a business caller Monday, as was Alex Vestal, Artie Vestal and their brother Thomas Vestal, all of Reese Creek.
    Mrs. David Cingcade was out on the streets shopping Monday, and so was Pete Young and his sister Miss Anna Young.
    Buel Hildreth and wife, who have been working on the Crater Lake Highway near Prospect, came in Monday night and stopped at the Sunnyside until Wednesday morning and started for their home in Butte Falls.
    W. G. Averill, C.B.M., U.S.N., R.L.--these are all the appendages he put to his name--came in and spent Monday night at the Sunnyside, taking passage for Butte Falls on the stage.
    Ralph Gardner and wife of Lake Creek were in town Tuesday and so were two of the Misses Nygren of Brownsboro, and their wives, also several others whose names I could not recall. They seemed to concentrate at the bank as though there was some deal on hand but I did not inquire. Alex Matthews was also a business caller.
    Pete Betz, who owns a fine farm on or near the new Crater Lake Highway on Rogue River, drove in Tuesday and was accompanied by the young lady who is teaching in the Laurel Hill district.
    Among the callers at the Sunnyside Tuesday were Charles Delin, E. C. Fawcett, W. B. Campbell, Ralph Clark, Dr. J. F. Reddy, Miss Martha E. Porter, who is teaching in the Derby district, Mr. Allison Allen, a brother of John Allen of Derby. In my last letter I mentioned him as an uncle instead of a brother. He has just make his annual visit to his brother and is now going to Los Angeles to spend the winter.
    When the Persist stage came in Tuesday there were as passengers from Persist, Elk Creek and Trail, Mrs. Roy Willits and little boy, J. W. Miller, John Oleson, Antone Ring, who had a large bundle of furs and among them were a number of coyote skins and bear skins besides the skins of smaller animals. After the mail carrier had delivered his mail he went on to Medford that afternoon and took his passengers on into town.
    Miss Eula Norris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Norris, foreman on the Wilfley orchard, who has been visiting friends in Medford, also came out Tuesday.
    Among the Sunnyside callers Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. Price, the contractor on the Agate-Trail road. They were on their way to Medford and later in the day Miss Enid Middlebusher of Trail, John Cadzow of Butte Falls, Geo. McDonald and Mrs. Moen, who is teaching in the Reese Creek district, who all spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    John Calhoun of Baker County, who has been here visiting his son-in-law Wm. Wright, came in the Wednesday morning and went to Medford.
    Rev. J. E. Day of Butte Falls was among the passengers from Medford this morning.
    Mrs. N. E. Watkins has had a new roof put on her dwelling house.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 17, 1920, page 7


    Mr. Van Heffner has returned from a business trip over on the Applegate.
    Benny Zimmerlee has taken up a homestead on Trail Creek.
    Mrs. George Weeks and children made a trip to Medford Friday, returning Sunday.
    Mrs. Stewart, mother of Oscar and Will Stewart of the Rogue River ranch, returns home tomorrow after having made a visit of several days.
    Thomas Carlton and Will Stewart have been riding up Elk Creek after cattle.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 18, 1920, page 6


    When the Butte Falls stage came in Thursday morning, Prof. G. W. Wilson, formerly of Derby but now of Portland, and C. D. Cader of San Francisco were among the passengers. Prof. Wilson was going up to Derby to look after his interests there and Mr. Cader was going up to Derby to visit his parents who are living on the Riggin place. There were several other passengers on the stage but I did not learn their names.
    Wm. Hanson and his father of Brownsboro, Harry von der Hellen of Wellen, Marsh Garrett of Lake Creek, one of our leading stockmen, were also among the business callers Thursday.
    Our new barber, Ernest Dahack, since he has taken possession of the shop has been making so many changes in the building, both inside and outside, that if the old proprietor should happen to come in he would hardly know the place. He has rearranged the inside, put in a water heating apparatus, cut out the old agate cutting machinery, cut off a nice room for a bath room, put in a neat settee where his customers sit and read, etc., and painted the outside, at least the front part of the building, white and the windows and doors green so that it is quite attractive.
    I. B. Mallard, the representative of the Pruett and Meyer Motor Co., and R. D. Patrick, our carpenter, who has been working for the Rogue River Canal Company during the fall and winter on their canal, came in Thursday for dinner and so did Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and her aunt, Mrs. Richter of Dresden, Germany. Mrs. Richter is the sister of the wife of ex-Senator von der Hellen of Wellen, who is here visiting the von der Hellen family. She was born in England but was married some thirty years ago to a German and has lived in Germany since.
    Ed Frey of Lake Creek was in town Thursday and reported that his brother Ortin had had the misfortune to have a horse fall on him and break his wrist, and they were both in town Friday on their way home from Medford where they had been to have the fracture dressed. Our doctor, Mr. Holt, had not returned from San Francisco up to that time, but arrived here Friday morning, and I can assure the reader that judging by the way he was greeted, was welcomed by about all who met him.
    Thursday afternoon E. C. Fawcett and W. B. Campbell, two mining men, came in and engaged board and room. They have taken a contract to clear the brush and timber off of the right of way on a four-mile unit running from the edge of the desert to Hog Creek.
    And that same evening L. S. Atmond of Portland, Frank Willeke, Everett Abbott and John Logan came in to spend the night.
    Miss Hazel Brown, daughter of one of the firm of George Brown & Sons, who has been working in a bank in California, has returned home to spend the winter.
    W. C. Butler, one of the pioneers of the valley, came in Friday morning on the Lake Creek stage and there were five passengers on the Butte Falls stage.
    John Miller of Lake Creek was also in town Friday and also was here today, Saturday, and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did D. R. Patrick.
    N. W. Cather, salesman for Goodyear Rubber Company, and P. B. McDonald, also of the same company, Medford, and so was Fred W. Peters of Portland and A. Joseph of Aberdeen, Wash., here for dinner Friday.
    Frank Neil and John Allen of Derby passed through our town with a load of furniture Friday.
    Mrs. John L. Robinson was shopping here Friday and so was Mrs. Susan Hart.
    Mrs. Robert Harnish, who has been spending a few days visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nickell of Phoenix, returned home Friday afternoon.
    Born to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Pruett, Dec. 17, a nine-pound boy.
    Nick Young, one of our promising young farmers, spent Friday night at the Sunnyside.
    Joe Moomaw, who lives just outside of our town, was here Friday evening and reports that he has been working on the Agate-Trail highway on the Price-Rhodes part and that they have about two miles of the right of way cleared of brush and timber and have been blasting away on the rock work and are getting along fine with the work.
    This Saturday morning there were so many passengers and so much mail matter that the contractor had to use two cars to carry the load and the passengers, among whom were Mrs. Joseph Geppert and Miss Edith Fredenburg of Butte Falls and Miss Lavena Brown of Brownsboro.
    W. H. Crandall and Raleigh Matthews came in this Saturday forenoon and Mr. Crandall brought in some fine-looking apples for Geo. Brown and Sons.
    Pete Betz also was a business caller and Lawrence Conger brought in a load of live turkeys and took them to Medford.
    Geo. Holmes of the firm of Holmes and MacDonald, our garage men, who has been working on a house on Griffin Creek, has returned to his place in the garage.
    Wm. Perry is putting up the fence along the right of way on the Crater Lake Highway through the W. Hart Hamilton place that he has charge of, and R. A. Weidman is getting the material on the ground to put the fence through his place, but the ground is so soft and sticky that it is hard to work on it as he cannot get a team on it but is simply bringing the posts home.
    John Rader, Lloyd Stanley and John Miller were among the business callers, and Mr. Stanley took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mr. D. R. Patrick of Brownsboro.
    Wesley Butler and family, his sister, Nellie and his brother-in-law, Arthur Brophy, came in this morning and brought the trailer to his auto to the Childreth's shop to have it mended.
    A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the readers of the Eaglets.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 21, 1920, page 9


    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Saturday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Harry Merriman spent Saturday and Sunday visiting with Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher and family.
    Fred Middlebusher has just returned from a few weeks visit in Centralia, Washington.
    There was a surprise party on Frank Holmes at his homestead last week, about 25 persons being present.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dick Vincent stopped at Mrs. Middlebusher's on their way home from Medford Sunday.
    Miss Mary Weeks, Tom Weeks and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson took dinner with Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Sunday. In the afternoon they went to Trail to visit with Mrs. Middlebusher.
    Oscar and Will Stewart have been riding after cattle the last few days.
    Fred and Dan Middlebusher went to Prospect Monday.
    Richard Mieth, a bridge contractor from Portland, who has the contract for the bridge across Rogue River, is spending a few days at Mrs. Middlebusher's.
    Jack Walker and son have been hauling hay from the Bar 8 ranch. Also Nick Von hauled a load up to the old Storm place for Mr. Peterson, the mail carrier.
    Mr. Byron LeBeau and bride are spending a few weeks with his sister, Mrs. George Weeks.
    Ralph Watson is sawing wood for George Weeks with his power saw.
    Ace Weeks was called to Trail Friday to doctor a sick horse.
    Nearly everyone in the vicinity has been sick with a cold.
    O. R. Train made a trip to Medford Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 23, 1920, page 3


    Regarding Bobby Pelouze, a former high school star and one of the best-known young men in Southern Oregon, the San Francisco Call of recent date has the following to say/ Mr. Pelouze arrived Thursday evening to spend the Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Pelouze, of Eagle Point.
    "Graduation will rob Stanford of one of the greatest athletes that ever donned a Cardinal uniform. This is Bobby Pelouze, the little guy who played end on the Stanford football team this year, and although he tips the scales at only 150 pounds, he holds his own against the best opposition. Bob has been at Stanford four years, and during that time has won his letter in baseball, football, basketball and track and field. Bob was the star pitcher of the Cardinal nine for three years and has played football ever since his freshman year, and was a star quarter miler on the cinder track and plays forward on the Cardinal basketball five. Some man!"
Medford Mail Tribune, December 24, 1920, page 7


    J. O. Pierce of Prospect came in Saturday evening and remained until Monday at the Sunnyside.
    Polk Smith has moved into what is known as the Coy house, formerly occupied by W. D. Roberts and family.
    Carlyle Natwick came in Saturday night from the Natwick camp on the Pacific Highway south of Ashland, where his father has a contract to do a certain job on the highway.
    Mrs. Harry Heryford of Butte Falls and Wm. Hughes also of Butte Falls, spent the night at the Sunnyside. Miss Heryford went to Medford Monday morning and returned the same day, taking the Butte Falls stage Tuesday morning.
    Roy Watkins was also a guest at the Sunnyside Monday night.
    One of the real estate deals referred to in a former letter was the sale of the Dr. W. W. P. Holt home here to John M. Miller of Lake Creek. We are very sorry to have to lose Dr. Holt and family, as they are among the best citizens of our town and the doctor stands very high in his profession and will be greatly missed from not only our community, but entire neighborhood including Butte Falls, Prospect, Derby, Trail, Lake Creek and all of the surrounding country, but while we are losing a number-one citizen in the person of Dr. Holt, we feel that the vacancy will be filled by Mr. and Mrs. John Miller and we sympathize with the neighborhood on the south fork of Little Butte in their loss of one of their best men and his wife, but such is fate, the loss of one is the building up of another.
    Bert Peachey, one of the forest rangers of Ashland, and family have come in to spend the coming Christmas with her parents.
    J. W. Berrian and J. W. Caven were here Monday morning looking over the different sites for the erection of a fish hatchery where they can care for the young fish after they are hatched, and after looking over the different places have decided to build it a short distance above here on L. K. Haak's land and Mr. Berrian has had the lumber brought out from the Butte Falls country on the P.&E. railroad and has a team hauling it out today, Wednesday, and will have the carpenters at work arranging to hatch out and care for the young fish.
    Mrs. Robertson and O. Adams came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage Monday morning and went up home.
    Carl Stanley of Lake Creek and Theron Taylor went up to Lake Creek on the Eagle Point-Lake Creek stage Monday morning and Miss Etta Grieve, daughter of Wm. Grieve, formerly our county assessor, came out from Medford and went to her home near Prospect.
    Frank Rhodes, our county surveyor, and Sam Courtney, our painter and paper hanger, were business callers Monday.
    Mr. J. Waterbury, one of our hustling farmers, and G. H. Stowell and wife were doing shopping here with our merchants Monday and Mr. and Mrs. Stowell brought in 150 dozen eggs for the Farm Bureau. While they were at the Sunnyside for dinner, your correspondent inquired about the number of eggs they were getting per day, and they report about 25 dozen a day, a nice little income at 52 cents a dozen. They also brought in their week's cream from four cows, and in the run of conversation, speaking about hogs, Mrs. Stowell remarked that they did not try to keep more hogs than enough to make their meat, but fed the milk to the hens. They seemed to think that when all of their 800 hens went to laying, as some of them are fully matured hens, not old, but laying hens, and following the course of nature, they stop laying the winter and rest, while quite a number are pullets and not old enough to commence to lay yet, but by early spring they will about all go to laying.
    There were two truckloads of wire fencing came out to Wm. Perry Monday to be used for the county to fence the right of way on the Crater Lake Highway, as Mr. Perry has taken a contract to put up two miles of fence, one mile on each side of the right of way, and has already quite a lot of the posts set and the holes dug for the anchor posts. By the first of the year, if the weather will permit, there will be quite a force of men and teams working on the job.
    Fred Pelouze, one of our progressive farmers and dairy men, was in town Monday having some repair work done on one of his wagons at the Childreth shop.
    Mrs. M. R. Koontz of Butte Falls has been here visiting her brother, Mr. Polk Smith, and his family.
    Gus Nichols has leased his farm and stock ranch on Salt Creek, Lake Creek post office, for a period of five years to William Holman, a good deal for Will, and his friends predict that he will make good, for he and his wife are both rustlers when it comes to farming and handling stock.
    The following were guests at the Sunnyside Monday for dinner: B. O. Applegate, Westco Chautauqua Co., Portland; Edgar Johnson, Farm Bureau, Medford; D. O. Frederick, Snider Dairy, Medford; George McDonald and T. F. McCabe.
    J. L. Robinson, Sr., shipped fifteen large fat hogs through the Farm Bureau, Medford, to Portland Saturday.
    Later in the day Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows, the Brittsan brothers, Mrs. Merritt, Miss Ellen McCabe and Dave Phipps of Medford, were in town.
    Monday evening we had Mrs. C. R. Farrier of Lake Creek, Lester Swink, one of the Butte Falls merchants and Mrs. Heryford of Butte Falls and John H. Simon of Gold Hill.
    Mrs. Heryford, Butte Falls, and Mrs. Farrier, Lake Creek, went to Medford Monday morning, returning that night, going to their homes Tuesday morning.
    Chris Bergman came out Saturday and went to Jacksonville, and came in Tuesday morning and went home on the Derby stage.
    D. A. Sheibley, our school house janitor, was here for dinner Tuesday and reported that he was moving into his new home that day. Thomas Long was also a diner at the Sunnyside, and so was Ralph Hayman and W. G. Purdge, the two men who brought out the two loads of fencing for Wm. Perry.
    Roy Watkins and Frank Johnson were also here Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Two of Frank's nieces, Miss Lucy Foeller and Miss Eula Foeller of Trail, and Mrs. Charles Wilkinson of Lake Creek, who had been out to her farm near Medford, came in on the stage and the two young ladies, Joe Haskins and Mrs. David Smith took passage for Trail and Mr. Watkins went on the Lake Creek stage.
    J. W. Donhea and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby and J. W. Hovey, foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, were here for dinner today, Wednesday.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 27, 1920, page 5


    J. W. Hovey, the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was here on Wednesday trying to arrange for the right of way through a twenty-acre tract of land that belongs to myself and wife, to put in a ditch so that they could carry water from Butte Creek to the aforesaid orchard. He said that Mr. Knight, the owner of the orchard, had been trying for some time to have the Rogue River Canal Company put water on his orchard, but had failed so far and now he is trying to arrange to take water out of Butte Creek near the Snowy Butte mill dam and pump it to an elevation of 90 feet and then carry it in ditches and pipes across the country about a mile and use it to irrigate his orchard. Mr. Hovey said that they had not surveyed out the route yet but were satisfied that the water can be carried over that route. The plan is to install a pump with sufficient power and capacity to raise seven thousand gallons a minute and have it forced through an eight-inch pipe and after reaching that elevation would be able to procure sufficient water to water his entire orchard. It has been demonstrated that with the use of water in an orchard that the production will be at least doubled and the variety increased at least one hundred percent.
    There has been some talk of our town putting in a pumping plant and making a reservoir on the hill referred to so as to furnish our town with water to irrigate our gardens and for domestic purposes and it probably will be done when we get a different class of citizens here, but at present we have too many of the old pioneer stock living here.
    Wednesday evening John Grieve, the veteran road builder of Prospect, came in on the stage from Medford and spent the night at the Sunnyside. And Miss Josie Riley, the principal of our school and Miss Myrtle Smith came in for supper.
    When the Butte Falls stage came in Thursday morning it was simply loaded down, not only with passengers but with mail matter, for the driver had it packed not only inside but all that could well be lashed on was piled on the outside and when making the return trip brought out Miss Edna Gore and Miss Romwedt, two of the Butte Falls teachers, on their way to Medford to spend Christmas with the folks at home.
    There was a meeting of the directors of the First State Bank of Eagle Point held here on Dec. 16, being their annual meeting, and all of the directors were present and adjusted their accounts for the current year, and they expressed their approval of the present management. From the current year's earnings they declared a dividend of 12 percent and carried about 5 percent more to "depreciation" and to surplus. Besides this they carry over a liberal amount of undivided profit. Eagle Point has a good bank and a very careful manager.
    Wm. Hughes of Butte Falls also spent Thursday night with us.
    Ray Parker of Butte Falls, who is one of the students of the Forest Grove college, and his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crabtree, also of Forest Grove, were here for dinner Thursday on their way to Butte Falls to visit Mr. Parker's parents, W. W. Parker and wife, and other relatives, going on up in the afternoon.
    J. P. Oswald and Guy Holman and Charles Manning of Peyton were also here for dinner and Charles Manning remained overnight, and R. A. Petty, who is now on the Vermeren place, and T. F. Coger of Derby were among the diners.
    Thursday evening, as announced in a former letter, our school, conducted by Misses Jose Riley and Ruth Young, principal and primary teacher, gave a fine entertainment in the opera house and a community Christmas tree.
    The first thing on the program was The Bird's Christmas Tree prologue. The Christmas Baby Finds a Home. There were quite a number of 7th and 8th grade pupils engaged in this play and they carried out their parts well. It was played in three acts. The first act was the home of the birds. The different acts were quite lengthy, but the children did themselves credit and also the way they performed reflected credit on their trainers. Between the different acts the primary pupils performed their parts, but I am afraid if I undertake to give anything like an outline of the play I will try the patience of the editor, but the entire performance was well rendered and everyone I have heard speak of it speaks in highest terms of the entire performance.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton was among the business callers Thursday and so was H. D. Mills of Butte Falls, and Wm. Grieve of Prospect was a passenger on the stage on his way home.
    Robert McCabe came in Friday and brought his father, T. F. McCabe and sister, Miss Ellen, and they two went on to Medford on the jitney and so did Miss Bertha Haymond and Jennie Florey and J. B. Beckner, the cream tester.
    J. F. Maxfield and son, Herman Meyer and daughter and Miss Bessie Farlow of Lake Creek and John Norris, the foreman on the Wilfley orchard, were shopping here Friday.
    Christmas morning broke on us bright and clear and all nature seemed to join with the angelic host in singing praises to the giver of all good and as I meditated on the great contrast between our surroundings, the weather warm and vegetation green and the grass fresh and plentiful, while our brothers in the Middle West and along the northern Atlantic coast are freezing with the cold, we of Southern Oregon are enjoying what seems to be an April day.
    S. H. Harnish, who has been confined to his room and a good part of the time to the hospital for several weeks, returned home Friday greatly improved. His trouble seemed to be blood poison caused by a simple scratch with a sliver of wood so slight as to be scarcely noticeable but in the course of a few hours it began to pain him and in spite of all the local remedies it proved to be a very serious scratch.
Medford Mail Tribune, December 28, 1920, page 3


    Everyone has an exceptionally good time at the program and Christmas tree at Trail Christmas Eve. The Trail school gave the program while all helped on the tree. Everyone received a sack of candy and nuts. A large crowd attended and the program was very good.
    Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson spent Christmas in Ashland with her mother, Mrs. W. B. Holmes. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Ward returned with them Sunday for several weeks visit. Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Hutchinson are sisters.
    Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blaess are visiting her mother, Mrs. Zimmerlee, during the holidays. They spent Monday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Mrs. M. E. Middlebusher and Enid and Denzil Middlebusher and Mr. and Mrs. S. W. and Keva Hutchinson took Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart.
    Mr. Keva Hutchinson spent Christmas with folks returning Sunday.
    Oscar and Will Stewart rode after cattle today across Rogue River.
    Miss Given Houston is home from Central Point, where she is attending school, for the holidays.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1921, page 5


    The last time I wrote for the Medford Mail Tribune was on Christmas Day, and when I had written what I thought would make about a column in print, although I had at that time quite a number of items that I had collected, that I thought would keep until today, Wednesday.
    Among the items kept over was the one where Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Smith, who are living on the old J. B. Jackson place, gave a Christmas dinner and had a reunion of the Haley family, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Haley, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Haley and Miss Ruby Haley and Mr. Nick Young and Mr. and Mrs. William Perry, Mrs. Smith's sister. They not only had a fine dinner but a very pleasant time.
    At the Sunnyside we had, by special arrangement, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Stowell and Mrs. and Mrs. John W. Smith. Mrs. Smith is a sister of Mr. Stowell. We also had Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Lindas and Miss Anna and Master Leonard Lindas of Medford. Mr. Lindas is one of the Medford attorneys and was out here last summer to dinner one Sunday.
    There were no special Christmas reunions here of any other families as the weather was so moist and the roads so sloppy that it was a great undertaking for anyone to even try to get out from home. Christmas Eve Mr. and Mrs. Ray Harnish gave a supper and had S. H. Harnish, his son Robert and wife and daughter, Mrs. Fred Dutton.
    Miss Falldine of New York, Jackson County nurse, Miss Florence E. Pool, home demonstration agent, Miss Witzner, high school librarian and Miss Martha E. Potter, the Derby teacher, all spent the Christmas holidays with Miss Potter's sister on the C. L. Farrier farm in the Lake Creek district, and Miss Potter spent Sunday night at the Sunnyside and went up to her school Monday morning on the Butte Falls stage.
    Arthur Ellison of Portland went up to Butte Falls Saturday to join in a partial reunion of the Tungate family. He is a brother-in-law of Mr. Ira Tungate of Butte Falls.
    Steve McAllister of Lake Creek was a passenger Monday morning on the Lake Creek stage.
    Mr. Hensley, who is living on the place formerly known as the Abger place, was doing business here Monday. He left here some five years ago and went up north but has returned and may settle here permanently.
    Thos. F. Nichols was also a business caller and reports that owing to the continuous rain that they have had to suspend work on the ditch which he, his sister Miss Ruth, and J. H. French are having made, until the weather settles.
    W. E. Hammel and his brother-in-law, Marshall Minter, passed through town Monday morning on their way to Central Point where they were going after 20 head of ewes Mr. Hammel had bought. Mr. Hammel while talking about sheep, cows and hogs related that he had just killed an eleven-month-old pig that weighed after he was dressed 304 pounds. It was a motherless pig and was raised on the bottle. Another argument in favor of prohibition--use the bottle for pigs and not for men.
    Mr. McMartin, who has been looking after Wm. Lewis' sheep north of here, spent Sunday night here and went out to Central Point Monday morning on the Lewis jitney.
    Geo. H. and his brother, Pearl Stowell, came in Monday morning and brought in five cases of eggs and 30 gallons of cream, and George remained and went in to Medford with Mr. Johnson, who came out for the eggs for the Farm Bureau.
    Nick Young and Wm. Merrill were among the diners at the Sunnyside Monday.
    Lawrence Conger came in Tuesday morning, took the jitney and went to Medford, returning the same forenoon.
    L. D. Fry of Phoenix, F. J. Fry and W. D. Stillman of Medford were here Tuesday and took dinner at the Sunnyside, and Mrs. Wm. Perry and her sister, Mrs. Leroy Smith, also spent the day visiting the Howlett family; that includes me.
    Thos. Cingcade, who has been hauling the lumber from the depot for the new hatchery to be built on the Hawk farm, reports that it is all hauled.
    One of the Medford trucks came out Tuesday loaded for some of our merchants and our blacksmith. The driver scattered his load. leaving a little for T. E. Nichols, quite a lot for Geo. Brown and Sons and some for Wm. von der Hellen hardware store and the rest for W. L. Childreth the blacksmith.
    R. E. Moore, who is farming the farm on Antelope Creek belonging to George Brown and Sons, was transacting business here Tuesday with the firm.
    John H. Simon and Arthur Ellison went out to Medford on the stage Tuesday afternoon.
    Polk Smith and wife, Mrs. Sherman Wooley, and two children, Dave Smith and family and John Smith, who have been off spending the holidays among relatives, have all returned and are settling down to business again.
    Tuesday evening Miss Florence E. Pool, our home demonstrator, and C. C. Cate, county pathologist, C. J. Breman and F. E. Holibaugh called for supper. They had an engagement to have a meeting here Tuesday evening in the interest of the Farm Bureau. Carl Brommer is the representative of the Farm Bureau and is supposed to be the principal speaker and Mr. Holibaugh is a visitor. Their object seems to be to enlist the entire community in the Farm Bureau movement. Owing to the night being so dark and disagreeable your Eagle Point correspondent failed to attend and hear the lectures and I am informed that there were but very few in attendance, as the roads are so bad outside of the Medford-Eagle Point road that it is hardly safe for anyone to venture out with a car and worse still to try to go with wagon or horseback. No doubt if the weather had been pleasant and the roads passable there would have been a good attendance, for the entire community is becoming greatly interested in the movement and many of our farmers are already taking advantage of the offers made, for I see that our principal poultry raisers are shipping their eggs to Portland and San Francisco through that organization. I would have been glad to have been able to have attended and reported what was done, but perhaps Mr. Cate or some one of the others will report to some of the local reporters for the Mail Tribune.
    In addition to those already mentioned as being here we had Buel Hildreth, C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle, and L. H. Hanson of Los Angeles, another agate hunter, here overnight.
    Mr. and Mrs. Scott Boyer and Geo. McDonald came out on the stage this morning and Mr. and Mrs. Boyer went out to Derby on the stage. I did not learn their destination.
    A. J. Moen, husband of the Reese Creek school teacher, Wm. Merrell, H. F. Butcher and Wm. Stinson of Medford, who are in the employ of the Eagle Point Co., were here today for dinner. Messrs. Butcher and Stinson came out to connect up the home of Mrs. Mittelstaedt to the main line.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 3, 1921, page 5


    A. C. Spence and son of Brownsboro were business callers Wednesday. Mr. Spence had finished up his road work and was simply waiting to see what the coming county court was going to do in the way of appointing road supervisors in the various road districts in the county, or in other words was on the anxious seat.
    Misses Ruth Short of Phoenix and Evelyn Wattenberg, whose home is on the Joe Rader farm on Antelope Creek, were in town trading with our merchants Thursday morning. Miss Short has been spending the holidays with Miss Wattenberg.
    Mr. Berrian, the fish hatchery superintendent of Butte Falls, has succeeded in getting the lumber out and on the ground to make his fish propagating plant, but says that the continuous rains keep the water so high that he is unable to accomplish very much except take care of what he has already done on Antelope Creek.
    Charley Clark, formerly of this place but recently of Chiloquin, came in Wednesday evening and has been stopping at the Sunnyside since, and Wm. Moore of Butte Falls and Mr. MacMartin also came in and spent the night.
    R. D. Henson and son James of the Klum Adver. Co. were out Thursday posting ads and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did R. D. Flaherty of the Farm Bureau force and W. H. Parker and Susie Jones of Ashland.
    John Rader, one of our prominent farmers and stockmen and heavy taxpayers, was a business caller Thursday. He reports that the stock is doing fine on the range.
    Mrs. Ida Magerle and her daughter Miss Myrtle of Rogue River were here during the week visiting Mrs. Magerle's sister, Mrs. Frank Lewis. Miss Myrtle Magerle is one of the students attending the state university at Eugene and has been home during the vacation visiting her mother and other relatives.
    Talking about the stock doing fine, whoever heard of stock, cattle, horses, sheep and hogs living out on the range up to and including the last day of December and coming in, many of them fat enough to butcher with a very little feed to harden the flesh, but there is quite a lot of stock around here now that is in fine shape that have not had any feed except what they have gathered off of the range.
    Lawrence Luy of Wellen and Misses Zeama and Lola Roberts, formerly of this place but now of Medford, were doing some shopping here Thursday.
    Jeff Brophy of Peyton, and Miss Tonn of Lake Creek came in from Medford Friday morning on the stage and Mr. Brophy went on up to connect with the Prospect stage and Miss Tonn went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    L. H. Hanson of Los Angeles, who came in from Elk Creek Tuesday and has been spending a few days looking over the agate fields, started on his journey Friday morning for his home.
    Chris C. Beale, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside for the past few weeks, started for Medford Friday morning, to be gone a few days.
    Wesley Butler and J. F. Maxfield and son were doing business here getting ready to greet the incoming New Year Friday and so was J. Wattenberg and J. L. Robinson. While in town I asked Mr. Robinson how he came out with his hogs that he shipped through the Farm Bureau and he said that they all but one brought him ten cents a pound and that one only brought him eight cents per pound and that she, a spayed sow, neat and trim, made and what he considered as good as any in the bunch and that the fifteen hogs shrunk two hundred pounds between Medford and Portland, and that he could have sold the corn that he fed them for more money than he realized for the hogs.
    George Brown and George Lynch of Ashland were here for dinner Friday and so was Wig Jacks of Eagle Point. They seemed to have some deal on here.
    One of the Johnson brothers who bought the Haley place just below town was trading with Geo. Brown and Sons Friday.
    Pete Young and his sister Clara were also patronizing our merchants Friday.
    Charley Terrill, our efficient sheriff, and one of his deputies, Mr. J. J. McMahon and W.W. Johnson of the soil department, Oregon Experiment Station, Corvallis, Ore., came in Friday evening for supper and Mr. Johnson took a room and is expecting to stay some days as he has been appointed to inspect the soil that will be under the contemplated ditch that is being planned to be built from Big Butte Creek beyond Butte Falls to irrigate the land along the route from there to the north boundary of Eagle Point and including the country adjacent northeast and northwest as well as east and west of the town. He is inspecting the soil and will report to the commission who will decide whether it is sufficient security so that the state will be justified in becoming security to the bondholders for the interest on the bonds to secure the necessary cash to build the ditch.
    There was a masquerade ball given here Friday night and I heard one man say that everybody in town was there except "Dad Howlett," but I think that he was mistaken, nevertheless there was evidently a large crowd for a small village like this. I have inquired of several who were there and tried to find out how many tickets were sold but no one seemed to know, but it is estimated that there were at least a hundred tickets sold and some place the number at one hundred and fifty. At any rate there was a good attendance and the different costumes were very attractive and some of them were very pretty. Some of the young men dressed as school girls and that caused considerable mirth when after they had removed their masks it was found that the girls had been sitting in the boys' laps and vice versa. Lunch was served in the hall and I judge by the amount of stuff thrown along the sidewalk, especially the tamales, for there were quite a lot of them thrown along the street that had never been opened, that the "splendid supper" that had been advertised was not up-to-date, but all speak of the affair as a good dance and everything passed off quietly. Along about 4 o'clock this Saturday morning the dance broke up and as the bunch of young folks came into the Sunnyside it sounded to me as though a large part of the crowd had come over to sleep in the hotel.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 4, 1921, page 5


    Last Saturday Mrs. R. C. Brophy of Peyton was a passenger on the stage going to Derby to catch the Derby-Prospect stage for her home. She is engaged teaching in her home district and had been out to Medford during the holidays visiting friends.
    M. C. Mahoney was also on the stage going up to Butte Falls, and so was Prof. Robinson, the principal of the Butte Falls school. He had been out to consult a doctor with reference to an attack of blood poison in his hand.
    George H. West, one of the forest rangers in the service of the government, and wife, were here New Year's day to take dinner. Mr. West has been employed at a sawmill stationed on Anna Creek about six miles from Fort Klamath scaling saw logs for the government.
    Saturday evening A. J. Florey, Jr., handed me $3.50 to pay for six months subscription to the Daily Mail Tribune, which I sent in Sunday morning. The people here seem to think they cannot do without the Mail Tribune.
    R. J. Rowen and family, wife and two bouncing boys, called Saturday for supper. Mr. Rowen was out as an agent for the Medford Auto Co. of Medford and while here in town was interviewing the prospective auto purchasers in our town.
    W. C. Clements and wife and Rev. Wm. J. Meagher, the Catholic priest of Medford, Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen and son Hugo and daughter Miss Joyce and Mrs. Fred McPherson were guests Sunday at the Sunnyside. Rev. Meagher was out and conducted services in the Catholic church Sunday.
    Mrs. H. J. Gordon of Fort Klamath was a passenger on the Eagle Point-Butte Falls stage Monday morning on her way to Butte Falls to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Edmondson, Sr. Henry Thornton of Persist was also a passenger on the same stage and from here he went out on the Persist stage for home. He had been up to Ashland to visit relatives and old-time friends.
    Mr. Price, the contractor, who has the contract with Frank Rhodes to clear and grade the unit of the road between Hog Creek and the point on Rogue River where the new bridge is to be built, was in town Monday and reports that he had shut down for the time being, on account of the constant rainfall as the ground is so wet and soft that he cannot work to advantage.
    Lawrence Conger and Fred Pettegrew were doing business with our merchants Monday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did E. V. Brittsan and Carl Bergman.
    H. D. Mills, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Medford, was here Tuesday morning headed for Butte Falls.
    Thos. Stanley of Butte Falls and wife were among the business callers Monday.
    A. R. McDonald and wife are visiting friends in Eugene. Mr. McDonald is the father of our garage man here.
    Walter Meyer and wife came in Monday and Mrs. Meyer went on to Medford, returning this Wednesday morning on the stage.
    Miss Ellen McCabe drove in with her sister, Mrs. Garrett of Medford, Monday and Mrs. Garrett went out on the Lewis jitney.
    Mrs. H. W. Cappenger of Central Point, a daughter of Mrs. M. S. Wood, who has been out here visiting her mother, went to Medford Monday on the Eagle Point stage on her way home.
    Miss Myrtle Minter, one of the high school girls from Reese Creek school district, went out to Medford Monday afternoon on the stage.
    Pearl and George H. Stowell were also business callers Monday and Geo. Stowell brought in six cases of eggs for the Farm Bureau of Medford. W. H. Crandall also came in Monday afternoon with his produce, and Thos. Cingcade was also in town the same afternoon.
    Miss Ailene Mahoney, who has been out to Medford, was on the Butte Falls stage on her way home. She was accompanied by Miss Arline J. Burner of Medford. Mrs. K. C. Jones was also going to Butte Falls on the same stage, and Earl Ulrich of Prospect and Mrs. Frank Neil of Derby were passengers on their way home on the same stage. Sometimes the stage is behind time on account of having so many passengers and baggage besides the mail matter, on account of the roads being so rough.
    O. M. Goss, formerly of this place but now of Butte Falls, came out and has been spending a few days in this vicinity.
    Dr. Helms, the Medford veterinary, was out looking after some of his stock he has out in these parts Tuesday, and he and George McDonald took dinner at the Sunnyside, and Jack Goin, who has been working at the Price camp, came in to his old room Tuesday.
    Ed Cowden, one of our hustling farmers and dairy men, drove in Tuesday and met the Butte Falls stage and took a man and woman out with him.
    W. S. Chappell, our shoe cobbler, George Adamson and Dennie Zimmerlee, who are engaged putting up a sawmill near Trail, came in Tuesday afternoon and Mr. Adamson and Mr. Zimmerlee went on to Medford the same afternoon to procure some of the necessary outfit for their mill. They report that they will have it in operation in a very few days as it is all complete except putting in the engine.
    Charles Foeller of Trail was here Tuesday afternoon to get his horses shod. Wm. Neaderman of Medford came out on the stage, spent the night here and went up to Trail Wednesday morning on the Persist stage, and Raymond Schermerhorn of Trail came out on the stage and went to Medford this morning on the 7:15 stage and Alex Vestal came out from home on Reese Creek and caught the same stage for Medford.
    Buel Hildreth of Butte Falls, Bert Higinbotham of Prospect, and Mrs. Walter Meyer of Eagle Point post office came out on the Butte Falls stage this morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 7, 1921, page 3


    Lloyd and Harvey Stanley have been building feed racks on the Sam Coy place so that they can have their cattle fed. Sam Coy has the job of hauling the hay out and feeding them. Thus far it has not been necessary to feed as the warm rains have kept the grass growing so that the stock generally look very well.
    Paul Wright, who has been assisting in the rock work on the Agate-Trail road for Rhodes and Price, contractors, was in town patronizing our merchants.
    Henry French, one of our poultry men and his son Floyd came in Thursday and brought in quite a lot of eggs for one of our Medford Creamery men, but he says that his hens do not lay so well as they would, and will when he gets his new hen house built. As it is, the old one is shot all to pieces where the men working on the irrigation ditch have been blasting. They have had to suspend work on account of the continuous rains, in fact it has rained so much and so long a time that it has about caused all kinds of work to stop, even the men working on the highway.
    J. C. Freeley of Portland, Miss Edna Petersen and her father, E. P. Petersen, Henry Trusty of Elk Creek and C. C. Beale were among the guests at the Sunnyside Thursday night.
    Thursday evening when I went to the post office for my mail I noticed that Miss Nellie Coy, one of the deputy postmistresses, was trying to open a mail sack with one hand and on close inspection discovered that she had her left hand wrapped up and upon inquiry learned that she saw someone's horse saddled and bridled in the street so went and tied him up, and just as she was about through tying him he jerked back and caught her hand, bruising it quite badly, and at first it was thought that her little finger was dislocated but the next day, after more careful examination, it is thought to be nothing more than a bad bruise and cut through the skin.
    When the Butte Falls stage came in Friday morning there were five passengers on the car and they were all strangers here looking over the country.
    Charles Brown of Medford, who owns what used to be known as the Maule place four miles this side of Medford, was here for dinner and spent a part of the afternoon extolling the good qualities of the Fordson tractor among the listeners.
    Messrs. Campbell and Terrill, the two men who left here two weeks ago and are clearing the right of way between the Cingcade place on the edge of the desert and Hog Creek, returned to their room Friday noon and started in to finish up the job this Saturday morning.
    W. S. Baker, who has a homestead on the Derby road and now is on the Frank Rhodes places, was a business caller Friday.
    Dr. W. W. P. Holt, who has been practicing as a physician here for several years and has had an extensive and very successful practice, not only here but throughout the surrounding country, started Friday to move his office fixtures to Medford. He is moving onto the fourth floor in the M.F.&H. building.
    He has not moved his family but expects to as soon as he can secure a suitable house to live in. It is not necessary for me to state that there is a general feeling of regret here that he has decided to leave our community, for while he has not only been our M.D., he has always taken an active part in our education and municipal affairs, he having been elected several times as school director and has been president of the town council for a number of years.
    Mr. and Mrs. Ed Watson, formerly of Butte Falls but now of Santa Cruz, Calif., were in town Thursday. Mrs. Watson went to Medford and Friday Ed Watson met his mother-in-law, Mrs. E. E. Smith of Butte Falls, here and they went on to Medford on the stage.
    Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, brought out a portable wood sawing machine to saw logs, wood, etc., for the Merritt Bros. of Reese Creek.
    M. C. Mahoney of Butte Falls and Alex Vestal came out on the stage this Saturday morning. Mr. Mahoney has been going over the stage route quite often of late and I inquired the cause and he told me that he was having his eyes treated by Dr. Emmens of Medford, and that they were greatly improved.
    John Patten and George Cottrell of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls stage Friday afternoon.
    James Culbertson of Lake Creek came out Friday and spent the night with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Kingery, who are living near Wellen.
    Mrs. Mary Simpson of Iowa came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside on her way out to Reese Creek to visit her daughter, Mrs. Moen, who is teaching in the Reese Creek district.
    W. D. Steadman of Medford and T. F. Nichols were diners at the Sunnyside. Mrs. Nichols came in with her husband but went out on the Lake Creek stage to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Farlow.
    Carl von der Hellen was a business caller also and so was Leland Pettegrew and Mr. Kingery of Wellen.
    W. E. Hammel, Charley Delin, D. R. Patrick, Wm. G. Pierce of Hubbard Bros. of Medford, Ed Burgess of Iowa, W. F. Kinslow of Coquille, Ore., were here today, Saturday, for dinner.
    Joseph Riley and Ed Dutton were business callers today.
    Mrs. Mabel Harnish was trading in town today and said that she is stopping with her mother, Mrs. W. W. Taylor, while her husband is feeding their cattle on Antelope near Climax.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 12, 1921, page 7


    Andrew J. Florey died at his home at Eagle Point January 12, at the age of 81 years. Mr. Florey was born at Decatur, Ill., in the year 1830. He served four years in the Civil War, came to Oregon in 1884, settling at Eagle Point, where he served as postmaster for 20 years. He was married Dec. 25, 1886 to Ettie A. Nye. To this union was born seven children, 6 of whom survive and reside in Jackson County.
    They are Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, Chauncey Florey, Andrew Florey, Jr., Mrs. Raymond Reter, Theo. Florey and Judge Florey.
    Funeral services will be held at the parlors of Weeks-Conger Co., Friday, January 14, at 2 p.m., with Rev. Millard officiating. Interment will be in Central Point cemetery.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 13, 1921, page 8


    Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Neil of Ashland, Henry Childreth and son Isaac Childreth of Ashland, Lewis Martin, Trail, and Roy Jain, Medford, were transients at the Sunnyside Saturday night. Isaac Childreth had been up on Elk Creek visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Trusty, and his father had been up to visit them also and to take his son home. Lewis Martin is one of the renowned hunters and trappers and found that the price of furs was so low that it didn't justify spending the time and energy to bother catching the varmints and concluded to come out and spend a while in the valley, and Mr. Jain came out to see Mr. C. C. Beale who was then in the Butte Falls country but was expected out that day but failed to come out until Monday afternoon so Mr. Jain remained at the Sunnyside until Tuesday afternoon and both of them went out on the Butte Falls stage.
    J. D. Pierce, who has been a regular boarder at the Sunnyside for some time, went to Medford to look after his business interests there and to attend the movies a few times, remaining until Monday evening.
    Died--Friday morning, Jan. 7, at a hospital in Medford, Mrs. Anna Corum, aged about 28 years. She leaves father, mother, two daughters, two sisters and three brothers beside a number of warm friends to sustain the loss. The remains were taken to Butte Falls country for interment Sunday. The funeral services were conducted at the grave by Rev. J. E. Day, the Presbyterian minister of Butte Falls, in the presence of about the largest congregation that has ever attended a funeral in that section.
    While I was writing the above sentence, word came to me that our old citizen and for years our postmaster, A. J. Florey, had just passed away. He was about 82 years of age and leaves two daughters, Mrs. William von der Hellen of Eagle Point and Mrs. Raymond Reter of Medford, and four sons, Chauncey Florey, our county clerk, A. J. Florey, Jr., Theodore and Judge Florey. Mrs. A. J. Florey passed to her reward some two years ago. He also leaves three grandchildren, Joyce and Hugo von der Hellen and Mr. and Mrs. Reter's child.
    Mr. Florey was one of the old veterans of the Civil War. A further notice will be given later as I have not the data to particularize.
    J. L. Robinson, Sr., came in early Monday morning with a pair of geese to be sent out on the jitney but it did not go out until afternoon, and Mr. Hayman, the superintendent of the Cooley orchard, also came in and could not go. The jitney is not very regular or prompt these cold mornings.
    Mike Hanley, one of the pioneers of the valley and a prominent farmer and stockman, came in Sunday evening and spent the night.
    Other business callers Monday were W. C. Pool, Mrs. Fred Dutton, Lawrence Conger, Peter Young and W. E. Hammel. Mr. Hammel had been over to Table Rock to get another load of old ewes that he bought cheap.
    W. E. Buck and S. R. Costello of Medford passed through town on their way home. They had been up to Lake Creek to get two milk goats.
    Mrs. Wm. Shoestring, a niece of Mrs. J. Montgomery of Applegate who has been visiting her aunt, returned to her home Monday and was accompanied by her aunt.
    K. D. Jones of Butte Falls was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage for Medford Monday.
    Lewis Gipson of Reese Creek [and] Mrs. Myrtle von der Hellen were also business callers Monday.
    M. Barnard and his sister came out Monday on the stage for Butte Falls.
    Miss Falldine, the county nurse, also came out and went to Butte Falls Monday and there were three young men came out and went out on the Butte Falls stage.
    Miss Charlotta Patton, traveling solicitor for a Medford concern, came in Tuesday morning on the stage and took a room at the Sunnyside and up to 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon was still canvassing the town.
    Mrs. Peter Betz was also a diner at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    There was a meeting of the stockholders of the irrigation ditch company, who aim to bring water from Big Butte near this section, held at the Reese Creek school house Tuesday to elect new officers for the ensuing year.
    Born--January 11th, in Medford, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vestal of Reese Creek, a seven-pound daughter, and Thomas is the happiest man in the country.
    Mrs. Carl Narregan of Beagle, formerly of this place, was here meeting old time friends and trading at Geo. Brown & Sons store.
    Ira Tungate and Oliver Adams of Butte Falls came out Tuesday and went to Medford.
    Mrs. Price, wife of the contractor who is working on the Hay Creek-Rogue River unit to the highway, was in town Tuesday on her way to Medford to procure a cook for their camp. She reports that they have ten men at work on this road and are getting along fine, as much of their work is rock work.
    Chauncey Florey and his oldest daughter,  Miss Dorothy Florey, were here for supper Tuesday evening, and W. G. Averill spent the night here on his way to Butte Falls.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 15, 1921, page 5


    Wm. Kidd, who has charge of the construction of an irrigating ditch on Rogue River for Thomas F. Nichols and his sister Ruth and J. H. French, was in town last Wednesday and reports that they have gone as far as they can in their work until the water subsides, and that they don't expect to be able to complete the job until spring.
    Mr. Barker, the Butte Falls banker, passed through here Wednesday on his way from Medford home.
    H. E. Sanders, a brother of J. W. Sanders, superintendent of the Antelope orchard, was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage to Eagle Point and then took passage on the Persist stage for Trail.
    Benj. Klingle of Lake Creek was doing business with our merchants here Wednesday afternoon.
    Rudolph Pech, the hustling potato grower, was also transacting business here Wednesday afternoon.
    F. J. Carstens of Medford came out Wednesday evening on the stage and engaged a room and board at the Sunnyside. He is helping Messrs. Fawcett and Campbell on their contract to clear the right of way on the Agate-Trail highway.
    Ira Tungate of Butte Falls also spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    Pearl Stowell, a brother of George Stowell, the chicken king of this section, came out from a Medford hospital where Dr. W. W. P. Holt had performed an operation for him and he reports that he is getting along fine.
    Mr. Hayman, the superintendent on the J. H. Cooley orchard, John Norris, superintendent of the Wilfley orchard and Miss Clea Robinson went to Medford Thursday. Miss Robinson went in to have some dental work done.
    John Walch of Lake Creek, the new road supervisor for that road district, was a business caller Thursday and so was Robert R. Minter of Reese Creek, also J. Wattenburg of the Joe Rader farm on Antelope and Jeff Conover, who lives on the free ferry road eight miles from Eagle Point, and Wesley Butler and his brother-in-law, Arthur Busby.
    Jack Tungate of Butte Falls was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage Thursday. There were other passengers on the same stage but strangers to the writer.
    Fred Pelouze, the hustling farmer and dairyman, was transacting business with our banker, H. E. Campbell. It appears from the number of persons who visit that bank that it must be doing considerable business.
    Wm. Henderson and L. A. Whitley of Prospect spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Mark Applegate and his brother-in-law, name unknown, of Applegate, came out Friday morning on the Butte Falls stage and went up to Trail on the Persist stage. Mrs. J. Doubleday was also a passenger on the Butte Falls stage on her way to her home near Butte Falls.
    L. K. Haak, one of our leading orchardists and dairymen, made a hurried business call Friday. In speaking on the subject of raising fruit in the valley he spoke quite encouragingly of the pear business, but seems to think that there will have to be a cut in the cost of caring for the orchards before there is much profit in the apple business.
    John Greb, another one of our progressive farmers and orchardists, was a business caller Friday.
    A. J. Moen, whose wife is teaching in the Reese Creek school district, was doing business here Friday and so was W. Pool.
    N. G. Brown, Thomas C. Miller and Wig Jacks were diners at the Sunnyside Friday.
    There was advertised to be public speaking here Friday afternoon by George H. Mansfield, the president of the Farm Bureau, and there were quite a number of farmers came in Friday afternoon to hear him, but were disappointed although the members who live close enough to town to get their mail at night (the mail generally arrives here about 5:15 p.m., but since the roads are so rough and muddy it does not always reach here that early), but there were cards sent out Friday evening notifying the members of this, but people living out in the country do not receive their mail until the next day by rural delivery, so they did not get word. Among those who were here that day to hear the speaker were George Given, B. F. Fuller and wife, Ed Dutton, Timmie Dugan, Lester Throckmorton, in addition to some who came in and learned of the change and went right back home. The people out in this neighborhood seem to be well pleased with the working of the Farm Bureau and if the time set for the next meeting should be when the weather is pleasant and the roads half decent there will be a large attendance.
    Mrs. J. F. Maxfield and daughter came in this Saturday morning on the Lake Creek stage. Mrs. Maxfield had been up in the Lake Creek country visiting her mother. She was met here by her husband and went out home about eight miles north of here.
    A. J. Weeks, who owns the old Stewart orchard near Peyton on Rogue River, was a business caller this morning.
    J. L. Hovey, foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, was in town this Saturday morning and reports that there is nothing doing about that irrigation project yet, as they have been busy building another house on the orchard so as to be able to employ married men and have them live on the place as they are more reliable.
    Fritz Pech of Lake Creek came out this morning on the stage from Medford and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Mrs. Merritt and daughter of Reese Creek drove in with a one-horse buggy this morning.
    Scott Bayer, Wm. Holman, Harry and Carl Stanley and Frank Caster were business callers this forenoon.
Medford Mail Tribune, Mon., January 17, 1921, page 5


    One of the largest sheep deals consummated in many months in this section was the purchase last week by the Santa Clara Valley Meat Company of San Francisco of 1000 head of mutton from Wm. Lewis, the Rogue River Valley sheep man, the price ranging from seven to seven and one-half cents, with immediate shipment. The sheep were fed for market and depletes the Lewis flock to approximately 4000. The same company is dickering with stockmen of the valley for heavy shipments of beef cattle. The coming of the California firm is a trade invasion of this field, heretofore largely held by Portland concerns.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 20, 1921, page 2


    A. L. Whitney of Elk Creek and Edgar Wight, one of the leading jewelers of Medford, came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside Saturday evening and they both remained until Monday morning. Mr. Wight spent Sunday in the agate field north of our town gathering agates. He brought a fine lot of agates he has already polished and some of them were not only beauties but were remarkable as curios, one of them being about the size of a half dollar with a complete and perfect letter D almost an inch in diameter.
    Chris Natwick and son Carlyle and H. Somerson were lodgers at the Sunnyside Saturday night and Sherman Wooley and family and Mrs. Wooley's sister, Mrs. Koontz of Butte Falls, were here for supper Saturday evening.
    Mrs. Dr. Holt was a passenger on the stage. She had been over to Medford to superintend the arrangement of a house the doctor has rented. She said they expected to move to Medford in a week or ten days.
    The dance Saturday night was fairly well attended and those who were there reported having had a very pleasant time. There were quite a number of those who attended came in about 3 o'clock a.m. for beds and late breakfast.
    John Foster, one of the mechanics who is working for the Rogue River Canal Company, spent Sunday with us, and in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Derby and three children called for dinner. Mr. Derby was out in the interest of the Medford Auto Company.
    H. C. Mechem of Trail also spent Saturday and Sunday night with us and Edgar Wight, Mr. Mechem, Bernard Smith of Medford, a little boy and your correspondent went to Medford on the 7:15 a.m. stage Monday and among the first things I did after my arrival was to pay my compliments to the office force of the Mail Tribune and found the whole bunch as busy as bees in a sugar barrel, hardly had time to pass the time of day and consequently happy. After my visit to the Mail Tribune office and attending to a little business in the shopping line I began to look around to see who I could see that I knew in the hustling city of Medford, and among the first I met was one of our old townsmen, John Ashpole, who for several years has been a resident of Medford, and while in conversation with him who should come along but John Sevedge, one of the prominent stockmen of years ago, he being a brother-in-law of the late George Isaacs, and then I kept meeting people from all around Eagle Point among whom were Frank Caster, Ed Dutton, Sherman Wooley, Charley Clark, C. C. Beale, Sam Harnish, who is kept in Medford on account of his hand, which he is having treated for blood poison; Mrs. Art Thomas, formerly of this place but now of Central Point, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Peyton, formerly of the station named after him but now of Medford, and last but not least, our old editor of the Democratic Times [Charles Nickell], and he had to give me a little taffy on my continuous writing at my advanced age and told how he enjoyed reading the Eaglets, and referred to the time when he was publishing a weekly paper in Jacksonville some forty years ago or more when I used to write the Butte Creek items for him. In fact it was a great pleasure to meet some of these old war horses of the early days "when we were young," for now a number whom I have mentioned have the sign of age marked on their heads by their grey locks, and it is possible that we all have met for the last time on earth.
    J. P. Going (Agate Jack), who has been employed at the Price camp on the Agate-Trail highway, came in to his old quarters Monday at the Sunnyside.
    J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the fish hatchery, has commenced to build a room where he intends to care for the fish eggs until they can be taken to the Butte Falls hatchery to be cared for until they are ready to be transferred to the different streams.
    Wesley Butler came in with a load of stovewood Tuesday morning.
    Mr. A. G. Morgan, a sister of O. M. Goss of Butte Falls, from Washington, D.C., came out on the stage Tuesday morning on her way to visit her brother.
    Lawrence Conger, R. A. Weidman and Wig Jacks went to Medford to meet the officials of the Fruit Dealers Association, as I understand that that was the time those who had shipped their fruit through the association were to know the result of their shipments.
    J. Wattenberg and Ira Hensley were business callers Tuesday morning.
    A. R. McDonald and wife, who have been visiting in Eugene for several days, returned home Sunday.
    J. W. Berrian, John Allen, the new road supervisor in the Butte Falls road district, Pete Betz and J. W. Hutchinson, who came in and spent Monday night at the Sunnyside, Mr. Carver and son, who are working on the fish hatchery building, and Milton Newman were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Alvin Matthews, Eagle Point, and A. C. Spencer of Butte Falls were here on business Tuesday.
    Graydon Childreth and wife, who have been visiting Mrs. Childreth's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Geppert, near Butte Falls returned home Tuesday. They were accompanied by Mrs. Childreth's sister, Mrs. Josie Carey, and children of Klamath Falls.
    J. W. Cameron of Derby had quite a lot of goods sent up by the mail carrier Tuesday by G. W. Brown & Sons.
    A. H. Dougherty, salesman for Raleigh's goods, was with us Tuesday night and was canvassing the town Wednesday morning.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 24, 1921, page 5


    Mr. Keva Hutchinson and Mrs. Lizzie Nichols of Trail were passengers on the Medford stage to Trail Wednesday morning and Harry D. Coder was also a passenger on the stage for Derby, and D. E. Walker of Medford came out and went up to Long Branch to visit his relative, John Walker.
    Ira Hensley of Wellen was also a business caller Wednesday.
    R. D. Patrick, one of the mechanics who has been working for the Rogue River Canal Co. during the summer and fall, was with us Wednesday and Thursday nights.
    Mrs. W. P. Morgan, who has been visiting her father for the past few days, returned to her home again Wednesday.
    Alvin Conover and Mrs. Walter Wood were doing some shopping with our merchants here Wednesday and so was Mrs. J. Monia of Brownsboro, and Mr. A. J. Moen of Reese Creek and Charles Pettegrew, who has a home on the Crater Lake Highway north of our town.
    Messrs. Hosh and Clery, the two men who have rented the Fred Pelouze place a short distance above town on the Brownsboro road, were doing business with Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, Wednesday. They have secured one of the best hay ranches in this section, as a large part of it is set in alfalfa and [has] an abundant supply of water to irrigate the land and by the use of the proper fertilizers can raise a good supply of hay each year.
    Marsh Garrett of Medford passed through here Wednesday on his way from his ranch in the Lake Creek country. He has one of the best stock ranches in that section and handles a lot of cattle, although he keeps a part of his cattle out in the Dead Indian country, as he has fine property in that section of the country. He has Mr. and Mrs. W. Taylor of this place on the Lake Creek ranch to care for and feed his stock there.
    Mr. Berrian, superintendent of the fish hatchery at Butte Falls, has about completed the construction of his place to deposit the fish eggs to prepare them to be moved to the Butte Falls hatchery so that it is about ready for use, and in a short time that branch of business will be under way in our town.
    R. E. Moore and Ed Dutton were business callers Wednesday. Mr. Moore is the occupant who has the Brown place on Antelope--the old James Malney place--and is preparing to raise a fine crop this coming season and Ed Dutton is our old and efficient road superintendent of former days under the former administration who always kept the mud holes in repair.
    George Kish of Trail, Jeff Brophy of Flounce Rock and D. R. Patrick spent Wednesday night at the Sunnyside.
    Thursday morning C. E. Fabrick, B. F. Redpath and his brother, C. L. Redpath, came in and engaged board and rooms again. They had been out earlier in the season and spent some time pruning the Tronson orchard, but the constant rain made it so disagreeable that they had to lay off, but now as we have had two or three days' sunshine, they have returned and resumed the work.
    Joe Pool, the foreman on the Butte Creek orchard, and Fred Arnes came in Thursday morning on their way to Medford. Mr. Arnes was going in to have a doctor lance a large carbuncle on his neck, and after he had it lanced had to go back again Friday to have it dressed. This is one case showing what we have lost by having our M.D., Dr. Holt, leave us and go to Medford. And while on the subject I may add that here is a fine location for a physician, as there is a vast territory around us, including the Trail, Persist, Butte Falls, Brownsboro, Lake Creek and Wellen country that have to depend almost entirely on Medford and Central Point for medical service. It works a terrible hardship on the people who are in need of such service.
    Peter Young and his sister, Clara, were here Thursday doing shopping.
    R. B. Price and wife were here Thursday. Mr. Price is a contractor with Mr. Rhodes on the unit of the Hog Creek-Rogue River section, and they came in intending to go to Medford, but when they reached here found that the garage men had not finished up the job on their car that had been left, and after taking dinner at the Sunnyside went on their way rejoicing. They also intended to go to the Butte Creek orchard and get a load of apples to take to the camp with the team they drove in. They report that they are getting along nicely with their job on the Crater Lake Highway, and are clearing away the timber and brush on the Rogue.
    Mrs. J. M. Riggings and her daughter, Mrs. E. M. Koenig, formerly of Derby, but now of San Francisco, and Miss Alice Humphrey of Derby came out on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and the two madames went to their old home while Miss Riggings went home.
    Mrs. R. C. Farrier of Lake Creek was also here Thursday and went up to her home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Antone Ring of Trail was here for dinner Thursday and remained overnight, going up home on the Persist stage.
    David Smith and family have moved again, this time from a house belonging to Wm. Perry just above town into the Fred Findley house. Mr. Perry needed the house for his brother-in-law, Percy Haley, and family to live in, as Mr. Haley intends to work for Mr. Perry this season.
    Thos. Cook and N. S. Gowderson of Central Point were passengers on the Butte Falls stage for Medford Thursday.
    John Seiler of Butte Falls came out Thursday afternoon on the Butte Falls stage and went to Medford.
    Carl Richardson of Peyton came out on the stage Thursday evening, spent the night with us and went to Medford Friday on the stage, returned, spent Friday night and went up home Saturday morning, thus taking three days for the trip, when if we had roads that were passable, he could have made the round trip in a day and had time to visit his friends.
    Otto Nichols of Talent went up to Derby on the stage Friday morning.
    I began to think Friday, when I was tramping over the town looking for items of news, that I would make a failure, but I met Wert Pool in Brown's store and one of the Nygrens of Brownsboro in the Ashpole store and about noon Mr. C. B. Millard, one of the auto agents of Medford, and Mr. D. W. Reynolds, one of the Central Point jewelers, and T. G. Bushong, C.O.P.Co., and Charley Delin came in for dinner.
    Messrs. Fawcett and Campbell, the two men who took the contract to clear the right of way on the Crater Lake Highway, finished up their job Friday noon, had their work received and started for Medford. They have been with us for some time as regular boarders.
    A. H. Thompson and wife of Lake Creek came out Friday just to enjoy a ride in the sunshine, but they did a little trading.
    Corbett Smith of Butte Falls was here Friday afternoon on his way to Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 25, 1921, page 5


    A. B. Williams and his brother, J. F. Williams of Central Point, were here on business Saturday on their way to Butte Falls.
    E. M. Koenig of San Francisco was a passenger on the Butte Falls stage for his old home near Derby to meet his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Riggings.
    George F. Wilson, also of Derby, was a passenger going up to his ranch.
    Miss Veria Tonn of Lake Creek and Miss Myrtle Minter, of Reese Creek who are attending the Medford high school, also came out Saturday and went to their homes on the Lake Creek stage.
    J. F. Johnson and family of Reese Creek were patronizing our merchants Saturday, and so was Denney Givan and his brother Thomas Givan, who live west of our town about three miles.
    Saturday afternoon Rev. H. G. King, the representative of the American Sunday School Union, came in and announced that he would hold services Sunday at the close of the Sabbath school and also at night. The attendance was rather small at both services, but he gave us some very good suggestions to meditate upon. He also held services Monday and Tuesday evenings.
    Sunday Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, a shoe dealer of Medford, and Margaret Cook of Willow City, N.D., and F. G. Neldenam of Spokane were here for dinner.
    Sunday afternoon while out taking a walk I met Mrs. J. B. McNicoll of Eagle Point and Mrs. Benj. J. Smith of Los Angeles. They were out taking a walk so that Mrs. Smith could have a good view of Mt. McLoughlin.
    Mr. and Mrs. Smith had come in on Saturday afternoon to make Mr. and Mrs. McNicoll a visit. They were old neighbors in Los Angeles. After visiting over Sunday they took passage on the stage for Medford Monday.
    Ed Burgess of Portland, who is here looking after the interests of Mr. Chas. Delin, a subcontractor on the Crater Lake Highway that is laid out west and north of our town, came in Saturday and engaged board at the Sunnyside. He is very reticent, but from what I can learn from others he has been a foreman on some of the contracts that Mr. Delin has had in other places.
    W. S. Chappell, our shoe man, who has been engaged putting up a sawmill on Trail Creek, came in and reported that they had the mill started and cut out some 1600 feet of lumber Saturday afternoon but they lack power as they expect to use two engines, and one of them is needing a new casting and that he was going to Medford Monday to have it cast at the Medford Foundry.
    Anson Pierce and John Phillips, two of our promising youths who have just finished and passed the eighth grade in our school, started in this week to take the high school course in Medford, and we are satisfied that they will keep climbing right up and will eventually make their mark in the literary world. They are good steady boys who have higher aspirations than to dance and play cards.
    Louis Blaess of Trail was a business caller Monday and was trying to negotiate for a farm in the Wellen district.
    Mr. and Mrs. Carl Narregan of Beagle were in town buying supplies of Geo. Brown & Sons, with whom they traded while living here.
    Thomas Cingcade, who with his brother Charles is farming his father's farm and handling his and their own cattle, was also here patronizing our merchants.
    Mr. and Mrs. John Jehoick, recently from Portland, have moved into the Harnish house and expect to make this place their permanent home. They have come here for Mr. Jehoick's health.
    Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Campbell, our bankers, went to Ashland Sunday and there met two of their old neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Slater of Ferndale, Wash., and brought them home with them and they were still visiting up to this Wednesday morning. The four took dinner at the Sunnyside Monday and Tuesday.
    Frank and Lee Farlow of Lake Creek came out on the stage and went on to Medford Monday morning, returning this morning, and went up home on the Lake Creek stage. Frank said that he had to go to Medford to have a tooth extracted, a fine comment on the advantages the people who live back in the outside section, when in the summertime when the roads are passable they could have gone and had the work done and went back home in time to milk the cows. But such is life in the far West.
    Monday Joseph Geppert, Geo. Albert, Allene Mahoney and another lady unknown to me, Mrs. Sears of Reese Creek, George T. Wilson of Derby were on the mail stage. Mr. Wilson has moved his household goods out and from appearances intends to make a change. There were several others from the country in town that day, among them J. F. Maxfield, Alex Vestal, and Wm. Moore of Butte Falls. Mr. Moore spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    J. W. Webb of Central Point, came out on the Medford stage and went on up to Derby to visit his son, W. E. Webb.
    Fred Pettegrew of Reese Creek was a business caller Tuesday and so were our two county commissioners, James Owens and V. Bursell. They were out here adjusting the claims against the county for damage done by running the Crater Lake Highway through their places, so that they could go around Eagle Point instead of through the town. While the commissioners were here they did not neglect to visit the Sunnyside for dinner. We also had here for dinner Ray Harnish, of Eagle Point, [and] E. N. Eldridge of the Eldridge Dairy and Produce Co., of Medford. Others who were in town Tuesday were Guy Pruett, Frank Haselton, Mr. Weymore, Ed Cowden, P. H. Daily, game and fish warden, and while he was here he appointed Roy Ashpole, one of our hardware merchants, as the man to issue hunting and fishing licenses, so those who desire can purchase them from Roy.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 28, 1921, page 7


    Keva Hutchinson was home for a few days' visit this week. He was exempt from all exams at high school, thus earning a vacation.
    Mr. and Mrs. George Weeks spent Sunday afternoon visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Oscar Stewart returned today after a week's visit in Medford.
    Ralph Watson was badly hurt Monday by a flying ax blade. He was cut just over the eye, causing a deep gash.
    Mrs. Nichols of Prospect spent last week visiting in the valley, returning Thursday on the stage.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent Sunday evening visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Howell of the U.S. fisheries.
    Mrs. Lloyd Leabo and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson visited at the Bar Eight ranch Sunday.
    Floyd Hutchinson is putting a new fence around his house and garden.
Medford Mail Tribune, January 29, 1921, page 3


    Mrs. John Higinbotham and her son Oscar and Mrs. Frank Stevenson of Central Point came out last Tuesday to meet Miss Mildred Patton of Butte Falls and take her home with them to spend a week or ten days visiting. Mr. Higinbotham was formerly a resident of the Butte Falls country and the Higinbothams and Pattons are warm friends.
    Mrs. Carson of Prospect was a passenger on the stage from Prospect.
    The heavy wind the latter part of last week has done some damage in this section and among other things that it did was blowing in a large window, x8 ft., in the front of the von der Hellen hardware store, blowing the flagpole in the school house yard down and overturning some of the outhouses in our town.
    Fred Frideger of Medford came out Tuesday to spend a few days working in his orchard and has been rooming and boarding at the Sunnyside.
    The foregoing items were crowded out of my last letter through lack of space.
    Pete Young, one of the prosperous farmers of this section, was in town Wednesday morning after a load of posts.
    Natty G. Smith of Portland came in Wednesday and engaged board and room for a few days. He is looking for a house to rent, as he wants to move his family down here. He is on a deal for a house but has to wait a day or two to hear from another party who owns the house he wants.
    Ray Cambers, John Holtz, Ernest Peachey, W. L. Jones and George West, all members of the Forest Service force, are boarders at the Sunnyside. They are engaged putting up a new telephone line between Medford and Butte Falls.
    Mr. Downs and Mrs. E. E. Smith of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage Thursday morning.
    D. A. Carey of North Yakima came in a few days ago to visit Mr. and Mrs. McAllister. Mr. Carey and Mr. McAllister were old acquaintances in Nevada when Mr. McAllister was a practicing attorney and Mr. Carey was a court reporter in that state.
    Pearl Stowell, J. H. French and his father-in-law Perry Foster and Ed Spencer were among the diners at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    Frank Rhodes and his partner in the contract for clearing and grading the highway between Hog Creek and the mouth of Indian Creek, Mr. R. B. Price, was in town Thursday taking out fresnoes, scrapers, etc., to be used on the job. They have a good part of the clearing done and considerable of the rock work also done and if we don't have any more rain to keep the ground soft they expect to be able to commence on the grading by the first of the week.
    Mrs. Buel Hildreth came out from her home in Butte Falls Thursday and went out to Mr. Isbell's to assist in caring for his wife, who has been confined to her bed for several months.
    Mrs. C. A. Browning and son of Barlow, Marion County, Oregon, came out Thursday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside taking passage on the stage to the road camp to meet her husband who is one of the mechanics working on the new Rogue River bridge on the Crater Lake Highway this side of Trail.
    R. A. Weidman, one of out hustling farmers and dairy men, has slaughtered six fine porkers and sold them out to the families of our town--a byproduct of the dairy business. They netted him an average of $20.00 each.
    Guy Pruett was a business caller Friday and said that he had dragged the road from his place on to the lower bridge on Little Butte Creek to Agate, just for his own benefit, and found that it was greatly improved as the ground was not baked hard and the drag left it in good condition.
    D. R. Patrick, one of the carpenters of this section, has been with us for the past two or three days. He has a job of re-roofing one of the houses put up about ten or twelve years ago. He say that the acid in the shingles eats the nails off when they are under cover as they are in a shingled roof.
    W. L. Childreth, our blacksmith, went to Ashland Friday and while there secured an electric trip-hammer and also a machine to run an emery wheel, his drill and other appendages for his shop.
    Charley Cingcade and Ed Dutton were business callers Friday afternoon.
    Mrs. J. M. Riggings, who has been up in the Derby country visiting relatives, came out Friday on the Butte Falls stage on her way to her home in San Francisco.
    Mrs. Sherman Wooley and her sister, Mrs. M. R. Koontz, came out Friday on the stage from Corbett Smith's, their brother's farm near Butte Falls, to spend a while in Eagle Point.
    Fred Pettegrew of Reese Creek spent the night at the Sunnyside Friday.
    Mr. Pratt of Reese Creek, Mrs. Lloyd Stanley of Butte Falls, [and] Thomas Cooke of Butte Falls were passengers on the Butte Falls stage this Saturday morning and Mrs. Ray Harnish went up on the Lake Creek stage to visit her sister Mrs. Wm. Holman, and Robert Welch of Prospect went out to Derby to meet the Prospect stage.
    Mrs. C. D. Vroman of Medford, who has been out here visiting her mother, Mrs. Wm. Wright, for the past few days, returned home this Saturday afternoon on the Butte Falls stage.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 1, 1921, page 5


    Mr. and Mrs. Gene Howell left Saturday for their vacation. They intend to visit Mrs. Howell's father, who is very poorly.
    Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent Saturday and Sunday of last week in Medford.
    A seven-pound girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart Wednesday, January 26.
    Mr. Ralph Watson is cutting wood for the Stewart brothers this week.
    Mr. Floyd Hutchinson has been appointed assistant fish culturist at the U.S. fisheries, stationed just above Trail, Ore.
    Mr. Thomas, who is on the Ryan place, has been hauling hay from the Todd ranch.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 3, 1921, page 5


    Last Saturday Louie Blaess, whose home is near the free ferry, was in town and while here was trying to make a deal for a farm lying southeast of here about three miles.
    D. Shellie of Portland and C. E. Moors of Alcatraz, Calif., came in bringing forty-two head of work horses for Charley Delin, subcontractor on the unit beginning at the David Cingcade farm on the edge of the desert and running around Eagle Point to the west and northwest and leaving the town out in the cold to join the unit that Messrs. Rhoades and Price are grading on to where the new Rogue River bridge is to be built. He already had about a dozen head here and now with the addition of these gives him 55 head to care for, for the ground is so wet and soft that he says that he will not be able to do any grading for a week or more after it stops raining, but when he does get to work he will push it right through.
    Earl Hayes, our ex-road supervisor, and Fred Robins came in Sunday afternoon for late dinner. Mr. Hayes said that his wife had gone to Yakima, Wn., to visit her mother and that they were hungry.
    Mr. Dupray, who owns and sometimes operates a sawmill on the P.&E. railroad about five miles from Butte Falls, came in Sunday evening for supper and bed, the next morning he went to Medford on the 7:15 stage, returning that night and the next day went on up to his home.
    W. H. Isbell also came in and spent the night and reported that his wife, Mrs. Clara Isbell, had died that morning after a lingering illness of two years since she was operated on for cancer, aged 65 years and eight months. They have no children so he is left alone in the world. He wishes to express his thanks to the neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted during her long illness. The remains were interred Monday in the Central Point cemetery.
    J. M. Donahue, a traveling man of Portland, a friend of Geo. H. Wehman, came in Sunday and spent a few days at the Sunnyside with him.
    Orville Childreth, son of our blacksmith, W. L. Childreth, who has been working at Eugene, came in the first of the week to pay a visit to his father and brother and family here and sister in Medford.
    Mrs. J. F. Brittsan, wife of Rev. J. F. Brittsan, came in Monday on the stage and was met here by her son, E. V. Brittsan, and went out to the ranch on Rogue River. Her husband was already there.
    L. K. Haak, one of our leading farmers and dairymen, was a business caller Monday.
    Mr. Moen, C. E. Bellows and wife and Charley Delin were here for dinner Monday. Mr. Delin has some of his teams engaged hauling out culvert pipe from Central Point to be used on the Crater Lake Highway when they can get to grading. In addition to those named we had as visitors Monday A. G. Bishop, Mr. Hickson, Alex Vestal, Pete and Nick Young, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Esch, Timmie Dugan and in fact quite a number who came in to hear the speaking that had been announced for that afternoon. Among the speakers were D. H. Flaherty, Geo. A. Mansfield, Charles Moran and Miss Florence Pool. Mr. Flaherty was the first speaker and he entertained us by explaining a chart he had prepared showing the great advantage to the farmers to be derived by doing business through the Farm Bureau. He spoke for 30 minutes and then Mr. Mansfield called on Miss Florence Pool to say something, something after the order of an old fashioned Methodist love-feast, and she arose in her place and gave us a very short talk but spoke so low that I was unable to understand and then Mr. Mansfield commenced his speech, explaining some of the workings and plans of the Farm Bureau, showing how the farmers were virtually held up and robbed by those entrusted to do the business for them, illustrating it by the way the stock business had been and to a great extent is now done. A speculator will undertake to help the farmer by taking a car of hogs or cattle to Portland and sell them on a certain commission, charging the farmer with the expense of transportation and when he reaches the market sells to another speculator, etc. And by the time the two speculators have taken our their commission, expenses, freight, etc., and the poor farmer receives his money he finds that if he had sold direct to a home buyer that he would have received quite a lot more than he did by sending them by an unscrupulous or inexperienced speculator. But Mr. Mansfield represented it in such a light that it was not only much better to deal with a complete organization that did business on a business basis and business rules, claiming that the Farm Bureau was just the thing that was needed to put the farmer on his feet, but did not fully explain how the farmer was fully protected against the tricks of unscrupulous men. To be sure he told us how the Farm Bureau was organized and controlled by a vote of the members, but there still seemed to be something lacking. Mr. Mansfield is a very fluent speaker and can hold the attention of an audience and did hold the one at Eagle Point for about two hours and said a great many good things. Among other things he tried to show how about everything the farmer produced was run through the cream separator and the cream went to Wall Street and the separated milk was distributed among the farmers.
    He was followed by Mr. Moran and he explained how the budget was to be divided: In the first place the plan is to secure 1000 members and each one pays $5.00 initiation fees, making $5000, and that it is to be divided with the different divisions and subdivisions to pay for the upkeep of the county district and state bureaus, but he spoke so low that I could not catch his figures. He was then followed by some of the ladies who asked questions for Mr. Mansfield to answer.
    There was a good attendance, considering the roads and weather, for it was stormy in the forenoon, but if Mr. Mansfield will set a date when the roads are good and the weather is pleasant I feel safe in saying that he will be greeted by a large audience.
    Miss Berry Sears of Reese Creek, who is attending the Medford high school, came out and went up home Tuesday.
    Louis Tonn of Lake Creek came out Monday and went to Medford to do trading, returning Tuesday, and then went up home on the Brownsboro stage, and N. G. Smith also went to Lake Creek on the same stage just to look at the country.
    Geo. Kish and R. B. Price were in town Tuesday after some of the tools to be used on the highway and while on his way home Mr. Price lost his overcoat.
    Jeff Brophy of Flounce Rock spent Tuesday night at the Sunnyside.
    Pete Young came in Tuesday after a load of fence posts. There seems to be quite a demand here for fence posts, as the Crater Lake Highway is being laid out through quite a number of farms and orchards.
    R. D. Henson and W. P. Smith of the Klum Adv. Co. were out Tuesday posting bills and took dinner at the Sunnyside, and so did Ed Cook and A. B. Ashley of Butte Falls.
    W. E. Hammel and wife of Reese Creek and Ira Tungate of Butte Falls came out on the Butte Falls stage and went on to Medford the same day.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 7, 1921, page 6


    Last Wednesday Geo. Stowell, the egg king of this section of the country, was a business caller. Although I did not talk with him and do not know how he is getting along with his hen business, I suppose that by this time he is getting quite a quantity of hen fruit daily.
    Since the election, and we have had a new mayor and some new members added to the city council, after a few efforts the mayor succeeded in securing a quorum and transacted some business. The new council now consists of H. E. Campbell, mayor, Mrs. Clem MacDonald, recorder, W. H. Brown, J. F. Brown, Wm. von der Hellen, holdovers, Mrs. W. H. (Mattie) Brown, and Clem McDonald, who was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. W. W. P. Holt, who has moved to Medford, and the sixth member of the council, Mrs. W. C. Clements, who was elected at the last election, has failed to qualify, and the council has appointed Wilbur Jacks as town marshal. From what I can learn about all that has been done so far is to organize and fill the two vacancies.
    Mrs. Ed Tucker and daughter, Miss Myrtle of Brownsboro, were here trading Wednesday. Miss Myrtle is attending business college in Medford, but feeling a little indisposed came home to recruit up under a mother's care.
    Willard Heryford of Butte Falls came out Wednesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside and so did Andy Pool, one of the Forest Service corps. He came to join the others who are boarding here and working on a telephone line they are putting up between Medford and Butte Falls. It is the plan to have a through line from Medford to Butte Falls and then have the lines radiating out from there to all the outposts in the district.
    Mrs. Walter A. Smith arrived from Portland Wednesday afternoon to meet her husband, Walter A. Smith, who has been stopping at the Sunnyside for the past week. He has secured a position on the J. M. Wilfley orchard and moved there Friday morning.
    Miss Eula Houston, who is teaching the Trail school, also was a guest here Wednesday night and went to Medford on the 7:15 stage. Jeff Brophy of Flounce Rock was a guest at the Sunnyside.
    Dr. W. W. P. Holt moved his family and household goods to Medford Wednesday and Thursday.
    John Zimmerlee of Trail came out Thursday and reports that they have the sawmill in operation but are not doing much as yet as it takes time to get everything in running order.
    Owing to the condition of the roads the mail carriers on the Eagle Point-Derby route have had to resort to pack horses to take the mail through and the driver said that he wore out a set of tires every two weeks on his auto.
    John Thurm of Portland was here for dinner Thursday.
    Floyd and Claus Charley of Brownsboro were business callers Thursday and so was Mrs. J. D. Arnes and her brother Joe Pool. Mrs. Arnes is the wife of the foreman on the Edgell orchard and Mr. Pool is the foreman on the Butte Creek orchard. Benj. Whetstone and Mr. Haymond, the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard, were also business callers Thursday.
    Mrs. John Miller and daughter, Miss Myrtle of Lake Creek, came out on the Lake Creek stage Thursday and later in the day the mail carrier, Mr. Staub, after taking the mail to Lake Creek, came back and took them on to Medford.
    C. H. Natwick, one of the contractors on the Pacific Highway, spent Thursday night with us.
    Thursday morning as I was on my way to the post office and making my regular rounds for items to make up the Eaglets I met George Phillips and he remarked that a young cyclone had struck Ernest Dahack's barber shop and carried it across the street, turning it around so as to have it face the street, and when I reached the place where the barber shop stood found that everything had been taken off, even to the rocks for a foundation, but when I came to examine the building I found it was sitting on several round poles. It appears on inquiry that when Mr. Dahack bought the house and fixtures of Mr. Slusser that he bought it with the understanding that he, Mr. Slusser, had a lease on the lot from A. J. Florey, since deceased, and after his death one of the heirs to the estate wanted to sell the lot to Dahack asking what he thought was an exorbitant price, whereupon Mr. Florey notified him, verbally, to buy or get out, whereupon while the said heir was in Medford a party consisting of some say 25 or 30 men tore up the board sidewalk and put the house and all pertaining to it across the street. The barber was working in his shop up to 9 o'clock that night. Mr. Dahack came in and bought the shop and business in good faith and has been to several dollars expense putting it in condition for business, arranged a bathtub, hot and cold water system and had a 1650 [gallon] tank about ready to put up and having everything convenient, and was giving general satisfaction, but his plans were frustrated to a great extent. He is now going ahead fixing up his shop and intends to secure land where he has put the house and make a permanent business of it. He seems to have a large number of friends here and is very popular as a barber.
    W. E. Hammel and wife, who went to Medford a few days ago, returned to Eagle Point Thursday and had to phone home for a team to take them home on account of the mail stage having to stop going.
    R. B. Price, the contractor who advertised in the Mail Tribune for an overcoat he lost, was in town Friday and reports that he has not found his coat yet.
    Herman Meyer, Sr., of Lake Creek was a business caller Friday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson of the Patton & Robinson company, selling trucks, tractors, etc., in Medford.
    Mrs. Peterson of Trail came out Thursday afternoon with her husband, E. V. Peterson, the mail contractor, went to Medford and had some dental work done and returned to the Sunnyside that night. Mr. Peterson stops here when he is on this end of his route.
    Wm. Perry, our road supervisor, and wife went to Medford Friday.
    Gordon Cox of Trail came out Friday to have his horses shod. He has been working on the Crater Lake Highway near Trail.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 8, 1921, page 5


    Mrs. Lloyd Leabo has moved to the Blaess ranch.
    There was a meeting at Trail Tuesday on the Farm Bureau. It was well attended, the speaker coming out from town. Many of the farmers came a great many miles to attend.
    Mr. Van Heffner made a business trip to Hall's mill Saturday.
    Mr. Jim Leabo took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hutchinson Sunday, spending the afternoon with them.
    Mr. and Mrs. Van Heffner spent Sunday afternoon visiting with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson.
    Mr. Ralph Watson is sawing wood for Dave Pence this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 10, 1921, page 5


    There were quite a number of people in town Saturday, the day I wrote my last letter for the Mail Tribune. Among them was Walter A. Smith, the man who came from near Portland and has moved onto the Wilfley orchard, with his family, and John Norris, the foreman on the orchard, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Meyer, the poultry raisers, and Pete Betz. Although that being one of my days to write the Eaglets I am unable to tell definitely all that did transpire that day.
    Sunday was a fine day. We had no rain of consequence and there was nothing of special interest transpired unless it was that a number of Ernest Dahack's friends collected together that day and put his barber shop some few feet back so as to have it out of the street. His father, Eli Dahack, had been helping him get the foundation ready, so now he has his shop all leveled up again and the electric wires connected up again so that he can not only have light but power to operate his hair clippers. The electric light men came out Tuesday to connect up the wires that afternoon but found that they would have to put up an extra light pole so postponed the job until this forenoon.
    Saturday night there was a company of about twenty or twenty-five met at the house on Oak Hill belonging to Frank Brown and had a little social dance. There was a scarcity of ladies but the men who went from the Sunnyside reported having had a very joyful time. Harry Hayes of Indian Creek furnished the music.
    There was another social party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stanley, where they spent the evening in social chitchat and card playing.
    In spite of the rain, mud and rough roads the Medford people will come out, just for pleasure, and Sunday we had as dinner guests Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Trowbridge and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Isbell of Medford and later in the day Mr. C. C. Cate, our county pathologist, and Mr. Wm. Shulmerich of Hillsboro came in and Mr. Shulmerich engaged a room for a few days as he is here in the interest of the Farm Bureau. He is canvassing the state organizing local bureaus in every community.
    Monday was a rather lively day in our little town as it is one of the two days in each week when one of the creamery men of Medford calls and collects the cream that is brought in from the surrounding country, and in addition to that the local ditch company of Eagle Point held their annual meeting to discuss the various subjects that have arisen since the last meeting, and to elect their officers for the ensuing year. They met according to a call by the secretary, H. B. Tronson, in Frank Lewis' pool room at 2 p.m. and were called to order by the president, J. H. Cooley, and after the reading and approval of the minutes of the last meeting proceeded to transact the regular business of the meeting. During the discussion of the various topics the question came up with regard to the waste or overflow water, as some of them who live on the lower end of the ditch complain that sometimes their land is flooded and at other times there would be a scarcity of water, but it was finally decided that those who were thus troubled with a surplus of water would have to provide overflow ditches to protect themselves.
    During the course of the proceedings the question came up with regard to the amount of expense the different ones should bear and under the by-laws as they stood the payment was to be according to the number of shares they held in the ditch, and some of them thought that the large shareholders were paying too much so they decided that they would change the by-laws and have each one pay according to the amount of land he had under the ditch, and then it was voted to employ a surveyor and have each one's land surveyed and have them pay accordingly.
    They held their annual election and elected the old president and secretary J. H. Cooley and H. B. Tronson and Roy Stanley as vice president, and Wm. Perry as watermaster. For directors Wm. Perry, H. B. Tronson, Roy Stanley, Wilbur Jacks and J. H. Cooley.
    The Farm Bureau men took advantage of the situation and remained until the latter part of the day and went home with C. E. Bellows.
    Mrs. John Miller and her daughter of Lake Creek, who went out to Medford last week, returned Monday and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Carl Bieberstedt was a business caller Monday, and so were Guy Pruett, E. V. Brittsan, Ira Hensley and his brother-in-law Shorty Allen of Wellen, W. E. Hammel, L. K. Haak, W. H. Crandall, Thos. Vestal.
    John Rader of Wellen, and A. C. Spence of Brownsboro, were business callers Tuesday and C. H. Natwick and son Carlyle, who have been finishing a contract on the Pacific Highway above Ashland, came in Tuesday and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    We also had three persons here Monday who were soliciting for the Western Farmer and offering a series of maps as a premium. They were Mr. and Mrs. R. S. McClennon and S. H. Lewis. They worked the crowd to a finish and succeeded quite well. The lady tackled your Eagle Point correspondent on sight and talked so fast and was so persistent in her plea that it almost turned my head, but I finally told her that I did not want the map and would not yield, but she seemed to be meeting with some success, but Mr. Lewis remained until later in the day and sold quite a number. They all took dinner at the Sunnyside and later in the day J. J. Cador, Derby, and William Moore of Butte Falls came in and spent the night.
    Louis Blaess and Charley Delin and W. Stinson and H. Buchter, two electric light men who connected up the barber shop today, Wednesday, and I. B. Millard, salesman for an auto house in Medford, were here for dinner today.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 11, 1921, page 7


    We had a meeting of the town council on Tuesday night, Feb. 8th, and Mrs. Lottie Van Scoy was appointed as town treasurer in the place of Roy Ashpole, our old treasurer, who refused to act in that capacity any longer, as he has already been in that office for six years. The council also appointed Ernest Dahack to fill the vacancy caused by Mrs. W. C. Clements refusing to qualify as council woman. They also authorized George Holmes to repair the suspension bridge and place two extra bents under the center of each span, and set new posts on the south side of the creek in place of the old ones as they are partially decayed and one of them has given way so as to let one side of the bridge drop down, making it more difficult for a person to walk across on it. The new mayor, H. E. Campbell, has started the move to beautifying the town by planting a row of trees on each side of the street running from the main street (the old county road) to the depot. There was also a move to secure a tract of land just below the wagon bridge for a park and camping ground as the tract of land donated to the town by W. Hart Hamilton has been forfeited on account of the town failing to comply with the contract, i.e., clear up and improve and beautify the tract so as to make it appear like a park.
    Mrs. Leona Roberts, William Welch and William Moore, all of Butte Falls, came out Tuesday afternoon on the Medford-Butte Falls stage and went on to Medford.
    Mrs. Fred Dutton of Wellen and Noble Zimmerman, who is spending the winter with his parents, A. B. Zimmerman, in the vicinity of the Blue Canyon, walked out Tuesday, took dinner at the Sunnyside, went to Medford the same day, attended to his business returned the next day and spent the night here and went up home the next day on the stage.
    Rudolph Pech, the potato king of the Lake Creek country, came out on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday morning and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Frank Swingle of Ashland was here the first of the week visiting his old neighbor, Mr. McAllister and family, also combining business with pleasure.
    Mr. Cummings, the water boss of this section, was out Wednesday and took dinner with us. He did not tell his business.
    J. Harry Carlton and brother Herbert of Wellen were business callers Thursday and so was A. M. Gay. He has been looking after one bunch of Wm. Lewis' sheep and reports that the coyotes and dogs have been killing quite a number of sheep for him.
    Robert R. Minter, formerly one of the sheep men of this section, was in town Thursday getting supplies from our merchants.
    J. Wattenberg, who is farming the Joe farm on Antelope Creek, was also doing trading with our merchants. I inquired of him as to whether the continuous rain had injured the early sown grain and he replied that on the ground where the water did not stand it looks fine but where the land was very flat so that the water stood on it that it was injured some.
    E. Millit came in and engaged board. He is going to have charge of the rock work and placing the culverts on the unit between the desert and Hog Creek for Charley Delin, the subcontractor. The report is current here that the man or men who took the contract to build the bridge across Antelope, Butte Creek and other streams along the Crater Lake Highway between here and where they are already building the Rogue River bridge near Trail, have thrown up the contract as their bid was several thousand dollars less than the estimate by the civil engineers, forfeiting the money they put up as security for the fulfillment of the contract.
    Miss Winifred Haak started to come to town on business Thursday but her car failed to go so she started on foot, nothing daunted, and was picked up by one of our townsmen and brought in and the next day she and her father went to Medford in their car.
    Abe Wiese and Nick Young were also business callers Thursday and so was Sam Courtney, our painter and paperhanger.
    Mrs. McKissick was out from Medford Thursday. She is the wife of the civil engineer who seems to have charge of that part of the work on the contemplated water ditch coming from Butte Falls out of Big Butte Creek. She tells me that they expect to move back into our town about next Tuesday. They expect to occupy the Dr. Holt house now owned by John Miller of Lake Creek.
    Charles W. Isaac of Medford and W. B. Lindsley of Grants Pass called for dinner Friday. They are working in the interest of the Farm Bureau. Mr. Lindsley is canvassing the country above here on Little Butte.
    Mrs. Thos. Cingcade was shopping here Friday.
    Wm. Shulmerich of Hillsboro, who has been canvassing this part of the country securing members to the Farm Bureau, came in Friday and spent the night. He reports that he has secured 57 new members in addition to those in this neighborhood who have already joined. Mr. L. A. Whitley of Flounce Rock also came in and spent Friday night at the Sunnyside.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 15, 1921, page 5


    The latter part of last week there was a company of four called at the Sunnyside to make a short visit for friendship's sake; they were Miss Heisman, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell of the Earl Fruit Co., Medford, and J. A. Hittson of Medford.
    Sam Courtney was also a business caller engaging in work in his line of business, paperhanging and painting. He has spent the most of the summer and fall in California, but came home to do some work on his homestead.
    T. T. Taylor & wife, who have been on the Marsh Garrett place on Lake Creek looking after and feeding Mr. Garrett's stock, came out the last of last week and spent a few days with his mother, Mrs. W. W. Taylor, returning last Monday.
    Mrs. E. R. Jones, formerly Mrs. Ragsdale, and daughter Miss Bessie Downing of Lake Creek, who have been visiting relatives in Medford, came out on the Butte Falls stage Saturday and went on up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    T. C. Barry, who is living on the old John Obenchain place on the Brownsboro-Butte Falls road, came out Saturday, the first time he has been out for some months. He has been busy killing off rodents.
    Gordon Cox of Lake Creek was here having some repair work done on his hack.
    Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Riley, who live on Antelope Creek, were business callers also Saturday.
    J. E. Leabo and Loris Martin of Trail came out Saturday evening on the Eagle Point-Persist stage and on the way out Mr. Peterson, the mail contractor, had the misfortune to break down his machine about four miles out from Eagle Point and it took him all day Sunday to repair the break and get his auto into Eagle Point. In addition to the constant downpour of rain all day Sunday he ran his auto into Hog Creek and the water was so deep that it flooded the engine and it took him several hours before he got it out and in running order again and the result was that he did not reach the Sunnyside until after dark, and he didn't have a dry garment on him for he had to wade in water above his knees, but after he reached here he was soon supplied with dry clothing and made comfortable. The mail carriers in this section of the country surely earn all they get out of their contracts, especially in the winter.
    In addition to those mentioned in the last paragraph we had also as lodgers A. A. Smith of Butte Falls and Fred Pettegrew of Reese Creek, and Fred Pettegrew and Loris Martin remained over Sunday night and Mr. Martin was met here Tuesday evening by his partner, George Fisher. They have been living on the headwater of Trail Creek trapping during the winter and George brought out a fine lot of furs, the result of their winter's work. They both went out to Jacksonville this Wednesday afternoon to go to work for Chris Natwick on a job he has on the Jacksonville-Applegate road.
    There was the usual semi-monthly dance here Saturday night and I learned that there was a good attendance.
    O. O. Wingfield of Weed, California came in Sunday evening and engaged a room for the night and went out to see a party who lives here in our town, leaving on the 7:15 stage for Medford, but he assured me that he saw the party and arranged business satisfactorily. Mr. H. Pambow of Medford also came in Sunday and has remained here up to this Wednesday afternoon. He expects to get a job on the Crater Lake Highway as soon as the ground settles so that they can move the dirt.
    Charley Delin, the subcontractor to do the grading on the Crater Lake Highway between the Cingcade farm and Hog Creek, is getting his tools and men ready to begin as soon as the ground settles. He had a long train of wheel scrapers brought out Monday that he has had shipped from a point in California where he has had a contract to move dirt.
    Verna Matthews, C. E. Bellows and Mr. Moen of Reese Creek were business callers Monday and Mr. Bellows told of his experience taking Mr. Schulmerich, the Farm Bureau man, out through the Derby country and to the free ferry, where the sticky mud is so deep that a horse can hardly wallow through it much less haul a load.
    Lucius Kincaid of Prospect, who has been working on the unit between the site for the new bridge across Rogue River and Trail, came in Sunday night and spent the night, going on to Medford on the 7:15 stage.
    A. A. Smith of Butte Falls and Thomas Vestal and wife and baby of Reese Creek and Rudolph Pech of Lake Creek came out on the stage Monday and went on to their homes on the different stages.
    Mrs. Cal Thomason of Medford came out Monday evening and spent the night with her aunt, Mrs. Walters, and went up to Butte Falls Tuesday morning on the stage to visit her son.
    W. G. Averill of Butte Falls came in Tuesday evening and spent the night and so did Gus Norman of Trail. Mr. Averill went home this morning on the stage and Mr. Norman took passage on the early stage for Medford.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 18, 1921, page 7


    G. E. Edler and Miss Celia McAllister of Lake Creek called last Wednesday for dinner and then went on to Medford the same afternoon and Mr. Edler returned this Saturday morning on the 9:15 stage and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    There were three of the electric men of the California-Oregon Power Company came out Wednesday morning to connect up an electric motor for W. L. Childreth in his blacksmith shop as he has installed an electric hammer and grinding apparatus and in addition to hitch up his drill, thus doing away with a vast amount of hand labor and also saving a lot of time at a nominal expense. He is expecting to do a good business this spring and summer. From force of habit the three men all came to the Sunnyside for dinner.
    K. E. Hodgman, state deputy civil engineer, and K. E. Hall, his companion of Salem, were also here for dinner Wednesday.
    There were also two strangers here for dinner the same day but I failed to learn their names.
    Pete Young, one of our prosperous readers of the Medford Mail Tribune and hustling farmers, and Ed Coy of Medford were also here Wednesday. Mr. Coy was out visiting his father-in-law, W. L. Childreth, and family.
    Wednesday evening when the Medford stage came in it was just about loaded, for in addition to the mail and parcel post there were Charles Boardman, wife and five children. They spent the night at the Sunnyside and the next morning went on up to Butte Falls where Mrs. Boardman expects to visit her father, Mr. Trefren of that place.
    Howard Heryford of Butte Falls also spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    F. J. Ayres of Reese Creek was among the few business callers Thursday morning.
    Sam Courtney, our painter, also came in Thursday and engaged board and room and went to work on a job for our banker, Mr. H. E. Campbell.
    Our new city council has started the ball rolling to beautify and clean up our town, and the mayor, Mr. Campbell, and some of the members of the council are setting an example by planting a row of trees along each side of the street going from the county road to the depot and have commenced to clean up some of the worst-looking places and I learned today, Saturday, that the mayor was about to issue a proclamation to the citizens of the town setting a day as cleanup day with an order for everyone to clean up their premises, and I noticed this afternoon as I was on my rounds that our blacksmith has already begun to clean up around his shop, improving the appearance of the place very materially. We are inclined to give the lady member of the council credit for a great deal of the agitation on the subject of cleanup-and-keep-clean movement.
    Henry French, one of our prosperous farmers and dairymen, brought in quite a lot of trees to be planted in our town and our barber, Ernest Dahack, who is also a member of the council, went out with his team and brought in a quantity of young maple trees to be planted along the streets and a tract of land the town expects to secure for a park and camping ground.
    Mr. McKissick has moved into the Dr. Holt house, making one more addition to our community of the right type.
    Pliney Leabo of Trail came out on the Persist stage Friday evening and took a room at the Sunnyside and D. R. Patrick, our carpenter, also returned to his room at the Sunnyside and is doing some work in his line for Frank Brown, one of our merchants.
    Charley Delin came out Friday and brought out some more men and fixtures. He and his men are taking their meals at the Sunnyside and he expressed the hope that he would be able to commence work on his contract next month but the weather looks, this Saturday afternoon, like he might have to put off starting until later, as the ground is so wet that it is very difficult to do something with it.
    I met a man by the name of Adams, who has been working with the Rhodes and Price gang, and he reported that they commenced to move dirt and in the course of two hours had their teams bogged down, for while it looks as though the ground could be worked by the time the dirt is dragged and trampled over a few times it becomes soft and boggy. These contractors are having a hard time this winter on account of so much rain.
    There were two men here from Alaska for dinner Friday and while they told some interesting experiences while in the "land of the midnight sun" requested me not to mention their names as they wished to avoid publicity.
    There has been another change in real estate in our town, Mr. A. H. Thomson of Lake Creek, the merchant, having bought what is known as the McQuoid place in our town, which belonged to Mr. McQuoid, Sr., who died some months ago in Oakland, Calif.
    Mr. Mills, formerly superintendent of the Butte Falls mill, and Mrs. R. M. Richardson came out Friday on the stage from Butte Falls, and Mrs. Richardson went on out to Medford to get a son and daughter, returning this Saturday morning and going up to her home.
    L. Conger and Herman Meyer, Jr., going to Medford.
    Mrs. Gus Nichols kindly gave me the item Friday evening that there were about twenty-five of Wm. Perry's friends and neighbors gave him a surprise party Wednesday evening where they spent the time in a very pleasant way until midnight when they all wished him many more and happy birthdays.
    Mrs. Merritt and son of Reese Creek were shopping in our town Friday.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 23, 1921, page 7


    Jack Goin, the agate man, arrived from Marshfield Saturday and took his room in the Sunnyside where he had been to visit his mother. While away he disposed of quite a lot of agates in the rough, and bought a part of the machinery to put in his shop that he intends to open here. He has here already some 200 pounds of agates that he has picked up on the agate fields around here.
    F. E. Edler of Lake Creek, who went to Medford during the week, returned Saturday and went up home on the Lake Creek stage.
    Wm. Perry, our new road supervisor, and wife went out to Mrs. Perry's parents, F. J. Ayres, Saturday morning.
    Fred Pettegrew, W. H. Crandall, W. S. Baker were among the business callers Saturday.
    Thomas Cook and wife of Butte Falls moved into the Thomas house Saturday, and Mrs. Joseph Geppert and Miss Hogan, who is teaching her third or fourth school term in the Crater Lake school district, came out on the Butte Falls stage and went out to Medford the same day. Mrs. Cal Thomason of Medford, who had been spending a few days visiting friends and relatives in Butte Falls, also came out on the stage and brought her son with her.
    Miss Joyce von der Hellen of our town also went to Medford Saturday to take in the show and visit friends.
    Sunday morning came with a drenching rain and the rain continued about all day causing the streams to rise very rapidly but doing no damage that I have heard of any further than to put everything in the working line on another standstill, and the farmers are fearing for their spring crops. Our Sunday school was very lightly attended on account of the heavy downpour. But in spite of the rain, mud and rough roads we had here Mr. H. A. Von Scoyoc and his two daughters, Misses Margaret and Vora of Medford, stopped here for dinner and then went on up to Lake Creek. We also had for supper Mr. and Mrs. Ira Tungate and son and O. M. Hughes and A. M. Oden of Butte Falls. After supper there was a company went to Medford and among them were the two Hughes boys and Mr. Oden, Ira Tungate and wife, but Mr. Tungate returned to the Sunnyside, leaving Mrs. Tungate in Medford to have some dental work done.
    Sunday evening P. B. Parham and F. C. Drews of Portland came in and took rooms. They are railroad men of Portland who came out to spend three days in our agate fields. They are both in the employ of the O.W.R.&N. Co. Mr. Drews is head timekeeper in the Portland office, he being a pioneer railroad man as he has worked for the same company for the past 32 years continuously, and while he is an old railroad pioneer, he is not an old man and dearly loves to get out and romp over the prairie and gather agates just for the love of the sport. He has a very large selection in his cabinet running into thousands and his friend, Mr. Parham, is also very fond of such curios as agates, shells, etc. They remained here until Tuesday noon going out on the Butte Falls stage, taking with them about all the rocks they could handle. They are both planning to come out again next summer and spend several days, bringing their families with them. In speaking of the agate industry in Portland they made the statement that the agate trade amounted to $250,000 a year.
    John Foster, one of our old boarders of years ago, came out Sunday and remained until after supper.
    Carl von der Hellen of Wellen came in on the Eagle Point stage Monday morning.
    Mrs. Wm. Beale and Miss Hogan, the Crater Lake school teacher, came out and went up on the Butte Falls stage Monday.
    Marshall Minter came in Monday on his way to Medford but stopped long enough to have his horse he was riding shod.
    Dick Daley and family of Fort Jones, Calif., was shaking hands with his old-time friends. Dick is one of the Medford boys whose mother may well feel proud of him.
    I was about to overlook the item that we had a charivari party in our town Sunday night. Mr. Lemmie R. Cook and Alice Ray of Fort Klamath came out to set up housekeeping in the McQuoid house recently sold to A. H. Thomson of Lake Creek, and the result was their friends gave them a little social.
    Mesdames Rosa Smith, Jessie Hammel, and Mattie Courtney called on the Sunnyside proprietor and daughter Monday afternoon.
    Tuesday morning Mr. J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery, and son H. J. Berrian accompanied by Mr. Hand from Kansas came out from Medford to look after the fish eggs he has in process of hatching. He has not been as successful catching fish as was desired on account of the changeable weather and high water, but he has a nice lot of eggs already and he and his son were removing the non-fertile eggs from the vats, explaining that the dead or non-fertile eggs would decay and the fertile eggs would adhere to them and thus cause them to die. He is required to keep an account of the number of eggs he takes and the number of non-fertile eggs he takes out of the vats and make a monthly report of every incident connected with the entire process.
    Dr. Holt, formerly our local doctor but now of Medford, came out Tuesday morning to see Mrs. J. W. Hovey, one of his old patients.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 26, 1921, page 5


    When I finished writing last Wednesday I found that I had quite a number of items jotted down that I had not written up but also discovered that I had already written enough for one letter so left them for the next.
    Some twenty or more of the ladies of our town met on Thursday, the 17th, at the home of Mrs. J. Frank Brown and organized the Ladies Improvement Club of Eagle Point by electing Mrs. Clem MacDonald, our town recorder and school clerk, as president and Mrs. Mattie Brown as secretary-treasurer. Light refreshments were served and they were entertained by Mrs. Amy Brown. After spending a while very pleasantly they adjourned to meet on next Tuesday, March 3, at the home of Mrs. W. C. Clements, where the club will be entertained by Mrs. H. E. Campbell and Mrs. Clements. As I understand the object of the organization is to keep an eye on the general appearance of the town and suggest any improvements needed to beautify the town and render it a more desirable place to live in and to have a good social time together telling of the virtues and good qualities of their fellow citizens.
    Pete Betz came in Tuesday the 22nd and brought John Howard, one of the old Civil War veterans, with him who went on out to Medford with Dr. Holt the same day, returning on Thursday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    C. A. Pickle also came for dinner Thursday. He was out reading the meters for the electric company. S. E. Tubbs and Charley Brown of Medford and Mr. McCabe of Reese Creek were here for dinner the same day. Charley Brown was out trying to find someone he could supply with a Fordson tractor.
    Mr. L. Hogan of Portland came out Thursday on the Trail stage and remained with us until Friday afternoon.
    Mr. McKissick and F. G. High of Ashland were here for dinner. They are in the employ of E. N. Norton Motor Co. of Ashland. Harry D. Cader was also among the guests at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    Our town was visited Thursday by a small band of gypsies who were holding up the citizens they met in order to tell their fortunes. There was one of our prominent farmers in town that day and I learned that one of them relieved him of fifty cents as compensation for telling his fortune. Our town marshal was too busily engaged otherwise to look after such trifling incidents so they carried on their traffic unmolested.
    Ray Davis of Derby, C. M. Speck and C. J. Brommer were also here for dinner Thursday. Messrs. Speck and Brommer were canvassing this part of the country for fat hogs and veal calves for the Farm Bureau.
    Charles Renard and little boy were also diners at the Sunnyside. Mr. Renard was around taking orders for groceries to be delivered in the future. Charley Givan came in Thursday and brought six sacks to the Sunnyside.
    J. H. Trusty, Sr., of Elk Creek came out Thursday and went right on out to Medford with a drummer from San Francisco.
    Dr. J. F. Reddy and Robert Whitland of Portland and P. G. Nims, also of Portland, were here for dinner Thursday and Dr. Reddy and T. J. Tull were here for dinner Friday. They seem to be interested in the construction of the unit of the Crater Lake Highway from the desert on the David Cingcade place to Hay Creek, although Charley Delin seems to have charge of that branch of the business. He has now ten men working on the contract and expects to put on a full force as soon as the weather and ground settles so that he can work to advantage. He has a force of six men working on the hill north of Eagle Point on a rock ridge. He commenced to grade down the Cingcade hill, where he is to make a six-foot cut.
    Uriah Gordon of Fort Klamath came in Friday and went out to Elk Creek on the stage. Charles Leabo was also a passenger on the Eagle Point-Persist stage for Trail.
    Thomas Vestal, wife and boy were doing some trading here Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. Rynning, one of the civil engineers who is superintending the construction of the Crater Lake Highway around our town, were here Friday looking after the rock work being done northwest of here.
    Robert Minter was among the business callers also Friday and so was Ira Hensley.
    Gus Nichols has our painter and paperhanger employed beautifying his home.
    The nice warm weather we are now having is bringing out the grass, and the cattle men are turning their cattle out on the range. While we have had an unusually long and wet spell the season has been so warm that the grass has grown right along all winter so that stock that has been cared for, even half fed up to this time, will generally do very well on the range, as the last big rainstorm we had has cleaned off about all the snow along the foothills and leaves the green grass in fine shape for grazing.
    George Albert of Butte Falls was about the only transient guest here today, Saturday, for dinner.
Medford Mail Tribune, February 28, 1921, page 5


    Oscar Stewart made a trip to Medford today after his wife and baby, who have been staying with Mr. and Mrs. Aleck Stewart for some time.
    Mrs. Middlebusher visited with Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson Monday while Denzil Middlebusher made a business trip to the Rogue River ranch.
    Mr. Van Haffner made two business trips to Medford last week.
    Jim Leabo made a trip to town last week.
    Jim Grieve passed through on his way to town.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 2, 1921, page 7


    Last Saturday afternoon after I had mailed my letter to the Mail Tribune I learned that Thos. F. Nichols and wife had come in from their ranch in their car and that Mr. Nichols had gone to Medford after a load of land plaster, and that he was to bring it out this far and then he would take it from here in a wagon, as the roads are too bad yet to have a load in a car.
    That Walter Marshall and family of Brownsboro had been transacting business with our merchants.
    That B. R. Pierce of the contracting firm of Rhodes and Price, contractors on the Crater Lake Highway, had been in to have our blacksmith shoe up a pair of mules to use on the job. And Saturday night Charley Patton of Butte Falls had come in and engaged a room at the Sunnyside, remaining until Monday.
    Edgar Wight, one of the Medford jewelers, came out on the Eagle Point stage Saturday evening to try his luck on the agate field, remaining until Monday morning, and while out found quite a number of choice specimens. He had with him a fine assortment of agates already polished and also a few of them mounted.
    Pliney Leabo, formerly of Trail but now he calls Ashland his home, for that is where his mother now resides although he spends the most of his time in Hilt where he has been engaged the most of the time for the past two years, came in and spent the night at the Sunnyside.
    In my last letter I mentioned that our town had been visited by a band of gypsies and that one of our venerable citizens had been fleeced by them of fifty cents, but later on I learned that they had fleeced quite a number. One aged veteran of the Civil War in relating his experience with them said: "Well I own up that she, the gypsy woman, had me completely hypnotized and when she told me that she would have to have some money, a coin to rub in my hand, I fool-like took out my purse and opened it and let her help herself and she kept fingering in my purse until I am satisfied she took as much as two dollars and perhaps more, for I don't know how much I had in the purse but I know that she lightened it considerably."
    They then started in on one of our merchants, and the one who undertook to tell his fortune told him that she would have to have a piece of paper money in order to tell his fortune so he went back to the safe and took out a bill and went through the performance of rubbing his hand with it and after rubbing his hand a while started to put it in her pocket but he was on to that job and stopped the performance in time to save the bill, but Mr. ------, the man who was the first victim, said that he was not quite that fortunate for in his case she dropped his half dollar in her pocket and tried to keep a handkerchief he had borrowed from the store for her to rub his hand, and on being told that he would be held for the handkerchief took it away from her but his coin she kept.
    They also visited some of the rest of the prominent business men and rumor has it that they bled some of them, but as I have not the evidence cannot say as to that, but some of our citizens if they are not richer are wiser and the next time they meet a gypsy will not seek information as to their future success. The facts as stated above were given to me by two of the victims themselves.
    Sunday morning Edgar Wight and Jack Goin (Agate Jack) started out to hunt agates, returning about the middle of the afternoon well loaded down, tired and hungry.
    We had as guests that day for dinner Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Derby, representatives of the Medford Auto Co. of Medford, and Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hubbs, Medford shoe dealers, and Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Paul and sons Homer and Gordon of the Paul's Electric Store, and Mrs. E. R. Boyd, also of Medford.
    The two agate hunters referred to brought me the item that the stork had visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Conger on Sunday, Feb. 20, and the result was the arrival of a fine two-pound girl.
    Mr. and Mrs. Allen Hodges, formerly of Trail, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D. Knighten last Sunday night and Monday morning went up to their old home on the Persist stage.
    There were quite a number of the people from the surrounding country came in Monday, among them were Pete Betz, E. V. Brittsan, two strangers, Bert Childers, Richard Robinson of Medford, who are putting in the culverts along the right of way on the Crater Lake Highway, and were added to the list of regular boarders at the Sunnyside. Also Mr. and Mrs. Ed J. Murphy of Wellen. The foregoing were all at the Sunnyside for dinner Monday and in addition to them we had as business callers Mr. Kish of the Rhodes and Price camp, who was on his way out to Jacksonville to serve as a juryman, Mrs. Charles Wilkinson and Miss Myrtle Miller of Lake Creek, who were on their way to Medford going out on the Butte Falls stage, George W. Sanders, formerly foreman on the Antelope orchard but now on his own farm near McLeod, W. S. Baker and Marshall Minter.
    There has been some changing of property in our town, Gus Nichols having bought the home and blacksmith shop adjoining [that] formerly owned by A. J. Daley, deceased, and he sold the house without the lot to Sam Courtney, who sold the house to his father-in-law, R. R. Minter, and has torn it down and moved it on his farm near Reese Creek, and Gus had the old shop reroofed and fixed up for a garage.
    There have also been some other changes in property here.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 5, 1921, page 4


    Ernest Dahack, our barber, since his arrival and settlement in our town has proved to be a live wire, for in addition to moving his barber shop across the street on a dark and rainy night and fixing it up he also negotiated with W. Hart Hamilton to purchase that part of the tract lying between the old county road, now Main Street, and the creek, and has plowed up quite a lot of it, scattered manure over it and is getting ready to sow to alfalfa and has the wire fencing on the ground ready to fence it. He has also fixed up his bath room and has the foundation laid to put up his 1650-gallon water tank and getting everything ready to carry on business in good shape. In addition to the changes thus made he has purchased what is known as the Roe place of Mr. Schibley and three additional lots and has them plowed up and well manured and fenced and expects to move onto the property about April 15. He is certainly a live wire when it comes to doing things.
    I heard this Saturday morning that there was another big land deal on hand here but as I have not seen either of the contracting parties am not able to state definitely with regard to that, but from what I heard one of the parties remark a few days ago, I have reason to think that the rumor is correct as there are parties coming in every few days inquiring about land that is on the market.
    Mr. Pool of Reese Creek and Ira Tungate of Butte Falls came out Tuesday afternoon on the Butte Falls stage. Speaking about the stages brings to mind the fact that the few days of warm sunshine had dried up the roads very considerably and two of the mail carriers who go out from this post office report that there was a material improvement in the condition of them and that the road supervisors were doing some good work in repairing them although they are a long way from being good yet. There is one of the contractors was telling something of his troubles. There is a postmaster lying back in the hills who is shipping his crop of potatoes out by parcel post, putting seventy pounds in a sack and sending out five or six hundred pounds at a time from where the road is so bad that the mail carrier has to pack out his mail and parcel post a few miles on horseback, and the postmaster gets the cancellation and a certain percent additional, thus costing him nothing to get his farm product to market. But the contractor has no grounds for complaint as he knew when he took the contract that plan to get his farm products to market.
    There have been men here representing a company said to have a quantity of capital securing leases on land for the purpose of boring for oil, and I understand are succeeding quite well as they have secured several large tracts. There seems to be quite a lot of interest in these parts over the prospect for oil, gas or coal.
    There were quite a number of the farmers from the surrounding country in town Tuesday and Wednesday. Among them were Alex Betz, Verna Matthews, Lloyd French and his grandfather Perry Foster, E. V. Brittsan, R. W. Rose of Round Top, the man who drives four burros; Lawrence Luy of Wellen, Mahlon Conley, Mrs. Carl von der Hellen and her aunt, Henry Meyer and wife of Lake Creek, Col. R. D. Hanson and Capt. W. P. Smith of the Klum adv. agency.
    Messrs. Hanson, Smith and Rose, W. H. Brown and wife of the firm of Geo. Brown and Sons and B. H. Williams, representative of Bakersfield and Co., San Francisco, were among the diners at the Sunnyside Tuesday.
    Mrs. M. L. Heryford and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. H. L. Heryford of Butte Falls, came out Tuesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside, going on up home on the Butte Falls stage Wednesday. Mrs. H. L. Heryford had her two weeks old baby with her.
    Robert Harnish and wife have moved onto a farm with his father-in-law, Mr. Nichols, near Phoenix.
    John Butler and wife motored through town Thursday afternoon headed for Medford.
    F. J. Ayres and wife came out Thursday bringing a springtooth harrow with them and cultivated their alfalfa.
    Wm. Moore of Butte Falls and J. D. Jackson of Weed, Cal., spent Thursday night at the Sunnyside.
    Thursday forenoon Rev. T. S. Spriggs, who is traveling in the interest of the Anti-Saloon League, visited our town Thursday and took dinner at the Sunnyside and so did J. W. Berrian, superintendent of the Butte Falls fish hatchery and his assistant, Mr. Charles Loar of Medford. Mr. Loar has been stopping at the Sunnyside ever since. He is looking after the fish traps. Mr. Berrian and he have [land?] in Antelope near its junction with Little Butte Creek.
    R. A. Smith, S. F. Patterson and R. T. Seaman, highway engineers, called Friday morning and engaged board and beds for a short time.
    Chauncey Florey, our popular county clerk, and his brother, A. J. Florey, and wife and Mrs. Wm. von der Hellen, his sister, took dinner Friday at the Sunnyside.
    Ray Davis of Derby, Bert A. Nasen, formerly of Prospect but now of Odessa, and J. H. Alsey of Gold Hill were here for dinner today, Saturday.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 9, 1921, page 6


    Mr. Ray and Frank Clary moved out to their ranch on Maple Creek which they recently purchased. They are starting their spring work and everyone wishes them the best of luck.
    Floyd Hutchinson made a trip to Grants Pass Tuesday to take the civil service examination.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jess Clary visited with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson Friday, returning home Saturday morning after visiting the U.S. fisheries.
    Ray Clary made a trip to Medford Friday to get a load of land plaster for Stewart Brothers.
    Will Stewart spent several days in Medford last week.
    Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson spent Sunday afternoon visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart.
    Frank Clary made a business trip to Ashland Wednesday.
    Mr. Adams and wife are visiting his father, Mr. Adams of McLeod, for a few weeks.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart made a business trip to McLeod.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 11, 1921, page 7


    Jay Spencer, John Dean, J. D. Jackson of Weed and Everett Abbott of Butte Falls were here for dinner Monday on their way to Weed to work in the lumber industry.
    Property seems to be changing hands in this neighborhood, as in addition to the sales mentioned in my last letter Mr. Wilbur Jacks tells me that he has sold a tract of land, two hundred and fifty acres, to our popular county clerk, Chauncey Florey, lying a short distance north of our town and that will be under the contemplated water ditch to be brought from Big Butte Creek above Butte Falls, and whenever that enterprise is completed the land will be doubled in value. Mr. Jacks also reports that he has given a three-year lease to Mr. Denton of Ashland, the same man he recently sold twenty-five acres of alfalfa land, sixty-five acres of alfalfa adjoining the twenty-five acres, for a period of three years.
    And Harry Lewis, who has been boarding at the Sunnyside since last fall, has moved onto the Jonas place, and I understand that he and his brother George have also bought that place.
    Ray Harnish has been living on the place for the past two seasons and has moved onto his own place, just below our town, the one that was so badly cut up by the new Crater Lake Highway that is being built around our town on the west and northwest.
    P. E. Sandoz and son of Elk Creek (Trail post office) came out Monday on the Eagle Point stage and went up home on the Eagle Point-Persist stage. They have been out to Medford to have the boy's arm set as he had the misfortune to fall off of the barn and break his right arm. He was out playing with his ball and when he threw it, it lodged and in trying to get it, there being a fracture in the roof, he slipped and in the fall broke his arm.
    J. F. Maxfield and son were among the business callers Monday and so were Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Price. However they went on to Medford. C. E. Bellows came in and sold out a fine lot of beef.
    W. C. Butler and Frank Johnson, the man who owned the site for the new bridge across Rogue River at the mouth of Indian Creek, were in town also Monday. Frank says that the contractors have a quantity of timber on the ground and are washing the sand and gravel for the cement to be used in the construction of the bridge and so far as he can see are getting along fine with the work.
    Floyd Pearce, the deputy assessor for this district, has been at work assessing some of the property here, but if he could bring some kind of pressure to bear on the owners of a number of lots along Central Avenue, that is the street running from Main Street from the corner near the blacksmith shop, that the owners have neglected to pay the taxes on for several years, and other property in other parts of the town, it would be a great relief to those of us who do pay our taxes regularly. But I understand that there are some of the lots where the taxes have been paid by other parties in order to get a tax title and if they are ever redeemed the owner will have to repay the money with a good interest.
    Mrs. S. Hart, who has been spending the winter up at Glendale, returned last Monday and went out to her farm.
    R. R. Minter and son Marshall are engaged hauling the lumber from the house that Gus Nichols sold and was torn down, out to his ranch and expects to build this summer. The reader will remember that his house was burned down last season.
    W. J. Grover of Medford and five passengers went through here for Butte Falls in the morning and five came out in the afternoon and one, Mrs. Radcliff, went out to Medford.
    J. D. Arnes and wife and Mrs. Arnes' brother Joe Pool and wife, foreman on the Edgell and Butte Creek orchards, passed through here on their way to Medford.
    James Donahue of Portland came in Tuesday to visit his old friend George Wehman and remained until this Wednesday morning.
    Fred Frideger of Medford, who owns a twenty-acre orchard just east of town, came in Monday and engaged board and room while he is working in his orchard.
    Misses Johnson and Gary, and Messrs. Johnson and Ott of Medford, were in town Monday simply to take in the town and see the sights.
    Messrs. R. A. Smith, S. F. Patterson and R. T. Seiman, the three civil engineers mentioned in my last letter, have been stopping here the most of the time since. They are setting the stakes for the graders that are working on the Crater Lake Highway. Chas. Delin has had a small force of men and teams at work for the past few days, but the ground is so full of water that he cannot work to advantage.
    Mr. Adamson, one of our old mail carriers on the Eagle Point-Persist route but now engaged in the sawmill business near Trail, came out and went to Medford Tuesday.
    Mrs. T. Taylor, who with her husband is on the Marsh Garrett place on Lake Creek and has been here for the past two weeks, went up home Tuesday morning on the stage.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 12, 1921, page 6


    From the amount of travel there seems to be on the roads there must be considerable work going on outside of the ordinary routine in the line of farming, for there seems to be quite a lot of lumber moving around here for building purposes as well as for fencing, although most of the fencing is done with woven wire, and there is a great demand for fence posts, especially for anchor posts, as there has been quite a lot of new fence made the past winter and still a lot more especially where the ground is flat and sticky. In addition to the building and fencing there is quite a lot of metal flume material going up the country and since the last few days of fine spring weather there are but few of the farmers take time to come to town as the long wet season has so interfered with the farm work they are now rushing everything they can to get their seed sown and their ground plowed for their corn crop.
    Marsh Garrett of Medford, one of the leading stock men, who owns two stock ranches, one on Lost Creek and the other on the headwaters of Little Butte, has passed through our town twice in the past few days.
    Earl Hayes, our road supervisor, I understand has bought out one of the men, either Mr. Hash or Mr. Clary, who had land.
    Fred Pelouze, dairy farmer, expects to move onto the place and turn his attention to the dairy business, and Mrs. Hayes' mother and sister will move onto the Hayes place.
    J. D. Hussong of Grants Pass came in Tuesday evening and spent the night and the next day went up to Trail, spent the night there, returned and spent Thursday night with us. He is very reticent as to what he was looking for, but asked a number of questions about the P.&E.R.R., the timber, sawmills, the price of land, the prospect for bringing water in from Big Butte, etc. He seemed to want to know all about the country and let us know as little as possible about himself.
    Ed Dutton was also a business caller and reports that as he was coming home from Medford last Saturday night, the 5th, his car caught fire and in less time than it took to tell it was a solid flame. He had, while in Medford, put in nine gallons of gasoline and filled up with oil and although there was no explosion it seemed as though the whole machine was a solid flame. Fortunately he had it insured so that it will not be a total loss.
    J. L. Robinson, Sr., one of our hustling farmers, went to Jacksonville to see how much money he would have to dig up to pay his taxes this spring and he reports that they make a poor man draw a long breath.
    Our city council has finally got the job of repairing our suspension footbridge started and when the men, Geo. Holmes and Thomas Lewis, loosened the wire--it is a Page wire fence bridge--they found that one of the posts had rotted off at the top of the ground but the other three were solid, but they have now put in new yew posts and are putting in a new floor and extra bents so as to make it absolutely safe and solid.
    W. S. Baker, who owns a farm on the Eagle Point-Derby road, was in town Wednesday afternoon with his family and while here leased a five-acre tract of land, set in alfalfa, of Wilbur Jacks, the tract where his house stands, but not the house, for a period of three years.
    Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gipson, of Taft, Calif., March 4th, 1921, an eight-pound boy. Mrs. Gipson is the oldest daughter of Mrs. Gus Nichols and she is so proud of being grandmother--well, I can't say how proud, but she is surely a happy woman. Although Mrs. Nichols does not look to be over 35 years old nevertheless she is a grandma.
    There was a little breeze of excitement in our town Thursday, for as I was walking casually along the street I noticed quite a group of men along the water ditch just back of Ernest Dahack's barber shop and on approaching the crowd discovered a small pump had been put over the water to demonstrate what one of the Westco pumps could do, for on turning the faucet the water would begin to flow and found that Mr. Arthur W. Tyo of the Modern Plumbing and Heating Co. of Medford was showing the people something of its working powers.
    Mrs. M. Frenna of Medford, Mrs. Montgomery, who is now keeping house for S. H. Harnish, Mr. Arthur W. Tyo, Mrs. E. B. Bradley of Chicago, who is out looking over the country and his chauffeur, Jess Ingram of Medford, and John H. Haley of Gold Hill were guests at the Sunnyside Thursday.
    W. H. Crandall and family motored to Medford Friday morning and H. H. Williams, salesman for Hubbard Bros., Medford and Charles Renard, representing the Grand Union Tea Co., were here for dinner on his regular monthly trips Friday.
    Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Goss and daughter of Butte Falls came out Friday to look after their orchard and do some gardening.
    George Holmes and Thos. Lewis ran a grader over our streets Friday with a caterpillar and greatly improved them, especially where they had not been covered with crushed rock.
    Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bellows, who own a dairy ranch on Rogue River, passed through here on their way to Medford Friday.
    R. B. Price, one of the contractors, passed through here on his way from Medford with two men to work on the Crater Lake Highway.
    Mrs. Joseph Geppert of Butte Falls came out Friday to visit her daughter, Mrs. G. Childreth.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 15, 1921, page 5


    Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson went to Medford Saturday on account of her eye being so much worse.
    Mr. Van Heffner made a business trip to Medford Saturday to send Mrs. Jane Howell's freight. Mr. Howell is now at Clackamas.
    Mr. Jess Clary made a business trip to Trail to see Mr. Floyd Hutchinson.
    Mr. Frank Clary left Medford Wednesday evening about 9 o'clock and owing to bad roads and hard luck never reached home, about 1½ miles up Butte Creek above McLeod, until noon the next day.
    Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stewart spent one evening last week visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Dick Vincent.
    Mr. Frank Clary spent Sunday evening visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hutchinson.
    Mr. and Mrs. Andy Poole, who have been visiting in Medford the most of the winter, have returned to the forester station above Trail for the summer.
    Mrs. Will Houston returned home Sunday from Central Point to spend a week.
    Mrs. Minnie Blaess, who has been quite sick, is much better at this writing.
    Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pence and family spent Sunday visiting with the George Weeks family.
    Mr. Leabo, who has been spending the winter with A. C. Weeks, has gone to Hilt to work for the summer.
    Mrs. S. W. Hutchinson visited with her son, Keva, while in Medford this week.
Medford Mail Tribune, March 16, 1921, page 5


    A. E. Hildreth and wife of Cottage Grove, Ore., came in and spent the night Saturday on their way to Butte Falls, their old home, and Chris Natwick and A. C. Adler, Chris Bergman were also guests at the Sunnyside.
    Adin Haselton of Wellen and Pliney Leabo also came in from Trail, where he had been visiting his brother Saturday night and remained until Tuesday morning on his way to Hilt where he is engaged to work in a sawmill.
    J. H. Haley came in Saturday evening and remained until Monday afternoon. He has rented the Chris Natwick farm about three miles north of here and went out Monday evening to live on it.
    Mrs. Gus Nichols, her daughter Miss Muriel Smith, her stepdaughter Miss Ruth Nichols and Mrs. T. F. Nichols, her stepson's wife, called on the hostess at the Sunnyside Saturday evening.
    Sunday was rather a busy day at the Sunnyside, for in addition to some 25 regular boarders, a number of whom are the men working on the Crater Lake Highway and other regular boarders, we had as guests at the noon hour Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Satchwell, Mr. and Mrs. A. Duff of Medford, Wm. von der Hellen, wife and daughter Miss Joyce and son Hugo, and Mrs. von der Hellen's brother-in-law, Raymond Reter of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Gustine (Gus the Tailor), Dr. C. T. Sweeney, wife and daughter, Miss Edith and Mrs. Francis Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Kroschel and two boys, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Caton of Medford.
    Monday forenoon there were but very few people in from the country although C. E. Bellows went through here quite early in the morning on his way to Medford, but about noon there was some stir in business circles and among the callers at the Sunnyside for dinner were Carl von der Hellen and wife of Wellen, E. M. Campbell, who is operating the creamery truck for the Snider Dairy and Produce Co., he is gathering farm produce for the Farm Bureau of Medford. Mr. Campbell reports that Mr. Snider had bought out the Eldridge creamery business and Mr. Snider is carrying on the business so far as the cream is concerned but is gathering the eggs, poultry, etc., for the Farm Bureau.
    The Ladies' Civic Improvement Club of Eagle Point that has been organized since the new officers have taken charge of the affairs of our town are going to give a dance on Saturday evening, March 19, to raise funds to carry out their plans and intend to serve a supper at the nominal price of 25¢ per plate. They are advertising quite extensively in the Medford Mail Tribune and expect to have a good crowd and pleasant time.
    Mrs. Potter of Eugene, who has been visiting her relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCabe, called Monday for late dinner on her way to Medford to take the S.P. train for home.
    W. E. Webb of Derby, Wm. Gipson of Reese Creek, W. W. Parker of Butte Falls also made a hurried business call Monday afternoon. Wesley Butler, who lives on the Brownsboro road, was also trading with our merchants Monday.
    W. S. Baker was a business caller also and reports that his little boy who had his arm broken is getting along nicely.
    There were quite a number of our citizens went to Medford last Sunday to hear the lecture on Christian Science, but as I have not all of the names will not give any of them but there were, I understand, two carloads of people went from here.
    Fred Dutton of Wellen, was a business caller Monday and so was Chas. Bacon and wife of Medford. They came over to look after their property in our town.
    Wm. Hamlin of Derby was here laying in supplies.
    Mrs. Jesse Martin, a sister of Mrs. J. W. Hovey, wife of the foreman on the Alta Vista orchard, who is here visiting her sister, was trading with Geo. Brown and Sons Monday and reports that her sister is doing nicely and will soon be able to come home.
    Mrs. Hayman, wife of the foreman on the J. H. Cooley orchard, and daughter were also trading here Monday.
    Wm. Nickell of Lake Creek was a passenger on the stage Monday.
    Thos. F. Nichols and Geo. W. Stowell were here for dinner Tuesday.
    Thomas Riley, one of the pioneers of Jackson County, of Wellen, came through our town Tuesday morning on horseback going up on Rogue River and if it had not been for his white hair might have passed as a young buckaroo.
    N. B. Hildreth and wife of Butte Falls came out Tuesday evening and spent the night at the Sunnyside on their way to Prospect, taking the stage this Wednesday morning for Derby to connect with the Prospect stage at Derby.
    Pete Young, one of our steady farmers, was also trading here Tuesday.
    Gus Ditsworth of Trail, Israel Patton of Butte Falls and two strangers spent the night with us Tuesday.
    For the benefit of the curiously inclined I will say that this, the 16th day of March, 1921, is my eighty-ninth birthday, and that if I continue to keep up my work as a newspaper correspondent until next September I will have been in the business almost continuously for the last sixty-three years, the first few years writing only occasionally, but for several years have written from once to five times a week and for the last, I think thirty-five or thirty-six years, have written every week for the same paper although it has changed hands and changed the name tw